Comments on: Sharing Your Yard w/ 13 Other Families

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:23:42 +0000

Why is the editor putting his neo-con two cents in? The editor should be objective; not bias. Ugh

By: Preston

Preston — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:21:12 +0000

Actually, we moved from another town.

I think the whole point of that comment was to acknowledge- not deny- the economic and racial inequity of current housing, educational, and taxation systems.

Luckily, my parents were a position to offer me the best (public) education available in town. I don’t feel guilty about that but I do feel an obligation to point out that this system does not serve all Americans equally.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:00:08 +0000

I know that growing up my parents chose to move to a (98% white) suburb in order to get me a better education than we would have gotten if we had been 2 miles away across the county line.

This is liberal speak for: Minorities were moving in and we got the hell out of dodge!

By: no2liberals

no2liberals — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:25:30 +0000

Preston, maybe you should do some research on your own, without relying on others to provide you links, you lazy asshole. All of our coastal drilling is banned except for a tiny section of the Gulf of Mexico. The tiny section they want to drill in ANWR is but a drop in the bucket, compared to what is available in that state.
I’ve had issues with zoning commissions and appraisal districts, different results are to be expected, which is why those local elections are so important.

By: Preston

Preston — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:09:05 +0000

We have plenty of petroleum of our own Do actually believe what you write or is it just good propaganda? I assume you're talking about ANWR: Opening the coastal plain of ANWR is projected to reduce 2025 oil import dependence from 70 percent in the AEO2004 reference case to 66 percent in the mean resource case. Current policies tend to follow what most people want. You're idealism is refreshing. Maybe Dianne can educate you about who calls the shots in zoning board hearings.

By: no2liberals

no2liberals — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:57:46 +0000

Your thinking is a bit to bizarre for my taste.
Current policies tend to follow what most people want. One dingus trying to tell what most people are required to accept is anathema, and Soviet style.
We have plenty of petroleum of our own, we just need to change the wacko policies that prevent us from extracting it.

By: Preston

Preston — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:42:30 +0000

There have always been those entities in my lifetime, and always will be.

Exactly my point.

You’ve been thrilled to have government using it’s power to prevent, say, a man from building an apartment building on his own land next door to your house. But when someone suggests that we should pursue policies that contribute to the preservation of farmland and wildlife and the reduction of petroleum dependency you decry those governmental tools as ‘Soviet’.

Your passion for liberty is a bit fickle for my taste.

By: no2liberals

no2liberals — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:29:11 +0000

Preston, give it a rest. There have always been those entities in my lifetime, and always will be. That doesn’t mean I have to submit to living the way this dingus suggests.
My sanctum sanctorum, which is where I will retire to, is in an unincorporated area, with only the county and ISD to contend with, and those government entities are stacked with old friends and like minded people. If I want to go outside and have target practice, start a bonfire, I just do it, unless the county has declared a burn ban.
I tolerate city life, for now, as it is profitable.

By: Preston

Preston — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:41:24 +0000

I will always resist being told how to live

I hate to break it to you but the government is already doing it through the methods I described above: tax code, tax jurisdictions, building codes, zoning restrictions, etc. Currently, these legal ‘persuasions’ are encouraging the large lot development you prefer so, once again, I’d remind you that your cowboy posture is backed by the government and eggheads you seem to despise.

By: no2liberals

no2liberals — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:57:15 +0000

Yeah, the reflection is that there are always assholes, no matter where I go, especially when I inform an asshole neighbor that they have a dying tree that needs to be taken care of, before it falls on my house. They do nothing, and it falls on my house, and I have to sue them for damages, yeah, that is cause for self-reflection, I should have called code enforcement on them first, instead of thinking that the asshole neighbor would take care of it. I don't like the "garden home" concept either, with houses pressed close to each other, and with out a front or back yard. Thirteen homes in an acre represents about 3350sq ft per home. I suppose one could build a two or three story structure, and still have adequate living space and a small yard. The problem I have with this story is, that it is some one's requirement that we build and live that way. I will always resist being told how to live by some dingus. If people chose to live that way, it is another matter. For me, an acre makes a nice back yard.