Gentrification COULD Be Used to Fix San Francisco's Problems in the Tenderloin District... Might Transform it into the Next South of Market District...
In 1992, East Palo Alto was dubbed the “murder capital” of the U.S., with 42 murders in its 2.5 square miles — a per capita rate higher than that of any other city of any size. In 2023, according to East Palo Alto Police Department statistics released last week, the turnaround seemed complete: zero homicides.
Law enforcement leaders, residents and city officials point to a complicated mix of circumstances that turned a crime-ridden community into what the mayor now calls “one of the safest places to live in the peninsula.”
The San Francisco Peninsula that Mayor Antonio López referred to is home to Stanford University, the opulent town of Atherton and well-heeled Palo Alto. Residents and city leaders scoff at the overly simple idea that gentrification solved the city’s problems, although the median household income has drastically increased, and the typical home price is a little more than $900,000.
South West Washington DC Transformed from a Shantytown into a Clean Safe Location for High Rise Apartment Buildings and Government Offices...
Ever since the first European settlers arrived, North America's town founders and planners have asked some big questions about how to shape the places we live.
What if we arrange our homes and businesses around an orderly grid of streets? What if we build a company town with housing for all of our workers? What if we lay out a town to provide people with more green space? What if we build homes ultra-efficiently, the way Henry Ford built cars? What if we tear down old neighborhoods to build new ones? What if we don't?
The pursuit of these "what ifs" has led to some great experiments in urban planning, with results that have impacted many other places-for better and occasionally for worse.
""The GOP today is less a political party and more an inchoate mass of cultural grievances, conspiracy theories and lowest common denominator political slogans. Trump, for all his toxicity, is a symptom of the GOP's decades-long descent into madness. Legislating is not seen as a tool for bettering the plight of the American people but rather an opportunity to troll Democrats and play to the perceived slights of the party's rank-and-file supporters."
"If there is any silver lining, it is this: for all the Republican voters who love Trump, there is a larger mobilized group of voters who loathes him!!
Plenty of room on this Shirt for White Letters... Write your own slogan below the Flag... Like: Throw the Old White Men OUT! or.. Time for a New Generation. or WhatEver!
In January 2017, Haley resigned as governor to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of Donald Trump.[6] The U.S. Senate confirmed her by a vote of 96–4. She stepped down as ambassador on December 31, 2018.[7]
Nicki Haley has a very short Memory or just a Selective Memory about Increasing the National Debt, blaming Democrats when it is Under Republican Administrations is always raised the Most! These Facts can Be Easily Looked up! Like many all they are about is Repeating lying Talking Points, at least she is Anti Putin, a murderous Thug! Whom Trump Admires! Do we have to show you all of Biden’s Accomplishments again! She said she would Pardon Trump, a TREASONOUS TRAITOR in so many ways! There has to be Consequences for His ACTIONS, for one so it never Happens Again by Another Idiot! And you want to just forgive him about all his Crimes against Our Democracy!!
B@tch McConnell what part of Americans have paid into these Programs all their Working Lives are You to Freaken Stupid to Understand? How many times do you have to be told that before you understand? B@tch! At least act like you know what you are Talking about! Just Freaken Retire and let Democracy Thrive! Old FART, being nice by just saying that! And Lindsay MAN UP and Grow a pair or get out! Cruz is Worthless what has he done for his People besides Flee The Country when A.O.C. Came from New York to help your People , your State and People were under terrible Life Threatening Conditions! Oh I forgot you raised Hell about The Barbie Movie, so helpful to feed more Hate in America! You crack me up when you try to act like your a Tough guy Slimy Weasel!!
If Elected in 2024, Trump Will Cause Global Economic Collapse. He Plans to Declare Bankruptcy for the Entire USA So We Won't Have to Pay the Interest on the National Debt. BUT... Then The Entire World will Go Bankrupt and MASS STARVATION will happen... The Only People that will survive are Hunter/Gatherers and Subsistence Farmers...
"The Debt Ceiling is just one more thing Trump doesn't know very much about." - Said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
Former President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to let the United States default on its debt if Democrats don't agree to spending cuts. MAY 10 2023
Peter Navarro=Guilty, 4 Proud Boys=Guilty, 23 Oath Keepers=Guilty, Stewie (shot himself in the eye with his own gun) Rhodes=Guilty, Allen Weisselberg=Guilty, Jesse Benton=Guilty, Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Guilty, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guiltyand Over 1,000 QAnon Freaks that Have Been Arrested for Storming the US Capitol on January 6th and FAILING to Overthrow The US Government and Crown Trump King... ANSWER:
They are All TrumpNik® Swamp Creatures... Trumpanzees!
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Trumps Top 10 Failures: Like and Share these Facts Worldwide! We Must Beat Trump in 2024... and Exterminate the Republicriminal Party Forever!
#1 Over a Million Americans Died of COVID-19. It was NOT a
"Democratic Hoax" Like Trump Said.
#2 Trump Lost The 2020 Election to Joe Biden. That's Why
Trump Lives in Mar-A-Loser and Biden Lives in the White House.
#3 Trump Failed to Overthrow the US Government and Crown
Himself King on January 6th. Over a Thousand Trumpanzees
Have been Arrested... Including Trump Himself!
#4 Trump's Trade War With China. That Harmed American Farmers,
Manufacturing Businesses and Consumers. Russia Benefited by
Selling Soybeans to China.
#5 Trump Failed to Build the Wall and Have Mexico Pay for it... I
t's Incomplete and People Simply Walk Around the End...
#6 Trump Failed to Repeal and Replace Obamacare... He Had No
Plan "Trumpcare" - He Just wanted to Harm Americans...
#7 Trump Failed to Change the Course of a Hurricane Using a
Sharpie Felt Pen... Causing "Sharpiegate" and Many Joke
Memes!
#8 Largest Loss of Money on the Stock Market in History.
#9 Massive Unemployment
#10 Huge Lines of Americans Waiting for FREE FOOD because
they Could Not Buy Their Own Groceries...
Campaign Song! MUSIC VIDEO: "Vote 4 Joe. He's Not Insane. Vote 4 Joe. He's Not Insane. #RUNAWAY from Trump. He's Got Dementia Brain!"
#Runaway from the Republican Party. They Hate Women. They Hate Blacks. They Hate Hispanics. They Hate Gays. They Hate Veterans. They Hate Young People. They Hate College Graduates. WHO IS LEFT??? Uneducated Old White Men... and They are Dying Every Day.
Remember: ANTI-VAX LIES On The Internet Have Killed Off More Republicans Than Democrats. THANK YOU FOR DYING! We Certainly Don't Need People Like That in the Future...
More than 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19. It Seems that It Wasn't a "Democratic Hoax" After All... Trump Lied, People Died...
Studies have also found that more Republicans than Democrats have died from COVID-19. According to a study, excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among registered Republicans than Democrats from March 2020 to December 2021.
Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows. Lower vaccination rates among Republicans could explain the partisan gap, but some researchers say mask use and social distancing were bigger factors.
Here are Many Anti-Republican Memes... Please Copy and Paste them on Every Social Media Websites... For Example: Gab, Mastodon, MeWe, Post, Deviant Art, Instagram, Linkdin, Minds, Tribel, Tumblr, Gettr and Occupy... and Don't Forget Twitter, Threads, 4Chan, Reddit, Mediun and Truth Social... A Great Place to Harvest Memes is FaceBorg... People Love Sharing them There...
In 2016 Putin Proved that Campaigning Online Works! His Puppet Won the Electoral College...
My Gen X friends probably remember the Cold War. In the 80's, there were several movies having to do with nuclear war, and the fallout from a nuclear explosion. There was a TV movie from 1983 called The Day After. It was about what life would be like the day after a nuclear explosion. Fortunately, the Cold War ended and we never did have to deal with nuclear war, but it was a genuine fear at the time.
Anyway, my point is, the sky outside today reminds me of that movie, The Day After. Here is a picture from the movie, plus a picture I took just now of the view outside my window. In the Day After, there was nuclear fallout falling from the sky. In today's reality, there is ash falling from the sky.
You May Color this White Hats with Acrylic Paint or Permanent Markers for That GROOVY Look... Draw a Mountain Sunset Scene... or Butterflies and Rainbows... WhatEVER Makes Your Saucer Fly...
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacles. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
We came from Florida to California in 1961. My father was an aerospace engineer and was working in Woodland Hills and we stayed in a motel until we could find a house to buy. We ended up in Newbury Park, in the housing trac called Casa Conejo. It was right off Borchard Road. My parents bought a four bedroom two bath home with a double car garage for $19,000. We had to wait for it to be constructed and the day we moved in, I remember other houses and moving vans in front of other houses and everybody was moving in the same weekend. Everybody had a brand new house. I have no idea what that house is valued at now. We left in 1969. The first elementary school that I went to was Walnut. Then they built Manzanita and we all were transferred over to that elementary school. And then they built Redwood junior high school and we were transferred there. And then Newbury Park high school was built and everybody went there. It was amazing to see such growth in a little community. One of these old RV type vehicle was used, to come to the supermarket on Thursdays. It was the bookmobile. We didn’t have a library in our little area so the bookmobile used to come in and we used to pile up books in our bicycles and take them home and read them. I remember when Mountain Dew was introduced. I was living in that neighborhood and there was a big hoopla at the supermarket with loud music and they were giving away samples of Mountain Dew. Cans of soda were five cents each. Boy, those were the days.
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Such nice Newbury Park nostalgia. We had a similar experience in Santa Clara Valley in the 1950s, including all the new school construction to accommodate the rapidly growing suburbs.
I moved to the Conejo Valley about the time you left. It was still the boonies and nobody knew where T.O or Newbury Park were. Some knew about the old Stagecoach Inn in your area, and about Jungleland in ours. But that was about it!
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Reaganomics Destroyed the American Dream
"The Republican project is a matter of getting turkeys to vote for Christmas by doing a lot of culture war bullshit, cruelly abusing disfavored sexual and racial minorities. This wins support from low-information voters who’ll vote against their class interests and support more monopolies, more tax cuts for the rich, and more cuts to the services they rely on."--Cory Doctorow
“Moms for Liberty” is an ironic choice of a name for a hate group that wants to take away liberty and freedom from everyone else and micromanage every aspect of everyone else’s private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry or even what behavior is allowed behind closed doors), private medical choices (reproductive choices such as abortion or contraception, medical or recreational marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care), tell us what books we or our children can have access to, or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy and religious rituals into public meetings or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion). Better names for these Females for Fascism: Crackpots with crockpots Ku Klux Karens Klanned Karenhood Minivan Taliban Book ban Barbies A “Moms for Liberty” book club would operate more like a campfire. Additional suggestions for better names for these Femme Fascists? You can’t spell HATRED without RED HAT. The want to fight the “WOKE” … but being WOKE (alert, awake) is so much better than its opposite: being COMATOSE.
Here's a frustrating thing: a friend posts on Facebook, and I post a comment in which I ask a question, and my friend 'likes' my comment, but doesn't answer my question. Usually the question isn't that important, but it's still a question, so I'm hoping for an answer. When someone 'likes' a comment, that acknowledges that they've read the comment, so they must realize it's a question. If someone doesn't want to answer a question, that's their choice...but why 'like' the comment, then? It's like saying, "I acknowledge the fact that you're asking me a question, but I'm not going to answer it." I know it's a minor issue in the grand scheme of things, but it's still kind of insulting knowing that someone read your comment, but has chosen not to answer your question.
In regards to the question thing, for example: someone posts a picture of some food that they made, and it looks really good to me, so I might say, “Would you mind sharing the recipe?” That’s a question! The person “likes” my question, but does not share the recipe and does not comment further. So I’m left wondering why they acknowledged my question but didn’t answer it.
Another example: someone posts a photo of something they bought, and I think I may have seen the same item at Macy’s (as an example). So I comment, “I think I saw that at Macy’s! Is that where you got it?” They “like” my question, but never answer it. It’s a simple yes or no question.
Another example: someone posts a photo of their newly-landscaped yard, and I ask, “Is that a lemon tree?” They “like” my question, but don’t answer it.
None of these questions seem like a huge deal, but I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t genuinely want to know the answer. So getting nothing but a “like” in response to my question is extremely frustrating, and even seems a little rude. If anyone ever asks ME a question, I will give them an answer, even if the answer is “I’m not sure.” I feel that If someone asks me a question, it would be rude of me not to answer it. And it would be even more rude to “like” the question without offering an answer.
and CW Answered:
Alas, I fear you're making the same mistake I often make, in applying the expectations of educated, civil conversation to the screeching echo-chamber that is The Interweb..
but SK Cleared it all up:
Sometimes I want to get back to my keyboard to answer because typing it out on my phone is a pain in the ass. I’ve found if I don’t at least “like” to acknowledge I’ve read the question many will either DM it or ask again.
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