Quote from Butler Shaffer

Our problems do not have their origins in Washington, D.C., nor will their solutions be found there. We are the authors of our own dystopian worlds, and it is to our minds that we must repair if we are to save ourselves from the playing out of the ugly and destructive premises we have planted there. We might begin by acknowledging that our individuality is about all that we have in common with one another; and that the suppression of this quality in the name of some alleged collective purpose is essential to the creation of every political system. -- Butler Shaffer

Cardboard Cutout ?

This picture is of school days buddy Rob Holcomb meeting President Clinton.

Rob says "...it was an honor to get to meet our president."

The picture is posted on Facebook.

You'll have to be signed in for the link to work.

Rob will probably claim that he actually met President Clinton.


Eric Spiegelman  thinks the White House sent a cardboard cutout of Obama to NYC.
For me, this part of being POTUSA would bite but ..... I can learn from the master.


Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Barack probably had word's with Michelle afterwards about her trying to squeeze into the pictures.

How To Create World Peace

Video and One Act Play - Twice the fun !!

I"ve been thinking about this video. Is it correct ?


It would work if we all did this.  Unfortunately, not everyone is as fun as this guy suggests we be.  If that is what he's suggesting ?



I have taken one step in this direction.  I've pledged only to war in A) self-defense.  
There is no B.

Perhaps this pledge from each of us is what it will take to Create World Peace.

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Play

Exonerated (Freud) Exalted Leader


<Exalted adj. --  Exaggerated; inflated: He has an exalted sense of his importance to the project.>


Gentlemen, lock and load, We're crossing the river to destroy the Far Bank of The River People.
 

Crowd of Our Bank of the River People (several speaking) : Huh ?  
What ?  
What did you say ?
Are you sure about this ?
 

EL: They insulted us.  They yelled across that water that Our God is dead.  Muster for attack.
 

simultaneously>

Man1 in Crowd:  I never heard them yell.

Man2:  Wha'd they say ?

Man3: Are they coming to get us ?

Man4: "Our" God ? 
 

EL: To protect ourselves, we must fight them.  Anyone not on board is a dreamer, nothing but a dreamer, and will always and forever be nothing but a dreamer and not so patriotic as my your schools taught you to be. 
 

Man5: Let's go.  They got a great lemon orchard .... and goats.  They've got goats.
 

Man1: Hmmmm

Man2: Hmmmmmm

Man3: Hmmmmmmmmm.........They sure got some pretty ladies.

Man1:  How do You.. know they're "Ladies" ?

Man2:  Have you been over there ?

Man3 only smiles mysteriously <

EL: We're almost out of lemons !!

Man6:  Is Our God dead ?

EL: Our God is ALIVE and HE WILL LEAD US !!

Stay Tuned for more history, written by the survivors winners.>
                  
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Red Bird Renewed: Empty 'potential' threatens quality of life

06:56 PM CDT on Friday, September 18, 2009

Red Bird is a neighborhood interrupted.
With a mall, an airport, a hospital and relatively new homes, this should be one of southern Dallas' destination neighborhoods. But an area that once was on the way up now has stalled out.

Housing developments were platted but never built. Hundreds of acres surrounding Dallas Executive Airport sit undeveloped. "For sale" signs dot grassy fields that were supposed to become commercial centers. And Southwest Center Mall, once southern Dallas' retail gem, is dying an agonizing, years-long death. What changed ?

For too long, this city has talked about Red Bird's untapped potential. Studies What studies ? detail what the mall  Studies commissioned by the mall owner ? could become and how the airport Studies commissioned by the airport owner ? could be an economic engine. But execution Execution is low when ROI is low – and political will – have been lacking.Why must this will be political ?

Without a concerted effort to bolster Red Bird's underutilized assets, the area will deteriorate significantly. Everything goes back to nature without man's intervention.

Right now, this is still a spot where families with decent ???? incomes want to live.   Implication that without "execution and political will" families with other than decent income will want to live here A study by the Institute for Urban Policy Research Who commissioned this study ? found that the area bounded by Ledbetter Drive, Westmoreland Road, Wheatland Road and Hampton Road attracts working couples with kids.

In this predominantly African-American Strikeout mine. Due to immigration restrictions, there are very few African-Americans living in the USA neighborhood, 83 percent of residents have at least a high school diploma. Per capita income lags behind the city as a whole but is still higher than that of the four other neighborhoods we are focusing on in southern Dallas.

Residents here are no doubt attracted to the new and affordable see "Tidy" below houses; 86 percent of single-family homes are in good, very good or excellent condition. Who creates these assessments? But homeowners in these tidy (tiny) brick houses live on small islands of relative ?? prosperity, surrounded by undeveloped property 1 and aging apartment complexes 2. Available lots – residential 3 and commercial 4 – are abundant. Why are these opportunities 1,2,3,4 not being exploited ?

In this neighborhood just west of U.S. Highway 67 and straddling Interstate 20, apartments outnumber single-family homes 5 to 1. Too many of the sprawling complexes are starting to decline and are in danger of going downhill fast. Without a jump-start to Red Bird's economy, crumbling, crime-ridden apartments could dominate the landscape. Who are you trying to frighten ? and why ?

The neighborhood's best hope for regaining momentum rests with the airport and the mall. Is this the agenda ?

For years, city officials have mulled plans to spur development on the 1,000-acre property that is home to Dallas Executive Airport. But little progress is evident. The airport has three times the acreage of Addison Airport, but Addison has 44 commercial structures on its campus, compared with just 12 on the Dallas property. Why is Addison's government owned airport doing so much better than Dallas's government owned airport ? Perhaps this is the real question.

While the airport has been stuck in neutral, Southwest Center Mall has been in free fall. Retailers have high-tailed it to the suburbs, leaving a shell of an outdated shopping center behind. Residents are likely to follow unless the property is repurposed.  Tell that to the property owner.

This year, the City Council Why? Is this not the job of the mall owner? Why is the mall owner not interested in reviving his property?  hired the Urban Land Institute to offer its best ideas for resuscitating the mall. Experts drew the outlines of a plan for a mixed-use village. They called for a public-private partnership and suggested creating a tax-increment-financing district that would include both the shopping center and the airport. And they told the city to hurry. City hires Sage. Sage tells City to invest it's excess dollars ASAP.  Who woulda thunk it ?

So far, council members have shown little urgency and even less enthusiasm for investing public dollars in this project. But at the least, creating a TIF that would reinvest in this neighborhood would give it a fighting chance. So the desire is a TIF and you're using the high/low bid situation to get it.

And, perhaps, the area could indeed become Red Bird Renewed.
Dallas Morning News editorial writer Colleen McCain Nelson wrote this on behalf of the editorial board. Her e-mail address is cmccain@dallasnews.com.

When it's all done, the Dallas taxpayer has pulled money away from his family and given it to a businessman wanting someone else to pay his bills.

                 Tim Lebsack

                    Dallas 

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an image of Hayek and came across this amusing blog.
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