As of sundown, Passover begins. Millions of Jews in the United States and around the world will be celebrating our Deliverance from Slavery in Egypt.
I will not be amongst them. Aside from praying, I'm not celebrating. This year, it would be as depressing as sitting shiva, therefore I'm not going to do it. Called Mom and told her I can't come this year. Uncle Morris will have to tell his bogus Korean War stories to someone else. Aunt Esther will need someone else to get her cigarettes from the car. I'm over it.
As we speak, Obama's Fundamental Transformation is spreading across the United States like a cancer. Freedom of Religion is being attacked by Obamacare. The Supreme Court is deciding whether or not homosexuals have the "right" to marry. The Second Amendment is under assault in the media, and there's a good chance it's going to be violated. An oppressive tax code is in place to take (by force) the wealth of productive citizens who play by the rules and redistribute it to illegal aliens, petty criminals, and crony capitalists. Millions of babies are being slaughtered by abortion in what could be best described as storefront Auschwitzes.
How on Earth can I possibly celebrate Freedom while it's being snuffed out ? (With thunderous applause, no less.)
I can't, in good conscience, therefore I won't.
Now, there will be those who say I'm obligated to celebrate because of the Holocaust and the thousands of years of Jewish suffering. Yes, that's true, but I feel my obligation to fight for Freedom wherever and whenever I can is greater. What good is tradition if it no longer has any meaning ? Is it truly honorable to play a fiddle while Rome burns ?
Monday, March 25, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Your Children Belong To Us!
During his State of Confusion diatribe, our dog eating and Jew hating Dear Leader, Barack Hussein Obama, said this to say:
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"But today, fewer than three in ten 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program. Most middle-class parents can't afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives. So, tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America."
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And the seals clapped until the Sergeant At Arms threw them some fish.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a call for CONgress to give Barry The Horrible the power to have his lackeys at the Department of Education indoctrinate YOUR children from an early age, much like the way The Third Reich's Hitler Jugend (To hell with "Godwin's Law"-- I will talk about whatever I want in this column.) and the Soviet Union's Komsomol indoctrinated children. It doesn't get any more dangerous for a society than this.
Now, I know there will be some who will say that I'm bloviating to hear myself bloviate. There will be some who will tell me that my official Glenn Beck Tinfoil Hat is too tight for my own good. Perhaps during the Reagan years, those accusations might had some merit. But now, we live in the Obama Error, and the first order of business for this regime is the "fundamental transformation" of the United States of America. In short, we live in times that no longer allow us to say, "Naah. That couldn't happen here." We live in times that force us to scream at the top our lungs, "Holy shit! I sure as hell hope that's not true!"
What do you base this on ? Something you saw on Alex Jones' freak show of a website ?
Nope. I base this on creepy things I found on another freak show of a website, the Department of Education's website. Let's take a dip in the gene pool, shall we ? (H/T Mark Levin)
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"June is LGBT Pride Month, and to kick off the month, and as part of ED’s Student Voices Sessions, the Secretary met with eight students from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network to hear directly from the students about their experiences and to discuss bullying and possible solutions."
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/06/lgbt-students-give-secretary-duncan-homework/
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" 'You are all partners and allies in reforming public education,' Secretary Arne Duncan said last week at the National Action Network’s 14th Annual Convention in Washington. 'An excellent education for very child is a moral and civic imperative, as well as an economic one. This issue is even bigger than education—it is an issue of social justice and economic security,' [Education Secretary Arne] Duncan said.
One takeaway from the conference is that the civil rights community has a long and distinguished history of taking courageous action to drive social change, and it will take collective will to make a difference in boosting the nation’s graduation rates and turning around our low-performing schools. 'Without equality in education there will never be equality in society. We have to do what’s right for our children and make education a priority,' said Rev. Al Sharpton [noted anti-semite, anti-white racist, and current host on PMSNBC] of the founder of the National Action Network.
Secretary Duncan explained that 'we have to have a strategy to build an economy that will last—and education is the centerpiece of it.' Duncan praised groups like the National Action Network for their work with communities, and said that 'we need to keep fighting together for strong local, state and national investments.' "
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/04/duncan-enlists-sharptons-civil-rights-network-in-education-reform/
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Don't worry, greenies, you weren't left out. The Department of Education luvs you, too!
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"Two weeks from today, Secretary Duncan will take the stage at the Green Schools National Conference in Denver, providing a high note at what is fast becoming the largest annual meeting of the green schools movement. The Secretary and other distinguished speakers, including Deputy Undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Janey Thornton, mayors from several cities, and business leaders representing companies from Stonyfield Farm to Siemens, will address the green schools movement and how it can strengthen our economy, revitalize our schools and ensure access to green school benefits for all.
The Secretary’s appearance and the growing popularity of this conference signal a new milestone in green schools, coinciding with the inaugural year of U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) program. ED’s new Environmental Justice Strategy explains how ED-GRS is just one initiative supporting a goal at the very heart of ED’s mission: assuring equal educational opportunity for every student. ED-GRS, among other initiatives, helps suggest ways to address the adverse health and environmental conditions that disproportionately affect student achievement among minority and low-income populations."
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/02/a-green-revolution-for-all/
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And what could be the result of this, you ask ? This:
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"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police."--- George Orwell, 1984
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The bottom line is this, gang: We're in massive, massive trouble as a country. As we can see, the Republican't Party isn't going to do a whole lot to stop any of this. (To date, their only answers to Chairman Obama's Marxist intrigues has been to raise taxes and call Conservatives who oppose granting amnesty to illegal alien criminals bigots.) They're as useless as male nipples at this point. I wish I had a different answer, but it is what it is, and there's no point in sugar coating it.
Oh...By the way...They want to take your guns.
Have a great day.
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"But today, fewer than three in ten 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program. Most middle-class parents can't afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives. So, tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America."
***
And the seals clapped until the Sergeant At Arms threw them some fish.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a call for CONgress to give Barry The Horrible the power to have his lackeys at the Department of Education indoctrinate YOUR children from an early age, much like the way The Third Reich's Hitler Jugend (To hell with "Godwin's Law"-- I will talk about whatever I want in this column.) and the Soviet Union's Komsomol indoctrinated children. It doesn't get any more dangerous for a society than this.
Now, I know there will be some who will say that I'm bloviating to hear myself bloviate. There will be some who will tell me that my official Glenn Beck Tinfoil Hat is too tight for my own good. Perhaps during the Reagan years, those accusations might had some merit. But now, we live in the Obama Error, and the first order of business for this regime is the "fundamental transformation" of the United States of America. In short, we live in times that no longer allow us to say, "Naah. That couldn't happen here." We live in times that force us to scream at the top our lungs, "Holy shit! I sure as hell hope that's not true!"
What do you base this on ? Something you saw on Alex Jones' freak show of a website ?
Nope. I base this on creepy things I found on another freak show of a website, the Department of Education's website. Let's take a dip in the gene pool, shall we ? (H/T Mark Levin)
***
"June is LGBT Pride Month, and to kick off the month, and as part of ED’s Student Voices Sessions, the Secretary met with eight students from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network to hear directly from the students about their experiences and to discuss bullying and possible solutions."
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/06/lgbt-students-give-secretary-duncan-homework/
***
" 'You are all partners and allies in reforming public education,' Secretary Arne Duncan said last week at the National Action Network’s 14th Annual Convention in Washington. 'An excellent education for very child is a moral and civic imperative, as well as an economic one. This issue is even bigger than education—it is an issue of social justice and economic security,' [Education Secretary Arne] Duncan said.
One takeaway from the conference is that the civil rights community has a long and distinguished history of taking courageous action to drive social change, and it will take collective will to make a difference in boosting the nation’s graduation rates and turning around our low-performing schools. 'Without equality in education there will never be equality in society. We have to do what’s right for our children and make education a priority,' said Rev. Al Sharpton [noted anti-semite, anti-white racist, and current host on PMSNBC] of the founder of the National Action Network.
Secretary Duncan explained that 'we have to have a strategy to build an economy that will last—and education is the centerpiece of it.' Duncan praised groups like the National Action Network for their work with communities, and said that 'we need to keep fighting together for strong local, state and national investments.' "
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/04/duncan-enlists-sharptons-civil-rights-network-in-education-reform/
***
Don't worry, greenies, you weren't left out. The Department of Education luvs you, too!
***
"Two weeks from today, Secretary Duncan will take the stage at the Green Schools National Conference in Denver, providing a high note at what is fast becoming the largest annual meeting of the green schools movement. The Secretary and other distinguished speakers, including Deputy Undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Janey Thornton, mayors from several cities, and business leaders representing companies from Stonyfield Farm to Siemens, will address the green schools movement and how it can strengthen our economy, revitalize our schools and ensure access to green school benefits for all.
The Secretary’s appearance and the growing popularity of this conference signal a new milestone in green schools, coinciding with the inaugural year of U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) program. ED’s new Environmental Justice Strategy explains how ED-GRS is just one initiative supporting a goal at the very heart of ED’s mission: assuring equal educational opportunity for every student. ED-GRS, among other initiatives, helps suggest ways to address the adverse health and environmental conditions that disproportionately affect student achievement among minority and low-income populations."
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/02/a-green-revolution-for-all/
***
And what could be the result of this, you ask ? This:
***
"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police."--- George Orwell, 1984
***
The bottom line is this, gang: We're in massive, massive trouble as a country. As we can see, the Republican't Party isn't going to do a whole lot to stop any of this. (To date, their only answers to Chairman Obama's Marxist intrigues has been to raise taxes and call Conservatives who oppose granting amnesty to illegal alien criminals bigots.) They're as useless as male nipples at this point. I wish I had a different answer, but it is what it is, and there's no point in sugar coating it.
Oh...By the way...They want to take your guns.
Have a great day.
Be Afraid. Very, Very Afraid
No, I'm not talking about the non-event of the Sequester of Doom. Nope, this column is not about Gene Sperling's love letters to Bob Woodward. I think the talking heads that inhabit PMSNBC, The Communist News Network (CNN), and the FOX Neocon Channel (FNC) are doing a fine job of working themselves into a frenzy about these topics, so there's no need for lil' ol' me to offer my two cents.
I'd rather present to you actual news that no one is talking about. For example, look what I found while snooping around the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website:
[When appropriate, emphasis will be added.]
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I'd rather present to you actual news that no one is talking about. For example, look what I found while snooping around the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website:
[When appropriate, emphasis will be added.]
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"Choice Neighborhoods
Overview
Choice Neighborhoods grants transform distressed neighborhoods and public and assisted projects into viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhoods by linking housing improvements with appropriate services, schools, public assets, transportation, and access to jobs. A strong emphasis is placed on local community planning for access to high-quality educational opportunities, including early childhood education. Choice Neighborhoods grants build upon the successes of public housing transformation under HOPE VI to provide support for the preservation and rehabilitation of public and HUD-assisted housing, within the context of a broader approach to concentrated poverty. In addition to public housing authorities, the initiative will involve local governments, non-profits, and for-profit developers in undertaking comprehensive local planning with residents and the community.
In the development of Choice Neighborhoods, HUD has focused on directing resources into three core goals:
1. Housing: Transform distressed public and
assisted housing into energy efficient, mixed-income housing that is
physically and financially viable over the long-term;
2. People: Support positive outcomes for families who live in the target development(s) and the surrounding neighborhood, particularly outcomes related to residents’ health, safety, employment, mobility, and education; and
3. Neighborhood: Transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable, mixed-income neighborhoods with access to well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
To achieve these core goals, communities must develop a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy, or Transformation Plan. This Transformation Plan will become the guiding document for the revitalization of the public and/or assisted housing units, while simultaneously directing the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood and positive outcomes for families. To successfully implement the Transformation Plan, applicants will need to work with public and private agencies, organizations (including philanthropic organizations), and individuals to gather and leverage resources needed to support the financial sustainability of the plan. These efforts should build community support for and involvement in the development of the plan. Implementation Grants support those communities that have undergone a comprehensive local planning process and are ready to implement their 'Transformation Plan' to redevelop the neighborhood. "
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/cn
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Guess what, ladies and gentlemen ? This is Agenda 21-like social engineering. What a program like this could do is completely obliterate local governments and replace them with bureaucracies created by HUD and staffed by God knows who.
Of course, if this was just the work of some academic Marxist at HUD trying to impress Noam Chomsky, this would be filed in the "No Biggie" file. However, as you read this, this madness is burrowing its way into American cities.
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"Boston is one of just five cities nationwide to receive the first-ever Implementation Grants awarded under HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative a new strategic approach intended to help transform high-poverty, distressed neighborhoods into communities with healthy, affordable housing, safe streets, and access to quality educational opportunities. Boston joins Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle to receive a combined $122 million."
http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/pdr/choice_neighborhoods.asp
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That's right. This beast is growing mighty big and fat thanks to your government enforced generosity.
Of the cities that were listed above, guess who got the biggest slice of government cheese ?
[Emphasis added where appropriate]
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"8/31/11— Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has selected San Francisco’s HOPE SF transformation plan for Alice Griffith Public Housing Development and the surrounding Bayview neighborhood as a recipient of the $30.5 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant. The Alice Griffith Plan was one of six finalists submitted by communities nationwide competing for HUD Choice Neighborhoods funding.
'Revitalizing the Alice Griffith Public Housing Development and transforming the surrounding Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhood is the type of investment our City needs to improve public housing, create jobs and build sustainable communities. We are also supporting educational opportunities and expanding economic development in a community where we need it most,' said Mayor Lee. 'I thank the leadership of HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan for choosing the Alice Griffith community and the larger Bayview neighborhood as recipients of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Grant, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom for starting the job of rebuilding our public housing under HOPE SF, and Senator Dianne Feinstein and Leader Nancy Pelosi for their ongoing support of this project and stewardship in our communities and our City.'
'The revitalization of Alice Griffith is critical to San Francisco’s long-term goals for the Bayview neighborhood,' said U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. 'This $30.5 million investment from HUD is a vote of confidence in San Francisco that will spur economic development and create more than 1,200 units of affordable housing, while leveraging resources to build infrastructure, improve the community and put Californians back to work.'
'Today, San Francisco has secured more than an investment in new housing; our City has begun to transform a neighborhood, revitalize a community, strengthen our economy, and provide a fresh start for the families of Alice Griffith,' said Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. 'It is a source of pride for all San Franciscans that the federal government has placed this down payment on this new development. We look forward to working together to ensure the success of this effort in the future.'
'Building sustainable public housing for our communities is one of the best investments we can make, and that is why we started HOPE SF,' said Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. 'Today is another historic step for the Bayview as we are not just building public housing, but revitalizing the whole community. HUD’s $30.5 million grant for Alice Griffith will help California create jobs and invest in our community.'
'The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative expands on the bipartisan success of the HOPE VI program by recognizing that we must link affordable housing with a mix of incomes and uses with quality education, public transportation, good jobs and safe streets,' said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.
'This new and important federal HUD grant will provide San Francisco with the financial leverage to rebuild and improve the 50-year old Alice Griffith public housing development and the surrounding neighborhood in the Bayview District,' said HUD Region IX Administrator Ophelia Basgal. 'The Choice Neighborhoods program funding recognizes that San Francisco had in place strong long-range plans for the Bayview neighborhood and committed community partners. Now the partnership can move forward to accomplish our shared goal of creating and fostering sustainable communities.'
HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative promotes the transformation of impoverished areas into viable, mixed-income neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities. Choice Neighborhoods focuses on the public and private sectors working together to revitalize severely distressed public housing and generate investments in well-functioning services, effective schools, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
The Alice Griffith Plan implements the mission of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative through a public-private partnership between the City, the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA), San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), San Francisco Unified School District, and the development team comprised of McCormack Baron Salazar, Lennar Urban, and Urban Strategies, Inc. Together, this team is leveraging the benefits of the Redevelopment Agency’s and Lennar Urban’s development plan for Hunters Point Shipyard-Phase 2 and Candlestick Point, which includes the complete revitalization of Alice Griffith, over 10,000 new market-rate and below-market housing units, new parks, retail, and transportation improvements, and investments in job and workforce development, education, and community health and wellness programs.
'HUD’s decision to support the Alice Griffith revitalization demonstrates that the Candlestick Point redevelopment is not only a local priority, but that the plan is also of national significance and scope,' said McCormack Baron Salazar’s Tony Salazar. 'With the Choice Neighborhood Initiatives grant, the residents of Alice Griffith and people of all incomes are assured a place in the new community. The grant would not have been awarded without the hard work of our exceptional team, led by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and with our partners at the Mayor’s Office, Housing Authority, Lennar Urban, Urban Strategies, the School District, and the many service providers and organizations who stepped up to support the application.'
'We want to thank HUD for selecting us for the grant award,' said SFHA Executive Director Henry Alvarez III. 'This will be essential in furthering our goals to build and strengthen communities by integrating public housing and its leaseholders into the larger social, economic and physical fabric, and thereby creating a seamless community in San Francisco.'
'The Redevelopment Agency is thrilled to receive the generous grant of $30.5 million in Choice Neighborhoods funding from HUD to support the revitalization of the Alice Griffith Public Housing Development, the City’s HOPE SF Initiative and the larger transformation plans for Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard,' said SFRA Director Fred Blackwell. 'The new housing, community facilities, social services and economic opportunities for the residents that are supported by this grant are critical elements to transforming this historically underserved community into a vibrant and thriving San Francisco neighborhood.'
'I am thrilled that SFUSD is working together with the City and community agencies to bring more resources to the Bayview community,' said SFUSD Superintendent of Schools Carlos Garcia. 'The Federal government’s investment in the Bayview will help us create a national model for neighborhoods in which children and families live, learn and thrive.'
'Alice Griffith residents have been waiting for this moment for far too long,' said District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen. 'After more than a decade of community based planning and advocacy, with HUD’s Choice Neighborhood’s Grant funding, we will finally be able to move forward in implementing the revitalization of this community. This is truly and exciting day for the residents of Alice Griffith and the Bayview community as a whole.'
http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=548
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I know there will be some who will look at the title of this column and say, "I ain't scared of nuthin'". But if you'll note, this plot wasn't hatched in CONgress, it was hatched in the bloated federal bureaucracy, basically under the cover of darkness. It's been in effect since 2010 and no one has noticed.
By the way, they want to take your guns....
2. People: Support positive outcomes for families who live in the target development(s) and the surrounding neighborhood, particularly outcomes related to residents’ health, safety, employment, mobility, and education; and
3. Neighborhood: Transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable, mixed-income neighborhoods with access to well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
To achieve these core goals, communities must develop a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy, or Transformation Plan. This Transformation Plan will become the guiding document for the revitalization of the public and/or assisted housing units, while simultaneously directing the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood and positive outcomes for families. To successfully implement the Transformation Plan, applicants will need to work with public and private agencies, organizations (including philanthropic organizations), and individuals to gather and leverage resources needed to support the financial sustainability of the plan. These efforts should build community support for and involvement in the development of the plan. Implementation Grants support those communities that have undergone a comprehensive local planning process and are ready to implement their 'Transformation Plan' to redevelop the neighborhood. "
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/cn
***
Guess what, ladies and gentlemen ? This is Agenda 21-like social engineering. What a program like this could do is completely obliterate local governments and replace them with bureaucracies created by HUD and staffed by God knows who.
Of course, if this was just the work of some academic Marxist at HUD trying to impress Noam Chomsky, this would be filed in the "No Biggie" file. However, as you read this, this madness is burrowing its way into American cities.
***
"Boston is one of just five cities nationwide to receive the first-ever Implementation Grants awarded under HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative a new strategic approach intended to help transform high-poverty, distressed neighborhoods into communities with healthy, affordable housing, safe streets, and access to quality educational opportunities. Boston joins Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle to receive a combined $122 million."
http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/pdr/choice_neighborhoods.asp
***
That's right. This beast is growing mighty big and fat thanks to your government enforced generosity.
Of the cities that were listed above, guess who got the biggest slice of government cheese ?
[Emphasis added where appropriate]
***
"8/31/11— Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has selected San Francisco’s HOPE SF transformation plan for Alice Griffith Public Housing Development and the surrounding Bayview neighborhood as a recipient of the $30.5 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant. The Alice Griffith Plan was one of six finalists submitted by communities nationwide competing for HUD Choice Neighborhoods funding.
'Revitalizing the Alice Griffith Public Housing Development and transforming the surrounding Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhood is the type of investment our City needs to improve public housing, create jobs and build sustainable communities. We are also supporting educational opportunities and expanding economic development in a community where we need it most,' said Mayor Lee. 'I thank the leadership of HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan for choosing the Alice Griffith community and the larger Bayview neighborhood as recipients of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Grant, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom for starting the job of rebuilding our public housing under HOPE SF, and Senator Dianne Feinstein and Leader Nancy Pelosi for their ongoing support of this project and stewardship in our communities and our City.'
'The revitalization of Alice Griffith is critical to San Francisco’s long-term goals for the Bayview neighborhood,' said U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. 'This $30.5 million investment from HUD is a vote of confidence in San Francisco that will spur economic development and create more than 1,200 units of affordable housing, while leveraging resources to build infrastructure, improve the community and put Californians back to work.'
'Today, San Francisco has secured more than an investment in new housing; our City has begun to transform a neighborhood, revitalize a community, strengthen our economy, and provide a fresh start for the families of Alice Griffith,' said Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. 'It is a source of pride for all San Franciscans that the federal government has placed this down payment on this new development. We look forward to working together to ensure the success of this effort in the future.'
'Building sustainable public housing for our communities is one of the best investments we can make, and that is why we started HOPE SF,' said Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. 'Today is another historic step for the Bayview as we are not just building public housing, but revitalizing the whole community. HUD’s $30.5 million grant for Alice Griffith will help California create jobs and invest in our community.'
'The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative expands on the bipartisan success of the HOPE VI program by recognizing that we must link affordable housing with a mix of incomes and uses with quality education, public transportation, good jobs and safe streets,' said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.
'This new and important federal HUD grant will provide San Francisco with the financial leverage to rebuild and improve the 50-year old Alice Griffith public housing development and the surrounding neighborhood in the Bayview District,' said HUD Region IX Administrator Ophelia Basgal. 'The Choice Neighborhoods program funding recognizes that San Francisco had in place strong long-range plans for the Bayview neighborhood and committed community partners. Now the partnership can move forward to accomplish our shared goal of creating and fostering sustainable communities.'
HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative promotes the transformation of impoverished areas into viable, mixed-income neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities. Choice Neighborhoods focuses on the public and private sectors working together to revitalize severely distressed public housing and generate investments in well-functioning services, effective schools, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
The Alice Griffith Plan implements the mission of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative through a public-private partnership between the City, the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA), San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), San Francisco Unified School District, and the development team comprised of McCormack Baron Salazar, Lennar Urban, and Urban Strategies, Inc. Together, this team is leveraging the benefits of the Redevelopment Agency’s and Lennar Urban’s development plan for Hunters Point Shipyard-Phase 2 and Candlestick Point, which includes the complete revitalization of Alice Griffith, over 10,000 new market-rate and below-market housing units, new parks, retail, and transportation improvements, and investments in job and workforce development, education, and community health and wellness programs.
'HUD’s decision to support the Alice Griffith revitalization demonstrates that the Candlestick Point redevelopment is not only a local priority, but that the plan is also of national significance and scope,' said McCormack Baron Salazar’s Tony Salazar. 'With the Choice Neighborhood Initiatives grant, the residents of Alice Griffith and people of all incomes are assured a place in the new community. The grant would not have been awarded without the hard work of our exceptional team, led by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and with our partners at the Mayor’s Office, Housing Authority, Lennar Urban, Urban Strategies, the School District, and the many service providers and organizations who stepped up to support the application.'
'We want to thank HUD for selecting us for the grant award,' said SFHA Executive Director Henry Alvarez III. 'This will be essential in furthering our goals to build and strengthen communities by integrating public housing and its leaseholders into the larger social, economic and physical fabric, and thereby creating a seamless community in San Francisco.'
'The Redevelopment Agency is thrilled to receive the generous grant of $30.5 million in Choice Neighborhoods funding from HUD to support the revitalization of the Alice Griffith Public Housing Development, the City’s HOPE SF Initiative and the larger transformation plans for Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard,' said SFRA Director Fred Blackwell. 'The new housing, community facilities, social services and economic opportunities for the residents that are supported by this grant are critical elements to transforming this historically underserved community into a vibrant and thriving San Francisco neighborhood.'
'I am thrilled that SFUSD is working together with the City and community agencies to bring more resources to the Bayview community,' said SFUSD Superintendent of Schools Carlos Garcia. 'The Federal government’s investment in the Bayview will help us create a national model for neighborhoods in which children and families live, learn and thrive.'
'Alice Griffith residents have been waiting for this moment for far too long,' said District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen. 'After more than a decade of community based planning and advocacy, with HUD’s Choice Neighborhood’s Grant funding, we will finally be able to move forward in implementing the revitalization of this community. This is truly and exciting day for the residents of Alice Griffith and the Bayview community as a whole.'
http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=548
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I know there will be some who will look at the title of this column and say, "I ain't scared of nuthin'". But if you'll note, this plot wasn't hatched in CONgress, it was hatched in the bloated federal bureaucracy, basically under the cover of darkness. It's been in effect since 2010 and no one has noticed.
By the way, they want to take your guns....
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