ShareThisKibera, Kenya… eminent domain… Obama's homelessness prevention… doesn't anybody get the connection?
Nobody knows what the "homelessness prevention" program is. We just know that our city has received billions of dollars from Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus to fund it.
The Kibera project involves moving the poor into public housing and DEMOLISHING THEIR HOMES.
The excuse given is that their homes are "shabby" construction, "shacks," a "public hazard," and so on.
Oh, my house doesn’t conform to the latest trends in interior decorating. Is it "shabby?" And somebody on a bicycle might crash into my mailbox and get hurt. Is my home a "public hazard?"
Does any of this remind you of the "eminent domain" controversy over "shabby" houses, which went to the Supreme Court before common sense prevailed?
Is Obama using homelessness to renew the eminent domain land grab attempt that was made by the ultra wealthy?
Kami, I re-posted it for your benefit, because you answered before I filled in the details.
I respected you because yours was the only answer that didn’t outright bash me.
Now you’ve done it, too.
What separates “News” from “opinion”?
After watching the national news nonstop for the last couple of weeks, I just wondered why today’s brand of news is more like gossip and opinion than a representation of authentic journalistic reporting.
Main Entry: news
Pronunciation: \ˈnüz, ˈnyüz\
Function: noun plural but singular in construction
Usage: often attributive
Date: 15th century
1 a: a report of recent events b: previously unknown information <I’ve got news for you> c: something having a specified influence or effect <the rain was good news for lawns and gardens — Garrison Keillor> <the virus was bad news>
2 a: material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast b: matter that is newsworthy
Main Entry: news·wor·thy
Pronunciation: \-ˌwər-thē\
Function: adjective
Date: 1932
: interesting enough to the general public to warrant reporting
Main Entry: 1gos·sip
Pronunciation: \ˈgä-səp\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gossib, from Old English godsibb, from god god + sibb kinsman, from sibb related — more at sib
Date: before 12th century
1 adialect British : godparent b: companion , crony c: a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
2 a: rumor or report of an intimate nature b: a chatty talk c: the subject matter of gossip
— gos·sip·ry \-sə-prē\ noun
All definitions above are from the Meriam Webster Dictionary Online.
Does Barack Hussein Obama continue to lie about the economic stimulus plan?
This is an article from the Washington PostWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his 7 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.
Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even as his advisers are ramping down expectations about when the spending plan will effect a continuing rise in the nation’s unemployment.
Many of the stimulus plans that Obama announced Monday already were in the works, including hundreds of maintenance projects at military bases, about 1,600 state road and airport improvements, and federal money states budgeted for 135,000 teachers, principals and school support staff.
The administration had always viewed the summer as a peak for stimulus spending, as better weather permitted more public works construction and federal agencies had processed requests from states and others.
But Obama now promises an accelerated pace of federal spending over the next few months to boost the economy and produce jobs.
"We have a long way to go on our road to recovery but we are going the right way," Obama said in a written statement prepared for his public announcement of the additional summer stimulus activity. "Our measure of progress is the progress the American people see in their own lives. And until that progress is steady and solid, we’re going to keep moving forward. We will not grow complacent or rest. Surely and steadily, we will turn this economy around," the statement said.
The announcement comes days after the government reported that the number of unemployed continues to rise; the unemployment rate now sits at 9.4 percent, the highest in more than 25 years. Hundreds of thousands of Americans continue to lose jobs each month, although fewer jobs were lost last month than expected.
Just how much of an impact Obama’s recovery program had on the pace of job losses is up for debate. Obama has claimed as many as 150,000 jobs saved or created by his stimulus plan so far, even as government reports have shown the economy has lost more than 1.6 million jobs since Congress approved funding for the program in February.
Republicans remain critical of the stimulus spending, slamming it as a big government program that ultimately will do little for recovery. With only a fraction of the federal money actually spent thus far, it’s premature to give the stimulus plan credit for economic trends, congressional Republicans said last week.
"I think the economy is just as likely to begin to recover on its own, wholly aside from this, before much of this has an impact. So I’m very skeptical that this massive sort of spending binge that we’ve engaged in is going to have much of an impact," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Obama initially offered his stimulus plan as a way to put people back to work, a promise that 3.5 million jobs would be saved or created. The administration’s predictions that unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent already have been shattered, leaving Obama’s advisers to caution that job growth takes time, even as recovery spending intensifies.
Federal agencies will release billions of stimulus dollars to states in the coming months.
Health and Human Services will provide funding for 1,129 health centers to provide expanded service for 300,000 patients; Interior will begin improvements on 107 national parks; Veterans Affairs will start work on 90 medical centers in 38 states; the Justice Department will fund 5,000 law enforcement jobs; the Agriculture Department will begin 200 new rural waste and water system projects; and the Environmental Protection Agency will begin or accelerate the cleanup of 20 Superfund sites.
At the same time federal money for these projects is released, the nation’s unemployment rate likely will continue to increase, said Austan Goolsbee, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
"I don’t think there’s any question it’s going to be a rough patch not just in the immediate term, but for a little bit of time," Goolsbee said Sunday, "because you’ve got to turn the economy around, and jobs and job growth tend to come after you turn the economy around. So it’s likely going to be a little higher."
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod argues that the stimulus program is working and points to fewer jobs lost in May than the month before as a hopeful sign of economic recovery. Improvements in unemployment numbers naturally come later, he said.
"It’s going to take some time for these unemployment numbers to turn around, for the momentum to completely stop and turn in the other direction," Axelrod said. "It feels as if we’re moving and the stimulus package now is not nearly done, it’s just really at its beginnings."
Goolsbee spoke on "FOX News Sunday;" Axelrod was interviewed on CNN’s "State of the Union".
Tennessee Debates Mosque Construction
Supporters and opponents are debating a plan by the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
OOh,did you read where a "spanish news agency"?
LIED about the Arizona gubanatorial candidate’s plan for illegals??? "The story last week,caused an international stir,when EFE a national news agency from spain, quoted Don Goldwater as saying he wanted to hold illegals in "camps" and use them as labor in the construction of a wall,and to clean the areas in the Arizona desert that they are polluting." EFE executive V.P.,said they had "inacurately" described Goldwater’s plan,and the freelance writer had NEVER interviwed Goldwater OR his staff before "writing" his story"!!! Personally,i think they SHOULD be used to build the fence, REPAIR the damages they’ve caused,and clean up the GARBAGE they leave behind in the desert!!! why should TAXPAYERS get STUCK for that TOO??!!
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Anybody an Interior Decorator/Designer???
I have an assignment for school in which i need to conduct interviews (they can be through forums). I am researching a career option and have chosen to do Interior Decorating as i aspire to be one. If anybody is an Interior Decorator it would be highly appreciated if you could answer a few questions that i have about the industry.
THANK YOU 
1. What training did you complete in order to enter this profession?
I.e. uni, work experience, tafe….
2. How did you get into Interior Decorating and was it hard to break into the industry?
3. Is the role of Interior Decorator/ Designer demanding?
4. What is the research process like when creating a room?
Is there a lot of research for factors such as function and current trends….
5. Essentially what does an Interior Decorator do?
6. When decorating a room, where do you gather your inspiration from?
7. As an Interior Decorator, are you involved at all with the construction of a room or with moving furniture?
AFGHAN INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION
AN “ARMY TODAY” NEWS UPDATE ABOUT THE AFGHAN INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION EFFORTS UNDER WAY IN THIS IMPOVERISHED WAR-TORN COUNTRY, LED BY THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AFGHANISTAN ENGINEER DISTRICT.
When the heartache is over I know I won't be missing you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD NEWS I need you to Comment?
Today was the last day of graduation rehearsal and we went over
how we are posed to march and sit and other stuff, the fun part was when they passed out caps and gowns and graduation tickets, I am proud to say I got 6 tickets and I got my gown and stuff, I won’t list the bad news, I am feeling so happy, I am less than 24 hours away from graduating, I heard their were about 42 people not graduating, cause they are slow and did NOT do what they were supposed to do,
I have 47 service hours,
I have 24 credits*
All my fees are paid for**
I have no detentions
I have paid all my depts**
I have ignored people who have messed with me****
I have all my books turned in*
I have everything out the way,
wish me a happy CONGRAUALATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they said something about they are doing construction around
Christ Universal Temple????
anyway I have made it, thank you all for helping me out on my questions.
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