People got evicted for this? Chapter 98
Walking around the old Sunbridge Village (Villa Mobile Home Park) between Walgreen’s and Fiesta Square, one gets the same feeling of Deja Vu that arises every time human beings are thrown out of their homes - modest though they may be - to make room for iffy developments.
In this case it is the “Sunbridge Villas” - described as being “in the middle of everything.” By the spring of 2008, the development will be ecomplete, and all houses will have three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Well, Phase 1 and 2 will be complete anyway. From $185,000 - $199,185000.
Oh, wait. It’s Summer, 2008.
So just what do we have?
Well, a few houses have been built. I guess they can claim that is Phase 1 and 2, if pressed, by anybody who actually gives a damn.
The “Sunbridge Villas sign, set in stone, with an unused fountain, is covered with tall weeds. The large undeveloped field is covered with tall grass and weeds. Tarzan would feel right at home there, I suspect.
I wonder if Code Compliance has paid these folks a visit?
Probably not.
So - is the point of all these “developments” to actually build anything, or just to rid our town of unsightly poor people?
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The End of Shame in America
This sort of thing should be shouted from the rooftops, and those responsible chased from public life. But instead we’ll have the grinning loons on cable news and talk radio telling us why it’s okay.
Report: U.S. military based Gitmo training on tactics China used in Korean War - USA Today
A training course at Gitmo was modeled on tactics that Chinese forces used to interrogate American prisoners during the Korean War, according to The New York Times.
The paper reports that interrogation trainers used a chart with "coercive management techniques" that were "copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners."
To read more:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/report-us-milit.html
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Quote of the Day
Bender, I don't care whether you have money. I love you for your artificial intelligence and your sincerity simulator. - Countess de la Roca to Bender, “Futurama”
Comments
I live right next to Sunbridge Villas, and knew people who lived in the mobile home park that was razed to make way for it. I honestly think the residents of that mobile home park could have grounds for some sort of class-action suit against the owner - they were given 30 days to pay off and move their trailers. That was the only notice they were given. One month. If their trailers weren't paid off, they simply lost them, along with all the equity they had paid in. Even the people who had paid their trailers off often had no place to move them to, and had to simply abandon them. It was almost a "pogrom" to sweep away the poor people. I predicted then that that subdivision would sit empty, the former residents without any hope of ever affording such homes.
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July 9, 2008 10:49 AM