“Regional Equity”—Obama’s Coming War On Whitopias

Via Matthew

 

Paul Kersey   recently reported on VDARE.com an emerging trend: for white suburbs to secede from larger urban jurisdictions and so form, in effect, whitopian enclaves.

But he did not mention that there are powerful forces on the other side pushing back hard—using a concept called “Regional Equity.”

Americans can be forgiven for not being familiar with Regional Equity. I had not heard the term myself until just a few weeks ago, when I caught Stanley Kurtz on the radio talking about his new book: Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.

Put Regional Equity into a search engine and the language of the collectivists surfaces: transportation equity, environmental equity, healthcare equity, social justice, smart growth, and especially, sustainable communities.

The essence of Regional Equity is the use of centralized political power make things equal over regions—disregarding jurisdictions.

President Obama is very much on board with the Regional Equity movement. The White House website  says:

More @ VDARE

I get a chuckle everytime I see these

Roundabout via Cousin John

 

 

Coming To Amerika?

Via Keep It Simple Survival

Indeed.

Businessman Reportedly Offers $65M To Any Man To Break Up Lesbian Daughter’s Relationship

Via The Feral Irishman

 

A wealthy businessman in Hong Kong has reportedly offered $65 million for a man to woo away his lesbian daughter from her long-term girlfriend.

Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, 76, made the offer after he heard reports that his daughter, Gigi Chao, entered into a civil partnership with her girlfriend Sean B. Eav.

He told the South China Morning Post that those reports are false.

“I don’t mind whether he is rich or poor. The important thing is that he is generous and kind-hearted,” Mr. Chao told The Daily Telegraph about the man he is seeking for his daughter.

Chao is one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest businessmen and said the money he is offering can be used for someone to start their own business.

“Gigi is a very good woman with both talents and looks. She is devoted to her parents, is generous, and does volunteer work,” he told the Telegraph.

More @ CBS 

A well pump idea from Hans

 

I was looking at third-world solutions (PDF's) for well-pumps to get ideas for a manual pump that could be lowered into my well-casing in the event of a grid-down SHTF scenario.  I decided to play a bit in the shop and prototype 'my' version of a lift-pump.

 

The bottom disk on the lift rod is the 'flap valve' made of a circle of neoprene rubber (valve and guide - 2).  I added a second disk to minimize binding of the flap valve when the lift rod is operated.  The brass check-valve at the bottom is the only style available yesterday at Home Depot.  I would have preferred an in-line style check-valve that could be mounted inside the 1.5 in PVC cylinder.  A piece of hobby-shop brass tube is slipped over the threaded rod and secured with nuts to provide a smooth surface and minimize wear at the top cap.  I would use unthreaded rod in a 'production' pump.

 

I noticed the diameters of the valve and guide disks have to be sized for the specific PVC chosen for the pump cylinder.  There is enough variation in the internal diameter of several scrap pieces of 1.5 inch Type 1 Schedule 40 PVC that the disks are loose in some and won't fit others.  This was the only "critical" parts dimension.  The neoprene circle was trimmed "proud" of the disk with scissors. 

 

Several web sites described similar hand operated lift pumps that could be used at depths down to 100 ft.  For short depth of my well (30- 40 ft ... water at 20 ft) the lift rod could be 1/4-20 threaded rod.  For deeper wells I would use lengths of commercially available fiberglass lift rod. 

 

This prototype is clearly a throw-away experiment, but it operates with low friction and really does a great job of pumping out my rain buckets !  With a few minor design changes to the lower check-valve, riser pipe and addition of lever style pump handle, I could envision lowering 30 ft of this into my well-casing. 

 

DEA Boss: Mexican Drug Cartels Are So Deeply Embedded in Chicago, We Have to Operate Like We‘re ’On the Border’

Via Don

 

The city may be nearly 2,000 miles from Mexico, but the country’s drug cartels are so deeply embedded in Chicago that local and federal law enforcement are forced to operate as if they are “on the border,” according to Jack Riley, special agent in charge for the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Because of Chicago’s location in the heart of the United States, its large Mexican population and its abundance of street gang activity, drug cartels have designated the city as one of its main hubs of operation in America, Riley told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview. Inevitably, the increasing presence of cartels has also contributed to the Windy City’s skyrocketing violent crime rates, the DEA boss revealed.

“My opinion is, right now, a number of the Mexican cartels are probably the most organized, well-funded, vicious criminal organizations that we’ve ever seen,” said Riley.

More @ The Blaze

Barbara Streisand: Obama is The Most Fiscally Responsible President

The Twilight Zone: If Obama Had Never Been President

Welcome to Bernankeville, the City of Jokernomics

 

“Where were you when the dollar died?”

That’s a question people will be asking you in the not-too-distant future. The past few weeks have seen several events transpire that spell the inevitable ruin of the dollar. As usual, only some of these events have been reported in the mainstream press, leaving most Americans blissfully clueless about the catastrophe roaring towards them.

Most people are aware that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently announced the Fed would begin “purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month.” Additionally, the Fed “will continue through the end of the year its program to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities as announced in June, and it is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities.” Taken together, the Fed will “increase the Committee’s holdings” of long-term securities to the tune of $85 billion per month, at least through the end of the year. And then? The Fed “will continue its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases”, use its “other policy tools” until such time as the labor market—read “unemployment rate”—improves “substantially”. How much is “substantially”? Mr. Bernanke didn’t say. For all practical purposes, this third round of Qualitative Easing (QE3, as it’s being called) will go on and on and on…until Mr. Bernanke says “enough”. So, at least in theory, QE3 will obviate the need for QE4, QE5, QE6 and so on…because it’s QE “Until”.

More @ Canada Free Press

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