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What I find particularly frightening is Stevens language that economic development “as deemed by the legislature” should be a determining factor and that he cites that the NLDC had an established plan to invigorate the local economy. If all I have to do is create an established plan to rob my neighbors then when, where, and how will this end? The door has been opened for much mischief and those who would protect the rights of individual, minority, private owners have been restrained.

I also like the idea to condemn Souter’s house, too funny!

I especially like the part about the “Just Desserts” Cafe.

The thing to keep in mind about blogs on politics, unless it’s dedictated to local issues, we’re generally talking about the national scene unless otherwise noted. Why, there’s even some local NAACPs run by republicans or independents, and one can be sure they don’t march in lockstep on orders from Julian Bond.

Like Zell Miller and other DINOs, my family were NAACPINOs for nigh 3 decades, but we still have some relations with certain chapters/affiliates.

Give it a rest and find a new drum to beat.

Benjamin Franklin: “the necessity of a public religion … and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.”

George Washington:
—”To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
—”Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity.”
—”Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing … who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.”
—”Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
—”The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.”
—”Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government … to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation … Amen.”

Patrick Henry: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ”.

John Adams:
—“We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!”
—”We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Finally, in James Madison’s letter to Attorney General Bradford, he wrote that public officials were not sufficiently strong about their Christian faith in public and that public officials should be “fervent advocates in the cause of Christ.”

Any questions?

More quoteables:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~clc5q/quotes.html
http://www.eadshome.com/QuotesoftheFounders.htm
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington

Cause I’m not seeing where I’m in favor of this decision to further re-gentrify at the expense of urban poor and middle class.

Oh, you mean the NAACP. Since when is the truth zany?

First they were for economic ED, now they’re against it, how zany is that?

Actually on this topic, the NAACP is alot like a riff on the old saw: “First they came for them and I did nothing, now they could come for me and I screamed bloody murder.

How ironic that the brother they love to hate on the bench is Anti-Kelo, meanwhile their friends on the left side of the bench showed their true colors. If they had spent more quality time trying to be a friend of Clarence, maybe they would have been able to sway a favorable ruling from their philosophical massahs. Yep, zany indeed.

And where will the NAACP be if and when Janice Brown is nomininated to SCOTUS? Up in the choir cheering on how extremely out of touch she is with her race, and solemnly ‘amen-ing’ as the MSM/DNC leadership liberally drags her name and honor thru the streets behind their limosines. Yep, zany in word and deed.

But then I realized: the Court has just given another tool for the government / rich to harass their enemies. Is it a tremendous stretch to see that an unscrupulous government might hatch a ‘public good’ scheme to take the property of people who annoy or oppose them?

For example, I wonder how much more tax revenue the NAACP headquarters property could generate if it were turned into a hotel? What if we turned the DNC property into low-cost housing?

See what I mean?

I think judges should simply be people who believe and publicly profess a belief in One God…

So, your solution to this violation of the Constitution is to propose a different violation of that same document?

Very nice sentiment. Maybe your friends Andy and Frank (see their zany comments above) can help out with that…
As I said before, the vast majority of liberals I know oppose this decision because it will be used by cities to further “re-gentrify” at the expense of the urban poor and middle class… they are the ones who will be the most vulnerable… it’s not as if cities are going to take land from the wealthy…
This is one of those rare times when liberals and conservatives can agree and might be able to work together… if only the partisan rhetoric could be toned down.

I hope you are finding a friend in us as opposed to thinking that we need to be argued with.

They used the guise of “urban renewal” to do it.

They destroyed stable neighborhoods for 0.7 miles to nowhere. They destroyed home values around the area because no one wanted to risk buying homes to only have E.D. used again to take over property. The Blacks who lived in that neighborhood complained but was shot down.

Now, years later, people are upset because they see it can now happen to them. But when it happend to others, nothing.

“We” told you so. And I’m not gloating at all. I find it a durn shame.

Yes, this was for “public use”. Not a take and give to another private entity.