The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

[dxmnkd316]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

Honestly, it would probably raise the property value in the right area and depending on how it was developed. Cripes, a nice solar farm in a city as liberal as San Fran (not actually in San Fran) with the right design would be a desirable installation.

[joecct]

Honestly, it would probably raise the property value in the right area and depending on how it was developed. Cripes, a nice solar farm in a city as liberal as San Fran (not actually in San Fran) with the right design would be a desirable installation.

Wouldn't it also lower property taxes?

[SJHovey]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

If their personal preference was that strong, then they were dumb to buy land that backed up to property zoned for that purpose, is the point.

Well, if the image you posted is the correct location, it looks like the grassy hill is zoned "FR Farm Residence" according to this map provided by the City of Blaine.

According to Blaine's zoning ordinance, this is what you should expect from property zoned in that fashion, which doesn't necessarily tell a reader they should expect acres of solar panels.

Seems to me that if your personal preference leaned towards larger lot sizes in a more rural setting, this might be precisely where you would look to buy.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

Well, if the image you posted is the correct location, it looks like the grassy hill is zoned "FR Farm Residence" according to this map provided by the City of Blaine.

According to Blaine's zoning ordinance, this is what you should expect from property zoned in that fashion, which doesn't necessarily tell a reader they should expect acres of solar panels.

Seems to me that if your personal preference leaned towards larger lot sizes in a more rural setting, this might be precisely where you would look to buy.

It's a solar farm. Sounds legit to me. Also, there isn't a parcel of land in Blaine that could be considered rural. Not since the farm on London Street more or less shut down and the wide open field there was filled in.

[trixR4kids]

Exactly. My dad works for usps and he handles a lot of mail sent to Michelle’s pac, and he said the words written on the envelopes scare him. Drawings of guns, slurs, etc on the outside of the envelope.
I know some very nice people in Blaine, but a lot of uneducated, hunting/fishing is my life extremists who think anyone with a college degree or higher is evil.

I have a buddy (I guess we haven’t talked in a while after I stopped playing on that hockey team) from Blaine who I just can’t talk politics with, the type who would probably equate BLM to far right extremist groups etc.

[Jimjamesak]

I guess a town with an 8-sheet rink can't be all bad, though it's not exactly a cultural gem. Good for parents at hockey tournaments, though.

I’m still amazed they have the massive soccer complex there. All those people out there practicing their commie plots...

[Kepler]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

I have a buddy (I guess we haven’t talked in a while after I stopped playing on that hockey team) from Blaine who I just can’t talk politics with, the type who would probably equate BLM to far right extremist groups etc.

I have a gun nut coworker who sincerely believes BLM arranges the killing of black people and then frames white police for it.

He also believes that while slavery was very bad blacks were happier under slavery because they had, and this is a direct quote, "structure."

He relates everything in geopolitics back to his youth when he was a wild runaround hell-raiser who did a lot of seriously f-cked up (borderline criminal) stuff, and then he found fundamentalist Christianity and settled down, so that proves that everybody who isn't a rock ribbed conservative is just fooling themselves when they think they are "free" because they're all just slaves to their passions. So, as an atheist, I literally cannot see truth since I haven't accepted that Jesus is God. Not just religious truth but any truth, like, he's surprised I can do math and assumes that's just God working through me to try to send me a message.

It's a common delusion in Fundyworld but he takes it to an extreme I haven't seen very much of up close. It's also really interesting to see how very narrow sexual and substance abuse issues in his autobiography are his explanation for everything, from Congress to the Space Program. It's like Stupid Freud.

[MaizeRage]

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I’m still amazed they have the massive soccer complex there. All those people out there practicing their commie plots...

(This isn't just directed at Jimmy, so much as the whole discussion)

First off, the Blaine hillbilly stuff is ridiculous. It's as suburban sprawly as you can get. I think that's just something people in the lovely ArmstrongCooperDraperPryce district say in the bathtub to soothe themselves between gun shots.

Anyway, I feel like you guys are mixing up your strains of conservatism. There's just a lot of middle/upper-middle class white people in Blaine, which as a group, is always going to be very conservative, because really, why would you want things to change? I also think the area skews a bit older, which make it more conservative.

The hardcore fundamentalist stuff doesn't really play (as much) here as it does in other areas. Even the suburban megachurches are more the refuge of failed theater dropouts than true crooks and scoundrels.

With the Keith Ellison talk earlier, conservatives here obviously don't like him, but all the complaints I hear are 'leftist radical' and nothing about him being Muslim.

Maybe it's just a distinction without a difference since it doesn't change how they vote. I'm just glad MN6 no longer has the state's worst representative after St. Clown's favorite wannabe slaveholder got elected last year. Though Tom Emmer made a strong case last week with his rape of the Boundary Waters. Incidentally, I could see MN6 being more in play than ever in 2018. Emmer has been afraid to show up for a public meeting in the district for the past 10 months now.



*This is deep in the weeds, but the area dx referenced west of 65 isn't bad by any stretch. It's just all homes built in the '50-'70s with very old residents. They don't attract a lot of new blood because nobody wants to move into their grandmothers' house when they can get a newer, bigger house for about the same price a little farther out in Andover.

I have a buddy (I guess we haven’t talked in a while after I stopped playing on that hockey team) from Blaine who I just can’t talk politics with, the type who would probably equate BLM to far right extremist groups etc.

I'd suggest the antecedent here is the type of dirtbag that plays adult hockey.

[unofan]

I'd suggest the antecedent here is the type of dirtbag that plays adult hockey.

And I'd suggest you go fark yourself.

[trixR4kids]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

I have a gun nut coworker who sincerely believes BLM arranges the killing of black people and then frames white police for it.

He also believes that while slavery was very bad blacks were happier under slavery because they had, and this is a direct quote, "structure."

He relates everything in geopolitics back to his youth when he was a wild runaround hell-raiser who did a lot of seriously f-cked up (borderline criminal) stuff, and then he found fundamentalist Christianity and settled down, so that proves that everybody who isn't a rock ribbed conservative is just fooling themselves when they think they are "free" because they're all just slaves to their passions. So, as an atheist, I literally cannot see truth since I haven't accepted that Jesus is God. Not just religious truth but any truth, like, he's surprised I can do math and assumes that's just God working through me to try to send me a message.

It's a common delusion in Fundyworld but he takes it to an extreme I haven't seen very much of up close. It's also really interesting to see how very narrow sexual and substance abuse issues in his autobiography are his explanation for everything, from Congress to the Space Program. It's like Stupid Freud.

That's a whole nother level, especially for someone who is educated.

[trixR4kids]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

I'd suggest the antecedent here is the type of dirtbag that plays adult hockey.

Yeah it's interesting, among the better players you see more of this type of stuff especially at the Super Rink. Among the beginner types it's not as true, you see more for lack of better term hipster types and what not.

First off, the Blaine hillbilly stuff is ridiculous. It's as suburban sprawly as you can get. I think that's just something people in the lovely ArmstrongCooperDraperPryce district say in the bathtub to soothe themselves between gun shots.

This part is just ridiculous lol. Were you the one who whined about dodging bullets on 394 or was that someone else?

[French Rage]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

VA House will get 50-50 thanks to a 1-vote margin win in one district.

[GrinCDXX]

Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

VA House will get 50-50 thanks to a 1-vote margin win in one district.

That's insane.

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Re: The States. It's 10th Amendment or bust!

VA House will get 50-50 thanks to a 1-vote margin win in one district.

That's insane.

And no provision to break ties.

[joecct]

And no provision to break ties.

It's Virginia. Shootout.