Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[THE_WIZARD_]

fascinating

[Dr. Strangelove]

Allow me to turn things to my pet crusade against public financing of pro stadiums. Some may recall that Cobb County managed to lure the Braves out of their decrepit 20-year old stadium in downtown Atlanta by promising them a brand new state-of-the-art park. This took place without any public vote. Commissioners promised no one's taxes would go up to pay for the stadium. So they used money allocated for for public parks to pay for the stadium and now the commissioners say taxes must go up in order to continue supporting the public parks system.

What a switcheroo!! We never said we wouldn't have to raise taxes to keep the parks and schools open!! Hell, I'd reelect these guys just for the massive amount of chutzpah.

http://deadspin.com/cobb-county-needs-to-raise-taxes-to-pay-for-public-park-1780832038

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/at-issue-should-cobb-pay-for-braves-stadium-before/nrZp7/

[lineygoblue]

Sounds like what they did many years ago in Michigan, when they wanted to institute the Lottery system.

We were told that all the monies from the Lottery would go to schools.

Well, they did follow thru on that... the monies did go to schools ....

But, .. they took the monies that HAD BEEN going to schools, and redirected them to other programs, including pay increases for state employees and legislators.

So, .. what we ended up with was a SHIFT in funds, not an addition of funds to schools, .. which is what about 100% of the voters thought they were doing.

And politicians wonder why voters will not support new tax increases.

[Mike]

But now the $742.5M per year actually does go to schools.

[Hannibal]

Sounds similar to how whenever a municipality wants to raise taxes nowadays, they threaten to cut the police and the fire departments, because they totally can't find anywhere else to cut funding, even though they are collecting more taxes than they did five years ago.

[Wild Hoss]

Allow me to turn things to my pet crusade against public financing of pro stadiums. Some may recall that Cobb County managed to lure the Braves out of their decrepit 20-year old stadium in downtown Atlanta by promising them a brand new state-of-the-art park. This took place without any public vote. Commissioners promised no one's taxes would go up to pay for the stadium. So they used money allocated for for public parks to pay for the stadium and now the commissioners say taxes must go up in order to continue supporting the public parks system.

What a switcheroo!! We never said we wouldn't have to raise taxes to keep the parks and schools open!! Hell, I'd reelect these guys just for the massive amount of chutzpah.

http://deadspin.com/cobb-county-needs-to-raise-taxes-to-pay-for-public-park-1780832038

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/a...-before/nrZp7/

Wow. That IS ballsy.

:::golfclap:::

It should land somebody in prison tho, IMO.

[edindetroit]

But now the $742.5M per year actually does go to schools.

It has always gone to the schools, go back and read his post.

[iam416]

I always thought DSL's pet crusades were against the McGriddle, Brown "University", and Art Modell. I guess our Ithaca A&M boy has another.

[iam416]

Incidentally, Hillary Clinton has now won 54.8% of the elected delegates, 56.8% of the popular vote, 92.2% of the super delegates and 28 states including California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

In what fucking world does Bernie Sanders, a socialist, not even a D, have any plausible claim to the nomination? I mean, it's not even close. 2008 -- that was close. This? Not so much.

[iam416]

I liked this article about Judge Curiel: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...k-trump-attack

Admittedly, it conforms to my opinion of most District Court judges, so perhaps it's confirmation bias on my part, but I have a really hard time thinking Trump is anything other than absolutely wrong.

Throw in the crass identity politics play, and it's a really bad look in my book.

[hack]

I don't think they want to say it directly, but based on yesterday's NPR interview on Here and Now it seems they're hanging around in case of an indictment.

[Mike]

It has always gone to the schools, go back and read his post.

Gotcha.

Re: Publically financed stadiums/arenas, hopefully that bubble is bursting but in most cases, the cities still cave to the demands of their billionaire overlord and give him a new stadium. If municipalities all at once refused to fund any future stadium projects, professional sports would still go on.

[Mike]

I don't think they want to say it directly, but based on yesterday's NPR interview on Here and Now it seems they're hanging around in case of an indictment.

For sure. I've read that there has even been behind the scenes talks about running Biden or Warren in that event so the Dems don't have to trot out socialist Bernie. I don't think for a minute that an indictment is on the way but obviously due diligence is necessary.

[hack]

LIZZIE!!! I'm in a tizzy for Lizzie.

[entropy]

Wow. That IS ballsy.

:::golfclap:::

It should land somebody in prison tho, IMO.

or allow them to run for President..