The only thing that could hold the National Velodrome back is the world economy

The $1million the City of Coatesville is applying for from the County is Federal funding passed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and then to Chester County. So if that Federal money is cut by the “negotiations” now going the $1 million won’t be there.

The Republicans made us the laughing stock of the world holding by a bill to allow the USA to pay money it already owed hostage in order to get what they wanted. The uncertainty and maybe insanity in our government caused by the Republicans may cause investors to look at other countries and all US interest rates to rise. That could make financing the Velodrome very difficult or conversely it could attract  investors, including foreign investors who know cycling, looking for a return on their investment.  

People still went to baseball games and Olympic Games during the Great Depression so maybe sporting events are somewhat depression proof.

The Daily Local (dailylocal.com), Serving Chester County, PA

$1 million from county sought for Velodrome

Monday, August 1, 2011

By ERIC S. SMITH, Staff Writer

The political climate is ripe to END THE WAR ON DRUGS

"And no city or community will be safe until we do something to end the War on Drugs, No City. It is our policy that created the violent society that we live in today, just like we did in the 1920s with Alcohol Prohibition. It only took 13 years back then to realize that we made a bad decision, 13 years. And here we are at 40. We need to make a change folks, if we're going to save our kids and it we're going to save our communities.”
Neil Franklin-Retired State Maryland Police Major and Executive Director of LEAP


LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION

I believe that at this moment the only people who want to keep all drugs illegal and who know something about the drug market are the drug dealers and the politicians and law enforcement officials that work for the drug dealers.

This may be the only issue that crosses political boundaries in our nation. There actually is now a framework forming across the nation to end Prohibition and the violence that comes with it. 

A New Way to Fight Mexico's Vicious Cartels: Legalizing Marijuana 

By Ioan Grillo / Mexico City   

“ If marijuana were sold legally in shops north of the Rio Grande, Mexican authorities would be much less eager to spark more bonfires of captured weed. ‘Politicians across the U.S. and in Latin America would become emboldened to change their own marijuana laws,’ Angell said. ‘It is a vote that will be heard across the world."

Fly the Colors upside down to reflect real the State of the Nation

The Republicans have taken the USA hostage and out country is in a state of distress:

Why don’t we call Norwegian Christian Terrorist Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

Alter Net

Bill Maher: Why Is the Ft. Hood Shooter a "Muslim Terrorist," But the Norwegian Murderer Not a "Christian Terrorist"?

I believe it goes way beyond reserving the word “terrorist” only for terrorist actions planned by those with some connection to Islam. I don't think "Christian Terrorist" is not used out of some sort of reverence. 

Domestic terrorists acts are not called domestic terrorism. I think the Republicans are protecting the fanaticism of their right wing. 

When a member of their "base" decides to go wild the Republicans call him a crazy person, not a domestic terrorist. I believe that in an effort to protect their "base" Republicans are ignoring terrorist attacks by right wing terrorists and in come cases dismantling intelligence units that investigate right wing domestic terrorists.  

I believe that if an attack like the one in Norway happened here Republicans would rush to the defense of the attacker just as Pat Buchannan defended Anders Behring Breivik in his commentary:

“A fire bell in the night for Norway”

I don’t buy that our right wing terrorists are not organized like Islamic Terrorists are supposed to be. SEE: 

     

Taliban on the Palouse? 

By Mark Potok, Director, Intelligence Project 

And:

Meet Our Newest Theocrat: Christian Fundamentalist Senator Mike Lee Goes to Washington 

And: 

Intelligence Report, Spring 2011, Issue Number:  141

Electoral Extremism: 23 Candidates on the Radical Right

By Robert Steinback

Daryl Johnson a Former DHS Top Intelligence Analyst says that:

"...my greatest fear is that domestic extremists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive that no one is being vigilant about the threat from within." 

I believe that "Christian" domestic terrorists may be emboldened because they perceive the Republican Party's got  their back.

"What worries me is the fact that our country is under attack from within, from our own radical citizenry. There have been a lot of small-scale attacks lately, whether it's three mail bombs sent to U.S. government facilities in Maryland and D.C., or a backpack bomb placed near a [Martin Luther King Jr. Day] parade in Spokane, Wash., or two police officers gunned down at a traffic stop in West Memphis, Ark., [by antigovernment extremists in May 2010]. 

These incidents are starting to add up. Yet our legislators, politicians and national leaders don't appear too concerned about this. So, my greatest fear is that domestic extremists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive that no one is being vigilant about the threat from within. That is what keeps me up at night."Daryl Johnson Former Top Analyst at the Department of Homeland Security:

From:

SPLC

Intelligence Report, Summer 2011, Issue Number:  142

Inside the DHS: Former Top Analyst Says Agency Bowed to Political Pressure

Interview conducted by Heidi Beirich

Tea Party or National Socialist Party?

I know an older couple who decided they needed to get religion again. So about a year ago they joined a Christian church they liked. 

A few days ago they quit the church. He said the church members and church leaders were a bunch of "Teapartieurs". 

He gave his reasons for leaving to the entire congregation telling them they were Nazis and they should put on their "uniforms" so that people could see exactly who they really are. 

Constables and the Judge & Codes enforcement and parking enforcement

I believe that our codes problems are mostly a magisterial courts problem. I call our local magisterial courts the “friends and family court system”. Sure the City can appeal a magisterial court decision but that takes a lot of money. It’s part of the reason that slumlords can rack up enormous quantities of codes offenses and nothing happens. 

I believe the surprise decree by Judge MacElree that mostly eliminated the serving of municipal warrants in Chester County is a new roadblock in codes enforcement.

This relates to the article in today’s Daily Local News:

Officials: Code enforcement needs attention

Published: Sunday, July 31, 2011

Pennsylvania State Constables income is “fee-driven” what used to be called “piece work”. No salary, no benefits; all training, uniforms, cars and all other expenses are the responsibility of the Constable. There is no base pay. Fines paid by defendants and lawsuit participants are the only means of income for Constables.

 “Unlike judges, sheriffs and the police, constables are not guaranteed regular income. Whereas a deputy sheriff serving process still receives pay if he or she is unsuccessful, a constable only gets paid if the process is served in accordance with law.”

 Read the “Harrisburg Patriot” article below and then try to guess where Judge MacElree’s head was when he decided that State Constables could not serve municipal warrants in Chester County. Saving money is absolutely not the reason. Chester County has allegedly lost an enormous sum so far this year.  Warrants for parking tickets and codes violations were not served fees not collected. Constables are still working serving warrants for State offenses. It's the local municipalities that are being screwed. 

I can only guess and assume the County wants control over warrant service by using County Sheriffs working on a salary with full benefits at increased cost to taxpayers. 

“With recent events still fresh in the news and renewed calls for overhauling or disbanding the constable system in Pennsylvania, there is a need to clarify the critical role of the constable in the state’s judicial system.  

The 1,200 certified and trained constables in Pennsylvania provide the most cost-effective method of enforcing the orders of the Magisterial District Courts.”

More at:

Constables serve a useful purpose

Published: Friday, July 08, 2011, 5:30 AM

By William Stoeffler

 Patriot-News Op-Ed 

Also see:

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011

Are our local codes warrants and parking tickets piling up in boxes?

Getting back at the man who was, “A Traitor to His Class” and Sniper Jesus

A man who was familiar with and a part of the Main Line Aristocracy told me a story about one of the people he was forced to associate with. That woman was in an elevator in a building in New York. The door opened and Secret Service told her they needed the elevator for the President of the United States. She steadfastly refused to get off the elevator. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who was “A Traitor to His Class” had to wait.

The mainstream Republican Party finally has victory over FDR in its grasp. They believe they can get rid of Roosevelt's Social Security, Child Labor Laws and anything labor union. And their class can reign again over an America composed of themselves and a vast unwashed servant/slave class.  

The only problem is the mainstream Republicans are not anywhere near in control of the Republican Party. An insane mix of Christian Reconstructionists and Militiamen is in control of the Republican Party. They believe that the USA should be controlled by their Christ, the one with an assault weapon in his hand ready to kill everyone who opposes them.

SEE:

Sniper Jesus