tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post5904427924172919472..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Brainard's Month-Long Trip To India, Germany Paid For By State DepartmentGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-85494176108921094362015-12-22T11:53:03.386-05:002015-12-22T11:53:03.386-05:00I'm surprised you haven't written about Bo...I'm surprised you haven't written about Bosma's plan to raise gasoline taxes and toll I-65 and I-70. Agenda 21 is behind some of that.<br /><br />This plan brings together an unholy alliance of Republicans who always seek to create private profits from public assets and the radical car-hating Left that loves toll roads to restrict citizens' free movement. Toll roads are extremely popular with the Agenda 21 crowd.<br /><br />When political opposites such as the Republican corporatists, represented by prayer-on-the-floor Bosma, and the wealthy wing of the Democratic Party, represented by Hillary Clinton Democrats such as Sheila Kennedy, get together to champion regressive taxation to destroy the middle and lower classes, you know you have a truly Indiana plan being hatched to transfer private money to the fatcats' pockets.<br /><br />Oddly, when it comes to imposing user fees on enterprises such as professional sports, Bosma argues everyone should pay for it, so the cost of the Colts' stadium moves away from ticket prices that the wealthy pay to see their games and onto all the little people getting their daily meals. The hard left chafes at imposing user fees on public schools, saying "it's everyone's responsibility."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-31565275477023955622015-12-21T18:36:42.525-05:002015-12-21T18:36:42.525-05:00Blackmail may sound like a strong word, but it'...Blackmail may sound like a strong word, but it's accurate. The issue has not been under the control of the LGBT community for some time here in Indiana. The folks using this and other issues like a club have a different agenda, the least of which has anything to do with protecting anyone from discrimination. I repeat. They have dossiers on certain Rs they are prepared to roll out with the aid of The Star and others in the media if these key people don't do as they have been ordered to do. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-85760200684704796212015-12-21T16:33:04.661-05:002015-12-21T16:33:04.661-05:0011:42, you don't mean "forward thinking,&...11:42, you don't mean "forward thinking," you mean gay, urban and liberal. Hate to call the gays out on this, but they really like urban density and downtowns, for some reason.<br /><br />What you're trying to pass off as a new thing is just an affection for neo-tenement living. That mode of living was tried, despised and abandoned as soon as people's standard of living improved to allow a move to a place to spread out.<br /><br />Tenement living was responsible for crime, rapid spread of diseases, poverty social conflict and other ills. <br /><br />Not sure what country you're from, but in America, most people prefer the 1970's to the 1910's. People who actually lived in the tenements you feel so fondly for did everything they could to leave them and to destroy that way of life.<br /><br />How's not knowing anything about History working out for you, 11:42? Answer: not too well. You look very foolish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-16310048538281270302015-12-21T16:04:17.906-05:002015-12-21T16:04:17.906-05:00I find it laughable when Carmel's mayor touts ...I find it laughable when Carmel's mayor touts his alleged accomplishments in creating a high quality community, as if something he's done is the reason. Carmel and other suburban communities to Indianapolis are thriving for one main reason, and that is the failure of the Indianapolis Public Schools. Families who don't qualify for vouchers and who have school age children have to risk winning the lottery to get into the few good IPS schools, be prepared to pay tuition for a private school, or move somewhere their children can get a quality education from public schools. If IPS schools were all as good as suburban schools, places like Carmel would remain sleepy suburbs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27151975476472809142015-12-21T11:44:32.202-05:002015-12-21T11:44:32.202-05:00Anon 5:02 Couldn't get through 1,000 plus pag...Anon 5:02 Couldn't get through 1,000 plus pages, eh? That's the problem with you youngsters. You have the attention spans of hamsters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-64610341611501071692015-12-21T11:42:00.970-05:002015-12-21T11:42:00.970-05:00Anon 8:49 You completely miss the point. WIth ea...Anon 8:49 You completely miss the point. WIth each passing day, fewer people go south of 96th. Much of the private sector has already relocated to HamCo. More will follow. The east/west commute on 465 is more of a concern than the north/south commute into Marion. THe same is true of bicycle infrastructure. NY, Chicago, SF, Silicon Valley, Austin, Denver all the places with thriving economies are investing in it. You, on the other hand, seem to be clinging to the 1970s highway model that virtually all forward thinking places are moving away from. Let us know how it works out, okay?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-11365947835349794132015-12-21T09:19:18.758-05:002015-12-21T09:19:18.758-05:00The Corporate Press carries the water for Corporat... The Corporate Press carries the water for Corporatism. Also in attendance are the so called "Think Tanks" that regularly have their employees write glowing, fluff pieces about the success stories of the chosen Elected Officials. Floggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10383015097067413086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-22893565550900021212015-12-21T08:49:21.898-05:002015-12-21T08:49:21.898-05:00Poor Ballard. No cars, no Carmel. Carmel is alread...Poor Ballard. No cars, no Carmel. Carmel is already landlocked by virtue of having no direct stoplight-free route to Downtown Indy.<br /><br />He attacks cars at his peril. Fishers, Noblesville, Whitestown and Zionsville have all already taken off. Greenwood is moving to the highway. Will Carmel become Indy's newest Glendale Mall? <br /><br />For being so into mass transit, why did Ballard allow Carmel and Indy to tear out the Monon tracks and put in a bicycle trail, instead of keeping the train tracks and running commuter train service to Carmel and Westfield? <br /><br />It's nice US31 is going to limited access, but US31 and Keystone highways end at 96th Street. If you're south of 96th, it's a fight getting to those roads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-33547096172292652632015-12-20T21:18:33.325-05:002015-12-20T21:18:33.325-05:00Correction to the 5:09 post: God gave us the very...Correction to the 5:09 post: God gave us the very free will which statism seeks to subvert- wake up!<br /><br />Anon 5:25: Wow- that's bigotry; conflating tightwads with stupid complainers & little jewish whiners. Citizens of all backgrounds want politicians in Carmel to stop abusing the public treasury; as though it's their expense account. Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86593957988413915232015-12-20T18:44:07.699-05:002015-12-20T18:44:07.699-05:005:26 PM aren't you running late to your weekly...5:26 PM aren't you running late to your weekly meeting of the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-19952588325002724982015-12-20T17:26:04.984-05:002015-12-20T17:26:04.984-05:00Brainard and 6 of 7 Republican councilors passed a...Brainard and 6 of 7 Republican councilors passed an lgbt nondiscrimination law in a deeply conservative county with a unanimous republican council because they understood that Carmel needed to be open for business; open to all. And in this regard he is a visionary. Just like Mitch Daniels was for the State, Brainard has been a brilliant leader. And temporary funding issues will blow to the wind; there's plenty of money in Carmel to foot the bills. All these tightwads who move up there because they want to preserve their housing wealth; they just don't want to pay any taxes. Stupid complainers. You don't get to have it both ways. I don't see these little jewish whiners getting invited to international conferences. I'm not dissing jews, but lets be honest. There's Brainard, and then there are his "detractors." All jewish residents of Carmel who want him to stop spending money. You can't make this up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-34622490441721612602015-12-20T17:09:13.749-05:002015-12-20T17:09:13.749-05:00Anon 2:52: No- that's exactly the wrong idea!...Anon 2:52: No- that's exactly the wrong idea! It's precisely the problem; the bad movie being one of its destructive prevalence & obscurity. God us the very free will which statism seeks to subvert- wake up! Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27224557302560073682015-12-20T17:02:49.484-05:002015-12-20T17:02:49.484-05:00Ayn Rand coined it in 1957 and used it about 300 t...Ayn Rand coined it in 1957 and used it about 300 times in her Atlas novel. doesn't really stand for much today. Only elderly types quote Rand for current economic and political theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-31779650544322459782015-12-20T14:52:33.558-05:002015-12-20T14:52:33.558-05:00Please, dear God, stop using the word statist, ove...Please, dear God, stop using the word statist, over and over again, like a bad groundhog day movie, please, dear God, stop using the word statist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-82763951432733300242015-12-20T12:42:33.250-05:002015-12-20T12:42:33.250-05:00Environmentalist my a** !! You only have to look a...Environmentalist my a** !! You only have to look at the woods that was destroyed north of the Meijer store, or the woods off of Smokey Row Road. Both taken out in the name of Agenda 21 construction. If you want to reduce warming in Car-Mel stop replacing trees with blacktop and concrete. Last I knew, there were no green chlorophyll pigments in blacktop or concrete. While I am no expert on photosynthesis, I certainly realsize how much heat is genertated by blacktop driveways and concrete buildings.<br /><br />I wonder who tracks the numbers of trees destroyed and compares those numbers to trees planted? It certainly is no one in the Brainard TIF corruption camp.<br /><br />Exactly what is the price of alleged progress? That is, if you think a progressive liberal, disguising himself in financially conservative clothing, is progress. Just how many Agenda 21 people can you pack in the phone booth called Car-mel? AND, if you think the traffic jams in this City were created by accident, think again. It is part of Brainard's "vision" to force public transportation upon the citizens of Carmel, taking away your freedom of choice. Just leave everything to the Government and all will be well. OH, almost forgot, here come the 'Bobble Heads."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17184568526960893662015-12-20T10:58:50.739-05:002015-12-20T10:58:50.739-05:00It's more like the anti-American statist depar...It's more like the anti-American statist department; of failed fascist design & corruption. Think of the idiot who steps in to show another idiot how to do a stupid thing, saying "No- you do it like this." Statists persist that they're the chosen ones to do a stupid thing (fascism) the "right way."<br /><br />The half-pregnant illogic of public / private partnerships is a classic example of statist stupidity. Recall your favorite oaf of a cartoon character, shifting into dumb-deed mode with words to the effect "Let me show you how it's done." Statism / fascism is a magnet for the self absorbed narcissist; from whom the sovereign must protect themselves through vigilance; ignoring pretty faces & inflated resumes, in favor of Constitutional clarity & measurable substance.Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-66310133872542123152015-12-20T09:03:40.524-05:002015-12-20T09:03:40.524-05:00http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=198...http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=19813<br /><br />Nothing new here..............Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-84449678494739556072015-12-20T09:00:35.335-05:002015-12-20T09:00:35.335-05:00Jim Brainard is every bit as corrupt- if not more ...<br />Jim Brainard is every bit as corrupt- if not more so- as Indy's own Emperor Mayor Gregory Ballard.<br /><br />Both are for sale to the highest bidder.<br /><br />Long time Carmel property owners know deep in their DNA that Jim Brainard is a crook. The Carmel City Council, every bit as useless as Indy's City County Council, is icing on a cake of corruption. Carmel Councilors allowed Brainard to financially manipulate the town formerly known as Bethlehem.<br /><br />John Accetturo is vindicated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com