tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post4001833670729080795..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Update From HellKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-64769579118874904552018-08-07T16:23:05.061-04:002018-08-07T16:23:05.061-04:00Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes and in a f...Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes and in a few cases, actual cash! It helped out with the food and transportation expenditures which my rent abatement was supposed to cover but didn't quite.<br /><br />They let us back in the apartment on Friday, when it was still very much under construction. The building inspector OK'd our return solely due to availability of water and toilet , which we had to ask permission to use because the bathroom was still being primed and painted. Nothing like a bunch of guys getting all pissy when a woman needs to pee every three hours, what an inconvenience it was for them. What made it really interesting was the large gap left in the door from removed molding.<br /><br />So yesterday was the final day of interior work in our own place. We had to beg them to move my dresser from the living room back to the bedroom before they left. They also left paint stains in the sink and dents in the walls and stains on the carpet, which I am documenting in the interest of my security deposit. And they are still making tons of drilling and blasting and sawing noises in the surrounding apartments which actually suffered the brunt of the damage.<br /><br />Could be worse. At least it wasn't so noisy that I couldn't get back to blogging today!<br /><br />Thanks again for everything.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-85435271714600479552018-08-07T07:54:48.833-04:002018-08-07T07:54:48.833-04:00I can't even imagine the disruption and stress...I can't even imagine the disruption and stress caused by that sprinkler system. Someone in our town experienced $175K in damage to their condo from a sprinkler going off because of unusual cold last January. I expect in most cases the sprinklers are mandated by fire/building codes and the residents have no choice. And I'm sure fire departments are right, that sprinklers in the aggregate save lives, but at an unmeasured cost due to accidents.voice-in-wildernessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-3552421228546586212018-08-06T13:21:51.085-04:002018-08-06T13:21:51.085-04:00Secrecy is everywhere in our 'democracy'. ...Secrecy is everywhere in our 'democracy'. <br /><br />'Just why is the Obama Center heading to Jackson Park?'<br /><br />"The University of Chicago-backed Jackson Park deal may not have been cut in the kind of smoke-filled backroom Chicago is notorious for, but it might as well have been. The public disclosures by the Emanuel administration, the Obama Foundation and the U of C have been about as transparent as cigar smoke. The university refuses to release a copy of the bid that edged out the alternatives to Jackson Park, and Crain’s reported July 20 that city staffers never saw the bid, either."<br /><br />http://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/just-why-obama-center-heading-jackson-parkAnna Radicalovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-3497155845820875402018-08-06T08:52:41.370-04:002018-08-06T08:52:41.370-04:00More on the trend of secrecy in public affairs:
&...More on the trend of secrecy in public affairs:<br /><br />'Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders' <br /><br />"A primary reason for the information blackout is that, in many cases, the bids were handled by local private Chamber of Commerce affiliates or economic development groups that aren’t required to make their negotiations public. Many of the groups are also not covered by Freedom of Information Act or state open-records requests."<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/amazon-headquarters-hq2.htmlAnna Radicalovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-76812615398039375692018-08-05T09:40:12.156-04:002018-08-05T09:40:12.156-04:00Is this type of thing also going on elsewhere?
Co...Is this type of thing also going on elsewhere?<br /><br />Colorado regulators secretly created a way to police medical marijuana providers by using secret criteria to create a secret list of doctors to investigate and charge. Hearings were kept secret as were all related records. Judges even suppressed the record of their suppression orders. Doctors sued, won, then lost on appeal, which somehow led the Denver Post to discover clues in peripherally related documents. Thank Dog for journalists!<br /><br />"The lawsuit is just one of thousands, including felony criminal cases, that a Denver Post investigation found were hidden from the public, some of them for years and all the result of judges’ orders that are also suppressed."<br /><br />https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/05/colorado-policing-marijuana-doctors-shrouded-justice/Anna Radicalovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-2217562303978687332018-08-01T23:02:30.869-04:002018-08-01T23:02:30.869-04:00Dear Ms. Garcia,
Along with all of your avid foll...<br />Dear Ms. Garcia,<br /><br />Along with all of your avid followers, I'm feeling what must be a kind of withdrawal from your keen observations and conscientious commentaries.<br /><br />While not presuming to fill that void, I nonetheless want to alert your readers to watch and listen to this memorial on Democracy Now. You'll be impressed and inspired. --<br /><br />Remembering Ron Dellums: The Radical Congressmember Who Fought Against War, Apartheid & Poverty<br /><br />https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/31/remembering_ron_dellums_the_radical_congressmember<br /><br />Legendary anti-war activist, former Oakland mayor and longtime Democratic congressmember Ron Dellums of Oakland, California, died on Monday at the age of 82. A self-described socialist and radical, Dellums served in the House for 27 years, leading the congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa. His activism landed him on President Richard Nixon’s enemies list. Ron Dellums opposed bloated military spending throughout his career, instead pushing for increased investment in housing, healthcare and education. We remember Ron Dellums by airing part of a 2015 Democracy Now! interview with the famed congressmember.<br /><br />Ron Dellums (1935-2018): Organizing for Peace Forces Us to Challenge All Forms of Injustice<br /><br />https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/31/ron_dellums_1935_2018_organizing_for<br /><br />Ron Dellums, the legendary politician and anti-war activist who fought against U.S. intervention around the globe, apartheid in South Africa and the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 82. During his nearly three decades in Congress, Dellums opposed every major U.S. military intervention except a bill in 1992 to send troops to Somalia. This legacy began when Dellums pushed for the House to conduct a probe into U.S. war crimes committed in Vietnam shortly after taking office in 1970. When this effort failed, Dellums held his own ad hoc war crimes hearings. The celebrated congressmember once said, “I am not going to back away from being called a radical. If being an advocate of peace, justice, and humanity toward all human beings is radical, then I’m glad to be called a radical.” We remember Ron Dellums’s legacy by airing his 2015 speech at the “Vietnam: The Power of Protest” conference in Washington, D.C., where he was introduced by Democracy Now! co-host Juan González.<br /><br />And, Karen, I hope you're managing some way to use this rudely enforced hiatus to truly get away from it all, and find the restorative power of escape that Tolkien describes in his essay "On Fairy-Stories."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Erik Rothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-60749354534225188472018-07-28T23:59:23.379-04:002018-07-28T23:59:23.379-04:00Be safe, Karen!Be safe, Karen!Rima S. Regashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11924572982139682050noreply@blogger.com