And selling their beachfront homes. But it has nothing to do with the liberal conspiracy theory story above. Move along folks, nothing to see here.

was Tax-Increment-Financed.

The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation. Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.

Conservatives are not “thinkers”; they are rationalizers who give an intellectual gloss to their belief that an alliance of predatory businesspeople and religious extremists should rule the rest of us.

The wreckage caused by modern conservatism lies all around us, and speaks for itself: If conservatism isn’t dead, it should be.

- DANIEL ROSEN - Washington Post 10/9/2009

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-best-letter-to-the-editor-ever/question-883863/?page=2

I submit that every bill they author and pass into law is intended to profit them or their friends financially and inflict poverty on the rest of us, no matter what rhetoric they use to disguise it. Our poverty is also their gain, which some Democrats refuse to admit is a policy of the GOP. I admit that my assessment of their actions is harsh and may not be seen as fair, but would be going the false equivalency route if I was more generous. I don't know any Democrat who would do the things they do unless hoodwinked into the idea that it might save someone's life.

citizen initiated petition drive to put on the ballot a proposition that any future development of coastal lands will not be bailed-out (pardon the pun) by tax payers if it ends up underwater due to a raising coastline.

Everybody pays so the rich -or foolhardy- can live by the beach.

I would guess.

It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.


A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That's how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

There won't be a problem. They have decreed it.

They could build the House and Senate out there

I just can't fathom it.

in his/her wildest acid trip.

Real life is sometimes far more surreal.

While it has been reported in more recent years that he got a bad rap, the King Canute of legend could easily preside over the North Carolina legislature...

Gotta take the dogs for a walk.

I gave Al two days to say it himself, but he must be busy.

"I can’t believe more people aren’t pissed about this. This is madness. We are banning scientific research! Has the anti-amendment 1 movement really burnt out all of the progressive people in North Carolina from further protests?"

Truth to that?

The ones Obama values so highly?

To be honest, I'm still a little fried from 8 years of W, and Obama didn't deliver, IMO, the "hope and change" the country needed (but yes, he's better than McCain...). Then came the 2010 battle, which Rs won. Then came the Wake County School Board elections, in which Dems defeated a particularly nasty Teabagger for chairperson. Then there's fracking -- the Rs want to drill the ever-loving-shit out of this state. Then Amendment One. And Planned Parenthood and Occupy rallies. And those are just the biggies that are coming to mind. Oh, then there's preachers who think it's OK to beat gay children, and preachers who think homosexuals should be put behind electric fences. And a recent high-profile cross-burning. So yeah, the burden can't ALL be on "progressive people," even though we'll be out there, as usual...

which is exactly where the Repugs want them.

Most people are under the delusion that they can't change anything using political means or protest. Because as you point out, they never see progress or winning--and they realize how hard progressives have to work to even stem the tide. Most people don't have that kind of time, and they don't want to be visible. They know you are as visible when you write LTE as when you stand in front of bulldozers. Nobody wants to stick their neck out for a cause.

Politics is hated by the middle class, especially the younger ones. I don't know what to do about that. People don't care about anything that (they think) doesn't touch them...they don't realize how everything political really does touch them. Easier to go back to sleep.

Then again, since 2005, I have that reaction to at least one news story every day.

state to ban scientific extrapolation....IDIOTS! The rising sea level has nothing to do with why the Cape Hatteras Light House was moved back several hundred yards, nearly a 1/4 mile if I remember correctly, about 14 years ago. My wife has been going to the Outer Banks for the past 50 years and I have been going with her for about 20 of those years and for some silly reason we watch and observe yearly beach erosion. Nothing to do with rising sea levels, always some hurricane's fault or bad storm. Science proves nothing in NC. And to think we are throwing our money away to send one of our sons to UNCWilmington to study Marine Science....First I have to deal with a crazy nutjob Congress Critter by the name of Virginia Foxx and now a State House/Senate controlled by wacko non-science believing fruitcakes that voted in a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage....

I bet the one thing they know about estimating sea levels is that this is what their greedhead bosses said to put in the bill.

these asshats think that if no one talks about it, it doesn't exist right up until the water is at or in their house.

Teh stupid, it hurts.

one of the Ala coast barrier islands is heavily developed, then Katrina cut it in half.
The home owners wanted to state to pay for all the sand to re-build the cut.
the island is like 4 feet above sea level!
And engineers have been warning for years about the increased erosion because of heavier storms.

Would you like to buy a 300,000.00 house there????

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TELL me there isn't FOREIGN money tied into that stuff.

do you think they will end with glut of buildings, like China?

occupied in something like 5+ years. There are franchise restaurants that build darling new resources and close them and move less than 2 years later, here. Not the same scale though and the possibility of foreign financial involvement is different and that's important, because it puts pressure on the disposition of the problem property, pressure that we have no control over.

Orrin H. Pilkey

For years, he's been telling anyone who would listen about the foolishness of developing the North Carolina coast.

In other words, he's been ignored for years.

As an aside, his brother Walter taught at the UVa Engineering School.

Thanks for the thread, OneAngryDemocrat.

i can't believe they're doing this.

So how much do you think property will be worth in 20 years if it is going to be underwater in 50 years...asshat-douchbaggery

and they can suffer the consequences of their ignorant decision.

The smart people will take appropriate action as needed.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/