Andy Malone

Livable Communities worked with LA architect John Kaliski to imagine what a Standard Plan for LAs most common under-developed parcel size - 50’ wide —could look like. We unveiled it several events to the public - a got applause and a few “where do I get one?”

>El Salvador terrorized by gangs >Bukele takes power >declares war on organized crime >arrests tens of thousands >builds mega-prison >homicide rates collapse >international organizations condemn him >refuses to back down >4 Salvadorans reportedly kidnapped in Haiti >demands their return >sends 2,000 troops to Haiti >Haitian gang leader seeks UN dialogue >Bukele's anti-gang campaign becomes a regional talking point >Becoming a modern day Caesar Veni. Vidi. Vici.

Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans have been hoarding so much money in the state’s Rainy Day Fund that our new Governor elect, Gina Hinojosa, is proposing to send $1,500 checks to every Texas household. Your vote matters.

Le mensonge de l’ONU vient de s’effondrer en une semaine sur Haïti. Pendant 30 ans, l’ONU et la « communauté internationale » ont multiplié les résolutions, les missions (MINUSTAH, MSS, GSF), les rapports, les expertises et les mandats limités. Résultat : les gangs contrôlent 80-90 % de Port-au-Prince, des milliers de morts par an, plus d’un million de déplacés, un État fantôme. La Force de Suppression des Gangs, autorisée par le Conseil de sécurité, a mis plus d’un an à déployer environ 1 500 hommes avec un impact dérisoire. Les gangs ont même réussi à tendre une embuscade à des techniciens salvadoriens sous mandat ONU. Bukele arrive. En une dizaine de jours, il déploie plus de 2 000 soldats salvadoriens davantage que toute la force ONU, hors du carcan bureaucratique et des chaînes de commandement multilatérales. Pas de six mois de négociations, pas de rapports de 200 pages, pas de « respect des droits des gangs ». Juste des soldats, des blindés, des hélicoptères, et une volonté claire. Et soudain, les gangs se cachent. Les habitants sortent dans la rue, crient, célèbrent. Le mot d’ordre est simple : « Se débloque le pays ». Les chefs de gangs appellent l’ONU pour « dialoguer » et demander la médiation. La panique s’installe chez ceux qui terrorisaient le pays depuis des années. Ce n’est pas un miracle. C’est la démonstration que le problème n’a jamais été « trop complexe pour être résolu ». Le problème, c’était le dogme : que seule l’approche multilatérale molle, procédurale, obsédée par les « droits humains » des criminels, pouvait être légitime. Que la souveraineté, la force décisive et les résultats concrets étaient suspects. Bukele a déjà prouvé chez lui qu’on pouvait casser les gangs. Il vient de le montrer en Haïti en une semaine, pendant que l’ONU en parlait depuis trois décennies. Les Haïtiens dans la rue l’ont compris plus vite que les experts de New York et de Genève. La question n’est plus « comment faire ? ». Elle est : combien de temps encore allons-nous prétendre que les processus internationaux qui perpétuent le chaos sont la seule solution possible ? A bon entendeur.

my wife was moving through a kentucky airport, wearing an extremely wide brimmed black straw hat. she sees a guy wearing a black saturno - a wide brimmed black priest hat (pictured below). he looks confused. they’re also both wearing all black. he comes over and says, “i like your hat”. very humorous image here: a woman in all black with a wide woven black hat and a priest in all black with the wide black priest hat. she says, “and i like your hat”. he asks her for directions. he may have not been from america - they may have been speaking a different language. i wasn’t there. apparently he already is where he wanted to be going, so he just sits down. i partially enjoyed hearing about this because - this is like, the one guy that i know isn’t talking to my wife for nefarious (romantic) reasons when i’m not present. anyway, he asks her something else, and she somehow broaches the topic of “so, my husband is really into theology”. he politely asks her more questions and she gets to the point of “i’m not sure, it’s really his domain”. i think he took this as a “potentially trad” signal (“i’m not sure, i’d have to ask my husband”) and he gives her the card for the place he’s going to. it’s some church. when she sees me and gives me the card, my first thought is: this church is sedevacantist. they have a particular graphic design style. also, i’m not sure normal churches print their own business cards. and it was (if you have no idea what this means it basically just means they reject the pope and aren’t in communion with the vatican). oddly, this wasn’t the first time i met or saw a figure like this in kentucky. does kentucky have a large concentration of sedevacantist churches, laity, priests, activity? it was the former “west” after all, the first state west of the appalachian mountains, and retains many secrets.

Watching Harry Potter with the kids and can't help but think this is one of the more terrifying villains in the history of cinema. Because she's a real life person that we have all encountered. Also, terrific casting.

É a primeira vez que eu vejo uma música eletrônica analógica

Barcelona rearranged space for lots of people to easily get around on bicycles. Now lots of people get around on bicycles. This is a form of induced demand.

Wow, no one could have possibly predicted that late-20th century “historiography” would be less accurate than the ancient sources that they hate so much.