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1 posted on 11/22/2012 10:49:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

On the road again,
I just can’t wait to be on the road agin.......


2 posted on 11/22/2012 10:56:14 PM PST by 2010Freeper
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They should have just sued on environmental concerns, that’ll stop any highway construction.
3 posted on 11/22/2012 11:00:45 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Olog-hai

Guess the Kelo decision hasn’t hit China yet. A Red Chinaman has stronger property rights than us.


5 posted on 11/22/2012 11:11:34 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Olog-hai

They should apply to Guinness for having the world’s longest driveway.


6 posted on 11/22/2012 11:12:35 PM PST by Gman (Anglican Priest)
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To: Olog-hai

At least now they have a source of income as a highway rest stop.


7 posted on 11/22/2012 11:12:42 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Olog-hai

In the 1950s we had some tough old timers, male and female, fighting imminent domain for the freeways, they would stand at the gates with their shot guns, but they always lost in the end.

Back then the journalists of the time, showed a touching respect to the hold outs that, you wouldn’t see today.


8 posted on 11/22/2012 11:21:33 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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To: Olog-hai

I betcha the pic is photoshopped.


10 posted on 11/22/2012 11:31:19 PM PST by Greg123456 (Don't make me open a can of monster.)
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To: Olog-hai

OKay, kids... Mom ha a headache, go outside and play!


13 posted on 11/23/2012 12:11:11 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Olog-hai

You can see why this is a big problem for the two people in China who own cars.


16 posted on 11/23/2012 6:01:44 AM PST by RetSignman ("A Republic if you can keep it"....)
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Source: gothamist.com

In The 1960s, One Queens Resident Refused To Sell Land To Macy's


Here's a story about how one Queens resident held out from selling her plot of land to Macy's when they wanted to build a store in the borough in the mid-1960s. Places No More tells Mary Sendek's story pretty comprehensively, noting that she was the only resident who refused the company's offer, and lived in her home on Queens Boulevard until her death.
"The story of Mrs. Sendek and her refusal to sell may have made her a local hero at the time, but up until 1965 there was really nothing unusual about her and her family. Mary and her husband Joseph were Hungarian immigrants, both families having come over around 1898. The Sendeks bought the small house on Queens Boulevard in 1922 for $4,000.

Macy’s set its sights on the Elmhust plot between 55th and 56th avenues for a new store in the early 1960′s. It was large, open, and had fairly few houses on it. It was centrally located, just a couple blocks west of Woodhaven Boulevard."

While Macy's moved forward with their planning, they ran into an obstacle when Sendek refused to sell, despite their offer of $200,000. They made adjustments to their circular design to work around her plot, and when Sendek died in 1980, "her children then sold the house to Diplomat Enterprises who elected to destroy it and put a strip mall in its place." Those ungrateful little...!

In 1996 Macy’s ended up moving over to a new spot down the street, and their old building is now Queens Place, while an HSBC Bank was built on Sendek's land—Forgotten-NY visited the area a few years ago.


I went to high school nearby this location back in the late 60's. I remember seeing her house. She had to surround it with high chain-link fencing to keep the teenagers away.
23 posted on 11/23/2012 10:31:44 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The GOP-e said "Beat a Marxist with a Liberal!" What a colossal blunder.)
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Theme music!

[Thanks to Brad's Gramma for the ping!]


25 posted on 11/24/2012 9:45:47 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Theme music!

[Thanks to Brad's Gramma for the ping!]


26 posted on 11/24/2012 9:46:42 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Olog-hai
Must be a trend.


27 posted on 11/24/2012 12:46:35 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
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All I can say is Lol and Ungh. Wouldn’t want to be living in that house and have some crazy drunk come crashing in....


29 posted on 11/25/2012 11:37:40 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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Hey, it worked for Bugs Bunny....


30 posted on 11/26/2012 3:50:42 AM PST by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
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Bye-bye house. So much for resistance.

China demolishes lone home, resistance symbol as duck farmer agrees to accept compensation


31 posted on 12/01/2012 8:46:51 AM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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