Reason Takes On Government Property Restrictions!

Yes, at long last, Reason has found a reason to speak out about unfair restrictions against property owners. Unfortunatly, they are taking up the cause to give a hand to Canadians feeling oppression while they still only give the finger to Manhattanites who do not subscribe to the current cosmotarian faith fads. Even communist Poland gets a shot below.

Sorry, but Our Zoning Regulations Forbid You From Celebrating Your Freedom - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

For 10 years, libertarian activist and scholar Peter Jaworski has thrown an annual summer seminar and party on the Clarington, Ontario property owned by his parents, Marta and Lech. The Liberty Summer Seminar typically features speeches from libertarian activists and scholars followed by live music and food. This year Peter's parents, who fled to Canada from communist Poland in the 1980s, face a $50,000 fine for violating local zoning laws.

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The Greenroom God and Man at Ground Zero

The Greenroom: God and Man at Ground Zero:

"There are two relevant tales of Christian developments near Ground Zero. One involves a Greek Orthodox church, St. Nicholas’, which was crushed by the collapse of WTC Tower Two on 9/11. St. Nicholas’ Church was across the street from the World Trade Center. In 2008, a deal was announced with the New York Port Authority to rebuild the church two blocks from its original site. But civil authorities objected to the church’s plans for a larger structure, with a dome and spire in the Greek Orthodox tradition. Their express concern was that the church not be taller than the World Trade Center Memorial.

There is no apparent concern about the Park 51 Islamic center being taller than the WTC Memorial (it is). It will not be built as a wholly new structure, of course. But on the other hand, the commercial skyscraper planned by the Port Authority will be a new structure, and it will tower over the WTC Memorial. The principles at work appear to be as follows: new commercial structures may be taller than the Memorial. An Islamic group may occupy a building that is taller than the Memorial and devote it to a religious purpose. But a Christian structure may not be built taller than the Memorial."

Suki series tie-in: Islamic fundies are pretty much isolated to Iran and the West Bank. Zoning is out in most of East Coast USA.

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A Dick in the News

Stupid?  Publicity stunt?  Both?  Ministry of Gossip reports.  You decide.

Andy Dick arrested. Again. While still on probation.

Comedian Andy Dick is out on bail after his arrest early this morning in West Virginia on two counts of felony sexual abuse. He is accused of grabbing the crotch of a bouncer at the Rum Runners bar in Huntington.




The managing partner of the Lucky Bone Comedy Club, which had hired Dick, posted the comic's $60,000 bail -- and surprise, Andy's "absolutely still on the schedule for Saturday and Sunday."



Such a shock this is, given Andy's choir-boy past.



The alcohol-monitoring bracelet he got in 2008 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery and pot possession -- related to the incident in which he allegedly pulled down a 17-year-old girl's tank top at a chicken wings restaurant -- was due to come off in October 2009. The probation? That wasn't due to come off for three years after the plea.

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