DDR's mall vision

[James M Kinder]

Hey_over_here wrote:

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Yes, I can honestly say that we will be better off without drug money. This "we need the drug dealers money" is such a weak disgusting argument.
We can live proudly and work proudly for our money, raise children and live safely without drug money - it is possible...and it's not a 'pipe' dream...my grandparents did it, my parents did it and so am I.
Maybe you all should ask yourselves "do I really need this thing? or that thing?" It's amazing what you don't need...if you're honest.
No drug money, no drug dealers = happy communities

Amen.

[_Spartacus_]

James M Kinder wrote:

Think of the opportunity, folks. San Diego has "Sea World." Los Angeles has "Universal City." You can make a monument to your main industry: "Dope World." Just think of the exciting possibilities. Little Johnnie nodding off to sleep during math class. Girls in Home Economics class making hash brownies. School teachers and cops making "honey oil." Small business owners giving tips on the finer points of money laundering. You folks will be the "belle of the ball" when it comes to tourist destinations for families. Why didn't you think of it earlier?

And the name of this wondrous glory of the Sensamillia Capitol of the Universe?

"The Mendocino Cannabinoid Supermall"

There will be no clowns operating face paint kiosks here! However, there will be an honest to goodness hippie in tie-dye and dreadlocks teaching kids how to twist a fatty!

Hey! Check it out... do you know who is leading the UPD Task Force in all these busts?

_S_

[EMERALD TRIANGLE NEWS]

SPARTACUS,
I THOUGHT YOU RETIRED FROM THE MCSO AFTER THAT INCIDENT UP COVELO,,,,,,,,,,
YOU KNOW THE ONE WITH
BOB!
SHOULD LEARN HOW TO AIM!

[_Spartacus_]

EMERALD TRIANGLE NEWS wrote:

SPARTACUS,
I THOUGHT YOU RETIRED FROM THE MCSO AFTER THAT INCIDENT UP COVELO,,,,,,,,,,
YOU KNOW THE ONE WITH
BOB!
SHOULD LEARN HOW TO AIM!

Dear Fool... whoever you are,
You wear ignorance very well, please continue your tirade in verbal havoc with those that will play your juvenile game.
However, I choose NOT to be a part of your petty stupidity, please exclude me from your list.

Thank you,

_Spartacus_

[free mendocino]

_Spartacus_ wrote:

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Dear Fool... whoever you are,
You wear ignorance very well, please continue your tirade in verbal havoc with those that will play your juvenile game.
However, I choose NOT to be a part of your petty stupidity, please exclude me from your list.
Thank you,
_Spartacus_

sorry..........didn't know the frying pan was so hot for ya!

[writch]

Ukiah_Mom wrote:

I want Costco and Target. I also want Old Navy, Ann Taylor Loft, Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret and William Sonoma. If I can be greedy, I would also ask for Restoration Hardware, Banana Republic, and Pottery Barn.

I guess that means you are willing to write off the local cookware/houseware stores. I like them, personally, and I'll hate to see the employees there have to go to work for the companies you'd prefer to see take their place.

I saw a local attempt, right downtown, to have a "Victoria's Secret" type store go down in flames last year. I guess the girls here mostly prefer the natural look.

Personally, I'd suggest that you do the highway improvements before you build the shopping center, as it was terribly annoying to have to go go Santa Rosa for anything because of the traffic. Let's hope we get enough tax revenue to pay for the stoplights we'll need to buy.

That's assuming that in the long run they have enough cash left after driving here to spend any.

IMHO, if you want to get people to live here, you'd do better building a bullet train to the Bay than trying to get shopping centers locally. It's not like gas is going to get any cheaper, and one can order almost anything on the internet now.

If you could get easy transit all the way down to San Jose 24x7 and fiber optic all through town, you might attract the kinds of people who would buy houses here.

But really, who wants to buy a house here and watch all the little stores go out of business because the big stores came?

If I wanted to buy stuff from those folks I'd live in Santana Row. If you want to live in shopping Disneyland, you should do it right.

I didn't come here because it was one of the 'top 100 small towns', but I can see that it won't be one for long.

It will be one of the 'normal hundred thousand strip-mall towns' that look like every other town like them every time I drive through one.

I watched it happen to my small town that I grew up in, I watched it happen to Austin, and Albuquerque, and now I'm watching it happen here.

[Hey_over_here]

writch wrote:

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I guess that means you are willing to write off the local cookware/houseware stores. I like them, personally, and I'll hate to see the employees there have to go to work for the companies you'd prefer to see take their place.
I saw a local attempt, right downtown, to have a "Victoria's Secret" type store go down in flames last year. I guess the girls here mostly prefer the natural look.
Personally, I'd suggest that you do the highway improvements before you build the shopping center, as it was terribly annoying to have to go go Santa Rosa for anything because of the traffic. Let's hope we get enough tax revenue to pay for the stoplights we'll need to buy.
That's assuming that in the long run they have enough cash left after driving here to spend any.
IMHO, if you want to get people to live here, you'd do better building a bullet train to the Bay than trying to get shopping centers locally. It's not like gas is going to get any cheaper, and one can order almost anything on the internet now.
If you could get easy transit all the way down to San Jose 24x7 and fiber optic all through town, you might attract the kinds of people who would buy houses here.
But really, who wants to buy a house here and watch all the little stores go out of business because the big stores came?
If I wanted to buy stuff from those folks I'd live in Santana Row. If you want to live in shopping Disneyland, you should do it right.
I didn't come here because it was one of the 'top 100 small towns', but I can see that it won't be one for long.
It will be one of the 'normal hundred thousand strip-mall towns' that look like every other town like them every time I drive through one.
I watched it happen to my small town that I grew up in, I watched it happen to Austin, and Albuquerque, and now I'm watching it happen here.

Guess you'll be going back to Texas soon?
I'll bet they can hardly wait . ha, more like they were glad to see you go....to POT.

[James M Kinder]

Why not let the Federal Government take care of your "growing" problems for you? Guaranteed anonymity and a hefty reward to boot!

"In conjunction its Investigation and Prosecution effort in Mendocino, the IRS is offering rewards to informants on those marijuana cultivators evading taxes in violation of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 and section 6050 of the Internal Revenue Code. Anonymous tips can be submitted to the IRS High Intensity Money Laundering and Related Financial Crime (HIFCA)Task Force at www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement .

How to claim a reward:

IRS Publication 733 details the regulations for claiming a reward. You must complete IRS Form 211. Your information can be delivered personally to any IRS office, or you can write to:

Head of the Criminal Investigation Division
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, DC 20224

If a recovery is made as a direct result of information you provided, you may qualify for a reward of 15% of the amount recovered including taxes, fines and penalties, but not interest -- with a maximum payment of $2 million.

If your information was valuable, although not specific, in determining liability, you may be rewarded with as much as 10% of the amount recovered, again with a $2 million cap.

If your information was the originating cause of the investigation, but had no direct relationship to the determination of tax liability, the reward is 1% of the amount recovered, again with that $2 million limit.

Using an assumed name
If you're not claiming a reward for the information, you can use an assumed name. But if you want to claim a reward, you must use your own name. The IRS is legally prohibited from disclosing the identity of an informer to unauthorized persons.

In 2003, the IRS paid out $4 million to informants who helped the IRS pursue 190 cases, which together recouped more than $61 million in taxes owed. IRS statistics show that the agency has paid an average of 2.74% of recovered taxes as rewards to informants since 1967."

[writch]

Talk about broken records.

Did you guys notice that this discussion was about THE MALL?

Unless you are trying to say that by having local dispensaries we keep that business from going to Santa Rosa, it's really off-topic.

[Ukiah Morrison]

Thank you for the opportunity to address whatever issue or issues that you feel are compelling enough to mention. Generally, when someone makes a comment about my character, caliber, or personality, it gives away the probability that we have never met. I am not disputing that I am a tool but probably not the variety that you were inferring. I suggest you be more diplomatic in the future, as I hope that we will meet someday. You might be quite taken by the level of intellegence of someone whom has spent the last thirty five years in the trenches of the school of hard knocks. One day, you might reconsider how you vote, and don't say that I didn't say it first. Be well. Feel free to call me.(

theNord wrote:

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Typing in CAPS is generally considered as yelling. Are you yelling at us? Ukiah Morrison is a tool and I would never consider voting for someone of his caliber. Where can I find out more information about this person? Is he educated?(beyond the pipe) Where does he stand on issues? etc. Asking people to vote for him just because he is pro-pot doesn't mean he will do a good job. There are other things to consider here.

[writch]

Ukiah Morrison wrote:

Feel free to call me.(<quoted text>

I think the Topix censorware might strip out phone numbers, too, so you'd have to mangle the number somehow to get past it.

Perhaps spacing the numbers out with hyphens 7-0-7-5-5-5-1-2-1-2 (hey, it worked for m-o-n-k-e-y).

[regular guy]

James M Kinder wrote:

Think of the opportunity, folks. San Diego has "Sea World." Los Angeles has "Universal City." You can make a monument to your main industry: "Dope World." Just think of the exciting possibilities. Little Johnnie nodding off to sleep during math class. Girls in Home Economics class making hash brownies. School teachers and cops making "honey oil." Small business owners giving tips on the finer points of money laundering. You folks will be the "belle of the ball" when it comes to tourist destinations for families. Why didn't you think of it earlier?

this is one of the funniest things i have read yet! lol! i agree with you. we should name this place "Green Garden" everything green could go there. including the county growing thier own marijuana! wouldn't it rock to have a family drive up from los angelas to see the process from beginning to end? we could fill hotels and restraunts! let's not pretend what mendocino county is all about. DRUGS! "remember when we were voted best small town in california?" what happened? oh my....

[Booze Kills]

regular guy wrote:

<quoted text>"remember when we were voted best small town in california?" what happened? oh my....

Are you drunk on Mendocino Wine? I don't recall the county ever being voted the (sic) "best small town in California". And neither does anyone else on the planet.

[Booze Kills]

writch wrote:

<quoted text>IMHO, if you want to get people to live here, you'd do better building a bullet train to the Bay than trying to get shopping centers locally.

Hear, hear. The county apparatus should be working on attracting manufactures that will bid on the California high-speed rail project.

But no, the likes of "Hey_over_there" and "Ukiah Mom" would rather we bring in the same, useless, national chain stores that can be found in every strip mall, in every other town, in every other county in California.

[MendocinoNotMend o]

Booze Kills wrote:

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Are you drunk on Mendocino Wine? I don't recall the county ever being voted the (sic) "best small town in California". And neither does anyone else on the planet.

actually it was, although that was like 10 or 15 years ago; it's a pretty well-known fact though, as the city touts it on all of their literature. are you fairly new to these parts?

[Booze Kills]

MendocinoNotMendo wrote:

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actually it was, although that was like 10 or 15 years ago; it's a pretty well-known fact though, as the city touts it on all of their literature. are you fairly new to these parts?

No, I'm not new to these parts. I've been trying to tell you that Ukiah was named the best small town, not Mendocino County as you keep on insisting.

[writch]

It was Ukiah, not Mendocino (how could a county be named a small 'town')?

When it was such an icon, there was a working factory here which employed a great deal of the population.

You can see the devastation left by the closing of the plant (though it was gone before I got here).

You can see the businesses slowly dry up and die (Sports Attic is the latest victim, if nobody buys it before they run out of cash).

It's sad to see. Pot has nothing to do with it (and in a lot of ways, has slowed it's progress).

On the other hand, a theme park based on how you turn redwood scraps into wallboard would be, in a word, BORING.

[Ukiah Linda Harasoft]

it looks like there are more people for this Idea then agianst it. democracy has spoken. dont forget to vote for some one that will listen to you. by the time this is aproved this will be built for people in Ukiah to have some fun . if this site sais u are not from the area then its not true. I live In Ukiah california but they say im from SF not true

[Vowel Movement]

Ukiah Linda Harasoft wrote:

it looks like there are more people for this Idea then agianst it. democracy has spoken. dont forget to vote for some one that will listen to you. by the time this is aproved this will be built for people in Ukiah to have some fun . if this site sais u are not from the area then its not true. I live In Ukiah california but they say im from SF not true

Okey doke, then Linda... let's give some thought to your suggestion. A mall... in Ukiah. Fantastic.

Let's crush the local retailers struggling to serve their community. After all, the money spent in their stores stays here. While we're at it, let's hire us a bunch of underprivileged folks who are willing to actually work for minimum wage for these mall shops. They won't be able to afford to support themselves on their incomes so let's sign 'em up for public assistance. And the coupe de grace? Wait for it... the money spent in your super mall goes where? Say it with me boys and girls... out of our county and into the corporate accounts of these community killing corporate retailers.

But your desire to "have some fun" is much more important than all that, Linda. So you go on and vote your conscience.