Suxco Council Rejects Mega-Development. I did not expect this:
The Sussex County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to deny a rezoning needed for Atlantic Fields, a major retail project that would have brought a Costco, Target and Whole Foods to Delaware’s beach corridor, but has also raised concerns over traffic.
The shopping center, proposed by Baltimore-based developer Southside Investment Partners, would include 665,000 square feet of retail space, making it about half the size of the Christiana Mall. It would be located about 5 miles from Delaware’s beaches and a mile southwest of Route 1.
A Costco, Target and Whole Foods?? No way the roads could ever have handled that. But, I digress:
Nearby resident Gary Vorsheim, who has lobbied against the project with resident group Route 24 Alliance, told Spotlight Delaware he thought the unanimous council vote was “absolutely amazing.”
“I mean, we were hoping that it would be denied, but a 5-0 result is just incredible,” Vorsheim said.
Still, hope is not lost for a Costco in Southern Delaware.
The developer of a new proposed retail project off Route 1 near Milton, called Ocean One, told Spotlight Delaware that he has tried to persuade Costco representatives to relocate to his development. They have not yet responded, he said.
A week earlier, the Sussex County Council approved a mixed-use plaza just west of where Atlantic Fields was proposed to be built. That project, named Belle Mead, also drew local opposition but ultimately earned a 3-2 approval by, in part, offering long-needed affordable housing units as part of its plan.
I think the Sussex County Council did the right thing. In both instances. One way to mitigate excessive traffic is to create housing nearby for potential shoppers. One proposal does that, the other one didn’t.
ICE Goons’ Private Information Leaked. One way of unmasking these Nazis:
Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees—including almost 2,000 agents working in frontline enforcement—have allegedly been released by a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower following last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good.
The Jan. 7 killing of the mother by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked nationwide protests and worldwide outrage, including among some DHS employees.
The alleged leak to ICE List, a self-styled “accountability initiative,” is believed to be the largest ever breach of DHS staff data. It appears to include names, work emails, telephone numbers, roles, and some resumé data, including previous jobs of federal immigration staff.
Department of Homeland Security officials are not happy.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Beast that its “law enforcement officers are on the frontlines arresting terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, and rapists,” but that “thanks to the malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians, they are under constant threat from violent agitators.”
She added: “Publicizing their identities puts their lives and the lives of their families at serious risk.”
That shit ain’t flyin’ any more. America knows that it’s ICE that putting the lives of people and their families at risk.
On Cue, ICE Brutalizes Kid In Cali. There’s video, if you can stomach it.
Why Democrats Suck. Tip-toeing on ICE budget. If Senate Democrats won’t take a strong united stand against ICE to the point of, yes, causing another government shutdown, they should all get the hell out of Washington.
But for some Christians, the Iranian protests are more than just a popular uprising; they are the fulfillment of ancient Biblical prophecies that foretell the second coming of the Messiah. Last June, shortly after the United States bombed Iran, I wrote about the US evangelicals who were cheering that move:
Broadly speaking—though there are certainly exceptions—many of the most ardent supporters of Trump’s decision to bomb Iran identify as Christian Zionists, a group that believes that Israel and the Jewish people will play a key role in bringing about the second coming of the Messiah. As Christians, they are called to hasten this scenario, says Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore and author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy. “The mission, so to speak, is to get the Jews back to Israel and to establish themselves within Israel,” he says. “Then you fulfill the preconditions, or one of the preconditions, for the second coming.”
The dark side of this theology, Taylor added, is that in this version of the end times, once the Messiah comes, the Jews will either convert to Christianity or perish.
Jesus couldn’t be reached for comment. Various sources indicate that he’s struggling over whether to ‘cut the cord’ or not. So am I.
Trump ReallyReally Needs Greenland:
Donald Trump has said it would be “unacceptable” for Greenland to be “in the hands” of any country other than the US, reiterating his demand to take over the Arctic island, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, hours before high-stakes talks on its future.
“The US needs Greenland for the purpose of national security. Nato should be leading the way for us to get it,” the US president said on social media. The alliance “becomes far more formidable and effective” with the territory under US control, he said.
“It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,” he said, referring to a proposed missile defence system.
Wonder what Senate Minority Leader Neville Chamberlain has to say about that.
DOJ Prosecutors Resign In Protest Of FBI Whitewashing Of The Murder Of Renee Good:
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit on Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach, as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision said.
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