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Please consider signing this petition to have the City of Huntsville adopt the Complete Streets Policy. As you may or may not know Huntsville is the 2nd most deadly city in Alabama for pedestrians. Lets make the streets here safe for all!! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/adopt-complete-streets-policy-in-city-of-huntsville-alabama

The streets of our cities and towns are an important part of the livability of our communities. They ought to be for everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of our streets are designed only for speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic jams.
Now, in communities across the country, a movement is growing to complete the streets. States, cities and towns are asking their planners and engineers to build road networks that are safer, more livable, and welcoming to everyone.
Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.
more info can be found here http://www.completestreets.org

This comment I made (once it's approved) should show up after this link:

http://huntsvilledevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/09/housing-authority-shifts-to-lowe-mill.html

here;s the comment with irritating mispellings included:

That's not good. not good at all. Lowe Mill is already benefiting. It's already gone from alternative underground with the Flying Monkey Arts Center to above-ground with the Lowe Mill stuff aroudn it.

this happens againa and again ins city after city. The creative class risks going through and living in a rougher part of town, makes it more interesting and the new "cool" place to go and the upper crusts wants to kick out the pople who already live there? Let's not let Huntsville make the same mistake and instead work with people who need help instead of shuffling them off where some people dont' want to see them because it makes them "feel uncomforatble".

The link for my stop-motion animation of my bicycle through different places in Huntsville, Alabama:

http://www.archive.org/details/Jr_20091024_2x1Hsv


If the embeddable vid comes up, this is where I will place it.



I was pretty happy it got 3rd in applause out of 18 entries in the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op 5th Annual Rocket City Short Film Festival.

I wonder why no one's been able to make a go of this place? Location?
The past 2 places just had okay food and the service I had was kind of lousy.
Maybe if someone put great food and great service in there, something different from the other places in the area?
I don't know , though, because Sazio's down the street was pretty good and they're gone too.

I pretty much agree with everything Mark Evanier said here:

"And you've got to wonder: If Congress will bend over backwards to overlook the excesses of a spectacularly unpopular administration, what are they going to do for one that America actually trusts?"

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_06_20.html#015429

George Carlin died.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021649.html

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 08:52 Today (May 15th,2008) is Bike-to-Work Day. If you have a bike and can manage it, try it. #
• 12:02 Reading about corrupt politics in Alabama. Most of it commited by Karl Rove and his horrible prosecutors. #

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• 15:47 The pundit class-"Like Holocaust deniers as it's happening all around them." #

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These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 00:59 Glad the tornado siren stopped after the second round. NE Huntsville good area to be in right now. #

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• 08:53 "Brother Theodore" is a really strange performance artist. Seems like Andy Kaufman took over from him. Walk on all fours. Quadrupelus. #
• 14:17 Eating a sandwhich and reading Bill Moyers book On Democracy #
• 22:28 Eating a pizza and reading comic books while listening to an old interview with Stan Freberg. And twittering while I surf my Netvibes. #

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