Saturday Open Thread: Why Not?

1. Where is the city council agenda thread? Did you all stop posting them in advance for comment?

2. I see the URTV funding is on Tuesday’s agenda for a year. I suppose we need to show up to oppose it until such time as Davyne Dial gets her public documents, and forever if they get lost or destroyed. They charge too much for membership anyway and squader the money on excessive facilities and fancier than necessary equipment.
http://www.mountainx.com/news/2010/031710the_power_of_the_paper_trail/

3. Over on the Affordable housing corridor thread:
http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/03/16/affordable-housing-and-corridor-density/
Shadmarsh denounced Bothwell’s refreshing overpopulation stance by reversed causality. Marx and shadmarsh got this one wrong when they assert that poverty and inequality is the cause and excessive breeding the effect when Malthus, without whom Darwin would never have discovered natural selection, obviously had it right that excessive breeding is the cause and poverty and inequality are the effects. Besides, Bothwell and I are talking about exessive breeding in white, middle class, North Asheville, not in the third world like Shadmarsh assumes. Municipal contraception would reduce the fertility of exactly the same people as make up the majority of whatever locality funds it, and in Asheville and Buncombe that is majority white Americans. Local environmental contraception has nothing to do with the third world.
As for most of the third world all we need to do is sit here, providing nothing other than contraception, and they run out of food and AIDS meds and depopulate all by themselves, without needing our help. I’ll help feed Haiti AFTER they legalize abortion, not before. And last I checked, Mozambique was the only prochoice nation in Africa and though still poor, they are feeding themselves now, which is no coincidence. The worlds highest fertility rate was in Rwanda and we all know the inevitable result. Fertility is the cause and poverty, inequlity, and in that case genocide, was the effect; and not visa versa.

Well thanks for getting out of the spam filter, but the comments policy says it only hits the filter with 4 or more links, which is bad enough since my links are for clarity so that I can transfer comments to a more relevent thread, but my post had only 2 links. So watch out and remember to copy before submitting or you may lose your draft.