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David Yuhas
04-25-2009, 06:31 PM
Inland Empire, Part LVIII...Loyalty Up Loyalty Down

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1080511000&ref=profile
(check "Profile" for Railroad Maps.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_locomotive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail

Proposed Western State Cavalry Railway & Plantation Consortium

Great Western Railway & Great Plains Express Engineering Consortium
$800 million for Land Acquisition & Lay-out

Dwight Beranek, Railroad Designer, Army Corps of Engineers,

William Herzog, Herzog Railroad Construction
Paul Copeland, Beatty-Balfour Rail Inc.
William M. Stout, Atlas Railroad Construction
Jeffrey M. Levy, Railworks Inc
Peter McKenna, Skanska USA
Lorenzo Simonelli, GE Transportation
John Cavanaugh, Electro-Motive Diesel Inc.
Jens Soeby, Vestas Wind Systems
John Krenicki, Jr., GE Energy,

WSC Headquarters & 21 Plantations Consortium
$200 million for Land Acquisition & Lay-out

Michael Graves, Michael Graves Associates, Architect for Cheyenne, WSC
Headquarters, Great Hall Design for 21 Plantations, 31 Passenger &
Freight Train Stations
Wes Jackson, The Land Institute, Plantation Perennials
Prof. Joseph Thomasson, Ft. Hays State University, Greenhouses & Great
Plains Horticulture
Ernie Els, 18-Fairway Plantation Design
Retief Goosen, 18-Fairway Plantation Design
Proposed Honorary, Project Consultants
Mayor of Pueblo, Dave Galli
Mayor of Colorado Springs, Lionel Rivera
Mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper
City Manager of Greeley, Roy H. Otto
City Manager of Ft. Collins, Darin Atteberry
Governor, C.L. Otter
Senator Mike Crapo
Senator James Risch
Congressman Mike Simpson
Mayor of Idaho Falls, Jared Fuhriman
Chairman of Ft. Hall/Pocatello, Alonzo A. Coby
Congressman Jerry Moran
Mayor of Wichita, Carl Brewer
Governor, Brian Schweitzer,
Senator Jon Tester
Congressman, Denny Rehberg
Mayor of Billings, Ron Tussing
City Manager of Bozeman, Chris Kukulski
Mayor of Butte, Paul Babb
Governor, Dave Heineman,
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry
Mayor of Lincoln, Chris Beutler
Governor, John Hoeven,
Senator Kent Conrad
Mayor of Fargo, Dennis Walaker
Governor, Brad Henry
Congressman John Sullivan
Congresswoman Mary Fallin
Mayor of Oklahoma City, Mick Cornett
Governor, Mike Rounds,
Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin
Mayor of Sioux Falls, Dave Munson
Governor, Rick Perry,
Congressman, Ron Paul
Congressman, Joe Barton
Mayor of McAllen, Richard F. Cortez
Mayor of Laredo, Raul G. Salinas
Mayor of Del Rio, Efrain V. Valdez
Mayor of Midland, Wes Perry
Mayor of Lubbock, Tom Martin
Mayor of Amarillo, Debra McCartt
Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.
Congressman Jim Mattheson
Mayor of Logan, Randy Watts
Mayor of Ogden, Matthew R. Godfrey
Mayor of Salt Lake City, Ralph Becker
Mayor of Provo, Lewis K. Billings
Governor, Dave Freudenthal,
Senator Michael Enzi
Senator John Barasso
Mayor of Cheyenne, Jack Spiker
Mayor of Laramie, Klaus Hanson
Mayor of Casper, Paul Bertoglio
Mayor of Sheridan, Dave Kinskey

Distinguished Friends,

Guaranteed to ride out the current Global Recession in grand style are the Crow, the Squirrel & the Amishman....always keeping busy...never unemployed...always in top physical condition...always getting their Recommended Dietary Allowance of Vitamin D...never caught begging in Washington...

Their secret, of course, is a localized, protected, Do It Yourself, food supply.
While Globalization can certainly dish it out, taking it, as we can all see by now, is another matter.

For the purpose of joining, as Global Recession Survivors...the Crow, Squirrel & Amishman, the key to everything is to disengage agriculture...the agriculture that feeds your very self, from the Global Economy.

Whatever has been said about the Plantation...as a major employer of entry-level personnel, there has never been anything like it.

This is a thought that should be borne in mind when contemplating the latest unemployment figures.

This is what 100,000 sports fans look like...

http://football.ballparks.com/NCAA/Big10/Michigan/index.htm

Last month six times that many Americans lost their jobs...many of whom (this stadium being in Michigan), can be seen in this very photo.

It has been assumed that when the stock market gets back to its previous highs...back in the days when everyone was working & raking it in...that everyone gets his old job back. It is also widely assumed that those National Guardsmen, upon returning from their year or two in Iraq & Afghanistan, will also get their old jobs back. I don't believe any of this.

For my country, the United States, I have designed an International Spec, Standard, Community Plantation...standard, as it would compete with other Community Plantations, every Olympic year in terms of Artistry & Production.

Outside the US, Cuba, & maybe South Africa, Australia & New Zealand, the Plantations would be sponsored by & even owned by local soccer Football Clubs...as the competitive spirit is already in place...AND...because it is the biggest fans of these Clubs that are likely to be hit the hardest by the Global Recession.

Unlike a Community Garden, a Community Plantation is meant to be a rural industry, a money-maker...with a "Colonel" at the top...a Bottom Line at the bottom & the entire, able-bodied community...from age six on up registering their hours on the job.

Here are the specs for the "Standard-spec, International, Community Plantation"...

A Community-based, Competitive Plantation would consist of 160 acres/ 64 hectares, have four corners & straight sides, planted in dense hedge.

Inside the borders would be 18, agricultural Fairways, three of which would be penned pastures.

Amidst the Fairways would be 2000 landscape trees/shrubs plus six flower beds.

A token population of livestock at the Community Plantation would consist of 8 equines, 16 cattle, 32 pigs/sheep & 640 chickens.

Besides the shelters for these animals, the Plantation would feature a Diner with an adjoining, pergola-covered patio.

Associated with the Plantation would be a large, Canning Kitchen specializing in Mason-jar preservation.

In Shakespeare's "12th Night", Olivia tells Cesario that her face, unpainted as it is, "will endure both wind & weather". This, today, is more a feature of the modern golf course than the modern farm.

With golf course construction currently in the ditch world-wide, the design of Community Plantations might provide an remunerative sideline for this industry.

Golf course designers would could play a critical role in designing State or National prototypes that might be sponsored by Governors or by State Departments of Agriculture.

These Plantations, on National bases, would be judged on the years of Summer Olympiads...in March in the Southern Hemisphere & in September in the North.

A documentary film would feature the various National Champions. An international competition would not be advisable...for an English Plantation specializing in Apples, lets say, could not, be compared to a Brazilian Plantation specializing in Oranges...as that would be like comparing Apples to Oranges.

Regards, DY
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A Christmas for Christians During a Season of Recession

European Tradition gives us all of Twelve Days of Christmas...the first day, of course, on December 25...& the Twelfth Day, the Feast of the Epiphany, on January 6.

http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html

"Twelfth Night" as in Shakespeare, is the Eve of "Twelfth Day" on January 5 not January 6.

By using the full Twelve-day span to break up the shopping season into two distinct units, Christians can enjoy both a commercial-free December 25th & a deeply-discounted shopping season from December 26 to January 5.

A Christmas shopping season so rescheduled would show solidarity with our country's multitudinous laid-off parents...who might not be able to afford Christmas shopping before December 25.


Appropriate gifts for December 25 would be anything small, hand-made or such festive comestibles as might be consumed during an afternoon of TV viewing.


Appropriate gifts for January 6 would be anything large, heavy & manufactured... anything that comes in a cardboard box.


Another reason for the rescheduled shopping season that few are aware of is Santa's current bad leg.

Back on Christmas Eve in 2008, it is rumored, Santa Claus, while making a delivery in Boulder, Colorado, suffered an accident whose effects are still with him. As I heard the story, he had landed his sleigh on a snow-covered roof...& getting out of his sleigh he stepped on a solar panel, fell off the roof & injured his leg.

Now Santa...being a tough old boy & no whiner, did not report the incident, figuring he would be back in top form by Christmas 2009...but so far, this has not been the case. The leg is still giving him trouble...leaving him much less lively & quick.

Santa did try massage therapy when an elf who claimed to be a licenced practitioner, offered him a course of sessions...but after having his leg pummeled for about an hour by tiny hands, Santa thanked the elf, & told him that maybe he should just stick to treating other elves.

When word of Santa's bum leg got to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters it caused a uproar. Here was Santa, an original Teamster, bad leg & without even a driver's helper...scheduled to do another late-night, Christmas run, schlepping heavy flat-screen TVs & Nautilus machines on snow-covered rooftops.

An agreement was thus hatched that the Teamsters would send thousands of empty trucks up to the North Pole in time for Christmas Eve...& would take delivery of all gifts that were large, heaving & that came in cardboard boxes with stick-on labels & bar codes.

Santa, for his part, would specialize in those presents that were small, hand made & gourmet ....things that one could carry in one arm-load.

Santa would still do the Overnight Air...putting gift-wrapped presents under the trees...while the Teamsters, for their part, would carry out a "Twelve-Day Ground" service, delivering their manufactured goods at the front doors of their recipients....as did the Three Wise Men from the East, al-Assad, al-Maliki & Ahmedinejad, on the first Twelfth Night in Bethlehem..



Best regards, Boulder, Neo Confederate


David Yuhas



p.s.

YouTube - Joni Mitchell-Woodstock (Big Sur Celebration) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6IDoxi9QsE)


p.p.s.

Bardolph the red-nosed soldier
in the ranks of Henry V
a cohort of Nym & Pistol
much at home in any dive

All of the other soldiers
used to laugh & call him names
Things weren't that much different
when it came to English dames

When he robbed a church one night,
spake Henry with dismay
"Bardolph with thy nose so bright,
damn, thou mak'st me look like shite"

Then all the children loved it
& they shouted out with glee
"Check out the red-nosed soldier,
Hal is running up that tree"


p.p.p.s.

YouTube - Overdose: The Unbeatable in Rome 11/11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nE9qbUwO2o&feature=related)