David Yuhas
05-03-2009, 02:30 PM
Inland Empire, Part LIX...Jaguars in America
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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
http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlife/species/map/southwest.asp
Distinguished Friends,
One of the best kept secrets in the world of both territorial defense AND wildlife conservation can be found on South Africa's border with Mozambique. About the size of Massachusetts, Kruger Park, which forms the border between the two States, I would describe as the greatest of all wildlife parks,
Besides being the home of hundreds of species, including about 6,000 elephant, Kruger doubles as a buffered, international border, maintained, as are all serious parks in Africa, under something called "Park Martial Law"...meaning that interlopers found in the Park are shot on sight as poachers.
Unlike the unsecured US-Mexican border, with its dozens & hundred of illegals crossers dying in the Arizona desert every year, traffic between South Africa & Mozambique is kept legal & peaceable.
If there were any violation of human rights on the part of South Africa for maintaining a buffered border under Park Martial Law, one would have heard about it from Nelson Mandela, whose wife, Graca Machel, it may be added, is prominent Mozambican.
I bring up the subject because of an appearance, on Amy Goodman's TV show, "Democracy Now", by a spokesman for the Sierra Club, who spoke out against the ongoing construction of a fence on the Mexican border on the grounds that this fence was sabotaging an effort by the Sierra Club to restore the habitat for such one-time inhabitants of the Southwest as the jaguar.
The reason that jaguars are no longer seen in the Southwest, never mind the habitat, is that they have been shot on sight. The best way to restore the jaguar & other native species to the American Southwest is to take a page from the South Africans. You START with a border fence...& then, inside the fence, offer to purchase mile-deep properties with an eye to establishing square mile protected parks. These enclosures I would call "Caissons".
A single, square-mile-sized property might resemble a large zoo more than a wildlife park...but a string of them...twenty in a row...or a hundred in a row...would give one a proper Park, maintained, of course, under Park Martial Law.
So let me propose that the Sierra Club, given this new look on the matter, support me in an effort to purchase these, mile-deep Caissons along the entire border between Texas & Mexico.
In Texas there is an organization called the Exotic Wildlife Association that started out as a kind of Good Ol' Boy, ranching operation...taking advantage of the fact that there are no hunting seasons on non-native game animals.
Upon learning, however, that some of the animals they had acquired, & that had proliferated on their ranches were some of the rarest on earth...& that, for example, just about the only place that one could find Arabian Roxy's was on Texas ranches, these ranchers soon became quite proud of their title as "Eminent Wildlife Conservationists"
http://www.exoticwildlifeassociation.com/
My thinking here is that the EWA be put in charge of the Caisson Parks along the Texas-Mexico border. The construction of a rail-line running along the northern border of these Parks would be a good job fro Western State Cavalrymen & their Inmate Infantrymen recruited from the Texas prison system.
When our President declares that closing the US Mexican border to halt the spread of Swine Flu would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses have left, I suspect he is making a virtue of necessity. For one thing, as Matt Lauer has noted, the overwhelming part of the herd is still in the barn...& the fewer horses we have to deal with when we figure out what this Swine Flu is all about, the better.
More to the point, a subject for future newsletters....even if he saw the necessity of closing the border for any reason, he wouldn't know how to do it. Our Armed Forces are trained for territorial expansion not territorial defense....to secure the borders of foreign countries...but not our Country....& if citizen militias take up the task, they are told that this is none of their business.
So...what do you say, Sierra Club? ...EWA?
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Back to the Plantation
The current response of the World Bank to the Global Recession has been the following...
http://www.cfr.org/publication/19224/infrastructure_recovery_and_assets_infra_platform_ world_bank.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2F
A problem the World Bank is guaranteed to have...the same thing it always has, is having its disbursement of funds getting past recipient governments without having these funds disappear without a trace.
Here is my plan on how $10 billion of the projected $150 billion in World Bank INFRA funds can become the "Gift That Keeps on Giving" for victims of the current Recession.
To begin with...amongst the most volatile of the hard-hit, around the world are going to be football fans...gridiron & soccer. "Loyalty Up, Loyalty Down" as the saying goes...& here is how Club Owners can keep their loyal fans working & eating during hard times.
(Two things about Ho Chi Minh that a lot of people don't know...his cigarette...Philip Morris...his team...Arsenal)
Whatever has been said about the Plantation...as a major employer of entry-level personnel, there has never been anything like it.
I would ask the World Bank, through its INFRA program to be prepared, through the mediation of Football Club owners around the world, to bankroll the establishment of 10,000 "Standard-spec, International, Community Plantations"...at $1 million each.
For the purposes of being judged for productivity & for artistic impression in National competitions, the specs would be the following...
Football-Club Plantations 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.
Every Plantation would have its own 5000 gallon/10,000 liter tank truck with at least a half-dozen spigots for hand-watering ops.
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 National prototypes.
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, as an English Plantation specializing in Apples, lets say, could not, be compared to a Brazilian Plantation specializing in Oranges...as this would be like comparing Apples to Oranges.
The way these Plantations would be set up is that Twenty Principals of a potential Plantation...nineteen with agricultural credentials & one with culinary credentials...typically all fans of a certain football team...would go to the owner of that team to ask for a sponsorship of a Standard Spec Plantation.
The idea here is that the World Bank would contribute $1 million to set up the Plantation...& that the Club would take over from there, in charge of wages, sales, marketing & dividends, just like any company.
It is hard to imagine that by sponsoring such a Plantation with a million dollar start-up bequest, a Club could lose money, as the commodity, after all is food. For the Club, a sponsored Plantation would be a courtesy...not a charity or a money-maker for itself.
I would apportion the World Bank money for the 10,000 Plantations in the following way...
2000 for North America, the Caribbean, Australia & New Zealand
2000 for South America
2000 for Europe
2000 for Africa
& 2000 for Asia
World Bank money, typically, does not go to such donor countries as the US, Germany & Japan...but given the nationality of the Impresario, Yours truly, whose countrymen also include hard-hit football fans...& whose government also makes large sums of money disappear, this will be the Protocol I am presenting to the World Bank.
Regards,
David Yuhas, Boulder, Colorado
p.s.
A New Sound for Oklahoma
Contrary to popular belief, this what Operation Iraqi Freedom was all about.
YouTube - The Play (OU-Texas 2001) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1MpHG5x6q0)
At the time of the invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was a US ally...a member of the pro-Christian, anti-al Qaeda, Baath Party & a recipient of billions in US ag credits.
The reason that Texan, GWB announced that Saddam was amassing "Weapons of Mass Destruction", & had to be stopped...was not because he actually believed it...but because he knew that guileless Sooners would believe it...& soon would be signing up to go & fight. The invasion was to be led be one Gen. Tommy, "Thick-as-Two-Short-Planks" Franks...& you can guess what State he came from.
"It takes one to know one" as the saying goes...& all hell broke loose when fellow Texan, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks announced that she was ashamed of the stunt GWB was pulling on their simple-minded neighbors to the north.
Not quite getting the drift, torch-bearing, pitchfork wielding Gooners, with a Mistress Quickly & a Sir Toby Belch leading the charge, were soon out to make the beautiful & talented Ms. Maines a musical Karen Silkwood.
Seven years later, the Academy of Country Music, taking pity on the Oklahoma music scene, lost in la Mancha, but "Too Big To Fail", named their Adorable Mouseketeer, Carrie Underwood as "Entertainer of the Year"...an award that had always escaped Woody Guthrie.
A recent gambit by the Sooner State was to name "Do You Realize" a tune by the "Flaming Lips" as the "Oklahoma State Rock Song".
We "Realize" all right...that it sounds like John Lennon's "Mind Games" as performed, perhaps, by the "Flaming Groovies".
Like a musical Chrysler with its cars piling up unsold, Musical Oklahoma is now in Chapter 11.
The good news, however, is that a "New Oklahoma Sound" is said to be on the way.
Very Country, Right-of-Center, but still Cool...the "Volkswagner Sound" of the Slovenian Group "Laibach" could be just what the doctor ordered.
YouTube - Laibach - life is life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SvjSu4R-8)
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
http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlife/species/map/southwest.asp
Distinguished Friends,
One of the best kept secrets in the world of both territorial defense AND wildlife conservation can be found on South Africa's border with Mozambique. About the size of Massachusetts, Kruger Park, which forms the border between the two States, I would describe as the greatest of all wildlife parks,
Besides being the home of hundreds of species, including about 6,000 elephant, Kruger doubles as a buffered, international border, maintained, as are all serious parks in Africa, under something called "Park Martial Law"...meaning that interlopers found in the Park are shot on sight as poachers.
Unlike the unsecured US-Mexican border, with its dozens & hundred of illegals crossers dying in the Arizona desert every year, traffic between South Africa & Mozambique is kept legal & peaceable.
If there were any violation of human rights on the part of South Africa for maintaining a buffered border under Park Martial Law, one would have heard about it from Nelson Mandela, whose wife, Graca Machel, it may be added, is prominent Mozambican.
I bring up the subject because of an appearance, on Amy Goodman's TV show, "Democracy Now", by a spokesman for the Sierra Club, who spoke out against the ongoing construction of a fence on the Mexican border on the grounds that this fence was sabotaging an effort by the Sierra Club to restore the habitat for such one-time inhabitants of the Southwest as the jaguar.
The reason that jaguars are no longer seen in the Southwest, never mind the habitat, is that they have been shot on sight. The best way to restore the jaguar & other native species to the American Southwest is to take a page from the South Africans. You START with a border fence...& then, inside the fence, offer to purchase mile-deep properties with an eye to establishing square mile protected parks. These enclosures I would call "Caissons".
A single, square-mile-sized property might resemble a large zoo more than a wildlife park...but a string of them...twenty in a row...or a hundred in a row...would give one a proper Park, maintained, of course, under Park Martial Law.
So let me propose that the Sierra Club, given this new look on the matter, support me in an effort to purchase these, mile-deep Caissons along the entire border between Texas & Mexico.
In Texas there is an organization called the Exotic Wildlife Association that started out as a kind of Good Ol' Boy, ranching operation...taking advantage of the fact that there are no hunting seasons on non-native game animals.
Upon learning, however, that some of the animals they had acquired, & that had proliferated on their ranches were some of the rarest on earth...& that, for example, just about the only place that one could find Arabian Roxy's was on Texas ranches, these ranchers soon became quite proud of their title as "Eminent Wildlife Conservationists"
http://www.exoticwildlifeassociation.com/
My thinking here is that the EWA be put in charge of the Caisson Parks along the Texas-Mexico border. The construction of a rail-line running along the northern border of these Parks would be a good job fro Western State Cavalrymen & their Inmate Infantrymen recruited from the Texas prison system.
When our President declares that closing the US Mexican border to halt the spread of Swine Flu would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses have left, I suspect he is making a virtue of necessity. For one thing, as Matt Lauer has noted, the overwhelming part of the herd is still in the barn...& the fewer horses we have to deal with when we figure out what this Swine Flu is all about, the better.
More to the point, a subject for future newsletters....even if he saw the necessity of closing the border for any reason, he wouldn't know how to do it. Our Armed Forces are trained for territorial expansion not territorial defense....to secure the borders of foreign countries...but not our Country....& if citizen militias take up the task, they are told that this is none of their business.
So...what do you say, Sierra Club? ...EWA?
###########
Back to the Plantation
The current response of the World Bank to the Global Recession has been the following...
http://www.cfr.org/publication/19224/infrastructure_recovery_and_assets_infra_platform_ world_bank.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2F
A problem the World Bank is guaranteed to have...the same thing it always has, is having its disbursement of funds getting past recipient governments without having these funds disappear without a trace.
Here is my plan on how $10 billion of the projected $150 billion in World Bank INFRA funds can become the "Gift That Keeps on Giving" for victims of the current Recession.
To begin with...amongst the most volatile of the hard-hit, around the world are going to be football fans...gridiron & soccer. "Loyalty Up, Loyalty Down" as the saying goes...& here is how Club Owners can keep their loyal fans working & eating during hard times.
(Two things about Ho Chi Minh that a lot of people don't know...his cigarette...Philip Morris...his team...Arsenal)
Whatever has been said about the Plantation...as a major employer of entry-level personnel, there has never been anything like it.
I would ask the World Bank, through its INFRA program to be prepared, through the mediation of Football Club owners around the world, to bankroll the establishment of 10,000 "Standard-spec, International, Community Plantations"...at $1 million each.
For the purposes of being judged for productivity & for artistic impression in National competitions, the specs would be the following...
Football-Club Plantations 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.
Every Plantation would have its own 5000 gallon/10,000 liter tank truck with at least a half-dozen spigots for hand-watering ops.
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 National prototypes.
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, as an English Plantation specializing in Apples, lets say, could not, be compared to a Brazilian Plantation specializing in Oranges...as this would be like comparing Apples to Oranges.
The way these Plantations would be set up is that Twenty Principals of a potential Plantation...nineteen with agricultural credentials & one with culinary credentials...typically all fans of a certain football team...would go to the owner of that team to ask for a sponsorship of a Standard Spec Plantation.
The idea here is that the World Bank would contribute $1 million to set up the Plantation...& that the Club would take over from there, in charge of wages, sales, marketing & dividends, just like any company.
It is hard to imagine that by sponsoring such a Plantation with a million dollar start-up bequest, a Club could lose money, as the commodity, after all is food. For the Club, a sponsored Plantation would be a courtesy...not a charity or a money-maker for itself.
I would apportion the World Bank money for the 10,000 Plantations in the following way...
2000 for North America, the Caribbean, Australia & New Zealand
2000 for South America
2000 for Europe
2000 for Africa
& 2000 for Asia
World Bank money, typically, does not go to such donor countries as the US, Germany & Japan...but given the nationality of the Impresario, Yours truly, whose countrymen also include hard-hit football fans...& whose government also makes large sums of money disappear, this will be the Protocol I am presenting to the World Bank.
Regards,
David Yuhas, Boulder, Colorado
p.s.
A New Sound for Oklahoma
Contrary to popular belief, this what Operation Iraqi Freedom was all about.
YouTube - The Play (OU-Texas 2001) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1MpHG5x6q0)
At the time of the invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was a US ally...a member of the pro-Christian, anti-al Qaeda, Baath Party & a recipient of billions in US ag credits.
The reason that Texan, GWB announced that Saddam was amassing "Weapons of Mass Destruction", & had to be stopped...was not because he actually believed it...but because he knew that guileless Sooners would believe it...& soon would be signing up to go & fight. The invasion was to be led be one Gen. Tommy, "Thick-as-Two-Short-Planks" Franks...& you can guess what State he came from.
"It takes one to know one" as the saying goes...& all hell broke loose when fellow Texan, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks announced that she was ashamed of the stunt GWB was pulling on their simple-minded neighbors to the north.
Not quite getting the drift, torch-bearing, pitchfork wielding Gooners, with a Mistress Quickly & a Sir Toby Belch leading the charge, were soon out to make the beautiful & talented Ms. Maines a musical Karen Silkwood.
Seven years later, the Academy of Country Music, taking pity on the Oklahoma music scene, lost in la Mancha, but "Too Big To Fail", named their Adorable Mouseketeer, Carrie Underwood as "Entertainer of the Year"...an award that had always escaped Woody Guthrie.
A recent gambit by the Sooner State was to name "Do You Realize" a tune by the "Flaming Lips" as the "Oklahoma State Rock Song".
We "Realize" all right...that it sounds like John Lennon's "Mind Games" as performed, perhaps, by the "Flaming Groovies".
Like a musical Chrysler with its cars piling up unsold, Musical Oklahoma is now in Chapter 11.
The good news, however, is that a "New Oklahoma Sound" is said to be on the way.
Very Country, Right-of-Center, but still Cool...the "Volkswagner Sound" of the Slovenian Group "Laibach" could be just what the doctor ordered.
YouTube - Laibach - life is life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SvjSu4R-8)