David Yuhas
06-27-2009, 01:14 PM
Inland Empire, Part LXVII...Town & Country Notables
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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
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
Mayor of Idaho Falls, Jared Fuhriman
Chairman of Ft. Hall/Pocatello, Alonzo A. Coby
Mayor of Wichita, Carl Brewer
Governor, Brian Schweitzer,
Mayor of Billings, Ron Tussing
City Manager of Bozeman, Chris Kukulski
Mayor of Butte, Paul Babb
Governor, Dave Heineman,
Mayor of Lincoln, Chris Beutler
Governor, John Hoeven,
Mayor of Fargo, Dennis Walaker
Governor, Brad Henry
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
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
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,
Mayor of Cheyenne, Jack Spiker
Mayor of Laramie, Klaus Hanson
Mayor of Casper, Paul Bertoglio
Mayor of Sheridan, Dave Kinskey
Distinguished Friends,
My first choice for Indiana would be Messrs Larry Bird & John Mellencamp...for my native Illinois, former high-school, corn-detassler, Cindy Crawford & her downstate sister, Gretchen Wilson...for Georgia...President Carter, for sure...along with, maybe, Jennifer Nettles.
The idea here is to put together an aggregation of celebrities with Town & Country credentials to promote, in their respective States, the "Campaign for Community Plantations"...a thousand of them across the arable USA.
A Standard-Spec Community Plantation would have Four Standard Specs...
1. 160 Acres (64 ha)
2. 18 Agricultural Fairways, 3 of which in Penned Pasture
3. A Formidable & Forbidding Perimeter Hedge
4. On-or-Off Site, a Commodious Kitchen designed for Mason-jar Preservation
The Rule of Thumb, here, would be that every American town with a high-school football field would be obliged to also have a Community Plantation.
Like Tim Robbins in Shawshank Prison, a half-dozen Asian States, led by China, currently finding themselves prisoners of the Dollar, are now preoccupied by ways of getting out without bringing down the House on themselves.
YouTube - Latest Update on 134 Billion in Fake/Real US Bonds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPLK4JA4Kc&feature=related)
My guess...(& it's just a guess), is that Japan, keen to unload Dollar-denominated paper... & an African country, rich in forests & mineral wealth, but desperate to get the IMF off its back, decided to use a Swiss bank to underwrite a major land sale. Japan, in this case, would have been prepared to take a major hit with its Treasury bonds.
If this, in fact, is the case, expect other holders of US debt to follow suit.
A collapse of the Dollar, necessarily, would lead to a collapse of much in the US economy...but...in my opinion, not necessarily all of it.
If Town & Country USA, plays its cards right, swallows its foolish pride, climbs back into the old bibs, & sets up a fall-back position with a myriad of Community Plantations, the "Big Two", Employment & Food, at least, will be taken care of.
Laying out a Community Plantation is not rocket science. If no one in town knows how to lay out an 18-Fairway Plantation, simply copy a golf course design from Google Earth.
Unlike a typical family farm with a team of four working a square mile, & dependent as this family would be on heavy farm machinery & ag chemicals, a team of 400, let's say, working a square quarter-mile might be at its most efficient working with leather gloves, hand tools & equines.
Winter employment indoors would be provided if the Western State Cavalry, consisting of 30,000 veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan supervising an equal number of Inmate Infantrymen could obtain a licence for raising 80 square miles of hemp on their own Plantations on the Great Plains. In this case one would go with the big machinery.
While the Cavalry & Inmate Infantry would move to the Rockies for the Fall & winter for roadside, forest-thinning operations, hemp-derived products could be made at the indoor facilities of the Community Plantations.
***********************
Going Postville
Nevada has its Mustang Ranch, Iowa its Postville.
"Hometown to the World" it bills itself...especially, it appears, if one is in town illegally & is in possession of a stolen SSN.
Postville went over to the Dark Side...(transported across the Styx by "The Grim Ferryman, Cheney"), when in brought in Agroprocessors along with about a thousand Guatemalan illegals.
This could not have been made possible, it seems to me, without the complicity of the local Chamber of Commerce, Catholic Church & the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, all who could use a lesson in citizenship.
A raid by Immigration & Customs Enforcement shut down the criminal enterprise last year, thus leaving the locals now facing the prospect of legal employment. For Postville, Iowa, a Community Plantation should be the result of a Court Order.
******************
"Leo Rising"
Let's say that you are a lecturer at a medical school...& the subject for the week is "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis", aka "Lou Gehrig's Disease"...& it comes to your attention that no one in the class has ever heard of Lou Gehrig.
Now...if you are also a baseball fan, you can't let that stand...so one day out of that week may well be a celebration of Lou Gehrig the great & beloved, baseball player...which brings me to the subject of the Sphinx.
The popular image of the Sphinx is that of a lion with a head of a man, wearing a Pharaonic, leonine head-dress...one with a missing nose, & one who has seen better days...but, apart from that, one who pretty much looks as he did in the beginning
The current Sphinx, in my opinion, is an unrecognizable, if venerable, ruin of its former self...bearing as much resemblance to its original as Lou Gehrig in the care of a nurse is to the baseball great taking the field for the NY Yankees.
The pristine Sphinx, what I would call "Leo Rising", is a statue of a lion. observing a moment in time, on a day in the Vernal Equinox, 10,500 BC when Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo appeared on the horizon.
I can say that with some confidence because of an observation made by one Thomas Dobecki, then of the Colorado School of Mines, that the hard, unweathered, layer of bedrock beneath the Sphinx is 8 feet down in front of the statue, but only 4 feet down under the rump.
This tells me that when the Sphinx was dug out of the sand on one of many occasions for "restoration", the sight of the rump of the statue buried in 4 feet of bedrock gave the restorers, who had no idea of the astrological significance of the statue,, the impression that it was unfinished. Thus the bedrock was lowered 4 feet to "complete" the work.
The reason the rump of the Sphinx was 4 feet under bedrock was the relationship of the two brightest stars of the constellation Leo which form the base of the constellation. These are Regulus ("Qalb al-Assad" "The Heart of the Lion") the upper star in the front, & Denebola ( "Deneb al-Assad", the "Tail of the Lion") the lower star in the rear.
When lower star, Denebola appeared on the horizon on the Vernal Equinox of 10,500 BC, the angle formed by Regulus, Denebola & the horizon would have been 45 minutes of a degree or .75 of a degree.
Aware of the relationship of the two stars, the sculptor, depicting the appearance of Regulus hitting the horizon, would have left Denebola exactly 4 feet under the bedrock.
"Leo Rising", then is a term I use for a statue of a lion emerging from the bedrock observing itself emerging from the horizon at daybreak, thousands of years before there are even known to be people on earth having the gift of speech.
(In the words of Jarl Kulle's "Cornelius"..."Now what did I just mean by that?")
The head of "Leo Rising", originally that of a lion, it seems to me, has been redone to represent a Pharaoh of the Black African, Nubian, 25th Dynasty.
Official Egyptology insists that the head is that of the Pharaoh Chephren who is also said to have built the second Giza Pyramid...itself just a shot in the dark...but the "proof" given is that a dolerite bust of the said Chephren, currently in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities, is said to be a likeness of the Sphinx. This is ridiculous as the two are not even of the same race of people.
If the statue of Chephren in the museum wears the ceremonial plaited beard of a Pharaoh, why doesn't the Sphinx as well? There are some who will say that it did, originally, but that the beard fell off. There is, however, no sign of of an original beard.
If Chephren were making an image of himself on the Giza Plateau, he would have given himself the same beard as on the smaller statue. If there wasn't enough material for a beard on a statue of that size, he would have made a smaller statue...not one that was 240 feet long. There is no rule that the statue of a Pharaoh has to be 240 feet long...especially if it meant giving the Pharaoh a comparatively, diminutive head & a clean-shaven chin.
The term "Sphinx" then, should be used only for the venerable wreck. "Leo Rising" should be the cognomen for pristine original...#4 coming to bat with #3 in scoring position..
Best regards,
Boulder, Neo-Confederate,
David Yuhas
p.s.
YouTube - LARRY BIRD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cFkDTtQdMw)
p.p.s...
YouTube - The Shawshank Redemption Escape (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElxGBKi7jMo&feature=related)
p.p.p.s..
Not mine, alas...
Q. What do you get when you combine LSD with cow manure?
A. A trip to Greeley
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(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
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
Mayor of Idaho Falls, Jared Fuhriman
Chairman of Ft. Hall/Pocatello, Alonzo A. Coby
Mayor of Wichita, Carl Brewer
Governor, Brian Schweitzer,
Mayor of Billings, Ron Tussing
City Manager of Bozeman, Chris Kukulski
Mayor of Butte, Paul Babb
Governor, Dave Heineman,
Mayor of Lincoln, Chris Beutler
Governor, John Hoeven,
Mayor of Fargo, Dennis Walaker
Governor, Brad Henry
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
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
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,
Mayor of Cheyenne, Jack Spiker
Mayor of Laramie, Klaus Hanson
Mayor of Casper, Paul Bertoglio
Mayor of Sheridan, Dave Kinskey
Distinguished Friends,
My first choice for Indiana would be Messrs Larry Bird & John Mellencamp...for my native Illinois, former high-school, corn-detassler, Cindy Crawford & her downstate sister, Gretchen Wilson...for Georgia...President Carter, for sure...along with, maybe, Jennifer Nettles.
The idea here is to put together an aggregation of celebrities with Town & Country credentials to promote, in their respective States, the "Campaign for Community Plantations"...a thousand of them across the arable USA.
A Standard-Spec Community Plantation would have Four Standard Specs...
1. 160 Acres (64 ha)
2. 18 Agricultural Fairways, 3 of which in Penned Pasture
3. A Formidable & Forbidding Perimeter Hedge
4. On-or-Off Site, a Commodious Kitchen designed for Mason-jar Preservation
The Rule of Thumb, here, would be that every American town with a high-school football field would be obliged to also have a Community Plantation.
Like Tim Robbins in Shawshank Prison, a half-dozen Asian States, led by China, currently finding themselves prisoners of the Dollar, are now preoccupied by ways of getting out without bringing down the House on themselves.
YouTube - Latest Update on 134 Billion in Fake/Real US Bonds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPLK4JA4Kc&feature=related)
My guess...(& it's just a guess), is that Japan, keen to unload Dollar-denominated paper... & an African country, rich in forests & mineral wealth, but desperate to get the IMF off its back, decided to use a Swiss bank to underwrite a major land sale. Japan, in this case, would have been prepared to take a major hit with its Treasury bonds.
If this, in fact, is the case, expect other holders of US debt to follow suit.
A collapse of the Dollar, necessarily, would lead to a collapse of much in the US economy...but...in my opinion, not necessarily all of it.
If Town & Country USA, plays its cards right, swallows its foolish pride, climbs back into the old bibs, & sets up a fall-back position with a myriad of Community Plantations, the "Big Two", Employment & Food, at least, will be taken care of.
Laying out a Community Plantation is not rocket science. If no one in town knows how to lay out an 18-Fairway Plantation, simply copy a golf course design from Google Earth.
Unlike a typical family farm with a team of four working a square mile, & dependent as this family would be on heavy farm machinery & ag chemicals, a team of 400, let's say, working a square quarter-mile might be at its most efficient working with leather gloves, hand tools & equines.
Winter employment indoors would be provided if the Western State Cavalry, consisting of 30,000 veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan supervising an equal number of Inmate Infantrymen could obtain a licence for raising 80 square miles of hemp on their own Plantations on the Great Plains. In this case one would go with the big machinery.
While the Cavalry & Inmate Infantry would move to the Rockies for the Fall & winter for roadside, forest-thinning operations, hemp-derived products could be made at the indoor facilities of the Community Plantations.
***********************
Going Postville
Nevada has its Mustang Ranch, Iowa its Postville.
"Hometown to the World" it bills itself...especially, it appears, if one is in town illegally & is in possession of a stolen SSN.
Postville went over to the Dark Side...(transported across the Styx by "The Grim Ferryman, Cheney"), when in brought in Agroprocessors along with about a thousand Guatemalan illegals.
This could not have been made possible, it seems to me, without the complicity of the local Chamber of Commerce, Catholic Church & the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, all who could use a lesson in citizenship.
A raid by Immigration & Customs Enforcement shut down the criminal enterprise last year, thus leaving the locals now facing the prospect of legal employment. For Postville, Iowa, a Community Plantation should be the result of a Court Order.
******************
"Leo Rising"
Let's say that you are a lecturer at a medical school...& the subject for the week is "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis", aka "Lou Gehrig's Disease"...& it comes to your attention that no one in the class has ever heard of Lou Gehrig.
Now...if you are also a baseball fan, you can't let that stand...so one day out of that week may well be a celebration of Lou Gehrig the great & beloved, baseball player...which brings me to the subject of the Sphinx.
The popular image of the Sphinx is that of a lion with a head of a man, wearing a Pharaonic, leonine head-dress...one with a missing nose, & one who has seen better days...but, apart from that, one who pretty much looks as he did in the beginning
The current Sphinx, in my opinion, is an unrecognizable, if venerable, ruin of its former self...bearing as much resemblance to its original as Lou Gehrig in the care of a nurse is to the baseball great taking the field for the NY Yankees.
The pristine Sphinx, what I would call "Leo Rising", is a statue of a lion. observing a moment in time, on a day in the Vernal Equinox, 10,500 BC when Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo appeared on the horizon.
I can say that with some confidence because of an observation made by one Thomas Dobecki, then of the Colorado School of Mines, that the hard, unweathered, layer of bedrock beneath the Sphinx is 8 feet down in front of the statue, but only 4 feet down under the rump.
This tells me that when the Sphinx was dug out of the sand on one of many occasions for "restoration", the sight of the rump of the statue buried in 4 feet of bedrock gave the restorers, who had no idea of the astrological significance of the statue,, the impression that it was unfinished. Thus the bedrock was lowered 4 feet to "complete" the work.
The reason the rump of the Sphinx was 4 feet under bedrock was the relationship of the two brightest stars of the constellation Leo which form the base of the constellation. These are Regulus ("Qalb al-Assad" "The Heart of the Lion") the upper star in the front, & Denebola ( "Deneb al-Assad", the "Tail of the Lion") the lower star in the rear.
When lower star, Denebola appeared on the horizon on the Vernal Equinox of 10,500 BC, the angle formed by Regulus, Denebola & the horizon would have been 45 minutes of a degree or .75 of a degree.
Aware of the relationship of the two stars, the sculptor, depicting the appearance of Regulus hitting the horizon, would have left Denebola exactly 4 feet under the bedrock.
"Leo Rising", then is a term I use for a statue of a lion emerging from the bedrock observing itself emerging from the horizon at daybreak, thousands of years before there are even known to be people on earth having the gift of speech.
(In the words of Jarl Kulle's "Cornelius"..."Now what did I just mean by that?")
The head of "Leo Rising", originally that of a lion, it seems to me, has been redone to represent a Pharaoh of the Black African, Nubian, 25th Dynasty.
Official Egyptology insists that the head is that of the Pharaoh Chephren who is also said to have built the second Giza Pyramid...itself just a shot in the dark...but the "proof" given is that a dolerite bust of the said Chephren, currently in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities, is said to be a likeness of the Sphinx. This is ridiculous as the two are not even of the same race of people.
If the statue of Chephren in the museum wears the ceremonial plaited beard of a Pharaoh, why doesn't the Sphinx as well? There are some who will say that it did, originally, but that the beard fell off. There is, however, no sign of of an original beard.
If Chephren were making an image of himself on the Giza Plateau, he would have given himself the same beard as on the smaller statue. If there wasn't enough material for a beard on a statue of that size, he would have made a smaller statue...not one that was 240 feet long. There is no rule that the statue of a Pharaoh has to be 240 feet long...especially if it meant giving the Pharaoh a comparatively, diminutive head & a clean-shaven chin.
The term "Sphinx" then, should be used only for the venerable wreck. "Leo Rising" should be the cognomen for pristine original...#4 coming to bat with #3 in scoring position..
Best regards,
Boulder, Neo-Confederate,
David Yuhas
p.s.
YouTube - LARRY BIRD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cFkDTtQdMw)
p.p.s...
YouTube - The Shawshank Redemption Escape (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElxGBKi7jMo&feature=related)
p.p.p.s..
Not mine, alas...
Q. What do you get when you combine LSD with cow manure?
A. A trip to Greeley