Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
The Fall of the US
I heard the following story on Glen Beck awhile back and it brought shivers to me again.....Apparently back in the '50's ( yep back when I was born....) Ezra Taft Benson, then Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower reluctently met with Russian Prime Minister Nikita Krushchev, when this exchange took place:
Ezra Taft Benson at the behest of President Dwight Eisenhower met with Nikita Khrushchev. Following is the transcript: “I have personally witnessed the heart rendering results of the loss of freedom. I have talked face to face with a Godless Communist leader. It may surprise you to learn that I was host to Mr. Khrushchev for a half day when he visited the U.S. I’m not proud of it. I opposed his coming in and I still feel it was a mistake to welcome this atheistic murderer as a state visitor but according to President Eisenhower, Khrushchev had expressed the desire to learn something of American agriculture and after seeing Russian agriculture, I can understand why. “As we talked face to face, he indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I planned to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren would live under freedom, he arrogantly declared in substance, ‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright but we will keep feeding strong doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over ripe fruit into our hands.’”
Scary ain't it?
Ezra Taft Benson at the behest of President Dwight Eisenhower met with Nikita Khrushchev. Following is the transcript: “I have personally witnessed the heart rendering results of the loss of freedom. I have talked face to face with a Godless Communist leader. It may surprise you to learn that I was host to Mr. Khrushchev for a half day when he visited the U.S. I’m not proud of it. I opposed his coming in and I still feel it was a mistake to welcome this atheistic murderer as a state visitor but according to President Eisenhower, Khrushchev had expressed the desire to learn something of American agriculture and after seeing Russian agriculture, I can understand why. “As we talked face to face, he indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I planned to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren would live under freedom, he arrogantly declared in substance, ‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright but we will keep feeding strong doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over ripe fruit into our hands.’”
Scary ain't it?
Friday, February 20, 2009
Famous Quotes by an Infamous Man
"This year will go down in history. For the first time,a civilised nation has full gun registration!Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient,and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?"
"The great masses of the people ...will more easily fall victimsto a big lie than to a small one."
"Without law and order our nation cannot survive."
"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies."
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
-Adolph Hitler
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?"
"The great masses of the people ...will more easily fall victimsto a big lie than to a small one."
"Without law and order our nation cannot survive."
"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies."
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
-Adolph Hitler
So Simple a Chimp Could Understand it....
Finally, somebody gets the idea of the porkulus bill correct. So what happens? It inspires protests and near riots throughout the mentality deficient north....I guess what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander huh...
Great minds like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackoff call it "racist" and outrage grows.....Gee, it sure is swell to see el presidente and his administration of thugs, charlatans and losers melting down right before our collective eyes ain't it? I just hope they get 'er done before the damage is too great to repair. I'm sure not holding my breath though...
I think it's time to call a chimp a chimp.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Chili's
Well, the latest local victim of the George Bush administration is the new Chili’s restaurant in Port Isabel. Hell isn’t everything George Bush’s fault?
Opened for a little over a year, I understand from insiders that their operating costs are around 30K / month, and their gross doesn’t generally exceed 18K / month, a rather large discrepancy.
However
Informed sources also state that a major chunk of the 30K / month operating cost is property lease and City taxes.
Nothing new here.
The City of Port Isabel has long been recognized for it’s arbitrary and confiscatory tax rates. Hell, the residents of the eastern part of the Fingers area pay something like 23 dollars a square foot, residential tax rates, while their neighbors right across the road, on the western part of the fingers pay about three and a half backs a square foot, and over at Port of Call the rate is eleven dollars. All of these areas are of contemporaneous property value, all waterfront, so these rates are puzzling to a number of the residents of the eastern Fingers who rightly feel that there’s just no rhyme or reason. Could it be because certain members of the City Commission hold land in select low tax rate areas? Nothing new here either….in fact politics as usual in the third world-third coast.
It is an area that would cut off it’s proverbial nose to spite it’s rather dumb face.
In the case of Chili’s, would it not be better for members of the City Commission, the esteemed mayor, Joe Verga to try and negotiate, perhaps even show up, hats in hand to see what can be done to try and encourage business to remain in this economically distressed area? Some income is certainly better than none.
But apparently a Machismo-Machiavellian attitude prevails, blinding these folks with visions of enrichment.
That is why Port Isabel has been, and always will be a second class city.
Opened for a little over a year, I understand from insiders that their operating costs are around 30K / month, and their gross doesn’t generally exceed 18K / month, a rather large discrepancy.
However
Informed sources also state that a major chunk of the 30K / month operating cost is property lease and City taxes.
Nothing new here.
The City of Port Isabel has long been recognized for it’s arbitrary and confiscatory tax rates. Hell, the residents of the eastern part of the Fingers area pay something like 23 dollars a square foot, residential tax rates, while their neighbors right across the road, on the western part of the fingers pay about three and a half backs a square foot, and over at Port of Call the rate is eleven dollars. All of these areas are of contemporaneous property value, all waterfront, so these rates are puzzling to a number of the residents of the eastern Fingers who rightly feel that there’s just no rhyme or reason. Could it be because certain members of the City Commission hold land in select low tax rate areas? Nothing new here either….in fact politics as usual in the third world-third coast.
It is an area that would cut off it’s proverbial nose to spite it’s rather dumb face.
In the case of Chili’s, would it not be better for members of the City Commission, the esteemed mayor, Joe Verga to try and negotiate, perhaps even show up, hats in hand to see what can be done to try and encourage business to remain in this economically distressed area? Some income is certainly better than none.
But apparently a Machismo-Machiavellian attitude prevails, blinding these folks with visions of enrichment.
That is why Port Isabel has been, and always will be a second class city.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Get Over It!
-The more I think about it....
Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers
Let's kill 'em tonight!
-Don Henley, Get Over It
Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers
Let's kill 'em tonight!
-Don Henley, Get Over It
The Leaning Tower of South Padre
Graft and corruption in Washington?
High ranking politicians making hair brained decisions?
Hell, I think they might take some direction from the Laguna Desmadre area…..or maybe vice-versa. Take for example the Ocean Towers project located on the north end of the Island, just past Andy Bowie Park, there on Cameron County Land.
Ocean Towers SPI (OTSPI) was to be built as one of the first really big high rises on the sand spit that we call South Padre Island. The County Politicos….the infamous late, not-so-great, Pedro “peckerhead” Benavides, then precinct County Commish, (since his none-too-soon demise replaced by none other than his grieving widow Sophia “the talking sphincter” Benavides) along with the rest of the counties stooges: John “morning” Wood, , Edna “asshole” Tamayo, David “douchebag” Garza and of course the two most culpable criminals of them all, Gilbert “pussychaser” Hinojosa and his replacement speedy-gonzalez lackey Carlos “cuntface” Cascos along with nefarious Park Mis-management Javier “la rata” Mendez and Jolly Joe Verga (better known as the Mexican Laurel and Hardy’s) gave their unanimous blessings to the project, and of course the money exchanged hands beneath the table (accompanied by the jubilant grito) and everybody went away smiling.
The developer, a certain Mr. Clayton set about making the big building a reality. Between the county and the developer, engineering “studies” were held (with the requisite wink and nod), and an out of town firm, Coastal engineering gave the assurance that the project would work out allright.
Now I’m not sure where in the world they got this idea from. You see, South Padre Island is an delicate, shifting barrier island with a base that is a very poorly consolidated mudstone (actually a quasi mudstone) called the Prairie Terrace, something totally incapable of holding back the concentrated weight that the OTSPI was designed as. It was evident to anyone who had seen the plan that it would be like trying to anchor the thing in bread dough.
And sure enough, before the building was even complete it began to sink into the mire…..attaining a most evident lean, not unlike the leaning tower of Pisa.
Construction was halted and the area was cordoned off. The principals began the furious back pedal, but aside from a flurry of immediate publication in the local rags, the whole mess became back burner, manana news as is the case of so many failures, mistakes and political blunders here on the third world- third coast.
So what’s to become of this great eyesore? Nobody knows for sure.
Perhaps, like so many other local eyesores (and believe me there are plenty of them here, starting with the SPI City Manager Dewey Dickweed) it will simply be left to rot in place, eventually falling down across already raped and ruined sand dunes and formally pristine island expanse. It's what we want, it's what we deserve.
Who knows? Worse yet…..who cares?
Monday, February 02, 2009
Since I last checked in....
It's been awhile since I've added anything new to this site. Probably doesn't get a lot of viewing anyhow......
Well, that's fixin' to change yasee.....
A lot of things are transpiring (have transpired) since my last missive, and so I have some catching up to do.
Like talking about the leaning tower of South Padre Island....
Or the recent closure of Gabriellas Restaurant in Port Isabel, and the impending closure of the Chilis too (betcha some of you locals don't know that yet).....Yep, it has to do with weird tax rates, Laguna Desmadre good ol' conjunto politics and our downright penchant for corruption here on the third world-third coast.
Of course I haven't even begun to rant about the new boy in the White House yet, and his plans for "economic stabilization".
Suffice it to say me and mine are:
a) becoming well armed (and proficient with those arms)
b) seeking to creatively disburse / hide / protect assets
c) seek out other like minded individuals
d) plan escape routes
So just stand by. I'll get back here REAL soon....Until then, keep your powder dry.
Well, that's fixin' to change yasee.....
A lot of things are transpiring (have transpired) since my last missive, and so I have some catching up to do.
Like talking about the leaning tower of South Padre Island....
Or the recent closure of Gabriellas Restaurant in Port Isabel, and the impending closure of the Chilis too (betcha some of you locals don't know that yet).....Yep, it has to do with weird tax rates, Laguna Desmadre good ol' conjunto politics and our downright penchant for corruption here on the third world-third coast.
Of course I haven't even begun to rant about the new boy in the White House yet, and his plans for "economic stabilization".
Suffice it to say me and mine are:
a) becoming well armed (and proficient with those arms)
b) seeking to creatively disburse / hide / protect assets
c) seek out other like minded individuals
d) plan escape routes
So just stand by. I'll get back here REAL soon....Until then, keep your powder dry.
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