two curious kidslook for a hole in the fence
new airport runway
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Future Tense
two curious kidslook for a hole in the fence
new airport runway
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Who'da figured that this sweet little forest scene would be so controversial?
[rant on]
Well. These pretty four-legged critters are in big trouble if a bunch of idiots with too much money have their way up in the idyllic Long Valley of Idaho. These robber barons wanna build a new "development" with lots of tony villas and godawful landscaping. So what - there are plenty of those already and for the most part have been accepted quite well into the high country communities. Except for the near devastation to the local economy from the Tamarack Resort bankruptcy which is another infuriating story that will live in infamy for several generations. But this group is a little different, giving greed a new botox and collagen facelift.
These dim droolers came up with the drunken back-of-the-napkin idea to build a two mile long airstrip right through everyone's idyllic backyard, including these deer folk, who would be forced out of their protected reserve to a one-way cattle chute. The barbaric bozos want to surround said airstrip with their insulated mansions in order to taxi their LearJets right to up their front doors. WTF? This will help the local economy how? Fly in and out, point at the local riffraff and by god, don't get caught actually shopping or eating here. At least I don't have to worry about these fat bastards hiking into my secret mountain lakes.
They send their young and completely clueless non-resident twenty-something engineers and PR staff to show off fancy graphs at the planning and zoning meetings but it doesn't fool the hundreds of angry real residents who show up to attempt to speak reason to spokesholes that don't know a trout from a rainbow turd. Like, what's wrong with the three airfields within 20 miles that are already here? But as we all know, P&Z boards are the first place that developers seek to get elected/appointed to, so they generally have a leg or three up in the process from the get-go.
Anyway, these European Fallow Deer don't have any idea what's going on. It's a good thing they don't know that some humans just plain suck.
[rant off]
So many targets, not enough arrows.
Yin and Yang circle
staring at the same future
different perspectives
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Not enough arrows, indeed. Good grief. I spent last weekend in Spokane, in my mom's new old (built in 1906) house in a dodgy part of town. One of the things I realized staying there is that I'm generally more comfortable in a quirky fixer-upper house surrounded by quirky fixer-upper people than among the botox, collagen and McMansion set, for a variety of reasons. But in part, because many of the more "ordinary" folk have a much greater appreciation for the simple pleasure of roaming in the wilderness and marveling at (and respecting) the natural beauty that abounds. Monday morning, my sister called me over to her bedroom window, to see where a deer had bedded down for the night in a fluffy patch of clover in her yard. I snapped a couple pictures of it having breakfast across the street, but since the windows were glarey they didn't come out well.
Anyway, seems to me the last thing needed is more exclusive communities, especially after the housing bust. There aren't enough of these places sitting empty already? Sheesh.
Such developments can often be stopped by way of "delaying" tactics, as this frustrates the financial institutions that back the developers, and they often "move on." Such an approach, however, may call for you to have intimate relations with types you would normally not snuggle with.
Another alternative would be to pray to the Great White Buffalo, whose "spirit body" your camera inadvertently captured as it mingled with the beleaguered deer herd. If nothing else, its presence should be "due cause" for invoking the call for an EIR, which will slow the bad guys down for a few years.
Yin, Yang, White Buffalo - developers don't stand a chance...
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