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Guest Post by Bunk X
The Great Farm: Urban Forester Scores Job Measuring Barley Crop
Field Correspondent Bunk Strutts
Irvine, California (Strutts News Services, Opinion Section) –
Everyone knows that Urban Foresters are in great demand today (even though there is no such thing as an Urban Forest) and Tyler Stevenson is one who excels at his trade.
There are no forests or jungles within hundreds of miles of Irvine, California, so he gets to measure the height of a local field of barley, not just eyeball it. He measures it. And he gets paid to measure it with a tape measure and a cameraman in tow just to prove that he’s not exaggerating the growth.
Great Park workers have literally planted the seeds for the park’s first major round of construction, kicking off a $65 million development plan by attempting to reawaken more than 100 acres of once-fertile agricultural fields.
The sprouting of barley seeds planted just before the recent rainstorms marks the first stage in an agricultural plan that will eventually cost up to $1.4 million and encompass community gardens, a farmers market and rows of fresh-grown produce.
Maybe that’s just a typo. Maybe the “agricultural plan” will reap up to $1.4 million to offset $65 million, but remember, this was FRONT PAGE NEWS. No typos are ever allowed on the front page.
We were not able to contact Mr. Tyler Stevenson because we didn’t bother. We do not intend to disparage the integrity of Mr. Stevenson or the honorable legion of Urban Foresters (heh). But it seems silly to us that in pitiful economic times that the government, local or otherwise, should be getting into the farming business, and taking work away from the folks who need it the most: the illegal immigrant community.
[Photos, italicized and indented captions via the Orange County Register.]
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Stimulus!
No response. He’s dead, Jim.
Heh, he could be working on the new subway line in LA, or the speed train to Las Vegas instead!
(both actual projects underway in Los Angeles, despite the budget problems)
@ WrathofG-d:
I love the idea of his speed rail, BUT I don’t think it’d work here. The US is NOT Europe or Japan. Private enterprise wouldn’t ever be able to afford to develop a maglev or other high speed system, and Amtrack has proven to be a money loser for years, without massive taxpayer subsidies for a system than only a few people ride.
Field correspondent!
wolfie wrote:
. . . they say “he’s out-standing in his field”
Urban Forrester. Is that anything like an “Urban Outdoorsman”?
giz a job, i can do dat, no really giz a job.
stick a white coat on him and he will be a climate scientist.
and then tell us how to lead our lives.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Budget problems? What budget problems? Deficits and public debt are OK now that we have “The One” in charge; as are killing innocent civilians by drones in Afghanistan, not holding news conferences, government processes that are about as transparent as lead, and rising unemployment.
Just be glad we got BusHitler out and replacied him “an articulate black man who doesn’t have a negro dialect”.
All 47 states are as happy as clams!
. . another foot of snow for Philly?? (stay tuned)
remember – global warming causes more snow
@ spinmore:
yeah stay tuned indeed. we know they have gone quiet at the moment, just wait till the warm weather comes, i bet my life all you will hear is global warming every time you turn on the tv.
@ MacDuff:
47? Did we suddenly lose ten states? Everyone knows there are 57 states. obama campaigned in all of them…
Iron Fist wrote:
Hmm, I see a lot of “urban outdoorsmen” drinking Old Forrester. We call them homeless.
mfhorn wrote:
There is absolutely ZERO reason for CA taxpayers to pay for a highspeed rail to Las Vegas. There is a lot of reason for Nevada to pay for it, but not California. (especially when CA is broke!)
I cannot think of any way that money would come into CA because of it, but can contemplate many ways money would go out.
None of the above gets into the discussion of why the tax payer should be forced to pay for such nonsense.
Iron Fist wrote:
Geez, my mistake. I was doing a breatalizer for my asthma while typing.
@ WrathofG-d:
the future is high speed rail in the world. ask islam the friends of aviation.
@ WrathofG-d:
High speed and light rail has been an expensive boodiggle everywhere it’s been tried.
@ justin case:
Got Dat Right
. . . you know (that reminds me) i was thinking about how the press always wants thier Constitutional ‘protections’ when they want to protect criminal leakers or how the Libs want the “fairness” doctrine to shut-down talk radio. How about ‘journalistic malpractice’ in refusing to cover the Warming Scam? I think they’ve forfieted thier ‘rights’
@ justin case:
@ MacDuff:
If Nevada wishes to pay for it, then fine! I don’t know enough about the light or high speed rail to discuss that aspect, but I know that there is no benefit to the already broke State of California to build a money hole in the side of our already sinking ship which funnels right into Nevada.
Let Nevada pay for it. They are the ones who would benefit.
This idea is typical Leftist thinking! Its all “hey this would be a great idea. I want it, I want it” without any “what is the reality/cost!”
Someone, whom I cannot recall, called it “stage one thinking”. As in Liberals never get past phase one: “I want it”
@ mfhorn:
The only successful passenger rail system in the US is DisneyWorld. Possibly NYC and Chicago, but they were built decades ago.
@ MacDuff:
Also, I’m very fond of the Metro in DC and have used it extensively.
@ spinmore:
well at least in Britain they are starting to cover it because they have been shamed into it by so much negative feedback from their readers.
i am still waiting for the first major politician in the world to publicly cast doubt upon the whole scam.
m I have to disagree with them taking the jobs from those who need them most. American citizens need these jobs most. Illegal broke the law and should be dealt with accordingly. Now if you wanna come here the right way, I have no problem. But in no way shape or form should we be encouraging these folks to slip on over here for ag work. Maybe good old Americans need to learn how to work the land again.
@ MacDuff:
Right no time, I got this from my most leftist of leftist friends:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio-villaraigosa/building-a-smart-transpor_b_472488.html
justin case wrote:
. . . we all know that rabid Libs never let facts get in the way of a story (but i’m with you, someone’s got to grow some)
. . . prayers for Cheney
A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check.
He marched straight up to the counter and said, “Hi. You know…., I just HATE drawing welfare. I’d really rather have a job.”
The social worker behind the counter said, “Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a Chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful daughter. You’ll have to drive around in his 2008 Mercedes-Benz CL, and he will supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You’ll also be expected to escort the daughter on her overseas holiday trips. This is rather awkward to say but you will also have as part of your job assignment to satisfy her sexual urges as the daughter is in her mid-20′s and has a rather strong sex drive.”
The guy, just plain wide-eyed, said, “You’re bullshittin’ me!”
The social worker said, “Yeah, well … You started it.”
/makeworkmakeworkmakeworkmakework…..
@ IslandLibertarian:
Although noone asked me, I think the city has an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
Step 1: End all forms of welfare for those who could work.
Step 2: give all ex-welfare receipients government jobs where at a minimum they clean the streets, pick up trash, drive buses, dig trenches, etc.
Step 3: reap benefits – because if the state is going to be giving them checks every week, they might as well be working for it.
@ IslandLibertarian:
funny
Charlie Sheen in rehab for beating his wife. oh, i didn’t realize he was unemployed.
/
MacDuff wrote:
Here in Phoenix…our Light Rail system is known as the “Loot Rail.”
I’m sure it beats checking peckers at a whorehouse.
@ WrathofG-d:
Absolutely. As I probably should have said, with the failure of Amtrack, we don’t need a nation wide government run transportation system.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Actually, there was a program similar to this back in the 30s, during the depression, called the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). My father-in-law was a part of it.
Of course, today, I have no doubt that people would consider it a “new form of slavery”. In fact, a program called “workfare”. A snippit from Wiki:
Personally, I have no problem with it and, if I found myself in that predicament, I would find it preferable than collecting unearned money from the state. I found it extremely embarassing when I once collected unemployment.
But that’s just me.
@ Beltfed:
I’ll take a pass on the pecker checker job, thanks.
@ Macker:
I go to PHX on business now and then and noticed the new system, and I was wondering how the locals felt about it.
So, not so successful, eh?
Macker wrote:
and there are NO restrooms along the entire route. they did that deliberately. the businesses along the route are bearing the cost. and not happy about it.
@ Kirly:
And let me guess, businesses are forced to allow anyone in to use the john, even if they don’t purchase anything.
@ mfhorn:
Ha. Another job that Americans won’t do anymore.
MacDuff wrote:
well, one guy took a bucket of poo and smeared it around inside. allegedly as a protest that there are no restrooms. ick.
IslandLibertarian @7:
Bwaaahahahahahah
MacDuff wrote:
I wasn’t aware of Nixon’s speach etc. it all dawned on me as I walked around the streets of downtown LA and noticed two things that were exceptionally prominent: (1) Homeless people, and (2) filth. So, I figured the city should let the two problems resolve each other.
mfhorn @ 35:
In Okinawa it paid $.25 a dick, lol
mfhorn wrote:
i don’t know the answer but that’s a very good question.
Koza City?
Macker @ 31:
They have one of then in India.
@ Iron Fist:
actually, he said that he had visited 57 states and had one more to go so, really, it’s 58.
@ Kirly:
I can understand such a system in NYC, DC or Chicago that are fairly compact metro areas, and the use of cars is pretty impracticle, but PHX? Geez, that must be, in terms of square miles, one of, if not THE largest city in the country.
I’m always amazed when I fly out of there that, at 15,000 feet, you still can’t see the end of the city!
Beltfed wrote:
I’m assuming your knowledge of this peculiar fact is “second hand”.
RIX @ 45:
Kim village just outside of Camp Hansen.
MacDuff wrote:
oh yes indeed! the metropolitan area stretches for at least 60 or 70 miles. in fact, i think it’s farther than that. i can leave my house and drive south on I17 and then south on I10 and not be in the open for an hour and half.
@ WrathofG-d:
Agree 100%
MacDuff @ 49:
That’s what mamasan said, no checkie no ….
@ Kirly:
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/West Palm Beach is a 2 1/2 hour drive from South to North.
Got ya. Koza City is close to Camp Smedely Butler.
I spent a week in Koza one night. Narf, narf
@ Kirly:
Well, I dig PHX. The last time I was there, I ate at “Maria, Maria” (Carlos Santana’s place) and it was fantastic! In fact, I dig the whole soutwest/
@ Beltfed:
RIX @ 55:
lol
@ Beltfed:
Can’t say I’ve been to Okinawa, but I have experience in Subic Bay, PI. I would assume it’s the same…ah…abiance.
Honorable James David Manning speaks on the cover up by the CIA
If this is true, this is the smoking gun about Obama’s mysterious past.
From Drudge.
It seems Obama’s recovery is going just great!
Mass layoffs edge up…
Harvard’s Rogoff Sees ‘Bunch’ of Sovereign Defaults…
FDIC reports 27% jump in problem banks…
States’ tax collections fall again…
Greenspan: Recovery ‘extremely unbalanced’…
RIX @ 55:
Camp Hansen, is/was part of Camp Smedley Butler if I remember right.
teacake wrote:
I don’t know…when it seems to be true, it usually is. I’ll reserve judgement on this, but at first whiff, it doesn’t smell right.
Camp Hanson from Kim Ville.
Main street in Kim Ville.
Kim Ville today
Click photos top right
NoThreat2U wrote:
Huh? OH! Bunk X is the guest poster- since he was listed as field correspondant I didn’t add it to the Blogmocracy in Action line~ I’ll do that.
But I think he was making a funny honey ~:)
MacDuff @ 59:
Ahhh, Olongapo city, same same as Kim ville.
@ MacDuff:
So far haven’t heard any other explanations about who was paying for his education, his travels, and why his past records on everything are sealed.
teacake wrote:
. . that’s some crazy shit
@ RIX:
RIght outside Gate 2 Street
teacake wrote:
I know, but I remember chasing all of these shadows and theories during the Clinton administration. I’m certainly not casting aspersions upon you.
All I can say is that if this guy has irrefutable documentation, it would certainly rock Obama’s world, and our’s as well.
I also have to add that I, too, think it’s strange that when you start tracing his past, it becomes very murkey and then just stops.
‘scuse me for checking in so late, but is this the ho-house thread?
MacDuff wrote:
That is my stance on it too. So what gives?
Not saying I’m going to jump on his wagon, but its odd that there isn’t ANYTHING open about obama’s past. Why? Not sure what sort of court this fellow is going to. But as we all know, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just sayin.
Its things like this that are so worrisome.
Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees, offers no details By Byron York
@ m:
Dang. Late to the thread on my own post, didn’t know it went up.
It was all pure snark, folks.
@ justin case:
John Howard when he was Auistralian PM. Kevin Rudd has also expressed doubts.