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Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:58 am
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Anybody want to buy a national park? Some congressman (I think his name is Pombo) is circulating a draft bill which proposes selling 15 of them.
national park sale
I think I heard (a couple of weeks ago) that Mr Pombo is not really serious about selling the parks. It's just a joke.
But even if he did sell all 15 of them what difference would it make? After all these are small, obscure parks ... so who cares?
Here's a list of the parks:
-- Eugene O'Neill National Historical Site, Danville
-- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Texas
-- Fort Bowie National Historical Site, Arizona
-- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historical Site, Massachusetts
-- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, District of Columbia
-- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota
-- Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, Pennsylvania
-- Thomas Stone National Historical Site, Maryland
-- Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska
-- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska
-- Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska
-- Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska
-- Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska
-- Noatak National Preserve, Alaska
-- Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska
And then there's the issue of naming rights (which he also proposes selling off).
When the revolution is over, many guide books will have to be rewritten.
E.G.:
This beautiful hike begins at the trailhead located at the end of the Sunkist Lemonade (TM) River Road.
Proceed 5 miles up the Hostess Cupcake Trail (TM) to Twinkie Pass (TM) where there is an absolutely stunning view of Pepsicola Mt (TM).
When I was a small kid, I used to listen to a song about a fantastic land full of lemonade springs and big rock candy mountains. That was was just a childish fantasy land
But when a fantasy has billion dollar corporations behind it, dreams can come true.
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gary Member
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:10 pm
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WTM wrote: | ...When I was a small kid, I used to listen to a song about a fantastic land full of lemonade springs and big rock candy mountains. That was was just a childish fantasy land... |
Was it this old depression blue-grass classic:
Quote: | ---Big Rock Candy Mountain
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headin for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I'm a goin to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains |
I'd be most interested in the springs of alcohol
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Eric Peak Geek
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:08 pm
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Poor guy musta been disappointed when he found out that Rock Candy Mtn ain't so big and is right by Olympia. No alcohol springs and no grass either which I guess is how you go from bluegrass to the blues.
The lower 48 parks mentioned there are all minor parks but those are some big Alaska parks. If you combine Rainier, Olympic and North Cascades it is about half the size of Lake Clark alone.
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:13 am
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Yes, Gary. That was the song. But I think I got a 'cleaned up version'.
Nothing I can remember in the song about 'cigarette trees' and cops with wooden legs.
The song, as I remember it, emphasized candy rather than booze.
Maybe thats why I've been spending so much time at the dentist lately.
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mike Member
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:09 pm
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Quote: | I think I heard (a couple of weeks ago) that Mr Pombo is not really serious about selling the parks. It's just a joke. |
Not really a joke but rather a thinly veiled threat designed to get concessions on some of his other equally nefarious bills.
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silence Member
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:55 pm
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PHOTOS
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Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb. – Bob Dylan
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kleet meat tornado
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:37 pm
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Pombo's at it again.
Quote: | As many as 20 million acres of public land could be sold under an obscure but sweeping change in mining law tucked into a budget bill up for a vote in the House. |
Full text of the article here.
A fuxk, why do I not give one?
A fuxk, why do I not give one?
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