They’ve seen SSS play golf. They are there just to collect everything SSS hits -out-of-bounds … most make enough money in one month to buy a Chevy.
robert h siddell jr
June 16, 2015 2:19 pm
A MILLION HERE, A MILLION THERE; PRETTY SOON WE ARE TALKING AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM (for “WE THE PEOPLE” not the Communist)..
Billy
June 16, 2015 2:32 pm
Heh… I hate golf.
Requires goofy pants and a wide ass…
Fuckers near here – about a half hour from here – turned some horse farms and other good land into some fucked up golf course and driving range… assholes.
You’re driving along, past dry-stacked stone walls that have been standing for over 150 years, sometimes tumbled down long ago when a tree grew up at the base of the wall… Rolling green pastures, ancient Oaks, Maples, Walnuts mixed in with Osage Orange, Pine and Black Locust… horses and cattle grazing contently, hiding in the shade of the trees when it’s hot, laying down when the weather turns… fields of corn, tobacco, alfalfa.. split rail fences.. sometimes a still-standing Antebellum mansion secluded way back in the trees… sometimes ancient barns that have been standing since settlers first came here, their foundations made of hand cut limestone. Looks like a stiff breeze would knock em over, but year after year, they defy time, weather and gravity… small, vest-pocket towns that look like they belong in a snow globe… looks like you could shoplift them if you tried hard enough…
Then you come upon this goddamned golf course… They kept the Antebellum home as their clubhouse. I’d have preferred they just bulldozed it and build something soulless and ugly… why not? It’s what they did to the rest of the land… in for a penny….
Rather them have turned it into a petting zoo or a public rifle range or a place folks can go learn about animal husbandry, growing crops, how to operate a tractor with a degree of competence… something useful….
Instead, we got a bunch of ancient fatassed fucks getting “exercise”… right. You drive your little cart all over the place and have someone else carry your clubs for you, and you call it “exercise”…
Thanks, assholes…
flash
June 16, 2015 4:19 pm
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
SSS
June 16, 2015 4:24 pm
Just for Billy.
The clubhouse at the golf course in my PA hometown was a charming, remodeled pre-Civil War farmhouse (exterior was left untouched and looked as it did when originally built). When Lee’s Army of Virginia marched through the area on the way to Gettysburg, all the banks in town buried their money on the farm land near the farmhouse. A tributary of Antietam Creek (yes, THAT Antietam) flows through the golf course. Precious history and geography.
In the late 1960s, the members had the clubhouse knocked down and replaced with a modernistic eyesore. I was home on leave just in time to see the pile of rubble that was the old building. “What a bunch of stupid dumbasses,” I thought to myself. My grandfather, a country doctor, was a founding member of that golf club and is probably still spinning in his grave.
That said, Billy, I still love golf. Always will.
IndenturedServant
June 16, 2015 4:45 pm
That is why the Gatling Gun was invented! Using today’s technology you could completely automate them to smoke anything that moves along the border. You wouldn’t need border patrol or fences, just few gunsmiths paired with techno geeks to keep them loaded and functioning.
Billy
June 16, 2015 5:45 pm
SSS,
I’ve been to Sharpsburg – what you yankees call Antietam. And Gettysburg. And Cold Harbor and Manassas and Perryville and a whole bunch of smaller ones…
Now imagine driving along through this and all of a sudden, there’s this fucking golf course – and on either side of it are a bunch of fuckin’ strip malls and shit like that… half of them vacant because the “business they would attract” never materialized…
If it were up to me, I’d buy it all, fucking bulldoze every last stick and stone and replant it all with hardwoods… let it go back to God and leave it alone… I’m no tree-hugger, but what stood there before that eyesore showed up was a damn sight better… fucking developers are so full of shit, if you buried one in the ground, three more would grow up…
And I will always hate golf.
SSS
June 16, 2015 7:40 pm
Billy
I looked at the photos of Kentucky you provided. Thanks. Reminds me of the PA and MD countryside where I grew up. Bucolic, beautiful, and peaceful.
Look, you don’t have a monopoly on your appreciation of the beauty of nature. My wife and I are small-town kids. We travel and stay in small towns, visit national and state parks, eat in Mom and Pop restaurants, buy from locally owned stores, particularly local arts and crafts, and love to chat with the locals, who are friendly and helpful. We HATE cities, but some have neat places, like the Alamo and San Jose Missions in San Antonio, the last city we have visited.
The golf courses you describe are nearly always municipal, poorly designed and located. The flip side are the courses that ADD beauty to their locations.
My course USED TO BE ugly, scrub desert. Now, it is a spectacular setting of mountain vistas complete with coyotes and wild cats hunting rabbits, who graze on the fairway grass, fat Road Runners by the hundreds gobbling up lizards, herds of javelina who roam the course’s canyons munching on prickly pear cactus, overhead red-tailed hawks waiting to dive on a pack rat, and the occasional rattlesnake, king snake, or bull snake slithering across the fairway. Golfers here leave all this alone; they just watch and enjoy.
Not a fucking strip mall anywhere in sight. Oh, the only illegal immigrants in the area may be on the maintenance crew, which does a pretty good job of keeping the course in tip-top shape.
Do you have a problem with that, Billy?
Billy
June 16, 2015 8:25 pm
SSS,
Calm your tits, Old Pants…
I don’t have any alleged monopoly on the appreciation of beautiful places.
But, I have been to the desert. Fort Irwin/Death Valley. Several times, in preparation for overseas deployment. The desert is beautiful, in it’s own way. Wouldn’t want to live there – I like my green places too much, and I need something to rest my eyes against – but I’m not so much of an Ogre that I cannot appreciate beauty when I find it…
Add beauty? Did they drain a malarial swamp or reclaim a garbage dump to build it? I know not all nature is beautiful. Just like there are “bad” people, I am convinced there are “bad” places in the world – hard to explain, that last one… pestilential swamps or some sickly looking stand of woods that makes the hackles on your neck stand up just from looking at it… stinking, foetid places… used to be called “cursed” once upon a time…
I just do not like using land for something as absolutely useless as a golf course – especially when you build them where there are no resources to sustain them.. I got no problems with making the desert bloom at all… would just like to see a bigger ROI than using fantastic amounts of resources and taking up huge amounts of space for such a dumb game….
Oh, your club employs illegals? Well, one can always hope the club gets fined to the point where it goes under..
SSS
June 16, 2015 9:36 pm
Billy
To each his own, Sarge. I’m through with your dumbass arguments on golf. Totally fucking stupid.
Stay the fuck out of other people’s business. Is that concept too hard for you to understand? Or are you a hypocrite disguised as a gun-advocate, back-to-nature dipshit whose only path is “It’s my way or the highway,”
I repeat. Stay the fuck out of other people’s business.
I wasn’t even trying to get SSS pissed off with this post, and I still did.
My work here is done.
Billy
June 16, 2015 9:50 pm
SSS,
You mad, Old Pants?
Admin posts shopped picture of your golf course. I make comments and opine a bit. You tell me to mind my own fucking business.
Tell you what. Start your own blog, and when I show up you can throw me out and ban me.
Until then, take your Geritol, man up and shut the fuck up, ya whiny old fart.
Not everyone likes golf or devoting shattering amounts of resources into creating something that never existed in the desert – EVER – so you creaky old fucks could play some stupid assed game…
What happens when the water runs out, huh? It’s called “the desert” for a reason, you know. Cut the water for 6 weeks and that golf course will be deader’n Julius Caesar… for someone who thinks themselves to be fairly bright, locating a golf course in the middle of some godforsaken waterless hell ain’t too bright…
In fact, it smacks of hubris… and that shit never, ever gets repaid, does it?
Billy
June 16, 2015 10:01 pm
Now you’re gonna die wearing that stupid little hat… How does it feel?
One of the best movies ever…
Zarathustra
June 16, 2015 10:10 pm
SSS
Golf and Marijuana were made for each other. You should try it sometime 😉
Lind’s great idea is that since we Americans are superfluous, our options are:
1. Shut up, take a payoff and leave for somewhere else.
2. Shut up, voluntarily adopt the methods of the oligarchs – with no payoff – and leave for greener pastures.
2. Insist on a “new” social contract that is remarkably like our original “old” social contract – the one that was corrupted.
Lind is avoiding addressing -probably on purpose – the one thing that has always happened when such massive disconnect – and massive concentration of wealth in relatively few people – has occurred in the historical record – the torches, pitchforks and rifles come out.
At least one of those 0.01% douchebags gets it…
The Pitchforks are Coming…– A Dire Warning from a Member of the 0.01%
“If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
Mind if we play through, por favor?
They’ve seen SSS play golf. They are there just to collect everything SSS hits -out-of-bounds … most make enough money in one month to buy a Chevy.
A MILLION HERE, A MILLION THERE; PRETTY SOON WE ARE TALKING AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM (for “WE THE PEOPLE” not the Communist)..
Heh… I hate golf.
Requires goofy pants and a wide ass…
Fuckers near here – about a half hour from here – turned some horse farms and other good land into some fucked up golf course and driving range… assholes.
You’re driving along, past dry-stacked stone walls that have been standing for over 150 years, sometimes tumbled down long ago when a tree grew up at the base of the wall… Rolling green pastures, ancient Oaks, Maples, Walnuts mixed in with Osage Orange, Pine and Black Locust… horses and cattle grazing contently, hiding in the shade of the trees when it’s hot, laying down when the weather turns… fields of corn, tobacco, alfalfa.. split rail fences.. sometimes a still-standing Antebellum mansion secluded way back in the trees… sometimes ancient barns that have been standing since settlers first came here, their foundations made of hand cut limestone. Looks like a stiff breeze would knock em over, but year after year, they defy time, weather and gravity… small, vest-pocket towns that look like they belong in a snow globe… looks like you could shoplift them if you tried hard enough…
Then you come upon this goddamned golf course… They kept the Antebellum home as their clubhouse. I’d have preferred they just bulldozed it and build something soulless and ugly… why not? It’s what they did to the rest of the land… in for a penny….
Rather them have turned it into a petting zoo or a public rifle range or a place folks can go learn about animal husbandry, growing crops, how to operate a tractor with a degree of competence… something useful….
Instead, we got a bunch of ancient fatassed fucks getting “exercise”… right. You drive your little cart all over the place and have someone else carry your clubs for you, and you call it “exercise”…
Thanks, assholes…
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Just for Billy.
The clubhouse at the golf course in my PA hometown was a charming, remodeled pre-Civil War farmhouse (exterior was left untouched and looked as it did when originally built). When Lee’s Army of Virginia marched through the area on the way to Gettysburg, all the banks in town buried their money on the farm land near the farmhouse. A tributary of Antietam Creek (yes, THAT Antietam) flows through the golf course. Precious history and geography.
In the late 1960s, the members had the clubhouse knocked down and replaced with a modernistic eyesore. I was home on leave just in time to see the pile of rubble that was the old building. “What a bunch of stupid dumbasses,” I thought to myself. My grandfather, a country doctor, was a founding member of that golf club and is probably still spinning in his grave.
That said, Billy, I still love golf. Always will.
That is why the Gatling Gun was invented! Using today’s technology you could completely automate them to smoke anything that moves along the border. You wouldn’t need border patrol or fences, just few gunsmiths paired with techno geeks to keep them loaded and functioning.
SSS,
I’ve been to Sharpsburg – what you yankees call Antietam. And Gettysburg. And Cold Harbor and Manassas and Perryville and a whole bunch of smaller ones…
I want you to look at these images…
https://www.google.com/search?q=central+kentucky&biw=1351&bih=599&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIgrqqtZWVxgIVSX6ICh1VYAbQ#tbm=isch&q=central+kentucky+landscape
And these…
https://www.google.com/search?q=central+kentucky&biw=1351&bih=599&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIgrqqtZWVxgIVSX6ICh1VYAbQ#tbm=isch&q=central+kentucky+farm+stone+wall+
Now imagine driving along through this and all of a sudden, there’s this fucking golf course – and on either side of it are a bunch of fuckin’ strip malls and shit like that… half of them vacant because the “business they would attract” never materialized…
If it were up to me, I’d buy it all, fucking bulldoze every last stick and stone and replant it all with hardwoods… let it go back to God and leave it alone… I’m no tree-hugger, but what stood there before that eyesore showed up was a damn sight better… fucking developers are so full of shit, if you buried one in the ground, three more would grow up…
And I will always hate golf.
Billy
I looked at the photos of Kentucky you provided. Thanks. Reminds me of the PA and MD countryside where I grew up. Bucolic, beautiful, and peaceful.
Look, you don’t have a monopoly on your appreciation of the beauty of nature. My wife and I are small-town kids. We travel and stay in small towns, visit national and state parks, eat in Mom and Pop restaurants, buy from locally owned stores, particularly local arts and crafts, and love to chat with the locals, who are friendly and helpful. We HATE cities, but some have neat places, like the Alamo and San Jose Missions in San Antonio, the last city we have visited.
The golf courses you describe are nearly always municipal, poorly designed and located. The flip side are the courses that ADD beauty to their locations.
My course USED TO BE ugly, scrub desert. Now, it is a spectacular setting of mountain vistas complete with coyotes and wild cats hunting rabbits, who graze on the fairway grass, fat Road Runners by the hundreds gobbling up lizards, herds of javelina who roam the course’s canyons munching on prickly pear cactus, overhead red-tailed hawks waiting to dive on a pack rat, and the occasional rattlesnake, king snake, or bull snake slithering across the fairway. Golfers here leave all this alone; they just watch and enjoy.
Not a fucking strip mall anywhere in sight. Oh, the only illegal immigrants in the area may be on the maintenance crew, which does a pretty good job of keeping the course in tip-top shape.
Do you have a problem with that, Billy?
SSS,
Calm your tits, Old Pants…
I don’t have any alleged monopoly on the appreciation of beautiful places.
But, I have been to the desert. Fort Irwin/Death Valley. Several times, in preparation for overseas deployment. The desert is beautiful, in it’s own way. Wouldn’t want to live there – I like my green places too much, and I need something to rest my eyes against – but I’m not so much of an Ogre that I cannot appreciate beauty when I find it…
Add beauty? Did they drain a malarial swamp or reclaim a garbage dump to build it? I know not all nature is beautiful. Just like there are “bad” people, I am convinced there are “bad” places in the world – hard to explain, that last one… pestilential swamps or some sickly looking stand of woods that makes the hackles on your neck stand up just from looking at it… stinking, foetid places… used to be called “cursed” once upon a time…
I just do not like using land for something as absolutely useless as a golf course – especially when you build them where there are no resources to sustain them.. I got no problems with making the desert bloom at all… would just like to see a bigger ROI than using fantastic amounts of resources and taking up huge amounts of space for such a dumb game….
Oh, your club employs illegals? Well, one can always hope the club gets fined to the point where it goes under..
Billy
To each his own, Sarge. I’m through with your dumbass arguments on golf. Totally fucking stupid.
Stay the fuck out of other people’s business. Is that concept too hard for you to understand? Or are you a hypocrite disguised as a gun-advocate, back-to-nature dipshit whose only path is “It’s my way or the highway,”
I repeat. Stay the fuck out of other people’s business.
I wasn’t even trying to get SSS pissed off with this post, and I still did.
My work here is done.
SSS,
You mad, Old Pants?
Admin posts shopped picture of your golf course. I make comments and opine a bit. You tell me to mind my own fucking business.
Tell you what. Start your own blog, and when I show up you can throw me out and ban me.
Until then, take your Geritol, man up and shut the fuck up, ya whiny old fart.
Not everyone likes golf or devoting shattering amounts of resources into creating something that never existed in the desert – EVER – so you creaky old fucks could play some stupid assed game…
What happens when the water runs out, huh? It’s called “the desert” for a reason, you know. Cut the water for 6 weeks and that golf course will be deader’n Julius Caesar… for someone who thinks themselves to be fairly bright, locating a golf course in the middle of some godforsaken waterless hell ain’t too bright…
In fact, it smacks of hubris… and that shit never, ever gets repaid, does it?
Now you’re gonna die wearing that stupid little hat… How does it feel?
One of the best movies ever…
SSS
Golf and Marijuana were made for each other. You should try it sometime 😉
Great read:
http://www.salon.com/2010/07/27/american_people_obsolete/
Dare I click that Salon link?
Fuck it… Imma clickin’…. who dares, wins.
Oh lord… I clicked it. I want my 10 minutes back.
Lind’s great idea is that since we Americans are superfluous, our options are:
1. Shut up, take a payoff and leave for somewhere else.
2. Shut up, voluntarily adopt the methods of the oligarchs – with no payoff – and leave for greener pastures.
2. Insist on a “new” social contract that is remarkably like our original “old” social contract – the one that was corrupted.
Lind is avoiding addressing -probably on purpose – the one thing that has always happened when such massive disconnect – and massive concentration of wealth in relatively few people – has occurred in the historical record – the torches, pitchforks and rifles come out.
At least one of those 0.01% douchebags gets it…
The Pitchforks are Coming…– A Dire Warning from a Member of the 0.01%
“If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
Perhaps Mr. Lind needs a world history refresher course?
Oh look… I followed the bread crumbs…
– Salon publishes an article written by Mike Lind.
– Lind writes for – and co-founded – The New America Foundation.
– The New America Foundation is a “objective, impartial, non-profit think tank”.
– “Non-profit” organizations rely on donations.
– Amongst others, The New America Foundation receives donations from the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
– The Foundation to Promote Open Society is funded by George Soros…
Heh… amazing what you can find out with a few taps on the keyboard…
Why am I not surprised?
Why is this a goodbye America post, this is a picture from South Africa.