6. Don’t feel like cutting the damn grass? Don’t. You can always cry poor — and then remind your HOA, should the petty tyrants start bitching at you, that the earth is better off for your recalcitrance.
WHY DOES THE HOA HATE EARTH?
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In the Brave New World, people like you will spend your days cutting the grass with scissors. We’d make you break big rocks into little rocks, but you seem the type to enjoy such activity. So cutting the grass it is.
Now stop asking questions. It’s for the best.
I know I hate the earth plenty. What’s it done for me lately, huh?
I say blow the bastard to bits and start over.
Remind me again – who takes most of the money from the sale of a gallon of gas?…
HOA’s hate their residents. Most of the people who run them believe that there is nothing more important in life than controlling the actions of others for the benefit of maintaining their property values. It doesn’t matter what others want you to do, or heaven forbid what you want to do, they are the ones that must be pleased with your compliance.
In other words, exactly like any other government regulator.
Nuts… I knew I should not have bought that electric mower.
I get my new John Deere lawn tractor delivered this afternoon, and may just ride it around until I run out of gas.
Looks like a business opportunity for Field Turf. I want my lawn Boise Blue.
Also a good excuse as to why your pet goat ate the hippy neighbor’s begonias. Gas free lawnmowing, methane free goat gas. Or so I’ve heard.
… I’m trying not to rant. My father went on for a half hour about global warming this morning when I told him we came inches away from being tornado food last night. How do you tell a guy sitting in his six bedroom beach house that you didn’t get tornadoed because of global warming, you got tornadoed because you live too damn close to Kentucky?
Six-bedroom beach house? I guess I’d insist on telling it to his face. It’s not like you’d have any shortage of places to go to cool down after the argument.
I bet he’s got good liquor, too. Tell you what — just gimme the address, and I’ll make a trip myself!
Don’t get me started. I want part of that house when he dies.
Unless the sea level comes up and takes it away from me! Oh why… WHY didn’t I convince him to buy a Smart car instead of the Tahoe?
I’m partial to Eastern Washington Red, myself.
Screw Field Turf, Abe and Mike ;-) if you want good stuff, give me a call.
Will do, JD! ;)
It is 4/20 after all.
The tax man’s taken all my dough,
And left me in my stately home,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
And I can’t sail my yacht,
He’s taken everything I’ve got,
All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze.
I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime
My girlfriend’s run off with my car,
And gone back to her ma and pa,
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty.
Now I’m sitting here,
Sipping at my ice cool beer,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
— Ray Davies
“Only half of my brain is consumed with the evil Palin.”
OT: Union-Fellating NLRB Tells Private Company “Hey, you can’t build a second, non-union production line in another state! Because that’s ‘Anti-Union’!”
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Why on Earth would Boeing want to have a non-union labor production line to fall back on?
And this part is the real kicker:
Yes, pay no attention to the fact that the workers in Charleston used to be “in a labor organization” – in fact the same “labor organization” (i.e. IAM) as the Seattle workers – but they voluntarily voted to decertify the union in 2009 after being thoroughly screwed over by the union the year before.
This story should eliminate any doubts whatsoever that the NLRB is solidly on the side of labor unions.
Boeing to NLRB: Screw Off
The jobs themselves are irrelevant, as the above quote notes. It’s the sweet, sweet, Democrat-buying union dues that are the real bone of contention.
And just to clear up any possible confusion with the above story, the factory in Charleston, SC was originally owned by Vought and built just two major assemblies for the 787. In July 2009, because of production line problems, Boeing bought the Vought facility in order to bring it under Boeing control and straighten it out. In October 2009, Boeing decided to make Charleston a complete production line for the 787.
As noted in the story above, the fact that the Charleston workers had recently given the finger to the IAM was definitely a factor in Boeing’s decision to pick them for the second line.
If it’s anything like mine, JD, it’ll take a while. It holds twice as much fuel as the Craftsman it replaced. And it only has one cup holder, so you’ll have to stop and refuel more often than it does.
It is indeed 4/20. Sorry focused classical libs. That said, I did get s great work out in.
Charleston kicks ass.
Most of the people who run them [HOAs] believe that there is nothing more important in life than controlling the actions of others for the benefit of maintaining their property values.
So true. It’s all about aesthetics… with the HOA and the HOA alone determining what constitutes “aesthetically pleasing”.
I did have an interesting experience with our HOA recently. I was appearing before the HOA board regarding a dispute over a simple dog shelter I built on our lot (they wanted me to screen it from view on all four sides because they were displeased with the composition roofing material I had used). One of the board members wanted to compromise and just have me plant a couple of trees or bushes along the back side, but the board president insisted that they simply couldn’t allow that type of roofing material to be used… it would apparently result in complete anarchy within our development. He continued insisting this until the reasonable board member pointed out that the HOA board president’s lot was in violation of several regulations. At that point, uproar ensued, the meeting came to a screeching halt and I was asked kindly to leave while they talked amongst themselves.
The final decision? Plant some trees on the back side and they’ll call it good.
Your HOA would just love the school bus yellow (completely, even the trim) house with the giant Buddha statue in the front yard that’s just two blocks down the street from me, Dave.
I cannot think of HOAs or petty fascist building codes without being reminded of Cactus Shutters. That was a guy who knew how to deal with tattletales.
Celebration, Florida Flamingos. Ultimate way to deal with out of control HOAs.
Apparently, I have a new neighbor with the license plate RU-420. The two letter-three number configuration is (or was) standard issue around here, but they do take requests so I can’t help but wonder if it’s intentionally interrogatory.