OK now, show of hands everybody, who’s happy that February is over and done with in just a few short hours?
(yes, I couldn’t think of anything better to post today)
However, in related news, I’d like to put out a big ol’ happy birthday to SuperT, who’ll turn 6.75 in the void between today and tomorrow.
Happy kinda birthday!
Q: Just what would you do with 200 sheep carcasses?
Still watching the throw down over the whole Target thing, apparently the opposition to the situation is going door to door trying to get people to sign a petition to put a public referendum down so that we can all go and vote on this Target business. Thing is, from what I’m seeing, the referendum will be in the summer, in a very busy voting season, and the developer wants to roll sooner than that.
Now, something that I’m aware of here, is that developers don’t normally go around looking for the most challenging place to build crap, and then milking the cities out of money to do it. I mean, Armsdorff did, kinda, but he sucks, so thats the difference. I’m not sure how much these people at GBT suck, but I’d imagine that they have a pretty refined business sense, and see a return coming on this situation.
Now, I’m ignorant as hell. Seriously, I’m as dumb as a brick, and normally stay out of city matters for this reason, but it still seems to me that
a. Oak Ridge REALLY needs a shot in the arm
b. Developers are shying away from the existing facilities, because they’re too small, and would cost more to develop than to build.
c. Huffing and puffing over the scalping of a hill, and blaming the developers who are buying it for this scalping by blocking anything being done with it is dumb. Really, really backwards, and really really dumb.
d. The odds of the parking lot at a Target in Oak Ridge being empty are about the same as the odds of me giving up beer for longer than a day or two.
Look people, I don’t like the idea of a refundable 10.something million dollar check heading out to developers. I’d love to see Target head in and pay for it all. I’d love to see universal health care. I’d love to see the moon up close. Theres all sorts of things I’d love, that just don’t happen in the real world. This is one of them.
By insisting on a referendum, these people are playing a calculated tactic to delay the development long enough to any potential tenants to split. As its already been revealed that no money changes hands until Target and other tenants sign up for an extended lease, theres no reason to assume this place will stand empty. You people, Citizens Oak Ridge, or whatever the hell you’re calling yourself, are working very hard keeping this town backwards, with empty buildings, and a crowded road to Knoxville.
Its just the way it is.
Man, its a good thing we have James Cameron.
Not only did he give us the magnum opus that isTerminator, but now he’s given us definitive proof that both the Church and the athiests have it wrong.
Thats right folks, Jim Cameron has Jesus’s coffin.
A relic that’s been sought after for millenia, he has it, and is all set to deliver a press conference talking about it. He’ll probably have some sort of crazy light show, ending with him shining a flashlight under his chin and saying something like “For thousands of years, mankind has searched for the resting place of the Son of Man. This summer, one man has found it.”
And then there’d be rambunctious music, and maybe a Gregorian choir chanting.
I dunno. Thats how it’d be if I were the guy in charge of telling everybody that I found the Jesus box.
One thing about the Jesus box is that its totally bone free, and was buried next to some other boxes indicating that Jesus and Mary Magdeline, to the chagrin of Pope Benedicto, got busy and made Jesusbabies. Course, now this gets the albino monks all whipped up into a fervor, and sells thousands and thousands of extra copies of The Di Vinci Code, which, to my knowledge, Jim Cameron had nothing to do with.
So, what was my point?
We’re down at the farm
Nodbob made it down also
He went out last night
He was with his buds
His cute little high school chums
And got back at 4
Now naturally
He’s asleep at the momemt
Which is the whole point
I’m sending Pigpen
Singing and banging a drum
Into his bedroom
If that doesn’t work
I think I saw a squirt gun
Or a can of cheese