Posted on 11/18/2006 5:43:33 PM PST by Dane
Ah, The Joyce Kilmer service area on the New Jersey Turnpike.... one of Jim McGreevey's favorite places.
Well besides the fact that it's in the middle of a National Park? But let's say they allow them to build the road? You planning on paying for it? Because the families aren't going to pony up $600 million to do it.
Well that's not the point, a road was promised, by FDR and then Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes.
But I forgot, you like nancy pelosi and heath shuler, know what is better for the displaced families of Swain county, nevermind.
Did you type that from the back of your limosine?
How about burrying you in the lake also?
What is HR 2088? sorry, but I haven't heard of that bill.
I wouldn't give Swain a dime myself.
It seems to me the idea of funding a ferry service, or providing other means for visitors to reach the cemeteries (they can hike like me, it's not *that* remote), fulfills the *principle* behind the original promise. It's virtually impossible to walk a few miles in a straight line in the eastern US without hitting a road, so it would be a tragedy to have such a pointless highway built in a beautiful wilderness area.
The original FDR/Harold Ickes promise was a road, not different transportation.
My dad grew up in Andrews, North Carolina...his parents retired to Robbinsville. My aunt, his sister was married to a postmaster who passed away of a tumor in the mid 1980's, she was still alive the last I knew a few years ago...perhaps you knew the Carvers. Blaine was the post master in question and Frances was his wife.
My dad passed away at Natahala(lived in his second wife's family homestead near the high school)3 years ago this thanks- giving so your posting brings it all home to me. I lived for a year in Andrews when I was still a boy, a year after my parents divorced. The whole mountain country side was wonderful!
H.R. 2088: Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2005
A bill in US Congress: To provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register certain firearms in the National Firearms ...
www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-2088 - 23k -
LOL, I do so enjoy conversing with party faithful..
The report identified five possible alternatives for resolving the long-running debate, including doing no further work on the road and making a $52 million payment to Swain County to buyout the 1943 agreement; and extending the road to the dam _ a project that comes with a projected price tag of some $600 million.
So to 'fulfill' a promise made by a Democrat over 70 years ago, you suggest we just plop down another $600 million (which will end up being over $1 billion by the time it's said and done) and in the process destroy some of the most beautiful land this side of Heaven, that BTW is already a national park. Land that I seriously doubt you've ever seen. And because a Democrat is against it, it must necessarily be a good thing to be for it, right?
There are literally thousands of gravesites, and some of those folks I'm related to, in the mountains of NC that are unreachable by road. But it's land that doesn't need a road. I myself have walked to some of these gravesites (not the ones mentioned in the article but kin buried between Franklin and Murphy). Using a GPS and a map just to find where you believe they may be. It's land that's undisturbed. Step out in some areas and you're in the 1700s-1800s within a few feet. It's almost as if you can hear your ancestors walking and talking beside you. Now if that makes me a liberal or some sort of nut in your eyes, then so be it. I've reached a point in my life that I don't need nor want to have everything paved over. Some things and locales supersede progress. And this area is one of them
Absolutely one of the most beautiful places anywhere. I've still got some pictures stashed somewhere of that area, including one rather spectacular shot of what I think is the Fontana Dam from about a thousand feet above it. I thought I was on US 129 when I got the picture, but that map seems to indicate I would've been on another highway, or else I wasn't looking down on Fontana Dam.
I see Cades Cove mentioned there too...my mother-in-law married her second husband up there (he's originally from Oak Ridge, his father worked at the Y-12 plant).
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I wouldn't give them any more than whatever is standard for national parks.
Odd that a former NFL quarterback would become a scumbag Democrat.
"Ah, The Joyce Kilmer service area on the New Jersey Turnpike.... one of Jim McGreevey's favorite places."
Oh geez!
I think that fact that Shuler is on the right side of this issue and the GOP representative was wrong, is a sad commentary on today's GOP.
Thanks Richard-SIA
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