Mayor Paulissen’s million-dollar vote saves tree

Examiner ^

[Todd Kinsey]

League City, TX - Just weeks after taking steps to reduce the city’s budget, city council shocked many observers when it decided to spend at least $500,000 and, more likely, well over a million dollars to save an oak tree.

The city had three options to deal with the Compton Oak Tree: the first option was to reroute the Louisiana Avenue road expansion around the tree. This option is likely to cost the city in excess of one-million dollars after the purchases additional land and engineering fees.

The second option was to relocate the tree less than half a mile to the location of the city’s planned Water Smart Park which was going to cost the city about $300,000 but came with no guarantees the mature oak would survive the move.

The final option was to cut down the tree which would have cost the city about $30,000. According to Mayor Paulissen, “there was never any serious consideration on cutting the tree down.”

[Ernie Kaputnik]

Nope.

From my perspective we have already slid off the pavement. The US is a broken nation that is riddled with graft and corruption at the highest levels. The elites and their minions are simply siphoning the little wealth we have remaining before they pull the plug. We are going to end up just like Europe after Rome fell to the barbarians. Another dark age is just around the corner.

This is the type of sh!t that keeps me up at night. I don’t give a sh!t about the rainforest, global warming, or the damn whales & fur seals. The only thing I give a sh!t about is how we are going to survive when the house of cards collapses. The rainforest and whales will do fine, but we won’t.

Learn to prepare. Don’t be ashamed to be labeled as a prepper.

Ernie

[Todd Kinsey]

It blows my mind that our enemies can intellectually put a whale or a lizard upon a pedestal yet has no trouble killing a baby.

The socialist is obviously mentally deranged. Van Jones has promised violence this month and I believe that Wall St. is just the beginning. Our saving grace is that we have more guns, most vets are conservatives, and we have combat training. I elaborate a bit here: http://toddkinsey.com/blog/2011/10/01/michael-moore-says-jesus-was-gay/

[WVKayaker]

I have no idea what fines they paid, but the fines would surely be less ...

I lived in WV. I wanted to build a pond on the side of a mountain. The application fees and time for processing would have meant at least six months, and around $15k (if permit was approved, which was iffy!).

I rented some equipment and built it. It cost me a $5k fine... and reaped a great deal of enjoyment. You should hear the bullfrogs sing, and the neighborhood kids loved the fishing ($2500 to stock it!).

I never got around to building the house, though. I ended up with a divorce, instead! I now live at the AFRH in Gulfport, MS, right across from the Mississippi sound (and the Gulf of Mexico). Had some #10-12 shrimp on the grill last night!!! $3 a pound, heads on!!!!!!!

(Reference: Google Earth "39.431188,-78.17796")

[Mark was here]

I'm betting the real fraud is the so called “Engineering fees”

[Ernie Kaputnik]

I like the last sentenced best:

“I’ve already fought one war against a foreign enemy and I am more than prepared to fight one against a domestic enemy.”

Obama and Van Jones constantly encourage their minions to committ violence against those of us who disagree with them. And then when somebody like Jared Loughner (a Democrat) goes off the rails they blame us for it. It drives me batsh!t crazy.

Not to worry though because if their minions come to my neighborhood looking for mischeif, my .357 will cut through them like a hot knife through butter.

[Todd Kinsey]

Thanks Ernie. It’s sad but the more I talk to people the more I think that we will have to fight another Civil/Revolutionary War. I think that the left is trying to incite that very thing now.

My wife and I are locked and loaded...