Ray's Thought for the Day - Whoa! The Christmas Mountains
Jeez Louise! The Republic of Tejas Land Commissioner (ROT), Jerry Patterson, has an editorial in the daily doofus newspaper. And I thought Jerry was just an internet café gadabout. Turns out, he actually does some work at the Land Commission (LC), maybe. Well anyway, he has written an editorial, by himself maybe, on a topic currently roiling the ROT LC, whoa!, the Christmas Mountains. Selling the Christmas Mountains gives us a chance to save them.
Douglas Brinkley, cable TV talking head, apparently got Jerry’s Christmas Mountain goat, or mule deer, stirring Jerry to retributive action, after big Doug also wrote an editorial for the same doofus daily, by himself maybe, on the same topic, whoa!, the Christmas Mountains. OK. I, Ray Pistrum, Sun God Trainee, have barely read both editorials. So now I am expert on, whoa!, the Christmas Mountains, just like Doug and Jerry. Even more of an expert, in fact, because now I know what both of those twain know, which is up to twice as much as either of them know. Ha!
All righty then, the big deal is the eventual disposition of 9000 acres of real estate located in the Trans Pecos. The ROT got gifted the real estate by an outfit known as the Conservation Fund. However, the real estate is entangled in deed restrictions which prohibit Jerry from improving the property. Turns out, Jerry wanted to do some minor improvements, “restoring water wells, conducting brush management, and improving access roads.” But the Conservation Fund blocked him. Since Jerry can’t improve the property, due to the deed restrictions, but also because he has no authority or funding to do the necessary improvements, Jerry needs to sell the property. If Jerry does sell the property, the proceeds, less administrative costs and some skimming, may eventually wind up in the Permanent School Fund, maybe.
Er. I wonder if big Jerry undertook any of the minor improvements before he read the deed restrictions. I also wonder, since “the Land Office has neither the authority nor the funding to restore the land to its natural state.”, where Jerry thought he was fixing to get the authority and funding for the minor improvements. Yet, I also wonder how a private sector purchaser of the 9000 acres shall accomplish these same minor improvements, contemplated by Jerry, given the deed restrictions. “A private interest will have the financial ability to act.” Uh. What will the private interest do? Go to court to get the deed restrictions amended.
Hmmm. Jerry is right. The ROT, under the current leadership, is incapable of carrying out preservation and restoration on its public lands, even if it desired to do that. That’s because the ROT responsible parties are too stupid to do that, even if they wanted to do that, and they don’t.
In summary, Jerry and Doug are both enviro-idiots. I forget why Doug is an enviro-idiot, but I’m sure he is. This situation, the ultimate disposition of the Xmas Mountains, whoa!, is just another sad example of our ruling class scraping the bottom of the bean bin for ideas. So the likes of Doug and Jerry get printed on the editorial page of the doofus daily.
Douglas Brinkley, cable TV talking head, apparently got Jerry’s Christmas Mountain goat, or mule deer, stirring Jerry to retributive action, after big Doug also wrote an editorial for the same doofus daily, by himself maybe, on the same topic, whoa!, the Christmas Mountains. OK. I, Ray Pistrum, Sun God Trainee, have barely read both editorials. So now I am expert on, whoa!, the Christmas Mountains, just like Doug and Jerry. Even more of an expert, in fact, because now I know what both of those twain know, which is up to twice as much as either of them know. Ha!
All righty then, the big deal is the eventual disposition of 9000 acres of real estate located in the Trans Pecos. The ROT got gifted the real estate by an outfit known as the Conservation Fund. However, the real estate is entangled in deed restrictions which prohibit Jerry from improving the property. Turns out, Jerry wanted to do some minor improvements, “restoring water wells, conducting brush management, and improving access roads.” But the Conservation Fund blocked him. Since Jerry can’t improve the property, due to the deed restrictions, but also because he has no authority or funding to do the necessary improvements, Jerry needs to sell the property. If Jerry does sell the property, the proceeds, less administrative costs and some skimming, may eventually wind up in the Permanent School Fund, maybe.
Er. I wonder if big Jerry undertook any of the minor improvements before he read the deed restrictions. I also wonder, since “the Land Office has neither the authority nor the funding to restore the land to its natural state.”, where Jerry thought he was fixing to get the authority and funding for the minor improvements. Yet, I also wonder how a private sector purchaser of the 9000 acres shall accomplish these same minor improvements, contemplated by Jerry, given the deed restrictions. “A private interest will have the financial ability to act.” Uh. What will the private interest do? Go to court to get the deed restrictions amended.
Hmmm. Jerry is right. The ROT, under the current leadership, is incapable of carrying out preservation and restoration on its public lands, even if it desired to do that. That’s because the ROT responsible parties are too stupid to do that, even if they wanted to do that, and they don’t.
In summary, Jerry and Doug are both enviro-idiots. I forget why Doug is an enviro-idiot, but I’m sure he is. This situation, the ultimate disposition of the Xmas Mountains, whoa!, is just another sad example of our ruling class scraping the bottom of the bean bin for ideas. So the likes of Doug and Jerry get printed on the editorial page of the doofus daily.
posted by ray pistrum at Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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