It may be a faulty memory, but back when Mount Bachelor had just been promoted from Bachelor Butte, it used to take a lot of effort to add any construction to the ski area. I remember them actually turning down some of the lifts to the top, and especially a lodge that could be seen from a distance.
Just saying.
Nowadays, they seem to build whatever they want, without much trouble.
Not coming down on either side of this, just wondering when the Forest Service changed their attitude.
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Always amazing how bad apples just stay rotten. Tami Sawyer is spending so much time at her Mexican retreat, that she doesn't bother to show up for court dates. Doitchin Krastev, A.K.A. Jason Evers, files a civil rights complaint "demanding larger portions of vegetables to accommodate his Buddhist diet." Can't we get these people out of our hair?
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Suddenly, I'm inundated with Red Tape. There are two government "surveys" I have to fill out, there is a change in employee taxes so that they have to be done automatic withdrawal once a month instead of sending a check off every three months, there is the financial issues surrounding Dad's estate, my comic orders are due, I need to organize the Inventory from the store which is a huge hassle every year, I had an appointment with a lawyer to draw up a will which I know is going to involve trusts and other complicated financial instruments, and so on and so forth.
Jeeeze....just leave me alone!
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Remember just a few years ago 'they' wanted to build a mega-resort up at Dutchman-Flats on the face of the Butt-Resort.
Well in ALL depressions, its the BIG guys that get hurt the worse, because those rotting $10M homes at Highlands and BT, and PH, ... all are costing $10K in maintenance, and guess what the OWNERS aren't handy-man. Slowly they walk away.
Went out to Oregon-City gold club the other day, took a ride with old exec friend, only 6 years ago average $5M homes between Oregon-City to Wilsonville the Millionaire loop. Every single guy I know out there is in FORECLOSURE, every single one. They all used their private propertys for COLLATERAL, they all doubled their bets in 2007/2008, and by 2009 every single person lost his fucking ass that I know.
Of course all my friends always said I was smart, and they all say to me now "Who could have guessed things would have turned down in 2009"???
MY fucking gawd, at least we were all talking real in 2004->2007, albeit circle jerking on our pet rock pissing in the desert.
One thing ALL my friends, who by the way were all millionaires in the 90's and now all ain't got shit, ... one thing they all had in common is they were OPTIMISTS.
The denial of reality moves on.
FaceBOOK down another 5%, you can see yesterday the HOUSE was covering at $34, today $32, tomorrow less than $30. The majority has to be sold this year to cover taxes for insiders. The deal that FB made to carry the stock private so many years, many people will be pay taxes before they even make a profit, which means is that in coming years people will actually coming back to collect the losses from the government for OVER-PAYMENT of tax, as you can capture given that the FUTURE is fucked.
Enough, .. but so few of us play with reality, ... fucking few.
"Always amazing how bad apples just stay rotten."
At least Krastev didn't actually steal anything from anybody.
Just a dead kids identity Bruce...that's all.
Shit its getting GOOD.
Facebook is down 25% since IPO.
Lost 10% today, it looks like the clearing houses have given up, there now is NO price support.
Dozen's of lawsuits now pending because folks that pre-bought, didnt' get to dump at IPO as their stop-losses didn't function cuz the first 2 hours of trading .. NASDAQ was out to lunch,... hmmm
Sounds to me like the BIG guys SOLD at the IPO to little guys open/pre-open, and those that got their stock, their stop-loss didn't trigger cuz ... the computers weren't plugged ... in. ... sure yeh
Boy they talk about the $100B IPO, now we're talking talking about the 10's of Billion that were lost on that fateful day of May 18, 2012, ... when people had pre-bought their FB ... :(
Every big bank and house on the street sponsored this bitch, and now they're dumping, you could watch the support at 34 on friday and 32 today, and 30 this after noon, it will be 25 tomorrow, .. even at $10 FB is an over-priced bitch like Bend.
HBM, wasn't 'evers' the OLCC cop, .. He shook down a lot of people for cash and over-sight, if that is not theft what is??
OK he got busted for impersonating a cop, within a dysfunctional cop shop, and that within a dysfunctional goverment, and that's the story.
But as a cop, he use his power to shake down a lot of innocent small time biz ... and that is theft.
I dont' mean to pick on you HBM, ... but if this isn't fucking THEFT what the fuck is ... oh excuse me, ... nothing that any normal Orygun COP wouldn't do himself,.. ... just a day on the job... shaking down businesses for cash ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9278253/Rising-US-recession-risk-poses-the-real-threat-to-Europe.html
Rising US recession risk poses the real threat to Europe
The US economy has slowed to stall speed. A few lonely forecasters fear that America has already fallen back into recession, replicating the terrible double-dip of 1937.
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This one for you dunc and read carefully out of the london telegraph, and written by Pritchard the finest writer they have.
His premise is SIMPLE and I 100% concur, what is going to take EUROPE down isn't Greece, its the economic collapse of the USA.
I just bring this to your attention because a few days ago you made the snide comment that greece might effect your well financial being.
I brought to your attention that all was actually good as Greek investor would be made even long before the USA CRIMINALS would make good to USA losses....
The threat to the world is NOT europe is the fact as MADOFF said that the USA is the biggest fucking PONZI on earth and its going down and hard.
"Just a dead kids identity Bruce...that's all."
Ah, big deal. Didn't hurt the dead kid any.
"HBM, wasn't 'evers' the OLCC cop, .. He shook down a lot of people for cash and over-sight, if that is not theft what is??"
He never shook anybody down; he was just an over-zealous pain in the ass.
"Didn't hurt the dead kid any."
I thought this too, but it really does seem to hurt the surviving family, and I take their hurt for real.
HBM the OLCC cop threatened to pull the license of dozens of pub's in BEND and MADE them pay cash.
Are you really going to fucking deny this,...its funny the OLCC was so fucking embarassed from the FIASCO that they only focussed on his identity, but the real fucking issue is he was a wild card that had gone nuts in Central Orygun, but only because OLCC is a swamp of assholes top to bottom, and it took the fact that Ever's was using a false idenditiy, and the fact that OLCC was so fucking stupid to give the job to people without a background check.
Once again HBM proves that GubMint people can do no wrong in their normal course of business shake-downs.
I doubt anyone who was extorted for money would stay silent, and there were no such accusations. He was a tin-pot tyrant.
Dunc, ... are all you folks suffering from amnesia, ... of course they did wrong, and that's why their mute, its because Ever's would catch the bar's selling liquor to kids, becaise he would have a kid pose as an adult and buy, then Ever's would come in and shake-them down for cash. This was all well documented back when his gig came down.
Now how in the fuck can a bar come forward? They can't its the perfect fucking crime, ... but theft either way.
You really think that Ever's discovered this shit himself? You really think that all the OLCC cops are playing the entrapment and back pocket cash game? It was these games that got he complaints and got people sniffing and hated Ever's that outed him.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ftc-pom-20120522,0,3035086.story
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The Big POM is taken down by the FTC and Bend is flushed down the toilet.
Funny that Resnick is the water master and richest man in Calif, and also Owns Bend, Orygun. Funny fucking indeed.
"Are you really going to fucking deny this"
Yes, I am. If it's true why wasn't he charged with extortion?
SUTERRA to IMPLODE and its all A Good Thing for Bend, maybe in the future Bend will be own by a benevolent Wizard behind the curtain.
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POM Wonderful deceptively advertised health claims in juice ads ...
CBS News - 10 hours ago
Judge: POM deceptively marketed pomegranate juice ... inherent in this wonderful fruit," added, Stewart A. Resnick, President of Roll Global. ... Paramount Agribusiness, POM Wonderful, Teleflora, FIJI Water, and Suterra.
HBM's employer the fucking BULL had the following to say about Ever's back in 2010, and this is just the shit the BULL would print, but the good stuff came out on the bar-blogs at the time, every fucking bar in Bend had been shook-down by Ever's.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20100430/NEWS0107/5010370/
The folllowing is from the SOURCE, another HBM hell-hole, but there are 100's of story's like this, but the fact is Ever's was running entrapment traps all over the region for years and the HBM apologists covered his fucking ass.
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The "Jason Evers" story was interesting, and with all the side drama about identity theft, etc., the spotlight was on "Jason" and less so on OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission). I think that, although understandable, the emphasis was misplaced. Here's why: I was in a local wine shop here in Bend where a wine distributor from Portland was pouring his wines. He related a story that while in Portland he was doing the same thing, pouring tastes of wine, when a customer loudly and obnoxiously began to complain that the wine he was pouring was corked.
The distributor pointed out that the wine came from a bottle with a screw-top closure, so it couldn't be corked. The customer continued to complain, loudly, that the wine was corked. The distributor poured a small amount into a glass and tried it to see what was wrong. At that point, he related, two OLCC agents came forward and ticketed him for drinking while pouring, a violation of OLCC rules. It turns out that the guy complaining about the wine was asked to do the complaining by the OLCC agents to provoke the distributor, so that OLCC could judge his response.
This is a new low, or perhaps not. I asked why he didn't escalate this obvious entrapment and he told me that his company directed him to do whatever he was told because they were concerned about OLCC retaliation. Given their entrapping actions, this seems to me to be a reasonable concern.
I guess I would have thought that the whole "Jason Evers" affair would have been a sufficient stimulus to completely revamp and revise the OLCC rules, but I was wrong. Maybe this continuing behavior on top of "Jason Evers" makes the case for change. I hope so.
If this abhorent OLCC behavior promoted some social good, maybe we could put up with it, but this kind of entrapment only serves to show us what a joke these rules and their Gestapo enforcers are.
The story of Ever's is dirty-dirty, ... he did some terrible shit, and most telling is the only crime ever applied by the State of Oregon was false application of a passport, A federal crime. But OMERTA the OLCC/OREGON MAFIA (courts...) quietly shut down all else, ... because all else Ever's made a ton of money for himself, and the State/Courts of Orygun.
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The state of Ohio has charged Krasev with identity theft, and federal authorities in Oregon have charged him with falsifying a passport application. But none of the central and eastern Oregon counties where Krasev signed the name Evers on legal papers has filed charges.
Between 2002 and 2008, Evers cited nearly 300 people and businesses for liquor infractions, according to records obtained by The Oregonian. He worked for the commission as an inspector, regional manager and investigator in Portland, Bend and Nyssa on the Oregon-Idaho border.
His inspections led to suspensions of liquor licenses and big fines.
You know both the feds and the State are sucking air thru the pipes when they try to increase the cash flow by making collections quicker on estimates and SS payments. That is all they are doing with the monthly rather than quarterly extortion.
BTW, have you got your alcohol, ammo, gold and canned goods for the collapse and civil war?
"HBM's employer the fucking BULL"
The BULL has not been my employer since 1991. And you are as crazy as a shithouse rat.
Interesting how that "Evers" guy is still a bully and still a suckwaste of taxpayer's money even though he now thinks he's a buddhist. If Bulgaria doesn't want him back, maybe Siberia would take him?
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