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Category Archives: Animals
Darcy Spears Pitches A No-Hitter
Yes, it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out…..
And for a third time, Darcy Spears of KTNV TV has gone to the Southern Highlands Country Club area and learned it’s a community of frightened homeowners with a leadership of gangster-minded bullies. Maybe that just comes naturally for people who move to Las Vegas: Find out how to join the Mob! In her latest HOA Hall of Shame report she tries to locate the skunks who are trying to chase a black man out of the neighborhood.
Even though Louis Washington is one of the original residents of Southern Highlands, the HOA is demanding that he plant a couple of trees in his yard. Never mind that the country club just behind Washington’s house, has a few trees that clearly look like they’re dying, this monstrous HOA tyrant wants the homeowner to plant a tree right in front of his picture window, or they’ll fine him out of existence.
Darcy says this is the third time Southern Highlands has been on her Hall of Shame report, Readers of my book, Neighbors At War already know about Southern Highlands for the way it treats black families. Just go back and re-read chapter eight where I document the shameful history of Homeowners Associations and minorities. Southern Highlands is featured. In 2006, Troy McMullen, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal Online did an investigative story on how blacks are treated at Southern Highlands. It was called “Trouble in Paradise: Minorities Report Bias in Vacation areas.”
Some people just have no shame.
They’re too ignorant to have shame.
One footnote: the management company which runs Southern Highlands brags that it sends out a thousand violation notices per month. Am I wrong, or does that sound a little fascist to you?
While Humans Fight, Dogs And Cats Are The Peacemakers?
guest blog by Nila Ridings
When it comes to squabbling neighbors, is it possible that dogs and cats have found the moral high ground?
Witness the surprising discovery made by Michelle Smith, animal control officer for Anderson, South Carolina. She heard some pitiful yapping coming from a ravine behind the Home Depot store. It turned out that a little Shih-Tzu was making the ruckus to attract some human attention to her predicament.
This Shih-Tzu was tiny, but she must have a huge heart. She had apparently discovered an orphaned kitten and was trying to keep it warm. The Shih-Tzu was actually nursing the kitten.
Wow! Talk about good neighbors. Remember, this was in South Carolina where each and every day humans torture one another with their stupid predicaments.
There must not be any lawyers in the dog and cat community.
Oh, that’s right. There aren’t.
Frivolous. Idiotic. Probably Partially Insane.
Yes, sometimes I like to take my mind off of the national scam known as Homeowners Associations. But this is one of those rare departures you may always remember. You’ll make fun of me, of course, but it’s just a weird thing that occurred to me during a recent long, boring spell.
You’ve heard all the stories, of course, of Homeowners Associations that try to restrict your rights in incredible ways: A Miami condo association that will sue you for ‘improper and offensive cooking odors’, e.g., cooking in a wok. And there are all those HOAs that have fined, liened or foreclosed upon homeowners who’ve tried to set up a backyard barbeque.
So, yes, you really can lose your home because of the wrong kind of cooking.
Which all leads to one of the most bizarre dinner parties I’ve ever had. Fortunately, the guests were mostly family. But if you ever try the following recipe, you’ll never do it another way!
Get two slices of aluminum foil about 24 inches long.
Take a fresh salmon steak, about a half inch thick and place it on one of the pieces of foil.
Squeeze an entire half of a lime over the salmon steak.
Put a pat of butter on the salmon.
Liberally sprinkle the salmon steak with salmon seasoning, garlic powder, salt, pepper, lemon/dill, chili powder, oregano.
Wrap the salmon steak, envelope style, in the aluminum wrap.
Turn the packet upside down, and wrap it again, envelope style, in the second sheet of foil.
Put however many salmon steaks you’ve prepared on the top rack of your dishwasher. Run the dishwasher through its entire regular cycle.
When the cycle is done, open all the foil envelopes and serve to your guests. It’ll be the best, most tender salmon you ever tasted!
Just don’t use that nasty wok. Or the barbeque. They’re too ethnic.
Sheesh! Micro-Managing An HOA Mermaid!
Will wonders never cease? A young lady has been kicked out of her swimming pool by the Fishhawk Ranch Homeowners Association. That’s in Lithia, Florida.
Heck, who’s ever even heard of Lithia? Or cared about it?
But they’re on the map, now, after telling homeowner Eden Sirene that she’s violated the pool’s ‘no flippers’ rule. Board members want to keep their pool safe for the kiddies, of course, so swim fins are out.
Still, Eden Sirene doesn’t actually use swim fins. No, she entertains the kids by wearing a mermaid outfit in the water. In the strict sense of the word, is it a fin? Well, if you believe in mermaids then this outfit kind of looks like a fin.
Homeowners Associations have no sense of humor.
None.
