Lennar turns everything it touches into crap!

The latest Lennar miscue is their failure to "renovate" the El Toro International Airport Golf Course. They closed a perfectly good course and tore it up and now they cannot afford to re-open it. Wasn't keeping the golf course around one of the many "promises" that were made on behalf of the Great Pork? Only in Irvine could Lennar get away with reneging on their deal to rebuild the golf course. The best thing to do would have been to leave it alone. Now nobody can enjoy it!.

If Los Angeles were allowed to lease El Toro International Airport for $2 BILLION DOLLARS, the golf course would have been kept open for business. Instead Irvine tried to go it alone and rely on Lennar to foot the bill. The problem is, Lennar is bleeding money like a stuck pig and will cease to exist one day. Irvine should kick Lennar to the curb and call L.A. to lease them El Toro International Airport. This would create lots of jobs, fill Irvine's coffers, and of course get the golf course back open for business. But then the Agranistas would have to admit they were wrong! Pride goeth before the fall.

Update

You know things are bad for the Great Pork when letter writers from South County turn against it. The Agranistas used the people of South County and lied to them about the airport. They manipulated them with fear of an airport (that was already there.) and promises of a tax free Great Park complete with a 45 hole golf course.


Here is the letter that appeared in yesterday's Register.

Teed off in Irvine

Our local politicians are just as adept at changing their promises as those at the national level. During the hype and promises, plans were laid out to try to get us to vote for a Great Park instead of an airport. The Irvine political class, lead by Larry Agran, touted two 18-hole golf courses for the new park.

Then, it became one golf course. Now, with hardly a murmur, the latest deal with Lennar makes it zero ["City Council backs revisions to Lennar deal," Local, Aug. 13]. Expediency must be an inbred political trait. Well, we do have the big orange balloon, so I guess us little folks should be quiet and happy. But, then we vote for them, so I guess we're to blame. Shame on us.

Chris Olsen

Lake Forest

Unpatriotic NIMBYs near Luke AFB

We have the same bunch of anti-American socialist degenerates occupying South County.


Luke AFB is west of Phoenix and is rapidly being surrounded by civilization that complains about the noise from the base and its planes, forgetting that it was there long before they were. A certain lieutenant colonel at Luke AFB deserves a big pat on the back. Apparently, an individual who lives somewhere near Luke AFB wrote the local paper complaining about a group of F-16s that disturbed his/her day at the mall..

When that individual read the response from a Luke AFB officer, it must have stung quite a bit.

The complaint:

'Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base:
Whom do we thank for the morning air show?

Last Wednesday, at precisely 9:11 A.M, a tight formation of four F-16 jets made a low pass over Arrowhead Mall, continuing west over Bell Road at approximately 500 feet Imagine our good fortune! Do the Tom Cruise-wannabes feel we need this wake-up call, or were they trying to impress the cashiers at Mervyn’s early bird special?
Any response would be appreciated.


The response:
Regarding 'A wake-up call from Luke's jets'
On June 15, at precisely 9:12 a.m., a perfectly timed four- ship fly by of F-1 6s from the 63rd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base flew over the grave of Capt. Jeremy Fresques. Capt Fresques was an Air Force officer who was previously stationed at Luke Air Force Base and was killed in Iraq on May 30, Memorial Day.

At 9 a. m. on June 15, his family and friends gathered at Sunland Memorial Park in Sun City to mourn the loss of a husband, son and friend. Based on the letter writer's recount of the fly by, and because of the jet noise, I'm sure you didn't hear the 21-gun salute, the playing of taps, or my words to the widow and parents of Capt. Fresques as I gave them their son's flag on behalf of the President of the United States and all those veterans and servicemen and women who understand the sacrifices they have endured.

A four-ship fly by is a display of respect the Air Force gives to those who give their lives in defense of freedom We are professional aviators and take our jobs seriously, and on June 15 what the letter writer witnessed was four officers lining up to pay their ultimate respects.

The letter writer asks, 'Whom do we thank for the morning air show? The 56th Fighter Wing will make the call for you, and forward your thanks to the widow and parents of Capt Fresques, and thank them for you, for it was in their honor that my pilots flew the most honorable formation of their lives.
Only 2 defining forces have ever offered to die for you...Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

Lt. Col. Grant L. Rosensteel, Jr. USAF

Great Pork forced to pay up to $80,000 in attorney's fees

The Great Pork is so disfunctional that it is suing itself into self destruction. This is a funny to watch so long as one is not an Irvine taxpayer. It is not terribly surprising that a radical socialist like Larry Agran has been exposed for the corrupt politician he is. He has no intention of delivering a park. He is just looking to shakedown developers and taxpayers for money. Does any other park in Irvine have such a multi layered secretive park board? Heritage Park? William Mason Park? No.

As one can see the Great Pork is not really about a park but about fooling the gullable voters about supporting a land grab of a national asset called El Toro International Airport. If Agran really truly wanted a park he would call Los Angeles and lease them the land for $2 billion for an airport.

The problem is he would have to backtrack and admit to the South County denizens that he grossly exaggerated the impacts of an airport in order to terrify South County into handing him the base. If the county controlled the airport like the original plans called for, Agran would not get a cut of the action like he has with the Great Pork.

If airports were so bad, why does Irvine allow zoning to build condos within half a mile of John Wayne? Why do property values for Santa Ana Heights greatly exceeed those near El Toro which have "jet free skies"? One can only conclude they were snookered by the Agranista into voting for the ultimate failure of a park. Even a 3rd world country can do a better job than Irvine in developing a park.

Monarch Beach Mononimbyosis

Judging by donations, the Denizens of Monarch Beach were probably the most obsessed community of any against the planned El Toro International Airport. Yet, they are also one of the furthest communities away from El Toro that actually opposes it. Go figure. Since Monarch Beach has wasted so much money and time trying to obstruct El Toro, they have literally committed economic suicide. There are not enough tourists coming to visit the St. Regis. Hence, the recent bankruptcy. As one can see fools and their money are soon parted.

Think about it. Would international travelers want to come all the way down from LAX to stay there? Apparently, not often enough. On the other hand, were El Toro open for business, millions of additional visitors, especially affluent international visitors would stimulate the Orange County economy, including The St. Regis in Monarch Beach.

Instead the denizens of Monarch Beach were out there decrying the "wealthy special interests" of Newport Beach as if wealth was somehow a bad thing. They even went so far as to display a anti El Toro fund raising thermometer along Pacific Coast Highway.

The irony is Monarch Beach is not exactly a poor place itself, and is clearly above average disposable income level for most communities within Orange County. The only rational explanation for all this RINOism on their part is they must suffer from class envy of Newport Beach to rail against us for being "wealthy". Are we in Newport Beach to stop being productive after we make our very first million? Apparently, Monarch Beach thinks so.

Monarch Beach has tremendous economic potential, but they limit themselves by their economic ignorance, NIMBYism, and class envy of Newport Beach. Instead of worrying about their coastal neighbor up the road, why they don't they simply rethink their irrational opposition to the planned El Toro International Airport. The St. Regis would then become financially solvent, and local incomes would rise. What they have got to lose? Nothing, except for actually admitting they were snookered by the Agranista propaganda machine.

Congratulations Orange County. We are in THIRD PLACE...

....FOR % OF JOB LOSSES!!!

Metro Division job loss April ‘08-’09 Metro division Job loss

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, Mich. -8.4%
Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Mich. -6.2%
Orange County -4.8%
Edison-New Brunswick, N.J. -4.7%
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Ill. -4.4%

"Orange County lost 72,600 jobs from April 2008 to this April bringing total payroll employment to 1,427,000. That’s the lowest since February of 2003."

http://economy.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/05/oc-third-in-us-percentage-job-loss/

Unfortunately, I am not entirely surprised by this sobering statistic. The people of (mostly South) Orange County were hoodwinked into voting for a Great Park over a job producing airport at El Toro.

The Great Pork has produced very little in the way of jobs. But it has required a lot of public assistance such as porkulus from Barbie Boxer.

An airport on the other hand, would produce 100,000 direct and indirect jobs and pump billions into the local economy. Irvine needs to come to their senses and lease El Toro to Los Angeles World Airport Authority.

El Toro would also solve the housing crisis and oversupply of houses. A surge of airport employees would cause a surge in housing demand, and therefore raise property values.

Lightning Strikes Plane

A Southwest Airlines jet was recently struck by lightning and had to make an emergency landing at Oakland International Airport. Fortunately OAK has a 10,000 foot runway. We all know that El Toro has not only has one, but TWO 10,000 foot runways as well. Then of course there are two 8,000 foot runways. Add it all up and we have 36,000 feet worth of runways! This is the equivalent of SIX John Wayne Airports!

However, the brainwashed NIMBYs who suffer from a decade plus of El Toro International Airport fear mongering created by the Agranistas would place their militant dogma over public safety. They also are gullible enough to think Irvine will build them a world class park. All without the use of public tax dollars! Yeah right!

Remember folks, John Wayne has a mere 5700 foot runway, which leaves virtually no margin for error. Common sense and the laws of physics dictates that a 10,000 foot runway is a far safer bet than the 5700 foot runway; especially under emergency conditions such as a lightning strike. But don't tell the NIMBYs that. They are so caught up in their hatred and class warfare of Newport Beach that they just cannot think rationally. Their minds are so clogged with emotional rhetoric and diehard dogma. That's a shame. As a public service, this blog is here to help them see the light and to show them that they have been misled this whole time.

Chances are someone on here will pipe in that El Toro is "unsafe" because "jets takeoff into mountains". Fine, then send the jets west or south over relatively flat areas. Besides, Woodbridge needs to be condemned anyways due to all that TCE poisoning of their water supply.

Happy Memorial Day

Today is a day to honor the sacrifices of those brave young men and women who have made America great. Some people simply see Memorial Day as a 3 day vacation and forget the true meaning of it. Then worse yet, there are others like the People's Republic of Irvine and the socialist NIMBYs who desecrate everything the military stands for, by getting the United States Marine Corps kicked out of El Toro.

Remember, it was chickenhawk RINO Congressman Chris Cox whose wife Rebecca Cox served on the BRAC commission that voted to close El Toro. It cost the taxpayers billions of dollars to not only re-locate the Marines to Miramar, but to also send the Navy to Lemoore. It is no wonder why Cox ran away to New York to mismanage the SEC because he knows he is such a disgrace around here. He did nothing to let the troops have access to the housing and commissary at El Toro and he knows it. All those protests outside his office by veterans must have got to him.

Chris Cox screwed our beloved Marine Corps in order to enable developers like Lennar and Irvine Company to pave everything they could around El Toro. I do favor free enterprise and most development. However, to kick out the Marines and dishonor our military is treasonous. Besides, it is only poetic justice that the housing market has collapsed and Lennar and the Irvine Co. are losing money hand over fist. They thought they got themselves a big mine of gold, when it was just a mine of fool's gold for all their efforts.

Then there is that Great Pork of Larry Agran's which ain't working out so well either. The Great Pork was counting on some overly optimistic real estate revenue projections. Instead they must rely on federal pork from other military haters like Barbara Boxer who launched her infamous political career by getting the Air Force removed from Hamilton Air Force Base located just north of commie infested Frisco.

In the meanwhile, the housing market was flooded with over development to accommodate the masses in South County who could only acquire their homes with subprime loans. Then, adding even more homes further depresses home values. Yet, this whole time, the economically illiterate NIMBYs of South County were convinced that it would be an airport would lower their home values, not foolish developers flooding the housing market. The verdict is they were all wrong.

In fact, I have seen some homes in Santa Ana Heights going for well over a million dollars while at the same time there are many homes under "jet free skies" in Lake Forest, Laguna Woods, and Irvine in the low 300s! No wonder why they hate Newport Beach so much! Even lower tier Newport Beach aka Santa Ana Heights which literally became part of Newport Beach yesterday puts to shame the majority of the South County cities. All the bitter military hating NIMBYs can post on here is long live the Duke, and we in Newport Beach can simply point to their home values and say scoreboard.

Happy Memorial Day and long live the world's greatest military. The Great Pork has failed. Therefore, we must re-open El Toro as a joint use base with the Marines to provide national defense and the airlines to provide economic stimulation. That is what will raise property values in South County. Maybe then they will finally get over their rabid jealousy of Newport Beach.