Charging Chesapeake Energy With Fraud & Racketeering Has Not Happened Yet In North Texas

Yesterday Elsie Hotpepper sent me a link to info about Chesapeake Energy being charged with fraud and racketeering in an article in wfmj.com titled Chesapeake Energy charged with fraud and racketeering.

The first paragraph of the article...

LANSING, Michigan - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has filed racketeering and fraud charges against the Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation for allegedly victimizing private land owners across northern Michigan.

Meanwhile in Fort Worth, which became the world's first experiment in massive urban drilling under the Reign of Terror of former Fort Worth Mayor, Mike Moncrief, who did Chesapeake Energy's bidding to the extent that during Moncrief's reign Chesapeake acted sort of like a shadow Fort Worth city government, complete with its own "city hall" in the former Pier One Imports headquarters.

As a stark indicator of how far Chesapeake has fallen since it was in bed with Mike Moncrief, Fort Worth has joined other North Texas towns in suing Chesapeake Energy over Chesapeake's shady dealings.

However, the local legal moves against Chesapeake are civil suits, no local prosecutor has charged Chesapeake with fraud and racketeering.

And, on a sort of related note, regarding Fort Worth's former mayor, this morning I found the following in my email inbox....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Visit To The Garden Of Eden In Texas May Be In My Future Later This Month":

And Now for Something Completely Different:

Former Fort Worth mayor Mike Moncrief dressed up like Carl Spangler from the movie, Caddyshack:

http://fwtx.com/snapshots/best-of-2014-party/92952/3460

Clicking the above link brings us to the photo below....

A Visit To The Garden Of Eden In Texas May Be In My Future Later This Month

On the left you are looking at a picture of the Garden of Eden.

The Garden of Eden is located in Kennedale.

Kennedale is a town south of Arlington in the state of Texas.

Less than a year ago the city of Arlington invaded Kennedale with a SWAT team sent to attack the Garden of Eden.

You living in Free America, where the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are still the law of the land, probably have a difficult time with the idea that within America's borders there are areas which are ruled like a Police State, where individual's rights are trampled, where property can be stolen by subverting the legitimate concept of using eminent domain to take property for the public good, such as building a highway, school or hospital.

In the Dallas/Fort Worth Police State Zone eminent domain can be abused to take people's homes to build a sports stadium or a parking lot for a mall or to build an un-needed flood diversion channel for a public works project the public has never voted for.

If you are not familiar with the crimes against humanity committed in Arlington to build Jerry Jones a new football stadium, well, you can read all about it on my Eyes on Texas Dallas Cowboy Stadium Scandal webpage.

So, why am I harping on this subject today?

Well, a few minutes ago on Facebook, via Allen Patterson and the Tarrant County Libertarians, I read the following interesting information about the Garden of Eden, which also included a poetic reference to the Dallas Cowboy Stadium Scandal....

Back in August of 2013, the city of Arlington TX conducted a full-blown SWAT raid on Quinn Eaker's organic farm and community - The Garden Of Eden.

It was a drug raid, thinly disguised as a response to zoning violations. Arlington's henchmen took mothers away from nursing babies. The raid lasted for 10 hours. The SWAT team found "17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants ... native grasses and sunflowers," and nothing else. Quinn Eaker got a citation for "improperly stacked firewood" and was ticketed for a lingering traffic citation.

In response to this absurd violation of property rights, the Tarrant County Libertarian Party is running Quinn Eaker for the Texas House of Representatives! (District 96)

We're getting together with Quinn and his extended family on Sunday, June 22nd, at 3:00 p.m. 7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd, Kennedale, TX You'll get to see the farm, meet the family, and around 6:00 they will serve up some of their famous organic food.

What people do on their own property is no one else's business. Quinn Eaker doesn't live his life in the way that most of us do, although our lifestyles are far more likely to harm him than vice-versa. (And please remember that Arlington is the city most opposed to "Open Carry", and the city that took property from landowners by force, bulldozed the houses, and built The Temple Of Jerry Jones on the spot of their theft.)

Come get to know this fascinating young man and support his candidacy for Texas House. Sunday, June 22nd, from 3 til 7, at "The Garden Of Eden" 7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd, Kennedale, TX.

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I am not a big fan of attending these type things due to my tendency to quickly get bored. However, I'm thinking a visit to the Garden of Eden on June 22 might be interesting enough to hold my interest.....

Not Going To A Wet Fort Worth Gateway Park Fat Tire Festival On The 2nd Sunday Of June

I did not get the memo telling me that rain was on the menu for this 2nd Sunday of the 6th month of 2014.

Not getting the weather memo had me being a bit surprised this morning when I looked outside to see an angry sky full of what looked like thunderclouds.

A half hour later, after consuming my regular morning coffee fueling, the clouds had begun crying, not hysterically so, but steadily.

So, I had myself a mighty fine time swimming in the rain this morning.

In the picture you are standing in the rain on my patio, with my camera under its protective Popabrella aimed at the aforementioned swimming location, with the also aforementioned clouds overhead.

I hope today's rain does not wreak havoc with the Fat Tire Festival taking place at this very moment in Fort Worth's Gateway Park.

My plan for today was to roll my wheels on the Gateway Park mountain bike trails, rolling past the festival.

Enough rain has hit the ground, I think, to render the mountain bike trails possibly a bit muddy. So, no Gateway Park for me today.

Unless I change my mind.....

The HOT Tandy Hills Counteract To Too Much Singapore Slinging Prior To Town Talking

I stayed up too late last night due to a Polynesian themed party which featured party favors with names like Singapore Sling and Mai Tai, which turned out not to be the healthy type fruit smoothie type libation I prefer to consume.

This morning I was in a strange location when the sun woke me up. Eventually I made my way to my regular morning location, that being the swimming pool where I tried to swim off the Polynesian grogginess to limited success.

Breakfast of whole grain waffles smothered in butter and prickly pear syrup along with a big dollop of scrambled eggs seemed to have a salubrious effect.

By the time noon rolled around I rolled the wheels of my mechanized transport device to the summit of Mount Tandy to do some HOT hill hiking.

In the picture we are looking west across the old wagon train trail which leads to downtown Fort Worth, the stunning skyline of which you can see in the distance, barely sticking up above the horizon.

The temperate was a degree shy of 90 when I did my hill hiking. A good breeze blew, so I had myself some wind chilling.

The Tandy Hills Hoodoo was a pile of rock rubble today. Tragic.

Eventually I decided I had had enough of the Tandy Hills Sweat Lodge and drove to my next destination.

Town Talk.

Today my Town Talk  treasure hunting turned up broccoli, fried chicken, smoked turkey legs, carrots, tortillas, whole grain mini-bread loafs, red peppers, grapes and wasabi edamame.

The wasabi edamame should be the final cure for too much Polynesian fun.....

Lamenting Not Having Oodles Of Uncle Fun With David, Theo & Ruby

In the picture you are looking at Theo and Ruby rolling their brother David's luggage through Sea-Tac airport.

David was returning from Arizona where he had been visiting relatives of the aunt, uncle, cousin and grandparental unit sort.

You can go to the Blue & Max Adventure Poodle blog and see oodles of pictures of David having fun in Arizona doing things like swimming with his cousin CJ, playing pool with his grandpa, playing ninja turtles with his grandma, bowling with his uncle and cousins and cheeseburgering at McDonald's.

I have never met David, or his brother and sister, Theo and Ruby.

For a variety of reasons, with the primary one being the fact that David, Theo and Ruby live over two thousand miles from my location, it is highly unlikely the trio will ever know me as their uncle.

From what I've seen, via photos, and reports I've had from first hand observers, David, Theo and Ruby are oodles of fun.

Why have I taken to so frequently use that "oodles" word of late? I have no idea.

I think it is about time to take off for the Tandy Hills to have myself oodles of fun doing some fast HOT hill hiking. And then maybe go to Town Talk.

Lamenting No Rockin' The Trinity River In Dallas While J.D.Granger Delivers For The River In Fort Worth

This past Thursday marked the return of the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle's, I mean, Panther Island Boondoggle's World Famous Rockin' the River Happy Hour Inner Tube Floats in Fort Worth's crystal clear Trinity River.

More on that later in this blogging, but first I must mention that this morning I learned via an article in the Dallas Observer titled 10 Dallas Places We'd Like to See Host Concerts that there are some people, well, at least one, that being the writer of this article, who wants to close the river floating gap between Fort Worth and Dallas.

On the list of 10 was #5, which you see screencapped above and copied below...

5. The Trinity River Basin
Fort Worth is way ahead of Dallas when it comes to making the banks of the Trinity a legitimate destination for concerts, drinking and various forms of revelry. Screw the city council, screw the naysayers. Let's take advantage of the dry summer conditions and get a stage up between Fuel City and the Oak Farms Dairy for some serious, urban park-style entertainment. If it rains and floods a bit, grab some inner tubes and let's float this sucker. Get your tetanus shots first, and then stop worrying. There's a fancy bridge for a nice backdrop and it doesn't always smell that bad. Let's close the Trinity-As-Entertainment gap that lies between us and the Panther City, Dallas!

The only part of the above which sounds to me like a good idea is the tetanus shot suggestion. Methinks White Rock Lake would be a much better location in Dallas for Rockin' the Lake Happy Hour Inner Tube Floats.

Which leads me to change the subject and ask, why is swimming not allowed in White Rock Lake? It always looks so inviting, to me, swimming-wise, certainly more so than the Trinity River.

Now, changing the subject back to Fort Worth's Rockin' of the Trinity River.

This morning someone named Anonymous made a couple comments regarding an aspect of Thursday's Trinity River Inner Tube Float....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Walking With The Village Creek Indian Ghosts Through A Flurry Of Snow & Snake Concerns":

J.D. Granger sighting at Rockin' the River:

http://www.dfw.com/2014/06/06/898726/pics-rockin-the-river-june-5-2014.html

Photos #68 and #74 include Master Granger. 

That is the #74 photo of Master Granger to which Anonymous refers, below, with that being Master Granger on the left.

Another person named  Anonymous, or maybe the same one, made another comment regarding the above photo....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Walking With The Village Creek Indian Ghosts Through A Flurry Of Snow & Snake Concerns":

#74...needs a bra.

Well.

Looking at the photo I can see why Anonymous has made the bra suggestion, but as a full-figured fellow myself, I take umbrage at someone making such a rude remark....

Walking With The Village Creek Indian Ghosts Through A Flurry Of Snow & Snake Concerns

June Snow in Arlington

I don't know how the Legion of Climate Change Deniers could possibly explain the dusting of snow which dusted the trail today in Arlington's Village Creek Natural Historical Area.

A dusting of snow when the temperature is nearing the 90 degree zone? If that is not serious Climate Change, I don't know what is.

Walking with the Village Creek Indian Ghosts seems to be an activity growing in popularity, no matter time of the day or day of the week, you find a lot of people on a natural historical quest in this area.

Today when a pair of young ladies saw me and my snake whacking stick they asked if I'd seen any snakes. I indicated I had not on this particular day. I asked if they'd seen any. They had. What they thought to be a corn snake. I asked if they'd like my bamboo snake whacking stick,  for security. They indicated that that  would make them feel more secure. And so I armed them.

I think the open carry law in Arlington applies to snake whacking sticks. I hope I've not been a scofflaw, illegally arming young ladies with a snake whacking stick.

It has been years since I've seen a snake near Village Creek of the venomous Copperhead sort. I used to see big snakes at this location frequently, including big snake conventions in the Village Creek Blue Bayou.

I recollect, years ago, biking on to the old wooden, long gone, Blue Bayou Overlook, seeing two guys intensely looking at something. I asked what had their attention so intensely. They pointed to a big group of water snakes which they thought to be water moccasins.

Where have all the Village Creek snakes gone, I can not help but wonder? Another climate change casualty?

Wondering If I Want To Partake In The Latest Portland Trend With A Big Hole In My Chin

I think this is NUTS.

I saw this on Facebook this morning via Tacoma's Connie D, instructing me to share it if I thought it was NUTS.

And since I do, so I have.

Among the comments regarding this Portland fashion trend was this...

"I honestly don't see the big deal, personal freedom, I don't want people judging me so I don't judge them."

Oh yes, that is some deep thinking in the sentence above. Getting a big hole opened under ones mouth is just one more expression of ones personal freedom.

I am sure this is the type freedom the Founding Fathers were thinking of when they fought the Revolutionary War.

I remember when I was last in Seattle, August of 2008, at the Fremont Sunday Market, seeing guys with their lower ear lobes stretched to make a big gaping hole. It looked so weird. I instantly used my personal freedom to judge to judge the giant ear lobers as clueless morons with bad judgment, bad taste and embarrassing ears.

I usually filter these type things through the reality that if one was born with this as a birth defect, either the giant ear lobe holes or the big holes under ones lower lip, as soon as one could one would seek help to restore ones chin or ears to what the vast majority of humanity considers a good look for a human.....

A Walk Around The Industrial Wasteland I Call Home With My Chesapeake Neighbor More Noisy Than Usual

Today I decided was a good day to take a stroll around the Industrial Wasteland I call home.

As you can see clouds are covering the blue sky at my location today. With no prediction of those clouds dropping anything wet.

As I neared my favorite Chesapeake Energy neighbor today I heard that it was competing with the I-820 freeway for the honor of Most Noisy Neighbor.

As I got closer Chesapeake sounded to be winning the contest.

Is this the rattling, concussive noise which I've read about which has rattled so many who have found their homes located too close to a Barnett Shale Natural Gas Drilling Operation?

I have no idea.

What the Chesapeake gas pad was spewing today was noisy. But, I have heard much worse being much more annoyingly noisy.

Such as neighbors with multiple windchimes.

Below is video, with sound, I took today of my noisy neighbor. The video gets a bit jerky at the end because I momentarily did not remember how to stop the video from recording....

Rolling My Wheels With The Fishes & Turtles In Fort Worth's Gateway Park

I was back rolling my wheels in Fort Worth today, doing the rolling on the Gateway Park mountain bike trails.

At my favorite Gateway Park photo op location today I almost managed to take a picture which sort of indicates my handlebars are perched near the edge of a cliff.

Looking over the edge of that cliff to the murky green Trinity River below I saw oodles of turtles.

The turtle oodles were not doing the usual turtle thing of sunbathing on a log. Instead the oodles of turtles were swimming in the river.

As I watched the turtles I saw a ghostly white shape that looked like a big fish. But the ghostly white shape did not move.

Then I saw another of the same type ghostly white shape. Also not moving.

Eventually I saw five of the same ghostly white fish shape, all not moving.

And then, suddenly, the first  ghostly white shape moved. Followed by the other ghostly white shapes moving.

What brand of fish is ghostly white I wondered?

I tried to get a good picture of the ghostly white fish, with the above being the best I could come up with. I zoomed in on two of the fleet of five big ghostly white fish. You can barely see the fish at the lower left part of the picture. With the fish at the upper right being slightly more  visible.

What type Trinity River fish is white? Could these fish I saw today have floated through a bleach spill?

Isn't it about time for the Rockin'  the River Happy Hour Inner Tube Floaters to start partying with the Trinity River fish?

I have not been in a Texas river or lake since I saw my first garfish. With that sighting being in Arlington's Village Creek, followed a week later by two girls telling me one of their boyfriends had stepped on a garfish, a few feet from where we were standing on a dock in Lake Grapevine.