Duke Gardens to be destroyed.

Duke Gardens to be destroyed. I found the fact they found it necessary to disparage “Caucasians” interesting;” “Caucasians” like it so it must be “bad?” Yes the word “progressive” is a red flag to me too. Is Timothy Taylor white, why is he disparaging “Caucasian females over the age of 50?” Will they close the libraries and art museums next because “Caucasian females over 50” like them too?

I still don’t quite understand why they are destroying Duke Gardens. The Eco Freaks don’t like the display gardens because of the energy needed to heat them in the winter. It likely does take a lot of oil or gas to heat them. The directory of the garden, Timothy Taylor, is a real estate developer with no horticultural expertise. We may never now what is going on or why they destroyed the gardens.

Savedukegardens.org

Duke Gardens in Somerset County, New Jersey were among the most significant glass house collections in America. Created by Doris Duke herself, they were larger than the New York Botanical Garden's Haupt Conservatory, and were open to the public from 1964 until they were closed by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as of May 25th, 2008. All plants, trees and shrubs will be removed.1

Only "Caucasian females over the age of 50" like botanical gardens...

Last week, two friends and I took a tour of the huge glass indoor gardens at Duke Farms, the 2,740-acre country estate here that was once the home of Doris Duke and is now maintained by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This magnificent glass building (actually, one long conservatory and five attached glass houses) is about 60,000 square feet (one of the largest glass houses in America and bigger even than the New York Botanical Garden's Enid Haupt Conservatory). It was designed by Horace Trumbauer for Ms. Duke's father, and construction was begun in 1909 and completed by 1917.

Duke Farms, whose display gardens opened in 1964, will be transformed into an ecological environment learning center...

...the lovers of those display gardens (whom Mr. Taylor categorizes as being "primarily Caucasian females over the age of 50"). Petra Ross MacDonald, a biologist from Pennington, N.J., has organized a Web site, savedukegardens.org, to rally support for keeping the indoor display gardens. Ruth Schrey, a resident of Branchburg Township, collected 1,000 signatures within 14 days for a petition that was sent last week to all the trustees, and an application to apply for historic landmark status is in the works...

One has to hope that with a little more imagination and a little more sensitivity to the fact that Ms. Duke's display gardens are quite irreplaceable... 1

Here is an article on Doris Duke, sounds like she had rather sad and lonely life.

More on the Gardens...

Doris Duke's own horticultural legacy, Duke Gardens, was the center of a controversy over its removal on May 25th, 2008. Miss Duke developed these exotic display gardens in honor of her beloved father James Buchanan Duke. She extended new greenhouses from the Horace Trumbauer conservatory at her home in Duke Farms, New Jersey. Each of the eleven interconnected gardens was a full-scale re-creation of a garden theme, country or period, inspired by DuPont's Longwood Gardens. Miss Duke, who spoke nine languages, designed the architectural, artistic and botanical elements of the displays based on observations from her extensive international travels . She also labored on their installation, sometimes working 16 hour days. Display construction began in 1958; a rediscovered image of the stunning nightlighting of the French Gardens in the 1970s is an example of the attention to detail that Doris Duke continued to lavish on the Gardens throughout her life. 1

Miscellaneous (August 3, 2008)

More from Lawrence Auster: "The Neocons Go Left"

More nonsense from Gavin Menzies... ‘1434′ is as much junk as ‘1421′

I wish we could get cheap electric cars... The truth is the auto makes could easily and cheaply make electric cars with a 100 to 200 miles range and sell than for under $10,000.

Necessity Breeds Electric Car Innovation on the Gaza Strip

..The conversion purportedly costs a mere $2,500 dollars to accomplish. As reported by the CSM, US experts are baffled as to how the conversion could be done for so little money and that using even the cheapest parts available in the US it would cost 3 times as much to do the conversion here...1

Comrade Obama gives speech to crazed Red Berliners...

A degenerate liberal harlot is attacked.

War Nerd: War of the Babies

An article on the problem of gender imbalance in College Graduates.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) R.I.P.

Russian Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dead
Moscow - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize winner for literature who was exiled from the Soviet Union and graphically portrayed life in Soviet labour camps, was dead at age 89, the news agency Interfax reported early Monday.1

"Conservatives deeply depressed over McCain campaign"

The problem it was Bushie who destroyed the GOP brand and the “conservative movement.” The most members of the so-called “conservative movement” have unwilling to face the “national question” and ethnic conflict head on. A real “conservative movement” must be based on Blood a Soil Nationalism anything else is a house of card built on sand. And it sound like Richard A. Viguerie is call for more of same failed policies...

Conservatives are so depressed over the state of the McCain campaign--particularly its failure to include and enthuse the Republican base--that they are preparing themselves for a monumental GOP defeat in November, Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said in a speech to FreedomFest.

“You even have some conservatives who are considering voting for Barack Obama, because they fear McCain as president would destroy what’s left of the Republican brand and would finish off the conservative movement,” said Viguerie. “Their mood is that of the fatally ill patient who says ‘Let’s get this over with’.”...

Freedom Fest... speakers this year include Steve Forbes, George Gilder, Bob Barr, Dinesh D’Souza, Christopher Hitchens, and Congressman Ron Paul.1

Comrade Obama to give speech to 80,000 crazed Obamaists at stadium in Denver...

Comrade Obama to give speech to 80,000 crazed Obamaists at stadium in Denver...

The introduction speech to Senator Obama will be something like this:

No one is more American than Obama! Obama is America! One leader, one nation, one people! Hail Obama! ...

The truth is I see people saying pretty much just this on TV... Obamaists are cultists-dedicated to the cult of socialism, immigration and miscegenation-America as universalist empire... And a football stadium is a fitting place for him to accept the nomination; football the most degenerate and evil part of America’s sports cult.

Obama to accept nomination at football stadium

South African government plans to eradicate “white” trees?

More “Liberal” madness... South African government plans to eradicate “white” trees? Well it looks like they want to kill the “white” man and our trees too. Now they attack European colonists for planting trees and turning deserts into forests. This is more blame "whitey" madness, they don’t know how manage the water resources, so they blame “whitey” and cut down those “water-hogging” trees. One wonder how soil erosion and other problems this is going to cause. The so-called “Greens” are just insane for endorsing something like this nonsense.

I saw a PBS program about this a few years ago. It showed a film of helicopter flying over desert, when ever they saw a tree, they would land and cut it down. It was on odd sight a group of black Africans on a lunar landscape see a lone tree and cut it down and burn it. I bet killing all those “white” trees makes these morons feel good about themselves. I seem to recall in some areas they were even planing trees on private ( most likely White owned) land over the protests of the property owners.

In South Africa, the most pressing problem isn't water pollution, it's water scarcity — an unintended consequence of human behavior. South Africa's unique natural environment features plants — like the fynbos — that thrive on very little water, suiting them perfectly to this arid climate. When European colonists arrived in South Africa they set out to recreate the forested landscape familiar from their homeland. They scattered seeds for pine and eucalyptus that have grown into forests. Today, these invasive trees are a threat to the human population, competing for water by soaking up billions of gallons that once filled mountain streambeds. Already, one-third of South Africans have an inadequate supply of water.

Five years ago the government decided to combat the problem — the invasive trees had to go. They have since trained 40,000 formerly unemployed people to cut thousands of non-native trees down, restoring the precious water that flows from the mountains to the rivers. Already, people who live near the streams say that the water is flowing more strongly than they have seen in 20 or 30 years. The Working for Water Programme has successfully restored a precious resource to thousands of South Africans.1

Barack Obama cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker...

The New Yorker magazine puts cartoon of Barack Obama wearing a robe and turban with his wife dressed like a marxist revolutionary in camouflage holding a rifle on the cover. I love it!

Obama camp: Satirical magazine cover 'tasteless'