How about the soil best for burying a Mafia snitch?
Posted on 11/05/2004 6:34:02 AM PST by Sub-Driver
New Jersey To Name Official State Soil Nov 5, 2004 6:58 am US/Eastern
TRENTON, N.J. So, New Jersey lawmakers, what else ya workin' on?
An Official Soil for the Garden State?
Brilliant!
The vote was unanimous Thursday as the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill to designate a grayish-brown loamy sand found mostly in the southern half of the state as the official state soil.
The measure now goes to the full Assembly, and if it's eventually signed into law, Downer Soil will enjoy the same lofty status as the square dance (official state dance), the honeybee (official insect) and the brook trout (official fish).
Downer Soil, named after a Gloucester County town, is the most prevalent of the more than 150 types of soil found in the Garden State. It is found from Middlesex County on south, in the state's sandy Coastal Plain.
It's ideal for growing crops like Jersey tomatoes, lettuce and peppers, Jim Sadley, director of the state Soil Conservation Committee, told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
Fifteen other states, including New York and Pennsylvania, already have official soils, according to David Friedman, director of Ocean County's soil conservation agency.
``The Earth's carpet is the soul of food consumed by livestock and mankind,'' Friedman said. ``It furnishes the raw materials to build our homes and used in our factories. It can be simply said that soils are at the root of everything. From the long list of bountiful resources found in New Jersey, none is perhaps so utterly essential to our future as soil.''
Down and doity Joisey ping
Official State Soil - wouldn't that be McGreevey?
Landfill?
Earth to Trenton- Let's get down to the business of LOWERING our property taxes and decreasing needless spending!!!
Good for planting the bodies of whacked wiseguys
How about the soil best for burying a Mafia snitch?
I hear its a hybrid of McGreedy, Springsteen and Bon Jovi.
There's enough dirtbags in the NJ legislature to claim expertise on the subject.
That grayish-brown loamy sand was SELECTED, not elected! This was all ginned up by Halliburton to disenfranchise those nuanced soils which do not share Downer Soils' ultra-right wing fundamentalist neoconservative divisive warmongering so called values. The unilateral hegemony of the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee has made New Jersey the laughing stock of the sophisticated soil connoisseurs in the International Community. HOW DARE the New Jersey Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee question my soil's patriotism?
When are they going to name the "Official State Compost Heap"?
I was wondering when they would address this IMPORTENT piece of legislation! It's about time!
The great news, then, is that it opens up the widest range of products and processes for regulation.
Any "dirt fignting" detergent or cleanser could be regulated since it would be "fighting" as it were, the "State Soil"!
So, too, with vacuum cleaners, mops, brushes....
And cleaning companies would have to have specific training and procedures to ensure that they exhibited the proper deference to the "State Soil" as they went about their business...
What a wonderful boon to regulators, and bureaucrats throughout the state!
Way too much time, power and money in Trenton. How embarrassing.
Official State Color - Blue (gotta work on that in the next 2 years).
I blame the Pineys!
How much did it cost to select a state soil? Was a democrat connected consulting firm involved?
you beat me to it with the McGreevey/soil connection.
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