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Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFRcMYjut4o
Dougie MacLean's
The golfing world should be disgusted and appalled. Donald Trump has built another gaseous and bloated monument to his porcine ego. I would imagine most folks care very little if he builds or remodels urban structures in ever more delusional, repulsive displays of his witless vanity. The rapidly declining political culture of
Six years ago he purchased an old estate in Aberdeenshire on the North Sea coast of
So, in an act of unbelievable vanity and treachery, Trump builds his golfing monument on the very same coast as the venerable
Golf, at its core, is a quasi-spiritual, Zen-like (unfortunately most of the golfing wardrobe does not speak to the game's Zen aspects), contemplative act of self-exploration, acted out in the arms of mother nature -- she being subjected to varying degrees of horticultural cosmetic surgery. Golf has not always been kind to the environment. However that is starting to change with the new environmental awareness across the globe. So what does The Donald do? He naturally bucks the trend and builds his new course, "...on a unique, protected area, a so called Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), designated for its nationally important landforms and wildlife." Many, many people of the surrounding area and
If Mr. Trump wanted to honor his mother and her Scottish heritage why didn't he buy the land and donate it back to
Donald Trump is the antonym, the caricaturist opposite of the Bruce Cockburn line, "You're the best of what we are" The new Trump golf course in
"Chan eil anns an taigh ach Domhnall."
Check-out the links below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/10/donald-trump-scotland-golf-course
http://www.trippinguptrump.com/news/can-trump-build-the-worlds-greatest-golf-course
http://www.trumpgolfscotland.com/
http://www.andywightman.com/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf
http://benvironment.org.uk/post/10362660146/trumpandsalmond
http://www.earthtimes.org/energy/donald-trump-wrong-protest-wind/1841/