It is the Lion’s Den … aka as the Empire Polo Club!
The Polo Report
By Steve Crowder
One you are at Empire Polo Club you will know why it is well known. It might be the sound of music from the huge music festivals or the unstoppable beauty of the Club grounds or the roar of the lions and the sound of pounding hooves as they blaze down the field.
The fields at Empire are as fine as other Polo clubs anywhere and it will cost less than you might think to be where it does not rain or snow … at Empire. The desert horizon will show great mountain views topped with snow. If you want to go to the mountains from the desert it takes about an hour to get there. Or you can enjoy viewing them from afar when you are playing Polo, Golf or Tennis in the nice warm Valley below called Coachella.
Empire Polo is on a path to become the busiest Polo Club in North America and it has it all. The only thing left is to get YOU there! You really must see and enjoy this Jewel in the Desert. You can join and play 10-goal, 4-goal, 1-goal or Coaching League. We can teach you the game if you want to learn to play.
Empire has teams from Texas like Chandler Ranch and a lot of Canadians who are getting out of the white snow. They are coming from Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto there will be someone here you know I am sure, no matter where you are from. The setting is amazing with a beautiful Lake and Gardens unparalleled by any other polo club. And for the players they have amazing fields and the horses have clean stabling facilities with great exercise tracks and arenas. For your family and friends Empire offers excellent food and areas to hang out and enjoy the day or night right here on the property it is 200+ acres of incomparable land designed for incredible POLO and tons of FUN.
Around the Polo world here in the USA it was Hanaeli Bay with Mr. Bones Bonaquidi and the Fast – etta (Mariano Fassetta) smoking thru the Texans with Jared Sheldon. They brought home the Silver back to California. Down in Palm Beach it has been the GRAND CHAMPION League put on by the Ganzi’s, Melissa and Marc, which is a brilliant fall Polo setting. It runs from 14 to 20 goal Polo. Many of the top American Polo Players are there now. The Villages is also in action with a lot of low goal Polo moving on and it sounds like storm Sandy decided to go North so they are playing polo.
The main action right now is in Argentina where it has been very wet and they have got a little behind in their tournament schedule, but did finally get the first of 3 big tournaments done. It was a bit of a upset as Ellerstina won over the 40-goal side of La Dolfina, so there could be some real battles brewing between these two as I think they have won like the last 10 big cups in Argentina.
The Desert has the Mannix, as in Freddie, down in Argentina competing with his Alegria team. Fred is the highest-rated North American playing in Argentina.
When we talk about common sense and the world around us this story and politics is very good. It is written by a young lady. I did hear a very good one today, “there is no doubt GOD is very smart, but why did he put a WOMAN in charge of WEATHER as in MOTHER NATURE ?”
WRITTEN BY A 21 YEAR OLD FEMALE
Wow, this girl has a great plan! Love the last thing she would do the best.
This was written by a 21 yr. old female who gets it. It’s her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about social welfare, big government and the state that she’s being forced to live in!
These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.
This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX , Nov 18, 2011
PUT ME IN CHARGE . . .
Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then
get a job.
Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then,we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.
Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasmaTV
or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.
In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims
and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”
Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.
If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.
AND While you are on Government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Government welfare checks. If you want to vote, then get a job.
Now, if you have the guts – PASS IT ON…I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET THIS BACK, IF EVERYONE SENDS IT, I WILL GET OVER 220 BACK!!! I WOULD KNOW YOU SENT IT ON!!!
Wow..she sounds very compassionate and empathetic. I suspect her family has never had to ask for government aid. My working mother raising 3 kids did..and it was humiliating for her. We never ate frozen pizza and sugar drinks either;I remember lots of goulash though. All 3 of us won grants and scholarships and paid back government loans to go to college..be careful who you lump into this “losers” pile. The three of us are all working, productive, tax paying people/families now. Believe it or not, many, many people work 2 jobs and still exist below the poverty line. I am very proud of my mother and thankful for our government help…we were able to retain Hope. Without hope, people do not dream, and our dreams drive us to seek better situations.
There are ALWAYS going to be people who abuse the system..any system. That’s human nature unfortunately. To punish everyone because there are scammers is non-productive. Hope should be available to everyone.
Rules do need to be tightened, but that would require more oversight, and there isn’t money for that.