Myrtle Beach Growth Summit Focuses on Continued Stupidity

On Friday, August 10, 2007, the local fish wrapper, the Myrtle Beach Sun News, along with the area’s higher education wannabe, Coastal Carolina Loonyversity of Shady Dealings, sponsored their 6th installment of their backwater snooze-fest, which they laughingly dubbed the Growth Summit.

This gathering of usual cheap-suited suspects was again held in the dirty, dingy and depressing bat cave they call the auditorium at Coastal’s Wall School of Graft & Corruption at 1:30 PM.

That’s right, these self-anointed “visionaries,” scheduled a meeting on a Friday afternoon on a busy summer weekend on gridlocked Highway 501. To add to the torture of anyone dumb enough to attend, these brain-dead rocket scientists brilliantly scheduled the adjournment of their hot-air chinwag to precisely coincide with the daily rush hour. Now, doesn’t that speak volumes about the “vision” of these morons?

One must remember that this is the same bunch of so-called business and community lemmings who for 12-years relied on that criminal lard-bucket, Al Parish, to advise their incompetent asses on our area's future. Now the same clan of dimwitted nabobs are relying on has-been motel manager and pompous windbag, Gary "The Freeloader" Loftus, for the same clueless "book-cooking" BS as the fat man in the red suit conjured up.

Now if all of the foregoing lunacy isn’t enough of this gang’s bungling for you, then how about this: Their lead speaker was a real estate consultant and right-wing political vagabond from Newport News, VA. Barry DuVal.

Note: The Myrtle Beach area is known to be queer for consultant’s named “Barry.” By the way, anybody seen our old pal Barry Landreth lately?

A former Mayor and Virginia Secretary of Commerce, DuVal came here to shill for the resurrection of the Gilland’s Airport Folly. That’s right, another backdoor hump by those sore losing cry babies at the Sun News as they continued their pathetic and obsessive fixation on pissing away $300 million dollars of the taxpayer's money on a Taj Mahal to governmental and the Sun News' self-serving arrogance.

While no one with an IQ over 25 supports their asinine obsession, these condescending twits won’t abandon their long-lost cause. Obviously, the “Fantasy Island Bug” (See CDC: Rare Brain Attacking Virus Found in Horry County posting of Monday, July 30, 2007 below) has devoured more of their pitiful little brains than we thought.

What’s more, the Un News touted DuVal as a regional cooperation guru, and cited his stint on the board of the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance as his shining credential in that area. The fact is, the HREDA, along with it’s other identities (Hampton Roads Partnership and Forward Hampton Roads) were all ill-conceived and ill-fated multi-million dollar co-op marketing efforts in Tidewater, Virginia that, while still in existence, bombed like a 2-ton turd in the Dunes Club swimming pool on the 4th of July.

Now, ain’t that the Summit of Stupidity?

“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.” Oscar Wilde

And so it goes on the Redneck Riviera!