Wednesday, August 17, 2011

I have to laugh at the FOGG :)

Wait a sec... I have been gone for a few days. What facts. You and I mean singular and either Tammy, Julie (or her husband) or Susan Earnest, seem to want to claim facts. The number of people that answered the survey was heavily skewed to the higher income areas of town. You claim the election, but elections are only shifted because of alliances ebbing and flowing. Obama won in 2008 and the country is in a shithole. Be careful before you state obvious contradictions.

It is a fact that the paper and radio station take nearly no counter position to what city government does unless it runs counter to Gary Person. The truth of the matter is, is that they turned off comments because of the likes of people aligned with Gary's friends and the number of comments became a distraction. People got their feelings hurt in the process and I am, sad to say, one of them. I don't give a rat's ass about what the friends of Gary say about me. When one of you decide to actually put your name on a post dickweed, we can debate. When you can post a "fact" without libel it will be posted.

Person IS a nice guy, who wants to control, not direct. He has surrounded himself with people who will not only do the job he wants, but report back to him on things we needs to keep a lid on. When you cross Gary, he sends his friends like the two Suzies and his allies on his committees to do the work he claims to be above.

Nice guy persona aside, Person is a dirtbag political hack. Claiming that I am the problem is your problem. The housing authority would still be sitting on its ass if I didn't raise a stink about the windows.

Those of you who hide in the shadows of your master Gary Person need to realize that all tyrannies eventually collapse of their own weight. The only question left for the people of Sidney is decide how much of tomorrow's water they wish to carry on their back's today.

I think we understand where the FOGG is. I think we understand where the POS media outlets are with their bad math editorials and ride the fence positions on critical national issues. The question for the rest of the people is what decisions city council and Gary make that will finally force the silent majority (jsut look at the head counts in the election... way less than 50%) to get off their asses and change their lives.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Nice Try... and you know who you are :)

Nice try. An anonymous poster, lacking the guts to put their name to a comment says that I have it out for people who have "wronged" me. This is not the case in the slightest. When I left the employ of my former company, they provided me a generous severance package and thanked me for the years of valuable service I rendered to them. I was not, "fired" as was Mrs. Nelsen, although people such as the writer often equate the two as one and the same.

Monday, August 15, 2011

The Creeping Meatball

The sheer audacity of Gary Person cannot be believed.

As head of economic development, he now needs a director level position to help him out? Councilmen Wiederspon and Van Vleet are right to question the addition of a new salary and benefits package for one of Gary's friends.

Last year, KSID Radio hack Susan Ernest and the Sun Telegraph fawned over Gary, along with liquid plumber Mike Harzler and Cathy Wilson when people wanted to separate Person from his two personas.

If the city manager can't hack both roles, he choose one, or have it chosen for him.

It's interesting how when faced with the knowledge that Person can no longer hack the job, how accommodating Nienhueser, Gaston and Hiett have become. Staunch friends of Gary they have always been, and staunch defenders of his idiocy they will always be.

Lastly, when does Jim Pelster get back to work. I am surprised his budget didn't include a new Ford Explorer or Dodge Durango loaded up to the hilt.

Ben Nelson the new Jobs Gladiator

The latest e-newsletter from the future former Senator of Nebraska, Ben Nelson, educates us that Washington is on the wrong track for job creation. This idiot now has come to Jesus and understands that the federal government spends too much money, taxes those who earn too much and has oppressive regulatory guidelines.

What a serious joke. The Senator would have  you believe that he is concerned about deficits and spending. At no time did he stand up and say no to healthcare, no for Dodd-Frank. At no time did he stand up to Harry Reid and say, "No, this debt deal is not enough."

Senator Ben Nelson is trying his best to convince you good Nebraskans that he should keep his job. If federal truth in advertising laws were applied to political speech, Mr. Nelson would be guilty of numerous violations.

Ben Nelson supported policies that will likely take money out of your pocket, either in higher taxes, which are always on the democratic horizon, from the coming hyper inflation as a result of the out of control budget deficits and national debt crisis.

Just remember when it comes time to vote, how much Ben Nelson took away from you in the last two years before you allow him to do it for six more.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Special interests, including including ethanol subsidies ARE the problem

Footed Shepard of Peetz, Co. Thinks that politicians are beholden to special interests. He is right, they are. According to Floyd, "It should not be too hard to make good legislation to solve these problems, without trying to get their own little special interest to be included, that would favor someone who donated largely to their campaign."

Here is the rub. Last year, Mr. Shepard also wrote an editorial touting the benefits of ethanol as a renewable resource. He believes this, because he sells corn to ethanol producers who use energy, and water resources far in excess of the btu output of unmodified gasoline in a gambit made by the very lobby he decries as responsible for the problems created by decades of special interests and their lobbying/purchasing of Congresional votes.

I fully commend Mr. Shepard's change of world view, but also hope that this change is broad enough to tackle his sacred cows, in addition to those of others.

Monday, August 8, 2011

The fog moves in

It appears that the 2008 vehicle that Jim Pelster turned into a hood ornament isn't the first such attempt at autoshop art. I guess it begs the question even further about why no ticket. I suppose you get a free pass if you are a relative of someone powerful in the community.

Normally you have to wait later in the fall for FOG to move in, but it seems that the friends of Gary can permeate even the driest of seasons. True to form, not a single question from the Sun-Telegraph or KSquid or even the governmental loudmouth Tammy Nelson.


Sunday, August 7, 2011

Pelster should not get a pass for cutting off the lane

Why does a city employee get a free pass from the local constabulary for causing an accident that totaled two vehicles and sent multiple people to the hospital. Such is the current plan after details of the accident involving City inspector Jim Pelster and Columbus resident Lori Miller.

385 isn't exactly a blind turn and City Inspector Jim Pelster isn't usually in the kind of hurry an inspection that requires an unsafe turn. Be that as it may, the fact that he failed to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic, leading to an impact that moved the vehicles some 50 feet away from the impact zone should warrant some kind of legal proceeding.

Hopefully some additional information will come out in the public that will further justify the no citation at this point. We hope that Mr. Pelster and Ms. Miller are both well and are grateful that all parties were wearing safety equipment. No matter what happens next, it is clear that Jim's actions led to the destruction of hard to replace city property and will likely require increases in insurance premiums and other legal/medical fees and vehicle replacement costs for both himself and Ms. Miller.

Interesting Opinion Piece in WSJ Weekend Edition

I don't often get the Wall Street Journal due to the cost, and relative lack of dispensable capital from the economic downturn, but this weekend's opinion gave me something to think about.

The article compares Cantor's worldview contrasted against President Obama's and makes reference to a Freudian term known as the Narcissism of small differences. The concept was put forth in order to understand how small communities seem to always be warring with each other based on these, relatively-speaking, small differences in philosophy and culture.

WSJ paraphrased the statement a little differently, calling it big differences, and focused on the rather large gulf that exists between the ideologies of the political left, who think that redistributive policies are the key to prosperity, and the thought by the political right, that freedom to seek one's fortune rest largely with an opportunity to create and innovate, and that growth comes from the successful application of endeavor.

What was interesting in the article is how the President's insistence on increases in taxes for the wealthy, while continuing to expand the government was met by an equal, and intractable resistance by Cantor against such a philosophy. The bitter divide politically has created an economic chasm whereby so many people are now dependent upon a government that has likewise become increasingly dependent on a smaller taxpayer base to perform such services.

In Cantor's view, the problem for Americans rests with the senior magistrate. Cantor sees the choice as a stark one. According to the WSJ article he states, "They need to change Obama's Washington, but it's really a return to what we know is America. Obama ran as an agent of change, and I don't know what that hope and change really was at this point. It's turned out to be something a lot different than what most people thought. But, we need to change and take the country away from President Obama."

The staggering challenges facing this country fiscally and politically will continue to pit Americans as either a class of people committed to doing the hard work to build ourselves, and therefore our nation, or a class of people enslaved by our government. The Narcissism of Big Ideas, as the article details, has to be bridged for the continued success of our country.

One way through this problem may in fact lie if the retirement of the long-standing policies that have created the chasm to begin with. A complete restructuring of the U.S. tax code may provide the key to both increasing revenues and fundamentally increasing the number of participants. What this would look like would require great minds to come together instead of throwing political jabs across the aisle.

It is obvious from the current debt fiasco that the world markets are not amused at our lackluster attempts to solve these squabbles.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

It's called a book

I have been asked to cobble some items together for a presentation on a variety of small town topics. In order to prepare for the pitch document, I need to reorganize some content. Thank you for asking, but I am not closing down, but rather working on a new and more significant piece of work on behalf of Sidney, and its good people.

Have a wonderful evening.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Sun-Telegraph Opinion the Clown

Writing in Wednesday's edition, the Sun-Telegraph editorial asks the question, "Political Strutting Or Washington Clown Show?" In accordance with its long-standing policy of not actually taking a position in its opinion pieces, they continue to miss the underlying point.

Borrowing freely from other writers and sources uncited, the paper replays the hassle that was the debt crisis debate from two perspectives: Those who feel the bitterness will continue in future negotiations, while the so-called, "glass is half full" crowd recognizes that something can get done, "when it absolutely must." In attempting to play the middleman, the Sun-Telegraph does nothing more than muddle the situation.