THE POWER OF THE PEN

     I was trying to figure out what makes David Israel and crew tick as they refuse to consider other options put forth by people not of their clique and I came up with several reasons. There is a sense of having power in one's hands, power over money, power over the path of the lives of people. If that is why they are in UCO, it is a sad day for us.
     There is a worse reason and that would be for nefarious purposes, with power having more tangible results. I truly hesitate to accuse someone of this, though I must say that there are one or two people in this UCO administration about whom this suspicion might be applicable. Now that is not only sad, but downright scary.
     There are those who like to be a hanger on, like the little fish that swim alongside the shark, nibbling away, getting nourishment from that predator, feeling safe, for who would take on a shark! Few indeed.
     I am even willing to concede that perhaps there are even those who actually think they are doing right by the Village and that, I believe, is even more sad, for while we burn, they fiddle away, singing a tune all the while about how much they have done and will do for the Village. They walk through life with blinders, never seeing or hearing anything but their own little minds.
     And that brings us to the last reason and for that I will use a quote I came across early this morning as I was reading on line. It was said by an EU official and think how applicable it is here. "Stupidity is something you can only partly save people from."
     Now here in this category we will find people such as Your Ninniness who keeps writing the same plaint - "but what have you done for the Village. Do Something." Well, great, because that is what I say or write in almost every posting, but the problem here, Your Ninniness, is that your Lord and Master blocks any and all entry into UCO. Why don't you take that up with him?
     So I do what I can do and a great part of that is to write, a time honored American tradition, journalism, pointing out how life can be changed for the better here, how new leadership is required for us to move forward, how care is needed as we propose spending our money and how we MUST MUST MUST plan better for the future. Now it would be nice if the journalistic segment of the Village would be available except, whoops! go ask Joy Vestal what she is so afraid of, why she has violated the paper's own policy, why she spreads rumors accusing me of using a ghostwriter - now that cracks me up every time! Go, Your Ninniness and ask your questions and prove that EU guy wrong, erroneous in his thinking - and bother me no longer!
     I will close with one question about a topic that needs to be addressed and that is about the insurance policies we have at UCO. Once all four of the CVs were linked together with a maximum payout. For example, let us say there was a million dollar cap on personal injury liability in all four Villages. Now if three claimed damages and used it up and suddenly we had a need - guess what - we were _____out of luck! That practice was lessened and we had policies in our name only and now, suddenly, we are veering in that direction again, with all three of the CVs linked together. Now just who, exactly, is benefitting from this. HINT - it ain't us.  More to follow soon.