SAME OLD SAME OLD

    It seems that for some people and for some nations there is a great difficulty in accepting the truth. They lie as easily as taking a normal breath and put forth misinformation in a cool and collected manner. Even if they are caught with their pants down, they come out attacking and feel that they will triumph. Well, they are wrong.
     Russia denies again and again that its troops are in the Ukraine. Yes, they are wearing their uniforms, albeit without insignia; yes, they are in Russian army trucks with Russian weaponry; yes, the soldiers captured and the soldiers dead in combat are Russians and in the army, but never mind all this. So says Russia.
     SONY gives in to cyberterrorism and while they say it is because the movie chains caved in, it does not matter. The end is the same and soon enough we will be all caving in. Bullies need to be stood up to, need to get a taste of their own medicine and a podunk state such as North Korea should not be able to threaten the USA and one of its fundamental rights. That is just wrong.
     In our own personal lives we have all come across petty dictators, kings in their little ponds, nasty  people who need to impress everyone with their power and might. The fact is that if one looks back at them, one will wonder why the hell they did not stand up for themselves and will also note that there came a time when these tinpot despots got their due.
     I am not going to go into a long diatribe about our  own personal tinpot dictator, but suffice it to say that his day has come too. He has gone on screaming for too long about the "drumbeat of the malcontents". He has gone on too long living in a world of his own creation, on his "campus". This is a Village, a living, breathing population of creative, bright,  or not so bright, mostly good people who live in a village, not a business campus or a governmental campus. It is backward thinking like that , that leads to grievous errors in planning and actualization of necessities for the village.
     We all know what this man has done to us over the past almost five years and it is awful, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. We need to continue to stand up and refuse his ridiculous plans, his perseveration in trying to get his way all the time, government by tantrum and we must watch that the old does not come back, for as he often states, there is always another day - for the same old, same old.
     Let us enter the new year with the new, not the old, with a clean broom. Excusing his failures - or our successes- as unfair attacks on  him is ridiculous and the statements that if only the Bid and Operations committees would do what he wants, then all would be well. Wrong, Petey Boy, as usual. That is called democracy. Need a lesson in civics, in American history? Again, free of charge. And now let us unite together again and VOTE DOWN THIS HARMUL AND FINANCIALLY UNSTABLE BUDGET. OUR FUTURES ARE AT STAKE. DO NOT PAY FOR THIS MAN'S PARANOID FANTASIES AND WASTEFUL LACK OF MANAGEMENT SKILLS. DOWN WITH THE BUDGET. UP WITH NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMEBERS IN MARCH.
      A legend in his own mind does not make him a legend in ours. Time for him to go.