Greetings from the Windy City where I am going to the premiere of a movie made by my granddaughter's eighth grade as a senior project called Names Not Numbers. My time is not my own over the next week so postings will probably be coming on at odd times, not my usual early morning ones. Bear with me. Thank you.
Since I had a connecting flight and a layover, I had time to read The Rag, not just skim it and lo and behold two truths came about. One, it is a rag with very little to read carefully. Nor does it truly give information about the Village. Second, there was a ridiculous article by David Israel on broadband and proudly written under a big banner RESEARCHED BY DAVE ISRAEL. Well, the research is nothing to write home about and if you Google "How do I Know if I Have Broadband" you will find all the same info or most of it. Not a project of rocket science category!!!!
Well, I dozed off after reading this scintillating piece of journalism and proceeded to have a nightmare of sorts That same feeling of deja vu was right there. Did we not have this discussion
about Wi Fi before, for all broadband is, is the high speed connection to the Internet, any connection that is not dial up. It is always on. So, people, despite the act that this is presented as if Saint David got this from the lord on high at the sacred UCO building, this is common knowledge and as such WE ALREADY HAVE BROADBAND IN THE VILLAGE. I HAVE IT, MOST OF YOU HAVE IT AND IF ANYONE IS STILL ON DIAL UP, THEY WILL NOT BE INTERESTED IN BROADBAND ANYWAY!!!
The whole concept is in a state of flux right now and the federal government and private industry as well as local governments are trying to figure things out so once again, why the hell are we getting involved in something that is already here, now, in the Village, that will cost us millions again, when we would be smarter to wait before committing ourselves as a whole unit. Do we not have enough problems what with unsavory characters moving in, taking over associations, roads collapsing, an irrigation system that needs help, an infestation of water moccasins and not shoes! and the list goes on. And here is where the nightmare got scary.
David Israel talks of health and e-commerce, of electronic government sites, of security, of cameras being installed all over the Village, more Big Brother business, VOIP, which is already here!, work possibilities.
Well, suddenly, I was walking in the Village and there were all sorts of zombie like people with computers strapped to their shoulders, just under their chins and their fingers were hard wired to the keyboard. They were typing, "I've fallen and I can't get up", over and over again, as a practice session. Meanwhile, there were cars driving along in the "usual careful manner" of CV driving, and these people were getting mowed down! BY THE DOZENS!!
Then there were people with computers for heads going to every person and telling them they had to get a job with computer connections, fast connections, and if they did not, they would fall and not be picked up. I cried out that I did not want to work, that I am retired, and leave me alone. In response, I was pushed down but luckily I had my cellphone with me and did not need a locket. I dialed 911 and those great EMTs were there in the blink of an eye.
I ran back to my unit but suddenly there was a picture of David Israel and Ed Black on my wall! They were shouting, "We are the government and we want to interact with you and your official dealings!" At that point I screamed. And woke up.
When I woke up from my scary doze the most frightening thing was to realize that this nightmare could come true. Once more we must fight this nonsense. Once more we have to stand firm and say no. Once more we have to ask questions and please note that no where in the article are there answers to any real questions like exactly what will this cost? What infrastructure is needed? What if one already has broadband and is not interested in going in whole hog with the Village, especially with concern about our security, especially from nosy people who live in the Village, let alone outside. What about governmental interaction? Maybe we think that the government is good in its place - and that place is not in my business. Taxes are enough! and I am not concerned about health via the Internet, thank you. I prefer my doctors up front and live.
So, again, we do not need this. We already have it and the few people that are still dial up, they are happy with it and leave them alone. As for the rest of us, many already have that fast and always on connection so what the heck are you babbling on and on about. Give it a rest.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
ALL THE NEWS FIT TO BE KEPT HIDDEN
Here is the question of the day. Why are so many incidents that involve the PBSO and activities inside the Village kept quiet, hushed up, swept under the carpet?
Why were there SWAT teams in CV? Why was an entire area near Borden blocked off with several police or sheriff 's cars participating in this blockade? And what the heck does Kent Security do other than building up lines at the gates?
And why does the Village not know that there allegedly have been multiple, yes, multiple robberies in Waltham I, in that same area. It seems that there are undesirables living in the area in a Norwich building and I guess they have decided upon a profitable and cozy career choice - not much commuting and multiple opportunities. Guess it was a green choice - no use of fossil fuels for getaway cars!Too bad there are people that suffer for this decision.
What is even worse is when a resident went to UCO to complain, guess to whom that resident was referred. Uh huh, Ed Black and guess what he allegedly told this poor resident fraught with anxiety and looking for help - "What do you want me to do? Call the police?"
Wow! That was indeed helpful, was it not?
Because we do not hear of anything or things are swept under the rug, rumors abound. Is this story of the robberies another such rumor as the one about rape or is it real? Who knows since there is not trust anymore about truth and lies, about reality and not. The boy who cried wolf is clearly applicable here. For too many times we have heard lie after lie coming out of UCO, be it on money moving or half truths or the quality and necessity of a contractor and on and on. There must be a better way than to hear items and then guess.
But we never hear of these things at the DA. There we get a fairy tale report from a representative of the PBSO and we continue to slumber in our false dreams. Does anyone know the real story behind the shooting in the Village? CVWPB is no longer the Village of old. Too many associations have been lax in their standards of acceptances of residents as they are worried about fees and payments, but how many more units will go empty because people do not move into crime ridden areas.
It is still pretty safe here to walk around and go to activities, but I am not so sure I would walk around late at nite anymore. Who the hell knows who is here anymore as criminal background checks are either not done, sloppily done or ignored. Why are there sexual perverts with records allowed in? Why are people with criminal records allowed in? And make no mistake about this. It has nothing to do with race, creed, color, religion, etc. It is simply about the wrong elements allowed in due to poor association thinking and poor advise from UCO, if any. Why do we allow so many rentals?
Where are the VPs of UCO? Certainly not at the meetings, Two were away last week along with another officer. Why are they not making phone calls to the presidents and vice presidents of the associations in their assigned areas? Why are they not finding out what is going on and getting help for beleaguered buildings? For that matter, why not have a Town Hall meeting where PBSO will come and give advice how to beef up security in the associations - solid can do ideas that will not cost a fortune for already hard pressed ones. There are clauses that can be added into the bylaws of an association that can help protect it so why isn't UCO getting out there and speaking up, being proactive, rather than chasing after what has already happened.
After I made a suggestion at a DA that we have a Town Hall meeting for real security advice about identity theft, David Israel arranged one, without mentioning my name of course, as I do not exist. But that is okay if it helped people so David, go ahead and run with this idea as well. Get help for our besieged associations. Get the hell out of your damn office and away from your infernal computer and go see the people who make up this Village. Move your rear end out of your chair and get out into the real world of CV. There are people who need help and if you will not see to it then I guess we will have to arrange another meeting in Classroom C that will be packed with people who are seeking advice. I will suggest that to the President of the club who arranged that meeting. It seems that he has the welfare of the Villagers at heart.
Let us help our great CV before it tilts too far. I love it here, as do most others, and one of the reasons is because of its atmosphere of safety, of a freedom to walk around whenever, to leave doors unlocked, unlike many areas where we lived in our previous lives, or still live in the summer. Hiding one's head in the sand, or in the computer, or walking around UCO as if one knows everything yet truly knows nothing helpful, will not alleviate the situation. Only real, down to earth suggestions and ideas will help and a tighter investigatory process with associations accepting residents carefully after checking them out.
No one needs sex offenders here. No one needs petty thieves here. No one needs auto thieves here. No one needs white collar financial thieves here. No one needs to be set up as a patsy. And for sure, no one needs an association to be used as a motel, full of transients from who knows where, with what motives and with no concern for our home.
And by the way, anyone notice how much large stuff has been dumped in recent days by dumpsters that are easily accessible? There seems to be a white pickup truck with a metal cover for the bed of the truck and I believe two women, who go around dumping unwanted furniture, toilets, boxes, shelves and what not? They leave these things all around and even fill up the cans that are there for the use of the residents of the building. If you see them, you can yell at them or just get their license number and call UCO or PBSO. There must be a law against unlawful dumping or something similar.
Only by keeping our eyes open and our heads straight and INSISTING that UCO DO SOMETHING, never mind their constant excuse of oh, that is not our job or we cannot or do not have legal power over the associations. All the people are asking is for advice, a shoulder, a referral source, to show that one cares, not just worries if their snacks will be there for them!
Speak up at the DA. Demand that UCO function properly and usefully. I will be in Chicago at a family event so cannot do it at this DA but there are many who can and MUST speak up and speak out. It is our home. Let us keep it safe and welcoming.
Why were there SWAT teams in CV? Why was an entire area near Borden blocked off with several police or sheriff 's cars participating in this blockade? And what the heck does Kent Security do other than building up lines at the gates?
And why does the Village not know that there allegedly have been multiple, yes, multiple robberies in Waltham I, in that same area. It seems that there are undesirables living in the area in a Norwich building and I guess they have decided upon a profitable and cozy career choice - not much commuting and multiple opportunities. Guess it was a green choice - no use of fossil fuels for getaway cars!Too bad there are people that suffer for this decision.
What is even worse is when a resident went to UCO to complain, guess to whom that resident was referred. Uh huh, Ed Black and guess what he allegedly told this poor resident fraught with anxiety and looking for help - "What do you want me to do? Call the police?"
Wow! That was indeed helpful, was it not?
Because we do not hear of anything or things are swept under the rug, rumors abound. Is this story of the robberies another such rumor as the one about rape or is it real? Who knows since there is not trust anymore about truth and lies, about reality and not. The boy who cried wolf is clearly applicable here. For too many times we have heard lie after lie coming out of UCO, be it on money moving or half truths or the quality and necessity of a contractor and on and on. There must be a better way than to hear items and then guess.
But we never hear of these things at the DA. There we get a fairy tale report from a representative of the PBSO and we continue to slumber in our false dreams. Does anyone know the real story behind the shooting in the Village? CVWPB is no longer the Village of old. Too many associations have been lax in their standards of acceptances of residents as they are worried about fees and payments, but how many more units will go empty because people do not move into crime ridden areas.
It is still pretty safe here to walk around and go to activities, but I am not so sure I would walk around late at nite anymore. Who the hell knows who is here anymore as criminal background checks are either not done, sloppily done or ignored. Why are there sexual perverts with records allowed in? Why are people with criminal records allowed in? And make no mistake about this. It has nothing to do with race, creed, color, religion, etc. It is simply about the wrong elements allowed in due to poor association thinking and poor advise from UCO, if any. Why do we allow so many rentals?
Where are the VPs of UCO? Certainly not at the meetings, Two were away last week along with another officer. Why are they not making phone calls to the presidents and vice presidents of the associations in their assigned areas? Why are they not finding out what is going on and getting help for beleaguered buildings? For that matter, why not have a Town Hall meeting where PBSO will come and give advice how to beef up security in the associations - solid can do ideas that will not cost a fortune for already hard pressed ones. There are clauses that can be added into the bylaws of an association that can help protect it so why isn't UCO getting out there and speaking up, being proactive, rather than chasing after what has already happened.
After I made a suggestion at a DA that we have a Town Hall meeting for real security advice about identity theft, David Israel arranged one, without mentioning my name of course, as I do not exist. But that is okay if it helped people so David, go ahead and run with this idea as well. Get help for our besieged associations. Get the hell out of your damn office and away from your infernal computer and go see the people who make up this Village. Move your rear end out of your chair and get out into the real world of CV. There are people who need help and if you will not see to it then I guess we will have to arrange another meeting in Classroom C that will be packed with people who are seeking advice. I will suggest that to the President of the club who arranged that meeting. It seems that he has the welfare of the Villagers at heart.
Let us help our great CV before it tilts too far. I love it here, as do most others, and one of the reasons is because of its atmosphere of safety, of a freedom to walk around whenever, to leave doors unlocked, unlike many areas where we lived in our previous lives, or still live in the summer. Hiding one's head in the sand, or in the computer, or walking around UCO as if one knows everything yet truly knows nothing helpful, will not alleviate the situation. Only real, down to earth suggestions and ideas will help and a tighter investigatory process with associations accepting residents carefully after checking them out.
No one needs sex offenders here. No one needs petty thieves here. No one needs auto thieves here. No one needs white collar financial thieves here. No one needs to be set up as a patsy. And for sure, no one needs an association to be used as a motel, full of transients from who knows where, with what motives and with no concern for our home.
And by the way, anyone notice how much large stuff has been dumped in recent days by dumpsters that are easily accessible? There seems to be a white pickup truck with a metal cover for the bed of the truck and I believe two women, who go around dumping unwanted furniture, toilets, boxes, shelves and what not? They leave these things all around and even fill up the cans that are there for the use of the residents of the building. If you see them, you can yell at them or just get their license number and call UCO or PBSO. There must be a law against unlawful dumping or something similar.
Only by keeping our eyes open and our heads straight and INSISTING that UCO DO SOMETHING, never mind their constant excuse of oh, that is not our job or we cannot or do not have legal power over the associations. All the people are asking is for advice, a shoulder, a referral source, to show that one cares, not just worries if their snacks will be there for them!
Speak up at the DA. Demand that UCO function properly and usefully. I will be in Chicago at a family event so cannot do it at this DA but there are many who can and MUST speak up and speak out. It is our home. Let us keep it safe and welcoming.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
MUSINGS OF TRUTH
I write this post with heavy heart as my cousin Shir is still in danger, still stranded, waiting for rescue in an increasingly hostile atmosphere. We hope and pray that rescue will come at the right moment and she will return to us all, along with the rest of her group.
I am writing to try to take my mind off this situation, at least for a bit. I skimmed through the new issue of The Rag (like my new name for the paper?) and as usual was not disappointed in its lies, misrepresentations and efforts to continue to fool the residents of the Village. It is truly becoming a joke with the biggest readership being those who have bets with each other as to how many lies and simplifications and obfuscations they can find in The Rag.
So let's take an obvious one, the blind eye to what they themselves write. There is a huge article about the Four Freedoms, a noble topic, but they simply ignore the fact that the Freedom of Speech and Expression here in the Village in nonoperable! Repression is the word of the day. Suppression is the action of the day. Keep the truth from the people and chow down on any and all who can attempt to bring the truth to the forefront. So, anyway, next!
We have an article by Don Foster of all people, yes, DonHOHo of note, who writes about this mysterious meeting held in the Clubhouse with two distinguished speakers. He does not write about the standing room only crowd, only that there were perhaps about 180 people there. Want to borrow my glasses, Don? Not a single word about who organized it, nor that it is one of a series of increasingly populated meetings, all organized by the Messenger Club, chaired by Ed Grossman. Yes, he is the chair, the President of this club and he does not throw tantrums; instead he acted in a statesmanlike manner when he needed to settle the crowd down, completely the opposite of you know who!
Not a word about this growing phenomenon. Not a word about why this and other meetings on timely and vital topics to and for the Village have to presented by a club rather than by UCO. Not a word that the answer to that is simple - that UCO has a need to suppress all the truth lest they come out smelling like the garbage dump. And by the way - how and where did this "esteemed" writer get his info from as no one saw him there, nor anyone else from The Rag.
Then of course we have the piece de resistance, the little, very small, paragraph about The Millennium Agreement, due to expire in about five or six years and utterly devastating to our Village and which needs prep work NOW. I am sure that Levy's attorneys are well into the depths of the new and increased demands they will lay upon us in any new agreement. But what does Howie O'Brien say, our esteemed Treasurer, who appears to be a quick learner at denial, denial, halftruths, and strange answers such as "because I felt like it". He may be a nice man, easy to talk to and ever polite, but this is not what we need in a treasurer. We need the TRUTH and right now, not a go along get along attitude which will assist our slide down the tubes.
According to him and the "masters" of the Village the agreement merely "sets forth the rental schedule for the land on which all the condominiums are built and the cost of maintaining and operating all the facilities provided by WPRF....That summarizes the essence of the Millennium Agreement."
Yes, and the Constitution is the means by which the government of the USA is run. Same difference. Same ridiculous simplification.
Where is the problem with the runaway spending by WPRF that WE pay for?
Where is the unbelievably expensive cost of the Clubhouse to us wherein we pay for everything but have barely any sayso about what goes on within it?
Where are the clauses which tell of how we provide Mark Levy, the multi millionaire - if not billionaire - with a fancy car and we provide one to his wife as well! Yes, you read that correctly.
I could go on and on but have not the intense drive to continue this morning. Most of my head and heart are elsewhere, far across the sea and into the mountains of Nepal and a lovely home in Israel. But the truth is always there, ready to be exposed and not by The Rag either. Keep an eye on the blogs and on the newsletter put out by the Messenger Club wherein the truth is told. In the meanwhile, please keep Shir and her friends and indeed, all the people of Nepal in mind and pray for them, that help comes and in time to help. I thank all of you for kind thoughts and encouragement.
So - a postscript or two. First the ones responding to some petty vicious minds. First of all, no one is blaming anyone in the administration for the Millennium, you idiot. Read it and see. If anyone is to blame it is Kurt Weiss but UCO IS to blame for not starting to work on new agreement terms.
Now for the vicious petty mind of Ed....er Fred...er anonymous....er coward ...if you cannot have sympathy and understanding for a relative in an agony of fear and concern then go to hell - fast!
Finally for a great postscript and a thank you to the Lord above - we received news today that tomorrow, G-d willing, the Israeli army will be able to rescue my cousin and the others with her. A great rock has been lifted off the chest of many. G-d has heard our prayers and hopes. When we get the email tomorrow that she is safe, then truly, our cup runneth over.
I am writing to try to take my mind off this situation, at least for a bit. I skimmed through the new issue of The Rag (like my new name for the paper?) and as usual was not disappointed in its lies, misrepresentations and efforts to continue to fool the residents of the Village. It is truly becoming a joke with the biggest readership being those who have bets with each other as to how many lies and simplifications and obfuscations they can find in The Rag.
So let's take an obvious one, the blind eye to what they themselves write. There is a huge article about the Four Freedoms, a noble topic, but they simply ignore the fact that the Freedom of Speech and Expression here in the Village in nonoperable! Repression is the word of the day. Suppression is the action of the day. Keep the truth from the people and chow down on any and all who can attempt to bring the truth to the forefront. So, anyway, next!
We have an article by Don Foster of all people, yes, DonHOHo of note, who writes about this mysterious meeting held in the Clubhouse with two distinguished speakers. He does not write about the standing room only crowd, only that there were perhaps about 180 people there. Want to borrow my glasses, Don? Not a single word about who organized it, nor that it is one of a series of increasingly populated meetings, all organized by the Messenger Club, chaired by Ed Grossman. Yes, he is the chair, the President of this club and he does not throw tantrums; instead he acted in a statesmanlike manner when he needed to settle the crowd down, completely the opposite of you know who!
Not a word about this growing phenomenon. Not a word about why this and other meetings on timely and vital topics to and for the Village have to presented by a club rather than by UCO. Not a word that the answer to that is simple - that UCO has a need to suppress all the truth lest they come out smelling like the garbage dump. And by the way - how and where did this "esteemed" writer get his info from as no one saw him there, nor anyone else from The Rag.
Then of course we have the piece de resistance, the little, very small, paragraph about The Millennium Agreement, due to expire in about five or six years and utterly devastating to our Village and which needs prep work NOW. I am sure that Levy's attorneys are well into the depths of the new and increased demands they will lay upon us in any new agreement. But what does Howie O'Brien say, our esteemed Treasurer, who appears to be a quick learner at denial, denial, halftruths, and strange answers such as "because I felt like it". He may be a nice man, easy to talk to and ever polite, but this is not what we need in a treasurer. We need the TRUTH and right now, not a go along get along attitude which will assist our slide down the tubes.
According to him and the "masters" of the Village the agreement merely "sets forth the rental schedule for the land on which all the condominiums are built and the cost of maintaining and operating all the facilities provided by WPRF....That summarizes the essence of the Millennium Agreement."
Yes, and the Constitution is the means by which the government of the USA is run. Same difference. Same ridiculous simplification.
Where is the problem with the runaway spending by WPRF that WE pay for?
Where is the unbelievably expensive cost of the Clubhouse to us wherein we pay for everything but have barely any sayso about what goes on within it?
Where are the clauses which tell of how we provide Mark Levy, the multi millionaire - if not billionaire - with a fancy car and we provide one to his wife as well! Yes, you read that correctly.
I could go on and on but have not the intense drive to continue this morning. Most of my head and heart are elsewhere, far across the sea and into the mountains of Nepal and a lovely home in Israel. But the truth is always there, ready to be exposed and not by The Rag either. Keep an eye on the blogs and on the newsletter put out by the Messenger Club wherein the truth is told. In the meanwhile, please keep Shir and her friends and indeed, all the people of Nepal in mind and pray for them, that help comes and in time to help. I thank all of you for kind thoughts and encouragement.
So - a postscript or two. First the ones responding to some petty vicious minds. First of all, no one is blaming anyone in the administration for the Millennium, you idiot. Read it and see. If anyone is to blame it is Kurt Weiss but UCO IS to blame for not starting to work on new agreement terms.
Now for the vicious petty mind of Ed....er Fred...er anonymous....er coward ...if you cannot have sympathy and understanding for a relative in an agony of fear and concern then go to hell - fast!
Finally for a great postscript and a thank you to the Lord above - we received news today that tomorrow, G-d willing, the Israeli army will be able to rescue my cousin and the others with her. A great rock has been lifted off the chest of many. G-d has heard our prayers and hopes. When we get the email tomorrow that she is safe, then truly, our cup runneth over.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
NEPAL AND MY COUSIN
The tragedy in Nepal turned a bit more personal upon hearing that my beautiful young cousin, Shir, is trapped there, marooned in an open area outside of Kathmandu, along with about 15 other young Israelis. they cannot be accessed by road as all is blocked. Luckily they have some food and water which they will ration and a satellite phone with which they were finally able to contact frantic parents back in Israel.
Keep her and the rest of the people there in your hearts and minds, in your prayers and thoughts. We are hoping that Israel comes thru for its citizens, as it usually does and that they will all return home safely. And we wish all of Nepal all the best we can.
Keep her and the rest of the people there in your hearts and minds, in your prayers and thoughts. We are hoping that Israel comes thru for its citizens, as it usually does and that they will all return home safely. And we wish all of Nepal all the best we can.
DEJA VU - AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN........
The title seems redundant, as deja vu is having the feeling that the moment you are in is one that has happened to you before and quite frankly, that is what we have here in the Village, a sense of reliving things again and again and again and the term deja vu needs to be upgraded to a stronger intensity.
"may the world at least behold a drop,
a fraction of this tragic world in which we lived"
This statement, which breaks one's heart, was written by Salmen Gradowski, dated Sept. 6, 1944, and was found or discovered after liberation in a flask buried on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematorium.
The courage, the despair, the human determination to leave a trace, a true legacy in this world, all are present here and we can not possibly compare nor fully understand the emotions of the man at that point, as he buried his note to history.This is man reaching the highest point of humanity at the same time that man reached the lowest point of humanity, if it could even be called that - humanity.
Man has within its makeup the choice to be either - the high or the low, and it is to our great sadness that we see the low point far more alluring to a small group of people here in the Village and I am not talking about the reformers but about the true malcontents, the members of David Israel's coterie, his minions. Granted, they have not fallen as low as one can fall, but they seem to be chasing that "achievement", do they not and the true colors they display in this chase towards Hell are not pretty ones, not the colors of a Crayola box of crayons.
Here we go again and again and again. Last year I asked for the originals of the voting papers and was delayed, refused, then told only copies and I would have to pay for the copies, an expense unnecessary for originals is what I wanted and requested and then they pulled garbage on others who also asked to see the relevant papers - all allowed by law and which must be released upon request.
This year, I immediately requested the originals and when I was denied, against the law, David Israel then took it upon himself to upload copies to the cloud to which HE has the password and final sayso of ALL our UCO documents, and after a delay of almost two months and several legal letters, he finally said okay to go link up and nastily teased all with the length and the time needed to do that. Well, guess what? Several people tried and it cannot be done! Not surprised there, are you? But be assured that I am not yet done with this.
This is the same man and buddies who wish to make all opponents of their nasty and wasteful ways just disappear from public view. Shut down the media to them even if that means there are no more media outlets in the Village. Hey, he thinks, who cares, as long as they are gone.
Well, WE ARE HERE and here we remain, not letting go and determined to have our rights and bring the Village back to an even and stable keel. We do not hint that working as anything in life before CV is dishonest or contemptible, but Gracie does when she asks if someone had worked as a "garbageman" - and if one had - so what? Is being an NSA guy any better in the sense that they troll through garbage, electronic though much might be? Screwed yourself, there, dearie. Ah, I can just hear Cyndi Lauper singing "True Colors". You see, any honest work is just that - honest and honorable. Hard for you to understand that concept - I understand.
Meanwhile, demented Peter Cruz continues in his nasty path but has he come to any of the Messenger Club meetings and spoken up properly? Nope! That would take courage and honesty.
Now, more deja vu - read the new issue of the rag and see how we are back where we were. Once more David Israel is railing on and on about Wi Fi, this time in the guise of broadband. Anyone keeping up with this field and what is going on in the papers about this topic KNOWS that that world is in an uproar, changing faster than you can shake a stick at and we need to let it settle down before making any more costly and disastrous decisions for the Village. No where in the article does he point out that all this streaming, all this capacity, is already here for many of us - and in the form of broadband it is NOT free either. Streaming from the various providers costs money. Once more we are talking infrastructure, fees, building issues, safety - and in making sure that someone we know is blocked from laying on his hot little hands to access the broadband that we use. Once more we are rushing into something that we need to investigate, evaluate and wait for the air to clear. The federal regulations are first beginning, never mind caught up and again WE NEED TO WAIT.
Once more the rag, the investigations committee, and UCO are calling for volunteers but when the volunteers come - they must pass the David Israel test - do you obey his every word or not, and if not, then out you and your application go! Such hypocrisy.
They try all sorts of tricks. Lanny Howe has given up writing on the first David blog and now writes on Elaine's - no difference there, you know. What does he write? About the problem of rentals in the Village, how they are growing and the problems that can ensue. Correct - BUT nowhere do I see where he takes his buddies to task as they own multiple units and rent them out- part of the problem, not the solution. Truth in advertising, Lanny - ever hear of it?
So- the same garbage, the same attempts in different clothing, the true colors of the true malcontents and the efforts and determination of the reformers to counter all this for the sake of our home - and yours.
Here is a proverbial saying that I came across in a book I was reading and enjoying.
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Never too late to change one's path in life and this is a pretty good guide. Think about it, you true malcontents out there. A good life lived is a joy to one's soul. Try it.
"may the world at least behold a drop,
a fraction of this tragic world in which we lived"
This statement, which breaks one's heart, was written by Salmen Gradowski, dated Sept. 6, 1944, and was found or discovered after liberation in a flask buried on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematorium.
The courage, the despair, the human determination to leave a trace, a true legacy in this world, all are present here and we can not possibly compare nor fully understand the emotions of the man at that point, as he buried his note to history.This is man reaching the highest point of humanity at the same time that man reached the lowest point of humanity, if it could even be called that - humanity.
Man has within its makeup the choice to be either - the high or the low, and it is to our great sadness that we see the low point far more alluring to a small group of people here in the Village and I am not talking about the reformers but about the true malcontents, the members of David Israel's coterie, his minions. Granted, they have not fallen as low as one can fall, but they seem to be chasing that "achievement", do they not and the true colors they display in this chase towards Hell are not pretty ones, not the colors of a Crayola box of crayons.
Here we go again and again and again. Last year I asked for the originals of the voting papers and was delayed, refused, then told only copies and I would have to pay for the copies, an expense unnecessary for originals is what I wanted and requested and then they pulled garbage on others who also asked to see the relevant papers - all allowed by law and which must be released upon request.
This year, I immediately requested the originals and when I was denied, against the law, David Israel then took it upon himself to upload copies to the cloud to which HE has the password and final sayso of ALL our UCO documents, and after a delay of almost two months and several legal letters, he finally said okay to go link up and nastily teased all with the length and the time needed to do that. Well, guess what? Several people tried and it cannot be done! Not surprised there, are you? But be assured that I am not yet done with this.
This is the same man and buddies who wish to make all opponents of their nasty and wasteful ways just disappear from public view. Shut down the media to them even if that means there are no more media outlets in the Village. Hey, he thinks, who cares, as long as they are gone.
Well, WE ARE HERE and here we remain, not letting go and determined to have our rights and bring the Village back to an even and stable keel. We do not hint that working as anything in life before CV is dishonest or contemptible, but Gracie does when she asks if someone had worked as a "garbageman" - and if one had - so what? Is being an NSA guy any better in the sense that they troll through garbage, electronic though much might be? Screwed yourself, there, dearie. Ah, I can just hear Cyndi Lauper singing "True Colors". You see, any honest work is just that - honest and honorable. Hard for you to understand that concept - I understand.
Meanwhile, demented Peter Cruz continues in his nasty path but has he come to any of the Messenger Club meetings and spoken up properly? Nope! That would take courage and honesty.
Now, more deja vu - read the new issue of the rag and see how we are back where we were. Once more David Israel is railing on and on about Wi Fi, this time in the guise of broadband. Anyone keeping up with this field and what is going on in the papers about this topic KNOWS that that world is in an uproar, changing faster than you can shake a stick at and we need to let it settle down before making any more costly and disastrous decisions for the Village. No where in the article does he point out that all this streaming, all this capacity, is already here for many of us - and in the form of broadband it is NOT free either. Streaming from the various providers costs money. Once more we are talking infrastructure, fees, building issues, safety - and in making sure that someone we know is blocked from laying on his hot little hands to access the broadband that we use. Once more we are rushing into something that we need to investigate, evaluate and wait for the air to clear. The federal regulations are first beginning, never mind caught up and again WE NEED TO WAIT.
Once more the rag, the investigations committee, and UCO are calling for volunteers but when the volunteers come - they must pass the David Israel test - do you obey his every word or not, and if not, then out you and your application go! Such hypocrisy.
They try all sorts of tricks. Lanny Howe has given up writing on the first David blog and now writes on Elaine's - no difference there, you know. What does he write? About the problem of rentals in the Village, how they are growing and the problems that can ensue. Correct - BUT nowhere do I see where he takes his buddies to task as they own multiple units and rent them out- part of the problem, not the solution. Truth in advertising, Lanny - ever hear of it?
So- the same garbage, the same attempts in different clothing, the true colors of the true malcontents and the efforts and determination of the reformers to counter all this for the sake of our home - and yours.
Here is a proverbial saying that I came across in a book I was reading and enjoying.
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Never too late to change one's path in life and this is a pretty good guide. Think about it, you true malcontents out there. A good life lived is a joy to one's soul. Try it.
Friday, April 24, 2015
WHAT A JOKE!!!! TOO LITTLE TOO LATE !!!
Is the man for real? Who is he kidding? Himself, for sure, but not anyone with a brain!
Almost immediately after the election I asked to see the ORIGINALS of the election - all of them and anywhere that UCO was comfortable for this exam to be done. Instead, I was ignored, cursed, threatened, ridiculed and David Israel and Ed Black and Marilyn Gorodetzer thought I would disappear and forget about it. Much to their shock, as I warned, there was a legal letter from my attorney and David posted that letter on his site but note that he did not post his dumb reply back. It took TWO letters to get a response from UCO officials and by that time we knew all had been lost for examination as posted to the clouds meant the originals were gone, and who knows how they were altered before the posting. The point was lost, BUT this is not the end. There was another letter, copy sent to Tennyson as well, detailing our next step.
So, Mr. Israel, too little too late. We, the reformers are not going away wish as mightily as you can. We will see justice for the Village, we will see proper election procedure instituted in the Village and we will stop all secret proceedings as Gorodetzer said would be beginning again soon with the proposed secretly rewritten by laws and articles of the Village and UCO. We will demand to see all, to know all and in its proper time and place and certainly discussed. Unlike the guard in the picture WE WILL NOT BE ASLEEP! AND NEITHER WILL THE AWAKENING ELECTORATE, THE RESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE.
So, where are the originals? Fess up, m'boy, fess up.
Almost immediately after the election I asked to see the ORIGINALS of the election - all of them and anywhere that UCO was comfortable for this exam to be done. Instead, I was ignored, cursed, threatened, ridiculed and David Israel and Ed Black and Marilyn Gorodetzer thought I would disappear and forget about it. Much to their shock, as I warned, there was a legal letter from my attorney and David posted that letter on his site but note that he did not post his dumb reply back. It took TWO letters to get a response from UCO officials and by that time we knew all had been lost for examination as posted to the clouds meant the originals were gone, and who knows how they were altered before the posting. The point was lost, BUT this is not the end. There was another letter, copy sent to Tennyson as well, detailing our next step.
So, Mr. Israel, too little too late. We, the reformers are not going away wish as mightily as you can. We will see justice for the Village, we will see proper election procedure instituted in the Village and we will stop all secret proceedings as Gorodetzer said would be beginning again soon with the proposed secretly rewritten by laws and articles of the Village and UCO. We will demand to see all, to know all and in its proper time and place and certainly discussed. Unlike the guard in the picture WE WILL NOT BE ASLEEP! AND NEITHER WILL THE AWAKENING ELECTORATE, THE RESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE.
So, where are the originals? Fess up, m'boy, fess up.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE TODAY?
"Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants."
George Bernard Shaw, 1897
Amazing, is it not that something said in 1897 still works in today's world 118 years later. It does not apply only to the defunct British Empire but also to the world of today, macro and micro. Everyone believes he/she knows what's best for one's particular world and claims to have the best way to get there and is oh, so unselfish in the goals one maintains. This corruption just oozes and seeps into the deepest and darkest corners of our world and there it remains, oozing back out when the time is ripe or perhaps I should say rotten..
And the time is ripe right now in all our worlds. Here we have a man who is clearly deficient in human interactions, whose behavior flows right along the lines Shaw has delineated. Yesterday's Officer's meeting was a prime example of that. Lately it seems as if David Israel likes to hold meetings where few people are around, the easier to ram his wants thru the process. No fewer than three of the officers were not there - Fausto Fabio and Barbara Cornish the two VPs and Pat Sealander, a Secretary. What was the rush and the need to hold this meeting now and why not call it off, but no, just like the recent DA held on a day of religious importance to most of the delegates, David stormed on.
The necessity? To push thru a request by the two incompetents, Joy Vestal and Myron Silverman, to allow the paper to now pay out $12,000 more a year to a graphic artist because they cannot seem to manage the ads to the paper. They are obsessed with the ads to the point of excluding all else, such as information the Village needs and deserves, of meetings held, of opinions voiced, but nope, these people want MONEY and for what? For a paper that is losing readership? When the advertisers find out how many of these papers are tossed in the recycling bin after lingering for weeks, unread, turning brittle in the sun, they will cut their ad money and then what will we have? I dunno. Ask the two incompetents.
Advertising manager after advertising manager was thrown under the bus, fired from the paper or quit and why, because they dared to disagree with the policies of the paper or expressed an opinion that crossed those held by the editors, shills of David Israel, puppets for him, turning the paper into a rag. It is good for stuffing boxes though when prepping for shipping.
This paper that did not turn over $24,000 it was supposed to, to UCO, now wants to spend more money? The sign of an inefficient organization is the bloating that goes on, hiring more people to do less and less and expending more and more funds to reap less and less. The actions speak for themselves. It also does not help or seem right that a VP hold the position of editor and then vote on giving it allowance to spend more freely. Conflict of interest anyone?
Then we have the chair of the committee who giggles inanely during odd moments instead of answering questions asked, such as why has the beautification committee not met for over two months? Why had the fence situation along Avon Road, by Salisbury on the Haverhill side of the Village been neglected so much that it is barely standing, perhaps held up only by the vegetation around it? Shall we inform the residents that they should be prepared to welcome unwanted tourists who will come a visitin' when our gated community becomes a partly gated one? Oh, and the half blind infirm guard over there in Miami will not be worth anything as he tries to figure out with rheumy eyes just who or what that is coming from Haverhill into the Village and not thru a gate either. A lot of help the cameras are!!!
But by the words of Shaw, we have a head who sits there and wants what he thinks HE needs and then goes after it, be it broadband, no term limits, wasteful spending, ignoring crisis areas of the Village and the list can go on and on. The circle of volunteers has grown tighter and tighter and it is now mostly a dirty little circle of people who feed off each other, a circle of self congratulatory people who sit and fiddle along with our Nero as the Village burns or goes down or choose your own metaphor. The lone volunteers who are still there must circle their own wagons for survival.
Now the macro world. Yesterday there was an op-ed written by Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, that oh so enlightened state. He does not understand why people think that the laws passed in Indiana and Arkansas are violating any civil rights. Of course, what is the matter with me and others thinking that it is not okay to refuse to serve someone because of one's religious beliefs?Truly? What if one's religious belief said not to serve African Americans, or Jews, or Christians, or Sunnis or Armenians or people with parts on the left side, or people with a physical impediment or a mental one and the list goes on.
If one disagrees with a law on moral grounds then protest, run a campaign, but obey the law unless the law itself is immoral. Then, one cannot comply with a clean and clear conscience and by the way, in America church and state are separate and it the blending of these two in more recent days that is leading to the question of what is the matter with people today? Why can they not let people alone to live a life they choose. If they are happy, causing no harm to anyone, being productive citizens, adding to society, then what exactly is the problem? It is not our right nor in anyone's best interests to go creeping into the bedrooms of others nor to question another's leanings or whatever.
But this nastiness creeps more and more into our lives and into our dealings with fellow humans. Why is a transgender inmate, Ashley Diamond, being tormented by being incarcerated in a men's prison and her treatments denied. She was clearly transitioning but is now a prisoner and victim of rape and brutality. Should we violate and harm all that we disagree with? Think that was called Nazism! Nor should one think that the line stops anywhere that is safe for all. It tends to creep more and more and take over life.
It comes from the top, be it here in the Village or in the country. Yesterday Obama goes on TV to say how sorry he is for the death of two hostages, one of whom was denied for years as working for the government so now he is dead at the age of 77 after spending years in a primitive and caustic situation. He was denied his rights and ignored even as he and his family suffered and finally he is dead by the hands of his own country, along with a fellow hostage. Perhaps he is better off, but where was the honesty before? Gone with the wind, that's where.
Why can we all not remember that we are al lhumans and deserve, no, are required to be treated properly, with respect for our differences as well as for our similarities. LGBT or straight, man or woman, Jew, Christian, Sunni, Shiite, Hazara, or atheist- if we are law abiding, moral people then we are and should be allowed to function and thrive. Killing, goading to killing, threats, violence, horror and extremism have no place in the right world, the correct world, the one for which we should strive.
What's the matter with people today? We have lost our way and given in to false gods and prophets. How sad for us all and people, that makes us morally as well as legally, in many areas, of being complicit in legal and moral crimes. Think about that.
George Bernard Shaw, 1897
Amazing, is it not that something said in 1897 still works in today's world 118 years later. It does not apply only to the defunct British Empire but also to the world of today, macro and micro. Everyone believes he/she knows what's best for one's particular world and claims to have the best way to get there and is oh, so unselfish in the goals one maintains. This corruption just oozes and seeps into the deepest and darkest corners of our world and there it remains, oozing back out when the time is ripe or perhaps I should say rotten..
And the time is ripe right now in all our worlds. Here we have a man who is clearly deficient in human interactions, whose behavior flows right along the lines Shaw has delineated. Yesterday's Officer's meeting was a prime example of that. Lately it seems as if David Israel likes to hold meetings where few people are around, the easier to ram his wants thru the process. No fewer than three of the officers were not there - Fausto Fabio and Barbara Cornish the two VPs and Pat Sealander, a Secretary. What was the rush and the need to hold this meeting now and why not call it off, but no, just like the recent DA held on a day of religious importance to most of the delegates, David stormed on.
The necessity? To push thru a request by the two incompetents, Joy Vestal and Myron Silverman, to allow the paper to now pay out $12,000 more a year to a graphic artist because they cannot seem to manage the ads to the paper. They are obsessed with the ads to the point of excluding all else, such as information the Village needs and deserves, of meetings held, of opinions voiced, but nope, these people want MONEY and for what? For a paper that is losing readership? When the advertisers find out how many of these papers are tossed in the recycling bin after lingering for weeks, unread, turning brittle in the sun, they will cut their ad money and then what will we have? I dunno. Ask the two incompetents.
Advertising manager after advertising manager was thrown under the bus, fired from the paper or quit and why, because they dared to disagree with the policies of the paper or expressed an opinion that crossed those held by the editors, shills of David Israel, puppets for him, turning the paper into a rag. It is good for stuffing boxes though when prepping for shipping.
This paper that did not turn over $24,000 it was supposed to, to UCO, now wants to spend more money? The sign of an inefficient organization is the bloating that goes on, hiring more people to do less and less and expending more and more funds to reap less and less. The actions speak for themselves. It also does not help or seem right that a VP hold the position of editor and then vote on giving it allowance to spend more freely. Conflict of interest anyone?
Then we have the chair of the committee who giggles inanely during odd moments instead of answering questions asked, such as why has the beautification committee not met for over two months? Why had the fence situation along Avon Road, by Salisbury on the Haverhill side of the Village been neglected so much that it is barely standing, perhaps held up only by the vegetation around it? Shall we inform the residents that they should be prepared to welcome unwanted tourists who will come a visitin' when our gated community becomes a partly gated one? Oh, and the half blind infirm guard over there in Miami will not be worth anything as he tries to figure out with rheumy eyes just who or what that is coming from Haverhill into the Village and not thru a gate either. A lot of help the cameras are!!!
But by the words of Shaw, we have a head who sits there and wants what he thinks HE needs and then goes after it, be it broadband, no term limits, wasteful spending, ignoring crisis areas of the Village and the list can go on and on. The circle of volunteers has grown tighter and tighter and it is now mostly a dirty little circle of people who feed off each other, a circle of self congratulatory people who sit and fiddle along with our Nero as the Village burns or goes down or choose your own metaphor. The lone volunteers who are still there must circle their own wagons for survival.
Now the macro world. Yesterday there was an op-ed written by Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, that oh so enlightened state. He does not understand why people think that the laws passed in Indiana and Arkansas are violating any civil rights. Of course, what is the matter with me and others thinking that it is not okay to refuse to serve someone because of one's religious beliefs?Truly? What if one's religious belief said not to serve African Americans, or Jews, or Christians, or Sunnis or Armenians or people with parts on the left side, or people with a physical impediment or a mental one and the list goes on.
If one disagrees with a law on moral grounds then protest, run a campaign, but obey the law unless the law itself is immoral. Then, one cannot comply with a clean and clear conscience and by the way, in America church and state are separate and it the blending of these two in more recent days that is leading to the question of what is the matter with people today? Why can they not let people alone to live a life they choose. If they are happy, causing no harm to anyone, being productive citizens, adding to society, then what exactly is the problem? It is not our right nor in anyone's best interests to go creeping into the bedrooms of others nor to question another's leanings or whatever.
But this nastiness creeps more and more into our lives and into our dealings with fellow humans. Why is a transgender inmate, Ashley Diamond, being tormented by being incarcerated in a men's prison and her treatments denied. She was clearly transitioning but is now a prisoner and victim of rape and brutality. Should we violate and harm all that we disagree with? Think that was called Nazism! Nor should one think that the line stops anywhere that is safe for all. It tends to creep more and more and take over life.
It comes from the top, be it here in the Village or in the country. Yesterday Obama goes on TV to say how sorry he is for the death of two hostages, one of whom was denied for years as working for the government so now he is dead at the age of 77 after spending years in a primitive and caustic situation. He was denied his rights and ignored even as he and his family suffered and finally he is dead by the hands of his own country, along with a fellow hostage. Perhaps he is better off, but where was the honesty before? Gone with the wind, that's where.
Why can we all not remember that we are al lhumans and deserve, no, are required to be treated properly, with respect for our differences as well as for our similarities. LGBT or straight, man or woman, Jew, Christian, Sunni, Shiite, Hazara, or atheist- if we are law abiding, moral people then we are and should be allowed to function and thrive. Killing, goading to killing, threats, violence, horror and extremism have no place in the right world, the correct world, the one for which we should strive.
What's the matter with people today? We have lost our way and given in to false gods and prophets. How sad for us all and people, that makes us morally as well as legally, in many areas, of being complicit in legal and moral crimes. Think about that.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
CHAG SAMEACH - HAPPY HOLIDAY
Chag Sameach! Happy Holiday. Happy Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day.
Today is the day that the modern state of Israel turns 67, an easy way to keep track of one's own age, and it is a day of great celebration in the Jewish community. Special prayers are said, kids dance in their schools, blue and white cakes, donuts and cookies are dispensed and in addition to the spectaculars that are staged in Israel, there are flyovers and the air is rife with the odor of barbecues as Israel takes to the parks for this annual tradition. Even here in Palm Beach County there are ten days of celebration, of Israel, from mourning in Holocaust ceremonies to remembrance of the dead who died giving their all to defend Israel and those who died in acts of horrendous terror to the day of great joy - Independence Day.
The modern State of Israel is founded on a Biblical basis. This is our land, always has been since the day G-d promised it to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and towards that Zion we have prayed and wished to return all the years of our Exile, our Diaspora. But do not think that there was EVER a time when there was not a Jewish presence there for you would be wrong, so wrong. In more modern times, there developed a more intense interest in rebuilding the ancient homeland, especially among the younger generation in Europe who saw no future for us there and how sadly prescient they were. By the time of the Holocaust there was a vibrant, growing and important Jewish population in what was then called Palestine after the name of the Phillistines, a now extinct people, a nation of the Bible living mainly in the Gaza area, though NOT related to current Palestinians.
The desert began to bloom, swamps were drained, cities were built, including the great modern city of Tel Aviv, birthed on the sand dunes of the beach, science began to flourish, agricultural innovations were formulated and employment grew, especially among the Arab population who liked the wages that the Jewish employers were paying. More Arabs flowed into the area from the areas of Syria, over the river of Jordan and Egypt. In fact, the whole area, in the Arab world, was known as Greater Syria and much of the Arab land was owned by rich effendis, landowners, who lived in Damascus and other Syrian cities. They were happy to sell their land to the crazy Jews who bought it - and then revived it. Those rusty keys that are flourished as supposedly belonging to a front door mean nothing. They are a dime a dozen in antique and semi antique stores and are even reproduced quite realistically.
The doomed Jews of Europe came to the land even as the British tried to block them, the Palestinian Jews fought the British in the land and became allies of them with their Jewish Brigade which fought against the Axis in Europe. No other nation in the world took them with an open arm or heart and most, in fact, banned them, limited them, including the USA. After the war, the remnants of the Jewish population were again only welcome in their ancient homeland, blocked again by the British. The right to the land, the impetus towards a homeland were there and inevitably would have grown into a state, but the guilt of the nations of the world in allowing the Holocaust to exist, to run its course, their attempts to deny that they knew of it long before they entered the camps though the papers, including the Times, and messengers from Europe had long ago exposed the truth, the determination of the Jewish people to nevermore have no land where they were welcomed, all combined to almost force the establishment of the modern State of Israel into existence at that moment in time.
Now the world has once again allowed the ugly head of vicious anti - Semitism to rise once more and in fact, has allowed it to become fashionable. The vicious states and Islamic extremists and their allies do not only speak in tirades against Israel, but also speak against and threaten the everyday Jew. They are attacked, burned, slaughtered all over the world once again with institutions being endangered all over the world. Even here in WPB there are times when the synagogues have established security guards, never mind what we know is going on in the big cities all over the world, including the USA, with the increased cost and necessity of security and watchfulness.
But we know that we always have a home, and truthfully, I feel I have two - the USA and Israel. My attachments to both are deep in my soul and I sing the anthems of both with emotion, knowing what they both have meant to me and my family and will, G-d willing, always mean to us long into the future.
So today we rejoice and renew our thanks to G-d who has allowed this modern day miracle and pray that it will long remain so. We dance in joy and sing songs of gratitude, songs of hopes for peace even as we watch the door.
Am Yisrael Chai! The people of Israel live!
CHAG SAMEACH TO ALL!!!
Today is the day that the modern state of Israel turns 67, an easy way to keep track of one's own age, and it is a day of great celebration in the Jewish community. Special prayers are said, kids dance in their schools, blue and white cakes, donuts and cookies are dispensed and in addition to the spectaculars that are staged in Israel, there are flyovers and the air is rife with the odor of barbecues as Israel takes to the parks for this annual tradition. Even here in Palm Beach County there are ten days of celebration, of Israel, from mourning in Holocaust ceremonies to remembrance of the dead who died giving their all to defend Israel and those who died in acts of horrendous terror to the day of great joy - Independence Day.
The modern State of Israel is founded on a Biblical basis. This is our land, always has been since the day G-d promised it to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and towards that Zion we have prayed and wished to return all the years of our Exile, our Diaspora. But do not think that there was EVER a time when there was not a Jewish presence there for you would be wrong, so wrong. In more modern times, there developed a more intense interest in rebuilding the ancient homeland, especially among the younger generation in Europe who saw no future for us there and how sadly prescient they were. By the time of the Holocaust there was a vibrant, growing and important Jewish population in what was then called Palestine after the name of the Phillistines, a now extinct people, a nation of the Bible living mainly in the Gaza area, though NOT related to current Palestinians.
The desert began to bloom, swamps were drained, cities were built, including the great modern city of Tel Aviv, birthed on the sand dunes of the beach, science began to flourish, agricultural innovations were formulated and employment grew, especially among the Arab population who liked the wages that the Jewish employers were paying. More Arabs flowed into the area from the areas of Syria, over the river of Jordan and Egypt. In fact, the whole area, in the Arab world, was known as Greater Syria and much of the Arab land was owned by rich effendis, landowners, who lived in Damascus and other Syrian cities. They were happy to sell their land to the crazy Jews who bought it - and then revived it. Those rusty keys that are flourished as supposedly belonging to a front door mean nothing. They are a dime a dozen in antique and semi antique stores and are even reproduced quite realistically.
The doomed Jews of Europe came to the land even as the British tried to block them, the Palestinian Jews fought the British in the land and became allies of them with their Jewish Brigade which fought against the Axis in Europe. No other nation in the world took them with an open arm or heart and most, in fact, banned them, limited them, including the USA. After the war, the remnants of the Jewish population were again only welcome in their ancient homeland, blocked again by the British. The right to the land, the impetus towards a homeland were there and inevitably would have grown into a state, but the guilt of the nations of the world in allowing the Holocaust to exist, to run its course, their attempts to deny that they knew of it long before they entered the camps though the papers, including the Times, and messengers from Europe had long ago exposed the truth, the determination of the Jewish people to nevermore have no land where they were welcomed, all combined to almost force the establishment of the modern State of Israel into existence at that moment in time.
Now the world has once again allowed the ugly head of vicious anti - Semitism to rise once more and in fact, has allowed it to become fashionable. The vicious states and Islamic extremists and their allies do not only speak in tirades against Israel, but also speak against and threaten the everyday Jew. They are attacked, burned, slaughtered all over the world once again with institutions being endangered all over the world. Even here in WPB there are times when the synagogues have established security guards, never mind what we know is going on in the big cities all over the world, including the USA, with the increased cost and necessity of security and watchfulness.
But we know that we always have a home, and truthfully, I feel I have two - the USA and Israel. My attachments to both are deep in my soul and I sing the anthems of both with emotion, knowing what they both have meant to me and my family and will, G-d willing, always mean to us long into the future.
So today we rejoice and renew our thanks to G-d who has allowed this modern day miracle and pray that it will long remain so. We dance in joy and sing songs of gratitude, songs of hopes for peace even as we watch the door.
Am Yisrael Chai! The people of Israel live!
CHAG SAMEACH TO ALL!!!
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
SECRETS AND LIES
I do not know who came up with the title of the TV show, but it certainly fits or would fit a show based on the goings on at CVWPB. It appears as if all we have around here, all that comes out of the UCO building, are secrets and lies, messages that are sent only to those who must hold the decoding rings from the private club, messages that are esoteric in their meaning and content, and censorship galore!
We are told to accept any and all announcements and pronouncements that come out of that building as sanctified. Never mind when the lies are so blatant that one could trip over them or the words within contain such harmful intent that a blind person could see them.
So let's take stock at what we have going on here. For two elections David Israel has refused to open the books and the papers of the election, only copies and who knows what he has done to the originals by the time he finally says okay to something that he had no right to say no to in the first place! This battle is on going. He continues to deny access to the books of UCO and keeps all things secret, including many meetings, especially those that are held afterhours at nite or on Sunday. This is a violation of the Sunshine law.Parking cars in the back does not hide it. That is more on the line of babies and peek a boo!
We have a UCO president who aims to suppress all opposition to his sometimes insane actions. The paper, The Reporter, is a piece of garbage at the present time. All the experienced workers have been thrown under the bus for the sin of wanting an open paper or being friends with reformers in the Village and all that are left are basically incompetents and yespeople, people who are led to the bathroom by their nose - after getting permission! The paper has denied access to and denied publishing by the blackballed and thus has turned into a meaningless waste of trees and on this Earth Day perhaps we should just cancel this waste and turn directly to The Messenger, the new and vibrant and truthful newsletter that is succeeding despite all odds and attempts at suppression.
We have Channel 63 which is now practically moribund, the Greggs resigned from it and it has deteriorated into a moving bulletin board and a showcase of ancient and freely available movies that does not really add much to the life and knowledge of a resident. Oh, but one can look at David Israel's private blog where he keeps track of all one's comings and goings as he posts camera feeds of license plates from the cars passing thru the gates and without the permission of each and every license plate owner! Not cool, Mr. Paranoid, not cool.
And perhaps soon we will have the Big Brother show using the non permission granted cameras that are found at the desk in the Clubhouse and hinted at being in other places in the Clubhouse as well as well as elsewhere in the Village. Just think - your every movement watched and tracked. Doesn't that make you feel warm all over, so carefully tended to? NOT!!!!!
And of course, we cannot leave out the Delegate Assembly wherein we are generally privileged every first Friday of the month to a spectacular show of infantile hysteria and paranoia in action. It is the amazing journey of a man and followers into the dark nite as they devolve from intelligent(?) adults into screeching toddlers throwing tantrums, shouting threats and whatnot. Just a lovely sight for one and all.
Oh, and how about the messages that come thru via IFI, the club secret telegrams, although not so secret, just more and more being "unsent" to those who do not show proper obeisance to Their Holinesses, president David Black and Ed Israel - oops, once again the same error, but in my defense it is hard to distinguish between them and their deeds. And even when they are sent, nothing is clear unless one is part of the cliques and understands the secret machinations of these two. So many things are done in secret including the first attempt at Wi Fi, the present attempt to sign contracts for broadband and force one and all to pay into it, the scrapped attempts at secretly writing new by laws and Articles for the Village and UCO, all the better to rule the roost here, the unbelievable foul paving fiasco from which we are still reeling, financially and physically in the form of horrendous roads and floods, and now we have two more to add to the collection.
Now we have a secret contract to outsource the ad section, the business section of The Reporter?!!! What garbage! This problem is easily solved by getting rid of the incompetents at the helm of the paper now and installing people who know what they are doing. But that would be too much honesty and admitting of incompetence so here we go, losing more money and then they will come to the DA and ask the delegates again to forgive the money owed by The Reporter to UCO? Bah, Humbug!!
Finally, what the hell is that survey all about? It could be something harmless, something beneficial or something quite harmful to us but who the hell would ever know. It was in the IFI in teeny tiny print with no explanations at all, just another wonderful *&^% you to all of us as we apparently do not deserve any explanations at all.
Perhaps we need to establish an underground as in all dictator ruled countries but oh, we already have that, do we not? That is the group of reformers, the group who stand up at the DA, the people who are joining daily, the people who volunteer to get out The messenger which SHOULD be allowed to be distributed in the Clubhouse. If we can do that with the Condo News then why not with a newsletter published and written by and for Village residents?
So people, friends, go back and read the last few posts and see why we must keep at it, why we must plan to oust these bums, who are not harmless, but are quite toxic to our present and future. We do not write and keep these blogs for our health and certainly do not spend our funds because we have money to spare. The "samizdat or underground paper" of the Village will continue, the exposes and questions will continue on the blogs and we will continue to speak up at the assemblies and hold meetings and present speakers and do it all in an adult manner despite all the lies and hatred and tantrums and curses and everything else that is hurled at us. We will not sit down. We will not shut up. We are not out of order. And we will not be scared off by a hysterical little man screeching to call 911.
Read and think and by the way just exactly what are we doing at this late moment in time to prepare for post Millennium. Time is a fleetin' and I bet Levy's lawyers are well up and into the task. But David Israel is too busy throwing tantrums and deep into his paranoid fantasies to do anything about this and so we will be screwed again.
PS. and for Heaven's sake, Gracie, do something positive for the Village instead of sending me inane and asinine comments. Here are a few suggestions - get a life, get a brain or have an MRI to check on its current state of being, see an optometrist - Walmart has quite a few, or leave, as you are always telling me to do. Go bother someone else, perhaps the person in your mirror for she is actually the only one who will give you any attention. This is advice from one who cares about you and the fool you make of yourself every day. Do your children know that this is the present condition and mental state of their mother?
Grace, a warning. You are asking me to publish your comments - and I quote, "I think it is great that people who read your blog just see you (sic) and not what I write to you." You do not want that for then people will truly see your idiocy and nastiness and I am trying to save you from yourself and as far as other comments about what my students supposedly said, you are verging on libel and it is easily proven, so watch your mouth. And do not make me finish a ridiculous war that you have started and have you be bombarded on all your sites by my students. Time to grow up, not so amazing Grace and maybe we will come and serenade again, this time perhaps outside your apt. Just saying, a friendly warning, and as your master has found out, when you push me past my redline, it is not good for you. Your choice, honey bun! Your choice.
No, I will make my own choices and I am too busy to bother with such as you so just go to hell in a handbasket, go talk to yourself in the mirror and maybe you can believe your own lies but I will no longer refer to you, think of you, respond to you, or even keep your posts in my files. You do not exist and I am much too busy with life and my choices to have any time in my life for you and such as you. So #@%$ off!
In any case thank you for affording me the opportunity of fiddling with the colors. It is fun, so I guess you had a purpose in this world anyway.
We are told to accept any and all announcements and pronouncements that come out of that building as sanctified. Never mind when the lies are so blatant that one could trip over them or the words within contain such harmful intent that a blind person could see them.
So let's take stock at what we have going on here. For two elections David Israel has refused to open the books and the papers of the election, only copies and who knows what he has done to the originals by the time he finally says okay to something that he had no right to say no to in the first place! This battle is on going. He continues to deny access to the books of UCO and keeps all things secret, including many meetings, especially those that are held afterhours at nite or on Sunday. This is a violation of the Sunshine law.Parking cars in the back does not hide it. That is more on the line of babies and peek a boo!
We have a UCO president who aims to suppress all opposition to his sometimes insane actions. The paper, The Reporter, is a piece of garbage at the present time. All the experienced workers have been thrown under the bus for the sin of wanting an open paper or being friends with reformers in the Village and all that are left are basically incompetents and yespeople, people who are led to the bathroom by their nose - after getting permission! The paper has denied access to and denied publishing by the blackballed and thus has turned into a meaningless waste of trees and on this Earth Day perhaps we should just cancel this waste and turn directly to The Messenger, the new and vibrant and truthful newsletter that is succeeding despite all odds and attempts at suppression.
We have Channel 63 which is now practically moribund, the Greggs resigned from it and it has deteriorated into a moving bulletin board and a showcase of ancient and freely available movies that does not really add much to the life and knowledge of a resident. Oh, but one can look at David Israel's private blog where he keeps track of all one's comings and goings as he posts camera feeds of license plates from the cars passing thru the gates and without the permission of each and every license plate owner! Not cool, Mr. Paranoid, not cool.
And perhaps soon we will have the Big Brother show using the non permission granted cameras that are found at the desk in the Clubhouse and hinted at being in other places in the Clubhouse as well as well as elsewhere in the Village. Just think - your every movement watched and tracked. Doesn't that make you feel warm all over, so carefully tended to? NOT!!!!!
And of course, we cannot leave out the Delegate Assembly wherein we are generally privileged every first Friday of the month to a spectacular show of infantile hysteria and paranoia in action. It is the amazing journey of a man and followers into the dark nite as they devolve from intelligent(?) adults into screeching toddlers throwing tantrums, shouting threats and whatnot. Just a lovely sight for one and all.
Oh, and how about the messages that come thru via IFI, the club secret telegrams, although not so secret, just more and more being "unsent" to those who do not show proper obeisance to Their Holinesses, president David Black and Ed Israel - oops, once again the same error, but in my defense it is hard to distinguish between them and their deeds. And even when they are sent, nothing is clear unless one is part of the cliques and understands the secret machinations of these two. So many things are done in secret including the first attempt at Wi Fi, the present attempt to sign contracts for broadband and force one and all to pay into it, the scrapped attempts at secretly writing new by laws and Articles for the Village and UCO, all the better to rule the roost here, the unbelievable foul paving fiasco from which we are still reeling, financially and physically in the form of horrendous roads and floods, and now we have two more to add to the collection.
Now we have a secret contract to outsource the ad section, the business section of The Reporter?!!! What garbage! This problem is easily solved by getting rid of the incompetents at the helm of the paper now and installing people who know what they are doing. But that would be too much honesty and admitting of incompetence so here we go, losing more money and then they will come to the DA and ask the delegates again to forgive the money owed by The Reporter to UCO? Bah, Humbug!!
Finally, what the hell is that survey all about? It could be something harmless, something beneficial or something quite harmful to us but who the hell would ever know. It was in the IFI in teeny tiny print with no explanations at all, just another wonderful *&^% you to all of us as we apparently do not deserve any explanations at all.
Perhaps we need to establish an underground as in all dictator ruled countries but oh, we already have that, do we not? That is the group of reformers, the group who stand up at the DA, the people who are joining daily, the people who volunteer to get out The messenger which SHOULD be allowed to be distributed in the Clubhouse. If we can do that with the Condo News then why not with a newsletter published and written by and for Village residents?
So people, friends, go back and read the last few posts and see why we must keep at it, why we must plan to oust these bums, who are not harmless, but are quite toxic to our present and future. We do not write and keep these blogs for our health and certainly do not spend our funds because we have money to spare. The "samizdat or underground paper" of the Village will continue, the exposes and questions will continue on the blogs and we will continue to speak up at the assemblies and hold meetings and present speakers and do it all in an adult manner despite all the lies and hatred and tantrums and curses and everything else that is hurled at us. We will not sit down. We will not shut up. We are not out of order. And we will not be scared off by a hysterical little man screeching to call 911.
Read and think and by the way just exactly what are we doing at this late moment in time to prepare for post Millennium. Time is a fleetin' and I bet Levy's lawyers are well up and into the task. But David Israel is too busy throwing tantrums and deep into his paranoid fantasies to do anything about this and so we will be screwed again.
PS. and for Heaven's sake, Gracie, do something positive for the Village instead of sending me inane and asinine comments. Here are a few suggestions - get a life, get a brain or have an MRI to check on its current state of being, see an optometrist - Walmart has quite a few, or leave, as you are always telling me to do. Go bother someone else, perhaps the person in your mirror for she is actually the only one who will give you any attention. This is advice from one who cares about you and the fool you make of yourself every day. Do your children know that this is the present condition and mental state of their mother?
Grace, a warning. You are asking me to publish your comments - and I quote, "I think it is great that people who read your blog just see you (sic) and not what I write to you." You do not want that for then people will truly see your idiocy and nastiness and I am trying to save you from yourself and as far as other comments about what my students supposedly said, you are verging on libel and it is easily proven, so watch your mouth. And do not make me finish a ridiculous war that you have started and have you be bombarded on all your sites by my students. Time to grow up, not so amazing Grace and maybe we will come and serenade again, this time perhaps outside your apt. Just saying, a friendly warning, and as your master has found out, when you push me past my redline, it is not good for you. Your choice, honey bun! Your choice.
No, I will make my own choices and I am too busy to bother with such as you so just go to hell in a handbasket, go talk to yourself in the mirror and maybe you can believe your own lies but I will no longer refer to you, think of you, respond to you, or even keep your posts in my files. You do not exist and I am much too busy with life and my choices to have any time in my life for you and such as you. So #@%$ off!
In any case thank you for affording me the opportunity of fiddling with the colors. It is fun, so I guess you had a purpose in this world anyway.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
TOLD YOU SO TOLD YOU SO TOLD YOU SO!!!!
Dangnabbit!!! I am so angry at what I just read that I could swear I see flames shooting out from my fingers as they type this posting. I knew this would happen. I knew that Joy Vestal would continue to take The Reporter down the road to perdition and boast of it at the same time and here we are, living "the dream" in reality.
It was bad enough when Joy Vestal and Myron Silverman were running the paper prior to Joy becoming a VP. From hereon in we will just use Joy Vestal as the named cause of all the problems of the paper as Myron is a non entity. At that time there was rampant bias in the paper but in the beginning at least there was some coverage of other opinions other than those that were promulgated by David Israel and Ed Black. Then, as more and more people began to express dissatisfaction with the administration, Vestal eagerly and enthusiastically joined in with the suppression movement and, for example, after I submitted an ad, an entire page ad which was paid for, with the money accepted, days later I was told that it could not go in as written because it was too powerful and might give rise to anti David feeling in the Village and we could not have that. It was to be censored, yes, censored, by her. And after that, I and many other people who are reformers are banned from the paper. Certainly it is far more important to read of Lanny's inane travels or excess recipes be placed in the paper, or more restaurant reviews. At least in HER opinion.
Now we have the finishing touches, the beginning of the end for our Reporter, and YES, it is OUR Reporter, not David's, not Ed's, not Joy's, Not DonHoHo - OURS.
Joy Vestal took on the conflict of interest positions of both VP and Editor and denied any problem. Her spending spree for equipment and other demands and overly large runs of the paper took the paper into near bankruptcy even as she boasted of increased revenues and the DA heard her "pleas" and forgave the paper the $24,000 it owes UCO every year. So much for independence.
Now the paper is near broke again, they cannot manage the business side as any intelligent person with business skills has practically to swear allegiance to David Black and Ed Israel - oops, did it again - and anyone not meeting these conditions and required beliefs is summarily pushed out into the cold. She and Ed Black, that non elected usurper of all things UCO, then took it upon themselves to move Channel 63 into the building as well. Thanks to the Greggs the costs were held down as they even did most of the physical labor themselves and look what they got for their efforts - the need to resign as they refused to operate a crooked and biased and unprincipled Channel 63 and Barbara Cornish, shame on you, Barbara, you truly have sold your soul for the sake of what, I ask - has the gall to "
"Barbara Cornish thanked John Gregg and his wife for doing a great job on Channel 63."
For what? For being forced to resign! Did you choke on your hypocrisy? You should have for that is really too much to swallow.
So, the paper is broke or near broke again, must reduce the paper in size, is blind to the fact that readership is declining even as they fall further and further into inanity as the rag of David Israel and people are disgusted and now there is a viable and exciting alternative. Their business section is shot to hell and lookee here!
"UCO - OPS Ad Workflow Coordinator Revised Position Proposal
GENERAL
• OPS will hire and supervise an employee to manage the monthly UCO Reporter Advertising Workflow.• OPS will invoice The UCO Reporter directly at the rate of $975 per month to cover all associated costs of the Workflow Coordinator.
. The UCO Reporter will pay a commission at the rate of 7% to OPS on the gross revenue amount for new advertising business sold by the OPS Workflow Coordinator.
LOCATION
This position is located in the St. Petersburg OPS office. Some assignments may be handled from other adequately equipped locations, such as the Coordinator's home office. Incoming and outgoing faxes are required to be managed from the OPS office. "
Love these juicy little excerpts? More outsourcing. We already have security being handled in Miami - yes, you know the Big Brother cameras around the Village and in the Clubhouse, there for "our" security, a lot of good that will do when the old crock manning the camera in Miami finally creeps over to the monitor, puts on his thick glasses and tries to figure out what that vest is on the guy entering the building! Ridiculous! As ridiculous as the outsourcing and the "reasoning" behind it all. Now we are going to pay over $12.000+ dollars a year to an outside source for this ridiculous rag as it is run right now?
Joy Vestal, you are incompetent.
Joy Vestal you are inefficient and unprepared to properly run a paper.
Joy Vestal you have a conflict of interest in your positions as editor and VP.
Joy Vestal you have run the paper into the ground.
Joy Vestal you need to resign as editor.
And who approved this contract? Has the DA seen it? Has questioning of the whole incident and the facts been allowed? Has there been a Town Hall meeting about this. This is the splitting of the Village and its administrative functions into bits and pieces as they are outsourced to others and Barbara Cornish, is this your idea as you have campaigned so desperately to get an outside management firm - and then what? You remain as the Village contact?
Time to get rid of the people in UCO, certainly the one at the top and his wicked buddy. Get rid of them and we can fix the mess. TIME FOR THE RETURN TO TERM LIMITS AND THROW THE BUM OUT!
It was bad enough when Joy Vestal and Myron Silverman were running the paper prior to Joy becoming a VP. From hereon in we will just use Joy Vestal as the named cause of all the problems of the paper as Myron is a non entity. At that time there was rampant bias in the paper but in the beginning at least there was some coverage of other opinions other than those that were promulgated by David Israel and Ed Black. Then, as more and more people began to express dissatisfaction with the administration, Vestal eagerly and enthusiastically joined in with the suppression movement and, for example, after I submitted an ad, an entire page ad which was paid for, with the money accepted, days later I was told that it could not go in as written because it was too powerful and might give rise to anti David feeling in the Village and we could not have that. It was to be censored, yes, censored, by her. And after that, I and many other people who are reformers are banned from the paper. Certainly it is far more important to read of Lanny's inane travels or excess recipes be placed in the paper, or more restaurant reviews. At least in HER opinion.
Now we have the finishing touches, the beginning of the end for our Reporter, and YES, it is OUR Reporter, not David's, not Ed's, not Joy's, Not DonHoHo - OURS.
Joy Vestal took on the conflict of interest positions of both VP and Editor and denied any problem. Her spending spree for equipment and other demands and overly large runs of the paper took the paper into near bankruptcy even as she boasted of increased revenues and the DA heard her "pleas" and forgave the paper the $24,000 it owes UCO every year. So much for independence.
Now the paper is near broke again, they cannot manage the business side as any intelligent person with business skills has practically to swear allegiance to David Black and Ed Israel - oops, did it again - and anyone not meeting these conditions and required beliefs is summarily pushed out into the cold. She and Ed Black, that non elected usurper of all things UCO, then took it upon themselves to move Channel 63 into the building as well. Thanks to the Greggs the costs were held down as they even did most of the physical labor themselves and look what they got for their efforts - the need to resign as they refused to operate a crooked and biased and unprincipled Channel 63 and Barbara Cornish, shame on you, Barbara, you truly have sold your soul for the sake of what, I ask - has the gall to "
"Barbara Cornish thanked John Gregg and his wife for doing a great job on Channel 63."
For what? For being forced to resign! Did you choke on your hypocrisy? You should have for that is really too much to swallow.
So, the paper is broke or near broke again, must reduce the paper in size, is blind to the fact that readership is declining even as they fall further and further into inanity as the rag of David Israel and people are disgusted and now there is a viable and exciting alternative. Their business section is shot to hell and lookee here!
"UCO - OPS Ad Workflow Coordinator Revised Position Proposal
GENERAL
• OPS will hire and supervise an employee to manage the monthly UCO Reporter Advertising Workflow.• OPS will invoice The UCO Reporter directly at the rate of $975 per month to cover all associated costs of the Workflow Coordinator.
. The UCO Reporter will pay a commission at the rate of 7% to OPS on the gross revenue amount for new advertising business sold by the OPS Workflow Coordinator.
LOCATION
This position is located in the St. Petersburg OPS office. Some assignments may be handled from other adequately equipped locations, such as the Coordinator's home office. Incoming and outgoing faxes are required to be managed from the OPS office. "
Love these juicy little excerpts? More outsourcing. We already have security being handled in Miami - yes, you know the Big Brother cameras around the Village and in the Clubhouse, there for "our" security, a lot of good that will do when the old crock manning the camera in Miami finally creeps over to the monitor, puts on his thick glasses and tries to figure out what that vest is on the guy entering the building! Ridiculous! As ridiculous as the outsourcing and the "reasoning" behind it all. Now we are going to pay over $12.000+ dollars a year to an outside source for this ridiculous rag as it is run right now?
Joy Vestal, you are incompetent.
Joy Vestal you are inefficient and unprepared to properly run a paper.
Joy Vestal you have a conflict of interest in your positions as editor and VP.
Joy Vestal you have run the paper into the ground.
Joy Vestal you need to resign as editor.
And who approved this contract? Has the DA seen it? Has questioning of the whole incident and the facts been allowed? Has there been a Town Hall meeting about this. This is the splitting of the Village and its administrative functions into bits and pieces as they are outsourced to others and Barbara Cornish, is this your idea as you have campaigned so desperately to get an outside management firm - and then what? You remain as the Village contact?
Time to get rid of the people in UCO, certainly the one at the top and his wicked buddy. Get rid of them and we can fix the mess. TIME FOR THE RETURN TO TERM LIMITS AND THROW THE BUM OUT!
Monday, April 20, 2015
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
As one who comes out of the Language Arts classroom and as a lifetime voracious reader, I believe I understand the power and purpose of language, be it verbal or written. Language can be formal or informal, but the end purpose is the same - to communicate something to another being or beings.
Long married partners, or people who have long known each other often have other means of communication, be it by a tiny signal such as the movement of an eyebrow or finger. This works fine too.
But in all methods of communication the point is to get one's point across and to hear out the other person. Not to do so is a violation of the laws of humanity and civilization. Today's world, with its tweets and instant pictures and chats, with its corrupted language and purposeful ignorance of the rules of grammar does not encourage true communication and we see that with people who cannot sit and chat without constantly fiddling with their phones checking email, or whatnot. Children sit side by side emailing and im'ing each other rather than talk face to face. This is not a good sign for future communication.
What we have here in the Village is a purposeful defiance of the communication necessary for our Village to function on a positive and productive manner. For example, we had a couple, the Greggs, who unselfishly gave of their time, energy and money to set up a truly productive Channel 63. As the thanks for this, they were told to obey orders from the sinister Ed Black, and when they refused on principle, they resigned rather than bow down to violations of free and open communication here in the Village. A true shame and loss for us.
We have a president who finds it difficult to string together sentences, written and/or verbal in order to communicate. He must have his ghost writer, Lanny, or spokespeople - Ed, Peter Cruz, Joy Vestal et al ad nauseum- though I believe Ed is more of the dictator than the dictated to. Having stared into a computer for his working life and having computers as his main décor at home, David Israel has no idea of what it means to truly communicate, share ideas with others and even at a forum for just such sharing, he loses the reins and shouts and screeches and threatens and mischairs the entire program. His contempt for all others, for any and all who do not conform to his rulings and opinions, who do not bow down to his edicts, to his sneaky and not by the by laws method of administration comes through loud and clear. His knowledge that he is losing it is clear in his hysterical rants which consist mainly of the phrases - "sit down" or "out of order" or "call 911".
In other words, there is no functioning language of communication here in the Village. The area VPs seem to be neglectful of their areas so what good are they. We can give Fausto a bit more of a chance as he is new to the job, but time is running out on that responsibility and détente. I am sorely disappointed in Barbara Cornish who appears to have gone over heart and soul to the dark side. She has contacted no one from the reformers to offer them a seat on a committee, opted out of the Messenger club emails, yes, that same club that had two distinguished speakers in, a standing room crowd and is printing, despite all odds, a growing newsletter on just about a weekly pace. Joy Vestal is long gone, deep into the evil dark side, running her VP position as a negligible post and concentrating on ruining the paper as she has made it into a rag, a David Israel booster and a blocker of any and all who dare to have a differing opinion. These people are not only not allowed to write on a controversial topic - despite the printed and reiterated statement that the paper will print all sides of an issue - HA!!! - but have banned them from any and all writing for the paper - OUR paper - no matter the topic.
I am beginning to think that perhaps we should resort to the methodology of Shakespeare in The Tempest when Prospero would play music to calm Caliban, saying that music soothes the beast. Could we soothe the beasts in our Village? It's a thought. The past week has brought me to three assemblies outside the Village wherein music and shared language were most important. The first was a most powerful and emotional, yet triumphant, Yom Hashoah Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day program. The music chosen, most liturgical, elicited many a tear.
The second was a Yom Hazikaron or Day or Mourning and Remembering our fallen soldiers and victims of terror in Israel, 23,169 soldiers, boys and girls, refugees in 1948 right off the boat given rifles and sent out to defend the only land that wanted them to the present day and the thousands of terror victims, burned, knifed, kidnapped, stoned, shot, blown up and apart, from infant to elderly. The songs which were part of the program also communicated what was felt quite powerfully and there was silence as they were sung and thunderous applause for the teens and the soldiers who sang them
Finally, I attended an Idan Raichel Project program and for those of you who do not know who he is, he is a master musical genius, recipient of many international awards, gathering the songs and the singers all over the world in a global effort which highlights the power of the language of music. There were singers and musicians from Israel, from Ethiopia, from Morocco, from Cuba, from countries of Africa, and on and on. The joy was contagious, the auditorium rocking with the enthusiasm of people from 5 to 95 who could not stay in their seats and just had to stand and clap, dance, and sing along. How much better to sing than to cry. How much better to share with each other rather than to share the cost of blood and death. There were songs of hope and songs of loss and all understood, no matter the language used.
The choice of language, its usage and its intention are up to each and every one of us. I just wish that we chose, can choose, to make a more positive use of it. Just imagine. Just hope. Just dream. Wow.
Long married partners, or people who have long known each other often have other means of communication, be it by a tiny signal such as the movement of an eyebrow or finger. This works fine too.
But in all methods of communication the point is to get one's point across and to hear out the other person. Not to do so is a violation of the laws of humanity and civilization. Today's world, with its tweets and instant pictures and chats, with its corrupted language and purposeful ignorance of the rules of grammar does not encourage true communication and we see that with people who cannot sit and chat without constantly fiddling with their phones checking email, or whatnot. Children sit side by side emailing and im'ing each other rather than talk face to face. This is not a good sign for future communication.
What we have here in the Village is a purposeful defiance of the communication necessary for our Village to function on a positive and productive manner. For example, we had a couple, the Greggs, who unselfishly gave of their time, energy and money to set up a truly productive Channel 63. As the thanks for this, they were told to obey orders from the sinister Ed Black, and when they refused on principle, they resigned rather than bow down to violations of free and open communication here in the Village. A true shame and loss for us.
We have a president who finds it difficult to string together sentences, written and/or verbal in order to communicate. He must have his ghost writer, Lanny, or spokespeople - Ed, Peter Cruz, Joy Vestal et al ad nauseum- though I believe Ed is more of the dictator than the dictated to. Having stared into a computer for his working life and having computers as his main décor at home, David Israel has no idea of what it means to truly communicate, share ideas with others and even at a forum for just such sharing, he loses the reins and shouts and screeches and threatens and mischairs the entire program. His contempt for all others, for any and all who do not conform to his rulings and opinions, who do not bow down to his edicts, to his sneaky and not by the by laws method of administration comes through loud and clear. His knowledge that he is losing it is clear in his hysterical rants which consist mainly of the phrases - "sit down" or "out of order" or "call 911".
In other words, there is no functioning language of communication here in the Village. The area VPs seem to be neglectful of their areas so what good are they. We can give Fausto a bit more of a chance as he is new to the job, but time is running out on that responsibility and détente. I am sorely disappointed in Barbara Cornish who appears to have gone over heart and soul to the dark side. She has contacted no one from the reformers to offer them a seat on a committee, opted out of the Messenger club emails, yes, that same club that had two distinguished speakers in, a standing room crowd and is printing, despite all odds, a growing newsletter on just about a weekly pace. Joy Vestal is long gone, deep into the evil dark side, running her VP position as a negligible post and concentrating on ruining the paper as she has made it into a rag, a David Israel booster and a blocker of any and all who dare to have a differing opinion. These people are not only not allowed to write on a controversial topic - despite the printed and reiterated statement that the paper will print all sides of an issue - HA!!! - but have banned them from any and all writing for the paper - OUR paper - no matter the topic.
I am beginning to think that perhaps we should resort to the methodology of Shakespeare in The Tempest when Prospero would play music to calm Caliban, saying that music soothes the beast. Could we soothe the beasts in our Village? It's a thought. The past week has brought me to three assemblies outside the Village wherein music and shared language were most important. The first was a most powerful and emotional, yet triumphant, Yom Hashoah Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day program. The music chosen, most liturgical, elicited many a tear.
The second was a Yom Hazikaron or Day or Mourning and Remembering our fallen soldiers and victims of terror in Israel, 23,169 soldiers, boys and girls, refugees in 1948 right off the boat given rifles and sent out to defend the only land that wanted them to the present day and the thousands of terror victims, burned, knifed, kidnapped, stoned, shot, blown up and apart, from infant to elderly. The songs which were part of the program also communicated what was felt quite powerfully and there was silence as they were sung and thunderous applause for the teens and the soldiers who sang them
Finally, I attended an Idan Raichel Project program and for those of you who do not know who he is, he is a master musical genius, recipient of many international awards, gathering the songs and the singers all over the world in a global effort which highlights the power of the language of music. There were singers and musicians from Israel, from Ethiopia, from Morocco, from Cuba, from countries of Africa, and on and on. The joy was contagious, the auditorium rocking with the enthusiasm of people from 5 to 95 who could not stay in their seats and just had to stand and clap, dance, and sing along. How much better to sing than to cry. How much better to share with each other rather than to share the cost of blood and death. There were songs of hope and songs of loss and all understood, no matter the language used.
The choice of language, its usage and its intention are up to each and every one of us. I just wish that we chose, can choose, to make a more positive use of it. Just imagine. Just hope. Just dream. Wow.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
MORAL FIBER, MORAL STRENGTH, MORAL COURAGE
This might be a bit lengthy, but bear with me. I intended to write something else today, but got sideswiped by my daughter's call last nite after the Sabbath and had to include what follows. It is a rare person in this world who can truly bear up to some of what the Lord hands out. It is certainly rarer when that person comes out even stronger than before and one wonders at the plans of G-d. Such a person is Rachel Frankel, a woman bereft of her son, torn from her via a murderous kidnapping, shooting, and burning of the body of her 16 year old son, Naftali.
This Shabbat she spoke at my daughter's synagogue and in the area and she went to hear what she had to say. There, she told me, stood a towering hero, not because of any physical height, but because of her strength and courage, her ability to answer questions, to comfort others who were weeping, even as she spoke lovingly about her son and children. When asked if she is angry, she did not deny it, but said that one cannot live a life only of anger and must put oneself back together, if only for the sake of others.
She spoke of the fact that most of his belongings were burned in the fire, in his knapsack, as most Israeli boys of that age have only a few pairs of clothing and they went back and forth to school and home. His tefillin were burned as well so there is nothing to hold, to fondle - just the memories and the album pictures, yet Naftali lives on. When his younger siblings recite the Shma at nite before going to sleep and they call on the angels to watch over them, they add in the name of their beloved brother, - "also Naftali." When his sister could not speak, sat in silence, his friends came over and spoke to and with her about Naftali, got her to tell her stories and look at pictures and remember her brother in life, as he was, as he will always be.
I could go on and on, write of my tears as my daughter kept relating the details, but the point is made. There are people to admire, to copy, in this world, just too few of them. And how sad it is when the leader of a powerful country such as the USA is not one of them. This man, President Obama, has no moral fiber and that fact is becoming more and more evident as the days go on. This man cannot call the truth out for anything. There are no Islamic terrorists out there, only some vague generic terrorists. There was no Armenian massacre or genocide perpetrated upon them by Turkey. The rest of the world is finally admitting it yet this man will not - because Turkey will not like it. Well, too bad. Truth is truth and I can still remember when I first heard about it from an Armenian professor I had, tough as nails, who began to cry as she spoke of the lost members of her family during a forced march into the desert. It happened, Obama, deny it or fudge over it as much as you will, but the facts are the facts.
Terrorism in today's world is most often, not only, but most often, inspired by Moslem extremists and even if, even if, and I am not sure of this, even if they are a minority, sizeable minority, of the billions of Moslems in the world, that means nothing unless the majority speak up, stand up, but if there is no moral strength or courage there, then.....
Today we have Iran as the state sponsor of much of that terrorism, supplying funds and ideas to this movement, perpetuating its homicidal ideology. We finally had them on the ropes, crumbling under the weight of the sanctions that were imposed on them by the USA and the world but Mr. Neville Chamberlain the Second in the person of Obama, felt he had to "reach out" to them, extend a hand. Why? Why? Why? So they could blab away all they want, supposedly agree to a deal which was not half of what was necessary, and then embarrass all involved, especially Obama, by saying, no DEMANDING, that the sanctions be lifted before they even did anything! That is like giving a murderer parole before he serves his sentence because he promises to behave, even though he has reneged on his promises before and his way of thinking is alien to civilized society. But, no, our spineless president just sails on blithely, ceding all, conceding everything, and leaving pieces of his moral spine all along the way.
Then yesterday he topped it all. He began to explain away the sale of the missiles from Russia to Iran! Excuse me? There is no excuse. Putin has joined the ranks of historically insane leaders, bringing his country to rack and ruin even as he tries to draw the attention of the citizens away as he invades other countries and makes bad bad bad policy decisions. But not to worry, our Neville will excuse it all, as his moral fiber shreds away.
Does it matter that Iran, the very country to which he is giving away the store, is the avowed and sworn enemy of Israel, the best ally the USA has ever had in the Middle East? Does he even care? Not really. He ignores the growing strains and cries of anti - Semitism in Europe. He is the soccer fan who cries out at a game, Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” and “Jews burn the best!” He threatens to allow anti Israel votes in the UN.
Is it moral cowardice? Is it true anti Semitism that he imbibed at his madrassa that he attended as a child? Is it the words of his anti Semitic pastor? Is it cowardice? President Obama, I extend a personal invitation to you, come visit CV again and this time, answer the questions with truthful answers, explain your deeds. Like that will ever happen. Hey, you can even come to my home.
And finally, we have our own prime local example of a man or men without moral fiber, moral strength or moral courage. People of morality do not need to threaten others. People of morality will work for the side of the right and not for their own personal profit or desires. People of morality are not afraid to allow people to see what they are doing, to open their books, to tell the truth, to hear what people have to say. If one has nothing to hide, if one has proceeded as a moral person should have done, if one is truly proud of one's actions and achievements, then why must one hide and stall. It is the same as the government hiding certain pages of the 9/11 tragedy. What is the government hiding? If nothing, as they say, then open the papers. People hide things when there is something to hide and the more stubborn they are, the more suspicion grows on them. Ditto for here as well.
Lies and more lies, the denial of the facts and the truth as it is, the nasty behavior on whatever level, all cannot hide the shine of the courage and strength of a woman such as Rachel Frankel. Shame on the rest of us that we do not try to emulate this woman and allow the lowlifes of the world to prosper because we say and/or do nothing. And kudos to those who are trying to right the wrongs, to clear the air, to expose the truth. Moral fiber, moral strength, moral courage. A trio of powerful reminders of what we are supposed to do and have and strive for here on earth.
This Shabbat she spoke at my daughter's synagogue and in the area and she went to hear what she had to say. There, she told me, stood a towering hero, not because of any physical height, but because of her strength and courage, her ability to answer questions, to comfort others who were weeping, even as she spoke lovingly about her son and children. When asked if she is angry, she did not deny it, but said that one cannot live a life only of anger and must put oneself back together, if only for the sake of others.
She spoke of the fact that most of his belongings were burned in the fire, in his knapsack, as most Israeli boys of that age have only a few pairs of clothing and they went back and forth to school and home. His tefillin were burned as well so there is nothing to hold, to fondle - just the memories and the album pictures, yet Naftali lives on. When his younger siblings recite the Shma at nite before going to sleep and they call on the angels to watch over them, they add in the name of their beloved brother, - "also Naftali." When his sister could not speak, sat in silence, his friends came over and spoke to and with her about Naftali, got her to tell her stories and look at pictures and remember her brother in life, as he was, as he will always be.
I could go on and on, write of my tears as my daughter kept relating the details, but the point is made. There are people to admire, to copy, in this world, just too few of them. And how sad it is when the leader of a powerful country such as the USA is not one of them. This man, President Obama, has no moral fiber and that fact is becoming more and more evident as the days go on. This man cannot call the truth out for anything. There are no Islamic terrorists out there, only some vague generic terrorists. There was no Armenian massacre or genocide perpetrated upon them by Turkey. The rest of the world is finally admitting it yet this man will not - because Turkey will not like it. Well, too bad. Truth is truth and I can still remember when I first heard about it from an Armenian professor I had, tough as nails, who began to cry as she spoke of the lost members of her family during a forced march into the desert. It happened, Obama, deny it or fudge over it as much as you will, but the facts are the facts.
Terrorism in today's world is most often, not only, but most often, inspired by Moslem extremists and even if, even if, and I am not sure of this, even if they are a minority, sizeable minority, of the billions of Moslems in the world, that means nothing unless the majority speak up, stand up, but if there is no moral strength or courage there, then.....
Today we have Iran as the state sponsor of much of that terrorism, supplying funds and ideas to this movement, perpetuating its homicidal ideology. We finally had them on the ropes, crumbling under the weight of the sanctions that were imposed on them by the USA and the world but Mr. Neville Chamberlain the Second in the person of Obama, felt he had to "reach out" to them, extend a hand. Why? Why? Why? So they could blab away all they want, supposedly agree to a deal which was not half of what was necessary, and then embarrass all involved, especially Obama, by saying, no DEMANDING, that the sanctions be lifted before they even did anything! That is like giving a murderer parole before he serves his sentence because he promises to behave, even though he has reneged on his promises before and his way of thinking is alien to civilized society. But, no, our spineless president just sails on blithely, ceding all, conceding everything, and leaving pieces of his moral spine all along the way.
Then yesterday he topped it all. He began to explain away the sale of the missiles from Russia to Iran! Excuse me? There is no excuse. Putin has joined the ranks of historically insane leaders, bringing his country to rack and ruin even as he tries to draw the attention of the citizens away as he invades other countries and makes bad bad bad policy decisions. But not to worry, our Neville will excuse it all, as his moral fiber shreds away.
Does it matter that Iran, the very country to which he is giving away the store, is the avowed and sworn enemy of Israel, the best ally the USA has ever had in the Middle East? Does he even care? Not really. He ignores the growing strains and cries of anti - Semitism in Europe. He is the soccer fan who cries out at a game, Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” and “Jews burn the best!” He threatens to allow anti Israel votes in the UN.
Is it moral cowardice? Is it true anti Semitism that he imbibed at his madrassa that he attended as a child? Is it the words of his anti Semitic pastor? Is it cowardice? President Obama, I extend a personal invitation to you, come visit CV again and this time, answer the questions with truthful answers, explain your deeds. Like that will ever happen. Hey, you can even come to my home.
And finally, we have our own prime local example of a man or men without moral fiber, moral strength or moral courage. People of morality do not need to threaten others. People of morality will work for the side of the right and not for their own personal profit or desires. People of morality are not afraid to allow people to see what they are doing, to open their books, to tell the truth, to hear what people have to say. If one has nothing to hide, if one has proceeded as a moral person should have done, if one is truly proud of one's actions and achievements, then why must one hide and stall. It is the same as the government hiding certain pages of the 9/11 tragedy. What is the government hiding? If nothing, as they say, then open the papers. People hide things when there is something to hide and the more stubborn they are, the more suspicion grows on them. Ditto for here as well.
Lies and more lies, the denial of the facts and the truth as it is, the nasty behavior on whatever level, all cannot hide the shine of the courage and strength of a woman such as Rachel Frankel. Shame on the rest of us that we do not try to emulate this woman and allow the lowlifes of the world to prosper because we say and/or do nothing. And kudos to those who are trying to right the wrongs, to clear the air, to expose the truth. Moral fiber, moral strength, moral courage. A trio of powerful reminders of what we are supposed to do and have and strive for here on earth.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
SO SORRY - NOT!!!
So here is a quote sent to me today by Ed Israel,,,,er David Black.....er ....who the hell can distinguish between them anyway!!!
....You never cease to amaze with your deranged ramblings! That's why they have to mop the floor after you and Gross slob have a lie fest with a few morons in the clubhouse."
So sorry you two if you are hit to the quick with the word arrows of the posting. This is not the first time you have ranted and raved in your comments. So what does that say about you and yours - paranoia!!! Paranoia!!! Hitting too close to home for comfort, is it? Well, tough! If the words fit, then just swallow them, man up and take the truth and if you cannot, then why not get the hell out of the kitchen.
Now let's see what else you have wrong in your moronic statement. Ah,,, obviously the spies you sent, must have been Grace or Petey Boy or someone along those lines, for they obviously were dead from the neck up. I cannot take any credit for this meeting. All I did was have it on my blog and encourage people to attend. It was Ed's idea and Ed's hard work along with the many volunteers who helped - uh huh, you got that right - MANY- and Ed's statesman like conduct when he settled down the jammed room and asked them to behave not as in the DA with David Israel and the low level that reigns there, but as adults and wow, no 911 threats yet all settled down. And by the way, a standing room crowd which more than filled the room, hot as it was, does not translate into a "few" and morons? Really? That is what you think of the residents? I have said that about you for months and here you come out and say it openly, so thank you very much for that.
And finally, you dead from the neck up incompetents, I was not even there, so perhaps you want the name of a good optometrist down here? Or perhaps a neurosurgeon or neurologist or shrink? Whatever works. No skin off my back.
Come back tomorrow and we will discuss more of your inadequacies and errors of your ways. Petey Boy you also need heavy duty help just by looking at all the errors of your posting but you go ahead and join the rest of the scum who hold a zillion units and keep voting for David as the Village crumbles around us - you and Kelly and Marshall and Black, all you bloodsuckers. Why not just go away and leave the Village to those who truly appreciate it, love it, and want to keep it as a wonderful place to live and enjoy life.
....You never cease to amaze with your deranged ramblings! That's why they have to mop the floor after you and Gross slob have a lie fest with a few morons in the clubhouse."
So sorry you two if you are hit to the quick with the word arrows of the posting. This is not the first time you have ranted and raved in your comments. So what does that say about you and yours - paranoia!!! Paranoia!!! Hitting too close to home for comfort, is it? Well, tough! If the words fit, then just swallow them, man up and take the truth and if you cannot, then why not get the hell out of the kitchen.
Now let's see what else you have wrong in your moronic statement. Ah,,, obviously the spies you sent, must have been Grace or Petey Boy or someone along those lines, for they obviously were dead from the neck up. I cannot take any credit for this meeting. All I did was have it on my blog and encourage people to attend. It was Ed's idea and Ed's hard work along with the many volunteers who helped - uh huh, you got that right - MANY- and Ed's statesman like conduct when he settled down the jammed room and asked them to behave not as in the DA with David Israel and the low level that reigns there, but as adults and wow, no 911 threats yet all settled down. And by the way, a standing room crowd which more than filled the room, hot as it was, does not translate into a "few" and morons? Really? That is what you think of the residents? I have said that about you for months and here you come out and say it openly, so thank you very much for that.
And finally, you dead from the neck up incompetents, I was not even there, so perhaps you want the name of a good optometrist down here? Or perhaps a neurosurgeon or neurologist or shrink? Whatever works. No skin off my back.
Come back tomorrow and we will discuss more of your inadequacies and errors of your ways. Petey Boy you also need heavy duty help just by looking at all the errors of your posting but you go ahead and join the rest of the scum who hold a zillion units and keep voting for David as the Village crumbles around us - you and Kelly and Marshall and Black, all you bloodsuckers. Why not just go away and leave the Village to those who truly appreciate it, love it, and want to keep it as a wonderful place to live and enjoy life.
Friday, April 17, 2015
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
I came across this while reading a book and stopped to think about it and what it means.
"In the murderer worthy to be called an artist, there rages some great storm of passion - jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred - which creates a hell within him."
That is a pretty strong statement and one must understand why it hits home so deeply. First, one must understand that the term murder or murderer does not have to mean one who slays a person physically, but can also refer to one who slays the elements that make up a good society, thus allowing, or even causing bad things to happen.
Think about it. Think about how our rights here in the Village have been categorically and consistently in an ever rising tide slaughtered, denied and trampled upon. Think how people are told in no uncertain terms to drop dead, to stuff drugs down their throat, to take a rope from them and hang oneself, or better yet, get blown up by their firecracker explosives. Charming, yes! Then think about yesterday and what it meant and think about the next step these malcontents, you know, the David Black and Ed Israel ones - oops, did it again! - think about the next step these people did. They tried to "murder" me in a more sinister tone. They have banned many good people from The Reporter despite the fact that it is OUR paper, not theirs. They have banned groups from the Clubhouse. They have now banned my image and my voice from the airwaves of the Village. Now that is a murder of sorts.
Now think about the rest of the quote. All those terms - ambition, vengeance, hatred, jealousy - all of which combine to form an evil passion and certainly these men and their buddies are tormented or should be by the hell that these emotions and motives create, by the storm that rages inside their minds and souls. Scary.
They then try to inflict their hell on others. Ain't working, guys. Not at all. Oh, it did for a while and still does on some people who say they are still scared, but just look at the meeting that took place yesterday. Classroom C was SRO. Despite the heat in the room with no AC, people sat and listened to the speakers and showed their enormous opposition to the development of the golf course. They even booed one speaker who spoke for it, but wow! Ed Grossman stood up there and like a true statesman told the crowd that the meeting was not David's DA and we were not going to fall to that level. Everyone has a right to speak and the room settled down and listened. Amazing, huh!
And guess what? No one stood or sat there banging away and screeching to call 911. No one screeched hysterically for anyone to sit down, or out of order. NO ONE! Perhaps our "murderer" is loosing steam and needs to go back to the train yards for a refit and tuneup. For sure, he does not recognize nor care to recognize and provide for the needs of the Village. Instead he sends his shill, that nasty dude, Cruz, who tells the Villagers to just give in - on something that obviously still raises a huge crowd and strong emotions.
Finally, we even get the weak links that try to use my own strategy against me, but too bad, Lanny - did not work. I thank you for the flattery of trying to imitate me for that certainly does show your admiration of me and my skills, but again, perhaps some tutoring lessons will enable you to get to the level of at least my weakest students as they learned how to write a literary allusion and allegory. I decidedly am neither sly nor wily. In fact, I say what I mean and I mean what I say, quite openly, the opposite of a fox, if one is to believe the fairy tales and fables of Aesop. In addition, David Israel is not a farmer and the image of him trying to be compared to these hard working and honest people, the people who helped build America - well, I am ready to throw up at that.
As far as the "innocence" of this farmer, I refer you back to reread this posting. You are backing the wrong horse here, to keep up your use of animal allegories and metaphors. As far as the attorney to whom you allude, well, suffice it to say that you malign her, writing words which just highlight your continued chosen ignorance and blindness to the true facts of life here in the Village. Did you even bother to come to the meeting yesterday?
Finally, Gracie, my not so amazing Grace, do you need another round of musical entertainment in a restaurant to help you settle down? Will you never understand that I DO love this place and have so stated many times and that is exactly the reason why I write of the wrongs that are perpetrated upon this Village and its residents by selfish people. And it does get truly tiresome when all you can do is repeat the same nonsensical remarks. Please work on your store of sayings. Thank you ever so much for that little kindness.
Passion is fine. It is wonderful. In the right place and manner. In this Village we have a person who has a created storm of passion for the wrong reasons. His drive to vengeance and hatred, his drive to "murder" our rights, his ambition to be an imperial president, kind of like Obama, huh? Well, how's that working for ya'? Time to go. Time to take a rest. Time to let the grownups run the show, you know, the ones who care and think and work well with others, who care for their rights as Americans, who want what is best for the Village, not for them personally.
Think about this, people. Truly think about it. Chew on it. It is good food for the mind and hopefully will replenish and add to the growing strength of the reformers.
"In the murderer worthy to be called an artist, there rages some great storm of passion - jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred - which creates a hell within him."
That is a pretty strong statement and one must understand why it hits home so deeply. First, one must understand that the term murder or murderer does not have to mean one who slays a person physically, but can also refer to one who slays the elements that make up a good society, thus allowing, or even causing bad things to happen.
Think about it. Think about how our rights here in the Village have been categorically and consistently in an ever rising tide slaughtered, denied and trampled upon. Think how people are told in no uncertain terms to drop dead, to stuff drugs down their throat, to take a rope from them and hang oneself, or better yet, get blown up by their firecracker explosives. Charming, yes! Then think about yesterday and what it meant and think about the next step these malcontents, you know, the David Black and Ed Israel ones - oops, did it again! - think about the next step these people did. They tried to "murder" me in a more sinister tone. They have banned many good people from The Reporter despite the fact that it is OUR paper, not theirs. They have banned groups from the Clubhouse. They have now banned my image and my voice from the airwaves of the Village. Now that is a murder of sorts.
Now think about the rest of the quote. All those terms - ambition, vengeance, hatred, jealousy - all of which combine to form an evil passion and certainly these men and their buddies are tormented or should be by the hell that these emotions and motives create, by the storm that rages inside their minds and souls. Scary.
They then try to inflict their hell on others. Ain't working, guys. Not at all. Oh, it did for a while and still does on some people who say they are still scared, but just look at the meeting that took place yesterday. Classroom C was SRO. Despite the heat in the room with no AC, people sat and listened to the speakers and showed their enormous opposition to the development of the golf course. They even booed one speaker who spoke for it, but wow! Ed Grossman stood up there and like a true statesman told the crowd that the meeting was not David's DA and we were not going to fall to that level. Everyone has a right to speak and the room settled down and listened. Amazing, huh!
And guess what? No one stood or sat there banging away and screeching to call 911. No one screeched hysterically for anyone to sit down, or out of order. NO ONE! Perhaps our "murderer" is loosing steam and needs to go back to the train yards for a refit and tuneup. For sure, he does not recognize nor care to recognize and provide for the needs of the Village. Instead he sends his shill, that nasty dude, Cruz, who tells the Villagers to just give in - on something that obviously still raises a huge crowd and strong emotions.
Finally, we even get the weak links that try to use my own strategy against me, but too bad, Lanny - did not work. I thank you for the flattery of trying to imitate me for that certainly does show your admiration of me and my skills, but again, perhaps some tutoring lessons will enable you to get to the level of at least my weakest students as they learned how to write a literary allusion and allegory. I decidedly am neither sly nor wily. In fact, I say what I mean and I mean what I say, quite openly, the opposite of a fox, if one is to believe the fairy tales and fables of Aesop. In addition, David Israel is not a farmer and the image of him trying to be compared to these hard working and honest people, the people who helped build America - well, I am ready to throw up at that.
As far as the "innocence" of this farmer, I refer you back to reread this posting. You are backing the wrong horse here, to keep up your use of animal allegories and metaphors. As far as the attorney to whom you allude, well, suffice it to say that you malign her, writing words which just highlight your continued chosen ignorance and blindness to the true facts of life here in the Village. Did you even bother to come to the meeting yesterday?
Finally, Gracie, my not so amazing Grace, do you need another round of musical entertainment in a restaurant to help you settle down? Will you never understand that I DO love this place and have so stated many times and that is exactly the reason why I write of the wrongs that are perpetrated upon this Village and its residents by selfish people. And it does get truly tiresome when all you can do is repeat the same nonsensical remarks. Please work on your store of sayings. Thank you ever so much for that little kindness.
Passion is fine. It is wonderful. In the right place and manner. In this Village we have a person who has a created storm of passion for the wrong reasons. His drive to vengeance and hatred, his drive to "murder" our rights, his ambition to be an imperial president, kind of like Obama, huh? Well, how's that working for ya'? Time to go. Time to take a rest. Time to let the grownups run the show, you know, the ones who care and think and work well with others, who care for their rights as Americans, who want what is best for the Village, not for them personally.
Think about this, people. Truly think about it. Chew on it. It is good food for the mind and hopefully will replenish and add to the growing strength of the reformers.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
TO REMEMBER TO REMEMBER TO REMEMBER
I sat down this morning to write a posting, a strong one, but first checked some emails and then realized that there was another topic to be written about first. Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and today is the day to remind all that we do not forget and we do not forgive. We do not look away any more at those who would engage in genocide and the Jewish people have been at the forefront of providing aid to those who have been targeted, be they members of a tribe in Africa or even the wounded civilians in Syria.
But first and primary, we remind the world that though that ugly specter of anti - Semitism has once more raised its snout in the world, that once more people think openly that it is okay to hate and beat Jews, that it is okay publicly to make statements, both oral and physically by deed, to demand the destruction of the Jewish people, though this is happening we will never allow it to bloom into another replay or replica of the Holocaust.
As I watched a video of the three Israeli Air Force planes fly in formation over Auschwitz and heard the voice of the pilot speaking, I felt a burst of pride and defiance. Hate all you want but NEVER AGAIN will we be forced into death camps or worked to death or be experimented upon or have our children and our loved ones ripped from our arms, killed before our eyes, or watch their ashes fly into the air in the smoke from chimneys where they are burned in ovens. NEVER AGAIN.
I have been on a pilgrimage to Eastern Europe and the villages and cities from whence my relatives were torn asunder, where they were killed, be it in the mass grave in the forest in Lithuania or the dirt of the Ponary forest or the ghastly cattle car where my namesake, my great grandmother, was tossed in to die, not of old age, mourned and beloved by her family, but as a piece of trash, consigned to the garbage heap born of the Nazis and anyone who allowed them to flourish, anyone who does not realize that Fascism in any and all of its forms MUST BE FOUGHT.
I have cried more than my share of tears over this. I have wept, bereft of any comfort, as we walked, trembling, through the intake building at Maidanek, thrown up at Auschwitz, mourned at the mass graves, and looked sadly at the piles and heaps of stolen Judaica in the antique stores with the lies being told by the owners and quietly bought back what I could, to hold and cherish in a living Jewish home, to use the Kiddush cup once again, to light the candelabra once again, to show that WE ARE HERE AND WILL SO REMAIN.
So people, today, at least for a moment of your day, remember who you are, who you might be at such a time, and swear in your heart, in your deepest soul, that such a horror will never again be inflicted on humanity, that anti - Semitism must and will be fought in all its representations and excuses, and that all must remember that no one is exempt for one after the other is taken, is demeaned, is destroyed under Fascism and no one escapes its hungry mouth and grasping arms - no one. Shed a tear for the child dead of starvation, alone on a street or in a ramshackle building, alone because all who would care are gone and all that remains are murderers, savage killers, cold misrepresentations and parodies of humanity. Shed the tear now for if not, we will all be shedding many more.
Yitgadal v'yitkadash, shemay rabbah...
May their memory and their names be blessed and may they be spokesmen for all of us before G-d.
But first and primary, we remind the world that though that ugly specter of anti - Semitism has once more raised its snout in the world, that once more people think openly that it is okay to hate and beat Jews, that it is okay publicly to make statements, both oral and physically by deed, to demand the destruction of the Jewish people, though this is happening we will never allow it to bloom into another replay or replica of the Holocaust.
As I watched a video of the three Israeli Air Force planes fly in formation over Auschwitz and heard the voice of the pilot speaking, I felt a burst of pride and defiance. Hate all you want but NEVER AGAIN will we be forced into death camps or worked to death or be experimented upon or have our children and our loved ones ripped from our arms, killed before our eyes, or watch their ashes fly into the air in the smoke from chimneys where they are burned in ovens. NEVER AGAIN.
I have been on a pilgrimage to Eastern Europe and the villages and cities from whence my relatives were torn asunder, where they were killed, be it in the mass grave in the forest in Lithuania or the dirt of the Ponary forest or the ghastly cattle car where my namesake, my great grandmother, was tossed in to die, not of old age, mourned and beloved by her family, but as a piece of trash, consigned to the garbage heap born of the Nazis and anyone who allowed them to flourish, anyone who does not realize that Fascism in any and all of its forms MUST BE FOUGHT.
I have cried more than my share of tears over this. I have wept, bereft of any comfort, as we walked, trembling, through the intake building at Maidanek, thrown up at Auschwitz, mourned at the mass graves, and looked sadly at the piles and heaps of stolen Judaica in the antique stores with the lies being told by the owners and quietly bought back what I could, to hold and cherish in a living Jewish home, to use the Kiddush cup once again, to light the candelabra once again, to show that WE ARE HERE AND WILL SO REMAIN.
So people, today, at least for a moment of your day, remember who you are, who you might be at such a time, and swear in your heart, in your deepest soul, that such a horror will never again be inflicted on humanity, that anti - Semitism must and will be fought in all its representations and excuses, and that all must remember that no one is exempt for one after the other is taken, is demeaned, is destroyed under Fascism and no one escapes its hungry mouth and grasping arms - no one. Shed a tear for the child dead of starvation, alone on a street or in a ramshackle building, alone because all who would care are gone and all that remains are murderers, savage killers, cold misrepresentations and parodies of humanity. Shed the tear now for if not, we will all be shedding many more.
Yitgadal v'yitkadash, shemay rabbah...
May their memory and their names be blessed and may they be spokesmen for all of us before G-d.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
REALLY?
Really? Is that what you find is all you can say?
Pathetic.
I lost the election? Wow, never knew that! Thank you for sharing, but you forgot to add in that you are losing the war.
You are agreeable to handing over copies? Well, what took you so long? You could have stated that immediately after receiving the first request right after elections, so....
the question remains, what was done to the originals before you copied them and then most probably destroyed them? How did you change them in any way, shape, manner or form?
By the way, no where in the letter does it say we do not want original copies. That continues, as where do you possibly see a statement that says copies are just as good? We will abide by the law, but the question is - will you? Do you? And remember, we are continuing to pursue all paths in this matter.
The point is that you have not cooperated with the request for the papers nor do we have any reassurance that you indeed will hand over any and all "scraps" relating to the voting? Your delay has only increased the suspicion of tainting of the ballots. BUT the point is - all this delay makes people wary of trusting you, makes people ask the question as to why you have refused until now, why now it is okay and what has happened or have you done in the interim? So, my dear Israel and Black, once again you have put your collective feet into your collective mouths - all on your own.
That appears to be a growing trend in your behavior. You, the leaders of the true malcontents, David Black, and you, Ed Israel....oops, did I get that wrong? Oh well, doesn't really matter since David Israel cannot go to the bathroom without Ed Black's directions and approval anyway. He has ceded all of the day to day running of UCO into Ed's hands and supervision and the result - a near police state with media and freedom of speech suppression, cozy little cliques who rule UCO to the exclusion of the rest, lousy deals for the Village and on and on.
David, it is time for you to voluntarily resign. Your behavior is devolving and deteriorating on a daily, perhaps hourly basis. Your constant arguments and challenges to all who disagree with you have grown geometrically. We call to notice the most recent "broadband" committee meeting wherein you and your prior chosen expert got into a shouting match after you did not like his questions and the concerns he raised. He refused to be bullied by you and so stated and finally resigned and once again, another person leaves the fold.
Your behavior at the Delegate Assembly continues along that deteriorating trend as well. Your voice has become higher in pitch, squeaky and panicky, as you shout in a tantrum like manner of a two year old and I think I am insulting all two year olds now, "Al, call 911, call 911!!!"
Of what and of whom were you so afraid. I just saw, we all just saw, a woman standing there quietly waiting to speak her piece as she is entitled to, quietly speaking when she could get a word in, and you were making a spectacle of yourself. Are you so afraid that she would physically hurt you? She would have had to climb the stairs and get at you through several people and several yards so what the hell is the matter with you? And that if she had the inclination, which she most assuredly did not. In fact, if anyone had a right to be afraid or taken aback that morning it was that harmless lady standing there dealing with a ranting and raving toddler? What is your phobia? What is your concern about hearing out other people and other opinions?
You would make a great case study for a textbook for Advanced Psych. At least you provide some humor as people laughed then and later on about your behavior, but you just keep on going, keep on truckin'. Keep on trying to sneak past all of us with your CSI contract for WI Fi again - oh, excuse me - broadband. Keep calling this a utility, which it is NOT and try to force people to use YOUR chosen provider. Remember - we defeated Wi Fi soundly and will trash you again should you try again.
One more question, Israel and Black, where do you get the right to post on your PRIVATE blog, not an official blog of the Village no matter how you try to disguise that fact, where do you get the right to post pictures from the cameras at the gate. I did not give you permission to do that, to share pictures of my comings and goings on your private blog? That is an invasion of my privacy and you need to get those camera feeds off your blog and as for the poor soul who need to see if their pizza delivery is on its way two whole minutes before the delivery is at the door - get a life!
So, in closing, here is my headline in the same print you used for yours, little baby.
DAVID YOU ARE LOSING THE WAR!GET OVER IT!!
Pathetic.
I lost the election? Wow, never knew that! Thank you for sharing, but you forgot to add in that you are losing the war.
You are agreeable to handing over copies? Well, what took you so long? You could have stated that immediately after receiving the first request right after elections, so....
the question remains, what was done to the originals before you copied them and then most probably destroyed them? How did you change them in any way, shape, manner or form?
By the way, no where in the letter does it say we do not want original copies. That continues, as where do you possibly see a statement that says copies are just as good? We will abide by the law, but the question is - will you? Do you? And remember, we are continuing to pursue all paths in this matter.
The point is that you have not cooperated with the request for the papers nor do we have any reassurance that you indeed will hand over any and all "scraps" relating to the voting? Your delay has only increased the suspicion of tainting of the ballots. BUT the point is - all this delay makes people wary of trusting you, makes people ask the question as to why you have refused until now, why now it is okay and what has happened or have you done in the interim? So, my dear Israel and Black, once again you have put your collective feet into your collective mouths - all on your own.
That appears to be a growing trend in your behavior. You, the leaders of the true malcontents, David Black, and you, Ed Israel....oops, did I get that wrong? Oh well, doesn't really matter since David Israel cannot go to the bathroom without Ed Black's directions and approval anyway. He has ceded all of the day to day running of UCO into Ed's hands and supervision and the result - a near police state with media and freedom of speech suppression, cozy little cliques who rule UCO to the exclusion of the rest, lousy deals for the Village and on and on.
David, it is time for you to voluntarily resign. Your behavior is devolving and deteriorating on a daily, perhaps hourly basis. Your constant arguments and challenges to all who disagree with you have grown geometrically. We call to notice the most recent "broadband" committee meeting wherein you and your prior chosen expert got into a shouting match after you did not like his questions and the concerns he raised. He refused to be bullied by you and so stated and finally resigned and once again, another person leaves the fold.
Your behavior at the Delegate Assembly continues along that deteriorating trend as well. Your voice has become higher in pitch, squeaky and panicky, as you shout in a tantrum like manner of a two year old and I think I am insulting all two year olds now, "Al, call 911, call 911!!!"
Of what and of whom were you so afraid. I just saw, we all just saw, a woman standing there quietly waiting to speak her piece as she is entitled to, quietly speaking when she could get a word in, and you were making a spectacle of yourself. Are you so afraid that she would physically hurt you? She would have had to climb the stairs and get at you through several people and several yards so what the hell is the matter with you? And that if she had the inclination, which she most assuredly did not. In fact, if anyone had a right to be afraid or taken aback that morning it was that harmless lady standing there dealing with a ranting and raving toddler? What is your phobia? What is your concern about hearing out other people and other opinions?
You would make a great case study for a textbook for Advanced Psych. At least you provide some humor as people laughed then and later on about your behavior, but you just keep on going, keep on truckin'. Keep on trying to sneak past all of us with your CSI contract for WI Fi again - oh, excuse me - broadband. Keep calling this a utility, which it is NOT and try to force people to use YOUR chosen provider. Remember - we defeated Wi Fi soundly and will trash you again should you try again.
One more question, Israel and Black, where do you get the right to post on your PRIVATE blog, not an official blog of the Village no matter how you try to disguise that fact, where do you get the right to post pictures from the cameras at the gate. I did not give you permission to do that, to share pictures of my comings and goings on your private blog? That is an invasion of my privacy and you need to get those camera feeds off your blog and as for the poor soul who need to see if their pizza delivery is on its way two whole minutes before the delivery is at the door - get a life!
So, in closing, here is my headline in the same print you used for yours, little baby.
DAVID YOU ARE LOSING THE WAR!GET OVER IT!!
OUR PROGRESSIVE WORLD?
This post has been contributed by Bettie and is well worth reading. Combine it with the story out of Stanford today and one will wonder at the state of affairs in our "civilized" world.
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT Medcins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders)
If you think Medecins Sans Frontieres are doing a wonderful job,
please read this.
To:
The Chief Operational Officer
Médecins Sans Frontières
Sent to the Australian Office and New York Office
Subject: Dismay
Dear Sir/Madam
When my daughter wed in July 2006, in lieu of gifts she asked for
donations to be made to Doctors without Borders / Medecins Sans
Frontieres as our family had always supported the Group.
Well, I have a regret. I've just read a presentation by Alan Dershowitz
"Doctors Without Borders erected borders when it came to Israeli
doctors who flew to the Congo to treat 50 local villagers who had been
severely burned. The Israeli volunteers worked around the clock,
treated the burn victims and trained local doctors to perform skin
grafts, and donated tons of medical equipment.
But Doctors Without Borders refused to work with the Israeli medics
and para medics and treated them "as though we were occupiers." -
quoted one Israeli medic.
Dr. Marie Pierre Allie, President of the French branch of the
organization, said that " Israel 's actions in Gaza were actually worse
than the Darfur genocide in the Sudan ."
Only a blind moonbat could even make such a comparison! MSF has an
apparent problem with one democratic Jewish State but is quite at
ease with the existence and actions of 56 dysfunctional & corrupt
Islamic states. As one critic has put it well, "These are Doctors With
Borders - and without scruples."
Google "Doctors without Borders Israel" and you will get more
confirmation of the reactions around the world.
My family will no longer donate to Doctors without Borders until this
cynical, hateful and bitter culture towards Israel - which obviously
emanates from the top - ceases.
I shall disseminate this email as widely as I can and shall ask
recipients to forward it on also.
George Greenberg
Melbourne Australia
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT Medcins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders)
If you think Medecins Sans Frontieres are doing a wonderful job,
please read this.
To:
The Chief Operational Officer
Médecins Sans Frontières
Sent to the Australian Office and New York Office
Subject: Dismay
Dear Sir/Madam
When my daughter wed in July 2006, in lieu of gifts she asked for
donations to be made to Doctors without Borders / Medecins Sans
Frontieres as our family had always supported the Group.
Well, I have a regret. I've just read a presentation by Alan Dershowitz
"Doctors Without Borders erected borders when it came to Israeli
doctors who flew to the Congo to treat 50 local villagers who had been
severely burned. The Israeli volunteers worked around the clock,
treated the burn victims and trained local doctors to perform skin
grafts, and donated tons of medical equipment.
But Doctors Without Borders refused to work with the Israeli medics
and para medics and treated them "as though we were occupiers." -
quoted one Israeli medic.
Dr. Marie Pierre Allie, President of the French branch of the
organization, said that " Israel 's actions in Gaza were actually worse
than the Darfur genocide in the Sudan ."
Only a blind moonbat could even make such a comparison! MSF has an
apparent problem with one democratic Jewish State but is quite at
ease with the existence and actions of 56 dysfunctional & corrupt
Islamic states. As one critic has put it well, "These are Doctors With
Borders - and without scruples."
Google "Doctors without Borders Israel" and you will get more
confirmation of the reactions around the world.
My family will no longer donate to Doctors without Borders until this
cynical, hateful and bitter culture towards Israel - which obviously
emanates from the top - ceases.
I shall disseminate this email as widely as I can and shall ask
recipients to forward it on also.
George Greenberg
Melbourne Australia
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