LIFE TODAY

     Yesterday we saw Fury Road, the Mad Max movie. I must confess here that I loved the original ones, though I will not go see any Mel Gibson movies now, and I liked this one. Violent? Yes, but that is the vision of the post apocalyptic world of the future, the one where all of mankind's errors come home to roost and life is a desert - not a jungle, for there is no water to be freely had - sounds familiar from the drought in California and other west coast states - and people are crude, survival a desert in which only hate and mayhem serve any survival purpose. To have "human" and humane notions will only get one in trouble.
     Now transfer this mess to the world of today. Think of the brutality of Boko Haram, of ISIS, the Taliban, of even our soldiers sent back time and again to such a hostile environment that they have no choice but to be affected. Even the choice of surrender or capture is not a choice for there appear to be no holds barred by the enemy.
     So what do we do? Well, as the ending quotation flashed on the screen, wherein it was stated that man is constantly roaming the earth seeking our better selves, I thought of the meeting we had come from prior to the movie. It was a security meeting with PBSO, Homeland Security and the Palm Beach Jewish community with various organizations and synagogues and schools attending. This was a meeting which urged one how to prepare, to be proactive, rather than reactive after a terrible event, be it from nature or man made.
     We heard several speakers, asked questions, received advice, and many made plans to proceed further on this road.
Such is the world today. Just looking at the pictures of the Houston disastrous flood and thanking G-d that my son and family had moved to another city, brought to mind the hurricane season fast approaching. It just takes one. So our synagogue will proceed along this path but I wonder why our Village has not done so.
     I long ago, at a meeting, suggested disaster preparation and David Israel ran with it under his name. Fine, as long as the deed was done, but it seems that the committee never got off to a real start, so here we are without plans. What would happen should a truly bad or evil minded person get in the Village? How would we alert people, make sure they get to safety? What if the bad guy were here already, gun or guns in hand and again, how to alert all? Yes, we have some hurricane plans, but what if there were a massive flooding situation and people could not get to the Clubhouse parking lot for help and supplies? What if the roads were closed and the people trapped inside their homes? What then?
     This is the kind of thing that needs committed volunteers, many of them, yet we have none, or are rather prevented from having any by the ridiculous and harmful policies of the current UCO administration. Pat Sealander begs for volunteers. Phyllis S. needs volunteers for Investigations. Joy Vestal, of The Rag, begs for volunteers and then turns them away or does not get any takers for all know what happens to volunteers now in UCO.
     This is the kind of action that needs process and procedure, a practice which does not exist in UCO at present. Their only process is to push their own selfish ideas even as every day shows how deluded they are. Today there is a plan being put forward that would help poorer people to attain broadband. Surely that would affect many people here so again, why do we not sit down and shut up with these ridiculous and expensive and unnecessary plans about broadband and wait till everything shakes out. THERE IS ALREADY BROADBAND IN THE VILLAGE!! All that this new plan would do is get us into another Boca CV situation wherein they just had to cancel their Wi Fi agreement with DSL as, to put it bluntly, it was not working and not worth all the funds expended. At least we here in CVWPB fought it, fought David Israel, Ed Black and henchmen, and won, thank the Lord!
     There are far more immediate and necessary projects that must move forward here in the Village. Let us get on with those and let us get on with the first step - term limit reinstatement and throwing out the trash in UCO. For our sake! For the sake of the survival of the Village. Before they kill it all. Before they take us all the way down to bankruptcy. Before all the vegetation holding up the fences collapse! (Love that line they delivered in the paper about the vegetation and the fence.)
     Reading The Messenger newsletter is great, And, oh, by the way, we were not home most of the day when Seacrest left two items in our door. When we came home the house had been just fine but maybe we had just missed the huge horde of people evidently roaming the Village looking for doors with notes and planning robberies?!  Maybe they had already gone to Greenbriar! Or to the paper. Reading is fine. Attending the meetings is fine - informative and fun. Amazing that they organized a Memorial Day program while UCO, as usual, sat on their thumbs. BUT - what is truly needed are votes, votes, and more votes. Get rid of your deadwood delegates and get those with a thinking brain, who understand that UCO must be changed, cleansed, and what is not needed is any more time with the current administration. What is needed is ACTION.