Sorry for the late entry, but flew out early this morning and when I got here my daughter put me to work harvesting her garden vegetables and fruits. The life of the migrant worker is not easy!
Anyway, read an article or two on the plane today that were very annoying.
First we have the President telling Israel that if they do not go along with the Iran deal then there will be missiles falling in Tel Aviv. What was the purpose of that? Trying to scare Israel? Does he not remember from last summer the missiles that fell ALL OVER Israel including Tel Aviv, all aimed at civilian population centers. Does he not understand that Israel is concerned about its very existence and needs no reminding from him that Iran is dangerous and only wishes to see Israel wiped off the face of this earth? So what was that statement - a threat or what?
Then we have the astute argument whether ISIS or Al Qaeda is more dangerous. So, does it really make a difference? One is six apples and the other is half a dozen. Safe difference. Each wants to kill us in different ways, but dead is dead, folks, be it en masse, small incidents, by gun or by knife. There is no difference in philosophy, only methodology, so why can we not apportion men and funds to each? Does not seem difficult to me.
This kind of convoluted logic and thinking, if we dare to call it that, is similar to what we have in the Village, with a great recent example being the Security contract. First we had it thrown at us in the DA where people were talking, minutes were to be read as well as the contract, all in a few minutes, Ed Black, the author of this wonderful contract who worked "oh so hard for it" and got praise from his Lord and Master at the DA, stood up and told us how we had to vote for this, the best contract ever and at a great price. Too many fell for this and oops, there we were, stuck in more UCO garbage again.
From the beginning there were complaints about not doing the job, poor attitudes, lack of training, lack of fulfillment of the contract, but David Israel and Ed Black loved them because they got their sneaky little cameras in place, all the better to spy on us! Finally the complaints and issues were too visible, too loud and attention had to be paid but a committee meeting went the wrong way with a vote to give Kent sixty days notice but then Ed Black who opposed that suddenly could not count and said, "Oops, a mistake, it was a tie vote" and you did not see this meeting on his blog!
Then suddenly there was an unannounced "emergency" meeting of the security committee and oh my, they voted to recommend the sixty days notice and give it to the DA to approve or not. In the officers' meeting there was allusion made to new issues. What are those new issues and how is this being addressed in the proposed 60 days notice? What is the format and content of this notice? How will it be made known whether the company has lived up to the requiremens or not? What happens to the cameras that we are paying for if the contract is cut? And most important, what are the contingency plans for our security if after 60 days the contract is cut off. And the snide little laugh of David Israel at the officers meeting made me wonder if he has other plans - to keep anyway, to lay the garbage talk on thick, or has someone else in mind already? This is the same type of faulty thinking that raises questions about the two terrorist organizations. Why can we not have an open and honest discussion of any and all plans and issues in UCO. It is our UCO and our Village and we are not to be ignored nor treated as dummies.
Personally, I have a great deal of disbelief in the open and true honesty of our governmental officials. They lie through their teeth and then have excuses when they are caught out and why would I think it is any different here in UCO, especially when we have so many examples of this in UCO be it the roads, the security contract, the deals with WPRF, the enabling of Donald Kelly and the refusal to deal with it until we screamed loud and long enough, so much so that the outside world heard and they were forced into it. And I am sure there is more.
Term limits will clear the air, clear UCO and the best will be retained, the honest, the caring and the rest will be gone. Term limits is the way.
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