Stuff for Monday morning
Why do people bother to go to Council when nothing will happen to what they say:
This is an item on the Council agenda for Monday evening. Mr Taggart is going to tell Council what his client thinks of the idea of roadblocks, imposed by Councils, on the property at Tremaine St. The old Cobourg Matting Company site is rundown, abandoned and sits in a floodplain. There is a plan to redevelop it with homes (what else!). However it appears by the wording of the agenda it doesn't matter what Mr Taggart and his client say, none of it will be acted on as the remarks, whatever they are, are already determined to be consigned to the official hiding place of limbo-land, known as "received for information". And, Council still doesn't understand why they are fading into political irrelevance in the eyes and ears of the voters.
The Cobourg Star finds a new guy!
Dan Christie, selfstyled curmudgeon and sometimes renaissance man has a new gig. Every other Monday the readers of the CDS will find 750 words of "wisdom according to Dan". However the first attempt didn't get off to such a good start. Dan trying to shed his 'bad-boy' image penned a piece of pablum about the pablamic subject of "nice". Unfortunately the other 'bad-boy of the pen' - Wally Keeler, read the piece and spotted a quote which had been wrongly attributed to the wrong author. Pens flew and a correction was issued and although the axchange will never be worthy of the literary sparks produced by the "London set" of the 1930s it is an indication that Dan had better sharpen up as others are just waiting to pounce.
Another Superjail saga looms
Many people can remember the 'superjail debate'. It took place about ten years ago in Cramahe Twp. Acrimonious exchanges pro and con divided the Township. Eventually the jail was sited in Lindsay and things died down. I say this for the spectre of jail debate has entered the County politic. A report has been filed at the governmental level that recommends, amongst other things, that a new 'superjail be constructed in Kingston and smaller jails be closed and the system consolidated at the 'superjail'. The area pols are horrified, the MP says there's nothing to worry about and Stockwell Day, the Minister of the Interior, says "Yep it's one of the recommendations, but don't worry it's a good ten years off." My money is on the opinion published by local Lawyer John Hill. He said that the fix is in, MP Rick Norlock is being taken for a ride and the system is going to follow the US example of building "SuperMax".
This is an item on the Council agenda for Monday evening. Mr Taggart is going to tell Council what his client thinks of the idea of roadblocks, imposed by Councils, on the property at Tremaine St. The old Cobourg Matting Company site is rundown, abandoned and sits in a floodplain. There is a plan to redevelop it with homes (what else!). However it appears by the wording of the agenda it doesn't matter what Mr Taggart and his client say, none of it will be acted on as the remarks, whatever they are, are already determined to be consigned to the official hiding place of limbo-land, known as "received for information". And, Council still doesn't understand why they are fading into political irrelevance in the eyes and ears of the voters.
The Cobourg Star finds a new guy!
Dan Christie, selfstyled curmudgeon and sometimes renaissance man has a new gig. Every other Monday the readers of the CDS will find 750 words of "wisdom according to Dan". However the first attempt didn't get off to such a good start. Dan trying to shed his 'bad-boy' image penned a piece of pablum about the pablamic subject of "nice". Unfortunately the other 'bad-boy of the pen' - Wally Keeler, read the piece and spotted a quote which had been wrongly attributed to the wrong author. Pens flew and a correction was issued and although the axchange will never be worthy of the literary sparks produced by the "London set" of the 1930s it is an indication that Dan had better sharpen up as others are just waiting to pounce.
Another Superjail saga looms
Many people can remember the 'superjail debate'. It took place about ten years ago in Cramahe Twp. Acrimonious exchanges pro and con divided the Township. Eventually the jail was sited in Lindsay and things died down. I say this for the spectre of jail debate has entered the County politic. A report has been filed at the governmental level that recommends, amongst other things, that a new 'superjail be constructed in Kingston and smaller jails be closed and the system consolidated at the 'superjail'. The area pols are horrified, the MP says there's nothing to worry about and Stockwell Day, the Minister of the Interior, says "Yep it's one of the recommendations, but don't worry it's a good ten years off." My money is on the opinion published by local Lawyer John Hill. He said that the fix is in, MP Rick Norlock is being taken for a ride and the system is going to follow the US example of building "SuperMax".
2 comments:
There was an old geezer named Dan
who fancied himself a Brahman
posturing all sage
he put pen to page
and displayed his bloated bland gland
There was an old chimp named Keeler
who decided to be a scene stealer
while monkeying around
on a merry-go-round
wow! what a banana peeler
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