An election expense?
In these days of hypersensitivity about frivolous Municipal expenses and spurious election costs will anybody but 'chatterers' make any fuss about this - expensive municipal expenditures. Many questions abound:
- How much did it cost, a full page in NToday is usually well over the thousand mark,
- If the pages were donated why?
- How much stafftime was put together to make the Council look good?
- Who authorised such an effort?
- How will it be used by candidates and if it is will it count as an election expense?
- Perhaps this could be the first item of business for the newly formed "Election Accountability committee"?
16 comments:
GeezuzH, I saw this tripe today and I just about fell over. It's the godamned BOLD PRINT EMPHASIS used wherever a point of possible contention arises. It is so clumsily defensive of this stupid, stupid, stupid council's mindless bumph as to destroy their arguments altogether. It's got Eugene Todd's fingerprints all over it; if you haven't got the goods -SHOUT! It's a sick little piece of hick propaganda from a sick little hick council. What did we pay for it? Who cares. These inbred assholes don't -they've got oodles of money to burn on whatever strikes their childlike whims.
FOUR MORE YEARS?
NO MORE YEARS!
DUMP THOMPSON!
Just shocking tompsons re election bs how do you go from 8 million in the hole to 7 million plus ? the taxes came in 2 days earler what spin . never has this happened in port hope history about a update like this election bs
Just a pack of lies she should go to jail !
smells like a challenger sittin' the bushes!
Yesterday, at the opening parade of Estival, Port Hope's strange celebration of something yet to be determined, Mayor Linda Thompson and Deputy Dawg Mayor Jeff Lees rode into town together in a horse drawn carriage. Both were wearing large red clown noses.
There you have it: Horse-shit and clowns -the perfect summation of what this town runs on and who's running it.
by now we get that you're not impressed with 'head office', Merk, and maybe you've got good reasons. How 'bout tellin' us just who you want to take over, and a bit of insight as to why, y'know, just to put a bit of a fresh tune to yer woeful lament, eh.
trying2makesense said...
by now we get that you're not impressed with 'head office', Merk, and maybe you've got good reasons. How 'bout tellin' us just who you want to take over, and a bit of insight as to why, y'know, just to put a bit of a fresh tune to yer woeful lament, eh.
Sunday, August 1, 2010 12:37:00 PM EDT
Why do I have to offer an alternative? Why don't you, in challenging my 'woeful lament' offer an alternative? I assume you're familiar with our governmental system, a system that has at its core an 'opposition'? If I feel like filling that role locally I'll fill it. I'm not here to supply hope, sunshine or Pollyan-ish solutions to anything. If sometimes I do, believe me, its probably a lapse on my part. All I'm saying is we're ill-served in Port Hope and, please, feel free to take that as belabouring the obvious on my part. But don't ask me to come up with instant answers when you yourself offer none. Especially when you yourself don't offer criticism either. If you want a Rotary World of Happy-Faced mutual back scratching morons go join Rotary -if you're not already a member. Meanwhile I'll continue to call 'em as I sees 'em without, hopefully, insulting anybody's intelligence by urging Port Hope to hire Sally Field to dress up as Mother Theresa and minister to the intelectually impoverished running this burg.
Can something not be done about this ?
Merk said..."Why do I have to offer an alternative?"
well..I didn't say you have to, I asked rather politely, I think. It seems such a waste to read all the woes you ooze while we know there's so much 'good stuff' in that cranium just waiting to bust out. It's hard to imagine a Merk that's on fire with ideas that could revolutionize the system he so pathologically despises, but I'm betting there is one of them too. I'm really curious about what you would welcome in place of what we have. Oh, I've offered my own thoughts many times, through other personas, but I like this one just for keeping my own balance and trying to bring a bit of it to some of the issues that unfold right here, even if it's not what most are hoping to find. I get that frustration, annoyance, disrespect, anger and many other emotions that are spilled here, and that's ok by me too (not that that's even necessary), but the only way I see anything good coming from it is if, after the torrential rains, some sunshine peeks through those heavy, heavy clouds (there's Polyanna stickin' her nose in it again). After all, do you want to spend all that energy just bitchin' (maybe you do) with no hope in sight, at all, ever, never, nada? I sure hope not, cause what a waste that would be.
... about what?
Now I'm not trying to respond on Mr. Muffley's behalf, he can do that himself quite well, but there's something bugging me about Trying's post challenging the Muff to offer happy solutions.
Just imagine, Trying, that you've spent your whole working life trying to improve the lot of your fellow humans. Despite all your efforts, and all your perfectly logical and sensible alternatives proffered with respect and humility, you have been ignored, debased and called unflattering names. Over and over again.
Worse, you ideas are proven to be right, yet it makes no difference.
After many years of this fruitless striving, finally something snaps in your brain. That optimism in the face of barbarianism is gone, replaced by a chilling sense of doom and pointlessness.
In the final stage, anger kicks in. Knowing you will never change the minds of the mindless, you switch from trying to enlighten to just lashing out at all the unfairness, the vindictiveness, the stupidity.
It is the logical, inevitable result of caring too much, knowing too much, and being unable to change a damn thing.
Got a solution for that, Trying?
Deb O said "challenging the Muff to offer happy solutions" - Is there any kind of argument to be made for offering 'unhappy solutions'? Why label them as anything other than solutions? If they truly are solutions, the source of dissatisfaction is reduced or removed and yes, perhaps some "happy" might result, and what's so bad about that? Is it noble, or something especially heroic, to wallow in negativity just for the sheer hell of it? Is it just an excuse to quit doing the right things?
As for the frustrations you mention, when they begin to attack me, and they do, I am fortunate to be able to rebuff them with the security of knowing that I continue to do all that I feel to be right under the circumstances, regardless of how that is handled by the detractors. Giving in is not going to be my choice, ever. For me, the solution is to reject the defeatist mentality, and it continues to work.
Oh for Christ sake,k I'll say it again. I've said it a hundred times an The Little Mary Sunshines practically insist on not getting it, on not Googling it, on continuing blithly down that garden path of whatever is being palmed off as beneficial to their unquestioning minds:
"Positive thinking is neither."
Barbara Eherenreich author of Nickled And Dimed; On Not Getting By In America
and
Brightsided: How Positive Thinking Undermined America
"Positive thinking is bad enough. Seeking it every day of your life is a disease." Merklin Muffley
given the general demeanor of much of the commentary here, one could easily interchange the adjectives "positive' and "negative" and draw the same conclusions as Merk does.
"Positive thinking is neither." sounds just as reasonable as "Negative thinking is neither."
Why attach either adjective? For some, it seems "negative thinking" provides their spice of life, and why not, they likely feel unable to relate to issues in any other way.
Thinking does not have to have an adjective attached to it to be of value or worthy of comment, contrary to Merk's and Deb O's apparent contentions.
Oh, dear sweet gawd...I give up.
.. and then there was this rough-edged gem - "Negative thinking is bad enough. Seeking it every day of your life is a disease." adapted from MM's view of his version of our world. Sad .. yet inevitable..
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