fly at night

I guess it is impossible for me to get away from HUSA. Here I am, a private citizen not attending the city council meeting and yet my name selectively appears out of nowhere in this week’s version of “how the news gets tweaked”.

I like Kathy Garnier and Richard Sorem as both are professionals. I was able to work with them while doing my duties as mayor. However, being able to work with these good people never changed my personal position regarding HUSA.

The Lassen Times included a comment at the end of the story that really isn’t germane to the story and is misleading. I would say that HUSA met the basic requirement of the city council as mentioned in 2009. However, that does not mean that HUSA’s continuance or assessments are to be taken for granted. It may bother a member of the council that this q & a comes up every year but that is the job of the council. Ask questions. Inquire about those who are paying the bills. For too long the council was told to simply go along as they had no role in this matter.

If I were voting today I would vote against the assessment. First, I don’t support the redistribution of money from those who earn it to the government and then on to a private entity. Second, the council stated a policy that I call the “Lincoln School” policy which states that people who are funding their projects with their own money and they don’t have a lot of it should not have undo hardships put upon them. That means that the uptown business community should not be encumbered by an additional tax.

Either policy will do to say NO to HUSA but I will stick with the first as I believe the second is wrought with an unforeseen downside.

As a side note. Being mayor sometimes means that you have to do things that you really don’t want to do. My preference was to end HUSA but the council made a decision and I implemented the policy and negotiated with HUSA to the benefit of the public. The actions that I took were reviewed and approved by the city council and were accepted by Ms. Garnier and Mr. Sorem. That is what the mayor is supposed to do.

The Centralia (WA) Chronicle is reporting that the Centralia City Council voted 6-0 to offer the Centralia City Manager position to Susanville City Administrator, Rob Hill.

Congratulations Rob!!

Apparently Lassen County hands out money and does not have a system in place to make sure that the money is properly and appropriately used.

According to public records, the IRS has filed a lien on an area Resource Center for failure to pay payroll taxes.

So much for safeguarding county assets…

Baghdad Bob was a great “information” minister in Iraq. He once said there were no US soldiers in Iraq right after we invaded. He knew how to do his job by denying the obvious and by making statements that were beyond conceivable. Isn’t it wonderful that Lassen County has its own Baghdad Bob?

One would think that after Janice (aka Eileen) Spencer moved a rock, built a building, and established bus service (all on her own and, as she states, against the desires and approval of government) that she would take some time off. There has to be a lot of back-patting going on…but her claim is so implausible as to border on the ridiculous.

Alas, Janice isn’t done. I noted in a previous post that this thing Janice has with Mr. Douglas is probably personal. That is an obvious conclusion for a couple reasons. Here is what Janice wrote on the “Krazy Witch Hunt” website:

“This man is a 
Buffoon.

Who is he related to?

Why has he been put in this job?

Why is
Barbara France protecting him?”

The opening comment makes the statement personal. When a Progressive like Janice is losing based upon the facts she gets a bit boorish. She simply can’t control her anger at being perpetually wrong.

Of course, in Janice’s eyes everyone is either related to someone in power or controlled by someone in power and those in power provide jobs. What we learn in such diatribes is how Janice would act if she were put in a position of power.

I assume that France recognized Janice as a nutcase “reporter” (I know, that is a big laugh) that was trying to pass off horse manure as fact…even the Times will only go so far.

Is it true that Janice is going around make stupid statements about Mr. Douglas? Is she creating a hostile workplace for him? Isn’t Mr. Douglas a veteran?

So we have a wing-nut potentially stalking a veteran who is simply doing his assigned job. This is personal and has nothing to do with veterans, busses, or the clinic. My bet, and this is based on the level of vindictiveness, is that Mr. Douglas told Janice NO and it had nothing to do with his work. This is what she does for a living.

I notice that she is back to Cady & Jones and all of that stuff. Soon she will be back on Nagel and the cycle will start again. Krazy begets crazy…

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says that there will be no budget before the elections. (The Hill via Drudge)

The nation’s debt and budget deficits — and what to do about them — are the theme of Hoyer’s speech.

It’s also the issue that’s destroying what’s left of the Democrats’ jobs agenda as centrist Democrats have balked at the price tag of such measures.

For weeks, Democratic leaders have tried to strike a deal on the budget, which is a non-binding resolution, but to no avail.

The talks triggered splits in the Democratic Caucus, alienating conservative Democrats from their liberal colleagues.

That is an interesting development…

Then we have this just in from Breitbart

Of course there will be more taxes, but not just on the rich.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that tax increases will eventually be necessary to address the nation’s mounting debt, raising a difficult election-year issue as Democrats fight retain control of Congress.

In the shorter term, Hoyer raised the possibility that Congress will only temporarily extend middle-class tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. He pointedly suggested that making them permanent would be too costly.

Tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush are scheduled to expire at the end of the year, affecting taxpayers at every income level. President Barack Obama proposes to permanently extend them for individuals making less than $200,000 a year and families making less than $250,000—at a cost of about $2.5 trillion over the next decade.

(my emphasis)

Looks like another campaign promise that didn’t make it to reality. Of course this idea will stimulate the economy.

Janice (aka Eileen) Spencer is whining on the “Krazy Witch Hunt” website that she couldn’t get her May 19, 2010 – 99.9% bull – “letter to the editor” printed in the local paper. “Censure” she claims! Then she attacks Dan Douglas, who is simply an employee of the county doing his job as directed by Mr. Millar.

Why would a member of the press like Janice need to have a letter to the editor printed? I mean, if you are a member of the press don’t you write articles and columns and things like that? If you are a member of the press, doesn’t that mean that you have a relationship with a real news organization? Apparently Janice doesn’t meet any of these conditions. But she has a press card.

In her “letter to the editor” she clearly states that she didn’t get on the Veteran’s facility case until December 2009. This is an important date as it means that she was late to the process. It was a good move by Barrrrrb to spot the errors in the “letter to the editor”.

Where was Janice on June 30, 2009? How about August 3 or August 5, 2009? Those were the dates that this project was discussed at length yet she claims that nobody on the city council or BOS had any idea what was going on! Apparently Mr. Douglas had yet to tell Janice NO or You Are Wrong. This appears to be nothing more than a disguised personal attack on Mr. Douglas.

Have to admit that after all of these years Janice finally attended a veterans event on Memorial Day but where was she on June 14 or last Veterans Day. Timely conversion one could say! At the Memorial Day event she acted like a fish out of water – all that patriotism and all.

On an off point, Janice went through 8 pages yesterday in an attempt to comment. I must have struck a nerve.

Have a great weekend.

It is nice to be a “citizen” once again – Barrrrrrrrb France stripped me of the title 4 years ago. It will take me awhile to get back into regular posts. Here is my first one hot off the press.

The “Secretary” (apparently demoted from Executive Secretary) of the “Krazy Witch Hunt” website could be going nuclear by this time next month. The potential cause of this detonation would be the filing for re-election to the LMUD board by one Fred Nagel.

We have to remember that Janice (aka Eileen) Spencer personally approved the action taken by LAFCo regarding LMUD’s sphere of influence and boundaries thus permitting Nagel to serve on the board. However, as usual, Janice didn’t clearly understand what she was supporting – that is hard to understand as in 2003 she declared herself an expert in LAFCo.

Sit back and enjoy.

ps Comments are off to keep Janice from spamming this site.

Another recall. This time it belongs to a government operation so you probably won’t read much about it.

DETROIT – Chrysler Group LLC is recalling nearly 600,000 minivans and Jeep Wranglers because of brake or wiring problems that could become safety issues, the company and federal regulators said Monday.

The Deficit Reduction Commission is BROKE! (HT Hot Air)

Deficit Reduction Commission Seeks Increase in its Budget

WOW, the Commission can’t stay within budget? What do you think their recommendations will look like?

The Lassen Times managing-editor proved that most things in life are out of her league – For one week I should rename my column to I wonder what

Actually, the column should be named Why don’t I know very much?

Her first question

When someone leaves the City Council with the tile mayor does he carry that moniker for life…

The first problem with the question is that it should say he/she. The real answer to the question resides on page 2B of this week’s paper.

Her second question

Do former councilmembers swear an allegiance not to use what they learn when serving against the city or can they use the public podium as a bully pulpit?

First, the grammar in this question is terrible.

When a member of the City Council leaves that person is a private citizen. You can’t have it both ways Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb. She once said that I couldn’t write things here when I was on the council and now she says that I shouldn’t talk after I am off the council. I would suggest that Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb is sounding more and more like the Executive Secretary of the web version of the Times.

What is important here is that Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb believes that only she has a 1st Amendment right to speech.

Her next statement is a violation of her stated policy not to endorse. I am sure that the publisher, Mike Taborski, would have something to say about this if he were to simply read Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb’s Facebook page and how she mocks the policy.

From my standpoint, this reminds me of four years ago when the then Mayor wrote about a Reality Check the week before the election. Unfortunately for the Mayor and Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb the reality check bounced.

Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb has given me four years of material. I can write about her sleeping during council meetings or join the Professor in pointing out her hypocrisy on religion. So much junk, so little time.