Solon Forum Delete Guy

SFDG for short, seems to have honed in on our good buddy SolonBiker and made it his mission to purge the forum of his liberal speech. Rather unAmerican if you ask me. One would hope that good conservatives, even GOOPERs, would have enough patriotism to recognize and respect constitutionally protected free speech. But no, the new new-GOP, near fascist right, only believes in rights for them selves, the other 47 % to 99 % only exist to be of service to the 1 %.

The SFDG takes advantage of the Forum's Inappropriate Post feature by abusing it to auto delete posts it deems too liberal and thus not protected by the 1 percent's constitution.

Sure the Dems have their problems, but consolidating inefficiencies to benefit the few, the rich, the elite, isn't the solution. The odd thing is, if Mitt won, with the help of ignorant GOOPERS who never vote Dem, those same rabid GOP fans will never get any benefits other than the usual lip service.

The GOP is a party that should be put out of it's misery so it doesn't have to stoop so low to cater to the fanatical lunatic fringe. Now the party can't even attract intelligent candidates any more, they get the likes of Jeb's dumber druggy alcoholic brother, an air head Alaskan Governor who doesn't know geography and the most recent Mitt, who can't even run a campaign, let alone a country. In its place should be a mainstream party that can solve problems and have an IQ over 100.

Mitt's got just one thing going for him, he IS NOT BARACK, and that's not saying much at all.

5627. 

SolonJoe Says

by SolonPol, 09/28/12 7:13 PM

Vote for Mitt Romney... That's all, nothing more, over on the SolonJoe.com site that advertises its the voice of Solon. It's a very infrequently updated site, started at the same time and by the same ISP as the official Paulson mayoral campaign sites.

It's first issue was SolonJoe3's rant against all non-Bob Solon politicians that got joe from SJ1 to SJ3. SolonJoeN admitted that he had access to the site but denies its his.

Then it took on other issues, School Levy Defeat, McDonalds, and now Mitt. 

Previously the site had lots of content to backup its issues, now for Romney it has absolutely nothing. I guess its implied that you need to vote for Mitt because he isn't Barck... There's no hint of why Mitt is better, probably because even Mitt doesn't know why, Mitt's running on the vote for me cuz I'm not the other guy, the weakest excuse ever, with hardly any attempt to say why.

I'm sure when SMC and Joe post responses to this non-local issue post that the SFDG (Solon Forum Delete Guy) will be conspicuously absent...

So SolonJoe3, why not contact your former ally at SolonJoe.com and ask him, where's the beef?

Re-Re-Booting the RomneyBot

5620. Re-Re-Booting the RomneyBot (Take 9)
by SolonBiker, 09/27/12 2:38 PM

Hey, Joe, ya out there??? I'm getting tired of re-posting this dumb thing. But I wrote the last half at your special request, and I don't even know if you've seen it because it's been so rapid-fire deleted. Here's my ninth attempt . . .

Rove: It’s not working. The re-boot failed. We’re down 8 in Ohio, and there’s no map that wins without Ohio. We need another re-boot. Where’s that Joe guy????

Campaign Manager: He’s not happy, he says he needs more pay.

Rove: Look, we’ve got Trump, we’ve got the Koch brothers, we’ve got Adelson … tell him he can name his price. We’re talking about the White House!!!

SolonJoe3 and Solon Forum Delete Punk walk in the door.

Joe: Greetings, fellow Corrupticans, what do you need???

Rove: It’s not working, Obama’s increasing his lead. We need another wipe and reload.

Joe: How about if you release his taxes so that . . .

Rove: Not an option, I mean he can’t even fill in his tax return without identifying USA as a foreign country. Can you imagine what’s in the ten years we’re withholding??

Joe: OK, well maybe if he put some detail into his tax plan, I notice 4 trillion in cuts, but I see no specifics about how you’re going to . . .

Rove: Look, that won’t work either, we don’t need political advice, we just need to get this stupid thing working.

Joe: OK, well about my price …

Rove: Name it, the sky’s the limit. What do you need, how many million . . .

Joe: Well, I was wondering if we could maybe upgrade from the lite beer to regular. You know, maybe Miller High Life instead of Miller Lite.

Rove (scratching his head): Yeah, I think we can do that.

Joe: OK, bring in the RomneyBot.

Mitt Romney walks in.

Joe: Wipe and reload, Delete Punk.

Delete Punk: “ “

Joe: OK, let’s see what we’ve got . . .

Mitt Romney : Bonjour, mon nom est Mitt Romney. Je suis un robot envoyé sur Mars pour aider à l'anéantissement de la planète Terre. Mon taux d'imposition est de 14%, ce qui me fait mal, mais je dois paraître un peu comme un être humain, donc je accepter cette imposition.

Joe : Yikes !!!

Rove : Look, we sent it to France during ‘Nam. We could never get its combat program running, so we sent him on a Mormon mission in a French château. We think the French is a virus.

Joe : Delete Punk, get rid of the French.

Mitt Romney : Let Detroit go bankrupt !!!

Joe : Delete Punk, you’re fired !!! Get out of here !!!

Solon Forum Delete Punk exits stage left.

Mitt Romney : I like to fire people who provide me services.

Joe : Does this thing have a mute button ???

Rove : We’ve been looking and looking, but we can’t seem to find one.

Joe : Where did this thing come from ???

Rove : The papers said Mars. Is that in Kansas ??? Some guy who calls himself Marvin the Martian and he . . .

Joe : Hold on.

Joe takes his pants off, grabs a wrench and starts hitting the Romneybot on the head.

Mitt Romney : We won’t let people die of heart attacks in their apartments. We’ll send them to the ER, and they can die there.

Joe : Well, that’s as good as it’s gonna get.

Rove : Well, you’re the miracle worker, that’s for sure. Looks like a winner for sure now.

Joe : Now about my price.

Three cases of Miller High Life get wheeled in.

Joe (putting pants back on) : Great doing business with you.

Joe starts walking out the door.

Joe: But, you know, maybe I could also get …

Rove : We thought you’d never ask … Hold on.

Condi Rice walks out the door, and takes Joe by the arm.

Joe : Well, you know it IS the White House . . .

Rove : Right, right, hold on.

Ann Coulter walks out, takes Joe by the other arm.

Joe: … and we’ve got a Muslim Socialist in the White House . . . .

Rove : OK, OK … you win … bring in the big guns !!!

Condi Rice and Ann Coulter walk out the door, and Sarah Palin walks in . . .

Palin : I hear I’m moving to Solon.

Joe : You betcha !!!!!

Palin : Well, I’m gonna need a variance so that I can still see Russia from my back porch.

Joe : Oh, don’t worry about that, I’ll take care of your back porch.

Mitt Romney: Russia is Public Enemy #1 !!!!

5620. Romney Reboot take 10
by solonjoe3, 09/28/12 10:34 AM

Romney: These darn democratics will stop at nothing to slander my good name!

Joe: I know, I know. It's so unfair.

Romney: Thanks Joe. Here's a thousand dollars.

Joe: Thank you sir.

[SolonBiker rides in on his carbon alloy super cycle. His svelte frame perfectly matches the precise engineering in his Chinese made racer.]

SolonBiker: Joe! How could you? Romney is just rich a-hole.

Joe: Well, you never came through with the Asian twins and he gave me a thousand bucks.

Solonbiker: But I gave Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin.

Joe: Those gals have been ridden a few too many times if you know what I mean. Not that there is anything wrong what. Sure, hanging with experienced gals may be fine for you (I've seen the pictures of you with Pelosi.) But I am vigorous.

SolonPol: Joe what are doing? This post is sure to be taken down by the delete punk.

Joe: Heck, I don't care. I've got me a thousand bucks and I'm gonna buy me a beer truck.

Cheers.

5620.2. Following Up
by SolonBiker, 09/28/12 2:44 PM
Re: Romney Reboot take 10 by solonjoe3, 09/28/12 2:44 PM

Joe: Why, thanks, RomneyBot. Wow, a thousand bucks!!!! Imagine how much beer I'll be able to buy with that!!!

RomneyBot: Oh, heavens no, Joe. We don't condone of that sort of thing. No, this is for your Medicare. It's a prepay on the coupon we'd like to give you when you're 65 . . .

Paul Ryan: (loudly coughs and clears throat)

RomneyBot: When you're 67 . . .

Paul Ryan: (loudly coughs like a cat spitting up a hairball)

RomneyBot: (weakly) Er, um, when you're 70 . . . (nervously looks at Paul Ryan) . . . Yes, yes, it's a downpayment for your Medicare when you're 70. Now, all you have to do is invest that with a 400,000x return on your investment like I did with my offshore IRAs, and you'll be truly golden in your golden years.

Joe: Why, gosh, I knew there was a reason I always vote for the R team!!!

For those who doubt me

This post goes with my Forum entry 5582. Hey Eddie, I'm OK by SolonPol, 09/05/12 1:34 PM

Yes, I really was at Panannis drinking while posting on the Solon Forum....

Raspberry cheesecake, Guinness Stout, Laptop

Laptop on Solon forum in foreground, Northeast Gas Station (across from Pannanis) in background.

So here's the iPad controlling my desktop at home with the laptop next to it...  The photo is deliberately  out of focus so I didn't reveal too much...

Damn I have to be one sick puppy...

Bubba's BBroad Ignorance

5481. Bubba's BBroad Ignorance
by bbrdres, 06/09/12 11:37 PM

This is of course in response to post 5476.1.1.2.2 titled ".BBroad Crybabies.." whose outlandish  punctuation gives the author away as bubbaburgers and whose strange posts is only outdone by his total ignorance about the BB Rd project.

This post won't last long so you can find it in a safe place on http://solonpol.blogspot.com/ and of course you can follow the BB Rd project on http://bainbridgeroad.wordpress.com/ which has a sidebar with reference documents, etc.

He says, with his usual punctuational flare "..cash your state check, call a landscaper and have trees planted..pay with state cash and shut up already..!!!!!!!!!!!!.."  Then later accuses Joe of not doing his research.

First, there was no state check, it was a county project, that outsourced real estate issues to OR Colan (a private company) who low balled the 150+ residents so the county could issue the lowest compensation possible.

If Bubba was paying attention, to my posts or my blog, he'd know that the average OR Colan offer was $100 per mature tree over 20 ft and smaller trees were offered less.

What do you think a 20 ft tree costs to buy and install?  More than $100 maybe?

Bubba please enlighten us on a what we can get with all that cash from your landscaper.

As for "shutting up", that's just what local govt would like, and what nearly everyone on BB Rd did, they STFU because everyone knows you can't fight city hall.

Well a few of us didn't know that, so we formed an LLC, pooled money, put our own experts on retainer and we tried to fight the county first on the unnecessary million dollar temp road that the city requested and will most likely have to pay for in the future.

We were surprised the county didn't care but the city (former law director Matty) raced in to demand the wasteful road...  Why?

The city promised to help restore property damaged by THEIR temp road, but that same law director proffered an illegal agreement that our lawyers insisted we could not sign.

In court the county tried to blame the city and the jury was not too happy with that stunt nor the invalid city contract that was admitted into evidence (Call me Lobe).

When a dozen people raised issues with the low estimates, the county spent THOUSANDS of dollars per case on outsourced experts to prevent fair compensation as state law requires, rather than offer that money as a good faith counteroffer.  When we won our first case where it was proven in court that OR Colan low balled residents and where a jury decided the proper compensation should be much higher, the county appealed the case, spending thousands more but offering the residents nothing.  When they lost the appeal they took their sweet time cutting the checks.  Some residents are still waiting for their compensation.

When govt wants to abuse its residents, it is only the brave and perseverant who stand up for the betterment of ALL CITIZENS.  Be glad there were a few brave people who called the govt on their misdeeds while others (like you Bubba) languished blissfully in their ignorance.

BTW Bubba, did you know this free project has cost the city over $1.2M so far?  If you did your research before you opened your big mouth, you'd know that.

So Bubba, I'd like to tell YOU to just ...$%^@ S .. T .. F .. U .. !!@$

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5476.1.1.2.2. .BBroad Crybabies..

by bubbaburgers, 06/08/12 7:54 AM 

Re: Almost forgot... by GarryKanter, 06/08/12 7:54 AM

..cash your state check, call a landscaper and have trees planted..pay with state cash and shut up already..!!!!!!!!!!!!..

5476.1.1.2.2.1. Standing up to the "man" is not being a cry-baby!

by solonjoe3, 06/09/12 11:10 AM 

Re: Almost forgot... by GarryKanter, 06/09/12 11:10 AM

Cheers.

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Budget Hearings 2012

STATUS - ROUGH DRAFT, last update 2/16/21 1:30 am

Some highlights from the second budget meeting...

Each dept head was called to take the "hot seat" to answer questions led by Mooney (the Finance chair) on Revenue Summary (if applicable), Staffing, Operations, and briefly Capital Requests.  Full details on revenue fees will be held at the March and April Finance Meetings. Discussions of the budget line structure were also made for better reporting along with comparisons to prior years. While Mooney led the questions, Russo and Meany occassionaly asked questions too.  Coucilman who were present occasionally asked questions.  Bell and Pelunis were probably there for most of it.  Kraus and Richmond were also present for some of it.  The Mayor sat next to the "hot seat" and was active at the meeting until called away to the Planning Commission.

Strong concerns were raised about health care costs increasing 15% per year.  The three biggest dept are $3M.  Something different must be done, not just bid, Russo said a mandatory wellness program where if you particpate you get lower health care contributions, if you don't you are hit with the full health care increase.

There was a lot of discussion about the recreation/community center/grantwood dept...

• Silver Sneakers is a successful revenue generator.
• Staffing reduced by 1 FT cleaning supervisor by privatizing the operation as other city buildings did.
• Unfunded Mandates - Pools had to replace drains with new drains for govt mandated safety.  New ADA requirements will require a second handicapped entry at all pools, even the hot tub.
• Programs for latch key kids are on a sharp rise, 65 kids, could get 125 if they had capacity.  Soccer way up, BB up, softball down, flag football down.

Economic

• xx

SCA

• xx

Building

• xx

Senior Center

• xx

IT

• Adding a budget line for software rather than lumping everything together
• Computer training credits used up in 1 yr rather than 2, staff will do training internally
• Equipment Maintenance Plans were scrapped, they are now being reactivated so vendor will provide HW & SW service
• VM Server setup will be at City Hall and Police Dept (presumably to back each other up, no discussion on config of VMs and DR setup)
• Will be upgrading software to consistent levels, eg Office 2003-2010 currently installed causing frustration and confusion (Chief Shaw example),
• Wireless Access improvements
• Will review tablet use by city hall and council
• Committee pleased that all new PC purchases go through IT dept and they will be doing a lifecycle replacement (this is a common practice in business that was just introduced to city hall)
• In a few years IT may explore VDI to reduce desktop expense (also a common business practice)
• Some added costs to new IP based phone system ranging from $250-$290K for compatibility and regional county dispatch PSAP

Cable

• Cell repeaters will be installed in Senior Center and possibly the community center
• Russo strongly objects to improving cell service at the community center, you are there to exercise, not use cell phones, called it "foolish".

Legal

• Outside fees - $100K
• 8 collective bargaining issues will need to be resolved this year (thanks to Issue 2)

Remaining Issues

• Capital projects and Bond prepayment will be covered at special finance meeting (on camera) Tue Feb 21 at 5:30.

Public Records
The Finance Director mentioned this issue at the first hearing, specifically for his dept, but it is a city wide issue.

• Need a Records Retention Plan
• Deal with, eliminate old paper records
• Reduce paper volume by scanning