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New Baltimore Superintendent of Highways and Board to be Sued – AGAIN!
At the regular meeting of the New Baltimore Town Board, a public statement was read into the record by resident H.W. Vadney, who rebuffed and rebuked the New Baltimore Town Board and Mr Denis Jordan, especially, for failing in their duties and obligations under the law, and their dereliction and abuse of public office. At one point during the public statement, the agent of the New Baltimore resident whose property was severely damaged by surface water runoff due to the failure of the New Baltimore Highway Departments failure, under the personal and direct supervision of Mr Denis Jordan, New Baltimore Superintendent of Highways, served the resident's Notice of Claim on New Baltimore Town Supervisor Nicholas Dellisanti and New Baltimore Town Clerk Barbara Finke. Mr Denis Jordan was to have been served at that time but he failed to appear at the meeting, most likely in hiding once he got word that a public statement was to be read and town officials served with the Notice of Claim. Read the public statement here: Public comment re NB Hwy Dept.
It's incredible, but true. Three Town of New Baltimore Supervisors later and still the same dumbass in the Highway Superintendent's office! Last election, New Baltimore Highway Superintendent Denis Jordan was re-elected by one vote over his opponent, 25-year department veteran, Alan vanWormer. Residents just shook their heads in disbelief but that was how the election was won — after the fact, of course, New Baltimore Republicans stood there pointing their fingers at George Acker and his Independence Party mob for not getting out the Independence Party voters. And, YES, the Greene County Board of Elections is a corrupt band of political hacks who dance to the tune of their own messiahs playing "Jack my Beanstalk" on their skin flutes. Crude? Yes. But frustration and anger chip away at poisonous PC.
What do you think goes through the mind of a potential buyer or developer when …
Like it or not, the condition of our town streets and roads are a factor in our property values. What do you think goes through the mind of a potential buyer or developer when they drive through the Town of New Baltimore and see poorly maintained roads, culverts that are demolished or that disappear into nowhere, erosion along the roadside, potholes filled with water? What is the sense of having a so-called National Historic District if its streets are about as damaged as the national political parties, as broken as local government. How is it that local voters continue to elect incompetent, uneducated, corrupt people to head our town highway departments, when those very people have reputations for corruption, ignorance, and incompetence? What does that say about you, Mr or Ms New Baltimore Voter, property owner? Not much, you can be sure. But that's how you made your bed, and now you have to sleep in it. But that's not necessarily so because there is a way, it's called a Notice of Claim followed by a lawsuit.
Madison Ave East and New Street Drainage
Well, Denis Jordan has done it again. He's attracted another potentially damaging lawsuit for his incompetence and arrogance. This time for extensive property damage to a residential structure on New Street in the National Historic District of the Hamlet in the Town of New Baltimore. After neglecting New Street literally for years, one resident got fed up and demanded that the Town Board investigate Why? the drainage installations on New Street hadn't been touched for at least 3 years! Why was water draining everywhere but in the storm drains. Everyone could see it. Everyone, that is, but the Town Board and the Superintendent of Highways, who was busy as a beaver, "chasing beaver out of conduits" according to his "notes" produced in response to a FOIL demand.
The Grand Tour of Neglect and Incompetence
After having received demands for the production of documents under the New York State Public Officers Law a.k.a. the Freedom of Information Act, the New Baltimore Town Board finally woke up and smelled the burning coffee, all the water had run into a local resident's foundation and the building was collapsing, now there was only the sickening stench of burning coffee and a looming lawsuit. So, in response to the resident's demands to make a site visit to view the New Baltimore Highway Department's indifference and neglect, and their incompetence, Mr Nick Dellisanti, New Baltimore Town Supervisor, and Mr Jeff Ruso, New Baltimore Deputy Supervisor, appeared unannounced on New Street, prior to the scheduled site inspection set for June 20, when Highway Superintendent Denis Jordan and his minions were to be present, and the resident gave them the Grand Tour of Incompetence and Neglect.
The Grand Tour of Incompetence and Neglect was almost complete when the advance group approached the concerned residence and the resident pointed out the erosion trails crossing New Street to the other side of the road, and pointed out the piles of stone that had washed down and had built up in front of the garage doors, when Mr Ruso pointed out the end of a culvert that appeared to be crossing the road but didn't seem to come out anywhere. Even a bit of digging and scratching and the end could not be found. Even New Baltimore Deputy Highway Superintendent Scott van Wormer was surprised and stated that "In twenty years he never knew that culvert was there." We have to ask the burning question: If the regular maintenance inspections were done as required by the law, wouldn't the New Baltimore Highway Department have known about this situation? This led to further examination and it was ascertained that the poorly maintained drainage on New Street and the buried culvert drains were obviously conducting water into the foundation of the affected building!!! It was thus determined that the fact of the buried culvert, the drainage ditches that had not been cleared for years, and the resulting re-routing of runoff to the foundations of the building were the actual cause of the damage. That was on June 19, 2016.
On June 20, 2016, Mr Dellisanti, Mr Ruso, Ms Shelli van Etten (NB board member), Mr Denis Jordan and his deputy (his brother) appeared to do the actual inspection. The same results were determined. Mr Jordan just made excuses and grinned stupidly.
Denis Jordan's Playpen
A couple of days later, a road crew appeared with excavation equipment and dump trucks filled with stone, and they proceeded to dig up the buried culvert and to replace it with a plastic culvert. When asked why they were replacing a culvert that appeared to be quite OK — it was obviously buried so long that it was actually protected — the answer was that it was found to be damaged. But, countered the resident, you didn't do any tests or flush it out. How did you know it was damaged? Then the excuses flowed like the Hudson during Spring thaw. But the question wasn't answered. Tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars squandered because Mr Jordan didn't ask the Fire Department to flush the culvert. Mr Jordan preferred to squander tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars rather than rent a camera for a couple of hundred dollars to view the inside of the culvert. New Baltimore budgetary and fiscal accountability at work.
WHAT A MESS! Tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars squandered by indifference, negligence, incompetence and ignorance!!!
The resident was observing the screwing around disguised as highway maintenance and became concerned that more damage was being done than problems solved. He then notified the town board and the New Baltimore Highway Department that work should be stopped until a site visit could be made and the plans discussed. Mr Dellisanti, Mr Ruso, Ms van Etten, Mr Jordan all ignored that request and the work continued. WHAT A MESS! Tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars squandered by indifference, negligence, incompetence and ignorance!!!
It appears that Mr Jordan doesn't have a clue about contracts, handling money, keeping records, or acceptable hiring practices
And the result? The Town of New Baltimore and the Town of New Baltimore Highway Department, and Mr Denis Jordan are being served with a Notice of Claim — You can read or download a redacted copy of the Notice of Claim by clicking here — but in summary, the resident is demanding that the Town of New Baltimore pay compensation for the repair of the building or, if the building cannot be repaired, to foot the bill for demolition and remediation. In addition, the resident is seeking compensation for other expenses such as loss of revenues and loss of use of the property as purchased. What is really important, though, is that the resident is demanding that the New Baltimore Highway Department be investigated, audited and examined for irregularities in recordkeeping, accounting, hiring and retention, and other areas of concern. It appears that Mr Jordan doesn't have a clue about contracts, handling money, keeping records, or acceptable hiring practices. Like you don't hire your brother and then make him your deputy highway superintendent. And you don't hire a husband and wife etc. Recordkeeping is non-existent so there's not a chance of a snowflake in hell to defend against any claims of indifference or negligence. The resident is also demanding that steps be taken to remove Mr Jordan from office and to hire an interim replacement. The Notice of Claim also demands that those employees found to have been involved in misconduct or negligence or abuse of public office be prosecuted and made to reimburse the people of the Town of New Baltimore for the costs of the lawsuits.
Several Days after Jordan's Pothole "Repair" on New Street
The bottom line is this: For years residents have known about Denis Jordan's incompetence. At least three previous New Baltimore Supervisors and town boards have received complaints about how Denis Jordan was abusing his elected office; his corrupt practices are practically common knowledge if not legendary in local circles. Now his wife, Diane Jordan, is right in the Office of the Town of New Baltimore Town Clerk, so he's got a mole there who can tip him off almost immediately when something turns up that involves him or his irregular operations in the New Baltimore Highway Department.
As for New Baltimore residents and friends of Denis Jordan, you are just as much to blame for the damage Jordan has managed to do in the Town of New Baltimore as anyone. So don't get all uppity and smug, pointing the finger at anyone! You dumbasses caused this problem by electing your own dumbass to be Highway Superintendent. If his incompetence is costing the town money in defending against residents' lawsuits and the damage done by an incompetent Highway Supervisor who has no qualifications, doesn't get continuing education, avoids meetings with other Highway Superintendents, and knows nothing about highway planning, design, engineering, or regulations. Denis Jordan's main qualifications are that he takes care of his friends and knows how to avoid work.
Take a Little Tour of New Street With Us
Here's a nice family activity for the weekend. Take a little tour of New Street in the National Historic District of the Town of New Baltimore and learn how not to do highway maintenance.
If you're a friend of Denis Jordan or the New Baltimore Highway Department club, or just a skeptic, come on down to New Street in the National Historic District in the Hamlet of New Baltimore. See real-life examples of what we're bitching about.
As you come down Madison Avenue East, approaching the corner of Madison Avenue East and New Street, look to your right and see the botched up storm drain (which was partially buried until it was cleared around June 20, 2016). A couple of feet more and look to your left and examine the culverts. Nice job, right? If you're driving or on foot, be very careful making the right turn onto New Street, you might end up going over the unmarked, eroding ledge created by the New Baltimore Highway Department about 4 years ago, when they installed the storm drain and the culverts at the corner. They never bothered to mark the drop-off for safety!
Now turn onto New Street and as you go along ask yourself, Why are all the manhole covers covered and sealed with asphalt? How to you open them if necessary? Denis Jordan would tell you with a straight face that that is a common practice, and that the NB Sewer Department wanted that done to keep water out of the sewer lines! We don't get it! Do you?
Moving along New Street, we'd like you to notice the erosion at the edge of the road and that the road slopes significantly downhill, to the South (New Street runs approximately North-South). Keep your eyes on the erosion at the edge of the street as you walk along New Street.
About halfway down the street, note the entry steps to the house on the river side of the street. What is that high mound of asphalt doing right at the top of the steps? Imaging that in the Winter, covered with snow and ice, and the dangerous situation caused by the New Baltimore Highway Department!
So far you should have been noticing the not only the erosion but also the so-called drainage ditches. They vary significantly in depth, some stretches deeper, others shallower, some level with the road. Hold on! If they're level with the road, they're not a drainage ditch! Right? Right. Why are the ditches not running continuously and at a reasonably constant depth? Ask Mr Jordan. We're certain he'll have a story for you.
The best is yet to come. While still noting the so-called drainage ditches and the erosion, you'll come to a garage on your left and you'll need to stop here. Note the washed down road covering all built up in that garage driveway and in front of the doors. but standing in front of that garage, look down and to your left and you'll see a deep hole with a grate in it. That's a storm drain. Imagine your car tire meeting that hole. Or, imagine you're walking down New Street and you step into that thing! Another dangerous situation created by the New Baltimore Highway Department in June 2016, when they "repaired" the drains. By the way, that's the end of the "dead-end culvert" discovered by Mr Ruso at the time of the site visit. Look across the street to the "drainage" in front of the green house. Jordan's crew dug up the end of the driveway and installed an new culvert and the square grate. What's supposed to go down that grate, anyway? They never opened the ditch or a ditch.
Now, from where you are standing you can see the erosion dirt in front of the garage and you may be able to see the erosion and runoff tracks crossing New Street to Guess where? Right into the foundations of the blue-gray house! But note how Jordan has "fixed" the drainage problem. Note also the resident's own concrete barriers and sandbags marking the area. But more importantly, look at the damage done to the foundation of the house! All due to Mr Jordan's negligence and failure to maintain the drainage on New Street as required by the law.
About 50 feet more and you come to the end of New Street, to the corner of New Street and Washington Avenue. Look to your left, on the river side (But be careful not to fall into the ditch on your right. The road is crumbling into the ditch and the ditch is overgrown. You might never be found if you fall in!). Note the "drainage ditch" if you can find it. it's an embarrassment to any competent highway worker. But note the makeshift wooden wall there. That's supposed to do What? That house was condemned by the Town of New Baltimore about 5 years ago because it was structurally unsound due to Guess what? Water damage. The owner repaired it. It's been vacant ever since and the owner can't sell it. Wonder Why?
So this is where your tour ends. That's just one street in New Baltimore. Can you imagine what the rest of the town's like? We hope you get the point.
In summary, you should know that before the "repair" and "maintenance" work was finished, the resident was concerned about what was being done and asked the Town of New Baltimore Board to stop the work until a site meeting could be held. The resident wanted Mr Jordan to explain his plans and design, and why he was doing what he was doing. It didn't seem right. Something was wrong and needed to be fixed.
Neither Mr Jordan nor the New Baltimore Town Board responded. That's how the situation got to where it's at now.
We want to hear from anyone who knows anything about Denis Jordan and his corruption and incompetence. Most importantly, if you have already made a complaint, filed a lawsuit, or if you have served a Notice of Claim on the Town of New Baltimore and are planning a lawsuit, we want to hear from you. You can either leave a comment on this blog or you can contact us at rcs.confidential@gmail.com.
In the meantime, you can read the latest Notice of Claim against the Town of New Baltimore and Town of New Baltimore Highway Department by clicking the link below:
Notice of Claim for Publishing
You're On the Spot Now!
Shame on you!
Posted by Principal Editor on August 5, 2016 in Abuse of Public Office, Alan van Wormer, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Bob Freeman, Bob Knighten, Bob Krug, Bob Ross, Bonnie Krug, Catskill-Hudson Newspapers, Chris Norris, Christopher Norris, Columbia-Greene Media, Conflict of Interest, Cut-and-Paste Joan, Daily Mail, David Lewis, David Louis, David Louis, David Wukitsch, Denis Jordan, Diane Jordan, Diane Lewis, Diane Louis, Eleanor Luckacovic, Eleanor Oldham, Elected Official, Eric T. Schneiderman, Greene County, Greene County Board of Elections, Greene County District Attorney, Greene County Independence Party, Independence Party, Independence Party, Jean Horne, Jeff Ruso, Joan Ross, John Luckacovic, Johnson Newspaper Group, Joseph A. Farrell Jr, Joseph Farrell, Joseph Tanner, Kathy Rundberg, Marjorie Loux, Marjorie Loux, Nepotism, New Baltimore, New Baltimore Elections, New Baltimore Elections, New Baltimore Highway Department, New Baltimore Republican Club, Nick Delisanti, Nick Dellisanti, Official Misconduct, Peckham Materials, Pete Lopez, Ravena News Herald, Robert J. Freeman, Robert J. Freeman, Robert Krug, Scott VanWormer, Shelly van Etten, Susan K. O'Rorke, The Daily Mail, Times Union, Town of New Baltimore, VanEtten
Where have all the "neighbors" gone? Ghouls got'em!
After the recent elections we have had to take some time to think about what's going on in our local communities and how they've changed because people have become so uncivil, angry, simplistic in their thinking, and uninterested in their communities. What's happened as a result of general distrust of government and politicians, the media taking over our minds and wallets, the flood of propaganda we drown in every day, the loss of parents and children, is that those of us who are still in La-La-Land thinking that things can get better if we just wait and do nothing, generally get abused by the vile ghouls around us. It's Cryptkeeper politics that we all have experienced and still do experience as illustrated by this report:
Ghouls Sighted in New Baltimore at Ghouls Gulch*,
a.k.a. 36 Madison Avenue East!
Cryptkeeper Nation
a.k.a. The "Rosses" at Work
Some People Just Don't Give it A Rest
The National Historic District (NHD) in the town of New Baltimore, a sleepy hamlet on the Hudson River in New York, is composed of about 25 houses, many of them empty now, a few of them haunted by carpetbagger ghouls. These ghouls come from outside this historic community and bring with them their liberal [please note the pun] nastiness and sneers.
"About 12 or so years ago an Albany pair sold their Albany property and bought a house in the NHD, and thus began the venomization of New Baltimore. Joan and Robert Ross moved into the NHD and proceeded to set themselves up as the newest pseudosophisticates, christening the locals, according to Joan Ross, as Newbaltimorons. If that was bad, it only got worse.
[Editor's Note: "Joan Ross" is a very, very common name and if you Google it you'll get numerous obitiuaries for Joan Ross. Pay no attention. She's not dead. Nor is she the renowned author, Joan Ross. New Baltimore's Joan Ross is neither gifted nor talented. Bottom line: Joan Ross of New Baltimore, whose apparent only claim to fame is her misconduct, is a rather insignificant bug even on Google.]
Bob and Joan Unmasked
"During the years that followed Joan and "Robbie" Ross got involved in campaigning against the plan to bring municipal water to the hamlet of New Baltimore, a community plagues with water problems for generations. But Joan and Robbie knew better than the Newbaltimorons because they were better than the Newbaltimorons. But some Newbaltimorons were not so smart and took the Ross's bait. So Joan and Robbie gathered a small group around them and started a vile campaign of ambush, slander, libel, and dysinformation — all under cover of darkness and by e-mails, cowards that they are — aimed at keeping water out of Newbaltimore. Their arguments were based on Joan's bizarre logic of find it, cut-and-paste it, mail it. Joan and Robbie incited what we fondly call the Water War and their efforts destroyed a generations-old community, turning neighbor against neighbor, even family members against family. That didn't matter much to Joan and Robbie, since they had no idea of what community or family was, they were too busy making certain that the fabric on their chairs was just right, or that the paint on the kitchen cabinets was just the right hue. You know, the really important issues of concern to pseudosophisticates. There's example of Joan's self-invention as a connoisseur (someone knowlegeable) of American architecture — which she's certainly not — and her indirect reference to the property at 36 Madison Avenue East, Ghouls Gulch. Such phoney-sophisticate arrogance! (See Times Union Photos-Capital Region architecture)
"Not only that, the Rosses and a gaggle of minions filed a lawsuit against the town of New Baltimore and lost pitifully!
"How they got that way is no big mystery. Joan Ross, allegedly having had an abused childhood and a thing about her mother, wanted to be accepted for more than she actually was or is, and loathed her background — thinking that her expressions of "taste" would hide what she really is —, and her "character" (read on to learn more about this); "Robbie" Ross came from employment with New York State and, as happens to so many mid-level state employees, became a stuffed shirt concerned only with how much he could cash in at retirement (he now gets more than $46,000 a year of taxpayer dollars to finance Joan's mischief). Instead of a carefree, peaceful retirement he got to be put in solitary confinement with Joan, a fate worse than the undead.
"So they did their damage and had everyone at their neighbor's throats over a vital issue that the Rosses and their ilk thought was unnecessary. The atmosphere in the town and hamlet got so toxic that people just wanted it to go away, no matter what the cost of preparations and studies, or the need, and so it did. New Baltimore hamlet continues to live with regular water crises.
"During the Water Wars, Joan and "Robbie" Ross, bored as they are, not only fractured the community, they were involved in any number of immoral activities far beyond simply creating havoc and mahem; they marked certain neighbors for future harassment and vilification. That's the story here.
"The Rosses live at the end of a very long driveway, like ghouls in a hidden lair. They've posted a "Private Driveway" sign at the end of their doomsday drive to signal that you're not welcome (not that you'd see many visitors to Ghouls Gulch anyway). They emerge from time to time and spread some poison, only to return later to their lair to plot and plan. "Ghouls Gulch" as it were.
Welcome to Ghouls Gulch
"The Rosses have had numerous visits from the NY State Police and the Greene County Sheriff's Department for everything ranging from reckless driving to harassment to using their car as a weapon. Joan has fired off emails that could have gotten her arrested were it not for the benevolence of her victims. Joan has left telephone threats that could have gotten her jailed if it were not for the benevolence of her victims (or the fact that they think she's just plain crazy). In fact, at her deposition in one court case, Joan Ross had to take the Fifth Amendment at her attorney's insistence in order to avoid possible additional prosecution for her threats.
"Robbie" has been in court for attempting to run down a neighbor with his car and has been in court on charges of aggravated harassment. He was placed on "probation" and had to behave so that the charges would go away A.C.O.D., or face prosecution. That didn't last long; he still uses his car to make statements that bring the police to his door. (So, if you see a silver jeep careening in zigzags towards you, Take cover! It might be Bob Ross telling you he doesn't like your face!)
"What Bob Ross is doing even driving these days is a mystery to anyone who sees him zigzagging down the street. Ross has what appears to be a degenerative neurological disorder that causes him to twitch and walk unsteadily; he's an old geezer, too, must be in his late 70s, so that may be a factor in his bizarre behavior. (It's characters like Bob Ross and his erratic driving that would support having persons diagnosed with neurological disorders and the like to be tested regularly for fitness to operate a motor vehicle before continuing their driving privileges. Now his problem is public knowledge. Now when something awful happens there won't be any excuses!)
"Ross tends to drive down New Baltimore streets shooting up his middle finger to residents he doesn't approve of. In fact, one resident reports that every time Bob Ross drives by, he's got his middle finger in the window. The neighbor recently had to call New Baltimore postmaster Mr Heath to the window as a witness to Ross's stupid behavior in the post office, trying to push the resident out of his way. [Apparently Bitter Bob's judgment is so far gone that he doesn't realize the resident could break his skeletal ghoul-body in two if he had a mind to!] The resident was taking no chances with Ross and wanted the postmaster as a witness to Ross' deviant behavior.
"Bob Ross has been dubbed "Bitter Bob" by his neighbors or the "Cryptkeeper" perhaps because of how he and Joan stay in their crypt and emerge from time to time like ghouls to get blood and flesh, and then to return sated to their lair. Or it may be because he has an uncanny resemblance to the "Cryptkeeper" of Tales from the Crypt. Check out the images below.
"While Bob Ross may be dangerous on the streets, Joan Ross is much sneakier and tends to be even more cowardly than old bitter Bob Ross, if that's possible.
"You see, most of Joan Ross' craziness is done by e-mail or Internet; she likes to do things "anonymously." She's even gotten a nickname for herself, "Cut-and-Paste" Joan", from her favorite method of distorting facts by cutting-and-pasting and then e-mailing her vile product to unwary minions.
"Joan Ross apparently knows she's vile and that she's got a problem: she actually confessed her problem to a neighbor in an e-mail that's been around to haunt her ever since. That and recordings of her telephone threats, threats that could have been used to have her arrested for misdemeanor harassment!
"But, thanks to the kindness of their neighbors, the Rosses have had to appear in court only twice for their criminal activities. But they haven't learned a thing. Since those court appearances they've gotten even bolder, more vile, and more sneaky. Here's one example that's going to backfire badly on Joan, at least, but only if Bob Ross can convince authorities he knew nothing about Joan's misuse of the US Postal Service and her unlawful harassment. She apparently thought she was real smart sending out smear packages about a local resident but she wasn't so smart after all. Even though she tried to cover her trail by mailing the junk from Albany, she left some telltale clues. There's indisputable evidence that the smear packages were sent by Joan Ross; this time it's the Feds who will have to investigate. (What old Cut-and-Paste Joan doesn't seem to get is that the individual she's trying to smear is well-liked and respected by the very people to whom Ms Ross is stupidly addressing her vile crap; they're throwing her in, the stupid sow, and passing her ghoul-mail on to the resident unread!)
"These people don't understand good sense, and rather than risk a confrontation or, worse still, an incident incited by these two characters, I hope that by making their behavior public they'll be embarrassed enough to start behaving like civilized people. I can only hope.
"— A Harassed NB Resident"
Editor's Comment: If, as the writer reports, Mr Ross' neurological pathology is affecting his movements and walking and his driving ability, and if Mr Ross' judgment is so impaired that he imprudently attempts to start an incident with someone who could, if Ross pushes hard enough, do some serious damage, could "Bitter Bob's" judgement be impaired to such an extent, either by his pathology or his relationship with "Cut-and-Paste" Joan, that he could be a risk to himself and others? It would seem to us that when individuals start losing their sense of propriety and social control that they can pose serious risks to themselves and to others, physical and otherwise, unless they are controlled either by medicines or by the authorities. It sounds like Mr Ross is going over the edge. So where is local law enforcement on this issue? Apparently if the Sheriff's department and the NYS Police have visited the Rosses several times already, the impression made is that they are ignoring law enforcement's warnings, and begging for an arrest.
But why would a grown man, an old man, do such silly things like flick a neighbor the bird when driving by? Isn't that just beyond silly? Is he trying to say, "Look at me I'm losing my mind?" Maybe "Bitter Bob" would be better off keeping both hands on the steering wheel. Maybe his driving would improve. Just a suggestion, Bob.
We have also received information that both "Cut-and-Paste" Joan and "Bitter Bob" of "Ghouls Gulch" are vegans — that's an extreme form of vegetarianism in which no animal products whatsoever are used, including leather and other animal products. There are scientific studies that report that vegans don't live as long as omnivores. Wouldn't it be reasonable, too, that vegans lack certain nutrients that may be required for proper brain function? Could the Rosses' bizarre behavior be traced back to their vegan diet? Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Perhaps it's a question of self-loathing. When you can't loathe yourself and live, you start to look outside of yourself for things to hate. When you're empty inside, you start grabbing for things outside of yourself, in a pitiful attempt to fill your emptiness. Isn't that true? Perhaps the examples of "Cut-and-Paste" Joan and "Bitter Bob" illustrate this theory. Maybe they, like many others, are so unhappy, so self-loathing that they have to look for something outside of themselves to hate. Some people are so far gone they hate everything and everyone. Their hate isolates them and their lonliness grows. It's a vicious circle!
Maybe they, like so many others, are so empty inside that they try to fill their lives with false selves, things, to make up for their 'emptiness." After a while it starts to show in their faces, doesn't it? Whatever the situation, they lead lives that are meaning-less, they live in a spiritual vacuum, devoid of value and truth; they start to wither away like fading spirits at dawn.
We are publishing this report because we know that the recordings and documents exist proving the truth of the above statements.
But if you think the above report is too scary to be true, let us reassure you: We have documents to prove everything we say above is true. We wouldn't report it if we didn't know we could support it.
But if you look around your own local neighborhood, your community, you'll find that our "Rosses" are just stereotypes of the kind of characters you'll find in your own neighborhood, even in our town halls. Like most sentient organisms, most people try to steer clear of unpleasantness and avoid trouble but that's just what gives these ghouls the energy they work off of. By not putting them in their place, prosecuting them, we give them permission to be what they are: menaces to our communities.
That's why it's so bizarre when, as in New Baltimore, again, and as we reported here in our article
BARKING DOG NUISSANCE: New Balimore Nat'l Historic District, a known antisocial is allowed to make local residents' lives miserable by using his dog to punish his neighbors! This happens, of course, when you have public officials in town hall who don't have the balls to enforce their own laws. That's when bad things happen. Or you bother the Sheriff's people or the New York State Police, and waste their time being babysitters for stupid adults. Now is that right?
Son of Ross
The Hound of Ghouls Gulch
The basic message of this article, dear readers, is that we all have bad, very bad people in our communities. If we don't stand up and say, "Enough is enough! You're outa here!" then we deserve what we get. Naturally, not everyone is going to have the dignity and the courage to stand up publicly and tell the world about these ghouls, who very often do their dirty work behind the scenes, cowards that they are, there are some of us who want to work to make our communities better places to live. Why don't you stand up and support us?
Ghouls wearing Jim Youmans, Tom Dolan and Phil Crandall costumes also sighted lurking around van Buren Avenue in Ravena and Coeymans town hall!
Recent elections in Coeymans have given the ghouls the upper hand. How that happened is going to take time to prove if it ever is proved but it seems that a lot of voters in Coeymans have chosen the ghouls and given them the green light to suck the community's remaining life out of it. More disappointment, more propaganda, more suffering, more apathy. Just what we need. Then the Cryptkeeper and Cut-and-Paste have free run of the community taking their evil toll on the rest of us. Who is to blame, we have to ask? Can we blame a rat for being a rat? A snake for being a snake? Of course not! That's what they are. That's their nature! But we don't want to have them in our faces. Do we have to put up with the stereotypes? Of course not! They are stereotypes because we allow them to be stereotypes. (Read our article about stereotypes at Blacks and Wimins Can't Drive; Black Wimins Can't Park. ) If we make them accountable, responsible for their unacceptable behavior they become individuals, cases. They become the criminals they are and as such they can be brought to justice. It's up to the rest of us to take the rudder and ram the ship of fools!
We'd like to close with a very special poem for Joan Ross:
THE WITCH'S COMPUTER
Since thou look'st at me askance
And leads thy Witch a merry dance
I'll now prepare an incantation,
Suited to this situation.
May thy keyboard jam and stick!
May thy mouse refuse to click!
May thy cursor be accursed
May thy arrows be reversed!
May thy screen be smeared with goo
May thy pictures be askew!
May thy microphone fall dumb!
May thy thingammyjig succumb!
Then….. when I see the state thou'rt in,
I shall cast thee in the bin!
(Special thanks to Rinkly Rimes for this very appropriate rhyme.)
Too Bizarre! But soooo Rossy
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RCS is Disgusting! Good only to complain but no balls to do something about the liars and cheats!
RCS and Its Elected Officials Shame Themselves Before More Than 250,000 Readers! Right here on the Smalbany Blog. Even on national media!
GaGa Gibson
Chris Gibson, asking for relection votes and opposing the "Pink Obama" Sean Eldridge, Shamed His 19th Congressional District and Himself by not Fully Investigating the RCS Anti-Military Bias and Disrespect for the National Guard. The RCS scandal made Fox News and other National Media but Gibson didn't catch it. He promised to investigate fully. Did he? And what about Paul Tonko of the 20th Congressional District, also representing part of the RCS school district? Are they all Pinko's? If that's the choice we have for leaders we ought to all be suicidal!
He Died So You Could Speak!
Did You Participate in Your Democracy?
RCS Wasted His Sacrifice! You Wasted Your Freedoms!
RCS Showed Itself to Be Ungrateful and Cowardly on October 14th! What do you all plan to do now? In future?
Your Elected Officials Have Successfully Excluded You From Participation—
And You Sit Back and Let It Happen!
They do this in many subtle and sometimes unlawful ways: They hold secret meetings, they quietly (very quietly) invite the public to "public" hearings, they sometimes lie outright. But Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk's elected officials have found a far better way to do their mischief: They schedule important meetings on the same day at the same time but in different places far from each other to ensure that you can't make both, even though you have a civic obligation, or a personal interest in attending both. Pretty clever, right?
Well, it's up to you, citizens, residents to stop that despicable violation of your rights! Tell them to coordinate village of Ravena, town of Coeymans, and RCS Central School District board of education meetings so that you can attend all or any of them, if you'd like. They must be on different days, at least! But do any of you have the balls to bring this to the public meetings and demand fairness? Apparently not.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Both the Ravena Coeymans Selkirk board of education meeting and the Coeymans town board meeting both held at 7:00 p.m. Pretty stupid, right. And YOU were effectively prevented by your elected officials from attending two very important public meetings, or forced to attend one while missing the other. But most of you decided to do something other than exercise your rights…Can you even remember what that was? Probably not.
Why you needed to be there, and why you should have been there but you lost the opportunity to be at both. Why? Because you allowed them to exclude you and you still do nothing about it!
RCS high-school principal Tom DiAcetis, Superintendant Alan McCartney's
Idea of Education
First of all, ALL VETERANS, PARENTS OF VETERANS, SUPPORTERS OF VETERANS, and all members of veterans committees in local government (Did you hear that, New Baltimore? Mr Guthrie and others?) should have attended the RCS board of education meeting on Tuesday October 14, at 7 p.m. at the A.W. Becker elementary school. You didn't! You should have put Mr Tom DiAcetis, Mr Alan McCartney and the entire board of education on notice that their scandalous conduct concerning the National Guard and our Armed Forces would not be tolerated and they shamed this commuity. You didn't! You should have demanded the resignation of Tom DiAcetis and Alan McCartney. You didn't! You should have denounces the RCS board of education for their anti- military bias. Did you? NO! You didn't! You not only didn't take any prisoners you threw down your guns and ran! You swallowed their mealy-mouthed, pablum-puking lies and stupid excuses…hook, line and sinker. You let them off the hook this time—AGAIN! They're accountable but you make them immune. AGAIN! RCS is DISGUSTING!
Colonel Chris Gibson
Mr Chris Gibson, Congressman for the 19th Congressional District, and Mr Paul Tonko, Congressman for the 20th Congressional District represent us in this RCS Central School District. Both needed to be held accountable and both needed to proactively investigate the RCS scandal perps, DiAcetis and McCartney, and both needed to reprimand the RCS board of education for the RCS anti-military scandal that embarrassed this community nationwide! Gibson and Tonko are up for re-election and Gibson, at a recent New Baltimore Republican Club meeting assured residents and voters that he would have his office investigate immediately. He assigned his top aid, Kevin Cumm, to head the investigation. UPDATE: He apparently didn't do what he promised to do. We ask you: Did Chris Gibson dishonor his office, his district and his uniform? Same should be asked of Paul Tonko!
The Town of Coeymans town board was meeting at the same time, on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, at 7 p.m., in the Coeymans town hall. Anyone who was not at the RCS board of education meeting should have made every effort to be at the Coeymans town board meeting. You needed to find out about the pending lawsuits challenging the half-baked re-zoning done by the town of Coeymans (started when Tom Dolan, Tom Boehm and Dawn Rogers had the majority on the town board. Did you let them fool you into thinking it was all done by Flach and his new majority, like they're trying to do! Looks like you did. A New York state court judge found the re-zoning to be illegal but that hasn't stopped the Coeymanazis from doing what they please and ignoring YOUR VOICES!
"DoDo Cop" Darlington sharing some misinformation.
Former Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington abruptly jumped ship like the rat he is. He abandoned his department, his staff, the town of Coeymans and us! Gregory Darlington shouldn't have been honored by the town of Coeymans for his dishonorable conduct and his selfish, irresponsible abandonment of his post. Darlington cowardly abandoned his post and his community! If Darlington didn't have enough respect for this community, who paid for his fat ass, to tell us directly of his plans, this community doesn't owe him a thing! (While we're paying him a fat pension check, we think he's going to be moonlighting in a second job, hired by our impotent race-card flasher Albany County District Attorney Pudenda David Soares. Then DoDo Darlington can sit next to his wife, who is a secretary in Soares' office. Nice and cozy!) If Darlington could do that to the Coeymans police department, this community had a responsibility to itself and to its children to seriously reassess the situation and seriously consider eliminating the Coeymans police department, and turning over law enforcement to the professionals, the Albany County Sheriff's department and to the New York State Police. Save Coeymans more than $a million$ in tax money that can be invested in things we really need in this community. You're paying twice, three times for law enforcement in Coeymans. Let's see if we can get some leadership and pay only twice. (Let the Albany County Sheriff's department or the New York State Police rehire the Coeymans police department staff, retrain them, deploy them if they're really needed.)
But you allowed the ball-less wonders on the Coeymans town board to pay homage to the ineffective, cowardly Darlington and you allowed them to present him with a retirement badge so he can continue flaunting the law, so he can continue to be the scofflaw out of uniform that he was in uniform at your expense. Why didn't you raise the roof when they did that, Coeymans? Sorry! We overlooked the fact that you're a town of sheeple. Sorreeee!
Albany County has a highly sophisticated 911 emergency response system in place, and it's paid for with your tax dollars! Coeymans has a bunch of insiders using antique equipment that has to be updated. Ask the Coeymans town board how much the equipment update is going to cast you?!? Be smart and tell the Coeymans town board to eliminate the dispatchers and save almost a $half-million dollars$. We're paying twice for the same service. We're duplicating services. There are some who want to continue this stupidity and they come out to give their idiotic reasons why. But the voice of reason shouts out for them to shut up and get the facts. Tom Dolan, Tom Boehm, Mary Driscoll and others are blowing misinformation out their butts. Tell the town board of Coeymans to eliminate the dispatchers (Let Albany County re-hire them if they're really needed.) Weasel Peter Masti is pandering again and talking about getting facts. You're eating that up to like a bunch of starving dogs. Read the facts on this blog because you're not going to get them from the Coeymans town board and least of all from that rodent Masti!
No fatalities. YET!
Again, we STILL have to address the dangerous situation existing with the Port of Coeymans heavy truck traffic, and we need some real facts and explanations about the Carver Companies bridge and what the town is doing to ensure our safety and the safe movement of traffic into and out of the hamlet of Coeymans on Rt 144. AND we STILL have to get some honest answers from the Coeymans town board. Not the lies and smoke and mirrors response they gave to one resident who asked some burning questions on October 14th. Where were the rest of you complainers? (Don't tell us you were at the BoE meeting, because you'd be lying!)
We also wanted to know about all the jobs that were promised. We STILL want an answer to that one. Did you ask? How many have been created so far? How many are actually going to be created?
We want to know why our quality of life is all of a sudden declining with the added truck traffic, the dust, the increase in noise pollution in our community as the result of the re-zoning and the increased activity in the Port and the surrounding area. Mr Peter Masti, who is neither a native of the area nor a blue collar worker, has published his desire to keep Coeymans blue collar. Why is that? (Masti and his kind have to go!) But these are questions Ravena-Coeymans residents have to ask. Masti's a blow hard and goes wherever the wind blows him. He's a jellyfish! But has anyone confronted him and his vomit publicly? Where were you all on October 14th?
That's why you had to make every effort to attend the Coeymans town board meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, at 7 p.m. in the Coeymans town hall! Our local elected officials don't seem to be able to make good decisions on their own. They needed your help. You needed to tell them them what you want! You needed to tell them to stop the lies and you needed to get the true facts! You failed us, your community and yourselves!
We suggested you make a couple of phone calls, send a couple of e-mails. You needed to get your family, friends, neighbors activated and organize yourselves so that some of you could have attended one of the meetings and the others attended the other meeting. Did you show your elected officials that you could shake things up and put their feet to the fire, so they do what's best for US! Did you? We think NOT! There's still time and opportunity to pick up the pieces. Start now and make your preparations to organize your and your family's, your neighbors' and friends' participation in the upcoming village of Ravena and town of Coeymans board meetings, and the RCS board of education meetings.
It's A Shame RCS Residents Can't Stand Up for Themselves!!!
And You Shamed Yourselves In Front of More than 250,000 Readers!
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Barbara Finke, Interim New Baltimore Town Clerk, For Example…
Blown Away!
A short time ago we wrote that this country is no longer a two-party democracy. No, we're not suggesting it's even a multi-party country because the two major political parties, the Republican and the Democratic, are no longer unified nor are they much different. The many minor political parties are either whack-jobs or simply different flavors of the mainline parties. In other words, our politicians from both parties are practically indistinguishable in their double-talk, and they can be distinguished only by the self-serving personal agendas, pretty much power and greed. These characters can't even be trusted to stay in one party and they move from one side of the aisle, blown by whichever wind is coming through the window.
There Can Be Only ONE "Best" for the Country
Big Problem for our Elected Officials
Epidemic Incompetence from the Local to the National Level.
And it starts locally!
Elections are just around the corner: It's time to start asking questions.
There can be only one "what's best for the country," and there can be only one truth but somehow our politics has been stuffing any number of "bests for the country" and many versions of the "truth" down our throats for a couple of decades now. Why haven't we choked on the lies yet? Well, we can look locally for one of the answers to this question and to the national problem. We're too stuck on ourselves and have lost any sense of community. Instead we rally behind empty slogans like, "It's for the kids!" and then bitch and moan when our elected officials start picking our pockets. Ever ask yourself why that is?
The POOF! Phenomenon: Here's another farce of our so-called democratic process. On the campaign trail, our candidates for public office tell us everything we want to hear. They sugar coat everything, promising anything. Then they disappear. POOF! They're elected and then conveniently forget everything they said. Why is that? Here's why: We don't hold them accountable! We don't take them by the scruff of the neck and shout their own slogans and empty promises into their hairy ear holes! That's why.
Single-candidate Elections? And while we're on a roll, how is it that our mainline political parties can't come up with at least two candidates on a ballot so that we voters have at least the illusion of choice. How dare our political parties not put up a candidate to oppose the incumbent or a candidate who is running unopposed! Where's the choice when there's only one candidate and that candidate is unopposed. How is it that at the very least the two mainstream parties can't cough up a candidate.
Our System is Just a Logrolling Contest.
Just Two Lumps on a Log.
We are fortunate to have some correspondence that clearly illustrates much of what we are talking about. It's very obvious when we take a local example and trot it out for the public to read and make their own decisions.
North Korean Election Practices in New Baltimore. We are experiencing that little embarrassment in New Baltimore, where the current appointed, interim New Baltimore town clerk, Barbara Finke, is apparently being run by the Republicans with Independence Party endorsement, unopposed by the democrats or any other political party. But is this good for the town and its residents? Isn't running one candidate endorsed by all parties what they do in North Korea?
Barbare Finke was an absolute dud when she was on the New Baltimore town board during the O'Rorke dictatorship, and she frequently sat like a little mouse while the lunatics had their way with the town. When she decided not to run for town board again, and the previous town clerk was forced to resign, Finke was appointed by supervisor Dellisanti and his board majority to be interim town clerk. Was this all planned in advance, we have to wonder?
Our elections have become farces for the political parties! Now, the office of town clerk is basically an administrative/file clerk office; it doesn't require a hell of a lot of smarts in a town like New Baltimore. So maybe it's a custom-made job for someone like Finke but why don't we get a choice? Finke apparently will run for election to be New Baltimore town clerk but if voters don't have a choice in another qualified candidate, it's like Finke is being appointed to an office that the law says should be elected. Smell a rat?
During these past several months that Barbara Finke has been the appointed New Baltimore town clerk, we have asked her several times to tell us what she's been up to and what improvements she's been making in the New Baltimore town clerk's office. Finke refused to respond to our several requests. In fact, when she and board member Jeff Ruso were wandering around New Baltimore hamlet collecting signatures on Finke's Independence Party ballot petition; Finke does not have the Independence Party line, though (What happened, Barb, Jeff? Apparenty you guys pissed off George Acker, Greene County Independence Party Chair, and they threw your petitions out?), they were again asked to provide some positive press for themselves: Send us an e-mail telling us what improvements you've made in the New Baltimore town clerk's office. Their response: 0
Editor's Note: When we hear the line, "She's been working really hard!" we say that can mean one of two things: Either she's working real hard but spinning her wheels because she hasn't a clue what's going on. Or she's working real hard and getting a lot done. Well, the fact that Ms Finke and her keepers were unable to or declined to provide any information on what's being done, innovations, improvements, changes, etc. means only one thing: The wheels are spinning but there's no progress!
What's even worse is the fact that Finke doesn't appear to realize that she's on "probation" these past couple of months, and you'd think she'd be doing back-flips to make a good impression. Nope. Not in New Baltimore!
You'll recall a couple of weeks ago we announced that US Congressman Gibson was rumored to be appearing in New Baltimore (See our article: Beware: Residents Are Asking Questions). So a resident contacted the town of New Baltimore through the clerk's office–after all, the interim clerk, Barbara Finke, is a member of the Republican party (Anonymous New Baltimore board member: "Republicans appoint Republicans!") and also a member of the New Baltimore Republican Club and works with Jeff Ruso, town board member and president of the New Baltimore Republican Club–since Finke would certainly know about the visit of a US congressman to the area. Wouldn't she?
So a New Baltimore resident [name is unimportant] sent an innocent email to the New Baltimore town clerk asking about Gibson's alleged visit:
Can you confirm that Congressman Chris Gibson was in New Baltimore on Thursday, September 4, 2014.
Where was he and at what time?
Where and when was his visit announced?
Thanks very much for your PROMPT response."
And it's a legitimate question for a resident to ask, isn't it? Does the New Baltimore Town Clerk have any information on the congressman's visit. Pretty fair question, isn't it? Well, not according to Barbara Fink. So Barbara Finke, helpful little public servant that she is, writes back to the resident:
Barbara Finke's Notion of Service.
"Thank you for your recent email. The information you are requesting would be better addressed by the office of Congressman Gibson as they would be aware of his schedule.
This is an official email account of the Town of New Baltimore and it is improper for receipt of this type of email via this town account.
Barbara Finke"
Nice response, right? If that's the way Ms Finke is responding to residents as interim town clerk, even before she's actually elected by voters (= appointed by default), dare we even speculate on her arrogance when, if she's actually elected to be New Baltimore town clerk? Wouldn't it have been nicer if she simply lied and said something like, "I'm sorry but I have no information on a visit by Congressman Gibson. You might want to try contacting his office for his schedule"? Yeah, that sounds better, doesn't it?
The resident responds to Fink with the following:
"Dear Ms Finke:
Excuse me, Barb, but if a member or member of the town board of New Baltimore is (1) phoning residents to announce the Congressman's visit and (2) the Congressman's visit is taking place on town of New Baltimore property or public property it seems to me that the acting town clerk of New Baltimore (YOU!) would be informed and would be able to answer responsively. Moreover, if an elected official, the Congressman, is visiting the town of New Baltimore, it would seem appropriate that the board–and the town clerk would be so informed–and would want the residents of the town to be duly informed. I may be wrong, but that would be a reasonable assumption. Unless there were (1) some sort of miscommunication in town hall, (2) some sort of discriminatory or unethical practices going on, (2) inappropriate use of town properties, or (3) you may want to inquire with your supervisors, Dellisanti or Ruso, who may be able to inform you on what's going on in the town.
How is it that the phrase "[Possible Spam}" occurs in the subject line of your response? The original e-mail was sent from my personal e-mail to a single addressee, your town e-mail. How can that be "possible spam". You may want to revisit your e-mail settings on that account to avoid future problems. I'll address this in another forum at some convenient time in future.
While you may be correct about Congressman Gibson's office being aware of his schedule, I may be correct in assuming that you might be aware of what's going on in the town of New Baltimore, where you are town clerk.
I am aware that the email is "an official account of the Town of New Baltimore", and as a resident/taxpayer in the town of New Baltimore, I have every right to avail myself of its use for good faith inquiry and business. Your comment is entirely out of order and unappreciated. Moreover I don't need you to provide that sort of information, just the information I requested is all I require or your statement simply that you do not have that information, or more apparently, that you are too arrogant to provide it.
And PLEASE don't lecture me on your opinion that "it is improper for receipt of this type of email via this town account." I doubt very much that you would survive a debate in town or municipal law with me so I'd advise you to be more prudent in your feeble attempts at burocratese. Know your place! Your pedantry is not appreciated.
That having been said, please be assured that I am not impressed by your performance nor by your presumptive arrogance, and that fact may not bode well in an election. You would do well to accept some tutelage from your father-in-law. Your response is totally inappropriate and if that sort of response signals what your response would be IF elected to be town clerk, you might as well resign now.
New Baltimore town board member Jeff Ruso, who is also president of the New Baltimore Republican Club, got involved and wrote back.
Damage Control. Pick up the pieces and continue playing your games.
(He's giving you the "Sign of the Anus" Mr Ruso.)
"I wish these message were to me instead of others, I can clear things up.
1. I organized the meeting for Sept. 4th. It was a Rep. Club event.
2. I sent an email to a number of people in the town. It was not town business and I kept it on my personal account as a result.
3. Mr. Gibson was not there, and there were no plans or expectations of his being there. A representative of his campaign was indeed there.
The club meetings are seldom well attended. The most frequent topic for those meetings is to plan for our major events i.e. corned beef dinner. We do occasionally have an outside speaker, maybe once a year.
If there are other questions I would be best to clear them up.
To which the resident responded:
OK. Let's Play Whack-a-Mole.
You're the mole!
(Did that hurt, Mr Ruso?)
"Nothing really to clear up…now. should have been cleared up before it happened. But stuff starts to happen when:
Fragmentary information or inaccurate information gets out w/o clarification
No information gets out officially, but gets circulated "on the street"
No official statement is published on an event
Public servants/interim appointees to elected offices get drowned in their own egos and become arrogant (pissing off potential supporters)
The pubic is left in the dark have to find their own answers and draw their own conclusions
Political party offices are held by sitting elected officials; the water gets murky and interests get ambiguous etc.
When you write things like: "I wish these message were to me instead of others…" I really have to wonder what is going on in your head. How in hell is the public supposed to know who the "me" is? How in hell is anyone supposed to know it's a "Republican club" event? How in hell is anyone supposed to know if it's Chris Gibson, a Chris Gibson aide, or Shirley Temple or Barbara Walters who's going to appear? If the events are poorly attended have you ever asked Why? and What can be done to improve attendance (really not an issue in the seminal problem)?
It seems that the much-mouthed "transparency" has become a bit obscured, doesn't it? Now I don't want to be the one to tell you "elected officers" how to govern but perhaps a short announcement in one or two of the local rags might have pre-empted any misunderstandings?
Perhaps a more forthcoming, polite, professional response by the interim town clerk might have been more appropriate?
Perhaps complying with commitments might be more conducive to dialogue.
You guys need to address residents' concerns and stop the politics, LISTEN, and pay attention to yourselves; otherwise it's going to backfire badly. If this keeps up you will not enjoy my support. Ms Finke has already overplayed her hand and is about to pay the piper at a high cost of political capital squandered. I sure hope you have a viable candidate in the wings.
Maybe the problem is that we were given to expect a lot, maybe too much. Maybe the board and its members just aren't up to doing better than most of their predecessors. Again, maybe a bit of self-reflection might be the prescription; like the Desert Fathers taught: "Pay attention to yourself" ; in other words, take a critical look at yourselves and many of the problems can be eliminated.
In the meantime, you'll be on stage and under scrutiny just like surrounding communities. Seems to get them moving…
Just trying to be helpful."
So, the lesson is this: We have to constantly remind our elected officials that they are public SERVANTS. We have to constantly remind them that the are where they are because WE put THEM there. We have to constantly remind them that they are paid with our tax dollars and if they don't behave, they'll be out on their dumb arses! It also becomes a problem when a sitting board member is also a sitting officer of a local political club. Remember our comments in an earlier essay to the effect that a candidate may run with political party endorsement but once elected he or she serves everyone, not just his party. Do you think these guys and gals have forgotten that fact. We haven't and November's approaching real quick and we won't let them forget it either.
Maybe if more residents responded like the resident above, the community might be in a far better way than it is when residents just sit on their hands.
Hello! Anybody out there?!?
Those in National Politics would benefit from taking this message to heart…and maybe to Washington, too!
Stay tuned for upcoming installments on local politics and elections!
Posted by Principal Editor on October 7, 2014 in 19th Congressional District, 19th Congressional District, 20th Congressional District, 20th Congressional District, 2Luck.com, Abuse of Public Office, Accountability, ACLU, Albany, American Civil Liberties Union, Andrew Cuomo, Arlene McKeon, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Barbara Finke, Bitter Bob (Ross), Bob Knighten, Bob Ross, Candidate, Carver Construction, Chris Gibson, Chris Gibson, Chris Norris, Christopher Norris, Coeymans, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Board, Eleanor Luckacovic, Eleanor Oldham, Elected Official, Elections and Voting, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Eric T. Schneiderman, FBI Public Corruption Squad, George Acker, George Amedore, Government, Greene County, Greene County Board of Elections, Greene County District Attorney, Greene County Elections, Hudson Valley, Hypocrisy, Incompetence, Independence Party, Indifference, Investigation, Jean Horne, Jeff Ruso, Joan Ross, John Luckacovic, Misconduct, Mismanagement, Misuse of Public Office, Monitoring, Moose Misuraca, New Baltimore, New Baltimore Conservancy, New Baltimore Democrats, New Baltimore Elections, New Baltimore Elections, New Baltimore Republican Club, New Baltimore Town Board Member, New York, New York State Board of Elections, Nick Dellisanti, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, Official Misconduct, Paul Tonko, Pete Lopez, Politics, Port of Coeymans, Public Corruption, Public Office, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Republican in Name Only, Republican Party Committee, Sean Eldridge, Selkirk, Shame On You, Shelly van Etten, Small Town, Stephen Flach, Tkaczyk, Town Board Meeting, Town Clerk, Town Supervisor, Transparency, William Misuraca
Wow! McCartney-DiAcetis' Stupidity Goes National, International
The Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District Has Done It Again but this Time It's Gone Absolutely Viral!
BANG! DiAcetis and McCartney Loose the Battle in the National Media!The Students Win the Support of the Media.
News Media Unanimous: DiAcetis and McCartney Were Wrong!
Several national news media have picked up the McCartney-DiAcetis scandal involving the banning of a t-shirt handed out at the high-school by a National Guard recruiter. Not a single one of the reports paints McCartney or DiAcetis in very pretty colors, in fact, they almost unanimously condemn DiAcetis' action and McCartney's ridiculous defenses.
One commentator on Fox's "Outnumbered" asked whether DiAcetis and McCartney were going to black out all the muskets and weapons in the history books used at the schools.
We almost think the media plagiarized this blog—You know, just like RCS CSD interim superintendent Alan R. McCartney plagiarizes his graduation speeches—because many of the words used in the television discussions and the print media echo our own choices of words. "Disgraceful", "scandalous", "silly", "unpatriotic", "childish", etc. Some even suggested that RCS high-school principal Tom DiAcetis has an "anti-military bias." The reporters and the panel on Fox News "Outnumbered" even suggested that DiAcetis and McCartney are sending a completely wrong message and that they were excessively heavy-handed and too extreme. We, of course, agree entirely. One commentator on Fox's "Outnumbered" asked whether DiAcetis and McCartney were going to black out all the muskets and weapons in the history books used at the schools.
This one's for you two, DiAcetis and McCartney
We warned you but you ignored us! Now, AGAIN, you're in the news AGAIN and it's not because you're so good; your choices are still bad and they've come back AGAIN to bite you in the butts.
We have in the past written about the wrong messages being sent to the community and to students by school administrators, the district offices and the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk board of education. We warned that they were not leaders and that disaster was just around the corner. We warned that the likes of James Latter, who has a record of abuses, including violations of confidentiality. We warned of the problems looming with the unbalanced composition of the RCS board of education and that it was biased in favor of the teachers and the teachers union, NYSUT. We warned that Mary Partridge-Brown, a close friend of RCS union representative Matt Miller, the teacher who was double-dipping as so-called energy manager at the high-school, and who was teaching only a partial load so that he could do his union work on school time and still draw his teacher's salary and all benefits. Mary Partidge-Brown's husband is Patrick Brown, a sitting RCS board of education member. We warned about Alan McCartney's self-serving pattern of kissing up to anyone who will keep him in his part-time, on-his-own-schedule, interim superintendent's job where he's collecting more than $100,000 of RCS Central School District money. We warned that the RCS board of education was no longer representing the community but was now an extension of the special interests of the teachers and of the teachers union. We warned of the abysmal graduation rates and the student abuse by coaches and teachers. We warned you but you ignored us! Now, AGAIN, you're in the news and it's not because you're so good.
We've written volumes on the goings-on in the schools but especially the RCS high school. Everything from bullying to the local Coeymans cop who was assigned as the security liason, the RSO, Danielle Crosier, who according to students was doing a wrestling coach on school grounds, riding a school bus with the football team to away games, and wrecking patrol cars. Did you listen? Did you protest? No! She's still there. Why? Oh, by the way, she carries her service weapon, a gun, around the school but that doesn't seem to bother DiAcetis or McCartney. They're too busy messing around with National Guard t-shirts.
How can DiAcetis and McCartney continue in leadership positions and how can they govern the district and the students now that they have lost the battle?
Enjoying the crow?
When a leader loses face vis-a-vis those he's supposed to be leading, the only thing left to do is to resign.
We warned that there is no leadership in the RCS CSD. In fact, Tom DiAcetis and McCartney are non-leaders, who operate best when they can be heavy-handed and vindictive. If they were non-leaders before, what are they now that they've made complete asses of themselves not only with the students, the community, but now with the entire nation!?! Now that the situation and the story has gone wildfire on the national media, complete with discussions of quotes from McCartney's defenses, the kids are actually in the lead. The kids are winning the battle. DiAcetis and McCartney have lost face because the kids have trumped them. This creates a very difficult position in the RCS central school district: How can DiAcetis and McCartney continue in leadership positions and how can they govern the district and the students now that they have lost the battle? Just imagine the situation now with the kids looking at them as losers!
When a leader loses face vis-a-vis those he's supposed to be leading, the only thing left to do is to resign, to turn in the keys. A leader who is made to eat crow by those he's supposed to be leading is incapable of leading; he's tainted. DiAcetis has no other choice but to resign and let someone who has half a brain take the reins. McCartney was given a chance, despite his tainted background, he showed promise in the beginning but then his true colors came through: he's an opportunist, he can't be trusted, he's using this school district to pad is pockets while still collecting his pension, and he's lost the ability to lead, he's lost students' and our confidence. McCartney has to go.
The Vermin Must Go!
They are killing us!
The vermin on the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk board of education have been very quiet. That's exactly what we'd expect from them when the cat hits the fan. Latter and his band of scoundrels have balls only when they can ambush; when the lights go on they scurry fast for their holes. They're good rats and know when to come out and when to hide. But you need to go after them and force them to do what you elected them to do.
It's the only moral, decent, honorable thing to do. DiAcetis and McCartney Must Go!
The RCS BoE is on the carpet to act on this scandal. Let them show their colors: Black and Blue, Feces Brown?
We understand that the students are organizing. Support them.
Make your demands known. Here is their contact information:
Give'm Hell Now!
And Remember What They're Doing When You Vote!
Alan R. McCartney, Interim Superintendent
Ravena Coeymans Selkirk Central Schools
15 Mountain Rd.
Ravena, NY 12143
Tom DiAcetis, Principal
RCS High School
2025 Rt. 9W
(518) 756.5200 ext. 2000
The Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Board of Education
Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk CSD
RCS Board of Education
James Latter, President jlatter@rcscsd.org
E. Revile, Vice-president ereville@rcscsd.org
Patrick Brown pbrown@rcscsd.org
Howard "Bray" Engel hengel@rcscsd.org
Jason Hyslop JHyslop@rcscsd.org
Michael Jones mjones@rcscsd.org
William McFerran wmcferran@rcscsd.org
Alice Whalen awhalen@rcscsd.org
Tina Furst-Hotaling tfurst-hotaling@rcscsd.org
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McCartney, DiAcetis, RCS Fail at Education
When so – called educators don't educate and indiscriminately create and enforce knee – jerk policies, and superintendents stupidly announce "Rules are Rules", that's not education people, that's fascism, totalitarianism, extremism. It's not education it's automation, creating sheeple out of sensitive and responsive minds. Is that the plan underlying today's "education"? Is the plan to create either sheeple or criminals? Black or white: "Rules are Rules," OBEY!
RCS high-school principal Tom DiAcetis, Superintendant Alan McCartney's Education
McCartney's "Rules are rules" mantra simply doesn't work. Where's the education in all of this? This sort of model is used to train dogs and monkeys, not adolescent human beings. The overriding policy is: Ban it, Don't explain it.
With the deterioration of American family systems, the marginalization of religion and churches, the national and local lies and propaganda, the criminal corruption and hypocrisy we have not only in our courts, legislatures and town halls but in many of the homes where many of these young adults live is bad enough. But when we put cowards and fools in executive and administrative positions in our schools, OUR SCHOOLS, and they are contradicting everything of value, ethical, moral and civil, that's where we have to shout very loudly: WE'VE HAD ENOUGH! GET OUT!
BAN THIS BITCH!!!
This is one of those times where we have to say: The students are right!
Isn't it the job of the teachers we pay outrageously high salaries to teach our young people not ways of watching but ways of seeing; not ways of hearing but ways of listening; not ways of simply being but ways of be – ing, experiencing. Using this most recent example of the failure of our teachers, principals, administrators, isn't this yet another example of the failure of education in our RCS schools? This is exactly what we saw during the Bruno – Warner dictatorship in Ravena when they were openly violating rights protected by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's the very thing we've been writing about in our essays about the corruption and obstruction of justice in the Coeymans police department. That same corruption and obstruction of justice, the violation of protected rights has found its way into our schools, people, because we have allowed it to happen by loading our board of education, our district offices, and our school administrative offices and classrooms with individuals who are self – serving and members of an exclusive club – – exclusive because although they want our tax dollars to pad their pockets, they don't want anything to do with us or hear from us.
We are a nation of laws. We are NOT a nation of justice.
As RCS Superintendent Alan McCartney says: Rules are Rules.
In our opinion, the RCS school system and its district offices are the homeland enemies, not a bunch of camel – jockeys six thousand or eight thousand miles away! It's actually principals like Tom DiAcetis, union-lackeys, crook teachers like Matt Miller, superintendents like Allan McCartney who are confusing the hell out of the kids and making them schizoid. Is that the plan? On th e one hand, we have a president and a congress who just last week were handing out high military honors, the Medal of Honor, to men already dead or nearly so on national television. Then we have the president of the United States announcing (finally) his "strategy" (Strategy? Well, he seems to think it's a strategy. Sounds more like a smoke screen.) to weaken alleged terrorists in Syria and in God knows how many other areas. What's Obama going to use in this battle against terrorism? Chitlins? The ideology taught by our RCS teachers and represented by the RCS board of education and their parasite superintendent, Alan McCartney? We have advertisements for military organizations and military recruitment and careers everywhere you look. We have the National Rifle Association organizing huge rallies. We have "Repeal the Safe Act" everywhere you look. We have a tradition of Rod and Gun Clubs, Sportsmen's Clubs. One of our traditional activities is hunting. We have a Second Amendment, too. Then we have our educators—and I'm using that term very loosely, indeed—banning T – shirts because they might have a depiction of a firearm on them! WTF! These people in our schools call themselves "educators"? They're imbeciles receiving outrageous salaries and benefits. Worse still, most of them are cowards living off the sweat, blood and sacrifices of others!
In fact, aren't most public meetings opened with a sort of prayer called the Pledge of Allegiance? Don't we erect monuments at public expense commemorating veterans and past wars? Don't we have a federal holiday called Veteran's Day? Aren't all of these somehow connected with the Armed Forces, or something like that? Where have our so-called "educators" been through all this (probably dodging the draft or living the good life while others are dying the patriotic death). We don't need or want cowards teaching our kids or running our schools and towns!
They still are required to teach the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights in our public schools, aren't they?
The feminist pastor of the New Baltimore Reformed Church decided a couple of years ago that the American flag did not have a place in front of the congregation, near the lecterns, and moved the flag to the back of the sanctuary. Some in the congregation raised hell; some even left that congregation because of that action. Several years ago, the pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick in Ravena, offended parishioners when he refused to have the coffin of dead veterans draped with the American flag in the church (he was complying with ritual instructions, actually). Again, parishioners raised hell and many went elsewhere. And, dear readers, those are churches; remember separation of church and state. What those so – called pastors failed to recognize is that their congregation members and parishioners are Americans 6 days out of the week and Christians only one day, if that. They live the American way 6 days a week; they worship only one, and many not even that.
It used to be that our schools taught us how to be good citizens while exercising our rights. Our schools and teachers taught us values and morality. Some of those values was loyalty, respect, honesty, integrity, fairness, gratitude and—surprisingly—the notion of patriotism, a form of loyalty and respect, very close to family values, actually.
Our schools and educators are sending mixed messages, the wrong messages. Parents are not carrying their fair share of the load; our local, state and national governments have become so corrupt and dishonest that the only way to cover their tracks is with propaganda, misinformation and control. Our schools, obviously, are following that same evil example.
DiAcetis's and McCarney's Warrior Option: Pee on'em!
Editor's Comment. It's obvious to us that there's a great deal of dishonesty and hypocrisy involved here on both sides: the Ravena – Coeymans – Selkirk Central School District (RCS CSD) and the National Guard. There's also a very deep and dangerous gap in the RCS CSD's understanding of proper notice, due process, protected rights, and a large number of other issues of neglect or indifference. On that latter note we really have to ask why we are paying DiAcetis and McCartney salaries of more than $100,000 plus benefits to run such a shoddy show.
DiAcetis: I pee on you! I win!
O-14-003691
We also have to ask whether the RCS CSD gives any consideration to the trauma and damage that they cause to adolescents by the principal's, the school employees' and the superintendent's arbitrary and overly discretionary so – called discipline. What if the kid's wearing the shirt to honor a fallen friend or relative? What if the student is wearing the shirt as an expression of solidarity with the armed forces? What if….? Aren't these school officials supposed to be trained in some level of psychology? Or are they indifferent to the effects their own conduct is having on these young people?
We'd like to know where the RCS CSD dress code is published. We can't find it anywhere. And was it at some point subject to public comment at, say, a RCS board of education public meeting? If the RCS CSD dress code is intended to control behavior, to limit free expression, to do anything that might even remotely affect a person's rights, it should be subject to public comment and should be published. Does anyone know where it is, apart from in DiAcetis' desk drawer?
What is the RCS CSD position and policy regarding the United States Armed Forces, exactly? We have to assume that the recruiter just didn't stroll in and hand out shirts…or can we? The RCS CSD is aware that the National Guard and other branches of the US armed forces used weapons from time to time, even deadly force. Aren't they? What's the big surprise that a shirt should show a military personnel with a rifle? Does Mr Diacetis or Mr McCartney think that wars and battles are won, that terrorists are subdued by the US military by our men in uniform meandering up to the enemy and threatening to pee on him if he doesn't give up? Interesting notion but we don't think that tactic would work on the battlefield. Weapons carried by trained warriors have proved to be effective.
Actually, in these times of US military action in so many places all over the globe, we think it's disgraceful, scandalous bordering on the treasonous, to show such disrespect for young people's patriotism not to mention for the efforts of our men and women in uniform. Shame on you you pitiful examples of RCS CSD cowardice!
McCartney's Secret Weapon: Pee on'em!
We also find it disturbing that the National Guard would even consider pandering to these cowards' by "sanitizing" their promotional shirts. Does the National Guard really think that if their shirts don't feature a weapon that anyone is going to think that they are going to use the "pee threat" on terrorists, looters, etc.? It's shameful that the National Guard is acquiescing to the scandal by superficially denying the use of deadly weapons in their activities. Does the National Guard believe that by caving to the cowards that the kids are so stupid to think that guns are not used in defense activities?
Isn't denial and hypocrisy already out of all control in our community and in this country? Can't we just be honest for a change and call a spade a spade?
What will the cowards want next? Do we have to remove all weapons from our military displays, monuments, recruitment advertising. Perhaps a big peeing penis would be more their taste in support of the "pee threat."
Is it too much to ask parents to know who their children are? To know where they are? To know what they're doing? Is it too much to ask parents to tear themselves away from their smart phones, their computers, the TV and give some attention to their kids so that they don't resort to mass murder to be heard? Go figure!
We cannot treat an entire sector of our population, a well – informed, inquisitive, powerful, and activist group like our high – school students, like a bunch of budding criminals, a bunch of retards who as soon as they see a weapon on a T – shirt they become serial killers or mass murders. We have to give them the credit they deserve for having brains and a reasoning process going on in there. We have to stop sending the mixed messages because they will call us on that and we, as adults, lose credibility with them. That's not a good thing.
Taxpayers, residents, parents of RCS students: You have to take some responsibility for this injustice being done to our young people! We have to get the cowards, the harlots, the adult bullies, the egoists, the crooks and the scoundrels out of our schools. We have to allow our young people to develop good values, ethics, morals and character; when they express good values, ethics, morals and character we must not demoralize, criminalize them. Stop allowing your schools to create sheeple out of thinking human beings or pay the price of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, and Obama's United States: Propaganda, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Rule by the Elite. It's the another step in poisoning America.
DiAcetis, McCartney. Do it NOW!
DiAcetis and McCartney must apologize to the students, to the community, to the Armed Forces of the United States.
DiAcetis and McCartney must then RESIGN.
We believe in Choices.
Give DiAcetis and McCartney a choice:
RESIGN OR GET FIRED!!!
Posted by Principal Editor on September 24, 2014 in 2Luck.com, Abuse of Public Office, ACLU, Albany, Albany County District Attorney, Alice Whalen, American Civil Liberties Union, Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Bill Bailey, Bill McFerran, Bitter Bob (Ross), Bob Knighten, Bob Ross, Bray Engel, Brown and Weinraub, Bryan Rowzee, Bullying, Burning the Constitution, Carver Laraway, Catherine Deluca, Catherine M. Deluca, Cathy Deluca, Church, Church of St Patrick Ravena, Civil Rights, Claude A. Wheeles, Coeymans, Coeymans Police Department, Danielle Crosier, Danielle M. Crosier, David Wukitsch, Department of State, Dr Alan McCartney, Dr Alan R. McCartney, Edward "Teddy" Reville, Edward Reville, Eleanor Luckacovic, Eleanor Oldham, Eric T. Schneiderman, Ethics and Morality, Ethics in Schools, Fair Play, Faith and Family Values, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fr James Kane, Freedom of Speech, George Langdon, Government, Greg Teresi, Gregory Darlington, Gregory Teresi, Gun Control, Harold Warner, Howard "Bray" Engel, Hypocrisy, Interim Superintendent, James Kane, James Latter, Jena Misuraca, Joan Ross, Joel Coye, John B. King, John Luckacovic, Karen Miller, Keith Mahler, Ken Burns, Kenneth Burns, Latter-Hyslop-Brown, Liberty, Martin Case, Marty Case, Mary Partridge-Brown, Matt "the Mutt", Matt Miller, Matthew J. Miller, Michael Biscone, Michael J. Biscone, Misconduct, Moose Misuraca, Morality, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, New Baltimore, New York, New York State, New York State Education Department, New York State United Teachers, Nick Dellisanti, NYSED, NYSUT, Obstruction of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Official Misconduct, Patrick E. Brown, Pete Lopez, Peter Masti, Public Corruption, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk Central School District, RCS Board of Education, RCS Central School District, RCS School Superintendant, RCSTA, Reformed Church of America, Robert J. Freeman, Rocco Persico, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, Sarah Berchtold Engel, Sarah Engel, School Taxes, Schools, Selkirk, Stephen Flach, Stifling Freedom, Stop the Bullying, Student Abuse, Teachers, Teachers Union, Teddy Reville, Thomas A. Boehm, Thomas E. Dolan, Tkaczyk, Tom Boehm, Tom DiAcetis, Tom Dolan, Unamerican Activity, William Bailey, William McFerran, William Misuraca
Coeymans Town Board Meeting: Circus of Imbeciles, the Insane
Listening to the Absolute Ignorant Bull on Channel 11's Coverage of the Coeymans Town Board Meeting would Make a Maggot want to Vomit!
Coeymans Board: We Don't Know. We don't have the facts.
The Coeymans Town Board Meetings are the Best Freak Show in Town
First of all, the fact that the Coeymans town board admits that it doesn't have the facts and figures it needs to intelligently discuss the proposal of eliminating the pool of so-called dispatchers–actually a group of family members of the Coeymans police department; just check out the names and the relationships–is the usual embarassment.
Supervisor Steven Flach has fallen on his face innumberable times these past months starting with the zoning debacle, to the Carver Laraway sell out, the fairytale of job creation, the continuing untold story of adverse environmental impact of the businesses to which the Judas administration has sold out, law suits (these are nothing new, we've collected documentation of literally dozens of Notices of Claims, mostly against the Coeymanazi police department) and the list goes on and on. The problem is that voters don't have the chance to elect people who know what they're doing, they elect a bunch of amateurs with little or no government savvy and now they have to live with it.
Then we have the Gestapo Coeymans police chief, Gregory Darlington, smoozing the ditzy demented old women who get up and make absolute fools of themselves but are pandering to Darlington who is eating it all up like the glutton he is. Darlington's a cheap act but like most low-life, he'll do anything to survive.
What came out in tonight's Coeymans town board meeting (September 22, 2014) was what we have been observing over and over again in the past: No one seems to know what they're talking about and no one has any facts. What's worse still is that what we've been saying for months now about the Coeymans town board–even after Flach got the majority and dumped Tom Boehm and Dawn Rogers, two shameful supporters of Darlington and his money pit police department, is this: Flach and the board simply don't do their homework and have the despicable habit of acting on ignorance or halfbaked notions. In fact, most of the board, including Supervisor Steven Flach actually said they "don't know". How in hell can they appear for a meeting and not have their ducks in a row. But it happens again and again. No wonder residents are furious and frustrated.
And enough already. We thought we heard the end of Tom Boehm's smoozing of his harlot Coeymans police department and its main pimp, Gregory Darlington. Boehm to his discredit has a bad memory and doesn't have the sense to keep his mouth shut–especially when Tom Dolan throws his own words in his face! But we've said that so often before about Boehm. But then, Coeymans weasel Tom Dolan is a perverse opportunist, as we all know when he speaks against the zoning when the zoning scandal was hatched on his watch together with Flach, Boehm and Rogers. It's only now that the stuff is hitting the fan. But still, Flach sets himself up on the defensive only have to defend more and more of what he's doing.
Mary Driscoll's glowing but demented endorsement of Flach's performance, of Darlington's department, of small and large government, centralized schools, and worse still, her support and total ignorance of how the 911 dispatch system works only confirms our assessment many times published on this blog: Some of the local residents who are most vociferous and outspoken should really be on drugs, sedatives actually. We have some advice for Mary Driscoll: Listen, dear, it's not emotion, it's dementia.
It's Happening Before Your Eyes
What we heard at the Coeymans town board meeting was total misinformation and uninformed blather. Someone, perhaps even someone on the Coeymans town board, should actually learn how 911 works in terms of dispatching emergency services. Maybe then Mr DoDo Darlington won't be so smug or so brave when his lies and the misinformation is replaced by hard facts and a rational report. $300,000 is a good chunk of money that's being paid from taxpayer dollars to fund a small bunch of insiders who are duplicating a service already being provided very professionally.
Why was Coeymans police chief so amused by all of this? We've already made the point that when all of this is going on the Coeymans police are pretty scarce.
Driscoll: I get so emotional!
One speaker, again speaking from a very self-centered and extraordinary point of view, did make some good points while exhibiting her infant (Was that a prop intended to make a point we wonder?). While her sole justification for wasting taxpayer dollars was her own pregnancy, she did rub Darlington's nose in some nasty stuff but he didn't seem to catch on. The woman made the point that the trucks terrorizing Coeymans and Ravena streets are a danger to life and limb; a real threat to local residents and children! Why was Darlington laughing and smiling through all of her statement? The speaker also made the point that the trucks are racing through the hamlet of Coeymans and Ravena, certainly going more than 30 miles an hour. She also made the point that they're on phones or doing something, certainly not paying attention to their driving. Again, Why was Coeymans police chief so amused by all of this? We've already made the point that when all of this is going on the Coeymans police are pretty scarce. So, Mr Darlington, wipe that smile off your stupid porcine snout and answer the question: Why is this happening and where are your Coeymanazis when all of this is going on?
We know where they are, Mr Darlington, they're harassing the residents who are attempting to clean up that cesspool of Coeymans. Handing out parking tickets to residents unloading supplies to renovate the distressed properties. On Coeymans police chief Darlington's orders, according to one Coeymans gestapo. Yes, there were witnesses when Darlington's monkey made the statement. And Yes! Coeymans, you can ask yourselves, Will the retaliation and intimidation never stop?!? Our answer: Yes, as soon as you clean out the nest of vermin in the basement of Coeymans town hall!
As we watched and listened, it became apparent that Mr Darlington was manipulative as ever and that Mr Flach was as timid as ever. Even though not speaking in an official capacity, Tom Boehm was speaking as the smoke and mirrors artist, as always, pandering to his friends in the Coeymans p.d. Tom Dolan, was doing his carnival sideshow, trying to appear like he knew something and was the only one who did. All of them were in the dark of their own diseased egos.
Coeymans: You're like alcoholics, who know the bottle is killing them but it's all you have, so you cling to your addiction even though it's killing you.
FEAR!
But one thing stood out clearly: At least the speakers, if not the entire group present at that meeting, seemed to think that in the perhaps hundreds of communities across New York state, most of which do not have expensive duplicated services in their budgets, that their pregnant citizens are bleeding to death on their kitchen floors or their elderly are being eaten alive in their garages by "rabid" dogs because they don't have local dispatchers! How stupid! What we heard under all the words are the voices of a couple of frightened people who didn't trust their elected officials. The speakers were speaking from their own traumatic or imagined encounters with their own mortality. They also represented the essence of addiction and attachment: No matter whether good or bad. You're like alcoholics, who know the bottle is killing them but it's all they have, so they cling to their addiction even though it's killing them. A sick kind of greed, where you have something and you cling to it too anxious to let go of what you have, too scared to take a risk.
And we can also add for the benefit of the concerned resident with the infant: You would have gotten to St Peters just as fast if you simply called 911. And if you get rid of the duplicated services in Coeymans, that is, the dispatchers, the $300,000 saved in the budget may help to put those sidewalks and safety measures in place that you claimed were so desperately needed to keep you and your children safe. Maybe if the Coeymans town board looks at things with some foresight and vision and stops playing knee-jerk, there'd be less waste, better services, and a safer, more vibrant community. All that's been done so far is promote deterioration and unsafe conditions, spoiling our streets, our air and our environment, endanger our children and residents, while supporting unnecessary and inefficient fixtures like the Coeymans police department and its little club of friends.
Mr Boehm and others, but especially Mr Darlington, you are transparent not because you have an ounce of integrity or honesty—it's clear to those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear that you have neither integrity nor honesty—but because you are so see-thru, so insubstantial, so common. Voters got rid of Boehm but left Darlington. Big mistake. The Coeymans town board hasn't got the brains or the balls to tackle this problem or any of the grotesque problems facing Coeymans. Unfortunately, most of Coeymans isn't up to the task either.
You are being sucked dry by a small group of parasitic sponges
You're so terrified of losing something that you lose sight of the fact that you are being sucked dry by a small group of parasitic sponges. Either they are there padding their own nests with salaries that are far beyond their abilities (Darlington and most of the Coeymans p.d., the Ravena Public Works Department); you elect amateurs who are using you all like an army of AAA batteries to run their sick egos. No wonder you're terrified! You take an incompetent blond bimbo off of the streets and where do you put her? You put her in the high-school! Why don't you just lace the kids' food with Ebola? You allow your stupid RCS board of education to put Danielle Crosier in the high school as SRO and then let her instruct in road safety! Are you all nutz? She rams parked cars, rides the shoulder of the road, endangers a minor in her custody, and you put her in the high school! Darlington and his pet cockroach, Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca used you and continue to use you to provide them with a playground and those two parasitic sponges, as stupid as they are, used and continue to use you up. Lucky for Coeymans the dorks at the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs were imbecilic enough to take Deluca off our hands. But we're still stuck with mummy-mayor John Bruno's senile legacy, the Ravena Health and Fitness Center, another money pit that he provided to another parasitic sponge, Cathy Deluca, and one which the present amateur, bartender-become-mayor, monkey mayor Bill "Moose" Misuraca hasn't had the balls to eliminate. And you're worried about getting rid of the parasite sponges in the dispatcher's den? Imbeciles!
High-School Principal Tom DiAcetis "Intimidated" and "Offended" by National Guard T-Shirt.
A Real Educator!
After seeing the National Guard T-shirt, DiAcetis talks to his therapist.
And then you have cowards like the high-school principal, Tom Diacetis, who suspends a student for wearing a tee-shirt handed out by a National Guard recruiter authorized to be on school property, because the shirt "intimidated" and "offended" him. Diacetis and all the others who are intimidated by anything that represents selfless service to community and country; the same cowards who never put on a uniform but are there to educate our kids in morals and values (while they're humping each other in the coach's office or doing someone's harlot). The National Guard recruiter was told to leave the school. Oh! Did we mention violation of civil rights, abuse of First Amendment protected speech, Mr DiAcetis? As principal of the RCS high school you must have heard of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, haven't you? Yeah! Harlots in the halls, cowards in the offices, bullies on the playground, and parasitic sponges in town hall. RCS education at its best and a real model system for the districts with real grad rates! And you're crying about having to cut fat from the budget? Get a brain!
The bottom line: Ravena-Coeymans continues to be a cesspool of ignorance and corruption; Retaliation and intimidation continue as business as usual, and the same stupid sockpuppets get up and puke their pablum making the parade of clowns complete. It's a circus of the insane.
The Coeymans Plague
The Town Board is a Steaming Pile of Manure!
For those of our readers who might actually be interested in facts about 911 Emergency Services, we've selected a couple of reports for you. Learn more about what the Coeymans town board and the loud-mouths don't seem to know.
Report To Congress: On State Collection And Distribution Of 911 And Enhanced 911 Fees And Charges
National 911 Program: Blue Ribbon Panel On 911 Funding
The New York State Wireless Enhanced 911 Project: Lessons Learned
Report On The Consolidated 911 / Dispatch Feasibility Study – Albany County, New York
Be informed. Inform yourself. Then choke the imbeciles with your facts!
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