Agendums, City Council and personal
Agendums, City Council and personal
Well, it turns out the several days delay in posting the city council agenda was really an inadvertent side affect from a vacation by a city hall staff person. All innocent and not by design. Nice to
Well, it turns out the several days delay in posting the city council agenda was really an inadvertent side affect from a vacation by a city hall staff person. All innocent and not by design. Nice to learn.
While Dan McShane has called the Herald about the blog ripoff of nwcitizen, he has not contacted me. Go figure. Sam Taylor has it on his blog at the Herald.
If you read the comments on the ripoff nwcitizen blog then you get a good idea of the immature and scatological minded partisans who are doing this. This sentence will be posted and made fun of. None of them will identify themselves and their names are anagrams of my name - mostly insulting. The most notable thing is they hide behind anonymous aliases. They could start their own website but it is more fun to ripoff this and make fun of me. Judge for yourself. I think it says more about them than about me.
I am taking steps to hopefully have it taken down but the legal costs might be too expensive. I am revising my copyright notice as in the past I've allowed persons to email some post without needed to seek protection. The pranksters are now stretching that to mean they can post the whole site to make it look exactly like this. I think they have violated copyright law but time will tell. They think they are attacking and making fun of me and Dan Pike but they are actually attacking free speech in America. I have put my name to this site and take the consequences. Most people - 99.9% of people - will not speak out because of the insults and personal trash that comes their way from these people. If you speak out then your boss gets called and much more.
Google.com has written me that I need to provide them with a court order in order to get the names of the ripoff posters. That may be impossible.
3:00 pm
The McShane partisans mudslinging continues. They have illegally ripped off this website and posted it as 'Northwest Idiot' to a blogspot site. Now they enjoy posting very childish and content-empty insults about Pike, myself, Tip Johnson and anyone else associated with me. I have asked Google legal department for their identities. Some of this gutter talk closely resembles the text style of email from some of the McShane partisans to me that I do not post here. One in particular.
Here is a sample of a page of comments from these folks. Nice stuff. And here is the home page. I have written Google legal asking that they take down this illegal use of my writings. I am linking to it for now so all can see the mentality of those who are doing the ad homonyms against Pike. This has apparently been going on for days or weeks but I only learned of it this afternoon. Yes, I feel ripped off and violated. If someone wants to post their own website - with their own real name - and attack me, then that is their right. But to use my writing and to distort it - and delete the copyright from the top of the pages - and post anonymous insults is really in poor taste.
Here is the link to the home of the Idiot page. I hope it disappears soon. Until then, you can judge for yourself the mentality of some of these folks. Sort of reminds one of the insane practice of tree spiking that some enviro radicals favored years ago. Just do something that will hurt people but do it at night and be a sneak about it. And deny it years later. Real guys.
9:05 am
Agenda for tonight's council meeting is finally posted on city website.
8:15 am
Before someone tells me, I know the mayor is keeping the budget hidden until tonight. But where is the agenda? Both of these are being kept hidden for 5 of the last 8 days before ballots are mailed. This is exactly what we want to change by electing candidates who will bring us a fresh approach to city government. Funny how all the rules change at local election time.
7:45 am
No city budget posted - no city council agenda posted. Regular meeting today and it is normally posted Thursday afternoon. The new budget - surely an item for campaign discussion - will be discussed at this evening's meeting - but it is not posted online. Could this all be delayed because of the strong challenges that some candidates are making against council incumbents? Nawwww.
Wait a minute - didn't mayor Mark have a 'computer' problem a few years ago during his campaign and the budget - with tax increase - was delayed till after the election? Yes. So - hanky panky by city hall to favor incumbents is not out of the question. Politics as usual. I'm sure John Watts would say I should find areas of agreement and not be so critical and suspicious. But my attitude is city government is way too important to be treated like a group friendship. There are people who make power plays for pure self interest reasons.
While Dan McShane has called the Herald about the blog ripoff of nwcitizen, he has not contacted me. Go figure. Sam Taylor has it on his blog at the Herald.
If you read the comments on the ripoff nwcitizen blog then you get a good idea of the immature and scatological minded partisans who are doing this. This sentence will be posted and made fun of. None of them will identify themselves and their names are anagrams of my name - mostly insulting. The most notable thing is they hide behind anonymous aliases. They could start their own website but it is more fun to ripoff this and make fun of me. Judge for yourself. I think it says more about them than about me.
I am taking steps to hopefully have it taken down but the legal costs might be too expensive. I am revising my copyright notice as in the past I've allowed persons to email some post without needed to seek protection. The pranksters are now stretching that to mean they can post the whole site to make it look exactly like this. I think they have violated copyright law but time will tell. They think they are attacking and making fun of me and Dan Pike but they are actually attacking free speech in America. I have put my name to this site and take the consequences. Most people - 99.9% of people - will not speak out because of the insults and personal trash that comes their way from these people. If you speak out then your boss gets called and much more.
Google.com has written me that I need to provide them with a court order in order to get the names of the ripoff posters. That may be impossible.
3:00 pm
The McShane partisans mudslinging continues. They have illegally ripped off this website and posted it as 'Northwest Idiot' to a blogspot site. Now they enjoy posting very childish and content-empty insults about Pike, myself, Tip Johnson and anyone else associated with me. I have asked Google legal department for their identities. Some of this gutter talk closely resembles the text style of email from some of the McShane partisans to me that I do not post here. One in particular.
Here is a sample of a page of comments from these folks. Nice stuff. And here is the home page. I have written Google legal asking that they take down this illegal use of my writings. I am linking to it for now so all can see the mentality of those who are doing the ad homonyms against Pike. This has apparently been going on for days or weeks but I only learned of it this afternoon. Yes, I feel ripped off and violated. If someone wants to post their own website - with their own real name - and attack me, then that is their right. But to use my writing and to distort it - and delete the copyright from the top of the pages - and post anonymous insults is really in poor taste.
Here is the link to the home of the Idiot page. I hope it disappears soon. Until then, you can judge for yourself the mentality of some of these folks. Sort of reminds one of the insane practice of tree spiking that some enviro radicals favored years ago. Just do something that will hurt people but do it at night and be a sneak about it. And deny it years later. Real guys.
9:05 am
Agenda for tonight's council meeting is finally posted on city website.
8:15 am
Before someone tells me, I know the mayor is keeping the budget hidden until tonight. But where is the agenda? Both of these are being kept hidden for 5 of the last 8 days before ballots are mailed. This is exactly what we want to change by electing candidates who will bring us a fresh approach to city government. Funny how all the rules change at local election time.
7:45 am
No city budget posted - no city council agenda posted. Regular meeting today and it is normally posted Thursday afternoon. The new budget - surely an item for campaign discussion - will be discussed at this evening's meeting - but it is not posted online. Could this all be delayed because of the strong challenges that some candidates are making against council incumbents? Nawwww.
Wait a minute - didn't mayor Mark have a 'computer' problem a few years ago during his campaign and the budget - with tax increase - was delayed till after the election? Yes. So - hanky panky by city hall to favor incumbents is not out of the question. Politics as usual. I'm sure John Watts would say I should find areas of agreement and not be so critical and suspicious. But my attitude is city government is way too important to be treated like a group friendship. There are people who make power plays for pure self interest reasons.
