Farewell Great Citizen

Today is the day! One of our finest residents is leaving town. Goodbye John Doe and a huge thanks for providing this forum.

And on that note, I leave you with the following:

I'm so glad we had this time together

Just to have a laugh, or sing a song.

Seems we just get started and before you know it

Comes the time we have to say, “So long".

Overland Peace Corps.

With summer now officially underway, we are a little more than two months away from Overland's mayoral election. We don't seem to have much news floating about as stake holders jockey for how they will position themselves. We all see that Mary Beth Conlon is by far the most qualified candidate. Previous opponents I have spoken to are running a bit low on reasons not to vote for her. I have yet to find a person that actually believes Mike Schneider to be a superior candidate or possible Mayor.

With Schneider's Dody led coalition coming in third during the most recent mayoral election, astute political observers wonder where his campaign's extreme confidence comes from. Schneider will need to earn far more than four votes if Dody's gang is to once again exchange high-fives over the Mayor's desk. They may be under the questionable assumption that the recall margin is theirs.

What is certain is that out of the three candidates, Schneider has the weakest hand. So much so, I wonder his motivation in running. Does he actually think that he is going to peal enough Conlon or Purzner/Keller voters away to earn a winning plurality. Seems sort of a reach.

Finally, can anyone volunteer a progress update on Overland's friends helping friends program. I have my shovel ready.

Note to Kenny Owensby: Stop living off the public trough. No more hand-outs for the under employed. Get your own phone and stop wearing that disguise.

So long farewell, auf weidersehen goodnight

I'm glad... to go.... I cannot tell a lie

My wife and I have signed the paperwork, crossed the t's and dotted the i's. As of Thursday the 31st we will be proudly able to say we are not citizens of the filthy third. We are leaving Overland. Will we move back? Who knows? The biggest determining factor will be what happens in the next two to three years. I don't like what I see because I don't see Overland keeping up with the surrounding communities. I have lived in this city since I was born with the exception of the years I served in the army. I have watched petty bickering and infighting cause this city to slide into stagnation. It amazes me how vicously people are fighting for control of Overland. Reminds me of watching the nature channel and seeing a pack of hyenas descend upon the rotted festering bloated antelope corpse after the lions have already had their fill and moved off to find new prey. And I promise everyone, especially Donna Dills the countess of asses that I will not be sticking my nose back into Overland city business. I was tempted to pretend my last name was Dills or Purzner and not change my voting address until after the August election. But I realized, why stoop to ORTian levels. I am leaving, I no longer have to worry about Owensby and his wig and Keller and her 250+ IQ. Mark Brown can spend all the money he wants trying to rule this town and I'll sit back and laugh.

See ya, wouldn't want to be ya...
Paul LaBelle

The Patron Saint of FINESWINE

What's the difference between Conlon's Mayoral run and Keller's given their recent successful campaigns for the Council?

One keen difference between Conlon and Keller is that Conlon has always said she would run for Mayor again and never represented otherwise. Conlon voters wanted her to win the council seat held by ORT Representative Tom Sellers and new she would run for Mayor again at first opportunity.

Keller, under the other hand, constantly railed against Purzner's opposition on the Council for not filling the empty Wort 3 seat vacated by Purzner. Two months later she files to run for Mayor thus opening the possibility of another empty Wort 3 seat.

Again, what has changed for Ms. Keller?

PS: Yowza, yowza, yowza, FineSwine poking fun at someones' Saint Hood mistake. This dingbat can barely string a coherent sentence together and makes more grade school grammatical errors than any poster in Virtual Overland. Just God awful stupid, what else can you say about her. And the community was to rely on her for Civil Defense. Good grief, what planet are we on?

Isn't there a certain Freudian irony in FINEWINE, self-exposed racist, pointing out the Saint Hood mistake. I bet all of FINEWINE's favorite Saints wear white hoods.

Stop, stop! Please, I can't take anymore!

Oh...I just haven't been able to stop laughing over the Peggy Keller running for mayor thing. Some have nailed it on the head--25 days experience--but let's look at that angle. I attended the last city council meeting and Keller had trouble following the agenda. If she can't follow the agenda as a participant, how is she going to do it as the leader.
Her experience is zilch.
Her record at meetings is pitiful. (Really, she should sit on Owensby's shoulder if she just wants to parrot all he says.)
Why would anyone (in their right mind) vote for her?!
It's not like she overwhelmingly won the worrisom Wort 3. 51.73% does not a mandate make in your own ward--let alone the entire city.
For someone who claims a genius IQ, this isn't a very smart move on her part.

Now, let's settle on a nickname.
I like Ol'160.
I was also thinking AJ or Ann, JR for those that want to type it out.
Any other ideas?

Grappling for Relevance: Kenny Employs the Two-Finger Manifesto

Why is it that the only reps on the Council wanting a forensic audit are both from Ward 3? The answer lies in the prime motivating factor driving ORTian "Overland Watch" type politics. The ORT has been built on the Two-Finger Manifesto which states that the goal of ORT reps is not moving the City forward by dealing with "real issues". The ORT is only interested in obstructing the government. Its leader, Kenny Blowensme, is only happy when he gets to stick two fingers so far up your ass that you are incapable of getting anything meaningful accomplished.

Kenny Blowensme is searching for relevance. Rather than earning relevance through addressing the "real issues", Kenny's default position is to infer scandal at every turn. Now Kenny thinks we need an official forensic audit so that he can get to the bottom of whatever imaginary scandal he has cooked-up in his little mind.

Kenny Blowensme hasn't learned anything from the Junior Alderman now joining him on the council. You would think that a genius could offer Kenny a little reason. But she seems to be one of those Evil Geniuses we hear about. How could a genius think Kenny Blowensme offered anything but the Two-Finger Manifesto?

Principle of Parsimony

The simplest workable theories are also the best and most useful.