10-9-15
Happy Labor Day
“Lest we forget.”
The
above scene of The Four Chaplains Drive is at the Ohio Western
Reserve National Cemetery.
I'd like you to go to www.wikipedia.org and type “Four Chaplains” in the wiki search box to read their story of sacrifice.
Former Suffield Trustee Roy Strahler hung a poster in the Townhall basement that tells the Chaplains' story.
The Chaplains are what this Country is all about.
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Experience www.RonMishler.com
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This website is posted to look the World over. For example:
If the Earth is round, why does local government tend to appear flat within its boundaries?
In light of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, could it be said that every asphalt paved road is an oil spill? When an asphalt road is first paved it is BLACK, then after a few years it lightens to a washed out gray. Where did the oils go?
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During Election Seasons many regrettable things are done and many suspect claims are made. If Al Gore invented the Internet and Ohio Gov. Strickland's term is wrongly accused of losing 400,000 Ohio jobs, can it be credited to the Trustee term of Ron Mishler that the improved ketchup bottle was developed? Newp, Mishler will quickly tell you that he had nothing to do with the improved ketchup bottle. But it is the nature of Politics to create false linkages and the necessity to plow them under. Keep your eyes open this Election year and vote for Vicki Kline for Portage County Commissioner. |
Can
anyone identify this location? Ah, the politics of it all.
The Zoning Repeal Petition Drive
Carl
Rufener is shown above at the Board of
Elections discussing the filing deadline for the Suffield Zoning
Repeal Petition that he and I sponsored. The League of Women Voters
initiated a change in Election Law to accommodate the Military and
Overseas Voters (MOVe Act) which moved the filing deadline to Aug. 5
instead of Aug 26. The earlier deadline enables the printing of the
ballots for absentee voting by the MOV population. That is a good
thing, but it shortened the “growing
season” for the petition so we
will work to see it on the May ballot. Carl and I recognize the
unlikelihood of such a ballot issue passing, but we feel the issue is
needed to get people talking about the excesses and the changes that
are needed in Suffield's Zoning.
Extra-fine Point Black Ink Pens
Since my 8th grade days, I've preferred black ink. Black ink with as fine a pointed pen as available. There is a Founding Fathers' legitimacy to black ink. The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights were not written with the many colors of Joseph's coat and today's Rainbow Coalition. They were written with black ink about how the business of Governing should be conducted. Anyway, with that thought, I acquired a preference for black ink.
Excessive taxation was a great concern to our Founding Fathers and that concern makes an extra-fine point black ink pen just the thing for writing the decimal for a property tax .mil. (As to the .mil, I consulted with a Latin Prof and a Math Prof from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina 29733 and they say .mil is the way to spell it, not .mill.)
You just can't beat the historical decimal crispness of an extra-fine point black ink pen.
If the Third World followed the black ink philosophy and decimal budgeting principles of our Founding Fathers and Western Civilization, they would be better off.
Well about a decade ago I had to shift to blue ink. There was an incident where impassioned but not clear thinking individuals took a Zoning Notice prepared by the Zoning Secretary and very precisely inserted their statements into the text of the Zoning Notice and circulated it with the look that the Zoning Secretary had prepared it. Comically, they had left their FAX number at the top of the photocopies and it was an easy matter for the Sheriff to trace.
I asked a Lawyer how I can protect myself from the antics of the sneaky people and one suggestion that he made was to use blue ink in the photocopy era to “mark” the original signature, etc. Now that I am no longer a Trustee, I can return to the black ink of my Founding Fathers.
It is a good feeling.
The Great Martin Road Cuss-out
The Road Department was doing a little berm trimming, just an inch. The purpose was to enable the water run-off to get to the ditch by scraping the road edge ridge off. The road edge ridge is formed by road stones, lawn clippings, etc. that collect at the road's edges.
The next thing the Road Department knew, the residents were out to challenge the necessity of the berm trimming and fabled “F-bombs” began to fill the air. The Clerk's and Trustees' phones began to ring and people attended the Nov. 25, 2003 Trustees meeting to complain. One by one, the Township Officials went out to study the complaints. To a man, the Township Officials shook their heads at the ruckus raised over such a small road maintenance necessity. The furor was attributed to baiting by a group hostile to the Township Officials.
The scene of The Great Martin Road Cuss-out.
It is an interesting time to be a Precinct Committeeperson for any Political Party. There is a swirl of issues and everyone has some party planks they agree with and some that they choke on. It can be described as cafeteria campaigning in that you put one issue a candidate promotes on your plate and ignore those that make you gag and choke like an ecoli salad.
Below is a pic of q-sort of responses to issues from -4 strongly disagree to 0 no opinion to +4 strongly agree that I did on the issue of the County Health Levy.
It is a form of “opinion solitaire” that helps you see how your thoughts are linked, or unlinked.
I've attended 3 Tea Party functions to study their concerns. I don't agree with all they have to say, but I can fully understand where they are coming from and share a great deal of their frustrations. You can q-sort news headlines to figure out where you lean.
I am recalling the elections of 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1992 when there was activism from the extreme wings of both parties that drove the mainstream members to the other side. Personally, I think the extremes of both Democrats & Republicans are out of touch and may be drinking kool-aid or ale.
When I hear the Tea Party Folks and at the same time the ultra Liberal Democrats long for a Constitutional Convention to promote their dreams, I shake my head thinking, “the Constitution works very well – thank you very much.”
