We've been so busy reading comments that we forgot to post Monday's VIOD.
Actually, we took the bait and wasted an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out elnstench's real identity after he/she putatively outed him/herself (we suspect himself) as the "Chaplain for the Stark County TEA PARTY." (His/her caps, not ours). So far, we've been unable to locate such a creature. We did find these interesting Canton Tea party sources, though:
Reality Talk (Ohio Objectivist Society* blog) with this report on the Canton tea party movement.
*(NOTE: We'd love to see the reaction of the imperious Ms. Rand to Tea Baggers. We can guess, though, based on Murray Rothbard's short one-act morality play, Mozart was a Red (intro by Justin Raimondo), based on an evening with Ayn Rand. Read it and you can, too.
What ARE your premises?
But, back to business. elnstench has so enchanted us with his hatred of firefighters, that we're picking him/her/it out for another round of recognition this week. Who else but someone weaned on a fire hose would call firefighters communists?
Canton firefighters to picket over layoffs elnstench As Chaplain for the Stark County TEA PARTY, I would like to thank Mayor Healy for confronting our local Communists Organizations and protecting the rights of our tax payers. Hopefully, WHBC and the Rep. also see the corruption the Unions have sown in our midst! Contract out as needed. Thank you!
Village Idiot of the Day, December 21, 2008: elnstench!
elnstech I am tired of paying these guys to lift weights, cook ,sleep, and occassionly work. Contract it out . We can't afford the costs anymore
Not satisfied with making one ignorant remark, Mr. or Ms Stench came back with reinforcements:
The solution is simple. Work 12 hour shifts, pack your lunch, lift weights on your own time, and perform maintainence work on nearby facilities during your spare time
We'd hoped that the gouging the Stench family will get courtesy of the Home Owners Insurance Industry when their next bill comes due would be reward enough, but alas...
We therefore name elnstench Village Idiot of the day, December 19, 2009.
Unfortunately, we failed to archive the remark by "sumo3" in the same thread, in which the writer threatened to bloody up "miraclemax." If we hadn't been so derelict in our duty, sumo3 would be sharing this award.
I Hate Canton can't help asking: where do these people come from? We took an unplanned leave of absence from daily writing for a few weeks, and when we returned, we found a whole slew of new crackpots to deal with. Or maybe they are the same batshits using new nom de plumes.
BTW, as we were finishing this entry, we got curious about sumo3 and looked up the meaning of the word, name. or whatever it is. We assumed it would be something like this:
We found something much more profound, though, in Wiki:
Small ubiquitin-related modifier 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SUMO3 gene.[1][2]
SUMO proteins, such as SUMO3, and ubiquitin (see MIM 191339) posttranslationally modify numerous cellular proteins and affect their metabolism and function. However, unlike ubiquitination, which targets proteins for degradation, sumoylation participates in a number of cellular processes, such as nuclear transport, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis, and protein stability (Su and Li, 2002).[supplied by OMIM]
Sir William's latest blunder is to lay the city's $4.5 million shortfall (which in great part he created) on the backs of city firefighters, by laying off 28 union members to save $1.8 million--and rejecting all union alternatives to save jobs. These offers included an across-the-board pay cut to spread the loss over the entire department while keeping all firefighters working fulltime.
According to Rosario Carcione, president of the Canton Professional Firefighters Association, the city even rejected a buy-out offer for eight firefighters.
Friday, the inevitable happened. Members of the Canton Professional Firefighters Association voted 130-16 against Healy's union-busting proposal to stop the layoffs. You know it's pretty bad when firefighters vote against "keeping" their own jobs. Maybe it had something to do with Healy's demand that they waive their right to file grievances and protections under SERB. Ya think?
Rosario Carcione, president of the Canton Professional Firefighters Association, said firefighters rejected the proposal because they had no guarantee that the mayor’s office wouldn’t lay off firefighters in the future. Firefighters also didn’t think that the city administration should have placed the city’s financial burden on the 28 firefighters.
Under the proposal, the work hours for the 28 least-senior firefighters would have been reduced by 44 percent.
Union members also would have forgone their uniform allowance and would have agreed to dismiss a pending arbitration regarding minimum staffing.
Safety Director Thomas yes-man Ream responded:
We won’t be able to man as many apparatuses...We will provide the best service that we can with the reduced manpower.
Martin Olson has been covering this mess extensively, and we recommend you spend some time over at his Stark County Political Blog. His latest on the situation is Confront & conquer: "Sir William J. Healy" on the hunt again? We agree with Olson. While economics drive cut-backs, we believe that megalomaniac Healy is clearly out to avenge the uppity CPFA for refusing to play his game. Remember what happened Healy's brains Tom Bernabei and Tom Nesbitt when they exhibited autonomy from his body politic?
And in case you missed it, Sir William has saved the city a whopping $19,000 ($5,000 in his office alone) by forcing furloughs on city workers, though he claims he's not allowed to furlough himself (and shouldn't even have to pay $10 parking ticket).
We're all for share and share alike, but a loss of $250 to a staff assistant like Kathryn Wise who makes (excluding benefits) $26,000/yr is quite different than a loss of $487 for somebody like Development Director Robert Torres who makes (excluding benefits) $72,329/yr.
Let's hear it for saving the city on the backs of its working class workers! And safety forces, of course. For a listing of "savings" go to the Rep's Are furloughs paying off in Canton?
Though Sir William Jamie is our Village of the Day, we really need to mention this comment:
elnstench I am tired of paying these guys to lift weights, cook ,sleep, and occasionally work. Contract it out . We can't afford the costs anymore!
We'd give him an award today, too, but his next house insurance payment should suffice.
We dedicate this video bonus to the long-suffering people of Canton:
Hold tight wait 'til the party's over Hold tight we're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the house
We've been so busy reading comments that we forgot to post Monday's VIOD.
*(NOTE: We'd love to see the reaction of the imperious Ms. Rand to Tea Baggers. We can guess, though, based on Murray Rothbard's short one-act morality play, Mozart was a Red (intro by Justin Raimondo), based on an evening with Ayn Rand. Read it and you can, too.
Canton firefighters to picket over layoffs
