Village Idiot of the Day, August 12, 2009: TMelvill

Yesterday, the Rep published an account of the latest Stark County Commissioners meeting: County Commissioners Place Renewal Levy on November Ballot. Normally, we skip over Commissioner news. We're not sure why they even exist. For some reason, though, during our morning news perusal, we stopped by, and are we glad we did!

Seems that during the weekly meeting of the County Commissioners, Sheriff Tim strip-search-her-for-her-own-good,-boys,hehhehheh Swanson sent a letter to the board complaining about his department's lousy finances. Here is how Kelli Young reported the Sheriff's lament:

Read a letter from Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson about the department’s financial condition and staffing. Swanson said that staffing has dropped from 255 workers in 2007 to 224, including 40 employees who are paid by grants or through contracts and not from the county’s general fund. Due to increased prisoner bookings at the county along with additional obligations, Swanson said the office is researching going to 12-hour shifts to help with staffing shortages, but would need the approval from the unions. “We are stretched to a critical point and will have to address closing portions of the jail as our next challenge,” Swanson wrote.

It's unclear from Young's report what Swanson expects the county to do about it. Probably, the Sheriff's account on his screwed up jail is a test drive to terrorize the public into demanding more money for the county's humble hotel and security service.

It's an old trick.

That said, the idea of closing down jails, laying off deputies, and making Canton and environs even more unsafe from native and illegal thugs that Reppies insist rule our local highways and byways can't make the most unpleasant Reppie do the happy dance. There's a silver lining though, that should lighten their fearful load. Swanson's threat of 12-hour shifts for deputies and staff--IF he can bring the union around. (right!) Why do we think the sheriff will try to turn this into 12 hours work for 8 hours pay? Since Swanson reportedly puts up his Gone Fishin' sign and spends as little time at the jail that he can get away with, he won't have to deal with the problems that such stretched service might create anyway.

Of course, this wet dream isn't gonna happen, except in the jealous mind of TMelvill who can't stand the idea that somebody, somewhere has some job benefit he doesn't.

TMelvill
If the union's do not want to agree to work 12 hour shifts then shut the jail wing/s/ down and lay off those jailers necessary to meet the budget. It is high time we let these 'unions' know that they too work for the taxpayers and that we are not getting pay raises or even coming close to their health care, pensions and benefit packages. At the same time the sheriff has to recognize that double-dipping is unacceptable anytime, but especially when we are confronted with 12.4% unemployment in the non-public sector of Stark County.

But there's more to this than just fiscal jealousy and a dislike for union cops who are probably closet Marxists anyway. In a separate comment, TMelvill reveals he supports jail closures, deputy layoffs, and public unemployment because he's better trained than most cops to handle law enforcement situations. TMelville and Mrs. TMelvill, you see, are "fire arm trained," locked, and loaded. And they have dogs. No doubt cops would just get in the way of TMelvill Justice. And vice versa.

TMelvill
I don't need an officer to respond. My wife and I are firearm trained and certified. I doubt that any officer is better prepared. You can protect yourself to if you decide to take responsibility. The fact is that if and when someone were to attack you there is no chance of an officer being there to take care of you.

My dogs, burglar alarm and cameras protect my acreage and house. I was taught as a child to take responsibility for yourself and your property. So, in a sense I guess I put my life on the line every day for the sake of my community and myself. In fact, I even have a CCW. Perhaps some day I may even come to your rescue.

I Hate Canton feels Melvill's pain. We are all for self-defense. We don't particularly care for police, though Marxist law enforcers serving and protecting Stark Countians pique our interest. Do they discuss What is to be Done with crack dealers? We love guns. Theoretically we support CCW. We just don't like its implementation by whacked Constitutionalists who have little regard for private property rights beyond their their own front door. We find it especially odd that these self-defined anti-government types (depending on the government, of course) have no problem signing up their guns with the police, and are dumb enough not to know they will be the first to lose their police-approved weaponry when the wrong government takes notice.

For being snooty and panting at the thought of union cops being thrown out of work because they are union cops, we once again name TMelvill Village Idiot of the Day, August 12, 2009

Bring it on, TMevill!

Clarence Beeks: Any Doubt Who This Is?

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Clarence Beeks
Phone Numbers, Names Wrong in 2009 AT&T Phone Book
The book also lists the numbers of child molesters in the 3100 block of 13yh street.

We have long doubted Mr. Beeks legitimacy. Our Internet phone book sources turn up no Clarence Beeks in Canton (or anywhere). I Hate Canton undercover agents though, located Mr. Beeks in a phone booth across from Washington, DC's Union Station. We secretly taped his activities

Village Idiot of the Day, August 10, 2009: Sourdough Sal, TMelvill

The Nazi meme refuses to retire.

Apparently, Reppies don't know that once they evoke Nazis (or Hitler) they evoke Godwin's Law and its consequences: their arguments are invalidated and exposed for the crackpottery they are.

In our society of instant gratification, I Hate Canton knows that calling Barack Obama or George W. Bush or even Jamie Healy a Nazi feels good. We've done it ourselves occasionally, but never during a serious conversation, and certainly not in public. That would be taking ourselves and our hyperbole way too seriously, while we insult the intelligence of the other parties to the conversation.

Calling somebody a Nazi trivializes the historic Nazi dictatorship and Hitler and shows an unmitigated lack of historical comprehension. It angers and disgusts people who actually know and sometimes experience what real Nazis are and what they do. I Hate Canton actually knows people who equate embryonic stem cell research to Nazi ovens. When anybody--Jews, for instance, who lost families in the Holocaust or survived death camps themselves--dares to call these nincompoops on their historically and politically challenged extrapolations, they are lectured back (1) you don't understand, or conversely, you of all people, should understand; (2) you should be glad you're alive; (3) you're a crypto Nazi yourself; and (4) what they really mean: shut up.

Evoking Hitler is an intellectually and morally bereft rhetorical device that only makes the writer look thick-as-a-brick to most rational people, even those who otherwise might agree in principle with the writer's dislike for an individual or policy-- except the small band of similar-minded loons who never went beyond the playground bullypen.

This, of course, makes no difference to our Reppies who like to pretend that making a lot of noise means they're actually saying something. Our old VIOD Sourdough Sal, for instance, never tires of flying high over 500 S. Market in her own personal gasbag. Yesterday, she took on Canton's historical working class base by writing that the AFL-CIO = Hitler's Brown Shirts.

Sourdough Sal
Donna Brazile: Rx for Reform Means Dialogue Not Disruption.
First off let's get this Nazi thing straight. Nazi's or national socialist party wanted a national government run health care. Which side is that? Brown shirts were Hitler's minions who roughed up the citizens who tried to speak out against what the government was doing. ACORN, SEIU, AFLCIO anyone? Herr Obama calling out his 'brown shirts' to shut up, rough up, drown out protestors? While we are on the subject of Nazi's - in the past few months, which party threw Israel under the bus and sided with the Palistinians? Anyone?

We as Americans have a fundamental right to speak out. No matter who it is. I remember the shrill cries during the Bush years. So I suggest the democrats zip it and allow us to have our say!

On another note, we have Michelle Obama fashion critic and commie hunting gadfly TMelvill (see IHC August 6 below), attacking the patriotic capitalism of 2nd Ward Councilman Thomas West. West, much to TMelvill's pain, made the reasonable suggestion that owners of vacant lots and buildings give them up so they can be used by others who might actually improve the property and not let it rot and collapse or be cared for by crackheads, amateur arsonists, and thugs with pit bulls as current owners are wont to do.

Here's the scenario. Mr. West wrote in his August 11 letter to the editor: Canton Must Begin Taking Advantage of Its Opportunities:

We need people to stop holding onto their vacant homes and lots. I would like to see individuals who own vacant lots, houses, and buildings give their property to the next generation in an effort to create or develop something new for our city. When a successful business closes, we need individuals who have energy, passion and knowledge to step up and recreate that business, but they need an affordable and supportive space to begin. Canton has plenty of vacant space.

He closed saying:

We need to celebrate the ideas, visions, risk-taking endeavors, and successes of the people in our community, especially the younger generation.We need to stop putting barriers and negativity in the way of people with new ideas and vision. We also need government to get out of the way of community and economic (business) development. We don't need more government hurdles or fees.

How translates as a call for jackboot eminent domain eviction against an innocent population much less illegal property seizure by the state is another mystery we'll leave Reppies to explain. Perhaps West was really calling for the abolition of private property but we are too brainwashed by the current Nazi-Communist Messianic Obama regime to interpret the secret code.

Whatever, here's TMelvil's response. We can't wait for a follow-up explanation, but we bet we'll have to.

Let me also remind you Mr. West that your signing your letter as a government official is nothing more than government intimidation. The Constitution, both federal and state, as well as common law protect property owners' rights. Individuals have the right to acquire, hold, use or not use property. Neither you nor your city council cronies can deny us that right. Start by looking up the 5th Amendment 'nor be deprived of life, liberty, or PROPERTY, without due process of law; nor shall PRIVATE PROPERTY be taken for PUBLIC USE, without just compensation.'

The subject of absentee landlords, abandoned buildings, and irresponsible renters has been a topic at the Rep for as long as we have been reading "Comments." We do not remember TMelvill complaining when residents of receding neighborhoods such as the near-Lehman High School area, the the Newton corridor, and the 12th & Cleveland Avenue area make the same suggestions in much stronger terms that did Mr. West yesterday. In the recent discussions on what to do with Lehman HS, abandoned 25 years ago by the Board of Education and city, TMelvill, at least under that name, didn't make a peep. Maybe it's only when a Democratic politician makes the suggestions that the paranoid TMelvill hits the keyboard.

We are happy then, to name Sourdough Sal and TMelvill co-winners of The Village Idiot of the Day Award, August 10, 2009.

Village Idiot of the Day, August 9, 2009: garylivick

Carrying the Nazi meme into today, we have garylivick, who, btw, as far as we can tell is a real person. Writing under Donna Brazile: Rx for Reform Means Dialogue, Not Disruption Mr. Livick lectures Don Cirelli and tells us all:

garylivick
don.....if you knew history you would know that Nazi's are a branch which were Socialistic in nature which applies to the Democratic/Liberal party of today! If you disagree check history from 1885 - 1946 in Germany.

If any party has progressed to the definition of 'Nazi's', I would suggest you look no further than this current administration. It is NOT about doing what the approximately 70% of Americans want to do.....which is to keep healthcare privatized......it is to gain more CONTROL over Americans. Yes, I keep hearing what this administration, and all it's czars want to do, and how you will be able to keep your insurance private.....BUT everyone seems to ADD that little comment in there that states that YOU MUST convert to the PUBLIC PLAN within 5 years! At least have the GUTS to tell the TRUTH!

We' like to hear garylivick's alternate plan for health care reform.

Until then, we are happy to name garylick Village Idiot of the Day, August 9, 2009. With this award comes a GoogleBooks link to Fritz Stern's Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People, hoping he'll get a clue what real Nazis do, though we doubt it.

REPPIES ARGUE: IS OBAMA A NAZI OR A COMMIE? DO THEY EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?

I Hate Canton apologizes for going AWOL. We didn't plan to. We were a little behind and then we got a lot behind. When we returned we were promptly bulldozed by the pretty little hate machine spitting out malignancies all over the pages of the Rep and got worn out just thinking about it. Sometimes we wish we were not a proponent of free speech. Sometimes we want to stick a sock in it.

It's hard to know where to begin commenting on the latest hatefest. It seems pointless to try to catch up, so we won't try. It will only get worse anyway.

Tomorrow we'll start over, but some things just can't be ignored.

This is old, but here's what we mean.

On July 26, Tom McGlynn of Canton wrote a letter to the editor: Likening Obama to Hitler is Wrong and Irresponsible. Of course it is, especially for the sane and reasonable, of which the writer appears to be.

Mr. McGlynn wrote in part:

Mr. Manley certainly has the right not to like Obama and his policies, but to compare him to a madman who murdered 6 million innocent Jewish people and plunged the world into war is wrong. Liberals and conservatives can agree to disagree without being hateful.

Here's some sample responses to Mr. McGlynn's sane and reasonable letter:

darnlevy
About the letter -- Obama's supporters need to quit making the comparisons easy. ''..Obamas standing above the country, above above the world. Hes sort of god.'' -- Evan Thomas from Newsweek And now the lyrics to a Hitler Youth song:

And now the lyrics to a Hitler Youth song:
We are the happy Hitler Youth;
We have no need for Christian virtue;
For Adolf Hitler is our intercessor
And our redeemer.
No priest, no evil one
Can keep us
From feeling like Hitler's children.
No Christ do we follow, but Horst Wessel!
Away with incense and holy water pots.

And a song for Orphans:
Silent night! Holy night! All is calm, all is bright,
Only the Chancellor steadfast in fight,
Watches o'er Germany by day and night,
Always caring for us.

muffy1451

Go to YouTube and type 'Obama Civilian National Defense Force' - And then listen to the most chilling words ever spoken by an american. He wants a 'Civilian National Defense Force 'as big as the American Military Force and as well funded'. Why does this guy want a Million Men under Arms in the middle of this Country ? What would they be used for ? Who's doors would they knock on ? Comparing this man to Hitler is wrong - Stalin would be more appropriate. Boccieri has voted this guy's stuff without even bothering to read it. Comparing Boccieri to the guy in the Soviet Legislature that votes straight party line is appropriate.

bb4snoopy

I don't believe that Hitler should be compared to Obama. Obama hasn't destroyed our country, yet. Plus a fairer comparison is Hitler's followers to Obama's followers. They both blindly follow their leader and take his side no matter what side that is.

Eljay

Hitler had the masses believing he was their savior.

He played people against people by making the Jews
and Christians look like they were the enemy.
He built his own army and Nazi youth to hold in submission
their own people.
He closed the churches.
He approved horrid medical procedures.
Sound familiar??...Just sayin'.

pt-king
Glad to see you get it Eljay. Obama is very much like Hitler. Just wait until we have 'national health care' and the government will tell women whether or not they can have that baby you are carrying. Mandatory steralization anyone?

rhowell

Likening Obama to Hitler is wrong and irresponsible? Wow, really? The guy calls for a Civilian National Army, funded with taxpayer dollars, and wants it to be larger than the United States Military, and you have the nerve to question whether comparing him to Hitler is WRONG and IRRESPONSIBLE? Hey, Tom McGlynn, how bout you pulling your head out of your keester and wake up! This Obama dude IS the America version of Adolph Hitler. You heard of group called ACORN, or maybe a group called SEIU? I'm waiting for these groups to dawn their Obama approved military fatigues, and start doing the goosestep and saluting this idiot! Wake up you moron!

maxpower

I wouldn't go as far as calling Obama, Hitler... yet. But, He does have a knack for telling everyone that he is in charge, and he is going to do this and he is going to do that. He also likes to tell everyone what kind of car and lightbulb they'll be purchasing by 2012. He has no problem buying 1/6 of our economy with our tax dollars. He has no problem with pushing Obamacare and then telling us when we can and can't use it, again funding it with our own tax dollars... not to mention cap and trade (more taxes), fairness doctrine, and the list goes on. ..So I would say he is at least getting warmer to being called Hitler.

JohnH

Barack Hussein Obama: Enough said.

pt-king

darnlevy...if you don't like back alley abortion, wait til you see back alley heart transplants. There is always a black market for that which you can't get legally. If government controls healthcare, they control who lives and who dies.

TAC; abortion doesn't give a baby a right to choose. The woman is only the 'oven'; the baby's DNA is not identical. However that was not the point; the point was that the government will tell people whether or not they get to go into labor or not. Delivering a baby is a medical procedure. The government may also then tell you if you are allowed to breed or not. (China anyone?)

I have reconsidered my Hitler/Obama comparison though. I think Hitler actually liked his country; I can't same the same for Obama, which makes him worse.

charles burns

HOW COULD IT BE WRONG. When Hitler;s actions proved exactly as Obama is doing? Hitler killed the Jews because they were industrious, working hard instead of those who wanted more without needing to work for it, more for less thats the promise of Socialism.....Wait a while, Socialists claim liberals are stealing their fire, the platforms of Democrats are gradually endorsing Socialism. In a few years the Socialist party wont need to run....the Democrats have changed parties !!! Commenters cant prove me wrong !! Look in the mirror, you are it. When the so called wealthy don't make as much profit, they will stop investing in businesses....NO MORE JOBS FOR THE BLUE COLLAR MAN.

BCheeks

Am I missing something here? I thought the problem was comparing BHO to Hitler was an insult to Hitler, did I misunderstand?

And what would any Obama discussion be without our resident Bilderbergerphobe HeresJohnny.

From Alex Jones' lips to our eyes:

HeresJohnny

Remember the ways things are done today are slicker. Presidents are all puppets since Kennedy. It does not matter if they are any party. The money that puts them in as a spokesman for them is the real Hitler. Also during WW2 Hitler was financed and given oil by Prescott Bush a social climber. Also Hitler killed 1.5 million Jews and also 5 million non Jews. Not ^ million Jews. If you research it you will see I am right.

This Elite today plan on killing us with Swine Flu vaccinations and look at all the plastic coffins they have in Georgia.

HeresJohnny

Hitler modeled his campaign to kill off undesireables through American Eugenics programs of the 20s. Which now is Planned Parenthood financed by Bill Gates Microsoft and his daddy.

Lest you think the Hitler meme is limited to this thread, we have TMelvill on Saturday writing under Jean Nero: People Seem to be Throwing Around Some Big Stones:

TMelvill
This man is the new, improved, super concentrated, energized, six-pack ab, economically packaged, 'lite' version of Adolf Hitler, but Adolf Hitler nonetheless. Make no mistake, there are already rumblings that go beyond the backrooms of the Blue Dawgs. There are many Christian Democrats that recognize the Obama/Pelosi/Emmanuel/Frank radicalism may be causing extreme damage to their cause as they are moving too far left too fast. Look for a new voice and message to emerge. Do not even be surprised if Obama's support among the Gay and Lesbian arm of the Democratic Party begins to rebel against the annointed one. He is threatening all of the Democratic party elite's opulent lifestyles to which they have become so accustomed to."

Unlike letter-writer McGlynn, Reppies are neither sane nor reasonable. Perhaps they attended the dreadful Canton Public School system they constantly complain about, where the only thing that's taught is how to be baby momma and daddies, thugs, drug dealers and to cash welfare checks. (Reppie accusations, not ours). How else to explain the universal arrogance of Reppies ignorant of modern history's two biggest monomanics (Hilter and Stalin) the boys responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people in the mid-20th century through deportation, incarceration, starvation, murder, and war. (Robert Conquest says that Hitler considered Stalin a "beast" for killing his own people.) I bet their Greatest Generation parents could fill their Reppies in, if their parents even speak to them, which is doubtful. Would you if they were the product of your post-war lust?

We doubt our Reppies, already over-victimized by teenagers in baggy pants, athiests, and liberals would be willing to return to the Canton Public Schools for remedial history. The only solution to their problem with history, short or parental intervention, then, is to drop them head-first into a genuine dictatorship--preferably one in the midst of a land war--without their computers to jack off on.

Unfortunately, dictator bewilderment is not not limited to Canton. It's a national mental disorder. Google "Obama and Hitler" or "Obama and Stalin" and see what you get.

For those who can't decide which side to take, I Hate Canton offers the following public service to assist in your decision:

OBAMA: NAZI OR COMMIE
YOU DECIDE

Michelle Obama:Reppies Rampage Just in Time for Football Hall of Fame Weekend

Our xenophobic Reppies apparently don't have enough to complain about this weekend with the HOF bringing in all those thugs and low lifes to terrorize innocent locals and eat over-priced ribs at the dark and ominous Stark County Fairgrounds. To pick, up the slack they've decided to beat up the First Ladies Library for appointing Michelle Obama the Honorary Chair.

We remember no complaints when Laura Bush was appointed or that liberal elitist White House dyke-in-residence Hillary Clinton. Or for that matter any other First Lady since the library's inception. Who should they appoint honorary chair? Glenn Beck?

I Hate Canton loves the First Ladies Museum and Library, but in the interests of full disclosure, we admit that we have problems with the First Ladies hierarchy that runs the place, mainly Mary Regula. We can neither forget nor forgive the jackhammering of 6500 memorial bricks at the Saxton House. How destroying history preserves history is a mystery to us. We were so disturbed by the wanton destruction-without-notice of the beloved downtown park that we even wrote a short conference paper about it. If there is an afterlife, we hope that Scary Mary is required to spend eternity piecing the bricks back together while the memorialized and their families stand over her jackhammers in hand.

We also find the museum hours of operation rather odd, as well as the library's research-by-appointment-only policy.

These, though, are organizational problems. None of this, of course, is what aggravates our Reppies.

What aggravates them is that some ungrateful and uppity black woman who made a substantial salary on her own merits outside of the domestic sphere is the First Lady.

Of course, First Lady hostility isn't partisan. It isn't limited to Democratic, black, educated White House wives who don't bake cookies. Who can forget the great "respect" Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford, and Rosalynn Carter were afforded for not knowing "their place?" And let's not even go to Eleanor Roosevelt (communist), Mary Todd Lincoln (Confederate spy), Rachael Jackson (adulterer) , and Martha Washington (aristocratic snob with pretensions to be the first Queen of America). It's a wonder that the first act of women whose husbands are elected to the presidency isn't to hang themselves in the master bedroom closet. Especially if the think they might end up visiting Canton some day.

Why, in fact, would any woman...well, anyone, for that matter...with an ounce of culture and education want to step foot in Canton, Ohio where local cranks under clever non de plumes, have no compunction to write the following about a small, but nationally respected historical site dedicated to women's achievements, women in general, and presidential wives in particular?

First Lady Michelle Obama Agrees to Chair First Ladies Library
kac
This is a complete waste of taxpayers money. Give the money to feed some poor children. This library is a joke.

justice4none
How is this library funded and what exactly is the purpose?

taxedtoomuch
What a crock of garbage.

Jane Montrose
I think what we are finding frustrating is that Mrs Obama's name will be on the letterhead, etc., but she has no duties or obligation to actually come here. It does seem rather silly and a complete waste.

Prima Italiana
whippty frickin do dah day. Make sure you roll out the red carpet for her majesty.

pt-king
I'm not sure whether to puke now or later.

Clarence Beeks
Another reason for Ms. Obamalicious to be a proud American for the first time in her life.

Eljay
Well, isn't that just special? Gag!

kdn447
'But will Obama visit the First Ladies Library?

While there are currently no plans, Krider said, We are hoping to get her here sometime in the near future.

Let's see. She 'agrees to chair' it . . . but she's never seen it . . . and has no plans to see it??

OMG. They don't even realize when they're being given the finger.

What a waste!
TMelvill
She will be about as welcome as a fox in a hen house. Let her give her sleeveless dresses, designer purses and $500 tennis shoes to Goodwill when she retires from her First Lady business. I for one am sick and tired of her having to 'for once in my life feel proud to be an American' attitude. Then making her husband fulfill a promise to 'fly her to Broadway for the evening' for her birthday. The arrogance and audacity such as this just doesn't happen overnight. Just ask those at the hospital in Chicago where she went from 'rags to riches' in both salary and benefits after her husband became a part of the Chicago political machine. Too bad she never learned charity at home. Oh yeah, her daddy was part of the political spoils system she was born into. Almost forgot.

taxedtoomuch
Being a nonpartisan person, I resent being told that I find this whole thing foolish because I am a disgruntled Republican and I should get over the election loss. No, I find that Michelle Obama's lack of ethics disgusting. Her pay at the Chicago hospital was outrageous. Her attitude about this country is poor and she is only out for herself. Whether you liked the Bush presidents or not, their wives look like saints compared to Michelle Obama.

Clarence Beeks
She'd probably show up if Canton had a store that sells $2,000 and up shoes.

pt-king
Much as I hate Ted Kennedy and the clan he stands for, he would make a more intelligent and better looking first lady than Michelle Obama. I vote we make him honorary chairwoman.

Notice that a number of these people are the same ones who complain incessantly that Canton is full of thugs, deadbeats, lazy blacks, illegal tax-sucking immigrants, and (female) welfare cheats. They are the first to beat the patriot drum, wave their flags, and bemoan the death of the Constitution. Yet, they degrade and insult a first class presidential historical site and collection that houses an important part of American history that they claim to honor. They veil their racism in sexism and veil their sexism in hatred of the president. It's all one big ball of hate for them.

I Hate Canton wonders what HOF visitors this weekend, who stumble across the Michelle Obama/First Ladies Library hatefest, will make of Canton. Not much we guess.

RIP Bo Beep Jackson, March 22, 1945-August 1, 2009

Roy L. "Bo" Jackson - a stand-up guy

Beloved son of the late Marie Brown, was born on March 22, 1945 in Newton, Georgia. His life's journey was completed on August 1, 2009, after a brief illness at Mercy Medical Center. He has resided in Canton, Ohio, since 1950. He retired from Timken Company after 30 years of service. Bo was a barber at River's Barber Shop. His love was basketball, 'Remember When' in the 1960's! He was a Hall of Fame inductee in 1997.

Go to link for more.

Your Comments are Whack!

Yo haters! (Yeah?) Haters! (Yeah?)

You think I should get a life? (Hell Yeah!)
Well, what about you? You're spending your time

Reading my supposedly lame posts and commenting on it and stuff
Yo comments are whack!*

(*I Hate Canton has altered a couple words from Yo Comments are Whack to suit the situation.)

The pretty little hate machine spews along. There is so much to write about the current online lunacy at the Rep and so little time--unless you're Octopuppet or a little bully in need of a lithium fix. In that case, there's way too much time. For somebody.

We feel an I Hate Canton marathon coming on, but in the meantime here's I Hate Canton's cover reply to all the haters, crackpots, nutters and narcissistic whack jobs who visit the Rep from dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn in search of companionship and dysfunction.

You know who you are!

Village Idiot of the Day, July 23, 2009: ProChoiceLiberal

Yesterday, was pretty quiet. Either, our locals are resting up for their big annual Hall of Fame whine and cheese party or the usual suspects are starting to look normal. There were a few maybes in the running, but nothing struck us as so obvious as ProChoice Liberal.

We believe ProChoiceLiberal means well. We avidly followed her back in the the days of the old Rep regime when she posted under her real name. Then, as now, we are fascinated by her vapid enthusiasm for liberal causes, especially abortion rights and gun control. Never has so little been said with so much so often.

ProChoiceLiberal made our winner's circle earlier this year for her May 14 comment that gun ownership is a privilege, not a right. We assume she is not a Constitutional scholar by training or trade. Although unable to make an in-person diagnosis, after a thorough reading of her numerous posts, we believe Ms PCL suffers from Compulsive Liberal Kneejerk Reaction Disorder, a disorder that afflicts many liberals. (NOTE: equally devastating is Compulsive Conservative Kneejerk Reaction Disorder of which a good number of Reppies suffer.)

Here's our winning entry:

ProChoiceLiberal:
Local Couple Shares Tender Transition Story on TV Tonight
How sad to see such narrow-minded views. Being a transsexual is no big deal, like being gay or straight is no big deal, get over it. The courage they had to share their story is wonderful to try to educate people as to why this change came about. Go Transgender, you rock!

While we agree that being straight is "no big deal" for those who are straight since they're in charge, being gay or transsexual or intersexed IS indeed a big deal to those who are, since they aren't.

If it were no big deal, there would be no Stonewall riots, Act-Up, Queer Nation, Bisexual and Radical Feminist Resistance Front, Radical Fairies, (and going back farther, Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis), Queer Studies, gay bars, gay bowling leagues, Pride, gay newspapers, Gay-Straight Alliance, and same sex marriage campaigns--to name a few.

It it were no big deal, thousands of gays and lesbians and trannies wouldn't be harassed, beaten, and killed by individual strangers, roving bands of neighborhood thugs, and cops.

If it were no big deal, cops would not still be raiding gay bars all over the county and assaulting and arresting patrons.

If it were no big deal, everybody from Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, and Operation Save America on a national level (among hundreds) to Minutemen United, Citizens for Community Values, and Mission America in Ohio (among dozens) wouldn't be obsessed with controlling by law, culture, and bullying what consensual adults do in their own bedrooms.

If it were no big deal, Chloe Prince wouldn't have been on Primetime.

If it were no big deal, the current article and thread in the Rep wouldn't be there.

For claiming being gay or transsexual is "no big deal" we award ProChoiceLiberal the Village Idiot of the Day award, July 23, 2009.

Postscript: it's a shame Ms. PLC didn't post her you-go-girl reaction earlier. She could have shared yesterday's award with her separated-at-birth twin, HeresJohnny. I Hate Canton would be happy to facilitate a reunion so they could tagteam each other and make award-giving easier.

Village Idiot of the Day, July 22, 2009: HeresJohnny

I Hate Canton has been watching "HeresJohnny" the last few days. We suspect "Johnny" stands for John Birch (or should). We also suspect he/she may be "Anti-Bilderberger" under a less idenifying name. After all, you never know when Henry Kissinger or Nat Rothchild is reading the Rep, and it's best to protect yourself from their One World agents. We realize there are more deserving Reppies, but Johnny brings a unique perspective to the news without assassinating the character of his readers.

Here's two HeresJohnny observations from yesterday:

HeresJohnny
Help Clean Up Canton Before Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival
Maybe the buses that they are not using now we can be taken to the Fema camps for extermination.I hope all the poor win the lotto so we can leave the city and get our pride back thats lost because of greed.

HeresJohnny
Local Couple Shares Gender Transition Story on TV Tonight
Thank Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics movement and also the feminization of men through the Womens movement and the Sodium flouride and drugs in our water supplies.They want the breakup of families and make people have no more children. The only reason dude looks like a lady is because sex is distorted through mind altering. And most people do they really know what is in vaccines and pills and shots they have taken. I doubt it.

Until recently I Hate Canton enjoyed conspiracy theory. We all know who really killed Kennedy. But between the Birthers and the Truthers and a sort of forced but temporary in-house relationship with a visiting conspiracy nut (did you know the Federal Reserve invented the Hells Angels, LaRaza, eugenics, "womens liberation" AND, patriarchy --and probably the Canton Repository?), we've had it.

So today we are proud to present HeresJohnny with the coveted Village Idiot of the Day award, July 22, 2009. Now would you like to discuss the 9/11 partnership of the "Italian Mafia," Osama bin Laden, and the Fed? We got the lowdown from our visitor and it's still fresh in our mind.