Today this blog reached a milestone of 20,000 page views, an average of 200-250 per day. Not too shabby! Thanks to everyone who stops by and/or contributes.
I wish there were more reasoned, fact-based comments from the "other side" other than the predominant "you're a bunch of sour grapes whiny bloghead losers, nothing will ever satisfy you, we're the real leaders in this town and you're sitting around doing nothing other than being a bunch of sour grapes whiny bloghead losers...........", but hey, if that's all you've got, then that's all you've got.
Thanks again!
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Walk down the corridor)
M: (Knock)
A: Come in.
M: Ah, Is this the right room for an argument?
A: I told you once.
M: No you haven't.
A: Yes I have.
M: When?
A: Just now.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: You didn't
A: I did!
M: You didn't!
A: I'm telling you I did!
M: You did not!!
A: Oh, I'm sorry, just one moment. Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
M: Oh, just the five minutes.
A: Ah, thank you. Anyway, I did.
M: You most certainly did not.
A: Look, let's get this thing clear; I quite definitely told you.
M: No you did not.
A: Yes I did.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: You didn't.
A: Did.
M: Oh look, this isn't an argument.
A: Yes it is.
M: No it isn't. It's just contradiction.
A: No it isn't.
M: It is!
A: It is not.
M: Look, you just contradicted me.
A: I did not.
M: Oh you did!!
A: No, no, no.
M: You did just then.
A: Nonsense!
M: Oh, this is futile!
A: No it isn't.
M: I came here for a good argument.
A: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.
M: An argument isn't just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn't.
M: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
A: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
(short pause)
A: No it isn't.
M: It is.
A: Not at all.
M: Now look.
A: (Rings bell) Good Morning.
M: What?
A: That's it. Good morning.
M: I was just getting interested.
A: Sorry, the five minutes is up.
M: That was never five minutes!
A: I'm afraid it was.
M: It wasn't.
Pause
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue anymore.
M: What?!
A: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.
M: Yes, but that was never five minutes, just now. Oh come on!
A: (Hums)
M: Look, this is ridiculous.
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid!
M: Oh, all right.
(pays money)
A: Thank you.
short pause
M: Well?
A: Well what?
M: That wasn't really five minutes, just now.
A: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.
M: I just paid!
A: No you didn't.
M: I DID!
A: No you didn't.
M: Look, I don't want to argue about that.
A: Well, you didn't pay.
M: Aha. If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? I Got you!
A: No you haven't.
M: Yes I have. If you're arguing, I must have paid.
A: Not necessarily. I could be arguing in my spare time.
M: Oh I've had enough of this.
A: No you haven't.
M: Oh Shut up.
How did you get a transcript of every school school board meeting since December 2007?
Public comments and dissemination of information rebutting the lies and B.S., plus it being an election year has prevented the school board from doing worse.
That's about it.
King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
So true. Now just cooperate!
YOU PEOPLE
"you're a bunch of sour grapes whiny bloghead losers, nothing will ever satisfy you, we're the real leaders in this town and you're sitting around doing nothing other than being a bunch of sour grapes whiny bloghead losers...........",
Just look at the massive successes the town has experienced for the past 30-40 years. They are the real leaders. They've lead us to where we are today. Take that as you may..
graduations are at the same rate even though necesssary and painful cuts were made . the childrens test scores are up and taxes are lower. morrisville seniors get to keep their houses. beat that blogheads. four more years.
Cuts? What cuts?
even we tell marlys theyre cuts. she doesnt even listen to us.
4 more years of that s**t. Sign me up!
20,000 huh? I guess I am going to have to return my t-shirt. http://despair.com/yourblog.html
Too funny not to share...
National Funk Congress Deadlocked On Get Up/Get Down Issue
OCTOBER 27, 1999 | ISSUE 35•39
CHOCOLATE CITY—After months of ceaseless debate, including last week's record 76-hour filibuster slap-bass solo from Senate Rubber Band Minority Leader Bootsy Collins (D-OH), the National Funk Congress is no closer to resolving its deadlock over the controversial "get up/get down" issue, insiders reported Monday.
"Get up-uh, get on up! Get up-uh, get on up!" shouted Getuplican Party supporters on the steps of the Capitol as the debate, as well as a massive 14-piece instrumental jam, raged within. The pro-up-getting demonstrators' chants were nearly drowned out by those of a nearby group of jungle-boogie Downocrats, who called upon all citizens to "Get down, get down!"
The bitter "get up/get down" battle, which has polarized the nation's funk community, is part of a long-running battle between the two factions, rooted in more than 35 years of conflict over the direction in which the American people should shake it.
"The time has come to face facts: To move forward, we've got to get on up, and stay on the scene, like a sex machine," said Brick House Majority Leader James Brown (G-GA), one of getting on up's most vocal supporters. "Say it loud: Only when we have gotten up offa that thing will we, as a nation, finally get back on the good foot."
Upon learning of Brown's remarks, Downocratic leaders openly questioned his commitment to getting up. Said Robert "Kool" Bell, a top-ranking Brick House Downocrat: "It is a well-known fact that Brown has, on many past occasions, urged his supporters to get down with they bad selves. In response to his inconsistent voting record and history of waffling on this crucial issue, we will not rest until every American, as is their birthright, has gotten down."
"You got to get down," Bell added. "Hyuh!"
The disagreement, which has paralyzed all efforts of the National Funk Congress to get it together and get funky for one and all, has reached crisis proportions, experts say.
"Until our country's funky leaders can resolve this deadlock, U.S. funk leadership, and the booties of all Americans, will remain immobilized," said Gregory Tate, domestic motorbooty-affairs reporter for The Washington Funkenquarterly. "Unless a compromise can be reached soon, the entire nation's thang could be in serious jeopardy."
"Our leaders' refusal to budge, let alone move it from front to back, has crippled the move-your-body politic," said current U.S. Mothership Ambassador George Clinton, one of the most outspoken critics of the deadlock. "These legislators must keep it real and understand that no matter what party policy may dictate, they cannot fake the funk. What the partisan people in the House need to realize is this: If they ain't gon' get along, the time has come for them to take they dead ass home."
Part 2.
But despite such pleas for bipartisan compromise, the two parties remain at odds. This week, a Getuplican high-treble scratch-guitar initiative called for all Downocrats to "give it up and turn it loose," sparking an angry war of words on the Senate dance floor. In response, the Downocratic members of the Grooves & Booties Subcommittee drafted a bass-heavy resolution demanding that the initiative be voted "down, down, all the way down."
Downocratic supporters march through the streets of Chocolate City.
The Getuplican-Downocratic rift has been further complicated by confusing rhetoric from both sides. A call from Parliamentary leaders to "get up for the down stroke" was interpreted by members of both parties as a statement of support. Equally unclear was a statement made earlier this week by Funky Chinatown Big Boss-Elect Carl Douglas, who baffled observers with the assertion that Funky Chinamen were "chopping men up and chopping men down."
For all the confusion and divisiveness, there are signs of hope. A bipartisan coalition of funky drummers is gaining strength, urging Downocrats and Getuplicans to find common ground by "getting together, on the one." Also on the rise is a small grass-roots campaign calling upon party people not to get up or down, but simply to get it on.
Whether any of these fledgling reform movements will have a genuine impact on the entrenched groove machine is uncertain. One thing, however, is not: A growing number of citizens are fed up with the nation's current leadership for putting party politics before the need of the people to turn this mother out.
"Big government has lost sight of the fact that we should not be divided along Getuplican and Downocratic lines, but should be one nation under a groove, getting down—or up—just for the funk of it," said Clinton at a recent Mothership rally calling for an end to the deadlock. "The point is not that we must get up or down, but rather that, working together, we've got to get over."
People it's bad.
I looked it up, and sure enough, Bootsy Collins is from Ohio.
Did anyone else see this article? It highlights the Morrisville School District and how being thrifty is paying off. Someone must have friends in interesting places.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq_ed_board/Thomas_Hylton_Pa_can_save_on_schools.html
I've read that 6 month old article and many others by Thomas Hylton via the following website:
http://savepottstown.com/
Hylton writes and publishes a lot (he apparently has an in with a local paper in Pottstown). One of Hylton's other articles in November 2010 mentioned Morrisville School District. If the morrisvillesfuture blogmeister(s) hadn’t deleted all the comments (nice work, thanks!), I’d post what I said about it at the time.
Hylton strikes me as being cut from the same cloth as Hellmann, but perhaps a bit more educated and articulate. My way or the highway, with a loyal couple of cronies. He probably has some good ideas and some bad ideas, but to me the self-serving tone deaf egotism gets in the way and turns people off. It seems like many people in Pottstown feel the same way. Hylton’s on the School Board there.
As they say in the NFL, "upon further review", the January 30, 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer article anonymous mentioned above, and the November 21, 2010 article I mentioned above (in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) are PRACTICALLY THE SAME ARTICLE. A few wordsmithing changes here and there aside, they’re almost 100% identical. I guess the author shopped it around various newspapers throughout the state.
Check out http://savepottstown.com/
... you'll feel a distubing sense of comfort that the kind of things going down in Morrisville are going down everywhere ... or at least in Pottstown.
All sounds good but Do you have all the details ? wait until you see the craziness going on . just wait morrisville, just wait.for a slap in your face. Angry yet? www.angryyet.net
Angryyet? I'm still waiting for anger to turn into action.
The home page music on angryyet.net is better!
Who says positive change isn't possible?
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