News from around the Buckeye State Ohio

Let’s start up north in Cleveland.
Mayor Frank Jackson who was nowhere to be seen during the riots only to come out of hiding to say Cleveland is sometimes perceived to be ‘butthole of the world’.

Sorry Mayor Frank Jackson you are perceived to be that.

And in Cleveland sports QB Mayfield said he will be taking the knee for the anthem. Nothing new to the city as all their QBs take a knee, this one will just happen sooner.

Moving east to the Geranium City that’s if you can find any Wickliffe, residents want to impeach, recall and like to stone the mayor but he already is. They have a list of 19 reasons why he should be impeached far more than any David Letterman list. While the city goes to pot he is smoking pot. He cancelled leaf collection but lit up city hall green on 4-20. Most mayors encourage you to pull weeds in your yard but Wickliffe’s current mayor wants you to grow weed in your yard. Gee and I thought he was always smiling because he is a friendly guy.

Next up is Willoughby Hills. Fireworks may be cancelled on the 4^th but they are always present at the Willoughby Hills council meetings. Councilwoman Nancy Fellows has been hit with a lawsuit. Among the charges are union busting. Earlier Council member John Plecnik resigned as did Councilwoman Majka who was critical of "a dark side for those who speak up and challenge the status quo in Willoughby Hills City Hall. The only thing missing from these meetings is cattle rustling and I am sure it will be discussed next time.

Let’s drop down to the capital of Ohio, Columbus, who will be taking down the statue of whom the city is named after, Christopher Columbus. If they do take it down the question then becomes should they rename the city? Names already off the list for possible replacement are Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben. Columbus’s hockey team the Bluejackets who fire off a cannon when they score may also be under attack. Thinking ahead a suitable replacement may be a paper bag inflated and popped.
Lastly little Michael DeWine our Governor has made a list to reform the police into friendlier more educated servants. Keeping with this cops bad - criminals good theme instead of arresting law breakers the city will erect little time out zones and have police read them stories. 

Now let’s drop down further south in Ohio to the Apple City Jackson though they no longer have apple farms. Landlords want to storm council for passing a bill making them liable for utility bills when tenants skip out. I think one way to ease this is to pass an ordinance where you can only rent to Amish. If that’s not bad enough Councilwoman Carisa Edwards spouted off concerning the Christmas decorations and wrote this it’s because of all the people bitching about that their dead relatives hang from a light pole during Christmas time. Then she went on to say I don’t give two &*^%$* about a virus that occurs naturally. Mother Earth was designed to protect herself and I feel that is what’s happening. We have over populated her. We throw trash into the oceans. We cut down precious habitat. So she is putting up a big middle finger and taking back herself.

I know someone who may not be getting any Christmas presents and I never knew how much Jackson has played a role in damaging the ecosystem of the globe. 

Bring back the Apple farms because an apple a day may keep the council at bay.

Let me know what’s up in your city?

Carey On…

Careys election review - Gambling

It seems the gambling initiative has passed and Ohio will amend its constitution. How sad to amend any constitution for something like gambling. I have been adamantly opposed to it.

Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct.....The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths. Joseph Goebbels Hitlers propaganda minister.

The above statement was very evident while listening to the election returns on 1100 am. I believe the host was Andre Knott, forgive me if I am wrong. He was talking with a guest about issue 3, casino's in Ohio. Andre voted for it and his guest mentioned some of the benefits like the 35,000 jobs it would create. Both chuckled, well we will see if that happens, they will say anything to get it passed. Then they aired the speech from Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cavs, a member of his staff and Mayor Frank Jackson. Mayor Frank Jackson said its not a panacea. So now the truth comes out, 35,000 jobs, maybe, panacea, nope!
The statement that really caught my attention was made by one of Gilbert's staff when he irreverently said And the best thing with it passing, thank God no more Truth Pack ads.
I hope Gilbert's casino goes bankrupt like the one in Detroit.

Maybe some of you don't know this but Dan Gilbert owner of the Cavs was arrested in 1981 for bookmaking. How he was allowed to buy a sports franchise is beyond me. And now he will own a casino. Still think sports aren't fixed?

Now getting back to the propaganda. Its amazing how parrot like people are. Some of the reasons I heard from those who were against gambling in the past but voted for it now were, people are spending their money in other states lets keep it here and it will create jobs, exactly what the ads said. I was always told two wrongs don't make a right and how many more barely above minimum wage jobs do we need and you also have to figure in the jobs that would be lost. How much will the actual gain be?
Another reason I heard, there is already gambling and corruption so whats the big deal? Because there is corruption you want more instead fixing the problems we have? And ask the people who live by casinos if crime went up or down, that's the big deal.

This was the fifth time they tried to get casinos in Ohio. There should be a limit how many times an issue can be placed on the ballot. I feel the same thing will happen with same sex marriage. People get so tired of keeping up the fight, others start buying the lies that eventually an issue gets passed no matter how bad.
The corrupt get richer and your vote helped them do it.
PEOPLE WAKE UP!

CKM