Monday, February 14, 2011

THIS ARTICLE IS DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY.  WE WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE GIST OF WHAT OUR LOCAL COMMUNIST, ROGER BAYLOR, IS SAYING ABOUT ALL OF US WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH HIM AND DON'T RISE TO THE HEIGHTS OF GRANDEUR WHERE HE PLACES HIMSELF.


FIRST OFF, WHAT IS AN OPEN AIR MUSEUM:  ACCORDING TO THE DICTIONARY AN OPEN AIR MUSEUM IS A DISTINCT TYPE OF MUSEUM EXHIBITING ITS COLLECTION OUT OF DOORS.  WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THESE WORDS GRAVITATE TO HIS BRAIN WHEN HE IS ABLE TO BICYCLE AND CRUISE PAST LARRY KOCHERT'S HOUSE, STEVE PRICE'S HOUSE AND VICKI DENHART'S HOUSE.  I'M NOT SURE WHY YOU WOULD BICYCLE THESE AREAS EXCEPT TO TRY AND GET ON THEIR NERVES OR AS AN INTIMIDATION FACTOR.  (These are his words:   Let’s begin the year with another revolving and evolving list of words, terms and concepts that provide a specialized vocabulary of life in the Open Air Museum. The first collection appeared Oct. 15, 2009.)


WHILE WE DO NOT BELIEVE MR. BAYLOR'S INTENTIONS ARE MEANT TO HONESTLY EDUCATE THE PEOPLE OF NEW ALBANY BUT RATHER TO CRITICIZE, MAKE FUN OF (AND I DO THINK HE THINKS HE IS HYSTERICALLY FUNNY), THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT  HELPS DEFINE THE STUNNING DEPTHS OF THE NEW ALBANIAN ZEITGEIST (ZEIGEIST SIMPLY MEANS THE GENERAL INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND CULTURAL CLIMATE OF A GENERATION).  I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT HE IN NO WAY DEFINES MY INTELLECTUAL CAPACITIES, NOR MY MORALS, NOR DOES HE HAVE RIGHT TO PASS JUDGEMENT ON ANY ONE'S CULTURAL APTITUDES.  THE BAD THING IS HE THINKS HE HAS EVERY RIGHT.  (These are Baylor's words:  It is my earnest goal to periodically refresh and expand this list, and your assistance is requested in doing so. Please send corrections, additions and comments to istanbul85@yahoo.com, and help define the forever stunning depths of the New Albanian zeitgeist.)


A MAJORITY OF CITIZENS TRULY FEEL NEW ALBANY DOES NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER OUR BUDGET MONIES AND THE ENGLAND ADMINISTRATION IS CONSTANTLY THREATENING THE CITIZENS BY THE FOLLOWING SOUND BITES:  "Turn your cable off so you can pay your new increased sewer bills."  "I'm going to cut back on cleaning snow and ice from the street rather than renegotiate the police and fire contracts who are taking 83% of our budget."  IF WE CAN NOT TAKE CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE NOW WHY IN THE HEY WOULD WE WANT TO ANNEX ANYMORE PROPERTIES OR LAND UNLESS THE PLAN IS TO TRY AND RAISE OUR TAX LEVY AS JEFFERSONVILLE TRIED.  UNFORTUNATELY, ANNEXATION DID PASS BUT NO ONE CRIED.  (Here are Baylor's words:   Annexation  A wonderful thing to do, so long as you neither complete nor use it until long after the current council’s sell-by date.)  ARE WE USING IT YET MR. BAYLOR?


THE NEXT WORD BAYLOR USES IS THE AXIS OF BANAL.  ANY DEFINITION I FOUND REFERS TO THE AXIS OF BANAL BEING THE SAME AS THE AXIS OF EVIL.  REGULARLY HE TORE THE FORMER COUNCIL MEMBERS UP, I.E., KOCHERT, SCHMIDT ETC., (EVEN BURNING EFFIGIES OF THEM BEFORE A MEETING ONE NIGHT), BUT THESE ARE HIS WORDS (THOUGH I CAN'T DECIDE IF HE MEANS CAESAR, ZURSCHMEIDE, MCGLAUGHLIN, MESSER, OR BENEDETTI, OR JUST WHO CONJOINS WITH PRICE AND COFFEE).  (Here are Baylor's words:  Axis of Banal  The Steve Price/Dan Coffey conjoined city council obstruction club, usually with anywhere from one to seven other members quite eager to make it into a threesome.)


OF COURSE, BAYLOR'S LIST WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A PAT ON HIS BACK ABOUT HE BEING ABLE TO BICYCLE AND I GUESS HE FEELS THIS MAY BE THE NAME ATTRIBUTED BY US NEW ALBANIANS BECAUSE OF HIS EXERCISE.  THE TROGLODYTES HE LABELS  ALL NEW ALBANIANS BY DEFINITION MEANS CAVEMAN, MEMBERS OF A PRIMITIVE RACE OR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN CAVES.  I MOST CERTAINLY AM NOT ONE OF THOSE AND EVERYONE IN NEW ALBANY WOULD AGREE WITH ME ON THIS ISSUE, BUT...  (Here are Baylor's words:  Bike boy  Term of affection used by anonymous troglodytes to describe anyone who rides more miles on a bicycle in a given day than they’re capable of doing in a year). HE DOTH THINK SO HIGHLY OF HIMSELF AND SO LITTLE OF THE REST OF THE CITIZENS IN OUR FAIR TOWN.


BLUE LAWS WERE PUT INTO LEGISLATION BY THE STATE OF INDIANA.  I, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, CAN NOT FIGURE OUT (WHETHER I LIKE COFFEY OR NOT, HOW HE CAN LAY HIS WANTING TO SELL CARRY OUT BEER ON SUNDAY AT COFFEY'S FEET), BUT HERE ARE HIS WORDS:  (Here are Baylor's words:  Blue Laws  Sunday retail sales restrictions lovingly fetishized (no such word) by Councilman Cappuccino, implying the restoration of rotary dial telephones, one-piece bathing suits, asbestos insulation and mail delivered by Pony Express.)  I WOULD GUESS HE REALLY HATES BOSTON WHERE BLUE LAWS ARE STILL IN EFFECT AND YOU CAN NOT EVEN SHOP ON SUNDAY.  BUT THEN AGAIN, HE DOES HAVE A HANGUP WITH RELIGION.


RATHER THAN USING HIS WIDE BRUSH STROKE TO PAINT ALL CITIZENS NOT DOING RIGHT BY NOT BUYING LOCAL (WHICH A LOT OF US DO) HE HAS TO TAKE A SWIPE EVEN WHERE PEOPLE GAS UP THEIR CARS.  WHAT HE FAILS TO DO IN HIS ARTICLE IS TO  LIST THE GAS STATIONS WHO ARE LOCAL.  TO ME, THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED TOO MUCH WORK ON HIS PART.  (Here are Baylor's words:  Buy Local  Saving gas by shopping at the mega-chain retailer nearest one’s house.)  CAN WE GET SOME ONE TO TELL US WHERE HE GASES UP?


THE DEFINITION OF A CAUCUS MEANS A GROUP OF POLITICIANS WHO GET TOGETHER AND SELECT THEIR CANDIDATES.  THERE WAS ONE ILLEGAL MEETING WHERE A MAJORITY OF COUNCIL GOT TOGETHER IN A BAR BUT NOTHING EVER CAME FROM IT.  WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THIS SITUATION IS WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY WERE ALL HIS BUDDIES:  (Here are Baylor's words:  Caucus  A city council meeting that isn’t, as attended only by those council members who won’t admit aloud to being Republican, as opposed to the single one who will. Quorum due to expire in November, 2011.)  DO YOU KNOW, AS I DO, WHO IS A DEMOCRAT ON THE CURRENT COUNCIL, WHO IS A REPUBLICAN AND WHO WAFFLES BETWEEN?  I DO BUT I GUESS HE DOES NOT.


THERE HAS BEEN A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FORMED IN NEW ALBANY, JOINED BY HUNDREDS, BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN.  LEGAL PAPERS AND MONIES AND REPORTING RECORDS ARE FILED IN THE FLOYD COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.  THE PAC IS CALLED CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.  A VOTE WAS HELD BY MEMBERS (I WAS THERE) AND MS. VICKI DENHART WAS ELECTED THE PRESIDENT.  IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH SETS MR. BAYLOR'S BLOOD BOILING BECAUSE HE CANNOT FIND OUT WHO BELONGS TO THIS PAC, JUST MENTION CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.  I HAVE A FEELING; NO, I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE; WHEN HE DOES FIND OUT IT WILL BE TOO LATE FOR HIM AND HE AND THE POWERS TO BE WHO DON'T WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND THEY WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT HIT THEM COME ELECTION TIME!  (Here are Baylor's words:  Citizens Faux Accountability  Hillary Clinton fan club, run by a chain smoker from a post office box near a Gucci outlet somewhere in Italy.)  I BET HE WISHES THAT WAS/IS THE CASE.


THEN, HE TAKES A SWIPE AT TEACHERS TRYING TO BRING STUDENTS IN TO COUNCIL MEETINGS FOR A LESSON IN CIVICS.  AS A TEACHER WHO HAVE BROUGHT MY OWN STUDENTS IN FOR COUNCIL MEETINGS I NEVER EXPECTED THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECTS AT HAND, SIMPLY TO GRASP A FEELING OF HOW, IN GENERAL, PEOPLE GATHER AND VOTE.  (Here are Baylor's words:  City Council  Place where the high school civics class kids are obliged to go ... for detention. (DS))  HE LEFT OUT THE BOY SCOUTS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WHO ATTEND.  MUST HAVE BEEN SHORT ON COLUMN SPACE THAT DAY.


AND, A LIFE IN THE DAY OF BAYLOR WOULD NO BE COMPLETE WITHOUT WHAT I CONSIDER HIS ASININE RAVINGS ABOUT ED CLERE.  BAYLOR DOES NOT HAVE THE NERVE, THE MONEY, NOR THE WHEREWITHAL TO EVEN CONSIDER RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.   BUT BY GOSH, IF YOU ARE AND DO AND WIN, YOU HAD BEST DROP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING FOR ALL THE PEOPLE AND ANSWER TO HIS WHIM, IMMEDIATELY!  OR, YOU TOO, WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE RIDICULE THE ENTIRE TOWN CAN NOT ESCAPE.  (Here are Baylor's words:  Clere Channel Network  Where communication is a one-way street, and the street has no name.)


BEING A CONSERVATIVE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN IN MY EYES.  I KNOW LIBERAL PUBS AND LIBERAL DEMS AND CONSERVATIVE PUBS AND CONSERVATIVE DEMS.  THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS IN DIRE NEED OF THE CONSERVATION OF OUR MONIES AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS AND ENTIRE GOVERNMENTS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS.  MR. BAYLOR DOES NOT BELIEVE IN BEING CONSERVATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR MONEY.  NO ONE CAN FIGURE OUT HIS RHYME OR REASON FOR WANTING TO SPEND, SPEND, SPEND.  IN HIS WORDS WHICH FOLLOW, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN WHAT HE MEANS BY ATTILA THE HUN.  HE WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BARBARIAN INVADER AND ALSO CONSIDERED UNGODLY.  (NO SURPRISE THERE.)  THE WEIMAR PART IS WHERE GERMANY ESTABLISHED AN IMPERIAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE RISE OF ADOLPH HITLER (NO SURPRISE THERE, EITHER).  THE BIRDSEYE BLUES MEANS TO THINK FROM AN ELEVATED STATE HIGH ABOVE THE REST OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY.  (Here are Baylor's words:  Conservatism   Political trait that Floyd County Democrats typically claim to possess to a greater degree than their Republican rivals, who themselves are somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun, leaving the remainder of us stuck inside of Weimar with the Birdseye blues again.)


THE NEXT PARAGRAPH HE WRITES WRAPS A BLANKET AROUND ANY DISCUSSIONS, ANY DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW, AND OR OPPOSITION OCCURRING DURING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS AND ARE SELF-EXPLANATORY (BELIEVE IT OR NOT).  (These are Baylor's words:  Controversy  The insertion of rationality, usually unintentional, into a given political discussion during city council meetings.)  OBVIOUSLY NONE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ACTIONS ARE ALLOWED UNDER HIS COMMUNISTIC OUTLOOK.


HIS NEXT STATEMENT IS ALSO HIS ATTEMPT TO BE CUTE AND TO CONTINUE HIS RIDICULE OF ANYTHING OR ANYONE WHO STRIKES HIS FANCY.  (These are Baylor's words:  Discussion  At city council, any stray verbiage randomly issued as a means to avoid contemplation of the actual issue(s) at hand.)  I FEEL BAYLOR WANTS AND NEEDS TOTALITARIAN RULE OR NO RULE AT ALL (PART OF THAT COMMUNIST THING/IDEALS).


THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF NEW BUSINESSES LOCATING DOWNTOWN AND A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TIME, ENERGY, AND MONEY INVESTED.  THIS NEXT STATEMENT IS HOW HE FEELS THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY THINK ABOUT THESE EFFORTS.  (These are Baylor's words:  Cracker Barrel  Long-awaited Nirvana for downtown revitalization advocates who really don’t understand downtown revitalization at all.)  DOES IT INFURIATE YOU AS MUCH AS ME AND MINE HOW SHORT HE SELLS THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY WHO ARE TRYING THEIR DARNDEST TO SUCCEED? 


MR. BAYLOR TRIES TO MISLEAD THE PUBLIC IN HIS NEXT STATEMENT ABOUT EDIT.  THE MAYOR DECIDES WHERE HE WANTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR AND THEN COMES TO THE COUNCIL FOR THE MONIES.  UNFORTUNATELY FOR CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY, THE MAYOR AT ONE TIME WAS FOUND TO HAVE BOUGHT PERSONAL SUITS OUT OF EDIT.  THERE HAS RECENTLY BEEN LEGISLATION TRYING TO GET FUNDS, EVEN IF THEY ARE FROM EDIT, TO GET OUR CITY OUT OF THE HOLE.  NO, BAYLOR DOESN'T SEE IT THIS WAY (NOR THAT WAY) AND HAS MORE TO GRIPE ABOUT.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  EDIT  Crucial economic development monies designed to remain inert until needed by office holders as penny-wise, pound-foolish subsidies, rather than economic development monies.)  DIDN'T HIS PATIO COME OUT OF EDIT?  MAYBE I'M GENERALIZING LIKE HIM.  HEAVEN FORBID.


MR. BAYLOR ALSO TRIES TO RIDE HERD ON ALL BLOGS MAINTAINING YOU MAY BE THE WORST OF THE WORST IF YOU DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME TO OPINIONS YOU MAY HAVE.  TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IT IS SIMPLY HIS DESIRE TO CONTROL SPEECH AND TO LAMBASTE ANYONE WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH HIS THOUGHTS.  AS LEGAL BEAGLE PUTS IT, HE IS A COWARD BEHIND A KEYBOARD AND A CYBER BULLY.  I AGREE.  THERE ARE FOUR BLOGS IN NEW ALBANY.  NEW VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (WHO REVIEW COMMENTS BEFORE BEING PUBLISHED); CITY OF NEW ALBANY (WHO DEMANDS YOUR NAME); FREEDOMOFSPEECH (WHICH DOES NOT ALLOW COMMENTS OF ANY KIND); AND KITCHENTABLEISSUES (WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LEAVE YOUR NAME).  WELL, IF YOU GO ANONYMOUS ON TWO OF THE BLOGS WHO ALLOW SAME YOU ARE A NO GOOD ROTTEN SO AND SO.  JUST ASK MR. BAYLOR.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Freedom of Speech  1. Local blog that does not allow reader comments  2. Condition that applies to you but not the person with whom you disagree.)  NO ONE AGREES WITH EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME, DUH.


THIS NEXT DEFINITION, AS BAYLOR CALLS IT, IS HANDICAPPING.  THIS SEEMS TO BE ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON HIS PART TO SIMPLY BE CUTE:  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Handicapping  A New Albany voter’s perpetual calculation: Is an incorruptible politician who is wrong 100 percent of the time better or worse than a corruptible politician who is right half the time?)  YEAH, I THINK I WANT INCORRUPTIBLE POLITICIANS THOUGH THE GOOD LORD KNOWS THEY ARE HARD TO FIND.


WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPY HOUR IS (WHOOPPEE).  BUT, THIS SENTENCE SHOULD SERVE TO REMIND ALL READERS HOW MR. BAYLOR DOES BRING HIS FLASK  IN AND IS USUALLY SLAP HAPPY WHILE OBSERVING COUNCIL MEETINGS (ALONG WITH HIS BUDDIES).  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Happy Hour  60 affectionate minutes with your hip flask before the council meeting starts.)


THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION IS SOMETHING MOST OF US AGREE ON.  WHERE WE MAY DISAGREE IS THE FACT SOME HOUSES ARE PAST BEING PRESERVED AND A WASTE OF TIME AND GOOD MONEY.  RATHER THAN GOING AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION WHO ALLOWED THESE PROPERTIES TO FALL DOWN INTO DISREPAIR AND DID NOTHING UNTIL PRIVATE CITIZENS HELPED FORM THIS GROUP BAYLOR TENDS TO SIMPLY LAMBASTE CITIZENS WITH NO CREDIT GIVEN TO THE ONES WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT FOR OVER 20 YEARS.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Historical Preservation Commission  Power-hungry zealots who refuse to admit that the rental property you’ve chronically neglected for decades merely is a dilapidated building suitable only for tenants.)


SOME PEOPLE FEEL THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMITTEE SHOULD CONSIST OF ELECTED OFFICIALS (NOT POLITICAL APPOINTEES ON POWER TRIPS) HAS BAYLOR FEELING AND WRITING THE FOLLOWING (WHAT I ASSUME AGAIN HE CONSIDERS CUTE) WORDS:  (This is Mr. Baylor's words:  Infinite Monkey Theorem  Expression of mathematical probability suggesting that if given enough time, an ape typing at random would eventually write Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” — or an ordinance outlawing the Historical Preservation Commission.)


I WOULD GUESS THE WHOLE TOWN KNOWS OF MR. BAYLOR'S AVERSION TO LARRY KOCHERT.  AND, I WOULD ASSUME THE WHOLE TOWN KNOWS OF MR. KOCHERT'S AVERSION TO MR. BAYLOR.  TO THIS DAY, AFTER FOUR YEARS, MR. BAYLOR STILL FEELS THE NEED TO RUN MR. KOCHERT DOWN ANY CHANCE HE GETS.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Leotards  Skin-tight leg wraps that threaten the fragile masculinity of a former Gang of Four council stalwart; also called “tights,” as in, “Let’s all get tights, and vote in my garage for a change.”)  WHAT MR. BAYLOR MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IS WHAT THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT HIM, HA HA HA.


SINCE MR. BAYLOR CONSIDERS HIMSELF A FLOYD COUNTY SNOB AND THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY IS BENEATH HIM (WHILE FOR THE LIFE OF ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE WANTS OUR MONEY AND THINK WE CARE WHAT HE THINKS -- HERE ARE HIS WORDS SUMMING UP THE TRUE MEANING OF A FLOYD COUNTY SNOB:  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  New Albany Bicentennial  A time for remembering what it was like in 1813, and for accepting that we’re mostly still there.)  NEW ALBANY HAS COME A LONG WAY BABY, WITHOUT YOUR HELP, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.


THE NEXT SHOT IS AGAIN AIMED AT THE CITIZENS AND THEIR ELECTED COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES AND HOW WE CAN NEVER EVER POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND WHY THE OLD NEW ALBANY BREAD STORE GOT A BEER MONUMENT PLACED IN FRONT OF BAYLOR'S BUSINESS.  MOST OF US FEEL THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LOAF OF BREAD PUT THERE.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project  Placements of art intended for the edification of the common man, consequently eluding the comprehension of the council members whose downtown districts house them.)


THESE NEXT WORDS, AGAIN, INSINUATE HOW ALL CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY ARE IGNORANT, SUPERSTITIOUS AND BACKWARDS.  HOW LONG DOES HE THINK HE CAN KEEP INSULTING THE GOOD PEOPLE OF NEW ALBANY?  (These are Mr. Baylor's words: 
Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness   1. Citywide folkways theme park devoted to the reality of life in New Albany: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”  2. “Give us more fish. Don’t you dare teach us how to fish.”  3. Place where tolls (in squandered modernity) already are being collected.)


THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARKING PERMIT ISSUE WAS BROUGHT BY A CITIZEN IN NEW ALBANY (DOES MR. BULLEIT KNOW ABOUT THIS) AND THESE WORDS ARE SIMPLY A MOCKERY OF SAME, WHETHER ANY OF US AGREED OR DISAGREED WITH THE LEGISLATION (WHICH I DIDN'T).  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Neighborhood Parking Permit
A plan to surrender public street space for private use, to appease private property owners who are unwilling to give up their own privately held property for the exact same purpose (JG).)


ANOTHER BURR UNDER BAYLOR'S SADDLE IS ONE SOUTHERN INDIANA.  WE DON'T LIKE THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE NOR APPROVE OF THEIR METHODS AND THEIR INTENT ON GETTING TOLLS, BUT WE ARE SO TIRED OF HIM GOING ON AND ON ABOUT 1SI, CLERE, ETC.  DO YOU THINK HE WILL EVER UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH HE REPEATS AND HOW TIRESOME IT BECOMES?  I DON'T THINK SO.  ANYWAY.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  One Southern Indiana  1. Organization dedicated to preserving the wealth of its highest-standing members by erecting a wall running the length of the Ohio River.  2. Synonym for “blatant hypocrisy.”)


THE NEXT DESCRIPTION OF WORDS REFLECTS HOW MUCH HE DOES DRINK AND HOW MUCH HE HATES IT WHEN HE RUNS OUT OF LIQUOR AT COUNCIL MEETINGS:  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Post-Partum Depression  Your empty flask after the council meeting.)  SEEING IT IS STILL IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO HAVE A BABY, I GUESS HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT A SERIOUS ILLNESS POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION IS NOR HOW MANY PEOPLE HE MAY HAVE OFFENDED COMPARING THIS ILLNESS TO AN EMPTY FLASK OF LIQUOR.


THERE ARE NUMEROUS CITIZENS AND CHRISTIANS WHO DECRIED AN OPENING OF A PORN SHOP ACROSS FROM A CHURCH AND AT A SCHOOL BUS STOP.  BUT, WITH MR. BAYLOR'S SELF PROCLAIMED HEDONISTIC WAYS WE CAN UNDERSTAND HIS FEELINGS ON THE FOLLOWING.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana (ROCK)  Group suffering from a chronic allergy to 2010 calendars, and seeking the curative measure of “reclaiming” things they cannot define, because those things never existed. See also: Torquemada Twist, Wickensianism (no such word).)


AGAIN, WE ALL KNOW HOW MR. BAYLOR FEELS ABOUT GOVERNOR DANIELS.  WE MAY OR MAY NOT LIKE HIM EITHER, OR MAY NOT LIKE SOME LEGISLATION, BUT BAYLOR DOES GO ON AND ON.  THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF ISSUES OR PEOPLE I HAVE VOTED FOR TO NO AVAIL BUT BY GOSH I AM ABLE TO MOVE ON.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Saint Daniels The reason why we have incense, prayer, One Southern Indiana, charter schools and bridge tolls.)


WHEN THE LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEM ROLLED OUT THE 60 MILLION DOLLAR BOND ISSUES A LOT OF GOOD CITIZENS FOUGHT THIS ISSUE ESPECIALLY WHEN IT WAS PUT ON OUR BACKS WITH PROPERTY TAXES.  SOME OF US STILL MAINTAIN THIS IS WHY LOCAL SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED AND WAS NOT DUE TO MR. CLERE BUT LIES ON THE BACK OF OUR THEN UNELECTED SCHOOL BOARD.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  School closings  1. Rituals of solemn necessity preceding a pay increase for an impoverished superintendent.
2. A heaven-sent occasion for conniving school board members, often Republicans, to plot their next political campaigns.  3. An atrocity that Superman (R-72) curiously missed.)


THE ONGOING SEWER FIASCO IN NEW ALBANY WHERE HOUSES AND BUSINESSES ARE STILL NOT BEING SERVED HAD TWO PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED EVERY SEWER BOARD MEETING AND SPENT UNTOLD HOURS TRYING TO BRING NEW ALBANY INTO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT.  THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SENDING SEWAGE DOWN PAST THE MAYOR'S HOUSE AS THE SEWERS LITERALLY WERE/ARE STILL GOING INTO THE OHIO RIVER.  BUT, MR. BAYLOR'S WORDS ARE SIMPLY SELF-SERVING AND SHOWS HIS LACK OF RESPECT FOR OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE POLLUTION THIS CITY ADDS TO THE OHIO RIVER.  SIMPLY ANOTHER WAY TO GET HIS ROCKS OFF AT OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPENSE.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Sewergeddon  The Potty Police’s plan to employ diggers and reclaim the city’s culture by flushing raw sewage through street-side ditches past the mayor’s house, at a fraction of the cost of conventional sewage treatment.)  HE MUST NOT HAVE BEEN AROUND WHEN THE SEWAGE WAS RUNNING PAST RESIDENTS HOMES AND  ALL OF THE HOUSES ON MAIN STREET WENT DIRECTLY INTO THE OHIO RIVER AFTER RESIDENTS RECEIVED SEWER BILLS FOR TWENTY YEARS.  ISN'T THAT MAIL FRAUD - RECEIVING A BILL FOR SERVICES NOT RENDERED?  DOES HE CARE?  DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH.  HE'S THE JOKE.


AND, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, STEVE PRICE.  MR. BAYLOR WILL BE GLAD TO HEAR THERE ARE NO REPUBLICANS WHO WANT TO RUN AGAINST MR. PRICE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION BECAUSE THEY LIKE HIM.  IF I COULD THINK OF ONE THING MR. PRICE VOTED NO ON THAT IMPEDED MR. BAYLOR'S AGENDA MAYBE I COULD GO THERE.  BUT, THE ADMINISTRATION'S AGENDA (ENGLAND'S) HAS ALWAYS TRIUMPHED AND TO HELL WITH THE BUDGETS, OVER STAFFING, WASTE OF THE MONEY, ETC.  JUST KEEP SAYING NO, STEVE.  WE STAND BEHIND YOU.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Steve Price  Synonym for “no,” spoken in Dewey Heights dialect. )  BY THE WAY, A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE WERE BORN AND RAISED IN THE DEWEY HEIGHTS DISTRICT AND YOU REALLY DO ALL A DISSERVICE.

NEXT????  SORRY FOR THE LONG POST, BUT YOU KNOW HOW IT IS WHEN YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH AN EGO MANIAC (MY DESCRIPTION).

I WOULD GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO NOT BELIEVE IN OUR GOOD LORD AND RELIGION, BUT TO HAVE YOU POST IN AN ARTICLE YOU WANTED US ALL TO PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO LIFT THOSE KEGS SO YOU CAN MAKE MONEY REALLY TICKED ME OFF.  BUT, THIS SIMPLY MADE ME PRAY HARDER FOR YOU, NOT THEM.

Y A W N

95 comments:

The New Albanian said...

You spelled Weimar incorrectly. How's that possible with cut and paste?

Seriously, I'm honored. Thank you. What a marvelous week for bicycling, eh?

LMAO.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, well the dictionary didn't recognize. Had it spelled correctly and then changed it. I'm glad you are LMAO. Took you long enough to read it, huh?

Anonymous said...

LOL..last time I was in Boston, I shopped on Sunday. You know where you can't do much shopping on Sunday? That godless Europe place. That's right, those socialists honor the sabbath while the stand strong Christians in the good ol' USA pack up the family every Sunday to head over to Wal-Mart because...well, because God wants them to shop on Sunday.

As far as the rest of this diatribe...lol

Anonymous said...

Hey, I was raised not shopping on Sunday. Matter of fact couldn't do anything on Sunday except go to Church, eat dinner with the family and clean the dishes.

It's a different world now.

Anonymous said...

AMEN!

I wish you were brave enough to sign your name to it and offer it to the Tribune. I'm sure they'd love to publish this in a Thursday edition right next to (or, better still, instead of), the usual drivel that's worn all of our good natures down to a weary yawn. If you do, there'd be a lot of New Albanians who'd line up to co-sign.

Anonymous said...

if price thinks republicns like him? hehe

if price thinks one's not running against him? hehe

if price thinks he's not going to jail for vote buying? hehe

Anonymous said...

THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO THE KITCHEN TABLE BLOGGER.

YOU KNOW SMOKING TOO MUCH POT MAKES YOU PARANOID.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMENT OF THE JURY, EXHIBIT A: THE NEW-ALBANY-WILL-FLOURISH-WITHOUT-EVIL-ROGER-WHO-HACKS-INTO-MY-COMPUTER-POST"

Anonymous said...

Keep on guessing who all writes the kitchen table issues blog. You are so wrong, hee hee hee. We know what you have been told but you were set up.

Anonymous said...

Egads. Irv Stumler wrote this?

Anonymous said...

Marsha was too easy to get to.

Anonymous said...

OUR PRAYERS AND PRAISE GO TO THE KITCHEN TABLE BLOGGER WHO HAD THE COURAGE AND TALENT TO WRITE THIS ARTICLE.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR YOUR GOOD HEALTH AND SAFETY.

Anonymous said...

Nixon supported the first environmental laws, peace with China, and a national healthcare plan.

Obviously Nixon was a Commie.

Anonymous said...

iamhoosier got his hardon for baylor's tights.

Anonymous said...

Att 8:31

You are so right. We Christians need to wake up and know that the Aethiests are trying to run New Albany.

We should have stood up when Councilman Gonder removed the Lords Prayer from the City Council meetings.

Christians tend to be too kind and courteous.

We all need to stand together and
pray for New Albany to be cleaned up.

Anonymous said...

10:04,
You mean like the Christian with the comment(9:41)right above yours?

Anonymous said...

We all know that Baylor's a blowhard. And, we know that a few people will see your comments on here. But how about the people who never see this online stuff? I think it'd be great if you sent a letter to the editor and had this published in the Tribune. You'd be amazed at how many people would be behind such a message and it would help if people who read the paper and don't get online could see that we don't ALL want to put up with Baylor's stupid babble.

He has his groupies and that's all.

The rest of us have the presence of mind to think for ourselves.

Anonymous said...

baylor whines too much so i'm going to get on here and whine all day. that will make it better!

Anonymous said...

Baylor's antics are precisely why I don't want my name posted. If he knows ANYTHING about you, he posts some sardonic, slimy comment that's intended to do harm.

I know Amy Adams. The only reason she's ever gotten on the Tribune website (she doesn't get on the blogs) is that she noticed one day that all Baylor and a certain bunch of them ever do is get on every time Ed Clere does anything, and then go after him. She thought, sportingly enough, that something good should be on the comments. She said to me, "That guy's doing nothing but good. Yet, if you read the paper online, you'll think that the stuff he's doing is slimy. That's far from the truth."

So, Amy got on there from time to time and wrote stuff so there would be positive comments. She doesn't know the Cleres (although she requested to connect with Mrs. Clere on facebook and was accepted), and she didn't talk with anyone about writing. She just did it out of kindness for Ed Clere, and sorrow that the only group that gets online are those guys downtown that spew such vile hatred.

Well, I guess Baylor decided that, once again, he'd bully this young woman who tried to do something nice for a guy who's busting his butt to do good things for all of southern Indiana. He said her name on his blog.

Now,she feels like she's been spied on, like he might be watching her, and like other people, who know her name now too, might start bullying her as well.

Roger recently, in grand pretense, announced that he had been granted "permission," by Amy, to use Clere Channel Cheerleader. Amy didn't give him "permission." He'd already coined the phrase himself. But, in his usual grandiose and bombastic way, he shifted blame onto Amy who is now embarrassed and worried that she's done more harm than good.

And guess what--she stopped writing.

Guess you won that one, Baylor, but you can't stop other people from standing up for what is right. You're a plain and simple J-E-R-K. A bully, who needs to stop having such a public podium as the Tribune (where, by the way, I have yet to meet ANYONE except for your merry band of the "roundtable" who supports or even READS your column).

I've lived all around the state and I've never, EVER, seen any state representative, senator, governor, congressman, U.S. senator, or otherwise, be trashed the way you do Ed Clere. That guy that said you had a "hard-on" for Clere was absolutely right. I'd put it differently and say that you're obsessed. But it's completely uncalled for.

For all this, Baylor, you'll be remembered. I'll bet your father AND your mother would be sad to know it.

So, you wonder why people won't put their names. If Amy put such innocuous comments on the Tribune website and nowhere else and got attacked and belittled by being called "cheerleader," think what you'd do to the rest of us for calling you out directly.

THINK, man, and change your behavior before the only legacy you really do have is a reputation for egotism, smarmy talk, and a penchant for a vocabulary geared toward making people feel like idiots.

The New Albanian said...

I have yet to meet ANYONE except for your merry band of the "roundtable" who supports or even READS your column.

Except, of course, for whomever included my Jan. 6 column in its entirety in this posting (above), and that you're now responding to?

By the way, I can't take credit for Clere Channel Cheerleader. I did not coin it. Sorry.

and a penchant for a vocabulary geared toward making people feel like idiots.

Don't take it so hard, anonymous. I'm sure you can learn new words, too, if you just give it the ol' non-college try.

Anonymous said...

I knew your father, Roger. He was a good man. And, yes, he would roll over in his grave for what you have done and how you turned out so bitter towards mankind.

The New Albanian said...

If that's true, then by all means, come and have a beer (or a soda) with me some time, and we'll exchange memories.

Contrary to the B-excrement being spread so thickly here today by the truly bitter, I won't bite, and I'm not dangerous.

Just tell me what color mask you'll be wearing so I'll know it's you, okay?

Anonymous said...


Except, of course, for whomever included my Jan. 6 column in its entirety in this posting (above), and that you're now responding to?


Nope. I don't know that guy (or gal).


By the way, I can't take credit for Clere Channel Cheerleader. I did not coin it. Sorry.

Yes, Roger, you did. You've spoken of Clere Channel for WEEKS, and you've spoken of cheerleaders, groupies, etc. You may not have placed the words together in exactly that order, but you most certainly coined the "Clere Channel" phraseology. Also, as I read it, Miss Adams did not "give" you permission. She said to do what you want. Obviously, it's a free country, and you chose to continue the diatribe.


Don't take it so hard, anonymous. I'm sure you can learn new words, too, if you just give it the ol' non-college try.


Since I was speaking on behalf of others who do struggle to understand your words, and because you have no idea of the number or the level of my degrees, your snide, suggestion that I "can learn new words if I give it the ol' non-college try" is another one of your pejorative comebacks in your series of written nonevents.

Anonymous said...

Wow. Never has so much been written by so many for so...well, for ONE.

Yawn.

What'sThat? said...

You most certainly have my permission, any one of you who would like, to put your name on this article and submit it to the Tribune. As one reader posted I'm sure there would be several people willing to sign their names.

Thank you for reading!

Anonymous said...

Baylor, you might as well understand that we are not all reading. We meant it when we say we do not. That which transpired today is that one person, ONE, culled quotes from your blog post and responded to them, piece by piece. Let us not allow all this attention to go to your head, Baylor. I, for one, never read your column and have visited your blog twice (and then never again).

When you change from the usual screed, I'm open-minded enough to explore your blog again and to read your column, but not until such a day ever arrives.

Anonymous said...

Isn't Gregg Phipps sweet cheeks? Boy, that will never fly through our Third District Christian Community.

Anonymous said...

Roger is about as approachable as a ticking time bomb. He has little interest in anything or anyone that is not on his personal, progressive agenda.

Anonymous said...

Roger At large: ROFLMAO

Anonymous said...

Roger's a joke. Let him run and find out how it'll be. No skin off my teeth.

Greg Phipps is a pretty strong candidate. I don't care about him being gay. Big deal. But he's smart, and he knows a lot about what goes on in NA.

I'm surprised by his decision to run. Can't have been a easy one....On the other hand, maybe it was.

Anonymous said...

A whole lot of comments for someone no one cares for hearing about. Everytime Mr. Baylor speaks, you guys start chirping, saying something along the lines of "No one reads you" or "No one cares what you think"...yet apparently many of you do.

Talk about being sweet on someone, you guys can't seem to get enough. Kinda pathetic...

Spring Street said...

Point taken, 10:49. But I don't think it's that these people don't care about Roger. I think Roger annoys the heck out of them!

And, no, I don't read any of his stuff. I've boycotted it ever since he started railing about Clere because I realize that it's better to just ignore people who are being unreasonable. But, he's a decent writer and could use his talent for GOOD. I'd much rather he write about things he's interested in DOING, not what he thinks everyone else is doing wrong.

Also, I wonder when the Tribune will stop letting him write that weekly campaign ad that Roger is PAID TO WRITE! Hmmmm...Now, there's food for thought....

I agree, 6:35, that Greg Phipps would be excellent on the council. He knows a lot of what goes on in NA and he's been involved with the neighborhood association for years. I'm glad he's running.

The New Albanian said...

The answer is simple: When I file, the column goes on hiatus as long as the candidacy survives. If and when the column returns is the decision of the higher ups at the Tribune.

Anonymous said...

Fair enough.

Anonymous said...

Indeed. Fair enough.

Anonymous said...

"christian third district."

indeed. right along with all the third district copper thieves and meth heads.

go right a head, price. try to play the faux 'family values' card. you'll see more of greg's friends writing checks that you can imagine.

Anonymous said...

Checks and signs don't win elections. Councilman Price will continue to fight the good fight for the little people. Let's look at what Mr. Phipp's has done? Don't seem to see anything but looking out for his Spring St. neighbors.

How many council meeting has he attended. What does he stand for? Did he fight against a sewer rate increase? A stormwater increase?

I think any citizens who all of a sudden jumps in a primary for the $ or what ever reason and has not been fighting the good fight for all of us. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That just tells me he has his own agenda.

I've attended several council meeting and where has Timberlake, Walker, Phipps and others been?

So where and what is his platform. And what is he going to do to help fix the many problems of District 3.

I know councilman Price's record. We don't need lip service we want action.

If he is gay, so what. I am against homosexuality. But I want to hear what he's going to do with my money and for my family.

The New Albanian said...

Excellent. Seeing as I've attended dozens of council meetings, can I count on your endorsement at-large?

(crossing my fingers)

Anonymous said...

8:43 You haven't signed on the dotted like yet, have you?

Anonymous said...

Good point anonymous.

Fifty bucks says this is another game, ploy of Roger's, about running. I'm not believing this until I have confirmation he has signed up.

Anonymous said...

everyone i know in the third district is sick of price.

price doesn't show up to neighborhood meetings.

price doesn't show up to redevelopment commission meetings.

price opposed the ymca.

price doesn't show up to meetings about the neighborhood stabilization in SEJ.

price didn't attend most UEA meetings when he was on the board.

price never once attended historic preservation commission meeting in the six years he was the council's rep. to that commission.

price doesn't know what the heck he's talking about on these issues because he's never attended a meeting. neglect has not won price a lot of friends.

The New Albanian said...

Tsk, tsk. Games, ploys ... nah, not a chance.

After all, it's already been announced on NPR, and 1Si's public policy committee is calling an emergency meeting, so it must be true. If Mrs Baird is reading: Go ask Kerry Stemler for $500 now, and I bet he gives it to you.

I'll file on Thursday; been saying it all week.

Anonymous said...

9:40 You sure don't have your facts right do you?
Your a progressive and never hear or read the truth and only what you've been told.

Anonymous said...

Anyone get a poll call on Carl? Is he really going to run?

Anonymous said...

Roger, this kind of smarmy talk is what we're all trying to tell you about. CAN you behave? Are you able?

Anonymous said...

9:40 You sure don't have your facts right do you?
Your a progressive and never hear or read the truth and only what you've been told.


i attended a lot of these meetings. i saw with my own eyes that price was no where to be found.

he has neglected his district.

he's never once been to my neighborhood association meeting. i've talked to other people and he's not been to their meetings either.

i talked to the people at develop new albany. price never been to one of those meetings.

i talked to people who own businesses downtown. they only see price when he's playing guitar. price never asks them how he can help them create new jobs in the third district.

price is AWOL from the third district!

Anonymous said...

THERE HAS BEEN A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FORMED IN NEW ALBANY, JOINED BY HUNDREDS, BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN. LEGAL PAPERS AND MONIES AND REPORTING RECORDS ARE FILED IN THE FLOYD COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. THE PAC IS CALLED CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. A VOTE WAS HELD BY MEMBERS (I WAS THERE) AND MS. VICKI DENHART WAS ELECTED THE PRESIDENT. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH SETS MR. BAYLOR'S BLOOD BOILING BECAUSE HE CANNOT FIND OUT WHO BELONGS TO THIS PAC, JUST MENTION CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.

protestors in egypt show their faces.

obviously you think england's going to do more physical harm to you than the egyptians thought mubarak was going to do to them.

can all two anonymous CFA "members" say paranoid or nutcases?

The New Albanian said...

Just a gentle, helpful hint: The time stamps are beneath, not above, their posts.

Knowing who belongs to CFA is like knowing who belongs to the Knights Templar: It doesn't matter because it isn't.

Roger, this kind of smarmy talk is what we're all trying to tell you about. CAN you behave? Are you able?

You sound sincere, so just let me say that at the end of the day, guys like Price play their songs, and I play mine.

Am I able to behave? If you mean keeping emotions in check, yes, sometimes. Not always. The father you all claim to know imbued me with a temper. I try, and succeed more often than fail, and yet fail I do, just like other humans.

If you mean "behave" by refraining from telling the truth as I see it, then no, probably not. Neither would you. Neither does Price.

Each of us, both you and I, share the blame for failing to find the common ground, because we probably agree on as much as we disagree. That may or may not be changed in one election cycle. But note that I'm agreeing with you: I'll now go out there, put the name on the line, and people can vote for or against me. I believe that's as we all want, right?

Anonymous said...

This comment is not directed at any one, candidate or not.

I feel this is going to be a brutal election whether it's for the top gun on down.

There seems to be disturbing news circulating regarding Stumler being told how to run his campaign. It doesn't matter I support Gahan. It does matter it's not right.

It doesn't seem to be right, either, with Coffey and his games with Walker. We'll see.

Anonymous said...

12;01, do you have a daughter you are raising on your own? How about a mother who is not in the best of health? Then shut up and stop spreading lies.
I'll put my money on price any day.

Homophobic, you got it.

Anonymous said...

do you have a daughter you are raising on your own? How about a mother who is not in the best of health? Then shut up and stop spreading lies.

Ask anyone in the Third. Price is a no show 100% of the time.

If family obligations keep him from being an effective councilman, than I feel sorry for his situation. However, he should spend his time with his family, if that is the case, and he should step aside and let someone else be councilman, someone who will be attentive to the needs of the third district for a change.

Anonymous said...

Can someone be more explicit and state exactly what needs the 3rd District didn't have met? Thank you.

Anonymous said...

third didn't get anything except price'e neglect

Anonymous said...

The 3rd got votes for no sewer increase; no new taxes, etc. Exactly what the way we asked Mr. Price to vote.

Anonymous said...

I would like to know why Baylor didn't and won't run against Price?

Anonymous said...

I don't know, only he knows. I do know he should expect big trouble from England. He's not going to like it 1 bit.

Anonymous said...

I hope the 3rd race can be civil with each candidate. Greg Phipps and Steve Price both seem like good people who can be better than all of the cat fighting on here.

Anonymous said...

Price did nothing to fight tolls.

Price didn't write newspaper articles against tolls.

Price didn't introduce a resolution against tolls.

Price didn't attend bridge authority meetings to expose the B.S.

Price just does what he always does: NOTHING.

Sure he voted for the no-tolls resolution AFTER someone else introduced it way after the fact. But did Price do anything else? NOPE!

We need a leader, not a follower.

Anonymous said...

how many others attended the bridge meetings? England? Coffey? Gahan? Zurschmeide? McGlaughlin? Benedetti? Caesar?

Go Price.

Anonymous said...

None of the above

Anonymous said...

I read online news last night and said to myself, it'll take Baylor just a few hours to twist the bold vote by Clere into some sort of political advantage for him.

Baylor is COMPLETELY KIDDING himself.

...yawn...

Anonymous said...

Obviously, Baylor doesn't know Clere so very well. Just noticed his tweets this morning. He doesn't even know Clere.

Although, he does compartmentalize him. Republican. Mitch toady. Bad. You know, all that stereotyping stuff.

Anonymous said...

Wow. Took me all morning to read this post! I don't even know what to say.

Guess I'll just respond to 6:32.

Baylor says he's European, but he's an American boy through and through. This irks him, I think, because he can't entirely push it away. He WANTS to think he's like Europeans, but when he "compartmentalizes," as you say, he's doing exactly what he says he hates about American behavior.

People exclaim disdain for things they do themselves.

As for Clere, well, evidently Clere brings out the worst of these traits in Baylor. Why?

Well, through no fault of his own, Clere represents everything Baylor wishes he could be.

I'll leave it at that.

Interesting, and lengthy, post, Kitchen Table.

YAWN.

Anonymous said...

Wow. Took me all morning to read this post! I don't even know what to say.

Guess I'll just respond to 6:32.

Baylor says he's European, but he's an American boy through and through. This irks him, I think, because he can't entirely push it away. He WANTS to think he's like Europeans, but when he "compartmentalizes," as you say, he's doing exactly what he says he hates about American behavior.

People exclaim disdain for things they do themselves.

As for Clere, well, evidently Clere brings out the worst of these traits in Baylor. Why?

Well, through no fault of his own, Clere represents everything Baylor wishes he could be.

I'll leave it at that.

Interesting, and lengthy, post, Kitchen Table.

YAWN.

The New Albanian said...

Fact: Rep. Clere did the right thing by voting no.

Fact: He explained his opposition to HJR-6 in Constitutional terms, not in terms of human rights.

Fact: I congratulated him on getting it right.

Fact: It's also a wonderful chance to out Steve Stemler as a Mitch toady in Democrat's clothing.

Fact: The only bad thing about it is that human rights were trampled under foot, and yes, the trampling was done in bi-partisan fashion.

Ed did the right thing. Good for him. I hope that in the future, he clarifies his stance on rights and freedoms. That's all there is to it, really.

Anonymous said...

roger and clere know each other fairly well. for example both served on the board of develop new albany at the same time. if price and his supports were more active in the community they would know that.

i've seen ed clere dine at bank street brewhouse. his wife said bank street was "something special" and a fine place to eat. maybe you should try it yourself.

Anonymous said...

If Baylor is Clere's friend, why does he treat him like crap?

Anonymous said...

I heard some of the pergressives are going to campaign that they won't accept a salary for being in office.

I wonder how many sitting councilmen will match that offer.

Anonymous said...

no one said they were best buds. doesn't mean they don't know each other.

Anonymous said...

if clere is baylor's friend, why did he diss on the tolls issue? its true that baylor won't let it go, but clere has an equal share on that

Anonymous said...

I disagree. Baylor bullied Clere and Clere had already said what he had to say.

Sometimes, when a public servant is in office, listening is better than blathering forth things you don't know yet. As I understood the situation, Clere was busy with things he that he actually had to deal with. To spout off an opinion, especially when he said he hadn't formed one yet and was watching for more information, would have been irresponsible. Clere was completely right to do that.

Also, I've read on Baylor's blog things about Clere like "who I consider a friend," and like "I'm a Clere supporter." I would say Baylor has forced the friendship to take a turn and that Clere did what he had to do to get on.

That's my take, watching the online world from Corydon and from the computer lab at IUS.

I would also add that, while Baylor has been vociferous about Clere, Clere has not ever stooped to diss Baylor. Haven't seen the first word.

Anonymous said...

if clere was against tolls, he could have been clearer about that.

baylor was as clear as could be and fought very hard against tolls.

Anonymous said...

If you have not noticed, Baylor isn't running against Clere.

Anonymous said...

Clere didn't need to be clear about anything, considering that he was, at the time, being completely open-minded. It was Baylor who thought that Clere should make some sort of gradiose statement. I kept worrying that Clere would give in and make a statement of some sort to appease Baylor, several of us in our office kept sort of holding our breath waiting. But he didn't. Frankly, I was pretty damned proud of Clere then and knew we'd picked the right guy.

Anonymous said...

i dont want a politician to be open minded about me paying tolls to cross the bridge.

Anonymous said...

What has Steve Price done to bring jobs to the Third District?

Anonymous said...

Nothing.

Anonymous said...

What has any of the politicians done to bring jobs to New Albany? Why don't you ask Malysz why he didn't offer any incentives to keep the business Planet Telecom in this town? He didn't even try to keep them here. WHY NOT?

Anonymous said...

planet telecom is a perfect example. they're leaving new albany to go to downtown louisville. they are taking their good paying jobs to be next to good resturants and stuff to see. they want to entertain their clients. steve price has done nothing to make his district more attractive to companies like planet telecom. he votes no on everything that would keep those kids of jobs here.

Anonymous said...

Planet Telecom is leaving because Price and the rest of the council, the mayor, and all the people who keep holding New Albany back made this place too unattractive for them to stay.

I'm moving too, after this school year. This place makes me sick.

Kurt Fetz said...

I have had my share of disagreements with Roger Baylor. At times he can be abrasive, as can I. But at least he stands by his name and that has got to count for something. It isn't exactly easy to put one's opinions into the public sphere, especially a critical opinion that will draw the ire of others. Everyone has a right to their own opinions, but if you don't have the integrity or the courage to attach your name to your critical opinions of others, please understand that when you air them publicly under a cloak of anonymity they cease to be sentiments at all and become nothing more than base slander. I'll take Roger's opinions, even those I totally disagree with, over opinions cloaked in such a way any time.

Anonymous said...

Why, so he lambaste other good people who may disagree with him? Take Roger's opinions. He (in my opinion) is in a minority of people who care about people in New Albany, or anywhere else for that matter.

Someone finally put his words out there and rebutted them word for word. Too bad so sad.

Anonymous said...

Correction: He is in a minority of people WHO DO NOT CARE about people in New Albany. Please forgive the typo.

Anonymous said...

That's not Steve's job to keep Planet Telecom. It's Malysz job. You know, like how he gave new refridgeration units to another biz to keep them in town. What a joke to put it on Price. Keep on keeping on.

Anonymous said...

IT'S PRICE'S DISTRICT!

TYPE OF PRICE, "THAT'S NOT MY JOB."

Kurt Fetz said...

Indeed someone did put his words out there, that someone was Roger Baylor. He put them out there and we know this because he attached his name to them. As for the person who "rebutted" them? The rebuttal is worthless because it only holds the weight of the person who stands behind it - which in this case is nothing but a shadow. Why are you afraid of Roger Baylor anyway? If no one reads his column as you say, why do you care what he says about you or anyone else? Are you afraid of everyone that is outspoken and/ or opinionated? The threat to society lies in those who are too fearful to stand up for what they believe in, not from those who do so.

The New Albanian said...

Someone finally put his words out there and rebutted them word for word. Too bad so sad.

Now I get it: It was Beavis and Rebuttal Head, except that it didn't take Beavis 3,800 words in screaming caps to say, "I am cornholio."

Next?

Anonymous said...

watch out kurt....if you sign your name to anything other than an attack on baylor, busy body will be at the courthouse in five minutes trying to dig up "dirt" on you.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH (for price supporters only).

The New Albanian said...

Thanks, Kurt, but what you're going to learn here in the Romper Room is that the three or four (at the outer limit) persons doing all these masked postings don't care to be told that they're cowards; in fact, probably not one of them has any sort of job in need of defending. They're professional, embittered naysayers, and if they stood by their opinions, their miniscule numbers would be revealed for all the world to see. It's a shell game, but I have to admit, it's so very flattering to know that they're reading.

Anonymous said...

Notice baylor spends a lot of time in Romper Room as he likes to call it. We have to admit we find it flattering to know that he's reading.

Anonymous said...

whoever wrote the 3700 word rant sure has spent a lot of time taking notes on baylors blog

Anonymous said...

For every finger you point at me, two are pointing back at you.

I think the point has been made you may just be the embittered naysayer, as your remarks reflect.

Anonymous said...

4:17 - Simply a cut and paste job as Baylor said. I felt someone had to enlighten him as to how some in New Albany find his musings shallow and detrimental to the community as a whole.

If he really thinks that badly about New Albany -- please move back to the Knobs.

My rights, his rights, it's all good.

Anonymous said...

man, i just read this post.

someone has a hardon for baylor.

Anonymous said...

Baylor has his own. We simply disagree with his outlook on life. You must be a good friend and wallow in his misery.

Anonymous said...

THERE HAS BEEN A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FORMED IN NEW ALBANY, JOINED BY HUNDREDS, BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN. LEGAL PAPERS AND MONIES AND REPORTING RECORDS ARE FILED IN THE FLOYD COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. THE PAC IS CALLED CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. A VOTE WAS HELD BY MEMBERS (I WAS THERE) AND MS. VICKI DENHART WAS ELECTED THE PRESIDENT. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH SETS MR. BAYLOR'S BLOOD BOILING BECAUSE HE CANNOT FIND OUT WHO BELONGS TO THIS PAC, JUST MENTION CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.


yeah. whatever.