THE CONVERSATIONS TODAY...WHEW!

There sure is plenty to talk about with a lot

of moaning and groaning but a lot of

laughter, too!


Jon Stewart has us absolutely fascinated

about the trip to Washington, DC on

October 30Th for the march to "Return

Sanity" to the American people. After

checking various news outlets online

this morning, we find he already has

more people lined up to attend than Glenn

Beck did (I'm not a fan of Beck's;

no offense to anyone).


Watching Larry King last night we were

again laughing our selves silly over Bill

Maher's statements and opinions.

A website called Politico something

or the other was already calling

Maher's statement about wood gas

lines untrue but yet Maher quoted the

AP and they just can't prove it's true

or not so they're calling it a myth.


As a couple, we didn't like the bailout

by Washington, DC and would have

rather seen the money spent to put

people to work fixing our infrastructure

(sort of like the WPA program from

back in the '40's).


We haven't seen the bailout create any

jobs. We can understand some of the

reasoning behind the bailouts but also

strongly disagree with the actions

taken to save the Banks and Wall

Street and others.


Back to the news in New Albany, our

reality still sucks.


I wish the Tribune had done their home-

work and had spoken to the County

leaders about the annexation the

paper supports in order to inform the

public of the hidden costs associated

with this project, i.e., $2 million we

have to give to the County which we

don't have. We'd like to know

if Ruckman's sewer contract is or is not

affected by this little move and whether

we are taking over his "private sewer

lines". We are talking about even bigger

monies being lost if that is true.


We wish England could/would wait to

announce his Re-Election until after

the County elections (we don't know what

the hurry is). As badly as we don't want

to see England in office again we shudder

to think of the regular line of "Pubs" who

every four years throw their names in the

hat. We want someone NEW and NOT

BEHOLDING TO ANYONE

and SOMEONE WHO HASN'T

USED OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS

(i.e., tax abatements) to get this position.


Though sometimes, you just have to

wonder who in the hey would want

the job besides the power hungry

or status grabbing (constantly the

same) name seekers.


We hear the "boys" are upset with England

because he is helping Bobo with getting

financing and not them. Cry us a river.

We hate to remind anyone of this BUT

the truth is our sewer system can't

handle this project, (hell, we can't even

update the industrial park for more biz

because of the sewer capacity limits) ,

and you can bet your sweet bippy we

will be the ones paying for this

monument that Bobo didn't come

back to Redevelopment in June to

talk about. But, as Carl M. says,

he's been meeting with Bobo and

for some strange reason we are

betting that's probably true. Rare

to have discussions with Carl in public.

Truth probably is they are literally

driving him crazy over it.


The Fire Department has filed a grievance

over the new insurance proposed. England

made a contract with the group promising

the same if not better insurance.

Culpecker's (oh, sorry, we mean

Culpepper's) plan doesn't fit with

the union's contract guidelines.

We hate that England always wants

to lay off the firefighters but not

the police and then we wonder why?

We hear Benedetti received a telephone

call "it's not ten firefighters you would have

to lay off, it's twelve". What a shame.


There is only one way the Board of Works

can deal with this issue and that would be

if the Council doesn't take action. Now,

if the Council votes NO, isn't that an action?



Hey, enough of this. We are going to check our

calendar and see if October 30Th is a good day to go

to Washington.