The Senate, free from any pressing issues, had sufficient time on its hands to condemn MoveOn.Org for its ad in the New York Times that asked "General Petraeus Or General Betray Us?"
The Uncle has no problem with piling on. And so, rather than point out the mix of hypocrisy, stupidity, cowardice and out-right political posturing of the Senate’s latest game of "Let’s Change The Subject," we will toss in our own little snipe at the ad.
MoveOn succumbed to one of the greatest weaknesses that writers have. They were seduced by their own cleverness.
Someone came up with the oh so cute little pun of "Petraeus" and "Betray Us" and, instead of giving the word play a quick smirk and then following their own name’s advice, they built an ad around it.
They took their eyes off the prize and chose preening over effectiveness.
During the years in my presidential palace (perhaps not so very many years, but long enough for me to forget that I was a renter, not an owner) I learned that a short, pithy speech that got me what I wanted was of far greater value than a long masterfully written one that got me applause from a few sycophantic literary types and yawns
from the general public.
Glance st one of the hours-long orations from Castro or Chavez and what you are seeing is the triumph of the ego.
One of the most painful things for a writer to do is to throw away a good line. But when you are at war - and political writers had better realize that they are always at war - winning the battle is what matters, not displaying elegance while achieving defeat.
And so, MoveOn’s sin wasn’t in slandering a general (whose use by Bush as a political pawn made him fair game) but in going for applause when they should have been going for converts.
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Its ashame this type of indecency exsists in this country today. If during WWII some leftist group tried to run an ad against Eeisenhower, or Patton or McArthur or any of the lead generals in that war the New York Times wouldve had the decency not to run it and this group would have been tried as traitors.
Come on Unc...your behind the times and letting us down! Where's your scoop on this- what has happened to the Pieman???
KJ starts work on disputed water tank
By John Sullivan
Times Herald-Record
September 27, 2007
Kiryas Joel — The village has started building the first of two controversial 34-foot-high water tanks on land it owns in the Village of Woodbury, setting the stage for a potential battle with the neighboring municipality.
The Hasidic village started construction on the first tank about six weeks ago, said Kiryas Joel Administrator Gedalyze Szegedin.
That triggered a stop-work order from the Village of Woodbury's building department, which apparently was unaware of the construction until last week.
A road leading to the off-road construction site was fenced off and guarded by a Kiryas Joel security official yesterday.
Szegedin said his office filed an appeal of the stop-work order to the Village of Woodbury's Zoning Board.
"I believe we're going to make a persuasive case to the ZBA, and they're going to remove the work-stop order," he said.
Woodbury officials warned Kiryas Joel last year that it would need a permit from the building department to put up the tanks.
Szegedin claimed that a permit was unnecessary for municipal infrastructure projects, even if they do fall within another municipality.
Szegedin's village has been trying to build the two tanks for four years to supply water pressure to several new condominiums, a women's health center and a village fire station built on a slope off Mountain Road.
The village first requested to install the tanks on the county-owned Gonzaga property located at a higher elevation. The county Legislature — pressured by Blooming Grove and Woodbury residents and officials — denied that request, arguing that the property should be undeveloped parkland.
So, Kiryas Joel bought a small piece of property about 100 yards from the Gonzaga property but within the Village of Woodbury.
Town Supervisor John Burke said his office received calls last week about the appearance of a crane on that property, suggesting construction.
Burke wrote Szegedin's office last year stating that previous court cases would allow his town to regulate the construction of the tanks.
The Village of Woodbury, which encompasses most of the town with its incorporation last year, now has jurisdiction over the matter, he said.
Woodbury village Trustee Neil Crouse said the matter would be heard at the Oct. 24 Zoning Board meeting.
"We can't respond to anything until we know what the situation is," he said.
wake-up stupid... pieman,swiller and yes.. the unc are all one and the same. They are in bed with KJ and are laughing at you all.
Must be a really big bed Ralph.
Oh yeah, the village will protect us, what a bunch of horsesh-t!!
Castro?
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