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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Deadline Schmedline
The so-called March 31 ObamaCare Open Enrollment Deadline may have passed, but it re-emerged as planned Tuesday morning with options for people who claim they had trouble meeting Monday’s midnight deadline. Bryan Preston at PJ Media reports that a RAND study pours buckets of cold water on the Obama administration’s claims that it has nearly reached seven million sign-ups for ObamaCare. The whole point of ObamaCare, supposedly, was to insure the uninsured and bend the cost curve down. Those who had insurance were supposed to be able to keep it. Families were supposed to start saving about $2,500 a year. That’s if you were ever stupid enough to believe the Obama administration in the first place. [READ MORE HERE]
- IN COLUMBUS: Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders says Women’s History Month is now over, and it’s too bad, since The Blower never got a chance to tell you how The Columbus Dispatch ran a big story late Friday afternoon about how Conservative activist Christa Criddle had given up her state job to fight for an unpaid seat on the GOP Central Committee, and by 7am on Saturday morning, that same article had been reduced to one-tenth its original size eliminating all the finer points about Christa’s opponent and the RINOs in Columbus.
Meanwhile, in her latest self-promotion puff piece, Senator Shannon Faulkner Jones focuses on the increase in heroin related child abandonment, and the related problems of addictive narcotics getting into society, should those heroin addicted Warren County parents be provided free needles?
THE WHISTLEBLOWER WTF DEPARTMENT: Reports have it that Duke Energy has filed a request to the Ohio Public Utilities Commission for $32 million to recover all the lost revenue as a result of all those attempts to lower their electric bills using cost savings methods. So folks, thank you for changing to all those silly light bulbs that save energy. Now in return, Duke wants to charge you for doing just that.- NO SURPRISE: Disingenuous DemocRAT Cleveland Congresswoman Marcia Fudge says the recent changes in voting in Ohio are “racist.”
- COALITION INVESTIGATION WIDENS: Monday, John Mitchel, who writes the weekly blog, Ohio Citizens Grand Jury, reported that the Dayton Development Coalition investigation is now in the hands of Auditor of State David Yost. Mitchel commented, “We should commend the Dayton Daily News for its March 2 report, ‘Secrecy shrouds Dayton coalition.’ However it can’t end there. We just completed a five-part series on the cover-up that has extended for more than five years, and it’s time our Ohio elected officials finally do something. The integrity of our public servants, not to mention the judicial process demand they answer for allegations on money laundering, bid-rigging and breach of contract, to name a few.”
EARLY VOTING UPDATE: Tuesday’s weather in Cincinnati was really nice, just perfect for all those Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span, Free-Stuff Grabbing, Low-Information Obama Voters Who Put Obama In The White House—Twice, to stand in line outside the Hamilton County Board of Election waiting to vote early in this year’s Ohio primary elections.
Not only that, these Dumbed Down Dems are shown avoided the convenience of mailing an absentee ballot for 49-cents, or voting at their neighborhood polling place on Election Day, which the last time we checked, is still totally free.
FREE NEEDLE UPDATE: Lower Price Hill Bureau Chief Travis McCoy reports spokespeople for the controversial Cincinnati Exchange Project announced that they have now targeted the neighborhood of Lower Price Hill as the Cincinnati headquarters for its controversial needle exchange project that was run out of the City of Springdale by that community’s City Council.
Lower Price Hill probably wouldn’t want addicts or unsavory strangers wandering around waiting to be given free needles, prescriptions, and advice from the Exchange Project. The Lower Price Hill Community Council has documentation from reputable sources that needle-handout projects also attract drug dealers who sell drugs to addicts just given clean needles. Medical emergencies, ODs, and crime would go up, as would the arrival of bevies of prostitutes. The safety of residents and businesses would be at risk. The unwelcome intrusion of The Cincinnati Exchange Project would impose an unwarranted increased workload on the Cincinnati Fire Department, and on the police.
In addition to being ejected from the City of Springdale, The Cincinnati Exchange project is equally unwelcome in Sharonville, Cheviot, Reading, Deer Park, Silverton, Evendale, Mariemont, Anderson Township, Sycamore Township and Colerain Township. It is also opposed by all members of the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners.
TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO TODAY, when Edition #44 was published on April 1, 1991, it was our first annual Sincere Apology Issue, and our Top Ten List featured the Top Ten Things for which we felt we simply had to apologize in those days, although with the benefit of hindsight, we’d at least damn sure have changed the order. - MORE SPOILED SPORTS: Whistleblower Senior Spoiled Sports Editor Andy FurBall says Monday on Opening Day, Bryan Price’s overpaid Reds hitters continued where Dusty’s Boys had left off in last year’s playoffs. It was the first time since 1953 that the Reds had been totally shut out in their opener. You can’t go winless in 2014, without losing the first game. Only 161 more games! It looks like 2014 is going to be another long, painful year for Reds fans.
Tailgate Troublemaker Tino Delgato says Monday’s Opening Day crowd was very large and enthusiastic. The six-block area around Mediocre American Ball Park was closed off from vehicle traffic. However the crowd in that area was way too large for that setup. There is not any human traffic pattern so folks are wandering into each other like bumper cars at an amusement park. God forbid if an event there created some panic because the Reds had actually scored a run. Cincinnati could again become notorious, just after “The Who Concert” of 1979 and the “Beverly Hills Fire of 1977.” Go Figure!!!
Hurley the Historian says on this date in 1513, Ponce de Leon discovered Florida, and in spite of that, Señor Bob Castellini, says the Reds will continue to play their Spring Training games in Arizona. So there’s no way local fans will be able to make that drive in 17 hours, not even if you’re riding with lead-footed Bob McEwen.
And who gave Jerry Galvin a microphone to comment on the Opening Day Parade on City Cable? He had no idea why the Reds opened the season first and the history of the parade. He boasted about seeing Mayor Mallory holding a meeting in a quiet corner. Galvin shamelessly claimed he had been to Bocca and had to eat at 5:30 because he could only get reservations at that time on a Saturday. And Chef John Robert was marching in the parade and Jerry had a gift certificate he planned to use. “You should tune in City Cable to watch a re-run of council meetings because they are so interesting!” Jerry’s side kick Amy was old enough to remember the “Bob Evans Tally Ho wagon that went around to bars to pick up the original Reds players to take them to the stadium!” Except Crosley Field was never a stadium.
And you won’t believe who was featured on the cover of Law Enforcement Technology magazine recently. It was none other than James Incompetent Craig, now taking care of crime in Detroit. Sadly, he makes no quotable, parody-able or ridiculous comments and merely promises he will end crime. The cover story writer went to Detroit and proclaims that he “came away impressed — by the city, its renewal and, most of all, its Chief of Police, James E. Craig.” Sounds like this guy could get a job on The Fishwrap.
OUR CITY HALL SNITCH says after reading that big story in The Fishwrap about all those unsupervised Clowncil Members even more unsupervised aides, our City Hall Snitch wonders when it became legal for a city employee, using over-taxed payer funded city computer resources, to promote a private business that’s not even located in the city.- MORE BRYAN BASHING: Blue Ash Clowncilman Rick Bryan is running for state office. We just received his flyer in the mail. One of the funnier lines is “When the U.S. Army needed leadership, they turned to Rick Bryan.” OMG! Even Goof Doofus and Bronze Star Brad never made such a ridiculous claim.
- ABSENT IN ANDERSON: The Anderson Township Republican Club including Newtown and Mt. Washington is not holding its customary meeting on the First Wednesday of the month tonight, since there probably won’t be any important political activities going on in the area during the next 34 days before the May 6 GOP Primary Elections (like getting rid of $tate Rep-Tile Peter $tautberg). We’re sure everything important will be covered at the Club’s next scheduled meeting on May 7, the day after the Primary Election.
By contrast, we’re sure Tuesday night’s Clermont TEA Party was quite lively, especially when Ted Stevenot talked about how TEA Party Patriots were screwed over by the Feckless Fishwrappers in Sunday’s “Forum” section, in an editorial calling TEA Party positions, “rigid, even misinformed, ideology,” “rigid ideology that would only hurt local communities,” as well as admonishing TEA Partiers to “fact check their ideas.”
- ALSO IN CLERMONT: State Reptile John Becker posted the following on his Facebook page: The Cincinnati Enquirer had a few comments about my NO vote on a spending bill. They reported that Clermont County will get $2.5 million of the total $2.4 billion package. They accurately quoted me as follows: “My constituents did not send me to Columbus to spend more of their money.” Am I wrong? Should I be concentrating on “bringing home the bacon?” Or should I be concentrating on controlling spending and taxes? [READ MORE HERE]
Everybody already knows what The Blower thinks!
BEWARE OF THE GREEKS: It’s been a whole month since the appointment of yet another Greek (Tiffin Collos) lackey by Alex Tryin-to-fool-you to the Greed Township Board of Trustees to replace Rocky “No Guts or Glory” Boiman. One can only wonder how long it will take these clueless public savants to approve still more scattered site Section 8 housing in the formerly 99.8% Anglo community. Here come the Greeks and there goes another neighborhood! At least now we might get a good gyro restaurant out of it to replace the now defunct City Barbecue whose recent closure on the high-end chain food menagerie on Glenway Avenue leaves just another vacant storefront. Diehard west-siders will still make the trek to Sebastians in “Covedale” (read formerly but not presently Greed Township) for the real Greek cuisine and fellowship even if it is right on the dreaded Metro bus line that services greater Price Hill!
SHOW US THE MONEY: Ralph J. Hodge, President & Chief Investment Officer at SilverLeaf Capital Advisors, says he’s spent the better part of two years researching how over-taxed payer dollars are managed by County treasurers. It may surprise some to know that SW Ohio counties have investment portfolios (not pension funds) of between $100 and $500 million dollars. The income earned from investing is revenue for a county’s general fund. In short, current investment practice is the most risky thing that can be done.
The negative consequences from such risk is routinely borne by over-taxed payers and ratepayers (the MSD portfolio is close to $500 million dollars) in the form of reduced or eliminated services and increased taxes or rates. In one particular county over the period 2007 – 2012 the treasurer paid a third party advisor $175,000 of tax payer dollars for investment management services. The result was $12 million dollars LESS in revenue to the county’s general fund than would have been earned if the advisor had NOT been hired. The brokers that the third-party advisor used to purchase bonds also benefited to an amount of around $200,000. Everyone benefited except We the Over-taxed Payers (and it’s OUR money!)
The lack of prudence, transparency and accountability demonstrated by the treasurer has been amazing. The steps that such treasurers have taken to avoid or deflect questions is troubling. Hodge estimates that over $100 million dollars of general fund revenue was not earned by the SW Ohio counties. Something is very wrong.
SHOW US THE MONEY (PART DEUX): Did Liz Rogers pay her entire rent for her Failed Mahogany’s Soul Food Restaurant on April 1, like she promised, and did the landlord actually accept her check?
In a related item, the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati has named eight women as 2014 Career Women of Achievement, among the region’s top honors for outstanding business leaders and role models. Liz Rogers of Mahogany’s finished tenth, but one of the women on that list voted to give Liz all that over-taxed payer money.
- IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY: Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo says all his snitches haven not yet returned from Spring Break in Florida, especially Oliver Klozhoff, who had to see an oculist to treat his eyestrain.
FINALLY, YESTERDAY AT THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA, Political Insiders were asking Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane which was his “Favorite Day” in April. “There are so many to choose from,” Kane explained. “So it would be hard to pick a favorite.” But the day we really plan to celebrate this year is “Tax Freedom Day.” That’s the date our friends at the Tax Foundation say the average US over-taxed payer has worked long enough to pay all of his federal, state, and local taxes for the year. Last year’s, America’s Tax Freedom Day arrived on April 18. The announcement of Tax Freedom Day 2014 is expected to come soon.
Maybe that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Will Rogers’ “The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
Remember: We never print all the bad stuff we know and certain people ought to be damn glad we don’t, especially “ Ohio Auditor of State David Yost.”
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