Thanks, Pa

A while back the Cabell County Commissioners decided to charge every citizen of Cabell County an additional fee.  Now the amount of the fee varies according to the habits of the particular citizen.  As nearly as I can calculate, it costs me and my family about fifteen dollars per month.

Puzzled?  Didn't hear about the additional fee?

I refer to the Commission's failure to place a recycling vote on the November ballot.  The proposed levy would have amounted to about $33.00 per year for us.  That is compared to the current monthly fee charged by Republic Services for garbage pick-up multiplied by twelve.  I do not know what Republic's current monthly fee is, because I do not use it.  I buy twenty bags each year, use about fifteen of them and don't have to buy any every three or four years.  The bags cost $2.50 each, so my annual cost for garbage has been running between $2.50 and $5.00 per month for the last few years, as the recyclable items have all gone to the dumpsters provided by the County under contract with Rumpke.

Years ago the monthly cost from Allied Waste was about $20.00, which calculates out to about $240.00 per year.

As it appears that I will now have to place all those recyclables into the regular garbage stream, I would assume that my annual cost will be about the same, plus any inflation over the past three or four years.

So let's see--My before cost above is a maximum of $5.00 per month, $60.00 per year.
My new cost will be about $240.00 per year, assuming no inflation.
The difference is about $180.00 per year, or that fifteen dollars a month I suggested above.

Now, IF the Commission had placed the measure on the ballot, and it passed, I would have to pay that $33.00 per year, plus the $60.00 per year, for a total of about $93.00 per year.  And the recyclables would have gone into a recyclable stream and not the landfills.

The recycle bins at all locations were constantly overflowing, even though Rumpke was making two pick-ups per week usually, at least at the bins I used.

Based upon the Commission's inaction, I decided that I would not vote for anyone on the Commission who ran for re-election. That decision was removed from me as no one on the Commission ran for re-election this year.  But the terms of the  two remaining 2016 Commissioners will be expiring in two or four years, and I have a good memory.  I will not vote for either Cartmill or Bailey, and will actively pursue their defeat should they either or both decide to run again for any office.

So, thanks, Pa, for giving your boy a good head for figures without being a figurehead.

Howdy, Pa

Thank God, the election is over.

The results were highly pleasing    ---   or highly displeasing, to everyone in America.

And, of course, we have the protestors walking the streets--notice they do this after dark mostly, so their faces cannot be seen and traced--by their parents who are still providing that basement bedroom for them, as well as their health insurance, totally subsidized by the American taxpayers.

I'm tempted to turn the tables on them and repeat what they, or their brothers and sisters, said to  us in 2008 and 2012--"WE WON.  YOU LOST.  GET OVER IT!."  But they would not understand.

And that makes them stupid.  And stupid cannot be fixed.  If only they were just ignorant.  Ignorance can be ameliorated, but stupid cannot.


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Watching a broadcast this morning, I heard a debate between a black lady and a black man.  She was conservative, he not so.  They were discussing the aforementioned protestors (I guess I should use the term rioters since a person was shot in Oregon, huh?)

  Anyhowsomever, the gentleman was declaiming that Mr . Trump must go on national media and   explain his entire campaign once more and apologize for any hurt feelings that may or may not have occurred among the blacks, browns, Muslims, domineckers, Rhode Island Reds, Canada geese, etc.  And got downright vociferous about it, he did.

The lady said that, no, it was not Mr. Trump who was the sitting president, nor the challenger to Mr. Trump, and it was those two who should get off their posterior openings of their alimentary canals  and do any explaining to these fellow travelers.

Wanna guess who I thought was right?


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Holy cow, a Republican was elected sheriff in Lincoln County, WV!!!  The old apple cart is just getting more upset all the time.



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OK.  I admit that I did read Peyton's column this morning.  I did not agree with it but that is nothing new.  I also watch MSNBC.  And CNN.  Probably as much or more than I do FOX.  But that is just due to my overriding philosophy of "Know Your Enemy!"  I can't watch my backside all the time, so knowing what those blockheads are doing by keeping them out front helps keep me more alert to the times when they are turning sneakier and trying something stupid (there's that word again!).



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So Hillary Clinton and her army spent close to a billion or more on a winner, and lost.  Donald Trump spent about 250 million on a loser and he won.  Times is strange, Pa!  I sat up until about 1:10 AM Wednesday and then decided that Trump had won despite all the network talking heads saying that it wasn't to be.  But it had to be because either Pennsylvania or Michigan was going to put him over the top, and sho-nuff they did.

But the most interesting thing in the whole shebang was the report, later denied of course, that Joe Manchin said that if the Senate tied at 50-50 he would caucus with the Republicans.  Well, Joe, since you act like one, walk like one, talk like one, why not just go ahead and be one.  At least then you would be in the same party as all the other federal elected officials from the state.  And you wouldn't even have to quack for us!


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Well, Pa, I'm gonna watch the Cowboys and the Steelers, so ya'll take care and youins come to see ussins sometime.