Bits and Pieces

So first off let's talk about the new deal we have with Atlantic Broadband, As you should be aware the Contract was signed amid some fanfare but it appears as if nobody read it. I see that there were discussions about what happens if Atlantic does not meet its contractual obligations. In other words, there is nothing in the written contract that says Atlantic must pick up the additional cost for being late. So is this an oversite or is it a lie? Either way, we, CV, suffer. Sad.

Secondly, UCO (read D.Israel) has decided to rent space to Atlantic, so they could run their business. The rent is $1.00, I repeat the rent is $1.00

Thirdly, there is no Penalty for not performing as promised, when promised.

All of these were discussed and questioned and answered in the affirmative at the DA meeting, more than once! But the Contract does not reflect it. SO, it is not part of the package.

To get more info check out the Messenger club blog.

Advisory letter and Esignatures

We got a letter (actually an Eletter or Email) from the chair of the Advisory Committee notifying us that they wouldn't accept electronic signatures on petitions to amend the bylaws. There's no good reason for their  refusal, the signatures are all verifiable, complete with phone numbers and addresses. Their reaction is not unexpected as we know that any attempt to change things for the better of the residents to the perceived detriment of the administration is going to be met with unreasonable and obstinate obstructionism.  Here's the letter and our response below From: "Anita Buchanan"  To: "olga wolkenstein" ,  To "MARILYN" (Pomerantz)  (email addresses removed for privacy considerations) Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 9:41:34 AM Subject: Electronic Signatures Marilyn and Olga, Sorry, but the Advisory Committee isn't yet ready to accept electronic signatures on petitions. Under the law (see below) all parties have to choose to use electronic signatures), meaning that we'd have to include acceptance of e-signatures in the bylaws so all sides -- party petitioning and party receiving (UCO) -- would be in agreement. Electronic signatures are an idea whose time has come, but we're just a bit ahead of ourselves. We need a bylaw change and can address this at the July 11 meeting. Here's the explanation: The ESIGN Act is a federal law passed in 2000. It grants legal recognition to electronic signatures and records if all parties to a contract choose to use electronic documents and to sign them electronically. ... No contract, signature, or record shall be denied legal effect solely because it is in electronic form. Attorney language supporting this: "The current electronic petition by the 'Justice for Residents' does not meet the requirements of the Bylaws because the petition must be “signed” by at least 25 members. This means a hand written signature. The Bylaws do not provide for electronic voting or electronic signatures. Ch 718 has provisions for electronic voting but as we know UCO is not a condominium association and thus not subject to Ch 718. " We want to let you know before you work on other proposals and you might want to redo the one you just submitted for one-vote. Thanks, Anita Buchanan Here's our response; In re: The letter from Anita Buchanan, the chair of the UCO Advisory Committee rejecting E ( electronic) signatures as a legitimate way to propose amendments to the UCO bylaws. Anita refers to the Esign Act as a basis for denying the use of E signatures as a vehicle for petitioning the UCO administration. The assertion that the Esign Act prohibits the use of electronic signatures in this instance  is invalid .The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN, Pub.L. 106–229, 114 Stat. 464, enacted June 30, 2000, 15 U.S.C. ch. 96) is a United States federal law passed by the U.S. Congress to facilitate the use of electronic records and electronic signatures in interstate and foreign commerce by ensuring the validity and legal effect of contracts entered into electronically. . Unilaterally generated electronic records and signatures which are not part of a transaction also are not covered by this Act. The general intent of the ESIGN Act is spelled out in the very first section(101.a), that a contract or signature “may not be denied legal effect, validity, or enforcability solely because it is in electronic form”. This simple statement provides that electronic signatures and records are just as good as their paper equivalents, and therefore subject to the same legal scrutiny of authenticity that applies to paper documents. The Scope of this Act is inherently limited by the fact that it only applies to transactions related to business, commercial (including consumer) and governmental matters. Consequently, transactions with no relation to business, commercial or governmental transactions would not be subject to this Act.The proposing of an amendment to the bylaws of UCO does not fall into the framework covered by the act. The Esign Act is intended to be used as a tool for consumer protection in contracts and transactions and to facilitate commerce. Our petition is a request, not a contract or transaction.  The further assertion that electronic signatures are not permitted under UCO bylaws is also challenged on the basis that the UCO bylaws do not specifically or in general prohibit Esignatures. The bylaw simply says "signatures" No reference is made in the bylaws to the nature of the signatures other than they must be verifiable. We challenge the statement that "attorney language" supports the position of the committee. we question the existence of such an opinion and would like to respond to the attorney who stated it, if such an attorney exists,  so that we can challenge his opinion and defend our position.  For the above stated reasons we respectfully request that the committee reconsider their position on this matter and do the right thing in accepting E signatures as a valid means to make proposals and present petitions to the administration  of Century Village

Do we need a good, practicing Accountant?

Of course, we do!

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So what is wrong with D.Israel? He has a practicing, licensed, in Florida and New York Accountant  Can you guess why he will not take advantage of this free volunteer?

It is easy, he, David Israel considers anybody that objects to him as an enemy and is not to be allowed on any committee.

This in line with the Presidents actions. Where he cannot fill the multitude of available jobs.

I think this is flat-out stupid. I don't think this type of action represents the good of the Village.

I don't think this type of attitude should be allowed to fester!

How can you argue against this?

The most momentous political news of the past week? For my money, it wasn’t James Comey’s Senate testimony, riveting as it was. It was the Kansas Legislature’s decision to defy the governor and raise income taxes — a move that could well be the first step in a transformation of American politics much more far-reaching than anything that could come from Russiagate.

Hear me out. Kansas, under Gov. Sam Brownback, has come as close as we’ve ever gotten in the United States to conducting a perfect experiment in supply-side economics. The conservative governor, working with a conservative State Legislature, in the home state of the conservative Koch brothers, took office in 2011 vowing sharp cuts in taxes and state spending, except for education — and promising that those policies would unleash boundless growth.

The taxes were cut, and by a lot. The cumulative cut was forecast to be $3.9 billion by 2019. A fellow at a right-leaning Missouri think tank said in 2015 that Mr. Brownback’s cuts were “the biggest tax cut of any state, relative to the size of its economy, in recent history.”

The cuts came. But the growth never did. As the rest of the country was growing at rates of just above 2 percent, Kansas grew at considerably slower rates, finally hitting just 0.2 percent in 2016. Revenues crashed. Spending was slashed, even on education: In March, the State Supreme Court ruled that state-level school spending was unconstitutionally low. The court is ideologically mixed, but its ruling was unanimous.

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The experiment has been a disaster. Mr. Brownback is widely disliked. If he has anything to be grateful for, it’s the existence of Gov. Chris Christie, Republican of New Jersey, who recently swiped from him the title of the nation’s most unpopular governor, which Mr. Brownback had held for the better part of three years.

Finally, even the Republican Kansas Legislature faced reality. Earlier this year it passed tax increases, which the governor vetoed. Last Tuesday, the legislators overrode the veto.

Not only is it a tax increase — it’s even a progressive tax increase! A married couple filing jointly and earning $30,000 will pay an additional $120, which is 0.4 percent of total income, while the same couple earning $100,000 will fork over $755, or 0.755 percent. More than half of the Republicans in both houses voted for the increases.

There’s the background. Now, why is this a big deal?

Because Republicans are not supposed to raise taxes, ever. In Washington or in the states. This goes back to President George H. W. Bush’s agreeing to a bipartisan tax increase in 1990 after famously saying in his 1988 campaign, “Read my lips: no new taxes.” Afterward, the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, led by Grover Norquist, started making Republican candidates for Congress and state houses sign a no-tax pledge.

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Ever since, with scattered exceptions, no Republican member of the House or Senate has voted for a tax increase. For 27 years. If you wonder why problems arise and Congress never does anything about them, the tax pledge is usually the answer, or at least an answer.

Think we need to build bridges and roads and lay freight rail lines? Of course we do. But we can’t. It would require a tax. Think rural Americans need better access to broadband? You bet they do. But doing it right would need a tax. Think we ought to be spending far, far more than we are currently on this hideous opioid crisis, with drug overdoses now being the leading cause of death for Americans under 50? We most surely ought to be. But no — gotta pass those tax cuts.

The Republican no-tax position even bears a share of the blame for our current polarization. Republicans once recognized the principle that public purposes sometimes justified the raising of additional revenue. They might have balked at the specific number the Democrats proposed, but they accepted that taxes were negotiable.

This made compromise possible. The agreement between President Ronald Reagan and Speaker Tip O’Neill in 1983 to save Social Security? It’s a famous deal, among insiders, who point to it often as they lament the lost art of the horse trade. It involved benefits cuts — an increase in future retirement ages — and increases in the payroll tax.

Why can’t they make those kinds of deals today, you ask, for any number of issues? It’s not because there’s something in the water. It’s not because of cable news, or social media or even the corrupting influence of big money in politics. It’s because Republicans won’t agree to a penny in tax increases of any kind — income taxes, payroll taxes, the gasoline tax, anything.

So here’s hoping that Kansas represents a breakthrough moment. The effects of our failure to invest in ourselves are all around us. Change won’t come fast — for one thing, very few Americans know the above, because no one talks about it (hello, Democrats). But at least for now we can say, for the first time in a long time, that something finally isn’t the matter with Kansas.

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Petition

Thanks for your help ! Thanks for helping defeat mandatory Wifi and the increased fees that go with it. We appreciate your signing our  " Just Say No to WIFI" petition . Thankfully the initiative was defeated due to your help and our persistent opposition, Now we need your help in a new initiative to give each and every unit owner a vote in the election of UCO officers.  We are presenting a petition to the Advisory Committee to amend the bylaws so that you and all your friends and neighbors in the village have a vote and a say in who represents us. Though we only need 25 signatures on the petition we would like to present a petition with a lot more names as we feel that it will have a more profound effect on the committee To add your name to the growing list of residents who agree click on this link and fill out a simple form. We are also proposing that a new system be adopted that facilitates voting over the internet. though this is not part of our petition we believe it's an idea who's time has come. Becker and Poliakoff, a prominent law firm specializing in HOA and Condominium law is offering an approved system allowing electronic voting over the internet.  Another idea who's time has come !

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SELLING US DOWN THE RIVER

We talk about President Donald Trump every day and it's not very nice

the things we say, read and hear, and perhaps the bloody truth.  Some

people might even say, for instance, that he could screw up a two-car

funeral, even if there was one car.  And, even others might say that he

couldn't find his own rear end with two hands and a GPS.  But, I think

that one thing he is trying to do is clean up the Washington Old Buddy's

Club.  It's all about money, money and money, -- and power, power and

more power, with egos built in.

Let's just throw out one true story of how the Old Buddy's Club works,

and because of money and power, nobody dares talk about it.  How the

Iranians got their nuclear deal.  Very interesting......did you ever wonder

how the Iranians got their nuclear deal from Obama via Secretary of

State John Kerry?  Well, look who is married to John Kerry's daughter.

Who knew?  Surprise!  Did you see anything in the news media regarding

this?  In 2009, the daughter of Secretary of State John Kerry (Dr. Vanessa

Bradford Kerry), married an Iranian physician named Dr. Brian Vale Nahed.

No mainstream media reported this.  Guess who was the best man at the

wedding?  None other than Mohammed Javad Zarif.  Who is Zarif?  He

is current minister of foreign affairs for Iran.  He was Kerry's chief

counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations.  So, Kerry was dealing with

his daughter's father-in-law.  Cozy 'eh?

Can you say "conflict of interest" and "breach of national security" and

"aiding and abetting" one of our principal National Enemies?

Please share this, while noting how the media seems to have withheld

this rather significant news from the American people.  Try this on, ----

keep the story, but switch the Kerry/Trump names and you'd have every-

one in Washington wanting to take trump out back and set him afire, and

the media would have enough hot news for the next couple of years.

Trump is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence, but he is

sure shaking the tree pretty hard to try and get the politicians with umpteen

millions and power to listen to the American people.  Interestingly enough,

Obama knew about Kerry and so did Clinton......members of the Washington

Old Buddy's Club, with secrecy fences higher than the one Trump wants to

build.  450 billion dollars down the tubes and false promises.

Poor Trump, -- if he wasn't so ill-informed about his own policies, and if he

didn't trample on his own talking points, he might turn out to be just a skosh

better than corrupt Nixon.  But, Trump is not a member of the Washington

Old Buddy's Club; he's a self-appointed President of the Big Business

Authoritarian Club.

Now, just think if Senator John Kerry was successful in his run for President.

The Iranians would have everyone here speaking Farsi and all men with

their heads on the floor sniffing like hound dogs and praying three times a

day to Allah.  And, if Hillary Clinton was elected President,.....I don't even

want to go there..... it's too shameful.

If Trump could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of his

troubles, he wouldn't sit for a week.  He needs to join the Club of which

Kerry belonged where everybody with money and power protect everyone

else with money and power no matter what.  And, if a politician talks about

it with evil intent,  --  he is forever shunned.

So, simply put, Kerry becomes family to Iran and sells us down the river,

and Obama (a Club member), has to agree with Kerry for moronic reasons,

but that scenario becomes complex because the Kerry/Obama/Iran picture

cannot include Israel.  Thus, Obama's stance toward Israel is devastating.

Don't you just love America?

EDWARD J.ROSS

A bridge to Hawaii

Sadness, sadness, it appears, seems to be everywhere these days.

Everybody has varying degrees of sadness, from the bombings in

London to who is really the leader of this country, to wondering if 

if global warming is going to put CV under water,  even to what a

mean dictator has  done to this one-time very happy place to retire

knowing that your modest social security check would suffice.

Well, look in the mirror tomorrow morning and if your image smiles

back at you, then you know this day is going to be a good one.  Let's

see if this innocent little funny can show a bunch of your teeth,

real or false.

   A man was walking along a Californian beach and stumbled

   across an old lamp.  He picked it up and rubbed it and out

   popped a genie.

   The genie said "OK, OK.  You released me from the lamp,

   blah blah blah.  This is the fourth time this month and I'm

   getting a little sick of these wishes so you can forget about three

.  You only get one wish!"

   The man sat and thought about it for a while and said, I've always                

   wanted to go to Hawaii but I'm scared to fly and I get very

   seasick.  Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can

   drive over there to visit?"  

   The genie laughed and said, "That's impossible.  Think of

   the logistics of that!  How would the supports ever reach

   bottom of the Pacific?  Think of how much concrete...how

   much steel!!   No - think of another wish."

   The man agreed and tried to think of a really good wish.

   Finally, he said,  "I've been married and divorced four times.

   My wives always said that I don't care that I'm insensitive.

   So, I wish that I could understand women....know how they

   feel inside and what they're thinking when they give me the

   silent treatment....know why they're crying, know what they

   really want when they say 'nothing'....know how to make

   them truly happy...."

   The genie said,  "YOU WANT THAT BRIDGE TO BE

   TWO  LANES OR FOUR?"

   ED ROSS