More on the DA.

So what happened at the Delegate Assembly last Friday? Nothing, not much. The security agreement was up for approval in a hurry. We were asked to approve it before we read it.

The great mediator the T-shirted President was in rare form. He was over bearing, boorish and sometimes just plain impolite.

He listened to the Delegates almost with disdain, then he would make a decision that was against the Roberts Rules that we are supposed to operate by.

He decides what is passed and what is not passed. Objections are ignored.

He must be the one to go. He brags that before he came on board there was no information as to the contracts signed by UCO. He claims the publishing of any and all contracts to the Delegates is strictly due to himself.

He also claims no knowledge of people that are not on his mailing list. Although I know for a fact that I have been banned from his Email list.

He should resign, now.

Vote for Phyllis she will be the ray of sunshine needed.

Mass shootings

How can it happen that this last shooter announced his intentions on social media, maybe Facebook, maybe twitter, no matter, and nobody alerted the Police? How can it be that there were people that knew about this before it happened and did not alert the Police?

What is the matter with us? We stand quietly by and watch 10-13 people be killed and say nothing? We  don't want to be involved.

This has to change. See something say something. Every thing that happens affects all of us! There is no "I don't want to be involved."

$8000 pool picture?

There is something seriously wrong at the Club House. Specifically in the Managers office. To be specific with EVA, the manager.

She seems to think that she can ask for anything for the Club House or the Club House pools and UCO will automatically make it happen.

That is the story with the $8000 underwater/wall mural. She has put in a request to UCO, read us, the Village, to provide the money.

I don't know what will happen here, but I, for one, am against this waste of money.

It seems to me if the Club House owners, Mr. Levy's family and the Benenson's want to increase their investment in the Club House why must we pay for it? If they want to increase the value of their investment, why must we pay for it?

What is Eva thinking?

Judy was out this morning delivering Newspapers when she encountered a deputy Sheriff at Andover F. He is investigating reports that an elderly resident was attacked at an ATM . He said that the man was injured and had marks on his face and arms. No other details at this time, but I will look into it and see if I can find out more info. Any one else have any info ?

Neil J. Moore

Who is Dragging us down?

In reading the latest issue of "The other Newspaper" I read an unbelievable article bashing the Messenger club in general and myself in particular. I have mixed feelings about some of the writings in the article. I am quite happy that the other newspaper finally realized that our little paper is a cause for concern. I am also quite happy that they are scrambling to confront some of  the issues that The CV Messenger raised in the last few months. Issues that until the advent of the CV Messenger were stonewalled or swept under the rug in the pathetic attempt to portray the village as a perfect paradise, when in reality there were, and still are a lot of objectionable issues that need attention.

The author objects to articles published on the basis that they are not written by a unit owner, as though not being an owner somehow puts renters into the category of second class citizens. To maintain that just because a person does not own property they are not invested in the welfare of the community is absurd, comments that "renters" should  have no status and no voice in the community harkens back to the days of Jim Crow laws and smacks of bigotry and discrimination. Ranting about the people making objections  rather than addressing the issues is the last defense of the scoundrel.

The author goes on to say that the videos and pictures posted on the Internet are a source of embarrassment and are " dragging the village down " I say that if anyone is embarrassed by actual pictures or videos showing stinking fish and rotten vegetation then they should do something about it. Keeping quiet while the fish rot on the shores is not an effective approach to solving anything. The issue of the scummy water was brought to the attention of the administration a year or more before the video was produced. Due to the lack of action and the ignorant attitude of the administration it was decided to show everyone the truth in the hope that they would be embarrassed and do something about it. The same thing can be said for the Sheffield O situation which festered for more than three years .  that's  a situation that would definitely " Drag us down" . The CV Messenger printed the story, suddenly there was a mad  scramble to do something. The Sheffield O issue is finally being  recognized as a threat to the village and something is being done to fix it. Perhaps the author of the article would be inclined to encourage his family to invest in a unit in Sheffield O and live  there despite investing  unknowingly  under the threat of termination and living among a transient population.  Besides: why would you worry about property prices unless you are speculating in the hope of making money rather than enjoying retirement ?

Finally: in response to the question : "Why are you dragging us down ?" I would have to respond by saying I'm not dragging anything down. The recent wasting of millions of dollars in a botched paving job, The stories circulating the village (whether true or not) about the fleecing of residents in repairing the clubhouse after the hurricanes,  the abolition of term limits and candidates debates and the censorship of village media, the loss of the golf course , the scummy water in the lake, the animosity and frustrations at the assemblies, the ignoring of residents pleas for help , the ill treatment of volunteers, the censorship of village media and the imposition of unreasonable regulations regarding clubhouse use , the frivolous spending on the WPRF facilities that can be compared to leasing a car, spending thousands to customize it, then giving it back to the leasing company, and  uncontrolled spending  that goes on and on causing rates to go up and up   are all things that are dragging Century Village down.

 I am motivated to reveal the things that are actually dragging us down to allow others to see the reality and  hope that it will compel  those in a position of authority to do something instead of hiding and ignoring things.

Neil J Moore

Marilyn G and fairness!!

Marilyn Gorodetzer knows not of what she speaks. She has pontificated and for all intents and purposes has turned the CVMessenger club down, all by herself. She has decided that if a political activity was to be held in the synagogue it would affect their IRS 501c3 status.

Not true! It will not. Turning down one of the Clubs public functions. Debates from all the candidates smacks of meanness and suffocation of any kind of political action against the "in-crowd".  But perhaps this will backfire on her since she is wrong on this decision and obviously shows her political stance. Which is a member of the in-crowd, and against all other political efforts. That is all the opposition.

However none of this will make any difference when David Israel follows John Boehner out the door.

To continue, what is wrong with supporting candidate night at the Synagogue? What is wrong with giving the candidates a forum and free expression. Giving all candidates a opportunity to express their take on our problems. Believe me we have enough of them, problems not candidates.


Apparently Marilyn thinks not!

Can you believe this?

First the great Presidential President started a rumor that he was resigning, if true, a  good idea.

Now he is having second thoughts as to how to get rid of Esther. He is asking his attorney for a decision that says she holds her committee position illegally and he want to remove her. The attorney on-a-string of course, right or wrong, will supply this outrageous opinion.

I'll give you an opinion. Back off, leave her alone. You manufacture a rule to remove her and so will I.

The fact that he assigned her to that position, since she was next in line. That it follows the rules of the By-Laws does not have anything to do with it. He wants her out and he will try any sleazy trick to remove her.

But we, the DA, are all watching and we will not allow it.

Another thing going is the Pressure by the Manager of the Club House, Eva Rachevsky, advising Olga that she will be banned from the Club House if she does not stop asking for signatures for a petition. The problem that Eva has is that she has 2 Bosses, one is the Levy's and the other is the spiteful UCO president.

This type of activity will not be allowed.

If we allow this overbearing actions upon Olga, who will be next?

More lies, baloney and fabrications

MORE LIES FROM THE UCO REPORTER

Joy Vestal and Myron Silverman co-editors of the UCO Reporter published a vicious hate letter written by executive board member Milton Cohen. They have allowed Mr. Cohen to spew his prejudicial lies about Esther Sutofsky without the benefit of giving Esther the opportunity to respond.  This was another case of discrimination fostered by Joy and her co-conspirator puppet, Myron Silverman.  They have further disgraced the Reporter. Here are MY answers to Mr. Cohen.

Mr. Cohen stated in his letter to the editor that Ms Sutofsky marred The September Delegate Assembly, when she asked people who disagreed with the officers to turn their backs on them and walk out of the hall.  The fact is the people who left were disgusted with David Israel for not allowing them to vote on petitions sent to the delegate assembly -  they walked out in protest  on  their own accord.  The people who wanted to speak did not walk out.

Mr. Cohen goes on to disrespect Ms.  Sutofsky by referring to her as a so-called educator.  The reality is Ms.  Sutofsky is highly educated and was principal of a school for many years. I doubt Mr. Cohen has as much education or experiences other than as a police officer saying, “STOP-DON’T-MOVE.”

 Mr. Cohen continues to say Ms Sutofsky’s first act as an elected official was to disrupt our assembly and deny other homeowners the opportunity to hear useful and important information. Ms Sutofsky and others have always stated their adverse opinions in the delegate assembly and if Mr. Cohen believes that to state one's opinion is to disrupt maybe he wants to go back to the time of Hitler Germany when anyone who spoke against the Fuehrer was bashed over the head and thrown out of the auditorium.

Mr. Cohen further states, the people - meaning the officers - have worked hard and have Century Village welfare at heart -  Really?  The people in David’s administration do not have the welfare of the village at heart. They are only interested in satisfying their own egos. If they really cared about the village, they would be screaming about David Israel wasting six million dollars on a crappy road job.

Because the protesters walked out of the delegate meeting, Mr. Cohen accuses Ms Sutofsky of denying the villagers an opportunity to learn about upcoming events such as the Thanksgiving Day dinner, and the honor flight for WWII veterans. No one ever held a gun to anyone's head and told them to leave – they left on their own accord. Bettie Bleckman started the Thanksgiving Day Dinner at the Clubhouse - it was her initial idea. She planned and supervised the first dinner and  Mr.  Cohen now wants to take credit.  As for the Honor flight, anyone person who does not respect the freedom Veterans fought for has no business being part of the tradition to honor them. 

In his final paragraph, Mr. Cohen claims to be suspect of Ms.  Sutofsky’s patriotism. The truth is, a real patriot is one who believes in freedom of Speech, The Press, Freedom of Assembly, Equal Rights, Freedom to petition and the right to bear arms. The true patriot is Esther Sutofsky, who is fighting for these freedoms not Milton Cohen, who is fighting against them.    Mr. Cohen continues to recall the people who spat upon the veterans returning home from Korea and Vietnam. He indirectly accuses her of taken part in this act. Truth is she was about three or four years old during the Korean War. Can you really envision   a three or four-year-old spitting at a vet. As for the Vietnam War, protesters knew it was a dirty war, which killed mainly Latinos, African Americans and other minorities and lined the pockets of the big corporations - it was a war fought for profits, not freedom.  Years later, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a hawk, from the Kennedy administration apologized to the American people and   admitted the war was a grave mistake.

I am sorry to say Mr. Cohen; you make me regret we fought so hard to keep people like you alive during the Vietnam war. History has proven us right. Can you say the same for the vitriolic smut you wrote about in the UCO Reporter? No, I will bet you cannot. Esther Sutofsky happens to be an intelligent compassionate person who puts people before herself. It is too bad you,  Milton Cohen , cannot do the same.  

Joy Vestal and Myron Silverman are a disgrace to the editorial profession.  

Oh, the shame of it.

This article was originally published in the CVMessenger.

​​​We, all of us members of UCO, pay for EVERYTHING, even if we don't own it. Take the Main Clubhouse, for instance. We pay for taxes, insurance, maintenance, employees, electricity, water, repairs........and it goes on and on and on, just like we own the building and grounds.

We even pay for the air we breathe in the clubhouse.
So, one might think.....then how come we can't use the building in the manner that we wish?

It is my understanding that WPRF, using their attorney, wrote up a document stating that authoritative decisions were granted to UCO. The letter was written to UCO, namely, David Israel. Legally, I am advised, Israel has no right to make any decisions that arbitrarily affect members of UCO, --- about 14,000 members. The Board of Directors has that right, and they are the DELEGATES.

WPRF's attorney has stated in the past that all inquiries should be made to the UCO President because he holds the right to tell everyone what they can and can't do relative to the use of
the clubhouse. Eva is merely following orders. Where is that letter? Israel first made the statement that no such letter was ever written, -- then he recanted and stated that the letter is lost.

WHO IS LYING?

Israel does not want to produce the letter because it could put him in serious hot water. It would put him on the wrong side of a legal argument and he can't tolerate being put in such a position.

Just to simplify things to put them in proper perspective and understanding what injustices have occurred: Assume you rent an apartment in the Village. You're given a rental agreement that says you pay for the real estate taxes, insurance, electric, condo fees, and water and sewer. Then by some third-party agreement in writing you are unaware of, you are advised that you can't hang any pictures on the walls, you must keep your shades down all of the time, and you can use the toilets only 4 times a week, unless the third party says that you can. What do you say ......Okay!! You stand up, if you have any backbone, and tell the Owner to go pound sand.

David Israel has plenty of these backroom nasty secrets. Where is that letter Mr. Israel?
You knew that WPRF couldn't prevent all UCO members from using the clubhouse in a manner they saw fit, so you solicited WPRF and was secretly granted the power to impose certain sanctions upon use of the clubhouse, just like you owned the building personally.

WHERE IS THAT LETTER, MR. ISRAEL? LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES

EDUARDO

Read more about the underhanded tactics of CV administration in the SCANDALS SERIES BY EDUARDO

Resigned at last!

This is good news. Is he, our most Presidential President, quitting? Is he actually getting ready to resign and allow somebody else to try to tame the CV financial problems. Yes and that is Good news.

We need some fresh air in the UCO Politics and getting rid of this old and tired President is one way to get it.

I hope the resignation is true.

After David Israel is resigned we can continue with the rest of the job at hand. Getting rid of the haters, the liars, the untruth sayers, the name callers.

This will all be good.

Budgetary

You see, we sit here and are unhappy with the budget and how big the increase is. But Eva has no problem with asking for, and probably getting, $8000 for a underwater mural. Not needed! If she thinks they need a underwater mural how about having the Levy/Benenson trust provide the cash?

So if I understand it, our Treasurer is fighting to present a budget with no increase this year. So far he has not accomplished it. I hear numbers from $2, $3 and $4 for a unit increase. I have heard a lot more but I wont say it, yet.

The plan that Eva has for the improving the Club house could mean a increase of $8 per unit per month. Add this to the $2,, $3, or $4 per unit per month and you get a un-real number.

And none of this attacks the main Village problems.

Pay attention Delegates we have been fooled by slight of hand politics before!

OUR OWN SHAKESPERIAN ROLE MODEL

(A little introductory note - this posting was written in response to a nasty letter posted by Joy Vestal in the paper, along with her co-editor Myron Silverman and her asst. editor Don Foster and written by Milton Cohen

Milton Cohen, thou art an ass. One with the gall of a demented frog. Don't like hearing the truth? Well, then you need to heal from your brain -mouth connectus interruptus and watch what you write.

Here is some information worthy of your perusal. After you read that, read on and see how things can escalate because of one's thoughtless actions and statements.

"Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person."

That is the definition of defamation.

To recover damages in a lawsuit, a person must show:

"evidence of four elements: that the defendant conveyed a defamatory message; that the material was published, meaning that it was conveyed to someone other than the plaintiff; that the plaintiff could be identified as the person referred to in the defamatory material; and that the plaintiff suffered some injury to his or her reputation as a result of the communication."

Oh dear, oh dear. Would you like to publish a retraction of your comments on my patriotism or is accusing me of being a traitor satisfactory to you? Your choice. In the meanwhile, while you try to re-engage your brain, let's take a look at your letter to the prejudiced editor who, by the way, should have contacted me to present my response to such a defamatory letter or should never have printed it at all. Oh, well, she will be part and parcel of the suit unless an apology is received - in public - where I and many others are witness to it - hey, like the DA. What an idea! Anyway, to your printed garbage.

First up, your "so called educator" comment. As I do not recall you or a child of yours or any one related or connected to you as one of my many wonderful educational kids, and certainly not one of the many who write to me, I would like to know where you get your information from and how you intend to prove this statement. Bad idea as you will have lost this from the getgo. But even if I were the worst educator in the world what does who I was in my professional life have to do with that DA? Perhaps you were a lousy student? Just saying.

Since when is protest an un-American act. Walking out of an assembly of some type, particularly when it is basically rigged, is a time honored American tradition. I am truly sorry if your reading and thinking ability might preclude you from reading about this but perhaps TV might help you with that. And doing so with dignity, after I spoke quietly and with respect to the president of UCO, and getting the answer I fully expected, yes, I asked people to walk out and yes, several people knew that I would ask this of them if it came to that but did I ask all of them? NO! Did I force anyone to take this action? NO!!! These people walked out because they were disgusted at the UCO pattern of behavior. And pray, tell me what my husband speaking has to do with the man in the moon. I know he spoke at some point but so what? Maybe you were bullied by your wife or you bullied her, but in my marriage, independent thinking is allowed and by the way, Gerry is considered to be one of the best guys in town so watch yourself here, Shakespeare's ass.

In any case, you accuse me of depriving people of the right to hear what else was to be said at the DA. Are you truly an idiot? Never mind, asked and answered. How, may I ask, was I to know what was to come and who cares anyway. People have the right to choose their own behaviorisms and are not held prisoner. In fact, walking out on the DA seems to have become an honored tradition here in the Village. Just watch the tapes and see how many are left at the end. And by the way, this action was towards the end of the DA anyway, so please, go see if it is raining around the corner. Hopefully that will not strain your brain too much.

The next bit is just really over the top. Here I am accused of misbehavior towards our soldiers of the Korean and Vietnam war. Well, considering that I was 3 - 4 years old when the Korean War ended in a truce, I believe that fear of being "potched" should I spit at anyone, would have kept me from doing so and certainly my parents did not raise me that way and they would have been appalled at such behavior. At that age I certainly did not disobey my parents.

As far as Vietnam, how dare you. While I at first believed the lies that our government told us about the Bay of Tonkin, I eventually saw the truth and the horror of it, the need to get the hell out and bring our boys and girls home, safely. Never, not then and not now, would I ever disrespect a serviceman of our nation. I am still my parents' child, dear Oberon. Thank you for your service if you fought over there, but I am indeed sorry that it was a wasted war, as are most wars, as war truly does not leave any victors. And by the way, just a question of conjecture - how did you behave when you walked into a Vietnamese village? My Lai ring any bells?

Now if you can explain why you bring in religion to the next topic I would be ever so grateful and here is something that is going to bite you in your rear.

"....the patriotism of people like Ms. Sutofsky, who seek to destroy our monthly meetings, is suspect."

Really? Now that takes balls to accuse me of being unpatriotic. I have no need to prove to you or anyone else in your demented and deluded world of my patriotism. We have no more Gene McCarthy, no more HUAC, though some of today's politicians are just as nuts in their own ways. How dare you say - print - such a statement. You will not have a great deal of fun in court trying to prove that statement while on the contrary I will laugh at your struggles and stupidity in the first place!

Now, fair is fair so let me ask you a few questions. Remember, these are general questions, asking about alleged possibilities in your past life as a NYC policeman. So....were you an officer serving at any of the precincts involved in corruption? If so, please delineate your actions so that you can try to keep your name clear and clean. If you were involved, did these alleged actions stop? When? Were you ever disciplined for alleged misdoings and deeds? If so, how , when and why? Just asking? Just raising a few possibilities.

Did you behave with the mindset of the police at the time, meaning did you ever beat any person brought in for questioning? How free were you with your nightstick? Did you respect the rights of the accused to immediately retain a lawyer and refuse to speak to any personnel? Did you keep any suspects from sleeping, a designated and known torture technique? Did you stop people because of racial or ethnic appearance? Did these alleged possible behaviors ever attach themselves to your portfolio of police techniques. Were you a cop from Public Morals or from SVU?

Remember, these questions are all concerned with alleged possible behavior and action. I am not accusing you, only asking, only conjecturing whilst you, my dear ass of Shakespearian proportion, actually accused me and hence left yourself WIDE open. Oh, dear. Tsk, tsk.

An apology will help, will go a long way, and tell your disgraced and disgraceful journalist who allowed this to be printed in her RAG, that an apology had better be forthcoming - both orally and in print. In public and in the next issue and even on the blog as this is also where it is found. Oh the messes one can get oneself into. Dearie, dearie, me - and you!

Think about it, drain your gall, recharge your brain and close your nasty little mouth unless it is to apologize. Unpatriotic indeed! Just who exactly is it, by the way, that violated the Constitution every day here with closure of media to people, with abrogation of the right to freely assemble and speak to others and to those Shakespearian critters who blindly follow on his trail? Brain/mouth connectus interruptus, a serious malady indeed.

Resign David Israel!

So the best thing that David Israel could do at this juncture is to follow the lead of John Boehner. Resign and give some other people a chance and see how much better they could improve Village life and and how much better they could run Century Village.

I hear a rumor that the existing President, the deep misogynist, D.Israel, (after all he did publically called one of his female volunteers a toxic tart, nice) is getting out of the kitchen, to hot. In the meantime he is supposedly picked a replacement and is grooming him. So I guess he doesn't have anyone that could just sit down in room 101 and run UCO.

 We do!!

I'll bet you didn't  know that the UN honors term limits. One term for all offices. I wonder why?

Term Limits revisited, again

There are a lot of people here, in Century Village that do not understand the reasons for Term Limits, or don't want to know.

200 years age Ben Franklin had some thoughts.

"Opponents charge that limits are inherently antidemocratic, that people should be free to elect to office whomever they want and that voters inherently have the power to limit terms simply by voting incumbents out. But judging by the huge support that term limits have usually won at the ballot box—and still enjoy in most local polls—large numbers of citizens feel that a political system without limits is a stacked deck. Any system that allows incumbents to amass so much power and attention in office that challengers can rarely win is surely in need of a corrective." 

He said this 200 years ago. Today those words still ring true.

But don't take my words for this. Read some more.

The notion that only one person — the incumbent — can do the job well is absurd. Problematically, we continue to elect the incumbent because of name recognition and party affiliation rather than a proven track record. Realistically, there is usually someone just as qualified to take over the incumbent’s office.

Why Do We Need Term Limits?

John Adams said, “Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey”. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits, and UCO needs term limits.

Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress and in particular, in UCO. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests. Power corrupts and total power corrupts totally.

Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. and 100% in UCO.

Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, and friends in high places. it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of UCO to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress, and the members of the UCO Clique.

Term Limits will break the power that special interest groups have in Congress, and for the selection of Committee members in UCO.

Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas. 

Disgruntled Comcaster.

COMCAST TV – NOT THE GREATEST

Out on the golf course doesn’t seem to be the greatest pastime anymore. It costs too much and takes too much of your time. Walking and physical fitness seems to have been creeping up steadily. So, in between what you like to do and maybe forced to do is getting some munchies and hoisting a few before a movie-sized TV screen. A great pastime for the Century Village aging community, even with 60% story and 40% ads, or on some shows 50%-50%.

But, how many of you have experienced your TV making weird noises, your picture flutters and then dies right before your eyes. It then looks like your TV went bust, but after a bunch of scuffing noises, and picture interferences, your screen goes blank. If you fool around with the buttons, and that’s probably the average thing that people do, you might get information on your screen that it is re-loading, re-booting or what have you, and it will take five minutes, or a certain loss of picture code that you need to talk to Comcast about and it gives you a phone number, or a half-dozen sets of instructions that cause you to foam at the mouth.

So, you’re watching your favorite program or the news or you’re into a movie and you lose your picture and it doesn’t’ want to come back so quick. Totally flustered, you then pick up the phone and if you have a phone number handy, you call COMCAST. Now, you’re in for an experience.

Of course, you’ve got to have the patience of a 5 o’clock commuter on Okee. Aha, you reach a live person, - a real person who you can converse with you who speaks an unfamiliar dialect. You explain your problem to this person. That person is sympathetic and kind and appears to have a prepared document to read from. If you’re like the average person, you get this TV picture loss frequently. As a matter of fact, some people lose their TV picture 3 or 4 times a day. Others, 2 or 3 times a week. And even others who say that they never lose their TV picture and they’re either lying or they don’t watch TV very much.

You convince the COMCAST person over the phone that the problem you’re having occurs so often that you really need a technician to come out to your apartment. They try 10 or 20 different ways to talk you out of it, but if you hang in there, they’ll agree to send a technician our in 2 or 3 days hence. So, you’ll suffer a little while longer. But, it doesn’t end with that call. Subsequently, you’ll get a call from India, - yes India. And that person - speaking a broken King’s English - is going to try and walk you through getting your TV to work again instead of having a technician come out. Yeah, that’s right, -- from India a person is going to tell a 70 or 80 year old CV resident how to correct the problem.

Then you’ll be inundated with follow-up calls from COMCAST, some of which are electronic, and intimidating the hell out of you. You could get 3 or 4 calls the days before they intend to be at your apartment to be sure that you’re going to be home, and their window is about 5 hours.

Well, it doesn’t work well at all. Your TV will not be fixed. It will happen again and again. Alright, the technician arrives, and he may be at your apartment not on the day scheduled. The tech goes through the motions, looks things over a bit, goes downstairs to their distribution panel box, maybe installs a new resistor or installs a new cable box or tells you that you had a loose wire, or some other cockamamie story that he or she hopes you will accept. COMCAST will even try to bill you about $40 if they determine that it was not their equipment at fault.

We, the people of Century Village, have a continuing contract with COMCAST for over three million dollars a year. And, besides that, - you’re paying monthly. And, believe it or not, if you’re a new owner, you’re expected to pick up your necessary equipment from COMCAST and install if yourself. If COMCAST has to come out to your apartment and install the equipment, including the necessary cables, - then you’ll need to pay for that work. There is nothing in the contract that says otherwise.

Alright, you pay, then, it doesn’t work so good. Then what? Try going to UCO and discussing that faulty TV picture problem, and asking them to resolve the ongoing issue with COMCAST. You are treated like you’re a trouble maker. They don’t know how to handle the matter nor do they want to. The big question is “WHY?” Instead of telling COMCAST that they’re not delivering a service which is expected of them, they choose to back away and do nothing.

Why is the UCO administration (Israel & Black) doing nothing about continuous COMCAST TV problems happening throughout the Village? It’s like the $5.2 million dollar paving job; award it and then do nothing to see to it that it’s carried out correctly. It’s like buying a loaf of bread for 10 bucks and then finding out the bread is stale and you’re doing nothing about it.

From what I have learned, COMCAST does not want to increase their signals or do whatever they have to do in order to correct this ongoing TV picture problem that is happening to many, many people. COMCAST, it seems, has taken a band aid approach with the intention of pacifying CV residents until they “learn to live with it.”

If you have experienced any part of what I’ve spoken about hereinabove, then in order to get this current administration to act, you need to band together and make demands upon UCO to get COMCAST to fix the problems or violate their service contract; in which case monetary penalties may be in order. Demand that UCO deal with the problem because they have the contract with COMCAST not you. Oh, they’ll try to give you a BS story as to why you must deal directly with COMCAST yourself. Don’t let them get away with it . . . make it their problem.

Three million dollars plus, - - one would expect no problems. But, if there are problems, one would expect that they would be fixed expeditiously, without cost to the apartment owner, and the fixes are made permanently. Bob Marshall, -- are you listening and do you care? Are you capable of being able to address this matter prior to your trips to purchase cookie and cake using a permission note?

EDUARDO

Money Money Money

Where is your money going? Prepare to spend more Round and round down the bottomless hole For what? A mural in the indoor pool. Stew Richland How long can you go without spending money?  I bet its more time than WPRF. WPRF is our money pit.  Many years ago, I was given very sage advice by a dear friend who told me “NEVER BUY A BOAT.”  It’s a money pit.  It just keeps sucking you dry.  Good advice.  Well I did not take it.  From the day my buddy and I docked our Titanic, it began to suck us dry.  Docking fees, pulling the craft out of the water, fixing leaks, and on one Thanksgiving day, I was called by the marina owner that my boat was sinking. Shortly after that the boat was sold.  Good advice not taken.  Well WPRF is like beginning to look like Century Villages Titanic.  . Our pools are one of our great attractions and should be kept up.  However, when the pools are repaired, the shelf life of the job should be long enough so that we have the opportunity to fill the money pot to do the job again when it has to be updated. I ask you? Do we need a mural in the indoor pool?.  What purpose does it serve?  Just part of the money pit.  I wonder how many people use Duck Island?   I question that we are going to get our monies worth when that project is finished. Is it necessary to put in more decorative plants around the club house?  There  are two movies that clearly mirror the WPRF problem we are facing: The Money Pit and Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House.”  These two films clearly illustrate what could happen to any one, if proper planning and due diligence is not maintained.  I am not taking a position that repair and upkeep should not be planned because of the costs involved.  I just demand a very close accounting of what is to done, the cost of the projects, and is the project really necessary.

LANNY HOWE PUTS HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH AGAIN.

Lanny suggests on  David’s blog a compromise between opposing factions  should come to a consensus on some matters.  Which matters, he does not say. Is it the matter of spending millions of dollars or is it the matter of deciding to put one or two rolls of toilet paper in a stall?  I can be certain any compromise under the tutelage of David Israel would be limited to the toilet paper.

 

 David Israel is a dictator, and dictators will feed you peanuts while they eat steak.   Sorry folks, a peaceful co-existence is out of the question. We will not stand by while they stuff their  belly,  and we go hungry.

Lanny goes on to say he knows a top College board of managers who operate by “sense of the meeting."  Any college board that  operates by sense of the meeting must be smoking the weed.  On the other hand, maybe it’s’ Lanny smoking the stuff.

Oh Yes, Lanny wants Harmony.  I think he has been singing falsetto too long.  He’s so out of tune he needs to drop out of the chorus.

Lanny’s failing memory forgets that David Israel is a dictator,  and dictators do not compromise – they tell people what to do, and if they do not do it;  they get fired. 

Wake up Lanny, it’s time to rise and shine.     

In Memorian

• In memoriam.

Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and characters, and an anchor of 10 Yankee World Series championship teams, died at 90 on Tuesday.

Continue reading the main storyBut he may be more widely known for his unwittingly witty epigrams, known asYogi-isms, like, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”

Pest removal!

So where does this leave us ? Lets take a look.

First what are the complaints? They are numerous and they all should be addressed.

DA with their Heads in the Sand

Here is the list.

1. There is no coherent plan to take care of the road situation. Waiting is no option. We are not putting any money away now for the future. The roads will need to be repaired soon.
2. The Broadband committee should be disbanded or at the least the continued investigation into Israel's baby, Village wide Wi-Fi. It  is here and it works It works fine.
3. The lack of using all available Volunteers. The smart one does not like to use any of his oppositional people as Volunteers. Who gives him the right to pick and choose? Esther is available and so far has not been utilized. So is Howard Silver.
4. The sneaky way the contracting is run. We have contracts out there that were never presented to the Delegate assembly. Why is that OK?
5. The terrible way the access to channel 63 is done, No opposition, please. Or the CV Recorder, no oppositional pieces please.
6. Or the way the Club maintains rules that squash the all opposition to access. That is the Jewish Journal is allowed in the Clubhouse but not the CVMessenger.

Why is right about all this.

This is the way the Current President wants to operate. I say enough!!

Term limits are required. Vote yes.

Lets get rid of the power hungry pests now!!

Answers

This is my thinking on the right to free speech.

Yes Olga, You are right you have the right to say what ever you want, when ever you want and the President of UCO has no right to take that away from you, or even try. No matter the Baker law.

Yes George you have the right to have your own opinion as to who should be up for election and who does not. If you look back to FDR you will see the GOP had the same problem. They solved it with Term Limits.

Your second paragraph is not so easy to answer. Israel has taken the bit and has denied us our usual rights. Although he may be correct that all Votes by the Delegate Assembly must be first approved by the Executive. In actual practice all Petitions, passed or not by the Executive Committee are brought before the Delegates for approval. So Israels using this small and relative unknown line in the By-Laws is tantamount to lying to the Assembly and might as well be, lying to the entire Village. The Delegates should be allowed to vote on this issue.

All this is doing is giving us some time to build up some strength.

Yes you are correct George, we may not have enough Votes to do everything we want, or there were just a lot of people that are with us and decided to stay and see what will happen. In any case we are building up some strength and the Bully Terrorist is losing some. Remember my story about Israel mumbling thru Publix at me, mumbling about Cyber Terrorist

So where does that leave us. This not the end ,this is not the beginning of the end, it is just the end of the beginning.

Things are beginning to change. Things will get better!

Term Limits are needed.