With his second guest opinion in three weeks, former Councilman Asfour joined the ranks of those of us who like to jerk chains. He’s not nearly as good as I am, but deserves an honorable mention for going after the City Council, the City Manager and City staff in one swell foop.
He decided again to write about the topic that ignites the ire of the Uncivilized Association like no other…Charter Schools. True to form, the Uncivilized Association’s mouthpiece, Lynn Rosko, has given us her opinion on that, and other matters, in her most recent diatribe. I’m sure more Uncivilized Association “diatribes to the editor” will follow Asfour’s latest opinion. They just can’t resist.
Have you noticed that Rosko’s ramblings sound an awfully lot like something Ralphie “The Rant” LePera would say. Yup, in addition to all his other talents (?), Ralphie is a master puppeteer. He not only controls his wife, Lippy, but he also manipulates other feeble minded individuals, like Rosko. It’s frightening to think that a mental lightweight like Ralphie also controls featherweights like Rosko and Lippy, but he “sure do”.
Don’t believe he controls what Lippy says? Okay, just watch her on the dais. Every once in a while, she will hit her head with the palm of her hand, similar to someone trying to clear water out of his ear after a swim. She’s doing that because the transmitter Ralphie planted in her head malfunctions occasionally and starts to pick up re-runs of Happy Days. She has to bump it to get better reception. You have also probably noticed that she waits until everybody else speaks on most topics before she chimes in. She does that so Ralphie, who is watching from a remote location, will have time to think up some responses and feed them to her. It takes him a while.
I’m sure Terry “Tight Lips” Stewart is very unhappy about what Asfour wrote concerning Stewart’s actions and the inactions of his staff in not providing timely information to the Charter School Board. I happened to catch a replay of the School Board meeting and noticed that Asfour wasn’t the only one who seemed a bit miffed about the lack of information from staff members who appeared before the Board.
I thought Carson was going to crawl over the dais and open a “big can o’ whoop ass” on the traffic engineering staff because they were giving him the run around. That didn’t make Stewart very happy either. Rumor has it that Tight Lips’ lips weren’t very tight when he called Carson and asked him not to talk to his staff that way. WELL EXCUUUUSE ME! I don’t know what Carson’s response was, but I know mine would have been, “If your staff did its job, I wouldn’t have to question them!” But, then again, that’s just me.
To add “insult to insult”, Dolores “Befooled” Bertolini lived up to her nickname at last week’s City Council meeting when she said School Board members were receiving answers. They just didn’t like them. Huh? Or should I say duh? That remark makes everything much clearer regarding her lack of accomplishment on the City Council.
The best part about Asfour’s guest opinion was the last paragraph, when he mentioned turning over the Charter Schools to an organization other than the City. HOLY ABOUT FACE BATMAN! That will surely bring out all the “I told you so’s”, who will rant about how Grumpy said that all along. As a matter of fact, don’t be surprised if Grumpy doesn’t write his own guest opinion regarding this very matter. On the other hand, Asfour’s suggestion about turning the Charter Schools over to an organization other than the City may have been just another chain jerk, especially to Grumpy.
After reading what LePera…uh, I mean Rosko, wrote, I’m convinced that bunch could work for the George W. Bush propaganda machine. The machine’s motto is, “why speak the truth when it’s so much more fun to mislead the public”. Rumor has it that one member of the Uncivilized Association was actually a member of the Bush dirty tricks squad during the 2000 Presidential campaign. Since the code name “Deep Throat” was already taken, his handlers decided to call him “Gaping Anus”. I wonder who that could be.
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I see that the City hired an outside consulting firm to analyze its permitting process. According to the article, Lee County did the same thing a few years ago, and its process is much better after it implemented the consulting firm’s recommendations. Query. Why didn’t City staff just go across the river and study Lee County’s process? Wouldn’t that have saved the City considerable time and/or expense? Oops…sorry. I forgot. Saving the taxpayers money is not the prime directive.
And now, emails from readers.
Dear Paco,
You mentioned that somebody named LePera was affiliated with the Staten Island Ferries professional football team. I think I know him. Is his nickname “Cupcake”?
D.A.
Dear D.A.,
Only if God answers prayers.
Dear Paco,
I heard that Vice President Cheney invited you to go on a hunting trip at the request of the Civic Association. Are you going?
R.S.
Dear R.S.
If Ralphie goes with me.
He decided again to write about the topic that ignites the ire of the Uncivilized Association like no other…Charter Schools. True to form, the Uncivilized Association’s mouthpiece, Lynn Rosko, has given us her opinion on that, and other matters, in her most recent diatribe. I’m sure more Uncivilized Association “diatribes to the editor” will follow Asfour’s latest opinion. They just can’t resist.
Have you noticed that Rosko’s ramblings sound an awfully lot like something Ralphie “The Rant” LePera would say. Yup, in addition to all his other talents (?), Ralphie is a master puppeteer. He not only controls his wife, Lippy, but he also manipulates other feeble minded individuals, like Rosko. It’s frightening to think that a mental lightweight like Ralphie also controls featherweights like Rosko and Lippy, but he “sure do”.
Don’t believe he controls what Lippy says? Okay, just watch her on the dais. Every once in a while, she will hit her head with the palm of her hand, similar to someone trying to clear water out of his ear after a swim. She’s doing that because the transmitter Ralphie planted in her head malfunctions occasionally and starts to pick up re-runs of Happy Days. She has to bump it to get better reception. You have also probably noticed that she waits until everybody else speaks on most topics before she chimes in. She does that so Ralphie, who is watching from a remote location, will have time to think up some responses and feed them to her. It takes him a while.
I’m sure Terry “Tight Lips” Stewart is very unhappy about what Asfour wrote concerning Stewart’s actions and the inactions of his staff in not providing timely information to the Charter School Board. I happened to catch a replay of the School Board meeting and noticed that Asfour wasn’t the only one who seemed a bit miffed about the lack of information from staff members who appeared before the Board.
I thought Carson was going to crawl over the dais and open a “big can o’ whoop ass” on the traffic engineering staff because they were giving him the run around. That didn’t make Stewart very happy either. Rumor has it that Tight Lips’ lips weren’t very tight when he called Carson and asked him not to talk to his staff that way. WELL EXCUUUUSE ME! I don’t know what Carson’s response was, but I know mine would have been, “If your staff did its job, I wouldn’t have to question them!” But, then again, that’s just me.
To add “insult to insult”, Dolores “Befooled” Bertolini lived up to her nickname at last week’s City Council meeting when she said School Board members were receiving answers. They just didn’t like them. Huh? Or should I say duh? That remark makes everything much clearer regarding her lack of accomplishment on the City Council.
The best part about Asfour’s guest opinion was the last paragraph, when he mentioned turning over the Charter Schools to an organization other than the City. HOLY ABOUT FACE BATMAN! That will surely bring out all the “I told you so’s”, who will rant about how Grumpy said that all along. As a matter of fact, don’t be surprised if Grumpy doesn’t write his own guest opinion regarding this very matter. On the other hand, Asfour’s suggestion about turning the Charter Schools over to an organization other than the City may have been just another chain jerk, especially to Grumpy.
After reading what LePera…uh, I mean Rosko, wrote, I’m convinced that bunch could work for the George W. Bush propaganda machine. The machine’s motto is, “why speak the truth when it’s so much more fun to mislead the public”. Rumor has it that one member of the Uncivilized Association was actually a member of the Bush dirty tricks squad during the 2000 Presidential campaign. Since the code name “Deep Throat” was already taken, his handlers decided to call him “Gaping Anus”. I wonder who that could be.
PAGE TWO
I see that the City hired an outside consulting firm to analyze its permitting process. According to the article, Lee County did the same thing a few years ago, and its process is much better after it implemented the consulting firm’s recommendations. Query. Why didn’t City staff just go across the river and study Lee County’s process? Wouldn’t that have saved the City considerable time and/or expense? Oops…sorry. I forgot. Saving the taxpayers money is not the prime directive.
And now, emails from readers.
Dear Paco,
You mentioned that somebody named LePera was affiliated with the Staten Island Ferries professional football team. I think I know him. Is his nickname “Cupcake”?
D.A.
Dear D.A.,
Only if God answers prayers.
Dear Paco,
I heard that Vice President Cheney invited you to go on a hunting trip at the request of the Civic Association. Are you going?
R.S.
Dear R.S.
If Ralphie goes with me.
Whether you’re the hunter or the hunted, you heard it through the Capevine.
