[Vision2020] "My Town" and Eddie Haskell

[Carl Westberg]

Joan, I just thought of something that's not related to this.  But I  
realized that Seattle is playing Carolina in the NFC Championship game 
Sunday in Seattle.  I'm a die-hard Seahawk fan, you are from North Carolina. 
  The game starts while you and I will still be on the air.  (Parenthetical 
aside, we are now on the air from 2-4 pm, starting this Sunday.)  Is this 
going to cause a problem?  Or have you seen the light regarding the Seahawks 
as you have with the Mariners?  And, sister Joan, if, I say IF Seattle makes 
the Super Bowl, can I have Super Bowl Sunday off?  I pretty much lead my 
life vicariously through regional sports teams, and if the Seahawks should 
somehow win the Super Bowl, it would, by projection, affirm my own 
wonderfulness.  This is something the Mariners and Vandals have not 
accomplished.                                                                
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                 Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at earthlink.net>
>To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>CC: Lois Blackburn <lblackburn at turbonet.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] "My Town" and Eddie Haskell
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:21:55 -0800
>
>Dear Visionaries:
>
>What's the best way to bring a Super WalMart to Moscow?  If you're Wilson 
>flunkies Doug Farris and Dale Courtney, you act like Eddie Haskell on 
>"Leave it to Beaver."  You identify prominent and public opponents of the 
>Super WalMart, you oil up your forked tongue, and then you get on the phone 
>and call your opponents' bosses, colleagues, and boards of directors and 
>you tittle-tattle your crispy little heart out.  What a pair of dweebs.  I 
>can just picture those two in high school, hiding under the bleachers, 
>peeking up the head cheerleader's skirt.  No, wait -- they probably weren't 
>that cool.   They were ones in the principal's office, reporting hall pass 
>violations and complimenting the school secretary on her beautiful new 
>hairdo.
>
>Honestly, why do they bother?  It's foolish, it's juvenile, and as far as I 
>can tell, it doesn't work.  Nevertheless, this is the oldest and dirtiest 
>of the many dirty tricks in the Kirk's dirty bag.  As I recall, Doug Wilson 
>and Roy Atwood tried a version of this on Sean Quinlan and Bill Ramsey back 
>when the two UI professors wrote "Southern Slavery: As It Wasn't," a well 
>researched and academically sound critique of Doug Wilson and Steve 
>Wilkins' "Gone with the Wind" revisionist nonsense.  Wilson and Atwood 
>complained to Ramsey and Quinlan's dean and to UI's president; they pissed 
>and moaned to the Lewiston Tribune and the Daily News; they even tried 
>writing to Governor Kempthorne, all in a vain attempt to get Quinlan and 
>Ramsey fired.  Or perhaps they were hoping that teacher would make the 
>professors stay after school and clap erasers?
>
>Farris and Courtney are beyond a joke, but here's what I wonder: why are 
>they so hell-bent on bringing a Super WalMart to Moscow?  What's in it for 
>them?  Can they really not afford the high price of Winco toilet paper?  Or 
>is this latest effort another part and parcel of Doug Wilson's "strategic 
>plan" to hold the center of Moscow?  I don't think there's any doubt that a 
>Super WalMart would have a profoundly negative effect on downtown retail -- 
>even more negative, say, than having New St. Andrews' students hogging up 
>the retail parking.  A truly dead downtown (or one that's been reduced to 
>Cheyne-Stokes breathing) would go a long way toward making Doug's vision 
>for his very own Trinity World Moscow much easier to enact.
>
>But then again, I don't know.  Little Dale and Little Doug are engaged in 
>some nasty work here, but I must give Doug Wilson his due.  He's a clever 
>man; Dale Courtney and Doug Farris are not.  They are clumsy, oafish, 
>ineffective and obvious.  Somehow, I find it hard to picture the bright 
>pastor sending Laurel and Hardy to do the work of Mr. Tulip and Mr. Pin,* 
>not when he has Jones and Atwood at his beck and call.
>
>Here's my advice to the Eddie Haskells: get off the telephone, stop 
>stirring the poop, and look to sorting out the mess in your very own 
>households.  I think you might find that there's an illegal boarder or two 
>(or four or six) in one or more of your back bedrooms.  More zoning 
>violations, anyone?
>
>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
>www.joanopyr.com
>
>*In case you were wondering, Mr. Tulip and Mr. Pin are a couple of clever 
>thugs in Terry Pratchett's novel, "The Truth."  If you don't read Terry 
>Pratchett, you don't know what you're missing.  He's a terrific writer.
>
>PS: It's my understanding that DVD copies of Michael Hayes' documentary "My 
>Town" will be catalogued and available for borrowing at the Moscow Public 
>Library beginning tomorrow.  Want to know about our very own little culture 
>war from a neutral reporter who interviewed all sides?  Then check it out!
>
>
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