[Vision2020] meals on wheels

[Joan Opyr]

On 17 Mar 2006, at 16:10, Tom Ivie wrote:

> This really sounds like a silent tragedy.  I am surprised the papers 
> haven't done anything with this story. I don't think most people 
> realize the situations (physical, mental, social, etc. ) of the people 
> who benefit from meals on wheels. I hope for our seniors sake that 
> this can get resolved soon.  Linda Pike is a real go-getter and if 
> anyone can find a workable solution, she can.
>

I agree with you, Tom, except for the part where you express surprise 
that this story has not been covered by our local papers.  That's the 
one piece of this whole ordeal that doesn't surprise me at all.  The 
Daily News has fallen to bits.  While Ed Iverson piddles away all the 
editorial board's credibility on the Op-Ed page, the Daily News staff 
miss story after story after story.  And what they do cover they 
generally screw up.  "WalMart Given Yellow Light By Moscow P & Z?"  Was 
the DN reporter attending the same P & Z meeting that everyone else 
attended?  I don't think so; I think their reporter was (once again) in 
a parallel universe.  You know, that universe in which Tom Henderson of 
the Lewiston Tribune bemoans the fact that when George Bush breaks the 
law, Congress changes the law to make Bush's actions retroactively 
legal.  Meanwhile, Henderson's wife, Virginia, argues on behalf of the 
Daily New that when Doug Wilson defies city zoning ordinance not once, 
not twice, but three times, it is both wise and reasonable for the city 
to set fire to its comprehensive plan in order to rewrite the zoning 
laws to suit him.  Fascinatin', ain't it?

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: I fear that while Doug screams persecution, what he actually gets 
is special treatment.  Say, do you think their might be a connection?  
If I flash my ULC Minister's card around, will the city let me run a 
meth lab in my chicken house?  It sure would help me pay the mortgage 
and, um, meth is part of my religious observance.  Yeah, that's the 
ticket!  Yeah!  And marijuana, too.  I need a greenhouse and some grow 
lamps.  Anyone care to make a Church of Auntie Establishment 
tax-fraud-deductible "love gift?"  Or perhaps buy me a new truck?  You 
can do that in my church just as easily as in Doug's -- and the truck 
doesn't have to be new.  In fact, it doesn't have to be a truck.  I'm 
still plumping for that 1968 Mustang Fastback, folks!
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