[Vision2020] Just Cleaning the Air

[Joan Opyr]

Why, thank you Tom.  FYI, I've just pasted your link to the Hieronymous  
letter into my story on New West (www.newwest.net).  Readers can now  
download Itty Bitty Bob's unsubstantiated (and, frankly, ridiculous)  
claims about NSA's grand contributions to local business.  If they  
spend a dime outside of the Kirk's micro-economy, I'll eat my Apple  
iBook.

As for my having "hastily written" my response to last night's Board of  
Adjustment decision to grant NSA a conditional use permit without any  
conditions, I'll have Dale Courtney know that I spent a whole five  
minutes composing that piece: much, much longer than Dale spent ripping  
it off to pad his blog.  Honestly, what would Dale do without me?   
Eavesdrop on diners at the Co-Op?  Photocopy back issues of Mother  
Jones?  As he never asks permission to reprint what I write and he's  
notoriously sloppy with the credits, I think the least he should do is  
send me a thank you note and box of Mrs. See's dark chocolate bordeaux.  
  Unpoisoned, preferably.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:

> Greetings Visionaires -
>
> In Comb-Over Courtney's Brainless Log (BLog) at:
>
> http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/03/29/ 
> 42611.aspx
>
> he states:
>
> "A Hasty Reply
>
> Joan Opyr Joan Opyr has hastily thrown together her reply to last  
> night's
> Conditional Use Permit decision in favor of NSA.
>
> I need to disabuse Joan that a claim was made that NSA students spend  
> $2
> million downtown. That was a rumor fabricated on Vision2020 (like so  
> many
> other rumors around Moscow).
>
> The report substantiated that NSA is worth $2 million to Moscow; not  
> that
> the students spend $2m downtown."
>
> I could simply write this off as ignorant, uninformed blather from the  
> BLog
> (something prevalent in virtually all of his postings), but then he  
> attacked
> a friend with a weapon he is all too familiar with; lies.
>
> I recommend, encourage, invite, direct your attention, . . . whatever  
> it
> takes for the fine Moscow citizenry to read the letter signed by NSA's
> Honorary Executive Vice President for Administration and Advancement  
> Bob
> Hieronymus (and distributed to various businesses in Moscow) at:
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/NSA/hieronymus_letter.htm
>
> Your attention is particularly invited to the fourth and fifth  
> paragraphs
> that read:
>
> "If the clock were turned back, and someone stood before the Board of
> Adjustment proposing to invest more than a million dollars into a  
> vacant
> downtown building, bring a hundred or more customers a day into  
> downtown 32
> weeks out of the year, take up fewer parking spaces than any previous
> occupant of that building, create 17 new full-time jobs, CONTRIBUTE  
> OVER $2
> MILLION ANNUALLY TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY [my emphasis], create new  
> commercial
> business space within the building, and provide a harmonious use  
> entirely
> consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, we trust the board would have  
> found
> that such a use was beneficial to the community.
>
> It is five years later - that someone is New Saint Andrews College -  
> and
> that is exactly what we have done."

> However, Comb-Over, if you are struggling with your ability to read the
> English language, perhaps you would like NSA President Roy Atwood to  
> read it
> to you (as he did at the BOA meeting):
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/NSA/Atwood_Quote.mp3
>
> Just setting the record straight, C-O.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Just Another Intolerista Liberal Elitista Diversity-Cleansing
> Religion-Persecuting Wacko Nutjob Loose in the Palouse Doing What Comes
> Natural
>
>
> "If I wanted to overhear every tedious scrap of brain static rattling  
> around
> in your head, I'd read your blog."
>
> - Bill Maher