[Vision2020] Pollyanna Wants to Know: Who's the Lying Sack of Sh*t?

[Saundra Lund]

First oversized load coming through tonight

No date set for larger load; Mammoet given five days to start

By Brandon Macz Daily News Staff Writer

Posted on: Friday, July 15, 2011

 

Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil will ship the smaller of two oversized loads through
Moscow tonight under permits reissued by the Idaho Transportation
Department.

ITD reissued permits to transport two oversized loads of oil refinery
equipment along U.S. Highway 95 and Interstate 90 on Wednesday with a
five-day window that starts today.

"Our plan is to begin moving the first of the two initial modules on Friday
night," Pius Rolheiser, Imperial Oil spokesman, said. "The second one, the
timing has yet to be determined."

The Idaho State Police weighed both loads Thursday, and the smaller shipment
is slated to leave the Port of Lewiston at 10 p.m. today with two ISP
escorts, two pilot cars and three flagging crews. Its first scheduled stop
will be at the Latah/Benewah county line followed by a stop three miles east
of Coeur d'Alene before connecting to I-90.

Capt. Lonnie Richardson of ISP Region 2 in Lewiston said his department will
be briefed at 8 p.m. today prior to escorting the shipment, which is not
required under the permit. 

Because the shipment is 14 feet wide, it could also be transported in the
daytime, but Rolheiser said the company wants to maintain the same protocol
for both loads, which means it would use ISP escorts and travel between 10
p.m. and 5:30 a.m

 

OK, so I know caring about the megaloads moving through Moscow makes me a
commie subversivo or something stupid like that to some, but . . . 

 

What does that make the people who think we can "trust" ITD, Imperial
Oil/ExxonMobil, or even the ISP to be honest?  Idiots?  Morons?  Sell-outs?
Corporate shills lacking even a modicum of ethics?

 

For those who don't know, the baby mega-load apparently rolled through
Moscow at approx. 10 PM last night.

 

Which means Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil lied when it said, "the company wants to
maintain the same protocol for both loads."  It kept the ISP "escorts" but
ditched the time limitations.

 

News Flash:  if they are willing to lie about the little stuff, they'll have
not a concern in the world in lying about the Big Stuff.  Maybe I'm the only
one, but I was genuinely shocked by the dishonesty surrounding the baby
megaload's transit through Moscow.

 

It also means that the ISP -- perhaps taking a page from the "orderly &
law-abiding protestors are scary" book used by Moscow's own Parks & Rec
"Director" Dwight Curtis took - apparently wasn't quite accurate in
announcing that the ISP briefing was at 8 PM last night before the scheduled
10 PM departure with ISP escorts.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to
figure out that there's no way in heck that time line was truthful when the
load hit Moscow at 10 PM.

 

Reportedly, the baby megaload didn't even pause at its "scheduled" stop at
the county line in spite of the welcome mat Walter Steed & his toadies
positively wet themselves (and likely violated Idaho Public Meeting Law in
the process) rolling out.

 

Of course, Steed's whole feel good faux resolution was nothing more than
insulting to begin with.  Only the uninformed - which definitely shouldn't
have been voting Council members - were unaware of the fact that the
megaloads don't purchase fuel locally.  Duh.

 

And as for utilizing Moscow motels?

 

Perhaps in Walter's World, "knocking off for the day" after two hours' work
makes sense to patronize Moscow motels, but that's not the real world, as
the baby mega-load's transport last night proved.

 

Let me rephrase that.  There is a profession - perhaps the world's oldest --
that utilizes motel rooms for a couple of hours' work.  Given Steed's faux
resolution, one can't help but wonder about the source of his . . .
confusion.

 

I went out (and dragged my dh - who deserves a gold star - along with me)
last night because I was curious to see things for myself to form my own
opinion based of what I saw with my own eyes.  I knew it was just a baby
mega-load, but since they are keeping the transit of the real mega-load Top
Secret, it was the best I could do.

 

I'm left wondering why, if the whole thing is as innocuous as the now proven
liars want us to believe, they are being so secretive???

 

I'm also extremely concerned about the apparent lack of communication with
local law enforcement (MPD).  I tried to chat with two of Moscow's "finest"
I saw out & about strolling around downtown last night, and they said they
didn't know anything.  Really?  If that's the case, we all should be very
concerned.  

 

Frankly, I was quite taken aback by their behavior.  I am a law abiding &
tax paying citizen who has always previously felt comfortable chatting with
truly Moscow's finest for the 2+ decades I've lived here.

 

The two last night?  Not so much.  In fact, they were positively rude . . .
I was literally talking to their backs before my less-than-10-second
question was even out of my mouth.   And, no - they weren't in a hurry to
respond to a call because I watched them leisurely lumber down the block
without  a care in the world.  I'm sorry to say I now have a better
understanding of the comments I've been hearing in recent years that MPD
seems to have developed an unfriendly attitude towards normal people.

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

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