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

Sat Jul 16 14:55:43 PDT 2011

Tom, I think you miss my point.  I fully understand that the baby megaload didn’t have to comply with the megaload permit restrictions, which I thought I made clear in my post – sorry for the confusion.

Both Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil (through their company spokesperson Rolheiser) & the ISP said the baby megaload’s transit was going to adhere to the restrictions of the megaloads even though it wasn’t mandatory.

In keeping with the business model some on our City Council worship, past performance is the best predictor of future behavior.  IOW, if they’ll lie about the little stuff, chances are they’ll have no compunction about lying about the Big Stuff, too.

Perhaps, then, our illustrious leaders might want to retract that idiotic welcome mat they rolled out with Steed’s faux resolution, as Steed blustered they reserved the right to do.

If not and given his love affair of the business model, then thinking people might want to wonder why Steed et al think it appropriate to roll out a welcome mat for corporation that had now proven itself to be nothing more than a rank liar.

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

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

~ Edmund Burke

From: Tom Hansen [mailto:thansen at moscow.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:49 PM
To: Saundra Lund
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Pollyanna Wants to Know: Who's the Lying Sack of Sh*t?

Saundra -

To a major degree ExxonMobil did "stick to the script" by sending the mini-mega load at night.

The mini-megaload is so much smaller (16-18 feet wide, 28 feet long, 40,000 pounds) than the next megaload (28 feet wide, 208 feet long, 16 feet high, 500,000 pounds) that it, I understand, did not really require a permit.

My guess as to why ExxonMobil sent such a small load under the guise of a "megaload" at night was merely to leave a false impression of future megaloads (all 66 of them).

Scuttlebutt from a reliable source tells me that ExxonMobil may be waiting for a decision from Montana before sending the larger megaloads up US95.  When that does happen, I will have videos to share and compare.

Until then . . .

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown

On Jul 16, 2011, at 12:59, "Saundra Lund" <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm> wrote:

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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