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

Tue Jul 19 09:48:46 PDT 2011

Saundra,

Thank you again for pointing out that the consequences of the megaloads far transcend local considerations -- a point that proponents either refuse to recognize or have not the guts to deal in an honest manner with.

Several of us have commented at length on these issues, but basically proponents act like no one has brought them up, that they are unimportant, and/or irrelevant.  Obviously the proponents are not the "my brother's keeper type" and are among those that are generally parts of problems but not parts of solutions.  Part of the tough problems that our country and the world now face are caused by similar individuals though capable are unwilling to do or to pay their share.

Walter Steed has been a sneak and a behind the scenes manipulator with many conflicts of interest since the beginning of his tenure as a city councilperson.

I hope that those city employees who work at the city hall receive hazard pay.  They are in constant peril of injuring themselves by slipping on the prolific slime trail that Steed leaves wherever he goes.  It would not surprise me that even those that avail themselves of Steed's "services" wash their hands thoroughly with a strong disinfectant after each transaction. 

w.

From: Saundra Lund 
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:59 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Subject: [Vision2020] Pollyanna Wants to Know: Who's the Lying Sack of Sh*t?

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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