Recent actions by our City Council reminded of a joke I recieved by email yesterday. Here it is-
Five surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."
The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."
The third surgeon says, "No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order."
The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would."
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on.
There's no guts, no heart, no brains and no spine, and the head and the rear end are interchangeable."
Now fearless City Leaders, get some guts, use some brains and stop all this nonsense before you end up costing us tax payers millions. With elections coming later this year someone should start using some common sense, or pick out your rocking chair.
-----Addendum-----
While I'm on the subject I also find it amusing that some City Council members, and others are trying to take credit for the Freight House, but neither Ahrens, Malin, or Winborm know the details of the deal worked out by Mr. Whitty and the owner of Penguin's.
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8 comments:
Stupid joke.
Stupid post.
If you see the possibility of this City Council having to refund $1.2 million plus court cost for illegal fees stupid, I agree. If you see the City Council having to refund approximately $15 million for illegal fees collected over a 5 year period as stupid, I agree. Somebody should start listening to Alderman Meyer. As for the joke, I liked it.
It’s interesting a publicity hounding politician would use ‘anonymous’ instead of his real name. Ghost
Cruiser - T-Bone accidents are 60% down and rear-end accidents are down 40% at the intersections with red light and speed cameras and overall accident srae down 11% across the city. That is 70 fewer accidents that police and fire personnel don't have to investigate and write a report on and at least 70 fewer people going to the hospital. The city is willing to take less money from a lower fine. You still think this isn't about safety?
If the city wins the lawsuit and/or doesn't have to pay anything back, will you support the cameras as effective law enforcement and safety tools that free up the police to do more police work on the serious crimes you rant and rave about?
Ok Mike, if you have so many figures;why didn't you bring up traffic flow? Could it be less people are driving through the intersections with cameras? Maybe 20% less. Even if the city wins the lawsuit I will continue to be against the cameras and ranting and raving about serious crime. When the tickets are issued to the DRIVER and turned into the DOT, then I will agree the cameras are safety oriented.
Traffic studies actually show higher traffic counts than a year ago. And Bladel wouldn't give you the time of day. I just watched the council meeting yesterday on cable.
anon at 2:41; the other poster had percentages and number of fewer people in the hospital. Slightly higher doesn't mean anything when you factor in the mild weather we've had this year. The numbers wouldn't be a lot higher or lower due to the fact that these intersection are all highways for the most part. As for Chief Bladel, if I have a problem I'll talk to him personally, I hope he isn't surfing the net on the clock.
Anon @ 2:41, don't you find it sad you believe Bladel wouldn't give a citizen of the city he's supposed to protect the time of day? What are the overall stats of the city as far as accidents? Up or down since before the cameras? The state? Could there be other factors besides the cameras? And if these are just for public safety, what are the worst intersections for accidents in Davenport and are they the first places to get cameras?
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