Open Forum March 14-15, 2015

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NEW POSTING GUIDELINES AND POLICY

Beginning today the City County Observer will no longer edit comments to remove objectionable content.   Inappropriate comments will simply be removed with the author receiving a warning via email.  This standard applied will be consistently concerning personal attacks.  Repeated violations will result in the poster I P address being banned from commenting on the CCO.

We are looking for relevant and kind remarks that add to the discussion.  Please stay on message.

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48 COMMENTS

  1. Dear Editor

    I’ve got intensive and in-depth research on forum commenting guidelines. If you are interested I’d be happy to email them.

    Thanks for offering forum guidelines.Please send citycountyobserver@live.com.
    EDITOR

    • Editor

      Thank you, and I look forward to sending you some information. A lot of it has details so you can see where the source material is from. A majority of it is from current news organizations, but there are a number of them from legal blogs that I frequent (who knew so many lawyers had a great sense of humor)

      One last question. Would you prefer this is a Word .DOCX format, or an Adobe .PDF format? I can do either, but will gladly abide by your preferences.

  2. Please follow up on the Marina Fire Investigation when they release information from EFD. I read where they found several items on the boat that are being saved. I’m curious as to what they found.

    • I’d like to know more about this issue as well. Something smells fishy besides the river and the fish in it.

  3. Editor, Thanks for removing objectionable content. Please do the same with the language. People can express themselves without resorting to foul language. That includes referring to people as body waste. I have been known to curse but this isn’t the place for it.

    • I agree on the foul language part You should be able to get your point across without resorting to foul language. It adds nothing to the conversation.

  4. Did anyone else notice our first persons made the news this week. It seems the Pres. went to Cal. to attend a fundraiser an appear on the Jimmy Kimball show. As is the norm he flew on A.F. 1. The first lady had an appearance on the Ellen show in the same area. She flew on her F.L.1 to the same airport at the same time. When the White House was asked to explain they said their schedules hadn’t been “synced” On the way back the Pres. was going to make a 2 hour stop in Phoenix an off the record comments were that the First Lady didn’t want to wait so she used her plane. As this is tax season think as you prepare to send your payments in. Maybe you could send some extra as it seems they are good stewards of your money.

  5. I am so pleased to see effective censorship finally being exercised at this site. For too long, a few conservatives have been able to use this site to promote their horrible opinions and reveal accurate information about our plans for the destruction of bourgeois “freedom” and the transformation of the US into a socialist state. President Obama and Eric Holder are proud of you!

    J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
    Maximum co-coordinator
    Organizing for Idiocy
    Evansville Cell

    • Not sure when we started to use “signatures” on our postings, since we post under a name, but since J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV started it, I did some quick research and found (and edited) the worlds longest signature.

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  6. Let’s strive to remain “Evansville’s True Watchdog” … ferreting out bad Public policy – planning – abuses and ignore-ances while offering up constructive alternatives. Let’s place what is best for our community before political allegiances. I would like to see more positive comments. Share a story about a fantastic new restaurant … experience in the park … day on the riverfront or anything to balance out the usual list of complaints. I say bias is OK but bias with balance is better. Name calling IMHO happens when we allow trolls to bait us into it. Foul language degrades even the most insightful comments. Any point is made better … when made tastefully. This forum should be of a quality that attracts advertisers as well as readers.
    In Joe’s absence … we all need to contribute more and exercise a grater measure of self control … The weather will soon break and everyone’s mood will brighten. Surely better days are ahead and perhaps the best is yet to come. …

    • ” ferreting out bad Public policy – planning – abuses and ignore-ances while offering up constructive alternatives…” I was having the same thought this morning.

    • Yet another smack down from climate migration expect, more. Thermodynamics of earths vapor energy and its still on the roll. Like everything inside earths atmospheric balance what goes up must come down. Someplace.

      The next 20 years are going to be a challenge for mankind, this stuff isn’t an illusion its happening every day someplace. You can expect the Ohio valley to see some high waters as has been warned by the Weather services in the Evansville area that means straight shot CSO.
      Don’t get in that water backing from Pigeon creek its about as nasty as a far away Asian benjo ditch right now and loaded with biological waste, chemicals, nitrates, and pharmaceutical waste as well.

      http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vanuatu-residents-remain-in-shelters-after-massive-cyclone/ar-AA9KuOp

      • I cannot agree with you more. It is a well known fact to all true progressives that strong tropical cyclones were completely unknown until the time of Reagan’s presidency. Einstien’s Theory of Relative Humidity has demonstrated that wherever conservatives have any control, the temperature goes up, the water rises, rainfall increases, and epidemic bad logic, spelling, and grammar disproportionately affect underprivileged progressives.

        J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
        Maximum co-coordinator
        Organizing for Idiocy
        Evansville Cell

    • Then you’ll have important stories set nationally . Real stuff real Hero’s and its the stuff one just can’t make up . Wow! Now I salute these Marines. Tough stuff and only a hardened Marine would just patiently wait for the attention required. This is the real stuff not the politically twisted and biased crap We’ve seen on some media out-fluxes as of late.

      http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vindication-after-a-battlefield-error-and-purple-hearts-long-denied/ar-AA9Lc3A

  7. I have decided to ratchet down my comments (not boycot) because I feel the editor needs a little space. So my comments are meant as construction not criticism.

    I would like to remind the editor that before the CP forums tanked there was increased threats and promises of censorship and banning. In fact, it was almost identical wording. While forums need moderating, this style becomes more like herding cats than keeping order.

    Focus your content more on issues not people, and the posters will debate issues rather than one another.

    While I appreciate you asking what we want added or subtracted, you can not become a leader by following our whims. Go back and see what has worked. You may need to reinvent it, but do what worked.

    • Being visionary and pioneering takes constant observation. Knowing what will work is a gift sometimes. What ever the CCO is becoming they need to keep stepping out of the box.

      One of my favorites one visionary innovator is none other that Mr. Harley Earl . IE and the others that know the automobile industry know this guy. You’ve sometimes have to hang it all out to set your point across. Todays political BS doesn’t do that well. One must see and apply the abstract or you will be left in those that do’s dust. The CCO is taking on a different bent lately being just in observation and analysis we know how things must evolve. Someone in that outfit needs to step up and cut the speculation and just spit it out about reverse mode your page is slipping into. Period.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYY9GUrrkds

      • V, ” What ever the CCO is becoming they need to keep stepping out of the box.” File this statement in your world view under “the box.” Boxes are for kitty litter.

    • “Focus your content more on issues not people, and the posters will debate issues rather than one another.”

      Nope. Regardless of content, comments will rapidly (and by ‘rapidly’ I mean ‘instantly’) degenerate into the same tired old “You’re a Democrat so you suck!!” or “You’re a Republican so YOU suck!!”. Virulent partisans are unable to speak TO each other, they speak PAST each other, and then the insults begin to fly. This is simple fact, as evidenced by this blog and countless other. If you’re a rabid partisan you relish the insults and name calling, if you are largely apolitical you either value the content enough to deal with all the venom being spewed or you quit reading.

      There is no solution to this problem.

  8. I agree wholeheartedly with your policy on personal attacks. Problem is, who’s to judge. Do it fairly and without bias and good discussion will follow.
    As to “kind words”, not so much.
    Tax Incremental Financing. Personally, I think the mayor’s misuse of this tax is costing Evansville taxpayers dearly. Maybe he simply doesn’t understand how it’s supposed to work.

    • Your stuff takes on a creepy bent when observed from afar. You should temper that crap , looks bad.

    • It’s hard to break tradition. I think the current mayor is following an agenda, a hidden agenda that was set in place 10-15 years ago.

  9. It would be great to see some David Cooker commentary in the CCO. Mr. Cooker had a brilliant Commentary this morning in the Courier & Pravda that was spot on with Obama’s complete disregard of Israeli’s valid national security concerns about the Iranian nuclear enrichment program that Obama supports.

    Also we’d all soon like to see Ron walking around the Civic Center with his FOI requests that have provided such valuable information to the CCO readers.

    • A dirge Joe, leave it! He’s the twice elected President of the United States . You aren’t going to change the legacy with all that crazy ass bull shit spewing. Look first in, I wasn’t convinced either, however the Guys done an incredible job steering the recovery from the let down smash from afar, that Bush was hit with. We know that wasn’t his fault either , and neither was it Clintons. That crap is applied from outside the jurisdiction and boarders of the American Nation. And you know it!
      I’d hold the American line behind any of ’em , and have , why? Because that’s what American soldiers just do to insure our nations freedoms for its citizens, and our best projections for those unfortunates that can’t achieve that geographical status with their given asset base. Freedom should rule however as you all should know that takes some real work.

      You need to stick to your localized “junky ass” politics. That stuff is so machined its off the scales of all the citizens balance. Flat assed dropped into a cronies pocket. So. Do comment and stick to that dirge’s fails , due, it has little valuation in references to any national political valuations.
      Stop the ranting about the Oval office, he’s the elected leader of the United States of America, can’t you get that?

      • So true and it speaks of the ignorance of the democrats. John Gruber summed it up very succinctly, the democrats depended on the stupidity of their constituent voters. Obama had a chance to be one of the great ones but failed because he disregarded the constitution in favor of his social agenda. He frightens conservatives and moderate democrats. He created the situation in Ferguson that may end coming to a city near us, this has caused a spike in gun and ammunition sales. Most presidents come into office with a lot to learn and grow into the job and provide good leadership, Obama is as green today as he was 6 years ago. To date he has accomplished nothing of significance other than the negatives of racial divisiveness.

      • V, no one knows more than me that Obama was elected twice and the pain is unmanageable. That doesn’t mean that I can’t point out his intentional unconstitutional actions and actions that weaken our national security. Obama now is hostile to Egypt after they heroically booted the Muslim Brotherhood which was a front for radical Islam and now Obama wants to protect the radical Islam Iranian uranium enrichment program from an Israeli air attack. Maybe only I give a ship on this forum about our national security that the Courier & Pravda will never publicize as boosters of all things Obamal, but V don’t disrespect my right to do so.

    • I actually was considering ole Mitt , till the fool showed up at the stinky barbeque joint on Evansville’s north side . Oh my god what a fail, and him in some freshly interpreted square pants jeans. What a God danged fool xxx SOB. That’s not exactly what he sported at the menagerie at the estate the reception was held at. What a complete idiot. That change a load of our votes cast on election day . What a load of xxxxx ……………… yep completely.

      TAKEN DOWN BY EDITOR BECAUSE UNACCEPTABLE LANGUAGE. The letter xxx depicts the part of post taken down. PLEASE KEEP YOUR MESSAGE CLEAN ON MESSAGE.

  10. Press or someone out there who has deep and personal knowledge about the local democrat party, could/would you clarify something. I was told my a person this week who has some knowledge about the democrat party, that when a person is supported by the party and wins he/she is expected to donate a % of their paycheck to the party. He also said that Rick Davis refused to do this and it was one of the many reasons the party did not support him.

  11. It is a long and proud tradition of the Democratic Party that even the lowest paid government hires must contribute 2% of their annual salaries to support the progressive work of electing more Democrats. An elected office holder should contribute a minimum of 5%, although it is permissible to use campaign funds to do this.

    Some Republicans wanting to play gotcha have suggested that this constitutes selling public jobs. In order to prevent these reactionaries from having a talking point, in some years our Democratic government employees pay 1.8% and in other years 2.2%. Thus, talk of a 2% Club is a total Republican lie.

    J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
    Maximum co-coordinator
    Organizing for Idiocy
    Evansville Cell

    • I was a city worker at one time in my life, hired by a Democrat and was never asked to give them 2%. I was asked to work at the polls but it wasn’t a requirement

      • I worked for the city and had both political parties selling their $100 political event tickets to me during work hours. It was told to me by those close to the party that if we didn’t buy a ticket we would lose our job. This happened each and every years that I worked for the city under both the GOP and the Dems. And I was asked to go out and register voters and work phone banks. So in my case I had a totally different experience than you.

    • Any comments about the guilty plea’s of Mrs Riecken’s family ?

      v – so much for you testing the water 🙂

      Oh Editor – I walked along the river today, pleasant thoughts to you too !

      • The family story will fade. There is something wrong with the fireman only getting a 24 hr suspension for fighting a police officer. I would say with that and Lindsey getting a pass for drinking on duty there needs to be some major changes.

  12. Wow! I go away for 2 days and this board is overtaken by the blindly partisan right wing nut jobs!

    • Ghost, Not taken over. With the new guidelines a lot of the hair on fire lefties didn’t show except MoveOn checked in. I would have to think the editor warned them to be nice for awhile. The lefties in the past all seemed to know about the inner workings of the site.

    • Ghost, what you dismissively refer to as “the blindly partisan right wing nut jobs!” are hard working tax paying real Americans.

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