Deafening Silence...

[Waterbuffalo]

Is it just me or has this thread and forum gone silent? Or did patella stop commenting?

[Chief]

He has to wait for his hated nemisis, the columbian, to print something aggregious, and tell him what to think about it first. It's his sole source of information...

[Waterbuffalo]

Are you sure about it?

[Chief]

When it comes to him, I'm sure of nothing, I only speak from long practice of reading his bloviations, and almost every one is pased upon something he read in his hated columbian...

It's very odd...

[Waterbuffalo]

Wonder if this person does pay for read the paper so he can just comment on it with some interest from one of the administrators of Clarkblog..

Now that he is not doing of any "action" character or need, he's just blow hot air down the columbia...

[Waterbuffalo]

Haven't heard much about "America's Hilton" in awhile.. Any one heard any new information?

[Chief]

Go look at the pieces I posted in the Daily Patella over the last few days, and you'll see that is still right at the top of his endless hit parade of complaints.

[Waterbuffalo]

:-) Oh? I thought he was raring up for a write-in casting on one of the City of Vancouver council races?

[Chief]

That's what he's using this issue for this week. Once all of his favorites lose their elections, he'll shut up for a brief period, but will eventually find something else that he can glom onto, and start bitching about all of this again, only in the name of opposing whatever issue comes up next.

I'm betting that as the columbian reports on light rail issues, Patella will steal that too, and start using it to bitch about the People's Hilton all over again. I'll bet you I could write that for you right now, word for word, as well.

It really depends upon what the front page of the columbian tells him to think. He never comments on anything positive in the community; have you seen a message from him here about New Hope Farms for example?? Of course you don't, because Patella can never admit that the columbian might actually cover issues that are important for the Community, and, (perish the thought!!) the columbian might actually agree with Larry Patella on some things...

What we need is a Clarkblog "Larry Patella Answer Machine", where you can plug in the issue of the day, and out will come a Stock Larry Patella Rant, custom made for the occasion.

Let's say the columbian runs a story about the Fire Department rescuing a kitten from a tree; you would plug in the word "kitten" and out would come...


As one of the first to criticize the columbian for their inattention to the information needs of the people, I was surprised and pleased at Gregg Herrington’s column “VANCOUVER FIRE RESCUES KITTEN FROM A TREE’ on the heels of my earlier email complaining about having to walk over “Littered Pot Holed Streets, Crumbling Sidewalks with weeds growing up, thru and around them”.

See what I mean? Let's say that the columbian reports a Boy Scout helping a little old lady across the street...

Plug that in, and out would come...

I thought as I walked my daily three miles over cracked and weed-filled sidewalks that aren't really there, and as I watched a Boy Scout help a little old lady cross the street, I suddenly remembered that locally we have had our fair share of Ribbon Cutting Photo Opportunities with more to come. Our hard earned tax dollars have or will be spent on:

1. building a new Community Center (Firstenberg);
2. Convention Center (the peoples Hotel of Vancouver);
3. financially fail parking Garages (Existing and the yet to come Riverwest);
4. Heritage Place & Vancouver Center (Blessed with Legal Ten Year Property Tax Kickbacks, AKA Tax Breaks);
5. the Bridge to No Where (the Royce Pollard Memorial Bridge over highway 14.);
6. Ester Short Commons,
7. the Indoor Farmers Market (A publicly Subsidized Boondoggle that Failed Financially and is now Closed);
8. Destruction at taxpayer expense, of the105 year old Monterey Hotel (the property was sold at a loss to Killian Pacific);
9. the relocation of a perfectly good Library to Killian Pacific’s Riverwest Boondoggle (that’s where the new parking garage will be built with taxpayer dollars);
10. Clark County Health Center (on 4th Plain);
11. the Clark County Admin Building (on Franklin Street);
12. the sale of the Murdock building and the old downtown police station to favorite Downtown developers at prices well below the assessed value,

Isn't that handy?? I believe Port Commissioner Nancy Baker is going to be up for election next year, and we could use this concept to write every one of Patella's loony debate points for her, so she will know exactly what to expect from him a year from now.

Whaddaya think??

;D

[Chief]

Updating....

I think we should call it a "Patellatizer" and those who follow him "Con-Stemperaries"...

;D

[Waterbuffalo]

{quote]<b>"Updating....
I think we should call it a "Patellatizer" and those who follow him "Con-Stemperaries"...</b>[/quote]

Sorry but I'll let you be the Bullhorn that reins in the Patella Reindeers this Christmas season.

Did you notice on the tube that two weeks ago they were all ready doing Christmas commercials? (Now there is some thing Patella can write a flood of letters to the editor on to the columbian and might even get published at the NY Times?

As to the latter comment you made, the vote will tell in about two weeks who has won what in the elections and I'm not going to worry about any violations of commentable thought until after that election.

[Waterbuffalo]

<b>"8. Destruction at taxpayer expense, of the105 year old Monterey Hotel (the property was sold at a loss to Killian Pacific);
10. Clark County Health Center (on 4th Plain);
11. the Clark County Admin Building (on Franklin Street);
12. the sale of the Murdock building and the old downtown police station to favorite Downtown developers at prices well below the assessed value,"</b>

Did the City own the Murdock building or was it owned by a family from Vancouver? Murdock Family trust? I know that the city owned the Parking lot around it but not the building itself. As far as I'm concerned about this one, tell Patella to booze up on Cascadia Park Lore instead of worrying about this sale from "YEARS" ago..

I have worked at the Monterey Hotel delivering things.. That place was a firetrap waiting to come down and was a blight on downtown. This is one of the projects I might be in favor in the past of the City using Eminent Domain powers to go in and take it down themselves. Of all of the projects they had, this was one I could fully support at 100 percent tax payer expense to get rid of it.

If Patella wanted to complain about the Monterey Hotel, he can just go back in time and get a permanent room there a year or two before they hit it with a crane or bull dozer.. I bet he would not have lasted 24 hours in that piss pot????
growls at the memory and stench of that place.