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IT IS A SAD DAY

Just in World War II, according to the gold stars on the wall of that memorial, 430,000 were killed, their lives ended almost before they were started. I call it my war and many of those who lost their lives I knew as “buddies.” And now, 66 years later, almost all of us have moved on. I won’t be going to any sales.

I don’t know the total killed in all American wars, I just know that freedom has a terrible price. Just down the road from my home is the area veteran’s cemetery and I pass by it often. That wall of stones moves ever closer to the street and funerals are held so often they must be scheduled. The Horton Veteran resting place serves as a constant reminder of the courage of man.

MAYOR SEIZES OPPORTUNITY

Not to be left out of any ribbon cutting ceremony our mayor literally squeezed one participant so far out of position he could barely reach the ribbon with his sissors. (See the battle scene in the SNH) You will note that you can link from here to the SNH for their versions of news but never the other way around. Although over 50,000 computers have visited "Inside Suffolk" the SNH never recognizes that we exist. That may be an instruction from SNH higher ups, or they do not consider us worthy. Their story is that an existing firm is expanding because they found something in the waste water worth recovering. Two elements too valuable to just toss out with the dishwater and commode flushings. A product good enough to fertilize your vegetable garden and thereby eat the phosphorus and ammonia a second time.

THE RESOUNDING SUCCESS OF HOPE AND CHANGE

SERIOUS CHARGES DESERVE SERIOUS BACKUP

Now and then a comment arrives written by an anonymous person making serious charges against another Suffolk Citizen. We assume if the charge was factual it might have made the papers long before this. If it is just the writer's opinion it is of no value to anyone, certainly not to us. To even print such info where names are used would be unfair. An average citizen is not fair game like a politician might be for using his/her office for unfair gain...that is another story.

And let me wave off a potential personal attack. I did not write the piece about Obama's fans, a Czech did. I picked it off the net because I agree a very bad choice was made to lead the country, and we are awash in proof. I suffer enough pain because two younger members of my own family think the right man was chosen and is doing well...and they are the ones that will pay through the nose. The only good news I've had this year is that a good friend, after fifty years of serving it, left the Democratic party. Even his golf game has improved.

A CZECH REPUBLIC CITIZEN SAID THIS

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president." "The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

HOW YOU CAN HELP CUT FEDERAL WASTE

Here is a new program available to everyone fed up with Federal Government wasteful spending programs. You can copy and paste this address in your search engine and go directly to the website. Scroll down and listen to Cantor's intro. You will be given an opportunity to vote weekly against the selected wasteful program. A new one will be chosen each week.


Click on Post Title "How You Can Help Cut Federal Waste" to visit the site.

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE HILTON AND CITY HALL

It was recently learned that portions of Market Street home of our officials is in trouble according to engineers that have pointed out serious flaws. And just as quick the city found dollars reserved for future parking lots, 170,000 of them, and moved them into an account to fix up the front entrance before it collapses. Apparently building codes when City Hall was constructed were not up to today’s snuff, and soil beneath was not well compacted. According to many the same thing one day will happen to the Hilton just before it slides into the river. But how far will that amount of money go toward a fix when they find other parts of City Hall unsafe. It wasn’t too long ago they found the Police Department quarters unfit for human occupation.

Or is just the opening chapter of a story about how it would be less expensive to build a new City Hall in some other location, like up in North Suffolk where more fitting grandiose construction is taking place? I mean look at what Chesapeake has done. As for the $170,000 who needs a parking lot anyway. And like the SCCA, couldn’t we just pay for a new City Hall by having taxpayers pay for their name on a brick? But it would be sad to lose the building after all the recent remodeling.

INSIDE SUFFOLK ENDORSES MIKE DUMAN FOR COUNCIL

Joe Barlow, a knowledgeable Council Member and farmer citizen has decided not to run again for one of the seats on the dais. He wants to spend more time as the retired gentleman he is. Joe said long ago he would not run if a great candidate surfaced and one finally has. Mike Duman, one of Suffolk’s most successful businessmen believes he now has the time to assume a responsible position in local government. Inside Suffolk has worked long to convince him our city could benefit from his business principles. At 1:45 today, May 17, 2010, Mike told Inside Suffolk he is ready and willing. Do us a favor, Mike needs signatures, 150 of them right now, drop by the dealership and help kick off his campaign.

SCCA TAKES A NECESSARY HIT

It’s almost appears as a backstabbing but it makes good sense that the SCCA director loses $150,000 of support for dispensing culture. True unless city bail-outers don’t find another way to slip that amount under the director’s door. Why should the city pay rent to house the Rec Dep at the SCCA when it owns suitable empty space elsewhere to locate city departments? But it makes just as much sense to house our struggling Tourist Bureau in a first floor room in the SCCA instead of blowing a million, city estimate, to tidy up the old Courthouse on Main and Constance. At this stage of Suffolk tourism the ladies trying to create a silk purse can only hand out pamphlets describing a swamp. The other draws, if any, are limited and require much imagination. Downtown Suffolk is not exactly “pulsing with excitement” as described in handouts. A tourist nowadays first scouts by Internet and easily learns about places like Riddicks Folly. Farmers Market customers are not tourists.

The only reason for the SCCA is that elites had a realistic dream that their beloved downtown was boring, solicited alumni who did what they could, then pled at city hall long enough to get millions and a guarantee of annual funding. The plan was to invigorate by offering pottery making, water, oil and acrylic paintings, sewing, photography, cooking classes. And presenting offbeat shows. But Downtown is still unexciting and even the Hilton has not risen to the level of benefits they sold to collect millions from us. The new SCCA Director will be sorely tested.

T. R. WAS RIGHT ON THE MONEY

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
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> 'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
> Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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GOOD ADVICE FROM A CARDIOLOGIST

Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 a.m. and noon. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened, doctors have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is to blame.

1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night. The reason: aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life". Therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the aspirin would be strongest in your system.

2. FYI, aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest. Years (when it gets old, it smells like vinegar.) WHY ASPIRIN BY YOUR BED save lives ... It is important to always have ASPIRIN in the home!!! Why have Aspirin by your bedside? There are other symptoms of a heart attack besides the pain in the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating; however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently. NOTE : There may be no pain in the chest during an heart attack. The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep. If that happens, IMMEDIATELY DISSOLVE TWO FULL-STRENGTH ASPIRINS IN YOUR MOUTH and swallow them with a bit of water.
Afterwards, phone 911. Also, call a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by and state "HEART ATTACK!!!" and that you have taken 2 ASPIRINS.

Take a seat on a chair or sofa and wait for their arrival... DO NOT LIE DOWN !!!
Thd Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably a life can be saved! So do it, click "forward."

FOLLOWING ED BEARDSLEY

I remember the year when Ed was whatever he is, cooking where you could watch him through the big window of Arts Kitchen, a genuine artsy place with paintings covering most of the walls. Usually the crew of two “chefs” had to elbow by each other in the tiny “kitchen” to produce very tasty All American food. Ed had hair then but later made the big decision to go bald. We were fearful that chemotherapy was the culprit, and then realized the clear and present danger of hair in the food had been eliminated. And we loved the friendly serving staff, always cheerful even at breakfast. Andy Damiani and I did a TV show there to crank up business. Word of mouth had the eatery too busy and you waited for a table. Then one day he was cooking at the newly named COTTON BLOSSOM and his “girls” were there too. New owners knew Ed and team would draw. Then a stint cheffing at the Pisces.

Now a new era for Ed, I’d call it a meteoric rise in downtown Suffolk to owning and operating the Pisces. Mr.and Mrs. Gellas, previous owners, had dared to open a higher end classier place to take a friend to dinner and recently decided to concentrate on their Primo 116. Ed sees an opportunity and has taken the next step.

I haven’t seen him for some time but this picture in the SNH indicates hair is back.

A PEEK INTO THE UNKNOWN

By selling its Waste To Energy plant SPSA picks up $150,000,000, enough to pay off HALF its debt, puts off spending $50,000,000 to expand, and gets a huge reduction of incoming trash. Seems like a perfect deal. If the mountain of trash currently “under construction” was, expected to last 13 more years, then less incoming volume extends that estimate. If SPSA won’t be handling the trash, SPSA expires before that, do we shut down the facility, write a new contract with SPSA, or some other firm? Less incoming trash may help with the neighborhood odor conundrum but less trash means less income now. At $170 per ton the loss adds up fast.

Our best guess indicates Suffolk will continue to “manufacture” some trash and it has to go somewhere…will we join the other cities at a price per ton. And if they eventually lock the gate where will all the seagulls go?

Reintroducing "IS" candidate for School Board or SUPERINTENDENT

Deborah Wahlstrom is president of Successline Inc., a company that provides training and consulting services to schools and school districts in the areas of student assessment, data-based school improvement, instructional strategies, and curriculum alignment. Her practical hands-on workshops have been highly acclaimed. As a past winner of two National School Boards Association awards for 100 Best Curriculum Ideas in the country, Deborah continues to design and deliver only the highest-quality training. She has also received awards for her work in research and evaluation. In addition to numerous other honors and recognitions, Deborah received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the Center for Global Business and Executive Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Before opening her own business, Deborah taught at the middle school level for Norfolk and Virginia Beach City Public Schools; served as a science specialist at the elementary level for Virginia Beach City Public Schools; served as Director of Research, Evaluation, and Communications for Portsmouth Public Schools; and served as a regional staff development facilitator for the Virginia Department of Education. Dr. Wahlstrom earned her doctorate in Urban Services (1988) from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES

No need to look beyond Suffolk for a new school Superintendent...just go to google, or any search engine, and type in "Dr. Deborah Wahlstrom, author." I did and was amazed.

WORD OF THE DAY IS DHIMMITUDE

Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to islam.

The ObamaCare bill is the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia muslim diktat in the United States . MUSLIMS ARE SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTED FROM THE GOVERNMENT MANDATE TO PURCHASE INSURANCE, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking" and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient. So I, Ann Barnhardt, a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize muslims. Period. This is Dhimmitude. NO COMMENT FROM SNOPES

SUFFOLK IS SUFFOLK

There was another fine attempt by a SNH writer to paint Suffolk as just plain vanilla Suffolk instead of North and South Suffolk, a nice try. Not to be contrary but going south on Main you don’t enter “Suffolk” even at the Bridge by the Hilton, according to one who knows. Andy Damiani insists you are not there until you are in a four-block area called Washington Square. It gets busy there, relatively, at least during the noon hour when “downtown” employees seek lunch within walking distance because few risk giving up their parking spot. When you hear about Suffolk parking problems it is that area of less than a square mile. Not much of a concern citywide. There isn’t much retail business done there or between Washington Square and the Hilton bridge unless you toss in the Car Wash, and McDonalds. We wonder if any one knows whether or not the Hilton is profitable. That city project is as big a financial mystery as the SCCA, the Railroad Station, and the Bureau of Tourism. A booming Suffolk business section stretches from the bridge north on 460 for a mile plus and they don’t even have streetlights or sidewalks. The other business district, even busier, runs north on 10 clear to Farmer’s Bank and is growing furiously. East Washington is recovering from decades of neglect.

Northern Suffolk “power” exists only because of the military constantly changing high tech needs. Those jobs pay more and result in more shopping centers and monstrous homes, but it’s a very small portion of Suffolk. The major part of the northern end of Suffolk was always there and had more to do with the water that abounds in that area, a very pleasant part of Suffolk. So consider the military complex up there, growing as necessary, to be a “Johnny Come Lately” with scads of the nation’s tax dollars available, for now at least.

Will the Trucks ever come???

I must admit that I have been unusually busy lately and have neglected to do much writing on IS. Like most people these days, I have been trying to make a living under a new set of demands, where taxes and costs for everything are higher and what we make is a lot less.

However, tonight I was reading about the “Ugly Truth about State Pensions”. Even the most casual observers understand that the feds are printing money like crazy, but the states cannot and they even have strict limits on borrowing, too. One must also recognize that much of what is driving these defecits is the burden of ever rising costs to the fastest growing group of retirees in the USA, and that is for state pensions. This is one of the fastest growing expenses the states owe and will grow even more under the present system. The article went on to describe the situation in dire detail, but I was thinking about how this could affect us locally, in little Suffolk?

So I pondered: Who is the largest pension investor in Suffolk? Wrong, it is not the city; it is CenterPoint our newest sugar daddy.

Anyone remember last year, when our Suffolk leadership approved a huge new development out on Route 58, along “Hamburger Alley” over the concerns of one and all?

CenterPoint describes themselves on their website: “After 12 years as a public industrial real estate company, CenterPoint was acquired by CalEast Global Logistics in March 2006. CalEast is a leading investor in logistics warehouse and related real estate whose members include the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and LaSalle Investment Management.”

So I was thinking… What might happen to the big plans for CenterPoint out on Route 58, as they see more redemptions and a bigger drain on funds by retirees? Might CenterPoint be a bit slow to do what they said they would after all, given the direction of the economy?

This may derail, so to speak a huge project. Do we have a plan if this project fails? I doubt it as they still don’t have a plan for all those trucks, either… Comments???

Roger A. Leonard
Suffolk…

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 2,064 YEARS

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - CICERO - 55 BC

EVIDENTLY NOTHING...

YOU HAD A PROBLEM ??

Read the story in the SNH about what Ursula Stell faced and still faces squarely with the faith necessary to cope. You wake up one morning knowing something is wrong somewhere inside the only body you will ever have. And further professional examination then hits you with how right you are. But life goes on, if you are fortunate. And recently the SNH carried the story of Mrs. Pope who faced similar circumstances 23 years ago and told no one. Both are survivors as are millions of Americans that know the importance of the Relay For Life.

FAILURE TO CLOSE THIS VALVE WILL COST BILLIONS

They tried, oh how they tried. The Work submarine failed...time to call the Navy.

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RACIAL PROFILING AT THE TOP

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