Anyone who has ever sat through a sales pitch at one of those “free” dinners put on by groups selling vacation time shares will have a sense of the the typical power point presentations at the Port of Coos Bay commission meetings. Plenty of charts and graphs and industry bullet points but little or no actual analysis and no room for public involvement. Last night’s Project Mainstay presentation, about building a coal export terminal on the North Spit, before the Milwaukie City Council was evidently no different consisting of “…a series of boring PowerPoint charts and graphs suggesting the Port is willing to take huge risks for uncertain profits” and that there was “no engagement” with the audience or council on the part of the port staff.
It is expected the city council will resolve to oppose coal trains next month no matter how much port officials believe industry claims.
See readers? Listen to your Faux Ruling Class member al tell all of you, if you work for a living, and have no money to invest in Coos County, you have no right to complain about what your masters do. Couldn’t have said it any clearer little one. Took a lot of words to ask a lot of questions, but once again al doesn’t realize how caustic his attitude really is. If you are not in The Investor Class, as is al, you have no right to complain about his tactics.
“These things should be discussed in quiet rooms” see how they think about working people?
I think al is begging for a spanking,
al pretends to like leather, but I hear it’s really black latex that al dreams about, and stilettos, and whips with such fine ends they simply ‘tickle’ their way around a body.
All that ‘anal’ cleanliness usually hides a real desire to get dirty.
In my humble opinion.
Ever wonder what that “X” stands for al? Is THAT why you come back time and again?
PS. You’re the one who put himself in front of the public, not me al, so your questions to me don’t mean a thing, I’m not prancing around town trying to be noticed, you are, member?
I’m powdering my latex as we speak al, the football team just left.
I’ll be waiting for your call, you’ll feel much better al, and be much more pleasant.
I promise you’ll feel ten feet tall. !!!!!!
You are a very, very angry person, Themguys. Hopefully you’re not allowed to have sharp objects…
THIS is what I do with sharp objects little one, especially when meeting men who behave as you do.
http://youtu.be/9RZ-hYPAMFQ
And you are right al, I’m an angry person, especially when I invest in a county being repressed by a group of phoney bastards parading around as if they own the place, because they do. These assholes have kept this county a stinking cess pool of rusted hopes, pipe dreams and every lie a public agency can foist on the public. Enough al, you should be ashamed of taking part in the fleecing of this county. Touting their job creation is nothing but a lie, and the voters have been believing these clowns are the only way out of the mess they themselves have created and nurtured since this port was started. Now Sause, knutson,messerlies, etc. all have financial fingers in this pot, and they ain’t gonna share it with nobody. Look at our waterfront, owned by Sause, et al, then look at Florence, Bandon, etc. See the difference? Sause ain’t gonna give up his Boardwalk Property for PROGESS, he ain’t gonna allow it. Look what Knutson and Sause just did in Salem, if that isn’t enough to gall the voters into voting for anyone but these guys, I don’t know what is going to take.
Angry? Yup, you betcha al, I’ve never accepted one group of humans preying on another under false pretenses. And that’s about all ya got left al.
We’ve seen behind the curtains, we know who the job spoilers are now.
OK, Black Knight….we’ll call it a draw.
Oh…just curious…what have you done, Black Knight, to contribute to the advancement of Coos County? What public office(s) have you held? What business have you built that pays significant taxes – aside from your personal taxes? How many employees do you employ who also pay taxes? How much money, specifically, are you “investing” in Coos County compared to, for instance, an ORC or Knutson Towing? I’m not sure you want to compare dollars “invested”, because at the end of the day, you’re contribution is tiny in comparison. Like you, I am frustrated with this County’s lack of progress. But it’s not me who is fighting an Administrator – it is you. It is not me who is battling for the status quo – it is you. It is not me who is delusional about the County’s financial health or operational inefficiencies – it is you. I admire your passion – even if misguided – but there are many people in this County with more at stake than you or I combined, and I see many of them doing everything they can to make a difference. They’re willing to engage. They’re willing to speak out – and not behind the safety of a pseudonym. They’re willing to invest their personal time and money to make something good happen in the County. What have you done to help the County, other than complain? Is that your contribution – attending BOC meetings and badgering Commissioners? Well, if you want change, get in the game. Stop sitting in the last aisle of the arena, criticizing how the game is being called from the seat furthest from the action.
“It’s amazing how much false courage a person can muster behind a pseudonym or a few too many drinks. Either way, it’s usually a colossal ass who’s behind the false bravado”
Tell me about it al. You can’t face the public without hiding under another man’s skirts, so a ‘colossal ass’ should give you lots and lots of cover.
“Is it going to be this way?” waa, waa, waaa, waaaaaaaa. al pettit facing the public.
Yeah, pretty much al. This blog is exposing the phonies who pretend to ‘be somebody’ in this county, and who look down their brown noses at the rest of us.
You’re only a hero in your own mind al.
It’s amazing how much false courage a person can muster behind a pseudonym or a few too many drinks. Either way, it’s usually a colossal ass who’s behind the false bravado.
Not ‘false bravado” little al, just the truth. THAT’s why you’re so frightened by this blog. Readers, for the first time, have access to the truth about you and your fellow piglets, and you don’t like the truth al,
THAT’s what really bothers you isn’t it? Not MY words, just that readers are GETTING some truth, not paid bullshit from the local industry rag.
Well get used to it Skippy.
Poor al, he still doesn’t get it. Some adults appreciate having the truth spoken to them publicly.
“Others” prefer to dress up real nice and have someone blow smoke up their arses every Wednesday afternoon.”
Susan wonders why no one takes the Coast seriously. I refer you to Themguys’ post for a major clue.
This from the guy who rides around on Mattel’s new “My First Harley”!
Sadly the people of Oregon thinks of us common folk in the county by the actions of the Port. The Port is managing to piss off most of the surrounding folks. Some day we will have a legitimate need for the suppport of the major populated communities and they will say up yours.
” Port is willing to take huge risks for uncertain profits”
Why not? It’s certainly not THEIR money they throw around now is it? All this port does is buy something to insure their paychecks for several years until they move onward, and the locals eat it up every time, unbelievable to watch.
Same bullshit for four decades. Another call to get a copy of Job Messiahs, lays it all right out for you to see. Not one thing has changed but the faces of the piglets.
Never seen a ‘public meeting’ where the board doesn’t speak, doesn’t discuss, argue or debate any issue, ever. And they refuse to answer to the public that pays their damned salaries. How can that be legal? How can a board have ABSOLUTELY NO PUBLIC DISCUSSION on these multi million dollar pipe dreams and rusted railroads to nowhere? If they don’t discuss it in front of the public, where DO they discuss it?
Arrogant dickheads.
Speaking of dickheads, I saw the most amazing thing downtown Coos Bay this afternoon. I was behind several cars in front of the Visitor Center, and couldn’t see what was going on in front of me, when I heard several people shouting that there was a Walrus, a large, slobbery wet Walrus crossing Hwy 101 !!!!! I could hear shouting up ahead so rolled my windows down and heard this old woman shouting at what I assumed was The Walrus, berating him for not using the cross walk, which was just twenty steps away at the corner.
Well how silly I thought to myself, a big bulbous Walrus can’t understand English, what nonsense.
Well imagine my surprise.
It was NOT a REAL Walrus.
It was Jon Barton, lumbering across both lanes of traffic, too damned lazy to walk twenty steps to the cross walk, stopping and interfering with heavy lunch time traffic. So special he doesn’t have to use a cross walk in noon day traffic.
I certainly understand her mistake, it sometimes is hard to tell a large bulbous sea creature from a large bulbous land mammal.
So much for that law and order crowd, just too precious to use that crosswalk across Hwy. 101, huh Jon? Another case of ??????
“The law for thee, but not for me” .
Sounds like they just moved the typical Port meeting upstate. Those of us who have taken the time to attend one of the local meetings will recognize this. One can hope that Governor K. will change all that by appointing some real people to this commission whenever he makes up his mind. People can still write to him in this regard, by the way. Encourage him to get rid of the Chamber of Commerce club that has been running the Port for as long as I can remember.
Shipping coal through Coos Bay would be a disaster. It would also be a money loser for anyone who tried it. That is unless they get more government subsidies which is the one thing our Port knows how to do: give away tax money.