If cats could talk | Sun Journal

If cats could talk | Sun Journal

Here's some highlights to the complete story.  Be sure to Click on above link to read it all.  It Is Worth IT.

"Richard Burton was doing it for free. Bring on the respect and adoration."


"One police officer suggested Richard might be arrested for trespassing. The head of a department was fuming. Never mind that Richard had been called in by the Coastal Humane Society to help. Never mind that he was working in unpleasant and unhealthy conditions, at no cost to anyone. Never mind those three kittens that would have died slow, dark deaths inside that washing machine."

I won't beat around the bush,  The Fumed Department Head was none other then Lisbon Police Chief, David T. Brooks,  "Pompous Ass" definitely would be more fitting, but I shouldn't write that, But, oh well I did,  "Get Over It", believe that was the term he used a while back.

"Cough, cough, cough, ...   just a 'hair ball' !

Case in point:  Missing $32,500.00 for Economic and Community Development Department, With the Actions of, or rather lack of actions, of Maine's Attorney General Office, under leadership of Janet Mills,  AG Assistant Brian MacMaster's, Androscoggin County District Attorney Office, David Croteau, Lisbon Police Chief David T. Brooks,  and the paper trail of letters that show passing of the BUCK,   COLLUSION   jumps to mind as a GREAT explanation.

Simply,  HOW CAN THIS NOT BE the reason?

col·lu·sion

   [kuh-loo-zhuhn] Show IPA

–noun 1. a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy:

-Law . a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally, to defraud another of his or her rights, or to appear as adversaries though in agreement

             

GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE!   This all went on while Lisbon was under the guidance of the Chief of Police because he was acting town manager, again,for the second time.
Huh,, the chief of police was town manager?
Yes he was, not once but twice and then the town councilors even voted and approved a "spa weekend" away for him under the guise of a thank you for his dedication and hard work.   Brilliant,  just Brilliant.

  No conflict of Interest there.  Nope,   none because  WHY?

Who were the players then?

What else  went on?

Oh Yeah!  Almost forgot about this one.   Remember the NEW TRUCK for Public Works?  And how I brought out the fact of  the SPLIT P/O's to circumvent the public vote for an expenditure exceeding $100,000.00 of MUNICIPAL FUNDS,  and it was Cheered upon as being OK by town council then.  BECAUSE the town's attorney then and currently, Roger Theriault gave his blessing of APPROVAL.

How Much Money Has Brooks sucked out of your community for programs that end up costing you much more in the long run then they are worth, all in the name of  'self-promotion'?

Funny how they even all got together last year for banquet nite and gave out "atta boys".

What about  VIPS,  Volunteers In Police Service,  Check on the Elder Program, and OTHER community Out Reach Programs, that the Chief has so blatantly promoted and touted over years past?

How did those FAIL for this particular scenario?

EFFECTIVENESS of POSITION or PERSON(s) should be seriously considered.

Just think of the money that could be saved by combining the fire chief and police chief position into one Public Safety Directors position.  Think of what you could save in just Vehicle Expense.

No not in Lisbon though,  Hell the so called Leaders, Try to push through a budget that at best is still controversial.  Fortunately, It got tabled last night but still,   setting the tone and putting it on the agenda before it had taken it's natural course of progression through the system just reeks of IRRESPONSIBILITY.


There is NO EXCUSE, acceptable for the recent events that occurred in Lisbon, Bowdoin, or however Brooks wants people to read  'his story'.   The Truth is, IT is the same Old Story and People are just SICK of IT.


Simply Put,  If most of the so called leadership in Lisbon didn't ALL have their Hands in the cookie Jar,  YOU WOULD have stood a chance to  Correct situations like you have, BUT you can't, because THEY DO.

Firing People and Paying the so called buy out cost WOULD be a whole lot less expensive then to let them continue with 'hair brained' ideology that HAS been proven damaging and costly to the Fine Taxpayers of Lisbon.

LEAVE LISBON.   LIFE WILL GET BETTER

Look here it already has for one former player.




 AND this year,  They have inflated the Public Works Budget this year under the guise of Making the Police Budget look smaller.   Segregate hydrant rental, street light costs, and various little charges and you will see the TRUE facts.

Remember this saying, " Figures Lie and Liars Figure".

It is nothing more then "smoke & mirrors, "dog & pony" or in this specific case, "Cats & Elder Sham"

I can only wish and hope that the town side could have been as  professional and concise with transparency as the school budget has been presented.



GO BACK,  Research,  connect the dots,  it is not difficult to see.

The question remains for all,   "Are you willing to see?"

Apparently most of you ALL like it.  NO ONE even Challenged  Gina Mason!

Here's to a more  'purr-fect' future for everyone!

May All Your Dreams Connect!
  


Todd Comber
Special to The Lisbon Reporter

Always a Lisbon Concerned Citizen, just more in Spirit Now!

Budget Vote/Discussion Tonight

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL THE TAXPAYERS IN THE TOWN OF LISBON

TONIGHT, AT THE TOWN COUNCIL MEETING A VOTE WILL BE TAKEN TO ADOPT THE 2011-2012 TOWN BUDGET.

I HAVE ATTENDED ALL OF THE BUDGET MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS, AND I STILL DO NOT KNOW JUST WHAT IS IN THE BUDGET.

WILL THEY BE ADDING ANOTHER OFFICER TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT?

AT A COST OF $60,000 +?

WILL THE TOWN BE HIRING A PRIVATE COMPANY TO TAKE CARE OF THE TOWN GARDEN SPOTS? AT A COST YET TO BE DETERMINED?

(I'M HEARING ABUT $65,000)

OR WILL THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT BE CONTINUING TO DO IT? WHO BY-THE-WAY HAS ALWAYS DONE A TERRIFIC JOB !

AT NO ADDED COST TO THE TOWN AND TAXPAYERS!

FAYE BROWN ASKED TOWN MANAGER ELDRIDGE THOSE QUESTIONS AT THE MAY 3RD PUBLIC HEARING, AND NEVER GOT AN ANSWER!

WILL THE TOWN ENGINEER BE TAKING OVER AS HEAD OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT?

IF SO, THIS IS A BAD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WILL THE TOWN BE GIVING $10,000 WAGE INCREASES OVER 2 YEARS TO 10 TOWN DEPARTMENT HEADS?

SHOULD WE, THE TAXPAYERS, BE PAYING $5,500 FOR A TOWN EMPLOYEE TO TAKE PARALEGAL COURSES?

DID YOU KNOW, WE BUDGET $34,000 PER YEAR FOR LEGAL EXPENSES, YET SPEND TWICE THAT AMOUNT? EACH YEAR?

DOES THE OVERAGE COME OUT OF SURPLUS?

IF SO, WE WILL SOON BE RUNNING OUT OF SURPLUS

TOWN MANAGER IS PROPOSING SPENDING $320,000 OVER 4 YEARS FOR A TOWN REVALUATION AT $80,000 PER YEAR!

I HAVE NOT HEARD WHERE THE $80,000 FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR WILL BE COMING FROM. JUST WONDERING?

I ASK YOU, CITIZENS AND TAXPAYERS OF THE TOWN OF LISBON, THIS IS TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT?

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,

 ATTEND TONIGHT'S TOWN COUNCIL MEETING

7 P.M. AT THE TOWN OFFICE

LISTEN AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES HOW YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS VOTE!!!!!

WATCH THEM IN ACTION

THEN, ASK YOURSELVES, WOULD YOU VOTE FOR THEM AGAIN??????????

A FOOTNOTE:

THERE WILL BE A WORKSHOP WITH THE WATER DEPARTMENT TONIGHT AT 6 P.M., BEFORE THE COUNCIL MEETING

AT THE TOWN OFFICE. I URGE A MANY AS CAN TO ATTEND

            Dot Fitzgerald

            A Very Concerned Taxpayer and Citizen

The Safety of America, TSA, Much more on backscatter radiation safety test

TSA backscatter radiation safety tests were rigged

Tuesday, May 17, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com(NaturalNews)

It can now be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA faked its safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about the safety of such devices.

As evidenced by recent events in Washington, we now live in an age where the federal government simply fakes whatever documents, news or evidence it wants people to believe, then releases that information as if it were fact. This is the modus operandi of the Department of Homeland Security, which must fabricate false terror alerts to keep itself in business -- and now the TSA division has taken the fabrication of false evidence to a whole new level with its naked body scanners (see below).

Even physics professors question the TSA's obvious cover-up

The evidence of the TSA's fakery is now obvious thanks to the revelations of a letter signed by five professors from the University of California, San Francisco and Arizona State University. You can view the full text of the letter at: http://www.propublica.org/documents...


The letter reveals:


• To this day, there has been no credible scientific testing of the TSA's naked body scanners. The claimed "safety" of the technology by the TSA is based on rigged tests.


• The testing that did take place was done on a custom combination of spare parts rigged by the manufacturer of the machines (Rapidscan) and didn't even use the actual machines installed in airports. In other words, the testing was rigged.


• The names of the researchers who conducted the radiation tests at Rapidscan have been kept secret! This means the researchers are not available for scientific questioning of any kind, and there has been no opportunity to even ask whether they are qualified to conduct such tests. (Are they even scientists?)

TSA operates in complete secrecy

None of the Rapidscan tests have been available to be subjected to peer review. They are quite literally secret tests using secret techniques engineered by secret researchers. We the People apparently have no right to see the data, nor the methodology, nor even the names of the researchers who supposedly carried out these safety tests.


• The final testing report produced from this fabricated testing scenario has been so heavily redacted that "there is no way to repeat any of these measurements," say the professors. In other words, the testing violates the very first tenant of scientific experimentation which is that all experiments must be repeatable in order to be verified as accurate.


As the professors state in their letter:


The document is heavily redacted with red stamps over the words and figures. In every case the electric current used which correlates one to one with X-ray dose has been specifically redacted. Thus there is no way to repeat any of these measurements. While the report purports to present the results of objective testing, in fact the JHU APL personnel, who are unnamed anywhere in the document either as experimenters or as authors, were not provided with a machine by Rapiscan. Instead they were invited to the manufacturing site to observe a mock-up of components (spare parts) that were said to be similar to those that are parts of the Rapiscan system. The tests were performed by the manufacturer using the manufacturer's questionable test procedures.


You got that? Where is the outrage from the "scientific" community on all this? This quack science TSA testing is so atrociously and inexcusably bad that if this fabricated evidence were presented at any sort of scientific meeting, they would be laughed off the stage and publicly vilified in the media. And yet, somehow, when the TSA engaged in this sort of quack science, virtually the entire scientific community says nothing. Only a small group of especially courageous scientists has stood up to this obvious quackery, and even these professors are of course being blasted in the press and called un-American for merely questioning the obviously flimsy evidence being laughably fronted by the TSA.


I mean, seriously: Can you imagine the total outcry if an herbal product company claimed that its products cured cancer, and it did all the testing itself, and all the names of the researchers were kept secret, and the methodology was a secret, and the whole document was 50% redacted to protect "proprietary information?" They would actually be arrested by the federal government for running a criminal scam! So why can the TSA get away with the exact same scandalous junk science distortions and virtually no one in the mainstream media asks a single question?

The complete fabrication of safety in the name of false science

It's amazing what America has come to these days, folks. The federal government isn't merely counterfeiting money every day (or stealing from your retirement accounts to keep itself afloat, which just started happening yesterday), but the feds are also fabricating scientific evidence to keep pushing their utterly fabricated "war on terror." The feds in Washington aren't really fighting a war on terror... they ARE the terror! When the feds reach down your pants and feel your junk; when they force you to be fried with high-powered X-rays at the airport; and when they threaten anyone who stands up to their Nazi-like marching orders, they have become the very terrorist organization they claim to be fighting.


• The dose rates of X-rays being emitted by the Rapidscan machines are actually quite high -- comparable to that of CT scans, say the professors. Yes, the dose duration is significantly lower than a CT scan, but the dose intensity is much higher than what you might think. And as anyone who knows a bit about physics and biology will tell you, the real danger from radiation is a high-intensity, short-duration exposure. That's exactly what the TSA's backscatter machines produce.


• The radiation detection device used by Rapidscan to measure the output of the machines -- an ion chamber -- is incapable of accurately measuring the high-intensity burst of radiation produced by the TSA's naked body scanners, say the professors.


• At the same time, the radiation field measurement device used by the TSA -- a Fluke 451 instrument -- is incapable of measuring the high dose rates emitted by backscatter machines. The measurement devices, in effect, "max out" and cannot measure the full intensity of the exposure. Thus, the TSA's claims of "low radiation" are actually fraudulent. By the way, the device mentioned by the TSA really is an F 451. Does that ring a bell in terms of fiction novels? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahren...)


• The amount of electrical current applied to the X-ray tubes has been redacted by the TSA (working with John Hopkins). This makes it impossible for third-party scientists to accurately calculate the actual radiation exposure, and it hints at yet more evidence of a total TSA cover-up. As explained by the professors:


...the X-ray dose is proportional to the current through the X-ray tube. Not having access to the current used in the JHU test, or in the field application of the scanner means that the measurements at JHU are irrelevant to the dose at the airport. There is also no data on the pixel size and overscanning ratio, which also bear directly on the dose delivered to subjects. The statement in the HHS letter that the fluence is not a relevant quantity ignores fundamental physics.

There shall be no independent testing whatsoever

The TSA adamantly refuses to allow independent testing of the radiation levels being emitted by the machines. The agency is using the cover story that "terrorists might be able to circumvent the technology" if anyone is allowed to actually test the machine.


Hilarious! This is the very definition of quack science. You have to trust our in-house fabricated experiments, and we won't tell you how we even arrived at our test results, and we won't release the names of the scientists who even ran the tests, but we can't tell you more because of the terrorists.


Notably, this is after Osama Bin Laden has already been killed, and he was the whole reason the TSA started up in the first place. The terror mastermind is dead, in other words, and still the TSA can't trust university physics professors to conduct credible science on its naked body scanners.

Actual radiation emitted by the machines is far higher than what the TSA claims

John Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter says, "..the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks." This indicates the public has been deeply misled by the actual amount of radiation emitted by the machines.


• Peter Rez, the physics professor from Arizona State, says that the high-quality images described by the TSA could not be produced with the low levels of radiation being claimed by the TSA. The images, in other words, don't match up with the TSA's cover story. Rez estimates the actual radiation exposure is 45 times higher than what we've previously been told.


• The TSA machines are capable of firing even higher levels of radiation into a "region of interest" (such as your anus or scrotum, in which the TSA seems to be taking great interest these days), thereby exposing that region to even higher levels of radiation than the rest of your body.

Mechanical failure and software bugs

The backscatter scanning devices uses a high-powered X-ray beam that is quickly moved back and forth across your body by reflecting the beam off a moving wheel. If that wheel fails for any reason and stops moving, the traveler could be pierced with a deadly X-ray beam that focuses extremely high levels of radiation on a small group of cells, mutating their DNA.


This means the backscatter devices are mechanical systems, and all mechanical systems eventually fail (just like airplanes). The TSA has done absolutely nothing to address the reliability of these mechanical wheels nor to allow independent testing of the reliability of these wheels.


• The TSA refuses to allow independent scientists to review its software code that controls the radiation beam. Thus, the software and its capabilities also remain a complete secret. What if there's a software bug that causes 10,000 times the usual radiation exposure for some unlucky traveler? Suppose the pervert TSA agent zooms in on some 9-year-old child's junk to capture a picture for his own private collection... does that result in yet more radiation? (Fact: One TSA agent has already been arrested for distributing child pornography.) (http://www.tsagoons.com/2011/04/23/...)


See more at www.TSAgoons.com (warning: graphic language and imagery on that site.)

What science? We don't need no stinkin' science!

As we're all now learning, the TSA completely bypassed the normal procedure for independent testing of equipment to be used on the public. As explained by the professors:


The independent testing of the safety of these specific scanners has not been rigorous nor has it been held to the standards usually associated with new devices before approval for utilization in the public sector. Usually the exact technology, as installed, is sent to a university, national laboratory or other outside facility that has the expertise to test, for an extended period of time to enable an in-depth study -- usually by several independent groups.


The U.S. government, however, no longer feels it needs to engage in any "scientific" testing whatsoever. Why bother? The government can simply fabricate whatever results it wants and then release those to the mainstream media which will dutifully reprint the government's lies as if they were facts. The truth is no longer relevant to the government's tyrannical agenda. As long as no one questions the lies, it hardly matters how unreasonable or bizarre those lies become. Government can always play the terrorism card and force people to shut up and stop asking questions, you see. "How dare you question our integrity. We're the government! We're protecting YOU from terrorism!"


Sure they are. By feeling up my anus? Seriously? If it wasn't actually true, it would be hilarious.

What is the TSA hiding?

NaturalNews asks the obvious question: Why won't the TSA subject its backscatter scanning machines to independent testing? Why won't it allow five different university physics departments to conduct five independent tests -- using documented equipment and methodologies -- and thereby assure the public, with credibility, that its machines are perfectly safe?


I can tell you why: Because the TSA is lying. The agency has fabricated its test results. It has conspired to deceive and mislead the American public over the safety of these machines, and it has done so through an agenda of government secrecy and scientific fraud. The TSA, lacking any credibility whatsoever, has resorted to routine lying about its machines, its procedures and its intentions. When 6-month-old babies have their rear-ends searched by TSA agents wearing evil grins (http://scottystarnes.files.wordpres...), you know it's all gone too far.


The TSA refuses to allow independent testing of its machines because it knows what NaturalNews readers already know: That if the machines were honestly and accurately tested, they would show far higher levels of radiation exposure than what we've been told. It would show that the TSA's body scanners significantly increase the risk of cancer to a population that is already over-irradiated with medical imaging tests such as CT scans and chest X-rays.


The TSA, like virtually every other department of the federal government, is now actively engaged in the routine falsification of the scientific data concerning a device that is exposing millions of Americans to an increased risk of cancer. And as long as the federal government claims to have "supreme power" while refusing to answer to the People, we're only going to get more of this tyranny in the months ahead.

The TSA has become the terrorist organization

This is not merely unacceptable; this is a CRIME against the American people. These TSA body scanners are, effectively, Weapons of Mass Destruction that are unleashing ionizing radiation upon an unsuspecting public.


And they are doing it right in your face; telling you it's all perfectly safe while, behind the scenes, they had to engineer a specially-rigged unit just to run their rigged tests using measurement devices that can't even record the high levels of radiation actually being emitted.


The public backlash against these devices is so strong and so loud that news crews have to interview dozens of people on camera just to find one person to actually say something positive about the TSA's pat-down and ionizing scanners. That's the report from Alex Jones, who has also been covering TSA tyranny in great detail. The popularity of his www.Infowars.com website is exploding in the wake of the government's increasingly bold lies and disinfo campaigns that frankly are backfiring on them. A lot of people are easily fooled, but just as many aren't. Probably 95% of all travelers are absolutely opposed to everything the TSA forces them to go through at the airport.


That's why Texas is about to pass a law that would criminalize TSA agents who reach down your pants and molest you or your children. But the TSA has put out a preemptive statement on its blog that claims none of this matters. "States cannot regulate the federal government," the TSA claims. And it actually quotes the U.S. Constitution as the source of its power! (What about the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution? How convenient that they forgot all about that part, eh?)


The passage of this law could lead to a fascinating showdown in Texas. What we need is a group of Texas Rangers to march into the airport in Dallas and arrest the TSA agents, handcuff them, and march them off to jail. Then let's see the feds try to invade Texas to free their criminal TSA agents. That should be amusing. I've spent some time in Texas, talking with the locals, and I can guarantee you that a bunch of tyrant feds trying to invade Texas are going to be absolutely shocked at the intensity of the public resistance they will meet.

The growing TSA resistance movement

By the way, with the TSA's molestation of children and outright lying about the safety of its machines, the federal government is vastly overestimating the stupidity of the general public. People are taking notes of the encroaching tyranny, and while they may pretend to voluntarily walk through the TSA's security checkpoints right now, there will come a day when the American people simply refuse to be herded like cattle anymore. I predict a widespread backlash against the TSA, reflected through state legislative efforts and public protests that will demand an end to the TSA which has now come to mean "Touch Some Ass!"


The hilarious ending to all this, by the way, is that the backscatter machines are also dosing all the TSA workers with regular bursts of ionizing radiation, meaning that the very people working for the tyrannical TSA are, themselves, victims of its deception.


Somehow, that seems incredibly fitting.


Sources for this story include:
http://www.propublica.org/article/s...
http://www.propublica.org/documents...
http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.document...

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032425_airport_scanners_radiation.html#ixzz1MbfACrxE

The dogs of war

I got the number wrong

Chertoff & Company have raised the price of their mandatory full body irradiation devices from $160,000 to $250,000 since the winter.

Why the big price increase?

They've got a lot of Congressmen to pay off.

The good news is that the GOP (god bless their pointy little heads) have said "NO" to funding additional purchases of these things.

Personally, I made the decision back in November to stop flying into or out of any airport that uses these things which means I'm not flying in the US.

I'm lucky that I no longer have to fly for work and most of my family is within a reasonable drive.

The fact is my quality of life has improved noticeably since I stopped flying. No more stress of getting to the airport on time and dealing with all the crap that takes place there and on the planes.

I'm discovering all the great things I can do within 250 miles of my home and have learned that I'd never run out of interesting, pleasurable things to do within that radius in ten lifetimes.

Disney World? Las Vegas? Is it really worth getting on a plane to go to places like that and in doing so support outrageous conduct on the part of the government?

I don't think so, but that's just me.

Yesterday, America's national debt hit its legal limit.

For years, the government has spent far more than it can afford. This history of overspending has left the country with a massive debt burden. But this debt is subject to a limit mandated by Congress. When the debt nears the limit, Congress usually raises it to allow the government to continue borrowing money. But as the government spends at an ever increasing pace, Congress has had to raise the limit with increasing frequency.

So, what’s at stake? We go beyond the headlines for all the facts you’re not hearing. Watch the video below.

Lawmakers are currently working on a deal to increase the debt ceiling. While there has been a lot of debate about the affects of raising or not raising the limit, what's the larger issue at play?

Government overspending got us into the problem. Spending cuts will get us out of it. If the necessary spending reforms are enacted, we can avoid ever having to consider a debt ceiling increase again.

Our Beyond the Headlines video is a must watch on this issue, covering all the facts about the debt ceiling that you're not hearing. Watch the video now and educate others by sharing it on Facebook.

The debate over the debt limit isn't going away, stay tuned to Bankrupting America this week as we prepare to release a cool new infographic that lays out the history of the debt limit.

We will never see this again.

Thought you'd enjoy this!
It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.

They won't believe this happened, but it DID.

Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)

Harry Truman was a different kind of President.  He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him.  However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri.  His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.

When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year.  Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated,  Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves.  There was no Secret Service following them.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me.  You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me.  It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."

As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.

Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.  Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois).

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician.  And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!"

I say dig him up and clone him!

If you agree, forward it.  If you don't, delete it.  I don't want to know one way or the other.   By me forwarding it, you know how I feel. 


Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date!

Lisbon Town Council Agenda for May 17

AGENDA
TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011
LISBON TOWN OFFICE
6:00 P.M.

1. WORKSHOP WITH WATER DEPARTMENT

2. CALL TO ORDER & PLEDGE TO FLAG
3. ROLL CALL
___Councilor Bickford
___ Councilor Bowie
___ Councilor Cote
___ Councilor Larochelle
___Councilor Lunt
___ Councilor Mason
___ Councilor Pomelow

Town Clerk reading of meeting rules

4. PUBLIC HEARING

5. CONSENT AGENDA
2011-68 ORDER −
A. Renewal Victualer Licenses
B. Renewal Itinerant Vendor & Victualer’s License for Hogie’s Hot Dogs
C. Renewal 12 Month Mass Gathering Permit
D. Minutes of May 3, 2011

6. COUNCIL ORDERS, RESOLUTIONS, & ORDINANCES
2011-69 ORDER −
D & B Pump Station Pump Replacement

2011-70 ORDER −
Disposition of 46 Frost Hill Avenue

2011-71 ORDER −
Disposition of 385 Lisbon Street

2011-72 ORDER −
Mileage Reimbursement Rate

2011-73 ORDER −
Personnel Policy Amendment Section 90-15.5 Pay Periods

2011-74 RESOLUTION−
2011-2012 Municipal Budget Adoption
ANYONE SUPPORTING THIS BUDGET AT THIS TIME SHOULD BE THROWN IN JAIL FOR 
FRAUD, WASTE & ABUSE OF MUNICIPAL FUNDS. 

2011-75-91 ORDER −
2011-2012 School Budget Adoption Warrant Articles 1-17

7. OTHER BUSINESS
A. Lisbon Emergency Award Presentation
B. Finance Director’s Report
C. Town Manager’s Report

8. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

9. APPOINTMENTS

10. COUNCILOR COMMUNICATIONS

11. EXECUTIVE SESSION

12. ADJOURNMENT
2011-92 ORDER −
To Adjourn

Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out

Monday, May 16, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

NaturalNews) Have you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it's a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let 'em take the Sheeple Quiz! And then you'll know whether they're independent thinkers or just zombie-minded sheeple like the rest of the flock.

Here's the quiz. Choose "A" or "B" as the answer for each question, then check your score below.

The Sheeple Quiz

#1) The purpose of the mainstream media is to:

A) Keep you informed.
B) Feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the real issues our world is facing.

#2) Social Security is:

A) A financial safety net that makes sure people have a retirement income.
B) A government-run Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people to keep paying in just to stay afloat and will ultimately collapse into total bankruptcy.

#3) The fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies is:

A) A naturally-occurring mineral.
B) An industrial chemical waste byproduct.

#4) When you donate money to find the cure for cancer, that money goes:

A) To fund research programs that assess actual cancer cures for the purpose of freely sharing them with the public.
B) To fund mammogram campaigns that actually irradiate women's breasts, causing the very cancers that earn huge profits for the cancer treatment industry.

#5) The national debt is:

A) Under control and will be paid off in a few years.
B) Out of control and will spiral into a runaway debt collapse.

#6) GMOs will:

A) Feed the world and prevent starvation.
B) Threaten the future of life on our planet through genetic contamination and widespread crop failures.

#7) The FDA protects:

A) The people from dangerous medicines.
B) The financial interests of the drug companies.

#8) The EPA's real agenda is to:

A) Protect the environment.
B) Protect the financial interests of the chemical companies whose toxic products destroy the environment.

#9) The Federal Reserve functions to:

A) Stabilize the economy and keep America strong.
B) Loot the economy and control America's economy for the interests of the few.

#10) The purpose of TSA checkpoints at airports is to:

A) Keep air passengers safe and secure.
B) Indoctrinate Americans into surrendering to police state invasions of their privacy.

#11) The practical function of the U.S. Supreme Court is to:

A) Protect the constitutional rights of the citizens.
B) Legitimize federal tyranny over the People by ignoring the Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

#12) Vaccines are based on:

A) Gold standard science that conclusively proves their safety and effectiveness.
B) Quackery and fraud combined with a persistent medical mythology that utterly lacks a factual basis.

#13) Herbs and superfoods:

A) Are medically useless and cannot treat, prevent or cure any disease.
B) Contain powerful plant-based medicines that can help reverse and prevent disease.

#14) In Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, America:

A) Led a humanitarian effort to save innocent people from tyranny.
B) Waged an illegal imperialist war to occupy foreign nations and control their oil.

#15) The U.S. Bill of Rights

A) Grants you rights and freedoms.
B) Merely acknowledges the rights and freedoms you already possess.

Score your Sheeple Quiz

To score your Sheeple Quiz, simply count the number of times you answered "A" to the questions above.

If you answered "A" 10 times or more...

You are a total news-watching, gullible fairytale swallowing Sheeple! Be sure to keep taking those medications and watching more network news. Don't bother thinking for yourself because you seem to be incapable of accomplishing that.

If you answered "A" fewer than 10 times...

You are sadly Sheeple-minded but there is hope for your rescue. Learn more about the world around you and train yourself to think critically so you can depart from the herd mentality.

If you answered "A" fewer than 5 times...

You are an unusually intelligent free-minded thinker who questions the world around you and doesn't buy into the usual propaganda. You still got suckered on a few items, so there's more yet to learn. But you're on the right track!

If you answered "A" exactly zero times...

You are the complete opposite of a Sheeple. You're independent minded, well informed and probably a regular reader of NaturalNews.com. Stay on track and question events in the world around you. Eat more superfoods to maintain your healthy immune system and cognitive function. Avoid the toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and lawn care products. Keep reading the alternative press and voice your intelligent views to others willing to listen. (But don't waste your time on those who aren't.)

Thank you for taking the Sheeple quiz here on The Lisbon Reporter.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032415_sheeple_quiz.html#ixzz1MWCSVCoE

Mortgage Monday Madness, The Next Financial CATastrophe

The sound you hear is residential
real estate values going down the drain
 

The price of real estate is dependent on finance.

The ability to sell real estate is dependent on finance.

The real estate marketplace depends on clear title. If you don't know or can't trust who owns what the market will come grinding to a halt and taking values with it.

The US used to have a pretty workable title law system. Then Wall Street came along and entered the marketplace.

If you were caught perpetrating just one of the frauds described in this video, you'd be looking at a long stay in the Gray Bar Hotel.

The top tier banks in the US not only engaged in forgery and fraud tens of thousands of times, they used fraudulent documents to deprive people of their property.

And so far, not one person has gone to jail over this.

 

 

Brookstone Law investigates - As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks' crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even bogus, a condition that's causing lawsuits and hampering an already weak housing market. Scott Pelley reports for CBS News 60 Minutes. - For more info visit http://www.BrookstoneLaw.com

A little challenge to get the brain cells working.

THIS MAY BE A "Little" DIFFICULT FOR ALL WHO ARE OVER 60 .THOSE YOUNGER THAN THIS WILL HAVE NO HOPE AT ALL.           DEMENTIA  QUIZ            FIRST QUESTION: YOU  ARE A PARTICIPANT IN A RACE. YOU OVERTAKE THE SECOND  PERSON. WHAT POSITION ARE YOU  IN?  ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~    ANSWER :  IF YOU ANSWERED THAT YOU ARE FIRST, THEN YOU ARE  ABSOLUTELY WRONG! IF YOU OVERTAKE THE SECOND PERSON AND  YOU TAKE HIS PLACE, YOU ARE IN SECOND PLACE! TRY TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME. NOW ANSWER THE SECOND QUESTION, BUT DON'T  TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU TOOK FOR THE FIRST QUESTION,  OK?  SECOND QUESTION: IF YOU OVERTAKE THE LAST PERSON, THEN YOU ARE....?(SCROLL  DOWN)  ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~      ANSWER: IF YOU ANSWERED THAT YOU ARE SECOND TO LAST, THEN YOU  ARE.....   WRONG AGAIN. TELL ME SUNSHINE, HOW CAN YOU OVERTAKE THE LAST PERSON??  YOU'RE  NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS, ARE YOU?  THIRD QUESTION: VERY TRICKY ARITHMETIC! NOTE: THIS MUST BE DONE IN YOUR HEAD ONLY.DO NOT USE PAPER AND PENCIL OR A CALCULATOR. TRY IT. TAKE 1000 AND ADD 40 TO IT. NOW ADD ANOTHER 1000 NOW ADD 30. ADD ANOTHER 1000. NOW ADD 20 .. NOW  ADD ANOTHER 1000. NOW ADD 10. WHAT IS THE TOTAL? SCROLL DOWN FOR THE CORRECT ANSWER.....  ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~        DID YOU GET 5000? THE CORRECT ANSWER IS ACTUALLY 4100...  IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT, CHECK IT WITH A CALCULATOR!TODAY IS DEFINITELY NOT YOUR DAY, IS IT?  MAYBE  YOU'LL GET THE LAST QUESTION RIGHT....  MAYBE...  FOURTH QUESTION: MARY'S FATHER HAS FIVE DAUGHTERS:   1.      NANA, 2. NENE, 3. NINI,  4.. NONO, AND ???      2      WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FIFTH DAUGHTER?   ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~     DID YOU ANSWER NUNU? NO! OF COURSE IT ISN'T. HER NAME IS MARY! READ THE QUESTION AGAIN!  OKAY, NOW THE BONUS ROUND, I.E., A FINAL CHANCE TO REDEEM YOURSELF:  A MUTE PERSON GOES INTO A SHOP AND WANTS TO BUY A TOOTHBRUSH. BY IMITATING THE ACTION OF BRUSHING HIS TEETH HE SUCCESSFULLY EXPRESSES HIMSELF TO THE SHOPKEEPER AND THE  PURCHASE IS DONE. NEXT, A BLIND MAN COMES INTO THE SHOP WHO WANTS TO BUY A PAIR OF SUNGLASSES; HOW DOES  HE INDICATE WHAT HE WANTS?  ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~     IT'S REALLY VERY SIMPLE HE OPENS HIS MOUTH AND ASKS FOR IT...DOES YOUR EMPLOYER ACTUALLY PAY YOU TO THINK?? IF SO DO NOT LET THEM SEE YOUR ANSWERS FOR THIS TEST!  ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~   PASS THIS   ON TO FRUSTRATE THE SMART PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE! HAVE A NICE DAY, ONE AND ALL.

BUCKLE UP,,,LISBON,,,BUCKLE UP!!!!!!

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    "We don't TRUST you Brooks,  $ A 2000.00 GRANT?

  Just Do Your Job, never mind the grants, awards, & self promotion"

  
  

  
  

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  "BUCKLE UP, IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA, IT'S THE LAW!"

RUN,,, SABATTUS,,,RUN!!!!!!

"Lisbon Police Department Top Gun"

"I'll Get Those Cats"

The world's largest army... America's hunters!‏

The world's largest army... America's hunters! I had never thought about this....

A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:

There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin.

Allow me to restate that number.

Over the last several months, Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.

More men under arms than in Iran .

More than in France and Germany combined.

These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.

That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan's 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home.

Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that

the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

The point?

America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower.

Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.

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That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.

Food for thought when next we consider gun control.

A great story, Fracking, fighting for a cause, Never Give Up!

Two People Made a Difference

When Jen Slotterback found a well pad stake in her local park in Pennsylvania, she realized the forest would soon be taken over by a natural gas drilling -- that is the toxic and destructive process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

"What can we do? We can't just go about our life as usual and let this happen."

The board that governs the park was about to vote in only 11 days on whether to permit fracking.

She and her husband acted quickly to get their message out to the community - gathering over 4,000 signatures in that short amount of time.

Result? The board unanimously voted against the drilling.

Now the Slotterbacks and Responsible Drilling Alliance (RDA) are campaigning to save more than 700,000 acres of forest throughout Pennsylvania from fracking.

Inspiring example of how it can be done! You can sign their petition at Earthjustice.com and keep spreading the word by sharing this video!

--Bibi Farber

This video was produced b Earthjustice.com

Jen Slotterback was hiking in her favorite park when she found signs of surveying for industrial gas drilling, or fracking. She went home and told her husband Jim, and although the two had never been actively involved in the issue of gas drilling, they immediately began a campaign to save the park. The board that controlled the park was set to vote on whether to drill in the park in 11 days. The story of the Slotterback's journey of those 11 days is the subject of this film.

College Conspiracy

We just released 'College Conspiracy' a day early so that NIA members can see the movie before we issue our press release tomorrow morning to not just the nationwide education news wire, but to thousands of college administrators and education journalists through two special education microlists.

 

Please watch 'College Conspiracy' immediately and spread the word to every single one of your friends, family members, and co-workers: http://inflation.us/videos.html

 

It is up to every single one of you to help make this movie a success by spreading the word to as many people as possible. Considering how our latest video 'The Day the Dollar Died' has now reached close to 2 million views in 6 months, we are very optimistic that we can get 'College Conspiracy' to be seen by an even larger audience.

 

We need to get millions of people to watch 'College Conspiracy' if we are going to expose what we believe is the largest scam in U.S. history! NIA is the most pro-education organization in the world, but the college bubble we have today is destroying the lives of millions of Americans who deserve to be receiving a much higher quality of education for only a fraction of the cost.

 

As you watch this documentary, we hope that you notice and appreciate the quality of work that we put into it. We hired one of the best Hollywood animators and a famous Hollywood narrator to help make this movie our most impressive and professional documentary of all time. It took us three months just to write the script, which used many of the ideas that were submitted to us by NIA members.

 

We would like to give our most sincere thank you to the thousands of NIA members who emailed us suggestions of topics to cover and expert guests to interview!

'College Conspiracy' is going to open up the minds of millions of students who have been brainwashed their entire lives by the propaganda in the mainstream media. We are a nation of sheep, where nobody thinks for themselves and everybody follows the same system. The system we have today turns everybody into debt slaves, while the Federal Reserve allows bankers on Wall Street to steal the wealth of middle-class Americans through inflation.

Now is the time for all young Americans to think outside of the box and become self-educated. Don't rely on others to provide jobs for you. Go out there and make a job yourself!

Watch 'College Conspiracy' right away at: http://inflation.us/videos.html

 

NIA's entire staff worked day and night for the past six months producing this movie. Now is your turn to help make a difference by spreading the word!

College education is the largest scam in U.S. history!