Tag: hypocrites

City Council Extends Lockdown to April 30th. Unless You’re a Church. Then It’s OK To Gather In Crowds

Never thought I’d see a meeting where Mike White was wrong and Kathy Kuehne was right, but these are crazy times indeed.

The issue? Allowing churches to flout the lockdown that everyone else is suffering through and allow them to hold ‘parking lot services’, whatever that means. Apparently on-line services are not good enough, according to the likes of Councilwoman Delana Toups. The congregation all HAVE TO BE ALLOWED to drive to the parking lot and sit in their cars watching…with the engines off (and presumably windows up to prevent viral spread), according to Finley.

Ironically, Delana is a public school teacher currently conducting classes five days a week over the Internet (LOL)….and that appears to be ‘good enough’ for her. Yet watching a religious service over the TV or Internet once a week just won’t cut it. Very weird.

But here is my big question: will the churches be allowed to “pass the plate” and collect money from everyone in their cars? NOBODY on City council asked that all-important question. Because if they DO, that kind of defeats Misti’s big plan that the rest of us are suffering to implement.

Call me a cynic, but I suspect the reason the churches want a parking lot service in the first place is because when people watch online, they can’t hand money to the guy with the basket or plate! Easter Sunday is this weekend and I bet those churches would be missing out on a LOT OF CHEDDAR!! It’s the Super Bowl of religious days and the churches want their cut.

I know, I know…I’m an asshole for even thinking that. But hey – 12 years of Catholic school taught me that the church is like any other business except they push guilt and then sell salvation….all while avoiding property taxes! I’m thinking of starting one myself, as a matter of fact.

But here’s the thing: I’m personally NOT religious at all…BUT I still enjoy attending services at Putters and Gutters or Memos on Sundays. Vodka is my god and greasy food is my communion….and I am being DENIED my right to congregate and worship! Yet the other churches are allowed to operate. I don’t care what you believe or where you congregate to hand over your money – but I’d like the ability to do the same.

Delana Toups is just fine with this hypocrisy. Oh well, at least the stupid Tree Police idea has been forgotten for the moment!

Some Goldfish Want To Have Their Trees And Eat Them Too

The latest news out of City council is the desire to “protect trees” from those evil developers. You know, the very same developers they keep handing hundreds of thousands of dollars to in order to entice them to develop more. As I understand it, ‘developing’ land usually requires clearing it out of a bunch of trees and replacing them with houses and roads and drainage ponds. At least that’s what I saw over at Stone Valley and the S2M2 development – nothing but smooth ground for close to 100 new houses.

Perhaps the Goldfish already forgot (as they are wont to do) about the free electrical hookups they handed to Deorald Finney at Stone Valley (69 houses = approx $72,000 in lost revenue to City)? Or maybe they forgot about the $150,000 they are handing to S2M2 for a giant water detaining pond. Last I checked, water retention ponds don’t have giant oak trees in the middle of them – they are cleared out in the name of “development”.

The Goldfish proposing this hypocritical idea was Delana Toups. She mentioned TWICE in the article that she “was sad to see last week that an oak was knocked down for a new development”. Neither time did she actually mention WHICH development it was – which I suspect was not an accident. She would look pretty stupid complaining about the S2M2 or Stone Valley development after just handing them $150,000 of taxpayer money. I actually drove over to the S2M2 development a month ago, and saw a TON of trees had been destroyed.

So, they want growth and development so badly, they hand out huge checks and waive tons of fees for these private developers – GIVING these rich developers tax dollars so they can clear cut trees, build homes and make a huge profit on their houses.

THEN, the same person complains that a tree was cut down by a developer! I mean, I have to thank this group for giving me unending, low-hanging fruit to ridicule them with. It’s just too easy now.

Instead of infringing on peoples’ property rights to do what they want with their trees, how about STOPPING COMPLETELY all the handouts to your rich developer buddies and the scumbag former Council members who lobby for them (*cough* Chris Harrison *cough*)?

Nah – that would be too easy. Let’s instead make a whole new pile of regulations and restrictions on the rest of the population. Awesome idea!

In fairness, Mayor Talbert immediately came out against the idea of telling people what they can do with the land they own. Good for her. She is on the correct side of this issue.