Thursday, June 10, 2010

Er uh, Mr. Noedel, please excuse me, but did you know that .......

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..... your 7 inches is really only 5.125 inches!

You touted your 7 inch photos recently at CNL while at the same time disparaging "postage-size" photos on "other" sites.  However, when I put a tape measure up to the photo you displayed in your article, I came up with a measurement of 5.125 inches.  Now that was with my laptop "zoom level" set at 100%.  Maybe you are using a 125% or 150% "zoom level".  Everything looks bigger with higher "zoom levels"!

Hermann Hearsay nation, don't be fooled by wildly exaggerated claims on competing local news sites!  Check 'em out with your tape measure like we do!

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Plans forThree Day Weekend

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

I will be out of town for three days of R&R this weekend.  Don't worry though.  I'm putting Lois Lame in charge while I'm gone.  If she does real well (as I'm sure she will), we may pomote her to Assistant Editor.  We'll allow her to retain all of her current responsibilities and give her a meager pay increase.  Don't worry about this either.  We won't increase her pay so much that it will force us to raise our subscription rates.  Nope!  We are always looking out for your best interests!  Hermann Hearsay pledges to remain the low-cost publisher in the local news market!

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Gasconade County Commissioners' Meeting - 6/10/2010

Published by Dick Schaefer, Contributing Writer and Part-Time Amateur Investigative Reporter

In my first big reporting assignment with Hermann Hearsay, I had the great misfortune of having to cover this morning's County Commissioners' Meeting.  What a bummer!  Jimmy, couldn't you have assigned me to the sports beat or the restaurant review beat or maybe the massage parlor review beat?!

The last time I attended one of the County Commissioners' meetings was way back in September of 2009.  I was reminded this morning why I stopped attending.  Can you say ...... B-O-R-I-N-G?!!!

If you really want to know the excrutiatingly dull details about how the meeting began at 8:30 am with the 'Pledge of Allegiance', immediately followed by the reading of the minutes from the June 3rd meeting in Owensville, followed by Southern District Commissioner Jerry Lairmore's motion (seconded by Northern District Commissioner Matt Penning) that the county pay its bills (Of course, we should pay our damned bills!), followed by Presiding Commissoner Ron Jost's monotone summary of the Road Department Meeting in Drake, etc. etc. etc., then you can go to one of the other online local news sites for that report.

I just don't have the patience nor the discipline for news reporting ...... at least not for reporting on Gasconade County Commissioners' Meetings.  I have no interest in reporting to you the kind of mindless trivia that gets discussed at these open and public meetings.  Other reporters can regurgitate all that relatively insignificant "stuff" to you if they choose to do so.  But not me!  Besides, if I were to report all the details, I would have to tell you how woefully ill-prepared the Presiding Commissioner is when it comes to leading the meeting.  He reads correspondence during the meeting rather than doing his homework by reading that stuff prior to the meeting.  He doesn't move the meeting along efficiently.  There are many pregnant pauses during the meetings while he fumbles with his papers.  He has never properly and officially adjourned a commissioners' meeting.  He never calls for a motion to adjourn the meeting.  Rather he just slams the gavel and adjourns it.  Larry Miskel can't take over too soon!

Oh, I can tell you that I tried real hard.  I even took Hermann Hearsay's new digital voice recorder to the meeting.  I intended to report every little detail of the meeting.  But I just can't bring myself to doing so.  Nope, I will not allow myself to be used by these politicians for the purpose of reporting to the public only those few trivial subjects which they choose to dicuss in their public meeting!

Instead of the stuff that was discussed in this morning's meeting, let me tell you some of the subjects that were NOT discussed by our three county commissioners.  I feel it is much more important and instructive to tell you what was NOT discussed.  This is where the "real story" lies and perhaps that's why Presiding Commissioner Ron Jost doesn't put these subjects on the agenda!  Afterall it's easier to talk about which county road needs gravel or rock, the status of Lesa Lietzow's office refrigerator, the need to provide custodian Dennis Kattelman some help cutting the brush on the south hillside in front of the courthouse, etc.  But my friends, I have a pretty good 'Bull Shit Meter'.  I know when I'm being B.S.'d, and I know when politicians are covering up the real stories!

Some of the more important subjects which were NOT discussed and which are rarely discussed:
  1. the status of the courthouse preservation and restoration project and Presiding Commissioner Jost's work with the GCCS (By the way Ron, don't forget to attend the 6/21 meeting of the GCCS!  I'm sure you have received an invitation as you did for the May meeting, a meeting you ignored!),
  2. the status of the project to fund and construct the much needed courthouse emergency access road (We really should get this project done before someone dies or a fire destroys a major portion of the courthouse because we can't get the fire trucks up the hill!),
  3. the current county budget status at mid-year (Guess what Commissioners!  Your 2010 budget is already in trouble!  You'll probably figure that out in October, Ron!)
  4. the status of projects to address glaring outages found during the 2002 and 2006 state audits (Oh hell, Ron, why do anything about all that pesky stuff right now?!  We'll soon have the results and recommendations from our 2010 state audit, an audit which you can also ignore!), and
  5. Oh, fiddle faddle!  I could go on and on, but I don't believe in "piling on"!
Jimmy, please!!!  You gotta get me off this County Commission news beat!  After just one meeting, I am already tearing my hair out!  And I really don't have that much left!

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The Streets And Sidewalks Of Hermann - 5th Day Of Our Engineering Survey

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

On the fifth day of my walking survey (Tuesday, 6/8), I found the following street and sidewalk conditions in Hermann:
  • 4th Street heading west from Gutenberg Street to Schiller Street - Sidewalk uneven and potential trip hazard at 214 Fourth Street.  Sidewalk busted up from 207 Fourth Street to 223 Fourth Street.  Asphaltic street surface is patched, cracked and alligatored.  Concrete curb and gutter is busted up in many spots.
  • 4th Street heading west from Schiller Street to Market Street - North sidewalk is new and in excellent condition along the German School Museum property, however the sidewalk is cracked and uneven just east of the Shelter Insurance office.  The sidewalk on the south side of the street is in fair condition with a few cracks noted.  Asphaltic street surface is patched, cracked and alligatored.
  • 4th Street walking west from Market Street to Mozart Street - Sidewalks on both the north side and south side of the street are in relatively good condition.  The concrete street surface is in relatively good condition.  No major cracks, uneven slabs nor potholses were noted.
  • 4th Street walking west from Mozart Street to Washington Street - Sidewalks on both sides of the street are old, but they are in fair to good condition with the exception of a section of sidewalk at 231 Fourth Street which is uneven and represents a trip hazard.  The asphaltic street surface is patched, cracked and alligatored.  A few small, unfilled potholes were noted.
More street and sidewalk survey results to follow.

Jimmy Oldsun
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Photo Of The Day - Thursday, 6/10/2010

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Happy 75th Birthday to Barry!


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Quote Of The Day - Thursday, 6/10/2010

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Commenting on the subject of his golf game .....

“Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker.”  ~ Willie Nelson

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Laugh Of The Day - Thursday, 6/10/2010

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Do you know what happened 160 years ago this fall...Back in 1850?


California became a state.

The people had no electricity.

The state had no money.

Almost everyone spoke Spanish.

There were gunfights in the streets.

So basically nothing has changed except the women had real boobs and the men didn't hold hands.

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