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Today is an extraordinary day as we celebrate an historical event in this great nation. It is questionable why the board chose Inauguration Day to have their annual meeting. There are, after all, 30 other days in January.
Nevertheless, let's hope that the board will take on the mantra of the new administration and be better neighbors, more united and transparent in their politics.
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The great genius of America is that it has the ability to peacefully self-correct if allowed while placing no limit to the good and success that honorable men can achieve. I believe Barack Obama is an honorable man who through his own hard work and a nation’s encouragement, achieved what he deserves. If he remains focused and uncorrupted, he will greatly advance the American purpose and ideal like no other.
However, erring on the side of political and emotional correctness, America is often afraid to ask questions of matter, meaning or substance. Entwined with greed, pride and prejudice, by default America has fostered, encouraged and even rewarded a culture of corruption and every other manner of dismal character. A smart incorruptible man like
Barack Obama will return us from the brink.
President Obama is exactly who we need to press and firmly hold our reset and restore button. Our systems have failed plain and simple. As such, I do not envy the tasks he needs to accomplish or the necessary function needed to achieve them. He has my prayers.
I am however deeply troubled with his vigorous support of everything abortion. I am surprised that an individual as smart as he cannot recognize genocide as it happens, or even after it happens if he’d pause to consider the over 5,000,000 babies killed thus far. It is unconscionable to me that any parent would ever support abortion for any reason ever. Apart from any religious requirements, parenthood is the simultaneously the ultimate deterrent, motivating factor and gift. We should be free only to choose to nurture that gift ourselves or answer another’s prayers and give a gift.
America can also be a fascinating case study for duality as America is often an existence in contrasts. As an example consider, compare and contrast two inauguration day inaugurations. Nationally, January 20, 2009 was a very good and long overdue day. Through a single event America acknowledged numerous fundamental errors, pledged corrections and regained the reins of rightness. Without fear or evasion, we stepped to pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps.
Locally, January 20, 2009 went 180 degrees the other way. America’s genius has an inherent exploitable flaw. In deference to systems which theoretically are for the protection of our core-principles and everything we hold dear and sacred, by default America automatically allows and promotes a minority position on anything to become an encouraged majority position. If unchallenged for too long, in today’s culture of ego-driven instant-gratification, and ramped-corruption, it manifests into nothing less than an unalterable, untreatable and always fatal, vicious, maniacal, nearly-autonomous, devolving cancer. Corrective systems long past functioning, are overrun and permeated with political concerns, redundant, restrictive and costly procedures and even self-interest having replaced self-righteousness.
January 20, 2009 was a sad night to bare witness to our local level of sense and sensibility. It was a sad night to be a lamb as former board members assaulted a candidate and victim homeowner over the course, cost and outcome of their own devaluing, unnecessary and otherwise avoidable actions; to which the association is still being billed by the way. (There’s nothing but common sense, good management, fiduciary responsibility and intelligence to keep them from throwing good money after bad.) It was silly of me to suggest costs can be controlled or even reined in. The very notion of budgetary constraint was received by a former board member as ludicrous. That same former board member of authority with at least one advanced degree and a lifetime of experience purposefully pointed that we can’t possibly cut any money from the budget and must continue to pay over 70,000 dollars a month until the end of time. The outrage in this place was and is totally misdirected. I was quite literally stupefied and dumbfounded.
Unfortunately I allowed myself to be baited while becoming angry at the untrue premise that I was an eager participant or instigator. Had no one been paying attention? Had I not been kicking and screaming for years about exactly the problems and consequences to which the former board members had just decided to recognize? People have such short and selective memories. Case in point recall last year's election where two candidates from Casa Di Amici where running for the same seat. Remember how it was alleged that the challenger was somehow related to me and should thusly be beheaded? Our new master board is comprised of a legitimate set of relatives and a multiple set when you consider our other ruling boards. Duplicity continues unchallenged at the local level as long as board members are happy with it or it serves their purposes. What's the name for that I wonder?
On the local level, or at least within our unsecured gates, there’s no place for an idealist or a pragmatist. A small group of militant interlopers have taken control and poisoned the well. There’s a word for that.
The saddest thing of all is that I’ve had my faith in our government of checks and balances stripped away. It sucks to know what I know about our systems of law and order, the linchpins of our fleeting freedom. I imagine that all victims of gang-rapes feel the same way.
I don't surround myself with current events 24 hours a day and only catch the headlines once and awhile. With that said, this unfolding Rob Blagojevich situation is intriguing not because of what he did or did not do, but because of what he's doing.
He seems to be unabashedly saying he was railroaded; that the system of checks and balances has failed. I wonder where I've heard that before?
I have the unfortunate experience of knowing as fact that once the fix is in, nothing including the truth can change the predetermined outcome.
It will be interesting to see if the truth will come into the light now that the media seems to have acknowledged the procedural abnormalities and resulting costs.
Maybe there's hope for American jurisprudence after all.
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