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The Viral Vent

Published Thursday, April 16 2009 at 2:27pm by admin in General

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tincan - Friday, January 6 2012 at 5:07pm

sorry about my spelling, Mrs. Tolen tried to get me to spell better, it is my fault, not hers!!!

sting - Friday, January 6 2012 at 10:19pm

The initiative idea is sheer genius. The initiative process can be used to require the county board of supervisors to sell the hospital. Take the issues out of the politicians’ hands & put it into the voters’ hands.

rock - Saturday, January 7 2012 at 12:13pm

The initiative process is a measure which the voters can express their requirements on particular issues. I am sure there will be considerable opposition and attacks on the initiative concerning the Ord Police Department, considering those in favor of retaining it would lose their favored status.

As far as an initiative process addressing the hospital, I think Valley County tax payers would benefit more if the initiative addressed dissolving the hospital board and requiring the Valley County Board of Supervisors to contract with a professional hospital group (i.e. Bryan LGH or other similar professional groups).

tincan - Saturday, January 7 2012 at 2:59pm

Rock,

You know the mud slinging will begin. When ever anyone takes power away for the powerful people, the the mud will hit the fan. I am sure you will be one of the prime targets.

Lawman - Sunday, January 15 2012 at 1:44pm

Irish one...............from the people that I have contacted, the trespassing case is in the court system, so it will have to play out there. Could take a long time......

Something that has always struck me as strange.....When we moved here, in 1975, the local battles were over the school system and the Hospital......Here it is 2012, and the local battles are still over the school system and the hospital.....

This should tell me something, but not sure what!!!!

tincan - Monday, January 16 2012 at 2:30pm

Lawman,

I think it should tell you that the power brokers want control of there little bit of the world. Just like they do in DC, just not on such a grand scale. I would think that the power borkers would spend money on trying to figure out how to grow Ord so more money could come into the coffers instead of raising taxes on the property owners. I do beleave this is the same problem that was had back in 1975 that you refer to. I do beleave there are the same people that are the power borkers in place.

rock - Sunday, January 22 2012 at 12:12pm

Part 1
Tin can well said!!! The power brokers...and their cronies are eating away at this town. Just look at the difference between Ord and Broken Bow, in the size and growth over the past 10 years. Ord keeps doing the same thing with the same people at the hospital and expect a different result every year. I guess the county board did add two more people to the hospital board, to add to the cost of running the hospital and they too came out of the same crony pool. The same goes for the city, as we have seen how the cronies handled the Markowski Viaero Deal leaving the tax payers coming up short. The tax payers of the county and the city need to wake up and vote new people in office that have the goal of growth for the community to benefit all; or we can keep doing for the benefit of the power broking cronies.
Lawman, you are correct the trespassing case is in the court system. The holdup is that Markowski, Petska, Goldfish, and Adam Miller have learned that there will be a federal law suit under USC 42-1983 filed against them personally, and against the Ord City Council for violation of the alleged trespasser’s constitutional rights, so the city has not moved forward. I have been sitting on this story for some time, waiting on them to move forward. This case is a perfect example of what tin can has said in his two previous posts. The power broking…cronies charged two fishermen with trespass on a city owned ponds that they have fished on for years, along with others. Why these two fishermen charged…and the other fishermen fishing that day was not? Because one of them has been an outspoken critic of the cronyism and thievery by Markowski, Goldfish and Petska.

rock - Sunday, January 22 2012 at 12:15pm

Part 2
They wanted retaliation for exposing their thievery so much that they had Adam Miller come up with a plan to deny the fishermen their constitutional right to a jury trial and an attorney for the trumped up trespassing charges. This is nothing more than a clear case of malicious prosecution, by the power brokers for publicly exposing the thievery of Markowski, Goldfish and Petska and requiring the Chief of the PD to formulate a plan to deny the accused of their right to a jury trial and right to counsel. They even went to the extent of lying to the city board members to persuade them into voting for the prosecution. I am not surprised at Markowski, Goldfish, and Petska’s actions in this case, but what I find most disturbing is Adam Miller’s part. This is supposed to be a law enforcement officer sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, and its laws. It is well documentedAdam Miller came up with a plan to prosecute the accused after they had been charged in County Court, and after they asked for their right to a jury trial and their right to counsel, that Adam Miller recommended prosecuting the fishermen on the municipal side of the law, which would deny the accused their right to jury trial and their right to counsel. This recommendation by Adam Miller was met with great exuberance by Goldfish, Petska and Markowski…the crony power brokers, then presented to the city council at an unprecedented special meeting with a fantastic story of the fisherman man handling the officer that issued the citation, to the extent the council was told “We have it on tape.” The council did not see or hear the tape… why? Because what was told was not true. The police report reflects no such man handling, and the other officer that was present confirms no such man handling.

rock - Sunday, January 22 2012 at 12:16pm

Part 3
Nice bunch we are dealing with here. Adam Miller is supposed to be a sworn officer, protecting the constitution, and enforcing the laws within the constitutional limitations, not openly and blatantly conspiring to deny people their constitutional rights at the pleasure of the likes of Markowski, Goldfish and Petska. I believe it’s a fair statement that Adam Miller is trying to show the power brokers (who are coincidently are the same individuals that want to keep the Ord PD and not consolidate law enforcement with the county), that he is of value to the power brokers in order to keep his job, and oppose consolidation.
Yes tincan, you are very much correct, “When anyone takes power away from the powerful people, the mud will hit the fan.” And I will add… “Publicly expose the thievery the mud will also hit the fan.” In this case one of the fishermen has exposed the thievery of Markowski, Goldfish, and Petska for many years, now they are trying to administer payback, with Adam Millers help. As Sting said, the lawyers are waiting on them. I will be posting this complete story with the documentation. In the meantime be forewarned…if you speak out against the thievery of your tax dollars by Markowski, Goldfish and Petska, the mud will hit the fan and you will be retaliated against by the Ord PD.

tincan - Sunday, January 22 2012 at 4:28pm

Rock,
I had heard about 3 fisherman getting a ticket. I had not reolized that it was getting to this madness. I don't know who the fishermen are, guess I really don't need to know. Am I to understand that the city can take control of a case, and not allow constitutional rights. That is realy scary. Makes me wonder if a lawyer on the south side of the square had anything to do with this.
I can not imagine that they can not request trial by jury. They need to talk to a GOOD lawyer.
Rock continue on, but watch your back.

rock - Monday, January 23 2012 at 8:02pm

Tin can, thanks for the vote of confidence. I too was outraged at the blatant, malicious INTENTIONAL steps that were taken by Mayor Roger Goldfish and being pushed by Council Member Dan Petska to deny individuals their constitutional rights formulated and contrived by Chief Adam Miller. The documents are clear and unambiguous to their intent. I was present at the city council meeting when the city council voted to hire a special prosecutor to prosecute these two fishermen. City Attorney, Greg Jensen asked the question, “What is it the council is voting on?” None of the council members were responding to his question, so I spoke up and said, “Greg, you were not at the August 12th special meeting of the city council. Where the council voted to prosecute these two fishermen on the ordinance side of the law effectively denying them their constitutional rights to a jury trial and appointed counsel.” Greg Jensen responded, “Oh yeah, I do remember reading that.” Council Member Dan Petska then chimed in and said we need to move on. At which point, Mayor Goldfish quickly asked for a motion. It needs to be pointed out that City Attorney Greg Jensen does not prosecute city ordinances on behalf of the city. This is the reason Mayor Goldfish and Council Member Petska had to push to hire a “special prosecutor.” One notable point needs to be made here; the city council at this same time was dealing with how to address the $250,000 budget deficit and was considering contracting with the Valley County Sheriff’s Dept. for law enforcement within the city. One can clearly see that even though the city council was facing the $250,000 budget deficit; they were more than willing to spend the money on a special prosecutor to have a father and son prosecuted for the crime of attempting to catch a crappie on a city owned pond on a Saturday afternoon. The fact of the matter is attempting to catch a crappie is not the crime being prosecuted here, but in actuality is retaliation for exposing the thievery on camera of city services over many years. More on this story to come…

sting - Wednesday, January 25 2012 at 9:37am

People, this story is a very serious attack on your constitutional rights!!! It begins with the Markowski affair back in May 2010, then to Markowski 2.0, and to the video of another point of view from Hitler. Check out the archives on ordtalk.

A lot of people back then criticized the video produced by Mr. Ghost of the Nazis and Hitler approving how Ord does its business. The Nazis also outlawed free speech, criticized the government, prosecuted people for violating their laws without any legal representation or jury trial. ARE YOU GETTING THE CONNECTION HERE??? Wake up people. We have constitutional crisis right here in Ord. You can be next on their list.

OrdFF - Wednesday, January 25 2012 at 1:59pm

Ord 2:20

Ord is a WONDERFUL place to live!

rock - Wednesday, January 25 2012 at 7:24pm

John Young, Woody Woodgate, Detective Morrow, Deputy Sheriff Roy Crites, Sheriff Casey Hurlbert and the entire VCSD, true law enforcement officers that we can all be proud of. Thank you for a job well done in the arrest for the murder of Cathy Beard. I am confident that there will be a conviction within the constitutional limits of the law.

OrdFF - Thursday, January 26 2012 at 8:13am

Rock - agreed! Great job and Thank You!Cathy Beard

sting - Saturday, February 4 2012 at 10:40am

I see from the Ord Quiz that Economic Development Director Caleb Pollard has been busy promoting Economic Development...his own...He has been busy finding jobs for people in Ord...his wife. This is a strange situation. Caleb’s wife makes the front page of the Quiz, when she get hired by the hospital, but she didn’t make the front page when they fired her before...what’s that all about?

That’s one way to get Caleb in line with the hospital, keeping the hospital board & stop pushing for dissolving the hospital board or bringing in a hospital group to run the hospital.

rock - Saturday, February 4 2012 at 9:24pm

Part 1
Lots of things happening with the Ord City Council. The Valley County Attorney has REFILED trespassing charges against one of the fisherman. I say REFILED because the state charges were previously dismissed and the county found this matter trivial not warranting the expense of a jury trial and court appointed counsel. Mayor Goldfish and Dan Petska took the matter to the Ord City Council as recommended by Police Chief Adam Miller stating that these two fishermen can be prosecuted on the municipal side of the law this would deny the defendants their rights to jury trial and counsel at a special 8 minute meeting on August 12, 2011. This matter continued at the October 3, 2011 regular session of the city council to appoint a “SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.” For the past 2 weeks by email to City Hall, I have been asking the question, “What resolution, ordinance or any other action by the city council closed Millers Pond located near the city lagoons to the public?” The answer to that question finally came as, “There is not a city ordinance or resolution that closes this area to the public.” The response to my question continued stating, “It is my understanding that the City has always considered the pond as part of the lagoon property, and it has been posted as no trespassing since the lagoons were built.”

rock - Saturday, February 4 2012 at 9:26pm

Part 2
This raises a number of other questions. What resolution, ordinance or other actions by the city council considered this area known as Millers Pond part of the lagoon property? Another oddity with this situation, if this pond is considered part of the lagoon property closed to the general public to keep unauthorized persons out (an authorized person would be a city employee performing lagoon maintenance). Why has Utilities Superintendent Paul Markowski (PMS) been handing out keys for many years to the paddle locked gate to non-city employees to fish, hunt, etc.? The answer to these questions is very simple selective enforcement, selective prosecution and retaliation with malicious intent by Utilities Superintendent Paul Markowski (PMS), Council Member DD Petska and Mayor Roger Goldfish for exposing their thievery of city services over many years with the aid of Police Chief Adam Miller in the denial of the defendants constitutional rights. Now this matter being refiled the defendant (they only charged one of the fisherman this time) will now have the opportunity to show he is being prosecuted for exposing the thievery of city services in a public trial before a jury of his peers. I do wonder how the Valley County Supervisors are going to view this matter. Are they willing to spend county funds for a jury trial, a court appointed attorney who will have to attend several depositions, etc. over what is clearly retaliatory charges for trying to catch a crappie and where the municipality of the City of Ord cannot manage their own affairs and now wants to dump it in the county’s lap? In considering the county is going to have considerable expenditure of funds for the upcoming murder trial, I don’t believe the county is going to want to spend its funds and involve itself in Markowski, Petska and Goldfish’s frivolous issues.

rock - Saturday, February 4 2012 at 11:23pm

Another interesting item that the Ord City Council will be considering is an ordinance to vacate 8th Street between Block 8 & 9, Woodbury Addition to Ord. After close examination of this proposal, it brings to mind the Viaero/Markowski (PMS) real estate transaction where a private property investor (PMS) netted some very big bucks off that deal and the City of Ord got the bird literally along with a dandelion field. It appears as though this is similar in that another private real estate investor (non-resident) presently owns the property and would like to have 8th Street vacated creating "RIVERFRONT PROPERTY" substantially increasing the value of this (privately non-resident) investor’s real estate. What’s in it for the City of Ord? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! How is this land presently used by the city taxpayers of Ord? Many people within the city enjoy simply being able to go down to the river’s edge and enjoy the river scenery, go for a walk along the river and fish on city owned property, so why would the city even consider giving away such a valuable piece of property? Drum rolls please CRONYISM the present landowner is also the owner of one of the local saloons, where Council Member DD Petska spends most of his time. Council Member DD Petska is the head of the Saloon Lobbying Delegation. I believe it is fair to say that if Council Member DD Petska is successful in giving away this valuable piece of real estate that he and the other members of the Saloon Lobbying Delegation to the city council will be rewarded with copious amounts of big mugs. Be sure to check back into ordtalk after Monday night’s city council meeting, as I am told that the administrators of ordtalk will be there with video camera in hand to record these proceedings and post them on ordtalk. I have requested to be placed on the agenda to speak about this proposed ordinance and I will offer some alternative proposals, as to the use of this property.

sting - Sunday, February 5 2012 at 2:33pm

Don’t you mean the Nazi meeting headed by Mayor Adolf Goldfish? It starts at 7:30, Monday February 6 at the Nazi Hall. The Nazi meeting begins with the salute, Hail Goldfish. Gestapo Chief Miller will be ready with his club & stun gun to torture anybody that opposes the Nazi takeover. Nazi PMS has been telling people around town he’s to go to court in Lincoln for trimming his trees at his rental. Remember that’s the one that didn’t involve any power lines. Nazi DD is trying to get the Nazi council to pay for PMS lawyer, more Nazi thieves. Nazi dictator Adolf Goldfish requires all Ord PD vehicles to be painted with a swastika on them & a swastika patch on their uniforms. It is said that Gestapo Chief Miller is in favor of the new requirements.

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