Comments on: Mayor Hotline August 9 to 15

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:52:56 +0000

Please remember Anonymous, you started this! You don’t want to measure volunteer hours with me. Over the last 30 years, mine are easily measured in the tens of thousands of hours! I have never been afraid of hard work either. But It will be a cold day in Hades before I go down to do a job that I am already paying someone to do! By your logic, given the bus system is completely broken in this town, your solution is that we all start cruising the arterials looking for anyone that needs a ride. Or maybe we should all get our lawn mowers out and meet at thye vacant city-owned property to mow and weed! Are you realizing yet how silly your position is?

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:43:52 +0000

Zoo:
All the zoo money is going to build the new 50-foot high giraffe house, isn’t it?

Crazy Sacramento Lady:
I have a friend who lives in Sacramento. (Moved from Idaho to California. Weird, huh?) I asked him to make something of the disjointed ramblings of his fellow citizen down there, and he suggested:

“I decided to put my Art Bell hat on and see if I could come up with an idea.

Assuming this lady is in the Sacramento area, what is it that set her off… since she is clearly playing with a short deck?

“If we look at some of the phrases she uses ‘warfare people,’ ‘settings of the military,’ ‘FBI people and some of the corrections,’ ‘McHale’s Navy,’ …

“I would hazard the guess that she is seeing a lot of people running around in uniforms. I would also guess that whatever they’re doing, it’s causing lots of commotion and agitating her. She mentions New York, Kentucky, California; and talks like the above people need to work better at fixing – a problem.

“From my shrink couch here, I think it may have been the gigantic fires that we had that pushed her over the edge.

“There have been firefighters flown in from everywhere in the country. Over 80 percent of all firefighters in the U.S. were in the Sacramento area at one time.

“But it wasn’t just them, we were using National Guard Units, Sheriff and Police Departments, Department of Corrections and prisoners, Forest Service personnel, Fire Districts Mangers, you name it.

“Even if there were no fires where she was; she could have been near a staging location for equipment and aircraft that were going pretty much 24/7.”

Interesting theory. If she quiets down as fire season subsides, it will lend credence.

By: Ice

Ice — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:18:29 +0000

If the zoo manager has the same Boise Parks and Recreation connections the old manager at another Parks facility had, he won’t have to worry about losing his job. But whovever is next in line better watch out he/she doesn’t have to take the hit.

By: Anonymous.

Anonymous. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:17:56 +0000

Maybe the money goes to feeding the animals, taking care of the animals, paying zoo employees. You’re afraid of a little work. Come on! I’ve done plenty of volunteer work, and it’s not bad at all. So shut up!

Cyclops: You’re missing my point.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:00:22 +0000

Anonymous, i think you might be missing my point here. We PAY to support that zoo! Looking like it does, where is our money going?

By: BIG

BIG — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:42:15 +0000

The “gas” smell is from the new sewer trunk line that runs down Cloverdale. I think it is funny the city passed it on to Intermountain gas.

By: mkjcrich

mkjcrich — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:49:34 +0000

Anonymous hasn’t been to the library lately if he/she thinks kids are hanging out there…fail

By: Anonymous.

Anonymous. — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:02:01 +0000

Good points. But still, if the city doesn’t take care of it, I personally will be down there helping clean up. You can take that as a promise. We shouldn’t expect the city to change our diapers for us. Get a backbone. As I said, you might enjoy it. Go ahead and challenge again. I dare you.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:33:55 +0000

Hey, I like “Anonymous” — I bet he or she is out right now cleaning the city sewers, sweeping the streets, scrubbing down City Hall or trimming trees in Julia Davis Park.

If we had a few thousand more like him or her, the city, county and state wouldn’t have to hire any workers; the volunteers would do it all.

Of course, with all those lay-offs, there would be lots of unemployment — and our taxes would *still* go up!

Or maybe Anonymous can do it all by him/herself?

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:53:37 +0000

The biggest embarrassment about the zoo are the exhibits. The zoo is nothing more than a glorified farm and petting zoo with circus animal rejects. I say close the zoo until there are enough funds for some real exhibits.