Cedar Center north update

The usual gang of whiners has spent the last two years griping about Cedar Center north. Now with Gordon’s Food Service doing brisk business and Bob Evans about to open, they are starting to quiet down. What they don’t want you to hear is what I will now show you:

Construction has begun on the next phase of Cedar Center north! The early burst of warm weather has helped speed things along, and this phase is scheduled to be finished by (date). Tenants will include Chipotle, Five Guys, Panera, PetSmart, and China Gate. Old timers will remember China Gate was a tenant in the old Cedar Center.

March 2012's Douchebag of the month

Found on Fran Mentch's facebook page:

Cleveland Heights has been defecating on the people of South Euclid along with the rest of Eastern Cuyahoga for decades. They refuse to participate in RITA meaning they collect taxes when we shop in their stores but never pay it back. Their cops are always on the ready to write us tickets for driving 26mph on Mayfield Road but can't be bothered to process rape kits. Heightsters whine about us "poaching" business from them as if everything is automatically theirs. When's the last time Cleveland Heights asked our opinion on anything? That's right, NEVER!

All of which earns Angel Fasolo the I ♥ South Euclid douchebag of the month award.

Fran thinks “we’re so dumb”

Just when I thought Fran Mentch gave up on Oakwood and pointed her beak at Millikin school she’s back to her croning on the Patch and the Plain Dealer website. But this time, she’s resorted to the cut & paste tactics championed by Garry Kanter/bystander75. There’s no need to say anything new when you can just repeat the same thing in different forums under different names.

Patch requires that commenters post under their own name, so you can plainly see Fran’s name and mug here.

The Plain Dealer has no such requirement. You can even change the display name and keep the same account. But the web address doesn’t change. So we can see that “weresodumb” is registered under the name “citizenabigail” which is a name that appeared frequently in the months leading up to the vote on Oakwood.

We're not so dumb, Fran.

Let’s poach Mosdos

The Mosdos Orthodox Jewish congregation wants to buy the Milliken school in Cleveland Heights. The school has been closed since 2004. Mosdos is offering a half-million to buy it. The Cleveland Heights-University Heights school board says it’s worth a lot more than that based on a 2006 appraisal of the property. I spoke before about how asinine the Cleveland Heights school board is to hang on to this decaying property. The usual suspects are all over this one. Fran Mentch wants to stop the sale of Milliken because of the woods behind the building and John Severance’s old barn. That’s what she says at least. Others are justifying this ridiculous position by stating that the property may increase in value with the economic recovery or may be needed again. NEWS FLASH. Decaying asbestos-filled buildings that have limited use do not increase in value no matter how good the economy is. There is no evidence to support the idea that more families will be moving to Cleveland Heights. Not with their low rated school system and through the roof taxes. Who aside from hippies and Section 8ers would want to live there? In fact, with the board’s stubborn refusal to sell Milliken, Cleveland Heights is setting up another population decrease. The Mosdos families will find another property that suits their needs and conforms to their religious restrictions, they will sell the houses they have, and move to that area. And that area will probably NOT be in Cleveland Heights.

And that’s where I got an idea:

Let’s use the Heightsters shortsightedness to South Euclid’s advantage. There must be a suitable facility in South Euclid that’s either owned by the city or the South Euclid-Lyndhurst school board. In just the last few years, we’ve closed 3 schools. It’s possible more may be closed in the future. So instead of tearing the next one down, why don’t we offer to sell it to another school at a low ball price? The school district would take flak for selling the building cheap, but would save itself the cost of upkeep or teardown. The stipulation is that the building would be sold strictly as-is.

If this came to pass, South Euclid would get an influx of new residents who have a reputation as stable families, a reduction in empty housing, an increase in property tax income for the city.

Hey, the anti-poaching agreement the city signed on to refers to businesses. It says nothing about RESIDENTS!

Good Riddance, John Demjanjuk

John Demjanjuk died on St. Patrick’s Day. He died in a comfortable nursing home. That’s more than can be said about his 28,000 victims. The good die young. Demjanjuk was 91. His death removes another figure in the most horrific event in human history. It makes no difference whether he was a major or minor player on the stage of this shameful event.

The Demjanjuk trial is history. He may not have been the Ivan the Terrible he was accused of being in Israel. But it has been proven that he did work at Sobibor which was a dedicated death camp with no pretense of having any other purpose.

Even if you accept Demjanjuk’s story that he was innocent of the crimes and was an involuntary laborer, he still lied on his immigration form when he came to the United States in 1952. He should have been deported the moment this fact became clear to US Immigration. Why is it that some are willing to extend a welcome to the likes of “Fausto Carmona” and John Demjanjuk but eager to kick out lowly landscapers and waiters at Mexican restaurants?

People have complained that Demjanjuk’s conviction in Germany was a double standard since there were many Germans who were not punished for their actions during the Holocaust. That may be true. The guilt of others doesn’t make Demjanjuk innocent. At least Germany has tried to come clean about the atrocities it caused, which is more than can be said about Japan which cleanses its history. Have they ever apologized for Pearl Harbor? For the Bataan Death March? No, they just whine about the Atomic bombings which were the result of their warmongering.

Some family members have spoken about returning Demjanjuk’s body to our area. What possible good would that accomplish? Any grave bearing Demjanjuk’s name would become a shrine to neo-Nazis or an unintended urinal. The Demjanjuk family would quickly learn that having him here will not bring closure to them or anyone else. No one wants this guy in a cemetery that holds their parents, siblings, or children. The best thing to do is cremate his body and scatter the ashes, or bury him anonymously and outside of the United States.

John Demjanjuk is dead. Good riddance. May we never see his like again.

More complaints from a lackey

These sad anti-Oakwood clowns just won’t stop bitching. Here’s a letter from Kathy Schaeffer. It’s not her first letter to the Sun by a long shot.

http://www.cleveland.com/lyndhurst-south-euclid/index.ssf/2012/03/south_euclid_touts_itself_as_g.html

Who is Kathy Schaeffer? She’s one of the South Euclid LACKEYS I pegged back in October. She claims to be an environmentalist and a member of the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club is now more known for being a racist organization than protecting the environment. Schaeffer hardly lives an ecofriendly lifestyle. She just a hypocrite like certain members of Citizens for Oakwood. Schaeffer mows her lawn with a sit down mower. Now that’s living green!

FLASH: Mayfield Hts REJECTS anti-poaching agreement

Mayfield Heights city council has rejected Cuyahoga County’s anti-poaching agreement by a vote of 5-2.

http://www.cleveland.com/hillcrest/index.ssf/2012/03/mayfield_heights_says_no_to_an.html

Well, isn’t this an interesting turn of events? I wonder what “Citizens for Oakwood” will have to say about this. I expect their silence will be deafening. Where was their outrage after Mayfield “poached” JoAnn’s fabric from University Square?