Miscarriage of Justice

When it comes to the Cuyahoga County grand jury's decision not to prosecute Cleveland cop Timothy Loehmann in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice words escape me. Timothy McGinty has to go!

Over the last 20 years we've seen the slow rebirth of our Northeast Ohio region. But crap like this ensured Cleveland will continue to be a laughingstock in the eyes of many. The way the CPD treats African-Americans, the Republicans should feel right at home here next summer.

FLASH! Tea Party candidate encourages voter fraud

John Currid. We ran into him before. Last year he tried to unseat Cuyahoga Councilwoman Sunny Simon. He's BACK. This time he's running for South Euclid City Council. He's so desparate for votes he even asked for this woman's vote even though she'd recently moved out of South Euclid!

Still more you need to know about Ruth Gray

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Ruth Gray has been habitually late in paying her property taxes. Her pattern of tax delinquency went on for years starting in 2005 and as recently as 2012 the State of Ohio sent notice to garnish her wages from her employer. Would you want a Mayor responsible for fairly allocating your tax monies who was also a serial tax dodger?

More that you need to know about Ruth Gray

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Ruth Gray engaged in a pattern of racial discrimination as an employee of the City of Bedford Heights. Her behavior resulted in lawsuit which cost Bedford Height $2.2 million dollars including legal fees back in 2010. In 2012 she continued her behavior to the extent that Bedford Heights mayor Fletcher Berger suspended Gray without pay for three days and threatened termination if she engaged in such behavior again. Does anyone believe she wouldn't try to pull the same stunts while Mayor of South Euclid. God forbid!

What you need to know about Ruth Gray

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Ruth Gray tried to extort Mayor Welo, Law Director LoGrasso and Police Chief Neitert in order to expunge her step-daughter's criminal record. They refused to kowtow to Gray's behavior and she has been hell bent on revenge ever since.

Bibi lies again

Have you noticed the drop in gas prices over the last 2 weeks? You can thank President Obama. His patience and perseverance have paid off in the historic peace deal with Iran, which means Iran will be able to sell goods and services especially oil to Europe. And even though the UN sanctions haven’t officially been lifted yet, just the knowledge that Iran will be selling oil has caused a price drop. Funny how the market works. It’s not just supply and demand but PERCEIVED supply and PERCEIVED demand that influences prices. This is great for American and European consumers but not so great for Putin’s Russia which is a major oil exporter and will be hurt by the drop in prices.

Everyone of America’s allies has praised the Iran deal. Except Israel. Their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the deal as Munich style Appeasement. The more desperate Bibi gets the greater his hyperbole. I swear Bibi Netanyahu has done more to stoke up anti-Semitism in the world than the most frothing at the mouth neo-Nazi. He’s lost credibility among all but the AIPAC clowns and Republican presidential wannabees who conveniently forget Reagan SOLD arms to Iran.

 

Some people are so dumb they don’t take a step back and look at the big picture.

What the Iran deal does is take Iran at their word that they want to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes only. Beyond the fact that enriching Uranium requires more than Iran’ll be allowed to keep, it also takes time. In that time, the U.S. and other Western powers will be able to open Iranian markets and influence Iran’s leaders. Not the religious ones, they’re loons. But the political leaders and the intelligentsia who are important as Iran has a young highly educated population.

There’s the other side of the deal, the unspoken side. Say Iran DOES violate the deal and IS caught trying to develop nuclear weapons. Then President Obama or his successor has the political cover to bomb the crap out of them and no one, Republican or Democrat, will complain.

Confererates and rainbows...

There's been a lot of talk about flags lately. Especially Confederate flags and rainbow flags.

I fly the American flag on my home exclusively. But when it comes to my neighbors I'd much rather live next door to someone with a rainbow flag than someone with a Confederate flag.

Peace. Out.

Goodwill, worse than Walmart

In case you haven't heard, Goodwill is moving into the former Walgreen's at Mayfield Road and I-271.

Goodwill is a horrible company exploits the disabled by paying them less than minimum wage sometimes as low as $1.40 an hour. Their wage structure complete with high paid executives makes Walmart look like a paragon of corporate generosity.

Here's where I call out the hypocrisy of the Citizens for Oakwood clowns. They picketed and protested about Walmart's low wages and benefits but will say nothing about Goodwill. When Walmart moved from Cleveland Heights to South Euclid they cried "POACHING", yet said nothing when Fitworks moved from Hilltop Plaza to the old Catalano's up the road.

Baltimore

We are disgusted by the rioting in Baltimore. It accomplishes nothing positive. When we view footage of buildings aflame and cops being assaulted it makes us all the more grateful that we live in Cleveland. Police brutality should be condemned and addressed. That will happen in Baltimore and in Cleveland. But unlike Baltimore the citizens of Cleveland know how to protest peacefully without riots. The rioters are "lawless f---ing animals".

FLASH! Heights side of Oakwood sold to HAC

This information was published in the Heights Observer on March 30.

The Hebrew Academy of Cleveland is in the final stages of buying the Cleveland Heights side of the old Oakwood Country Club. The HAC has signed a letter of intent and will probably finalize the deal within the next couple weeks. A new school will be built to house about 250 students grades 1-6. The HAC hasn't said whether they will preserve renovate or demolish the old clubhouse.

Fran Mentch has yet to issue her usual fatwa or maybe she's given up caring. Not a peep from any of the other usual suspects either. It appears they really were all in it as lackeys for the dying Severance Center.

http://heightsobserver.org/read/2015/03/30/hebrew-academy-to-purchase-ch-portion-of-oakwood-club

Regal Severance closes

The slow death of Severance Center continues. The Regal Cinemas and IHOP there have closed. Useless idiots like Garry Kanter and Fran Mentch will doubtless blame this on Oakwood Commons even though it has no theater. But I've never seen any of Regal's auditoriums at Severance more than 1/4 filled since they reopened 15 years ago. In an ironic twist, Cleveland's Film Festival is currently underway.