Now there are not too many things other people have that I am jealous of or covet...

I can wield a camera around pretty handily, but, I certainly wish I could paint like Jane.

This is a painting of her veterinarian - with a small Norman Rockwell imitation scene thrown in at the lower RH corner right in front of the pointing hand .

(UPDATED - 10,000 PLUS KILLED) - Typhoon Haiyan was a maximum category-five storm with ground winds of up to 235mph - Red Cross today estimates 1,200 people have been killed, 1,000 of those in the city of Tacloban, Leyte -  800,000 evacuated before gales whipped up 19

A very noble animal in flight and on perch - red tail hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

 When someone dies; a death certificate is filed. How come they don't have to send a copy to the board of elections or bmv? 

I mean; a simple checklist would simplify the world around us and remove so much corruption..... seriously. 

Right now they are demolishing houses in Cleveland..........those house addresses need to be sent to the BOE to be removed from the voter rolls. Hello.... 

As long as there is no requirements and accountability; there will be too much room for error and CORRUPTION....

woot, woot. 

 Thank you to my neighbors who voted in the same crud who perpetuate the cycle of abandonment and parasitism we live with in NEO.  Federal funds can't pour into a region unless there is an entrenched class of citizens deemed "second class."  

Well - this is our future - warehousing our elderly and the offspring of any child considered less fortunate because they had the misfortune to be labeled "Urban."

Good luck with your investment strategies!!!

BECAUSE OF LOW VOTER TURNOUT -- FRANK G. JACKSON AND MARTIN J. SWEENEY -- CLEVELAND’S CORRUPT POLITICIANS (WHO DESTROYED HISTORIC 81-YEAR OLD JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL) HAVE WON THE NOVEMBER 5, 2013 ELECTIONS AS MAYOR OF CLEVELAND AND COUNCILMAN OF WARD 16 RESPECTIVELY!

The voter turnout was 21% in the mayoral election and 23% in the ward 16 race for council member.

The results of voter turnout are similar for the remaining council races.

The journey of life can be such an amazing experience....to love and lose or to live and die....it's all so trivial but so seriously worth the effort to endure. What's it all worth at the end of the day? Well; that's all simply a matter of opinion. I know my personal blessings and I know the value which is significant to my existence...this is all that matters to me anymore. I cannot project my expecations upon others to realize the value of time and of things that money cannot buy. I simply must accept that state of mind in the middle. Tis' life! 

 Hello Residents of the City of Cleveland - you do have a choice.  

Please rid us of the corrupt "it is what it is..." mentality.  Get RID of Frank Jackson and Martin Sweeney - vote for transparency and accountability (at least there is a promise of something-anything better than the STATUS QUO).

http://www.kenlanci.com/the_lanci_tribune

http://www.kenlanci.com/2nd_edition_lanci_tribune

757 brayton criminal family gang - one arrested - was told brian harris - for COCAINE HEROIN MARIJUANA  WEAPON - drug - trafficking and having a weapon under disablity - by heros 2nd disrict police - at 2705 tate ave. in old brooklyn - the house was under survelence from complaints - and a male was seen leaving and stopped and arrested - see some previous posts about 757 brayton criminal crime family -

BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!

THE PLAIN DEALER – CLEVELAND’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER HAS ENDORSED MAYOR FRANK G. JACKSON & COUNCILMAN MARTIN J. SWEENEY (WARD 16) – CLEVELAND’S CORRUPT POLITICIANS (WHO DESTROYED HISTORIC JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL) FOR FOUR MORE YEARS!

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

HERE ARE THE LINKS:

MAYOR JACKSON:
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/10/frank_g_jackson_for_c...

COUNCILMAN SWEENEY:

 I have been asked to post Henry Senyak's letter to the Plain Dealer editors - some of you may recall that Henry Senyak actually tipped WOIO Channel 19 off to the hijinks of Russo and Dimora -well BEFORE the PD even began to unravel the obvious story:

 Yesterday Admin was contacted by a Realneo user who was having problems posting to their blog on REalneo.  

The user kept getting the message :

"Your submission has triggered the installed spam filter and will not be accepted."

 I have been intending to write this story for years.  

angela as you recall - when your uncle carl stokes - our hero - was suing the cleveland plain dealer for libel-slander - many years ago -

i contacted carl as he was adminisrative judge for cleveland municipal court and told carl i have a tape recording of a plain dealer reporter telling me that carl is one of the jokes of the city room as the reporters laugh about carl being an alcoholic and a shop lifter and being crazy etc. -

 The Detroit issue is an important story to understand - soon, there will be city after city in the USA in the same boat as Detroit. 

Here are a few links which I found helpful:

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130721/NEWS/307219984/

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/26/muni-a26.html

The times have changed since 1968.    

Today, when the president meets with Pakastani officials, it's drones, not peace, which is the topic of discussion.   

The NYTimes, in 2008 compared Ben Shahn's 1968 Peace poster with Shephard Fairey's Obama Hope poster.

This is a warning in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, that kids aren't allowed - that kids are a problem - interfering with commerce or causing flash mobs or whatever.  

Plain Dealer editorial choices for council are again - a joke.  I can't wait to read their "endorsement" for Sweeney.  What creative spin will they use this time???

Sickening.

In every community our overall impression of that community is aggregated from numerous experiences.   

Google hasn't provided the public with an algorithm to process this data, so here I go....

I had an experience recently which involved delivering scrap metal (light iron) to a junk yard.   

 The Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority is an abomination.   

Myers University, University Square Parking Garage -  on and on failure after failure.  Corruption - the folks are steering millions of dollars of bonds - which Cuyahoga citizen taxpayers are guaranteeing for Wall Street, to projects which are complete losers. 

If you own real estate in North East Ohio - in many, many communities - your real estate may be valueless.  In fact, your real estate may be a financial  liability.

How did this happen?    

Has our corrupt, ignorant, and inept local governments caused this massive loss in equity?

Is it Rust Belt deterioration?

Federal banking policy?

Or is it "market forces"?  Racism?

When I visited a friend recently I asked about this painting and was told that it was a May Show entry called "Starfish" painted by Janet Moore.   A sticker on the back of the masonite board confirmed that this painting was from the 38th May Show held in 1956.