Philosophy of Life.

Someone once said, "it is better to be petty and vile than nothing." This appears to be the philosophy of the editor of the Parkville Dillusionary. He also has a paranoid streak a mile wide (he's always complaining that someone/everyone is out to get him). I understand that he complained that his paper boxes were jammed with screws; now, I ask you, who would waste a 5-cent screw on one of his paper boxes? I submit that the supposed jamming of his paper boxes and slashing of his tires may have been done by himself. After all, the only person that wouldn't look suspicious spending time with one or more of the Dillusionary's paper boxes is none other then the GWAH himself!
Why should he report on any positive news about downtown Parkville when he can make up glorious lies. My father used to say, "he's the kind who would rather lie when the truth would sound better." The GWAH, when fresh out of new lies, prefers to rehash old stories that were old news two or three years ago and he likes to present them as if they were just the latest news he's uncovered. The result is that he's constantly dropping stale turds on the pages of his birdcage liner. The good folks of Parkville (e.g. the Farmers' Market and the American Legion and at least two of the city Aldermen) have learned that his so-called newspaper, is not.

Conflict of Interests?

I am wondering if it is a conflict of interest for an alderman to introduce a special ordinance to allow the father of the alderman's friend to have a special permit to sell food downtown in direct competition with local restaurants? All I'm saying is, think about it.

Billy Dee's Southwest Grill is OPEN!

I suspect all of you have noticed the bright, new, yellow paint job on the train car in English Landing Centre. Well, this is the new home Of Billy Dee's Southwest Grill. Everyone I have talked to says the lunches there are great. Currently open only for lunch, they do plan on extending their hours soon.

New resident journalist in Parkville

The City of Parkville has installed a bronze statue of Mark Twain in Pocket Park on Main Street. Now the city has its first, respected, journalist-in-residence since Nancy Jack passed. Mr. Clemmens' writings, as he's seated there gazing over Main Street, certainly will have a greater impact than anything Parkville has now. Welcome to Parkville Mark, we hope you enjoy yourself and that the professional jealousies of others will be kept in check.

Martin Rucker visits Parkville

I met the current 29^th District state representative Martin Rucker who is running for the Missouri State Senate for the 34^th District. Let me see...the current senator is Charlie Shields...he's never been in our store. Mr. Rucker was in today. I don't know Shields' politics, but I suspect there would be little about them with which I would agree.
I'm going to watch this race with renewed interest simply because Mr. Rucker stopped by specifically to meet me, Carol and Leif in our store. It reminds me of the very first time Mike White ran for office in Jackson County. That's a long story, but because of his personal efforts Carol and I voted for him and, as I recall, he won by one vote!
All politcs are local.
==JFK==

Parkville Residents asked to Participate in Local Precipitation Measurements

This was originally posted on the H.M.S. Beagle Science Blog, but I thought it was appropriate for here too. After all, when it comes to global climate change, we're all in this together. Whether or not you subscribe to to the overwhelming evidence that the earth's climate is changing and in large part due to human activity since the dawn of the industrial age, I think that you can well appreciate the need for as much data as possible. With more data climatologists can greatly sharpen their models and their predictions.

This was sent to us, at the Beagle, this morning by the Earth Gauge group:

Parkville, MO
Link: http://www.earthgauge.net/2010/march-madness-2

Earth Gauge: March Madness
It’s March Madness for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) – they want to see how many volunteers sign up this month to measure precipitation in their backyards. CoCoRahS is a nationwide network of citizen scientists who are measuring and mapping precipitation in their communities. CoCoRaHS volunteers help to provide quality rain, hail and snow data used by the National Weather Service, hydrologists, emergency managers, city utilities, engineers, ranchers and farmers, teachers and a range of other interest groups.
Viewer Tip: CoCoRaHS is in all 50 states! Sign up to become a Volunteer Observer with CoCoRaHS in your state to help this network grow. You can volunteer to measure precipitation as an individual or as part of a community or school group. Check out http://www.cocorahs.org/ to learn more.

(Sources: Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. www.cocorahs.org; “About Us,” http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=aboutus)

JFK

Is The Luminary Light Burnt Out?

Where is the Parkville Luminary Papers that once occupied the newsstands around town? There are none to be found anywhere, none at the stores, none at Park University, none at Patriots Bank, none at the restaurants, and none in the newsstands at all. It is like the Parkville Luminary just ceased to exist. The last date on the Parkville Luminary online site is January 30 2010. Is it possible that the Luminary is out of Business? I even tried looking for the other Luminary’s You Tube channel and low and behold it doesn’t exist. Mark, what’s up? Did you run out of cash? Did your investors get tired of the lack of profitable returns? Here it is the middle of February and still no cage liners and fish wrap from you at all. Are you on vacation from the monotony that is your daily life? Did your significant other find out about one of your extramarital affairs?

Is there any other reason that you haven’t printed the paper yet? Are you out of funds, have you considered a government bailout? Has your family realized that you are crazy and had you committed for treatment? Well whatever the reason I am going to miss the issues of your paper that I was hoping to use for my paper mache projects that I was going to use on the target range. When I asked about this recent development with Tom Hutsler, he responded, “there is good news when there is no news from the Parkville Luminary.” Is this the end of the Parkville Luminary, I don’t know, there is still the Parkville Luminary online account, and it is still on twitter.com; but nothing in a printed paper format.

I will still be on the look out for any other developments on this story.