Buddy, Can You Spare a C-Note?

I graduated High School in 1970, mainly because they didn't want to see my ugly pan in the principal's office every other morning, truancy being the reason for the office visits, and a genuine hatred of being in prison being the reason for truancy.  Back then public school was based on the prison model, with the school teachers as the prison guards and the principal as the warden.  Rules of conduct were applied arbitrarily, as was the punishment for infractions of same.  The guards favored corporal punishment - you got a beating when when of the guards took a dislike to you.

Think I'm kidding?  Ask anyone from that era who attended public school.  I hear Catholic school was worse.

Private school was a good deal different.  Several of my close friends attended Maumee Valley Country Day School, including my brother Shotgun Bob.  So naturally I'm on their mailing list.



Right, reason, or none, I got invited to the 86th Annual... well, just look at the picture below.  I'm invited to have lunch with a group of pretentious people I don't know, don't want to know, and wouldn't like if I did know.  Then they make a big pitch for money, then they hold you up until you give them a five figure personal check (six figures if you have real class - like the mule said to the jackass, You got class!).

86th Annual Money Drive

Being bored, I took a look inside.  Here we have Steven Ashley, who works with PBS and various other Moonbat groups.  He's quite accomplished, is Steve.

Steven Ashley

Then I took a gander at the list of award winners, and my perusal slammed to a stop with the same feeling you get when you've been watching interviews with famous double-entry bookkeepers and suddenly get a clip from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

Carty?

Carleton S. Finkbeiner?  Carty has an award and it isn't for Most Demented Village Idiot?

This is the same Carty Finkbeiner that made national news when he suggested that moving deaf people to the Toledo Express Airport was a valid solution to noise complaints from the neighbors when the airport traffic increased.

Ohio Mayor Regrets Remark on Deafness by The Associated Press.

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner suggested at a staff meeting that a way to resolve complaints about airport noise would be to move deaf people into the neighborhood.

This is the same old Carty that kicked the U.S. Marines out of Toledo without any warning at all, because they were scaring people.

Mayor kicks Marines out of Toledo

From the article:

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.The mayor’s spokesperson, Brian Schwartz said, “The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."

People objected, so the silly sonuvabitch did a live interview on Detroit radio and dropped the F-bomb when the interviewer asked him about the situation with the Marines.

Toledo mayor's profanity aired on live radio in Detroit

Mr. Finkbeiner uttered the "f-word" followed by "ruckus" to describe the "few days" after his order last week to cancel a Marine Corps weekend-long urban warfare exercise in downtown Toledo and in some abandoned buildings.

Carty's a Democrat.  The stupid Moonbats reelected him, and he promptly pulled all kinds of crap, some of which was illegal, so residents of the gravel pit with an ounce or more of sanity remaining to them tried to unseat him with a recall vote.  Their petition was disallowed by the Moonbat court of Ohio on a technicality, but the backlash from Carty was beyond the pale.

Imaging you get home from work, park your heap in your own driveway, on your own land, and get a parking ticket.  Couldn't happen, right?  Guess again.

Ohioans ticketed for parking in own driveways

TOLEDO, Ohio – Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (FINK'-by-ner) says he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He says the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways.
The three-term mayor faces a recall vote in November. Critics have claimed he's wasted city money.

There's a bunch of other stuff that you won't see on the commercial media.  Like, for instance, the night that Carty got into a drunken domestic brawl with his first wife and broke her wrist, then made a deal with her not to reveal the injury or talk about it to the paper.  She got treated in Fulton County.

Carty used to work for TMHC (Toledo Mental Health Clinic).  When he left for greener pastures, his remaining staff all got T-shirts that said I Survived the Finkbeiner Administration.

The real coup de grâce to all this is that Carty was some kind of a guest speaker at Shotgun Bob's graduation, and opened the floor to questions from the kiddies.  I suppose Carty thought he'd get questions like Is if fun to be mayor of Toledo? and Do you get to ride in a real police car and blow the siren?

The kids peppered him with questions about economic development, deficit spending, the cost of bonds for capital improvements, the velocity of money, and the morality of eminent domain.

When Carty couldn't answer any of the questions he had a meltdown and lost his temper.

If you want your child to get an education at Maumee Valley, you should know that the Tuition for grades K - 12 is $275,850, plus miscellaneous fees.

I make no comments or judgments on the value received, but for that kind of money the staff should do a whole lot better than to give a bottom feeder like Carty any kind of award or honorarium at all.