Are you having flashbacks or is it just me? Mark me. This is just the first – the others will follow like moths to the copy machine. What really gets me, beyond the necessary alliteration of ‘B’ words and repeating of obvious lies, zero sense of history or context – beyond all this – is the way that the beavers’ imagined potential to cause problems is unquestioned and somberly treated as if they were causing ACTUAL problems. Sheesh, cities lie and the press just reports it verbatim.
Been there. Done that. Have many tshirts.
But wasn’t Caitlin awesome? She did a fantastic job giving the impression that support was being rallied. She even got to film the interview at home! How convenient, (why didn’t I ever get to do that?) She showed that she was watching and following closely the random lies being sprayed like poppies to put people asleep in the Wizard of Oz. Continuing to pay attention when they command “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” is 70% of the beaver-saving biz, (believe me I know).
More coverage in the paper. Staff lies and obligatory alliterations. “Get it? Their both B words! Isn’t that funny?
Beaver bother
MOUNTAIN HOUSE — A family of beavers in Mountain House Creek may have captured the hearts of residents — but not the sympathy of the Community Services District, which is considering killing the animals.
“I really enjoy the beavers,” said 19-year-old Caitlin McCombs, who created a Facebook group in February to support them. “It’s kind of the reason we moved to Mountain House, for the wildlife. I’d be sad to see them go.”
The problem is the damage the beavers are causing to the watershed. Operations and Maintenance Superintendent Doug Louie told the Mountain House Community Services District Board of Directors on Wednesday that something must be done to restore the creek and retain its flood control capabilities in the wake of changes due to the beaver activities.
The areas with the worst damage run parallel to Central Parkway north of Main Street, which is the site of five wet detention ponds, Louie said. At the Central Parkway Bridge, one of the largest and oldest dams in the creek has created a large marsh, which broke down the berm system, he said.
The beavers have created public safety liabilities with unstable trees, flood potential with their dams and violations to the community’s storm water permit, he said.
I read his name ‘Doug Louie’ and I can’t help it, I see Dave Scola. Public works collects a hefty salary and pension, but its not for filling pot holes or rescuing kittens from sewers. Its for services that include lying in the right way on camera when the city needs it. I was re-watching this video yesterday and thinking about Dave brazenly standing in front of that camera DIRECTLY in front of the flow device that the city had just spent 10,000 dollars on and being completely believable as he says their are magic cables under the dam that could rip it all out in an instant if they needed to. How is that even possible? Did that long pipe get tangled in them when it was installed? He is flat out lying, and he knows it. But he does it in a fully respectable way.
He is the city’s sincerity costume. And he wears it so well.
Nothing to report on the mural. The city Attorney is still dragging his or her heels about whether the term can be waived, and if it is, then we can be insured through ISI and the process will cost us less. I am forcing myself to be patient. I amused myself yesterday with trying out some old silver spacers I happened to have lying around. What do you think of Beaver history as an necklace?
The appropriately named Brian Lucid is a native San Franciscan and 20-year veteran who served in Iraq before running for a seat on the board. When he actually contacted ME yesterday I was starting to get a little hopeful.
