August 23, 2018 Randy Schultz The Sun Sentinel

August 23, 2018

Randy Schultz

The Sun Sentinel

RE: Some comments on your Op-Ed of August 22, 2018 why Broward voters should give drunken sailors and besotted Injuns still more fire water. I daresay that your unlinkable column shows why Logic, teenage bullying, and the heartbreak of psoriasis will be anathema, should a nut case like Senator SummerFallWinterWarren dump Trump and take over.

Mr. Schultz,

“BROWARD MUST SHOW VOTERS TAX

INCREASE WILL BE SPENT RESPONSIBLY”

I don’t know if quoting African Bishops is playing to your strong suit but Augustine, a “clean and articulate” community activist from almost 2 millennia ago said, “Lord, make me strong. Tomorrow.” Wasn’t it Wimpy, he of Popeye fame, who said, indeed made a living, “I will gladly pay you on Thursday for a hamburger I eat on Monday”? 

Is that headline you or The Onion?

Who writes your stuff? Mel Brooks? Professor Irwin Corey? George Costanza? Kramer? Maxine Waters?

Lest you think I am a modern-day Jeremiah, one given to perpetual Lamentations 

that would shame Chicken Little, I am about to pay a back-handed compliment.

You mention Northeast High School by saying “the cost of renovating it has increased from $14.5 million to $41.2 million”.

Has titanium replaced steel?

Since guns are verboten will a moat be installed?

Will an emergency trauma unit, complete with a triage station, be installed?

Will the moat double as a dunking pool for bullies?

Your mention of a not-quite tripling of construction costs – and Yes, I have GCed several multi-million-dollar construction projects in my other life -  suggests that you are not part of the real world. My “real world” is the one where “water is wet and stones are hard” and deplorable pieces of shit have to clean up after the elephant tramples Granny’s garden. That world.

If costs on a publicly funded project triple, my Hudson County DNA kicks in in a most tumescent manner. How much of the difference between $14.5 and $41.2 winds up in white envelopes distributed in the parking lot of an upscale Eye-Tie bistro? If burglars are not leading this thievery then we must assume incompetence on a scale that only Zeus or veterans of the CCC could appreciate.

Somebody should be bastinadoed. Repeatedly. And then spayed. This line must end.

Napoleon would execute 3 poilus for cowardice before a battle. He said it “encouraged the others”.

Shoot the bastards at Northeast High School. Put their heads on pikes. Let crows eat out their eyes. That leads me to my compliment.

With the possible exception of Brasilia, which I have not seen, Northeast High School, as an example of public architecture from design to construction to upkeep and maintenance, is the worst, the pits, the nadir, the how can it be any uglier and Deo Gracias for Albert Speer or it really would be unique. Should Howard Roarke suddenly appear he would lead a Kamikaze attack against it. Add the last 50 years of Frank Gehry to the Death Row list also.

Russell Kirk, certainly one of the very great men of letters in the 20^th century – You cannot “know” Edmund Burke and T.S. Eliot without Kirk – said that ugly public architecture leads to riots with race becoming the acceptable scapegoat. He cites the razing of Detroit to save it with public housing and the Shermanesque march across the Bronx led by Robert Moses NY to give White people an escape hatch out a “changing” city. Any chance to mention Kirk makes the day a blessed one.

[The Sword of Imagination by Kirk is still an absolute joy.]

Speaking of “tax money on education being spent responsibly”, we are 40+ plus years into the Department of Education. It’s about the same number of the Department of Energy but, curses, fracking has altered the comparison so let’s just stick to one comparison.

Let’s start the baseline at one day before the arrival of the DoE swag. Let’s take the reading scores of Johnny, Fatima, and Little Jezdrul as a given. How much have they improved since Federal dollars rode to the rescue?

I sat on one Board of Review for a Boy Scout to attain the rank of Eagle, the highest honor that a Scout can earn. He never earned it because he lacked the necessary backup documents for it to begin. Plus, there was past history of poor performance. 

The same procedures should apply to the BofE plea for an unending line of credit from the citizens of Broward County to spend $ like a – pick one – drunken sailors or lit up Payutes? How did they ever beat Custer? Russian collusion?

That was the only Board of Review I ever sat on.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH,NET