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11-14-2011, 11:34 PM
For those who are interested:
Saw that my article "Are College Educated White People Worthless" made this site, and am pleased that it sparked the discussion it did.
While the title is attention-grabbing in part, it is also a valid sociological question, one that needs addressing. There's over 50 years of documented injury to the kids at Travis Heights Elementary from poison ivy, and there's something terribly wrong that it took until this summer, with my not much less than heroic efforts in an almost five-year political battle, with an out of pocket expenditure of over $3500 in Stacy Park, and another $1500 in related expenditures, to solve the problem. Unreimbursed expenditures, plus one man-month toting the backpack sprayer out in the park spraying this summer in the 100 degree plus heat.
Upshot of this all has been the development of a most interesting and distressing conflict with the City of Austin about my actions. I may well have to go to court over it, something I really don't want to do, but the City is engaged in actions that leave me no much other choice. The City of Austin's actions seem by written evidence to have been a fraud and a possible criminal conspiracy all along. I am not exaggerating when I say this.
I will one of these days write up the second verse of the story--the story of the political battle that I won, and the work I did, and my interactions with the parties concerned, up to the point of the lawsuit/settlement. Title for that--that quite significant personal political victory that finally resolved a five-decade old problem that nobody else could--is going to be "An Abject Sociological Failure". That's the truth about this whole episode.
I encourage all of you to go off to the Dandelion Salad website and read more of my postings. Most of them are a hell of a lot better than what you read in the local newspaper, but that aint saying much these days.
Best--Daniel N. White
Saw that my article "Are College Educated White People Worthless" made this site, and am pleased that it sparked the discussion it did.
While the title is attention-grabbing in part, it is also a valid sociological question, one that needs addressing. There's over 50 years of documented injury to the kids at Travis Heights Elementary from poison ivy, and there's something terribly wrong that it took until this summer, with my not much less than heroic efforts in an almost five-year political battle, with an out of pocket expenditure of over $3500 in Stacy Park, and another $1500 in related expenditures, to solve the problem. Unreimbursed expenditures, plus one man-month toting the backpack sprayer out in the park spraying this summer in the 100 degree plus heat.
Upshot of this all has been the development of a most interesting and distressing conflict with the City of Austin about my actions. I may well have to go to court over it, something I really don't want to do, but the City is engaged in actions that leave me no much other choice. The City of Austin's actions seem by written evidence to have been a fraud and a possible criminal conspiracy all along. I am not exaggerating when I say this.
I will one of these days write up the second verse of the story--the story of the political battle that I won, and the work I did, and my interactions with the parties concerned, up to the point of the lawsuit/settlement. Title for that--that quite significant personal political victory that finally resolved a five-decade old problem that nobody else could--is going to be "An Abject Sociological Failure". That's the truth about this whole episode.
I encourage all of you to go off to the Dandelion Salad website and read more of my postings. Most of them are a hell of a lot better than what you read in the local newspaper, but that aint saying much these days.
Best--Daniel N. White