"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Thursday 3 January 2013

Termination And Other Terms

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "SIlly Stuff And Serious Stuff":

Here's something else to ponder:

If your theory (which is often parroted by your followers) about the authorship of the original agreement - with the concomitant motives as ascribed by you- was true, why the inclusion of a termination clause?

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Thank you for that . I invite all to ponder this question.
At times, I fear I am too brusque. Or obtuse mayhap..
Someone  suggest a morning visit  here is like a "famous  movie quote"   "the smell of napalm".
am not familiar with the quote.
It's cultural,I guess.
Napalm, for my generation, carries with it horrifying images.  Entirely without  humour
The slight blight on the Aladdin pantomime on Saturday was   cultural .
British farce is  robust and in your face. 
On Saturday,. the pantomime was muted to some extent. Various  sound effects of  the bits and bobs of a drum kit were missing.
Last night, I heard a comment about humour.
There needs to be truth  abou something one does not expect to hear. The shock touches  the part of us that spontaneously  produces laughter.  
Christmas 2012 was the second staging of pantomime in Burlington. The audience were mainly children.
Pantomime is intended for their enjoyment. But  it is  also adult entertainment. So adult, the vulgarity of the humour flies over the heads of  children.    
Apparently, parents complained  in 2011. 
So, in 2012,  the humour was muted.
Pity. 
If the problem existed  when  pantomime  was staged in Newmarket Town Hall theatre, I never heard about it. 
It's obviously cultural.
Widow Twanky Panky was Aladdin's mother with references to  late husband, Hanky Panky. Hoo Flung Dung and Won Long Pong were all part of the merry company. 
But  lines were cautiously delivered
To return  to the question  at the start of this post.
Why was there  a termination clause  in the original agreement  between  the Town and the Cultural Centre Board.
We must travel back in time for the answer.
This blog  started in August 2007  some 26 hundred posts ago. After  it was established by Mormac and gang, that despite an election, there would be  no role was for me in that council.
Methods were not subtle.
Termination of one kind or another was a regular, prominent  and not so prominent feature of the term.
A  termination clause in the agreement fit perfectly with the scenario. 
 A separate and autonomous agreement for  governance of Church Street School,  rent and maintenance free facilities, munificent funding , staff separated from municipal,  was  never intended  for the political  advantage  of other than  the deadly duo and  known  associates
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The termination clause  was a threat.

"Will you walk into my parlour, said the spider to the fly " 
 
Termination!!!! 

Oh my yes !!!

There's no shortage of stories to tell.       

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Question for Clarification, please:
Would it be incorrect of me to consider that the $100,000 tucked safely away in a Contingency Fund by this not-for-profit group might be to prevent any attempts that might be made in the future to terminate the existing board?

Anonymous said...

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like … victory." - Apocalypse Now

Kilgore's quote "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" was number 12 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list and was also voted the fourth greatest movie speech of all time in a 2004 poll.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w

Anonymous said...

How many of the "26 hundred posts" mention the Cultural Centre?

Anonymous said...

Nah, not buyin' it. If it was by Morris for Morrisites (as you contend) there wouldn't be a termination clause.