FACE OF EVIL

543. Welcome today to Blog 65. Sometimes I get certain thoughts that I can’t get out of my head until I publish them in the blog. I guess you can call it some type of therapy for myself. Well today I want to talk about the word “GASLIGHT” or “GASLIGHTING”. While they aren’t new words, I can’t ever remember a time in my life ever using them. When I hear those words it reminds of watching old black and white movies shot in England on a dark misty and foggy night and there is a pole with an actual gas light in the distance. Sort of like a typical night in Superior. But it seems in the last two years or so you hear that word all the time on political and news shows. So how did that happen? Best I can tell is Democrats started using it first to substitute the words “BULLSH*T, BULLSH*TTER” and “LIAR”. I think they deliberately started using it to soften the words “BULLSH*T, BULLSH*TTER” and “LIAR”. And not long after the Dems started using it, Republicans joined in. I hate the words “GASLIGHT” and “GASLIGHTING”. I will never use those words here. On the Blog we will call a BULLSH*TTER” a BULLSH*TTER” and a “LIAR” a “LIAR”. There, I got it off my chest and I fell better now. And I’m not “GASLIGHTING” you.

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Now back to the “MANIFESTO OF A MADMAN.”

THE LONG LETTER

The Mayor said the following:

I am therefore asking the Council to deny the license for the following reasons:

The ownership/management structure is essentially the same. While Ms. Jordan would now own the business, Mr. Noel still owns the building. She describes him as hands off but ownership of the building is significant leverage in the relationship. Furthermore, while she blames Mr. Noel's unwillingness to make changes, she was the on-site manager and responsible for the riotous house that 

occurred. The change in ownership status and titles is a technicality. The same people that were responsible for the Palace Bar in 2022 are now applying for the same license for 2023.

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COMMENTS

LIE # 8

When he said: “The ownership/management structure is essentially the same. While Ms. Jordan would now own the business, Mr. Noel still owns the building.” that is a lie. 

At the only meeting I attended, yes the one that Elvis Paine did not attend because he was whooping it up in Vegas on your taxpaying dime and at least one meeting Jordan attended with Mayor Paine, it was made clear to everybody at those meetings that when she was granted a license, the sale of the business and building would then be completed. The reason for that is doing the sale would cost thousands of dollars and tons of paperwork. No different than when you sell a home. We had already had a verbal agreement and there was no question that I was not interested in keeping the building. In fact they could have included a clause that the license would be conditional that she had ownership of the building and I would have had no problem with that. 



At the only meeting I attended I was badgered as to why I don’t sell the building to her before she obtained the license. Answer: Because that would be stupid, not to mention expensive. It would be like if you bought a home and didn’t get the financing in place first or the building inspection first. So when the Mayor said that in the letter, he was once again lying.

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LIE # 9 AND #10

The Mayor said:

“Furthermore, while she blames Mr. Noel's unwillingness to make changes, she was the on-site manager and responsible for the riotous house that occurred. “

First off she did not blame me being unwilling to make changes. That was all covered in the previous Blog. So that is a lie.

And then when he said:

“she was the on-site manager and responsible for the riotous house that occurred. “



And by the Mayor’s logic, she is no more responsible than the Mayor or the Police who by the way knew the shooter and I don’t think it’s because they spent Thanksgiving together. But by my logic, the only person responsible is the person who committed the crime. And he used the word “Riotous” because it’s a word that is in the State of Wisconsin rules that can be one reason to close a business. But the word “Riotous” in the State rules is meant as an extraordinary situation that is different than it’s competition in that they have way above the normal amount of incidents. And we have proved in Blog 22, with the statistics from the City of Superior, the Palace have very similar numbers as our competitors. So that is also a lie.

LIE # 11

547. And then he said:

The change in ownership status and titles is a technicality. The same people that were responsible for the Palace Bar in 2022 are now applying for the same license for 2023.

COMMENTS

The Mayor said “The change in ownership status and titles is a technicality.”

Well at the beginning of this paragraph he said:

“The ownership/management structure is essentially the same. While Ms. Jordan would now own the business, Mr. Noel still owns the building.”

So I really don’t know what he was trying to say so let me try and explain what I know.

I was told that the only way the Palace would get a license is that I would have to be completely out of the picture and Jordan would have to own the building and business.

And that is exactly what I did. Not only that but when he wrote that letter on Dec 6, 2022, I had already moved in October from Superior to Nevada and my home there was for sale. But he finished that paragraph by saying this:

“The same people that were responsible for the Palace Bar in 2022 are now applying for the same license for 2023.”

Not true. Only Jordan applied for the license, nobody else. So another lie.

548. Well that’s enough lying for today. I want to share an article below from our friends at the Duluth Monitor which I highly recommend you consider subscribing to. Here is the link Duluth Monitor – Regional News and Investigations 

August 6, 2024

Duluth Monitor

UWS is asking the City of Superior for $10 million to help them build a new 49,000-square-foot indoor sports center. Tonight, UWS Chancellor Renee Wachter told the Common Council that, unless they get the full $10 million, they won't be able do the project. Mayor Jim Paine says the city can afford it. Most of the Council seems to be on board.

COMMENTS

IF this happens you the taxpayer will be on the hook one way or the other because they don’t pay property taxes. I got this on Google:



As a result, their vast property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states. The rationale for this status is that higher education is an inherent public good. 

See you all soon on the next Blog,

Brian