I was directed to a campfire opinion by Jeff Pelline regarding the departure of Jeff Ackerman. I read it and I must say, Pelline is certainly filled with venom. It must suck to be him and carry such hate and dislike for a person. But, over the years having read Pelline's screeds about the paper he no longer works for, I can see why he is so isolated in his opinions about our county and its people. Well except for the five nasty people who inhabit his blog.
Having known Jeff Ackerman since he was a reporter in the mid 80's, I would say he is a very successful person. He involved himself in local issues and did a lot for people who needed help. His paper sponsored innumerable functions for local people and businesses. He was a good match for the business and political philosophy of our area. Ackerman crossed the line though with the minority liberal segment here when he supported the Idaho Maryland Mine. He allowed the CLAIM nuts to post articles in the paper even though a huge majority of people were in support of the mine. But in my experience with these liberal nuts, they want it 100% their way or they do their temper tantrums constantly until they get their way. So, the local left along with the disgruntles former editor kept up the drumbeat of trying to make JeffA's life miserable. It did not work. He could care less and rightly so.
Ackerman would not allow the liberal nasty nay-sayers get to him. He maintained a positive outlook and made the paper a success in the hard times. He boosted the business community and unlike many papers across the country, he embrace new technology to get out the papers message. But, he could never satisfy the local left and the FUE. They constantly tried to demean him and complained endlessly to the papers owners. But they were unsuccessful in getting the ear of the owners and now Jeff Ackerman is moving on on his own terms.
So now we get a new publisher and my guess is the left will be courting him and do their best to convince him they are the people he should listen to and do their bidding. They were successful before Ackeman in that endeavor but not with Ackerman. While the left were sucking tax dollars in phony non-profits and trying to (successfully) shut down our historic ways of life here, Ackerman was making the paper a centerpiece of sanity for the "silent" majority. I wish Ackerman all the best and the people of Roseburg will be that much better off for his service there. Just as we have been with all the good things Ackerman accomplished in our little county in the Sierras.
The naysayers of the left and disgruntled former employees can go pound sand and return to their favorite place, under the nearest rock. The rest of us will move forward in the sunlight.
Todd J. Juvinall
I Miss my Husband very much! Todd was simply all about loving God, County, Family and People. My love , My husband is with Jesus in Heaven. He enjoyed communicating with each of you on Sierra Dragon's Breath. Todd was a Great, Loving, Kind man and will be Missed. Love you honey! Till wee meet again. 
So you want to move forward by retaining your "historic" way of life? lol. Think you missed your own contraction.
ReplyDeleteThe historic way of life was actually pretty good compared to today.
ReplyDeletePeople were working, able to buy homes, able to put money away,didn't need a permit for even the smallest of improvements, buy a gun of their choosing, that includes the 50BMG. Now, we have "special" guns just for Ca.Never mind that the other 49 states don't have the same "special" requirements.
The New and improved Ca.( let alone Nevada Co) sucks on ice.
We have seen first hand what the "forward thinking" Left can do to one state.
Ca. is now in ruin thanks to that "forward" thinking.
You're all over the map with that one Walter. guns, permits..OMG..
ReplyDeleteThe challenges that this county, this state, this nation face, are far from unique to Nevada County and require a larger meeting of intelligent, unemotional, nonpartisan brains. Simply pining to return to some perceived glory-land of the 1930s isn't the answer my friend. We are a diverse community, and any path going forward has to recognize this.
"So now we get a new publisher and my guess is the left will be courting him and do their best to convince him they are the people he should listen to and do their bidding."
ReplyDeleteOr, maybe people will just want to hang out with him and get to know him.
Not everything is a conspiracy Todd.
M.
Conspiracy? Never said that. You just are naive.
DeleteThe bottom line is that many, many people in our community have the same feeling about Ackerman at his departure to the friendly confines of Roseburg.
ReplyDeleteGOOD RIDDANCE!
Yes they are sad he is leaving. Thanks for pointing that out.
DeleteDiversity? That's a good one. LOL. So castigate, berate, marginalize, and try and silence anyone that doesn't agree with you. The munticultys we have here speak so highly of "multiculturalism" when in fact they have destroyed our "culture" ( logging and mining was a way of life up here) and have done their best to replace it with Berkeleyism. ( my way or the "high"way)
ReplyDeleteAt least I have a pair and use my name.
The beautiful thing about culture is that it is constantly changing. That is what makes it a dynamic, exciting force for the advancement of human civilization. It is simultaneously driven by individual, collective, national, geographic, ethnic, social, age specific, and even underground our unexplained trends. I changed your culture Walt the very day I moved to Nevada County more than 25 years ago, because my vision of forest or land management is different from yours. Culture is an inexorable force that non of us can either resist or substantively change individually. I would consider myself successful if i could shift culture by even a tint fraction of 1%.
ReplyDeleteSure, we can try to resist it, and in doing so create our own culture; but in the end we are part of a whole that moves to its own drum. The problem many people have here is not a culture problem, it is an adaptation problem. Some people just do not adapt to new cultures, and they do not choose to alter the structure or function of their organism to new conditions. For most this is motivated by fear, lack of confidence or predictability in the outcome, or a false sentimentality about what has gone before.
But, as Thomas Wolf said, "you can't go home again."
By the way, I NEVER POST UNDER A FALSE NAME. I don't know it Todd was referring to me, Mr. Enos, or Steve the Pirate; I NEVER POST UNDER A FALSE NAME.
I am quite comfortable coming here and calling it as I see it, although I shun Todd's venue because it lacks a certain critical thinking environment.
Steve Frisch
Jeez, i wish I had spell checked that.
DeleteSteve Frisch
Yep, this venue is just not good enough for SteveF. I guess he can't adapt to a different culture. What a hpoot.
DeleteI do like that you constantly break your own pronouncements though. It shows you have a narcissistic ego.
Correct on that one TJ. This blog is certainly a foreign culture to many of us who have lived a full life.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't lived a full life until you have the guts to post your real name here. Until then you are just anonymous.
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ReplyDeleteLOL. I like that. Then there's that stalker called Anonymous
ReplyDeletethat shows up with nothing but cactus mouth that follows me around.
It's sad to see Jeff go. The way he writes is reminiscent of my Dad's.( he was a royal pain to the Left in his day too)
I know Jeff had read some of dad's writings. ( since we talked about it once)
Now lets see what the new guy has to offer. Anyone hear his of political slant yet?
I talked to a person I trust and they said they really liked the new guy. No idea on political bent though. We will see. I will withhold until I get to know his writings.
DeleteI read the purple blog post on Ackerman and Reinette Senum, the "worm" lady, had a venomous comment about ackerman. Wow! how a person who fails at business using taxpayers money could even be in the same room as JeffA is beyond comprehension.
I would assert that Ackerman doesn't have 10% the class, energy, creativity, or the courage of former Mayor Senum. Ackerman rightly ends up in a Tea Party bastion, Senum remains a main driving force in what 2 publications consider one of the best small towns in America.
DeleteThis is your last post here LT. Name and email from now on. Ackerman is a class act. You seem to think a person who failed in the worm business and is bankrupting Nevada City is more qualified than Ackerman, a successful, profit making CEO. My God LT, listen to yourself, are yo that ignorant?
DeleteI have never met her so I have no ax to grind. Results say it all.
Imagine you boys are quite confused and angry this morning that John Roberts converted from conservative judge to American Statesmen. Roberts brought this country together, and saved the reputation of the Supreme Court.
ReplyDeleteNo, 70% of the country ws opposed and it is just another destruction of the will of the people. Even Obama made numerous speeches the mandate was not a tax so we are all scratching our heads why Roberts would then over rule even Obama's opinion on the "tax", err fine.
DeleteWhat all Americans have to worry about is what is next? I think we need to "tax" you LT on the number of eggs you consume or maybe we want ou to buy a Peugot. The slope has been breached and it is truly slippery.
I see where Steve Frisch can't handle some humor about he is from Uranus and we are from earth. What a hoot!
ReplyDeleteI can handle the humor Todd, I just pointed out that sh*# humor, A** humor, and far# humor is the province of adolescent boys, like you.
ReplyDeleteSteve Frisch
I realize you are upset that your diapers must be changed SteveF, but don't take it out on me. Clean up your act and you may not be the butt of jokes. Corpulence and Twinkies have a correlation.
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