The Daily Oral Language

It took a while -- a long while -- but I finally finished reviewing the video of the Sept. 13 meeting.

Once again, the reality, make that the unfortunate reality, is that there is more material than I can fit in one blog.

As I perused my notes taken from the video, I realized there were some key words that emerged.  So taking a cue from the world of English teaching, let's embark on a vocabulary lesson -- or our Daily Oral Language.

The first word (why do I feel like Fred Rogers) boys and girls is "unbelievable."  Can you say that boys and girls?  I thought you could.

Now, do you know what it means?  Why yes, something that is not to be believed.  Which something that Lisa Stone said regarding her perceptions of how she was being treated.  But  is that what's unbelievable?

The late Nat King Cole

When I heard this, I resorted back to an old Nat King Cole song, "Unforgettable" --- and quickly found the melody to be compatible with Unbelievable.
 
So hum along...

• Unbelievable -- How  she can miss so many facts.  For example, that Lake County gave approval to the BG Days parade on Bernard.  Thanks to Trustee Steve Trilling who pointed out that Bernard is in Cook County and that it was a village controlled street.  What made that so much more unbelievable  is that it was Stone who wanted a stop sign installed on Bernard-- by the village.  

• Unbelievable -- How she can ridicule Board President Elliott Hartstein about how he treats her, but does not follow the same decorum she wants.

• Unbelievable -- How she thinks nothing of confusing the facts.  The tapes of the infamous 2005 executive session were not destroyed.  They were lost, something that Village Clerk Jan Sirabian admitted to several months ago.  While it is bothersome that they are missing, the accusation that they were willing destroyed is not the case.

• Unbelievable -- That she wants undue attention when she speaks, but thinks nothing of interrupting anyone else.

• Unbelievable -- That she challenges Village Attorney William Raysa, but yet does not reveal her sources.  She says she's not an attorney and portends to know more than the attorneys on the Board, but wait, where does she get her legal background?  Maybe someone at home?

• Unbelievable -- That she focuses on an odor from compost site from an office building that backs up to the facility.  The reality is compost can smell.

• Unbelievable -- That she challenges village finances, but doesn't think twice about absorbing staff time for her personal vendettas.

• Unbelievable --  that the village, which she insinuates is not well run, has AAA bond ratings from Standard and Poors and Moody's.

• Unbelievable - -How Hartstein has maintained, or tried to, professional decorum at the meetings, albeit terse and blunt at times. But can you blame him?  One political type who has followed the BG Board said he would have thrown the gavel at Stone by now and that Hartstein has been far too patient with Stone.

• Unbelievable -- that she claims village residents are intimidated to speak at a Board meeting, but yet if someone is vociferous in remarks to her, she cries scared and files a police report and then requests a police presence at the next meeting.

• Unbelievable -- That it appears people who voted for her have seemingly been mislead.