wrote in message
oups.com...
LOOK TO THE FUTURE

Instead of digging in the dirt of past dealings, I'd like to see EB
members
focus on the future. -- Chess Freak

There we have it: the official party line.
Don't delve into dirty deals in the past.
Look to the future.

Don't learn from history, blunder ahead, er, but walking backwards, chanting
non-stop one's 'achievements'?

That has always been the official line. Okay,
our hand is in the till. Okay, our financial
statements are wrong. Okay, the building in
Cross-to-Bear may actually be a debit rather than an
asset. Okay, we line our pockets.

Hamiltonian! But that's a jibe.

But if you delve into all of those dirty deals,
then we won't be able to continue our ways in the
future. So just look to the future, and forget what
we did in the past and are doing at this very moment.

What does seem true is that USCF's begging bowl so often seems like a
colander. Not just to me, but to all sponsors these past 10 years.

What is in particualr question for me, is if the somewhat indiscriminate
approach of Sam Sloan's investigation do not uproot as much good will
planted for the future, as it does sad sickly stalks, poking out of the sand
pretending they are camelias. Sam Sloan has made himself scarce in response
to my 'threat' to interview him.

I have some specific reservations about Sam Sloan completely independent of
the sort of self-mockery practised here by projectionists of their own
estate, to which they possess no irony, as any C15th witch hunter.

To be fair to Sloan, if only int he sense that my criticism is general, I
have the same objections about orientations of others too. The more I ask,
eg, about the principal of allowing offended constituencies to speak their
mind and suggest remedies, the more deafening the silence. No one, it seems,
wants to hear about it.

OTOH - it is a mess out there! If anyone wanted to know what death was like
they should either:-

a) consider the informed commentary of the group of genius-level people
running the federation at the moment, or
b) go to Des Moines, Iowa.

To ensure that the future will be as dirty as
the past, the best method is to look into the future
without cleaning the USCF Augean stable.

Yes. To offer another criticism, much as I asked George John when he was
here and prosing about 'transparency' in governance, I should like to ask
Candidate Randy Bauer who also perceives the need for competencies and
accountability, HOW will he achieve that?

But as with Sloan, the 'how' of that is confabulated with other factors
which limit - often severely - their scope. Sloan is in some danger of
adopting the 'Alexander solution' to the Gordian knot, which is to say, to
simply chose a more conscious form of severance from this life.

Phil Innes

Yours, Larry Parr




Chess Freak wrote:
"samsloan" wrote in message
ups.com...
First Campaign Statement by Sam Sloan

Ever since I took office on the board last August, I have fulfilled or
tried my best to fulfill every campaign promise I made.


Care to repeat every campaign promise you ever made?

The issues you brought up in previous campaigns (that I recall)
we

Drug Testing
USCF Sales/Business
Games Parlor
FIDE Team
Membership Dues
Larry Evans Firing
Certified Chess Teachers
One Million Scholastic Members
Crossville Move

In your last campaign statement, you mentioned:

"The two million dollars that used to be in the LMA Fund no longer
exists."

This was not listed in your "What I will do, if elected" part of
your statement. You never 'promised' to do anything about it.

I'm more interested in your other promises. Instead of digging in the
dirt of past dealings, I'd like to see EB members focus on the future.
Accompish something positive, Sam, if you can.