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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Jan 28, 9:18 pm, " wrote:
LOOK TO THE FUTURE

Vroom!

Sam Sloan wrote:

Do you really believe that I was driving down the road while
Richard
Groff was being dragged along outside and then he somehow climbed in
the window, and broke the key out if the ignition, thereby stopping
the car?

This only happens in Clint Eastwood movies.

Sam Sloan

Also Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Road Warrior...but that's not what
happened, per the Commonwealth of Virginia:

After appellant started the car, Groff ***opened the door and
grabbed the steering wheel***.

Then you accelerated. You were lucky: the charge could have been
felony murder.

On Jan 29, 2:47 am, "
wrote:
Sam Sloan wrote: Do you really believe that I was driving down the road while
Richard
Groff was being dragged along outside and then he somehow climbed in
the window, and broke the key out if the ignition, thereby stopping
the car?

This only happens in Clint Eastwood movies.

Sam Sloan

Also Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Road Warrior...but that's not what
happened, per the Commonwealth of Virginia:

After appellant started the car, Groff ***opened the door and
grabbed the steering wheel***.

Then you accelerated. You were lucky: the charge could have been
felony murder.

Actually, the car never started at all.

Do you really believe that it is possible to break the key out of the
ignition of a moving car and thereby cause it to stop?

I have never heard of this being done.

Or is it just possible that Groff made up this entire story just to
get a conviction?

Sam Sloan

On Jan 29, 3:32 am, "samsloan" wrote:
On Jan 29, 2:47 am, "



Do you really believe that it is possible to break the key out of the
ignition of a moving car and thereby cause it to stop?

I have never heard of this being done.

Or is it just possible that Groff made up this entire story just to
get a conviction?

Sam Sloan

In that case, is it possible that your attorney was a bleeping moron?

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.

On Jan 29, 2:22 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

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.

Are you suggesting that you have tried but have not been able to
interview me? That is not true at all. My number is 917-507-7226. You
may call me any time.

Sam Sloan

On 29 Jan, 19:32, "samsloan" wrote:
On Jan 29, 2:22 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

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.Are you suggesting that you have tried but have not been able to
interview me? That is not true at all. My number is 917-507-7226. You
may call me any time.

Sam Sloan

Do you have a daughter?

Sam Sloan

"samsloan" wrote in message
ups.com...


On Jan 29, 2:22 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

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.

Are you suggesting that you have tried but have not been able to
interview me? That is not true at all. My number is 917-507-7226. You
may call me any time.

Chessville's interviews are always conducted in writing by first posing
questions and then receiving answers to them, and are 'on the record' in the
'hand' of the participant, as may be proven by server records. There are no
exceptions, since otherwise legal confusions of misrepresentation and
interpretation can arise. This, Sir, is the proper way to do it.

Initially I asked both new board members if they should like to answer the
same questions, but I think the other person is himself embroiled in a CJA
ethics mess and unresponsive - and lacking normal responses, I abandoned the
issue.

In terms of reader interest, questions to both candidates would be more
interesting. I am not chasinig either person - since it seems more a propos
to interview the 4 new candidates for the board on a range of questions
which I already determined they would address.

It takes time and energy to conduct a proper interview, and while I take the
lead there is usually an editorial level of determining questions. Should an
interviewee be serious, then the process can be started, otherwise, you
know, if you ain't interested neither am I.

To the real Sam Sloan: - I would perforce have to ask you questions which
your critics ask and which may be uncomfortable to you. I can frame these
questions rather better than your critics, and so this prospect would be a
real challenge to accept.

Most interviews cover a range of history of people's lives in chess, and
also current events - to provide a context to current orientations.

My e-mail address is or write to www.chessville.com

Phil Innes

Sam Sloan

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.


Official party line. Yawn.

...SNIP the zzzzzzZZZzzzz rhetoric...


Yours, Larry Parr



Kindly point out where Sam promised to get to the bottom of
the lost 2 million $$$'s. That was not one of his promises.