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The CMA and the CFC support IM Razvan's quest for the GM title!
Re: The CMA and the CFC support IM Razvan's quest for the GM title!
I hope those who are unhappy with governance of the current executive are willing to let their names stand for office at the next possible opportunity.
I hope those who are unhappy with governance of the current executive are willing to let their names stand for office at the next possible opportunity.
Brian Profit would make a great CFC president or board member. I worked with him before on the board of the Windsor Chess Association.
I hope those who are unhappy with governance of the current executive are willing to let their names stand for office at the next possible opportunity.
At one of the places I used to work, the manager's rule was "If you identify a problem, then you better have the solution." Needless to say, very few people spoke up about the multitude of problems. Being able to identify a potential problem or ask questions about something should always be encouraged without the person being required to fix it. I'm not a plumber but I sure would let me wife know if we had a leaky pipe.
I hope those who are unhappy with governance of the current executive are willing to let their names stand for office at the next possible opportunity.
Not so, Ken, this is a classic fallacy, it probably has some technical name.
I think Harper is a terrible prime minister, but I couldn't do the job. I think my local library is poorly run, but I'm not about apply for the job as CEO. I think my neighbour does a lousy job of shovelling the sidewalk, but I'm not about to do it for him.
CFC members have a right to expect that the executive follow the rules in making decisions. Explaining the decision, as Vlad did, is much better than trying to stifle complaints.
I hope those who are unhappy with governance of the current executive are willing to let their names stand for office at the next possible opportunity.
Ken, what do you mean? Is your comment a variation on 'put up or shut up' which, as Sam Sharpe has pointed out, is an idea that generally lacks value in our society? Or should the reader of your comment be focused on the word 'hope'; i.e. you are supportive of (some of?) those who are unhappy with the CFC and you 'hope' that they will run for office?
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
What is the relation between the CFC decision and climate change/socialism? I mean, without reference to FoxNews or other extremist MSM. lol.
The fact that Brian took a couple of (friendly?) potshots at Vlad doesn't change Brian's post into an "incoherent political drive-by."
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Re: The CMA and the CFC support IM Razvan's quest for the GM title!
Thanks, Ken. :) Glad to see you're surviving that nasty winter weather.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Re: The CMA and the CFC support IM Razvan's quest for the GM title!
I appreciate the kind words and I hope you are not just setting me up!
Do you have to be a voting member first to be a board member or president? The Ottawa area dominates my geographic region.
However, if I was a Board member, I would not have time to mess around on Chesstalk. :)
Why don't you answer my question, then, instead of continuing your pathetic attempt to start an argument?
I see you're still struggling with reading comprehension issues. To the best of my recollection I've never used the words 'CFC decision', 'climate change', and 'socialism' in the same body of text. Nor have I ever said that I thought there was a relationship of some kind among those terms. So, Nigel, if you want an answer to your pathetic, argumentative question, then perhaps you should ask Brian Profit, not me. Meanwhile, imo of course, a couple of potshots by BP don't instantaneously make his comments incoherent.
Last edited by Peter McKillop; Friday, 20th February, 2015, 03:45 PM.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
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