JCT: Tim Philp is the pseudo-technical guru who writes his
hick column for the town rag and thinks he can put down The
Engineer. It was Fuhrer Philp who called the police to
prevent me from wearing my LETS disketter button or my hard-
hat during election debates on Rogers. He sure knows how to
keep Brantford politics boring.

His one claim to technical fame is starting up the Brantford
Freenet and it isn't even free. I remember urging him to
install LETS timebank accounts for his Brantford members
pointing out how Tom Kennedy's Grade 5 class had managed to
run the LETS software in their own class. Evidently he
failed and it must have galled him when I announced I was
going to set up a Brantford Timebank by the time the
election was over that he couldn't pull off in 2 years. I
think I'll approach some high-school computer science class
to run our Brantford Timebank that Tim Philp failed to
master.

Today's cheap shot at me:

>The Expositor Monday Oct 2 2006
>City Beat, Tim Philp
>Your Guide to the Races

JCT: I guess you could expect him to think of it as a horse
race where the guys who get the most uninformed sheople to
the polls rather than an intellectual contest of smart
ideas. Especially since lo-tech Philp never saw how to use
social currency as it's now being used all over the world.
Other countries have figured it out but Brantford's Brainiac
nevrer caught on.

TP: They're off and running.

JCT: Off and thinking he'd never notice.

TP: RACE FOR MAYOR
The mayoral race promises to be exciting. It is a study in
contrasts between Mike Hancock and Chris Friel. For the past
few months it looked as if it would be a cakewalk for
Hancock. With the entry of Friel, it has become a horse
race.

JCT: If guess they've good runners, if not good thinkers.

TP: Hancock has won the respect of almost everyone for his
hard work and conciliatory approach to working with the
community and council. He brought dignity back to the
position of mayor.

JCT: Compared to the previous lack of dignity?

TP: Friel is a young, dynamic candidate who is full of ideas
and energy. He says that he was happiest when he was mayor.

JCT: Happy but no dignity?

TP: Both candidates have very similar positions on the major
issues facing the city.

JCT: Quite the "study in contrasts" for "very similar
positions!"

TP: fixing the downtown, supporting Laurier and making a
safe community - all form major planks in both candidates'
platforms.

JCT: Of what they'd like to see, not what they can deliver.

TP: The major difference in style between the two men may
become a determining factor in the election.

JCT: So the only "study in contrasts" for these "very
similar positions" is style! Har har har har.

TP: Sadly, the mayoral race has been tainted by the addition
of two candidates who don't stand a chance of election.

JCT: He's says no upsets are allowed. After all, he runs Big
Brother.

TP: Winston Ferguson has run before and has provided some
moments of comedy, however, his fellow challenger John
Turmel is not so harmless. Turmel has used his candidacy in
the past to tout his personal crusade for international
monetary reform and marijuana legalisation - issues that
have nothing to to with our municipal election.

JCT: So coming up with sufficient funding for international
trading is okay but coming up with sufficient funding for
local trading isn't. Sadly, he pretends he can see how the
Local Employment Trading Software works internationally but
not how it works locally.

TP: He does, however, have a right to run for any office he
chooses

JCT: Even if it taints democracy?

TP: and the rest of us will just have to do our best to
ignore the noise.

JCT: Which explains why he still doesn't grasp LETS social
currencies despite his having presided over 3 televised
debates where I explained it to him. He's managed to ignore
the noise about how social currency would help his
community, a Judas Goat if anyone ever fit the description
of a wilfully ignorant moron. Moron or mole, Fuhrer Philp
continues to stun with his proud technical ignorance about
LETS time-based currencies. But I'm sure he'll enjoy his
study in contrasts of the other very similar ideas.


--
Abolitionist Slave Leader John C."The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel
for UNILETS interest-free time-based currency in U.N. resolution C6
to Governments in the http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel 519-753-0645 USENET: can.politics