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> Frank Brady, whose family jewel recently received extravagant,
> arguendo
> envious, praise from Stan Booz, asked two further questions:

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>
> ??? Better consult your Funk and Wagnall's pal. You are using the word out
> of context.
>
> So predictable.

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> Stan, it`s you who`s predictable here. It`s obvious that you won`t answer
> any questions here :-)

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>
>"Parrthenon" <parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
>news:20041224010503.21734.00002219@mb-m14.news.cs.com...
>
>
>??? Better consult your Funk and Wagnall's pal. You are using the word out
>of context.
>
> So predictable.
>
> So tiresome.
>
> Unable to mount any substantive argument, our resident journalist
> resorts to his usual intellectual dishonesty.

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>
> What kind of troll is this. What question have you asked that I din't
> answer? What question that I have the answer has been left unanswered?
>

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> Stan Booz wrote here that Frank Brady was "a big prick".
>
> Frank Brady thanked him for the compliment but wondered how Stan knew
> that he had a big prick.

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> I don`t expect any intelligent answer from you. That`s all. Calling
> someone
> a troll is a convenient way to escape inconvenient questions or
> discussions
> :-)

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> "StanB" <stanbooz@comXXXcast.net> wrote in message
> news:B86dnU0MOqQki1HcRVn-ig@comcast.com...
>
> Stan, it`s you who`s predictable here. It`s obvious that you won`t
> answer any questions here :-)
>
>
>

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> The questions have all been answered. Just because a certain segment
> doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions refusing to accept
> the answer doesn't invalidate the answers.

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>
> You didn't ask a question.

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> "Doom & Gloom Dave" <dwhent@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:IrYyd.173086$Oc.44525@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>
>
> If it`d been so then all discussions would`ve immediately stopped but
> this is not the case :-)
>

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> You either didn't read, didn't understand, or refuse to understand what

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> wrote.
>
> The questions have been answered.
>
> Now, just because the questions were answered doesn't mean people stop
> asking them.
>
> Simple enough for you?

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> The questions have all been answered. Just because a certain segment

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> Finally, resident CPA Stan Booz, now reduced to snarling one-liners, has
> not
> explained how Erik Anderson of the AF4C is "just another trough feeder"
> and
> yet a potential dispenser of "paychecks" to bribe board members.

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> 3. Not a single response to Frank Brady's questions about the cost of
> relocation has been posted by any board member.

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>
>"Parrthenon" <parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
>news:20041224151119.06084.00001519@mb-m19.news.cs.com...
>
>
>Yes why are Billy G. and Ken Thomas sitting on the books. Release that
>information.

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>
> It might help if you would stop calling them a-holes and f-offs.

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> Finally, resident CPA Stan Booz, now reduced to snarling one-liners, has

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>Indeed, it is normal enough for a national organization moving somewhere to

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> Our resident CPA can argue until he's blue in the face that dispensing
> paychecks to an unpaid board doesn't equal a bribe.

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> ARRANT NONSENSE
>
> doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions refusing to
> accept the answer doesn't invalidate the answers.> Doon & Gloom Dave
>
> What has been answered?
>
> 1. Not a single document such as the $60,000 contract with the
> architect has been placed online for inspection.

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>
> 2. Not a single document or e-mail has been placed online to show
> that the USCF has a legal obligation to move to Crossville.

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>
> 3. Not a single response to Frank Brady's questions about the cost
> of relocation has been posted by any board member.
>

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> 4. Nor has anyone explained why the board couldn't wait two weeks
> to try and negotiate a better deal with Mr. Gerry that would have
> retained the current staff and reduced the horrendous cost of
> relocating and training a bevy of new employees who can't tell the
> difference between a TD and a TN.

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>
> 5. And why is Beatriz Marinello, a board member in poor health,
> been named COO to supervise the move to Crossville when someone
> already on the payroll could do the job without shuttling between
> Florida, New Windsor and Crossville at USCF expense.

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>
> Finally, resident CPA Stan Booz, now reduced to snarling
> one-liners, has not explained how Erik Anderson of the AF4C is "just
> another trough feeder" and yet a potential dispenser of "paychecks"
> to bribe board members.

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>
> Yup. Guess all these questions have been answered and all is for
> the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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> What has been answered?

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> ANONYMOUSE SHIFTS GROUND
>
> < The questions have all been answered. Just because a certain
> segment doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions
> refusing to accept the answer doesn't invalidate the answers. > Doom
> & Gloom Dave
>
>
> 1. Not a single document such as the $60,000 contract with the
> architect has been placed online for inspection. > -- Larry Parr
>
> < The answer is: Noneya > -- Doom & Gloom Dave
>
> Suddenly our anonymouse has gone from "the questions have all been
> answered" to NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
>
> And so it goes.

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> Oh, and I'm not a "phony insider" Larry, I have never claimed to be an
> insider.
> However I can read and comprehend well enough to know that all the answers
> you have been looking for have been given.
>
> When it comes to ducking questions you are the most adept of all.

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> ANONYMOUSE SHIFTS GROUND

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> So where do we stand?
>
> Two questions suggested themselves from the outset:
>
> 1. Why did the Executive Board refuse to grant wealthy, respected and
> highly
> chess-productive businessman Erik Anderson two weeks to speak to
> billionaire
> Gerry about the property in Liberty, NY?
>
> 2. What is in the contract(s) signed with the Crossville folks?
>
> Frank Brady, whose family jewel recently received extravagant,
> arguendo
> envious, praise from Stan Booz, asked two further questions:
>
> 1. What is the estimated cost of moving to Crossville?
>
> 2. What are the estimated expenditures in about a dozen important expense
> categories for the move?
>
> Neither question seems unusual or unfair. But both were met by
> more of
> the anti-Sloan armpit stuff, though this time ineptly formulated by Stan
> Booz,
> directed at Dr. Brady.
>
> Richard Haas, who has taken to denominating himself "Old Haasie,"
> asked
> why the Federation did not look into erecting a Butler building in
> Crossville
> rather than hiring an architect.
>
> We have learned that an architect named Phil Elmore, whom Stan Booz
> thinks it likely is a friend of Harry Sabine, has a contract to design
> headquarters for the USCF in Crossville. The fee, we learned after
> months of
> prodding, is $60,000 for a building with an original estimated cost of
> $300,000
> to $350,000. That puts the architect's fee in the range of 15 to 20
> percent of
> the building's cost.
>
> I then asked two questions:
>
> 1. Is this Mr. Elmore a friend of Harry Sabine?
>
> 2. Are there extenuating circumstances for Mr. Elmore receiving a
> contract
> amounting to 15 to 20 percent of the estimated construction cost, or is
> the
> contract as crooked as hell?
>
> Somone following the exchanges on rgcp states that the Board has NOT
> done estimates for the expense categories mentioned by Dr. Brady.
>
> Even this writer, a prime critic of the disastrous move to
> Crossville,
> finds it difficult to believe that before voting to move, the Board did
> not
> produce detailed estimates for the major expense categories involved with
> relocating -- including Beatriz Marinello in charge of relocating,
> although she
> has a serious medical ailment and lives in Florida, instead of someone who
> is
> already on the staff.
>
> I speak directly to my source: I respect your knowledge, but is
> what
> you say at all likely? Could any ruling board of an organization act so
> irresponsibly? One can attack the move as imbecilic, but the people
> behind it
> are far from being fools. They are wrong but not halfwits. One of them is
> budget director for the state of Iowa who ran as a reform candidate.
>
> Yet we have to ask Board members this question: before voting in
> favor of
> going to Crossville, did you produce reasonably detailed estimates of
> costs for
> the major expense categories involved in such a move?
>
> Instead of honest answers, we fully expect more excremental
> responses to
> this latest question.
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> "FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not
> be
> able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical
> Commission.

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> Stan Booz wrote here that Frank Brady was "a big prick".
>
> Frank Brady thanked him for the compliment but wondered how Stan knew
> that he had a big prick.

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> I don`t expect any intelligent answer from you. That`s all. Calling
> someone
> a troll is a convenient way to escape inconvenient questions or
> discussions
> :-)

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>
> You didn't ask a question.

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> The questions have all been answered. Just because a certain segment
> doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions refusing to accept
> the answer doesn't invalidate the answers.

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> You either didn't read, didn't understand, or refuse to understand what

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> wrote.
>
> The questions have been answered.
>
> Now, just because the questions were answered doesn't mean people stop
> asking them.
>
> Simple enough for you?

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> Finally, resident CPA Stan Booz, now reduced to snarling one-liners, has
> not
> explained how Erik Anderson of the AF4C is "just another trough feeder"
> and
> yet a potential dispenser of "paychecks" to bribe board members.

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>
>"Parrthenon" <parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
>news:20041224151119.06084.00001519@mb-m19.news.cs.com...
>
>
>Yes why are Billy G. and Ken Thomas sitting on the books. Release that
>information.

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> 3. Not a single response to Frank Brady's questions about the cost of
> relocation has been posted by any board member.

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> ARRANT NONSENSE
>
> doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions refusing to
> accept the answer doesn't invalidate the answers.> Doon & Gloom Dave
>
> What has been answered?
>
> 1. Not a single document such as the $60,000 contract with the
> architect has been placed online for inspection.

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>
> 2. Not a single document or e-mail has been placed online to show
> that the USCF has a legal obligation to move to Crossville.

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>
> 3. Not a single response to Frank Brady's questions about the cost
> of relocation has been posted by any board member.
>

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> 4. Nor has anyone explained why the board couldn't wait two weeks
> to try and negotiate a better deal with Mr. Gerry that would have
> retained the current staff and reduced the horrendous cost of
> relocating and training a bevy of new employees who can't tell the
> difference between a TD and a TN.

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>
> 5. And why is Beatriz Marinello, a board member in poor health,
> been named COO to supervise the move to Crossville when someone
> already on the payroll could do the job without shuttling between
> Florida, New Windsor and Crossville at USCF expense.

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>
> Finally, resident CPA Stan Booz, now reduced to snarling
> one-liners, has not explained how Erik Anderson of the AF4C is "just
> another trough feeder" and yet a potential dispenser of "paychecks"
> to bribe board members.

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>
> Yup. Guess all these questions have been answered and all is for
> the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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> ARRANT NONSENSE
>
> doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions refusing to
> accept the answer doesn't invalidate the answers.> Doon & Gloom Dave
>
> What has been answered?
>
> 1. Not a single document such as the $60,000 contract with the
> architect has been placed online for inspection.

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>
> 2. Not a single document or e-mail has been placed online to show
> that the USCF has a legal obligation to move to Crossville.

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>
> 3. Not a single response to Frank Brady's questions about the cost
> of relocation has been posted by any board member.
>

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> 4. Nor has anyone explained why the board couldn't wait two weeks
> to try and negotiate a better deal with Mr. Gerry that would have
> retained the current staff and reduced the horrendous cost of
> relocating and training a bevy of new employees who can't tell the
> difference between a TD and a TN.

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>
> 5. And why is Beatriz Marinello, a board member in poor health,
> been named COO to supervise the move to Crossville when someone
> already on the payroll could do the job without shuttling between
> Florida, New Windsor and Crossville at USCF expense.

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>
> Finally, resident CPA Stan Booz, now reduced to snarling
> one-liners, has not explained how Erik Anderson of the AF4C is "just
> another trough feeder" and yet a potential dispenser of "paychecks"
> to bribe board members.

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>
> Yup. Guess all these questions have been answered and all is for
> the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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> ANONYMOUSE SHIFTS GROUND
>
> < The questions have all been answered. Just because a certain
> segment doesn't like the answers and keeps asking the questions
> refusing to accept the answer doesn't invalidate the answers. > Doom
> & Gloom Dave
>
>
> 1. Not a single document such as the $60,000 contract with the
> architect has been placed online for inspection. > -- Larry Parr
>
> < The answer is: Noneya > -- Doom & Gloom Dave
>
> Suddenly our anonymouse has gone from "the questions have all been
> answered" to NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
>
> And so it goes.