Joe Bialek

[JOEBIALEK]

Permit me to introduce myself.  My name is Joe Bialek and I was born on September 12, 1963 just 40 days before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  My family was originally from Cleveland, Ohio.  It is the city of my current residence. I attended Padua High School in Parma, Ohio and went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Masters of Public Administration at the University of Akron.  In 1993, I moved back to Cleveland and resided in my grandfather's house located in the neighborhood known as Slavic Village. This is where my grandfather immigrated from Poland and the house where my father was born. I then ran for city council against the incumbent who was elected in 1985. After work each day I would walk to each of the 9,000 registered households from April to August and seemed to make a positive impression among the voters. However two other candidates entered the race and I finished last. The strange thing about the results, however, was the disparity between the absentee ballots and the card-punched ballots. According to the absentee ballots, I lost by a 2-to-1 margin to the incumbent but won by a 16-to-1 margin over the other two candidates. But according to the card-punched ballots, I finished last by just 4 votes. I was so exhausted by the campaign that a recount was the furthest from my mind. In the general election, the incumbent retained his seat.

Shortly after the election, I was elected President of South East Clevelanders Together. The purpose of this non-profit group was to organize each of the twelve sub-neighborhoods located within Slavic Village (Ward 12) to address quality of life issues in an aggressive and systematic manner. Needless to say, it did not take long for our group to clash with the Councilman's housing group. Their primary objective was to build and rehabilitate housing without any real regard for the other issues affecting the residents and business owners. The councilman's father owns a large real estate company so I'll let you draw your own conclusion. Our funding was cut off from the City of Cleveland and efforts to raise money through foundations were sabotaged. Inevitably I was forced to use my own money to sustain the efforts of the organization. In spite of all the resistance, however, we were very successfull in organizing block clubs and civic associations as well as bringing pressure to provide solutions to the problems plaguing the community. All during this time, the councilman attempted to spin my intentions as simply an effort to prepare for a second council run. I did not run again in 1997 because I felt it would be more beneficial for the community if SECT continued to push for action rather than allow the entrenched councilman to ignore issues while his housing group pushed rehabilitations and new construction.

In 1999, I moved to the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of the city of Cleveland. I decided to withdraw from public life and shift my focus to reading philosophy, economics, sociology, religion, psychology and political theory. I also committed to writing a editorial piece once per month hence the reason for my monthly email and message board postings. I do this out of altruism and receive no compensation what so ever. My sole objective is to offer suggestions on how we may fine tune America and stear the United States in a positive direction. I know I've been guilty of posting to message boards and not returning to join in the discussion. But I have read most responses. Accordingly, I hereby commit to returning no sooner or later than 24 hours after my post to answer counter arguments. I'll only respond to intellectual contributions not insults or statements from those who treat message boards like their little fiefdoms. For those of you who would like to contact me, you may reach me at the email address listed below. Thanks and let us continue to "fine tune America".

Joe Bialek

Cleveland, Ohio

jgbialek@adelphia.net

[exatreide]

bots....die die die die!

[Gobalopper]

Well I will give Joe a chance to back up what he says. He will have 24 hours to reply to this thread or we will assume he is still just posting like a robot and ban him.

[The_Sadukar]

Nice to meet you Joe :)

[nemafakei]

"Permit me to introduce myself"

Perhaps it is customary in the US to do this one year later than it is customary to do so elsewhere?

Thankyou at least for the introduction, albeit like to a CV...

But I agree; it'd be nice if you intend to actually participate in threads rather than just prescribe discussion topics. But if not, as Gob says, there's no point you being here.

"Total Time Spent Online: 1 minutes.

Total Posts: 11 posts

Total Topics: 11 topics"

Interesting statistics.

For comparison, here're mine:

"Total Time Spent Online: 2 days, 4 hours and 46 minutes.

Total Posts: 5843 posts

Total Topics: 90 topics"

Right, there's your target for your next year.

[ordos45]

Actually this topic is cross posted to other forums like mad according to Google.

[Dunenewt]

I know I've been guilty of posting to message boards and not returning to join in the discussion. But I have read most responses. Accordingly, I hereby commit to returning no sooner or later than 24 hours after my post to answer counter arguments. I'll only respond to intellectual contributions not insults or statements from those who treat message boards like their little fiefdoms.

Lets give him a chance, it'd be interesting if he does come back.

[Dante]

Yeah. Benefit of the doubt for one day isn't much to ask. After that though... *sharpens axe*

[nemafakei]

"Actually this topic is cross posted to other forums like mad according to Google"

I guessed - his promise seemed to be directed more generally. The day is up, bu I shalln't be harsh. I'll leave it to someone in the US who'll actually be awake later.

[JOEBIALEK]

thanks and I hope this dispels the unfounded myth.......unfound myth...unfou myt......does not compute........

[erjin999]

Gob, is that you playing tricks ?  :P

[Dante]

What do you know, he did it. :)

[Gobalopper]

Well it looks like he might have a bit of computer left in him... but a little computer is ok. :)

[lowzeewee]

He is afraid that if he is banned all over, he won't get enough posts to help him complete his homework! :O

[ordos45]

Yay he posted.

[Dude_Doc]

I don't believe for one minute that his real name is Joe Bialek. Just so you know.

[d3m0nger]

LoL

http://rantweb.proboards4.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1095376704

http://knoxville.wate.com/sound_off/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=597

http://www.captaincynic.com/thread.php3/thrdid=28277-u-frmid=23

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/t-45479_Joe_Bialek.html

http://forums.hannibal.net/cgi-bin/bb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000208

And what a great 'withdraw' it was!