Barbwire by Barbano: Regressions, Transitions and Predictions

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   Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
   Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
   Everybody knows the fight was fixed.
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
   That's how it goes. Everybody knows...
Everybody knows the scene is dead
   But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
   What everybody knows...
   Everybody talking to their pockets.
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
   and a long red rose.
   Everybody knows. Everybody knows.
That's how it goes. Everybody knows.

— Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016

I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island.
— Leon Russell, 1942-2016

Regressions, Transitions and Predictions
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-3-2017 Sparks Tribune

ADIOS, GAY ELLIKER. My dear friends the Ellikers have suffered inordinate loss over the past two years.

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Patriarch Shirl passed away 23 months ago. ("Nevada loses an honorable man,"Barbwire 2-27-2014).

He was followed in August 2014 by his beautiful ballerina grand-daughter Callie Hutson, 24.

Shirl and Gay's son, Jim, 50, died as a passenger in a light plane crash near the Reno airport one year and one week after his niece, Callie. His memorial service at the Sparks LDS Church on N. McCarran was overflowing, as was love for his family.

Gay & Shirl Elliker

Alas, on that day, his mother was in the hospital and could not attend.

Now, comes news that Zora Gay Elliker, 80, passed away in Utah three days after Christmas.

Gay and Shirl ran Jewelart in Moana West Center in the mid-1970s and later acquired Tanner's merchandise shows. They also operated a shop in Reno's Antique Mall.

They forever stand among the finest people I have ever known.

Visitation for Mrs. Elliker will take place from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. this Thursday, Jan. 5, at O'Brien-Rogers-Crosby, 600 W. Second in Reno.

A graveside memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Jan. 6 at Masonic Memorial Gardens, 437 Stoker.

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THE 2016 TOP 10: The current Reno News & Review includes Sonoma State University's Project Censored list of the 10 most-censored (meaning under-reported) news stories of 2016.

So here's the Barbwire list/rogues gallery for 2016.

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1. TRACY TACIT ON TOXIC TURF. Washoe School superintendent Traci Davis is painfully oblivious to toxic crumb rubber athletic fields. (Barbwire 12-23-2016)

2. FLAT-LINING EDUCATION. Despite the $1.4 billion tax increase the 2015 legislature passed, education funding levels remain flat. (Barbwire 7-21-2015)

3. OVERT RACISM at North Valleys area public schools. More soon.

4. AMBULANCE CHASING OR ELSE. Because of the phony malpractice insurance "crisis" manufactured by the medical lobby a decade ago, victims of bad medicine can't get lawyers.

A Las Vegas woman contracted major maladies in childbirth and was cast adrift by the system.

Meanwhile, shysters like "Heavy Hitter" Glenn Lerner and his local peers get fat on accident cases.

Much more at DoctorLawyerWatch.com/

5. RENO PD HIRING SCREENS OUT MINORITIES. Sparks PD's numbers are worse.

6. LAND GRAB AMODEI. He's not just trying to turn Nevada's public lands over to developers, the congressman hopes it makes him governor.

7. BUILDING BOOM, JOBS BUST. UNR and Tesla do everything they can to hire out-of-state contractors at substandard wages.

8. MURDER MOST FOUL ON THE COMSTOCK. Madcap Storey County Sheriff Gerald Cook Antinoro botched the investigation into Judith Black's homicide so her now-wealthy widower may well walk.

9. PARDON JACK JOHNSON. President Obama must grant justice for the great heavyweight champion after a century of neglect.

10. GOING MAD. Nevada's mental health system has never recovered from the budget cuts of 1991.

Then-Gov. Bob Miller (D) and future Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) proved what a cruelly non-partisan backwater Nevada was and remains to this very day.

HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2017
Happy High Holly Days
Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah
Hope you and yours experienced enthralling Thanksgibleting.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

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TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY: FEEL UP YOUR FIRE METER. The Reno Gazette-Journal did big spreads on three consecutive Sundays (Sept. 14, Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, 2014) on NV Energy smart meter fires. Welcome aboard. Barbwire readers were two years ahead on the fire meter issue. (Touch a Smart Meter, Go to Jail — 11 October 2012)

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