The brain trust (or is that brain rust?) running the CRTC seem to have confused being the first to do something with that something being something that will be financially viable to do.
Remember how they were the first to make a recycled distressed compressed carbon fiber pickleball paddle and flyswatter? Sure you do. They were the first! Remember how many of said pickleball paddles the CRTC sold? Out of the scores of different pickleball paddles being made out in the world, they were essentially the last in terms of sales.
Ah, but if at first you don't succeed in recycling and reselling your leftover toxic table scraps, fail, fail again! Which brings us to the CRTC's current blitz of ballyhoo and BS:
New product puts Composite Recycling Technology Center 'on the map'
The Composite Recycling Technology Center and Carwash recently developed the first car seat back made out of recycled carbon fiber...The Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) in Port Angeles handled product development, while UK-based ELG Carbon Fibre provided the carbon fiber and unveiled the product at the Automobile Lightweight Materials Summit in Detroit on August 22nd - 24th.
CRTC employees did not attend the summit. However, Chief Executive Officer Dave Walter said the demonstration at the summit - which he did not attend - attracted major automobile manufacturers, and drew interest to the center from afar.
"It really put us on the map," Walter said. "This is going to open some doors."
Wow! So many grandiose claims! Though, to be honest, I looked at "the map" this morning, and I did not see any new marker for the CRTC. Perhaps they could consider making a special combination back-peddling/soft-peddling bike pedal?
So far, the CRTC has received one request for a quote on seat backs since the demonstration, and expects one more, Walter said sheepishly, making it clear they aren't likely to start selling them anytime soon. "We aren't there yet," whispered Walter. "It's not like now that we've made one - the first! - we'll be rolling out a hundred."
As for potential seat back sales in the future, Walter shrugged his shoulders and laughed and said, "That would certainly be one of the biggest (products) if it came to pass."
Ah yes...The good old (Cursed) Port Angeles Qualifier (CPAQ). A BIG, BOMBASTIC statement...Quickly, and more quietly followed by the "if," the "maybe" and the "could be if maybe." I love how this guy says these hypothetical seat back sales would be "one of their biggest products" if they actually sold any. Because, uh, that wouldn't be hard. They sold, what, around 100 of their (the first!) pickleball rackets? And they've got an "order" for two - just two! - park benches from the City of Port Angeles. Once you get past those "products"...Man, it's really just listening to the composite crickets chirping, isn't it?
And yet! They end with another big, blustery puff of hot air - which is not the first:
To scale up its production, the CRTC plans to double its staff from 17 to 34 by the end of 2018. Most of those open positions would fill engineering and production needs, Walter said, making air quotes with his hands.
Currently, the center has five engineers and one - the first! - production employee, he said.
From tiny acorns grow mighty etc., etc. But from one tiny scam operation, in one tiny town, with one production employee...It's hard to envision a mighty Composite Product Empire growing.
But wait, wait! Don't I remember the port and composites people going over to some trade show in Paris? A European trade show seems like a huge longshot, while an auto trade show in Detroit seems like a slight but real possibility.
ReplyDeleteBut they skip Detroit? But they go to Paris? It makes no sense.
Unless you think about it as a scam. Then of course you'll go to Paris, because who wouldn't want to go to Paris for free? But Detroit? Who wants to go to Detroit?
Everything about the CRTC makes it clear it's a hoax, a front for taking trips paid for by other people's money, and getting paid insane amounts of money to do nothing more than producing insane ideas that aren't likely to lead to anything.
We're subsidizing and paying for all of this. All we'll have to show for it someday will be a pile of composite scrap on our waterfront. Business as usual in Port Angeles.
ONE production employee?
ReplyDeleteSo if they get a production order from a car manufacturer, for let's say a small run of 15,000 cars, they'll just immediately ramp up production to that level?
Hiring from the can't-pass-a-pee-test workforce in Port Angeles?
Does any of this make any sense to anyone?
Ummm, please help me with the math, here.
ReplyDeleteThe guy says " ...the CRTC plans to double its staff from 17 to 34.." and then: "Currently, the center has five engineers and one - the first! - production employee, he said."
Five and one makes six. Out of the "staff of 17..".
Does this mean ONE production guy is supporting the payrolls of the other sixteen people there?
And if they plan to double their staff, does that mean TWO production guys will be supporting the thirty two people at this great enterprise??
Of course it does! This is Port Angeles, where scamsters create illusions so that they can fleece the taxpayers.
Naysayer! Fact worshiper! Math minion! Stop getting in the way of Making (Cursed) Port Angeles Great Again!
DeleteThey don't even bother to try to come up with a plan or product that makes sense. They don't even bother to go through the motions of going to the trade shows. They can't even be bothered to make sure their own staff numbers (current and future) add up correctly. They're just slippery characters who are lazy and sloppy. They'd never make it in the real world of business, but in the crooked world of Port Angeles grant whoring and tax dollar siphoning, they do alright. Until it all falls apart.
DeleteThen it's on to the next scam.
When the bar is set this low....when there's no shame or embarrassment felt, well, what's to stop them? There's no oversight here from the state or feds. No one is going to call them on their bullshit at the chamber of commerce meeting. City hall will hold them up as examples.
"This is Port Angeles, where scamsters create illusions so that they can fleece the taxpayers." You forgot to add "without suffering any consequences".
As a municipal entity, when you debase yourself to nothing but a whore, begging and willing to do anything for a grant, then you do things like accept deliveries of very toxic unregulated contemporary forms of refuse, and allow yourself to be the waste dump that everyone already knows you are.
ReplyDeleteThe PA city dump isn't limited to the outskirts of town, it IS the city itself.
How many millions have been spent, so far?
ReplyDeleteIt is such a funny way of doing things.
Most of the time, businesses have to show they have a plausibly successful plan, before anyone will invest in them. Here, it is spend money, buy equipment, employ people, and then hope you can create something that will make money.
It really is a waaay outdated, "Hey, let's put on a show!" approach to what they (with a straight face!) call "economic development."
DeleteOf course, all they're really doing is putting the "con" in "economic," and we all know it. And the town shows it.
In the end, as another poster said, all you're gonna end up with is a big pile of someone else's toxic refuse.
There's nothing funny about hardened white-collar criminals, not just going unprosecuted, but being supported by the tragic morons that are PA.
DeleteStep back and look at what gets supported in this town.
ReplyDeleteAnd what doesn't.
Interesting how our community, as in the so-called "leadership", has no problems supporting these scams, and not one note of concern is heard about all the money being spent.
DeleteBut provide shelter from the winter weather for the homeless?
Do we remember the police chief telling the council "It doesn't get THAT cold here".
17 churches in this town of 20,000. And we have ANY homeless out on the streets?
What doesn't get supported? Everyone has a 501c3 collecting money from everyone else.
DeleteUmm they didnt go to a trade show in Paris once, They went twice. Spent over 20,000 bucks to go for 2 or 3 days. I m positive they had the same trade show in the USA in Cleveland or someplace like that but nobody was interested in that trade show either. Now lets see seat backs. Doesnt Boeing make their very lite and strong airplane seats out of a composit material? New composit material. Here is a question. Is it cheaper to make a product line of "anything" out of recycled composit material? I think the objective of the game is to make a better product for less money.
ReplyDeleteSo CK - why don't you blast McAller with both barrels for the CRTC? She pursued it as a port employee. She forced it down the communities throat as Port Commissioner.
ReplyDeleteShe is responsible but you give her a pass all day long.
Very suspicious
Who is McAller? I don't know of anyone with that name associated with the Port.
DeleteMaybe you ought to check that again...
LOL! Yes, nobody by that name.
DeleteBut there is that Colleen. She sure pushed that composites crap big time.
We did point out her oh-so-cozy connections with her other brown-nosing activities as a mucky-muck with the Washington Business Alliance.
Look at the members of her group:
http://planwashington.org/members/
7 Cedars Casino. Cascadia Law Group. First Federal. Green Crow. Hermann Bros. Interfor. Laurel Black Design. MASCO Petroleum. Necessities and Temptations (I kid you not!). Olympic Medical Foundation.Port Angeles Business Association. Clallam County EDC. North Peninsula Builders Association.
"At the Port, Colleen has spearheaded the Composite Recycling Technology Center, which has received tens of millions in private and public funding to create jobs in rural Washington"
http://planwashington.org/about/leadership/
Tens of millions, to create one production job, and 16 others benefiting from the grants, etc.
But, her signs are everywhere.
With friends like she obviously has, who needs...?
This is nothing to do with the current subject but you should go to senioramerica.org/Washington.asp I believe you may have another subject for everyone.
DeleteColleen McAleer is Commisioner of distrist 1 (east) since Jan 1,2014
DeleteOh, well now. My goodness. See what a difference correct spelling can make? Why I had NO IDEA you were talking about Colleen McAleer. I mean, I figured if you had gone to all the time and trouble to be, you know, so upset by someone, you'd at least know their name.
DeleteNow, as for the Port...I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It is the most corrupt of all the corrupt governing bodies in Clallam County. The City is incompetent and corrupt. The really bad actors are mostly on staff, with too many clueless enablers on the City Council.
The County? They're corrupt, but incompetent. It's a mix of corrupt staff and elected officials.
But the Port? Pure corruption, coming from the very top. Pretty much anyone who gets elected as a Port Commissioner is a slimeball.
Now, as for the tip that Anonymous 11:27 PM sent in...OH MY GOD. Thank you...I think.
What's a distrist?
Delete11:41AM, of all the things that could possibly be alleged about this blog, yours is about the dumbest allegation imaginable. In light of the history of CK's threads and comments on this site, your comment is absurd and moronic on its face. Thanks for wasting everyone's time.
DeleteAnonymous 1:07 PM...Thanks for the context. I suspect that the person commenting thusly is someone who has just started reading this blog. Anyone who thinks I'm a fan of the Port, or in the bag for the Port...Has been swilling from a bottle of port. They're all crooks. Not an honorable deed, thought or endeavor from any of them. They're rats fleecing the sinking ship, and nothing more.
DeleteAnon 09.19 @ 13:07 - Colleen or her Bitch Boyfriend whoever you are move out of the county we don't need your bullshit. You're the same old retread of bullshit that has ripped the county off for years. Your old man with his Trump-lust is so 1940. Little Mike is worse.
DeleteHey, military time troll...I think you might have just proven Anonymous at 1:07 PM's point. The one involving the word "moronic." It's a little hard to tell from your cryptic message, but...
DeleteCK - you really do need to take a look at McAleer she is the next generation of grant-grabbers. What is most disturbing is how she is quiet on CRTC's under performance where she was a very vocal supporter and was on all those trips.
DeleteWhy oh why, in the course of attempting to ferret out the government perps among us, do the villagers always resort to fighting amongst themselves, even anonymously? Could that be why these perps stand back, have a laugh, and continue to taunt the villagers with their open crimes? They must think PA residents are really stupid to vote against their own interests. And they'd be correct.
DeleteAnon @ 9:36 - because the focus is in the wrong place. Not one of the elected officials actually makes any real decision or money. They are the puppets of those with the real power.
DeleteMcAleer is working two or three jobs to make ends meet. Gase has more jobs than anyone can track. Kidd runs a mini-storage, Chapman is homeless most of the year, Ozias gets food from the food bank, etc., etc., etc.
It works the same at city, county, state and federal levels.
Even when you do run one off, they always have six waiting to step up for a brief period.
Example - timber runs the port, the port hires Gase, Gase has the city cut the trees (timber) for the ports airport. A little circular but who made any money. The guy cutting the trees (timber).
There are other examples.
Anonymous at 9:36 - you are absolutely correct. That is why Lee is on his way out. He never built a base of support with the people truly running the city. That is why Marolee will never be elected.
DeleteChapman and Ozais have figured things out. To stay in position and make some change they need to respond to the people with true influence and power. To be idealists is to lose your position and make no change.
True 4:15, but it is one thing to enable power and influence by legitimate means, quite another to do it Port Angeles style: by proving yourself as a fellow thug and perping a theft job yourself, just to be initiated into the gang. Then it gets worse from there. Once in, you get to direct others on how it's done. All the while no conscience or care that it's other people's money. Sociopaths one and all in my book.
DeleteLet's face it. Those non-voters are the cause of all this graft and corruption. If they would get off their asses, get themselves informed, and get their asses off the couch long enough to fill out a ballot SENT TO THEIR FUCKIN HOMES then we could get a handle on this comedy of corruption that is slowly grinding this town/city into corruption till. I do not believe the majority of people support the constant cavalcade of corrupt crimes but by not voting you prove Cherie Kidd's math. By not fighting it you support it.
ReplyDeleteIf you see a fight on the playground and don't attempt to break it up you endorse it. Likewise graft and corruption.
Does anyone, anywhere, actually believe the Port's Colleen McAleer when she says things like:
ReplyDelete“What motivates me is the poor and the young people who don’t have jobs,” she said during the nearly hourlong question-and-answer session.
Colleen is up all night worrying about poor people? While packing for Paris? While squandering other people's money? Really? At the notoriously corrupt Port of Port Angeles?
Is that a flying pig I see outside my window? Has Hell frozen over?
No, I didn't think so...
There are rumors that the McAleer's are going to make a mountain of cash when Jamestown gets the sewer run out to Blyn to build their hotel.
DeleteThey are working the developments in east Sequim.
Getting her into politics was always part of "Team McAleer" master plan. They are not from Washington but the old man moved here then brought the kids in from out of the area.
DeleteThey are in bed with the Wayne (John Wayne Development) and others that are waiting to break ground.
DeleteAs always, real estate people in politics have one goal. Use the system to increase the value of property. Their property.
DeleteIs anyone going to McAller's fundraiser at Commeraderie tonight at 5:30?
ReplyDeleteWith self-centeredness like that, who'd be dumb enough to write a check and expect an adequate ROI?
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