Are you for real??? Or are you just joking?? And are you REALLY running for a write in candidate?? If yes to all of the above----I am LMAO and CTFU!!!!!!!

Sam, Thank you for your insightful approach to solving the red fox menace. Now that you have explained the rational basis for the irrational fear that has the good islanders of OC in its death grip, I understand why this is the slipperiest of slopes the town is on. You, sir, are a genius and entirely too over-qualified for just any council seat. I suggest you run for them all.

Sam, you're slipping. I thought you would simply propose passing BYOB, armageddon ensures, foxes are destroyed with the usual nuclear fallout...

Denise - If you truly have any doubts about my seriousness, see my City Council Candidate Profile here: http://oceancity.patch.com/blog_posts/sam-samstie-city-council-candidate-profile. Or click on my picture and look me in the eyes.

Cindy - Latest polling has me ahead in two wards....keep you fingers crosssed because I will sell any over two that I win...

Neil - good point, BUT...though the foxes would be eradicated by Barmaggedon, as Rick Bernardini aptly describes the outcome of BYOB passing, we would still have to suffer through End Times surrounded by a bunch of buzzed old people strolling down Asbury in evenings, holding hands, smiling and such. Solves the fox problem but creates many more and bigger ones!

Sam - I took your advice and clicked on your picture. Come on...you must have a better one than that. Regardless, I think you may be kidding with this stuff.

Joan - My girlfriends unanamously picked the one I use in the posts for an assortment of reasons but mainly having to do with certain unusual features on my neck. I found another neckless shot and this one is a bit more upbeat as it shows me trying to smile. I have not smiled since I learned that BYOB was revived and when I tried in this picture I suceeded but the smile does not actually make it to the surface of my face where it would be visible. You may also note that using those moribund face muscles caused a static charge through my system and my hair reacted accordingly. Anyways, per your request, here's another pic. Thanks.

I thought the Fox issue was a spoof until I read the story in The Sentinal with our mayor lamenting the serious issue of foxes our island. Is Gillian for real???? Come on Jay, those foxes are totally harmless. Leave them alone and move on to something of importance. Today the foxes. Tomorrow its the rabbits, opossums, raccoons and squirrels.

...and then the nincumpoops.

Silence dogood
Update: Grady told me Redd Foxx is deceased. On to Barmaggedon.

Always a good laugh for a bad day.

foxy...

I thought I saw a puddycat.

As you have said, Samstie, you think with your gut so you have lots of thoughts. Fox Hunts! I like it. But having the south end farmers destroy their carrot and lettuce crops seems more eco-friendly. Either way, I'm good with it. Let's see if City Council gives your two solution the serious consideration they deserve. Thanks.

Why you big dummy!!! ... oh...not a Redd Foxx scare...sorry...my confusion....

This whole thing must be written in code. I have no idea what the joke is with the Red fox scare. I do know we have poachers at the National Park on the South End and they have caused cruel deaths to a variety of animals. I have seen (maybe) a single Red Fox in the last several years and I do not think that qualifies as a menice. I have read many of your comments over the months Sam, so it is hard for me to tell when you are joking. In a previous article I said you would get my vote, but if you are for killing any animals I change my mind.

Mr. Samstie,
To hell with the red fox scare! The possible passing of the BYOB bill in OC frightens me more. Just imagine billy-goats and cougars staggering home in front of kids. Sobbering, isn't it? I need a drink.

I wonder of Daniel Lavner is related to that local liberal loud mouth Sam Lavnerw? The spelling is close enough where they may be cousins and some sloppy clerking at Ellis Island added a letter to one of the Lavner(w)s way back when. Doesn't matter. I like your thinking Danny Boy - no matter what kind of scourge on the local community your could-be cuz is.

I agree with Daniel Lavner the BYOB is the more frightening then the Fox scare and Sam, as that is two people against, I am sure in your political wisdom you will soon announce that if you are elected you will maintain the status quo, which has served this town O these many years. "Sam's on our team" slogan fits all political parties and all bills and amendments up for a vote.

Really? Shoot, trap and drown the foxes? I hope that is a joke!!

Oh, and bringing in predators of foxes? So then more predators will have to be brought in until the island becomes a zoo!!

First - Sorry I have been away from The Blog (or THEEEEE BLOG OF BLOGS as it is already being praised throughout and beyond throughout). I am busy with the campaign trying to keep my lead in two of the wards and taking one more. I will accept and serve in two council seats but will sell the third if I win it (unless it is the fouth ward, which is sparcely populated and largely agricultural so would not take up too much time....I'll have to see how the bidding comes in on it and will decide then).
OK - Back to the blog.
Daniel Lavner - My cracked research team has discovered that you are not local liberal loudmouth Sam Lavnerw's cousin - the news is worse - you are his BROTHER. And...you are a retired ACADEMIC having poisoned the minds of both high school and college children teaching them to read, write, speak, and THINK in furn tongues (the ones you euphemisticaly and deceifully portray as Romance Languages. There's no romance in furn toungues or cultures, just weakness, decay, relativism, and othenness! Now you "retire" but are just running and hiding from your past misdeeds trying to make up for it by being a model citizen. Your attempt to ingratiate yourself into the campaign's graces by opposing Barmageddon almost succeeded. Almost, senor. Almost.
Robert McKenna, MIKE - Glad I got your vote back - I may need to transfer it over to a ward where I am behind.
Donna - What makes you think I may be joking in my Red Fox Menace position paper? puuuleeeaase!

Don't worry Donna the Foxes are protected, and I think we should have a write-in vote for an open season on poachers. We just need to get Sam, Sam, he's our man, to represent those of us who love nature and the Park at the South End of the island to bolster the protection. While he 's defending our remaining wild animal life maybe we can get him to go after the coal burning electric plant that is spewing pollution directly on Ocean City, and creating a tax break for those on the mainland living near that monstrosity. But first things first... down with BYOB.

Good thoughts, but the rabbits didn't come for lettuce and carrots ~ they came for our flowers and landscaping! Thankfully, last year there were noticeably fewer bunnies in the north end. Go Fox!! Let's hope it hold up this year as well. As you say, Sam, it's the natural food chain.

poor little bunny rabbits... that's all folks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rivaHXIjFow

Lets keep the foxes and shoot the extreme conservatives - do we have enough bullets?

If I had a dog that looked like you, I'd shave it's ass and teach it to walk backwards.

Any wildlife left in New Jersey should be revered for their ability to survive.