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Friends and readers. In 1699 Galileo Set a telescope in the garden behind his house and turned it skywards. Never-before-seen stars leaped out of the darkness to enhance familar constellations, the nebulous Milky Way resolved into a swath of densely packed stars,  mountains and valleys pockmarked the storied perfection of the moon and a retinue of four attendent bodies travelled regulary around Jupiter like a planetary system in miniture.

”I render infinite thanks to God” Galileo intoned after those nights of wonder, ”for being so kind as to make me alone the first observer of marvels kept hidden in obscurity for all previous centuries.” 

What wonders his eyes seen the same wonders we see today and more as we discover many more marvels and those to come. Gazing towards a star can take us seconds but as we know the time it takes for light to reach us many years of life will have passed on the far away star but here time has stood still.

We do not profess here to master the science of space and time Dr Who does that very nicely for us. What in our own small way we try to understand but certainly not analyse is what pleases the eye. Is it the grand things in life? the bright lights big city syndrom,  the sun shining on a morning casting shadows over all it surveys, snow flakes falling turning everything it touches white. So much can please the eye, it may be impossible to choose. 

For Galileo it was the heavens above that his eye so delighted in, for some of us we don’t have to look that far, a few feet closer perhaps the reader can guess the distance for themselves. Pilton Sucks could suggest something but we won’t we will keep that to ourselves and tease the reader into guessing at what we think, it’s not that difficult, but we would say that wouldn’t we.

A picture tells a thousand stories, a glance from your eye can make the story and cast a smile that dosen’t fade as you glance again once more to charge the battery of your soul. We see things we never thought we would see wonders of a different kind, they can come in many forms, but in truth it can be the one you least expected or never even contemplated that imprints an image as a camera would for you to look at whenever you want.

The eyes have it,  yes they do and how,  for our friend Galileo he had to look many miles away to find what pleased his eye, for some of us it’s not that far.

Readers and Friends. Your friend and mine Derek ‘dodgy’ Suttie - thats based at the Prentice Centre, is trying to gag staff by getting the union to forbid staff from using work computers so by in his tiny imagination, protect His drinking buddy Mike Rosendale.

Fortunately the union told him were to get off. His belief in his own self-importance was certainly not justified. Community Education is like social work, rotten to the core and full of spineless gutless wonders. Suttie is just another one ass-licking, crawling, small individuals, unfortunately we have to bear him in this community.

The dodgy Suttie should look at his own track record, particularly when he was the worker at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre. When he did put in an appearance, which was not to often, you would know he was coming because the smell of alcohol arrived first. This habit was covered up, but like any other council employee who is a crawler or a bully they are looked upon with favour. Just ask the Muirhouse bully, that sleazy character is still practicing his trade, and why, simple really, his wee legs can just be spotted coming out of the backsides of his management friends.

So it seems, if like Mr. ‘dodgy’ Suttie and the Muirhouse bully, you creep, crawl, lie, and cheat then the council is your oyster. Are these the kind of brain dead morons you want employed by the council on your behalf? We think not!

Next time you pass Mr. ‘dodgy’ Suttie in the street or more likely, catch him in a bar, ask him how he can justify trying to gag staff just to protect another crook from being found out.

Friends and readers we now have yellow lines on West Granton Road, well done to all involved in the campaign, but who enforces it.  We walked round there on Monday last and did not see much difference the cars were still parked were they should not be and were turning their noses up at the yellow lines. Indeed we approached a motorist who was about to park on the cycle lane, she told us she has always parked there and no one has said anything to her, so she proceeded to park and walk away.

We called the Police but they said it was nothing to do with them but they would inform the traffic division, we are still waiting. So as good intentions go the yellow lines are fine and proper, so instead of handing out gongs to those whos job it is to protect the residents get them to police it, then it just might br effective    

Well readers and friends, it seems our good councillor Elizabeth Maginnis is advocating the development of a casino within the Waterfront Development, no doubt in Granton so she can continue to live the good life which her many interests allows her to do. Who voted for this person, surely the last thing we need is more gambling and its associated problems.

This is pure stupidity. We are told it could attract up to 30,000 visitors - SO WHAT!  What she should be pursuing is trying to bring in real sustainable employment to the Granton area not another organisation designed to fleece the punters of their money. It would be far more benificial if Ms Maginnis used her time more productivly- say in her role as Chair of the  very secretive Waterfront Board to secure some of the 9,000 jobs she herself told us there would be available for the local punters,

From the Evening News:

Speaking at yesterday’s full council meeting, Granton councillor Elizabeth Maginnis, said: “If this casino was sited in Granton then you could see up to 30,000 visitors coming to one of the most deprived parts of the city. This development would also bring benefits to the rest of the city.”

It is time that Ms. Maginnis seriously considered her position and real role in this community, possibly she should consider resigning as local councillor - you can almost feel the sigh of relief coming from the community.

PiltonSucks.com believes the casino proposal is a nonsense and does not even bear a second thought. We also feel that gambling and the casino groupies who frequent these places would certainly not enhance the community rather give it yet another blight in its makeup.  One of the ways to rub a community’s face in it is to create an even bigger divide between the haves and the have nots.

Friends and readers this ludicrous idea comes from, wait for it , A LABOUR COUNCILLOR the ordinary peoples party dedicated to lifting the scurge of poverty from our communitys. Doing a good job is she not?

Readers and Friends, take a moment from your hectic lives to close your eyes and allow yourself to dream, to dream of meandering down Waterfront Avenue looking at the pavements that glisten in the early evening almost like gold dust sprinkled in front of you, and as you continue your pleasant stroll you will pass Caroline House and along to yet another building site with the ridiculous name of upper strand.com

But fear not as reality bites in the shape of a sculptured bronzed couple going to the beach.  The lady with a child, the lad with the boat and the man, cloth cap in hand.  Look if you will at them in from a short distance you would swear that the man was looking up at the swanky new development, puzzled as to why he cannot and will never be allowed or encouraged to improve his families lot, and that his life span would be a lot shorter than the residents of swank towers.

Could it be that his life will be cut short by some illness which might have been avoided if he could have afforded the medicine or will his children be given the opportunity in education and employment he never had. Yes friends and readers thank goodness that kind of living is in the past.

But as you leave the soon to be leafy suburbs of Waterfront Avenue the dream is over and suddenly you wake to find yourself at home in a chair with the tv on and a news presenter informing the nation of crisis in the N.H.S.,  education failing our children and employment - oh yes at record levels - but as you know, not were you live.

Thank goodness I woke from that dream.  God only knows how we could have lived with conditions that those poor people remembered in sculpted bronze had to put up with. 

Readers and friends. Could some kind soul inform the communiy and PiltonSucks.com if the land by the gas works, and the Granton chemical works has been cleaned or is it just a dead issue. Do and say nothing then it will go away?

The smell eminating from the area tells a story of something fishy.

So come on come clean tell us whats happening is it clean or isn’t it, why the silence.