The Academy for Psychic Studies - Turd Polishing

No matter what you do with the Blue Sky Ranch,

it's still a double-wide from the 60's

So, the infamous and decrepit Blue Sky Ranch has a sale pending.

Come on, it had to happen.  Final price has not been disclosed but I would imagine any offer would have to be well below listing price.  Why wouldn't it? The damn thing has been on the market for over a year and the areas that were gutted (thanks to my report to the county authorities) were unfinished as The Witches of Ellsworth Street were too pissed to think straight.

The ranch has, of late, been unkempt, neglected and just exploited for whatever value the Witches could extract from it - just like they do to the followers of the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Those of us who have lived through this nightmare can tell you:  it's a nightmare that must end and now, it will.

So many people broke their backs laboring in the hot delta sun or penetrating winter cold to fulfill a perverse and psychotic vision.  The promises of a place for rest and recovery from the pressures of the city were dashed when Angela announced all those who come to the Blue Sky Ranch were to be working or paying.  Any hope of a community where loyal ministers could retire for life in a cottage provided by the Academy sunk into the swamp faster than the trailer the Witches put on stilts.  A productive farm?  Not a chance.  The Witches killed more animals than they sold!

Some will look on the Blue Sky Ranch with fondness.  They also believe no one was taken advantage of either.  The rest of us are just glad it's over, never to be resurrected.

As for me, I'm glad I had the unmitigated balls to contact the Contra Costa Building Inspection service and report the illegal construction.  I was even more happy that it was ordered to be taken down.  Even better, I was happy to see that fines were applied as well as additional property tax because the Witches were more intent on obfuscation and concealment than being good citizens.

Now that the property is being sold, I have to address some of the people who claimed my actions were based in vengeance or some other kind of unwarranted motivation.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Your neighbor does some fucked-up-shit to his house (and one of mine did) that endangers the safety and integrity of your home or does some construction on the DL that allows him to do something totally illegal that will eventually fuck up your insurance rates because when his house falls over, it will take yours with it and your report to the city is an act of vengeance?

Eat me.

The construction activities of the Witches were indeed illegal and they were forced to remedy it - as well as pay fines and increased taxes.  Of course the consequence was a safe and legal building.  That a poor sucker thinking he's buying a nice ranch for himself and his family doesn't deserve to have a little protection from the Witches legerdemain never occurred to those who cry "vengeance".

Sure, I might have said nothing.  Someone would make an offer on the Ranch, find that financing was impossible as the building was not flood-safe and therefore disqualified from National Flood Insurance (a must for any mortgage lender).  Maybe that buyer would find private financing or would pay cash (which would make Robin Dumolin's withered clam dripping wet with excitement) and later discover he'd been had.  A lawsuit may begin but why make a hapless buyer suffer through legal process when he shouldn't in the first place?  Or maybe the buyer will just try to negotiate a lower price due to the illegal construction (essentially getting it for free)?  Are you kidding?

No.  The right thing was to make a report of illegal construction.  The right thing was to wait until the Ranch was on the market.  If the Blue Sky Ranch fell on the heads of the Witches, it's their property and their risk.  That, we can leave alone.

Putting one over on the public - not so much.

At any rate, this is another one of the Witches failed enterprises we will add to the long list of failed enterprises Reverend Bill Duby left behind.

And it is proof that the only profitable activity Bill Duby, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin ever engaged in was fleecing their followers and keeping them under their thumb.