Here's the thing about Izzy. She's never been on anyone's list of attractive women. I knew her in the 70's when she sooo wanted to be "in" with the cool crowd. Hard to be cool when you are not attractive. It wasn't so much that Izzy was not pleasant to look at (she never has been) it's more like she was one of those people that were embarrassing to be around. Her whole social demeanor was almost creepy. No matter how much you wanted to like her she would always give you more reasons why that wasn't a good idea. I'm sure you know the type.
She kept trying causes to see where she could fit in. The whole farming thing she did in the 80's was a complete disaster. Bankruptcy, lawsuits and a lot of questions about where the money went. Farmers themselves just plain didn't like Izzy or her act. Farmers tend to be some pretty down to earth people and Izzy is anything but. She did develop some skills during that time though. She's gotten pretty good at starting a panic of donations over non issues. Her mine poisoned water thing has panicked quite a few nimby arrivals from the city. Keeping people worrying about their health is pretty powerful stuff even if you don't have the personal skills to navigate a crowd. Seems Izzy has finally found her niche.
I think part of the problem that Izzy has become is directly due to threads like this. Let's face it, why does it matter what Izzy looks like? It's got to be tough to be an unattractive unpopular woman. Seriously a lot of you miners will understand that if Izzy had been the high school wet dream it's doubtful she would have taken this path in life. She could have been married early to the Fullback (now a used car dealer) or Jim the nice guy (a dentist now with a neat lawn). With beauty Izzy would have had those choices. Maybe life would have distracted her with babies and bills instead of a constant drive to get attention. Heck if I had learned to play guitar better Jimi and I would be touring the world even today. Lot's of what ifs out there.
Things didn't work out that way for Izzy. Now she has become the miner's worst enemy. She makes stuff up and skews the facts just to keep the panic level high. Come to think of it that seems to be a popular tactic on this side of the wall between miners and Izzy. Lot's of small miner groups claiming rights being attacked where there is no right, lots of the "end of mining" stories to keep those donations coming in. Sometimes, from where I sit, "whatever works" seems to be the new California get er done method. Hard to point fingers when you see it that way.
Izzy is known to so many miners because she represents the extreme. There are few people that could create as much unneeded panic in a single profession as Izzy has among small miners. Even though the Combie project has no impact on small mining the in your face way Izzy put it to the no dredge miners sticks in their craw, and it should.
If you want to beat the Izzys of the world you will always be fighting the smallest most extreme element on a battlefield designed so you will lose. You can't win Combie because there is nothing to win there. Putting all your attention on the most extreme element means you aren't paying attention to the things that will make a difference in your life. Brandon still needs help. Every dollar sent to fight Izzy is a dollar not spent on a winning cause. That's how Izzy wins.
Comparing Izzy to Hitler isn't very productive. Here's a picture of Izzy next to a picture of Hitler's sister Paula. Paula looks a lot like her brother. There may be some resemblance between Izzy and Paula but Paula Hitler was reputed to be a nice woman. Izzy not so much.
So if you are reading this Izzy I want you to know the reason you weren't invited out for pizza with the gang wasn't about your looks, it was your attitude. The Texeria cousins weren't giggling about you, they thought Tony actually liked you. Yeah Tony, not me.
Now that we got that cleared up maybe you might like to look up Jim? His dentistry practice is going great guns and I hear Debbie divorced him.
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