Monday August 31, 2009

The "from the right guy" is really something. I wonder if he originally came from some really backwoods part of the country. Can he possibly believe all the things he posts? He sounds like a guy that's in the wrong century. He must be a very scared and paranoid person in that he thinks an elected government can just come in and change our country so drastically is remarkable. This newly elected government is only 7 months old, and he believes we're going to become a socialist country. Now he thinks they’re going to takeaway our freedom of speech. This nation has too many free thinking people (thankfully) to allow any government to so radically change who we are.

The writer tries to sound like he's a beacon of truth. What he really sounds like is propagandist. He tries to scare people (ignorant people who don't want to think for themselves). All you have to do is look at history, especially during the depression era, many people were saying the same thing he spews today that  Roosevelt was turning this country into a socialist nation.

What Roosevelt did was create programs the "far right guy" claims to enjoy today. And even if you believe Roosevelt did more damage with his programs to the economy than help it, the fact still remains we continue to be a free nation. I'm no fan of any government. All governments only care about one thing, keeping itself alive. He claims he believes we’re the greatest nation on earth. Well that's confusing, because he has no faith in its people.

[Turtle Cam] I am the person who went to help the turtles and I must clear up a few things.

1.) I was wrong. The person I thought was with FWC was only a state employee.

2.) I was given the location by a permitted organization; otherwise I wouldn't have known where it was.

3.) I waited at the road until a trained turtle expert showed up and invited me to join him.

4.) Yes my flashlight (as well as the experts) was unapproved. It did come in handy as the state worker would have stepped on the nest if I had not have turned it on. The turtles would not have been able to see the light unless I shoved it up the raccoon’s ass.

5.) If the state employee would have said she had it under control I would have been on my way immediately.

6.) This is not the way turtles have lived for 250 million years. Now they deal with decreased beach from development, boat props, fishing line, human’s trash they eat which gets impacted, and the ever increasing number of feral cats.

I only feel that if people can help animals it is the least we can do for all the problems we have caused them. I would like for the camera’s operator to post the excavation and release of these so-called 80 survivors to show the world that it was a success. If you would like to continue this debate on here feel free to do so as I am sure the locals and tourist would like to know who they are supporting when they visit the Keys. Menu > WebCams Live

I smoke pot because it helps me deal with the stress of being raised in a cult, also known as Jehovah's Witnesses (PTSD) an inherited brain chemical imbalance (Bi-Polar) and anxiety overtones due to the extreme religious beliefs put upon me as a child.  Not to mention the porn addicted pervert/control freak/stalker/psychotic boyfriend I had on Big Pine Key who never left me alone and made me flee the state. 
 
Pot makes me feel normal in a cruel, war based, violent, media controlled, world.  We all know that this country's people sheep or lemmings controlled by fear.  Those in power - religion - medicine - corporate America, those 16 people who sit on multiple Boards of Directors of major companies who all share the same interest: keeping all the money.  And people like me and you, hardworking, family people - in poverty. 
 
I was born into this world to give love and to learn.  I have tried to commit suicide with pills, knives, and electrocution.  Then with really loving and good treatment. I took all their pharmaceutical psychotropic drugs, whose side effects nearly killed me.
 
With a toke now and again I am calm, I sleep, I don't have stomach ulcers, I can support myself, and I feel good about my reality.  I did not make this world.  I did not make marijuana illegal.  I'm kind, open, loving, charitable and empathetic toward all and I'm not going to change so you can feel like you eradicated a dangerous drug.  I suggest you put your energies toward people who do methamphetamine, and coke.  When I lived in the Keys I swear I was the only one without a coke dealer on speed dial.  Wake up people, in the Bible it says we have dominion and use of all herbs.  Let it go.

[Mystery Mites]  I believe what got on you is a bunch of very tiny red ants known as Little Fire Ants. These are very small. If even one stings me it feels like a bee sting. I can't imagine a chainsaw blast full of them, it would have probably put me in the hospital. I have only talked to one other person here in the Keys that has had them sting them in the same way. As stated on this website: If complaints are of painful stings, but no stinging insect is seen, little fire ants may be to blame.  This is usually how it is with me and the ants can sting more than one time each. These are not the more prevalent black/ brown fire ants that make a mound. I usually see these little fire ants congregating in my palm trees.  http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/entomo/ants/Pest%20Ants%20of%20Fl/little_fire_ant.htm

[Downstairs Enclosures] Why is the County persecuting her when the judge ruled in her favor twice already? What is the County's agenda? That's easy. It's the CYA (cover your ass) principle.  Because the County did not catch it, so they're guilty of letting something exist which the feds say can't exist. So County has to save face with the feds. Or somebody in the County just doesn't like her. Or she's paying now for some sin in a previous life.

My question is how much in dollars and employees’ time and paperwork and even making photocopies and phone calls is the County spending to prosecute this for the 3rd time?  And since our taxes are also paying for all the court costs, I have the same question.

[God: let’s clear a few things up for you Godless Communists] I don't know what church you go to but I would hope it is not mine.  That is not the message I hear every Sunday.  Your statements are the exact reason people hate God.  You are the worse evil, twisting the word of God.  Jesus came to this earth in love.  Read your bible starting in the New Testament.  He came to show God’s love.  The only time Jesus got mad was at the religious zealots who twisted the word or God, who lost sight of their relationship with God, and created all sorts of rules that it was impossible to worship God.  

Your anger is offensive.  You are correct in saying that our faith gives us the strength to believe what we can not see.  But it is the full surrender of our hearts to God, Jesus, that allows us to recognize his power in our lives.  It is his peace that passes all understanding that shows us that our God is alive.  You are a prime example that Christians are not perfect.  You mean well but what you have said is not out of love.  I recently had that experience with someone in my church. 

Words are hurtful, be careful how you use them. Yet we must forgive those that hurt us the same way Jesus forgave us.   Revelation tells us that even after the tribulation there will be those that refuse to turn their hearts towards God.  You should not be offended by their lack of knowledge.  Offense will be the strongest in the end times. By trying to offend him and wanting to do it again is not Christ-like.  The most powerful tool we have is the power of prayer. I will be praying this week for both of you that your hearts will be softened, that you will open your bible and get the revelation of God’s word, and that our atheist friends will come to hunger and thirst for God.  In Jesus name I pray.

P.S: My son’s 5th grade teacher told me that after studying physics even Albert Einstein acknowledged that there must be a God.

[Conspiracy: Mystery Mites] I am almost positive what you are showing signs of is a chemical that is being used by Fish and Wildlife Service. It is being sprayed at night and has been sprayed for several weeks. It is being used to stop the Key Deer from breeding. I understand the herd has gotten so large (over 1000) that the deer are about to be removed from the endangered list to the protected list.

This would cut out millions of dollars in federal funding. It would also allow for more development on Big Pine Key. You will hear more about this as the side affects become apparent to more people. I can only say that this chemical was never meant to be used in this manner and I have no information on how long or what long term side affects you will suffer. I hope your feeling better as you read this post.

[Pelican Rescue] I went fishing on Saturday because it was the last day left on my license. I didn't catch much, a few lane snapper, a barracuda, and a bonnet shark. I was fishing between Picnic Island and Little Palm when a pelican came up and I named him Lucky. He hung around my boat hoping for a free meal. I don't normally feed animals in the wild as I think it does more harm than good, however this bird was trailing a fishing leader so I fed him a few fish. The hook looked to be lodged under its wing. After feeding him 2 snapper I was his new best friend. When he lunged for the 3rd I grabbed his beak and wrapped him in a towel.

I took the bird to the Looe Key tiki bar and George called wildlife rescue. Maya from Big Pine arrived about 15 minutes later and took Lucky away.

[What did Bush do to help stop illegal migration from Cuba]  Have you been paying attention?  In the last 2 years, over 300 smugglers have been prosecuted and imprisoned, compared to almost none in previous years.  Haven't you seen all the articles about the indictments?  It took time, but the Bush administration assigned an aggressive U.S. Attorney to the Southern District of Florida.  Furthermore, new Federal statutes were created, making it illegal to flee from U.S. Coast Guard and CBP vessels and resist their boarding teams on the high seas.  Homeland Security agencies like ICE, CGIS, CBP and USBP have been taking these smugglers down left and right.   The smuggling to the Keys has dropped considerably in the last 2 years.  They are now exploring alternative smuggling routes, like Mexico, as a result of the aggressiveness brought on during the Bush administration.  There's your answer.  That's what Bush did.  Let's see if Obama continues this or reverses it all with new relaxed policies.

[Supreme Being] I am continually astonished that someone could visualize a supreme being, a timeless, primal source from which all things emanate - every living creature - every subatomic particle and every galaxy, and then insist that such a supreme being could take sides declaring that it favors one person or a group of persons over another.

But then again, I am continually surprised that someone could be impressed by Sarah Palin.

[FKCC] It looks like our junior college is as messed up as our school board. Why is there such a problem with “educators” in Monroe County? Is it because of the sheltered life of school administrators that separates them from the real business world?

Ty Symroski, the developers of Safe Harbor’s lackey, wants his old job back as Growth Management director for the County. That’s just what we don’t need—someone whose been paid by the developers to approve their giant hotel and f**k up the working waterfront. ~23skadoo2comcast.com

[Kudos to County workers] Oh yea, that big black square in the road looks so much better. I'm sure it took some of the best County minds to come up with it.

[Vista User Controls] How to handle the pain in the butt User Control thingy in Vista!http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/4-ways-to-make-uac-less-annoying-on-windows-vista/

[God] So now if you don't believe in god you’re a communist? I don't believe in god because I'm educated!

[Caskets at Flea Market] Why didn't it mention which flea market it was. I think it's a good idea for those that need a reasonably priced casket.

[Pot users are productive] Where did the guy get this statistic? From observing the Keys stoners I have concluded that the majority of pot users are lazy.

To all the anti-Obamers, "You can't handle the truth!"

[Get some turtle training and do it the right way] There is training available to save a turtle? That is amazing! Where do they offer the courses and how much does it cost? 

[The Battle for Fallujah] If all the bad guys did indeed, congregate in that dump, all we had to do is push the big red button. Boom!

[Quarter Truth Guy wrote, "This proposed legislation gives the President the authority to seize control of private-sector networks during a so-called cyber-security emergency. The President would decide what constitutes a cybersecurity emergency”. 

The truth: Sec 18, (2) says The president "may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network".

The bill mentions the private sector 26 times, but I can not find anywhere in the bill what you suggest. Where, oh, where in this bill does it mention the "private sector? Please let us know.

[Legalize Pot] I can’t see what harm an old grandpa sitting in his back yard, watching the sunset, does to anyone by toking up. It seems to me that the marijuana laws are designed to generate more work for police, drug enforcement, and the entire legal and prison system.

[Fat Cops, Armed forces] "I would say your post is a little over the top." So we get a response from a war and cop lover. Probably a bible belting closet queen with the idea that war is good, war is necessary, war is profit. No wonder we are not going to make it.

[Taxes in Monroe County] It's just too easy to try to use taxes as the solution to our fiscal problem. It's the other side of the balance sheet that actually has greater impact.  Can we please talk about County spending, and the excesses therein? 

Some suggestions County employees:

1.) Making more than $100,000 - not any more for now.

2.) Working 5 days a week - going to 4 for now.

3.) Many single occupied cars driving to meetings on the county expense account - everybody gets on the county owned buses for now.

4.) (Except for Public Safety) Staying late and getting paid for it - not any more. No more overtime, or comp time. Either be more productive (work conscientiously, and no more long personal conversations - yes, I've seen them) or leave it until the next day at 8 am.  And while we're looking at this,  get to work on time, stay until you're supposed to leave, no more extra 20 minutes for lunch. Yes I've seen that all too.

5.) Getting your health insurance premiums paid for by the taxpayers - not any more; actually never again.

It’s time for the County Administrator to sit down at one of his desks, and start writing a genuinely serious, concrete, valid, plan to reduce county expenses. And the big thing - be prepared to sell it to the BOCC. 

Nobody wants their incomes reduced, but increasing taxes - putting higher than necessary financial burdens on taxpayers - without also doing due diligence to reduce those financial burdens accomplishes nothing beneficial.

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[Pea Rock]  Where is the best place to get a pickup truck full if you live on BPK? There’s nothing listed in the Business Directory.

Test your knowledge about your carbon footprint: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/games-quizzes/transportation-footprint-quiz/

How's this for speed control? I don't know about you, but this would slow me down. People slow down and try to straddle the hole, then breathe a sigh of relief that they completely cleared it. This is actually a speed control device that is in use in Canada and it is much cheaper than speed cameras.
 

[Obama Can Do No Right] Obama and guns. Do you really think that if the law that re-instated the right to carry guns in Nat'l parks was not attached to something he wanted, B.O. would have signed it? He would have thrown it out with much fanfare. Socialists hate guns because an armed population is much harder to control.

International Day of Peace is September 21st. Look for an event near you to participate in or plan one. Bring our heroes home. http://internationaldayofpeace.org/participate/events_calendar.html

[Acevedo] Lots of video equipment stolen from Marathon High School.  Has anyone questioned Randy's kid?

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.  ~Mark Twain

I want to thank Florida Keys Satellite for keeping their word on the installation time and the savings. My DirecTV picture quality is amazing and my savings is even more amazing. I was paying over $180 a month for Comcast and internet, and yet I'm getting more channels with extraordinary quality with DirecTV and internet for only $60 a month. I can use these savings for other priorities now. Thanks Sammy and Luis; you guys are the best and I highly recommend Florida Keys Satellite. www.flakeyssatellite.com

[Randy and Monique] What can I say about those two? Just this: You go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company. 

[Mystery Mites] Cure: Reading Sloan's emails or hari-kari.

[Gazuntite!] Today, my friend sneezed. I heard a guy across the room say, "May the God of your choice bless you."

[Acevedo]  I guess the person making the comment(?) was a friend of Acevado. He was guilty and was convicted. And hopefully he will get what he deserves.

Genetically engineered ingredients in my Pepsi. Is nothing sacred? PepsiCo Chooses to Continue Using GE Ingredients Despite Evidence of Harm | CommonDreams.org

[That's Absurd] Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.  ~Voltaire (1694-1778)

[Caskets] They make a very good gun cabinet; no body will go near it.

Iguana hunter claims to have removed 16,000 iguanas from Boca Grande. Click here: Printed News

[Solution to Senior Health Care] Why limit it to only 3 senators and 3 representatives you should be able to shoot the whole damn bunch of them.

[Selective God] It seems as if the penalty from God for not asking his protection before walking in a dark alley is to be raped.  Give me a break!

The story ends with this: God is always there in your heart and loves you no matter what. "If you deny me in front of your friends, I shall deny you in front of my Father."

So if he loves you no matter what, why, in the very next line, would he ever deny you?

Here is a link to a piece in Newsweek about why some people cling to some pretty wild beliefs  http://www.newsweek.com/id/213625?from=rss

[From the Right] Whoever said that too many folks do not understand Obama care is right on! Far too many folks are dazzled by their puppy love for Mr. Obama and so they flat refuse to actually hear and absorb what he says. He says that for his plan to work, he must make big savings in Medicare. He does not tell us  any of the methods he will use to cut Medicare costs. The only way to drastically cut Medicare costs is to drastically cut Medicare benefits. Simply put, he will drastically cut back on health care to the elderly, the folks who need it most. That’s why all the jawboning about “death panels”. If you think that sort of thing is beyond the government, just take a look at the VA publication "Your Life, Your Choices", it's about helping aged and/or infirm Vets choosing death instead of pursuing life.  He says that in order for Obamacare to work, everybody must be in it.  He means it! If you now are young and healthy and so you choose to spend your bucks on something other than health insurance, you’re going to be screwed by Obama. If you don’t join his plan, you will be fined at least as much as the insurance would cost. Your boss will be fined in the same way if he doesn’t provide you health benefits. Obama told us so. Your boss will have to cut back your hours, or lay off employees to be profitable.  Mr. Obama tells us he insists that his plan will cover an additional 30 to 50 million persons. Yet he does not plan to increase the number of Doctors, hospitals, and other health care infrastructure. Low fees paid by Medicare have now driven many doctors out of practice. There is now a nationwide shortage of physicians.  More patients plus decreasing numbers of docs, plus no increase in infrastructure is a perfect equation that equals a guarantee that every one of us will suffer the same level of rotten care they get in Britain and Canada. Mr. Obama promises us his plan won’t cost the vast majority of us any more money. He foments class warfare when he says that he’ll just screw the rich out of their money. He says that his program is a must so that we can save money. Yet in the same breath he tells us that his program will add between 1 and 2 Trillion dollars to our deficit! The lies that he tells are insulting to your intelligence. If you believe him, you are as stupid as he believes you to be. He says he’s going to spend more money on more people and pay for it by taking more money from less than 2% of our tax payers. That 2% now pay more than 50% of all taxes. The numbers of those rich folks is declining. Sweetheart, you and I, the little dudes, will be paying for Obamacare in grossly higher taxes. It may not be income taxes (or it may), but for sure it will be in brand new taxes that will hit you and I like a freight train. Look for Value Added Taxes. That is a tax very much like a sales tax that is added onto the price of everything during the course of everything’s development from raw materials to the sale point. It’s very popular in Europe where it routinely adds 20-35% to cost of everything. The Obama true believers are being set up for bitter disappointment when they finally realize how cruelly Obama is playing them. It’s a crying damn shame more folks don’t know this.

(Part II) I don’t need to scour the web to learn of everyday’s new revelations about Mr. Obama. The web is chuck full of Obama propaganda from all the mainstream media types and from MSNBC, Time mag, CNN, The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, etc. etc. Hells bells, ABC, which recently broadcast an hour long infomercial on Obamacare, has just refused to air a 60 second commercial in opposition to Obamacare. The media bias is breathtaking. It’s absolutely amazing how much is really going on in Obamaland.  Fortunately thedrudgereport.com is an excellent source of real news which does not have an ax to grind, as is breibart.com.

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Sunday August 30, 2009

[Mystery Mites] I was trimming a large yucca plant with a chain saw yesterday when my legs and stomach got covered with invisible mites or something. I’ve been bitten by fire ants many times and this was worse. I washed immediately and that didn’t help. I was in so much pain that I sprayed Raid on myself, but that didn’t help either. I took a shower and applied some industrial strength anti-bacterial soap all over me, but that didn’t work. I took another shower and spread rubbing alcohol all over and kept spreading it--a whole bottle. That didn’t seem to help either, but by that time it had been about a half hour and I think the bugs were dying out anyway.

I’ve only been in that much pain once before. I don’t know if it was from the yucca plant or the few pope-in-the-pulpit plants that I plucked. I’ve gotten the same type of burns from the pope-in-the-pulpits before, but I only plucked them with my hand this time and there was no burning on my hand. I think the mites, or whatever, were in the saw dust I made when I trimmed the yucca. Does anyone know for sure what these terrible creatures are and is there a fast antidote?

[Kudos to County workers] The hearts memorial painted on Kyle Rd in Port Pine Heights has been painted over by the County. It was considerate of them to leave it for as long as they did; at least until the initial grief of the families involved had diminished a little.
 

[President should not try and change the greatest country in the world] I’m flabbergasted that some of you are that stupid to think like you do. How can some of you even walk and chew gum? What is a president supposed to do if not change things for the better? That’s right, were the greatest country and just perfect.

[County Tax Increase] The lack of imagination of our County Commissioners is terrible. The only solution they have to any problem is to raise taxes. Tax increases couldn’t come at a worse time. Any new idea that comes from the public is dismissed out of hand if it doesn’t include raising taxes. As a matter of fact any new idea from the public is dismissed without consideration.

[The Battle for Fallujah] When the Iraqi’s beat us out of the city the first time they were so elated over beating the Americans that it gave them extra strength. Fallujah was going to be the stronghold of Islam. Every Muslim extremist that could get there got there, from all over the Arab world.

They didn’t know that we were like the machines in the Terminator movies and we too learn from our mistakes and come back with a vengeance. It took us 5 months to regroup, study the enemy and mount the winning attack.

[Pot leads to stronger drugs] That old statement is so full of holes it’s useless. Pot is a mild hallucinogen and makes you feel good. How many drugs do you have in your medicine cabinet that are dangerous and make you feel good? I’ll be t you have a bunch. Oh, they’re legal so they must be ok. Those drugs in your medicine cabinet are dangerous and could kill you. They should be illegal—not pot. The only thing wrong with pot is that it’s illegal. Because it’s illegal our jails and prisons are overflowing with harmless pot smokers and sellers costing us billions of dollars. The whole thing is based on a historic fear of being high.

[Excerpt From Clapton: The Autobiography] “On return visits to New York, I used to go down to the Village with Jimi Hendrix, and we’d go from one club to another, just the two of us, and play with whoever was on stage that night. We’d get up and jam and just wipe everybody out.”

[“In God We Trust” is showing respect for a job well done] Yeah, right, the world’s such a better place since we’ve consolidated it to one god. If there was no god the world would be exactly the same unless you believe in myth. Oops, sorry, I forgot!

[Obama and Guns] The Obama "Birthas" (those that don't think he's an American) like to think he's trying to take away the second amendment right to bear arms. How come these extremist ignore the fact that Obama allowed guns in our National Parks? This is the first time that’s ever been allowed! I think it's a mistake, but how can the right wing say he’s against guns? Do they just make stuff up and misinterpret stuff he says to further their hate?

The Quarter Truth Guy scours the web looking for extreme examples to back up his extreme and selfish positions.

[Acevedo] I heard that Randy and Monique are going to go to a place much farther south of Key West and much hotter. I heard Randy is going to be a top administrator.

[Solution to Senior Health Care]  We have all now heard the idea that if you're a senior, you need to suck it up and just give up the idea that you need any health care. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. "Let's take care of the young people." After all, they will be ruling the world very soon. So, a friend of mine has come up with a solution.  1) When you turn 70, you get a gun and 6 bullets.  You are allowed to shoot 3 Senators and 3 Representatives.  2) You will be sent to prison where you will get: a. 3 meals a day. b. A roof over your head. c. All the health care you need.  New teeth, great. Need glasses, no problem. New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart—done.  And who will be paying for all of this? Why, the same government that just told you that you are too old for health care.  And, since you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income tax. I really think we have a perfect solution.

[The Flag] Good source for flag flying info. http://www.gettysburgflag.com/FlyFlagHalfMast.php

[Spends some pretty long bucks on devil weed] Pot isn’t expensive. A $150 ounce lasts me four months. You folks who nothing about pot are making the laws that send us to jail for it.

[Pot] The person who works as a counselor to drug abusers thinks anyone who supports legalizing and taxing marijuana is a drugged out loser. He thinks anyone who wants to empty our prisons of pot users and dealers is a junkie or something.

The majority of pot users are productive. You’ll never know who we are because of our silly pot laws. Pot is a harmless drug that gets you high. Every society has a drug that gets you high and every society has abusers.

[Healthcare] If the right wing guy is old enough to use Medicare then he's earned it. It's his own money finally coming back to him. This is a perfect example of how little people understand Obamacare. Everyone will be paying into it just like we’ have been paying into Medicare. There will be very little difference.

[What did Bush do to stop the flow of rafters from Cuba] Bush didn't even slow them down. There are less of them today because Castro has instituted stronger measures to stop them.

[God] Let’s clear a few things up for you Godless communists out there. First of all, many of us who consider ourselves religious resent the implication that we and we alone deal in fairy tales and sky wizards. That’s a sign of your ignorance and narrow mindedness, not ours. Meet the millions of us who got over the notion a long time ago that God only lives in the temple, the mosque, the church, the synagogue and the Bible. We of the “disorganized religions” are everywhere. Faith dares the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. I assume you have a soul, so even you atheists are capable of this thing we call faith. It seems to me that if you consider yourself an atheist, your conception of time and history goes something like this: In the beginning there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason whatsoever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. I call that the biggest fairy tale of them all. One that takes more faith than any religious person I’ve ever met has going for them. Clearly, anti-religious people are as bad as fundamentalists in their fashionable left wing absolutism. By all means, let me know if anything I say offends you, I may want to offend you again later.

[School Board] I was out of town last week and our hosts were fuming about their school board. We agreed that all school boards are messed up in all school districts. They are all filled with bubbas and phonies.

[Legalizing Marijuana] Let's consider the serious drug we're discussing. Give me a break. If anyone thinks pot is a serious drug they’re the ones with the problem. The writer must deal with addictive people who are screwed up to begin with. Such extreme statements could only come from a drug counselor or religious nut.

[Fat Cops, Armed forces too] I would say your post is a little over the top. You are talking about the finest fighting force on planet Earth. The world is laughing at us? Who exactly are the countries doing the laughing? Where did you get this little priceless piece of info? So many people are manufacturing facts to fit the twisted ideology of their mind.

[Turtle cam]  The person who says they were there as a good Samaritan and trying to help the turtle hatchlings may have had good intentions.  However, you had neither authority nor training for your attempted mission.  You had no permits to be there, whether good intentioned or not.  You showed up with unapproved flashlights which disorient whatever turtles were there. 

I do understand that it was an upsetting situation for you, but you need to take a step back with your anger and understand that nature runs its course, and this has been going on for 250 million years. If you want to become involved in these types of situations, there is always a call for volunteers. Please get some training and do it the right way.

[Legalize pot and tax it] Someone wrote that they can’t tax it because anyone can grow it; not like alcohol that has to be manufactured. Alcohol wasn’t always taxed and it wasn’t always legal. Alcohol used to be illegal just like pot is. That didn’t stop anyone from distilling it themselves—and some made pretty good stuff. Many made it in their bathtubs. people have been distilling liquor for hundreds of years and maybe longer. Your argument was ignorant.

(?)Thanks so much.  You are hilarious!  Hope this ad works!

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.  ~Thomas Paine

[Acevedo] I sure would hate to have a jury of my peers in Key West. The case against Acevedo was weak, not enough evidence presented to convict on any of the charges. The jury was not impartial and there was too much media coverage. He wouldn't have been convicted anywhere else with the evidence presented in court. Scary day for our justice system.

When talking about illegal aliens don't forget that the reason they come here is because too many of our amazingly fabulous entrepreneur businessmen, to whom we owe everything, have been hiring them like crazy in order to squeeze some more bucks out of the system.

[People smoke pot because it being against the law gives them a thrill] I've heard some funny arguments against pot, but that one is dumb.  Almost as foolish at the other poster who said it leads to harder drugs. Those are two very old fashioned ideas. That’s like saying beer leads to heroin use because all junkies have tried beer. Or all cigarettes lead to heroin because all junkies smoke cigarettes (which they do).

I've seen some of the most stupid arguments on legalizing pot on the CT than anywhere else. Do the Keys have the concession on stupid?

[Fishing License]  It's pretty sad when you have to have a license to fish off a bridge. That was food in our mouths with a little fun involved. I'll tell the kids what they have to look forward to.

[Caskets] When the flea market’s owner noticed Eggleston was selling caskets, he pulled the plug on the booth.

Eggleston was given $100 for his trouble, double what he paid for the two booths his casket display had occupied at the market.

[Fat Cop, I don't care what a cop looks like?]  It is nearly impossible to outrun either a  bullet  or the  radio. Next, there are very few fat soldiers, and those individuals are on a mandated weight program. The poster was right about the world laughing, but at him not America.

[Kennedy Bad] As soon as cancer was found we noticed the immediate attempt at the sainthood of old Teddy by the main stream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear and not twist the facts to change the real history.     He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to  women.  JERK is a better description than "great American".

Thinking the rat stoppers used on the mooring lines on the ships at the dock were unnecessary in Key West, I asked a dock hand why they have them on the lines. He said they were to stop the chickens.

[Boating Skills and Seamanship Classes.] Boating’s simple, keep your bow (the pointy end) into the wind and current, you'll have more control coming into the dock. But don't listen to me we'll still make fun of you as you bang into the fuel dock.

[Religion] I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.  ~Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

Smart car crushed between trucks; urban legend exposed. http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/smallcar.asp

[Construction Technologies Program] Habitat for Humanity of Key West and the Lower Florida Keys and Key West High School have joined forces to develop a Construction Technologies Program at KWHS and create a Habitat for Humanity Brush with Kindness program in Key West.  The High School will provide the teachers, curriculum and students. Habitat will provide tools, supplies and the community emergency repair projects on which the students will work in the coming year.

If someone from your organization would like to be present, we welcome you to contact Anna Symington, Program Service Coordinator for Habitat at 305.294.9006 before Tuesday, September 8^th. Bulletin Board

I spotted a new unmarked Sherriff’s vehicle out there. A white Ford Escape SUV was doing traffic stops on Big Pine Friday night.

[Jim Hendrick] Florida Keys Community College President Jill Landesberg-Boyle fired attorney Jim Hendrick. Hendrick has been providing his services free, as part of a felony sentence, handed down in February 2007 for conspiracy, witness-tampering and obstruction of justice.

Hendrick is the Grand Poobah of the bubba system in Key West, and the FKCC is one of the last vestiges of corruption left in our community.  College President Jill Landesberg-Boyle has been systematically cleaning up the corruption and the bubbas there are being driven out like rats scurrying off the ship.  Hendrick was quoted in the Key West Citizen, saying "I’ll look forward to returning to the campus when she is gone, or when the mood changes.”

Sounds like Jill Landesberg-Boyle has been fingered for removal by the bubbas before she can clean up the college and spoil all the fun.  Is it too early to talk about her replacement as President of the College?  Could former school superintendent Randy Acevedo be next in line for the job?  Stay tuned.

[Battery Logic] Obama said, “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

That seems to me to be an advocacy of stasis; when a system has achieved balance, or is static. That, my friends, in physics is the condition of a dead battery.

[From the Right] Don’t you love the freedom of the internet? Don’t you treasure having the ability to search for knowledge and to express yourself without interference from Big Brother? Don’t you love not having your thoughts ripped up or rejected by editors? Enjoy it while you can. I’ll bet you’ve never heard of Senate Bill of S.773, AKA the Rockefeller-Snowe Cyber security Bill. This proposed legislation gives the President the authority to seize control of private-sector networks during a so-called cyber-security emergency. The President would decide what constitutes a “cyber security emergency”. This bill is sponsored by a very liberal Democrat, Rockefeller, and a very liberal Republican, Olympia Snowe. This ultra liberal administration is not even a year old, yet they are setting records attempting to bulldoze freedom after freedom. The internet has become the single most effective means of mass communication in the history of man, and our powers for the moment seek to control it. What's next, freedom of the press, freedom of speech? The notion of this administration or any administration having the unbridled power to shut it down is scary beyond anything that Hollywood can conjure.

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Saturday August 29, 2009

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[Downstairs Enclosures] The County is taking Sandy Carter to court again for the third time. They’re trying to get her to remove her Center Street downstairs enclosure. Why is the County persecuting her when the judge ruled in her favor twice already? What is the County's agenda?

Fight Nite at Rob’s Island Grill. UFC 102 featuring Couture vs Nogueira, two seriously badasses! The kitchen is opened late too.

Quick Vote. Does the 2d amendment give individuals the right to bear arms? USATODAY.com - Quick Question

[Bikini Beach Party] Every Saturday until the Sun sets. Everyone gets in Free. All Drafts are just $2.00 All Day, Everyday & All Wines are $2.00 off by the Glass All Day, Everyday. The Best Deal at the Best Place.

Below is a photo of a wreck in Jefferson Parish, LA (near New Orleans ) between two trucks and a Smart Car.

Think I’ll pass on the Smart Car.

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

Boating Skills and Seamanship Classes

Two separate Boating Skills and Seamanship courses will be available to area boaters through the US Coast Guard Auxiliary Big Pine Flotilla 1303 at the Habitat For Humanity building, 30320 Overseas Hwy, Big Pine Key. 

The first course will run on Monday's and Wednesday's from October 26 - November 11 from 7 - 9:30 pm.  

The second course will be on Monday's and Wednesday's from November 30 through December 16, again running from 7 - 9:30 pm.

For more information call Don Kittsmiller -744-0043, email: don@floridacoins.com <mailto:don@floridacoins.com>

or visit our website at  HTTP://a0701303.uscgaux.info/

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary has expressed concern over statistics reporting a rise in recreational boating fatalities in a recently released publication of the 2008 boating safety statistics.

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard created by an Act of Congress in 1939. The Auxiliary, America's Volunteer Guardians, supports the Coast Guard in nearly all of the service's missions. Bulletin Board

"A sentencing hearing for Randy Acevedo is scheduled for Sept. 17.

"I'm not sure that he'll serve jail time," Ward said, adding that he will confer with Wilson before commenting further on whether the state would seek a harsh penalty."

Ok... now my questions is we as a county spend all this time and money to prosecute scum like Acevedo and now our state attorney is not sure he will do time? What kind of BULLSHIT is that. You or I would be spending time in jail for shoplifting a $6.49 bottle of wine.  And if the driver of a bank heist claimed he didn't know they were robbing the bank, would he get off without doing time? Absolutely not!  Randy Acevedo took our trust, our money and with the way he dealt out his punitive measures against those who opposed his thievery he deserves, at the very least, jail time.
 

What kind of message does this statement send to county residents who have paid and continue to pay for the Acevedo corruption. Just because they are Bubba's friends and are themselves has-been Bubba's does not mean they don't do jail time. Acevedo is a common con-man criminal. If you can't do the crime don't do the time. Send his big fat ass to jail. The state had better be seeking a harsh penalty because we county residents have a harsh reality to face paying for all this. If Acevedo doesn't do jail time then Ward and Wilson are not doing their JOB!
 

Karma is a bitch Randy, I guess you now get to reap what you sowed!
 

The Florida Department of Corrections is doing the pre-sentence investigation - call them and have your voices heard 292-6742 Tell them Randy needs to go to JAIL.
 

Randy also needs to be investigated for his campaign finance fraud.

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[Loggerhead Turtle Cam] Last night my family happened to be watching the live feed of a turtle nest on Big Pine. There were around 10 hatchlings in the nest when, on camera, a raccoon came to feast on the babies at around 8:45pm. I called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; they said they would look into it. I then called The Turtle Hospital, who was very concerned. Since I live close by and had a good idea where the nest was I drove down Long Beach Rd, at which time the Turtle Hospital called and gave me a general Idea where to find the nest so I could keep the raccoons away until they could get someone there to watch it. I was met by a vet who was called out but he had to leave so I agreed to watch over it. Then a FWC officer showed up. Apparently she watches the house for the owner, she told us that the turtles being eaten were part of "the circle of life". I asked her if they were endangered, she said no (she needs to tell NOAA and other sources as they still list them as endangered). She wanted to know if we were going to stay, I said we would stay as long as needed. She then talked to the property owner on the phone. There seemed to be concern over us being there. So we asked if she was going to stay and the officer said she could not tell us that information. At that point I felt that our good efforts to help the turtles were unappreciated and unwanted.

Hopefully the turtles that do make it will return to a beach further up the road where peoples’ efforts to help them might be appreciated. Kudos to the Turtle Hospital and the Veterinarian "D" . To the other people involved I hope you don't ever need help in "the Circle of Life".  http://bigpinekey.com/Pages/webcams.htm

[Church and State] You being an atheist, I am willing to bet that your life is already sour. You may have gone through divorce, one of your children not turn out right, or maybe you just aren't happy with life. You may be punished already for your atheist beliefs. God doesn't need the support of our government, but 86% of us that believe in God do! The additional cost is zero. I am looking forward to judgment day. What are you looking forward to?

[Reduced Hours] I understand that our local grocery store has more ''student'' workers from other countries coming to help out again.  It's kind of funny that they are cutting their employees’ hours not just overtime hours. The hours they need to live and survive here.  Full time employees are not allowed to work more than 35 hours a week and some part time employees are not getting any hours. If business is slow that is a way for the store to get by, but how do the employees pay their bills and eat? They need to give the local workers the hours. I buy as little as possible from either of the two chain stores. Mostly because of how they treat people.

[Tax Pot] Keep it illegal. If you legalize and tax it, it will cost more. I like my cheap pot! President George Washington said "Sow it everywhere." They made it illegal because of Mexican immigrants smoking the dope. It was a law devised against Mexicans. All of our drug laws are racist laws. We outlawed cocaine because it made black men rape white women and we made opium illegal because of the Chinese.

Pot smokers are some of the most successful people I know. They are doctors, lawyers, business owners, teachers and vets. It's not the drugs, it’s the person. The drug only corrupts those that are already corrupt. If you look at those on crack they would still be f***ed up if they were not on crack. Because they are just f***ed up individuals to start. Why do you think they tried crack to begin with? They were f***ed before they used it. They may have just been able to hide it better. Addicts are those trying to escape or hide from something. Talk to an addict and chances are they have a story to tell. I don't blame the addict; I blame parents and inept social workers at the DCS(?).

Medicare is okay because those who oppose change know that trying to get rid of existing socialized health care in this country-- Medicare, Medicaid and the VA, would lose any remaining support they have. So we now get to hear from people who oppose a national health care plan who at the same time support Medicare and the VA while saying government-run programs don't work.

That is called cognitive dissonance in grown-up talk, and it means you are trying to hold two opposing thoughts in your brain at the same time. Which is what is making you crazy and making me weep tears of frustration. I'd like to have the opportunity to choose Medicare if I want it. I've paid into the system for years, but so far I'm not old enough to join. I would give up my employer provided private insurance in a heart beat. But you do-nothing opponents of everything won't let me. Boo hiss.

[Employer pay most of our insurance] That's a benefit that may be on it's way out anyway.  It was started when there was a shortage of workers and additional bait was needed to get employees.  That's obviously not the case these days and it has been abused to the point of helping destroy big companies like GM. 

[Can anyone introduce God to us]  Be careful what you ask for.  There are missionaries everywhere!

[Changes I am still waiting for] That's a problem.  Everybody seems to think he promised exactly what they wanted; they heard what they wanted to hear. I remember waiting to find out exactly what changes he had in mind and not hearing specifics.  Some of his proposed changes have turned out to be exactly what some people wanted, but a lot of others have been quite a jolt. 

[Color] I don't care about the color of our president's skin.  It's the color of his ideas that is bothering me--Red!

[Church and State] You, off my planet!

[Rocky Mountain High] In 1974 I was in the US Army being transferred from Fort Campbell, KY (what a hole that place was) to Fort Carson, Colorado. I was just a PFC, 24, married, hardly any money, but god what a fantastic place Colorado Springs was.

Now here is the real deal, back in Kentucky we were paying about 35 dollars for an ounce of pot, but still had to split it four ways with my army buddies in order to afford it. On our first pot search we were told to go a big city park next to Manitou Springs. No problem there, people were selling pot all over the place. Not knowing what the cost of an ounce was, the first person we asked said that the only thing they had was Mexican pot and that the only thing anybody had was Mexican pot at 15 dollars an ounce.  Life was good that day, but I still could only afford a half an ounce, which was better then splitting it 4 ways. I will never forget the transaction. The guy had on bell bottom jeans. On his right leg when he lifted up his pants were ounces of pot all the way up his leg secured with rubber bands. On his left leg was the same, but only half ounces. We did the deal and my wife and I trotted off to Manitou Springs like we were on the yellow brick road. We smoked a big Mexican joint and went to a little bar called the Townhouse. They had Coors beer for 75 cents a pitcher during happy hour and life really got good that day. There is no moral to this story. I never became a born again person, I'm still smoking the herb. The only thing I really wish that I could find is a bar with 75 cent pitchers.  

[People against Obamacare are those that don’t pay for health insurance] If only we could find out if this is true. It does make sense.

[God is Great] Who ever said anything about God needing our support? What conceit! If you wanted to support God, what would you do? Create some new stars? How about putting a moon around the planet Venus? You do not rise to the level of maggot droppings in the scheme of the universe. Maybe “In God We Trust” is just showing a little respect for a job well done.

[No more dry foot policy] Hear, hear and amen!  Now all we have to do is get the 1976 (?) Cuban Reparations Act repealed or nullified.  But that will never happen because currently we've got an illegal-loving President and a PAC money-dependent Congress.

It's always about money in the end. 

Creations by a gifted and patient artist. His creations are all out of paper. Slide Show

War is not nice. ~Barbara Bush

[More bar wisdom] My math teacher staples Burger King applications to failed tests.

[Cash for Codgers] Democrats, touting the big success of the President's "Cash For Clunkers" rebate program, have revamped a major portion of the Obama Nationalized Health Care Plan.

President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Sen. Reid are expected to make a major announcement at a joint news conference later this week. The new program will be called Cash for Codgers and will work as follows:

Couples wishing to access nationalized health care funds in order to pay for the delivery of a child will be required to turn in one old person on the day of delivery. The amount the government grants them will be fixed according to a sliding scale. The older and more medically/prescription dependent codgers will be granted the highest amounts for trade-in value.

Special bonuses will be paid for those submitting codgers in targeted groups, such as smokers, wine with dinner drinkers, those who eat fried food including potato chips and persons 10 pounds over their nationalized health care prescribed weight limit and any member of the Republican Party. Smaller bonuses will be given for codgers who consume red meat, soft drinks, lattes, milk, whole curd cottage cheese, eggs, bacon, brussel sprouts or Girl Scout Cookies.

All codgers will be rendered totally useless via an injection, similar to that given to the engines of the 'clunker' trade-ins. This will insure that they like the vehicle 'clunkers' are not secretly resold (traded in) or their body parts harvested to keep other codgers in repair and among society.

A White House spokesperson said that the proposed program will save as much as ten billion dollars over ten years that will then be used to expand the welfare benefits for the chronically un-employed and newly arriving illegal aliens.  A portion of the savings (to be called the "B-Ball for Health" program) would also be set aside to fund additional basketball hoops in blighted urban areas.

[Pot leads to drugs] Maybe but doubtful. But believing every thing Rush Limbaugh says will lead to being a narrow minded A-hole.

[Fat Cop] Am I the only one who doesn't care what a cop looks like?  As long as he does his job, I don't care if he's skinny or fat.  When people obsess over such things, It really shows their true nature.

[Political Correctness] I believe the first victim of political correctness is meaningful dialogue and its companion, understanding and after that the exercise of free speech. Political correctness is dangerous because it substitutes a 'goal', either by the group or the government in place of a 'right'. When there is truly free speech there is no rule for what is appropriate or not appropriate, i.e. it is not goal directed (of course free speech is limited , you don’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater unless there is a fire.)

[Mile High Club] Some of us are mariners. How do we start a Mile Below Club? It is more fun down under! There is stuff to plunder. Could we call it a Sub Club?

[People against Obamacare are those that don’t pay for health insurance] The only people who are against BO's Healthcare are the people with brains enough to realize this is a charity drive for the inept trash that don't work for a living.

Budweiser is tasting like crap lately since they sold out to the Euros.

[Teaching men to properly wash their thing]  I put sun screen on it on a beach in France once and got arrested. It wasn't a nude beach!

[Lifetime Event] Yesterday was August 27, the date annually predicted as an event "no human will ever see again"!  Please take note of the night sky, so the next time the email comes around you'll know it's just that somebody hasn't gotten the word.  Mars will be up there in roughly the same size/position as it regularly shows up, not as an extra moon keeping us all awake with its glare. NASA - The Mars Hoax Goes Viral

[Remember] On Friday, September 11th, 2009, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office, and store in the United States. Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on this eighth anniversary of one of our country's worst tragedies. We do this to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, friends and loved ones who continue to endure the pain, and those who today are fighting at home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.

In the days, weeks and months following 9/11, our country was bathed in American flags as citizens mourned the incredible losses and stood shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism. Sadly, those flags have all but disappeared. Our patriotism pulled us through some tough times and it shouldn't take another attack to galvanize us in solidarity. Our American flag is the fabric of our country and together we can prevail over terrorism of all kinds.

[Old Men] Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

Photo by Rick

”I’ll take Tools for 200.” Video

[Healthcare Bad] Man collapses with ruptured appendix... three weeks after NationalHealthService doctors 'took it out' | Mail Online

Forgotten Felines of the Florida Keys will host its summer gathering on Monday, August 31 beginning at 6 p.m. at Martin Luther Chapel in Marathon (122nd Street Gulf behind NAPA). All animal lovers are invited to attend.  You are welcome to share a hurricane story involving your pet. There will be free raffle prizes, food, and refreshments.  
For more information, please call Sally at 896-0932, otherwise we hope to see you there.  Bulletin Board

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~John Adams

[Sound-proof] The FAA is going to sound proof homes. Anyone with half a brain knows nothing can be sound proofed, and the only way to totally block noise is to either stop it at the source or deafen the people. The latter is cheaper though!

I am the stoner construction worker that posted the other day. I rarely drink and almost never pay for pot (true stoners are self-sufficient). My little rant was only helping me vent my anger toward a flawed system. The fact is hard drug users get covered for accidents through workman’s compensation and pot smokers don't. I'll bet you have no idea how much workman’s comp costs. It’s over fifty percent in the construction industry. Don’t complain about the high costs of construction when you need something done at your house. Lucky for me I am young and have been healthy and safe. I usually work for myself and at times I have worked for local contractors. I have never been offered health coverage at any time in my life. And right now I have no money due to the lack of work in my circles and the economy, not because I am lazy.. Most people have never worked in the scorching sun all day and it seems like you may never know the satisfaction I feel lighting up a joint after an honest hard days work. People need stoners like me to build your house and fix your cars.

Not everyone’s got it. Video

[Change the Constitution] The Obama administration is trying to change the Constitution that we all know and respect.  It has nothing to do with race. Race is just an excuse that the liberals use.  No one said anything about race. I don't care if the President of the US is black, white, purple or red. He should not try and change the greatest country in the world. After all, isn't that why everyone comes here for everything including healthcare. Health care reform will cost money and put us in trillions more debt which we do not need.  Wake up America. Use your heads wisely before your children and their children pay for this so called reform.

[Sermons] Click on this link if you want to hear some really great and relevant sermons from a minister on Hilton Head that grew up in the foothills of Kentucky.  His name is Pastor Carr, and his sermons make great late night listening.  http://centralchurchhhi.com/message-library.php

[Separation of Church and State] It’s such a simple and beautiful concept and yet, American’s can’t understand it.

If you wake up looking like this, don't go to work.

[Medicare] I’m a little confused by a poster saying that the people on Medicare deserve it because they earned it. He then went on to say that he has to wait until he’s older to get it. That’s why people paying taxes into it now should be able to get it now. You should support national healthcare because then you won’t have to wait to get the return on what you have invested in the system. A national healthcare plan gives working people a return they can use now and frees up money they can use for food, shelter and clothing which helps the economy. A national healthcare plan lets Americans catch up with other industrialized democratic nations.

[He's Still Black] Obama Bashers. In reference to your stubborn comment about the race card and not considering another black candidate, maybe I was making reference to something like this Obama poster entitled “An Accurate Description” which was posted last week.

Fresh off the weird wild web. Uterus Recall « I Heart Guts

[RC Super Flier] It’s hard to believe it's real, but it is not trick photo. Video was taken at competition. How is it done? Is there only one motor? Does it reverse instantly or something? Video

Nessie’s back! Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth | The Sun |News

[The Great Acid Rain Threat] Studies have confirmed that acid rain is a combination of both nitric acid and sulfuric acid and have been in our atmosphere for millennia.  In combination they have about the same ph (acidity level) as tomato juice. 

Protector of the planet, Al Gore, alerted President Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the ever diligent Harry Reid of this horrendous threat to our fragile environment. 

In an emergency session, they quickly crafted a bill to expend $40 billion dollars to pay farmers to limit tomato production calling it the Tomato Abatement Act. 

To fund this most important legislation, a surcharge will be imposed on all meals containing tomatoes and increased taxes will be levied on Italian food, (Chicken Alfredo will be exempted). 

A Washington spokesperson is quoted as saying, “We cannot let this global threat go unchallenged.  We must now stand behind our leaders and fight this disastrous assault on our environment.  People will just have to learn to dip their grilled cheese sandwiches in something besides tomato soup.  We all have to make the sacrifice for the good of the planet."

[From the Right] A Brit web news outlet had the following headline Thursday morning “'Cruel and neglectful' care of one million NHS patients exposed”. The article speaks of one million NHS patients who have suffered appalling health care at the hand of Britain’s Socialized Medicine health care delivery agency, the National Health Service. The article chronicles hundreds of deaths due to “failures in urgent care” in one locale alone. The report disclosed a horrifying catalogue of elderly people left in pain, in soiled bed clothes, denied adequate food and drink, and suffering from repeatedly cancelled operations, missed diagnoses and dismissive staff. Deer Friends, this is the model that Mr. Obama and his band of Merry Men want to impose on your loved ones.  This article is not published by Republicans or by enemies of Obama, it’s written for Brits by Brits, in a Brit publication. This is only one report, there have been scores of reports concerning the problems with the Canadian and British system. Socialized medicine bites—you!

(Part II) A poster says that he’s for any plan for health care reform. Then he says that the Republican’s refused to pass any reform measures. First it’s crystal clear that in excess of 80% of us have health coverage and more than 80% of insured people are very satisfied with their care and coverage. Even so the poster wants to strip most Americans, and all of us who are satisfied of our care so that he/she can get what he/she thinks will be cheap insurance.  He makes no suggestions to cut costs, he only wants to adopt whatever is Democrat. He’s jealous of recipients of Medicare and VA care; he wants to raise everybody’s taxes to scratch his personal itch. The Dem plan will be vastly more costly that the existing system, it will put our nation in bankruptcy. Plus Socialized Medicine will guarantee that the quality of care will go in the toilet. Look what’s going on in Britain and Canada. Second, the dude is ignoring history. There were repeated attempts at reform during the Bush admin, like the “Common Sense Medical Malpractice Reform Act of 2003”.  This Republican bill and other Republican sponsored reform legislation were killed by Democrat opposition. On Jan. 31st, 2005 the LA Times reported that Republican " Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly Underway". We all know what happened with the onset of the Democrat controlled Congress.  If the Democrat leadership were to champion Medical Malpractice reform, or legislation to permit nationwide sale of health care insurance, or tax breaks for employers who provide health care insurance for employees, or tax breaks for people who buy their own health insurance, or medical savings accounts,  or tax breaks for institutions or practitioners who digitize their records, or establish a nationwide digital protocol, then they would get Republican support. How about the administration demanding balls to the wall enforcement of the existing fraud laws for Medicare? They would get the support of this Right Winger.  But the Dem program is not about health care, it’s all about control, power, and socializing our society. Don’t fall for it, support measures that will preserve our quality care and bring down costs.

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Wednesday August 26, 2009

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.  ~ Senator Edward Kennedy

How many fundraisers have you attended this past year on Big Pine Key because the sufferer didn’t have health insurance? Don't you think it's time for health care reform?  I do.

[Concrete Barrier] How many times have you wondered how strong those cement barriers are that you see in front of military base entrances. The barriers will stop traffic, even trucks, from approaching the secure building.
Statistics: Truck = 65,000 lbs. Speed = 50 mph. Kinetic Energy = 5.5 million ft. lbs. Stopped in 24 inches! Video

[Selective Enforcement]  I have a drug dealer on my block. We all know him and so does the community. He’s been dealing coke for years.  He is a convicted felon living with a convicted felon.  He has been having a war with his neighbor, but not over drugs. When the neighbor calls the cops, the same cop comes and goes to the drug dealer’s home and talks with him first, then to the person’s home who called the officers of the law.  The citizen never gets a case number, nothing is done about his behavior.  The officer supposedly implied to the complainer that they should just let him go inside and smoke his pipe. 

Neighbor number 3 has been mentioned in this column a few times.  He may even be the person that clubbed the peacock to death a while back that someone posted about.  They asked in that post, why is this person allowed to exist without interference from the law? I am now asking the same question again.  If the community knows about these dirt bags and the sheriff’s officers don’t, they are not doing their job.  It’s time to take them down.  No more pot busts until these people are removed from society.  I will let the community know if I get harassed or followed; it will be interesting to see what happens. 

[Marathon High School burglarized] The Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary at Marathon High School. Thousands of dollars worth of digital video and camera equipment were stolen between Sunday late afternoon and Monday morning. Suspects smashed the small hurricane safety glass windows in the doors of two classrooms. They appear to have then reached inside and opened the doors to gain access to the classrooms. Once inside, they took a computer, several video cameras, a video mixing board, numerous digital cameras and other equipment. Total value of the stolen equipment is approximately $10,000.

Anyone with information about this crime should contact the Sheriff's Office. Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers of the Florida Keys. If a Crimestoppers tip leads to an arrest, the caller would be eligible for a cash reward. The Crimestoppers hot line number is 1-800-346-TIPS. Tips may be made anonymously on line at www.tipsubmit.com

It's hard to believe the new multi-million dollar school isn't alarmed.

Money is power and I do not give mine away.  Before you dig deep, ask yourself if they would do the same for you; probably not.  After winning the lotto, I gave to my favorite charity, my family--not yours.    

[Workman's Compensation] The anti pot poster cracks me up. Say what you will about potheads. The real problem is the insurance companies. I get really burned when the law states almost everyone in construction trades be covered by workman’s’ compensation insurance. Then they turn around and won't cover anyone who has pot in their system. So the bottom line is, you can get drunk, go on a crack binge, snort coke for days on end, not sleep for days, and three days later when you’re so tired you have an accident you’re covered because those drugs are gone from your system. If I smoke one joint and three weeks later some crackhead shoots me with a nail gun, guess what? No coverage! This logic is insane at best. If you have ever hired a construction crew for a job, you can bet many of them smoke pot. I know of very few construction workers that don't smoke weed. Until they come up with a test that can prove you were high during the accident, pot will never be legal. So I do what any red-blooded American would do. I smoke weed and I refuse to pay workman’s’ comp. Chances are if you had a good construction crew work at your house in the lower Keys in the last ten years, I was there, and we were all stoned.

[79 Virgins] Since singer Susan Boyle has been on TV there's been a marked drop in suicide bombing.  Apparently, a lot of the terrorists didn't realize what a virgin looks like.

Some restaurant owners are not gracious in any way.  I wonder why they chose that business when they are not friendly to every single person. 

[Drugs] Government should treat drugs the same as they do alcohol.  It’ll save a lot of tax money that everyone is suddenly all worried about.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.  ~Ronald Reagan

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

[Outsourcing to India] Congress today announced that the office of President of the United States of America will be outsourced to India as of September 1, 2009. The move is being made in order to save the President's $500,000 yearly salary and also a record $750 billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead that his office has incurred during the last 3 months. It is anticipated that $7 trillion can be saved to the end of the President's term. "We believe this is a wise financial move. The cost savings are huge," stated Congressman Thomas Reynolds (R-WA). "We cannot remain competitive on the world stage with the current level of cash outlay," Reynolds noted.

Mr. Obama was informed by email this morning of his termination. Preparations for the job move have been underway for some time.

Gurvinder Singh, a tele-technician for Indus Teleservices, Mumbai, India will assume the office of President as of September 1, 2009. Mr. Singh was born in the United States while his Indian parents were vacationing at Niagara Falls, NY. Thus making him eligible for the position. He will receive a salary of $320 (USD) a month, but no health coverage or other benefits.

It is believed that Mr. Singh will be able to handle his job responsibilities without a support staff. Due to the time difference between the US and India, he will be working primarily at night. "Working nights will allow me to keep my day job at the Computer Customer Support call center," stated Mr. Singh in an exclusive interview.

I am excited about this position. I always hoped I would be President." A Congressional spokesperson noted that while Mr. Singh may not be fully aware of all the issues involved in the office of President, this should not be a problem as President Obama had never been familiar with the issues either.

Mr. Singh will rely upon a talking script tree that will enable him to respond effectively to most topics of concern.  Using these canned responses, he can address common concerns without having to understand the underlying issue at all.

"We know these scripting tools work," stated the spokesperson. "President Obama has used them successfully for years, with the result that some people actually thought he knew what he was talking about."

Obama will receive health coverage, expenses, and salary until his final day of employment. Following a two-week waiting period, he will be eligible for $140 a week unemployment for 26 weeks. Unfortunately he will not be eligible for Medicaid, as his unemployment benefits will exceed the allowed limit.

Mr. Obama has been provided with the outplacement services of Manpower, Inc. to help him write a resume and prepare for his upcoming job transition. According to Manpower, Mr. Obama may have difficulties in securing a new position due to a lack of any successful work experience during his lifetime. A greeter position at Wal-Mart was suggested due to Obama's extensive experience at shaking hands, as well as his special smile.

[Word of God] Do you believe that the word God should stay in American culture? NBC had a poll on this question. They had the highest number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls. 86% to voted to keep the words, In God We Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Only 14% were against it.

[Classified Ads on Bigpinekey.com] I'd like to chime in with the endorsement that the classifieds are out of date, unattended and insufficient.  If the poster can't maintain it, then hire someone (God knows there are enough people to choose from because so many of us are out of work) to keep up and preserve it.  How out-moded and antiquated the classifieds are here on this site.  The listings are obsolete.  (Ed: Which ones? Ads left posted are still available. They are posted for 3 months for free. Do you want your money back?)

Terrible landing. Free puke bags to go! Video

[Instead of Bailouts] Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan.

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations. 1. They must retire which would equal 40 million job openings--unemployment fixed.  2. They buy a new American car which would equal forty million cars ordered--auto industry fixed.  3. They must either buy a house or pay off their mortgage--housing crisis fixed. 

It can't get any easier than that. If more money is needed have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes!

[Snip snip] Now we hear the Obama Death Plan will require circumcision. When are you morons going to stop paying attention to stupid internet rumors? You must be the same people who don't understand Medicare is a government program.

[Big Government] The Federal, State and local governments are all too big, top heavy and bloated. What’s bad is the federal government wants to run our health care. Is this the "Change you can believe in"?  If nothing changes, nothing changes. Government has never done a good job running a business. We need health care reform. This is not it.

The Jesus and Virgin Mary World Tour latest play dates:
Las Vegas, August (Jesus on a sticker on woman's toilet lid)
Bryan, Texas, July (Mary on a bird dropping on the side mirror of a pickup truck)
Ravena, N.Y., June (Jesus in a coffee stain on a mason jar)
Dallas, May (Jesus-shaped piece in a bag of Cheetos)
Harlingen, Texas, May (Mary's image on a dry-cleaning company's press)
Calexico, Calif., April (Mary on the griddle of the Las Palmas restaurant)
New Gloucester, Maine (Jesus on the neck of a guitar)
Sudbury, Ontario, April (Jesus on a maple leaf being raked)
Netherlands, April (Jesus on a Kit Kat bar).

Only the news report of the Bryan, Texas, bird dropping sighting indicated that pilgrims were actually visiting the site to pray over the crap.

Federal government stimulus checks are being sent to prisoners.

[My Space]  What people do with their bodies, their minds, their property and their time on this rock is up to them. Keep your damn busybody noses out of my butt, my business and my space.

Yesterday’s right wing post was some funny stuff. Hell, let’s all just make stuff up and try and pass it on as fact. I think I will try it for the rest of this week.

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh on his show stated that during his 6 years in the military he was stationed on the Russian border and would listen to American hippies communicating with the Commies every night when he was on patrol. Then he said if Obama wants us to think about our penises he’s going out and asking the same guy whose prescriptions he was caught with to get more Viagra. Honest, he really said that. I’m not starting my lies until tomorrow.

[Obama Bad] The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. Today is the President’s fourth straight day with an Approval Index rating in negative double digits (see trends).

Obama lied and America is now starting to really distrust him. We hoped for change but we make a mistake. My family regrets voting for him.

[Burger King Crown at McDonald’s] And I thought I had no life!

Comatose veteran recovers with General Petreus’ encouragement. Video

Christians verses Muslims about peace and tolerance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPod-hxD7g&eurl=http://www.jihadwatch.org/&feature=player_embedded

[Foreskins cause AIDS] Rather than cut of a part of the body (a rather drastic, primitive and un-natural measure) how about teaching men how to properly wash their thing?

[Socialized Medicine] Howard Dean was at a Town Hall meeting where the audience was hysterical and shouting about socialized medicine. Dean out-shouted them and yelled, “Raise you hands. All of you who want get rid of Medicare raise your hands!” There was absolute silence. He made them think of their hypocrisy, but it didn't do any good.

[Pot Leads To Heroine] Legalize marijuana and tax the hell out of it. It’s alcohol we should be crusading against.

[Job Police] Hiring a non-local for a job that a local can do and wants to do should be illegal.

Randy Acevedo is charged with official misconduct in connection with an allegedly falsified document he submitted to finance officials justifying his wife's purchase of a satellite radio subscription with district funds. The charges against Randy Acevedo are based on a letter on Monroe Association of ReMARCable Citizens letterhead that says an XM Satellite Radio subscription was purchased by Monique Acevedo so MARC House residents would remain calm during trips between Key West and Marathon.  MARC officials deny writing the letter.

MARC is a nonprofit organization that teaches life skills to developmentally challenged children and adults

Signs that she might be experiencing menopause. A survival guide for men.

You can sell your home heating system at a yard sale. (Hot flashes)
You joke that she can heat the family room this winter. Rather than saying, “You’re not funny!,” she stabs you in the eye with her cuticle scissors. (Mood swings)
You have to sleep in a wet bed. (Night sweats)
She writes post-it notes with your kid's names on them. (Memory loss)
You cheerfully announce "Hi honey, I'm home." and she replies, "Well, if it isn't Ozzie f**king Nelson". (Irritability)
A valium dose that could drop a moose gives her one hour of rest. (Sleeplessness)
She has gravy in her hair after dinner. (Fatigue)
She changes underwear after every sneeze. (Incontinence)
She needs the Jaws of Life to help her out of the car after returning home from a brunch buffet. (Weight gain)
She goes to Jiffy Lube for service. (Dryness)
She takes a sudden interest in Ultimate Cage Fighting and Wrestlemania. (Female hormone deficiency)
She’s on so much estrogen that she makes daily trips to see the Chippendale dancers. (Hormone replacement therapy)

[Obama Bad] Where does the poster that says Obama has a + 12 approval and doing well get his or her info? Link to current Gallop Poll. http://www.gallup.com/poll/122468/Obama-Weekly-Approval-Average-New-Low.aspx

State Representative Ron Saunders has been appointed by Speaker Larry Cretul to serve on the Appropriations Council, the Legislative Budget Commission, the Rules & Calendar Council, and the Government Accountability Act Council for the Florida House of Representatives.

Representative Saunders is also one of six members of the Florida House of Representatives appointed by House Speaker Larry Cretul to serve on the Legislative Budget Commission.  The Commission is a joint committee of the Legislature comprised of Representatives and Senators and has the power to review state agency spending plans and approve or disapprove agency requests to amend approved budgets. 

Notebook Cooler. Is your aptop burning your lap? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1879782&sku=M501-1192&SRCCODE=WEM2009DO&cm_mmc=Email-_-Main-_-WEM2009-_-laptop

You Obama bashers don’t like him because he is black.  Don’t forget about this guy; this wild and crazy guy!

[McDonald's manager offered me a free chocolate sundae if I threw away the Burger King crown.]  I foresee a run on Burger King crowns.

[Parking] Why do some people park their vehicles on other peoples’ property?  Just because the owner is away does not give you the right to encroach.  You need to stay on your own little quarter acre you white trash hillbilly.

[Air Safety] Once again the lowest bidder wins. Yes this is the vertical surface on an airliner wing know as a winglet.

Oops! Video

[Driving Test] I was wondering if any of you good people out there know where a person can take the driving part of the CDL driving test in the Keys?

[Pot leads to drugs] If I wanted to join that silly argument I’d say cigarettes lead to hard drugs. Have you ever seen a junkie that doesn’t smoke cigarettes? I didn’t think so.

[From the Right] I really wish that I could find something good to say about Mr. Obama. I really wish that I could like and respect our great nation’s current leader. I would like to be filled with pride for our leader whose story is text book. But I can’t. The announcement that the Obama administration is getting ready to hack to death our nation’s primary gatherer of foreign intelligence is absolutely stunning and insane from any rational perspective. It truly beggars belief. It's a crystal clear political move to burnish his creds with his ultra left wing supporters.  It’s apparent that Mr. Obama is setting the scene for America suffering a crushing defeat in Pakistan and Afghanistan. So be it, but why jeopardize our homeland? Does any reader of this site have any doubt that we are still the targets of Muslim fundamentalist terrorists? Nonetheless Obama and crew are preparing to disembowel those folks who are charged with intel gathering and covert ops against these enemies. It’s mind blowing, but Obama has stripped the CIA of the responsibility of interrogation of these animals. It’s the CIA that has the broad fund of intel and world wide contacts. The FBI is a rookie new comer in this arena. Think about this: Eric Holder, our Attorney General, intends to deal with these murderous fighters as if they were common street criminals. Indeed, Eric Holders law firm (Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis)  has been one of the primary providers of pro bono (free) legal representation of the terrorists currently in GITMO. Remember too, that Holder was the broker for securing a Bill Clinton pardon in Clinton’s last moments as President for Marc Rich, mega thief, swindler, and $48 million dollar tax evader. Oh Yes, Rich did then contribute millions to Clintons library. Quid Pro Quo! Obama told us that he would not seek retribution against the nasty harsh interrogators of the CIA who developed the info that resulted in breaking several plots and arrests of AQI management. Thousands of American lives were likely saved. Obama lied again. Perhaps I’m being too harsh; perhaps he’s only doing this to divert attention from the debacle that his Socialized medicine scheme has become. That’s a tragic Hobson’s choice.

(Part II) You folks do yourself and Mr. Obama no favors when you post blatant falsehoods like yesterdays poster who falsely claimed that Mr. Obama had a +12 approval rating according to Gallup. The poster  then congratulated Obama! Geesh!  Knowingly posting falsehoods only makes your future postings unworthy of belief, just like Mr. Obama’s falsehoods, changing positions, and reneging on campaign promises has rendered him unworthy of belief. Gallup’s August 24 headline was: “Obama Weekly Approval Average now 52%, a New Low”. Gallup also said that his support is down in most political and demographic groups. His approval rate was 59% just a month ago. His approval has fallen below 50% in several demographics. Mr. Obama has tripped over the edge of the cliff.

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Tuesday August 25, 2009

[Instant Karma] As I get older and crankier I sometimes forget the important lesions I’ve learned. One happened this weekend when I was visiting up in America. We were on the beach watching the surf generated by hurricane Bill and my host wanted us to go a few blocks away to see her daughter’s new twins. I don’t have any use for kids so I said I didn’t want to go and would mind the chairs and stuff on the beach while they were gone. Dirty looks were all directed my way, but they knew better than to argue. They left and said they’d be back shortly. I thought I should have gone with them as my friend really wanted me to see her grandchildren and her daughter had asked her mother to bring me by.

I don’t believe in anything, can’t say I ever have, but I do believe in karma. I figure it this way. If you’re attuned, a little thing like a rain drop at the right time will get your attention. If you’re not attuned it might take a whole flood or disaster to get your attention. Luckily for me all it took was a rain drop for me to remember to do the right thing.

[Healthcare] As time goes by, more and more people are actually reading the 1,100 page Obama health care plan. Or at least sections of it. The entire bill is available online. It is becoming more and more apparent that in many instances, what the bill actually says is not what President Obama says it says during his Town Hall meetings. Time is not on Barack's side. As more and more people actually read the bill, these discrepancies will become more and more well known. Eternal vigilance by the American people is required in many areas.

[Hire Locally] I have a great idea. If you work for the Village of Islamorada, you must be a resident of the village. If you work for the City of Marathon, you must be a resident of Marathon. If you work for the County, you must live in the county.

The Village Manager lives near to me and he owns a home, but he is never there. So there are ways to get around it. Own property here, make money living here, but reside elsewhere. I would love to have a job, but all of these people who come down here from out of County take them all up here. Can you believe that Cheeca Lodge or Holliday Isle will hire my Haitian brethren from Homestead, but won’t give a local guy a job to take care of his family? This is unlike any place on earth, that’s for sure.

[Acevedo] If there’s any plea bargaining in their cases I’m going to raise hell. I want my pound of flesh!

[Legalizing Marijuana] This seems to be the entire raison d’etre of 60-year olds with gray hair and pony tails, or lethargic schoolboys who hope to make assistant night manager at Jack In The Box their life’s work.

But let's consider the serious drug we're discussing. What puts the devil in the "demon weed”? Mostly THC, which stands for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, a complex substance containing more than four hundred known chemicals, subsequently broken down by the body into another two thousand, most of them unstudied. What we do know indicates that THC's by-products are like Krazy Glue in the user's brain. It takes a month for the body to eliminate just the known chemicals left by one joint; if a chronic user quits, it takes at least three months. What long-term mischief THC may cause is still anybody's guess, but tests on rhesus monkeys (using the monkey equivalent of two to three joints per day) have shown significant brain-cell damage.

And at the risk of repeating myself (I’m sure the doobie brothers won’t even notice), I suggest you spend some time where I volunteer on weekends; at various residential drug rehab centers. Guess what? The programs are full of pot heads who thought they could stop anytime and couldn’t even though it meant loss of a job, loss of family, loss of respect and loss of their bank account.  Even the crack heads have stopped laughing at the pot heads, it’s that serious.

Gallup polling has President Obama at a plus12 rating. The average American is appreciating the work he’s doing for the everyday working class. Good job Mr. President.

[Libya] If you don’t think Gaddafi played Bush like a fiddle you’d better cut back on the meds.The same way Putin played Bush. In fact I remember Bush telling us he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw his soul. What was that? Putin was and is a KGB tough guy. But Bush saw daisies and roses in Putin’s eyes.

[Internet Addiction Anonymous] It’s not just booze any more! http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=breaking-free-from-the-web-new-reha-2009-08-21&sc=DD_20090824

[School Board] Are you happy with the direction our schools in Monroe County are heading in? What do you think of the School Board as whole?  I do not know Mr. John Dick, but I think he has been the most fiscally responsible with our money, and shown the most logical, common sense thinking on the Board (Steve P. has done a good job too). Are you aware they will be electing a new Chairman for the School Board in October?  Let them know how you feel.  Write to the Board members, Letters to Editor and to Citizens Voice.

Today I went into a Burger King and got one of the paper crowns just so I could wear it inside a McDonald's. The McDonald's manager offered me a free chocolate sundae if I threw away the crown. I did.

[Terry Miller Benefit] More pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/epr911/TerryMiller#

[Line dancers move back home] After being shuttled between various venues for the last year and a half,  the Big Pine Line Dancers have finally been able to return to their original home at the Dallas MacDonald Senior Center.  While the new Big Pine Firehouse on Key Deer Blvd. was under construction, access to the Center, which is behind the Firehouse, was not possible. The dancers are grateful to the Methodist Church and St. Peter's for allowing them to use their meeting rooms,  and to Monroe County for the use of the room at the Community Park.

There is no charge for the classes. Call Lou for more information at 745-2864. Bulletin Board > Continuing Events > Daily/weekly

[Delaware Tea Party] Delaware people know how to do it with flair!  Great video. http://www.delawareteaparty.org/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=56&video_id=7

[Hail the Potato Chip] Yesterday was the day one of the major food groups of the Keys was invented. The original potato chip recipe was created by Chef George Crum at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York, on August 24, 1853. Fed up with a customer who continued to send his fried potatoes back complaining that they were too thick and soggy, Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they could not be eaten with a fork. As they could not be fried normally in a pan, he decided to stir-fry the potato slices. Against Crum's expectation, the guest was ecstatic about the new chips and they soon became a regular item on the lodge's menu, under the name "Saratoga Chips." They eventually became popular throughout New York and New England. One version of this story identifies Cornelius Vanderbilt as the customer who wanted them thinner.

[Mother tiger losing her litter and the vets replacing them with piglets] Why don't you please check further before posting such crap?  This could actually be considered a form of animal cruelty, as it is a deliberate form of entertainment for the public. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp

Do not blame pot. The true gateway drug is alcohol!

[School Board] I really would like to see the public support for John Dick to be voted as the School Board chairman come this November. The Board actually decides this during the last meeting in October. I would appreciate it if you could get all you friends to write comments on the Key Citizen stories, call the Citizen voice and write letters to the editor for all three papers encouraging the School Board to make John Dick the Chairman.

With the new Superintendent, this is the time to make real change and not to have our initiatives challenged by the present Chairman. Any help you and your friends can give John Dick would be greatly appreciated.

Terri, keep up the good work!

I didn't live to be 73 years old so I could eat kale. Don't fix me your breakfast and pretend you're fixing mine!

Deadly dangers of medical helicopters. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=deadly-dangers-of-medical-helicopte-2009-08-21&sc=DD_20090824

[Waste removal rates] I have been a property owner here for 15 years and see no reason for a rate hike for trash removal.  More people are recycling so why not just have one pick up a week instead of three?  Times are tough enough why don't we try to be more efficient?  I have family in Massachusetts, a very nice suburb of Boston, who have to bring their stuff to the dump and separate it to be recycled, but they do not have to pay a trash tax. The corruption in this county is BS. 

Instead of a tea party let’s dump all our trash on the politician who is allowing this to happen and his no-bid contracts.

[Menstrual Cycle] A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle. For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with duct tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his chest while he is on fire.

No further studies are expected.

The Terri Miller benefit was awesome and for an awesome woman! Everyone seemed to be having a good time. Locals helping locals.  Kudos to everyone there!

[Turtles] This could be the big night for the turtle hatching. http://www.fla-keys.com/turtlecam/

Planting grass the road sides on US1 where the bike path is not finished and has been paid for years ago is criminal. Now if they decide to finish the bike path, there goes a fortune in labor and materials for grass which is non-indigenous to the Keys.

[Healthcare] One thing to consider regarding the health care reform proposal is the legal ramifications. Lawyers probably have a huge input in very specific terminology in all aspects of the plan. 

[Demon Weed] Regarding the post that suggested that marijuana must be outlawed because it leads people to take stronger, addictive drugs.  Nothing could be farther from the truth!

In the 1920's, during Prohibition, many people became violently ill, or died from drinking methyl alcohol; widely used at the time in car radiators as anti-freeze.  While prohibitionists claimed that liquor led to the practice of drinking methyl alcohol, common sense eventually prevailed and it became apparent that in was the lack of access to liquor that led people to try the methyl alcohol from their car's radiator.

The same is true today with marijuana.  Pot is a relatively safe recreational drug; but when it is not available, people often try more dangerous drugs like meth, which can be readily manufactured from widely available household products, or OxyContin, easily accessible from grandma's nightstand.  It is the lack of access to pot that leads people to more dangerous drugs.

The myth that marijuana is a "gateway drug" was promoted in the 1970's to indoctrinate (brainwash) schoolchildren by the government's War on Drugs.  The truth is that if possession of small amounts of marijuana were legalized, most of the problems with dangerous drugs would disappear overnight.  In Amsterdam, where marijuana has been legal for decades, the police do not have a special task force to dismantle meth labs.  With easy access to pot, it never occurred to people in Amsterdam to manufacture meth. 

Your Obama tax dollars at work. Do you really want these bozos to be in charge of delivering your health care?

(Part II) Supporters of Mr. Obama’s burning drive to convert American society to his vision of a Socialist Nirvana with Mr. Obama at the helm simply can’t articulate sound reason to impose socialized medicine on our nation. Instead they must attack his critics. Medicare and VA health care are often held out by these folks as being shining examples of socialist success, that our nation should embrace as models for all of our health care. Many of us who oppose Mr. Obama are clients of those programs. Many of us are participants only because we were forced to participate in Medicare. We are clients simply because we had no choice. Now because we were denied our right to manage and plan for our own care, we are forced to rely on Medicare. Our Vets all too often are horribly victimized by VA medical care. Recently more than ten thousand Vets were exposed to HIV and Hepatitis because of atrocious VA medical sanitation practices. Recently thousands of Vets were horrified when they were notified that they were infected with a terminal disease. They were MISTAKENLY notified due to inexcusable error by the VA. Medicare and the VA are bleeding sores of mismanagement, fraud, and abuse.  Soon you will be reading about the VA “Death Book”, a publication that endeavors to steer aging vets to turn down life extending measures. A craven and cruel method to save money.  Now these vaunted Socialist programs are going bust, bankrupt. Social Security too is on the cusp of bankruptcy. Our government has no more business running healthcare than I do designing nukes. Mr. Obama displayed his incredible lack of executive talent when he pegged the Federal deficit as $7 Trillion when it actually will be in excess of $9 Trillion. That is an error of Two Thousand Billion dollars. That’s real money! Don’t forget that number does not include the $2 Trillion dollars that his Socialized Medicine scheme will cost us. Mr. Obama’s Socialized medicine scheme is as corrosive for our society as HIV is for its victims.

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Tuesday August 25, 2009

Monday  August 24, 2009

The orange and black caterpillars are the oleander caterpillars.  They mature into what some people refer to as an Uncle Sam Bug.  The adult is a striking red white and blue bug, or moth.  I have handled many of them and have never felt any kind of burning or stinging.

[Acevedo] If you have been in any school in the past decade, you will realize that it is all about money. I think of the money they waste. It surely makes the amount of money plundered from the school system by Acevedo’s wife, small and his covert attempts to undermine the controls in the school system (this was a really well thought out scam and they tried so hard to cover their tracks). Most School Superintendents are hired by the school board. He was elected. That means he is a politician. Instead of submitting a resume and references to apply for a high ranking position, he pulled strings. He is not an incompetent bureaucrat, he is a crooked politician.  If it is true that he forged a document pertaining to the purchase of an XM Satellite radio for the MARC van, on ill-gotten stationary and submitted it to cover for his wife, a lot of people should be looking for new jobs. Damn our school board.  This happened right under their noses. If they are the most qualified people we can find, we are real in trouble.  ~smaher@americanadvantagemortgage.com

Terry Miller benefit 8/23/2009

[From the Right] In recent days there have been a couple of postings accusing President GW Bush of being soft on Libya. It is really stunning how incredibly wrong the Bush bashers can be. President Bush’s War on Terror, the invasion of Iraq, the sanctioning of nations who supported terrorism, the enhancement of sanctions against those states, the overt and covert anti terrorist activities of the USA, and a dynamic diplomatic initiative convinced Libyan strong man Quaddafi that he was to be the next invasion target. Quaddafi understands and respects power and revenge. On December 20^th 2003 Prime Minister Blair and President G.W. Bush won a major battle in the war against terrorism when their efforts resulted in Libya surrendering and dismantling its WMD programs and most of its inventory of missiles. Libya feared Bush the “Cowboy”. We now have a President that is neither feared nor respected by our enemies. The Brits now have a PM that our enemies neither fear nor respect. Our enemies now gleefully piss on our shoes. The Muslim world will treat Obama with the same disdain they levied on Carter and Clinton, both dishonored the historic courage of Democrat Presidents FDR, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. Presidential weakness resulted in the murderous terrorist of Pan Am flight 103, Al Megrahi, being imprisoned in Scotland, not the USA. President William Jefferson Clinton folded to the Scots when they resisted extraditing the terrorist to the USA for trial. The current lack of international respect for the resolve of the USA resulted in the Scots releasing the terrorist who ignored vigorous American protests to his release. Mr. Obama’s day late and dollar short condemnation of the release evokes the image of a yapping Yorkie.

Obama Appoints Virginity Czar http://www.redcounty.com/obama-appoints-virginity-czar

I just stumbled onto your section of http://www.redcounty.com   Very interesting site.  May I suggest you set up someone to do Monroe County, Fl., the Keys.  We are having a hell of a time with the local juntas, taxes, sewer system development, and the impending destruction of Paradise by unscrupulous developers.

Look at our local gripe page and also view the Citizen Newspaper, for a base to start a Monroe County link on your site, please!

Redneck license plate

[Healthcare] It seems to me that my honorable friend the 1/4 truth man is confused and bounces his beliefs around quite a bit. He says that he is against a national healthcare plan yet he himself is on the very same plan (Medicare). Now why would someone want to stay with a plan that he is feverously against? It would be like the peace protesters asking the President to go to war. Why would a plan which suits his needs not be good for other Americans? Many of us work 6 days a week at jobs that serve the community and the common good which do not have health insurance. Did he work harder then us? Are we not as "American" as him? Is he happy that we are working to pay for his health coverage and does he feels he’s more special and deserving then the rest of us because he’s retired?

Our president has made it well known as have many hospitals, and even pharmaceutical companies that the plan does indeed bring competition into play. Less money in "cover your ass" medical care and more "pay for the work you do only" expenses. I think the chance that the peace protesters will press the President to go to war are about the same as you giving up your socialized healthcare (Medicare). You will not stand firmly behind your own convictions because you belong to the Party of No and anything the President does to help the average working American automatically gets a resounding no!

Cash for Clunkers-trucks. http://comcast.vehix.com/articles/cash-for-clunkers/cash-for-clunkers---trucks/?cid=801

In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth. 

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. 

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species, will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops? 
   

[Monroe County Schools] I am furious after reading the article in the Citizen about the at-risk boy’s program in the school system.  How is it Mr. Hooper, who is only working on getting a master's degree, who has “what” counseling experience and has questionable ethics as described in the auditor's report, competed for the school district job for at-risk youths?  Mr. Dykhuisen, who has his Master's, has a FL State certificate as a Guidance Counselor, worked for twelve years with at-risk boys, worked as a Marathon Guidance Counselor for seven years was dismissed in May from the school district.  You tell me who is more qualified to work with at risk youth.  Mr. Dykhuisen’s problem is that he’s just not a bubba?

[Caterpillars] Do you have oleander nearby? It is a non-native plant and non-native caterpillars are here too and feed on it. Plants are poisonous and the larva is venomous. Put one on your arm to find out. That being said, it could also be our lovely native gulf fritillary butterfly larva.

Waste removal rates are going up which is no big surprise. I remember when our elected officials decided to shut down the waste to energy plant and truck the garbage up north. They said it would be cheaper. I heard rumors that a couple of the commissioners owned property by the plant, and that is why it was shut down. I would be shocked if this were true, because we are now paying for it. Waste Management's contract came up for bid recently, and knowing they were going to increase our rate, the County commission wouldn’t allow anyone to bid on the contract. Bubba rules!

[From the Right Guy] Hey pal or broad, lighten up with all the rhetoric BS. Enough with the Reps and Dems crap. Who the hell cares? We are not stupid and we know it doesn't matter which side of the fence you get screwed on. Both Parties are profiteers and both could care less about We the People.

[Spanish Fly] My Cuban buddy showed me how to do the bag of flies thing. It felt great, and was much cheaper than a date. Important Warning: make sure you get the right kind of flies in the bag.

[Obama Bad] The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30 (see trends).

Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President’s performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within the President’s own party. Just 49% of Democrats offer such a positive assessment of the President at this time

How low can the O go?

[Bacon] The reason the Muslims and Jews are so grouchy is that they can't eat bacon.
Bacon Tempura
4 egg whites
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/3 cups cold club soda
1/2 gallon canola oil
12 pieces thick-sliced applewood bacon
Salt to taste

If pot and the other drugs were legalized a whole lot of people would quit using them because the thrill of participating in something a little risky and dangerous would be gone. As in the old saying "forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest".  I think it gives them a feeling of superiority to be in the druggy clique and knowing who the dealers are at the bar. 

Moving day on the Avenues of BPK.

Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail info. Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trai

[Hemp Fiber] I thought that marijuana was “framed” by the Cotton Industry.  It was made out to be a psychotropic drug to enable the legislation that would eliminate the competition because hemp, if legal, would have put a major dent in the Industry's demand for cotton fiber.  But, come to think of it, why didn't they just grow hemp?  Wouldn't it have supplied the textile industry while meeting the demands of recreational drug users as well?  Just think of the prescribed burns! 

The debate over national health care can be solved by two short sentences. The politicos that are wondering why people are so pissed off should read them.

1) We will accept the exact same health plan you in the Congress have. Period, no compromise.
2) Or Congress give up their health plan and accept the exact one you;re trying to give us. 

Stick to your guns and shout to the rooftops “I'm mad as hell and the friggen debate is over” we except nothing less. Try any more screw jobs on us and its pitchforks, torches and lamp post time.

[Government Bad] Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel, "Pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land."  

Nearly 75 years ago, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a camel, this is the Promised Land."

Now Obama has, stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels,
and mortgaged the Promised Land.  

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.  ~Bill Clinton

How dirty is the average American?  Hygiene Habits - AOL Health

The Terri Miller Benefit was absolutely super. What a great turn out for someone that has helped others in need so many times. It's good Karma. What goes around comes around. It was really great to see so many people in need themselves do so much for others. Kudos to all who attended.

I think I'll get a dog. I have some friends who could borrow him from time to time

[Caterpillars] Perhaps you are seeing our local Gulf Fritillary caterpillar. Life Cycle of the Gulf Fritillary

[Sharing] Who says you morally have to share? You're one of those takers, not givers, I can tell.

The continuing survival of our nation as the world’s bastion of freedom and prosperity relies on you loving our country and distrusting our government.   It has been so since July 4^th 1776.

[Orange caterpillars] You must have oleander bushes near by. That is the only place I have seen the caterpillars you described. Get rid of the oleanders and the caterpillars will not come back. It’s the same with the little red and black love bugs that like the cork trees.

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Monday  August 24, 2009

Sunday August 23, 2009

[What is the price of prescribed burning] It’s less chance of a wildfire destroying the woods with too hot of fire, less chance of wildfire burning homes, fresh sprouting plants for wildlife to eat, killing off exotic plants and keeping the pine woods from becoming over grown with hardwoods. Those are  a few that come to mind. Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem in southern pinelands and that includes these islands. If you want to see what happens when this type of ecosystem does not have a proper control burn management plan, look to the Big Cypress National Preserve. Until very recently, they did very little prescribe burning. The fuel (dead leaves, grass, palm fronds and brush) built up and when lightning or something else started a fire, it burned so hot that it killed the otherwise fire resistant mature pine and cypress trees. That opened the soil to fast growing exotics like Malacca and Brazilian pepper.  Areas that were not burned grew up thick with sapling pine, cypress, wax myrtle, oak and Brazilian pepper.

When the Park Service finally got its head part way out of its ass, it was too late. Now they can't burn some of these areas because the fire will get into the crowns of the trees and kill everything. Whiners like you will say they did a bad job. The result is a changed ecosystem that one day is going to lead to scorched earth anyway. (I think they should go ahead and torch it when the conditions are favorable for less damage). You may dislike the USFWS (I'm no fan either) but they are doing what is best for the habitat when they do a prescribed burn. The only thing that keeps them from doing a better job is that they can't burn some of the large tracts of private land that are overgrown.

How many pages represent America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, which is the Democrat's health care reform proposal. Two reams of paper! One thousand and eighteen pages. There are 250 words per double spaced typed page.  Do the math.   The Bill of Rights has 462 words, that's right 462 words. The 1st Amendment has 45 words. The Constitution of the United States of America has 4400 words. The Democrat's health care reform proposal has well over 1/4 of a million words

[Sharing] When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

[Peace] As Americans, we want peace. We work and sacrifice for peace, but there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. ~George W. Bush Oct.7th, 2002

[From the Right] Special to the person who considers himself a Republican. Thanks for your compliment that some of my posts are well thought out. There is no need for truce, because no state of conflict exists between us. It’s obvious that you are an intelligent and contemplative individual.  In your posts you have called me a liar, you have used the pejoratives "1/4 truth guy" and "1/8 truth guy". You have accused me of name calling, and suggested that I was intentionally attempting to mislead readers of this site. You have told the readers of this site that you are a supporter of Liberal and Democratic causes and initiatives. I hold no animus, all of that is your absolute right. The readers of the site will decide who is misleading and who is truthful. I have gathered from your postings that you are of the view that compromise is a virtuous method of conflict resolution. In some cases you may be true, but there is no virtue, no facility in compromise if the compromise requires you to abandon your principles or to surrender simply because it seems convenient, less arduous. 

(Part II) In Portsmouth New Hampshire on August 11^th in a single speech, Mr. Obama told us 1. Universal health care will not have rationing by government officials dictating to us what medical procedures and tests that we will be permitted to have under his plan.  Then he said that we will have government officials who are doctors who will be telling us what medical procedures and tests that we will be permitted to have under his plan. 2. Medicare is a successful government run medical healthcare plan; therefore we should welcome a larger government universal health care plan. Then he said that Medicare is headed for bankruptcy and must fail, therefore we should welcome government run universal health care. It’s beyond understanding why Mr. Obama must engage in such patent doubletalk. It's incredible, but true, hunt up the transcript on the web and look for yourself.

I was at Circle K buying gas and this girl in a Papa John’s uniform comes up and is, like, "I've got a bunch of extra pizzas. Large pepperoni for $5." Then she went to her trunk and pulled one out. It felt like a drug deal for a fat person.

[Wastewater rules for the rich]  Ah yes, those famous words, "environmentalists have proven" reminds me of the old saying, an expert is a second rate mechanic 50 miles from home.

Babies are like miniature drunks. When they start talking no one can understand them and when you talk to them you know they won't remember it tomorrow.

[Lockerbie Bomber] Bush’s buddy Gaddafi hugging the Lockerbie bomber of American troops made me sick. Of course the Party on No will love the guy because he threw money at the families. I support Obama’s condemnation of this dirtbag.

Redneck campfire cooking tools

[Obama Bad] The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent strongly disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. This is the first time since July 31 that the President’s Approval Index has fallen to negative double digits

Why has America lost trust in Obama and think he is a liar?

[Town Hall Meeting] The man carrying the guns at the president’s forum was black so he can’t be a republican.

[Caterpillar] Every year about this time I am invaded with little orange caterpillars with black feather-like appendages all over their body.  Every day there are dozens of the critters on my deck and hand rails. I have been told by some people that they are completely harmless.  Others say that those feather-like things can give you a sting or at least an uncomfortable burning rash.  Does anyone know for sure what these things are and if they are, or are not harmful?

[Healthcare] Let me get this straight. Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is nearly broke.
 
What could possibly go wrong?

[God’s Balance] God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him resting on the seventh day.

He inquired, "Where have you been?"  God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, and I've put life on it. I'm going
to call it Earth and it's going to be a place to test Balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm still confused."  God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things."

God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."  The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said, "What's that one?"

That's the State of North Carolina, the most glorious place on earth.  There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, beaches and plains. The people from the State of North Carolina are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, carriers of peace, and producers of good things."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about balance, God? You said there would be balance."

God smiled, "There's Washington DC.  Wait till you see the idiots I put there.

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Sunday August 23, 2009

Saturday August 22, 2009

(eD:  No edIT SatuRDAY!!!!!!......b-cuz u assd 4 iT!!!!!!!!!

We have a new School Superintendent-- His name is Dr. Burke...I know nothing else about him, but the cavalry (or so we hope) is on the way.

If I’m not mistaken Obama was hired to reform healthcare and that reform includes the government option. Without it the insurance companies will still be deciding who lives and how we live.

Do you realize that the only reason that pot is outlawed is because smoking the weed makes you feel good?

[Flies and sex] Maybe the poster was referring to the old trick of tearing the wings off a fly and setting it on the head of the penis.

For those who think the outrage and vilification of Superintendent Acevedo is about the embezzlement of school property and funds, it isn't.  Not speaking of the folks who voted for Acevedo's opponents in the election, but Acevedo pretty much swept the race for superintendent for his second term. And those who elected him are the most vocal.

It is well known school districts across the country are moderately to severely corrupt since they are controlled by teachers unions who will never stop screaming for more money while delivering a failing product, even though education funding dwarfs other expenses in the local or federal "budgets".

But I can't help feeling sorry for Superintendent Acevedo. In his mind, neither he, nor Mrs. Acevedo have done anything wrong. He is guilty of only what was expected of him. He was operating completely within his entitled jurisdiction. The shock so apparent in his recent photos and speech may well be from his constituents and electorate so suddenly and viciously turning like rabid piranha. As far as he is concerned, he was only doing what he was given permission to do by those very people, and is as far from corrupt as anyone can be... In a sense he's right. Taking a page from the typical Washington bureaucrat, this is operational standard. But the mistake is when you're not a Washington bureaucrat, you don't enjoy that kind of autonomy. You don't have access to files that give leverage over law enforcement agencies.

So where does the surprise part come in? In the addled mind of the left, anything goes; so far as you don't get caught. That is the cardinal sin when you're a petty bureaucrat. Then you will be reviled and condemned by your most ardent former supporters.  Superintendent Acevedo put his honest trust in the system that put him in this position, and had never felt compelled to heed that axiom.

Charlie Possum Benefit

O the Irony of it all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TswMeHnh2cA

Under the President's plan Medicare payments to doctors would increase by 5%. The man carrying a gun over his shoulder at the President's health care forum was white. And no, the President is not a foreigner. Still. Bummer eh?

We spent about an hour today at Big Pine Charter School.  When we first moved here I asked people where we should send my kids to school.  A lot told me to try the charter school.  They told me that teachers and principle really care about kids.  So I decided to give it a try.  Everyone there made me feel like it was the best place for my kids.  The teacher and the principle spent a lot of time with me, answering my questions and making me feel like I made the best choice.  No big school for my kids.  Just small classes and lots of very caring people.  The pta cares about kids and the school.  My friend told me that the principle and teachers know every kid by name.  Scores are really good and my child loved playing there today.  They won't steal from the kids, they will just make it better for all  kids is what I hear.  The principle used to be a pincipal and a superintendent someplace else before she came here.  She said she has really great teachers and kids.  She does.  Have a great year and thanks for showing me what a good school is really all about.

Late Friday the Obama administration tried to hide one of the most astounding news item to occur on his watch. Earlier this week the Obama administration assured us that our national debt was beginning to decline. Decline of the debt is essential to Obama to improve his chances of imposing socialized medicine on us. In hopes that the late Friday news release will escape publicity, the Obama administration admitted that the deficit is sure to rise from his previous estimate of $7 Trillion to at least $9 Trillion dollars. The Obama excuse?  “We misunderestimated the severity of the recession”.  Do you really want these bozos to manage your health?

Spaceflight Now | STS-128 | Mission Status Center live from the launchpad!

It’s unfortunate that yesterdays poster who complained that he had not seen any suggestions from Conservatives and us Right Wingers to solve the health care problem has not been following along on this site. This site has repeatedly seen the following suggestions that if implemented would be sure to lower health care costs. Conservatives, Right Wingers, and sundry thinking folks for many months have repeatedly called for. 1: Tort reform 2. Aggressive enforcement of existing laws to combat health care fraud. 3. Enactment of legislation to permit national sale of health insurance. 4. Elimination of free health care to illegal aliens and their families. 5. Investigation of the viability of health care cooperatives. 6. Establishment of a national health care record keeping protocol. 7. Tax incentives to Physicians and institutions to implement computerized record keeping. 8. Tax incentives for employers who provide or subsidize employee health care insurance. 9. Establishment of health care savings accounts. 10. Tax incentives to individuals and families who individually purchase health care insurance. Is that enough for starters?  I wonder why our President  promises to pay for his socialist plan by reducing/cutting Medicare. I wonder why he wants to reduce the level of care delivered to our elderly? I wonder if it’s true that he and his advisors believe that young lives have more intrinsic value that the lives of senior citizens?

(I think I worked with this one.)

The truly sad thing? Virginia probably won’t even realize this isn’t a glowing endorsement.

To whomever it may concern (since I have no idea),

I would like to personally recommend Virginia A. for what ever it is that she requires a recommendation for. I have known VA professionally for a long time, almost 10 months. In that time her ability to almost do her job correctly has never ceased to amaze me. It takes quite a special person to answer phones and correctly forward callers to the correct employee. Some might say “That’s easy, anyone could do that.” But as her 15 year old replacement has proven, only someone with VA’s special set of skills could make it look difficult.

During her employment VA continually pushed the envelope of what it was possible to wear to work and not get fired. Often showing enough cleavage to make even the most satisfied infant salivate, VA and the girls showed what it truly means to give it all you’ve got, or show it at least. You might be fooled into thinking that this was grossly inappropriate and not even “What Not to Wear” could save her, but let me be the first to say that her personal contribution to morale and lack of concentration to the office was unsurpassable.

VA’s commitment to the job meant that she couldn’t just leave it at 8 hours and call it a day (unless she found someone else to give her a ride home to her apartment less than half a mile away. Walking is such hard work.) No sir, when there was a happy hour at another office, VA was the first to ask you to come (and for a ride.) When there was no drama in the office, VA would take it upon herself to sleep with one of your coworkers and tell you all about his ED just in case you thought maybe you didn’t know him well enough after all.

And so it is without hesitation that I recommend VA for whatever it is that she is applying for because that might mean I’ll have to hear form her less. Please accept/hire her.

Andrew Kempel is my hero.  He should be promoted or run for office.  Just goes to show that it does not always take a uniform.  Good work again and stay safe  : )

[Motor Thief Mug Shot] Stick to your policy of not posting mug shots and personal information on your site. Your irresponsible actions may

place his family in harms way.

This may be one of  my favorite "senior citizens" e-mail.

It’s about 10:30PM PM June 17th 1983. , Adella  Marie Simmons and a lady friend are standing stranded by their disabled car on the turnpike near rural Jupiter Florida. There is nearly no traffic. Both women are mothers of early teen children and are returning to Miami from a family get together in upstate Florida. They are relieved, yet apprehensive when a pickup truck occupied by John Marek and Raymond DeWayne Wigley pulls up to the back of their stranded car. The men offer to help, they tinker with the engine and declare that they can’t fix it, but they offer to give one of the women a ride to call for help. Ms. Simmon’s friend is frightened and refuses to leave with the two men. Adella Simmons says “you’ve got to trust someone sometimes” and she climbs into the truck sitting between Marek who is driving and Wigley. Adella Simmons has embarked on of her four hours nightmare journey of rape, torture, beating, and death.  Marek and Wigley are thugs from Texas who have stolen the truck and are headed for Miami for “some fun”. In the early morning hours of June 18^th a Dania Police Department officer patrolling the beach encounters Marek and Wigley loitering near a closed and shuttered lifeguard stand. The officer is suspicious. The officer interviews them but can find no apparent criminal activity so the officer fills out FI (field interview) cards and sends them on their way.  At about 7:00 AM a Dania lifeguard reporting for duty finds the naked body of Adella Simmons sprawled on the  floor of the blood spattered life guard shack. Ms. Simmons is nude, there is a bandana knotted tightly around her neck, so tightly that it has ripped into her flesh. A forensic autopsy discloses that her face is battered beyond recognition, clumps of her hair have been ripped from her head. Most of Ms. Simmons’ teeth have been kicked from her mouth.  Her body is a checker board of bruising, abrasion, and contusions. The skin in the area of her right kidney is bruised and swollen, the kidney and surrounding tissue is found to be  engorged with blood from a massive blunt trauma impact. Her  back and buttocks are crusted with sand and dirt imbeded in her skin. Her right breast has a heel mark stomped into it. Her pubic hair is burned. Her right thumb is burned. There is laceration,  bruising and contusion of her genitals, there is physical evidence of vaginal and oral sex. Her wounds, except for her burned thumb,  were inflicted prior to her death and she died at about 3:30 AM.  Ms. Simmons died from ligature strangulation. Through good police work, Marek and Wigley were soon captured.  Wigley confessed, Marek did not. Both were tried, and convicted in separate trials.   Wigley was found to be less culpable than Marek and was sentenced to life. Marek’s viciousness earned him the death penalty . Post conviction Marek embarked on a multi decade journey of appeals that  repeatedly led him to various State and Federal Courts including repeated forays into the U.S. Supreme Court.  On May 6th, 2000 Wigley was found dead in his cell. He was naked, battered and bruised with a bandana knotted around his neck. He died of ligature strangulation. His cell mate confessed, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to Death.  Shortly after his conviction  and sentencing Marek began his life on death row and followed the journey of his appeals through the Criminal Justice system. That journey ended on Wednesday, August 19^th, 2009. A couple of days prior, he had been transferred from Death Row to a holding cell immediately adjacent to the death chamber at Florida State Prison located near Starke, Florida. At about 11 AM Marek was served a BLT sandwich on whole wheat, strawberries and cream and a glass of sweet tea. During the day he was visited by his spiritual advisor and at least one other visitor. Between 4 and 5 PM Marek was placed on a hospital gurney, his torso, his hips, his chest, his legs, his arms, and his feet were bound securely to the gurney. His hands were wrapped with layers of tape so that they could not be observed, nor could he gesture or move his hands. A white sheet covered his body to his chest and his arms were bared. IV catheters were inserted in each arm. He was placed in the death chamber. The death chamber is a stark room, about 20 by 12 with mirrored windows on one of the walls on the narrow aspect of the room, behind the windows is the death mechanism.  On one of the long aspect walls of the room is an observation window that is about 15 feet long. The window is totally obscured with a pale brown shade. In the starkly institutional room behind the shade obscured window are  3 rows of institutional chairs on which are seated the 15 or so official witnesses. At precisely 6:20 PM the pale brown shade retracted, in the center of the room with the foot of the gurney facing the witnesses was Marek, he lifted his head to look at witnesses.  After a brief second, his head slumped back.  Marek was asked if he had any last words, he uttered a few unintelligible syllables. An official made a quick phone call from a wall phone in the champber and immediately thereafter announced: “The execution process has commenced”.  Marek immediately began moving his lips, as if praying, his eyes closed. In scant seconds his lips stopped moving, his face went slack, and at precisely 6:22 PM  all movement of his chest ceased. At about 6:32 PM a white coated individual made a cursory exam of Marek . At 6:34 PM the presiding official made a second phone call and then immediately announced: “The execution process has been concluded”. The pale brown shades descended. At 6:34 PM, Wednesday, August 19^th, 2009, justice prevailed.   There are more monsters like John Marek in this world, but this John Mareck will kill no more.  The world is a better place.

Whats the price tag of prescribed burning?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$

[petting zoo for the key deer]  That's not an entirely bad idea.  Those injured or orphaned deer that could not be rehabbed to the wild could have a home and educate the tourists about their species.

Barack Hussein Obama was looking for a call girl.  
He found three such girls in a local pub, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.

To the blonde he said,

'I am the President of the United States.
Now how much would it cost me to spend some time with you?'

She replied, $200.'

To the brunette he asked the same question. 

Her reply was $100.

He then asked the redhead

Her reply was,

'Mr. President, if you can get my skirt up as high as my taxes, my pants as low as my wages,

Az üzenet készen áll arra, hogy elküldje a következő fájllal vagy hivatkozással:

Parancsikon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA

This is for anyone who doesn't know.Keep right except to pass.Almost everywhere you go in south Florida,people don't seem to follow this simple logic(especially cuban drivers).Take a trip on the turnpike and you'll see what I mean.Oh yeah,you can make a right turn at any red light that doesn't have a sign saying no turn on red.

Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:

Dear God, Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick. I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.. Love, Meredith

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, 'To Meredith' in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies..' Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey &Meredith and this note:

Dear Meredith, Abbey arrived safely in heaven. Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away. Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.. Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you. I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much. By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.

Love, God

CASH FOR HAGS: In 2024 under the dictatorship of O-Banana Care gambling, prostitution and drugs have been legalized and the intemperance treatment crises has been resolved. President Kander Bluff of the Nationalist Lunatics Anonymous Cult www.lacult.com has now turned her attention to solving the ultimate problem – The OHC – ‘Old Hag Crisis’ also referred to as “Switch A Bitch.” After much consultation with her close advisers, the President has unveiled her “Cash for Hags” program. With broad bipartisan support, and modeled after the successful “Cash for Sex” program, the deal offers any married man $8500 to replace his current old hag wife and marry a girl between the age of 16 to 18. The government controlled banks might have already foreclosed on your house but, you will still be comfortable with your young bride sleeping in your new car which you purchased under the “Cash for Clunkers” program back in 2009. To qualify your wife for relocation in the OHC program there are certain requirements that she must meet. (1) She no longer wants to be seen with you and she no longer talks or listens to you. (2) Her white thighs are now a road map of varicose veins and she doesn’t want to have your 8^th child. (3) - (a) (b) (c) (h) she refuses to buy your beer or feed your dogs. Every time she sneezes, coughs or laughs she leaks and her exhaust pipe backfires and stinks. Her headlights are pointed towards the ground. Her rear end is dragging and she has more defects than a Conch cruiser. She has spent enough money on implants, tucks and lifts which you could used to purchase a new super turbo powered truck or boat. With passing of the 2016 OHC bill thousands of young females currently in desperation crises mode will be taken off the market, making the even younger girls available for the all the married men on Big Pine Key. There has been a 460% increase of young single female illegal immigrants since the passing of the “Cash for Babies” and automatic citizenship program started in 2013. In addition, the anticipated surge of engagements, weddings, receptions and liquor sales with this initiative will hopefully jump start and stimulate the stagnant local economy. With increased spending on recycled wedding dresses, liquor, shorts and sandals, wine, more beer, weed, more booze and other necessary expenditures Big Pine Key should be a quieter place to live. President Bluff has successfully resolved a crisis that many experts have spent so many years trying to solve proving true once again her campaign slogan “Switch a Bitch” is truly a great socialist program. On Big Pine Key, the popular OHC program will continue in a different form as sober good looking females are still a rare commodity in the area: starting tomorrow all the local dealers will be requesting "cash for grass" under this great OHC program. Under the “Switch A Bitch” program all the Old Hags turned in for cash will be relocated to the newly constructed government controlled Hags Housing Complex in the frozen Yukon tundra. The old hags should be able to adjust quickly to the climate as they were already frigid when shipped off. They will live there until the O-Banana Death Panel squad, created back in 2010 under the National Heath Care plan, decides when they should die. As with all socialist government programs some fraud is expected. A certified copy of your current marriage license or a copy of your divorce decree will be required to participate in the “Cash for Hags” program…

Support our young football players and cheerleaders and have a great time!

Saturday, August 29^th 5-9 p.m.

Sugarloaf KOA

Howard Livingston, barbeque platters, swimming and lots of fun

Only $10 per ticket (includes entertainment, food and all the fun you can have)

Football Player’s and Cheerleader’s that attend Sugarloaf School have tickets to sell or call 305-395-0279 for tickets. Bulletin Board

Hostile Environment

We live in a wonderfully advanced society, but the environment around us today is remarkably tough in one respect: there is food everywhere around us, in large quantities, designed to sell and not necessarily to nourish us. Supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, and the food companies that supply them all are in business to make money, which means selling you more, all the time, of whatever you can be convinced to buy and eat.

There's no one person to blame here -- all the players in the chain are just trying to make a living. But what it results in is a constant wave of pressure pushing food on you from every direction, food that may not be what you want or need.

You can make your own choice.

Today

Each time you purchase or prepare food throughout the day, remind yourself of your focus and desire for eating better foods and finding your way in environments that don't support you in your goal.

Once you decide to listen to yourself and not to the environment, you start to eat the food you need, and not what the food companies might want you to eat.

If you are thinking: I'm a busy person. How am I going to focus on one more thing?

Try this instead: If I don't set the priorities for me and my family, my environment will. I can take control right now with increased awareness, instead of letting the environment do that

'If Bush would have done anything like this he would have been drawn and quartered".

The same Bush that coddled up to Libya the country that just welcomed back the Lockerbee Scotland murderer that killed hundreds including American servicemen? That Bush? He should have been drawn and quartered when he "forgave" Libya when they said sorry and threw a bunch of cash at the families.That was a disgrace.

Do you know what happened 159 years ago this coming fall...

back in 1850?

California  became a state
             The people had no electricity.
               The state had no money.
            Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
         There were gunfights in the streets.

So, basically nothing has changed except the women

had real tits and the men didn't hold hands

Life's so much sweeter now that you are a shaft in my wind 

Toxic fish in U.S. streams tell the true cost of coal emissions -- DailyFinance Coal, clean energy?

The brightest puff of the summer Milky Way seems to rise like steam from the spout of the Sagittarius Teapot. All the objects labeled here, and many more, are good binocular targets under a fairly dark sky (except for the unseen galactic center, which is hidden behind 27,000 light-years of interstellar dust).

Special wastewater rules for the rich

It is a FACT that environmentalists have proven that partially treated sewage is killing the Florida reefs. According to researchers coral reefs stressed by partially-treated sewage and other contaminants take much longer to heal than previously thought, or in some cases just die. The 2010 wastewater standards were partially mandated to help save the reef.

Monroe County was given 10 years to sewer the Florida Keys and Last week the County Commission and the Florida Keys Aqueduct have agreed that they cannot meet the July, 1^st 2010 standards. In the meeting they decided to take the money they have left and spend it on the Duck Key wastewater treatment plant expansion. Have you ever been to Duck Key? The Duck Key residents are some of the wealthiest in Monroe County.

The Department of Health is responsible for wastewater systems at private homes, nearly half of the Keys sewage. It has been reported that less than 5000 of the county’s 25,000 home sewage systems have any nutrient treatment at all. That would mean there are nearly 20,000 septic tanks or leach fields polluting the canals and stressing the reef.

Private systems with flows greater than 1,500 gallons per day at homes or businesses are required by the State to collect samples and document nutrient treatment. The Monroe County Department of Health does not have a way to identify those systems so they do not require sampling from any of them. The residents that own homes with sewage systems greater than 1,500 gallons per day are some of the wealthiest in Monroe County.

Everything in this letter is factual and easy to document.

[if you don’t like any form of Governments sponsored healthcare, what are your alternatives?]  The beauty of a free market system is the imagination of the people.  Sam's started $4 generic prescriptions, that helps with drug costs and the idea spread.  Urgent care clinics started opening up everywhere, that eases emergency room overcrowding.  These are just the small beginnings of making the health care system more effective, I'm sure more ideas are out there on hold, waiting to see if the govt is going to take over everything. Where a need exists, inventive people find a way to fill it, in the process making more jobs and starting new businesses. If an idea doesn't work, it fails, instead of being continued indefinitely by govt funds and bureaucrats protecting their kingdoms.

some business models are doomed to failure.

The time here is 14:38, and I just went on the you tube web site, and pulled up the piece! How come I can get it and you can't?

Like W.C. Fields once said, "there is an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!"

If I record it and send it to you, will you put it on the Coconut Telegraph? http://www.youtube.com/?v=jeYscnFpEya

[Downstairs Enclosures]
I hope those people that do not support amnesty for existing downstairs enclosures do not live in pre-firm (ground level) structures or mobile homes.  They will soon learn that FEMA wants to eliminate ALL dwellings that are not elevated and they have a process in place to accomplish this goal.  If your home is damaged over 50% of the cost of the structure due to flooding, FEMA will require you to elevate it at your cost.  In other areas of the nation, FEMA has used the home's original cost minus all improvements and estimated cost of repairing the flood damage to trigger this mandate!  We must all stand together in opposition to any FEMA mandate, or we will hang separately.

If any of you opens a spam and buys something from them you should be ashamed of yourself for encouraging spam--the bane of the digital age.

[Swine Flu]  It'll Double Daily huh.  OK being a numbers guy, lets take a look at this statement.
 
This means if we started with ONE case, and it doubled daily for 1 month, there will be 536,870,912 cases of Swine Flu, uhhh I mean H1N1.  IF its a 30 day month.  I sure hope so because if its a 31 day month there'll be over a BILLION cases.
 
You really think this is possible in the USA?
 
Even world wide.
 
Do you just keep parroting the shit that you hear, or do you actually try and THINK first.  Remember "just because you think something, it doesn't make it true".

{Petrobras}—Lincoln/Assassinated---Bush/Re-elected. Both suspended Habeas Corpus. Your daft comments about how our dependence on foreign oil and the offshore exploration of such in South America are close to unsane. The reference to Obama in the article is outlandish. Did you know the reason we are paying 4 dollars a gallon for is because Goldman Sachs has traded out futures on oil so far out that there is not enough oil in the world to fill orders on the futures they sold? When the Govt---Bush Cheney et al ---under TARP ----bailed out the world’s largest insurer—AIG—but they were actually bailing out---Goldman Sachs----as so many former GS bankers were in very high offices in the US Govt. Bush let this happen so his cronies in TX. and  family friend and Oil Tycoon Prince Bandar -“Bush” of Saudi Arabia could reap huge profits all while GS was trading the s%$t out of oil futures. It is a very dirty business and not one to throw on Obama.  

Louisiana Gun Too scary far, but entertaining.

Healtcare/cash for clunkers

Well once again the spin doctors from the GOP and the Dems have made us lose track of the big picture.

Canadians visit U.S. to get health care | Detroit Free Press | Freep.com Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.The agreements provide "more immediate services for patients whose health is at risk,"

We're drinking boxed wine and eating string cheese. It's like a wine tasting for poor people. God bless Big Pine Key.

Offering a truce to the [From the Right Guy]. I offered the info on tort reform to actually show how statistics can lie. Such as the "facts "that when ice cream sales surge in a city, street crime also surges. Therefore, ice cream causes street crime. Of course the actual connection with street crime and ice cream sales is hot summer nights.

I want medical mal tort reform. Some additional facts and thoughts. The study didn't reveal that 85% of medical mal cases are settled and sealed from the public. Of the cases that go to trial 80% of the time doctors' win, showing there are many frivolous suits where the plaintiff & attorney hope for a big pay day. All torts offer about a 50-50 shot. Some states have created a number of laws that have reduced filings, e.g., requiring affidavits from other doctors from within the state outlining the actual malpractice at filing. This reduced the number of "guns for hire" doctors from the game. Additional hoops have been added that drive up the cost of bringing  a medical mal case to about $75,000. Imagine what the cost of defending is.

Another way to curb frivolous medical mal cases is to develop "best practices" and if the doctor follows them, the burden to prove medical mal is increased above the "preponderance of the evidence," the usual civil standard of proof, to "clear and convincing." The AMA has been grappling with this for a few years. Of course two problems are not all doctors belong to the AMA and how do you get agreement.

Also "best practices" is a slippery slope because the Dems will use this in a healthcare bill, making decisions of what treatment is required or paid for in a public plan, placing your doctor in a quandary. I am opposed to a public plan.

As to controlling attorney fees I have an internal conflict. I believe as a capitalist that government should stay out of setting fee amounts. Let the market and the courts handle it. However, it really irks me in class-action product liability lawsuits when plaintiff's attorneys make hundreds of millions of dollars.

I never said I published the paper that I gave the internet address. I said I published a paper back in the 80's. I worked with the state legislature then to implement tort reform.

As to the clever names you call me, I will remain a Republican in an attempt to keep the tent large enough to have any chance of winning. I don't think your need to label and demonize folks are helpful. Your positions oftentimes are well thought out..

God bless us everyone.

Friday, August 21, 2009   Interim Growth Management Director announced

County Administrator Roman Gastesi announced today that Assistant County Attorney Susan Grimsley will become the interim director of the Monroe County Growth Management Division when Director Andrew Trivette vacates the position September 18, 2009. Ms. Grimsley has been employed in the County Attorney’s office since 2005 and assigned to the Growth Management Division since 2007.  Prior to employment with Monroe County, she was an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Key West.  

The position of the permanent division director has been advertised, and a selection committee consisting of internal and external community leaders will be assisting the County Administrator and Board of County Commissioners to find the most qualified person.  

“Susan is very well respected by everyone and I’m sure she will keep the continuity within the Division, she will also allow the various department director to manage their folks accordingly” said County Administrator Roman Gastesi.

Monroe County, Florida   
Contact: Roman Gastesi, County Administrator, 305-292-4441

Question for our county commissioners: Where is your sense of fiscal responsibility to your constituents? I just got a notice that my ad valorem solid waste assessment will be $396 this year - an increase of over 35% above that of last year. In today's tight economy where jobs are scarce and inflation is right around zero, how do you justify such an increase? Is this the best bid you could find? If so, I suggest you look some more. Add this to your outrageous $300 fee for a downstairs enclosure inspection we shouldn't even have to endure, and your diddling around with the sewer problem until it's become an overdue and incredibly costly fiasco, buying an overpriced white elephant of a restaurant you can't sell for anything close to what you wasted buying it, spending a fortune to sink a boat - you should all be ashamed of yourselves. How about some rethinking and action to start trying to unscrew that you've screwed up so badly?

SBO Profile - shinealight.ivillage.com Vote for a Big Pine Key business  " The Good Food Conspiracy", help support our  fabulous, Marney .

Here we go again- the county wants to raise our garbage service assessment over 35% in the coming year. How did they arrive at this figure? What is the justification for this great increase all of a sudden? Did they simply (as usual) ask how much the garbage folks wanted and let them take it (like FKAA with our sewer no-bid fiasco)? Maybe it's time for another "bubba bust" by the feds to clean up Monroe county again.  For the last one in 1985 they secretly investigated the county because the corruption went so high (even to the state level) they couldn't let anyone in power in Florida know that there was a hunt going on for the embedded slimeballs. What is it with this place that brings out the worst qualities in its officials, something in the water? We need another vaccination.

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Saturday August 22, 2009

Friday August 21, 2009 

[Fire Today] Prescribed Fire Scheduled on National Key Deer Refuge. Fire management officials at the National Key Deer Refuge plan to conduct a prescribed burn on Friday, August 21^rst beginning at 9:00 a.m. on approximately 10 acres adjacent to the Koehn subdivision on Big Pine Key (see map). The objectives of the National Key Deer Refuge’s Fire Management Program are 1) to provide protection to private property and human lives against uncontrolled wildfires that may result from un-managed fire-maintained vegetative communities through vegetative fuel reduction, 2) to provide protection to both natural and constructed resources from catastrophic wildfires through fuel reduction, 3) to maintain biological diversity in fire-maintained plant communities by prescribed fire and 4) to maintain habitat for Service trust resources, including endangered and threatened plant and animal species through prescribed fire. 

The decision to ignite the fire will not be made until a spot weather forecast is received from the National Weather Service in Key West and the burn is authorized by the Florida Division of Forestry on the morning of the burn.  Additionally, a small test fire will be set to ensure that prescribed conditions are met.  If conditions are present to conduct a safe burn, then 3-5 firefighters will ignite the fire using drip torches on the ground, while other firefighters will patrol the perimeter of the burn unit by foot and with small all-wheel drive utility vehicles.  Once the burn has progressed through the unit, firefighters will use a sprinkler-like system to extinguish any remaining embers. 

Prescribed fire is the burning of vegetation based on a prescription that takes into consideration fuel type, fuel moisture, relative humidity, air temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and other atmospheric conditions to ensure a safe and successful burn.  All prescribed fires must have approved plans and meet set criteria authorized by agency fire experts.  The prescribed burn will also comply with all State of Florida open burning regulations. The unit to be burned is composed primarily of pine rockland forest habitat.  Pine rockland habitat requires periodic burning to reduce the density of palms and hardwoods in order to open up the mid-story canopy and maintain rare herbaceous plant species such as the Big Pine partridge pea and benefit wildlife.

All public lands within the burn unit and up to 50 feet around the perimeter (excepting public roads and private lands) will be closed to all public access until the burn is declared out and determined to be safe for public entry.  Refuge staff will be stationed at the corner of Big Pine Street and Pine Avenue to provide up-to-date information on the status of the burns.  Refuge biologists and fire staff have completed pre-burn monitoring protocol, and will continue to monitor the burn unit to ensure that ecological goals are met through the adaptive management process.

Refuge fire management staff will conduct the burns with assistance of fire staff from other south Florida refuges, the Florida Division of Forestry, Monroe County Fire and Rescue, and National Park Service. The Forest Service’s National Fire Lab will also be installing monitoring equipment in the burn unit to document the behavior of the fire, including soil moisture, heat levels, and flame lengths. These data will be analyzed to create a fuel behavior model specific to the pine rockland habitat of the Florida Keys, which will be a critical tool for future planning and implementation of prescribed fire in the National Key Deer Refuge.

The Refuge held two open house meetings on Big Pine Key on Tuesday, July 14^th to provide information to attendees on the locations and operational plans for its 2009 burns.  Fire management officials were interviewed on the US 1 Radio Morning Magazine on July 14^th. The News Barometer published an article on the refuge’s 2009 burn plans on July 17, 2009.  Other burn units identified in the meetings may be burned at a later date in August or September, weather permitting.  For more information, please contact Prescribed Fire Specialist Jon Wallace at (561) 436-2067 or Refuge Manager Anne Morkill at (305) 872-2239.

[Flies and people with insect-sized brains] “I checked this out on Goggle…I'm now a believer an idiot”. The gullibility of people like you never ceases to amaze me. I did a quick check on Google too (I don’t have a Goggle) and found all these comments:

No! I lived on a small island in the Caribbean for 2 years which was known for having these bags everywhere. When it wasn't raining there were flies everywhere including flying around and landing on these silly bags. Either we had blind flies, fearless flies, or the bags had no effect.

They work well as a mammoth repellent, but that's about it. I've had bags of water hanging all over the house and haven't been attacked by a single mammoth since I put them up.

My in-laws had these over their open doorways in the summer to keep the flies out. They had seen this in town at some of the shops and decided to give it a try. Needless to say, it did not work, which perplexed me because I thought flies could not fly under-water.       

There are plastic bags full of water decorating many of Austin's outdoor eateries. After much evaluation of this technique at a variety of places I can sum this up very simply: it does not work.

These are effective at keeping birds out of trees, not bugs.

Fundamental methodological flaw: Mike Stringham, a veterinary entomologist, meticulously counted droppings left by flies on white spot cards. The results were conclusive: The water bags attracted more flies.

I’ll bet you believe in all sorts of irrational things like Korean fan death, the Virgin Mary appeared on toast and that Randy and Monique are innocent.  It is fools like you that keep the human race from progressing. This nonsense is on the same level as voodoo dolls and transubstantiation.

[Healthcare] I have private insurance through my employer, and I will not be eligible for the public option when we finally get health insurance reform. If I were given the option I would switch to a public option immediately. I have owned shares in corporations and I have voted and made my opinions known and I have had absolutely zero influence on their actions.

As a citizen of this great democracy I have had my opinions heard by my elected representatives at all levels and I find Government to be far more responsive to my queries than private corporations ever were.

If you disagree with me and block health insurance reform, be aware that when you do make a claim against a private corporation for an illness you will be rejected, you will have to threaten legal action and you will desperately wish that private corporations were as responsive to your needs as government is. It's time to put to bed the myth that government doesn't work. The workings of your government are open and transparent. If you bothered to exercise the privilege of democracy and attended a government meeting you will see that. It's up to you to be an involved and responsible citizen instead of bitching about government this and government that. Ask Pfizer or Merck or Archer Daniels Midland if they care one bit about what you think. You never got to vote for them and they won't do a thing to help you—ever. 

The Chinese are on a buying binge around the world snapping up any oil producing company that's available. Petrobras is one of them. George Soros (the main Dem funder that help put our president in the White House) doubled his holdings in Petrobras in February, making him the second biggest shareholder.

Here’s the rub: Obama committed billions of dollars to underwrite Petrobras' offshore oil exploration on the continental shelf, enriching Brazil and their oil producers, while at the same time spitting in the face of the American oil producers who won't be allowed to do the same thing right here at home.

This is what is known as real, in your face, corruption. Humor me for a moment, and reverse this in your minds. If Bush had tried anything like this, he would have been drawn and quartered on the White House lawn. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html

[Motor Thief] It's a shame. A friend assured me that when the boat motor thieves were caught, they would be local white trash. I was positive they would be Cuban.

[Swine Flu] The Center for Disease control warns that swine flu cases will double daily in the coming months.

[The suburban lawn] Enemy of lakes, oceans and rivers everywhere. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=the-suburban-lawn-enemy-of-lakes-oc-2009-08-19&sc=DD_20090820

[Yellow Pages Bad] One big problem in America and in fact, most all countries is in the Yellow Pages. Take a magic marker and go through the pages and x-off all the useless resource wasting businesses. You will wind up with a few hardworking utility people and farmers.

Computer club meeting is coming up this Saturday, August 22, at 10 am.  We will be meeting back in our home quarters at the Senior Center behind the new fire station.  Thanks to all who have made it possible. Bulletin Board

Moderation Management is a lovely concept, but for the true alcoholic it is just another dance with denial. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/mod11.shtml

[Fund Raiser] I hear there is another fund raiser this Saturday, this one for Terri Miller at the Ramrod Tiki Bar. I have only met her once and she seemed like a very nice lady and very entertaining.  I also understand that she has been a major contributor in many benefits for other people whom bad times have fallen upon.  Some of you may be asking, when does this stop, well I'm guessing it never does.

As long as we all live on this planet there will be people in need.  The way I look at it is, I'd rather be helping someone else out than needing the help myself. I know we all come from different financial walks of life, but I do feel that we can all look in our hearts and see if there is a dollar, or two, we can send her way.  I don't think anyone is asking you give up your rent money, but maybe not having that last one or two beers and sending it to her fundraiser could make a big difference. Don't be ashamed to throw a dollar her way, it all adds up, and I don't think God is keeping an accounting of who gives what.  I know I'll feel better throwing in whatever I can and I think you will too.

[Socialist programs like Social Security, Medicare and Veterans’ benefits are all bad]  Veteran's benefits are earned.  Social Security is a farce that should never have been enacted.  I don't understand Medicare well enough to thoroughly condemn it, but I do thoroughly condemn government's inefficient mishandling of it in many cases.  Rule of thumb:  government never does anything better. Private initiative and competition gets things done and makes improvements, government generates paperwork and layers of bureaucracy.

[Answers] I see a lot of negativity from the conservatives and right-wingers about almost anything coming from the left.  It’s your right as an American to give your opinion, but you know what’s better than opinions?  Answers!  Let’s turn this around, if you don’t like any form of Governments sponsored healthcare, or really anything from the current administration.  What are your alternatives?  I’m getting tired of just reading complaints, gripes, and nay-saying.  Say something new, give an alternative, or just let it go.  Criticism is easy, leadership is hard.

[Federal Sales Tax] Give all illegal aliens visas and make them pay taxes on their earnings.  Easier and more efficient:  just make everyone pay tax on what they buy.  You can hide earnings, but it's a lot tougher to dodge sales tax. This type of tax would do away with the IRS, all tax preparers and all tax attorneys.

The Florida Keys Dragon Boat Club is looking for a helmsman to steer their 40 ft Dragon Boat here on Newfound Harbor.

You must be able to swim, have some general canoe and kayak knowledge and be in shape . We need someone to steer the boat twice weekly here on Little Torch Key, light weights preferred 150 lbs or less, good balance; and we will train you .http://www.floridakeysdragonboat.com

If we had national healthcare like every other civilized country we wouldn’t be having fundraisers every week for the uninsured.

[Petting Zoo] The tourists that come to Winn-Dixie like to watch those chickens in the parking lot. They’ve ask me where the petting zoo for the key deer is. I tell them it opens at 6 am right next to my garbage cans at my house on Key Dear Blvd.

[Obama Bad] How much do you know about Obama? Probably very little, even if you're read his two books. Less has been reported about the life of this president than any national figure in our history.  Did the press take a vacation?  Isn't anyone interested? Sean Hannity did some digging, and devoted the entire hour of his program last Sunday night to presenting his research.

So what happened to the Hannity report set to air last Sunday night? We are not the only ones who wondered what happened to the Hannity show last Sunday night.  Better look at these clips and forward to others that are interested before they are also removed from view.

To everyone who thought the special about Obama was going to be on Hannity. It was taken off. Here are the segments. You better watch now before hey are removed too. Yes, the program was not aired Sunday so it was googled and found the segments had been taken off of the Internet as well. Wonder who did this?
Wonder who blocked this?

Is this our new government protecting us? Here are the six segments if they haven't been removed before you get to them. 
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthv8QmJLUw
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJNhKZh8mGY&feature=fvw
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95XFUi8PrTs&feature=related
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4twMf1xyM&feature=related
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKzFtKEysjw&feature=related
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEmRbRJFLU&feature=related

Why Deer Ed needs a day off.

[From the Right] It’s great to be back on the rock after couple of days in Bradford and Union Counties. I want to thank the Spec Forces vet whose posting skewered a basher, the kind words are appreciated. I guess the vet basher just chooses to ignore the fact that Bill Clinton told us that he abhors the military, and that neither Barak Obama nor his Chief Of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel ever served in the military. If we listen to the basher, they are not to be respected (he may have something there). All of our vets deserve our gratitude, and more importantly, our respect.  It's a shame that some of our Vets earn our scorn for using their national service as a cudgel in chasing political advantage. It’s like pawning medals, it dishonors others. I made a serious error when I compared the “Staunch Republican” to a skink. I was wrong, I apologize. The “Staunch Republican” told us that he’s voted for a whole passel of Republican candidates, that he refused to vote Republican this time because of Sarah Palin, and that is the author of a scholarly paper about tort reform. I’ve got to wonder how proud he is that his refusal to vote Republican was partially responsible for Mr. Obama being elected. What a wonderful Republican pose. He tells us that he cuts and pastes liberal focused and supportive articles from Time Magazine, a notoriously liberal biased rag. The “Staunch Republican” poster told us that he authored a paper.   The publisher of that paper was Public Citizen Congress Watch, a liberal activist organization reported to be founded by Ralph Nader. The paper is a political denunciation of G.W. Bush’s tort reform initiative which was defeated by the Democrats. The document reports that in 2005 plaintiffs and their lawyers took $4.15 billion out of our healthcare system in medial tort awards, the vast majority of which were small settlements made to pay off plaintiff attorneys simply to avoid a more costly lawsuit. That was a big, big contributor to the high cost of everybody's health care bills. The complaining poster claims to be an opponent of tort reform. The paper itself say’s: “This report was authored by Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Legislative Assistant Seth Oldmixon”. So, if the complaining poster is Mr. Oldmixon, I doubt that he is actually a Republican. If the complaining poster is not Mr. Oldmixon, then he is trying to mislead you and I.

Marathon school kids on the swimming team have to practice at a resort swimming pool next to the pool bar. The high school does not have a swimming pool.  Why in the world shouldn't these kids have their own pool after spending millions on a new school? I think every school official should be replaced by some honest people, if there are any. You school people should clean up your mess and set an example for our future adults. You should be ashamed of yourselves, but I doubt you are.

[Shopping in the Keys] Stores offer little over base level items and the prices are nuts. Forget buying electronics or decent furnishings, it just isn't here.

[Fly Bag] The Stuffed Pig in Marathon is the first place I had seen the bags of water to repel Flies. I believe the flies see the bag’s shiny organic sheen and think it is a much larger fly, and stay away.

I noticed the Neugent/Wigington bedroom picture was pulled. Deer Ed must be applying for a permit or something.

[Sewers Too] I heard on an Orlando TV station yesterday that three counties in central Florida have been ordered to stop dumping sewage in the Lake. The cost has been estimated at $20,000 per household. It will come up in the coming legislature. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

[Local Benefits] Kudos to everyone who supports the multitude of benefits that occur in the Lower Keys. While I fully understand how great it is to be involved and support these big hearted community events (I have participated in many of these events), very often I have seen the organizers or participants pressure the folks who are donating their time, equipment, energy and names (which draw attendees) to also surrender their tips. All things considered, that's a bit much. Some donating their talent are not wealthy, are in their own tight financial circumstances, and do go out of their way, in good faith, to lend their support. So when contributors of so much energy get tipped, my opinion is that it's not too much to ask that they get some measure of their expenses covered without being guilted out. There's a difference between greed and what's reasonable. Gas and materials are not too much to ask without humiliating a contributor; we need to be careful and not take blatant advantage of good hearted people. Kudos also to Sugarloaf Tiki Lodge for addressing and correcting the 50/50 winner who was pressured to hand over their winnings. Benefits are a team effort.

The truly mean Gumpert Apollo Sport has powered its way to a Nürburgring lap time of 7:11.57, simultaneously setting the fastest lap for a production road-legal car and embarrassing the competition. Gumpert Apollo Sport Sets Nürburgring Production Lap Record - Gumpert Apollo Sport - Jalopnik

[Flies for Sex] An old man told me that in Cuba, the men use a bag of flies for something weird. He was about to explain it to me when his wife walked into the room. He immediately shut up. What the hell is that all about?

[Flies] I hung my fly open one day and got arrested. Mosquitoes ignored it too!

[Elitist] Downstairs enclosures are about people trashing out decent neighborhoods by illegally renting to transit trash, so their mortgage can be paid because they over bought properties they shouldn't have. Also the government doesn't have the means to tax the property owners to get their cut. No matter what people do, they should not be allowed to do anything that the rest of the area does not want to allow.

[Charlie Possum Benefit last Sunday] It was a total blast. A great day with great people. Other performers who lent their energy to the cause included Chris Cates, Bob Paul, Popeye, Deedee Finney, and more. Monica, Cheryl and Michelle were a terrific "ground crew" that helped make everything fun. Did anyone take photos or video? Please post them here if you did.

[People who drive selfishly] I have an example of what is truly frustrating and what leads to these complaints.  A couple of mornings ago, I was southbound from Cudjoe Key to Key West, as I do every day.  Traffic was moving at 5 mph below the speed limit.  The traffic was fairly heavy, so that is to be expected.  However, there is a 4-lane highway on Boca Chica Key where one would expect a little bit of relief.  A black Chevrolet pick-up truck with tinted windows decided to drive in the left lane at exactly 55 mph, not passing the cars properly driving in the right lane.  No one was able to pass this guy because of his selfishness.  By the time we reached Stock Island and a couple of cars were able to get around him, there was no shortage of middle fingers in the air and people purposely cutting him off. 

Not only was he improperly driving in the left lane, but his actions created dangerous road rage in other drivers.  This is not the only person who does this.  I routinely see a small silver Suzuki SUV doing the same thing.  These are the type of people that need to be flogged.

[Healthcare] If the healthcare system works, that means we won't have to shell out billions of dollars to those health insurance thieves who only deny claims.

[Optical Illusion] Let your eyes roam over this optical illusion. The squares appear to form a spiral pattern. Carefully trace over the pattern — block some of it with your hand to be sure — and you’ll see they are aligned in perfect circles.

Still not sure? Let me prove it: all I did was add black circles over the squares.

[Guns for health care]  After the tirade about Obama being in danger because of the supposed gun carrying white guy in the crowd it was released today that the gun carrier was actually a black man.

[More bar wisdom] If you drink expired grape juice because you were convinced it had fermented into wine--you have a problem.

[Peace] I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.   ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Homeless signs

Our acting school superintendent who was Monique's direct supervisor for a number of months excuses his lack of oversight by saying,"I didn't look at the individual charges.  I only made sure that the amount billed was the amount that was paid." Now that's some pretty fancy school administrating, don't you think?

[Bermuda Hurricane cams] See the hurricane live.  BWS Web Camera  Hyatt Webcam Cam #1 - Large  Hyatt Webcam Cam #2 - Large  Museum of Yachting Webcam Cam #3 - Large

[Anything socialistic is bad] Of course it is. When a bunch of government bozos get done with it; why else would Social Security, Medicare and Veterans benefits all be bankrupt. 

[Don't Open Emails] Well, thank you Captain Obvious! In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue. You just start using the internet?

[Health Care] While it is very true that the President and Dems in Congress have said "Medicare and the VA will see no cuts in benefits", they also have said "There will be decreases in reimbursements for Medicare and VA co-pay programs under a Gov’t run program"

Translation: you are still entitled to same benefits, but the Gov’t payments to your doctor is going down. Do you still think your doctor will be willing to accept Medicare and VA co-pay? Get ready to have your out-of-pocket costs take off like a rocket. Image this, you have reasonable cost or if you are poor, free health care coverage under the Gov’t run program, but you still need private health care supplemental insurance to cover the huge out-of-pocket costs you are now responsible for. Don't kid yourself, this is what is coming.

Did you really think you were going to get world class health care for free or next to nothing? what is wrong with you that you not only think that, but believe you should or are entitled to get that?

The School administrators are all incompetents. Just read their excuses for letting corruption and theft to continue. They should consolidate with the administration of the junior college here. Have you ever tried to deal with them? Neither school has any concept of business or customer service. True they both smile and call you sir or madam, but they’ll screw up everything they touch.~tanker69@hotmail.com

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[Downstairs Enclosure Inspections] Why is our County Commission not asking FEMA to trust unincorporated Monroe County to self-regulate FEMA mandates without downstairs enclosure inspections? Why are they supporting lifetime annual mandatory downstairs enclosure inspections and fees when incorporated Key West, Marathon, Islamorada, Key Colony Beach and Layton are trusted by FEMA to self-regulate FEMA mandates without onerous mandatory downstairs enclosure inspections?  ~Citizens not Serfs sara@citizensnotserfs.com

Does anyone have any information on a homicide investigation on Caribbean Drive East in Summerland last weekend?  I saw it in the calls for service on the MCSO web site, but have not found info about what happened in the local news.

[Speeders] The law that requires you to pull over if there is a certain numbers of cars behind you only applies if you are going under the speed limit.  There is no law that requires you to pull over for speeders if you are going the speed limit.  Plus, if you ever walked on the shoulder of the road you will notice that is where all of the nails etc end up.  So each time you pull over to the side of the road for speeders to pass, you increase the risk of getting a flat tire.  I'm sure when you are changing your tire a speeder will not stop to help you—he’s in too much of a hurry.

[Fund Raisers] The person that wrote in about being harassed into giving their 50/50 winnings to the person who the benefit was for is absolutely correct. It was a horrible moment on a beautiful day. We couldn't stop it without provoking a larger scene. We who ran the benefit have already decided to correct this and will do so. I apologize for what happened. We were so embarrassed! We're sorry.

[From the Right Guy] wrote, The complaining poster is as much of a Republican as a skink is a peacock. Let’s see, I voted for every Republican presidential candidate since 1980 until the last election when I didn’t vote because of the vice presidential candidate. I have voted for the last five Republican gubernatorial candidates as well as senate candidates.

Key findings: medical malpractice payments are actually declining, payments correspond to severity of injury, patient safety is the real crisis, improving patient safety will save lives.

[Kodachrome film discontinued] Maybe I should re-think my plan to open a drive-through photo-mat on Big Pine.

[Guns for healthcare] What's up with the latest rightwing kooks' practice of carrying guns to public events?  What a bunch of aholes!

Are all women born this way? Video

Are all men born this way? Video

[Rear View Mirrors Bad] You are not going to believe this. This article shows the stupidity of people too lazy to do things correctly. Auto mirrors have for a long time been an accident-causing problem because the auto manufacturers do not design mirrors to see around you, they design mirrors for sexy styling to go along with the body styles to sell cars. Ask a tractor trailer driver if he would prefer mirrors from a Corvette, instead of those big beautiful mirrors that work. This article proves the incompetence of the nitwits who are only there for the money. When your life depends on a tiny piece of glass, turn your bloody head and look around b