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Friday  July 3, 2009

I screwed up big time. I forgot my wife’s birthday and don’t know how to demonstrate my sorryness. I’ve apologized twice already, but want to do more. I’m so sorry I hurt her.

She doesn’t like jewelry, going out, vacations or any of the usual apology stuff. All she wanted was a Hallmark card and nothing more. I’m hoping some sensitive woman reading this will be able to suggest how I can show her how sorry I am to have hurt her feelings.

[Sandy Downs] Good for you Sandy. Don't let people knock you down. It looks like you've had your share of hard knocks already. 

[Life is a Breeze in the Florida Keys] When I see pictures like the CT banner for Wednesday I’m reminds me of what a fantastic place we live in. We can just go off our docks or for a little boat ride and see sights that most people never see in their entire lives. Then I return home and enjoy the little Key deer prancing about in our yard.

[County is to Blame] People say repeatedly that Obama is responsible for us having less money, but when Obama’s tax cuts went into place I started to receive about $38 more a week. It’s not a lot, but an increase in my wages. Then the County government walks behind and adds another upcoming tax increase this year to the tune of 4 cents per gallon of fuel. Then the County commissioners try to add yet another penny to our sales tax for sewers (which was already done years ago). Then even though our homes are worth less we are still getting a tax increase from the County. Obama wasn’t responsible for the housing bubble bust. he wasn’t in office. Obama wasn’t the one that added the sewer tax increase years ago. He wasn’t running for President, but he’s getting all of the blame. Watch the next tea bag protest when the tea baggers will have signs about Obama being responsible even though he’s increased American’s pays only to have our local government suck it up. It’s like punishing your son for something your daughter did. Hopefully, people realize it’s not the President screwing us nearly as bad as our elected neighbors.

July 4 – Independence Day
July 11 – World Population Day
July 12 – Parent's Day
July 20 – Moon Day
July 23 – National Hot Dog Day
July 27 – Cross Atlantic Communication Day
July 30 – Father-in-Law Day

The birth flower for July is the Larkspur. The birth stone for July is the Ruby.

Existing-home sales - including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops - increased 2.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.68 million units in April from a downwardly revised pace of 4.55 million units in March, but were 3.5 percent below the 4.85 million-unit level in April 2008.  ~Beata & Capt. Jim Sharpe Jr

Thank a veteran for your freedom. Happy 4th of July. Veterans Press for Complete Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq | CommonDreams.org

[Fishing] The guys were planning a fishing trip, but Dave said, "I can't go this time."  "Why not?"  "My wife needs me to do some things around the house."

You can imagine the uproar, teasing and name calling. Dave headed home frustrated.  When the guys arrived at the lake the following week, they were shocked to see Dave already sitting at the campground with a cold beer, swag rolled out, fishing rod in hand, and a campfire glowing.  "How did you talk your missus into letting you go, Dave?" 

"I didn't have to. I guess I've been 'down' all week since our meeting. Yesterday I went home and slumped down in my chair with a beer to drown my sorrows. Then the ol' lady sneaked up behind me, covered my eyes and said, 'Surprise!'"  "When I peeled her hands back she was standing there in a see-through negligee. She said, 'Carry me into the bedroom, tie me to the bed and you can do whatever you want. “So, here I am!"

Air New Zealand is getting down to the “bare essentials” with a new in-flight safety video that features flight attendants wearing just body paint. Travel | Airline safety video gives truly bare essentials | Seattle Times Newspaper

[Non-human] I'm really starting to hate computers. I tried to pay my auto insurance bill by way of eServices.com and after trying numerous times and not getting anywhere I decided to call for help. Three hours later and 56 button pushes (I counted them) all I got was back to the beginning menu. I did contact a real live human, but he wound up being a building maintenance man who picked up the phone by mistake. Never again will I call any company that does not answer the phone with a live or semi-live human being!

Veterans fight to keep 75-yr. old Mojave Desert Memorial cross. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeuBB_mOFIA

Lost Cargo will have special 4^th of July hours tomorrow from until 2-3pm.

The new Marine operation in Afghanistan sure does remind me of the old "Winning the hearts and minds" campaign in Vietnam.   Afghanistan has long been referred to as "The burial ground of empires."

A would-be thief made the worst mistake of his career after breaking into the house of a retired Army boxer. Gregory McCalium, 23, fronted court yesterday with a black eye and a fat lip after he was busted - and subsequently bashed - by 71-year-old Frank Corti in Mr Corti’s house. Boxing grandpa hits back at thief | World News | News.com.au

[Healthcare] Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage under the proposed national health care plan could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Obama's top domestic priority.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines will raise around $36 billion over 10 years.  The penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the new federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals.

If you don't want to play, you're going to have to pay.  And this is just the beginning of the Obama and the Democrat’s plan to insure and save America.  I guess if you're a useless slug sitting on the porch waiting for Obama's check to arrive it sounds like a good deal, but if  you're a working American, you're going to pay for their free ride.

For all of you that wanted change,  you’re getting it.  Hang on to your money.  They're coming to get you!

First double backflip on motorcycle in competition. http://www.grindtv.com/moto/blog/4052/cam-sinclair-lands-first-double-backflip-in-freestyle-motocross-competition/

[Comcast high speed cable for internet] I have had Comcast everything for years and at best, it's okay. When it's working well It is very fast, much faster than Bellsouth. My HD TV cable and hi-speed internet are the best we can get and very costly, but they both go out every day. As for what works after a hurricane--nothing. For days and often weeks. Nothing. I look forward to water, not the internet. 

An American Anthem. Video

[Sandy Downs on Hidden Rooms] She noticed there was a screw loose in the wall? That's how she found the room?

Well, let me tell you, there is a screw loose for sure. Luckily we didn't vote her in for Sheriff.

Helen Thomas is the Democrat's most far left ever news correspondent, journalist and member of the White House Press Corps. She angrily challenged White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs concerning a staged town-hall meeting on health care. News broke that the audience was filled with hand chosen Obama supporters, loaded questions and even close members of the Obama team. As Elroy Jetson's mutt Astro would have put it, "Rut-Ro!"

Helen who has been questioning press secretaries since George Washington's administration, called out the Obama team on staged town-hall meetings, broken campaign promises, lack of promised transparency and trying to control the press. It appears one more life long Democrat is questioning president Obama's honesty, direction and the tactics he's using to achieve his goal--what ever that might be.

Despite Obama's promise that the, must have, Stimulus Package would save or create millions and millions of jobs, the jobless rate rose to 9.5%! Commenting on the economy and America's slide into deeper and deeper debt to Communist China from government overspending, the voice of sanity Scooby-Doo hung his head and whimpered, "Rut-Ro!"

[Sandy Downs]  “Nick's drug bust was not about marijuana.”  To quote Judge Judy, "YOU picked him!"

[Rock on the Rock]  What's with all these people still doing cocaine?  It's not even a fun drug that makes you feel good.  As I remember it back in the 80s, people get real weird on it, talked a lot, said nothing, tell you all their deepest secrets, lie a lot, be OCD(?) and become impotent. 

How can they even afford this stuff?  The worst part was just wanting to be normal again and not being able to sleep.  It is nice to be straight and not have to deal with people whacked out of their minds like those on the Arrest Pages.  What a hard job to be a Police Officer and I hope they all get much deserved pay raises.  Why does the MCSO Spokesperson make more than the Deputies?  That's just wrong.

[Sal's Balls] "Big Pine Key Best Island"  The guy that wrote that article must have ingested mass quantities of those mushrooms that get to your brain.  Big Pine Key sucks and so do the folks who live there.

I was born July 8, 1947. Maybe that's why my balls are so big.  ~Sal

[Tea Bag Demonstration] All you folks who have an opinion on how well things are going or how you think things should go from now on, really should let your voices be heard. Bring yourselves, your opinions, and your signs to the SW corner of US1 and Key Deer Blvd on Saturday morning. I understand that the fun will begin at about 8 am or so and will last till about noon.  The April 15^th shindig was well attended, let’s make this one even better. Don’t forget we’re celebrating our nations birthday, what better way than to honor our founders than by publicly voicing our opinions.

[Famous Last Words] "A million dollars is a lot of money to pay for a whore" were the last words of multimillionaire French banker Edouard Stern, according to his girlfriend, Cecile Brossard, who took offense (and was convicted of killing him in June in Geneva, Switzerland).

[Enthusiasm] There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes, but you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind.  ~Jan Ashford

[Sandra Downs for Sheriff]  These islands have gone nuts in the heat! Wait, I got this uncle from Chicago, who could run Monroe County with a note books and pencil. So he's a bookie, so what?

[Peace Park] Freaking Peace Parks? Why the hell don't you go and get some tools and start fixing poor peoples’ homes instead of conning our tax money to satisfy your mental masturbations? People like you never work at anything worthwhile. Go to Russia and try this crap there.

Damn Girls. Video

[Big Pine Key the Best Place to Live article failed to show photos of Big Pine Redneck Slum] Of course, but you have to understand those articles are never true views of any place. The other articles in the magazine are about several places I have been to. All are BS. Most island spots are junk and starving and nothing but tourist traps. Oops, that's right we live on one, sorry!

I just finished watching “The Day The Earth Stood Still” for the umpteenth time.  It’s one of my favorite, corny, old movies.  In one of the final scenes Klatu (the spaceman) tells the woman who has befriended him that the robot Gort has the power to destroy the earth and, “If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort and say these words:  Klatu Barada Nicto.”  I sure wish we had a “Barada Nicto” thing to use on Obama before it’s too late!

[From the Right] The absolute truth is that Obama was dead set against the Iraq incursion. He’s bragged about it, but he couldn’t vote on the Iraq use of force resolution because he wasn’t in the Senate until 2004. On October 11, 2002, The Senate voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to use force in Iraq. This contrary to the misguided poster who claimed that  every single Congress person voted “yes”.  After Obama’s   Senate election he continually spoke out against the war, he  Harry Reid, and a host of other Dems railed that the conflict was lost and they worked hard to stifle the “surge”. (By the way, Obama now is following Bush’s good example by pushing a surge in Afghanistan)  In October 2002 Obama made an impassioned speech against the war.  On 11/25/2002 in an NPR interview Obama said he would have voted against the war. In January 2007, Obama said: "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."  On March 21^st, 2007, on the floor of the Senate, Obama said “There is no military solution to this war”.  Obama on 6/20/07 said “"Here's what we know. The surge has not worked”. If you insist on denying those facts, then you would be comfortable in denying morning. In re N. Korea: On 1/29/02 GWB’s coined the term “Axis of Evil”. He named Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea as being fomenters and enablers of terrorism.  GWB instituted a number of initiatives to bring these rogue states to civilization. Iraq is now a democracy. Iran is in flux. N. Korea received strict sanctions from the UN and unilaterally the US. These sanctions drove N. Korea to engage in 6 party talks. The PRK agreed to concessions. N. Korea actually permitted re-inspection of their nuke facilities and agreed to stand down from its avowed intent to secure nukes.  As a result N. Korea was delisted as a sponsor of terror and certain of the sanctions that had been imposed were relaxed. As the end of GWB’s term drew close and the new US president was identified, N. Korea reneged on its promises and again became insanely aggressive. They smell lack of resolve and weakness.  If you can deny these facts you can deny evening.  I can understand, and perhaps even sympathize with the history challenged poster. After all it’s obvious that he has a great deal of admiration for Mr. Obama. Or, he’s nothing but a duped zealot liberal sectarian. Only he knows.  They need a hero. I remember idolizing Captain Marvel, Superman, Batman, and The Green Hornet, all superheroes, but there came a time when I turned 13 and realized that they were fiction. It seems that so many folks were so filled with the hate that was pumped into them by the media that they truly needed their own superhero. History is full of similar stories.

(Part II) On December 6^th, 2008, President Elect Obama promised to “save or create 2.5 million jobs”. Then he championed his stimulus initiative and then later cranked open the flood gates of our tax money. Billions have sluiced away. Yesterday we learned that last month nearly 500,000 jobs were lost in June alone. That follows the 325,000 lost in May. Now the unemployment rate keeps rising and now is kissing double digits at 9.5%. That's 3 a decade high. Since September ’08, when the rate was about 6%, it’s been relentlessly climbing.  It’s been reported that 1.5 million or more net jobs have been lost since 1/01/09. What’s up with that Mr. Obama? Isn't it time to try something else like encouraging businesses to grow by giving them tax incentives to hire or to buy new equipment, or to give raises, or to provide health care to their employees? Tax cuts for businesses and individuals and businesses will get money moving again. It's always worked before, always!  Now about the only sector that's growing is government. Remember government doesn't produce a damn thing.

[Illegals] The guy who wrote the President about the illegals working around here thinks that every foreigner he sees is illegal. They are not residents, but they are working for a legal contractor who rents them out legally to other contractors or businesses. All their papers are in order and they do have permission to work here. I’m talking about the construction and labor going on in the Keys not the individual working illegally for a homeowner or realtor.

I suggest the writer rephrase his rant and call them guest workers because that’s what they legally are (for the most part). I don’t like illegal workers any more than he does, but let’s not confuse them with guest workers.

[Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend] Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.  When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune.  One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman  he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.  'I may look like just an ordinary man,' he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I'll inherit $65 million.'  Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother. Women are so much better at financial planning than men.

[Gangster Government] We have always been a gangster government, and the gangsters were and still are and always will be the banks, the controllers of the natural resources, food and water. What they say is gospel--bet on it!

[Stolen Bike] Blue Cannondale, Delta V with new tires and blue bull horns. I had it for 13 years and really miss it. It’s been gone from my front porch since June 25. Please call 872-3486 or 872-0396 and leave a message for Amy. No questions asked, I just want my bike back.

[Hurricane Shelters, or the lack of] They tell us that they widened the 18 mile stretch and are widening the roads throughout the Keys to facilitate hurricane evacuation. The real reason is to remove the Area of Critical State Concern designation from the Keys. With that designation in place there can be no development. Once the designation is removed they can develop the Keys however they wish. Why else are developers so eager to get it removed?

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