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![]() It would be funny if it wasn’t such a tragic waste of taxpayer money that could have been spent on projects that would have benefited the environment or buffered against the effects of rising sea level. The residents of the island, who will be inconvenienced and waste lots of money on gas to drive many extra miles to get to and from their homes don’t seem to mind this at all. According to Kevin Kalasz, the project spokesman, “the soils in the area are hyper saline right now”. That indicates that after the wettest fall and early winter on record on Big Pine Key the project does not work. The water in the area should be just starting to increase in salinities after reaching the most fresh levels in January (because of unusually levels of rain in December}. It rained 5.21 inches in December 2023 and 1.80 inches in January 2024. Much of this project area is below sea level, and removing the fill and relocating it to Key Largo did not help in lowering salinities, since much of the sodium chloride can enter the site from below. Much more could be said about why this project doesn’t work and how poorly designed it is. The thousands of people who will waste hours of their life, and lots of their money so that the agents of USFWS can attempt to correct their mistakes should consider complaining to the County Commissioners. They gave permission to USFWS to tear up your vital roads and adversely effect your life. Whatever the people who thought up this project think needs to be done to correct the mistakes, needs to be done in several days, not over a month. Call your Monroe County Commissioner: 305 292 4512 or any County Commissioner. |
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Another common Tax scam involves notifications of a ‘tax refund’ that you didn’t expect. These are attempts to lure you into sharing sensitive information like your Social Security number or bank account details. The IRS will never initiate contact with taxpayers via email, text messages, or social media channels to request personal or financial information. |
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[“Monroe County sheriff’s deputy arrested”] No worries. Monroe County police know they are above the law. He’ll quietly be slapped on the wrist while getting plenty of “attaboys” from his peers and the legal system. |
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[Friday Joke] A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans. Saint Peter addresses this cool guy, ‘Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?’ The guy replies,’ I’m Jack, retired airline pilot from Houston.’ Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the pilot, ‘Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom.’ The pilot goes into Heaven with his robe and staff. Next, it’s the priest’s turn. He stands erect and booms out, ‘I am Father Bob, pastor of Saint Mary’s for the last 43 years.’ Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the priest, ‘Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom.’ ‘Just a minute’ says the good father. ‘That man was a pilot and he gets a silken robe and golden staff, but I get only cotton and wood. How can this be?’ ‘Up here – we go by results,’ says Saint Peter. ‘When you preached, people slept. When he flew, people prayed.’ |
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[Scam] A series of meetings have been held over the past 4 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization, this ended 7 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is to the tune of One Million, Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($1,200,000.00) due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reasons and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund, bla, bla, bla. |
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[Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards] A cheeky otter, relatable sleepy ground squirrel, and the death stare of a gannet. Link |
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[Floodwater Culvert Failure] “the soils in the area are hyper saline right now” This shows that the project doesn’t work. They admit it and want to rebuild the whole thing. It was never going to work. The area has experienced great rainfall since they built the culverts on Watson and Key Deer Blvd. There was more than enough rain to reduce the salinity of those effected wetlands if what they claimed was true. Fresh water sat there for months increasing the levels and continually being replenished from the torrential rains. The culverts did nothing. They are higher than the water they were intended to drain. They couldn’t have asked for more rain to test their imagined problem. Again, a bunch of PHDs who have no practical experience doing this and wasting millions on an unnecessary project. It didn’t work as long-time residents warned. Now they have to re-do the project to try and fix their mistake. More millions wasted. |
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[Logic] Help me understand the logic of this: Watching 2 hours of violence in a movie has no influence on our behavior, but a 30 second Super Bowl ad is worth $3.8 million because it will influence our behavior and make us run out and buy a product. |
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[?] Go grocery shopping. Get a cart inside, fill it with groceries, walk to auto, fill it with groceries and return the cart to the secure area for grocery carts. Numerous folks leaving their empty cart in the lot near tons of other cars. The owners of these cars are Cadillac, BMW, etc. Maybe they don’t own their vehicles? Maybe they are so ignorant they don’t care! |
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[AI] I’m struck by the fact that all of a sudden we’re not talking about the impact of robots on blue-collar jobs, but the impact of AI on white-collar jobs. It is super creepy. |
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![]() [Race] US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It’s the first revision in 27 years. Link |
[Friday Jokes] What do you call a cow with only two legs? Lean beef. Why shouldn’t you play poker in the jungle? Too many cheetahs. Did you hear about the cat that aced the test? It got a purr-fect score. Why is the ocean so clean? It has mer-maids. Why did the king go to the dentist? He needed a crown. |
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The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 3/29/24 at 9:30 am. |