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Published on Big Pine Key’s garbage pick-up days,
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![]() Bandmates had expected Watts to rejoin the band. “We really look forward to welcoming Charlie back as soon as he is fully recovered,” Jagger tweeted on Aug. 4. Link |
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[Crooks] Key West-based labor-staffing businesses face immigration fraud charges. The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted three men who operated labor-staffing companies in Florida and Key West on charges of conspiracy to harbor non-resident aliens and induce them to remain in the country and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Link |
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Only nice people paint. ~Bob Ross |
[No Use For Children] We are old and never liked or wanted kids. No use for them. Until last week. We had a visit from a 12 year-old girl and an 8 year-old boy for 4 days along with their sweet mother. We thought our routine would be disrupted, but it wasn’t. I still got to take a siesta evert day. They were so well behaved and original. They brightened up our lives. Everything they came up with was new to us. I hadn’t realized how out of touch I was with the modern world and city people. What a different world than old people’s. How refreshing youth is. Trying to look at life through children’s eyes was a real fun experience. We dreaded their visit, but now wish they stayed longer. Maybe they’ll return! |
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The FDA officially approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has a 91 percent efficacy, according to recent data. Link |
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[Friday Joke] MEN‘S HELP LINE – Letter of the Month Hi John, I really need your advice on a seriousproblem: I have suspected for some time now that my wife has been cheating on me. The usual signs: if the phone rings and I answer, the caller hangs up; she goes out with the girls a lot. I try to stay awake to look out for her when she comes home but I usually fall asleep. Anyway last night about midnight I hid in the shed behind the boat. When she came home she got out of someone’s car buttoning her blouse, then she took her panties out of her purse and slipped them on. It was at that moment crouched behind the boat that I noticed a hairline crack in the outboard engine mounting bracket. Is that something I can weld or do I need to replace the whole bracket? |
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![]() [COVID Commissioner] Another Monroe County Commissioner hospitalized with COVID-19. Upper Keys Monroe County Commissioner Mike Forster is currently hospitalized in Miami with COVID-19. Link |
[Fox Guarding Henhouse] The Taliban is protecting Americans at Afghan airport. What could go wrong? They only let one suicide bomber pass through so far. |
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Number of years it took each product to gain 50 million users. |
[Bad Editorship] The headline read: “Giant emerald found” and then the story describes how a giant sapphire was found. Odd. |
![]() The important thing is that, every two hours, you must drink some liquid. You should drink 8-10 eight-ounce glasses of water a day. Gin and tonic doesn’t count. |
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[Masks] Staying home or staying at least 6 feet apart from others is the best way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. But as more people get vaccinated, and as businesses, schools, and summer camps reopen, that’s no longer a viable or necessary strategy. What does remain necessary, though, is wearing a mask when you’re taking public transit, visiting transportation hubs (such as airports), and working in or visiting health-care settings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says unvaccinated people should continue wearing masks whenever indoors in public and while outdoors in crowds (or when otherwise unable to maintain a distance from others). |
![]() [The Party Never Stopped — Until It Did] Federal aviation officials say a woman was fined $17,000 for drinking alcohol not served by the airline, vaping and refusing to wear a mask on a flight from Key West. Link |
[Jeff Bezos Suing NASA] Here’s why. The Amazon CEO is taking on the US space agency as his prime target. Here’s the context on the dispute—and NASA’s moonshot plans. Link |
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[Friday Joke] Bob was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was really angry. She told him “Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds and it better be there!” The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up, she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway. Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, brought the box back in the house. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale. Bob has been missing since Friday! |