Friday, March 12, 2015

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering…Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Blessing my friends….. PS.. It’s ..Tarpon Time & the best Dolphin fishing of the year is over the next few months. I will start my fishing season in a few weeks, with any luck photo’s, stories & a few less than truthful accounts will be shared…Blessings

Although Black History Month ended Saturday, last Wednesday, March 4th  was the 150th anniversary of a very significant event, not only for African Americans, but for all citizens.  It was the anniversary of President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.  Most will remember the closing  words from that speech:

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive onto finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds;to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow,and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

“The challenge with rooting out corruption is that the people who would need to get rid of it are usually the same people who benefit the most from it. And if the highest levels of government are corrupt, then everyone else gets the message that it’s all right to be corrupt.”

Reality is MOST of the fish we eat in the Keys is imported. Atlantic Seafood, Chic Fillets, Captain Tom’s, Sysco all bring fish to the restaurants down here. Do you think the shrimp used on shrimp night are Keys pinks? They used to be. Now they come in a white box from Sysco. Just look in the dumpster. Any fish you order out of season is imported. Conch is definitely imported. Sorry to bust your dreams, but the days of “fresh” are long gone in our food supply. Look at the size of the average catch today, tiny in comparison to what was just 15 years ago. Part of it is because BP polluted the Gulf breeding grounds, most of it is thanks to us, human consumption.

Businesses for sale. While there are extenuating circumstances causing the sale of a couple of those businesses mentioned, the bottom line is…. the bottom line. It is getting harder to turn a profit on food down here because restaurants are forced to buy food from certain purveyors. Gone are the days of a restaurant owner buying fresh caught local seafood from a local or recreational fisherman. The whole process is licensed now, adding costs to the product and our meals. While you’re right, the service sucks down here, it only sucks when we’re inundated with the northern hurry up and wait folks from the northeast. Thankfully they’ve begun migrating north. See you next year!

I moved here from another vacation area, and back then the locals complained about the tourists and didn’t patronize local businesses – guess what, now it’s a very depressed area – the tourists moved to better options, and the locals are unemployed and their house prices crashed. Don’t you think that’s a real possibility for us when Cuba opens up??

A coalition of Blacks, Latinos, Feminists, Gays, Government Workers, Union Members, Environmental Extremists, The Media,   Hollywood , uninformed young people, the “forever needy,” the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other “fellow travelers” have ended Norman Rockwell’s   America . The Cocker Spaniel is off the front porch… The Pit Bull is in the back yard. The American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and   Chicago   shyster, David Axelrod, along with international Socialist George Soros will be pulling the strings on their beige puppet to bring us Act 2 of the New World Order.

Our side ran two candidates who couldn’t even win their own home states, and Chris Christie helped Obama over the top with a glowing “post   Sandy ” tribute that elevated the “Commander-in-Chief” to Mother Teresa status. (Aside: with the way the polls were run, he didn’t need any help!) People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will never again comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.

You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take Zealots, not moderates & shy not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status.

Those who come after us will have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to “white guilt” and political correctness

FTR’S RESPONSE: The poster has no understanding of the Logan Act, nor of the responsibilities of the Legislative branch of our government.

Many of the current sanctions that have been levied against Iran are the result of laws passed by the Legislature. It is apparent that Obama is telling the Iranians that he will remove those sanctions. Obama does not have that power, he is lying to the Iranians. No surprise there.

Each and every treaty with any foreign power must be presented to the Senate for approval and have the approval of two thirds of the Senators present for the vote. Obama is attempting to skirt that fact by calling this proposed debacle yet another “Executive Order.” Obama’s proposed Iran agreement will not have the force of law, and will likely expire the moment the next President is sworn in. That effectively gives Iran about 21 extra months to continue enriching uranium and stockpiling it. It draws Iran ever nearer to having a nuke.

Incredibly Obama and his sycophants railed against the Senate letter by saying that it infuriated the Iranian “moderates.”  It is stunning that Obama and his followers can consider the Ayatollah Houmani a “moderate.”  He and his are the single biggest sponsors of worldwide terror. Also, there is reason to believe that the Iranian leaders have little or no knowledge of our Constitution.

It is an absolute mystery to me how Obama, or anyone, could place even an iota of trust that Houmani would honor any agreement.

Remember that this man has sworn to eradicate Israel and Jews. Remember that this man is sworn to establish a worldwide caliphate. Remember that this man fully welcomes Armageddon as a precursor to Islamic paradise. Most importantly remember that this man is an absolute dictator.

As to the Logan Act. It is a law passed in 1799, it is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.. Most certainly and absolutely the US Senate and its members ARE “authorized citizens” in that their approval of Treaties is mandatory.  As an aside, over the course of the years there has never been a prosecution for violation of the Logan Act. There was one indictment in 1803. That case was quietly dropped.

History is replete with US elected officials attempting to influence foreign governments and thus drawing the ire of the President. Amongst those persons is Herbert Hoover, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat House Speaker Jim Wright,  John Sparkman and George McGovern. Amongst private citizens who have so acted are Jesse Jackson and Jane Fonda.

In any event the Senators did not negotiate nor interfere with Obama’s initiative, they simply informed the Iranians of the law of our land. I suggest that you read the letter itself. It is to be found at Link

In 2006, the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct warned departing members of the terms of the Act in an official Memorandum. The Committee commented in the Memorandum that the Act, “…has never been the basis of a prosecution, and this Committee has publicly questioned its constitutionality…… To suggest that the 47 Senators committed treason is patent nonsense.

Respectfully submitted:   FTR