Monday, July 7, 2014

“Provide residents and visitors of the planning area with a safe and useable transportation system for vehicles, bicycles and pedestrian with opportunities for transit systems where appropriate.”

Current Conditions Summary says other general corridor deficiencies have been identified, including lack of curbs and controlled access, unsafe conditions involving potential vehicle/bicycle/pedestrian conflicts, inadequate cross walks, and other problems.

Much of the community’s discussion on improving the planning area focused on upgrading and improving the design of the US-1 corridor. It will be essential to partner with FDOT to make the most of the suggested improvements. The Key Largo/US-1 Corridor Design Plan is a first step in accomplishing the community’s vision of Key Largo. Changes may involve reconfiguration of specific areas, installation or changed signalization and crosswalks, and installation of curb cuts or bicycle/pedestrian improvements along US-1. One challenge will be to accomplish these changes in a coordinated fashion over the entire planning area while ensuring that the Level Of Service will be maintained well into the future.

After several fatalities occurred involving pedestrians and bicyclists trying to cross US1, The Key Largo LCP’s foundation wrote a letter asking for implementation of the community authored Liveable CommuniKeys Plan and create SAFE Pedestrian Crossings in the areas were these accidents were taking place.

FDOT conducted a Pedestrian Mobility and Safety Study. The study showed that the gaps between traffic, required to safely cross  US 1, were at times non existent or not long enough to cross safely. “The majority of pedestrians crossed at midblock in groups of 2-5 and had literally to run to make it safely to the other side…Even cyclists had difficulty crossing US 1…” At times there were  increments as long as 15 minutes when there were no gaps at all. As many as 40 pedestrians were observed trying to cross US 1 in a one hour period.

The Federation maintains that there is a need for safe conditions for all users of US1. How that is accomplished we leave that up to the experts.

Windows 8 is a very unpopular operating system version (like Vista was), so much so that Microsoft is going to change it back to a more traditional desktop user interface next year in Windows 9 and the touch screen apps will become gadgets. Since Windows 7 has over 50% market share (and growing still) and will be supported until 2020, you can opt to wait things out until the bugs are worked out of Windows 9. If you want the right operating system, buy what corporations who buy the most hardware choose, you can’t go wrong there. In the future, you may want to ask this type of question on Reddit, another PC type forum or merely use Google and search. Link

The health of the reef depends in large part on parrotfish. This is for two reasons. First, parrotfish are herbivores. They graze on the algae that is constantly trying to take over the reef. This keeps the reef clear of algae so that the coral polyps can get the sunlight that they need to survive.

Parrotfish graze by biting off chunks of coral. They crunch these up between specialized bony plates in their throats, digest all of the greenery, and they subsequently excrete nothing but the finest, whitest, softest coral sand, the very sand that makes the romantic tropical beaches. It’s quite funny to see what happens if you disturb a whole school of them—they drop their entire load and disappear in a flash, leaving nothing but a white cloud of sand slowly dropping to the ocean floor, eventually to be swept by the waves up onto the beach. Unfortunately, although parrotfish are wary during the day, they sleep at night out in the open. As a result, the advent of the waterproof flashlight has led to their local extinction on many reefs.

What the scientist realizes is that with just a fraction of the money that is spent on the bogus problem of climate, it would likely be enough to solve all the Caribbean coral reef problems. Link

Carson was perhaps the most famous trapper and guide in the West. He traveled with the expeditions of John C. Fremont in the 1840s, leading Fremont through the Great Basin. Fremont’s flattering portrayal of Carson made the mountain man a hero when the reports were published and widely read in the east. Later, Carson guided Stephen Watts Kearney to New Mexico during the Mexican-American War. In the 1850s he became the Indian agent for New Mexico, a position he left in 1861 to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel in the 1st New Mexico Volunteers.

Although Carson’s unit saw action in the New Mexico battles of 1862, he was most famous for his campaign against the Indians. Despite his reputation for being sympathetic and accommodating to tribes such as the Mescaleros, Kiowas, and Navajo, Carson waged a brutal campaign against the Navajo in 1863. When bands of Navajo refused to accept confinement on reservations, Carson terrorized the Navajo lands–burning crops, destroying villages, and slaughtering livestock. Carson rounded up some 8,000 Navajo and marched them across New Mexico for imprisonment on the Bosque Redondo Reservation, over 300 miles from their homes, where they remained for the duration of the war.

Obama’s administration has failed to secure the border and is unlikely to deport more than a small percentage of the illegals, despite the high unemployment rates among American Latino, African-American and white youths. The strapped budgets of many cities and towns are certain to take huge hits from the illegal immigrants, because they, without a doubt, will be reliant on public assistance to survive.

While the Obama administration has been bragging of accomplishing record numbers of deportations, it has been learned that they cooked the books. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, in sworn testimony to a Congressional committee, admitted that the Obama Administration has been artificially inflating deportation numbers. While the administration has claimed a “record number” of deportations, dishonestly earning Pres. Obama the nickname “Deporter in Chief”, Johnson admitted that they have been counting border apprehensions that are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as deportations. Johnson revealed that “”Under the Obama administration, more than half of those removals that were attributed to ICE are actually a result of Border Patrol arrests that wouldn’t have been counted in prior administrations.” Further, it has been learned that when a newly apprehended illegal immigrant voluntarily agrees to turn around and go back to Mexico, that voluntary return is counted as a deportation. The illegal is routinely told that if he/she just goes back, it will not count against their record.

The humanitarian aspect of this tsunami of illegal immigrants is tragic, it need not have occurred. The fault lies squarely on Obama’s shoulders.

Obama unilaterally, with his pen and phone, put in place a doctrine known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This edict allowed some illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to defer deportation, in June the program was extended for two years.

That coupled with Obama’s notorious dedication to keeping our borders wide open, led to a massive, but false, belief in South/Central America and Mexico that if a child from that area were to set foot on American soil the Obama admin would issue a “permisso”, a document that grants the child permission to be in the USA. In effect, that rumor has turned out to be true. Many illegal immigrant children seek out Border Patrol Agents so that they can get their “permisso.”

As a result of the Obama policy tens of thousands of children have been uprooted from their homes, been subjected to rape, murder, and being sold into slavery while chasing the golden grail of US residency.

Many of these children are afflicted with communicable disease, lice, and scabies, yet the Obama admin is bussing and flying them to our heartland. A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Deer Friends, this is getting dire.

We are a nation of immigrants, but the current wholesale influx of immigrants who flaunt our laws across our southern border is nothing at all like our ordered policies of the past. My first wife was an immigrant, from Germany. There were many legal hurdles that she had to cross to gain first her US residency then her citizenship. The day she was sworn in as a US citizen was one of the proudest days of her life.

Most Republicans strongly favor immigration reform, but properly will not accede to any measures that make it easier to become a resident or citizen of the US unless our southern border is first secured, locked down. Our liberal friends say that a border fence would not work. If that is so, why is the White House surrounded with a fence.

Please also consider that the Mexican narco terrorist have established ties with Muslim jihadists. Our wide open Mexican border is an open invitation for them