Monday, November 10, 2014

-Vacation rentals are supposed to be regulated to a certain amount and no more. Vacation rentals intensities are supposed to be well distributed throughout Marathon. More vacation rentals exist than is allowed. In places in Marathon over 50% of a street is vacation rentals. The city should investigate and correct the situation to code.

-With a shake up on the Marathon City Council, there is one councilmember to be elected mayor. That is Chris Bull. You need to be on the council for at least two years before considering yourself for mayor.

Pat Croce and few of the others in Key West, along with the new conglomerate owners outside KW must have fat accounts with SYSCO, Cheny Brothers and GFS. No matter how you slice it, we’re eating the same old overpriced packaged crap no matter where we eat.

Fresh fish? ha ha ha “Conch” Republic? It’s all imported conch in your fritters and ceviche. Stone crab season? A bust again. Dare I say anything about the condition of the reefs? Thanks NOAA, you’ve done a bang up job at saving nothing except your jobs!

We will have Walmart, Subway, Popeye’s and Bojangles Chicken soon.

Add to this a suggestion we cancel Fantasy Fest for three years to try and figure out how to stop the old fat and uglies from exposing their titties. All that’s left of the Keys are the fantasies of the aging, white-bread tourists who still come here. Just pass an ordinance that titties over 40 years old have to be covered up, fake or not.

Time to head out for breakfast, tilapia (fake fish) and grits. To think I’d ever ask for grunts and grits was a joke 20 years ago, today not so much.

12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart

Right or wrong, the decision makers have said they want the science and what has been provided to them so far has not convinced them. Many of us believe AWT[?] water will percolate up from the shallow wells and contribute to nutrient loading of near shore waters defeating the purpose of sewers. Many of us believe the existing ground water conditions at the landfill can be confirmed and that migration of that sequestered contaminated landfill water as a result of shallow well injection can be proven. This should not take 5 years. It should become evident very quickly if someone tests the theory.

I don’t speak for any group, association, or petitioner, but I hold this belief. If a compromise were to start the design and permitting of a deep well immediately (a one year process) and a well designed and controlled study was started immediately, then I believe what we all believe will be confirmed and a deep well will become mandatory within the time required to design and permit it. If I’m right, this is the fastest path to a deep well. No offense to attorneys everywhere, but I see more risk in the legal challenge receiving a fair and impartial hearing (and decision) than I see in the ability to craft a study that will prove what we all believe. Of course this assumes a fair, open, well designed and controlled study.

Shallow injection wells would only serve to speed the delivery of leachate to the bay, while adding its own nutrient load.

The fact that the plant is undersized for the true quantity of wastewater that will be pumped there, and that FKAA is lying about average daily flow being under 1 million gallons per day, is immaterial to all the other laws that prohibit adding anything more to already impaired waters. FKAA and the County could not have botched this project any more than they have, but like true politicians they boast about what a great job they are doing. FKAA’s own consulting engineers told them in 2008 that two deep wells would be essential, but FKAA ignored the facts in favor of expediency. And when very highly qualified people bring these sewer issues to his attention Commissioner Neugent keeps telling us “I trust our engineers”. Why? Why doesn’t he trust the qualified engineers the BOCC paid to advise his engineers instead? So he can spend more millions to repair a bridge to Pigeon Key so more tourists can crap in the cesspit there?

The Florida Keys have been fortunate, experiencing a rapid recovery from the recent recession and unprecedented increases in tourism, while experiencing continued population increases of full-time residents. Our fisheries are sustainable, corals and sea-grasses are showing remarkable signs of recovery from natural disasters such as hurricanes and sea-borne viruses and the future bodes well for all of us.

It is vitally important for all of us to continue on a successful track of protecting our marine resources and especially estuarine and near-shore areas vital to the growth and development of the multitude of species that inhabit our waters both inshore and offshore.

We strongly encourage you to plan for the long-haul and future generations with your consideration and approval of a deep injection well for the Cudjoe Bay area. While the cost is significantly higher than shallow wells, in the long term the implementation of a deep injection well provides a significant margin of safety and affords substantial protections to our marine environment and our economy.
Sincerely,  Capt. Bill Kelly, Executive Director Florida Keys Commercial Fishermen’s Association

Yes: Eden Pines is a good neighborhood, but keep your stuff locked up, car included.  There’s a few crumbs in every loaf.

For fun things to do, start checking out the island.  There are a lot of back roads with interesting stuff to see including some very old homestead sites.  Buy a bicycle. There are nice places to sun or take a swim if you just look for them.  Stop by the Blue Hole every once in awhile and look for the gator but don’t feed it or try to get a selfie with it.  Learn to fish.  Learn to snorkel and/or scuba dive and check out our nearshore reefs.  Learn to live on “island time.”  Join the local Moose Lodge.  Shop local as much as possible and support our local business folks.  They’re here for you and will remember you with good service and fair prices.  Please don’t tell us how you did it up north, we don’t care. And, last but not least, find a local watering hole to slake your thirst in the afternoons whilst bending elbows with your new neighbors.  Welcome!

-“This group has not made any effort to use the local platform(s) of the BOCC or FKAA to civilly discuss the facts of the issue but rather gin up the uneducated…..while refusing to be distracted by those that would debase our accomplishment(s) and cause.”

In other words we’re not listening and several hundred people attending the county commission meeting don’t count. Spending their own time and money trying to show you what a “ginned up” system you are giving people. Meetings with FKAA and other agencies by well educated people who do want a good sewer system are ignored or stonewalled.

-“We all have always openly solicited and taken positive/negative/indifferent public input, respectfully, and still do.”

No you don’t. You said the discussion was over – period. No “Losers” and the “uneducated”.

-“A transparent ruse to interrupt progress on the Cudjoe Regional Project.”

-Totally BS. They want sewers and a good project.
-“Speaking out as one the few that can truly say, “We accepted the challenge to accomplish the task of FS99-395. From inside the arena and with tenacity and persistence, we weathered the slings & arrows from beginning to end while refusing to be distracted by those that would debase our accomplishment(s) and cause.” “We, amongst the champions and agencies, who have worked tirelessly… ”

Blah Blah Blah. I am wonderful public servant and been here 16 years and I don’t have to listen to facts and engineers who disagree.

Definition : My FOX talking points were not recieved yet which means

My opinions have not been received yet.

It is true that mid-term elections tend to go against the party of the President in power, but the results of this election were clearly a solid rejection of Obama and left field ideology.

Republicans took control of the Senate and a surprising number of governorships. But they also won a record number of state legislature seats.

Republicans now control state government outright in at least 24 states, one more than they did before the election. They control at least 66 of 99 state legislative chambers nationwide. And they cut the number of states with total Democratic control from 14 to seven — the lowest number since the Civil War.

Many of the precepts of Democrat dogma have been shown to be utterly false. For example, the leftist canard that the Republicans are at war with women and are the party of old white men, has been exploded.

Please consider that 3 of the 5 Republican female US Senatorial candidates won. One of the Democrat female US Senatorial candidates was able to barely eke out a win. Our Congress now has its first Haitian American female Congressperson, Mia Love. At 30, Elise Stefanik of upstate New York is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Republicans have just elected their first Senator who is an American of African ancestry. In addition to electing its first female Senator, Republican Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia just elected the youngest person ever elected to their state legislature, an 18 year old Republican woman.

Democrat pollsters and campaign managers made a dire prediction: they warned of crushing Democratic losses across the country if the party did not do more to get black voters to the polls. The Democrats bragged of their “ground game” and spent tens of millions of dollars and even more man hours spent by paid campaign workers courting the black vote.

Nonetheless, generally, Black turnout was minimal. But in a few areas the number of Blacks who did vote was not substantially less that the 2012 election. But to the horror of the leftists, of those that did vote, a surprising number of them voted for Republican candidates. For example NBC News has revealed that in North Carolina, a closely-watched race between Democrat Kay Hagan and Republican Thom Tillis, black voters made up 21 percent of the electorate, just 2 percentage points less than in 2012. Yet, Hagen still lost. That suggest that between 25 and 50% of the black vote went to Republican Tillis.

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Live reported that they had interviewed an 82 y/o Black woman who said that she voted straight Republican for the first time in her life.

Many Americans of African ancestry are coming to realize that the Democrats and especially Obama, have done nothing to break their bonds of poverty. They are coming to realize that leftist beliefs and practices has savaged America’s middle class. Middle class Americans of all ethnicities are suffering. The Black community is coming to realize that the Democrat hierarchy has been using them as a reliable voting block for decades. They are coming to realize that the Democrats disrespect them. The statement “Obama and the Democrats love the poor so much that they have created millions more” shamefully now rings true.

In addition to the Democrat’s problems with Black voters, Latino voters are realizing that they are being “played” by Obama and the Democrats. Latino voters either stayed home or voted for Republican candidates. An excellent example is our own Republican Curbelo vs Democrat incumbent Garcia race for Congress. Both are Latin, both are from Miami Dade county. Republican Curbelo won the race by a comfortable margin.

Much of the “mainstream media” reported that the most recent BOLS unemployment numbers were good news. They reported that the new u/e rate is 5.8%. But, they did not report that that black u/e rate was nearly double that of whites at 10.9%. The unemployment rate of black youths is nearly twice that of white youths.

Nor did they report that there are now 2.2 million persons who are marginally attached to the labor force, that’s nearly unchanged from last year. Among that number there are 770k “discouraged” workers, that too unchanged from last year. They are labeled “discouraged” because they are not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.

The American dream, shared by Blacks and Latinos, of owning a home and of being solidly middle class is evaporating under Democrat governance.

Deer Friends, under Democrat governance, we have endured the slowest and worst recovery from recession, ever! That recession was over in July of 2009. Until last Tuesday, the Democrats have been in total or near total control of our governance.

Americans realize that the foregoing is but a part of the reason that the Democrats were routed in last Tuesday’s election.