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(Ed: It’s alive and well. I got a good deal on a Motorola smartphone there Tuesday.)

All memberships are renewable on January 1. There is a form on page 2 of the Newsletter.  Full Menu > Ongoing Events

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Sunday, January 18th from Noon till 4 at the Sugarloaf Lodge Parking lot (West end).  MM17. Antique, classic, hot rod, specialty cars, trucks & motorcycles will be on display at this FREE event. There will be great music, a 50/50 drawing, and t-shirts and tanks for only $12. New members are always welcome.  Contact Dick Moody (305) 942-1758 Events

Please plan on attending the meeting this Friday. It is scheduled to begin at the Marathon government building at 9 AM. If you could arrive 15 minutes ahead of that time we could meet in front of the building, exchange names, ideas, etc. Thank you in advance.

When they return to our matriarchal society where they cannot be permitted to be alpha males in their own households and cannot earn their keep, the mental trauma becomes unbearable.

Forgotten Felines is an all volunteer organization which provides food and veterinary care to homeless and abandoned cats in the Middle and Lower Keys.  They also place adoptable cats in loving homes and strive to educate the public about the imprtance of proper care and spay/neuter of pets.  In the nearly two decades of its existence, Forgotten Felines has spayed/neutered more than 3,000 cats.  They also maintain a number of daily feeding stations which service several hundred homeless cats.

Anyone interested in becoming a Forgotten Felines volunteer should call (305) 743-2520. Events

(Ed: Here it is again:) [“Corrosive water”] Metal plumbing fixtures rot out here even without FKAA’s water in them. They rot on the shelf. FKAA controls the pH to a little over 9, partly so that the water will not be as capable of picking up metals from the piping. That is not to say that FKAA water is advisable to drink. Lots of nasty chemicals and drugs are in the aquifer that supplies most of the water to the plant, and these go right through the main treatment plant and then are piped to your faucet. Many contaminants are not tested for. The Consumer Confidence Report that you are sent every year is not at all representative of what reaches your home. That report is mandated by the state to make the customers feel better about what they are drinking and is another exercise in deceit. Sometimes the very fine print will tell you that the numbers in the report are not even from the past year.

You can get your own Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) meter online for about $15. My water in BPK contains typically 2 to 4 times what the report says. I tested a friend’s water in Bay Point and found 16 times the TDS! What is in it besides calcium? who knows? When FKAA water evaporates it leaves a lot of nasty looking brown crud behind that can plug your showerhead and make it look like you never clean the sink. The water is disinfected with chlorine and ammonia (chloramine) in Florida City. Both disinfectants are corrosive and carcinogenic. The disinfectant is depleted along the way creating disinfection by-products (DBP) that are powerful carcinogens. Additional chlorine is added along the way for the lower Keys. Because certain people at FKAA insist on over-sizing water pipes, there is a good chance that if you are near the end of a side street, your water has no disinfectant left– just the DBPs.

FKAA also adds fluoride to the water to protect your teeth, which is nonsense. If you live in the Keys you may not have many real teeth left, but even if you do have a few, the fluoride in water goes right past as you ingest it. Fluoride then carries the aluminum that was added to the water past your body’s blood-brain barrier that would normally block it. Hello, Alzheimer’s! Fluoride also disrupts your endocrine system, reducing thyroid function among others effects. It is stored in your bones where it makes them brittle. Hip fractures were found to be near double in fluoridated communities. Fluoride is strongly associated with bone cancer, especially in boys. Fluoride reduces IQ by about 10 points in children, and was used as a pacification agent by the Nazis. You may know that fluoride is a very hazardous industrial waste also used as an insecticide, and is now mostly supplied from China. Testing of Chinese sodium fluoride has found shocking contaminants including uranium.

At the least, you should put a carbon filter between FKAA water and your showerhead to prevent breathing chlorine fumes which are associated with lung cancer, and use a reverse osmosis (RO) filter system on water you drink to remove almost everything including fluoride. My TDS reading is about 200 before and 0-1 after the RO filter. Here is a very informative letter discussing the hazards of tea drinking, just because of the fluoride content. Link

DEF: Imports n, Products made from recycled debris from products made from older recycled debris.
DEF: Exports n, Products imported then relabeled for export and marked up 2000 percent!
DEF: Christie n, A over stuffed buffoon being Obama-ized for 2016 by the NJ and Texas Mobs.
DEF: Disaster n, A destructive force such as a Muslim hating, Christian loving Female Jewish President!

The death of Garner was a homicide, the Criminal Justice system, not the cops made the decision that the Garner homicide was not a criminal homicide.  The Grand Jury who made that decision consisted of 23 persons, 9 of whom were of color. That Grand Jury heard all of the evidence, heard sworn testimony from the NYC Medical Examiner, sworn testimony from police and civilian eyewitnesses, and decided that there was no criminality on the part of the arresting officers.

Please think about the fact that the cops were dispatched to enforce tax laws. Tax laws! Garner died because he violated tax laws. The cops were under the supervision of a black sergeant. The then commander of the Uniform Division, Phillip Black, is black. It was he who ordered the crack down on the sale of “loosie” cigarettes. The city of NYC, with its liberal governance, demanded savage enforcement of terribly petty tax laws. It’s hard to believe that the NYPD brass actually dispatched a squad of officers to force a single man to stop violating tax laws by selling “loosie” cigarettes. But they did.

Garner was morbidly obese and no stranger to law enforcement. He chose to resist the lawful orders of the police officers, he resisted arrest. That resistance is a crime. He was taken to the ground with a “take down” hold. After that hold was released he repeatedly spoke to the officers. Had he been choked, that would not have been possible. News reports tell us that Garners hyoid bone was intact, and there was no tissue damage to Garners throat. Hence, Garner was not “choked” to death. His death was a cascade of failures in Garner’s morbidly obese body.

There is a video that shows the cops caring for the prone Garner. At 6:37 into that video, a witness asks a cop why no one is doing CPR on the supine Garner. A cop states: “because he’s breathing.” The witness responds: “Oh”.  Link The video makes it clear that the on scene cops were caring for Garner. If you have interest in learning more about the issue, I suggest that you read the article to be found at Link

The ignorance and hubris of the critic is stunning. He wrote:  “Ask him (FTR) how many times he reported a fellow officer for breaking the law. The answer will probably be zero. After a long career in law enforcement I’ll bet he never reported anyone for the crimes he knew or suspected his comrades of doing.”

FTR’S RESPONSE: The fact is that the answer to that question is every time I learned of allegations of law breaking on the part of police in my jurisdiction or under my supervision. My agency and I personally have successfully investigated and prosecuted cops, judges, public employees, and elected officials for crimes ranging from Murder 2 to petit larceny. I’ve also disciplined cops that worked under my supervision with punishments ranging from suspensions w/o pay, demotions, and ass chewings to firing. That’s during more than 3 and a half decades in the business.

Make no mistake……every barrel may have rotten apples. But the rotten cops are few and far between. The vast majority, the very vast majority of cops are hardworking, honest, dedicated public servants. I was and am proud to have been of their ranks. The rotten apples are but a tiny fraction of the force.

The critics seem to be constitutionally unable to avoid insults. This critic chose to attempt to insult me by suggesting that I had been a “school crossing guard”. The critic failed. Working as a school crossing guard is honest and honorable employment. There can be no more honorable endeavor than protecting our children.

Finally, just for the record, I suggest that you read my posting of Wednesday, January 7th, wherein I propose that an entire new methodology of investigating deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers is necessary.

PART 2) THE MEDIA HAS CONVINCED MANY THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE AT WAR WITH WOMEN! If that’s true, then many, many women have not gotten the message. There are a slew of younger women who are rising stars in the Republican Party.  An excellent example is Senator Joni Ernst.

Brand new U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, Republican, Iowa, is a person you’d be proud to meet. She’s the U.S. Senate’s first female veteran. In addition to being a Senator, she is also a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard. She spent 14 months in Kuwait in 2003-2004 as a company commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom. She’s been in the Guard since 1993.

Senator Ernst is a fiscal conservative, she has expressed her support for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, as well as a reduction in spending on entitlement programs and discretionary spending. Link