Sunday
November 30
2003 |
What is wrong with the term "civil
union" for a gay marriage? All that is needed is insurance and other
legal benefits, not a "marriage".
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30 |
Everyone has an
interest, mine is in getting the canals opened. I am not alone
in this and want to find out what has to take place to make this
happen. We live in a world of bureaucracy but this does not mean
that positive change can not take place. I just need to know
where to start and how to take the steps to help it happen.
There are those who are complacent and allow others to do their
bidding but only because they choose not to make waves or use their
God given voice to speak out for the majority. One person can
make a difference and many people can make it happen. Is asking
for the canals to be opened that political? If it is, then where are
the rights of the voters? And why would it be judged so?
P.S. I do not live on a plugged canal. |
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30 |
Someone told me a singer was looking
for a band and had an ad in here. I cant find it. Can you help?
timothy ludi renntman111@earthlink.net
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30 |
Keeping the canals plugged is just plain
foolish and I don't even live there. |
Saturday
November 29
2003 |
Thank goodness for the legislators of
many Sates in this United States for finally recognizing that the
gay community are as much a part of our society as those who
consider themselves being straight. It goes without saying, "No one,
including the Government, has the right to interfere with what goes
on in the bedrooms of its citizens". Canada, among other forward
thinking nations, has enacted legislation that allows same sex
partners to marry, in line with the other progressive nations. I say
to h**** with the religious right. May they fester in their own
anti-"our way or the highway" beliefs.......
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29 |
The Muslims have never, throughout
history, enjoyed human rights. It is the women who have no freedom,
and the men are not willing to give up control. Kill anyone who does
not believe as they do. It is a matter of uneducated, lower mental
capability that holds the Muslim's captive. They live in fear, anger
and envy. Like a mad dog that has to be put down, there is no hope of
converting the Muslim mindset. |
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29 |
All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE
are being recalled. Don't use any products with that in it. |
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Friday
November 28
2003
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They have a $2,000
refrigerator with an ice maker that still only dispenses a few cubes a
minute. It’s much easier and faster to open the freezer and grab a
handful. It’s also about $1500 cheaper. People are crazy with all
these excesses.
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28 |
Is this your phone number?
This only works for the seven digit phone number--no area code.
1) Key-in the first 3 digits of your phone number into the calculator
2) Multiply by 80
3) Add 1
4) Multiply by 250
5) Plus last four digit of phone number
6) Plus last four digit of phone number again
7) Minus 250
8) Divide by 2 at last
Is it your phone number ? |
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28 |
In 180 days
Massachusetts is going to legalize Gay Unions. About time.
Religions should not feel threatened because this is only for legal
reasons in order to give gay couples their civil rights. Isn't that
the Christian thing to do? |
|
Thanksgiving 2002 |
Americans think the
Moslems are retarded. How can they want to live in the middle ages and
not want to be free? |
27
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The theory that the canals remain
plugged because they are veritable cesspits and opening them would
unleash thousands of gallons of untreated human waste into the ocean
would be valid had the numerous water quality tests indicated high
nutrient levels. But instead, the expert documentation indicates these
canals are environmentally healthy and pose no danger to the ocean.
The fact is, there remains on court record that the top representative
from the Florida DEP stated that the canal system would never be
opened. This statement was made before a formal permit to remove the
plug was filed. This was a pre-judgment based on misinformation,
personal bias of the DEP rep and personal ambition of the hearing
officer. |
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27 |
Enough about the canals, get on with it!
Some people seem to be more interested in human wasteland canals than
their own souls. |
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27 |
This is in response to the several
people who showed interest in the plugged canals. Joan Tucker was the
president of our home owners association in Cahill Pines and Palms who
lead the fight to ...
click here for
the rest
(Ed: I forgot to establish the link
for the rest of the story yesterday..so here it is again.Thanks for
letting me know) |
Wednesday
November 26
2003 |
Here is my theory on
plugged canals versus free flowing -
Most homes in the lower keys have septic/aerobic/cesspit systems.
According to sanitation engineers (I have talked to in the Keys -
before buying my home here), these systems begin to fail the day they
are installed. This is due to the extremely porous subsurface that is
soaked with sea water. Every homeowners sewage merely is transported
into the subsurface water before it gets a chance to decay in the
'imaginary' dry septic system. Another words - the water level in the
canal is exactly the water level below the surface everywhere! Most
canals (unless they are adequately flushed with fresh sea water) have
become open cesspits we all marvel at. The EPA know that if the canals
were opened, (this) would unleash millions of gallons of untreated
human waste into the sea. They think this is bad. The Disney Cruise
Ship, Celebrity Cruise Ship and others don't think human waste is bad.
They dump it everyday a few miles off our coasts. It's legal. Human
waste is not toxic. It's not DDT, or PCB, or radioactive waste. But
instead, it is probably better to bottle it up in the canals and let
it sloooowly leech into the surrounding sea water. This is more
controlled and. Slower. Sewers could help. Sad to say, but the land in
the Keys is similar to 'used' wet toilet paper. |
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26 |
This is in response to the several
people who showed interest in the plugged canals. Joan Tucker was the
president of our home owners association in Cahill Pines and Palms who
lead the fight to ...click
here for the rest |
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26 |
Where's excerds? |
Tuesday November 25
2003
one month to
Christmas |
God-dam it!, enough of the religious
crap. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs, STOP! shoving
yours down peoples throat's. Religion like sexuality should be
between you and yours. Now let's talk about something else, hey did
anyone go to the art fair Sunday across from excerds, it was great!
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25 |
Moving the key deer
the other keys is interfering with nature. When will we stop this
practice? There might have been deer on those keys in the past, but
they’ve left long before the keys were populated. |
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25 |
Where does this board state that
Buddhists are going to hell? I can't seem to find that comment. |
Monday
November 24
2004 |
As a regular follower of this site it
seems to me that with all of the recent godliness that appears to
flow from those who would have us all believe that HE/SHE is the
salvation to all mankind. Surely with all HIS/HER earthly powers
HE/SHE would at the very least clear the clogged canals that have
festered such outrage. Let us pray that HE/SHE are up there
listening to the outcries of we, HIS/HER obedient servants, who, for
the want of something more interesting to debate, have brought upon
themselves the need to create an avenue that will
serve their personal interests and which are of absolutely NO
interest to the vast majority of the residents of BPK - May the
powers of the "Supreme Being" hover over you and bring blessings of
clean canals to your doorstep. AMEN.......
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24 |
By some of your readers' comments it
looks like Buddhists are all bad people and are going to hell because
they don't believe in God. |
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24 |
In response to the plugged canals versus
free flowing, would free flowing canals help with the weed problem? Or
just help change the water from a mysterious solid brown to a crystal
clear green with weed as an accompaniment? |
Sunday
November 23
2003 |
Belief in God makes one spiritually
conscience. Follow the teachings of Jesus to see the light. Otherwise,
muddle through life unenlightened. |
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23 |
Who was working with Joan Tucker to open the canals? How would
we go about starting a committee to open them. Who has a
reasonable explanation as to why they are plugged. What purpose
does it serve to open them or keep them closed. Yes, you have 2
people that are very interested in knowing why the canals are not
allowed to be opened. There are many more that would support
opening them, I am sure. Who has the ultimate say in getting
them opened? Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how we
can rise above the politics and personal conflicts that have caused
them to be closed? |
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23 |
To those new to the area who asked why some of the
canals on Big Pine Key are not free flowing...? Well, I would hate to
dampen anyone's enthusiasm for their new community... But the sad
irony is, our lives and future are in the hands of incompetent
quasi-politicians and wanna-be environmentalists who could never
succeed or compete at that level anywhere else on the mainland, all
with a Napoleon complex who, despite numerous petitions for the canals
to be opened, despite numerous water analyses, surveys and studies
that all indicate our canals are in excellent health, continue to
oppose their being opened because of personal agendas, vendettas and
misinformation. The plugs were initially partial earthen curtains
temporarily placed at the openings of new canals to contain the silt
and particulate matter that was stirred up during real estate
development and dredging, from flowing into the previously dredged
canal beyond the plug. Yet the earthen curtain did not completely
restrict the transfer of fresh sea water and sea life. When the silt
settled, the plugs were to be removed, resulting in a completely open
canal system. But that didn't happen at Cahill Pines and Palms. For
years our plugged canals have been crystal clear and flourishing with
snapper, tarpon and other sea life. But recently the earthen curtain
was replaced with dangerous construction debris and concrete,
entrapping sea life and preventing the exchange of sea water. Try
dumping that stuff into your canal and see what happens if you get
caught. Dumping onto wetlands is dangerous, illegal and vigorously
enforced, but not when the DEP is doing it. We're looking for a
serious and committed interest in this matter and welcome any ideas.
We want the canals opened, which is our right as property owners on
canal systems. |
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23 |
Living in the Keys are both the closest to living in
paradise and farthest thing from it. It is a paradox that perhaps you
have sought here, and have found a refuge from the fast and furiously
paced corporate world. the "Keys lifestyle" is evasive even here.
Where there is money, there is power, and power corrupts. Where there
is corruption, there is anger, and anger destroys. Those who feel
powerless, exploited or lose hope become angry. They either turn their
anger outward or inward. An educated belief in God substantiated in
fact and not blind credulity, stripped away of human tradition,
ritual, and dogmatic emotion that has nothing at all to do with God,
is not a belief based on ignorant acceptance but one founded on
accurate knowledge. Belief of this type gives hope--which is an
assured expectation of the reality to come. Belief is the result of
study, contemplation and application of what has been learned and is
certainly worth pursuing during these turbulent and uncertain times. |
Saturday
November 22
2003 |
| Deepest sympathies
go to the David Wise family of Summerland Key who's 21 year old
son Robert was killed in Baghdad while on patrol. |
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22 |
About time they removed Miriam Oliphant
as the Supervisor of Elections of Broward county. She has been nothing
but derisive and incompetent in her job and the governor should have
removed her a long time ago when she screwed up the presidential
election causing us to have Bush instead of Gore. |
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22 |
Where were you 40
years ago on Nov 22, 1963 when Kennedy was killed? |
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22 |
To
the person who asked why some canals are not free flowing, from what I
hear it's because of politics and personality conflicts on county and
other governmental levels. There have been many efforts on the
part of a few dedicated people to get the plugged canals open, but to
no avail. One champion of this cause, Joan Tucker, recently
passed away, and so now the cause has no clear lead or direction.
Anybody interested in getting the plugged canals open? |
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22 |
A conscience does not come from a belief in God.
I have a very strong conscience and do not believe in anything
supernatural. I’m sure you’ll find that most prisoners do believe in
God and they’re still criminals. Believing in God does not make a
person good. |
Friday
November 21
2003 |
If man were "inherently good" there
would be no crime, no murders, no overflowing prisons. A conscience
comes from belief in God. Wake up! |
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22 |
If everyone is against in God We
Trust. Why the crap don't we cancel Christmas and most Holidays. It
would save me alot of Money and work. Let's start in Florida City
and fill in all the Canals that fish have crapped in, Get over it...
Believe in God and Let Flipper live on..
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22 |
Dick Cheney belongs
in the Nixon White House with all the other scary politicians. |
Thursday
November 20
2003 |
I'm new to the area so bear with me. Why
aren't all canals free flowing? |
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20 |
Re: writer who thinks mankind would
become "savage animals" without the belief in God. Gimme a break. Man
Is inherently good. There are bad people and believing in God won't
change them. Religion is just a crutch to lean on for those unknowns
in ones' life. |
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20 |
No Surprise Here
Dept: attorney Jim Hendrix (Mr. development himself) convinced
Islamarada to forget their “No Chain Store Ordinance” and allow
Walgreen’s to have a store there. |
Wednesday
November 19
2003 |
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh
uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit
pclae. You can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. |
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19 |
US currency has "In GOD we trust", do
you think that was printed there for a reason? Without belief in GOD
and the ten commandments, mankind will become savage animals like the
no-moral terrorists. Where do you think creation came from, if not
God? |
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19 |
What goes around,
comes around dept: England is now an American Colony. |
Tuesday
November 18
2003 |
ED: bigpinekey.com would like to give
a big welcome to Beata and Capt. Jim Sharpe Jr. who are the latest
members of our Business Directory. Check out their website at:
http://beatasharpe.com
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18 |
Did you see those
big tree whackers pruning along the highway last week? They make the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre look gentle. |
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18 |
3 out of 4
Americans agree with the Ten Commandments judge in Georgia. Scary. |
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18 |
Myth over reality? How about morals and common sense
incorporated into the law? |
Monday
November 17
2003 |
The bible judge
with the 2-ton ten commandments put his religious beliefs above the
law. That is the main reason we must enforce separation of church and
state. People could choose myth over reality. |
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17 |
The Ten Commandments had to be removed
from the courthouse, yet we have to swear on the BIBLE to be sworn in
for court? Hypocrites. The anti-Christ are trying, along with the
Muslims to destroy America. Our own courts are allowing this SATANIC
travesty! |
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17 |
Dear Editor: Do you have any idea why I
can't access anything from November 6, 2003 forward? I have tried most
everything I know of and with no success. Your suggestions would be
appreciated.
Ed: I don't know what mysterious things happen when all these words
leave here. I'm checking on it though. |
Sunday
November 16
2003 |
I worry about our younger "generation of
privilege". They expect computers, cell phones, new clothes and new
cars as their RIGHT. They will never have any understanding that most
of the world's other children want only food and shelter. This can
only lead to an artificial reality. |
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16 |
3 out of 4 Americans agree with the The
Ten Commandments judge in Georgia that they should be left in the
courthouse. Chilling. |
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16 |
When the Keys are filled with artists,
musicians, writers, and those who contribute beauty... when the
whining Yankees, bums, crooks, drug users, and spring break drunks are
gone, the Keys will truly be paradise. A colony with an acceptance
committee to keep out the uglies. |
Saturday
November 15
2003 |
Barroom decorum: I
waited in a bar the other afternoon and I had to wait while the
bartender finished the dishes before he got me a beer. I left. It’s
the bartender’s prime directive to get the customer a drink as soon as
he sits at the bar; then he can ignore you. |
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15 |
Re:
Visitor's Center. I own a deli on big pine and they have sent a few
people my way
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15 |
i hate to read all the negative things
about the businesses and people of big pine. this is a great
place to live. most of you must have lived somewhere else before. do
you remember what that's like?
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15 |
You all need to stop bitching about the
stupid stuff! Start bitching about BUSH! he's screwing us all, and if
someone dare's!, and writes back ANYTHING good about that man your
deranged, period! |
Friday
November 14
2003 |
In regards to the letter from Mr. Beal
from Skeeter's Marine. We could afford to have a few less
boaters out on the water, because of the damage they do to the area
shallows. Why don't you teach the idiots that buy your
boats, about boating and the ocean, maybe we'll have less prop
tracks in the shallows. A park will not make people forget
about the ocean and leave, your prices will.
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14 |
I shop winnd-dixie all the time and
always have great service at the meat room anytime i want something
cut no problem, the woman in the meat room (tall blond ) has always
been a great help maybe she should be the boss because she's always on
top of things and a great help does she need winn dixie housing or
does she just enjoy her job good luck to her and i hope she makes more
than 15.00 20.00 per hour because she deserves it. |
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14 |
I am passing this on to you because it
has definitely worked for me. By following the simple advice I read in
an article, I have finally found inner peace. The article read: "The
way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've
started." Such simple advice. So, I looked around to see all the
things I started and hadn't finished. Today I finished one bottle of
red wine, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, my Prozac, a box of chocolates
and a half gallon of caramel swirl ice-cream. You have no idea how
good I feel...... |
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14 |
We visited this summer & want to move
over from San Diego. Is this a Happy place for a single Mom, her
13 year old child and our three cats & a dog? I hear that the
nearest school is an 45 minute drive down to Key West & it's not that
good. The Keys look like the Caribbean & is much warmer than San
Diego & The Pacific Ocean. You guys have it REAL good over
there! See you soon. |
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14 |
Before you defend the illegals, WHO ELSE gets free
medical and food stamps, all with NO taxes deducted from their
undercover pay??? And do they spend that illegal tax free money here
in the US? NO! They send it "home" to Mexico where the US dollar is
ten to one. ROBBERY on many levels! Be willing to DIE for the US
defense, pay taxes, learn English or GET OUT! |
Thursday
November 13
2003 |
Before you complain about "illegals",
make sure you are legal. Do you accept pay "under the table", and fail
to report it? If you do, you are not paying taxes, either. Do you shop
at the flea market? How many of those vendors pay sales tax? Try
asking for a receipt showing the sales tax you paid. When you can save
a buck, you probably do, what American wouldn't. How can you expect
your so called "illegals" to be any different! Work to get "the
system" changed if you don't like it. But, be careful of what you wish
for, you may not like what happens. |
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13 |
Always check the expiration dates on meat- if it is
expired that very day, it should be 50% off (ask for a markdown). It
is safe to cook or freeze on the expiration date. Anything older-
don't buy it. WD will lose on stale sales. |
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13 |
Mariner Resort and Community Park Option letter
Click Here |
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13 |
To all of the business folks on Big Pine and the Lower
Keys...the new visitors center is telling those who stop there to not
bother to see the keys between Big Pine and Key West because there's
nothing to do here., there aren't any reefs worth looking at,
restaurants that serve anything good to eat etc. They're told top go
directly to Key West and don't stop along the way. You need to express
your opinion to them....and yes I know you no growthers, no nothing
people are just loving it. Let's see how much you like driving to Key
West for gas or a dinner when Big Pine folds up! |
Wednesday
November 12
2003 |
Kudos to First State Bank. They gave $500 to the
Athletic Association for the popular haunted house. |
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12 |
No kudos here. For the
fifth time in six months I found multiple packages of out of date
meat on
in the cooler at Winn
Dixie. The first couple of times I notified the butcher , as that
did not seem to have an impact I notified the Asst Manager. This to
has not had any impact since as litlle as three weeks ago I found
approx 20 packages of chicken out of date.
Tried to contact the
Monroe County Folks in Key west and Marathon, they don't care and
passed the buck to the state Department of Licensing who said I
could fill out a complaint form and send it to them. I still have
not received it. SOO it is up to you local people to police our own
grocery store as the management there don't seem able to do it.
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12 |
Anyone who wants to be on the SAC committee at
Sugarloaf is more than welcome. You can nominate yourself and your
name will be on the ballot. On an average there are 10 people
that show up at any given SAC meeting. (Most of them are school
staff). Parents if you are mad about the way things are going.
GO TO THE MEETINGS!!!!!!! Your voice can only be heard if you are
there. As I said before nothing will change unless you say "I've
had enough". There are other things to cut back on beside a
teaching position, for example - travel expenses, novelties that show
the school logo, tee shirts for the staff, the list is endless.
When in dire straits a person can also tighten the belt a little more,
they just might have to do without some things that they want or think
they need. And speaking about wasted money, $87,000.+ was
received for the FCAT only 10% of that went to the school and the kids
-- the rest went to the teachers. NOW ARE YOU LISTENING!!
And one last thought, the 10% from the fundraisers is no longer an
option, the community spoke loud and clear that this money belongs to
the children. |
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12 |
WOW! K'D's has good salads! God help this town! if
you really think K'D's has good food you must love pig roast and
also dine at The Sharks Reef! When K'D's was the Oyster House and
Kim's father still owned it , wow was it awesome, the mistake was
giving it to Dan, who knows NOTHING about running a restaurant not
to mention treat his employees! and how you can claim the food is
good when they just FINALLY started serving fresh fish after years
of serving us frozen fish from Vietnam!! Alrighty Then!!
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12 |
Thanks for putting a link to the kudos. Although, I
had found the address on yahoo. The banner is still blank. It was
nice when I could see it. On those 7 computers you checked, what was
the internet security level? Most of us cannot afford to modify our
browser's settings.
Ed: the security was set to medium (the default).
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12 |
Thank you BPK for printing comments about things the KW
Citizen is censoring- like comments about illegals. If the illegals
want to live here, they need to pay taxes, get a SS card, and pay
their own medical like American's do! And OH yeah, learn to speak
ENGLISH!!! |
Tuesday
November 11
2003 |
Understandably a person needs time away from the day to
day pressures, we as contributors have showered upon you from time to
time; and with little or no consideration for your personal needs or
responsibilities. I as a regular reader of "Big Pine Key.com
appreciate the effort you put forth in allowing us the opportunity to
express; and sometimes vent our pent-up frustrations and anxieties.
Your work in this field represents the true meaning of democracy and
the right to speak freely, a right that is absent in so many
societies. Keep up the good work - No matter the cost....... |
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11 |
To the person who is worried about FEMA
and another hurricane. FEMA is a Dictator in a Democracy that is not
suppose to exist. More and more of these little puss head are popping
up everyday and that's because there are to many gutless people like
you around that won't standup to them. |
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11 |
The Airport people just awarded a contract to a
company for $18,000,000 to dispose of all the stuff the baggage
checkers confiscated. Hey Dude, ever hear of the dump? |
Monday
November 10
2003 |
Finally, after 30 years the associated press, in
Sunday’s paper, reported that the USA killed 3 million military
and civilians in Vietnam. Us: 58,000. Them: 3,000,000 (and they still
won). |
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10 |
I would not want to swim in the same hole the whale
deficated in. There is no ocean flow to clean out the feces. That
bacteria can kill you! |
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10 |
To the person that thinks Theresa Axford
is so great... Why is it she doesn't have to answer to anybody about
how she spends money at Sugarloaf??? Why is it that the SAC meetings
minutes have been changed when she looks at them to reflect what she
wants people to know about??? Why is it that the money that is
earned from our children's FCAT scores does where the principal
wants it to go and not where the parents want it to go? Why is it
that we can vote for the people the principal wants on the SAC
Committee and not all the people who want to be on the SAC
Committee?
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10 |
If you want a swimming pool on Big Pine
Key, PLEASE partake in the park meetings for the proposed park at
the end of Sands Road. If those who want a park supported the
idea and went to the meetings, we'd have a better chance of having a
family place here on Big Pine Key. the only people who goes to the
meetings are those who are opposed to everything and those who want
improvements stay home and we end up with nothing here. Let the
planning department know what you want or be satisfied with what we
have now. We used to have a place to go swimming here on the
weekends. When the Mariner was open so long ago, many locals would
go there and spend the day in the pool. Who here remembers?
This isn't a new idea here.
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10 |
At least KD's was tented. With the
prices that properties are selling for these days, Maybe Dan needs
to raise his selling price so he can keep up with the current rate.
Didn't the montego lot go for almost as much money as the contract
on KD's. that's a piece of Big Pine History. Who here remembers the
Oyster House? How much change do we really want here? I'd hate to
see that property leveled for a chain restaurant. When KD's leaves,
so does the blackened beef tips and the seafood stew.
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10 |
If you know you are going to the Winn Dixie, keep an
extra pair of rubber shoes in the car. |
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10 |
Fish and wildlife is federal and answers
to no one.They have nothing to do with the building codes we have to
build structures by. They can do whatever they please and we will
still have to pay for the repairs even though they can build their
structures with cardboard. MEANWHILE... our county commissioners are
still taking our lives in their hands dicking around with the FEMA
laws they've been skirting for 27 years. How many of us will suffer
if we have another hurricane like Georges if we don't have FEMA
funding?
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Sunday
November 9
2003 |
They want to fill in the swimming hole on US-1.
Forget that! Make it into a mini-park for the people. There is no
place else to swim on BP unless you have a canal. Lake Winn Dixi
is too shallow. |
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9 |
To the person
commenting on the fundraisers at Sugarloaf School. The Principal is
doing what she has to to make up this money instead of losing a
teacher. This deficit is something Mrs Axford has no control
over this it was handed to her and she is doing what she can to cover
the deficit without losing a teacher. Taking the 10% was just one
option but since everyone is so upset about it she is not doing it
now. I think more parents should come to PTO & SAC meetings so they
will be more informed. |
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9 |
I had the
worst day of my life yesterday then I went to Winn Dixie to pick up
one item and the girl behind the check out counter where they sell the
cigarette's yelled at me? I couldn't believe it. Then I went out
into the parking lot and ruined my new Berks stepping in the lake to
get into my car. How many of you out there have been ripped off at
Winn Dixie? Ever notice that the mistakes are always in their favor.
Scratch off that stinking card they give you and it always says
"sorry," we just got you again and all you end up with is crap
under your fingernail, wet shoes and more of your hard earned money
stolen from you and your feelings hurt by some underpaid, bad
attitude, assistant manager behind their check out counter. (Now I
feel better:)
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9 |
I love the
steamed clams at KD's.Your salads are excellent too and your French
onion soup yum yum !!!!! What a great deal too! You
are an asset to this community.
I hope you don't sell your place I want you to stay. Why can't
you open up your tiki bar outside? |
Saturday
November 8
32003 |
Good news in the paper yesterday;
McDonald’s wife donated $200 million to public radio, Marijuana is
good for you, and the Senate moves to remove travel restrictions to
Cuba. |
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8 |
Loved the "edited" W. Churchill
analogy targeting the never ending, U.S. TAX DOLLAR funded "huggers"
vs. the annoying, so-called ignorant, refuse to give up, "common man"
Piners. Oh, by the way, how about that new stainless steel grill
on wheels U.S. Fish and Wildlife purchased for their
functions!?! One can only imagine how many deer would have died
without it. |
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8 |
Canal Plugs constructed from concrete bags and blocks
and other building materials are the same as dumping garbage onto
wetlands, which is illegal. But plugs seem to be the quick fix-all for
conservationists, environmentalists and tree huggers et nausium who
argue against boats, seawalls and docks littering the canal
shorelines. If they are so concerned about conservation and the
environment, logic and reason dictate they should stand up and fight
to get those trash heap plugs removed from the wetlands and return the
canals to a natural state allowing a free flow of seawater and sea
life. |
Friday
November 7
2003 |
It would seem by your many contributors
that progress on Big Pine Key should remain a non-issue. It has been
said "You Grow or You Die". That message should be a warning to all
who would preach the gospel of conservation at all cost. It appears to
me that we have matters that deserves our attention. To quote Winston
Churchill, (although somewhat altered ) - "Never in the anals of human
history have so few had so much to say about so little and thereby
effecting so many". I'm sure Winston would agree if he were a resident
and with us today....... |
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7 |
You have to scroll up beyond an area of
blank space to see the "Kudos & Whiners" banner. I too, thought it had
disappeared until I accidently scrolled upward!
Ed: Thanks for letting us know. I think I've fixed it. If I haven't
please tell me. |
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latter today |
Ed: I guess I haven't fixed it after
all. So far I've looked at it on 7 different computers and two
different browsers (Explorer and Netscape). The Navigation bar is
visible without scrolling on all of them. I'm baffled. Any ideas? |
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7 |
How is it that the biggest Big pine
construction project is being done out back at the fish and wildlife
place on Wilder road and without a permit or any of the engineering,
impact crap that we have to endure? Why can the same people who have
final say over our permits and lives just go ahead and do as they
please? They move mobile homes in there as well to house their help.
Try that at home and see what happens! Hypocrites....the worst crime
of all. |
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7 |
To the girl
bartender who has lung cancer. I feel bad that you have this
illness, really I do. I don't know if you were a smoker.
I am not a lawyer or a doctor but I would think breathing in 30 or
more cigarettes a minute for 8 to 9 hours at a time in a closed in bar
room might have contributed to it greatly!!!!!! Working under
those poor conditions is probably against the "Employee's Rights Act."
There are certain things that a working place has to provide and I
would think oxygen would be first on that list. What do you
think? |
Thursday
November 6
2003 |
They sold Winn-Dixie shopping ctr. We'll
have to change the lake's name to the new owners'. |
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6 |
Total Bummer folks,....
The sale of KD's fell through! What a
shame, Dan will be real bitter, restaurant will be better than ever
now!!!!
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6 |
Did You all here that the sale of the
Winn Dixie shopping plaza also fell through.
The people that were going to purchase
first put in for permit to fix parking lot and the county denied the
permit, so the buyers pulled out, why buy that piece of junk
shopping plaza if you can't fix it up! So see all you folks that
complain about the county and code enforcement not looking out for
you!, they'll do exactly what you all bitch about, No Progression,
YEA!! Bye the way did you know that code enforcement and
county bullshit is the same all over the country, and that’s because
you all bitch among yourselves. It takes alot more energy than that
to make change.
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To all tourists:
Don’t take pictures of the deer with those tracking collars on—they
don’t count, they're cloned. |
Wednesday
November 5
2003 |
While John Pagent is asking us to adopt
a class, the Principal of Sugarloaf School is taking 10% of all
fundraisers that the children are involved in. She is also
taking 20% off the top of PTO fundraisers. Did she ask us???
NO!!! Is this right??? NO!! This children work hard for
this money, it will offset cost of band trips, help support yearbooks
and support the sciences. It is time we all said "I'm as mad as
hell and I'm not going to take anymore!!!" Parents fight for what is
important, the future of our country --Our children. |
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5 |
What's with you people! No one wants
change except where it suits them. No Golf course but let's have mini
put for the kids. No chain stores but it's sooo far to drive to get
anything. Like I've said before, if it wasn't for change none of you
would be here. Quit your whining and let's get on with it! And before
you jump all over me...no, I don't want to see build out
either...that's not why I live here, but some conveniences are nice. |
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5 |
I always knew Rush
Limbaugh was numb, but now I know why. |
Tuesday
November 4
2003 |
Why can't the postings be done on
Thursday nights for the Friday and Saturday Sales. People should
be able to send their emails in on Thursday so that they won't have to
wait on Saturdays for the postings to come out. Then all other
sales from the telephone pole on Key Deer Boulevard can still be
posted on Saturday mornings.
Ed: We will post them any day we get them. Up 'till now only one
person has ever sent a notice of a yard sale to us. |
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4 |
Hi: What happened to the top of
your web page, it's been missing for quite sometime now. I
can't get to anything except the business directory. Thanks.
Ed: I don't know why you can't see the top banner with all the
features. I've checked it out on different computers and it always
shows up.
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4 |
Rush Limbaugh is a
hypocrite on a grand scale. His quote:”Too many whites are getting
away with drug use. The answer is to...find the ones who are getting
away with it, convict them, and then send them up the river.” He
bought 30,000 Vicodin, Lorcet and OxyContin pills and was taking up to
30 pills a day while criticizing other celebrity dopers. Let’s put him
right down there with Jim Bakker, the God-selling-embezzler and Rush’s
good friend the gambling-addicted Bill Bennett, author of “The Book of
Virtues” and “The Moral Compass”. Note: repeated doses of Vicodin, can
cause severe hearing impairment. |
Monday
November 3
2003 |
To all the
restaurants that hire the Russians: Have you ever noticed how bad they
are treated when their pimp-daddy-slave-trader-sponsor comes to check
on them and steal their paychecks? he stands in the parking lot
screaming at them for God knows what. You all need to kick him off
your property. They're terrible people. Somebody should do something. |
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3 |
Everyone thinks about adult things to do
in the Keys, what about something a family with CHILDREN can do? A
golf course on Big Pine? Another ADULT entertainment, but what about
our children? Where do they go for entertainment? Winn Dixie and
shop-lift games? Why not have someone purchase the Montego Bay
property and put in a Mini-golf, where all can enjoy it. Where can a
family in this area take their children for a night out other than
going to a bar, restaurant or if lucky, a ball game? How many miles
must we travel just to see a movie? THINK! Hey, "they" can spend the
nights walking Key Deer Blvd! Did you go Mini-golfing as a kid up
North? I did and I took my kids and had fun! |
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3 |
They think your only suppose to live in
the keys if you you have a lot of money, Have your head up your butt,
and like to play Golf. Could you imagine these people trying to do
what you people do at Winn Dixie!! Sometimes it gets backed up. But I
have seen so many people come and go there. You have mostly a good
group now. Maybe we need Winn Dixie Housing!!!!! |
Sunday
November 2
2003 |
Rents haven’t been
keeping up with the cost of house purchases. Tenants get ready for big
rent increases to go along with the inflated housing costs. Who can
afford all this? They sure don't work for Winn-Dixie. |
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2 |
Does the word “Art”
come from the word ARTificial? All art is artificial or, by default,
it would be natural. |
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2 |
what happened to kudos and whiners ? |
Saturday
November 1
2003
|
Besides plugged canals, dead-ended
canals are just as unpleasant. Whatever blows in from the sea has
nowhere to go and festers into a malodorous, putrid scum. Looks bad
too. |
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1 |
 optical
illusion-click |
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1 |
B.C. (before
computers) students had to remember things. Now they just do a simple
Google search and get all the information mankind has to offer
instantly. Encyclopedias are so passé. |
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1 |
Why do they have
gates on the swimming hole on US-1? Did the whales poop too much in
the canal? |
optical
illusion-click