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Thursday November 29, 2007

Islamorada Council to consider 35 percent monthly sewer fee hike. Now you know why Islamorada is called the Village of Idiots. Since the manager is responsible for the terrible state of affairs, any cost overruns should be taken from his $200,000 salary. He might pay more attention if he knew he had to pay for his mistake.

I was just reading the news about Oral Roberts University. I'm a 52 year old woman who lost her Mother at the age of 38 in 1958. Unbeknownst to my father, my mother had been sending lots of money to Oral Roberts to "cure her cancer". He did not cure the cancer, she died at the age of 38 with eight children, me being next to youngest, I was only 3, but I can tell you that Oral Roberts is just as fake as fake can be! He has made his name on peoples’ lives. I am not unhappy about their problems.

[I challenge any reader to name a single avowed homosexual who has achieved cabinet rank] Sorry, I couldn’t find the index to cabinet members’ sexuality. Since you seem to know, perhaps you can post all cabinet members and their sexual preferences?

I once was told that Donna E. Shalala was a lesbian. But then I heard she was of Lebanese descent, so I could understand where I might have gone off-track. Lebanese, lesbian, both or neither, it hardly matters, does it? It seems as though she was the most qualified person for the job at the time. (In 1993 President Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years, becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history.)

Okay, maybe more apropos to this forum, I challenge any reader to name a single avowed resident of Big Pine Key who has achieved cabinet rank. Oh my God! You’re right! That proves that there is a conspiracy!

To the poster mentioning Les and Bee Mullins. You brought back some fond memories by naming those fine people. Thank you. I remember them staying at The Mariner weeks on end while enjoying the fishing, and more fishing, and some more fishing!

[$250,000 home in the Keys is a ghetto] Someone must not have been here 6-7 years ago when the very same houses were only $250-$300K. The original poster was correct. The homes are overpriced, but there’s one born every minute and since I personally know a lot of people that paid for their homes and dropped their insurance because the cost was too high--better not cry for a bailout if another hurricane hits them and their home is destroyed. These same big money people are the ones screaming to have everyone else pay for their sewer hookup. Well, Daddy Big Bucks, pay your own hookup. This isn’t a ghetto. Quit looking for your handout.

With the help of a great many community organizations, businesses and individuals, Habitat for Humanity's Bayside Landing community on Big Coppitt Key will get underway with the official Groundbreaking Ceremony this Saturday, December 1 at noon. The public is invited to share in the excitement of Habitat's partner families as they celebrate the beginning of a new way of life as local homeowners. The families will plant their first tree, donated by Land Creations, in anticipation of work starting on this new, 18-unit townhouse-style community. Bobalu's is catering light refreshments and Pepsi is providing soft drinks. Everyone is welcome to stop by the property on US 1 between Aquamarine and Jade Aves on Big Coppitt Key this Saturday to congratulate Habitat's partner families. If there are questions, please contact the Habitat office at 294-9006.

The Keys does not need developer’s “affordable housing” it needs housing that is affordable!

I’ve been without a printer for three days now since my cat rolled a cannon ball from three feet high on it (no kidding). It has stifled my business and personal life. I hadn’t realized how computer dependent I am.

[better off with silencing the eco-nuts] That's quite the story. You really need to see the doctor, maybe they can prescribe something for you. Good luck!

Regarding the "wife beater" issue (or "girl-friend beater", I've lost track). It was shocking when it was reported and for a while since. However after 90-something "hang-the-bastard" posts since then, all I can see now are a few folks trying to round up a lynching party. There's a lot of evil in the world that such emotion would be much better directed toward than is being accomplished by continuing to beat this dead horse.

Jim Roberts coming back as County Administrator? If that's the case why don't we also call back Tim Magarry and Marlene Conaway? They’re the one's that really screwed things up from the get-go. If this happens we will be having to use compost toilets and wiping our butts with corn cobs. Plus Roberts and Jim Hendricks (the County Attorney caught with his hand in the cookie jar) were big time buddies. Maybe Roberts could get some tips from Hendricks. ~govwatch05@tampabay.rr.com

My family and I were going to take a long trip to see the world, but after many weeks of planning, we decided not to go anywhere. Why? Because we could not find any place that American's are welcomed. The terrorist thing has all but killed the foreign tourist industries, except for cruises; and looking at the water for twelve weeks isn't my idea of touring.

[Wife beater] I know this guy. I know him real well. I don’t think he would mind me sharing this. He grew up in a house, many houses where everyone hit each other. His uncles hit his aunts then they would switch. His father hit his mother and she would hit back. They all yelled mean things at each other. The boy went out on his own very early. He hated all the fighting. His mother found a new husband and they hit each other and again it happened and again. This guy met and married a very fine woman. He would never, ever do the things to his wife that he hated so much, but he did with his mouth and his hands. He almost lost everything that was good in his life. He could not believe that he did something that he hated so much. He became all that he found ugly in this life. The story has a happy ending or I should say that it is still being told. This guy found out that he needed help, he needed to change everything. He had to find out why he was so mad and full of rage.

He got help. He now has all those things that were good in his life back. He tells me that he never wants to live in the past, but he what's to keep it in a shoe box on a shelf and take it down to help and remember how bad things can get if you don’t make changes when needed. I would say that without any help both of those folks that have been written about so very much will, in fact, pick 2 more people just like the ones they left. They will do the same thing over and over thinking it will end in a different way. It will not. If nothing changes nothing changes. God bless you all and have a Merry Christmas.

Oh, my god, Miss America! Oh, my god! I am so excited! I am totally a role model and have never been married. They say you can never be pregnant, or married. Oh, well. I wrote a poem for my Miss America application. Here it is.
She knows she’s a winner,
She couldn’t be thinner,
She’ll go to the bathroom,
And vomit her dinner!

The reality of the Sugarloaf park is that it will go mostly unused like the one on Bay Point. It’s another expensive "feel good" project.

This week, President Bush signed into law the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Appropriations Bill. The bill includes $20 million for the American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces program.

The steady deployments of Reserve and Guard units are creating hardships and challenges for military families. With 756 local Red Cross chapters and a presence at 61 military installations worldwide, the Red Cross can reach out to military families through our Service to Military Families program. Just this week, we engaged in a pilot program with the U.S. Department of Defense to roll out a family support program in 15 states. Using our chapter network, we serve military families in our communities by providing casework and counseling expertise to assist those families as they access social services, emotional support networks and financial assistance, or send emergency communications to a loved one serving overseas.

What will be a happier day in The Keys? The day Monroe County terminates Tom Willi or the day he wife beater leaves the area? I fear a wife beater more. At least Mr. Willi makes it known who he is. A wife beater could live next door to you for years and not know it until he head butts his wife in front of a couple of hundred people.

Get a Cingular "Go Phone" at Radio Shack. $100 for 400 minutes a year plus about $30 (once) for the phone. I have a lot of minutes left over at year's end and mine is not a toy.

I received three email replies to yesterday’s UncleSamDisease.Com. Mostly from retired naval pilot, John Hammerstrom, from County Commissioner George Neugent, and from an email buddy in the Northeast, retired from a major American technology firm. GoodMorningKeyWest.com

People come here in the first place to party. Work just kills the time between the parties.

[Basic Economics 101] The supply of an item in relation to the demand for that item determines the price for that item, be it a worker or real estate.

[Eco-nuts] A prestigious scientific journal recently reported that an organic grove owner has tried to extract oil from eco-nuts but found that when pressed, the eco-nuts produced only copious amounts of foul smelling platitudes. The platitudes were found to lack nourishment, had a sour taste, and often induced a euphoria that resulted in nonsensical babbling. Further testing revealed that the platitudes were addictive and ultimately led to degeneration of the health and well being of the consumer and to the community.

[NET10 phone. Where do you get it] Wherever cell phones are sold like Kmart and Wal-Mart. The price is $50 everywhere. Or you can get it online at their site.

Here is another way to send Christmas cards to servicemen overseas. It's real, according to Snopes.com: http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html

I see a lot of non-profit events and charity events listed here on the Bulletin Board. This is one I think will really hit home among our readers after all the emotions about the wife beater. There is a luncheon for prevention and protection of battered women. Maybe everyone who was moved by our least favorite Realtor's behavior can attend and give their thoughts. Maybe the girl friend who was beaten can go and learn something too.

The Domestic Abuse Shelter’s annual luncheon meeting will be held on Friday, November 30, 2007 at the Grand Key Doubletree Hotel, 3990 South Roosevelt Blvd., Key West from 11:30 to 1:00. The cost of the luncheon is $75. ($65 for DAS members) and $750 for tables of ten. The keynote speaker will be Ted Bunch, Co-Founder of A Call To Men: The National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women. Bulletin Board

[Please don't liter] 10,000 animals (mostly cats) are killed every day in U.S. shelters. Please don't contribute to this unnecessary killing. I will get your cat spayed for free. I will also provide free round trip transportation for your pet to the vet's office. Please call Valerie at 745-7457.

[cheap phone service] I have Verizon's prepay account on my 6 year old phone. It has a minimum of $15 per month. What you don't use gets rolled over into the next month.

Keylargokey.com interviewed Commissioner Murphy today about the folks on the FEMA list. She stated "I don't have time for those people." It just so happens they're 50,000 folks on the FEMA list. I hope they remember this on election day. I know I will. ~govwatch05@tampabay.rr.com

You have to wonder if there would be this much discussion if there was a man beater.

The so-called affordable housing to be built in Sugarloaf is for teachers only. W/D has been busing people from Miami for over a year.

[Behind the Sugarloaf School is an excellent place for affordable housing.] I love it. Every batch of islanders want the affordable housing to be built on some else's island, and no body gets it. The developers want Stock Island for yacht basins and condos for the tourist and boating industry, so they will "suggest" anything to get those inhabitants out to another island without deep water access. Wake up people, your being conned by the dumb bastards in the Lower Keys who think they are going to get rich on this con job.

[Every President has demonstrated that he is a sexist.] This is good, this is the way is should be, or would you rather have a castrated sissy or hairy-chested bimbo to rule your world? If so try Roman Rule with inbred-questionables running all over the place.

Health and safety risks from non-native iguanas in south Florida have prompted a University of Florida researcher and his team to recommend widespread use of artificial nest boxes to control the reptiles’ population growth. The nest boxes are designed to humanely capture the troublesome lizards and their eggs.

Homeowners and property managers have grown weary of green iguanas eating shrubs and damaging foundations and seawalls with subterranean nests and tunnels. The 3- to 5-foot-long lizards also create human health risks by defecating in swimming pools and on sidewalks, docks and moored boats, and endanger drivers when crossing or basking on roads.

How do we get these nest boxes? The darn things are eating up everything and I can't keep howling and running at them because the neighbors are busting up laughing!

[An apology] We must all be cognizant of how important an apology has become in our currently liberal PC society. A tearful apology by a miscreant can relieve the offender of the burden of jail time. All too often though, an apology, no matter how heartfelt, becomes nothing more than an admission of guilt and leads to righteously imposed draconian punishments. Check with Dog the Bounty Hunter, or perhaps Don Imus. I suspect that the degree of outrage and punishment is predicated on the perceived political bent of the offender. Nonetheless, I’ll press on.

I sincerely apologize for predicting in early November that the Musharraf/Pakistan army control issue was on the way to resolution. I predicted that it would be resolved by 11/21. I’m sorry, but I was wrong, Musharraf did not surrender control of his army until 11/28. Gee, it sure feels good to purge the soul. I think I’ll make another prediction. I predict that responsibility for 80% of Iraq internal security and pacification will be in the hands of the democratically elected Iraq government by January 18th 2008. I sure hope that when this comes to pass that it doesn’t make my liberal friends cry. If it does, I will apologize

[Field lights at Sugarloaf school] Most large power consumers like industry, municipalities and schools have contracts with the electric, gas and water companies where the costs are figured on a users volume and if the users do not use a certain volume in a certain time period, they are penalized for their discount structure. Example: A company has a contract to pay $15,000 per month for a certain amount of electric so they can get a 50% discount off the retail price. If they do not meet their quota they are charged a higher price for less electricity used. Most industrial plants leave lights, electric hearers, etc, on to stay within the discount price bracket. We consumers pay the freight of course.

[What is wrong with our current gov’t] The other day a poster whined that a journalist was being imprisoned and had not been charged with a crime, the poster said that this is happening in the U.S. and said it makes a mockery of our Justice system. Well, folks, you’ve only got two choices, either the poster was flat out lying, or the poster is a dummy. The “journalist” is Bilal Hussein, a stringer photographer, an Iraq citizen--not an American, not a journalist.

I’ve enjoyed the installments of the Fascist manifesto.

The planet rapers are the only reason the Eco-Nuts are out in force.

[Never a government sanctioned “assassination” in support of any political agenda] There have been others, I’m sure, but the one I know of was Mr Bishop, the president of Granada. My “Army” friend was sent to kill him, but Bishop had already left the island when he got there.

[Fascism] The sixth foundation stone is identified as: “Controlled Mass Media: Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common” We must yet again return to FDR’s fascist rule. FDR instituted the insidious policy of embedding media correspondents with troops, he actually began the weekly propagandizing radio “Fireside Chat” program. The media subvert ed it’s duty to inform the public to it’s craving for approbation from FDR. This seduction of the media has continues today. The major media is wholly owned by huge corporations with right wing management, hence the fawning adulation for Bush ll from the screens and pages of the major media.

What is the name of this plant? It grows about four feet tall and always has blooming violet flowers and they grow like crazy.

Islamorada has taken its two marine patrol officers off the water due to budget shortfalls. That’s okay because I never met a marine patrol officer that I liked. Didn’t they just get another sewer rate increase this week?

No matter how much money you bring to Big Pine, you will never get the Jerry Springer element out of Big Pine. However you have achieved an interesting phenomenon in that you do have homeless people as well as many unoccupied homes. An implosion of sorts is happening, just look around, it’s weird. I, me, mine, I, me, mine.

[Field lights at Sugarloaf] What a moronic thing to say “We are going to continue to waste the light so you might as well use it.” From my limited knowledge of solar cells and storage systems available today it would cost hundred's of thousands of dollars to install a system capable of running field lights from dark through nine o clock.

A bank teller in Clearwater, SC had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill. The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers. The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check. The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill.

Looking for affordable cell phone service? Check out ConsumerCellular.com. They offer several plans with no commitment. I got a free phone, free shipping and free long distance. The connection fee was only $25. I’ll be paying $.25 a minute and only $10 a month. They have another plan for $20 a month that gives you 100 minutes.

Monroe County is indeed classified as rural. The reason that it is classified rural is that they include the total square miles in the county--that includes the Everglades National Park and all non-inhabited land. There is only about 5% of the county in private hands. Even though the Keys part of the County feels congested when driving down the highway, it, as a County, in whole, is not. The classification as rural lends the County to apply for Federal grant money for such programs as the Rural Health Network. For better or worse the County is not about to forfeit that assistance.

There will be no Nativity Scene in the United State Congress, This year! The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States capital this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reason, they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's capitol.

There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

[Fascism] Your reply to the Fascism poster displays your ignorance of reality. Please do some reading about Methods of Rule. I think there are teaching documents in comic book form available.

[wife beater] Enough already! You frustrated bimbos are escalating this into a lynching when it is a private matter in their family.

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