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Friday February 3, 2012

He is Risen (Ed: I’m sorry about the mix-up. On my first day back I moved the Coconut Telegraph to the home page and forgot to tell you about it.

The home page was useless so I got rid of it. People come to bigpinekey.com mainly for the CT so why distract the visitor; why not send him directly to the CT. Sometimes it takes a vacation to be able to step back and see the obvious, but being away made me forget how to do it correctly.)

I want to invite everyone out to hear the MOONDOGS at Mangrove Mamas starting at 6:30 tonight Friday 2/3/12 Come on out and enjoy good food, good music, fun and dancing!

~Your Friend Flip Flop Bob

Has anyone heard about an attorney in Marathon who died of a heart attack at a seminar/conference?

[Rip-off] Two women reported paying money to rent a home at 106 Coastal Drive in Key Largo in two separate cases.

The Key West Sail & Power Squadron Flea Market & Bake Sale on College Road Stock Island this Saturday February 4  8:00 till 12:00 is a fun way to spend the day with the family. If you like flea markets, this is the one for you. It's a great way to enjoy being outdoors, browsing, and searching for that special treasure you absolutely can’t live without. Enjoy the most delicious homemade cookies, cakes, pies, treats, cupcakes, and goodies from the bake sale while getting that bargain of a life time. Some items for sale  are “nautical” items, but also jewelry, clothing, hats, sunglasses, electronics, binoculars, fishing gear, plants, clothing, collectibles, linens, glassware, cooking utensils, pots & pans, small items of furniture, yard essentials, sports memorabilia, kids toys, lawn & garden tools, infant items, auto parts, dishes,  tools, collectibles, most anything you can think of and tons of items priced under $1! Bulletin Board

This chart could save parents some serious bread on music lessons.

Court ponders if Miami-Dade drug dog's sniff is constitutional. http://cbsloc.al/ycvKc7

Keys mural honors Henry Flagler. http://cbsloc.al/woyYpU

U.S: Cuba’s oil rig in Fla. Straits well below our standards. http://bit.ly/zgCgXa

KWOM "Key West original music radio" playing only music from Florida Keys musicians world-wide 24/7. The Florida Keys are filled with many great musicians/songwriters of all styles and we want to share them with the world. All songs put to video featuring Key West landmarks, artist, photographers and attractions below and on top of our Island. Please support this world-wide Key West radio station and help us grow by telling your friends about us. Add it to your favorites: http://www.tikilive.com/show/key-west-original-music-radio

I am part of the long term gulf study. The nurse came to my home and asked for all kinds of samples. I wanted to be a baseline to maybe help people. I never saw any oil or cleaned any up, but this whacky nurse type person came over and asked for a lot of bodily samples. In the end I gave her some pee pee. A few toenail clippings. She made a few swabs of dust from the Casa and then asked for blood. I refused and she became temperamental. She asked why not and I replied. " OJ. ". So I had to fill this silly thing with saliva. In the end they gave me a 50 dollar gift card with which I went and......... purchased gasoline.

[Explosives] My computer bag does double duty. When I travel, the laptop goes in it.  Around here I use it to carry hand guns back and forth to the Big Coppit Gun Club so the bag gets exposed to lots of gun powder residue from guns and hands. I’ve taken the bag through TSA check points several times. One time they swabbed it, but they have never asked about gunshot residue.  If the bag, which has to pretty well soaked with residue, can get through TSA, what else can?  Anybody got any ideas about what’s going on?

Diving In A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other. ~M. C. Richards

 Today's Affirmation I am a conscious pilgrim on the path of my life.

Today's Meditation Dear God, Thank You for the opportunity to sing and dance my dreams into expression. I intend to be fully present in each moment of this journey. Help me take what I know and what I am learning and live it completely. Sitting on the beach is nice, but today is for swimming.

Thank You! Amen

[Ed is Dead?] So if Deer Ed was dead but is now back publishing the CT it can only mean one thing...ZOMBIE DEER!

U.S. Navy Could Use Dolphins To Find Iranian Mines In Strait of Hormuz. http://huff.to/Ag24eD

[keep on sending in the same crap as 4 weeks ago without skipping a beat] And the same ol' complaints without skipping a beat, I see. 

[CT is Same Ol', Same Ol'] But yet you can't tear yourself away can ya.

I used to go to the Florida Keys for some great vacations. Where do you go for vacation if you live in the Florida Keys?

[Sloan] Good Morning Florida Keys Join Sloan Bashinsky for his daily missives about anything and everything What did he dream? goodmorningfloridakeys.com

Today's begins with an update on my conversation with Deer Ed of biginekey.com's Coconut Telegraph. The rest of today's covers a variety of topics: Robert Krutko's interview on KONK Radio at noon today; Larry Murray's protest that he confessed nothing, including his opposition to the referendum which passed overwhelmingly; my rejoinder, including my sense the Audit & Finance Committee should be abolished and Andy Griffiths' announcement in The Citizen that he is running for his 6th term on the School Board ignores it was on his watch that all the troubles in the School District occurred; Sandy Downs' astonishment that Judge David Audlin ruled the PSC, not himself, has jurisdiction over Keys Energy running power out to No Name Key, when the PSC keeps telling Sandy, including yesterday, that it has no jurisdiction over Keys Energy; my thoughts on that, and everyone who had to do with Robert Krutko's extradition and jailing should be put in prison. You can read all about it by clicking on this link: rising heat –Florida Keys, which is supposed to take you to Today's FlaKey Drivel at goodmorningfloridakeys.com. Deer Ed left out the link in yesterday's teaser, but if you go to the website, you open Today's FlaKey Drivel and scroll down one day and see the whole enchilada.
 

There was a report that 150 Key Deer were killed by vehicles in 2011

What report,  where was that report ??  That number is totally fictitious, bogus and I suspect intended to be inflammatory.  What report said that ??

Save Planned Parenthood.

Sloan - "   all that’s left for people who like that sort of reporting."

I like reading Sloan, but do not classify or consider what he writes to be "reporting" ,  it's more like ego musing and opining.

Still entertaining, but needing just as much suspect and credibility checking as any other spin published unfettered.

John Lennon’s Give Me Some Truth by his own hand.

Welcome to 2012 Coconutters! Glad BPK.com is back and our deer ol' editor didn't get too used to the easy life.

[Blast From the Past] Cops Chase Car, Find 20 Nude People 
Associated Press -- 20/Aug/93

Police in Vinton, La, were surprised when a driver wearing only a towel got out of a car they stopped, then got back in and sped off. They were dumbfounded when the car hit a tree and disgorged 20 people wearing nothing at all.

"The Lord told them to get rid of all their belongings and go to Louisiana. So they got rid of all their clothes and pocketbooks and wallets and identification and the license plate off their car and came to our gorgeous state," Vinton Police Chief Dennis Drouillard said.

All 20 were from Floydada, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, about 550 miles from the southwest Louisiana town of Vinton. Drouillard said he believed they all were related.

Driver Sammy Rodriguez and his brother, Danny, both said they were Pentecostal preachers, Drouillard said.

Floydada Police Chief James Hale said he had been looking for the Rodriguez family since Tuesday night, when relatives reported them missing. "They made statements like the devil was after them and Floydada was going to be destroyed if they stayed here," Hale said.

The family left in 5 or 6 cars, abandoning 1 in Lubbock and a second in San Angelo. Police found a thrid in Galveston, along with the family's clothes, pocketbooks, wallets and other belongings.

The chase in Vinton began after a campground owner called police. A Calcasieu Parish deputy stopped their car, and a man wearing only a towel got out.

"When the officer went to ask what was going on, he jumped back in and took off," Drouillard said. They sped down Vinton's main street until the car hit a tree at the baseball park at the end of town.

Fifteen adults, as old as age 63, and 5 children, piled out of the 1990 Pontiac Grand Am.

"And they were completely nude. All 20 of them. Didn't have a stitch of clothes on. I mean, no socks, no underwear, no nothin'. Five of them [the children] were in the trunk," Drouillard said.

The car was totaled, but the injuries all were minor, Drouillard said.

Rodriguez was booked with reckless driving, flight from an officer, property damage and several minor traffic violations.

Someone even wrote a song about it!

Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac
Author: Chris Stuart, 1994
Album: Lonesome Town
Artist: Cornerstone
1995 Folk Era Productions

I was thumbin' my way down to Baton Rouge, Standin' on the side of the road, When a car pulled over and a voice cried out, "We'll take you where you want to go." I jumped inside, but to my surprise, They were naked as a poor man's toes. It was a tight situation when the whole congregation Said the devil was in my clothes.

CHORUS:

Twenty naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac, Brothers and sisters shoutin' in the back, Elders in the front, choir in the trunk, Twenty naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac.

The sermon that morning was on Adam and Eve And the ways of the dreadful snake, Everybody was clappin' when the preacher pointed at me, My body began to shake. I threw off my shirt, and my shoes and my socks, My jeans and my BVDs. We were all in the nude, shoutin' "halleloo!" And singing "Somebody Touched Me."

We had the cruise control set to fifty-five, When a Smokey got on our tail, He pulled up beside, his eyes got wide, And the siren began to wail. We ran off the road toward the tree of life, Lord, the future was looking bleak, We hung on and prayed, everybody was saved, 'Cause we all knew how to turn the other cheek.

Crab Pesto Cheesecake Recipe http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Crab-Pesto-Cheesecake

This spring, (with any luck), I will be launching  my first book, "The Key West Funnybook".

The accompanying design is not necessarily going to be the book cover,  but just to give you an idea of what's to come. This will be a compilation of 5 years worth of comic strips, new stuff that has not  been in print or on my KeyToons website, some humorous essays, fun  with Photoshop, and weird lists with accompanying illustrations.

Why, "The KEY WEST Funnybook" when many of the strips are Big Pine- centric? Amazon.com sales appeal; pure and simple. I did not have much  of a choice there.

Keep up with the progress at http://www.keytoons.com/  Fingers  crossed... Spring 2012, folks. Hope it's a fine year for us all.  ~Dan Schwab

Marijuana and lungs: study finds drug doesn't do same kind of damage as tobacco

So which would you rather - brain works but lungs don't,  or  lungs work but brain doesn't  ?? Just depends on which function you value more - thinking or breating.

[There is a God Department] Yes you can get BACON in a tube!! It's a bacon/cheese spread, I've had it before when I lived in Norway in the late 70's. http://youtu.be/CI8GH65utjg

Polo Club Palm Beach, founder, has adopted his girlfriend to protect assets in a wrongful death lawsuit. Different rules for wealthy or what? Bottoms up! http://huff.to/zODZqN

Caution: NATIONAL POLITICS and Religion, etc

The GOP primary vetting process is working exactly as designed: The dimwits have been weeded out, leaving only the sleaze.

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At a time when American manufacturing was taking a hit the republicans wanted us to just let them fail.They were whining about our president being bad for businesses.He was wise enough to save the auto industry and American auto manufacturing  when top republicans such as Romney wanted them to fail and go into bankruptcy.Now Americans are buying cars again. The auto industry and their unions have scaled back pay and entitlements since then to help stem future issues..The starting wages for automakers now are in the $14.00 an hour range Hardly a unmanagable pay scale .Imagine how much worse it would have been for all of the small businesses that support the auto industry were allowed to fail along with the Companies.That was the republican plan.Ford did not need the stimulous funds and are doing fine.But 2 other major auto manufacturers needed the help and the people of this great country and they recieved it.Well at least half of the people wanted them to make a comeback.It wasnt Tea party supporters backing the auto industry.

Chrysler rode higher sales of Jeeps and other revamped vehicles to its first annual net income since 1997.

The company says it made $183 million last year as revenue rose 31 percent to $55 billion.

The net income marks a huge turnaround for the once-struggling company. In 2010, Chrysler lost $652 million as it worked to revamp its aging model lineup.

The work paid off. Chrysler's global sales rose 22 percent last year, while U.S. sales were up 26 percent.

Chrysler expects the good performance to continue. The company predicts it will make net income of about $1.5 billion in 2012 as revenue rises to approximately $65 billion.

No thanks to Romney and the republican party.

It's too bad the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation dropped funding for Planned Parenthood. 

I'm guessing that their decision was politically motivated being that Karen Handel, the foundation's 

new Senior VP for Public Policy and former gubernatorial candidate, who ran on an anti-choice platform is

now large and in charge. Plus she was indorsed by Sarah Palin, so you just know that wasn't going to end well.

Add to that, Planned Parenthood was under a congressional investigation at the same time Handel took over, started by a 

Republican legislator who was being pressured by the anti-choice Americans United For Life. It's a shame because both organizations do good work for women.

[From the Right] Yesterday a neighbor from our north opined: “If I could vote, I'd vote for the guy who got the U.S.A. out of Iraq.”  He’s right. I would too.  But I can’t.  The man who got us out of Iraq can’t run, he’s term limited out. Bush, not Obama got us out of Iraq.  When Obama took office he was bound by the Status Of Forces Agreement that Bush had negotiated with Iraq. The agreement was in negotiation during nearly all of 2008. Agreement was reached before the Presidential election of 2008. Bush signed it in November of 2008 well before Obama took office.  Obama had nothing to do with it. If you peek behind the curtain, you’ll find that Obama wanted us to stay longer, but could not come to an agreement with Iraq. Once again, he failed.  Now Obama is treating the world to the spectacle of the Mid East becoming a hot bed of Muslim fanaticism. The proper term is not the uplifting “Arab Spring”; it is the ‘Spring of the Muslim Brotherhood.”  It is a poisoned oasis. Do you remember promises that we would never negotiate with terrorists? That promise, like so many others, is broken. Obama is now in negotiations with the Taliban. He is offering to empty GITMO of the worst of the worst.

Don’t you wonder why our polar pal told us that in Canada: ”Conservatives have been in charge since 2006.“  That is curious because the Wall Street Journal last May 3^rd reported: “OTTAWA—Canada's Conservative party won a long-elusive majority in federal parliamentary elections Monday…” Eh?  It appears that Canadian PM Steve Harper has had the same problem that Bush had. A Parliament/Congress controlled by Liberals. Our nation had to endure Liberal control of our Congress for the last two years of the GWB Presidency. When the Dems took Congress, our unemployment rate was about half of what it is now.  Our national debt was just a little more than half of what it is today. That train wreck was the result only 5 years of Democrats at the wheel. In only 3 years, just since Obama took office, the price of gas has shot up by about 85%, ground beef is up by about 25%, bacon is up by about 22%. Hells bells, even the price of ice cream is up by nearly 20%.  Today, your home is worth about half of what it was when our Democrat friends took control of Congress.  Way to go Dems.

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