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“Hello how is everything, we hope that all it good, especially yours and your immediate family health. Maru was last week working in Havana and I am at home making a table for laptops, internal divisions of a closet, y hooks for hanging clothes. All to better organize the house and Maru is happier. These days I have not had work tour guide and as a freelancer I’ve only worked at home and a hostel (Casa Mario y Damaris) where I do promotional work online. Over here they are making unbearable heat, ideal for being at home, in the shower all day. In Cuba everything stays the same, the worst is that there is no hope of real change that will help change the landscape. More and more restrictions and changes do not appear to help professionals like me to find a safe y working according to what one has studied . Maru and I are considering the possibility of eventually trying to leave Cuba, but still this idea is a project unrealizable by the associated costs and the inability to do together at the same time.

I’m not working on cubahostales.com because it did not benefit as competition entered the large foreign companies y others with more budget and technical possibilities, in addition to it all the US Treasury Department got caught blocking our site for a full month in high season booking. All the work of a year lost.
So things are going around here, hugs and take care.”

August 6- Who/What/Where/Why are White-crowned pigeons here? Join NKDR Staff as they explore the lives of the elusive WCP. Trip to No Name Key. Wear sturdy shoes, bring binoculars/camera, and wear bug spray.
August 13- A Final Photo Safari! Must bring your own digital camera. Join NDKR staff for an exploration of freshwater wetland and pine rockland habitats that make great photo ops. See you there! Events

Various competing claims exist as to who was responsible for the world’s first traffic signal. A device installed in London in 1868 featured two semaphore arms that extended horizontally to signal “stop” and at a 45-degree angle to signal “caution.” In 1912, a Salt Lake City, Utah, police officer named Lester Wire mounted a handmade wooden box with colored red and green lights on a pole, with the wires attached to overhead trolley and light wires. Most prominently, the inventor Garrett Morgan has been given credit for having invented the traffic signal based on his T-shaped design, patented in 1923 and later reportedly sold to General Electric.

Despite Morgan’s greater visibility, the system installed in Cleveland on August 5, 1914, is widely regarded as the first electric traffic signal. Based on a design by James Hoge, who received U.S. patent 1,251,666 for his “Municipal Traffic Control System” in 1918, it consisted of four pairs of red and green lights that served as stop-go indicators, each mounted on a corner post. Wired to a manually operated switch inside a control booth, the system was configured so that conflicting signals were impossible. According to an article in The Motorist, published by the Cleveland Automobile Club in August 1914: “This system is, perhaps, destined to revolutionize the handling of traffic in congested city streets and should be seriously considered by traffic committees for general adoption.”

We can also never forget Karl Roves election night meltdown………..NOOOOOOOO its not over yet. Now that was a crazy moment.

FTR’S RESPONSE: For the left, Fox news is the boogie man. BOO. The left’s propaganda machine has carefully inculcated into the psyche of the left true believers that nothing that Fox reports is true. Currently the left and the admin are doing all in their power to convince their true believers that the current border invasion is totally benign. That there is no danger from any infectious disease being carried by the tsunami of illegal immigrants and the children seeking asylum from Central America. But is that spin true?

The short answer no. An emphatic no! It’s been widely reported that the admin is bussing and shipping the children all over the country, from Alaska to Louisiana. It is also widely reported that that many of these children are infected with chicken pox, scabies, MRSA staph infections, lice, cholera, malaria, and digestive tract illnesses, particularly because people are being detained in close quarters. The children are coming from areas with no medical care, many of these children have never seen a doctor, been to a health clinic, or had any access to medical care, never mind being vaccinated.

But what about Ebola? Very recently a leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from more than 75 different countries. The numbers are frightening. It is important to note these numbers do not include data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Among the significant revelations are that large numbers of individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014. Please think about the fact that border authorities estimate that about 4 times as many that get caught, get through into the US.

The two patients returned to the US in isolation pose virtually no threat of spreading Ebola, but the untold numbers of people from the Ebola stricken nations pose a grave threat. And still our friends on the left, and the Obama administration refuse to even consider actually securing our southern border. Ask yourself why. And no, the source for the foregoing was not Fox news. Link

Part 2) A new poll conducted by Marist College’s Institute for Public Opinion for WSJ and NBC News, reveals that a narrow plurality of registered voters said they preferred Republicans to take control the Senate. Registered voters preferred Republicans maintain control of the House by the same margin. Deer Friends, if you really want to make a difference, pick a Republican Senate candidate in any state, and send him/her a few bucks….it will really help. I suggest Georgia, Kentucky, Iowa, Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana or North Carolina.

Part 3) The White House is vigorously defending CIA Director John Brennan, calling him a man of “great integrity” amid calls for the intelligence chief to step down after the agency admitted to spying on Senate staffers. The White House assures us that “John Brennan is a man of great integrity and ability. He’s someone the president knows very well and has confidence in.” Yup, yup, it makes perfect sense that Team Obama would admire a man who has proven to be a serial liar under oath to Congress, a man who has illegally bugged Angela Markel’s phone, illegally bugged certain Senators computers, and illegally accessed Congressional staff email. I believe that when he took his oath of office, he swore to uphold the laws and the Constitution of our nation. He has violated that oath.

Here’s what Brennan first said about hacking Senate computers. “As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth,” “We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.” But they did, and he later was forced to admit it.

Brennan should be booted out the door. Each of us should think carefully about the slope we are on that is sliding us into more and more intrusive government. It is our freedom to lose.