Sunday, July 13, 2014

Make up your minds. Follow your religion or admit that you are not. Quit making unwanted children the children’s fault. Man up. Woman up. There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents, and if you deem it God’s decision that children must be born then follow your God’s tenants to take care of them. Shame on you!

Now here is a brilliant idea. Name Marathon’s US-1 Main Street. Of course, when dealing with FDOT, the prospect is slim.

What are the odds that no hurricanes will do any ill will to the Florida Keys? I probably shouldn’t mention for those who believe that sort of thing.

LeBron James will return to the Cleveland Cavaliers next season. What will the Miami Heat’s answer be to that? Is another Heat championship possible?

O, yeah, Robert Dube and other officers of the FWC make a big lobster bust. Way to go, FWC.

Help us celebrate our 20th year serving the Florida Keys and parts up north including Homestead and Florida City. Call us at 305-743-9648 for special advertising rates honoring our 20th year of publication.

Election season. The candidate list keeps growing. You can find the list at your nearest election’s office. Marathon’s elections office is on 63rd Street in the county building on the left. Park in the parking lot and go in to meet some dedicated people running the place. You can pick up your absentee ballot too. Don’t forget about early voting as well.  ~ Publisher@MarathonJournal.US

If you moved here in the last 5 years, you got here just in time to deal with, and pay for all the stuff we locals ruined. Just breathe deeply and try to relax as they stick the pipe in. And you thought it was bad in NJ, NY, PA, CT, MI, WI!

Guess what’s coming next: another four to six grand out of your pocket for hooking up to the sewer, canal restoration projects that use pumps and swirly thingys, five-figure insurance rates for homeowners, flood and wind insurance packages, higher taxes to pay for mismanaged county funds and more rules & regs with a lot less freedom than we enjoyed down here in the 80s..

a. According to GIS application, Big Pine Key is roughly 9.3 square miles in size.
b. The annual average amount of rainfall in Monroe County is 42 inches.
c. So, the amount of freshwater from rainfall upon BPK is 9.3 sq miles x (640 acres/sq mile) x
(43,560ft x 43560ft)/acre) x (42”rainfall/12”-ft /year) x (7.48gal / cubic foot) = 296 trillion gallons a year” (Looks like he thought that an acre was 43,560 ft x 43,560 ft.  An acre is actually only 208.7 ft x 208.7 ft – 43,560 square feet. 296 trillion gallons?) How big a cube would that be Mr. Engineer?

But then again some things never change. Ms. Putney, who for so long wrongly spoke against connecting to the grid is away for the summer, just like every year. Yep, her place is buttoned up tight during the hot months so she can return when it cools enough to live here without a/c and go back to trying to tell folks how to live. Then again, her followers are now fewer than ever, most have sold and moved. A few have died. Two or three, herself included, remain and continue to confuse her fiction and lies with fact but she certainly no longer speak for the island and her own decades of deceit ended when the Public Service Commission rightfully embarrassed and exposed her in the Spring of 2013. Thank goodness.

So what’s next on No Name now that the power wars have ended? More folks will finish getting connected, many of which will leverage their solar systems and do what’s called net solar metering. There’s also that odd little sewer mandate pending, a topic that No Name’s majority has stated for seven years was critical to their goal of protecting the island over the long term. It says here that despite the lies the FKAA specializes in and those that the County perpetuates, that the island will be sewered. Sit back folks and watch the fireworks as the FKAA and some of our long standing public servants are required to answer why they don’t bid their work or operate in a transparent manner along with why they have so deceived the public for so long over what will be the largest expenditure of public money since Flagler built a road to Key West.

Think No Name is done now that power is available on the island? Think again. We are just getting started in our quest to protect this very special place and in doing so flushing out the lies along with working to end the discrimination our local government, BOCC members and the likes of FKAA have for too long subjected this special, magical, island to.  ~savenoname@gmail.com

What does he do?  Does he visit the border crisis as invited by the Governors of Texas and Arizona?  Of course not.  Rather, in true Obama fashion he goes on a fund raising trip, stopping during his ongoing campaign tour to have a beer and shoot a game of pool.

He traded 5 of the most dangerous terrorists at Gitmo for a deserter Marine who had embraced the Taliban and whose parents, while standing next to this President at the White House, praised Allah in Arabic.  In the mean time he ignores a hero Marine wasting away in a Mexican prison just a few miles from our border.

The Vets Administration is a national disgrace (he promised to fix it during his first campaign and did nothing),  the IRS, on his administrations orders , targeted his political enemies (although he, of course  denies any knowledge), the NSA scandal (he denies knowledge again), the utter failure of ObamaCare (that he continues to blatantly lie about touting its success), and the list of his failures, fumbling, ineptness, ignorance and humiliation as he bows to heads of state who laugh at him, goes on and on. Including Russian President Putin who has given him the political middle finger daring him to resist his military march seizing more and more territory at will.  Our staunch ally, Great Britton, as well as the European Union and even the political hacks at the United Nations have turned their collective backs on him.  What does that tell us?  He’s seen as an inept  fool far out of his league!

All of this not even getting into the subversion of our Constitution by his use of fiat, executive orders and other misdeeds in violation of law.

So, as an effective President what does he do?  Attends fund raisers, plays a game or two of golf, stops for a brewski and a game of pool , shakes a few hands (I hope they washed with soap and bleach water afterword) and then hops on his jumbo jet with all of the entourage that costs the American taxpayers millions of dollars,  (It is now reported that since he took office his travels, as well as his wife and family vacation travels have cost us about $48 million dollars).

We don’t have a President in office.  We have a buffoon, nothing but a Chicago street activist, who is over his head, inept at best and dangerous to our country at worst and we still have two years to go with this man who thinks he is a King or Tsar rather than a President who abides by the law as it is written and also abides by the Constitution..

We can only hope that his power base will be neutered by the mid-term elections and possibly a call for impeachment.  While his ardent supporters sing “Hail to the King,” most of us are now singing  “God Bless America.”  We sure need a blessing now!

There are probably very few of us who have ever heard of the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN). For years the scientific community has complained that NOAA meteorological measurements are flawed because so many weather reporting stations are sited in mini climates such as cities so that the recordings were likely to be skewed to high side. In response NOAA put in place about 115 highly accurate reporting stations throughout the USA, sited so that they would accurately record the meteorological conditions. Prior to this network, the data collected was “adjusted” to fit the prevailing theory.

The USCRN array provides the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s  with the  most accurate, up-to-date temperature data ever. It has now confirmed that the United States has been cooling for at least the past decade. According to the USCRN temperature readings, U.S. temperatures are not rising at all – at least not since the network became operational 10 years ago. Instead, the United States has cooled by approximately 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is more than half of the claimed global warming of the twentieth century.

If you have an interest in this important topic, I suggest you read the following Link

It’s worth noting that if you have deep doubts about the entire idea of anthropogenic global warming, you are not alone, in fact you are in the majority. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 35 percent of Americans say there is not enough solid evidence to suggest mankind is warming the earth while another 18 percent says that if the world has warmed, it is due to “natural patterns” and not human activity. That’s a 53 percent majority.

Part 2) It’s interesting to note that we never see Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Mormons, Christian Scientists, or even Wiccans pushing their religious beliefs in the CT. But we seem to be hip deep in atheists who are more committed to proselytizing their own brand of belief than even the most ardent of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It’s also revealing that their postings are always demeaning and full of invective aimed at those who are not atheists.

Part 3) Whooopie, Obama’s popularity numbers are soaring, he now has a 72% approval rating–among Muslims!

Part 4) Kudos to LeBron James who while speaking of his return to Cleveland said: “Nothing is given, everything is earned. You work for what you have.”