Rose and a Hibiscus

Spotted at Home Depot today, a stunning Rose and a beautiful Hibiscus. I am assuming that this is a Hybrid rose. The colors were unusual: three colors with white surrounded by red on the outside, and yellow in the center. The Hibiscus flower was also unusual with four distinct colors.

Mess of the Week revisited

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It just gets worse. Now these people are having a weekend yard sale with furniture and crap all over the place. The side of the house has cars on the lawn and mattresses for sale. The absolute worse part of this, besides the fact that those living in this house are chronic violators, is--

NO PERMIT

Yesterday the Vice President of this Neighborhood Association stopped and asked them about a permit. "What permit?" they asked. They were told about it but what the heck, right? This is what happens when our rules are not enforced...it snowballs to the point of no return. What used to be a wonderful neighborhood is getting more and more blighted and the City does NOTHING.

The Smooth Line of Bologna

Since becoming president, Obama’s questionable character has shown itself repeatedly: his “green-energy” program, which looks like a means to repay rich, fat-cat donors, his “fast-and-furious” gun scandal, which apparently entailed illegally selling US guns to Mexican drug dealers so they’d use the guns to kill people and create anti-gun fervor in the US; his continual, and very public, practice of encouraging supporters to aggressively attack those opposing him, so they’d do exactly what his supporters embedded within the IRS have done.

Like a common bully, he publicly jeers at and insults his opposition, and his supporters love every word of it. They support him for who and what he is; because he divides rather than unites Americans; because he seeks to publicly humiliate half the US population; because he plays dirty; because he talks a smooth line of bologna.

Read more... on Obama's travesty of leadership.

Kavasutra downtown Lake Worth

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Never having been a business that particularly pays attention to our laws, and a business that loves to throw it all up in our face, the Kavasutra created an impassable walkway last night. When you tried to stroll by it was an obstacle course and those blocking the sidewalk stared like we were the ogres for bothering them.

These owners, one of whom is Dylan Harrison who will be sentenced soon to prison time for his admitted distribution of an illegal substance as well as manufacturing and selling a misbranded drug, have been made aware of our ordinance on many occasions. Why is this allowed to continue?

Quote of the Day - Obama

"My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government."

 ~ President Barack Obama

More Creeps

More creeps and this time it involves ILLEGAL ALIENS in Utah soliciting young girls for sex.  Just the types we want to give amnesty to, right? Knowing our government they would probably give them free condoms.

Don't Fight the Alinskites with Fairness

More Creeps in Lake Worth - Home Alone

Read more... about creeps leaving little children alone, one even in diapers, residing in the 300 block of North A Street.

Corporations are People?

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that allows unrestricted campaign spending by corporations and wealthy individuals. The resolution supports an amendment by Vermont Rep. Bernie Sanders and Florida Rep. Ted Deutch that would “expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections, and affirm the authority of Congress and the states to regulate corporations and to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures.”

Other states calling on Congress for a constitutional amendment are Vermont, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island and West Virginia.

Read more... at The Bangor Daily News.

Suspicious actions

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Seven people from Pakistan, Singapore and Saudi Arabia – the country of 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers – were caught trespassing in the middle of the night at a reservoir from which Boston draws its drinking water. Read more....

Quote of the Day - Jay Carney

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"There are no scandals. You’re concocting scandals that don’t exist."

~ Jay Carney, Whitehouse Press Secretary

Carney also dismissed the recent Benghazi probe in the U.S. House of Representatives, as merely a Republican witch hunt, that has, “fallen apart.” Read more...

Short-term Rentals in Lake Worth

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Vacation rental advocates write article supporting their case:  They are right and we are losers or so they imply.

Read more... about the people who have come into our city and have broken our laws. They are threatening a lawsuit if they can't get their way and say "Lake Worth will lose if the commission restricts short-term rentals."

Women for Women Race in Lake Worth

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Tomorrow, if you need to travel down these streets between 6am and 9am--FORGET ABOUT IT.

To facilitate for, the Lake Worth Women for Women 5k and 10k race on Saturday, May 18, 2013, parking and traffic flow will be temporarily prohibited from 06:00 am to 09:00 am (approximate) at the below streets. 

• Lake Ave from South Federal Hwy (east side) to South Ocean Blvd.
• Lucerne Ave from North Federal Hwy (east side) to South Ocean Blvd.
• North O/Ocean Breeze St. from 7^th Ave North to 5^th Ave South.
• Palmway from 6^th Ave North to 18^th Ave. South.
• South Lakeside Drive from 5^th Ave South to 18^th Ave. South.
• 2^nd Ave North from North Federal Hwy (east side) to North Golfview Rd.
• North Lakeside Drive from 3^rd Ave North to Lucerne Ave.
• South Golfview Rd from 1^st Ave South to Lucerne Ave. 
• Lake Worth Bridge will be closed-Southern Blvd Bridge will be north access.

To ensure a safe and successful race your cooperation in this is important. Emergency vehicles will be allowed access where necessary. Streets will be barricaded and volunteers as well as Palm Beach County Sheriff Deputies will be controlling intersections. Thank you.

Nadine Burns

Office Manager Lake Worth Office

Central Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce

Can IRS be trusted with ObamaCare?

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Just days after the IRS admitted making life miserable for conservative organizations applying for tax-exempt status, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., warned that the agency cannot be trusted to enforce Obamacare and is pushing legislation to strip the IRS of any new powers connected to the law.

On Thursday, ABC News reported the IRS official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations when the agency targeted tea-party groups is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for enforcing Obamacare. Also, the Daily Caller reported the agency is the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging that “15 of its agents improperly seized 10 million Americans’ medical records.”

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Know thy enemy - Eat your hearts out

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Reported by CNN, a man, said to be a well-known rebel fighter, carves into the body of a government soldier and cuts out his heart and liver.

"I swear to God we will eat your hearts out, you soldiers of Bashar. You dogs. God is greater!" the man says. "Heroes of Baba Amr ... we will take out their hearts to eat them." He then puts the heart in his mouth and takes a bite.

Obama supports the rebels in Syria.

 Is Obama failing on moral leadership?

Crime down? Costs up

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Big news today with a front page headliner at the Palm Beach Post--crime is down in Palm Beach County for 2012. Who puts out the stats? The Sheriff's Department. Of course, the stats are announced right after Ric Bradshaw asks for a budget increase. At the beginning of May, Sheriff Bradshaw asked for an 8% increase or $40 million more for raises and equipment to his already half billion dollar budget. He says if he doesn't get the raise, our quality of life might be impacted.

With a 10% increase in burglaries with criminals more brazen than ever by hitting homes in the middle of the day, and a 12% increase in rapes, do you feel safer?  If you live in Lake Worth, it's party time--watch out gals...your chances of being raped are 1 in 1,000 people. If you consider that one half of that figure are men, then the odds are even greater.

As reported previously, there were 10 burglaries just this past month alone in Lake Osborne Heights.   Palm Springs, our direct neighbor, had an increase in most crimes. The startling thing was that it was said that a lot of these criminals were coming from the Lake Worth Road corridor. Next we will find Palm Springs road blocking off their neighborhoods like Lantana did on Ridge Road to stop the criminal element from Lake Worth entering their city. I would like to see all of the stats on our city.

Public safety takes the biggest chunk of our operating revenues. It is estimated at 70.09% for 2014. We are told that these are non-controllable costs. Are they non-negotiable too?

The Trio - One Master

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WOOF

Obama lied, so says the Judge

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If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie.  If you want to make a Liberal angry, you tell 'em the truth; it works every time it's tried.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Tonight at the Lake - a Gaggle of Geese

This is the first year I have seen Geese at Lake Osborne.  Tonight it was a male, three females and one baby.

Lake Worth on the Mend?

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Lake Worth officials are non-partisan and the way that Missy Diaz has written her article and attorney Michael Weiner has STATED his comment you would think that all past commissions in Lake Worth never did a damn thing right. And since Mr. Weiner brings political Parties into this, if it were not for some of our past commissions, progressives to boot, we would not have our beach redevelopment; we would not have our own Reverse Osmosis Plant; we would not have saved Old Bridge Park from a condo highrise; and the budget HAS TO BE balanced by law.

The uber-liberal central Palm Beach County city – best known for its fringe population of self-described anarchists who regularly make national news for heckling conservative candidates and causes – elected a smart-growth, pro-business, pro-development Republican mayor, writes Diaz.

Read more about Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo and how this article implies that she has single handedly cleaned up and turned around Lake Worth by 180^ according to Greg Rice.

We still have the slum and blight. We still have the crime. We STILL have the potholes, and now this commission wants to spend $63 million filling them in.

Terrorists plan major attacks on U.S. soil

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Iran has given the go-ahead to operatives of three terrorist groups that have infiltrated the United States to carry out missions, including what is expected to be a Mumbai-style attack on a hotel where innocent bystanders would be killed, WND has learned.

It will be something like the Mumbai attack in 2008

More than 2,600 targets, including public places, government buildings and military installations, have been chosen for attack, and reconnaissance has been done. Information about some of the targets, based on direct knowledge of the source, has been given to U.S. officials to neutralize the threat and confront the terrorists. They include specific government buildings, news networks, malls and sports events.

This new coalition has also prepared for a major attack to avenge al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden’s killing to satisfy Seif Adel, the operational head of al-Qaida, for his collaboration with the Iranian regime.

Read more... at WND.

Julio Robaina Charged with Tax Evasion

I remember writing Republican Robaina several years ago or so and got a sarcastic and rude reply--too bad I didn't save it. Was he targeted too? If so, perhaps this IRS investigation is justified.

Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, who lost a bid for Miami-Dade County’s top political position, was charged Thursday with tax evasion for allegedly making loans at sky-high interest rates and failing to report secret cash payments, authorities said.

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Unraveling

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Ok now, I got away with--
A poorly designed Stimulus
I failed to mobilize the Federal Reserve to support MY Stimulus
I did all that was politically possible but I had no contingency plan

NOW LOOK AT THE MESS--
I can't blame any of it on the Republicans. My gift of gab ain't working any more. Corruption and incompetence is out in the open.

Eric, What do I do now?

Criminals are active in Lake Worth

May 15th crime within 2 miles of my residence-- No, I don't plan on bringing up these crime stats on a daily basis. This is only to bring awareness that we have TONS OF CRIME IN OUR CITY that NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT. We must stop making our city an attractive place for criminals to live.  Is the Citizens on Patrol still active?  Even though our neighborhood Sheriff patrols each street in his assigned area, it is not enough to deter criminals--nor is the empty sheriff vehicle parked on a street unattended. Criminals are NOT THAT STUPID.

 ASSAULT 13074411 300 BLOCK N DIXIE HWY
BURGLARY - VEHICLE 13074400 500 BLOCK S M ST
ASSAULT 13074345 900 BLOCK S DIXIE HWY
BURGLARY - RESIDENCE 13074251 200 BLOCK N G ST
BURGLARY - RESIDENCE 13074276 200 BLOCK N G ST
BURGLARY - RESIDENCE 13074192 500 BLOCK N M ST
BURGLARY - VEHICLE 13074157 1700 BLOCK LAKE WORTH RD
VANDALISM 13074122 4900 BLOCK 32ND DR S
THEFT/LARCENY 13074089 100 BLOCK N LAKESIDE DR
THEFT OF AUTO PARTS 13074103 1100 BLOCK BARNETT DR
THEFT/LARCENY 13074087 500 BLOCK S DIXIE HWY

Lake Worth CRA wants to turn shuffleboard court building into an Arts Center

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The CRA has its hands into everything "affordable" and it certainly is amazing that it now wants to get its hands on our shuffleboard court building. They don't own this building and they don't maintain it.  Presently, the shuffleboard court building houses our Recreation Department. The CRA owns a building on Lake Avenue. What about that one?

It is annoying that this building was once turned over to illegal aliens who trashed our building and stomped on our hospitality all at the expense of the seniors who used the building and were kicked out on their ear. Now the CRA wants to kick out one of our important departments (that has no place to go?) for arts!

The shuffleboard building just west of city hall, former home to a day-labor center, could become an art center where artists would teach classes and display their work.

The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board agreed Tuesday to apply to the state for a $300,000 cultural facilities grant that would be used to renovate the building.

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This is another one of their MATCHING GRANTS schemes and the CRA says it will give $37,500. I guess the taxpayers pick up the rest with City Manager Bornstein planning on soliciting for proposals to renovate a city-owned warehouse at 1105 Second Ave. S. to create another art center...like we can't have too many. What gives?  I guess that budget balance is burning a hole.