Thought for the Day!

The Biden nightmare cannot end soon enough.

The 2022 election cannot arrive soon enough.

Thought for the Day on Illegals

Student Marijuana use on the rise

Project Know did a 10 year study on student drug use.  Marijuana is the only drug on the rise.

"The data confirms it: From 1991 to 2013, there was a significant increase in the current use of marijuana by high school students. It went from 14.7% to 23.4%. And although there wasn’t much of an increase
between 2011 (23.1%) and 2013 (23.4%), the rate certainly didn’t drop either.

In 2013, current marijuana use was lowest in – no surprise here – Utah (7.6%). It was lowest in Utah for every year from 2003 to 2013. It was highest in 2013 in New Mexico (27.8%). The prevalence of having tried marijuana before the age of 13 increased from 1991 to 1999 and then decreased from 1999 to 2013 (11.3%–8.6%)."

Once legalized in any form, whether it is medical marijuana or for general use, we will have more addiction therapists, treatment centers, and sober living providers than ever before. And we will definitely have more addicts. Politicians keep screaming about more jobs and this is one way for job creation. Our landfill has been suggested as the perfect place to grow cannabis. We will definitely have more businesses popping up like the store in our downtown that sells electronic cigarettes from an admitted former drug addict.

Forgive Your Enemies

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The preacher's Sunday sermon was "Forgive Your Enemies."

He asked how many of the congregation have forgiven their enemies? About half held up their hands. He then repeated his question. Now about 80 % held up their hands. He then repeated his question once more. All responded, except one elderly lady. "Mrs. Johnson, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?"

"I don't have any."

"Mrs. Johnson that is very unusual. How old are you?"

"Ninety-three," she replied.

"Mrs. Johnson, please come down in front and tell the congregation how a person cannot have an enemy in the world?"

The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle and said,

"I outlived every one of those bitches!"

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Thought for the Day - Ayn Rand Quotes

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."


"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

~ Ayn Rand

Thought for the Day - Lake Worth Bond

The bond debt, should this money-grab pass, will be over in year 2049. 34 years from the start of the first issuance, property owners will be paying this tax. That is a long time to be paying down a debt for road repairs that will only last one-half that time, if we're lucky. What then?  Do it all over again? 

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For a commissioner--

“Comment is free,
 but facts are sacred.”

– C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921

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Leftists need conservatives but conservatives don't need Leftists.

To be blunt, they can’t let us go. We’d be happy to be rid of them, because to us they’re nothing but parasites and/or oppressors. But they can’t get rid of us because we do most of the work, pay most of the taxes, provide the stability and morality that allow their depravity to thrive with less damaging results. Furthermore, the white conservative population is the buffer protecting white liberals from the minorities.

The late American writer,  Lawrence Auster

Have a Happy Day

When turkey’s on the table laid,

 And good things I may scan,

 I’m thankful that I wasn’t made a vegetarian.

 -Edgar A. Guest

President pardons Gobbler and second runner up.

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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

This is a reference to a quotation from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, meant to say that the names of things do not matter, only what things are.

Independent thinkers

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Scenes such as this are always intriguing to me.

The photo captures a thought. One lone and independent Ibis on a different wire than all of the other birds, therefore looking and seeing the horizon in a totally different perspective.

Independent thinkers are what made this country great. Most assuredly, when we think like everyone else is thinking, the best that we can expect is to achieve what they’ve already achieved.

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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.

One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

~John Adams 1826

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By: Sandy Walters

Ed Kelly, recently elected mayor of Ormond Beach, was publicly very Anti-Four. He told Suzanne Steiner that "businesses are lined up at Florida's borders, waiting to see what happens with Amendment Four." Suzanne says she wished she'd asked him, "where have all these businesses been for the last 30 years?"

There are many successful and expanding businesses in Florida. We just don't hear about them. I am familiar with one in Pinellas County, a high-tech defense contract business. They picked Pinellas as their start-up location because the county was very supportive of them and so was Sen. Bill Young.

Pinellas Co. provided space in a "business incubator" facility that was an empty county building sitting unused and also gave them many tax breaks and perks to grow their business. When it reached a certain size, the company had to move out of the "incubator" to give room for the next fledgling business, which they did.

I don't know about all of their equipment, but I know their spectrometers are built here in the US -- in Pinellas County, in fact!

If you look at the economies of some cities in the north you can see why they're not hurting like Florida. My hometown, Pittsburgh, has an economy of which only 4% is made up of construction.

The future is "meds and eds" but Florida still only wants to focus on "rooftops and strip malls."

On Fascism - Thought of the Day

John Hedrick sends in his "Thought of the Day"

If you're trying to hint broadly that the country is moving possibly in a fascist direction, as exemplified by the US Supreme Court decision unleashing all the corporations for unlimited spending in the electoral process, then I would agree.

Please see two short sentences from the Wikipedia definition below. (There was much more there if you are interested).

Fascism is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political Ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy.

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"Unless we shut down the economy, we need fossil fuels. More efficient light bulbs, energy-saving appliances, cars with higher gas mileage may all dampen energy use. But offsetting these savings will be more people (391 million vs. 305 million), more households (147 million vs. 113 million), more vehicles (297 million vs. 231 million) and a bigger economy (almost double in size).

Although wind, solar and biomass are assumed to grow as much as 10 times faster than overall energy use, they provide only 11 percent of supply in 2035, up from 5 percent in 2008."
Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post, June 21, 2010

Life Cycle of a Democracy

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years.

These nations have progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith
from spiritual faith to great courage
from courage to liberty
from liberty to abundance
from abundance to selfishness
from selfishness to complacency
from complacency to apathy
from apathy to dependency
from dependency back to bondage.
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)”

The above was from the web site goofigure.com. It was sent to me by former Lake Worth Commissioner, Scott Maxwell and I thought it was extremely interesting.

Right now with the recent $700 billion bailout, with the main purpose of unclogging the credit markets--passed in the Senate and now in the hands of the House to vote on an updated version by today--we are at the Apathy to Dependency stage of the democracy cycle. Also, our country is officially 232 years in existence. That means we have survived 32 years over the world’s average. That’s like saying “she lived to the age of 90”…10 years past life expectancy. The absolute fact of life is that we all die and according to the stats, so do democracies, a supreme power held completely by the people under an electorate system.

The oldest Democracies:

USA (1776)
Denmark (1849)
Australia (1901)
Sweden (1907)
Britain (1918)
Canada (1931).

The government is subsidizing farmers for not growing food; corporations are outsourcing jobs to make more profits; CEO’s are robbing the shareholders blind with corporate packages that are so far out of line it makes you sick, citizens apply for disability when they are physically fine, and the list goes on. Mortgage lenders and financial institutions are the direct cause of this latest crisis. The average citizen has to take a lot of the blame when he buys a house he can’t afford, buys an expensive car, buys designer jeans and charges everything to credit cards, maxing them out, and perhaps even filing bankruptcy. The government putting other priorities before America's national and financial security, and funding an illegal war, are major parts of the problem.

We all have to pay for this financial crisis caused by dishonesty and greed. The question is, can greed be stopped and can we change the culture of this democracy? It might take tough times to shake us back to reality. It very well could be the difference of our survival.