Obama, a Socialist?

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Although this speech was back in 1998, we who pay attention know that he is a socialist in spite of the news media that says he isn't. The world knows it also and the writer from Pravda (earlier blog) says the entire world knows it. It is only we in the U.S. who won't admit it.

One example of  Obama's redistribution of wealth is his encouragement of more Americans to apply for food stamps. One in four people who are qualified per the government's standards don't apply for food assistance, generally the elderly who were raised under a totally different system and ethic. Two common types of governmental redistribution of wealth are subsidies and vouchers. These programs are funded through general taxation, but disproportionately benefit the poor, who pay fewer or no taxes. 46.4 million people are in the food stamps program, also known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

“Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger,” Rep. Paul Ryan said in October 2011. Democrats have gone after the 1 percenters and want to raise taxes on the wealthy. They have demonized Mitt Romney for being wealthy and successful in our free enterprise system and have made a big issue of his not releasing his tax returns and that he is out of touch with ordinary people.

 Mitt Romney explained that the president believes in a "government-centered society where government plays a larger and larger role, provides for more and more of the needs of individuals and I happen to believe instead in a free enterprise, free society where people pursuing their dreams are able to employ one another, build enterprises, build the strongest economy in the world."



“The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution? — because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure everybody has got a shot,”

Talk like a Pirate Day Proclamation

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PROCLAMATION

Whereas, the City of Lake Worth is known to possess a spirit of independence, high spirits, and swashbuckling, all traits of a good pirate; and

Whereas, old pirate culture from the Caribbean is popular in TV shows, movies, literature, products, and rafting; and

Whereas, pirates are colorful, adventurous, mischievous and flamboyant; and

Whereas, two re-enactors, John Bauer and Mark Summers instituted International Talk Like A Pirate Day in 1995; and

Whereas, humorist Dave Barry liked the idea so much he promoted it in his nationally syndicated column in 2002, igniting a powder keg of followers worldwide; and

Whereas, it is fun to talk like a pirate by using words like Arrrrr, ye and bilge rat; and

Whereas, everyone would like to think they have a little bit of pirate spirit inside of themselves.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Pam Triolo, by virtue of the power vested in me as Mayor of the City of Lake Worth, do hereby proclaim

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

as

INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY

And urge all citizens of Lake Worth as well as all the less worthy sailors and scaliwaygs in other communities to celebrate in a hearty and fun loving way on September 19th!

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Lake Worth, Florida to be affixed this 18th day of September, 2012.

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Pam Triolo, Mayor

ATTEST:
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The Choice is Clear

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Heights Issue on tonight's Agenda

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A REMINDER: Tonight the city commission will have the 2nd public hearing on the building heights issue.

The Respectful Planning Lake Worth Political Committee registered with the City Clerk on June 22, 2012, and circulated a petition to place a charter amendment on a ballot regarding building height limits within certain designated downtown area. On July 23, 2012, the City Clerk delivered 1,785 petition signatures to the Supervisor of Elections for verification of sufficiency. The petition was certified on July 26, 2012, with 1,719 valid signatures and now the ballot question will go to the voters.

In accordance with the City Charter, once a petition has been certified, the Commission shall consider the proposed political committee’s ordinance within 60 days and, upon adoption, a special election will be held between 90 and 180 days.

As everyone but two people with whom I spoke wanted to maintain heights of 3 or 4 stories in our downtown, DON'T FORGET ALL YOUR HARD WORK! The Commission is not your boss and the only way they can turn this around is if you allow it to happen on election day.

The Commission voted to delay this ballot initiative until March thus costing the city $21,000. We should have been allowed to vote on it November 6. DON'T FORGET that this Commission is fiscally irresponsible even though we have a mayor who said we are heading in the right direction.

As one resident said, "It is very unfortunate that the commission majority did not respect their constituents in putting it on the ballot in November. Moving the item to March, spending $21,000 unnecessarily and trying to "educate the public" about building heights, sounds more like trying to manipulate an outcome that the commission majority wants rather than respecting the will of the people."

Pirates arrrr among us!

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The first thing on the City Commission agenda is declaring September 19th as Talk like a Pirate Day. There is no back-up for this proclamation so no one actually knows what in heck it all means. For all of you who might care the least bit about officially recognizing this day, see video below to find out how important it is. Pirates rob, loot, plunder, fleece...choose your adjective--hope this is not the new mission of this commission when they vote on the final budget in one week's time by robbing Reserves.


Steps to Talk like a Pirate:

• 1. Growl - and scowl often. Pirates don't use a cultured, elegant, smooth vocalization - they mutter and growl... A lot.

• 2. Use pirate lingo. Sounding like a pirate isn't as hard as it seems! There are lots of resources for picking up pirate "lingo," so make use of them (some common terms listed below) in addition to trying to affect a vocal sound. Avoid using modern epithets (swear words). It's much more colorful (and kid-friendly) to use "pirate slang" for those naughty words. Use words like, "shiny objects in the sky."

• 3. Gesture with your hands frequently. Don't forget that pirates do most of their talking on the deck of a ship - out on the ocean, where wind, waves, and bird calls make it tough to hear. Gesturing often gives you a sense of "being there." Make false accusations towards minority commissioners.

• 4. Slur your words together saying, "The boys and I were out for a lovely day on the water today" sounds like something you'd overhear at a yacht club, not out on the bounding main! Instead, try, "Me 'n' these here scurvy scallywags drug our sorry keesters out t'th'ship'n'had us a grand great adventuaaarrr! We almost had t'keelhaul Mad Connie f'r gettin inter th' grog behind our backs!" Use contractions whenever possible. Be sure to punctuate often with "Arrrr" and whatever you do, speak last...much more of an impact. Arrrr.

• 5. Never use "you" or "you're" - ever.  Instead, use the piratical form, "yer", "ye" or "ya" for all forms of address to others. "Yer a scurvy bilge rat, ya pompous gasbag" or "Here's yer dinner, ya mangy cockroach." Note that you should always endeavor to call the addressee by some insulting name, usually involving an animal.

• 6. Embellish at will. A pirate is larger than life, and his or her speech should always reflect this. Don't just say, "We saw a whale off the starboard bow today." Say, "Me'n'th' crew seen a great grand sea beastie, th' mother of all whales, aye!"

• 7. Refer to yourself as "me" at all times, never "I." It is not piratically correct to say, "I have a cold." It is far better as a pirate to declare, "Got me a case o'th'sniffles, 'ass rye!" Got to get me to my office downtown to ride me o'th'sniffles...arrr.

• 8. More importantly, substitute "me" for "my" For example, don't say, "Look at my new sword," say "Look it me new sword!." Also substitute "meself" for "myself" as in "Got meself a right fine ship!" 9. Mutter unintelligibly unless yelling. Being a pirate usually meant being liquored up to some degree - a lot of time, pirates were pretty mush-mouthed. In the step preceding, the term "'ass rye" actually translates to "that's right." Get it?

• 10. Be as loud as humanly possible. Filibuster and talk about "me" wife so that the clock runs out. Pirates are not shy - stand tall, me hearties, and be counted!

• 11. Get a stuffed toy parrot and sew feet to right shoulder of a second hand store jacket. This will put you in the mood to adhere to the above mentioned rules and guarantee an abundance of "yers and arghs". Source:  WikiHow.com

Our absolute favorite pirate!

General Motors pushing Obama

The Treasury Department is resisting General Motors' push for the government to sell off its stake in the automobile maker, The Wall Street Journal reports. Following a $50 billion bailout in 2009, the U.S. taxpayers now own almost 27% of the company. But the newspaper said GM executives are now chafing at that, saying it hurts the company's reputation and its ability to attract top talent due to pay restrictions.

Earlier this year, GM presented a plan to repurchase 200 million of the 500 million shares the U.S. holds with the balance being sold via a public offering. But officials at the Treasury Department were not interested, as selling now would lead to a multibillion-dollar loss for the government, the newspaper noted.

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Pravda writer says it is the dumbing down of America

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True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a Burger King burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy".  Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power.  Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive.  His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world.  If this  keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not,  America at best will resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, losses, and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars.  These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison.  Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes.  Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the  very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on  trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another.  They are also usurping the rights, duties, and powers of the American congress (parliament).  Again, congress has put up little more than a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motors) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self-given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will.Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies.  I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster.  Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, and so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "free man" whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance, and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses?  Senator Barney Frank, a social pervert basking in his  homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal  norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a  looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his  Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort.  He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest, and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin<© 1999-2009... PRAVDA.Ru . When reproducing our materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should be made. The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.

Radicals of the Game - Obama at the Bat

Billboard Blight and the "shuffling" of funds

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Read here on Billboard fiasco

At the last Budget meeting, Finance Director, Steve Carr, stated that $700,000 from the billboard "settlement" would be used to balance the Budget. I don't recall the exact use. Through the years, we have had a lot of money that was transferred out, transferred from one account to another and no one has been able to connect the dots. In fact, we burned through $12 million dollars several years ago when we had different finance directors and approximately $3.5 million went "missing" from our beach fund.

The billboard deal was a deal from hell. In one way I blame the paranoia of the city that has been scared and petrified of anyone threatening a law suit and in this case, made a terrible decision to allow billboards into our city for a term of 20 years minus one day that was against our code. Instead of fighting it, the city capitulated. That city attorney is now gone.

The Clemens Commission dedicated the billboard "settlement" money to a specific use. Present commissions need to know this so that any use of funds can be discussed by the commission as well as the public and that transfers of large sums of money must be with the full history and knowledge of the commission. This should never be a staff decision.

On September 14, 2011 the Finance Advisory Board had a discussion on the proceeds from the Billboards and said that it wanted Staff to bring back the history of the Commission decisions on how to use the funds and then they would have more discussion on any use of funds.

We continue to have transparency issues. When it comes to hundreds of thousands and/or millions of dollars, staff needs to present ALL of the facts because commissions change every year as well as staff. It was promised under Stanton that each commissioner would get monthly financials in order to keep up with it all so that they would be able to compare line item discrepancies.

Instead of the reported $424,000 being taken from Reserves along with $100,000 from the Simpkin Trust, we are taking another $700,000 from a dedicated fund. That totals $1,224,000 of our cash to balance a budget in order to give back residents pennies on their electric bill.  What else is going on to balance this budget of which we are unaware?

Allen West on Inept Susan Rice

Charles F. Tolbert, Candidate for President of the U.S.

Last week, while waiting for an appointment at a building on 10th Avenue North in Lake Worth, I ran into an actual, gosh darn real candidate for president of the United States, Charles F. Tolbert.

As he was checking in, I heard him mention that he was a candidate for President of the United States. That quickly got my attention so I strolled over to him and introduced myself. He gave me his business card with a PO Box in Ft. Lauderdale, all done in red, white and blue asking for my vote.

Mr. Tolbert's Party is Citizens for a Better America and part of his platform touches on education. He poses the question, "What if a stimulus package paid all lenders of all students that currently have student loans?  In so doing, the students would have an increase of disposable income, which they could use to purchase items, and in many cases keep them from filing bankruptcy. We should note that student loans are not forgiven in bankruptcy.

Like all other Americans, we are bettering ourselves in order to provide not only a better life style for ourselves and our families, but also to keep America ahead of other countries. Yet, because of the fact that education is a privilege, and not a right, we have to borrow money in order to further our knowledge."

Aside from electing one good man or woman as President of the United States, that's his pitch!

Tolbert Resume

Rotten Poles Picked Up

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Termite rotted poles at the alley in back of S. Palmway have finally been removed after years of being there, so says the owner whose house lies adjacent. Blight is slowly being addressed in Lake Worth. Sometimes it takes active citizenry to get the ball rolling.

Why shouldn't voters produce a valid ID?

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It's only the Democrats who continue to play the "race" card. Democrats fear that the requirement of a voter picture ID will disenfranchise many poor, minority and elderly voters while Republicans say the requirement will protect against voting fraud. The Republicans are right on this one.

Instead of pandering to the Hispanic vote as was done at both conventions, can we ever get any honesty from elected officials?

Near the end of the Morning Rain

Circumventing the law

California always has "better" ideas-- of course, they are broke.

From the LA Times:

Los Angeles officials are considering a plan to turn the library card into a form of identification that the city’s large illegal immigrant population could use to open bank accounts and access an array of city services. The City Council last month voted unanimously to study the plan, which would have Los Angeles join the growing number of cities across the nation that offer various forms of identification to undocumented workers and others who cannot get driver’s licenses because of their immigration status.

Several cities in California have filed for bankruptcy in order to keep police and firefighters on the street and possibly keep some parks and libraries open while they work out their finances. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) did a study on the costs of healthcare, education, and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concluded that the cost to Californians is $10.5 billion per year.

California doesn't have to go through all that trouble of issuing library cards to illegal immigrants. All they have to do is contact our PBSO that has issued 2000 ID cards to immigrants here and find out their procedure on undermining our federal laws.

Romney's Tone

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For those who could not read this on the right side of the blog!

Quote of the Day - Allen West

President Obama’s policy of appeasement towards the Islamic world has manifested itself into a specter of unconscionable hatred. How anyone can believe this President is strong on national security and foreign policy is beyond my comprehension.

President Obama has clearly surpassed former President Jimmy Carter and his actions during the Iranian Embassy crisis as the weakest and most ineffective person to ever occupy the White House.

~ Allen West

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More Hypocrisy

This time it is on the Free Speech issue that originally came out of the Whitehouse--


The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that administration officials had asked the Internet video giant to examine whether "Innocence of Muslims" violated the site's guidelines.

On Friday, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the White House had "reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use." What was the response? Find out more by clicking HERE

Because a Fatwah was just issued, I have removed the video. 9-17-12

Harrowing photos in Benghazi

Shocking photos of the total destruction of the United States Embassy in Libya, an act of war.

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And what will Obama do about it? Will Hillary Clinton continue to apologize for everything that happens in the Middle East? The apologies continue as al-Qaida, founded by Osama bin Laden, continues its expansion, murder and global militant Islamist terror against the United States. 

McVoy supporter at football game

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52 Days until the election