Black on White Crime

An American, a white leader in Harlem, Professor at Columbia, and a national leader against white racism gets beaten to a pulp by a mob of blacks and his teeth knocked out.

Where's the national press? Where's Al?  Where's Jessee?  Where's Oprah?

A white doctor in Harlem. Professor at Columbia. A national leader against white racism. Frequent guest on the Huffington Post, New York Times and other liberal outlets. Active in U.N. public health initiatives for poor people
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/black-mob-thrashes-white-doctor-screams-get-osama/#OxgstJx12o2oGOFG.99

A white doctor in Harlem. Professor at Columbia. A national leader against white racism. Frequent guest on the Huffington Post, New York Times and other liberal outlets. Active in U.N. public health initiatives for poor people
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/black-mob-thrashes-white-doctor-screams-get-osama/#xe3tpLz3xBpJs2PL.99

A white doctor in Harlem. Professor at Columbia. A national leader against white racism. Frequent guest on the Huffington Post, New York Times and other liberal outlets. Active in U.N. public health initiatives for poor people
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/black-mob-thrashes-white-doctor-screams-get-osama/#xe3tpLz3xBpJs2PL.99

A white doctor in Harlem. Professor at Columbia. A national leader against white racism. Frequent guest on the Huffington Post, New York Times and other liberal outlets. Active in U.N. public health initiatives for poor people
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/black-mob-thrashes-white-doctor-screams-get-osama/#xe3tpLz3xBpJs2PL.99

Quote of the Day - Ted Cruz

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"There are lots of folks in Washington that can choose to throw rocks and I’m not going to reciprocate.”

~ Sen Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz, wearing his black tennis sneakers for comfort, started speaking at 2:41 p.m. yesterday and is still speaking on Obamacare.

42 inches?

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This will be the exact same thing that will happen in our downtown with the ordinance just passed by the City Commission on ADA compliance of 42 inches instead of the 48 inches recommended by staff that allows those in wheel chairs, etc. to pass by with no obstruction.

Marco withdraws nomination

Ah oh, now Marco Rubio is on the hot seat with liberal progressives. They are accusing him of playing politics and placating to the conservatives in the Republican Party. But both sides are playing politics. That's what politicians do.

Read more... on Marco Rubio withdrawing his nomination of the first openly gay black judge to the federal court in the Southern District of Florida.

Are you an Islamaphobe?

 Quiz: Do you qualify for CAIR’s Islamaphobe list?

Take the Quiz--you will love the questions. BizPac says, "Many people were disappointed they were not on the list of Islamaphobes released the other day by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, otherwise known as CAIR."

International Cleanup Day

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A message from Gael Silverblatt on the Snook Island clean-up--

The International Cleanup Day was very successful on Saturday for the Snook Islands Natural Area with 25 volunteers filling 34 bags and with a total weight of all the trash picked up of 610 lbs.

Totals of some items included 181 plastic bottles, 61 glass bottles, 86 cans, 129 plastic bags, 174 cups and plates, 276 bottles caps, 257 package wrappers, 60 take out containers, 131 straws,  52 plastic knives, forks, spoons, 37 plastic lids, 33 6-pack holders, 201 small plastic pieces, 194 small foam pieces, 13 yards of rope, 11 condoms, 10 syringes, 31 cigar tips, 91 cigarette butts, and 11 cigarette lighters.

Some larger items were two plastic chairs, a wood frame for pouring concrete, lots of 1'X1' foam construction pieces, and a matched pair of shoes.

Students from Palm Beach State College were a big help as were many residents of Lake Worth. We ran out of trash bags but not enthusiasm.

Code Compliance Division

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In the Back-up for tonight's special meeting is the following:

Department for Community Sustainability
1. What changes are planned for FY 2014?

· Administration Division
o Economic Development Manager moved to City Manager’s Office
· Business Tax Receipts/Use & Occupancy Division
o No changes
o Some increases in revenues due to improved collections and code
· Planning, Zoning & Historic Preservation Division
o Proposed half time Associate Planner to handle Business Tax Receipt and Use &
Occupancy applications due to increased work load demands
o Additional fee revenue from adoption of Land Development Regulations and
establishment of new fees.
· Code Compliance Division
o No staffing changes
o Some increases in revenue based on improved collections
· Building Division
o No staff changes
o No increase in projected permit revenue

So which is it?  Are we outsourcing this department as the city manager announced or are we not per the city's own documentation?

Lake Worth Budget Highlights

Highlights of the FY 2014 budget are:

• No change in the General Fund millage rate

• Use of approximately $372,060 of General Fund available fund balance

• Electric Rates reduction of 4.5%. Rates have decreased each year for the past 3 years - a total of -11.4% for residential (including suspension of the Conservation charge), -12.2% for small Commercial and - 17% for large commercial (demand) customers

• Reduction in Local Sewer rates of 10% on top of a 10% reduction made mid-year in FY 2013

• No increases of Water, Garbage or Stormwater rates

The budget includes budgeted funds for Lake Worth 2020 and the Park of Commerce as they are configured at this time, any changes to these plans, as the development of these programs during the year will be incorporated as amendments to the budget at the appropriate time

The "Knockout Game"

The rules of the “knockout game” are typically the same no matter where it happens: Start with a group of black people. Find a white person. Punch him in the face. Don’t stop until the person is knocked out or your arms get tired … or the person is dead.

Read more.. about this black on white violence that is escalating across the country.

WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims. I agree.

Quote of the Day - Marshall Pass

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Sitting in the back of city commission chambers, tapping away on his tablet and smartphone, Pass surely holds the record for speedy blogging, updating his page at least a couple times per meeting. Pass declined to be interviewed for this story after being told that Anderson would be mentioned in it.

~Marshall Pass who writes a Facebook page

Quote in the Palm Beach Post article on area bloggers.

Violation of NO Pets at the Lake Worth Beach

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Pets at our beach park were never allowed until the commission granted the public permission to take their pets to the Green Market that used to operate on A1A and now is across the street at Old Bridge Park.  Their thought was that it was "business friendly." Prior to that, NO pets were ever allowed. And by making that one exception, it opened the door to abuse and/or confusion of our Ordinance against pets on our beach property. That is always what happens when we make exceptions to our rules and laws.

Little darlin-Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Ya-ya-ya, yaaaaaaaaaaa

Ya-ya-ya, yaaaaaaaaaaa

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Yesterday at the beach during the hour I was there, there were three pet owners walking their dogs in front of the casino and down the boardwalk. One had little Poo Poo in a carry-all bag. She is someone who can't go anywhere without her little darling. When pointing out the sign to the woman above, she said that the sign was meant for me.  Sounds like someone who comes to my blog from time to time. "I always bring my dog and no one has ever said that I can't, not even the police," she exclaimed.

We did see beach traffic security drive by three times without stopping and getting out of their vehicle to patrol the areas.

It may possibly be the signage as NO Pets Allowed signs are posted on the railing throughout the beach property but not across the road at the Casino or in the parking lots. That one lady with a dog was sitting directly across from the sign but it did not register. She had much more fun deciding her way was the right way and the only way...little darlin. She fits right in to this city.

Juan Ruiz, Recreation Manager says, "Dogs at the beach are prohibited by ordinance. We are trying our best to enforce."

The Ordinance in Section 6-3 under domesticated animals prohibited on public property says: "...it shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of a domesticated animal to knowingly or unknowingly permit such animal to enter or be upon a playground, school grounds, designated sports fields, cemetery, golf course, beach or casino and the beach parking area, or a road, sidewalk, pedestrian path..."

Pocket Parks - City Rights of Way

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Because of the constant turn-over in our city of elected officials and staff, major issues and even law suits fall through the cracks. What ever happened to the public rights of way of nearly 5 years ago where certain owners on the Intracoastal Waterway believed that they should own public property, the pocket parks adjacent to their houses. They wanted to grab city owned land and claim it as their own.

Commissions changed and politics being what it is, allowed this to "go away." These rights of way belong to the City and this issue needs to be re-visited. There are six blogs on this issue (LABELS Pocket Parks)--here are three of them.

Nancy Shepherd vs. the City of Lake Worth. This case was originally filed on November 9, 2009 and is still opened to this day. The City of Lake Worth has never filed the names of any new attorneys on the case. Elaine Humphreys and Jean Middleton are still the attorneys of record. There is no reason why a case of "grabbing public property" should be going on for 4 years.

Pocket Parks, city Rights of Way

Pocket Parks Again

A Planner's Dream on Royal Poinciana Way?

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Well, Palm Beach has them too. Some on the island of Palm Beach want MORE density, you know, those people who can't stand to live without height--they want more development--they want to make a perfect place MORE perfect.

The most controversial element of the proposed PUD-5 is one that would allow property owners to build up to 13 homes per acre (the maximum allowed under the town’s comprehensive plan), instead of the current limit of six per acre in the Royal Poinciana Way district. The higher density is intended as an incentive for owners to redevelop properties that do not contribute to the character of the street. The most frequently cited example is a vacant gas station owned by the Testa family.

And then in a big whoopi moment they say that Buildings or building facades deemed by the town as “architecturally or urbanistically” contributing would be protected from demolition.

Read more...

Sunset 9-22-13

John G's

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John G's, formerly located at the Lake Worth Casino and now at Plaza del Mar in Manalapan, had a record crowd yesterday in celebration of their 40 years of serving and being a part of our community. Their dad, John Giragos would have been proud.

Lake Worth's Budget Summary

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UPDATE--SEE BELOW
If anyone read the Palm Beach Post this morning you would have come across the Lake Worth budget on page A-15 that is published by law. You would have noticed the discrepancy in the figures...$60,000 off or a figure that is unexplainable.

The biggest glaring figure in black and white (but not really a shocker as we have been reporting on this) is the cost of Public Safety. 

Revenues for 2014:  $29,516,000
Cost of Public Safety:  $20,787,907

Public Safety is costing us 70.43% of our general revenue before including our general fund balance of $372,600. The millage will remain the same as last year at 5.4945%.

E-mail reply from the Finance Director:
You are correct, the amounts are different and they should not be, I had seen the same thing.  The budget summary is correct.

We will be getting with the State Department of Revenue on Monday and publishing whatever correction is required by law.  I believe that we will have the meeting on Tuesday as advertised but not take final action on the budget and millage.  We would  continue the Public Hearing  and final action to a date and time certain to meet the legal notice requirements. We have until September 30 to adopt a budget.

Thanks Steve

Ted Cruz is as eligible as Obama to be president

On Friday, Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, was in the firing range of Chris Matthew's. Asked about Cruz’s constitutional eligibility given his birth in Canada, Farenthold said: “He’s as eligible as Obama is."  Read more... at WND.

Florida NO Texting while Driving law begins October 1

Beginning October 1, texting while driving will be against Florida law. Even though it will only be considered a secondary offense (cops won't be allowed to stop you just for that infraction), Florida will become the 41st state to prohibit this dangerous practice that often times takes two hands!

We should have a stronger law in Florida but this is a beginning. According to Text Free Driving organization:

• 89 - % of people want a ban on texting while driving
• 80 - % of crashes are caused by distraction w/in 3 secs. of the event
• 57 - % of those drivers text while driving

Judge Jeanine - A Crisis in Leadership

Sunset 9-21-13