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The West Palm Beach, Florida, story below makes me crazy!!! Brief comments below!
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by Andrew Abramson
Al Vazquez, chairman of West Palm Beach’s Green Task Force, wishes his neighborhood had the same luscious oak trees that line the streets in Ibis, an upscale West Palm community west of I-95 off Northlake Boulevard. So Vazquez was stunned to learn that Ibis officials were planning to remove 168 oak trees and replace them with palm trees.
“We should be so lucky,” Vazquez said. “What these people want to be removed is just insane.”
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Remove that canopy of trees and the folks in that subdivision will watch their air conditioning bills double or triple. Palms of any kind cannot provide the shade and cooling an oak can.
Sounds like realtors at work here. Nothing costs tax payers more than realtors, road builders and developers trying to make a buck.
And who would vote for a candidate dumb enough to buy a home in a swamp, which is what all of those western neighborhoods were just a handful of years ago.
I tried to tell folks that Amendments 5 & 6 & 4 were for us citizens to have a say in Government. I actually had a builder tell me he didn’t want 4 to pass because he didn’t want people in the way of his making money from Government projects.
Here we see with 5 & 6 passing and the Democrats and Republicans are challenging our vote, as if they aren’t one of us. They don’t want the people in the way of gerrymandering. We citizens need to make sure they are NOT successful. Only we can keep these political parties in line. After all, whether they like it or not, they are us!
Here’s the story:
Two members of Congress on Wednesday challenged a new amendment to the Florida Constitution that sets rules for drawing congressional districts in Florida, just hours after it was approved by voters.
U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., filed a lawsuit challenging Amendment 6 in federal court in Miami. The lawsuit asks that the amendment be declared invalid and stopped from being enforced.
Florida voters on Tuesday approved Amendments 5 and 6 by 62 percent of the vote. Amendment 5 sets rules for drawing legislative districts but it is ignored in the lawsuit.
Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2010/11/03/2708473/us-reps-challenge-flas-redistricting.html#ixzz14KyziaMG
We have been pummeled in Florida by political phone calls. Specifically what are known as “robo-calls”, which are automated phone calls where you pick up the phone and no one is there except some digitally enhanced voice hawking some candidate. I’ve been fuming about it. It wasn’t until I saw Facebook posts about the issue from three friends (G.K. Sharman, Jennifer Huber & I can’t remember who the other is) that I realized I wasn’t alone and made this cartoon.
I agree and it is why we will eventually fail in Afghanistan. Our country continues to view the rest of the planet as something to Americanize. It’s a nice idea, but as Paul Harvey always said: We are not one world. To pretend that people can be just like us is to make the fatal errors we made with the American indians.
I’ve been studying the fate of the Florida Seminoles in the past few months and it is astounding how stupid our country was to marginalize a group and throw money to solve a perceived problem. All we ended up doing is move around a “problem” for real estate investors with the American people holding the purse. Too many taxpayer dollars disappeared into various Government projects claiming to be for the American indians but really went to buy and sell land and large drainage projects.
The similarity is that the Seminoles wanted nothing to do with the American government, it’s money or it’s land. After a few decades of pushing, the Seminoles took it and found themselves addicted to government money. I’m concerned we’re doing it again in Iraq and Afghanistan. Democracies are good, but that is not the culture these folks live. Though it may happen to some extent initially, in the end these countries are sure to be as they have for centuries.
I would love to see more freedom and democracy, but let’s clean up our own area within our own borders first… one being by firmly establishing our own borders…. before dictating others… that is, IF even we can.
I was writing a response to a post on the Red State website and realized I haven’t written anything here about our Florida Governor’s race! I hope the response get’s across my strong opposition to this carpetbagger Scott:
Rick Scott is a mess. Scott moves to Florida a few years ago and has never been involved in politics, except as a lobbyist, he botched his own business and was thrown out by his own board, and apparently has yet to visit much of our great state to even know where he is. Considering he has only gotten to where he is by buying his way into everything, I have to question how he can be a successful politician. Business and public service are entirely different and can not be handled the same. I’d like to see this guy start smaller with a county commission seat first and see how he performs before putting him in charge of a state he doesn’t even understand.
Everytime I hear this guy talk, I realize that his talk could be for any state in the country. He never addresses specific Florida issues. From everything I can find out about the guy, he, much like Obama, is only JUST NOW visiting the state during campaign tours. Look at what a great understanding Obama has of the U.S. Out state is very, very different from Pensacola to Fort Jefferson. The people are different and the politics are different. If you don’t know how to navigate those narrow shoals, your boat is doomed. Ask any state-wide politician, real estate folks, tourism people or just travelers that traverse the state. It ain’t the same. You have to know it. Rick Scott does not.
I was supporting McCollum before all this Scott mess. I’ve been a fan of McCollum since he got in office. Anytime I’ve heard someone say there is not an honest politician anywhere, I point to McCollum. He has had a squeaky clean career… and he sure knows Florida. He’s been here all his life and traveled it extensively. He’s been a solid conservative with a slew of accomplishments.
Let’s let Scott take a smaller political position, if he truly wants to be a public servant, and see if he can handle it. In the meantime, let’s get a knowledgeable, successful public servant as Bill McCollum to be our next great Governor.
Get the prize and ignore what it costs to get something free. I wanted to slip in my prediction being correct that the medical stocks would all start to rise dramatically after the health care plan got passed.
Here’s the cartoon on Glenn Beck’s website.
Drawn fast. I felt in good shape this day and I think it shopws in my drawing. Below is the recording of my pencils and inks.
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I’ve been involved on all sides of the train issue for some 20 years. In that time I’ve seen a drive towards getting one thing, and one thing only, built – Consultants bank accounts. Here in Florida we seem too apt to repeat the disaster of 100 years of Everglades cleanup. Millions and millions of dollars to people who claim to be working on solutions and the most that is produced is 100s of pages of “solutions” and very little work for the money.
This time it’s BILLIONS of tax payer dollars for something that the polls consistently show the people want but the people won’t ride. My argument, from the very first time I heard of this when I worked in government, was let the private sector pay for this. I learned early on that they won’t from their very employees, who stated they can’t build it because they know this can’t make money.
So the lowly taxpayers get stuck with a worthless project that will bleed them dry and probably will never see a train built.
What’s interesting about the “Orlando” to “Tampa” route Obama is touting is that so little work has been done for that proposed route. Most of the effort and money has been put into a trail that goes from western Volusia County to western Orange County. More reason to need to blow away more taxpayers dough!
I could go on. This is a financial disaster that will never meet its expectations. 1 million riders is a conservative estimate of ridership. Dade County’s MetroRail would love to see that number in 5 years. And they’re in a more congested area.
The cartoon is an amalgam of ideas from Ken Culotta, Sally Baptiste and Mark Duren.
Hillsborough County, Florida, dumps their annual dinner name for a name less controversial…That is, if you’re ignorant of history.
Here’s my commentary:
OK, so Jefferson and Jackson had some questionable decisions. But the Democrats would stare at a few mistakes and ignore the overall human being.
One that was the first territorial Governor of Florida and a reason why Americans are in the state at all. The other being a father of our country, who actually had the guts to fight for the liberties so that we can write what we’re writing here in this great country to begin with????
So they pick a former President who used more beds than a Sealey Posturepedic factory. Graham is OK, but why group him with that nasty Kennedy group. I’m setting aside that Graham’s family dredged and filled part of the Everglades for Miami Lakes and now Bob hugs trees. Hey, Bob! Wanna help the trees? Tear down those lousy homes, refill the land and help save the ‘Glades!
More reasons why the Democrats are a mess.
I’m afraid the liberals now see this as her Waterloo and now they just push her to being exiled in Alaska. I know she has the spunk to move on. But will she?
This was entirely drawn using Photoshop. There is no rough pencil. Also, Ken Culotta and I collaborated on this with Ken writing the initial idea.
I actually penciled this back in February and inked it on an airplane going from London to Washington, D.C. I waited on this to use while we were gone. I sent this from our hotel room in Charleston, South Carolina.
This what I see happening. Stimulus money going to a select group of workers in the road building industry, while the rest of us are stuck in the traffic snarls they cause. I’ve been there and watched this stuff happen. Much worse that even more of my tax dollars are used to perpetuate these sweetheart deals of unneeded, costly roads that go on for miles so that the road builder makes an even larger profit.
