EXCLUSIVE — Palm Beach Post Drags Gossip Extra Before United Nations Panel!

Oh my! A war between the Palm Beach Post and one of its send-offs. Click title for link to story about original filing before the United Nations. Yes, that's right. Maybe that's where we need to go - the U.N. - perhaps they have a cabal disposal force? Here is a more current story on the hub-bub.

Aldi distribution center groundbreaking set for late August | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

Click title for link to Palm Beach Post article. Have you ever been to an Aldi's? I have been to one in Indiana. They are a no frills, discount chain based in Germany that has made a real headway in the U.S. If you know what you are looking for and don't mind off brand merchandise, you can really save money. They also have a great frozen foods section. 

A Lake Worth location along Dixie Hwy. would be ideal, but would they use plastic bags and where do their tomatoes come from? Would the new store be greeted by stilt wearing protesters? Would Laurel Decker have to give her personal approval?

From the article:

Aldi operates 1,200 stores in 32 states. The company has made a significant investment in South Florida, with plans to open 60 stores in the region, including about 20 in the county. The chain opened a store in suburban Delray Beach in 2011 and one in West Palm Beach in December.

Historic Palm Beach – brought to you by the Palm Beach Post » “No tears shed as FEC passenger service succumbs”

Forty-five years ago tomorrow, the last passenger train ran on the FEC tracks. Apparently the event was done with little fanfare. Click title for link to small description on the Historic Palm Beach page maintained by the Palm Beach Post. Here is a picture from the day.

Of course, now there is going to be the high-speed train service between Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-West Palm Beach and Orlando, as well as plans for a commuter train to be run by the same organization that runs Tri-Rail along the same tracks.

From the latest installment (Part III), Closed-door City Commission Meeting of December 3, 2008>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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MR. KARNS: We -- we need the comp plan change and the re-zoning. Whether or not you go with the Greater Bay deal because John G's is not permitted, none of the other tenants up there are permitted under our present land use amendment or plan, but they are, in fact, that was -- I don't know why it was never done in the past other than I think because the beach has been on the -- the beach plan in one form or another has been in front of the Commission for how many years?

MS. LOOWE: Forty.

MR. KARNS: Long before I got here.

MS. LOWE: Forty.

MR. KARNS: So I think the previous planners felt that whenever a plan came in, that would be the opportunity to give -- to do the land use amendment. I mean, there's really no grandfathering of the land use, you know, so we need -- we do need the land use change and the re-zoning that have now been approved by the DCA. And the only thing preventing it from happening is the We Love Lake Worth lawsuit.

MR. BALDWIN: But that's presuming you want to continue the use that's being performed --

MR. KARNS: Yeah. Basically any use other than beach is not a permitted use.

MR. BALDWIN: So if they just want a beach --

MR. KARNS: Right, if you just want totally beach and nothing else there, you wouldn't need any land use or re-zoning changes.

Editor's note: Proof that the city needed the Beach and Casino land use and zoning change which was the subject of the repeal and petition drive of the We Love Lake Worth PAC to have any commercial business on the property.

Three Strategies for Refueling Abandoned Gas Stations | This Big City

Challenging sites, to be sure, which make up the urban fabric. One particularly sore thumb is at the northeast corner of North Dixie and 7th Avenue. This article at least identifies some options that are becoming popular re-use alternatives. Click title for link.

This is a CNN report on the explosion in Tavares, Florida...

Friends traveling in Cambodia sent me this picture of a typical electric/telephone pole in Phnom Penh...

This was not far from an open sewer. So, things could be worse here.

New All Time Readership Record Set!

Donate Your Car to Earth First! | Earth First! Newswire

From our local EF! news bureau, this is always an option. Check out some of the creative ways your former vehicle could be used to sabotage industrial processes. Click title for link.

Kyle Smith: Liberals say they care about the poor but drive up their cost of living - NYPOST.com

Here an argument is made that the McDouble is the most nutritious, most widely available food known to exist. Click title for link. From the article - any resemblance to our brand of merry anarchists is purely accidental.

If the macrobiotic Marxists had their way, of course, there’d be no McDonald’s, Walmart or Exxon, because they have visions of an ideal world in which everybody bikes to work with a handwoven backpack from Etsy that contains a lunch grown in the neighborhood collective.

Or dumpster.

CRIME ALERT from Robert Waples - Residents of Lake Osborne Heights (via Facebook)

914 Wright Drive had another vehicle (makes 4 now) pull up and knock on the door to see if anyone is home. Neighbors are keeping an eye on the house and they are away for the summer. PBSO called and spoke with a deputy to increase patrols.

Warning signs. If someone is knocking on your door you do not recognize them it is OK to call PBSO 688-3000 and ask for dispatch. One trick is to knock on a door several times during a period of several days to know when you are not home.

Cars backing up in your drive way and pretending to get a jump start is a major warning sign and PBSO or 911 should be called as a burglary in progress. Its another "Casing" technique.

Several different vehicles stopping and knocking on the door....this should not be happening.

Tonight....A red SUV pulled up and knocked on the door and a white car was near it. Black Male knocked on the door and saw a neighbor, ducked behind the bushes and got in his car an left.

We have Black and White Males casing this home and we all need to keep an eye out. If you hear a noise close to 914 Wright Drive please call 911 and report it.

If this is a similar pattern on your street you need to start calling the activity in....YOU know who belongs at what home and if there is an increase of traffic during working hours or at a home that is away please call. If they are working or "casing" Wright Drive they are working other homes in the area.

THANK YOU - Robert

Part of the latest installment in the right-hand column, from our then Mayor Jeff Clemens at the December 3, 2008 closed-door meeting...

MAYOR CLEMENS: Okay. Just making sure. Okay. Having said that, I do believe one way to resolve the McNamara McCauley lawsuit is to find a way to exit the Greater Bay contract. I think, in my estimation and I'm certainly open to hearing other suggestions, there are really two ways to do it and that is the carrot or the stick. And, you know, we can -- we can either say they failed to meet their obligations and as such we are going to terminate the contract. In that case, I'm 100% sure we would be sued. Maybe that's something that we're -- we're willing to take on and fight and we will hear advice from the attorney about whether or not they feel we could win that case. And the other would be the carrot and that would be to say we don't want to go into any type of legal proceedings and we're willing to offer you a certain sum of money so that we don't have to spend it on lawyers over the next year of two. So, I will just leave it open for discussion. Maybe we want to hear from Mr. Joslyn about what his interpretation of whether or not they -- they've lived up to their end of the contract and what we could expect if we decide to go that route.

Cannot forget this objective, insightful and incisive analysis from the mind of Annabeth Karson on the 2009 elections...

And this response from Jim McCauley.

From the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Hyannis Port, Squaw Island July 27–29, 1963

Silent motion picture containing informal footage of weekend activities of President John F. Kennedy and his guests at Hyannis Port. Guests include Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne) Billings, Charles Spalding, British ambassador to the United States (William) David Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President McGeorge Bundy, Stephen Smith, Jean Smith, Stanislaus Radziwill, and Lee Radziwill. Also included is footage of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Speaker: Rising sea levels unstoppable | www.palmbeachdailynews.com

Please read John Englander's High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis. He spoke at a local sea level rise conference this week. Click title for link.