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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Democratic Candidate for Governor Nan Rich Addresses Lake Worth Audience - 6/27/14

Martha Nungesser shares information regarding sea level rise and climate change at the LW Nan Rich event...

Introductory Portion of Nan Rich Appearance in Lake Worth on 6/27/14

Richard Stowe welcomes those who attended the event. Lake Worth resident Alice McCall gives an overview of the "Dark Sky" movement and the potential harmful affects of uncontrolled nighttime lighting in cities. The gathering took place at St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

Riviera Beach OKs million-dollar plan to improve neighborhood | Real Time

This project is designed to improve one of the more blighted sections of Riviera Beach. Click title for link.

The City of Riviera Beach is launching a $1.1 million improvement project for one of its most blighted neighborhoods.
On Wednesday evening, the Board of the Riviera Beach Community Redevelopment Agency approved a plan to build a community garden, a park, and to rebuild sidewalks throughout the Riviera Beach Heights community, which is along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. east of Australian Avenue.
Both the garden and park will be built on derelict vacant lots. The park will start across the street from West Riviera Elementary School and extend through the neighborhood with a meandering path, palm trees and benches, before ending at MLK Blvd. and 8th Street. When finished, the entire neighborhood will also have new ADA compliant sidewalks.

Breaking News! Banner drop at the Lake Worth Towers

This is why certain churches should lose their tax exemption...

David Barton will be at the Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens as he heals America of its ills! He does not consider himself one of them. He believes that the separation of church and state in the U.S. is a myth.

David Barton on the immigration debate, for example, says:

“[…] it is God and not man who establishes the borders of nations. National boundaries are set by God. If God didn't want boundaries, he would have put everyone in the same world and there would have been no nations; we would have all been living together as one group and one people. That didn't happen. From the Tower of Babel, he sent them out with different languages, different cultures. God's the one who drew up the lines for the nations, so to say open borders is to say ‘God, you goofed it all up and when you had borders, you shouldn't have done it’ [...] And so, from a Christian standpoint, you cannot do that. God's the one who establishes the boundaries of nations.”

Remember the meeting is this Saturday night, June 28th in the Lobby

Wear Patriotic clothing / 912 shirt

Attempt to sit near each other CENTER RIGHT of the church.

God bless America!!!

Here's what our friendly Fire Ant has to say about this "author" and "scholar."

The quote below is one of his more homophobic views:

Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!

“It is resistance to insanity that is encapsulated in Monkeywrenching…(it) fits in with the bioregional concept. You go back to a place and you peacefully re-inhabit it. You learn about it. You become a part of the place. You develop an informal and alternative political and social structure that is somehow apart from the system… it’s also a means of self-empowerment, of finding alternative means of relating to other people, and other life forms…there is a fundamental difference between ecodefense resistance and classic revolutionary or terrorist behavior.”

Friday, June 27, 2014

County Commission approves Mizner Trail golf course... | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

A ten year fight comes to an end with the County Commission approving residential development on the former Mizner Trail golf course in western Boca Raton area. One wonders what will eventually happen with the Sunset property in Lake Worth that has been debated and mediated for about the same length of time. How much has this issue cost the city of Lake Worth to defend and mediate over that time? Will those against any change ask to get their attorney fees paid? Will they ever settle for anything? One of the antagonists in this drama does not even pay city taxes.

Click title for link to article. Here is the summary:

A community of homes and townhouses can rise on a defunct golf course west of Boca Raton, Palm Beach County commissioners agreed Thursday, ending nearly a decade-long debate over whether development should be allowed on former greens.
After a five-hour public hearing, the commission voted 5-2 to allow 253 residences — 115 zero-lot-line homes, 45 town houses, 92 multifamily units and a six-bed congregate living facility — on the 127-acre course west of Interstate 95 and south of Palmetto Park Road.
Commissioners Steven Abrams and Jess Santamaria voted against the project.

Aerial from Property Appraiser's website with the Sunset property highlighted. Note its proximity to John Prince Park to the west and dense Murry Hills that surrounds the property on three sides.

Ann Coulter, June 25, 2014

"You can't use your hands in soccer. What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs."

Board rejects modern-style home on Seagate Road | www.palmbeachdailynews.com

The Architectural Review Commission (ARCOM) reviews all plans for new construction for properties that do not have a historic landmark designation in the Town of Palm Beach. For those with individually landmarked properties, they go to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. There are limits to terms on each, but you usually see the same characters popping up on the other once they are term-limited on the other. It's sort of a "round robin" affair. While the Landmarks Preservation Commission, relies on the Secretary of Interior Standards for Historic Preservation, they can still be subjective in their decisions. ARCOM is basing this denial on how, according to their code, there cannot be any structure "excessively dissimilar" within 200 feet of another.

The owner has a few things to say about the board's actions. He is not happy and will likely appeal the denial to the Town Council. You might remember that the Town Council just repopulated these two boards after failure of the PUD 5 zoning referendum. Click title for link.

“This makes me feel very discriminated against,” Thomsen said. “I simply ask that I can build my home on my land.”
After two hours of discussion, Town Attorney John Randolph recommended the commission defer the project to next month when a second registered architect should join the board. The commission is supposed to have two registered architects, but the town has been looking for a replacement for architect Nikita Zukov since May, when he joined the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Instead, members unanimously voted to deny the project.
Thomsen said he plans to appeal the “sham proceeding” to the Town Council.
“After seven years of living in Moscow, I’ve never seen greater abuse of government power and discrimination than what I witnessed today,” Thomsen said. “Democracy in ARCOM in the Town of Palm Beach is nonexistent.”

“Children Immigrants” An Impending Issue For Miami-Dade Schools « CBS Miami

Miami-Dade schools prepare for the latest wave of immigrants. This time it is what they are terming "unaccompanied children." These are children that are from Central America, fleeing conditions in their own country and being allowed to cross into the U.S. Click title for the Channel 4 Miami story with video.

“We have received about 300 students from Honduras over the past few months so recognizing the challenge, that crisis, we’re asking federal got to intervene,” said Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
Carvalho asked the board for support to request funds from the federal government for those children, known as unaccompanied children immigrants, primarily from Central America to cover their costs in school.
The board will request $1,950 per year per child in addition to what the state already puts in.
Local representatives are in full support of the move.
“I think we’ve seen this before .. with the rafter crisis and Haitian community.. another wave where we having a wave of immigrants and the super is doing the right thing,” said State Representative Manny Diaz.

Official Fourth of July Poster and Flyer - 2014

Thursday, June 26, 2014

A Mississippi Surprise: GOP Sen. Cochran Beats Back Tea Party Champion | Mother Jones

One more example of the cleavage in the Republican party. Here an incumbent Senator narrowly beats a Tea Party opponent who was favored to win. But, it turns out that his past caught up with him and was used against him. Click title for link.

The mailer asserted that McDaniel "made racist comments on his radio show." It was a point Cochran's campaign had been hammering for months, seemingly without affecting a sufficient number of white Republican primary voters. As a right-wing radio host in the 2000s, McDaniel had blamed hip-hop for gun violence. He had mocked poor blacks for craving "big screen plasma TV's, Randy Moss jerseys, Air Jordan sneakers, or any type of 'bling-bling.'" He had decried discussion of reparations for slavery—pledging to move to Mexico, if such a law were ever passed. He also had spoken at events held by a neo-Confederate group that bashed Abraham Lincoln and celebrated secession. His incendiary comments, some of which were first reported by Mother Jones, gave Cochran a bona fide reason to ask African American voters, who comprise 36 percent of the state's electorate, to keep McDaniel far from Washington's halls of power.

Here's the flyer that was used to get out the African-American vote.\