A dear friend called me yesterday. She is a believer in Jesus Christ yet confusion and fear had caused her to panic. The news was not good. Our debt is unsustainable; our President is calling out the Judges of the highest court in the land; the internet is filled with reports of large caches of ammunition being purchased by Homeland…

In one word:  Privatize.  I do not for the life of me understand why they don't put out a request for proposals to privatize this park.  Why oh why would we pay someone to manage it, because our sprawling city government has now sprawled beyond the capabilities of our elected officials to manage.  I am about sick of one article right after another indicating spending, spending and more spending of money the city does not have.  Where is responsible financial governance?   Why is…

This is interesting, and like you probably will have, I had questions about whether this $4,500 was money well spent or just another way to spend more money.  Of late, I am very wary of anything education given the propensity to use our public schools for propaganda and numerous other things that have nothing to do with education.  I took the liberty of looking up both the founder of CRSS and the current president Cathy Mincberg.  Please take a look at these folks as I think you…

In the event you have not been following this, Obama has been forced to do a walk back on his comments about the supreme court (thank goodness), because a very brave federal judge down in Texas stood up and held this administration accountable for their comments.  But the supreme court attack isn't the only bad information the administration has put out; it is becoming a daily fairy tale, and we all have to wonder how long Obama will remain credible if it continues on the current…

It would appear Romney and Obama are now focused on each other.  This is something that needed to happen from my perspective and hopefully, will continue.  In the event you did not see the film clip that was put together, there is one out there showing Obama using the word "Marvelous" over and over again in reference to a number of things, so it is not a rarely used word :).   …

Does this make you feel vindicated to a point?  I don't see the numbers for democrats who support the tea party or think we are a poltical plus, but am sure there are some who favor the tea party positions of smaller, constitutionally based government.  Your opinion?

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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Voters continue to have a slightly more favorable opinion of the…

How does the city get into things like this, and how does someone amass such a huge amount to add to an already over generous retirement while they are already accepting a largish paycheck (this whole mess is bankrupting the city).   Most folks that amass for their retirement during their working life are saving their own money and not adding more tax dollars to their accounts.  What to do? …

This is unreal, and once you read it, you will be shocked.  I certainly am. 

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In Communist China, children were urged to work on their parents and grandparents to make them conform to Mao’s will in the The Cultural Revolution. Likewise children in Russia and its satellites during the Soviet nightmare were directed to instruct their elders, and to…

Do you feel like you are in some sort outer space configuration?  I thought so.  We just found out the mayor wants to triple the pay for a city job bringing large events to town, but in almost the same breath he will make moving criminals less secure (the reason the court house when where it did is so folks could be moved from the jail to the courthouse in a secure manner otherwise, we could have put it somewhere else).  I hate  that the court house cost what it did and still…

Forum will be at the Eagle Harbor Golf Club on Fleming Island at 7 p.m. 

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U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns is scheduled today to kick off a series of candidate  forums the Clay County Young Republicans will host as the election season heats  up.

Read more at Jacksonville.com: …

State Rep. Mike Weinstein officially filed Monday to run for  the state Senate.

The Jacksonville Republican said last month he was going to run  for Senate instead of re-election if the Senate’s redrawn districts did not  change. Those lines have since been passed by lawmakers.

Read more at Jacksonville.com: …

So, Mr. Verlander brought 2 events to JU (2006 and 2010), and we are going to triple the pay for a job we already have an individual for on the JEDC, and hire yet another high priced academic who really has no experience doing the job.  From what I can see, he has no background doing this type of job (he is the athletic director at JU).  Your opinion?  I know I plan to write to the council about this; all of these expensive positions in our city must be stopped.  Increasing the…

Imagine that.  I am in total shock the California federal appeals court actually upheld the vote of the people of the state of California as I am more used to them over turning any common sense action taken by the people in ballot initiatives.  I would also think, if these young people feel they are not wholly prepared for college, instead of trying to get a pass and get in anyway, there time might be better spent trying to get to the level needed to be accepted in a college…

I watched the speech (the daily trip into ad nauseam), and I could certainly take issue with a few of the things he said as I am sure pretty much any non-liberal might (and maybe even a few liberals).  One, would be, the Czars who were not approved by the senate and are certainly not elected officials, but we are dealing with liberal thinking which rarely makes any sense.  Two, might be, all those department heads of various departments in Washington who write regulation, that is…

For those of you that no longer can withstand the daily speeches by this president and have tuned him out when he appears on television for his daily speeches, he dressed down the supreme court yesterday and basically said in Obamaspeak that they had better not rule against Obamacare or the mandate since a majority of congress passed the bill and he signed it into law and that over turning the law would be an activist thing to do.  Imagine Obama calling someone else an…

What do they say about insanity being someone doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results each time.  This is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars every time the federal government guarantees loans to these folks (and now our state also has a bill on the governor's desk that will allow our state representatives to attack these folks to our state for "free" money).  This needs to stop, and these folks have to be successful the old fashioned way by utilizing the…

Very interesting information..And we would want them  telling us about human rights and our Second Amendment rights because?????????? They love us so much…

Perhaps the one room school house of legend had values, and educational standards that we would do well to emulate today. Hard work, discipline, a neighborly spirit, and a dedicated teacher we enough to produce some fine citizens. Maybe we need to spend more time building character and less time constructing expensive buildings. My good friend and neighbor Tim Palmer describes his learning experience in a one room school house near Spokane, Washington in the 1950′s.…