Just last week I witnessed so many really inane or insane acts that I was forced to try and come up with a simple, concise, slogan-type motto to describe what it was I was seeing that would be easily understood by anyone listening,
We are glad to see that business-loving Florida Gov. Rick Scott finally has begun to realize that business won’t come to Florida if it has the worst educational system in the country.
Every year about this time, we are bombarded with Christmas music from every angle.
We hear holiday-themed music from our radios. We hear holiday-themed music in every store we visit. We hear holiday-themed music from out televisions. We hear holiday-themed music in our favorite bars.
By the time Christmas rolls around, most of us are heartily sick of holiday music.
But there are Christmas songs that, despite ourselves, we find ourselves listening to each time they come on whatever device.
Last week, federal Congressional representatives filed a bill that would begin the process to implement a new Constitutional amendment setting term limits for US Senators and Representatives.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. David Schweitzer (R-AZ) are the sponsors of the Senate Bill.
Their proposal would limit Representatives to three terms and Senators to two terms, or a total of 12 years.
Term limits for federal elected officials is something that is long overdue.
The addition of a five-year-old to our family has resulted in some serious adjustments to our lifestyle in the last two years.
Before he came to live with us just over two years ago (we adopted our grandson last year), we could get up when we wanted—within reason—get ready for work, put in a quality day, go grab a bite to eat somewhere, even at home, and still be home in plenty of time to wind down from the day, get a good night’s sleep and be back at it the next day.
Now, it’s rush to the after-school care, pick up the rug rat, rush home, do dinner, homework, bath, snack, bedtime, fall into the bed, maybe get a good night’s sleep and get back at it the next day.
But that’s typical of parents everywhere.
What our new addition has also done is make it harder to do some of the routine things around the house.
A few years ago, then freshman County Administrator Roman Gastesi announced plans to change the culture in the Monroe County Code Enforcement department.
He was, probably justifiably, concerned that Monroe County’s method of maintaining building and zoning codes was simply to have employees ride around in a car and mail out notices of violation for the overworked special magistrate to handle.
Thanksgiving often brings out the monster in all of us.
We all have one. We have that little demon inside of us that thinks how cool it would be just to, just once, be able to hack something up for the fun of it, and then have people thank you for it in the end.
I think that’s what turkey carving is all about.
You have to liken turkey carving to one of the dozens of serial killers you’ve read about, or watched movies about.
It seems that most ritualistic serial killers have some body part, or numerous body parts, that appeal to them more than any other.
Continue reading ‘Turkey has a name, hide sharp instruments’
Sometime next year, Monroe County voters will be asked to decide whether an existing one cent sales tax should be allowed to continue or be allowed to disappear from the county’s funding horizon.
The tax has been in place for about two decades already and has been the source of funding for large portions of the county’s ambitious wastewater projects, as well as other endeavors either liked or not-so-well liked by voters.
Even with the state Legislature not in session, the stupidity just keeps on coming, either from the Legislature, or from our Governor.
Now it seems that Gov. Rick Scott may have on his mind the idea of selling Citizens Property Insurance Corp, the state-run insurer of last resort, to a private company so he can get the state out of the property insurance business.
We have to ask at this point….did Scott ever reside in Florida prior to buying the Governor’s mansion?
Our local iguanas are back at it.
After last winter’s cold weather sent a lot of our local lizards into unintended hibernation, resulting in lots of folks knocking them from trees and dispatching them in various ways, I thought we would see a lot fewer of the ugly reptiles.
Not so.
Just this week while driving to Summerland Key to call on a client I passed no less than eight iguanas staking out the side of the road within about 100 yards of each other.
When iguanas begin congregating I begin to worry.
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