Saturday, January 8, 2011


Misery With Plenty of Company--

By BOB HERBERT, January 7, 2011

(Abridged and edited by Ron Biendseil 1-8-11)

President Obama is redesigning his administration to make it even friendlier toward big business and the megabanks, which is to say the rich.

Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty (below $11,000 annually for a family of four) has grown to more than 17 million

The Republican Response?? House G.O.P. bigwig Darrell Issa sent a letter to 150 businesses, trade groups and think tanks asking them to spell out which federal regulations they dislike the most. Talk about the foxes guarding the henhouse!!!

The Democratic Response?? Scared to death of being outdone, President Obama and his sidekicks climbed into their spiffy new G.O.P. costumes and promised in humiliatingly abject tones to shower the business world with whatever government largess they could lay their hands on. The first order of business (pun intended) was the announcement that William Daley, the Chicago wheeler-dealer and former Clinton administration official who landed a fat gig at JPMorgan Chase, would become the president’s chief of staff. Mr. Daley was a loud critic of health care and financial regulatory reforms and has been obsessed with getting Democrats to be more subservient to business.

Nearly 44 million people were living in poverty in 2009, which was more than 14 percent of the American population and a jump of four million from the previous year. More than 15 million children are poor. That’s 20% of all the kids in the United States. More than a quarter of all blacks and a similar percentage of Hispanics are poor.

Are we doing anything about this? Given the paucity of media coverage, it seems that hardly anyone cares. Hardly anyone even notices. We hear not a word — not so much as a peep — about the poor, whose ranks are spreading like a wildfire in a drought.

Our government officials, from the president on down, are too busy kissing the bejeweled fingers of the mega-rich.

The poor can be divided into two categories: the new poor, who have lost jobs and homes and otherwise been clobbered by the recession; and the old poor, who in many cases had previously been working, sometimes sporadically or part time, at jobs that didn’t pay much. Many of those low-paying jobs have since vanished and the old poor have been crushed.

With the tax cuts for the rich saved and William Daley coming on board, the atmosphere is being readied for Obama & Co. to tap the fat cats for the zillions necessary for next year’s re-election run.

And that, of course, is the only thing that really matters.


On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Michael Brockmeyer wrote:

January 7, 2011

Misery With Plenty of Company

Consider the extremes. President Obama is redesigning his administration to make it even friendlier toward big business and the megabanks, which is to say the rich, who flourish no matter what is going on with the economy in this country. (They flourish even when they’re hard at work destroying the economy.) Meanwhile, we hear not a word — not so much as a peep — about the poor, whose ranks are spreading like a wildfire in a drought.

The politicians and the media behave as if the poor don’t exist. But with jobs still absurdly scarce and the bottom falling out of the middle class, the poor are becoming an ever more significant and increasingly desperate segment of the population.

How do you imagine a family of four would live if its annual income was $11,000 or less?

During a conversation I had this week with Peter Edelman, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a longtime expert on issues related to poverty, he pointed out that the number of people in that tragically dismal category has grown to more than 17 million. These are the folks trying to make it on incomes below half of the official poverty line, which is $22,000 annually for a family of four.

No one talks about these families and individuals living in extreme poverty. Certainly not the Republicans who were having a dandy time this week deliberately misreading the Constitution and promising budget cuts and other initiatives that will hurt the poor even more.

If you’re still having trouble deciding whose side the Republicans are on, just keep in mind that the House G.O.P. bigwig Darrell Issa sent a letter to 150 businesses, trade groups and think tanks asking them to spell out which federal regulations they dislike the most. These are lifeguards on the side of the sharks.

Scared to death of being outdone, President Obama and his sidekicks climbed into their spiffy new G.O.P. costumes and promised in humiliatingly abject tones to shower the business world with whatever government largess they could lay their hands on. The first order of business (pun intended) was the announcement that William Daley, the Chicago wheeler-dealer and former Clinton administration official who landed a fat gig at JPMorgan Chase, would become the president’s chief of staff. Mr. Daley was a loud critic of recent financial regulatory reforms and has been obsessed with getting Democrats to be more subservient to business.

The poor, who have been hurt more than anyone else in this recession, don’t stand a heartbeat’s chance in this political environment. The movers and shakers in government don’t even give a thought to being on the side of the angels anymore — they’re on the side of the millionaires and billionaires.

Nearly 44 million people were living in poverty in 2009, which was more than 14 percent of the American population and a jump of four million from the previous year. Anyone who thinks things are much better now is delirious. More than 15 million children are poor — one of every five kids in the United States. More than a quarter of all blacks and a similar percentage of Hispanics are poor.

Are we doing anything about this? No. Our government officials, from the president on down, are too busy kissing the bejeweled fingers of the megarich.

Professor Edelman broke the poor into two categories: the new poor, who have lost jobs and homes and otherwise been clobbered by the recession; and the old poor, who in many cases had previously been working, sometimes sporadically or part time, at jobs that didn’t pay much. Many of those low-paying jobs have since vanished and the old poor have just been crushed.

“There is this astonishing number of people all the way down there at the bottom that we just don’t talk about,” Mr. Edelman said, “and they’re in very big trouble.”

Welfare, even for the poorest of the poor, is not much help. More than 17 million people may be living in extreme poverty, but welfare, for most of the people who need it, was “reformed” right out of existence. TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), which is what welfare is called now, helps far fewer people than welfare used to, even though the poor have been laid low by the worst economy since the Depression.

Hardly anyone cares. Hardly anyone even notices.

With the tax cuts for the rich saved and William Daley coming on board, the atmosphere is being readied for Obama & Co. to tap the fat cats for the zillions necessary for next year’s re-election run.


And that, of course, is the only thing that really matters.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

" OMG "

Could this happen at Lake Ashton ???

Please say no, I dont want to believe
anyone stole from Charity.. Please say no !!

Holley ( Bingo Player )

YES

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Didnt John Dillinger ( Bank Robber ) Paul Pontius ,have a sidekick >>>(Bank Robber thief), Joe Ferriere, Machine Gun Kelly ? They almost always run in teams....Bonnie and Clyde....hmmmm which one is Bonnie, which one is Clyde...hvent figured that one out yet. Oh well, let grady judd ( sherriff ) do that....SOON...

Former Bingo player, who will return when they are gone

G Lady

YES, THEY ARE CALLED PAUL AND CAROL, CAROL BEING THE BOOKKEEPER AND PAUL BEING THE THIEF. DON'T WORRY GRADY JUDD WILL BE TALKING TO THEM BEHIND BARS.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry....Just got to la from up north. Forgive me. I did not begin to read the blog until I heard all the doings going on My GOD...how could anyone sleep who steals from Charity ? Again I am sorry. Will these poeple be brought to justice ? I love LA, but in my short time here find much of what I was sold has been nothing but lies and deciet. I will no longer play bingo , and have my few dollars each week stolen from Charity and used for Dinners and Shirts.

Sorry...Holly

THIS IS A SMART RESIDENT WITH BRAINS. THANK-YOU HOLLY
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Bingo Paul Pontious":

can anyone tell me....? has paul pontios answered this letter written by richard ralls ? i would think if it has any truth to it.. paul would certainly bring actions for slander or whatever. when you call someone a thief , lyer, bastard, and blowhard, you would think he would at least reply. otherwiswe it must ...... ALL BE TRUE..

BINGO PAUL HAS NOT ANSWERED DICK'S LETTER. BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM THE GUY THAT CALLED ME AN IDIOT JOE FERRIERI IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE AND HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO SUE ME OF SLANDER. THIS GUY IS A HELL OF A JOKER. CALLING ME A IDIOT AND THEN GETS HIS ATTORNEY. THIS GUY IS SICK.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Two men arrested in a bingo hall raid were back in...":

" OMG "

Could this happen at Lake Ashton ???

Please say no, I dont want to believe
anyone stole from Charity.. Please say no !!

Holley ( Bingo Player )

WHERE HAS THIS LADY BEEN? IN THE OUTHOUSE????? BINGO PAUL POINTIOUS HAS STOLE OVER $75,000 FROM THE BINGO PLAYERS.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Thu, January 6, 2011 6:41:00 PM[lakeashtontalk] Ne...":

If our HOA will do Nothing to help us...Here is my suggestion....

STARTING NOW... DO NOT PAY YOUR MX BILL.....

what can they do...? Cancel you service ? Is this not what we have wanted all along ?

Brighthouse and Adt are both fine companies. MX is the culprit here.

Bottom line...We residents should have a choice.

Do you think Maxwell and Company will file an assessment on every home in Lake Ashton ? I think not....BUT they will listen... and give us a choice.

Finally... What do we pay $60.00 a year to the HOA annually for dues to do ? They have close to $200,000 dollars in the bank. Then all we get is lip service, starting with DAVE ROSS.

Lets make them accountable...
Do you all realize that this blog and the AdHoc Committee members are destroying this community. When you continue to publish anti and negative comments about the community it hurts all of us including you. Customers have decided not to buy in lake Ashton because of this blog. This has an adverse effect on our Home values. You can not be anti developer, anti HOA, anti CDD, anti Management group, anti Bingo, anti community director, anti activities director, anti residents and think that you contribute to this community. When was the last time something nice was said about Lake Ashton?

Nothing nice has developed in this community

We pay the MX bill but the developer has taken out the ADT money and placing it in his pocket.

He screwed us on the roads

He doesn't own the boat dock land and we are paying him rental fees

He placed second hand bowling machines in the bowling alleys.

He lowered the clubhouse 2-3 feet. He was told that it must be higher.

He charged us CDD fees for the lands and has he got into building the lands he double the fees.

He stole our coffee money on Monday Mornings.

He is taken a percentage of Security for himself.

He is charging us a cable fee called MX and keeping a fee.

THE RESIDENTS OF LAKE ASHTON DON'T GIVE A DAM. GIVE LARRY MORE MONEY SO HE CAN PAY HIS BILLS. SUCKERS!

Who is the ass-hole that posted that guestion about Lake Ashton?????

Plus we have a idiot that stole all the Bingo money, 55/55 and concession money and spend it all on himself and his friends.


Daily Joke ~ Alligator Hunting

A young blonde was on vacation in the depths of Louisiana. She wanted a pair of genuine alligator shoes in the worst way, but was very reluctant to pay the high prices the local vendors were asking.

After becoming very frustrated with the "no haggle" attitude of one of the shopkeepers, the blonde shouted, "Maybe I'll just go out and catch my own alligator so I can get a pair of shoes at a reasonable price!"

The shopkeeper said, "By all means, be my guest. Maybe you'll luck out and catch yourself a big one!"

Determined, the blonde turned and headed for the swamps, set on catching herself an alligator.

Later in the day, the shopkeeper is driving home, when he spots the young woman standing waist deep in the water, shotgun in hand. Just then, he sees a huge 9 foot alligator swimming quickly toward her. She takes aim, kills the creature and with a great deal of effort hauls it on to the swamp bank. Laying nearby were several more of the dead creatures.

The shopkeeper watches in amazement. Just then the blonde flips the alligator on it's back, and frustrated, shouts out, "Damn it, this one isn't wearing any shoes either!"


Daily Joke ~ An original way for boys to cut the classes

A teacher notices that a little boy at the back of the class is squirming around, scratching his crotch and not paying attention.

She goes back to find out what's up.

He's quite embarrassed and whispers that he has just recently been circumcised and he's quite itchy.

The teacher tells him to go down to the principal's office, to phone his mum, and ask her what he should do about it.

He does this and returns to the class, sits down in his seat and suddenly, there's a general commotion at the back of the room.

Back down she goes, only to find him sitting at his desk with his penis hanging out.

"I thought I told you to call your mom" she says.

"I did" he says.

"She told me that if I could stick it out till noon, she'd come and pick me up from school."



Daily Joke ~ Potatoes!!

A blond, a brunette and a redhead escape from jail and decide to hide in a barn.

As they hear the police closing in, they climb into the loft and hide in three empty burlap feed bags. A young officer climbed into the loft, shined his flashlight around, and decided to check the burlap bags. He kicked the first bag containing the brunette, and she responded with a convincing "woof woof". He kicked the second bag with the redhead inside, and she let out a perfect cat's meow. "Nothing up here but cats and dogs," the officer responded to his superior. Deciding to be sure, he kicked the last bag, the one containing the blonde. She yelled out "potatoes!!!"

Two men arrested in a bingo hall raid were back in court today.


Leo Donnelly and Christopher Jones are accused of dozens of counts of violating Florida's bingo laws.

They - and another employee - face misdemeanor charges, while the owners of Tallahassee Bingo face felonies.

Deputies say the business skimmed tens of thousands of dollars from charities who hosted games there.

The judge scheduled another status hearing for next month.

No court dates have been set yet for the bingo hall owners, Josh and Larry Masino.

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UPDATED 3:35pm 8.4.2010 by Julie Montanaro

Larry Masino has now bonded out of the Leon County jail.

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UPDATED 2:40pm 8.4.2010 by Julie Montanaro

A judge has set bond at $50,000 for a father and son accused of running a less than legal bingo operation.

Larry and Josh Masino spent the night in jail and returned to court today to continue their bond hearing.

Judge Nina Ashenafi Richardson needed proof that the bond money the men intended to post was not linked to their bingo business. Ashenafi Richardson ruled today that the bond money expected to be posted by Larry Masino's ex-wife was not suspect.

Bond was set at about 12:40 this afternoon. Court records show Josh Masino has already bonded out. Those same records indicate Larry Masino has not yet posted bond.

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Updated 6:20pm 8-3 by Jennifer Milton

Two Bingo Hall owners turned themselves in to deputies and made their first appearance in court Tuesday.

Larry and Josh Masino appeared before Judge Nina Richardson in courtroom 2D via live video feed from the Leon County Jail.

The state requested bond be set at 50 thousand dollars and made it clear that money used to pay for the bond must not have been from illegal activity.

The bond hearing was rescheduled for Wednesday so proper paperwork could be acquired.

Defense attorney Greg Miller is representing both of the Masinos.

They each face 312 counts of violating state bingo statutes, 11 counts of grand theft and one count of fraud.
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UPDATED 9:30am 8.3.2010 by Julie Montanaro

Bingo hall owners Larry and Josh Masino turned themselves in at the Leon County Jail this morning.

They each face 312 counts of violating state bingo statutes, 11 counts of grand theft and one count of fraud.

A bond hearing is set for 1pm today.

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UPDATED 8.2.2010 11am by Julie Montanaro

Both Christopher Jones and Michele Young turned themselves in Friday night to face charges that they violated state bingo laws.

Jones turned himself in at the Leon County Jail at about 8:30 Friday night and was released less than an hour later on $2000 bond. He faces 52 misdemeanor counts of violating bingo statutes.

Young turned herself in at 11:45 Friday night to face four counts of violating state bingo statutes. She posted $1000 bond and was released.

Three others, Leo Donnelly and owners Larry and Josh Masino have yet to turn themselves in.

Prosecutor Nate Prince says the Masino's have had every opportunity to listen to the concerns of law enforcement and bring their business into compliance with the law. "We are where we are," Prince said. "These are not minor violations."

"We are familiar with their position," Prince said, "but their business practices did not comport with standards."

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UPDATED 7.30.2010 1:20pm by Julie Montanaro

An attorney for the owners of Tallahassee Bingo calls Thursday's raid and the issuance of arrest warrants "an outrage."

David McGee represents the father and son team of Larry and Josh Macino.

"There are national standards for this," McGee said, "and Tallahassee Bingo is behaving consistently with these standards." McGee says each charity signs a contract in order to host a bingo night and that all payments were made pursuant to those written contracts.

McGee says the Leon County Sheriff's Office seized his clients' assets, not only in Tallahassee but at a similar bingo operation in Okaloosa County.

McGee says they were aware of this investigation months ago and took their concerns to the state attorney's office. He said they left with the understanding that they would be invited back to discuss the evidence before any charges would be filed. McGee said that did not happen.

McGee says there are several other bingo operations in Tallahassee that didn't like the competition from Tallahassee Bingo.

The Moose Lodge was one of the organizations that complained," said LCSO Spokeswoman Melinda McBride, but it was among many others.

McBride says the sheriff was invited to become an "honorary member" of the Moose Lodge soon after his election, but she says he has never attended any meetings. She denies that the affiliation had anything to do with this investigation.

"This was not a shakedown," McBride said. "This was a thorough investigation that's been going on for months."

The Leon County Sheriff's Office, meanwhile, released a list of the charities it considers "victims" in this case:

Ability First
Big Bend Cares
Big Bend Boys and Girls Club
Bond Community Health Center
Renaissance Center
Catholic Charities
Suwannee River Area Council Boy Scouts of America
Providence Community Development Group
Visions of Manhood
Order of the Eastern Star Noble Lady Holmes
Tallahassee Lions Club

LCSO stresses the charities are not suspected of doing anything wrong.
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Updated 3:18pm 7-29

LCSO Press Release:

On Thursday 07/29/10 at approximately 11:00am The Leon County Sheriff’s Office Financial Crimes Unit served a Search Warrant at Racetrack Bingo, located at 3030 S. Monroe St. in Tallahassee.

This warrant and the associated arrest warrants culminated an investigation that began in September of 2009.

Undercover investigation and interviews with both witnesses and suspects revealed Racetrack Bingo violated several sections of the Bingo Statute, F.S. 849.0931.

Two Fort Walton Beach businessmen started the company Racetrack Bingo in 2009 and modeled the organization on other operations they run elsewhere.

Larry and Josh Masino controlled the operation here in Tallahassee in order to profit personally.

The operation also committed theft from a number of local non-profit organizations.

The business solicited local non-profit organizations to sponsor bingo sessions at this location in name only.

Under Florida law, all profits from bingo operations are supposed to go to the non-profits who host the event.

Workers cannot be compensated for their time, the volunteers have to be bona fide members of the non-profit organization and the non-profit has to be a legitimate non-profit.

Several of the illegitimate non-profits involved were not eligible for bingo operations here and had full knowledge of this. Profits from the bingo operation were diverted to the benefit of the Masino’s.

At no time during this investigation were any of the local non-profits suspected of wrongdoing during these operations.

Consequently, there were 11 local registered non-profit organizations that were victims.

They collectively suffered a minimum loss of $87,000.

The investigation continues and additional charges may be forthcoming.
Arrest Warrants were obtained for the following people:

Larry Masino
DOB: 04/24/50
Charges: Organized Scheme to Defraud, Grand Theft (11 Counts), and Bingo Statute Violation (312 Counts)

Josh Masino
DOB: 01/16/76
Charges: Organized Scheme to Defraud, Grand Theft (11 Counts), and Bingo Statute Violation (312 Counts)

Leo Donnelly
DOB: 03/27/42
Charges: Bingo Statute Violation (49 Counts)

Christopher Jones
DOB: 07/05/58
Charges: Bingo Statute Violation (52 Counts)

Michele Young
DOB: 05/03/65
Charges: Bingo Statute Violation (4 Counts)
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Leon County Sheriff's deputies arrived at a Tallahassee bingo hall with a search warrant in hand this morning.

WCTV arrived at Racetrack Bingo near the corner of North Monroe Street and Paul Russell Road as work crews from the jail were removing tables, chairs and more from inside.

The head of LCSO's financial crimes unit has been investigating the hall for the past six months and says it will levy hundreds of charges against the bingo hall owners as well as three other people.

Sgt. Charlie Strickland says those running the bingo hall pocketed tens of thousands of dollars that should have gone into the coffers of local non-profits.

We will bring you more details as soon as they become available.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Thompson Location: Tallahassee on Sep 21, 2010 at 08:59 PM

I heard the Massino bingo is going to reopen soon!!
Posted by: Bingo fan Location: Tallahassee, FL on Sep 9, 2010 at 08:23 AM

Lets see.....Moose and Elks now sell "pull tabs", Moose has be extremely more packed since the bust, and Moose volunteers are treating people like peons on the work line...since we really have no other place to go (except Quincy)because they know the people who want to play bingo really have no place else to go. Hmmmmmm.....I am inclined to believe "political"..
Posted by: Thompson Location: Tallahassee on Sep 8, 2010 at 07:05 PM

Poll question: Was Masino's "bust" political (good old boy) or truly about breaking the law?

2011 GM Car

JFK


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I remember when this was going on and everyone said Oswald couldn't have pulled this off by himself. You need to see this clip!
Don't know where it came from, but it'll get your attention.

HOW JFK WAS REALLY KILLED.CHILLING
I can't vouch for the credibility of this video as I find it hard to believe this has not been seen before. But watch it and come to your own conclusion. Must open video all the way up to see what is being talked about

HOW JFK WAS REALLY KILLED...CHILLING.........

What do you think?? ;
Comments? I remember Lyndon Johnson saying on TV the day after the Kennedy assassination, that the world would never know all the facts surrounding Kennedys killing for 75 years until the complete file of information would be revealed. I also remember Walter Cronkite announcing on TV, that the Nation could not handle the full truth in that Century.
Well, only 47 years have passed since Kennedys assassination. This is hard to fake and is very chilling who was driving?

HOW JFK WAS REALLY KILLED CHILLING

This video shows the limousine chauffeur that takes President J.F.K. and his wife, November 22nd 1963 in Dallas, Texas, shooting the gun with his left hand. This was the video that the CIA did not show to the public view. And did you ask yourself why was Jackie trying to run away towards the trunk, away from the front of the car? And why did JFKs skull wound was in the front, when supposedly Oswald shot him from the back?? Interesting and chilling....

E-MAIL ME YOUR WEB SITE AND I WILL SEND YOU THIS FILM!


On Nov. 9, 2010, our complaint against the County of Polk for an exemption from ad valorem taxation was heard in the Tenth Circuit Court. The complaint was filed for the 2009 and 2010 tax years. Our counsel, Rob Bradley, was well prepared and George Flint was excellent as an expert witness for the District. On Nov. 16th, Judge Raiden found in our favor, in that, the properties involved in this action (facilities owned by both Lake Ashton (Lake Wales and Winter Haven) CDD's) are exempt from ad valorem taxes. The County Property Appraiser has ten business days to appeal this judgment.

The ruling does not apply to residential dwellings.

HAVE YOU HEARD ANY MORE ON THIS RULING??????

We are being screw again!

We pay the MX bill but he is taken out the ADT money and placing it in his pocket.

He screwed us on the roads

He doesn't own the boat dock land and we are paying him rental fees

He placed second hand bowling machines in the bowling alleys.

He lowered the clubhouse 2-3 feet. He was told that it must be higher.

He charged us CDD fees for the lands and has he got into building the lands he double the fees.

He stole our coffee money on Monday Mornings.

He is taken a percentage of Security for himself.

He is charging us a cable fee called MX and keeping a fee.

THE RESIDENTS OF LAKE ASHTON DON'T GIVE A DAM. GIVE LARRY MORE MONEY SO HE CAN PAY HIS BILLS. SUCKERS!

Bingo Paul Pontious

Paul,

Barbra has asked me to explain your statement regarding the two separate bingo accounts.

If you would spend less time running your filthy mouth and had any concern of the law of the land, you would know that an activity that runs simultaneously with a charitable activity, and serves no other purpose, is considered to be enjoined with that activity. The only purpose of having two accounts serves only you and your gang.

As usually, you are attempting to disguise your misuse of bingo funds. Per the Statute, with only a few exceptions, all the monies you have misused or stolen from the homeowners, our community and the HOA, was illegal and served you and your gangs purposes only. Until January 2010, not one dime from the bingo accounts, was given to any charity. Since January 2010, in excess of $5,000 dollars of bingo monies has been spent on bribes, to the HOA, CDD, the Mayor and your gang.

Your statement regarding your removal from the bingo board is a lie. While it is true that in name/title, you are no longer officially running bingo activities, it is fact that you continue to run most aspects of this activity. A homeowner would have to be deaf, dumb and blind, to believe your statement that you no longer have any vested interest in bingo activities.

Barbra’s time, as apart of a group, has been spent working to remove the carpetbaggers, such as your self, from this community.

Show me a group, other than yours, who has tried harder and has been more successful in rapping the community and its homeowners, of funds that should have gone to charity and the HOA who is ultimately responsible for bingo funds.

Paul, Barbra’s so called gang of cut throats main intention is to rid the community of the group of carpet baggers, your group being one, that has stolen, lied, cheated, has deliberated mislead the residents regarding the condition of the roads. The road issue alone will cost this community millions of dollars and no one can offer a legitimate reason as why this was done.

Paul, Barbra is living in the community that she wants to live in. You, on the other hand, are in the process of having your bank records, personal records, and your bingo records subpoenaed with an arrest warrant about to be issued. My advice is take your own advice: give your home away immediately, move your residence back to the UP were which at least you will be on par with the other mental midgets, and then hope that the heat blows over.

Paul, regarding your statement pertaining to you and Carol, the only thing you have done to this community has ruined its reputation, stolen money from charity and this community, and made fools of yourself, your wife and the community. I have never known a piece of crap such as yourself, who would subject his wife to the same prosecution that you will be facing.

Paul, you are a gutless bastard. My name is Richard Charles Ralls. I live at 3008 Dunmore Drive. My telephone number is (863) 324-3230.


In the future, I am the one who leads this group and is totally responsible for their actions. Barbra is only a part of the group. If you want real trouble, keep pursuing your line of mistruths, lies and misinformation! Further more, I personally believe you are the biggest self-inflatedblow hard, liar, and thief bastard I have ever known.

Mr Pontious, I have given you every opportunity to shut down the dark side.


Since you have threatened everyone in the community with lawsuits, bring it on. Even you can see that this letter has libeled you many times over. You can prove to your group of morons how straight up a guy you are by going to your attorney and filing a liable / slander suit against me forth wit. This will prove that you at least think the stuff that spews from your month could possibly be true. By not filing a suit, you will prove that you are just a tired old blow hard that has taken this community for a ton.

Richard Charles Ralls Esq.

Have a nice day.



Cost

A farmer knocked on the door of a neighboring farmhouse and a youngster answered his knock. The farmer asked: "Is your father or mother at home?" The child said that they were both in town.

The farmer then asked if his brother, Harold, was at home. The youngster said he was at the other farm doing chores.

The youngster said: "I'm nine years old, sir, and I know where all the tools and wrenches are located, so I can get that for you."

The farmer said he had a problem he had to talk to his father about. The farmer's daughter was pregnant, and his brother, Harold, was the father.The youngster looked the man in the eye for a minute and said: "I don't know what to tell you, mister, Dad gets $50.00 for the boar, $500.00 for the bull, but I'm not sure what he charges for Harold."

Texas

I recently had a visitor from the state of Texas. For three days all I heard from him was "In Texas we have the best this, the largest that, the fastest that," etc. It eventually became very annoying.

Being from Niagra Falls, I thought I could outdo him by showing him the "MIGHTY NIAGARA", knowing there was nothing in Texas that could compare to this "Wonder of Water & Power".

While standing at the brink watching millions of gallons of water rushing over, I noticed the look of awe in his eyes. It was then I asked him: "Do you have anything like this in Texas?" He waited a moment before he answered: "No, but we have a plumber that could fix it."

Friday, January 7, 2011

Money is missing

Ken Saulnier from ADT will be at the Monday Coffee meeting this Monday with ADT account information. Sounds like he is having a little trouble with collecting the money from our dear developer. I smell something like its not in the up and up. Where is all this money going to?????

This is sick


Subject: shoe's $635-







These shoes are worth $635??
I wouldn't pay that if I was a millionaire!!!



Photo: Huffington Post.
Photo: New York Magazine

Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn't Michelle Obama live like a queen?


The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela.


A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would have to work 88 hours (without taxes taken out) to make enough to pay for Michelle Obama's shoes.


The Obamas are staying at an $8.9 million estate for an estimated $4,000 per night. To cover the Obama's ten-night stay, the minimum wage worker would have to work two-and-a-half years (before taxes) to come up with the $40,000 Obama is reportedly laying out.


Obama has lectured Americans about how they can not expect to live their lives as indulgently as they have in the past. He has lectured businesses about their travel and pay. Yet Obama and his wife live
like kings and queens.


The news media has yet to call him out on his extravagance when there is 10% unemployment with no sign of the employment picture improving this coming year.


The way they spend OUR MONEY is an insult to every hard working citizen of this country. GREED is their CREED !


Please send this to everyone, including Politicians, to see if any of them has the guts to start an investigation into the extravagance they show daily.

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Anonymous said...

If our HOA will do Nothing to help us...Here is my suggestion....

STARTING NOW... DO NOT PAY YOUR MX BILL.....

what can they do...? Cancel you service ? Is this not what we have wanted all along ?

Brighthouse and Adt are both fine companies. MX is the culprit here.

Bottom line...We residents should have a choice.

Do you think Maxwell and Company will file an assessment on every home in Lake Ashton ? I think not....BUT they will listen... and give us a choice.

Finally... What do we pay $60.00 a year to the HOA annually for dues to do ? They have close to $200,000 dollars in the bank. Then all we get is lip service, starting with DAVE ROSS.

Lets make them accountable...

Bill S....Unhappy HOA member.

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DocJr said...

There are two primary purposes for allowing transfer fees. (1) To spread out the infrastructure costs for building a master-planned community. Instead of charging the first owner of a house the total cost of sewers, public and private roads, utilities, and water services - the fees are spread out over 99 years allowing any owner benefiting from the fees to pay their portion of the fees. (2) The transfer fee program would allow funds to be invested NOW into construction projects, which in turn could create up to 5 million+ jobs and help get the economy back on track, ending this devastating recession.

Is a 1% transfer fee a huge deception being pulled on the buying public? No more than the 6% commission you would pay a real estate broker for selling your home. With the creation of 5 million jobs and an end to the recession, wouldn’t it make more sense to pay your agent a 5% commission and a 1% transfer fee for the same amount of money?

The biggest bang for the buck is to allow transfer fees. It could create jobs and help end the recession now!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ADT has not been paid. But you paid it.":

Since the HOA has not informed the residents regarding the MX communications being removed from our covenants. ( Remember the Attorney saying ) Quote..YOU SUE, YOU WIN ?? $Thousands of dollars later NO RESPONSE ?

Now this. I was also told I owe $45.00 to ADT. Here is my intent.. I will not pay the bill to MX. They can cancel my ADT and Brighthouse.

This is a new Screwing the residents are getting from this Developer. Will it ever end ??

Harvey. W

THE DEVELOPER HAS BEEN SCREWING THE RESIDENTS FROM DAY ONE

Subject: 28th Amendment to the Constitution

Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

This is an idea that we should address.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."

You are a fool if you believe in the developer.

ADT has not been paid. But you paid it.


Mr. David Ross
Lake Ashton BOD President,


Last month I had made a call to ADT concerning a monitoring certificate being requested from my Homeowners Insurance Company.

During that conversation, I was informed that there was an outstanding balance of $45.00 due on this account since November 1, 2010. This was from the quarterly billing that was sent to MX Communications, and due by November 1, 2010. When I called ADT again today, I was informed that the $45.00 balance still had not been paid, and that the next quarterly billing would be due by February 1, 2011.

I was told that even though MX Communications receives the billing statement, the homeowner would be the one considered in default if the bill is not paid, and sent to collections.

I also had a few neighbors contact ADT, and found that they also have an outstanding bill of $45.00 since November 1, 2010. This leads me to believe that each and every one else in Lake Ashton has an outstanding balance with ADT, because Mr. Maxwell and MX Communications has not paid ADT for the services that we pay MX Communications on a monthly basis.

Who stands to lose here? Not MX Communications, but each and every homeowner in Lake Ashton, because we are forced to pay MX Communications for this service. This is likened to the renters that are evicted form their homes because the Bank foreclosed on the owner that didn't pay the mortgage.

The Lake Ashton HOA needs to investigate this situation immediately before the next payment is due ADT.

Sincerely,

Resident Lake Ashton East.

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I'm Back

Welcome. I am back from St. Martin, St. Lucia and St. Kitts, 8 nights on the ship Carnival Miracle, 12 decks, almost 1,000 feet lg.

You people just got to join our Dinner and Travel Club. $300 $600 lower than the asking rate.

Got to make this short. Just has I got past the front gate of Lake Ashton, I was behind a Funeral Procession going to the Club House. I had to pass this guy on the right. He was driving a golf cart with a yellow light on top. I yell to him, go back to England. Hay, what is he going to do throw his oxygen tank threw my back window. These are the security guys that are here to protect us from the bad guys. I thought I had to give this guy mouth to mouth resuscitation.

See you all on Friday.