Saturday, June 11, 2011

Over-55 condo may be sued in age-bias case

Article Courtesy of The Sun Sentinel
By Brittany Wallman
Published June 10, 2011

On behalf of the federal government, Broward County may sue an over-55 condominium that tried to evict a younger man who says he is disabled.

Broward County government is poised to sue a 55-and-older condominium in Coconut Creek’s Wynmoor community for trying to evict a younger man.
If county commissioners agree on Tuesday, the county’s attorneys would have permission to file suit in federal court against Portofino Isle, arguing it shouldn’t have tried to evict 50-year-old Scott Spector. He’s disabled, the county argues, and must be given permission to remain.
Spector said “two guys with hammers tried to kill me over a cup of coffee” many years ago in New York City, causing permanent mental and physical disabilities.
Since he asserted his right to live in the condo as a disabled person, he said, the condo president and others have screamed and yelled at him, set up a surveillance camera pointed at his door and sent him threatening letters. The condo filed an eviction action against him, as well.
“These are the type of animals I deal with,” Spector said Monday.
The county’s suit will seek assurance Spector can remain, plus damages for Spector and attorney’s fees for the county, among other things.
Portofino attorney Mark Bogen said the condo has backed off the eviction, though he acknowledged that nothing to that effect has been put in writing.
He said Spector was not harassed or mistreated and isn’t entitled to a “penny” of damages. He said Portofino was merely defending its 55-and-older status against possible fraud.
The first medical documentation Spector provided was from a chiropractor, Bogen noted, even though the disability is a brain injury.
“We’re not going to be extorted for money for doing our job,” Bogen said.
Spector moved in when he was 37, but that was fine, because his grandmother lived there, too. When she died two years ago, the condo took action to try to move him out. That’s when he alerted the condo to his disability.
One of his doctors wrote that Spector would “not be able to survive on his own” if evicted and might have suicidal thoughts.
His chiropractor wrote that this was a matter of “life and death” for him.
Spector originally complained to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, defender of the federal Fair Housing Act, which gives disabled people the right to have a “reasonable accommodation” in housing. In Broward, that federal agency’s housing cases are handled by the county, and that’s where Spector’s case landed.
The cost is borne, though, by the federal government.
Broward County’s lawyers investigated Spector’s case and determined the condo violated federal law as well as the county’s Human Rights Act “by denying complainant a reasonable accommodation because of his disabilities and coercing, intimidating, threatening or interfering” with his attempt to exercise his rights.
Broward County went to court just last month to sue another Broward condo, Ventnor H. Condominium Association in Deerfield Beach, part of Century Village, for alleged discrimination against a woman who lives there with a Chihuahua.
The condo has a rule against pets, but the county argues in that suit that Phyllis Schleifer is emotionally disabled and needs the pet for comfort.
That case is also supported with federal dollars as part of the county’s agreement to handle complaints typically handled by HUD.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Boweling alley

After a few years, the bowling alley is now open.  Does anyone know what the total cost is to get these alleys open????   Please post the cost to me, thanks.  I would say about $100,000  You got to add Joe Hunter cost of calling all his friends and getting their estimates.  Do Nothing is now doing nothing here in the West.
Redneck Bumper Stickers
>
>You're An EXTREME Redneck When......
>
> 1. You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.
>
> 2. The Blue Book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it.
>
> 3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
>
> 4. You think a woman who is out of your league bowls on a different night..
>
> 5. You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.
>
> 6. Someone in your family died right after saying 'Hey, guys, watch this'.
>
> 7. You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
>
> 8. Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.
>
> 9. Your junior prom offered day care.
>
> 10. You think the last words of the Star-Spangled Banner are 'Gentlemen, start your engines'.
>
> 11. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels.
>
> 12. The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse.
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> 13. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.
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> 14. One of your kids was born on a pool table.
>
> 15. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.
>
> 16. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.
>
> 17. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.
>
> ______________________

 
THE EAGLE
This is Amazing...It is no wonder there are scriptural references to the eagle! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
And, no there is no wonder the bald eagle has such a significant symbolism to our country. What hope!
 
 
 
 
 
 
When it rains, most birds head for shelter; the eagle is the only bird that, in order to avoid the rain, starts flying above the clouds...

An amazing tidbit about the Eagle's eyesight: The eagle can probably identify a rabbit moving almost a mile away. That means that an eagle flying at an altitude of 1000 feet over open country could spot prey over an area of almost 3 square miles from a fixed position.

No wonder God wants us to spread our wings and soar with eagles.
God Bless all who share this.
 
 

FW:Remember 1955

> An old one ........interesting to re-visit

Comments made in the year 1955!
> >
> I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.
> >
> Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one
> >
> If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit; 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.
> >
> Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter.
> >
> If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
> >
> When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.
> >
> I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.
>
> I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .
> >
> Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.
> >
> Joe Demaggio ??
> >
> I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They're even making electric typewriters now.
> >
> It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
> >
> It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
> >
> I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
> >
> The fast food restaurant is convenient for a quick meal, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
> >
> There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
> >
> No one can afford to be sick anymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.
> >
> If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a haircut, forget it.
> >
> Remember this particular clip on the newsreels/cinema?
> >
> Know any friends who would get a kick out of these, pass this on!
> >
> Be sure and send it to your kids and grandkids, too!
> >
> They'll not believe it anyway!!!!!!!!!
>

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Top Ten Reasons Why Men Prefer Guns Over Women

 
This will cause some trouble!!
 
 
 
Top Ten Reasons Why Men Prefer Guns Over Women
 
And here we go...
 
#10 - You can trade an old 44 for a new 22.
#9 - You can keep one gun at home and have another for when you're on the road.
#8 - If you admire a friend's gun and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times.
#7 - Your primary gun doesn't mind if you keep another gun for a backup.
#6 - Your gun will stay with you even if you run out of ammo.
#5 - A gun doesn't take up a lot of closet space.
#4 - Guns function normally every day of the month.
#3 - A gun doesn't ask , "Do these new grips make me look fat?"
#2 - A gun doesn't mind if you go to sleep after you use  it.
 
And the Number One reason
Why Men Prefer Guns over women.....
#1 - You can buy a silencer for a gun

Unexplainable, Inexcusable


No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the  U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicianshold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense. 
  


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 one of my 20+

  
 


 
 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Robert E. Lee watched as his friends died in the Civil War, my grandfather watched as his friends died in WW II, and my father watched as my friends died in Vietnam .

None of them died for the Mexican Flag.

Everyone died for the U.S. flag.

In Texas , a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole; another student took it down. Guess who was expelled...the kid who took it down.

Kids in high school in California were sent home  on Cinco de Mayo because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.

Enough is enough.

The below e-mail message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America.
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough.
I'm taking a stand.
I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the U.S. flag can't stand up.

And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.


Let me make this perfectly clear!

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!

And, because I make This statement

DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY!

Welcome! To come through legally:


1. Get a sponsor!

2. Get a place to lay your head!
3.Get a job!
4.Live ByOURRules!
5.Pay YOURTaxes!
And
6.Learn theLANGUAGElike immigrants have in the past!!!
AND
7.Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime savings of Social Security Funds to you.


If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,


Then
YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

When will
AMERICANS STOP giving awayTHEIR RIGHTS???

We've gone so far the other way...

bent over backwards not to offend anyone.


But it seems no one cares about the


AMERICAN CITIZEN


that's being offended!


WAKE UP America !!!

If You agree.... Pass this on.


If You don't agree.. Delete It!!!

NEWS WANTED SEND TO lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com

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Should Walmart run the Government?

Wal-Mart vs..The Morons  

 1 Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour  of every day.     2. 
 This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!     3. 
 Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St.  Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.     4. 
 Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger +  Target + Sears + Costco K-Mart combined..  
 
5.. 
 Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's  largest private employer, and most speak English.     6.
 
Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.     7. 
 Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and  Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.     8. 
 During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains  sought bankruptcy.     9. 
 Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store  in the world.     10.  Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the  USA of  which 2,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than  it had five years ago..     11.  This year 7.2 billion different purchasing  experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores.  (Earth's population is  approximately 6.5 Billion.)     12. 
 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of  a Wal-Mart.     13. 
 Wal-Mart has gross sales that total more than the  total revenue of all the countries in the world,  except 6.      
 
You may think that I am complaining, but I am 
 really laying the ground work for suggesting that  MAYBE we should hire the  guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.     This should be read and understood by all Americans  Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!   
 To the President and all 535 voting members 
 of the Legislature, both parties. 
  
 
It is now official -  you are ALL corrupt morons:     a.. 
 The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775.  You have had 234 years to get it right 
 and it is broke.     b... 
 Social Security was established in 1935. 
 You have had 74 years to get it right 
 and it is broke.     c... 
 Fannie Mae was established in 1938. 
 You have had 71 years to get it right 
 and it is broke.     d... 
 War on Poverty started in 1964. 
 You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion 
 of our money is confiscated each year 
 and transferred to "the poor" 
 and they only want more.     e.. 
 Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.  You have had 44 years to get it right 
 and they are broke.     f.. 
 Freddie Mac was established in 1970. 
 You have had 39 years to get it right 
 and it is broke.     g.. 
 The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to  lessen our dependence on foreign oil. 
 It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a 
 budget of $24 billion a year 
 and we import more oil than ever before. 
 You had 32 years to get it right 
 and it is an abysmal failure.  
  
 
!!!You have FAILED !!!  in every "government service" you have shoved 
 down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
  
 
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS 
 TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED 
 WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ?? 
 
 YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN THE
 AUTO INDUSTRY.... THE BANKING SYSTEM?????
  
 
 
MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD 
 BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND 
 HIRE WALMART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT ???   
  
 
WALMART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS...  WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT 
 
IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?   
  
 
 Folks, keep this circulating. 
 It is very well stated.
 Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected'
 (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.
  
  
 
"You can't fix stupid, 
 but you can vote it out."

Irish Fire Fighter

> Bad but cute!
>
Irish Fire Fighter
>
> Paddy was walking along the street during his once-in-a-lifetime visit
> to New York when he rounds a corner and there's a high rise building on
> fire.
>
> Paddy, ever the kind-hearted and resourceful Irishman, runs up to the
> building to see if he can help and notices people trapped five stories
> up.
>
> Paddy yells to the people, "I'm Patrick Sean Michael Fitzpatrick, an
> Irish Fire Fighter on holiday. I'm also a Rugby Union fullback! If you
> jump, I'll catch you!"
>
> One lady, in desperation, jumps and sure enough Paddy catches her.
>
> Then a man sees that Paddy catches the woman and jumps. Sure enough,
> Paddy catches him as well.
>
> Then a black man jumps out and crashes to the sidewalk. Paddy didn't
> even attempt to catch him.
>
> Paddy looks up and yells, "Don't be throwin' the burnt ones...!!!!"
>
>  Warning!! If you laugh at this, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Rev.
> Wright will be coming to kick yo ass!
>
>
A Home Owner Forecloses On A Bank

http://joshspector.com/2011/06/04/a-home-owner-forecloses-on-a-bank-for-a-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoshSpector+%28JoshSpector.com%29

Tuesday, June 7, 2011


 

Subject: Letter From Israel
After the meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel where 
Obama asked that Israel move their borders back to allow Palestinians to recover 
areas lost to Israel in previous wars, Obama received this letter from 
Netanyahu!!!
 
Dear President Obama:
 
I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. First and
foremost, I will be asking that you return America to its August 20th,
1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you

 are no longer
a citizen.
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
 
 cid:B4C1C71390BF48D39A7D08E2D4CAE3DC@TheDaniels

It was a small town and the patrolman was making his
evening rounds.
As he was checking a used car lot, he came upon two little
old ladies sitting in a used car.
He stopped and asked them why they were sitting there in the
car. Were they trying to steal it?
'Heavens no, we bought it.'
'Then why don't you drive it away.'
We can't drive.'
Then why did you buy it?'
'We were told that if we bought a Used car here we'd
get screwed ...so we're just waiting.

Monday, June 6, 2011

HE PRESIDENCY
SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT.
HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE.
After two years of Obama ... Here's your change!
 
 
January 2009
TODAY
% chg
Source
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1
 
 
 
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2
 
 
 
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2
 
 
 
Gold: London (per troy oz.)
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2
 
 
 
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2
 
 
 
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2
 
 
 
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2
 
 
 
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3
 
 
 
Unemployment rate, blacks
12.6%
15.8%
25.4%
3
 
 
 
Number of unemployed
11,616,000
14,485,000
24.7%
3
 
 
 
Number of fed. Employees
2,779,000
2,840,000
2.2%
3
 
 
 
Real median household income
$50,112
$49,777
-0.7%
4
 
 
 
Number of food stamp recipients
31,983,716
43,200,878
35.1%
5
 
 
 
Number of unemployment benefit recipients
7,526,598
9,193,838
22.2%
6
 
 
 
Number of long-term unemployed
2,600,000
6,400,000
146.2%
3
 
 
 
Poverty rate, individuals
13.2%
14.3%
8.3%
4
 
 
 
People in poverty in U.S.
39,800,000
43,600,000
9.5%
4
 
 
 
U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings
5
9
n/a
10
 
 
 
Present Situation Index
29.9
23.5
-21.4%
11
 
 
 
Failed banks
140
164
17.1%
12
 
 
 
U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
89.76
82.03
-8.6%
2
 
 
 
U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions
1,575.1
1,865.7
18.4%
13
 
 
 
U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions
8,310.9
8,852.3
6.5%
13
 
 
 
National debt, in trillions
$10..627
$14..052
32.2%
14
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history.
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane.
27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 24 months -- so you'll have one year and ten months to come up with an answer.
Every statement in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS...
I WONDER HOW MANY WILL FORWARD THIS ?