A TV reporter requested his boss okay a charter flight to check the fires.
His request approved, the Fox News photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight. He was told a twin-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport.
Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hanger. He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, 'Let's go'.
The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and took off. Once in the air, the photographer instructed the pilot, 'Fly over the valley and make low passes so I can take pictures of the fires on the hillsides.'
'Why?' asked the pilot.
'Because I'm a photographer for Fox Cable News,' he responded. 'And I need to get some close up shots.'
The pilot was strangely silent for a moment, finally he stammered, 'So, what you're telling me, is. .. you're NOT my flight instructor?'
Saturday, April 10, 2010
News Alert: Four Miners Found Dead in West Virginia
The New York Times
Sat, April 10, 2010 -- 12:45 AM ET
A late-night search for four missing miners who had been
unaccounted for since an explosion at the Upper Big Branch
coal mine in West Virginia on Monday ended in heartbreak
early Saturday morning when the authorities announced that
they had been found dead.
Sat, April 10, 2010 -- 12:45 AM ET
A late-night search for four missing miners who had been
unaccounted for since an explosion at the Upper Big Branch
coal mine in West Virginia on Monday ended in heartbreak
early Saturday morning when the authorities announced that
they had been found dead.
News Alert: No Survivors in Flight Carrying Polish President,
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Sat, April 10, 2010 -- 4:26 AM ET
No Survivors in Flight Carrying Polish President, Russian Media Report
MOSCOW -- A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech
Kaczynski, and his wife crashed in western Russia on Saturday
morning, and there were no survivors, according to Russia
media.
A spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry said on
Russian television that the plane, a Tupolev 154, crashed as
it was landing in Smolensk, and 87 people on board had died.
The New York Times
Sat, April 10, 2010 -- 4:26 AM ET
No Survivors in Flight Carrying Polish President, Russian Media Report
MOSCOW -- A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech
Kaczynski, and his wife crashed in western Russia on Saturday
morning, and there were no survivors, according to Russia
media.
A spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry said on
Russian television that the plane, a Tupolev 154, crashed as
it was landing in Smolensk, and 87 people on board had died.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Johns Hopkins Update on Cancer.
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY
('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a.. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14.. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing
of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15... Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of=2 0fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a.. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14.. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing
of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15... Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of=2 0fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
Tiger's best Masters opening round ever
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Tiger Woods hit the ball into the middle of the 18th green and watched it snap back toward the cup like it was on a string. Around him, a cold drizzle dropped at Augusta National. The crowds were still deep for him, still desperate to roar for their new/old hero. He had come back to the place where he delivered so many times.
All day Tiger played the game at a remarkably high level, two eagles powering a four-under 68, his personal-best opening round at the Masters. He’s currently tied for seventh, two shots off leader Fred Couples and tees off Friday at 10:35 a.m.
All day Tiger played the game at a remarkably high level, two eagles powering a four-under 68, his personal-best opening round at the Masters. He’s currently tied for seventh, two shots off leader Fred Couples and tees off Friday at 10:35 a.m.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
blonde joke
Of all the blonde jokes, this one has to be the best -- because
> it makes football make sense! A guy took his blond girlfriend to her first
> football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After
> the game, he asked her how she liked it. "Oh, I really liked it," s he
> replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just
> couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."
> Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, "What do you mean?" "Well, they flipped a
> coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept
> screaming was... 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm
> like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!
> it makes football make sense! A guy took his blond girlfriend to her first
> football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After
> the game, he asked her how she liked it. "Oh, I really liked it," s he
> replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just
> couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."
> Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, "What do you mean?" "Well, they flipped a
> coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept
> screaming was... 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm
> like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!
40,000 hits in just over One Year
I wish to thank everyone who helped provide news stories to this web site. We got over 40,000 hits in just over a year. Please call your friends and tell them what they are missing. All news, please send to lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com Thank you
Harry Reid Buys A Car
Sen. Reid goes to a local GM dealer in Washington , D.C. with the intention of buying a brand new vehicle. Harry looks around and finds one he likes. After going back and forth with the salesman, Harry settles on a price of $45,000.
Harry and the salesman go back to the office to complete the paperwork. Harry works out a 4-year payment plan, and signs on the bottom line. The salesman shakes Harry's hand and says, "Thanks Senator Reid, the car will be ready for pickup in 4 years."
Harry says, "What are you talking about? Where are the keys to my new car?"
The salesman replies, "No, you don't understand Senator. You make payments for 4 years... THEN we give you the car. You know, just like your health plan".
Harry, with a choking voice, says to the salesman, "But that's not fair".
And I say without any doubt or embarrassment:
NO S__T!
Get with the program Harry !!!!!!!!!!
Harry and the salesman go back to the office to complete the paperwork. Harry works out a 4-year payment plan, and signs on the bottom line. The salesman shakes Harry's hand and says, "Thanks Senator Reid, the car will be ready for pickup in 4 years."
Harry says, "What are you talking about? Where are the keys to my new car?"
The salesman replies, "No, you don't understand Senator. You make payments for 4 years... THEN we give you the car. You know, just like your health plan".
Harry, with a choking voice, says to the salesman, "But that's not fair".
And I say without any doubt or embarrassment:
NO S__T!
Get with the program Harry !!!!!!!!!!
Tiger Woods
All eyes on Tiger Woods at Masters for his play and his behaviour
AUGUSTA, Ga. - On the day Tiger Woods arrived at the Masters, he changed out of his spikes after playing nine holes, walked across the parking lot and went upstairs to the office of Augusta National chairman Billy Payne.
AUGUSTA, Ga. - On the day Tiger Woods arrived at the Masters, he changed out of his spikes after playing nine holes, walked across the parking lot and went upstairs to the office of Augusta National chairman Billy Payne.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Frank Ota and Joe Ferrieri
It seems that both of this Bingo helpers are now mad at me because we told them it was illegal to have 50/50 at Bingo. Now they don't have too much to do. I also would like everyone to know that it was I that got all the pick up trucks back in every one's driveway but Frank Ota has a short memory. WHO-DA I guess he just likes people that breaks the law. Believe me I can think of better things to do than just sit there and wait for Bingo. Most of the Bingo players are outsiders. They need 26 helpers in setting up Bingo. All I got to say is you guys can still have your 50/50, I don't give a damn, I just print the news.
Paul Pontious, again in the news
I am now getting sick of Bingo Paul, now he's going around complaining about the phone call he received from the Sheriff investigation Dept on Bingo. Paul violated the Florida Bingo Law now he is accusing me of violating his 50/50 and Bingo money. This guy does not make any sense at all and he got elected to the HOA, give me a break. Now he wants to straighten out the covenants when in fact he can't straighten out the game of Bingo in Florida. Give me a break.
Chinese drywall
The latest resident to have Chinese Drywall is located in the West with most of the other homes with this problem. Location of this home is 5309 Snead Drive. He has already packed his belongings and is ready to move to a new location outside this community.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
F1 Key Virus
Just out, there is a new Virus that is linked to Internet Explorer that will prompt you to push the "F1" key.
"Microsoft has issued a warning against a new virus that they do not yet have a patch for.. It is attached to Internet Explorer and the user will get a window prompt requesting them to press the "F1" key. Doing this then causes malicious code to be run on your computer.."
Please pass this along! Link to snopes.Com article in the email below.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/f1key.asp
"Microsoft has issued a warning against a new virus that they do not yet have a patch for.. It is attached to Internet Explorer and the user will get a window prompt requesting them to press the "F1" key. Doing this then causes malicious code to be run on your computer.."
Please pass this along! Link to snopes.Com article in the email below.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/f1key.asp
A Test
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car? Think before you continue
reading.
This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part
of a job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is
going to die, and thus you should save her first. Or you could take
the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be
the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able
to find your perfect mate again.
YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS.....................
The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble
coming up with his answer. He simply answered: 'I would give the car
keys to my old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I
would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.'
Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn
thought limitations.
Never forget to 'Think Outside of the Box.'
HOWEVER...., The correct answer is to run the old lady over and put her out of her misery because Obama's health care won't pay for her hospital visit anyway, have sex with the perfect partner on the hood of the car, then drive off with the old friend for a few beers.
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car? Think before you continue
reading.
This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part
of a job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is
going to die, and thus you should save her first. Or you could take
the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be
the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able
to find your perfect mate again.
YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS.....................
The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble
coming up with his answer. He simply answered: 'I would give the car
keys to my old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I
would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.'
Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn
thought limitations.
Never forget to 'Think Outside of the Box.'
HOWEVER...., The correct answer is to run the old lady over and put her out of her misery because Obama's health care won't pay for her hospital visit anyway, have sex with the perfect partner on the hood of the car, then drive off with the old friend for a few beers.
Sorry Charley...
No more StarKist Tuna for me .....
SNOPES" VALIDATES THE FACTS BELOW :
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district
includes San Francisco .
StarKist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco , Pelosi's home district.
StarKist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
StarKist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million dollars of StarKist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25,
Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase
so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage.
This would make Del Monte products less expensive than that of its competitors.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed,
Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill
adding $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT" and many other things !!!
How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ?
SHE'S SHAMELESS....
EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD GET THIS E-MAIL.
PASS IT AROUND ....!!!
SNOPES" VALIDATES THE FACTS BELOW :
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district
includes San Francisco .
StarKist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco , Pelosi's home district.
StarKist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
StarKist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million dollars of StarKist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25,
Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase
so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage.
This would make Del Monte products less expensive than that of its competitors.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed,
Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill
adding $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT" and many other things !!!
How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ?
SHE'S SHAMELESS....
EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD GET THIS E-MAIL.
PASS IT AROUND ....!!!
Homes Values here at Lake Ashton.
Because of the Chinese Drywall, Homes here at Lake Ashton has dropped in value. If at any time you wish to sell your home, you must have it inspected by a professional Chinese Drywall inspector.
Meeting yesterday April 5 on Chinese Drywall
Everything went according to plan, All homes with Chinese Drywall will be repaired within the month and all people will get free housing here in lake Ashton or in nearby cities. All moving cost will be paid. The management may have something to do with this development but I am not getting a clear picture. Anyone with info, please E-Mail me. lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com Thanks
Lake Ashton Grill
For all you residents who continued to have Lunch or Dinner at the Grill, this is a slap in the face to all the residents that have Chinese Drywall and the developer has done nothing to help or even said anything. Why should we help him when he doesn't help us?
FOR SHOCKING NEWS SEE lakeashton@yahoo.com
For new password, please E-Mail me at lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com This is news you don't want to miss. Pictures to prove this is real. Please provide me with your E-Mail and phone number. With this information I will provide you with a new password. As you well know, some idiot deleted all the shocking news from this site that is why I must know who you are. Thanks
Bingo Paul Pontious again in the news
Yesterday April 5, 2010 Paul received a call from the inspector of Bingo. He told him to obey the law or else. Paul just doesn't get the picture. The residents of Lake Ashton just love crooks and lairs. How in hell can anyone get elected disobeying the law of Florida and claims he did nothing wrong. Give me a break. Go play Bingo Paul, this is just about all you can do. We are all glad you clean up your act, but it is still dirty. I hope you welcome the inspector with open arms or did you call him an idiot.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Resident just found out he has Chinese Drywall
This resident came over my house and said all the things you wrote about are true. He never thought he had Chinese Dry Wall, now he has to move out. HE FOUND THIS OUT LAST WEEK BY A INSPECTOR. He redrawn all his money from Center State Bank, does not eat at the Lakeashton Grille, Does not go to the Monday coffee meetings. If he does not help us why should we help him he says. What is wrong with all the residents here at Lake Ashton? Yes, that $1.00 dollar goes in the Developer pocket. If you ask Joe Hunter about the Chinese Drywall, he would say What Chinese Drywall? This Joe Hunter is really something else. He does nothing, do nothing and say nothing. There are not many communities that have a community director. They don't do nothing and are not required. JOE HAD NO LICENSE TO BE A COMMUNITY DIRECTOR FOR THREE YEARS, HE BROKE THE LAW AND HE SHOULD BE FIRED. WE DON'T NEED HIM. END OF STORY.
Another resident has Chiense Drywall.
Another resident has Chinese Drywall along with three others. There should be a total of 15 now with Chinese drywall in the West. They are getting their money out of Center Street bank along with others. Why should we help him when he doesn't help us? Also, all you people eating at the Lake Ashton Grill shame on you. Helping a person that only thinks of himself. Screw the resident.
^The Ledger has it all wrong
The Management of Lake Ashton is not going to strip the homes of Chinese drywall, it is the German distributor "KNAUF" that will be doing the stripping. That is why the developer belly up his Mastercraft company. Not only that he is still hiding under his bed.
Court sides with homeowner in dispute over pickup
Special Report Courtesy of
CHANNEL 8 -- ON YOUR SIDE
By PETER BERNARD
Published March 13, 2010
A man who parked his truck in his driveway has won a long legal fight with a homeowners' association that actually began in 2001.
A.J. Vizzi has lived in The Eagles golfing community in northwestern Hillsborough County since he built a two-story house on a lake in 1997. For a few years, he parked his pickup in the driveway and didn't hear anything negative about it.
That all changed in 2001, when he said he received a violation notice from his homeowners association. "Up until 2001, I was here for four years before they ever even told me I was in violation of any of their covenants," said Vizzi.
He uses the large Ford F-350 to get around town, and to haul a fifth-wheel trailer when he and his family go camping. It won't fit in his garage.
The violation turned into a lawsuit in 2006. A year later, a Hillsborough circuit court ruled in Vizzi's favor. In 2009, the homeowners association appealed. On Wednesday, the Second District Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling.
That means the truck can stay.
"The family's gone through with the lawsuit, about three and a half years of anguish," said Vizzi. "And they've always harassed me about something that I've known, since I built the house, that I should have been able to do."
His attorney, Dan Anderson, said the odd thing is neighbors voted to do away with the no-pickup rule, but the association board never implemented the change.
"I think it's one of the most ridiculous lawsuits I've ever seen and quite frankly, I'm not sure why the association filed it in the first place," said Anderson.
Now Vizzi wonders if he will recover almost $200,000 he has paid in legal fees. A judge has ruled Vizzi should be compensated, but the association can appeal.
Jonathan Ellis, attorney for the association, did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
CHANNEL 8 -- ON YOUR SIDE
By PETER BERNARD
Published March 13, 2010
A man who parked his truck in his driveway has won a long legal fight with a homeowners' association that actually began in 2001.
A.J. Vizzi has lived in The Eagles golfing community in northwestern Hillsborough County since he built a two-story house on a lake in 1997. For a few years, he parked his pickup in the driveway and didn't hear anything negative about it.
That all changed in 2001, when he said he received a violation notice from his homeowners association. "Up until 2001, I was here for four years before they ever even told me I was in violation of any of their covenants," said Vizzi.
He uses the large Ford F-350 to get around town, and to haul a fifth-wheel trailer when he and his family go camping. It won't fit in his garage.
The violation turned into a lawsuit in 2006. A year later, a Hillsborough circuit court ruled in Vizzi's favor. In 2009, the homeowners association appealed. On Wednesday, the Second District Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling.
That means the truck can stay.
"The family's gone through with the lawsuit, about three and a half years of anguish," said Vizzi. "And they've always harassed me about something that I've known, since I built the house, that I should have been able to do."
His attorney, Dan Anderson, said the odd thing is neighbors voted to do away with the no-pickup rule, but the association board never implemented the change.
"I think it's one of the most ridiculous lawsuits I've ever seen and quite frankly, I'm not sure why the association filed it in the first place," said Anderson.
Now Vizzi wonders if he will recover almost $200,000 he has paid in legal fees. A judge has ruled Vizzi should be compensated, but the association can appeal.
Jonathan Ellis, attorney for the association, did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
Riding in on an F-350 to slay the busybodies
Article Courtesy of The St. Petersburg Times
By Daniel Ruth
Published April 2, 2010
It was a pitched battle as A.J. Vizzi faced an onslaught of fussbudgets, busybodies and, of course, the dreaded leviathan of paper pushers.
Oh, the David versus Gobbledygook of it all!
In 2001, Vizzi found himself cast as the Pretty Boy Floyd of fine print when he (perhaps this is a good time to remove any faint-hearted women and children from the room) had the reckless audacity to park his Ford F-350 in, of all places, his driveway.
Yes, he did. There. It had to be said.
Why in the time it took to say, "We are the knights who say ni," Vizzi's Eagles Master Association — the homeowners' association — leaped into action to demand their resident remove this foul object from public view.
Imagine the disgrace, the shame, the ill-repute the Eagles Master subdivisions in northwest Hillsborough were facing. One can only fathom the potential for scandal should an innocent visitor to Eagles Master, perhaps on the way to a contract bridge appointment, run the risk of passing by Vizzi's home and there, in full view, be exposed to the presence of a Ford F-350. Avert your eyes!
It didn't take long for the pinched Eagles Master homeowners' association to unleash the wrath of Aunt Bea on Vizzi as they thumped their rules, regulations and subparagraphs on the businessman, insisting, ordering and wailing that he remove his Ford F-350 from his driveway posthaste or sooner.
After all — someone might see it! Ooooey-goooey!
At issue was the Eagles Master homeowners' association judgment that Vizzi was in blatant, reckless disregard of the group's mandate that pickup trucks are expressively, forever and irrevocably forbidden from showing their bumpers in the sainted view of the neighborhood.
Cue the "Law & Order — Special Homeowner Association Unit" theme.
In short order, the hand-wringing homeowners' association started levying fines against the John Dillinger of driveways, even though Vizzi, who probably had a few ideas where the Eagles Master cluckers could park his truck, noted the vehicle wouldn't fit in his garage.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Enter the lawyers.
After years of back and forth between the glass company owner and the fretting HOA, and an additional six years of lawsuits — altogether nine years — Vizzi vs. Puckered Princes of Torts made its way through the legal system. The Bernie Madoff $13 billion Ponzi scheme case took less time to resolve in the courts. There are Guantanamo detainees who have been held in custody for fewer years. This legal brouhaha has spanned the administration of George W. Bush and well into Barack Obama's — all over a cockamamie pickup truck.
In 2008, a circuit court ruled in favor of Vizzi's right to park a truck in his driveway. And more recently, the 2nd District Court of Appeal also ruled in favor of Vizzi. All together now — Duh! As a result of the court decisions, the Eagles Master homeowner association is now on the hook to compensate Vizzi for $200,000 in legal fees expended to simply park his Ford F-350 on his private property.
I have a theory, which I've scribbled about in the past.
Quite simply, it is this: the United States will not fall and decline because of draconian recessions, or some invasion by a foreign power, or a plague of locusts, or some horrific natural disaster.
These real or imagined threats are but mere bagatelles compared to the foreboding menace posed by lanyard-wearing, kvetching keystone kops armed with their pocket protectors, their tape measures, their whistles, and their rule books, occupying their time measuring shrubbery, checking on the color of mailboxes or whether some real estate scofflaw has a pickup truck parked in his driveway.
Because the Eagles Master homeowners' association couldn't unwad their hoop skirts in the name of common sense, now the rest of the 1,130 residents of Orwell Estates may see their yearly dues used to pay off Vizzi's legal bills.
Just why anyone would want to live in some godforsaken subdivision home where one is under more surveillance than the FBI spying on a Michigan militia group of crackpots eludes me.
Over the course of his fight with the Eagles Master driveway Swiss Guards, Vizzi and his wife have attempted to sell their home, which only makes sense. After all, when you've become the Osama bin Laden of driveways, it probably doesn't make for particularly comfy neighborliness.
Alas, with a downer of a real estate market in recent years, they haven't had much luck in escaping from Potemkin Manor.
For the Vizzis' sake, one can only hope when they do find an eventual buyer the new resident comes equipped with that most important of all assets to please the Eagles Master homeowner association finger-waggers — a Smart Car For Two.
By Daniel Ruth
Published April 2, 2010
It was a pitched battle as A.J. Vizzi faced an onslaught of fussbudgets, busybodies and, of course, the dreaded leviathan of paper pushers.
Oh, the David versus Gobbledygook of it all!
In 2001, Vizzi found himself cast as the Pretty Boy Floyd of fine print when he (perhaps this is a good time to remove any faint-hearted women and children from the room) had the reckless audacity to park his Ford F-350 in, of all places, his driveway.
Yes, he did. There. It had to be said.
Why in the time it took to say, "We are the knights who say ni," Vizzi's Eagles Master Association — the homeowners' association — leaped into action to demand their resident remove this foul object from public view.
Imagine the disgrace, the shame, the ill-repute the Eagles Master subdivisions in northwest Hillsborough were facing. One can only fathom the potential for scandal should an innocent visitor to Eagles Master, perhaps on the way to a contract bridge appointment, run the risk of passing by Vizzi's home and there, in full view, be exposed to the presence of a Ford F-350. Avert your eyes!
It didn't take long for the pinched Eagles Master homeowners' association to unleash the wrath of Aunt Bea on Vizzi as they thumped their rules, regulations and subparagraphs on the businessman, insisting, ordering and wailing that he remove his Ford F-350 from his driveway posthaste or sooner.
After all — someone might see it! Ooooey-goooey!
At issue was the Eagles Master homeowners' association judgment that Vizzi was in blatant, reckless disregard of the group's mandate that pickup trucks are expressively, forever and irrevocably forbidden from showing their bumpers in the sainted view of the neighborhood.
Cue the "Law & Order — Special Homeowner Association Unit" theme.
In short order, the hand-wringing homeowners' association started levying fines against the John Dillinger of driveways, even though Vizzi, who probably had a few ideas where the Eagles Master cluckers could park his truck, noted the vehicle wouldn't fit in his garage.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Enter the lawyers.
After years of back and forth between the glass company owner and the fretting HOA, and an additional six years of lawsuits — altogether nine years — Vizzi vs. Puckered Princes of Torts made its way through the legal system. The Bernie Madoff $13 billion Ponzi scheme case took less time to resolve in the courts. There are Guantanamo detainees who have been held in custody for fewer years. This legal brouhaha has spanned the administration of George W. Bush and well into Barack Obama's — all over a cockamamie pickup truck.
In 2008, a circuit court ruled in favor of Vizzi's right to park a truck in his driveway. And more recently, the 2nd District Court of Appeal also ruled in favor of Vizzi. All together now — Duh! As a result of the court decisions, the Eagles Master homeowner association is now on the hook to compensate Vizzi for $200,000 in legal fees expended to simply park his Ford F-350 on his private property.
I have a theory, which I've scribbled about in the past.
Quite simply, it is this: the United States will not fall and decline because of draconian recessions, or some invasion by a foreign power, or a plague of locusts, or some horrific natural disaster.
These real or imagined threats are but mere bagatelles compared to the foreboding menace posed by lanyard-wearing, kvetching keystone kops armed with their pocket protectors, their tape measures, their whistles, and their rule books, occupying their time measuring shrubbery, checking on the color of mailboxes or whether some real estate scofflaw has a pickup truck parked in his driveway.
Because the Eagles Master homeowners' association couldn't unwad their hoop skirts in the name of common sense, now the rest of the 1,130 residents of Orwell Estates may see their yearly dues used to pay off Vizzi's legal bills.
Just why anyone would want to live in some godforsaken subdivision home where one is under more surveillance than the FBI spying on a Michigan militia group of crackpots eludes me.
Over the course of his fight with the Eagles Master driveway Swiss Guards, Vizzi and his wife have attempted to sell their home, which only makes sense. After all, when you've become the Osama bin Laden of driveways, it probably doesn't make for particularly comfy neighborliness.
Alas, with a downer of a real estate market in recent years, they haven't had much luck in escaping from Potemkin Manor.
For the Vizzis' sake, one can only hope when they do find an eventual buyer the new resident comes equipped with that most important of all assets to please the Eagles Master homeowner association finger-waggers — a Smart Car For Two.
Lauderdale officials want to tear down abandoned condo buildings along river
Article Courtesy of The Sun Sentinel
By Brittany Wallman
Published April 4, 2010
Waterfront buildings with condos that just five years ago were outfitted with granite countertops and quickly snapped up by dozens of investors stand vacant today, abandoned, and in ruins.
Hunks of countertops are scattered about. Not a window or door remains.
Every shred of metal was a target for looters. The walls are gaping where opportunists ripped in for copper piping.
"It looks like Beirut out there,'' city building official Val Bohlander told elected officials.
The only resident is a homeless man living in the stairwell.
A couch, clothes hangers, cans of food and a 4-foot Winnie the Pooh are among the remnants of the community that called this pocket along the north fork of the New River home.
Once they left, criminals loved the place — so secluded, and empty, and open.
Fort Lauderdale officials plan to make a dire move this summer, to demolish all five buildings. The case will be taken to the city's Unsafe Structures Board, which could order the the buildings torn down.
Tucked in a corner of riverfront land on a dead-end road, behind a funeral home, New River Condos could be a public monument to the foreclosure crisis. So many different owners, so many foreclosures, so many banks.
And no one cares enough to save it. Just about everyone walked away, city officials said.
If it were still an apartment complex, with one owner, rescuing it would be easier.
But the four-decade-old complex was renovated in 2005 and converted the next year from rental to ownership. Investors were elated to find waterfront condos for $150,000 or less.
Joseph and Craig Lewis, brothers who work for Vacant Property Security, board up the New River Condominium with steel doors. For the past six months, the city of Fort Lauderdale has been trying to secure the New River Condominiums at 500 NW 24 Ave. because it's been a magnet for crime.
All told, 53 purchasers bought the 58 riverfront condos on Northwest 24th Avenue, off Sistrunk Boulevard in northwest Fort Lauderdale.
City officials said the "overwhelming majority'' are in foreclosure; most owners were investors, they said.
"When the market took a dive, it was one of those things that there was no tie to it other than a financial investment,'' City Commissioner Bobby DuBose said.
There has been no running water there in a year.
The city has been after the condo association in code enforcement court for twice that long.
The condo association is defunct now, the city attorney said, so the city has to send violation notices to individual owners.
Last month, the city paid to cover the gaping windows and doors with inpenetrable metal shutters, leasing them for $27,653 for three months. The city already spent $26,697 clearing out garbage, mowing and twice boarding the condos with plywood. Both times, the boards were ripped off.
"We have to take it out of the danger zone, if you will,'' Bohlander told commissioners. "We have to secure that building. It's frightening to ride back in there.''
Mayor Jack Seiler asked whether the city could save money by fencing the property instead.
"We tried that,'' Bohlander replied. The fence was "mowed down'' by vandals, she said.
Shawn Oliver, 38, who was living in the stairwell this month, said the place is so dark and deserted at night that he can't persuade other homeless people to stay there with him.
If the land is sold, the city will try to get its money back, plus the estimated $150,000 cost for demolition.
In the coming three months, the city will send notices to the owners, giving them opportunities to appear at public hearings.
However, tearing down the buildings appears to be the best possible ending, Bohlander told city elected officials.
Neighborhoods across Broward County have been crippled by foreclosures. Broward had the state's third-highest foreclosure rate in February.
Also foreboding: A California research firm reported in March that more than half the residential mortgage holders in Broward County owe more than their property is worth.
At the complex earlier this month, Joseph and Craig Lewis, 21- and 23-year-old brothers working for Vacant Property Security Inc. of Miami, worked for two weeks putting up the metal shutters.
The parking lot was littered: a bus schedule, sofa cushion and extra-large black T-shirt, a black velour jacket, for example. Inside one condo, a silver, artificial Christmas tree was knocked over. The unit had been gutted.
A slow but steady flow of traffic appeared on the dead-end road: a sheriff's deputy, and a potential investor who had flown in from New Jersey, among them.
The deputy was checking to see who was at the complex. The potential investor had heard the complex was condemned and city-owned, and wanted to buy it. But he left for the Elbo Room when he found out there were scores of owners.
With the ownership such a mess, he said, it's not worth trying to save.
By Brittany Wallman
Published April 4, 2010
Waterfront buildings with condos that just five years ago were outfitted with granite countertops and quickly snapped up by dozens of investors stand vacant today, abandoned, and in ruins.
Hunks of countertops are scattered about. Not a window or door remains.
Every shred of metal was a target for looters. The walls are gaping where opportunists ripped in for copper piping.
"It looks like Beirut out there,'' city building official Val Bohlander told elected officials.
The only resident is a homeless man living in the stairwell.
A couch, clothes hangers, cans of food and a 4-foot Winnie the Pooh are among the remnants of the community that called this pocket along the north fork of the New River home.
Once they left, criminals loved the place — so secluded, and empty, and open.
Fort Lauderdale officials plan to make a dire move this summer, to demolish all five buildings. The case will be taken to the city's Unsafe Structures Board, which could order the the buildings torn down.
Tucked in a corner of riverfront land on a dead-end road, behind a funeral home, New River Condos could be a public monument to the foreclosure crisis. So many different owners, so many foreclosures, so many banks.
And no one cares enough to save it. Just about everyone walked away, city officials said.
If it were still an apartment complex, with one owner, rescuing it would be easier.
But the four-decade-old complex was renovated in 2005 and converted the next year from rental to ownership. Investors were elated to find waterfront condos for $150,000 or less.
Joseph and Craig Lewis, brothers who work for Vacant Property Security, board up the New River Condominium with steel doors. For the past six months, the city of Fort Lauderdale has been trying to secure the New River Condominiums at 500 NW 24 Ave. because it's been a magnet for crime.
All told, 53 purchasers bought the 58 riverfront condos on Northwest 24th Avenue, off Sistrunk Boulevard in northwest Fort Lauderdale.
City officials said the "overwhelming majority'' are in foreclosure; most owners were investors, they said.
"When the market took a dive, it was one of those things that there was no tie to it other than a financial investment,'' City Commissioner Bobby DuBose said.
There has been no running water there in a year.
The city has been after the condo association in code enforcement court for twice that long.
The condo association is defunct now, the city attorney said, so the city has to send violation notices to individual owners.
Last month, the city paid to cover the gaping windows and doors with inpenetrable metal shutters, leasing them for $27,653 for three months. The city already spent $26,697 clearing out garbage, mowing and twice boarding the condos with plywood. Both times, the boards were ripped off.
"We have to take it out of the danger zone, if you will,'' Bohlander told commissioners. "We have to secure that building. It's frightening to ride back in there.''
Mayor Jack Seiler asked whether the city could save money by fencing the property instead.
"We tried that,'' Bohlander replied. The fence was "mowed down'' by vandals, she said.
Shawn Oliver, 38, who was living in the stairwell this month, said the place is so dark and deserted at night that he can't persuade other homeless people to stay there with him.
If the land is sold, the city will try to get its money back, plus the estimated $150,000 cost for demolition.
In the coming three months, the city will send notices to the owners, giving them opportunities to appear at public hearings.
However, tearing down the buildings appears to be the best possible ending, Bohlander told city elected officials.
Neighborhoods across Broward County have been crippled by foreclosures. Broward had the state's third-highest foreclosure rate in February.
Also foreboding: A California research firm reported in March that more than half the residential mortgage holders in Broward County owe more than their property is worth.
At the complex earlier this month, Joseph and Craig Lewis, 21- and 23-year-old brothers working for Vacant Property Security Inc. of Miami, worked for two weeks putting up the metal shutters.
The parking lot was littered: a bus schedule, sofa cushion and extra-large black T-shirt, a black velour jacket, for example. Inside one condo, a silver, artificial Christmas tree was knocked over. The unit had been gutted.
A slow but steady flow of traffic appeared on the dead-end road: a sheriff's deputy, and a potential investor who had flown in from New Jersey, among them.
The deputy was checking to see who was at the complex. The potential investor had heard the complex was condemned and city-owned, and wanted to buy it. But he left for the Elbo Room when he found out there were scores of owners.
With the ownership such a mess, he said, it's not worth trying to save.
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