Lunch with Dad

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So Simple a caveman could understand:

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Subject: FW: So Simple a caveman could understand:




See what is happening to all of us.



So Simple a caveman could understand:

Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison? To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn't invest their money. As time rolled on he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going.

Next thing you know Madoff is one of the most hated men in  America  and he is off to jail.  Some of you know this but not enough of you.


Madoff did to his investors what the government has been doing to us for over 70 years with Social Security.  There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that one was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by politicians who enjoy perks, privileges and status in spite of their actions.
Do you need a side-by-side comparison here?  Well here's a nifty little chart.

BERNIE MADOFF

SOCIAL SECURITY

Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later.

Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will be invested in a "Trust Fund" and made available later.

Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in theHamptons and yachts.

Instead of depositing money in a Trust Fund the politicians use it for general spending and vote buying.

When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors.

When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the geezers.

When Madoff's scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New investors won't give him any more cash.

When Social Security runs out of money they simply force the taxpayers to send them some more.

Bernie Madoff is in jail.

Politicians remain in  Washington  .



'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. '
Ronald Reagan


  "If you put the federal government in charge of the  Sahara Desert , in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
Milton Friedman
PASS THIS ON !

Tsunami warning

Tsunami Hits Japan After 8.8 Magnitude Earthquake Off Coast

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck off the coast of
Japan on Friday afternoon local time, according the United
States Geological Survey.

Local Japanese television broadcast images of cars, trucks
and buildings being swept away by a tsunami in Onahama city
in Fukushima prefecture, according to The Associated Press.

liver

I have never known exactly what the Liver does...  Very informative. Some interesting facts about our Liver   When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

Bikers Escort

   Worth sharing with your friends.  

The school district in Denair , CA told a young boy he couldn't fly the American Flag on his bike.  

Check link to see what happened!

Click here: YouTube - Bikers Escort Denair Boy To School

 

At first glance, it looks like a giant child armed with a box of crayons has been set loose upon the landscape. Vivid stripes of purple, yellow, red, pink, orange and green make up A glorious patchwork. Yet far from being a child's sketchbook, this is, in fact, the northern Netherlands in the middle of tulip season. The Dutch landscape in May is a kaleidoscope of color as the tulips burst into life. The bulbs are planted in late October and early November.  More than three billion tulips are grown each year and two-thirds of the vibrant blooms are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Germany .                                             Their dazzling colors are thanks to the years in the 17th century when tulip mania swept the globe and the most eye-catching specimens changed hands for a small fortune. But like a Rainbow, this colorful landscape is a short-lived phenomenon. When the flowers are gone, the land will be cultivated for a rather more mundane crop of vegetables. The Netherlands

BIKE RACE

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Hold onto your seat!

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In memory

If I get this a hundred times, I'll forward it a hundred times

   

In memory of our moms, dads, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, daughters, sons, friends and loved ones of whom there are so many...and those fighting it today...

This year has been one with too many diagnoses too close to home.  For all the friends, family, loved ones, and those we don't even know...    
  
     
  Friday is world cancer day - I'd appreciate it if you will forward this request     

93% won't forward

A small request.. Just one line.

Dear God, I pray for a cure for cancer. Amen


All you are asked to do is keep this circulating, even if it's only to one more person.
In memory of anyone you know who has been struck down by cancer or is still living with it.

A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle..
                               
 

91,000 hits today Wednesday , March 9, 2011 I Thank you for your support

Congressional Reform Act

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

 The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took
only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified!  Why?  Simple!  The people
demanded it.  That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail,
before cell phones, etc.



Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or
less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.



I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty
people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do
likewise.



In three days, most people in The United States of America will have
the message.  This is one idea that really should be passed around.



Congressional Reform Act of 2011



1. Term Limits.



 12 years only, one of the possible options below..



 A. Two Six-year Senate terms

 B. Six Two-year House terms

 C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms



2.  No Tenure / No Pension.



A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay
when they are out of office.



3.  Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.



All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social
Security system immediately.  All future funds flow into the Social
Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.



4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.



5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional
pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.



6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in
the same health care system as the American people.



7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.



8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.



The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.
Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.





Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.





If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only
take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message.
Maybe it is time.



THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it
on.   If not, just delete

Boynton Beach condo residents locked out of pool and clubhouse All are being punished for foreclosures that don't pay, residents claim

Article and Video Courtesy of The Sun Sentinel By Erika Pesantes Published February 4, 2011

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BOYNTON BEACH — About 90 Quail Run condominium owners were locked out of their pool, clubhouse and other facilities this week, the latest step in a year-old squabble with the development's master association.

Those owners say their 96-unit condo community is being punished collectively because about six owners are in foreclosure and in default of their maintenance dues. The master association says it has a new state law on its side. On Tuesday, the Quail Run Master Association changed the locks on amenities including the pool, clubhouse and tennis and bocce courts, and refused to give condo owners new keys.

The condos, along with Quail Run's villa and single-family home developments, form a community of 293 residences, all under the umbrella of the master association.

Changing the locks infuriated condo owners who have been paying dues on time to their condo board, which, in turn, paid about $90 per unit to the master association.

Condo residents called the lock-out harsh and heavy-handed. "It's unfair and I think it's illegal. This could go on for years and yet, all that time, they would be taking our money," said Haas Gallaway, who has lived in Quail Run for 21 years. He recently had knee-replacement surgery and could use the pool and fitness center in his rehabilitation, he said. Until May, the condo association paid its full amount, fronting the share of the foreclosure units

that weren't paying at all. The association then started paying only for those current in their fees, according to a lawsuit filed against it by the master association.

The condo association is about $17,000 delinquent in its payments, according to Dick Cappello, the Quail Run master association's legal liaison and villa association president. The total includes fees beyond community amenities.

Condo owner Kathryn Adgate can no longer play cards at the clubhouse or take a dip in the pool even though she's current in her fees. If she sneaks in as a guest, the 90-year-old risks having the police called on her for trespassing in her own neighborhood.

She's disappointed that social activities near home are indefinitely off-limits. What will she now do for recreation? "Nothing, truthfully," Adgate said.

The year-old conflict is in litigation, with a court hearing set March 25. The master association held a hearing in November over the proposed lockout. The condo association finally was notified of the lockout Jan. 11. A laminated flyer at the pool gate warns condo owners: "The police department will be called for anyone who creates a disturbance."

Boynton Beach police said no incidents at Quail Run have been reported.

Moreover, owners of Quail Run villas have been warned not to allow their condo friends in to use the pool, clubhouse or other amenities or face a $100 fine.

The master association acted under a Florida law effective in July, allowing association boards to take such action against condo owners who are more than 90 days in default.

"The law is fairly new. I expect that this is going to happen even more in the future," said Bill Raphan, supervisor of the state's Office of the Condominium Ombudsman in Fort Lauderdale. "This is probably just the beginning."

"[The law] gives you some teeth to try to convince someone that they should be paying," Cappello said. "It's not a good situation."

Condo owners should press their own board for action against owners of the foreclosed units instead of withholding full payment to the master association, he said.

Quail Run's villa and single-family home communities also have foreclosed properties, but those associations pay their dues in full, covering the foreclosed owners who do not pay, he said.

Mike Katz, a condo owner, said the condo association placed liens on the foreclosed units, and that otherwise the condo association's hands are tied. If any of the remaining 90 owners stop paying because they're locked out of facilities, they could face the same action.

Condo association attorney Christopher Meyer could not be reached for comment despite attempts by phone and e-mail.

However, a Nov. 15 letter from Christopher Sajdera, then the condo association attorney, states that the condo association acts only as a collecting agent and that "the association is not responsible for the individual owners' assessments owed to the Master Association."

Still, the master association has a viable argument, according to Gary Poliakoff, a specialist in community association law and adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University law school.

If the association didn't pay its full electric bill, for example, Florida Power & Light Co. could cut off service, he said.

"It's a harsh reality of today's environment in that owners contributing are going to have to pick up the bad debt of owners and banks not paying," said Poliakoff. "The alternative is the suppliers and vendors and others providing services would have to allow the association to pay less than they're contractually obligated to pay, and they're not going to do that.

"Those 96 [condo owners] should be very pleased it's not worse than that. Pick up the slack, enjoy the amenities and deal with the reality of today's economy," Poliakoff said.

Dick DeNicola, a Quail Run condo owner for 20 years, thinks it's all "just nuts."

"I can't imagine being forced to pay for something I can't use," DeNicola said. "I understand they're getting tough on the economy, but I can't for the life of me see why we can't use the facilities when we're paying up to date."

Haas Gallaway said: "It's like a bunch of little kids. 'You slap me and I slap you.' The net result is everybody loses. We almost feel like second-class citizens."   

"Hand signal" to thank our military.

 

 

 

 

(30 second video) ...

Have you ever seen one of our military walking past you and wanted to convey to them your thanks, but weren't sure how or it felt awkward? Recently, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used and has started a movement to get the word out. Please everybody take just a moment to watch.... The Gratitude Campaign; .......and then forward it to your friends! THEN START USING THE SIGN. CLICK HERE http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php Please pass it on!

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Ed, according to SNOPES, the article you posted recently from the Wall Street Journal about Obama, is false.  I think you might find the following article from snopes.com interesting: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/makebelieve.asp
 
Rich

From: George Flint
Subject: Public Records Request
To: "John Chickness" <jchickness@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Jan Carpenter" <jcarpenter@lseblaw.com>
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 2:58 PM

John,

Per your request, please find attached all correspondence in the CDD's possession related to the 2003/2004 insurance claim for hurricane damage to the CDD assets.  Please note that included in this correspondence is a letter that was received by District Counsel last Friday prior to her leaving on vacation.  In an effort to be responsive to your request, I have included the recent letter but please understand that the District staff has not had an opportunity to discuss the correspondence or prepare a response.

Thanks,

George

 

George S. Flint

Governmental Management Services - 
Central Florida, LLC13574 Village Park Drive, Suite 265
Orlando, Florida  32837Tel: (407) 841-5524
Cell: (407) 242-0501
Fax: (407) 839-1526
email: gflint@govmgtsvc.com

Why is this place Lake Ashton being sued at all fronts.  This place has got to be the most corrupt place to live.  MX, Roads, Ins money, Boat Dock, LAVA cost, Bingo, Pot luck, on and on, this will never end!  And you have the Club House, you can't do this and you can't do that, give us money, money and more money.  Joe Hunter calls the shots and who in hell is he to call the shots.   YES, THIS PLACE AS GONE DOWN HILL.  Jack Van Sickle and friends love to call cops, that's all they can do.  Go away.  What a place to live.  Bingo money being stolen by Paul Pontious and his outlaws

$508,940.75 missing money received by the CDD

Claim,  data as requested...
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Jan & George,

After a meeting with our group of LA 1 residents recently the following  Public Records Requests are being made to both of you , along with each member of the Lake Ashton 1 CDD board of Supervisors.

I am in receipt of the check received by Lake Ashton CDD in the amount of
$508,940.75  that was paid on 12-28-04 , due to Hurricane Charlie on 8-13-04.

I am also in receipt of letters sent to the Developers Council on 4-25-2010  and  6-23-2010,  that to date have been ignored by them.

In an attempt to avert entering in legal action against the Developer and or LA CDD , we are requesting the following.

1:  Minutes of the CDD board meetings that approved all actions taken by them regarding this claim.

2: Copies of all Checks paid along with canceled checks received by any service provider named in the attached claim.

After receiving this requested data, we will decide whether additional information is required. 

Our concerned group of LA residents feel this is something that should have pursued by LA council,  LA  District Mgr, and CDD supervisors.   This is not a new request.   I made the request while serving on the board as minutes will prove,  and  a member / resident made this request several times in the past to NO AVAIL ??

We can / will wait no longer , permitting 7 year time period to pass us by for obtaining this information and take legal action if needed.

Our requests are valid.  The residents are the CDD  and if there is nothing to hide by the developer,  he should have responded within a year since first asked.  

Please add this item to your next CDD agenda, and CC a copy to each board member.

Sincerely ,

John L Chickness Sr
4263  Ashton Club Dr
Lake Wales Fl...33859
Lot 158
863-318-8852 

A response will be expected ....A.S.A.P.

Is the world waking up to what Obama really is?       This is from the Wall Street Journal which makes it even more interesting. They were once in his camp.          Wall Street Journal Sizes up Obama - They've Got Him Figured Out             A short article from the Wall Street Journal that needs to be read by every level headed American!!!  A "deadly" article regarding Obama, at the Wall Street Journal, which today is the most widely circulated newspaper in America ..   Article from the Wall Street Journal  -  by Eddie Sessions:    "I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.     In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.      His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.      He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?      He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.      And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.    The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.     Now, nearly a full 2 years into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.     Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain .   The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.     Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.      Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.     He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America . He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.    The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.      Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.     When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.      We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America ?

BAN BINGO

The Brothel The madam opened the brothel door and saw a rather dignified, well-dressed, good-looking man in his late forties or early fifties. 'May I help you sir?' she asked. 'I want to see Valerie,' the man replied. 'Sir, Valerie is one of our most expensive ladies. Perhaps you would prefer someone else', said the madam. 'No, I must see Valerie,' he replied. Just then, Valerie appeared and announced to the man she charged $5000 a visit. Without hesitation, the man pulled out five thousand dollars and gave it to Valerie, and they went upstairs. After an hour, the man calmly left. The next night, the man appeared again, once more demanding to see Valerie. Valerie explained that no one had ever come back two nights in a row as she was too expensive. But there were no discounts. The price was still $5000. Again, the man pulled out the money, gave it to Valerie, and they went upstairs. After an hour, he left. The following night the man was there yet again. Everyone was astounded that he had come for a third consecutive night, but he paid Valerie and they went upstairs. After their session, Valerie questioned the man, 'No one has ever been with me three nights in a row. Where are you from?' she asked. The man replied, ' Ontario '. 'Really?', she said. 'I have family in Ontario .' 'I know.' the man said. 'Your sister died, and I am her attorney. She asked me to give you your $15,000 inheritance.' The moral of the story is that three things in life are certain. 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. Being screwed by a lawyer

WE GOTTA GET THIS BUM OUT OF OFFICE....LAKE WALES IS IN MORE TROUBLE NOW THAN IT EVER WAS.  THEN PONTIOUS,  ROSS IS ALREADY GONE...WE ARE WINNING THE WAR...ONE DOWN,  THREE TO GO.  EVERYWHERE YOU GO, BINGO, HOA, CDD AND POT LUCK, THE PONTIOUS'S ARE THERE.  ALL I GOT TO SAY IS GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE THE HAMMER FALLS.

Betty's Credentials are here to read, and with John Chickness letter to the Ledger and the Lake Wales News , it will have a great impact on those who read it.

Many of the LA residents read this blog daily. Many wont admit it,  but they look forward to the news and comments.

Its the only place where they hear the TRUTH.....

Now they are hearing the Developer has screwed us yet again with the Insurance Claim.   Maybe when enough people wise up, they will throw the developer out of here for good!  Providing he does not declare Bankruptcy first !


JohnnyC

I am now accepting comments on lakeashtontalk.blogspot.com once more.

Betty Wojcik

As a resident of Lake Wales, and Lake Ashton Community since 2002 , I have followed closely the elections, for Mayor and Commissioners.

With the State of our economy attempting to reverse the negative trend in Business Growth and Citizens Welfare, we must be certain we elect those who will guide the community to a much better place than what we have experienced in the past 4 years.

The time is now to bring in leadership who’s agenda is to do more than just talk about improvements in every
Area of government and explain the method in which that can be accomplished.

After meeting with Betty Wojcik , candidate for Lake Wales City Commission Seat 4, District 27N , and hearing the many positive approaches she has for the betterment of Lake Wales , I am convinced she is the proven leader who can get the job done.

Not only is Betty Wojcik the present Executive Director of the Lake Wales Chamber of Commerce, but in reviewing her background in her field of leadership she has excelled in every commerce and community
Development position she has held for the past 35 years.

When one reads of Bettys credentials in Economic Development Management, we find a leader who will not only strive to improve Lake Wales City Business Development , but one who believes in PEOPLE who she is ready to listen to with open arms. The citizens of Lake Wales certainly deserve no less from their leaders !

On April 5th, please make certain we not longer vote for those who wish to remain as status quo. Vote for proven leaders like Betty Wojick for Lake Wales City Commission.

Sincerely,

John L Chickness Sr.
Former Lake Ashton 1 CDD Supervisor