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Remember those magical Years

April 15, Tax Day, Director Kay Pruslecki did a great job putting everything together.  It was a great Show. Thanks to all who preform.

Wow........pp

The Power of Words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU

Belle Glade housing dream gone to seed - with taxpayer money Hundreds of thousands in taxpayer cash wasted

Article Courtesy of The Palm Beach Post

By Pat Beall

Published April 11, 2011

BELLE GLADE — Flanked by 6-foot-high weeds, the tidy handful of homes that make up Abidjan Estates are lonely outposts in a scarred landscape.

Billed as the CityPlace of Belle Glade, the $65 million development's 70 acres were supposed to house 338 affordable homes and apartments, two swimming pools, stores, even a six-screen theater, all in a gated community.
Despite hefty infusions of taxpayer money and private loans, though, Abidjan has had just 10 home sales in eight years. Its developer, deeply in the red, owes Palm Beach County and a state housing agency more than $750,000 - and is now in foreclosure, its land slated to be sold at a courthouse auction April 20 to satisfy a $2.4 million debt.
How could Abidjan have gone so wrong?

For its part, the county handed scarce taxpayer dollars to an inexperienced nonprofit developer headed by a disbarred attorney. It overlooked years of false starts and dubious financial management. And when confronted by alarming revelations five years ago, the county refused to launch an audit that might have revealed what went wrong. "I could tell from day one that that dog was not going to hunt," said Don Garrett, former mayor of Belle Glade. Troubling backgrounds Abidjan developer We Help was, and to some degree still is, a family affair. Former Belle Glade City Commissioner Dorothy M. Walker is executive director. Her sister, Shirley Walker Turner, mayor of nearby South Bay, is a board

Belle Glade: View of trash surrounding an abandon but completed house in the Abidjan Estates development Tuesday in Belle Glade. The development has twelve completed homes. The rest of the land stands completely abandon with only turkey vultures for neighbors.

member. Javin Walker, another Walker relative, is co-owner of the construction firm that contracted to work on Abidjan, and, with Dorothy Walker, co-owner of a mortgage brokerage headquartered in We Help's office.

Board members brought troubling backgrounds to the table. Shirley Walker Turner led Palm Beach County's Head Start program in 1991 when a blistering audit of the agency's operations prompted calls for her dismissal.
Then-lawyer Dorothy Walker was disbarred in 1988 in part because she accepted fees from clients, did not represent them and then refused refunds. She also was charged by the Florida Bar with lying to a local judge about whether she had hired an attorney for her brother Ralph Walker.
At the time of his 1986 arrest on drug-trafficking charges, prosecutors said Ralph Walker was sitting at his kitchen table with others around a bowl of cocaine. One of them, a We Help board member between 1999 and 2003, was charged with cocaine possession but was not convicted. Ralph Walker was eventually convicted of soliciting to commit murder after he hired a fellow inmate to kill the judge in his case.
According to prosecutors, he believed the judge had derailed Dorothy Walker's legal career.
Ralph Walker's name appeared in 1999 corporate records as a board member of We Help; neither Walker nor Dorothy Walker could be reached to verify his former status as a board member.
In all, at least three We Help board members had arrest histories, varying from grand larceny to burglary to battery charges.
In 1999, the Palm Beach County School Board voted against a Belle Glade charter school that some We Help board members, including two with arrest histories, were trying to get off the ground. District staffers voiced concern that the school's organizers might not spend the money wisely.
Ralph Walker stepped down from We Help in 2000; three other board members with arrest backgrounds stepped aside in 2003, the same year the county approved $600,000 in federal money for Abidjan.
The loan coincided with a $250,000 loan from Belle Glade. Millions from state and private sources followed.
Remar Harvin, then Palm Beach County's head of Housing and Community Development, said he was unaware of the arrest histories. And any misgivings about a lack of development expertise or past financial management were swept away by community-wide support, a "show of force," said Harvin. He acknowledged there was risk. "We knew the developer would need some training, but with the backing of community leaders; well, if we don't take a chance, who was going to?"
As for Walker's lack of experience, "She was one of the few people interested in doing anything in the Glades," Deputy County Administrator Verdenia Baker said in 2006.
Early warnings
With etched glass front doors, granite countertops and raised wood finishes, Abidjan homes don't look like affordable housing. Named after the capital of Africa's Ivory Coast, the small cluster of houses looks like any other well-manicured subdivision. But they are bounded by fields of weeds and rubbish. The entrance to the homes is dirt and gravel, the welcoming sign - "Abidjan: a New Beginning for the Glades" - is fading and partly obscured by unmowed grass. On a recent day, turkey vultures perched on a pile of unused building material.
Between 2008 and 2010, in the middle of the cratering housing market, five Abidjan homes sold for $195,000; five sold for $210,000. That's despite the fact that the median sales price of a home in economically distressed Belle Glade was $135,000 in 2008 and 2009. It dropped to $74,000 last year, the same year two homes in Abidjan sold for more than twice that amount.
All 10 homes are now valued at less than $100,000 each.
Problems started long before home sales materialized.
In 2006, a deal to reserve Abidjan homes for Palm Beach County teachers fizzled. The school district would pay $60,000 so teachers got first shot at 30 of the first phase of about 76 homes. But two years after ground was broken, only about 10 homes were under construction, and old questions about Dorothy Walker's background surfaced. The district walked.
Also in 2006, Belle Glade officials found We Help had tapped into city water lines without permission: It had not paid permit fees or even picked up a water meter. And a city commissioner who went to inspect the water lines was threatened with a trespassing charge.
We Help, which said there was a verbal understanding with the city to waive permitting fees, eventually paid the city $23,743 for the water.
After a 2006 city commission meeting marked by bitter debate on the water issue, commissioners broached the idea of a limited audit. There's no record of an audit, according to Belle Glade officials. The county balked at joining a comprehensive review, even though it had sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into Abidjan. "Our investment is secure," the county's Harvin said at the time.
Now, however, most Abidjan land is being seized by an unpaid lender. The foreclosure is not expected to directly affect the homes already sold. Asked about the future for the rest of Abidjan, however, the lender declined to comment.
Bleak future
We Help's future looks almost as shaky. It has run between $200,000 and $300,000 in the red every year for three years.
"Through prayer, that is how we are making it," said Dorothy Walker. "Through prayer."
Walker ticks off a litany of problems that have stalled development. The city initially goofed on zoning. "We had to stop and start over again." Hurricanes in 2004 and again in 2005 hit hard. "So then the process stops again." By then, people who had been previously cleared to buy homes had new credit problems. "We had to start over with a new set" of credit applications. There were problems with mapping the land. Unemployment in the region hovered at 40 percent. Finally, "The whole housing market went down."
Walker makes no apologies for the cost of the homes, which are 43 percent higher than the initially proposed $135,000 for a three-bedroom and $145,000 for a four-bedroom. The price reflects construction costs, she said: Muck, the soggy black soil that gives Belle Glade its rich agricultural fields, also makes it harder to pour foundations that don't sag or sink.
At least $500,000 in loan money has been repaid, including all but $5,000 of the city's money. But the state housing agency is still owed more than $300,000; Palm Beach County is owed $521,000 and We Help is broke, more than $310,000 in the red, according to its most recent tax filing.
Dorothy Walker, paid $105,000 in 2007, was paid just $24,000 in 2009. "I have staff who come to work and who will not get paid," said Walker.
Yet, even as a lender foreclosed, We Help has been spending. Of its most recently reported $235,000 in expenses, $90,326 was for administrative overhead. Last year it picked up a one-bedroom, one-bath condo at Spa at Sunset Isles in Royal Palm Beach and a four-bedroom home in Wellington.
Debts aren't restricted to payments on those properties or on Abidjan land. We Help owes $34,000 to the construction company co-owned by Javin Walker. And in recent tax years, it has racked up debt on two American Express cards, a Visa, a Capital One, Citibank credit cards and a Citi Platinum Select card.
We Help sought financial help from a familiar source last year: it had hoped to tap into additional county housing money. Though it came up empty-handed, Walker said, "We have grant requests and loan requests (outstanding) and you cannot pray as hard as we are praying without something happening."
With the land sale in 10 days, time is running out. In the meantime, We Help is keeping busy: It is still accepting home loan applications.

Boynton Beach condo residents locked out of pool and clubhouse

Article Courtesy of The Sun Sentinel

By Erika Pesantes

Published April 14, 2011

Quail Run condo owners in Boynton Beach on Tuesday gained access to their clubhouse, pool and other amenities after the master association changed the locks.

The master association had imposed a 2 1/2-month lockout for all owners, although only a few were in default of their maintenance dues.

Circuit Judge Timothy McCarthy signed off on the temporary injunction order Thursday, and the master association on Tuesday changed the locks back to allow most of the 96 condo owners entry into the facilities. About six are in foreclosure and have failed to make their dues.

The master association says it is unable to decipher the condo association's accounting records to identify who has not been paying for maintenance, said Dick Capello, the Quail Run master association's legal liaison.

The master association acted under a Florida law that allowed association boards to take such action against condo owners more than 90 days in default.

But McCarthy wrote in the order that: "The statute requires that each delinquent member be treated singularly as the Court finds that the statute does not provide that a member who is current in his or her obligations be penalized for payment failure of another member who is delinquent."

Tom Saccomanno, a condo owner, said residents were already streaming into the facilities and that "there's a little controversy here and there, a little bitterness against [the master association] that'll wear off. How long could you hold a grudge?"

The litigation has not yet been resolved and a future hearing date for a summary judgment has not yet been scheduled.

The condo is south of Woolbright Road, just west of Congress Avenue.

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The Fall of Detroit , then the USA :

 

The Fall of Detroit, then the USA:

THE lifestyle YOU'VE been taking for granted has been DISSOLVING like a
SANDCASTLE at the water's edge, WASHING into the sea and it'll NEVER
return!   READ and BELIEVE it NOW!

(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer,
environmentalist, traveler)

By Frosty Wooldridge

For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit  Michigan
I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs,
school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human depravity.  I watched entire
city blocks burned out.  I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars,
trucks, buses, and school yards.  Trash everywhere!

Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it.  Tens of
thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare,
free housing, and food stamps!

With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in
one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free
Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.

A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted.  I
saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit  If you
give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for
doing nothing.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America  outside of
Richard Daley in Chicago  rode Detroit down to its knees...  He set the
benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance.  As a black man, he
said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".


You can figure out the rest.  Detroit became a majority black city with 67
percent African-Americans.

As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and
science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life
in another city or state.

Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today.  At the same
time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that
Muslims number over 300,000.  Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan
but most work in Detroit   As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.

As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful
Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace.   Detroit suffers so much shoplifting
that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations.  You
could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!

Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike,
and total separation from America

Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American
Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan  paid for by Saudi
Arabia oil money.  High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last
June, according to NBC's Brian Williams.  Classrooms resemble more foreign
countries than America   English?  Few speak it!  The city features a 50
percent illiteracy rate and growing.


Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the
city.  In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a
great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's
description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane,
and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said
Daniel Okrent.  "If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires across
the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night."

Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the
city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the
country might take notice.

But Detroit  once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly,
has had no such luck.  Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that
seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.

Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature
industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people
of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision
making."

As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of
federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and
illegality permeating his administration.  I witnessed the city's death
from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out
of every sector of decaying Detroit

"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's
treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest
municipal services," Okrent said.  "The school system, which six years ago
was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of
$200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in
receivership.  The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved.
Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans  unemployment in that
city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit  the unemployment rate is 28.9%.

That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent."  At the end of
Okrent's  report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said,
"That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's
collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build
the country we know today.  The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much
about the character of America in the 21st century.  If what was once the
most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its
knees, what does that say about our recent past?  And if it can't find a
way to get up, what does that say about our future?"

As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per Gallon",
the auto industry won't come back.  Immigration will keep pouring more, and
more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit
thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America   If 50 percent
illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of
the Muslim ghettos of Detroit  Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human
bombs.

You have already seen it in Madrid  Spain ; London  England and Paris
France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots.  As their numbers
grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates
republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates
women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder.  We will see more honor
killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation
by their daughters, sisters and wives.  Muslims prefer beheadings of women
to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying.
Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture,
country, and way of life.

IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON  AND OUR STATE, CITY, AND
LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA   IF YOU FOLLOW THE
NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW THIS HAS HAPPENED IN ENGLAND  AND FRANCE AND SPAIN

IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT
FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND
FIGHT.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."   Benjamin Franklin

JOE HUNTER

WILL ANYONE MISS "DO NOTHING" JOE HUNTER?  THIS GUY WAS GETTING PAID $138,000/YR FOR DOING NOTHING BUT SEND OUT LETTERS TO RESIDENTS GIVING THEM WARNINGS AND BANNING THEM FROM USING THE CLUB HOUSE.  HE MADE LIFE HELL HERE AT LAKE ASHTON FOR A LOT OF RESIDENTS.  I HOPE THE PEOPLE HE WORKS FOR MAKES HIM THINK HE IS IN HELL.  ANY GUY THAT WORKS FOR THREE COMMUNITIES USING OUR MONEY FOR DOING THEIR SERVICES ROTS IN HELL.

NASTYS non-ad hoc

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Board voted to terminate the existing onsite manag...":

Mr King.....

I wonder who the NASTYS non-ad hoc

gang as they are called will do when

the new Management Co makes a clean

sweep. Those who thought THEY RAN LA, and their jobs were secure because of Larry and Mark.

Maybe if they get a job outside of LA, they wont have time to blast your blog.

Come on GANG....post your names before you go..

William Lawrence....esq....LA 2

Damn....No more income from the backs of the residents..

PS...Post your name and phone number and I will call you.

Otherwise, throw your negative comments where they belong ...in the Trash Bucket

JACK LOST BECAUSE HE WAS NOT MAYOR MATERIAL

nonymous has left a new comment on your post "B.Hayes":

Michael....

Whatever Betty will do will be better
than her opponent. All he talked about getting done for Winter Haven was increased water pressure. He took credit, but the Developer and Winter Haven corrected the problem.

Lets face it.....Jack lost because he was not MAYOR material He is Bingo, Concession stand material. Not even HOA material. Unless in Ohio.

The voters in Lake Ashton and Lake Wales saw thru his incompetence.
That is why he lost in a LANDSLIDE!

Billy F

B.Hayes

Be carefull what you wish for. Wojcik had no problem running a negative campaign and using the "race card".

My prediction is her first act will to make a job for B.Hayes. This will be at tax payers' expense. She can do no other because she is now a hostage to special interests groups.

Her next act will be to raise the millage rate for all of us at Lake Ashton. She will have to raise revenue for all the special reguests that will be coming forward.

Sounds like a typical Chicago politician. Promise everything to everybody and raise taxes.

Good luck, this is what the Adhoc Committee fought for.

Michael

Friday, April 15, 2011 9:53:00 AM EDT

Board voted to terminate the existing onsite management contract

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Mr. King,

This email is in response to your recent inquiry regarding actions by the Lake Ashton CDD Board of Supervisors.  At the Board's meeting last Friday, the Board voted to terminate the existing onsite management contract and directed District Counsel to send the current contractor 30 days notice with an effective termination date of May 15th.  In addition, the Board approved entering into an agreement with Governmental Management Services to perform the onsite management services with an effective date of May 16th.  Please note that the Board action only affects the onsite management.  The current lease for the restaurant and contracts for landscape maintenance and gate attendants remain in effect.  The bidding of the other services will move forward with projected bid award dates prior to October 1, 2011.

Please let me know if you need any additional information or clarification on this issue. 

George S. Flint

District Manager

Lake Ashton CDD

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

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JOE HUNTER NEWS BULLETIN:

JOE HUNTER LAST DAY WILL BE MAY 15.  THE MANAGEMENT CO. OF LAKE ASHTON HAS BEEN FIRED.  JOE HUNTER IS ON THAT MANAGEMENT CO. AND HE WILL BE THE FIRST TO LEAVE.    BY BY JOE.  I WON'T CRY OVER YOU AND WILL NOT MISS YOU.  GEORGE FLINT SAID THAT THE PEOPLE THAT WORK HERE MUST WORK HERE NOT WORK AT TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT OTHER PLACES.   GEORGE FLINT WILL PLACE HIS OWN MANAGEMENT CO. HERE AND TAKE OVER.  HUNTER DOES NOTHING, HE SHUT ME OFF HIS E-MAIL.    WE WON'T MISS "DO NOTHING" JOE HUNTER.   THE OTHER EMPLOYERS WILL BE NOTIFY LATER, PRIOR TO MAY 15 IF THEY ARE STILL ON THE PAYROLL AND MAY BE  TRANSFER TO THE NEW CO.  TAKE JUNE YOUNG WITH YOU JOE.  HIRE A DUMP TRUCK.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Hurricane Charlie Ins Claim money Missing $577,824...":

Now we are adding Bob Cruz to the enemies list? The enemies list now totals 145 residents. Way to go ADhoc Committee.

Bob

These are some of the crap I get from the residents.  Why don't they add all the residents to the list.  What a bunch of nuts.

JANET RANKIN

To:

lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ladies can play penny ante poker":

This month's JANET RANKIN AWARD goes to....Jake Eaton for his comment, "Let them bring their own Coke if they want a drink".

(Janet Rankin was the only member os Congress NOT to vote to declare war on the Japanese on December 8, 1941.)

Stan K.

Hurricane Charlie Ins Claim money Missing $577,824.00

It seems some people are willing to PAY AGAIN for repairs to the bowling alley even if the first repairs were never made and the dear honest developer walked off with all the money.  WHO CARES  Bob Cruz don't care he is willing to pay again.  Are you willing to pay again or just sit back and let John do all the paper work.  John is doing a lot more than the dead beats on the CDD board.   $577,824 is missing and no one cares.  What the hell is wrong with the CDD Board and the residents?  They just don't care.  Go back to your knitting MARGO, CAROL, JAKE AND BRENDA.  .  Bingo Paul is taken lots of people to dinner by Bus and no one cares.  Why don't all you dumb Bingo Players donate money to Bingo Paul so he can again take people out to Dinner.  What a bunch of "do nothing" residents.  Always complain to us we are trouble makers.  At least we don't put other people's money in our pocket.

ladies can play penny ante poker

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "KKK, JACK VAN SICKLE AND BINGO PAUL":

Now the ladies can play penny ante poker, without fear of the COPS putting them in handcuffs and taken to Jail.

Poor Jack, who will he call the cops on now ? No More Mayor. Wait, maybe Brenda can take over and do it for him....

Go play at the HFC. No power over there yet.

Stan the man

Bob Cruz

Please give me your E-Mail and I'll give you all the crap including the one he call me a bastard.  Yes, Paul Pontious otherwise known as anonymous.  He is a dirty coward, calls me a bastard and sends my mate obscene letters.  This guy is sick.  Things are heating up for this guy.  Should be very soon. He will be going to jail.  Save some of your time to see him.  Can't tell you what is going on but it's not over till it's over.

Hurricane Charlie Ins Claim money Missing $577,824.00 click on data sheet to inlarge

Jan Carpenter:  I attended the March CDD meeting.. My understanding was, You were going to attempt to contact the former District Manager,  Severn Trent to find further information on my request.  Where did the money go from the Insurance Co.??????????

Are we the only ones who see a blaring possible fraudulent error being made here ?

Alleys...paid for and never repaired or replaced ?
Where did the funds go from the insurance Co. for hurricane damage 6 years ago?  That money was never used to repair the bowling alleys. Then alleys repaired yet again with CDD funds? 

Rather obvious I would say.   Why would the info requested simply not be available?   I will let others much wiser than me ask those questions.  Where did all the money go????????

I declined contacting the Attorney Generals Office until now.    That may be my only recourse.

John

KKK, JACK VAN SICKLE AND BINGO PAUL

What a bunch of actors, that Tuesday when they call the cops on Dick Ralls, Rich Earl and Barbara, 6 police cars came to the rescue of JACK VAN SICKLE AND BINGO PAUL at the HFC.  How dumb can the cops be?  The HFC is in Winter Haven.  Van Sickle loves to call the cops.  Not much else he can do but call cops in the 4 years he was mayor.  They are dumb, do you agree?

Tsunami video from street level

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I'M OF THE 86%

A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!

Lets Take a take a stand!!!

 

Borders: Closed...

Language: English only...

Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!!!

Drug Free: Make a drug screen mandatory for anyone on welfare and/or food stamps!

NO freebies to Non-Citizens!

 

We the people are coming

 

Only 86% will send this on... Should be a 100%

Debt Clock - Interesting

 

 

Thurs night, we will be at ZERO. Remember that the clock is moving
at 2 bill a day.

 

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Heart Attack info on New Aspirin

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Heart Attack info on New Aspirin You are part of my ten! Read and heed! This can't be read TOO many times!!!!!       This is good info.   We did not know that you should not lie downwhile waiting for the EMT   Heart attack info NEW ASPIRIN/ Serious stuff, no joke!!   Just a reminder to all: purchase a box, keep one in your car, pocketbook, wallet, bedside, etc.    IMPORTANT READ......    Something that we can do to help ourselves.   Nice to know. Bayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve under the tongue. They work much faster than the tablets.  Why keep aspirin by your bedside? About Heart Attacks There are other symptoms of an heart attack besidesthe pain on the left arm.  One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nauseaand lots of sweating,however these symptoms may also occur less frequently.  Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack   The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep, did not wake up.   However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.   If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water. Afterwards:  CALL 911 - say "heart attack!" - say that you have taken 2 aspirins..   - phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by - take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and... DO NOT lie down A Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life can be saved! I have already shared the information- - What about you?  Do forward this message; it may save lives!

UFOs in FBI’s Vault

The truth is out there. And by "truth," we mean a controversial (and official) 1950s  FBI memo that alleges aliens did in fact land in New Mexico which has just been republished on the agency's website.
Not surprisingly, the news sparked a furious amount of activity on the web. Online lookups for "ufo fbi files" soared, as did related searches on "ufo pictures" and "ufo fbi coverup." But don't get too excited--this isn't the first time this controversial memo has circulated, and its claims are far from verified.

The memo was published on "The Vault," a newly launched FBI blog that showcases documents from the Bureau's past for history buffs to peruse. It was written by Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington field office in 1950, and was addressed to the director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. The letter's content is amazing, as is the rather casual tone in which it's delivered.

Ed

Keep up the good work. Joe Hunter is out looking for a new job, Bingo Paul is under investigation, Jake is dumber than ever, and Margo is ducking flying coke machines. Keep laughing at them and report the truth always. Looking forward to new management and responsible staff members. June Young, pack your bags.

Stan K.

ASHTON GRILL

The Ashton Grill will be no more run by the Developer after this year.  They are losing money and their lease runs out.  I have a idea, MacDonald would look good here. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

KKK AND JACK VAN SICKLE

Jack Van Sickle Fired Tony Otte without due Process and he was followed by Burney Hayes without the city approval.  Yes Sick Van Sickle is that kind of guy.  You deserve to lose and I am glad your gone.  Any guy that calls the cops on me and tries to get me arrested is a bum, a sick bum, and you my friend,  you know where you can go, and its not heaven.  I might add he call the cops on the card players at the HFC.  The cops all walked in with their guns but saw no money changing hands.  You screw up again Sickle.  Lake Ashton sure has sick people living here.  Pack your bags and get the hell out and take Bingo Paul with you.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post " Ed....Isnt these comments interesting ? All the...":

I voted for Betty Wojcik because I thought she was the better candidate. I had nothing against VanSickle.

However I was appalled to read John Chickness' comments about VanSikle. To engage in name calling does nothing to improve this community.

John, if you are so angry about lies told about you, tell us what the allegations are.

In addition, why would anyone who disagrees with your positions or tacticts sign their name. They would be open to being destroyed.

Liz, a concerned resident    


LIZ, please be, aware that when John was running for the CDD, they posted a flier in the billiard room downgrading him and calling him names.  Also they hang 2 fliers  in front of his house calling him names and also downgrading him.  This was not call for.  This is has cheap  as they can go.  They did not sign their names.  I have no respect for cowards like this.  The three foxes won by slander on John and also the bingo money by taken all his friends out to dinner.  Yes LIZ, this is a cheap as they can go.  I have NO respect for Paul Pontious or his wife Carol and Brenda Van Sickle.  Bingo Paul also send letters to my mate telling her to leave me.  There is something wrong with this guy, he needs to have his head looked at.

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That is exactly what they want you to do............NOT CARE ANYMORE !

Then, They WIN...

Never give up the good fight...

Betty W

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Bingo Paul

Manny's Chop House $480.00  This is sick and it goes on and on.  I just don't care anymore, do you?

BINGO PAUL PONTIOUS page 10 of 21 Bank Statement's that he did not want you to see. Now you know why.

HOA

I am asking the HOA to remove Bingo Paul from Bingo completely.  Get him the hell out of there.  He who steals money from Bingo Players, doesn't keep records how much he takes in and how many payouts he made, no one knows.  HE MUST BE REMOVED.  Is the HOA afraid to tell him to step down?  What the hell is going on with the HOA.  Are they that useless?  Is LAKE ASHTON  THAT DISHONEST?  It seems no one cares, no one, do you?  We all know how much he put in his 5 accounts but we don't know how much he put in his pockets.

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Ed....Isnt these comments interesting ?

All the while they trashed me, lied about me, and had a good old time with their signs, and letters under our doorsteps, all was peaches and cream.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, listen to them WAIL like babies.   The only difference is  I sign my name to all my posts.   Why don't  they ?

  Maybe they might be so dumb as to not know... There is software that permits seeing the emails of all posts to  BLOGS....Wake up.  You may as well sign your handle....We know who u are !

Finally...They are correct about one thing,  I would have helped a Snake win the election rather than VanSickle....and I never hid that fact from anyone and wont now.
John 

John, they are afraid of signing their name because they are cowards.  Big talk from their mouths and more from their butt.  They lost the elections, and call the cops Sick Van Sickle wants everyone to feel sorry for him.  Hell, he got the HFC hall for free, but if I wanted to use the hall I would have to pay.  What a sick place this Lake Ashton is.  Joe Hunter is going over three communities with our money along with Ms Adams and no one cares.  Also Bingo Paul is placing money in his pocket, no records, no one cares.  He is still stealing money from the Bingo Players, no one cares.   HE IS STILL CONTROLLING BINGO.  NO ONE CARES!  And they are still going to bingo.  This is a community of misfits.

Bob Cruz

How can you put the M I A flag in the same sentence as a K K K flag says Bob Cruz, vet.   Read the MIA article BOB, how else can I say it.  You are so damn smart, you should run for office.  Tell me how I should write it Smart ASS.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "MIA Flag":

I see the flavor of the day is now Frank Ota.

I will not continue this post because it was not signed.

MIA Flag

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Frank Ota":

What is it with this guy Frank Ota?

We all give Warm Memories and applaud to the Veterans and those MIA. But to want to place a MIA flag at the entrance of LA Clubhouse... When one is flying with our US flag at the LAVA memorial site as it should be.

Lets give our support to our fighting men and woman today.

No additional flags at the entrance of Lake Ashton Clubhouse is needed to remember our MIA'S

Korean Vet

FRANK OTA, HOA BOARD MEMBER

Frank does call BINGO well....

That is where he should stay...

He gave up as LAVA head. Now he will be HOA head homcho...

Give it up Frank....True statement...You lied about LAVA paying for electric. WHATS NEXT ?

Billy F

LETS GO FISHING

NOT LAKE ASHTON, POOR FISHING, MUDDY WATERS.

E MAIL ME AND ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS BRING THE BEER AND SOMETHING TO EAT. BASS FISHING WE WILL DO.  THANKS

Where was the mayor?

Jack Van Sickle, why didn't you step in to help a store owner Greg Massey who got arrested for having a rolling steel door at his business?  Living in or around that area you need a steel door to protect your business.  What the hell is wrong with the COPS.  This door is only used to lock up at closing.  This guy spend a night in jail on charges of public nuisance.  This is SICK.

If this guy was white, would they arrest him?

Mayor Jack Van Sickle response to this or are you hiding from doing nothing?

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "MIA Flag":

Frank does call BINGO well....

That is where he should stay...

He gave up as LAVA head. Now he will be HOA head homcho...

Give it up Frank....True statement...You lied about LAVA paying for electric. WHATS NEXT ?

Billy F

MIA Flag

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Frank Ota":

What is it with this guy Frank Ota?

We all give Warm Memories and applaud to the Veterans and those MIA. But to want to place a MIA flag at the entrance of LA Clubhouse... When one is flying with our US flag at the LAVA memorial site as it should be.

Lets give our support to our fighting men and woman today.

No additional flags at the entrance of Lake Ashton Clubhouse is needed to remember our MIA'S

Korean Vet

MIA Flag

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Lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com

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I don’t understand why anyone would object to hanging a flag to bring our M I A s home.

How can you put a Mia flag in the same sentence as a KKK flag  wake up.

   BOB CRUZ

This is not a veteran community.  If we allow Frank Ota to place  the MIA flag in front of the main entrance, every Tom Dick and Harry will want their flag place there,  even the KKK Flag or the Mayor Flag Sick Van Sickle.     Who is going to pay taking it down and up.  We have enough expenses now.  Frank Ota is not a man of his word.  We are paying for the electricity at the LAVA memorial  not LAVA.  He said they would pay, that proved a lie.  We are paying.  What comes out of Franks Ota mouth can not be trusted.