Calif. artist Thomas Kinkade dies at age 54

 

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches were big sellers for dealers across the country, died Friday, a family spokesman said.

Kinkade, 54, died at his home in Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area of what appeared to be natural causes, David Satterfield said.

Kinkade's sentimental paintings, with their scenes of cottages, country gardens and churches in dewy morning light, were beloved by middlebrow America but reviled by the art establishment.

The Rat Pack

Trish Adams, June Young, and Barb Follett are all in it together.  What a rotten team and they smell.  No way do you have a chance writing anything  in their L A Times.  The own it and they run it.  You have no chance at all.   Ban the Monday Morning Coffee Meetings.  They control the club house and all the activities.  I am still upset that they wrote nothing about Jeff Salvin  passing in the L A Times.  June Young was telling everyone who to vote for on her web site.  This is sick.  That Web site should not take sides.  BAN THE  COFFEE MEETINGS ON MONDAY.   SHOW THEM WE MEAN BUSINESS.

Good Afternoon, It is so refreshing to have someone state what you have in your email to the District Manager.   Your email has been forwarded to each Supervisor.  I find it too bad it could not be sent to all LA 1 residents... I have never had a problem with those who disagree with me.  As long as the FACTS  stated are TRUE.....When I asked for the person or group responsible for hiding in the dark and placing unsigned fliers under my doormat and on the Coffee tables, you will note NOT A PERSON MOVED to answer my request.   When I asked Joe Hunter how he could permit this, he simply had NO ANSWER.....This was also brought to Tricia Adams attention to oversee unsigned fliers in LAKE ASHTON clubhouse that are NOT FACTS,  but Lies..  She admitted it should not have happened.   TOO  LATE  TRICIA....IT DID HAPPEN ! Your question should best be answered at the upcoming CDD meeting 8-27-10.  You are correct on everything you stated.... Thank you for your honesty. John L Chickness SR

Trish Adams, Larry Maxwell relation, reads this blog every morning, what is she looking for flowers?

Trish Adams the wicked witch watches the video every morning looking for me and getting paid for looking.  What a waste of residents money and goes to launch with a 50% off deal and we the residents pay the other 50%.  You are fools residents and I see you still go to see her every Monday morning,  you are totally fools.  BAN THE MONDAY MORNING MEETINGS THAT TELLS YOU NOTHING AND ALL YOU DO IS LISTEN TO THEIR SALES PEOPLE.  I might add that many communities have free coffee at their meetings, and you can walk on a sidewalk getting to their meetings.

Why are they not crying about the price of gas now?? Oh yea, a Demo is in office1

Sickening!

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ARE OUTNUMBERED BY THOSE WHO VOTE FOR A LIVING."

Medicare for the future: Look clearly at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate. For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream News: "The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present monthly Fee of $96.40, rising to: $104.20 in 2012 $120.20 in 2013 And $247.00 in 2014." These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation, purposely delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election Campaigns.Send this to all Seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the Bus. REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER 2012 AND VOTE!!! From now through November 2012 this should be required weekly or at least monthly, reading - BY ALL WHO VOTE!!! Did you notice who Obama threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling?  He threatened to not pay:  Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees.  Now.. Let this sink in really good -  He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens, he did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates.  He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired. He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around.They went to Hawaii for 17 days over Christmas 2011. He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff. He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients. He did not threaten the food stamp programs. He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid. He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters. The list could go on and on. He is in full political re-election mode! * Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and his lies? * His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be stopped and only our Votes can stop him. * Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time. Vote Obama OUT of the Presidency in 2012.  LET'S MAKE 2012 - THE END OF AN ERROR! "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 AMERICA ..... HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS ELECTION 2012 IS COMING!!! A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!

 HOW THE TOP FOUR  CHARITIES SPEND YOUR DOLLARS

As  you & I continue to open  our  deep  pockets for this disaster, that  crisis,
or  the next whatever catastrophe, please keep these facts in  mind:


 
The  American Red Cross  

 

President  and CEO -  Marsha J. Evans

  salary for the year  2010  

 

was  $651,957, plus all personal, medical,

  & pension  expenses.  

 

Less  than 10 cents of your donated dollar

  actually goes to the  cause.  

 

The  United Way  

 

President  - Brian Gallagher receives a

  $375,000 base  salary,  

 

along  with numerous personal & family

  expense  benefits.  

 

Less  than 12 cents of your donated dollar

  actually goes to the  cause.  

 

 

 

UNICEF  

 

CEO  - Caryl M. Stern receives $1.2 Million

  per year (100k per  month)  

 

plus  all living & housing expenses,

  including a ROLLS  ROYCE.  

 

Less  than 15 cents of your donated dollar

  actually goes to the  cause.  

 

The  Salvation Army  

 

Commissioner  - Todd Bassett receives a

  salary of only $13,000 per  year (plus housing)  

 

for  managing this $2 billion dollar

  organization. 96 cents of  all donated dollars go to the  cause. 

  

 

THIS IS THE ONLY TIME WE WILL SEE AND LIVE THIS EVENT  Calendar for July 2012 (United States) July Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags. So, forward this to your friends and money will arrive within 4 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui. The one who does not forward.....will be without money

No Sidwalks

I am surprise that no one has gotten hit by a car or golf cart that I know of.  They wont tell you anyhow.  How many homes got broken into?  I know of two but are there more?  I know of many windows broken by golf balls and a car, and the golfer just keep on playing.  No one never said a word.  Cars got broken into, I know of a dozen.  In the billiard room, the animal heads got stolen by the developer leaving a mark on the wall paper.  The whole room needs to be repaper at our cost.  And Trish Adams ban me from the club house and it seems no one cares.  I just give up.  Give that Lake Ashton Witch a call.  863-324-5457 and ask her why?  How much guts do you have?  Are you a chicken or a coward?

Opinions wanted.

Opinions wanted.  Please post  to lakeashtontalktwo@yahoo.com

Lake Ashton

The right of  America is to say what you want, any time you want, any place you want but at Lake Ashton they have taken that right away and you say nothing anytime about this community.  They just don't want you to know anything about the on goings here in this community.  The residents here seems not to care, look who they voted for.  So I guess the motto of this story is SHUT UP.  See nothing, hear nothing and see nothing.

Jack Van Sickle

I guess his good friend John Paul Rogers lost his seat to Christopher Lutton.  for city commissioner.  What is Jack going to do now.  He has no more friends in city hall?  Is he going to call the cops on me again?  Poor Jack, Once a loser, always a loser. Sickle lost to Carter for Major, now Rogers loses to Lutton for commissioner.  Would you believe Rogers lost by only 205 votes.  What is wrong with the people of Lake Wales.  This Rogers guy use to be the Grand Dragon of the KKK.  My word.  Jack has friends like this?  Both of you loses should hang your hat up. 

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HOA

Attorney in homeowners associations probe found dead

Article Courtesy of The Las Vegas Review-Journal By Jeff German Published March 30, 2012   A second prominent attorney targeted in a federal investigation of fraud and corruption at homeowners associations has turned up dead in less than a week, creating unease among cooperating witnesses. Las Vegas attorney David Amesbury was found dead by apparent hanging Sunday night, five days after attorney Nancy Quon was found dead in the bathtub of her Henderson home. Authorities do not suspect foul play in either case and are initially treating the deaths as suicides.But one defense attorney said the deaths are generating a growing sense of anxiety among those named in the federal investigation, which alleges a massive scheme to take over homeowners association boards and then steer legal and construction contracts to specific firms. "Some of the witnesses are extremely concerned about their well-being and safety," said the defense lawyer, who was involved in plea negotiations with the government. "People are dying here." Amesbury, 57, who pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors, was found dead Sunday night in Grass Valley, Calif.  Attorney David Amesbury walks from the U.S. District Courthouse in October 2011 after pleading guilty to fraud and corruption at homeowners associations. Amesbury was found dead Sunday in Northern California. Sources said his brother, Thomas Amesbury, found the body hanging in a shed. The Nevada County coroner's office in Northern California won't issue a formal ruling on Amesbury's cause of death for about two months, Chief Deputy Coroner Paul Schmidt said. "There is no evidence of foul play or any suspicious circumstances; however, (the death is) still under investigation," Schmidt said. Quon, 51, a major player in the scheme whom prosecutors were looking to indict, was found dead in the bathtub of her southeast valley condominium at The District on March 20. The official causes of both deaths won't be known until toxicology reports are complete. Henderson police said foul play is not suspected in Quon's death. 'TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE' Two other people who attracted the interest of authorities in the sweeping federal investigation also have died under unusual circumstances. Former Las Vegas police officer Christopher Van Cleef shot himself to death a few days after a September 2008 FBI raid in the investigation. A former Vistana homeowners association board member, identified as Robbi Castro, died in 2010 of a drug overdose. "All of these deaths are just too much of a coincidence," said Wanda Murray, a former Vistana board member who helped expose corruption at the association. "None of them make sense to any of us." Murray said she served on the Vistana board with Castro, who died in Carson City. Amesbury's death prompted federal and local investigators in the homeowners association probe to travel to Northern California to visit the death scene. To calm fears, investigators also attempted to tell Las Vegas attorneys representing witnesses in the case about Amesbury's death before the news went public Monday. BEATING FOLLOWED GUILTY PLEA Frank Cremen, David Amesbury's defense lawyer, said his client was in Grass Valley recovering from injuries he suffered last year in an assault in Henderson. Grass Valley is a small community northeast of Sacramento. On Nov. 16, several weeks after he had pleaded guilty in the homeowners investigation, Amesbury was discovered badly beaten in a gated Henderson community. Authorities said they did not find any evidence the assault was tied to the probe, and Henderson police closed the investigation in January. "No further leads had been developed in the case, and the victim did not have a clear memory of the incident," Henderson police spokesman Keith Paul said Monday. A source close to the investigation said Amesbury was transported to the hospital last November in bad shape. "He was really beaten to a pulp," the source said. "He had two broken ribs, and both his kneecaps were shattered. He also had a variety of facial injuries." A bloodied Amesbury was dressed only in his underwear and shoes when he was discovered lying in the street in the quiet neighborhood, according to Henderson police reports. At one point, the reports said, Amesbury told a nurse he "was beaten up, and he deserved it." He also told a detective that he "planned to commit suicide or try to" and had brought 30 doses of Valium with him. The police reports show detectives had a hard time pinning down Amesbury about what had happened to him. Amesbury, who once co-owned the Courthouse Cafe at the Regional Justice Center, was the first lawyer to enter a felony plea in the far-reaching homeowners association investigation, which has targeted lawyers, judges and former police officers. He was among 10 defendants who pleaded guilty and struck deals to cooperate with federal prosecutors looking to charge higher-level players in an alleged conspiracy to profit from the takeover of homeowners associations across the valley. THE FEDERAL CASE Federal prosecutors accuse the co-conspirators of stacking homeowners association boards with members who pushed for construction defect lawsuits against builders. The boards then steered legal and construction repair work to the co-conspirators. Justice Department lawyers from Washington, D.C., who are spearheading the investigation, are moving forward with the case despite the recent deaths. They intend to name close to 20 new defendants soon in one charging document in federal court, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported. A list viewed by the Review-Journal of those agreeing to plead guilty includes a lawyer, former homeowners association board members, straw buyers and community management employees. Negotiations are continuing, and the list of defendants could grow before prosecutors are ready to file the group plea agreement in court. Former Las Vegas police officers also now are among those negotiating plea deals. Amesbury pleaded guilty Oct. 24 to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He admitted that between March and September 2008, he was paid a $3,000 kickback by his co-conspirators to help rig board elections at Chateau Nouveau and Pebble Creek. The scheme involved finding "straw purchasers" to buy condominiums and getting them to run for seats on the boards, prosecutors have alleged. The straw buyers were elected through classic dirty campaign tactics that included forging ballots and digging up dirt on candidates not supported by the co-conspirators. Amesbury also admitted that he participated in a separate scheme to defraud banks while seeking refinancing for the Courthouse Cafe, which he operated under a Clark County contract with former construction company boss Leon Benzer and another partner, former Las Vegas police Lt. Benjamin Kim. Both Benzer and Kim are targets of the federal investigation but have not been charged. All three partners ran the Courthouse Cafe until they had a falling out and turned over the restaurant rights with county approval to a Capriotti's Sandwich Shop chain. Amesbury's estranged wife, former Chief Deputy District Attorney Victoria Villegas, has also attracted the interest of Justice Department lawyers in the homeowners association investigation. Villegas, who filed for divorce in October, was fired from the district attorney's office earlier this month. FBI agents and Las Vegas police suspect Villegas, who had been a prosecutor since May 1989, misled them about the extent of her knowledge of money loaned to the Courthouse Cafe, sources have said. The scheme, which occurred from October 2008 through July 2009, involved striking a secret deal to let an unidentified businessman handle the daily operations of the cafe without informing the county or the banks, authorities alleged in documents in the case against Amesbury. Nancy Quon found dead in bathtub

Bingo Paul

How cheap can this lair get?  He writes letters to my mate telling her she is a ______!   A week later he writes again a letter to her.  This guy is a sick cookie.  He steals from the Bingo players, gives discounts to his helpers, never give money to state charity's, lair's about me, calls me a idiot in front of all the billiard players, calls me a idiot while playing golf, calls me a idiot while riding in his golf cart, calls me a idiot while I was going home from playing pool, yet this guy has the right to enter the clubhouse and I was ban making this a better community.  This community is totally crazy.  This Bingo Paul has destroyed this community and this guy is still on the HOA.  I ask this community where are your brains?  Al Capone would be right at home here.  Bingo Paul should NOT be in charge of Bingo and should be fired.  He has no class and no brains.

 

BEST BAR JOKE EVER
'Guy goes into a bar in Louisiana where there's a robot bartender!
The robot says, "What will you have?"
The guy says, "Whiskey."
The robot brings back his drink and says to the man, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says," 168."
The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical
technology.

The guy leaves, . . . but he is curious . . . So he goes back into the bar.
The robot bartender says, "What will you have?"
The guy says, "Whiskey."
Again, the robot brings the man his drink and says, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "100."
The robot then starts to talk about Nascar, Budweiser, the Saints and LSU Tigers 

The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will
try it one more time.
He goes back into the bar.
The robot says, "What will you have?"
The guy says, "Whiskey," and the robot brings him his whiskey.
The robot then says, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "Uh, about 50."
The robot leans in real close and says,
"SO, . . . you people . . . still happy . . . with Barrack Obama???"

 

The Path to Destruction

The facts are clear…

…6 million homes are delinquent on their mortgages or in foreclosure.  We can thank banks—central, investment and commercial alike—that securitized risky collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).

…$1.2 trillion is spent on the National Security State each year. Add that up since the Bush administration, and you can easily see why we have $15.5 trillion in visible debt.

…12.8 million Americans are unemployed today, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.3%—depression-era levels.

…One out of seven Americans is on food stamps—that’s 46 million people! But contrary to Newt Gingrich calling Obama the "food stamp president," more Americans were added to the food stamp rolls under Bush.

Subject: FW: should a child witness childbirth?? LOL

Here's your answer...

Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call.  The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-year old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby.  Very diligently, Kathleen did as she was asked.  Heidi pushed and pushed and, after a little while, Connor was born.

The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom.  Connor began to cry.  

The paramedic then thanked Kathleen for her help and asked the wide-eyed-3-year-old what she thought about what she had just witnessed.  Kathleen quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place...spank his ass again!"

Do we need any more reasons to demand the repeal of Obamacare?

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