tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127023092011-12-14T21:43:08.078-05:00Commentary, sarcasm and snide remarks from a Florida resident of over thirty years. Being a glutton for punishment is a requirement for residency here. Who am I? I've been called a moonbat by Michelle Malkin, a Right Wing Nut by Daily Kos, and middle of the road by Florida blog State of Sunshine. Tell me what you think.The Florida Masochisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09796560982160523028noreply@blogger.comBlogger50571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12702309.post-1138147227873612852011-01-31T23:59:00.000-05:002011-01-25T19:21:59.140-05:00

Like I did in other years, I'm putting this post at the top of my blog till the end of January.My son was born January 25th 2003 at 4:54 p.m. in West Palm Beach Florida. He died at 7:23 a.m. the following day. Daniel's life was a short one but he will be forever remembered by me and my dear wife.DW and I have been married 17 years. We tried hard for many years to conceive a child. In 1990 she got

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A 650 pound piano mysteriously appears on a Florida sand bar and nobody knows how it got there. Don't you just love the Sunshine State?A grand piano recently showed up on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay, about 200 yards from condominiums on the shore.The piano, which weighs at least 650 pounds, was placed at the highest spot along the sandbar so it doesn't get underwater during high tide.While

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Today's winner is the Las Vegas Nevada Police Department. They get the award for the following-A comatose 13-year-old Las vegas girl who is fighting for her life after being hit by a car has been given a ticket for jaywalking.Takara Davis's mother received the citation at the hospital earlier this week, KLAS-TV reported.Recounting what a police officer told her, Kellie Obong, Davis' mom, said

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Today's winner is the Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Police Department. They get the award for the following-A rural Gatineau, Que., family is angry at police who raided their home armed with loaded guns looking for a marijuana grow-op, which turned out to only be a skunk that lived on their property.Auto mechanic Oliver MacQuat was home alone just before 8 p.m. Thursday when he saw flashing lights

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Today's winners are Republican Congressmen Pete Sessions and Mike Fitzpatrick. They get the award for the following-Pete Sessions of Texas and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania did not get off to a smooth start at the beginning of the 112th Congress. The Republican lawmakers skipped the official swearing in of all members on the House floor because they were attending Fitzpatrick’s “celebration”—

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Today's winner is P.J. Deller Inc. They get the award for the following-Pittsburgh has quit doing business with P.J. Deller Inc. until further notice after the company mistakenly tore down a West End house this week.The city will not pay the company for the demolition at 3224 Motor St., said John Jennings, acting chief of the city's Bureau of Building Inspections.County records show the house is

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Today's winners are four NHL game officials. Referees Marc Joannette, Frederick L'Ecuyer and Linesman Brad Lazarowich, Tony Sericolo. The Florida Panthers lost a game last night that should have ended no worse than a tie game at the end of overtime. The proof of what I say is in the photo beside this passage.Defenseman Bryan McCabe fires a shot at Atlanta Goalie Ondrej Pavelec. Nobody rules it a

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Today's winner is Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson. She gets the award for the following- She died in 1995. Yet her signature later appeared on thousands of affidavits submitted by one of the nation's largest debt collectors, Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc., in lawsuits filed against borrowers. Some regulators complain that the use of Ms. Kunkle's name reflects an epidemic of

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My mother-in-law aka Nanay passed away at approximately 3 p.m. on October 4th. This post will remain at the top of the blog for the rest of October.Nanay was like a second mother to me. My mother was already dead four years when I married Leonita in 1989. We got along well. Too well, my wife would sometimes complain if Nanay and I took an opposing opinion or stance to hers. It was 1996 that Nanay

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Today's winner is Yale Enforcement Services. You know, the insecure people you see around public places and hospitals. They get the award for their treatment of me yesterday as I tried to visit JFK Hospital to see my dying mother-in-law.Yes Nanay is dying. She was put in hospice last night. Her health is deteriorating rapidly and her time on earth now is measured in days and maybe even hours.Back

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Yesterday I had a few scary minutes.It was about 4 p.m. when I got a phone call from my wife. I picked up the phone but she wasn't talking. Suddenly I hear her yell "You hit my car."After that Leonita said nothing. I hung up the phone and tried calling her back. She didn't answer, but soon after I hung up again, she dialed back but again Leonita wasn't talking.Not knowing if Leonita was hurt,

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My mother-in-law has lived with my wife and I for most of the last 14 years except for when she has returned to the Philippines for visits. Nanay and I get along very well.Nanay was diagnosed with thyroid cancer over 10 years ago. Approximately five years later it metastasized to other body parts. Nanay has done both chemo and radiation for her cancer.It recurred again a little over a month ago.

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There's a stink rising out of the Palm Beach County courthouse.Garret Bender and his wife Gina started a court battle more than a year ago against SunTrust Mortgage, which wanted to foreclose on their Delray Beach house to recoup a $4 million mortgage.The Benders asked the 4th District Court of Appeal to intervene last week after they came across what many foreclosure defense attorneys call

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Compare the headlines of the Sun-Sentinel and Palm Beach Post today for two stories on foreclosures in Palm Beach County. First we have the Post-Analysts wary of drop in foreclosure filingsNow the Sentinel-Foreclosures accelerating in Palm Beach CountyJust unbelievable, isn't it? Especially since both these newspapers share stories with the other and both articles cited the same report from a

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There was a fire Saturday night at a home very close to where I live. First WPTV Channel Five's coverage of the blaze.Shortly before 9:00 p.m. Saturday, a fire raged downstairs in Lisa Poplardo's Lake Worth home."She got a call from one of the neighbors that the house was on fire. She came home and the whole house was engulfed in flames," said Mike Marzigliano, Lisa's brother.She's been renting

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The release of QB Pat White and WR Patrick Turner were two of over 20 players the fins cut loose yesterday and today. It wasn't surprising news. Especially to Dolphins fans who questioned the selections of White and Turner on 2009 NFL Draft Day.I wrote this about White last year.Huh?Miami needs a wide receiver but White was a college Quarterback at West Virginia. He’s got good speed, and size is

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Today's winner is Julious Javone Threatts. He gets the award for the following-A Tampa man is behind bars after he allegedly posed as a 14-year-old to join a youth football league.Julious Javone Threatts, 21, has been charged with trespassing on school grounds, obstruction by a disguised person and violation of probation. When Threatts was arrested last Tuesday a records check shows he was on

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Steve Elling at CBS Sports has more on the incident at the CN Canadian Open which I wrote about yesterday.Initially, the LPGA seemed satisfied with the player actions and sanctions."No one with the LPGA was privy to any discussions between the players and caddies in advance of the players’ efforts to seek out a rules official to explain the situation,” a spokesman said Saturday. “We know only

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A Central Florida strip mall was evacuated the other day. Why? An elderly woman came to a police substation with a hand grenade. Even though the pin was still inside it, law enforcement considered it dangerous. Don't you just love the Sunshine State?An Orlando police substation near a Pine Hills strip mall was evacuated Thursday morning when an elderly woman arrived with an old grenade, reports

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There is another, more recent post of mine on this topic here.LPGA Blogger and Caddie Larry Smich wrote the following- Finally, caught in the act! All this time, I’ve been detailing cheating by the Koreans and been called a racist and more for my observations. Even been taken to the woodshed by the head honcho. Well yesterday, it all became evident that I was spot on. Did you notice that Shi Hyun

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Lying thief Rick Scott won the Florida GOP gubernatorial nomination last Tuesday. Are over a half million Florida registered Republicans out of their mind?Florida's Attorney General and the person Scott beat in the primary, isn't endorsing the lawbreaker.Bill McCollum doesn't forget easily.Two days after he lost the Republican nomination for governor, McCollum still refuses to support winner Rick

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Today's winners are Rowan County(North Carolina) District Court Judge Beth Dixon and Salisbury Police Officer Mark Hunter. They get the award for the following- A Salisbury woman who was arrested in November 2009 after she refused a police officer’s order to go into her house while he was making a traffic stop nearby was found guilty Friday of resisting, obstructing or delaying an officer.She had

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Do you have something to declare, Madam?Authorities at Bangkok’s international airport found a baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Thailand to Iran, an official and a wildlife protection group said Friday.The woman, a Thai national, had checked in for her flight and her oversized bag was sent for an X-ray which showed

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This news isn’t very surprisingly in light of these facts1- Yani Tseng is at present holder of two of the tour’s major championships and ranked as one of the top five rated players in the world. Tseng is from Taiwan.and2- The increasing popularity of golf in Asia.Of course people continue to grumble about the lack of United States based tour stops on the LPGA Tour. These people are being short

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Wednesday is the day the food advertisements arrive with the newspaper. I subscribe to the Palm Beach Post.I didn't get a copy of Winn Dixie's weekly advertisement today. It could be just coincidence, but the company I think is writing off all their customers in my part of Palm Beach County(Unincorporated Lantana, NW and Western Boynton Beach, SW and Western Lake Worth). Winn Dixie is closing

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The Pope is going to visit the United Kingdom and security is going to be very tight.The Catholic Church of England and Wales has published a guide for those attending events with the Pope during his visit to the UK next month.There will be strict controls over what can and cannot be brought into the three large public gatherings in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.Alcohol, barbecues, gazebos and

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Did BBC’s Jennifer Pak ever study statistics?Malaysian authorities are grappling with a growing problem of abandoned babies.Sixty-five infants have been found so far this year, and many were dead by the time they were discovered.The government fears that number will surpass previous totals – an average of 100 babies are found each year.-BBCNow read the three parts in bold carefully. A growing

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While I am a registered Democrat, I have always admitted my politics are more in line with the Republicans. Honestly I'm an independent and have major disagreements with both sides but Independents most of the time can't vote in primaries..Next Tuesday is primary day here in Florida. The Governorship and the Senate seat formerly held by Mel Martinez are up for grabs. Marco Rubio is a cinch to be

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Today's winner is AT&T. They get the award for continuing to bill me for phone service I discontinued over 2 months ago. In late May I bundled my land line, internet service, and internet. In the process I discontinued a second land line I had. That phone hasn't worked since but this dumb company keeps billing me and I've been on the phone with them before about this.Another gem about AT&T too.

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Actress Lynn Redgrave died today at age 67. The youngest daughter of famed actor/director Michael Redgrave, she rose to fame in the mid 60's for the title role 'Georgy Girl.' Personally I love that movie, which was one of Redgrave's two Oscar nominated roles. She lost the 1966 Best actress Oscar(Her sister Vanessa was also nominated the same year) to Elizabeth Taylor who won for 'Who is Afraid of

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Today's winner is Florida Governor Charlie Crist. He gets the award for announcing he will seek election to the Senate as a independent. This after months of denying he would run as anything but a Republican.Watch this You Tube video.Crist said not once but three times that he is a Republican. When Chris Wallace of Fox News asked if he would back the winner of the GOP primary if it was Rubio,

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Marco Rubio is the current front runner for the Republican nomination. In a statement today he said-While I don’t believe Arizona’s policy was based on anything other than trying to get a handle on our broken borders, I think aspects of the law, especially that dealing with ‘reasonable suspicion,’ are going to put our law enforcement officers in an incredibly difficult position. It could also

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Today's winners are T & J Towing of Kalamazoo Michigan and its President Joseph Bird. They get the award for the following-A Facebook group targeting a Kalamazoo towing company has cost the business numerous contracts, according its attorney.The Facebook group started by a Western Michigan University student, meanwhile, has eclipsed the 10,000 mark in members.“Kalamazoo Residents against T & J

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The photo of the day. From BBC-Que Jingde and Zhang Zhiqin of Shanghai Meidu Real Estate both received life terms for the June 2009 collapse.According to China Daily, Zhang had allowed an unqualified contractor to build an underground car park.This, combined with a large pile of excavated earth on the other side of the building, caused it to topple to one side, the paper said.The building, a

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My desktop computer two weeks ago was infected with a nasty malware. I had a computer technician pick it up for me. When Jim called me back he said my computer hard drive was failing. I also have the mother board fail twice, probably due to power surges. Short of cash and unemployed, I was now in need of a new PC.I got one. A Compaq and I like it so far. The trouble is- It has Windows 7 operating

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Golf World's Ron Sirak writes-An indication of Ochoa's inconsistent play last year was the fact she was tenth on the money list, yet still won Player of the Year by a single point over Jiyai Shin.That would be truly incredible in light of how Ochoa didn't win a major championship last year. The only problem- It isn't true.Lorena Ochoa finished 4th on the 2009 LPGA money list. She is 10th on this

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Some news from Australia. All I say is- Don't hold the pepper next time.An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in

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I have had this internet service almost continuously for 15 plus years but the last few have been at no charge. AT&T is my high speed internet provider and AOL is my backup which I use by piggybacking onto AT&T.Everytime I sign onto AOL a tip screen pops up. I ignore these 99.5 of the time but just a few days ago there was one that caught my attention.Xdrive sounds like a wonderful service. Free

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Who is on the cover of the magazine this week? Is it Yani Tseng, the golfer who won her 3rd career tournament and 2nd Major Championship overall?No, it's Anthony Kim for winning a Masters warmup.What a joke this magazine is. The biggest on course story of the week doesn't merit a cover photo. It isn't the first time GW has done this either. In 2006 they featured Phil Mickelson for winning at

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Ryan at Waggle Room writes-Meanwhile, Karen Stupples holds a tenuous one stroke lead over Suzann Pettersen entering the final round at Mission Hills in the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Since winning the Women's British Open in '04, Stupples has finished in the top three just once on the LPGA Tour. With a win today, she would have a second LPGA major and enter a rare company.First of all if Ryan

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Today's winner is Dr. Suzanne Y. Succop, MD. of Boynton Beach Florida. She gets the award for denying me further treatment when I'm in her care(home nursing visits due to her doctor's orders). Why is she doing this? I have a past balance of $390. Dr. Succop has seen me at JFK hospital in 2001, 2005, 2007, 08, and this year. She is no longer on my health insurance plan.I don't deny owing her

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And the wife of Japan's next Prime Minister claims to have visited that planet. From Reuters-Japan’s next prime minister might be nicknamed “the alien,” but it’s his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.“While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus,” Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in

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President Obama looks likely to get another Supreme Court nomination in the next year. From AP-Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has hired fewer law clerks than usual, generating speculation that the leader of the court's liberals will retire next year. If Stevens does step down, he would give President Barack Obama his second high court opening in two years. Obama chose

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Some great news for the LPGA-Toledo Classic, Inc., which operates the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon at which time an extension of its agreement with the LPGA Tour is expected to be announced.A source familiar with the negotiations indicated it will be a one-year contract that will assure the tournament will be staged in 2010. No details

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Today's winner is David Seaton Teller. He gets the award for the following-David Seaton Teller wanted to become a cop. Now he’s charged with possession of child pornography.Teller, 24, of Fernandina Beach was arrested Wednesday by detectives with the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office after he had applied to be a police recruit with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. His questionnaire included

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The Solheim Cup matches are still in progress but Morgan Pressel’s 3&2 win over puts the score at 14-11 in favor of the United States. Christina Kim is dormie in her match against Tania Elosegui. That means the Americans will score at least 14.5 and out of 28 points total that gives them the win.Today’s final result is likely to be 15.5 or 16 for the U.S. The matches were actually quite close

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The daily newspaper is ceasing operations according to Bob at The Daily Pulp. It is said the News had become very poor in quality over the last twenty years, but it is always sad when a newspaper dies. I may criticize the media but they provide an essential service to the public that is often overlooked.My parents lived in Boca Raton for 9 years(Actually my mother only lived there for five years.

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My wife in reply to this news said ‘No wonder we get high.’ Speak for herself…..In the course of its average 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs, clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of times at coffee shops, convenience stores and newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.Research presented this weekend

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Today's winner is Philippine television personality Willie Revillame. He gets the award for the following-Controversial TV host Willie Revillame is said to be deeply upset over the negative reaction he has received regarding the comments he made pertaining to the airing of President Cory Aquino’s funeral cortege on his TV show, “Wowowee” on Aug. 3.“He feels isolated,” said friend and Wowowee

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It is exactly a year ago today that I had Open heart surgery. My hospital stay was rough, but I have had no heart issues since coming home last August 29th. My right hand is still a problem and I still have some upper chest discomfort. The later is really minor. My health is still walking a very thin line because of my cancer. Even worse, I still have financial problems. Blogging doesn't cost me

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Tug of war Florida style.This is the story of the one that got away.Which is fortunate for the group of Harbordale kids who decided to play tug-of-war with a 10-foot alligator Tuesday.The kids, who had been fishing for crabs, tied a raw chicken to a rope to lure a gator that was swimming in a canal. The idea worked almost too well: The gator chomped down on the chicken, then got its toothy snout

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Some news from Germany. Was this the honeymoon night the bride always envisioned?A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.Police in the western city of Cologne said Monday the inebriated 30-year-old remained unconscious even after they smashed the car window to

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From Reuters-About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said.Nepal's center-left coalition announced a plan last month to pay men the equivalent of $650 for marrying widows, angering the widows.Monday, women shouting slogans such as "You can't sell your mother," and "We don't want

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Today's winner is ExpressJet Airlines. They get the award for the following- By its sixth hour sitting on a deserted tarmac, Continental Express Flight 2816 had taken on the smell of diapers and an overwhelmed lone toilet.What should have been a 2 1/2-hour trip from Houston to Minneapolis had moved into its ninth hour, and the 47 passengers on board had burned through the free pretzels and drinks

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Former Florida Marlin Aaron Boone is playing minor league baseball just five months after having open heart surgery. From AP-Aaron Boone is back playing baseball, appearing in a minor league game in Texas less than five months after open-heart surgery.Boone batted second Monday night for the Corpus Christi Hooks, a Double-A affiliate of the Houston Astros. He swung at the first pitch and popped

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Because of the economy, travel related businesses are particularly hard hit for customers. Here is one innovative way a resort is trying to attract guests.A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 a night — if you don't mind sleeping in a tent.The Rancho Bernardo Inn boasts three pools, a spa and golf course. It typically charges more than $200 a room.But business is down. So from

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Today's winners are the Mayor of Deerfield Mayor Peggy Noland and the city's Parks Director George Edmunds. They get the award for the following- If you see the mayor of Deerfield Beach on the street, you better say hello.City maintenance worker Cassandra Moye was suspended for two days without pay for failing to greet Mayor Peggy Noland while at work earlier this week.Moye has the unenviable job

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Naked News in South Korea won't be airing anytime soon.After all of the circus hoopla and controversy surrounding the launch of the Korean version of the Naked News franchise, its existence now hangs by a pithy thread as production came to a screeching halt since Thursday -- just one month after its inception. The problem? Money.Nine of the anchors have yet to be compensated for their work during

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Ai Miyazato has won her first LPGA tournament. From AP-Ai Miyazato of Japan has won the Evian Masters with a birdie on the first playoff hole, beating Sophie Gustafson of Sweden to clinch her first victory on the LPGA Tour.Miyazato steadied herself and sank a putt from about 6 feet on Sunday after Gustafson had missed her birdie putt from the edge of the green.Miyazato shot a 3-under 69 in the

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This news gives new meaning to the golf term 'dogleg left'.A golf course employee who killed a golfer's dog and planned to eat it was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison for felony animal cruelty.Nelson Domingo was also fined $500 and ordered to complete 400 hours of community service and three years of probation.The sentence was imposed by Circuit Judge Randal Lee.Domingo and

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That is how long today marks since Leonita and I got married. Alot has happened since then. Can you believe there is someone in the world who can up with me for that long?Our marriage took place in Tacloban City on the island of Leyte in the Philippines on May 30, 1989. We got married in a civil ceremony before a judge. No family of mine was present.On June 17th of the same year, Leonita and I

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It was four years ago today that I started this blog. Yes its been inactive here, but I got reasons. Which are health and financial. I'm pretty down right now and that's why I just can't blog at this time.I still have things to say about Florida, sports, politics, life in general. Pray that I get back in the mood to write about them on a more regular basis.

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Some elected officials must worry the since dropped idea may be resurrected. From AP-The California Senate has voted to make it illegal to hold events that require participants to speak nglish in a move prompted by the LPGA Tour's English-only proposal.The women's golf tour wanted last year to require its players to speak English so they could talk with each other and the media and give

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Way to go the sports leader!Sorry to pop your balloons up in Connecticut, but Michelle turned pro in 2005. She has played seven major championships as a professional. Wie has finished third in majors two times since 2005.If you don't believe me, a quick glance at Wikipedia would tell you the truth. Not to mention that Wie is probably more press than any golfer than Tiger Woods in the last five

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Today's winner is Craig Allen Aylesworth. He gets the award for the following-A brawl between two Bithlo neighbors sent one man to jail on arson charges, deputies said. Jail records show that Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested Craig Allen Aylesworth late Tuesday on charges of tossing a Molotov cocktail at his neighbor's trailer. A Molotov cocktail is an improvised firebomb consisting of a

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For the second year in a row, Tiger won at Bay Hill in Orlando Florida by making a dramatic birdie putt on the 72nd hole. Last year Bart Bryant was the loser, this year it was Sean O'Hair.With the win the talk of Tiger not being back to form will end. It will instead be replaced by golf journalists opining on what his chances are of winning the Masters. The first men's major championship of 2009

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Goes to The World Golf Hall of Fame's page on Hale Irwin-Just as he excels on difficult golf courses, Irwin excels on difficult shots. Each of his U.S. Open victories is remembered for superb strokes with a 2-iron at vital moments. At Winged Foot, Irwin closed the door on the 72nd hole with a 2-iron to eight feet.Thank goodness Sports Illustrated has The 'Vault' where you can look up old issues

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Should people living within the boundaries of the Diocese of Orange County take this news into consideration when the next annual Bishop's appeal is made?A former student at St. John the Baptist School who claimed that a priest there sexually abused him in the 1990s has settled his lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.The terms of the diocese's settlement with plaintiff Jonathan

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Take a guess where an Italian restaurant opened in late 2008. From AP-North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has ordered the opening of the isolated country's first Italian restaurant, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported, despite the nation's continuing struggle to feed its 24 million people.Kim -- a reputed gourmand -- sent North Korean cooks to Naples and Rome last year to learn how to reproduce

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An interesting South Florida legal decision- When a teenager in a North Dade library was arrested after failing to obey an officer's order to leave, he ran off -- with the officer's handcuffs around his left wrist. Only one charge eventually stuck, leading to a conviction: theft of the cuffs.Forget it, an appeals court ruled this week. The 15-year-old, identified in papers only as J.B. because

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Is anyone shocked by this news?An x-ray analysis of the bones of competitors in the Youth Games in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong discovered that 3,000 of the 15,000 athletes, or 20 per cent, had misrepresented their age.Two thousand of them were too old to be eligible for youth competition, while one offender was seven years older than he claimed.Suspicions of age-faking have dogged

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One physician in the United Kingdom is proposing a tax on chocolates.Chocolate should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco, to help rein in a growing obesity problem, a British medical conference was told Thursday.People generally understimate the health dangers of chocolate, family doctor David Walker told the British Medical Association conference, leading a debate on the issue."I believe that

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Today's winners are Raymond S. Rhude and Ryan N. Smith. They get the award for the following-A man arrested with 17 pot plants in the bed of his pickup told police he was moving them to protect them from burglars who hit his house the night before.Ryan N. Smith, 26, of the 2700 block of Leonid Road, was charged with cultivating marijuana after police acting on a tip that two men were loading pot

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Has Air Force General Howie Chandler gotten the memo that print newspapers are dying? From Stars and Stripes-OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea -- The U.S. Air Force will resume publication of newspapers at some Pacific bases, a move that runs counter to a broad consumer trend away from print papers in favor of Internet news sites.Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Howie Chandler ordered a return to print

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Don't have anything in your mouth when you read this.The Vatican newspaper says that perhaps the washing machine did more to liberate women in the 20th century than the pill or the right to work.The submission was made in a lengthy article titled "The Washing Machine and the Liberation of Women - Put in the Detergent, Close the Lid and Relax."The article was printed at the weekend in

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Meet Kazuya Yamazaki.A 13-year-old boy passed the weather forecaster certificate exam, it was announced Friday.At 13 years and 7 months, Kazuya Yamazaki, of Yokohama, is the youngest candidate to ever pass the test, which has been held 31 times since 1994.Yamazaki, a first-year student at Eiko Gakuen Middle School in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been interested in meteorology since he was a

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It took all of three LPGA tournaments in 2009 before a South Korean took home the winner's trophy.South Korean star Jiyai Shin won the HSBC Women's Champions on Sunday for her fourth LPGA Tour title in eight months, shooting her second straight 6-under 66 for a two-stroke victory over Australia's Katherine Hull.The 20-year-old Shin, five strokes behind Hull at the start of the round and four back

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Today's winner is Crystal Marie Clark. She gets the award for the following-Consumer warning: Stop sending in those receipts for your free gas. You can pretty much forget about ever collecting even a dime from the company that made the offer.Tidewater Marketing Global Consultants, a Largo-Clearwater based company, owes customers more than $10 million but has less than $300 in its bank accounts.

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A petty thief in South Florida has an interesting excuse for his crime.Authorities say they arrested a man who claimed he was justified in stealing candy from a Fort Pierce truck stop because he had served in the military.Police say an officer confronted 31-year-old Eric T. Ambrose at the truck stop early Monday morning. The officer reported finding several packages of candy and nuts, two black

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What does a country do with its military that hasn't fired a shot in over 60 years? Go looking for an airplane missing for 81 years.Norway plans to resume the search for South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen's plane 81 years after it vanished during an Arctic rescue mission, the Royal Norwegian Navy announced Monday.Amundsen disappeared aboard the French Latham 47 flying boat in the Barents Sea on

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Another addition to the media's bag of tricks- They can speed up time!Why didn't anyone at AP or the Sun-Sentinel who actually had this on the front page of the website for a short time, notice the discrepancy before posting it? It's like about a manager signing a large amount of documents. Most of which he doesn't look at and someone slips in a joke among them or a check made out to

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More on the saga of the wife and son of fallen Marine Michael Ferschke. From Stars and Stripes-On Friday, Hotaru Ferschke, the Okinawa widow of a Marine killed in Iraq last summer, and Michael H. Ferschke III, the son he never saw, will fly to Maryville, Tenn., to start their new life.After a memorial service for Sgt. Michael H. Ferschke Jr., 22, at the base chapel last Friday, Mikey, as the

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Danny Lee just became the youngest winner in European Tour historyU.S. Amateur champion Danny Lee birdied the final two holes for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Johnnie Walker Classic.The 18-year-old New Zealander, set to turn pro after the Masters, had a 17-under 271 total on The Vines Resort's composite course."It feels like I'm dreaming at the moment," Lee said. "I won

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For the second time in a little over five weeks I find myself in agreement with NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd. She writes- Yet Obama is oozing empathy compared with his attorney general, who last week called us "a nation of cowards" about race.Eric Holder, who showed precious little bravery in standing up to Clinton on a pardon for the scoundrel Marc Rich, is wrong. We have just inaugurated a

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Today's winner is Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey. He gets the award for the following-"Chain migration is a ticking time bomb. Under current law, one legal immigrant could potentially yield visas for up to 273 other legal immigrants in a 15 year period. You can imagine what would happen if Congress granted amnesty to the 12 million illegal immigrants currently in our nation - each one of

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A new type of class being taught in the United Kingdom. From the Daily Telegraph-The new parity has been brought about by the Government relaxing the rules to allow schools and colleges to count practical qualifications obtained by students along with A-Levels and GCSEs in their league rankings.It means that a merit in an ITEC diploma in "tanning treatments", for which students are taught how to

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For the second time in a week, the Panthers scored an impressive shutout victory. Last week it took place in Carolina, where the cats won 5-0. Carolina is all right this year, that's about all. The win was significant for two reasons. 1 Florida rarely wins at Carolina. Just once in over fifteen tries before last week's game.2 Carolina was Florida's closest pursuer for a playoff spotLast night's

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Apparently this robber never heard the saying 'If you're going to steal, steal big.'Police have released surveillance camera images of a man they say swung a knife as he tried to steal two packages of steaks and a package of pork chops from a supermarket last Thursday.A loss-prevention employee at that Publix at 303 S.E. 17th St. saw the man conceal the food in his jacket and walk to the exit

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The Washington Post is calling for the resignation of Illinois Senator Roland Burris-WHEN THEN-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in December for, among other things, allegedly trying to auction off the U.S. Senate seat left open by Barack Obama's election to the presidency, we feared that whomever Mr. Blagojevich eventually chose would be tainted by the association. Enter Roland W.

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Today's winners are Golf World magazine and its editor Geoff Russell. They get the award for their February 16th 2009 issue which contained a preview of the LPGA Tour. The US based Ladies Professional golf tour began play in Hawaii last Feb 12th.Why do I give Golf World and Geoff Russell the Knucklehead. It is the untimeliness of their preview issue. The magazine came out last week, the same week

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What if there ever was 'So who wants to be my mistress competition?' In China a millionaire hosted one when the economy forced him to make cutbacks.At the time, the businessman, identified only by his last name -- Fan -- was married and had four other mistresses, according to the Peninsula Metropolis Daily newspaper in Qingdao.The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the

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The Jacksonville Jaguars have released their star running back.Running back Fred Taylor wanted to end his career in Jacksonville, hoping to join the small list of standout players who spent an entire career with the same team.He won't get the chance.The Jaguars released Taylor on Monday, parting ways with their all-time leading rusher after 11 seasons and continuing the team's offseason

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Another example of why the South Korean justice system is insane.A local court has ordered a ward office in North Jeolla Province to annul its decision to dismiss a civil servant for having an affair with a female worker during work hours.The unidentified public servant left his office with the female junior worker around 4 p.m. Aug. 16 in 2007 to drink. They went to a motel afterward, where her

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Today's winner is University of South Florida vice president, Dr. Abdul Rao. He gets the award for the following-A University of South Florida vice president who makes $384,280 annually is being investigated on charges he stole a $100 mountain bike.Dr. Abdul Rao was captured on surveillance video Monday night with a man he says is semi-homeless and does odd jobs for him.In the video, uploaded on

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Hospitals are working harder to retain nurses.Newly minted nurse Katie O'Bryan was determined to stay at her first job at least a year, even if she did leave the hospital every day wanting to quit.She lasted nine months. The stress of trying to keep her patients from getting much worse as they waited, sometimes for 12 hours, in an overwhelmed Dallas emergency room was just too much. The breaking

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Her margin of victory at the SBS Open was three shots. Michelle Wie finished a clear 2nd.This was Angela's third win in her last seven LPGA starts. An argument can be made for her as the hottest golfer performance wise on tour at the moment.Michelle had a 3-shot lead with eight holes to go. She was in part done in by a bad tee shot on 11 that led to a double bogey. Some of Wie's detractors will

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Shahar Peer is the 48th ranked player in the world. From AP-The top official in women's tennis reprimanded the United Arab Emirates on Sunday for blocking an Israeli player from a premier Dubai tournament, calling the decision to deny her a visa "regrettable."But the absence of Shahar Peer could extend beyond the matches under way. The WTA Tour is planning to review its future in Dubai, and the

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Today's winners are Marianna Louisa Kittila and Brianna Lynne Tatom. They get the award for the following-Police arrested two women on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment Friday, Feb. 6, after they allegedly kidnapped a 28-year-old woman from the Meridian Street Wal-Mart and dropped her off at a U.S. Border Patrol station, hoping she would be deported.Marianna Louisa Kittila, 24 and Brianna Lynne

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Another example of zero tolerance run amok? An elementary school studnet was suspended from school on Thursday after he brought ammunition to school and told schoolmates about it, according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report.The 11-year-old, who attends Emerald Shores Elementary School, showed other students six .22-caliber rifle cartridges and two empty shell casings that he had with him

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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez should take up standup comedy. From the BBC-Venezuela has expelled a Spanish deputy of the European parliament, over reports that he called President Hugo Chavez a dictator.Luis Herrero had also criticised a decision to keep polling stations open two hours longer than normal in a referendum to be held on Sunday.The referendum is on a proposal to remove all term

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