We live in Paradise! No question about it. However even this heavenly place has its drawbacks. One is not natural. It is man caused. I refer to many Key West City Commission decisions.
Roof leaking water requires a new roof. Cost $194,000. My problem with the repair is that the Police Building is relatively new. Constructed in 2002. In 2013, the windows were leaking. They had to be replaced. $238,00. Such repairs a disgrace for a building only 13 years old.
It is not just the Police Building. Many things the City Commission votes and approves, later need repair of some kind. Some bad decisions involve overruns. The City Commission is not properly watching out for taxpayer dollars.
Some things I do not understand. Obama is looking to Congress to authorize a declaration of war. At the same time that Congress is threatening to shut down the Department of Homeland Security. Politics many times does not make sense.
Both basically needed to deal with ISIS.
ISIS is on the move again. Beheaded 21 Italians on a beach in Libya. All 21 were Coptic Christians.
ISIS is a spreading cancer. The Atlantic Ocean is not protection from ISIS terrorist attacks in the United States. We should have learned that from 9/11 and al-Qaeda
Today is Presidents’ Day. Most people think it is to celebrate the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. It is not. When in 1968 Congress authorized the day as a holiday, it was intended to celebrate only Washington’s birthday. The people assumed it was for both.
No day is set aside to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday. Prior to Congress screwing everything up, the birthdays were celebrated on the actual date of the birth of each. Lincoln on February 2 and Washington on February 22.
The legal holiday popularly known as Presidents’ Day is to be celebrated on the third monday in February.
We also lost a paid holiday on the way. Both holidays on each’s date of birth meant for two separate days off. As opposed to Washington’s birthday alone which permits one day.
We lost a day and did not even know it at the time. Even today. Lincoln has no specific date to celebrate his life.
Thank you Congress! Another example of not getting things right.
Enjoy your day!
Celebrating Washington I can understand. Celebrating any of the others, I can’t. Celebrating Lincoln is absurd — he is my choice for “worst”. http://reinkefaceslife.com/2008/11/09/rant-the-worst-president/
Isis beheaded 21 Egyptians, not 21 Italians. El Sisi responded like Jordan, quick, decisive and with power — things this evil understands. Obama continues to do nothing. Hopeless.
I caught the Italian/Egyptian error an hour after the blog was published. Too late to correct. As careful as I try to be, I screw up occasionally. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and your other comments.