Born in Coney Island ( Pizza invented by Lombardi Family there), home of
Mona Lisa’s, Tutones, Lombardi’s, Grimaldi’s-The Greatest Pizza in the world
Bad water in South Florida, blah888blah888blah- I want to find the best pizza in county- will make it famous- send to tom@thinkweston.com. Let the challenge begin
Walk into my new favorite local gin mill in Hollywood- Alot of decorations, food, giant banner for a surprise 50th birthday-
cake with 50 on it, ballons with 50 on it, banners with 50 on it, giant birthday card with 50 on it, the party given by life long Hollywood friends (collectively know this women for over 200 years!!!)
Just one tiny problem…THE WOMEN WAS TURNING 49 NOT 50!!! No body checked before they invited a hundred or so friends, and the very best part of it…and I believe is the best part of the uniqueness of south florida…NOBODY REALLY THOUGHT THIS WAS A SCREW UP…They looked at me as some wise guy when I continued to laugh…
Oh well I LOVE THIS PLACE
My home state of New York is Number One, Florida which had been number one for the past four years dropped all the way to number 7-
Here are other states you can be tailgated, cut-off, flipped off, cursed, and generally think the human race needs to be filtered! IMMEDIATELY
40 SOUTH CAROLINA to many rednecks
40 MARYLAND thta’s where Baoltimore is…right?
42 CONNECTICUT saty to the right on Route-plenty of unmarked mustangs ready to ticket
43 FLORIDA Golden Glades, 441/95, Alligator Alley
44 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Beltway is a bad NASCAR Race
45 MASSACHUSETTS Route 128 is a good place to comtemplate ending your life
46 RHODE ISLAND where?
47 GEORGIA rednecks, beer F-150’s ouch!
48 CALIFORNIA San Fernando Valley, at least it’s beautiful
49 HAWAII-never been
50 NEW JERSEY any place in noth east NJ is a bad experience
51 NEW YORK my home, Cross Island Expressway, Belt Parkway, L>I>E, so many places to experience
COCONUT CREEK - In a first for a South Florida municipality, Coconut Creek has started a five-month moratorium on new prescription drug-dispensing centers.
The cityhopes to answer the question plaguing many municipalities: How do you legally single out pain centers for regulation when zoning codes put them in the same category as pharmacies? (Oh gee, let me guess-BY DOING YOUR JOB AT AT THE COUNTY AND STATE LEVEL!)
state legislators passed a measure for a statewide pill database. But it probably won’t be available until December 2010.
“There are a lot of nuances to the issue,” said Sheila Rose, the city’s development services director. “Our mission is not to put doctors’ offices out of business. Our mission is to create a safe environment for the public.”
At least 70 of the clinics in Broward and Palm Beach counties opened since January 2008, according to a Sun Sentinel analysis. Authorities say the centers attract robberies and illegal drug sales.( and illegal prescription sales)
Well the word is out, Broward County is now considered the number one place in the East Coast for illegal pain killer scripts! Federal Authorities are looking into OVER 200 of these pain clinic store fronts for illegal sale of oxyconttins and other “addictive” pain killers. 60 Minutes is coming down to South Florida to do a story on this new “Drug” business we are in. The lack of due diligence, common sense and control by our multi-billion dollar County and State government is mind blowing. More to come!!!
From TV-12 on Long Island
Crews of drug dealers are being recruited in rural Tri-State communities, loaded into cars and vans and sent to South Florida. In parking lots at clinics in Dade and Broward Counties, you can actually watch people crush, snort and shoot the drugs.
Frequently using state supplied medical cards, paid for with your tax dollars, individuals pay a $200 fee to be seen by a doctor. They’re sent to a pre-arranged clinic for an MRI, and return… leaving with multiple prescriptions for pain killers, many of which they’re bringing back to Tri-state pharmacies in towns like Bethel and Amelia.
Robert Westbrook-The Pill Box: “The first one we saw they actually had two in their hand one was for a hundred and 20 , the other for 30 they wanted to know if they could get both filled, so we’re wondering what’s going on and the same day we had maybe six, 8 more people coming in with the same prescriptions, we refused to fill everything and then started trying to find out what was happening.”
If you’re wondering why someone would be willing to drive all the way from a community like this to South Florida just for a handful of prescriptions, let me introduce you to the clandestine world of pharmaceuticals. On the street drugs like Oxycontin sell for a dollar a milligram… that means an 80 milligram oxy is worth 80 dollars. Multiply that by a bottle full, say a hundred, and that means a bottle of oxycontin’s worth nearly $8000 and that makes South Florida paradise for drug dealers.
In 2007, on a quest for drugs, Brett Conn rode the pill pipeline to a lethal conclusion. Conn and friend Timothy Riggs went to South Florida from their home in Morehead County, Kentucky. Conn overdosed and died in a Pompano Beach motel. A few months later his father, James Kent Conn, overcome with grief, tracked down Timothy Riggs and killed him. James Conn is now serving 45 years for murder.
I have seen this myself in Hollywood, amazing openess, well why would the cops look at this when DUI’s are a profit center and arresting these people is not!
There’s more and more to come
April news from New Hampshire pointing finger at Florida
The U.S. Postal Service has become an innocent partner in today’s drug trade.
Last week’s arrests — a collaborative effort that included the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Somersworth Police Department — came on the heels of a shipment of more than 1,500 OxyContin pills from a point in Florida. The alleged shipper was arrested by Florida authorities and scheduled for arraignment.
“Essentially, the pills would be shipped from Florida to the charged defendants by Express Mail, which means they would get there in two or three days. The reason many traffickers use that is it’s quick and it goes directly to the house,” Davis said. She described Florida as the “mecca” for OxyContin shipments.
More stories out of New York, New Jersey, Boston, North Carolina, Columbus Ohio all saying “Ground Zero” for illegal shipments of pain killers is Florida, and in particular South Florida
. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real Florida driver never uses them.
2. Under no circumstance should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the space will be filled in by somebody else, putting you in an even more dangerous situation
. 3. The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.
4. Never, ever come to a complete stop at a stop sign. No one expects it and it will result in you being rear-ended.
5. Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork, especially someone from Florida With no-fault insurance the other guy doesn’t have anything to lose.
6. Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in, giving a nice, relaxing foot massage as the brake pedal pulsates. For those of you without ABS, it’s a chance to stretch your legs.
7. Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It’s a good way to prepare for people entering the highway.
8. Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as a suggestion and are apparently not enforceable in any County during rush hour.
9. Just because you’re in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn’t mean that a Florida driver flashing his high beams behind you doesn’t think he can go faster in your spot.
10. Always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire. This is seen as a sign of respect for the victim.
The editor–Well what can you say, we are incredible, Number One in Fraud, Last in Education, Number One in Road Rage and now another jewel to our crown of thorns…….we are the most unhappy state in the country (tied with Oregon-not to worry-we will kick their ass also)
DAVIE - The waitress didn’t bat an eye when two men dropped off Ku Klux Klancalling cards at a restaurant near Town Hall one recent Sunday.
The cards, placed on tables inside the Garden Grill and on news racks outside, warned of white children “quickly becoming America’s new minority.”
The waitress shrugged it off. “It was no big deal - they didn’t rally,” she said, declining to give her name. The Klan hasn’t rallied in Davie since 1993, when members marched to protest the Martin Luther Kin.g holiday and Haitian immigration.
Town officials say Davie has changed since then and point to their observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dayand the increase in Hispanics residents and other minorities as proof the town welcomes diversity. Others, however, aren’t so sure.
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In August, the U.S.Justice Department filed a lawsuit against an apartment complex in Davie, claiming the manager told black applicants he had no vacancies, then bragged to white applicants about the lack of African-Americans. Trial is set for Oct. 5 before U.S. District Judge James Cohn.
Black families don’t appear to be flocking to Davie, based on Census figures. The black population in this town of 90,000 has hovered at 4 percent over the past decade while Broward County ’s black population has risen to 25 percent. Davie has 612 full-time employees. About 43, or 7 percent, are black, records show.
Billy Montgomery, who is black, remembers staying away from the town’s annual Orange Blossom parade as a kid because he was afraid of the Klan.
While those days are gone, in some ways racism has gotten worse, said Montgomery, now 38. “You just don’t see it,” he said. “It’s hidden.” It certainly wasn’t hidden in the 1960s, when some Ku Klux Klan leaders called Davie home. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the town became a stage for Klan rallies. In 1989, hooded men threatened a black woman at her job.
In 1991, a black couple awakened by a barking dog found their mailbox ablaze and racial slurs spray-painted on their driveway, along with the words “KKK was here” written in blue. Later that year, the Klan protested at a drug store that refused to develop pictures of a rally in Tallahassee.
Nearly a decade later, Geri Clark, who is of black and Puerto Rican ancestry, became the first person of color elected to office in 2000. She served one term and has since moved to Hollywood.
While Clark thinks the men passing out the KKK cards may have felt a level of comfort in Davie, she says the town has made racial strides.
“Someone in that restaurant was disturbed by that card and called [the paper],” she said. “That might not have happened 20 years ago.”
Officials with Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Arkansas, could not be reached for comment despite three calls and an attempt by email. The group’s Web site peddles KKK paraphernalia, including cards like the ones left at the Davie diner.
Leaving those calling cards is not a sign of strength but of weakness, said Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama. In the mid-1920s, the Ku Klux Klan claimed about 4 million members. That number has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 today.
“And this is the kind of thing they’re left doing, leaving cards in a diner,.” said Potok, who investigates white supremacist groups.
A recession frequently brings a surge in racism, said Art Evans, a sociology professor at Florida Atlantic Universityin Boca Raton. “When you have an economic downturn, people begin looking for scapegoats for the reason they are not doing well,” he said.
Members of hate groups might hand out literature in places they expect to find a sympathetic ear, Potok said. “And in some quarters, Davie has that reputation, fairly or unfairly.”
A longtime white resident offended by the cards contacted Mayor Judy Paul to complain. “We can’t tolerate anything that is tied to hate,” Paul said. “I don’t know what we can do about it. It’s something you know is there but you wish it wasn’t.”
Margaret Porfiris, owner of the Garden Grill, remembers working that Sunday. She saw the cards, which solicited $3 for information on an Arkansas-based white supremacist group. But Porfiris doesn’t recall the KKK letters printed in red.
“I wish I would have noticed,” she said. “Then I could do something.” But there’s not much anyone can do without violating the First Amendment, said Barry Butin, an attorney with the Broward County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
“They have the right to speak,” Butin said. “As long as they’re not advocating violence, they can walk down the street and say we think all black people should be sent back to Africa.”
From the editor-I know this restaurant and people who work there. They are working class people who have been in Davie for decades. Davie has changed somewhat, but it does not surprise me that nobody made a stink.They are people who are part of the working poor which Davie has a large group. It is not an excuse, and the rednecks that I know in Davie are broke and embrassed. And no offense to the owner of this diner saying she could not do anything-I love to see some black group come in and leave some literature behind-Right that would happen-the owner did not want to offend her regulars-so she let them distribute-Somebody sometimes in this country has to tell the truth Shame on you people in Davie-Wow-2009 and still believe its everybody’s fault but your own!
She’s tried before, and Democratic state senator Nan Rich of Weston is trying again: Rich wants to make it legal for gays to adopt and illegal for Floridians to have sex with animals
You’d have thought by now, in the year 2009, the law would be the other way around.
But not in Flori-duh.
Give Rich credit for continuing her quixotic quest.
She’s made a push on both fronts in the past, but the efforts haven’t gotten far with the righteous right-wingers of Tallahassee.
Even though gays are legally allowed to become foster parents for children in the state’s welfare system, they are still prohibited from taking the logical last step — adopting them permanently.
Rich has sponsored SB460 and co-sponsored SB500 to right that wrong. Rich would like the Legislature to erase the 1970s Anita Bryant-era ban in order to make an ongoing court fight over gay adoption moot.
Fat chance. So far there is no twin House bill, and the Republican-dominated House is usually loathe to such progressive thinking. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m betting by the end of the session on May 1 the gay adoption ban stays in place.
The bestiality ban, SB448, has a better shot. There is already a twin House bill with several Republican co-sponsors. The bill should get the backing of powerful animal-rights groups, and I can’t imagine anybody working the other side of this issue. (Unless there’s a North American Man-Sheep Love Association out there that I’m not aware of).
Here’s hoping Rich goes at least one-for-two
300 Fort Lauderdale workers made at least
$100,000 in 2008
The city of Fort Lauderdale’s annual list of the top-paid employees — released in a spirit of disclosure — shows the number of workers earning six figures
Consider police Officer Jason Maldonado, the highest compensated officer whether overtime was included or not. He earned $193,680 in compensation, including about $70,000 in overtime, and the city’s pension contribution of about $25,000.- You got to be kidding
Police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa said officers do not comment to the media. Gee I am so surprised
Most of the Fort Lauderdale employees work in the police or fire departments, and about 90 percent are men. Others include officials in parks, the building department, public works, human resources and public information, among other areas
Wow we sure are getting our monies worth- crime increases, services are down, many of the store fronts on Las Olas Blvd are closed. The robbery of the US general public continues- Shame on Ft lauderdale!
Florida is number one in road rage in the USA, number one in rudeness in the USA, last in education in the USA- So why not let THESE PEOPLE have as many concealed weapons as possible-and the guy in charge of weapon permits is named CHARLES BRONSON—Only in Florida-
Floridians in record numbers want to carry concealed weapons, a trend linked to a surge in crime, economic anxiety and fears of stricter gun laws.
The state is buried under a backlog of 95,000 applications for concealed-weapons permits and it needs to hire a lot more people to handle the paperwork. A legislative panel Wednesday gave Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson the OK to spend $3.9 million more so he can hire 61 temporary workers.
”Once the economy gets bad, crime always goes up,” said Bronson, a police officer. “People get desperate whenever things are not going the way they feel like they should be going, and they’ll do things they normally wouldn’t do.”
The state reported a surge in applications in November after the election of President Barack Obama, who in the past has advocated stricter gun control laws but who also campaigned as a defender of Second Amendment rights. Florida received 75,679 first-time concealed-weapon permit applications in 2007 and 86,269 in 2008, in addition to tens of thousands of renewal forms. About 541,000 Floridians have permits for concealed weapons.
In a state were we have cut budget for essentials like EDUCATION we are hiring 61 workers to process concealed weapons permits- You have to be kidding-
CASE IN POINT TODAY”S (Feb 20th) Miami Herald
Had Diego Jose Feliciano been satisfied with merely flicking off a motorist on Florida’s Turnpike Friday morning, it’s possible he could still be a free man.
Instead, he waved a revolver at the driver — a Miami police officer — leading to a chase that ended with Feliciano lying face down on the highway in Miramar.
Feliciano, 56, of Hollywood, was arrested and has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, according to Miramar police.
According to an arrest affidavit, Feliciano was driving a 2002 Ford pickup truck north on the turnpike about 9 a.m. when he leaned out the window and showed his middle finger to a Miami police officer who was driving from his home to a shooting range in Medley.
The officer, who was in an unmarked unit, said Feliciano then changed lanes and shook a revolver in his right hand.
At that point, the officer called 911 and backed off, said Officer Jeff Giordano, a Miami police spokesman.
The Florida Highway Patrol and Miami-Dade County police were notified.
Feliciano was pulled over near Northwest 52nd Avenue in Miramar, where he was arrested. Miramar police say a Colt .32 was found in his truck.
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She’s tried before, and Democratic state senator Nan Rich of Weston is trying again: Rich wants to make it legal for gays to adopt and illegal for Floridians to have sex with animals