There was a class room where the teacher explained she would recite famous quotes and ask the class to identify the source and the date it was spoken. She asked who said, “You have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Class who was that she asked? Johnny in the front row raised his hand, where upon she called on him and he said, Franklin Delono Roosevelt, 1932.”“Correct,” the teacher said. Next she asked who said, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat?” Once again Johnny was called and said, “Winston Churchill, 1940.” “Correct Johnny” the teacher said. Again the teacher asked, “who said, My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what can you do for your country.” As expected Johnny answered, “John F Kennedy 1961.

Looking north from the catwalk on the 10th floor I came out of the elevator to see my giant neighbor (guy is about 6.5 270) staring north where upon he pointed and said “ther’s dolphin.” As I had never seen them in the Intracoastal Waterway, I was skeptical. But there they were, at first I thought they maybe Tarpon, no they breached like a mammal, the dorsal looked right and then the tail. I had binoculars close and with them it was confirmed, four separate, brown in color, feeding, small dolphins heading north. Who would have thought?

A wonderful short video of the heavens. Enjoy

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/02/14/temporal-distortion/

Anonymous - The First Message of 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFF4IcROU5w&feature=player_embedded

It was the only time in South Florida history that snow fell from the skies, swirling over palm trees, dazzling school children and surprising the region’s normally sun-baked residents.

That was on Jan. 19, 1977 - 35 years ago Thursday.

Officially, the National Weather Service recorded it as only a trace of snow. The moment it hit the ground, it quickly dissipated. Yet many people vividly remember that day. To them, it was akin to a raging blizzard

By Ken Kaye
Sun Sentinel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/storm-center-blog/sfl-remember-snow-in-south-florida-20120118,0,3744548,full.story

A 21-year-old was arrested early on Tuesday on charges of recording the encounter he had with deputies during a traffic stop without permission.

Paul was informed he did not have the deputies' permission to record, a violation of state law, and was arrested after he did not stop recording

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/pb-recording-leads-to-arrest-20111101,0,7158455.story

NBC Miami - The dramatic dash-cam video of the arrest of a Miami Police officer at gunpoint by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper for speeding was released by authorities Monday.

Officer Fausto Lopez, 35, was taken into custody on the morning of Oct. 11 as he was driving south on the Florida Turnpike near Hollywood Boulevard in Broward County at around 120 mph, according to the FHP.

In the FHP video, the marked Miami Police car, allegedly driven by Lopez, is seen weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds as the FHP trooper gives chase with lights and sirens blaring.

It takes nearly seven minutes before the car finally pulls into the median and stops.

Make sure to see the video

The streets were littered for weeks and months. Then Japan was hit with a double calamity and I noticed the citzens cleared the streets on their own just hours after the quake to allow rescue operations, that was very impressive. Now this:

Japanese citizens hand in £50m found washed up by tsunami
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

Friday, 19 August 2011
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

Tens of thousands of citizens may have lost their homes, livelihoods, and loved ones in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, but their public spirit appears undiminished, with news yesterday that good Samaritans have handed in millions of pounds found in safes and wallets amid the devastation.

I made an assumption yesterday and was I way off. At about 3:30 I heard sirens, although I hear them all the time as I am close to a hospital and close to the ocean it is not uncommon, this time it was different. I waited and watched and then I noticed the distinctive ambulance from Lauderdale by the Sea, which has a volunteer fire department, the emergency vehicle was lead and flanked by police cars from the same municipality escorting and clearing the way to the hospital emergency room. At that moment I assumed that must be a VERY important person because I had never seen an ambulance escorted by police cars. I was impressed because of the apparent reckless tactics used by the police, high speed in the excess of seventy-five miles an hour in a thirty-five speed zone, breaking hard in the first intersection with the police vanguard roaring off to the next intersection, the scream of their engines, sounds of their tires and the mingling of four sirens made the event sound so different.

Today I read the following story and realized the patient was very important but not in the way I was thinking. I feel very distressed for the little guy and his family.

But they missed this guy:

FBI: Stowaway slips onto cross-country flight

(CNN) -- Investigators have charged a man with being a stowaway after he allegedly took a flight from New York to Los Angeles, even though he didn't have a proper boarding pass and was not on the flight manifest.
It wasn't until after Virgin America Flight 415 took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday that the airline discovered the man, identified as Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, wasn't supposed to be on the flight, according to an FBI affidavit.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/30/flight.stowaway/

Veteran journalist Mark Haines, a fixture on CNBC for 22 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening. He was 65 year

Haines, founding anchor of CNBC's morning show "Squawk Box," was co-anchor of the network's "Squawk on the Street" program, providing insight and commentary sometimes humorous and occasionally acerbic.

CNBC President Mark Hoffman called Haines a "building block" of the financial networks' programming. Hoffman said Haines died at his home.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43167028

There has been alot of talk about the difference between Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The referenced story below seems to expand on their togetherness:

AN ATOL EXCLUSIVE
Taliban and al-Qaeda: Friends in arms

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

WANA, South Waziristan - In the controversial debate over who is good and who is bad, Pakistan presents the al-Qaeda-linked Nazir Ahmed as a model "good Taliban".

Across the border in Afghanistan it is a somewhat different story: Nazir, leader of the Wazir tribe in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area, is viewed by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces as their "worst enemy" and behind all devastating attacks on NATO forces in Paktika province and the most successful recruiter of footsoldiers for the Taliban in Zabul and Helmand provinces

Back in the 70s and 80s South Florida's winding waterways were a smuggler's paradise. Growing up here the stories always spoke of the audacity of the smuggling operators. One story dealt with the Black Tuna Gang, and closer to home one of the member's disappearance or more accurately his jumping bail. The mystery was solved yesterday.

Fugitive, 62, tracked down in Century Village after 31 years on the run

A fugitive will wake up behind bars Friday, 31 years after he left a federal courtroom in Miami-Dade County during his trial and never looked back.

The U.S. Marshals "Cold Case Squad" arrested Mark Steven Phillips, 62, at a Century Village rental apartment west of West Palm Beach on Thursday. He will soon face the same U.S. District Court judge, James Lawrence King, who presided over his trial in 1979.

Defeat al-Qaida
Make the taliban irrelevant
Make Afghanistan a viable state

http://video.pbs.org/video/1750220122/

Ignorance exposed. Forgive me but, HA,HA,HA,HA.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCrns-tvdAs

Woman, 69, was trapped in bathroom for three weeks

An elderly French woman who was trapped in her bathroom for three weeks has finally been rescued, media reports said.

The 69-year-old grandmother got stuck in her Paris bathroom when the door lock broke, Agence France-Presse reported.

Firefighters broke into her home and freed her on Friday after a neighbor noticed that she had not picked up her mail in weeks and called the police.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40351842/ns/world_news-europe/

I was always impressed by his positive outlook, what a salesman!

Last Fuller Brush Man in Broward dies at 89
Death signals end of an era

Robert Nolin | Sun Sentinel

PLANTATION — Blue eyes twinkling under a broad-brimmed hat, displaying a sample case and a smile, Robert Schink traipsed the streets of Broward County, peddling products from another age.

For 50 years.

He was The Fuller Brush Man, the last of his kind. In September, Mr. Schink died at age 89. Ill health forced him to hang up his sample kit two years ago, leaving no other representative to knock on doors offering grooming and cleaning products from the venerable company.

Killer of mom, 2 daughters gets death sentence

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut man was condemned to death Monday for a night of terror inside a suburban home in which a woman was strangled and her two daughters tied to their beds, doused in gasoline and left to die in a fire.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40071693/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

the last man is out talking to the President of Chile who is exhausted
and he seems to be giving him a hard time. My Spanish is not perfect but i think we may read more about it tomorrow.

Her brother called, he has been living in Central America. He was in desperate need
of money, he had been thrown out on the street, he seemed scared. His record of life
was not good, no support for his children, jail, deportation, a legacy of pain and disappointment. Yet the fear and urgency convinced her to send the money. The choice was labored she wanted to stand firm against anymore manipulation from him, but
the kindness and encouragement of her 19 year old son reinforced her decision. With that decided she arranged for the payment and proceeded with her day.

She had bought a “Stove Hood,” for her new range, it was beautiful and grand and it was too big, she was upset over that, after purchasing stools that were to tall to fit the intended table, she was loosing confidence. At the store she exchange the improper choice for the correct choice and wandered over to the tv department.

FOR EFFECT OPEN LINK WHILE READING: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZBgHBHQT8

Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles

Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality.

I question the Taliban's rules of engagement and its treatment of captives.
I sometimes think the west's biggest mistake is to judge the world by its standards
of civility. Perhaps we should adopt the practices of the Taliban.

Six Afghan police officers beheaded during raid, officials say
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Taliban militants beheaded six Afghan police officers during a raid in northern Baghlan province, officials said Wednesday.

The militants had attacked a school, clinic and the district governor's office in Dahanah-e Ghori.

They overran a police checkpoint and killed the six police officers, according to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Munshi Abdul Majid, the governor of Baghlan

With cash-hungry South Florida cities and the state in full money-grab mode, will red-light cameras be just the start?

"I don't see why they wouldn't do it for stop signs, too," said Daniel Karten, of Hollywood.

Or how about the state using SunPass transponders to detect speeding violations on toll roads?

Or how about cities using cameras to bust illegal U-turns?

"What's next? Probably speed cameras," said attorney Bret Lusskin, whose successful suit against Aventura's red-light cameras prompted the Legislature to rewrite state law and allow them. "If we don't stop this now, there'll be cameras everywhere, trying to catch anything you do."

This has been out for a while and I thought the prospective of American humor during hardship may be interesting to some;

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c4_1176720508

NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE COUNTY Long-standing digital construction signs along the Palmetto Expressway on Tuesday morning were apparently hacked to flash two messages: "No Latinos" and "No Tacos."

WTVJ-Ch. 6 reports the signs on the northbound side of the 826, right near the Northwest 25th Street exit, have since been turned to face away from the road.

There is speculation that someone hacked into the signs overnight. Officials say the signs are password-protected.

It's not known how long the signs were flashing the messages. By 6 a.m., the Florida Highway Patrol had turned the signs around.