The thoughts of the chairman - FloridaBrit's Blog!

I just read about Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom,  has been named to a $110,000-a-year job as a vice president at Northwest Florida State College, the latest in a string of legislators to take high-paying posts at schools they have a hand in overseeing.

Am I right in thinking WE are also paying him as a member of the state  government ??

If so WOW- my dad was right-money goes to money !!

can this be legal? should not we ask the people we elect to concentrate 100 percent on the job we elect them to do?

Also Sen. Mike Haridopolos, an Indialantic Republican in line to lead the Senate in two years, was hired to a $75,000-a-year part-time job as a professor at the University of Florida.

75k a year PART TIME !!!  

Folks I dont know about you but for the  other 95 peercent of us making 1 wage and doing god knows how many hours, this  just slaps us all in face as these over paid, back slapping politicians  get rich off of our backs.

if you get elected by us to work on our behalf then NO taking other jobs  until you leave the post !!

its not as if they need the 75k part time job to help make ends meet ....

this whole system is corrupt and     unjust my friends....

Now that Sarah Palin is off back to Alaska  to be the governer again

Do you think Her pregnant daughter will marry the babies father now  the heat is off??

 

Im thinking it wont happen....

No Wonder I hate HOAs !!!!! no common sense at all.............. this guy has gone thru hell and they dont want to help at all. from Local 6 The Sanford man whose wife and son were killed when an airplane crashed into their home may have to tear down his rebuilt house because a homeowners' association said he is breaking their rules.

 

Joe Woodard's wife and son were killed in the July 2007 crash, and he's been building a new home on the same lot for the past year.  the House of Management Enterprises, which represents the homeowners' association, said the home, which is a few weeks from being completed, does not fit their standards and are demanding that the house be torn down.

 

 

According to Woodard, the association wants him to build the exact home he had before.

 

"The room my wife and I had together, the room my son had ... I don't want to relive everything day by day over again," Woodard said.

 

In a letter sent to Woodard from the attorney of the homeowners' association, three specific items were mentioned. The shingles on the home and the elevation are not consistent with the community, and the home extends a few feet longer in the back than association standards allow, the letter stated

I read in the Sentinel today that my power supplier (Florida Power and light  gave $425,000  to the GOP  (and probably some to the Dems too)

I would also suspect that Florida Power too and most of the states electric compnies gave money,.

My point is this-FPL can give 425,000 to a political party yet on thier website they have a program called "care to share" where you can make donations to a fund for people who cant meet thier energy biils.

Now I dont know about you folks but we are ALL struggling with our energy bills, agreed some more than others, however, if they got 425k to  splash out   just to give away then surely they could of put that money in the fund !!

Folks we are gettting ripped off left , right  and center.

 

I also noticed  in my new propery tax assesment that I give a sum of money to the St johns water management  authority -what for ??  IM already paying for water and sewage and all the nice little taxes for them every month !

 

So, I just been hit with a 400 dollar surcharge because we are short on funds to pay our expenses, this is due in part to

people paying thier fees late and (especially in my HOA) foreclosures.

Now while we have recourse to those that pay late etc as they are still in thier houses

how about the BANKS -the owners of the foreclosed properties- Should the BANKS while they are owners be paying thier  share of HOA fees??

Also as money is now getting tight for most of us- as we live on city streets in our HOA (and we pay city taxes etc)  can we drop our  landscaping company that cuts the grass on these city streets and FORCE the city to do it  (As we ARE paying city taxes)

 

just wondered....

They are raising (again )the price of admission into these parks

75 bucks a day per person

so a family of 4   will be "just" 300 bucks to GET IN !!  are they out of thier tiny minds?

then the overpriced food etc

and there's nothing like waiting 90 minutes in the heat and humidity for a 2 minute ride.

they may as well raise the price to 100 bucks a day-its not far off.

 I hardly go anymore,  and I warn all visiotrs about the prices.

See ya Diz and Uni-it was fun while it lasted.

Folks

You know Im no fan of HOAs

I know I got the deeds and all the rules before i bought etc

.

but can I legally get out of  it?

Ive had enough paying 900 bucks a year just to live somewhere and be told what i can and cannot do with my home that I am paying for...(I dont use the gym, pool, nature trail, tennis courts BB courts etc)

Heck, if sth carolina can do it -so can i ?

Or are HOAs just too darn powerful ....

 

on another note-IF im forced to live in a HOA then its time we all started to take the cities to task- after all If Oviedo  said NO to our wanting to be a gated community- and we live on CITY streets-shouldn't the CITY be cutting the common areas instead of me paying twice (city taxes and then HOA fee for landscaping)

 

I know i could have bought somewhere without HOAs but WHERE ? all new subdivisions have them.....and I liked the model....   :-(

 

 

Folks, the Floridabrit is on a well deserved week off , so on Monday we decided to go to the beach .

It was a nice day there  the water was not too cold, and the fresh sea air was  wonderful

however ...

 all over the  the sand - Ciggy butts.

absolutly nasty-  trying to build sandcastles- ciggy butts , trying to find a section of beach with  no garbage was impossible.

 

Now I not only blame the nasty slobs who use the beach as an ash tray but I NEVER saw ANY signs about   not  using the beach as an ashtray either so Cocoa Beach -please do something !

surely they can pull something behind a tractor on the beach to  filter sand from debri?

there was beer caps. Ciggy butts,  etc.

Anyone know of a beach where its not an ashtray?

Tomorrow marks the day when on 7-7-05  cowardly , muslims blew them selves up in London on the bus and  tube trains.

We've been blown up before by the Irish, the Germans etc. but this day it was our own citizens- British born  from Pakistani  etc parents.

While not   in the same size of  destruction or loss of lives as 911, it proves to us that extremist muslims  need to be eradicated.

 

(lets not bring this into a bush/clinton/obama thing.)

 

just remember the dead.

 

This guy is evil- I hope we get to hang him high !

Jailed Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has lost his High Court bid against extradition to the US where he faces terror-related charges.

The Egyptian-born preacher is currently serving a seven-year jail term in the UK for inciting murder and race hate.

Abu Hamza, 50, from west London, is wanted by US authorities on 11 charges, including sending cash to al-Qaeda.

 

 

I'm just curious-I always wondered how it works  with all the comings and goings in the  local tv stations markets -how do you get your jobs etc?

for most of us we have an interview or two, then get hired -and if all goes well  your in  until you decide to leave.etc.

but how about you guys?  is there a TV  news anchor help wanted section? how do you find other  places to work?

and I notice you all have contracts so is that how it works you  get a contract for a certain amount of years ?  then you have to re-negotiate etc?  and what happens if you dont get a new contract?  whats the average length of a contract?

do you all have agents to do that? who negotiates your salary?

Do you get paid like the majority of us  IE by weekly?

in your contract    do the company provide health care etc?  or do you pay through the nose?

how about bonuses etc??  or do you have stipulations that you must be on air a certain amount of time??

Just wondered how it all works !

 

Thanks.

 

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I've noticed now that when a reporter finishes thier news piece the anchor always has to ask a couple of extra questions afterwards  .. WHY?

 

And I wonder   the reporter always has an answer so are they told they will be asked a couple of questions afterwards and they better find the answers...??

 

 

Of us ordinary citizens ?

 

check out these prices - and  see if just flying to europe is outside your budget nowadays !

this is for 2 adults and 2 kids-just the air fare from OIA to London..

Ouch !

USD 1,137.00

 

each adult including charges & surcharges (2  total)

 

USD 959.00

 

each child including charges & surcharges (2  total)

 

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USD 4,192.00

 

Total fare for all

 

USD 617.36

 

Taxes & fees

 

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USD 4,809.36

 

Total

 

 

 

on top of record forecloures

Credit card debt

food prices up 11 percent and

no need to mention gas prices

we now hear Bear Stearns plunged more than 50pc and financial markets were shaken around the world after US authorities and JPMorgan Chase stepped into bail out the troubled banking giant

 

Banks are now appearing to fail....

 

its gonna get ugly folks.

So Fidel's standing down and Raul (aged76) is taking over.-but at 76  how long for?

Is it time This country  relaxed its   hard line embargo on this  small island nation to our south?

I mean, how big a threat is this island to this mighty country?

The Europeans have had no hangup with Cuba for ages, yet our "leaders"  say no deals with Cuba etc, you cant fly direct to Cuba from the US (how nice of a government in the most free society on the planet to tell its people you cant do that)

Sure, we all know communism dont work, but I believe the more we infiltrate thier system and country, the faster the road to democracy will be !

And as a communist state-thier literacy rate is astounding and thier UNIVERSAL HEALTH Care  is second to none by the way)

After all -If we allowed investment in Cuba  and free travel again-South Florida would be half empty !

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The Euro's have been vacationing in Cuba for decades and enjoying the country-how about we catch up with the rest of the world ........