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the City which was the setting for Hemmingway's To Have and Have Not is still a veeery conflicted and extreeeemly corrupt (democrat) city. The rich get richer and the poor keep them that way. The Feds could/should have a RICO field day down here

This paper is call the 'Bait Wrapper' by the locals so as not to offend the Fish [Wrapper]

Citizen's Voice

"There's two items in the news I want to comment on. One of them is the resolution that the city commission wants to send to the federal government about starting a war in Iraq. I don't believe that the city commission should be entering into that either way. They represent all the people of Key West; some people are for it and some people are against it, so I don't think the city commission should be entering into that kind of a fray. And the second comment I would like to make is about Julio Avael's five-year contract. I hope the commissioners are smart enough to know that we cannot afford another five years of Julio Avael. If they want to do a year at a time, that's fine. But a five-year contract is not a good way to go because this makes a person feel like they're more of a dictator than an employee of the city."

"It's not that the American public should stand by its soldiers and stand by its president. No, the president of the United States should stand by the American people, and the soldiers of the American people should fight and stand for Americans. ... I just can't say it enough, that the American president and the American military work for and should appreciate the opinion of the American people, not the other way around."

"About Commissioner Oosterhoudt's recent no-panhandling zone, what he has done is gotten the panhandlers out of his area, out of his neighborhood, and out of his view, and pushed them into the surrounding areas. My area. Thank you for nothing, Commissioner Oosterhoudt."

"Wolfpack? What an aggressive, immature title. Why not something like traffic safety squad? Shows again the Key West Police Department's power trip mentality. Red light runners and speeders go on all week long. Why only Friday and Saturday night? To get more MAD DUI awards? Don't want to give tickets. Give us a break."

"Has anyone else but me noticed how much construction is going on, houses are being built, now that the FBI is investigating Pritam Singh? Think about it."

"... That comment I made about houses being developed with Pritam Singh being under investigation, you probably [don't] understand what I meant, so I will explain it to you. The county was most likely holding on to all these permits for people who have been trying to get their houses built for years. And now that Pritam Singh is under investigation they want to cover their own asses, so they are finally letting people build their houses. And I also notice they are going up fast, so inspectors aren't hassling them and harassing them like crazy. Now do you understand?"

"In response to the comment on the madman in the White House. You could have had Hitler or Saddam as a leader. ... "

"Congratulations to members of the Key West High School band for the wonderful concert they put on last Thursday evening."

"Gary Condit is a skirt-chasing sex maniac. And he said as far as he was concerned, women were his to use, abuse and dispose of. And that sounds like our president we had a couple of years ago. What do you think about this, ladies that love Clinton?"

"Yes I wonder how I can sleep tonight, knowing that Beavis and Butthead are in the White House. This really scares me."

"Yes. I don't see anything strange about Scott Smith having a DUI conviction, considering there are Key West police officers who drink on duty. ... "

"Isn't it illegal to ride your motorcycle across the pedestrian bridge? Gee, the police department should ticket their own. I just saw a Key West police officer ride his motorcycle across the pedestrian bridge."

"I'm an RVer and I take exception the uninformed rantings of those who assume holding tanks are irresponsibly dumped in our shopping centers and at the beach parking lot. Where is the mess, if that were true? Perhaps you should wonder why the beaches are periodically closed because of a high e-coli count. Could that possibly be from the thousands of boats anchored off our shores, as e-coli stems from human waste?"

"To the person that is trying to say Jimmy Weekley doesn't hire the needy, he's never been in a Fausto's."

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1 posted on 02/05/2003 2:31:13 PM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee
The "Anti - - Anti-war" Wave. What Should It Be? What Should It Look Like?

”For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson

2 posted on 02/05/2003 2:33:53 PM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: Elle Bee
I have a 23-year-old son," said Mayor Jimmy Weekley. "My greatest fear is to lose my son over a conflict that I believe to be about oil."

So I'm to assume this guy's son is in the military? Somehow I don't think he or his son have ever been within 500 miles of a military base.
3 posted on 02/05/2003 2:34:26 PM PST by Arkie2
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To: Elle Bee
Just spent 2 weeks down there. Full of fruit loops.
7 posted on 02/05/2003 2:40:46 PM PST by finnman69
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To: Elle Bee
Forunately for these losers and others like them, their braver and much wiser fellow citizens will protect them whether they deserve that protection or not. As they wrap themselves in their holier than thou statements and behavior I can assure them that I will take my chances answering to God for pre-emptively protecting myself and my fellow Americans instead of waiting until the "smoking gun" is "smoking Chicago."

God knows my heart and He knows the heart of our enemies, again I will take my chances answering to Him.
8 posted on 02/05/2003 2:42:34 PM PST by Let's Roll (Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.)
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I've been to key west... Nice to see they still haven't sobbered up...
9 posted on 02/05/2003 2:43:00 PM PST by usnret99 (I served! Have You?)
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To: Elle Bee
Personally, I would urge all of the Democrat-controlled legislatures and city governments in the U.S. to come out against the war.

More and more folks are beginnning to trust our POTUS. That being the case, they are realizing that the people who say "It's just about oil" are fools. So, we need to let the fools take a clear stand. Folks need to know who to vote against next time around.

(A lot of Dems get into office without any of today's yellow-dog Democrats really knowing much if anything about them. A vote to forego war with Iraq would help us get to "know" them.)

10 posted on 02/05/2003 2:48:24 PM PST by the_doc
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To: Elle Bee
"I have a 23-year-old son," said Mayor Jimmy Weekley. "My greatest fear is to lose my son over a conflict that I believe to be about oil."

Um, given your constituency, you are statistically far more likely to lose your son to AIDS.

11 posted on 02/05/2003 2:48:46 PM PST by wideawake
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Is the full text of the resolution available? I looked at the resolution/petition that a group is proposing for L.A., and it says we can only attack Iraq if they directly and militarily attack us first. Most people signing the L.A. resolution/petition probably didn't read it closely enough to understand what it was really saying.
12 posted on 02/05/2003 2:51:01 PM PST by lonewacko_dot_com (http://lonewacko.com/blog)
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In related news the city of Key West is looking for good homes for some cocks. street roosters that is. nevermind.

*google key west rooster roundup*
13 posted on 02/05/2003 2:54:27 PM PST by kinghorse
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To: Elle Bee
"I have a 23-year-old son," said Mayor Jimmy Weekley"

I think this was dictated over the phone to the pressroom, and they got it wrong. Should be:

I have a 23-year-old son," said Mayor Jimmy, weakly.

16 posted on 02/05/2003 3:08:46 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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You're either with us, or against us. After Iraq, we declare war on Key West.
17 posted on 02/05/2003 3:43:49 PM PST by My2Cents ("...The bombing begins in 5 minutes.")
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To: Elle Bee
Someone need to hide their salt shaker again and give them a chance to dry out.
19 posted on 02/05/2003 3:53:09 PM PST by Ditto
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Thus bunch of clowns has posted all the cities/towns/etc that have opted for peace with the devil.
http://www.citiesforpeace.org/
31 posted on 02/05/2003 4:28:05 PM PST by eleni121
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To: Elle Bee
Sorry, but I couldn't read the whole article. It really chaps my hide when elected municipal 'officials' think it is there charter to define foreign policy.

If he doesn't like what the feds are doing, he should write his congresscritter like everyone else. I can't believe these dweebs are wasting what meager resources they have to on things that are not in their charter.

They should be worrying about getting the trash picked up, how they're going to pay the dog catcher, not grandstanding for national press.

35 posted on 02/05/2003 4:34:24 PM PST by tje
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To: Elle Bee
It is time for any person with any brains cells left undamaged to evacuate Key West. Let the others contemplate their navels and read streisand's website. We will alert them when it's safe to return to the bitching, whining, belly-aching, and general pain-in-the-ass status they have as U.S. citizens. Better yet, let's just send them the message in a bottle.
38 posted on 02/05/2003 4:43:47 PM PST by small voice in the wilderness
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Speaker after speaker uttered words of peace and wishes for the city motto of One Human Family to be extended to the rest of the world.

Yup. These people defintiely belong in FloriDUH.

40 posted on 02/05/2003 4:57:27 PM PST by FourPeas (Hey, at least the DUers are mildly entertaining, in a grotesque sort-of way)
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To: Elle Bee
Key West is a fun place to party and get away from it all...but by the same token it's a place where the people are out of touch with the real world.

Definitely not the sort of people you would trust with foreign policy or national defense.

41 posted on 02/05/2003 7:46:52 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Elle Bee
NIce to know some things never change, still wasting away in Margaritaville.
42 posted on 02/05/2003 7:48:04 PM PST by jwalsh07 (Senator Kennedy ain't Irish either, he's a Frenchy.)
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Key West has turned into a refugee camp for old hippies, New Agers,drunks,bums, and burnt out liberal lefties
43 posted on 02/05/2003 7:57:48 PM PST by apackof2 (God Bless America, God Bless Our Troops)
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No wonder Hemmingway killed himself. He was ahead of his time, ya know.
44 posted on 02/05/2003 8:07:57 PM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (God Speed Columbia Seven)
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