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Archive for February 26th, 2008

Whoa That Was Close!

Power surge…..LBTS is lucky today….all over the news….power outages…all around…thousands impacted….in Orlando…Davie….Miami…Coral Gables…cars are looking like bumper cars on TV at the intersections….no traffic lights…schools are having outages…. ongoing coverage
Imagine the surge when it comes on!!!! Now we have the rain and tornado warnings. Deerfield..along the coast!….ahhh
Again, Brittany response below ……1st post of [...]

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www.sunsentinel.com
Scroll down to Brittany story in first post….. posted this morning…my response to Sun-Sentinel article in local section today!
Front page…third and final part of series about Sub-prime mortgages and foreclosures.
The sub-prime meltdown….
Large lenders, small brokers fed the home loan frenzy..( in an earlier post I stated that mortgage brokers deserve a [...]

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www.sunsentinel.com
Brittany:
I waited and I waited and finally on the front page of the Local section today…. Town Commission hopes rancor is over.
“The prettiest small town in America” has a not-so- pretty truth: Residents don’t get along.
A long re-hash of how we got where we are….a long re-hash of half truths and slanted reporting.
I take issue [...]

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“Dooms Day Vault”

www.cnn.com
A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean.
It is called the “Dooms Day Vault”
It will be able to hold up to 4.5 million seed samples from around the world…eventually it will house almost every [...]

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Let’s Play Ball!

www.sunsentinel.com
Log online for a map of where the teams are playing for Spring Training!
Better than Punxsutawney Phil…..when it comes to seeing how much winter is left!
Just wish the Marlins were not going to the Orange Bowl….a bitter pill for us season ticket owners….
bcbythesea hubby says that instead of spending the reported 70 million recently to [...]

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Jaablog…interesting idea…to help stop the furloughs reported to be thrust upon employees of the courts in Broward and statewide.
The challenge being made is to the judges who earn between 137- 146 thousand a year….to give up 5% of their pre-tax earnings and donate it to those workers who make 35 thousand and less. Many are [...]

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