You have to be on your toes at all times with this city council and city government.   Here is yet another bill that should never have passed making it through the finance committee and probably headed to the full council for a vote (more letters and phone calls required), but it made it through the finance committee as another of those public-private partnerships which is isn't.  John Cresimbeni was the only vote against it (we need to thank him for remembering the taxpayers and his…

Well, it's 4:15 on a Friday afternoon, I called my District Councilman, Dick Brown, No answer.

I then called each and everyone of the at-large Councilan, out of all 6 calls, I got 1 answer.

Alison, in Kevin Hyde's office did answer the phone, the rest went to voice mail.

I called to go on record that I was very displeased with the way they "gutted" bills 2011-167,2011-197.

These were the ethics bills that Carla Miller worked so hard to get passed, what the council…

It’s 4:00 AM and after tossing and turning since 3:15, I finally could not take it anymore.  I quietly got out of bed and closed the door to the bedroom so my husband could sleep.  My head had been filled with headlines and they were beginning to run into each other creating confusion and chaos.  Much like what is happening in our world today.

The biggest headline of the last few days…

        Lets refresh our memories-Some time back Duval county agreed to share any monies we might receive from the naming of our stadium 50 %-50 % with weaver-- who lives in a $10,000,000.00 mansion -Then we

 were told that while no deal was in the works we really need to show our appreciation to Weaver-who lives

 in a $10,000,000.00 mansion__by giving him 75 %.Then we are told that Shazam a deal was being struck 

 with Everready  for $16,000,000.00 to put thier…

If you missed David Beamer, last night, you missed a treat. We learned so much more about Flight93 and the "FREE PEOPLE" on that flight. We also learned that the Flight 93 memorial is behind budget, many of us were stunned to find this out. For more information go to"flight93.org" if you can help, please do.

On a slightly different note, Billie talked about how the Democrats brought in "Community Activist" for the last election, and how effective they were at Getting Out the…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Concerned Taxpayers of Duval County Inc. (CTDC) filed a lawsuit against the City of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund (PFPF) on June 3^rd 2011.  The lawsuit was filed in Circuit Court, Duval County and is docketed at 2011-CA-004348.

Curtis Lee, Chairman of the Public Employees Compensation Committee (PECC) and Director of…

I assume when Obama does something like this that all that rhetoric about being there for the poor and middle class is just rhetoric.  Really the dumbocraps never really do anything but hurt those groups in spite of what they say anyway!

The man is now going to take away that money to provide health care for the low income folks in Indiana if they dare cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.  Read about it here: …

Obama has been blind sided by the bad economic news and although he has been told what plays well to the crowd and what does not, he just could not help himself.  He is now blaming just about everyone, including the people of this country, but refuses to accept the he and his policies are responsible for the mess we are in.  I don't think the man has ever, in his life, taken responsibility for anything.

Read what he had to say yesterday here: …

Here is what both said: We are not surrendering, we have not even begun to fight! You may press on with your invasion but you will never subdue us. We are fiercely independent and armed. We will fight to the last man! American people wakeup and prepare for war all else has failed.

Today, a paradigm shift in America and…

Today is Grace Nealis’ birthday.  Grace is the wife of Dr. James Nealis. 

Dr. Nealis was a great supporter of the First Coast Tea Party and was the first speaker at our first tea party on February 27^th.  He had a radio show titled “Brainstorm” which was heard on WOKV on Saturday afternoons. 

Dr.  Nealis passed away suddenly last month.  His passing was noted on our website and many of us attended his funeral.  He was a great man and we miss him…

This session the Legislature passed a law prohibiting doctors from questioning patients about gun and ammunition ownership unless that information is necessary to the health or safety of the patient.  Not surprisingly several doctors represented by Brady Campaign anti-gun lawyers have filed a lawsuit.

I was interviewed by  First Coast News about this issue.  The link below is to the news story.

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The following is an article published online at the "Personal Liberty Digest", where I am also a member. It discusses the Constitutionality of many of the "transfer-of-wealth programs" being passed and even more importantly, why is no one challenging this. This is a good read!

Our Most Dangerous Enemy

Well, the worst has happened.  The city council voted themselves in charge of selecting members for the ethics commission and giving the mayor a choice and approval for the director as well.  This basically ends any real prospect of a true ethics commission at all since we now have the wolves in charge of the hen house, and I fully expect to see them seat their friends and companions on the commission to stop anything meaningful from…

I received this in an email from a friend and thought it was too good to not share.

Psychology Lesson



If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then place a set of stairs under the banana.  Before long a monkey will go…

This past Saturday we attended a family reunion on my husband’s side of the family.  We had never attended one before so it was exciting to meet cousins and distant relatives we never even knew existed. 

It was held in a church…

The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson.

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.

In…