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July 4th, 2025 Parade Video is Published

Open To The Public . . . SunTrust Bank to Hold Open House

Serious Boat Collision - One Deceased

Bokeelia, Florida

Paulies' White Boot Affair

Paulies’ White Boot Affair

Your Songs Filled With Love Carried Our Hearts Across The Ocean

Hello from Warren Van Kirk with the Band Strange Arrangement ...safely home from our Haiti mission
"Pine Island Community church and Strange Arrangement" Reporting...

Heartbleed Bug - Massive Security Flaw Takes the Internet by Storm

"Heartbleed" a Serious Concern

Zumba Offered at Matlacha Community Center

PINE ISLAND, FL., March 19th, 2014- Starting Wednesday March 26th Zumba classes will be held at the Matlacha Community Center. Classes start at 11:00am-12:00pm each class is $10.00.

Yogalates offered at Matlacha Community Center

PINE ISLAND, FL., March 19, 2014- The Matlacha Community Center will offer Yogalates Wednesdays from 8:45 - 9:45a.m. Class starts March 26th each class is $10.00.

Live Auction to Benefit Helping Paws Animal Sanctuary

By Marnie Miszewski

April 8th is right around the corner and we are working our tails off th get ready for the big night.

Strange Arrangements Last Performance in America Before Their Departure for Haiti

Strange Arrangement at Catch 22 Live Music & Sports Bar.

Utility Bill Scam Striking Lee County Again

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Improvements Slated for Area Around Matlacha Bridge

Fort Myers, FL, March 25, 2014 - Lee County will boost public safety around the Matlacha Bridge with several upcoming improvements.

Burglaries in the Matlacha Area

MATLACHA, FL -

Pine Island Congressional Candidate Dreikorn to Speak at Kiwanis Meeting on April 4th

Crime Reports for March 16, 2014

Crime Update for Sunday, March 16, 2014. This update includes all incidents added to the map since the last update you received. This was a slow weekend.

Breaking & Entering 2
Traffic 2

Bokeelia Civic Association Talks About Flood Insurance Increase

The Bokeelia Civic Association will hold its annual meeting
Wednesday, March 19th
Tropic Isle Park Meeting Facility
15175 Stringfellow Road, N.W.,
Bokeelia. The time will be 7 p.m.

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Little Known Facts

Who's The Real Enemy?
Average Prices as of 3/10/22
Russian's pay $.44 per gal. of natural gas & $2 a gal for gasoline.
The U.S. pays $5 gal + del for propane and $4.35 for gasoline
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UPDATE:
Temp Extremes
on Earth's surface
These ARE "everyday" & NOT Record Temps!
7-20-2016!
Iraq: 126deg. F.
Antartica: -91deg. F.
217 deg. spread
8-4-2021!
Samoa: 129deg. F.
Antarctica: -96deg. F.
225 deg. spread
4 deg. warmer
5 deg. colder
>In over 5 Years<
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Sea Levels in Pineland
have NOT gone up 1 inch in 50 years - But the Atlantic Ocean, 150 miles away has risen 3 feet?
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The Dollar's Value IS Tanking!
'92-'05 ~ $400 oz.
2011 - $1800+ oz.
The Gold Story
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Money Isn't Counted
in Venezuela,
It Is Weighed:
10-31-16; Wall
Street Journal,
1 Doz. eggs, $150
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In 1757, Lomonosov fathered the theory crude oil originates from biological material. The Story
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Little Known Arab Facts The Story
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The REAL “Cellular Therapy” Story The Cell Story
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Read: Climate Change "Consensus" a Fallacy
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Read: Astronauts Object to Global Warming "Crisis" Assertion
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17,000+ children and teens are treated for lawn mower injuries each year. The Story

Event Calendar

September

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Items of Note

4th of July, 2025 Parade - Video
HURRICANE IAN - Video
4th of July, 2024 Parade - Video
4th of July, 2023 Parade - Video
4th of July, 2022 Parade - Video
4th of July, 2021 Parade - Video
Common Sense American Patriot Dearly Missed -
Rush Limbaugh - Died 2-17-21
4th of July, 2019 -- Here for 4th of July, 2019 Parade video
ClamJamSWFL Video video link
PIN Upgrade -- Here for Upgrade Story
4th of July, 2018 -- Here for 4th of July, 2018 Parade video
4th of July, 2017 -- Here for 4th of July, 2017 Parade video
4th of July, 2016- Here for 4th of July, 2016 Parade video
Actual Photo of the Calusa Golden
Mask discovered over 40 years ago

Wisdom From 450 BC

Just in case you or anyone you know or heard of thinks they have had one original thought in their entire life. . .some technology excluded.

“The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents."
“You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.”
“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
"I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”

Quotes from Thucydides translated from the classic Greek text:
Born:460 BC, Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos)
Died:400 BC, place of death unknown
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and a general having fought in many Greek battles. Most notably fighting in and cronicaling the Pelopeneasean War in the fifth-century BC between Sparta and Athens manuscript of which he didn't finish for unknown reason. (more to come)

Relevant Quotes

The U.S. Constitution is just words on parchment. If no one protects and defends. . .protects and defends it, God won't bother.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” — Thomas Jefferson

When accused of colluding with the Russians, Winston Churchill said, “If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself in the House of Commons."

". . .while the excesses of McCarthyism may be fairly described as a witch hunt, it was a witch hunt with witches, some in government.... " (Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books, 11th May, 2000)

"It (not being conclusively exposed until 1999) meant that he (Alger Hiss, assistant to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius under Franklin Roosevelt) could take pride in acting as Soviet agents in the United States were instructed by their handlers to act. Never reveal your covert existence, they were told; if exposed, categorically deny any complicity; if convicted (he WAS convicted with the help of Richard Nixon), strenuously maintain your innocence as long as you live... (G. Edward White, Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars - 2004)

In 10,000 years no one ever sacrificed their arms, their legs, their family or their life for "progress."

Speaking of Iran's crude nuclear bomb technology and inaccurate delivery systems, "If I were the (west bank) Palestinians, I'd be a little nervous." --John Wohlstetter, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute

"Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops. " --Salman Rushdie (On the death of Christopher Hitchens, Dec.,16, 2011) UPDATE 8-22 (See link)

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."...."To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."--Alexander Hamilton:

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." --Winston Churchill

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