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Dancing with the DevilBy Tom LouryThis paper believes that every person has

the right to voice their opinion in print. That is what prompted the following responses.

Last month I wrote a story called Danc-ing with the Devil. It was about a group of people telling the Marion County Commis-sioners that they should not pray before a meeting. What’s in a headline you say? It caught the eye of a lot of people. My cell phone rang off the hook from people for and against. Many people were thanking me for standing up. I won’t quote or print what the cell phone responses were, I encouraged them to send me an email or a letter to the editor and vowed to read them all. A couple inspired me so much I decided to print them as a response to the story series. I did not use last names and no town where the writer lived but the guts of what they had to say and how they felt!

The following are some of the respons-es:

************Janet says:Hi.My name is Janet and first of all I want to

thank you for writing the article..it was the title that catched my attention..and let me just say that I’m really disgusted at what I read. I am a christian and I know that prayer is what has held back the hand of God against this nation...our God is a jealous God and he will not stand for this. Its either his way or the highway. I can’t believe that taking out prayers in any meeting has even come up as an issue...then again just another sign of the times...I will pray for divine interven-tion let me know what more I can do..and how many more emails you need to reach your goal. God bless you and your family....As for me and my house we will serve the Lord!

Sincerely yours, A Christian...taxpayer.God Bless You!*************Bernice says:

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Responses

Letter from D.I.L.Dear Mr. T. Loury: I found it. The answer I have been look-

ing for these past few years. It took the read-ing of a great many books, but I have found it.

It is in the book by Zuhdi Jasser entitled: A Battle for the Soul of Islam.

What is the problem confronting us with regard to Islam?

Dr. Jasser explains the problem under-standably, and concisely.

1. We are talking about 2 issues, Islam and Islamism.

2. One is religion. And worthy of reli-gious freedom

3. The other is political, and in NO way covered by religious freedom. This is what the beef is all about

4. The radicals are trying to slip the po-litical in under the cloak of religion. It in NO way qualifies as religion.

5. Jasser calls for the separation of mosque and state, just as we call for the separation of church and state. Sounds like good old fash-ioned American logic to me.

6. Those of the Islamic religion, believe in, and want the separation of mosque and state.

7. Jasser’s family lived under, lost ev-erything, and suffered under Assad in Syr-ia. Calls Assad the worst tyrant in history. When you experience it, you have a differ-ent perspective.

8. Even, those who have fled Syria, are kept in check, by threats to remaining fam-

(Continued on Page 5)


Ocala Florida, Paddock Mall, Ocala Mar-ion County Chamber of Commerce held its BUY LOCAL Expo. The theme is a popular theme and is effective. If you spend your money in town there is a good chance it will stay in town. The sponsor for the event was PNC Bank. PNC has everything that you would want in a bank. Friendly employees,

great business perks and more.The event was a great success attracting

hundreds of onlookers and browsers, many receiving freebees from the vendors.

TomL Publishing LLC (that’s us) had a number of visitors asking questions about the newspapers.

PNC Bank Sponsored the Buy Local Expo for the Ocala Chamber. Pictured from left, Desmond Carson, Patty Carson Ingram Business Banker, Heather Bland, Cindy Clifton, Josu’e Cruz- Branch Manager

Ocala Chamber Staff sitting from left Tamara Fleischhaker, Carol Clocum. Standing from left Amy Plant and Felecia Prather.

Page 2, Seniors Voice/Downtown – October, 2012

Mark DuShane, Senior Vice President

ECONOMIC AND MARKET REVIEW

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Do Earnings Matter?

A question that I hear frequently is Do earnings mat-ter anymore? I feel this is a very good

question given the complexity and volatility of the markets today. And yes, earnings do matter and I will answer the question with a comparison between Apple and Facebook.

Apple, Inc. has become the darling of Wall Street and their products are now found everywhere in both the corporate and personal market place. The common stock price which traded at roughly $90 at the close of 2008 closed at $676.27 on 9/6/2012. What accounts for this substantial upward movement in the price of Apple stock? I believe that a great deal of it has to do with Apples earnings (or profi ts) and their sub-sequent earnings growth. For example, in 2009 Apple earned $9.22 per share in earn-ings. Earnings per share continued to climb hitting $15.11 per share in 2010, $28.05 in 2011, and are forecasted to be over $44 per share in their fi scal year which ends in Sep-tember of 2012. As a result of this Apples common stock price grew along with their

corporate earnings.On the other hand Facebook, Inc. was the

much anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offer-ing) released in May of this year. Facebook was priced to IPO investors at a price of $38 per share. The stock opened trading on the exchange at $42.05 and rose to $45 per share within the fi rst ten minutes of trading. From the high point of $45 per share the stock traded down to under $18 per share by early September. Why the reversal of fortune for Facebook shareholders? I believe that it has to do with Facebook’s earnings. In 2011 Facebook earned .43 cents in earnings per share. The forecast for 2012 currently stands at a level only .06 cents higher at .49 cents per share in earnings. It is very hard to justify a high stock price with low profi ts.

So when investors ask me if earnings still matter I say absolutely. It is new products and services that customers want that drive earnings and earnings that drive stock pric-es. There is also a level to which investors are willing to pay for a certain amount of earnings. At their current closing price of $676.27 and an earnings forecast consensus of $44.10 per share Apple common stock is trading at 15.3 times their forecasted earn-ings per share. On the other hand at $18.96 (the closing price of Facebook on 9/6/2012) Facebook is currently trading at 38.6 times their forecasted earnings per share for 2012. I fi nd it interesting that even after a 55% fall

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A Moving NightmareBy Charlotte Poss Moving is a big enough nightmare when

a person is young and changing jobs. How-ever, try doing a big move when you are a senior with a disabled spouse and living on a fi xed income.

I would like to enlighten the public about moving across country, it really should not turn into a move from hell.

Step one; you start out by obtaining es-timates from different agencies. Make sure you pick a reliable van line. Read all the fi ne print and make an informed decision.

Step two; when you do pick the compa-ny you want to be responsible for all your worldly possessions, go over the contract detail by detail.

Step three; make sure that you have a binding contract that states a delivery date. Most van lines will give you an agreed upon delivery date consisting of an early date, last date, and a preferred date. If the van line does not deliver by the last date, depending on your contract you are entitled to a daily compensation for every day that the truck is late. This is about a hundred dollars a day. This does not guarantee that you will not have to wait twenty to thirty days to receive your items or what condition they will ar-rive. The one hundred dollars a day will not pay for hotel, meals, clothing, and personal needs while you await your delivery.

Step four; insurance, the van lines only pay sixty cents a pound for any lost or dam-aged items, they offer insurance to cover

your property unless you waive purchasing their insurance in lew of your homeown-ers or renters insurance. (That is if your insurance company covers you during your move). A good example is my laptop with case, charger and software was missing, cost 1250 dollars, weight about 15 pounds @ 60 cents a pound this comes to 9 dollars. You get that only if you can prove that this item is lost or damaged.

Step fi ve; with every move you will re-ceive a piece of paper called Inventory Con-trol Form (a bingo sheet). This is a sheet with has number in boxes ranging from 1 to 500, that will be matched with your items that were put on the truck. You must have one person who will check these boxes off as the movers bring in your items and call off the numbers.

Now, remember you have just waited 30 days to receive your belongings have lived in a hotel for that length of time (or family if you are lucky). You have worn the same 4 changes of clothing for the past month and spent most of your time in a Laundromat. In addition, you have been paying rent on an empty apartment or house that you can-not occupy without furniture. You have not seen your belongings for over a month and do not have the slightest idea of where ev-erything was or how it was kept at that un-known location.

Imagine four men bringing items into your home calling off numbers, which are not in numerical order out to you as they

march by and no way can you check if the numbers are the same as what you are look-ing for on that bingo sheet. You see some boxes that are damaged and some that look like they are re-taped but the men keep bringing boxes in faster than you can keep up. Some of the more damaged boxes you open and fi nd breakage. The movers mark it down at the end of the delivery as damaged. One item a glass table lamp another the shade to that lamp with a large hole in it (75 dollar shade, weight 3 pounds @ 60 cents a pound $1.80), Lamp 199 dollars, weight 8 pounds@ 60 cents a pound $5.00)

Imagine, that they must have stored your belongings in a coal mine or quarry, every-thing is covered with black steaks and grit, every single item has to be cleaned, scrubbed or thrown out. You know that when you packed, everything was in good condition and if you are like me, you washed or pol-

ished items before packing them. Moving can be a nightmare. Read your contract make sure your contract is a binding con-tract. Make sure that you have proper insur-ance for your move. If your homeowners insurance does not cover it, make sure you buy insurance that will. If the van line that you pick does not give good coverage and nitpicks what they will pay for, buy your own coverage. The van line would not even give me the measly 9 dollars for my laptop as they said that I could not prove that it was ever packed or that it was missing. So be careful when you move and are picking a van line. Check every angle read every page. Even the big well-known van lines can give you a nightmare like mine. We had over $2500.00 in lost, missing or damaged items. Mine was a well-known nationwide van line and I had that nightmare from hell. It could happen to you.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTES

I live on a farm out in the boone docks. I reported not too long ago that we had a plant that was blooming at least a dozen pur-ple trumpet looking fl owers. Since then I have found the

name Mexican Petunia. We have had at least twelve every day for months, They fall off at night and new ones open the next morning.

On September 20th we had a new record 28 blooms. I normally don’t get caught up in these things but maybe I’m taking time to smell the petunias.

***********SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED

‘FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT’/EN-TITLEMENT!

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a Federal Ben-efi t Payment. This isn’t a benefi t,it’s earned income! The employers and the tax payers paid for this separate from all our taxes.

About 14% of our income is collected by the federal government for all of our working life. This is your personal investment.

If you took 3% of your total investment, you could draw over $3,000 per month for 33 years.

The folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They ignored that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them.

And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a benefi t, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t mean that our investments were a charity! Lets take a stand.

Reduce the federal budget to support our own population. NO MORE FORIEGN AID! Maybe disaster relief and help with natural disasters. At home drill for oil, build power plants, build roads and parks, teach-ing our children, creating new technologies, discovering cures for illness.

************Colorado Springs... The Sheriff begged

Obama not to come to their town, they had to suspend fl ights of the fi re fi ghting tankers because the big O came to town. No air traf-fi c could be in his vicinity, so the fi refi ghting planes had to stop.

The big O (zero) spent hundreds of thou-sands of taxpayers money to fl y across the country in Air Force One to Colorado to make a campaign stop in the middle of a tre-mendous fi re, thereby totally disrupting all the fi refi ghting and police efforts, and caus-ing millions more in fi re damage to forests

and homes... and peoples lives… all just to make himself look more prominent in the news. This is what we have for a President of our country now folks.

**********I have not heard one TV broadcaster say

the real cause of the terrorist attacks. It was not an unseen movie! I was watching the news and the rioters were chanting ”We are all Osama! We are all Osama!” What jumped into my mind at that moment, the Obama campaign slogan, “Osama is dead and GM is alive!” Then I asked myself WHY are the terrorist rioting?, because our leader is bragging about killing Osama, using it for his re-election propaganda and broadcasting it over the airways! That statement Osama is Dead is a billion times more visable than this unseen, distasteful movie. Don’t chas-tise the fi lm maker, chastise Obama! Where are we going with this for a sitting president to brag about killing someone and using it in a campaign slogan.

***********Always remember, many large compa-

nies that make a stand that they help seniors are a business like AARP. They can get you discounts, but the bottom line is to make a profi t. AARP will make an estimated 10 billion dollars in the next ten years helping administer ObamaCare. Weigh how much a company makes from doing business with you then see if it’s worth it to you.

***********There is a letter in this paper from D.I.L.

about who the terrorist Muslims are and who the peaceful Muslims are. The letter makes sense so look it up and read it.

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One of the funda-mental freedoms we enjoy as Americans is the right to have our voices heard at the ballot box. Our right to vote was fi rst earned during our nation’s struggle

for independence and has been defended by generations of Americans willing to sac-rifi ce life and limb on the battlefi eld. As a cornerstone of our democracy, voting rights are sacred but only if our laws ensure free, fair and open elections.

In an effort to preserve the integrity of Florida’s elections, I sponsored a bill in 2011 to enhance Florida’s election code and take unprecedented steps to stop voter fraud. With approval from the Legislature and the governor, that bill is now law. The steps were necessary, but unfortunately, some have sought to inject partisanship into what would otherwise be a common sense issue: ensuring fairness and integrity at the polls on election day.

Contrary to what opponents have said, the law was not intended to suppress minor-ity voting or reduce access to the ballot box. Instead, the purpose of the law was to ensure those ineligible to vote do not vote. These

individuals include convicted felons and the deceased.

The law granted the secretary of state the authority to use information systems that will help identify names of ineligible voters currently on the voter rolls. As such, Gov. Rick Scott has directed his secretary of state, Ken Detzner, to begin ridding Florida’s vot-er rolls of noncitizens so that the only votes counted on election day are votes from law-ful and registered voters.

The law also ensures Florida’s election code is applied uniformly across the state by directing the secretary of state to provide the written direction and opinions to the supervisors of elections on matters relating to their offi cial duties with respect to the Florida Election Code or rules adopted by the Department of State.

The law also addressed several issues that arise during an election, including making ballots easier to read and cheaper to print, adding polling place names and addresses to voter registration cards and ensuring voting systems are working properly. The law also improved the ability of absentee voters to receive ballots as soon as possible.

The bottom line is that this law was not passed to protect political parties — it’s about protecting the voter.

Perhaps most important, the new election law ensures supervisors of elections have ample time to prepare for elections and count

Florida House of Representatives

DENNIS K. BAXLEYballots while maximizing taxpayer dollars by streamlining the period of early voting to 10 days prior to election day. Florida’s pro-posed implementation of this law has been accepted by the United States Department of Justice as complying with the federal Voting Rights Act and is pending fi nal approval by the federal court.

The United States was founded on up-holding the rule of law, and our election laws should be held to the same high standard. By

passing these simple but necessary reforms, we have ensured Florida’s elections have in-tegrity and fairness and voters can continue to have their say in the affairs of our state and nation.

Dennis Baxley is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from Ocala and was the sponsor of the 2011 Election Transparency and Accountability bill.

Letter from D.I.L.ily in Syria.

9. AIFD American Islamic Forum for Democracy: For those who are not readers, or who wish to follow up on this issue, Dr. Jasser has this organization working on the problem. It is on the net.

10. Islam the religion, protected by the 1st amendment:

11. Islamism, the political, protected by

nothing. 12. Jasser has lived through both sides of

the coin. Perhaps we should listen to him? He has been there done that.

13. Experience is the best teacher, don’t you think?

14. Now that we know what the problem is, What are we going to do about

it? Help Dr. Jasser???????? D.I. L.


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MOVIES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9TH AND 10TH, 2012 AT

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The “Men in Black” are back, and this time Agent J (Will Smith) must take a trip into the past in order to save both the future and his taciturn partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). After 15 years of working with aliens from across the cosmos, Agent J is sure he’s seen it all. But just when he’s getting the hang of the game, he learns that history has inexplicably been rewritten. In this new timeline of events, Agent K has been dead for 40 years, and Earth will soon come under attack from an extraterrestrial force with the power to claim the entire planet. Now, in order to set the past straight and head off an invasion of epic proportions, Agent J must travel back to the year 1969, when Young Agent K (Josh Brolin) was just a fresh new face on the force. But Agent J only has 24 hours to find the source of the coming catas-trophe and discern how his longtime partner ties into the situation. Should he fail he’ll be stuck in the past forever.

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(Family Features) Mobile devices have become an indispensable tool for many peo-ple - and the thought of losing one of those devices, or having it stolen, is disconcerting, to say the least. But it happens every day. It’s estimated that lost or stolen phones alone could cost U.S. users $30 billion in 2012.

When a phone or tablet goes missing, so does a lot of personal information. And that can lead to more than just some inconve-nience - it can lead to a stolen identity.

The Federal Trade Commission esti-mates that as many as 9 million Americans

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Dancing with the Devil

Thank you for having that published. I do believe I could get you more than 800 sig-natures on any given day from people who do not want us to lose anymore of our rights in giving honor where do. (In my case Jesus Christ.) We have removed prayers from to many places to satisfy the few. This coun-try was founded on freedom of religion and the freedom to worship. No one is order-ing anyone to do so . I would not feel that should someone with a different faith than offer a prayer it would force me to their way of thinking.

Again thank you and keep praying ! ************Vernon says:

Responses(Continued from Page 1) Thanks for you article, Dancing with the

Devil. Our home group had just been dis-cussing the matter of church and state and what our Founding Father’s believed con-cerning the Bible. We watched an amazing 20 minute video, different than the one listed below, that showed how they as presidents of our country integrated the Bible into their lives and from it formed our Constitution. If every pastor showed these short videos to their congregation it would be a big step in returning our nation back to God. Lake County would be a good place to start!

You may be interested in this free series of 20 minute videos or audio at kcm.org <http://kcm.org> . From the “media tab” choose Aug 27 2012 - Aug 31 and Sept 3 -

Sept 7 2012. Our group viewed August 31 which is a good start if you want to sample the series by David Barton and Kenneth Copeland.

I am retired from full time ministry and reside in The Villages in Sumter County.

You will never see this on network tele-vision. This would demolish their secular agenda historical “facts” A Church very Few People Know About right in the heart of D.C.

Everyone in the United States needs to see this; Most especially our President, Con-gress, and Supreme Court Justices.

’Something we were never taught in school; 99 out of 100 people don’t know this, do you?

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Terri says:I am so tired of people trying to change

America. We have been a Christian country since the beginning of America, and have remained so for over 200 years. We can no longer pray in our schools because someone may be offended, saying Merry Christmas has become taboo because someone may not believe that Christ doesn’t exist, now praying before a government meeting is un-constitional. Prayer has always been part of America. God has always been part of America. It’s about time we started to fi ght to keep the America we have had for over 200 years and those who do not like the way we do things here, can take the fi rst plane, boat, bus, or whatever transportation they want and leave. Please don’t try to change who we are and what we do.

*************Patty saysPrayer and/or a moment of silence have

no place at a business meeting where county commission business is being conducted. Don’t try to force your religious practices on others.

That is my opinion and if you wish to make sure this came from me, you are wel-come to call me.

***************Shelia says:Don’t Let The Devil Call The Tune...

the letter mentions that The Freedom from Religion Foundation has 18,000 members with 800 in Florida. I am sure if you totaled the number of church members in Marion County it would eclipse those numbers com-bined. Thank God we elect offi cials who are willing to pray. One nation under God and our county under God.

***************Editor, My wife and I use The American Patri-

ot’s Bible for our daily devotions. Rather than paraphrase what I have learned from that book about prayer to precede a govern-ment meeting I am going to quote a couple of relative paragraphs from the book.

1. “When our Nation’s Founding Fathers gave us documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and others, they had to lean upon a common understanding of law, govern-ment, social order, and morality. That un-derstanding sprang from the common accep-tance of what has come to be known as the Judeo-Christian Ethic, which is a system of the moral and social values that originates in the Old and New Testaments of the Word of God.

Whether each of the Founding Fathers was a Christian is not the issue. Their writ-ings, their statements, and their votes evi-dence the fact that the majority of them em-braced these great principals as the basis for a civilized nation.”

Each chapter of The American Patriot’s Bible has references to events in our Na-tion’s history. One such event was the con-vention where the US Constitution was to be fi nalized.

2. “In the summer of 1787, as America’s Founders met at Independence Hall in Phila-delphia to hammer out the specifi cs of our nation’s governing constitution, tempers fl ared among the delegates of the 13 colo-



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(Continued from Page 7)nies to such an extent that the entire conven-tion was in danger of breaking down. Into this atmosphere thick with division and con-fl ict, am 81-year-old statesman slowly rose to speak words of profound wisdom.

Although one of the least religious of our nations Founders, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, nonetheless understood how crucial moral and biblical virtues would be to this new-born republic. Appealing to the words of Psalm 127:1, Franklin addressed George Washington, president of the convention, and counseled his fellow delegates to be-seech the aid of Almighty God before they proceeded further:

I have lived, sir, a long time, and the lon-ger I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without

His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been as-sured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “ex-cept the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it.”

I fi rmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall suc-ceed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind

may hereafter from this unfortunate in-stance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move that hence-forth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our delibera-tions, be held in this assembly every morn-ing before we proceed in business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be re-quested to offi ciate in that service.

God, indeed, answered the prayers of the Founding Fathers, as on September 17, 1787, the drafting of the U.S. Constitution was completed, the greatest political docu-ment ever written. Franklin’s words remain forever true: as our nation faces today’s po-litical, moral, and spiritual issues, we shall fail in this “grand experiment” of liberty un-less we seek the “assistance of Heaven.”

************Evelyn says dear Editor:Response to the article entitled DANC-

ING with the DEVIL in the September is-sue. The title certainly caught my attention, the article broke my heart! Surely there are more than 18,000 Christians in America who are not afraid to confess their faith in the one true God through Jesus Christ His son. How about more than 800 Christians in Florida who will defend our right to seek God’s wisdom through prayer when con-ducting business of any kind? As of this date September 12, 2012. I do believe that in the

halls of Congress we still have invocations and a spiritual infl uence for the good. Word has it even that right is being challenged.

There is no doubt that the reason this “leaving God out heresy” is spreading is be-cause we who proclaim Christ are not stand-ing up to be counted. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I am tired of being told by a small majority that my voice cannot be heard.

When a nation or people deny God’s authority you can be sure that punishment will come. This nation was founded on re-ligious freedom and specifi cally that being Christian. We have become so “politically correct” that the real truth has been pushed aside. After all this is America; at least for now.

I think that if one dances with the devil long enough the only place you will land in is hell. Scripture is specifi c in stating that our Lord does not wish that on anyone. So thank you to TomL Publishing LLC for a format to support the truth. Keep up your good work.

************Dear Mr. Loury, I would like to comment on your article

“Dancing with the Devil” where the Marion Board of County Commissioners came un-der attack for having an invocation prior to Commission Meetings from the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

I have done some research on the sub-ject of public prayer and as it states on the United States Senate website when the Sen-

ate fi rst convened in New York City on April 6, 1989, one of its fi rst orders of business was to appoint a committee to recommend a candidate for chaplain. Since that time, chaplains of various religious denomina-tions have served the Senate. In addition to opening the Senate each day in prayer, the current Senate chaplain’s duties include spiritual care and counseling for senators, discussion sessions, prayer meetings and a weekly senators‚ prayer breakfast. The Flor-ida legislative meetings begin with prayer. Many County, City and Town Commission meetings begin with a prayer.

There are over 19 million people living in Florida according to the 2011 United States Census Bureau and because two out of 800 Florida members of the Freedom from Re-ligion Foundation make a complaint that they object to prayer and expect the Marion Board of County Commissioners to discon-tinue the long-standing practice of saying a prayer prior to Commission meetings is simply ludicrous. An invocation and Pledge of Alliance is said prior to meetings, so if someone does object to the prayer, that person(s) is always welcome to come in af-ter the prayer is over, since people come and go throughout the meetings anyhow, so they would not be missing any part of the actual meetings.

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The Honorable Janet NapolitanoSecretary of Homeland Security

Dear Madame Secretary:I would like to bring your attention to a

serious situation concerning U.S. Customs and Border Protection staffi ng at Miami International Airport (MIA), which has the potential to damage Florida’s image and international business competitiveness. Miami International Airport is the number one airport in the country for international fl ights and is second only to John F. Ken-nedy International Airport in international enplanements. Ninety-seven percent of all international airline passengers arrive in Florida at MIA.

The hard-working team at MIA stands ready to play a key role in welcoming the increased visitors that are expected to come as a result of the President’s January execu-tive order to increase travel and tourism to the United States. This initiative should be a boon for Miami and our country and could create thousands of new jobs in our state. To accommodate the expected increase in international passengers, MIA invested over $180 million dollars in a new, state-of-the-art Federal Inspection Services (FIS) facil-ity, which was inaugurated in July 2012.

In 2006, Miami International was se-lected as one of 20 airports in the country to be a Model Port. The goals of the Model Ports program were straightforward and in-cluded ensuring that passengers entering the United States were welcomed by Customs

and Border Protection offi cers with respect, that the Customs waiting areas were calm and pleasant and that the Customs process was streamlined.

Unfortunately, the Model Port program goals are not currently being met in MIA’s new FIS Facility because of insuffi cient Customs and Border Protection (CBP) staff-ing. Written comments often describe the MIA experience as “chaotic.” In addition to the passport control lanes not being ad-equately staffed, the exits from Customs are also insuffi ciently staffed by CBP offi cers, which results in a bottleneck for passengers trying to exit the facility.

In preparation for the opening of the new FIS facility, MIA commissioned an indus-trial engineering fi rm to study line manage-ment and to model queuing confi gurations to maximize effi ciencies in the FIS. MIA offi cials worked with local CBP offi cials in this study. The engineering models and recommendations refl ected that for optimal operations, a minimum of 62 of the 72 lanes must be staffed at peak arrival periods.

CBP has not been able to meet the neces-sary staffi ng numbers in the new facility. As a result, customers, often numbering well over 1,000 daily, and their baggage are mis-connected and must be re-booked on later fl ights, many leaving the next day.

This problem could potentially do con-siderable damage to Florida’s international competitiveness, which could adversely af-fect job creation in our state. Over one mil-lion jobs in Florida depend on international

trade and investment, and this is one of the healthiest and fastest growing sectors of our economy.

As the effi cient operation of MIA is a critical component of job creation in our state, I invite you to take a fi rst-hand look at MIA’s new FIS facility and the current challenges they face due to insuffi cient CBP staffi ng. The wonderful team at MIA, led by Airport Director Jose Abreu, stands ready to

offer you a closer look at what we believe is a condition that warrants attention at the highest level; one which I am confi dent can be rectifi ed with your assistance.

I want to thank you in advance for your assistance in helping us resolve this very critical issue for Florida.

Sincerely,Rick ScottGovernor

Governor Scott Letter

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Budget deficitMany Democrats talk about Obama in-

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Budgets come from Congress not the White House. The Democratic party has controlled Congress since January 2007. They controlled the budget process for 2008 and 2009, as well as 2010. In that first year, the Dems had to contend with Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush belatedly got tough on spend-ing increases. For 2009, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep gov-ernment running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a mas-sive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.

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Debate? No these are husband and wife speakers from the Ocala Business Leaders Meeting and pictures are from two separate weeks. Left is Lorri Silvera Development Coordinator PACE Center for Girls of Marion County and on the right, Evelio Silvera of the Ocala Marion County Chamber of Commerce, he is the VP of business Developement and Public Affairs. Evelio was speaking on Your Business and the Internet and how to have success in 60 days to social Marketing. Photos by Charles Gordon of Charles Gordon Photography.

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School Board Turmoilby Tom LouryAnother flare-up in the school board

chambers. You’ve got to give Jackie Porter credit for being gutsy. A lone vote not to approve $500,000 for new roofs for three buildings at Dunnellon High school. This writer lived in Dunnellon and heard teach-ers and people around town talking about how fast the construction was going bad in-cluding talk about the roof leaking. I believe there was talk about the roof leaking before it was eight years old. Back then there was a decision to look into it. Matter of fact I think Bobby James was the principal back then and he is now part of the School Board, why don’t they ask him? The roof was prob-ably patched. Who was the contractor? What was the warranty? The current School Board is not responsible for what happened that many years ago but I think it is their respon-

sibility to make things right especially when they are spending the tax payers’ money.

What can they do? Talk to their attorneys and ask what legally can be done and come out with a statement. The statute of limita-tions probably ran out.

Jackie Porter is asking these questions wanting answers and she is being ridiculed for it. Yes the if the roof is leaking it needs

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Progress Energy Speaker A New Philly Is Born

A philly born this morning on the Loury Ranch. Pictured is Lindsay Sykes holding her philly just hours old. To be fair the light spots on the new philly is the sun coming through the trees, but she is colorful and already likes people. The coldest or near coldest day of the year, 20 degrees at daylight she was found prancing in the pasture next to her mother.

“The Party of No”On November 18, 2009, Senate Major-

ity Leader Harry Reid unveiled the Senate’s health care reform legislation. Unlike the health care bill passed in the House of Rep-resentatives, Senator Reid’s proposal would allow the

Secretary of Health and Human Servic-

es to include coverage of elective abortion services in the government-run health care reform.

I am the Party of No. No to being forced to pay for someone’s abortion. No to gov-ernment-run health care insurance. No to Democrats’ closed door pork barreling


Pictured is Tom Loury of TomL Publishing and Jerry Miller of Progress Energy. Jerry was the guest speaker at the Lady Lake Chamber breakfast meeting. Jerry pointed out many thing that the business people did not, but the thing that impressed me most was the jobs the building of the new Nuc plants would bring to an area. The new Crystal River Plant would bring upwards to 8,000 for approximately 8 years. You can just imagine what 20 Nuc plants would bring to the US economy.


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16th Annual Fishing Derby Tempers Flare with School Board MeetingMarion County School BoardBy Tom LouryI recently read an article that was in the

Ocala Star Banner, Thursday April 15, 2010 front page about Jackie Porter and the School Superintendent Yancey. If you look at the ar-ticle it is reported with Jackie Porter’s alle-ged file and the story is presented like a fe-deral court case. The interesting fact is there were no quotes from Jackie Porter and no remarks from her defending herself. It’s not because she refused to remark but in fact, she was never asked or interviewed for this story. That bothers me more than any of the following comments. I believe that everyone should have the right to defend themselves in print.

I feel somewhat responsible for some of the friction between the School Board and Jackie Porter. With the School Board, as elected officials, you would not have ex-pected a reaction like this. Elected officials give up their privacy and are fair game for any questions that comes your way. Jackie Porter said she sent Mr. Yancey a personal email asking about a sensitive question. Was it his son-in-law that was promoted to an ad-ministrative job? If the question had been anawered it would have stopped right the-re. Somehow it was brought into the school board meeting and tempers flared. I say Ja-ckie Porter was elected to watch out for our tax dollar as well as is the rest of the School Board.

We all have a personal stake in this, OUR

Jackie Porter


To the editorAfter reading the article in the Orlando

Sentinel, March 10, entitled “Your Law-makers Aren’t Tightening Their Belts” I saw red. Could the members of Congress, and I mean both the Democrats and Republicans, be more out of touch with their constituents and the hardships they are facing? When federal lawmakers vote themselves a 5 per-cent increase while families are enduring job losses, home foreclosures, 2.56 million Flo-ridians on food stamps, the U.S. banks have had their sharpest decline in lending since 1942 and the worst economy that America has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s you know for sure that Congress is totally out to lunch. Foreclosures are up 6% over last year and the average unemploy-ment rate in Florida at 12.2 percent is worse than the national average at 9.7 percent. Osceola and Lake County have the highest

unemployment rates at 13.5 percent among Central Florida counties. Flagler County at 17.1 percent has the states highest unem-ployment rate. What jobs has the stimulus package that was passed last year created? As I see it, the only thing it has created is more and more government and increased our debt. In addition, we now have this huge health care bill that even those who voted for it don‘t know whats in it that everyone will have to pay for. Its time the members of Congress were in touch with their constitu-ents and the hardships they are facing, were made accountable for their actions or voted out of office.

RAK ********To the Village SpectatorThe article by Charlette Poss, “Your

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At a meeting I was hearing complaints from businessman Doctor R. Ronald Cor-bett, owner of Ink Solutions who talked about his recent experience in his attempt at a bid on a $200,000 plus contract with the school system. Corbett said he went through all the paperwork and met all the regula-


The Senior Fishing Derby broke all re-cords. Hundreds turned out for the 16th annual Senior Fishing Derby, co-hosted by TomL Publishing and the City of Ocala Parks and Recreation Department.

Dozens of fisherman/women in wheel-chairs and walkers showed up to fish.

We have never had better weather - it was perfect. The fish were biting slow but there were fish there. There was so many people we may have made the fish skittish. Fish were caught and released. The big fish was a keeper size bass and the winner was Priscilla

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