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28/12/2021

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19/12/2021

Spirit Airlines is failing miserably again. Flight from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Orlando International Airport (MCO) at 6:15 p.m. cancelled without as much as an explanation. Merry effing Christmas, Spirit Airlines. My New Year Wishes for 2022 is for Spirit Airlines to go bankrupt and vanish. If you can't do the job, get out of the biz. We'll all be OK.

05/11/2021

Memo to the Florida Sheriffs Association members who want to become social media stars: Stay off Facebook and stick to hoarding military equipment! You're embarrassing yourselves.

Florida law enforcement officials are being slammed for making crude social media posts mocking crime suspects.

04/02/2021

KICK A WOMAN WHEN SHE'S DOWN: THE NEW SHERIFF'S OFFICE AT WORK!

With the psychos kicked off mainstream social media and converging into the nether regions of web, the page of the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office is fast becoming a repository of fascism – courtesy of our tax contributions.

Since the arrival of rookie Sheriff Eric Flowers, misspelled postings making fun of fellow citizens are popping up, opening the agency to the risk of slander or defamation lawsuits.

And then, there are the hundreds of violent and often vile comments from readers who have never heard of due process but are allowed to comment on a government-owned page.

In Vero Beach, you see, whoever gets arrested loses her humanity in real life and on the web. Congrats, IRCSO, for creating another Parler right under the nose of Facebook’s censors!

On Feb. 1, for example, the sheriff’s office posted this yarn on its page after this weekend’s nightmarish traffic jam on I-95 when a car flipped on its side (excuse the bad grammar and punctuation, but that's how they posted it): “Yesterday you may have seen our post about a single vehicle rollover crash at the 150 S. I-95. The crash caused major delays for the interstate travelers.
“It was determined that the driver (Barbara Marra) was driving under the influence of drugs which lead her to cross the center median and roll her vehicle into the oncoming traffic lanes.
“Marra put countless other drivers at risk when she chose to drive impaired. She was booked into the jail after the Florida Highway Patrol finished their investigation.
“Please don’t do what Barbara did and remember to always DRIVE SOBER!”

For good measure, the social media guru who posted this swill added the photo of possible drug paraphernalia and three blue pills allegedly found in Barbara’s car, and of course a nice booking photo.

Whoever put up this post should be fired!

While it is true that Marra ALLEGEDLY put countless other drivers at risk, she has yet to be convicted of anything by a court.

Therefore, she must be considered by the sheriff’s office to be innocent.

Besides, the posting photos of what could be a m**h pipe is tampering with evidence. While the sheriff’s office often prevents the media from seeing evidence before a case gets to court, it chooses to post the evidence in its own page.

Sounds an awful lot like abuse of power.

As for the smug “Don’t do what Barbara did,” I’m hoping whoever wrote it doesn’t end up in the same situation as Barbara.

I asked the sheriff’s office to provide the identity of whoever’s writing this stuff and I was told it’s a combination of new husband-and-wife PIOs Keith and Debbie Carson – yes, we now need two PIOs for what should be a part-time job – and a handful of deputies.

Who wrote this one? No one seems to know.

No matter, it makes the entire agency look like a gang of Southern bumpkins.

And then, there are the bright minds who comment, 137 on this post, and the crazy, snarky, offensive comments that sheriff’s officials are allowing on their, and our, publicly funded page.

Here are some examples from the Marra posting:

Kendall Patton says “looks like the main character on trailer park boys.”

Lara Sylvestre writes “looks like a winner.”

Kim Murray chimes in with “definitely needs to be in prison for a long time.”

And Tammie Silva knew this for sure: “My guess is she doesn’t give a flying fark about anything being a crack addict. So sad how this happens to so many.”

Way to gang up on someone who obviously needs help, peanut gallery. What's next? We're gonna kick a chihuahua in the head?

Marra, by the way, is out on $2,500-bond awaiting a preliminary hearing.

Wait, there’s more.

Just two hours ago, readers of the sheriff’s Facebook were treated to a story about a man who may, or may not, be mentally unstable accused of biting a deputy. It started like this:

“Here’s a pro tip, if you unfortunately find yourself being arrested, follow the verbal commands and do not bite the deputy.”

Remember, this story was about a man, not a dog.

There were some choice comments on this one:

“Mugshot says it all,” Brian J. Smith wrote, “F this piece of sh*t.”

And John Smith knew exactly what was in the suspect’s blood:

“Another m**h head in Vero Beach.”

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

Fact of the matter is the sheriff’s office is using a public platform and employees whom we pay to humiliate, convict, hang, make fun of and berate fellow citizens who haven't had their day in court.

Using a government platform to humiliate anyone is simply disgusting – especially when the sheriff goes all out to hide arrests or incidents involving more prominent citizens.

(Below is a story no one at the sheriff’s office wanted to post on Facebook, but we did!

03/02/2021

EXCLUSIVE -- EX SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER TIFFANY JUSTICE'S STINKY “PRESENT” NOW A HOT POTATO FOR CRAPPY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
There was som**hing smelly about the package delivered to then-School District of Indian River County board member Tiffany Justice’s in October – som**hing that the sheriff’s office investigated for hours as a crime but couldn’t solve.
I solved it – in 20 minutes flat and smell free.
According to a sheriff’s office incident report obtained exclusively by yours truly after getting tipped off by Russ Lemmon’s recent Lemmon Lines, Justice received a package addressed to “Tiffany Crybaby Justice” on October 28.
According to U.S. Postal Service records, it was delivered to her home on the island, zip code 32963.
At the time, Justice was just weeks away from ending her first, and last, term as an elected board member – a term marred with her involvement in in-fighting, lies, lawsuits and ego trips.
But with the “crybaby” label on the box and the fact she said she hadn’t ordered anything, Justice became suspicious and called her friends at the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident report is unclear about how exactly the sheriff’s office was notified, but we know that Sgt. John Finnegan met with Justice at 4 p.m. that day.
Here’s what Finnegan said happened next:
“I removed the package from her care and began to manipulate the package and the contents within. When I was able to determine there was no mechanicals inside …, I opened it. Inside, I found a large plastic bag which contained what I believed to be f***s. There was a note inside the f***s which stated ‘You have been p**ped on. Want to know by whom?? Turn over’.”
According to the report, Justice told the sergeant she’d been the victim of “repeated harassment in the past, specifically due to her being an elected official.”
(Well, she did try to have the sheriff’s office charge criminally a school district employee for posting criticism on social media in 2019, but the state attorney’s office refused to deem it harassment and rejected the sheriff’s findings of criminal behavior!)
Five hours later, the sarge left the sh*tty investigation into the able hands of a detective who later reported the note was “imbedded” in the bag and “not able to be turned over.”
There’s no mention in the report of fingerprints getting lifted off the bag or analysis of the p**p to determine whether it was human or animal.
Det. Robert Ryan, however, worked on the case on and off for almost a month, according to incident report.
He ran the tracking number through the US Postal Service, #9405511899223688205401, and found out it originated from a post office in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
The package then transited through a regional facility in Warrendale, Pa., a Seminole County, Florida warehouse near Orlando and finally to Justice’s home in an island gated community.
Ryan reported visiting the local postmaster for advise. He told him the account created to print the label on the package was “fraudulent.” The postmaster also said the label was created Oct. 19 and accepted by the USPS Oct. 26.
Ryan noted the return address on the package was A.S. Enterprises, PO Box 572, Allison Park, PA 15101.
Stumped, the detective transferred the case to the US Postal Service’s own police department.
So, I ran the return address of the package through a clever investigative m**hod, Google, and the trail led me to www.p**psenders.com.
Yep, it’s a company paid to send cow ($17.95), elephant ($18.95) and gorilla ($19.95) p**p to unsuspecting folks as a GAG GIFT, som**hing that’s supposed to be funny.
And P**p Senders double-dog guarantee no one will ever find out who paid them for the service, so good luck to postal inspectors in trying to figure out who sent it to Justice.
In case you’re wondering, I'm told p**p from some animals, like elephants, isn’t considered biohazardous.
Therefore, there was nothing illegal in Justice’s package!
We asked the sheriff’s office these questions:
 Why did the agency accept Justice’s complaint when she lives in the city of Vero Beach and received the package in the city police’s jurisdiction?
 Why didn’t the sheriff’s office tell her to contact VBPD?
 Why did the agency spend tax money investigating a joke that's considered legal when hundreds of real investigations into incidents where victims lost money, cars and household goods in burglaries fester without anyone working on them?
Of course, the sheriff’s office did what it does best when it’s caught red-handed: No comment.
So, I’ll answer myself.
The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office is expressly designed to protect the county’s political establishment and the rich while the rest of us get basic services.
And it’s not rookie sheriff Eric Flowers, a career “yes man” to anyone of any prominence, who’ll change that.
Justice is both rich and a part of the establishment – so we all paid once again for her sense of entitlement and belief she is the victim of persecution.
I reached out to her for comment but didn’t hear back.

02/02/2021

Memo to Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers: Stick to pushing paper, bro! Looks like you couldn’t build a criminal case if your paycheck depended on it!
Case in point: Unbeknownst to the public until I got involved, palace intrigue rocked sheriff’s HQ in late December when former Undersheriff James Harpring cleaned his office and left after 15 years of loyal services.
According to paperwork that the agency coughed up under the state’s Chapter 119 statute on public records, Harpring left after Flowers filed a complaint for official misconduct against Harpring that ended up being investigated by Internal Affairs and the state attorney’s office.
Yet, neither entity brought charges against Harpring and, if anything, told the sheriff's office to straighten up its job application process.
Is that egg on your face, Sheriff?
Harpring, according to Flowers’ allegations, helped a candidate deputy withdraw an application where he truthfully reported drug use, smoking ma*****na at least 50 times, and refile the application without a mention of it.
Flowers alleged Harpring directed his then-underlings to destroy or alter the original version of the application form or lie about it.
Even by Indian River County Sheriff’s standards, it all sounds pretty wacky – and totally plausible.
But despite the fact Harpring personally knew the candidate, he was found to have done nothing wrong by both Internal Affairs and an assistant state attorney who looked at the case.
“There is no evidence Harpring falsified an official record,” Assistant State Attorney Ryan Butler wrote after he looked into it, “acted in a corrupt intent or acted with the intent to obtain a benefit for any person.”
At the time, Flowers had been elected but was weeks away from being sworn in.
If he wanted to use the incident to send a message to the troops that he’ll be watching them, it bombed miserably.
I asked Flowers why he didn’t let Harpring just leave with dignity as he had planned all along, according to sheriff’s office files, but Flowers didn’t get back to me.
It’s not the first time that Flowers fails spectacularly in an attempt to bring a case to court.
Nearly two years ago, Flowers was still the agency’s alleged spokesman when he tried to have former Indian River County schools employee Vicki Sidles prosecuted for offensive social media posts about one-term School Board member Tiffany Justice.
Because Justice had called Flowers’ cell phone to have Sidles arrested, Flowers got involved personally, with the same success as in the Harpring matter.
The office of the state attorney refused to charge First Amendment user Sidles.
Leave it to Indian River County to have a sheriff who can’t distinguish a valid criminal case from B.S.
(Photo: Eric Flowers pushing honey during his campaign for sheriff)

02/02/2021

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27/01/2021

I had the unfortunate experience of going into a FedEx store the other day in West Palm Beach, Florida. In order to send an envelope with four sheets of paper 50 miles down the street, they insisted on scanning my driver license into their system. "Government regulation," said the clerk. Say what? When you go to an USPS office, I answered, there's no scanning of anything -- and that's a government entity. Well, if I didn't like it, the clerk added, I should go somewhere else. I did. And so should anyone else who loves her privacy. Fedex is allowed by customers to substitute itself to a duly elected government. Hey, Fedex. F**k you.

06/01/2021

You wanted him, Indian River County, now you got him.
A boy with the personality of a rag doll fell into a tough job today and became Indian River County Sheriff in a ceremony where his wife wore jeans and the swells couldn’t be bothered to wear masks. (I guess the fact 46 people are sick with Covid in the county’s ER tonight didn’t make anyone suddenly smart!)
Eric Flowers was picked for the job by the local political establishment two years ago and rammed down the throats of uninformed voters with close to $500,000 in campaign expenditures, a record in these parts, and his occasional use of office resources.
From the start, Flowers’ main qualifications, it seems, were that he graduated from Vero Beach High School and he knew the right people – far from good enough for sheriff.
Yet, to mark Flowers’ first week in office, we’ve got a few stories in the hopper showing that Flowers, as a public information officer and a major over the past few years, contributed to corrupt the office by actively conspiring to hide some of the numerous IRCSO’s shortcomings under his predecessor, Deryl Loar.
Today’s installment: Christopher Hatton.
When the 46-year-old Christopher Hatton was arrested on Sept. 3 for molesting two children, the documents that Flowers’ public information office released listed Hatton's job as “maintenance.”
Of course, the mainstream media didn’t double-check what Flowers office was feeding them and ran the story of a garden variety maintenance man nabbed for s*xually abusing kids.
Now, the rest of the story:
Not only was Hatton employed by sheriff’s department as a civilian jail maintenance man when he was arrested, but he also had been cleared to start as a road deputy – som**hing that should have the public wonder who’s being hired to walk around with a gun.
Hatton is still being held on $100,000-bond today at the same jail where he once worked. He faces two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation.
I’m withholding the details of the abuse and the identity of the two victims, both girls in the mid-teens. One of the victims endured the inappropriate touching for nearly three years, according to records.
And in a statement to a friend reported in the arrest papers, Hatton said he himself was the victim of s*xual abuse as a child.
“I have things in my head that I shouldn’t have in there,” Hatton said, according to the arrest documents.
Hatton claimed seeing one victim n**e “by accident” one night sent him into a tailspin of s*xual feelings that culminated with the molestation.
Incidentally, the arrest records failed to mention Hatton was working for the sheriff’s office -- this in the middle of Flowers’ campaign for sheriff.
And what the agency failed to tell the public is that on August 24, a little more than a week before his arrest, Hatton had been cleared to start a new job as road deputy trainee.
According to a copy of his employee, Hatton had just undergone a second psychological evaluation that deemed him fit for road patrol.
He underwent a first psych test in 2019 when he was hired for his jail maintenance job.
Neither test, administered by Vero Beach, Florida clinical psychologist Garry Edwards, flagged Hatton as a potential s*x offender.
Edwards didn’t return several calls for comment about the evaluations.
The sheriff’s office released copies of the evaluations that were blackened and unreadable.
One of Edwards’ colleagues who did not evaluate Hatton, however, said that s*xual deviances would not necessarily pop up in a law enforcement psychological interview.
“Individuals with one or several s*xual deviances are very crafty at hiding them,” said Dr. George Zaky in Port St. Lucie, Florida. “I do law enforcement evaluations, and it’s mostly about sending someone on the street with a gun. There are well-defined criteria that we touch on about someone’s personality, but not whether the subject is molesting children. I guess it’s assumed it’s not going on with a candidate sheriff’s deputy.”
Flowers did not respond to an email for comment about his failure to inform the media of Hatton’s employment status, and refused to explain why the psychological evaluations didn’t reveal what Hatton was secretly up to.
“I’m here in a political capacity and I’m not going to comment,” a sheepish as usual Flowers said when we caught up with him on his winning campaign trail in late October.
Meanwhile, Hatton’s IRCSO employee file shows he was well-liked by his supervisors.
His performance evaluations noted his hard work at the jail and respectful nature even to the inmates.
Hatton was hired by the sheriff’s office in June 2019, after 25 years as maintenance tech at the Shiloh Youth Ranch, a faith-based school for troubled teens in Sebastian, Florida.
School president Mark Hinkle said Hatton had never shown any clue he might seek s*xual gratification from children.
Hatton had become an employee of the school after himself being a student there and two semesters at Liberty University, the ultra-conservative Christian university started by former Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell.
“There was not even a hint of that sort of behavior,” said Hinkle. “I’m floored by his arrest. He came to us as a student at 11-year-old. I know he was abused before he came to us, but he behaved like a true gentleman both as a student and an employee.”
Hatton’s wife of 20 years filed for divorce.
“It doesn’t even matter anymore,” he allegedly told his wife, according to arrest records, “Whatever is done is done. I can’t get out of anything. There’s no way to do anything. I’m going to be going to jail for a very long time … I screwed up. I’m sorry.”

10/12/2020

Hell yes! Between unbridled use of Air Force One for political purposes on our dime, the lack of control from the public, the ability to start a war without mandate and the right to blow up the world, the office of the presidency has way too much power.
We're starting to look like Russia and China.
Bring it back, Congress, please.
Or will change come from inside?
(Fat chance!)

Executive orders are the new norm, and Biden and Congress should rethink the scope of the president's delegated power.

18/11/2020

Simples checks on the people who pick up your kids can actually save their lives. Working on the death of 15-year-old in the Louisiana sugar canes and cops say this is the last person who saw him alive.

Quawan Charles, 15, was found dead on November 3 in a field in Louisiana. He had been picked up from his home by Janet Irvin and her son Gavin. Irvin, 37, has a history of arrests.

12/11/2020

Flushed out by the ex-president like yesterday's condom, Fort Lauderdale Beach political campaign guru Brad Parscale tells me he wants to be a nobody again and go back to flipping houses.

Trump's ex campaign manager Brad Parscale exclusively told DailyMail.com that he's moving on from politics, wanting to go 'back to being nobody'.

06/11/2020

Kudos to Indian River County Supervisor of Elections Leslie Swan for the impeccable work of her staff during the election, including in the weeks leading to November 3. Ms. Swan and her staff showed the extend of their knowledge of election laws and enforced them flawlessly. They kept a cool head under trying circumstances. And unlike many counties nationally, we had our results within hours. I am not a big fan of the fact she belongs to a party. I believe supervisors of election should not be affiliated to any party. And I have no illusions she can be impartial. Still, attagirl Leslie Swan. Thank you for your hard work and the hard work of your staff.

05/11/2020

Vote Vada Mossavat for Mosquito Control District ran a great campaign. She had to deal with the theft of most of her signs and constant attacks from the Taxpayers Association of Indian River County, a once honorable group that has now become as vile as any extremist group. I will file a complaint against their non-profit status with the IRS this week for interfering in a political campaign. This being said, I'm proud of Vada for sticking her neck out. She did more in two months of campaigning than the district has done in years.

03/11/2020

Wave if you see Vada out there, then please go vote for her. She has the strange ability to be at three poll locations at once. Don't know how she does it.

We're in the home stretch! Please let me know if you're willing to wave one of my campaign signs at a precinct on election day. Even one hour helps!

21/10/2020

MOSQUITO DISTRICT DIRECTOR RESIGNS AFTER NEWS ARTICLE ABOUT HIS OUTRAGEOUS SALARY AS CAMPAIGN FOR DISTRICT BOARD GET DIRTIER!
Indian River Mosquito District boss Doug Carlson resigned this week as Vero News exposed his yearly salary of $151,000, higher than the sheriff, and the unusually high salaries of his staff, courtesy of the taxpayers.
The resignation, effective Dec. 18, took employees by surprise. Carlson, after all, had been a part of the district's administration for 42 years!
"I'm proud of the many accomplishments that have occurred over that time period," Carlson wrote in his letter of resignation (see photo)
While Carlson is well respected in the mosquito fighting community, the current campaigns for Seat 1 and Seat 3 of the three-member elected board made it look like Carlson grew increasingly uncomfortable with Florida's public records laws and showed an apparent lack of understanding that practically all internal documents, text messages and emails are public.
It also exposed an administration that liked to operate below the radar despite its reaching into homeowners' pockets to the tune of more than $6 million a year.
And it clearly showed how the elected boards, including the current one with Janice Broda for Mosquito Control and Buck Vocelle, rubber-stamped much of what Carlson brought before it, including doubling some salaries.
At one point Broda and Vocelle, both of whom are running for reelection, refused to second a motion by Chairman Tom Lowther to review Carlson's job performance.
Carlson, records show, enjoyed year after year of raises without accountability.
It took Seat 3 candidate Vote Vada Mossavat for Mosquito Control District and Seat 1 candidate Jeff Andros asking questions during and after meetings to blow the whistle on the cozy relationship between Carlson and the board, and get the media interested in a government entity that, until now, got a pass.
The Mosquito District's job is to keep the local population safe from diseases spread by mosquitoes in a sub-tropical climate, including malaria and yellow fever.
Yet, as mosquitoes are known to be able to start pandemics worse than COVID-19, the board has been so out-of-control this year that twice, it allowed Vocelle to vote on a budget and a tax rate during Zoom calls from an in-patient alcohol rehab center without a peep.
Vocelle has yet to address in public the August 29 car crash that led to his arrest and the reasons why he not only failed to resign but even doubled down by seeking another term.
The board refused even to acknowledge in public that Vocelle was sitting in a drying tank following a rigorous regimen where he may not have been able to concentrate fully on his duties as a board member.
Dirty politics, meanwhile, have been permeating the campaigns for the board, whose members make about $400 a month.
Dozens of political signs bought by the campaigns of Andros and Mossavat have been stolen and vandalized.
And members of the Taxpayers' Association of Indian River County, a non-profit that technically is banned from getting involved in political campaign, have been spreading disinformation on Facebook and elsewhere about Andros and Vada Mossavat -- never mind that the group failed miserably in its mission to watch out for the taxpayers by ignoring the overspending at the Mosquito District.
DISCLAIMER: This writer is Vada Mossavat's lucky life partner

20/10/2020

It's easy to forget that no matter how offensive a Trump supporter can be, she remains a human being with her scars, hopes and dream.
Check out my story about Laura Loomer, the most banned person on earth currently running for congress in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Laura Loomer is racing against four-term incumbent Democrat Lois Frankel in Florida's battleground of District 21, for the U.S. House of Representatives.

19/10/2020

When stupid in America nowadays, it's better to double down! Stupid is no longer looked upon as a negative.

Kilwins Vero Beach's stupidity is inversely proportional to the quality of its ice cream.
Allow me to translate this sign: "Masks are not required because we do not believe in science. We don't protect our employees from tourists who come to our store from everywhere. Oh, and we don't care that one of the tourists could give Covid to another, potentially spreading the disease far and wide. All we really care about is selling more of our overpriced, overly sweet, under-flavored ice cream."
As of today, the total infection count in Indian River County is 3,551, with nine new cases over the weekend.

16/10/2020

I know some of you might think that's strange, but life is not all politics all the time.
I like doing a celebrity story once in a great while.
Memba Phil Collins?
Poor guy reconciled with his ex-wife and moved her back into his mansion -- but she then turned around and flew to Vegas to marry a much younger guitarist.
So, how's your day going?

Phil Collins' ex-wife Orianne Cevey has been spotted in Miami with her new husband, 31-year-old businessman Tom Bates. DailyMail.com has dug up videos of some gigs og Bates playing guitar.