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A Florida Man Paints American Flag On Home To Protest Fines

Code enforcement officers visited Brent Greer’s home earlier this year after someone complained he had an old Christmas tree outside. Greer, who is dad to seven adopted children, was hit with a list of code violations, including missing window screens and peeling paint. So he decided to pick up the paintbrush and decorate his home with an American Flag.

“[I] decided to paint the American flag in order to show this is still America” Greer explained.
He added that he did to show he won’t just lie down in the face of what he feels is unfair treatment by his local government.

“They’re threatening me and my family,” he said.

It started with a dead Christmas tree outside of his house. Someone reported it to code enforcement, prompting officers to investigate his property.

They ended up reporting other violations, like issues with the paint, missing window screens and loose railings. Trash was also reportedly on the property.

“’There was a debris pile,’ he said….show it to me,” Greer said.

Facing a $250-a-day fine, Greer became fed up and started painting the flag, which is not a violation.

“Code compliance is all we’re looking for,” said Code Compliance Manager Volker Reiss.

A code enforcement hearing has been scheduled for later this month but officials hope it doesn’t come to that.

“We have 3000 cases a year and less than a 100 go to a hearing,” Reiss said.

Still, Greer says he won’t back down.

“I’m not going to pay them,” he said.

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Dr. Os Guinness: “A Free People’s Suicide”

This speech is absolutely brilliant! This may be the most inspiring, truthful and significant speech on freedom you’ve ever heard.


Dr. Os Guinness: “A Free People’s Suicide”

Os GuinnessOS GUINNESS (DPhil, Oxford University) is an author and social critic. Born in China, he was educated in England at the Universities of London and Oxford. He moved to the United States in 1984, and has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the lead drafter of both the Williamsburg Charter and the Global Carter of Conscience, as well as the founder of the Trinity Forum. He has written more than 25 books, including The Call, The American Hour, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, The Case for Civility, A Free People’s Suicide, and his latest: The Global Public Square. He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, Virginia.

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You Live In…

YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA WHEN

1. You make over $250,000 and you still can’t afford to buy a house.

2. The high school quarterback calls a time-out to answer his cell phone.

3. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.

4. You know how to eat an artichoke.

5. You drive to your neighborhood block party.

6. Someone asks you how far away something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
 

YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK WHEN

1. You say “the city” and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.

2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty.

3. You can get into a 4-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can’t find Wisconsin on a map.

4. You think Central Park is “nature.”

5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multilingual.

6. You’ve worn out a car horn.

7 You think eye contact is an act of aggression.
 

YOU LIVE IN ALASKA WHEN

1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco.

2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.

3. You have more than one recipe for moose.

4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.

5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.
 

YOU LIVE IN THE DEEP SOUTH WHEN

1. You get a movie and bait in the same store.

2. “Ya’ll” is singular and “all ya’ll” is plural.

3. After fifteen years you still hear, “You ain’t from ’round here, are ya?”

4. “He needed killin'” is a valid defense.

5. Everyone has 2 first names.
 

YOU LIVE IN COLORADO WHEN

1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.

2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home, and he stops at the Day Care Center.

3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.

4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a ponytail.
 

YOU LIVE IN THE MIDWEST WHEN

1. You’ve never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.

2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.

3. You have had to switch from “heat” to “A/C” on the same day.

4. You end sentences with a preposition: “Where’s my coat at?”

5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, “It was different!”
 

YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA WHEN

1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.

2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind — even houses and cars.

3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.

4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.

5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people

6. You don’t know how to vote

 

Jokes

Joke Of The Day: The World Women’s Conference

Rubber Chicken At the 2014 World Women’s Conference the first speaker from England stood up:
“At last years’ conference we spoke about being more assertive with our husbands. Well after the conference I went home and told my husband that I would no longer cook for him and that he would have to do it himself. After the first day I saw nothing. After the second day I saw nothing. But after the third day I saw that he had cooked a wonderful roast lamb.”

The crowd cheered.

The second speaker from America stood up:
“After last years’ conference I went home and told my husband that I would no longer do his laundry and that he would have to do it himself. After the first day I saw nothing. After the second day I saw nothing. But after the third day I saw that he had done not only his own washing but my washing as well.”

The crowd cheered.

The third speaker from Australia stood up:
“After last years’ conference I went home and told my husband that I would no longer do his shopping and that he would have to do it himself. After the first day I saw nothing. After the second day I saw nothing. But after the third day I could see a little bit out of my left eye.”

 

 

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