Native_Floridian's Blog

We've seen the pictures, we've heard the stories of flooded homes, but how are the Zoo's doing?   For example the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne and ESPECIALLY the "Central Florida Zoo" since it is DIRECTLY ACROSS the STREET from the St. Johns River!   How did they fare, we haven't heard a thing about them at all.   Any damages, lost or escaped animals due to the storm and the flooding?   Are they even open for regular or any business, closed?

C'mon FOX NEWS, how did these attractions fare out?

FOX NEWS on Wednesday night (08-13-2008 10pm-11pm) showed a video clip from Texas of the "goat sucker" or "Chupracobra" as it is well known by most folks.   But the FOX Video IS NOT the first proof of this in Texas, and the beast actually got it's start in Puerto Rico, which actually depicts it quite a bit differently from the "Texas" or "American" version of the animal.  The Puerto rican animal walks on it's two HIND legs as opposed to the Texas version which runs on all four.

Yes, the creature DOES exist, and YES there is PROOF that it does, the video from FOX, but I also watched a program on either Discovery or the History channel that also gave even more video proof of this creatures existence, two people in Texas have the skeletal remains from them,  one actually scooped it up from roadkill, the other actually shot and killed it on their farm, so yes, they have been videoed prior to the FOX NEWS video.   In the story (not FOX's vid) two guys set out to try and trap a live one for study, unfortunately all they caught was a dumb Armadillo that walked into their trap.

Also the program went into depth of the creature to determine what it is, or where it's roots are from, they did DNA, hair and some other testing, the results came back that the Chupracobra IS OF CANINE ancestry!   The animals have longer than normal fangs both upper and lower.    Also they did rule out any domestic dogs with severe mange or skin condition that caused the hairless-like appearance of the animal as well. 

They just are not sure from which canine linage that it came, or developed from, if it's a hybrid of domestic dog and coyote or even if toxic waste such as radiation or contamination from other chemicals could have generated a "mutant canine type of animal".   And despite what FOX said about not wanting them in Florida, they are IN and ALL over Florida too.  So don't believe for a moment they are only in specific regions.   

These creatures do exist and they are dangerous!  Do not approach one if seen, get away from it and into somewhere safe as quickly as possible, these things have also been known (per the original telling of them) to attack and drain humans of their blood as well.   So if you're not a professional trapper, leave these things to them!

Too me they look sort of like a MUTANT OVERSIZED HAIRLESS CHIUAHAHA (i know that isn't spelled right! LOL).

Here's ONE you folks HAVEN'T even THOUGHT ABOUT: WELFARE and UNEMPLOYMENT RATES RISING because of company REFUSALS to hire (a) smoker(s)!

Now that companies CAN (seemingly) DISCRIMINATE against someone because they smoke, doesn't anyone see that this WILL ALSO INCREASE the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE?, Not to mention that these same idiot companies forcing this ban ARE and WILL BE CREATING POSSIBLE WELFARE CASES as well!

So now you folks tell me, would you rather keep the SMOKER EMPLOYED or would you idiots that want to maintain and FORCE people out of a job because they are a smoker, do you really want YOUR TAX MONEY to support these folks on WELFARE? Just remember, some of these idiotic bans CAN and WILL CAUSE EXCESSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT and this too, WILL AFFECT the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, which is already at an all time high! Not to mention possible hardships on families!

Even if I were a die-hard NON-SMOKER (and I was at one time), I would not want to have my tax money paying welfare checks to a person perfectly capable of working, but because they may be a smoker, have lost or been denied a job and NOW WE (all of us) will have to foot the bill to help them along.

No, I'm not trying to make this a NON_SMOKER vs SMOKER issue here, I am just trying to point out by imposing such IDIOTIC BANS as not being allowed to smoke on or off the job, on breaks, or our own time, WILL CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT and WELFARE CASES to RISE where these lunatic bans may be put into place!

So now THINK ABOUT that and WHERE SOME MORE of YOUR TAX MONEY may be going because of such lunacy.

Or has NO ONE even thought about this side of the coin and the repurcussions it can cause?

So just try and think about that the next time your company/organization or a person says:  I refuse to hire a smoker or insist that not hiring a person that may smoke is a good thing to do.

This is a fact, wether or not the NON-SMOKERS like it or not!   Why do I say this?   Well let me tell you a little true story that just happened the other day, ready?, good, here goes:

I was sitting INSIDE my own personal vehicle in a parking lot, and yes, I smoke, but I was MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS waiting in my vehicle while my wife had ran inside the store to get a couple of things, I was parked in a legal parking space with the driver side window rolled down and the sun/moonroof open, I WAS NOT flicking ashes or butts out my window, I have an ASHTRAY I keep inside my vehicle for that, nor do I intnetionally blow smoke toward anyone.   Okay, that's all well and fine, UNTIL this BIMBO(lady) drives in and parks, gets out of her car with her kids, gives me a REAL NASTY GLARE and then YELLS at me about "smoking in front of her children is setting a BAD example and that I should put out that cigarette immediately, not only because it's a bad example to her children, but you're NOT supposed to be smoking in the area!    Note, THERE ARE NO no smoking SIGNS anywhere and there was an ASHTRAY in front of the business where you could put your butts or smoke out before entering the store just a little ways before the doors.   Then another BIMBO, alone chimes in with this other BIMBO and BOTH start harping about MY SMOKING in MY OWN VEHICLE, well EXCUSE ME, but last time I checked NO LAWS have been passed BANNING ME FROM SMOKING IN MY OWN VEHICLE!

So after these two BIMBO's tirade and barrage of insults and such, I let them have it with not only both barrels, but a full on barrage of my attitude, damn right I WAS ANGRY, THEY WERE INVADING MY PERSONAL SPACE which MANY NON-SMOKERS DO have a habit of doing and then acting the fool, by coughing and hacking like the idiotic MORONS they are or by making asinine statements to the smoker(s) that were there BEFORE they came up, smoking and MINDING THEIR(OUR) OWN BUSINESS.

I gave this bimbo some of her own right back and this is what I said to her(this has been "censored" by me, because I REALLY let this MORON have it hard and can't post some of the verbage I gave her, but she deserved every syllable of it!!):

I'll bet you drink ALCOHOLIC beverages IN FRONT of your children, DON'T YOU?   And I'll bet you DRINK ALCOHOL and DRIVE too and probably with your children in the car.  She actually said she did to BOTH counts!  Now THIS IS A LOSER, not a smoker that DOES NOT do this and I DO NOT!

I also gave her an ear full on how SHE WAS A WORSE INFLUENCE to he children by DRINKING ALCOHOL, which is by far worse than smoking will ever be, yea, smoking may (NOT NECESSARILY) kill you over time, but a ALCOHOLIC DRINK and DRIVING could do it a LOT SOONER than smoking EVER WOULD! And also an earful on how would she like it if her right to drink or anything else she enjoyed was taken away from her as well.

You NON SMOKERS need to STOP AND THINK about the things YOU DO AND SAY to SMOKERS that CAUSE these type of feedback to you.   NON SMOKERS also need to STOP AND THINK about how would they like it if some of their "HABITS" were BANNED at all their favorite places.  

Again, I've been on BOTH sides of this fence, I was a NON SMOKER for 30 years BEFORE I took it back up and I am one of the few who could, if I so desired, quit COLD IMMEDIATELY, but I won't until STUPID PEOPLE in our government and those "private citizens" that do not smoke WAKE UP to the fact, that, they may think they've won by banning smokers and smoking, but sooner or later, they too are going to find themselves in a situation very similar to where something that is LEGAL will be banned from them.    All these idiots are doing is GIVING AWAY our AND THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS to do what should be legal and of our choice to do. 

NO ONE, NOT ANYONE SHOULD BE MAKING THESE CHOICES FOR US or TELLING US WHERE WE CAN OR CAN NOT DO LEGAL ACTIVITIES.

If you don't like smokers or smoking, then DO NOT INVADE THEIR SPACE, use your intelligence and walk away from them and keep your commentary to yourself, othwerwise don't be surprised if you annoy them and they INTENTIONALLY BLOW SMOKE YOUR WAY.     So if you come up to me and act an a$$ while I'm smoking and MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, don't be surprised if you DO get a face full of smoke in that instance.   I ONLY do this to those that INVADE my space and start acting like a MORON by making hacking/coughing sounds and commentary in my face, leave me alone to my own devices and personal space and you have nothing to worry about.

So now you see how you NON SMOKERS can make someone that smokes "SO RUDE" as you put it, NINE, that IS CORRECT, NINE out of TEN times the NON-SMOKERS brings this on themself!

Yes, I AM a SMOKER, and YES, I have been a NON-SMOKER and can see some BUT NOT ALL sides from the NON SMOKING PUBLIC.

But this latest one I find totally offensive in the respect that DISNEY and possibly other filmakers will cut anyone smoking cigarettes or cigars out.  That is, no more smoking characters, this is assanine.

Look back at a lot of our greatest actors that smoked in their movies, The "smoking man" in the X-Files, and one of my all-time favorites Clint Eastwood for one, in his movies, not a one of his characters would look remotely correct for the type characters he played in many of his movies.   Even though I don't drink anything alcoholic, Clint Eastwoods character and many other characters just would not be in their proper perspective WITHOUT their drinking OR SMOKING in an OLD WEST SALOON or as his Dirty Harry character.

So, if Disney and others are going to follow suit and post notices about smoking, are they going to do the same with characters that drink alcohol, that is are they going to BAN DRINKING ALCOHOLCI BEVERAGES in these SAME MOVIES where smoking is now cut out?    If Not, I want to know why that a character drinking booze and/or getting drunk on screen is ok, but smoking is not!

Second Hand smoke STILL has YET TO BE PROVEN that it affects anyone with little or limited exposure on a daily basis, YET, WE KNOW FOR A FACT, ALCOHOL(Drunk Driving) has KILLED, MAIMED and CAUSED MORE INJURIES to people than ANY SECOND HAND SMOKE.   So why do we continue to accept ALCOHOLIC beverages as ok, but tobacco is a big taboo?, especially when ONE (ALCOHOL) IS, IN FACT, WORSE than the OTHER(TOBACCO!   After all, smoking a cigarette or cigar (the LEGAL ones) DOES NOT IMPAIR YOUR REFLEXES, Nor does it make you WEAVE all over the highway, run red lights, drive too slow or a multitude of other things.

So why is SMOKING CONSIDERED WORSE than DRINKING ALCOHOL?   I WANT ANSWERS and to date, every blog I've created HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO ANSWER this VERY SIMPLE QUESTION.  Why?    Because folks KNOW EXACTLY what I am saying is the truth and many have had first-hand experience with drunk drivers killing a family member or several members or friends that WERE NOT DRIVING DRUNK!

Sorry, but I honestly feel the tobacco companies SHOULD FILE a DISCRIMINATION SUIT, after all, they don't allow them to advertise anywhere!  Yet, ALCOHOL is all over TV, BILLBOARDS, at SPORTING EVENTS, FLEA MARKETS, etc. and this appears to be okay?   Again why is ALCOHOL ok and tobacco NOT?

So if I see some jerk drinking ANY FORM of ALCOHOL, DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF I "BREAK THE LAW" and LIGHT UP INSIDE!   I think a BAND OF SMOKERS SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND PROTEST this UNFAIR PRACTICE of continuing to allow alcoholic drinks at all these places, yet, we can't smoke.   IT'S A 2 WAY STREET HERE, but the smoker is the one getting DETOURED DOWN A DEAD END ROAD and I, for one, DO NOT LIKE IT and I WILL FIGHT, SUE and PROTEST FOR MY CIVIL RIGHT TO SMOKE WHEN and WHERE I WANT, PERIOD!  

Why isn't the ACLU jumping on this bandwagon for the smokers?  They stick their nose into everything else, but I guess the ACLU doesn't have any smokers on board, and why they look the other way, if there were a lot of smokers in that organization, I CAN GUARANTEE they'd be shoving it down everyones throat as to how UNFAIR this is.

Well I've fumed enough, but I do think it is HIGH TIME THE SMOKERS REVOLTED AGAINST ALL THESE RIDICULOUS RULES (LAWS) THAT ARE BEING IMPOSED ON US!