Tarrant Regional Water District Management Practices Under Scrutiny

Among this morning's incoming email was an email from one of the Tarrant Regional Water District Board Directors.

No. It was not Jim Lane.

The email pointed me to an article on the Cedar Creek Lake website titled Tarrant Regional Water District management practices under scrutiny.

Four paragraphs from this article should motivate you to read the entire piece...

Gooden said he filed multiple open records requests for information, but TRWD's attorneys "stonewalled" him. "It really leads me to believe they are trying to hide something," he said. "We can't seem to get any answers."

Gooden said he took his concerns to Henderson County District Attorney R. Scott McKee. "It is my belief if he looks hard enough he will find some pretty interesting things."

Gooden said his concerns include allegations that TRWD provides massage therapists for all employees, owns a lake house on Cedar Creek Lake for the use of top managers and members of the board of directors, maintains deer leases for management's use and gives water to fracking operations.

Gooden said he is concerned that TRWD is pumping water out of Cedar Creek Lake to sell in order to divert money to a "slush fund."

I'd not heard the "massage therapists" allegation before. The Deer Lease and its Hunting Lodge, that I have heard of before.

How does the TRWD continue to get away with stonewalling open records requests? It would seem to me that that violation of the Freedom of Information Act, alone, should be enough of a red flag to cause law enforcement to do some heavy duty investigating of the TRWD's shenanigans.

The cliche which I think is appropriate here "where there is smoke there is fire...."

Carol Burnett's Family Is Causing Me More Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome In Texas

Last February when I finally got around to getting myself a smart phone I had no idea how smart smart phones are.

I thought it was sending text messages, photos and accessing the Internet which made them smart.

Clearly, I was really dumb about how smart smart phones actually are.

I really had no clue about how dumb I was about how smart the smart phones are til I got fed up with AT & T's U-Verse cable scam and decided to cut the cord.

Cutting the cable cord is liberating. Opening doors I did not know existed. As in I did not know til I killed AT & T that I could watch TV on my smart phone.

Soon I found myself watching entire movies, such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

YouTube is like having a video library access to the history of television. As in full episodes of TV series going all the way back to the era of I Love Lucy.

Which leads me to my current nightmare. One day I clicked on YouTube and found YouTube recommending for my viewing pleasure the Carol Burnett Show's sketch known as The Family. Later known as Mama's Family.

Above you are looking at Eunice Higgins. Decades ago when I first watched the Mama's Family sketches I was hit with twinges of extreme discomfort, due to the fact that that which was being hyperbolized hit way too close to home. Eunice Higgins is at the heart of that which hit too close to home.

Watching these sketches on YouTube has been causing me some bad post traumatic stress nightmares.

I have a relative, or two, who remind me of that which Eunice Higgins parodies. There were a couple decades where I avoided family holiday get togethers by going to Reno and California, so as not to subject myself to my personal Eunice's.

Eunice Higgins is an overbearing, insecure, neurotic bully, rough riding over anyone in her path. The Eunice behavior which mirrors the behavior of the relatives whose behavior I abhor is the interrupting, dismissing, syndrome. This is demonstrated below in the full YouTube Larry Comes Home For Christmas Mama's Family sketch where you will see Larry be subjected to this type behavior.

When Larry finally has had enough of the insanity he erupts with a spewing informing his relatives that he lived a life where the people he related to actually let him complete a sentence, sometimes even an entire paragraph.

I remember the last time I was in the presence of one of my personal Eunice's I couldn't take it anymore, just like Larry, I left, went on a long walk, ended up at some nearby friend's house where the first words out of my mouth were "I need someone to talk normal to me for awhile."

And now for your viewing pleasure, "The Family Merry Christmas"......

Janice Jackson Thinks I Have Way Too Much Thyme On My Hands

A few minutes ago I saw on Facebook, via the Fort Worth Connie D, that which you see here.

Seeing this brought back a long repressed memory of a long repressed trauma.

Decades ago, in high school, my most sophisticated friend was a young lady named Janice, Janice Jackson to be exact. No relation to Janet or Michael.

Janice was so sophisticated because her mom and dad were so sophisticated.

When I was either a Junior or Senior, I don't remember which, Janice invited me over for dinner with her mom and dad.

I do not remember what was on the menu, except for the fact it was very sophisticated, likely with a European flair. What I do remember is wine came with the dinner, due to that European flair thing.

I felt so naughty, years away from being of a legal age to consume an alcoholic beverage. I'd never tasted wine prior to that day, other than my mom and dad's backyard blackberry brew. And I don't think that brew qualified as legit wine.

I don't remember how many glasses of wine I had during that sophisticated Jackson dinner. What I do remember is that when it was time to leave Janice, while walking me to my car, suddenly let out a loud shriek, shrieking "DON'T STEP ON THE THYME.."

I was totally startled. Don't step on time? I had no idea what this meant. Are we drunk on wine I remember wondering? I stood frozen, afraid to take another step.

Eventually Janice explained that I was stepping on the plant that grew between the stepping stones, an herb called thyme which sophisticated people grow and use to make that which they cook taste good.

And so today, seeing Connie's D's "I have way too much Thyme on my hands" message, it caused me a minor bout of post traumatic stress syndrome. I have since recovered....

Freezing In The Hot Tub Worrying About Incoming Snow & Ice In North Texas

On the left you are looking at a screencap from Facebook, a WEATHER UPDATE from the most reliable and detailed weatherman from whom I've experienced receiving weather reports, John Basham.

This morning the outer world was chilled to freezing at my location for the first time this freezing season. I think we beat my old home zone of the Skagit Valley for first freeze of the year.

With this morning being the first freezing morning of this freezing season I had my first frozen bout in my newly restored to HOT hot tub.

The newly HOT hot tub was not so hot that I felt compelled to cool off with a quick dip in the likely way too cool pool.

If the wind dies down, and I suspect it won't, I think I'll go on a neighborhood bike ride today. Unless the wind dies down the wind chill factor makes that freezing temperature feel like 22 instead of 32. Combined with the rapid speed at which I roll my wheels that would be way too chilly a bike ride.

As you can read below, in John Basham's latest WEATHER UPDATE, a chance of snow and sleet is a possibility in the days ahead. I am not in the mood to go slipping and sliding. I've only recently recovered from the post traumatic stress of last winter's scary slipping and sliding incident....

WEATHER UPDATE: 445AM WED NOV 12 2014 - North Texas Including the DFW Metroplex - Brrrrr A cold morning with much of the area already below freezing and windchill values in the teens. Tomorrow morning (Thursday) we will see clouds, freezing temps, and yes even a little light sleet is possible. The good news is most of the ice that will fall will not make it to the ground, but a few pellets of ice on your car Thursday morning are not out of the question. Now, the bigger issue, the third in a series of disturbances will rotate across North Texas on Sunday and forecast guidance does NOT agree on what this will cause. Prior to it's arrival, and the subsequent VERY STRONG cold front that will push across the area Sunday, we will see the return of Southerly winds as well as moisture in more than just the surface layer of the atmosphere. It would seem that the moisture return would not be sufficient to cause any wintery precipitation on Sunday once the disturbance and cold front work to cause lift, but timing is crucial. That in conjunction with the relative strength of the approaching system would lend pause to any monster amounts of wintery precipitation, BUT some model data suggests over an inch of snow is possible across a large part of North Texas. At this time, I am only willing to put snow/sleet into the slight chance category for Sunday, but I am watching it very closely. It very well could be an interesting and white weekend for much of North Texas... In the mean time, bundle up.. it's cold! THIS IS NOT AN NWS PRODUCT. John Basham

A Look At Three Bridges Over Nothing With Wind Chimes From Hell

This morning after I blogged about yesterday's Fort Worth explosion, in a blogging titled A Big Boom Begins Boondoggle Bridge Construction Three Months Late, someone from outside the Fort Worth Propaganda Zone asked me if I had any images of what the infamous Trinity River Vision Boondoggle's Three Bridges Over Nothing will look like.

In this age of computer aided design I have wondered a time or two why that which you see here is the best I've been able to come up with regarding what these Three Signature Iconic Bridges Over Nothing will look like.

Like I've repeated repetitively the Three Bridges are currently being built over Nothing, as in built over dry land. The artist's rendering shows the bridges crossing the flood diversion channel. As you can see these bridges look to be extremely complicated feats of engineering, which may help explain why they will take longer than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to build.

It would have taken Fort Worth even longer to build these three bridges if the building took place over water, like those Golden Gate Bridge builders had to contend with.

What strikes me as really strange, and maybe indicative of the sheep-like nature of way too many of the locals, is why no one asks why the channel ditch can not being built at the same time as the bridges? Why is the excuse always that the bridges are easier and cheaper to build  over dry land?  There would be no water in the channel til the river is diverted into it.

Why can't these official morons just be honest and honestly say they don't have the money yet to dig the ditch? That if they had the money they would be digging the ditch while the bridges were being built, because that is the most  efficient way to quickly build this vitally needed flood control project to protect downtown Fort Worth from floods which existing levees have protected Fort Worth from for over a half century.

And then there is that which you see on the left. This was including in the photos in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram article about yesterday's bridge ground breaking explosion.

The caption for the picture says "A sample of artwork that will be featured as part of the Panther Island Bridges."

Huh?

We are four years out from these simple little bridges being completed and we already have artwork to feature on the bridges?

Has money been spent on this artwork? If so, whose money was spent? Is the artwork going to be paid for by some of those federal dollars Kay Granger has promised to get for her son, J.D.?

And what is this artwork supposed to be? It looks to me like Wind Chime from Hell might be the name of this particular work of art......

A Beautiful Veteran's Day In Skagit County Got Me Thinking About Being A Texas Tourist

Spencer Jack's dad, my favorite nephew Jason, emailed me the above picture a few minutes ago, with the subject line "Beautiful Veteran's Day in Skagit County."

It is a beautiful Veteran's Day in Tarrant County, too. But not quite as scenically beautiful as Skagit County.

I just used my computer based temperature monitoring device to learn that Mount Vernon is currently being chilled 3 degrees cooler than Fort Worth is being cooled at 49 degrees.

Before I got distracted by the temperature I mentioned that Skagit County is a bit more scenically beautiful than Tarrant County, but got distracted before adding, just like Mount Vernon is more scenically beautiful than Fort Worth.

Mount Vernon has a beautiful, clean, clear, big river running through town, Fort Worth has a modified river which looks sort of like a big ditch as it passes by downtown Fort Worth.

Mount Vernon has an actual mountain in town, called Little Mountain. Little Mountain would be considered a big mountain in Fort Worth. You can hang glide from the top of Little Mountain. There is nothing to hang glide from in Fort Worth. You can go wakeboarding though, in a dirty lake with a cable to drag you around the lake. No such contraption exists in Mount Vernon.

Mount Vernon has a Skagit River Vision you can actually see, while Fort Worth has a Trinity River Vision where today we learned we will soon be able to witness three bridges magically rising vertically from the ground.

Mount Vernon has a couple grocery stores in its downtown, one of which I greatly miss, that being the Skagit Valley Co-Op. Fort Worth has no grocery stores in its downtown, and nothing exists in the entire Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex like the Skagit Valley Co-Op.

Mount Vernon is served by a mass transit system which takes you all over Skagit County. Fort Worth has a mass transit system which takes you to some locations in Fort Worth, but not all over Tarrant County.

What got me off tangent from my original  intent to comment on the picture my favorite nephew Jason sent me?

Back to that picture. What we are looking at in the foreground is known as the Skagit Flats, one of the most fertile, productive agricultural areas in the world, growing all sorts of fruits and vegetables and flowers. Before diking made the Skagit River behave itself after it left the mountains, the Skagit Flats would get flooded when the river was in flood mode.

In the middle of the picture is something you can not find in Texas. A volcano. The Mount Baker volcano is that white spot sticking up above foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Mount Baker is an active volcano, which means you can see steam spewing from its crater at times.

Mount Vernon would be to the right in this picture, the town I grew up in, Burlington, would be in the middle, I think, maybe more to the left than the middle. As you can see one does not live far from the mountains when one lives in Western Washington. One also does not live far from saltwater. If we went left in this picture, heading west a few miles, we'd run into saltwater, maybe Swinomish Channel which runs past the tourist town of La Conner. Or Padilla Bay.

Having lived a long time in an actual area which actually attracts a lot of actual tourists and has actual  tourist towns, like La Conner, is one of the reasons my eyes roll when I read something ridiculous, such as downtown Fort Worth gets over 10 millions visitors a year. I wonder if those 10 million visitors are the same 10 million a year which were supposed to make the Fort Worth Cabela's the #1 Tourist Attraction in Texas?

Maybe in Texas visitor and tourist don't mean the same thing.

But, the thing is, when you live in an actual tourist destination and then live in an area which is not an actual tourist destination you can tell the difference. One big tell is the number of out of state license plates one sees. In a tourist zone at times it seems like every other vehicle is from out of state. Or Canada.

The only location in Fort Worth which seems like an actual tourist attraction, due to the number of foreigners and out of staters one runs into there, is the Fort Worth Stockyards. In Dallas, Dealey Plaza seems like an actual tourist attraction, albeit a sad one. I don't think many non-Texans head to Arlington to Six Flags Over Texas, not like which heads to Anaheim to go to Disneyland.

I have not headed to Anaheim to go to Disneyland for over two decades, Christmas of 1993. It has been two years since I've been a tourist anywhere, well, I have been to downtown Fort Worth during that time frame and apparently that is counted as a tourist.....

A Big Boom Begins Boondoggle Bridge Construction Three Months Late

This morning I saw a headline on the front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's online version regarding yesterday groundbreaking for the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle's Three Bridges Over Nothing.

The Star-Telegram wanted me to pay 99 cents to read the article. I did not want to give the Star-Telegram 99 cents, so I did not read the article at that point in time.

An hour later Elsie Hotpepper, having used her underworld connections, sent me a link to the article, which allowed me to read it.

Below I share with you the entire article, plus the YouTube video that came with the article. The article also had a couple photos I found interesting, but I think they may need to be in a subsequent blogging because this one is already going to run long.

Reading the article several things caught my attention. Like in the first paragraph we are told a symbolic explosion of fire kicked off construction. Huh? What did this explosion of fire symbolize? A bad plan going up in smoke?

Then there's Mayor Betsy Price sounding defensive about the bridges being bridges to nowhere, with Betsy claiming they are "digging this over dry land because it is half the cost of building it over the channel." Really? I'd like to see the cost analysis on that. So, if The Boondoggle currently had the money they would not be in the process of building the urgently un-needed flood diversion channel? But would still wait on that for four years, while three bridges get built?

Again I read the Boondoggle's lake is to be 33 acres. Several years ago it shrank to about 12 acres. I must have missed the news that the lake changed size again. Maybe due to the ridicule the 12 acre proposed pond received? The 1.5 mile long channel will create an 800 acre island where waterfront development is planned? Surrounding a chunk of land with a ditch does not an island make. Nor does it create what most sane people consider to be waterfront.

You reading this in non-Fort Worth America, this article informs us that The Boondoggle still needs Congress to fund roughly half of the $910 million needed. Congresswoman Kay Granger, says that "without a doubt," she will secure the funds.

Apparently Kay Granger is not at all surprised at the length of time it is taking to secure those federal dollars, because she knew it was going to take a long time because “It’s the largest urban water project in North America. It’s huge.”

Really?

The only other urban water project currently underway in North America, which I am aware of, is Seattle's re-do of its waterfront seawall, along with replacing a section of waterfront elevated highway with a big tunnel, to the tune of several billion dollars. Already fully funded, with no unseemly begging, and a project timeline currently thrown off by a stuck Big Bertha tunnel boring machine.

I really like one of the J.D. Granger quotes.

“The two big things you’ll see over the next year are the three bridges coming out of the ground showing vertical construction — in addition to that, a lot of people have been speculative buying of property waiting for the first sign,” J.D. Granger said.

Does that part of that J.D. sentence that comes after the dash make sense to anyone? I think I know what he was trying to say.

Bridges magically coming out of the ground, showing vertical construction. What? As opposed to horizontal construction? As for the part of the sentence after the dash --- I think J.D. meant to say a lot of people have been waiting for a sign to do some speculative buying of property. I  think that has already been happening, resulting in things like 30 day evictions to hapless souls booted from their apartments. Speculative buying? I wonder how much of that amounts to a Fort Worth version of insider trading?

Anyway, below is the Star-Telegram article in its entirety. Don't miss the YouTube video at the end, where you'll get to see the symbolic explosion of fire and hear from J.D. and his mama.....

With a fiery explosion, construction begins on Panther Island bridges

BY BILL HANNA
billhanna@star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH — With a symbolic explosion of fire, officials kicked off construction for the three Panther Island bridges, signaling the next phase in the massive Trinity River Vision Project.

Between now and 2018, the three bridges along Henderson Street, North Main Street and White Settlement Road will be built over dry land with the eventual goal of creating an urban waterfront neighborhood on the near-northside across from downtown Fort Worth.

It does not effect existing bridges over the Trinity River.

Instead, the spans will be the first phase of Panther Island, which will eventually include digging a new 1.5-mile-long channel for the Trinity River, creating a 33-acre lake and an 800-acre island where waterfront development is planned.

“This is not a bridge to nowhere,” said Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price. “We’re digging this over dry land because it’s half the cost of building it over the channel.”

The $65.5 million Texas Department of Transportation project was awarded to Texas Sterling Construction in May and is a joint project among the Trinity River Vision Authority, the city of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the Army Corps of Engineers and the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

The three V-pier bridges will include access for pedestrians and cyclists along with lighting and landscaping. The North Main bridge will also have enough space for streetcars if the city ever decides to go that route.

“Those are important steps along the way,” said U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth. “It is the bypass channel that we have got to have funding for.”

To complete the project, Trinity River Vision still needs Congress to fund roughly half of the $910 million to complete the economic development and flood control project. The front end of the project was frontloaded with local dollars from the Tarrant Regional Water District, the city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

When Congress set a ban on earmarks, which have historically been used by politicians to push projects forward, it made funding more challenging.

But Granger said “without a doubt,” she will secure the funds.

“You don’t start something that you can’t finish,” Granger said. “....That is my commitment.”

Granger said Trinity River Vision, which is a political subdivision of the Tarrant Regional Water Distrit, will apply for grants from several U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funds to keep the dollars flowing until the bypass channel is fully funded.

She is not surprised by the time it has taken to secure dollars.

“I knew how long it was going to take,” Granger said. “It’s the largest urban water project in North America. It’s huge.”

Texas Transportation Commissioner Victor Vandergriff of Arlington said it is Granger’s oversight that convinces him the federal dollars will be available to finish the project.

“I put my faith in Congresswoman Granger to do that,” Vandergriff said. “It is a little bit of a leap of faith to build bridges over dry land and not be certain that the extra funding is coming but I understand the Corps of Engineers can only fund on a budgetary cycle. They can’t promise a 20 or 30-year funding commitment and I trust in Congresswoman Granger to be able to continue to guide this process along.”

Granger’s son, J.D. Granger, is executive director of Trinity River Vision. With the beginning of bridge construction, he said Panther Island will become more visible to residents.

“The two big things you’ll see over the next year are the three bridges coming out of the ground showing vertical construction — in addition to that, a lot of people have been speculative buying of property waiting for the first sign,” J.D. Granger said. “I expect to hear a lot about economic development opportunities during the next year.”

Yet since the project began, there have been critics who worried that local taxpayers could end up footing the bill for the entire project.

TRWD board member Mary Kelleher, who has battled with her fellow board members over a variety of issues, did not attend Monday’s ceremony but said in statement that she worries about the project’s future.

“I do not want to go down in history as being present for the groundbreaking of what many anticipate, myself included, will be referred to one day as the biggest boondoggle in the history of Fort Worth,” Kelleher said. “I'm disappointed in the decision to move ahead with building bridges over dry land without funding certainty.”

Happy Birthday To Spencer Jack's Uncle: My Favorite Nephew Joey

Today is my Favorite Nephew Joey's 33rd birthday. With today being Joey's birthday, upon checking in on Facebook, I am seeing multiple Happy Birthday Joey wishes, along with multiple Happy Birthday Joey pictures, such as the one you see here, from Joey's mom's little sister, his Aunt Dorothy.

That is Joey on the right. With his cousin Kevin, who is Joey's Aunt Dorothy's son.

This afternoon it has made me feel very melancholy seeing pictures of little Joey and realizing little Joey is now 33 years old.

I last saw my Favorite Nephew Joey on Saturday, August 9, 2008, at Bay View State Park. That was the same day I was to meet Spencer Jack for the first time.

In March of 2012 I saw Spencer Jack again, at his Aunt Jackie's in Chandler, Arizona. Joey's cousin Kevin was also there that day, as was Kevin's mom, Dorothy and dad Randy. But no Joey.

When Joey and his big brother, my Favorite Nephew Jason, were kids I used to have myself a mighty fine time taking them places, like Seattle, or Eastern Washington. I remember one memorable time it was just Joey and me, ending up on the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier, which was docked at its base in Everett and having an open house. Being on an aircraft carrier was a jaw dropping experience. I had no clue they were so big.

After touring the carrier, Joey and I continued on. Joey was 15 at the time and had his learner's permit. So, I let Joey drive. Joey was already a good driver and at one point in the driving I realized I should be paying closer attention. Eventually that day we ended up at a Marysville Mexican food restaurant with a large group which included Joey's cousins, those being my Favorite Nephew Christopher and Favorite Nephew Jeremy.

Another solo time with Joey we headed over to Eastern Washington, eventually ending up in Yakima picking apples, then continuing east to the edge of the Hanford Nuclear Zone, then around midnight finding ourselves in Leavenworth during Oktoberfest. We got home very late that night.

The last extended time I spent with Joey and his brother was the August before I moved to Texas. Joey and his brother flew me to Las Vegas for four days of fun including being stuck for hours at the top of the Stratosphere Tower.

I made a webpage of the trip to Vegas titled The Durango Nephews take their Fabulous Uncle to Fabulous Las Vegas. This is an antique webpage, made long ago, in the previous century. Back then, due to bandwidth issues, picture quality was compromised, which explains the poor photo quality.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Joey, can't believe you're 33. Time goes by so fast. In another 33 years you'll be older than me....

Today I Heard Betsy Price Talk About A Non-Existent Island & A Bridge Over Dry Land Before Walking Around The Fosdick Sea

What a beautiful day in North Texas, blue sky, 77 degrees, with me having a mighty fine time walking around Fosdick Lake in Fort Worth's Oakland Lake Park, this last day before the incoming icy Arctic Polar Bomb.

This morning I heard Fort Worth's Mayor, Betsy Price, on the radio, touting today's ground breaking ceremony for the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle's Three Bridges Over Nothing.

I wish I could remember exactly what Mayor Betsy said, due to its unfortunate goofiness, but it was something like "today we are having the ground breaking for a bridge over dry land which will one day connect to Panther Island, our 800 acre development that one day will generate a billion dollars in tax revenue."

The reference to "a bridge" as in one bridge, struck me as odd. Is the cash strapped Boondoggle, at this point in time, only able to start building one of its Three Bridges Over Nothing?

This constant referring to a non-existent island as "Panther Island" bugs me.

Why do the powers that be in Fort Worth constantly have to hyperbolize? Calling this chunk of land Panther Island is just going to confuse Fort Worth's few tourists, just like calling its downtown Sundance Square, where there was no square til one was finally built, after decades of there being no square in Sundance Square.

Anyway, after having heard Mayor Betsy refer to the non-existent island I was soon walking around  Fosdick Lake. This had me pondering, what with the Fort Worth penchant for hyperbolizing, why not rename this little body of water as the Fosdick Sea?

Would Jesus Be Arrested For Feeding Homeless People In Fort Lauderdale?

On the left you are looking at Floridian, Arnold Abbott, once again getting fingerprinted after once again getting arrested for committing the horrific crime of feeding food to hungry homeless people starving in Fort Lauderdale.

I do not know if Arnold Abbott is Texas Governor elect, Greg Abbott's father, grandfather or uncle.

I suspect not.

The mayor of Fort Lauderdale apparently is a moron, judging from what he said justifying arresting a 90 year old Good Samaritan for feeding the homeless, that being that "homeless people should have to interact with the government to get food."

If only America were a nation based on Christian beliefs, following the example of Jesus, he being the original Christian, a Son of God who found himself surrounded by hungry people who Jesus then fed by conjuring up loaves of bread, fish and by turning copious amounts of water into wine.

Can you imagine the additional trouble Arnold Abbott would be in if he also served wine with his dinners?

Arnold Abbott and his Sanctuary Church began delivering hundreds of homeless people meals a week, in the Fort Lauderdale zone, starting back in 1990. And then his cruel, heartless, clueless town passed an ordinance making feeding the homeless illegal.

Has Fort Lauderdale also passed an ordinance banning binge beach drinking during Spring Break?

Does Fort Lauderdale not realize how badly they are embarrassing themselves in the eyes of the world?

Arresting a 90 year old good deed doer for feeding homeless people.

Only in America......