Community Bloggers

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Can anyone tell me what the heck is up with the Daytona Beach News-Journal? They state in one breath that they are Volusia County's source of news and then turn around and say nothing about their corporate membership in the Tiger Bay Club that excluded County Chair candidate Jason Davis from a debate with Carl Persis and Ted Doran.

DEBARY -- I have to admit this year was the first time I watched the big speeches at the DNC. Normally I just watch the highlights of the speeches on cable news channels or the Internet.

EDGEWATER -- I don’t understand why we allow Americans to be employed in embassies in volatile countries without better protection. ABC News with Diane Sawyer recently showed diagrams of the compound where we lost four American lives and how poorly they were protected.

Even the so called safe house which was far behind the outside walls was broken and burned. They didn’t have a place to go until help could arrive.

Liberal newspapers, media pundits and others of the loony left have had a field day because -- ta dah -- Mitt Romney told the truth. They have unearthed a secret video and splashed it all over the Internet.

They are furious and not holding back. This from NewsMax quoting New York Times columnist David Brooks who “called Romney's economic vision "a country-club fantasy." What? Get an education? Get a job? Own a home? Plan for the future? Be self-sufficient, reliable? Of course not. Those goals aren’t part of Obama’s plan for America.

ORMOND BEACH -- Americans place a high value on life. We have done this whenever we’ve gone to war which sounds quite odd, doesn’t it? After all, war is death and destruction on a grand scale. Americans are optimistic people. We tend to see the glass half full and think that everyone operates at the highest and best level. On Sept. 11, 2001, our country was attacked by mad men. It shook us up and made us reassess our whole lives through the glass of insanity.

EDGEWATER -- "Are you watching TV?" was the first thing out of my husband's mouth in a surprise phone call where he worked in Pennsylvania when we lived up north on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

How quickly most people simply forget that first responders and just plain citizens continue to suffer and even die today as a direct consequence from the 9/11 attack on our country 11 years ago, directly related to the collapse of the twin towers, which killed and maimed thousands of people.

OAK HILL -- On 9/11, I met a brother I never knew I had. We arranged to meet at a Starbuck's in Orlando.

EDGEWATER A friend called me earlier and asked me if I knew what today's date is? Since I haven’t been working, I usually am lucky if I know what day of the week it is let alone the date. My friend was distressed that I didn’t know that the date is the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy. Had I known what today’s date was I would have known what he was referring to.

TAMPA -- The 2012 Republican National Convention was my second as a delegate. Four years ago, I went under the McCain/Palin ticket. I was excited but not nearly as much as this time with Romney-Ryan.