On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever...

le 14 de juillet 2008

Happy Bastille Day!

"On a clear day, you can see forever..."
True enough from atop La Tour Eiffel en Paris, http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/ and especially in one of my all-time favorite films, 1956's Funny Face, strarring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson (See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050419/ for info and http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3499137024/tt0050419 for great photo!)

But as this delicious and interesting post Thursday by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Anthony Man on their Broward Politics blog makes clear below, it's also true from atop Broward County Govt.'s HQ at 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.

From interim County Administrator Bertha Henry's office, it's apparently nothing but blue skies -and green lights!

This attitude certainly explains a lot around here!

With friends like this...

Most of today I'll be down at the Circuit Courthouse on Flagler Street at the trial of Norman Braman v. Miami-Dade County, Ciudad de Miami y Los Marlins.

I'd planned on being there Friday, taking some notes and photos for les blogs, but something came up. Given what happened with the delay, I lucked out.

Happy Bastille Day!
Apropos of the French holiday today, over the weekend on FOX Movie Channel, I finally saw the non-musical 1952 film version of Les Misérables, starring Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean and Robert Newton as Inspector Javert. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044907/

Por aujourd'hui, I'm going under my nom de guerre, Laurent.

"On a clear day, you can see forever..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rSA0Va-xTQ Barbra Streisand at her best!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066181/

La Babs est magnifique!!!

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Broward Politics blog

July 10, 2008

Something to think about when you're stuck at a traffic light in Broward County: the government believes the signals are timed
Posted by Anthony Man at 10:15 AM

Broward County has a $3.5 billion annual budget. But it hasn't come up with the dough to synchronize the traffic lights, so taxpayers can save time, gasoline, and wear and tear on their cars.
The reason, perhaps, is that at the top of Broward government, it isn't seen as an issue. The view from county government headquarters is that the lights are synchronized.
It just doesn't seem that way to drivers who travel at the speed limit along many major streets and get stuck at light after light even when there is hardly any other traffic around.

To see the rest of the post, see: http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/07/something_to_think_about_when.html#more