The continuing problems of Broward County's Animal Shelter clearly shows that the Broward County Commission and Administration can not or will not solve what needs to be fixed. Quite rightly, Hallandale Beach Comm. Michele Lazarow, a longtime animal advocate, wants to know: “They had all summer to do this -why are they waiting until January?" Another case for Broward having an elected countywide Mayor who is held accountable for results.

The continuing problems of Broward County's Animal Shelter clearly shows that the Broward County Commission and Administration can not or will not solve what needs to be fixed. 

Quite rightly, Hallandale Beach Comm. Michele Lazarow, a longtime animal advocate,  wants to know: “They had all summer to do this -why are they waiting until January?" 

To me, this story shows the true cost to Broward residents in the chronic lack of personal accountability and positive results in Broward County by not having one person in the county who is an elected countywide Mayor who is accountable to everyone, and who can set an agenda that will last for more than one year. 

Instead, Broward residents must suffer with unaccountable and unelected jokers who are called mayor, like Steve Geller.

More of my comments below this account of what I tweeted out Tuesday afternoon.

I've included the text from the germane tweets in case you can't make out all the information

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1/ .@Susannah_Bryan 

Animals left in dark for hrs = just 1 of problems @ #Broward #AnimalShelter. “This is not news to those of us who have been saying this for years” - animal advocate + #HallandaleBeach Comm. @MLVegan. “What are they going to do now...”

Animals left in the dark for hours — that’s just one of the problems at Broward’s animal shelter.
Yet another scathing audit has uncovered a slew of problems at Broward County’s troubled animal shelter, lambasted by activists for years over allegations of neglect and incompetence that they say...
https://t.co/g7sWj39eYS?amp=1

2/ MT @Susannah_Bryan 

#Broward animal advocate Ana Campos worries abt animals being subjected to barrage of construction noise. “That is terrifying to an animal. It’s going to sound like a war zone... They’re going to bite and bark and freak out.”
Broward animal shelter will close for six months. The closure will make it easier for construction crews to fix problems with the shelter’s ventilation system. Shelter animals will remain in the building during construction.
https://t.co/BGBBAYlxfO?amp=1

3/ MT @Susannah_Bryan 

#Broward animal advocate + #HallandaleBeach Comm. @MLVegan has been on the line for 2 hours (since 10 am) waiting to comment @browardinfo mtg. re #Broward #AnimalShelter audit. When it was her turn to speak, commissioners were told she was not on the line.

4/ MT @Susannah_Bryan
After being passed over while waiting to speak re #Broward #AnimalShelter audit mtg., animal advocate/#HallandaleBeach Comm. @MLVegan texted Comm. @beamfurr to let him know. Now they’re trying to reconnect to her. Instead, they've got another speaker!

5/ MT @Susannah_Bryan 

“We are angry and tired,” #HallandaleBeach Comm. @MLVegan tells @browardinfo, referring to years of #animal advocates railing abt problems at county-run #AnimalShelter.
Says #Broward County administration + Commission to blame for problems.

6/ MT @Susannah_Bryan
Fact checking #Broward #AnimalShelter costs: @Michaeludine says it takes in 1,400 animals a year, spends $5,700 on each. Not true, says #animal advocate/#HallandaleBeach Comm. @MLVegan. Shelter takes in closer to 14,000 animals per year, spends $570 apiece.

@CBSMiami @nbc6 @wsvn @WPLGLocal10 @caitielee0917
7/ There really shld NOT be so much confusion re numbers and costs appearing in an... audit.
MT @Susannah_Bryan
Page 67 of #Broward #AnimalShelter audit: The shelter impounds approx. 14,000 live animals each year.

@CBSMiami @nbc6 @wsvn @WPLGLocal10 @caitielee0917 @Buddynevins @Florida_Bulldog @Susannah_Bryan
8/ This story shows true cost to #Broward residents in lack of accountability/results by NOT having elected countywide Mayor. Instead, unaccountable/unelected joker #SteveGeller.

@CBSMiami @nbc6 @wsvn @WPLGLocal10 @caitielee0917 @Buddynevins @Florida_Bulldog @Susannah_Bryan
9/ Perfectly reasonable question re #Broward #AnimalShelter: “They had all summer to do this -why are they waiting until January? - #animal advocate/#HallandaleBeach Comm. @MLVegan

This is one of those times where I don;t have to use all kinds of adjectives in my post to describe

what is going on, because it is completely self-evident to anyone who wants to open their eyes and look at where the problems are.

The Broward County Commission and its highly-paid staff is VERY, VERY lucky that this agenda item on the audit of the Broward County Animal Shelter took place during a pandemic, because if this had been a normal meeting where interested parties  could show up and speak under Public Comments, there would have been dozens and dozens more people who would've present at at the County HQ on Andrews Avenue to speak in-person.

And I would have been one of them.

Even worse, that meeting would have been chock full of kids with signs and their angry middle-class Moms, and that would have been the worst possible optics for these nine elected officials, who spend so much time reassuring us that they have excellent people in place to deal with and manage things.

No, what we know from experience is that they have staff that is highly-paid.

Their competency and tin-eared reactions has been the problem.

That's clearly been the case in many areas of public policy -including the battle for allowing Uber into the county- and now we know that problem extends to many other parts of Broward's bureaucracy, and we know with a high degree of certainty that one of those areas is something as non-controversial as the proper care and treatment of animals.

You don't need me to tell you that Broward residents and taxpayers deserve so much better than this from our elected officials.

You know it in your gut!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More half-assed &#39;results&#39; fm feckless <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Broward?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Broward</a> Comm. as animals suffer @ its <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnimalShelter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AnimalShelter</a>. <br>Another case for an elected countywide Mayor? <br>YES!<br><br>“They had all summer to do this -why are they waiting until Jan.?&quot; -🐶lover/<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Comm. <a href="https://twitter.com/MLVegan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MLVegan</a><a href="https://t.co/ejJ2QGSCRw">https://t.co/ejJ2QGSCRw</a> <a href="https://t.co/62Z5A7Hcqw">pic.twitter.com/62Z5A7Hcqw</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1349427693255843841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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When it's a question of "Use it or lose it" for South Florida governments and federal funds, you can pretty well guess that all logic and reason goes out the window QUICK to spend, spend, spend... But now, state/local governments have an additional year to account for CARES Act funds, so will better decisions be made?

When it's a question of "Use it or lose it" for South Florida governments and federal funds, you can pretty well guess that all logic and reason goes out the window QUICK to spend, spend, spend... But now, state/local governments have an additional year to account for CARES Act funds, so will better decisions be made?

If you are a longtime reader of the Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog -let alone a relative newcomer like so many of you are in our stay home New Normal era of coronavirus- I know that you're as shocked as me to learn that in Miami-Dade County, federal CARES Act money is paying for many, many things that are NOT directly related to what most reasonable people would consider any aspect of the COVID19 pandemic. 

Or, as a very knowledgeable civic activist friend here in Hollywood told me when this article appeared in the Herald last Thursday, "The thing is, you can only imagine how much worse the flim-flammery  must be in Broward!"

Miami Herald
Cities scrambling to meet CARES deadline. Here's why that means more money for police
By Aaron Leibowitz and Joey Flechas, Miami Herald
December 24, 2020

With the deadline to allocate COVID-19 relief funds less than a week away, local governments across Miami-Dade County are scrambling to make sure they don't leave money on the table.

They're giving out more grocery gift cards. They're distributing rent and mortgage assistance. They're even getting reimbursed for costs with no direct connection to the pandemic — namely, salaries for police and firefighters dating back to March.

It's all part of a mad dash to the Dec. 30 deadline for Miami-Dade to distribute $474 million in CARES Act funds. As of Dec. 7, only about half of that money had been spent with more in the pipeline. Among the outstanding amount was $50 million from a $75 million pot intended to reimburse municipalities for COVID-related costs.

"It doesn't look like it's working out very well," said Joseph Corradino, the mayor of Pinecrest and a member of the Miami-Dade League of Cities executive board. "It looks like the deadline is getting short for everybody to get their act together."

Read the rest of the story at: https://t.co/PyLdk40ngg?amp=1

It's even crazier than it sounds when you know that cities 

"no longer needed to present documents to justify the use of CARES Act dollars for public safety workers. Instead, police and fire salaries "are deemed significantly COVID-19 related, thereby alleviating the need for extra paperwork such as duty rosters [and] daily activity reports," Miami-Dade's chief financial officer Edward Marquez said in a Dec. 7 memo."

https://twitter.com/aaron_leib/status/1342133685701775360

This in an area of the U.S. renown and some would even say infamous for trying to gouge the federal government, especially when it comes to weather-related cleanups, with many local municipalities specializing in hurricane hocus pocus. 

Legitimate expenses related to preparation, response and clean up are one thing, of course, but South Florida is also known for submitting requests to FEMA for cleanup payments when storms did NOT... actually hit our area.

You can only imagine how this all looks to the rest of the country. 

I guess it's a good thing the news media, especially national TV, never deigns to mention it, huh?

Miami Herald 

FEMA denies Irma money for three cities. One desperately needs it to pay off a loan

By Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald
December 2, 2020

The federal government has rejected millions of dollars in requests by three Miami-Dade County municipalities to pay for debris cleanup after Hurricane Irma, saying substantial parts of their submissions failed to properly document the work and prove it was eligible for reimbursement.

El Portal, Miami Shores and Florida City each used the same consultant, Disaster Program & Operations, to help with the complex reimbursement process after the September 2017 storm. After a lengthy review, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the cities submitted flawed paperwork — and not just minor errors.

Read the whole article at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article247519230.html#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20has%20rejected,it%20was%20eligible%20for%20reimbursement

https://twitter.com/aaron_leib/status/1334132540463046656

Just since I decided to write about this subject on the blog there's been a bit of a pivot in spending and accountability and reimbursement policy because of the language that Congress inserted into the bill that President Trump signed on Sunday.

Miami Herald
Last-minute law change could mean more COVID relief, grocery cards in Miami-Dade
By Douglas Hanks, Joey Flechas and Samantha Gross, Miami Herald
December 29, 2020

Read the whole article at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article248148830.html

Speaking of the serial mis-communicators in chief over the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and its Editorial Board, as of today, they've yet to mention in print that the bill that President Trump signed on Sunday means that CARES Act money given to state and local governments many months ago does NOT have to be used by Dec. 31. 

It's no longer "Use it or lose it."

But not one word of it in print from the sleepwalking Sun-Sentinel!

It's for many of the reasons stated so well in the preceding articles about local government's performance, namely underwhelming incompetency on the one hand and what can only be called benign neglect of public oversight by local Miami TV stations, that an idea is now percolating just below the surface among many people I am in regular contact with as so much of the South Florida news media increasingly looks to be taking a knee or biting its tongue when it comes to being objective, unbiased, or critical -by name- of the often inexplicable #COVID19 #pandemic responses we've all seen among County/City governments -and some nonprofits- in Broward and Miami-Dade.

The idea, such as it is, is that some prominent #SoFL bloggers -including me- are considering forming a Working Group in 2021 to critically and publicly examine the many mis-steps of the #Broward and #MiamiDade County Commissions, its cities and certain nonprofits.

That is especially true when it comes to South Florida elected officials' not-so-subtle hypocrisy on curfews and the wearing of face masks, where they prefer the school of Do As I Say, Not As I Do.

Along with some others, I'm planning on bringing some much-needed Sunshine to bear on the issues that in my opinion they have not been getting. 

One of the questions to be raised: What happens when unelected Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry makes a decision that is not supported by a majority of the elected nine-member Broward County Commission?

Like, for instance, the recent curfew that went into affect in Broward  that will be in effect December 25th through Monday January 4th from midnight to 5:00 a.m. each day, but which will be 1:00 a.m to 5:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Thursday night.

Broward Comm. Steve Geller was trotted out for a press conference right before Christmas and reporters, predictably, talked about it without actually saying out loud what the real process involved was, or for that matter, even mentioning that the emergency documents were signed by Henry, not by Geller or any other elected Commissioner.

So, on the one hand, the Broward League of Cities doesn't like the idea that Gov. Ron DeSantis has legally used his powers to prevent Florida cities from collecting fines on any curfew citations issued, but on the other hand, the mayors of Broward cities have made clear that they do NOT want to be seen or described as being a money-hungry politician trying to nickel-and-dime people to death during a pandemic.

That's known as trying to have it both ways, and up until now, the South Florida news media, and especially the four English language TV stations do not seem at all inclined on calling them out on this self-evident hypocrisy.

Bloggers, though, especially ones like myself who are well-informed and fact-based, have no such compunction about publicly calling out the hypocrisy.

As will be made increasingly clear in the coming weeks and months of 2021.

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So where are the positive results and ROI of all the tens of thousands of dollars that Hallandale Beach CRA gave to FIU's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival? South Florida news media collectively yawns.

 

So, I've got a bit of a secret to share with you loyal readers of the Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog today, just days before Christmas 2020. The COVID19 Christmas none of us wanted to go through.

Well, actually, it's NOT much of a secret. I mean, to be honest, it's been hiding in plain sight.
And certainly I've been talking about it to many people in emails, texts, and phone calls and in-person conversations at some of the handful of haunts in the area that were open and convenient for others to meet me over the past few months. Which includes a handful of the community-minded people reading this blog post today.

So here's the story in slightly more than a nutshell.
Hard-working and concerned residents and a few civic activists of Hallandale Beach -and to be fair, a few well-informed and concerned Broward County insiders who live elsewhere, like me in Hollywood- have been wondering for most of this year about a shoe that never seemed to fall from the sky.
Wondering, mostly, why nobody in the South Florida press corps was the least bit interested in investigating and reporting on YET ANOTHER Hallandale Beach CRA scandal that's been sitting there on a silver platter for nearly all of 2020, just waiting for someone to simply look at the self-evident facts and the public data, and metaphorically kick the tires and connect-the-dots.

Someone who would logically explain why, once again, the elected officials of Hallandale Beach were consciously choosing to spend many tens of thousands of dollars that the State of Florida mandates be used on matters centering chiefly on the removal of (self-evident) blight and slums in this city located in the SE corner of Broward County, right on the Atlantic Ocean. 

A city that should be, as I have argued for the soon-to-be 13 years of this blog, MUCH BETTER in all sorts of ways that matter to the people who live and work there and call it home, regardless of race, gender, political sensibility or economic status.

The people I know best and trust the most in Hallandale Beach are long past being tired of continual half-assed PR efforts to make unsatisfactory look passable, and deliberate stupidity look like a policy choice.

Specifically, they've been waiting for someone to investigate why tens of thousands of CRA dollars was given to the FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, for what, in the end, seems to have been... nothing but positive PR buzz.
Like self-publishing a vanity book using someone else's money.

No, there would be no unsightly, curb-unfriendly slums in Hallandale Beach to be razed, no HB neighborhoods that would be improved by this transaction.
But it would allow a handful of not-so-sharp elected officials in Broward to once again pat themselves on the back for imagining that they'd pulled the wool over the nearly 40,000 residents of the city and the perpetually sleepwalking news media of South Florida.
The same news media that somehow imagines that whatever happens in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, or over on Miami Beach, always seems to trump all other local news, no matter how banal or cringe-worthy those stories in those two places might be.

Since the local South Florida press corps didn't seem the least bit interested in investigating or reporting on this story involving bad to corrupt public policy and use of public funds, with a lot of curiosity and resolve, and fueled by some hazelnut coffee and a delicious steak + egg sandwich -with bacon!- I connected-the-dots on the latest #HallandaleBeach CRA scandal re $$$ given to #FIU + #SOBEWFF- in one afternoon at the Hollywood Panera Bread on Sheridan Street near where I live, all while listening to a college football game on the radio.

 

I'll be posting the results in 2021 right here on the blog.

I may even use this issue as a reason to once again start uploading some more original content to my YouTube Channel, after not doing that for many years.

I'd been itching to do that for month, as well as start posting more original content at Instagram, until #COVID19 struck and a lot of election year ideas and plans went by the wayside.

Dave

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Genuine "Thanks" on Thanksgiving. France mourns a hero among heroes: Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, one of only two remaining "Compagnons de la Libération" -an honor awarded by exiled wartime leader, Charles de Gaulle- dies at 100

Genuine "Thanks" on Thanksgiving. France mourns a hero among heroes: Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, one of only two remaining "Compagnons de la Libération" -an honor awarded by exiled wartime leader, Charles de Gaulle- dies at 100.

After the death of Cordier, as of today, only one Compagnons de la Libération is still alive, Hubert Germain, out of the 1,038 distinguished by General de Gaulle for their commitment within Free France during the German Occupation. 

Upon his death, Germain will be buried in the crypt of Mont Valérien in the last empty vault.

1/ Daniel Cordier, #French Resistance hero, a designated "Companion of the Liberation," dies at 100. After the war, he became a leading modern art gallery owner in Paris as well as a prolific author on his wartime experiences, via @washingtonpost

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332022863918985218?s=20

The Washington Post

Obituaries
Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, dies at 100
By Phil Davison, Monday November 23, 2020 at 5:21 p.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/daniel-cordier-dies-/2020/11/23/3986156e-2d98-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

What a great beginning for this tale of valor and strength...

Age 19 and about to join the French army to fight the Nazi invaders, Daniel Cordier heard on the radio in June 1940 that France’s military head of state, Marshal Philippe Pétain, had capitulated to the Germans.

“I naively thought, as my parents did, that Pétain was going to launch France’s victorious counteroffensive,” Mr. Cordier recalled in a 2010 interview with the public radio channel France Culture. “Instead, he announced the end of the fighting, that is to say the end of hope. I burst into tears, went up to my room and sobbed.”

Then, muttering a choice epithet about Pétain, he regrouped.

2/ #DanielCordier was a man who, when #France was at its lowest depth, was up to the moment + tasks ahead, when others were not. He did not shirk his responsibility as a citizen and leave it to others to do what was necessary. He just did it. @RBrookhiser @LewisHowes

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332024626877173760?s=20

3/ “When #France was in danger, [#DanielCordier] and his compagnons took every risk so that France remained France. We owe them our freedom and our honour...”

-President Emmanuel Macron

https://t.co/jjSpW0kYlr?amp=1 @RBrookhiser @LewisHowes

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332027630816792579?s=20

The Guardian
Daniel Cordier, one of last heroes of French resistance, dies aged 100
As secretary to the great resistance leader, Jean Moulin, he helped organise fight against Nazi occupation.
By Kim Willsher in Paris, Friday 20 Nov 2020 14.33 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/20/daniel-cordier-one-of-last-heroes-of-french-resistance-dies-aged-100

4/ .@EmmanuelMacron  "#DanielCordier helped to build the history of the past century, to bring his indispensable testimony to the memory of our present time. Farewell Caracalla. Thank you. The flame that you lit with your companions will not go out." 🙏

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332028062448431106?s=20

Watch the amazing video of the complete nationally-televised hommage to Daniel Cordier that took place this morning in Paris, at la Cour des Invalides, aka Les Invalides.

https://twitter.com/Elysee/status/1331971169889775617?s=20

Daniel Cordier, dans l'ombre de Jean Moulin

France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine YouTube Channel
Uploaded May 7, 2018

Ce magazine met à l'honneur Daniel Cordier à travers un documentaire inédit, un homme au destin extraordinaire : il fut le secrétaire particulier de Jean Moulin durant la seconde guerre mondiale. A 97 ans, il est l'un des 10 derniers Compagnons de la Résistance encore en vie. Ce Bordelais d'origine a reçu les journalistes dans son appartement cannois, peuplé de centaines de livres et d’œuvres d’art. Face à la caméra, il revient sur son parcours hors du commun. Marie Pierre d'Abrigeon et Didier Bonnet signent cet entretien. https://youtu.be/Qh4_N6Q5lNM

Dave

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Genuine &quot;Thanks&quot; on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thanksgiving?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Thanksgiving</a>. 🙏<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/France?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#France</a> 🇫🇷 mourns a hero among heroes: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DanielCordier?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DanielCordier</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/French?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#French</a> Resistance hero, one of only two remaining &quot;Compagnons de la Libération&quot; -an honor awarded by exiled wartime leader, Charles de Gaulle- dies at 100. 😢<a href="https://t.co/kiE7Q7zHRK">https://t.co/kiE7Q7zHRK</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332188693147377664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Because "Fat is not going away..." No, it's not, which is why doctors and plastic surgeons from all over the world continue to make The Doctor's Toy Store their go-to source when they want to buy Liposuction devices, whether new or recent Vaser, Vibrasat, or PowerX models to give them the best possible results for their patients. @drstoystore

No, that's not actor John Cusack in his classic pose with a radio boombox from iconic 1980's film "Say Anything," it's Doctor's Toy Store President/CEO Rob Raymond on Wednesday afternoon, surrounded by just a representative sampling of the dozens of liposuction devices available now at his huge two-story medical showroom just off of I-95, THE largest medical showroom in Florida.  

Because "Fat is not going away..." 

No, it's not, which is why doctors and plastic surgeons from all over the world continue to make The Doctor's Toy Store their go-to source when they want to buy Liposuction devices, whether new or recent Vaser, Vibrasat, or PowerX models to give them the best possible results for their patients.

-SPONSORED POST-

As 2020 nears its end, The Doctors Toy Store, with 20-plus years of experience in serving busy medical professional all over the world, as well as here in South Florida, offers an amazing array of top-tier products at DISCOUNT prices. And in the process, DTS produces another tangible dividend for its busy medical clients: the kind of peace of mind that you can't put a price on.

That comes from getting used to the reliability of the great selection and quality customer service that DTS offers them with the largest medical showroom in all of Florida. A showroom that's full of every medical tool and device a doctor or practice group could possibly ever think of -and then some.

That level of cutomer service also explains why at almost any time of the day, you'll find one of the dozen-plus DTS store trucks rolling thru the streets of South Florida on their way to deliver what DTS clients want at a price they liked, WHEN they needed it.  
And what's often in those trucks? Yes, Liposuction devices and wands and parts and...

DTS President/CEO Rob Raymond and his team continue to satisfy his very demanding, far-flung clients demand for medical equipment and new technologies with conscientious, top-quality customer service that constantly reminds them THEY are his number-one priority.

Today Rob and his team are focusing on medical devices that continue to be very popular with doctors everywhere and which have been big movers for Rob and his DTS team for years because of their greater efficiency and price: Assisted Liposuction devices.
Those wonders of technology are even more popular now in an era of lower medical reimbursements, when doctors everywhere are looking to create an alternative source of revenue.

So whether you are a doctor who needs to upgrade your current equipment or someone who is purchasing your first device because of the great results you've heard about, make plans now to visit the DTS website and come by their huge showroom in South Florida, and see for yourself what both experienced surgeons and newcomers to the industry are purchasing and getting great benefits from.

Perhaps the best quote in years to come from the ever-quotable Rob comes in this video below, which ws shot on Wednesday afternoon while I was on a visit to his huge two-story DTS showroom: "Fat is not going away..."

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Dr’s Toy Store YouTube Channel
Doctor's Toy Store CEO/President Rob Raymond discusses some of the amazing products he has in abundance at Florida's largest medical showroom, like the Vaser Microaire PowerX that allow surgeons to work smarter, more efficiently, and with much-better results for their patient's goals.
Uploaded November 11, 2020. https://youtu.be/DmNHVDwD5vY


As Rob says in the video, one of the chief advantages of using Vaser devices is that they not only allow surgeons to get in faster, but also allows for more highly stylized detailing/contouring/body sculpture, i.e. the "carving and etching" that so many patients want, with their dreams of six-pack abs.

Pictured below is just one of different Solta Sound Surgical Vaser models available today: the 2.0 High Definition Ultrasound Assisted Liposuction

Perhaps this is where I should casually mention that The Doctor's Toy Store remains the U.S.'s leading distributor for Power Assisted Liposuction devices!

DTS has three pages of detailed product and price information about the various liposuction devices it sells from the world's leading medical equipment manufacturers:

https://www.drstoystore.com/medical-equipment/liposuction-machines/

https://www.drstoystore.com/medical-equipment/liposuction-machines/page/2/

https://www.drstoystore.com/medical-equipment/liposuction-machines/page/3/

 

Doctor's Toy Store attracts doctors and medical practice groups from all over the U.S. and all four points of the compass because DTS owner and CEO Rob Raymond and his friendly and experienced staff combine their deep knowledge and history of the equipment they have at their huge showroom off I-95, with DISCOUNT prices.

Specializing in new, pre-owned and repair of medical equipment, Doctor's Toy Store has achieved its level of success precisely because it consistently puts its medical professional clients first, whether you are a longtime client with demanding patients, or are just starting your practice somewhere around the world or the USA.
Regardless of what type of medical equipment you are looking for or whether you have a personal preference for one brand over another, YOUR unique needs can and will be successfully met at DTS.

And just a reminder, doctors, DTS does take in your trade-ins!

So, whether you are arriving at Doctor's Toy Store via the Pembroke Road entrance on S.W. 30th Avenue to the north, Exit 19 on I-95, just east of the CSX Railroad tracks,

or from Hallandale Beach Blvd., Exit 18 on I-95 to the south.

 

you'll know you're getting closer to Florida's largest medical showroom when you see the HUGE American flag. 

Doctor's Toy Store

2512 S.W. 30th Avenue, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
(954) 457-0075  

1 (877) DRS-TOYS

With this fax number, (954) 454-3916, DTS customers can fax in anything from pictures to orders to help get the products and services they want.

Website:  http://drstoystore.com/

Twitter: @drstoystore  https://twitter.com/drstoystore

Doctor's ToyStore YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC11z2O5Hmntg9sf5e2iHmYQ

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Last minute Election Day thoughts about voting in Hallandale Beach, and the frustrating things I've seen there recently; Vote for common sense and experience: Maggie Ivanovski in Seat 3 Commission race

For you newcomers to the blog, a little recent history about the normal laws about political campaigning were routinely ignored, with photos that show it for all to see: 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2/ See the contemporaneous Twitter thread of the time connecting-the-dots to then-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Comm. Sanders via photos + letters: <a href="https://t.co/jazEfak8bB">https://t.co/jazEfak8bB</a>,<br>and, the self-evident proof that both the <a href="https://twitter.com/MYHBeach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MYHBeach</a> City Mgr. and <a href="https://twitter.com/BrowardIG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrowardIG</a> ignored. 😒🙄🤨😠<a href="https://t.co/HGegEwgNBX">https://t.co/HGegEwgNBX</a> <a href="https://t.co/4d6zIxcWLU">pic.twitter.com/4d6zIxcWLU</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322202177159503873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/politicofl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@politicofl</a> The spot-on <a href="https://twitter.com/NickNehamas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NickNehamas</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/Blaskey_S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Blaskey_S</a> followup re fake website: Prof. Hill <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiLawSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MiamiLawSchool</a>: &quot;the website appeared to violate state election laws that require political communications to disclose who paid for them...“ <br><br>Time to investigate! 🔍🔍<a href="https://t.co/IQsziAheeE">https://t.co/IQsziAheeE</a> <a href="https://t.co/8w7LdcwSG5">pic.twitter.com/8w7LdcwSG5</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322022500042182659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The tumult of a nation divided by politics is spilling into the voting lines <a href="https://t.co/yoxmwvs550">https://t.co/yoxmwvs550</a></p>&mdash; Susannah Bryan (@Susannah_Bryan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Susannah_Bryan/status/1322972424921645057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yakubovich has been INVISIBLE in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> public policy but aims to use being President of 1 of 3 BeachClub condo towers on beach to his advantage. My nickname for him = Boris BadEnough, since his bellicose threats @ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarlyVoting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EarlyVoting</a> is both clownish yet VERY off-putting.</p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322995262781071361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When ppl said Yakubovich = a bully, I thought maybe he was just... headstrong. Nope! Late Sat. afternoon I heard him &#39;joking&#39; w/pals that bec he has support of HBPD union, he wld have ppl who disagreed w/him or called him a liar arrested. Who&#39;d be dumb enough to say that ALOUD?🤨 <a href="https://t.co/g8CJD2Ffjl">pic.twitter.com/g8CJD2Ffjl</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323006641931980804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/MYHBeach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MYHBeach</a> Do you think that for once, on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElectionDay</a> night, bec polls close @ 7 pm, city cld actually make sure the street lights near <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Cultural Center, as well as HBCC&#39;s parking lot lights, are WORKING B4 it gets dark? Always been pitch black conditions in past!</p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323011174397562883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdMorrissey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EdMorrissey</a> Your multiple criticisms of ineffective <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dem</a> efforts in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MiamiDade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MiamiDade</a> = 100% correct. <br>Which suggests this <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewYorker</a> article shld have come out 1 yr ago, no?<br><br>How Latino Grassroots Organizers Are Fighting to Lift <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Biden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Biden</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Florida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Florida</a> <a href="https://t.co/WLZyy05xkg">https://t.co/WLZyy05xkg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kausmickey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kausmickey</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323015435571396611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Another short reminder why I'm endorsing civic activist Maggie Ivanovski and encouraging you to vote for her for the Hallandale Beach City Commission, Seat 4.

Over a few visits to the Hallandale Beach Cultural Center last week where Early Voting was taking place, I saw for myself that the level of discord, animosity + PERSONAL THREATS was FAR WORSE than anything I've seen there in 15 years of being there for several hours a day.

Which supported all the things that i was hearing from people via emails and phone calls, that, to be fair, were anecdotal.

But when everyone keeps saying the samer thing, almost verbatim, maybe it's what's really happening, no?

Unfortunately, what I saw on the ground last week only confirmed what I'd been hearing -very egregious boarish behavior was the norm once you got anywhere near the HB Cultural Center parking lot or the one nearby at the closed Broward County Library, and the antagonists, well, again, no surprise.

Supporters of Joy Cooper, Annabelle Lima-Taub, and her her bellicose and boarish puppet, Dmitriy Yakubovich. He's got HUGE sense of entitlement!

Yakubovich has been an INVISIBLE presence in Hallandale Beach public policy at HB City Hall or in the larger community since he has been here, but it's very clear that he aims to use being President of one of the 3 BeachClub condo towers on beach to his advantage. 

My nickname for him after reading his material, what's been written abioyt him by others and then seeing him prowl the road between the Library and Cultural Center is Boris BadEnough, since his bellicose, loud-mouthed threats at Early Voting were both clownish yet VERY off-putting.

To be honest, I put all the early negative comments I heard by people I respect in Hallandale Beach re Yakubovich's bellicosity and preening sense of entitlement as, well, smoke. 

But then I saw him in action twice last week.

It's fair to say that when it comes to him, where there's smoke, there's a real fire.

When people said Yakubovich acted like a Russian bully, I thought maybe he was just... headstrong. Nope! 

Late Saturday afternoon I was near enough to Yakubovich to hear him 'joking' with some of his friends and supporters and some name personalities that because he had the support of the Hallandale Beach Police, i.e. their union, he would have people who disagreed with him or who called him a liar arrested. 

Honestly, who would be dumb enough to say that ALOUD in public?

And would you vote for them?

It takes all kinds, but Yakubovich is clearly someone who would not be the sort of positive change agent that HB City Hall desperately needs right now.

In the Group 3 Hallandale Beach City Commission race, you don't need to choose between the lesser of two evils... you can vote for the candidate with the experience of being a common sense, pro-citizen advocate at Hallandale Beach for longer than all of her opponents combined: Maggie Ivanovski.

Or, as I wrote last week:

https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/hallandale-beachs-sleazy-unethical.html  

Dave

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