From Somewhere Else

A lot of people have never really given peace a chance. Please try. Please help the Peace movement to bring peace to our world.

Happy Birthday Andrew Julian Aviles

Due to personal experience, I know that his mother and father must be having a difficult time surrounding this day. If they happen on this place, they'll know someone thought of them and Andy and wishes them some light and peace for their boy and their remaining children.

He would be 23 years old on April 24, 2007. Just the thought of a man that young missing a birthday ....

But, it's STILL his birthday. Happy Birthday AJ Aviles !




And because his parents are advocates of ending this illegal war and bringing peace to Americans again .... I want to remind you WHY:



That's Norma Aviles and Oscar kissing their 18 year-old son's remains goodbye for the last time.



And then:

Because it's dated September 2006, because there are numerous others like it. Because it's such a journey for Norma and Oscar Aviles physically and emotionally and mentally and because it's something I would do. Same color, even.


Much love to your family. I deeply regret the death of your handsome young son, Andy and especially realize how sad it must make you that the reason is so WRONG.

People, WE have the POWER to stop this war. PLEASE PLEASE do something every single day to end this tragic misdirection of American resources and the needless sacrifice of our brave men and women.

Andy --- well, he should still be here. It's WRONG.

When BUSH came to Tampa FDOT took down Andy's memorial so that shrub did not have to see the effects of his fucked up war for oil.

Make him see it. Write. Call. Protest. Go to City Council and County Commission and take up an effort for impeachment. He has to go. No more wasting time, blood or love. We have to reclaim our country. The world is watching us.

Please help.

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Officer with Mental Condition SHOOTS 15 year old

FATALLY ...




Apparently, there are branches of CopWatch in many locales. This is America LIVE under King George Bush.

WTF ????

To serve and protect.


What was an officer with a mental condition doing on a S.W.A.T. Team???

I guess I have good reason to be upset. These things are covered up in Tampa. Way covered up. AND, if someone IS murdered it may or may not show up in stats.

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What Tampa Needs Apparently

Because I have observed them (the Tampa Cops) to make lists. I have observed they and the firefighters of Tampa harassing those who stand up for peace and sanity in this world ... yknow most of the activists --- it's a CALLING. They're sure not being paid .... (one who was present on the side of the peace-wagers when the Tampa Firemen did their drive-by for the Bayshore Patriots who were situated on the opposite side of Bayshore Blvd was Andrew Julian Avile's mother, surely a proud moment). Sure, and likely none of their kids were just killed in Iraq but that's by design. Assholes.

Norma Aviles and her husband Oscar advocate for the end of the war as should any person with any sanity be doing. The Firemen of Tampa and the Police of Tampa should have and SHOULD respect that.

I KNOW that they (Tampa Cops) had a dishonest and misleading and bogus file on at least four people and on further thought I realize that's THE ONLY FOUR PEOPLE whose records I have ever closely investigated. One of these was published in the Tampa Tribune ... the other were occasions I found myself facing something I kind of stumbled on.

SO --- that's ONE HUNDRED PERCENT WRONG on every file I have ever ever ever seen. I don't have great faith that the next four I see would be any better. It's kind of hard to believe in what basically IS a random sampling ... one is a stranger, one a juvenile, one an old and dear friend and one a new and dear friend. EVERY ONE of them has erroneous information in the Tampa Police Dept. files. Whoops we'll have to make that FIVE. I just remembered another one. Five of five had erroneous info. or damaging or reputation-smearing.



Watch on here til you get to the seventy year old nun and what she is listed as.

Then relate this to what happened to a Tampa resident the other night. THEN relate THAT to what was done to Terry Neal.

WTF might the Tampa police NOW have on file about this gentleman and this family????

I'm going to find out.

You'll learn with me.

As I said, it's not the last you'll hear of it.

HOW DARE AN ARMED CIVIL SERVANT ABUSE THE PUBLIC TRUST, FAKE A CALL TO 911 and FUCK WITH A CITIZEN OF TAMPA???????????????????????????? Maybe I take special exception to this because so many guilty-red-face city/county employees have harassed my family while their mobbish counterparts harass other loved ones from their jobs.
And the companies that win GREAT NEW BUSINESS awards run my ass off the interstate. Yeah, maybe that's why this insult to someone's integrity and the defaming of his character makes me so determined to .... we'll just see about that.

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The difference between peace-wagers and the Bayshore Patriots is that

a. Bush will never confer one of his dubious awards on one of us.

b. We support the troops like they do but we insist that the troops come home NOW and ALIVE. NOW. That's the difference. I've talked with many of them; they're good decent people way different than the ones who get the press.
Yknow this IS an illegal war and Bush LIED the Congress into it.

What else is there to say???

Don't trust the cops. (der)

Realize that the Tampa Firemen do NOT respect a family's loss.

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Vox was Here

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No, it really WASN'T me but I am in love with the ideals of whomever it was.






Thanks from the voxie one and family of those who love everyone.

Just LOVE EVERYONE.

It's the ONLY ONLY rule.

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Which is WHY even though I recognize the fact that you whore out your children in your awful pursuits I still love and hug them while barely containing the mirth that half your family leaps to a vehicle to apprehend me and send your stupid messages. Well --- DUH. I hope you realize how expensive this is going to be. And one day, I hope you realize that your children never had a childhood, needed something you didn't have to give them and sadness and self-loathing shines from their not-at-all self-confident eyes. False posturing is always very obvious to persons of integrity. We feel like we just need to hug the person. And, it helps to cover up the laughter some.

Oh, and .... I think that even in smarmy ol Tampa there may not be enough mob attorneys around when your dumb asses get called to answer up. You'll each need your own. Nah, there probably ARE enough mob attorneys but THINK... they travel with YOU -- how smart can they be??

Not to be rude or anything ... seriously, sometimes some of you are interesting to talk to ..... nothing too complicated .. BUT ... I figured something out. You don't know HOW to stop. You can't fathom it. Therefore, you continue to plod on ... same ol same ol. Every day dragging your chains around the same ol way thinking you have some support. Hey, ya ever notice how no one else shows up witnessed or on video except for you and your kid(s)?

Yep. Recover from your delusions. Do you REALLY THINK that they will step up and confess? LOL !!! Or is part of your training to be prepared to go to prison for whatever the master wants.

Face cards.

LOL !!!

Keep up the goose-stepping. But, let your children off the hook. That kid doesn't look so good and (s)he used to be so beautiful. Stop whoring out your children. Have some balls about you.

Get yourself a big dump truck and run me off the road. That's manly, isn't it?

LOL !!

Please leave your children out of your smarmy lifestyle. Even John Gotti managed to be a decent parent in some respects. Mario Puzo pictified the Godfather as a decent, loving father and grandfather.
Have some self-respect and allow your children to have some. It's too late for their innocence but they can regain their self-respect.

And that one kid would maybe lose his tics. His elder has shown up in places he probably should not have been seen and therefore I respect him a tad. But, the kid pays the price because he is control-freaked on. Actually, both those kids do. Let em up. Be men and women and leave your children free from walking in your smelly shit. okay, I'm done with you for the week.

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Obviously, not enough people know Edna

What really happened??

Even for people in the deepest denial ... where is the big raging fire that should be surrounding this unlucky woman waving her last at us; whose tragic ending made it possible for us all to know the truth.

And, when activists STRIVE to expose these truths they are treated to what Mark Frankenberg experienced the other night. Not to mention hanging around other activists who receive the same/similar treatment and regular intimidation surrounding their property in a highly lucrative area.

Am I the NEXT Edna??

Maybe. They've already threatened to burn my house down, blow it up ... run me off the road and bother with my loved ones. They have surrounded me with big nasty dumptrucks, firetrucks, cops, sheriffs ... run me off the road with several different semis .... their talents know no beginning nor end. They have harassed loved ones from jobs. There is such a long list and so many encounters now with County and City thugs and their various private and tax-payer-provided vehicles that I am considering moving it to a separate blog in order to keep this one more interesting. This is the high price you pay for speaking the truth. The high price you pay for not rolling over, playing dead and handing over anything some elite-poser-thug-cbi-jha-thl-etc...wants. The smaller tolls are doled out from idiots left and right but that's like .... not worth time. Not even amusing and sad when you juxtapose me with them. I have to remain silent because it's just exhausting to .... think of all they would have to learn JUST TO BE ON THE LEVEL to exchange repartee' with. And, I'm not really sure that decency CAN be taught. Not at these ripe old ages of these ladies/gents.

INSERT WAYWARD THOUGHT:::

OH there are TWO HUGE exceptions to this whom I owe comments and time to way big time (sorry I've been so darn busy) Mark Spence at Tampa Pirates ... a loyal friend and a guy whom I agree with ... more often than I would have expected. That whole hating verizon thing we share is .... warm and fuzzy. (and more) And Media Lizzy who ... well, she captivates me, frankly. She's really NOT just a hubba hubba cheerleader for the dark side but an incisive chick who tells the truth as she sees it and ... well, on reading her blog I'm always compelled to read more. And not in self-defense. I've been too busy to hold up my side of the discussion but NEVER FEAR, I'll drag the left back over your way and spar dutifully with you as soon as I possibly can. Good comments, sorry for lack of participation. I'm on my way to 'on it.' Good food, art festival, sticking up for friends, interviews, paperwork, EEK. Tampa is a hub of activity for some. LOL !!!

I was thinking of Edna today and how if anyone deserves the truth to be told and how if ANYONE would want someone to be safe in their pursuit to reveal the truth it would be Edna.

Of course, there will be the heartless bitches to argue with that but ... hey, I don't give a darn, anyway.

You'll have to take a number and get in line.

Service available whenever I relax enough to consider your needs. It's kinda hard considering how you consider MINE. Not at all.....

LOL!!!!

As a woman, some women deeply offend me. I think there should be a hyphen in the middle of them .... wo-men. Or wom-en. Because they are not REAL women. Laura Bush tops the list. The rest of you clutching your greasy lil numbers waiting your turn impatiently. You make me want to hurl.

But, I have cool things on my mind today so BUZZZZ OFF. HAHA That's for the rest of you, too.

Hey, I am considering cleaning up the blog. The language has taken a complete life of it's own. But, I probably won't.
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How Intimidation works when you are a Teacher.....

Smiles, greetings - how dare she?

A teacher's complaints about another might make you laugh. Not superintendent Wilcox.

By Thomas C. Tobin
Published March 26, 2007
AND this doesn't even really INCLUDE what they do to children every day. Ask your child. Find out. Watch these people. There are no heroes jockying for TRUE HERO. There are a FEW heroes among an increasingly wretched crowd. Elia is importing all the teachers from her home state. And other places. Try to get a job as a teacher with the wrong last name and Tampa as your home-town. Ask any of a dozen of my friends. And, administration at every school I've walked into is a science in intimidation. Each classroom designed to bully any child who doesn't FIT exactly. If this isn't happening to your child well, good for you --- apparently you married well. Although that's not really saying much in Tampa. My boyfriend thinks all my old friends are gangsters. What should he expect?? I grew up in Tampa. Where all the mob kids become teachers or cops or firemen or auxiliary sheriffs or sheriffs .... I KNOW most of them. I know everyone in Elia's office.

Fuck a bunch of illiterates teaching your kids. Ask for MORE. You won't get it but at least you won't appear stupid. Lee DeCesare always sticks up for teachers which makes me very proud --- but there are not as many real teachers as there used to be. Look around. We are being jacked by a bunch of thuggish posers. I've never seen so many wackjobs in schools in my life.

Oh and yes, this lady is being intimidated. If this other bitch posing as a teacher can get rid of the decent one then another of the posers can have access to your child's mind. A person doesn't have to shove you down to intimidate you. Some of them just climb in their big shiny red vehicles and drive around you repeatedly and some put on pencil skirts and shake their ta-tas at your kid all day. Seriously, you can PICK out the teachers in Hillsborough Cty schools by the slutty way they dress these days. NOT all of them. But the ones who don't dress like sluts know exactly what I am talking about. Yeah. It's a school house. Go work for Joe if you've a yen. Our kids might find you eventually. Meantime, keep your boobs to yourself and cover your asses.

OH and please note how quickly the intimidater was able to convince the Dept. of Professional Standards that she had done nothing wrong. Decent teachers are OUT NUMBERED. When decent teachers speak out they are called on Elia's carpet (here in Hillsborough Cty.) and FORCED to defend their rights to free speech and/or they are defamed publicly and privately. THIS is the first thing that a decent teacher pointed out to me about a certain local blogger's outspokenness. The decent teacher could not understand why the decent teacher had been called to the carpet and why said local blogger seemed to rail away with no problem. yeah ... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

LARGO - A day after the terrible event, a letter arrived in the front office at Walsingham Elementary School.

"Dear Bill ..."

Bill Nordmark is the principal.

"On Monday, 9-18-06, while I was doing my daily morning bus duty by the media center, I was assaulted by Jan Owen! I was standing still, monitoring the students as they were going to breakfast. I complimented the students on their good behavior. ... Then as Jan Owen came walking by me - she hit me with a large brown envelope striking the right side of my face, neck and top of my shoulder.

"I was appalled by her attack and unprofessional behavior! Immediately I said, 'Excuse me?' Jan just stared blankly at me - saying nothing. Then I said, 'Don't ever touch my body.'

"This was a deliberate, physically hostile attack on me."

The letter was signed by Diane Murphy, one of Owen's fellow teachers at Walsingham. That day, she complained to the school district's Office of Professional Standards, which investigates employee misbehavior.

In OPS case 31967, there's no gripe left behind.

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The professional standards office entered two offenses on Owen's record: "Problem with Colleagues" and "Harassment/Non-Student."

It turned out that three teachers had witnessed the episode between Murphy and Owen, both veteran educators in their mid 50s.

One said Owen "gently brushed" an envelope across Murphy's shoulder as she said "Good morning." Another said Owen "lightly touched" Murphy. "Very harmless," she said.

The third witness said Murphy and Owen both seemed startled by what happened.

The OPS told the principal to tell Owen to write an apology to Murphy. Case closed.

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Well.

Instead of apologizing, Owen wrote a letter saying she was upset that such a small matter had generated a disciplinary file.

She explained that she had merely raised her hand to say "Good morning" and touched Murphy with the envelope. She recalled saying she was sorry. It had been an accident.

Murphy said that the harassment continued. In a letter to the principal in October, she chronicled five weeks of outrages:

- Five times when Owen parked in her space or parked too close to her car.

- A time when "Jan Owen's shirt sleeve brushed across me as I was standing against my doorway."

- A morning when Owen walked toward her in the hallway, "staring at me with a huge smile on her face. I just ignored her and went into my room."

- Owen displaying a bumper sticker on her car so Murphy would see it. It quoted the French philosopher Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Later, Owen would say the bumper sticker had been on her car for years. It was her comment on a different war.

The one in Iraq.

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By February - five months after the envelope incident - Owen had convinced the professional standards office that she hadn't harassed anybody. But she was still upset that the offense, problem with colleagues, remained on file.

She complained to the School Board, which forwarded the matter to superintendent Clayton Wilcox, who asked his staff attorney to look into it. Last week, the attorney gave Wilcox a four-page summary with 11 pages of background material.

Wilcox wondered why an envelope attack in September would be on his desk in March - why it would be on his desk at all. "No private firm would put up with this kind of stuff," he said testily.

The superintendent often talks about urgency, and about "Nero fiddling while Rome burns."

The way he sees it, Walsingham Elementary is Rome, and it's on fire. The school has an A grade from the state. But about half the children are from poor families. Sixty percent of Walsingham's large population of Hispanic students tested below grade level in reading.

The district recently surveyed the Walsingham staff about the school's climate. Teachers groused about favoritism and inconsistency from management, about cliques and negative e-mails. They talked about having to "fight for everything."

One anonymous person had a helpful suggestion. It's what they always tell the kids: "Everyone needs to be nice to each other."

Thomas C. Tobin can be reached at 727 893-8923 and tobin@sptimes.com.



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Comments on this article
by Anne 04/08/07 09:55 AM
ps do not post previously sent email sent on Sunday My father will be very mad at me
by Anne 04/08/07 09:39 AM
I am a child of a former employee at Walsingham, I also went there myself. I am intimate with the atmosphere at that school and I can tell you that from an outsiders view these accusations will seem trite. However, Jan Owens uses intimidation tactics
by gnusomethingwouldhappen 04/05/07 10:58 PM
Unfortunately this article has done nothing to remedy the deplorable situation at Walsigham. If anything, it has gotten worse. It's like World War III. The area supt. came in and didn't address the problems. Wilcox, where are you??????????????????
by gnusomethingwouldhappen 04/05/07 10:54 PM
Having worked at Walsingham for many years I knew something would happen. The administration pits staff against one another to keep discord going in the school. We work in a climate of fear bred by incompetence in the main office. HELP!!!
by M.W. 03/30/07 07:46 AM
This situation is out of hand! Teachers are there for the students. They should be the number one priority.Shame on all of you!
by Nancy 03/29/07 06:58 PM
I teach at Walsingham, and this is not a true representation of our school Please do not judge us on the actions of others.
by mike 03/29/07 01:28 PM
simple solution more new rules which seems to be what we do in the U S now. 1. No envelope swinging 2. no smiling 3. No speaking 4. No bumper stickers there you go all fixed.
by mikey 03/29/07 09:41 AM
To an outsider, its clear that ineffective management allowed this to fester. Shame on you, Pricipal!!
by Diane 03/29/07 08:07 AM
I nthink Murphy needs some hormones. She's obviously an unbalanced person. Not the best example for kids-making such a big deal out of nothing. She has also created an unnecessary blot on another teacher's record. See a doctor!
by Jim 03/29/07 07:27 AM
I find it very interesting that people involved in local stories often post comments. Sometimes using their real names and sometimes not, all readers of these comments should realize that.
by -Sad Parent 03/29/07 07:21 AM
These are the kind of immature employees that make me think I now know what is wrong with Florida's schools.
by Sal 03/29/07 07:17 AM
I blame their parents, clearly these ladies were not raised right.
by Robert 03/29/07 06:33 AM
Very unprofessional, on the petty actions of the teachers and on the slow reaction by the school board. All parties should be ashamed by their actions and lack of action.
by S 03/28/07 08:03 PM
It's symptomatic of MANY problems that have been brewing at Walsingahm for years. The administration sets the tone. Enough said!
by S 03/27/07 12:55 PM
Sounds like 2 3rd graders. You want to be treated like a professional, then act like a professional!
by Jan 03/27/07 09:52 AM
When I gave Mr. Tobin my OPS file, I was not interested in judging a teacher, a principal, or the superintendent. People are not the problem. Written guidelines should have been made when OPS originated. Hopefully written bylaws will now be made.
by MacK 03/27/07 09:41 AM
sad that this had to be taken to a level that requires that OPS step in. The principal should have called both into conference. The principal failed to do his job. Go back in your office Bill... throw away the candy dish. Do your job.
by Wayne 03/26/07 06:49 PM
Why is this in the paper? I thought personnel matters were supposed to remain confidential. Even if not, it sounds like this person needs psychiatric counseling, not public ridicule. And mental illness is caused by teacher tenure????
by cogitator 03/26/07 06:12 PM
Why would Murphy think the Voltaire quote applied to her, unless she was trying to make people believe absurdities? Maybe Murphy needs to write, "I will not sweat the small stuff" a thousand times. Why couldn't the principal handle this? Pitiful.
by dan 03/26/07 04:00 PM
Neither teacher sounds very professional. Do they give grades for teachers? THIS is the product of a tenure system gone bad; the rotten fruit spoils the whole bushel!!
by Paul 03/26/07 03:05 PM
Since the teachers are now acting like little school children maybe they shoud meet in the playground after school to settle this once and for all. Does Murphy realize how idiotic she sounds? Just more fodder for Leno from the Fla. school system. :)
by G 03/26/07 03:02 PM
If Murphy has more than those complaints then I could dtake those seriously as passive aggressive behavior, but w/o some reason otherwise...how can you? Either way the thinking in PCS is CYA all the way. It's sad and explains a lot of burn out.
by Laurien 03/26/07 02:48 PM
I worked with these two ladies a long time ago. I bet the truth is somewhere in the middle. Most likely, neither is completely without fault. Both are smart educators who are better than this.
by L 03/26/07 02:28 PM
My daughter works in Pinellas Countyschool syatem, with all the good energy these teachers need to give the children, this incident is ridiculous, really!
by Debbie 03/26/07 02:13 PM
DIANE MURPHY,grow up or ship out,maybe u should take lessons from your students about being a tattle tale
by Butch 03/26/07 10:03 AM
Sounds like Diane Murphy is an idiot and shouldn't be around impressionable school age children. Maybe its time to retire.
by concernedparent 03/26/07 10:02 AM
Diane Murphy needs to get a life! Florida public schools already have enough challenges without adding this ridiculous paranoid behavior to the list!!!
by Jason A. 03/26/07 09:43 AM
Sounds like Murphy needs to grow up and quite making a mountain out of a mole hill! She needs to stick to teaching kids instead of acting like one.
by Cindy 03/26/07 09:34 AM
If this is the way teachers are behaving, how can we expect students to do any better! Teachers should set the standard, not lower it!!
by Darren 03/26/07 07:56 AM
These folks are "teaching " our kids...thats scary!



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