\u2022 Why do elected idiots all over America continue to pass local laws banning personal fireworks use when they know nobody will enforce them?\u00a0 Parts of Palm Bay on Saturday night sounded less like fireworks fun and more like Normandy Beach on D-Day.\u00a0 It\u2019s bad enough for terrified pets jumping over and tunneling under fences; I can only imagine how war veterans endured it.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The present political divisions in the USA are overwhelming. Now even the Fourth of July has become a political event. Before it was a day of unity where everybody got together to celebrate no matter your political affiliation. The country needs more unity and less politics.<\/p>\n
\u2022 When, oh when, will this miserable excuse for a so-called \u201cgame\u201d tournament be over?\u00a0 I have agonizingly watched 68 minutes of Spain and Portugal each trotting around in circles and neither ream has scored, or apparently, even wants to score.\u00a0 Further, closeups of the players show that none of them has even broken a sweat.\u00a0 Soccer is not a game.\u00a0 Rather, it is an activity but with less athleticism.<\/p>\n
The flip side<\/p>\n
\u2022 It was the 4th of July, the morning after Red Hot and Boom, when I went walking around Cranes Roost in Altamonte. It was meticulously clean, and there was not a single bit of litter anywhere in the park. I really want to commend the wonderful staff at Cranes Roost for always doing such an extraordinary job at keeping the park beautiful and clean.<\/p>\n
NEED TO VENT?: I\u2019m Ticked Off! Are you? Write to tickedoff@orlandosentinel.com<\/a> or flipside@orlandosentinel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 Why do elected idiots all over America continue to pass local laws banning personal fireworks use when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,482,139,141,140,109,76410,9591],"class_list":["post-334191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-opinion","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-social-opinion","tag-ticked-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}