Your Morning Sift

Good morning.

Finally, it's Friday. Long week for me, folks. I'm going to review the SFDB Weekend Widget in the right sidebar and decide what I want to do this weekend. Here's your TGIF morning Sift.

A- Random Pixels compares the Republican National Convention on Miami Beach to the one held this week in Tampa...as far as police presence goes.

B- Your Republican hypocrisy of the day captured in a picture at Bark Bark Woof Woof.

C- Summer vacation pictures, from Eye on Miami.

D- Miami Beach 411 briefs us on the new customs and immigration processing hall at MIA which is just another reason I choose to travel domestically.

The new arrivals hall is split into Visitors, Residents and Citizens. This is a new concept for Miami immigration, which previously let US residents and citizens pass through the same lane. Now, if you have a green card, you are also in a huge line of people and are not allowed to pass through with US citizens, no matter how long you have lived here or if you are married to an American. The visitor lines are long and slow moving and the staff are unfriendly.

E- We're beginning South Florida's "fall funk," according to Go Hydrology!

The peninsular “fall funk” is a well documented affliction during which the psyche of us Floridians finally starts to crack amid the unending daytime heat, nighttime humidity, increasing tropical activity and perhaps worse of all, knowing that up north our continental cousins are relishing the crisp, cool and carefree days of fall …

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