What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

 

Ybor City Steak Sandwich

With Pasta Salad and Martinis. Great stuff at Bernini in Ybor City

I was in this building when I was a boy, it was a bank.
My friend Jon at The SOG Oracle was there recently.

Farm To Table In Seminole Heights

Rooster and the Till

Our local food expert Jon Rector of SOG
With The Belle of Ballast Point and Under Dog and Sweet Polly visited a local restaurant that we are hearing good things about.
Read what he has to say here, Sweet Polly's version
Eat Local - Stay Local

The Gandy Connector

The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) was asked by the City of Tampa and the Florida Department of Transportation to investigate a toll-feasible solution for traffic in the Gandy corridor......more

Ybor City - Other Views

At Ehe Stich Machine - Mike & Michelle
Photographing Florida - The SOG Oracle
Tampa Taxi Shots - Oh My Heart 
Boys Will Be Boys - MC Film Co. 
Rusty Photographs

The SOG City Oracle Recommends

Earl's Oyster Opener

As many of you already know, when it comes to oysters on the half shell I can be a real pain in the tuckus. I want those mollusks to be perfectly shucked, and perfectly presented. They also have to be real. I do not tolerate pasteurized or pre-shucked and frozen oysters on the half shell. As I said, I can be a real picker of nits when it comes to my oysters .If you like oysters on the half shell, you really do need one of these things...unless you are a masochist.

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Raise The Minimum Wage

Once again the message to America from the Republican party is, "Please go phuck yourselves!
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The State Of The Tampa Bay Blogosphere

Still Going Strong

Madfloridian - Litbrit - Tampa Do-Gooder - Tiny Little Dots

St. Petersblog - The Spencerian - SOG City Oracle - Finding Tampa

Bartlett Park - Pushing Rope - R/CT - Alan Snel - Clark Brooks
The Ybor City Stogie

We Miss You

The State Of Sunshine - Out In Left Field - Tampa Backdoor Ways
Deep Something

A Pro - Obama Veteran

Recent polls seem to indicate that a majority of older military veterans support Mitt the Romney over President Obama. Well, hot damn, they didn't ask me!
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The Belle of Ballast Point

Happy 23rd Anniversary
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Lowe's Customer Care Line

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The Bucs, Jags and Dolphins

Stop The Blackouts!
Two Florida lawmakers are putting the NFL on notice, trying to prevent more home game blackouts.
Two proposed bills in the Florida Legislature target the state's professional sports teams.
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At SOG City Oracle

Scott Barrish Anti-Islam

Scott Barrish of Florida, a Republican candidate for Hillsborough Clerk of Circuit Court, has stirred up a major firestorm with an email to CAIR, saying “Islam is not a religion.”
Barrish sent his email to Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He was responding to a Tampa Tribune opinion piece by Shibly that criticized the Hernando County Republican Party for hosting U.S. Rep. Allen West and Senate candidate Adam Hasner,
who have voiced anti-Islamic opinions.

This Right Wing blogger has a new hero.
More at SOG City Oracle
Are all Republicans bigots? All over a manufactured bogeyman.

A bogeyman is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to
frighten children into behaving....Wikipedia

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk In Tampa

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Florida Netroots Awards Nominee

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Best National Blog - Best New Blogger

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2011 Florida Netroots Awards Voting Now Open

Vote Local
Tampa Do-Gooder - Out In Left Field - Litbrit - Leilani Polk
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Pushing Rope - The Buzz - The Mitch Perry Report - Greater Pinellas
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Tampa Bay Blogger

Across the Tampa Bay Blogosphere
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Silly Florida Independent Voters

Florida independent voters who supported Barack Obama in 2008 looking for another change.

"If the economy can't be stabilized, I won't support him. I want to. I like him.".....Marie Lane

"He's super intelligent, but he's terrible at getting things done.".....Greg Peters"

I think the baggage he carries forward, if he gets elected, is another four years of gridlock.".....Ryan Deeds

"If somebody else came along, if I felt they had a better chance at getting something done, whether or not their polices were actually better than (Obama's), I would probably vote for them.".....Carla Hamlet

At The Times
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Obama, how long can you hold your breath?

I have a question for Mr. Waffles, the president of the United States. "Sir, how long can you hold your breath?" This may be a question people everywhere should be asking themselves. That knowledge could come in handy as we draw in and savor that last lung full of breathable air.
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"This, of course, follows the debt limit debacle. Seems like one cave after another. Obama alienates his base and gets no credit from those to whom he caves. Disheartening, isn't it?".....Jeff Tone
Speak Out!

Lisa Casalino - CD Release Party - Ybor City

CD Release and Birthday party for Lisa Casalino.
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SOG's 401-Keg Plan

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG, you would have $33.00. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers, you would have $0.00 today.

But, if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer, drank all the beer, turned in the aluminum cans for recycling, you would have $214.00. Therefore the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.
It is called the 401-Keg Plan.

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