Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Tampa Tribune Editors: Here We Go Again

In the course of just a few short years the state has instituted questionable changes to popular early-voting hours, launched a flawed voter purge effort, and issued a misguided absentee ballot directive. Rather than make the voting process better, these moves have instead given life to claims that the state is more interested in preserving a particular party’s political power than in preserving the integrity of the vote.
The state’s meddling needs to stop.......more

This from editors of  a solidly Republican editorial board.

Raíces en Tampa

Alicia, a member and founder of Raices en Tampa, this year she will not be celebrating Thanksgiving with her family. Alicia's family is split apart between two countries. Have you shown your support for Driver’s Licenses for All Undocumented – Florida? Do so now!

 

All you have to do is write on a piece of paper that you “Support Licenses for All in Florida #DL4ALLFL” and email it to us at raicesentampa@gmail.com

Read Alicia's story here, Visit them on Facebook here.

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Pablo

He is from Riverview

I Am Rick Scott

Tampa Wal-Mart Protest

 

 

 

 

Dale Mabry Highway and I275 in Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Mexican Shrimp Cocktail

$10.00 at  Don Julio's Cocteles in Wimauma

Delicious, I love this place.

Spanish River High School in Boca Raton

 The Institute on the Constitution launched a partnership with this American Club and will be sponsoring numerous more throughout America in the coming year! Knowledge of our God given liberties belongs in public education...If the school won't teach it, the kids will!

The Institute on the Constitution did not succeed in getting their course on the Constitution in the Springboro (OH) school district but

they may have found a way into a public school in Florida.

here, check them out on Facebook

Millennials: We Suck and We're Sorry

WMNF Day At Tampa Tour De Clay

Saturday, December 14.

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Walmart Propaganda

Black Friday Black List

Via Beach Peanuts

The Perfect Thanksgiving Prayer

Failed State: Florida Still Looking For Creative Ways To Suppress Voter Rights

Florida is well known for finding creative methods of suppressing the vote. The latest ploy is a new rule issued by Governor Rick Scott’s chief election official Secretary of State Ken Detzner, directing that absentee ballots be returned by mail or directly to the offices of election supervisors. It has been a common practice in the state to allow ballots to be dropped off at locations such as tax collectors offices, libraries and other sites designated by the local election supervisors.  This was to accommodate those who wished to save the postage or found it more convenient to drop them at a nearby location.......more>

 

 The directive appeared to take dead aim at one supervisor, Deborah Clark in Pinellas County, who aggressively promotes voting absentee and has a small network of remote drop-off locations to make it easier for people to turn in their absentee ballots. The state’s order comes as Clark prepares to send thousands of absentee ballots to voters in the upcoming special election in the 13th Congressional District, vacated when longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Young died last month......more>

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/26/3781765/detzners-directive-on-absentees.html#storylink=cpy

 

Bartlett Park Community

"After five years of growing food and community at the
Bartlett Park Community Garden,
we are excited to announce that we have bought the land the garden sits on.
It goes without saying that this is a major milestone for our garden. We no longer have to wonder each month if we will be able to continue
to grow food for our neighbors.  
We can run the garden as a resource for the
Bartlett Park Community for as long as the community needs it." Tom Tito

It is amazing what we can do when we all work together. Mr. Tito and the Bartlett Park Community  should be commended for their great work, they are a treasure to Tampa Bay. 

George Zimmerman’s Florida Stash

Here are the Weapons Police found in Zimmerman’s Florida Residence

Three handguns
One 12-gauge shotgun
One AR-15 rifle
106 rounds of ammunition, including two AR-15 magazines

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Florida Stingray's Close Encounter

Mark "the Shark" Quartiano has caught thousands of sharks, but never anything like the 800-pound deep-water stingray he landed off Miami Beach. 

It was released after being caught......more>

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Bacalao

With red beans and rice

$5.70 at Tierra Latina, Nebraska Ave and  Linebaugh in Tampa.

Rally For Solar Power In St. Pete

With Special Guest Darden Rice

The rally and a press conference are scheduled for Wednesday 10 a.m. at Williams Park, across from Duke Building, 299 1st Avenue North......more>

WORLD'S TALLEST ROLLER COASTER COMING TO FLORIDA

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Soup and Sandwich

At Little Habana Café in Riverview

Florida Islamophobic Fringe Group

 Citizens For National Security

  Are in DC planning to accuse the Council on American-Islamic Relations of

“advancing its agenda of radical Islam” and backing

a campaign of “extortion, intimidation and subversion.”

Republican members of Congress regularly demonize CAIR:

 One former representative even called the organization a
“terrorist organization.” CFNS previously collaborated with then-congressman Allen West. CFNS chairman William Saxton believes that the Muslim Brotherhood has captured public schools in the US and is training students to become Islamic extremists.....more>
 

 This latest controversy is not new in Florida. The website at Citizens for National Security is heavily devoted to the topic, including a report of the ongoing textbook issue in Florida; a 10-minute instructional video devoted to the topic; and a “Teacher’s Guide” to correcting “Islamic bias.” Saxton calls the Islamic-biased textbooks a “national issue” that’s been ongoing for some time.

THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN AT PUBLIX

Florida’s tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes 

but have also been called America’s ‘ground zero for slavery.’

Countless workers held against their will, threatened with violence and forced to haul hundreds of heavy tomato buckets a day for little to no pay. Thankfully, a new solution called the Fair Food Program has been proven successful. The Fair Food Program is working to enforce a policy of

 zero tolerance for slavery on tomato farms. 

But a major U.S. supermarket chain, Publix Super Markets,

is refusing to support the Fair Food Program. Publix continues to buy tomatoes from growers that are not partners of the Fair Food Program and where workers still toil beyond the reach of its proven protection from modern slavery.

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Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Eli, he is from Dade City.

"I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” John F. Kennedy

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label “Liberal?”

…If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,

” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”

 John F. Kennedy, September 14, 1960
 

Was JFK A Conservative — Or A Socialist?
Let’s Ask The Right-Wingers Of 1963

here

Matt Damon Amazes Audience with Howard Zinn Speech

Florida Ccongressman Trey Radel: The Family Guy

Mother Jones reported last year Radel, a tea party favorite and a Fox News radio host, came to office with an unusual background, having run a business that bought somewhat pornographic sex-themed domain names in both English and Spanish, Radel's business snagged all sorts of un-family-friendly domain names, including www.casadelasputas.com ("whorehouse") and www.mamadita.com ("little blow job"). (After our story, he sent an email to supporters attacking Mother Jones as an "ultra-liberal San Francisco rag" whose "attack" on him he wore like a "badge of honor.")........more>

I Am Rick Scott

Miami Gardens Store Owner Catches A Year Of Police Abuse On Film

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Ken Hagan's Early Christmas Gift

A bright, shiny (Big Box) lawsuit

naming Hillsborough County and Red Cast Bloomingdale LLC

as defendants in a declaratory judgment complaint.....more>

Compliments of Bloomingdale CANDO Inc. This is what happens when the community 
fights back.  Great job Bloomingdale.
Visit Mr. Hagan's Countdown Clock at
www.kenhagan.info

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pepper Steak

With Moro and Yuca

$5.99 at Bravo Supermarket, 4340 W Hillsborough Ave, Tampa

Shop Hop In Seminole Heights

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