The Ybor City Stogie

Monday, August 21, 2023

REPREHENSIBLE: Manatee County delays plans for affordable housing for veterans

Some commissioners were hesitant including Republican District 3 commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge. The housing would be in his district, and he was concerned about potential drug use from the veterans. He worried it would spill over into his community.....MORE

Trump’s bond set at $200K in Fulton County case

A judge on Monday signed off on a $200,000 bond for former President Trump in the Georgia election case, according to court filings.

The order forbids Trump from intimidating any co-defendants or witnesses in the case as he awaits trial.

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Lana Del Rey’s limited 10-city tour comes to Tampa this September

Lana Del Ray will perform live at the MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater on September 25 at 8pm. Tickets will officially go on sale on August 25 at 10am.....MORE

Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE’ restricts businesses from training on some race-related issues; a court will hear a challenge

A federal appeals court this week will hear arguments in a fight about a 2022 Florida law that placed restrictions on how race-related issues can be addressed in workplace training — part of what Gov. Ron DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.”

Attorneys for the state want the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a preliminary injunction that Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued last year to block the workplace-training part of the law. Walker agreed with businesses and a consultant that the restrictions violated the First Amendment.

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Ybor Paparazzi

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How to watch the first Republican cringeworthy debate

Republican presidential hopefuls are slated to take the stage Wednesday night to make their cases to voters in the first 2024 presidential primary debate.....MORE

Is Florida Next? Federal judge pauses Georgia law banning hormone therapy for transgender minors

A federal judge has temporarily blocked part of a Georgia law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

In a ruling late Sunday, Judge Sarah E. Geraghty in the Northern District of Georgia said the state’s law banning hormone therapy “is substantially likely to violate the Equal Protection Clause.”

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Stewed Chicken

With Beans, Rice and Cabbage

$6.49 Lunch Special

Hines Caribbean Cuisine

3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights

Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!

‘Is There Life Out There? I Don’t Know?’: Maxwell Frost Discusses The Possibilities Of Aliens

Tampa Hoods: Ybor City

7th Ave

Matt Gaetz Makes SHOCKING Admission About Desire To Impeach Biden

During a live session on Twitter this week, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz admitted that the goal of impeaching President Biden wouldn't be to actually impeach him - it would be to set a "stage" for the American people to see him on trial. In other words, the whole thing would be for show in a feeble attempt to tarnish Biden before next year's election. It sounds an awful lot like those "political persecutions" Republicans have been railing against all year, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

LOBBYING COST: Huge donations grant access to DeSantis in pay for play scheme

A new report by The Washington Post describes the shockingly open means by which lobbyists gained access to DeSantis. At least it was simple.

DeSantis would assess the lobbyist’s clientele and then make an “ask,” which could be up to a million dollars but was usually lower, anywhere from $25K to $500k depending on the clients, and they would get a round of golf with a man who can’t hold a regular conversation with people over dinner. (Though he sold dinners, too).

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In DeSantis’ Florida, we’re raising our children to be closed-minded and ignorant

In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, teachers are expected to present a version of the world in which “gender” is not to be spoken of, “gay” likewise, there’s no climate crisis — the weather’s always changing! — Shakespeare needs to be toned down, the human body is disgusting, slavery had an upside, America is the best country that ever was and ever will be, and books that challenge any of these self-evident truths must be banned.....MORE

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Support The Merchants Of Ybor

7th Ave

'Liberal' Media Inspires Marco Rubio's Witch Hunt Against Anti-War Activists

Is Bigger Always Better?

DeSantis Champions The “New” New College Of Florida Where Enrollment Soared As The School Shifted Right

The months-long effort to purge Florida’s smallest public university of its woke ideology has produced big dividends, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office announced on Friday.

New College in Sarasota, a tiny school whose curriculum is focused on the humanities, “is experiencing record enrollment with an increase of over 300 students this year, marking the highest enrollment of new students in school history,” the governor’s office said in a press release.

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GW2 Tour in Ybor City

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 AT 7 PM

Crowbar - TIX

Ybor City at Night

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chef Salad

NY, NY Pizza - Ybor City

JENerational Change: Jesse Ventura Running Libertarian 2024? Oliver Anthony Goes Viral & BlackRock Owns Maui

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

Jesse Ventura has come out saying he is considering a 2024 presidential run on the Libertarian ticket. We'll discuss this & much more with Osiris of Stuck In The Middle Podcast.

We'll also be discussing Oliver Anthony's song 'Rich Men North of Richmond' blows up, causing media and others to react, as well as Seth Dillon of Babylon Bee.