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

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Matt Damon Amazes Audience with Howard Zinn Speech