Medical Marijuana Has 70 Percent Support in Florida

As many as seven in 10 Florida voters support a state constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana — more than enough to ensure passage and possibly affect the governor’s race — according to a new poll from a group trying to put the measure on the 2104.
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Connect Tampa Bay

To Help People Save Themselves

Connect Tampa Bay is bringing together citizens from across Tampa Bay who want more transportation options so that we can create jobs and improve our quality of life. We just started out and need your help to reach our goal of 2,000 supporters. We are up to 1572 in just a six weeks, help us get to 2,000!

These folks have come to save us from ourselves, join them.

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Florida Welfare Drug Testing Program

Lets Talk About The Fourth Amendment Mr. Scott

The 11th Circuit Court voted unanimously to uphold the 2011 decision by an Orlando,
court that the tests violate the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizures. Republicans across the country have sponsored these types of bills in state legislatures, purportedly to protect children from being raised by drug-addicted parents and to stem the tide of drug use among the poor and unemployed. Aside from the testing being unconstitutional, however, that rising tide of poor and unemployed people using drugs has turned out not to exist.

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Mindy McCready: Ten Thousand Angels

Hundreds Gather To Mourn At Mindy McCready’s Florida Funeral

Mindy McCready is, finally, presumably, at peace. The long-troubled country singer’s family held her funeral Tuesday in her hometown of Fort Myers, Fla. The service, which took place at the Crossroads Baptist Church, was open to the public. According to People, around 400 attended to pay their respects.
The family requests that donations be made to the
Mindy McCready Children's Trust
 c/o John Ammons, Edison National Bank
13000 S. Cleveland Ave., Ft. Myers, FL 33907
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Friends Of Stogie

In Tampa

The Republican Savior?

A New Face Doesn't Improve Bankrupt Ideas.

One of those ideas is the undermining of public schools. Under the guise of helping lower-income parents, Rubio is offering the Educational Opportunities Act to move students from public to private schools, most of which are church-affiliated, at taxpayer expense.

Rubio, like his fellow Republicans, would transform public education from a process where students collectively learn from secular teachers about civic duty and virtue and turn it into a private commodity where education is faith-based and teachers must be of a certain religion to get a job.

In Florida, voters dislike the idea of taxpayer-funded vouchers going to religious schools so much they rejected a constitutional amendment in the last election.
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Pic Thanks To All Hat No Cattle

Nazis In Ft. Lauderdale

Get the fuck out of the neighborhood, pack your bags and leave.

Stogie's Oscar Picks: Anne Hathaway

Well i only got 2 out of 7 right. But my favorite did win.  Congratulations to Anne Hathaway for her Actress In A Supporting Role Oscar.
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Best Of Babalu: Senator No

The folks over at Babalu are gushing over their new found friend Cuban-American Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. After all he did vote against Senate rule changes to modestly curb filibusters, aid for Superstorm Sandy victims and the Violence Against Women Act. He also was one of only three "no" votes against Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry's nomination to be secretary of State. And he publicly skewered President Obama’s nominee for Defense secretary, former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel. Lets hope he is not around if another Sandy ever visits South Florida or the coast of Texas.

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Mindy McCready: I'll See You Yesterday

Mindy McCready's publicist said that there are preliminary plans being made for a tribute in Nashville to the late singer who committed suicide this weekend and a song has gone online which was reportedly her final recording. Her funeral is scheduled for Tuesday, February 26 at 2:00 p.m. at the Crossroads Baptist Church at 10721 Palm Beach Blvd. in Ft. Meyers. The public is welcome to join the family.

We Won, The Left Has Won

Rush Limbaugh Said So
They have created far more low-information, unaware, uneducated people than we’ve been able to keep up with.
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Zippity Doo Dah Zippity Ay My Oh My What A Wonderful Day

Stogie's Oscar Picks

Best Picture: Lincoln
Actor In A Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Actress In A Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Actor In A Supporting Role: Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Actress In A Supporting Role: Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Directing: Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Foreign Language Film: "No" (Chile)

In Defence Of The Cuban Tomato

“On my dinner plate, there are not any tomatoes and there are not any potatoes,”....Yoani Sánchez

This is not true. I was in Cuba Feb. 2007. Not only were they plentiful but smelled and tastes wonderful.
 I could not stop  bragging about them after i got home.

Friends Of Stogie

At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

Small business owners bash Hillsborough Commission

Hillsborough County Commissioners approved a $6 million road project that will rein in a Bass Pro Shop in Brandon. During their meeting Wednesday, 12 supporters of small business spoke in opposition to the subsidy. Bill Place, owner of Ace Golf stores in the Tampa Bay area, was disappointed in the commission’s decision, but not surprised.

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“I mean, if you were required to pay for those improvements like many other businesses have been required to pay for your own improvements. It would just blow me away that you would walk away from this opportunity for $6.25 million.”..... Kevin Beckner

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Ropa Vieja With Moro And Yuca
$6.50 At LA Teresita Grocery, 3302 W Columbus Dr, West Tampa