The Ybor City Stogie

Sunday, July 6, 2014

A campaign gift of a NASCAR sponsorship for the nationally televised Coke Zero 400 was called off not because the rival Florida GOP complained, but because the registered owner of the race car in question, record producer

Mike Curb, used to be a Republican lieutenant governor of California and asked that the Democrat's decals not appear. here

Israeli Army Brutally Beats Tampa High School Student

The Florida chapter CAIR today called on the U.S. Department of State to demand that Israel immediately release 15-year-old Palestinian-American high school student
Tariq Khdeir so that he may receive emergency medical attention after being brutally beaten by Israeli forces. here

Best 4th Of July Parade: Sebastian, Florida

Sebastian Florida

really knows how to put on a parade.

This year the parade was longer than 2 hour with floats and flags everywhere. They gave out out

Free freeze pops and water

everyone was well hydrated.

"Happy 4th Of July from Florida Everyone"

Failed Florida nuclear plant’s costs keep rising

here

Charlie Crist: End the trade embargo against Cuba

"If you really care about people on the island, we need to get rid of the embargo and
Let freedom reign,"

When Charlie Crist went to Miami's Little Havana recently, the Democratic candidate for governor stood before a crowd and said what few politicians have in decades of scrounging for votes in the
Cuban-American neighborhood:

End the trade embargo
against Cuba

Florida Dems sense an opening with newer Cuban arrivals and
Second-generation Cuban-Americans
who favor resuming diplomatic relations with
the communist island.

In a sign of just how much the climate has shifted,

Hillary who backed trade limits when she ran for
president in 2008,

is now calling for the embargo to be lifted. Good for her.

She described it as "
Castro's best friend"here

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Lindsay Foster Photography

Meet Milo

Words can not tell you how wonderful it was to witness this amazing moment in time.

But I am VERY hopeful that these images

can make you feel the deep LOVE and admiration that everyone felt for this surrogate mom and the baby's new parents.

These Daddies will most certainly be

two amazing parents. here
Right Wing HATE Unleashed

America's Worst Politicians: Rick Scott

Rick Scott one of the worst politicians in America.Want a little old-school corruption? Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, who will soon be up for re-election, founded a health-care empire that was whacked with the largest Medicare fraud fine in U.S. history: $1.7 billion for stealing from the feds.here

There's only one Everglades

Vote Yes On 1

Florida GOP Fiscal Responsibility

Republican, Laure Levey's

check covering the election filing fee has 'bounced.

here

Gwen Graham: The North Florida Way

Pam Bondi Was Pleased

Yes, "pleased."

Pleased that five men inserted their personal ideology
into millions of women's lives.

Pleased that the Court put corporations ahead of citizens once again. Pleased that employers are now involved in decisions that should be between a woman
and her doctor here