Edwards' Protest Draws Protests

Laura Belin plans to take her kids to a Memorial Day parade Monday. But there, at the urging of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, the mom from suburban Des Moines, Iowa, expects to join others protesting the war in Iraq........more

Watch The Video.....here

I Hope Edwards Is The Dems Candidate, Tiny Thinks So

Michael Moore

"They Want Me To Name Names"

"It's a government that's funded by the pharmaceutical companies and the health insurers, so I'm not surprised they're coming after me," said Moore, who is being investigated by the U.S. Treasury Department for traveling to Cuba for one of the segments in his film......more

Dr. Laura, Her Soldier Son And MySpace

The soldier son of talk radio relationship counselor Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called "repulsive." The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet. The Pentagon last week shut down access to a variety of video-sharing and social networking Internet sites, including MySpace, on its computer systems worldwide. Officials said the change was made to enhance security and protect a strained bandwidth, but critics worried that it might close a public window into the lives of deployed U.S. troops, some of which can be raw, frightening, violent and revealing.......here

VideoVets: Garret Reppenhagen

Seven Mile Bridge

25th Anniversary

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the ''new'' Seven Mile Bridge celebration, when partygoers ate stone crabs and the Key Lime Pie Band played on the hump to commemorate the completion of the $175 million state-federal project that constructed or widened 37 of the Overseas Highway's 43 bridges.......more

I Am Hungry For A Good Key Lime Pie And Some Conch Chowder

Howard W. Blake Class Of 2007

April Griffin Was There, I Was There In Honor Of Olete, The Son Of A Friend I Have Known For Over 6 Years Who Also Will Be Going On To College.

Hunting Trip With Cheney
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Litbrit Said Lets Have Some Humor

Gore Blasts Bush

Gore writes, incompetence rules the day and Bush has pushed for Orwellian powers a la "1984."

While Gore stops short of flatly calling for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, he certainly gives the impression that in his view such a move would be well deserved. He calls the president a lawbreaker, a liar and a man with the blood of thousands of innocent lives on his hands........more

Tampa Skyline From Palm Ave And N. Blvd. Before The Legos

After The Legos

Same Old Dems, Different Day

In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs......more

Impeachment Is Patriotic

Best Of: Out In Left Field

May 26, 2005: To Remember Them
June 19, 2005: Men That Matter Most on Father’s Day
July 13, 2005: Wishful Thinking
August 24, 2005: Protect Us from Your Followers
December 30, 2005: Year in Pee-Yoo – National Edition
March 31, 2006: Immigrant Song
July 19, 2006: Throwing Rocks
November 24, 2006: Licensed to Ill
January 24, 2007: It's So On
May 19, 2007: Nastiness in Blog Land

The Stogie Thong
Available At
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Stogie Interviews The Local Homeless
Meet Allen
Homeless since 1998. Born in Tampa, he was living in LA but got tired of paying the gangs for protection. He now resides in the streets of Tampa. He is disable and does get a little money from the government but not enough to afford a place to live.

Bible Spared 'Indecent' Rating

Hong Kong's media regulator said it would not reclassify the Bible as an indecent publication following more than 2,000 complaints about its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest.....more

Hugo The Dictator

"Horsemen Of The Apocalypse."

Tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday denounced President Hugo Chavez’s plans to close an opposition television channel (RCTV), accusing their leader of maiming Venezuelan democracy as he forges a socialist state.......more

70 percent of Venezuelans would rather RCTV kept broadcasting, but worried more about the loss of their favourite soap operas than free speech.

Howard Dean

The Godfather Of The Netroots

The Dean campaign's use of the Internet -- the blog, the use of the event-planning site Meetup.com to stage Dean get-togethers -- was heavily reported in 2003. But the campaign's massive fund-raising and organizing successes were a combination of the Internet community-building and old-fashioned campaigning tactics re-appropriated for the Web......here

@ Yearly Kos June 2006...here

April 12, 2006

BILL “FISH-SCENTED CIGAR” CLINTON IN THE NEWS

Former President Clinton said Tuesday that one his “great regrets” was failing to do more to bridge the economic and social gaps between white and black people in the United States.
Bridge the gap? And how would he have done that given all the scandals he was involved in? Given the corruptness of his administration–one where the most number of people in an administration were convicted of crimes; where the most number of people fled prosecution by leaving the country; where the most number of people pleaded the 5th amendment when questioned?......here

Bartlett Park And Seminole Heights

A Little Difference

In The Park They Have Block Parties - In The Heights They Throw Mixers

In The Heights They Have Blood Drives - In The Park They Have Food Drives

In The Park They Have A Fish Fry - In The Heights They Worry About Not Having Cool Places To Eat

The Heights Is Like "Big Old House" - In The Park They Have A Financial Fitness Class

In The Park They Get Grants To Start A Citizens Patrol - The Heights Lobby For Menus They Can Read

Just A Thought

Tampa Bay
Progressive Coalition

Study: Internet Censorship Grows Worldwide

Internet censorship is growing worldwide, with 26 out of 40 countries blocking or filtering political or social content. They categorized seven countries, all of them Muslim, as "pervasive" social filterers: Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen......more
OpenNet Initiative

I'm Glad I Live In Hillsborough County And Not One Of Those Countries, opps, Never Mind.

Shut Down The Department Of Justice

And Stop This Silly Show

It's been clear for a while - and is becoming ever clearer - that the Attorney General ought to resign, or to be fired. Now, it seems that Congress is determined to force Gonzales from office or send him to jail, whichever they can do first......here

Have You Seen Madeleine McCann?

A Web site set up to help find missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann has received more than 50 million hits. The little girl disappeared from her bedroom at a hotel resort in Portugal on May 3 as her parents dined nearby. More than 7,500 people have left messages of support......here

www.findmadeleine.com

Rep. Kucinich Shares His Views On Iraq With DFA

Nokomis Couple Sues
Sarasota County Deputies

When a deputy asked to speak to John Coffin, Cynthia Coffin closed the door and went to speak to her husband. She then saw the deputy looking in through her front window and locked her front door. She then pushed the button to close the garage door but the deputies stopped the door from closing and entered the garage even though they did not have a search warrant or arrest warrant......more

John Coffin heard his wife screaming in pain, went into the garage and saw two deputies arresting her on the floor.

OxyClinton: Faux News Attempt At Humor

Howard Dean On Colbert

Watch It Here

"John McCain knows something about touture, the rest of the guys are just wind bags."....Howard Dean, (commenting on the GOP debate)

Local Bumpers

Best Of: Right Wing Follies

Bilingual Stop Sign
Latin America? Nope, Wimama

Vox, Litbrit, Gatordem, And Pushing Rope

Tampa Bay's Only Progressive Blogs

According To Mr. Hussey.....here

And The Chopped Liver

The Political Whore - Out in Left Field - Tiny Little Dots - In Theory - Tampa Rail - Deep Something - The Delightful Yank - Samm Simpson - The Stonegauge - Ybor City Stogie

The Miami Cuban Mafia
Where Have All The Right-Wing Lunatics Gone?
A French company with ties to the Castro regime -- its affiliate has built 11 resort hotels with the Cuban military -- now wants to bring its construction skills to the $1 billion tunnel at the Port of Miami. And the protesters? Busy boycotting the mom-and-pop businesses that advertise on an obscure AM radio program. This is what the mighty Miami Cuban Mafia has come to. Their nemesis is dying, their bitterness has grown old and their power has dwindled to sad experiments in self-parody.....here.......via sotp

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