Doing Their PartA Brave Couple At Busch And 30th Street In Tampa
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Dean's SpeechHe Wants To Remind Us
That people like Martin Luther King Jr. was a human being who had good days and bad days and had to fight and stay active for a long time period, noting it was 13 years between the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and some people died along the way. Other people can do the same kind of things as King if they keep pursuing it. ........more
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends...... Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Michael The Pimp
A Florida man, accused of pimping out his wife in a multistate prostitution circuit, was sentenced Thursday to serve about a year in federal prison. After the arrest, Quick told police that he and his wife traveled both Western and Eastern circuits, which included Salt Lake City, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and cities in Florida. Quick also told police his wife "acted in pornographic movies" and had an estimated 200 clients in 2005 and in years past earned as much as $200,000.......here
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Democrats, Same Poop, Diffrent DayThe Vote Was 60-28
The Democratic-led U.S. Senate approved a bill on Friday to revamp President George W. Bush's spying program. The vote was 60-28 under a rule by which both parties agreed to require 60 votes to pass it.......here
"I hope that there are no attacks before we are able to effectively update this important act," Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, top Republican
Edwards Turns Left, and Finds Howard DeanIf Edwards can't be Obama, he might just try to be Dean - but maybe without all the shouting. Dean, you'll recall, also used an "us vs. them" style. On the stump he would chant, "You have the power!" His fans ate it up; it carried him to the top of the polls; and it was ultimately his undoing.......here
Dottie And Breezeway Are Getting EvictedTwo Dogs That Have Called A Florida City Water Plant Home For Three Years
They showed up after one of the 2004 hurricanes: two female dogs tied to a tree at the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority's Florida City plant. Workers at the 69-year-old plant did what they've done for other dogs and cats dumped over the years on the isolated property: cleaned them up, got them vet care, ''adopted'' and named them.......more
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Florida Has 304 Structurally Deficient BridgesFive Of Them Are In Tampa Bay
According to the latest information from the Department of Transportation, 304 of the 11,561 bridges in Florida are considered "structurally deficient." That’s the same designation as the collapsed bridge in Minnesota.......here
Dean Woos Faith VotersDemocratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, who once criticized the GOP as a “white Christian party” and also said “my religion doesn’t inform my public policy,” is building a sophisticated infrastructure to woo so-called values voters. Dean has had the same revelation as many other Democrats since their demoralizing loss in the 2004 election: There are more people who vote because of their faith and values than Democrats realized, and Republicans have won a disproportionately large share of them......more
Interview With The Legendary Gore VidalPart 4: US Media And Society
We're not the United States of Amnesia — we're the United States of Alzheimer's.....here
What Stogie Had For LunchPicadio
Moro and Yuca
$5.95 At.......Nayda's 50th St. And Palm River Road Tampa
Forget Corporate - Eat Local
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Kathy Castor Wants You To Call HerPhone: 202-225-3376
The president is using fear to pressure Congress to grant him sweeping new powers to spy on Americans. And Congress is on the verge of giving in to his scare tactics. Call Rep. Castor today and tell her to oppose any efforts to give the president additional authority to wiretap Americans without a warrant.
Interview With The Legendary Gore VidalPart 3: Liberty
The people who wrote the Constitution hated democracy. We've always been an oligarchy of the well-to-do and are becoming even more so now. What freedoms we had have now been eliminated -- Magna Carta guaranteed us due process of law, the only good thing England left us......here
What Stogie Had For LunchAntipasto
$4.95 At.......Merino's Deli 6428 North Florida Ave Tampa
Forget Corporate - Eat Local
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Interview With The Legendary Gore VidalPart 2: The Emperor
"He smiled benignly at the oil wells"....... here
Howard Dean Knows The Power Of The InternetThe man who launched the Internet revolution in presidential politics says the medium has changed politics into a two-way conversation between voters and candidates."Technology is traveling so fast; now it has transformed American politics. It's beginning to advance politics by getting ordinary Americans back in the process. Before, there was a one-way campaign where candidates talked to voters; now we have a two-way campaign.......more
Monday, July 30, 2007
Interview With The Legendary Gore VidalPart 1: The Cold War
"I was born 80 years ago in a country called the United States of America and now I live in a Homeland - an expression we haven't heard since Hitler."..........here
DFA Night School Live From YearlyKosThursday August 2nd, 5:30-6:30pm Central Daylight Time
This special DFA Night School event will be brought to you live from the YearlyKos convention hall, so it should prove to be an exciting, unique experience. Join us as DFA brings YearlyKos to you. Night School is DFA's no-cost online training program. After you sign up, you will receive the information for our nationwide toll free conference call.......here
Judith Leekin's Torture PalacePort St. Lucie, Florida
Nine teenagers and young adults were held like prisoners in a Florida woman's home in what appeared to be a decades-long scheme to receive government payments for adopting and raising them, police say......more
Nine teenagers and young adults were held like prisoners in a Florida woman's home in what appeared to be a decades-long scheme to receive government payments for adopting and raising them, police say......more
The 18-year-old told police Leekin threatened to cut her head off if she told anyone what was happening.
Searching For The Soul of FloridaThe Progressive Spirit
Today, when you say Floridian, what comes to mind? Many Floridians are from somewhere else. Only 33 percent of the state is native-born, according to the 2005 American Community Survey part of the U.S. census. Our identity is shaped by out-of-state residents, and in Central Florida, it is even more pronounced.......more
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