Tampa Speaks Out

The FCC is holding its fourth official public hearing on media ownership issues in Tampa
Date: Monday, Apr. 30, 2007 Time: TBD (likely late afternoon) Location: TBD

More Info......here

Obama Raises $25M From 100,000 Donors

Democrat Barack Obama raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party's inevitable nominee......more

Sara Evans- I Could Not Ask For More

Chinese National Flag vs The Developers

The Nail House In China

Ding Zi Hu (lit. "Nail House"):

(It's called a "nail house" in Chinese because it's so hard to pull out)

Person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project.......more

The China Blog

Barack Obama, Opposition from the Start

Dean Says Cheney Full Of Bull

The Vice President’s spin today is more of the same scare tactics and bullish rhetoric that have become a hallmark of the Bush White House when faced with a truth they don’t happen to like?.....here

DFA Tampa Bay Meeting
Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 6:30 PM
Piccadilly Cafeteria 11810 N. Dale Mabry Hwy Tampa, FL 33618

Please bring items for the soldiers. We will be sending packages this week.

Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

Heart Of The Beholder
Watch Banned Award-Winning Movie Online for Free
This movie is based on the true story of what happened to video store owners from across the country that were targeted by religious groups........here

The Malvinas Of Argentina

25th Anniversary Of The War To Recover Their Islands

"The war has not changed the reality: the Malvinas are Argentine, they have always been and they always will be, we will recover what is ours"..........here

George W. Bush Scandal Collector Plate

You Get, Outing Valerie Plame, Invading The Wrong Country, Illegal Wiretaps, Losing $9 Billion In Iraq, The Patriot Act, Gitmo and many many more.

Snoop Dogg Says: ''F*ck Bill O'Reilly!''

Snoop Dogg offers a few choice words to Billy.

bushflash.com

Shut Down by Homeland Security

The website that you are attempting to visit is currently offline, pending investigation of possible violations of §802 of the USA PATRIOT Act.....h/t - gone like the wind
Prepare, plan, stay informed at READY.GOV

Howard Dean Wins Again
Bringing In Big Money From Major Donors Once Skeptical Of Him

Dean is being helped by the White House's awful political travails. Nonetheless, it's still significant, because it suggests that Dean has had far more success than many expected in winning over the party's major contributors, who were initially so skeptical of Dean's gloves-off, grass-roots approach that they privately were threatening to clamp shut their wallets......more

Democracy for America

The Courage for Peace

One solution to the war-think that so dominates our nation and threatens our world is the establishment of a US Department of Peace. The notion was first suggested by founding father Dr. Benjamin Rush, who advocated for the appointment of a "Secretary of Peace" to the federal cabinet. The idea revived in the 1930s, and again in the '60s, but never gathered the necessary support......more

U.S. Department of Peace

Kasey Chambers - Nothing At All

Amsterdam's Window Prostitutes $66.58

Visitors flood red-light district

Amsterdam's sex workers came to work early on Saturday to offer a free look at the city's famed red-light district. The district -- a warren of narrow alleys and canals lined with sex shops, brothels and neon signs - - is as big an attraction as Amsterdam's art museums and coffee shops, where marijuana is freely smoked and sold......more....What A Country!

Pot raid nets multiple arrests in Tampa

To All Spanish Speaking Ghetto Dwellers
Newt Gingrich wants you to learn the language of prosperity
The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100......more
How Low Can You Go

Barack Obama In Ybor

April 15, 2007

Courtyard of the Cuban Club, Ybor City 2pm

For tickets to the $25 rally, call (813) 258-2224

Belacqua Jones
Letters to the president from his ardent admirer
Isn’t psychosis dynamic? Where would the world be without madness? There would have been no Roman Empire, no Carthage, no Crusades, no bringing of Christianity to the New World. We would have had neither World War I or II, nor Hiroshima, nor Korea, nor the Cold War, nor Vietnam, nor Iraq.........more

City Of Largo Sanctioned Civil Rights Violations

Neko Case - Maybe Sparrow

Publix's new pay system:
High performance, Smaller paycheck
Mass merchants have used performance incentives for years, but they're usually tied to a store's performance and meant to foster teamwork. Publix zeroes in on each worker and adds the unconventional twist of institutionalizing disincentives - even for top performers......more

Grass Roots Planted In Cyberspace
John Edwards's Campaign Leads the Field

No one's sure exactly what role these sites -- a.k.a. socnets -- will play in the upcoming election. But whatever it is, Edwards isn't taking any chances. The man's flooding the zone. He's on the big ones: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, et al., where supporters and well-wishers are sending their best to his wife, Elizabeth......here

Bush Apologizes
"We're not going to be satisfied until everyone gets the kind of care that their folks and families expect."

Gov. Richardson speaks to Democracy For America

That is just one of Governor Bill Richardson's responses to DFA members who wrote comments in our Presidential Primary Petition on Iraq.

MoveOn.org

Successfully Executing Its Vision and Answering Its Critics

10 questions for MoveOn.org's co-founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades about the recent progressive debate over how Democrats in Congress approached stopping the war in Iraq and their plans for the future......more

Blogging with Bush

In trying to win support for his escalation in Iraq, President Bush was reduced to quoting two bloggers in Baghdad -- who turned out to be brothers he once met at the White House -- and their comments were more than three weeks old. Has it come to this?.......more

Mos Def - Immortal Technique - Eminem

Orwell with a twist: We have not always been at war

It reminded me of the naive shock I felt upon first finding out that my country was of a type that would have a military training school in Fort Benning where soldiers from all over Latin America could come to learn the techniques they would need not to fight the soldiers of other armies, but to keep their own restless populations in line.....more

Obama speaks to Democracy For America

Last month, DFA members called upon the 2008 presidential candidates to take a stand on Iraq. Here is Sen. Barack Obama's response

Tampa, The City Of Nose Pickers

To Borrow A Phrase From Neil Rogers

After reading the local blogs all week i thought for sure Mr. Redner would win this election. What Happened? Where were all the progressive democrats, is this the best we can do? I have nothing against Gwen Miller but Mr. Redner would of given this city a voice it has needed for along time. Maybe blogs and the people that read them are not as influential as they think they are.

Other Thoughts @ Dont You Hate It When, @ Nite Cricket, @ Tampa's Back Door Ways

Go To Church Win A Falcon
@ The Church Of You

World On Fire

Good Luck Joe

Smugglers Toss Africans Overboard

Smugglers taking illegal migrants from Somalia to Yemen forced hundreds of Africans overboard in stormy seas in an effort to make a fast getaway. Passengers who resisted the smugglers were stabbed or beaten with wooden and steel clubs, then thrown into the water where some were attacked by sharks.......more

Bush And Political Theater

George W. Bush has always despised "political theater," as you can see from these photos which were recently re-discovered by members of DU.

Meet Christopher Brevard he didn't believe in Bush's War
As a kid growing up on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Christopher Brevard dreamed of military glory. As an adult, he spent the last months of his life fighting a war he didn't believe in. 'Mom, I would lay my life down in a heartbeat fighting for America. But if I lose my life over here, I will not feel like I died for my country," said the soldier's mother, Michele Brevard, 51......more

Emerging Republican Minority

Remember how the 2004 election was supposed to have demonstrated, once and for all, that conservatism was the future of American politics? I do: early in 2005, some colleagues in the news media urged me, in effect, to give up. “The election settled some things,” I was told.....more

How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair

The Largo 5

Meet Rep. John Lewis

"Not Another Dollar" for the Iraq War

President John F. Kennedy once said, ``Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.'' My greatest fear is that the young people of Iraq and of the Middle East will never forget this war. My greatest fear is they will grow up hating our children and our children's children for what we have done. Mr. Speaker, the Bible is right. Even a great nation can reap what it sows......more

A Comment By Mark Ferguson
Largo(City of Regress, not Progress)

All I could do after seeing this is shake my head and cry. Its sad that here we live in country that offers freedom to those who seek it. But yet when it comes to beliefs, views, or differences that freedom is easily taken away. Brandon Pride started because Hillsborough County faced similar bigotry, and hatred 2 years ago when commissioners passed a policy that Gay Pride was no longer allowed, or recognized. The question still remains to this day...Are we truly free to live our lives the way we want to live them, or not?

Former Hillsborough County Commissioner, and newly elected Tampa City Council member Tom Scott once said quote "Civil rights, and Gay Rights are not the same." But this is not about Gay Rights. This is about Equality, nothing more, nothing less. By what Hillsborough County Commissioners, and Largo Commissioners have done is a great injustice to our county by spiting on the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution. Most of all they do not represent the districts they serve. Many people in both Hillsborough County, and Largo have stated that they are supportive of the GLBT community. But those commissioners have put their own interests ahead of their constituents, and that is wrong. I have decided I will no longer be confined to a prison camp created by those who spread bigotry and hate. I will continue fighting for Equality by speaking out, and standing my ground. If anyone discriminates against me for who I am my warning is this: "DON'T TREAD ON ME!" I am who I am and I will fight for my freedom and independence to my last breath.

Mark Ferguson
Brandon Pride President