Thursday, September 11, 2008

High Treason

Is criminal disloyalty to one's country. Participating in a war against one's country, attempting to overthrow its government.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sen. Bob Graham's Veterans Tour Kick-Off

September 12, former U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) and Obama campaign National Veterans Outreach Director Phillip Carter will hold a conference call with Florida reporters to preview an upcoming veterans tour and discuss Senator Barack Obama’s plan to fulfill our sacred trust with America’s veterans. In Tampa.....
Tampa Veterans Roundtable Discussion
With: General Claudia Kennedy, Commander Sergeant Major Michele Jones, Sergeant Major Jon Estrada, Staff Sergeant and Iraq War Veteran Mike Wilson and local veterans

American Legion Post 248 – 2105 West Jamaica Street, Tampa Florida
SATURDAY, September 13, 2:00 p.m.

Movie Groovy Casting In Tampa

Friday, September 12, 2008 - 5pm-10pm - University of Tampa
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Name The New Baby At The Lowry Park Zoo

Help us name the endangered Pygmy Hippopotamus that was born Tuesday, August 26, at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo. The birth is the first for the Zoo and a significant conservation milestone for the species in captivity with only a few calves born each year..........here

Yvonne Yolie Capin For Florida State House

Tampa Is In My Genes
As a small business woman, I know the value of hard work.
I want to fight in Tallahassee for a stronger economy, better schools and to make sure that one catastrophe doesn't devastate your family's future.........here
You can now make "A Choice for A Change"

Florida Trail: Gold Head Branch State Park

Mayor’s Youth Corps Class of 2009

Mayor Pam Iorio is inviting Tampa teenagers to get involved in government by joining. Young people in 9th, 10th and 11th grade can apply now to become a member of the Mayor’s Youth Corps. The deadline is October 24, 2008 and applications are available from high school Guidance Offices.......here

Free Churros At Polling Stations

How to Increase Voting According to Tiny
Tommy at Sticks of Fire is looking for suggestions on how to increase voter turnout, especially elections that don’t involve presidential candidates and don’t take place in November.........here

I'm Getting My Chocolates In Largo

William Dean Chocolates is an artisan chocolate company that hand paints and airbrushes chocolates right here in Largo. On Monday they appeared on “The View” as one of Whoopi’s “Must Haves.”..........here

Ethically Challenged Florida Republicans

Tom Feeney and Vern Buchanan
According to a new report released today by the non-partisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Republican Congressmen Tom Feeney (FL-24) and Vern Buchanan (FL-13) are among the 20 most corrupt Members of Congress out of the 535 members of the House of Representatives and Senate........here

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Million Doors for Peace

Join thousands of us on Sept. 20th, as we go door-to-door in our communities across America, finding the next wave of the movement to End the Iraq War.
here

The Big Read Hits Tampa

Whether young, old, black or white, a rainbow of readers gathered to launch the Big Read Tampa at Hillsborough Community College in Ybor on Saturday. This month, members of Hillsborough County are encouraged to participate in the communitywide reading event by reading a single book and attending countywide activities......here

Tampa Bay's Media Talk: Healthy Together

Sun City Campaign for Change Office Opening

Wednesday, September 10 at 5:00 PM
137 Pebble Beach Blvd S
Suite 202G
Sun City Center, Florida

Eating Tampa’s 2008 Search for the Best Food in Tampa

Stogie's Favorite: El Paraiso Cafe
Welcome to Eating Tampa’s 2008 search for the best food in Tampa! Polls will be open for the month of September and winners will be posted throughout the month of October.
Vote Here

Hillary's Visit To Tampa

Clinton spoke to a crowd estimated by organizers at about 2,300 at the All People's Life Center in East Tampa,.........here

El Capitan's Pics

The Blair Watch Project Takes All Of Us

That campaigning takes people who are willing to put their money and/or time where their mouth is. If you ever complained about your county commission, or shook your head in disgust as you read about them in the paper, or wished your leaders had more vision or spent your taxes more wisely
your time to do something about it is now........here
Bloggers Link To This Project. Help Brain's Fans Stay Informed.........here

Plant City Federated Republican Women Know

THIS DOG CAN HUNT!!!!!!!!

HadNuf: Drill Drill Drill

Bill Nelson's Fightin' Words On Drilling

"I want everybody to know -- including the senator [Saxby Chambliss] that’s just walking onto the floor -- that this senator is not going to allow Florida to be a sacrificial lamb for whatever is struck as an energy compromise,"..........here

Monday, September 8, 2008

To Lose It All In Pinar del Río

There will be no journalists there hunting for slogans, nor hearing the victim’s complaints over unfulfilled promises. But support from citizens, help from family living abroad and from international NGOs [non-government organizations] – solidarity that doesn’t look for political support, nor acts of faith – cannot disappoint them.........here
Stop The United States Embargo On The Cuban People

Dr. Dean In Collegetown, USA - No Slackers Here

A coalition of students from Stephens College, Columbia College and MU registered 659 college students Friday, a figure that exceeds their total registration count from the 2006 election cycle......here

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Sarah Palin Has Women Flocking - To Barack Obama

EMILY's List was perhaps the first to sing out about an opportunity rather than a threat from Palin, pointing to a poll it had done a couple of days after McCain selected the Alaskan moose huntress..........here

Friday, September 5, 2008

Joe Garcia's Reaction To The GOP Convention

In Spanish

Hillary Coming To Tampa

All Peoples Life Center
6105 E Sligh Ave
Tampa, FL
Monday, Sept. 8, Doors Open at 5:00 PM.

This event is free and open to the public, however, tickets are REQUIRED.

Old Florida on the Half Shell

It's several degrees hotter than the highest recorded temperature in Hades, and so humid it's like breathing wet cotton. Only air conditioning makes the Southern summer bearable -- air conditioning and seafood. I decide I need to pay homage to Apalachicola, Fla., a place sanctified by both. Apalachicola is the Jerusalem of air conditioning and the Vatican City of oysters.........here

Bush Front Man Martinez Shines Less Bright In Florida

A June Quinnipiac University poll found only 40 percent of Florida voters approved of Martinez's performance, compared with 51 percent for Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and 61 percent for Gov. Charlie Crist.......here

Outrageous Injustice for Florida MILF

I often write about the female sentencing discount, but here's one terrible aberration--a 40-year-old woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison--yes, you read right, 30 years--for having sex with a 16-year-old boy.......here

Happy Birthday, Yoani

Generation Y

Michael Moore's "Slacker Uprising" For Free

"This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans. The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November."........Michael Moore

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Hypocrisy Now!

Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners Meeting

The Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners met today in Tampa and covered a range of issues including park lighting, road safety in front of Plant High School, affordable housing, street flooding, the Confederate flag, and the county’s animal shelter.........here

Obama Could Pursue Criminal Charges Against Bush & Co.

Mr Biden Said At An Event In Deerfield Beach, Florida
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president - no one is above the law."...........here

Florida Levee Grows Weaker Each Day

Drive down US-441, and you'll run right into it. A grass-covered wall that stretches as far as you can see in both directions. It's the levee that wraps around Lake Okeechobee -- that huge lake in the middle of Florida. Altogether, the levee is 143 miles long. And the protection it gives could give way in a massive hurricane.........here

Canvass Old West Tampa

Outraged about the last eight years? Eight is enough! Let's canvass Old West Tampa and take on John McCain before it's too late! Bring your walking shoes.......here

Joe Biden In Sarasota, Florida

Doug Tudor for Congress

Florida 12th Congressional District.........here

Help Cuba recover From Gustav: Obama Says Suspend Embargo

Barack Obama and the three Democrats running for Congress in South Florida against Bush rubber-stamps have a common platform on the Cuba embargo: relax it only after Cuba makes progress toward democracy, but meanwhile ease restrictions on family visits to Cuba and on sending money to relatives in Cuba.........here

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Amy Goodman Reports On Her Own Arrest

Immokalee Slave Masters Plead Guilty

Five Immokalee residents pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan workers, brutalizing them and forcing them to work in farm fields. The 17-count indictment in the case - one of the largest slavery prosecutions Southwest Florida has ever seen - was originally released in January.........here
Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Riviera Beach Police Cracking Down On Crime

Meet Kenneth Smith. The Florida man, 29, was arrested yesterday for wearing baggy pants. Smith was busted by Riviera Beach cops for violating a city ordinance governing low-slung trousers........here
In a bid to criminalize a fashion style popularized by urban youth and hip-hop fans, Riviera Beach voters approved the new ordinance earlier this year.

Amy Goodman Grills St. Paul Police Chief

St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington
Held a news conference where he spoke about the nearly 300 people arrested in a police crackdown on protesters a day earlier. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now!—Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Amy Goodman questions Harrington about the arrests.........here

Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper & Trig

Is This An Alaska Thing?........here

Diaz-Balart Brothers: Out of Touch

Brian Blair Mocks Local Blogger David Pinero

I've got job interviews I need to attend to, so I decide to get my suit dry cleaned. There's this dry cleaner on the way to my current job I always pass, so I figure, hey, I'll finally stop in and give them some of my business. In I wheel into the parking lot when, slam, this is what I encounter staring back at me.......here
In Case You Want To Choose Option Number One, This Cleaners Is At Linebaugh Ave And North Boulevard In Tampa.

Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore?

St. Pete for Peace Wednesday Film Series
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 8:00pm
Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Ave., St. Petersburg

Don't Rig Florida Coalition Holds Rally

The term “offshore drilling” was the ticket to free admission into the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Saturday evening. The tiny aquarium, known for its sizeable rehabilitative work with marine animals, invited visitors to attend a discussion about the upcoming vote in Congress on Sept. 12 that will determine whether drilling will be allowed within 50 miles of the Florida coastline.......here

Joe Garcia Is Here To Win

Things happen when, after so many years of a family holding political power, all of a sudden, there is fatigue of the repeated speeches, the passing of days, generational shifts or the moment of political realignment in the country sounds several alarms that warn that the trendy word, change, is not only coming to the White House, but to the Congress as well........here