Pic thanks to Dante Hadley at Mad Mug.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Is Ted Cruz A Liberal Plant?
Pic thanks to Dante Hadley at Mad Mug.
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Help JJ From Seminole County
I desperately need your help to pressurize our local public school into
providing my 9 year-old son’s work in an accessible format. My son, JJ, has
multiple and severe physical disabilities; he can’t walk, he’s unable to hold
things in his hands, he’s visually impaired and uses a computer to talk (go to
OK4JJ on Facebook.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Bill Gunter aka The Beer Boogeyman
Along time ago before he found god Bill Gunter was know around the beaches of Bradenton as The beer boogeyman. He would run into convenience stores at night and steal two to three cases of beer, along with some potato chips, can't forget the chips. He smoked his first joint when he was in the 5th grade. From marijuana, he went onto LSD, reds, valium and speed. “My parents found pot and rolling papers in my laundry,” he added. “I smoked pot in my room, and pretty much did what I wanted to do because my parents were scared of me.” His dream was to play football at a major university but if that didn't work out he had already planned his alternative occupation: to work with a cocaine dealer as a thug. “I was on my way to it already. I was hired once – I drove by and shot at a man’s house and broke his windows. Pasco beware, read more about Mr. Bill here
Una Noche Official Trailer
Una Noche is a Cuban-set drama-thriller film written and directed by Lucy Mulloy. It premiered at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and 2012 Tribeca Film Festival to international critical acclaim and "earning rave reviews
1.2 Million Uninsured Floridians
As you read this, 1.2 million hard-working,
uninsured Floridians are one-illness
away from bankruptcy, forced to use emergency rooms for primary care and are
being refused the benefits of our nation’s new health care law. Why?
Because the Florida legislature has refused federal funding to expand health
care to these families in dire need.
Call 866-443-1844 today and tell your state
representative that it is time to stop playing politics and expand health care
for more than one million hard-working Floridians.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Tampa Fundraiser for Amanda Murphy
Tampa Museum of Art
120 West Gasparilla Plaza in Tampa
In this special election to replace Mike Fasano, Amanda Murphy is challenging extremist Republican pastor Bill Gunter. This district leans Democratic, with 4,000 more Ds registered than Rs. But victory in a special election is all about turning out the most voters. Your support will help send a talented, progressive woman to Tallahassee to represent all Floridians. Please join us to meet Amanda and be part of her historic race.
INEQUALITY FOR ALL - Official Trailer
Join Governor Howard Dean and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on a special conference call for an advance preview
of the Sundance Film Festival award winning documentary
"Inequality for All."
Rosa Parks, Lech Walesa, Martin Luther King and Ted Yoho?
“It only takes one with passion ” said Representative Ted Yoho of Florida, one of the rank-and-file House Republicans who have risen up to challenge their party’s leadership over whether to confront the Senate and President Obama with their demands to cut off funding for the president’s health care law........more
“People with passion that speak up, they’ll have people follow them because they believe the same way, and smart leadership listens to that.”
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Congratulations To Rick Scott
He was voted Best Local Villain and Worst Local Politician by local readers in Creative Loafing's 2013 Best of the bay.
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
Don't Let Rick Scott Fool You, He Has Been A Disaster For Our State
Must Read
Household income remains stagnant in Florida almost five years from the depth of the recession as the state's largest cities rank at the bottom in income levels for the nation's most populous metro areas, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday. Three Florida metro areas ranked at the bottom of the list for household income in the nation's 25 most populous cities. The Tampa metro area was last with a median household income of about $44,000 -- half that of Washington, D.C., the city at the top of the list. Metro Orlando was the next lowest at $46,000, followed by South Florida -- made up of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach -- at $46,600. labor activists say Florida's leaders are partially to blame for giving tax breaks to corporations instead of investing more money in education, Medicaid expansion and public transportation. .......more
2014 can't come soon enough!
Heartless GOP: Steak, Caviar And Vodka
One member was given $127.41 a day for food on his trip to Argentina. He probably had a fair amount of steak. Another member was given $3,588 for food and lodging during a six-day trip to Russia. He probably drank a fair amount of vodka and probably even had some caviar. That particular member has 21,000 food stamp recipients in his district. One of those people on food stamps could live a year on what this congressman spent on food and lodging for six days,"
Via Pushing Rope
Apopka Man Arrested For Protesting Red Light Cameras
66-year-old Mark Schmidter was on the corner handing out fliers to motorists stopped at red lights. The fliers had a petition and a message about a city council meeting, where citizens could voice their concerns about red light cameras. Schmidter was approached by a police officer. He told the officer he didn't have a permit for the protest, and when asked for identification, responded that as he wasn't driving, he had no need for ID. When he continued to (peacefully) resist the officer's requests for identification or information about who he was, the officer cuffed him and made an arrest. Schmidter's argument about the cameras was that,
Red light cameras are all about money - not safety......more
Red light cameras are all about money - not safety......more
Nancy Pelosi In Tampa
A little high for a single working mom, but still a lot cheaper then Rick Scott's shindig in Pinellas.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Rick Scott Touts New Obamacare Jobs In Tampa
We are blessed in Florida with mild winters, good Cuban food and spectacular, mind-bending politics that turns other states green with envy. Consider Wednesday's big economic story: A company called HealthPlan Services announced it would add 1,000 jobs in Tampa over the next five years. HealthPlan Services is adding people largely because of the new national health-care law pushed by President Barack Obama and fiercely opposed by most Republicans, including (at least initially) Scott. In fact, as the Tampa Bay Times' Steve Bousquet reminds us, Scott called the health-care law "the biggest job killer ever," last year in an interview with FOX News........more
Read what Mitch Perry has to say about it here
Read what Mitch Perry has to say about it here
Amanda Murphy, Democrat, for Florida State House, District 36
The Republicans picked their man to replace Republican Mike Fasano in House District 36. Bill Gunter, a candidate handpicked by Republican leadership in Tallahassee and
funded by Rick Scott's wealthy allies. We know the Republicans in Tallahassee will spend big for their handpicked
candidate and to try and continue Rick Scott’s agenda: cuts to education, higher
insurance rates, and no access to health care. Check out Democrat Amanda Murphy.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
The Citrus Taliban: David Caton
Florida Family Association Labels Al Jazeera America 'Jihad TV'
The far-right Florida Family Association is planning to run an aerial banner this Sunday before the Cincinnati Bengals game criticizing Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, for running ads on Al Jazeera America........more
I wonder how his addiction to pornography is going?
Bill Nelson Will Vote Yes For War On Syria
Over 60 protesters stormed his Jacksonville office on Sept. 12, demanding that the senator renounce his support for President Barack Obama’s proposed military strike on Syria......more
Tim Tebow A Jacksonville Jaguar?
A group of Jacksonville Jaguars fans held a rally in order to convince the owners of the Jaguars to sign Tim Tebow as their next quarterback. It started at 3:16 PM and was to last for 3 hours and 16 minutes (all allusions to Tebow’s faith, of course). It drew a whopping crowd of 20 people.....more. They have a website, check them out here. The folks that don't want him there The Bold City Brigade, a nonprofit organization in Jacksonville which seeks to expand and embolden the fan-base, has created a website called
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Pot Steak
With Black Beans and Rice
$6.50 at Super Saver Supermarket, 2001 E. Fletcher Ave. in Tampa
Every time I am in Suitcase City I always eat here. Great Spanish food.
Gwen Graham Within 2 Points Of The Incumbent Republican
A poll in the congressional race between Rep. Steve Southerland and Gwen Graham shows her nipping at the incumbent Republican’s heels, trailing by less than the poll’s error margin. The poll was done for Emily’s List, a political action group that supports Democratic women candidates, by Clarity Campaign Labs, a relatively new Washington-based polling and political consulting firm.......more
Lets help her out here
Florida Bans Workers From Signing Up People for Obamacare
The Florida Department of Health is banning outreach workers from signing up uninsured people for Obamacare at county health facilities. The outreach workers, also called "Navigators," are only allowed to distribute materials related to Obamacare by request. HHS spokesman Fabien Levy said,
"This is another blatant and shameful attempt to intimidate groups who will be working to inform Americans about their new health insurance options and help them enroll in coverage, just like Medicare counselors have been doing for years."
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
WMNF Fall Marathon!
See what all the fun and fuss are about joining the Circle of Friends! Explore the benefits and rewards of joining the Circle of Friends! Contact Laura Taylor, Development Director, at 813-865-8260 or email laura@wmnf.org!
Florida-Friendly Landscaping
The Polk County Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program will teach you how to landscape the Florida-Friendly way! This means conserving water and practicing environmentally sustainable landscape maintenance practices. Any landscape can be Florida-Friendly if it is designed and maintained following the nine principles of Florida-Friendly Landscaping........more
Zimmerman Is A Sandy Hook, Aurora Waiting To Happen
Apparently Zimmerman does not have a friend in his local police chief. Steve Bracknell, who heads the department in Lake Mary, Florida, where Zimmerman lives, agreed with some pretty intense criticisms of the acquitted killer contained in two angry emails he received Tuesday about Zimmerman's recent altercation with his wife. "Zimmerman is a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen," the emailer, Santiago Rodriguez, asserted, in an email posted online. "Your job is to protect the communities you serve, and you are failing big time."........more
Monday, September 16, 2013
Nathan Bedford Forrest High School
An online petition with more than 78,000 signatures requests a reconsideration of the name of a Florida high school christened after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Nathan Bedford Forrest High School, of the Duval County School District in Jacksonville, opened in 1959 and was named after the Confederate Army Lieutenant General during the Civil War who joined the KKK around early 1867......more>
Rick Scott Is Trying To Dupe Voters
Gov. Rick Scott is in trouble. With his favorability rating in the tank and his re-election campaign just around the corner, Scott has promised to spend $100 million of special-interest money to convince Floridians he isn’t who they think he is. The problem is Scott has done very little as governor to crow about........more>
Tampa, High Speed Chase and Shootout!
Watch and listen as Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee and Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor give this blow-by-blow account of the chase and shootout of a rape suspect, from the moment it began to the gunfire that ended it.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Florida Republicans Fraud Alert
The potential for fraud in the 2012 presidential election was how Florida Republicans justified measures that made it tougher to register voters. So nine months after ballots were counted, where exactly are the culprits of voter registration fraud? The Florida Department of Law Enforcement hasn't found them. They did find 2, both involving Strategic Allied Consulting, a vendor for the Republican Party of Florida........more>
Time For #19
It's time to make Florida the 19th state to allow recall of elected state officials. Rick Scott bought his way into office spending tens of millions of dollars of his own money in the process. Rick Scott is rapidly proving himself to be an ideologue Libertarian, abandoning what's good for Florida, in an effort to push through his far right ideas of how state government should be run, no matter what harm it does to the future health of the State's economy and citizens........here
Florida Women Kicking Ass On X-Factor
Meet Rion Paige, Jacksonville's Finest
And meet Lillie McCloud from Orlando.
Miami protest at Senator Nelson’s office
Over 25 people gathered outside of Senator Bill Nelson’s Miami office on
Sept. 12 to demand that the U.S. Senator from Florida vote against any military
authorization bill that comes his way. The rally began at 6:45 p.m. in
front of Nelson’s office, which is located in Coral Gables. Protesters held
Syrian flags and anti-war signs with slogans such as, “Hands off Syria,” and “I
don’t want my tax dollars supporting Al-Qaeda.”........more>
Saturday, September 14, 2013
The Citrus Taliban: Terry Jones
The Rev. Terry Jones was planning on torching nearly 3,000 Qurans on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at Loyce E. Harpe Park, in Mulberry at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Supporters gathered, but Jones never arrived. That's because Grady Judd's boys saw Jones at a McDonalds in Mulberry and watched as he doused the books with kerosene on his way to the park. He was pulled over a couple of miles away and arrested on charges of unlawful conveyance of fuel and open display of a firearm........more>
Rick Scott Is Selling Our Public Lands
Have you ever enjoyed a nature trail or stream that was then turned into a strip
mall or parking lot? I know I have. Now Gov. Rick Scott wants to sell off up to
4,000 acres of environmentally sensitive lands our tax dollars have already
purchased and protected so he can kick back more money to his big business
buddies. here, Here’s a complete list of all the lands the state is
considering putting on the auction block. Take a look and see if any of them are
in your backyard.
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Pizza
Anchovies, peppers and onions
At the Firehouse Pub in Temple Terrace.
Tampa Rapper Prophit
Prophit (real name Reginald M. Wilks) a local who grew up in an East Tampa neighborhood near Hillsborough Avenue and 40th Street, and still lives in the Tampa area has scored a spot on the soundtrack for “The Family,” the upcoming film starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Human Rights Forum In Tampa
University of Tampa, Reeves Theater
401 W Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa
401 W Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa
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