42nd Anniversary Of The Signing Of
The Voting Rights Act

Howard Dean and Voting Rights Institute Chair Donna Brazile
Issued the following joint statement on the 42nd anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act by President Lyndon B. Johnson...........here

SR 39 Over The Hillsborough River

Another One Of Our Structurally Deficient Bridges

Crystal Springs, Florida

Doing Their Part

A Brave Couple At Busch And 30th Street In Tampa

Dean's Speech

He 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.

Joe Wilson At Yearly Kos

you might be a right winger if.....
...you hold strong opinions of things you don't understand.

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

Cypress St. And 275

One Of Our Structurally Deficient Bridges

The Democrats, Same Poop, Diffrent Day

The 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

Yearly Kos '07: Cenk Uygur, Recovering Republican

you might be a right winger if......
...you value your freedom of speech, but think that anyone else who disagrees with you should keep their mouths shut.

Howard Dean @ Yearly Kos

Edwards Turns Left, and Finds Howard Dean

If 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 Evicted

Two 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

Florida Has 304 Structurally Deficient Bridges

Five 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 Voters

Democratic 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

you might be a right winger if....

...You're pro-life, pro-death penalty, and pro-war, as long as it doesn't effect you personally.

Interview With The Legendary Gore Vidal
Part 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 Lunch

Picadio

Moro and Yuca

$5.95 At.......Nayda's 50th St. And Palm River Road Tampa

Forget Corporate - Eat Local

Kathy Castor Wants You To Call Her

Phone: 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.

Rudy The Urban Legend

On Hillsborough Ave

Interview With The Legendary Gore Vidal
Part 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

Party With The Tampa Bay O-Train
Ba-Rock For Change!
Local musicians (Last Day Alive, Shane Ali, Falter Boy, Mind Static, Plush, & Danger Flight) will be rockin the Crowbar in Ybor City in support of Senator Obama. Info.......here

Sunday - Aug 05, 2007 - 7PM

1812 N.17th St
Ybor City

What Stogie Had For Lunch
Antipasto
$4.95 At.......Merino's Deli 6428 North Florida Ave Tampa
Forget Corporate - Eat Local

American Low Wage Workers' Tour

Interview With The Legendary Gore Vidal

Part 2: The Emperor

"He smiled benignly at the oil wells"....... here

Howard Dean Knows The Power Of The Internet

The 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

you might be a right winger if.....
...you think any one motivated in their profession by something other than making a profit is a communist.

The Fox is Wrong: Global Warming

Interview With The Legendary Gore Vidal

Part 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 YearlyKos
Thursday 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 Palace

Port 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

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 Florida

The 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

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pork Chunks

Red Bean And Rice And Plantains

$5.99 At.......Rosa's Market 4209 W.Martin Luther King Blvd Tampa

Forget Corporate - Spend Your Money Locally

FOX Has Declared War On The Blogosphere

So Let's Fight Back!

We're fighting back by identifying and calling all of FOX's advertisers. This is not a boycott. We are simply calling advertisers and informing them about FOX. And making Bill O'Reilly's life a living hell................ Sign up......here

Local Advertisers......here

Bloggers, Join the FOX Attacker coalition.......here........via Madfloridian

The Other Ron Paul

But He Looks Like Such A Nice Guy

What I didn’t expect was that his anti-war advocacy would attract as many evident admirers from the left as it seems to have, particularly those who are dissatisfied with Democrats’ apparent fumbling of the Iraq war issue. Certainly, the message boards at liberal outlets like Crooks and Liars who’ve carried factual counterinformation about Paul have been flooded with raging defenses of the man, as have some of our comments threads.....here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Shrimp In Lobster Sauce

Fried Rice

$4.25 At.......Peking 6936 N. 56th St. Tampa
Forget Corporate - Spend Your Money Locally

SWAT Team Takes Over University of Miami

University of Miami Police, in conjunction with the City of Coral Gables Police Department, will hold an all-day training exercise on the northeast section of UM’s Coral Gables campus from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 28. The exercise will involve mock explosions, helicopters, SWAT teams, and multiple response teams from most local municipalities......more

Bonerol

Canine Erectile Dysfunction

AM Chuckle

Walking to America
It is one of the truly emblematic journeys of our times, although it never makes it into the travel pages of any newspaper: the million or more people who make the trip each year are poor Latin Americans, trekking north from Mexico, albeit illegally, in search of a better life in the United States.....more

Arm Yourself With a 'SiCKO' Health Care Card

Local Bumpers 7

Oil-Covered Penguins
Off Coast Of South America
Hundreds of oil-covered Magellanic penguins have surfaced off the Atlantic coast of South America in the past few weeks. A continuous stream of oil from spills has created a chronic problem across South American waters and other parts of the world.....more

If You Google Ron Paul

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Crispy Baby Shrimp

Fried Rice

$5.50 At....... Peking 6936 N. 56th St. Tampa

Forget Corporate - Spend Your Money Locally

Bay Pines VA Medical Center
Emergency Room Refuse Critically Ill Man
Mark A. Surette a 25-year VA employee, collapsed of a heart attack in Building 24, perhaps 200 feet from the hospital emergency room. Since he wasn't a veteran, confused paramedics asked Bay Pines if its emergency room would treat Surette. Paramedics were directed to take him to St. Petersburg General Hospital, three miles away. A doctor who made the decision did not realize the man, a Bay Pines employee who later died, had collapsed on the Bay Pines campus......more

"In a life-and-death situation it appears to me that any medical professional would be willing and able to help save a life."........Rep. C.W. Bill Young

Havana Nights

Florida GOP Lavish Fundraiser

A yacht cruise, salsa dancing lessons, dinner at the famed Versace Mansion in Miami Beach, and even a personal concierge. Platinum sponsors who fork out $100,000 will get two rooms at the hotel and also get three different private meetings with House leaders over dessert and breakfast. Gold sponsors who donate $50,000 will be given one room at the hotel and be allowed to bring two people to all events.......more

''There's a lot of people out there who think that Tallahassee is out of touch with the rest of the state of Florida; maybe there's some truth to it''.......Rep. Jack Seiler

No Summer Of Love For Howard Dean

With Peace And Understanding In Short Supply

The Democratic National Committee chairman faces several formidable challenges. Some states are determined to move up the dates of their presidential primaries despite the potential for upending the nomination process, and the party's convention in Denver in 2008 is already dealing with nettlesome labor and financial woes......more

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Filete Salteado

White Rice And Collard Green Soup

$7.25 At....La Teresita 7101 66th Street Pinellas Park

Forget Corporate - Spend Your Money Locally

Ron Paul

At Hillsborough And Central

Gloves Off Between Hillary And Obama

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pork Shop

Red Bean And Rice, (Great Red Beans Here) And Platanos

$5.49 At......Pino's Cafe 4627 N. Lois Ave Tampa

Forget Corporate - Spend Your Money Locally

Representative Cindy Sheehan
California's Eighth District

Cape Coral Couple

Will Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro

More than 20,000 people try to scale Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro every year, but only about half actually make it to the top. One local couple is training for the climb-- and they're doing it right here in Southwest Florida.......more

George Carlin Speaks The Truth

What Stogie Had For Lunch
Palomilla Steak
Yellow Rice And Red Beans (Stogie Likes Onions)
$7.25 At.......China Latina 3715 E. Busch Blvd Tampa

Forget Corporate - Spend Your Money Locally

Contaminated Water Reaches

The Florida Keys

The widespread use of in-ground waste disposal through septic tanks and injection wells appears to be leading to the contamination of submarine groundwater even up to six miles offshore, when the contaminated groundwater mixes with surface water and reaches the reef, the corals as well as human health might be harmed.......more

Keel & Curley Winery
Drink Local
Chase Marden’s recipe starts with crushing fresh blueberries and fermenting them on the skins to give the wines their deep color. The wine is 100% Berries. They also produce Tangerine, Wild Berry, Peach, Mango Citrus and Apple wines. Visit them.......here
NEW TASTING ROOM NOW OPEN!
5202 Thonotosassa Road, Plant City, Florida
Spend Your Money Locally