Friday, August 19 through Friday, September 2.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
I Got An E-Mail From Brian Blair
Trashing Kevin Beckner
“The citizens of Hillsborough County are tired of having their taxes raised every time another government experiment fails. Raising taxes in this bad economy makes
no sense and will be a further waste of taxpayer dollars.”......Brian Blair
He wants his peeps to join him on Monday, September 12 at the HARTline Budget public hearing in Ybor City.
Entire E-Mail at The Blair Watch Project
Where Tampa's Poor People Eat
Picadillo
With Black Beans and Rice
$3.99
Huracan, Corner of Sligh and Central in Tampa
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
Eat Local!
VM Ybor Neighborhood Association Kick-Off Event
Saturday, August 20th, from 5-7 pm
Join in the fun. Bring a dish to share, your beverage of choice and a lawn chair
and enjoy a great evening with friends and neighbors in our own backyard!!
1306 E. 15th Avenue.
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Shit In The Water At Sunset Point
The Pinellas County Health Department issued an advisory for the water at Sunset Beach in Tarpon Springs. The presence of enteric bacteria is an indication of fecal pollution.
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Dexter Passed Away Today
The kitten that lady up in Brooksville tried beating to death awhile back died today.
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Thank you PetLuv Spay Neuter Clinic for your hard work!
Wilana Joenel Frazier
A Large Gathering Of Pig Ignorant Crackers
In a metropolitan area reeling from the triple-whammies of the Bush Recession, the BP oil spill and the implementation of Tea Party Governor Rick Scott’s reverse-Robin Hood strategy, laid-off dollar store stockers are eager for any crumbs of good news. They thought they’d heard some when it was announced the GOP would hold its 2012 convention in Tampa.
The RNC Chairman implied the influx of Republicans from around the country would fill up our strip clubs, max out room rentals in our seedy hotels and drive traffic to our numerous buffet style, all-you-can-eat restaurants. It would be like FOUR SUPER BOWLS, he said.
Not so much, says PolitiFact.
"First off, there are more black players on a single NFL team then there are black Republicans in the entire country. A large gathering of pig ignorant crackers doesn’t compare to a sporting event watched by a billion people. And lastly, people actually give a shit about the Super Bowl. Nobody outside of Rotary Club meetings and Klan gatherings gives two fucks about who the GOP is going to offer up to get slaughtered by Obama on Election Day next.".......Hunter Gathers
Kathy Castor Is Tampa Bay's Voice In Congress
Kathy Castor is the U.S. Representative for Florida's 11th congressional district, serving since 2007.
She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district covers most of the city of Tampa, most of south St. Petersburg, a small portion of unincorporated Hillsborough County, a small section of the city of Temple Terrace and a small section of Manatee County.
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Location Of Tampa Surveillance Cameras
The City of Tampa will be installing security cameras to oversee the Republican Convention next summer, but they won't say where they will go.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
What Stogie Had For Lunch
One Dozen Raw Oysters
(Not from the Gulf)
$8.95 at Gaspar's Patio Bar & Grille, 8448 North 56th Street, Temple Terrace
Eat Local!
Right Wing Taking Aim At Hillsborough Commissioner Kevin Beckner
Five of the seven Hillsborough County Commission seats are up for election next year. But one race is already getting heavy attention from conservatives.
The early target: Kevin Beckner, one of just two Democrats on the board.
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"It's really very unfortunate the way they've started off the campaign season, not even attacking me on the issues, but personally.
It seems to there is an intention to attempt character assassination on me.".......Kevin Beckner
Kevin Beckner, Democrat, for Hillsborough County Commissioner, District 6.
What Stogie Had For Breakfast
Eggs
With Homefries And Bacon.
$4.75 At Three Coins Diner, 7410 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
Drink Local
Drink Yuengling, Stogie's favorite. Help your neighbor keep his job. Made in Tampa. Why send your money to other countries. Guided Tours and Highlights.
Sample the Yuengling heritage for yourself at the brewery's biergarten.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Godiva Chocolates, Nintendo GameBoys and Cashmere Sweaters
What Was Alan Gross Doing in Havana?
Since 1996, a small effort to stick our thumb in the island's eye developed with the formation of a "Cuba democracy program" within USAID to deliver "humanitarian aid" and "information" to "human rights and political activists" and families of dissidents. For years the democracy program's budget, about $2 million to start with, was funneled into grants to Cuban American groups in Miami that ostensibly used the money to somehow promote freedoms for Cubans still on the island.
Unfortunately, program funds were misused. A 2006 audit and investigation by the GAO highlighted taxpayer monies used to purchase Godiva chocolates, Nintendo GameBoys and cashmere sweaters. An alleged embezzlement scheme by another grantee was discovered in 2008, leading a member of the House to challenge USAID's annual program allocation, which had by then grown to $45 million per year. The agency agreed to more closely monitor its contractors, and soon after Alan Gross was hired via DAI to travel to Cuba.
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Help, end the war on the Cuban people, they are being held hostage by a small group of
Right-Wing Extremist in South Florida.
(Wearing Cashmere Sweaters, Eating Chocolate and playing Video Games.)
Stop The MCM.
Why I Like Dr. No, Sometimes.
Ron Paul......
*Has voted against constitutional bans on same-sex marriage and flag burning,
believing in individual expression.
*During a GOP debate in South Carolina in May, Paul said that if a person wants to shoot up with heroin, it's that person's choice, and the federal government should stay out of it.
*Paul was one of only six Republicans to vote against giving President George W. Bush the authority to wage war in Iraq and has long bemoaned U.S. intervention overseas.
*Talking about the Cuban embargo, Paul said the U.S. policy has failed.
"If we wouldn't have had this embargo for 40 years, Castro would have been gone a long time ago,"
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I am not endorsing Mr. Paul and probably would never vote for him, but he is the only one that i see getting us out of the mess we are in. Ending the wars alone would help alot.
Where Did All Our Money Go?
Clinton left us a surplus, today we owe 14 Trillion. What the hell happend the last ten years?
(Wars, Banks and Wall Street Bail Outs, Tax Breaks for the Rich and Corporations?)
Why do we pay federal taxes?
Why do we pay federal taxes?
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Rick Scott Pays Just $360 A Year For State Health Insurance
The governor, a proud bearer of the Republican Party’s deregulation standard,
has spent his first half-year in office decrying government waste:
He’s laid off thousands of Sunshine State employees, slashed their benefits, turned down (most of) the federal government’s health care dollars, and put extra financial pressure on Florida retirees and Medicaid recipients.
But Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance… and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage.
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At The Spencerian
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Warren & Maureen Nyerges
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD!!
The Florida couple who took on Bank Of America and won.
Very funny stuff.
SOG's 401-Keg Plan
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG, you would have $33.00. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers, you would have $0.00 today.
But, if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer, drank all the beer, turned in the aluminum cans for recycling, you would have $214.00. Therefore the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.
It is called the 401-Keg Plan.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Ignite Tampa Bay - Kelly Benjamin
The existing sprawled out environment that dominates our landscape (and represents a huge investment of time, money, infrastructure, and dreams) is malfunctioning and there seems to be no clear understanding of how to fix it.
IERNA's Heating & Cooling
IERNA's Heating & Cooling has offered to help "Gaby For Mayor" for each 'Like' they get - Please go to their page and LIKE it then POST on their page 'Thank you for supporting Gaby for Mayor and BGC'
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Best of the Bay - Gaspar's Patio Bar & Grille
Stogie Recommends
CL Best of the Bay
Temple Terrace's Best Kept Secret
Drink - Food - Sports - Karaoke
Gaby For Mayor!
I'm running for Honorary Mayor of Riverview! To cast your vote for me, please check out http://www.gabyformayor.com/ for details!
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Isle of Man
The Isle of Man, is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It is 32 miles long and, at its widest point, 14 miles wide. It has an area of around 221 sq miles. At the 2006 interim census, Mann was home to 80,058 people.
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AAA Nation.
Civilian Conservation Corps
I wonder when we'll get to a place where someone can say "hey, we need mandatory public service by all young people in America." Doesn't have to be the Armed Forces.
How about teaching? How about the Peace Corps?
How about rebuilding our country?
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Anonymous Operation Onslaught - Ybor City
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
Draft Senator Bernie Sanders For President
Support builds for Sanders for President despite denials;
Sen. Sanders urges primary challenge to President Obama.
Please sign the petition now if you haven’t done so already.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Throwing Hillsborough Transit Into Reverse
These are major, systemic problems. County Commissioner Mark Sharpe, who serves on the board, gets it; he changed his mind and supported a tax increase for HART, which would cost the average homeowner about 41 cents a year. But his colleague, Commissioner Sandy Murman, a fellow Republican, is still playing politics. Murman said she won't support an increase "even if it's a penny."Even if it's a penny? This is the mind-set Hillsborough needs to change if it hopes to address transportation and job development in a meaningful way.
From a letter to the St. Pete Times, more.
Smoking Some Of That Tea
After the bruising debate over raising the debt ceiling, Howard Dean had harsh words for the tea party.
"I think they've been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it."....Howard Dean
Visit Democracy for America and help the folks in Wisconsin.
What Happened to Obama?
The arc of history does not bend toward justice through capitulation cast as compromise. It does not bend when 400 people control more of the wealth than 150 million of their fellow Americans.
It does not bend when
the average middle-class family has seen its income stagnate over the last 30 years while the richest 1 percent has seen its income rise astronomically.
It does not bend when
we cut the fixed incomes of our parents and grandparents so hedge fund managers can keep their 15 percent tax rates.
It does not bend when only one side in negotiations between workers and their bosses is allowed representation. And it does not bend when, as political scientists have shown,
it is not public opinion but the opinions of the wealthy that predict the votes of the Senate.
The arc of history can bend only so far before it breaks.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
America's Biggest Creditor
Communist ChinaRips U.S. over credit downgrade.
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How Shameful is this?
Those pesky Communist kicking our Capitalist ass!
Communist Party of the United States
Help TBCN
To provide video production training, equipment and facilities so that citizens and non-profit groups may get their messages out.
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TampaBayCommunityNet
Have a Brew and Help the Zoo
Slow Clap for Congress
Dear Congress
For your leadership, your maturity, and your inspiring ability to perform the basic duties of your job,
we applaud you.
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Ten Rules Every Political Candidate In Tampa Bay Should Abide By
1. The Opportunist Rule - 2. The April Griffin Rule3. The Hypothetical Public Servant - 4. The Tom Aderhold Rule
5. The Eddie Adams Rule - 6. The School of Hard Knocks Rule
7. The Political Insider Rule - 8. The Addicted to Office Rule
9. The Brian Blair Rule - 10. Genetic Lottery Rule
Friday, August 5, 2011
Sen. Bernie Sanders For President 2012
"Enough is enough! The American people must fight back. We need a government which represents all the people, not just the wealthy, campaign contributors and lobbyists. In these tough and discouraging times, despair is not an option. This fight is not just for us, it is for our children and grandchildren and for the environmental survival of the planet.".......Sen. Bernie SandersObama and Romney are the same, they represent the corporations and the rich!
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A Little Tour Of Ybor City
Tampa Hot Spots brings you a little taste of Tampa's historic district "Ybor City", where the nations original cigar shops originally formed and where every weekend in a Mardi Gras! Our host Erik aka "Short-E" gives you a day tour of the scene and interviews some of the Ybor City locals.
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