Raíces en Tampa: DL4ALLFL

On Dec 17, a new immigrant rights group, Raíces en Tampa, met with community members and students to launch a movement to demand driver licenses for undocumented immigrants in Florida. Previous attempts to pass driver license bills in Florida had support, but still failed. In 2012, the Dream Act Driver License bill unanimously passed in the state legislature. However, Florida Governor Rick Scott brought it down with a veto. here

Dolphins Dying In Gulf From BP Oil Spill

A study backed by the federal government and paid for by BP shows that dolphins in some of the worst hit areas by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 are suffering from lung disease and other abnormalities consistent with toxic exposure to oil.......more>

Ben Kirby Is The Man Around These Parts

 St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman's Director of Communications

here

The Most Dangerous State For Homeless People Is: Florida. Again

Florida has a problem.

Once again, the Sunshine State has been deemed the most dangerous in the nation for homeless people -- the third such designation it has earned since 2008 -- according to the National Coalition for the Homeless' 2012 database of known cases of violence........more>

Tampa's Community Cats

Commissioners voted 6-1 to approve an ordinance that would  

trap, neuter, vaccinate and release stray cats as a strategy

for controlling their population......more

This guy Republican Victor Crist voted no

Medical Marijuana Day of Action II

Saturday, December 21st

Pick-up OR drop-off locations:

10am-2pm at:Avid Brew, 1745 1st St. S St. Pete
Leader: Cyndi Hamad – (727) 421-7862
 

10am-2pm at:Chic A Boom Room, 319 Main St. Dunedin
Leader: John Chase – (727) 204-6101
 

5pm-10pm at:
King Corona Cigars and Café
1523 E. 7th Ave Ybor City
Leader: Bianca Garza – (813) 321-3476 

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Ybor Surveillance

Ybor City

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

ORECHIETTE ALLA BARES

With salad, bread and Pepsi $8.99

At La Case Della Pasta in Carrollwood.

Gator For A 12-Pack In Miami

Fernando Caignet Aguilera was cited Dec. 10 after he tried to exchange a live gator for a 12-pack at the Santa Maria Market, wildlife officers said......more

‘Intolerance Is In The Republican Party’s DNA’

"The only place where intolerance against the community is welcome is in the Republican Party. Intolerance is in the Republican Party’s DNA."

 Debbie Wasserman Schultz during a speech at a Michigan area LGBTQ community meeting.

TPD Violence In Ybor City

Cost: $165,000

Florida's Culture Of Corruption

In a major procedural victory

for opponents of Florida's new congressional map, the state Supreme Court ruled that legislators and their staffers can be required to testify about whether they drew the new lines with improper partisan intent. Amendments to the state constitution passed in 2010 now forbid the legislature from creating maps "with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent," but plaintiffs charge that lawmakers did exactly that......more

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Palomilla steak with sides.

at Machu Picchu Restaurant.  3974 W Hillsborough Ave, Tampa

Local Homeless Day of Dignity

The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Project Downtown Tampa, Red Crescent, Islamic Relief and many other organizations provided free health and human services Sunday for the homeless in Hillsborough County at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa.....more

Poop On Ybor's Head

The founder sits in a Ybor City courtyard with bird poop on his head.

The Marxist Pope

Asked how it felt to be called a Marxist, the Pope answered:

The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so

I don’t feel offended."

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We like this guy. 

Tampa Parks and Recreation

Disposable Trash Cans

The Duval County School Board

With more than 50 activists and community members present,

The Duval County School Board voted unanimously,

to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School. The historic vote by the school board comes at the end of a six-month campaign by the Jacksonville Progressive Coalition (JPC) and other forces to drop the local high school's racist namesake.....more>

Great job Everyone!

Ybor Paparazzi

Child on a Leash

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Tacos, rice and beans

at The Taco Bus in Seminole Heights

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless Living In Tampa

Ohio Players Will Perform For Free In Tampa

The Ohio Players 

will perform at the

14th Annual Black Heritage Throwback Music Fest

Tampa on Jan. 18. at Curtis Hixon Park in downtown Tampa......more

Read more here: http://heraldbuzzworthy.blogspot.com/2013/12/ohio-players-perform-for-free-in-tampa.html#storylink=cpy

Snow On 7th Ave

 

more here

Gay Rights in Florida: Progress Is Here

Three Florida legislators --

Democratic Sen. Joseph Abruzzo of West Palm Beach,  
Rep. Joe Saunders of Orlando and

 

Republican Rep. Holly Raschein of Key Largo

have filed antidiscrimination bills for the upcoming session........more

Jon Stewart On Our Festivus Pole

"It's Florida. You're lucky there's not
a stripper named 'Christmas' swinging on it."

Jon Stewart

Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act

Collecting signatures in Ybor City

Tampa Bay Homeless

 Homeless Living In Tampa

Alex Sink In Dunedin

 

At The OLDE BAY CAFE & DUNEDIN FISH MARKET

51 Main Street, Dunedin

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Sirloin Tips

Over Rice At Nick's Family Diner on The OBT in Orlando.

Awesome food, more here 

Racist Comments In A Harlem Barbershop

DINOS Attack Elizabeth Warren

The Washington establishment’s war on Senator Elizabeth Warren has officially begun.

On Friday, Jim Kessler, vice president of the centrist Democrat think-tank Third Way, took to the airwaves to defend his organization’s recent attack piece on the Senator. Kessler and the corporate Democrat “moderate” types who support Third Way are absolutely terrified. They’re terrified that Elizabeth Warren and her supporters will upend the stranglehold they’ve had on Democratic politics since the Clinton era. So now they’ve joined Republicans in declaring an all-out war on her and

everything she stands for......more

Check out Third Way at Pushing Rope

Progressive Change Campaign Committee has an online petition
to make the Third Way reveal its donors.
 

 Check out this democrat from Washington state, Patty Murray.

Maybe democrats need to have a civil war like the GOP

is having and primary these people?

 

Ybor City Stogie member of the Howard Dean/Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party

Rubio Enrolls Family In Obamacare

 Rubio is following the law, even though he opposes it.

here

GOP Guide: How to Talk to Women

White Trash Right Wing

The very idea that conservatives think Obama should have been obnoxiously rude at the funeral of one of the most revered men on the planet is a sign that they lack any social grace or class. For a group of people that claim to be superior to everyone around them, they’re little better than white trash and, once again,

they’ve embarrassed America.......more

Florida Medical Marijuana Day Of Action

Time is running out to get medical marijuana on the 2014 ballot.

If you aren't already an active volunteer, we desperately need you to come out this Saturday and help us collect petitions. Saturday is our "Day of Action"- where we amass volunteers in key regions to

Go out and collect petitions to be returned at the end of the day.

 Here's how it works:

Saturday morning, volunteers can meet at the locations below. There, you can grab a stack of petitions, get questions answered from our regional leaders, and get help with finding a good location to collect petitions. Later on, you can drop off and help us celebrate getting

that much closer to our goal......info

 

Tampa Bay
Morning pick-up 10am-12pm at: Avid Brew & Grow Supplies 1745 1st Ave S. St Pete
Evening drop-off 5pm-8pm at: Chic-A-Boom Room, 319 Main St. Dunedin

Florida Right Wingers Slam Obama For Castro Handshake

The Hug

"Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raul Castro, it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant,"...Rep. Ilean Ros-Lehtinen

 Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has noted that the handshake was not shown on Cuban television. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen also seems to forget that a big part of Cuban propaganda is getting Cubans to think that its the imperialist hand of any U.S. President that is actually bloodied. We doubt the Castro regime wants to make more of the handshake then what it was.

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Pic: Ilean Ros-Lehtinen with George W. Bush
Speaking of bloody hands
Iraq Military Fatalities 4,486, Cost $3.4 trillion

Snow In Ybor City

December 14th 2013 @ 7pm

Ybor City

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Centrist Democrats Scared Of Howard Dean

Clearwater Couple's Obamacare

$3.19 a month

JoAnn and Eric Smith of Clearwater, were able to sign up for health insurance on the federal exchange Monday after months of trying.

It took two months, weekly visits to the jammed-up federal website and a half-dozen phone calls, but JoAnn Smith finally got health insurance Monday. It’ll only cost her $3.19 a month to cover herself and her husband.......more

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Happy Festivus

A Festivus pole at the Florida state capital,

and there’s nothing about it at all that doesn’t scream “Florida!”, including the material the pole’s made out of.A nearly 6-foot-tall pole made from emptied beer cans… will be put up in the Florida Capitol this week as a not-so-subtle protest to the recent placement of

a Christian nativity scene…..more
"A Festivus For The Rest Of Us." Frank Costanza

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet George

He was born and raised in Tampa. He has been homeless 12 years. 

Diaz-Balart Becomes an Immigration Fabulist

 That is the sad case of Diaz-Balart, once an acknowledged leader in the immigration reform movement. His devotion to internal Republican Party politics has converted him into a suspect figure with declining popularity in his GOP-safe seat. He has become the Latino mask of the GOP’s “NO”

on immigration reform — and the voters in his district are not happy.

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Tampa Growing Up

Hillsborough County residents predictably ranked traffic congestion, job creation and availability of bus or rail as top-priority planning issues in an interactive survey conducted over three months that planners have begun to analyze......more

Change Becomes Your Unwanted Friend

 Tampa Taxi Shots

was headed back to a life where so much had changed. Just eight years ago when I started the original "Tampa Taxi Shots" it was full of images of friends. Now, most of them are dead. I guess saying goodbye is a natural part of life. Security is not found in repeat motions of your ordered life. It is in knowing that is not possible and change will always be there. Smell the roses before there are no more to smell......more>

ALEC Wants To Tax Our Sunshine

If you dare to put solar panels on your home or business

to save energy and the environment at the same time,
ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council)
is coming for you. You see, by getting your energy from the sun
You are deemed a
"Free Rider"
 and will be taxed as such
These very policies are being discussed at the ALEC two day meeting
in Washington this week.......more

They of course have been branded.

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