Project No. 45403
Anybody Need A Seawall, Only $200
Project 45403 is a 480-foot-wide slope of concrete rubble along the Palm River that county crews completed on March 9. For motorists who see it while driving south on the Maydell Drive bridge, the wall stands as a jagged symbol of how one of the homeowners, a 67-year-old widow named Edna Walters, used connections to get the government to pay for a project of questionable public value.......more

"I agree with his politics, I'm determined to stop the county from giving itself away to the people who don't work for it.".......Roy Davis

Ralph Nader

2008

"No other country comes close to providing voters with such a small number of choices and making third party candidates hurdle an almost insuperable number of obstacles just to get on the ballot,".........here

Underwater Music Festival

Big Pine Key, Florida

More than 500 scuba divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast Saturday, piped in beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary........more

Public service announcements about coral reef preservation were played between musical selections.

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One Blair Down, One To Go
How the bulldogs of British journalism might have savaged a Florida politician
"Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair is facing calls for his resignation from taxpayer groups today after a St Petersburg Times investigation revealed that Blair pressured county officials to spend $1 million on the Noreast lake where he lives.......more

Robin Miller

Our Famous Local Video Maker

Natural Florida Thrives In State's Most Crowded County

Weedon Island Preserve

In Florida's most crowded county, not far from a greyhound track and a busy thoroughfare, kayakers paddle through a labyrinth of trails that wind for miles under the dense canopy of a stunning mangrove forest. Floating through those dark, cool tunnels, it's easy to forget that the gleaming highrises of downtown Tampa loom just on the other side of the bay or that this chunk of Gulf Coast Florida is so developed that there's hardly any available land left........more

Weedon Island Preserve

Little Gasparilla Island, Florida

Welcome Cuban Refugees

As the Cubans waited for the officials to arrive for processing, word of their presence spread through this island of mostly private vacation homes. Islanders came to Lowell's house with clothes, food and water. The joyful demeanor of the Cubans was infectious, with homeowners and vacationers alike laughing and becoming instant friends........more

Charlie, Another Great Action Hero

Hasta La Vista Baby, To Greenhouse Gases

The Republican governors of California and Florida gave the Bush administration the cold shoulder on Friday as Florida set new limits on greenhouse gas emissions and signed cooperation pacts on climate change with Germany and Britain........more

"Something is changing here in America, It's what I would call a new consensus.".......Matthias Machnig

Florida facing global warming effects now

Clinton And Edwards
Only Serious Candidates Need Apply
Serious “candidates,” or elite selectees, hate the idea of sharing the corporate media spotlight with the unselected. All of this is quite natural, as Edwards rubs elbows with the Council on Foreign Relations and Hillary is a Bilderberg doorstop. Serious candidates are arranged in advance by the elite and outsiders such as Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are not welcome, are in fact deeply resented......here
Mike Gravel

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Breaded Grouper With Yellow Rice, Red Beans, Platanos And Salad.
$5.95 At.........Seafood Palace 6207 Causeway Boulevard, Tampa

Forget Corporate - Eat Local

Governor Dean Responds to Bush

Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Honk To Impeach!
According to the polls, a majority of Americans support the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. But few Americans know there is a nationwide grassroots impeachment movement because the Corporate Media refuses to report on our efforts on orders from Karl Rove. So what can we do about it? How about making some old-fashioned noise - and breaking new ground in high-tech grassroots organizing! HonkToImpeach is simple.......here

Drug That Kid
Or Get Off The Plane
A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant's request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying "Bye bye, plane."......here

Bye Bye, Flight Attendant

Giant 'Corpse-Eating' Badgers

Invade Iraq

The Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a scary rumour – giant badgers are stalking the streets by night, eating humans........here

Watch the footage......here

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Candidate Web Sites

Propaganda or News?

In 2004, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean gained early momentum in his bid for presidency by using a new political tool, his campaign Web site. Setting new standards along the way, he used the Web to help raise roughly $50 million, to communicate directly with supporters through a blog, create a legion of new political activists called “Deaniacs,” and even organize gatherings called “meet ups.”.......here

Dunedin - July 11, 2007

The Bush Blog

Michael Moore VS Wolf Blitzer - Round II

Florida State Rep. Robert Allen

Oral Sex For $20

State Representative, Robert "Bob" Allen, was arrested this afternoon at Veteran's Memorial Park on East Broad St. in Titusville for Solicitation for Prostitution........here

Cheap Bastard

Charlie And Arnold In Miami
Summit on Global Climate Change
Persuaded that ''global climate change is one of the most important issues that we will face this century,'' and that Florida, with almost 1,200 miles of coastline is especially ''vulnerable to rising ocean levels and violent weather patterns,'' Governor Charlie Crist has invited all who care about the state's ''environmental and economic future'' to his ''Serve to Preserve'' Summit on Global Climate Change, July 12-13 in Miami......here

BOCC Bozo's

March for Peace

San Francisco To DC

The march began on May 21, 2007 in San Francisco and plans to arrive in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2007. Midway point of the journey July 14 in Omaha, Nebraska......here

March For Peace

Brandon - July 10, 2007

Faux Attacks The Environment

Land O' Lakes - July 9, 2007

CNN Gets Blitzed by Michael Moore

Just apologize to the American people and to the families of the troops for not doing your job four years ago. We wouldn't be in this war if you had done your job. Come on. Just admit it. Just apologize to the American people.

Save The Internet -- Before July 16

6 Days Left To Tell The FCC Your Story!

The Rumble Of The People

Amy And Ralph Chat

What’s important is to basically get back to self-determination. Do we really believe in self-government? Do we really believe in accountable government? And do we really believe that the supremacy of the people has to be reinstalled over the supremacy of what Jefferson called the moneyed interests........here

Imagine $12 Billion A Month

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Ron Paul On Tampa Road

Christian Terrorist

In Burleson, Texas

Burleson police arrested three men who cited religious beliefs in attempting to detonate a bomb at Victory Family Church in Burleson. The suspects — Dayton Lee Calaway, 19, Michael Philip Plaisted Jr., 18, Jered Michael Ragon, 18, are members of a religious cult which advocates violence to purge the world of sin........here

Missy Higgins - Live Earth

Sydney

Alicia Keys - Live Earth

New York

Rihanna - Live Earth

Tokyo

Shakira - Live Earth

Hamburg

Joss Stone - Live Earth

Johannesburg

I've Got A Crush On Hillary

Disappeared: Five Years in Guantanamo

In 2001, 19-year-old Murat Kurnaz was an innocent man caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Accused of being a terrorist, he spent five years in Guantanamo before being released -- now he's telling his story........here

Time For HR 333

What Castro Thinks
Of The The Family Jewels
President Fidel Castro is probing into the recent declassification of CIA documents regarding illegal actions by that agency, including plots to eliminate foreign leaders. He underlines that what the documents reveal about the past still continue, only in a more brutal way. Those actions are on global scale and also within the United States......here

3,601 And The Killing Goes On

Nearly Half Of America Wants Bush Impeachment
54-40 Split In Favor When It Comes To Cheney

The US Constitution says presidents and vice presidents can be impeached -- that is, formally charged by the House -- for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" by a simple majority vote........here
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Jadell Kerr
Hillsborough County Commissioner 2008
www.jadellkerr.com

Boyetts Grove

Reopens In Spring Lake, Florida

Businesses are forced to shut their doors for a variety of reasons, but rarely is it because an owner is critically wounded from a random act of violence, particularly in the rural, southeast corner of Hernando County.......here

www.boyettsgrove.com

Town n' Country - July 5, 2007

Live Earth Concerts
Party With MoveOn.org At Hawks Grill
Join 2 billion other people to watch Al Gore's Live Earth Concerts, Saturday, Jul 7 2007 @ 7:00 PM
Hawks Neighborhood Grill

Cheney Declares Himself National Monument

Admission Price : $75,000

In a bold new strategy aimed at avoiding a congressional subpoena, Vice President Dick Cheney declared himself a national monument.......here............via ahnc

Confederate Flag Coming To I75 & I4
A 139' Pole With A 50' Flag
The first flag—which went up in 1999—dances on a 60-foot pole in Havana. The second, a larger one, went up in White springs. Next, SCV (Sons of Confederate Veterans) members hope to wave a third on a 100-foot pole in Hillsborough County near the Interstate exchange at I 4 and I 75........here

The Tampa Project..........here

Countdown Special Comment: Bush, Cheney Should Resign

We The People
Of The United States

Sulphur Springs - July 3, 2007

DFA Training

In Ybor City

A crowd of over 100 gathered in Tampa to participate in the second day Sunday of a two-day training session for aspiring political candidates and people who want to work on political campaigns. The two-day event was part of a national effort by Democracy for America - a grass roots group that grew out of Howard Dean's presidential run.........here

DFA Tampa Bay

The Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment

Is a proposed constitutional amendment that would take responsibility for planning away from local planners and elected officials and require the voters to decide on every comprehensive plan amendment.....here

Not To Be Confused With "The Florida Growth Management Initiative"

It CAN be done!
Tell Charlie About Our Corruption

Sign The Letter ..... write C4RG

Howard Dean

Yesterday, despite overwhelming public opposition, President Bush commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby, the former White House Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney who was convicted by a jury of lying about a matter of national security. As yet another example of the elitist attitude that defines Republicans in Washington, he shamelessly put partisan loyalties before the fundamental American value of fair and equal justice under the law.

The Out-House Scooter

A Buzz Cola At The Kwik-E-Mart

Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.......more

Croatian Rock Star Flirts With The Nazi Past

For the Croatian rock star Marko Perkovic, it is a routine part of his performance: He shouts a well-known Croatian slogan from World War II and his fans respond with the Nazi salute. Photographs from the concert show youths wearing the black caps of the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime that ruled Croatia, and which was responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, gypsies and Jews to their deaths in concentration camps......more

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The Terrorists Are Coming From Cuba

Liberal Radio At 1340am

Meet Jonathan Sands

It's 2pm, Rob's show is over on WMNF, not in the mood for blues, try Jonathan Sands At WTAN 1340am.......here

"LIBERAL" IS OUR BENT..CALL IN AND VENT

American Still No.1

Even the greatest empires hurt when they lose wars. It is not surprising then that Iraq weighs so heavily on the American psyche. Most Americans want to get out as soon as possible, surge or no surge; many more wish they had never invaded the country in the first place. But for a growing number of Americans the superpower's inability to impose its will on Mesopotamia is symptomatic of a deeper malaise........here

John Edwards At Lowry Park