Monday, April 9, 2007

Stogie Interviews The Local Homeless
Meet Rose
A 68 year old mother of 3 (ages 52 to 44). She was born in Cooperstown, NY, but now resides on the streets of Tampa. She has been homeless since 1972. She recently applied for Section 8, but was denied. She lives off the kindness of strangers.
The Power Of One Voice
Roberta Fernandez
Since watching the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," Roberta Fernandez has preached the gospel of global warming. She quit her job and join the Climate Project, an organization that teaches people how to spread the global warming message......more

Good News...Gov. Charlie just announced plans to put solar panels on the governor's mansion. Mayor Pam traded her Lincoln Town Car for a Toyota Camry Hybrid.

Florida May Raise Attacks On Homeless To Level Of Hate Crime
As the region's transients reel from recent brutal attacks on the homeless, state lawmakers are considering a proposal that would make it a hate crime to assault a homeless person in Florida. If the measure is approved, Florida would become the first state in the country to include the homeless among the groups protected under the state's existing hate-crime law......more

God Hates Fags
The Most Hated Family in America
A new documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux of the BBC about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church........watch it here
"I think that the pastor is not a very nice person. I think he's an angry person who's twisted the Bible and picked and chosen verses that support his anger, that sort of justify his anger, and he's instilled that in his children and they've passed it on to their children. Although the second and third generation are by and large quite nice people from what I saw, they still live under the influence of their Gramps. "..Louis Theroux


Sunday, April 8, 2007

No Place Too Red For Dean
"We want change. It wasn't about the Democratic Party. It was about the country."

"There will always be some television involved in campaigns, but the era of the 30-second spot as an effective tool of politics is disappearing, and what is more effective is being on the Internet, where we can hear from you and not just you hear from us."........here
Operation Bright Eyes
Expanding to improve and enhance public safety in neighborhoods
here
Bright House Networks first launched Operation Bright Eyes in 2005 in Tampa

Opie's New Job
Adam Putnam new job is to jump on anything that makes Democrats look bad and exploit it for maximum effect. As chairman of the Republican Conference Committee, Putnam is the face and voice of House Republicans. His agenda: to aggressively display the flaws of the new majority, to convey the ideas of the Republicans, and to work his hardest to help his party win back the House in 2008......more


"Continual Slaughter"
El Papa Tells It Like It Is
Benedict read out a litany of troubling current events, saying he was thinking of the "terrorism and kidnapping of people, of the thousand faces of violence which some people attempt to justify in the name of religion, of contempt for life, of the violation of human rights and the exploitation of persons." He singled out what he called the "catastrophic, and sad to say, underestimated, humanitarian situation" in Darfur as well as other African places of suffering, including violence and looting in Congo, fighting in Somalia.......more
Happy Easter?
Polk County program will allow inmates to keep jobs
"On pay day, we're going to charge them to stay in the county jail," said Polk County sheriff Grady Judd. "We're going to charge them to eat here and we're going to charge them for cleaning their clothes at the county jail.".......more
Good Job Polk County

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Stogie Interviews The Local Homeless
Meet Cyndie
A 40 year old mother of 6 (ages 24 to 11) with 1 grandchild. She was born in Clearwater, but now resides on the streets of Tampa. She has been homeless for 3 years. She has tried getting help but says it comes with to many conditions.
Imagine Yet Another Two Years Of Slow Bleed
An Administration's Epic Collapse
The three big Bush stories of 2007--the decision to "surge" in Iraq, the scandalous treatment of wounded veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys for tawdry political reasons--precisely illuminate the three qualities that make this Administration one of the worst in American history: arrogance (the surge), incompetence (Walter Reed) and cynicism (the U.S. Attorneys).......more

Friday, April 6, 2007

There Is A New Blog In Town
The County Pasco Sheriff
They got Viagra, Cialis and Levitra Real Cheap
You Might Want To Check Out The "Sembler Penis Pump"....here
Dean Discusses Strategy At Yale
The one-time front-runner in the 2004 Democratic primaries spoke Thursday about his 50-State Strategy, which aims to build Democratic organizations in every voting precinct in the U.S., including those in predominantly Republican states. Dean, who majored in political science at Yale, delivered the keynote address at a Yale Political Union debate on Thursday evening in addition to holding discussions at a Saybrook Master’s Tea and an event hosted by the Yale Law Democrats earlier in the day.......more
From RightWingStuff.com: December 8, 2005 Looks Like He Is Turning Out To Be A Foreign Policy Expert After All.
Practical Steps towards Energy Security
With Kathy Castor, Linda Saul Sena And Pam Iorio
Tuesday April 10, 2007 10 AM to Noon
Children's Board of Hillsborough County - 1002 Palm Ave Ybor City
No Development On Preserved Land
Brooker Creek Preserve
There are already lines of cars almost to Alt. U.S. 19 waiting to get into Honeymoon Island State Park. Yet, I am told that our state wants more revenue from admissions. More revenue for what purpose? To expand the bureaucratic staff? To build more parking lots and erase fragile lands in doing so?........more

Thursday, April 5, 2007

We
Featuring The Words Of Arundhati Roy
We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. We is a completely free documentary, created and released anonymously on the internet.
There are many ways to
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Wednesday, April 11, Free Movie Showing, 8:00pm, 937 Central Ave, St. Petersburg
MoveOn Virtual Town Hall
Meeting With The '08 Presidential Candidates
Tuesday, April 10th, 7:00 PM, USF Marshall Center, Tampa
RSVP..... here
Secret Ethiopian Jails
U.S. Citizen Among Those Held
Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.........From The UK Guardian
Amy Goodman's Interview With Anthony Mitchell Who Broke The Story.....here

Ronda Storms, On Her Liberal Critics

"They have thrown at me the worse that they can throw—almost—and I'm still standing. And I still get elected. Praise the Lord. So, here I am, and I'm still going to stand, and I'm still going to fight, and I'm still going to do what I'm supposed to do."
From an interview with Florida Baptist Witness......here
Rules of Executive Clemency
Follow The Rules Charlie, Good Governors Are Hard To Find..... here

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Fox News Poll: And The Winner Is Britney Spears?

Incompetent conservatives can't even PROOFREAD THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA before they put it on the air?

In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Burst

The film shows how "the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom.".......here
Tampa Speaks Out
The FCC is holding its fourth official public hearing on media ownership issues in Tampa
Date: Monday, Apr. 30, 2007 Time: TBD (likely late afternoon)
Location: TBD
More Info......here
Obama Raises $25M From 100,000 Donors
Democrat Barack Obama raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party's inevitable nominee......more

Sara Evans- I Could Not Ask For More

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Chinese National Flag vs The Developers

The Nail House In China

Ding Zi Hu (lit. "Nail House"):
(It's called a "nail house" in Chinese because it's so hard to pull out)
Person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project.......more