Tuesday, August 7, 2007

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

Sunday, August 5, 2007

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.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

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

Friday, August 3, 2007

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

Thursday, August 2, 2007

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

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

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

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

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

Monday, July 30, 2007

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

Sunday, July 29, 2007

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