Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Bushflash - Dump Dick

Florida Groups Push For End To War
Florida For Peace pushed for a meeting with Sen. Bill Nelson at the Kissimmee library on Tuesday. Members said they want Nelson to stand against President George W. Bush and end the war in Iraq. Many groups congregated at the library to meet with Nelson, including Code Pink: Women For Peace.....here

Rudy Loses The Stoner Vote

Florida's Dirty Beaches
Dixie, Taylor, Escambia Counties
Swimmers were advised to avoid the water near Cedar Island in Taylor County and Shired Island in Dixie County for almost all of 2006. Water quality in those areas exceeded acceptable bacteria levels in 89 percent and 85 percent of tests, respectively. In South Florida, Crandon Park's water had high bacteria levels in 18 percent of its tests......
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Joe Biden Wants John Edwards
To Stop Acting Like Howard Dean
Before the last presidential election, John Edwards voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, then spent most of the actual campaign parrying attacks from antiwar outsider Howard Dean. This time around, Mr. Edwards has slipped into the role of perpetually incensed antiwar crusader, questioning the commitment of his competitors to the liberal ideals he has so unapologetically embraced......here
"For 15 years, I've stood up against the right-wing machine, If you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I'm your girl.".................... Hillary Rodham Clinton

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Bill Nelson
Our Very Own Lieberman
Unfortunately I’m not surprised to find that Florida Senator Bill Nelson has voted in favor of the amendment. The Senator has consistently cast votes hostile to the Constitution and with the Bush Administration. I can only guess he’s been promised a bed in the bunker during the coming coup.......more
John Pilger on Propaganda
The Press, Censorship And Resisting The American Empire
"Liberal Democracy is moving toward a form of corporate dictatorship. This is an historic shift, and the media must not be allowed to be its façade, but itself made into a popular, burning issue, and subjected to direct action," ..........John Pilger
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