The Ybor City Stogie

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Time For #19

It's time to make Florida the 19th state to allow recall of elected state officials. Rick Scott bought his way into office spending tens of millions of dollars of his own money in the process. Rick Scott is rapidly proving himself to be an ideologue Libertarian, abandoning what's good for Florida, in an effort to push through his far right ideas of how state government should be run, no matter what harm it does to the future health of the State's economy and citizens........here

Florida Women Kicking Ass On X-Factor

Meet Rion Paige, Jacksonville's Finest

And meet Lillie McCloud from Orlando.

Miami protest at Senator Nelson’s office

Over 25 people gathered outside of Senator Bill Nelson’s Miami office on Sept. 12 to demand that the U.S. Senator from Florida vote against any military authorization bill that comes his way. The rally began at 6:45 p.m. in front of Nelson’s office, which is located in Coral Gables. Protesters held Syrian flags and anti-war signs with slogans such as, “Hands off Syria,” and “I don’t want my tax dollars supporting Al-Qaeda.”........more>

Saturday, September 14, 2013

The Citrus Taliban: Terry Jones

The Rev. Terry Jones was planning on torching nearly 3,000 Qurans on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at Loyce E. Harpe Park, in Mulberry at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Supporters gathered, but Jones never arrived. That's because Grady Judd's boys saw Jones at a McDonalds in Mulberry and watched as he doused the books with kerosene on his way to the park. He was pulled over a couple of miles away and arrested on charges of unlawful conveyance of fuel and open display of a firearm........more>

Rick Scott Is Selling Our Public Lands

Have you ever enjoyed a nature trail or stream that was then turned into a strip mall or parking lot? I know I have. Now Gov. Rick Scott wants to sell off up to 4,000 acres of environmentally sensitive lands our tax dollars have already purchased and protected so he can kick back more money to his big business buddies. here, Here’s a complete list of all the lands the state is considering putting on the auction block. Take a look and see if any of them are in your backyard.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pizza

Anchovies, peppers and onions

At the Firehouse Pub in Temple Terrace.

Tampa Rapper Prophit

Prophit (real name Reginald M. Wilks) a local who grew up in an East Tampa neighborhood near Hillsborough Avenue and 40th Street, and still lives in the Tampa area has scored a spot on the soundtrack for “The Family,” the upcoming film starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.

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