Weekly Weirdness for July 4th, 2008 »
By John on Jul 5, 2008 in Congress, Crime, General, Places, Politics, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
All the weird stuff from the weekend ending on Friday, July 4th, 2008. Read more »
Category: General
2008 Hurricane Season Predictions »
By John on May 30, 2008 in Featured, General, Places, Tampa, Weather | 0 Comments
According to an article on the Scientific American website, Colorado State University and the National Weather Service are in pretty close agreement on their predictions for this year’s hurricane season. The season starts this Sunday and ends on November 30. They are calling for a very active season again this year. Read more »
News for The Week Ending May 9, 2008 »
By John on May 9, 2008 in Crime, General, Society | 0 Comments
A brief roundup of some interesting stories from the past week. Read more »
Been Away and Busy »
By John on May 8, 2008 in Family, General, Travel | 0 Comments
Things have been very busy with work, and they will continue that way for a while. I wanted to go home and seem Mom this weekend, but I can’t take the days off for the trip right now. There are several major projects all due next week. Read more »
Mukasey Says They Knew About 9-11 Call »
By John on Apr 1, 2008 in General | 0 Comments
Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last week, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said one of the dumbest things ever to come out of this scandal ridden Administration. He was making a speech trying to stir up support for the FISA bill with telecom immunity, where he basically claimed that U.S. Intelligence apparently knew a call came from Afghanistan safe-house to a phone in the U.S. Read more »
A Retirement Plan for the Current Economy »
By John on Mar 28, 2008 in General | 0 Comments
Now here’s a retirement plan for today’s economic environment that I can get behind. Read more »
News Roundup for the Week Ending March 21, 2008 »
By John on Mar 21, 2008 in Crime, General, Places, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
Here’s the wrap up for some of the interesting stories for the week ending Friday, March 21, 2008. We’ve got a fight featuring beer and a hoe, and other fights using other interesting weapons. Starbucks is in the news, and we have a Mom getting her kid to pick her up some LSD at school, and Polk County deputies are smuggling pot into the jail. Read more »
State Fair Time »
By John on Feb 11, 2008 in General | 0 Comments
Well, it’s that time of year in Florida when you can anything you can imagine fried. Yep, it’s time for the State Fair.
We took the nephews Saturday. It has gotten out of control expensive I think if you take kids who want to ride rides. I realize there are certain days when one can get [...] Read more »
Off to Philadelphia »
By John on Jan 20, 2008 in General | 0 Comments
I am at the airport waiting on my 2:15 flight to Philadelphia. I’ll be there for a few days for some training. While it’s always good to get training, Philadelphia in January is not a great idea. I hope to keep up blogging in the evenings.
Tags: PA, Philadelphia, training, Work Read more »
Every Christmas, The Same Stupid Gripe »
By John on Dec 30, 2007 in Culture, General, Holidays, Religion, Right Wingnuts | 0 Comments
I had planned on a slow work week leading up to the holiday, and had attempted to be somewhat ahead of the game when it came to preparing for the holidays, but it didn’t work out that way. For that reason, I never got around to really writing anything about the holiday, but I could not let pass without comment this whole “war on Christmas bullshit” that seems to crank up every year. An example is a commentary on CNN by some guy named Roland Martin. Obviously, he perceives this concerted attack on Christmas by…well, he’s never clear about that other than categorizing the enemies of Christmas as “politically correct idiots”. Read more »
Cold Coming To Tampa »
By John on Dec 28, 2007 in General, Places, Tampa, Weather | 0 Comments
Winter may be making a brief appearance in Tampa next week. It’s 77 degrees as I write this on Friday afternoon, but according to a report in the Tribune, by next Thursday, we could have temperatures close to freezing, with a wind chill of near 25. Read more »
News for the Week Ending December 21, 2007 »
By John on Dec 21, 2007 in Crime, Fun Stuff, General, Humor, Society | 0 Comments
We are winding down towards the end of the year, but instead of getting slower, we just got really busy for this week at work. I’ll still do my best to get some stuff posted here for you. We’ve got sex stings, porn and horse rustling. Read more »
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