Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. ~~Mark Twain
By John on Apr 12, 2008 in Legislature, Places, Politics, Travel | 1 Comment
We now have “take your gun to work” here in Florida…not just on a specific day, but everyday, and we’ve got airline pilots shooting through the cockpit with their TSA issued handguns due to another idiotic TSA procedure.
By John on Apr 11, 2008 in Crime, Fun Stuff, Places, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
This is the catch all basket for odd news items for the week ending April 11, 2008. We’ve got an escaped monkey in Orlando, Verizon employees picketing because their customer service is so bad, and a guy hitting a police horse. The elections supervisor can’t seem to get around to paying his property taxes either.
By John on Apr 10, 2008 in Business, Congress, Corruption, Featured, Places, Politics, Presidency, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
Reuters has a report from The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Economic Policy Institute showing that, “Since the late 1990’s average incomes have declined 2.5 percent for families on the bottom fifth of the country’s economic ladder, while incomes have increased 9.1 percent for families on the top fifth.” That got brought home to me tonight when I went to grab a bite to eat, and saw a couple have to forego eating so the kids could. More on that later in this story. One of the Deep Thoughts on this site is a quote from Charles Darwin, who said, “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” It doesn’t take much to help people, but the current crooks and liars running this government are hell bent and determined to not only forego providing that help, but in enriching their wealthy friends at the expense of those who can least afford it. One of the Deep Thoughts on this site is a quote from Charles Darwin, who said, “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” It doesn’t take much to help people, but the current crooks and liars running this government are hell bent and determined to not only forego providing that help, but in enriching their wealthy friends at the expense of those who can least afford it.
By John on Apr 5, 2008 in Crime, Places, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
This is the round up of the weird, stupid or funny stories from the week ending Friday April 3, 2008. We’ve got a woman going out to shoot at another woman over a man, and leaving her four kids home alone, and another guy trying to steal the oven from a vacant house.
By John on Mar 31, 2008 in Featured, Gay Issues, Legislature, Places, Politics, Religion, Right Wingnuts, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
This will be the first in what I expect will evolve into a series of articles related to the upcoming election and the vote on Constitutional Amendment #2. This is the krazy kristian kooks attempt to have a large conservative turnout in Florida, so instead of fielding a worthy candidate, they go for the devisive issue. Amendment #2 is, of course, a “marriage protection” amendment for the Florida Constitution.
By John on Mar 31, 2008 in Crime, Places, Society, Tampa, Travel | 0 Comments
The Tampa Tribune is reporting that airport police have arrested three baggage handlers from Delta Global Services (contracted to handle Continental Airlines baggage) at TIA. It seems they had quite the little theft ring going stealing all sorts of electronics and sunglasses.
By John on Mar 28, 2008 in Crime, Fun Stuff, Places, Society | 1 Comment
It’s interesting around here with 93 year old Johns down in Manatee County.
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.
By John on Jan 25, 2008 in Crime, Places, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
This is the weekly news wrap-up for January 25, 2008. This includes a drunk driver side-swiping a patrol car, contraband smuggling at a federal prison, illegal Sangria in Virginia, and a gay porn links on a middle school website.
By John on Jan 18, 2008 in Culture, Fun Stuff, Humor, Legislature, Places, Politics | 0 Comments
This is a wrap up of the minor and unusual stories from the news for the week ending Friday, January 18, 2008. Not surprisingly we find some wingnuttery going on in the Virginia State Legislature. A Lakeland police officer “accidentally” unleashes his police dog on a 14 year old girl, and a 13 year old girl robs a Burger King at knifepoint for a cheeseburger.
By John on Jan 11, 2008 in Crime, Humor, Legislature, Places, Politics, Society, St. Petersburg, Tampa | 0 Comments
It’s shaping up as an interesting week for odd ball news. So far we have a 71 year old carrying a night stick at the airport to keep away “fresh” hands, our Florida Legislature hard at work protecting us from bestiality and baggy pants, and a real life Weekend At Bernies….and that’s just for starters.
By John on Jan 6, 2008 in Culture, Family, Holidays, Kings Mountain, Places, Tampa, Travel | 0 Comments
We’re well into the new year already, and I’m just now getting around to writing about the holidays. I suppose that is because it wasn’t one of the better holidays. I did travel home for the usual visit, but it was very short. Lay took ill the week before Christmas week, and remains sick with the doctor still testing to try and find out what is wrong, but it got fairly serious there right after Christmas.
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