By John on Sep 8, 2009 in Education, Featured, Politics, Presidency, Society | 0 Comments
It is just astonishing to me the complete crap that has been stirred up over the President of the United States offering an address to school students at the beginning of the school year to encourage to stay in school and work hard. Really, does it get any more anti-American than that? Well, if you’re are a conservative Republican it doesn’t, but there really is logic to the Republicans taking the position they have.
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By John on Sep 5, 2009 in Congress, Featured, Politics, Society | 0 Comments
This week, we had craziness at Walmart in Georgia, Michelle Bachmann coming through for us again, teabaggers berating a lady in a wheelchair at a health care town hall meeting, and Medicare recipient getting treatment for an injury he received while protesting government run health care. But we start with just a tiny bit of the foolishness being spewed over Obama speaking to school children about doing good in schools this year. What a sad place we’ve been brought to in this country by a small group of small-minded and easily manipulated people.
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By John on Aug 26, 2008 in Featured, Gay Issues, Religion, Right Wingnuts, Society | 0 Comments
Some months back, a high school senior in Holmes County, Florida (up in the Pan Handle) went to her high school principal to report that she was being harassed by some other students. Now, most of us would expect the principal to take some action against the young lady’s tormentors, no? Well, that would not [...]
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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.
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By John on Jun 19, 2008 in Election, Featured, Gay Issues, Politics, Society, The Courts | 0 Comments
Well, it’s the day after the first full day that gay marriage was legal in California, and gosh darn it, the sun came up, birds still sang, children were born, people died, there were even some heterosexual marriages, and I still had to go to work. In other words, if God is mad about it, he sure missed that wrath thing by taking it out on the mid-west. This raises a lot of questions, such as what happens next in California, what does this mean to Florida’s Amendment 2 initiative (and see a possible connection), and what does it mean for gay people around the country.
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By John on Jun 14, 2008 in Election, Featured, Politics, Technology, Travel | 0 Comments
I don’t get a ton of traffic on this site, and have always been disappointed with the lack of comments. I get a few, but I know I have opinionated friends, and would expect a little more from them. I suspect one of the reasons is that this blog is so far ranging in the topics I write about. I’ve read some good articles lately on blogging, and most say to narrow the focus of your blog. The people writing these articles do have very widely read blogs, so one must give them their props.
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By John on Apr 26, 2008 in Culture, Election, Featured, Gay Issues, Politics, Society | 3 Comments
In this post, we’ll review the moderated part of the debate between Nadine Smith of Fairness for All Families and John Stemberger of the Krazy Kristian Kooks or Florida. They were debating the Florida Constitutional Amendment 2 at the Tiger Bay Club of Orlando. This is part of series on Florida’s Amendment 2.
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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.
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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.
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By John on Jul 13, 2007 in Crime, General, Legislature, Places, Politics, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
This is a wrap up of some of the more interesting news items for the week ending Sunday, July 15, 2007.
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By John on May 14, 2007 in Books, Crime, Culture, Fun Stuff, Gadgets, General, Places, Religion, Society, Tampa, Technology, Travel, Weather | 0 Comments
A bit of news from the week ending May 13, 2007. Crack selling ministers and long car trips.
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By John on Sep 7, 2006 in Crime, Legislature, Politics, Society | 0 Comments
Who’s ahead in promoting Tom DeLay’s market-based legislative techniques? Is it Ohio’s Bob Ney, Bob Taft and Ken Blackwell, or is Florida whack-job Kathering Harris leading the way?
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By John on Aug 28, 2006 in Congress, Election, Politics, Religion, Right Wingnuts | 0 Comments
Katherine Harris, as quoted in the Florida Baptist Witness: Separation of church and state is “a lie we have been told,” Harris said in the interview, published Thursday, saying separating religion and politics is “wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.” “If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris said.
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By John on Apr 13, 2006 in Congress, Election, Fun Stuff, Politics, Presidency | 0 Comments
Wells is the president and, if I?m not mistaken, founder of the Family Values Party. He is currently attempting to qualify to run for both houses of Congress from Florida for the 2006 election. Where he gets real interesting is when you check out his homepage. His site shows all the hallmarks of an extreme right wing page that has little or no budget. But if you click on the link entitled ?To find out who can and who cannot give money to the Family Values Party or to Tom Wells? Campaign,? what you get is what appears to be a basic html web form with check boxes. It isn?t actually, since the closing sentence is: ?If you qualify and want to contribute to The Family Values Party, or to the Tom Wells campaigns you must download this web sight, fill it out, sign and date the completed form. Remember all applicable Federal and State laws concerning federal campaign laws apply.? So what looks like an interactive web form is actually a ?sight? that you have to print out and mail if you want to use.
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By John on Oct 23, 2005 in Tampa, Weather | 0 Comments
It is amazingly quiet here today. As of 4pm there is no wind, and while it has been overcast all day, we have yet to have even a drop of rain.
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By John on Oct 22, 2005 in General, Tampa, Weather | 0 Comments
I thought I would provide an update on Hurricane Wilma based on the most recent NOAA information. How much impact there is on Tampa remains a bit uncertain. Not unusually, with about two days to go before landfall, the “cone of uncertainty” is still a bit large.
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