John Masters, Author at Deep Something

Chertoff: If We Inspect Cargo The Terrorists Win

September 14, 2006 B. John 407 Views Terrorism, Cargo, Inspections, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorists

Well that’s a unique argument, even from the always-creative Bush administration. You see, Osama’s goal is to bankrupt us –

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Jon Stewart Said It Best

September 12, 2006 B. John 437 Views Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

I am planning a post today with my thoughts on yesterday’s fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. However, I came

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So Long To The Constitution

September 11, 2006 B. John 1216 Views Interrogations, Toture, CIA, Guantanamo

What Bush is doing in the run-up to the midterm elections is a disgrace equal to any other scandal of his nasty, incipiently despotic, regime. Using the hallowed anniversary of 9/11, he has demanded Congress pass a law that enables the major terrorist suspects, until now held in CIA secret prisons all over the world, to be transferred and tried at Guantanamo.

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The Reddest Red State?

September 7, 2006 B. John 435 Views florida, Ohio, Sex Offender Registry

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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I'm an Uncle Again

August 31, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 354 Views

My sister had her second baby this morning. Cassie Elizabeth Hendricks was born around 8am. She’s 8lbs. 2ozs. and 25 inches long.

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Scathing Email

August 30, 2006 B. John 336 Views Comics

I can relate…I did this once.

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Wack Job Katherine Harris At It Again

August 28, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 423 Views U S Senate, republicans, florida, DSM, Katherine Harris, Wack Job

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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Tons of Teenagers Classified as Mentally Ill Through Government Program

August 28, 2006 B. John 505 Views Fred A Baughman Jr MD, Pharmaceuticals, TeenScreen, FDA, ADHD

Have or know a teenager in school? A controversial government sponsored program called ‘TeenScreen’ asks your kid a few questions and determines if they are a suicide risk or not. A high percentage winds up on psychicatric drugs. Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD testifies for State of Georgia about this.

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Ernesto Watch Monday Morning

August 28, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 471 Views NOAA, hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, Ernesto

The Hurricane Center, as of 8am this morning, has moved the track for Ernesto further to the east. This is good news for us here in Tampa, as it will put us on the “backside” of this storm. This also means it will come on shore at nearly the tip of the Florida penennsula, and track over land all the way up the center of the state.

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Little Miss Sunshine

August 27, 2006 B. John 505 Views Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Jonathan Dayton, Stan Grossman, Valerie Faris

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

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Hurricane Ernesto Watch Begins

August 27, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 488 Views NOAA, hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, Ernesto

We Floridians started paying attention to Tropical Storm Ernesto several days ago. In was forming up southeast of Puerto Rico. The early forecast tracks had the storm staying south of the islands, and gaining strength. Then it would have crossed Cuba and gone out into the Gulf headed tot he northwest…a beeline for the Louisianna coast. However, the track has shifted very close to Tampa.