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Buju Banton Coming to St. Petersburg Venue

October 16, 2009September 29, 2018 558 Views 1 Comment Murder, Hate Speech, Buju Banton, Janus Landing, John Bodziak, Jack Bodziak

Buju Banton is a Jamacian Reggae star who riled up the gay community with songs like “Boom Bye Bye” which calls for gay people to be shot in the head with automatic weapons, have acid poured on them, and be burned “like an old tire wheel.” He currently has an American tour being roundly opposed by the gay community, and a number of events have been cancelled. Unfortunately, the owner of a concert venue in downtown St. Petersburg, Janus Landing, feels no responsibility to help build an inclusive community.

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The Conservative Bible – Because Jesus Was Just Too Liberal

October 9, 2009September 29, 2018 548 Views 0 Comments conservatives, Bible, Conservative Bible Translation, King James, Conservapedia

Turns out the Bible is just too progressive in its views for some. So the Conservative Bible Project has been formed to use Wiki technology to create a whole new, and more conservative, translation of the Bible. The group cites a few reasons why the Bible is too progressive: “Lack of precision in the original language … lack of precision in modern language” and “translation bias in converting the original language to the modern one.”

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CIGNA CEO Salary in the Spotlight

October 8, 2009August 10, 2015 415 Views 0 Comments Health Care Insurance Reform, CEO Salaries, Ed Hanway, CIGNA

CIGNA took in $19.1 billion dollars in revenue last year, with a $292 million dollar income. That doesn’t include the salaries given to people like CEO Ed Hanway. He made a cool $12 million last year, and over the past five years he took in $120 million. Hanway has $28 million in unexcercised stock options.

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What's Wrong With Baucus Care

October 6, 2009 B. John 371 Views 0 Comments Max Baucus, Public Option, Health Care Insurance Reform

There’s no public option in Senator Max Baucus’ Healthcare bill. Instead, we are forced to buy private insurance. This is a major step backwards for the healthcare reform movement! Watch the video and call your senator at (202) 224-3121.

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Robert Reich Explains the Public Health Care Insurance Option

October 4, 2009August 10, 2015 415 Views 0 Comments Robert Reich, Public Option, Sick for Profit, Brave New Films, Health Care Insurance Reform

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains what a public option for healthcare coverage really means for working people.

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United Health Care's Extreme Profits

October 2, 2009 B. John 409 Views 0 Comments Health Care Insurance Reform, UnitedHealth Group, United Health Care, CEO Salaries, Stephen Hemsley. Brave New Films, Sick for Profit

What does UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Brave New Films is launching a major new campaign to reveal the truth about the health insurance industry, and we need your help to do it. Contribute $25 today so we can create more campaigns exposing the obscene wealth of the CEOs of Aetna, CIGNA, Humana and WellPoint and the policyholders they’ve abandoned for profit.

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Favorite Season

September 30, 2009September 29, 2018 444 Views 0 Comments fall, seasons, Boone, Blowing Rock, Autumn, Appalachian Mountains

OK, I know that about this time every year I write something about Autumn being my favorite time of year. I know, Tampa, FL is not the place to be thinking about Autumn. I think we get our Autumn here in January, the time of year when these nasty live oaks dump a big portion of their leaves. Still, there is a rhythm that comes with the seasons no matter where one lives, and I love this time of year for the sense of “settling-in.”

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Crazy Crash Sunday

September 28, 2009 B. John 441 Views 0 Comments Traffic, Howard Franklin

I am glad I was not on the road for most of Sunday, and even then, we stayed on surface streets and around the neighborhood. Three crashes (I-75, I-4 and I-275) all had major accidents within a two hour window Sunday afternoon that involved over 100 vehicles, and sent 14 people to the hospital. Fortunately, no one seemed to have life-threatening injuries.

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Getting Past The Village Idiot

September 27, 2009September 29, 2018 427 Views 0 Comments Frank Schaeffer, evangelical Christians, evangelicals, ultra-conservatives, Rachel Maddow

Rachael Maddow reports on a survey that says that more than one in three conservatives in New Jersey believe that Obama is the anti-christ. She discusses with Republican operative and former religious right co-founder Frank Schaeffer how we respond to the idiocy. Schaeffer rightly notes that there is a sub-culture within the ultra-conservative evangelical right that is taught from birth to reject fact as a matter of “faith.” These are people who believe the world is only about six billion years old, that humans lived with dinosaurs, and that John F. Kennedy was the anti-christ. He refers to them as a “fifth column of insanity.”

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A Wii Bit of Bowling on Taxpayer Time

September 22, 2009August 10, 2015 416 Views 0 Comments Winter Haven PD, Bowling, Search Warrant, Polk County, Wii, Sherriff's Office, Lakeland PD

It appears some deputies from Lakeland PD and Polk County Sherriffs Office decided it would be fun to play a little Wii Bowling on the big screen while serving a search warrant at an alleged drug house. I guess it wouldn’t be too big a deal but for the fact that they apparently spent NINE (9) HOURS playing around.The problem comes from the fact that in their very thorough, NINE (9) HOUR, search of the house they missed the security cameras that were recording.

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There I Fixed It

September 22, 2009August 10, 2015 1122 Views 0 Comments DIY, Cars, Car Repair, Home Repair

A friend sent me an email with a set of photographs of some do-it-yourself projects that remind of some things I’ve done, and some things I’ve seen some others do. They come from a site (thereifixedit.com) dedicated to the Rube Goldberg DIY’ers of the world. I’ve put a few of the photos from the email in the post, but had a great time scrolling my way through the site.