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Big Talk About Terrorists

December 6, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 548 Views 0 Comments Kings Mountain, Terrorists, Guns, Ammosexuals, Facebook, Jihad

Suddenly, everyone’s a warrior in the war against terror. That is of course only the terrorists attacks that 1. Don’t involve white male American terrorists, and/or 2. Aren’t likely to actually happen in the first place. Take inspiration for the protection of the homeland from some Facebook posts from early this morning. Here you’ll see the batshittery we’ve devolved into in this country. It started with this fairly incoherent post, which I mostly just ignored after assuming the person who wrote it was either high, drunk, or both.

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City of Tampa Construction Services – Epic Fail

March 6, 2014March 6, 2014 B. John 939 Views 2 Comments Commissioner, Mayor, Harry Cohen, Bob Buckhorn, City of Tampa, Construction Services, Building Inspections, Mobley Construction, Noise Ordinance

I’ve got to tell you that the City of Tampa’s Construction Services appears to be an epic failure. I’ve discovered an amazing disregard for the Citizen’s of Tampa; a significant lack of enthusiasm for enforcing even the most basic codes; and all of that at a fairly high level within the organization.

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Photos from our 2013 San Francisco Trip

September 3, 2013September 29, 2018 B. John 541 Views 1 Comment Pride, Harvey Milk, Gay Mens Chorus, San Francisco

We went to San Francisco in June during Pride Weekend, and it was an adventure. Best time for me was getting to, for the second time, hear the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. This performance was “Harvey Milk 2013” featuring the world premier of I am Harvey Milk. It was spectacular.

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A Rainy Sundy

August 18, 2013September 29, 2018 B. John 482 Views 0 Comments afternoon, rain, sunday, Thunder

It has been overcast all day, and rainy for a good portion of the afternoon, and now into the evening.

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Pictures From Washington

October 18, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 506 Views 0 Comments Tourist, Washington, Lay, D.C.

I was in Washington most of last week on business. Lay flew in Friday afternoon, and we spent the weekend touring. We did most of touristy things including the Air and Space Museum out near Dulles that Friday afternoon. Saturday and Sunday were spent mostly downtown around the Mall. I’d not been to the Air and Space Museum so that was cool. This was Lay’s first trip at all.

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Consider Me A Native of El Bethel

April 25, 2012April 25, 2012 B. John 310 Views 0 Comments Newt Gingrish, 238 Cherokee Street Tavern

Since the Mayor gave Newt (serial adulterer, family values, thrice married, marriage is between one man and three women) Gingrich a key to the City today, consider me a native of El Bethel. Bad enough my Old Home State is trying to write discrimination into the State’s Constitution, now they are turning over the key to one of the sleeziest people to ever come out of Washington, D.C. And all this on the day he was ending his campaign anyways.

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Barbershops

October 13, 2011September 29, 2018 B. John 443 Views 0 Comments Steve Otto, Gandy Barbershop, Central Barbershop

I went to get a haircut Wednesday morning at the Gandy Barbershop. It’s owned by Steve, but Tony, a British guy, is the barber I use. When I was paying and getting ready to leave he showed me a framed article by a local Tampa Tribune columnist, Steve Otto, which talked about Tony and the barbershop. I got me thinking about my earliest memories of going to the barbershop. Of course I know I went before we moved to Kings Mountain, but the first memory I have of going was to Central Barbershop right downtown on Mountain Street, beside Griffin’s Drug Store.

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Letter to City Council – What does love look like? It has the hands to help others

September 6, 2011August 10, 2015 462 Views 1 Comment Bob Buckhorn, Colin Powell, Saint Augustine, poor, City Council, Richard Cizik, Charles Darwin, Poverty, Pan Handling, Mayor

The unfortunate reality is that we simply don’t want to have see this kind of poverty in our own neighborhood. We don’t want to be reminded of how many people are hurting, and how badly they hurt. We are simply afraid to look in the eyes of these people. It makes us uncomfortable, and we want to banish them so we no longer have to see what we have wrought.

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Christmas 2010-A Good One

January 3, 2011September 29, 2018 B. John 462 Views 0 Comments Christmas, Food, Peace, Video, Gifts, pictures

Well, Christmas 2010 has come and gone. Nothing left to do but pack up the decorations. I’d have to rate it as a pretty good Christmas. I think I managed to stick to a fairly tight budget, and despite a few arguments with Lay, we wound up with everyone getting something they really enjoyed. I got my shopping and gift wrapping done well ahead of time this year. The decorations were up right after Thanksgiving, and the Christmas Cards went out just after that, so I never felt rushed or hectic.

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Giant Bubbles

September 15, 2010September 29, 2018 B. John 383 Views 0 Comments Labor Day, Pool, Swimming, Bubbles

Pictures of Lay’s family over for the Labor Day weekend. We had loads of fun swimming, and making giant bubbles out of a soap solution. Bubbles are a favorite thing with the nieces, and giant bubbles just secured my place as favorite uncle for a while longer.

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More in the Having a Bad Day Series

March 9, 2010 B. John 344 Views 0 Comments Heart Attack, Largo Hospital, Gunshot, DOA, jail

You’ll recall a brief post last week about a guy who got hit by a car, which knocked him in front a bus, which hit him. Well, we have a guy run over by a Suburban after he left the cardiac unit of a hospital to go smoke a cigarette, and another guy who got shot and killed the day after he got out of jail.