Weekly Roundup for March 28, 2008
It’s interesting around here with 93 year old Johns down in Manatee County.
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If it has to do with a geographical location, I will categorize it with this category.
News Roundup for the Week Ending March 21, 2008
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.
Read moreNews Wrap Up- January 25, 2008
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.
Read moreNews for the Week of January 18, 2008
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.
Read moreNews Brief for the Week of January 11, 2008
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.
Read moreChristmas 2007
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.
Read moreVermont Activists Want Bush Arrested
I just may have to move to Vermont. According to a report on CNN, a group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.
Read moreCold Coming To Tampa
Winter may be making a brief appearance in Tampa next week. It’s 77 degrees as I write this on Friday afternoon, but according to a report in the Tribune, by next Thursday, we could have temperatures close to freezing, with a wind chill of near 25.
Read moreThanksgiving Summary
I know it’s a bit late, but I thought I’d write an update from our Thanksgiving trip to North Carolina.
Read moreCold In Tampa
It remains dry, but it’s been very cool the past few nights, getting into the 40’s. There could be some frost tonight north of here and inland. Lay’s nephews are over to spend the night, as two of them have birthday’s next week. We won’t be here. Lay and I will be traveling to North Carolina. While I’m taking the whole week off, Lay will be working Monday and Tuesday, so unfortunately, we’ll be on the road Wednesday. I am not looking forward to that.
Read moreNews of the week ending Nov. 9, 2007
Tidbits of news from the week ending Friday, November 9, 2007. It includes a story on the discovery of another grow house in Polk County, a Palmetto man shooting himself and blaming a gang, a Tampa rapper who raps about guns hides in the ladies room when gun play breaks out, and man in Tampa throws bricks through the neighbors windows.
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