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The Tampa Tribune is reporting that airport police have arrested three baggage handlers from Delta Global Services (contracted to handle Continental Airlines baggage) at TIA. It seems they had quite the little theft ring going stealing all sorts of electronics and sunglasses.
Read moreIt’s interesting around here with 93 year old Johns down in Manatee County.
Read moreHere’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 moreWell, the House seems to be sticking to their guns, and not passing a FISA bill that will grant immunity to the telecom industry for illegal spying. This is critically important, because it’s the last best hope to have the illegal surveillance activities of the current Cheney Administration see the light of day. During a press conference on February 28, George Bush finally went rogue on Dick, and accidentally told the truth about the reason for telecom immunity.
Read moreThe AP reports that an audit by the inspector general last year found the FBI demanded personal records without official authorization or otherwise collected more data than allowed in dozens of cases between 2003 and 2005. Additionally, last year’s audit found that the FBI had underreported to Congress how many national security letters were requested by more than 4,600.
Read moreGood grief, could any more be made of this? New York Governor Elliot Spitzer had apparently been paying for a little something on the side, so now the Republicans demand that he resign. Senator David Vitter (R. Louisiana) was implicated in a prostitution case, but never resigned…why the double standard? Saying he’s involved in a prostitution ring is like me saying I’m involved in the fast food franchise business just because I ate at McDonald’s one day last week.
Read moreWe’ve got a brief recap of some of the idiotic news from the week ending, March 7, 2008. A man swimming with gators for a second time, and a guy having his friend shoot him so he can get some time off work.
Read moreIt’s a tie, one is a politician and the other a criminal…might be hard to tell the difference I admit.
Read moreTThe Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released annual survey results that indicate nearly half of American adults leave the “faith tradition they were raised in to either join another religion or drop out of organized religion altogether. Ths year though, the unaffiliated people who say they are religious but don’t claim allegiance to any particular institution or tradition are now the fourth largest religious group in America.
Read moreAll these religious right wingnuts think they absolve themselves of any responsibility for the violence purpetrated against gay people when they say, “Oh we don’t hate gays, we just hate the sin.” Bullshit. This is what you have wrought, and you will stand in judgement for it. These wingnuts love to invoke the Old Testament wrath of God when it comes to homosexuality. I’d remind them the prophets of the Old Testament were usually warning of God’s wrath in the context of how corrupt the religious leaders’ of that time had become. Micah summed it well: “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
Read moreThis is a round-up of minor and fun news items for the week ending Friday, February 1, 2008. We have a guy at the airport with 99 fake IDs, and speaking of the airport, CNN shows how a TSA inspector got a bomb past security there. We’ve got a story in a brain vaccum (I think the prototype might have been tested on George Bush), and the price of chocolate is going up.
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