Veterans Sue Over Care At D.C. Home A group of veterans living at the U.S. Armed Forces Retirement Home filed a class-action suit yesterday on behalf of all its residents, claiming that drastic budget cuts by the Defense Department have resulted in substandard medical care. The suit alleges that the more than 1,000 veterans living [...]
Archive for May, 2005
Touch-Screen Touch-Paper!
May 28, 2005
In Miami, they’re starting to figure out that touch screen voting machines may not be the panacea that was hoped for after the 2000 election fiasco. Touch screens cost more to purchase, more to operate, and more to maintain than optical scan machines, and they leave no paper trail – there is no way to [...]
Tampa wins Whore Off
May 28, 2005
Fond of inserting annoying little creatures into his rectum. Like Mr. Slave, who brilliantly answered Paris Hilton’s pineapple trick by entirely inserting Paris herself into his asshole and lisping “Oooh, Jesus Christ!”, Tampa has won a big Whore Off contest by simply out-whoring the other big whores: because we were number two, we whored harder [...]
Cutting criticism
May 27, 2005
Jeb! displays a little compassionate conservatism by cutting a government program that cruelly gives false hope to those who think that tenants in this state might somehow force a landlord to maintain his rental property or even return a security deposit now and then. The poor will be much happier in the long run if [...]
Ribbons cut into Council compensation
May 27, 2005
The Tampa City Council may soon be known as the the thirty one percenters. City council members on Thursday stopped short of giving themselves a $9,500 raise. But they did decide to give the 2007 council $9,500 pay increases. What barely was mentioned, however, is that several of the seven council members could return in [...]
Ybor Wal-Mart deal collapses
May 26, 2005
I don’t like Wal-Mart . They’re union-busting peddlers of cheap, plastic shit manufactured in third world sweat shops. So the news that they wont be building a store near Ybor City near Ybor City anytime soon is good – anything is better than a Wal-Mart. But they’re not just gonna go away, and I fear [...]
Tampa’s poor to be swept under a rug
May 25, 2005
Gangs of roving white thugs are invading a dirt poor neighborhood near downtown Tampa, intending to force the elderly and poor form their homes while turning a nice profit along the way. A selection committee on Tuesday chose three developers to prepare detailed plans on rebuilding the Tampa Housing Authority’s rundown Central Park Village just [...]
FBI investigates Walker shooting
May 25, 2005
The FBI is looking into the latest death of a black St. Petersburg youth at the hands of police. Agents have sent a letter to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office requesting reports involving the April 12 shooting in St. Petersburg, as well as witness statements, photographs, videos, audio recordings, medical records and other material. “We [...]
Compromise
May 24, 2005
When I first heard about the compromise last night, I was livid. It seems to me that the Republicans can back out at the merest whiff of a fight that they deem less than extraordinary and that we’ll be right back where we just were – in other words, Dems got nothing. Also, backing down [...]
Finally, an honest judge
May 23, 2005
Continuing today’s theme of men of high morals, people who are not afraid to buck the status quo in order to do or say what’s right, we turn to the Florida judicial system, where we find an uncommonly qualified Judge who is being hounded by liberal do-gooders determined to tarnish his reputation by spreading truthful [...]