Joe Redner got rich by founding Tampa’s most famous attraction. The Mons Venus is known around the world, and casual tourists and businesses travelers who find themselves in the area are often more interested in the location of the Mons than the site of their meetings or reunions. In an industry with a reputation for [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Hold on while I drop my pants, bend over, and grab my ankles…
October 18, 2005
Jim Norman is a 2 bit whore. The Tampa Sports Authority got its first look Monday at what the legal bill might be to defend the NFL’s pat-down policy in court this week. The who-pays scoreboard reads like this: taxpayers, $10,000 to $15,000; NFL, zero. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, tenants of the stadium run by [...]
Nelson makes some sense
October 15, 2005
OK – in the recent past, he’s stood up for voting rights and shown concern for the perils of paperless e-voting. He’s always been a staunch opponent of drilling in the gulf, and he used to be known as a defender of consumers. But then he went and voted for the new bankruptcy bill which [...]
New and Improved Santa Sweets: ”A Little Less Poisonous!”
October 14, 2005
Plant City’s Ag-mart was just fined a record amount by Florida for forcing workers into dangerous pesticide-laden fields and harvesting produce too soon after applying poisons. Florida agriculture officials have slapped Ag-Mart Inc., one of the state’s largest vegetable growers, with $111,200 in fines for 88 counts of pesticide misuse. The “extensive violations” breached regulations [...]
Bucs fan: ”Don’t touch!”
October 13, 2005
This didn’t take long. A Tampa Bay Buccaneers season ticket holder, backed by the ACLU of Florida, has filed suit to stop the pat-downs of fans going to football games at Raymond James Stadium. The fan, Gordon Johnston, a high school civics teacher, said in a statement that he renewed his season tickets for this [...]
Florida missionaries ordered out of Venezuela
October 13, 2005
Despite their fervent prayers for deliverance from the hateful edicts of a bunch of natives who obviously don’t know what’s best for themselves, God has allowed Hugo Chavez to oust the proselytizers who seek to foist the wisdom of Jesus as interpreted by a bunch of wealthy white colonialists into the lives of the indigenous [...]
I’ve said it before…
October 12, 2005
SideBlogs – to your left. Updated. Read. Very busy here at BlogWood Central. Hope to have a real post or two up later today. I’ll also be posting at the New Super Blog FLA Politics, so check that out too. Register. Contribute.
Children, testosterone and thrashings
October 9, 2005
I’ve heard about this kind of stuff on the internets, but I never imagined it went on in the chambers of our very own BOCC. Later in the meeting, Norman apologized if his “passion for children” was misconstrued as aggression. “It’s too much testosterone, Mr. Chairman. We understand,” quipped Commissioner Ronda Storms. A suddenly jovial [...]
Webmaster arrested…
October 8, 2005
for porn. Yeah that’s the ticket… porn! A man who runs a pornographic Web site that includes pictures of Iraqi war dead has been arrested on sexual obscenity charges. Chris Wilson, a 27-year-old former policeman from Lakeland, was taken into custody Friday night on one felony and 300 misdemeanor indecency counts unrelated to the grisly [...]
Building schools and hatred
October 6, 2005
Yesterday, the Hillsborough BOCC, led by female female impersonator Ronda Storms (seen here in a fruitless search for an Adam’s apple), decided to deal with the county school construction funding crisis by ”studying” the problem to ensure that a larger regressive sales tax is enacted to ease an increase in school impact fees that would [...]