Make your vote count!
With the election coming up, there are all sorts of mischief that can go on at the polls. Especially in this climate where the Republicans are losing ground with public opinion, expect unusual things...
View ArticleBig oil to the rescue
Is it just me or does it look like the Republicans are getting some relief from the oil companies? All of a sudden, gas prices are headed south. Not much. But certainly noticeable. All summer we heard...
View ArticleAn economics lesson
Saw this in my local St. Petersburg Times quoting the New York Times. Does that make it a copy of a copy? Anyway the message isn't faded or blurred but pretty stark. It details what the money that is...
View ArticleOh those low Bush poll numbers
Those low poll numbers on Bush are coming home to roost. Saw Pelosi on the news tonight stating that she's only going to give Bush $50 Billion dollars for Iraq. (Only!) Not the $200 Billion that he...
View ArticleI voted for Ronald Reagan
I confess it. I voted for Ronald Reagan. Once. He was the only Republican Presidential candidate that I have ever voted for. The year was 1980. This was a very bad year. I had just bought a house with...
View ArticleVoter purge
Strange goings on in the election offices around the country. All of these voter registration drives that are going on may come to naught in the end. In looking at a story printed in the New York Times...
View ArticleI registered as a Republican
For most of my life (I'm 58), I was a registered Democrat. Then I tired of the political bickering and frankly seeing Democrats engaging in corrupt and inept behavior themselves, so I switched to...
View ArticleSupport Anthony Weiner
I just wrote to Rep. Weiner's congressional office urging him to stay on. This is a man who is guilty of being human. He is also guilty of being a ferocious advocate of the progressive side. For all...
View ArticleNo more Mr. Nice Guy
I'm tired of seeing Democrats trying to be the "adults" on the scene while the Republicans demonize teachers, public employees, climate change scientists, liberals, feminists or anyone who is thinking...
View ArticlePride rules in Florida
Despite a ban on equality in our state constitution, 80,000 people came to St. Petersburg yesterday to celebrate gay pride. There were no problems. Only happy people out to celebrate who they were -...
View ArticlePolitics ain't softball
Occasionally I go over to the other side. Y'know, check out the conservative blogs to see their take on what's going on. Saw a post on Redstate that gave me that Schadenfreude feeling. In it, Erickson...
View ArticleBack to School
From the County School Superintendent: Parents, It’s time to think about getting your children back to school. I hope that they had a good time this summer, and that they are ready to take on a new...
View ArticleRomney's shoes
Wouldn't want to be in them, though they are undoubtedly expensive ones. But with the way things are not going in his campaign, everything is pointing to the debate next week. Talk about pressure!...
View ArticleReality creeping in?
Interesting story on the CBS Morning Show today. Link They were reporting that holiday hiring was going to down 11% this year. The major reason stated was that the economy was bifurcated. The upper...
View ArticleLove in a time of lack
I have mixed feelings about this. McDonald's is offering a romantic dining experience at its locations in Tampa, complete with candles, flowers and waiters.Link
View ArticleScofflaw and order
Just read a story that burns me. I'm a State of Florida employee and each year we have to go through mandatory ethics training. We lower employees have to be reminded that we're not allowed to take...
View ArticleAnother gag order in Florida
Florida Governor Rick Scott has been accused of a quiet gag order against state employees from mentioning the dreaded words: climate change. Now it appears that he has advised his candidate for Florida...
View ArticleFlying 99% Airline
"How did this happen?" said Senator Chuck Schumer. It was funny to me to see the reaction to the guy from Florida who flew his little air buggy to the Capitol building to protest the way our...
View ArticleI have a suggestion
For all you bakers, florists, photographers, etc. who don't want to deal with same sex weddings, just put a sign in your window and in your advertising that you don't accept gay business. I and most...
View ArticleYou shouldn't be president if...
This appeared as a Letter to the Editor of the Tampa Bay Times today. I think that it says it all.Not very presidentialIf you say the free press is the enemy of the people, you shouldn't be president....
View ArticleBring on the Tweets!
Hi fellow progressives. Are you sick and tired about being trolled by the incompetent inhabitant in the White House? I sure am. His most potent weapon is Twitter. Via that he can send out his poison...
View ArticleA Lenten Year
Just thought I’d run this by you guys for consideration. Trump frequently touts the economy as a sign that he deserves and has earned re-election. Of course, none of this is due to his predecessor who...
View ArticleProfile in cowardice
Trump addressed the country on Friday to declare an emergency condition in the country due to the spreading pandemic of the coronavirus. Afterwards, he took questions. One of those questions from the...
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Obituary has the last word
1937-2020WITTSTRUCK, Sarah Jane died at home October 14, 2020. She was born in St. Petersburg to Jack and Mary Wittstruck in 1937 and is predeceased by her sister, Mary Ann Shaffer; and her brother,...
View ArticleSome advice from the Villages, FL
Saw this Letter in the Village News newspaper in Florida. Reality is creeping in even to this community.To the Editor:50 ways to leave the White House (apologies to Paul Simon)“The problem is all...
View ArticleMary and Joseph were Republican?
I was walking through a pretty high class neighborhood today in Clearwater, FL. These are homes that typically have a pool and a tennis court and sit on large lots. I was struck to see Trump signs...
View ArticleSecond Inauguration?
Just saw online that Trump’s supporters are planning an alternate inauguration on Jan. 20 for their leader. Richmond sounds appropriate as capital of the Confederacy. I don’t know which is more...
View ArticleAmusing obituary
This obituary appeared in the Tampa Bay Times today. I’m guessing he was a seasonal resident here in Florida.CASSIDY, Hugh Joseph "Hughie" 61, of the Bronx, New York, sadly passed away the evening of...
View ArticleTrump and Misinformation
I was watching an interview of authors Phillip Rucker and Carol Leonnig who wrote the Trump expose book: I Alone Can Fix It. As part of their sources, they asked and were granted an interview with...
View ArticleWe're number 1!
Was reading the Tampa Bay Times today about how Florida has led the country in Covid deaths in the months since the vaccines came into wide use. These two letters to the editor to the paper in...
View ArticleNot a real doctor...anymore
Another sign of the times. A doctor sent out signed forms excusing people from mask wearing to people she didn’t even know. Because freedom, of course. As a result, she lost her medical license. Was it...
View ArticleThe dark side of airbnb
Saw this article and thought it was timely. I have stayed in airbnb’s over the years without much of a thought. Have also seen the price of rent in my area skyrocket according to the news. Doesn’t...
View ArticleThoughts and Prayers Day
As we all know, another senseless massacre has occurred in Texas. Less than two weeks since the Buffalo supermarket killings. And as usual, everyone reacts with shock and horror. And then comes the...
View ArticleWho's writing the script?
Just a thought in seeing Trump’s latest authoritarian ravings about vermin and poisoning the blood. Who’s writing the script? These are trigger terms that evoke memories of Nazism. Is Trump truly a...
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