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March 2005 ARCHIVE

Everyone in Florida has been scratching their heads since last summer’s hurricanes at the news that Miami-Dade was getting such a large share of FEMA recovery funds. All four hurricanes pretty much missed that area by miles.
A story in the South Florida Sun Sentinel, headlined, “State records show Bush re-election concerns played part in FEMA […]

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Culture of Lies   Mar. 21, 2005

St. Petersburg Times:

Like other Republican lawmakers championing Schiavo’s bill, DeLay often suggests she is alert and potentially treatable.
“She talks and she laughs and she expresses likes and discomforts,” he said Sunday evening. “It won’t take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo. It will only take the medical care and therapy that patients require.”
After years […]

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More Politics Than Usual   Mar. 21, 2005

Americablog has two related articles on the Schiavo travesty. For both horror and amusement, check out DC’s Inside Scoop, which has the GOP talking points on Schiavo that were leaked. The Scoop says rumor has it that these gem were the handiwork of folks at the office of Sen. Rick […]

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“If it’s not going to draw a crowd and it is going to create controversy, from a marketing standpoint I cannot make a recommendation” to show it.

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Apparently someone reported Nashville Christian radio personality Chris Ruleman to the authorities, claiming he possessed child porn. According to WSMV- Nashville Channel 4 News, Ruleman was arrested after the FBI received information that he was in possession of the contraband materials.
Ironically, the station where Ruleman works - 94FM The Fish - bills itself as ” […]

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Let Them Do Sterioids   Mar. 17, 2005

I don’t care.

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Get Out of My Death Bed   Mar. 15, 2005

Right-to-life wingers in Florida have gone over the edge this time. In their battle to keep Terri Schiavo dying a little longer (and my heart really does go out to Terri and her husband), they entered a new bill in the Florida legislature.
If passed as expected, the bill will ensure that unless you had the […]

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Deploying propaganda through paid surrogates, fake news reporters and tricked out video reports that are passed off as news is a de facto admission that the policies of the Bush Administration - and now the Schwarzenegger crew in Sacramento - can’t stand on their own.
Adding salt to the wound in the body politic […]

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An Attic Full of Wingnuts   Mar. 9, 2005

What attic does Jeb go to to find these wingnut freaks he populates Florida government with? I mean, when you pull back the layer of insulation and hear the scurrying scratches and see the droppings, you just know there¹s a Jeb appointee in there somewhere.
Latest case: one Cecilia Burke, whom the world’s most cynical and […]

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