Here’s a left to right list of the political parties on the Florida ballot with links:

Party for Socialism and Liberation
Socialist Workers Party
Socialist Party
Green Party
Ecology Party of Florida
Prohibition Party
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Libertarian Party
Boston Tea Party
Constitution Party
America’s Independent Party
Objectivist Party

Yesterday I received an offer to meet with a UBS broker to discuss “my options in a volatile market” via snail mail. I might have been more inclined to listen if I hadn’t see an article on the BBC site titled: Switzerland unveils UBS bail-out.  If they can’t handle their own money, why would anyone else accept their advice?

The problem with all of the mergers and the expansion into other areas is that that if any unit has a problem, they all feel the heat.

Unless you are totally off the grid [which you can’t be or you wouldn’t be able to read this] you have heard of the ACORN kerfuffle*. A lot of voter registration forms have been turned in that are self-evidently bogus, and this is a crime.

Now, it doesn’t matter what state you are in, or what your election laws say for this to be a crime. The election laws may make it multiple crimes, but there is always the basic crime involved – fraud. Not election fraud, which is dependent on local law, but common, everyday fraud, and the victim is ACORN.

We have a lot of initiatives in Florida which has led to having a lot of companies that specialize in gathering signatures. California suffers from the same disease, but every attempt to stamp it out fails because certain people know the only way of making their hare-brained schemes law is by ballot initiative. They also know that they can’t get enough volunteers to gather the required signatures within the average human lifespan, so they need paid gatherers.

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Curious & Crazy

You can release me, I’m not dangerous.

[Editor: CC [Crazy Cat] was hand raised by my Mother, and now lives with her neighbor. Originally named for her habit of joining you in the shower, she has had some world class cat fits. The neighbor has all of his cats on leads when they are outside.

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