Category — Florida
This Is Just Sick
The Pensacola Beach Blog has the main story, Local U.S. Prosecutor Nabbed on Child Sex Charges about John David R. Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., an assistant U.S. Attorney in Florida’s northern district being arrested in Detroit.
The Pensacola Independent News adds local details in its article, GBSA pres arrested in Child Sex sting. Atchison is the president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association, a youth athletics organization and his wife is a teacher.
Why does it seems that they all end up in the same party? I’m assuming the party because of the area, and because of recent DOJ hiring practices. I assume he knows better than to come home if he gets bail.
September 18, 2007 6 Comments
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Local Wildlife
The sky was overcast so the web doesn’t show up, but this is the female Golden Silk Orbweaver with the smaller male above it.
September 6, 2007 8 Comments
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In Local News
Orlando Sentinel: Cops ask for guns, get missile launcher
Orlando emptied its bureau drawers and closets Friday of more than 300 unwanted guns — and one surface-to-air missile launcher.
The shoulder-fired weapon showed about 6 p.m. when an Ocoee man drove to the Florida Citrus Bowl to trade the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune: It’s the stuff of horror: a bay jaunt, and a shark
It was only the seventh reported unprovoked shark bite in Sarasota County since 1882, and the second one this year, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
…The boat was isolated, the wind was light and there was little light other than the green glow from the algae when the swimmers or other fish stirred the water.
What’s the matter with that girl, didn’t she see Jaws? The 6-foot bull shark that munched on her did, and knew that it had to do its duty to sharks everywhere – when a 20-year-old girl takes a nighttime swim in your waters, you are required to bite her. [It’s part of the code of sharks, lawyers and politicians are exempt.]
August 18, 2007 6 Comments
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Dear Congresscritters:
You don’t want to attempt impeachment because you can’t get a two-thirds vote in the Senate, so why do you believe you can pass an amended version of the carte blanche you handed to the Shrubbery over the weekend? You don’t honestly think he’s going to sign a bill that reduces his power to tap your telephones do you?
Unless you can come up with two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate to pass realistic legislation, you would be better off working on impeachment, because the Hedgemony has no intention of engaging in negotiations or in compromise.
You may as well get used to fact that you aren’t going to get anything done while he’s in the White House.
Y’all might be interested in this post by Susan S., a Florida progressive, My confrontation today with Sen. Bill Nelson on FISA.
August 7, 2007 8 Comments
Another Day In Paradise
As of 1:00PM CDT
… Heat advisory remains in effect until 7 PM CDT Wednesday…
The combination of high humidity and hot temperatures will produce
heat index values between 108 and 113 degrees across most of inland
southeast Mississippi… southwest Alabama and the west Florida
Panhandle this afternoon and from late morning to late afternoon on
Wednesday.
Here we get the heat and the humidity so that sweating is a total waste of time and t-shirts.
August 7, 2007 9 Comments
Local Stuff
Rick Outzen of the local weekly, Independent News, has expanded the site to include more breaking news as well as the paper’s features.
In his blog he notes Fewer voters in Florida: “In 2005, the state legislature passed a bill requiring that in odd-numbered years, voter rolls be purged of people who have skipped two straight statewide elections.”
This is probably going to be a lot of people, especially progressives in the Panhandle. The problem is that a lot of races up here are won and lost in the Repub primary, and while everyone is supposed to be allowed to vote if the choice is down to two people, the local party runs a bogus write-in candidate for the general election to prevent it from happening. There are also too many incumbents who run unopposed. This means there are a lot of meaningless elections, especially on the odd years, making it easy to miss two in a row.
August 6, 2007 4 Comments
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