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Florida License Plates

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Florida License Plates

Wildlife Foundation of Florida and
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Florida Animal Friend, Inc.

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We have had three people killed by alligators this week in Florida. They are coming out of their cold weather stupors and entering into their breeding season.

Normally ‘gators don’t approach people and get most of their meals by eating fish, but all it takes is one fool to feed an alligator and everyone around has a problem. Alligators are not the philosopher kings of the animal kingdom. They don’t think things through and don’t bother to go beyond eating, sleeping, and sex.

If they establish a link between eating and people, all you can do is kill the ‘gator. We used to move them, but they just seek people out in their new location because the link was established in their tiny little brain.

I don’t know what it takes to convince people that alligators are wild animals to be avoided.

Robert at Interstate 4 Jamming reports that JEB may have found a sacrifice for the Republican primary against Cruella de Harris, State Representative Dennis Ross.

Cruella and Ross are both from Polk County, so the boy should know better. He’s got until tomorrow to come up with $10K and file his paper work.

There has been almost no rain over on the peninsula this year, which has resulted in wild fires. Currently CBS reports: Falling Trees Shut I-95 In Florida. What has happened is that the fires have destroyed the root systems on many large trees and they are falling over onto the roadway. The road had been closed intermittently lately because of the smoke and there have been a number of fatal crashes.

Holden at First Draft has a piece on that odd Ann Coulter person.

She is an attorney, but she seems confused as to where she lives and should be voting. The end result of this screw up could be a felony conviction on voter fraud which would not only remove her from the Palm Beach County voters rolls, but cost her the right to vote in a large chunk of the nation and normally results in disbarment. She has ignored notification by the election board.

It would be neighborly if Rush called to explain to her that the Florida state’s attorneys don’t really have a sense of humor.

The Florida legislative session is over and they haven’t totally destroyed the state, but not for a lack of trying.

Now we must wait for the “Special Sessions” which cost us an obscene amount of money, so they can fix the mistakes that occurred in the last minute rush.

CNN reports on the results of the second autopsy on Martin Lee Anderson: Boot camp guards killed teen

Hillsborough County Chief Medical Examiner Vernard I. Adams conducted a second autopsy after Anderson’s family, other medical experts and civil rights leaders balked at the conclusion of the first examination.

“Martin Anderson’s death was caused by suffocation due to actions of the guards at the boot camp,” Adams wrote.

“The suffocation was caused by manual occlusion of the mouth, in concert with forced inhalation of ammonia fumes that caused spasm of the vocal cords resulting in internal blockage of the upper airway.”

The best I can say about these people is that they weren’t trained, except there was a nurse there and she should have known that if someone is having trouble breathing, covering their mouth and using an ammonia capsule is not the answer.

The mindset is that the inmates are slackers who need discipline, which is probably true for 90% of the inmates, but there is the other 10% that is the real problem. If Anderson did have sickle cell anemia, as claimed by the Bay County medical examiner, he wouldn’t be in shape for the physical activity of the camp and that should have been part of his medical record.

The Republicans aren’t ready for prime time, they just can’t lead a government.

JEB Bush and the Republicans have been trying to dismantle the public schools in the state of Florida for years. JEB’s A+ Schools is designed to show how dysfunctional the school system is so that it can be crushed and public funding be given to private schools.

The voters in Florida keep passing constitutional amendments to stop him and improve the system.

The Miami Herald reports on the latest battle in the article: School vouchers killed by one vote; senate majority leader asked to resign. Robert at Interstate 4 Jamming covers the basics in his article on what happened, so I’ll provide some background.

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Then we get the 2000 election, the Schiavo affair, the legalized gunslinging, the hurricanes…it keep getting worse.

Via the Apostropher that there are three different books due out on weird Florida.

I guess we know why the Bush family was forced to leave New England.

The Chamber of Commerce feels that there needs to be something to combat Pensacola’s festivals, so they created this “local legend” about a pirate seizing the town. The pirate is probably real, but the town didn’t exist for a century after the guy died. Given that the Capone mob used to come down here during the Winter, it is highly unlikely that the locals would have done anything but welcome Bowlegs in hopes of selling him some property that was “only temporarily under water”.

[I don’t find fireworks fun. I don’t like being around exploding gunpowder. Large flashes of light and loud sounds do not make me happy.]