Archive for the 'Florida' Category
George Hickenlooper, Director of ‘Casino Jack,’ a Film About Jack Abramoff, Found Dead
November 1st, 2010Natural causes… Via: New York Times: George Hickenlooper, a director whose credits include an Emmy-winning documentary about the making of “Apocalypse Now” and a film starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 47. He was in Denver to spend […]
Woman Kills Baby Because He Cried While She Played Farmville (A Game on Facebook)
October 28th, 2010Via: Florida Times Union: A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called Farmville […]
Big Picture Gallery: Human Landscapes in South West Florida
October 2nd, 2010Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: A couple weeks ago, I was listening to a story by NPR’s Planet Money team about “Toxie” a toxic asset they had purchased to follow and help tell the story of the recent financial meltdown. One of the mortgages in Toxie was on a home bought for investment in […]
Bank of America Forecloses on Homeowner Who Paid Cash for Property
September 24th, 2010Via: Sun Sentinel: When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclosed on the house, even though Grodensky did not have a mortgage. Grodensky knew nothing about the foreclosure until July, when he learned that […]
Absurd Attempt to Prevent People from Seeing BP Oil on Beaches in Florida
September 19th, 2010Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
September 12th, 2010Full text below, just to make sure that this doesn’t go away somehow. Via: The New York Observer: Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque By Mark Ames September 10, 2010 | 2:36 p.m So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable lines, with […]
Florida Minister: September 11 Quran Burn Still Planned
September 8th, 2010The U.S. is murdering Muslim civilians, with all manner of weaponry, across several countries, but burning the Quran is going to piss some people off? Oh ok. And Petraeus and Clinton are mentioning this yokel… What’s going on here? Via: ABC News: The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday […]
Tests Find Sickened Family Has 50.3 PPM of Corexit’s 2-Butoxyethanol in Swimming Pool
August 30th, 2010? ? ? ? ? Via: Florida Oil Spill Law: “Our heads are still swimming,” stated Barbara Schebler of Homosassa, Florida, who received word last Friday that test results on the water from her family’s swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink […]
48 Foot Yacht, Worth $1 Million, Registered with/to[?] U.S. Government, Washes Ashore in Florida, Engine Running, Lights On, Nobody Aboard
August 26th, 2010Update: Stolen from Cancun? Via: AP: The owner of a 48-foot Mexican yacht that mysteriously ran ashore with no one onboard and its engines running said today he had reported it stolen from a Cancun marina days earlier. Arturo Millet Reyes said the yacht was taken from private marina on Saturday and that he reported […]
‘Buy and Bail’
August 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Harvey Collier, a mortgage broker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says he gets as many as 10 calls a month from people planning to default on their loans. The twist: They first want financing to buy another home. Real estate professionals call it “buy and bail,” acquiring a new house before the buyer’s credit […]
