Archive for the 'Florida' Category
Google Reveals Plans for Health Database
February 29th, 2008Oh sure. A convenient new service for the undead hordes, while the mind boggles at what it will actually be used for. Must Read: Pookie’s Comment Via: Financial Times: Google on Thursday laid out plans for one of its most anticipated new services, a digital health records system meant to give users more control over […]
Millions Lost Power in Florida
February 27th, 2008So fragile. Via: Miami Herald: Power has been restored to the vast majority of the millions of South Floridians and other state residents who endured a major blackout Tuesday — a failure caused by a fire in a Miami-Dade County substation, according to utility officials. Virtually everyone in South Florida had power by 5:30 p.m. […]
Banks Lose in Court to Deadbeat Homeowners as Loans Sold in Bonds Vanish
February 26th, 2008Please make sure you get some of this fine calliope music playing before you read on. Down payment: $0 Liar loan origination fees: $5000 Preventing a bank from foreclosing on you because they can’t prove they own the note: Priceless. Via: Bloomberg: Joe Lents hasn’t made a payment on his $1.5 million mortgage since 2002. […]
Florida: Sheriff’s Deputy Dumps Quadriplegic Man from Wheelchair Onto Floor
February 13th, 2008Via: Tampabays10: The Hillsborough Co. Sheriff’s Office held a press conference at 10:30am regarding the deputy who can be seen on video dumping a man in a wheelchair onto the ground. They’ve announced that Deputy Charlette Jones has been relieved of her duties without pay pending the outcome of an investigation. She has not officially […]
U.S. Paid $32 Million for Iraqi Base that Wasn’t Built
December 15th, 2007I wouldn’t automatically assume corruption. This could easily be a black ops shell game. The cutout didn’t build the base, but maybe it did something else… See Daniel Hopsicker’s ongoing investigations into CIA cutouts. Via: USA Today: The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army […]
“Its My Party and I’ll Bust Who I Want To”
October 9th, 2007Via: Madcowprod: Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug trafficking incident in Mexico’s Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a dummy front company of the kind usually associated with the CIA. A weekend visit to “Donna Blue […]
CIA Jet Used for “Rendering” Suspects Crashes with Four Tons of Cocaine on Board
September 29th, 2007Just another day at the office. Full text follows. Via: McClatchy: U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in the investigation of an American business jet that crashed near Cancun this week with four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday. One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao […]
Dead Farmers Got $1.1 Billion from USDA
July 24th, 2007Via: MSNBC: The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report. In a selection of 181 cases from 1999 to 2005, the Government Accountability Office […]
Cop Dressed as ‘Uncle Sam’ Tickets Hundreds of Speeding Central Floridian Drivers
July 2nd, 2007Uncle $cam. Via: local6.com: Hundreds of Central Florida motorists were ticketed Monday by a costumed Uncle Sam officer in a weeklong operation targeting speeding holiday drivers. About 20 sheriff’s deputies on motorcycles pulled over speeding motorists after they were detected by Uncle Sam’s laser speed-detection gun. During the four-hour traffic operation, 275 citations were issued, […]
Realtors Attend Worship Service to Pray for Better Real Estate Market
June 27th, 2007I love it! Via: North East Florida Daily News: More than 300 people with a keen interest in the Emerald Coast’s real estate market gathered Wednesday at Destiny Worship Center to ask for God’s blessing. The Real Estate Prayer Luncheon was organized in hopes of breathing life and positive thinking into the area’s slumping housing […]
