From Jeff DeWeasel: HOW IMPORTANT IS ONE VOTE? In 1776, one vote gave America the English Language instead of German. In 1845, one vote brought Texas into the Union. In 1868, one…
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“I still failed to find one outrageous lie from SOC”
From my morning emails: Rick, Search as hard as I could, I still failed to find one outrageous lie from SOC. However, I did find one with the Maritime Park Promoters. It…
Rev. Fred Goes Off On Jon Stewart
Rev. Fred Phelps attacks Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in this TV broadcasts. Rev. Fred Phelps is the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, based out of Topeka, Kansas. He was in…
Test your Rock skills…remember chicks like guys with skills
WFMU’s Great Copycat Contest WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has come up with this contest as part of its monthly DJ Compilation feature: This month’s DJ-produced compilation is Bill Zurat’s‘s 2005 marathon…
Does ECUA get the message?
 One government agency that should listen hard to the Sept. 5th primary vote is the Emerald Coast Utility Authority. The voters want change. We hear that FEMA will announce this month…
One way to handle ECSO internal investigations
The Broward Co. Sheriff has hired a former prosecutor to be his inspector general who will have the power to investigate all alleged wrongdoing in his department. This might be one solution…
Top 10 news stories media didn’t cover
From San Francisco Bay Guardian: 1. THE FEDS AND THE MEDIA MUDDY THE DEBATE OVER INTERNET FREEDOM 2. HALLIBURTON CHARGED WITH SELLING NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN 3. WORLD OCEANS IN EXTREME DANGER…
What about the other city districts?
It’s late and I should be in bed, but the numbers side of me won’t let me stop looking at the park vote. Here’s what happened in the other districts: District 1…
Hall may be in better position
Sam Hall is running in District 2 against Steve Kolokouris and Paul Young. Hall was a Stop Our City member, too. He was on their BLAB TV shows trying to defeat the…
Howard does have a problem
Jerry Howard is running the District 3 Pensacola City Council seat held by Mike Desorbo. Howard was a big Stop Our City member and campaigned heavily against the Vince Whibbs Community Maritime…
Oops, Marty didn’t really know his district
There was something about the WSRE debate that has been gnawing at me the last two days. It was this quote: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bceJURLp0KE] Marty represents District 4. That district has three precincts: East…
Howard has new campaign strategy
Pensacola City Council Jerry Howard lost a major plank of his platform when the Vince Whibbs Community Maritime Park passed on Sept. 5th. In his viewpoint on Gulf1.com (Howard says vote No)…