Tag: florida
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#MorningMonarchy: March 9, 2016
Tap water trust, smart chocolate and big dumb food + this day in history w/Emergency Banking Act and our song of the day by Tom Waits on your Morning Monarchy for March 9, 2016.
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Florida Rabble-Rouser Seeks to Open Civic Meeting with Satanic Prayer
from scpr.org: A Florida rabble-rouser wants the city of Deerfield Beach to allow him to say a satanist prayer at the beginning of a council meeting. Of course, Chaz Stevens’ request comes after the Supreme Court ruled that sectarian prayer before a government meeting does not necessarily violate the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. Stevens has a…
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Bizarre Rant About 9/11 At Florida School Board Meeting
from mynews13.com: The Marion County School Board’s vice chairwoman raised eyebrows when she closed the meeting with a bizarre rant, claiming she had cracked a “secret code” related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Angie Boynton was noticeably absent when Florida’s first lady visited Marion County Schools Thursday. At the end of Tuesday night’s board…
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Florida Woman, 81, Behind Bars for Feeding Bears Too Much Dog Food
from cnn.com: Don’t feed the bears! It’s an admonishment heard over and over again from wildlife officials. But Florida resident Mary Musselman didn’t listen, officials said. And it got her arrested at age 81. She is being held without bond, CNN affiliate WFTS reported. “I think it is outrageous,” said Karen Tedder. She and other…
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US Military’s Next X-37B Space Plane Launch Faces New Delay
The next launch of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane, a robotic spacecraft used to fly classified payloads into Earth orbit, has been delayed until next month pending final approvals, SPACE.com has learned.
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#BingeAndPurge: Weather Wars, Steroids, Nuggets and more
#Geoengineering Could Turn Skies White: Scientific American* Video: Isaac Hammers Key West, Florida Social Spotlight* Video: CNN on Isaac + Cholera 400,000 Haitians At Risk* Bat Lyssavirus Fears At Bat House in Cape Tribulation* USADA strips Lance Armstrong of Tour De France titles, issues lifetime ban from cycling over steroids use* Diet foods & drinks…
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Isaac Threatening RNC2012 and NoLa, Is There Meaning?
from blog.nj.com: Bob Dylan famously said you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing. Some Bible-thumpers have put their own spin on that adage. Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky? That’s because God is punishing you for your sinful ways. Stormy weather, indeed. Now Hurricane…
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RNC 2012 Coverage Threatened By Isaac, Media Covers Storm
from huffingtonpost.com: Republicans gathering to formally nominate Mitt Romney in Tampa are having to grapple with a media that has one eye trained firmly on Tropical Storm Isaac — and is sending many of its biggest stars to cover the extreme weather. 15,000 journalists have traveled down to Florida to cover the Republican convention –…
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Ex-Missouri Guardsman Trained Skinhead Group In Florida
from columbiatribune.com: A former Missouri National Guardsman provided combat training to a white supremacist group whose members were preparing for an expected race war, a recently released court document shows. The court document detailing Spc. Ryan Riley’s role in the American Front was made public in a Florida state court proceeding regarding charges filed in…
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Florida Keys Residents Resist Release of Dengue Fever-Immune Mosquitoes
from guardian.co.uk: A British company that has developed a genetically modified mosquito to resist the spread of dengue fever is coming up against growing opposition to a plan to release the insects into the Florida Keys. A Change.org petition started by a woman in Key West opposing the release has garnered almost 90,000 signatures and…




