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Wednesday September 23, 2015 · 10:53 AM PDT

2015/09/23 · 10:53

but reading this piece by a young friend of my daughter has me logging in. Please share the post with anyone you know with kids. Strong and powerfully written.

Dear anyone and everyone…
Posted on September 23, 2015 by savleesickmon

My name is Savannah Lee. I am an 18 year old college student freshman at Florida State University. I have been experiencing the “college life”, going out with several friends and doing what most college students do. Growing up I have had very informative parents who have never sheltered me in telling me that the world is this beautiful place full of all decently nice human beings. In fact as much as I would like to believe this world is incredibly generous, there is so much bad along with all of the good. Unfortunately some of my friends’ parents haven’t necessarily been as open with them. These friends of mine have no idea what intentions humans are capable of having and that is a very sad thing to me. Some of these friends had no idea that guys would slip a drug into their drink behind their back....

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James Patterson Documentary worth a watch

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Sunday April 05, 2015 · 2:41 PM PDT

2015/04/05 · 14:41

From the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida:

On a sunny day in the place sometimes called Muck City, where crime and unemployment rates soar and star football players are born and raised, the hugely successful author James Patterson walks beside a windowless, gutted-out building.
“What’s going to happen to these people? Who’s going to help them out?” he asks the camera trained on him. “The best I can do is tell their story.”

Their story aired last week on PBS's local outlet, WXEL in West Palm Beach

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Thursday September 19, 2013 · 11:36 AM PDT

2013/09/19 · 11:36

Update from Reuters indicates the earthquake was 5.8: http://www.reuters.com/...

(Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck Fukushima Prefecture in Japan early Friday morning, Kyodo reported, quoting the Japan Meteorological Agency.

original:

DENVER (AP) — A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck early Friday at a depth of about 13 miles under Fukushima Prefecture and about 110 miles northeast of Tokyo.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue an alert.

http://www.usatoday.com/... Read More

Meet Laura Poitras, patriot.

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Tuesday August 13, 2013 · 5:27 PM PDT

2013/08/13 · 17:27

Edward Snowden is a household name. Ditto Glenn Greenwald. Peter Maass has an excellent investigative bio up now on the NY Times Magazine and main page now, describing the events leading up to the recent revelations of NSA and US Government bylined by Greenwald in the Guardian. Greenwald could not have pulled this off, it turns out, without Laura Poitras.

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Tuesday August 13, 2013 · 9:14 AM PDT

2013/08/13 · 09:14

Actually, toilet paper is a real, and useful, product. Even the Koch Brothers make a lot of it. (saving that joke for a later ALEC diary).

In fact, the paper your home loan or mortgage is written on may be less useful, as in, I don't advise wiping your ass with it. This is going to sound like something we've all heard before, I know, but there's some new information just out today that I'll clue you in on below the filagree d'orange.

Many readers of Kos (here come the comments) are just plain done with hearing about the housing crisis (didja hear, we're out of the woods, we're in Housing Recovery©™®, according to our Prez),... many more of you are convinced that people who got screwed out of their houses, and there are 10 million or so of those neighbors of yours, well, they were just greedy dumbasses who don't know what the meaning of a Contract is. They got what they deserved.

If those of you in that category can put aside those feelings for just a moment, and focus for a bit on things like, well, evidence; rule of law; common law; real estate law; common sense; and chain of custody, you just might have an AhHa! moment of your own. Dave Dayen, currently of Salon and previously at FDL tells the story:

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Friday March 22, 2013 · 8:31 AM PDT

2013/03/22 · 08:31

History does repeat from time to time.

Lawton Chiles retired from the United States Senate and from politics entirely in 1989.
However, supporters convinced him to run for Governor of Florida in 1990 against the unpopular incumbent Bob Martinez.

~wikipedia

Florida currently has a more unpopular incumbent in Rick Scott. While many observers are putting their money on the reincarnated Democrate Charlie Crist to perhaps run in 2014, whispers are getting louder about the possibility that Sen. Bill Nelson might ride to the rescue of his beloved state of Florida.

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Tuesday December 18, 2012 · 12:41 PM PST

2012/12/18 · 12:41

Just in time for the post Holiday South Florida Social Season, the clock just may have run out for the management of Palm Beach County's premier performing arts center. A production of Jersey Boys is scheduled to open tomorrow night and as of right now union truck loaders are refusing to cross the line, as are UPS drivers.

Upcoming shows booked in coming weeks at the Kravis Arts Center include Whoopi Goldberg, La Traviata, Paul Anka, Mary Poppins, Natalie Cole, Franki Valli, Sheryl Crow, Matisyahu and numerous other ballet, local theatre, Palm Beach Pops, PB Opera and more.

Labor dispute history and today's news regarding the strike under the scriptful orange thingy....

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Tuesday September 25, 2012 · 6:29 PM PDT

2012/09/25 · 18:29

And the submitting party of the forms? A firm paid $1.3 million dollars already this year by the Republican Party of Florida.

Anyone surprised, please raise your hand.....

The Republican Party of Florida is dumping a firm it paid more than $1.3 million to register new voters, after Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher flagged 106 “questionable” registration applications turned in by the contractor this month.
Bucher asked the state attorney’s office to review the applications “in an abundance of caution” because she said her staff had questions about similar-looking signatures, missing information and wrong addresses on the forms.

The state GOP hired Strategic Allied Consultants of Glen Allen, Va., for “voter registration services” and get-out-the-vote activities. The firm got identical payments of $667,598 in July and August.

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 · 4:10 AM PDT

2012/09/12 · 04:10

TALLAHASSEE -- Brace yourselves, Florida voters: The election ballot you’ll see this fall is longer than ever.
It’s so long that voters will have to fill out multiple sheets with races on both sides, then feed those multiple pages through ballot scanners, one page at a time.

It’s a pocketbook issue, too: Some people who vote by mail will have to dig deeper and pay at least 65 cents postage and up to $1.50 to return their multi-page ballots in heavier envelopes.

More than ever, county election supervisors say, people should vote early or request an absentee ballot to avoid predicted bottlenecks at the polls on Election Day, Nov. 6.

“This is the longest ballot I can remember,” said Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark. “The voter who sees this ballot the first time may need smelling salts.”

The ballot will be chock full of choices, for president, U.S. Senate, Congress, the state Legislature, county offices and merit retention for judges, all the way down to city and county referendums.

But what may prompt some voters to rub their eyes in disbelief is the Legislature’s decision to place 11 proposed changes to the Constitution on the ballot, some of which appear in their entirety.

“They have really created a monster,” said Monroe County Supervisor of Elections Harry Sawyer Jr. in Key West.

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Matt Taibbi/Rolling Stone Buries Romney:

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Wednesday August 29, 2012 · 5:33 AM PDT

2012/08/29 · 05:33

Four years ago, the Mitt Romneys of the world nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed, shortsightedness and – most notably – wildly irresponsible use of debt in pursuit of personal profit. The sight was so disgusting that people everywhere were ready to drop an H-bomb on Lower Manhattan and bayonet the survivors. But today that same insane greed ethos, that same belief in the lunatic pursuit of instant borrowed millions – it's dusted itself off, it's had a shave and a shoeshine, and it's back out there running for president.

http://www.rollingstone.com/... Read More

Know friends or family in Palm Beach County?

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Friday August 10, 2012 · 3:28 AM PDT

2012/08/10 · 03:28

If you do, please pass this article by Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith along, as she joins Alan Grayson, Neil Barofsky, Matt Stoller, Anya Stiglitz, John O'Brien, Jeff Thigpen, David Dayen, John Aravois and numerous other commentators who have been integral in bringing the foreclosure fraud, bank mortgage abuses and Wall Street behavior to light over the past few years.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/...

Get Everyone You Know in Palm Beach County to Vote for Lisa Epstein for Clerk of the Court Next Tuesday

Readers may know I don’t do political endorsements. I’m making an exception because I’ve worked with Lisa Epstein and am extremely impressed with her knowledge, energy, and tenacity. And separately, readers may have come to recognize that county clerks and registers of deeds can be very important guards of the integrity of property records and legal processes. But only a very few, such as Jeff Thigpen in Guilford County, NC, and John O’Brien in Southern Essex County, Massachusetts, have bothered to investigate their own files and speak up about the large-scale problems they have unearthed.
Lisa is an oncology nurse who has become a self trained and formidable mortgage document and foreclosure procedures (as in abuse) expert.

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Sunday July 08, 2012 · 9:52 AM PDT

2012/07/08 · 09:52

My mom told me never to wish bad things on people, but this is in self-defense.

The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop.
That report had been penned on April 5, exactly nine days after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill that shrank the Department of Health and required the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantana, where tough tuberculosis cases have been treated for more than 60 years.

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James Patterson Documentary worth a watch

Update: Stronger 5.8 Earthquake hits Fukushima Prefecture

Meet Laura Poitras, patriot.

Your mortgage might be toilet paper

Bill Nelson: US Senate to Florida Statehouse?

Union Strike @ South Florida's Kravis Performing Arts Center

Suspicious Voter Registration Forms Referred to Florida Prosecutor

We need a corporate sponsor for absentee ballot postage

Matt Taibbi/Rolling Stone Buries Romney:

Know friends or family in Palm Beach County?

A Pox on Rick Scott - Tuberculosis Outbreak Cover-Up in Florida