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• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is Dr. Suzanne Y. Succop, MD. of Boynton Beach Florida. She gets the award for denying me further treatment when I'm in her care(home nursing visits due to her doctor's orders). Why is she doing this? I have a past balance of $390. Dr. Succop has seen me' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 11:04am EDT
  

• Women are from Venus

  And the wife of Japan's next Prime Minister claims to have visited that planet. From Reuters-Japan’s next prime minister might be nicknamed “the alien,” but it’s his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.“While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 3:02pm EDT
  

• Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to retire?

  President Obama looks likely to get another Supreme Court nomination in the next year. From AP-Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has hired fewer law clerks than usual, generating speculation that the leader of the court's liberals will retire next year. If Stevens does step down, he would give President [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:00am EDT
  

• Back to Toledo

  Some great news for the LPGA-Toledo Classic, Inc., which operates the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon at which time an extension of its agreement with the LPGA Tour is expected to be announced.A source familiar with the negotiations indicated it will be [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 7:48am EDT
  

• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is David Seaton Teller. He gets the award for the following-David Seaton Teller wanted to become a cop. Now he’s charged with possession of child pornography.Teller, 24, of Fernandina Beach was arrested Wednesday by detectives with the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office after he had applied to be a [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
  

• USA! USA!

  The Solheim Cup matches are still in progress but Morgan Pressel’s 3&2 win over puts the score at 14-11 in favor of the United States. Christina Kim is dormie in her match against Tania Elosegui. That means the Americans will score at least 14.5 and out of 28 points total [...]
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  Posted: August 23, 2009, 5:31pm EDT
  

• Boca Raton News RIP

  The daily newspaper is ceasing operations according to Bob at The Daily Pulp. It is said the News had become very poor in quality over the last twenty years, but it is always sad when a newspaper dies. I may criticize the media but they provide an essential service to [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 6:48pm EDT
  

• Dirty money

  My wife in reply to this news said ‘No wonder we get high.’ Speak for herself…..In the course of its average 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs, clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of times at coffee shops, convenience stores and newsstands. And every touch to [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 7:15pm EDT
  

• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is Philippine television personality Willie Revillame. He gets the award for the following-Controversial TV host Willie Revillame is said to be deeply upset over the negative reaction he has received regarding the comments he made pertaining to the airing of President Cory Aquino’s funeral cortege on his TV [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 11:32am EDT
  

• Time flies

  It is exactly a year ago today that I had Open heart surgery. My hospital stay was rough, but I have had no heart issues since coming home last August 29th. My right hand is still a problem and I still have some upper chest discomfort. The later is really [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
  

• Florida the rules are different here Chapter CLXIX

  Tug of war Florida style.This is the story of the one that got away.Which is fortunate for the group of Harbordale kids who decided to play tug-of-war with a 10-foot alligator Tuesday.The kids, who had been fishing for crabs, tied a raw chicken to a rope to lure a gator [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  

• Wedding night

  Some news from Germany. Was this the honeymoon night the bride always envisioned?A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 7:22am EDT
  

• Leave us alone

  From Reuters-About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said.Nepal's center-left coalition announced a plan last month to pay men the equivalent of $650 for marrying widows, angering the widows.Monday, women shouting slogans such [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
  

• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is ExpressJet Airlines. They get the award for the following- By its sixth hour sitting on a deserted tarmac, Continental Express Flight 2816 had taken on the smell of diapers and an overwhelmed lone toilet.What should have been a 2 1/2-hour trip from Houston to Minneapolis had moved [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
  

• Back in the swing

  Former Florida Marlin Aaron Boone is playing minor league baseball just five months after having open heart surgery. From AP-Aaron Boone is back playing baseball, appearing in a minor league game in Texas less than five months after open-heart surgery.Boone batted second Monday night for the Corpus Christi Hooks, a [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  

• Camping out

  Because of the economy, travel related businesses are particularly hard hit for customers. Here is one innovative way a resort is trying to attract guests.A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 a night — if you don't mind sleeping in a tent.The Rancho Bernardo Inn boasts' [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:10am EDT
  

• The Knuckleheads of the Day award

  Today's winners are the Mayor of Deerfield Mayor Peggy Noland and the city's Parks Director George Edmunds. They get the award for the following- If you see the mayor of Deerfield Beach on the street, you better say hello.City maintenance worker Cassandra Moye was suspended for two days without pay [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 8:18am EDT
  

• Don't cry

  Naked News in South Korea won't be airing anytime soon.After all of the circus hoopla and controversy surrounding the launch of the Korean version of the Naked News franchise, its existence now hangs by a pithy thread as production came to a screeching halt since Thursday -- just one month' [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 7:16pm EDT
  

• Breakthrough

  Ai Miyazato has won her first LPGA tournament. From AP-Ai Miyazato of Japan has won the Evian Masters with a birdie on the first playoff hole, beating Sophie Gustafson of Sweden to clinch her first victory on the LPGA Tour.Miyazato steadied herself and sank a putt from about 6 feet [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
  

• From the Silly News desk

  This news gives new meaning to the golf term 'dogleg left'.A golf course employee who killed a golfer's dog and planned to eat it was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison for felony animal cruelty.Nelson Domingo was also fined $500 and ordered to complete 400 hours of community service [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2009, 7:51pm EDT
  

• Twenty years

  That is how long today marks since Leonita and I got married. Alot has happened since then. Can you believe there is someone in the world who can up with me for that long?Our marriage took place in Tacloban City on the island of Leyte in the Philippines on May [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2009, 7:01pm EDT
  

• Three years

  It was four years ago today that I started this blog. Yes its been inactive here, but I got reasons. Which are health and financial. I'm pretty down right now and that's why I just can't blog at this time.I still have things to say about Florida, sports, politics, life [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 2:02pm EDT
  

• Beating a dead horse California style

  Some elected officials must worry the since dropped idea may be resurrected. From AP-The California Senate has voted to make it illegal to hold events that require participants to speak nglish in a move prompted by the LPGA Tour's English-only proposal.The women's golf tour wanted last year to require its [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 7:23pm EDT
  

• Will someone at ESPN please pick up the Red courtesy phone

  Way to go the sports leader!Sorry to pop your balloons up in Connecticut, but Michelle turned pro in 2005. She has played seven major championships as a professional. Wie has finished third in majors two times since 2005.If you don't believe me, a quick glance at Wikipedia would tell you' [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
  

• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is Craig Allen Aylesworth. He gets the award for the following-A brawl between two Bithlo neighbors sent one man to jail on arson charges, deputies said. Jail records show that Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested Craig Allen Aylesworth late Tuesday on charges of tossing a Molotov cocktail at [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
  

• He's back

  For the second year in a row, Tiger won at Bay Hill in Orlando Florida by making a dramatic birdie putt on the 72nd hole. Last year Bart Bryant was the loser, this year it was Sean O'Hair.With the win the talk of Tiger not being back to form will' [...]
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  Posted: March 29, 2009, 9:27pm EDT
  

• Today's edition of bad golf recordkeeping

  Goes to The World Golf Hall of Fame's page on Hale Irwin-Just as he excels on difficult golf courses, Irwin excels on difficult shots. Each of his U.S. Open victories is remembered for superb strokes with a 2-iron at vital moments. At Winged Foot, Irwin closed the door on the [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
  

• Another settlement

  Should people living within the boundaries of the Diocese of Orange County take this news into consideration when the next annual Bishop's appeal is made?A former student at St. John the Baptist School who claimed that a priest there sexually abused him in the 1990s has settled his lawsuit against [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 9:54am EDT
  

• Pass the Parmesan cheese

  Take a guess where an Italian restaurant opened in late 2008. From AP-North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has ordered the opening of the isolated country's first Italian restaurant, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported, despite the nation's continuing struggle to feed its 24 million people.Kim -- a reputed gourmand -- sent [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• Restrained

  An interesting South Florida legal decision- When a teenager in a North Dade library was arrested after failing to obey an officer's order to leave, he ran off -- with the officer's handcuffs around his left wrist. Only one charge eventually stuck, leading to a conviction: theft of the cuffs.Forget [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 11:57am EDT
  

• One in five

  Is anyone shocked by this news?An x-ray analysis of the bones of competitors in the Youth Games in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong discovered that 3,000 of the 15,000 athletes, or 20 per cent, had misrepresented their age.Two thousand of them were too old to be eligible for youth [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 6:44am EDT
  

• Put down that Mars bar

  One physician in the United Kingdom is proposing a tax on chocolates.Chocolate should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco, to help rein in a growing obesity problem, a British medical conference was told Thursday.People generally understimate the health dangers of chocolate, family doctor David Walker told the British Medical Association [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 8:36am EDT
  

• The Knuckleheads of the Day award

  Today's winners are Raymond S. Rhude and Ryan N. Smith. They get the award for the following-A man arrested with 17 pot plants in the bed of his pickup told police he was moving them to protect them from burglars who hit his house the night before.Ryan N. Smith, 26, [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 7:42am EDT
  

• Swimming upstream

  Has Air Force General Howie Chandler gotten the memo that print newspapers are dying? From Stars and Stripes-OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea -- The U.S. Air Force will resume publication of newspapers at some Pacific bases, a move that runs counter to a broad consumer trend away from print papers [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2009, 10:03pm EDT
  

• They need to get out more often

  Don't have anything in your mouth when you read this.The Vatican newspaper says that perhaps the washing machine did more to liberate women in the 20th century than the pill or the right to work.The submission was made in a lengthy article titled "The Washing Machine and the Liberation of'" [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 3:52pm EDT
  

• It's raining, It's pouring

  Meet Kazuya Yamazaki.A 13-year-old boy passed the weather forecaster certificate exam, it was announced Friday.At 13 years and 7 months, Kazuya Yamazaki, of Yokohama, is the youngest candidate to ever pass the test, which has been held 31 times since 1994.Yamazaki, a first-year student at Eiko Gakuen Middle School in [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 8:48am EDT
  

• Ji-Yai Shin strikes again

  It took all of three LPGA tournaments in 2009 before a South Korean took home the winner's trophy.South Korean star Jiyai Shin won the HSBC Women's Champions on Sunday for her fourth LPGA Tour title in eight months, shooting her second straight 6-under 66 for a two-stroke victory over Australia's' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2009, 7:56am EDT
  

• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is Crystal Marie Clark. She gets the award for the following-Consumer warning: Stop sending in those receipts for your free gas. You can pretty much forget about ever collecting even a dime from the company that made the offer.Tidewater Marketing Global Consultants, a Largo-Clearwater based company, owes customers [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2009, 7:15am EDT
  

• Have you no honor?

  A petty thief in South Florida has an interesting excuse for his crime.Authorities say they arrested a man who claimed he was justified in stealing candy from a Fort Pierce truck stop because he had served in the military.Police say an officer confronted 31-year-old Eric T. Ambrose at the truck [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 6:28am EST
  

• Make work

  What does a country do with its military that hasn't fired a shot in over 60 years? Go looking for an airplane missing for 81 years.Norway plans to resume the search for South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen's plane 81 years after it vanished during an Arctic rescue mission, the Royal' [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  

• Time warp

  Another addition to the media's bag of tricks- They can speed up time!Why didn't anyone at AP or the Sun-Sentinel who actually had this on the front page of the website for a short time, notice the discrepancy before posting it? It's like about a manager signing a large amount' [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 10:01am EST
  

• Welcome to the United States Hotaru and Mikey Ferschke

  More on the saga of the wife and son of fallen Marine Michael Ferschke. From Stars and Stripes-On Friday, Hotaru Ferschke, the Okinawa widow of a Marine killed in Iraq last summer, and Michael H. Ferschke III, the son he never saw, will fly to Maryville, Tenn., to start their [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2009, 6:23pm EST
  

• Move over Michelle Wie Part VII

  Danny Lee just became the youngest winner in European Tour historyU.S. Amateur champion Danny Lee birdied the final two holes for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Johnnie Walker Classic.The 18-year-old New Zealander, set to turn pro after the Masters, had a 17-under 271 total on [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  

• I feel faint Part Three

  For the second time in a little over five weeks I find myself in agreement with NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd. She writes- Yet Obama is oozing empathy compared with his attorney general, who last week called us "a nation of cowards" about race.Eric Holder, who showed precious little bravery [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2009, 9:17am EST
  

• The Knucklehead of the Day award

  Today's winner is Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey. He gets the award for the following-"Chain migration is a ticking time bomb. Under current law, one legal immigrant could potentially yield visas for up to 273 other legal immigrants in a 15 year period. You can imagine what would happen if Congress" [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2009, 7:19am EST
  

• How to get skin cancer 101

  A new type of class being taught in the United Kingdom. From the Daily Telegraph-The new parity has been brought about by the Government relaxing the rules to allow schools and colleges to count practical qualifications obtained by students along with A-Levels and GCSEs in their league rankings.It means that [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  

• Beating the hell out of the Devils

  For the second time in a week, the Panthers scored an impressive shutout victory. Last week it took place in Carolina, where the cats won 5-0. Carolina is all right this year, that's about all. The win was significant for two reasons. 1 Florida rarely wins at Carolina. Just once [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 11:54am EST
  

• Cheap cuts

  Apparently this robber never heard the saying 'If you're going to steal, steal big.'Police have released surveillance camera images of a man they say swung a knife as he tried to steal two packages of steaks and a package of pork chops from a supermarket last Thursday.A loss-prevention employee at' [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 10:23am EST
  

• Abandon ship

  The Washington Post is calling for the resignation of Illinois Senator Roland Burris-WHEN THEN-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in December for, among other things, allegedly trying to auction off the U.S. Senate seat left open by Barack Obama's election to the presidency, we feared that whomever Mr. Blagojevich eventually [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 9:37am EST
  

• The Knuckleheads of the Day award

  Today's winners are Golf World magazine and its editor Geoff Russell. They get the award for their February 16th 2009 issue which contained a preview of the LPGA Tour. The US based Ladies Professional golf tour began play in Hawaii last Feb 12th.Why do I give Golf World and Geoff [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 8:30am EST