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• Crist and Sen. LeMieux Go After Corruption..Don't Need to Look Far..

  Corruption is synonymous with Miami, yet finally Crist has called for a statewide grand jury to examine political corruption. Senator and Seat Warmer George Lemieux has chimed in and decried the "culture of corruption" in South Florida.Maybe they should clean their own house first.Miami Herald:In the past decade, Rothstein -- [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:22pm EST
  

• Crist Rejects $444 million In Unemployment Help--Raises Taxes On Small Business

  Thanks Charlie! Governor flip-flop, who is desperately trying to show conservatives he is one of them, joined with the Republican legislature and rejected $444 million from the stimulus for unemployment help. All because Charlie appeared with Obama and was given such a hard time about it by his right-wing buddies.Oh, [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:20am EST
  

• 8 Million Children Have NO Health Care Insurance...

  So what are the opponents of Health Care Reform offering to solve this crisis? [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  

• Sorry, Obama Was Wrong to Bow. So Was Reagan.

  As an Obama fan, I can say that he did "royally" screw up. American citizens should never bow to royalty. We are always expected to bend over backwards to not offend other cultures, WHICH I DON'T MIND! After all, we are American. It is who we are. It is one' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:20pm EST
  

• Fox News Caught With Pants Down...Again

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:39am EST
  

• Suzanne Kosmas-D, FL-24, Just Lost Her Seat

  Suzanne replaced Tom Feeney, the most corrupt, GOP Abramoff scandal-ridden politician in the House: and we were all so excited.But yesterday, Suzanne said this was a "conscience" decision and that she voted NO because it wouldn't help rein in the costs of helath care. Yes, Suzanne, doing nothing and allowing' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:59pm EST
  

• Local Business Attacks Health Care Reform

  The veternarian clinic on Broadway in Oviedo has a sign up that says "Vote NO on Healthcare".Brilliant. A Tea Party Veternarian. And apparently one stupid enough to think the best way to get his message to a representative is to advertise on a run-down sign in front of a dive.To [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:53pm EST
  

• Seminole Democrat's Election Endorsements 2009

  Longwood Commissioner District 1: Bob Cortez. He's the challenger, and Holt hasn't done much. Longwood Commissioner District 5: No endorsement.Oviedo Mayor: Mary Lou Andrews. Darryl Lopez is a right-wing libertarian. We need less of those in Central Florida. Oviedo Councilman Group 1: Judith Smith. She is the only African-American in' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:45pm EST
  

• From zenbassoon:I've been having some discussions on ...

  From zenbassoon:I've been having some discussions on FB about Fox News and the WH calling them out for what they are. They're all in a high dudgeon about the matter. I've been trying to get them to shut up about it, and I've found a strategy that, while not quite [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
  

• Difference Between GOP "Plan" and Dems Plan

  DSCC has a clever ad playing off the Mac vs. PC ads: [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:13am EDT
  

• Empty Chair Charlie Takes Off 2 1/2 Months Annually

  Charlie Crist ran hard against the Democratic candidate for Florida governor, Jim Davis, just three years ago. He kept running stupid ads showing an empty chair, because Jim Davis missed some votes the year he was out campaigning. It was disingenuous, because Jim's record was stellar until that year---it's hard [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:47pm EDT
  

• Bigot refused to marry interracial couple: My phone call to him

  This has got to stop:Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long....A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:15pm EDT
  

• 30 GOP Senators Think Rape is Okay

  Not an exaggeration...Al Franken introduced a bill to ensure this never happens again. 30 Republicans voted against it. There is no reason, no excuse. Why does no one know about this? Why aren't the Democrats running ads? Why do we have to rely on motivated progressives?Why is the GOP still' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
  

• List of Reasons Why Obama Deserves Nobel Peace Prize

  Nobel Committee: "For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman"Of course conservatives don't think he deserves the Nobel, they can't even bring themselves to admit that he's a citizen. They cheer [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
  

• Insurance CEO makes $57,000...an hour

  Living the dream....Only in America... [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 9:46pm EDT
  

• The real story of yesterday's defeat...

  When Bush was fucking up our country for 8 years, when he was shredding the Constitution with illegal MASSIVE wiretaps on ordinary Americans,when he was breaking every treaty we had with every country,when he turned his back on our forefathers and condoned, even promoted, torture,when he spent nearly a trillion [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 5:39pm EDT
  

• Finally, Support for the GOP Health Care "Plan"

  This says it all:WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Congressional Republicans received key backing today for their health care plan, picking up support from the National Association of Undertakers. [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 5:32pm EDT
  

• Democrats Deserve To Lose

  I remember those dark years of 2002-2006. The GOP got everything they wanted, and the Democrats were helpless to stop them. Giant tax cuts for the wealthy and Big Oil, revision of our bankruptcy laws WRITTEN BY THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES that prevented you from declaring bankruptcy even if it [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 6:57pm EDT
  

• F*&k Polankski!!

  From CNN:Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese have "demanded the immediate release" of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge.A supporter displays a "free Polanski" tag on his shirt during the Zurich Film Festival. They [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
  

• Seminole Democrat is Seeking Blog Authors

  I am seeking bloggers to contribute to the main articles for one of the most popular political blogs in Central Florida. I am going to have less time in the coming months to contribute. You may contribute as often or as little as you like. I would like to take [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:58am EDT
  

• Fight for Our Health Insurance Executives

  The real victims of Obama's insidious plan to provide health care for all Americans:Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 8:40pm EDT
  

• Story About Our New Senator

  The following post is by mujr:For our newly appointed senator, George LeMieux, who replaced Mel Martinez. I believe he retired due to the stress of controversial mail from his constituents recently, and the pressure to actually work for them.Replacement Republican senator George LeMeiux, sent his obligatory email to my mailbox, [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 10:32am EDT
  

• Seminoles...Call your representative for HC reform TODAY

  A representative from Suzanne Kosmas's office confirms that anti-health insurance reform zealots are flooding the Congresswoman's offices with calls. THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM PRO-HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM SUPPORTERS. Please take a moment to call or email Rep. Kosmas -- or whomever your Representative -- and tell him/her to support President [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:13am EDT
  

• The 12 Democrats Who Voted NO on Wilson's Admonishment

  It was a resolution of disapproval---the absolute WEAKEST motion you can do. IT's not even censure, it's just "disapproval" of Joe Wilson's blantant, abhorrent and racist behavior. (And it is racist...never in its 220 year history has a member of Congress heckled a president while giving an address to that [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 2:12pm EDT
  

• Support Fair Districts

  Support www.fairdistricsfloria.orgFrom Daytona Beach News Journal: It should be a neutral process. In five states, it is. Independent redistricting commissions draw up boundaries based on population and geography. In a few states, commissions and state legislatures collaborate. In most states, Florida among them, the process is mostly political. The party [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
  

• Obama's Health Care Speech: full text and video

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyMadame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:26am EDT
  

• Jim Greer Spoke GOP Hate in Public School!

  Quicknote: Crossposted today's blog on Dkos and made the Rec List. Go Seminoles!While we have been focused on the sheer stupidity of equating the president talking about the importance of education to "indoctrinating" children with his "socialist agenda", or the fact that W. and Reagan himself interjected conservative trash when [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
  

• Seminole’s Own Jim Greer Embarrassing Florida—AGAIN

  The media has picked up the story of the Florida GOP head going nuts over President Obama’s letter to school principals about a national address on the importance of education. Here is the letter:Dear Principal: In a recent interview with student reporter, Damon Weaver, President Obama announced that on September [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  

• Post this Viral Status on your Facebook Today

  No one should die because they cannot afford healthcare. No one should go broke because they get sick, and no one should be tied to a job because of pre-existing condition. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day. For the time remaining, [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 8:18pm EDT
  

• Michael Moore is back: Capitalism-A Love Story

  He is my favorite director. His film SiCKO was one of the best films ever made and truly helped inspire a desire for change for our con game of a healthcare system. I really liked F 9/11--he showed the world what was wrong with W long before everyone else figured [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:06am EDT
  

• New Viral Video on Health Care

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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:28pm EDT
  

• Bumper Sticker Slogan SMACKDOWNS of Healthcare Reform Opponents!

  Quicknote: This post is now this month's feature!The following can be made into bumper stickers, T-shirts, signs for rallies or for your car or whatever. I want healthcare reform, not copyright credit.Use any of the slogans here and feel free to make them into items at places like makestickers.com or' [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 8:44pm EDT
  

• The Four Systems of Healthcare

  www.electoral-vote.comdiscusses the four ways countries can run their health systems. We are primarily #4, but have elements of each:1. Nationalized medicine (UK)Government runs hospitals and pays doctors. No one in Congress is proposing this, although we have this for our veterans. The VA runs their own hospitals and pays their [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 8:09pm EDT
  

• Oppose Govt.-Run Healthcare? Repeal Medicare Now!

  I have yet to hear a public official say that he or she is opposed to single-payer, government-run, totally government-controlled healthcare AND that we should get rid of Medicare. Because that is EXACTLY what Medicare is. As long as we are at it, we need to get rid of Social [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 9:10am EDT
  

• Best Comment on Whole Foods Forum

  This was posted on DKos by Suburban Blue:Wingnut Comment: You're an ignoramus. Look at the facts. Anything the government has involved itself in haS becomes less efficient and more expensive. That's not partisan it's reality. The CBO has twice now substantiated that this trend will only continue if the government' [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
  

• Glenn Beck Rants About How Awful Our Health Care Is

  The hypocrisy is so blatant...once again it's up to Jon Stewart to point this out. The past few days Glenn has been screaming how "awesome" our health care is...forgetting that he was equally venemous one year ago about our country having the worst health care in the world...The Daily Show [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
  

• People Who Still Shop at Whole Foods Are Stupid

  There was never a shortage of reasons to dislike Whole Foods. There’s already a list here detailing the poor working conditions, shutting out local farms for corporate farms, union-busting, criminal activity, etc.I only disliked them because I thought it was stupid to pay 10 bucks for a can of beans.But [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 6:29pm EDT
  

• Central Florida Healthcare Townhalls

  WE NEED HEALTHCARE REFORM NOW!!The following is the list of local representatives and townhalls on Healthcare this month. If you support reform, attend. If you have genuine concerns and questions, attend. If you want to just scream at the top of your lungs that Obama is trying to euthanize you, [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 10:52am EDT
  

• Nicest Tribute Given to Obama...By Bill O'Reilly (Seriously)

  Bill O'Reilly wrote a nice piece in today's PARADE magazine of what Barack Obama can teach America's youth. When he tried to corner Obama early last year and get him to come on his program, he told Obama that he "loved" him... but I thought he was just sucking up' [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
  

• U Caught ME! My Kenyan Birth Certificate.

  Very well, I have to admit. The birth certificate I have proving I was born in South Seminole was faked. I wasn't born in Seminole County, I was born in ORANGE County... KENYA. It's all over the internet.. And these things can't be faked. It's got signatures and everything. Game [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
  

• How To Counter Wingnutt Online Arguments on HealthCare Reform

  Any talk of controlling the deficit or fixing the economy without addressing the current healthcare crisis is futile. Our critics are arguing to keep a broken system, which is not just unsustainable, but is becoming catastrophic. Our costs are practically guaranteed to double over the next decade, which will lead [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
  

• By the Numbers: What the Healthcare Industry Paid for Each Congressman

  The Center for Responsive Politics released a list of what each obstructing Congressman was paid by the Healthcare sector. It is spending a total of 1,400,000 PER DAY to destroy the Public Option--the only real chance of reform.Primarily Republicans are the takers, of course, but several Democrats as well. The [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 6:19pm EDT
  

• Seminole Democrat is Back

  I will start posting again this weekend. Thank you for your patience. My family is still in Seminole County, although we looked at houses in Orange, Brevard, and Volusia. Heck, we are still in Winter Springs!!We couldn't find the house we wanted so we are renting for a year and' [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
  

• Hiatus

  Home Selling and Home Buying are very stressful, especially when you do both simultaneously.I will return when both are completed. Look for my blog in July. [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2009, 7:58pm EDT
  

• Fox News is still Funny!

  Seriously?!Karl Rove complaining about ABC getting "unprecedented access" to the White House? When Jon Stewart was informed that Karl Rove was getting a job at Fox News while Bush was still in office, he jokingly asked one of their anchors if this means that Fox would finally get close to [...]
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  Posted: June 20, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  

• Hometown Democracy: FINALLY, developers get a setback!

  Jane Healy from the Orlando Sentinel:They may see themselves as victims, but local elected officials have no one to blame but themselves for last week's announcement that backers of Florida Hometown Democracy, a proposed constitutional amendment to manage growth, have garnered enough signatures to get it on the 2010 ballot... [...]
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  Posted: June 16, 2009, 10:31pm EDT
  

• Tianamen Square - 20 years later

  I wonder if this still unidentified man knows he is an icon of bravery. Photo by Jeff Widener (Associated Press)UPDATE: This blog has a new photo that was recently discovered of the same man at ground level. He is the person on the far left of the photo standing in [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• Presidential Pick Hoplessly Unqualified

  The president picked someone hopelessly unqualified for the Supreme Court. The nominee, Clarence Thomas, was a mediocre lawyer whose previous jobs included:Two civil rights positions, where his primary focus was to undermine the anti-discrimination laws he was supposed to uphold, and where he was so incompetent that Congress had to [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 9:25am EDT
  

• Scapegoating Pelosi: R U Kidding?

  This is your plan? Really? Deflect your complicity with torture by attacking NANCY freaking PELOSI?Did Nancy Pelosi ever order torture? Did she order waterboarding on Gitmo detainees to get a non-existant link between Al Qaeda and Iraq?Did she write "legal" memos justifying torture? Did she sign off on them? Even [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 7:17pm EDT
  

• Big Surprise: Crist Jumps Ship as Governor

  Charlie Crist has been a disaster. Everything he has touched has been an abysmal disgrace. (By the way, I need to add rail to that list of broken promises.)Our state is in desperate need of leadership since the GOP monopoly has made a mess of things in Tallahassee. But idiot [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:19pm EDT