- The Miami-Dade government made a "last-minute" move to NOT make massive cuts into the county library system by pulling funds from a "rainy day" reserve. This is good... for a year, at which point the issue of funding libraries will come back up again. Hint to Miami-Dade: try a bond issue, it worked wonders in neighboring Broward County over a decade ago.
- Rick "F-ck Florida" Scott issued a directive this week to county health care offices that the "navigators" made available by Obamacare to assist state residents figure out their health care plans would not be able to perform such outreach in those health care offices. Essentially making it harder for the navigators to do anything to help anyone. There's already been push-back by one of the counties that's gotten direct funding to hire some navigators, but it's pretty clear Scott and his ilk are doing everything possible to obstruct the health care reform efforts.
- Speaking of Rick "Too Self-Serving To Know He's Being Dumb" Scott, he had a fundraiser scheduled in the form of a $25,000 per person alligator hunt. The campaign had to quickly cancel it not just because of the suddenly intense media interest in the story but because it turns out that alligator hunting licenses were strictly limited and only gained by lottery system. You'd think someone in his office would have Farking done some research on this.
- George Zimmerman is back in the news regarding a possible domestic violence incident with his separated-seeking-divorce wife. There's been conflicting stories, a damaged iPad, and an exasperated sheriff quickly tired of Zimmerman's sh-t. For anyone who had a betting pool on when Zimmerman was gonna snap and do something dumber and more violent, it looks like anyone with September or October of this very year is in line for the win.
- This joker - the one who burned a Quran and started a global riot in the process - was arrested this 9/11 anniversary time while he was en route to a Polk County park to set fire to 2999 more Qurans. Turns out preachers gotta answer to secular law, and it's a felony to transport gasoline in improper containers.
Okay, so. For the seven readers... well actually for the seventeen readers now that I've got some Crooks & Liars audience members... still keeping an eye on this site, any suggestions for Post #500?
5 comments:
Maybe it is being hunted BY aliigators, hope, hope?
The GOP isn't that crazy or suicidal. Although given the Republicans' inability to shoot straight when hunting, a sizable number of accidents were bound to occur.
Did you see the story about dengue fever in Florida? And the one about their very own strain of antibiotic-resistant TB? (And oh by the way, am I the only person that didn't know TB kills like a million people a year?)
Does it have to be about "Florida Weird" stuff, or can it be any topic? How about being a librarian in Florida? Do you have some patron stories that are safe for you to tell, publically?
Tenar, this was just a omnibus way of tying in a few Florida news of topics - libraries fighting for funding, Rick Scott being a jerk, etc. - I cover on this site.
I can tell some stories about the occasional library patron, but only in the proper context or situation. I really shouldn't tell anyone about that one patron who came in to Beach branch years ago who... nah, I shouldn't....
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