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Retired Owner/Operator of the South Florida Daily Blog & Stuck on the Palmetto. Politics, cars, craft beer crusader, the American West, life, opinions. Still in South Florida but anxious to GTHO.

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via Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Attention Floridians: Your tax dollars are now being spent to support Donald Trump in his federal case being prosecuted in Florida.

JFC.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/06/17/republican-state-attorneys-general-oppose-new-gag-order-in-trump-documents-case/

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The Education State!

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Classic...

1964 Ford Thunderbird

via Bring A Trailer https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1964-ford-thunderbird-76/

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@philip_cardella remember the Thunderbird Retro in the early 2000s? 😬

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@philip_cardella good intentions, bad execution.

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Hurricane season is off to a slow start...the winds are why.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/weather/hurricane-season/john-morales-this-hurricane-season-is-off-to-a-muted-start-and-the-reason-why-is-blowin-in-the-wind/3331575/

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What are the chances that the Home Depot CEO has been a big contributor to Ron DeSantis?

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June 4, 1939: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

[Miami Herald - June 5, 1939]

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"As night fell Friday on downtown Jacksonville, 70 people lined the pedestrian walkway of the Main Street bridge and simultaneously turned on high-powered flashlights that lit the bridge in a ribbon of rainbow colors arching above the St. Johns River."

F U, Ron DeSantis.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2024/06/01/jacksonville-residents-shine-pride-lights-after-florida-stops-official-bridge-displa-them-on-bridges/73914750007/

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Classic...

1965 Volvo 1800S

via Bring A Trailer https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-volvo-1800s-10/

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@philip_cardella that model struggles with rust issues but this particular car looks pristine.

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@philip_cardella 😎

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Dear Gov. Ron DeSantis...

Please remove felon Donald Trump from the voter roles ASAP.

Thank you.

America

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Pretty sure we have at least one far right loon as a SCOTUS justice.

via https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?smtyp=cur

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@philip_cardella it only further endears him to the people who most matter to him.

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via Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Only in Miami Beach...

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Our NRA World: 2yo Ohio toddler gets access to a loaded gun, shoots himself and dies. It happens.

https://fox8.com/news/2-year-old-shoots-himself-later-dies-police/

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"...South Florida is now the farthest from a legal provider of any highly populated area in the U.S. Subsequently, the average cost per abortion is expected to jump from $600 or $700 to as much as $1,800 or more..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/05/abortion-florida-ban-north-carolina-clinics/cbd87ec8-0aa5-11ef-b186-090cb777107e_story.html

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"...X is bringing Nazi sympathizers in from the dark corners of the internet to a massive platform where they can pay to amplify their content."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=661e4c282db1440001b391d6

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"One Super 8 in Grayville, Ill., advertised $949 a night for a Sunday-Tuesday stay. Its normal advertised nightly rate is $95."

Eclipse rates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/upshot/eclipse-hotel-prices.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

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"A federal judge in Boston has ruled that migrants flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in 2022 can proceed with a lawsuit against the Florida company that took them there."

I hope they all become millionaires.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1242131130/migrants-lawsuit-flown-marthas-vineyard-texas-florida-governor-ron-desantis

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Don't look now but the Governor of Texas is green-lighting the execution of squatters.

Before you take the advice of the governor, you might want to check and see if the State of Texas is going to provide you with counsel when you get charged with murder.

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Bigger wine bottles or canceled medical debt?

Hey, Florida, pick the kind of fighter you want.

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via Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Biden-Harris campaign statement on Donald Trump’s press conference.

More like this, please...

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Protecting children only when it's politically convenient is yet another hallmark of the DeSantis administration. An administration whose messages and policies are riddled with hypocrisy and duplicity.

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What are you doing, NBC News?

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March 4, 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.

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March 1, 1954: Puerto Rican nationalists fire shots at U.S. Representatives in the U.S. Capitol Building, injuring five of them.

[Miami Herald - March 2, 1954]

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    @philip_cardella ever been to Green Cay or Wakodahatchee up in Palm Beach County?

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    @philip_cardella yeah, it's a bit more of a drive - from Miami, probably 60-90 minutes - but very much worth it. You can hit both parks in one day since they're only about 15 minutes away from each other. Lots of birds of all types and some gators, too. Make a day of it. Two of my favorite places in South Florida.

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    Damning testimony from 2 former FDLE officials about how the DeSantis administration blocks the release of the governor's travel records solely to conceal how taxpayer money is being used...or misused.

    https://wapo.st/3UPrmMg

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    "I would much rather have a forgetful mensch in the White House, a statesman who never forgets his principles, rather than someone who has never troubled himself with having principles."

    https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/02/19/biden-forgetting-dates-is-not-a-problem-trumps-desire-for-vengeance-is-opinion/

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    On February 16, 1964, the Ed Sullivan Show was broadcast live from the Deauville Hotel on Miami Beach. The featured guests were a group visiting America for the first time. They were called The Beatles.

    Here's the show in its entirety.

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6eri6l

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    Please stop saying that "we can't keep living like this" or "this has to stop."

    The majority of Americans have decided we can keep living like this and it doesn't have to stop. In fact, there are a whole lot more important things to worry about than guns.

    And that is the honest truth.

    via https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HHP_Jan24_KeyResults.pdf

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    via Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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    Neither the NY Times or the Washington Post reported Trump's statement that he would encourage Russia to attack NATO on the front page.

    Both managed to find room for missives on Biden's age & memory.

    And they're completely flummoxed as to why journalism is dying...

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    South Florida Sunday Front Pages...

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    February 10, 2007: Illinois Senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections.

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    Classic...

    1970 Plymouth Superbird

    via Bring A Trailer https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-plymouth-superbird-34/

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    @philip_cardella True, although Ferraris still stand out for me as do, of course, Porsches.

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    Kicking off the weekend with a Heavy Seas Beer Red Eclipse, which is a bourbon barrel aged vanilla stout with cherries.

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    @philip_cardella 🍻

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    Gun owners in Maryland would be required to buy at least $300,000 in liability insurance or forfeit their ability to carry a firearm under a new bill.

    This is how you do it.

    https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/maryland-bill-would-force-gun-owners-to-get-300k-liability-insurance-to-wear-or-carry-md-terri-hill-annapolis-second-amendment-firearm-rights-regulations-2a-nra-conceal-clyde-boatwright-police-officers

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    Nikki Haley says that America isn't racist.

    The below occurred in Conway, South Carolina, Haley's home state, just after Thanksgiving last year and has resulted in demands that a hate-crime law be enacted in the state.

    via https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/26/south-carolina-hate-crimes-laws/

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    Nowhere else do 55 sheriffs believe that a rapist who has been charged with 91 crimes is fit to be President of the United States...except Florida.

    https://floridapolitics.com/archives/654634-exclusive-55-florida-sheriffs-fall-in-behind-donald-trump/

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    @philip_cardella That's a whole other animal but, yeah, those guys are out there, too.

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