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• Floridian takes early lead in Darwin Awards competition

  Ok, so let’s say you’re in your boat a couple miles offshore when you find a carefully wrapped and waterproof package about the size of a brick floating by… Then let’s say you open the package and you can not identify what is inside. Would you then start eating this [...]
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• Senator John McCain gets all mavericky

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• 20th Panther death in 2011

  6-year-old male found in Belle Meade area of the Picayune Strand State Forest 7/29 [...]
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• Hey, did you lose a bass boat?

  Last weekend, Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers found a bass boat capsized in a canal off the south side of Alligator Alley, west of the mile marker 40 boat ramp in Broward County. Debris, including food and fishing gear, was found floating near the scene. The key was in the ignition [...]
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• Heads I win, tails you lose on sacrifice sharing

  Been hearing a lot about that “sacrifice” we all need to be sharing to get our govt debt and spending under control. Hey, I truly wish George W. could have left a budget surplus like his predecessor did, but no such luck, we got tax cuts, recession and a trillion dollar [...]
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• From: Rep. Allen West To: Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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  From: Z112 West, Allen Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 04:48 PM To: Wasserman Schultz, Debbie Cc: McCarthy, Kevin; Blyth, Jonathan; Pelosi, Nancy; Cantor, Eric Subject: Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly [...]
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• 20% chance of development

  A SURFACE TROUGH ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAKENING FRONTAL SYSTEM IS PRODUCING WIDESPREAD CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS FROM THE NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA COASTS EASTWARD OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE ONLY MARGINALLY CONDUCIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT...BUT COULD BECOME A LITTLE MORE FAVORABLE DURING THE NEXT DAY OR [...]
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• What goes around, comes around

  Looks like Rupert Murdoch’s empire is now getting the exact same type of scrutiny and publicity he’s so used to dishing out.. [...]
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• The natives are restless

  Do you remember when they had those pesky little riots in Egypt? Remember, they ran the 30-year leader out of the country? Do you remember when the fruit seller in Tunisia set himself on fire, sparking riots that led to the banishment of yet another long-time leader? Do I even [...]
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• My memory is not so bad

  As I recall, Ronald Reagan passed the largest tax increase in history, and the economy boomed. Bill Clinton passed the second largest tax increase in history, and the economy boomed. President $/year % GDP Reagan $37B 0.8 Clinton $32B 0.5 George Bush passed the largest tax cut in history, and [...]
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