Maya Soetoro was born to Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro and American cultural anthropologist Ann Dunham and half-sister to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. While living in Indonesia, she was home schooled by her mother and then attended Jakarta International School and returned to Hawaii and attended the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating in 1988.
Besides being the First Sister Maya has a HawaiiaCertification of Live Birth despite be born in Jakarta Indonesia. Supposedly this certificate was used by the Daily Kos to forge an Obama version. Anyone find it odd that Maya, undisputedly born in Indonesia, would have the same type of document as Barack Obama to forge?
Here is the link to the Orange County Examiner which printed the article this morning: LINK HERE
The phone system was down all night at United Cab....it was down for 13 hours and no consideration was given on our lease...From 5 pm till 6:30 am the phones where down. I needed to make money to stave off a homeless situation. For whatever reason, I was able to book $230 between 3:30 am and 2:10 pm. I have no idea how; someone upstairs must be looking out for me today. I could pay my lease and my MOTEL room to at least keep a roof above my head tonight. What happens tommorow is what ever happens.
A VIEW FROM OUR ALLEY OF THE POWER COMPANY TRYING TO FIX THE MESS.
What does being homeless do to you physically, mentally, spirtually? How does this condition just break you down. I will be homeless within the next 48 hours and have no idea what to expect. I try to remain positive..."Yes We Can" and all that stuff. The economy is at Great Depression levels and I am out the door. United Cab is the fnest cab company in Tampa!
My friend Nolan Canova of 7-11 fame and the host of crazedfanboy.com and Tampa's pop culture gurue who alternative media refuses to recognize for the God that he is was unfortunatly robbed last week on his job. The armed robber can be seen in this video entering the store and holding Nolan up at gun point. The good news is that the Son Of A Bitch has been arrested by some outstanding police work by TPD. They were able to match the accurate discription of the get-a-way veichcle by Nolan's Co-worker and found a match at an address on Interbay. I am glad they caught the asshole. I think he is somebody that has been in my cab and wasted my time. Good. Go to prison for twenty years you piece of shit.
When police found him, he was hiding in a bathtub.
James Morris, 51, of 6617 Interbay Blvd. was arrested on three counts of armed robbery. Police say he robbed three convenience stores in five days, armed with a sawed-off shotgun.
The last robbery happened at 9 p.m. Thursday at the Bayshore Quick Mart, 5435 Bayshore Blvd., police say. The first was Sunday at a 7-Eleven on Gandy Boulevard and the second was Wednesday at a Sunoco on S MacDill Avenue.
After the Bayshore robbery, though, detectives worked through Thursday night into Friday morning to put an end to the spate of robberies, finally tracking Morris down using a witness description of the getaway car.
Police said Morris approached the Quick Mart counter, asked the clerk for cigarettes, then pointed a short-barrel shotgun at the clerk and demanded cash.
When the man fled, the clerk noticed a portion of the word "Toyota" on the grille of the truck.
Detective Ray Estevez used an Internet search to narrow down the year of the truck to a 1989 to 1991 model — the only years Toyota trucks used the kind of grille lettering the witness described. That night Estevez and Sgt. Eddie Preston drove to homes in two ZIP codes where Toyota trucks made in those years were registered. There were 30.
The last house they visited also had a gray Avalon in the driveway — the same kind of car used in Sunday's 7-Eleven robbery at 3101 Gandy Blvd. Clothing inside the Avalon also seemed to match the description of the clothing worn in the first robbery, police said.
Morris was inside, hiding, police said, and so was a sawed-off shotgun.
Morris said he thought the man in surveillance video looked like him, but told police he didn't remember committing the crimes, police said.
Morris was arrested at 5 a.m. Friday and was being held without bail at the Falkenburg Road Jail.
You suck ass Dick Head! Go to prision for ever for pointing a gun at good people like Nolan Canova and needing money for your crack habit...now you get to take it in the ass all day long...ride 'em cowboy!
With the worst economy since the Great Depression, we are seeing more and more of the "Will work for food" guys. They used to be sporadic, and most people usually just said go get a job you bum. Well, there are no jobs to get and this has now become a job with a real marketing scheme behind it.
First, you have to have a goal and a really good sign. The sign must be brief and legible. It is good to "test market" several signs and see which one brings in the best result. Use the ones that bring in the cash.
Second, you have to decide weather to "float" or stay "fixed" on one corner. My thought is that a corner could go stale if the same people begin seeing you everyday. Then, donations would drop off.
I would do like Mr. Ogbee pictured has done. He has found 6 spots that he rotates out 6 days a week and takes a day off. He works it like a job, and is rewarded as such.
Not so with taxi drivers in Tampa. The corner guys are doing fine. They are making between $60 - $100 a day and always hit their daily quota. I am in the wrong line of work.
I am seriously considering this as my next line of work. I am making nothing after lease and gas in the cab business, and need to change my game.
These people are not bums at all. They are entertainers and clerics who allow you to assuage your sinceof guilt about all that you have and feel better about yourself. If you voted for President Obama, then you already believe in spreading the wealth. Just keep spreading it to me when you see me out there very soon.
Tom Watson lost a four hole playoff to Stewart Cink and almost accomplished the most unlikely victory ever seen in the world of Sports. Clearly, many people were disappointed and could not really find solace in what they had just witnessed.
You could have had the greatest sports story ever, but now you have just an “also ran” who failed to get it done. If you believe the latter, you need to up your own game. The callowness of youth dies hard and it could be heard all over sports radio today. Thinking that you merely witnessed a man lose a round of golf does not honor the dignity, grace, style and valor that Watson demonstrated when faced with the inevitable defeat.
It is often said that sports is a metaphor for life. If so, then I saw something in the last 45 minutes of this tournament that I have rarely, if ever, seen in a sporting contest.
If the story was about a 59 year old man trying to do the impossible while underscoring his advanced years for a professional sporting figure, then you must include what a man acquires in terms of wisdom and understanding about his place in the universe as he ages, and how little we can actually control how our own lives play out. One of the leading tenants of AA philosophy is to have the wisdom to understand what you cannot control..
Watson understands this. That is a benefit of his age.
When I saw Tom Watson walking to his ball which was in the long grass of the 17th hole in the playoff round, and identifying it to the referee as a “Titlelist 3” in a strident voice with the undertone of a man enjoying a round of golf, I was moved. I knew at this moment that Watson had arrived at a place spiritually that I hope to be at one day. The writer Sal Bellow stated that “life prepares you for old age in ways unimaginable to the callowness of youth.”.
I take comfort in that.
When I watched him walk up the 18 hole with the crowd cheering and the emotion on his face, I could since no bitterness or anger. I felt joy. I believe he did too. It is the very act of living and experiencing everything there is in this limited journey we have on the terrain of Earth, that will give real meaning to our lives.
Many things are inevitable in life, and losing a golf match is one of them. I believe that how we face these inevitabilities will be the measure of our significance as humans.
Watson handled his disappointment like a champion of the ages. We should all be so lucky.
Tim Fasano the taxi man decided to take a relaxing trip on the Hillsborough River via canoe and ran into all kinds of wildlife that could eat you if it wanted to. No joke. How about them gators.
I pulled into the Radiant store at the corner of Kennedy and Howard and began pumping gas. I started talking to the tall, athletic looking guy next to me about the Tampa Bay Bucs and what their chances are for the up coming season. I told him that I believed that Josh Freeman would be the starter on opeing day; then I realized that it was Josh Freeman that I was talking to! No how cool is that?
I got out my camera and asked him if I could take his photo. He said no problem. Freeman was very personable, smart and had a real cool attitude about himself. I think this guy is great and way advanced beyond his 21 years. I think he will be a big-time player in the NFL.
So the next time you are at the gas station you never know who might be standing next to you.
Now that the Tampa Police Department is an active member of the Tax Collectors office, they have most major intersections covered. They are just waiting for you to be a fraction of a second to late to go under the yellow light and they will pull you over. You see, there is no crime in Tampa, and they have nothing to do. Instead of going after criminals and drug dealers, they would rather shake down the law bidding citizens and create good will in the community. This dick-head hangs out at Dale Mabry and Henderson every morning to write some cheap tickets to look good in front of his supervisors. He has a single stripe. They give that to ten year veteran flunkies who could not advance to higher rank or detective. You know, the losers that were marginal and they could not fire them, even though they wanted to. This dick head wrote me a ticket two years ago. One day we will meet out of uniform.
I saw this lost dog today. I think he was a "corgy." I see lost dogs all the time. I think they escape out of peoples houses or dig their way under a fence. This guy was cute, and very friendly. I was looking for an address in South Tampa when I spotted this little guy. He came up to the cab and looked at me. I opened the door and he jumped up and was waging his tail like mad. I noticed two things, he was very muscular, and he had no tags.
If he had a tag with a phone number on it, I could have called his mommy or daddy and let them know I had found him. Sorry, but I had to let him go his way when my fare came out.
She(my fare) said she had never seen this cute little guy either. I sure hope he found his was home, for I would have taken him to my apartment if only I could have a dog where I live.
The lesson here is to tag your dogs because I see them all the time running down sidewalks and acting like a dog. They love it until they realize they are lost. Then someone else will take them in, and you will never see your dog again.
Since I have been going into the woods for exercise and God Knows what else I can find, I have been encountering all kinds of critters. The other day I was in south Pasco County and I found what was left of a bootleggers camp and a giant web with this strange looking spider. At least, I had never seen this type of spider before. But hell, I am new to the woods. I am just glad I did not walk into it. I commenter said that it may be a Banana Spider. Are the poisonous? I don't know. I did take a decent photo of him and provide a little video to give perspective.
Someone told me that the camp I ran into might be a buch of guys growing weed. Cool. Maybe I will just help myself to what I find. A little side money cannot hurt. I could just go fly a sign to make money. Anything has got to be better than the cab business right now. That is why I am out in the woods to take my mind off of this fu...up economy.
I never knew there was such a thing. I have always tried to mess around with disk, misplace them, or 6 months later they wont load anymore. I remember when we used floppy disk. Remember those? I had a fare in my cab this morning and he told me about something called a USBFLASHDRIVE. They are cheap, and can hold about a billion times more than a floppy ever thought of doing. I was advised to upgrade to the new way of saving images, text and videos. This little gadget is beyond cool, and is very fun and simple to work with. All you do is stick it into one of the ports in the back of the computer and you will hear a dink. That is the drive being activated and it is called an "E" drive or something. Just save your stuff to that. I am confident now that I have solved my redundancy problem. The one I got today at Best Buy has 4 gbs of memory. That seems like a lot to me.
The way it is now, all we can do is wait. The President says they did not realize how bad the economy was. I guess because he spent to much time telling "Joe the Plumber" that he was going to spread the wealth....What wealth? If Obama had ever had a real job other than a social worker, he would have known how bad the economy really is. Seven months deep, and no relieff in sight..."Yes we Can" .."Yes we Can." We are in a very bad situation, and it is getting worse.
I know, I know, I will get all the usual pejorative emails and comments that will say I am fat, ugly, stupid, a cab driver, a loser, a failure, someone having a bad life, and so forth. Lets just note that for the record. Now, that being said, lets stick to the real issues. Explain to me how an economic theory called Keynesian's, which is outmoded and invented in a less complicated period of history, can possible work in today's dynamic. I don't think you can.
The answer is the failure of it to work with this President. Now, explain to me how massive bureaucratic expenditures will somehow pull us out of debt. Oh, don't say like the people in my cab the other day that Obama needs to fix the basic underpinnings of the economy before he can work on jobs. Reason, that is not what he said. He stated that his number one priority after becoming President was to put people back to work. That has not happened, only a Kool-Aide drinker would think otherwise.
It has been raining hard in Tampa for the last ten days. Many southside streets are underwater. That creates a problem for the cab drivers. We want to pick up our passangers and take them where they are going, but we can't risk flooding out the engine. The company will show no mercy in that area. If you kill and engine, you just bought an engine. Because of that, I have been going home on many days to avoid the floods in Hyde Park. "Turn around, don't drown."
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