Tampa Taxi Shots

KEVEN WHITE AND TAMPA HCPTC IS A CORRUPT ORGANIZATION

I was pulled over today by one of the HCPTC cabbie cops today.  His name is Joe Halbistron.  He gave me a ticket for not wearing a collared shirt.  Can you believe that?  The fine is $30 and my license will be suspended in 30 days if I don't pay it.  You would think they appreciate all the things I do above the call of duty, like helping the elderly cross the street, loading  luggage, giving directions to tourist, being an information booth to the public,  but they don't.  I tried to tell this guy that I have been having a really hard time lately.  I am working round the clock (because of the environment that HCPTC has created), I live alone, and have not been able to get to the laundry mat.  I have no energy when I get home to load up and go do this.  I was showered, and wearing clean clothes and providing great service.  They do not care.  They want my money.  Is he just another cop fucking with a law abiding citizen because he can, or is it more than that?  It is much more than that.

The HCPTC has a slush fund.  They are the only agency of its kind in the State of Florida.  They make up laws as they go along and have grown a fund which was once over $800,000.  Why would they need this much money?  Is this the Nixon White House?  What is worse, is that the County Commission is the only overseer of this org, and they have Gestapo like power. 

The fines they charge to cab drivers go to things like the $150,000 software system they recently purchased for their agency that employs only nine people.  Wow.  They are also spending another $300,000 to expand their office space, so they will be better equipped to charge even more fines to cab and limo drivers.  They won't even let a driver from another county pick up here without arresting them.  They can pick up, but it will cost them $5,000 which goes into the slush fund.

The County Commission overseas their activities...That is the problem.  We know as of Friday that Keven White (the head of the Commission) is corrupt.  He was found guilty in court of sexual harassment of a 22 year old women.  If she was any younger, he would be a child molester. 

Yet he wants my $30 for not wearing a collard shirt.  Maybe I should just wear my boxer shorts, like he had on when he was laying in the bed next to that girl while wanting to get some of that ass.  How much of my money did you spend to do that Keven White? 

I shower twice a day, wear clean clothes, I speak English, I have lived in Tampa longer than you have been alive, I am a total asset to this community, but you want muscle-bound Joe Halbistran give me ticket that I cannot afford to pay because YOU  have allowed to many taxi licenses and now allowed Yellow cab to give FREE rides because it looks good for public relations while giving the Minarti boys a kick back from the slush fund that my $30 went to. 

Damn.  You talk about a cluster fuck!

IS CESAR PADILLA CORRUPT?

I came across this info recently. It seems one of the Hillsborough county Commissioners Kevin White was attempting to bribe Hillsborough County Transportation Interim Commissioner Cesar Padilla for a political payoff.White has been pushing the TPC to double Padilla's salary to $100,000. Why? White had a campaign advisor named Victor DiMaio who Padilla subsequently hired as a lobbyist for $5,000 a month. Some things never change.Does Padilla know how little money the taxi drivers are making at this time because of the climate created by his agency. What makes him worth this much money paid for by fines to cab drivers for not wearing collared shirts and having dirty cabs. This agency needs reform...not more graft. After John Cox, I really thought that would happen.

Read this by By JANET ZINK, Times Staff Writer

At the last Public Transportation Commission meeting, board chairman Kevin White suggested hiring a lobbyist to handle legislative matters.Now, a little more than two weeks later, the agency has a lobbyist: Victor DiMaio, who was a consultant on White's winning campaign for the Hillsborough County Commission last year.White said he had nothing to do with hiring DiMaio.He simply told Cesar Padilla, interim executive director of the PTC, to find someone familiar with the commission, which licenses taxis, limousines and tow trucks.Padilla said he settled on DiMaio."He's been affiliated with the industry for a number of years," Padilla said. "He knows our laws and our rules. It was a short period of time. He fit the profile."He said White, who last month pushed for the PTC to more than double Padilla's salary to $100,000 when he made the leap from chief inspector to interim executive director, never mentioned DiMaio to him.

A TOW TRUCK, A POLICE STATION, AND A "CRAZY BIRD"

I heard the cops were looking for me today.  They called United Cab, staked out my house (ya, right, a Goddamn motel room), put out an APB.  In Short, they where breathing down my neck.  I had to hide from them like a criminal.  Finally, I went by the police station on Tampa Bay and had a nice conversation with the officer that was assigned to my case.  Everything was cool. 

What was funny was a news crew was driving by and saw the cab parked out front and the cops talking to me, and they pulled in.  This reporter dude jumps out and wants to know if I am the cabbie that was hit by Aquib Tallib.  Now how cool is that?   I was really tempted to say yes.  If the cops weren't there, I would have given him an interview and pretended I was the guy.  They may have even put it on the air.  Man, you got to love this shit.

When I got back in my cab, it would not start.  I have been towed into the shop everyday this week for electrical problems.  Instead of fixing it, they just try to blame the mechanic who was the last one to work on it. 

 I got a better idea.  Why don't they just put me in something that runs and does not have 5,000,000,00,000,000,325 miles on it. Forget about the inconvenience, this has really cost me alot of money.  They have no loner cabs, so I have to wait for hours for them to get around to it.

I am loading right now a video of my new friend of mine that hangs out at the Burger King on Dale Mabry and Columbus.  He loves Whoppers, but not the tomatoes.  When he sees my cab, he comes over.  He is sort of motley looking, but boy, can he fly!!  Check out this video!

THE END OF THE LINE

Its pretty much it.  I have no money and have no hope of paying any of my bills, much less, saving any money for a retirement that should begin in 13 years.  The economy is ruinous, and I am making on money.  Serious

I begin each day at 3:15 am with an alarm clock.  It takes me about 30 minutes to go thru my morning routine and out the door to get coffee at the 7-11 and I am checked in by 4 am to begin my day.  But nothing really happens.  I usually begin my day with no money.  I am not kidding.  I mean no folded money, just change.  I wait for at least two hours to get a call that might go to the airport. No big deal, about $25.  I will have to pay my company $97 by ten o'clock and I will always come up short.  They have me work until 3 O'clock to drop the rest.  So after working 12 hours I have nothing just like the day before.  The Taxi company and the gas station have taken all my money.  I will usually run one more fare to try and get some food and beer money.  Today. that extra fare (after breaking down nd having to have to be towed in and having Amy break my balls about why I cost the company $50 for a tow) I then got a charge from life-link.  I then went to the Wall Mart Super market to cash in some change for $7.15 to get a cheap box of Mac and cheese and some beer.  !4 hours and broke again and nothing for me.

Don't worry.  That will all come to and end Monday. 

I am tired of the Haitians that work 18 hours a  day to make my life miserable.  The Goddamn United Cab of Tampa had to import them to work as slaves, because they could not get any American born workers, and they know that they had the slave mentality to work 135 hours a week to make $65.  I cannot continue to compete with that.

Monday about 10 in the morning it will end.  I am looking forward to the break.  26 months of living hell is more than I can stand. 

To the people that I may have let down.  I am sorry.  It is over for me.  I will at least enjoy the next four days and check out on my terms. 

Thanks again guys. 

DARA TORRES IS VERY FIT...GOT ABS?

I remember when I was in my early to mid twenties watching Rowdy Gaines and Dara Torres win Gold medals in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games which the Russians Boycotted.  I was young, a 33 inch waist, in great shape, and people thought I had a good body.  Many decades can take that from you. 

I turned on the World Swimming Championships the other weekend and saw many world records set.  I even saw Dara Torres record the fastest time ever for the 50 meter fly.  What is wrong with this?  Is'nt there a natural order to life?  How is she still out there doing this when disco is dead, Reagan is dead, the cold war ended, the greed of the '80's ended (not really), Clinton served two terms, Bush served two terms, and Dara Torres is swimming faster than she ever has. 

Don't get me wrong, nobody wants to get old.  I like everyone else that played sports decades ago; does not  want to admit it is over.

On July 7, 2008 Dara Torres destroyed the American Record in the 50 Meter Free Long Cousres Maters for women age 40-44 with time of 24.35.  That was faster than the time Mark Spitz did in 1972 on his way to a 100 meter Free Gold in Munich.

On August 10, 2009 Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines set an American Record for the Mens 50 Meter free in the 50-54 age group in Indianapolis of 24.58.  So Dara Torres is now faster than Mark Spitz and Rowdy Gaines?  And doing this decades removed from her first Olympics.  How do you spell HGH or STERIODS.  I think HGH and andronic peptoids that produce the substance are in use with her high volume training. 

My understanding is her last two husbands were Israeli surgeons.  I am not insinuating anything, but Pounce Deleon never found the Fountain of Youth in Florida.  Torres lives in Florida and she seems to have found it.  Her times two weeks ago were the best she has ever done.  Look at those abs. 

She did this milk promo here in Tampa....I like milk.....

Er...Ya...I'd do her...but I don't think she is into cab drivers....

Now, if I had abs like that...Give me a year.

SHOULD A TAXI DRIVER BE HELD OUT ON A STAND IF HE BREAKS DOWN?

I waited for an hour and half on stand 32 this morning.  When I got my call, which was going to the airport, my cab would not start.  I could not get it to work, and had to call dispatch to be taken off the call, and they called for a tow truck. 

2 minutes later, I got the car to work.  The hook was canceled and I drove it into the shop.

When I returned to work, Bash, our channel one dispatcher, told me he could not hold me out even though he was bidding one when I got into the cab. 

That was not right.  I had already been on a call and had a mechanical problem.  What would have been the problem? 

I ended up going over his head and the back office agreed with me.  But it was to late.  Because of all of this, I had a very bad day. 

UFO SEEN OVER TAMPA?

Nobody knew what this was.  The morining radio shows were getting calls from people wanting to know if the Space Shuttle had been launched again. I caught it on video.

TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE

This is what I found along the coast today as the swells came in from Tropical Storm Claudette.

CONSPIRACY BLOG LAUNCHED

I started a new blog to deal with UFO, Bigfoot, Chemtrails, Obama birth certificate, and all that stuff...check it out at:  http://timfasano.typepad.com/conspiracy

ST PETE TIMES WRONG ON THE TAMPA TAXI ISSUE

I am surprised that a liberal newspaper, which should be on the side of labor and regulation, would want open, union free labor.  The editorial they printed today was fundamentally wrong and philosophically unsound.  First, the taxi industry in Hillsborough county is regulated.  It is not in St. Petersburg.  Transportation is protected and permits are limited like a "closed shop" union up north.  The rate for downtown is three dollars a head.  Four people going two blocks will cost $12.  Simple as that.  Now, the cabbies can make a living.  They said that Tampa cab drivers turn down short downtown fares.  The argument against that lie is in the photo.  Short downtown rides are a Gold mine.  The ST. Pete Times either lied or did not get their facts straight.  The "Golf Cart" was undercutting us by giving free rides.  That was like a worker offering to work for free at a factory for whatever the plant would pay him for his service.  That would be wrong, and the St. Pete Times knows that.  We deserve to make a living, not have some scab take it away from us. 

THE GOLF CARTS ARE OUT OF BUSINESS IN TAMPA

This is great news..

From Creative Loafing:

Todd Persico, the owner of Hop Tampa, was bemoaning Wednesday as a “very bad day” after the Hillsborough Public Transportation Commission voted narrowly to (in effect) put free electric vehicle taxi services out of business.

“They determined that we were for-hire vehicles, and without permits, we’re out of business,” Persico said late this afternoon. That puts seven drivers out of work, three $18,000 vehicles in the garage and Persico scrambling to keep his business alive after a year and a half of operations.

It is a classic Catch-22; electric vehicles operators downtown say they were told they didn’t need permits because they didn’t charge for their rides (they make their money on advertising on the vehicles and the drivers get tips), and since the PTC tightly controls taxi permits, they likely wouldn’t be able to get them anyway. But even though they are free and mostly provide rides that the for-pay taxis won’t/don’t give (short hops that aren’t profitable), the PTC put them out of business after cabbies complained.

So much for energy-efficiency and reducing our carbon footprints.

So much for scumbags taking our living away Mr. Wayne Garcia...but of course, the environment is always more important than peoples livelihoods.  Do you ride a bike to work and around town, or do you drive a gar that burns gasoline?  Did you ever try to get around Tampa on foot? 

Yes the cabby's complained!!!!!!  We are licensed and registered with Homeland Security and provide safe rides.  The operators of those SCAB CABS are unknown.  They are losers and guys that were fired form all the companies in Tampa.,  They are the guys that should either be in prison, or be holding up signs on the side of the road begging for money like the pathetic paupers they are, but decided they wanted to take the bread out of our mouths.  NO self respecting man would do what they do.  They were pathetic.  I AM GLAD PTC SHUT THE ASSHOLES DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  THEY CAN GO TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I do carry a baseball bat with me at all  times, and if I was natured that way, I may have beaten them to death with it.  To bad I am not so inclined.  

Sorry to mince words.

CAB DRIVERS TRY TO AVOID HOMELESSNESS

This is my story:

ST. PETERSBURG — K. Allen Loper, known to pals and fellow UFO buffs as the Long Haired Cowboy, had sworn to other cab drivers for the last six months that if business didn't pick up, he'd be homeless.

His premonition came true last week, when Loper, behind on rent and facing eviction, scurried to salvage a few key possessions from his apartment and haul them 12 blocks to the Kentucky Motel on Fourth Street.

There, he paid $45 — nearly half his remaining cash — to get a room for the night.

He made his grab late Monday after waiting out a landlord parked in front of the building. With help from a friend who owns a truck, Loper made swift work of moving on. Most of what he owned was left behind.

It didn't matter to him that by inviting along a reporter, he was risking a portrait of a life in crisis being made public.

"What do I have left to lose?" Loper said. "My dignity? My pride?"

• • •

Loper has always lived on the economic fringe and knows poverty, but said the only time he has been homeless in his 52 years was shortly after he left the U.S. Army in 1978.

He then returned to his parents' home in Asheville, N.C., where he'd gone to high school. Sharing a room again with his brother was a drag, so he lived in his car for six months while working to save money.

Thirty years later, with his taxi driver's income evaporating, he found himself only a cheap motel room away from again living in his car.

"It's a nightmare," Loper said before making the pass through his apartment. "Why did this happen to me? What did I do?"

• • •

Loper is divorced and has two adult sons in New Port Richey. He began driving a cab in St. Petersburg five years ago. Before that, he was kitchen manager at the El Cap.

When he started as a cabbie, it was common to make up to $500 a week, enough to support himself. Over the last year, Loper said he and other drivers have seen their earnings tank.

As an independent driver, Loper pays $55 per shift to his cab company and for his own gas. At the end of the day, he keeps whatever is left, which in recent months has been next to nothing.

Tips are down, and he suspects more folks are taking the bus.

"I've had weeks where I've made only $20," he said. "When you come home with $5 in your pocket, it's not going to help you pay the rent."

• • •

Looking for other work has been a futile slog for Loper, who may not be the easiest hire for some employers.

He wears a straw cowboy hat, a diamond stud and hoop in his left ear, likes Hawaiian shirts and has dirty blond hair halfway down his back.

He's a UFO enthusiast who boasts a clinical approach to his research. Most UFO sightings can be explained away as aircraft or by the movement of celestial bodies, Loper said, but a small handful cannot.

He claims four sightings, his first as a boy while visiting an uncle's dairy farm, the most recent three weeks ago near Fossil Park, where he saw a figure-eight-like object in the sky.

Loper doesn't think his appearance has held him back. Until this recession, he's never before had trouble finding a job and said he ditches the cowboy hat and dresses up for interviews.

As for his fascination with UFOs, Loper said it's an interest that has lost any stigma and gone mainstream.

"I use the scientific method," he said. "It's good head work. It's good mind activity."

• • •

Loper was getting booted from his Fifth Street apartment because he'd fallen three months and nearly $1,200 behind on rent.

For much of June, he'd hung out at Fossil Park, smoking Golden Bay cigarettes, when not driving a cab. He said he felt guilty about failing to pay rent, and didn't want to face an angry landlord who frequently visited.

"Who knows what he's likely to do, harangue me and tell me he's going to kick my ass," Loper said at the park. "I just don't want to deal with it."

The park has given Loper a taste of a possible future, sleeping in his maroon Saturn in the parking lot, feeding the squirrels peanuts, watching youth baseball games and passing time with other homeless.

"I hate living like that," he said, his voice catching as he sat beneath a shelter, out of the rain.

• • •

Loper not only got a hand and a truck from his friend Keith Mainard, but a little moral support during the tense 15 minutes the move took.

"I'm from Chicago," said Mainard, 50, while taking direction on what to grab from a rattled Loper, who feared his landlord's return at any moment, "so I'm not afraid of confrontation."

What do you take when you have no home, and no prospect of getting one?

Loper grabbed a television, a home entertainment center, his guitar, a poster of the Seinfeld character Kramer, two 16-ounce cans of Natural Ice from the fridge, his collection of UFO books and two valuable first editions by Beatrix Potter, which he can't bring himself to sell.

What gets left?

"The stuff I've got no use for anymore," Loper said. "Nonessentials, let's put it that way."

Will Van Sant can be reached at vansant@sptimes.com or (727) 445-4166.

UFO'S SEEN IN EARLY MORNING SKY

These UFO was seen in a pattern formation in the ealry morning sky.

FREE SPEECH IN USA IN JEOPARDY?

The First Amendment is under attack from liberals in Congress.  The rights you have are in jeopardy by people who don't want dissenting opinions expressed.  Its as simple as that.  The founding fathers did not provide for convenience or cooth.  If you are offended or insulted that is the price you pay to live in a free society.  The Rev. Ted PIke talks on the Alex Jones TV show about the Hate Crimes Speech that both houses recently passed and how Christians can now go to prison for giving their opinion.  Or be discharged from a beauty contest because you support a traditional arrangement that a "fag" has a problem with.

WHEN THE ELECTICITY GOES OUT IN THE NEXT TROPICAL STORM..WILL YOU SURVIVE ON THIS BASIC LEVEL?

"TeddiRevolution; a member of AboveTopSecret.com", 

An event at my grocery store.

This is what happens in the modern world when people only rely on ATM cards for money and purchase..In a case of civil emergency they may not be able to survive.

"A severe storm came through my town last night and it knocked out power in my local grocery store for a bit. This was no big deal, as it has happened before. There was, however, a bigger problem we discovered very quickly: The credit and debit no longer worked, and checks couldn't be used. Foodstamps and WIC did not work either.

Coincidentally, there was a rush of people in the store at this same time, and the lines began to clog very fast. People in line joked about how anyone ever did this 100 years ago, things like that........"

Read the full story here and see how easy civil breakdown can happen.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread490340/pg1#pid6883350.

WHY ARE THERE 500,000 PLASTIC BURIAL COFFINS IN A FIELD NEAR MADISON, GEORGIA?

I have no idea what to make of this either.  Why is the US govenment stacking up this many plastic coffin holders?...We are'nt losing that many men in combat missions.  Someone left a comment on my blog that a bullit and a 6 foot hole was cheaper than putting law abiding citizens in internment camps.  Perhaps, they have figured that out. See for yourself and visit this link.

A TAXI DRIVER ON THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN

This is a video response to the Obama medical health plan that is on the table for all the nation.

WHITE HOUSE EMAIL SHOWS THEIR DESPERATION

This email from David Axelrod was sent out today to all Obama campaign contributors.

THE USA IS IN A STRIKE AGAINST ITS OWN LEADERS

Democratic statesman Lyndon LaRouche's characterization of the U.S. population as in a mass strike against its government is borne out by the Aug. 8 Town Hall meetings held in Congressional districts nationwide, where huge numbers of angry Americans turned out:  Don't laugh, if you have the 3.1 hours listen to what this brilliant man has to say...I found this on the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committie website.

A GREAT DAY FOR THE CAB BUSINESS

Shoe, our weekend dispatcher showed me a memo that Nancy sent to all dispatchers.  They do not have to give calls to drivers that are a detriment to the business.

*They do not have to give calls to drivers that are known to stretch their hoods.

*They do not have to give calls to drivers that are known to make customers wait and cannot provide service in a timely fashion.

*It is up to the discretion of the dispatcher to ignore drivers that fit the profile above.

It is about damn time the company realized that these guys are bad for business.

PUSHING ROPE GETS IT RIGHT.

The sardonic and clever blog Pushing Rope nailed this one.  The Joker represents the absence of law and control (Halliburton, Bush, Cheney).  Obama is the regulator of those that need to be regulated.  Billions of drones nationwide are showing up at these town-hall meetings and don't even know why.

From Pushing Rope:

"Susan Smith and Alison Morano of No Talk Radio report on their first hand experience at the Kathy Castor health care townhall meeting. There were signs equating Democrats with the Nazi Party. There were other signs of President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker."
    

The tea baggers have been programed.....The joker would be indifferent to socialism, or any other 'ism.  He could not care...He only cared about himself.  These signs really make no since to me.  They are just wrong.

WHY ARE THE SWEDISH AFRAID OF ADINA FOHLIN?

A commercial for Apoliva, an assortment of personal care products for Apotoket, featuring Swedish supermodel Adina Fohlin has made a major splash, although not quite the one that the Swedish pharmacy chain was hoping for. Rather than running out to purchase Apoliva products, viewers are running scared.

Over 100,000 people called in to protest how frightened they were of this haunting commercial set to the score of a Swedish folk song.  There is nothing scary about this.  No wonder the Swedish can't make good porn.

AN OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE MAY NOT MATTER

It may not even matter.  The Constitution charges no authority to control or regulate the birth requirements of the President.  The Supreme Court may ultimately just believe his testimony as to what his mother told him about where he was born.  Considering that he is doing a good job and it is obvious that the right-wing is simply trying to find a way to win (like in 2000), the court may not even consider any law suit. 

Hawaii became a State in 1959.  They began allowing immigrants to travel there and to register births to make the babies Hawaii residents (US citizens as well).  That practice stopped in 1962.  Obama was registered in 1961.  Even though he may have been born in another Country, he is legally a natural citizen because of a loophole that was in place then,. 

There really is nowhere to go with this.

WHY ARE INTERNMENT CAMPS BEING BUILT IN USA?

I have always heard the rumors that Halliburton was building internment camps out west to house either Muslim or enemies of the US.  I really don't believe that because they can't even hold them in 'git-mo.  They may be used for dissidents and Malcontents of the New World Order.  You know, people who believe in the first ten amendments to the Constitution that are called the BILL OF RIGHTS.

Why is the Army National Guard now advertising on Monster.com for "Internment/Resettlement specialist."

Here is a satellite image of an internment/Resettlement camp in Wyoming

A PERFORMANCE IN MONTREAL

This video is of a guest performance when I entertained the crowd with cirque du soeil in Montreal...I was the toast of Canada that night. I was the man on the great wheel of death

BUSCH GARDENS IS AN EYESORE

Busch Gardens could have been a major theme park in America.  Unfortunately, they have let the area go down and the blight is keeping tourist away.  The area around it has become an eyesore. Why is that?  Have any of the politicians ever driven up Busch blvd and seen the filth and low-end industries that litter this area.  You would never find liquor stores and payday loan places anywhere near Disney World. 

BUCS TRAINING CAMP 2009

What are they doing?

•  Red Zone Offense; as you know Raheem has called for a 60% success rate. Luke McCown looks very well adjusted.
•  Ryan Simms gets good pressure in and looks good with his bulky size.
•  TD pass from Leftwich to Sammy Stroughter, as both continue to impress in camp
• Today's practice NOT as up-tempo as yesterday
• AB vs Aqib battles today are great. Barber took him on yesterday, but Ronde is sitting out mostly today.
• Cadillac shows NO SIGN of ever having had an injury.....EVER! Sharp Cuts!
• Another HUGE CROWD- 1010am sports host during the week complained of fan apathy because of confusing stats on opening practice. I tried to explain to him...maybe he gets it now.
• Seems as if the Bucs are doing a lot of special teams stuff to make up for the time they lost yesterday which was scheduled to be a special teams practice.
• Expect more 2 minute stuff later at the 4:50 practice.

Start the countdown Bucs Fans!! This is the last week without Bucs football. Get your fix tonight with the Hall of Fame game.

 

INFO FROM BUCEM'....THE BEST BUCS BLOG ON THE NET

OBAMA TELLS REPUBLICANS TO SHUT UP

Obama says he wants the people that created the mess to shut up while he fixes the mess.  It was a mess, and I believe he is fixing it. 

I used to vote Republican until I realized that I was getting the shitty end of the stick.  I have worked all my life to make other people rich. 

Now it is my turn.  Don't get me wrong, I work 70 hours a week, I am no lazy bum.  I should have health insurance, but I can't afford it.  I would pay a group rate which this President will make available to me.  The people that are crashing the Health reform meetings are insane.  I bet most of them don't even have health insurance.  They just listen to the fat man and the crier.

I am glad that the "Latina" is now on the court so a lot of wrongs can be made right. 

The day Bush left office, I had less than one dollar to my name. 

As Regean said, you have to ask yourself "are you better off than four years ago?"  NO. I will be soon.

UFO SEEN NEAR TAMPA AIRFORCE BASE

I saw this bright, solid object this morning in south Tampa.  It seemed to be moving in and out and was reflecting light.

BILL WOULD FORECE OBAMA TO SHOW BIRTH DOCUMENTS

Found this on World Net Daily:

Hawaii state Sen. Will Espero, a Democrat, has confirmed plans to introduce legislation through which the state's lawmakers would force the public disclosure of all President Obama's birth documents held by the Hawaii Department of Health, including President Obama’s long-form original birth certificate.

The Senete member believes that Obama was born in Hawaii, he just thinks it would be better if full disclosure was involved.