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Cops to Whiny Juany Lynum: Piss off

Here's the rest of the shocking – shocking! – case of "racial profiling" alleged by Whiny Juany Lynum, commissioner Daisy Lynum's maturity-challenged 30-something son:

In a Feb. 19 letter to Orlando Police Chief Val Demmings, Whiny lays out his case. At 10:25 p.m. that night, we was east bound on Columbia Street passing Bethune Drive when officer Hollinker, a "young white male," had the temerity to notice him. Whiny made a left on South Goldwyn from Coumbia, then a right on Orange Center Boulevard. "I turned into the first land admittedly turned into the left land within ...

Breaking: Whiny Juany at it again

Just got a call from a quasi-reliable source – OK, it was Billman on a day-off bender – who says HE got a call from a pretty reliable source who said that Whiny Juany Lynum is at it again with his police brutality crap.

Recall that Whiny Juany, Crazy Daisy Lynum's 30-something kid, got pulled over in Parramore, at 1 a.m., in 2006 for having a light out on his car. The cop that pulled him over asked to see some ID, which scared Whiny Juany so much that he called mommy, who happens to be a city commissioner. Mommy called the chief of police, and her own policy bodyguard, an ...

Fox News host admits Fox viewers are crazy conspiracy theorists

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All you need to know about the budget deficit

So hey, have you noticed that after eight years of alternately yelling "Tax Cuts!" and sticking their heads in the sand, Republicans have suddenly awakened to the Very Big Problem™ of the federal budget deficit. This happened, coincidentally, about noon on Jan. 20. And of course, as the GOP's talking heads and various pseudo-fascists and bumbling idiots have since informed us, this is all Barack Obama's fault.

Some of it is, indeed. But as David Leonhardt demonstrates in today's Times, most of is i ...

When Buddy hit up a con man

An interesting anecdote in a looooooooooooooong New Times story about how a guy named Joel Steinger essentially bought off the Florida Legislature:

With less than a month to go before Election Day in 2002, Buddy Dyer was trailing Charlie Crist in the race for Florida attorney general. Dyer ...

Poetry!

Hey, been off the blog lately. Busy with the print thing. BUT! Exciting news from Wall Street Plaza, which is an absolutely terrible place to try to take in the Magic games because it is absolutely overrun with douchebags, shitty drink specials and bars you cannot access within a reasonable amount of time (trust me, I tried): They had a poetry contest to support the Magic, or whatever, and they have a winner. Yay!

Our winner comes from someone named Angie Davis:

To Our Team

Hey, sorry about ruining your life...
Remember Bill Dillon? He's the guy who finally, after years of prosecutorial foot-dragging, was released last year after from state prison after 27 years of being incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit (thank you, DNA testing).

Because it's not nearly enough to rob a man of three decades of his life based on, well, just an absolute joke of a prosecution - a prosecution witness legally blind in one eye, a girlfriend who was sleeping with the lead investigator in the case and changed her ...

Naked chicks!

OK, they're PETA naked chicks, so it's like propaganda naked which is way less hot than real naked, and they're not really naked at all – flesh colored panties, baby – but what do you want from downtown at lunch time? Oh, don't eat meat. It's murder. Or something.

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Guess who wants Gitmo closed now...
David Patraeus. You know, patron saint of the Republican military intelligencia. The guy John McCain and the rest of the GOP practically slobbered on throughout the campaign. This guy says torture doesn't work, and closing Gitmo helps the US's broader war on terrorists.

"I think, on balance, that those moves help [us]," said the chief of U.S. Central Command. "In fact, I have long been on record as having testified and also in helping write doctrine for interrogation techniques that are completely in l ...

An interesting take on Gitmo detainees: Time to man up
There's been something of a debate raging in our comments section over the Bush administration's use of torture and the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center. And indeed, for some reason I can't comprehend - aside from typical political cowardice - there's been a lot of pushback to Obama's idea to move these detainees into supermax facilities inside the US.

I came across an interesting perspective from a guy in the Netherlands, who says basically, that Americans need to man up a little.

Let's take tho ...

This guy is my hero
As profiled in the Sentinel today, this young atheist collects money from Christians who believe that the end is nigh, with a promise to deliver their message to left behind family members post-Rapture. And yes, people are giving him money. And no, they don't get it.

Witter started his website -- postrapturepost.com -- as a joke, a satiric jab at those who see things like the swine flu, economic collapse and the election of a liberal president as sure signs the end is near.

But then he started rece ...