Shady people in the Sunshine State
I read an article today about how deranged the state of Florida is. I can no longer find it, but sufficed to say, the list of recent heinous crimes and ill-advised human behavior emanating from the state that, on a map, appears as if it's America's flaccid penis causes extreme dizziness before you've even had time to wade into the grisly politics. The author claimed-- by way of a joke, although true-- that if you type “why is Florida” into Google, the search engine automatically adds as a suggestion “so crazy,” “so hot,” and “so weird.”I decided to test this myself and also found “so humid” and “so trashy” among the top ten propositions. The top search suggestion was actually “called the sunshine state,” and a surprising (to me) #2 was “car insurance rates so expensive.” Policy rates are clearly on the high end of the scale there. Maybe that’s why Florida residents are wound so tight and in such frequent need of “stand(ing) (their) ground.”
Of course I had to try searching Iowa next. A “why is iowa" investigation delivered...
“called the hawkeye state”
“so boring”
“so liberal”
“so important in an election”
“soil good” (my favorite)
And “a major city”, which makes no sense.
I just found the article. Here it is.
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This is Senator Ron Wyden’s speech condemning NSA overreach. Edward Snowden’s approval rating, according to CBS today, is running about 25% to 57% in the red, but here we have a United States Senator, in his 17th year in office and from his perch on the chamber’s intelligence committee besides, sounding the same alarms of freedom under threat that Snowden has. Will we have no limit to the government’s authority to collect any and all information about law-abiding citizens? I thought we had a major one, but the Fourth Amendment has been dropped and shattered. Shame on Nancy Pelosi for her vote yesterday on the Amash-Conyers bill. Shame on John Boehner as well-- and it’s at this time I’d like to point out to Republicans that Boehner’s whip efforts yesterday with his caucus regarding the NSA Surveillance State vote just saved the Obama presidency.
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Note to drowsy Americans: William and Kate just named their baby in part after the king (George III) we revolted against. You’re bowing to the Boy King at the risk of your own cherished patriotism.
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Quote of the day: David Weigel at Slate.com, “The Weiner-Abedin marriage is to the Clinton marriage as Sharknado is to Jaws.”
posted by CM @ 10:21 PM
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