Cant Keep Quiet!

Alan Grayson is running for the Democratic candidate for the 8th district of Congress.  The position he is running for is currently held by Ric Keller.  Keller is best know for the “Cheeseburger Bill” and well, not much else.  At least, not much when it comes to his work in Congress.

But Ric Keller is for another post.

Alan Grayson has been fighting against contractor fraud for more than 16 years.  Since the beginning of the Iraq War, he’s been battling against the no-bid contractors and the Department of Justice.  One case involves a refrigerator truck that KBR was using to hold bodies of Iraqis.  The bodies had been in the truck for two weeks in the Iraqi heat without refrigeration.  Needless to say, it wasn’t pretty.  Now, refrigerator trucks can be used to hold bodies, but then they can never be used to carry food or ice.  KBR, however, continued to use this particular truck to carry ice.

Yeah, gross.  And any ice or food carried on that truck becomes a bio-hazard.  You can read more about this case and other cases in a Vanity Fair article.

I found a new tv ad that Grayson has put out over on Daily Kos. It looks great.

In case you haven’t figured it out, I plan on voting for Grayson. If you want to help Grayson out, please visit Act Blue or Grayson’s campaign website.

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This is just too, too weird. According to the Orlando Sentinel

DeLand – A 30-year-old woman caused quite a commotion Wednesday evening when she decided to direct traffic at a DeLand intersection.

Rather than keeping traffic flowing through the intersection of W. Euclid and S. Orange avenues, the woman was creating a bit of a hazard, police said, because she was topless. The DeLand Police Department received a number of calls about 7 p.m. and responded to find the woman “foaming at the mouth and talking to herself,” according to a police report.

The DeLand woman told police that God told her to direct traffic.

She was taken to an area hospital for a mental evaluation.

I hope she gets the help she needs.

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The Florida Legislature has bowed to the wishes of the National Rifle Association and approved legislation that bars employers from banning guns on their property.  Employees and customers can now bring guns just about anywhere as long as they have a concealed-weapons permit and leave the gun locked in their car.

The bill (CS/HB 503) was approved by the Florida Senate on Wednesday.  Governor Charlie Crist has vowed to sign the bill into law.

David Daniel, a vice president with the Florida Chamber of Commerce, has stated that organizations will probably challenge this issue in court.  Oklahoma’s similar law was found by the courts to be a violation of workplace safety rules.

Personally, I find this bill to be ludicrous in the extreme.  It sure as hell won’t make me any safer.

For example, lets say that I work on the 10th floor of a local bank.  My job has an attached parking garage where employees park their cars.  The parking garage is only accessible from the building from the ground floor, however.  A co-worker has a mental breakdown, brings a gun into my office, and starts shooting.  Just what good is that gun going to do me locked in my car in the building next to mine?  None at all.

Or what if my co-worker has just worked my last nerve and I snap.  What is to keep me from going to my car, getting my gun, and bringing it into the office to shoot everyone?  Not a thing.  Matter of fact, now I won’t have to fume about the issue, go home, sleep on it, and have the chance to come back in the next day with a calm head.  Nope, now I can just storm out of the office, get my gun, and come back blasting.

Yep, I feel much safer with this bill about to become law.

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Earlier this month the state legislature cut the current state budget by $517 million. Over 60% ($325 million) of that cut was sliced out of education. That was just for the current state budget. The legislation is still trying to work out the cuts for next year’s budget. It’s a given that education will take a huge chunk.

I saw this cartoon and felt that it told the tale very well.

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