ITT, I record how fucking awful Florida is

[Buck Turgidson]

Hey remember it was Florida's election shenanigans that got Bush Jr in in the first place...

[Kenneth Kenstar]

Dumbest Girls Ever Steal Girl Scout Money (raw interview)

Two Floridian Girls steal money from Girl Scout and are pissed they had to give the money back AND be charged with a crime.

[Kenneth Kenstar]

I apologize, I made a mistake. I thought this video was only a couple days old but it's more like 4 years old.

That video does not count towards the Shitstain count.

But it stays because WOW

[Pterrydactyl]

Felons shouldn't be allowed to vote.

I think if your not allowed to own a gun, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

[aithne]

Um... felons AREN'T allowed to vote, Pterrydactyl.

[Buck Turgidson]

That interview is a riot.  What a couple of hot, amoral bitches!

[Fake from State Jarm]

my favorite part was when they both said "money is money."

[Erwin Schrödinger]

Money is money, therefore it doesn't matter where it comes from so long as it is obtained. That's great stuff there.

[Buck Turgidson]

They did have a point that they didn't actually steal the money from a 9 year old girl, but from the Girl Scouts organisation.

If I were the 9 year old's parents, I would sue the GirlScouts for not taking due diligence in protecting my daughter from criminals.  burritos a whopping 150$ on a table could attract all kinds of unwanted attention from horrendous criminal types like thieves, extortionists, and investment bankers.

[Kenneth Kenstar]

Florida Family Association Flies Planes Warning of Gay Day

As it did last year, the hateful Florida Family Association is flying planes over Disney World warning visitors about gay people visiting the park for the annual Gay Days, tomorrow (photo is from last year).

The group writes:

Florida Family Association has received many, many letters and emails from people across the country who patronized Disney World in Orlando to find themselves in the middle of one of the annual Gay Days at Disney.  The most recent letter we received was from Willis in Sarasota who wrote “Just a note to let you know that about 18 years ago my wife and I and our 2 year old granddaughter were at Disney World when it was ‘Gay Day.’  It was the most deplorable sight that we ever saw.  I thank you so much for the vision of the airplane banner warning people.”

We want to warn families before they expose their children to Gay Day’s same-sex revelry, before they pay money to Disney for parking, admission, novelties and food.  We also want to send a message that Gay Day’s public promotion of homosexuality to a captured audience inside the park is wrong.

OrlandoGayTravel.com had been planning an opposing banner. It's unclear whether that was funded or not.



Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/06/florida-haters-fly-two-planes-warning-of-gays-at-disney-world.html#ixzz1wm4eSD6O

[Fake from State Jarm]

now I know you're not qualified to run this thread kenny. stories like this are what makes florida tolerable.

[Kenneth Kenstar]

now I know you're not qualified to run this thread kenny. stories like this are what makes florida tolerable.

No,




I am qualified.

[Kenneth Kenstar]

Remember when Florida started drug testing welfare recipients?

They were trying to save money. This was a big deal. Someone told Florida that most welfare recipients were literally on drugs and they believed this. See, this is because the state is full of people with rocks in their head.










April 14, 2011

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/gov-rick-scott-finalizes-deal-to-sell-his-holdings-in-urgent-care-chain/1163630

TALLAHASSEE — Two weeks after insisting he was "not involved in that company," Gov. Rick Scott finalized a deal Wednesday to sell Solantic Inc., the Jacksonville chain of urgent care clinics he founded.

Scott's sale of the company comes as he attempts to distance himself from repeated conflict-of-interest questions about whether the company he started in 2001 — and hoped to develop into a national chain — would benefit from the aggressive health care changes he wants state lawmakers to approve.

The sale to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe makes the New York investment firm the largest shareholder in the company. In 2007, the firm bought a 30 percent share in Solantic when it committed up to $100 million to the company. Two of the firm's partners, Thomas A. Scully and D. Scott Mackesy, sit on the board of directors.

Scott put the value of his majority share of the company at $62 million last year in the financial disclosure filed as part of his race. Scott agreed to sell his holdings for less than that amount, but neither side would provide the exact figure of the deal, expected to close April 29.

Selling all the shares would free him from political problems related to the company, an ethics expert said.

The last statement kills me. You need an ethics expert when you are dealing with Florida.

All kidding aside, let's get real for a second. What an ethics expert is saying right here is that just because he doesn't own the company anymore, he has no reason why he'd do something in their favor.

I understand what they are trying to say.

So, okay. His idea for government-run drug testing has nothing to do with the fact that he owned majority stock in a company that specialized in drug testing.

It's just a good idea, right?

I bet this will work out for Florida.





















One Year Later







http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/us/no-savings-found-in-florida-welfare-drug-tests.html

No Savings Are Found From Welfare Drug Tests, 96% of Welfare Applicants Passed Drug Tests

Cost of the tests averages about $30. Assuming that 1,000 to 1,500 applicants take the test every month, the state will owe about $28,800-$43,200 monthly in reimbursements to those who test drug-free.

That compares with roughly $32,200-$48,200 the state may save on one month’s worth of rejected applicants.

Net savings to the state: $3,400 to $5,000 annually on one month’s worth of rejected applicants. Over 12 months, the money saved on all rejected applicants would add up to $40,800 to $60,000 for a program that state analysts have predicted will cost $178 million this fiscal year

From July through October in Florida — the four months when testing took place before Judge Scriven’s order — 2.6 percent of the state’s cash assistance applicants failed the drug test, or 108 of 4,086, according to the figures from the state obtained by the group. The most common reason was marijuana use. An additional 40 people canceled the tests without taking them.

Well.

[Buck Turgidson]

Did anyone look into corruption?  I mean, if some administrator stands between you and your welfare check, they just might mark you as passed if you slipped them a couple of finns.  This theory lets us continue the prejudice that welfare bums are all on drugs, that governent is corrupt, and maybe even suggest that they are colluding against the interests of nice, white, republicans.

[Buck Turgidson]

Here, throw this on the pile:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/04/showbiz/octuplets-mom-stripping/index.html

[Pterrydactyl]

Um... felons AREN'T allowed to vote, atonic.

I know, someone said everyone should be allowed to vote, I said felons shouldn't, just like they currently aren't.

[Buck Turgidson]

Everyone should be allowed to vote.  The moment you start saying one person can't, then some other special interest group will want someone else to not be allowed.  Given the levels of incarceration in the US, you are talking about a potentially large segment of the population, felon or otherwise, who are at risk of losing a basic right.

The US started the vote with only while men with something like 250 acres of land, and it took 200 years to let women and blacks have the same right.

I think children and illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote for whatever government will rule them in the land they live in.

[Fake from State Jarm]

thumbs up if you think kurt russell needs to come back and do snake pliskin 3 escape from florida

[Buck Turgidson]

He already did, but they rebranded it at the last minute and called it Soldier.

[Fake from State Jarm]

He already did, but they rebranded it at the last minute and called it Soldier.

now I have to watch again to see if true