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3days Donating Member (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:24 PM
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WTF is going on with Florida
They are just tazering and shooting people up like a mofo.

Former NFL Player Shot By Police In Florida
http://www.nbc11.com/sports/4086935/detail.html
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:25 PM
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1. Oh yeah.
You know what they say about FL;"Florida-come on vacation, leave on probation."
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:26 PM
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2. I never liked Florida. I'd never live there of visit.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:28 PM
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3. FL is the kind of craphole you get stuck in
once you move here.

Except for the blue counties (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Leon, and Alachua) the whole place is a toilet.
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SeanQuinn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:48 PM
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7. Hey, don't forget us Central FLoridians.
I'm here in Seminole county, the north-center of the I-4 corridor. We voted RED, again, but we're getting more and more blue support each election. Hopefully we can be like our neighbors in Orange county and Volusia county and vote blue.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:51 PM
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8. Volusia is blue?
Hmmm. Not sure if the influx of people from outside the area are making a difference in the red/blue balance.

I do know that my county is as red as can be, and it is a pretty bad place to live. We're trying to get out to, at least, a blue county, or out of FL altogether.
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Katarina Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:02 AM
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9. Yes
Volusia is blue. My home county. i'm so proud of them! I am hoping the next county over, Flagler, will be blue next go around. God knows I've been working my ass off to make it so. Don't know if it will happen, good ole boys and all but I'm sure trying!
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:06 AM
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10. Barring election fraud, I believe Florida is truly a blue state
There is no way Gore lost the election by 537 votes in 2000 when they stopped counting, and Kerry lost by much more than that in 2004.
Nobody who voted for Gore in 2000 suddenly decided to vote for Bush in 2004.
On the other hand, I know of a bunch of republicans who voted for Bush in 2000, but voted for Kerry in 2004.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:28 AM
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14. You're in Miami?
Hi. I spent many years there. A truly unique city!
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:40 AM
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16. Born and raised here. Just moved back a few months ago after 10 years
of living away.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:43 AM
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20. Great Cuban restaurants
In many ways, I miss South Florida.

No way like the Old South, although it was sort of that way up until the 70s.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:49 AM
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24. yea, Miami was a southern city up until 1980
Then it became the gateway to Latin America. Miami still has a lot of issues it needs to resolve but its headed in the right direction.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:26 AM
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13. That is amazing.
I will then have to add Volusia to the "blue" column.

What do you think is the reason it went blue?
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:17 AM
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11. Volusia is blue
and its my home and its not a toilet.

DIG?
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:25 AM
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12. Drop it.
Tell you what, you put me on ignore, and I will do the same with you.

Then we won't have to read each other's posts.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:32 PM
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6. I remember this guy.
He's got issues and that's an understatement. He cracked up right before the superbowl a couple years ago.
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:40 AM
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17. Yep. Disappeared the night before playing in the Super Bowl
Spent the game in the hospital for depression and bipolar disorder.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:38 AM
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15. No offense to anyone who lives in Florida...
But that is one fucked up state!!!
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:41 AM
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18. With the exception of Jeb Bush, I really like Florida
Even though it has its insane moments.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:44 AM
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21. Yeah, getting rid of him would be a great first step
...
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:42 AM
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19. Fl has great weather and natural beauty
but when it comes to living here as a working person, well, it leaves much to be desired.

My family came down to FL in the 1950s-60s to try to organize unions for the workers and they workers were terrified. This, of course, is not just in FL.

FL subsists on a "service industry" type of ecomomy-tourism is king.

One ad they were running here about 4-1/2 years ago was about how even Georgia paid it's public school teachers a higher salary!

Florida was loosing teachers to GA.

And of course, Jebbie Bush.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:46 AM
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22. I am convinced Jeb also won the last election by fraud
It will probably all come out one day when it doesn't matter anymore
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:48 AM
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23. *Nothing* would surprise me at this point
in America in general and Florida in particular.

What I like about Miami was the way it was a city unto itself-more like the capital of a South American country.

And I must say, I miss South Beach.

:hi:
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:49 AM
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25. I agree.
All the most messed up news stories seem to originate from Florida. I'm glad we'll be moving away from here in a few months.
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