Well, I’ve come back to Florida in time to watch it go down the toilet under nutjob Governor Rick Scott. If you want to watch a sad and pathetic spectacle, I guess it beats paying a hundred bucks to go see Charlie Sheen. Florida is a big retirement destination. It used to be that people came to Florida to spend their declining years here. I’ve come back to Florida to spend Florida’s declining years here. But then Florida should be one of the more resilient states. Alligators have remained essentially unchanged for 200 million years. If the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t kill them, they’ll probably survive Rick Scott too.Hour Two Guest: Randi meets her new congressman, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL)
Florida Pastor Terry Jones has ignited riots and killings in Afghanistan by burning a Koran. Great! Just in time for me to have to wince extra hard at the “Florida” part. Terry Jones is such a creepy slimeball that I’m frankly shocked that Floridians didn’t elect him governor. Pastor Jones was unrepentant, saying “We do not feel responsible.” Really? Do you feel irresponsible? Because in this scenario, you are both totally irresponsible and totally responsible.
I wonder if Pastor Terry Jones and Reverend Fred Phelps look at what the other one is doing and think “Dang, I wish I had thought of that!” These guys should get together and have some sort of contest to see who is really the craziest. I guess as a Florida resident, I would have to pull for Terry Jones. He’s the home team now. Wow. As a home team, Terry Jones a lot more embarrassing than even the Washington Nationals ever were.
Today is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis. Dr. King was in Memphis that April day in 1968 to support striking city sanitation workers. Today, union workers and their supporters around the country are holding marches to honor Dr. King’s legacy. Dr. King is remembered for his opposition to racism, but to the people who want to keep working-class folks in their place, racism is just a means to an end. In Memphis itself today, sanitation workers from the 1968 strike will join union workers in a march honoring King. The good news is that those original strikers are still marching after all these years. The bad news us that the situation is still such that they have to continue marching after all these years.
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Martin Luther King Jr’s prophetic words the day before an assassin’s bullet took his life…
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