Tag: Florida

Fact: Climate Change Isn’t Making All Hurricanes Disappear

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Kirk is adrift, Leslie is lost, and Invest 97L is a hair west of Cape Verde and likely to follow them around the central Atlantic. Milton burned out fast after a CAT 3 landing (Sorry, climateers – no Cat 6 superstorm), making a mess, but that’s what hurricanes do, and a lot less often than … Read more

As Milton Stalks Florida – A Look at Some FLA Hurricane History

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

The prolonged drought of landfall hurricanes during the global warming era has been a sore spot for the Climate Chicken(s) Little. Regular readers know this and have come here regularly to reload their narrative blow torches for battles in the multi-platformed, not always social internet media universe. A search for Hurricane produces nearly 300 results. … Read more

Social Media Used to Get Govt. To Take Children from Christian Family

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024

by Aaron Warner

As if social media wasn’t toxic enough, it has now been weaponized by a Reddit group to target “fundamentalist Christians” explicitly. The group @FundieSnarkUncensored lists as its primary purpose: “This is a snark sub for fundamentalist Christians – keep it fundie & keep it snarky. While we welcome snarkers from all different backgrounds, the people … Read more

Florida Bans Manufacture and Sale of Lab-Grown Meat

May 3, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

No compilation of urban legends would be complete without mentioning cafeteria-style mystery meat. It is shaped like meat, colored (and cooked) like meat, but would it stand up to even casual scrutiny? Stories about schools saving money by cheating out on food were spurious at best. Schools don’t try to save money.

Things You Will Never Hear Sun-King Chris Sununu Say …

May 1, 2024

by Ed Mosca

Here is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis telling the Biden-Regime to pound sand in response to the Regime’s redefining Title 9 … which is supposed to protect girls and women … to accommodate men and boys who identify as girls and women: FLORIDA WILL NOT COMPLY.

Florida Grand Jury Finds COVID Response Likely Did More Harm than Good

February 10, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

If you’d forgotten, the State of Florida impaneled a Grand Jury to determine “whether pharmaceutical companies and other medical organizations engaged in criminal activity or wrongdoing’ in their participation in the rollout of COVID-19 “vaccines.” They’ve released their first interim report.

So, You Were Saying That Trans and Queer People Sexually Assault Children?

January 31, 2024

by Auntie Vaquser

From the “pay no attention to the transman behind the curtain” file, we have this massive self-own from an individual who was concerned about a law in Florida that would allow the death penalty for those who sexually abuse children.

DeSantis And Florida Took the Janus Decision to Its Next Logical Step

January 5, 2024January 4, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Teacher’s Unions are sinister private entities whose only concern is how much money they can make and how best to use that to impact politics at every level of government. Sure, Janus v. AFSCME was a great decision, but the war against public employee unions continues, and Ron DeSantis is leading that fight.

School Choice: Florida Leads the Way

December 14, 2023

by Ian Underwood

I just read (in Reason) that about half of Florida students are participating in some kind of school choice program. So I thought: Wow, things must be looking up in Florida, right? Academic achievement must be soaring because of all that freebie market competition.

High School Plays FAFO with Florida’s Protections for Biological Girls’ Sports Teams … Gets Fined $16K+

December 15, 2023December 14, 2023

by Auntie Vaquser

If you were wondering how serious Florida was about protecting girls’ and women’s sports, this might be your answer. Monarch High School has been put on Administrative probation and fined 16,500.00 for allowing a boy to play on a girl’s volleyball team.

About That 100+ Degree “Ocean” Water in Florida …

August 4, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Did you hear about that time when the press reported Atlantic Ocean temperatures over one-hundred degrees? It was this week. The South Florida,hot tub analogy is accurate (sort of), but not the way the media sold it. The ocean bouy was in salt water, but inland, inside the barrier reef, in shallow water, at low tide.

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Banning AP Courses? As If.

August 4, 2023

by Ian Underwood

Florida may have banned its public schools from teaching the AP Psychology course. That is, it may or may not be true that the course contains material that is prohibited by a recent law from inclusion in public school curricula. But this rather misses the point, I think. Or rather, a couple of important points. … Read more

If Gas Is Bad In Appliances Why Is Kamala’s Gaslighting Good?

August 3, 2023

by Op-Ed

Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Ron DeSantis over the African-American history curriculum in Florida, claiming that state officials want to “gaslight” students by teaching fallacies and that “… enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

Florida Probate: Nothing to Fear

July 30, 2023

by Norm Silber

Although there are various strategies to “avoid” probate anywhere, there are two general situations in which New Hampshire residents may have to deal with probate matters in Florida. Those situations are (a) a NH resident dies owning Florida real estate, typically a vacation residence; and (b) a NH resident has a relative who dies as … Read more

Middle Schoolers Cannot Handle Slavery

July 27, 2023

by Ray Cardello

I heard the line today that became the title of this article, and I choked on my drink. The topic for today is the new Black History Curriculum developed in Florida for Middle Schoolers. Governor DeSantis assembled a team of scholars, including two Black intellectuals, to write an accurate account of slavery in America.

Let’s Talk About Sex Trafficking and That New Hampshire/West Palm Beach Connection

September 20, 2024July 14, 2023

by Claire Best

An attorney in West Palm Beach, Florida, has been arrested for possessing thousands of images of child pornography. He is an attorney who represents the DNC and was active against sex abuse.

Florida Drag Show Law Gets Tossed Out

June 27, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

There was much praise from the center-right and parent’s groups when Florida passed a law to protect children from drag shows. Gov. DeSantis signed it, but a court just tossed it out. For all its good intentions, it was poorly written and contradicted existing law.

DeSantis Losing in New Hampshire, Polling Updates, and a Question for Republicans* That Won’t* Vote for Trump

June 26, 2023June 26, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

As we approach the July 4th Weekend, the polls that didn’t seem to mean much – or perhaps “shouldn’t be taken seriously” – are beginning to mean a lot more, and that’s a problem for Ron DeSantis. He was doing better when they didn’t appear to mean much.

Trump, Apparently, Believes Lockdowns “Worked,” And Presumably Would Lockdown Again

June 3, 2023

by Ed Mosca

A little dated … but extremely relevant. Trump claims that Andrew Cuomo was a better COVID-Governor than DeSantis. There are no facts/data to support this claim. Indeed, the facts/data disprove this claim … Florida had a larger and much, older population than New York and when scale is accounted for did better than New York. … Read more

Florida’s Surgeon General Takes CDC and FDA to the COVID19 Woodshed

May 13, 2023May 13, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

The Surgeon General for the state of Florida, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, is not well-liked among the liberal intelligentsia. Sure, he’s a successful black man, but that is overshadowed by his refusal to parrot the approved public health narratives.