When Sugar Ain’t Sweet
Okay, so down in South Florida it has been suggested that The South Florida Water Management District buy land owned by US Sugar to use as floodplains to help save the Everglades.
US Sugar and The Tea Party aren’t having that. They decided to protest. When no protesters registered to do it, they decided to hire some.
Good Lord, don’t advertise it on Facebook, you damn fool.
Does somebody want to explain to me how this is any different than the guy who hired prostitute in the story below?
Thanks to Bruce for the heads up.
Nope, no difference. A prostitute is a prostitute is a prostitute.
1Good grief! I thought that only 3rd world countries did this!
2Could we sign up and substitute our own signs when no one was looking? Something like “Save the Everglades, Dump the Teabags.” Or “Sugar and Tea, Ain’t for Me.” And what’s to stop the other side from recruiting their own sign holders by paying more. I can see a bidding war starting right about now.
3A word of caution: They’re meeting at The Gun Club and odds are they’ll be carrying.
I’d go against them (Sugar & Tea) for free.
4Republicans have done this around here, busing in homeless people from Baltimore. Heck, if they want to do that, we’ve got homeless people in this county who could have used the twenty bucks.
5They bussed in a bunch from DC to protest and disrupt ballot counts in 2000 so it isn’t a new tactic or a particularly effective tactic. What I’m guessing is wingnuts want the Everglades filled in for their business buddies to make mucho dinero on real estate at someone else’s expense.The ‘murrican way.
6This thing has been going on for years. I lived in FL from 2001 – 2012. Sugar’s problem is simply this: You’re not paying us enough for the land. We want much more.
That’s it. Cut and dried.
7And, oh yes, Karen D. could use some writing talent:
“So if you are casted [sic] don’t show up late…”
Well, hell, it is Flori-duh.
8I’m a native-born Floridian–Miami. It’s painful to acknowledge that Florida is doomed. The combination of global warming, whack-a-doodle politicians, criminally greedy developers plus clueless consumers combined is too much for that fragile eco-system to survive.
9if it wasn’t for Mississippi and Florida, Texas would be the dumbest state in the union.
10Not so fast, granny…
yellowdoggranny says:
11April 6, 2015 at 4:22 pm
if it wasn’t for Mississippi and Florida, Texas would be the dumbest state in the union.
Day labor?
12Wait just a minute here! I have every reason to believe that Arkansas (Sen. Tom Cotton of recent treason fame) and Alabama are still in the running for “Dumbest State in the Union. Sure, Texas has ’em all beat based solely on “Total Number of Stupid Legislators,” but “Depth of Stupidity” is still in contention.
13So the requirements to be a Republican activist are to be abel to stand behind a fence and hold a sign.
Sounds about right. Sign may be optional.
14Make that “able,” not “abel.” You’d think I was drawing up a Republican sign.
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