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November 11, 2010
Obama, Jesus and Tebow Allegedly Team Up to Harass Florida Man
If Barack Obama is a secret Muslim, then why has he apparently joined a gang with Jesus? Yes, according to requests for restraining orders filed in Aluchua County John D. Gilliand Obama, Jesus of Nazareth and Tim Tebow have teamed up to constantly harass the man by appearing in odd ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Obama Picketed by Gay Rights Activists with Boats & Weather Balloons: Five Lamest NObama Protests
Ian Goldin/GetEQUAL.orgA GetEQUAL protester arrested earlier this year in D.C.Yesterday afternoon, President Obama gazed out over Alonzo Mourning's yard in Coral Gables, past the brightly-painted garden gnomes, and said to himself: What the fuck are giant weather balloons doing here?At least that ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Obama is Supernegro
Ian Goldin/GetEQUAL.orgA GetEQUAL protester arrested earlier this year in D.C.Yesterday afternoon, President Obama gazed out over Alonzo Mourning's yard in Coral Gables, past the brightly-painted garden gnomes, and said to himself: What the fuck are giant weather balloons doing here?At least that ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
People Expect Obama to Be SuperNegro
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke gives President Obama an A on his midterm report card.Despite the mess he inherited from George W. Bush, Barack Obama has ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
President Obama Returning to Miami For Fundraiser with Alonzo Mourning
Following his stops at Gloria Estefan's house and a fundraiser at the swanky Fontainebleau President Obama is coming back to Miami for the the third time this year for yet another cash grab. Miami Heat legend Alonzo Mourning will host the even at this house on October 11.
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September 16, 2010
The Tea Baggers Are Coming! The 5 Angriest Speakers At Doral's 'Taking America Back' Conference
via Huffingtonpost.comDo not be confused if this woman accosts your car in Doral today.If your daily commute takes you through Doral -- and may god have mercy upon your soul for that -- you may notice some usual sights around the exclusive Doral Golf and Spa Resort this morning: grown men dressed ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Obama Advisors Can't Even Get Delis Right
Lee KleinObama should have gone with pastrami -- a more assertive meat than corned beef.It has been widely reported that President Obama and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek stopped by Jerry's Famous Deli on South Beach after their fundraiser at the Fontainebleau. Never mind that the Prez ordered one of t ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Obama Visits Miami Today to Stump for Sink, Snap $10,000 photos
Pete Souza, White House BlogObama just can't get enough of Florida. Must be the fumes coming off our nice, oily ocean.A day after ex-prez Bill Clinton turned on the smiles for US Senate-hopeful Kendrick Meek, none other than President Obama himself is set to visit Miami today to stump for the Dem ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Barack Obama / "Whoomp There It Is" Update: Stephen Colbert, Tag Team Speak Up
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cObama's Whoomp! There It Is Controversywww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox NewsOn Tuesday, we discussed here the widely circulating Internet theory that it appeared as though Barack Obama had appeared in the video for ... More >>
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June 8, 2010
Was Barack Obama in Tag Team's "Whoomp (There It Is!)" Video?
The look alike in question... Obama with bling?Ahhh, the early '90s: A time for plaid shirts, grunge, cheesy pop hits, and rump-shaking. And, of course, Tag Team. The Atlanta duo's hit "Whoomp (There It Is)" hit number two on the pop charts in 1993, and is certified four-times platinum in the U.S ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Saturday Night Live Alum Victoria Jackson: Barack Obama is the New Fidel Castro
Jay Leno and other celebrities were at the White House this weekend for the correspondents' dinner, aka nerdprom. This is the event where the president and the press chummy it up and poke fun of each other for a couple of hours. Obama killed. Leno didn't.via shalfThat's where the White House went ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Gloria Estefan Is About to Get Tea Bagged
Gloria and Emilio Estefan's decision to hold a swanky $30,400-per-couple fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee featuring Barack Obama didn't sit well with many in Miami's largely Republican Cuban-American community. Hell, Herald columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa even gave ink to the idea ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
Does Obama Want to Ban Fishing?
Is President Obama planning on taking away your right to fish? The short answer is no, but that hasn't stopped a bunch of right wing bloggers from causing a fuss over it.ESPN Outdoors columnist Robert Montgomery wrote a slightly misleading piece about an obscure committee suggestion regarding mar ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Did Obama Bow to the Mayor of Tampa?
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Last year when Barack Obama was in Florida, he engaged in the "man hug" heard around the right wing. Now his body language has caused another needless brouhaha, after an AP photographer caught the POTUS apparently bowing to Pam Iorio, the mayor of Ta ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Happy First Anniversary of Gitmo's 'Final Days!' Too Bad It's Still Full of Prisoners
One year ago, I traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to watch firsthand as President Barack Obama pledged to close the extrajudicial prison. One year later, these guys are still hanging out by the Caribbean.I was witness to Guantánamo's "final days," I wrote. It seemed like a reasonable thin ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Five in Homestead Fasting In Hopes of Forcing Obama to Halt Deportations
Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn't been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office. via fastforourfamilies.org Jenny Aguilar, a Honduran who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years but now faces deportation, is fasting in Homestead along with four ot ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
America Made Beautiful
Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn't been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office. via fastforourfamilies.org Jenny Aguilar, a Honduran who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years but now faces deportation, is fasting in Homestead along with four ot ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Spineless U.S. Congress Kills Latest Hopes to Close Gitmo
Back in February, I visited the Guantanamo Bay prison camp during President Obama's inauguration. At the time, it sure seemed like I was witnessing the last days of a ugly chapter in American history. Obama's first act as president was an order to close the place. The head of the detention center ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Alan Grayson For President in 2012 Movement Exists
via this store where you can stock up on your Alan Grayson for 2012 gearAccording to a recent survey of "Washington Insiders," South Florida's Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the house member with the brightest political future (as in prepare for Speaker Wasserman Schultz someday), but a gr ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Gloria Estefan Grills Obama About Important Santa Claus-White House Policy
Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Marco Rubio May Not Have Hugged Obama, but He Would Have Taken His Stimulus Money
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio's senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president's stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican Governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including your mor ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
The Blueprint
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio's senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president's stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican Governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including your mor ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Letters from the Issue of November 5, 2009
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio's senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president's stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican Governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including your mor ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's latest exhibits
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio's senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president's stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican Governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including your mor ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
President Obama fails to go after those responsible for the financial meltdown
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio's senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president's stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican Governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including your mor ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Top Ten Thursdays: Top Ten Songs for Obama Haters
via rpof.orgJim Greer thinks censorship is very American.All summer long I have gone shit-house-rat-crazy observing the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove and the rest of The Right's evil elite dispense fear-mongering falsehoods in a desperate attempt to stop some much nee ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
News Roundup
Some county commissioners want to cut Mayor Alvarez's budget next year after revelations that some staff members make more than President Obama's people. [Herald]In other embattled mayor news, Manny Diaz has scheduled a second vote on Miami 21 for September 4. [SFBJ]A 13-year-old boy in No ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Floridians Sure Have Some Funny Ideas About Health Care Reform
via A R B O's flickrAccording to a new Quinnipiac poll, 58% of Floridians support creating a government health insurance plan, while only 36% oppose it. So it should be good news for supporters of the so-called "public option" that voters in a notoriously moderate swing state seem to be ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
News Roundup
The Florida Medical Association has denounced the racist doctor who sent out that picture of Obama depicted as an aboriginal witch doctor. [Buzz]He has since apologized. He sent an email directly to Obama, which the president will probably never see. Of course, though, the doc still p ... More >>
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July 3, 2009
Remember When GOP Governors Were the Future of Their Party?
The atmosphere at the Intercontinental Hotel in Downtown Miami last November during the Republican Governor's Conference was hopeful. The GOP governors where the only national wing of the party to actually gain membership in the 2008 election, and the line was it was th ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
Gitmo Terrorists Are Coming to Your Back Yard! And to the Tiny Island Nation of Palau?
As we reported in February after a visit to Guantánamo Bay, President Obama faces some pretty damn thorny decisions as he tries to close the notorious prison camp in southeastern Cuba, none tougher than what the heck to do with all the prisoners. via Wikimedia Commons.Soon coming to a backyard near ... More >>
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June 5, 2009
Obamas at Michael's Genuine in Miami's Design District?
image via newstatesman.com Obama in New Orleans John Tanasychuk over at the Sun Sentinel's food blog, Sup, reports that Barack and Michelle ate at Blue Hill in NYC last Saturday for their date night. Blue Hill is sposed to be some kind of local this, organic that, type of place, so Tanasychu ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
Obama Appoints Miami-Raised Miguel Diaz as Envoy to the Vatican
President Obama's relationship with religion is complex, but you can't accuse him of not being thoughtful. When it comes to appointing an ambassador to the Holy See, all but President George W. Bush's third and final appointee have been chosen much like any other Ambassador -- big time don ... More >>
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May 15, 2009
Obama Decides to Keep Grotesque Parody of Justice For Gitmo Detainees
When I visited Guantanamo Bay a few months ago, I caught what looked like the last act in the long, sordid miscarriage of justice President Bush called the military tribunal system. Hope you weren't looking for a fair trial, boys.There were so many outrageous pro ... More >>
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May 7, 2009
Obama for Presidente
He wants you to buy beer and smokes in Liberty City.
Blogs
May 1, 2009
In Liberty City, Obama Wants You to Buy Schlitz Malt Liquor and Newports
Obama is so enthusiastic about these products he added an extra r to his first name. It's tough to drive through Liberty City these days without running into President Obama. He's there on the side of Liberty City Elementary, next to the MLK portrait. He's painted on the walls of at least a c ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
Why Are The Democrats Attacking Obama's Favorite Partner in Hose Grabbing?
I kind of hate when I touch on some point in a throw away joke in a blog entry, and then a little bit later someone with the gift of time, experience and editors makes the same point in a really intriguing, well thought out way. Yesterday, while commenting on the DSCC's early attack ad against Charl ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
Don't Call it Swine Flu
Zero swine flu cases have been found Florida, but that hasn't stopped the Herald from reporting 20 people might, maybe, sorta-kinda be infected. So you can probably blame media -- ourselves included -- for the fact that heathy people have stopped buying bacon and started calling their doctors every ... More >>
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April 27, 2009
Obama's First 100 Days and Barely Any Action on HIV/AIDS
Wednesday will mark the culmination of President Obama's first 100 days in office, and he's done a lot: passed a massive stimulus package, ordered the closure of Gitmo, made a momentous change in travel policy to Cuba, had some pirates shot, and got a dog named Bo. Though, one area where he's moved ... More >>
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April 17, 2009
State Stem Cell Funding Ban Upheld
Last month President Obama repealed the ban on federal funding on stem cell research, but that doesn't necessarily open the door to state funding. Yesterday, the state house voted to keep language in a bill that would bar universities from using state money for embryonic stem cell research 68-46. Th ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
Dear Politicians, Please Exploit Your Family Dogs
The liberal, elitist media would like you to think that Barack Obama is the first ever dog-owning politician in history. Charles Beauregard "Bo" Hussein Kennedy-Obama (yes, we've made that joke today but we will continue to call him that until the Obama administration produces his birth certificate. ... More >>
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April 13, 2009
Obama Calls For Ease on Cuban Travel and Money Transfer Restrictions
It's no surprise; it's been talked about for a while, but today President Obama officially announced that his administration would allow for unlimited travel and money transfer to Cuba by Cuban Americans. The administration will also look in to easing other restrictions, though it is a long, long wa ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
Obama's TV Preferences Reveal Him to Be Shockingly Un-Elitist
The right wing was eager to paint Obama as some sort of arugula-eating hippie elitist with immaculate, highfalutin taste that would turn off the common man. Silently, Riptide wished this was true. Turns out that if Obama's TV habits are any indication, he has the taste of your regular bro. Entourag ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
Silent Liquidity
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March 19, 2009
Peter Max = Front-Runner
Somewhere in a factory in Candyland, there's a giant grid of John McCain portraits, casting 44 slightly insane smiles into the pinkish darkness
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March 13, 2009
The Week That Was
The Herald started out its week on various death lists, cut 175 people (including one on her birthday), and left people questioning whether Miami will even have a daily paper anymore. Meanwhile, one of the paper's more infamous famous employees landed a job, because there is no justice in the world. ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
Get Ready For Crist vs. Clinton in 2016
2016 so, so far away. We're not even sure if human civilization as we know it will exist then, but it's never too soon to make outlandish presidential predictions. We're dreaming of a Crist vs. Clinton matchup. At this point, I don't see a Crist 2012 run as a reality. He's unpopular among ... More >>
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March 9, 2009
Stem Cell-ebration
By wide majorities, Americans love stem cell research. According to Gallup numbers 64% find it morally acceptable, and 52% support easing the restrictions or having none at all. Today, your president Barack Obama repealed his predecessor's strict limits on stem cell research, which cr ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Bobby Jindal Ruined Rick Sanchez's Cardio Work Out
via Chris CopinsRick Sanchez, who apprently did not get the memo from Babalu that all Miami-raised Cuban Americans should be blindly devoted to the Republican party, just wanted to have a nice workout on his treadmill last night and watch the Obama speech. But then this Bobby Jindal guy came on, and ... More >>
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