Friday, May 15, 2015

"Every day you can grow sugar is a great day for Florida" ... by gimleteye

News Summary for May 15: Tom Brady, the NFL star, will lose four games because of his complicit role in deflating footballs to his team's advantage. Johnny Depp faces jail time in Australia for smuggling his two Yorkshire terriers into the country by private jet. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West argue over the taking of selfies. Andy Borowitz reports Jeb Bush says what he thinks about Iraq in unimportant because he will never be president. In New Smyrna Beach, a woman with four kids in the car claimed she had eaten four "hamburgers with whiskey on them" and that's why she failed a sobriety test after being pulled over by police while breast-feeding a 2-month-old child. Three other children, ages 1, 3 and 4 were in the back seat of the car. Political appointees to the governing board of the South Florida Water Management District rejected the option to buy US Sugar lands, despite appeals by environmental groups and citizens despairing over Big Sugar's domination of the state legislature and the industry's non-stop effort to subvert democracy. Sugar spokesperson Judy Sanchez said every day you can grow sugar is a great day for Florida. Gov. Rick Scott wonders what it will take to get noticed by @_FloridaMan.

Judy Sanchez

1 comment:

Malagodi said...

Florida: Open for corruption.