Feb
05
2012
Fla. bill would ban buying sweets with food stampsFebruary 5, 2012 7:32 AM ETBy KELLI KENNEDY
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Florida’s poor can use food stamps to buy staples like milk, vegetables, fruits and meat. But they can also use them to buy sweets like cakes, cookies and Jell-O and snack foods like chips, something a state senator wants stopped.
Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, also wants to limit other welfare funds, known as Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, from being used at ATMs in casinos and strip clubs and anywhere out of state. The bill comes after reports that the debit cards welfare recipients now receive were used in those places, as well as locations in Las Vegas and the Virgin Islands in a small percentage of cases, but the state does not track what items were purchased.
See the full article from “MSN Money”
Feb
05
2012
Fla. bill would ban buying sweets with food stamps
By KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida’s poor can use food stamps to buy staples like milk, vegetables, fruits and meat. But they can also use them to buy sweets like cakes, cookies and Jell-O and snack foods like chips, something a state senator wants stopped.
Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, also wants to limit other welfare funds, known as Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, from being used at ATMs in casinos and strip clubs and anywhere out of state. The bill comes after reports that the debit cards welfare recipients now receive were used in those places, as well as locations in Las Vegas and the Virgin Islands in a small percentage of cases, but the state does not track what items were purchased.
See the full article from “MiamiHerald.com”
Feb
02
2012
Former Miami Hurricane and current Washington Redskin Rocky McIntosh was a guest on D.C. area sports radio show this morning, and on the day after national signing day the hosts had recruiting on their mind. They started throwing questions at McIntosh about what part strip clubs and hot girls may have played in his decision to attend the U. Well, McIntosh happened to have his phone on speaker, and his wife overheard. Things didn’t go so well.
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Apparently Rocky’s wife Natalie is a U alum as well, and the two met on Rocky’s first day of classes. The pair got married just three days after McIntosh was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Sounds like Mrs. McIntosh didn’t want any strip club stories marring her storybook romance.
See the full article from “Miami New Times (blog)”
Feb
01
2012
Rachel Brown’s attorneys are accusing Michael Brown of spending “community” money his wife might be entitled to, which, based on David Brown’s questioning, include: $7 million for a boat — and $750,000 for a house — in Miami; the leasing of a Bentley or Mercedes to a woman in New York City (who’s also suing Michael Brown for allegedly giving her anal and vaginal herpes); and $60,000 a month on four strippers, among other exorbitant expenditures. (Oddly, David Brown also asked Cave if he knew anything about Brown allegedly flying 1,400 lbs. of clothing to Miami on his private plane.)
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Just a note: we were a little hurt when Kuehn, in addressing the stripper issue, mentioned that the allegations about Stacy Shey and other young women originally surfaced in “some article in some newspaper,” instead of mentioning the Press by name. He also could’ve been courteous enough to give a shout-out to tabloid site TheDirty.com, which originally posted a photo of his freaking client taking a photo of him with a stripper who can be found inserting an arsenal of apparatuses into her orifices on many a web site . Seriously, yo.
See the full article from “Houston Press (blog)”
Feb
01
2012
… I don’t feel that way. I’ll keep fighting until I go,” he said.
In October 1980, then-U.S. Rep. Robert Bauman was widely believed to be the most conservative member of the House of Representatives.
Admirers and critics alike recognized him as an articulate and formidable opponent of the Democrats who controlled both Congress and the White House at the time.
But later that month, his status as a champion of conservative Republican causes and an admired husband and father of four children came crashing down. News surfaced that the FBI and D.C. police accused him of soliciting sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute who apparently used fake identification to land a job as a stripper in a D.C. gay bar called the Chesapeake House, the place where Bauman met him.
See the full article from “Washington Blade”