I have been watching the DNC Convention coverage lowlights today and saw something funny. There are these protesters who are basically anarchist staging protest of the convention. The media can’t figure out why these guys would be protesting the DNC Convention instead they believe the protesters should be preparing themselves for the RNC Convention. It [...]

The following is an OpEd from the New York Times written by William Kristol about the 4th of July and the Declaration of Independence. I know I haven’t written in a while, but every now and then I start getting very disgusted with politics and don’t have it in me to keep following it. I [...]

Since its Memorial Day weekend I thought I would do something in line with what most of us do over Memorial Day weekend. In your opinion what do you think are the top ten favorite movies of all time. I play this game at work all the time and it is interesting to see the [...]

There is a shortage of qualified, caring male volunteers for the Big Brother Big Sisters of Tampa Bay. Currently there are over 350 boys waiting for a Big Brother and the list keeps growing everyday. Many kids don’t have positive male role models in their lives and the statistics show beyond a doubt that without [...]

YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1200821829_0']={”text”:”Tampa”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/instance/place/destination","shortcuts:/us/instance/place/us/town"],”category”:["PLACE"],”metaData”:{”geoArea”:”462.152″,”geoCountry”:”United States”,”geoCounty”:”Hillsborough”,”geoIsoCountryCode”:”US”,”geoLocation”:”(-82.45929, 27.946501)”,”geoName”:”Tampa”,”geoPlaceType”:”Town”,”geoState”:”Florida”}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1200821829_1']={”text”:”Mardi Gras”,”weight”:0.98647,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/instance/event/holiday"],”category”:["EVENT"]};The one highlight of my year is taking my daughter to the Gasparilla Children’s Parade here in Tampa. It is a great beginning to our Gasparilla festivities, which are like a mini Mardi Gras. Every year, the event has gone fairly well. This year it was terrible. Weather had been an [...]

ex-Prime Minister Bhutto had just finished speaking to a large crowd this morning. The fire in her speech still hung in the air. When she was departing the rally she poked her head outside the roof of her limo to wave at her supporters. Seconds later she was shot by a lone gunman who, after [...]

Now that the Soviet Union isn’t a threat anymore the guys at NORAD are busy doing important work. Want to see where Santa is at or talk live to a NORAD Santa tracker?
NORAD Santa
The number provided on the page is toll free as is the tracking.
Thanks NORAD….
Merry Christmas to all my readers.
Peace
Mark
aka
The Tampa Pirate
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As over half of the country of Greece is burning firemen from all over Europe are helping fight the fires. [[Image:PostImages/991284070inthisimagereleasedbynasaonsaturdayaug25.jpg|left]]Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis declared a nation-wide state of emergency and implied that arson was the cause of some of the blazes. He says so many fires breaking out at one time could not be [...]

Regents at University of Colorado finally grew a set of balls and fired liberal coward Ward Churchill. His firing had nothing to do with his 2002 essay in which he called the victims who were killed in the World Trade Center the same as Nazis said the regents. In his essay he also wrote the [...]

To all my fellow Americans regardless of political leaning, creed, religion, etc and all our brave men and women who are fighting and dying to keep us safe from our enemies… God Bless you and your families and God Bless the USA….

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