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[B]Your vote counts, nah just kidding [/B]

On [URL='https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435518/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1246.pdf']a 6-1 vote[/URL] Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court gave its governor all-but-unfettered power to remove locally elected prosecutors — a power that could quickly render Floridians’ “freedom” to “vote” for a prosecutor a fiction unless federal courts step in.

<b>Your vote counts, nah just kidding </b><br />
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On <a href="https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435518/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1246.pdf" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">a 6-1 vote</a> Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court gave its governor all-but-unfettered power to remove locally elected prosecutors — a power that could quickly render Floridians’ “freedom” to “vote” for a prosecutor a fiction unless federal courts step in.

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[B]Your vote counts, nah just kidding [/B]

On [URL='https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435518/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1246.pdf']a 6-1 vote[/URL] Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court gave its governor all-but-unfettered power to remove locally elected prosecutors — a power that could quickly render Floridians’ “freedom” to “vote” for a prosecutor a fiction unless federal courts step in.
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You can't stack the deck without cheating.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Poppaj"><b>Your vote counts, nah just kidding </b><br />
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On <a href="https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435518/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1246.pdf" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">a 6-1 vote</a> Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court gave its governor all-but-unfettered power to remove locally elected prosecutors — a power that could quickly render Floridians’ “freedom” to “vote” for a prosecutor a fiction unless federal courts step in.</blockquote><br />
You can&#039;t stack the deck without cheating.

Professor

Beach Lover

CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, and human beings are responsible for 3% of that 0.04%.

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CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, and human beings are responsible for 3% of that 0.04%.
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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/06/26/humans-have-significant-impact-on-atmospheric-co2-fact-check/70278653007/[/URL]

His math doesn't add up, but you posted it as fact?

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Professor">CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, and human beings are responsible for 3% of that 0.04%.</blockquote><br />

	

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				<div class="contentRow-snippet js-unfurl-desc">The atmosphere is roughly 0.04% CO2, but humans have contributed about one-third of that since 1850.</div>

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His math doesn&#039;t add up, but you posted it as fact?

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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/06/26/humans-have-significant-impact-on-atmospheric-co2-fact-check/70278653007/[/URL]

His math doesn't add up, but you posted it as fact?
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Stop using actual published science to fact check these people it’s down right rude!
Sinclair Broadcasting viewers are entitled to their own alternative facts.

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His math doesn&#039;t add up, but you posted it as fact?</blockquote>Stop using actual published science to fact check these people it’s down right rude!<br />
Sinclair Broadcasting viewers are entitled to their own alternative facts.

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[QUOTE="Poppaj, post: 966571, member: 30199"]
Stop using actual published science to fact check these people it’s down right rude!
Sinclair Broadcasting viewers are entitled to their own alternative facts.
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<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Poppaj">Stop using actual published science to fact check these people it’s down right rude!<br />
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Let's also not forget the irony in him signing the law and South Florida receiving a 1,000 year flood.

Let&#039;s also not forget the irony in him signing the law and South Florida receiving a 1,000 year flood.

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Let's also not forget the irony in him signing the law and South Florida receiving a 1,000 year flood.
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He declared a [URL='https://www.flgov.com/2024/06/12/memorandum-executive-order-24-115-emergency-management-invest-90l-south-florida-flash-flooding/']state of emergency[/URL] on Wednesday for five counties due to heavy flooding in southern Florida just the day after he [URL='https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/06/12/desantis-florida-budget-vetoes-opioids-legislature-projects/']cut[/URL] $205 million in stormwater, wastewater, and sewer projects from the state's budget.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Matt J">Let&#039;s also not forget the irony in him signing the law and South Florida receiving a 1,000 year flood.</blockquote>He declared a <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2024/06/12/memorandum-executive-order-24-115-emergency-management-invest-90l-south-florida-flash-flooding/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">state of emergency</a> on Wednesday for five counties due to heavy flooding in southern Florida just the day after he <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/06/12/desantis-florida-budget-vetoes-opioids-legislature-projects/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">cut</a> $205 million in stormwater, wastewater, and sewer projects from the state&#039;s budget.

conch

"Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades']Glades[/URL] by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the River of Grass. In the questionable name of progress, the state in its vast wisdom lets every two-bit developer divert the flow into drag-lined canals that give him "waterfront" lots to sell. As far north as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corkscrew_Swamp_Sanctuary']Corkscrew Swamp[/URL], virgin stands of ancient [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_cypress']bald cypress[/URL]are dying. All the area north of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copeland,_Florida']Copeland[/URL] had been logged out, and will never come back. As the glades dry, the big fires come with increasing frequency. The ecology is changing with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egret']egret[/URL] colonies dwindling, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(fish)']mullet[/URL] getting scarce, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove']mangrove[/URL] dying of new diseases born of dryness."

Travis McGee
“Bright Orange for the Shroud”  1965

Some things NEVER change.

&quot;Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Glades</a> by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the River of Grass. In the questionable name of progress, the state in its vast wisdom lets every two-bit developer divert the flow into drag-lined canals that give him &quot;waterfront&quot; lots to sell. As far north as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corkscrew_Swamp_Sanctuary" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Corkscrew Swamp</a>, virgin stands of ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_cypress" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">bald cypress</a>are dying. All the area north of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copeland,_Florida" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Copeland</a> had been logged out, and will never come back. As the glades dry, the big fires come with increasing frequency. The ecology is changing with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egret" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">egret</a> colonies dwindling, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(fish)" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">mullet</a> getting scarce, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">mangrove</a> dying of new diseases born of dryness.&quot;<br />
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Travis McGee<br />
“Bright Orange for the Shroud”  1965<br />
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Some things NEVER change.

DeSantis believes his vote counts more than yours and you aren’t a convicted felon

[HEADING=2]Trump’s special treatment in Florida is a privilege other felons don’t get[/HEADING]

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DeSantis believes his vote counts more than yours and you aren’t a convicted felon<br />
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I thought you could only have your voting rights restored after completion of the sentence and full payment of any financial obligations?

Are we just using the "rich white people" pass that Jeb's daughter used to avoid prison time for prescription pill abuse that daddy campaigned on?

I thought you could only have your voting rights restored after completion of the sentence and full payment of any financial obligations?<br />
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Are we just using the &quot;rich white people&quot; pass that Jeb&#039;s daughter used to avoid prison time for prescription pill abuse that daddy campaigned on?

[B]Two articles that define Florida.
One is based on science.[/B]

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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2024-atlantic-hurricane-season[/URL]

<b>Two articles that define Florida.<br />
One is based on science.</b><br />
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