I THINK WE HAVE A SHOW….QUEER EYE FOR THE ROBBER GUY….

Just yesterday…we had the “Scruffy Robber”….today we have 2 more………..

BC- Contestant #2…I’ll Take mine to go…..

‘PEMBROKE PINES – Police are looking for a man they say robbed a fast food restaurant minutes after ordering some food.’

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-quiznos-robbery-b0407,0,429237.story

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BC…Contestant #3….SAGGY PANTS….

FORT LAUDERDALE – Police say they’re looking for a gun-toting convenience store robber who appears to have a pattern of wearing brightly colored shorts under his pants.

The thief’s red shorts, which have a white stripe on the side, are visible when his black pants droop. He has made off with about $1,000 during robberies at three 7-Eleven stores and a Walgreens since last year. The most recently reported robbery took place Saturday at the 7-Eleven at 1637 E. Sunrise Blvd., police said.’

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-fort-lauderdale-robber-bn040709,0,7688518.story

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BC- “Scruffy” …in need of a makeover…but how were his teeth?….

‘Fort Lauderdale police hunt scruffy bank robber

FORT LAUDERDALE – Police are hunting for a scruffy-looking man they say robbed a bank this morning and fled in a gold-colored car, possibly a Ford Taurus.

The man is in his 50s and wore a gray T-shirt, police said. No other description was immediately available’

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-bank-robbery-bn040609,0,6803344.story

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BC- OOPS…Computer glitch?….Someone forgot to disclose the disclosures…”Ya all come back now”…..

‘At a time when local governments are posting reams of material online — such as meeting minutes dating to 1915 — public officials’ financial disclosure forms are nowhere to be found on most websites.

Florida has some of the nation’s strongest public records laws requiring politicians to disclose their sources of income and possible conflicts. But for the public, easily finding these forms is another matter.

A spot check of five cities — Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami and Pembroke Pines — showed that none of the elected officials’ disclosure documents was readily accessible online. That’s even though such forms are typically one to two pages.

How important are the forms? Just check current South Florida corruption probes.’

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/983697.html

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BC- We’re all for “green” until things get greasy….

‘Reporting from Spokane, Wash. — By day, Patti Marcotte is a working mom — dealing with the balancing act created by a 5-year-old daughter, a demanding job, a split-level house and a willful boxer puppy.

Come the post-dinner hour, however, Marcotte begins operating in the shadowy world of smuggled soap.’

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-soap-smuggling6-2009apr06,0,3154007.story

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BC- Will be the next Botox /Lasik phenomenon…a store in every mall….30 minute brain erasing?…

‘Now neuroscience, a field that barely existed a generation ago, is racing ahead, attracting billions of dollars in new financing and throngs of researchers. The National Institutes of Health last year spent $5.2 billion, nearly 20 percent of its total budget, on brain-related projects, according to the Society for Neuroscience.

Endowments like the Wellcome Trust and the Kavli Foundation have poured in hundreds of millions of dollars more, establishing institutes at universities around the world, including Columbia and Yale.

The influx of money, talent and technology means that scientists are at last finding real answers about the brain — and raising questions, both scientific and ethical, more quickly than anyone can answer them.

Millions of people might be tempted to erase a severely painful memory, for instance — but what if, in the process, they lost other, personally important memories that were somehow related? Would a treatment that “cleared” the learned habits of addiction only tempt people to experiment more widely?

And perhaps even more important, when scientists find a drug to strengthen memory, will everyone feel compelled to use it?

The stakes, and the wide-open opportunities possible in brain science, will only accelerate the pace of discovery.’

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/health/research/06brain.html?th&emc=th

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BC- Anybody got a key?….

‘Under the Bush team a prominent and profitable bank, under threat of a damaging public audit, was forced to accept less than $1 billion of TARP money. The government insisted on buying a new class of preferred stock which gave it a tiny, minority position. The money flowed to the bank. Arguably, back then, the Bush administration was acting for purely economic reasons. It wanted to recapitalize the banks to halt a financial panic.

Fast forward to today, and that same bank is begging to give the money back. The chairman offers to write a check, now, with interest. He’s been sitting on the cash for months and has felt the dead hand of government threatening to run his business and dictate pay scales. He sees the writing on the wall and he wants out. But the Obama team says no, since unlike the smaller banks that gave their TARP money back, this bank is far more prominent. The bank has also been threatened with “adverse” consequences if its chairman persists. That’s politics talking, not economics.’

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html

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BC- 3 Months and counting…Fireworks should be coming to your town commission….

‘With a bleak outlook on the budget, and orders from the new elected officials to stop all unnecessary spending, city staff are looking for some direction.

During the budget crisis of 2004, the fireworks display, only $35,000 back then, was recommended for cutting. Ernest Burkeen, parks director at the time, rationalized it this way: “If you actually stand on the beach you’ll see fireworks in Pompano, Hollywood, any number of places at the beach. If you’re providing something unique and different, it’s one thing … but you could stand in one place you can see them all the way down to Miami.”‘

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http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2009/04/cost_of_july_4_display_could_b.html

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BC- AARP…Stomped this Senate Mis-”fire” out…for now………..

‘A bill that would remove the requirement that local governments publish their official notices in printed newspapers was halted by the Senate Community Affairs Committee Tuesday, when chairman, Sen. Mike Bennett, said he was ordering a staff study over the summer instead.

The measure, SB 2292, being pushed by Sen. Ronda Storms, would have allowed local governments to replace the printed notice with an internet notice and a direct mailer to citizens who signed up to receive them. Storms said she had no idea how much the shift in practice would cost but noted that cities and counties “loved it.”

By contrast, killing the bill was the top priority of the Florida Press Assocation, and was opposed by AARP and Associated Industries of Florida.’

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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/page/3/

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BC A spoonful of “Sugar” helps the Medicine go down….But this deal is still hard to swallow….

‘A new deal that would call for the state of Florida to spend $533 million to buy 72,500 acres of land from U.S. Sugar was announced this morning by Gov. Charlie Crist.’

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http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2009/04/crist_announces_new_us_sugar_l.html

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BC- Does that Jail time come with free Dental ?…..

‘A man who robbed a bank on Federal Highway this morning was captured shortly afterward and is the “rotten teeth robber” who committed several similar robberies over the past month, according to police and the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Police late this afternoon identified the suspect as Alan Weller, 47, of Lake Worth.’

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-rotten-teeth-robber-caught-bn040109,0,3236509.story

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