Woohoo, Random Links!

Ugh, I did not vote for her and this shit needs to stop:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/attorney-general-pam-bondi-asks-us-supreme-court-to-intercede-in-floridas/2210338

Florida might be number 2 in Technology job creation but our wages suck:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/compared-to-other-states-floridas-average-wages-slip-badly/2210060

Carl Hiaasen also writes great columns for the Miami paper:
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article4300893.html

Yes, we have reached the point where there are groups, like Conservatives for Energy Freedom and The Green Tea Party, full of Republicans wanting more solar power and other energy alternatives than just fossil fuels!

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/tea-party-pushing-for-florida-to-step-up-solar-energy-efforts/2202617

But this is what all of us are up against:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/01/3597747/florida-psc-energy-efficiency-vote/

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/05/08/14719/us-chamber-targets-dems-state-attorney-general-races

The Scientologists are also determined to run Clearwater and keep Winter out of downtown. I'd like to see that as the third Winter film but I know no one's going to touch the Scientologists that way. I don't know if any of you were around for it but the Scientologists went on the rampage about 8-10 years ago and they threatened to sue every public forum online who dared to talk about them behind their back. I was on one such forum where the maintainers turned chicken and said we could no longer discuss Scientology there.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/church-of-scientology-resists-clearwater-aquariums-plans-to-move-downtown/2204311

P.S. Have some cute:
http://www.wfla.com/story/26806063/lowry-park-zoos-newborn-pygmy-hippo-to-get-name-in-voting-contest