Long shadows, friends.
The Obama administration rejected Governor Rick Scott's request for emergency financial aid from the federal government to help offset costs associated with the Orlando nightclub shooting, basically saying the application did not meet the criteria necessary (beyond the scope of the state's resources, needed to prevent further loss of life, etc.) for an emergency declaration. The administration presumably said something to the effect of either "oh, NOW you want federal money" or "why don't you take it out of your Obamacare funds? Oh, that's right," while sounding all smug. See, this is what happens when our state's governor is widely suspected of being a centuries-old soul-sucking wraith.
A Pinellas County "detention deputy" was terminated for beating an inmate after the inmate reportedly confessed to writing graffiti "derogatory in nature toward law enforcement" on the jailhouse wall. This sounds a lot like the corrections industry version of an asshole business owner going way too far over a crappy Yelp review that happens to be completely justified.
A Florida National Cemetery employee was arrested after it was discovered he stole a wallet from a dead veteran's body before cremating it, and used one of the credit cards to buy pizza and video game credits. The dude is 33. The password is "Redditor."
And finally, all four gun control proposals in front of the Senate were voted down just a week and a day after the Pulse shooting. Anybody who thought another 49 dead Americans might finally be too high a price to pay for the option of owning a war weapon was, of course, delusional.
This article appears in Jun 16-23, 2016.
