God BLESS! (aka, WTF, Florida?)

I have been wanting to post for several days now but I've been inundated with friends and family from up north escaping the frigid single digits (that's single Farenheit for you foreigners) for Florida's slightly chilled 50/60 degree weather.

But I'm glad I didn't because otherwise I could not come up with this small omnibus of crackpot issues that esssentially tie back to the state of Florida. Which makes me wonder, what kind of freak-magnet is the state of Florida anyway? Lets looks what's just happened since I've posted:

1. El Nino, which is affecting the whole of North America, give the middle finger to Florida as it incites killer tornadoes literally shredding the St. Johns portion of the I-4 corridor to shreds to an extent it was reported on nationally and internationally.
2. The Bears lose the Superbowl to the Indianapolis Colts, held in Miami. The Bears cannot seem to win in Miami ever.
   
3. Anna Nicole Smith's bizarre and psychotic life ends in Florida despite having her freak on everywhere else, she's got to bring her side show here
4. A (nother) Disney employee is arrested for doing something illegal involving children. Again.
5. Lisa Nowak, a relatively unknown NASA astronaut decides to relocate herself from Houston wearing an adult diaper* and drive to..yep, "The Freak Magnet State" to "talk" to a PAFB officer utilizing pepper spray, rubber tubing, a hammer, a 4 inch knife, rubber gloves and lover letters.
   

That's just the last week.

Never mind what has gone on in this state historically from record and repeated hurricanes, the "Hanging Chad" issue, a state ruling affected a presidential election where the Governer is the brother of the presidential candidate, the Elian Gonzalez affair, the Terri Schiavo case bringing the hottest Right To Life debate ever... there are plenty more but that's just what comes to mind. I know I think every week when I watch the news that Florida constantly is finding itself knee deep in some bizarre and/or sick controversy making us look like the Drama Queen State or summat. And with the weather (this year we've had hurricanes, tropical storms, an earthquake, killer tornadoes and snow), it would appear that we are Mother Nature's chew toy in addition to being an idiot magnet. Which might explain why so many people get bit by sharks and alligators here, as well.

*It's not that weird for an astronaut to do that, is it? I mean, they are used to defecating into things other than toliets for long periods of time so I would think she'd think nothing of being confined in a car for 10 hours and just doing her biological thang right into a receptacle attached to her...