Florida news: a Fort Lauderdale suburb has passed an ordinance that makes it a crime to sell anything on the street—or to buy anything from someone on the street. Nice work, "City Atty. Donald J. Doody." [LAT. Pic: Flickr]

Nasty Man Rudy Giuliani is endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate in Florida. Though it's more of a petty, pointed non-endorsement of Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Giuliani just hates that guy.

Here's a story to ruin this gorgeous Friday evening. A Florida man convicted of scamming restaurants out of milkshakes and beef jerky (seriously) just dodged prison time because he is too fat. Only in America. But especially in Florida. [DailyMail]

13 state attorneys general (three of whom are running for governor) filed lawsuits against a provision of health care reform that will not actually go into effect until 2014. Tort reform now!

Florida governor Charlie Crist must wake up every morning and wonder what happened? He used to be the most popular man in Florida. Now he's telling Greta Von Susteren that his primary opponent gets his back waxed on your dime.

Yes, a Florida 6-year-old went so bananas at school two days in a row that the police had to have her thrown in the looney bin. She kicked, screamed, threw things, and punched her pregnant principal in the belly!

[People gather in Florida early this morning to catch a glimpse of the space shuttle Endeavor taking off in NASA's last planned night launch. Image via NASA]

Marco Rubio is going the be the Republican candidate for Senate in Florida this year. He is handily beating formerly popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist, because Crist is too moderate and too probably gay. This Rubio guy, though—he is basically the next Scott Brown! Except that once he destroys Crist in the primaries by running way to Charlie's right, it will be a lot harder for him to shift back to Florida's soft, mushy center. Especially when he is already coming out against taxing or regulating banks at all in any fashion. (We are so baffled by these Tea Party people! Aren't they anti-bailout? Anti-bailout and anti-preventing-future-bailouts?) Oh, right: he is beating Crist in the polls. They're both ahead of the Democrat, but the Democrat has not yet begun actually campaigning against this man who loves banks so much he wants to marry them.

[Two security guards take pictures of radio host Meredith Walusek outside of Tiger Wood's house in Florida. Her sign says, "Tiger—They offered me $500,000—I'm keeping my mouth shut!" Image via Getty]

It's basically a given that the president's party will lose seats after his first midterm (except when 9/11 happens). So let's not get our hopes up. But Republicans really wanna try to prove that bit of conventional wisdom wrong.

With possibly 8 people shot and 2 dead (authorities confirm 1 dead and 5 shot), police have locked down downtown Orlando, Florida, looking for Jason Rodriguez, who shot up an office building earlier today. Update: Rodriguez has been apprehended.

In case you were wondering, Sheree Silver—Florida-based psychic adviser and Wife Swap spouse of Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene—has updated her psychic reading of the tragic case.

Let's fire up those Death Panels! (That is still funny and relevant, right?) Old people are once again responsible for our Broken Politics.

In grand Floridian style, a priest has been accused of knocking up an ex-stripper.

Oh look, a student at the University of Florida totally liked Tucker Max's movie. Probably because Tucker has irrefutable photographic evidence that he hooked up with Tim Tebow, right on the football field. A commenter sums up the situation best:

Disney sent representatives and stars to last month's Comic-Con, but apparently the company isn't content with collective marketing, because they're launching their own event, the D23 Expo.

Three Disney World employees have died at work in the last month and a half. Disney World is a hellish soul-eating death vortex.

[Inglorious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino gets blown away by the rapper during his performance outside the Today show. Image via Getty]

Mel Martinez (R-FLA) is resigning from the Senate. Not in a "not seeking reelection sense," but in a "not coming back from the recess" sense. Why? The dreaded "family reasons."

So last night Rep. Kathy Castor held a health care reform town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida, a meeting crashed by wingnuts yelling "Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!", and a riot basically broke out.