A
Compelling Harassment Epic
Source: AP
When
a Lee County (Florida) bureaucrat got
caught playing horizontal bingo with her
boss, Lee County Appraiser Ken Wilkenson
in Spring 2002, she quit her job then
sued, claiming he dumped her when the
News Nazis started reporting their trysts.
Pissed - and then some - she played sexual
harassment roulette, claiming that he
manipulated her into boinking him, then
forced her into resigning when the bovine
excrement hit the fan. Settling out of
court, the horndog shelled out $35,000
in 'go away' money...$10,000 for her,
the rest for her shyster. In addition,
he got her a new government job, under
a new boss.
Fast
forward to the present...The woman and
her boss are back in the fishwraps:
'...When a reporter told Wilkinson Tuesday
that he and [sexual harassment 'victim'
Julie] Dalton had been seen together on
Christmas Eve, Wilkinson said: "I've atoned
for my sins. It cost me a marriage."...'
(AP)
Tragically
- shoddy journalism rears its ugly head
- we're left with an inevitable question.
Is our heroine, Julie, horizontally gifted
in the extreme, or simply the only female
who ever found this loser - Wilkerson
- a suitable sexual playmate? Enquiring
minds want to know.
Afterthoughts
The shut up money payout distribution
tells you all you'll ever need to know
about our shyster-plagued country. The
so-called victim gets $10,000. Her shyster
gets the lion's share, $25,000. What's
wrong with this picture? Every-damn-thing.
Terrors
Of Drive Thru Technology
Source: Ananova
Fast
food junkies getting their fix at a Troy,
Michigan Burger King are hearing more
than 'order please' coming from the drive
thru squawk box. Thanks to some clever
teenagers, the drive thru speaker is no
longer under Burger King's control, not
after these teenage pranksters tapped
into Burger King's wireless frequency.
'...Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the
pranksters told one customer who had just
placed an order: "You don't need a couple
of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead."...'
(Ananova)
This
is funny stuff, but Burger King isn't
laughing over this terrors of technology
outbreak in their own backyard. Were these
pranksters inspired? You better believe
it, do you want fries with that Sparky.
Burger
King Squawk Box Update
Source: PIG News Wire
Burger
King officials aren't the only ones who
want to catch the drive-up squawk box
pranksters. The FCC dispatched a signal
detection truck to help nab the pesky
lads, but it might all be in vain, since
the pranksters are smart enough to stay
off the air, until their hunters get bored
and give up. Stay tuned for more thrilling
updates on this terrors of technology
epic.
It's
Never Too Late To Say 'I'm Sorry'?
Source: Houston Chronicle
A
Lone Star State cross cult cabal - The
Tarrant Baptist Association - voted, unanimously,
to apologize for slavery, a no shit 'better
late than never' endeavor. Their resolution
prods Mexas (Texas) state Educrats to
impose a history of slavery requirement
on Mexas cess-school inmates. Big fun.
You can bet the proverbial farm that this
course bull's-eyes Amerika, exclusively,
and whitewashes Sand Rat slavery - it
lasted longer and enslaved more individuals
- plus it won't say a word about Africans
enslaving other Africans...right damn
now...today! Korrect to the max? Oh hell
yes.
Afterthought
The down and dirty here is reparations.
That's why this holy roller cabal wants
Mexas legicrats to 'officially' apologize
too, because a legicrat 'We're sorry,
too' brings the reparations bonkers ethnocrats
one step closer to a big payoff.
Show
Me State Toll Booth Adventure
Source: PIG News Wire
When
a Missouri cross cult cabal - The Life
Christian Center - got a personal appearance
from a dude claiming to be the cross dude
himself, the toll booth's padre told the
agitated 'savior' to hit the road because
he hadn't scheduled his Sunday morning
visit ahead of time. Unwilling - unable?
- to smite these unfriendly holy rollers
for this chilly reception, the visitor
got their undivided attention...big damn
time...when he drove his car through the
toll booth's front doors.
Local
authorities offered this persistent visitor
their special cross dude suite in the
gray bar hotel, so it's safe to assume
the toll booth isn't 'turning the other
cheek', this time. I'm guessing a heartfelt
'amen' from this Missouri congregation
is also out of the question. I can live
with that.
FEBRUARY 2004
Emerilizing the
Gay Marriage Debate
Source: AP
The Massachusetts high court Emerilized their
recent gay marriage ruling today, waking
up the family values Nazis with a resounding
'bam'. Annoyed - to put it mildly - by the
state's legicratic dithering, the justices
amplified their initial ruling - big damn
time - launching the family values storm
troopers, from sea-to-shining-sea, into
orbit, in the process.
'...[the high court] ruled Wednesday that
only full, equal marriage rights for gay
couples - rather than civil unions - would
be constitutional, erasing any doubts
that the nation's first same-sex marriages
would take place in the state beginning
in mid-May...' (AP)
Hold onto your hats, loyal readers. The fun
is just getting started.
Tax Revolt
Source: CNN
Last August, faced with a whopping deficit
and incapable of making the necessary cuts,
Oregon legicrats nailed state taxpayers
with an eye-popping $800 million dollar
tax increase. It's safe to report that this
scheme didn't thrill Oregon citizens spitless.
Manning the tax revolt barricades, outraged
citizens put an tax repealing initiative
on the ballot so fast it made hack heads
spin.
The votes just got tabulated and the results
aren't going to make the legicrats' day:
'...With 95 percent of precincts reporting
early Wednesday, the measure was failing
59 percent to 41 percent. Rejection of
the tax package automatically triggers
$544 million in spending cuts on May 1...'
(CNN)
Kudos to Oregon citizens for slapping down
their free-spending hacks. In a perfect
world, other taxed into poverty Amerikans
would emulate your sterling example. If
only...but I'm not convinced that the rest
of this nation has your gumption.
Super Bowl Victory Riots
Source: Boston Globe
Honoring a recent tradition, football crazed
Northeastern University punks staged a victory
riot last Sunday, an event that sent local
hacks on a frantic search for someone to
blame. Before the dust settled, Mayor Menino
decreed - in record time - that liquor stores
were the villains. Big fun, but two pesky
facts don't support this finger-pointing
hack's contention.
'...several of the stores nearest to Northeastern
University shut down within a half hour
of the game's kickoff Sunday night...'
(Globe)
In 2002 there was a similar, Super Bowl
riot, and back then liquor stores couldn't
open on Sunday.
Unwilling - unable - to track down the guilty
individuals, hacks beat up on business owners,
instead. If you look up 'assclown' in your
dictionary, you'll find Mayor Menino's mug
shot.
A Mexas Recall Fiasco
Source: CBS
Saturday, Kingsville (Mexas) voters rushed
to the polls and recalled three city officials,
but a catch-22 might delay their 'good riddance'
celebration until May. The city's defrocked
mayor and his two city commission cohorts
admit that they've been 'untimely ripped'
from office, but aren't anywhere close to
emptying out their desks. For that thrilling
Paul Harvey Moment, we need to cite the
CBS boob tube affiliate in Corpus Christi:
'...[Defrocked Mayor] Castillo says the secretary
of state's office has advised him to stay
until he's replaced with an election.
Critics say an election can't be held
until May, and the officials should leave
office as soon as a canvass of votes is
finished in about a week...'
Although a shyster drama seems inevitable,
this pagan must remind his readers that
we're talking about Mexas, a state that
takes the 'right to keep and bear arms'
very damn seriously. Armed and dangerous?
You better believe it, Second Amendment
Sparky.
Zero Tolerance In Minneapolis
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
(2/25)
When Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybak left his
car running at the curb - unattended, the
local men in blue noted it, but decided
not to risk involuntary leisure status -
paganese for getting fired - by issuing
him a citation. No shit business as usual
in virtually every city, burg or wide spot
in the road, this badge packer response
is hardly breaking news. That all changed
when the new police chief, Bill McManus,
heard about the Mayors unticketed infraction.
Faster than a badge packer doughnut run,
the new Chief takes matters into his own
hands and issues his boss a citation. Bold
new concept.
According to this fishwrap, the Mayor and
Chief discussed it, agreed that the Chief
did the right thing and let the matter drop.
Yeah, right, but I'm betting the Mayor will
get his pound of flesh, down the road, when
the Chief comes hat in hand, needing some
Mayoral largesse. Payback is a bitch, Chief...Live
carefully...Live very carefully.
Corporate Welfare Fiasco
Source: WGAL - Pennsylvania Boob
tube (2/25)
Meyer Packaging narrowly eluded capitalist
oblivion, last August, when the feds served
up $6 million in dead presidents worth of
loan guarantees to keep the firm operating.
The 70 Meyer employees applauded this taxpayer
funded fiscal lifeline, but they're probably
wondering what the hell happened, now that
the plant closed anyway. That's right, corporate
welfare fans, Meyer closed it's doors, leaving
the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the
hook for $4.5 million and the Small Business
Administration holding $1.5 million in defaulted
loans.
When the dust finally settled, and federal
officials finished cleaning loan default
egg from their faces, the firm's real problems
slither out into the open. Meyer Packaging
closed, 'because many of their corporate
customers moved jobs overseas and packaging
went with them'. That sounds right to this
pagan, but it's doubtful - in the extreme
- that company bean counters didn't know
this when they accepted the guaranteed loans.
It's always thrilling to watch the feds
squander 'our' money so eagerly, with such
mind-numbing stupidity. We are profoundly
unamused.
MARCH
2004
Navy Declares War On John Q. Public
Source: Boston
Globe [3/27]
From our no good deed goes unpunished desk,
we have this cautionary tale about a man,
a wrecked plane and heavy-handed federal
bureaucrats. Our saga begins in 1990,
when a citizen fished a WWII era Navy Corsair
from the North Carolina swamp where it languished,
unlamented, unwanted since 1944. Taking
the wreckage to his Minnesota domicile,
he registered it as a 'non airworthy' aircraft
with the FAA, then began the slow, painful
process of putting the venerable aircraft
back together. Ten plus years later,
he's still at it, but far from finished.
The way things now stand, he might never
get the chance to finish his labor of love.
You see, the Navy, belatedly, decided it
wants the damn thing back.
'...Last
week, the U.S. Justice Department, acting
as an agent for the Navy, filed a lawsuit
in Minneapolis seeking the plane, the
cost of returning it and compensation
for ''any damage to or alteration of''
the aircraft since Cralley dug it out
of the swamp...' (Boston Globe)
U.S. Attorney General, John Assclown and
his Justice Department goons want the plane
back and they want it right damn now, but
they're not willing to tell this citizen
why. Since John Q. Public has no chance
in hell of beating Assclown and his law
degree packing Gestapo, I strongly suggest
that the citizen put the plane on a truck,
drive back to the swamp where he found it
and dump it back into the muck were the
god damn feds can do their own dirty work.
Doesn't the Navy and the so-called Justice
Department have better things to do than
hammer a citizen?
If this plane is so damn important, why
did you ignore it for nearly four decades?
If this plane is so vital to national security,
why didn't you federal asshats pull the
damn thing from the swamp when the Navy
'stripped the downed aircraft of its weapons
and other equipment before leaving it' (Globe)
in 1944? You had your shot at this
thing and blew it so butt the hell out.
Don't make me come over there, John.
Devilish Details
Source: USA Today [3/23]
This fishwrap's hit piece on media giant,
Clear Channel, uses corporate and executive
political donations to indict the firm for
blatant, pro-elephant clan bias. Alarmed
scribblers, breathlessly, report the following
'facts':
'...[Clear
Channel executives] have given $42,200
to Bush, vs. $1,750 to likely Democratic
nominee John Kerry in the 2004 race.
'...executives
and Clear Channel's political action committee
gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal
contributions to Republicans. That's a
bigger share than any other entertainment
company, says the non-partisan Center
for Responsive Politics. In contrast,
Viacom (VIA) [CBS, Infinity, etc] executives
and its political action committee gave
just 30% of their $545,650 to Republican
candidates...' (USA Today)
You don't need to be Einstein to smell the
rancid spin when this fishwrap's scribblers
present Viacom's data: "30% of their $545,600".
This spin doctored prose attempts to distract
the casual reader from the fun fact that
70% of Viacom's political contributions
went to the donkey clan. This fishwrap's
spin also glosses over the fact that Viacom's
contribution was larger - Viacom gave $545,650,
compared to Clear Channel's paltry $334,501.
Why didn't USA Today report that the donkey
clan raked in $381,955 [70% of $545,600]
from Viacom, while the elephant clan only
got $257,565 [77% of $334,501] from Clear
Channel? I'm sure it slipped their
minds.
This spin doctored fishwrap spew demonstrates
that the devil is always in the details,
but you gotta dig through the bovine excrement
to find them.
Humor Challenged in West Virginia
Source: Daily Press (Hampton Roads,
Virginia) [3/22]
West Virginia Governor Bob Wise is as mad
as hell at Abercrombie & Fitch and he's
not going to tolerate their West Virginia
bashing antics a moment longer. His
political hack panties are in a bunch over
an A&F T-shirt that reads: "It's All
Relative In West Virginia".
Outraged, this hack shot off an letter,
demanding an apology:
"...I
write to you today to demand that you
immediately remove this item from your
stores and your print and online catalogues.
In addition, these shirts must be destroyed
at once to avoid any possibility of resale
and proof be given thereof."
'...Wise
called the T-shirt an "offensive item"
that "subjects our youth to unsubstantiated
and false impressions of West Virginia."
"Indeed, such a depiction of West Virginians
undermines our collective efforts to communicate
a positive representation of the spirit
and values of our citizens," the governor
wrote...' (Daily Press).
Although a shade less colorful than 'bite
me', Abercrombie and Fitch's response reveals
that A&F isn't ready to dump this popular
item. The firm's attitude is clear:
If a humor-challenged dolt like Bob Wise
doesn't like the T-shirt, he shouldn't buy
one. No doubt, A&F executives
must wonder how a dude with no sense of
humor got elected governor, a burning question
that occurred to this pagan, too.
Are West Virginians ignorant, inbred hillbillies?
Let's examine the relevant facts: They selected
blithering Bobby Byrd to be their Senator
and Bob 'far from' Wise as their governor,
so, the "ignorant, inbred hillbillies" notion
is still in play. I'll let somebody
else explain this to West Virginia's brain-dead
Bobs.
Stem Cell Stupidity
Source: Reuters [3/17]
More true believer chickens came home to
roost, thanks to W's supernaturalist-inspired
stem cell research ban. When the Pentagon
needed stem cell based research to address
illnesses caused by battlefield toxins,
the Amerikan military took it's $240,000
to Sweden. The resulting research
grant specifies Parkinson's disease research
since its pathology closely resembles effects
caused by battlefield toxins. Amerikan
Parkinson sufferers must be thrilled spitless
that W places his supernaturalism ahead
of this badly needed research for a Parkinson's
cure.
Kentucky Politics
Source: AP [3/17]
A Kentucky hack - Knott County Judge-Executive
Donnie Newsom - got nailed for buying votes
but his two year slammer sojourn won't stop
him from performing his county administrator
duties. A state law keeps this convicted
felon on the job - and on the county payroll
- during the appeals process. Since
his shyster antics will last much longer
than his jail term, his jailbird status
poses a minor inconvenience, at most.
This tempest in a hill-billy teapot ignores
the fun fact that buying votes is as old
as electoral politics. Being a rustic
hack, Donnie, apparently, didn't keep up
with cutting edge hack fun and games.
He might be shocked to learn that here in
Mexifornia, all hacks buy votes and they
never play graybar bingo. That's because
they never pay voters directly, like Donnie
did. Instead, they launder their donations
through a federal, state or local welfare
department. Hopefully, Donnie will
use his time in jail wisely, by reading
up on all these new hack schemes.
It's the least he can do for his bought
and paid for constituents. .
A New Big Apple Game
Source: Front Page Magazine [03/01]
Certain pathetic, Big Apple asshats created
a sick - in the extreme - new game called
"Chink Bashing". It involves, among other
things, luring a lotus clan victim into
hostile territory then assaulting him or
her, a practice that cost an Chinese dude
named Huang Chen his life, last month. As
sick as this is, it gets worse, because,
the proper authorities aren’t running
a hate crime charge up the justice system
flagpole. Why? I’m guessing that this
alleged game is a melanin-enriched gig,
and that grants these asshats irrevokable
immunity when it comes to hate crimes. What
proof do I have for this melanin-enriched
perp theory? One of Mr. Chen’s murderers
is named "Naquan", and that’s a no
shit melanin-enriched name. Hate criminals
only come in one color and that color is
white.
Afterthoughts:
Front
Page Scribbler, Andrew Popper nailed
it when he ended his article with this pointed
prose:
'...It
is interesting to note that when a black
youth is killed in any racially tinged
incident, the regular media invariably
refer to the victim as a "boy," usually
accompanied by a sympathetic graduation
picture. In this case, however, where
the victim is an Asian boy killed in what
is undeniably a hate crime, the media
chose to call him a man; no pictures accompanied
any of the NY City newspaper articles.
Apparently some victims of racist murder
warrant more sympathy from the media than
others. It is time that all victims of
such vile hate crimes receive equal attention
and that the evil hypocrisy of selective
indignation is ended...' (Front Page)
Today's Shallow Thought
Source: Stealth Wisdom Mini Tantrum
[03/01]
According to the Houston
Chronicle, Vicente Fox is slated
to visit W's Crawford, Mexas ranch. In
breathless...breaking news...style, this
fishwrap feels compelled to tell us that
topping Vicente's talking points is....drum
roll please...immigration. If that's not
well chartered 'well, duh' territory,
nothing is.
For once, it would be nice if W remembered
that he's the President of the United
States, not the personal assistant and
favored flunky for the El Presidente Vicente
Fox. When hell freezes over? And not a
moment sooner, Vicente-bonkers Sparky.
APRIL 2004
A Golden D'Oh Candidate
Source: Nebraska Boob Tube [4/29]
It's not breaking news when a state bureaucrat
'misplaces' the public funds entrusted
to his care, unless...He was serving time
for theft when he got hired for the job.
Trust me when I tell you that hiring someone
whose job application has a return address
like "cell block 17" is not an idea whose
time has come. Our hero - Rock Mueller
- overcame his prison stripes to land
a cushy, $55,000 per year, job coordinating
Nebraska's million dollar tobacco cessation
program. Given his background, why
was anyone shocked when some funds went
AWOL?
'...[State auditor Kate Witek]
turned up evidence that Mueller was
paid by a contract firm that he picked
to create the Nebraska Tobacco Quit
Line. Pioneer, a company out of Salt
Lake City, was not the lowest bidder
for the project, Witek said, but Mueller
chose them to do the work, then received
about $78,000 from the firm for expenses
and marketing fees. Witek's report
shows that Mueller "either made the
handwritten alterations to the vendor
bid scores or was aware of the alterations"
to make sure Pioneer got the contract...'
(Omaha Channel)
Those who obsess over fun facts will enjoy
hearing that the clown who hired ethically-challenged
Mueller got promoted to state treasurer.
Knowing that this moron controls the state
bankbook must thrill cornhusker taxpayers
spitless.
Exporting
Biotech Jobs
Source: San
Francisco Chronicle
[4/18]
The usual suspects who promote biotech
as the next big Amerikan thing that will
drive our economy to greater capitalist
glory might want to shut their yaps long
enough to read a long, eye-opening story
in the April 18 issue of this Gulag fishwrap.
Contrary to administration propaganda,
biotech might not be poised to provide
all those nifty, new high-paying, stateside
jobs. That might have been true,
two years ago, but onerous government
regulations - ruinous tax policies
and other hack-perpetrated trauma - are
driving many Gulag area biotech firms
to seek outsourcing partners in Asia.
If you give a flaming damn about our economy
and it's future, take the time to read
this piece in the Chronicle.
The 9 Commandments?
Source: Reuters
[4/9]
Justice system officials closed the
books on a 6-year bank robbery spree
that nailed New England banks for at
least $10,000 in dead presidents.
The newly enshrined gray bar hotel denizen
- Jerry Hayes - used his day job as
a Pentecostal minister to launder his
boodle through the Toll Booth's bank
account. His flock - Shema First
Apostolic Assembly - must be thrilled
spitless with Jerry’s hobby, but
I’m guessing they’re forgive
him. Forgiving is a well-documented
Holy Roller affliction.
According to the Holy Roller horde,
the 10 Commandments are the basis for
Amerika's legal system. It's ironic,
and then some, that one of their own,
a full on Holy Roller padre didn't get
up close and personal with the Old Ka-Boom
edict that states "Thou shalt not
steal." Did somebody repeal
that commandment while I wasn't looking?
AT&T's
Diversity Brain-Fart
Source: News
Max [4/6]
When AT&T went diversity bonkers
in 2001 and required all its employees
to sign a diversity policy, it opened
a shyster assault can of worms.
The aforementioned policy requires each
employee to 'value' the beliefs of other
employees. A homophobic cross
cultist named Albert Buonanno refused
to sign this company edict, whining
that AT&T’s diversity policy
gave him a boo-boo on his cherished
supernaturalism.
'...Buonanno, 47, said he
is a Christian and loves all people
regardless of their lifestyle.
"But I cannot value homosexuality and
any different religious beliefs.'..."
(News Max)
Albert's refusal to sign this diversity
bovine excrement got his supernaturalist
butt fired - a predictable result, under
the circumstances - sending his advenuture
careening into Shysterland. Outraged,
Albert went shyster bonkers, spewing civil
rights drivel about AT&T's blatant
religious discrimination. Proving that
there are still a few functional synapses
strewn across our judicial wasteland,
a federal judge gave this Holy Roller
whiner back wages and his 401K (his take
totaled $150,000), but refused his plea
for punitive damages.
Diversity bonkers AT&T dodged a wallet
emptying bullet, but they still got shafted
by this property rights-trampling decision.
It's not the government's task to set
a private firm's employment policy.
If AT&T's diversity policy sucks,
let the marketplace - not the government
- punish them. If Albert doesn't
like AT&T's employment terms, he can
get a new job, elsewhere.
Afterthought
What, exactly, is involved when a rational
adult 'values' someone else's beliefs?
Enquiring minds want to know.
OPEC Bonkers In Congress
Source: Reuters
[4/1]
According to this news blurb, at least
one Elephant Clan Legicrat, Senator Mike
DeWine (Ohio), is mad as hell over OPEC's
production cutback and he's not going
to take it anymore. In his fevered
brain, OPEC needs to be hammered with
Amerika's antitrust laws, a thrilling
notion that, conveniently, ignores the
salient facts, as set out by prior court
rulings:
'...federal courts have held
that OPEC is immune from prosecution
under the antitrust laws because it's
price-setting is "governmental" rather
than "commercial."...' (Reuters)
Mike means well, but he's tilting the
wrong windmill. Mike, dude, the
best way to hammer OPEC involves developing
our own crude oil reserves. Granted,
this means taking on the powerful environmental
lobby, but given the wallet-busting gasoline
price increases, the timing might be right.
Everytime the John or Jane Q. Public fills
their tank at today's record high prices,
they become more willing to defy conventional
tree-hugger wisdom. Be a man, Mike,
go for the brass ring and start advocating
expanded domestic oil production. An Amerika willing to develop its own
oil reserves is the last damn thing OPEC
wants.
Hell No She Won't Go
Source: Sacramento Bee [5/31]
Determined to keep tabs on her city's men in blue, Darby (Pennsylvania) mayor, Paula Brown, set up her mayoral office in police headquarters. Believe it or not, this arrangement didn't thrill everyone concerned. In fact, the cops asked the mayor wench to leave, but she has other ideas about it.
'...A Pennsylvania mayor was holed up in her office at the police station and vowed to stay there until Tuesday to prevent a locksmith hired by the Borough Council from locking her out...' (Bee)
Mayor Brown claims that her actions are motivated by the 3 court orders that specify police oversight as her top priority. Her critics claim that her antics are publicity-grabbing grandstanding. The truth, probably, is somewhere in-between these polarized views, however, there's a faint stench here betraying an ambitious hackette who wants to move up the political food-chain at police expense.
Afterthought
This drama eliminates Darby from Pagan Scribbler refuge consideration. I hope they don't take the news too hard.
Playing Atkins Diet Bingo
Source: BBC [5/27]
The good news is that Florida denizen Jody Gorran - probably - lost weight when he played Atkins Diet roulette. The bad news is that his cholesterol levels reached orbital velocity, clogging a major artery...big damn time. Since his "diet" included a daily cheese festival, and cheesecake 3-times a week, this result isn't breaking news.
As expected, our hero decided to put the blame elsewhere, so he's suing Atkins' estate for leading him astray. You didn't expect him to take personal responsibility did you? Aiding and abetting his quest for diet dollar enrichment is a vegan group called "Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine". And now, you know the rest of the story.
Bonkers In Beantown
Source: Boston Globe [5/25]
Teddyville set aside a designated area for anyone visiting Beantown to protest against the Donkey Clan convention in late July. According to this Globe prattle, the area selected might elicit more protests than the Donkey Clan convention.
"Right now, it's a tangle of barbed wire, a cesspool of dirt and rock and garbage..." (Carol Rose, executive director of Massachusetts ACLU as quoted by the Globe)
Ms. Rose's pointed prose describes most of Beantown, thanks to that ultimate boondoggle, "The Big Dig". Lest you accuse me of hyperbole, be advised that this pagan just returned from a trip to Boston. So there!
Afterthought:
Who, exactly, intends to brave the Big Dig to protest this ultra liberal confab? Enquiring minds need to know.
A Mexas Pervert Epic
Source: Houston Chronicle [5/23]
A minor league Lone Star State pervert returned to a certain Houston neighborhood once too often, so the local residents decided to persuade him to leave, permanently. It all started with some kids spotted this scumbag. Tired of this pervert's antics, 20 youngsters armed themselves with sticks and took out after the dude. From there, things got way fun, in a heartbeat:
'...Adults joined in the chase when the man threatened the young pursuers. "I came out with a baseball bat," [Francisco Gonzalez, age 12] said. "When he saw the men coming, he ran."...' (Chronicle)
They cornered the pervert, but decided not to beat the snot out of him...this time. They let the cops take him away, but made it clear that the pervert wouldn't be treated so gently, if he visited them again. The only way some people 'get it' involves a long overdue ass-kicking. So be it.
Amerika's Newest Disability
Source: AP [5/19]
The Shyster Full Employment act - A.K.A. the American's With Disabilities Act - recently unleashed a new disability and this one is a veritable gem. Officially dubbed 'paruresis', this affliction is more commonly known as 'shy bladder syndrome'. Shy bladder is an alleged brain-fart that imposes bladder lock if you attempt to take a whiz away from your humble abode.
When Caterpillar, Inc asked Tom Smith for a whiz sample needed to run a drug test, Tom - allegedly - went into bladder lock, preventing him from serving up the required whiz sample in the allotted 3 hour time span. The company said - in essence - no whiz, no job, prompting Caterpillar to fire Tom soon after his adventure in whizius interruptus. Unwilling to accept his fate - before you can say "vapor lock" - Tom is playing ADA roulette.
'...[Our whiz locked hero] contends Caterpillar violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and that companies should offer alternate drug testing methods such as hair or blood tests. He wants his job back and unspecified monetary damages. Smith's lawsuit claims he ultimately was able to provide a urine sample during an exam by a doctor appointed by Caterpillar, but the company refused to test the sample because he failed to produce it within the allotted three-hour period...' (AP)
Smith also paid for a hair-based drug test, but the company still won't take him back. It's the way a company gets when you dump them into ADA hell. Tom, dude, wake up and smell the coffee. Their company...their rules...game over. Move on, dude...find a new job. I mean, really....shy bladder syndrome? I'm a dude, too, and I'm here to tell you that when nature calls, you gotta go, right damn now, no matter where you are.
Emerilizing Hack Antics In New Mexico
Source: Sante Fe New Mexican [5/13]
New Mexico's governor, Bill Richardson, has a nifty way to seize control over government functions that are no shit not his job. Bill's appointees to university boards of regents must sign and deliver - to Governor Bill - an undated letter of resignation, before he nominates them. Then, after they're anointed by the state's Legicrats, he can simply 'accept' their pre-delivered resignation, any time the regent fails to obey each and every Gubernatorial Educrap brain-fart.
It's a nifty - in the extreme - scheme that only has one pesky flaw: it violates the state's constitution.
'...The state Constitution says university regents may not be removed except for incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office -- and then only after they've had a chance to argue their case in the state Supreme Court. The provision "clearly is intended to maintain the independence of the boards of regents and insulate them from political interference," [New Mexico Attorney General Patricia] Madrid's opinion said...' (New Mexican)
Governor Bill is a Bubba pal - a political appointee, during Bubba's oval office tenure- so don't lose any sleep waiting for him to give a rip about legal restraints. New Mexico elected him and they're no shit stuck with him, unless they stage a Mexifornia-style Gubernatorial ousting. So be it.
Big Apple Bureaucratic Brain-Fart
Source: New York Daily News [5/11]
A Big Apple bureaucratic bright bulb put a parking meter thisclose to a fire hydrant, making it impossible for anything larger than a skate board to park there without straying too close - within 15 feet - to a fire hydrant. This tempting 'gotcha' in parking-challenged Gotham pulls in a nifty $115 per victim, a thrilling fact that explains why the parking Nazis visit it so often.
Nobody in Big Apple city government gave a damn about this enriching parking meter scam, until, the Daily News ratted them out. In a heartbeat, the meter is gone and a 'No Standing' sign takes its place. Kudos to this Big Apple fishwrap are in order and eagerly conferred. You done damn good, dudes.
It Looked Good, On Paper
Source: Seattle Times [05/08]
In 2002 Seattle denizen Bobby Inshetski fulfilled a dream when he helped pass a city initiative to finance a 14-mile monorail system with taxpayer greenbacks. Bobby celebrated the city's intrusion into the mass transit marketplace by purchasing a condo along the monorail's proposed route. Two years later, 'celebrate' is the farthest thing from Bobby's mind, thanks to those devilish monorail details:
'...[Inshetski] didn't know was that the final plan would permit trains to pass as close as 6½ feet from the bay windows at his building. He said overhead tracks would block the only sunlight into the apartments of Inshetski and many of his neighbors in the Serrano, a 34-unit condominium. Now Inshetski is considering whether to join a campaign to repeal the monorail plan...' (Seattle Times)
File this under "be careful what you ask for" in your Golden D'oh archives. Bobby learned, the hard way, that reality can be a major bitch. I can live with that, and so can Bobby Inshetski.
A Gulag Big Brother Tizzy
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [05/07]
Gulag-based civil libertarians are in a tizzy because the Gulag's library commission is, tentatively, planning to embed tracking chips in the knowledge emporium's reads. ACLU worry warts fret that it gives Big Brother chapter and verse on the Gulag's literate denizens.
'...Critics of the proposal argue that the microchips, called radio-frequency identification devices, or RFID, could be used by the government to track San Francisco residents, their reading habits and their personal information..'. (Chronicle)
Commission President Charles Higueras smells a political firestorm, so he's spouting rhetoric that he'll "proceed cautiously". Furthermore, he's assuring his agitated critics that a yes vote "is not a headlong rush into a blind acceptance of this RFID technology". That's right, hack fans, this bureaucrat is testing the political waters with this RFID vote trial balloon. If you look up decisive leadership in your Webster's you won't find this clown's picture.
War Wounds
Source: News Max [5/04]
War 'hero' John Kerry continues to get hammered about his 4-month stint in Nam. This week, his war wound strayed into the political spotlight when the Navy Medic who treated Kerry related a much different story about the cause and nature of fearless warrior John's Purple Heart ouchie.
Kerry Says:
Fierce firefight
Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch
Mommy!
Where's my Purple Heart?
Doctor Louis Letson's version differs on several fronts:
'...Contacted by National Review Online, Dr. Louis Letson recalled that Kerry insisted during treatment that he was injured by enemy fire while his swift boat was patrolling the Mekong Delta on Dec. 2, 1968. However, "some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore," the Navy doc told NRO. Instead, his crewmen claimed that Kerry "had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore." One crewman told Letson that he thought Kerry's injury "was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks." Concluded Letson, "That seemed to fit the injury which I treated."...' (News Max)
'...[Letson] described the top Democrat's wound as "a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry's arm.
'..."It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound. The wound was covered with a band-aid," Dr. Letson said...' (News Max)
Bold new concept...Kerry is more than a lying, war protesting asshat. He's a lying, war protesting asshat wimp. He built his entire political career on this? His celebrated wound is a microscopic metal sliver that could be tweezered out and covered up by a band-aid? Stop whining and grow some nads, John.
Cutting Marital Ties
Source: Courier-Journal (Kentucky) [06/28]
Twenty-two years ago, Paul Spina wooed, won then wed Sharon Hays, thus paving his way into a lucrative position in his father-in-law's thriving auto dealership empire. With millions in Hays Automotive stock in his pocket, Paul's life must be perfect...and it is - was - with one pesky exception. Paul wanted to become a girl, so, in 2003, he headed for Thailand where he shed the family jewels in a sex change operation. Goodbye Paul...Hello Paula.
How, you ask, did his lovely bride, Sharon, take the news? She got shystered up and took steps to shed Paul-Paula like a bad habit, but, not via a wealth- splitting divorce. Sharon had a plan that would leave Paul-Paula empty handed.
'...In court documents, Sharon contends that the marriage should be annulled because Paul represented himself as a man when psychologically he knew all along he was a woman - and that he wed her only to get his hands on her family's fortune. Sharon concedes Paul was anatomically a male until the surgery. But in what legal experts say is a novel startegy, she contends his failure to disclose his gender indentity before the wedding constitutes "a fraud involving the essentials of marriage."...(Courier-Journal)
Leaving nothing to chance, Sharon also cites Kentucky's 1998 same sex marriage ban, insisting that Paul hatched his 'I'm a chick saddled with male nads' notion at age 3. As thrilling as that all is, reality tells a different story. 'Always a chick' Paul managed to woody up for Sharon - at least twice - since they produced two daughters (ages 13 and15) together. Sad story, Sharon, fathering children qualifies as no shit male to this terminally amused pagan scribbler. What else have you got, babe?
Election Year Half-Truths
Source: Washington Times [06/26]
Donkey clan hacks are shocked and dismayed that W's official campaign Internet site dares to invoke Hitler imagery as part of its presidential campaign fare. What makes this "so's your old lady" crap worth mentioning is the fun fact that the Hitler images in question aren't elephant clan at all. The Hitler references - and images - are lifted from W-bashing ads presented by that donkey clan shock troop cabal - MoveOn.org. - on their web site. Kerry campaign officials managed to skip over that part, when they played outrage bingo for a highly receptive media.
'..."The Bush campaign should immediately remove these hateful images from its Web site and apologize for using them. The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong," said Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer...' (Washington Times)
Where was this alleged outrage when your MoveOn cohorts ran these Hitler ads up the flagpole in January? Your silence, at that point, was deafening. You created this MoveOn W is Hitler hell, so it's beyond fair that you burn in it.
The Potted Padre Caper
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal [06/25]
When it comes to excuses, cops have heard them all, but I'm willing to bet the proverbial farm that this one wasn't on their list. This time out, I'll let this Vegas fishwrap do the heavy lifting on the thrilling facts:
'...A drunken man being forced to the ground after crashing his car and punching a cop in the head Thursday pleaded for leniency by claiming to be a Catholic priest, authorities said. Skeptical police officers were shocked when they discovered during the 1 a.m. arrest that Paul Michael Andrade's Arizona driver's license photo shows him wearing a priest's collar...' (Review-Journal)
Arizona's two rosary true believer cabals - The Archdiocese of Tucson, the Archdiocese of Phoenix - never heard of this dude, but the men in blue did manage to track down photos of his ordination on the Internet. Given this clown's adult beverage-induced antics, I don't blame Rosary True Believer officials for disavowing our hero.
Punching a cop? Acting combative and spitting on cops and paramedics? What the hell happened to "turning the other cheek", padre dude?
Strange Bedfellows I
Source: NY Post [06/24]
Fueled by W-hating billionaire George Soros' greenbacks, a Donkey Clan group named America Coming Together - A.K.A. ACT- made some unlikely hiring decisions that should - but probably won't - make this election buying zealot take a timeout to rethink this ACT affiliation. Despite their colorful past, the new hires are tasked with going door to door, encouraging citizens to register...and vote Donkey Clan.
'...Dozens of names and addresses of ACT employees matched those of people convicted of burglary, forgery, drug dealing, assault and sex offenses. ACT hired some felons who were living in halfway houses, [an AP report revealed]...' (Post)
If you live in Missouri, Florida or Ohio and someone knocks on your door, think twice before answering that knock. It might be a pervert, mugger or burglar casing your joint on George Soros' dime. Proceed with caution; this is not a drill.
Strange Bedfellows II
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer [06/24]
Billionaire Soros isn't the only dude who is coddling ex-cons. During a visit to the battleground Buckeye State, W decided to promote his hotly-debated faith-based programs brain-fart by showcasing a halfway house success story named Tami Jordon. A convicted embezzler who 'paid her debt to society', Tami appears to deserve W's "good soul" and "inspirational person" prose. Appearances, in this case, are deceiving.
'...the victims of Jordan's crime - a small, family-owned business in Fairfield that lost $308,107 to Jordan's deception - say she isn't rehabilitated and hasn't paid the court-ordered restitution...'(Enquirer)
"Rehabilitated" Tami explains the 55 checks she wrote forging her boss's signature this way: "A few years ago, I made a poor decision. It pretty much turned my life upside down..."(Enquirer). Does that sound remorseful to you? I didn't but it either. She might be W's notion of rehabilitation, but she's damn sure not mine.
Korrecting History
Source: Tongue Tied [06/23]
Massachusetts Korrectniks decided to make certain historical makers safe for hypersensitive, chronically-offended tourists:
'...The markers in Deerfield, Mass. mark spots where, in 1704, French and Indian forces attacked settlers. Some contain references to ''savages" and ''Negro servants" that are now considered offensive. nWhere one marble tablet originally read, "Mary, adopted by an Indian, was named Walahowey. She married a savage, and became one,' it now reads, "She married a Kanien'kahake and adopted the culture, customs and language of her new community in Kahnawake."...' (Tongue Tied)
Rewriting history is old hat for Korrectnik assclowns. Normally, they do their dirty deeds on the sly, where John and Jane Q. Public can't see them. It's disturbing - in the extreme - that Korrectniks now feel confident enough to pull these stunts in broad daylight, while everyone is watching.
Ryan's Hopeless Quest
Source: Fox News [06/22]
Jack Ryan - a self-made millionaire turned U.S. Senate candidate - just punctured the venerable myth that opines: there's no such thing as bad publicity. His Senate campaign went into the crapper when two Windy City news outlets persuaded a judge to unseal Ryan's divorce records. Like every dude with a pulse, these nosey news nitwits probably wondered why our boy, Jack, let Star Trek Voyager hyper-hottie, Jeri Lynn Ryan - get away from him, via divorce.
I don't know what these Chicago based news ninnies expected to find in the Ryan divorce papers, but it's a safe bet that this tawdry tidbit exceeded their expectations:
'...Jeri Lynn Ryan charged in a custody hearing that during surprise trips to New Orleans, New York and Paris in 1998, the year before they divorced, Ryan insisted she go to sex clubs. She described a New York club "with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." She said she refused when Ryan asked her to perform a sexual act while others watched...' (Fox News)
Jack, dude, kiss your candidacy goodbye. If you can't sell a pagan like me on this share the hottie joy gig, it's a slam dunk that your family-value bonkers Elephant Clan constituents won't buy into it either. It must really suck to be you right now.
Close But No Cigar
Source: Stealth Wisdom News Wire [06/19]
The Northwest Airlines flight from St. Paul (Minnesota) to Rapid City (South Dakota) went flawlessly, including the landing...the landing at the wrong air field. For reasons they can't explain, the flight crew set their A-319 Airbus down at Ellsworth Air Force Base, several miles from their Rapid City destination. Somebody needs to tell these cockpit clowns that close only counts in horseshoes.
After a three hour, unscheduled visit with the puzzled Air Force officials, the passengers flew the few additional miles to Rapid City, using a replacement flight crew. Three hours late sucks, but they do have a great story to tell.
Assorted News Briefs
Source: Stealth Wisdom News Wire [06/18]
Item 1
A Louisiana padre rented 10 billboards to teach whomever all about the 10 commandments. Each month his billboard pulpits will feature a different commandment. Big fun. Believe it or not, I have no problem with this roadside supernaturalism. It's his money. The billboards are privately owned, and this deal is a private contractual arrangement. No harm, no foul sums up my attitude perfectly.
Item 2
The new cell phone directory has cell idiots in a tizzy. D.C. based hacks feel cell idiot pain, so they're poised to ram through some election cycle legicrap called the 'Wireless 411 Privacy Act'.. This legicrap forces cell providers to elicit a written "opt in" from each cell idiot, before they can put them in the book. If you don't know this proposed legicrap is another nanny state intrusion on our liberty, you're not paying attention.
Item 3
A properly-hyphenated melanin-advantaged wench got into an argument with a dude that resulted in a hate crime charge when she shot him. It started with heated - hateful - works that prompted the wench to slap the dude. When he responded in kind, she pulled out a gun a shot him.
The heated words - allegedly - involved pointed prose about the dude's 'sexual orientation' making these sinister sound-waves more important that the woman's actions. In other words, what she thought of him carries more weight in our twisted justice system than the thrilling fact that she shot him. If she hates but doesn't shoot is she still guilty under our prevailing hate crime laws? In Korrectnik Amerika, the answer is - regrettably - 'yes'.
Item 4
New Jersey legicrats voted 78-0 to restore sanity with a bill that deems 'ladies night' okey dokey in Jersey. Since the Governor is behind the bill, big time, it's looking like a done deal. Jersey hacks got something right. Go figure.
Assorted Items Worth a Brief Mention
Source: Stealth Wisdom News Wire [06/16]
Item 1
According to Newsday, in the mid 1990's, Mikey bought a young lad's silence for a hefty $23 million in dead presidents and insured the lad's parents didn't spill the bleached skin pervert beans by paying them $1.5 million. Mikey's flacks don't deny the story, but claim its release is intended to influence potential jurors. No shit, noseless Sherlock.
Item 2
Old habits are hard to break, especially for a certain Mexas criminal turned criminology expert. After a decade spent working with insurance companies, hosting a crime-watch radio show and writing books on his former career, John L. Stanley stumbled off the straight and narrow by robbing a local bank. He must be thrilled that his prison-dwelling home boys are rolling out the old welcome home mat for him.
Item 3
A Nebraska bright bulb named Brian Kitten found out - painfully - that playing with 'an artillery fireworks shell' is not a nifty notion. Using a five gallon bucket with cement at the bottom as his launcher, this genius lit the fuse then ran - but not fast enough - because the shell simply exploded instead of launching, showering our hero with metal and cement shards.
'...The blast sent chunks of the bucket and concrete flying in a circle, smashing through a fence, breaking windows in [Brian] Kitten's house and a neighboring house - and ripping apart Kitten's face...' (Lincoln Journal Star)
Do I really need to warn: don't try this at home?
Item 4
A heavily armed, 78-year-old Hoosier woman decided to put a stop to the squirrels munching on her bird seed, so she grabbed her trusty 16-gauge and got ready to send them packing. Her plan started to unravel when she loaded the gun inside her house, then carried the loaded shotgun toward the backdoor. For some unspecified reason, the gun discharged prematurely, wounding the woman on both legs and her knee. We're not sure if the noise scared off the bird seed stealing squirrels, because they were too busy laughing to answer our questions.
Where, exactly, was Mother Nature when this so-called 'accidental shooting' occurred?
Cherry Picking
Source: AP [06/14]
Roadside advertising took an unexpected turn in sanctimonious Virginia thanks to a state sponsored program that tells alleged adult males to keep their horndog hands - plus other, unnamed appendages - off jailbait wenchlets. According to the state's health department, 'in 1999 and 2000 in Virginia, men over 18 were responsible for 219 births involving girls who were 13 and 14' (AP).
'...Messages such as "Isn't she a little young?" and "Sex with a minor, don't go there" also appear on posters, coasters and napkins in bars, restaurants and stores in five cities...' (AP)
What happened to irate, gun-toting daddies? Did this supernaturalist-infested state pass legicrap that outlawed them, too? Enquiring minds want to know.
Afterthought
Does this state offer meaningful sex education in its government cess-schools, or do they lead with their holy roller chins and spout "Just say no" drivel instead?
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Source: AP [6/11]
The legicrap chickens landed very close to home for a Mississippi hack named Earle Banks. His close encounter with unintended consequences started when he voted against legislation that would limit medical malpractice awards. Despite this hack's official thumbs down, the law passed anyway, but that didn't stop a medical practitioner from exacting some very personal revenge on Earle Banks:
A plastic surgeon declined to treat the daughter of a lawmaker who opposed limits in damage lawasuits against doctors in Mississippi. Kimberly Banks said she went to Dr. Michael Kanosky's office Wednesday seeking to have scars removed from third-degree burns she suffered while cooking earlier this year. "He asked me who I worked for and then asked me who my father was." Banks told the Associated Press. "I told him Earle Banks. He told me, I can't see you because your father is against tort reform."...' (AP)
File this under 'What goes around, comes around' in your 'it's an annoyingly small world' archives. Kudos to Dr. Kanosky for his inspired antics.
Faster Than A Baby Bullet?
Source: San Francisco Examiner [06/08]
The Gulag's shiny new government boondoggle jewel is a $163 million (dead presidents) mass transit goodie called the "Baby Bullet". In theory, this speedy, train would cut down the rush our commute between the Gulag and San Jose. When a Mexifornia hackette - State Senator Jackie Speier - opined, "All of a sudden, the automobile is going to have competition because the Baby Bullet will get you there faster than driving your own car.", Justin Nyberg, a reporter for this Gulag fishwrap decided to test this hackette's contention.
'Not willing to let such an assertion stand untested, The Examiner challenged Caltrain's Baby Bullet train 373 from San Jose to San Francisco to a race of track versus pavement to see which would get riders up the Peninsula fastest...' (Examiner)
Staging the race during the afternoon rush hour, the contenders let it rip at 4:44pm, Monday afternoon. The Examiner's ride arrived at the Caltrain station at 5:41pm, a speedy 4 minutes before the so-called 'bullet' showed up. It wouldn't be tax funded mass transit if it worked the way political hacks claim. So be it.
A Public Utility Shell Game
Source: NBC (Philly boob tube affiliate) [06/07]
Philly denizens were thrilled spitless when they discovered that their Philadelphia Gas Works [PGW] bill will soon include more than the usual use charges and assorted local taxes. This government mandated monopoly has a thrilling new scheme that makes Philly gas and water customers pay for those Philly gas and water users who refuse to pay their monthly bill.
'PGW customers may be required to foot the bill for deadbeat bill payers -- to the tune of an additional $80 a year under a PGW proposal, which still needs approval from the Public Utilities Commission...' (NBC)
When PGW customers kicked up a fuss, Philly's city council proposed that PGW bills itemize all the surcharges on each customer's bill. You don't need Nostradamus to predict how that went over at PGW headquarters. PGW dweebs fret - quite correctly - that when PGW customers see the gas and water using deadbeat surcharge, PGW's paying customers refuse to shell out for that portion of their bill. That's gotta earn a heartfelt "Well, duh" from the congregation.
A Bold Entrepreneurial Concept
Source: Stealth Wisdom News Wire [06/04]
A Big Apple dude named Shane Forbes launched an Internet site that offers a unique product: wingwomen. Filthy minded readers will need to know that this isn't a hooker enterprise going incognito. It's a service that offers bachelors a bold new way to meet women while out on the town. Based on his own observations and considerable personal experience, Shane realized that a night out the guys never got him close to an eligible female, But, when he ventured out with female friends, he, routinely, got intros to the sought after women via his female friends. From that simple realization, Wingwomen was born.
'...most men probably have a friend they could enlist, but Forbes was willing to bet they'd pay to have someone dedicated solely to the task. Putting his theory to the test, he launched Wingwomen.com this past December. For $50 an hour, a single man can book his own wingwoman for the night. Attractive and outgoing, a wingwoman acts not as a date, but as a social lubricant - helping men mingle with and meet other women...' (From a Beth Sobol piece in some fishwrap whose name I didn't write down)
Shane already has 60 steady customers and his list keeps growing. Kudos to Shane for proving that a good idea can still be turned into a thriving business.
Self-Inflicted Pre-Marital Angst
Source: The Tennessean [06/04]
Normally when I read a story about a divorced woman who gets nailed by a judge for 'repeatedly sleeping in the same bed with a man — her husband-to-be — while her 7-year-old daughter was in the home' (Tennessean), I'd go postal over this blatant intrusion on individual liberty. Normally, unless the woman in question brought this down on herself via a legally-binding divorce settlement.
'...Stacie and Timothy Meadows agreed under their parenting plan in the divorce that neither of them "would have overnight companions to whom they are not related by blood or by marriage in the presence of their minor child under inappropriate circumstances."...' (Tennessean)
tSince she violated the agreement not once, or twice, but five times, she's looking at 50 days in the gray bar hotel - 10 days for each violation. As fun as that all sounds, it gets better. She was planning to get hitched to her bedmate this weekend, a feat made especially challenging when the bride-to-be is residing in the local jail.
Mark
this
epic
'self-inflicted'
then
file
in
under
'no
harm,
no
foul'
in
your
pagan
scribbler
archives.
Today's
News
Briefs
Source:
Stealth
Wisdom
News
Wire
[06/01]
Several
items
deserve
a
brief
mention,
today.
Item:
Decency
Demon
Update
Howard
Stern's
fate
was
sealed,
yesterday,
when
his
boss
of
20
(plus)
years,
Viacom
COO
Mel
Karmazin,
resigned
unexpectedly.
A
staunch
Stern
supporter,
Karmazin
fought
off
every
Thought
Gestapo
attempt
to
silence
the
Decency
Demon.
Without
Karamazin
to
man
the
corporate
First
Amendment
barricades,
Viacom
will
soon
condemn
Stern
to
a
cruel,
Thought
Gestapo
scripted
fate.
Item:
Proactive
Stupidity
A
Utah
denizen
majorly
Emerilized
a
brain-fart
to
new
heights
when
he
kick-started
his
reluctant
BBQ
grill
into
action
by
pouring
gasoline
on
the
smoldering
coals.
Faster
than
you
can
say
"ka-boom",
the
fireball
from
the
exploding
gas
can
gave
this
fool
a
third
degree
burn
reality
check.
Do
I
really
need
to
admonish:
don't
try
this
at
home?
Item:
Overexposed
in
Mexas
A
Lone
Star
State
dude
gave
his
Houston
neighbors
an
eyeful
when
he
strolled
down
a
busy
city
street
stark
naked.
Finding
his
'I'm
Jesus'
explanation
insufficient,
Houston
cops
quickly
terminated
the
dude's
lunchtime
exhibition.
Deeming
him
clinically
bonkers,
they
sent
him
to
a
brain-shrinking
cabal
for
'observation'.
I
get
the
observation
part,
but
I
am
more
than
a
tad
puzzled
over
the
inexplicable
fact
that
public
nudity
is
a
crime.
Don't
Houston
cops
have
anything
better
to
do?
Item:
Brewski
Ad
Whining
Two
Amerikan
brewskie
manufacturers
are
staging
a
major
whiz-a-thon
over
a
recent
ad
campaign.
Miller
Brewing
got
an
advertising-induced
boo-boo
when
Anheuser-Busch
called
a
Miller
product
"the
Queen
of
Carbs".
Rather
than
fight
back
in
kind,
Miller
when
shyster
bonkers
claiming
that
the
ad
is
sexist
and
homophobic.
I'm
shocked,
shocked
I
tell
you
that
the
alleged
capitalists
running
Miller
Brewing
are
such
nadless
wimps.
JULY
2004
Fiddling
While
'New'
Rome...Burns?
Source:
NBC
(Ohio
Boob
Tube)
[07/30]
A
Buckeye
State
blight
named
New
Rome
is,
officially,
as
defunct
as
the
legendary
Roman
empire,
a
fun
fact
that
has
countless
of
this
speed
trap's
victims
celebrating.
Masquerading
as
a
city,
New
Rome
didn't
elect
any
officials
during
the
past
two
election
cycles.
It
didn't
offer
the
services
usually
associated
with
a
city
and
got
90%
of
its
annual
$400,000budget
from
traffic
fines.
Look
up
'speed
trap'
in
your
dictionary
and
you'll
find
a
snapshot
of
a
New
Rome
city
limits
sign.
An
Ohio
court
deep-sixed
New
Rome
and
its
enriching
traffic
enforcement,
to
a
well
deserved
oblivion
using
a
2003
state
law
that
sets
certain
strict
criteria
for
any
wide
spot
on
the
road
harboring
municipal
delusions.
When
said
wide
spot
on
the
road
fails
to
meet
two
of
six,
non-
negotiable
criteria,
a
court
can
banish
it.
No
elections,
no
budget,
no
services,
game
over.
That's
gotta
get
a
rousing
"amen"
from
the
Buckeye
road
warrior
congregation.
Supernaturalist
Snit
In
Tampa
Source:
South
Florida
Sun-Sentinel
[07/30]
When
unabashedly
atheist
Michael
Harvey
arrived
in
the
Tampa
City
Council
chambers
to
give
the
official,
pre-meeting
invocation,
two
holy
roller
council
members
were
so
outraged
by
this
dastardly
Atheist
intrusion
on
a...sacred
supernaturalist
tradition
that
they
picked
up
their
toys
and
stomped
out
of
the
meeting.
They
were
very
vocal
about
this
blight
on
civic
supernaturalism,
despite
the
fun
fact
that
another
councilman
invited
the
Atheists
of
Florida
to
perform
this
supernaturalist
rite.
Councilman
Kevin
White:
"We
have
never
had
people
of
an
atheist
group
represent
Americans.
And
I
don't
think
it
is
appropriate
in
this
setting."
(Sun-Sentinel)
Councilwoman
Mary
Alvarez:
"I
just
can't
sit
here
and
listen
to
someone
that
does
not
believe
in
a
supreme
being."
(Sun-Sentinel)
Would
these
shocked,
disgusted
and
dismayed
supernaturalists
feel
better
if
Michael
Harvey
invoked
such
pagan
deities
as
Odin,
Zeus,
or
Ra?
I
way
don't
think
so,
sneaking
Cross
Cultism
into
government
Sparky.
Buying
Amerikan
Source:
St.
Petersburg
Times
[07/28]
When
countless
outraged
customers
showered
Delta
Airlines
with
complaints
about
their
geographically-challenged
Dothead
reservations
agents,
the
airline
decided
to
quell
this
passenger
revolt
by
giving
them
a
choice.
Anyone
calling
Delta
for
reservations
assistance
can
opt
for
Dothead
incompetence,
for
free,
or
no
shit
stateside
reservations
help
for
a
nominal
fee.
There
is,
of
course,
a
third
option...You
can
book
your
flight
on
another
airline.
Our
Terrorist
Friendly
Borders
Source:
Pagan
Scribbler
News
Wire
[07/28]
A
'high
level'
al-Qaida
wench
named
Farida
Goolam
Mohamade
Ahmed
got
nabbed
at
a
Mexas
airport,
trying
to
grab
a
plane
to
the
Big
Apple.
Although
she
carries
a
valid
South
African
passport,
this
terrorist
wench
didn't
have
any
papers
to
demonstrate
how
she
got
into
this
country.
According
to
the
usual
'unnamed'
Border
Patrol
officials,
the
woman
entered
Amerika
like
most
illegals,
by
strolling
across
our
undefended
southern
border.
How
many
other
al-Qaida
asshats
slithered
into
Amerika
the
same
way?
Nobody
knows,
but
I
can
promise
you
one
damn
thing.
After
the
next
stateside
terrorist
attack,
when
we
find
out
that
they
strolled
in
from
Mexico,
political
hack
heads
will
god
damn
roll.
Deja
Vu
In
Chad
Country?
Source:
South
Florida
Sun-Sentinel
[07/22]
Palm
Beach
County,
ground
zero
in
the
2000
'selected
not
elected'
fiasco,
is
headed
for
election
cycle
oblivion,
again,
and
this
time,
there
isn't
a
pachyderm
in
sight.
The
same
Donkey
Clan
dweebs
whom
we
last
saw
peering
at
hanging
chads
in
a
valiant
effort
to
finesse
the
election
into
the
Donkey
Clan
column
are
generating
more
controversy
with
their
ineptitude.
Supervisor
of
Elections
Theresa
LePore
-
yes,
she's
still
there
-
just
admitted
that
she's
already
run
out
of
absentee
ballot
applications,
just
in
time
to
make
the
August
primary
thrilling..
Go
figure!
Everyone
is
busy
pointing
fingers,
but,
since
all
the
prime
Palm
Beach
County
players
are
Donkey
Clan,
it'll
take
some
major
fact
stretching
to
pin
this
one
on
the
vast
right-wingnut
conspiracy.
Although
most
criticism
is
aimed
at
Ms.
LePore,
I'm
confident
that,
they'll
pin
this
on
W,
some-damn-how.
More
Fun
Sandy
Berger
Facts
Source:
News
Max
[07/22]
The
familiar
Clintonista
scandal
squad
deployed
quickly
to
put
out
the
fire
lit
by
Sandy
Berger's
curious
antics
in
the
National
Archives.
Playing
up
the
'inadvertent'
removal
of
the
documents
defense,
these
Kool-Aid
drinking
Clintoista
clowns
accused
the
vast
right-wingnuts
of
inventing
the
'hid
documents
in
his
clothes'
charge.
It
worked
for
a
while,
until
this
defense
just
took
a
hit,
thanks
to
some
National
Archives
guards:
'...After
three
days
of
denials
from
his
legal
team,
eyewitnesses
to
Sandy
Berger's
top
secret
document
heist
have
confirmed
that
the
former
national
security
adviser
did
indeed
stash
national
security
secrets
in
his
socks,
as
well
as
in
his
pants
pockets.
"The
stuffed
socks
and
pockets
is
real,"
a
senior
law
enforcement
official
told
the
New
York
Daily
News.
"The
[theft]
was
reported
by
the
guards."...'
(News
Max)
This
puts
the
ball
back
in
the
Clintonista
court,
but
it
won't
stay
there
for
long.
Bubba's
minions
are
pros
at
spinning
the
news
to
suit
their
purposes.
This
pagan
scribbler
eagerly
awaits
their
next
move.
Another
Clintonista
In
The
Crosshairs
Source:
Pagan
Scribbler
News
Wire
[07/20]
Unless
you
were
living
in
a
cave
with
Osama
or
just
returned
from
an
off-planet
excursion
with
Art
Bell's
little
gray
men,
you
know
the
relevant
details
about
Clinton
security
advisor
Sandy
Berger
and
his
antics
in
the
National
Archives.
For
those
who
care
about
such
things,
here
are
some
'takes'
from
the
usual
pagan
scribbler
sources:
"
I'm
gob-smacked,
as
the
Brits
say,
by
the
news
that
Sandy
Berger
stole
documents
relating
to
the
Clinton
administration's
record
on
terrorism
and
has
apparently
lost
some
critical
documents.
It
seems
to
me
that
Berger
has
admitted
to
intentionally
lifting
key
documents,
and
keeping
them
from
the
purview
of
the
9/11
Commission.
Berger
ascribes
this
to
"sloppiness."
How
can
stuffing
papers
down
your
pants
be
a
function
of
"sloppiness'?
It's
a
function
of
someone
doing
something
he
knows
he
shouldn't.
It's
theft.
But
what
was
his
motive?
Are
the
Clinton
people
that
scared
of
people
discovering
their
negligence
with
regard
to
al
Qaeda?
Or
is
there
something
else
at
play?..."
(Andrew
Sullivan's
Blog)
'...Berger
and
his
lawyer
said
Monday
night
he
knowingly
removed
the
handwritten
notes
by
placing
them
in
his
jacket,
pants
and
socks,
and
also
inadvertently
took
copies
of
actual
classified
documents
in
a
leather
portfolio.
"I
deeply
regret
the
sloppiness
involved,
but
I
had
no
intention
of
withholding
documents
from
the
commission,
and
to
the
contrary,
to
my
knowledge,
every
document
requested
by
the
commission
from
the
Clinton
administration
was
produced,"
Berger
said
in
a
statement...'
(Fox
News)
How
do
you
'inadvertently'
hide
stuff
in
your
socks
and
your
pants?
Enquiring
minds
want
to
know.
From
Our
"Go
Figure"
Desk
Source:
South
Florida
Sun-Sentinel
[07/15]
Tampa's
City
Council
elevated
their
traditional
meeting-opening
invocation
to
absurd
heights
when
Councilman
John
Dingfleder
tapped
Michael
Harvey
for
the
task.
What
makes
Harvey
so
newsworthy?
He's
the
designated
invocationalist
for
the
Atheists
of
Florida.
Your
eyes
didn't
deceive
you,
this
hack
invited
an
Atheist
to
perform
this
supernaturalist
ritual.
It
could
only
happen
in
the
Land
of
Hanging
Chads...but
I
digress...again.
We're
not
told
what
he'll
say,
but
Atheists
of
Florida
chairman,
Ed
Golly
gives
us
a
hint:
'...Atheists
of
Florida
won't
be
insulting,
Golly
said,
but
its
invocation
statement
won't
call
on
``invisible
men
in
the
sky.''
Praying
at
a
government
meeting
is
``absurd''
and
imposes
religion
on
the
public,
he
said...'
(Sun-Sentinel)
An
Atheist
invocation?
This
raises
the
bar
for
"bold
new
concept" big
damn
time.
FMA
Political
Aftershocks
Source:
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer [07/14]
Before
Santorum
and
his
theocratic
elephant
clan
horde
finished
wiping
the
egg
from
their
faces
in
the
wake
of
Wednesday's
humiliating
FMA
defeat,
the
political
aftershocks
reached
far
off
Washington
State.
Reading
the
political
tea
leaves,
an
elephant
clan
candidate
the
U.S.
Senate
seat
occupied
by
incumbent
Senator
Patty
Murray
declared
his
opposition
to
the
hotly
debated
Federal
Marriage
Amendment.
Will
it
doom
his
chances
to
unseat
Ms.
Murray?
We'll
know
that
when
the
election
cycle
reaches
critical
mass
in
November. Until
then,
kudos
to
Senatorial
candidate
George
Nethercutt
are
conferred.
Mexas
Justice
Source:
Houston
Chronicle [07/02]
In
1997,
a
Mexas
asshat
named
Nathan
Dale
Campbell
gouged
out
his
girlfriend's
eyes
with
a
steak
knife,
but
all
is
forgiven,
now
-
in
Mexas
authorities
eyes
-
which
might
explain
why
this
menace
to
society
is
eligible
for
jury
duty
in
2004.
Primarily,
he's
jury
duty
cool
because
he
got
off
on
an
insanity
plea...He's
feeling
much
better
now,
we're
told.
For
those
who
don't
get
it,
I'll
translate
that
judicial
bovine
excrement
into
real
Amerikan:
He
was
insane,
for
guilt
avoidance
purposes
in
1997,
but,
he
attained
mental
health
the
instant
the
judge
decreed,
"Not
guilty
by
reason
of
insanity".
Hmm...Insane
jurors?
I
need
to
ponder
that
for
a
moment.
Would
insane
jurors
do
worse
than
the
infamous
O.J.
Simpson
murder
trial
jury?
Would
insane
jurors
do
worse
than
the
Mexifornia
jury
that's
going
to
turn
wife-butchering
Scott
Peterson
loose?
Would
insane
jurors
ignore
a
stomach
turning
video
tape
and
fail
to
convict
those
three
teenage
punks
who
raped
an
unconscious
teenage
tart
(the
infamous
Orange
County,
Mexifornia
rape
trial)?
I
seriously
doubt
it. From
where
this
pagan
is
sitting,
insane
jurors
would
be
a
significant
improvement.
AUGUST 2004
Turmoil In Theocratica
Source: Virginia Pilot [08/31]
Congressman Ed Schrock (Va) sent his Elephant Clan homeboys into crisis mode, when he abruptly withdrew from his re-election bid, after "Ed's a closet bun ranger" rumors circulated. It all unraveled for Ed when a gay Internet site spilled the GLAAD BAAG beans.
'...Allegations about Schrock, 63, emerged two weeks ago, on Aug. 19, when a Web site called blogACTIVE.com posted claims that Schrock engaged in homosexual activity. Schrock is married and has an adult son...' (Pilot)
Wilting under the ensuing political heat, family values warrior Ed picked up his toys and went home, without confirming or denying the unsubstantiated accusation. Obviously, Ed knows how rigidly righteous Theocratica's voters are and made the necessary move. What goes around, comes around dude, even in Theocratica. You helped make Theocratica's "GLAAD BAAGs are subhuman" hell, so it's only fair that you burn in it.
Florida Gets Ready For the November Election
Source: News Max [08/28]
A Florida judge set the stage for another prolonged recount fiasco when she ruled that a state law mandating manual recounts will be enforced on 'all certified voting systems' (News Max). This means that it also applies to the hotly debated touch screen voting systems. This court ruling reverses an edict by Florida's Secretary of State, Glenda Hood, that exempted touch screen machines.
To get the big picture on this ruling, we need to factor in a couple fun facts:
Touch screen voting machines are programmed to prevent a voter from voting for the same candidate twice. They are also programmed to prevent Florida voters from voting for more than one candidate for the same office. Most important, the machine's programming forces the voter to make a selection for each item on the ballot.
Touch screen machines record the vote electronically. There is no paper - no printed ballot - involved at all. With no paper ballot - and no chads - there's nothing that can be hand counted.
Given the way touch screen voting machines work, Ms Hood's decision was the correct one, making this pagan scribbler wonder what the judge was smoking. Only Florida writes a law that demands a hand recount where none is possible. Am I the only rational adult who understands the essential Florida Voter concept: no matter how easy you make it...no matter how 'foolproof' the machine's programming, no election scheme is Florida Voter proof.
Hard Rock Cafe's New Ad
Source: Las Vegas Sun [08/27]
Still embroiled in a legal tussle with Nevada's State Gaming Board over their 'racy', booty-showcasing billboards, the Hard Rock Café Emerilized their dispute with an action-packed new ad campaign. It's loaded with double-entendre, but is tame enough that even the Gaming Board bluenoses can't complain:
'..."We're just changing the things we do and the way we go about speaking to our customer in an irreverent way. There's no underlying message or objective out there."
The ad, which shows cartoon images of a cat, a beaver and two rabbits with the message "Another clean & inoffensive billboard from your friends at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino," was not designed to be disrespectful of regulators, [vice president of marketing for the Hard Rock, Phil] Shalala said...' (Las Vegas Sun)
The billboards are a minor skirmish in a much larger fight staged by the Las Vegas Morality Mafia. They're determined to use government coercion to clean up Sin City's image, starting with the Hard Rock Café. Apparently, Nevada is exempted from First Amendment compliance, too. Go figure.
Uncle Sam's Mecca Maniac Coddling
Source: Front Page Magazine [08/26]
Worried that the great unwashed might get the 'wrong' idea, when Mecca Maniacs fly airplanes into our buildings, or launch some other attack on Amerika, our State Department is trying to paint a word picture of 'fuzz ball' Mecca Maniacs.
'...the State Department: in a press release issued Monday, "Islamic Influence Runs Deep in American Culture,” Phyllis McIntosh of State’s Washington File burbles that "Islamic influences may date back to the very beginning of American history. It is likely that Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, charted his way across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of an Arab navigator."...' (Front Page)
Similar efforts are underway in assorted government cess-schools where teachers are taught how to brainwash their captive audiences with this revisionist - utterly bogus - alleged history. I urge you to track down this Front Page article and read the whole thing. The writer does an excellent job demonstrating how utterly asinine this Arab navigator bovine excrement is. We can start with the fun fact that Columbus' navigator was a dude named Martin Pinzon...Does that sound even slightly Sand Rat to you?
How much longer are we going to tolerate this happy horse shit from our government...from our government cess-schools before we stand up and tell them to "Knock that shit off, right damn now!"? It can't happen too soon.
Another Independent Ad Campaign
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer [08/24]
Misguided in the extreme, the allegedly 'conservative' Congress of Racial Equality is running a new ad campaign in John Edwards home state, North Carolina. The new ad tries to build a fire under Edwards - plus assorted other Donkey Clan Senators - and prod them into affirming California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown's nomination to the federal bench.
For those who obsess on petty details, here's the ad, as described by this Seattle fishwrap:
'...Judge Janice Rogers Brown is the daughter of sharecroppers and an American success story," a female announcer says in the ad set to air for about a week starting Wednesday on cable and network news broadcasts in the state. "For her remarkable work, she has been nominated to the federal bench ... Tell John Edwards and Ted Kennedy to stop blocking the nomination of Judge Janice Rogers Brown."...' (Post-Intelligencer)
CORE is trying to do the right thing, but they need not hold their collective breath waiting for a Edwards or Kenndy to 'see the error of their ways', and endorse Janice Rogers Brown.
Carpetbagging 101
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer [08/20]
John F. Kerry, the dude who mastered the political flipflop during his illustrious hack career, inspired Illinois' carpetbagging Senatorial candidate, Alan Keyes, to follow in his footsteps. You haven't really lived, until you check out this pachyderm punk's pathetic performance:
After vilifying Hillary for her Empire State carpetbagging, during her successful Senatorial campaign, Keyes perpetrates same 'crime' in Illinois.
A steadfast critic of slave reparations, Keyes now advocates reparations for descendants of slaves. Under Keyes' fetid notion, slave descendants would be excused from paying taxes for 2 or three generations - 30 to 40 years, give or take.
During his 1996 Oval Office bid, he advocated abolishing the U.S. Agriculture Department, calling it an expensive, 'top heavy bureaucracy that was not actually contributing to the good of farmers'. Now, he's singing the department's praises while he panders for those badly needed farm votes.
Keyes' dramatic flip-flopping is so bad that I heard Medved of all people slamming Mr. Keyes on his boom box chat show. I nearly drove off the damn road when Medved advised Illinois Republicans to vote - gasp - libertarian in the Senate race. Holy Twilight Zone, Batman!
It's A Bird...It's A Plane...It's A Ritual
Source: Monterey Herald [08/19]
Eyewitnesses report that the man stopped his SUV, got out, stripped down to the buff, sat down facing West - cross-legged - for 30 seconds, then got up, put his clothes back on and drove away. Odd, but not breaking news, you say? Would it help if I told you that the SUV is an official government vehicle? What if I sweeten it by telling you that our oddball is a Salt Lake County Sheriff's Deputy? Have I got your undivided attention now, Sparky?
Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Magee doesn't deny the incident, but he insists he wore flesh-colored undies during his '30-second religious ritual'. The department didn't buy this happy horse pucky either, and suspended Darrell, pending investigation.
If you can I.D. this ritual, spill it, because I haven't got a clue.
Bubba Sweeps Out the Riffraff
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [08/17]
Protesting - a bit too loudly - that the city's new cleanup sceheme has nothing to do with the Clinton Presidential Library's November 18 grand opening, Little Rock (Arkansas) officials are busy sweeping certain city denizens under the rug. The, uh, sweeping new campaign that paints a bull's-eye on 27 homeless camps has nothing to do with Bubba and his library, Little Rock hacks insist. It's a coincidence - nothing more - that these two events coincide. Yeah, right, dudes. If you believe that bovine excrement, I have a bargain-priced bridge I'm trying to sell.
The Lemonade Stand Fiasco
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [08/12]
When two pre-pubescent Missouri wenchlets - Mim Murray, 10 and Marisa Miller-Stockie, 12 - opened that ubiquitous childhood enterprise - a lemonade stand - at least one spoilsport in the neighborhood wasn’t thrilled spitless. A local hag whined to a city cabal named the 'Citizens Service Bureau' and that easily, propelled St. Louis hacks into the last damn thing they wanted, an election cycle publicity nightmare.
When an inspector showed up at the wenchlets' lemonade stand, the brain-dead bureaucrat spouted drivel about running a business without permits, and using 'unsafe ice cubes'. Cool in a crisis, the young capitalists sought help from a much higher authority: mom. Mim's mom, Germaine Murray, came out swinging with a call to a local boob tube news outlet. Leaving nothing to chance, she also notified her local cross cult padre, Monsignor Salvador Polizzi. Needless to say, the bovine excrement hit the fan, big damn time.
Proving that 'it' still rolls down hill, the city's publicity-conscious Mayor, Francis Slay, lowered the boom, and the city bureaucracy got the message. The city's top health department bureaucrat apologized profusely, staged a photo op at the young capitalist's enterprise, thus disproving the timeless adage that opines you can't fight city hall. A more appropriate adage would be 'don't mess with Mim's mom'.
Mule Deer Makes Ten Most Wanted
Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana) [08/11]
A four-point mule deer buck has it in for Bozeman (Montana) denizen Gene Novikoff, and the beast is far from shy about letting Gene know about it. The other day, when 80-years-young Gene ventured outside, his four-legged nemesis ambushed him and majorly kicked Gene's ass:
'...Gene Novikoff, who had previous encounters with the animal, suffered a broken rib, bruises and scratches after the four-point buck knocked him down Monday and pummeled him with its front hooves for several minutes...' (Chronicle)
Local wildlife officials put a hit on the rampaging deer and intend to give the irrational beast a room temperature transition, if they can find him. He shouldn't be that hard to identify. He'll be the one with chunks of Gene's hide dangling from his antlers.
A Talibanma Cross Dude Clone
Source: NBC [08/11]
A Talibanma hairstylist thrilled everyone in a Southern Fried blight called Leeds (Talibanma) when he 'drenched himself in fake blood and mounted a 14-foot cross in front of his salon' (NBC). I'm amazed to report that this public tribute to supernaturalism prompted the local authorities to tell the dude to knock it off. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes when the infamous (former) Judge Roy Moore hears about their suppression of public supernaturalism.
For those who care, our hero - a dweeb named Patrick Conaty - attributes his actions to something he calls "Salvation Awareness Day". Neither Patrick's excuse, nor his inspired public supernaturalism got rave reviews from those heartless capitalists who are unlucky enough to have a business near Patrick's 'Running With Sissors' hair emporium. Perhaps the rumors are true...There might actually be a few rational adults in this Southern Fried supernaturalist pesthole. Learn something new every day.
Southern Fried Fun And Games
Source: St. Petersburg Times [08/10]
Inverness, Florida decided to spice things up this fall by Inaugurating an annual even called 'The Inverness Cooter Festival'. If, like me, you wouldn't know a 'cooter' it fell on you, be advised that 'cooter' is Southern Fried for 'turtle'. Which would you attend? A Cooter Festival or a Turtle Festival? Case closed, but, there's just one pesky problem. 'Cooter' has another meaning.
While scribbling in the July 19th St. Petersburg Times about 'The Inverness Cooter Festival', Greg Hamilton muddied the festive waters by noting that a second, much rarer, slang translation for Cooter is 'a key part of the female anatomy'. By July 30, the usual whiners made life so miserable for festival organizers that Inverness' City Manager, Frank DiGiovanni, cancelled the Cooter Festival. Unwilling to let some whining asshats ruin everyone's fun, the Inverness City Council re-instated the festival.
As far as the rational adults in Inverness are concerned, 'cooter' is another name for turtle. Case closed. Kudos to the Inverness City Council for telling the perpetual whiners to take a hike.
Uncivil Service
Source: Newsday [08/08]
When a woman came up to his toll booth window to complain that her Metrocard wasn't working, Gonslee Gorden got into her face, verbally, then Emerilized his curious notions about customer service by exiting his booth and punching the woman's lights out. That's right, mass transit fans, he hauled off and socked her in the kisser. If you're thinking it must be the Big Apple, give yourself a cookie.
The woman is setting the stage for a lawsuit with complaints about injuries to her left eye and her neck. The transit authority is circling the bureaucratic wagons by spouting drivel about 'an investigation' and a possible pink slipping, but don't hold your breath. He's gotta be union and we all know what that means.
Call me old fashioned if that makes your day, but, baring self defense, a dude just doesn't hit a woman. At age 48, Gonslee is old enough to know better. I hope they fire his sorry ass.
The Great Limo Demolition Derby
Source: Boston Globe [08/06]
A domestic dispute turned into an all limo car chase and demolition derby when Yvesnane Gethers spotted her husband in the back seat of their other limo, getting entirely too chummy with some tootsie. Before you could say 'you bastard', she rams his limo - several times - with the one she's driving and the chase was on.
'...When Wayne Gethers drove off, his wife followed, ramming him at least five to seven times during a pursuit that reached speeds of 40 to 50 miles per hour, police reported. When police found Yvesnane Gethers on Lawrence Avenue, their four children, ages 13, 11, 3, and 2 were in the back seat, the younger ones in car seats. After the two older children were examined by emergency medical technicians at the scene, all four children were released to relatives...' (Boston Globe)
One passage from this Bean Town fishwrap piece tells you all you need to know about our boy, Wayne:
'...Denise Monteiro, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Social Services, said the agency has dealt in the past with Wayne Gethers but has no history of problems with the mothers of his children...' (Globe, Emphasis added.)
I'm guessing that Wayne's murderously hostile bride knew what she was getting when she married this clown, so why is she shocked to find him doing some, uh, 'comparison shopping' for a new playmate? Buyer beware is more than conventional wisdom; it's a philosophy.
Begging For It?
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [08/04]
When it comes to enforcing the letter of the law, Elgin, Illinois' men in blue don't give anyone a free pass, including a certain Elgin Toll Booth that they just busted for 'violating the city's noise ordinance'. That's right, the Elgin justice system busted Old Ka-Boom's home boys during a Sunday afternoon service.
Given Old Ka-Boom's well documented anger management problem, I'm not sure that interrupting an 'Old Ka-Boom is too cool' confab is the best idea the Elgin cops ever had.
Elephant Clan Pulls A Jersey Switch?
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [08/04]
Breathless news dolts report that the Illinois Elephant Clan cabal is prepared to name its candidate to face rising Donkey Clan star Barack Obama in a quest for the state's open U.S. Senate seat. In a move that evokes memories of the Donkey Clan's legendary Jersey switch, the pachyderm set is poised to name a former Oval Office aspirant, Alan Keyes, as their official candidate. This is an especially curious choice since Mr. Keyes lives in...Maryland.
What makes this cosmically News Nitwit cool is the fun - but utterly irrelevant - fact that a Keyes vs Obama senate race would be the first all Melanin-Enriched U.S. Senate contest...ever. Am I the only one who could care less what pedigree the nominee has? I vaguely remember a time when elections revolved around 'issues', not the immutable traits of a particular candidate. There I go again, trying to be rational about an inherently irrational escapade like an election cycle.
Emerilizing Eating Out
Source: Democrat and Record (Rochester, NY) [08/01]
A Victor (New York) eatery named the 'Village Pig' kicked up its dining out ambiance several notches when it instituted a strict - no exceptions - policy that bans any aspiring diners under age 25. The reasons seem obvious to this pagan scribbler, but, for those merely mortal regular PIG readers, I'll offer up the following explanation:
'...Jim Andres, owner of the new barbecue eatery and bar at 75 Coville St., set the unusual age restriction to avoid the undesirable behaviors of two subsets of customers: screaming or crying children and irresponsible younger drinkers. "We simply don't want to deal with it."...' (Democrat and Record)
Kudos to Mr. Andres are eagerly conferred, but if he envisions 'hero' status from this pagan scribbler, he'll need to ban cell phones, too. If you're over 25 and crave some fine eats without someone's pooper screaming in your ear, visit the 'Village Pig' and tell Jim Andres that the pagan sent you.
SEPTEMBER 2004
I'll Drink To That!
Source: AP [09/30]
Educrats at an Alexandria (Theocratica) school, Alexandria Country Day School, Emerilized educrap, to record-setting levels when they 'inadvertently' served margaritas to some third, fourth and fifth grade students. The fun started when the school faculty kicked up a celebration several notches with nachos and margaritas, the day before classes started. After the festivities, the leftover adult beverage found its way into the cafeteria refrigerator and stayed there, unnoticed, until...
'...on the first day of school, the milk supply ran out after two lunch periods, so students were served what an employee thought was limeade...' (AP)
Since most students refused to drink the strange smelling stuff, and those who did came through unscathed, no harm, no foul, sums up the apologetic educrats' attitude. Reading between the lines, I'm guessing that this Theocratica school is private, not public, since no heads rolled after the cafeteria staff tried to get the youngsters potted. They never offered this advanced adult beverage educrap when I went to school. Life is so unfair that way.
Florida Flim-Flam Follies
Source: Modesto Bee [09/30]
A Tampa dude swam against the Florida Voter tide, when he leased out a house that he didn't own to 10 different people, bagging a nifty $8,600 in security deposits in the process. Simple and very effective, his scheme involved putting a "house for rent" sign in front of a certain home, then advertising it in the papers. Eventually, the proper authorities caught up with this enterprising capitalist and shut down his enriching scheme.
As fun as all this might be for everyone concerned, there is one pesky detail that needs to be explained. Why didn't the home's owner/resident notice the "house for rent" sign in the front yard? It's Enquiring minds, again, and who can blame me.
A Badge-Packing Florida Voter Epic
Source: Tampa Bay Tribune [09/28]
In 2002, citing a design flaw that caused some police officer deaths, Okaloosa County (Florida) Sheriff Charlie Morris sued Ford Motor Company, after his Crown Victoria (Ford) Police Interceptors 'exploded in flames when struck from behind at high speed' (Tribune). This year he's back in court demanding that Circuit Judge G. Robert Barron order to Ford Motor Company to lift the car company's ban on selling more cars to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Department. No shit, this government payroll dolt sustained this pagan's lower than whale pucky expectations for Florida Voters by complaining when a company he's suing won't sell him any more cars.
Bolstered by the judge's ruling, Ford can - and invariably will - refuse to sell to any person, or agency, that sues them. Ford needs to correct its death-dealing design flaw, and that's a no shit fact, so pagan kudos are not, will not be, conferred. On the other hand, Sheriff Morris is a slam dunk for this week's "Clanging Brass Nads" award.
Fiddling While Florida Floats Away?
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel [09/21]
Undeterred by the hurricanes ravaging the state, Florida hacks gave local government dweebs an October 1 deadline to report any and all landmarks, roads, parks, rivers, lakes or cities, etc., with names that might give some hypersensitive, properly-hyphenated whiner a boo-boo on their notorious fragile psyche. Among the names the hacks want to shed are such thrilling monikers as: Jap Rock, Negro Island, Jewfish Creek, Cracker Swamp. Their crime? These names include ethnic or religious 'slurs'. The banned names might discourage tourism, hacks claim, ignoring the fun fact that in its current, besieged by hurricanes condition, nobody is likely to visit what's left of Florida.
The state hacks who perpetrated this quest to cleanse Florida's maps got a case of the cutes so they left the local hacks on the hook to determine which names qualified as a 'slur'. Then, for reasons left unexplained the legicrats didn't include any heavy-handed 'or else' lingo in the law. In other words, if a local hack doesn't want to send the state a list of banned names and suggested replacements, he, she or it, isn't facing any penalty.
If the state hacks think this pathetic Korrectnik quest for kinder, gentler names is the biggest problem facing their state, they deserve an instant, involuntary change of employment. That's right, I'm saying fire that bastards.
Elephant Clan Election Cycle Antics
Source: Washington Times [09/21]
Ignoring such petty issues as a whopping budget deficit, the illegal immigrant tidal wave swamping our nation, the business stampede that exports Amerikan jobs in droves, the suffocating regulations that smother our inalienable liberty, and, the terrorist asshats hiding among us, Elephant Clan congressional hacks, focused on Amerika's number one with a bullet vital issue: keeping the words "under god" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Believe it or not, this week House Republicans passed a bill that forbids federal courts' ability to "hear cases challenging the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance" (Washington Times). Finally, we can all get a good night's sleep, now that this vital issue is resolved!
The Elephant Clan hacks perpetrating this outrage admit that this bill has no chance in the Senate, but they justify their asinine antics by blithering about "sending a message to the federal court system". Yeah, right. You gotta know they'd do this bovine excrement, every damn day, if they could get away with it, regardless of the danger it poses to our liberty. If congress has the right to determine what cases the federal courts can hear, it can pass a blatantly unconstitutional law, then add an amendment to the bill that forbids the federal courts from ruling on it. If you don't see the danger this poses, wake the hell up before it's too damn late.
Theocratica's Poker Plague
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch [09/18]
Televised on numerous cable channels, Texas Hold 'Em's burgeoning popularity is giving Theocratica's "Gambling Czar" - Department of Charitable Gaming director Clyde E. Cristman - job security, big time. Recently, he sent his jack-booted minions to shut down Texas Hold 'Em tournament's at Virgina Beach's Fraternal Order of Police lodge, and the Roanoke Moose Lodge. Gambling in Theocratica! I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you and so is this brain-dead bureaucratic asshat. Czar Cristman won't tolerate such things, unless it's state owned, operated and controlled, like the state-run lottery or, subjected to Draconian state regulations - and taxation - like pari-mutual betting. That's right, unless Theocratica gets its healthy cut, your recreational wagering is in this asshat's bull's-eye.
At least one rational adult 'gets it' when it comes to this poker craze. A Donkey Clan state Delegate, J. Chapman Petersen, plans to introduce a bill making tournaments hosted by private clubs - like those hosted at the Moose and FOP lodges - okey dokey. Kudos to Delegate Petersen for breathing sanity into this tragically theocratic, supernaturalist-infested, Southern-fried blight.
Afterthoughts
This pagan scribbler is far from shocked that Theocratica has a "Gambling Czar" who pursues his pernicious task with such mindless zealotry. At this point, nothing Theocratica does shocks me.
Bleary-Eyed in The Jury Box?
Source: Reuters [09/15]
Citing a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court decision, a Big Apple judge ruled that it's no shit okey dokey if jurors are drunk, coked out, wasted on weed, or simple sleeping through the trial. For those who care, here's the relevant prose from that 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling:
"However severe their effect and improper their use, drugs or alcohol voluntarily ingested by a juror seem no more an 'outside influence' than a virus, poorly prepared food, or lack of sleep." (Reuters)
And you thought Mexifornia's O. J. jurors were a menace? Does anyone still wonder why our legal system is so out of control? Does anyone still wonder why lawsuits are so enriching for shysters and so disastrous for sovereign individuals? Anyone? If you still don't 'get it', you're in a coma...on jury duty...or both.
An Enriching Idea
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [09/15]
When University of Wisconsin student, Anthony Gallagher, got a parking ticket in February, he turned this potential 'lemon' into lemonade. Utilizing 21st Century technology, ingenuity, and a some hefty brass nads, our hero created his own parking tickets, replacing the official justice system address with a post office box he rented. That easily, the cash rolled in, until the proper authorities caught up with him.
At $40 bucks a pop, this scam had to be very enriching, but I'm guessing the justice system costs will more than offset his boodle. Do I really need to warn you: don't try this at home?
Fighting The Good Fight
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [09/15]
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo continues to hold his Elephant Clan homeboys feet to the fire on illegal immigration, a fun fact that might explain why - behind closed doors - W and his minions vow to replace Tancredo with a 'team player', but I digress. This time out, Tancredo painted a bull's-eye on Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, after immigration czar Hutchinson waved a white flag, surrendering our borders to the illegal horde without a fight.
In a recent interview with the Washington Times, Asa Asshat spewed:
'...Mr. Hutchinson said that it was "not realistic" to think that law-enforcement authorities can arrest or deport the millions of illegal aliens now in the United States, that it was "probably accurate" to say no one was looking for them, and that he did not think the American public had the "will ... to uproot" those aliens. "I think they have too much compassion to tell our law-enforcement people to go out there and uproot those 8 million here — some of whom might have been here 8 or 12 years, who got kids here that are American citizens — and to send them out of the country."...'
Tancredo went postal, big damn time, and who can blame him. Tanacredo wants a face-to-face meeting with Hutchinson where he will demand that this pathetic bureaucratic scum set forth meaningful plans to defend our borders. Furthermore, Tandcredo demands meaningful plans to track down the illegal immigrant horde that infests our country, un -damn - invited..
Kudos to Tom Tancredo, the one Elephant Clan hack who 'gets it' when it comes to the dangers posed by unchecked illegal immigration.
Salt Lake City Grinch
Source: Reuters [09/11]
Like most cities, Salt Lake City's airport authority gives 'the jolly old elf', Santa Claus, an exemption from edicts that small aircraft must maintain a 2000 foot (or higher) altitude while soaring over Salt Lake City, until now. This harmless exemption is doomed to extinction, thanks to the bright bulbs on the city's airport board. These hacks just voted to deep-six Santa's exemption, dooming the city's tykes to a Santaless Christmas.
Although the airport board is attempting to defend its Santa-bashing decision, their City Council bosses aren't thrilled spitless. No doubt their feelings reflect the outrage expressed by Santa-loving parents throughout the city. This Santa-nuking edict looks doomed to this pagan, but don't bet the farm on it, because...it's Utah, a notoriously irrational outpost of alleged reality.
Grinch News Update
Salt Lake City's city council took a long look at the aviation committee's Santa ban, tested the prevailing political winds, then voted to maintain Santa's special exemption in their new aviation rules. Silly? Probably, but it's a solid 'no harm, no foul' to this pagan scribbler.
Zero Tolerance
Source: AP [09/08]
Raleigh County (Theocratica) educrats need remedial teenage Kulture training, stat. Their shocking ignorance in this critical area of human knowledge came to light when a 10th grade wenchlet arrived for school wearing a skirt that had the words "It's all about Juicy" spread that perky, wenchlet boom-boom. "Uncool for school!", the edcrats thundered, forcing our heroine to spend the day in the principal's office. "Like, duh...Juicy is a brand name for popular teenage clothing", our beleaguered heroine, Nichoel Hawks, retorted, for all the good it did her.
Unlike the retards running your school, PIG is down with "Juicy" - in all it's diverse meanings - darlin.
Trailer Park Tribulations
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [09/08]
A Michigan boob tube tells the story whose primary elements are a leaking gas stove, a mobile home, and a smoker who can't take a hint. Our epic starts when a trailer park manager replaces the stove in the aforementioned mobile home. Detecting a gas leak, he instructed the mobile home denizen to leave the rolling abode, and not return until he fixed the gas leak. Apparently, the woman residing in this rolling abode heard the 'leave' part, but didn't pay sufficient attention to the 'gas leak' part.
After gathering a few necessities, the woman and her children were leaving when - I am not making this up - she surrendered to her craving for a smoke, lit up the cancer stick and blew her rolling abode to smithereens. Do I really need to tell you, don't try this at home.
Afterthought:
For reasons known only to her, Mother Nature saw fit to let this brain-dead smoker off with a warning and severe burns. Unhappily, the woman's children incurred horrendous burns, proving this pagan scribbler's assertion that Mother Nature is a cold-hearted mega bitch.
Flyover State Fun And Games
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [09/04]
Buckeye State hormone gorillas continue to seek ways to break the crushing boredom that besets those rustics who live in certain 'from' places. The latest Buckeye State fad is called 'train surfing' and it's every bit as insane as it sounds. The 'surfer' hops onto a freight train, climbs atop a freight car and 'surfs' while the train hauls ass down the tracks.
When the surfers get caught, the worst these bright bulbs face is a 'criminal trespassing' charge, but I'm guessing that Mother Nature is setting them up for a well-earned, long-overdue 'fall' into human gene pool improvement oblivion. Catch a wave...splat...oblivion...works just fine for this pagan scribbler.
A Report From The Drug War Front Lines
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [09/04]
An Oregon boob tube broadcast reports that Okanogan County, Washington's drug task force raided a local couple's home after these dastardly civilians mailed - gasp - catnip. The local drug Nazi horde trashed the couple's home - doing an estimated $20,000 damage - and roughed them up, because they dared to mail some kitty pleaser via the U.S. Mail.
How much longer must we endure this asinine Drug War and the Gestapo-like tactics that go with it? With terrorists looking for ways to destroy our inalienable liberty, why does the government continue to prosecute this pointless, unwinnable, liberty-crushing war on drugs? Enquiring minds demand an answer, stat!
OCTOBER 2004
Tattletale Jobs Data
Source: Sacramento Bee [10/27]
On the campaign trail, W, routinely, brags about all the new jobs created during his first term. At the same time, using the same data, his harshest critics insist that Amerika is enduring a "jobless recovery". Both views can't be right...or can they? According to a census data analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies, both W and his critics are right. There are - as W insists - new jobs being created, but, these jobs - as his critics bellow - are not going to Amerikans:
'...The center's analysis found 19.7 million immigrants working, according to March 2004 census data, an increase of 2.3 million from 2000. About half the growth over the four-year span was due to illegal immigrants,[the report's author Steven] Camarota estimated. During the same period, the number of native-born workers decreased by 482,000 to 115.3 million...' (Bee)
The oft-repeated "jobs Amerikans don't want" canard also takes a hit:
'...the highest unemployment rate among natives was in the construction trade, at 12.7 percent. This is a field that also employed the largest number of immigrants who arrived since 2000. There were similar trends in the food preparation and building cleaning and maintenance...' (Bee)
Cheap - predominantly illegal - immigrant labor dislodges Amerikan citizens in construction and elsewhere, while Amerikan firms export engineering, I. T., technical support call in centers, and other jobs overseas. That sounds like a jobless - from the Amerikan worker's perspective - recovery to this pagan. As expected, the usual suspects claim that all this job displacement is good for our economy, but I'm not sure that will fly with Amerikan construction workers who lose their jobs to border-jumping scumbags.
This report on the jobless recovery is the smoking gun on illegal immigration's disastrous impact on an Amerikan citizen's job prospects. Everyone should be discussing it, but, by and large, neither the hacks nor the News Nazis can find time for it. That means you - each of you - needs to spread the word. Track down this story, print it out, and tell...every-damn-body. It's time for Amerikans to take back their country and that has to start with you, because , baring rare exceptions, your elected officials can't be bothered.
Jersey Justice
Source: News Tribune (New Jersey) [10/22]
A Glouchester County denizen who exercised his Second Amendment right "to keep and bear arms" - he shot and killed a New Jersey desperado in his yard - got a "no harm, no foul" seal of approval when a county grand jury refused to indict him for murder, aggravated assault and weapons charges. You don't need Nostradamus to predict that justice system officials aren't thrilled spitless with this decision. Prosecutors are determined to defend the local desperado population's right to invade a dude's property and make off with his ATV (all terrain vehicle) without getting a high caliber room temperature transition.
Who knew that New Jersey of all places, allowed rational adults on their grand juries? Learn something new every day.
W's Intelligence Bill Dilemma
Source: Seattle Times [10/20]
W and his minions want congress to ram through the stalled Intelligence Bill, but they want the House-Senate conference committee to make sure that the bill which lands on his desk sheds its tough on illegal immigration provisions, first. Ironically, this warrior against terrorism - W - chooses to ignore those recommendations from the September 11 Commission that don't suit his purposes. W is cool with the commission recommendation that Amerika create focal point for our intelligence services: a National Intelligence Director. What he doesn't like is the other commission recommendation the House put into the bill:
'...Commissioners also called for more safeguards at home, such as setting national standards for driver's licenses and other identification, improving "no-fly" and other terrorist watch lists and using more biometric identifiers to screen travelers at ports and borders....' (Times)
Taking the borders-protecting recommendations to heart, the House bill includes two common sense goodies that most rational adults favor:
'...The House bill would expand the number of illegal immigrants subject to quick deportation by increasing the amount of time they would have to be in the United States to be exempted from speedy deportation.
It also would force asylum seekers accused by their home countries of being involved in terrorist or guerrilla activities to prove that their race, religion, nationality or political opinion would be a "central reason" for their persecution if deported...' (Times)
Ideally, this bill would land on W's desk with the immigration reforms intact, forcing him to make a hard choice. If he coddles his daddy, Vicente Fox, he spoils his perfect, never a single veto during his term record. If he keeps his no vetoes streak alive, he pisses off daddy Vicente, big time. What's an illegal immigrant coddling hack to do?
A Terrors Of Technology Epic
Source: ABC [10/18]
Corvallis (Oregon) denizen, Chris van Rossman got a lot more than he expected when he laid out that folding green for a Toshiba boob tube that has built-in VCR, DVD and CD players. His extra special Toshiba is so cutting edge that he risks a $10,000 fine, every time he switches on the damn thing. Why? For that, we arrive at our Paul Harvey Moment and, "The rest of the story":
'...Some sort of electric glitch was causing van Rossman's TV to transmit on the international distress frequency. The signal was picked up by a satellite and relayed to the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in Virginia. Van Rossman had no idea until airmen, deputies and Corvallis, Oregon, police were knocking on the door of his apartment. The errant signal was traced to his TV set...' (ABC)
Nobody can explain why Chris's boob tube thinks our hero's viewing habits are so alarming it needs to call for an Air Force search and rescue operation. Is this what they mean by 'ignorance is bliss'? Probably, because if Chris's viewing choices are that scary, I really don't want to know...but I digress. Since his new TV set is unsafe at any speed, Chris has to indulge in low tech pursuits, like reading, until Toshiba sends him a replacement set, without the added international distress signal feature. So be it.
Better Than A Wrestle Punk Special?
Source: Indianapolis Star [10/15]
City politics in Lawrence, Indiana makes the on-going Bush-Kerry melee seem like kid stuff. What started as a winner-take-all, political whiz-a-thon between Lawrence Mayor Deborah Cantwee and the city's parks board culminated in some testosterone-induced antics that evoke Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment cabal.
Things got thrilling in city hall a few weeks ago, when Mayor Cantwell decided that the parks board members didn't jump through all the required bureaucratic hoops, a fun fact that meant the parks board members weren't street legal. Using this excuse, Mayor Cantwell tried to dump the old board and replace them with her own, hand-picked minions. In a heartbeat city hacks chose up sides and the tension mounted, until Deputy Mayor David Rapp [he's also the city's public safety director] came down with a testosterone poisoning brain-fart at Wednesday's parks board meeting.
'...A Lawrence parks board meeting turned into chaos Wednesday as the city's public safety director shut down the session and then had a heated dispute with a City Council member and her brother. Some witnesses said Deputy Mayor David Rapp shoved [the councilwoman and/or] swung at her brother, Rick Wells...' (Star)
This egregiously uncivil confrontation reached critical mass when Deputy Mayor Rapp bellowed, "You want a piece of me?", proving - to this pagan scribbler's satisfaction - that Dave Rapp spends too much time watching Monday Night Raw and too little time attending his anger management classes.
Am I the only one thinking that Lawrence, Indiana's parks board meetings are more action packed than a WWE cage match? I doubt it. Lawrence denizens won't want to miss the next parks board meeting...Rumor has it that Dave Rapp and Rick Wells are scheduled for a three fall, no holds barred, ladder match. Be there, or be square.
Livermore Library Update
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [10/14]
The alleged artist who perpetrated the spelling-challenged art for Livermore's library [PIG News/Only in Amerika/10-08-04] has changed her mind, again, and now thinks that fixing it is a nifty notion. Although she won't admit it, she's probably motivated by the news that her fatally-flawed art is a tourist attraction, thanks, entirely, to her differently-spelled names. People, it seems, are flocking to see the damn thing, so much so, that they make a game out of finding all 11 mistakes. Who said art appreciation can't be fun-filled? Shame on them, whoever they are.
Ms. Alquilar, the art fiasco's perpetrator, just won't have these Philistines maligning her masterpiece like that, so she let Livermore's mayor talk her into fixing the damn thing. Am I the only one who thinks her art is more interesting, just the way it is? I doubt it.
Emerilizing Airport Searches
Source: Sacramento Bee [10/10]
The Transportation Security Administration just Emerilized the 'pat down search', by mandating a comprehensive, hands on, beneath the clothes, sweater puppy inspection that requires "...going beneath, between, and above the breasts..." (Bee). You can bet the farm that this new sweater puppy inspection will be inflicted on oppressor women, exclusively, while that burka babe trailing fuse wire and making ticking noises will be passed thru, untouched. The TSA banned ethnic profiling, remember?
Faced with these Draconian TSA edicts...edicts that target those least likely to be dangerous...the flying public's growing aversion to getting on that plane makes perfect sense. Thanks to these brain-dead, terminally Korrect bureaucrats, flying just isn't worth the trouble.
Afterthought
A San Diego denizen who got majorly groped for National Security in the Denver airport was so distressed that she rented a car and drove home, instead. Can anyone blame her?
Holy Rollers Diss P & G
Source: World Net Daily [10/09]
Procter and Gamble incurred sufficient holy roller wrath to earn "boycott the bastards" hostility from two Morality Nazi cabals: the American Family Association, and Focus on The Family. P & G's sin involves, as if you couldn't guess, coddling GLAAD BAAGs. After filtering through WND's 'GLAAD BAAGs are turbo icky' sludge, I disinter P & G's cardinal sin: the Cincinnati-based company is involved in a campaign to overturn 'a local law barring special rights for homosexuals' (WND). Shocking! Utterly shocking!
Focus on the Family's top goose-stepper, James Dobson, lays bare his...soul in this revealing tidbit:
'...[Dobson] argues that in addition to giving $10,000 to the campaign to overturn the amendment in November, Procter & Gamble has said it "will not tolerate discrimination in any form, against anyone, for any reason."...' (WND)
Translation: Dobson thinks that government-enforced discrimination is nifty, as long as the Nanny State targets the 'right' groups: atheists, secular humanists, and, of course, GLAAD BAAGs. Does anyone still doubt that inalienable individual liberty and Cross Cult supernaturalism are mortal enemies?
Them's Fighting Words...Usually
Source: Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) [10/08]
When the Elephant Clan hacks who control Pennsylvania's Senate broke their promise and stifled debate on certain amendments to their slot machines bill, Donkey Clan (state) Senator Vince Fumo went high volume postal, calling Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Jubelirer, R-Blair, and Majority Leader David "Chip" Brightbill, R-Lebanon, "faggot", several times. This Pennsylvania fishwrap didn't share Senator Fumo's other epithets with us, but I'm willing to guess he found time use all the nifty ones...You know the ones I mean.
After the dust settled and Senator Fumo chilled out, he realized that an apology was needed, so he phoned a dude named Mark Segal to apologize for using the 'other' f-word, "faggot". Who in blue blazes is Mark Segal, you ask? He's the publisher of a GLAAD BAAG fishwrap named 'The Philadelphia Gay News'. Since Vince is Donkey Clan - a lefty, no doubt - and, therefore, a GLAAD BAAG coddler, he was forgiven, without fanfare. Let some Elephant Clan hack drop the 'other' f-bomb, and the ensuing GLAAD BAAG hissy fit would come through loud and clear, on Pluto.
Rampant GLAAD BAAG hypocrisy? You better damn believe it, bun-ranger Sparky.
Spelling Challenged Artist
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [10/08]
When the Livermore (Mexifornia) library unveiled it's new 16-foot, ceramic art whizbang, they weren't exactly thrilled about the artistic license taken with the spelling for the stellar names featured prominently in the goodie. When they examined the alleged art closely, the thrilled spitless librarians counted a show-stopping 11 spelling mistakes. Bold new concept. Am I the only one who thinks that a $40,000 dollar price tag should include spell-checking? Apparently not, because the city's check-writing bean counter wants it fixed. "No problem", Florida-based - alleged - artist, Maria Alquilar, replied. "All it will cost you is another $6,000, for travel expenses."
After the council voted the additional $6,000 and the story hit the news, things got interesting for the alleged artist. Within days, citing a deluge of "vile hate mail", Ms. Alquilar changed her mind about correcting her mistakes:
"No, I will not return to Livermore for any reason. There seems to be so much hatred within certain people. They continuously look for a scapegoat. I guess I am the sacrificial goat." (Maria Alquilar, as quoted by AP)
Philistines who don't appreciate her differently-spelled artistic vision are beneath Ms. Alquilar's contempt, apparently. Besides, proper spelling is ridiculously overrated. Shame on Livermore for shackling Ms. Alquilar's artistic vision to such petty, Bourgeois, concerns. How dare they!
Glass half full cretins will point out that this allegedly-artistic Florida voter got 164 out of 175 right...a solid 93%. Glass half empty pests - like me - wonder if any government cess-schooled dolts will notice the spelling errors. Hell, I'm wondering if government cess-schooled idiots with self esteem can even read the names. I doubt it, and, you can bet the farm that those who can read the names couldn't tell you who Einstein, Shakespeare or Michelangelo is if their lives depended on it.
Afterthought
When asked where she got the 175 names for her 16-foot wide, circular, artistic atrocity, Ms. Algquilar claimed: "The art chose the words." It's a shame the art didn't have spell check, either. The salient fact here is that Ms. Alquilar hails, after all, from Florida. Game, set match!
West Virginia Cable Thieves
Source: The Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) [10/04]
Charter Communications smelled a cable service stealing rat in West Virginia and tracked the thief down to - drum roll please - the state capitol. Their investigation uncovered '80 unauthorized "drops" or cable lines' (Gazette) that have been boosting cable access for over 20 years. Government-perpetrated cable theft? I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you. Have they no shame?
The excrement is, inexorably, flowing downhill and is destined, it seems, to find a home in the state's General Services Division. According to the Gazette, here's how it started:
'...the recollection of House technicians is that when the Capitol was first wired for cable in the early 1980s, Cablevision ran a trunk line to the West Wing, and gave the OK for state technicians to run cable lines anywhere in the building...' (Gazette)
That's news to Cablevision, a firm that has changed hands at least three times since the 1980s. Fear not, this government-sanctioned monopoly is working on a bargain with their hack masters to, legally, wire the capitol for cable access, plus, achieving a mutually-satisfying financial settlement for two decades of free cable service. As thrilling as this is for all concerned, I am compelled to ask the burning question: "What did Blithering Bobby Byrd know about this and when did he know it?"
Afterthought
Predictably, there is one pesky fishwrap tidbit needs to be explained:
'...Under federal regulations, any cable signal leakage over 50 megavolts must be corrected within 24 hours...' (Gazette)
How, exactly, is cable signal leakage any of Uncle Sam's damn business? Where, exactly, is that spelled out in the U.S. Constitution?
Border Insanity
Source: World Net Daily [10/01]
Thanks, largely, to Immigration Czar Asa Hutchinson's monumental ineptitude, al-Qaida perpetrated a scheme that would put al-Qaida operatives inside the Mexas firm, Wornikc Co., that makes our military's 'ready-to-eat' meals. Since Asa won't turn his job over to someone with a functional brain, the U.S. Justice Department stepped up to the plate and shared the thrilling news with Amerikan citizens:
'...U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby explained, "Immediately after the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2002, U.S. forces on the ground received specific information that links McAllen, Texas, by name and the Wornick facility by name to information within al-Qaida's possession."...' (WND)
This resulting raid on Wornick's McAllen (Mexas) plant didn't bag any terrorist asshats, but, as a consolation prize, the FBI bagged a dozen 'undocumented' border jumpers, nailing them for 'conspiring to make and use false employment eligibility verification forms' (WND).
Thanks to Asa's mind-boggling incompetence, these terrorist asshats, come 'thisclose' to poisoning our troops. So far - keep your fingers crossed - no poisoned military rations have been found, no thanks to Asa the Assclown. This reeking bureaucratic turd needs to dumped like a bad habit, by any damn means necessary, because his ineptitude endangers this nation and the troops who risk their lives defending us.
NOVEMBER 2004
Assorted News Nuggets
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [11/30]
Provo, Utah
For reasons nobody can explain, Provo's city code makes it a crime to have both dogs and cats in the same domicile. When this embarrassing fact hit the news, city hacks decided to repeal this bureaucratic relic, stat. Utah is surreal for numerous reasons, but banning cats and dogs under the same roof is out there, even for this wingnut state.
The Big Apple
A dunk desperado got more than he bargained for when he stole a ride from a Queen's supermarket. After swerving to avoid nailing a school bus, this dipstick slammed into an 18-year-old woman, pinning her against a wall in the process. Outraged by this asshat's antics, Queen's denizens snatched this desperado from the stolen ride and gave him a long overdue thrashing. In this instance, street justice earns a heartfelt thumbs up from this pagan scribbler.
Red-Faced In Denver
With winter setting in, Denver police are warning citizens that starting their ride and letting it warm up, unattended, in the driveway - it's called "puffing" - is a bad idea, since opportunistic desperados, routinely, jump in these inviting targets and drive off with them. Imagine her embarrassment when a Denver P.D. detective left her car "puffing" in her driveway and a car thief made off with it. You can bet the proverbial farm that she spewed something much more colorful than Homer's celebrated "D'oh" when her ride achieved "missing in action" status.
Chicago
A Windy City candy-maker has a new concoction that will thrill adult beverage afficionados spitless: a chocolate truffle that's laced with Jamaican Red Stripe beer. Brewski lovers who expect to get a chocolate-flavored buzz from this new candy are doomed to sugar-laced disappointment, because there's only enough brew in each truffle to flavor it. If you stray into the Windy City, stop in at Markoff's North Michigan Avenue shop and give this brewskie truffle a test drive.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Source: The Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) [11/29]
According to this kilted fishwrap, Bubba (William Jefferson Clinton) gave his okey dokey to a special Psychic Spying Unit's plan to - I am not making this up - find Nessie. If this story is real, our government is hip-deep in Art Bell territory and the people running this Psychic Spying Unit are several tacos, and an enchilada, short of a combo platter:
'...The US Army worked on the project from a base at Fort Meade, Maryland. It was led by General Albert Stubblebine, Chief of Intelligence for the US Army, and Major Ed Dames. The unit had begun investigating UFOs and the possibility alien races - particularly Martians - were living among humans. The major believed that Martians had been resettled on Earth thousands of years ago by leaders of the Galactic Federation - an ancient race who had been visiting the planet since the age of the dinosaurs...' (Sunday Mail)
If you want all the thrilling details, you need to bag a new book by Jon Ronson "The Men Who Stare at Goats", the primary source for this fishwrap piece. As weird as this story is, it gets even better:
'...[General] Stubblebine was relieved of his position after he started to believe he could levitate and pass through walls. He frequently sported black eyes and bruises because of his habit of running at walls full tilt - with no success...' (Sunday Mail)
The Nessie caper transpired when Major Ed Dames decided to establish pyschic contact with Nessie, for some damn reason. Proving how distracted regular Monica hummers made him, Bubba gave this notion his okey dokey when it landed on his desk.
I'm guessing that this tome won't be landing on the Bubba-loving New York Times best seller list in this, or any other, lifetime.
Letting It All Hang Out In Pennsylvania
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [11/26]
An old enough to know better Pennsylvania denizen who, routinely, thrilled his neighbors spitless by wandering around stark naked inside his house - with all the shades up - finally crossed the line into an indecent exposure charge, when he decided to hang out his laundry in his backyard, starkers, while his neighbors watched. The fact that one gaping in disbelief neighbor is a 12-year old wenchlet prompted the local authorities to shut down his show and tell with the aforementioned indecent exposure charge. At last report, this legalized abuse prodded our hero into shutting his drapes, ending the peep show, for the moment.
Afterthought:
As annoying - utterly infuriating - as this clown's antics must be to his neighbors, do they have the right to tell him how to dress while he's on his own property? In a rational, properly-constitutional Amerika, this nudity loving asshat's property rights should override the neighborhood's irritation. It's his property and that means he can wear anything, or nothing, depending on his mood, no matter what his neighbors think about it. Inalienable individual liberty is very annoying that way.
Princess Antoinette's Daring Adventure
Source: AP [11/25]
When American Express discovered that Antoinette Millard isn't the Saudi Princess she claimed to be when she nailed them for big bucks, the company got a court order to freeze a hefty $951,000 of the wench's assets to cover her unpaid credit card charges. Unwilling to tolerate such legally-sanctioned 'abuse', the wench launched her own shyster drama, suing American Express for a nifty $2,000,000 in dead presidents. This poignant epic sizes up as something like this:
Antoinette: "I'm a Saudi Princess. Make me an offer I can't refuse."
Amex: "You need our ultra rare, ultra exclusive "black" card, Princess Puss."
Antoinette: "Spend. Spend. Spend."
Amex: "You're a fake, but you have assets we can bag. Sue. Sue. Sue."
Antoinette: "You can't do that to me. You had no business giving me that "black" card, because any fool can tell that I'm two tacos short of a combination plate. Countersue. Countersue. Countersue."
Antoinette's Shyster: "Poor, tragic, Antoinette is a quack's wet dream who is beset by fun stuff like anorexia, depression, panic attacks and head tumors. For those, and other reasons, she was too bonkers to understand the agreement she entered into with American Express."
Antoinette is also on the bubble for an unrelated insurance scam that involved her claiming a $262,000 settlement from an insurance company for 'stolen' jewelry that she sold, before making the claim. Why would anyone trust this woman with anything more valuable than a used paper clip?
Blazing Away In Cheesehead Land
Source: Sacramento Bee [11/23]
After a property owner warned him that he was hunting/trespassing on private land, a Hmong immigrant Emerilized deer hunting, big time, when he administered a high caliber room temperature transition on six other hunters. Philosophically, this pagan endorses the concept that hunters should 'kick it up a notch' and start - by mutual agreement - hunting each other on designated hunting reserves. Tragically, this story isn't quite that civilized, since this killer, Chai Vang, murdered several unarmed men. Among the eight people Mr. Vang shot, only one had a gun, so self defense is not an reasonable defense option.
I'm guessing that the usual Ethnocrat suspects will circle the wagons around this trigger happy hothead and invoke every sob story at their disposal: he had a crappy childhood; he's a tragic product of cultural disruption; he's a victim of blatant oppressor discrimination; it's unjust to cite a capitalist tenet like property rights to a dude who grew up in a communist nation; you can't demand logical behavior from a dude cursed with a classically Asian, non-linear brain. Blah...blah...blah...He came, he saw, he killed without provocation, just shoot the bastard and be done with it.
Justice, Jersey Style
Source: The Times (New Jersey) [11/23]
The first mistake four New Jersey punks made, when they robbed a Trenton citizen of $1500 on his doorstep at gunpoint, was threatening to return and rape his two teenage daughters. When the punks took off in their getaway ride, their victim, Robert Neal, jumped into his SUV and gave chase. After ramming into the getaway car, the outraged crime victim didn't back off when one desperado started shooting at him out the getaway ride's rear window. The chase culminated when Mr. Neal rammed the getaway car a second time, sending both cars careening into the median. That's when the chase turned deadly.
'...One of the robbers then jumped from the car, which had been disabled by the collisions, and began firing at O'Neal's SUV, the [police] report said. While O'Neal can't remember what happened next, police and a gas station attendant at the Sunoco across the street from the crash said the SUV ran over the gunman...' (Times)
The scorecard for this heist is as follows: one room temperature punk, two incarcerated punks and a fourth 'thisclose' to joining his surviving homeboys as Bubba's Bitch in the local graybar. Kudos to Robert Neal for - literally - going the extra mile to keep his daughters safe.
Kreskin To The Rescue
Source: AP [11/17]
Billing himself as "the world's foremost mentalist", the (allegedly) Amazing Kreskin plans to, singlehandedly, clean up New Jersey's ethically-challenged state government. If some hack even thinks shady thoughts while Kreskin patrols those government halls and meetings, Mr. Amazing will sense it in a tick, track it back to the source and then impose his fabled - as yet unspecified - cleansing on them. As wacky as this sounds, Kreskin is so deadly serious that he made this offer, in writing, to New Jersey's acting governor, Richard J. Cody.
Setting aside the obvious question - what the hell is Kreskin smoking - we're left with the troubling realization that Kreskin believes his own bullshit. This allegedly-Amazing nitwit needs to increase the voltage on his shock treatments, stat, before he has a fatal encounter with one of Jersey's countless bad boys.
Motorized Techno Ninnies
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer [11/17]
If, like me, you travel the freeways - highways, if you prefer - during your regular commutes, you've seen all the familiar driver distractions: wenches applying make-up while driving; dudes reading the paper while driving; cell idiots too busy dialing their phone to watch the road. As annoying, alarming, as these are - especially when the distracted driver is right behind you - they're nothing compared to the latest, 21st Century, high tech distractions.
In their vast, Nanny State wisdom, many states outlaw televisions that the driver can watch while motoring, but, technology offers many new, improved, distractions to make tech-bonkers nitwits a hazard to highway navigation. The most popular new distractions include, but are not limited to:
Surfing the web on a laptop or PDA while driving.
Text or video messaging on your cell phone while driving.
Watching movies or videos on a DVD system while driving.
Playing computer games on an Xbox or Play Station while driving.
Composing, reading or sending e-mail while driving.
Unlike Nanny State ninnies, this pagan doesn't favor a government imposed solution. If some tech toy obsessed motorist causes an accident, he, she, or it must be eviscerated via a lawsuit plus insurance premiums that rival our national debt. This distracted driver crap is a legitimate reason for our court system. On the off chance anyone gives a damn I'll trot out my personal view on distracted drivers: Play your techno geek games all you want, but, when you nail my ride while you're distracted, I'll come down on you like the wrath of Old Ka-Boom. Go ahead, techno twerp...make my day.
Getting A Bit Too Real
Source: Newsday [11/17]
Empire State governor, George Pataki, apologized after his media consultant, Arthur Finkelstein, got too "real", during an interview with an Israeli fishwrap. Artie boy dared to paint a vivid - and utterly accurate - picture of the post-election Elephant Clan:
'...[Finkelstein] said Republicans have become the "party of the Christian right more so than in any other period in modern history." Media guru Arthur Finkelstein also said a tilt to the right exhibited by the Republican Party during President Bush's successful re-election campaign against Democratic Sen. John Kerry means that moderate Republicans like Pataki will find it "difficult" to run for nationwide office since the party's "political center has disappeared."...' (Newsday)
The governor can apologize all he wants, but he knows that his friend Artie is right. Arlen Specter's highly publicized tussle with VRWC righteous righties proves Artie's point. Close to home, Rudy Guiliani's oval office aspirations are roundly condemned by the holy roller right because he's "pro choice". "RHINO!" These righteous righties accuse, pinning a Republican In Name Only tag on Rudy. "We don't want no RHINOs," red state retards insist, demonstrating to my satisfaction that Artie has it nailed. His one and only sin is saying it out loud, on the record.
Sunshine State Silliness
Source: Boca Raton News [11/16]
Sunshine State shrinks have their Freudian panties in a bunch because VRWC [vast right-wingnut conspiracy] icon, Rush Limbaugh, offered free therapy to liberals traumatized by John Kerry's defeat. Much too serious for their own good, Sunshine State Shrinks condemned Rush's witty repartee, going off the deep end about their newest psychobabble malady: Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST). Although PEST reeks of self-parody, these American Health Association couch wranglers are deadly serious. VRWC members probably agree, since most opined - long before election day - that anyone punching a chad for Kerry has to be clinically bonkers.
The malady is no laughing matter to the pathetic losers who convinced themselves that they need their brains shrunk:
'...A man named Paul wrote to AHA, "I too was very depressed, and I knew a lot people who felt the same way. You have to understand that to many of us, this was the key election about the future of our country, and with a Bush win that future is pretty much destroyed. Naturally, there’s going to be some significant grief."...'
'...the AHA on Monday also received its first out-of-state call – from a fixed-income woman in Texas who is "absolutely terrified of what Bush will do" – and scheduled a free telephone therapy session with her for today...'
'...Douglas Schooler, the Boca Raton trauma specialist who treated 20 people with hypnotherapy following Kerry’s loss, said he believes many people suffering from election-related symptoms are still afraid to step forward...' (Boca Raton News)
Grief? Terror? That's S.O.P. for liberal asshats. But, no way in hell can you convince me that any lefty on this planet - past present or future - is afraid to whine about his plight. That's not gonna happen in this, or any other, reality, trauma twerp. Liberals learn to whine in the womb and keep caterwauling until the grim reaper comes to punch their hanging chad.
Kudos, Rush, for, once again, lighting a humor-intensive fire under Sunshine State lefties.
Arkansas Artillery
Source: Reuters [11/16]
The rustics in Clintonia's (Little Rock, Arkansas) Acxiom Corporation were told to - I am not making this up - 'leave their deer hunting rifles at home because the president and three former presidents are coming to town to open Bill Clinton's presidential library' (Reuters). This isn't quite as ominous as it seems, since the company's building is within spitting distance of the new Bubba shrine. According to this piece, deer hunting season just opened, so rustic hunters pack fire power while riding to and from work, just in case. When they spot Bambi in an unguarded moment during the daily commute, ka-blam, room temperature Bambi. Learn something new every day.
Afterthought
Hell-A culture perpetrates a similar ritual that the proper authorities demean by calling this city of angels sport, drive-by shootings. Justice system officials insist on pinning their own label on this motorized thinning of Hell-A's human herd: murder. In Hell-A's case, I doubt that a memo urging gang punks to leave their guns at home would work, but it can't hurt to give it a try.
Holiday Flamingos
Source: AP [11/16]
Cranston (Rhode Island) mayor, Stephen Laffey, asked for it last winter when he 'encouraged residents to put seasonal displays he deemed appropriate on City Hall's front lawn' (AP). A menorah started the citizen perpetrated festivities, followed by a blow-up Frosty, Old St. Nick, then a Nativity. Mayor Steve drew a line in the snow when a local wit added the icon from the "Church of the Pink Flamingo": plastic pink flamingos in Santa hats. That's when the mayor granted himself exclusive veto power over "proper" additions to the holiday display. Before you could say "ACLU", Mayor Steve scored shyster drama bingo.
The ACLU served up a two-pronged shyster assault on Mayor Steve, claiming that Steve violated Church-State separation and tramped on the flamingo-wrangler's free speech. This week, a U.S. District judge told the ACLU asshats, in essence, "you're half right". Mayor Laffey is Church-State separation cool, but his veto did cross the line into free speech infringement. That's sounds nifty to this pagan, how about you?
It's encouraging to know that at least one Cranston denizen has a sense of humor when it comes to publically professed supernautralism. Kudos are deserved and eagerly conferred on Cranston's flamingo wrangler. Am I the only one who wonders what he, she, or it has planned for this holiday season?
Election Cycle Fallout
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [11/12]
Two stories about the recently concluded election cycle's fallout caught this pagan scribbler's attention this week. Ironically, both extremes of the supernaturalist spectrum are alarmed over the elections results, but for different reasons. Puzzled? Perhaps a few quotes from a San Diego Union-Tribune piece will help you cope:
"The administration we have now has no respect whatsoever for science, and because of that, they have no respect for the truth, and that can be fatal. I think unless the country gets a belly-full of this over the next four years and this turns around, the future of civilization will shift to Europe or elsewhere and not be led by the U.S. administration." (Norman Hall, Scripps Institution of Oceanography...Atheist)
"I'm scared to death about what may happen. I abhor any power that religion has in government. They shouldn't be there, and Bush is inviting them in." (Susi Reed, Humanist Fellowship of San Diego).
"I am worried that as things go wrong, as the wheels come off in Iraq and the economy, liberals, gays, atheists, feminists and people who believe in the rule of law will be scapegoated." ( Andy Pavelchek, San Diego Atheist Coalition)
"Atheists are now at the bottom of the barrel in American society. At least that's how we feel we are perceived..."(Jeff Archer, president of the Atheists Coalition of San Diego )
For the opposing view, we pull these tidbits from a story posted on a South Carolina boob tube site:
'...The president of fundamentalist Bob Jones University has told President Bush he should use his electoral mandate to "appoint many conservative judges" and approve legislation "defined by biblical norm." Bob Jones III wrote Bush a congratulatory letter that has been posted on the university's Web site. The letter says with Bush's re-election, "God has graciously granted America - though she doesn't deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism."...' (AP, emphasis added )
Bob Jones III needs to stay away from the sacramental wine, because if there's a paganism agenda at work in Amerika, it's news to this pagan scribbler. On the other hand, the San Diego-based atheists need to stop feeling sorry for themselves and knock off the whining. Everybody needs to step back, take some deep breaths and chill. Don't make me come over there.
A Korrectnik Caper Goes Wrong
Source: The Republican (Springfield, Mass) [11/10]
When Amherst (Mass.) Korrectniks decided to honor "Puerto Rican Month" by raising the Puerto Rican flag over the city, they should have aimed a memo at Town Meeting member Patricia Church. Mistaking the Puerto Rican flag for the Mexas state flag - they are amazingly similar - the disgrunted, 'I hate W so much' wench took the offending flag down.
Initially, after the Puerto Rican flag went missing, the usual whiners thundered about racial/ethnic bias, but everyone chilled in a heartbeat after Ms. Church admitted her mistake. Hate Puerto Rican's? You're racist scum. Hate George W Bush? No harm, no foul, we feel your pain, sister. That works like a champ, for Korrectniks, but, as usual, I have some questions for Ms. Church:
If, as seems likely, 'Town Meeting Member' denotes some official, civic position in Amherst, why didn't Ms. Church know about this Korrectnik flag-raising ceremony?
If, as seems likely, our heroine is a Donkey Clan way leftie, why wasn't she at the flag-raising ceremony to show solidarity with her Puerto Rican brothers and sisters?
What made her think that Amherst would raise the Mexas state flag in her own civic backyard in the first place?
Attention Ms. Church: W won the election and tearing down the Mexas flag won't change that fun fact. I strongly suggest that you get over it, darlin. Otherwise, it's gonna be a very long 4 years. You heard it here, first.
More Big Dig Problems
Source: Houston Chronicle [11/10]
Boston's multi-billion dollar boondoggle, the Big Dig, leaks like a rusty bucket and it'll take at least 10 years and countless billions - ka ching - to fix it, according to a consultant hired by the Massachusetts Transit Authority. All hail the Big Dig, a universe-class boondoggle that keeps eating taxpayer dollars by the truckload.
I should throw a fit over this tax dollar rathole, but, it's not gonna happen. The state that perpetrated John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy deserves whatever the Big Dig boondoggle dishes out. It's their boondoggle hell and I'm smug - in the extreme - about letting these Bay State lefty taxpayers get extra crispy paying for it.
The Winning Ticket Caper
Source: Indiana Star [11/09]
William Foreman decided to cash in on his security officer for the Indiana Lottery position and his personally enriching ($1,000,000 in dead presidents) scheme succeeded, up to a point. Armed with inside info that a winning ticket for the "$2,000,000 Bonus Spectacular" was residing in Cross Point, Indiana's Otters Grocery, Mister Lottery Security paid two cohorts $25,000 each to get that winning ticket:
'...One of those men then went to that store and bought its entire supply of the game's $20 tickets -- about $700 worth, according to court documents...' (Star)
This scheme fell apart like a cheap suit, after the store clerk, the police and Indiana Lottery officials started asking all those scheme-exposing questions. Just like that, our sticky fingered hero landed in very hot water. As secretary for the Indiana State Fraternal Order of Police, Mr. Foreman should feel right at home in the local graybar. Let's hope so, because he could be there for up to 50 years. How, exactly, did this ethically-challenged dude get a job securing anything more valuable than pre-chewed bubble gum? Enquiring minds damn sure want to know.
When Things Go Wrong...
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer [11/07]
Three Lynwood (Washington) desperados got more than they could handle when they invaded a dude's trailer park home, one fine morning. Their plan unraveled when the homeowner greeted their unwanted intrusion with a machete, but that was just the beginning of their bad luck. Their home invasion turned into a headlong retreat when their intended victim's neighbors joined the melee, armed with baseball bats. That fast, the home invasion turned into a rout.
Guided, in large part, by tattletale, machete and baseball bat-induced, wear and tear, Sheriff's deputies easily identified two fleeing desperados. The third home invader is still at large, but won't be hard to spot, because, machetes and baseball bats leave very distinctive wounds.
Kudos to the homeowner and his neighbors for teaching these home invading asshats a painful lesson.
Moronic Maggot Mumbling
Source: World Net Daily [11/06]
Before the election, the Maggot portrayed a W second term as the death knell for our nation. The Maggot bellowed that, given 4 more years, W would, singlehandedly, destroy everything lefties hold dear: FDR's welfare state legacy, our government educrap system, the social safety net, the environment, peaceful relations with the rest of the planet, a truce with terrorist asshats...yada, yada, yada. Fast forward to the present and the Maggot perpetrates a lip-flapping 180, claiming that W is, essentially, powerless:
"Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out – and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade – you've already made it, so it's party time!..." (Maggot as quoted by WND)
As usual, the Maggot gets it half right...at best. Yes, W is a lame duck, but he's far from powerless. Even those terminally annoying lefty talking heads opine that W will have at least a year of unmitigated effectiveness, before the lame duck label begins taking a toll on Oval Office clout. That sounds right to this pagan scribbler, but don't hold your breath waiting for the Maggot to jump on this bandwagon. Facing grim reality isn't the Maggot's best move.
Afterthought
The Maggot still doesn't get it, and he never will. His beyond left antics are one reason that the Elephant Clan kicked Donkey Clan butt. Maggot, you're not the solution...you're the goddamn problem, and, the Donkey Clan is beginning to realize it.
Holy Overkill, Batman!
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [11/05]
Oklahoma City's littering law is so Draconian that dropping one sunflower seed on the pavement earned an Oklahoma City woman a hefty $185 fine. Ouch! And it gets worse if you're not a first time offender. The law is, deliberately, vague in its litter definition: anything that falls out of your ride is considered litter. Does your ride leak oil? Does your ride bleed radiator fluid? Did your cancer stick ash get blown out the window? Did you dump the ice from your drink out the window? Any 'yes' costs you up to $200 for your first offense and much more if you're a repeat offender.
Is this an enriching - for the city coffers - edict? You better believe it, petty hack tyrant Sparky.
Afterthought
Are you planning a vacation, a meeting, or a convention in this Okie blight? Maybe it's time to reconsider those plans and visit a more enlightened city.
Arizona's New Illegal Immigrant Edict
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer [11/05]
Arizona's newly enacted proposition 200 imposes certain restrictions on anyone seeking 'public benefits' or 'registering to vote'. Henceforth, anyone seeking certain tax-funded handouts or trying to vote must serve up proof of citizenship, or they're S. O. L. Furthermore, any government employee who doesn't report any illegal immigrants seeking government largess or ballots faces jail time and/or fines. Big, big fun.
Needless to say, Arizona's border jumping horde is thrilled spitless. Terrified by this new edict, 'immigrant parents' yanked their nippers from Head Start programs. Elsewhere, a dude whose lovely bride is an illegal, reports that his wife is so terrified by this new edict that she refuses to leave the house. Am I supposed to give a damn? If our laws are so intolerable to border jumping scumbags, the solution is very goddamn simple: pack your bags and go back home, where you belong. Adios, border-jumping scumbags and don't come back.
DECEMBER 2004
Shape Up, Or Ship Out
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [12/29]
Darlene Jespersen's 20 year stint as a Harrah's bartender ended ignobly, after the Reno gambling den imposed a dress code that mandated makeup for female employees. The drama unfolded, something like this:
Harrah's: "Henceforth, wear makeup - foundation, blush, mascara, lip color. This is not a drill."
Darlene: "Bite me."
Harrah's: "You're fired."
Darlene: "I'm gonna sue you for gender discrimination."
Harrah's: "Go ahead...Make our day."
This week, Darlene hit a speed bump on shysterville highway when the way lefty, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals shot down her shyster assault by a 2 to 1 vote. Harrah's company. Harrah's rules. Game, set, match, Darlene.
Hanging Tough In The Empire State
Source: New York Daily News [12/28]
New York's DMV Commissioner, Raymond Martinez, isn't impressed by the whining activists who complain about Raymond's 10-month old crackdown on driver's license fraud. Stressing the security needs posed by this post-September 11 world, Commissioner Martinez defended his decision with compelling vigor:
'..."The ultimate goal for us is to have just one record per person," he said. For example, he noted the probe has found one driver with 16 different licenses and detected a single Social Security number used by 57 individuals. In the five boroughs, the agency found "literally hundreds" of cab drivers with multiple driver's licenses in their names...' (Daily News)
PIG confers heartfelt kudos on DMV Commissioner Martinez for defying the perpetually-whining, border jumping scumbag coddling lobby.
The Perils Of Public Access Cable
Source: NBC [12/28]
An Ohio family discovered, the old fashioned way, that public access cable programming isn't for sissies. Seeking the scheduled public access fare - Christmas music by a local Toll Booth's choir - on Christmas morning, they started their holiday festivities with a bang, literally. Instead of the pious warbling, these unsuspecting Buckeyes tuned into some warts and all 'wham, bam, thank you ma'am' porn tape action.
This story's "well, duh" moment is dished up by a Time-Warner spokeshole:
'...Chris Thomas, the cable company's director of government affairs, believes the wrong tape was put in a machine set to play that morning. A church program was scheduled, he said. "I don't think the church group submitted that."...' (NBC)
The wrong tape? No shit, cable clown Sparky.
Painting A Bull's-Eye On Wall Mart
Source: AP [12/22]
After her manic-depressive daughter killed herself, Shayla Stewart's mother, Lavern Bracy, needed a deep pockets 'someone' to blame. Quickly examining her potential victims, she sued Wal Mart - she demands $25,000,000 - for selling her clinically bonkers daughter the gun. Since Lavern's daughter had a prescription for anti-psychotic medication at Wal Mart, Lavern decided that the store should have known better than sell Shayla a gun. Why didn't their mandatory gun buyer screening catch this fun fact, Ms. Bracy demands? It's a good question for which there is an equally good answer:
'...pharmacy prescription records are confidential under a 1996 federal law, so stores cannot use them when deciding whether to sell a gun...'
'...Wal-Mart did a background check on Stewart, as required under federal law, but through no fault of its own, her name did not show up in the FBI database. The reason: The database contains no mental health records from Texas and 37 other states. Texas does not submit mental health records because state law deems them confidential...' (AP)
Added to these two tidbits is the inconvenient fact that Shayla lied about her mental condition when she filled out the 'I wanna buy a gun' form and this case would appear to be a slam dunk in Wal Mart's favor. It should be, but given what passes for jury selection in Twenty-First Century Amerika, don't be the farm on it. I predict that, despite the facts, Wal Mart gets nailed because they have deep pockets and are, curiously, despised by so many people. Whatever the case, when this shyster assault is completed, PIG will bring you all the gruesome details. Stay tuned...
D.C. Baseball Back On Track
Source: Washington Times [12/21]
D.C. Council Chair, Linda W. Cropp, bent, but didn't break on her private financing requirement for the proposed MLB stadium deal. Private financing is still in the game, but it's no longer a 'money in the bank, before we turn the first shovelful of dirt' condition. Kudos to Council Chair Cropp for hanging tough and striking a better bargain for the district's taxpayers:
'...[the new agreement means that] the city's exposure to legal risk if the stadium is not completed on time was reduced from $19 million in the first year to $5.3 million. The $19 million sum agreed upon last week for the second potential year of risk stands unchanged. MLB and the city now will share equally all insurance premiums to protect against cost overruns.]...' (Times)
This 'private financing' gig is, quite likely, nothing more than political hack smoke and mirrors, but this pagan is enjoyed seeing MLB's tax plundering punks get turned down, even if it was a temporary phenomenon.
A Lesson In Capitalism?
Source: AP [12/21]
After Arkansas' attorney general implied - very forcefully - that Ford Motor Company egregiously exaggerated the goodies included on their Crown Victoria Police Interceptor model, the car company responded forcefully. Ford officials decreed that no Police Interceptors will be sold or delivered to any police agency in Arkansas. So there.
'..."Ford dealers will not deliver vehicles, regardless of order date, because the state's top law enforcement department is incorrectly contending that the vehicle does not possess the attributes as advertised," a Ford statement said...' (AP)
Still pressing the issue, the state's attorney general's office plans to conduct a 'side by side comparison of different' Ford models, in the state police garage. Take that, Motor City punks! This whiz-a-thon seems headed for shysterville, so don't hold your breath waiting for state officials and Ford Motor executives to schedule a 'all is forgiven' press conference in the near future. So be it.
Afterthought
Every story has at least one glass half full element and this is no exception. With the local authorities driving old, tired, rides, fleeing Arkansas desperados will enjoy a distinct edge in upcoming car chases.
Instant Justice
Source: Galveston County Daily News (Mexas) [12/21]
A Texas City woman who woke up to find an intruder in her bedroom in the wee hours of the morning took matters into her own hands and gave the housebreaker a lesson he won't soon forget. I'll let this Mexas fishwrap do the heavy lifting on the thrilling details:
'...the woman grabbed a fireplace poker and began to strike the man with it. When the man tried to get away from her, she began grabbing his clothes and tearing them off. A hooded sweatshirt, a shoe and a shirt were found at the scene, police said...' (Daily News)
As expected, the proper authorities caution that law-abiding citizens should refrain from emulating our heroine. That might be standard police prose, but this pagan scribbler isn't saddled with such asinine restrictions. PIG salutes our heroine for giving this housebreaking punk a painful lesson. You done damn good, darlin and that's a no shit fact.
Afterthought
If you're in, or around, Texas City, be on the lookout for 'a Hispanic male, between 16 and 20 years old, 5-foot-7-inches tall and weighing 140 pounds' (Daily News). He should be easy to spot, since he's the one sporting one, or more, fireplace poker-shaped wounds.
Thrilling Hillary News
Source: News Max [12/19]
Alarmed News Max scribblers warn that new polls show Hillary thrashing several Elephant Clan aspirants, in a potential Oval Office derby: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and New York Governor George Pataki. Curiously this Fox Opinion Dynamics poll doesn't test her against more potent Elephant Clan rivals like Rudy Guiliani or John McCain.
It must be a very slow news day at News Max, if this is the hottest breaking news they can find.
Today's News Nitwit Talking Point
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [12/18]
Eagerly reporting Amerikan intolerance, breathless News Nitwits shout the thrilling - to them - news that 'nearly half' of Amerikans want to repeal some, if not all, rights of 'Muslim-Americans'. This tolerance tidbit stems from a survey perpetrated by the eggheads at Cornel University, and must, therefore, be approached with considerable skepticism. An AP factoid hints at pollster/News Nitwit bias:
'...The survey conducted by Cornell University also found that Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more apt to support curtailing Muslims' civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious...' (AP)
The egregiously touted "nearly half" translates as 44% who favor 'at least some' restrictions on Amerika's resident Mecca Maniacs. That's hardly breaking news, since 'some restrictions' would, necessarily, include closer scrutiny of young Mecca Maniac men who book flights. Other poll results include a smaller percentage - 29% - that favors making Amerika's resident Mecca Maniacs registering their home addresses with the feds.
Do these poll results make Amerika egregiously intolerant? That depends on one vital, unreported, fact that is, curiously, missing from all the published reports on this subject: How, exactly, were these polling questions worded? This pagan scribbler needs to see the actual questions, before he's going to get all choked up about rampaging Amerikan intolerance. It's a rational adult thing, so get over it already.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis) [12/16]
Tucked away in the fine print of the $388 billion dollar spending bill that federal hacks enacted last month was a nifty pork barrel goodie that sends $1,000,000 of your money to the Norwegian American Foundation, thanks to Congresspunk Martin Sabo. This porcine federal largesse will be used 'to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Norway's peaceful independence from Sweden in 1905' (Star Tribune). No doubt you're as thrilled as I am to discover that we just got screwed and we didn't even get a peck on the cheek from some blonde, Norwegian hottie.
Where, exactly, does the constitution make this legicrat bovine excrement a legitimate government function? It's no shit Enquiring Minds time in the pagan bunker.
Baseball Hits A D.C. Speed-Bump
Source: AP [12/16]
The quest to return major league baseball (MLB) to the nation's capitol hit a speed-bump this week when City Council Chair Linda W. Cropp rammed through a revision to the terms agreed upon by Mayor Anthony Williams and MLB in September. The original agreement put the financial burden squarely on the city - the taxpayers - but that's all changed now that Council Chair Cropp pushed through her measure to offload half the cost for the new stadium onto "private financing". Faster than a Nolan Ryan fastball, MLB officials had a hissy fit, threatening to pull the plug on the deal to move the Montreal Expos to D.C.
Kudos to Council Chair Cropp for hanging tough on this public financing scam that MLB loves so majorly. No doubt, MLB's sorry trackrecord made Ms. Cropp question the original '100% government financing, up front' agreement. She must know that, time and time again, pro sports franchises in general, and MLB franchises in particular, pull up stakes and move to greener, public-funded, pastures, leaving their former city with stadium-size money pit on their hands. Council Chair Cropp should tell MLB to take their public financed ballpark money pit and shove it where the sun don't shine.
Airport Insecurity
Source: AP [12/15]
The baggage screeners at Newark's (New Jersey) Liberty International Airport spotted the bomb that TSA security dolts slipped into a bag, then, miraculously, lost track of the damn thing. Unaware that the bomb was just a fake planted by their TSA bosses, the baggage screeners searched high, low and in-between, without success. The bomb made it onto the Amsterdam-bound flight and was, subsequently, recovered by Amsterdam's security team.
This isn't the first time these Jersey baggage screeners flunked an unannounced, TSA security test. In October, the same alert dolts 'missed one in four fake explosives and weapons' (AP) used to test airport security. If you're in Newark and need to catch a flight, buy plenty of life insurance, just in case. You heard it here, first.
Telemarketer From Hell
Source: Pagan Scribbler News Wire [12/07]
When a Mexas-based telemarketer called Motor City denizen, Jill Beyer, to solicit contributions to a certain veteran's association, our heroine strayed into the phone solicitation twilight zone, big damn time. Aware that the group in question didn't dispense the lion's share of donations to the needy veterans, Jill got exasperated when the telemarketer wouldn't take 'no' for an answer, so she hung up on him. Normally, that would end the matter, but this particular telemarketer wasn't finished with Jill, yet.
'...[a few days after the call,] a letter arrived postmarked from El Paso, Texas. The first lines read, "Before you are rude to another telemarketer, you should keep in mind that he or she has your phone number and your address. Many of them live in your own state and most don't give a (expletive)! "...' (Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.)
The cops are on the trail, but, until the matter is resolved, Jill must keep looking over her shoulder, for an enraged telemarketing asshat. When the Mexas cops track this asshat down, I think 'just shoot the bastard' is the only suitable option. Since he perpetrated his threat in Mexas, offing him shouldn't pose a problem.
Traveling Incognito
Source: AP [12/07]
The capitalists masterminding a New Mexico t-shirt company, T-shirtKing.com, hit upon a nifty notion to spare Amerikans from the usual 'Yankee go home' rhetoric when traveling abroad. They call their inspiration "Go Canadian" and it's an enriching idea whose time has come:
'...[The Go Canadian] package that includes a Canadian flag T-shirt, a Canadian flag lapel pin and a Canadian patch for luggage or a backpack. There's also a quick reference guide -- "How to Speak Canadian, Eh?" -- on answering questions about Canada...' (AP)
Unless you're a masochist, why invite unwanted abuse from the Amerika-hating, international rabble? For a low, low, $24.95, you can "Go Canadian" and spare yourself all the aggravation. That sounds like a plan to this pagan. Hmm...I wonder if it will work in distinctly un-Amerikan Mexifornia? Bold new concept.
Airport Smackdown
Source: AP [12/03]
More than a tad annoyed after an airport security asshat groped her, repeatedly, a woman dished up some payback when she slapped the security guard's face with her boarding pass. Up to here with the intrusive "inspection", the 48 year old woman finally snapped, and who can blame her:
'..."She said if anybody was going to touch her, she was going to touch them," [Police Lt. Tod] Dahle said. She was "just an average middle-aged person who got upset."...' (AP)
Although the proper authorities allowed her to board another flight, they're in no mood to "forgiven and forget". If, as they insist, they decide to charge our heroine with 'misdemeanor assault', I'll pony up the first $20 for her defense fund. You done damn good, darlin' and that's a no shit fact.
2003
Paul Harvey
In the Cross-Hairs
Source: World Net Daily
Paul Harvey
laid 'the rest of the story' on the Mecca Maniac doorstep and CAIR
- Council on American-Islamic Relations - is mad as hell about it.
They demand an apology right damn now because Paul "falsely
attributes to Islam two things that are specifically prohibited
by our faith, murder and cruelty to animals" (CAIR spokes-punk
Ibrahim Hooper as quoted by WND).
For those who
care, this is the Paul Harvey prose that got their panties in a
wad:
'...In a news
item in which Harvey described the bloody nature of cockfight
gambling in Iraq, he said: "Add to the thirst for blood a
religion which encourages killing, and it is entirely understandable
if Americans came to this bloody party unprepared."...' (WND)
Hooper needs
to shut the hell up and get real about Mecca Mania. If Islam is
all about peace and against killing, who is telling these young
Mecca Maniacs that killing in Allah's name gets you rewarded with
virgins in the hereafter? It ain't the damn God Squad, CAIR punks.
It's you and your Mecca Maniac home boys. On the animal cruelty
front, what about those peaceful Mecca Maniacs who - in the name
of your deity - pack donkeys with explosives, aim them at the enemy
- Israeli civilians or American soldiers - then blow the beast up,
for the greater glory of Allah, no doubt. Is that Mecca Mania cool,
killing an innocent beast like that? Do these sacrificial donkeys
get 72 donkey virgins in the Mecca Mania hereafter? Enquiring minds
want to know.
Afterthoughts:
Since Hooper proclaims Islam opposed to murder, how does he explain
away the widely reported practice called honor killings? Is killing
your sister, cousin or daughter cool, because she's 'damaged goods',
due to rape, incest or an extra marital sexual encounter cool with
Hooper? Is stoning a rape victim to death - Nigeria is a prime example
- okey dokey with him, too? It damn sure sounds like murder to this
pagan scribbler. Do everybody a favor Ibrahim, shut your hole, leave
the Great Satan and move to Saudi Arabia. Don't make me tell you
twice.
Hillary Shoots
Off Her Mouth
Source: Houston Chronicle
Comrade Hillary,
New York's junior senator and stealth oval office candidate, stage-managed
an interview with this Lone Star state fishwrap. The ensuing write-up
included two Hillary brain-farts that require pagan attention:
'...Clinton,
in an interview with two reporters, said she had become convinced
the Republican administration wants "to undo the New Deal,"
the Roosevelt-era policies that ushered in Social Security and
a host of other governmental assistance programs...' (Chronicle)
Thrilling,
if true, but it's not. Somebody should dismantle this Nanny government,
but I seriously doubt that this warrior for inalienable liberty
will be named BUSH. Grow the hell up, Hillary.
'...[Hillary
blithered that W is] "making America less free, fair, strong,
smart than it deserves to be in a dangerous world. We have to
change direction before irreparable harm is done. This administration
is in danger of being the first in American history to leave our
nation worse off than when they found it."...(Hillary as quoted
by the Chronicle)
The first
Administration to leave our nation worse off? Hardly. Lincoln
imposed the unstoppable Federal behemoth on America. FDR inflicted
the grandfather of all Nanny Government entitlements - Social
Security - on America. LBJ drove a wedge called Affirmative Action
between black and white American individuals. Jimmy Carter had
our national economy on life support by the time he left office.
The examples are numerous and ones that the 'smartest woman in
the world' should know. If you can't get it right, keep your mouth
shut!
Is this Marxist
wench the smartest woman on the planet as her slavishly devoted
supporters claim? Not a chance. Is she the most ambitious woman
on the planet? You better believe it, Empress Hillary Sparky.
First Amendment
Under Assault In Michigan
Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle
Criminalizing
obscene language in public is classic Nanny Government abuse, but
Manistee (Michigan) Emerilizes it, big time, in their zeal to nail
a sovereign individual named Duane Barton. Barton's criminal outburst
happened when he confronted Manistee policeman, Jeff Pefley, in
a parking lot. Both agree that they had words, but Barton insists
that he didn't swear at the cop. His offense isn't related to what
he said; it's how he emphasized it.
Grabbing his
crotch, Barton is quoted as saying: "I've got something for you,
Pefley..." (Record-Eagle). Manistee's Police Chief, David
Bachman concedes that Barton's words aren't obscene, then justifies
charging Barton with this bovine excrement:
"You can say
words in a normal, calm manner, but if it's aggressive and abusive,
it becomes a violation of this ordinance." (Record-Eagle)
If anything
is obscene here it's this asinine law. Any law that criminalizes
speech is an intolerable infringement on inalienable individual
liberty. Shame on Manistee justices officials for this egregious
affront to our Founding Fathers and the First Amendment of our Constitution.
Sleeping
It Off
Source: NY Post
A 50-year old
Wall Street computer wizard got a lot more transportation for his
commuter dollar than he expected, when he caught his evening train
from the Big Apple's Grand Central Station. Feeling the effects
from an after-work adult beverage or two, he nodded off, waking
up much later in a locked railway car that was parked in a White
Plains railyard.
Determined to
escape his involuntary commuter train confinement, he forced open
a door, breaking his wrist in the process. After wandering around
the railway yard, he ran into some railway workers, taking his painful
epic to new levels. Much later, after a prolonged inquisition from
the suspicious railway workers then the police, our hero finally
completed his commute. Secure in his abode, for the moment, our
hero did the properly Amerikan thing: he bagged a shyster and sued
the railway for $700,000 dollars, citing his broken wrist as exhibit
'A'.
When, exactly,
did we become a nation populated by wimps, whiners and shyster-bonkers
victims? Enquiring minds want to know.
The Great
Hamburger Whiz-A-Thon
Source: Houston Chronicle
It's hardly
breaking news when two 77-year-old Southern Californski icons get
into a pissing contest over something trivial. It's still not stop
the presses stuff when the two men are supernaturalist emeritus
Robert Schuller and skin magazine pioneer Hugh Hefner. The fun fact
that makes this story noteworthy is the reason these natural enemies
are feuding. If you're guessing 'Playboy Magazine', you're wrong,
although, Bob isn't exactly choked up about that, either.
It all began
with a television advertisement for Mexifornia-based burger purveyor,
Carl's Junior. For those who missed it, the ad is described as follows,
by the Chronicle scribblers:
'...The ads
feature Hefner, 77, in his signature silk pajamas holding a bulging
sandwich. "People always ask me, `Hey Hef, do you have favorites?'"
he says in one version. "I love them all. It just depends on what
I'm in the mood for.'"
In one ad,
his comments are interspersed with appearances by three women,
one of whom says, "I feel for Hef. It's so hard to choose." The
tag line of the campaign is "Because some guys don't like the
same thing night after night."...'
Clever stuff,
but tame, in any rational adult's view. A career supernaturalist,
Bob shed rational adult, decades ago, so it's hardly shocking that
he went postal with these memorable outbursts:
'..."I have
never been so appalled, hurt, wounded, embarrassed and I cannot
let it pass," Schuller said from the pulpit...'
'...Schuller
said the company's founder, Carl Karcher, is "just heartbroken
that a company he founded on Christian principles has taken such
an amoral act that can be so dangerous on the impressions left
with the children who watch."...' (Chronicle)
Reportedly -
I hope Bob doesn't have a bad ticker - Carl's Junior sales are up,
big time, thanks to Hef's ads and the controversy surrounding them.
Ironically, Hef's burger hawking implies that - in his case - man
does not live by booty alone. Learn something new every day.
Home-Brewed
Inferno
Source: Florida Boob Tube
A land of hanging
chads denizen decided that an adult beverage infusion would facilitate
the requisite 'holiday spirit', so he fired up his still to run
off a fresh batch of moonshine. That sets you up for our Paul Harvey
moment and 'the rest of the story'.
'...the Lee
County Sheriff's Office says a wood-burning fire used in the fermentation
process got out of control late Thursday, engulfing the outdoor
still and spreading to his detached garage with three vehicles
inside...'
Out $50,000
for his garage and rides, our hero earned graybar hotel guest status
plus a court date for brewing his own adult beverage. Merry...Happy,
dumbass
Your Government
In Action I
Source: AP (via an ABC boob tube outlet in Pennsylvania)
Affirmative
action hiring of government cess-school dolts to fill job for life
government hack positions explains, to this pagan's satisfaction,
the Allentown (Pennsylvania) tax bill debacle. Early this year,
some unidentified bureaucratic triple threat flat-liner lost the
annual per-capita tax notices. Big fun, but it gets better. Undaunted,
these bureaucratic bright bulbs placed microscopic fishwrap ads
warning citizens that with or without an official tax notice, they
owned Allentown $19.60 each, by June 30. When, quite understandably,
the tax bills didn't get paid, these walking brain-farts Emerilized
their tax notice stupidity.
'...About
15,000 per-capita tax bills were lost early this year, but the
city nevertheless sent late notices to about 12,000 residents,
many of whom then flooded City Hall with complaints...' (AP)
Unable to fire
the drooling bureaucrat incompetents who perpetrated this civic
farce, and unwilling to take the heat generated by outraged citizens,
Allentown mayor Roy Afflerbach granted universal amnesty if the
taxpayers simply pay their $19.60. I can live with that if he can.
So be it.
Your Government
in Action II
Source: New York Post
Big Apple hacks
continue to reset the bar, ever higher, in their relentless quest
to terrorize NYC denizens with asinine edits. Years before smoke
Nazis declared war on Big Apple bars and restaurants, the City Council
took deadly aim at the city's toy purveyors with a 1999 edict outlawed
'realistic-looking toy guns that might be mistaken for weapons'
(Post).
Since it's toy-intensive
gift giving season, Big Apple toy Nazis are especially busy terrorizing
the city's tax base.
'...Undercover
staffers with the council's investigations committee were able
to purchase illegal toy guns at 10 of the 52 stores they visited
in the five boroughs, according to a survey released yesterday...'
(Post)
According to
this Big Apple fishwrap, only 12 clueless 'children' were used for
target practice by the NYPD since 1998 and most of them survived
to tell the tale. Is this the most productive use for NYC tax dollars?
Is this the best way to address the realistic-looking toy issue?
The answer to both is 'no god damn way'. If this toy gun crap is
a real problem, the best way to resolve it is via consumer pressure.
The marketplace is much more efficient in such matters and a lot
cheaper.
This is classic
Nanny Government bovine excrement and we are profoundly unamused.
Political
Paranoia
Source: Washington Times
Saddam-loving
congressman, Jim McDermott - a.k.a. Bagdad Jim - is acting weird
again. I'm guessing his keepers lowered the voltage on his daily
shock treatments...yes, again. This time, Jim is convinced that
W played the Saddam card to ward off some 'unspecified' political
trouble with what tragically-delusional Jim views as a 'stage-managed'
Saddam capture.
"I don't know
that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they've
been in contact with people all along who knew basically where
he was. It was just a matter of time till they'd find him. It's
funny, when they're having all this trouble, suddenly they have
to roll out something." (Jim babble as heard on KIRO-FM)
Jim, dude, take
your medication like a good boy. Don't make me come up there.
Doubling
Up In Weymouth
Source: Weymouth Times (Massachusetts)
How does one
man get nailed for drunk driving twice, within a two hour period?
It's not easy, but Weymouth denizen, Michael Murphy pulled it off
the other night. Our saga begins in the wee hours - shortly after
1AM - when Weymouth cops spotted our hero doing 60 in a 30mph zone.
By the time they caught up to him, our blitzed hero had perpetrated
an accident, earning himself a free ride to the drunk tank.
Blitzed or
not, Michael is a resourceful dude who managed to make bail immediately,
after which he liberated his ride from the towing company's impound
lot. Since Michael bagged his ride without permission, the towing
company notified the police who had no trouble tracking Michael
down, a fun fact that leads us to our Paul Harvey moment.
'...Officers
went to Murphy's home where they found him sitting in his vehicle.
A quantity of marijuana was discovered during a search...' (Weymouth
Times)
Michael's antics
- his fourth DWI - affixed a judicial bull's-eye to his drunk as
a skunk ass for assorted traffic violations plus 'driving an unregistered
and uninsured car'. Charges also include 'attaching plates', whatever
the hell that means. Michael, dude, you're a menace who should be
banned from driving, forever, at minimum, but, personally, I'm seriously
considering summary execution.
Afterthought
Given enough time behind the wheel, Michael will achieve room temperature
in a crash with an immovable, stationary object. Tragically, he
might injure or kill someone before that happens, leaving the permanent
driving ban as our only option. Why, exactly, does Old Ka-Boom have
a soft spot for these soused losers? Enquiring minds want to know.
The Name
Says It All
Source: NBC (San Diego, boob tube)
If - in the
interests of science - you contemplated such compelling mysteries
as 'what would happen if I set off 19 bug bombs in a 500 square
foot house equipped with functional - and operating - gas appliances',
wonder no more. A San Diego flat-liner tried it and the results
were - to say the least - impressive.
'...The resulting
explosion at 8:30 blew the rear of the home off, and a Christmas
tree, some ornaments still hanging from its branches, could be
seen yawning out the rear of the building. The house was also
knocked off its foundation...' (NBC)
They call these
bad boys bug BOMBS for a reason. As much as we all want those uninvited
insect guests dead, blowing their asses off is no shit overkill.
Life Is Irrelevant
Source: Michigan Boob tube site
Thanks to a
bureaucrat's typo, Robert Richardson's Social Security number got
logged when another alleged human achieved room temperature. Officially,
'dead' in Uncle Sam's eyes, he lost his monthly Medicaid and food
stamp benefits, plus his bank closed his account and pocketed the
money. After showing up 'alive and well', he reclaimed his food
stamp privileges - welfare for 'dead' people is standard operating
procedure - but a pulse and volitional movement didn't convince
Social Security bureaucrats. Their attitude is: You're dead, dude,
so stop pestering us with contradictory reality'.
Shyster Payday
Source: San Jose Mercury News
When Chicago
hacks deemed panhandling a crime - disorderly conduct, punishable
by fines as high as $500 - in a 1991 edict, they started down a
long road toward a shyster drama. It took ten years, but, finally,
in 2001, a shyster filed suit, forcing the city to dump the panhandling
edict because it infringed on 'commercial speech'. If the matter
ended there, I would declare the shyster a hero, but no shyster
ever stops short when persisting can earn him a hefty remuneration.
Some Bitter
Reality: Every twenty-first century shyster drama includes a payoff
and this is no exception. The alleged victims - panhandlers ticketed
since 1999 - split $99,000. The shyster gets the lions share of
$375,000 - minus some minor bureaucratic fees. Do we get the big
picture now, lawsuit abuse Sparky?
Job For Life
Asshat
Source: Contra Costa Times
Californiski's
Department of Health Services discovered that 'job for life' means
what it says, even when the bureaucrat in question is a career asshat.
After watching an assclown named Douglas Vessey terrorize his co-workers
for at least 5 years - probably much longer - his bosses, belatedly,
listened to the complaints about Doug:
'...He harassed
a co-worker by making "an aggressive and loud animal noise ...
similar to that which a chipmunk might make ... chirp chirp,"
according to state documents. He "humped" the computer keyboard
in a colleague's cubicle. He puffed out his chest and shoulders
to block people in his office's narrow passageways...' (Times)
When his bosses
finally put letters of reprimand into Doug's files, Vessey hired
a shyster who demanded the letters' removal. Failing in that shyster
quest and besieged by more complaints, Doug wrote to his department
head and assorted state Legicrats, claiming that he, Douglas Vessey,
was a victim. When that failed, too, Doug seemed to be headed for
the fate he deserved, but appearances are deceiving.
If you harbor
delusions featuring bureaucratic rationality finally nailing Doug,
get a grip. Other than a 30 day suspension in 1997, Doug came through
utterly unscathed. That's right, he's still employed, still up to
his old tricks, and there's not a damn thing anybody can do about
it. Job-For-Life Doug is free to terrorize all he wants and Californski
taxpayers got to foot the bill.
Afterthought
I'm guessing that Doug is properly-hyphenated, because no oppressor
- even one holding down a job for life - could get away with this
crap. If somebody gives Doug a 45-caliber room temperature transition,
this pagan is ready, willing and able to deem it...justifiable homicide.
Homeless
Roulette
Source: Denver Post
Two visionary
Minnesota counties devised an inspired way to resolve their homeless
problems. They shed 4,500 homeless denizens via one-way tickets
out of state. Using a typical hack ploy, they dress this get out
of Dodge scheme up with a touchy-feely name: A Bus Ticket Forward.
In theory, this plan sends the homeless dolt to his, her or its
friend, relatives or a new job offer. Big fun, if true, but hacks
on the receiving end aren't buying it.
Rearranging
the Titanic's deck chairs? Perhaps, but give Minnesota hacks props
for their one-way bus ticket scam. What the hell, if you can't solve
a problem, exporting it is the next best thing. So be it.
The Perils
of Piercing
Source: PIG News Wire
If you perpetrate
such body adornments as eye brow loops, lip rings, lip studs, nose
rings, nose studs, tongue studs, or have more than three earrings
per ear, Orange County, Florida doesnÕt want or need you on the
on the county payroll. In typical bureaucratic style, this Draconian
edict even bans earrings on the upper half of each ear. I'm shocked,
shocked I tell you.
The justification
cited involves 'presenting a professional appearance' for the county
services consuming public. That sounds nice enough, but it assumes
facts not in evidence. What makes them think the typical Florida
voter has sufficient awareness to notice a mega piercing, like a
bovine-class nose ring? Is there a shyster assault in the offing,
sooner or later? You better believe it, Perry Mason to the rescue
Sparky.
Lawsuit
Abuse - Playground Pratfall
Source: PIG News Wire
A Connecticut
rugrat is the centerpiece for the latest lawsuit abuse incident.
During a recent frolic on a Stamford (Connecticut) playground, 2-year-old
Konrad Mader did a header into railing, a mishap that earned the
lad several stitches to mend his noggin. Oops, no harm no foul should
end the matter, but this is shyster bonkers Amerika where 'oops'
is never enough.
The lad's mommy,
Deena, fired off a letter to city officials demanding 'compensation
for medical bills, pain and suffering and a "lost wage amount due
to his inability to audition or take modeling or commercial jobs
while his head heals"..' (Yahoo News). This rugrat is running
around, unsupervised, does a header into a railing and it's the
city's fault? What, exactly, is Deena smoking these days?
NOVEMBER
2003
Your Tax $ At
Work
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Languishing
in Cleveland's public housing, a Buckeye wench is suing the city
because they aren't jumping through hoops to accommodate her 'special
housing needs'. Oh, did I mention that she's a mere wisp of a thing
who tips the truck scales at a svelte 772 pounds? It must have slipped
my mind. Given the way the city coddles her, she has no reason to
complain about any damn thing. You're humongous and that's not their
doing; it's yours Hefty.
As you can imagine,
moving her is a thrilling experience. That window rattling shock
that rocked Cleveland last August wasn't an earthquake. It was Carmen
Bowen going to the dentist.
'...22 firefighters
and emergency medical technicians worked for 2 hours to move Bowen
from her apartment so she could have dental work...' (Plain
Dealer)
Her new digs
- available in December - entailed 'removing doors and walls, installing
an automatic door operator and panic device, demolishing the existing
bathroom and installing a special shower, and putting in a sidewalk
to the front door' (Plain Dealer). Did this putrid fishwrap
really need to invoke the grotesque image of a one-third ton human
hippo naked with that 'special shower' reference? I way don't think
so, Tim
Hammering
Halloween
Source: Tongue Tied
Korrectniks
at a coddling cabal called 'The Southern Poverty Law Center' went
postal over Halloween costumes that make the wearer look like an
extra-wide load. They call it "body image bias", but a rational
adult like me knows rampant Korrectnik bovine excrement when he
smells it. Don't these whiners have real problems to solve? If this
is your only problem, pack it in and got get a real job in an honorable
profession. Enough already!
Arresting
Images
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
A 40-foot wide
mural decorating a Lexington (Kentucky) company gets on a city council
punk's last raw nerve, but he's forced to get over it because the
beastly graphic doesn't violate local sign ordinances.
'...The mural
shows the donkey exposing her bare rear and prominently displays
the industrial-fan maker's unforgettable name...' (Herald-Leader)
By now you must
be asking 'What unforgettable name'. Before we get to the name,
we must explain how it evolved. The firm in question sells fans
as big as 24-feet in diameter, a product that prompted numerous
customers to dub them "Big ass fans". Inspired, the company's owner
changed the firm's name from HVLS Fan Co to - drum roll please -
the 'Big Ass Fan Co.', a name that spawned the legendary mural.
Big Ass Fan
Co? You gotta love it, unless you're a humor-challenged hack named
Councilman David Stevens. Dave, dude, learn to live with your disappointment.
The mural is here to stay.
Tax Nazi
Tyranny
Source: Patriot-News (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania
tax Nazi's sold an 89-year-old woman's $800,000 farm for $15,000
because she missed a $572 tax payment in 2001. Despite the fact
that she never missed another tax payment - before or since - they
sold her home to a land developer, kicking the rightful owner out
onto the streets in the process.
When this story
hit the news - and it hit big - the besieged tax Nazi's trotted
out all the familiar excuses. It's crap, and we all know it. They
jumped at this chance to turn her property into a tax base bonanza
by selling it to a land developer. Is stealing an old woman's rightful
property what our Founding Fathers envisioned when they enshrined
inalienable individual liberty as America's solid foundation? I
way don't think so, Tim.
Shame on Dauphin
County officials for this blatant land grab.
Story Update
Source: Patriot News (Pennsylvania)
The 89-year-old
Pennsylvania widow who lost her farm over a missed $572 tax payment
got it back thanks to an honorable land developer. No shit...a land
developer with a keen sense of justice. The man who bought her place
at the tax Nazi auction gave the land back to it's rightful owner.
Why? In his own words...
''..."It
was a no-brainer, a moral issue, not a legal one. The property
should be returned to her." [Land Developer Philip] Dobson said
returning the land was the only thing to do, adding "I got something
better than a million-dollar property. I got a hug from a little
old lady. That was worth more than anyone could imagine."...'
(Patriot News)
Kudos to Mr.
Dobson, one of the no shit good guys.
9-11 Scam
Artists
Source: NY Daily News
There's so much
folding green showering 9-11 victims, scam artists worked overtime
to grab for this free dead presidents brass ring. A Pennsylvania
huckster named Carlton Nash turned his chosen scam into a three-hankie
drama.
'...Manhattan
prosecutors said Carlton McNish, 51, of Tobyhanna, Pa., reported
that his wife had called him from the Cantor Fitzgerald offices
at 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, to report that the building was
filling with smoke after a plane crashed into it. Two months later,
he staged a funeral for her, using three youngsters from other
parents to play the couple's children at a three-minute service,
investigators said...' (Daily News)
Claiming that
his tragically room temperature bride was the sole family breadwinner,
he nailed four charities for a whopping $100,000, until one busted
him when he didn't pony up the documentation they kept demanding.
His ever changing story started the inevitable unraveling, ultimately
revealing his true status - unmarried, out of work construction
dude - earned him a justice system encounter.
Carlton, dude,
everyone knows that the devil is always in the details. Did you
really think that nobody would ask you to prove your claims? Look
on the bright side, dude. You might not have a wife - dead or otherwise
- but you're on the fast track to gaining a husband named Buford.
I suggest that you bend over and take...it, like a man.
Unwanted
Recognition
Source: AP
Executives at
the ubiquitous Golden Arches aren't thrilled spitless over their
firm's recognition by the newest edition of 'Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary'.
'...Among
some 10,000 new additions to an updated version released in June
was the term "McJob," defined as "low paying and dead-end work."...'
(AP)
Ironically,
this fast food icon has a training program called 'McJOBS'. It teaches
fast food basics to 'mentally and physically challenged people'
(AP). Am I the only one smelling a shyster drama in the making?
File this epic
under 'if the truth hurts, don't kill the messenger'. Mc Job...very
cool...very true.
A Hack Gets
Real
Source: Sacramento Bee
We'll call this
game 'Name That Hack'. The rules - such as they are - are so simple
that a government cess-schooled dolt can follow them. Read the quote
- some cess-school grads might need a rational adult to read it
to them - then name the hack who said it.
Since this is
a toughie, I'll give you a hint: It's a Mexifornia Hack.
"If you steal
a car in the United States, Mexico will return you to face prosecution
and punishment. If you kill the driver, Mexico will protect you.
This is not right." (Sacramento Bee)
If you didn't
guess that the hack who said this is Senator Diane Feinstein, I
don't blame you. It's so not her. Did somebody, accidently, give
this liberal wench a reality check? Enquiring minds want to know.
Afterthoughts
Sombrero Stomper law is worth a quick look. At first, Sombrero Stomper
law obsessed on the death penalty cases. Since then, they Emerilized
their legal brain-fart...in a big way:
'...the Mexican
Supreme Court ruled in October 2001 that life in prison is cruel
and unusual punishment. Since then, Mexico has refused to extradite
any person unless the United States guarantees a sentence of a
fixed number of years, a policy that has effectively barred the
extradition of anyone facing either the death penalty or life
in prison...' (Bee)
Now that Diane
is up to speed on Sombrero Stompers, she might want to share this
reality check with our Colonista-coddling president. That's this
pagan's idea of a public service.
An Illegal
Immigration Paul Harvey Moment
Source: AP via Sacramento Bee
Whenever rational
adults cite the war on terror implications inherent in our porous
Southern border, the border jumper coddlers spout drivel about paranoid,
Amerikan xenophobes. The next time you hear that argument, remember
this fishwrap item:
'A former
Mexican consul to Lebanon has been arrested on charges of helping
a smuggling ring move Arab migrants into the United States from
Mexico, federal agents said Thursday...' (AP)
I'd send a copy
of this Sacramento Bee story to 'W',but why bother? There's
no way he can read it while his head is rammed up Vincente Fox's
ass.
Greenwich
Connecticut's Shameless Hottie
Source: NBC (Connecticut boob tube)
Certain Greenwich
(Connecticut) citizens are outraged that some scandalous hotties
wear their thongs in public where obsessively 'decent' people -
including...gasp...children - can see them. Before you terminal
horndogs - we both know who you are - make a headlong dash for downtown
Greenwich, there's one additional fact that puts this story in perspective:
the hotties in question are store mannequins in the local Victoria's
Secret store window.
When a few outraged
wenches complained to city hall, they got an all to rare lesson
in individual liberty.
'..."We have
no ordinances if it involves bad taste," [ First Selectman Richard
Bergstresser ] told the newspaper. "If they have displays that
people object to, then they'll lose business."...' (NBC)
Kudos to this
Greenwich hack for 'getting it'. His advice is spot on: let the
marketplace punish the store if it offends too many potential customers.
Holiday Safety
Tip
Source: Sun Herald (Jackson, Mississippi)
Essentially
a deep fryer on steroids, a turkey fryer is a Tim the Toolman solution
to cooking your plus-size holiday bird. This popular device is so
fraught with peril that Underwriters Laboratories won't touch them
with 10-foot toolman tongs.
Taking a page
from Tim Allen's popular show, Mississippi denizen George Glenn
staged a scene worthy of the toolman himself. His key props included
a turkey, a plus-size pot filled with boiling oil, and two left
feet.
'...After
flambéing his bare hand on the turkey fryer's hot lid,
Glenn flung the bird into the bubbling grease with a bit too much
gusto. "It exploded like a cannon," said the Rankin County resident.
"Grease shot up and I got second-degree burns on my forearms and
hands."...' (Sun Herald)
The Readers
Digest version goes: oops, sizzle, expletive-replete 'ouch', splash,
OUCH, extra crispy George. Don't try this at home.
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