The Santa Fe Police Department is looking at the possibility of recruiting Mexican nationals to fill vacancies on the city police force, say sergeants in charge of training and recruiting.

Sgts. Gillian Alessio and Marvin Paulk told the city’s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday that they are trying to think outside the box to fill 20 vacancies on the 155-person force.

New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy regulations currently prohibit noncitizens from serving as police officers, Police Chief Eric Johnson said later.

Alessio told the city panel: ``Every day, we get approached by young men and women from Mexico who are in the country legally but are not naturalized. There is a huge pool of people who are dedicated, hard-working and trying to become citizens of this country. They would like nothing better than to devote their time to protecting the communities that they live in.’’

caveat:

Maverick [ sticks finger down throat ] filmmaker Michael Moore took the first step on Wednesday in launching his own probe into the U.S. government’s investigation of him for making an unauthorized trip to Cuba to film scenes for his latest movie “SiCKO.”

Moore’s attorney David Boies sent the U.S. Treasury Department a Freedom of Information Act request for all documents in its possession regarding its civil investigation of Moore which was launched by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Too bad Fred Thompson doesn’t work for the US Treasury Department.

~Click Click~

This song brings me back to one beautifully-innocent summer afternoon with a girl named April.

*sigh*

and no one cares?

In case ya missed it on all the FOXCNNMSLSDC^BS NOOOOOS shows *cough*, here is the story of Islamberg, a tidy little terrorist training camp in Hancock NY.  Populated by [and I quote] African-Americans.

...so much for that “doing jobs Americans won’t do...”

Well, it turns out that someone [they take great pains to decline to say who they are] has taken umbrage at Scott Grayban, WA blogger, who reported the story. Scott’s Blog has much more about camps in South Carolina. And more.

Hand me that umbrella—it’s getting weird out.

The Center for Sex and Culture [isn’t that an oxymoron?], the only publicly available, non-profit sex education center in the United States, is proud to announce the Seventh Annual Masturbate-a-Thon, Saturday, May 26th in San Francisco, in honor of National Masturbation Month.  Founded in 2000, the star-studded Masturbate-a-Thon is like a walk-a-thon but a lot more fun.  Through individual sponsorships, participants generate revenue in this live group event for every minute they masturbate or for each orgasm claimed.  Funds raised will go to supporting the Center of Sex and Culture’s efforts to promote a sex-positive cultural change and reality.

Or in this case, an alternate reality.

National Masturbation Month was founded in 1995 by San Francisco’s Good Vibrations, a national retailer of sexual aids and adult novelty items, in the wake of then-Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders’ firing for stating that masturbation “is perhaps something that should be taught” when discussing young people’s safe sex options.  Elders’ statement was both practical and supported by sex-positive sex educators everywhere.  The folks at Good Vibrations realized that the conservative factors that booted Elders from office were making sex less safe and fun by making masturbation seem shameful.

Masturbation *IS* shameful. But that’s exactly what makes it so fun.

Sorta like when us queers were still in the closet. Sneaking around and being all 007 ‘n stuff made having sex appear more dangerous. Now everyone’s like...“Uh, you’re gay? Who cares. I’m tryin’ to watch Grey’s Anatomy.”

Stupid libs take the fun out of everything.

Dangerous sex! Dangerous sex!
Oh, why isn’t there a single word for dangerous sex?!

if ya can’t feel that ya ain’t alive...

TBK

so tell us a little about yourself

How did your on-line nic name come about and why?
What’s it mean to you?

One day my friend brought in my mail and it was addressed to SondraK.... son-drak...and she got a big hoot out of calling me SondraK, Queen of Fucking (ADJECTIVE! *spank*) Everything and it stuck.

Alfie: You know what? When I look back on my little life and the birds I’ve known, and think of all the things they’ve done for me and the little I’ve done for them, you’d think I’ve had the best of it along the line. But what have I got out of it? I’ve got a bob or two, some decent clothes, a car, I’ve got me health back and I ain’t attached. But I ain’t got me peace of mind - and if you ain’t got that, you ain’t got nothing. I dunno. It seems to me if they ain’t got you one way they’ve got you another. So what’s the answer? That’s what I keep asking myself—what’s it all about? Know what I mean?

An anti-war group is hiring activists to travel to at least a dozen states this summer to galvanize opposition to what it calls the “Bush-McCain plan to escalate” the U.S. mission in Iraq.

~SNIP~

A coalition of liberal and anti-war groups, the organization is advertising online for activists, offering a “generous stipend” of $400 a week. More than 100 organizers will likely be hired. The ads say they “could be assigned to targeted legislative districts anywhere in the country—you will receive your assignment after you have been accepted.”

The group won’t release details on the summer campaign until a later date, said spokeswoman Moira Mack.

“We are definitely building up the capacity for the summer,” Mack said. “A couple of our allies have started Iraq action summer training camps on campuses across the country.”

Jackson’s words while defending his son Trey against charges of racism surprised a lot of people I talked to Tuesday.

“I’ve had that colored boy in my home,” Jackson said of the teen son of an African-American high school basketball coach.

If the southern Colorado town of La Jara needs a place to start mending an ugly racial rift, Dr. Jackson’s phrase would be a fine place to start.

~SNIP~

King called the phrase “disparaging and dehumanizing.”

Think N-word light.

“Colored boy” is the polar opposite of “people of color.”

this is the stuff that counts.

The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008.

Israeli medics evacuate a wounded woman from the scene of a rocket attack in the southern Israeli town of Sderot May 15, 2007. A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hit a house in Sderot on Tuesday

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Hamas gunmen killed five of their own combatants in an ambush on a Fatah vehicle that had been carrying Hamas detainees, Fatah officials said Wednesday.

in other news.....

two Palestines