[train station restroom]
1st Marine: Sailor looks like he’s lost something.
2nd Marine: Probably has trouble finding it with those fourteen buttons.
Budduskey: If I was a Marine, I wouldn’t have to fuck with no fourteen buttons. I’d just take my hat off.

I wanna see me summa that

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should tap into her feminine side and wear dresses and skirts instead of trousers, fashion designer Donatella Versace was quoted

...Skirts should reach to the knee and be worn with a short jacket or coat, she said. The best color would be black rather than the blue

Ok—black suits.  So she can look like every other Upper East Side matron in Manhattan.  Zippity doo dah. [’cept fer the cheekbones ya can shave with....  the toothpick shins.... the bony shoulders… the well-defined ribcage above the cleavage...][*gah* I am sorry—I said Hillary and cleavage in the same post.]

On the story, again; I don’t like wearing skirts for work or business or the like.  I guess I’m so used to pants it feels like in a skirt I’m walking around half nekked.  Which I am.

[Misplaced who I got this from—step up and claim your Gold Stars and save me from my feeeeble brain!]

Ok—I believe, now that it is insufficient for me to even attempt to apologize for mentioning Hillary and cleavage in the same post.  I will be going into rehab on Friday.

InterTube Phrase of the Day

“It was an unfortunate mischaracterization,” [Richard Skinner, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general] told Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin… “I apologize on behalf of our staff, and I just want to make perfectly clear this was not intentional.”

... McCaul and several other House members… said the misstatements never would have come to light had they not forced Skinner’s office to release an investigative report on the shooting.

The report, released Wednesday… does not substantiate ... the alleged “[We wanted to] shoot a Mexican” comment and an assertion that agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos had no fear for their lives when they fired 15 rounds at the trafficker as he ran back toward Mexico after ditching a van with 743 pounds of marijuana.

Weasel Comment of the Week *drumroll*

...Skinner questioned the push to punish his office for “an innocent, unintended characterization."…

DHS Inspector General’s office asserted it had documentary evidence Ramos and Compean:

1. confessed to knowingly shooting at an unarmed suspect;
2. stated during the interrogation they did not believe the suspect was a threat to them at the time of the shooting;
3. stated that day they “wanted to shoot a Mexican”;
were belligerent to investigators;
4. destroyed evidence and lied to investigators.

... “The person who told you that misinformed you,” Skinner reportedly replied.

..."DHS didn’t turn over the reports to us to back up their September 26 accusations for one simple reason – the reports never existed,” [Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas] said.

“Why did it take DHS four months to admit their error?” he asked. “I wonder how much more has DHS told the public and Congress about Ramos and Compean that simply isn’t true?”

I hope Dubya does not pardon these Agents.  If he did, the bogus conviction would stand and they wouldn’t be able to sue for false conviction, false imprisonment and shuckin’ and jivin’ with intent to defraud.  DHS has to go down for this.

Stoo

or Large Ass?

Ok—listen up alla youze nativist, raaacisty, blonde, blue-eyed honkies:

“We are grateful that the Mexican Consul and the Mexican government have taken such an interest in helping Denver Public Schools and its students,” Jerry Wartgow, Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, said when Mexico donated 30,000 Spanish-language textbooks for elementary students. “This donation is just one example of how we can work together to improve the lives of all children through education.”

From San Diego to Orlando, from Chicago to Las Vegas, the Mexican government, through its 42 consulates throughout the United States, is accelerating its ambitious “foreign aid” program designed to deliver millions of Spanish-language textbooks to American schools this decade.

“This is more than an ‘outreach’ program,” notes Raquel Romero, director of Mesoamerica Foundation, a Mexican nonprofit organization. “This is part of a concerted program to educate Hispanic children in the United States, and to help the United States make the transition into a bicultural society this century. It is a way of understanding that Mexican culture is expanding across the border, that it is in ascendance, and that Hispanic and Latino children in the United States will never be blond, blue-eyed Anglos.”

...Fox said, “To continue speaking Spanish in the United States is to ‘hacer patria’ (fulfill one’s patriotic duty).”

Mexican American folklorist Américo Paredes has called what we are witnessing as “Greater Mexico"…

RTWT

I’m gonna live forever ...

Baby remember my name

*click*

eyeroll of the day

So I’m searching around hunting the foto that took up the whole front page of the SFChronomer yesterday of Newsom sitting on City Hall steps . No luck, but here this one is:  same pose / different location.  Now I’m really buyin’ the contrition…

Global Waaaarming!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes.  In the LAT.

Jonah Goldberg: PUBLIC POLICYis all about trade-offs. Economists understand this better than politicians because voters want to have their cake and eat it too, and politicians think whatever is popular must also be true. 

...Global Warming… ...Al Gore has a new incarnation as the host of an apocalyptic infomercial on the subject…

...The Earth got about 0.7 degrees Celsius warmer in the 20th century while it increased its GDP by 1,800%, by one estimate. How much of that 0.7 degrees can be laid at the feet of that 1,800% is unknowable, but let’s stipulate that all of the warming was the result of our prosperity and that this warming is in fact indisputably bad (which is hardly obvious). That’s still an amazing bargain.

Stoo

how does one decide on their vote?

WHEN Nepalese cross-dresser Chanda Musalman votes in the upcoming national elections, he will officially be allowed to write “both” in the gender box.

Giving new meaning to the term “dual cizitenship”, the 40-year-old man - who dresses as a woman - has created Nepalese history by becoming the first to receive transgender citizenship.

Officially, he is both a man and a woman.

Last week, authorities granted Chanda a citizenship certificate that erased the male/female category, replacing it with ‘both’.

Chanda, who has had no sex-change surgery, asked the officials to erase the words male and female, listed under gender.

273645539282763 push ups later....

If you see a gal and you think she has sexy arms.....tell her.

It’ll make her day for days. Trust me.

(and now I get the “guns” reference:)

WEA PAC

The state’s largest teachers union is pushing legislation that would, in effect, allow unions to spend fees paid by nonmembers on political campaigns without first getting permission.

The bills, drafted by the Washington Education Association (WEA) and other labor groups, were introduced Wednesday in the House and Senate by a handful of Democratic lawmakers.

Union leaders say they are merely trying to clarify a confusing statute.

But critics said the union is attempting an end-run on the U.S. Supreme Court, which is currently reviewing the constitutionality of a Washington law that required unions to get permission before spending nonmember fees on political causes.

The WEA has 80,000 members statewide and represents more than 3,000 teachers who chose to not join the union. State law allows the union to impose “agency fees”—in lieu of dues—on nonmember teachers.

Federal courts have ruled in the past that nonmembers who object to having a portion of their fee used for political purposes can request rebates from the union.

But under a Washington law approved overwhelmingly by voters in 1992—Initiative 134—unions were required to get permission from nonmembers before spending any portion of their fees on politics.

The union estimates it spends about a quarter of its dues and fees each year on expenses not related to collective bargaining, including political activities. Since the fees paid by nonmembers make up a much smaller percentage than that, the WEA has argued all along that it doesn’t spend nonmember fees on politics.

Whoo boy could we have some fun with THAT argument.

Campuses are for enlightenment and for teaching us to get along, to respect each other, to know how to live together

If you weren’t looking for it, you’d probably never spot Toad Hollow. Its wood-carved sign and handful of miniature buildings are often shaded by trees along the highway, just beyond a busy bridge overpass. It’s on an odd sliver of property next to the post office. But when it comes to saving the lives of uncounted toads, one can’t be picky about location.

Say… This reminds me…

There’s another TOaD hollow up around Olympia.

Coincidence?  I think not!

Sierrahome

The Department of Defense yesterday sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that puts limits on the size of the plane she may use to travel across the country and restricts the guests she can bring, The Washington Times has learned.

A congressional source who read the letter signed by Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie said it essentially limits her to the commuter plane used by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, which requires refueling to travel from Washington to Mrs. Pelosi’s San Francisco district. A second source, in the Bush administration, confirmed the contents of the letter.

The letter from the Pentagon yesterday cites specific U.S. Code that government policy does not include the routine use of military aircraft for the speaker of the House.

“Nonstop service is not guaranteed, meaning she’s getting Hastert’s plane and nothing bigger,” the congressional source said, referring to the commuter jet Mr. Hastert began using for security reasons after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

In addition, the letter stipulates that the Air Force will only fly her between Washington and her San Francisco district and places limits on who can travel with her.

[emphasis mine]

and yet....

Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem, former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday.

Gee Al, could you make your motives any clearer?

Melissa in Texas

JR: points to drinking glass on window sill
izzat your sick glass?

Me: huh?

JR:
izzat your glass up there because you’re sick?
*2 second pause*
JR: heeeeeeeeeeey, “Sick Glass” would make a great name for a band!

DIY:

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