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If America had the kind of immigration policy that some people would like today my whole family obviously would have been wiped out in the Holocaust.

-Bawney Fwank

Well, what does one say.  If you’re against illegal immigration, you’re a Nazi.  I guess there’s just no grey area there, huh.

I wonder, Bawney...since OUR immigration policies are apparently so draconian, what’s your view on, say, the Mexican government’s policies towards illegals entering their nation?  I mean, you already played the Hitler card on the home team, so what’s left in the magic hyperbole deck?

For your consideration: legalization.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get at least three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.

Ok, yes, it’s a state’s rights issue and, generally speaking, I’m a fan of anything that takes power out of the federal government’s hands and returns it to the state.  Also, you can tax the living hell out of it.  If people (myself included) pay such ridiculous taxes on cigs, it’s a slam-dunk they’ll do it for grass.  Jails are overcrowded, and locking someone up for something as harmless as weed is beyond stupid.

And yet...for some ill-defined reason, the idea still makes me uncomfortable.  Maybe it’s not the idea of legalized weed itself that bug me, but the most vocal proponents of legalization.

I’d back the play if the vote went that direction, but it’d take some getting used to.  Anyway, this is about your thoughts.

“Manscara.” “Guyliner.” Metrosexuals.  Hipsters.

Sissies.

Y’all thought it was just a fad, right?  Just a passing phase.  Manly men would come back into style eventually, once women got tired of sharing their mousse and fighting for underwear with their so-called boyfriends.  Testosterone would win the day, and we’d chase the last vestiges of these butt-lipped hair-fussers back into the depths of the woods with the rest of the faerie folk (NTTAWWT).

Guess again.

according to a new study, the Pill may also have changed women’s taste in men.

Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a female’s interest in masculine men - and make boyish men more attractive.

No comments about how this discovery bears on our current political situation, if you please.

Scientists have long known that a woman’s taste in men changes over the menstrual cycle.

As well as her taste in debate, penchant for melee combat, and accuracy of thrown household items.

During the few days each month when they are fertile - around the time of ovulation - they tend to prefer masculine features and men who are more assertive.
[...]
On days when women are not fertile, their tastes swing towards more feminine, boyish faces and more caring personalities, researchers have shown.

However, if women are taking the Pill, they no longer have fertile days.

Well that’s just f’n swell.  Suddenly, the drawbacks associated with condoms don’t seem like NEARLY such a big deal.

Africa bishops speak of Obama in religious terms

African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms

Well this, by itself, is hardly even news.  Worship of Obama as a religious figure is already old hat in America.

“It’s like the biblical story repeating itself,” he told reporters, citing the Old Testament figure Joseph, who after being sold into slavery in Egypt ends up becoming a top official.

At least in their telling they demoted him from Messiah to mortal, so there’s that.  Though I think I missed the part of his biography where O! started out as a slave.

I’m not a churchy person myself.  Maybe one of you religious readers can provide a more appropriate Biblical figure for comparison?

And the archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, Monsignor Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, told the formal synod itself that it would be wise to not ignore what he called a “primordial event” in recent times.

“If the election of a black as head of the United States of America was a divine sign and a sign from the Holy Spirit for the reconciliation of races and ethnic groups for peaceful relations ... this synod and the universal church would gain from not ignoring this primordial event of contemporary history which is far from being a banal game of political alliances,” he said in his speech.

Maybe you guys missed out on the part where anyone who criticizes him is immediately labeled a racist?  Kinda puts a cramp in the “reconciliation” thing.

So, the Somali pirates have struck again.  Under cover of darkness, they spied a large vessel and, presumably after donning their eyepatches and drawing their cutlasses, attacked.

Only problem was, it wasn’t a container ship.  It was the flagship of the French Navy.

Oops.

Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy’s 18,000 tonne Indian Ocean fleet flagship after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the military said on Wednesday.

The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre (525-foot) command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two open-topped motorboats and captured five pirates, a spokesman said.
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The pirates tried to flee when they realised their mistake but were pursued by French forces who, after an hour-long chase, caught one of the skiffs, Prazuck said.

Really, as much fun as I have with the French (and who doesn’t?), this is pretty awesome.

when a good time turns around

A court in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia today convicted a man for publicly talking about sex after he bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits, sentencing him to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes, his lawyer said.
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Jumeii claimed Abdul-Jawad was duped by the Lebanese LBC satellite channel and was unaware he was being recorded.

GILES AND O’KEEFE STRIKE AGAIN!!!1!!

Not real rape-rape of a real 13-year-old - 13-year-old.
*spit*

Being as it’s slow right now, I wondered if I might get your thoughts on nature’s wonders.

Specifically, deer.

More specifically still, killing every last one of the wretched little dewy-eyed vermin.

Some things you just can’t make up.

A French gay soccer team

..."but I repeat myself"…

says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.

What’s amusing isn’t their surprise or their outrage.  What’s amusing is that they’ll quickly be forced into the realization that accusations of homophobia aren’t going to have much effect on a group of people for whom soccer is only the second most popular cultural pastime, having lost out to stoning and hanging homosexuals.

H/T WZ