There has been some controversy over the fact that I have my finger on Snuffy’s trigger. Yes, I know that is politically incorrect firearm etiquette, but this is a photo and I wanted it this way for the dramatic impact. It’s that simple.
The trigger guard mystery solved…
like it’s a bad thing
Hutchison to defy GOP on immigration bill
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who has been under intense pressure from the White House and Republican leadership to support a sweeping immigration overhaul, nevertheless announced today that she will vote against reviving the legislation when it returns to the Senate floor next week.She was joined today by the state’s other senator, Republican John Cornyn, who had been expected by the bill’s supporters to take such a stance. They had aggressively lobbied Hutchison in hopes of adding her vote to the 60 necessary to revive the stalled legislation.
“I could not support (bringing the bill to a vote) in its present position,” Hutchison, criticizing the legislation as amnesty for illegal immigrants, said today.
As No. 4 in the Senate GOP leadership, Hutchison is the highest-ranking Republican to break from her party on a domestic policy issue of signal importance to President Bush.
“Until major changes are made that reject amnesty and a more open, fair process emerges for debating one of the most crucial issues facing our nation, I cannot support this immigration bill,” she said.
If’n we all contributed we could probably raise the $250K to buy one for the Headmistress. C’mon Coach, give up that beer so Sondra can float around in the air for 3 minutes.
A heavy metal fan has been awarded sickness handouts after doctors said his addiction to music was a disability.
The ruling means Roger Tullgren, 42, will pocket thousands of pounds in state benefits to help finance his 36-year obsession.His boss is also letting him play his ear-splitting music at work and giving him time off for concerts, reports the Daily Mirror.
It marks an end to Roger’s 10-year bid to have his “condition”, which began when he started listening to Ozzy Osbourne’s band Black Sabbath in 1971, officially classified as a handicap.
Bedecked in his traditional heavy metal skull and crossbones jewellery he said: “Some might say I should grow up and learn to listen to other types of music but I can’t.
“Heavy metal is my lifestyle. The fact I am into music so much has affected my work situation to the extent that I have had to quit some jobs.”
Roger will get a £65 a week top up to the money he earns as a part-time restaurant dishwasher so he can buy concert tickets and CDs.
And the tattooed rocker, from Hassleholm in southern Sweden, hopes it will pay his expenses for playing in his band Silverland.
The Swedish Unemployment Service said: “Because heavy metal dominates so many aspects of his life, the Employment Service has agreed to pay part of Mr Tullgren’s salary in disability benefits.”
It stepped in after occupational psychologists performed extensive tests before classifying him “disabled”.
Roger Hedgecock, guest-hosting on Rush’s show, just said that one of the accused soliders in the Haditha incident has been acquitted. I haven’t found anything else about it yet.
Cousin Dave in comments
Blue-with-sequins on Blue-with-spangles

[SF Supervisor Chris Daly] said Newsom was hypocritically slashing substance-abuse treatment funds for poor people while he ”artfully dodges every question about allegations of his own cocaine use.”
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and here’s yer box of Turtle Wax
“There would be a fight to see who would be the presidential candidate and who would be the vice presidential candidate,” Bloomberg quipped. “He would want to arm wrestle for the top spot; I would want to check the Constitution.”
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A hard-line Pakistani parliamentarian and head of a religious political party on Wednesday demanded a “sir” title for Osama bin Laden, the lead of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, in retaliation for Britain knighting author Salman Rushdie. “Muslims should confer the ‘sir’ title and all other awards on bin Laden and Mullah Omar in reply to Britain’s shameful decision to knight Rushdie,” Sami ul Haq, leader of the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, said in a statement, referring also to the leader of the Taliban.
Such a move would not only go against the political grain of Britain, who joined in the international effort to drive the Taliban from power and al-Qaeda from their Afghan safe haven in 2001, but it would also break knighthood rules, under which foreigners may not be addressed as sir.
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if you are a JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I’ll cut off your head
Inmates at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, used pebbles to scratch messages into the foam cups they got with their meals. When the guards weren’t looking, they passed the cups from cell to cell. It was a crude but effective way of communicating.
The Journal’s Yochi Dreazen speaks with defense attorney Marc Falkoff about poetry written by Guantanamo Bay inmates, which has been restricted by guards concerned about its potential to transmit illicit messages.The prisoners weren’t passing along escape plans or information about future terrorist attacks. They were sending one another poems.





















