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J.E.C.
This part’s my favorite, combining The One’s “I contain multitudes” compulsion for self-reference with the distinct whiff of a teenager’s “What the Olympics Means to Me” homework assignment…
LLoyd
The Seattle Mist
Suddenly, TUA is very into organized sports again…
A new football league gets ready to kick off this weekend. The Lingerie Football League, or L.F.L., has ten teams including one in Chicago. The women play seven-on-seven full-contact football, just like the guys, only they do it in their underwear. The women say even though they’re scantily clad, they’re athletes who love the game. Whitney Tatum, a wide receiver with the Denver Dream, told reporters, “I love sports. I played rugby in college. I love tackling. I love just any kind of physical sport. I love football. I’ve played ever since I was four. I was the surrogate son in my family since we only had two girls so I’ve played football for awhile.”
I’m currently watching the Los Angeles Temptation play the Denver Dream on KDOC Los Angeles
Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of T&A but this ain’t your usual powderpuff league. These chicks know how to play some serious football.
Under an ordinance just approved by the City Council, all new buildings in Los Angeles including homes must have anti-graffiti coating, unless the owners sign a contract vowing to remove any graffiti on their property soon after it appears.
The clear coating would be applied over existing paint on outside walls and doors to a height of at least nine feet. If taggers strike buildings with the protective coating, the paint would be easier to wipe off.
But, the anti-graffiti coating is not cheap. Online searches showed a price range of about $60 to $632 per gallon, depending on the quality of the product.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Four U.S. Republican lawmakers met with Honduras’ interim president on Friday in a challenge to Washington’s condemnation of the coup that brought him to power. The brief, amicable visit with the leaders of the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya highlights a divide in Washington, where the Obama administration is working to reinstate Zelaya but many conservatives side with the government installed after soldiers arrested the president in his pajamas and flew him into exile.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, the leader of the delegation, said before the trip that even calling Zelaya’s overthrow a coup is “ill-informed and baseless.” DeMint and three representatives—Aaron Schock and Peter Roskam of Illinois and Doug Lamborn of Colorado—smiled for photographs in a book-lined office of the stately presidential palace with interim President Roberto Micheletti. They slipped out of the palace through a rear entrance, avoiding dozens of journalists waiting for a planned news conference that never materialized.
*clank*
via Holger Awakens
Here’s kind’a how it went down.
A hosptial security guard is under arrest for looting during the June 14, 2009 melee that followed the Lakers championship game. It is the twentieth arrest related to the violence, police said.
L.A.P.D. Lt. Paul Vernon, said 24-year-old Michael Rivas of Hawaiian Gardens can be seen “laughing as he loads cases of soft drinks into a car,” in pictures taken of the scene. “He wasn’t laughing when we showed up at his job to arrest him last Friday,” Vernon said.
Detectives used video footage from the Shell gas station, located at 504 West Olympic Boulevard, as well as well public-domain stills and video posted on Flickr and YouTube, to identify Rivas as the man seen loading cases of soft drinks into a car. “It’s nearly impossible to stay anonymous in this age of cell phones, video, and social websites; and that’s a good thing, if it holds people more accountable for their behavior,” Lt. Vernon added.
Rivas is a security guard at a Whittier hospital, where he was arrested Friday morning, September 25.
The head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has stepped down amid increasing concern over recent water main breaks.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Friday that DWP Chief Executive David Nahai has resigned to become senior adviser to the Clinton Climate Initiative.
There have been more than 35 major water main blowouts in the Los Angeles water system since last month, causing flooding of streets, homes and cars.
Mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Monson was sentenced to 90 days of work release for spray-painting anti-war graffiti on the Capitol in Olympia and an armed services recruitment center in Lacey.
Work release will allow the 38-year-old Olympia man to help pay off $22,000 in restitution he was ordered to pay at Thursday’s sentencing in Thurston County Superior Court. He pleaded guilty in July to malicious mischief.
Monson told The Olympian he hopes that spraying the anarchist symbol and the words “no war” last year raised consciousness of the illegality of the Iraq war.
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Thousands of people stood in bewildered silence in downtown Chicago on Friday after the International Olympic Committee surprised everyone by dumping the city from the race for 2016 Summer Olympics in the first round of voting.
The vote in Copenhagen was carried on huge television screens set up in the Daley Center to carry what many had hoped would be approval of Chicago as host. It had seemed so likely to many in a city still basking in the blow of hometown Sen. Barack Obama’s election as president.
Instead, Chicago was bounced in the first round, bringing an audible gasp from the crowd. The elimination came so quickly that some would-be revelers weren’t sure what had happened and they asked bystanders if they had heard what they thought they heard.
Many stood for a few minutes, staring at the screens, and at least one flung his hands into the air in a crude gesture toward the TVs. Within seconds, people began filing out of the plaza.
“I’ve never really had a disappointment like this,” said Ken Rudd, a 33-year-old salesman from Evergreen Park. “This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.”
Every year on October 1st, World Vegetarian Day kicks off a month of parties, potluck, presentations, food tasting displays...and lots of friendly discussions!
How’s that gladhanding, flyin’ around, Oprah-fyin’ workin’ out fer ya, N∅∅b?
Bye Bye Tokyo!
10/02 at 07:30 AM •
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Is there something in the water?!? the air???!?
I am so freakin sick of “sex” scandals where dumbasses not only can’t keep it in their pants but hafta wave it around afterward for one and all to “admire.” Yeesh. and Yiick.
...Letterman admitted that he had engaged in sexual relationships with staff members.
“My response to that is, yes I have. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would,” Letterman said. “I feel like I need to protect these people—I need to certainly protect my family.”
[whaa?!?!??!]
...Letterman has been married to Regina Lasko, the mother of his child, since March. The two have dated since 1986.
...extortion attempt ...$2 million ...grand jury ...
In other “press” coverage:
David Letterman’s big “get” Thursday night?
David Letterman: crime victim. ...he suddenly announced he’d been the victim of a recent extortion attempt.
As bad as the Garridos—ya can’t have just one! Polansky - “victim.” Phillips as “spokesperson.” bla bla bla SHADDAP!!!
Srsly, “people”—just stop. STOP! Stop screwing around. And if you must, simply must, please do so in a way that I, a perfect stranger, will never, ever, ever have to hear about it.
*gak*
10/01 at 07:06 PM •
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...list of the five most embarrassing speeches by the president (so far) as a world leader…
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its notes from an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
