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School officials in Brocton, Massachusetts have suspended a six year old 1st grader for sexual harassment because he put two fingers inside the girl's waistband as she sat on the floor in front of him. This is political correctness gone mad! Unless this six year old is being exposed to porn on a regular basis, I highly doubt he even knows what sex is, much less sexual harassment.

This country is going insane!

• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184261,00.html

Isn't it amazing how we can precisely locate any cow with Mad-cow-disease among the millions and millions of cows in America or the rest of the world for that matter, but we haven't got a clue as to where millions of illegal immigrants, Al-Qaeda terrorists or Osama Bin Laden are located.

Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of locating targets for the U.S. Military. They probably even know where to find Waldo.

Much to my chagrin, it's been way too long since I've had the time to be out photographing and Tuti always calls me on it whenever I haven't posted any of my "art" on the website. I don't have anything new at the moment but here's two gems from last year that Tuti and everyone else can enjoy! 

(Note: The first pic is a composite. I figured I better put that on here before some "genius" emails me and lets me know that there's no way the moon could be that big. I obviously took a picture of the moon and then the Redondo Beach Pier and superimposed the two. Duh!)

Dan and Jen had a HUGE Super Bowl / birthday party for Tuti on Sunday complete with a taco bar, Piñata, an ugly shirt competition and prizes! There was plenty of food and "beverages" to go around and I actually won $100 for having the right score at half time.

Mike (not Dixon) won the ugly shirt competition although Tuti should have taken the award for gayest shirt! Ha-ha! Right before sunset everyone took turns clobbering the Piñata before Tuti clobbered it. 

• Congrats go out to Tuti & Casie...she's pregnant!

• Big shout out to everyone who was there including Katy with "y"

• Special thanks to Dan and Jen for throwing a great party!

• Kim says "Hi" to everyone and sorry she couldn't make it!

As is always the case these days, I'm kinda busy but here's a quick overview of what we did this weekend;

Friday: Another long work week was over so we crashed on the sofa and watched the OC, ER and some stand-up on Comedy Central. Nuff said!

Saturday: We spent most of Saturday out and about running here and there and everywhere and finally grocery shopping. We had dinner at our newest, favorite place, Steak Escape and then went home to crash on the sofa and watch movies...most notably, The Incredibles on DVD.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!: Kim was actually sick on Sunday so unfortunately she didn't get to partake in the Super Bowl festivities at Dan & Jen's place but she was nice enough to let me go anyway! Post about that coming up next!

This has got to be the Easter Bunny!

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4670000/newsid_4676900/4676904.stm

I have to give these ladies an "A" for effort...but this would have been soooo much better using younger women!

By now most everyone has probably heard that the Muslim world has it's Burkas in a bunch over some cartoons printed in a Danish paper but no one really knows what all the fuss is about. Allow me to explain. As if there aren't enough things about Islam that are just totally absurd it's also against Islamic law to draw or make any likeness of Muhammad or Allah and like pretty much anything else in their stupid culture, they're ready to kill anyone (Muslim or not) who violates this silly rule.

Case in point: A Danish newspaper ran a series of 12 drawings depicting Muhammad as a terrorist (GO Denmark!) last September and the Muslim world is just now finding out about it and of course, taking to the streets ready to kill and torture people. If it's ok for Kanye to dress up with Jesus then Muslims ought to be able to deal with a few political cartoons. And besides, who are they to tell the rest of the free world who we can and can't draw!

Stupid !@#$%&@#$ Muslims!

At the risk of getting myself killed, here's a few of my favorites:

Hillary Clinton and her driver were cruising along a country road one evening when an old cow loomed in front of the car. The driver tried to avoid it but couldn't - the old cow was killed.

Hillary told her driver to go up to the farmhouse and explain to the owners what happened. She stayed in the car making phone calls to lobbyists.

About an hour later, the driver staggered back to the car with his
clothes in disarray. He was holding a half empty bottle of expensive wine in one hand, an expensive Cuban cigar in the other and was smiling happily, smeared with lipstick.

"What happened?" asked Hillary.

"Well," the driver replied, "the farmer gave me the cigar, his wife gave me the wine, and their beautiful twin daughters made mad passionate
love to me."

"What did you tell them?" asked Hillary.

The driver replied: "I said, I'm Hillary Clinton's driver, and I just killed the old cow."

Courtesy of Lu "Murray" Tetterton

I have a lot of fond memories of my hometown and enjoy visiting it each year around the holidays but every so often I get reminded how lucky I was to get out and realize how silly small town politics can be. Case in point: I was browsing my hometown's paper online (a miracle in itself) and ran across this article;

• http://www.gazettevirginian.com/news2.htm

In my little hometown, it seems that it will soon be illegal to play pool after midnight (or before 1pm on Sundays) which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. I can only guess that the World of Sports bowling alley is at the heart of this "controversy" due to other local businesses being jealous at it's designation as an amusement establishment....which it is!

Last time I was there, in addition to the the dozens of bowling lanes, they also had a little room with two pool tables and dozens of arcade games which will no doubt have to be closed at midnight while it will seemingly still be ok to get drunk and bowl until 2am. Not that it would really have any effect on me if I still lived there but I can only imagine my reaction if someone told me the town ordinance mandated that I stop playing pool at midnight but that I could drink and bowl for another two hours if I liked.

What's next? No dancing after 10pm? No afternoon delights?

There was very little for young people to do when I was living in South Boston and it seems even worse these days. Instead of focusing on "controlling" when people can and can't play pool (I was under the impression that South Boston was in America?) maybe the town council should focus on bringing in new jobs and new entertainment options for the deprived citizens of SoBo.

For the life of me, I can't understand why Americans who aren't in the military decide to go to Iraq. Case in point: 28 year old Jill Carroll, a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor traveled to Iraq to report on the war and interview some Sunni politician with too many consonants in his name and of course was ambushed and kidnapped by Islamic terrorists.

She was shown on the Al-Jazeera terrorist channel over the weekend sobbing and pleading for the Bush Administration to release all female prisoners in Iraq, otherwise, her captors have promised to kill her. I don't mean to sound cold and heartless because nothing would make my blood boil more than this woman being murdered by her evil Muslim captors, but why on earth don't people get that it's not a good idea to go to Iraq no matter what your intentions. Anyone who goes to Iraq has to know that they are running the risk of being kidnapped and murdered by these Islamic assholes.

If this poor woman does get killed it should serve as a lesson to all Americans whether they be humanitarians, missionaries, reporters or whatever...

DON'T GO TO IRAQ!

It's just that simple. It pisses me off that she's been kidnapped and will probably be murdered in some horrible way but it also pisses me off that she went there in the first place. Why are people so stupid? Grrrrr!

• http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html

Kanye As Jesus? WTF?!?
Posted by Jimmy :: Monday, January 24th, 2006 :: 11:00 PM PST :: Comment On This Post

Well here's something that's bound to cause a little controversy among the religious right in America. The next issue of Rolling Stone magazine will feature Kanye West posing as Jesus. But why stop there? Why not get Lil' Kim to pose as the Virgin Mary and Flava Flav could be Joseph. See where American culture is headed? It goes without saying that I can't stand Kanye West and his 'ignant' brand of not-really-music nor am I am fan of organized religion but something about this still seems just wrong to me.

What's even more disturbing is that Kanye West is a known Jew-hater just like his anti-Semite buddy Louis Farrakhan. Kanye received a special award from Farrakhan last year after making a "generous" donation to the Millions More Movement.

Too bad the Romans aren't still around...they'd give Kanye what he deserves.

• http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/24/people.kanyewest.ap/index.html