Sheriff: Dude Looks Like Lady
PORTLAND, Maine — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a man in women’s underwear, a garter belt, black high-heeled boots — and a mustache.
Sheriff Mark Dion on Thursday said his office had received six reports of a cross-dressing motorist pulling in front of female drivers, exiting his vehicle and modeling for them on the highway.
“The behavior is not necessarily criminal in terms of dress,” Dion said. “But the fact he’s jumping out in roadways and apparently targeting females who are alone driving their cars seems to suggest to us we have to talk to him.”
DEPRAVITY!!!
Our thanks for this breaking news story to Lamplighter, who is also clever enough to figure out how to post the explanatory video I sent him. Maybe it’s all a big mistake, capeche?
Police foil plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist
Cartoonist and his wife living under police protection
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
Two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were arrested in pre-dawn raids in western Denmark, the police intelligence agency said.
The Dane was suspected of violating Danish terror laws but likely would be released after questioning as the investigation continues, said Jakob Scharf, the head of the PET intelligence service. The two Tunisians would be expelled from Denmark, he said.
It’s bad enough that they ‘recruit’ these suicide bombers to slaughter people while they try and shop and get on with their lives in a reasonable facsimile of normalcy. Yeah, that’s one hell of an effective strategy to advance your cause, I know; I mean, heck, I’m convinced of the moral righteousness of their position. Now, understandably, volunteers for these exciting job positions that, er, open up have become somewhat scarce of late so to meet their quotas they turn to this
The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women that it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on February 1, killing about 100 people.
Iraqi security forces and US soldiers arrested the man at al-Rashad hospital in east Baghdad on Sunday. They then spent three hours searching his office and removing records. Sources told The Times that the two women bombers had been treated at the hospital in the past.
“They [the security forces] arrested the acting director, accusing him of working with al-Qaeda and recruiting mentally ill women and using them in suicide bombing operations,” a hospital official said.
…The attraction of mentally impaired women to al-Qaeda was obvious, he said. Being women they could get close to targets with less chance of being stopped or searched; being mentally impaired, they were “less likely to make a rational judgment about what they are being asked to do”…
As Bryan says, words fail. As the first commentator at HotAir says, these are the kind of people that Barack would ‘negotiate’ with and leave the Iraqi people to fend with at the first chance he got.
And where is the outcry from the women’s groups here about this?
Disgusting.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq “is a failure,” adding that President Bush’s troop surge has “not produced the desired effect.”
…Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked: “Are you not worried, though, that all the gains that have been achieved over the past year might be lost?”
“There haven’t been gains, Wolf,” the speaker replied. “The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq.
The bottle on the left is a Marietta Angeli Cuvée, a 2003 Alexander Valley red wine recommended by our waitress at lunch yesterday. The second bottle is a Pillar Red Box from Australia ~ a shiraz/cab/merlot blend that the purveyor at the liquor store insisted was damn near as yummy as the cuvée, as well as a smidge under half its price. So.
major dad has spent all day smoking country style ribs, I’ve doctored up some Stouffer’s mac and cheese with kick-ass extra sharp Cabot cheddar and we will put said vinos to the test.
Let the games begin.
…”There can be no exceptions to the laws of our land which have been so painfully honed by the struggle for democracy and human rights.”
…Writing in this newspaper, Lord Carey condemns multiculturalism as “disastrous”, blames it for creating Islamic ghettos and says that Dr Williams’s support for sharia law will “inevitably lead to further demands from the Muslim community”.
He suggests that such a move could embolden some Muslims to try to turn Britain into a country ruled by Islamic law which, he says, contradicts principles of human rights and allows the persecution of Christians.
It’s the most BRITISHanyone‘s sounded for a long time.
More, please.
Athletes face Olympic ban for criticising China
British athletes will be banned from competing in this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing if they criticise China’s totalitarian regime.
The gagging order has been imposed by the British Olympic Association. Competitors who break the rule will not travel to the games or, if they are already in China, will be put on the next plane home.
It means sportsmen and women will be unable to raise concerns about China’s human rights record or its occupation of Tibet.
Critics accused the BOA of bowing to political pressure and said the move raised the spectre of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which passed off without protest and were hailed as a propaganda coup for the Nazi regime.
Since the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, British competitors have been asked to sign contracts including a pledge “not to comment on any politically sensitive issues”.
Somebody buy the Archbishop of Canterbury some tennies and a set of Speedos, and send him.
He gets along with everybody.
Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky’s official picnic food.
State Rep. Charles Siler is sponsoring legislation to assign the designation to KFC’s “finger lickin’ good” chicken, first served by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940.
…Coulter compared a potential alliance between disillusioned conservative Republicans and Sen. Hillary Clinton to the alliance between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin during World War II, which was formed to defeat Hitler.
“I’m not comparing McCain to Hitler,” she added. “Hitler had a coherent tax policy.”
The remark received wild applause from the audience of about 500 conservative activists. Many in the crowd seemed hostile to the idea of a McCain presidency and cheered Coulter’s attacks on the Arizona senator.
…really has no business voting anyway.
Coulter is the mayor of Crazy Town.
…McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Debbie Clemens with HGH — at the seven-time Cy Young Award winner’s direction — before the couple posed for a 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo shoot, a lawyer familiar with his testimony said Friday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other “rules” that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce.
“Fear, fear is always there,” says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor. “We don’t know who to be afraid of. Maybe it’s a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I don’t know who to be afraid of.”
Her fear is justified. Iraq’s second-largest city, Basra, is a stronghold of conservative Shia groups. As many as 133 women were killed in Basra last year — 79 for violation of “Islamic teachings” and 47 for so-called honor killings, according to IRIN, the news branch of the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
By now no one should be shocked by anything this creature (I really struggled for the right word for him; I ultimately decided to be as calm as possible. Aren’t you impressed?) says, so his latest cave-in to sharia is no surprise. But I continue to be amazed at the Kafka-esque levels of intertwined layers that the British bureaucracy has evolved to. I mean, look at this title in the linked article:
Shadow community cohesion minister Baroness Warsi told BBC News 24 the suggestion was unhelpful and said: “Dr Williams seems to be suggesting that there should be two systems of law, running alongside each other, almost parallel, and for people to be offered the choice of opting into one or the other. That is unacceptable.”
Doesn’t that sound like something out of Marvel comics? How creepy Big Brothery is that?
As six Republican senators devised a plan to yank $2.3 million in federal funding for Berkeley programs, the mayor of the famously liberal city apologized Wednesday for his hard stance against a Marine recruiting center.
…”That letter will probably be pulled back and maybe more moderate language will be put in place which is appropriate I think,” said Berkeley mayor Tom Bates.
…Bates said the city didn’t mean to offend anyone in the armed forces and the focus should have been on the war not the troops.
“There’s really no correlation between federal funds for schools, water ferries and police communications systems and the council’s actions, for God’s sake,” said Bates, a retired U.S. Army captain. “We apologize for any offense to any families of anyone who may serve in Iraq. We want them to come home and be safe at home.”
Well, I’m sorry, too, Master Bates. That fact makes you ten times the pieces of shit the other a$$holes are. UPDATE: Here’s what Master Bates thinks:
I have heard from people all over the country regarding the action taken by the Berkeley City Council regarding the Marines recruiting center.
Let me be absolutely clear that this is not about the men and women who are serving our country in our armed forces. I am a retired U.S. Army Captain and I respect the choice of those who are serving our country.
And here’s ~ mayor@ci.berkeley.ca.us ~ where you can tell him what you think. And if you do, share it with us, would ya?
The New York Yankees’ new stadium will have party suites, a members-only restaurant, a martini bar and a price tag to match all the luxury — $1.3 billion, up from a $1 billion estimate last year, the team said Thursday.
…The granite and limestone exterior is designed to evoke the Yankees’ original 1923 stadium before it was remade in the 1970s.
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Keeping police numbers at their current level is not sustainable over the next three years, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary has said.
In a report after a year-long review, Sir Ronnie Flanagan said many police jobs could be carried out more effectively by clerical staff.
More bureaucrats.
Yeah, there’s a solution to street crime.
But did you realize that according to the Junior Senator from Massachusetts (and did you know he served in Vietnam, btw?) he is also able to spawn tornadoes?
Politicians using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a tried-and-true strategy. Paint the idea green and a natural catastrophe became political fodder for former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.).
Kerry appeared on MSNBC on February 6 to discuss storms that have killed at least 50 people throughout the Southeastern United States. So, of course, Kerry used the platform to advance global warming alarmism.
“[I] don’t want to sort of leap into the larger meaning of, you know, inappropriately, but on the other hand, the weather service has told us we are going to have more and more intense storms,” Kerry said. “And insurance companies are beginning to look at this issue and understand this is related to the intensity of storms that is related to the warming of the earth. And so it goes to global warming and larger issues that we’re not paying attention to. The fact is the hurricanes are more intensive, the storms are more intensive and the rainfall is more intense at certain places at certain times and the weather patterns have changed.”
Let’s look at the key eloquent phrase of this keen insight, where his education and sheer intellectual brilliance really shine (at least to this common man):
“[I] don’t want to sort of leap into the larger meaning of, you know, inappropriately, but on the other hand, the weather service has told us we are going to have more and more intense storms,” Kerry said.
I could not have said it any better even if I had a Magic Hat.
a squirty pirate smiling is the same as a re-squirting pirate
Whom, I suppose, would not be smiling, him being in parenthesis and all things being equal. Upper math, my a$$. The sh*t’s easy.
An ‘arrgh’ to Instapundit for the brain twister.
WASHINGTON – An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.
The therapy was aimed at reducing to normal levels the blood sugar of type 2 diabetics at especially high risk of heart attack and stroke. There were 257 deaths among people receiving intense diabetes treatment, compared to 203 in the standard treatment group, NIH’s National Heart Lung and Blood Institute said.
But gosh, I’m sure all the computer model runs went swimmingly, right? This is why we need to keep experimenting on animals, folks. Where would you rather have them find that there’s a problem with some new drug/treatment: on Fluffy the Bunny or on your child?
DEPRAVITY!!!
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