Whole Town Forgets Election Day

The enterprising person selling "memory enhancement kits" would do well to pay a visit to Dendron, Virginia.

Population: just under 300.

Number of people who remembered to run for mayor or town council this year: -0-.

What were some of the reasons townspeople gave for forgetting that there was an election?

A. Had to go to the hospital.

B. The wife passed away.

C. Cancer struck.

D. Some grandchildren were born.

E. Had a full-time job and the two young kids just got too overwhelming.

F. All of the above.

"We forgot," said Ruth Sheffield, a current councilwoman in the tiny Surry County town. "We usually have a reminder and we didn't get that reminder. We should have known. It's our fault."

Today, the Town Council's duties -- they meet once a month, in the town's tiny red municipal building -- involve sending letters to property owners who aren't maintaining their homes and dealing with citizen complaints about barking dogs.

On a recent afternoon, Dendron's main street was completely empty, except for the occasional car passing through every 20 minutes or so. An elderly woman broke the stillness by crossing the street. Most of the action took place at the town's only market, where people wandered in throughout the day to buy cigarettes.

Maybe a string around the finger would have helped remind people?

"It just escaped my attention," said Councilwoman Misti Furr. "I work full-time, I have two young kids, and I just missed it."

The council's part-time clerk usually lets the council members know when it's time to file again, Sheffield said. But she was just busy this year -- she also staffs the town post office. By the time she left panicked afternoon messages on the council members' answering machines the day of the filing deadline, it was too late.

The town needs to fill six open council seats and the mayor's position.

Longtime Mayor Ben Muncy, known for being so devoted to his little town that he would personally collect utility bills and fix water connections, is in the hospital with cancer. His wife passed away the day before the deadline. The current council members plan to run write-in campaigns for their seats,

"Anybody can run that wants to," Sheffield said. "But it's not like we have a whole lot of citizens."

At the local market, the owner jokes that he's going to run for mayor this year. His customers tap out their cigarettes, chat outside and occasionally discuss Dendron politics, if someone's willing to listen.

The water system doesn't work, they say. The new taxes are too high. Water bills are too high. Water quality's too low. Why haven't those potholes been fixed?

So there is at least one place in America where politics is not the most important thing on earth.

One place that probably doesn't keep up with the latest rantings from the DailyKos.

One place in America where people think about their life, instead of politics.

Thank God.


by Mondoreb
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Source: Election Day overlooked in Sleepy Virginia Town
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DBKP Family Album: Mondo's Family Reunion

While moving things to the new site, we came across this picture from Mondo's last family reunion.

The neighbors say there's a strong resemblance among members of the family.

I think I take after my dad.

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Republican Voter Apathy: The McCain Monologues

"Pop the champagne, cue the music, let's party! McCain has wrapped up the Republican nomination."

"Champagne? For McCain, are you kidding?"

"How bout some Cold Duck, would that suffice?"

"Why are you in the mood to celebrate?"

"I thought we should, after all, McCain's our man!"




"McCain's our man, true, tell me one thing McCain's said this election that you can recall?"

"Umm, I can't remember anything McCain has said."

"Have you felt "inspired" by anything McCain has said?"

"Ah, actually nothing I can recall."

"So let me get this straight, you want to celebrate the nomination of a guy whom you say does nothing to inspire you and you can't remember a single thing he's said the whole election?

"True."

"Then why did you want to celebrate?"

"Because all the fun and excitement is over on the Democrat's side. I mean, it's neck and neck between Obama and Hillary, all the twists and turns, the drama of da feet, the thrill of victory."

"You mean the "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."

"Yeah, that's it, the agony of da feet. Besides, I'm jealous, even though I'm not a Democrat I wish the Repubicans could have had a guy who inspired me, inspired everyone actually, to vote Republican, to feel good about being a Republican."

"McCain just doesn't "do it" for me."

"Me either."

"Kinda sad."

"Yep, kinda sad."

"McCain can't help it that he's boring."

"Nope, he can't."

"My McCain level of excitement on a scale of one to ten is .5."

"Mine's .32."

"What do we do now?"

"We watch the Dems have all the fun."

"That's not fair."

"Life... is not fair."

"Apparently it's not fun either."

"Apparently."

"Won't this apathy work against us?"

"Yes, it could but at the moment I could care less."

"Yep, me too."


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Naked Florida Man Saved from 12 ft. Gator at it Again

In a scene straight out of a horror flick, Polk City, Florida resident Adrian Apgar nearly lost his life against a 12 ft. alligator back in November of 2006 until the police arrived and saved him.

So police were surprised early Thursday when they discovered the naked man they'd found in pond in Saddle Creek Park, who claimed he'd been bitten by a snake while looking for an alligator, was the very same naked man they rescued before, Adrian Apgar.

Adrian Apgar, Clothed

It was 3:45 on a November morning of 2006 when a resident of Polk City heard the faint sound of "someone screaming" from nearby Lake Parker.

Carlos Mayid grabbed a flashlight and cell phone and then called 911 while he tracked down the origin of screams.

Mayid called out when he got close to the shore and voice answered from the murky darkness and thicket of cattails that surrounded the lake .

"I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'A gator got me,'" Mayid said.

Polk Sheriff's Deputy Billy Osborne arrived on the scene and charged staight through the cattails and muddy water to find Apgar fifteen to twenty foot from the shore, crouched down in chest deep water. Apgar called out that a gator had him pinned, that both his arms were broken, and that another gator was nearby.

Another Deputy, Michael Parker, waded into the water until the two deputies were within a couple of feet of Apgar where they could see the gator had him in its grip. The deputies thought about shooting it, but Apgar was also in the line of fire.

After the alligator let Apgar go, then lunged in and gripped him once again, it was then that the deputies grabbed Apgar's arms and began a tug-o-war with the monster in the dark murky lake.

"He was saying, 'He's gonna kill me!'" Parker said.

After a third deputy arrived the alligator managed to pull Apgar under the water. The deputies feared the worst as they could hear Apgar's screams. At least, they thought to themselves, Apgar's still alive. Then it happened, the gator's grip loosened on Apgar and the deputies were able to pull the 250 pound man to safety.

Apgar suffered serious injuries, a nearly severed left arm, a broken right arm, lacerations to his buttocks and body.

Sheriff Grady Judd said the answer as to why Apgar was nude and in the gator infested lake on a November night was that Apgar had been smoking crack.

No word yet as to why Apgar was found Thursday by Polk County deputies in the early morning hours in yet another body of water, again nude, claiming he was bitten by a snake while looking for an alligator.

Last time, on crack, a gator found him, nearly costing him his life. This time he's being held under Florida's Baker Law, a law which allows "authorities to commit people for psychological evaluations if they appear to be a danger to themselves or others."

By LBG

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Kissing Mullahs: Return of the Red Hot Lip Lockers

[NOTE: This was originally posted on November 7 2007, but we saw it and thought, "Hey! You can never have enough reminders that Islam is the Religion of Love or Peace or whatever.]

The Left's always maintained that Ahmadinejad has a tender side. Who knew?



Saw this over on Gateway Pundit and it caused some rethinking: Might Islam, after all is said and done, really be the religion of love?

From the same great country that brought you homosexual execution.



You can't spell "fatwa" or "NAMBLA" without the two "A"'s.

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14 Teen Suicides in Wales Town in Less Than a Year

“Kids round here have been drinking, smoking dope, taking ecstasy and having sex since they were 13 or 14. By the time they reach my age they’ve done everything. The combination of booze, drugs and the boredom of living around here screws young people up so much that they think killing themselves will be exciting.” - 16 yr.-old, Bridgend, South Wales

She was 19, and yesterday she hanged herself. If her death is ruled a suicide then the number of teens who have taken their own lives in Bridgend, South Wales, and its surrounding area in the past year will have reached 14.

A local taskforce has been set up while Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy alluded to "copycat suicides" among teens in Bridgend may have begun back in 2004.

Brigend, South Wales

From the Bridgend County Borough Council website:

Shimmering surf and golden sands!
That's Southern Wales 'Golden Coast'
Hidden villages and country lanes!
That's the 'Heritage Countryside'
High mountains and stunning views!
That's the 'Heritage Hills'
Discover the drama, the beauty and the magic
The 'Glamorgan Heritage Coast & Countryside'- Source - Bridgend County Borough Council Page

But some of local teens see Brigend in a far different light, a place of boredom and no future.

“Perhaps she just got bored,” says Aaron, a 17-year-old in a hooded top and trainers. “It’s depressing living here. There’s nothing to do and we’ll never get decent jobs. The best I can hope for is to carry on stacking shelves at Tesco.”

The total population of the area of the Bridgend unitary authority covered by the South Wales police is 135,000. The main city is Bridgend with the former mining communities of the Llynfi, Garw, and Ormore Valleys, with the seaside resort of Porthcawl to the south. An area of approximately 80 square miles.

The Bridgend County Borough Council released a statement concerning the spate of local teen suicides on its website.

An excerpt:

This statement is being issued on behalf of the Bridgend Local Services Board which brings together local organisations and integrates services throughout Bridgend County Borough.

Suicide and unexpected deaths are a difficult issue which affect all communities in the UK. This is a complex problem that needs to be managed through a co-ordinated approach.

A partnership is looking at this issue and there are a number of services and initiatives which focus on the problem of suicide in Bridgend County Borough.

A Suicide Prevention Strategy is currently being developed by a multi-agency group which includes Adult Social Services, Children's Services, Education, South Wales Police, Health and the voluntary sector.

Several reasons have been posited as to why the teens decided to off themselves in such high numbers, from those "seeking a thrill", copycats, or the inability to recognize the consequences of their actions.

Ann Parry, chairwoman of Papyrus, an organization which works to help prevent teen suicide says teens “feel things more passionately and they are more impulsive and that can be dangerous. They don’t always associate suicide with being dead for ever.” And yet the 16-yr.old from Bridgend quoted at the beginning of our story seemed to be saying the opposite, that a "combination of booze, drugs and boredom" beginning at ages 12-13 have turned many local teens into jaded citizens, apathetic about any type of future.

For whatever reason these children decided to end their lives prematurely, there are parents, siblings, extended family and friends who are devastated by these teen's actions.

It is our sincere hope that the community of Bridgend has seen the last of its teen suicides. Even one death of a child is too many, fourteen is a tragedy beyond all proportion. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the parents, families and friends of each and every teenager who decided to take their own life.

By LBG

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Source - Times Online - Another teenager commits suicide in Bridgend
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Student Commits Suicide in Front of 150 Classmates in AL

Suicide... desperation or an act of violence?




Thursday, in an Alabama high school gym packed with kids, 18-year-old student Jajuan Ondre Holmes fired a gun into the air then aimed it at his head and pulled the trigger.

Holmes died instantly while traumatizing the 150 plus kids who witnessed Holmes' final act.

Desperation, rage or both?

According to WKRG, Holmes had been suspended from the school the day before. The reason given, Holmes had used a "profanity." Holmes had been arrested last month in connection to two fast food and one convenience store robberies.

What's puzzling is that someone contacted Mobile police the night before, informing the police that Holmes had a gun and that Holmes intended to "harm himself."

The next day Holmes went back to his school and ended his life before 150 of his classmates.

While most would consider Holmes' act a cry for help there may be another perspective, that Holmes' self-inflicted death, brought about by his own hand in a public venue filled with classmates, was an act of violence and rage directed at the other students.

The CDC released a study in 2001 which shows a correlation between violence and suicide:

Although suicide commonly is associated with anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal, research suggests a link between violent behaviors directed at oneself (i.e., suicidal behaviors) and violent behaviors directed at others among adolescents (2--6). Certain students who engage in extreme forms of violence, such as school shootings, exhibit suicidal ideation or behavior before or during the attack (2,3). However, suicidal behavior also might be associated with involvement in less extreme forms of violent behaviors, such as physical fighting, which might be a risk factor for more severe forms of violence (3).

We found two other incidents of students committing suicide at their schools, one in Pennsylvania in December of 2006, another in Texas in March of 2007.

Texas student commits suicide in school band hall March 7, 2007 - 2:22PM GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) - A 16-year-old student fatally shot himself Wednesday morning inside the band hall at Greenville High School, police said.

The student's identity wasn't immediately released, and the police chief of this East Texas city said officers haven't found any students who witnessed the shooting.

"We had no heads up on this whatsoever," Greenville school district superintendent Lloyd Graham said. "We would have not allowed this to happen."

In a statement, city spokeswoman Lori Philyaw said police responded to the shooting at 7:14 a.m. - about 15 minutes before the first bell - and that the student was pronounced dead later at a local hospital. Source - Brownsville Herald

Three school suicides in a 15-month period. These do not include the school massacres where students gunned down classmates before taking their own life, or student mass murder-suicide.

ERDENHEIM, Pa. — An 11th-grader brought a rifle to school and shot himself to death in a hallway Tuesday morning between classes, according to officials and a witness.

The teenager first fired shots into the ceiling in the science-wing hallway, said Michael Delaurentis, 18, who said he was about 30 feet away. "I was walking to my class," Delaurentis said. "I just hear 'Get down!' I heard shots fired into the ceiling and I saw smoke." The teenager then shot himself, officials said. Source - FOX News

Were Jajuan and other student's very public suicides, acts of violence and/or rage, or desperation?

Schools are no longer havens for learning, they've become magnets for grief counselors.

(March 7) 6:40 a.m.
-Davidson students will return to classes today.
-Grief Counselors will be on staff. Source - WKRG

By LBG

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California Court Shocks Homeschooling Parents

There's a reason or two 165,000 children are home-schooled in California.

The homeschooling movement got blindsided by a ruling from a California appeals court that restricts homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials.k

The ruling was a shock to the movement and leaves an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.

It also demonstrates the lengths government will go to protect its monopoly on education.

The homeschooling movement was shocked--to put it mildly.

"At first, there was a sense of, 'No way,' " said homeschool parent Loren Mavromati, a resident of Redondo Beach (Los Angeles County) who is active with a homeschool association. "Then there was a little bit of fear. I think it has moved now into indignation."

A dispute between the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services--doesn't that have a nice "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"ring to it?--and Phillip and Mary Long of Lynwood, who have eight children they have been homeschooling.

Mary Long is their teacher, but holds no teaching credentials.

The parents said they also enrolled their children in Sunland Christian School, a private religious academy in Sylmar (Los Angeles County), which considers the Long children part of its independent study program and visits the home about four times a year.

The Second District Court of Appeal ruled that California law requires parents to send their children to full-time public or private schools or have them taught by credentialed tutors at home.

At least one justice saw nothing wrong with forcing parents to enroll their children in California schools which are a potpourri of multicultural and liberal educational theories in action.

"California courts have held that ... parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28. "Parents have a legal duty to see to their children's schooling under the provisions of these laws."

Parents can be criminally prosecuted for failing to comply, Croskey said.

"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue.

The fact that parents of almost 166,000 children in California have decided that the state no longer does this seems immaterial to the judge.

Will the California legislature fix this?

Don't hold your breath.

by Mondoreb
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Video: Ann Coulter Dem Slam-O-Rama

This speech got lots of airplay at the time for the one comment Ann Coulter made about John Edwards. What wasn't highlighted was that she set a new world for Dem put-downs in shortest amount of time.

Coulter gets in 10 shots at the Democrats in 78 seconds.

How could the Mainstream Media have overlooked this?

In the interests of equal time, we also include the last 10 seconds where a Nation reporter gets in an amusing question.

DBKP--reporting the news you won't hear in the MSM.Even if it is a year late.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 7, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, POLITICS, PATENTS, PROGRESS, COMING WAR, ASSASSINATION, PRONOUNCEMENTS, JAZZ, LABOR, PRO WRESTLING, SPORTS, JEWS, OH NO, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, HEALTH NAZIS, CIVIL RIGHTS,BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

GAMES

1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented.

WAR!

1945 during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait.

TERRORISM

1981 anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.

2007 A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of Baghdad, killing 30 people.

DISASTER

2007 Ten people were killed in the Bronx, N.Y., when fire tore through their home.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1965 A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

PRONOUNCEMENTS

1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles".

SPORTS

1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of the spitter.

PRO WRESTLING

1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion.

HEALTH NAZIS

1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life.

OH NO

1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1993 Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant.

JAZZ

1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ.

LABOR

1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4.

1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971).

KILLERS

2007 Sex offender John Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.

POLITICS

1850 In a 3-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

1975 The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

PATENTS

1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes

1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.

PROGRESS

1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place, between New York and London.

JEWS

1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter.

COMING WAR

1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce.

1936 Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

1998 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking in Rome, said the U.S. wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

ASSASSINATION

1951 Ali Razmara Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated.

BORN

1849 horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass.

BIRTHDAYS

Comedian Alan Sues is 82. Photographer Lord Snowdon is 78. TV personality Willard Scott is 74. Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 70. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 68. Former Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Michael Eisner is 66. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 65. Actor John Heard is 62. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 62. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 62. Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 58. Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 56. Actor Bryan Cranston is 52. Actress Donna Murphy is 49. Actor Nick Searcy is 49. Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 48. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 45. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 44. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 44. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 43. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 41. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 37. Actress Rachel Weisz is 37. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 35. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 34. Actress Jenna Fischer is 34. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 33. Actress Laura Prepon is 28.

DEATH

322 -BC- Aristotle dies.

1959 Hinsdale Smith developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88.

1985 Victor W Farris inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies.

1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] transvestite actor (Hairspray, Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies in Los Angeles at 42.

1999 movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.

March 7, the 67th day of 2008. There are 299 days left in the year.

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Al's Inconvenient Truth: A Tale of Two Houses

[NOTE: While moving files to the new site, DBKP, this story caught our attention. We repost it for your edification.]

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House #1 A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by
natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest
house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more
energy than the average American household does in a year. The
average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400.
In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the
national average for an American home. This house is not situated
in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

House #2 Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is
4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermalheat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern.

Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford,Texas ; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

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Aussie Streaker Gets Whalloped on Cricket Field

Aussie streaker Robert Ogilvie, age 26, picked the wrong time and the wrong place to run last night at the second day final cricket match between India and Australia in Brisbane.

Ogilvie admitted he'd had a bit to drink before he took off his clothes and ran out onto the field where 30,000 fans were in attendance and got more than they and Ogilvie bargained for.




Batsman Andrew Symonds won't be charged while Ogilvie was fined $1500.00 by a local magistrate.

Asked by reporters if he felt embarrassed by his antics, Ogilvie replied: "No. Not really."

He added that he would not do it again saying: "Nah, Nah. Done it once."

Admitting it had been the first time he had streaked, he said: "You only live once."

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Banned Ads Cinema: Five of our Faves

Banned ads, the bane of the adman everywhere, as some are wickedly funny and spot-on till censorship stepped in.

Here are some of our favorite banned ads:













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Garbage Disposals Grind to a Halt in Raleigh NC

Garbage disposals, you've been warned: You've got 10 years then get out of town, according to the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh's serious too, violators will be fined a whopping $25,000 a day.

The culprit is grease and the State Division of Water Quality, according to Dale Crisp, Raleigh's public utilities director. The Division claims Raleigh had five overflows due to the slimy substance even though the total overflow numbers for the year was fifty which meant grease accounted for only 10%.

The measure was quietly put on the Raleigh City Council agenda Tuesday and the vote was unanimous with "little discussion." The measure affects homes and businesses. Cal Mason, a senior remodeling specialist with Raleigh-based Distinctive Remodeling wondered if the "garbage disposal police were going to be checking on us".

Denver and Indianapolis require new dwellings have disposals while some counties will not allow homeowners on septic systems to hook up one.

Limiting garbage disposal use may not be such a bad idea. According to Grinning Planet disposals add to the problem of "nutrient pollution":

It's true that putting the food waste in the trash will shift the burden to the local landfill instead of your sewage treatment system, but landfills are causing us far fewer problems today than sewage treatment systems. The latter are a main source of "nutrient pollution"—one of the main causes of coastal dead zone in estuaries, gulfs, and bays. Adding your nutrient-rich food waste to the sewage stream only makes the problem worse.

The ban on disposals doesn't go into effect for ten more years giving residents time to save up the $25,000 per day fine if they get busted by Garbage Disposal Police.

What makes us wonder, what happens if someone is levied a $25,000 per day fine and can't pay it? Does that person eventually wind up in jail? Since we don't live in Raleigh, we'll let those who live there ponder the answer.

By LBG

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Actual Court Transcripts: They Said What?

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are
things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now
published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while
these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you
forgot?
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that
morning?
WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
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ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his
sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shittin' me?
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh.... I was gettin' laid!
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Are you serious? Your Honor, I think I need a different
attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition
notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead
people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like
to rephrase that?
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go
to?
WITNESS: Oral.
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an
autopsy on him!
________________________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh....are you qualified to ask that question?
________________________________________________________

And the best for last:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doct or?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive,
nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and
practicing law.

Ok...this was just too good to pass up.

by RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH
Source: Disorder in the American Courts
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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 6, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, CITIES, LAST STAND, SUPREME COURT, FREE, COMMIES, SENSATIONAL CRIME, POLITICALLY CORRECT, LOTTO, BOOTED, JEWS, SPOOKY, NANNY STATE, LOSER, MUSIC, HEADACHES, LOUD, PREMATURE, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

HEADACHES

1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann of Bayer. It soon replaces the company's best-selling drug, heroin. From 1898 through to 1910 heroin was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children. Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine when metabolized in the liver, and as such, "heroin" was basically only a quicker acting form of morphine.

WAR!

1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army

1944 U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.

2003 A somber President Bush readied the nation for war against Saddam Hussein, hurling some of his harshest invectives yet at the Iraqi leader during a prime-time news conference.

TERRORISM

1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia.

1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers.

2007 Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Hillah, Iraq, killing at least 120 people in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims.

DISASTER

1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100. Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die.

2007 More than 70 people died in an earthquake on Sumatra island, Indonesia.

NANNY STATE

1921 Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.

LOSER

1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo.

BOOTED

1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy.

SPOOKY

1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

LOUD

1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB).

MUSIC

1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks).

SUPREME COURT

1857 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave, was not a U.S. citizen and could not sue for his freedom in federal court.

PREMATURE

1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over".

CITIES

In 1834, the city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.

LAST STAND

In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.

LOTTO

1998 A Connecticut state lottery accountant shot to death three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.

POLITICS

2003 Democrats blocked President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.

2007 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.

FREE

1957 the former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.

COMMIES

1967 The daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, and declared her intention to defect to the West.

SENSATIONAL CRIME

1983 In a case that drew much notoriety, a young woman was gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern in New Bedford, Mass., called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted of the attack.

POLITICALLY CORRECT

1988 the board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school president. (Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.)

JEWS

1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany.

BORN

1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta).

1619 Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon).

BIRTHDAYS

Orchestra conductor Julius Rudel is 87. TV personality Ed McMahon is 85. Former FBI and CIA director William Webster is 84. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is 82. Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 81. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is 71. Country singer Doug Dillard is 71. Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., is 69. Actress-writer Joanna Miles is 68. Actor Ben Murphy is 66. Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is 64. Singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes) is 64. Rock musician Hugh Grundy (The Zombies) is 63. Rock singer-musician David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) is 62. Actor-director Rob Reiner is 61. Singer Kiki Dee is 61. Rock singer-musician Phil Alvin (The Blasters) is 55. Actor Tom Arnold is 49. Actor D.L. Hughley is 44. Country songwriter Skip Ewing is 44. Actress Yvette Wilson is 44. Actor Shuler Hensley is 41. Actress Connie Britton is 40. Actress Moira Kelly is 40. Actress Amy Pietz is 39. Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal is 36. Country singer Trent Willmon is 35. Country musician Shan Farmer (Ricochet) is 34. Rapper Beanie Sigel is 34. Rapper Bubba Sparxxx is 31. Actor Eli Marienthal is 22. Actor Jimmy Galeota is 22. Actor Dillon Freasier (Film: "There Will Be Blood") is 12. Actress Savannah Stehlin is 12.

DEATH

1935 Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.

1941 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73.

1982 Ayn Rand author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77.

1998 Adem Jasari Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed.

2007 Ernest Gallo, who built one of the world's largest winemaking empires, died in Modesto, Calif., at age 97.

March 6, the 66th day of 2008. There are 300 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
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* Today in History
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Cop Claims Wife's Sex Life Led to Dismissal

The Perils Of Swinging ~

Pueblo Colorado cop Michael Bethel sued the city claiming he was wrongfully terminated over his wife's sex life. On Wednesday, the Pueblo City Attorney's Office announced a $20,000 settlement with the ex-cop.

The Bethel's claimed in a federal lawsuit that they had an "arrangement."

Tammy is free to have sex with whomever she chooses unless they're married or minors and that she also has to inform her husband. For some reason the couple decided Michael should forfeit his right to have sex with other women but, and here's the caveat, he can join in with Tammy and her "current" lover.

Michael claimed he was fired from the Pueblo Police Department when his bosses learned of the Bethel's sex life.

Not so, claims the Pueblo City Attorney's Office. Bethel was fired then charged with witness tampering and official misconduct. The witness tampering had to do with Tammy, and you guessed it, her sex life.

When a sex videotape of Tammy Bethel surfaced in a burglary case, Bethel was accused of trying to persuade a man not to testify, a man who had sex with Tammy. A judge threw out the charge against Bethel and he was acquitted on the other charge.

So the question remains, should a cop's private life be a factor in determining whether he should be fired?

While the Bethel's claim Michael was unjustly fired solely for this reason, the fact that he leaned on a witness to try to get him to not testify is certainly grounds for dismissal. That fact the incident revolved around a sex tape of his wife was tangential.

The city of Pueblo settled with Bethel for $20,000, a meager sum in these days of multi-million dollar civil litigation paydays.

In the end, Bethel lost his career because his wife couldn't keep her pants, especially for the cameras.

It's as simple as that.

By LBG

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Democrat Economics 101: The Prosperity Killers

With all the moving, we don't want to forget the good folks over at Red Planet Cartoons. The latest RP theme is "The Prosperity Killers".

[T]he Democratic presidential candidates are presenting economic plans that are chock-full of ideas that reduce economic growth, rather than expanding it.

Of course, they know that.

They're also betting that they can hoodwink enough suckers to make it worth their political while. Rhetoric is the politician's weapon of choice.

Whenever a politician starts talking about "socking it to the rich", hold on to your wallet. One thing you'll never hear at a Clinton or Obama rally is how the top 5% wealthiest Americans pay over 50% of the taxes.

That wouldn't piss off any of their supporters.

It's a whole lot easier to fire up the troops if they're upset.

When Democrats talk about "soaking the rich", it always seems that working stiffs are the ones who end up getting wet.

As usual, Red Planet has some great links to back up the cartoon at the top of the post.

"The Prosperity Killers" is just a reminder of the old saying: TANSTAAFL.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

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image: Red Planet Cartoons
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Ode to Sinkholes: Earth's Dirty Little Secret

The Blue Hole, Belize

Sinkholes, Earth's way of playing practical jokes on unsuspecting humans, cars, houses, buildings and even entire lakes.

Some sinkholes are quite ugly, huge, gaping maws, but others, beautiful and stunning, Earth's own oddities.

Earth, she can shake, rattle n roll, and at times, sink out of sight.

LAKELAND, Fla. - Two giant sinkholes almost completely drained a lake, leaving dead fish rotting on oozing mud flats and alligators and snapping turtles fighting for their lives.

Scott Lake began draining last week, and the larger of the two sinkholes grew this week to at least 200 feet wide and 15 feet deep, claiming a dock, concrete walkway and chain-link fence. Source - MSNBC

That giant sucking sound...

La Jolla, California Sinkhole

Sinkhole swallows house in Florida

Cenote Zacatan, Mexico - Thought be world's deepest
sinkhole, its true depth is still unknown.
Source - UTexas

Devil's Sinkhole, Rock Springs, Tx

Sinkhole Vs. Semi

Prairie Village, Kansas

There Goes The Property Values ~

WILDWOOD, Mo. - To folks around Wildwood, it is nothing but freaky: an entire 23-acre lake vanished in a matter of days, as if someone pulled the plug on a bathtub.

Lake Chesterfield went down a sinkhole this week, leaving homeowners in this affluent St. Louis suburb wondering if their property values disappeared along with their lakeside views. Source MSNBC

Florida Sinkhole

330 foot wide sinkhole in Guatemala

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Larry Sinclair: Obama Accuser Blows Credibility

And yet did he ever have any?

The blogosphere was a abuzz when Obama Accuser, Larry Sinclair's Youtube, with its sordid accusations hit cyberspace.

"Earnest" Larry, with his scruffy face, baseball hat, and "Leave It Gay Beaver look" told a chilling tale, of meeting then Illinois State Representative Barack Obama back in 1999 at an "upscale" lounge, the two partaking in illicit sex and illegal drugs in the back of Larry's "rented limo." Larry goes on to allege that on another night he and Senator Obama adjourned to a Choice Hotel in Gurnee, Illinois. How chic.

Larry challenged Senator Obama to take a polygraph, as he, Larry was about to do.

There was a certain disconnect between the Larry on the video and the details. One watching and listening to Larry found him, for the lack of a better word, "uncouth."

It was hard to imagine this person "operating" in any "upscale" lounge or in a "rented" limo. The motel, a mid-class Choice International, and a rented limo, does not make for a "classy upscale" evening, especially if you added Larry to the mix.

But some of us wondered, what if Larry were telling the truth, what if he really did happen to meet up with Obama. We thought to ourselves, sometimes even the lowest of the low tell the truth about some things.

Larry accepted Whitehouse.com's offer which turned into a fiasco, at least for Whitehouse. Larry attacked the polygraph experts' credentials and said he was going to find his own expert. Parisi stopped payment on a $20,000 check he'd issued to Sinclair, but let two other checks, the total amount of $10,000, stand. Sinclair threatened to sue, threatened to go to the cops, threatened to put Parisi in prison.

In the midst of all of Larry's claims, counterclaims, threats to sue or call in the cops , what Larry failed to do, was offer any substantial proof that Senator Obama was anywhere near the scene, not back in November of 1999, nor at any other time.

Larry put out a copy of letter from Choice Hotels International which showed someone stayed a Choice Hotel in Gurnee, Illinois, back in November 1999. Larry also claims he has a copy of the credit car bill from a bar at the same time. That's it, that's "Larry's proof".

Those who felt that they should give Sinclair a chance to prove his story have grown weary and cynical. One blogger summed up quite eloquently in a great post, the sorrows of believing someone like Larry Sinclair, that Sinclair, did indeed, lead us ALL down the garden path to Hell.

Larry Sinclair, I’m afraid, led us ALL down the garden path to Hell.

It’s not JUST the Globe article that trashed his credibility, (Not the Boston Globe…The Globe Magazine…no, not the Boston Globe Magazine - THE GLOBE MAGAZINE…the one at the checkout counter…yes, that one), but that goes a long, long way. I mean, think about it. If a tabloid that believes Bigfoot exists won’t believe Larry Sinclair then you’re talking a fairly insurmountable image problem. I can’t accurately categorize the socio-economic bracket to which most of Sinclair’s followers belong but I can’t help but posit that many of them buy the The Globe and, perhaps, even have subscriptions. Source -Hybee Inc.

The whole post is worth a read, we couldn't have written it any better... and he gives us all something to mull over at the end...

The question that remains is - why did people who should theoretically hate gays and criminals believe a gay criminal over an accomplished black man?

by LBG
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