May 2010

Buffalo Wings for Mr. Obama?

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Yesterday, May 13th, the President of the United States did Buffalo, New York. Mr. Obama was on a trip to show his support for small business. One of the places where he made a stop was at a company called Industrial Support, which manufactures "a variety of products, from aeronautical parts to salad bars for the grocery industry" Mr. Obama was given a tour of the plant and chatted with the owner, managers and workers.

The President also stopped for lunch at a Buffalo wing joint, (Duff's Famous Wings), where he surprised the staff and the customers of the joint, and he ordered ten Buffalo wings, five cooked extra crispy, and he ordered fries. See the video below.

Lars Vilks: A University Pulls The Welcome Mat

The Uppsala University, in Uppsala, Sweden, says Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoon artist will be no longer be  invited to speak at the University, --  and the knee jerk response of Western media is: Oh, the University is kowtowing after Muslim students physically attack him! -- And media light is asking the question,  "Are radical Muslims succeeding in muzzling free speech?"  Mr. Vilks was invited to the University to lecture about the limits of artistic freedom, and maybe to explain why he drew a cartoon of Mohammed with the head of a dog, and what does he do?

An Assist to Lawrence Taylor?

It's the New York Post  to the rescue of its hometown hero?  The headlines shouts, "16-year-old hooker told friend: I didn't have sex with Taylor."

Lawrence Taylor, football hall of famer, ex star with the New York Giants is in the legal soup with law enforcement in Rockland County, New York. The 16-year-old, whose claims about having sex with ex-Giant star, in a hotel located in that county, that led to a rape charge against him, actually bragged to a friend about making “easy money” because “I didn’t even have to f— him,” a source told The Post.

Lifting Rekers' Luggage And Other Euphemisms

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So another infamous homophobe's hypocrisy got exposed. The Rev. George Alan Rekers, the co-founder of the Family Research Council,  a  chieftain among  gay bashers, has been shown to be a big blown up balloon of  bowel gas,  and now is a punch bag for gags, a  magnet for buffoonery. For those whom haven't heard, the Rev. Dr. George Alan Rekers, after being outed, admitted that he hired a young man, who happens to be gay, as a "travel assistant" for a 10-day trip  to Europe  -- as a strong young man to help him with his luggage. He hired this man from RentBoy.com. The website is NSFW.

Ray Towler: Freed By DNA After 29 Years!

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Anybody who believes in the infallibility of man, or of the criminal justice system, or of anything run by human beings has bumped his head. Yesterday, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ray Towler, a man who was sent to prison for life for a crime that he didn't commit, was freed after serving twenty nine years. He spent most of his life in jail. He was released by DNA testing, which proved his innocence. For more details, read the account of the case in the Columbus Dispatch.

“Los Suns!"

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The Phoenix Suns basketball team is letting the nation know where it stands on the new Arizona immigration law by wearing  a protest  jerseys proclaiming them as “Los Suns” at  tonight's Wednesday’s playoff game.  Sun team’s managing partner, Robert Sarver,  told Politico the team wants to send a message to Arizona lawmakers.

Get Over Yourself And Get Over Here

Roman Polanski  issued a statement to the world media, saying that he could be silent no longer over his pending extradition to the US over a child rape case. In the statement, Mr.Polanski is blaming everybody for the mess that he got himself in, but himself. OK, so he is fighting  extradition -- doesn't want to exchange his comfortable villa for a very uncomfortable  jail cell. OK. It is a thirty three year old case that California wants him on. Thirty three years is a long time. OK. But it's  been thirty three years because he fled the US before sentencing, and the French government shielded him from justice for those thirty odd years. OK. Polanski said that he had a deal with the judge to get a slap on the wrist and that the judge was not honest with him.

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