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I'm a real lesbian, the rest of you are fakes.

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: May 2, 2008 · Comments (8)

No I've not been having an identity crisis since making my last Wizbang post over 10 days ago. From AP- Three islanders from Lesbos -- home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women -- have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (6 votes cast)

Paulville: The Festivus of Planned Communities!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 20, 2008 · Comments (15)

I first began to realize the Ron Paul campaign was over as I found fewer and fewer instances of his deranged followers on the blogs. No more "viral" stacking of online polls, far fewer occasions for mass indignation, no more flooding of email inboxes, and the flying flecks of spittle... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (6 votes cast)

Staring equals sexual harassment?

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 20, 2008 · Comments (9)

It does in Italy and can earn you a ten day suspended sentence. LECCO, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a woman sitting in front of him on a train. A judge sentenced the man in his 30s, whose... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (8 votes cast)

Climb every mountain

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 16, 2008 · Comments (7)

Just have a plan for the way back down. Accidents have almost doubled on Mt. Takao, Japan's most popular mountain for climbers, as people visit the suburban Tokyo peak in increasing numbers, police said. There were 43 reported accidents on the mountain last year, almost double the average number from... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.4/5 (5 votes cast)

Cover it up

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 14, 2008 · Comments (10)

Just your average day in Florida. People firing paintballs at strippers. BOYNTON BEACH -- Three men dressed in black walked into Platinum Gold strip club on the city's southeast side Sunday night and started shooting exotic dancers with paintball guns, police said. The men, along with an afternoon-shift dancer and... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Did the Hamburglar have an alibi at the time?

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 11, 2008 · Comments (8)

This news gives new meaning to the words 'Big Mac'. Police on Wednesday arrested an adult movie producer, two cast members and crew for filming a porn movie at a McDonald's shop in Higashi-Matsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture, in January. Producer Kunikazu Ishii, 51, an actress, 21, an actor, 29, and... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Coward punches horse in rear end

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 7, 2008 · Comments (12)

This Tampa Tribune article has the potential to be a comedy skit. TAMPA - Police arrested a Lakeland man early this morning on charges that he punched a police horse in the rear end. It should be no surprise the incident occurred about 3:15 a.m. in Ybor City. The Tampa... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.2/5 (6 votes cast)

Tomikaze

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: April 7, 2008 · Comments (9)

Last November, while traveling for Thanksgiving, I passed a flock of wild turkeys alongside the road. The thought briefly crossed my mind of swerving and collecting a bit of bonus meat for the occasion. I'm glad I didn't. Those things can be fierce. As a New Hampshire motorcyclist discovered recently.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (5 votes cast)

The US economy is busted

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 7, 2008 · Comments (13)

Don't say I'm a boob for writing about this. It used to be a high point of Goldy Anthony's life. Every six weeks or so, as a kind of personal morale booster, she and a group of girlfriends would make appointments to see a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon for little... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Life in Florida II

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 5, 2008 · Comments (0)

The wild, wacky, and unusual from Florida *- Man charged with planning Virginia Tech like massacre. His brother says he was trading guns like pokemon cards. What we need in Florida is a ban on pokemon cards.(Sarcastic laughter time) *- Traffic accident South Florida style- Dead gator causes propane truck... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

Help wanted: Beer drinker. Expenses paid.

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (2)

Here's the job description: you have to go out drinking with an old man twice a week for about two hours a night. You're paid about $14 an hour, plus expenses. Yes, the beer is paid for by your employer. A decent part-time gig if you live in the UK,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (6 votes cast)

Life in Florida

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 31, 2008 · Comments (4)

Here's some news that will make you love the Sunshine state- Woman slugs her boyfriend after he forgets her birthday. I bet there will be no presents in the future years either. Need a job? Lots of work for process servers these days. Mother can't believe school took away her... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (3 votes cast)

It must have had nice legs

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 30, 2008 · Comments (13)

I've heard of people being lonely but this takes the cake. From WCSH 6- A man in central Ohio is accused of having sex with his picnic table. The investigation began when a tipster gave police three DVDs showing Arthur Price having sexual intercourse with a metal round table on... [Full Story]

Rating: 2/5 (5 votes cast)

Next time use some Old Spice

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 29, 2008 · Comments (3)

You stink, now off to jail you go for two years. KYOTO--The distinctive body odor of a 21-year-old Maritime Self-Defense Force member was his undoing in a case of sexual molestation. The victim told the district court here that she hardly saw the face of the man when he molested... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (4 votes cast)

How to impress friends and family

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 28, 2008 · Comments (1)

NOT An Indiana man is accused of shooting himself in order to prove his claims that he belonged to a gang, police say. Zachary Booso, 19, reported to police that an unidentified man shot him with a homemade weapon during a robbery Saturday in Brownsburg, Ind. But "suspicions arose surrounding... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Latest TSA horror story

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 27, 2008 · Comments (24)

Did Martin Luther King and his supporters march for freedom to have nipple rings? A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. *****... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (12 votes cast)

Like oreo cookies without the cream filling

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 27, 2008 · Comments (15)

From the 'You got to be kidding me files'- Playboy magazine without the nudity. MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines will get its own edition of Playboy magazine -- only without the nudity that made the US version famous, the editor-in-chief of the local edition said Thursday. The Philippine edition will... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (6 votes cast)

Family matters

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 23, 2008 · Comments (3)

Buckle up your baby, then try running over their Dad. During a fight with her husband, authorities say, a woman loaded her baby and a suitcase into the family minivan and drove around the yard, trying to run him over. St. Lucie County sheriff's deputies arrested Leslie Ann Brown, 34,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Out with the trash

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 21, 2008 · Comments (3)

As a Floridian should I be happy that Canadians are as careless with sensitive documents as the Orlando Airport Authority is? OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Old debts

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 18, 2008 · Comments (8)

Would you believe a 77-year-old woman in Florida wants to collect on a 147-year-old promissory note? TAMPA -- In the early months of the Civil War, the city of Tampa needed ammunition and other supplies to defend against attack but apparently was short on cash. So it issued a promissory... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (8 votes cast)

A different type of cease fire

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 16, 2008 · Comments (2)

Maybe I'm wrong, but this could only take place in the Philippines. MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines army declared a seven-hour truce with insurgents, allowing both sides to watch Manny Pacquiao win the WBC super featherweight title today. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo led Filipinos in rejoicing over Pacquaio's victory. The... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (6 votes cast)

What if they hold an election and no one votes

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (5)

It happened in Broward County Florida this week. As Broward County election results trickled in Tuesday night, some spectators wondered why no vote totals were shown for an annexation referendum near Tamarac. The mystery's answer disappointed government officials. The election's final result, "0 votes," was accurate: Not one registered voter... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (5 votes cast)

Stay seated

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 12, 2008 · Comments (12)

I have a hard time making sense of this news. WICHITA, Kan. - Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years -- so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (6 votes cast)

Of nips, nets, and peas

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 10, 2008 · Comments (6)

There is an interesting ad campaign going on in Oregon right now. SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy? "When March Madness approaches... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.2/5 (4 votes cast)

British couples spend just 2 months of their lives having nookie

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 8, 2008 · Comments (2)

Now we know why the country's birth rate is down. From ANI- It looks like not much action takes place inside the bedroom, for according to a new survey an average couple spends almost two and a half months of their entire lives having sex. The survey, carried out for... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.3/5 (3 votes cast)

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