Terrorist Hunting Permit

Driving back from school tonight, I saw a very disturbing bumper sticker... Just another reminder that as diverse as Atlanta may be, there is still some people who really hate people like me...

Sen. Craig Cartoon

More cartoons at Slate Magazine.

The Craig Follies

Check out this funny report from Jeanne Moos from CNN.

The Craig follies 2:35
Jeanne Moos reports on the late night jokes, Internet spoofs, and re-enactments spawned by Sen. Craig's bathroom arrest.

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Hot Guys of August

Can we say HOT??!! I have no idea who half these guys are...


Check out the rest of the guys here.

And if you click on the picture it opens up! Yum! Enjoy! :-)

Yes honey, I'm coming to bed... No honey I'm not looking at hot guys online! *smile*

A Surprise for Karl Rove

Picture of the day: A surprise for Rove from his friends - from USA Today

Oh those wacky folks in the Bush administration!

Outgoing White House political guru Karl Rove's "friends" have left a little surprise for him to find when he gets back to Washington tonight, the Associated Press reports.

Somebody -- probably several somebodies -- with access to the White House grounds wrapped his Jaguar in plastic and adorned it with stuffed eagles, an "I Love Barack" bumper sticker and a stuffed elephant.

Rove's last official day on the job is Friday. The car is parked at the White House while he's on a trip to Texas.

(Photo by Ron Edmonds of the AP.)

Holy Water Seized from Fliers at Lourdes Airport

By Jean-Philippe Arles, Reuters A pilgrim fills a bottle with water from a grotto in the Sanctuary of Lourdes, France. The water, which is said to have miraculous healing powers, comes from the site where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared in 1858.

PARIS (AP) — Even holy water from the Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes can't get by airport security screening passengers for suspicious liquids.

A passenger on a new Vatican-backed charter airline had to hand over a container of water collected at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral to security officials at the airport in southern France on Monday before boarding a return flight to Rome, officials for Mistral Air said. They identified the passenger as Italian television personality Paola Saluzzi.

Airport officials barred other pilgrims on the Mistral Air flight from taking holy water from the shrine back to Rome, the Italian news agency Apcom reported. The pilgrims protested that they had waited in long lines to fill up their bottles with holy water from the grotto.

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OMG - don't you just love the Virgin Mary bottle??

US Newspapers Won't Publish Offensive Muslim Cartoon

Sheesh! As a Muslim myself I don't find this cartoon offensive. I don't follow the cartoon, so quite honestly it didn't make much sense to me. Who are these Washington Post staffers anyway? *sigh*

A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.

The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday's installment of Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist.

The installment did not appear in the Post's print version, but it ran on WashingtonPost.com and Salon.com. The same will hold true for the upcoming Sept. 2 strip, which is a continuation of the plotline.

Continued...

Here's the supposedly controversial cartoon in question. And the Jerry Falwell cartoon mentioned in the article.

Idaho Senator Denies Lewd Conduct; Tells Everyone "I'm Not Gay"

check out pages 5-6... amazing that he was able to keep his sexuality hidden for so long... yet he still continues to deny it... very sad!

Arrest report from CNN's website.

Article on how Republicans are distancing themselves from Sen. Larry Craig (from CNN).

Idaho Senator 'Signaled Desire' To Engage in Lewd Conduct

Another ultra-conservative politician caught with their pants down!

(CNN) -- August 28, 2007 - Sen. Larry Craig peered through a crack in a restroom stall door for two minutes and made gestures suggesting he wanted to engage in "lewd conduct," according to the police officer who arrested him.

Republican Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho was arrested in June at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Craig's blue eyes were clearly visible through the crack in the door, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport police Sgt. Dave Karsnia wrote in the report he filed on the June 11 incident.

"Craig would look down at his hands, 'fidget' with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again," Karsnia wrote in documents accompanying the arrest report.

The Idaho Republican later said the officer misinterpreted his actions.

But Craig, 62, pleaded guilty August 8 to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in the incident, according to Minnesota criminal records.

Full article here...

My favorite quotes:

When the police interviewed him later, the senator said that "he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom" and that was why his foot may have touched the officer's, the report said.

Craig also told police that he had reached down to the floor to pick up a piece of paper, the officer wrote.

Vatican Airline Takes to the Skies

I wonder if the Swiss guards will serve as flight attendants? Hmmm... :-) Come to think of it, they probably won't let Muslims on... hehe...

ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- While some passengers only turn to prayer when jolted by turbulence, the Vatican made it standard on Monday by launching the world's first airline for Catholic pilgrims.

Complete with Vatican logos on headrests and air hostesses' uniforms, the inaugural flight travelled from Rome's Fiumicino airport for the shrine of Lourdes in France.

The charter flight's slogan spoke volumes about what its clients are doing above the clouds: "I'm Searching for Your Face, Lord".

"It is a spiritual journey," explained Francesco Gherra, one of the pilgrims who boarded Monday's inaugural flight hosted by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the former head of Italy's bishops.

The Vatican aims to serve 150,000 pilgrims a year on its chartered Boeing 737, run by Italy's Mistral Air.

Destinations range from the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to Mount Sinai in Egypt, where Moses is said to have received the 10 Commandments from God.

In-flight entertainment on the way to the world's holy sites will, somewhat predictably, be religious in nature, the Vatican said.

"The crew has been informed that there are (religious) messages that will be transmitted, that films will be shown during the flight," said Father Cesar Atuire at the Vatican office coordinating pilgrimages.

Keeping costs for pilgrims low is another Vatican priority, Atuire said.

The Vatican's venture into the airline industry did not go unnoticed by competitors, including Ryanair, Europe's biggest low-cost carrier.

The Vatican hopes to fly pilgrims from Rome to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, a route already serviced by the low-budget carrier.

"Ryanair already performs miracles that even the Pope's boss can't rival, by delivering pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela for the heavenly price of 10 euros," Ryanair said in a statement.

Gonzales Quits! Woo Hoo!

Don't they totally look like lovers?? *smile*

Full article here.