Congratulations to our 500,000th post winner!

[wiggles]

this just proves how out of touch with America Republicans are

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1179353

Kangaroo Escapes at Salt Lake Airport
May 3rd, 2007 @ 9:36pm

(KSL News) -- A kangaroo that didn't want to board its flight had workers jumping tonight at Salt Lake International Airport.

There's no word on where the kangaroo came from or where it's going, but the poodle-sized 'roo was being transported when the latch on its cage sprung open and it hopped out and into the open.

The kangaroo scratched an airport worker before it was caught.

An airport manager tells us, "We're gonna make sure that latch has a whole lotta duct tape around it now."

 

[Dirt McGirt]

this just proves how out of touch with America Republicans are

more propaganda from the liberal media

you might want to familiarize yourself with this article

hard to argue with the facts- libs are destroying america:



Soccer game for priests, imams canceled

Sat May 5, 6:52 PM ET

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A soccer game between Muslim imams and Christian priests at the end of a conference to promote interfaith dialogue was canceled Saturday because the teams could not agree on whether women priests should take part.
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Church of Norway spokesman Olav Fykse Tveit said the imams refused to play against a mixed-gender team of priests because it would have gone against their beliefs in avoiding close physical contact with strange women.

The church decided to drop its female players and the priests' team captain walked out in protest.

Hours before the game was to end the daylong "Shoulder to Shoulder" conference in Oslo, the church released a statement saying it had called off the match because it was sending the wrong signal.

"Because we thought it would be a nice conclusion of the conference we didn't want to call it off, so we decided to stage an all-mens team game instead," Tveit said. "We realize now that it will be wrong to have a priest team without women."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070505/ap_on_fe_st/norway_religious_soccer

 

[Shattered]

I'm so confused.

 

[wiggles]

debunked


http://www.stuff.co.nz/westcoast/4050150a10.html

Subway calls cops over drink-sharing
By EMMA PAGE - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 6 May 2007

A food worker who poured two cups of Diet Coke at work without paying for them has lost her job and is facing criminal charges.

Dunedin worker Jackie Lang was fired from her fulltime job at fast-food franchise Subway after she shared a drink with a friend while consoling her during a break.

About two weeks after she was fired, police charged her with the theft of two cups of Coke valued at $4. She will appear in Dunedin District Court this month.

Autonomous Workers Union organiser Bill Clark says the dismissal is one of the worst he has seen. He says the Subway handbook allows free soda and water while working.

Losing her job and facing criminal charges has upset Lang, who is taking a personal grievance action against Subway. Through an intermediary, she said the company's actions were a shock, embarrassing and had caused her financial hardship. She felt she should have been given a warning rather than been fired and that the response was out of proportion to her actions.

"I shared my drink with my friend. I was only trying to comfort her. Isn't it what most people would do? I mean, I wasn't trying to do anything wrong. I did what I thought any person would do in the situation."

Security video footage of the incident shows Lang sharing the drink with her friend, then refilling the cup and leaving it on the table when she returned to work.

"Most people wouldn't be fired and put in a police cell for two hours for sharing a drink."

Clark said Subway called Lang to a meeting on March 19 without telling her it was a disciplinary matter. She was then told her action had been referred to police. Lang was charged with theft 20 days later.

Clark is surprised managers at the George St Subway did not deal with the incident internally as Lang had a clean employment history and no criminal record.

"It's a human thing to do to offer a drink as comfort. If Subway doesn't like it, they have internal procedures to deal with that."

Clark says Lang, who has Asperger's syndrome - a form of autism - has been hit hard by the stress of losing her job and facing charges, including having to explain the situation to her new boss. "She just wants it to go away," he said.

Protests were held outside the George St Subway yesterday, drawing attention to Lang's case.

Public support for Lang has been strong and local business have made donations to cover potential legal bills.

The owners of the George St Subway were unavailable for comment last week. No one could be contacted at Subway's South Island office. The person who could comment from the North Island office was unavailable.

In a letter addressed to Lang, the directors said she had given the drink to a friend without payment and that was considered "serious misconduct" and a breach of their "trust and fidelity".

National Distribution Union solicitor David Fleming said he had heard of cases where people were dismissed for similar things, but getting the police involved was unusual.

"It would be the exception rather than the norm."

 

[Dirt McGirt]

liberals are stupid

 

[Emmett]

Nope, not being silly. I could care less if you gave him a new car.

But clarify for me then, is cross posting against the rules? Yes or no?

Dirt,

Cross Dressing is against the rules!

 

[JeffWartman]

Doesn't seem to me that constantly posting articles and not having a mind of one's own is hardly cause for congratulations.

 

[Shattered]

Nobody mentioned quality - 500,000th post is strictly quantity.

 

[wiggles]

Doesn't seem to me that constantly posting articles and not having a mind of one's own is hardly cause for congratulations.

Strip club plans foiled by eerily quiet parrot shop

By Ishanee Parikh
Published: May 3, 2007

Six long years ago, when Darla Gideon first thought of opening a little strip club on I-45 north of town, she never figured she'd end up arguing about parrots.

Subject(s): Harris County Sheriff, sexually oriented businesses, WebWorld, Sam Nuchia, strip clubs

A ton of legal fees later, she's still arguing about parrots. But what's even more odd, she's got Sam Nuchia — chief justice of the 1st Court of Appeals, former Houston police chief and archconservative upholder of all that is morally right — ruling in favor of a strip club in a fight against the sheriff's department. (Theologians regard this as the fifth sign of the apocalypse.)

What she still doesn't have is a strip club. But even with the long, odd road she's traveled, hope springs eternal.

When Gideon first planned to open a place called WebWorld, she and her lawyer knew the rules: They couldn't operate within 1,500 feet of any church, dwelling or school.

The only relevant item near their proposed site was a seemingly abandoned building. Actually, there wasn't much “seemingly” about it — the structure had little inside on the first floor, and one of Gideon's employees climbed a ladder to take pictures of the second floor. Nothing there but bare stud walls; no plumbing, no electricity.

So it was a little surprising when the Harris County Sheriff's Department refused to issue a sexually oriented business license because of that empty building.

The barn-like structure, WebWorld's lawyers were told, was a parrot shop, and the owners of the shop occasionally lived on the second floor, and planned to make it their home as funds came in.

“I guess they were camping out, since there was no electricity or even a toilet,” says Gus Pappas, attorney for WebWorld.

There were no parrots in the building at the time, either, but that was because the owners were on vacation, Pappas was told.

While any Monty Python fan might've spent time pondering a quote to fit the strange situation — maybe “That parrot's not dead; he's just pining for the pjorn” — Pappas had a client to represent.

The ordinance in question states — pretty clearly, it seems — that any residence within 1,500 feet of a proposed club must have been occupied or operating for at least 30 days before the SOB application is filed. So Pappas quickly sued.

He managed to get rid of some, but not all, of the potential jurors who said they hated strip clubs for being godless homes to predators and perverts. Meaning he was facing a jury that included at least some people who absolutely detested what his client did for a living.

He still won.

“The fact that people ruled in favor of a sexually oriented business shows how strong my case was and that the facts supported our side,” Pappas says.

Trouble was, 215th State District Court Judge Levi Benton disagreed with the jury. He overturned the verdict, saying there was insufficient evidence to support it.

So it was on to the appellate court, where WebWorld faced a panel headed by Nuchia, the square-jawed law-and-order man who's been a hard-core conservative both as a cop and on the bench. Pappas couldn't have asked for a worse judge.

He still won.

The county tried to argue that a sexually oriented business could be refused a license even if there was only an intent to inhabit a nearby building; the 1st Court panel ruled that intent wasn't enough.

County attorney Michael Stafford says this case marked the first time a state court had to interpret the 1,500-foot buffer-zone section of the city's 1997 ordinance, so it's not surprising that there's been some different rulings.

“A case involving issues of first impression usually is difficult for a court to decide,” he says.

His office will appeal the decision, but that doesn't mean that they're the ones who are dragging things out.

“All that the sheriff is doing at this point is defending the judgment that was issued in the sheriff's favor,” he says, referring to the trial-court ruling (but not, naturally, to the appellate court's somewhat opposite decision).

“They're just trying to rewrite the law,” says Pappas. “They'll keep this going until we give up or run out of money.”

So the dream to build a strip club lives on. And what about that other dream, to live above a parrot shop? It's dead. And not just pining-for-the-pjorn dead. It is no more, it has ceased to be, it's expired and gone to meet its maker. It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

In other words, the barn-like building is for sale, as it has been for a couple of years with no takers.

Then again, it lives on in the form of this lawsuit.

It seems some dreams — whether they be of porn or parrot shops, or lawyers generating legal fees from old cases — never die.

 

[JeffWartman]

Cats are for secluded internet hermits. Dogs are far more rewarding.

A dude with a cat is a fag. End of story.