<rocking back and forth in fugue state>
Three semesters and I can leave for good. Three semesters and I can leave for good. Three semesters…
</rocking>
I knew things could only get worse after the GOP took the state House. Hold me, someone.
–you can’t hold a candle to Florida. To be a laughingstock for the long term, there’s nothing like botching your state’s Presidential election.
(Apologies for posting after reading only the first post, but this was a mundane, pointless thing I just HAD to say! Immediately!)
Sometime in the 80s, the San Francisco City Council spent at least one day considering if they should change the city’s official song from “San Francisco” (as sung by Jeanette McDonald in the movie of the same name) to “I Left My Heart in SF”. Apparently there was much debate with advocates on either side.
Finally, one of them came up with a brilliant compromise: keep “SF” as the city’s official song and declare “ILMYHISF” as the city’s official ballad.
Alabama recently (last year, I believe) passed a law making interracial marriage legal. The count was something like 52% to 48%.
Did Virginia recently convict a married couple under their sodomy laws? Stupidity reigns supreme all over the United States.
[Bill Cosby Voice On] Now to commemorate this joyous week, ha, ha, ha, we must sit back and enjoy Jell-O with some cho-co-late puddin’ there, ha, ha, ha, all while capturing it on Ko-dak film, ha, ha, ha, mmm mm that’s good, ha, ha, ha[Bill Cosy Voice Off/]
I know consider myself dirty,
I need a shower.
You’d better be joking, tubagirl. I’ve eaten tapioca! :eek: I remember debating with someone what it was made of and we couldn’t decide… [sub]Seriously, is that a joke or not?
How do you know?
Because I looked at the friggin’ card before I threw it away - I mean, put it in the box.
Zero Hero: <hijack>Tapioca is made from the roots of some plant or other.</hijack>
Juniper200: (looks at profile) How ya doin’?
(mutter gotta get around to making one o’ dem profiles)
Hey, Alabama ain’t as backwards as that. Uh uh. The margin was 60%-40%!
It was a gay couple or group in a park in Roanoke, I believe.
I’m sure everyone here will want to join me in going to http://arborday.org/ and taking the time to vote on their choice of what will be the national tree. This is a time when all of us, New Yorkers, Utahns, Floridians, Minnesotans, Californians, and Texans, should put aside our differences and gather together as one people. But not Canadians; you’re foreigners and you already have a tree.
No, Virginia did not convict a married couple for violating sodomy laws. They did convict at least ten homosexual men, however - and I don’t think their convictions were an exercise in stupidity.
The saga began when the Roanoke police department received complaints from patrons of city public parks. These complaints included members of the public upset at finding condoms littered about, and reports of children finding the condoms and playing with them under the mistaken belief they were balloons.
In response to these public complaints, Roanoke City Police Lieutenant R.E. Carlisle, the commander of the police Vice Bureau, sent undercover police officers to observe activity in the public parks.
According to Lt. Carlisle’s testimony, the officers observed homosexual “cruising” occurring in and between Smith Park and Wasena Park and in the public restroom in Wasena Park. Based on this information, several male undercover officers were sent into the parks to investigate the apparent prevelance of the crime of solicitation to commit sodomy. The officers were ordered: (1) Not to entrap anyone; (2) Investigate “based on their training and see if anyone would offer to commit an act of sodomy against them, or pay to commit an act against them”; and (3) to be charged, a person “had to show a willingness to carry out the act in the park.” At least ten men were arrested. At least one man proposed committing oral sodomy upon an officer in a private place, not the park. That man was not charged.
Each of the ten were convicted of solicitation to commit oral sodomy in violation of Va. Code §§ 18.2-29 and 18.2-361. Each appealed, claiming that the prohibition against sodomy in Virginia’s laws (1) violates a fundamental right to privacy; (2) is a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution; and (3) is a violation of the establishment of religion clause, as the antipathy against sodomy is religiously-based.
All the convictions were upheld.
Reasoning of the appeals court provided upon request.
- Rick
Am I the only one who ran to check if there was SPAM in the cupboard upon discovering the SPAM cupcakes with mashed potato icing?
In all complete and utter seriousness - yum!
Florida, get in line behind California. We’ve gotten really good at holding candles.
… now even the BBC is making fun of you here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1156000/1156021.stm
I’m from West Virginia. Each and every one of our recent driver’s licenses has a picture of rolling hills with autumn foliage and a collapsing shack on it. A fucking shack. I almost drew an arrow from my address to the shack, as if to say, “Here. This is where I live.”
I think I’m going to move to West Virginia just for that. I’d be Dang proud if my collapsing shack was singled out to represent the whole state!
Our loyal and trusty Mayor of Miami Loco Joe Carollo is returning to work today after posting bond after his arrest for beaning his estranged wife in the head with a tea container last week.
Oh, I didn’t mean to say that it was my collapsing shack (in which case I would defend it to the collapsing end), just that it might as well be where the license holder lives. Like I need pictoral information to remember which shack is mine. “Damn, now whare in tarnation do Ah live? Ah, shoot, dere it is.” Really helpful when you’re trying to convince the rest of the country that you’re not all toothless and married to your sisters (hey, I got a new set last week and only dated my sister).
It gets worse, though. My hometown is deep in coal mining country, and, as such, has an exhibiton coal mine open to the public. When I was in high school, our illustrious leaders decided to play that up with the town’s (then) new slogan, as featured in the wonderful Roadside America: “Beckley: The Town With a Mine of Its Own.” <shudder>
As long as I’m wasting time, wanna read a dumb joke hillbillies tell about other hillbillies in bordering states? There are a billion of these. Today, we’ll use Kentucky and West Virginia.
A West Virginian meets a Kentuckian crossing the border on his way home, and he notices the fellow only has one shoe. “Oh,” The West Virginian says, “did you lose a shoe?”
“Nope, I found one.”
bad -DOOM-boom ching
My Roommate In college was From Maryland, the little elbow part near Cumberland. His family was originally from West Virginia, I was regaled with that type of stuff all the time. He had a great sense of humor about his hillbilly roots, always was proud of his grandmother posessing the first indoor plumbing in the state.
But He never ever ate Jell-o.
I had to ad that so I wouldn’t be accused of Hi-jacking. 