4605...Another Testicle Ticket In South Carolina

Another.

Meaning that this is an ongoing problem in Steve Spurrier's home state.

WMBF news and The Associated Press report:

 For the second time in a year, a South Carolina officer has ticketed a motorist for displaying a replica of human testicles on a vehicle.
A Spartanburg County sheriff's deputy stopped a truck Sunday evening after noticing the display on the rear bumper. The incident report says the driver removed the display after being stopped but he was arrested for driving without a license. He was also given a warning ticket for having an obscene display.
Last July, a Berkeley County woman was ticketed for having a similar display on the back of her truck.
That case is to go to trial in municipal court in the town of Bonneau. That trial has been delayed three times and no new trial date has been set.

Be careful driving through SC.

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4604...Carleton Grad Rob Ford Snubs The Press

The mayor of Toronto,the most self important city on the third rock from the sun, is a funny, confusing and hypocritical man.

Yesterday was another one of those days for hizzoner.  The Toronto Sun, his fave paper, opens a story about the former Carleton Raven thusly:

Mayor Rob Ford shrugged off reporters at an event celebrating World Press Freedom Day Monday night.

“I’ve got places to go, people to see,” Ford told reporters as he left the event hosted by the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada.

He blew off the press.  At World Press Freedom Day.  Who is advising this guy?  Kwame Kirkpatrick?

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4603...Crack Hos With Teeth

One of the sure signs of spring in your cold capital is when the hookers hit the street.

I live in a red light area of Ottawa; don't get alarmed, dodgy in Ottawa means 300,000 dollar homes.  What is unusual with this year's selection of street walkers is that they look more like out of work government workers than crack hos.

It's the economy, stupid.

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4602...Dr. Shaq

This Saturday Shaquille O'Neal, one of the greatest basketball players in history, will receive his Ph.d from Miami's Barry University.

According to today's Ottawa Citizen "O'Neal spent the past 4 1/2 years working toward his degree in organizational learning and leadership, with a specialization in human resource development."


Barry University is no joke by the way.  It has a little under 10,000 students, a 14:1 ratio of students to faculty and is a Catholic school.  We all know what that means.


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4601...25YearsAgoToday ShelleyLong Ends Career

In 1987 on this date Shelley Long stopped working on NBC's Cheers.

Presumably to go onto bigger and brighter things.

Didn't happen.

Smooth move Ex-Lax.

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4600...100K Here; 100K There: Cons Austerity

Is not very austere.

The federal government has set aside more than $100,000 for paper flags and lapel pins for celebrations to mark the sixth decade of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
The costing was tabled by Heritage Minister James Moore in response to a written question by NDP MP Tyrone Benskin.

It is all there in your Monday paper.

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4599...The French Understand Democracy

I like the fact that they do their elections in two phases.

The first part of the election is like ours.  Tons of candidates.  Here is the cool part.  If no candidate gets more than fifty per cent there is a run off shortly after the general election betwixt the top two candidates.  So, unlike Canada where you can form a government with the support of about 40 per cent of the electorate ala Stephen Harper, in France it is ultimately 50 plus 1.

They also go out and vote.  In the Globe and Mail it is reported that "...the IFOP polling firm projected at 81.5 per cent."  When you factor in the fact that a lot of people are dis interested, clueless or incapable of voting, 81.5 means pretty much everybody is voting.

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