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Rain
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I majored in English. I'm a word geek.


Ahh...I knew there was a reason why I liked you 'berty! I'm a word nerd too!
 
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A sympathetic homophobe?

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Sgt. Dave Karsnia shielded the men he arrested in the airport bathroom from embarrassment.

After he flashed a badge, he would point silently to the exit. When one man said his wife was waiting at a gate, Karsnia called for a citation book to spare the man a trip to the airport police station.

And when his bathroom stings netted a U.S. senator from Idaho, he even promised him, "I don't call media."

That promise - which Karsnia seems to have kept - didn't do Sen. Larry Craig much good.

Craig's arrest was surely the biggest of Karsnia's career, but it was only one of more than a dozen he made in the Minneapolis airport's restrooms this summer.

Just 29, his record has been that of a rising young officer. He joined the Minneapolis Airport Police in 2000 as a community services officer, just out of college. Three years later, he was named the department's Officer of the Year, and in 2005 he was promoted to sergeant. Last year, he finished his master's degree.

The last time Karsnia was in the media spotlight, it was because of his efforts to get speeding electric carts carrying passengers and luggage at the airport to slow down. The issue came to light last year when a young boy was run over and dragged by a cart and suffered a second-degree carpet burn.

Karsnia was in charge of cart enforcement at the time. That got him on ABC's "Good Morning America" earlier this year.

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Only barbarians mis-spell theatre... Razz


Come to think of it...NY'ers find the spelling "humor" rather strange. We were always taught to spell it "humour" in school. Same goes with rumour. But it's not all-inclusive of all "-our"/"-or" spelling variations between British and American standards. Some words still require us to use the Websterian "or" spelling reform.
 
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That's it... along with 'ganders, I'm gonna adopt y'all as honorary Canucks. Very Happy

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GOP Sources: Craig Mulls Resignation From Senate


Funny, he's "mulling" resignation from the Senate...yet the Repugnicans wanted him to resign and were indeed pressuring him privately to do so even before he was caught attempting to suck cock in a toilet.

They feared his toilet habits would be made public. It seems these days the Republican Party doesn't have to fear the wrath of voters at the polls, they lose more seats by exposing theirs.

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berto wrote:
I'm gonna adopt y'all as honorary Canucks. Very Happy


I shall never say "zed."

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That's why it's only honorary... Razz

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I shall never say "zed."


Ditto! That's just too French.

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ABC News is reporting that Larry Craig will announce that he will resign from the Senate by tomorrow at the earliest. Apparently top Republican have prevailed on him to resign in keeping with their no fag policy...at least no publicly known fag.

Pity...the Larry Craig Show was a better laugh in the dead zone of August than any rerun.

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Post subject: Senator to Quit Over Sex Sting, Officials Say  PostPosted: Sep 01, 2007 - 05:06 PM



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Senator to Quit Over Sex Sting, Officials Say

By CARL HULSE
Published: September 1, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — Senator Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho, under intense pressure from party leaders to step down in the aftermath of an undercover sex sting, plans to resign his seat on Saturday, Republican Party officials said Friday.

[...]

The disclosure of Mr. Craig’s guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge resulting from his arrest in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in early June was not the only political setback for Republicans this week. On Friday, Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the former Navy secretary and an influential party voice on military policy, announced in Charlottesville that he would not seek a sixth term in 2008, giving Democrats a better chance at that seat.

[...]

For four days, Republican officials engaged in an almost unheard of campaign to persuade Mr. Craig to step down. Speaking to reporters in his home state of Kentucky, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, on Thursday called Mr. Craig’s conduct “unforgivable.” Senator John Ensign of Nevada, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, raised the prospect of public ethics hearings should Mr. Craig remain in office. Senators also discussed the idea of withholding support for Mr. Craig should he try to run for re-election, according to aides.

[...]

Despite such unusual steps against a Senate colleague, Republicans took no punitive action against Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, after his acknowledgment this summer of involvement with an escort service that the police described as a prostitution front.

Party officials said Mr. Vitter’s case was different in that he faced no criminal charges and was not in the Senate but was serving in the House at the time. In the case of Mr. Craig, they said experience from a recent string of misconduct cases, including the House page scandal that hurt Republicans last year, had shown there was no time to waste if the political fallout was to be minimized.

“We have learned we have to move quickly,” said a senior Senate official who did not want to be identified discussing the political ramifications of Mr. Craig’s case.


Yes, the do have to move quickly. Considering how promiscuous Republican gays are there's no telling how many men's rooms they could hit before they're stopped.

NY Times Article
 
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Post subject: RE: Senator to Quit Over Sex Sting, Officials Say  PostPosted: Sep 02, 2007 - 05:38 AM



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Move more quickly? More quickly that what? If memory serves, Mr Foley resigned at once -- almost before anyone knew what it was he was resigning for. The haste there did not appear to have done much good. Senior Senate officials may claim they "have learned to move more quickly," but thus far they appear to be moving more slowly -- by something like four days. That just doesn't seen all that "quick" to me. Four hours after the story hit the wires... that would have demonstrated a certain initiative.

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I shall never say "zed."


Ditto! That's just too French.


Hear that Berto? It's just too French.

Down with 'zed.'

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Rain wrote:
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I shall never say "zed."


Ditto! That's just too French.


Hear that Berto? It's just too French.

Down with 'zed.'


Pfffft! What, you sink zee French, zey say "zed"? "Zee" is a LOT more French-sounding, my dears...

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I didn't stress this in my last post on Craig--because I didn't think I'd have to--but such dragnets are not only motivated by homophobia, but are practically, if not technically, police entrapment. They're a legacy of a pre-Lawrence legal order that criminalized sodomy, and they endure to this day because gay sex, even and perhaps especially the suggestion of its solicitation, is still seen as violation of the norms of public life.

Heterosexuals routinely use public space and the internet to solicit sex from each other; sometimes this sex is among perfect strangers or in public (or quasi-public) itself. Unless they involve minors, none of these practices are the subject of undercover busts. Instead they're romanticized (teenage makeout sites), tolerated as nuisances (bad pickup lines, whistles, Lindsay Lohan) or generally treated as vital, sexy aspects of modern social life and economy.

Just once I'd like to see the script flipped. Why don't the Minneapolis police post undercover female cops at airport bars who gesture provocatively towards the bathroom and then arrest any man who follows? Using newfound, post-9/11 surveillance powers, law enforcement should determine the identities of everyone who posts details of their sexcapades on www.milehighclub.com. These are dangerous, lewd heterosexuals who have admitted to having had actual sex--not in the airport--but on the airplane! Baby-faced, 21 Jump Street-type cops should be assigned to every high school to offer blowjobs to jocks underneath the bleachers. Anyone who shows up at the designated coordinates should be arrested. Depending on the jurisdiction, some arrestees may even get their names permanently listed on sex offender registries! The entire city of Myrtle Beach should be staked out for the month of March. And don't even get me started on the subject of Craigslist.

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Pfffft! What, you sink zee French, zey say "zed"? "Zee" is a LOT more French-sounding, my dears...


Au contraire mon frère...c'est très propre dire ¨zed¨ en français! Pas ¨zee¨!

Zed is said in French...see? Not "zee"!
 
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Just once I'd like to see the script flipped. Why don't the Minneapolis police post undercover female cops at airport bars who gesture provocatively towards the bathroom and then arrest any man who follows?


The author has a point. Either it is illegal to invite someone to a sexual encounter under certain circumstances or it is not. There is no reason at all why the heterosexual goings-on should be tolerated one day longer.

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As always, there will be no discussion among those "conservatives" about homosexuality. As always, they will shake their heads and sigh about the sordidness of human nature and that "nobody can be trusted" -- 'cause "these faggots are lurking everywhere." Senator Craig, as hideous he might have be from the perspective of the Gay people, has dedicated much of his adult life to promotion of those "conservatives" agenda -- and he will be rewarded with nothing more than contempt and disgust, from that side. There is little difference between him and all of those other outcasts who served to this or that heterosexual cause just to be taught that faggots are the most despised creatures of the world, and all of their assumed merits count nothing in comparison to their cardinal, essential failure.
 
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Rising Pressure From G.O.P. Led Senator to Quit
By CARL HULSE
Published: September 2, 2007

[...]

One Republican senator did privately voice reservations about the rush to force Mr. Craig out, compared to the lack of any public reprimand of Mr. Vitter. This senator and others said the different approach made it appear the party was simply less tolerant of homosexual conduct.

[...]

While some in Washington and even within the Republican Party suggested that the homosexual nature of the charge was a significant factor, others took pains to make a distinction between Mr. Craig’s case and those of Mr. Vitter and Mr. Stevens.

[...]

Others said there were clear distinctions that separated the Craig case from that of Mr. Vitter. Patrick Sammon, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a Republican gay rights organization, said: “Senator Craig entered a guilty plea to this crime. Senator Vitter, while he is a terrible hypocrite and his behavior was rotten, he wasn’t convicted or charged with a crime.”




berto, feral...I have a theory about straight cruising vs. gay cruising. And it's long, involved, and takes into account certain cultural factors that are very, very American. That will await another post. In the meantime, click the headline to read.
 
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I have a theory about straight cruising vs. gay cruising. And it's long, involved, and takes into account certain cultural factors that are very, very American.


Mmmmmmmm.

Just like fresh pie.

I await this theory with mounting expectation.

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Await for a lil while longer. I attempted to create a new partition on my hard drive and ended up erasing EVERYTHING. Well, I didn't, but Acronis Disk Director Suite did. But it did create a lovely partition. It was just totally empty...so was my C drive.
 
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