The folks at collegemansion.com have undertaken the thankless and difficult task of finding enough hot girls from Philadelphia to fill a deck of cards. The Philadelphia 52 will grace a deck of cards, which the site plans to manufacture and distribute at “the hottest bars, restaurants, and retail stores in the area!”
Rendell: Napolitano Is Perfect For DHS Because She Has No Family Or Life
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was caught by an open mic implying that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s main qualification as Secretary of Homeland Security is that she’s got “no family” and, therefore, “19-20 hours a day” to devote to the position.
Woman Has Underpants Stolen From Laundry Repeatedly
A woman, identity apparently witheld by the Courier Times because she’s walking around without panties, and her fiancé report that the woman’s underpants have been repeatedly stolen from her apartment complex’s laundry room during various stages of the wash and dry cycle.
Penn State Mascot Arrested For DUI
According to police and Penn State University officials, the senior who runs around in the Nittany Lion costume was arrested for driving under the influence on November 22. As a result, James Sheep may not get to run around dressed as a big cat at the Rose Bowl.
Merry Christmas: Parole For PA Violent Offenders Is Back
After a finding that the state’s parole procedures are “safe and effective,” Governor Rendell lifted the moratorium on paroling violent offenders yesterday.
Florida Teen Arrested For Farting In School
A 13-year old student at Stuart, Florida’s Spectrum Junior-Senior High School was placed under arrest for “purposely” farting in class and for turning off the computers of other students, but I like it better the way TCPalm.com reported it.
Smells Like Team Spirit: Penn State Gets Fragrances
Harrisburg-based Masik Collegiate Fragrances is releasing a perfume and a cologne based on the “school colors, campus flowers, trees” and other features of Penn State University.
The company said the Penn State perfume exudes vanilla, lilac, rose and white patchouli, while the cologne smells of blue cypress and cracked pepper vapor. The 3.4-ounce bottles cost $60.
Seems excessive when you can douse yourself in 12 oz of beer for a buck or two.
Surprise! Obama Not Black.
I’m not sure how this one slipped past us all, but despite all indications (including those coming from the man himself) the Washington Post has discovered that Barack Obama is not black.
We call him that — he calls himself that — because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule: Part-black is all black. Fifty percent equals a hundred. There’s no in-between.
That was my reaction when I read these words on the front page of this newspaper the day after the election: “Obama Makes History: U.S. Decisively Elects First Black President.”
Luckily, we later learn that he’s not black because he’s just so damn much more! What a relief.
To me, as to increasing numbers of mixed-race people, Barack Obama is not our first black president. He is our first biracial, bicultural president. He is more than the personification of African American achievement. He is a bridge between races, a living symbol of tolerance, a signal that strict racial categories must go.
Next they’ll be telling us he wasn’t born in Hawaii.
PA Ammunition Tax And Serial Number Bill Dies In Committee
The opportunity for the Pennsylvania legislature to pass a bill that would impose a 5-cent tax on each ammunition shell and require each to be encoded with a serial number will expire in the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday. It could, however, be reintroduced as early as next January.
The requirements would cause the cost of ammunition to skyrocket, becoming unaffordable to most. Similar legislation has been introduced in 18 other states and DC, but none has yet become law.
“Gun-control advocates have realized that it would be nearly impossible to achieve an outright ban on firearms, whether at the state or federal level,” said [National Sports Shooting Foundation spokesman Ted] Novin. “Understanding this, they have recently turned to backdoor attempts at firearm prohibition — bullet serialization, which is a de facto ban on ammunition, is a perfect example of this legislative strategy.”
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The production costs would make ammunition unaffordable to most people, Novin contended.
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Nationally, such bills generally cover all ammunition, Novin said. But, he noted: “There are absolutely no studies to suggest it would work.”
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Under [the] bill, older ammunition would have to be disposed of by Jan. 1, 2010.
Grant Out, Scarborough In At WABC
Various sources are reporting a mini-shakeup in the works at New York’s right talk radio station WABC.
A deal to begin a local radio show with an eye toward national syndication for MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has been talked about all day.
