Midnight news?

Al Sharpton owes the USA half a million in unpaid taxes. Apparently it is illegal to deduct expenses for hair care products

German brothel offers free entry to anyone who gets its logo tattooed on his arm. Gives a whole new meaning to 'tramp stamps'

Whoever has been cutting off horse tails in northwest Iowa, please knock it off

German troops in Afghanistan drunk more than 1.8m pints last year… wait… why do they get to have beer over there?

Euphoric Obama fans may be sparking a baby boom. That’s change we can pay with our taxes to DHS for about 18 years per head

quick election notes

Even though this is in the middle of my "work week"(I work 12 hours a day, three days on, three off), I want to mention any notes I had forgotten to mention earlier, like voting patterns in NEA.

-First district's counties votes finally went red. Counties that didn't even go red in 2004 went for mccain this election.Counties that did go for Obama.

-The ban proposal on unmarried couples fostering or adopting (Proposed Initiative no. 1 passed surprisingly enough. Reaction to it had been mixed in the state Republican party toward supporting it. As far as in this area, there's no real pattern between the Delta counties and non-delta, as opposed to the Amendment 3 issue 4 years ago (and even then, that was debatable). My only guess is maybe the various county counts of while liberals, but alas, arelections.org sets out votes by issue or geography, not by number of Episcopalians.

-Obama won by more points in California than Kerry in '04, and the gay marriage ban there(Proposition 8) was supposed to be down by at least 5 points according to final polls, so how did it pass? People forgot San Fransisco and Oakland are pretty damn different. African-Americans voted in favor of the ban by 70 percent (which may very well be more than AR African-Americans did for Amendment 3 in '04 even) . Ironically enough, it may very well had been because of Obama's campaign that it was able to pass in such a liberal state as California.

Yes, that thought numbs the mind, but I'd like to remind my fellow non-AR friends I come from a state that elected George Wallace, William Fulbright, and Winthrop Rockefeller at the same time 40 years ago. These things are possible. These things happen.

WTF News

Nanny State bans coast guard from using flares on search-and-rescue missions because they're "too dangerous"

You know what's worse than an IED in Iraq? Seeing them in Texas.

Man parks load of manure in front of Dem HQ, proclaiming Dem's message "a load of crap"

Man begs for release of woman who tried to have him and his kids killed, calling her "one of the nicest people you could ever know."

Bar holding Obama rally offered free drinks for every state won. Can you guess how this ended?

Denver Police, apparently unhappy with lack of violent protests at DNC, staged one themselves using undercover cops. I'm sure there would be more outrage except that one of the other cops got confused and decided to pepper-spay his own guys.

YAY FOR CHANGE!

I live near the corner of Mathews and Gee St in Jonesboro, so naturally there's celebratory 9mm gunfire, which is better than dive-by gunfire I guess.

In the News

Miami has a murder-free month... the first in over 40 years.

PETA offers Ringling Bros. an animatronic elephant to replace its real ones.

A video of the top secret Cold War-era bunker where your leaders would ride out the apocalypse while you burned to a fiery ash.

Woman with 38 previous convictions, nine social security numbers and several aliases faces life sentence... for shoplifting

Forget Joe the Plumber: Joe the Lead Guitarist for Aerosmith endorses McCain

New news?

Still have this baby in Development Hell... I'm talking to two new folks as we speak. In the meanwhile...

Mary-Kate turns into Skeletor

As I've said a million times before myself, Arkansas News confirms that McCain will make Obama his bitch in Arkansas.

If you own a Chinese restaurant, it's never a good idea to let the health inspector find employees butchering a deer in the kitchen. Sorry, no pics.

"Hey pass me that cutting torch near the bucket of fuel, I need to remove the rusty bolts on the car's gas tank"

I'm having trouble with the current news links I have...

... so here's another reason why parents should lock up their children.