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Every once in a while someone unearths a list of out of date and obscure laws that would be laughable to actually prosecute.  Spitting on the sidewalk on sunday,  delivering mules without a permit,  running a stagecoach across county lines.   Usually  when they come to light, someone does a light news story on them and  interviews a  prosecuting attorney  who writes the whole thing off to quaint antiquated laws of a by gone era and we all share a hearty  little law on the prairie  chuckle together.

Well it turns out that Wisconsin has an old law on the books that makes it illegal to get married out of state.  The Wisconsin law was originally created in an attempt to prevent underage teens from getting married in other states.  Bat shit crazies like Wisconsin Family Council’s Julaine Appling think it should apply to same-sex couples who marry in California.  Were she able to find a prosecutor stupid enough to follow her lead, same-sex couples from Wisconsin who get married could face up to 9 months in jail and a $10,000 fine.

Julaine, let’s concentrate on your weight loss, your thinning hair and those broaches you have attached to your ears.  Leave the love birds alone.  (full story here and here)

Last week was the annual Click Boo 4th of July, holiday pool party, celebration. A glorious time was had by all. A few beers later, I decided to reenact the, “spur of the moment”, heroic bear rescue by Adam Warwick.

Oddly enough I first heard of this remarkable story right here on MoPod Show, originally posted by DanGina.

Though most of the bears I “saved” (Alex, Bob and Jeff) were self tranquilizing all day, none (as far as I know) were in any serious danger, of drowning but it was fun saving them anyhow. I chatted with Adam on the phone Sunday night and I’m hoping to have him on the show this week.

Thanx goes to ClickBoo for the GGT and Jeff for the awesome pics.

Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again, this time as Bruno not Borat. Bruno is the gay alter ego of Cohen and is expected to be the star of his next feature film. The place: Little Rock Arkansas. The setting: Mixed Martial Arts and $1 Beers . The town folk, probably 96% related to Peasha, become enraged when the fighters began to kiss and tear each others clothes off. I on the other hand, would love to see a few of my favorite mixed martial artists kiss and tear off my clothes. Meow! IE Forrest Griffin or Mike Bisping! 

“We had a contract for cage fightin’. We was deceived,” said a red neck on looker! 

Peasha was unavailable for comments regarding this catastrophe in his home state. 

Full Story.

For the first time in over 100 years, a small straw-filled doll which is said to be haunted, will leave Key West, Florida in order to travel to the Atlantic Paranormal Society Convention. We love stories of little creepy dolls - especially ones who trick people into taking them on the road. What could possibly go wrong?

Here’s some background:

The straw filled Robert the Doll belonged to Key West artist Robert Eugene Otto, received the doll as gift when he was a young boy in the late 1800s by a nurse who looked after him.

As the legend goes, the family would often hear Robert having a conversation with the doll – and the doll answering back in a voice distinctly different than Robert’s voice. Otto never went anywhere without the doll and blamed it for many strange events and mishaps around the house.

After his death, the doll frightened others who lived the home and was eventually relegated to an attic room. But that’s not where the story ends. Robert the Doll reportedly used to taunt children from the attic window as they walked past the house. Full story

I think it would be cute if they put him in a suite with Chucky from “Childsplay” and the jester doll from “Poltergeist”.

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There are days when I get up, get showered, get dressed and don’t have much of a memory of it.  Without my morning coffee, I’m a little scattered.  However, I think I would notice if there was an animal in my underwear.  Now, I don’t wear a bra and PRAY that I never will.  However, if I did…I think I would notice if there was a bat nesting in one of the cups.

I have been actively avoiding McDonalds for the past month or so.  Call it retribution for their crimes against my waistline.  I am, however calling a temporary truce following a call for a McDonalds boycott from the AFA (American Fuckwad Association)…what Peasha?…oh.. I guess it’s actually called the American Family Association, but I’m sticking to my name for them.

It seems that McDonalds has taken steps recently to support GLBT employees and organizations.  I think they may have also supported a BLT on their menu…but I can’t confirm that yet.  Mmmmm…bacon…lettuce…tomato.  Anyway, I digress.  Here’s a clip from the story

The American Family Association is taking on the nation’s largest fast food chain calling on its members to boycott McDonald’s over the company’s support for the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

It is the latest in a series of company boycotts initiated by the conservative Christian group that has, according to financial analysts, had little effect. Previous boycotts have involved Disney, Ford, Proctor and Gamble and Kraft Foods and a threatened boycott of Wal-Mart.

The AFA on its Web Site said that the boycott “is not about hiring homosexuals … It is not about homosexuals eating at McDonald’s …It is not about how homosexual employees are treated.”

Instead, the AFA said: “It is about McDonald’s, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars.  McDonald’s has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.

I’m going to McDonalds for lunch today, but I’ll limit myself to a salad.  will power….will power….will power

For most die hard Elvis fans, Graceland is THE place to visit for the ultimate Elvis experience.  However, it really isn’t the best place to visit if you believe Elvis isn’t dead at all.  If you believe that Elvis still walks (and shakes) among us, then make tracks to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to the “Elvis is Alive Museum”.  Not only will you get a new found sense of hope that “the king” may still be alive, but you’ll also get to hears some bat shit crazy theories about who is in his coffin and why he may have orchestrated the whole thing.

Museum owner Andy Key , 39, of Laurel, can recite a litany of facts disproving the myth that Elvis is dead - from the misspelling of his middle name on his tomb to the DNA mismatch between his postmortem autopsy and a biopsy taken years earlier.

It get a little fuzzier, when Key explains why the beloved rock ‘n’ roll icon would orchestrate such a stunt. One theory is that Presley, as an undercover agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, was forced to fake his own death for the sake of his work in a sting operation against the Mafia.

As for who or what is in Elvis’s casket, lovingly reproduced in a dimly-lit room with gospel music playing in the background, well - there are conflicting stories.

“Some people think it’s Colonel Parker’s stepson, who died in California, but there was no record of his funeral. Another that it was a guy who was terminal, who had plastic surgery to look like Elvis,” Key said.

Check out the full article here.

Have you ever felt the classist struggle that takes place as you walk through first class on the way to your seat on a plane? It seems like there is always one person who looks over their Financial Times and does elevator eyes at the paupers in front of them. I can just hear their inner dialogue saying, “please mummy, must we endure all these common folk traipsing through our aisle?” I usually try to make them feel better by waving my hands in contrition as I pass through first class while chanting “i’m sorry massa, i’ll hurry massa”. Whatever I can do to help bring people together, right? This morning I read a news story that has further solidified my perceptions about first class.

Authorities in Georgetown, Guyana say a first-class airline passenger was so angry at seeing economy passengers leave a jetliner before him that he yanked open an emergency hatch and slid down the chute.

A police spokesman said the man was identified as Satyanand Christopher appeared to be intoxicated after the Delta Airlines flight from New York. Local police arrested Christoper, who was quickly released on bail after the Friday incident. A Delta spokesman, Junior Horatio, said the U.S. carrier plans to file charges against the man for interfering with flight crew members.

Charlie Crist is the governor of Florida. He’s kind of old, kind of orange, and kind of gay. If those three attributes were his campaign platform, I think it could have gotten him elected there. When I think of Florida, I do think of old people, gay people and unbelievably orange skin (on people and fruit…and fruity people).

Charlie Crist has been dogged with gay rumors for many years. There were stories about him frequenting gay bars years ago before his political ascent. There’s also the fact that he’s been a bachelor for 30 years. Now, neither one of these pushes the gaydar all the way into rainbow territory. His face, however, speaks volumes. His orange and leathery exterior reminds me of an old football one might find on a beach of Fire Island with a smattering of high price skin treatments that give it that porcelain doll sheen.

Now some of you might say that having a gay governor is soooo 2004 and I would agree. However, because Crist is on the short list of potential running mates for John McCain, the story gets more interesting to me. I think it would be a huge step in the right direction for republicans to consider a gay running mate for McCain. And then the unthinkable happened, this new champion of the log cabin republicans got engaged?! To a woman?! Who does he think he is, Tab Hunter?! I guess we haven’t progressed quite as far as I thought.