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Today's post is brought to you by people who trample their friends and neighbors to death in search of flat screen TVs. That's the kind of determination and focus that this country was founded upon ... refusal to yeild to measly obsticles like human decency, the half dead bodies of weaker shoppers and empathy again won the day last friday!
So the apellate court of Florida ruled this week that the state legislature does not have the right to ignore a request of the Sons of the Confederacy to have a conferate flag vanity plate here in the great state of Florida. The law apparently says that if you have $20,000 and 30,000 signatures you can have any lisence plate that you want. So that's why there are 500 choices at the tag office down here. I don't know where to start with this one. There are 30,000 racist morons in Florida? I for one am shocked! The Florida lesislature has a law on the books that is poorly thought out and allows for people to drown minorities in our history of brutality, murder, rape and enslavement? C'mon ... i can't believe it! I mean honestly, it's really not enough that i drive by a confederate flag the size of a football field everyday at the intersection of the two busiest interstates in Tampa, i would like to also see it with a state sanctioned registration sticker on it.

And in the land of the sympathy strike (France), a place where every working person goes on strike if plumbers want a raise and even emergency room doctors are in a labor union, the workers at the Louvre have decided to strike in protest of potential layoffs. I mean why should you lay off museum workers just because no one is going to the museum and in coming revenue has become as scarce as cheese without mold on it . I know, they could sell the Mona Lisa to China and use the money to pay for the extra  ticket takers and guys who wear red jackets while standing around in a very official manner. That or they could have special exhibits that French people would love like paintings of people running away, or a whole room full of white flags. Or there's always the participatory exhibit where regular French people could blow filterless cigarette smoke in the faces of American tourist families. That one i bet they could charge at least 100 euros just for, lines around the block.. Problem solved.

This one hits pretty close to home on a bunch of fronts, and i know what you're thinking, but i was never abused by a nun. In Ireland the "Sisters of Mercy" order of catholic nuns have agreed to pay $193 million dollars in damages as part of a settlement for 14,000 victims of "systematic and chronic" child abuse by 18 different catholic orders who had children in their care. $90 million will be paid in cash and the rest in property holdings. That's right the Sisters of Mercy have $193 MILLION in assets that they can spare ... nuns ... nuns in a country that until very recently plagued by poverty and unemployment. Aparenty the abuse of the children included beating them up and taking their lunch money ... everyday for the past 800 years.

And i suppose i have to weigh in on the Tiger Woods thing ... i mean, everyone else is. So i don't really care about his relationship with his wife, he's right, it is private. It's completly up to her if she wants to forgive him or not (double the pre-nup) but have you seen the tramps he was running around with? Two words for you Tiger, Penicillin Bath ... rince and repeat buddy, rince and repeat.