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A Florida lawmaker has filed a bill that would repeal a state law prohibiting dwarf tossing in bars. Rep. Ritch Workman of Melbourne filed House Bill 4063 on Monday. "To me it's an archaic kind of Big Brother law that says, 'We don't like that activity,'" Workman told the Florida Current. "Well, there is nothing immoral or illegal about that activity. All we really did by passing that law was take away some employment from some little people." The cringe-inducing activity was outlawed in 1989, when national controversy over dwarf tossing prompted the Legislature to ban it in bars for...

I often hear well-meaning people say, “Political correctness has gone mad.” I beg to differ. Political correctness is mad, period. Past, present, or future, it’s absolutely bonkers mad. Take child sexual abuse now defined as “intergenerational sex” or “complex” when the alleged perpetuator belongs to a media-endorsed tribe. Even the “dwarf card” is used by the abuse minimization crowd. Some history, from the Irish Times first though (“Man admits 26 sex abuse charges,” 03/16/2005): A Donegal man, who is a dwarf, has been given four years in jail having pleaded guilty to 26 charges of indecent assault and attempted sexual...

White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars like our Sun. Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. Today, these white dwarfs are so near they make a complete orbit in just 13 minutes, but they are gradually slipping closer together. About 900,000 years from now - a blink of an eye in astronomical time - they will merge and possibly explode as a supernova. By watching the stars converge, scientists will test both Einstein's theory of general relativity and the origin of some peculiar supernovae.The two white dwarfs are circling...

Image of the Day: Galaxies Beyond Comprehension (and Seven-Trillion Dwarfs!)   ESA’s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and open a new window on the birth of stars in the early Universe. Astronomers estimate that their are billions and billions of galaxies in the observable universe (as well as some seven trillion dwarf galaxies) . Here's the breakout of the visible universe within 14 billion light years: Superclusters in the visible universe =...

Didn't see one up, but Matthews has been giving me too many straight lines to pass up on!!!

Watching the Democratic presidential debate this week on CNN, I was reminded of the famous line spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" when he approached the Mos Eisley Spaceport with young Luke Skywalker and two droids. "You won't ever find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy," he said. There they were: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson – clueless, shameless, principle-less, truthless. The contest within this hive of scum and villainy is of modest interest to Americans only because the current occupant of the White...

Philippines jurist was noted for consulting 3 imaginary dwarfs about cases... A Philippine judge who claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked for his job back after being sacked by the country’s Supreme Court. “They should not have dismissed me for what I believed,” ... He told investigators that three mystic dwarfs -- Armand, Luis and Angel -- helped him carry out healing sessions during breaks in his chambers.

IN TODAY'S SUN What a bunch of Dopeys Short shrift ... drama group's Snow White - and her seven 'gnomes' By ANTHONY FRANCE PANTOS of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs are being censored — to outlaw the word DWARF. A shocked village drama group sent off for a script and found Dopey and his pals — played by kids — had to be called “gnomes” instead. Ray Lionet, 73, of the Coxheath Players in Kent, said the ban was to avoid offending short people. He said: “It’s madness.”

PASADENA, Calif. - A NASA telescope has detected for the first time the building blocks of planets around brown dwarfs, suggesting that such failed stars probably undergo the same planet-building process. Until now, the microscopic crystal building blocks that eventually collide to form planets have only been seen around stars and comets - considered the remnants of the solar system. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently spotted the tiny crystals and dust grains circling five brown dwarfs located 520 light years away in the Chamaeleon constellation. The crystals, composed of a green mineral commonly found on Earth known as olivine, are...

VALLE DE SANTIAGO, Mexico (Reuters) - The rousing trumpet music, the swish of the cape and the shouts of "Ole!" as the bull charges are all familiar to anyone who has seen a bullfight. The unnerving thing in the bullring at this dusty central Mexican town is that bull and bullfighter are standing eye to eye, both about four feet high. The Mexican "dwarf bullfighters" are carrying on a tradition born in Spain along with regular bullfighting, as well as an even longer legacy of "little people" as entertainers. But they say the ring showcases their skill and comic artistry,...

VALLE DE SANTIAGO, Mexico (Reuters) - The rousing trumpet music, the swish of the cape and the shouts of "Ole!" as the bull charges are all familiar to anyone who has seen a bullfight. The unnerving thing in the bullring at this dusty central Mexican town is that bull and bullfighter are standing eye to eye, both about four feet high. The Mexican "dwarf bullfighters" are carrying on a tradition born in Spain along with regular bullfighting, as well as an even longer legacy of "little people" as entertainers. But they say the ring showcases their skill and comic artistry,...

Think you've seen it all with reality shows? Wait until Fox's "The Littlest Groom." It's a reality show that's more than just a little, well, strange. The wacky short-run series will have 12 female little people contestants competing for the affections of a 4-foot-5 bachelor. But in the second episode, things take an "Average Joe"-like turn when women of normal stature show up to compete with the vertically challenged contestants. In short, this show gives new meaning to the term "miniseries." "The Littlest Groom," which airs Feb. 16 and 23 at 8 p.m., is another sign of how reality has...

Iowa – Democrats locked in a tight presidential battle are going negative as decision day fast approaches in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Dick Gephardt suggesting that Howard Dean is a fake and Dean accusing Wesley Clark of being a closet Republican. Polls show the races in Iowa and New Hampshire tightening significantly. With his lead shrinking, Dean is striking out at his opponents and reminding voters of his stand against the Iraq war. 70% of Americans Disagree With Me, Dean Brags "I got my start in this race by standing up to George Bush when he supported a war...

C-SPAN Schedule Debate Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate Des Moines Register Democratic Party, Iowa Des Moines, Iowa (United States) ID: 179762 - 01/04/2004 - 0:00 - NS Gephardt, Richard A., U.S. Representative, D, Missouri Kerry, John F., U.S. Senator, D-MA Kucinich, Dennis, U.S. Representative, D-OH Edwards, John, U.S. Senator, D-NC Dean, Howard, Presidential Candidate, D, Democratic Party Moseley Braun, Carol, Presidential Candidate, D, Democratic Party

the clintons' scheme to take over the world in 4 easy steps (NB: dwarfs) by Mia T, 12.17.03     hillary talks: L'Etat, c'est moi!(Iowa parsed) (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com Privately encourage/sponsor most -- (I don't think Kucinich, Graham and Sharpton were on the clinton short list) -- of the dwarfs. (Group dynamics, if not political reflex, will ensure a mutual kill.) Insert clinton "infrastructure" people in dwarf staffs (strictly as loaners) to ensure (a) that the dwarfs stick to clinton playbook and, equally important, (b) that no dwarf...

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Last August, Robert Kuttner, a paleoliberal columnist for the Boston Globe, wrote a piece declaring his political love for then-undeclared presidential candidate Wesley Clark. Saying the retired general’s entry would "transform" the Democratic race for the 2004 nomination, Kuttner admitted he was "star-struck," not least because Clark’s associates said he’d repeal Bush’s tax cuts and "revisit the so-called Patriot Act." He continued, while making absurd comparisons to Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Clark is the soldier as citizen. Even better, he’s the soldier as tough liberal. Just imagine Clark, with his distinguished military record, up against our draft dodger president [Kuttner, by...

<p>Barbara Bush, the phrasemaker of the family, could have a great future as a pundit. Nobody has sized up this crop of Democratic presidential candidates quite as astutely as she has: "They're a pretty sorry group."</p> <p>No one who watched the Sunday-night Democratic "debate" from Detroit could argue with this assessment from the wife of one president and the mother of another, who once famously described Geraldine Ferraro as "something that rhymes with rich."</p>

Debate begins at 8 P.M. EST on FOX NEWS CHANNEL!!!!!

3 Democrats Take Novel Approach in Early Races By Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 23, 2003; Page A01 Retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) and Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) have staked their presidential candidacies on an unusual second-chance strategy, betting their futures against the record of history and the dynamics that have governed nomination contests for more than two decades. The decision by the three Democrats to say they will look for their first victories on Feb. 3 -- two weeks after the Iowa caucuses and a week after...

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GENEVA (Reuters) - A tiny stuntman who protested against a French ban on the bizarre practice of "dwarf throwing" lost his case before a U.N. human rights body, which said the need to protect human dignity was paramount. Manuel Wackenheim had argued the 1995 ban by France's highest administrative court was discriminatory and deprived him of a job being hurled around discotheques by burly men. In a statement Friday the U.N. Human Rights Committee said it was satisfied "the ban on dwarf-tossing was not abusive but necessary in order to protect public order, including considerations of human dignity." The committee...

DA$CHLE WON'T RELEASE TAX RETURNAt a May 14 press briefing, Daschle told a reporter it would be "a very serious ethical violation" if the Republican Party used a White House photographer or governement property in offering contributors a photo of President Bush taken on September 11. Immediately after Daschle gave this answer, Human Events Assistant Editor David Freddoso asked him if it was a conflict of interest for his wife to lobby for major government contractors and whether he would release the joint tax return he and his wife file detailing the income she receives from that lobbying. Below...