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I wonder if it's the same person who wrote this headline.

UPDATE: Yes, it's a real shelter.

Raving Brands, the company brought us Moe's and a variety of other shitty restaurants, has purchased Flying Biscuit.

The following letter comes to me from Dave Lopez, a "behavior coach" for the residents of a youth shelter at the YMCA in Sarasota, Florida. I believe that he is responding to this column.

I particularly enjoy how I magically transform from "terrorist looking Mexican" to "commy" to "socialist" then to "suicide bomber" for "allah". It's the first time I've ever been accused of being a MexicanMuslimAtheistLeftistReactionaryTerrorist.

Once again you have created an article of no value what so ever. First I would like to know why the change in appearance? Were you getting to much heat for looking middle eastern? Are you going for the "terrorist looking mexican to cross the border" appeal? I hear thats the new thing. I am very surprised that you are able to publish such nonsense, and more surprised that you get paid to feed us garbage. Of all the articles from you that I have read, not one of them answered any questions for me. Maybe you should call the column something else so people aren't hoodwinked into your misleading information. I don't know what point you were trying to make about your comparisons from the "Has the war on terror made the world safer from terrorism?" article. Maybe you should just write for entertainment weekly or something. What about the real questions that your blind, leftist, liberal ass chooses to ignore. "How many new schools have been put up for the children of Iraq since Saddam was pulled out of his rat hole?" or "How many women and men of the FREE IRAQ are able to start their own business?" or "How come there was 6 terrorist attacks under Bill Clinton and only one under the current administration?" or "Why wasn't state sponsored terrorism, i.e. Saddam and Iraq, investigated after the First World Trade Center attack?" or simply "Why does the news media, whom have an inherited obligation to show the American people both sides of the story, ignore all the positive things going on in that war?" or, wait this is the best one yet, "Why does Creative Loafing/Weekly Planet insist on allowing you to cloud the vision of the readers and either lie or talk about irrelevant crap that you call writing." Your bias gibberish is nothing short of exposing the one-sided, liberal minded attitude of the Weekly Planet. I'm real sick of seeing you commy, socialist pigs get all the print and air waves. It's about time for a new look at things. I urge the Weekly Planet to find someone else to write this article, someone who will look at this War with a less bias approach. And don't think just because I'm writing this that it makes for good publicity, sure I read the Weekly Planet but I can't tell you anything past the "Don't Panic" section, I then through the publication away in discuss or use it for the bottom of my bird cage so the crap can build up on your article, it looks better, puts it in common company. Please send your resume to some complete entertainment publication and quit giving the people of this area more left-wing, bias crap, we get enough. You might as well star adding your praise be to allah in the article and sign up at the nearest suicide bomber recruitment center, I hear they are looking for young, idiots with no direction in life. Oh yea, one more thing, next time you write more crap, just think about the innocent victims and families affected by the atrocities of terrorist on September 11, 2001, instead of your own selfish ideas. Have a terrible day!

Dave Lopez
Artist/Graphic Designer
www.ringling.edu/~dlopez/portfolio

Jim McAuliffe of Lawrenceville thought he was being really clever when he came up with the idea of shipping bricks to Congress via UPS as a way of telling the bums in Washington that they should secure the border with Mexico.

Unfortunately for McAuliffe, it turns out that some of the people who haul mail around the Capitol are slightly more clevererer.

A Senate postmaster is refusing to deliver some of the bricks from his facility directly to congresspeople, claiming that they require $3.90 of U.S. postage (in addition to the UPS charge) to be delivered.

Said Mr. McAuliffe about his plot's foiling:

"It's ridiculous," he said. "They delivered all the other packages but now that the volume is so much higher, they're being ugly about it."

Let me reiterate -- the guy who came up with an idea expressly conceived to inconvenience and annoy people thinks that its "ugly" for those same people to evoke a legal reason not to waste their time or strain their backs on him.

Mr. McAuliffe, the people who deliver mail to the Congress already have enough to worry about without people like you bugging them. Drive the bricks to D.C. yourself.

"Conservatives are the people who pay the taxes. They're not the people who get the pork."

-Newt Gingrich, quoted in today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"The correlation between donor states and so-called blue states is fairly strong: 13 of the 19 states that Senator Kerry won in 2004 sent more to Washington in taxes than they got back in spending.
Meanwhile, most of the so-called red states profit from federal taxing and spending: 25 of the 31 states President Bush won. “They pay their taxes too,” said Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge, “but those payments are not as high because of the progressive income tax.”

-From a March 16, 2006 report published by the non-partisan Tax Foundation

Incidentally, the reporter who wrote the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story is named David Brown.

What is it about being named David Brown that makes people write nonsense?

The rape trial of a South African politician is not an inherently interesting news story to me or probably you, but the trial of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma (acquited today) is chock full of oddness.

Here are a few tidbits that many of today's news stories about the case omitted:

1. Zuma claimed that the woman did not cross her legs when she sat near him prior to the alleged rape. Zuma interpreted this as "encouragement".
2. Zuma says that he did not use a condom because he did not have one. He didn't go to get one, he claims, because Zulu tradition supposedly teaches that if you leave a woman while she is aroused, she might get angry and then accuse you of rape.
3. The victim is HIV positive.
4. Zuma knew her HIV-status before the alleged rape. Zuma says he showered after the incident, believing it would reduce his likelihood of contracting HIV.
5. As Deputy President, Zuma was in charge of South Africa's efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
6. South Africa has the highest number of HIV+ people in the world.

Ugh.

Scott Walker has a new album. It's stunning.

If you don't know who Scott Walker is, I'm very sorry.

From today's Salon.com interview with Peter Singer, author of "The Way We Eat":

In fact, there's a University of Chicago study that shows that if you switch from driving an American car to driving a Prius, you'll cut your carbon-dioxide emissions by one ton per year. But if you switch from a typical U.S. diet, about 28 percent of which comes from animal sources, to a vegan diet with the same number of calories, you'll cut your carbon-dioxide emissions by nearly 1.5 tons per year.

The following is a real, honest-to-goodness, not-made-up press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bob Griggs, 770-713-8070

CINCO DE MAYO BOYCOTT RALLY PLANNED FOR GWINNETT

The ”Say ‘Yes’ to America” Rally for Gwinnett County, GA has been scheduled for this evening, May 5. The event will kick off at 6 pm near the “On the Border Mexican Grill and Cantina," 2275 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth.

The rally and a boycott of Mexican-themed businesses was inspired by the American public’s reaction to the recent pro-illegals marches and the "No Gringo on May 1" protests earlier this week, as well as a call by Gwinnett County residents for a show of solidarity and patriotism on May 5, “Cinco de Mayo.”

The protests also inspired an article by local Internet publisher and community activist Bob Griggs titled "No 'Mexican' On Cinco de Mayo." The article touched a national nerve after it was read on-air by WSB Radio personality Neal Boortz on his nationally-syndicated talk show. Bob has also appeared on the Fox News Channel's "Fox News Sunday" and several local radio stations to talk about the backlash against the pro-illegals demonstrations.

The rally will convene under the American flag in the parking lot adjacent to the restaurant. State Representative Melvin Everson (R-Snellville), who was instrumental in the passage of Georgia's "Security and Immigration Compliance Act" (SB-529), is confirmed to speak. Rep. Everson made history last year when he became the first black Republican since Reconstruction to be elected to the State Legislature in a contest race.

"The boycott is not intended to target any particular business," said Griggs, "but it is appropriate that the rally will occur next to an 'On the Border' restaurant."

According to Griggs, the restaurant's parent company, Texas-based Brinker International, is a supporter of the National Council of La Raza (www.nclr.org ). The NCLR opposes legislation to close the southern border; opposes requiring proof of residency for a driver's license; supports granting full citizenship to all Hispanics currently in the country illegally; opposes the prosecution of illegals for using forged documents including Social Security cards; and favors extending government grants, loans and in-state tuition rates to illegals currently in our high schools.

Several hundred local residents have stated their intent to attend via email to rally@bobgriggs.com


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Bob's web site: http://www.bobgriggs.com

“No ‘Mexican’ On Cinco de Mayo”: http://www.bloggwinnett.com/wpblog/bobg/?p=32

Directions (Mapquest): http://tinyurl.com/o6l7g

Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act: http://www.aboutgwinnett.net/news/comments/index.php?news_id=158

For you skimmers out there:

A group of "patriots" is gathering outside the On the Border in Duluth tonight to protest and promote a boycott of Cinco De Mayo and "Mexican-themed" businesses.

Gettit? "On The Border." That's really clever.

If you miss today's protest, fear not. On November 2, I hear that these guys will be marking Dia De Los Muertos with a rally outside of the Borders book store in Buckhead.



Idiots.

At 1:15 P.M. today I'm going to be a guest on Mike Gault's talk radio program, Walking A Thin Line, which originates from TanTalk 1340 in Clearwater, Florida.

The program can be heard live via the internetz by clicking here.

I've been invited on-air to discuss the Iran nuclear crisis. Not coincidentally, the Iran nuclear crisis is the subject of my Don't Panic column this week.

Update: An audio recording of my guest spot on Walking A Thin Line is now on my Web server.

Download my guest spot on Walking A Thin Line 04May2006

Today and tomorrow, I'm like, all, multimedia and stuff.

Today at 11:00A.M. I'll be on Atlanta & Company (WXIA-TV, Channel 6 on your cable if you're in Atlanta) to discuss what's going on around town and to generally make a fool of myself.

Tomorrow at around 1:oo P.M., I'm going on the Mike Gault radio show in Clearwater, Florida to discuss the Iran nuclear crisis. I don't know the station's ID yet, but I'll post it when I do.