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FBI El Paso Corruption Case: Link Chart Updated

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

The latest version of the link chart for the alleged corruption case is now here. I’ve added unindicted co-conspirators (unnamed) and have noted the recent, startling hiring of former Border Observer Supremo Jaime “FBI is the local Gestapo” Perez as Cobos’ Chief of Staff. More on Perez later, no doubt, beginning with how such a shining example of independent thought and concern for the masses got bought out for a government salary, like any plebian who gets co-opted in the finest Mexican way across the border. I don’t think this was a case of “silver or lead” but Perez showed some kind of spots with this job. Unrelated to his hiring, mortgage and tax rates are indeed rising all along the Borderland. And, food is surprisingly expensive, at least in the chain grocery stores. Gas? Don’t get me started. What I’m saying is, a dollar bill and a rebellious, divisive attitude don’t go as far as they used to. When the going gets tough, sometimes, the supporters of rebels would rather buy milk, tortillas and gasoline than support causes that, in the end, don’t really benefit them in any other way than assuaging their put-upon sense of guilt.

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28 July 2007: Your Weekend RSS Update

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

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FBI EL PASO CORRUPTION CASE:
In 2006, real estate speculators descended on El Paso after BRAC results were announced. The housing market boomed. This year, the lawyer market is exploding.

Lawyer Mary Stillinger ain’t gonna represent Ysleta School Board Trustee Milton “Mickey” Duntley, El Paso School Board Trustee Charles Roark, and former NCED Chief Operating Officer Ernie Lopez. So said Hizzoner, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Montalvo.

MISCELLANY:
The El Paso Empowerment Zone (not our beloved Adventure Zone, where 4 Borders Pundit can be found anytime he is in El Paso avoiding his day job), is in trouble with HUD over its spending. Newspaper Tree has the details. Goodness: liquor purchases, charges without documentation and apparently unauthorized trips with teenagers. But let’s see: booze, fraud and teens running around without parental supervision: sounds like a typical American urban environment to me, so maybe HUD is off-base on this.

Wannabe DA Theresa Caballero opines on corruption in El Paso and holds a special place in her pen for DA Jaime Esparza. Esparza probably needs to reassess whether he’s been asleep at the wheel while corruption broke all around this wannabe fair city, and Caballero’s published friends-and-foes list, helpfully laid out in her blog, probably deserves a link chart.

Mudville Gazette is all over the Scott Thomas Beauchamp story. If you haven’t heard yet, Beauchamp runs a blog called Sir Real Scott Thomas, in which he portrayed soldiers, including himself, being assholes, UCMJ violators and possibly criminals, in Iraq. He may have written his brutal stories while in Germany, or while in the Middle East. Truth will tell soon enough, but fact is, Beauchamp writes like a wannabe Hunter S. Thompson, but without the Southern gentility (Thompson was courteous about women), or a certain gonzo tactfulness: HST never made fun of a disfigured woman. And there’s the difference. Thompson, who served in the Air Force, got in trouble with his chain of command for writing up local wrestling matches as if the fighting, blood, rivalries and injuries were real, while Beauchamp goes gonzo by mixing American Psycho, Private Pyle and Catch-22, all randomly, like a drunk with the munchies and a working ATM card. If what Beauchamp writes about his daily “landscaping” duties is real, then what better GI’s know as “weeds-and-seeds” or “pavements and grounds” detail is probably what he deserves. That’s where screwups go in the military.

Sorry, El Paso Times. Your story on disabled El Pasoans suing Chico’s Tacos is mis-headlined. It’s the Paso Del Norte Civil Rights Project doin’ the suin’, not the disabled themselves. Me, I’d sooner sue Chico’s for putting too much cheese on those flautas. And I wonder why PDNCRP wants to damn with faint praise this overrated chain by calling it a “quintessential El Paso tradition.” I mean, does this advocacy group hate Chico’s, or El Paso in general? Quintesseintially, I think the Project just hates, period.

Living in the Borderland as we do, it’s likely none of us have ever thought much about immigration. Except those who constantly complain that El Paso, Laredo, Deming, Las Cruces, and various — ahem — lesser metropolises in between don’t meet our sophisticated, well-bred needs. Fortunately, the International Association of Chiefs of Police have thought about migration, and put out a handy guide on the topic, which you can read in the comfort of your migrant-infested home here.

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21 July 2007: Your Weekend RSS Update

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Delayed a day due to reading an important book recently released…

FBI EL PASO CORRUPTION CASE:
The El Paso Times subtly describes El Paso judge Cobos’ new Chief of Staff in the headline. Way to gobos, Cobos.

Honestly, is there any other city in America where a social and political gadfly — who loses more than he wins — succeeds in landing a six-figure job in a burg after calling the FBI the “Gestapo” and where the median income is $22,600? What was Cobos thinking? That the oh-so-politically-savvy Perez is astute enough to delink Cobos from the ongoing investigation? Led by, you know, “the Gestapo” that Perez so clearly despises?

Five’ll get you ten that both take a fall. Odds are even on who is the bigger masochist.

Newspaper Tree has a few thoughts on Perez here and here. Stay tuned to Newspaper Tree for an interesting examination of WikiPedia entries on Cobos and others. And alterations. And more entries. Local talk board The Strelz started the conversation.

El Paso Times has writers’ blogs. Bet you didn’t know that. You may not have even wanted to know that. There’s a fella called Charlie who publishes Charlie’s Angles. Geddit? He weights in on Perez’ hiring here.

Now, onto good El Paso news. I’m sorry, did I write “good news?” My bad: Ysleta Independent School District Trustee Milton “Mickey” Duntley apparently got his son hired by NCED as a political favor. Political favor? Well, yeah, but only because one of the intercepted emails said that. And then not fired. And then, this was allegeldy in exchange for a vote on a multi-million dollar contract. If true, they go cheap in El Paso.

The link chart for all this is: here.

STINKING UP THE BORDER:
With all the silly politicking going on around here, you’d think enough sewage had been spilled in the desert. Apparently not.

The case of USBP agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos continues to generate news and look-sees by people who ought to be look-seeing. This case has stunk from the beginning, though it’s not a stink like Duke University or sludge in Sierra Blanca. It’s a federal, US Attorney kind of stink. At the end of the day, I think we’ll all be wondering whether Bush fired the right US Attorneys, didn’t fire enough US Attorneys, or whether Jaime Perez could have prevented anything if he was other than a social and political gadfly.

If the political stink in the Chihuahuan Desert is too much, I think this might be the cure. Desert rats may do well to buy vinegar futures in the next 180.

Hey, if it dissolves corns, it might dissolve the corny antics of these local border pols. Because when local politicians go so cheap, politicians will go to the hoosegow easy, thanks to the efforts of our federal law enforcement agencies who aren’t so easily corrupted.

THE POLITICAL DANCE:
Mexico’s Ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan slags off some old Fox administration gems: the border maps and migration handbooks passed out to border crossers. First I’ve seen of a Mexican official admitting to the country’s contradiction in how it treats its citizens desiring to go north, and how it treats Central Americans desiring to go north.

I get the feeling that Congressman Reyes likes earmarks and perks from military support, but is just plain scared of foreign policy. Here, he toes the Pelosi line on al Qaeda. Best laugh-out-loud line: “There is no room for partisan politics in the realm of national security.”

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Congressman Reyes: Stupid Is as Stupid Does

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

What? Silvestre Reyes takes a stand? Well, the year is over half over. Reyes, a consummate slimy politician well-practiced in the art of graft and handouts, wants President Bush to commute the sentences of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. They were convicted of unlawfully chasing a Mary Jane smuggler and shooting his punk-ass in the ass and then hiding evidence. The U.S. got 750 pounds of dope out of the deal and they got the shaft.

Sounds good, eh? A former Border Patrol agent and sympatico to the genuine hardships they endure — rockings, gunfire, assaults — standing up for one of his own.

Not so fast, amigo.

First of all, it’s a far cry from his August 22, 2006 position, saying, “A jury found them guilty. I will refer to (U.S. Attorney) Johnny Sutton.”

Reyes must have been dismayed when Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and John Cornyn, R-Texas asked President Bush to commute the agents’ sentences. Nothing sucks like being late out of the starting gate, especially when you get owned in a bilateral way by outsiders mucking up your home turf.

Or perhaps Reyes was motivated by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s lame attempt to play both sides of the aisle, that of USBP friend and US Attorney “escort.”

Or perhaps Reyes has had an attack of conscience since his daughter got implicated in that scandal back in 2005.

Some politicians will chew up anything and everything to rise as high as they can. You can’t blame anyone for trying to rise above their humble roots along the Rio Grande, but you can blame them for trying to forget them.

In between his pining over/forgetting his past and his longing for his so-called future, Reyes was junketing his way through the Western Hemisphere like a conquistador high on wine. Humorously, his web site notes how quickly he departed spaces, as if to reassure the public that its money was well-spent.

Too little, too late, for this small-time hood to resurrect anything resembling a reputation that bodes well for his political future. He’s become as stupid as his Democratic peers.

UPDATE: Nervous US Attorney Johnny Sutton sucks spit and defends himself.

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Senator Reid’s Mandatory House Party Fizzles

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

In the Old West, a “slumber party” meant nobody woke up. For example, “Mean Rogelius Thrompstorm dry-gulched those Triple-Three cowboys and gave them a slumber party they’ll never forget.” These days, the phrase is innocuous. Senator Harry Reid’s the latest to try it. The skinny Nevadan decided he’d let Republicans know who’s in charge and who ought not get uppity with respect to his marching orders from Ãœberkommandant Nancy Pelosi to get the troops out of Iraq, whether that helps the country or not.

Darleen’s Place comments on the latest Democratic Debacle.

Reid tried to treat Republican senators like the hired help. But true to form, if a Democrat can screw the pooch, he will. And he did. Far from joining the Dems’ pre-planned all-night food fight, Reid made a brief appearance and then high-tailed it to his Secret Senatorial Lair to sleep the sleep of the guilty all night while lesser Democrats manned the rails. Of course, Reid said he was behind them. As far behind as he could run. It took intellectually-challenged Barbara Boxer to calm Skinny Harry down on his scheduled 0300 roll call.

Well, with numbers like these, I guess Reid, Boxer and Pelosi et al have to do something to get the ratings up, just like TV shows. How about if a Senator goes into a coma, like on soap operas, or there’s a cliffhanger ending to the current Congressional session, like on a hit TV show? How about Survivor: Congressional Slumber Party, or Lost: The Senate Season?

The whole thing was silly and stupid and doomed to fail. It’s as if Democrats think that because they got the majority they so craved, all gates are open for their agenda. That’s naive, especially for the scores of decades their elected Senators have spent there (largely protecting their salaries), who should understand some basics behind the numbers, 51, 60 and 66. Instead, the Dems got their behinds spanked in the Chamber of Public Opinion.

It’s earmarks like this that frame the Democrat Senators’ pathetic all-night plan, and makes you wonder why on earth any of them have public jobs.

(Not that Republicans deserve a free pass on spending. Not with this clownish elephant copping an attitude over his precious earmark.)

The Democrats are played out. They ought to throw up the sponge and try to get along with Americans and their opinions, before they tossed with the bathwater in 2008: for exceptional stupidity, lack of political gamesmanship, and a tactical approach when strategy is called for.

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Congressman John Murtha: Ex-Marine

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Last year, Nancy Pelosi’s Congresspal John Murtha went all Semper Infidelis on the Marine Corps by calling Marines involved in an action in Haditha, Iraq, murderers.

With commentary, Let Freedom ring notes the latest, reported here by the Washington Post. Whoops.

NPR (!) published a timeline on the events through May 30, 2007. I doubt the May 30th entry about Lt. Col. Chessani will result in anything, since he did report to his superiors. Add the recommendation of no charges against the Marines and you’re almost up to date. There’s still the pending defamation lawsuit(s?) against Murtha by one of the Marines involved.

One wonders how long Murtha has defamed the principles under which public servants have operated: Marines, other servicemembers, honest Congresspersons, faithful staff in his Congress-office. Who else has he abused? What other principles has he stomped? That’s a tome for the times.

So, anyway, it’s looking like the murder rap is Stuff-and-Nonsense from a senior Congressional S&N aficionado.

That’s probably why Murtha and his paid-off staff of Haditha Kool-Aid drinkers either obfuscate when they take voters’ calls, or simply don’t pick up the phone (it was Friday afternoon in DC, after all).

To imagine that this vainglorious and excessively stupid man — the very symbol of hubris, earmarks and ego that turns people off to Congress faster than a tax hike on Christmas Day — thought he was best-suited to comment on Haditha (have any other senior Democrats spoken up?), with assertions that presume some modicum of intelligence and right-thinking, is to see the face of Pennsylvania’s lowest Leftist intellectual dreaming class personified. Murtha thought that because he served, he automatically observed all that is right and wrong with everything Marine, everything Iraq and everything Haditha. It’s gutsy, but not Chesty Puller gutsy. It’s more Michael Moore meets Barbara Boxer meets a Star Wars villain gutsy. Throw a few select data points out, speculate on possibilities with the basest comprehension of the English language and then attempt to torch anyone who disagrees.

Murtha has a political tool-bag, I guess, but it’s as old as Louisiana corruption and as easily dismissed as an American Idol first-rounder. He just doesn’t know it yet.

I doubt Murtha has had an original thought in three decades.

Murtha’s mouth — and his record — speak for his ability to meet the present standards of Congress — the low ones, that is. So it’s a given he can succeed in the House. Having jobbed there for a long time, he does wear the scars of legislative battle: look at the knots on his forehead from repeatedly bumping against the lowest bar of Congressional morality. The pedantic politician can no better leap that bar than he can achieve subject-verb agreement. Perhaps that’s much like his constituents, the majority of whom appear to be employed by the National Drug Intelligence Center. Does anyone else live in Johnstown, or want to?

Congress is what it is (presently it is less popular than the Administration), but there’s another, more shameful aspect to Jabba John. It deals with the always-high standards of the USMC. Murtha is so far out of the norm for a Marine or a former Marine, that the epithet “ex-Marine,” rarely used (some say never used, but that is incorrect: ask a Marine) and reserved for spies and deserters, better applies.

Now. It looks like them folks in El Paso have their politically-tiny hands full with corruption, but they don’t know nuthin’. El Paso with its Franklin Mountains doesn’t know corruption; Murtha knows corruption like a Sherpa knows K2. He is major league, a seasoned pro on the subject. If he carpet-bagged his bloated carcass to the Southwest and swam down the Rio Grande to land downtown at Santa Fe Street, he’d own the city before his ass was dry. Phase II of the National Drug Intelligence Center would quickly be built, along with the Haditha Marine Permanent Penitentiary and a flattering bust or two of Chesty Murtha scattered about town like Democratic IEDs, to keep the locals in line and voting a straight Democratic ticket.

Corruption? Murtha’s an ABSCAM veteran, an earmark Supremo, the favorite son of the National Drug Intelligence Center, which isn’t, apparently, something the Administration, which owns it, wants to keep blowing $25 million per year on, perhaps due to under-performance or lack of any kind of performance, and he’s morally corrupt to boot for “barracks-lawyering” a bunch of innocent Marines on national TV.

Marines who once would have considered him a brother now have to hold their noses when he waddles by with charges and indictments and a bulbous red nose weary from sniffing out political opportunity.

Notes: Murtha Must Go has laid the smackdown on this fat bastard for some time. Check the archives, too, for goodies like this shot of Murtha pandering to the obnoxious Code Pink leftists. Bonus points for the Murtha Must Go RSS feed, easily bringing updates of this remarkably corrupt half-man, and scion and standard-bearer of Pennsylvania Democrats to your desktop reader.

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14 July 2007: Your Weekend RSS Update

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

EL PASO FBI CORRUPTION CASE UPDATE: Things continue to percolate in the Border media, but little of substance came come to light this past week. Which means that scores of people are running around like chickens unindicted co-conspirators with their heads cut off,

Unnamed co-conspirators are fighting back, according to the El Paso Times. We already know ELP lawyer Martie Jobe is feeling a little defamed this time of month. District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez filed a criminal complaint over the odious implications of Ketner’s Complaint “information,” a document that laid it all out better than a corpse at the mortuary.

What’s a health benefits plan company gotta do these days to keep a contract? Apparently more than scandal-plagued Access HealthSource, which is linked to the ongoing investigation.

Nothing to see here: Thomason Hospital suits want to assure the public that the hospital kids are alright. Thomason is tangentially linked to the FBI ELP corruption case as related to a bond underwriting contract, as well as with recently-disgraced bribe-ista Betti Flores, who was involved in that contract.

No longer available: Not the El Paso Times article on Robert “Bob” Jones family violence allegation, or his services as CEO of NCED, which is linked to the ongoing corruption case. The now-unavailable article states Jones allegedly hit his wife in the chest during an argument. Ah, well, here’s a link to the El Paso Police Department mug shot of Jones.

El Paso lawyer Mary Stillinger’s a sharp egg. She’d like to represent three people implicated (I’m guessing through Ketner’s Complaint “information”: EPISD Trustee Charles Roark; YISD Trustee Milton Duntley; and former COO of NCED (now ReadyOne Industries) Ernie Lopez. But the US Attorney’s Office (at least, those who haven’t been fired by the White House) asked a US District Court to prevent her from doing this due to conflict(s) of interest. Turns out, the Feds goofed. Naturally, it was an underling who gets the blame. Ahh, inept civil servants. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live with ‘em. I mean, the high-paid managers who fail to train said underlings.

MILITARY MATTERS: Don’t know whether these are true or not, but they sure are funny. 213 things Skippy learned not to do in the Army.

ON THE BORDER: The jail border, that is. The Senate is taking up the case of imprisoned USBP agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They’re the ones who shot a Darwin Candidate Mexican drug smuggler in the hiney. They messed up in trying to hide the evidence in a crude, GED-achieving, scared 11B Army infantryman kind of way, but the complaint against them is mitigated by the heinous activity of federal prosecutors, who coddled and variously cajoled, befriended, and sexed said sore-buttocks narco-Mexican trafficker into giving testimony. There’s a reason why talented federal prosecutors leave often and soon enough for private practice.

VAST DEMOCRATIC CONSPIRACY: Have they forgotten elections are coming up? The Dems are shooting too early and while it’s a certainty that election day is on the Blackberry of every Democratic clown and her aide, they all seem too stupid to care, in the manner of tactical geniuses who can’t comprehend strategic second-order effects. This week it’s impeachment chatter. Last week it was hundreds of investigations launched against — exclusively — Republicans. One of the most notorious: revival of the ironically-named Fairness Doctrine, which is fair only to a certain segment of the population who might be called Feinsteinian in their hatred of a radio market that doesn’t parrot their views; and, generally, launching sexist and elitist attacks against their constituents.

The Democrats have been looking for another Watergate since 1972, and a chance to impeach nearly as long as Bill Clinton has been looking for extracurricular booty.

Maybe this is the beginning of that chance. Bon chance, Le Dems!

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Your Saturday RSS Feed – 07 July 2007

Friday, July 6th, 2007

EL PASO FBI CORRUPTION CASE UPDATE:
County Commissioner Dan Haggerty ponders the meaning of his existence and how said existence may have triggered the ongoing investigation. Haggerty recalls his contacts with the FBI back in the day, which seemingly started out as chit-chat sessions initiated by the FBI. Yeah, the FBI routinely calls up politicos to chit-chat because, you know, that’s how they like to spend taxpayers’ money. I wonder if any politician is so naive anymore and, after wondering, I doubt it.

Frank Apodaca, president and CEO of Access HealthSource Inc., got put on paid leave, likely due to the ongoing investigation. The parent company of Access HealthSource, Inc., Access Plans USA is reportedly conducting its own independent investigation.

Newspaper Tree notes that business goes on as usual inside the El Paso County Courthouse. NT seems like a decent enough online rag but, honestly, “spending the morning walking the halls and riding the elevators of the courthouse” isn’t exactly working towards establishing one’s superior journalistic bona fides.

Newspaper Tree also reports on the government’s attempt to disqualify El Paso attorney Mary Stillinger from representing three clients related to the ongoing corruption case.

Keeping the story hot, I guess, El Paso Times reports that County Commissioner Miguel Terán will not resign. Because, you know, he’s not been charged or convicted of anything. OK.

CONTENTION IN EL PASO NOT ALL RELATED TO THE FBI CORRUPTION CASE: On 03 July, a Border Patrol agent was investigating a report of illegal migrants in the vicinity of Hill and Ninth Streets. Something happened down a manhole and the BP agent fired in self-defense, wounding one. The contention is the result of the involvement of the Border Network for Human Rights, a leftist group with an office down at 1101 E. Yandell in El Paso. A few first- and second-hand accounts by Barrio Segundo residents make an El Paso Times article, with Louie Gilot’s byline. To his credit, Gilot notes the number of attacks on BP agents in the area this year: 59. Generally, according to their website, Border Network for Human Rights agitates for “basic human rights” — which sounds good to college kids — like legalization, healthy communities and human mobility. But BNHR doesn’t talk about who funds the bill. Right now the bill is paid by Americans. BNHR does not agitate for reduced attacks on Border Patrol agents, for the fiscal responsibility of educating Mexican kids in El Paso public schools by the citizens of Juarez, for equal access to Juarez schools and health care by El Pasoans, or for that matter, the right to drive around Juarez shopping without fear of murder, kidnap or robbery, as happens right across the border. I guess that’s a POE Bridge Too Far for BNHR, and it telegraphs its Leftist agenda. I’d watch my wallet if a BNHR Guevarista walked up to me.

MORE CONTENTION: Illegals are getting uppity with more than hapless Border Patrol “rocking” victims these days. Michelle Malkin links to Elvira Arellano’s announcement of a “campaign of resistance” against the US government. Who is Elvira Arellano? She’s a Mexican activist, an illegal, and a sanctuary seeker since she’s been hiding out in a church in Chicago for who knows how long. I’d think that a threat to “bring the government to a halt” warrants a raid of that church by any law enforcement entity whose members swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Happy Fourth of July, Elvira “FOB” Arellano.

CHURCH LADY REPORTS: On a happier, errr, more sacreligious note, seems the Roman Cathloic Mass has gotten a bit more enlightened recently. What’s next, a smoking lamp, a Tiki statue and retro-cool Members Only jackets worn by parishoners?

SHE’S NOT GOING TO BE ELECTED ANYWAY: Hillary a felon? Say it ain’t so.

IN MEXICO: Was it a flying witch? Or merely a promo for the new Harry Potter movie?

ISLAMADMINISTRIVIA: A macho, woman-hating Muslim cleric tries to flee in a burka. He didn’t want to meet 72 virgins in Paradise, apparently: he wanted to be one. How fine it is to lay the smackdown on women in Islam, and then use their identity to escape justice. I’d ask BNHR about Muslim treatment of women, because I think Pakistan has borders, I’m sure I’d only hear crickets in response.

“OFFICER’S KID”: That was a slur among military kids back in the day, and maybe today, too. Military officers had the worst-behaved kids on any base or post, or so it seemed. It was a stereotype: the successful, well-paid, college-educated servicemember and his/her crap, sluggish, juvenile delinquent spawn. These days, I guess that stereotype transmogrifies nicely to politicians.

ABOUT THAT DINING OUT EXPERIENCE: Gotta love it. Not. Not when waiters and waitresses are morons. The most hit-or-miss part of a dining experience, besides whether you’re paying $50 for a burned filleted scallop with a stale chive on top because the chef is drunk, is the wait staff. They set the tone of the meal. Or don’t. They get tipped, or don’t, depending on your perception of how they perform. So there is Bitter Waitress, a site that argues for good tips for good service, and tells great tales along the way.

And then there’s this attitude. Rule #1: Never leave less than a 20% tip. It’s “tipping poorly” if you have a problem with anything, according to 86 Bad Tips. Including sluggish, forgetful, annoying, stumbling, snot-dripping, angry, failed, besotted wait staff. Well, I guess the red, black and yellow colors of the web page tip you to the militant attitude of its host.

Here’s another waiter blog.

And another.

Here’s an article that will make you end your dining-out experience and just cook at home.

LOL THIS: You’ve heard of LOL Cats. Now get ready for LOL terrorists. My entries are here.

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Separated at Birth Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

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Islamic Rage Boy: The Boy, the Myth, the PhotoShops

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Ever heard of Islamic Rage Boy? Snapped Shot has the background. He’s a professional protester with a gaping mouth, a scraggly beard and a strong right arm that is constantly raised, with fist clenched. He makes a lot of wire service photos. A lot, though we’re not saying he’s sleeping with any stringers. But we could.

And now he’s been parodied. Instead of 72 virgins waiting for him, he’s now got 72 PSs, including “The Scream” and “LOLcats.” His parents must be so proud. I guess it beats selling stolen cell phones and pumping gas from five-gallon cans to stranded cars out in Angerstan.

The Nose on Your Face gets in on the act.

Are We Lumberjacks goes into creative overdrive, PSing a famous football photo-turned-Internet meme as well as the late-breaking news about the Spice Girls reunion. Link to his RSS feed. You won’t be disappointed.

The Inquirer provides the bottom line: “Big media needs a picture of a stereotyped mad mullah to satisfy the prejudices about Arab unrest.” Read the whole article; it just gets funnier.

My contributions:

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