THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† We Need A New “Ism”: On the heels of Larry Flint’s announcement that he was planning a porno using a Sarah Palin look-alike, comes word that Club Paradise Gentlemen’s Club in Las Vegas held a contest to find a stripper who is the GOP vice presidential candidate’s Doppelgänger. Swimsuit-clad contestants will be judged by strip club patrons on how closely they resemble Palin, and how well they “debate.” The winner will get $10,000 and a trip for two to Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration Day festivities in January.
[Hat Tip: The Heel, an Ivy-educated attorney with a prestigious
† ICE Hopes To Have Chilling Effect On Illegal Immigration By Targeting Identity Thieves: To get a job at a steel plant in East Moline, IL, Mexican national Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa used a counterfeit Social Security card with a Social Security number belonging to a minor child, and a green card with a number assigned to another person. Flores-Figueroa was subsequently convicted on several charges, including two counts of aggravated identity theft – which added two years to his sentence. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in
† They’re Not Working On The (Long Island) Railroad All The Live- Long Day: On the heels of a New York Times expose, the federal Railroad Retirement Board decided to more closely scrutinize disability payments to Long Island Rail Road retirees, and has adopted new procedures to “identify unusual patterns of ailments that might suggest abuse,” reports the paper.
† Palin Floats Like A Butterfly And Stings Like A Bee In Her Debate With Biden: Responding to a third grader's inquiry Sarah Palin explained that one of the vice president's roles is to be “in charge of the United States Senate,” which would enable her to “really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy change,” reports The Boston Globe:
The response set off a new round of criticism of the
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden has also misstated the vice president's role in the Senate. During his Oct. 2 debate with Palin, he said that part of the vice president's job is "to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit."
In fact, the Constitution does not limit a vice president to presiding over the Senate only in the event of a tie vote.
Noting that “the Constitution says little about the job,” The Globe seems to concur with Palin’s view of what a vice president does all day: “The vice president can, in effect, do as little or as much is desired by the president” [emphasis, The Stiletto].
† All The News That’s Fart To Print (third item): It turns out that farts - hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas synthesized by bacteria in the colon – isn’t just hot air. A mouse study has found that cells lining the walls of blood vessels also produce H2S, which keeps the vessels relaxed – stiff blood vessels may cause high blood pressure. Explains LiveScience:
Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of gasotransmitters, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions. …
Because gasotransmitters are common in mammals all over the evolutionary tree, these findings on the importance of hydrogen sulfide are thought to have broad applications to human diseases, such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.
† Updates To Recent Posts (third item, The Sum For The Parts): After being sentenced to 18 to 54 years in NY for masterminding a conspiracy in which funeral home workers hacked up at least 244 corpses to steal body parts that were sold for use in dental implants, knee and hip replacements and other procedures, former Biomedical Tissue Services owner Michael Mastromarino has also been sentenced to 25 to 58 years in PA, reports The Associated Press. He will serve the sentences concurrently.
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