When is Sonja getting back?! There are available yet lonely men waiting for her return. It isn't so much that she's hot (although she is, REALLY is) so much as she's "real." Because with all the triflin', agenda-oriented females in this city, a breath of fresh air like her is needed, and damn near a necessity.
Antonio
PS: You should hold some sort of "win a date" type thing or "meet and greet" thing with her for her adoring fans.
A Humorless Math Major Writes!
Our list of 22 reasons we love summer in Southern Nevada prompted one local resident to fire up his calculator:
It is NOT 22 things you love about summer in Las Vegas when air-conditioning made the "list" for times. Make that 19 things. Oh, and you're NOT a TRUE Las Vegan until you turn your AC all the way up to 90 OR off altogether. Drink water and stay cool.
As they saying goes, if you think it's hot here, you better start talkiing to God, so you don't end up in the final fire.
The really big joke in the movie The Day After Tomorrow is that we have NOT yet made it out of the current Ice Age.
Sure, things are NOT nearly the extreme worst-case scenario of the movie, but we are STILL in the (mid) Ice Age, and will be as long as temperatures in Antarctica NEVER rise above the freezing point, despite the fact that the Earth is closest to the sun (for about 1/5 of a second) in early January, which is very early in the southern hemisphere's summer. There is a VERY BIG reason why Miami is the most preferred setting for the Super Bowl, as well as the World Series, and a host of other events.
John Kingtamer
Editor's note:
We thought they chose Miami for the great Cuban food, and, also, you're scaring us.
June 3-10 Is Vent Your Spleen About National Politics Week Here at the Weekly, Part 1
Faced with the worst poll numbers of his presidency, George Bush has launched this intentionally false ad to deceive the American people and distract attention from his failed policies. It's wrong, it's dishonest, and it's not going to work.
George Bush is the one who is playing politics with national security. George Bush is the one who used images of flag-draped coffins at Ground Zero in his television ads. George Bush is the one who sold photos of himself on Air Force One after 9/11 as a fund-raising tool. George Bush is the one who—by Karl Rove's own admission—is running a political campaign on national security. Rove advised Republican candidates in 2002 to "focus on war" as a political strategy.
John Kerry wants to strengthen the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act has not been a cure-all for the intelligence failures exposed by 9/11, which is why John Kerry, conservative Republican Sen. Larry Craig, moderate Republican Sen. Arlen Specter and others have the same position on the law: We should preserve over 95 percent of the Act and make improvements on the rest to strengthen the war on terrorism.
Adam Frankfurter
Vent/Spleen/Politics, Part 2
Several months ago, John Kerry said something that wasn't supposed to be heard. In effect, he accused President Bush and his cohorts of being liars.
Could it be that the president of the United States is a liar? The last president who lied (about sex with an intern) was impeached. The more I explored Sen. Kerry's impolitic comment, the more I found it to be true.
The president lied about WMDs in Iraq. There are none.
He lied about Iraq being an imminent threat to the United States. It wasn't.
He lied about the invasion of Iraq stabilizing the Middle East. It hasn't.
He lied about the number of troops that would be needed. He was wrong.
He told us that he would find Osama Bin Laden. He hasn't.
He told us that we would be safer because of the invasion of Iraq. We don't feel safer.
He lied about Iraqis being grateful for our presence. They aren't.
He lied about tax cuts stimulating the economy. They didn't.
He lied about providing and delivering more funds quickly to state and local governments for Homeland Security. He didn't.
He lied about protecting the environment. He didn't.
He lied about providing more funds to ensure No Child is Left Behind. He hasn't.
He lied about the Saudis being our friends and allies. They aren't. But for his father, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait would be wholly owned and annexed territory of Iraq. More than a decade later, we have the highest gasoline prices in history. The Saudis' American bank, Riggs National, recently got fined $25 million for money-laundering Saudi funds used to finance terrorism. Are the Saudis part of Bush's Coalition of the Willing? It would be friendlier of them if they shut down and stopped financing Islamic schools that teach kids to hates us.
There are so many discrepancies between what our president has said and what he has done or failed to do that it is impossible to document all of them here. What is certain is that no president in history, Democrat or Republican, has lied to the American people with such reckless abandon. I guess impeachment is for presidents who lie about sex. Presidents who lie and get people killed are, apparently, unimpeachable.
Nevertheless, it is our fault. We fail to learn what isn't easily accessible. Millions of us don't bother to register to vote; millions of registered voters don't vote. That's our fault.
Whatever attack ads the president produces in the future have been and will be consistent with "staying the course." The course is: If one lies frequently, does it with confidence and keeps a straight face, the voters will accept the lies as truths. Such contempt for our common sense! Is he right? We'll know none too soon.
Terry Brauer
Vent/Spleen/Politics, Part 3
Lost amid the shocking news emanating from Iraq was an incident involving the death of three American prison guards in Kosovo. Kim Bigley, 47, of Paducah, Kentucky, and Lynn Williams, 48, of Elmont, New York, were serving as UN police officers in Kosovo when they were gunned down on April 7 by a Jordanian comrade. Eleven others were wounded in the 10-minute shootout near a prison in Kosovska Mitrovica before the assailant himself was killed. A third American, Gary Weston of Vienna, Illinois, was left brain-dead in the battle, and was evacuated to the U.S. on life-support so his organs could be donated.
The risks and dangers confronted by U.S. law enforcement and military personnel are unconscionably compounded when they are compelled to serve under UN command, alongside potentially hostile foreign nationals in missions that have nothing to do with the protection of our nation and way of life.
Frank M. Pelteson