I stumbled on this over at Beast Media and though it good enough to share. It got a smile from me, and there not much else going on this Thanks Giving Day - other than the cases of L-Tryptophan poisoning.

There is an old Greek adage that says never break bread with an Enemy. I guess that is just as try today. After a long battle after being poison, Russian Ex-Spy Litvinenko died today.

The BBC Reports:

Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has died in hospital three weeks after apparently being poisoned in London.

University College Hospital, London, said Mr Litvinenko had died at 2121 GMT on Thursday and the cause of his condition was still being investigated.

Friends have said the 43-year-old was poisoned because of his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin - Russia has denied any involvement.

Scotland Yard said they were now investigating “an unexplained death”.

I won’t belabor the entire story, it has been blogged to death by much better bloggers than I.

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Something lite and humerus this Thanksgiving Holiday:

From Reuters:

German traffic police were shocked to see a California Highway Patrol car cruising along the motorway, driven by a man dressed as an authentic American cop, authorities said on Thursday.

But they recovered sufficiently to book the 35-year-old Goettingen resident, whose uniform badge read “T.J. Lazer”, for possessing a replica Smith & Wesson revolver without a license and having out-of-date registration plates.

“He was sitting at the wheel with his elbow on the window like in the best TV crime series,” said Osthessen police spokesman Martin Schaefer.

“Because wearing such a uniform in public is also prohibited, he had to exchange it for civilian dress after a shopping trip with ‘real’ colleagues,” he added.

The man told police he had been taking the 30-year-old vehicle to Bavaria to sell it and wanted to impress the buyer.

I would have been impressed.

Cross Posted from Revealing the ACLU: When last I wrote on the topic of Massachusetts and Gay Marriage, it was when Massachusetts opened itself up to permit people from other states to marry in Massachusetts. I commented at the time that this would likely cause problems for other states which suddenly have to deal with gay married couples.

The case I concerned about is now coming to light, and Road Island (a state which dose not recognize Gay Marriage) has to deal with it.

From Fox News:

A lesbian couple married in Massachusetts has filed for divorce in Rhode Island, setting up a legal conundrum for judges in a state where the laws are silent on the legality of same-sex marriage.

Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston of Providence were married after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized gay marriage starting in 2004.

They filed for divorce in Rhode Island on Oct. 23, citing irreconcilable differences, Chambers’ attorney, Louis Pulner, said Wednesday. Ormiston declined to comment.

Rhode Island Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah Jeremiah Jr. has yet to decide whether his court has jurisdiction and said he believes it is the first filing for a same-sex divorce in the state. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 5.

Massachusetts became the only state to allow same-sex couples to marry after the state Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to ban it.

Until recently, though, it was up in the air whether out-of-state couples could marry in Massachusetts. In September, a Massachusetts judge decided that nothing in Rhode Island law specifically banned gay marriage and said Rhode Island couples could legally marry there.

“Now the ultimate question is whether the state will recognize or determine whether it has jurisdiction to handle an out-of-state divorce when we don’t have any case law that accepts or rejects same-sex marriage,” Pulner said.

Road Island is the first state that has to deal with this question, but it will not be the last. The main question that I cannot shake is why the couple is so determened to divorse in Road Island? If they where able to make to to Massachusetts to get married in the first place, why not simplify the process and file divorce there as well.

I can’t help but think that this is another ploy from organizations like the ACLU and Lambda to force to Gay Marriage recognition issue in other states, or to force the recognition of out of state gay marriages despite what the state constitution says.

Moreover, if Road Island chooses to process the divorce, can it be argued as a president for the recognition of gay marriage itself? Or, perhaps, as a way to force gay marriage recognition in that state?

I have always been against the Federal Government passing a protection of marriage law, as I think that should be a state decision. However, if issues like this are used to drive the states in a direction the majority of the people would not support, then I would see no alternative than to take on the issue at a federal level.

I really enjoyed Ann Coulter’s latest article, covering the US Airways incident with the 6 Imams. You can find my, far less witty and sarcastic coverage here.

I thought I would share some of the highlights for you.

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

[…]

The idea that a Muslim boycott against US Airways would hurt the airline proves that Arabs are utterly tone-deaf. This is roughly the equivalent of Cindy Sheehan taking a vow of silence. How can we hope to deal with people with no sense of irony? The next thing you know, New York City cab drivers will be threatening to bathe.

[…]

It worked with me. US Airways is my official airline now. Northwest, which eventually flew the Allah-spouting Muslims to their destinations, is off my list. You want to really hurt a U.S. air carrier’s business? Have Muslims announce that it’s their favorite airline.

[…]

One of the stunt-imams in US Airways’ advertising scheme, Omar Shahin, complained about being removed from the plane, saying: “Six scholars in handcuffs. It’s terrible.”

Yes, especially when there was a whole conference of them! Six out of 150 is called “poor law enforcement.” How did the other 144 “scholars” get off so easy?

Thanks Ann - nicely done.