was it just the Philly channel reporting that the Senator was claiming the footplay was due solely to his "'wide stance'" ??

I snorted coffee all over my new quilt with that one. I don't much care what a person's interests are. I do much care when they make lame excuses and otherwise try to evade, escape, and expunge. Especially when they've been fairly awful to other people based on those people's interests. Or tried to legislate other people's interests.

::pats much loved soapbox, then pushes it back under the bed::

I'm now of the opinion that the entire Republican party is composed of closeted homosexuals.

The Freepers are bleating that the gays are infiltrating the GOP so that they can pull these hijinx to make them look bad. Really.

Our lunch was frozen pizza. Backpack shopping with a three year old: Dante's fourth circle of Hell. We have obtained a wee, toddler size backpack (Cars) and a decent, square, Spider-Man insulated lunch box. I want to find a little bento box that will fit inside with a cool pack--since the school doesn't refrigerate lunches.

I just don't think he had done anything illegal, and I hate seeing the legal system brazenly misused in such a discriminatory fashion.

That's a hard one. I want to keep public restrooms free of lewd behavior but how do you go about it without stings like this? Is initiating lewd behavior illegal?

We have regular stings here in town in a park like this case but they're mainly busting guys they catch in the act, rather than soliciting.

Redesigning prescription pill bottles. I'm kinda salty that Target got the patent, since these are changes that should be implemented in all pharmacies.

I've finally started keeping a prescription manila folder--one one side is the detailed info sheets, and on the other is a calendar where I note when each one is refilled. My pharmacy has a pretty good system, except the info sheets don't have all the info that's also on the label--and with nasal sprays, for instance, the label goes on the box which I don't want to keep, as opposed to on the bottle which I obviously do.

Today is a day I think in which I shall test whether one actually can expire from boredom.

was it just the Philly channel reporting that the Senator was claiming the footplay was due solely to his "'wide stance'" ??

So he is sitting on the toilet like those annoying men on the bus who take up more than one seat speading their legs so wide.

I don't particularly think he did anything illegal until there was actually lewd behavior or money changing hands. However, the guy is a dumbass and his excuses sound like a child's.

I think for Halloween I'll be the Come-Out-Of-The-Closet-Republican-Politician Fairy.

was it just the Philly channel reporting that the Senator was claiming the footplay was due solely to his "'wide stance'" ??

No, it was on the morning radio show here too.

In other sorts of stings, don't people have to actually possess drugs or accept money or do something tangible that's illegal rather than voice an intent?

Depends on what they're being charged with. In the case of sexual activity, the crime is often the intent to commit the act, since actually making the cop do the illegal act requires a level of commitment most cops don't have.

In this case, it was not any of the individual acts (bag in front of the door, tapping foot, playing footsie), it was likely the combonation of these acts that led the police to bust him. It's like buying a gun isn't illegal, having the building plans to your rich husband's office isn't illegal, making phone calls from a pay phone to a career violent criminal isn't illegal, but in the aggregate suggests attempted murder.

I'm kinda salty that Target got the patent, since these are changes that should be implemented in all pharmacies.

Yeah--I don't use Target pharmacies because I've had trouble getting scripts filled there (they don't carry certain medications that are prone to fraudulent scripts, Plan B issues, etc.) Got tired of dealing with them.

*sigh* Owen's wearing a pair of Olivia's swimsuit bottoms around on his head. The question is whether I should take a picture for teenage blackmail later.