Smurf it!

I recently had another conversation with the self-described liberal feminist. She mentioned she was looking forward to 'smurfing' the guy she is currently seeing. I naturally took issue with the statement, pointing out the obvious that in every relationship there is the one doing the 'smurfing' i.e. the 'smurfer' and the one being 'smurfed' i.e. the 'smurfee'. As I see it, the only way the female can be the 'smurfer' is with the aid of outside apparatuses, not that there is anything wrong with that - just not my steeze. She did not like the fact that men should maintain power over the verb. I say give man the verb since most every other aspect of a sexual encounter is controlled by the woman. Although I do recognize there are countless other ways a woman can 'SMURF' a man outside the bedroom.























It's Gross and It's Mine! - Entries from the recent "Poo Contest" showing photos and testimonials of real results from the the Colon Cleansing Kit by Blessed Herbs. The Crappy Yak does not use or endorse this product.















County's smoking ban in ashes - A smoking ban passed by Allegheny County last October was struck down yesterday by the state Commonwealth Court, which ruled that county exceeded its authority. "Regardless of our own sense as to whether local communities should be permitted to impose stricter regulations in this area, we may only interpret and apply the law as set forth by the general assembly," the three-judge panel wrote. "We, therefore, are constrained to find the county was without authority to enact the ordinance." This entire article is worth a read. This topic is a microcosm of sorts demonstrating so many of the problems our society faces.

One In Four U.S. Muslims OK Suicide Bombs - One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most American Muslims overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al Qaeda. In the prior article there was a statistic that 1 in 5 people in Pennsylvania smoke. Which statistic is truly more disturbing, 20% of people being smokers or 25% of people thinking suicide bombings are ok?

This story disturbs the crap out of me:
Critics say the liberal news media are ignoring Knoxville, Tenn., couple slaying - In a powerful demonstration of the way the Internet has opened up the mainstream media to intensive second-guessing, bloggers are charging that news outlets have ignored the rape and murder of a young Knoxville couple because of the racial implications of the story.

Racially Charged Murder Trials Getting Scant National Press

Miss Christian picked up Mr. Newsom (victims) in her 2005 Toyota 4-Runner. Some time just after midnight, Letalvis Cobbins, 24, along with his brother Lemaricus Davidson, 25, and George Thomas, 24, stopped the couple at gunpoint. Mr. Davidson had already been convicted of carjacking and aggravated robbery in Tennessee in 2001, but had served only five years. The three men tied up and took them in the 4-Runner to an apartment where Mr. Cobbins and Mr. Davidson lived. This was in a rundown rental house at 2316 Chipman Street in East Knoxville. Mr. Cobbins’s 18-year-old girlfriend, Vanessa Coleman, met them there. All four, including, Miss Coleman, then engaged in an orgy of rape and violence. They anally gang-raped Mr. Newsom, and orally, anally, and vaginally gang-raped Channon Christian. They brutally beat both victims and poured cleaning fluid down Miss Christian’s throat. They killed Mr. Newsom, leaving him with “multiple gunshot wounds,” and set his corpse on fire. They also killed Miss Christian. Knoxville police refuse to say how Miss Christian was murdered, but an Assistant U.S. Attorney suggests she may have been “choked.”
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Democrats Drop Troop Pullout Dates From Iraq Bill - Congressional Democrats relented today on their insistence that a war spending measure sought by President Bush also set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq. The decision to back down, described by senior lawmakers and aides, was a wrenching reversal for some Democrats, who saw their election triumph as a call to force an end to the war. A Democratic effort to include time lines prompted Mr. Bush’s veto of the original bill last month, producing a political impasse.

Golfer dies after cart plunges off cliff - A golfer died Tuesday after his golf cart plunged 75 feet off a cliff and crashed onto a road below.

Data Inducted into Robot Hall of Fame - Data has been celebrated in the Robot Hall of Fame, joining the Mars Pathfinder Rover, C-3PO and the LEGO Mindstorms robotic kit. "This is the first time since we established the Robot Hall of Fame in 2003 that most of the inductees are real robots rather than those of science fiction," Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute director Matt Mason told Milwaukee's TMJ4. "As much as we love fictional robots such as Data, those of us in the robotics field take heart when the real accomplishments of our colleagues get this well-deserved recognition."

U.S. Hispanics embracing Islam - A growing number of Hispanics across the U.S. have found common ground in a faith and culture bearing surprising similarities to their own heritage.
From professionals to students to homemakers, they are drawn to the Muslim faith through marriage, curiosity and a shared interest in issues such as immigration. The population of Hispanic Muslims has increased 30 percent to some 200,000 since 1999, estimates Ali Khan, national director of the American Muslim Council in Chicago. Many attribute the trend to a growing interest in Islam since the 2001 terrorist attacks and also to a collision between two burgeoning minority groups. They note that Muslims ruled Spain centuries ago, leaving an imprint on Spanish food, music, and language. “Many Hispanics … who are becoming Muslim, would say they are embracing their heritage, a heritage that was denied to them in a sense,” says Ihsan Bagby, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky.

Finally a reason I might want to convert to Islam, adult breast feeding? - Ezzat Attiya (the head of Al-Azhar's department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad) had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together. In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman's biological children. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.