h/t HuffPo

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said on Wednesday that his union will let certain endangered Democrats fend for themselves and potentially lose their seats in the upcoming November elections due to their anti-labor voting records.

Speaking to a small gathering of reporters shortly after President Obama implored the union's Executive Council to gear up for the final months of campaigning, Trumka insisted that his organization will not serve as a blank check for the party.

There would be "some" lawmakers, he stressed, who won't get any help from the AFL-CIO, which has said it is prepared to spend more than $53 million on the election. Trumka wouldn't name names. But he insisted that the union won't be persuaded to invest in a contest even if the election is a toss-up.

"I don't think viability has as much to do with it," Trumka said. "We look at people who are friends and if they are friends we will stay with them," he said. "But if they haven't been friends, than we are not going to dilute the resources that we have helping them when there are other candidates who have been real friends to the working people needing help."

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a fledgling law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who argued that it violated the charter's guarantees to protect the family....

"It does not appear to me to be unconstitutional," Justice Jose Gudino said during Thursday's session. "The concept of the family established in the constitution ... is an open concept."

Anyhow, I was looking all that stuff up online not long ago.  Then talking to my daughter about it too.

My daughter went to Dothan last weekend to dance at a club called Imagination.  This originally started out as mostly a gay club, I learned this from my daughters not straight friends she went to high school with.  It scared me too, I thought the kids were taking a huge risk in the South but without risk nothing will change in the South.  But EVERYTHING ELSE entertainmentwise sucks so bad that they all go to Imagination now to dance.  They do allow underage in to dance but not drink. My daughter can now legally drink.

Brett is Brett (to retire or not to retire that is the question),

Can you imagine if they had this team 10 years ago?

A British holidaymaker has been charged with indecency in Dubai after walking through the world's largest shopping centre in a bikini.

The woman was buying clothes and gifts in the Dubai Mall, fully dressed but in a low-cut top, when she was accosted by an Arabic woman and criticised for wearing 'revealing clothing'.

The pair then became embroiled in a heated row in front of hundreds of bemused shoppers.

Incensed by the Arabic woman's comments, the British woman told her to 'mind her own business' before stripping out of her clothes and 'taunting' the locals by walking around in only her bikini, it is alleged.

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) is huddling with his lawyers to decide whether to mount a legal challenge to force his way onto the November ballot for the special election to serve out the remainder of President Obama's Senate term.

"I said I was going to run, but the judge has made it so that I'm not a candidate," Burris told The Hill. "My lawyers are assessing what we can do.

"I would like to be a candidate for the balance of the term."

An Illinois judge ruled Monday that the state's general-election Senate candidates will also appear on the special-election ballot for the remainder of Obama's Senate term. 

That means Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk will be running in two races for one seat.

In addition, the judge's ruling kept Burris's name off the ballot. 

But if Burris is successful in appealing the decision, he could end up splitting the Democratic vote, thereby giving Kirk early entree into the Senate. 

"They were trying to correct the constitutional problem but may have created another constitutional problem; I don't know," Burris said. "My lawyers are looking at it now."

The winner of the special election will serve out the 60 days between Nov. 3 and Jan. 3, when a new Congress is inaugurated. An official with the Illinois State Board of Elections said the results should be certified within the week of Nov. 22, which would install the new senator in the middle of the lame-duck session.

Results showed that the students who learned they had the minority opinion were actually more confident in their ideas about the company than those who were in the majority.

Is it an isolated incident? How is it possible? What level of depraved, subhuman hatred could do something like that? I mean, we know that some sects of Islam perpetrate unspeakable violence, and degradation towards their women, but how can we read, and see what's happening, and just flip the page to, I don't know....A-Rod's home runs maybe.

You want to accept people's freedom to worship any way they please, but something's wrong here. A husband cutting off his wife's facial appendages, here, now, in the 21'st. century, and the rest of the world shrugs its shoulders, and mutters, "what a shame."

You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the future Cordoba project proclaim, besides all the outreach programs they're planning, that the Center will be a refuge, a sanctuary if you will, for abused women from around the world. Regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion, abused women, or even people like the author, Salman Rusdie, who have death sentences hanging over their heads for simply exercising their rights as free people, could find solace, refuge, protection, and understanding at the Center in Manhattan.

What a statement that would make! Show the haters of 9-11 what America stands for. If the world's religious and political "leaders" can't come together and wipe out this scourge, this affront to dignity & decency, then I know one group of people who ain't afraid. If their own countries can't, or won't,  protect them let them come to NYC where the world will see what freedom, guts, and brotherhood looks like.

Adam Tuss, wtop.com
WASHINGTON -- You thought speed cameras were bad. The next generation traffic camera makes speed and red light cameras look like they are in kindergarten.

Meet the Trafistar SR590. Not only can it track speeders and red light runners, but it can detect drivers who are tailgating, ignoring stop signs, not yielding for pedestrians, making illegal turns, crossing over the center line and more.

If that's not enough, the SR590 can keep its electronic eye on 22 different cars at the same time.