It isn't even autumn and the nuts are falling from the trees

1. Archbishop Dadeus Grings: A Brazilian archbishop said adolescents are "spontaneously homosexual" and in need of guidance, while society at large is pedophile, according to a Wednesday report.
"We know that the adolescent is spontaneously homosexual. Boys play with boys, girls play with girls," he said. "If there is no proper guidance, this sticks. The question is – how are we going to educate our children to use a sexuality that is human and suitable?"
Grings also said the acceptance of homosexuality in society could pave the way for the acceptance of pedophilia.

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/brazilian-archbishop-says_n_565440.html

2. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger: A pregnant T.G.I. Friday's waitress tells the magazine that Roethlisberger directed numerous inappropriate comments at her while she was working earlier in 2010. She claims that the Steeler asked her, "Did your boyfriend forget to pull out?"
Mark Baranowski, owner of the popular Cabana Bar in Pittsburgh, says that when the quarterback first came in with a group of hangers-on a few years ago, he refused to pay the $5 cover and used a variation on the Do you know who I am? line to intimidate an employee at the door. At a party Roethlisberger held at the Cabana Bar on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of his motorcycle accident, Baranowski got upset that Roethlisberger's posse rounded up women to come to his VIP area while intimidating customers into deleting cellphone photos of the QB.
Roethlisberger's reputation in Pittsburgh is not only a matter of an us-against-Ben war waged by service people. SI spoke at length with a friend of Roethlisberger's, who gets along with the quarterback but who is pained by his behavior. When they're out together, the man, who didn't want his name used, sometimes feels obligated to apologize to waiters and bartenders whom Roethlisberger has treated like garbage. He says he shakes his head when he sees Roethlisberger "disrespect" women in bars.

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/ben-roethlisberger-sports_n_564384.html

3. Jeff Hyde Republican candidate for NC District 27: ...when Hyde finally got the crowd to quiet down -- and the video of this can be seen on the net -- he continued: "...Nancy Pelosi says that we're 'unsophisticated cave-dwellers.'"
Hyde reportedly responded that he didn't know where he'd gotten the quote. "However, whether she said the specific quote or not, I believe it is her sentiment," Hyde wrote. "I also believe it is the sentiment of our president, our governor, and a lot of our other politicians. When I wrote the speech, I did so from my heart, not the research library."

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/austin-carty/how-a-christian-republica_b_564897.html

4. Unknown: One outraged fan told The Arizona Republic that she shredded her four lower-level tickets to Wednesday's game against the San Antonio Spurs in protest.

link: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/2010/05/06/20100506arizona-immigration-law-phoenix-suns-los-suns-jerseys.html#reply20022063

5. House Republicans have chosen Lord Christopher Monckton, a non-scientist with a penchant for outrageous remarks, as their sole witness at tomorrow’s hearing in front of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Monckton called American college students advocating for clean energy the “Hitler Youth” and “Nazis” during his crazed rampage at the Americans For Prosperity event at the Copenhagen climate summit. Monckton repeated the "Hitler Youth" comments directly to me in an interview the following day, and then took it way too far when he told Jewish student Ben Wessel, whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust, “I am not going to shake the hand of Hitler youth.” Despite extensive video evidence, Monckton went on to lie to the Associated Press, claiming that he never uttered those words.

Ben seems like such a decent, thoughtful, compassionate young man.

My response "Yeah, you're an asshole"

He's got quite a reputation around town. If you listen to local radio, there's a lot of speculation about brain damage.

:evilgrin:

3 republican dinks
1 racist
and Ben

Wait until summer then the crazies will really come out

“I have no idea where he was born,” said Monckton, who was working the crowd and signing autographs. “What I do find strange is that the public records of his Hawaiian birth have been sealed, and can not be obtained by the public. His lawyers have spent a lot of money trying to seal the records of his public life. All of those records should be open to the public, as they always were for previous presidents.”

http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/christopher-monckton-birther/