Thursday's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Edition!

Another in a continuing series of quick hit articles which should leave you scratching your head and saying:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

• Chinese astronauts eat dog meat to maintain strength in orbit.

           Chinese space agency:  "How was the space walk?"
           Chinese astronaut: "Ruff!"

• Strippers from a Long Island strutted their stuff on the Nassau County courthouse steps today, rallying for a pole tax to benefit local schools.

"We just want to give back to our communities, because the state is cutting back on school aid," said Carmella Cioffi, 22. "The government is always trying to raise taxes and here we are saying raise our taxes."

The mother of a young son, who dances under the name of "Carma," was among three dancers in attendance and was carrying a sign, "Stripper Pole Tax Helps Local Schools. "

The club the girls work for, Illusions, in Deer Park, will start charging a $5 entry fee starting this weekend and is hoping that the state implements legislation to tax lap dances.

          This is one tax it would be HARD to not support.  I understand fund-raising coupons for 2-for-1 lap dances will be circulated soon..

• PETA has another bloody, "over-the-top" demonstration. Yawn...

Of course, the two or three of you who read this column regularly know I'm a long standing, card-carrying member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals). I'll take about 110 lbs of the one on the bottom please? (as long as Ms. T. Bagg is not looking...). But in truth, just another absurd protest by a group of people obviously dropped on their heads at birth.  At least they used a hottie as a prop; as that's the most news-worthy part it....

• Jupiter Loses One Of It's Stripes - Glenn Beck Wanted For Questioning!

Hey why not blame it on Beck?  Or maybe Anne Coulter stole it to manufacture Tea Party jewelry!  WTF???

But it's plausible - they blame everything else on the Tea Party, and Rush, and Beck, and Bush....

• Quote of The Week: Ann Coulter for this Perl of wisdom regarding the women of SCOTUS:                                          “Ruth Bader Ginsbug Will No Longer Be Known as ‘The Pretty One’”

• New Zealand PM "roasted" over cannibalism joke.  Stick a fork in him, he's done....