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Ditto, Tom...Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle says goodbye.     This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

SAN FRANCISCO - In the strange world of Schwarzenegger-era politics, it seems only fitting that the Republican governor, who rode to fame making tough-guy action films and who's been accused by dozens of women of being a serial groper, could get away with standing before a state women's conference and boast that he had angered a group of nurses because he was "always kicking their butts." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the remarks in Long Beach last week as he opened the first day of the California Gov.'s Conference on Women and Families, an annual gathering hosted this year by his...

.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow. The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides appearing in shop windows across New York. Bootylicious figures clad in tight low-rise jeans have spilled from the city's street fashion stores into more established labels. "It's absolutely the trend," said Dwight Critchfield, creative director for mannequin firm Goldsmith. "These mannequins look great, and there is a real sex appeal about them." The recent pop culture fixation on large bottoms has been around since at least 1992, when rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot scored a hit with "Baby Got...

MIDI - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SO NICE - (60s, left column) (INTRO) My butt has just been hit by rice...it hurt, I'm not kidding you I hope it doesn't happen twice...I think I know what to do I'll take my Smith-Corona to my room Pretending I survived a mighty boom...facing doom My butt has just been hit by rice...I think I get a purple heart I hope it doesn't happen twice...I'm glad I'd done my part I'll take my Smith-Corona to my room Pretending I survived a mighty boom...facing doom My butt has just been hit by...

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Tired of being sniggered at, people from French villages whose names sound like 'filthy swine' and 'my arse' plan a weekend get-together in a tiny hamlet whose name means 'eat onions' in old French. The idea, local newspapers say, is for the villagers to form a united front against constant teasing and forge a new pride in their colourful toponyms. Only villages "with suggestive names that evoke a smile, a laugh, or have a singsong folkloric name" can take part, say organisers, who plan a gourmet market to show off local fare. The organisers say they do not want the...

Doctors in Australia have urged people to not to attempt Jackass style stunts after a man burnt his genitals in a firecracker accident. The 26-year-old Australian man suffered a fractured pelvis and severe burns when a firecracker exploded between the cheeks of his buttocks. The incident has left the man, from Illawarra, New South Wales, incontinent and unable to have sex and he is expected to remain in hospital for several months. Dr Robert McCurdie, who operated on the man when he was taken to Wollongong Hospital, likened the man's condition to "a war injury". Dr McCurdie said he believed...

Neighbors of Alameda County site complain of garbage, no tax benefit By Matt Carter, STAFF WRITER To engineers and accountants, eastern Alameda County looked like a pretty good place to build a natural gas-fired power plant. The area is sparsely inhabited, and there's ready access to water, natural gas lines and the state's electrical grid. That helps explain why Calpine Corp. and Florida-based FPL Energy filed separate applications two years ago with the California Energy Commission to build 1,100 megawatt generating plants between Livermore and Tracy. One megawatt is enough generating capacity to supply 750 to 1,000 homes. If built,...

<p>May 12, 2003 -- A Brooklyn woman stabbed her hubby to death early yesterday after he complained about her figure and how long she spent using the computer, cops said.</p> <p>Judy Thomas, 27, was in the bedroom of the pair's basement apartment on Hemlock Street in Cypress Hills around 1 a.m. when her husband, Jackson Thomas, berated her about the amount of time she spent on the computer, investigators said.</p>

MORGANTON - Authorities say a 41-year-old Burke County man assaulted his girlfriend, her mother and a neighbor until the girlfriend fought back -- shooting him in the buttocks.Dwayne Fleming is held on $50,000 bond, charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and misdemeanor assault.Fleming and his girlfriend, Tammy Gladden, had been arguing Wednesday morning at Fleming's home on Mill Race Road, south of Morganton, said Burke County Sheriff's Lt. John Suttle.Gladden went to her mother's house nearby, Fleming followed, and in the ensuing argument Gladden was beaten and kicked in the stomach and face with heavy boots,...

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From Our Correspondent GUJRANWALA – A constable of Elite Force shot dead four persons including his father and grandfather on a dispute Thursday. He was arrested soon after the incident. Constable Javed Iqbal was in love with a Christian girl Nusrat who was also having relations with Mohammad Yousaf alias Cukoo Butt. Javed Iqbal’s father did not agree on this marriage while Cukoo Butt was also not ready to end his links with Nusrat. Javed Iqbal went to the shop of Cukoo Butt and gunned him down. Here he found Rana Nasir, a friend of Cukoo Butt. He shot him...

I just noticed the family name of one of the Florida detainees--Butt. Butt was also the family name of the guy they arrested for taking photos of the WTC days before the 9/11 attack. Pakistani who took photos of WTC sentenced Is "Butt" the Pakistani equivalent of "Smith?"

Blind Psychic Feels Buttocks To Tell Future Man Says Backsides Can Be Read Like Palms A blind psychic claims he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks, according to a Local 6 News report. Ulf Buck, 39, is a German clairvoyant who claims a person's backside has lines that allow him to predict anything from financial fortune and family life to health and happiness. Buck said the lines on a person's buttocks are similar to those found on the palm of the hand. He said that he has trained his fingers to aquire the skill of reading buttocks....

A Pakistani man who spent hours photographing the World Trade Center days before it was destroyed was sentenced to six months in jail for immigration violations exactly one year after suspicions over the pictures prompted his arrest. Ashar Butt, 22, acknowledged that he entered the country illegally last year using an altered British passport, but his lawyers said he only came to the United States to start a new life. "He was an innocent individual taking pictures," said his attorney, Anser Ahmad. He added that Butt has already spent a year in jail and is eligible for release within a...

Tip O'Neill once said that all politics is local. Denise Majette's defeat of Cynthia McKinney is a true case in point. While McKinney's father, state Rep. Billy McKinney (D-Atlanta) and other anti-Semites would like to blame "the J-E-W-S" for the loss, Cynthia McKinney has no one to blame but herself. No amount of creative scapegoating can erase the simple fact that the voters of the 4th Congressional District chose Majette because McKinney did not represent us effectively. McKinney chose to divide us --- not to unite us. Nor can anything change the fact that many of McKinney's traditional supporters chose...

<p>RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) --  Four times in the last four years, Bashir Butt tracked down his son at training camps for Islamic extremists in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and begged him to come home.</p> <p>On July 9, police arrived at the Butts' modest home here and told them their son Kamran, 21, was dead. He died while attacking Christians leaving a church in Taxila about 30 miles west of Islamabad. Three Christian nurses were killed and a fourth was mortally wounded.</p>