Pony found in upstairs bedroom

Lancaster Evening Post: Pest controllers had to be called in fumigate a filthy house in Leyland - after tenants used a bedroom as a horse stable.

A landlord who evicted a family from the house for not paying rent was amazed to find a pony had been living in an upstairs room.

The house was left covered in horse muck and dog mess and swarming with flies after the tenants, thought to be travellers, moved out, taking the pony with them.

Pest controller Ian McGeorge, 56, had to spend an hour fumigating the property last week to get rid of the insects.

He said: “It was a two-up two-down type place with only a small garden.
“They must have had nowhere to keep the pony so they kept it upstairs.”

Self-employed Ian said it was the first time he had come across a horse being kept indoors in his 15 years as a pest controller.

Suzy Orman: Gold-star lesbian or virgin, you decide

In the Feb. 25, 2007, issue of the New York Times Magazine, financial guru Suze Orman revealed that she is a lesbian and has been with her partner, Kathy Travis, for seven years.

During the interview, which covered her latest book, Women and Money, due out at the end of this month, writer Deborah Solomon asked Orman if she is married, and Orman replied initially, “I’m in a relationship with life.”

Solomon then prompted, “Meaning what?” and Orman replied: “K.T. is my life partner. K.T. stands for Kathy Travis. We’re going on seven years. I have never been with a man in my whole life. I’m still a 55-year-old virgin.” full article

Maybe she was joking…a kind of spur-of-the-moment self-deprecating humor. But just in case:

Here are a couple of definitions to “straighten things out”:

VIRGIN:
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French virgine, from Latin virgin-, virgo young woman, virgin
Date: 13th century
1 a: an unmarried woman devoted to religion b: capitalized : virgo
2 a: an absolutely chaste young woman b: an unmarried girl or woman
3capitalized : virgin mary
4 a: a person who has not had sexual intercourse b: a person who is inexperienced in a usually specified sphere of activity <a virgin in politics>
5: a female animal that has never copulated

GOLD STAR LESBIAN:

Definition: A gold star lesbian is a lesbian who has never slept with a man and has no intention of ever sleeping with a man.

Next Word: Hasbian

See Also:
Stone Butch, Pillow Queen, Lesbian Life Glossary

What ever you decide, I can’t watch her…she gives me a headache.

I’d like to apologize for my home state

I humbly apologize for the recent news coming out of my home state. My girlfriend, of all people, gave me much grief about this last night, when I was just trying to catch up on the Olympics…

I would also like to state for the record that I grew up in Dallas, which is 175 miles from this town of Harrold, Tx, and although my father did indeed teach me to shoot a six-gun…I have never shot anything beside a tin can and a large amount of tequila.

Thank you for your understanding at this degrading time…

North Texas School Will Let Teachers Carry Guns

Houston Chronicle: HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.

Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.

In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.

Superintendent David Thweatt said the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and teachers without protection. He said the district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target.

“When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can’t defend themselves? That’s like saying ’sic ‘em’ to a dog,” Thweatt said in Friday’s online edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Thweatt said officials researched the policy and considered other options for about a year before approving the policy change. He said the district also has various other security measures in place to prevent a school shooting.

“The naysayers think (a shooting) won’t happen here. If something were to happen here, I’d much rather be calling a parent to tell them that their child is OK because we were able to protect them,” Thweatt said.

Texas law outlaws firearms on school campuses “unless pursuant to the written regulations or written authorization of the institution.”

It was unclear how many of the 50 or so teachers and staff members will be armed this fall because Thweatt did not disclose that information, to keep it from students or potential attackers. Wilbarger County Sheriff Larry Lee was out of the office Thursday and did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment, the newspaper said.

Barbara Williams, a spokeswoman for the Texas Association of School Boards, said her organization did not know of another district with such a policy. Ken Trump, a Cleveland-based school security expert who advises districts nationwide, including in Texas, said Harrold is the first district with such a policy.

The 110-student district is 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth on the eastern end of Wilbarger County, near the Oklahoma border.

The gay circus was in town…if you lived in Barcelona

life under the “big top”…

PinkNews: Circus performance is the latest art form to be given a gay treatment with the creation of a “new notion of circus based on male and female acrobatics and oriented to a gay and lesbian friendly audience.”

Promoters describe the event, which has taken two years to prepare, as “a show for people without prejudices.”

The Gay Circus will premiere in Barcelona on July 25th, during the EuroGames.

“For the first time in the world, a circus created for lovers of high-quality shows and of a culture for the emotional and sexual diversity, a contribution to the normalisation of homosexuality,” said promoter Irene Peralta.

“Currently, we can find references to Gay Games, ballet performances, theatre, literature and cinema with a homosexual oriented thematic.

“However, there’s no previous circus conceived from a gay angle and which aims at a wider audience in favour of a greater visibility of homosexuality.

“Gay Circus will transform the traditional understanding of the circus.”

The circus will perform nine two-hour shows in a big top that can hold 1,300 spectators.

The promoters claimed that “expressiveness, sensuality and poetry will fuse … achieving an up-to-date, modern and attractive aesthetic.

“Gay Circus flows like a dialogue between angels and devils, the eternal dispute between good and evil set now on a ring, with numerous references to literature, painting, dance, sculpture, photography, and cinema.”

Queen Latifah will marry her longterm partner Jeannette Jenkins

Zimbio: The National Enquirer states that Queen Latifah plans to marry her partner of five years, personal trainer Jeannette Jenkins, after the groundbreaking ruling in California that legalized same-sex marriages. Latifah has been notoriously tight-lipped about her relationship with Jenkins, and told Ebony Magazine that she was not going to comment on the rumor that Jenkins was her girlfriend. She didn’t deny it, she just got annoyed that someone even asked her the question…