Lt. Gov Bauer on Myspace.com...

It seems that Bauer can not keep his nose out of the media recently. First we learn that he has a thing for driving fast and now the media is getting wind of his myspace.com site. I mean this guy is running for re-election, you would think his campaign team would advise him not to do things like this because he has some stiff competition this year with Jordan, Barber and Campbell. But Bauer must think different and he must think 'bad publicity is good publicity.'

I ran across this from another site and decided that it was something that this readership should look at. It seems our Lt. Gov is a myspace member and seems pretty active on the site with a great fan base (notice all the young ladies as fans). I am glad that the state's second in command is using his time wisely. I hope he is time 'on the clock' when updating his profile or on the site..... I found it interesting and you guys check it out and let us know what you think...

http://www.myspace.com/ltgovernorandrebauer

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Lt. Gov. Bauer will now be known as 'speed demon'...

Seems are Lt. Gov has a heavy foot...I mean 101 mph while using a police radio to communicate to the cop chasing you.....that takes some serious skills (and balls!).

I saw this article today at YGA Today (part of The State Paper).........here is the text:

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer was pulled over - but not ticketed - by S.C. Highway Patrol doing 101 mph on the night of Feb. 25, after using the police radio in his state vehicle to try and communicate with the trooper pursuing him, according to documents obtained by The State this morning.
The failure of the trooper to give Bauer a ticket for speeding prompted Jim Schweitzer, director of the Department of Public Safety, to issue a memo last week to all officers that the "driver's status as a public official or prominent individual ... should never dictate the enforcement action taken."

Efforts to reach Bauer early Tuesday afternoon were unsuccessful. He was presiding over the Senate's session. When asked last week by The State if he had been pulled over by highway patrol in Chester County in the past several weeks, Bauer said, "Nope. I don't know why it's going around."

Bauer also was stopped, but not given a ticket, by Highway Patrol on Dec. 26 in Laurens County. According to the video of the stop obtained by The State, Bauer was told he was driving 77-78 mph. In that instance, he was driving a silver 2006 BMW, and told the trooper, when asked for his license and registration, that he might have a gun in the glove box.

A 'Gamecock' loses his job...

A fellow Gamecock lost his job today, by choice though. I hate to see him go but with Bush's poll numbers dipping below 40% and the media eating away at Iraq coverage, immigration and other 'hot topics'....it was just a matter of time before someone in the aministration was replaced. Seems that Josh Bolten will get the nod to be the new Chief of Staff. Card was there for close to 5 years which is unusal for a Chief of Staff, the longest serving Chief of Staff was President Harry Truman's (served six years). Read more if you like at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189307,00.html
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060328-085941-4204r.htm

Testing in Golf....

I recently read this article discussing the issue if the PGA Golf Assoc. should 'test' for steroids in the wake of different sports scandels involving particpants cheating to advance themselves (i.e Bonds???). I think it is time for the PGA to look into something like this. Not saying that any player is cheating but you have to have something in place to discourage 'potential' abuses before they happen.

You guys read the article and you guys respond....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/rick_arnett/03/14/inside.golf/index.html

The next 'Mike Tyson'.....

Okay this story is a mixture of funny and sad. Funny that this three year old girl is beating the crap out of a 5 year old boy and it is being video taped yet sad that the parents are behind this and shouting instructions. You decide.....

In Texas (yet again....anyone else notice strange things happen in Texas....wait I am from Sc...can not talk much on that one)......A Fort Hood soldier and his wife have been accused of injury to a child for allegedly forcing their 3-year-old daughter to beat up an older boy as they videotaped it, Killeen police said.

The fight allegedly occurred Saturday while the couple babysat for the 5-year-old son of a friend, police said. When the boy's mother arrived to pick him up, she turned on the couple's video camera, which had previously been used to tape the children playing.
Police said the tape shows the soldier commanding his daughter to knock the victim down, kick him and hit him in the face. The girl follows her father's instructions as the boy cries and pleads for her to stop, police said. The tape also shows the man declaring his daughter the "winner," and he shoves the boy and demands to know why he didn't defend himself, police said.

Look out Mike Tyson.....

Wet T-Shirt Contest Gone Bad...

Bay County (FL) sheriff's deputies made their first lewd and lascivious arrests of spring break.
It started with a wet t-shirt contest that took place Tuesday night at Hammerhead Fred's bar on Thomas Drive.

Investigators say the male DJs and customers used alcohol to help encourage the female participants to remove the t-shirts (old college trick), expose themselves, and allow the audience to fondle them and bite their breasts (interesting?). Capt. Rickie Ramie of the BCSO Special Investigations Unit explained, “They had taken a contest and basically there were females up there performing oral sex on one another, that was the original complaint. (Complaint? I guess the person inside the bar wanted more and did not get it so he/she complained) And we sent in a couple of investigators in at the time to see what was taking place. Inside they saw, certainly things that would be classified as violations of the law." Deputies arrested six people. Thirty-two-year-old Charles Ray Bunch of Panama City is accused of solicitation for lewd and lascivious conduct by the contestants. Seventeen-year-old Jacqucin Strong of Orange Beach, Alabama was arrested on nudity and indecent conduct. Also charged were: Louis Adrian Green, 34, of Essixville, Michigan, Christopher Scott, 21 of Saginaw, Michigan, Dianna Chang , 23 of Naperville, Illinois, and an Illinois man was charged with resisting an officer without violence.

I bet mom and dad our proud....

The bigger the Fro ………

Guess who is back with a even bigger afro, no need for a helmet this season

Peanuts and breast-milk....

That is what has been served up on the genda under the State House Dome this week....I am glad that our legislators are getting 'down to business' in Columbia this week and enacting some 'good laws'. I mean who cares about government spending increases or addressing the re-paving of roads across the state....let's foucs on 'nutz' and 'breasts'.....the articles follow.....give us some feedback on these topics. Should peanuts or moon pies be the state snack and what do you the readers think about breast feeding in public?

Boiled peanuts could become official state snack food
Associated Press
COLUMBIA - The slimy, juicy boiled peanut is on its way to becoming South Carolina's official state snack food.

A Senate committee passed a bill Wednesday that would recognize 'that this truly Southern delicacy is worthy of designation as the official state snack food.' The bill defines the snack as peanuts, still in the shell, immersed in boiling water for at least an hour. It doesn't say whether you should open the slick shells with your hands or teeth. 'Boiled peanuts are a delicious and popular snack food that are found both in stores and roadside stands across the state,' according to the bill. The proposal, passed by the House last month, now moves to the Senate floor.
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Senate panel approves breast-feeding bill
Associated Press
COLUMBIA - A bill to allow mothers to breast-feed their children in public without being ordered out of sight passed a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. The measure, approved by the House last month, allows women to breast-feed anywhere they have the right to be and exempts breast-feeding from indecent exposure laws.

"I think this is a good public policy statement here," said Sen. Joel Lourie, D-Columbia.
Advocates hope it will encourage mothers to breast-feed, rather than bottle-feed, their children. They testified today about the health benefits of breast-feeding to both the mother and child.
"Anything we can do to help women feel comfortable breast-feeding benefits society," said Dr. Harvey Kayman, a pediatrics professor at the University of South Carolina's School of Medicine.
Mary Beth Mullaney says women often go to a hot car in 90-degree weather or sit in a dirty public restroom to breast-feed because they fear being asked to leave. Mullaney, a lawyer, said she did not feel comfortable breast-feeding her 5-month-old son when she moved to South Carolina from New York because of the dirty looks she received. "We need the support from the state," said Dawn White, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina Breastfeeding Action Committee.

South Carolina is one of just 11 states nationwide with no law on breast-feeding, she said. The state ranks near the bottom nationally in the percentage of women who breast-feed.
The bill was written after a clerk at a Victoria's Secret store in Mount Pleasant last year suggested that a woman go to a bathroom to nurse her child.
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