The blouse clowns are safe! Former Miss California Carrie Prejan has dropped her lawsuit against the Miss California pageant and their officials, and the Miss California Pageant dropped their lawsuit to recover the cost of Prejean’s breast implants.

Keith Lewis, executive director of the Miss California USA and Miss California Teen USA organizations, released this statement:

Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis, and K2 productions have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors. We are moving forward from the past and looking towards the crowning of two winners and the new look of the upcoming Miss California USA pageant, telecast live on November 22^nd

TMZ reports that

the pageant will fork over around $100,000 for Carrie’s lawyers and publicists connected with the public battle royale. That money goes directly to her flacks and not into her bank account. We’re told Carrie personally gets zilch.

Plus the pageant won’t fight Carie’s “tell-all” snooze fest book which comes out Monday.

It’s a tight race for civil equality in Maine. Per the Bangor Daily News, at 10:21 Maine time, 172 of 605 (28 %) of precincts have been reported.

UPDATE: With 38% reporting:

Yes: 112,112 (50%)

No: 112, 376 (50%)

UPDATE (11:33 pm EST): With 65% of precincts reporting:

Yes: 196,957 (51.54%)

No: 185,163 (48.46%)

UPDATE (12:23 am EST): With 80% of precincts reporting:

Yes: 242,921 (52.44%)

No: 220,336 (47.56%)

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A clerk at the Family Christian Bookstore in Simi Valley, CA was arrested this weekend on charges of peeping with a recording device. Joseph David Ramon Moreaux hid the camera between boxes in the bookstore’s unisex bathroom, inadvertently taping himself placing the device.

A women customer contacted the Simi Valley Police after noticing camera, and officers are now obtaining a search warrant for the store. The police are reviewing the tape trying to figure out how long it has been in place and how many victims may be involved. Moreaux was cited and released.

I guess the clerk could argue the camera was in place to catch thieves who might carry books into the bathroom and then hide them down their pants, but what kind of person would shoplift Christian books? I mean, really! They’d have to be at least as blasphemous and hellbound as someone trying to make smutty toilet tapes in a Godly chain bookstore…Maybe the Devil made him do it!

A South Carolina politician was caught in a cemetery with a stripper. And sex toys. And Viagra.

Roland Corning–a former state legislator who served in the 1990s and has worked as an assistant attoney general in the Attorney General’s office since 2000–drove away in a hurry when approached by a police officer in Columbia, SC’s Elmwood Cemetery, which known around town as a discreet spot for recreational sex and drugs.

He was stopped by several squad cars, and Officer Wines searched the car under probable cause after he his companion is necromatic necking–an 18 year dancer from the Platinum Plus Gentlemen’s Club–gave conflicting reports about what exactly they were doing in the bone yard.

Corning, one of those sexy Republicans that seem so prevalent in South Carolina nowadays, explained that he had sex toys and his doctor-prescribed Viagra in the car

just in case.

He then showed  Officer Wines his badge to prove he worked for the Attorney General’s office. As does Wines’ wife. Officer Wines called his wife to make sure Corning was legit (oh face it, he was calling to tell her the juicy gossip!). Mrs Wines in turn told her supervisor. Do you get the feeling no one at work really liked Corning?

Attorney General Henry McMaster said:

We received credible information about inappropriate behavior Monday afternoon and by the close of business he was no longer working here.

McMaster added a dirty adventure amongst the graves

would not be appropriate, at any time, for an assistant attorney general.

There will no further investigation.

The United States  Army is prepared to lift the ban on openly gay service if the Commander-in-Chief and the Congress decide to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, says Secretary of the Army, John McHugh.

When the Army Times  asked specifically

if lifting the gay ban would seriously disrupt the military, as predicted by those who oppose repeal, McHugh said there is no reason to think major turmoil would ensue.

“Anytime you have a broad-based policy change, there are challenges to that,” he said. “The Army has a big history of taking on similar issues, [with] predictions of doom and gloom that did not play out,” he said.

Cyndi Lauper strolls to the White House with Joe Solmonese from the Human Rights Campaign to meet President Obama and hear him talk about his signing of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Lauper’s True Colors Fund was one of the advocacy groups lobbying for the passage of the act which is now the law of the land. Violent hate crimes against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community will now be recognized and prosecuted by the Federal government. The singer reminds us

That if you rally, if you do the work, things can change, they really can. So don’t give up and don’t be afraid. Ever.

Levi Johnston seems pretty genuine in this interview with the Guardian UK. It’s audio only, and in it, Levi talks about how he expected to grow up and play in junior hockey leagues or become an electrician and then bam, he was in the middle of “high class” parties and meeting John McCain. But he didn’t much seem that impressed by it all; he knew he was dating the governor’s daughter and didn’t really care that much..

But he knows that Sarah Palin lies

You can catch her in a lie a lot of the time. She don’t read the newspaper. A lot of the things she’s sayin’, I know she’s lying.

He’s also come to realize that Palin was two faced about the way she treated him for the years he was dating Bristol Palin; that she might not have really liked him so much.

Levi also claims the ex-governor lies about what a big deal hunting family the Palins are, and discusses his own hunting experiences–something where he really comes alive and seems enthusiastic, talking about brown bears dropping dead at his feet and the radical mountains where he hunts sheep.

The father of Palin’s only grandchild, Levi is ready to go to court now to increase his access to son Tripp, which is the reason he went public earlier this years. He’s says the exposure helped some, but not enough:

It’s startin’ to get bad again. They’re making it kind of a pain in the ass again (to see Tripp). I know I’m gonna end up (going to court). There’re a lot of secrets and a lot of things that I haven’t put out there that are bad…so I don’t know if I want to. Some of the stuff I got, kept in, would either really hurt her or really get her in trouble. So, I really don’t want to say anything else. I’m not that kind of person, no matter how much she pisses me off. I don’t want to leak anything huge on her.

But he does leak on her a little, talking abut her post-election depression:

After the election, she didn’t want us to get married, really. You could tell that they’re all sad about everything. I don’t know, just her attitude towards everything was pretty down. I don’t think she had much care for anything for a while. She hung around in her room a lot. I think she just wanted to be left alone for a while. She just went through a big depression, I think. She was bummed out bad.

So bad that Todd would just go ride his snow machine to get out of the house.

Imagine if you had to ask 275,000 people’s permission to marry. Here’s Jill Barkley from Maine demonstrating this by asking her fellow Mainers for permission to marry her girlfriend Diane and thus to Vote No on 1, which would preserve the right for all couples to marry in Maine. The statewide vote happens Tuesday.

Like the previous No one 1 commercials, the newest video uses real Mainers, including an iconic fisherman and straight couples; while Stand for Marriage Maine, the Yes on 1 campaign, had to resort to stock footage for their latest ad showing happy families representing “traditional” marriage, as Jeremy Hooper from Good As You discovered. Maybe the ad agency which put together the piece couldn’t find telegenic Mainers who believe in denying their fellow citizens their equal rights and a chance at lifetime happiness.

The Stand for Marriage Maine ad states

It’s possible to support the civil rights of all citizens and protect traditional marriage at the same time

but yet doesn’t have any citizens of Maine in it! And with regard to “protecting traditional marriage,” in 2004 the Bostson Globe reported that in the Netherlands, where same-sex marriage has been legal since 2001, some opponents to civil marriage equality

have acknowledged that in the three years since gay marriage became a reality here, the institution of marriage has not collapsed, as many religious leaders and conservative politicians warned it would.

Thus far, specialists in domestic law, legislators, and some religious commentators say there is no empirical evidence of damage to the institution. For example, divorce rates are no higher, and there is no sign that conventional couples are shunning marriage.

It’s not that there’s an elite leftist media, or that liberals control arts, music and culture, it’s just that they’re better at it, as this video shows.

Who better to sit on you shelf next to your Michele Bachmann plastic figurine than an action figure of the late performance artist GG Allin. I bet when the lights are out as the teddy bears frolic, your GG toy will give the conservative simulacrum a mind altering lecture about art and politics!

Don’t be a fussy collector, take them out of their boxes and play with them! Have them go toe to toe, neck to neck as you imitate their voices and hold a lively debate. Allin, born in 1956, was christened Jesus Christ Allin by his father, so certainly his doll action figure has the right mojo to influence conservative nut-ette Bachmann who claims God speaks to her….

Sadly, as of October 13, Michele’s doll has only sold 50 copies!  Emil Vicale, the CEO of HeroBuilders, which created the Bachmann doll on the heels of their highly successful Sarah Palin action figure–Palin moved 10,000 units in 24 hours at the height of  2008 campaign–had this to say about Bachmann:

I’ll tell you this, she’s no Sarah Palin

Manufacturer of the Allin figure, Aggronautix–they also create collectible images of underground pop culture icons like the band the Dwarves and lead singer Milo from the Descendants have a less capitalistic stance on marketing the GG Allin action figure. It sells for half the cost of Bachmann and is a limited edition:

The figure, limited to 500 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall and is made of a lightweight polyresin. Loaded into a full color “splatter” box, here GG is accurately sculpted right down to the tattoos, and copious amounts of blood and filth.

Speaking of blood and filth, HeroBuilders also has a Dick Cheney doll, complete with a shotgun.