The Daily Hijinks

Cross-dressing Wiccan official sparks Christian mission probe. We don't see too many of those around here, but the story is set in W. Virginia, a center of cosmopolitan life:

A Christian mission serving homeless people since 1939 is under investigation for discrimination because its walls are adorned with crosses and other religious imagery.

The probe was prompted by a city fair-housing investigator, who also happens to be a cross-dressing Wiccan openly contemptuous of mainstream religions, the Charleston, W. Va., Daily Mail reported.

Most religious shelters, including this one, do not require attendance at services and haven't for some time. But that's never good enough for the diverse. But wait, there's more:

Last year, the Charleston paper said, the mission provided a place to sleep for thousands of people and served more than 82,000 meals. It also provides spiritual guidance and holds daily worship services.

The commission voted last month to scrutinize the mission's policies, which include barring drugs and alcohol and not allowing unmarried couples to sleep in the same room.

As opposed to what, exactly?

And there's good news from just across the border - Mexican army deserters wage war for border city:

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Members of an elite Mexican army unit have deserted and formed a drug gang, using their military training to launch a violent battle for control of this border city, says Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutor.

The war for Nuevo Laredo, right across the border from Laredo, Texas, is unlike other recent drug conflicts — it's a turf war involving most of Mexico's major cartels in broad alliances, it has the Mexican army fighting an organized unit of former comrades, and it has cost American lives.

Well if things get too hot, they can always move to California!

Which reminds me of Mark Steyn's latest:

I am not a resident of California, but, if I were, I would have voted for Arnold. Wait a minute, what am I on about? You don't need to be a resident to vote. If you're a British tourist on holiday in Mexico, all you have to do is make it across the border and, under one of Gray Davis's desperate last-minute pre-election ethnic panders, he'll give you one of his free driver's licences for illegal immigrants, no questions asked, with which piece of identification you'll be able to bluff your way into the voting booth.

It's easy Mark. Just yell "I'm being disenfranchised!" The Democrat poll "watcher" will handle the rest.

Bashar Assad: The evil moron who's running Syria. 'Nuff said.

Global Warming Litigation Heating Up:

Just-terminated California Gov. Gray Davis announced last weekend that the state will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over global warming. Nine other states and several eco-activist groups, including the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, are expected to join the lawsuit.

Gray Davis? The name sounds familiar, but I can't place the face.