I wish I had something clever and snarky to say…. but the headline just steals my thunder…

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers.

Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one of whom went by the name “La Parkita” — or “Little Death” — and wore a skeleton costume in the ring. The other was known as “Espectrito Jr.”

Authorities say two women were seen leaving the men’s hotel room before the bodies were discovered.

Prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera said Wednesday that gangs of female robbers are experienced at using drugs to knock men out and rob them, but they may have used too strong a dose.

That may have been because of the wrestlers’ small stature, although larger men have also died in similar crimes.

Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southern Utah, about 40 miles east of Zion National Park, and about 30 miles north of the border with Arizona, as the crow flies. The driving distances, as you might expect, are another matter. Unlike Zion, where the main road follows the bottom of the canyon, Bryce’s main road runs roughly north-south along the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, at the rim above the park’s namesake canyon and several others that cut into the plateau. The lower ends of these canyons connect to the Tropic Valley, to the east. Side roads lead to several overlooks and trailheads. This is the view southward from the overlook called Sunrise Point.

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KIRKWOOD, NY — State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up.

Troopers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood, of Carbondale, and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks, of Tunkhannock, after their getaway car ran out of gas while the were trying to escape late Monday night.

Piss poor prior planning…. and chocked full of irony…

As noted in Part 1, a seven-mile-long road extends northward into Zion Canyon from a visitor’s center near the southern entrance to the park. At the north end of the road is a place called the Temple of Sinawava, named for the coyote god of the Paiute Indians. Unlike many named features in the park, the “Temple” is not a rock formation, but an open area surrounded mostly by cliffs. From the end of the road, a paved trail leads visitors about a mile further up the Virgin River, as the canyon narrows into a steep gorge.
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Located in southwestern Utah, Zion is the state’s oldest National Park. The south entrance and visitor’s center are just northeast of the town of Springdale, on Utah state route 9. From the center, shuttle buses run up and down a seven-mile road extending into Zion Canyon, taking visitors to various attractions within the park or to trailheads where they can begin their hikes. Another set of shuttles connects the visitor’s center to Springdale. Beyond 2 miles north of the center, where route 9 veers off toward the east entrance, private vehicles are not allowed on the canyon road.
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I am sure the answer would go something like this:

“Um. Well. Um. Er. um. That’s above my paygrade….”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made clear that Russia was not prepared to sign up to a G8 statement condemning Iran’s handling of the election.

“No one is willing to condemn the election process, because it’s an exercise in democracy,” Lavrov told reporters.

Later, while answering a question about crime in various national capitals, Lavrov described a violent rape that had happened earlier in Moscow as “speed dating”.

I may have made that last sentence up, to steal Ace’s shtick.

Not the kind that illegally cross our border with Mexico, but the kind that allegedly crashed near Roswell, NM, and whose technology is thought by some to have been exploited by the US government in a place known as Area 51. Whether or not these aliens exist and have been here, Nevada state route 375 has been named in their honor.
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On September 11, innocent Americans were murdered by violent members of a polygamy-encouraging religion, who had no reservations about attacking civilians. Today, a memorial to that senseless massacre sits in an open field, as we assure ourselves that the vast majority of that religion’s adherents want nothing to do with violence. But this memorial is nowhere near the Pentagon, or Shanksville, PA, or New York’s Manhattan Island, where the World Trade towers once stood. It is in Utah, just off state highway 18, about 30 miles north of St. George. It was built to honor the people who lost their lives in September,
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Comparing Barack and President Sarkozy in their response to the Iran election fraud and subsequent coup d’état, were I the French parliament, I would pass a bill taking this:

and renaming it:

How far we have fallen…