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WHEN IT comes to women’s breasts and the ogling thereof by men, we’re not only not better now than we were in the bra-burning 1970s, we’re definitely considerably worse. The other month, not a day went by in the soaraway tabloid “newspapers” when we weren’t being presented with pictorial evidence of the supposedly racy “plunging necklines” of Holly Willoughby, fragrant presenter of Dancing On Ice, wearing the sort of evening gowns Brucie’s Anthea Redfern did on The Generation Game 30 years ago, inspiring no such similar glee.
The other week, Pamela Anderson’s breasts were being presented to Hugh Hefner for his 82nd birthday treat, Pamela performing a personal lap-dance for the grizzled tycoon, in the nude, at the Palms Fantasy Towers in Las Vegas. “He was stunned,” frothed hotel owner George Maloof, “and had the biggest smile I’ve ever seen.”
And now comes news of the “expansion” (fnarr-fnarr) into the UK of a chain of restaurants called Hooters, a US-born franchise that specialises in men being served their chicken wings by a smiling nubile with enormous breasts, wearing a comically tight T-shirt emblazoned with the word Hooters and Kylie-sized scarlet hot pants (tag line: “A fun place to work!”) Its first UK branch has now opened in Nottingham, where you’ll find plasma TVs playing manly sports (wrestling, basketball, darts) and a sticker above the fryer in the kitchen announcing “No Fat Chicks”. Which the “world-famous Hooters Girls” naturally think is hilarious, as well as naturally loving the perpetually drivelling innuendo slavering from the lips of their 21-year- old male core customer, possibly at a stag night, which they’ve officially told the company they endorse.
Hooters Girls, it turns out, have to literally sign up for the game, through the company contract that states: “My job duties require I wear the designated Hooters Girl uniform. My job duties require that I interact with and entertain the customers. The Hooters concept is based on female sex appeal and the work environment is one in which joking and sexual innuendo based on female sex appeal is commonplace. I do not find my job duties, uniform requirements or work requirements or work environment to be offensive, intimidating, hostile or unwelcome”. In other words: “So if it all goes horribly wrong and you decide you don’t like “entertaining” the customers, don’t bother us with your pesky lawsuits “

sundayherald.com

Friday, March 21, 2008 | Mayor Sanders touts crime is down. Police Chief Bill Lansdowne claims we will be fully staffed by 2010 or sooner. I completely disagree and here is proof!
Violence in San Diego for the week of 3-16-2008:
1.Man killed, boy injured in Clairemont shooting
2. Man dies after being shot in brawl in Mission Beach.
3. Two dead in rollover crash after driver shot and wounded.
4.Road rage incident causes two to get shot by cop.
These are just a few of the violent crimes reported on in San Diego. There was more shootings in Linda Vista, most likely gang-related as well as other violent crimes.
What is my point you ask? Violent crime has not subsided in San Diego and regardless what our mayor or chief of police say.
The San Diego Police Department is under staffed and the city is not well protected. You have heard the saying, “Rob Peter to pay Paul.” Well, that is what each police division does daily to meet minimum staffing for the San Diego Police Department!
And get this folks: Many times divisions still are under-staffed and you, the citizens are paying the price for it! This is no longer a joke or something that should be overlooked and ignored by you the citizens.
This city is in serious trouble. Summer isn’t even here yet, which is the time violent crime always seems to increase. It has started much earlier this year. With a recession looming, prices on everything skyrocketing, and unemployment up, the nightmare is just beginning.
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1. Jim wrote on March 21, 2008 6:07 AM :
"I encourage every citizen to get involved. You need to ask the beat cops how many are out there on any given shift. Its not uncommon for some areas to have only 2 or 3 officers for an entire division. Its a shell game and its getting worse."

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AVON PARK — Feagin Avenue needed to be re-paved, Bob Reisig thought.
When one of his employees at Florida Tire Terminal got a back injury after his forklift rode into a pot hole that reached all the way to the clay underneath the asphalt five years ago, he knew the 100-yard stub of a road needed work.
Last week, that and parts of 16 other streets were re-paved as part of a city-wide improvement.
Avon Park Public Works Coordinator Ted Long said the city’s now working on sidewalk projects, mostly on the south half of the city.
Both streets and sidewalk projects are selected in part by the number of residential complaints and, for the latter, on pedestrian traffic.
“We generally look around to see where the kids on the street are at,” Long said. “We’re trying to get the kids out of the streets.”
Long said his department is adding sidewalks along the west side of Lake Tulane, on South Central Avenue and on Wilhite Street.
Long added that the city will use part of a $200,000 transportation fund for the ongoing sidewalk construction. The $207,000 needed for the repaving projects were funded by a county infrastructure fund generated from a 1-percent sales tax.
Some area residents were happy to see the new sidewalks. Reyes Hernandez, who walks five or six miles a day around the city, found the concrete from McDonalds along Wilhite Street to be more comfortable than the grass shoulder he treaded upon earlier.
“This is the first improvement I’ve seen in years,” he said.
Reisig also thought the re-paved streets made the city look better, as well as safer for his employees, even if his street doesn’t normally get a lot of traffic.
“The only reason it’s really nice is because of the holes in the roads,” he said. “The road was just falling into disrepair.”

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