"Like An Amsterdam Hash House" Says Mumpower

For those of you outside Asheville, you won't recognize Dr. Carl Mumpower, part of the potentate class of the City of Asheville, our lone Republican, usually (but not always) the 1 in the 6-1 votes, and of late, our self-appointed drug czar.
But that is an actual quote by the suited crusader, made after "observing" this weekend's Ratdog show at the Asheville Civic center.
Now I am not going to even speculate on how the upstanding Dr. Mumpower knows what an Amsterdam Hash House smells like any more than I will wonder why he seems to have some kind of obsession with drug use among poor people, young boys, and men's rooms. Oh yeah, he likes to know what the police department is up to also... way more than his job description in the city council requires, it seems.
So good Dr. Carl (psychology if you were wondering) glommed tickets to Ratdog so he could monitor the drug use, the police response to such drug use, and, you guessed it, the men's room situation.
Thank goodness we are safe from whatever hell would have befallen us without his beneficent intervention.
According to the ironically-named Citizen-Times, there were a number of arrests for drug-related offenses, as reported here. There was no mention of arrests made at previous, non-Mumpower intervened concerts, nor if that number of arrests was normal for a concert.
So, breaking news here....
There is drug use at rock concerts.
Stay tuned for more episodes from the suited crusader.

Thank Goodness. Another Mt. Hood Diversion

3 Mt. Hood Climbers Await Rescue

From the NY Times, Via AP...

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) -- Three climbers who fell from a ledge on snowy Mount Hood were huddled in their sleeping bags early Monday as rescuers waited for daybreak to zero in on their position despite blowing snow and ferocious winds.

Rescuers reached the general area where the three climbers had found shelter behind rocks earlier Monday, a day after the climbers fell, said Russell Gubele, who was coordinating communications for the rescue operation.

''They're not far away from the climbers,'' he said.

Look for FauxNews to be on this one 24/7 .

UPDATE

Okay, so they got down fast.
I am glad for them.

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) -- Three climbers who tumbled off a ledge on Mount Hood were taken away in an ambulance after they hiked down much the state's highest peak with their rescuers -- and a dog who may have saved their lives.

''We're soaking wet and freezing,'' said one of two rescued women as she walked from a tracked snow vehicle to an ambulance. Authorities have not released their names, and it was unclear where the ambulance was taking them.

Rescuers using an electronic locating device found the three climbers and their black Labrador, Velvet, in the White River Canyon on Monday morning, where they had holed up overnight at about 7,400 feet, officials said.