He Had A Dream And You Can't Share It
August 28, 2013 by
Much has changed and much has not.
Fifty years ago today I was pooping in a diaper and eating yummy mommy milk. In other words I was not contributing much to society. Such could not be said about Dr. Martin Luther King. I have written about him before. Not many people know that without Dr. King Star Trek may not have been worth watching. Simply put, no Uhura = no famous kiss which would probably mean no syndication and reruns. Also I've written how, froa strictly critical point of view, he actually write some better speeches than I Have a Dream. But we live in a world where lives are distilled to a sentence or two and then we move on. So, with Dr. King we get Selma, I Have a Dream and the assassination. Since that is so why aren't people glued to WTTW watching the speech in its entirety? Because you can't.
Josh Schiller, from the Washington Post, has the whole story.
Fifty years ago this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech. But in coverage of events celebrating its anniversary, the entirety of King's address will rarely be reprinted, if at all, nor will viewers see footage of his speech delivered in full.
A few months after King delivered the speech, he sent a copy of the address to the U.S. Copyright office and listed the remarks as a "work not reproduced for sale." In legal terms, this is also known as an unpublished work. He subsequently sued to enjoin two publishers from distributing phonographic reproductions of the address. One of the defendants, 20th Century Fox, had filmed and broadcast all of the speeches at the March on Washington at the request of the march's organizers. From that material, it had reproduced the phonographs that were the subject of the injunction. But a court ruled that, although King had addressed a large public audience in an unrestricted public forum, reproduction without authorization was an infringement of King's copyright. Performance of the speech, like the performance of a song or play in a public space, did not create a general waiver of King's right to limit reproduction under the 1909 Copyright Act.
Since 1963, King and, posthumously, his estate have strictly enforced control over use of that speech and King's likeness. A few years ago, the estate received more than $700,000from the nonprofit foundation that created and built the monument to King on the Mall in order to use his words and image. The only legal way to reproduce King's work — at least until it enters the public domain in 2038 — is to pay for a licensing fee, rates for which vary. (Individuals visiting the King Center can buy a recording of the "I have a dream" speech for $20. Licenses for media outlets run into the thousands.)
Although it has been the subject of at least two lawsuits — the King estate sued CBS and USA Today for their use of the speech, reaching undisclosed settlements — a court has never examined whether and under what circumstances the "I have a dream" speech may be used without authorization in what's considered a "fair use" exception.
Courts look at four factors for fair use: (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is for commercial or for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. There are no bright-line rules for fair use; each case must be examined on its facts. Courts have frequently recognized that fair use is central to the "progress of science and advancement of the useful arts" that is the principal tenant upon which copyright laws were created.
Recent jurisprudence has focused on the first and fourth factors, looking primarily at whether the secondary work that cites the material is "transformative." The threshold is whether the copyrighted material is used as an element, or ingredient, of a new work created for a different purpose and a different audience and whether a new aesthetic or further expression can be perceived by a reasonable observer.
In an important case in 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit found that a biographer of the Grateful Dead had made fair use of copyrighted concert posters and tickets whose illustrations are the instantly recognizable sort that observers associate with the band and the 1960s and '70s. The appropriated images "serve as histroadcast the speech ade orical artifacts graphically representing the fact of significant Grateful Dead concert events selected" by the author, the court said, and this use did not harm the first creator's economic incentives.
Playing a recording of King's speech as thousands march on the Mall, as happened this past weekend, is surely the sort of non-commercial, educational and historical use that Congress and the courts have frequently and rightly protected.
One can imagine many transformative uses of the "I have a dream" speech — from posting it in social media platforms for people to share and remark upon, to quoting the text in song lyrics or in a film, documentary or other artistic work to conjure the strivings for social equality that were the essence of King's speech and to celebrate a sense of shared accomplishment that followed.
As an attorney, I believe in respect for the law and observing copyright restrictions. But when it comes to observing the anniversary of such a public moment, one hopes that fair use will allow current generations to appreciate what happened 50 years ago this week and why it was such a moment in American history.
The public benefit of access to historical artifacts such as King's speech is undeniable. Any restriction on public access to the content of such a historical artifact should be enforced with caution.
While I agree with him that this is a historically important speech it is also the sole property of Dr. King's estate. The television stations that broadcast the speech made money. The original recordings made money. And so on. There is no reason Dr. King's family shouldn't reap the same benefits of the same source material.
That being said, there seems to be no reason not to have some fun with the whole thing.
The Gay Nazi Paradise
Zeig Baby!
We do live in a world of unintended consequences. You paint sections of your back yard gentle yellows and plant pretty flowers to attract birds and insects only to discover you've created a raccoon magnet. And then you discover that they're nowhere near as cute as they are in TV commercials. Well, this story here today exemplifies that only without the traditional tragic ending. In fact the idea was so poorly planned out as to be glorious in its execution. And, bonus for all, it ended up making a lot of people happy.
They were already gay.
Let's let Mark Adnum tell you the story of the gay, Nazi, beach lover's paradise.
In 1938 a Sicilian mayor did the local homosexuals an inadvertent favor, and all in the name of currying favor with Mussolini. Anxious to appear as fascist as possible, the mayor of Catania noted the "spreading of degeneration" caused by local gay dances and gay behavior at some of Sicily's gorgeous beaches and rounded up 45 guys from Catania and shipped them, handcuffed to leaky boats, 300 miles away, to the lovely island of San Domino in the Adriatic Sea. So far, so fascist, but as the months passed on San Domino, the men — far away from the prying curiosities of their devoutly Catholic family members, their employers and the police who kept watch on everything that moved in their hometowns — enjoyed something approximating a paradise.
This year a delegation of Italian gay and lesbian activists traveled to the island to pay tribute to the wartime internal exiles. And a graphic novel called In Italia Sono Tutti Maschi (In Italy Everyone Is Manly) was published in 2008.
"We notice that many public dances, beaches and places in the mountains receive many of these sick men, and that youngsters from all social classes look for their company," the mayor of Catania wrote in 1938. He went on (and on) about "a sexual aberration that offends morality and that is disastrous to public health and the improvement of the race." Finally, he declared that "this evil needs to be attacked and burned at its core."
No members of the penal colony are believed to be alive today. A book by researchers Gianfranco Goretti and Tommaso Giartosi, The Island and the City, details the verbal histories of some of the prisoners as well as those of several San Dominions, who remember the period when dozens of men, most of them gay Catanians, were interned on their island.
An islander who was a young boy when the first prisoners began arriving says:
We were curious because they were called "the girls." We would go and watch them get off the boat … all dressed up in the summer with white pants — with hats. And we would watch in awe — "Look at that one, how she moves!" But we had no contact with them.
Another islander remembers the daily 8 p.m. bell indicating the prisoners' curfew:
They would be locked inside the dormitories, and they were under the supervision of the police. My father always spoke well of them. He never had anything bad to say about them — and he was the local Fascist representative.
Giuseppe B., a San Domino inmate, told a part of his story some years ago to Italian gay magazine Babilonia:
In those days if you were a femmenella [obviously gay] you couldn't even leave your home, or make yourself noticed — the police would arrest you.
On the island, on the other hand, we would celebrate our Saint's days or the arrival of someone new. We did theatre, and we could dress as women there and no-one would say anything.
Giuseppe said that the outbreak of World War II in 1939 ended the internal exile program, and the men were returned to their home towns, where they lived under house arrest. According to Giuseppe, many wept when told they would have to leave San Domino and the lovers and friends that most had found there.
This blog post originally appeared in a slightly different form at Nightcharm.com (link NSFW).
In Italia Sono Tutti Maschi is available on Amazon. Check out a preview of the graphic novel here (in Italian).
I have been hearing bits and pieces of this story for years. But, since I don't speak Italian and am not gay, I never crossed paths with the graphic novel. Now that the whole story is coming out one can't help but wonder at how fortunate those men must have felt.
Even with the guards on site it's clear they were given immense freedoms, all things considered and, maybe for the first times in their lives, the chance to explore their true natures without fear.
There's no real explanation that I have found that specifies why the men were sent home at the start of the war. Clearly they would never be allowed to serve in the army.
Maybe the few guards were too valuable an asset after that? We'll probably never know.
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Headlines!
Elmore Leonard died this week. The internationally famous crime novelist was the master of the terse phrase. No florid, purple, prose for him or his characters. Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News once said "The next best thing to reading Elmore Leonard is re-reading him." So, in his honor (Elmore's, not Mike's), I'm going to keep things brief yet, hopefully, interesting. This week a variety of news stories have hit my desk that have left me kind of baffled. They all featured headlines that seemed to require no further story. Or, like "HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR" require so much additional information as to render the headline useless. Still, you have to admit, you're curious. What will shock absolutely no one is that all of today's headlines come from Florida. So, without further ado, let's take a peek at the Sunshine state.
Naked, one-legged man collapsed, died after rock-throwing ruckus, deputies said
God, Florida is just the gift that keeps on giving. In case you care, 55-year-old Norbert A. Chabannes was trying to rob homes in broad daylight by crawling across people's lawns and throwing bricks at their windows. He died because he cut an artery on a piece of broken glass.
Samurai sword-wielding, knife-throwing man lost it over missing can of shrimp
Jayson Laughman, 34, is our wannabe ninja. He was upset at being accused of stealing a can of shrimp. That sentence may be the 3rd most white trash thing I've ever written. Even WalMart is too upscale to sell canned shrimp.
Oh, he's in jail.
Search for Venice beach flasher leads to arrest of yet another beach flasher
You can see this happening in Venice Beach California. That is the home of the terminally weird. Venice Florida is the home of a major craft festival. It's where old people go to die. So I guess it won't surprise you to learn that the first flasher they busted was 76 years old. The one they were looking for was also old. They got him later that day.
Those are wrinkles you'll never unsee.
Deputies: Flasher busted at post office
As has been noted here before, Florida seem to attract flashers. There must be some sort of deviant magnet that only they are drawn to. I do have to share this bit of brilliant journalism with you from the story.
… they spotted Doy Goss Thomas, a 65-year-old Pinetta resident, standing next to his truck in the post office's parking area, exposing his 'package of junk mail" to customers as they left the building …
I wonder how long the writer has been waiting to use that line. And, given that it's Florida, how he didn't manage to use it sooner.
Cops: Key West tourist yelled racial slurs, gave Nazi salutes
He's from Ohio. Just so you know that not all the crazies are from Florida. Like all racists, he's a big, tough, guy. Read below for further elucidation.
As the officer handcuffed Schaub and walked him to the patrol car, the self-described "Hitler Nazi" allegedly began to cry and accused the other men of making comments in order to provoke him to fight, according to police.
The big nasty Negroes made him feel bad. They were breathing his air and stuff. What other responses were appropriate?
The bonus is that his lovely wife was so drunk she couldn't tell cops where her husband was hiding. Cops found him in the bedroom of his hotel room.
Inmates busted for smuggling 'heroin in a breath strip' into jail under stamps
This was actually working until one inmate, clearly fiending for a fix, started begging for his mail. That would be the mail that had the heroin hidden under each stamp. That prison officials found. That led to numerous arrests.
Busted: Couple who used young boy to steal, cops said
Memo to people who want to try this at home; Hooters has cameras in every location and 10 year old kids stick out like sore thumbs in a place known for nothing but boobs and wings.
Sure, they're nice boobs, but they still don't blend with 10 year old boys.
So there you have it. Since we can't saw Florida off and let it float away, I guess we'll just have to enjoy it from afar.
The farther afar the better.
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SEX!!!!!!
Good technique, nice enthusiasm!
Most people have, at one time or another, had sex. It's part of our genetic makeup. Hell, it's how we got our genetic makeup. Granted, there is a small percentage, under 1%, of humanity that considers themselves asexual, and that's fine. That just leaves 99% for the rest of us. In fact, no matter how promiscuous you have been or may be, there are still billions of people you haven't boinked. So don't get too down on yourself. Still, our part of the world seems confused by sex. The TSA continues to confiscate the hand job enhancement kit known as the Shake Weight. I guess they're terrified that someone might bust into the cockpit and scream "Take me to Cuba or I'll yank your crank!" Say that whole sentence lovingly in your mind. It is truly a work of linguistic art. There are levels below levels hidden there. Of course, when beauty queens get arrested for bombing strangers, with actual bombs and not some cool allegory, maybe it's time to put the whole beauty before brains thing to a merciful end. Becasue, quite bluntly, good sex happens in your head. Think of the best orgasms you've ever had. They've all happened when you've been mentally engaged. Whether by fantasy or by a great partner, that's when good things happen. That's probably part of the reason that there are 428,000,000 pages of porn produced in the US, compared to 2,000,000 in Australia. Due to our repressive leaders we need to get our kicks somewhere. In Australia they have lots of nude beaches. No need for porn if there's nekkid peeps just down the block.
Of course, we are also a country founded on one of the great pillars of all western religions, charity. That's why it makes perfect sense that Benevidz, a porn site, is raising money to help those in need.
Porn sites get a rise out of people, but they usually don't raise money for charity.
That's changing thanks to Benevidz.com, a new website where porn performers donate a percentage of what they earn, er, on the job, to the charity of their choice.
Performers — or "cam girls" — can donate between 10 and 15 percent of what they earn during a web performance, a solo show or doing an online chat.
Benevidz.com will match 50 percent of the amount earned by the sex workers, and that could be quite a lot, according to spokesman Michael Wondercub, 23, a Denver-based entrepreneur who claims the porn business is a $5 billion a year industry.
Wondercub's estimate is quite speculative, since most porn companies are privately owned and don't release financial data, according to Theo Sapoutzis, the CEO and Chairman of Adult Video News (AVN), a trade journal that covers the porn industry
Still, Wondercub figures if the site can capture 1/10th of 1 percent of the adult entertainment market, it could mean more than $1 million in charities get donated If successful, the company estimates its charitable contributions will top $1 million dollars each year per cause.
Wondercub isn't just a college grad trying to make it in porn. He made money masturbating online while in school and found the experience positive.
"I liked doing it. It allowed me to express myself creatively while I was going to school," Wondercub told The Huffington Post.
The inspiration for the porn-oriented charity site came from an unlikely source: an anti-animal cruelty PSA by singer Sarah MacLachlan.
"My friends and I were thinking about a start-up and looking for ideas," he said. "When we saw Sarah MacLachlan on TV, we thought about doing porn for charity."
That was the easy part, but with porn, there's always a hard part. Wondercub and his partners are now trying to raise $15,000 in start-up costs via RocketHub.com, in hopes of getting the website ready for action by Oct. 30.
"We'd like to see 1,000 performers connected to the site within the first year," he said.
The concept is arousing the interest of at least one webcam performer.
Paige Little, who does web-based sex shows from her home in the Midwest for a rival company Streamate, thinks Benevidz.com is a promising idea.
"I have known of many performers that have donated show proceeds to charity," Little told HuffPost by email. "A whole network dedicated to charity would still need to stay creative in the content they provide in such a competitive market.
"Each performer and network has loyal followers and I hope that be the case with a network such as this."
Wondercub said he's getting interest from many webcam performers, and found six charities willing to accept money earned via masturbation videos.
"We have six charities so far," he said. "We're not announcing the names until the end of the month, but they range from animal shelters to groups that work with the homeless and to prevent domestic violence."
But while performers might be willing to work with Benevidz.com, online charity expert Sean Steinmarc suspects numerous charities might be reluctant to accept money they knew was earned by online sex workers.
"People just can't put up a logo of a non-profit and say they are donating to it," Steinmarc told HuffPost. "They have to get permission to use the trademark. I imagine the majority of non-profits wouldn't want to get involved. Some might accept the money anonymously."
But Wondercub strongly believes that combining two basic human drives, altruism and a mind in the gutter, is the ticket to making the world a better place.
"By providing millions of viewers a safe, high-class, user-friendly option for online erotica, we hope to reach our goal of becoming one of the largest charitable contributors in the world," he said, according to MedCityNews.com.
And the cool thing about this site is that the viewer need do nothing more than view. You have no idea how many guys can handle that task … as it were. And, ladies, you can get your bi-curious kink on in the safety of your own bedroom while making the world a better place. This is a win-win situation for all.
But maybe you're not altruistic when you've got your horn on. That's fine. Just head over to Zurich where you can hang out at the Sex Drive In.
Prostitution may be legal in Switzerland, but Zurich still wants to keep it off the streets.
In a bid to monitor the sex trade in the capital, the government opened Zurich's first sex drive-in Thursday, the Agence France-Presse reports. The partially enclosed booth, located in an industrial part of the city, is one of nine that will be officially unveiled during a ceremony on Aug. 26.
Zurich first revealed its intention to open the "sex boxes" in November after residents approved the plan in a referendum vote. The city diverted 2.1 million Swiss francs (more than $2.2 million) to the project.
Similar to a car wash, drivers must first pass a checkpoint, where they will negotiate the rate, before proceeding to one of the nine booths for some private time. Each sex drive-in is equipped with an alarm so workers can immediately notify authorities in case of emergency. Security guards and social workers will also be on hand.
The sex stalls are expected to be open daily from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Women working at the drive-in will be required to pay for a permit and medical insurance, along with a nightly tax fee of five Swiss francs (about $5).
The set-up is part of an ongoing effort to regulate prostitution in the country. Last July, for example, the Swiss government amended its criminal code to make it illegal to pay a 16 or 17-year-old for sex.
"The big difference is that until now prostitution has been in the public space," Michael Herzig of Zurich's social welfare department told Swiss Radio last year, according to The Telegraph. "Now we are going to change this, move it from the street to a private space in an old industrial area, which belongs to the city. This gives us the possibility to define the rules of prostitution in this area."
How far we've come from when I was kid. Back then if I wanted to have sex in a car I had to find a willing partner, a spot in the woods or behind a factory and pray that the cops didn't make rounds that night. None of this communal boinking for me. Oh well, what can you do? Times change and tinted window sales are going to skyrocket in Switzerland.
But what if all of the above is too classy for you? What if you, like all of us, not only have had sex in a public bathroom but now want to make it a feature of your next first date? Well, I have good news for you sunshine. A guy named Matt Jones has set up a tour of public toi-tois for folks to frolic in. And it seems he's going to get rich as sin off the idea.
A British dating website is attempting a new way of connecting singles that even they admit is crappy: Toilet dating.
The London-based site, DoingSomething.co.uk, is pairing up with a company called London Loo Tours to offer monthly "toilet nights."
Toilet Dating combines a singles night with a pub crawl and a sightseeing tour of the city's most interesting bathrooms, the Metro reported.
According to a press release, folks who sign up for the excrement-oriented event will endure tons of toilet puns and learning the ins and outs of toilet history from Roman times.
Participants will also learn tricks for finding free public restrooms in London.
DoingSomething founder Matt Janes is flush with excitement about the possibilities.
"Nothing would be more awkward than having a first date in a toilet… until now," he said, according to Cosmopolitan.co.uk.
"We've given the London loo scene the ultimate DoingSomething.co.uk makeover and are encouraging Londoners to not be down in the dumps and try this new dating experience."
As you might expect, toilet dating is inspiring a lot of cheeky responses, such as this one from a HuffPost UK blogger known as The Guyliner:
"I suppose it doesn't hurt to start a date where most of them end up: swirling down the pan with the whiff of, well, let's call it failure … I'd never be an advocate for couples lying about where they met, but I'd probably glam this one up a bit – I'm not sure even those mythical grandchildren we're all saving up our stories to tell wouldn't be that impressed. At least there will be alcohol."
The next Toilet Dating session is set for Sept. 6 with others planned in the future. If the concept doesn't crap out, there are plans to spread it to other cities with suitable public bathrooms.
And that slams the lid of this news leak.
I think this is a great idea. It gets all eh awkward stuff out of the way at the beginning and gives you some historical perspective with all the talk about Roman toilets. Like I said at the beginning, sex is all in your head. So if you're getting smarter as you're getting drunker you are due for an outstanding round of rumpus.
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A Constitutional Right to Bare All?
I admit to having my fair share of quirks. Some are socially acceptable others are not. That puts me on par with pretty much everyone else. The trick we learn as we grow up is when it's okay to share those charming tidbits of your personality. For example, it is considered impolite to share your epic fart making ability in church. It is, however, a skill well lauded at a frat party. In France one has to draw a fine line between what is and is not acceptable. It is clearly against the law to sell breast milk over there but a lady has come up with a unique way around it. She is offering to let gay couples rent her milky breasts to feed their kids. Since she is, technically, selling a service and not the milk she's legal. If, however, she were to offer her milky breasts to adults for a fee that would be illegal. It's all so confusing. It's no wonder therapy is the fastest growing profession.
Since we're in Europe and discussing breasts, let's head over to Jolly Old England where cops are hunting for a woman who maliciously flashed a car full of kids.
British police said they don't get many female flashers but they have the photos to prove just such an incident occurred at a West Midlands supermarket.
The woman who allegedly exposed herself to a car full of children recently also had her picture taken by the kids' mom before she fled, the BBC reported.
"This is a very serious crime and we would appeal to anyone who may know this woman to call us," Police Sgt.. James Proffitt said. "Why she did this still remains unclear and this is now an opportunity for her to contact us and explain."
The incident appeared to have its roots in a minor parking lot tiff in Smethwick between the woman and the 33-year-old mother. Words were exchanged and the alleged flasher unzipped her jacket to reveal she was wearing nothing else, the report said.
The flasher then took off but not before the victim snapped two photos of her, which were turned over to police.
Proffitt said the mom and her kids – ages 13, 12, 10 and 4 – were "shocked" and the incident was being treated as a sexual assault.
Ah yes, you nicked my car I'll show you my boobs. That makes perfect sense to me.
Almost as much sense as our next story. Closer to home, in the great state of New Jersey, 56 year old Wendy Tucker flashed a set of security cameras.
Police in New Jersey said they arrested a woman accused of flashing her breasts to security cameras being monitored by dispatchers.
Barnegat police said dispatchers saw Wendy Tucker, 56, "get out of a car in the middle of Lexington Boulevard, pull up her shirt and bra, exposing her breasts while facing several security cameras" around 2 a.m. Wednesday, the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press reported Tuesday.
Lt. Keith Germain said the video footage also depicts Tucker "looking up at the cameras while extending her middle fingers to the cameras."
Patrolman Michael Diblasi located Tucker's car and took her into custody. Police said she was wanted on an outstanding warrant from Atlantic County and was charged with an additional count of lewdness.
A word of advice for those of you playing along today; if you have outstanding warrants, attracting police attention is a bad idea.
Still and all our flashers thus far have been relatively harmless. Thankfully, we've still got Florida so we can change that. This next story speaks for itself.
Police in Florida said a man ran up to a woman on a beach trail while garbed in nothing but a homemade mask.
St. Lucie County sheriff's deputies said a woman told police she was walking on a South Hutchinson Island beach access trail Wednesday when a man wearing nothing but a mask ran toward her and stopped a few feet away, TCPalm.com reported Friday.
Deputies stopped a white pickup truck matching a description of the suspect's vehicle and a mask found on the truck was identified by the victim as the one worn by the flasher.
Augustine Whelan, 42, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure. Police said he admitted to the incident.
"Whelan advised he has urges to expose himself to others in public," the arrest report states, "and that he has been arrested previously for the same thing."
Well, since we're in Florida and discussing criminal penises, let's just head down the road a spell and catch up with Broderick Cameron Furlow who exposed himself to a child and then, because him smart, hunted her down on Facebook and asked her to drop the charges.
This went about as well as you might expect.
Police in Florida said a man accused of exposing himself to an underage girl sent her a Facebook message asking her to "please drop the charges."
The Bradenton Police Department alleges Broderick Cameron Furlow, 25 — who was arrested in May for allegedly exposing his genitals to the girl at a bus stop — sent her a Facebook message Tuesday asking her to drop the charges, or at least fail to show up in court, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.
"Hey, I don't mean to bother you, and if you don't respond I won't bother you again," the message reads. "But is there anyway possible that you could please drop the charges against me, or not show up in court. I'm doing really good with my life now. I'm going to school at MTI now. I started in August and I really, really want to finish school so I can start a career and move on with my life and start a family. I'm really a good man, and if you knew me, u would think the same."
The message, which asked the girl not to "show this to the cops," resulted in the man being arrested again Tuesday on a charge of tampering with a victim, police said.
Well, darn! She showed it to the cops anyway. You never know who you can trust these days.
Okay, those people creeped me out. Let's get back to Illinois where the flashers are fun. Shelley Lewis and Alicia Binford decided that golf was dull but that topless golf had hopes. Sadly, police disagreed with them.
Police in Illinois said two women accused of exposing themselves on a golf course were arrested on indecent exposure charges.
The Madison County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a call around 2 p.m. Monday about two women allegedly exposing their "sexual organs" to golfers at the Woodlands Golf Course in Alton, KMOV-TV, St. Louis, Mo., reported Tuesday.
Deputies said they arrived to see Alicia Binford, 43, and Shelly Lewis, 45, both of O'Fallon, Mo., exposing their breasts.
The women were each charged with public indecency and ordered held in lieu of $100 bond.
There is no way that a group of middle aged golfers called the cops on that. Especially when they are both pretty good looking. You could prove it to me and I still wouldn't believe you.
Oh well, let's close as we began, with a woman flashing other people's kids.
A couple were arrested in Davis, Calif., after the woman allegedly flashed juveniles riding by on bicycles while the man videotaped the action, police said.
As young bicyclists on a popular Davis bike trail rode by Wednesday morning, Wenyi Xu, 30, opened her jacket to show she was wearing nothing underneath, and her accomplice, Nicholas Bowen, 61, recorded the action. The peep show had a specific target audience, juveniles, and one young rider fell off his bike when he saw the nude woman, police said.
A city parks worker allegedly saw the pair and called police. Xu and Bowen were arrested and charged with indecent exposure, annoying a child and engaging in lewd acts in public, KOVR-TV, Sacramento, reported.
Okay, see, here's where this goes off the rails. Wanting to see your hot gal pal naked, I get. Wanting to see her naked with kids, I don't.
Hopefully I'm not alone on that one.
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Fun With Mormons
August 9, 2013 by
I googled "sexy Mormon" so you don't have to.
When people think of Mormons, if they do so at all, they tend to think of staggeringly dull people like Mitt Romney. Or, if you're a fan of musical theater you might imagine socially inept clueless people who have no business in Africa. But there is much more to consider. Orson Scott Card is a Mormon. He wrote a fun loving series of wildly popular books, called Ender's Game, that are based on the government weaopnizing children so they can commit genocide. Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon. She wrote a family friendly set of masterpieces called Twilight that show folks how nice it is to have 100 year old men have sex with teenage girls. Glenn Beck is a Mormon. He writes wildly popular historical tomes that get lots of facts wrong. In his defense, he has noted that facts sometimes get in the way. Now, you may have noticed, that all of these people are popular outside of their community. And, as others have noted, popular doesn't necessarily equal good. Of course these people could be Mormons in the same vein that Anne Rice is a Catholic. Anyone who's read her book Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel, and I pity those who have, knows that she may have skimmed the New Testament and then hit the Internet to fill in some of the gaps.
Nevertheless, like all good religions, Mormons forbid lots of stuff. As with most others booze, broads and boinking top their lists. Brady MacCombs tells us a fascinating story of how the police in Salt Lake City, Mormon capital of thee universe, used their crack investigative skills to stop an impending horror.
A Utah man who police say ran a speakeasy out of his garage for years in the middle of a suburban residential neighborhood has been arrested after he sold drinks to an undercover officer.
Jared Williams, 33, of Sandy has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of running a business without a license, court records show. He was arrested on June 13 by several Sandy police officers who converged on his house.
Police had been hearing about problems in the neighborhood for some time, but finally got a specific tip about Williams' house in May, said Sandy Police Sgt. Jon Arnold. The undercover officer went there in early June and had a drink alongside about 10 other people.
The man behind the counter identified himself as Jared and reportedly told the officer he had started the bar with his father in 2006, show records obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune. Arnold said Williams had a regular full-time job and opened the bar in the evenings.
Williams' speakeasy was known as the "Dog Bar," named for a bulldog painted on the garage door.
Sandy police seized 106 bottles of liquor, 77 cans of beer, a Jagermeister shot machine, nearly $750 in cash and a cash register, records show.
Police made the case a priority because of the problems that come with having a bar in an area where children play and families live.
"Adults can have parties and hang out. There is nothing wrong with an adult having an adult beverage," Arnold told The Associated Press. "But obviously, when you have a bar in a neighborhood, that creates problems. … Sometimes people don't make good choices when they are out drinking alcohol."
Williams' attorney, Christopher Ault, told The Associated Press that the charge is minor and unworthy of the public attention it is receiving.
"The fact that is has become some community uproar is interesting," Ault said.
He declined to discuss any details about what happened because the case is still playing out in courts. He said he hasn't seen the evidence that prosecutors have, and doesn't know why more than a dozen Sandy police officers went to Williams' house to make the arrest.
Calls to a phone number listed for Williams were not answered.
Utah restricts permits for bars based on population quotas. That's just one aspect of the state's notoriously strict liquor laws, which are rooted in fears that easing the restrictions could lead to more underage drinking and drunken driving.
The majority of Utah legislators and residents belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which teaches its members to abstain from alcohol.
Local police usually handle these types of arrests and there is no statewide tally, but clandestine bars seem to be very rare in Utah, said Dwayne Baird, a spokesman for the Utah Department of Public Safety.
That may be because Utah residents take great pride in their neighborhoods and aren't shy about reporting unsavory activities to police, Baird said.
"If they hear that some guy has decided to open a bar on their street, neighbors there are going to say, `Not in my neighborhood you're not,'" Baird said. "With the culture that we have here you are not likely to get away with it."
Okay, you can ignore the hyperbole at the end. Instead I want you to note that the owner of the bar admitted to having been in business for 7 years. That's a long time. And, according to the cop who made the initial bust, there were 10 people in the place when he got his alleged drink.
And, still, they needed to get a tip with an address attached to find this place.
How freaking hard could it have been to find if there's only one house on the block with ten cars parked in front of it?
My guess is that there's one of these places on every block and, far from people turning their neighbors in, they're stopping by for a cold one or two before they head down to 500 West North Temple Street (yes, that is a real address) to hear the Tabernacle Choir.
Dating is Hard
First dates are usually awkward like this.
I've been single for a few years now. And, yes, I have dipped my toe in the dating waters. One thing that hasn't changed since I was younger is that some people feel the need to shade the truth a little or couch the truth in phrases that make things seem different than they are. For example, I went on a date with a woman who said "legally separated" but I heard "still married." She said "new job" and I heard "unemployed for years." She said "small family" and I heard "four young kids with no direction." Oddly enough there wasn't a second date. On the plus side, she paid since I'd bought her drinks the night before. So, all in all, free food and being seen in public with a beautiful woman wasn't painful. So there's always that. Unfortunately for her drama is on my No Fly list.
Here's a quick fun fact for you that has nothing to do with dating but will give you pause for thought. New York City lost to Utah when it tried to set a record for the number of people who were willing to parade around in public with nothing on but their underwear. Over 2,000 Mormon participated compared to around 700 New Yorkers. You will never think of Mitt Romney the same way again.
Anyway, speaking as I was of dates gone wrong I fiure we should start out with a date that went so wrong that the police became involved. Paul Marquez, a clearly rational person of high moral turpitude, became upset at his girlfriend so he tried to sell her baby on Craig's List.
A 22-year-old man angry with a woman he dated posted photos of her 2-month-old daughter in a Craigslist ad and tried to sell the baby for $100, prosecutors said Monday.
Paul Marquez posted an ad entitled "baby for sale," prosecutors said. Marquez's posting acted as if he were the parent, said the baby loved to play and have fun, but had asthma and was "really getting on my nerves."
"I don't want her Please email me," it read, authorities said.
Marquez was charged Thursday by Staten Island prosecutors with endangering the welfare of a child, harassment and a social service violation of authority to place or board out children. He was being held in lieu of $1,000 bail. A call to his attorney wasn't returned.
According to the criminal complaint, Marquez, who works as a stockperson at a Victoria's Secret, admitted he posted the listing just to get back at the woman. The two met online and had been out a few times, but he apparently was angry because she wouldn't pay him enough attention, authorities said.
Prosecutors say Marquez gave the mother's phone number to a person who answered the ad, who then called the mother. She notified police. Staten Island investigators are looking into that person's request – the call may have been out of concern and not an illegal attempt to purchase a child.
There was no indication Marquez actually meant to sell the infant.
The posting was located in the Staten Island section of Craigslist under baby and kid stuff, for sale by owner. It was flagged and taken down at least once, but Marquez reposted it, authorities said.
Marquez faces up to a year behind bars if convicted.
Really? A year? You'd think it would be more. I mean people are drawing hard time for having a joint, selling a baby seems to be worse. But that could just be me.
Just FYI, there are web sites dedicated to Clown Dating, people who love hot sauces (a site my boss avoids like the plague), a site limited to people who will beautify the gene pool (not too arrogant are they?) and many, many, more.
In other words, if it's your kink there's someone willing to share.
There's even a site dedicated to clown porn, so you'll never feel alone.
But what about our young? Do we jut leave them to discover sex in the backseat of a car like we did?
Of course not. We live in an enlightened society where we groom our young to be excellent citizens. Well, you do and I do. Citizens in Florida, and those located elsewhere for whom WalMart is too uppity, send their kids to camp to learn how to kill ala the Hunger Games.
Ever dream of becoming Katniss Everdeen? Well, now you have a chance to be just like her in real life. Sort of.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, kids at a "Hunger Games" camp in Logo, Fla., can now channel their inner tributes by participating in athletic and intellectual activities inspired by the hugely popular series.
Watch in the video above.
The camp, however, has raised concerns, as children were reportedly describing how they would "kill" and "stab" each other. Susan Toler, a clinical psychologist, called the camp "unthinkable," while Julie Miller of Vanity Fair described it as "disturbing."
After noting that the "violence the kids had expressed was off-putting," the camp announced a change to the rules: Instead of "killing" each other, campers would "collect" lives. Still, during a recent tournament, one crying 11-year-old claimed that he was kicked and "stepped on."
"I'm not entirely sure that isn't normal kid behavior," writes Rebecca Pahle at The Mary Sue. "All I really know about kids is that they're little humans and that I used to be one. I never pushed anyone to the ground and stepped on them… "
Ah yes, stomping on the injured is just kids tugging on pigtails, the modern version.
By the way, lazy linguists, "collecting lives" is a euphemism for killing. You're just lucky that your clients are too stupid to know what a euphemism is.
Oh well, it's Florida. Thanks to the educational system there none of their kids have ever read Lord of the Flies or this could be a lot worse.
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