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A self-described hip-hop/goth/pop and funk musician whose stage name is Black Madam was being held on $10-million bond and could face murder charges in the case of a London dancer who died last year after receiving an illegal buttocks-enhancing injection. Padge Victoria Windslowe was in court in Philadelphia on Thursday, a day after she was arrested while preparing to host what police described as a "pumping party" at which she planned to deliver more injections to customers. Police said that when officers arrested Windslowe, they also seized heavy-duty glue, needles, gloves and bottles -- items officials said were to be...

It was called the “First All-American Tush Tally,” an informal test to measure the behinds of two dozen New Yorkers to see if they could fit into the prescribed space in new subway cars made by Kawasaki. ..The problem of American waists that are too big for seats meant to accommodate them is certainly not new. Today, everything from love seats to toilet seats can be built bigger to accommodate wider profiles, and the seats offered on public transportation are no different. ..The airline industry has also spent years trying to balance passengers’ desire for bigger, more comfortable seating with...

Washington: Pakistani military had harboured Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with the knowledge of former president General Pervez Musharraf, former army chief General Ziauddin Butt has said.

A Utah bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.

What do the words sex, lavender, flatulence, quickie, butt, mango and pud have in common? They are among more than 1,000 words deemed so obscene by the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority that they have instructed mobile phone operators to block them from all text messages. It is a decision that has left many in Pakistan unsure whether to be staggered, amused or outraged. Social media sites such as Twitter have been flooded with posts about the decision. An unconfirmed list has been circulating online. Many of the words are sexually explicit but the inclusion of some words and phrases appear to...

Silicone implants that enlarge the buttocks sound risque, but they're also illicit and potentially deadly. A woman accused of offering just that service was recently arrested in a downtown D.C. hotel, according to court records. Federal authorities say women wanted 45-year-old Kimberly Smedley to give them injections of liquid silicone to "increase the size and shape" of their buttocks. Smedley usually performed the injections in hotel rooms and was arrested on Oct. 11 at the JW Marriott near 14th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue, according to an application for a search warrant to search items she had with her when...

I don't know about the political ethics or math skills of the UC Berkeley students who came up with the idea for an Increase Diversity Bake Sale, but they certainly know how to draw a crowd. The student Republican group that sponsored a race-based bake sale set to be held on the campus today must have been counting on raising more than just the cookie dough. There are few places in America more reactionary than a college campus, and among them, UC Berkeley is a leader. A bake sale flyer posted on Facebook last week linked the price of pastries...

Al-Qaeda fanatics may be planning a horrific 'Frankenbomber' suicide attack by implanting explosives into a human body. Defence analysts logged conversations between users of a online forum in which Muslim extremists debate terrorism methods which could beat new US aviation security checks. The alarming posts included one by a user who claimed to be a surgeon, promising a 'new kind of terrorism'. It called on bomb makers and doctors to create the perfect solution to murder 'larger numbers of unbelievers and apostates.' The post said: 'What is your opinion about surgeries through which I can implant the bomb... inside the...

Al-Qaeda Threat in Philadelphia? Philadelphia, PA June 27, 2002 — David Henry reports from the Action Newsroom. An Action News investigation reveals that a chain of jewelry stores operating in the Delaware Valley is being investigated by the FBI for possible connections to the Al Qaeda terror network. A series of raids were carried out yesterday in Philadelphia and across the state of Pennsylvania. The stores are mostly kiosks in shopping malls operating under the name "Intrigue Jewelers." They are all owned by Pakistanis under franchise agreements with a company called Gold Concepts, based in Pennsacola, Florida. Intrigue operates stores...

When I think of people well-suited to lead a crusade against declining public civility, somehow Whoopi Goldberg doesn't spring to mind. Yet there was The View co-host on Morning Joe today, promoting what Amazon describes as: "her new book of observations [that] takes a funny and excruciatingly honest look at how a loss of civility is messing with the quality of life for all of us." And sure enough, Whoopi engaged in a [seemingly endless] discussion with the MJ folks on the subject. Mika read a passage from the book in which Goldberg bemoaned the rise of "political incivility." Added...

NEWARK - Six women in New Jersey are recovering after they received buttocks-enhancement injections containing silicone used to caulk bathtubs. State health officials say the women, from Essex County, apparently underwent cosmetic procedures from unlicensed providers. Investigators have not determined if the cases are related. No arrests have been made. Instead of medical-grade silicone, the women received a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Police say two Florida teenagers are facing charges after 911 dispatchers heard them talking about breaking into cars when one teen's cell phone accidentally called 911 during the heist. Daytona Beach police say 19-year-old Stefanie Vargas and her girlfriend's 13-year-old brother, Kristian Amezquita, are charged with burglary to a conveyance. According to myfoxorlando.com , the crimes took place on Friday in the parking lot of a strip club at which Kristian's sister works. Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt says during the event, Vargas' cell phone somehow dialed 911 and that dispatchers listened as the pair discussed...

Note: Photo included. SNIPPET: "Bout and American-born pal Richard Chichakli were accused of creating a new business, Samar Airlines, which they thought was clean of any connection to their own bloody dealings. Starting in the summer of 2007, Samar Airlines started making deals for airplanes and crews to ferry contraband between the United States and Tajikistan, the indictment said." SNIPPET: "The Russian-born Bout is accused of wiring $1.7 million from bank accounts in Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Russia through banks in New York City and Salt Lake City to finance the scheme." SNIPPET: "Bout, who is accused of supplying weapons to real...

A Missouri teenager frustrated with his classmates' sheep-like following of a popular clothing line came up with his own parody apparel and now faces a lawsuit for trademark infringement. Jimmy Winkelmann, 18, said he's not intimidated by threats of a lawsuit from The North Face Apparel Company over his 2-year-old company The South Butt, LLC. (ABC News Photo Illustration)Jimmy Winkelmann said he has no intention of complying with the cease and desist request sent last month by lawyers for The North Face Apparel Corp., saying his 2-year-old business -- The South Butt LLC -- poses no threat to it. "I...

An Asian man who called police officers "white redneck hooligans" has been found guilty of making racist remarks.     Butt turned up at the scene on Parr Lane, Unsworth, Greater Manchester last year, shortly after his brother was taken away by police Hassan Butt, 29, also accused officers of acting "like the Gestapo" and asked them: "Why are you treating me like a Paki?"Butt, who once admitted having claimed he was a terrorist to make money from the media, was convicted of committing a racially aggravated public order offence by District Judge Diana Baker at Manchester Magistrates Court....

To be filed under the category, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Democrats are going to say, "He's not looking at her butt! He's looking at... well, he's looking at something on the floor!!!" And I say, "Not with that look on his face, he isn't. And don't think Sarkozy doesn't know exactly what's going on, either." There are many Democrats who laud the Clinton era, and yearn for a return to that gilded age when the streets were paved with gold. There are flaws with their memories, of course: a comparison between the Bush and Clinton years doesn't...

MOSSAD'S KILLING MACHINE COMES TO BRITAIN A killing war between Israel's Mossad and Islamic fanatics came closer this weekend in Britain. The Israeli intelligence agency has sent four members of its kidon assassination squad to this country, to join fifteen other handpicked katsas, its relentless field agents. Their brief is to "disable" any of the "close to 50" British Muslims that the extremist Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun, last week boasted were ready to carry out suicide missions similar to the one in Tel Aviv. Al-Muhajiroun spokesman, Asif Butt, said the 50 were "primed and ready to go". The threat was sufficient...

BALTIMORE – A man alleging a Maryland doctor stapled his rectum shut during an operation — causing him to go without defecating for 17 days — took his federal lawsuit to trial Monday in Baltimore. Ronald Watkins, 64, of West Virginia, is suing Manuel Casiano, a doctor in Frederick County, for allegedly botching a 2004 surgery that left Watkins with permanent bowel problems. “The reason for suing Dr. Casiano is very simple: His rectum was stapled shut,” said Julia Lodowski, who with attorney Emily Malarkey is representing Watkins and his wife, Brenda.

As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were kissing and making up last Friday, Bill Clinton might have had other ideas, according to a report in The (London) Telegraph. The paper reports that even as the former president and the current presumptive Democratic nominee prepare to meet to make their own amends, Bill Clinton reportedly told close friends Obama can “kiss my ass” to get his support. The paper cited an anonymous Democratic source who provided the quote. That source also said Clinton is not making the primary effort to bridge the chasm between himself and Obama. “He’s saying he’s not...

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U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue. The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted "multiple, close-up views" of the woman's "nude buttocks" according to an agency order issued late Friday. ... FCC's definition of indecent content requires that the broadcast "depicts or describes sexual or excretory activities" in a "patently offensive way" and is aired between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The...

~~~Snip~~~ No one at the 28th annual Mooning of Amtrak seems to know exactly why they pull down their pants every time a train goes by. ~~~Snip~~~ Exhibit A: Gramma Charleen Sandoval of Chino says this about her 10-year-old grandson who's mooning with her: "He was practicing last night in front of the house." ~~~Snip~~~

Marshalltown, Iowa (AP) -- Police blame a woman named Butts for stealing toilet paper from a central Iowa courthouse, and while they're chuckling, the theft charge could put her in prison. "She's facing potentially three years of incarceration for three rolls of toilet paper," Chief Lon Walker said, stifling a laugh as he talked to KCCI-TV about Suzanne Marie Butts. "See, I can't say it with a straight face." Workers had noticed the rolls disappearing from the Marshall County Courthouse much faster than usual, Walker said. Butts, 38, was caught last week after an employee saw her taking three rolls...

THERE are a few exceptions which will always stand out, but most female stars yearn for a diminutive derriere. However, it appears that the small and slender bottom is very much a recent trend after an archaeological discovery revealed how Stone Age pin-ups were far from size zero. Ancient carvings depicting the female form 15,000 years ago reveal that prehistoric women were revered for their curvaceous bodies and prominent buttocks. The most popular were the cave-dwellers’ equivalents of Kylie Minogue (pictured), whose renowned behind is the world’s most popular posterior. Historians claim that the carvings – found at a site...

New Yorkers got to kick President George W. Bush's butt on Thursday, sort of. Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside. The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass".

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher makes the Dixie Chicks sound like bosom buddies of President George W. Bush. Politics being politics, it's easy to dismiss the antipathy liberals have for Mr. Bush. But Bush has lost the support -- and even the respect -- of Mr. Rohrabacher. The California Republican is serving his ninth term and has a lifetime score of 95 from the American Conservative Union. He also has had it with a commander in chief who prefers surrender to being the defender of America's defenseless border with Mexico. Rohrabacher said the minute two unjustly convicted men who had been Border...

Never one to let his work fall between the cracks, a British bum researcher has published two scientific formulas for the perfect posterior. David Holmes, a high-profile psychologist from Manchester Metropolitan University, says the female behind can be assessed using the equation: (S+C) x (B+F)/T - V, which takes into account shape, circularity of buttocks, "bounce factor," firmness, texture of skin, and vertical ratio. Proportion, calculated by dividing waist measurement by hip measurement, is also significant. The closer the ratio is to 0.7, the more likely the woman's derriere is "sexily proportioned." "The litmus test for the perfect female bum...

BISBEE — As Congress has taken up the issue of immigration reform, the Mexican government of President Vicente Fox has been anything but a disinterested bystander. When the House of Representatives approved a bill in December that would have built 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and made it a felony to reside illegally in the U.S., Fox denounced the measure as shameful. His foreign minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, went further and called it stupid and underhanded. After thousands of marchers took to the streets of U.S. cities last week to protest the pending immigration legislation, Fox’s spokesman,...

MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Too much "junk in the trunk" isn't just a cosmetic concern anymore. Excess buttocks fat, especially in women, can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines, painkillers, contraceptives and anti-nausea drugs that are typically injected into the buttocks' gluteal muscles, researchers report. "We are the first to report that the majority of intramuscular injections into the buttocks are not effective in the Western adult population," said Victoria O. Chan, a researchers at The Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and the lead researcher on the study. She said obesity is the big reason drugs often...

Three men detained on terrorist suspicions still under investigation Sheriff Hunter said he had new information on the trio before the medical students appeared on Larry King Live Tuesday, September 17, 2002By MIREIDY FERNANDEZ, mmfernandez@naplesnews.com Just hours before the three men who were detained in Collier County on suspicion of carrying explosives appeared on CNN on Monday night, Sheriff Don Hunter said he had new information on the trio, whose alleged joking comments about a terrorist plot ignited fears across America last week. "We believe the information (in this case) is not over because of other uncorroborated information we have...

A WOMAN WHO was branded with part of Con Edison's logo after falling onto a burning hot Manhattan manhole cover is suing the utility. A lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Con Ed of allowing the manhole cover at E. 13th St. and Second Ave., to become excessively hot through a buildup of steam under it. Elizabeth Wallenberg, 27, suffered "excruciating pain, disability and grotesque cosmetic disfigurement," according to the suit, which seeks unspecified damages. The fall left Wallenberg with a "C" and "O" and part of the manhole grid burned onto her back, just above the buttocks,...

Kylie Minogue diagnosed with breast cancer May 17, 2005 SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo immediate treatment, her management team said. ADVERTISEMENT Her tour of Australia was postponed following the announcement. A statement from Minogue's management said the 36-year-old's diagnosis was confirmed this week during a visit to the southern Australian city of Melbourne. "Whilst at home in Melbourne with her family this week prior to her Australian Showgirl Tour, Kylie was diagnosed with early breast cancer," the statement said. In the statement, Minogue said: "I was so looking...

Bogota, Feb 1 (EFE).- The mayor of a northern Colombian town was wounded in the buttocks when a pistol in his pocket accidentally discharged while he was taking down his pants to use the toilet at a small general store, the local press reported Tuesday. Rafael Augusto Galan, mayor of Ramiriqui, was recovering in a hospital in the provincial capital of Tunja following the embarassing mishap Monday.

<p>At least three men reportedly were taken into federal custody in two Pensacola malls as the FBI and the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service initiated a nationwide sweep Wednesday.</p> <p>Witnesses said plain-clothes agents closed Intrigue jewelry vendors at Cordova and University malls, Wild Things at University and possibly other shops.</p>

It's 10 minutes before the show goes live on the air, and nobody predicted the developing dilemma. The show's gossip reporter is having second thoughts about dropping his pants on live television to have his buttocks read by local television psychic Professor Jose Miranda. What about reading it over my underwear?" asks the reporter, clearly upset and looking very serious. "I can't see the lines. How do you expect me to give a reading?" the oracle answers, just as serious. "I have to see the lines." Following an ardent debate, the producers of the phenomenally popular and raunchy late-night talk...

I am starting a grammar thread at the behest of Xenalyte and TheMom. Post your most irritating pet peeves of grammar or usage here.

Ditto, Tom...Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle says goodbye.     This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

SAN FRANCISCO - In the strange world of Schwarzenegger-era politics, it seems only fitting that the Republican governor, who rode to fame making tough-guy action films and who's been accused by dozens of women of being a serial groper, could get away with standing before a state women's conference and boast that he had angered a group of nurses because he was "always kicking their butts." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the remarks in Long Beach last week as he opened the first day of the California Gov.'s Conference on Women and Families, an annual gathering hosted this year by his...

.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow. The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides appearing in shop windows across New York. Bootylicious figures clad in tight low-rise jeans have spilled from the city's street fashion stores into more established labels. "It's absolutely the trend," said Dwight Critchfield, creative director for mannequin firm Goldsmith. "These mannequins look great, and there is a real sex appeal about them." The recent pop culture fixation on large bottoms has been around since at least 1992, when rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot scored a hit with "Baby Got...

MIDI - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SO NICE - (60s, left column) (INTRO) My butt has just been hit by rice...it hurt, I'm not kidding you I hope it doesn't happen twice...I think I know what to do I'll take my Smith-Corona to my room Pretending I survived a mighty boom...facing doom My butt has just been hit by rice...I think I get a purple heart I hope it doesn't happen twice...I'm glad I'd done my part I'll take my Smith-Corona to my room Pretending I survived a mighty boom...facing doom My butt has just been hit by...

NAME THIS GUN, win a date with Nadler.

Tired of being sniggered at, people from French villages whose names sound like 'filthy swine' and 'my arse' plan a weekend get-together in a tiny hamlet whose name means 'eat onions' in old French. The idea, local newspapers say, is for the villagers to form a united front against constant teasing and forge a new pride in their colourful toponyms. Only villages "with suggestive names that evoke a smile, a laugh, or have a singsong folkloric name" can take part, say organisers, who plan a gourmet market to show off local fare. The organisers say they do not want the...

Doctors in Australia have urged people to not to attempt Jackass style stunts after a man burnt his genitals in a firecracker accident. The 26-year-old Australian man suffered a fractured pelvis and severe burns when a firecracker exploded between the cheeks of his buttocks. The incident has left the man, from Illawarra, New South Wales, incontinent and unable to have sex and he is expected to remain in hospital for several months. Dr Robert McCurdie, who operated on the man when he was taken to Wollongong Hospital, likened the man's condition to "a war injury". Dr McCurdie said he believed...

Neighbors of Alameda County site complain of garbage, no tax benefit By Matt Carter, STAFF WRITER To engineers and accountants, eastern Alameda County looked like a pretty good place to build a natural gas-fired power plant. The area is sparsely inhabited, and there's ready access to water, natural gas lines and the state's electrical grid. That helps explain why Calpine Corp. and Florida-based FPL Energy filed separate applications two years ago with the California Energy Commission to build 1,100 megawatt generating plants between Livermore and Tracy. One megawatt is enough generating capacity to supply 750 to 1,000 homes. If built,...

<p>May 12, 2003 -- A Brooklyn woman stabbed her hubby to death early yesterday after he complained about her figure and how long she spent using the computer, cops said.</p> <p>Judy Thomas, 27, was in the bedroom of the pair's basement apartment on Hemlock Street in Cypress Hills around 1 a.m. when her husband, Jackson Thomas, berated her about the amount of time she spent on the computer, investigators said.</p>

MORGANTON - Authorities say a 41-year-old Burke County man assaulted his girlfriend, her mother and a neighbor until the girlfriend fought back -- shooting him in the buttocks.Dwayne Fleming is held on $50,000 bond, charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and misdemeanor assault.Fleming and his girlfriend, Tammy Gladden, had been arguing Wednesday morning at Fleming's home on Mill Race Road, south of Morganton, said Burke County Sheriff's Lt. John Suttle.Gladden went to her mother's house nearby, Fleming followed, and in the ensuing argument Gladden was beaten and kicked in the stomach and face with heavy boots,...

She is being interviewed---telling her story.

From Our Correspondent GUJRANWALA – A constable of Elite Force shot dead four persons including his father and grandfather on a dispute Thursday. He was arrested soon after the incident. Constable Javed Iqbal was in love with a Christian girl Nusrat who was also having relations with Mohammad Yousaf alias Cukoo Butt. Javed Iqbal’s father did not agree on this marriage while Cukoo Butt was also not ready to end his links with Nusrat. Javed Iqbal went to the shop of Cukoo Butt and gunned him down. Here he found Rana Nasir, a friend of Cukoo Butt. He shot him...

I just noticed the family name of one of the Florida detainees--Butt. Butt was also the family name of the guy they arrested for taking photos of the WTC days before the 9/11 attack. Pakistani who took photos of WTC sentenced Is "Butt" the Pakistani equivalent of "Smith?"