http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obscenity/ en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:14:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408975/posts The New York Democrat muttered the word "bitch" after a female flight attendant asked him to turn his cell phone off before takeoff, a House GOP aide who witnessed the incident told the Web site. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408975/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:14:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279786/posts Sharing an obscene sexual fantasy over e-mail is a federal crime that enjoys no protection under the First Amendment, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a decision that drew sharp dissent from one judge and potentially set the stage for a Supreme Court appeal. In a 10-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear the case of Dwight Whorley, a Virginia man whose criminal trial marked two firsts for the American justice system: the first conviction for possession of obscene Japanese manga, and the first for authoring pornographic fiction and sending it over e-mail. Gregory... http://comicsblips.dailyradar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279786/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:09:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259422/posts DAYTON, OH—A federal grand jury here has indicted Marc Norman Greenberg, 32, Centerville, alleging that he transmitted obscene images in interstate commerce between February and April 2009. Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau ofInvestigation (FBI), announced the indictment returned yesterday. The indictment alleges that Greenberg used computers at his home and office to engage in graphic sexual conversations and to transmit obscene images. Greenberg sent these images to individuals whom Greenberg believed were underage females, but were actually law enforcement officers conducting undercover investigations. The... Department of Justice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259422/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 23:50:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250510/posts The San Francisco Police Department says it will no longer tolerate lewd behavior – including public sex acts and nudity – at a July street fair sponsored by Folsom Street Events, the same group that puts on the annual Folsom Street Fair, a public celebration of sado-masochism. The event in question, the Up Your Alley Fair, is scheduled for Sunday, July 26, in San Francisco's South of Market District on Dore Alley between Folsom and Howard streets. Last year’s event resulted in multiple complaints to the Office of Citizen Complaints against patrol officers assigned to cover the event. Citizens complained... http://calcatholic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250510/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 02:55:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210311/posts Marrero, LA - Sheriff Newell Normand reports, on March 18, 2009 Detective Sgt. Curtis Pettigrew, the Police On Campus officer assigned to Higgins High School in Marrero conducted an investigation into allegations against a teacher at Higgins. According to witnesses, three students claimed they observed a teacher identified as Joey A. Lehrman, W/M, 22, of 701 North Salcedo in New Orleans masturbating alone inside of his classroom during his free period this same date. The students claimed they observed Lehrman through the glass window of the classroom door. Sgt. Pettigrew placed Joey Lehrman under arrest for Obscenity and transported him... abc26.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210311/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:37:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180558/posts If you’ve ever read President Obama’s Dreams From My Father, good for you. I couldn’t get past the foreword. I wish I had. Because today I discovered that there’s a fairly juicy little subplot in the book, involving one of Obama’s high school friends. Ray, a fellow classmate of Obama’s, was also bi-racial, and also trying to define himself. But what set him apart was his colorful manner of self-expression. Ray cursed like a _____________. This would all be snickerworthy enough, but it turns out that Obama actually read the audiobook version of Dreams From My Father. And that means... April Winchell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180558/posts#comment Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176371/posts Of course, California prison inmates are entitled to reasonable 21st century health care. Unfortunately for taxpayers, Clark Kelso, the federal receiver in charge of California prison health care, has, as state Attorney General Jerry Brown noted at a news conference last week, a "gold-plated wish list" for California's prison health care system. His Receivership wants to spend $8 billion to build seven hospitals, each the size of 10 Wal-Marts, which would create "a holistic environment," with "music therapy, art therapy and other recreation therapy functions," a music room, stress reduction room, game room and "therapy kitchen," with lots of natural... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176371/posts#comment Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:06:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2175467/posts LONDON, England (CNN) -- A medical ailment that has worried male members of string sections across the music world for over 30 years has been exposed as a hoax. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2175467/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:15:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155029/posts Protesting a Facebook ban on photographs of lactating breasts, mothers are staging a "nurse in'' today at the site's headquarters in downtown Palo Alto. A simultaneous "virtual protest" will be held online, when women change their standard Facebook snapshot to a photo of themselves nursing — or, in the spirit of the holidays, an image of Madonna with child. Even an image of any mammal feeding her young will do, say organizers with the group Mothers International Lactation Campaign. Facebook has removed these photos from members' albums and profiles, saying that displays of areola — the dark skin around the... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155029/posts#comment Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:11:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030813/posts A federal appeals court judge today recused himself from a closely-watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles, three days after acknowledging that he had posted sexually explicit material on a publicly accessible personal website. "In light of the public controversy surrounding my involvement in this case, I have concluded that there is a manifest necessity to declare a mistrial," said Alex Kozinski, chief judge for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. "I will recuse myself from further participation in the case and will ask the chief judge of the district court to reassign it to another judge." The obscenity trial in... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030813/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:18:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030474/posts An apology from the 9th Circuit judge for his computer collection of porn isn't necessary. He just needs to say, 'So what?' ...Judge Alex Kozinski's statements about the stash of sexually explicit images he collected and that the public (until this week) could view on his website have been varied, although not necessarily inconsistent: He thought the site was for private storage and offered no public access (although he shared some of the material on the site with friends). People have been sending him this stuff for years (implying that it just accumulates, like junk mail). He might accidentally have... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030474/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030273/posts In a saga with all the elements of a Hollywood thriller, an appeals court judge who is one of America's leading legal intellectuals stands accused of maintaining a public stash of online fetish pornography just as he has begun overseeing a criminal trial involving the distribution of sexually explicit scatological videos. Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Chief Judge Mary Schroeder during oral arguments in San Francisco in 2003. Kozinski is accused of maintaining a public stash of online fetish pornography. Opening arguments were getting under way in the obscenity case in federal court... New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030273/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029760/posts LOS ANGELES -- What violates community obscenity standards in the nation's reputed pornography capital? Federal prosecutors think they have a case. Ira Isaacs readily admits he produced and sold movies depicting bestiality and sexual activity involving feces and urine. The judge warned potential jurors that the hours of fetish videos included violence against women, and many of them said they don't want to serve because watching would make them sick to their stomachs. "It's the most extreme material that's ever been put on trial. I don't know of anything more disgusting," said Roger Jon Diamond _ Isaacs' own defense attorney.... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029760/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:36:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028870/posts (WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of artwork that is offensive.)(CNSNews.com) - Federal taxpayers are subsidizing a college in New York whose art school is currently displaying works that include a drawing of a man with a crucifix coming out of his rectum, a drawing of a man with a rosary coming out of his rectum, and rosaries decorated with penises. Over the last eight years, at least $4.6 million in federal tax dollars have been provided to the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, which is displaying the controversial artworks. Some of the money has come... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028870/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970671/posts NBC apologises for Jane Fonda's offensive word Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:38am GMT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television network NBC apologized for itself and actress Jane Fonda on Thursday after she used an offensive word on the "Today Show." NBC called it "a slip" and said they did not mean to offend audiences. Fonda was on the program on Thursday with playwright Eve Ensler to discuss Ensler's award-winning work, "The Vagina Monologues," in which women talk about their sexuality using frank language about their bodies and references to genitalia. "Vagina Monologues" has spawned a movement called V-Day that aims to... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970671/posts#comment Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:45:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965361/posts VIRGINIA BEACH -- Monday, Virginia Beach Police dropped obscenity charges stemming from two poster advertisements for Abercrombie & Fitch at Lynnhaven Mall. Police confiscated the ads Saturday, saying they violated the city's obscenity law because some of the models were partially nude. One showed a group of shirtless male models and one has his jeans low enough to show a part of his buttocks. Police say they received several complaints about the ads and had met with local store officials, in which police informed them they were in violation of the code. The window displays went up in 363 stores... WVEC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965361/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:33:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964248/posts Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges. Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded warnings to remove the images. The citation was issued under City Code Section 22.31, Bernstein said, which makes it a crime to display "obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles." He did not say what was being done with the pictures and when... The Virginian Pilot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964248/posts#comment Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:42:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921458/posts I finally paid attention to one of the annoying anti-smoking commercials from start to finish, and I noticed that they end with a film clapboard referencing their website Whudafxup.com. Now I'm no prude but that doesn't appear to be an appropriate message for public service announcements targeting children and young adults. They don't come right out and print the F word, but that's how it reads to me. Too much text-messaging I guess. I'm interested in any feedback regarding broadcasting regulations, or if anyone knows if the tobacco settlement money is being used to spread this message. These PSA's are... whudafxup.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921458/posts#comment Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:06:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1911947/posts A West Scranton woman could face up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300 for allegedly shouting profanities at an overflowing toilet while inside her Luzerne Street home. Dawn Herb, whose potty mouth caught the attention of an off-duty police officer, was charged with disorderly conduct recently, prompting her to fire off a letter to the editor and vow to fight the charge. “It doesn’t make any sense. I was in my house. It’s not like I was outside or drunk,” said Ms. Herb, who resides at 924 Luzerne St. along with her four young... Times Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1911947/posts#comment Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888043/posts Complaint Filed on Behalf of Firefighters Forced to Participate in San Diego "Gay Pride" SAN DIEGO, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that its West Coast Director, San Diego area attorney, Charles LiMandri, filed a sexual harassment and freedom of speech complaint in California state court on behalf of four respected San Diego firefighters. Charles LiMandri was also the Thomas More Law Center's lead counsel in the successful Mt. Soledad Cross case in San Diego. In July, four San Diego firefighters were ordered,... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888043/posts#comment Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:05:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850027/posts Hillary and Porn By Sarah Rode June 13, 2007 In Hillary Clinton’s America, pornography would be legal, accessible and protected. That’s the way it was while her husband was president, according to a woman who would know. Jenna Jameson is a multi-millionaire feminist businesswoman who has endorsed Hillary because under the Clinton administration her industry flourished. She is very critical of President Bush because his administration has not been kind to her line of work — the production and sale of pornography. Despite branching out into some mainstream projects, Miss Jameson is still considered one of the most famous porn... Concerned Women For America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850027/posts#comment Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835067/posts A Hong Kong decency watchdog had been flooded with obscenity complaints about the Bible. The Television and Entertainments Licensing Authority (TELA), which oversees the publishing industry, said it had received 208 complaints that text within the holy book was indecent. "I can confirm that the complaints were received," said a TELA spokeswoman. "The thrust of the complaints was that the Bible was obscene, that different parts of the Bible were offensive to readers." TELA refused to divulge details of the complaints, but local media reported that they referred to acts of violence, rape and cannibalism reputedly contained in the Old... abc.net.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835067/posts#comment Thu, 17 May 2007 13:10:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824021/posts JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS campaign event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824021/posts#comment Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:56:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1817638/posts <p>Avril Lavigne says #$%# clear as a bell on NBC's Saturday Night Live while singing her Top 5 Billboard hit "Boyfriend." Watch the tape.</p> NBC's Saturday Night Live http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1817638/posts#comment Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:00:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779286/posts In 1966, the Supreme Court was once again trying to define obscenity. Among other decisions, they revised an earlier definition to include the requirement that the material be "patently offensive." As usual, Justice William O. Douglas dissented, claiming that: "There are as many different definitions of obscenity as there are human beings, and they are as unique to the individual as his dreams." It so happened that I some leisure that spring, and therefore (malgré Justice Douglas) took it upon myself to formulate a universal definition of obscenity-thanks to some help from playwright Bertolt Brecht, artist Ed Kienholz, and fabulist... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779286/posts#comment Mon, 5 Feb 2007 05:19:00 GMT