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OK FReepers. KV has hand picked his costume for this years contest in our area. He has not entered this particular contest in 7yrs since he won 2nd prize the last time. So he is on the comeback. His choice is. The Custom Purple Pimp suit w/necklass bling Adorning his WC is Lil Acorns. He will have some Good Cigars on board (yes they can smoke them where he is going) For some reason he chose to have a life size stand up attached to the back of his WC of a box of Popcorn. As his careprovider/mom I am...

Entrapment n. In criminal law, the act of law enforcement officers or government agents inducing or encouraging a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal expresses a desire not to go ahead. The key to entrapment is whether the idea for the commission or encouragement of the criminal act originated with the police or government agents instead of with the "criminal. It's turning into quite the morning for NBCers to defend the left on Morning Joe . . . First, Chuck Todd flatly rejected the notion that the MSM failed to adequately report on Van Jones, suggesting coverage...

Now I'm confused. The anti-clean coal ad stated that there is no such thing as clean coal. The Hussein ad included video of him stumping for clean coal with the usual 'Yes we can' on the screen.

My previous story was about an ACORN worker arrested for prostitution in Cincinnati. I thought it an interesting fluke. But what do you know, it seems that prostitutes and Obama are quite an item. Majority of Allegheny prostitutes are on the Democratic side John McCain and Barack Obama, if you're wooing a population of registered voters who are young, female and drawn to men in suits, then Allegheny County has 675 ladies ready to pull your lever. They're convicted streetwalkers, escorts and brothel babes collared in 2000 and from 2003-2006, uncovered by the Trib. Based on the prostitutes' voter registration...

WASHINGTON — A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states' minority communities. In a Feb. 8 letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, NAACP chairman Julian Bond expressed "great concern at the prospect that million of voters in Michigan and Florida could ultimately have their votes completely discounted." Refusing to seat the states' delegations could remind voters of the "sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries," he said. The DNC penalized Michigan and Florida for moving their primaries to earlier dates in violation of party rules....

Fourteen-year-old Cara and her 15-year-old cousin, Stacy (not their real names) walked out of their homes in Toledo, Ohio on a rainy May day in 2005 to get milkshakes. A few blocks away, a couple driving a Lincoln Continental pulled alongside the cousins and asked if they wanted a lift. Believing the man’s claim to be a schoolmate’s father, the girls stepped into the car — and entered a nightmare world of sexual slavery. The couple drove the girls to a house and locked them in. As their families frantically searched for them, the teens were sold over and over...

Harry Potter and "the Death of God" - by Michael D. O'Brien Special to LifeSiteNews.com Editor's Note: LifeSiteNews.com, the news service which first put online the letter signed by Cardinal Ratzinger - now Pope Benedict XVI - against the Harry Potter books, is proud to present Michael O'Brien's latest essay on the Potter series.  The author, North America's foremost Potter critic, has written many articles that analyze in detail the Harry Potter novels. Here he reflects on the significance of the series as a whole. Well, July 21st has come and gone and the world is muggling onward. The date,...

Never will a presidential debate occur without at least a passing mention of “poverty” and the ideas that a politician has to fix it, which generally includes a significant expanse in federal government control. Poverty is awful, they say, but it also serves as the surest mechanism to keep our current crop of politicians in power. Who needs a government if the warm sun shined down upon us each day, and we all held well-paying jobs, drove nice cars and lived in 5000 sqft estates on the top of a hill? Who needs a government when people are happy and...

The sentencing today of an illegal immigrant caught up in an Eastern Shore prostitution ring turned into a debate on immigration policy.Javier Merino-Torres of Mexico was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison despite a plea for leniency from his attorney, who cited the employment and social needs fulfilled by his client and others like him.“He works here because there is no work at home,” the attorney, David Bouchard of Chesapeake, told the judge.“What I’m suggesting is that we have created a monster because our economy depends on these people,” Bouchard said.He suggested that the judge deviate from sentencing guidelines...

Rep. Mark Foley, a Florida Republican, has resigned abruptly from the House on the revelation by ABC News of “sexual” instant messages to underage male pages. The Democrats in Congress and in the media are trying to hang this albatross around the necks of Republican leaders, and Republicans generally. There is incompetent reporting, either accidental or deliberate, on this story. Foley sent e-mails to some pages that were not overtly sexual. Almost the entire press has failed to report the differences between e-mails and instant messages. Since most reporters use both methods of communications or can easily get information about...

Christine M. Flowers | A SCANDAL GOES DOWN IN PLAMES SCANDALS, like wool sweaters, tend to shrink when mishandled. An item that looked so sharp at first glance can lose its zing when thrown into the wrong spin cycle. And it's only when we pull it out, misshapen and ruined, that we realize last season's trendy purchase is this year's damaged goods.Take Plamegate, where the beautiful blond wife of an ambitious diplomat was unmasked as a CIA operative. Never mind the fact that Valerie Plame, Mrs. Ambassador Joe Wilson, wasn't exactly the spy who came in from the cold since...

August 24, 2006 -- The accused killer pimp charged with raping and strangling a helpless New Jersey teenager got some bad news yesterday - his hooker girlfriend has apparently given Jersey cops a detailed description of how he did it. According to a New Jersey governor's warrant, a witness has told cops that burly career con Draymond Coleman repeatedly punched his tiny victim - 18-year-old high-school soccer star Jennifer Moore - in the face, and then strangled her.

Grassley: 'It's a no-brainer to have the IRS go after sex traffickers' Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don't pay. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote Wednesday morning on the pimp tax. The bill also calls for more jail time for sex workers. If passed, the provision will authorize at least $2 million toward the establishment of an office in the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit to prosecute unlawful sex workers for violations of tax laws. SNIP Grassley said...

Pimps and sex traffickers could soon find themselves being chased by tax collectors, not just the vice squad. Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, wants the Internal Revenue Service to chase after pimps and sex traffickers with the same fervor it stalked gangster Al Capone for tax evasion. Grassley, R-Iowa, would hit pimps with fines and lengthy prison sentences for failing to file employment forms and withhold taxes for the women and girls under their command. The proposal would make certain tax crimes a felony when the money comes from a criminal activity. A one-year prison...

Rotation Slim sold ice cream to the whores who, in the 1930s, worked Pepsi-Cola Alley in his hometown, Birmingham, Ala. Slim was fond of whores; he had an affinity for them. In the Army, training in Texas, he'd slip down to Mexico, where women, sometimes girls, would give him what he wanted for 50 cents - half what the women charged on Pepsi-Cola Alley. Stationed in London during WWII, Slim had a knack for finding women whose houses had been bombed, who had lost everything and had no place to go. He'd sneak them onto the base and sell their...

FEATURE-Sex tourism thriving in U.S. Bible Belt Tue 4 Apr 2006 8:01 AM ET By Verna Gates and Mickey Goodman ATLANTA, April 4 (Reuters) - In a sleazy hotel room, "Brittany," then aged 16 and drugged into oblivion, waited for the men to arrive. Her pimps sent as many as 17 clients an evening through the door. A "john" could even pre-book the pretty young blonde for $1,000 a night, sometimes flying in and then flying out from a nearby airport. None of this happened in Bangkok or Costa Rica, places that have become synonymous with sex tourism and underage...

The pornography that once characterized Times Square in Manhattan and 14th Street, NW, in Washington, D. C. has virtually disappeared from those neighborhoods and moved to college campuses, sometimes literally.

A well-liked Chicago family dentist let pimps rent out his Marina Towers condos so hookers could turn tricks there and stayed after hours at his downtown dental office to fix the teeth of battered prostitutes for free, the feds charged Wednesday. Gary Kimmel, 56, allegedly pocketed $400,000 from two pimps from 2002 to 2005 and, in return, let them and prostitutes use about a dozen luxury cars, including Lexus, Mercedes and Corvettes, he allegedly bought for their use. The bizarre charges allege an intermingling of Kimmel's work as a dentist with the prostitutes. Kimmel was indicted in an international prostitution...

With teen prostitution on the rise and raking in huge profits, more pimps are taking a page from their drug-dealing brethren and blasting away the competition, police say. “We’re seeing a trend now – it’s a lot easier to sell girls than it is to sell drugs,” said Boston police Sgt. Detective Kelley O’Connell. “Because they’re normally getting shot over drug turf, not over putting a girl on the street. But now we’re seeing pimps fighting over girls and gunplay.” [. . .]O’Connell said Boston street gangs are more frequently getting involved in underage prostitution to supplement – and sometimes...

New Orleans Gangs, Drug Dealers May Re-Emerge ElsewherePOSTED: 2:43 pm EDT September 27, 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. -- Hurricane Katrina did what authorities couldn't: put a stop to illegal drug operations in New Orleans and pushed its ruthlessly violent gangs from the streets of the city's poorest neighborhoods. The exact landing point of gang members isn't known for sure, though federal authorities suspect popular evacuation sites like Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Houston. But no matter where they land, the thugs from the Big Easy have been put at a distinct disadvantage, authorities say. "They are crippled," said U.S. Attorney Jim...