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A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for dressing up as a woman and loitering around Lagos international airport, court officials said Tuesday. "He pleaded guilty to the charges and was given 18 months without the option of a fine during his trial on Monday," an official at the court in the Lagos suburb of Ikeja told AFP. It was not clear what Uche Ndubuisi was hoping to achieve with his transvestite antics, but 22 pairs of women's pants, four bras as well as several make-up kits were used as evidence to convict him.

MANCHESTER – A Boston-based federal judge wore a black cocktail dress, fish-net stockings and high heels when police arrested him for drunk driving after he rear-ended a pickup truck last week, sources said U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma, 63, struck a plea deal with the city Wednesday in which he pleaded no contest to a first-offense misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge in Manchester District Court. In exchange, the judge agreed to pay $600 in fines and penalties and a 12-month license suspension, which can be reduced to six months if he proves he successfully completed a driver education and...

Here's a Pop Culture post that, truth be told, is more pictures than words. We've got a montage of the evolution of Michael Jackson, some nostalgic pics for "Do You Remember", some celebrity homes, a beauty contest that will surprise, a pic of a new little car that we can all keep as a spare. Plus much more to keep yon readers updated on what's happening in the world of Pop Culture.

  Jail break-in to give lag knickers   Policed briefs ... Everthorpe jail   By JOHN KAY Published: Today     A JAIL was broken into to supply a transvestite lag with women’s clothes, it was revealed yesterday. Officers found knickers, ball gowns and denim skirts in a burglary convict’s cell, along with drugs and mobile phones. An accomplice on the outside used a ladder to scale the 20ft perimeter wall, making regular break-ins. The hauls were sold to fellow cons at £600 a time – but the contraband was found last Friday after officers were tipped off. A...

This is a little bit humor for this Christmas. Personally, I think it's brilliant...( tip of the hat to Instapundit & Randy Barnett )...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rudy Giuliani assured a conservative legal group Friday that if elected president he would appoint federal judges who adhere to their principles. He also praised a judge who declared the capital city's gun ban unconstitutional and ridiculed efforts to eliminate the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. In a speech marking the 25th anniversary of the Federalist Society, Giuliani spelled out a conservative legal agenda in which he cited Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts as models for the judges he would appoint to the federal...

There is a bizarre story about a district attorney's stolen sport utility vehicle and the accused thief behind bars. The suspected crook claims she stole the vehicle from a New Orleans hotel to pay for a medical procedure for her husband. However, the story doesn't end there. WAFB's Keitha Nelson has more. Tony Falterman is the district attorney for Ascension, Assumption and St. James parishes. Falterman's keys could open a lot of doors, and in the wrong hands, change thousands of lives. He says, "My keys are the most important thing in my life." So, when Falterman's SUV was stolen,...

A Denham Springs man showed up at his uncle's funeral only to be kicked out by the pastor of the church. The reason? The man was wearing a dress. The pastor says he did the right thing. The transvestite insists he's heartbroken. WAFB's Caroline Moses reports on Dermaine and his dress. Dermaine Johnson says he feels more like a woman than a man, and has for a while. He is attracted to men, and on most any day, he looks more like a woman. Johnson says, "This is who I am. I can't change that, that's me. Take me or...

The job prospects for the former city manager of Largo -- recently fired after revealing he was preparing for a sex-change operation -- are looking rosier. Steve Stanton, dismissed in March from the post he had held for 14 years, is one of the front-runners for the city manager job in nearby Sarasota. While his job description and title would remain the same, there is one notable change. His updated résumé lists his first name as ''Susan,'' followed by an asterisk and footnote simply stating, ``legal name change pending.'' Stanton's very public decision to live his life as a woman...

Giuliani's cross-dressing antics back in spotlight NEW YORK -- It is difficult to shock New Yorkers, yet Rudy Giuliani teetered close to the line when he sauntered onto a stage wearing a platinum-blond wig, a face full of makeup, dainty white gloves and a frilly pink gown filled out in all the right places. His appearance at an annual political roast was exactly 10 years ago, and at the time, the idea of the tough-talking mayor in a busty ball gown raised eyebrows but was mostly accepted as a good joke -- adhering to an unwritten rule for the shenanigans...

Rudy Giuliani's interview on Hannity and Colmes, 2/6/2007 HANNITY: Generally speaking do you think it's acceptable if citizens have the right to carry a handgun? GIULIANI: It's part of the constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then restrictions have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You got to regulate consistent with the second amendment If there is a terror attack involving guns on US soil during the tenure of a President Rudolph Giuliani, will President Giuliani adhere to the sentiments about the right to bear arms that he expressed recently during his Hannity...

Transvestite Star Wows Islamic Pakistan Written by Mayank Austen Soofi Published December 09, 2006 Her voice bespeaks lust. The pose is suggestive. She prefers silk saris topped with sleeveless, low-neck blouses. Most conveniently, she is rich and single - her “colonel” husband long dead and gone. She is Pakistan’s bitchiest queen. She is a “he”. Say hello to Begum Nawazish Ali. Every Saturday night millions of Pakistanis switch over to Aaj TV, a privately-owned television channel, to watch the Late Night Show with Begum Nawazish Ali –“the meanest chat show on TV”. The drag queen lures willing hosts – ranging...

Six years after TV video of her infamous outburst on the bench thrust her into controversy, former Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez is back in a black robe - and in front of the TV cameras. But now, controversy is welcome. She’s a TV judge. The syndicated show “Judge Maria Lopez” debuts Monday on 210 television stations nationwide, including Boston’s TV38. Lopez, 52, resigned from her Superior Court judgeship in 2003. She made headlines in 2000 when TV cameras captured her shouting at prosecutor David Deakin to “sit down now” after she handed a light sentence of house detention to...

Two men on a coffee break sacked a suspected bank robber in Squirrel Hill today. The two men, Chris Duggan and Dwain Southerland, had been sipping coffee at the outside cafe of Coffee Tree Roasters when a strange looking character walked by. It was a man dressed like a woman with a wig, makeup, pantyhose and a dress. Mr. Southerland, 38, of Squirrel Hill, quipped to his friend, "I hope he's not going to rob a bank," as the two men had a laugh. Within minutes, the Fifth Third Bank branch in the 5800 block of Forbes Avenue was robbed...

SHE hadn't seen him naked for a while - but when she walked in on her husband Stephen in the bathroom, Catherine Everett couldn't fail to spot something very different. He still had a full head of hair. He was still ruggedly handsome. But he certainly wasn't the man she married. He had grown a pair of breasts. In fact he was admiring them in the mirror at the very moment she walked in to give him a kiss. Catherine says the 41-year-old pizza restaurant manager had decided to have a sex change - without telling her. Advertisement "I couldn't...

Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May. Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling. “They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces...

NEW ORLEANS — Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May. Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling. “They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager...

NEW ORLEANS — Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May. Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling. “They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager...

Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May. Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling. “They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces...

Nature 422, 368 - 369 (2003); doi:10.1038/422368a Joan Roughgarden profile: A plea for diversity Joan — formerly Jonathan — Roughgarden rejects established evolutionary ideas about gender roles and sexuality. Everyone wants to discuss the parallels with her personal experience. But the science speaks for itself, she tells Virginia Gewin. Darwin's legacy is under attack. His fundamental theory of evolution by natural selection retains its status as the bedrock of modern biology, but a new generation of researchers is challenging his later ideas about evolutionary aspects of sex and gender. And this movement has just gained an eloquent spokesperson — albeit...

A Chelsea transsexual is simply too masculine-looking to sashay his way out of charges of possessing a stolen purse, four state appellate judges ruled yesterday. Cops had busted manly tranny Stephen Lomiller - an admitted homeless crack addict - three years ago, after noticing him sitting on a doorstep on Second Avenue and 28th Street. He was "rifling" through a Fendi shoulder bag while looking nervously up and down the street, cops said. On his face was what one arresting officer has described in court as "like, a three-days' growth of beard." Still, Lomiller claims that cops never should have...

When 5-year-old Robert Kosilek started dressing as a girl in a Chicago orphanage, the seemingly innocent act set in motion a tragic cycle of punishment and abuse that paved the way for the killer con’s violent downward spiral. The nuns who ran the orphanage beat him with paddles and rulers, locked him in a closet and forced him to kneel on a hard, wooden floor on top of rice grains. He was repeatedly molested by his grandfather starting at age 10. Now serving life without parole for the 1990 murder of his wife, Kosilek has embroiled the state in a...

A transgender woman is alleging discrimination against a state trooper who called her “buddy” and “guy” and arrested her after she was caught speeding, flipped off the trooper, then stepped into traffic on Interstate 495. Clairese Renee Morgan of Malden has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and wants troopers to go through mandatory training in transgender issues, according to Bay Windows newspaper. Morgan was traveling between 95 and 100 mph on Interstate 495 north when a trooper from the Andover State Police Barracks pulled her over April 28. Morgan told the paper the trooper repeatedly referred...

A mother charged with abducting her two children was accused of posing as a man while on the run, and authorities say the heavyset woman with cropped hair and a slight mustache even had the kids calling her "Daddy." Shellie White, 30, said it was all a misunderstanding, claiming in a jail interview with The Associated Press that she never tried to hide her identity or change her appearance. White was arrested in Roanoke Rapids on Friday, more than two years after she allegedly took her children from Arizona when they 3 and 5. Investigators said she and another woman...

Fishnet Hosiery Does in Robbery Suspect - New York Times           MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) -- A man's pantyhose led to his arrest, authorities said. An unshaven man wearing a black evening gown, fishnet stockings, calf-high boots and a black wig robbed a USA Gas station Monday morning, authorities alleged.           The armed man stuffed $290 in cash into an ensemble-matching black purse.

The divide between conservative and liberal America was on full display at the Oscars, with both the winners and losers championing social and political topics heralded by the left. Across the United States, in blogs and on call-in radio talk shows, conservatives seethed that their point of view was not represented in the choice films honored with nominations -- let alone among those given awards. "This year's Oscar nominees include stories of homosexual sheep herders, a transvestite and Japanese prostitutes," ... American conservatives are accustomed to frowning at liberal Hollywood, but they were more disaffected than ever by the left-of-center...

LOS ANGELES - Film director Lee Tamahori pleaded no contest to criminal trespass in return for two prostitution charges against him being dropped, authorities said Thursday. The plea deal stemmed from Tamahori's Jan. 8 arrest for allegedly soliciting an undercover police officer in Hollywood and offering to perform a sex act for money. The two dropped charges, said city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan, were misdemeanor counts of solicitation and loitering with the intent to commit prostitution. Tamahori, who was not present at the hearing in Superior Court, was placed on three years probation, ordered to attend an AIDS education course...

I gave Li'l Beaver the evening off so you can get a good look at how LOW the Leftwing has sunk. In this case it is FAR LEFT British MP (and Saddam Bribee) George Galloway who is dancing on the British Big Brother show in a leotard with a transvestite. This photo says it ALL about how NUttie the Left has become. The next thing you know we will have a leftwing Presidential candidate dressing up like an Blue Energizer BUnnie Sperm Cell. Oops! That already happened. Okay, the next thing you know is that Ted Kennedy will write...

We don't like to judge people, but James Fletcher appears to be quite a dangerous freak. The Ohio man, 49, was arrested last month after he allegedly tried to zap a female lifeguard with a stun gun. As he was attempting to do this, the below Broadview Heights Police report notes, Fletcher was wearing a blue string bikini, the top of which was stuffed with falsies. According to investigators, Fletcher (pictured in mug shot at right) showed up at an outdoor swimming pool open only to area residents, telling lifeguard Pamela Kilroy, 23, that he did not have his gate...

Albany-- On July 6th at 9:15AM, the 911 center in Albany got a shocking call. Wendal Nason, Jr. needed an ambulance because he had just severed his right foot with a circular saw - intentionally. His conversation with the 911 dispatcher reveals why he did it. 911: Which foot did you cut? Nason: The right foot. Cut it clean off. 911: Oh, Jesus. How did you do it? Nason: With a Skil saw.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- Islamic hardliners barged in on Indonesia's transvestite beauty pageant, panicking its skimpily dressed contestants but failing to stop the show -- the second year running that the world's most populous Muslim nation has staged such an event. Dressed in white tunics and prayer caps, 10 members of the Islamic Defender's Front pushed their way into the nightclub on Sunday where 30 contestants were competing for the title of Miss Transvestite, witnesses and organizers said. After 20 minutes of tense negotiations, the show continued, though organizers agreed to finish early in deference to the group, which has a...

An 18-year-old woman accused of pretending to be twin 12-year-old boys and simultaneously dating two adolescent girls will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine her competency to stand trial in San Mateo County Superior Court. Lakesia Michelle Mason pleaded not guilty in March to 13 counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14 for her alleged relationships with a 13-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl. She denied the special allegations of substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14 and allegations that the offenses were committed in more than one jurisdiction and that...

Madonna To Play Transvestite Candy Darling[Friday, February 18th, 2005]Madonna is said to play transvestite Candy Darling in Untitled: Maddona Candy Darling Project, according to The Sun. Darling starred in a series of Andy Warhol's experimental films in the 1960s. She was the inspiration behind the Velvet Underground classic Candy Says and Lou Reed's solo hit Walk On The Wild Side. A source told the paper: "Madonna has been desperate to make a film where she can earn respect for her acting abilities. "She is still trying to shake off the bad publicity from the movie Swept Away. She sees...

A transvestite who pumped industrial silicone into other men to give them feminine features pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a man who suffered complications. Stephen Thomas, 31, will serve five years in prison and 10 years on probation under the plea to felony involuntary manslaughter, which he entered Monday. The plea of was appropriate because those involved were willing participants and there was no intent to kill, Chief Assistant District Attorney Greg Edwards said Friday. The death of Andre Geter in December 2003 threw a spotlight on ``pumping,'' a thriving underground practice among men living as women,...

Accused molester, 18, a victim, lawyer says By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER REDWOOD CITY — The attorney for a woman accused of pretending to be a boy so she could have sex with young girls declared Friday that his client is misunderstood and the victim of overzealous prosecutors. Lakesia Mason, 18, of San Francisco, has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of statutory rape and lewd acts with a child younger than 14. The alleged victims are 13 and 11. But Mason's attorney, Steve Chase, said his client and the alleged victims live in a world that prosecutors don't understand,...

Gregoire sworn in as Washington governor By David Ammons The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Christine Gregoire, winner of the closest governor's race in Washington history, was inaugurated today, but faces an immediate court challenge that could make it a short-lived honor. "Change is here and more is coming," she said in her first official speech. Democrat Gregoire, 57, a scrappy three-term attorney general who took on the tobacco industry and polluters, took the oath of office before a joint session of the state Legislature. Minority Republicans had battled unsuccessfully to delay her inauguration for two weeks. Republicans in the House...

ONTARIO NY-Wayne County investigators will consider an Ontario man's sex change as they search for a motive in the strangulation death of the man's wife. The Wayne County District Attorney's office confirmed Craig Musso, charged with the murder of his newlwed wife, Linda White, was born Wendy Musso. District Attorney Rick Healy said Musso underwent surgical procedures and hormone therapy over a number of years to become a man. The 44 year-old is accused of strangling his wife at their Ontario home November 12th, a month after the two were married. The couple had an eight-month online courtship. They met...

November 2, 2004 -- The cross-dressing Orthodox Jew charged with killing his elderly roommate in Brooklyn last week was indicted yesterday on a second-degree murder charge. After hearing evidence, the Brooklyn Supreme Court grand jury indicted Howard Goldstein, who enjoys wearing wigs, high heels and lipstick.

PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia's first transgender police officer is in a lot of trouble after she is accused of shooting near another officer during firearm's training. Police officials will only say that officer Maria Gonzalez has been reassigned to desk duty because of an incident that internal affairs is investigating that allegedly happened Friday night at a firing range. Gonzalez, 57, is scheduled for a sex change operation next summer. She takes hormones and other medication. Back then, Gonzalez told NBC 10 in January that she notified her police department about her life change and her officers were supportive. "All I...

IRS agent Edwards F. Snarski II challenges his prosecution on charges of fradulently obtaining loans. SCRANTON - An Internal Revenue agent charged with identity fraud is seeking to have the charges dismissed, arguing he was unfairly targeted for prosecution because he is a cross-dresser who plans to have a sex change operation. Edward F. Snarski II says the U.S. Attorney's Office undertook his prosecution because the IRS "did not want a transsexual as an employee." He is asking a judge to dismiss the case based on legal doctrine known as "vindictive and selective" prosecution. Snarski, 53, of Bluebird Court, Wilkes-Barre,...

Polls are the genital warts of election year. They are the swarming gnats in your Jell-O salad, the dead escalator in your shopping mall, the sour milk in your coffee. Because clearly, if you attempt to follow any of them, the AP polls or the American Research Group polls or the Newsweek polls or the ABC News polls or the CBS News/NYT polls or the Zogby polls, you can only conclude one thing: These polls are designed solely to mangle your head and confound your synapses and elate you and titillate you and then plunge you into instant despair and...

BANGKOK, THAILAND - According to reports by the Associated Press, tranvestite students in a school north of Bangkok Thailand will be getting their own restroom. The Pink Lotus restroom will be for the exclusive use of 15 students at Thailand's Chaing Mai School of Technology. The room contains four stalls and no urinals. Officials say that female students have complained of men being in the women's bathroom, and the students had been chased out of the men's room on multiple occassions. The students are required to dress as men during school hours but are allowed to maintain feminine hairstyles.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Snubbed by both men and women, transvestite students at the Chiang Mai Technology School just wanted a restroom to call their own — and were granted their wish. Dubbed the Pink Lotus Bathroom, the facility is exclusively for the school's 15 transvestite students and features four stalls, but no urinals. On the door hangs a sign with intertwined male and female symbols. "They would come in the morning and use the women's bathrooms, but the women were annoyed, didn't like it or played pranks on them," said Posaporn Promprakai, registrar of the school in Chiang Mai province,...

MAKKAH, 27 January 2004 — Al-Shemaisi Passport Department on the Jeddah-Makkah Highway has detained 94 men in women’s clothes who were trying to enter Makkah without Haj permits, Al-Madinah daily reported. The violators were taken to the expatriate administration in Makkah. Some Saudi drivers were also held for questioning. In a similar development, police and Passport Department officials arrested 100 overstayers planning to perform Haj. They will be kept in detention while police investigate the Saudi building owner who provided them shelter. The overstayers did not leave after performing Umrah and were waiting to perform Haj. Police will impose a...

<p>December 15, 2003 -- A 22-year-old transvestite was in critical condition yesterday after he hacked off his penis, then lied and told cops he was the victim of a hate crime. The man, who was not identified because of the nature of the crime, was in critical condition yesterday after doctors at Harlem Hospital Center were unsuccessful in reattaching his penis. Police said the man initially claimed it was a berserk gypsy cab driver who had severed his penis in a fit of rage.</p>

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson has donated to so many charities that the Guinness Book of World Records in 2000 listed him as the world record holder for "most charities supported by a pop star." Now, as the singer faces new allegations of child molestation, charities, schools and even cities that benefited or hoped to benefit from his largesse are reconsidering their affiliation with the "King of Pop." Others say they will distance themselves only if Jackson is convicted of a crime. Despite concerns by sponsors and other groups, the allegations shouldn't hurt Jackson's popularity if he escapes prosecution...

Potentially offensive fliers promoting "Conservative Coming Out Day" were hung around campus yesterday, including one on the door to the Allies office, prompting discussion about their intent. The posters depict sexually suggestive acts and question overt liberalism at Penn State. A flier found outside the Allies office, 231 HUB-Robeson Center, said, "One is male. One is female. Let's do it like they do on the discovery channel [sic]," and showed two animals in a sexually suggestive position. College Republicans chair Brian Battaglia confirmed the group is sponsoring the event, scheduled for noon Thursday on Old Main steps, but said he...

Transvestite denied place in women's jail Indonesian police have rejected a well-known transvestite's demand to be placed in a women's prison after his arrest for marijuana possession. Avi, who headlines drag shows and is a regular on the talk show circuit, was arrested at his home in South Jakarta with four grams of marijuana. Police said they nabbed Avi, also known as Joko WS, after receiving a tip from neighbours that he was smoking pot. Anti-narcotics police official Captain Sutana said Avi's request to be held in a female prison has been denied: "He's a man, isn't he?" Sutana said....

The allegations have inflamed dinner-table talk across France: a lurid tabloid tale of sex, murder, politics and corruption and, if the saga is to be believed, there could be a whole lot more to come. The ingredients are said to include cocaine-fuelled orgies with underage call girls, prostitutes who turned tricks with robed magistrates inside a courthouse, sado-masochistic sessions secretly filmed by a transvestite blackmailer, and a string of murders by a psychopathic strangler. Those who took part in the kinky sex, or helped to cover up the slayings, are supposed to have included local policemen, judges and public prosecutors,...