Italian Lolita - this time 13!

Unbelievable! Anything goes these days! This should be called pedophilia not real love!

Lolita love affair scandalises Italy

A 34-year-old Italian man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl has had his sentence cut by a two-thirds because a court decided there was "real love" between the pair.

Antonio de Pascale, a butcher from Vicenza, admitted that he had a four-month long relationship with the girl, who sent him a stream of torrid text messages on his mobile phone.

His lawyers argued, however, that there was a "deep tenderness" between him and the girl and that he had "fallen head over heels in love" after a sexual encounter in his car. They said the girl had consented to every action.

The court in Vicenza accepted their opinion and sentenced de Pascale to only one year and four months in jail out of a possible 12-year term.

Because of a general amnesty [!] for anyone who receives a sentence of less than three years, de Pascale is unlikely to serve any prison time for his Lolita-esque romance.

Antonio Marziale, the president of the Association for the Protection of the Rights of Minors, said the decision was "execrable".

He said: "It is not right to judge whether or not a 13-year-old girl is willing. The law should safeguard young girls who are too immature to make these decisions against adults without scruples."

However, Simonetta Matone, a judge in Rome, said the law must "always look to be reasonable in these cases".

She added: "Every relationship is a relationship and the real maturity, whether physical or psychological, of the minor must be weighed, with the help of experts." ...

Related post: British Lolita

"My cups runneth over"

Booze bra gives women a wine rack

For those occasions when booze just isn't allowed a wine-holding bra has been created for the ladettes of this world.

Be it a rock concert or simply a trip to the women simply need to fill up the sports bra device with their favourite tipple and then once inside suck the liquid out of the special teat.

The bra serves the double purpose of also making the wearer's (wine) rack look more full – until the alcohol is all drunk down that is and the woman goes from a big chested beauty to a big bellied Betty.

The £20 polyurethane bladder can contain 750ml of liquid (a normal wine bottle) and boosts a woman's chest by two cups.

It is not the first time Metro has reported on illicit booze drinking devices. In 2006 we brought you the polyurethane beer belly for men.

Buy here in Britain.

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Man convicted of sending penis photo by phone

A 21-year-old German man has been convicted of sending a photograph of his penis to an unknown woman via mobile phone, authorities said on Wednesday.

"We all had a bit of a laugh when we saw the thing," said Christian Kropp, presiding judge at the court in the eastern town of Sondershausen.

The woman reported the sender to police after receiving the photo attachment of the man's genitals, the court said. Officers found evidence he may have sent similar images to other women.

The man did not explain his motive but expressed remorse for the photo, Kropp said.

British Lolita

Horrible story about a mother who's 16 year old daughter has run off with a 49 year old former religion teacher, but it's legal so there's nothing she can do.

This is an example of being so open-minded that your brains fall out. When there are no morals or standards, then anything and everything is normal and ok.

The day I learned my 16-year-old daughter was having an affair with her RE teacher... from his wife

It spelled out in plain terms that from this moment on Jess [16]would be living with Clive Richards, her former religious education teacher at school, a 49-year-old thrice married father of two, who until recently was training to become an Anglican vicar.
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The pair of them insist they're just a normal couple in love. Richards - who on occasion takes Jess to school on his scooter - likes to see himself as an enlightened individual who (unlike the rest of us) would never allow himself to be encumbered by dull convention.
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If only others were not so prejudiced and narrow-minded, you can imagine him, as we shall learn later, saying to her.

One gets the impression that while protesting how "normal" they are, the pair of them - especially Richards - are rather revelling in their notoriety.
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On the website, a contributor, believed to be Richards, cogitating about the age gap in his relationship, says: "What is a normal 16-year-old? What is a normal anything, really?"
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[From the mother:] "I had a chat with the social worker and learned that she had told Jess her rights, that she had done nothing wrong at all, that she was entitled to belongings that she had bought herself. It was unbelievable.

"As far as I'm aware there was no attempt at all to sit down with Jess and ask her if she knew what she was doing."
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The response [to a letter written by Jess' grandfather] tells us a great deal about Richards, his self regard and his blind refusal to accept that he has done anything at all wrong.

It is a long letter, broken down into ten points. The tone is lofty, at times indignant and patronising.

He seems to suggest that his own children will accept the situation because he has taught them not to be overly judgmental - unlike some people, i.e. Jess's family.

…"I note also I am the instrument of the focus which is interesting and I assume it is because you all seem to think Jess at 16 has no mind.

"Sadly, you are all so wrong here as I have found. She thinks at an incredible level, is very mature, very single-minded and
focused.

"I think perhaps the family should start to listen to her and what she wants and feels."

Bad News for the Kennedys

Bill Would Require Drug Tests for Candidates

People filing for public office would also have to submit to drug testing under a proposal pitched by a state senator.

Senate Republican Leader Harvey Peeler filed his bill a day after news broke that former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel had been indicted on a federal cocaine conspiracy charge.

The June indictment came just six months after the Republican Charleston real estate developer took office.

18-1!

Great article from the main page on Page 2, explaining how most of us outside of New England are feeling:

WE ARE ALL GIANTS

In this glorious moment, when words seem so inadequate to express the joy all non-frontrunning sports fans feel, the first thing that comes to mind is this: We are all Giants. We are all New Yorkers, just as surely as JFK declared himself to be a Berliner in 1963. How can we not feel profound brotherhood with Eli Manning, with Tom Coughlin and all the others to whom we owe both the sight of little Billy Belichick sprinting off the field in an ungracious, you-took-my-Legos huff and our collective freedom from the Boston Globe's "19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots?"

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February 3, 2008, marks the ushering in of a new age that seems so far from the promise of another historic day, Feb. 2, 2008 [the Patriots still undefeated, Tom Brady still upright], and a somewhat historic season, 2007-08, which we thought might conclude with a New England title and Belichick publishing "The Passive-Aggressive Manager's Handbook to Grumpy, Self-Serious Perfection in Football and Life." The first decade of the new century instead reminds us that games are worth playing, that odds primarily exist to enrich bookies, that America's preeminent advertising platform can still deliver a compelling sports experience and that Boston fans can now add 18-1* to Bill Buckner and Bucky F'n Dent.

In their ruthless professionalism and obsession with offensive metrics, in their ends-justify-any-means subterfuge and Only-Sing-When-You're-Winning single-mindedness, the Patriots embodied the most disturbing, dehumanizing aspect of modern athletics: Transforming play into work. In the long term, this attitude is untenable, because football is really nothing more than a complicated version of 5-year-olds chasing a soccer ball around a park, falling into each other and having a good time. It is the gap-toothed smile of Michael Strahan, crusty Coughlin enjoying a Gatorade bath. Joylessness, even under the pretext of competitiveness or dressed up in an extra-colorful Patriots hoodie, is never a force that can make sports worth watching or caring about. That is why today we are all Giants.

--Patrick Hruby

"Pro-choicers" don't like Juno

This article talks in part about the "pro-choice" reaction to the movie Juno. I don't by any means think that teen pregnancy should be endorsed or encouraged, but these reactions are ridiculous!

How the world's worst stripper became Spielberg's protegee, stole another woman's husband and might just win an Oscar

Her script's insouciant endorsement of teenage pregnancy, with no repercussions, shame or consequences, has angered pro-choice activists who claim it sends out a message that is naive, unrealistic and irresponsible. [Doesn't this sound more like something Christian conservatives would say and that "pro-choicers" would denounce?]

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"A teenager who saw this movie would feel like a moral failure for choosing abortion," says feminist commentator Katha Pollitt. [Oh, we wouldn't want that! That would be horrible! We must shield her from this awful truth!]

"The mother in me winced at Juno, that wisp of a child-woman, going through pregnancy and childbirth." [But it's ok for the child-woman to go through an abortion, no biggie, that's what every mother wants for her daughter]

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"Juno tells young women the best option is to have the baby, and it glorifies that choice." [God forbid life is glorified! These sick people think the best option is abortion and that abortion should be glorified]

Sounds to me like the only choice these "pro-choice" people support is abortion. As if Juno is so horrible for showing a girl CHOOSING to keep her baby in a positive light.

Update on Berkeley Marines

Good ol' Sen. DeMint!

U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley, Calif., for Vote to Boot Marines

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., says the City of Berkeley, Calif., no longer deserves federal money.
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"This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families," DeMint said in a prepared statement. "The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money."

"If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer-funded handouts," he added.

In the meantime, a senior Marine official tells FOX News that the Marine office in Berkeley isn't going anywhere.

"We understand things are different there, but some people just don't get it. This is a part of the military machine that gives them the right to do what they do, but what they are doing is extreme," the official said.

DeMint said he will draft legislation to rescind any earmarks dedicated for the City of Berkeley in the recently passed appropriations bill — which his office tallied to value about $2.1 million. He said that any money taken back would be transferred to the Marines.
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"To actually put something into law that encourages the disruption of a federal office is ridiculous. They are not going to kick a federal office out of its rightful place there, and this is not going to discourage those young patriots who want to be Marines," the official said.

Related post: Retreat? Hell, we just got here!

Retreat? Hell, we just got here!

~Lloyd W. Williams USMC

Berkeley council tells Marines to leave

... That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."

In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines because of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. And it officially encouraged the women's peace group Code Pink to impede the work of the Marines in the city by protesting in front of the station.

In a separate item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.

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The Marines have been in Berkeley for a little more than a year, having moved from Alameda in December of 2006. For about the past four months, Code Pink has been protesting in front of the station.

"I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave," said Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates after votes were cast.

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An employee of a nearby business who asked not to be identified said Wednesday the elderly Code Pink protesters are aggressive, take up parking spaces, block the sidewalk with their yoga moves, smoke in the doorways, and are noisy.

"Most of the people around here think they're a joke," the woman said.

Wozniak said he was opposed to giving Code Pink a parking space because it favors free speech rights of one group over another.

"There's a line between protesting and harassing, and that concerns me," Wozniak said. "It looks like we are showing favoritism. We have to respect the other side, and not abuse their rights. This is not good policy." ...

Unbelievable! A local government is taking steps to prevent the most important job of the government - providing a national defense. The alternative to recruitment centers is a draft! Well, these people would probably rather have a draft because it would win more people over to their side and stop the war. These people are sick! The Marines deserve so much better than this!

GOD BLESS THE MARINES AND ALL OUR ARMED FORCES! TO HELL WITH SMELLY OLD HIPPIES! SEMPER FI!

Villiage idiot parading around with toy gun

Reuters Caption: Fernando Aguirre, locally known as Osama Ben Laden, patrols a slum in Bogota January 17, 2008. Aguirre, who claims to be the son of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, patrols the most dangerous slums of Bogota and lives from the contributions received from those seeking his protection. Aguirre informs police on petty crimes being committed and is allowed by authorities to brandish his fake rifle. Picture taken on January 17

Considering this is Columbia, I highly doubt his rifle is fake. I don't think a guy claiming he's Osama bin Laden could extort money if he didn't have fire power, otherwise he'd just be the villiage idiot, allowed to parade around with a toy gun.

Does Reuters only take governments by their word when they are NOT the U.S.? Either they are far too credulous or Reuters just blew this guy's cover and he's going to lose his source of income or be gunned down by people with REAL rifles.