Stand strong Google!!

One of at least two major search engines subpoenaed by the Bush administration handed over search data in the government's efforts to revive an anti-porn law that was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yahoo Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., acknowledged on Thursday handing over search data, but insisted no personal information on users was given to government attorneys. The disclosure followed reports that rival search engine Google Inc. had refused to comply with a similar subpoena, issued last year.

The government had asked Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., for a broad amount of data, including a million random Web addresses and records of Google searches over any week, the Associated Press reported. The information came from U.S. Justice Department papers filed Wednesday in a San Jose, Calif., federal court.

A Yahoo spokeswoman said the company, which she described as a "rigorous" defender of user privacy, did not provide personal data in response to the Justice Department subpoena.

"In our opinion, this is not a privacy issue," spokeswoman Mary Osako said in an email. "We complied on a limited basis and did not provide any personally identifiable information."

It was not immediately clear whether other major search engines had received subpoenas. Microsoft Corp., which owns the MSN search engine, declined to discuss the matter, issuing instead a statement saying, "It is our policy to respond to legal requests in a very responsive and timely manner in full compliance with applicable law." Ask Jeeves, owned by InterActiveCorp, was not immediately available for comment.

The high court ruled two years ago that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act requiring adults to use access codes or register with a site before receiving adult material violated free speech. The court also ruled that filtering software was adequate to protect children. Administration lawyers are hoping that the search data will help convince a Pennsylvania federal court that technology is doing an inadequate job, the AP said.

***Well... since the war in Iraq is over.... Osama Bin Laden has been captured.... crime is non-existent and everyone in the U.S. lives such a great life, I can see why this is now a priority for them.

Finally justice is served to finger lady.

Outraged and indignant for months, the woman who claimed to find a bit of human finger in a bowl of chili was none of that in court Wednesday morning.

Anna Ayala wept openly before a judge sentenced her to nine years in prison for concocting a scam that turned her into a tabloid celebrity, cost the fast-food giant millions of dollars and made Wendy's chili the punch line of a national joke.

In a San Jose courtroom packed with reporters and spectators, Judge Edward Davila also sentenced her husband, Jaime Plascencia, to 12 years and four months in prison for his part in the scheme and other unrelated charges. Both sentences were close to the maximum for the crimes.

``Greed and avarice overtook this couple,'' Davila said, ``and they lost their moral compass.''

Ayala, 40, and Plascencia, 44, appeared remorseful.

``I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and its employees,'' Ayala said haltingly while dabbing at her teary eyes with a tissue. ``I'm truly sorry.''

***Bravo!!! Wendys did not deserve this!!! Now maybe Long John Silver or something along those lines.

Blame it on Nickleodeon and Kellogg

Advocacy groups and parents are suing the Nickelodeon TV network and cereal maker Kellogg Co. in an effort to stop junk food marketing to kids.

The plaintiffs are citing a recent report documenting the influence of marketing on what children eat. Ads aimed at kids are mostly for high-calorie, low-nutrition food and drinks, according to the government-chartered Institute of Medicine.

Wakefield, Massachusetts, mother Sherri Carlson said she tries her best to get her three kids to eat healthy foods.

"But then they turn on Nickelodeon and see all those enticing junk-food ads," Carlson said. "Adding insult to injury, we enter the grocery store and see our beloved Nick characters plastered on all those junky snacks and cereals."

Carlson and another plaintiff, Andrew Leong of Brookline, Massachusetts, spoke at a news conference organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.

They intend to sue Kellogg and Nickelodeon parent Viacom Inc. in state court in Massachusetts and served the required 30 days' notice on Wednesday.

"For over 30 years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children," said Susan Linn of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. "Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened."

Both companies said they have enduring commitments to healthy lifestyles.

***And I am sure the kids paid for all these things?!?! If you are a parrent and you have these items in your house then YOU are to blame. Period!!!

Polly snitches on cheating lover!!!

A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover's name, British media reported Tuesday.

The African grey parrot kept squawking "I love you, Gary" as his owner, Chris Taylor, sat with girlfriend Suzy Collins on the sofa of their shared flat in Leeds, northern England.

But when Taylor saw Collins's embarrassed reaction, he realized she had been having an affair -- meeting her lover in the flat whilst Ziggy looked on, the UK's Press Association reported.

Ziggy even mimicked Collins's voice each time she answered her telephone, calling out "Hiya Gary," according to newspaper reports.

***BUSTED parrot style!!!

Madame Hacksaw!!!

DEDHAM, Mass. — A prosecutor said yesterday that a dominatrix waited too long to call for help as a client died of a heart attack during a bondage session, then dismembered and disposed of the body rather than report the death.

But the woman’s lawyer said in her opening statement that the man never visited Barbara Asher’s makeshift dungeon and that police made up the story and bullied Asher into confessing.

“No body, no blood, no DNA evidence,” defense attorney Stephanie Page said. “Barbara Asher is here because of a theory.”

Asher, who went by the name Mistress Lauren M, has pleaded innocent to charges of manslaughter and dismemberment in the death of Michael Lord. The retired telephone company worker from North Hampton, N.H., died in July 2000 while strapped to a rack in Asher’s Quincy condominium, according to police.

Prosecutor Robert Nelson said Asher was getting into her dominatrix outfit when she heard a commotion coming from the “dungeon” where Lord was waiting, naked, tied by his wrists to the rack, a replica of a medieval torture device.

She entered the room to find Lord in his death throes, Nelson said.

“His arms are flailing about,” Nelson said. “There was a gasp, and his head went forward.”

Asher waited five minutes before calling her boyfriend to come help, the prosecutor said. Miguel Ferrer, who is charged as an accomplice, arrived 10 minutes later.

“During that time, Mr. Lord continued to hang there, and she did nothing,” Nelson said.

Asher and Ferrer took Lord down from the rack and tied to revive him, but by then it was too late, Nelson said. Ferrer suggested they call for help, but Asher refused because she was worried the police would find out about her operation, according to the prosecutor. So they put the body in the bathtub and left for the night, he said.

The next day, Nelson said, Ferrer dismembered the body of the 280-pound Lord with a hacksaw and they divided his remains into eight trash bags. The day after that, they drove to Augusta, Maine, where they dumped the remains behind a restaurant, the prosecutor said. His remains have never been found.

*** Hefty, hefty hefty!!!

You too can be a dentist if you date the right people!

A British dentist has been banned from working after allowing her unqualified boyfriend to carry out dental work on patients in her surgery, the profession’s U.K. regulatory body said on Tuesday.

Mojgan Azari was found guilty of serious professional misconduct for letting boyfriend Omid Amidi-Mazaheri work at her practices in south London between 2002 and 2003, the General Dental Council (GDC) said.

The boyfriend worked on more than 600 people, drilling out cavities without local anaesthetic and installing expensive fillings that crumbled within days, often leaving patients in agony, the BBC said.

*** Wasn't this a Corbin Bernen movie?!?!

Potty Peeker foiled!

Knoxville Police charged a man with going into the women's locker room at a local gym, and staring at woman from underneath a bathroom stall.

Johnny Ray Wright, 30, is in the Knox County jail under $2,500 bond. Wright is on the Tennessee sex offender registry for a statutory rape conviction eight years ago.
Police say Wright went into the women's locker room at Court South's West Knoxville location, then went into a bathroom stall, got on the ground, and stared at woman in the adjacent stall from below.

"Fear. My first thing was fear," the woman, who did not want to be identified, told 10News. "I was just scared."

Fearing for her life, the woman screamed, scaring the suspect off. Court South employees had a copy of Wright's license, phone number and address. K.P.D. officers caught up with the man minutes later and arrested him on misdemeanor charges the woman plans to pursue as far as possible.

"I feel like I have to because of other people and because of my other granddaughters," she said. "I feel like he needs to be
prosecuted and I'm the only one who can do it."

One club owner said their lawyers are looking to see if they can refuse membership to convicted sex offenders, though no final decision has been made yet.

***Well if they can refuse memberships to offenders then there is going to be a big need for gyms that are offender friendly. Even pervs want to keep their figure!!

Hannibal's protege?!?!

A self-confessed cannibal has described how he killed and partially ate a man he met via the internet in March 2001, at a retrial in Germany.

Armin Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter two years ago and was jailed for eight-and-a-half years.

Last year, an appeal court ordered a retrial after state prosecutors argued Meiwes was guilty of murder.

The 44-year-old denies the charge and says he simply carried out a willing victim's instructions.

If found guilty, Meiwes could face a life sentence.

'Killing on request'

Meiwes repeated much of his confession from his first trial during his three-hour testimony.

I didn't know whether I should pray to the devil or to God Armin Meiwes

He admitted killing 43-year-old German-based computer specialist Bernd-Juergen Brandes at Meiwes' home in the town of Rotenburg.

Meiwes told the court how he severed Mr Brandes' penis and that they both tried to eat it without success.

He said he hoped Mr Brandes would die of blood loss or throw himself to his death from a window.

"I wanted to eat him, but I didn't want to kill him," Meiwes told the court.

***Yuck!!!!

Confiscating evidence?

A Houston police officer has been reinstated even though authorities said he embarrassed the department by passing along nude pictures of a woman he arrested, KPRC Local 2 reported on Monday. A civil service arbitrator ordered Officer George Miller reinstated Friday after serving an eight-month suspension without pay. Miller was fired in May after he and Officer Christopher Green were accused of downloading nude pictures of Yanhong Gang, a drunken driving suspect the officers arrested on Nov. 25, 2004. After the arrest, authorities said Miller found nude photos on Gang's cell phone. Investigators said Miller then gave the phone and photos to Green, who transferred the pictures to his personal digital assistant. Miller and Green were suspended indefinitely after Gang complained about the officer's actions.

***That is why you should always delete those embarassing pictures!!!

Even I don't need a wife this badly

Ishaq Kala laughs nonchalantly. "Give us 5,000 rupees and we can get you a girl," he says. The 32-year-old Kala's own teenage bride cost him a bit more — 6,000 rupees, the equivalent of $160 Canadian — but now he smiles with the confidence of a newlywed. His wife, 15-year-old Memoona, is a tiny figure who sits nervously on the rooftop terrace of their home in the village of Jogipur in India's northern Haryana state. She fiddles with her fingernails and refuses to look up, another silent victim in India's flourishing trade in girls. Her feet dangle over the edge of the charpoy bed, not quite touching the floor, while her mother-in-law sits next to her. When the teenager finally speaks, she does so in her native tongue of Assamese — a region that straddles India's northeastern border with Bangladesh, more than 1,200 kilometres from Haryana state. "I was brought here from Assam a month ago by a woman called Amina," she says. "I was told I would be married in Haryana .... I did not know what my husband's name would be. "When I came here, I was sold to a man called Kala for 6,000 rupees, my rate was fixed. Since then I have been here. There has been no wedding ceremony." Her story — that of a young girl lured into marriage with promises of wealth and a kind husband — is not unusual. Memoona is yet another trafficked girl, one of thousands of victims of India's acute shortage of wives. The shortage of women in India has increased tenfold, from 3.5 million in 1901 to 35 million in 2001, according to census figures, and the country's average gender ratio is 1,072 males per 1,000 females. That puts India at the bottom of the pile compared with neighbours China, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The problem is particularly severe in Haryana, according to the Shakti Vahini organization, which works to aid trafficked females in northern India. The preference for sons among India's families, regardless of religion, ethnicity or economic background, has been well chronicled. But in addition to the tradition of selective abortion is an equally unpalatable truth: Years of gender-based abortions have led to an increase in the trafficking of females for men who can't find wives. Memoona spends her days in her new home with her in-laws, helping with the cooking and cleaning. She has yet to learn to speak Hindi and has had no contact with her family since she left Assam. Her husband admits her relatives have no idea where she is. "I won't allow her to contact her family," says Kala, a land-owning farmer who insists Memoona's age is 25. "If I had her contact her family, she would try to get away. My wife tells me, `Send me back to Assam' and I tell her, `Give me 6,000 rupees and I will send you back.'"

***What a crazy situation.

We can all sleep safer now?

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - California executed its oldest death row inmate early Tuesday, minutes after his 76th birthday, despite arguments that putting to death an elderly, blind and wheelchair-bound man was cruel and unusual punishment.

Clarence Ray Allen was pronounced dead at 12:38 a.m. at San Quentin State Prison. He became the second-oldest inmate put to death nationally since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.

Allen, who was blind and mostly deaf, suffered from diabetes and had a nearly fatal heart attack in September only to be revived and returned to death row, was assisted into the death chamber by four large correctional officers and lifted out of his wheelchair.

His lawyers had raised two claims never before endorsed by the high court: that executing a frail old man would violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that the 23 years he spent on death row were unconstitutionally cruel as well.

*** Blind, mostly deaf suffered from diabetes and had a nearly fatal heart attack??? Hadn't he already been served the death penalty?

My homework was never quite like this...

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- A school assignment on Internet porn was canceled after parents complained.

Supt. Jeff Lampert said the teacher's apparent goal -- to discuss the harmful effects of pornography -- was well-intentioned, but the assignment was inappropriate for high school freshmen. Students were supposed to research porn online and list eight facts about it.

*** Well I did the assignment!!!

8 Facts about Internet Porn by SooNeR67

1. Porn occupies probably a tremendous portion of the internet.

2. Without the dollars generated by porn the internet would be smaller for everyone. And we would have lost several cool sites that are not pornographic in nature.

3. There are more freaky people in the world than you can imagine.

4. Whatever your fetish there is a site for you.

5. Some of these girls are FINE, no matter what you say!!

6. You can avoid porn on the internet but you have to really work at it.

7. Not everyone who is naked on the internet should be.

8. Paris Hilton is still over rated!

Girl expelled for kissing another OFF CAMPUS!!!!

A private Christian academy is defending its right to expel a female student for kissing another girl off campus.

In court documents filed Jan. 4, attorneys for Covenant Christian Academy in Loganville say the school has a constitutional right to expel students for "sexual immorality."

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Covenant Christian Academy expelled Jessica Bradley for kissing a girl at an off-campus party.

The school filed its statement in response to a lawsuit by former student Jessica Bradley. The ninth-grader was expelled from the school last April. That prompted Bradley and her father to file a Gwinnett County Superior Court lawsuit in December.

In the suit, Bradley alleges invasion of privacy and breach of contract. The Bradleys are seeking at least $1 million in damages.

According to the suit, Bradley attended a sleepover party off campus with several other female students April 22.

At the party, she kissed another student and at an earlier date had kissed a different female student, according to the suit.

Four days later, Bradley and several other girls were called into the principal's office. After being questioned about her "inappropriate relationship" for more than an hour, Bradley, who had a 3.5 grade-point average, was expelled, according to the suit.

None of the other girls involved in the incident was expelled at the time, said David Clark, the Bradleys' Lawrenceville attorney.

He said he does not know if they were expelled later.

Administrators cited the school handbook when expelling Bradley. The handbook states that "any behavior, on campus or away which indicates that a student has disregard for the spirit of the school standards, would be sufficient reason to ask for him/her to withdraw from Covenant Christian Academy."

*** It is sad when someone as sweet and as cute as Jessica looks, gets dumped on by the overly righteous. Lord knows NO ONE ELSE AT THAT ACADEMY HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG!!! Jessica, you need some help figuring things out and I can help you through these rough times.

The death penalty enforced old school style FOLLOW UP

The inmate on trial for strangling a child-molesting defrocked priest, John Geoghan, considered himself a savior of abused youngsters, an investigator testified Friday.

Lt. Edward Hammond, an internal affairs investigator for the state Department of Correction, interviewed inmate Joseph Druce after Geoghan's slaying in August 2003. He said Druce told him he had been ordained as a minister through the mail and used to sit with Geoghan in their cell block talking about religion.

Geoghan was 68 when he died while serving a nine- to 10-year sentence for groping a 10-year-old boy. He had been accused in lawsuits of molesting 150 youngsters and was a central figure in Boston's clergy sex abuse scandal.

Druce's lawyer, John LaChance, doesn't dispute that Druce strangled, beat and stomped on Geoghan at the Souza-Baranowski prison but argues Druce shouldn't be held criminally responsible because he was mentally ill.

Under cross-examination by LaChance, Hammond said Friday that Druce told him he thought he was doing the right thing.

"He was portraying himself essentially as the savior of the kids for having killed Geoghan?" Druce's attorney asked.

"He was boastful of his actions and said he did it for the kids," Hammond said.

"He thought what he was doing was morally right?" said LaChance.

"Right," Hammond replied.

Hammond also testified about a diary found in Druce's cell after Geoghan's death. Reading from one entry dated four days before the killing, he said: "Mind racing. Can't read and concentrate. Can't write a letter. Subjects jumping back and forth."

Earlier, Hammond testified that Druce appeared "pleased with himself" as he gave a confession shortly after guards pulled him from Geoghan's cell.

"I killed the child molester," Hammond said Druce boasted. "He won't touch any more kids."

*** Gosh this is a tough issue.

Boy, I am about to BANK!!!!!!!

It's always funny to see the spam mail that you receive when you have a profile on the internet. As far as I can tell all the spammers think I am fat, impotent and need a mortgage. ( I will let you decide on that one for yourself!) One one of my names I have a public profile and in the name I say my name is Pack, Mr. Zilla if you're nasty! Well every so often I get an email saying "Hey Pack" or something like that today I got one of the funniest.


Dear Nasty ,

I am Barrister Lucky Martins, a solicitor at law,
personal attorney to Mr. P.B.Nasty, a national Of your
country, who used to work with Shell Development
Company in Lome Togo. Here in after shall be referred
to as my client.On the 21st of April 2003, my client,
his wife and their only daughter were involved in a
car accident along Nouvissi express Road. All
occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there
lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your
embassy here to locate any of my clients extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After
these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to track
his last name over the Internet, to locate any member
of his family hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the
fund valued at US$17.5 million left behind by my
client before it gets confisicated or declared
unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this
huge amount were deposited.The said Security Finance
Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of
kin or have his account confisicated within the next
twenty one official working days.

Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the
relatives for over 2 years now, I seek the consent to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased since
you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of
this account can be paid to you.Therefore, on receipt
of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.

I have all necessary information and legal documents
needed to back you up for claim.All I require from you
is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

*** Attorney for Mr. P.B. Nasty?!?!?!? Ahhhh good old uncle P.B.!!! I think I should forward all my info to this man RIGHT AWAY!!!! errrrr... maybe not.