Following Entry Posted 3/17/2012 04:27:00 AM

Racist & ‘Discriminatory’: UN Consulting Group Wants Dante‘s ’Inferno’ Out of the Classroom

We read:

"Gherush92, a human rights organization that consults for UN bodies on racism and discrimination, is calling for Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to be removed from schools and acknowledged as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic.

According to Valentina Sereni, the group’s president, the 14th-century work is “offensive and discriminatory” and has no place in the classroom.

For those who have never read Dante’s epic, it follows a fictional version of the author through hell, purgatory, and heaven in three distinct works, the “Inferno,“ ”Purgatorio,“ and ”Paradiso.”

It represents Islam as a heresy and Mohammed as a schismatic and refers to Jews as greedy, scheming moneylenders and traitors, Miss Sereni told the Adnkronos news agency.

Homosexuals are [also] damned by the work as being ‘against nature’ and condemned to an eternal rain of fire in Hell.

Though it is true that Dante condemned Mohammed and homosexuals to the Inferno, Sereni and The Telegraph fail to note that the author placed prominent Christians right next to them.

Many “clergymen, popes, and cardinals” were condemned to the circle of greed, where they had to joust with one another for all eternity using great weights which they pushed with their chests. Similarly, Pope Anastasius II was damned to the circle of heresy, where he is trapped in a flaming tomb, and the soles Pope Nicholas III’s feet will always be tickled with fire while his head is trapped inside a large rock.

This leads one to ask, why isn’t the organization offended by the eternal torture of Christians?

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/16/2012 10:01:00 PM

Teacher Gets Probation for Bomb Threat - Updated

(Denver, Colorado) Former teacher Jennifer Gomes has pleaded guilty to false reporting of explosives and was sentenced to four years of mental health probation.

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Bomb Threat to Avoid Work
[Previous 10/26/11 post]
(Denver, Colorado) A 42-year-old gym teacher at Escuela de Guadalupe, Jennifer Gomes, has been accused of initiating a bomb threat at her school because she allegedly didn't want to go to work.

Gomes reportedly left a note at the Catholic elementary school's main entrance which stated "there is a bomb inside." She faces a count of false reporting of explosives, a felony.

According to police, Gomes admitted to leaving the note. She was booked into custody and released on $2,000 bond.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/16/2012 06:16:00 PM

Ohio Teacher Accused of Sexual Battery

(North Ridgeville, Ohio) A 28-year-old teacher at North Ridgeville High School, Constance Yacobozzi, has been accused of sexual battery of a 17-year-old male student.

Yacobozzi has been indicted by a Lorain County grand jury.

In November, Yacobozzi admitted to school officials she had texted photos of herself wearing a bikini top to a student, as well as having inappropriate and flirtatious conversation with him via text messaging.

At the time, Yacobozzi denied having sexual relations with the student.

Yacobozzi was arrested by Lorain County Sheriff's Deputies.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/16/2012 04:24:00 PM

March Madness Vasectomies

An interesting report broadcast on local Cleveland radio indicates that urologists typically do vigorous business in vasectomies during March Madness.

Scheduling is not coincidental. It's intentional as doctors can easily dissuade their slice-and-snip patients from participating in any form of physical activity when television viewing becomes prescribed therapy.

Meanwhile, I've been following the NCAA Basketball Championship games and yesterday I correctly picked the outcome of 15 out of 16 games. Very unusual for me since year in and year out I've become accustomed to the 50-50 neighborhood.
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       Following Entry Posted 3/16/2012 10:28:00 AM

Paper predicting global cooling accepted for publication

The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24

By Jan-Erik Solheim et al.

Abstract

Relations between the length of a sunspot cycle and the average temperature in the same and the next cycle are calculated for a number of meteorological stations in Norway and in the North Atlantic region. No significant trend is found between the length of a cycle and the average temperature in the same cycle, but a significant negative trend is found between the length of a cycle and the temperature in the next cycle. This provides a tool to predict an average temperature decrease of at least View the MathML source from solar cycle 23 to solar cycle 24 for the stations and areas analyzed. We find for the Norwegian local stations investigated that 25–56% of the temperature increase the last 150 years may be attributed to the Sun. For 3 North Atlantic stations we get 63–72% solar contribution. This points to the Atlantic currents as reinforcing a solar signal.

Highlights

* A longer solar cycle predicts lower temperatures during the next cycle.

* A 1 °C or more temperature drop is predicted 2009–2020 for certain locations.

* Solar activity may have contributed 40% or more to the last century temperature increase.

* A lag of 11 years gives maximum correlation between solar cycle length and temperature.

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/16/2012 04:32:00 AM

Texas Teacher Accused of Sex with Boys

(Austin, Texas) A 32-year-old special education teacher at Lexington (TX) Middle School, Holly Lopez, has been accused of engaging in sex with two male teens, 13 and 14 years old.

Lopez faces charges of aggravated sexual assault and improper relationship between educator and student.

The student told police that he had regularly turned to Lopez for help in math, but as the year wore on, the student-teacher relationship took an inappropriate turn, Pflugerville police said in the affidavit.

On the night of the incident, Lopez arrived at the Pflugerville home of the student's friend with condoms and had sex with both teens, the affidavit said.

Lopez was booked into the Travis County Jail with bond set at $100,000.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/15/2012 10:27:00 PM

Texas Teach and Two Students

(Lake Jackson, Texas) A 25-year-old science teacher formerly at Brazosport High School, Shelley Linder, has been accused of engaging in sex with two male students.

Linder faces charges of improper relationship between an educator and a student and enticing a child.

According to court documents, Linder had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy in 2009 and a 17-year-old boy a year later.

Sources close to the investigation said Linder invited the boys over to her home and seduced them.

Linder was booked into custody and released on Tuesday.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/15/2012 02:10:00 PM

Cyber-Attack on BBC

(London, England)

A "sophisticated cyber-attack" on the BBC has been linked to Iran's efforts to disrupt the BBC Persian Service.

In a speech Director General Mark Thompson plans to say that the internet attack coincided with efforts to jam two of the service's satellite feeds into Iran.

He will say: "We regard the coincidence of these different attacks as self-evidently suspicious."

Last month Mr Thompson accused Iran of intimidating Persian service workers.

Reporters Without Borders has also complained about Iran's "cyber-army".

The latest revelation follows a blog post by Mr Thompson in February in which he complained of the "repeated jamming of international TV stations such as BBC Persian TV, preventing the Iranian people from accessing a vital source of free information".

In his speech to the Royal Television Society he will note that on the day of the cyber-attack there had also been an attempt to disrupt the Persian Service's London phone-lines by the use of multiple automatic calls.

It appears the Iranian government is testing methods to electronically seal its population from the outside world.
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       Following Entry Posted 3/15/2012 10:16:00 AM

Is there a greenhouse effect?

Skeptics are divided into two camps on the greenhouse effect. The larger camp say it does exist but is of trivial importance for policy and the smaller camp says it does not exist at all.

Being just a humble social scientist with minimal background in physics, it is of no importance for me to take a stand on the question but I have recently been trying to get the issues clear in my head in pursuit of a most unlikely goal: Expressing the theory entirely in plain words so that those of us who are uncomfortable with algebra and technical terms from physics can get a handle on the whole thing.

I think the biggest barrier to understsanding for me has been the old law of the conservation of energy (Yes: I know about Einstein). This law does, I suspect, feel intuitively wrong for almost all of us. It states that energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just bounces around at different times in different places.

Most of us, I think, experience energy as something that gets used up -- as when the gas bottle on our BBQ runs out. But in fact energy is only changed into another form, which may or may not be of any benefit to us.

Lubos Motl, my favourite Pilsener, has been very kind in trying to show me how that works in the atmosphere. This is what I get from it:

When radiation from the sun hits the earth, it warms the earth. But a warm body also gives off heat so the earth warms its atmosphere by convection (contact) but also by radiation. It's not only the sun but also the earth that gives off energy in the form of radiation.

But since the earth is much cooler than the sun it gives off energy in largely different wavelengths. The energy that bounces off the earth is largely in the infrared (IR). But different surfaces respond differently to IR. IR passes right through some gases but gets soaked up by others. Some gases, principally water vapour, soak it up and therefore become hotter. So they become hot bodies too. And what do hot bodies do? They radiate energy in all directions, some of which is downwards toward the earth. And that is the storied Greenhouse effect: The heat that is bounced back towards the earth.

And CO2 is a minor partner in that process. Like water vapour, it too absorbs and subsequently emits IR radiation. Because it is such a tiny fraction of the "greenhouse" process, however, variations in its levels have negligible heating effect on the earth. It's levels of water vapour that matter.

So that's it! That's my attempt to explain greenhouse theory in words only. Partly in response to my desire for a really simple explanation of Greenhouse theory, Roy Spencer has put up his own, much more sophisticated explanation.

And don't blame Lubos for any errors above. Blame my shaky understanding.

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/15/2012 06:11:00 AM

Iranian Plot to Attack Israeli and U.S. Targets

(Baku, Azerbaijan) This report is hardly unexpected. Iran has become a shady regime.

Azerbaijan has arrested 22 people on suspicion of spying for Iran, accusing them of links with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

A statement issued Wednesday by the Azerbaijani national security ministry confirmed the undated arrests: it said the 22 “were to commit terrorist acts against the US, Israeli and other western states’ embassies and the embassies’ employees,” the AFP reported.

“Firearms, cartridges, explosives and espionage equipment were found during the arrest,” the statement continued. Recruited from 1999 onwards, the suspects allegedly received weapons and espionage training at military camps in Iran. They have been charged with treason and the purchase and possession of weapons and explosives.

It was not clear on Wednesday when the 22 were actually arrested. However, Contact, a non-government Azerbaijani news site supported by the US National Endowment for Democracy, said the arrests took place between late January and 20 February, according to the BBC.

Heh.
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       Following Entry Posted 3/15/2012 01:55:00 AM

Pennsylvania Woman Gets Prison in Sex Case - Updated

(Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Shortly after pleading guilty last year, Anna Ackerman changed her mind and withdrew the pleading.

Scheduled for trial this week, Anne Ackerman arranged a last-minute plea deal.

Anna Ackerman pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges that she sexually assaulted a "severely intoxicated" boy at her home three years ago — and this time her plea is final.

A judge sentenced Ackerman, 45, to 4 to 10 years in state prison for performing sex acts on the 15-year-old boy during a party she hosted in Mount Joy. Numerous teenagers attended the party on June 16, 2009, according to court testimony.[…]

Ackerman wept and spoke softly while answering questions during the hearing. She declined to provide an explanation for her actions when asked by Lancaster County President Judge Joseph Madenspacher.

The proceedings ended with Ackerman being handcuffed and taken to prison.

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Pennsylvania Woman Guilty of Sex with Boy, 15
[Previous 7/13/11 post]
(Lancaster, Pennsylvania) A 44-year-old local woman, Anna Ackerman, pleaded guilty today to engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy at a 2009 party she hosted.

Assistant District Attorney Susan Ellison and defense attorney Cory Miller agreed on a 5-to-10 year prison sentence in exchange for the plea.

County President Judge Joseph C. Madenspacher accepted the plea and will formally sentence Ackerman within three months.

It appears that Ackerman wanted to avoid trial, scheduled for today, since video evidence had been found showing her mixing it up with the boy.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 11:40:00 PM

Boots on the Ground




Caption in Comments. Thanks to C&S.
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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 06:42:00 PM

Washington Teacher's Aide Faces Sex Charges

(Vancouver, Washington) A 29-year-old teacher's aide and basketball coach at Kings Way Christian School, Kylee Allworth, has been accused of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old female student.

Allworth faces three counts of suspicion of sexual misconduct with a minor.

A detective's affidavit alleges that Allworth started making sexual advances about Feb. 24 that included sexual contact. Several of the incidents took place at the school, the affiliated church or on church property.

Allworth told the victim not to say what was happening, as she could go to jail, the affidavit said.

The affidavit said Allworth, after a Miranda warning, confessed before detectives to the advances. Her testimony mirrored what the victim told police.

Allworth was booked into custody with bond set at $50,000.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 08:09:00 AM

Lord Monckton on Obama's computer-generated "Birth certificate"

I have watched Sheriff Arpaio's press conference in AZ and have examined some of the evidence directly. It is clear - as Alex Jones rightly said on the day when Obama first put up his faked "long-form birth certificate" on the White House website - that a fraud has been committed, and that, absent a valid official record of Obama's birth or a very good explanation of the anomalies in the published version, he is not qualified to stand for re-election as President.

The main point of the fraudulent "birth certificate" is that it is layered in such a way that all four of the rubber stamps (three dates and one recording officer's certification) are on separate layers, allowing them to be moved about on the document at will. A scanned document could not behave this way, and there is no way this could have happened accidentally. However, Sheriff Arpaio has some reason to fear that the Hawaiian authorities are in Obama's pocket.

There are two other pieces of impressive testimony. First, when the Sheriff's office asked the National Archives to produce the immigration records of flights into the US, and specifically into Hawaii, for five years either side of Obama's alleged birth date (4 August 1961), the one week in 1961 in which the records were unavailable was the week of -- you guessed it - 1-7 August. This is beginning to look like a widespread, high-level fraud.

Secondly, the White House had previously told enquirers from the media that no long-form birth certificate existed: all they had was a certification from Hawaii that there was a birth certificate on file.

The Sheriff plainly has enough evidence to warrant further investigation by the appropriate authorities (presumably the FBI), but he seems to be genuinely terrified of how far the corruption might have spread, and does not seem to know where to go or what to do next. A lawyer whom I have consulted says that no public authority or court will move against a sitting president who has been elected, but it seems to me that the evidence of malfeasance is now strong enough to overcome this objection.

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 07:18:00 AM

Ohio Dance Teacher Gets Prison in Sex Case - Updated

(Summit County, Ohio) Yesterday, 34-year-old tap dancing teacher Kimberly Sauto was sentenced to one year in prison for one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a 15-year-old boy.

Summit County Assistant Prosecutor Aaron Howell asked Common Pleas Judge Judy Hunter for a four-year sentence, noting that Sauto gave alcohol to the boy in the time leading up to the offense.

It didn’t happen just once, he told the judge.

However, Judge Hunter said Sauto, mother-of-two, was a first-time felony offender and hadn't been in trouble with the law previously. Therefore, Judge Hunter indicated the prosecution's recommended sentence was "too harsh."

In the end, a tearful Sauto was apologetic to the court and spectators and asked for mercy. She'll serve less than a year because of 52 days credit for time served.

Sauto was ordered to register as a sexually-oriented offender.

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Ohio Dance Teacher and Boy, 15
[Previous 1/28/12 post]
(Akron, Ohio) A 34-year-old dance instructor, Kimberly Sauto, has been found guilty of unlawful sexual conduct with a 15-year-old male student.

Prosecutors said Sauto's husband reported the relationship to Sagamore Hills police after finding condoms in his wife's dance bag, and text messages between her and the victim.

Investigators said the victim was a student in Sauto's tap dancing class. They had sex in Sauto's car in August 2011, according to prosecutors. During the trial, Sauto testified, but did not admit to a sexual relationship.

"The defendant admitted that she had written him love letters, admitted to text messages, admitted to kissing him, but did deny having a sexual relationship with him," said Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh.

On the witness stand, Sauto also said that she still loves the boy today, according to Bevan Walsh.

Sauto is in custody at the Summit County Jail. Sentencing is scheduled for March.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 06:33:00 AM

Hospital Operating Room Stick-Up




(Caracas, Venezuela) You know crime is rampant and criminals are brazen when even a hospital operating room isn't safe.

An individual robbed a surgeon and his staff at gunpoint during a procedure being performed in the operating theater of a hospital in the central Venezuelan city of Maracay, making off with watches, cell phones and money, officials at the institution said.

The robber, pretending to be a patient, broke into the operating theater Thursday at Red Cross headquarters in Aragua, said the head of the institution in that state, Juan Mario Gualano.

“He (the robber) suddenly took out a gun, burst into the operating room and demanded the submission of the medical staff doing surgery on a patient,” Gualano said, describing the incident as “a really crazy thing.”

Strangely, crime appears totally out of control in the wonderful socialist utopia of Venezuela. Heh.
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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 05:25:00 AM

New Hampshire Teacher Alcohol Problems

(Merrimack, New Hampshire) A 47-year-old French teacher formerly at Merrimack Upper Elementary School, Lisa DiNucci, has been accused of driving under the influence of alcohol, second offense.

DiNucci's previous June 2010 offense involved asking her daughter to blow into a blood-alcohol device to circumvent the ignition lock system.

In the latest incident, at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Merrimack Police Officer Brandon Gagnon observed a Buick Park Avenue traveling south on Daniel Webster Highway and abruptly swerve to the left and cross the solid yellow lines, according to police.

A vehicle heading north had to maneuver out of the way to avoid a crash, police said.

Gagnon stopped the car by the U.S. post office. He detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage, bloodshot eyes and a lack of dexterity, police said.

Dinucci refused field sobriety tests, and based upon the officer’s observations, she was placed under arrest and transported to the Merrimack Police Department, police said.

DiNucci was booked and released on $2,500 bond. A court appearance is scheduled for April 17.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/14/2012 04:21:00 AM

Woman, 22, and Playstation Boy, 14

(Monroe, Connecticut) A 22-year-old Rockland, Maine woman, Cassandra Grant, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.

Grant surrendered to Monroe Police on Monday to face charges of second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

Police say she and the then-14-year-old boy met earlier last year while playing a game via on the online gaming console.

Their relationship grew to include webcam chats, telephone conversations, and text messages until Grant and the boy met in Connecticut for sex in December, according to police.

Grant was booked into custody and released on $10,000 bond.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/13/2012 11:27:00 PM

Alabama Woman Gets More Time in Sex Case - Updated

(Coffee County, Alabama) In the case of Kelli Nicole Hussey (aka Kelli Nicole Champion), 36, it seems she has been convicted again for raping the same 12-year-old child on another occasion in Clay County.

She will now serve an additional 20 years in prison.

According to Attorney General Luther Strange, 36-year-old Ashland resident Kelli Champion Hussey has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment to be followed by 10 years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to First-Degree Rape of a Child.

Hussey is currently incarcerated for additional sex crimes she previously committed against the same child victim. She previously served prison time for sex crimes against a different child victim.

Hussey's 20 year sentence will run concurrently with the 10 year sentence she received for a 2009 Coffee County Circuit Court conviction for second-degree rape and multiple other sex crimes.

Therefore, assuming Ms. Champion Hussey serves all her time, she'll get out of prison in 2029.

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Alabama Female Molests Again
[Previous 6/9/09 post]
(Enterprise, Alabama) In 2002, a 27-year-old local woman, Kelli Nicole Hussey (aka Kelli Nicole Champion), was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse for engaging in illicit relations with a 12-year-old Coffee County boy.

She was sentenced to three years in prison and released in February 2005 at which time she registered as a sex offender.

In May 2007, Hussey (aka Champion) was arrested on two counts of rape and one count of sodomy, offenses committed against a 12-year-old boy. She was booked into custody at the Coffee County Jail with bond set at $80,000. At the time, it was also reported that she was pregnant. No followup report on her alleged pregnancy is known.

Last Friday, 34-year-old Kelli Nicole Hussey, also known as Kelli Champion, pleaded guilty to first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree rape and was sentenced by Circuit Judge Jeff Kelly to 10 years in prison.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/13/2012 05:47:00 PM

Women's Chess Dress Code



(Istanbul, Turkey) A dress code has been established for the European Women's Chess Championship now being held in Turkey.

Created by the European Chess Union (ECU), the code specifies a crisp, harmonious and complete look in attire.




Cleavage has been banned along with skirts shorter than four inches above the knee. According to Sava Stoisavljevic, the female European Chess Union General Secretary:

Players can keep two buttons on their tops open, but no more. Skirts must be no shorter than 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) above the knee.

Stoisavljevic didn’t seem to mind that the female players dressed in skimpy garments.

“It's nice to see chess players with short skirts — they are very pretty girls. But I believe there should still be some limit.”

The general secretary said that the rules were being put in place because some women weren’t dressing properly.

The rules, which apply to both men and women, demand that players wear clean clothing that does not show excessive wear or holes.

Players must not have body odor.

Heh. Since women are competing against women, exposed cleavage wouldn't seem be a problem. Apparently, rowdy spectators prompted the code.
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       Following Entry Posted 3/13/2012 09:27:00 AM

Hate speech going both ways?

Leftists have accused Kirk Cameron of hate speech for his Biblical view of homosexuality but they have done plenty of hating back. They are the only ones actually doing any hating as far as I can see. Saying that homosexuality is wrong does not mean you hate homosexuals. In Romans chapter 1 Paul makes clear that they are in the hands of God.

It will be a sad day when people can no longer express Biblical beliefs.

Kirk Cameron said he is a victim of ‘hate speech’ after he called homosexuality ‘unnatural’, ‘detrimental’ and ‘destructive’ during an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN.

Cameron, an evangelical Christian, came under fire from gay rights campaigners for the controversial comments he made on Friday.

When asked by Morgan if he thinks homosexuality is a sin, the 41-year-old star said: 'I think that it’s unnatural. I think that it’s detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilisation.'

Cameron also spoke out against gay marriage, adding: 'I believe that marriage was defined by God. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. 'One man, one woman for life 'til death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don’t think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.'

But the former Growing Pains star has fought back against the backlash he has been subjected to and defended his controversial viewpoints.

'I spoke as honestly as I could, but some people believe my responses were not loving toward those in the gay community. That is not true. I can assuredly say that it’s my life’s mission to love all people,' he told ABC News in a statement.

'I should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years — without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/13/2012 08:34:00 AM

Tennessee Woman, 39, and Boy, 16

(Erin, Tennessee) A 39-year-old local woman, Tiffany A Conwell, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 16-year-old boy.

The alleged rape reportedly occurred on January 16. Conwell was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of aggravated statutory rape.

The charge is aggravated, according to the indictment, because of an age difference of more than 10 years between the victim and the alleged perpetrator.

Conwell was booked into custody at the Houston County Jail.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/13/2012 12:54:00 AM

Florida Sex Offender Fails to Register - Updated

(Okaloosa County, Florida) Sentenced to community control in January 2011, Michelle Kemp has now been arrested in Okaloosa County for failing to register as a sex offender.

Okaloosa County deputies arrested Kemp while responding to a domestic violence call at AJ’s bar in Destin. It was discovered she hadn’t registered as a sexual offender only after she lied to an officer, telling him her name was Mandy Sue Hoover.[…]

Kemp was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. She told the arresting officer on Friday that she had lied to him about who she was because “she has an upcoming hearing to get off probation,” his report on the incident states.

Bill Bishop, the chief assistant state attorney for Okaloosa County, said Kemp will now face a violation of probation charge.

She was not wearing the monitor she was ordered to wear as part of her community control sentence, Bishop said. Her allegedly not being registered as a sexual offender will also be taken into account, he said.

Jeez, one might think that Kemp was begging for prison time.

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House Arrest for Sex with Boy - Updated
[Previous 11/4/10 post]
(Panama City, Florida) Yesterday, 31-year-old Michelle Kemp pleaded no contest to engaging in sexual behavior with a 15-year-old boy.

Consequently, Kemp was sentenced to house arrest for two years.

Jason Kemp, Michelle Kemp’s ex-husband, called the sentence “completely unbelievable.” Jason Kemp, who now lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with the couple’s children, said his wife’s crimes led to their divorce, and questioned whether there is a double standard for women who commit sex crimes.

“I know if I did what she did I would be in jail right now,” Jason Kemp said. “I think it’s unbelievable. Completely unbelievable.”

Prosecutor Tracy Smith said the genders of the people involved didn’t factor into the plea.

Kemp was also ordered to register as a sex offender and receive mental health treatment.

For what it's worth, I agree with Jason Kemp.

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Florida Woman Accused of Sex with Boy
[Previous 12/7/09 post]
(Panama City, Florida) A 30-year-old Crestview, FL, woman, Michelle Leigh Kemp, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy and providing him with marijuana and prescription pills.

She has been charged with lewd and lascivious acts on a child and delivery of a controlled substance.

Kemp reportedly picked up the boy and drove him to the Callaway, FL, area and engaged in sex with him in her vehicle.

When the boy returned home, an adult at the house saw the two together and confronted the juvenile. The boy's mother said Kemp previously was invovled (sic) with the boy in Okaloosa County but charges were dropped when she agreed to undergo counseling.

The boy told the adult what happened, and the adult called Springfield police. Sheriff's deputies became involved because the incident allegedly occurred in Callaway.

Kemp surrendered to authorities today.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/12/2012 09:08:00 PM

Florida Woman, 32, and Boy, 15

(Brevard County, Florida) A 32-year-old Viera woman, Alysia Flynn, has been accused engaging in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy for more than a year.

Flynn faces charges interference with child custody, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 42 counts of lewd and lascivious battery and 53 counts of unlawful sexual activity with minors.

According to Brevard Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Tod Goodyear,

"It appears we've got a woman in her 30s actively looking for high school boys."

They suspect Flynn hosted parties for teens at her home. In interviews they determined she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old for more than a year, Goodyear said.

The alleged conduct occurred at Flynn's home and other Melbourne locations, officials said.

Goodyear said agents have been investigating the case about two months.

Flynn was booked into custody at the Brevard County Jail without bond.

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       Following Entry Posted 3/12/2012 07:47:00 PM

Bay State Teacher Violates Probation - Updated

(Springfield, Massachusetts) During a routine probation check last Friday, former teacher and convicted rapist Lisa Lavoie was found with her victim hiding in a closet. Lavoie was arrested for violating probation.

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Bay State Teacher Gets Probation for Child Rape - Updated
[Previous 1/26/11 ]
(Springfield, Massachusetts) Although the prosecution had asked for three to five years in prison for teacher Lisa Lavoie, Hampden Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty generously sentenced the convicted child rapist to probation for five years.

Moriarty said he thinks Lavoie's "interest and concern for (the boy's) emotional well-being was what originally began this episode," which he said "was originally well-intended." He said it appears Lavoie's kindness toward the boy was what led to his sexual interest in her.

"There are those who perhaps will say this sentence is too lenient," Moriarty said.

"This too shall pass," he told Lavoie.

According to District Attorney Mark Mastroianni, there exists no obvious reason for such a lenient sentence. Frankly, I'd suggest that Judge Moriarty could not have sentenced his own daughter to a more lenient sentence.

So, schoolteacher Lisa Lavoie runs off with a 15-year-old student, crosses several state lines and, after a nationwide search, is found jumping the boy's bones in a motel in West Virginia. She's convicted of rape and sentenced to go home and behave. Yeah, that's justice.

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Massachusetts Teacher Guilty in Rape Case - Updated
[Previous 12/16/10 post]
(Springfield, Massachusetts) Former teacher at Maurice Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Lisa LaVoie, has pleaded guilty to three counts of statutory rape stemming from a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

The District Attorney's office is recommending Lavoie serve three to five years in state prison. The maximum penalty she's facing is three consecutive life sentences.

Sabbs says "This is a crime that will not be taken lightly. The District Attorney's office took this very seriously and we recommended a state prison sentence for what she did and we stand by that at this time."

Lavoie was released on personal recognizance and is not to have any contact the victim or his family.

Sentencing has been scheduled for January 26.

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Massachusetts Teacher and Runaway Student Caught in WV
[Previous 2/24/09 post]
(Morgantown, West Virginia) A 24-year-old teacher at Maurice Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Lisa LaVoie, has been arrested in Morgantown for allegedly running off with a 15-year-old student.

The boy's parents notified authorities on February 13 and, on February 16, a search was launched. West Virginia troopers caught LaVoie and the boy earlier today at a Super 8 Motel.

LaVoie is being held on charges of child endangerment. She was booked into custody at the North Central Regional Jail without bond.

Arrangements are underway to return the boy to Massachusetts.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 3/12/2012 07:34:00 AM

A coverup to make Nixon seem like a piker

Media bans more Evidence that Obama Holds U.S. Presidency unlawfully

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio , a five-time elected Sheriff, and former federal narcotics agent who served in several foreign countries hit the front pages in Europe with evidence that may fatally wound the political career of the current incumbent of America's highest public office.

However, the most likely "killer evidence" against the president comes not from Arpaio but from a 19th Century U.S. Supreme Court ruling that makes the issue of the alleged forgeries almost superfluous. But that clear cut federal court decision is being systematically "disappeared" from mainstream archives.

Critics ask why would this be if the Obama conspiracy theories were just that - theories without substance. Legal analysts hold that this particular federal ruling confirms that Obama is not eligible for the highest public office because, even if he was born in Honolulu as he claims, he cannot have the status of "natural born citizen."

This legal hurdle is not widely understood because "natural born citizen" is defined under law as someone with BOTH parents born in the United States. Obama's father is from Kenya.

Under law there is only one test of what constitues a 'natural born citizen' and it is enshrined in the crucial judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in Minor V. Happersett (88 U.S. 162) of 1875. The 'Minor-v-Happersett' case clearly defines Natural Born Citizen as someone who can show that both of their parents were born in the United States, which obviously excludes Obama on his father's side.

Minor V. Happersett has been cited and held true in dozens of cases over the last 138 years. However, despite it's importance, this landmark judgment is strangely being expunged from Internet archives by supporters of Obama. Critics say this apparent fascist revisionism of American legal history seems to have begun in earnest after Obama's rousing 2004 speech at the Democrat National Convention when he first was hotly tipped for the presidency.

The very fact that Obama's father was not born in the United States means that under the law, as enshrined within Minor V. Happersett , Barack Obama can never lawfully hold the Office of President of the United States of America. But mainstream outlet won't reveal this case when addressing "conspiracy theories" over this matter. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, forbids inclusion of the Minor-v-Happersett ruling in it's entry about the Obama "conspiracy theory." Yet Wikipedia does have a separate entry for the case (but no mention of Obama).

Justia.com the prime free legal internet research site for decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States, has gone out on a limb to scrub Minor V. Happersett from it's server. This is despite almost every other Supreme Court case in American history being on their search engine. Justia.com is owned by wealthy Obama supporter Tim Stanley so follow the money. The controversy is now dubbed " JustiaGate ."

More HERE (See the original for links)

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/11/2012 11:30:00 PM

Don't Bug Your Wife

(Raccoon Township, Pennsylvania) A 66-year-old local man, Wayne Comet Gripe, has been accused of placing a listening and transmitting device under his wife's bed.

Mr. Cripes allegedly wanted to catch his wife, Suzanne Cripe, doing the nasty with another man.

He was charged with a misdemeanor charge of invasion of privacy and a felony charge of intercept communications, which means he intentionally intercepted communication from someone else without that individual's knowledge.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 23.

Tip: slwlion
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       Following Entry Posted 3/11/2012 11:08:00 PM

New York Teacher and Female Student

(Freeport, New York) A 23-year-old substitute teacher at Freeport High School, Kaitlin Grant, has been accused of engaging in sexual relations with a 15-year-old female student.

Grant faces charges of criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of a child.

Nassau County police say the relationship with the Freeport High School student started in November 2011 and ended this month. Police said a member of the victim's family contacted authorities.

The Freeport Schools say Grant had no prior criminal record and passed all background checks; she will no longer work as a substitute.

Information on detention and bond is unavailable.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 3/11/2012 09:52:00 AM

Top Democrat can't convince her own family about Obama's sincerity over Israel

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), the chairman of the DNC and one of the president’s most prominent Jewish backers, is apparently having trouble convincing her own friends and family that President Obama is a friend of Israel.

While defending Obama’s record in an op-ed published today in the Florida Jewish Journal, Wasserman Schultz admits that her friends and family members routinely forward her emails raising doubts about the president’s support for the Jewish state.

“I hear the rumors, too,” Wasserman Schultz wrote in the piece titled “No Smearing a True Friend.” “I receive the dubious email forwards from friends and family.”

Wasserman Schultz’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the precise nature of these allegedly false email messages.

Wasserman Schultz also made the case that Obama has been exceedingly tough on the Iranian regime, although that country appears resolved to continue its drive for a nuclear weapons capability.

Wasserman Schultz wrote that the ultimate goal of economic sanctions and Obama’s tough rhetoric “is to stop any sinister elements of the Iranian nuclear program and compel Tehran to comply with their obligations under international law.”

When asked which elements of Iran’s nuclear program are “sinister” and which are not, Wasserman Schultz’s office again did not respond.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, has no doubt about Iran’s disputed nuclear program, stating in a speech recently that “Responsible leaders should not bet the security of their countries on the bet that the world’s most dangerous regimes won’t use the worlds most dangerous weapons.”

SOURCE

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 3/11/2012 09:50:00 AM

Apple's politically correct word processor

We read:

"Apple offers its own word-processing program called Pages that you can have for $20.00. Trusting in the quality of all things Apple, I bought it, and congratulated myself on my thrift.

Pages has traits that are not immediately apparent, however. While it’s a sturdy little word processor, its true personality is not revealed until you use the proofreader — or Proofreadress, as I now think of her. Yes, she’s female all right. Seems to have been designed and programmed by the women’s-studies department of the Cupertino community college.

In a column about Rick Santorum, I had used the word “spokesman.” The proofreader flagged it: “Gender specific expression. Consider replacing with ‘speaker,’ ‘representative,’ or ‘advocate.’” Hmm. How would that work? The sentence read, “A spokesman said ‘there is little daylight between Ryan and Gingrich on Medicare.’” None of the suggested words would accurately convey who was talking. Every one would have changed the meaning and confused the reader.

Pages just hates gender-specific expressions and is constantly on guard for them. In a column titled “Assad’s Useful Idiots” I had written that Vogue magazine “apparently immune to shame, ran a fawning profile of the dictator’s wife.” Proofreadress was on it. “Gender specific expression. A gender neutral word like ‘spouse’ may be appropriate.” Really, Proofreadress? Spouse is a legal word, good for real-estate transactions and rhyming in Les Miserables’s “Master of the House.” But as a substitute for wife, it’s ungainly and odd. Wife is a perfectly good word — in fact, it’s a perfectly good status, one that I’m glad to enjoy.

Proofreadress was also unhappy about the next paragraph of that column, when I quoted Vogue to the effect that Asma Al-Assad was “glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies.” Uh-oh. “Gender specific expression. Consider replacing with ‘women,’ ‘people,’ or ‘individuals.’” It was a quote, of course, and therefore untouchable. But imagine writing “the freshest and most magnetic of first individuals.”

More here

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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