Oregon Woman Gets Prison for Sex with Boys

(Pendleton, Oregon) In May 2010, a 41-year-old woman, Sara "Sadie" Joen Thompson, was arrested for allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with two males under the age of 16.

On November 17, Thompson pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual abuse in the second degree for having intercourse with both teens, and one count of luring a minor.

On November 24, Circuit Court Judge Garry Reynolds sentenced Thompson to five years and 10 months in prison.

In addition to the prison time, Reynolds gave Thompson three years of post-prison supervision and required her to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

Thompson also must complete sex offender therapy and counseling as a condition of her post-prison supervision.

Thompson is the mother of three boys, ages 12 to 15.

Stallone Porn Film

In 1970 when Sylvester Stallone was desperate for money, he starred in a softcore erotic movie called "Italian Stallion." He was paid $200 for two days of work.

Earlier this month, the original negatives and worldwide rights for the film were sold on eBay for $412,100.

Heh.

Sarah hits back at biased media over gaffes

SARAH Palin, who has been hammered by critics for making the occasional verbal gaffe, used her Thanksgiving message today to point out a number of bungles made by US President Barack Obama.

The former Republican vice-presidential nominee, tipped as a potential 2012 presidential candidate, posted the message titled, "A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States", on her Facebook account.

In May 2008, while campaigning to be president, Mr Obama wrongly told an audience in Oregon that he "had been in 57 states, [with] I think one left to go."

Ms Palin opened her message today by listing what she termed "misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama", along with accompanying YouTube clips. They include Mr Obama calling Europe a country; the US continuing to fight "to halt the rise of privacy" - when he meant "piracy" - in Somalia; and Israel being a "strong friend of Israel's".

"I didn't have enough time to do one for Joe Biden," Ms Palin added, in a reference to the famously outspoken vice-president.

"YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. "If you can't remember hearing about them, that's because for the most part the media didn't consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe."

Yesterday, Ms Palin was lambasted in sections of the media after she mistakenly called North Korea an ally of the US. "The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us," Ms Palin explained.

"If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime.

"The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story?"

The Twittersphere lit up after the publication of Ms Palin's message, with critics jumping on her mention of 57 states - clearly not realising it was her joke aimed at Mr Obama.

Ms Palin also used the same Facebook message to deny reports this week she had been trying to convince the producers of Dancing With The Stars to cast Christine O'Donnell, the defeated Republican candidate in the Delaware Senate race, in the next series of the hit show. Ms Palin's daughter Bristol finished second runner-up on the show earlier this week.

"Why not just make up stories out of thin air - like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of Dancing With The Stars to cast a former Senate candidate on their show," Mr Palin said. "That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking."

Ms Palin was lampooned during her failed vice-presidential campaign in 2008 for her emphasis on Russia's proximity to Alaska. "They're our next door neighbours and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," she said.

Earlier this year she was ridiculed her for using the non-existent word "refudiate", that seemed to be a cross between "refute" and "repudiate". It was this month named 2010 Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.

SOURCE

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

Woman, 41, and Boy, 14

(Vienna, Austria) A 41-year-old, local married mother-of-two, identified only as Renata C., and a 13-year-old boy, identified as Erwin U., have allegedly been engaging in a romantic affair that has become a hot scandal throughout Europe.

Renata was a handball team coach and Erwin was a player.

Renata, a Croatian, has two daughters, ages 14 and 19, and a husband, all of whom have expressed support and understanding.

Under Austrian law, consensual sex at 14 is legal but Renata started doing Erwin when he was only 13. As a result, Renata was prosecuted for "severe sexual abuse of a minor" and sentenced to 22 months in prison, suspended.

"It was not right what I did. I admit my guilt. But Erwin is an exception – even at 13 he was not a child," said Renata.

Erwin remarked that he didn't want to be considered a victim since that's not how he feels. Erwin's mother has approved of the relationship and apparently the couple will move in with her to continue their affair.

It's unknown whether this case is a reflection of a general European attitude of permissiveness regarding sex or an example of leniency toward female child sex offenders. In any event, I'm forcing myself into believing that a 42-year-old man having sex with a 13-year-old girl would not be treated so lightly by the legal system nor would it be accepted and supported by the families involved.

Tip: Barry

Armored Vehicles Fight Violence in Rio

(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) At least 23 people have been killed in the ongoing violence between drug gangs and Brazilian authorities in local slums. The level of violence has surged since last Sunday with attacks on police stations and burning of vehicles.

The government has sent in security forces backed by armored vehicles. Over 150 arrests have been made.



Reportedly, the recent uptick in violent attacks has been ordered by jailed gang members. Consequently, recently arrested gang members are being shipped to remote jails so they can't contact their buddies.

Spreadin' the glove: TSA infecting U.S.?

Latex coverings 'have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill'

Those latex gloves Transportation Security Administration agents wear while giving airline passengers those infamous full-body pat-downs apparently aren't there for the safety and security of passengers – only the TSA agents.

That's the word being discussed on dozens of online forums and postings after it was noted that the agents wear the same gloves to pat down dozens, perhaps hundreds, of passengers, not changing them even though the Centers for Disease Control in its online writings has emphasized the important of clean hands to prevent the exchange of loathsome afflictions.

"Herpes via latex glove ... ewwww," wrote one participant on the independence-minded AR15 website forum.

Responding to the question, "Does the TSA change latex gloves after each sexual assault?" another wrote on the same forum, "I seriously doubt it. Gloves are for their protection, not yours."

In fact, TSA officials in both national and regional offices declined to respond to WND inquiries about the policy for changing gloves to prevent an infection that may be on the clothes or body of one passenger during a pat-down by TSA agents from being transmitted to other passengers, including children, in line.

Martha Donahue in a commentary at Resistnet said she'd spent 30 years in the medical industry. "For those of you who fly and opt for the 'pat down,' you need to demand the TSA thugs change their gloves. I've been watching on the news how they operate. People are being searched [with] dirty gloves ... gloves that have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill, people who pick their noses. Do you want those gloves touching you?

"These thugs are protecting themselves from you. You need to be protected from them," she wrote. "In a hospital, nursing home, in-home care, or even labs, that would never even be considered an option."

ABC reported one of its news employees documented how a TSA worker reached inside her underwear. "The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," the ABC employee said in the network's report. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."

Asked today about the possibility of contamination being spread from one passenger to another on the gloves of TSA agents, a spokesman for the CDC bailed.

Much more HERE

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

Thanksgiving Proclamation

"By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln"

Aussie Woman, 24, and Boy, 14

(Hillside, Victoria, Australia) A 24-year-old local woman, Kimberley Annette Gale, has pleaded guilty to engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.

The 24-year-old had met the boy - and his mother - at a football club, and having heard that he was having trouble getting to school, offered to provide lifts.

For three or four weeks in March and April, Miss Gale drove the boy to school every morning, and on at least one occasion put her hand on his leg and told him he was ‘hot’, prosecution lawyer Susan Borg said.

On one occasion Miss Gale, then 23, asked the boy if he wanted to spend more time with her, and he replied ‘yes’.

She drove him to her family’s home and the pair had sex then she drove him to school.

Two weeks later, they went to Miss Gale’s home again on the way to school and had sex.

In her defense, lawyer Amy Wood said Gale had returned to live with her mother and it made her feel "like she was 16 again." Gale was remanded to custody.

Tip: JR

UN General Assembly Approves Execution of Gays

Here's another reason not to trust the UN.

The UN General Assembly this week voted to allow LGBT people to be executed without cause.

According to the International Gay and Lesbians Human Rights Commission, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee on Social, Cultural and Humanitarian issues removed “sexual orientation” from a resolution addressing extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions this past week in a vote that was overwhelming represented by a majority of African, Middle East and Carribean nations.

It's not clear why arbitrary executions would be allowed in any circumstances.

Nevada Woman Accused of Molesting Girl

(Las Vegas, Nevada) Earlier this month, a 49-year-old local woman, Cindy Sue Osborne, was arrested for allegedly molesting a teenage family member.

In an arrest report, the girl said the abuse began with Osborne's husband, John Browning, in early 2003. Browning, the girl claimed, invited Osborne to participate in the sex acts.

The report gives graphic descriptions of alleged abuse that continued for five years and stopped when Browning died in January of 2008.

Osborne was booked into custody at the Clark County Jail.

Girls Coach Sentenced in Sex Case - Updated

(Indianapolis, Indiana) This week, former high school girls' basketball coach Sara Strahm pleaded guilty to felony child seduction stemming from engaging in a sexual relationship with one of her players.

Strahm previously told investigators that she loved the 17-year-old girl.

Strahm was sentenced to 365 days in prison, with 185 suspended and 180 executed on home detention. She was also ordered to complete 240 hours of community service work.

The Marion County Prosecutor's Office said Strahm will be on probation for 185 days and must undergo sex offender treatment.[…]

Her felonies will be reduced to misdemeanors if she successfully completes probation.

I suggest it's indisputable that Strahm is walking away with a wrist-slap.

Thanks to Lame for the tip who also asks, "What's the use in prosecuting her?"

For comparison purposes, a male teacher in Ohio, Christopher Thomas, was recently sentenced to 153 years in prison for sex with a female student.

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Girls Basketball Coach Accused of Child Seduction
[Previous 12/20/09 post]
(Indianapolis, Indiana) A 28-year-old special education teacher and basketball coach, Sara Strahm, was arrested Friday for alleged child seduction of a 17-year-old girl.

School officials alerted the police after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced.

Police said Strahm had been in a relationship with the girl since this fall.

"The child seduction charge is based on the fact that the coach is in a position of trust because she was involved in a sexual relationship with a student under the age of 18," Thompson said.

Strahm, a special education teacher at the school, is the varsity girls' basketball coach.

Strahm was booked into custody at the Arrestee Processing Center and released Saturday on $5,000 bond.

Milwaukee voter fraud conviction makes ACORN's 2010 total at least 15

Yet another former ACORN employee was convicted of voter fraud last week. This brings the total number of convictions for former workers from the embattled group to at least 15 so far this year.

Kevin L. Clancy of Milwaukee pleaded guilty last week to participating “in a scheme to submit fraudulent voter registration applications,” according to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. Clancy admitted to filing multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals and registering himself and other voter registration canvassers to vote multiple times while working on an ACORN voter drive.

Clancy received a 10-month prison term for his crime. Clancy’s sentence will begin when he completes another sentence he is currently serving for armed robbery.

“The integrity of elections is dependent upon citizens and officials insisting they be conducted lawfully,” Van Hollen said. “Wisconsin’s citizens should not have to wonder whether their vote has been negated or diminished by illegally cast ballots.”

So far 2010 has been a banner year for ACORN voter fraud prosecutions....

More HERE

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

Low Support for Gun Control

A public opinion survey indicates continued low support for stricter gun control measures.



According to Gallup's annual Crime Poll conducted in October 2010, 42% of Americans are satisfied with the current level of gun control, up from 17% in 1990, while the percentage of Americans wanting stricter gun control has decreased dramatically in the same time period.

More data are at the link.

Teacher's Aide NOT GUILTY in Sex Case - Updated

(Ellsworth, Wisconsin) After a two-day trial, a Pierce County jury found Rebecca O’Malley-Tietz not guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Comprised of three men and nine women, the jury deliberated for a mere three and one-half hours.

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Teacher's Aide Allegedly Threatens Boy in Sex Case - Updated
[Previous 11/21/09 post]
(River Falls, Wisconsin) The allegations of sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy by teacher's aide Rebecca Ann O’Malley-Tietz include a disturbing threat.

The 12-year-old boy saw Rebecca O'Malley-Tietz standing in her bathroom with her hand behind her back.

According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, his former teacher's aide asked him if he had told anyone about their sexual relationship. He told her he hadn't.

She took a gun from behind her back, put the muzzle under his chin and threatened to hurt him and his family if he did, the complaint states.

If true, it would explain why the boy was initially reluctant to cooperate with investigators. The story came out last Friday when the boy told a social worker. After her arrest on Wednesday, O’Malley-Tietz relayed an entirely different account.

She said she was "more like a mother" to the child. According to the complaint, she said any sexual contact the two had was nonconsensual; the child spanked and kissed her and then forced her to have intercourse, she said.

During her interview, O’Malley-Tietz was reportedly observed to be behaving strangely, leading to speculation that she may be suffering from mental illness.

Thursday, O’Malley-Tietz was released from jail on $25,000 bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 12.

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Teacher's Aide Accused of Sex with Boy, 12
[Previous 11/19/09 post]
(River Falls, Wisconsin) A 34-year-old teacher's aide formerly at River Falls Academy, Rebecca Ann O’Malley-Tietz, was arrested yesterday for allegedly engaging in sex with a 12-year-old boy. She faces a charge of first-degree sexual assault of a child.

River Falls police Sgt. Jon Aubart said the incident reportedly took place in 2007 off school grounds. The victim is a boy who was 12 at the time.

Police investigated the case but dropped it when the victim wouldn’t cooperate.

Later, when the victim was going through counseling, more information was disclosed and police got involved again.

O’Malley-Tietz was booked into custody at the Pierce County Jail.

Rhode Island Brothel Raided

(Providence, Rhode Island) City, state and federal authorities have raided and shut down a brothel operated, staffed and frequented by illegal aliens.

A tip about ongoing prostitution and complaints from neighbors about the traffic into the first-floor apartment at 33 Ida St. led to the six-month investigation that ended in a raid Saturday night where one of the ringleaders, two “security guards,” two prostitutes and nine would-be customers were arrested, state police Capt. James Demers said.

The main ringleader had been deported previously to the Dominican Republic for drug charges. He and one of the suspected security guards and eight customers were all in the United States illegally, according to the state police and immigration officials.

The state police are now drafting an arrest warrant for another suspected ringleader, a woman, who is accused of bringing different prostitutes to the apartment every weekend to work, Demers said.

The two prostitutes apparently serviced all traffic, an estimated 50 to 100 customers daily.

Just think, if the U.S. had effective border security, the entire operation would not have existed.

Study Finds Discrimination Against Muslims

Researchers sent out fictional job applications in a study of bias among employers in France. Results indicate that a potential French employer viewed applicants with Christian names much more favorably than applicants with Muslim names.

The researchers, led by David Laitin of Stanford University in California, created and mailed out 275 pairs of résumés to French employers advertising for jobs. Each of the paired résumés was identical in terms of job qualifications and experience except for the names of the applicants.

One of the applicants had a Christian given name, "Marie Diouf", while another had a Muslim given name, "Khadija Diouf".

To emphasise the religious difference in the applicants, Maire Diouf said she worked for Catholic Relief and was a member of Christian scouts, and Khadija Diouf said she had worked for Islamic Relief and was a member of Muslim scouts.

As a scientific control, the researchers compiled a third fictional résumé in the name of "Aurelie Menard", who could be identified as a rooted French person with no assumed religion – unlike "Diouf" which in France is easily identified as a Senagalese name. Every employer received a résumé of Aurelie Menard with a résumé of either Marie Diouf or Khadija Diouf – employers may have detected a test if they received applications from both Marie and Khadija Diouf, researchers said.

Marie-Anne Valfort from the Sorbonne in Paris said Khadija Diouf received a response rate of 8 per cent while Marie Diouf's response rate was 21 per cent – a highly significant difference. "It amounts to massive discrimination. The agenda is to try to find out what is driving it," Dr Valfort said.

In my estimation, nothing about the study nor the results is surprising. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Louisiana Woman Arrested for Identity Theft

(Port Allen, Louisiana) A 21-year-old local woman, Janecia Fountain, has been arrested for allegedly stealing the identities of more than 20 people while employed at a career placement center.

According to detectives, when people went in looking for career assistance Fountain allegedly stole their personal information.

She's accused of using the names and social security numbers of more than 20 clients to acquire about 33 loans totaling $11,000 in cash.

Fountain was booked into custody.

Offhand, I would speculate that this type of identity theft occurs much more frequently than is reported.

A warning about government medicine from Australia

Tumour victim threatens to drill into his head if health system can't get him surgery



A GOLD Coast man says he will take a drill to his head in a desperate attempt to get brain surgery through the public health system. Mark Black, of Merrimac, was diagnosed two acoustic neuroma tumours situated on either side of his head six months ago. But the 52-year-old had already waited two years to get the MRI scan that finally confirmed what was wrong with him.

Mr Black is now slowly losing his hearing and developing facial paralysis because the tumours are touching his nerves.

Still with no answer on a surgery date and the grim possibility he might go deaf waiting, Mr Black plans to stand outside the Gold Coast Hospital on December 7 and drill into his head to receive emergency care if he does not get the response he is after the day before.

Mr Black has a follow-up appointment with an ear, nose and throat surgeon on December 6 but believes he is being shifted through a system that will put him back to where he started. The father of three and grandfather of one said he had been back and forth seeking help over the years but without any answers.

"I'm not blaming the doctors in this, I'm blaming the bureaucrats who don't fund the hospital enough to do the surgery that's needed," he said. "My main concern now is to have this first lot of surgery because the end result is I'll end up totally deaf and have facial paralysis. The longer I let it go the worse the outcome."

Mr Black said he woke every day feeling off balance, had ringing in the ears, facial spasms and dizziness. The former inventor and coffee shop owner said he could not work any more because of his condition. "There's no light at the end of the tunnel," he said. "They're (the hospital) using delaying tactics so they don't have to do it and in the meantime I'm sitting here suffering. "I don't want to push in front of someone else. I just want to be put on the list and dealt with fairly."

SOURCE

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

BBC accused of 'racial stereotyping' by Scots - for including drunk porridge-eater in broadcasts

We read:

"Radio 4 listeners have blasted the character Jazzer, played by Ryan Kelly, who is portrayed as a heavy-drinking, car-stealing Glaswegian

The BBC’s long-running Radio 4 soap The Archers has been accused of ‘racial stereotyping’ over the portrayal of its only Scottish character.

Listeners of the programme have objected to the behaviour of Jack ‘Jazzer’ McCreary, who is shown as a mean, heavy-drinking, car-stealing, drug-taking, womanising Glaswegian who likes to eat porridge.

But many listeners have seen the character with his strong Glasgow accent as a form of negative stereotyping about Scottish people.

They have accused the show of lazy writing and said the BBC has ‘stereotyped an entire race’. The character has been in the soap since 2000.

Mr Kelly, the actor who plays Jazzer, told Radio 4’s Feedback he enjoyed playing the part. When asked if he had met any Scottish people like the character, Mr Kelly said: ‘Some cousins I have are like that.’

He added: ‘Even Scottish people laugh at deep frying things, they tend to laugh at themselves and I think you have got to be able to laugh at yourselves.’ He said of the accent: ‘It is as authentic as I can make it.’

Scriptwriter Keri Davies said: ‘It’s important to realise that Jazzer, the one character, cannot possibly be expected to represent a whole nation. Jazzer rather represents a type of person - a lad who is fairly rough and ready, who likes a drink, likes the women, has a few redeeming features but still has a lot of rough edges to be knocked off. That’s what he represents, rather [than] Scotland as a whole.’

Source

There's no doubt that Scots like a drink -- and porridge too. I like both myself -- and I'm an Australian!

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

N. Korea Shells S. Korea

(Seoul, South Korea) At least 50 artillery rounds were fired by North Korea at the West Sea island of Yeonpyeong-do in South Korean territory. In return, South Korea blasted back at least 30 rounds.




Approximately 70 homes on the island were damaged as the population took shelter. Reported casualties thus far have been light but are expected to climb.

North Korea claims that the South Koreans fired first.

More here.