I thought, how nice for him…to take care of my little girl. – Nancy Wells
Really, guys, just hire actual pros; it’s much cheaper in the long run:
An FBI counterterrorism supervisor had his gun and pricey watch stolen by an “exotic dancer” after a boozy night at a North Carolina hotel…Robert Manson…awoke the next day to find she’d swiped his Glock .40-caliber handgun, Rolex and about $60 in cash…Last month, a woman stole a $37,000 watch from a man she’d just met at a swanky eatery. Over the summer, two women stole $80,000 worth of timepieces from several saps who invited them back to their luxury hotel rooms…two women [stole] an elderly…man[‘s]…watch and $3,000 in cash after meeting him at a cigar bar…in August, a Saudi diplomat was robbed of a $30,000 Gerald Genta-designed watch, a $12,000 Rolex and $2,500 in cash after hooking up with a woman he met at celebrity hot spot 1Oak…
A half-dozen employees of the Cook County Public Defender’s office have filed a sexual harassment lawsuit, claiming county officials have done nothing to protect them from inmates who masturbate in front of them during visits to the jail and courtroom holding cells…Public Defender Amy Campanelli’s deputy, Lester Finkle, said in a statement that the office had been working with…sheriff [Tom Dart] and judges to come up with a solution for two years…Campanelli has said she wants extra [cops] on hand in courtroom lockups, a solution Dart has said costs him $40,000 per week in overtime. Dart, also named in the lawsuit, [wants to lock the prisoners up for even longer instead]…
Arch-sleazebag Tom Dart, whom you may remember as Swanee Hunt’s crony, is intentionally perpetuating a situation which will make it harder to people in his filthy cages to get legal representation, while simultaneously calling for worsening the conditions that are causing the problem. Anybody else smell a rat?
Even on the rare occasion when cops want to tell the truth, their superiors may force them to lie:
Massachusetts State Trooper Ryan Sceviour is suing his superiors…[after] they ordered him to alter a police report involving the daughter of a judge in a DUI and drug incident. The state police are…arguing the order to change the report was appropriate. Sceviour arrived at the scene of a crash Oct. 16…Behind the wheel he…found Alli Bibaud, daughter of [drug court judge] Timothy Bibaud…reeking of alcohol with a “heroin kit” in the car…Bibaud told him she had traded sex for drugs and…offered to have sex with Sceviour for more lenient treatment…two days later [Sceviour]…was ordered to alter his police report….[and] reprimanded for including Bibaud’s statements in his report…It’s not hard to imagine how neglecting to report an offer of sex for leniency could backfire [on a cop]. More importantly, the lack of any effort to ensure that “sensationalistic and inflammatory” statements by other suspects don’t appear in police reports suggests the state police was more interested in protecting Bibaud’s father than the privacy of all people arrested by state police…
Man who pontificates about “Christian morality” and thinks homosexuality should be a crime has a thing for underage girls. Gee, what a surprise:
Leigh Corfman…was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala…It was early 1979 and [Roy] Moore — now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat — was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing…Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number…days later…he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear…Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home, and he did. Two of Corfman’s childhood friends say she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man, and one says Corfman identified the man as Moore…three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s…None of the women say that Moore forced them into any sort of…sexual contact…
Nope, this isn’t sex work, no sirree:
You want your lonely child to, say, have a “father”. Or maybe you just want to go out on some dates with someone nice, someone safe…you want someone to care, or at least act like they do. You think it would be easier — cleaner — to pay someone than to…find someone [to perform that emotional labor for free]…So, you go online and hire someone like Ishii Yuichi, owner of Family Romance in Japan, to play that role…The Atlantic interviewed Yuichi who shares what it’s like to be that for-hire “loved one”…
The crypto-moralists have been relatively quiet for a while:
…the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)…estimat[es] “3.5 percent of all cancer deaths are attributable to drinking alcohol” in the United States…In comparison, smoking tobacco is estimated to cause 32 percent of all cancer deaths…The group treats consuming alcohol as a pure public health problem to which the only solutions are various forms of prohibition. They recommend regulating alcohol outlet density; increasing alcohol taxes and prices; maintaining limits on days and hours of sale…and resisting further privatization of retail alcohol sales in communities with current government control…
Basil O’Kimosh, a [Menominee Tribal] cop in Green Bay, Wisconsin, faces federal charges for exchanging sexually explicit Snapchat messages with a teenage girl he met on Facebook. If convicted…he…faces 25 years to life in prison…While it’s refreshing to see a cop get held accountable for a change, calling O’Kimosh a threat to community safety seems a bit melodramatic. No adult…should be sexting with a teenager…but considering the kinds of things that cops in this country frequently get away with—murder, sexual assault, physical abuse, actual sex with minors—the severe concern in this case rings…a bit hollow. The feds didn’t step in, for instance, when dozens of cops were under investigation for sexting and having sex with an underage girl in Oakland, California. Or when a Chicago cop was arrested for trafficking a 14-year-old. Or in the recent case of a Bronx officer arrested for paying to make sex tapes with a minor…but U.S. prosecutors have been big lately on exercising jurisdiction over both social media and sexting, and…this helps suggest the decision to make this a federal matter is based more on opportunism and political agendas than the severity of O’Kimosh’s crime or his threat to the public…
The Eye of the Beholder (#672)
Given that there is no possibility of a child, what exactly is the rationale behind destroying two lives, other than “The ‘authorities’ find this skeevy” or “The law is the law”?
A[n Oklahoma] woman who married her biological mother last year received a 10-year deferred sentence [plus two years of probation] after pleading guilty…to committing incest…Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26, was set for a bench trial…but instead pleaded guilty to illegally marrying 44-year-old Patricia Ann Spann, who is identified as Patricia Ann Clayton on their marriage license application…Patricia Span also was once married to her biological son…[she] is also charged with incest [and] is to appear in court in January…
A shameless dating site is encouraging young female students to date older rich “sugar daddies” so they can pay off their student loan…s and earn them some extra pocket money and life experience…A total of five [miniature mobile] billboards are doing a tour of universities in an aim to get 100,000 British students to sign up by the end of the year…A…student, who asked not be named, said: “It’s disgusting. It should be illegal for these perverts to pray [sic] on youngsters like this [because we’re the emotional equivalent of toddlers and have no agency]…me and my friends would never turn to prostitution…it’s exploitative and wrong”…
…[Wanking pig Curt Chastain fantasized] “I’ve had (sex trafficking) victims from every high school in Fresno County – and most junior high schools”…Arresting [consenting adults]…is…part of [the fantasy Chastain uses when doing what he calls]…choking…the…snake…“I’d bet every 16-year-old girl in Fresno has received a message that they didn’t know was from a recruiter…They’re recruited while sitting next to their parents in the living room”…As he drives from place to place during the undercover operation, the detective shares his [masturbatory fantasies about] the modern sex trade…
I have doubts about Roy Moore. However, I have even more doubts about his recent accusers. Looks like political dirty tricks. Innocent until proven guilty.
I have no doubt that Roy Moore is an evil shitbag who should be burned at the stake. Anything that gets him out of power is 100% OK with me. “Innocent until proven guilty” applies only to CRIMINAL charges; there is no “right” to hold power over other people so as to destroy their lives, as Moore has proven time and again he is willing to do.
And no, I don’t want a reply to this.
Is he a scumbag? Probably. Is his opponent (about whom I know absolutely nothing) as bad or worse? Almost certainly. That is the nature of politics. It has been the nature of politics since Ogg plotted to ease Wunk out of the ape pack. It was true when most of us were ruled by Kings, when the Catholic Church was the Power in the land and run by Popes who mostly represented Italian banks.
I hope he loses his office. OTOH, I felt the same way about President Bubba, who was accuse several times by women who did’t wait decades. And let’s not pretend that there isn’t a sound reason for the concept of a statute of limitations. Ask yourself a question; sure, he’s almost certainly as guilty as a cat in an aquarium, but at this late date, how would he prove himself innocent if the entire charge was utter hogwash?
Regardless of whether Moore is Innocent or Guilty; the man is a piece of shit who should put in a pillory alongside Liz Warren, Kamala Harris, Al Franken, Tom Cotton, and John N Kennedy. (See, I can be non-partisan.)
I don’t like Moore either, but I predict he will win because he is the “fuck you” candidate. Same reason Trump won. Nothing to do with qualifications as far as many voters were concerned, just a big middle finger to both the democrat and republican establishments.
Regarding the rash of watch thefts; with the development of the quartz crystal time piece, a $9.99 watch is as accurate as one much more expensive. So, if you are wearing tens of thousands of dollars worth of silly ostentation on your wrist, and you get knee-walking drunk, just why would you expect to still have your watch when you wake up? Seriously; can you imagine the rating a Hollywood starlet would get if she got passed out drunk with a male stripper and then bitched that he’d taken her multi-thousand dollar tennis bracelet?
OK, some of this stuff is genuinely artistic. A lot of it is at least pretty. I’m not saying “Don’t wear this”; just have some goddamned sense.
oh wow – women are still running the ‘hot chick steals the jewelry’ scam? haha. I recall hearing about that stuff as a kid in the 80s… people never learn. Dudes! You should heed Ms. Maggie’s call.
The last I read (June 2018) the trooper, having failed in federal court to get justice, has sued in state court under a variety of legal theories. He’s suing the DA, who is said to be at the root of what ttranspired.