Judge caught masturbating in court

A French judge has been caught masturbating in court.

The un-named magistrate was seen masturbating in a court in Angouleme.

Three witnesses, a lawyer, a woman in the public gallery and a journalist, all reported seeing the act.

French newspaper Charente Libre, whose reporter was among the witnesses, said it happened as an attorney was pleading his case.

The witnesses confirmed they saw the judge raise his judicial gown, open his trousers and “perform unmistakable movements”.

French Justice Minister Dominique Perben has asked a judicial council to review the case, officials confirmed.

The head judge of the city’s appeals court said a penal inquiry was being carried out by the police while the magistrate was expected to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Damn right there’s a psychiatric evaluation. Who does that? Sheesh…

Red Sox Win?

Looks like the Curse of the Babmino boomeranged this year.

Despite holding a 3-2 lead in games over the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees coulsn’t get the job done at home; their season ended late last night in the seventh game of the American League Championship Series.

Damn, I must have caught the wrong game…

Yeah, the New York Post goofed. Even though their front page screamed about the Yankees winning, seems an oped got dropped in about their loss. Oops.

Ten Things Radical about the Weblog Form in Journalism:

1.) The weblog comes out of the gift economy, whereas most (not all) of today’s journalism comes out of the market economy.

2.) Journalism had become the domain of professionals, and amateurs were sometimes welcomed into it— as with the op ed page. Whereas the weblog is the domain of amateurs and professionals are the ones being welcomed to it, as with this page.

3.) In journalism since the mid-ninetheenth century, barriers to entry have been high. With the weblog, barriers to entry are low: a computer, a Net connection, and a software program like Blogger or Movable Type gets you there. Most of the capital costs required for the weblog to “work” have been sunk into the Internet itself, the largest machine in the world (with the possible exception of the international phone system.)

4.) In the weblog world every reader is actually a writer, and you write not so much for “the reader” but for other writers. So every reader is a writer, yes, but every writer is also a reader of other weblog writers—or better be.

5.) Whereas an item of news in a newspaper or broadcast seeks to add itself to the public record, an entry posted in a weblog engages the public record, because it pulls bits and pieces from it through the device of linking. In journalism the regular way, we imagine the public record accumulating with each day’s news— becoming longer. In journalism the weblog way, we imagine the public record “tightening,” its web becoming stronger, as links promotes linking, which produces more links.

6.) A weblog can “work” journalistically—it can be sustainable, enjoyable, meaningful, valuable, worth doing, and worth it to other people —if it reaches 50 or 100 or 160 souls who like it, use it, and communicate through it. Whereas in journalism the traditional way, such a small response would be seen as a failure, in journalism the weblog way the intensity of a small response can spell success.

7.) A weblog is like a column in a newspaper or magazine, sort of, but whereas a column written by twelve people makes little sense and wouldn’t work, a weblog written by twelve people makes perfect sense and does work.

8.) In journalism prior to the weblog, the journalist had an editor and the editor represented the reader. In journalism after the weblog, the journalists has (writerly) readers, and the readers represent an editor.

9.) In journalism classically understood, information flows from the press to the public. In the weblog world as it is coming to be understood, information flows from the public to the press.

10.) Journalism traditionally assumes that democracy is what we have, information is what we seek. Whereas in the weblog world, information is what we have—it’s all around us—and democracy is what we seek.

Good points.

Sheesh. I JUST got my new phone number yesterday and already I’ve gotten two telemarketing calls…

Al Gore TV

Bet on the Next Pope Does betting on this send you to hell? It just feels so wrong…

Dirty Socks! Volume 1

Finally….the video you’ve all been waiting for. How many times have you hoped to see a beautiful girl walking outside in her clean white socks, getting them totally filthy? Or remove her shoes, only to ruin her socks in the water and mud? Or casually stroll directly into a lake, still wearing her white stockings and expensive heels?
You will see all of this, and MUCH more, in this unique and long-overdue video.

For nearly TWO HOURS, you will watch the elegant and exotic Jessica ruin her socks, nylons, and shoes outside. White Wigwam slouch socks. Knee socks. Foot socks. Colored socks. Sheer and opaque white stockings. Even worn-out, holey ankle socks! With her high energy and quick, radiant smile, Jessica shows us, throughout each and every scene, that she knows how to have fun with her socks! (She even wore her socks while walking through the park in between scenes — in FULL VIEW of everyone there!)

Set to the sound of relaxing classical and easy-listening music, you will find yourself watching Jessica’s sexy and daring sock escapades over and over.

Jessica and I are certain that you’ll enjoy watching this video just as much as we enjoyed making it!

Dynamic, aborted programming interruption

EXCLUSIVE Photo of Tiger that Mauled Roy Horn Dear Lord! It’s a miracle he survived!

A Guide To Selling Farts On eBay, Just For The Smell Of It

For the entrepreneur, capturing farts offers an opportunity to earn a decent living without the pressures associated with the average nine to five occupation.

Selling farts captured in mason jars on eBay can be a rewarding experience. However, in order to make the most out of this career there are a few key things you should know. I’ve put together this basic guide to help you get started making money right away.

I’m gonna be rich!

Ground Truth

Between June and September, 2003, Stars and Stripes printed 200 letters from troops in the deserts of Iraq and Kuwait and other remote outposts that have led the fight against terrorism. Roughly 60 percent complained about various things, ranging from living conditions and problems with mail to redeployment dates back home. The remaining 40 percent urged the others to get on with their duty.

U.S. Gets Backing for More U.N. Aid in Iraq

The U.N. Security Council Thursday unanimously adopted a U.S.-sponsored resolution that calls for the establishment of a U.S.-led multinational force and appeals to U.N. members to provide troops and money to help support the struggling U.S. occupation of Iraq.

But France, Russia, Germany and Pakistan said after the vote that they would not make any new military or financial contributions to support the resolution.

The resolution, which passed by a vote to 15-0, represented an important diplomatic achievement for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. But the overwhelming victory masked deep reservations by Secretary General Kofi Annan and other key members of the 15-nation council, who fear that the resolution’s failure to accelerate the transition from U.S. control in Iraq would fuel continued resistance by Iraqi militants.

Pakistan’s U.N. ambassador, Munir Akram, warned that the ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq would continue to incite violence in Iraq and announced that his government would reject an American request to send Pakistani peacekeepers to Iraq.

“Pakistan will not be able to contribute to the multinational force,” he said.

France, Russia and Germany, the council’s three leading opponents to the war, voiced frustration in a joint statement that the resolution hadn’t assigned a more central role for the United Nations or set a clearer schedule for the transfer of power to Iraq. Germany’s U.N. ambassador, Gunter Pleuger, said the council had squandered an opportunity to send “a clear signal that the transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqis will be accelerated.”

So then why did you vote for it? Hell, if you’re not going to help, like the resolution asks folks to, then why did you support it at all? That’s like chipping in to have someone killed and saying, “well, I don’t think killing that guy is a good idea.” Only it’s the other way around as you’re helping people not hurting them. Yeah.

Taboo

Results

Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.33.

Your Interference Factor is: 0.25.

Your Universalising Factor is: 0.50.

What do these results mean?

Are you thinking straight about morality?

There was no inconsistency in the way that you responded to the questions in this activity. You did not evaluate the actions depicted in these scenarios to be across the board wrong. Where you have judged an act to be morally problematic, it is likely that you did so because you think that what makes it wrong comes from God or some other source of morality external to nature, society and human judgement. You indicated that an action can be wrong even if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it. So, in fact, had you thought that the acts described here were entirely wrong there would still be no inconsistency in your moral outlook.

Huh.

National Novel Writing Month I’m so doing this. God’s Diner, here I come….

How’d I miss this?

Robert Anton Wilson for Governor!

Position Paper #1

After refusing many pleas to run for governor, I have reconsidered and now enter the race as an unofficial write-in candidate. After all, why sh[oul]d I remain the ONLY nut in California who ain’t running?

My party, the Guns and Dope Party, invites extremists of both right and left to unite behind the shared goals of

1) Get those pointy-headed Washinton bureaucrats off our backs and off our fronts too!

2) guns for everybody who wants them; no guns for those who don’t want them

3) drugs for everybody who wants them; no drugs for those who don’t want them

4) freedom of choice, free love, free speech, free Internet and free beer

5) California secession — Keep the anti-gun and anti-dope fanatics on the Eastern side of the Rockies

6) Lotsa wild parties every night by gun-toting dopers

7) Animal protection — Support your right to keep and arm bears

More position papers will follow; we know at least 69 good positions

Robert Anton Wilson

Guns and Dope Party

Hope he beats Gary Coleman.

Male contraceptive trial has 100% success

A male contraceptive treatment has achieved a 100 per cent success rate in trials involving 55 couples, Australian scientists have reported. The treatment was fully reversible and the men suffered no undesirable side-effects.

The research was led by David Handelsman, director of the ANZAC Research Institute in Sydney, and involved treating 55 men in heterosexual relationships for year-long periods. None of the men’s partners became pregnant during the trial, but when the treatment was stopped, normal fertility returned within a few months and some of the couples went on to conceive.

Handelsman believes it is “the first time a male contraceptive that suppresses sperm production reliably and reversibly has been fully tested by couples”. Other experts described the work as a “very significant step forward”.

The combination treatment involves three-monthly injections of progestin - a synthetic version of the female sex hormone progesterone, used in the female contraceptive pill - and an implant of the male sex hormone testosterone renewed every four months.

The scientists hope that pharmaceutical companies will be able to develop the research into a useable drug, first combining the two hormones into a single injection and even one day, a pill.

Injections? Uh… hopefully not down where it counts….

And then you’ll have the guys saying, “hey, baby, I’m on the shot,” and getting women pregnant because, well, guys lie.

WWYS

Your soul is worth £46578. For your peace of mind, 15% of people have a purer soul than you. So it’s a whole $77,384.69, well below Shaun’s $95,513.87. Damn.

George W. Bush: Poet

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Oh my, lump in the bed

How I’ve missed you

Roses are redder

Bluer am I

Seeing you kissed by that charming French guy

The dogs and the cat, they missed you too

Barney’s still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe

The distance, my dear, has been such a barrier

Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier

*sniff*

A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Went Overseas

he job market finally showed some life in September, but not enough to sidetrack a growing debate over why employment has failed to rebound nearly two years after the last recession ended. The debate intrudes increasingly on election politics, but in all the heated back and forth, an essential statistic is missing: the number of jobs that would exist in the United States today if so many had not escaped abroad.

The Labor Department, in its numerous surveys of employers and employees, has never tried to calculate this trade-off. But the “offshoring” of work has become so noticeable lately that experts in the private sector are now trying to quantify it.

By these initial estimates, at least 15 percent of the 2.81 million jobs lost in America since the decline began have reappeared overseas. Productivity improvements at home — sustaining output with fewer workers — account for the great bulk of the job loss. But the estimates being made suggest that the work sent overseas has been enough to raise the unemployment rate by four-tenths of a percentage point or more, to the present 6.1 percent.

That leakage fuels the political debate. The Bush administration is pushing the Chinese to allow their currency to rise in value, thus increasing the dollar value of wages in that country, a deterrent to locating work abroad. The Democrats agree, but some also call for trade restrictions, and they attack Republicans for cutting from the budget funds to retrain and support laid-off workers in the United States.

Security Council meets on Israeli attack on Syria

The U.N. Security Council opened a special session Sunday after Israel’s airstrike on what it called a training camp for Palestinian militants in Syria.

Syria, an elected member of the Security Council, requested the meeting and will ask the council to “strongly condemn this brutal, unjustifiable attack,” U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad said.

“We believe that Israel should desist from committing furhter attacks, and the international community should shoulder its responsibility in preventing Israel,” Mekdad said.

There were no reports of casualties in the airstrike which came hours after a suicide bombing at an Israeli restaurant which left 19 dead.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry insisted Sunday that the Israeli target near Damascus was actually a civilian site. In a written statement, the ministry called the overnight attack a flagrant violation in an already tense region.

In Cairo, the 22-member Arab League was to meet Sunday and then issue a statement, said league spokesman Hisham Yousof.

The Ein Saheb camp, described by Israel as deep inside Syria, had been used by “many terror organizations,” including Islamic Jihad, for training, the Israel Defense Forces said.

A spokesman for the Islamic Jihad denied there were any Islamic Jihad training bases in Syria.

Bet you it was a refugee camp. Which makes it civilian. But then also makes Israel think it’s a training camp. I just find it weird there were no casulties. How effective was the strike and what exactly was it that there are no reported casulties?

“We blew up a shed! WOO!”

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