" Internet sex addiction, "

AdultNews;"Like the nose on Pinocchio's face, the pop psychology concept of "Internet sex addiction," keeps on growing. Like the witch-hunt hysteria of centuries past, the insanity is spreading from country to country with the latest batch of illogical conclusions coming from London England, where women were once encourage to "lay back and think of England" while enduring marital sex. Sporting language that would make the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger proud, the increasing openness with which women are admitting that they enjoy sex with addiction. And the Internet, of course, is to blame. "I think the Internet has played a part in the increase, a woman had openly said she wanted sex, it would have raised eyebrows. It is more acceptable now." Well, we can't have that, can we? As usual the definition of "addiction" is staggeringly vague, while simultaneously being compared to increases in physical addictions such as those with drugs and alcohol among women. Additionally, the number used to support this supposed wave of insatiable female sexual hunger is ridiculous. According to the study "Sex Addiction and Women," released by an unspecified firm a whopping one to two percent of women are "addicted" to sex and the Internet. Lock up your sons, folks, Internet harlots are surfing the 'Net in search of no-strings attached sex, naughty pictures, and stories. Well, maybe two-percent of women, anyway -- give or take that traditional three-percent margin of error, of course. Once marketed as an exclusively male "addiction," a fondness for sex and the Internet is now something that women share, with some hooking up for anonymous sexual encounters and hot chats in much the same way people used to do via personal ads and pen pal systems. Somehow researchers are unaware of the bar scene and other more Luddite forms of sexual hook-ups and have declared the number of women using the Internet to meet and greet as "...An unprecedented trend that defies current understanding of the sexual habits of men and women." Maybe some academics need to spend less time in the lab and more time in the real world. According to these so-called experts, women have traditionally under-reported their "sex addiction," whereas men have coped to their bad habit and sought help. Doctors and therapists claim to have treated "dozens of women" ranging in age from 19 to 60 and claim that online erotica is the Internet equivalent of crack cocaine. Unsurprisingly, the people beating the drum of Internet sex addiction are the same people making money off of it by pathologizing what others might consider a healthy sexual appetite or, in the case of women who engage in risky sexual behavior via online contact, a manifestation of a larger problem. But treating the underlying problem doesn't make pop psychologists rich -- blaming technology and encouraging guilt and shame do. For instance, Dr. Cyndi Roller is the author of the Sex Addiction and Women report. She claims that women who are addicted to sex consider themselves to be worthless, unloved, and incapable of having their needs met, and convinced that sex is their chief priority. If this is so, how is the Internet to blame? In fact, how is sex to blame? Certainly there must be a deeper issue to confront than the use of chatrooms for the exchange of saucy fantasies."

If you care to hear my views on this I will tell you women are learning its okay to feel sexy and they can do it in the privacy of their own homes thru the inter-net, and they are having fun doing it. Now I will tell you their is a web-site, I won't say where that I went one time, but they have live cams all the time in people homes so....Okay!! I stayed and peeked..LOL Well lets just say I smoked a pack of cigs.....Watching (blushing)

Men And Their Underwear

washingtonpost; "I found this little tid-bit in the writer area, and couldn't help myself. Sorry guys.. all the talk about pantys lately, and thought all you men you enjoy the last post I did so much I just had to give you this one is was a real fashon statment for fall, for the new-year. It's the writer verson in the mall going shopping in the stores and he stops in this one store - "
Man: I am a lifelong wearer of your products, and I like them just fine, but I got to the mall yesterday, and I saw something very disturbing. They were Jockey underpants. The picture showed a guy, like, shaving or doing something very manly, but he was wearing what appears to be, well, panties.
Lady-clerk: That's the Next to Nothing line of briefs.
Man: My question is, have you ever sold a single one of these items?
Lady-clerk: Oh, yes!
Man: My theory is that you aren't trying to sell them. You have them there to make all your other products look manlier. So, here is my suggestion: Go all the way. Just call them panties. Panties for men. Manties, by Jockey.
Lady-clerk: Ha-ha.
Man: I'm serious. And you should also sell pantyhose for men. Call them Panty-he's. So a guy comes along in the store and sees a display of Manties and Panty-he's, and he's going to buy 12 basic white Jockey boxer shorts, right quick.
Lady-clerk: You know, some men wear pantyhose when they ski.
Man: Omigod."

Well did you like, leave your comment at the door...hehehe!!

Prison Guards Find Basketball Full Of Pot

sfgate;"Okla- Basketballs are usually puffed up with air, but somebody found a way of inflating one with a substance usually associated with puffing of another kind. Oklahoma State Penitentiary officials cut into an exercise-yard basketball and found nearly two pounds of what is believed to be marijuana stuffed inside. Acting on a tip from McAlester police, prison officials searched the yard and found the basketball, which held 30 one-ounce packets of the leafy substance. They seized the basketball from the Talawanda Heights unit, which houses 65 minimum security inmates for the prison and sits away from the main part of the facility. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Linda Morgan said two inmates are on lockdown in connection with the seizure.
Morgan said officials don't know how the basketball got on the prison grounds."

Talk about a air-head!!...Wonder how long this was on the grounds? Now that is what I called prison reform no one smoked it, and to think it still had pot in it.....oh I'm sorry its called : Marijunana

Ex-Wife IDs Bank Robbery Suspect

sfgate;"Ohio -- A suspected bank robber's getaway was abruptly cut short by an unusual witness -- his ex-wife, authorities said. Police accuse Daniel Waggoner, 31, of robbing a bank branch in a Kroger grocery store Tuesday. Police and witnesses said he passed a note demanding money, received cash from tellers and fled. Detective Frank Hensley said Waggoner's ex-wife later saw him driving on state Route 122, and wondered what he was doing in Middletown. "She is on her way to the bank at Kroger and sees his truck -- it's easy to spot. It's black with a chrome smoke stack," Hensley said. When the woman reached the Kroger, she learned that the bank branch was closed because of the robbery. She went to another branch and told the teller that her ex-husband had been in Middletown shortly after the robbery and that he had gotten out of prison a year ago after serving a sentence for bank robbery. "She said he had no business being in Middletown, then she heard about the bank robbery and put it together," Hensley said. The ex-wife identified Waggoner from a photograph taken by the bank surveillance camera, and police took Waggoner into custody."

Sorry, had to print this one. It's got to be the stupid of the day post I feel, come on haven't we always been taught growing up we don't do crap that will get up caught in our own back yards...This guy where's his brains? Maybe he should of first.. Made sure he wouldn't run into his ex-wife, while he was in town at least....LOL

Man Loses License Over 6-Pack A Day

sfgate; "Harrisburg,Pa.- A man who told his doctors that he drinks more than a six-pack of beer per day is now fighting to get his driver's license back because the physicians apparently reported him to the state. Said Tuesday that he disclosed his drinking habit in February to doctors who were treating him at a hospital for an irregular heartbeat. "I told them it was over a six-pack a day. It wasn't good for me. I'm not going to lie," he said in a telephone interview from his home. Emerich received a notice from the Department of Transportation in April that his license was being revoked effective May 6 for medical reasons related to substance abuse. He has petitioned a judge to restore the license, and a hearing has been set. A state law dating to the 1960s requires doctors to report any physical or mental impairments that could compromise a patient's ability to drive safely, any statistics on its reasons for doing so, report motorists with medical conditions that could affect their driving, according to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. The other states are California, Delaware, Oregon, Nevada, and New Jersey.

Okay -Now wait a minute...I thought anything you tell your Doctor was between you and him!...Right? Kind of like the Confession-thing. Well guess not!! Sure won't be telling mine no more juicy gossip anymore...Heck with that!!

Dropped Cig Blows Up Portable Potty

sfgate;"W.Va. - Warning: smoking in the toilet can be dangerous. A portable toilet exploded Tuesday after a man who was inside it lit a cigarette. Emergency workers said the man was not severely injured and drove himself to Clay-Battelle Community Health Center. He was later transferred to Ruby Memorial Hospital. His name and condition were not available Wednesday. The explosion, which occurred in Blacksville, resulted from a buildup of methane gas inside the portable toilet. The methane did not "take too kindly" to the lit cigarette, said a spokeswoman for Monongalia Emergency Medical Services."

Well...... Guess this takes a whole new meaning to [going to the john for a smoke break]..lol

Promise American you will not reinstate the Draft

Found this letter when wandering around on the web and thought I would put it out their for a few to comment on. And see what kind of talk, I can start-up with it... Read on:

Dear Mr.Bush And John Kerry;
Neither of you have put forward an exit strategy for U.S. troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. This open-ended troop deployment, along with the other military commitments of the United States throughout the world, has stretched U.S. forces thin. In order to meet these commitments many soldiers have not been allowed to leave the service at the end of their enlistment (a form of a Draft), thousands of troops are being shifted from South Korea to ease pressure elsewhere, the U.S. is calling up more and more reserves and most recently the Army announced it would call back soldiers who had already left the service.

The House of Representatives voted in May to permanently add 30,000 Army soldiers over the next three years; the Senate voted in June for an additional 20,000 in fiscal 2005. But it is going to be difficult to recruit troops now that young Americans have seen what is going on in Iraq and why this country was plunged into this war of choice in the first place. Indeed, polls show more and more Americans do not support the war and want U.S. troops to come home. The Pentagon's reliance on reservists and National Guard members has grown substantially. The National Guard is being turned into an International Guard. Already the National Guard and reserves make up about 40 percent of our troops in Iraq. Our troops are spread thin even with the expensive outsourcing to corporations of many military functions. As Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, the lead sponsor of a bill to reinstate the draft in the U.S. House of Representatives, recently told The International Herald Tribune "ultimately we will run out of bodies."

Where are the soldiers for your military policies going to come from? As a result of these factors there is increased discussion of the return of the military Draft by elected officials in Congress and commentators. I am writing to you today to urge you to publicly proclaim that you will not support a return of the Draft. An unambiguous clear promise on this matter is needed to put this issue to rest.

Sincerely,

Ralph Nader"

WOMAN TEST-DRIVING CAR FINDS PYTHON UNDER THE HOOD

NBC-6 ; "Potsdam,N.Y- A woman taking a used car out for a test drive found a little some extra under the hood. A big snake. When Margaret Brusso took a 1999 Honda Accord out for a ride, she noticed the car's hood was ajar. She decided to take a look at the engine. That's when she came eye-to-eye with the snake. Brusso let out a scream. A neighbor came over with a pail to help out, then decided the snake was too big for him to handle. A sheriff's deputy with experience handling snakes was dispatched to the scene and corralled the ball python. The snake had escaped from its tank earlier this summer. It has since been returned to its owner. "

Lord-Lord I hate Snakes!!!....Hey....Rathwel...you live up their did you lose something?

SOLDIER WHO LOST ARM WINS APPEAL TO REJOIN ARMY

NBC-6; "Fayetteville, N.C.- Chuck Bartles lost his arm , but not his stripes. Sergeant Bartles is being allowed to rejoin the military. The Army reservist lost most of his right arm in an Iraqi roadside bombing attack. He's with the 418th Civil Affairs Battalion based in Belton, Missouri. Military officials say he's the first amputee to re-up since at least the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Colonel James Suriano, the commander of the 418th, says Bartles' "soldierly qualities" helped him win his appeal to stay in the service. Bartles was awarded a Bronze Star before his re-enlistment ceremony in Fayetteville, North Carolina, this week."
Now this is a man that will let nothing stop him from what he believes in, maybe we should all take a few lessons from him. I stand up and [clap-my hands] to a man that was hurt and could of said he did his part and come home, but he didn't.... I saluted you sir.

George Bush Jr.'s in covert operation/ While John Kerry in Vietnam

Views:"What was he really up to in this tropical wonderland? Some of the non-believers are also asking questions about George Bush Jr.'s attendance record with the Texas National Guard. There is a rumor going around the coffee shop that I hang out at that the president was not absent at all! But involved in covert operation, flying jets over North Vietnam, and personally shot down three Chinese M-16 fighters himself! The reason this information is withheld from the public is because of national security reasons. It must be kept secret. Only people in high positions of government are aware of this, and are sworn to a oath of secrecy. Some of the more patriotic and religious folks that hang out at our cafe seem to agree with this story, and say it is possible! How can you disagree with this kind of vision?

Mike Vestal, Minesweeper 491 Operation Market Time MSO Vietnam, 1968-69"

This gentlemen is one of the old-timer that hangs-out in one of the local coffee shops, in town where I live. Thought it was cute and hope it gives you a smile too

Men In Thongs Arrested At Wal-Mart

sfgate;"SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. -- Two men who were arrested for walking through a Wal-Mart while wearing women's thong underwear blamed the stunt on a "triple-dog dare," authorities said. The men, ages 35 and 36, bought two pair of underwear at the store Tuesday, went into a bathroom and came out wearing only the thongs and T-shirts, police said. Witnesses said the men walked through the store and out to their car. Police caught the men in the parking lot, and reviewed a surveillance tape before arresting them for public indecency and disorderly conduct. When asked why they were wearing thong underwear, one of the men said a friend "triple-dog dared" them... They will not be prosecuted, authorities said."

LMAO..Hey I used to live in Scottsbluff, and they never did stuff like that when I lived there!! Was quite the sleepy town when I lived their...Um? What year was it? Never mind Was to long ago... Boy that must really be a swinging town now, if guys are willing to walk around with those ...Cute-little-buns...Exposed!! Damn and I like Guy-Rears..hehe How does that song go now - (I like big butts and I can not lie)..hehe

EVE's- View on Womens-Pantie's

commondreams;I want to send a BIG-thank-you out to: Lietta-(wonderwander) Here's what she said.."Here is another article on the Panty-Women. I'm not going to use it at any of my blogs (er blush, but amused). I was remembering the post at your blog on same subject, thought you'd be interested to read this article.... Did my part for progressive politics in this election by taking off my clothes. So did over 100 other women when we gathered in Battery Park. This protest wasn't just a clever excuse to undress and shock easily offended Republican delegates; it was a symbolic call to the Bush administration to end its political cover-ups and a call to all women to get out and mobilize for the election. It also taught a valuable lesson to people looking to get attention for their pet issue - print it on a pair of panties. Protesters, member of the Axis of Eve coalition, dance during a 'MASS FLASH of protest panties' in front of Golden Sphere Sculpture in Battery Park. The Axis of Eve was thought up by Tasha and Zazel Eve, two women fed up with George W. Bush's lies and his anti-woman legislation. Bush's "Axis of Evil" State of the Union provided the name, and their desire to bring humor and fun to their activism led them to create and sell, at www.axisofeve.org, the protest panties that are now being flashed across America's, protest gathered women clad in outfits ranging from American flag skirts, olive drab Axis of Eve tank tops and pink boy-short panties, feather boas, fishnets, and the occasional pasty to march, dance, and shout "Bush out of my bush!" Despite calls from the organizers to avoid nudity, some zealous protesters stripped down to the bare minimum and posed for photos. As some women started playing with a volleyball covered by a Bush mask, I had to wonder how the spectacle I'd just participated in was going to tip the election for John Kerry. Organizer Apple Eve told me that this event was just a small part of "Operation Naked Democracy." Up until now, Axis of Eve has been seen as one in a growing number of street theater-based protest groups. While it may not have the numbers of Billionaires for Bush or the surreal punch of Tuesday's anarchist Man in Black Bloc Johnny Cash tribute, the Eves have a detailed "Eve-olutionary" agenda designed to gain attention and boost turnout. They even have a recruitment plan - pantyware parties, and they're coming to a town near you. Turning the Tupperware party concept on its head, pantyware parties offer a strategy to get out the vote on Nov. 2 and create a forum for women to talk about politics while "oohing" and "aahing" over magenta thongs and tank tops printed with "weapon of mass seduction." Apple Eve told me there have been pantyware parties in nearly all swing states, but her list had one glaring omission - Wisconsin. Of course there is still time between now and November for a little more naked democracy."

Well Girls, You heard her!! IT's okay to flash those pantys, as long as your doing it for the President..hehe!

MAN SHOT BY PUPPY

NBC-6;"a man in Pensacola, Florida, who was trying to shoot seven puppies was shot by one of the dogs. The man was holding two of the shepherd-mix puppies when one of them wiggled and put its paw on the trigger of the man's .38-caliber revolver, making it discharge. Escambia County deputies say 37-year-old Jerry Bradford was shot in the wrist and was treated at an undisclosed hospital. To top it off, the sheriff's office issued an arrest warrant charging Bradford with felony animal cruelty. He says he was shooting the 3-month-old pups because he couldn't find another home for them. Three of the puppies were found in a shallow grave behind his house, the other seven were taken by animal control, which intends for them to be adopted."

This is Sick!! This man, I don't care how bad it was for him don't give anyone the right to just take a life of animal, just because it was born. What was wrong with him why didn't he have his female fixed if he didn't want puppy's.

Grand Theft Of My Mother-In-Law

sfgate;"New Zealand - A thief who raced off from a service station with a car, and the driver's mother-in-law crashed a short time later and left the woman in the vehicle, police said. "We don't know at this stage if the guy jumped in the car knowing she's in there or if he jumped in there and got a bit of a surprise," The vehicle's owner was filling the fuel tank when the thief leaped in and drove off with the man's mother-in-law in the car. The car crashed 40 minutes later,(18 miles) away. "The offender decamped from there and left the mother-in-law in the car," Police said. "I don't think she's seriously injured."

Okay how many of you guys will yell- HEY!!.. if someone takes your mother-in-law?

Human ancestors quickly found their feet

New Scientist;"Hominids started walking on two legs six million years ago, shortly after diverging from chimpanzees, according to a study of the inner structure of a fossilised thighbone. The finding puts upright posture at the base of the human family tree. The evolution of upright posture is a key issue in anthropology. Together with large brain size, it marks the dividing line between humans and the great apes. Researchers know that upright posture evolved first because the skeleton of famed Australopithecine, Lucy, has a small braincase but modern ankles. Yet with few known fossils older than about four million years, the details of how and when upright posture evolved have been hazy. Over the past few years, however, two important new finds have begun to fill in the gaps. The older animal is Sahelanthropus tchadensis, which lived in Chad six to seven million years ago, but only its hominid cranium was found. More complete is the chimpanzee-sized Orrorin tugenensis, as 20 fossils from at least five individuals have been found in Kenya. These are about six million years old. In knuckle-walking chimps, the cortex is the same thickness on the top and bottom of the bone. However, bipedal, upright walking applies different forces, which means the cortex in humans is at least four times thicker on the bottom part of the bone. Senut found that the lower part of the thighbone in Orrorin is three times thicker than the upper - making its walking habits much closer to humans than chimps."

What is this Orrorin? Well I went looking and this is what I came up with:

Orrorin was a human ancestor adapted to both bipedality and tree climbing, and that the australopithecines are an extinct offshoot.-read more on this article go to:Orrorin;"

>>>To tell you the truth don't know if I know much more then I did before I read it, If I read it right we are still a off-spring of some kind of Monkey...LOL sorry guys I like this stuff don't always say I understand it..

Man Jailed & $ 2000 Fine

NBC-6;" Idaho Falls Idaho-Due to his family's pet.Two witnesses say they saw a little girl walking her dog on a leash, when two miniature pinchers ran across the street from their house. Witnesses say the dogs began to fight and that the girl was dragged out into the road. Witnesses say they ran to help the girl and got the dogs to go home. The witnesses say the owner of the dogs, stood in his yard and watched the whole incident. According to the father, his son did go out and see if the girl was okay, and took his dog's home. The girl was then taken to hospital by ambulance to be treated for her injuries. He was cited for having a dog at large. Received a $2,000 dollar fine and is currently serving 10 days in jail. "The dogs saw each other; went over to investigate, and by the time my son had gotten out moments later, the Shepherd had pulled the girl to the street. She had abrasions, so my son went over; helped her up and asked if she was okay; she said yes I'm alright.But she said-"He never left his yard; I saw him when I got half way down the street. I saw him standing there. He never came to the street; he never even touched the girl or asked if she was okay anything."

This seems to always be a problem in most towns, my children come home at least once week and tell me about some dog that scared them on their way home from school. More needs to be done about things like this next time it could be worst for some other little child.

Hey!! Panties-Flashed At Republican Convention

The Times;" The Republican convention lunged to climax as President George W. Bush. Then, as the delegates cheered, 150,000 red, white and blue balloons dropped from the rafters of Madison Square Garden to the convention floor, where they were arrested by New York police officers for falling without a permit. This is a good time to reflect on the differing policies presented by the two parties, and consider the implications of these differences for the nation and the world. But instead I want to tell you about the. The Panty Flash was a demonstration Wednesday evening in Battery Park by 100 women belonging to an anti-Bush group called "Axis of Eve." They'd announced that they were going to flash their panties to make an important point that did not seem, from the announcement, all that clear. Nevertheless, the Panty Flash drew several hundred media people, which is WAY more than you're going to see for, say, global warming. This media crowd -- which, you will be surprised to learn, was overwhelmingly male -- formed a semi-circle around the protesters, keeping a respectful distance and behaving with the decorum and almost reverent solemnity of guys who know that, if they don't mess it up, women will show them their panties. Also on hand were some Wall Street workers who had paused on their way home to be part of this important protest. I stood near two suit-wearing guys who were inching their way forward to the front of the crowd when one of them grabbed the other's arm and said, "Jesus, there's a camera straight across." The two of them quickly melted back into the crowd, apparently not wishing for their spouses to see them on the evening news. ("Working late, Frank? IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL WORKING LATE??") Finally, after much respectful media anticipation, the protesters began chanting a chant that I cannot repeat in the newspaper except to say that it utilized wordplay involving the president's last name. Then a spokesperson read a statement, which I couldn't hear, although her tone sounded very sincere. Then the protesters flashed their panties, and chanted "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!" The press corps, performing its vital First Amendment role of keeping you, the public, informed on the issues, took 174 billion closeup photographs of the various panties. Then the protesters chanted several more chants, the most printable being "THE PANTY LINE'S BEEN DRAWN; WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?" I know what you're thinking: These things have gotten completely out of hand. They're silly, vulgar, tasteless, pointless exercises in self-indulgence. I could not agree with you more. We're talking about the conventions, right?"

This made me chuckle, its amusing what a women can get if she just shows a little skin....

HUD Rolling Back Cuts in Rent Aid

washingtonpost.com;"The government is restoring millions of dollars that were to be cut in the program that helps poor families pay the rent. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is putting back about $156 million after reviewing public housing authorities' appeals of a decision in the spring restraining spending on Section 8 voucher financing. The money will be distributed to 379 of the 398 housing authorities that appealed.
The voucher program helps nearly 2 million families through about 2,500 local agencies. Director of the Council for Large Public Housing Agencies, said that the action resolved months of uncertainty. "Old and disabled people had the scare of their lives wondering if they would be evicted," she said. The $13 billion program was changed when President Bush signed the current budget into law in January. The department said it would reimburse housing authorities for vouchers based on Aug. 1 costs, plus an inflation adjustment. Critics have said the department's reading of the budget is incorrect and the government should update voucher costs every three months to reflect the cost of living."
This is a very important progam for a lot of people, especially the Disabled and Older people. Because without it a lot of people could just make ends meet, I know people who who are on the waiting list now for this progam and the they have been told just alone where I live that, they have to go on a waiting list that only after 2-years, they go on another list. Now this waiting list is where you name stays depending on if you keep up without he paper-work they send you and it don't get lost in the mail saying-when and if you'll get a voucher depending when someone else goes off the progam or they give more.- The sad part about this progam is that their is not enough of these vouchers as they call them, to go around. I'm sure a large part of them end up being ear-marked, for the bigger cites -On the East and West Coast, where as I feel only a small few ever make it in to the rest of the states. Personal I feel they should do a few things different with this progam. What you may ask? Well For starters- I understand more people live in the bigger cities..But what about the rest that live in smaller states also,they also have proverty problems as well as the next person. I think they should give the same amount to each state-regardless if they need more. And if they feel this is not the answer then they should allow more vouchers, but still give the same amount regardless how short that will make the government. Or Do!! Something about the high cost of living, because everytime they give a pay increase! Its a waste because then people just raise the prices on everything and it did no good to do anything. Because then we are just back in the same boat again. Personally I feel if they did something like this it could maybe balance abit more: raising the pay-wages for people by double, if not more, and put a freeze on the cost of living and freeze business- Landlords-Ult.companys-Ect. Any thing that usually get raised when they do a wage thru out the states. And hold it at this for at least 3-5 years to get people more willing to, get back on their feet. I feel this alone would fix our welfare and poverty problems. Then at the end of this time. Give another raise in wages to go with the all the things that will sky rocket, at the end of the freeze and only allow these place to raise to the small point that it don't put people back in the places we all are now. I know you all may think I am crazy, but heck think about it everyone but the rich man would profit from this!!!

Citizen Diddy

washingtonpost.com;"The man who is the very richest undecided voter in Madison Square is slumped in a chair in a swanky private lounge for very special Republicans. He has a tattoo on his neck and huge diamonds in his ears, a Yankees cap on his head. He has his cell phone in one hand and his blackberry in the other, tabbing back and forth between the two. The waiters and security guards recognize him. The other guests in the suite, men in perfectly cut suits and women with lacquered hair and pricey shoes, do not. In a while, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie himself is going to come along and put an arm around this man, and escort him onto the convention floor, where the two will stop and chat, creating a mob scene of the curious. The Texas delegates, in their Lone Star shirts and 10-gallon hats, will stop their Dubya cheers and turn to gape. Can call me P. Diddy." Now Mr. Diddy, multimillionaire mogul, rapper, clothing designer, restaurateur and father of three, has decided to extend his brand of street chic. He has become a political activist, taking $250,000 of his own money to found a new organization called Citizen Change. He boasts he will drive up voting among the 45 million hip-hop young, who are, he says, "disenfranchised and so, so, so [angry] at being on the sidelines." He has a shocking slogan -- "Vote or Die" -- plastered on 70,000 T-shirts now selling for $30 at stores from Macy's to J.C. Penney. In the promotional materials."I wanted something dramatic, that would strike up controversy," says Diddy. When the president is running your country, he is running you. The way he sees it, the hip-hoppers already are wearing his clothes and buying his records and letting him tell them what's cool. They'll listen up when he tells them to register and get to the polls. He sees himself as the third rail of American politics. "I'm their worst nightmare," Diddy declares, referring to the two political parties. "I'm closer than Kerry or Bush to these 45 million votes." But Diddy doesn't want anyone to think he's a Republican or a Democrat. He went to the Democratic convention in Boston. Now he is here with his latest marketing scheme. "I'm going at it hard," he says.Because Diddy is a smart mogul, says Brown, "can you mention possible mayoral candidate in 2006" in Washington? Because he is Diddy, he moves with a ponderous entourage. A couple of delegates stand on their tiptoes to figure out what's going on. "Who's the guy in the green tie?" one man asks. "I think it's the governor of Colorado," a second responds. "Yeah, that's definitely who it is." Who's the other guy, the first man asks. No idea, says the second. "That's P. Diddy," says a woman from Louisiana. "Don't you know P. Diddy?" "Huh," says the first man. "What's he doing diddlin' around here?"

I found this to be one of the biggest jokes I have read so far in this, election so far. I think what I am trying to figure out is?..Who is using who..LOL

Judge Orders Demonstrators Freed

washingtonpost.com;"NewYork- A criminal court judge ordered the release of hundreds of Bush protesters ruling that police held them illegally without charges for more than 40 hours. As the protesters began trickling out of jail, they spoke of being held without access to lawyers, initially in a holding cell that had oil and grease spread across the floor. Several dozen of those detained said that they had not taken part in protests. Police apparently swept up the CEO of a puppet theater as he and a friend walked out of the subway to celebrate his birthday. Two middle-age women who had been shopping at the Gap were handcuffed, and a young woman was arrested as she returned from her job at a New York publishing house. Criminal Court Judge John Cataldo held city officials in contempt of court for failing to release more than 500 detained demonstrators. The judge said that the detentions violated state law, and he threatened to impose a fine of $1,000 per day for each person kept in custody longer than 24 hours without being arraigned. As of Thursday evening, about 168 people still in detention had been held for more than 24 hours. Dirty and tired, and with matted hair, many fell into the arms of those who waited. But others, who had been handcuffed and said they had not been given medicines for asthma and epilepsy, sat on blankets in a park across the street and sought attention from medics."I was held for 44 hours without being able to call my family or talk to a lawyer,"one of 14 college students who was arrested while standing with antiwar picket signs at 34th Street and Sixth Avenue. "We were taken to a big metal cage, and the ground was covered with a black, cakey motor oil. We were given one apple each after nine hours." In all, police arrested more than 1,700 people, or nearly three times as many as were arrested in Democratic National Convention, which had far more violence. Police have used large orange nets and riot and motorbike squads to sweep up dozens of alleged protesters. Michael Sladek, who owns a film production company in Brooklyn, was arrested in Midtown two evenings ago as he photographed the police and demonstrators. He spent 48 hours in custody without access to a phone."For us, it was very clear this was a detention to keep people off the street," "And the saddest thing was that so many people had nothing to with protesting the convention." Those coming out of the jail in southern Manhattan said that police never advised them of their right to talk to an attorney. And several people, independent of one another, said police told them that if they signed a document admitting guilt and waiving the right to sue for false arrest, they would be released early. Detainees said that after being arrested, they were crowded into makeshift holding cells at a bus cleaning station on the Hudson River piers, where many spent the night awaiting transfer to jail. In some cells, they said, teenage girls and women were kept overnight amid dozens of men. Many protesters spoke of seeing signs at the piers warning of hazardous chemicals. Once in the city jail, detainees said, they were shifted among as many as 10 cells in 48 hours without explanation, unable to sleep. Medics said the Department of Health had asked them to gather samples of the detainees' clothing to test for exposure to toxic chemicals from the holding cell. Medics found numerous cases of rashes and skin infections, apparently as a result of cuts from overly tight handcuffs that were exposed to chemicals."

This had to be really frightening for anyone walking down the streets in NewYork. No wonder people packed-up and left town for a week, I think the worst part of reading this was alot of the people were just going on with their everyday life, and got thrown in jail! Because they were walking in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not thinking much of it till it was to late!!