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NEW YORK (CBS) Here's a switch: a dozen hedge funds are accusing a California businessman of "playing dirty" with their money — and even the name Sarah Palin is a "player" in the defendant's prior ventures, according to the New York Daily News. The suit alleges Milton Ault the 3rd stiffed the hedge funds out of their $4.2 million investment in Ault's firm, Zealous Inc., by shoveling the money into porn, including a publicly traded gentleman's club and a planned swingers ranch in New York's Catskill Mountains, according to the paper. Though not mentioned in the lawsuit, another Ault venture,...

LOS ANGELES — In an announcement that launched a thousand unprintable puns, adult-entertainment moguls Larry Flynt and Joe Francis said Wednesday that they are asking Washington for a $5 billion federal bailout, claiming that the porn business is suffering from the soft economy.

A woman is accused of chasing her boyfriend with a knife after thinking he was an actor in a pornographic movie they were watching together. The victim says it all started when he and his girlfriend were inside his southwest Albuquerque home watching a pornographic move at 10:30 Wednesday morning. That’s when the victim called 911 saying his girlfriend, 20-year-old Amanda Montoya, had a knife. “She almost shanked me and everything. She put the (expletive) knife right under my throat," the victim told a 911 operator. The victim, wearing only a pair of shorts took off down Five Points, begging...

Phil Goldstein, the hedge fund manager who derailed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s attempt to require hedge fund registration, will sue the regulator to lift its ban on hedge fund marketing and advertising. The long-standing ban on funds’ soliciting money from the public has been interpreted to mean a hedge fund should release only very limited information about itself. This interpretation has come under pressure as hedge funds have grown rapidly and become widely covered in the media. Mr Goldstein told the Financial Times: “We want to be able to have a website like any other business. The only websites...

Hustler Hollywood will open a retail store in Berkeley in June By Kim Bell and Norm Parish ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Wednesday, Apr. 25 2007 BERKELEY — Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, is opening a retail store in June not far from Lambert Field that will sell sex toys, lingerie and other adult-oriented products. A vinyl fence in the rear of the property, to be called Hustler Hollywood, separates it from a Berkeley neighborhood. And Preston Park, a playground with children's climbing equipment and a slide, will sit below a Hustler Hollywood sign the store plans to hoist atop...

Three sailors in Japan have been charged with spilling military secrets in a smut-swapping scandal that could reach up the navy's chain of command. The secrets involve an American ship-based missile shield. Pornography may be a sin, but when did anyone say it was a threat to national security? Three Japanese sailors have swapped military secrets along with smutty images, according to charges pressed last week by Japanese police. The scandal involves lower-ranking men but could reach higher into the navy's chain of command, and it's especially embarrassing for Tokyo because the leak has compromised an American-designed anti-missile system. A...

A Leander man pleads guilty to having child porn on his home computer, and is sentenced to forty years in prison. Investigators say William Jonathon Young, 47, had thousands of explicit images of children on his home computer. They testified a female friend of Young’s alerted them to his collection. She says she became concerned when she saw a pornographic screen saver on Young’s monitor. Young pleaded guilty to ten counts of possession of child pornography – and will serve out a forty year sentence. Court documents say Young admitted to collecting child pornography for decades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZNGOMqw5U In Additon: Among the excerpts is a scene from the 2002 novel "Lost Soldiers," in which a man embraces his four-year-old son and places the boy's penis in his mouth. "It's not a sexual act," Webb told Plotkin regarding the "Lost Soldiers" excerpt. "I actually saw this happen in a slum in Bangkok when I was there as a journalist." http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200610/POL20061027c.html

THREE High School friends of President Robert Mugabe's eldest son, Robert Jnr, have been excluded from Kutama College after being found with PORN, New Zimbabwe.com can reveal. The three students -- Terrence Chafuta, Andrew Pasipanodya and Rangarirayi Hove -- were found with pornographic DVD's and magazines, according to sources. The school authorities have rejected claims that the tapes and magazines had been provided by President Mugabe's 15-year-old son who is in Form 2 at the school. "Robert Jnr was not involved," headmaster, Stephen Muchenje told our correspondent by telephone from the school in Murombedzi district. MUGABE'S two sons, Chatunga (front)...

(08-08) 16:12 PDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A lunchtime parade of topless porn stars down the main street of New Zealand's biggest city has been given official approval, as no laws will be broken. The parade later this month will feature up to 30 porn stars riding on the back of motorcycles or in open cars through Auckland's CBD to promote an erotica exposition. The bare breast drive has been held informally since 2003, but this is the first time permission has been sought, and given, by Auckland City Council. Organizer Steve Crow said it would promote an Erotica...

BARTOW -- Brian Doyle knew that living his fantasy of having sex with the 14-year-old girl he had met over the Internet could land him in jail. The 56-year-old press aide for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told the teen in an Internet chat that he had "soooo much to lose" by meeting her. Another time, he told the girl he knew as "Ashlynne" that she could be a police officer "trapping" him, according to court documents released this week. After several weeks of sexually explicit conversations and e-mailing the "girl" 16 pornographic movie clips, Doyle discovered that his...

Two Democratic senators want to wall in a virtual red-light district on the Internet. Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas have introduced legislation calling on the Bush administration to create a new Internet domain exclusively for pornography. They want Internet pornography segregated from other Web content in a .XXX domain. The lawmakers said putting porn in one place would make it easier for parents and others to filter Web-browsing access. Baucus likens it to cities zoning for adult stores. Pornographic Web sites would be required to relocate there, ideally consolidating them all in one Internet neighborhood....

The apple of John Gotti's eye is rotten to the core, said a Brooklyn judge .......Richard Martino, 46, duped (victims) into doling out millions of dollars to smutty Internet and phone scams. The Gambino soldier pleaded guilty to racketeering and mail and wire fraud for bilking $650 million from porn perusers....admitted to luring visitors onto porn Web sites by promising the steamed-up surfers "free tours." Internet users would then be billed up to $90 when they gave their credit-card number. Countless other victims responded to raunchy magazine ads offering free phone sex, but their numbers would be billed $30 a...

Has this happened to anyone else? Sometimes I send emails to complain to MSMs regarding some of their slanted articles or websites such as CAIR. Recently, over the past two days, I have started receiving emails with unreadable characters in the subj line and text, yet a perfectly readable URL. I have received them at 12:50 pm and 12:03 pm. I decided to click on the URL yesterday to see what it was, and the URL was not anything you'd suspect and up pops some Asians pictures, untitled in full nude sexual activities. Now, I know this didn't happen because...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. --A 31-year-old Bridgeport man is facing burglary charges after being caught inside the Bridge Academy charter school in his underwear. Police said they were responding to an alarm at the school at about 8:15 a.m. Sunday when they found William Hoskins apparently downloading pornography on an office computer. A duffel bag, clothing and a wallet containing Hoskins' ID, were found on the floor nearby, along with a bucket of urine, police said. Police said Hoskins told them he went into the school to use the bathroom. He was held in lieu of $500 bond for an appearance in...

There are an estimated one million porn sites on the Internet, and most of them are easy to find. “Basically, if you want to see it, you can,” said Mark, 17. And many porn sites are hardcore. “Very vulgar, lewd type of material,” said Jeremy, 19. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 70 percent of 15- to 17-year-old males have visited a pornographic website. Another survey found that among 16- and 17-year-olds, four percent visit porn sites regularly. “I’m hanging around kids my age, and they all pretty much get their fair share of that stuff I would say daily,”...

MIDI - EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON See Michael Jackson, he likes boys...he uses them as his own toys Is he a pervert and a loon...will Michael flee to the moon He likes to get them liquored up...come on kids, just have one more cup Is he a pervert and a loon...will Michael flee to the moon Less gravity...just watch and see...he'll Moonwalk more easily Will there be one more Bronco chase...he has blamed everything on race Is he a pervert and a loon...will Michael flee to the moon, moon, moon Will Michael flee to the moon

Vaseline Man Can't Slip Cops MAY 18--Meet Robert Chamberlain. The 44-year-old Virginia man was arrested earlier this month and charged with felony criminal mischief for damaging a Motel 6 room in upstate New York. But Chamberlain, who has spent time on the pipe, wasn't breaking windows or throwing the television off the balcony. He was nabbed for slathering Vaseline on every single thing in Room 205--mattresses, pillows, sheets, furniture, carpeting, blankets, the TV, etc. A motel clerk discovered the damage after Chamberlain checked out and called the Broome County Sheriff's Office. When Deputy Kevin Smith arrived, the greasy m.o. rang...

WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton has always had a flair for political drama. Now it looks like his just-in-time recovery from heart surgery, allowing him to campaign for John Kerry in the election’s closing days, may provide a jolt of excitement that any candidate would covet. Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says she started getting phone calls and e-mail as soon as word got out about Clinton’s planned appearance Monday with Kerry in Philadelphia, with messages like: “He’s back! The Comeback Kid!” She predicts “a great, electrifying last week of the campaign.”

Coming to a commerical movie theare near you: Jenna Jameson? The buxom porn star is in talks to bring her life story as a surgically enhanced nudie star to film.The film will be based on the sexpot's book 'How to Make Love Like a Porn Star.'Question is now, who does Hollywood cast in the role of Jenna Jameson? The adult film star was said to have been interested in Kate Hudson, but balked at the idea when she realized that the actress was not as 'endowed' as Jameson.Jameson says that fans have thrown a few casting ideas her way, with...

Be all that you can be -- and no more. That's the message the owner of an adult video company wants to give women serving in the nation's armed forces, where they can receive free breast augmentation, liposuction and other cosmetic surgery from surgeons honing their battlefield skills. Mark Kulkis, who owns Kick Ass Pictures, on Wednesday officially launched his "Bullets Not Boobs" campaign at a press conference outside a military recruiting center in Hollywood. Kulkis, who employs only "all natural" actresses in his films, said he will give $500 in lingerie and a day at a spa to any...

Administration wages war on pornography Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country. By Laura Sullivan Sun National Staff April 6, 2004 WASHINGTON - Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn. In this field office in...

<p>Moderator note: Do not post the photo, links are fine.</p> <p>Did anyone else see if Justin Timberlake pulled off Janet Jackson's top?</p>

Is the pornography business racist? Seriously. A cursory — and entirely dispassionate — examination of the marketplace seems to indicate that it is. Pornographers hire on the basis of race all the time. There are porn films, websites, magazines, etc. dedicated solely to African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and, of course, whites. Worse, I suppose, the porn industry regularly traffics in hurtful ethnic slurs — calling young Hispanic women "spicy," for example — the vast, vast, vast majority of which I cannot mention on this family-oriented website (not to be confused with families-of-Orientals fetish sites). Hollywood long ago broke the racial...

Christianity Today, December 2003 Hugh Hefner's Hollow VictoryHow the Playboy magnate won the culture war, lost his soul, and left us with a mess to clean up. By Read Mercer Schuchardt This month marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Playboy magazine, which some proclaim as a cultural watershed for a new liberation. As a young recipient of this cultural inheritance, Read Mercer Schuchardt, founder of cleave: The Counter Agency, begs to differ. The following article originally appeared in the Gen-x magazine re:generation quarterly, and is reprinted with permission. One of the occupational hazards of Christian cultural analysis is...

"It's so violent, people will leave the movie theatre or get sick in the movie theatre. There's so much violence that it becomes not numbing, but almost comedic. There's a scene where there's so much violence that the colour of the film goes into black and white, so that the blood looks like oil. It's cinematic; it's art." On the latest "DISNEY" movie by snuff-film porn director, Quentin Tarantino, "KILL BILL" Lucy Liu - snuff film afficionado. "Kill Bill Will Make You Sick!" Lucy Liu about Tarantino's latest The films of Quentin Tarantino are not exactly known for his use...

<p>If I were to take a wild guess, I'd bet that Bill O'Reilly and his colleagues at the Fox News Channel spent the weekend, as many of us did, reading Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."</p>

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Porn actress Mary Carey, one of 135 candidates running for governor of California, has offered to go on a date with anyone offering her a hefty campaign contribution.</p> <p>But no sex please -- this is politics.</p>

Lords' life story makes for poignant reading Thu Aug 7, 6:30 AM ET By Amanda Tyler, USA TODAY Traci Lords. To most, it's a name synonymous with underage porn, and it still evokes the most taboo of interests interest in how a 15-year-old girl from the Midwest rocked the porn industry, interest in those early films that sparked an intense three-year FBI investigation, and interest in how someone polishes such a tarnished reputation. But none of this interest is anything Lords set out to generate. Underneath the facade and two layers of fake identities, she was just a lost teenager,...

Penthouse Publisher Files for Bankruptcy August 12, 2003 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - General Media Inc., a subsidiary of Penthouse International Inc. (OTC BB:PHSL.OB) and the publisher of the racy adult magazine Penthouse, on Tuesday said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection so it can restructure its operations and debt. General Media said it made the filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. It has closed on a $5 million debtor-in-possession line of credit from some of its secured bondholders. The parent company, Penthouse International, was not included in the filing. General Media said it still plans to...

<p>AN FRANCISCO -- The number of unsolicited bulk e-mails, known as spam, has climbed sharply in the last few months, despite public outcry and attempts at legislative and software solutions, Internet service providers say.</p> <p>The largest provider, America Online Inc., is now blocking about 2 billion spam e-mails sent to its users each day, up from 500 million in December and 1 billion only two months ago. With similar increases reported by other Internet providers, the sheer volume of unsolicited e-mails is threatening to overwhelm the computer systems of schools, businesses, and other organizations.</p>

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1884364p-1872205c.html Sunday, November 3, 2002 12:00AM EST 11th-hour fliers vex some voters By AMY MARTINEZ AND VICKI LEE PARKER, Staff Writers RALEIGH -- "Sensitive material," the red-lettered warning reads, "Not suitable for children." Flip it over, and there's a young girl in yellow pigtails looking at a blurry photo of a naked person on a computer screen. The flier criticizes incumbent Sheriff John Baker for his handling of a 1998 incident in which a deputy sent a teenager nude photos via the Internet. "We can't trust Sheriff Baker to protect our children from Internet porn," states the flier. The flier...

Officials in the Deer Valley School District may use a rare legal maneuver and spend millions of dollars in taxpayer bond money to stop a sex store from opening near two schools. The district is considering condemning and buying the land where a Castle Boutique Megastore is scheduled to open next month at the northwestern corner of Deer Valley Road and Interstate 17. The store is less than a mile from Deer Valley Middle School and Barry Goldwater High School. Curious neighbors called the city last month to find out exactly what business shaped like a castle was being constructed...

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Porn raid nets five arrests Charges involve selling sex movies to a minor By Tony Bridges DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER Sheriff's deputies raided four Tallahassee sex stores Wednesday, charging five people with peddling grown-up movies to an undercover kid. The arrests came after a 17-year-old girl posed as a customer and was able to buy adult videos at Rick's Toy Box on North Monroe Street, Greg's Video on West Tharpe Street, X-Mart Adult Superstore on West Tennessee Street and Intimate Encounters on Crawfordville Road, according to detectives. Store owners decried the undercover sweep as "entrapment" and criticized deputies for exposing the...