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Tuesday Thought #2

On the Other Hand, Cyntoia Brown, Sex-Trafficking Victim, Must Serve 51 Years Before Release

While Jacob Anderson rapes a woman and walks free, Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman who was a victim of sex-trafficking, has been convicted … as a teenager … of shooting the man who pimped her out and must serve 51 years before she is eligible for release.

In case you didn’t get it, Cyntoia Brown is a black woman.

Brown was just 16-years-old in 2004 when she killed real estate agent Johnny Allen. Allen had solicited Brown for sex, taken her to his home and showed her his guns. Later in bed, Brown thought Allen was reaching for his gun to shoot her, so she grabbed a handgun from her purse and shot him first. She then stole the money from Allen’s wallet, took his guns and drove his truck to a Walmart.

At the time, Brown was a runaway, living with her 24-year-old boyfriend, a pimp known as “Kut Throat,” who raped her and forced her into prostitution. But teenager Cyntoia Brown was tried as an adult, convicted of first-degree murder, felony murder and aggravated robbery. She was sentenced to life in prison in 2006.

When her case received widespread attention, a documentary of her case was filmed; activists and celebrities tried to get her released.

But this week Tennessee’s Supreme Court said that, under the state’s law, defendants like Brown who were convicted of first-degree murder after July 1, 1995, can only be released from prison after serving at least 51 years of their sentences. 

After the Tennessee Supreme Court’s ruling made headlines, Brown’s advocates pointed out how white men and women who commit crimes are handed lighter sentences than people of color.

Like that of Keeva Delaney, who was twenty-three when she was convicted of killing her husband during an argument. Her sentence? One year in jail, and nine years of probation. Oh, but wait, it gets better. Delaney will serve her sentence one month at a time for ten years; yes, every June she must report to the jail and spend a month there, then take the next eleven months off before she goes back in for another thirty days.

And what about millionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein? He was accused of trafficking minor girls and coercing them into sex acts in his mansion for at least six years. He got thirteen months.

A black woman, Cyntoia Brown, who was a sixteen-year-old girl forced into a life of prostitution as a child, killed a man and will spend 51 years in jail.

A White woman, Keeva Delaney, shot and killed her husband because maybe he was a little too friendly with another woman. She was given one year in jail, and the option of serving one month a year for ten years and living free the rest of the time.

A rich white man, Jeffrey Epstein, forced girls into sexual trafficking, and raped dozens of them in his own home. He’ll be jailed for thirteen months.

Ain’t that America.

Huffington Post

Senator Ralph Shortey Keeps His Pension ... After Arrest For Having Sex With a Minor

Usually when I write about Oklahoma it’s because they’re acting like homophobic bigots and I call them Oklahomo; this time they’re acting the fool so ... Oklastupid?

See, last week State Senator Ralph Shortey was arrested and charged with engaging in prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution.

He was busted having sex with a thirteen year old boy.

Shortey spent a of couple hours at the Cleveland County Jail and posted a $100,000 bond and is now free.

Prosecutors claim Shortey offered the boy money for sex, then picked up the boy and took him to a motel for that purpose. They also claim the boy sent a message to Shortey, saying he needed money for spring break at which point Shortey asked if he “would be interested in sexual stuff.”

The teen replied “yes.”

In the messages, Shortey reportedly called the teen “baby boy” and the boy would respond by calling Shortey “Daddy.” Police say Shortey used a graphic word and replied that he was going to have sex with the teen “like a good little boy if you keep calling me daddy.”

There are also allegations that Shortey had messaged the teen asking if he wanted to smoke some weed, and asking him to bring a pipe and a lighter. Authorities say room reeked of marijuana, though they didn’t find any in an initial search; they did find an open box of condoms and lotion in a backpack.

Sick enough right? But here’s where Oklastupid comes in ... Ralph Shortey has not resigned from the Oklahoma Senate—though his colleagues suspended him and took his name off his door, and  called for his resignation—but, even if Ralph Shortey is convicted on every count against him he’ll be able to keep his state retirement, because he’s been in office long enough.

I guess that means if you’re an elected official in Oklahoma who likes to have sex with boys, keep it a well-guarded secret until you put enough years into the job that you can keep your retirement checks.

While Oklastupid has a law that strips elected officials of their pension if they are convicted of a felony like bribery, corruption, or perjury, it does not include a felony like prostitution with a minor so Little Ralphie Shortey who likes to **** little boys will get to keep over $9,000 a year from the state when he retires.

As I said ... Oklastupid.

KFOR

The Height Of GOP Stupidity, Part Two: Larry "Wide-Stance-Foot-Tapping" Craig

I thought the GOP couldn’t get any dumber after this morning’s tale of South Carolina Senator, Lindsey Lohan, er, Graham’s, advice to layoff off government contractors to force Congress to do their jobs, but the, well, along came this:

Y’all remember former GOP senator, Larry Craig? The guy who was arrested in an airport bathroom for sitting on the john with his feet too far apart and tapping his foot, and then using his fingers to beg an undercover cop for sex? That guy? Who :::foot stomped::: and :::head snapped::: and told us he was not gay and yet he would resign, only then he didn’t resign he just faded away like an old queen?

Well, the Federal Election Commission [FEC] claims Larry The Foot Tapper used some $217,000 in campaign funds to defend himself against the allegations that he is a self-loathing, deeply closeted homosexual who was tricked into politicizing sex in a men’s room, and now the FEC wants the money back. And Craig is trying to stop the lawsuit by claiming that his infamous 2007 bathroom stall sex-sting arrest was, ahem, simply part of his official Senate business. See, Craig would like us to believe that his official business was to offer a report on the best airport bathrooms in which to hook-up anonymously for a little man-on-man action.

The FEC sued Craig saying he converted the campaign money to personal use money and then spent it on his legal defense after he was accused of soliciting sex in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom, but Craig says, with a straight face—just about the only part of him that is truly straight—that the money tied to his airport bathroom trip was neither for personal use or his campaign, but rather it was part of his official, reimbursable duties as senator because he was traveling between Idaho and the nation's capital for work.

Or sex.

And Larry cites a Senate rule in which reimbursable per diem expenses include all charges for meals, lodging, hotel fans, cleaning, pressing of clothing, and bathroom sex, I guess. His lawyer, Andrew Herman, says, “Not only was the trip itself constitutionally required, but Senate rules sanction reimbursement for any cost relating to a senator's use of a bathroom while on official travel.”

So, then Craig can argue that if he uses a bathroom to engage in anonymous homosexual sex, he should be able to claim it as a reimbursable expense. Sex. Reimbursable. Wow.

But, um, Larry, honey, darling? If you wish to have us believe that you can use your per diem to pay for “bathroom expenses” and you were arrested for trying to have sex with a man in a bathroom, then that whole I’m not gay dance you did was just a big fat lie and you’re just a big old queer who got busted for trying to jerk off a cop.

 The height of stupidity. And no one believes you Larry. You’re queer, dear.

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Random Musings

Staffers for Minnesota Congresswoman, and certifiable Crazy-Eyed Wacknut, Michele Bachmann, are confirming a Swiss television news report that Bachmann is now a citizen of Switzerland. 

Bachmann's congressional spokes-tool, Becky Rogness, said Bachmann now enjoys dual citizenship with the US and Switzerland: "Congresswoman Bachmann's husband is of Swiss descent so she has been eligible for dual-citizenship since they got married in 1978. However, recently some of their children wanted to exercise their eligibility for dual-citizenship so they went through the process as a family."

I never knew Marcus was a Swiss Miss.

In addition to this story, Bachmann gave Mittsy Romney her endorsement, by saying something like, "Well, he's all we've got, so........Marcus! Take off my dress!"

To say I was dumbfounded by the passage of Amendment One in North Carolina would be a massive understatement. I can't fathom anyone voting to discriminate against another person. But then i took a trip over to Viktor's spot, Maybe It's Just Me--and you ought to stop in on that blog regularly--and saw this little graphic which explains everything:

And then, saw found this:

And Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum has finally come out--no pun intended--and also endorsed Mittsy for president.
And he did so by having a huge press conference and.....what? Oh, he released an email in the middle of the night where he doesn't so much as say Mittsy's the best man for the job, but reiterates how different he and Mittsy are, and how, "Well, he's all we've got, so.....Hey you! Lady! Stop with the birth control already."

Lots of news about the unpaid prostitute in Columbia who is at the center of the Secret Service scandal.

She wants to stretch her fifteen minutes of fame to the pages of Hustler and wants to sell her story.

Here's her story: she's a prostitute who got a call to go to a hotel and let some guy bang her. She did. He didn't pay. She raised a fuss. It came out that he's Secret Service. Now she says she could have taken all sorts of confidential secret information from him.

Um, Hooker? May I call you Hooker? You couldn't even find his wallet to take your $47.00. How you gonna crack the lock on the Secret Service briefcase and take all the files marked "Top Secret."

You're a hooker. It might be legal in Colombia, but, c'mon, you aren't exactly a paragon of virtue.

Say Buenos Noches already.

Tweet Of The Day:

I love The Borgias because I loves me some Cesare Borgia, played by François Arnaud.

But now, Cesare's murderous henchman--which is kind of an oxymoron--Micheletto, has returned to his village and we learn that he has a bit of a gay past.
With secret lover, Augustino, played by the hot, oh, so hot, Darwin Shaw.

I just hope this wasn't a one-note episode, and that Augustino will be back.

And, speaking of new crushes from TV Land:

GCB. I started watching because it stars Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts.
Those two are reason enough.
And I also loveslovesloves the gay husband, played by Mark Deklin, but the newest hunk, who's been there almost all along but suddenly appeared really dreamy this last week, is Tyler Jacob Moore, who plays Pastor John Tudor.

I don't usually go for the blonds, but his smile is.....swoon.

 And speaking of TV. I love the BBC/America. 

I loved Whitechapel.

I find most British television programs to be more interesting, and less predictable, than American shows.

Case in point: The new version of Sherlock Holmes--played by the interestingly named, Benedict Cumberbatch--that is being shown on Masterpiece Theater on Sunday nights. It’s an updating of Holmes to 2011, and the stories are quick, interestingly told, interestingly filmed.

I wish our US networks would take note and try to be a little more inventive.

Brown v Griffin

I suppose by now you've all heard the ruckus arising over Kathy Griffin calling Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown's daughters "prostitutes." And, um, yeah, if you haven't heard it, then you aren't getting your news from the E channel or Entertainment Tonight.
But, anyway, on a recent segment of Kathy's Emmy-nominated Bravo show, My Life On The D-list, she was being quizzed on her political knowledge by CNN’s Dana Bash and John King. When King held up a photo of Brown, Griffin identified him as “Scott Brown, who is a senator from Massachusetts and has two daughters that are prostitutes.”
In the matter of a nanosecond, Bravo's "legal" team had the following message roll across the screen: "Scott Brown's daughters ARE NOT prostitutes!!!"
I'm glad they told me, because otherwise................
So, everyone is up in arms that Kathy made an inappropriate joke and Brown's children. Well, two things: Number One: Making inappropriate jokes is what Kathy Griffin does. It gets her publicity and she likes that. And B: Scott Brown's "children" are grown women.
Now, before you go all, "But still, Bob, she shouldn't have said that about them." Let me say, I agree. I love a good funny raucous joke and this most assuredly wasn't it.
But, and there is always a but at ISBL, Kathy Griffin made that particular "joke" because when Scott Brown was elected to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, at his acceptance rally, he introduced his family by saying: "As always, I rely on Gail's [his wife] love and support, and that of our two lovely daughters. So I want to thank Ayla and Arianna for their help as well....Just in case anyone who's watching throughout the country, yes they're both available."
So, um, was Scott Brown pimping his daughters out? No; that's something that a lot of fathers would say about their daughters in front of a group of rowdy strangers.
They're available.
And when Brown's wife and daughters looked at him, mortified over what he'd just said, Scott Brown added: "I can see I'm going to get in trouble when I get home."
So, see, there have been two jokes made about Scott Brown's daughters. One, a not-so-funny-go-for-the-easy-cheesy-laugh, by a professional comedian, and the other a not-so-funny-go-for-the-easy-cheesy-laugh, joke from a father.
Lay off Kathy Griffin.

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ManWhore Markus, The ISBL Asshat Of The Week!

Y'all have no doubt heard that male prostitution is now legal at Nevada brothels, and, well, wouldn't you know, one of those fine lads, who, like Cher and Madonna, goes by a single name, Markus, has something to say about his, um, accomplishment.

Markus: "Basically this is the first time in the economy of the United States that a male has actually stood up and said, 'I want to do this for a living.' And be protected under law to do it. It's just the same as when Rosa Parks decided to sit at the front instead of the back. She was proclaiming her rights as a disadvantaged, African-American older woman. And I'm doing the same. I'm actually standing up now, and hopefully I can be supported by the male community and be understood as a person. This actually isn't about selling my body. This is about changing social norms."

Yes, the man-whore compared himself to civil Rights activist Rosa Parks.

I know.

Um, Markus, here's a little something: Rosa didn't want to stand up....all you want to do is get down....for pay.

Not.The.Same.Thing.