… I need a little time to be able to deal with that to sort of take a break from some of all that I’ve had to deal with over the last few weeks,” she said after meeting privately with Mr. Vilsack. “We do need to work on the issues of discrimination and racism in this country, and I certainly would like to play my role in trying to help deal with it.”
Ms. Sherrod was removed last month from her post as the Agriculture Department’s director of rural development in Georgia after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a short clip of a speech Ms. Sherrod gave that inaccurately suggested she had made racist remarks. Ms. Sherrod confirmed her plans to sue Mr. Breitbart.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Craigslist should remove its adult services section because the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking, attorneys general in 17 states demanded Tuesday in a joint letter.
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August 25, 2010
Public & private lives: A $10,000 settlement reached after a Brownsville Area High School Spanish teacher was wrongly suspended from her job provides a costly tutorial. Ginger D’Amico’s teaching record is unblemished. She broke no law. Yet the school district imposed a 30-day suspension when photos, taken by another teacher, of Ms. D’Amico with a male stripper popped up on the Internet. Despite today’s omnipresent video recorders and camera cell phones, there’s a clear distinction between what employees do on the job and their legal, private, leisure-time activities.
More absentee parenting: Southwest Greensburg is the latest jurisdiction considering a curfew for minors after residents’ complaints about children out and about in the early morning hours. Time was when parents set curfews — and kids obeyed them. Parents who can’t account for their under-18-year-olds after 11 p.m. are seriously out of the loop — if not, themselves, loopy.
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August 24, 2010
He had a penchant for drawing, and after failing the baccalaureate due to a poor marks in French, he eventually pursued art instruction at the ateliers of Leon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon, which were both located in the bohemian district of Montmarte–filled with dance halls and prostitutes, and was home to the artsy crowd.
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Lautrec’s posters and prints are on display in the museum’s large temporary exhibition galleries. Famous images of dancer Jane Avril, actor Aristide Bruant, and female acrobat clown Cha-U-kao are displayed in the high walled galleries along with many intimate lithographic printed drawings of Lautrec’s friends and of prostitutes. A slim gold painted picture rail crowning the gallery walls to visually reduce their scale cheapens the exhibition rather than make it more intimate. Other design details such as a lonely pair of drapes and oddly hung chandeliers call even more attention the cavernous scale of the gallery in relation to the intimate artworks.
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August 22, 2010
Massage parlor owner, workers charged with prostitution
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Washington County massage parlor owner and two of his employees were arrested Friday after investigators with the county district attorney’s office said the parlors were fronts for prostitution.
Washington resident Christopher Lee, 43, who owned two Ancient Asian Relaxation Therapy parlors in the county, will be charged with promoting prostitution. Two female masseuses who police identified as Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2 were charged with prostitution and indecent assault. The immigration status of the two women, believed to be Chinese nationals, was also under investigation.
Investigators said the two women went by the names “Ginny” and “Amy.” During an investigation, detectives posing as clients said the women asked them to disrobe and then fondled them at a parlor located on Chestnut Street in Washington.
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August 21, 2010
Crowder was blunt: “The reality is as long as they’re not harming neighbors they should be able do any damn thing they want.”
He did say landowners could settle disagreements in other ways, such as nuisance law. But if there is no growth policy, the threshold that must be met to regulate property uses will undoubtedly be much higher. The question is to what degree?
If overturning the growth policy simply limits the county from implementing new zoning laws that is quite different than scrapping them altogether.
A court will likely decide what exactly should happen if Crowder is successful. The problem is that ruling would follow the petition, which makes a complicated issue even more convoluted. Will medical marijuana dispensaries open up next to schools? What about strip clubs next to churches? How arduous is it to initiate citizen zoning?
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August 20, 2010
Police Raid 2 Massage Parlors in Washington County
Posted: 3:27 pm EDT August 20, 2010Updated: 6:25 pm EDT August 20, 2010
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — Search warrants were served at two massage parlors in Washington County according to Washington County District Attorney Steve Toprani.
According to the search warrant, the parlors were being investigated for prostitution, indecent assault and other related offenses.
Channel 11’s Dave Bondy said that two women and one man were taken into custody at Ancient Asian Relaxation Therapy located on West Chestnut Street.
The search warrant had the name of Christopher R. Lee as the owner of the business. According to the search warrant Lee is licensed in the state of Pennsylvania. Seized from the business was a computer and $690.
Bondy talked to the owner of the building who said Lee used to operate out of the Washington Crown Center Mall.
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August 20, 2010
After gauging some of my very cool friends on their purple feelings, I got mixed reviews. Everything from tacky to sophisticated. Hot to not. For some, it reminded them of that horrible lavender we all painted our bedrooms circa 1988. For others, it felt luxe and sophisticated. For me, it had all of the above. However, I love plum hues this time of year because I think it’s a chic alternative to the cliche browns you’ll start seeing everywhere as soon as the temps dip below 70 degrees. “Fall Decor” and “Harvest Looks” on the cover of everything. It’s so played out and a little tacky, if you ask me. Plum is richer, more daring and sexy. When done right, it is downright slammin’. Done wrong, and it looks like a French Quarter brothel. Not the look we’re shooting for.
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August 20, 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
Is there a better way to kick off the weekend than with a brand-new Twilight Sad song and video? How about one that features puppets and strippers?
The Scottish band gives us seven and a half minutes of noise rock with its “The Wrong Car.” The track will be released by FatCat Records Sept. 28 on 12-inch vinyl.
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August 20, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury and the father of Reaganomics, believes the United States is beyond repair and that only a revolution will save the country. Before you go thinking he’s just another GOP fringe player who hates Obama, his vitriol cuts both ways — he famously called for the impeachment of George W. Bush in 2005. As an economist, he believes Wall Street and the corporations have painted the U.S. into a corner.
Americans have no greater enemies than Wall Street and the corporations and their prostitutes in Congress and the White House.The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated in a good way.
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August 20, 2010
Her most prominent example was the death threats made to the Danish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, and the subsequent controversy over “South Park” creators trying to show Mohammed on their Comedy Central show. She said it was wrong they weren’t even allowed to show Mohammed in a “honey bear costume.”
“There’s no reciprocity,” Geller said. “It’s a two-way street. It can’t be only one way. Building a 15-story mega mosque on a building that was destroyed, that’s not outreach.”
She also thinks it is not a fair comparison between the proposed center and the 92nd Street Y because “anyone could walk into a church or synagogue but non-Muslims can’t pray in a mosque.”
Geller argues the building where the Cordoba House is sacred because it was hit by landing gear on Sept. 11, 2001, and doesn’t buy arguments about some of the more seedy buildings in the area desecrating the memory of those killed nine years ago.
“Strip clubs didn’t bring down the towers. It’s faulty logic,” Geller told TPM.
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August 18, 2010
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