A fee of 25,500 euros ($32,000) is way too much for a woman to charge a man for fondling her bosom, a Finnish district court ruled.
The court jailed a couple in their twenties for more than a year for charging a 74-year-old who suffers from dementia a total of 25,500 euros to enjoy the woman's breasts on 10 occasions. "Based on general life experience alone, it is indisputably clear that a 25,500 euro charge is disproportionate to the compensation in question," Judge Hasse Hakki, who heard the case, said on Friday.
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Oh well, I guess no 74-year-old will get to fondle young boobies now, because no young woman would let a gross old man fondle them for peanuts.
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But what if they were really, really big breasts? I mean, after all, proportionate fees and what such might apply. The judge made no mention of a scaled charge schedule. What sort of tapemeasure yardstick did Hakki use? Was any photographic evidence submitted? Enquiring minds want to know!
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A car dealership's tongue-in-cheek radio advertisement declaring "a jihad on the automotive market," will not be changed...Several stations rejected the spot from Dennis Mitsubishi, which boasts that sales representatives wearing "burqas" ... will sell vehicles that can "comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back..."Using that as a promotional pitch when so many are dying from the criminal activity of suicide bombers, that's not funny," [local CAIR]chapter president Asma Mobin-Uddin said.
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Welcome to the land of free speech, asshole. Now go back to your office and scribble up some more drivel about those Danish cartoons. Unlike your Islamic utopias, we don't work overtime trying to prosecute bad taste.
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A few of the radio stations here will not carry the ads but most will. The car dealerships in town are the biggest source of ad revenue for the both radio and The Columbus Disgrace Dispatch.
Yeah Zen - imagine, a car sales promotion in bad taste. Stunning.
Dozens of people in Montreal, including the dead, have been improperly signed up as federal Liberal party members. A Toronto Star investigation has found unsuspecting Quebecers some surprised to find out they were instant Liberals were sent membership cards and letters urging them to vote next weekend at all-important meetings to elect delegates to the Liberal convention to choose a new leader.
Using membership lists from the Quebec wing of the federal Liberal party, the Star talked to more than 70 families who reported significant problems in their own case, or in that of other family members. Most often, they hadn't paid the membership fee which party rules stipulate must be paid by the actual member. Toronto MP Joe Volpe's campaign was named as having paid for the memberships for nine people, according to Star interviews. Scores of others don't know who called them. A Volpe campaign insider said last night the instructions were that the Volpe name wasn't generally to be cited in telephone recruitment.
The federal Liberal party is investigating an official complaint that the Volpe campaign bought memberships in Papineau riding. The complaint was forwarded by riding officials, who also examined a list of members signed up by the leadership campaign of Toronto MP Michael Ignatieff (Etobicoke-Lakeshore). No anomalies were found with regard to Ignatieff.
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Well, you have to be dead to be that stupid anyway.
The local furor over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezs devil comment escalated yesterday with gubernatorial candidate Christy Mihos saying he may cancel the Citgo gas contracts at his minimarts on Cape Cod.
The guys just a thug, said Mihos, who owns nine Christys Markets that have distributor contracts with Citgo, a subsidiary of the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela. Mihos, whos dumping millions of dollars into his long-shot independent bid for governor, said he was outraged by Chavezs anti-American tirade on Wednesday and is mulling what action to take. Were talking about this at Christys Market, whether to keep with (Citgo), he told the Herald.
If he breaks his agreements with Citgo, Mihos said hell probably lose tens of thousands of dollars. But there are more important things in life than money, said the millionaire business owner who sold most of his Christys Markets in the late 1990s. He still owns 14 of them on Cape Cod - and nine of those have distributor agreements with Citgo.
The loudmouth Chavez has stirred other trouble in Boston, with one city councilor pushing to replace the iconic Citgo sign in Kenmore Square with a giant American flag to protest Chavezs devil tirade.
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Good man. Make Chavez's anti-American spewing have a painful consequence. He should be allowed to write off or deduct any ensuing loss. If this started a national campaign to drop all Citgo contracts, Mihos could become a real hero.
However, his "independent" run for Gov'na risks throwing Bacon Hill to the Uber-Moonbat, Devil Patrick. If you thought communism dead, think again. Mihos microphone grab may well put the 28% moonbat constituency into the power box.
Mihos, you are the man, but you need to stand down now, and let the Rhino take it.
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As much as I like Mihos, Red Lief's dad on. The Republican machine threw in behind Muffy Healy, and Mihos declared his independent campaign a week or two after the 'snub'. I was leaning toward him until Deval Patrick won the Dem primary but I'm gonna have to eat Muffy this fall. Mass. will lose a ton of people if Deval wins.
I'm not convinced Mihos will take all that many votes from Muffy.
A big component of the statewide vote outside Rte 128 in MA is the lunchpail Democrat. These folks would rather cut off a finger with a plastic knife than vote for someone like Patrick, who is a walking/talking moonbat wet dream.
I agree that Mihos bowing out would give Muffy the crushing victory that sends the kind of message to the Koskidz that they need to receive, but in the end I think she'll win even if Mihos runs.
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Lyndon B. Johnson used a mushroom cloud. The first George Bush relied on Willie Horton. Now Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, is trying to attract voters with ... puppies.
He doesn't hate them, he says in his latest television advertisement - an arresting spot that might be unlike any political commercial you've ever seen. Bright, fresh and almost irreverent in its disregard for the conventions of campaign advertising, the 30-second segment - which, like Steele's first two advertisements, makes no mention of his party affiliation - is part of a larger strategy aimed at presenting the candidate as a Washington outsider, a regular guy who would shake things up on Capitol Hill.
The spot, the second to feature an affable Steele evidently enjoying himself as he speaks directly to the camera, is one of the more unusual entrants in this year's pageant of campaign advertisements. Los Angeles-based branding consultant Joseph Hartnett, for one, is taken with it. "Injecting humor is difficult, but I would say that he's done himself a real favor by presenting himself in this way," he said. "What he's talking about is himself as a brand."
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JAIPUR: A 60-year-old woman suffering from brain tumour here has embarked on an age-old Jain ritual of Santhara, under which she has stopped taking food or water with an intention to die. The move has sparked a debate, with a local advocate filing a PIL, equating the practice with suicide and mercy killing.
After Vimla Devi Bhansali was told by doctors that her brain tumour was incurable, she decided to stop taking food or water in order to die instead of waiting for the disease to consume her. A large number of her relatives and members of the Shwetambar Jain community visited her Chhatrsal Colony home on Sunday.
Followers of this Jain sect also came from nearby towns, loaded in cars and buses, to visit Bhansali. Santhara is practised among the Shwetambar Jain community in old age. Those observing Santhara do not want to live any more and would prepare to die by lying down in a wooden cot and refusing drink or food.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A fee of 25,500 euros ($32,000) is way too much for a woman to charge a man for fondling her bosom, a Finnish district court ruled. 
Dozens of people in Montreal, including the dead, have been improperly signed up as federal Liberal party members. A Toronto Star investigation has found unsuspecting Quebecers some surprised to find out they were instant Liberals were sent membership cards and letters urging them to vote next weekend at all-important meetings to elect delegates to the Liberal convention to choose a new leader.
Lyndon B. Johnson used a mushroom cloud. The first George Bush relied on Willie Horton. Now Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, is trying to attract voters with ... puppies.
