[ABCNEWS.GO] Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have to defend himself
...no one else will...
Perhaps by now his generous wife will have decided his little escapades are no longer amusing enough to continue opening her purse for.
in a French court on charges of aggravated pimping despite recommendations by prosecutors that the charges be dropped.
Judges investigating the case in the northern city of Lille decided on Friday to go ahead with charges of aggravated pimping in a group.
The case revolves around an alleged hotel prostitution ring and hinges on whether Strauss-Kahn knew he was partying with hookers and whose money was used to pay them. His lawyers have said Strauss-Kahn had attended "libertine" gatherings but did not know that some women there were paid.
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What's a few spintriae between friends. No record of him awarding ambassadorial posts were there ?
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Being neither a lawyer or familiar with the Frenchish legal system, I gotta ask: what's the difference between aggravated pimping and just regular pimping?
[BREITBART] As the swirl of events surrounding former disgraced Congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... reaches epic proportions, new details are emerging about Weiner's ambitions and his sexting of young women. Weiner was likely considering a mayoral run as early as March 2011, before he had even resigned from Congress; he likely lied in his recent presser in which he stated that his sexting had stopped during the summer of 2012; and it is now obvious that Weiner fibbed repeatedly to the press about cleaning up his act between his resignation and his admissions of continued misbehavior this week.
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Makes the other one, Spitzer, look positively Victorian.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The IRS's internal watchdog is reviewing allegations that the agency improperly audited a Tea Party owner of a small Virginia farm whose repeated festivities with a local environmental group and the county over zoning laws have made her a cause celebre for property-rights advocates.
Martha Boneta, who runs a 64-acre organic farm in Fauquier County's tight-knit historic hunt country, has spent the last few years tangling with the Piedmont Environmental Council over the group's access to her property, which she bought in 2006. The PEC wants regular access to the land to monitor adherence to a conservation easement intended to limit commercial activities and safeguard the historic and scenic value of the land.
Boneta, who considers herself a Tea Party Republican and held a fundraiser on her farm for former conservative U.S. Senate hopeful Jamie Radtke in early 2012, also has locked horns with Fauquier County officials in recent years. The county has levied thousands of dollars in fines against her for selling fruits and vegetables on the property during the weekend without a proper license even though she held a county-approved license for a "retail farm shop" and for holding unlicensed events, including a birthday party for her best friend's child and a pumpkin carving, without a permit and a site plan.
She has fought back, accusing county officials of colluding with the PEC to target her, which both the PEC and county officials say has no merit. Both sides have dug in, battling over a stream of accusations and land-rights claims in court over the last few years.
Boneta gained the support of other farmers in the county, and last August several joined her at a hearing at the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors' offices and staged a "pitchfork protest" in which they held signs and and farming tools in a show of support.
Last year, her case attracted the attention of GOP Del. Scott Lingamfelter, who wrote the Right to Farm Act, also known as the "Boneta bill," designed to strengthen the ability of local farmers to sell certain food products from their homes without inspection by the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The measure passed the House of Delegates in February but stalled in the divided Senate.
Amid the publicity, Boneta last year also received notice of an IRS audit - an audit she believes is directly related to her disagreements with the environmental group and the county and is intended to frighten her into backing down.
"The audit had the effect of really scaring me," she told the Washington Examiner. "If that was the intention, it worked. I was terrified. The auditor asked me questions that were uniquely related to my litigation with Fauquier County and the Piedmont Environmental Council. If not collusion, how could this be possible?"
A front man for the PEC said the group has nothing to do with the zoning issues she was having nor the audit.
"Our issues and concerns relate solely to our conservation easement," said the PEC's Heather Richards.
Peter Schwartz, a Fauquier County supervisor who served on the PEC's board seven years ago, said he has never had any contact with the IRS or the Treasury Department with respect to Boneta or her farm, and has "no knowledge of the status of the matter."
"Other than that, I have no further comment on your inquiry," he said in an emailed response to questions.
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Lets reduce the federal gov from 23 million employees to say 2 million and encourage the states to do the same. Its time to lay off the parasites.
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"The federal government should be able to run with about 30,000 people if the feds did only those things designated exclusively to them under the enumerated powers."
FTFY, BP.
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Champ has the template of that speech minus the names of the next dictator he praises; ie, Pol Pot, Castro (after he's dead)...so many communist dictators and such little time.
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In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.
One branch of that call center will be located in California's Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however, "about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits -- a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time." The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process "a comedy of errors" and said she "never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time."
The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time, and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper, "It reminded me of that George Clooney movie where he goes around the country firing people [Up in the Air]. The woman said, 'I know you were led to believe you would be full-time, but things have changed. . . . You are actually 'part-time intermittent.'"
The Contra Costa employees are currently in training, and the call center -- one of three based in California -- is set to go live on October 1.
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Where's the irony meter? Have we added one yet?
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The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper,,
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"a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time"
Then you're IDIOTS. And clueless, too.
Dipshits, meet cluebat.
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The irony... this article is dripping with it.
I keep wondering if this is the onion instead of real life.
When real life is better than the onion we have reached Orwellian times.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, called Friday for scandal-ridden San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign "for the good of the City of San Diego."
The heat is on. Polling across the country must be suggesting that people are beginning to associate the 'War on Women' with the Dems.
A growing number of women have accused Filner of unwanted sexual advances. The mayor defended himself as a "hugger," claiming such actions were misinterpreted, but acknowledging poor treatment of women.
Wasserman Schultz joined a chorus of Democrats asking him to step down. On Thursday, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested Filner, along with New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, aka Carlos Danger
"get a clue," and get some .........therapy.
"The misconduct Mayor Bob Filner has been accused of is reprehensible and indefensible. I am personally offended by his actions and I firmly believe no employee should face a hostile environment or harassment at their place of employment. There is no place for this type of conduct in the workplace and certainly not in our city halls and public offices," Wasserman Schultz said in a statement.
"For the good of the Planet City of San Diego, I call on Mayor Filner to resign," she said.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day. 
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, called Friday for scandal-ridden San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign "for the good of the City of San Diego."
