In State v. Lowe, the Ohio Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the state's prohibition on incest as applied to consensual sexual relations between a step-father and his adult step-daughter. After first concluding that the statute, by its terms, applied to adults as well as children, a six-justice majority rejected the defendant's constitutional challenge, concluding that the statutory prohibition passed muster under the rational basis test because the state has a legitimate interest in prohibiting sexual relations between relatives, even those related by law rather than blood.
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Lowe was up late playing video games and the victim told investigators that she was drunk and passed out on the couch. She awoke four hours later when she felt Lowe on top of her, the report said.
The victim said she confronted Lowe a couple of days later, but he claimed he had been drunk that night and didnt remember anything.
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When questioned by investigators, Lowe admitted having sex with the woman, but claimed it was consensual.
Have fun in the general prison population, creep.
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Promenade across the floor
Sass shay right on out the door
Out the door and in to the glade
And everybody promenade
Step right up, you're doing fine
I'll pull your beard, you pull mine
Yank it again, like you did before
Break it up with a tug of war
Now into the brook and fish for the trout
Dive right in and splash about
Trout, trout, pretty little trout
One more splash and come right out
Shake like a hound dog, shake again
Wallow around in the old pig pen
Wallow some more, you all know how
Roll around like an old fat sow
Allemande left with your left hand
Follow through with a right-left grand
Now lead your partner, the dirty ol' thing
Follow through with an elbow swing
Grab a fence post, hold it tight
Whomp your partner with all your might
Hit him in the shin, hit him in the head
Hit him again, the critter ain't dead
Wop him low and wop him high
Stick your finger in his eye
Pretty little rhythm, pretty little sound
Bang your heads against the ground
Promenade all around the room
Promenade like a bride and groom
Open up the door and step right in
Close the door and into a spin
Whirl, whirl, twist and twirl
Jump all around like a flying squirrel
Now don't you cuss and don't you swear
Just come right out and form a square
Now right hand over and left hand under
Both join hands and run like thunder
Over the hill and over the dale
Duck your head and lift your tail
Don't you stray and don't you roam
Turn it around and promenade home
Corn in the crib pen, wheat in the sack
Turn your partner, promenade back
And now you're home
Bow to your partner
Bow to the gent across the hall
And that is all
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03/02/2007 19:51 Comments ||
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that was a Bugs Bunny tune, huh?
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03/02/2007 21:02 Comments ||
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Frank, one of the funniest Bugs Bunny cartoons ever. I stll LMAO when I see it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
03/02/2007 21:12 Comments ||
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FREEREPUBLIC > that German brother-sister pair are vowing to fight to the end for the legal legitimacy of their relationship. ION, WAFF.com > SPIEGEL > DOES COMMUNISM [includ Socialism] STILL WORK. Also, RENSE.com > APPEASEMENT MEAN THE DEATH OF AMERICA ; + LUCIANNE > LIBERTARIANISM a threat to America [i.e. the NEW SOCIALISM] articles???
An alternative beauty pageant to be held in a remote Icelandic town will reward contestants' wrinkles, saggy breasts and other bodily imperfections and hopes to challenge Western ideas of beauty, organisers said on Wednesday.
"Anyone can make the rules about what beauty is; we want to change the rules," one of the contest's organisers, Matthhildur Helgadottir, said.
"We think it's just coincidence if you have big breasts. How come this is beautiful? We are trying to show how ridiculous this is," Helgadottir said.
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Italic: "There has been a rodent problem, just like any other building in New York, but we do have exterminators come in every week to take care of it."
It is not working. The members of the "security" council are still there.
An assistant sub-inspector of police shot dead an Ahmadi, after accusing him of being an infidel in the Qadarabad police precincts, Mandi Bahauddin, on Thursday. The ASI shot Muhammad Ashraf when the latter was having breakfast at a hotel in Seera village near Phalian, killing him instantly. You are an infidel, and are preaching an infidel creed in the area, the ASI shouted before shooting Ashraf.
The ASI then went to a police station and turned himself in. A case has been lodged against him under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). Police told Daily Times that the killer had confessed to the crime, and had called himself an extremist Muslim.
Station House Officer Nazir Ahmed said the ASI had gone on leave because of illness. He said the ASI told police that he killed Ashraf for changing his faith from a Sunni Muslim to an Ahmadi. Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya spokesman Saleemuddin told Daily Times that the victim converted eight years ago the only one to have done so in a family of eight brothers. He said that Ashrafs wife had not converted, but was living with her husband along with three daughters.
The spokesman said that Ashraf initially kept his conversion a secret, but when he disclosed this, extremists started threatening him and some local mosques also delivered speeches against him. According to a press release, the Jamaat has strongly condemned the incident, and asked the government to take stern notice of such incidents, which were on the rise. The statement said that Ahmadis were being victimised, but the government was not paying attention to the matter.
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New York City symbolically banned use of the word nigger on Wednesday, the latest step in a campaign that hopes to expunge the most vile of racial slurs from hip hop music and television.
The City Council unanimously declared a moratorium that carries no penalty but aims to stop youth from casually using the word, considered by most Americans to be the most offensive in the English language.
The New York City measure follows similar resolutions this month by the New York state assembly and state senate, and supporters of the ban are taking their campaign to The Recording Academy, asking it not to nominate musicians for Grammy awards if they use the word in their lyrics.
Many rap artists and young New Yorkers toss the word around as a term of endearment or as a substitute for black, angering some black leaders who consider those who use it as ignorant of the word's hate-filled history in slavery and segregation.
"This could be the beginning of a movement," councilman Albert Vann said.
Councilman Leroy Comrie, a sponsor of the moratorium, said the campaign against the word has gained strength since comedian Michael Richards spewed it in a racially charged tirade in Los Angeles.
The Laugh Factory club where Richards performed has since banned comedians from using the word there and the former "Seinfeld" television star has apologized.
"The Michael Richards incident really brought it to another level. It has forced people to express their outrage. Many people had been seething quietly," Comrie said.
Comrie also asked TV network Black Entertainment Television to stop using the word in its shows. Representatives of BET did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A Grammy spokesman said he doubted the academy's 11,000 voting members would support any measure that might censor artists.
"They are not going to be supportive of something that excludes someone simply because they are using a word that is offensive," said Ron Roecker, vice president of communication for the Recording Academy.
The city resolution calling for the moratorium traces the etymology of the word from the Latin "niger," meaning black, to its first documented written use in 1786 as a term slave masters used to label their African slaves.
Use of the word by blacks exploded with the rise of rap music in recent years, and some black comedians like Chris Rock continue to use it in their routines.
"What, is there a fine? Am I going to get a ticket?" Rock mocked in a Reuters interview when asked about the City Council move. "Do judges say, '10 years, nigger!"'
Rock said politicians were trying to divert attention from real problems: "Enough real bad things happen in this city to worry about how I am going to use the word."
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I am just glad that NY City does not have any problems more serious than the use or misuse of the English language. Perhaps there is a shortage of English teachers or ministers.
#10
I don't see the problem here. Many of my best friends and acquaintances are...
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03/02/2007 11:03 Comments ||
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Funny, in France, the PCness is so overbearing and smothering, that the word noir ("black" cannot be used for black people; instead, the word to be used in social life, media,... is "BLACK" (in english); it was a very funny evolution; first, nègre ("negro") was deemed deprecating, while it was the usual and accepted word, used in literature even by black writers; from there it indeed became a racist word (new meaning is "nigger"); then, "noir", which is simply a color denomination, was too strong; the Enlightened Elites just had to resort to an english (read US) word, since the 90's I'd say, because, well, black americans are hip, they're cool, when you say BLACK, you imply this.
All this is the semantics of PCness; sometimes, it has strange results; quite a few years ago, I was watching an animation "stick" (short 5 mn program between series", before the Sopranos IIRC) in a very PC satellite chanel, with subtitled original version programs; the english dialog, with a young black girl lamenting her lack of sportive proefficiency and saying something like "I felt like I was a shame to the whole black race"... subtitles were (in french) "I felt like I was a shame to the whole 'BLACK' COMMUNITY".
That innocent US carton had two taboo words : "noir" and "race".
That just an insignificant detail but it stuck to me, because it was so stereotyped about french PCness (on the same channel and on the same program, "you're a racist" became "you're a dirty racist", lol).
Music sales overall are down, but rap sales in particular have dropped 21 percent from 2005 to 2006. For the first time in 12 years, the top ten best-selling albums of the year did not include a rap album. A poll of black Americans by The Associated Press and AOL-Black Voices last year revealed 50 percent of respondents said hip-hop was a negative force in American society.
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When I was growing up, it was a collocial ABBREVIATION. Probably very NOT PC today as well. Have not used it in man decades and doubt I ever will again.
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But Norwegians don't like to be called Bald, do they BrerRabbit?
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
03/02/2007 12:12 Comments ||
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Y'know, when I was a kid, I was taught to respond "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me" when ever someone called me a name.
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So from now on I'll have to remember never to use the word 'Nigger' on Wednesday in New York (That's what it says. read for yourself)
banned use of the word nigger on Wednesday,
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
03/02/2007 13:10 Comments ||
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My (Southern, racially prejudiced) Mama taught me when I was very young that only trash uses such language, and she wasn't raising any trash. Therefore, even though I grew up in the mountains of Virginia in the 1950's, and heard that word (and worse) a lot, I've never used it in my memory, nor would I.
And yes, in my opinion, Mama's belief about that word and trash still stands. For ALL races.
Now if we could just get non-whites to stop using it....
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03/02/2007 13:55 Comments ||
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I call for a ban on all Symbolical Moratoriums and Non-Binding Resolutions. The effect of Governance by Grievance Groups creates obfuscation for those that dont possess the courage to make decisions. However altruistic in their intent, the ineffectiveness of these resolutions encourages ridicule and eventually they breed contempt. In the end, this allows for increased acceptance for enforceable laws that would not otherwise have been contemplated as necessity.
For Instance:
On January 5, 2007 Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) introduced a piece of legislation (H.R. 254). The bill is called the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (or Davids Law, for short). The introduction of Davids Law threatens the constitutionally protected right of freedom of speech by mandating federal criminal prosecution for crimes motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of any person.
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What's missing here ? It's just a word, for Christ's sake. A word is just a sound with intended meaning. How backward are we when we outlaw a sound ?
I have less hope every day for the human race. I would much prefer 'nigger' be used commonly with an understood meaning than any word outlawed for any reason. The way rap has watered down it's use, the words nigger, dude, and bud could be described as pronoun-like references to peers.
The real problem is the possibility that the thought police will lose one of their tools. And we all know thought police are self-appointed leftist, communist intent on destroying America.
Point your guns at the real enemy.
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Word,
Obviously it makes a difference when and where you grew up and how you were raised.
For the most part I grew up on the West Coast in the 50s and 60s. The word nigger wasn't used at home at all and not very often by us kids in the streets. During WWII allot of Black folks moved up from the South and worked in the Bay Area for Kaiser and the Navy etc.
There didn't seem to be any problems, there were no special lines or bathrooms for Black people, they were like any other group around but no one made too big a deal out of it until the "civil rights" movement then things changed, for the worse.
On TV you could see separate toilet facilities in Washington DC. and folks sitting on the back of the bus but you never saw it out here.
Negro was the PC and Proper word to describe folks that had African heritage when I grew up. Occasionally you heard the word colored but my folks didn't want me or my sister to use the word.
I went to school with all races although the majority were white kids like me. I played foot ball and sports with other black kids and worked part time jobs with them later during my college years in the early-mid 60s. As I said things began to change....
One day maybe 1964 or 65 my sister was jumped by 4 black girls in front of Mt. Zion Hospital. Luckily they only used their knives to cut off her long blond hair.
That's when things changed for me forever, you see because my good hearted sister would never treat anyone that way, and yet she was attacked because she was white and had blond hair.
If only I could have been there...
Whats in a word. If you think banishing the word will make it go away you are wrong. It will only become a more powerful word and it will never fade away like colored or negro almost have.
The word police just invite circumlocution, folks will use funny and/or mean spirited workarounds in writing etc.
or inflection in their speech
or affected syntax
My step-father used Mulunyan, I sorta have a soft spot for that one but I rarely use it even privately.
The very word racism seems a commonly used word describing ( In America): A bias that white people have against blacks.
Which is in reverse as far as i can tell, of the most practiced racism that I witness anyway. Whites are the most slurred and targeted folks on the planet most likely, just in case, you might want to keep track if you want waste some of your precious time counting...that is..
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Comrie also asked TV network Black Entertainment Television to stop using the word in its shows. Representatives of BET did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
That's because they're too busy laughing. Oh, and too smart to get involved.
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And they're banning Huckleberry Finn in the public schools, I bet.
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03/02/2007 18:14 Comments ||
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Talk about giving someone power over you! All this furor over a WORD? If anyone is wondering why there's still contempt for, and anger with blacks everywhere they live, they could start with reviewing what happened to innocent whites in Wichita and Knoxville at the hands of blacks.
A little of that kind of savagery goes one hell of a long way.
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03/02/2007 18:30 Comments ||
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An alternative beauty pageant to be held in a remote Icelandic town will reward contestants' wrinkles, saggy breasts and other bodily imperfections and hopes to challenge Western ideas of beauty, organisers said on Wednesday.
An assistant sub-inspector of police shot dead an Ahmadi, after accusing him of being an infidel in the Qadarabad police precincts, Mandi Bahauddin, on Thursday. The ASI shot Muhammad Ashraf when the latter was having breakfast at a hotel in Seera village near Phalian, killing him instantly. You are an infidel, and are preaching an infidel creed in the area, the ASI shouted before shooting Ashraf. 
