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    jediIStheWAY posted on Mar 29, 2010 2:06:09 PM - Report post
     
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    I can't really say much about this without knowing precisely what the guy said. As has been said before, the scanners don't reveal much detail. What he said could have been a joke for all we know.

    True, yet it is very hard to have a joke in this day and age. I wish I was alive in the days when jokes could be made, saying that though there are restrictions on anything.

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    SuperSkyline89 posted on Mar 30, 2010 7:18:45 AM - Report post
     
    March 30TH
    Republicans spent $1,946 at topless club


    WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee spent $1,946 last month at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. Now the GOP wants its money back.

    Listed in a monthly financial report, the amount is itemized as expenses for meals at Voyeur West Hollywood.

    RNC spokesman Doug Heye said Monday the committee doesn't know the details of how the money was spent, all who may have attended or the nature of the outing, except to say it was an unauthorized event and that the expenditure was inappropriate.

    The RNC will be reimbursed by Erik Brown of Orange, Calif., the donor-vendor who billed the committee for the club visit, Heye said.

    Brown did not respond to an e-mail and phone message seeking comment. The transaction was first reported by the Daily Caller.

    Since November, the RNC has paid Brown's company, Dynamic Marketing Inc., about $19,000 for printing and direct-mail services, campaign spending reports show. He has contributed several thousand dollars to the party.

    The most recent financial disclosure report said the RNC spent more than $17,000 for private planes in February and nearly $13,000 for car services. Heye said such services are used only when needed.

    The $1,946 for meals at Voyeur West Hollywood was the most eye-catching item in the monthly report. RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose spending decisions have angered some donors in this midterm election year, had nothing to do with the nightclub expenditure, Heye said.

    The conservative group Concerned Women for America said the RNC should disclose more about the episode.

    "Did they really agree to reimburse nearly $2,000 for a bondage-themed night club?" group president Penny Nance asked in a statement. "Why would a staffer believe that this is acceptable, and has this kind of thing been approved in the past?"

    Much of the most lavish spending by the major political parties is associated with fundraisers, which often target wealthy people.

    The RNC spent $144,549 for rooms at the Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in 2009. On March 19, 2009, it spent $31,980 for catering by the Breakers Palm Beach in Florida.

    The RNC paid $18,361 over the past several months to the "Tiny Jewel Box" in Washington for "office supplies," which may have included trinkets or gifts for big donors. It spent $13,622 at Dylan's Candy Bar in New York City.

    Some Republican officials and donors have complained about Steele's spending decisions, saying the party should devote every available dollar to trying to win House and Senate races this fall. He held this year's four-day winter meeting at a beachfront hotel in Hawaii, although it often takes place in Washington.

    Some donors grumbled when Steele spent more than $18,000 to redecorate his office. Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, also has received substantial fees for making speeches, even though the RNC pays him a full-time salary.

    Steele's supporters say he has brought a refreshing frankness and energy to the party's leadership.
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    Dhampy posted on Mar 30, 2010 7:26:33 AM - Report post
     
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    shianova posted on Mar 30, 2010 7:45:38 AM - Report post
     
    $1,946 at topless club... I wish I could spend that much each time I go.
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    Dhampy posted on Mar 30, 2010 9:57:53 AM - Report post
     
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    $1,946 at topless club... I wish I could spend that much each time I go.

    The food is supposed to be good there.

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    SuperSkyline89 posted on Mar 31, 2010 5:49:25 AM - Report post
     
    Turns out Yahoo doesn't have many good new stories every day so I'm going to CNN this time.

    MARCH 31ST
    'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage


    Video (no inappropriate things are shown) - Link

    Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, "Can I help you with something?"

    That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.

    With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.

    As you continue to play, "friends" join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.

    The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.

    When does a video game go too far?

    It is little wonder that the game, titled RapeLay, sparked international outrage from women's groups. Taina Bien-Aime helped yank the game off store shelves worldwide.

    "This was a game that had absolutely no place on the market," said Taina Bien-Aime of women's rights organization Equality Now which has campaigned for the game to be taken off the shelves.

    But the controversy that led to stopping sales of the game instead took it viral.

    That was how Lucy Kibble and Jim Gardner in Britain heard about it.

    "I think the idea that you can do it by wholesale banning is just never going to work anyway because we downloaded it for free off the Internet," Gardner said.

    In the case of RapeLay, he was right. It is still readily available on dozens of Web sites, sometimes for free.

    What happened to RapeLay is an example, said Bien-Aime, of why Japan needs to police game makers.

    "It's obviously very difficult to curtail activity on the Internet. But the governments do have a role in trying to regulate this sort of extreme pornography of children, both in their countries, and through the Internet ," she said, adding that they were calling for the Japanese government "to ban all games that promote and simulate sexual violence, sexual torture, stalking and rape against women and girls. And there are plenty of games like that. "

    Those games are known as "hentai games." Almost all feature girlish-looking characters. Some of the games are violent -- depicting rape, torture and bondage in detail.

    Step into a game shop in Akihabara, Japan's electronics district, and hentai games are readily available. In minutes, we found a game similar to RapeLay. The object here is also revenge: Find and rape the woman who fired the player from his imaginary job. Along the way, the player can rape a number of other girls and women.

    Hentai games are not new to Japan. This country has long produced products the rest of the world would call pornographic. But before the arrival of the Internet, such items stayed in Japan. Now, once a game goes on sale in Tokyo, it is digitized and shared everywhere.

    Japan does have censorship laws for sexual content. In games and videos, genitalia are obscured, even if it is animated. But Japan's laws do not restrict the themes and ideas of the games.

    A national law that would make possession of real and virtual images of child porn illegal is under discussion, but no serious legislation has moved forward in Japan's parliament.

    CNN contacted the Gender Equality Promotion Division in the Gender Equality Bureau of Japan's Cabinet Office, which is charged with handling the hentai gaming issue.

    Despite repeated calls over a period of weeks, no representative from the government office would comment to CNN on camera. The office refused to make a statement on paper. A spokeswoman would only say over the telephone that the Japanese government was aware that the games were a problem and it was checking to see if self-policing by the gaming industry was enough.

    A member of the Institute of Contents Culture, who did not want to give CNN his name, said restricting game themes limits freedom of expression.

    "In my opinion, RapeLay's storyline went too far. However, if a game creator wants to express something and create content out of it, a government or public entity shouldn't have the power to restrain it."

    Lucy Kibble and Jim Gardner, the gamers in Britain, said trying to control games on the Internet was futile and that content control was up to parents.

    "The idea of banning it, or telling people what they can and can't do just because on the off chance some kid might get involved with it is just ridiculous," said Gardner.
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    Dhampy posted on Mar 31, 2010 7:25:00 AM - Report post
     
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    SuperSkyline89 posted on Mar 31, 2010 11:29:32 AM - Report post
     
    It's messed up. Cartoon porn, why would you want to watch that as opposed to the real stuff. And it's always violent stuff where the girls get raped. It's sick, stuff for mentally disturbed people.
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