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Security 'Bad News for Sex Drive'

A woman's sex drive begins to plummet once she is in a secure relationship, according to research conducted by almost every married man on planet earth.

Researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex. Conversely, the team found a man's libido remained the same regardless of how long he had been in a relationship.

They found 60% of 30-year-old women wanted sex "often" at the beginning of a relationship, but within four years of the relationship this figure fell to under 50%, and after 20 years it dropped to about 20%. In contrast, they found the proportion of men wanting regular sex remained at between 60-80%, regardless of how long they had been in a relationship.

Cingul____ has cra__py recep____

Cingular Wireless Corp. promised to provide uninterrupted service to AT&T Wireless customers when it acquired that company in 2004, but instead it nickel-and-dimed them and degraded their reception in an effort to persuade them to sign new contracts, a federal lawsuit said Thursday.

The lawsuit, which alleges breach of contract and violations of consumer protection laws, seeks class-action status on behalf of the more than 20 million customers AT&T Wireless had at the time of the merger. Many paid $18 "transfer" fees to switch to Cingular plans and were required to buy new phones or pay other fees, said the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

"Everyone who signed an AT&T contract had their service degraded," attorney Mike Withey said at a news conference Thursday.

Atlanta-based Cingular acquired Redmond-based AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for $41 billion in October 2004, and promised in advertisements and news releases that the customers of both companies would see uninterrupted and even improved service as a result of the "combined network."

Full article here.

Exxon loses lawsuit that was filed against them in 1991

Two law firms will get $300 million from Exxon lawsuit. 10,000 plaintiffs will split what's left. Yeah, that sounds about right.


Two Miami law firms were awarded more than $300 million Thursday in attorneys fees for their work in a 15-year legal battle involving Exxon Mobil Corp. and thousands of service station dealers who sued the company.

U.S. District Judge Alan S. Gold gave the two law firms about 30 percent of the total settlement of $1.075 billion agreement awarded to the plaintiffs, amounting to about $320 million, The Miami Herald reported on its Web site.

The case against Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. began in 1991 when the service stations accused the company of failing to provide promised discounts for wholesale motor fuel and fraudulently hiding its failure to pay.

A jury found in favor of the dealers in 2001 and ordered Exxon to pay $500 million, but the company appealed that verdict. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Exxon's last appeal this past June, by which time the payment had increased to more than $1 billion with interest.

The settlement comes as a court-appointed official assesses the claims of the more than 10,000 service station owners involved in the suit.

Wrongly Convicted Man Freed

The Innocence Project helps to free another wrongly convicted man who spent two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit:

A man who spent more than two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape was freed Thursday because DNA evidence has cleared him.

After his paperwork was processed, he stepped outside the courthouse, thanking his attorneys and offering his sympathy to the woman whose rape led to his wrongful conviction. "My unjust conviction denied both of us justice," Newton said. "It opens up old wounds and denies her closure."

He said he planned to enjoy a home-cooked meal and visit the New Jersey grave of his mother, who died about 10 years ago.

Newton was convicted of raping the 25-year-old woman in an abandoned Bronx building in 1984 and was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison.
In 1994 he filed a motion asking that new DNA testing be conducted, but the request was denied because the evidence was "unavailable."

A similar request was granted four years later, but testing of the victim's clothing "failed to yield the presence of male DNA," the papers said.

At the request of the Innocence Project, the Bronx district attorney's office last year asked the New York Police Department's property clerk division to search for the rape kit at an evidence warehouse in Queens.
Despite what Innocence Project lawyers and prosecutors said were earlier claims that it was lost or had been destroyed, officials found the kit, which was tested for DNA by two labs earlier this year. The tests cleared Newton.

Newton said he wants to complete his bachelor's degree and figure out career options. He was a bank teller at the time of his arrest. He also indicated he would pursue legal action against the police department for its handling of the case.

Man vs. God in fireworks display

Mother Nature's fireworks are cooler.... and more destructive.

Didn't this happen once before?

Iranian Parliament passes law to require Jews and Christians to wear badges.

What could possibly go wrong?

Immigrant steals sex offender's identity.

When stealing identities, make sure victim isn't a sex offender.

Federal agents say an immigrant charged with identity theft is accused of trying to pass himself off as someone else with legal problems — a convicted sex offender.

Alejandro Borbonio-Fernandez, 41, was arrested April 27 after he started working in Murfreesboro under the identity of a man who was deported after failing to sign up for the sex offender registry, according to Anthony Langeland, a senior special agent with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Happy Crack

PENN HILLS, Pa. -- Critics say it's an overreaction. Some elementary school students in Pennsylvania got suspended for mixing up sugar and Kool-Aid crystals -- and calling it "Happy Crack."

Officials in the Penn Hills School District said the kids were imitating drug activity. They put the mixture in plastic bags and labeled it "Happy Crack."

But some parents don't think that should have gotten the students suspended from Shenandoah Elementary School.

At least one school board member agrees. She says the colored mixture looked like the grainy candy found inside Pixy Stix -- and she didn't see anything wrong with it.

The principal and school superintendent haven't commented on the incident.

WalMart has hired goons known as lawyers.

Despite the fact that it's not yet a government agency, Wal-Mart threatens rural farmers with eminent domain to get their land.

The world's largest retailer, battling to build a huge new distribution center in Putnam County, is threatening a handful of rural residents that they may have their land taken if they don't agree to sell it to the company.

Representatives of Wal-Mart have told the landowners they will ask Putnam County to use its powers of eminent domain if the families won't sell. The retailer needs about a half-dozen parcels to widen a road that would provide access to a proposed 800,000-square-foot distribution center just over the Volusia County line -- a project Volusia officials have gone to court to block.

A letter to the landowners gave them until 5 p.m. Thursday to agree to a deal with the company.

Stop shoping at Wal-Mart people. Oooo, look, CaddyShack 2 DVD for only $4.99

.... therefore all cops are assholes too.

Judge upholds traffic stop based on a police officer's assumption that anybody driving after midnight must be drunk.

A judge has rejected a motion to dismiss the testimony of an officer who said anyone driving after midnight is a drunken driving suspect.

Highway Patrol Trooper Ryan Hoffner testified in Northwest District Court (North Dakota) last month in the case of Darren Lee Bachmeier, who was charged with drunken driving. "It is assumed that everyone on the road after midnight is a suspect for driving under the influence," Hoffner testified, according to court documents. He said statistics bear that out.

Bachmeier had asked the judge to throw out evidence against him based on outrageous governmental conduct, but that motion was denied.

Full article here.

Also, anyone driving who has black skin must be a crack dealer.

Smart Investment

Norway's richest man no longer a Norwegian after switching citizenship to Cyprus to avoid income tax.

Norway's richest man has become a citizen of Cyprus, allowing him to avoid income tax for himself and inheritance tax for his daughters. John Frederiksen made billions of kronor in shipping and aquaculture.

No income tax? Where is the wonderful land you speak of? (For those of you who don't know, the U.S. Constitution never allows for an income tax, and early on in its history it was debated as being unconstitutional.)

Search: SEXXX

New feature in Google lets you track what regions of the world search for the most.

Most searches for "sex"? ---- Muslim countries. Click here

I want to go back to high school.

High school teacher in trouble after students find her national bikini team photos. Which is sad because she is completely smoking hot.

A high school teacher who posed for revealing photos on a Web site will not face any discipline, a school district official said Thursday.

But the point is that she almost did... which is completely asinine in my opinion. So she is making a few extra bucks for being hot. She's covered the essential area's. I didn't know it was illegal for a teacher to be in a bathing suit. It would be like arresting a basketball player for being tall.

Why didn't anyone think of this sooner? Oh yeah, right.

Hillary Clinton introduces bill to link congressional pay raises to the minimum wage, so they can't raise one without raising the other. Congressional Republican heads asplode.

Actually, I have nothing smart to say about that. Its a good idea.

....... but..... knowing them they'll work it in somehow so that every 5 cents the American Taxpayer gets, they get something like an extra $10K in pay. Assholes. What were we talking about again?