This could be what your little girl wants to wear to the prom.

January 24, 2005 -- PROM princess or porn queen?

This prom dress is so skimpy, even the designer's CEO wouldn't let his teenage daughter wear it. But the dangerously revealing gown, prominently advertised in Seventeen Prom, YM Prom and Teen Prom, and on sale in a Midtown shop, is a top seller for the company this season.

"I was shocked when I first saw it, but now it's one of our top 20 dresses nationwide," says Nick Yeh, the CEO of Xcite, the Stafford, Texas, company that designed the dress and some 200 other styles this season.

"I have a 15-year-old daughter and, no, I would not recommend she wear this dress.

"As a businessman," he adds, "I'm not judging what a teenager should wear or not wear. It's up to the parents to decide for their own children."

Want to know why our kids are having so much sex these days? Its not the movies or the celebrities causing it. Look no further than the bolded statement above if you want to see the real reason.

Parental apathy is a terrible thing.

Update:

According to the dress company website, this particular dress comes in sizes up to 30.

Now that's offensive.

Update:

Looks like the New York Post might have had the story backwards. Literally.

[Cross-posted at Say Anything]

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According to ABC News:

Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay during a mass protest in 2003, the military confirmed Monday.

Apparently some 'overzealous' American soldiers stopped them before they could complete their 'mass protest.'

Where is the ACLU? Don't these guys have rights?

I realize that Guantanamo is in Cuba, but isn't a military base considered sovereign territory of the United States? If it is, then what about the right of The Gitmo 23 to peacefully protest (I'm assuming, for the sake of argument, that they were doing this quietly) by hanging themselves?

But wait, there's more:

In 2003, there were 350 "self-harm" incidents, including 120 "hanging gestures," according to Lt. Col. Leon Sumpter, a spokesman for the detention mission.

Last year, there were 110 self-harm incidents, he said.

So where are the right-to-die advocates? It seems like they can't wait to pull the plug on Terry Schiavo (again) so that she can die of starvation and dehydration, based on the word of her scumbag husband. Now that George Felos (Terry's scumbag husband's scumbag attorney - no offense to scumbags) has won Schiavo's husband the right to kill her, maybe he can do some pro bono work for The Gitmo 23. But hey, if he's strapped for cash, I'd be glad to take up a collection.

Amnesty International has chimed in, but as usual they're off-base. According to Alistair Hodgett, a spokesman for Amnesty International's office in Washington:

"When you have suicide attempts or so-called self-harm incidents, it shows the type of impact indefinite detention can have..."

It sounds like Alistair thinks they should be set free. HELLO? I think what these guys want is to kill themselves. If they wanted to get free then they would have tried to escape. What a maroon.

Cross-posted at WuzzaDem.com

John from WuzzaDem

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Only a terrorist lover/aplologist would consider this news.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay during a mass protest in 2003, the military confirmed Monday.

The incidents came during the same year the camp suffered a rash of suicide attempts after Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller took command of the prison with a mandate to get more information from prisoners accused of links to al-Qaida or the ousted Afghan Taliban regime that sheltered it.

Not to be "cold and unfeeling," but for me, the only thing out of the ordinary is that these terrorists didn't try and take along any "infidels." But I guess the AP hasn't considered that the Guantanamo Bay prison is guarded to the teeth. So these prisoners probably couldn't bring along any "infidels," as much as they'd love to.

Naturally, Amnesty International has jumped into the fray:

"When you have suicide attempts or so-called self-harm incidents, it shows the type of impact indefinite detention can have, but it also points to the extreme measures the Pentagon (news - web sites) is taking to cover up things that have happened in Guantanamo," he said.

"What we've seen is that it wasn't simply a rotation of forces but an attempt to toughen up the interrogation techniques and processes."

Ooooh those poor darling terrorists! Look at what they have endure at the hands of those big bad Americans...

More... Zelda

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I think it's a sign that you're not living your life to its fullest potential when friends call you up just to tell you crap like this.

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Sadly, this sort of thing was par for the course among Democrat "activists" this last election cycle.

MILWAUKEE - The sons of a first-term congresswoman and Milwaukee's former acting mayor were among five Democratic activists charged Monday with slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans to drive voters and monitors to the polls on Election Day.

Sowande Omokunde, son of Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., and Michael Pratt, the son of former Milwaukee acting mayor Marvin Pratt, were charged with criminal damage to property, a felony that carries a maximum punishment of 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The activists — all employees of the John Kerry campaign — are accused of flattening the tires on 25 vehicles rented by the state Republican Party to get out the vote and deliver poll watchers Nov. 2. . . .

One witness told investigators the five defendants, dressed in "Mission Impossible" type gear, black outfits and knit caps, left the Democratic Party headquarters at about 3 a.m. on Nov. 2, and returned about 20 minutes later, extremely excited and talking about how they had slashed the tires.

Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesman Seth Boffeli said the five were paid employees of Kerry's campaign, but were not acting on behalf of the campaign or party.

Where does the Associated Press get off calling these guys activists? Activism is calling your congressman or handing out literature to promote an issue. It is not vandalizing your political opponent's campaign property. These people should be called what they are: Criminals.

Also, its interesting that these criminals came back to the Kerry campaign headquarters "extremely excited and joking" about slashing the tires. Who else in the campaign knew about the crime that was committed and failed to do something about it?

[Cross-posted at Say Anything]

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Hmmm...

E! Online - Valentine's Day is still a few weeks away, but Trading Spaces host Paige Davis already knows there's going to be a little less TLC in her life.

The perpetually perky host of TLC's popular home-redo series has been axed from the show, the network said Monday. Davis, who joined the series for its second season in 2001, will continue to appear in new episodes through March, before Trading Spaces switches to a new host-less format.

"We believe that this new creative direction will enable the show to be more spontaneous, focus more on the homeowners and designers and create alternative home trades in different cities and on opposite coasts," the network said in a statement.

Yeah, that could be it. Or maybe they're just down-sizing the number of drunken exhibitionists they've got working for them.

[Cross-posted at Say Anything]

Ace's Addendum: Kind of covered below, but worth repeating, since he has a link to some not-quite-safe-for-work pictures. They ran in a tabloid, so they're not pornographic, but they are racy.

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Well, actually, I don't, but the Weekly Standard does:

'A Rigorous Scholar Who Cannot Defend Himself'

That's how blogger Andrew Sullivan has now described the late Clarence Arthur Tripp in the course of a long, serial complaint against The Weekly Standard's recent "hatchet-job" review of Tripp's posthumous book, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln ("Honest, Abe?" by Philip Nobile, January 17). Our reviewer thought the book--an attempt to establish that America's 16th president was gay--a "hoax and a fraud." But Sullivan rejects that charge as a piece of "character assassination" against a highly regarded "Kinseyite social scientist" with a "Ph.D. in clinical psychology" and a "superb and invaluable" collection of documentary evidence. For this (and for what he contends was our reviewer's failure to disclose a professional conflict of interest) "they need to apologize," Mr. Sullivan insists. "Will The Standard correct?"

And who was C.A. Tripp? Well, among other things, he was a defender of a man called Rex King. Propriety (and the fair use doctrine) prevents me of informing you of the sort of shit King was into, and how vigorously Tripp defended his right to... well, engage in pedophilia.

At this point in his interview, Tripp momentarily digressed to make a "very important observation" about what happens "if you go out and masturbate dogs--I was very good at this when I was a boy." But then he returned to the subject of King, pronouncing him "totally" ethical, "clean as a whistle." The man "had sex with all the relatives and brothers and sisters and aunts," Tripp explained, "but nobody is objecting. He makes it pleasant. . . . And very few pedophiles make any damage anyway, it almost never happens."

No point beating around the bush, here: Clarence Arthur Tripp was not a "social scientist." He was a lunatic.

Will Andrew Sullivan correct?

Ahem.

Sullivan's ludicrous claim -- that his agenda is the normalization of and bourgeiousization of homosexual relationships, rather than the mainstreaming of transgressive sexual practices generally -- would be a bit less laughable if he didn't get himself into such a lather defending perverts like Tripp.

Thanks to RW.

Transgressive Sexual Google Searches: Like, how, exactly, did I show up as a hit for this search?

As Meatloaf says, "I would do anything for love... but I won't do that."

No, I won't do that.

Mystery Solved: Well, that phrase was written verbatim in a comment, it turns out.

By whom?

Who else...?

Cedarford.

Thanks to Cedarford, I'm now a google hit for equine sexual aids.

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Unfortunately for Terri Schiavo and her family, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate "Terri's Law," the florida measure set up to prevent the removal of her feeding tube, thus, her death, by slow starvation and dehydration.

Now call me ignorant, but I just can't understand how things got even this far. I mean, how is it that the words of a whoring husband with two illegitimate children, who's just dying to see his wife dead - are given so much credibility when Terri never left any written will saying she wouldn't want to be kep alive under "artificial circumstances"? It seems like it's the word of a scumbag over a defenseless woman, and everyone is siding with the scumbag.

Ultimately, who is to judge what an acceptable "quality of life" is?

A Doctor Rachamim Melamed Cohen, an ailing academic in Israel suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease shatters the conventional quality of life stereotypes.

In the past two years, after being connected to life-sustaining equipment, he has authored two books on educational methods and has three more in the works, one of them on the subject of euthanasia. He also lectures, receives a steady stream of visitors and follows the Daf Yomi, a challenging daily regimen of Talmudic study joined by Jews all over the world.

Melamed-Cohen has gained a certain prominence in the Israeli media for his outspoken opposition to the euthanasia movement. "What is mercy-killing?" he asks. "For whom is the mercy? Is it for the person with an illness? Or is it for the family, so that they should not have to suffer? For the medical establishment, to reduce expenditures? For the insurance companies? Mercy means helping others to live, and with dignity. Helping people to cut their lives short cannot be called mercy."

And indeed, as he notes, the cessation of life-sustaining measures, "pulling the plug," is forbidden by Jewish law.

Unfortunately, there are not many Melamed Cohen's out there.

Just recently, Villanova University decided to dedicate a new section of its library to one it its professors who committed suicide when she was imprisoned for slitting her six-month-old Downe Syndrome affected baby's throat.

And they think they're being compassionate?

Zelda -- http://theurbangrind.blogspot.com

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-Some potentially interesting stuff about the UN over at the UnPo right now.

-Another victory of satire over leftism, as the savvy mental patients at IraqWarWasWrongBlog have gotten a personal vote of support from Paul Krugman.

Too good to be true.

-Malkin has more on the crushing of bumper sticker dissent thing.

-Uber-blogger Jack at Tigerhawk considers the Gitmo Suicide Attempts.

Make sure and click around. Tigerhawk is primo.

-A bit of amusing leftist insanity unearthed today at LGF:

Given a choice I would trust Iran more than the neo cons sitting in Washington. Iran has never in the past given any indication that it had any aggressive intent towards any of its neighbouring countries. And it has reasons to be worried about its security with neighbours like Israel and Iraq where more than a 100,000 US troops are based. -R. Venugopal, Delhi, India

There's more.

-And finally, in pointless blogging news, Kevin gets wild with the females.

As if.

the UNPOPULIST

Ace's Addendum: Reality TV watchers must read the Wizbang "Kevin gets wild with the females" piece.

Paige Davis of Trading Spaces got fired because of... rumors of three sex videotapes?

Paige Davis? I could see the super-bosomy and slightly Muppet-ish blonde designer Genevieve involved in such improprieties. Or that filthy whore Hillary Santo-Thomas. Or definitely Frank.

But Paige? Sugar-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouth Paige? Get out of town!

It's always the ones you least expect.

And, even cooler, Amber Brkich (is that how you spell her name? She doesn't even know) and "Boston" Rob will be contestants in the next Amazing Race, starting March 1st.

I don't care about celebrity couplings, but for some reason, I really want those two to work out. Why? I don't know. They just seem really cool.

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Interesting:

Is the midwinter weather wearing you down? Are you sinking in debt after the holidays? Angry with yourself for already breaking your New Year's resolutions? Wish you could crawl back under the covers and not have to face another day of rain, sleet, snow and paperwork? Probably. After all, it's Jan. 24, the “most depressing day of the year,” according to a U.K. psychologist.

Dr. Cliff Arnall's calculations show that misery peaks Monday.

Arnall, who specializes in seasonal disorders at the University of Cardiff, Wales, created a formula that takes into account numerous feelings to devise peoples' lowest point.

The model is: [W + (D-d)] x TQ
M x NA

The equation is broken down into seven variables: (W) weather, (D) debt, (d) monthly salary, (T) time since Christmas, (Q) time since failed quit attempt, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the need to take action.

...

Arnall found that, while days technically get longer after Dec. 21, cyclonic weather systems take hold in January, bringing low, dark clouds to Britain. Meanwhile, the majority of people break their healthy resolutions six to seven days into the new year, and even the hangers-on have fallen off the wagon, torn off the nicotine patches and eaten the fridge empty by the third week. Any residual dregs of holiday cheer and family fun have kicked the bucket by Jan. 24.

...

It seems that people are most likely to buy a ticket to paradise when they feel like hell.

“People feel bleak when they have nothing planned, but once they book a holiday they have a goal, they work toward having time off and a relaxing period,” Kennedy said.

Hmmm...

I don't know if an icy elitist frostberg counts as "paradise," but I did buy the stupid tickets today.

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