my old music teacher used to just give us a crossword puzzle and have us watch a music related movie every day for the 30 days we had him. meanwhile, he would just sit there and talk on the phone while looking at porn. i dont know why he got fired.
My favorite is a tie, either Walk for your lives or the one when he gets the time machine and keeps sending teddy bears back. no wait, the germs episode. Show that one.
An HIV-positive man who admitted having sex with his 8-year-old stepdaughter over a two-month period was sentenced in a San Mateo County courtroom today to 16 years in prison.
Frederick Torralva, 53, pleaded no contest today to one count of engaging in three or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14, the San Mateo County district attorney's office reported.
He also pleaded no contest to the special allegation that he had knowledge that he was HIV-positive at the time of the crimes against his wife's child, according to the district attorney's office.
On June 27, the victim's mother left the family's San Mateo County home but quickly returned because she forgot her keys. When she re-entered the home, the mother found Torralva having intercourse with her daughter, the district attorney's office reported.
The mother confronted Torralva, who admitted having sex with the child three times.
Torralva, who had remained in custody in lieu of $1 million bail, was scheduled to appear in court today for the start of his jury trial.
PRESSURE is mounting on the Federal Government to force Australian internet service providers to outlaw all pornographic websites.
Federal Labor yesterday joined calls from fledgling political party Family First for a crackdown on internet content into Australian homes.
Family First senator Steve Fielding yesterday revealed he had been in negotiations for months with Prime Minister John Howard over measures to block internet porn.
However, Senator Fielding said he was dismayed at the time it was taking to convince the Government to do something about websites many people deplored.
"If the Government was serious about protecting children, they would move on this issue," he said.
Senator Fielding said a Government report last year had establishing that mandatory filtering of the internet would cost $45 million to set up and $33 million annually to run.
Under Family First's plan, internet porn would be blocked by Australia's most commonly used internet service providers.
This would also effectively block smaller service providers that buy their access through major providers, such as Telstra, on a wholesale basis.
The push for a crackdown on internet pornography comes after previous attempts appear to have failed. In 2002, the Australian Broadcasting Authority issued an edict for internet service providers to offer consumers cost-price software filters.
However, many filters are ineffective, remain expensive and most households have not adopted the technology.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley yesterday said poor computer literacy meant almost two-thirds of parents didn't have internet filters on their PCs.
"Governments can and should do more to stop extreme internet content from getting into Australian homes and being accessed by kids," he said.
Under Labor's plan, all internet service providers would be forced to offer a "clean feed" service to households, schools and other public internet points accessible by children.
He said adults who still wanted to view legal porn content could opt out of the system.
However, Communications Minister Helen Coonan said PC-based filters remained the best way to police downloads on home computers.
She said forcing service providers to filter porn would slow the internet for all users.
"The Government will continue to monitor the effectiveness of filters and I am actively considering options for how the Government might increase the uptake of PC-based filters," she said.
I have to agree, simply based on the practicality of it all, that there isn't much to be done other than learn how to use a damn computer and block your kids from seeing porn.
You'll note that the Family First party is actually a complete bunch of nutcases.
I'll try and dig up the article where one of their leaders say lesbians are "all witches and should be burned at the stake" during the last election campaign.
If the big problem is that the Republicans are afraid it won't pass by the Democrats because it's cutting too much money, why wouldn't a revised version (cutting $2 billion less) not pass when the more expensive one already did? Or did nobody read the new one and simply assume it was the same as the one passed by senate earlier.
Coincidentally, in history class today we covered when Napoleon came to power by sending out a vote to the French people asking them if they wanted him to be emperor for life.
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Yes, the organ episode was just about the funniest thing I'd ever seen.
I do know that I'm goign to show the one where they turn each other into bologna. That one was great.
I particularly liked The Wettening, as well.
EATS
WAFFLES!!!!
Or maybe The Frycook What Came from all that space
Australian Labor Party calls for Porn Ban
I'll try and dig up the article where one of their leaders say lesbians are "all witches and should be burned at the stake" during the last election campaign.
Good for when parents just can't be troubled to be involved in their kid's lives.
School House Rock LIED to me!!!
Silly Behemoth.
Well that's kind of coincidental.