Sunday, October 30, 2005
I GOT $10 FOR MY CONFIRMATION
Manhattan prep school officials and parents aren't the only ones who hope the NYPD tracks down and arrests a defrocked priest accused of molesting a student.
His son wants him behind bars, too.
"I'd love to see him get caught," Aaron Jacques, 25, the youngest child of school fund-raiser Bruce Jacques, told the Daily News yesterday. "If he really did what they say he did, that would make my day."
Bruce Jacques, 57, is on the run after a male student at the Robert Louis Stevenson School on W. 74th St. claimed the ex-priest sexually assaulted by him in Central Park on Oct. 20.
After the allegation was lodged, school officials discovered Jacques had a sordid past: the Episcopal Church had booted him from the priesthood for allegedly propositioning a 13-year-old boy in 1995.
At the time, Jacques was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Conn., a married father of two boys.
His son, Aaron, said the scandal tore the family apart. He wasn't speaking to his father by the time his dad walked out of the house in 2002, leaving behind only a note to feed the dog.
"We're just getting over it, but we're all better off without him," said Aaron, who still lives in New Milford. "I couldn't care less about the guy."
His father always denied the allegation - that he'd offered the boy oral sex as a confirmation present - and his family bought his story.
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Manhattan prep school officials and parents aren't the only ones who hope the NYPD tracks down and arrests a defrocked priest accused of molesting a student.
His son wants him behind bars, too.
"I'd love to see him get caught," Aaron Jacques, 25, the youngest child of school fund-raiser Bruce Jacques, told the Daily News yesterday. "If he really did what they say he did, that would make my day."
Bruce Jacques, 57, is on the run after a male student at the Robert Louis Stevenson School on W. 74th St. claimed the ex-priest sexually assaulted by him in Central Park on Oct. 20.
After the allegation was lodged, school officials discovered Jacques had a sordid past: the Episcopal Church had booted him from the priesthood for allegedly propositioning a 13-year-old boy in 1995.
At the time, Jacques was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Conn., a married father of two boys.
His son, Aaron, said the scandal tore the family apart. He wasn't speaking to his father by the time his dad walked out of the house in 2002, leaving behind only a note to feed the dog.
"We're just getting over it, but we're all better off without him," said Aaron, who still lives in New Milford. "I couldn't care less about the guy."
His father always denied the allegation - that he'd offered the boy oral sex as a confirmation present - and his family bought his story.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
THAT'S NOT THE SKY FALLING, CHICKEN LITTLE. THAT'S INFINITY STOCK
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting will call on David Lee Roth, the former lead singer of Van Halen, as well as comedians Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel to replace departing radio shock jock Howard Stern, it said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting will call on David Lee Roth, the former lead singer of Van Halen, as well as comedians Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel to replace departing radio shock jock Howard Stern, it said on Tuesday.
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THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT HE WASN'T WEARING A CONDOM
Student Suspended After Wearing Penis Costume
STEILACOOM, Wash. -- A Steilacoom student is fighting a decision by school officials to suspend him for three days after he appeared in an inflatable penis costume outside another school's homecoming dance, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
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Monday, October 24, 2005
WHAT AN ODD COINCIDENCE. I WAS JUST GOING TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY FUTURE BOOKS WILL BE WRITTEN IN THE VOICE OF STAN LAUREL. GREAT MINDS DO INDEED THINK ALIKE.
Anne Rice has found God - and her legion of devoted fans will have to get used to life without her blood-soaked vampire novels.
The best-selling queen of Gothic fiction told Newsweek her upcoming book, and all future works, will be written in the voice of Jesus Christ.
"I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord," Rice, who has sold 136 million copies of her 25 books, told Newsweek.
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AND THE MANY COOKBOOKS I OWN PROVES THAT I AM A GREAT CHEF.
"I'm not gay. I've got 300 women in my little black book."
David Copperfield
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
THAT'S NOTHING. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO SAY WHAT I HAD TO DO TO GET MINE.
Man with van sought in sex attacks on girls
Cops are hunting for a sexual predator who tries to trick girls into entering his van by promising them a free cell phone, police said yesterday.
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Man with van sought in sex attacks on girls
Cops are hunting for a sexual predator who tries to trick girls into entering his van by promising them a free cell phone, police said yesterday.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
GET WITH THE PROGRAM REVEREND! IN THIS COUNTRY PRIESTS DON'T MOLEST GIRLS.
Visiting rev faces kid molest charges
A visiting priest from Africa was arrested yesterday on charges of fondling a 16-year-old girl in the rectory of a Brooklyn church.
The Rev. Anthony Ocloo, 45, an MBA student at St. John's University who arrived from Ghana nine months ago, denied the allegations at his arraignment on misdemeanor charges of sex abuse and child endangerment.
Prosecutors said Ocloo molested the teen in the rectory of St. Ephrem's in Dyker Heights, the parish where he has lived since his arrival from Ghana.
Assistant District Attorney Kevin O'Donnell said the victim was stuffing envelopes beside Ocloo at the rectory on Oct. 7 when the priest allegedly lowered the blinds and began to hug, kiss and grope her.
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Visiting rev faces kid molest charges
A visiting priest from Africa was arrested yesterday on charges of fondling a 16-year-old girl in the rectory of a Brooklyn church.
The Rev. Anthony Ocloo, 45, an MBA student at St. John's University who arrived from Ghana nine months ago, denied the allegations at his arraignment on misdemeanor charges of sex abuse and child endangerment.
Prosecutors said Ocloo molested the teen in the rectory of St. Ephrem's in Dyker Heights, the parish where he has lived since his arrival from Ghana.
Assistant District Attorney Kevin O'Donnell said the victim was stuffing envelopes beside Ocloo at the rectory on Oct. 7 when the priest allegedly lowered the blinds and began to hug, kiss and grope her.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
AFTER WILMA, WHAT?
Updated list for named storms just released:
#22 - Hurricane You've Got To Be Kidding Me
#23 - Hurricane I Don't Believe It
#24 - Hurricane Jumping Jesus Christ
#25 - Hurricane Drown the Negroes
#26 - Hurricane I Can't Take It Any More; I'm Moving To Phoenix
#27 - Hurricane Destroy Big Beachfront Houses
#28 - Hurricane Not So Big, But With Extra Rain
#29 - Hurricane Just Missed Us
#30 - Hurricane Stall In the Gulf For Days and Drive Everyone Insane
#31 - Hurricane Sweep Up the Atlantic Seaboard and Drown Boston
#32 - Hurricane First One Ever After Official End Of Hurricane Season
#33 - Hurricane This Is Unbelievable
#34 - Hurricane First One Ever Before Official Start Of Next Season
Then move right into 2006 names
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Updated list for named storms just released:
#22 - Hurricane You've Got To Be Kidding Me
#23 - Hurricane I Don't Believe It
#24 - Hurricane Jumping Jesus Christ
#25 - Hurricane Drown the Negroes
#26 - Hurricane I Can't Take It Any More; I'm Moving To Phoenix
#27 - Hurricane Destroy Big Beachfront Houses
#28 - Hurricane Not So Big, But With Extra Rain
#29 - Hurricane Just Missed Us
#30 - Hurricane Stall In the Gulf For Days and Drive Everyone Insane
#31 - Hurricane Sweep Up the Atlantic Seaboard and Drown Boston
#32 - Hurricane First One Ever After Official End Of Hurricane Season
#33 - Hurricane This Is Unbelievable
#34 - Hurricane First One Ever Before Official Start Of Next Season
Then move right into 2006 names
Monday, October 17, 2005
KILLJOY
L.I. Principal Nixes School's Senior Prom
By FRANK ELTMAN UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)
- Brother Kenneth M. Hoagland had heard all the stories about prom-night debauchery at his Long Island high school: Students putting down $10,000 to rent a party house in the Hamptons. Pre-prom cocktail parties followed by a trip to the dance in a liquor-loaded limo. Fathers chartering a boat for their children's late-night ``booze cruise.''
Enough was enough, Hoagland said. So the principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School canceled the spring prom in a 2,000-word letter to parents this fall.
"It is not primarily the sex/booze/drugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be; it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity's sake - in a word, financial decadence,'' Hoagland said, fed up with what he called the ``bacchanalian aspects.'' ``Each year it gets worse - becomes more exaggerated, more expensive, more emotionally traumatic,'' he added. ``We are withdrawing from the battle and allowing the parents full responsibility. (Kellenberg) is willing to sponsor a prom, but not an orgy.''
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A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT GOOGLE
It is a little known fact that the search engine superstar Google is not named after the mathematical construct signifying 1 followed by 100 zeros.
In fact, Google is named after comic book legend Barney Google. Silent partner, cofounder, and moneyman Herbert K. Applebaum came from a family that always read the Sunday comics together. He promised his mother, on her deathbed, that if he ever became the behind the scenes founder of an internet company, he would insist that it be named after Barney Google, the family's favorite character.
So it came to be.
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It is a little known fact that the search engine superstar Google is not named after the mathematical construct signifying 1 followed by 100 zeros.
In fact, Google is named after comic book legend Barney Google. Silent partner, cofounder, and moneyman Herbert K. Applebaum came from a family that always read the Sunday comics together. He promised his mother, on her deathbed, that if he ever became the behind the scenes founder of an internet company, he would insist that it be named after Barney Google, the family's favorite character.
So it came to be.
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
JUST ANOTHER PUBLIC SERVICE FROM YOUR FRIENDLY CORPORATE SUDS SELLER
Drinking games have been around since Dionysus. But a whole new industry has taken off around them, making the games more popular, more intense and more dangerous, according to college administrators who say the games are just thin cover for binge drinking.
Some colleges have tried to ban the games on campus, but that has just driven them elsewhere. Many bars now hold beer pong tournaments like the one in Philadelphia, and some even have leagues and keep baseball-like statistics.
Urban Outfitters stocks a popular beer pong kit called Bombed and boxed sets of rules for other games. In January, thousands of players are expected at the first World Series of Beer Pong, sponsored by a beer pong accessories company and held on the outskirts of - where else? - Las Vegas.
This past summer, Anheuser-Busch unveiled a game it calls Bud Pong. The company, which makes Budweiser, is promoting Bud Pong tournaments and providing Bud Pong tables, balls and glasses to distributors in 47 markets, including college towns like Oswego, N.Y., and Clemson, S.C.
Bud Pong may soon expand into more markets, said Francine Katz, a spokeswoman for Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.
"It's catching on like wildfire," Ms. Katz said. "We created it as an icebreaker for young adults to meet each other."
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Drinking games have been around since Dionysus. But a whole new industry has taken off around them, making the games more popular, more intense and more dangerous, according to college administrators who say the games are just thin cover for binge drinking.
Some colleges have tried to ban the games on campus, but that has just driven them elsewhere. Many bars now hold beer pong tournaments like the one in Philadelphia, and some even have leagues and keep baseball-like statistics.
Urban Outfitters stocks a popular beer pong kit called Bombed and boxed sets of rules for other games. In January, thousands of players are expected at the first World Series of Beer Pong, sponsored by a beer pong accessories company and held on the outskirts of - where else? - Las Vegas.
This past summer, Anheuser-Busch unveiled a game it calls Bud Pong. The company, which makes Budweiser, is promoting Bud Pong tournaments and providing Bud Pong tables, balls and glasses to distributors in 47 markets, including college towns like Oswego, N.Y., and Clemson, S.C.
Bud Pong may soon expand into more markets, said Francine Katz, a spokeswoman for Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.
"It's catching on like wildfire," Ms. Katz said. "We created it as an icebreaker for young adults to meet each other."
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
AOL SHARES SURGE ON NEWS
Yahoo! to bar chat rooms promoting sex with minors
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Internet service provider Yahoo! has agreed to bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults, the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska announced Wednesday.
The agreement calls for Yahoo! to remove and bar the posting of user-created chat rooms with names that promote sex between children and adults, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said in a prepared statement.
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Yahoo! to bar chat rooms promoting sex with minors
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Internet service provider Yahoo! has agreed to bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults, the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska announced Wednesday.
The agreement calls for Yahoo! to remove and bar the posting of user-created chat rooms with names that promote sex between children and adults, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said in a prepared statement.
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT GUILTY? OF COURSE HE'S GUILTY. WE ALL SAW HIM BEING BEATEN RIGHT THERE ON TV.
Man Beaten in New Orleans Pleads Not Guilty
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12 - A man who was videotaped being beaten by two police officers as they tried to arrest him pleaded not guilty at his hearing in a New Orleans court today.
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Man Beaten in New Orleans Pleads Not Guilty
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12 - A man who was videotaped being beaten by two police officers as they tried to arrest him pleaded not guilty at his hearing in a New Orleans court today.
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Friday, October 07, 2005
THE PRESIDENT CHANNELS THE SMITHEREENS IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO WIN SUPPORT FOR HARRIET MIERS
My girl, she's extraordinary
My girl, she's different from the rest
She is truth combined with fiction
A lovely contradiction
But you'll only see the part of her she wants you to see
Yes, you'd understand if you knew her like I do
I just do what I can to keep up on her points of view
And laugh to myself when it's over my head
Yes, she's got a way all her own
Sometimes she baffles and confounds me
I'm fine when she wraps her arms around me
When I finally figured out I'll never figure her out
That's when I begin to understand just what she's all about
Yes, you'd understand if you knew her like I do
I just do what I can to keep up on her points of view
And laugh to myself when it's over my head
Yes, she's got a way all her own
She smiles and the questions disappear
She cries and only God knows why she's here
Yes, you'd understand if you knew her like I do
I just do what I can to keep up on her points of view
And laugh to myself when it's over my head'cause she's got a way all her own
Yes, she's got a way all her own
She's got a way all her own
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My girl, she's extraordinary
My girl, she's different from the rest
She is truth combined with fiction
A lovely contradiction
But you'll only see the part of her she wants you to see
Yes, you'd understand if you knew her like I do
I just do what I can to keep up on her points of view
And laugh to myself when it's over my head
Yes, she's got a way all her own
Sometimes she baffles and confounds me
I'm fine when she wraps her arms around me
When I finally figured out I'll never figure her out
That's when I begin to understand just what she's all about
Yes, you'd understand if you knew her like I do
I just do what I can to keep up on her points of view
And laugh to myself when it's over my head
Yes, she's got a way all her own
She smiles and the questions disappear
She cries and only God knows why she's here
Yes, you'd understand if you knew her like I do
I just do what I can to keep up on her points of view
And laugh to myself when it's over my head'cause she's got a way all her own
Yes, she's got a way all her own
She's got a way all her own
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$125! I ONLY GOT $75 FOR MINE.
There are more than 750,000 tissue and body-part transplants conducted annually, according to the American Association of Tissue Banks.
Every part of the body has a price in the national market, including sexual organs, which cost about $125 each and are typically used by surgical equipment companies demonstrating new instruments or procedures.
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There are more than 750,000 tissue and body-part transplants conducted annually, according to the American Association of Tissue Banks.
Every part of the body has a price in the national market, including sexual organs, which cost about $125 each and are typically used by surgical equipment companies demonstrating new instruments or procedures.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005
THE FOX KNOWS MANY THINGS, BUT THE HEDGEHOG KNOWS ONE BIG THING
On a summer afternoon in the early eighties, Judy Miller invited her exercise-averse boyfriend Richard Burt, then the Times’ defense reporter, to watch her swim laps in the Washington Hilton pool.
Afterward, lounging in the sun, Miller veered into one of her favorite lines of conversation: Does chemical or nuclear warfare inflict the most damage?
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On a summer afternoon in the early eighties, Judy Miller invited her exercise-averse boyfriend Richard Burt, then the Times’ defense reporter, to watch her swim laps in the Washington Hilton pool.
Afterward, lounging in the sun, Miller veered into one of her favorite lines of conversation: Does chemical or nuclear warfare inflict the most damage?
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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
Mike Sprite, the nom du Web of a man who runs a site for tongue fetishists and who routinely pays women to film their tongues, reports by e-mail, "Most women will not even show you their tongue when asked."
Mr. Sprite said he pays on average around $500 for a half day of tongue modeling, but he added that normal-size tongues do not appeal to his clientele.
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Mike Sprite, the nom du Web of a man who runs a site for tongue fetishists and who routinely pays women to film their tongues, reports by e-mail, "Most women will not even show you their tongue when asked."
Mr. Sprite said he pays on average around $500 for a half day of tongue modeling, but he added that normal-size tongues do not appeal to his clientele.
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Monday, October 03, 2005
IT'S NOT THE ILLITERACY, PER SE, THAT BOTHERS ME. IT'S THE INCORRRECT AND UBIQUITOUS USE OF THE SECOND PERSON THAT GETS MY DANDER UP.
"You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell this."
American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino appears on 20/20 to announce that she is illiterate, and to promote her book.
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"You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell this."
American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino appears on 20/20 to announce that she is illiterate, and to promote her book.
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Sunday, October 02, 2005
SORRY, MR. KASHATUS. THAT DOESN'T COUNT. BING WASN'T A REAL PRIEST. HE JUST PLAYED ONE IN THE MOVIES. THE REAL ONES ARE ALL BAD.
Some good news to report. Not all priests are bad
By WILLIAM C. KASHATUS
When I was 14 years old I saw Bing Crosby portray Father Charles O'Malley, a fictional inner-city priest, in the 1944 movie, "Going My Way." O'Malley befriended at-risk kids, appealing to their love of sports and popular music. In one, especially gripping scene, after catching some local gang members stealing, he forgave them and let bygones be bygones by taking them to a baseball game.
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Some good news to report. Not all priests are bad
By WILLIAM C. KASHATUS
When I was 14 years old I saw Bing Crosby portray Father Charles O'Malley, a fictional inner-city priest, in the 1944 movie, "Going My Way." O'Malley befriended at-risk kids, appealing to their love of sports and popular music. In one, especially gripping scene, after catching some local gang members stealing, he forgave them and let bygones be bygones by taking them to a baseball game.
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