Check out this edition of Frontline if you think there was any other way this case could have been handled.
PITTSBURGH â Rob Black, Lizzy Borden and their company, Extreme
Associates, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster to one count each of conspiracy to distribute obscene materials.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 1.
Black and Borden face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The company faces up to five years probation and a $500,000 fine.
The sentencing range could be lower, depending on what set of advisory guidelines should be used â dating from either 2002 or today â and there also could be enhanced measures because the videos included sadistic or masochistic scenes.
Moments after Wednesday’s 9 a.m. hearing, adult industry
attorney H. Louis Sirkin told reporters that plea negotiations in the
case began a month ago.
“Concessions from both sides made it in the best interests of
all parties [to plead guilty,]” he said. “This has gone on for a very,
very long time. Everybody wants to get on with their lives.”
One of those concessions, Sirkin said, is that there will not
be a battle to determine how much revenue the company received from the sale of videos, which could have significantly increased the potential prison time.
U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said, “the materials produced
by Extreme Associates were so far across the line between pornography and obscenity, we believe any jurisdiction across the country would have found the materials obscene.”
In 2002, an undercover U.S. Postal Service inspector bought
pornographic videos through Extreme Associates’ membership site,
ExtremeAssociates.com.
A federal grand jury indicted the couple in August 2003 on 10
counts of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. mailing obscene or
crime-inducing matters and transporting obscene matter for sale.
Lancaster originally dismissed the case in January 2005, ruling that
the anti-obscenity statutes were unconstitutional when applied to
Extreme Associates because they violated an individualâs right to
privacy.
The Justice Department appealed that ruling before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which overruled Lancaster.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Extremeâs appeal from
the 3rd Circuit, sending the case back to Lancaster for trial. Upon
learning of the Supreme Courtâs refusal to hear the case, Zicari said
it was âa big fuck you.â
Extreme Associates owns numerous websites, including
SlapHappyGirls.com, DickSuckingCunt.com, AssEaterGirls.com and others. Its tagline reads, âHardcore pornography that the government does not
want you to see.â
Intrigued, I turned up the volume and listened. According to the men, men don’t like it when they date a woman who comes to their house and starts to straighten up their apartments or homes. They don’t want a woman who tries to go all domestic on their living quarters, because it ultimately reminds them of their mothers.
If you don’t want your girl to act like your mother, try living like an adult.
But I found myself wondering, why do women do that? Why do women go to their boyfriends places and tidy up? Why do they tell them what to wear on occasion?Â
I have my own theory . . . .
I think most people don’t like to clean up after others. Women are not wired differently than men in that respect. We are given some gene that makes us want to clean up after others. Most of us aren’t, anyway. I think that are several reasons women engage in this behavior, though.
I think some women will go into their boyfriend’s home and start cleaning because our desire to be in a clean environment . . . or at least one that doesn’t gross us out . . . outweighs the fact that it’s not fun to clean up another person’s mess. For whatever reason, therefore, women will engage in activities that are unpleasant to be in an environment with someone we find to be very pleasant.
Some women do it because they enjoy cleaning.
Some women see the action as a sign of affection for the man. It’s a way to show that they care and want to do nice things for them.Â
I think some women do it as some form of passive aggressive attempt to send a message that the housekeeping skills of the man are lacking somewhat. By serving as an example, they think, the man will magically change his living habits and start keeping a cleaning home. (One word: delusional).
I doubt that any woman feels very maternal when she is cleaning her boyfriend’s space, regardless of how men might want to characterize it. Whether she wants to do something nice, whether she wants to provide an example of how to keep a cleaner environment, or whether she is sending an unspoken message that she things the man is a slob who clearly is incapable of cleaning a house, the desire to prove one’s maternal instinct is not even remotely part of the picture.
What I wish they had discussed on the show (or maybe they did after I went into the office) was why men were calling into the show complaining about how women come in an tidy up their places, “acting like their mother,” but no women called in to complain about men coming in and cleaning up their apartments. What I really found myself wondering is why men think that women “act like their mothers”? Do they think that women enjoy cleaning up after another person and have this irrepressible desire to beautify their living quarters?? Is is some domestic urge that lives in women that just bursts forth unprovoked when we are with our partners?
I am sure there are those who would say that men just know that it’s not cool to presume to change another person’s environment like that. I am sure there are also women who would contend that women just, inherently, keep cleaner houses, and men don’t have to come in to clean.Â
That’s certainly one theory.Â
Or maybe men just don’t notice the clutter, whether it is in their own home, or their girlfriend’s home. They don’t come in and clean, because they don’t see any need to clean, in the first place. Perhaps this is just a way that men and women are different . . . we see the mess, and men don’t.Â
So women who do it are criticized for being “like their mothers.”
Here’s the thing . . . when I was a child, my mother cleaned up after me. Before I reached a certain age, she had to, because I was either unable to do so for myself, or I lacked the skills to do it properly and needed to be shown the proper way to maintain my space. I think that could be said for every single person in the world. Now that I am an adult, I don’t expect my mother to teach me those lessons anymore. Again, that is a conclusion that I believe everyone here can also agree with. But the ultimate question I would ask men, particularly those who complain that women act like their mothers, is:
And until THAT question is addressed, it will never change.
Are we destined to be from Mars and Venus–two totally different planets–forever?
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There was a time in my life when Christians annoyed me. I remember them approaching me, thumpin’ their Bibles with their wide-eyed warnings and goofy grins. I was confused at how they could talk about the love and salvation of Jesus and the evil and destructive Apocalypse in the same breath. I remember them cautioning that I needed to prepare myself for Christ’s return because “the end was near”. I rejected their message and inwardly scoffed at how presumptuous and brainwashed I felt they were. Looking back, I realize that I refused to listen and study the Bible because I did not want the Christians to be right - my treasures were here on earth and I was not interested in focusing on the hereafter (“There are none who are as deaf as those who do not want to hear”). However, human beings are both flesh and spirit. Although my flesh was clinging to this world, my spirit ached for the eternal - and demanded that I do my homework.
So…
fast forward, here I am - a Bible thumper. I now understand the urgency behind the wide-eyed warnings and the love and hope behind the goofy grins. I understand that the Bible stands alone as God’s word to man and that no other book in human history speaks of the future like the Bible. Just as the B.C. generations were called to study Messianic prophecy in order to recognize Christ’s First Coming, we are called to study End Times prophecy to recognize the signs of His Second Coming. I have had amazing opportunities to learn from some of the best Bible prophecy/Middle East experts from around the world. How do they know that we are headed toward the tribulation hour? We are among the first generations to understand the following:
“Rise in scoffers/deception”
The Bible warns that near the End Times, there will be a rise in people scoffing at the Bible, Christians, and talk of Christ’s return. “Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying “Where is the promise of His coming?” (2 Peter 3:2) If you’re scoffing right now â you are a part of prophecy fulfilled ;). There will also be a rise in false teachers, false prophets, cults, messages that contradict the Bible and appeal to people’s sinful nature. Many of us are frustrated with the blatant displays of evil and abhorrence of facts, logic, reason… how some people can’t see the obvious. Daniel 12:10 warned us that in the end “The wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.” 2 Timothy 3:6-7 tries to explain that ignorance of the Bible will lead to deception. As my pastor put it, “If you don’t know your Bible, you will be fooled.”
“Rise in pestilence, famines, earthquakes, natural disasters”
(Matthew 24:3-7) I recently had a government official at my school site. His job was to prepare/inform our staff of the procedures for lock down/quarantine concerning the spread of highly contagious pan epidemic flus/viruses. The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration stated that over the past 25 years we’ve experienced an increase in super storms and earthquakes like the world has never seen. According to Rev 16:18:“There will be such a mighty and great earthquake as has not occurred since men were on the earth.” Liberals have their scapegoat ready to go: Global Warming. The Left has appropriately renamed their religion “Climate Change”… and yes, our climate is and will continue to make some serious changes.
“Rebirth of Israel”
After the Romans sacked Jerusalem in 70 AD, the Jews were scattered across the earth - just as prophecy predicted (Deuteronomy 28:64). On May 14, 1948, after almost 1900 years, Israel became a state again and the Jews returned home. This event fulfilled Bible prophecy (Deut. 30:5, Is. 11:11-12, Ez. 36:24, Is. 66:8), and was nothing short of a miracle. Through his parables, Jesus cautioned that when Israel regains sovereignty, you will know that the End Times and Kingdom of God is near.
“Wars and rumors of wars”
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.” (Matthew 24:6-7). Wars are occurring all around the world, but the ultimate and final battle will be for Jerusalem. The demonic ideology of antisemitism is on the rise again. The Bible warns us of God’s punishment on the nation’s that divide Israel’s land (yet that is EXACTLY what we are trying to do) and that in the end, ALL nations will rise up against Israel and be punished for it (Zech 12:3, Joel 3:2). Revelation 9:16 discusses an army of 200 million that (combined with pestilence and natural disasters) will wipe out a third of mankind. As the world’s population rises above 6 billion, it is increasingly possible to amass an army of 200 million, but this would have been unthinkable even 100 years ago. In Zechariah 14:12, concerning the final battle it states “Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.” Past generations did not understand this type of instant and complete destruction, but we do â it’s describing how the human body reacts when exposed to an H-bomb.
“Knowledge Explosion”
The book of Daniel describes a great increase of knowledge that the world will experience towards the End Times. Revelations discusses how people from around the globe will be able to access knowledge instantly and simultaneously, that people from all over the world will watch the apocalyptic events as they are unfolding. While this was incomprehensible to past generations, it is common practice for us today thanks to television/internet/satellite (can we say web cams, cell phone videos, You Tube?). Our generation also understands how technology has paved the way for “the mark of the beast” (possibly a micro chip) that a person will have to have in order to “buy or sell”. This mark will also show your allegiance to the anti-Christ and his One World Religion. According to Rev. 20:4, those who refuse the mark will be beheaded. How is it that something as barbaric and ancient as beheadings will be common practice in the future? Here’s a possibility: “I will cast dread into the heart of the infidels: Strike off their heads then, and strike off from them every finger-tip” (Koran, Sura 8:12)
“Every single country mentioned in the Scriptures, regarding the end of time, that God punishes, for attacking Israel, is Muslim today⦠Do you have 365 days, eight hours a day, so I can show you what the Bible says about the coming Islamic invasion of the world? It’s all over Scripture! God didn’t forget to tell us. You forgot to read the Bible. It is all in there.” ~Walid Shoebat
Walid Shoebat is an ex-PLO terrorist and converted Muslim. As he studied the Bible he realized that Islam’s savior, Mahdi (aka: the Twelfth Imam) is the anti-Christ of the Bible. According to Shoebat, the Bible names the anti-Christ as ruler of the world, but specifically names: “Assyrian” (Syria),”Persian” (Iran), “King of Babylon” (Iraq), “Prince of Tyre” (Lebanon), “Pharoah of Egypt”. The anti-Christ will want to change time (hello lunar calendar), change laws (hello Sharia), will have a disdain for women (hello burka) and persecute Christians, Jews and all others who refuse to accept him (hello infidels) (Daniel 7:25, 11:37, Revelations). The Islamic world has announced that Mahdi will be returning soon. According to Islamic belief, Mahdi will dominate the world, confirm a peace treaty, abolish the treaty half way through (what is known to Muslims as hudna and al-taqiyya), persecute the infidels, attempt to destroy Israel… sound familiar? It’s not only Bible prophecy (Zechariah, Daniel, Revelations) it’s Islamic prophecy as well.
Jesus says that although we will not know the exact hour, we will know He is returning by the signs. “So you also, when you see these things happening, know that it is near â at the doors”. (Mark 13:29)
With wars raging, the dollar falling, Islam rising, natural disasters and pan epidemics looming, our choice of candidates for the ’08 elections - why the goofy grin? I have found the ultimate treasure and it is not of this world.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-20
Since I took the week of Christmas off, I really wasn’t in the holiday spirit at work this year. For the whole month of December, all I could do was count down the minutes till vaycay started and try not to work too hard inbetween.Â
It’s my job to send out the holiday cards to our 100+ customer base, but since I’m a total palse with Microsoft Works/Outlook (even though I do it year after year), I was all, “Feckit … let’s just do an ecard. It’s easier and it’s faster.” Much to my to my GREAT delight, Bossman was okay with that.
Unbeknownst to him, I used a pic I had of us to customize a card to our clients so it seemed a little less generic. I showed it to my boss when I was done expecting an explicit, “Fuck no,” but instead got an, “I don’t care, do what you want …”     Â
That’s right. One hundred-plus customers received this little holiday gem. Damn, he’s cool!