Daily Rotten Archives January 28, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 BBC caught lying about WMD dossier BBC | Submitted by: ChromeDome "BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has resigned... Davies said no-one at the BBC in the past year had deliberately misled the public, and no one had acted out of malign motivation... Lord Hutton said he was satisfied Dr Kelly had killed himself after being named as the suspected source of the BBC's controversial weapons dossier story. Prime Minister Tony Blair said the report showed 'the allegation that I or anybody else lied to the House or deliberately misled the country by falsifying intelligence of weapons of mass destruction is itself the real lie.'" Read article... and This article... Swedish vets urge decriminalization of child porn pub.tv2.no | Submitted by: Kristyne "Animal sex is not illegal in Sweden, and every year between 200 and 300 pets are injured because of sexual assaults... 'We have seen an increase since 1999 when child pornography became illegal,' said Johan Beck-Friis. 'It appears, in other words, as there are some people who have replaced children with animals. In both circumstances, it is sex with defenceless individuals.' ... The fact that animal sex is becoming an increasing problem can be indicated by the mere fact that there is an increasing selection of animal porn at video rentals and there an increasingly number of websites with animal pornography is surfacing... a British study from 2001 indicates that every 20th dog or cat that receives treatment at veterinaries, the injuries are not a result of a direct accident, but the animal has been inflicted the injury as a result of a sexual assault. [WHAT?] According to the Swedish paper Expressen, if the same estimate can be used in Sweden that will indicate that 200 to 300 dogs and cats every year are injured as a result of sexual assaults." Read article... 9 more corpses discovered on Pickton farm Eugene Register-Guard | Submitted by: Lemiwinks 420 "Canadian police on Tuesday said they found the remains of nine more women for a total of 31 at a pig farm owned by the man alleged to be Canada's worst serial killer... Robert William Pickton, 54, already has been charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder in the disappearances of women during the past 20 years, and he's expected to be charged with seven more counts... The remains were identified through DNA matching, police said." Read article... Gay-for-pay minor leaguer asserts heterosexuality ESPN | Submitted by: Because You Touch Yourself at Night "Indians minor league pitcher Kazuhito Tadano is asking for forgiveness for what he called a one-time mistake - his appearance in a gay porn video in which he engaged in a homosexual act... 'I'm not gay. I'd like to clear that fact up right now.' ... Tadano was one of Japan's top college pitchers and expected to be a high first-round pick in 2002. But after a Japanese tabloid published photos of him in the video a month before the draft, pro teams in Japan did not select him." Read article... James Brown arrested for alleged wifebeating WIS-TV 10 Columbia | Submitted by: hamster "The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office arrested well known entertainer James Brown, 70, of Beech Island on Wednesday morning. Brown is charged with criminal domestic violence... Deputies say Brown pushed the victim to the floor during an argument in a bedroom. Hunt says Brown's 33-year-old wife suffered scratches and bruises to her right arm and hip. Aiken County Emergency Medical Services transported the her to the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta." Read article... Scientists still baffled by Sudanese nodding syndrome Atlanta Journal Constitution | Submitted by: hamster "[Martha Halim] suffers from a strange affliction called 'nodding syndrome,' apparently unique to southern Sudan. Its young victims tend to nod vigorously at the sight of food. The condition often progresses to severe seizures, mental retardation and death... The affliction, which has been found in about 300 children so far, baffles experts. The World Health Organization began investigating it about two years ago, around a year after Martha's symptom first appeared... Peter Spencer, an American neurotoxicologist who has investigated the condition for WHO, [said] 'If we're smart, we will unravel it. We won't let it burn on like we did HIV.'" Read article... Bush backing away from AIDS funding New York Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "President Bush plans to scale back requests for money to fight AIDS and poverty in the third world, putting off for several years the fulfillment of his pledges to eventually spend more than $20 billion on these programs. Hardest hit would be the United Nations-supported Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, whose contribution from the United States would drop to $200 million in fiscal year 2005 from $550 million... Mr. Bush has highlighted the programs in his fund-raising speeches. He told an audience in St. Louis this month that his administration had accepted its global duties to fight 'disease, and starvation, and hopeless poverty.'" [But let's keep spending money to promote Christianity, disguised as teen abstinence programs.] Read article... Michael Jackson impersonators feeling the heat ABC News | Submitted by: Samuel Vimes "Business hasn't been booming since Jackson was arrested and charged with nine counts for allegedly victimizing a 12-year-old boy who spent time at his Neverland Ranch. Some impersonators and lookalikes fear that a conviction would kill not only the singer's career, but theirs as well. 'I'm concerned, simply because I love what I do,' said Kenny Wizz, a Las Vegas-based entertainer who has been impersonating Jackson for 20 years... 'I wouldn't want to develop another character at this point. I love doing his character, and with everything that goes on, that I see in the media, it makes me nervous.' ... Jackson performers fear a conviction will condemn them to the same fate as Pee-Wee Herman impersonators after actor Paul Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure in a Florida movie theater in 1991... 'When Pee-Wee Herman was arrested, business went down [for impersonators] 100 percent.'" Read article... Cruisy mall bathroom sweep nabs local favorites South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: Alter Ego "A teacher and a corrections officer were among 21 men arrested Tuesday and accused of exposing themselves and in some cases, engaging in oral sex in the restroom of a southwest Miami-Dade County mall... Among those arrested were Gregory Stephen Russell, 39, a Miami-Dade corrections officer, Antonio Castiniras, 54, a teacher at Killian High school, Ramon Ferreiro, 58, a member of the psychology department at Nova Southeastern University and well-known Spanish language radio personality Julio Armando Estorino." Read article... Times reporter offends nutballs New York Times | Submitted by: Marc "A man named Marc with a floppy blond Mohawk and a crimson sport coat let out a welcoming call from the platform. He carried an e-flat euphonium under his arm and had a habit of making noise, any noise. He was the nonleader of this nonevent: a 'spontaneous, digitally organized' party on BART, as the Bay Area Rapid Transit is known... When the reporter approached Marc, the party's nonleader who was described by others on the car as both a chef and hacker, Marc asked to see proof of employment. He looked disdainfully when handed a New York Times business card, refusing to take it. Marc then declined to speak further... Marc sought out the reporter. He let it be known that the reporter had been an unwelcome partygoer and the events of the evening did not belong in any newspaper, especially one interested in profits, he said. 'You are stealing our art,' Marc said in what became a long lecture about corporate journalism. 'You are commercializing our culture.'" Read article... Arizona's Hawaiian inmates shipped off to Mississippi Mississippi Clarion-Ledger | Submitted by: Truxillo-X "Hundreds of Hawaii inmates now being housed in Arizona facilities would come to Mississippi, and their arrival may be as early as next month... Gov. Haley Barbour will sign legislation sent to his desk Tuesday to allow the Tutwiler prison to accept inmates up to maximum-security classifications from other states... After the first 500 Hawaii inmates come to Tutwiler, there's been talk of 500 more prisoners coming from Hawaii, Epps said. Epps said he's been in discussions with CCA and officials in Hawaii in recent days." Read article... 50-ton whale explodes in Taiwan BBC | Submitted by: AlexLuthore "A dead sperm whale has exploded while being delivered to a research centre near the southwestern city of Tainan. Passers-by and cars were soaked in blood and body parts were sprayed over a road after the bursting of the whale, which was being carried on a trailer. The whale had died earlier on a beach and had been collected so its remains could be used for educational purposes... Several parked cars and pedestrians got covered in blood when it exploded." Read article... and This article...