Daily Rotten Archives February 9, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 White House's favorite reporter big gay phony New York Daily News | Submitted by: optional "A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution... [Jeff Gannon] began covering the White House two years ago for an obscure Republican Web site. He was known for his friendly questions, including asking Bush at last month's news conference how he could work with Democrats 'who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.' Gannon was also given a classified CIA memo that named agent Valerie Plame, leading to his grilling by the grand jury investigating her outing... online sleuths at DailyKos.com figured out that his real name was Jim Guckert and he owned various Web sites, including HotMilitaryStud.com, MilitaryEscorts.com and MilitaryEscortsM4M.com... The White House didn't return a call asking how someone using an alias was given daily clearance to enter the White House." Read article... and This... and This... Siblings admit killing mom, grandparents CNN | Submitted by: queazymofo "Investigators found human remains in a basement under fresh concrete after a brother and sister told them they had killed their mother and grandparents, authorities said Wednesday... Kenneth Allen Jr., 29, and his sister, Kari Allen, 18, had been pulled over for speeding Tuesday in Missouri. In the car, officers discovered bloody clothes and bedding, as well as jewelry, cash, credit cards and the driver's licenses of two older people in Indiana... Kari Allen told authorities she and her brother had killed them, dismembered them and buried them in the basement floor in the grandparents' home, [Sheriff's Lt. Craig McGuire] said." Read article... Couple admits repeatedly locking child in kennel Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: optional "[Deborah L. Cameron and Eric Bare] told officers that on two occasions in 2003 they had locked the girl in a kennel 12 feet long, 3 feet wide and 6 feet high to discipline her and change her behavior, according to a criminal complaint... The girl was locked in the kennel for three days in August 2003 when she was 11 years old, and again in October 2003 for a week, Bare told authorities. During the confinement periods, the girl said, she was let out of the kennel only to attend school and to do chores... [Bare] said he put two car seats, a throw rug and a blanket in the kennel and placed it over a floor drain so the girl could urinate while locked up overnight... Bare said he strip-searched the girl twice because he worried that she was concealing a stolen key to unlock the kennel. He said he forced the girl to spend one night naked in the kennel." Read article... Jail guards arrested for alleged gangrape Davis Enterprise | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Anthony Kevin Gibson, 34, of Vacaville; and Juan Manuel Vera, 24, of Fairfield; have been placed on paid administrative leave from their jobs at the Yolo County Jail in Woodland while the criminal investigation against them is pending, Sheriff Ed Prieto said Monday... A third man, 34-year-old Dennis Anthony Lau of Sacramento, also was arrested in connection with the assault... At some point during the encounter, the woman became unconscious from alcohol consumption and was driven to an undisclosed location in Solano County, where the sexual assault allegedly occurred." Read article... City councilman quits following rape conviction WGAL-TV 8 Lancaster | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The Wrightsville Borough Council has accepted the resignation of council member Fred Smeltzer. Smeltzer is currently serving six months in prison in Delaware. Last month, he pleaded no contest to a rape involving a 15-year-old Wrightsville girl." Read article... Judge rules homemade porn admissable Independent Online | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday thwarted a bid by defence lawyers for two city advocates [Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo] to stop the viewing of a police video showing their home-made pornographic photo album... The State claims the album contains 12 pictures of minors engaged in sexual acts with Visser. Without conceding that they were minors, defence lawyers argued that these 12 pictures should be kept under wraps in case the court found that the girls were, indeed, under-aged... Apart from the 12 alleged child pornography pictures, the album apparently also contains nearly 300 other sexually explicit photographs." Read article... Fake female athlete alleges hermaphroditism Wire Services | Submitted by: Big_Jannie "Zimbabwe police have charged a man with masquerading as a female athlete after he competed as a woman at several international sports events, the official Herald newspaper reported Wednesday. The paper said the man, a triple jumper and runner who also competed at javelin and shot put, faced charges of impersonation and offending the dignity of a woman athlete who undressed in his presence not realizing he was a man. The Herald said he won a gold medal at a regional tournament in Botswana last June and won five medals at a youth championship in Mauritius. The man told the court at his first appearance that he had been born with both female and male organs, and that he lived as a woman after consulting a traditional healer. But the Herald said a medical examination had shown he was male." Read article... Bush kicks out Montserrat refugees Boston Herald | Submitted by: there's no turning back "Ten years after nearly 300 refugees arrived in the United States, fleeing a volcano that destroyed homes and poisoned the air on the West Indies island of Montserrat, federal authorities are telling them it's time to go home. 'That doesn't make any sense to me,' said Montserrat native John Lee of Mattapan, whose sister, Bernice, must return to the devastated island at the end of the month or face deportation. 'She's 67. There's no one to go back to,' said Lee, a U.S. citizen since 1965. 'We still have property there, but our entire village is uninhabitable.' ... The Department of Homeland Security announced in July that temporary protected status granted to 292 refugees in the late 1990s was no longer appropriate, even though conditions on Montserrat are described by the State Department as still unsafe for resettlement." Read article... Doublespeak on Iran begins CNN | Submitted by: optional "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Iran must live up to its international obligations to halt its nuclear program or 'the next steps are in the offing. And I think everybody understands what the "next steps" mean,' Rice told reporters after a meeting with NATO foreign ministers and European Union officials... But Rice on Friday said that the question of using military force against the Tehran regime 'is simply not on the agenda at this point in time.'" Read article... Camp X-Ray recreated for reality show London Daily Mail | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Volunteers on a reality TV show have been subjected to sexual humiliation and physical cruelty in a copy of the Guantanamo Bay military camp. The seven men, including three Muslims, endured painful stress positions, sleep deprivation and extreme temperatures. Scenes for the programme, The Guantanamo Guidebook, were filmed in a warehouse in East London which had been fitted with cages, interrogation rooms and surveillance equipment... The volunteers agreed to be subjected to some of the conditions and methods used at the notorious Camp X-Ray in Cuba where hundreds of 'enemy combatants' have been held without trial. At the start, some of those taking part supported the techniques used in the U.S. naval base as part of President George Bush's 'war on terror.' But after being subjected to religious and sexual humiliation and forced nudity, two of them vomited, another soiled himself and one dropped out after seven hours due to the onset of hypothermia." Read article... Wal-Mart closes, rather than bargain with union Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: eauclaireliberal "Wal-Mart Canada is closing its store in Jonquiere, Que., the company announced Wednesday – six months after the store became the first Wal-Mart to be unionized in North America. Wal-Mart said it was unable to reach a tentative agreement with the union that would 'permit it to operate the store in an efficient and profitable matter.' ... But the union disputed Wal-Mart's contention that the closing was for financial reasons... The store, which has about 190 employees, will close in May... Another Quebec Wal-Mart, in Saint-Hyacinthe, won union certification in January." [ETA of next implosion: 5 months and counting.] Read article... and This... and This...