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Arguably, the soccer World Cup is to the sex industry what the holiday season is to candy shops. A temporary surge of excited people feeling collectively festive, willing to pay for a bit of extra indulgence.

South Africa’s Drug Central Authority estimates 40,000 sex workers will trickle in for the event from as far as Russia, the Congo and Nigeria to cater to the wide taste spectrum of some 400,000, mostly male, visitors and their apres-soccer needs.

Henry Africa, 49, drives a taxi in Cape Town and, aside from the usual airport pickups and winery tours, he also operates the “Bright Red Tour,” which he expects to be a hit among soccer fans. For the equivalent of 500 dollars, he’ll shuttle customers from strip bar to strip bar all night and even bring them over to a safe-sex practicing prostitute, a relevant selling point in a country where one in five adults are estimated to be HIV positive.
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Even President Jacob Zuma — himself a polygamist, father of at least 20 children and an infamous condom skeptic — isn’t taking any frivolous chances with the World Cup. During his official visit to the United Kingdom in March, he asked the government to supply 1 billion extra condoms to South Africa before the upcoming tournament.

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Most are casting this as outing an incumbent during a time when there is much hatred of the way Congress works.

Three-term Sen. Bob Bennett became the first victim this year of a wave of voter anger toward Washington in a defeat that will likely send a jolt through incumbents everywhere.
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When it was announced that Bennett had been eliminated from the race, a huge ovation swept through the convention hall and there were hoots and shouts of “He’s gone! He’s gone!” Other delegates hugged and tea party members waved their yellow “Do Not Tread On Me” flags.
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Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton University, said that while Bennett’s defeat may have been an anomaly attributable to Utah’s unique convention system, any time a long-serving incumbent is beaten it sends shock waves.

“I think all incumbents are nervous right now. The polls are just showing that voters are unhappy with Democrats or Republicans,” he said.

Some, however, see Bennett, considered one of the Senate’s most conservative members, as not being conservative enough in that he voted for TARP and worked on healthcare with a Democrat.

Bennett, 76, initially faced seven Republican opponents who said he wasn’t conservative enough for ultraconservative Utah. Lee, 38, and Bridgewater, 49, campaigned largely by saying they’re better suited to rein in government spending than Bennett.

“I will fight every day as your U.S. senator for limited government, to end the cradle-to-grave entitlement mentality, for a balanced budget, to protect our flag, our borders and our national security and for bills that can be read before they receive a final vote in congress,” Lee said in his convention speech.

On the other hand, there’s this:

Utah’s quirky candidate selection process too often disenfranchises the rank and file. Electoral decisions are made by a few on behalf of the many thanks to a party caucus and convention system that concentrates the power in the hands of party elites.

For example, all it will take at Saturday’s Republican state convention is 2,100 votes — 60 percent of the delegates — for a U.S. Senate candidate to advance directly to the general election against a token Democrat. In other words, 2,100 people may speak for nearly 3 million. As a result, Utah voting rates are among the worst in the nation.

So, where does this leave other Republicans up for reelection this year? What about Democrats?

Great… the New York Times reports:

The biologists, led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been slowly reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals, the stocky hunters that dominated Europe until 30,000 years ago, by extracting the fragments of DNA that still exist in their fossil bones. Just last year, when the biologists first announced that they had decoded the Neanderthal genome, they reported no significant evidence of interbreeding.

Scientists say they have recovered 60 percent of the genome so far and hope to complete it. By comparing that genome with those of various present day humans, the team concluded that about 1 percent to 4 percent of the genome of non-Africans today is derived from Neanderthals. But the Neanderthal DNA does not seem to have played a great role in human evolution, they said.

Hugo Chavez, president of the socialist utopia Venezuela, has announced that a team of 200 workers would help him manage his new Twitter account. Chavez said of the new hire: “I’m creating a team due to the avalanche of requests, and some grievances”.

Socialism: worse products and services, 200 times more expensive. And I bet he’s telling his subjects “in America, they don’t even hire hundreds of people to manage social media”.

Not sure Liberty is right about the last part: I bet Obama and top U.S. companies have 200+ people on social media… not that it’s doing them any good.

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ORCHARD, Texas – A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher.

School officials in western Fort Bend County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools.

But the girl’s parents say it’s a huge overreaction.

“I think it’s stupid to give a kid a week’s worth of detention for a piece of candy,” said Amber Brazda, the girl’s mother. “The whole thing was just ridiculous to me.”

Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice.

BTW this is not “State Law.” Here are the guidelines linked here. So these are just malicious school dipshits doing their own thing.

Related links. Apparently the Principal, Jeanne Brazos is an egomaniac as she has the schools website “blink” her name here. The Principal rationalizes that another child gave her the candy, not her mom, so she was found guilty of taking a gift from a friend. Good lessons this woman teaches, huh? And who was the teacher who busted the little tyke? What a scumbag.

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You have to give her credit on some level. She has to be approaching a Guinness record level of stupidity to think anyone would believe her. She’d clinch it if after her husband divorces her and she tries to sue the black actor for child support.

The wife of a US Army Soldier, Jennifer Stweart, claims she got pregnant by watching a 3D adult film while visiting friends in New York.

38-year-old Jennifer Stweart used the bizarre claims to explain to her husband why their child was black, despite the lovers being very much white skinned.

Jennifer Stweart said her child looks just like a black actor in the adult movie she watched in 3D with her east coast pals.
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Stweart also admits her marriage to the US military man who serves overseas could be in trouble: “Even though my husband believed in me, my marriage could be at risk. But he knows I’m faithful” she said.

Here is the latest conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. This week we make an astonishing connection regarding the market crash.

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Today’s Guests:
Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank
Carlos Rodela, CEO, AllOfUsAreFamous.com
Tom Merritt, Executive Editor, CNET

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