Newsweek is all over the McKinney cheerleader story: Boozing, bikinis and bullying: how the scandalous behavior of five high-school cheerleaders rocked a bedroom community near Dallas.
The pictures posted on MySpace.com looked like the latest installment of “Girls Gone Wild.” In them, cheerleaders from McKinney North High School in Texas exhibited all variety of bawdy behavior. One shot showed a bikini-clad girl sharing a bottle of booze with a friend. Another featured a cheerleader and several other girls in risqué poses offering glimpses of their panties. But the most infamous photo of all was taken in a Condoms To Go store. Five smiling cheerleaders dressed in uniform posed with large candles shaped like penises. At least one of them appeared to be simulating fellatio. “It would be an overstatement to describe any of the photographs as pornographic, but it would be an understatement to describe them as harmless high jinks,” wrote Harold Jones, a lawyer hired by the school district to investigate the incident. “Quite frankly, I personally found it ‘creepy’.”
In now way am I condoning this behavior, but these girls are living out the lifestyles they see reflected all around them in popular culture. Is anyone concerned about that?
Matt Drudge is reporting: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats. This source, an ally of Edmund, also adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund.
The news come on the heels that former FBI Chief Louis Freeh has been named to investigate the mess.
Developing…
This would be an amazing twist on this whole Mark Foley scandal.
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As we now know Drudge proved to be way wrong on this one. How wrong? Just glance at a transcript (pdf) if you can stomach it (NSFW). Think Progress has a good timeline of the Foley Coverup.
Tim Rogers has written an explosive inside look at the world of Darwin Deason, founder of ACS in the June D Magazine:
Rather, the serious matter—the one that may yet hold repercussions for Deason and for the Fortune 500 company still under his sway—isn’t what happened aboard the Cartoush. It turns out to be the Cartoush itself. In papers filed earlier this year in federal court, it is claimed that Deason, as the chairman and controlling stockholder of ACS, set up a complex scheme of off-balance-sheet corporations that, in essence, provided him free use of not only the Cartoush II and its predecessor, but also a squadron of private jets—all at the expense of taxpayers and the companies he controlled. The charges may interest the SEC and the IRS.
Looks like another Enron-type incident. With all these stories (Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Tyco, etc.) you begin to wonder how much of the 90s growth was a sham.
It looks like ex-Enron CFO Andrew Fastow’s trial will not begin until 2004:
David Gerger, Fastow’s Houston-based lawyer, pleaded not guilty for his client to nearly 100 charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, money laundering, insider trading and filing false income tax returns.
The former chief financial officer could face, hypothetically, 1,142 years in prison with fines of more than $27 million.
Rember the Dallas Police Department’s little problem with fake drugs? Well, one of the cops just got fired.
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