Bob Woolmer was Drugged

A post mortem performed on Bob Woolmer, the Pakistani cricket coach who was murdered in Jamaica on March 18th, revealed that he was drugged before being strangled. A toxicology report identified a drug in his system that was meant to incapacitate him.

"Those tests will show there was a drug in his system that would have incapacitated Mr Woolmer," Panorama's Adam Parsons says.

"It now seems certain that as he was being strangled, he'd already been rendered helpless - leaving him unable to fight back.

"The specific details of that poison are now very likely to offer a significant lead to finding his murderer."

The specific drug was not identified pending a complete report to be released by the Jamaican authorities. In the meantime his body has been released and was flown to South Africa where he resided with his wife, Gill and his two children Russell and Dale. Mark Shields, the Deputy Police Commissioner in Jamaica plans to fly to South Africa to update the family on the investigation. The funeral will be a private family ceremony.

The Criminal Kiss

Both Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere violated Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code according to warrants issued by a court in Jaipur, signed by judge Dinesh Gupta. The pertinent section of the IPC reads:

Whoever to the annoyance of others does any obscene act in any public place or sings, recites or utters any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place will be punished with imprisonment of up to three months or fined.

IBN TV takes a look at the reaction in India

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Richard Gere finally responded to the incident and blamed the entire episode on a "small right-wing conservative political party" who are the "moral police" in India.

Anderson Cooper 360 takes a look at the case against Gere and Shetty and discusses the implications with TIME magazine correspondent Bobby Ghosh of India.
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Warrants issued for Shetty and Gere

An Indian court issued arrest warrants for both Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere. The warrants were issued in the north-western city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that the public display of affection offended local sensibilities. Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants after viewing a video clip of the incident. According to the judge, the kiss was “highly sexually erotic” and violated India's strict public obscenity laws.

The warrants issued because of a kiss at a public event promoting AIDS awareness, claimed that the pair “transgressed all limits of vulgarity”. A spokesman for Shilpa Shetty, Dale Bhagwagar, said the actress was upset by the news:

“She does hurt, she does feel low. She feels she is being constantly targeted, but anyone who knows her well knows she can’t be put down.

“Shilpa wishes that people would focus on the real issue , Aids awareness, and not three pecks on her cheek,” he said, adding that she had not yet received any court summons.

Shilpa, who is on a pilgrimage in the south of India, has been hounded by reporters anxious for a response from her. She had to scold them asking if such questions were appropriate in a temple. A police official in Jaipur said that if found guilty of the charges both Shetty and Gere could be sent to prison for six years. In response Shetty's spokesman said it was amateur and frivolous on the part of a government official to state that someone can get jailed for pecks on the cheeks.

"If that is the case, more than half the country will have to be jailed"

In case you missed it, here is the incident that got both Gere and Shetty in trouble;

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Sex on the Net III

If you are reading this, then I assume you have an interest in sex. But how much do we really know about this subject? Well to start off here is a little test. Click on the link below but please come back here for some interesting stories. Good luck!!

The Sex Quiz: Myths, Taboos and Bizarre Facts

Hope you learned something from the quiz. Here are some stories that will entertain you.

• Joey Passmore is distraught....he was dumped by his cyber-girlfriend
  
  
  
  • The 14-year-old Internet enthusiast recently lost his cyber-girlfriend and computer soulmate, LUV_U2, and he's not sure how to deal with the confusing new emotions that have begun to stir inside him. "I don't understand," moped Joey. "I gave her my love, my devotion, and the IP's of some private FTP sites. I thought we had something special," continued Joey. "I would send her e-cards, and links to special poems that were written for people like us. I even photoshopped our avatars together on a Martian landscape--way romantic. But then that one evening, she came into the IRC channel and was really quiet. I knew something was wrong.
    
    "Joey has been unable to talk about his break-up with family members and even considered selling his computer, and joining the school volleyball team, just to get away from the pain. At fourteen, break-ups are awkward to deal with. This was Joey's first romance and he believes his few friends at school would only laugh at him if he mentioned it to any of them. "Those guys at school would only want to know how far I got, like did she send pictures of her tits, or something like that," said an angry Joey. "They wouldn't understand it was so much more than that." "I posted a message on a message board for heartbroken individuals who were recently dumped," said Joey, sobbing quietly, "but the only response was from some joker who asked how I knew it wasn't a man I was dating. How cruel can you get?".
    
    Joey isn't sure he can trust cyberwomen anymore, and is afraid to reveal his true self online to another. He may find escape by interacting only with girls he knows from school, church, and his neighbourhood. But that would mean meeting them and Joey isn't ready for social encounters yet.
  
  
  
  

• South Africans and Nigerians .........Most Sexually Satisfied
  
  
  
  • Nigerians and South Africans are the most sexually satisfied people in the world, according to a survey by condom manufacturer Durex released Tuesday. “Two-thirds of South Africans claim to orgasm regularly, compared to 48 per cent of people globally,” SAPA news agency quoted Durex as saying in a statement coinciding with the release of its annual Global Sex Survey.
    
    Nigerians were found to be the most sexually satisfied nation, with 67 per cent expressing satisfaction, ahead of Mexico, India and Poland. The Japanese were the least satisfied, with only 15 per cent declaring themselves fulfilled.The survey was conducted among more than 26,000 respondents in 26 countries.
    
    On average the respondents had sex 103 times a year. Greeks had the most sex at 164 times a year, with the luckless Japanese again bottoming out the table with just 48 times.Nigerians took the longest time over sex, at 24 minutes per session, while Indians had the quickest sex, at 13 minutes, the survey showed.
  
  
  
  

• Lesbian Book .............Caused 'Sleepless Nights'
  
  A Bentonville, Ark., man is seeking $20,000 from the city
  
  
  
  after his two teenage sons found a book on lesbian sex on a public library bookshelf. He also wants the library director fired. Earl Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons were "greatly disturbed" after finding the book, titled "The Whole Lesbian Sex Book." Adams said the book caused "many sleepless nights in our house."
  
  Adams said the book is "patently offensive and lacks any artistic, literary or scientific value," according to a letter he faxed to Mayor Bob McCaslin. He said the teenagers found it while browsing for material on military academies.Adams wants the city to pay $10,000 to each of his sons. That's the maximum allowed under the Arkansas obscenity law. However, the city's attorney dismissed Adams' claim as baseless. She said the book is not pornographic. "There is not a valid legal concern here," Camille Thompson said. "In fact, (the request for money) made me question his motivation.
  
  "The book, by Felice Newman, is a sex guide deemed suitable for all public libraries, according to the Library Journal, which the Bentonville library uses to decide what to place on its shelves. Suter said the library aims to have books and other materials to serve a diverse group of library users.
  
  

Barack Obama the Magic Negro

The LA Times published an op-ed piece by cultural critic David Ehrenstein, entitled Obama the Magic Negro. He first uses the wikipedia definition to explain his use of the phrase:

The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .

He likens Barack to this "Magic Negro" who is the savior for "most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded."

Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.

Whether or not you agree with David Ehrenstein's characterization of Barack Obama is not what this article is about, it just serves as background material for the way that Rush Limbaugh used it to make "fun" of both the article and a video parody by Paul Shanklin pretending to be Al Sharpton entitled "Barack the Magic Negro", sung to the tune Puff the Magic Dragon. See the clip below:
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Rush used the article by Ehrenstein to make the point that the white supporters of Barack Obama are racists:

So those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein's made. So your attempt to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama is worthless because you're just -- you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a real black.

For a transcript of his show click here.

When Don Imus was fired for calling the Rutger's Women Basketball team "Nappy-headed hos", there was a huge national outcry against this type of "racism" and "sexism" on the airwaves. However, when Rush Limbaugh plays what to some people is an overtly racist rendition of an old classic song, there is no such protest. Is there some fine line between being offensive and entertaining that Rush did not cross? 27 times during his broadcast he referred to Barack Omaba as the "Magic Negro", claiming that "I'm going to keep referring to him as that because I want to make a bet that by the end of this week I will own that term" he continued by saying "If I refer to Obama the rest of the day as the 'Magic Negro,' there will be a number of people in the drive-by media and on left-wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it and ignore the L.A. Times did it, simply because they can't be critical of the L.A. Times, but they can, obviously, be critical of talk radio." He ended his broadcast with the following words:

I mean, don't start telling me to shy away from this stuff. That's why I'm where I am, that's why I'm who I am, and for which I make no apologies. I'm very proud and happy.