Free Blow Job From A Really Hot Chick

No, this blog hasn't been hijacked by pornographers though the title might certainly give you that impression.

Tania Derveaux, the rather buxom and attractive NEE party senate candidate in Belgium, is offering to give away blow jobs: 40,000 of them, to be exact, or 80 per day for 500 days -- an impossible task even for a nymphomaniac. Ms. Derveaux started this as a joke in response to an opposing party's claims of offering "new job opportunities in ridiculous amounts." Tania posed naked in a parody campaign, promising Belgian voters 40,000 jobs, all of which can be seen at the aforementioned link. The NEE is a legitimate party and she is a legitimate candidate and you can read all about the NEE at their website, however it's written in Flemish. The election takes place June 2007.

I'm pretty sure the offer's not serious -- though Wikipedia and many other outlets seem to think it is -- because at 80 per day Ms. Derveaux would end up with a horrendous case of lock-jaw, thus impairing her fellatio skills. She also offers virtual blow-jobs in Second Life (it's an on-line game if you don't know). I wish our political battles here involved this much humour.

It's interesting that this is attracting such interest around the world when George Bush has been fucking the entire country for years and it hasn't got this sort of press. If your ass is sore, it's probably Bush's fault.

For the record, I have not signed up for Ms. Derveaux's generous offer.

Foley, Hastert, and Fordham, Oh My!

In my last post Mark Foley IMs which is conveniently right below this one, I gave my two cents and although we've had a number of visitors, very few people have actually commented and those that have done so have resorted to email.

I only have a little to add, but it's becoming more and more clear that Hastert knew there was a problem.

Chicago Tribune: House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-N.Y., have said they were aware of one e-mail exchange in late 2005 and that Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., was notified, which Hastert has said he does not specifically remember. Foley was told to cease the communications, whereupon the issue was dropped at the request of the boy's parents, Republican leaders say.

ABC news: A senior congressional aide said Wednesday he told House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office about worrisome conduct by his former boss, Rep. Mark Foley, toward teenage pages more than three years ago, long before officials have acknowledged becoming aware of the issue. Kirk Fordham made his comments to The Associated Press in an interview as a Kentucky Republican cancelled a campaign fundraising event with Hastert. Rep. Ron Lewis said he wants to know the facts behind a scandal that has roiled Republicans since last week.

So Hastert is as guilty as Foley, maybe moreso because he had to have known it was a problem. And worse there was a pattern of abuse. And he did nothing. That's just messed up.

Mark Foley IMs and what the real issue is

I have been silent on this issue in my own blog but have been commenting up a storm on other people's blogs as well as on various message boards. It's finally time to weigh in myself.

1. First: the gender of the minor is utterly irrelevant. I'd feel the same way if it was a guy or girl.
2. Second: the conversation itself is pretty typical of "phone-sex" or "IM sex" -- the fact many media outlets are labelling it "shocking" because of content is silly. That isn't why it's shocking, because it certainly is.
3. Third: there is one and only one issue here and that is the fact this involved a minor and someone nearly 40 years older than that minor. If this same conversation took place between two adults, two 16 year olds, or even a 19 year old and a 16 year old nobody would give a shit. Honestly, it's not much of a turn on for anyone to read except the participants.

What is pretty sick is that this person is in a position of authority. He is by some definitions the person's employer. This would be sexual harassment by anyone's standards regardless of whether the victim is a minor or not. The minor clearly objected because he complained. Though after reading the entire IM discussion (thanks Rob for the link) I didn't see much evidence that the minor was objecting, but we don't know the whole story.

There is absolutely, positively no instance in which a 50+ year old guy should be putting the moves on a minor. I'm not even sure what motivates someone to do that. Yeah, sometimes you hear guys joking about "I wish I had a 16 year-old" but most guys wouldn't actually carry through on that.

Foley did the right thing to resign. Ironically his own law my do him in. Though in many states the age of consent is 16, which complicates the issues. I really don't care that he's gay -- makes not one whit of difference to me. What I do care about is that he's a paedophile. That's just gross. What's worse is the fact that higher ups may have known about it and done nothing. And there worse than Foley is because ultimately Foley had no sexual contact but he could have and someone could have prevented all that.

I'd love to hear what you all think about this. (I may add to this and will note changes by colour coding them. My thoughts aren't done but I feel the need to throw this out there.)