Stew of News - Brooks, Hasselbeck, cancer boy

Oscar winning songwriter and director Joseph Brooks is led by police in handcuffs, Tuesday, June 23, 2009, in New York. Brooks has been charged with rape and sexual assault after at least four women accused Brooks of luring them to his home and performing sex acts on them while they auditioned for movie roles. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

"You Light Up My Life" songwriter indicted for rape

Joseph Brooks, the 71-year-old director, producer and songwriter who scored an Academy Award and No. 1 hit for penning the 1977 ballad "You Light Up My Live" was indicted Tuesday on charges of raping and sexually assaulting 11 women in his New York apartment.

His personal assistant, 42-year-old Shawni Lucier, was also indicted on charges of knowingly facilitating the crimes, which occurred between March 2005 and April 2008, several news services reported Wednesday.

Brooks pleaded not guilty to a 91-count indictment and posted a $500,000 bail, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney said. The case was adjourned until Aug. 11. The charges carry a penalty of at least 25 years in prison.

The victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 30, responded to an ad for an audition posted by Brooks on Craigslist and a talent website, and were allegedly lured to his Upper East Side apartment to see the Oscar he won for Best Original Song for the 1977 ballad.

Prosecutors said Brooks and Lucier then plied the women with drinks and possibly drugs. Toxicology results have been inconclusive.

Aside from writing and directing You Light Up My Life, Brooks also composed the music for and produced the 1983 cult hit Eddie and the Cruisers.

We'll never listen to that song the same way again...eek.

The View host Hasselbeck denies plagiarism charges

The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck said Wednesday a claim that she plagiarized parts of her best-selling diet book is "without merit."

She defended her book The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide on Wednesday, speaking to the camera briefly just before the first break on the ABC daytime show.

(Photo by Sara Jaye Weiss/Startraks)

"I just want to assure you the allegations are without merit and are being handled appropriately," said Hasselbeck, 32, who has spoken openly about her self-diagnosed celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder linked to gluten proteins in wheat, barley and rye.

Susan Hassett, a self-published author on Cape Cod, alleges in the $3-million lawsuit filed in Boston Monday that Hasselbeck lifted content from her book on celiac disease "word for word," though she doesn't cite specific examples, noting also that the books follow a similar structure and chapter format.

She claims she sent Hasselbeck a copy of her own book–- the self-published Living with Celiac Disease-- along with a homemade cooking video, a newspaper story about the condition, her business card and a personal note last year.

Hassett says she will donate a portion of whatever proceeds she receives from the suit to create a camp designed for children with celiac disease. (Is this supposed to earn her brownie points with the judge?)

Hasselbeck's book, The G Free Diet-A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, was published in May 2009 by Center Street Hachette Book Group.

While this is entirely possible--though, how can people make up stuff like this and get away with it?--without examples of the "word-for-word" copying there is no lawsuit.

Teenager tumor shrinks after court-ordered chemo

The Minnesota teenager who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid chemotherapy is responding well to his court-ordered cancer treatments.

Left: Danny Hauser with his mother, Colleen. (ABC News)

But Danny Hauser and his parents credit their alternative therapies, not the chemotherapy, for the doctor's good news that 13-year-old's tumor has shrunk, ABC News reported.

So he wasn't getting better on the so-called natural remedies, and he starts getting better only after starting chemo, but it's the natural remedies and not the chemo shrinking the tumor. Alrighty then.

Danny, who has been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma, insists he doesn't want chemo.

"Because it's poison," he told Good Morning America. "That's why."

His mother, Colleen Hauser, said the chemo treatments are hitting her son hard. "There's a lot of crying," she said.

She and her husband are worried that the chemicals used to treat cancers like their son's will leave him with damaging side effects.

Colleen Hauser has maintained that she fled with Danny last month because they wanted to treat his cancer with natural remedies despite a judge's ruling ordering him to undergo what doctors said was life-saving chemo treatment.

Sources: E! Online, The Associated Press, Reuters, ABC News

Queenie forgives Lord Dave...Ugh

She's so kunty. (Sorry, but when it comes to this woman, I can barely contain myself.)

Alaska Gov. and president-wanna-be Sarah Palin said Monday night she has accepted late-night TV host David Letterman's apology over a sexually charged joke about her teenage daughter, Reuters reported.

"Of course it's accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who 'joke' about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve," Palin said in a statement late on Monday night.

On behalf of young women, like my daughters? What makes her think that she's entitled to speak for all women? What makes her think all young women are like her daughters?

On behalf of...who hope men who joke about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve? Where did she get the idea that young women give a fuck about this? They're "hoping" for iPhones, designer handbags and anorexic bodies, not for men who joke a certain way to evolve. WTF?

Why, oh, why is this woman so outrageously presumptuous? Arg.

"Letterman certainly has the right to 'joke' about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction," she said, adding (of course) that "this is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America's Right to Free Speech--in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect."

Can someone please explain to me how 4,650 Americans dying in Iraq and 31,327 wounded (as of June 13) have anything to do with our constitutional right to free speech?

Did or didn't we know she had ulterior motives when she picked a fight with Dave?

Ugh!

For background on this story see check out Letterman seriously sorry for 'bad' Palin joke

Now, can we please get back to a world without Palin?

Source: Reuters, My Twisted Mind
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17-year old sadist beats, rapes and kills baby

It's only Monday, and already we have strong contenders for the Sick Fuck of the Week Award.

Earlier we learned about two dirtbags who soaked a dog in gasoline and set in on fire just for fun. And now, we're introduced to a piece of trash whose heartwarming deed will be difficult to top this week. Yet, we still have six days to go, so you never know.

Our next candidate for Sick Fuck of the Week is Arnold T. Ross, a 17-year-old sick fuck who beat, raped and killed an 8-month-old baby boy in New Orleans. (Police photo)

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said Ross was charged with aggravated rape and first-degree murder and taken into custody Saturday. No bond was set.

He was arrested after officers responded to a call about an unresponsive infant, AP reported. The baby, Da-Von Lonzo, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, according to a news release issued by the sheriff's office.

Authorities say Ross told them he was the boyfriend of the infant's mother and the baby fell down the stairs while he was baby-sitting, but he later acknowledged that he beat the infant repeatedly when he would not stop crying.

So this genius, like sooo many geniuses before him, tried to stop a baby from crying by beating him to a pulp. Brilliant. On top of that, he figured raping a tiny baby with a big dick would assist in stopping the crying.

This degenerate told police that when the child began to defecate on himself (from the beating, no doubt), he tried to clean it up, causing the tears.

He beat the crap out of the baby--literally--and then caused the tears while cleaning the baby with his dick. It's perfectly logical.

Can anyone explain to me what the fuck is up with these scumbag, no-IQ "boyfriends" who beat, rape and microwave babies? And what's up with the "mothers" who pick these men. Where do they find them? The sewers?

Ross has a record of previous arrests for possession of crack cocaine and marijuana, obscenity, battery on a correctional officer, three counts of battery on a teacher, three counts of theft, illegal carrying of a weapon and assault, according to Nola.com.

And he was free to roam the streets...

What did the authorities expect this out-of-control, depraved, criminally inclined motherfucking shit for brains to do? Go out to the world and be someone other than who he's been so far? Go to school? Play a sport? Get a job?

I would look into who allowed this perverted brute to remain among us after a string of crimes during his short life.

I hope he's convicted and sent to a prison where he'll never lack someone to lovingly "wipe his ass" when he gets the crap beaten out of him.

Source: The Associated Press, CNN, Nola.com, My Twisted Mind
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Teens charged as adults for heinous rape

This week's Sick Fuck of the Week award will be a highly contested one. It's only two hours into Thursday and already we have a sizable pool of sick fucks to choose from.

The latest nominees are Randall John Moye, 14; Raymond A. Price-Murray, 14; Lee Louis Myers, 14; and Diamante J. Roberts, 15, from Tampa, Florida. Their names have been released because they were charged as adults, CNN, among other new sources, reported.

Photo: baynews9.com

The Fantastic Four were charged Wednesday with four counts each of sexual battery on allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. But get this: these sick fucks brutally raped the kid multiple times over a two-month period with a broomstick and a hockey stick.

Charming, isn't it? Their parents must be SO proud.

At a bond and arraignment hearing, the defendants appeared before Hillsborough County Judge Wayne Timmerman Wednesday to hear the counts against them read in court.

Prosecutor Kimberly Hindman described to the court how two defendants held down the victim while the other two defendants violently sodomized him with the sticks, CNN reported. "The victim screamed and cried, telling them to stop," Hindman said.

Jesus F. Christ

The prosecutor said the victim's screams could be heard outside the boys' locker room at Walker Middle School where the alleged assaults took place. Multiple people witnessed the attacks, but no one reported the incidents Hindman said.

What a pack of cowards. They too should be prosecuted, if you ask me.

The school began an investigation after a fight that began on the football field and continued until a coach broke it up in the locker room, said the prosecutor. During the fight, the victim said, "I'm tired of them getting on me," Hindman said according to the CNN report.

When school officials questioned the defendants, all four admitted in a written statement sexually assaulting the victim.

They can write?

School officials contacted authorities, who initially charged the four as minors with sexual assault and false imprisonment.

The victim did not acknowledge the attacks until questioned, CNN reported.

Well, who the fuck would talk, much less explain, something like this?

Several (courageous, compassionate, honorable) students witnessed the incidents over the two months, said the prosecutor, who added that she could not understand why no one reported the attacks.

Well, is someone going to question these kids to try to figure out why they didn't say a word about these incidents? Yes, I know they're only 13 and 14-years-old, but it doesn't take a high school diploma to know that someone screaming his brains out while being fucked up the ass with broomsticks and hockey sticks by four bullies needs help. A five-year-old could figure that out! Yes, perhaps they were afraid of being raped by the bullies, but that wouldn't have happened if they had reported the sick fucks. Well maybe they didn't know that. Or maybe, just maybe, they enjoyed the spectacle.

The victim, who had to finish the school year at home, told a judge his father was angry and his mother couldn't stop crying when they heard about the attacks.

We don't know for sure what we would do as parents in their place, not unless we go through it ourselves, right? Yet, I visualize myself in the express lane at Wal-Mart buying two items: the thickest broomstick and hockey stick I could find.

Defense attorneys told the judge their clients were good students and had never been in trouble before. WTF does that mean? Then no one would be guilty of his/her first atrocity. So if Hitler and the motherfuckers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York had up to then been good citizens--you know, no outstanding parking or speeding tickets, no felonies or misdemeanors--then they would automatically receive a get-out-of-jail-free card. Are you fucking kidding me?

Attorney Tim Taylor, representing Randall Moye, said his client's family is among the finest in the community.

*sigh*

The finest in the community. If one of the four is the offspring of the finest family in the community, I say the D.A. should quarantine the whole community since they're all bound to rape and kill each other sooner or later.

Taylor presented six character witnesses, including his client's mother, Jeanne Myers, who said her son wants to attend college. Oh, really? He wants to attend college. How cultured of him. Where was his education and wishes to go to college when he was gang-raping that boy? I don't give a fuck if he wants to go to college. I want $10 million.

The prosecutor asked her about her son's written statement about the attacks. Myers said her son described clowning around in the locker room with a hockey stick. She added that he told her about holding down the victim for a few seconds.

Clowning around? Only a mother would believe such a load of crap, I suppose. Judge Judy always says:"You know how to figure out a teenager is lying? You see them move their mouths."

The judge set bond for each defendant at $15,000 (a travesty--they should've been held without bond, if you ask me), with ankle monitors for all but one, who has left the area. What?! One has to laugh...

The Fantastic Four were taken into custody in court and booked into the adult jail, CNN reported. The judge warned the four to have no contact with one another, the victim or any witnesses in the case. The defendants could spend up to 120 years in prison if convicted on all four counts.

There are no hockey sticks in prison, and accessibility to broom or mop sticks might be restricted given their potential to become weapons. But creativity and resourcefulness can't be contained within bars and fences. And I'm confident that if these sick fucks sent to prison, their fellow men will find a way to bring them to justice in a way the judge simply can't.

Source: CNN
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