Another day, another crooked azz priest . Priest On Probation For Helping Teenager Get Piercing And Drugs These kids look to priests for spiritual guidance and instead of keeping them on the right path some do isht like this. Sad. According to The NY Daily News A retired St. Louis priest who was once voted “Chaplain of the Year” is spending his final years trying to explain how he helped his teenage altar boy get a chest piercing. 78-year-old Robert Charles Manning was acquitted of sexual assault and possessing child freaky flicks in July, but was convicted on Sept. 26 on two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A judge sentenced him to four years of probation for reportedly giving the 16-year-old Colorado teen alcohol and sticky icky in 2011, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. The priest also allegedly tagged along while the boy was getting his chest pierced, going so far as to sign a parental consent form. Judge Robin Chittum of the 4th Judicial District said that the minor had been searching for spiritual guidance when he came to the priest. “He found that in you, Father Manning,” she said. “And you turned that and took that away from him.” Chittum said she considered giving the priest jail time, but decided against it after realizing Manning would spend most of that time in a hospital. The priest and his lawyers are glad that he was given four years of probation instead of jail time. “It’s a little longer than I would have hoped,” Manning said. “I doubt that I’ll live long enough to serve it all.” Phuck not giving him jail time. We’re sure they’re people in jail who will carry his oxygen tank for him (side eye).
High School Football Team Ends Season Early After Teammate Dies From Game Injury A group of high school football players made the difficult decision to end their season recently after a fellow teammate died following an injury he sustained during their last game via NBC News It was a question with no right answer that tugged heavy at the hearts of Damon Janes’ teammates when the 16-year-old died after a hit in a high school football game: Should the season go on? Should the players rally and play every game for their star running back, whose motto was “Giving up is simply not an option”? Or should the teenagers forget about football and take time to mourn their friend? The Westfield-Brocton Wolverines’ varsity players took a paper-ballot vote and decided that the pain was too great, that their season would end after just two games. “I wanted to play, I love the game,” said teammate Stevie Wisecarver III, a 16-year-old quarterback who has played football since third grade. “But it just wouldn’t feel right without him. The team just didn’t feel right.” “It’s just a tragic thing that happened,” 71-year-old Harold Montague said as he finished his coffee at the Green Arch, recalling a procession for Damon’s funeral that stretched for more than a mile and a half. Damon took what hospital officials would later describe as a “helmet-to-helmet” hit during the third quarter of Westfield-Brocton’s Sept. 13 game against Portville. He was able to get on his feet but lost consciousness on the sidelines. He died three days later at Women & Children’s Hospital in Buffalo. An exact cause of death has not been released. This is a sad story. It may be time for high school football programs to start amending some of their rules to mimic that of the NFL.
James Francis Edwards, one of three teens charged in the killing of Christopher Lane, posted racist Tweets on his account, according to a new report. One tweet from him reads, “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” Another reads, “Ayeee I knocced out 5 woods since Zimmerman court! :)” The Daily Caller says “woods” is a derogatory term for white people. Christopher Lane Murder Suspects Charged Edwards and Chancey Allen Luna, 16, were charged with first-degree murder as adults Tuesday and are being held without bond in Duncan, Oklahoma. Bond was set at $1 million for 17-year-old Michael Jones, who allegedly drove the vehicle carrying the suspects accused of murdering Chris Lane . Jones is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court along with his cohorts. Jones named Luna as the gunman, police said. The “thrill kill” slaying of Lane shocked the nation due to its random nature – the trio allegedly admitted they did it “for fun” and because they were “bored.” Police Chief Dan Ford said the victim, 22, appeared to have been “targeted” at random after he jogged by a house where the teenagers were. Australian Lane was on a baseball scholarship at East Central University and was in Duncan, Okla., visiting his girlfriend when he was shot and killed. Some bystanders tried to perform CPR on a dying Lane, but he was unconscious and had stopped breathing before an ambulance arrived. Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys “thugs” in court as he detailed the senseless murder they allegedly carried out at the end of last week. Edwards has had run-ins with the law previously and had been in court Friday, the day of the killing, to sign documents related to his juvenile probation.
New Facts We’ve Learned Since George Zimmerman’s Trial Began Day three of the murder trial of self-proclaimed neighborhood watchdog George Zimmerman , who fatally gunned down unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in February of 2012 has just come to a close. While there was a very limited amount of seemingly recycled information available about the details of the fatal shooting before the trial began, there is now plenty of information that the public is hearing for the first or second time. A combination of witness testimony , including that of Trayvon’s friend Rachel who was on the phone with him as the altercation with Zimmerman began, along with statements presented from attorneys on both sides have revealed a slew of new facts from the case. Just in case you missed anything over the course of the last three days, we’ve pulled a handful of new facts together. Take a look.
His nasty azz will die in prison…hopefully. Man Sentenced To 40 Years For Getting Freaky With Minors According to Raw Story An Indiana man named Richard Finkbiner was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Wednesday for coercing more than 13 minors, mostly teen boys, from across the country into stripping and performing lewd acts for web cameras. According to the Associated Press, 39-year-old Finkbiner used a false online identity to gain the teenagers’ trust, then threatened them with exposure if they did not do his bidding. “The sheer number of individuals Finkbiner exploited and extorted justifies a sentence Finkbiner is almost certain not to outlive,” said prosecutors June 18 in court documents from Terre Haute, Indiana U.S. District Court. The estimated number of victims is believed to be higher than 150, but only around a dozen were positively identified by prosecutors. Finkbiner targeting teens between 12 and 17 years of age, entering chat rooms on Omegle.com, a website that connects users randomly in one-on-one chats. Finkbiner fooled other users by using an avatar depicting someone other than himself engaged in a sex act. He would gain the teens’ trust and convince them to disrobe and take pictures with the cameras on their computers. The Brazil, Indiana resident would then threaten to send those photos to the teenagers’ parents and friends if they didn’t comply with his demands for even more risque and potentially humiliating photos. Linkliner called his victims “cam slaves.” He accumulated more than 22,000 separate video files of his “slaves” over the course of multiple years. He has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars and fined $700,000. The Indianapolis Star reported that Finkbiner was arrested in April of 2012 on “11 counts of sexual exploitation of children, two counts of extortion and one count of possession of child freaky flicks.” Court records cited the case of a 12-year-old boy who refused to do more explicit videos, but pleaded with Finkbiner not to post the videos he had already done online. Finkbiner posted them anyway. In January, Finkbiner agreed to plead guilty to child exploitation, extortion and possession of child freaky flicks in exchange for a recommended sentence of 30 to 50 years in prison. On the judge’s orders, as with most cases involving sex offenders, Finkbiner will be supervised by federal officials even after his eventual release in the 2050s, if he should live that long. Forty years isn’t enough. The bastard should have got life in prison so he can have his anus busted down to the white meat.
A community outside San Francisco is in mourning this week after 15-year old Austin Price was struck by a train and killed on Thursday evening. The incident took place around 6 p.m. and was the result of a game of chicken, authorities confirm. Police say Price and two other teens were playing on the tracks near San Lorenzo High School when the former failed to get out of the way of a northbound Capitol Corridor train. At a school in mourning, Principal Tovi Scruggs acknowledged that students often play near the tracks, while signs were hung in hallways that said “Austin, we’ll miss you.” Several moments of silence were held for the sophomore, with Scruggs echoing the sentiments of other teenagers who said they will no longer take things for granted. “Life is precious,” Scruggs said.
What if Prometheus had actually answered questions and had been more of a direct sequel to Ridley Scott ‘s Alien films, instead of a maddeningly ambiguous but thought-provoking spin-off vaguely connected to the Alien universe? Screenwriter Jon Spaihts’ original Prometheus script, confirmed to be legit by Spaihts himself, has surfaced online revealing what his facehugger-laden version might have looked like. (Spoilers follow.) As Spaihts teased to Empire last month, his Prometheus (titled Alien: Engineers ) featured facehuggers and chestbursters, among other more obvious links to the Alien films. (One word to get your geek pulse racing: Ultramorphs .) Spaihts’ Prometheus script has found its way online at Scribd.com , and while it ultimately became a different movie, the core story is mostly the same. For starters, the ship? It’s called The Magellan . And while the key players are present and reasonably similar in Spaihts’ version (scientist-lovers Watts and Holloway, Peter Weyland as a “Warren Buffet type,” David the creepy android, Meredith Vickers as a 45-year-old woman and not an earthbound goddess who looks like Charlize Theron) certain reveals and plot threads are very different from what subsequent writer Damon Lindelof became involved. One major scene that went through a transformation is Holloway’s fate, which I’ll detail here since Spaihts himself spilled the beans to Empire. Rather than being poisoned with black goo by David, Holloway meets his end when, after being facehugged in the pyramid, a chestburster rips him open… mid-coitus. It’s a fascinating read alone just to see which of Spaihts’ ideas stuck and which Scott and Damon Lindelof took in different directions, and it’s always tempting to label what could have been as better than what actually made it to the screen. But some of the changes made between this version to the theatrical cut are smart ones; here, for instance, David is more of a pronounced villain saddled with even more expository dialogue — and what fun would it have been to really know what he said to the Engineer ? Scott’s Prometheus may leave us with too many unanswered questions, but I’d venture to say this early script perhaps explained too much. It’s still viewable here and below for the time being; chime in and tell us if you’d have rather seen this version make it to the big screen instead. View this document on Scribd [via Prometheus Movie , Giant Freaking Robot ]
I don’t care if you’re already sick of the blogosphere’s fawning, today is Ryan Gosling ‘s birthday and that is practically an internet holiday. (Not to mention an actual one. Shout out to the veterans out there.) And unlike you Gosling latecomers out there who jumped on the Baby Goose train after The Notebook , some of us have been faithful fans for almost two decades now, and that kind of lifelong dedication warrants an entire post full of internet videos, okay? So for all my fellow Goslingheads out there I’d like to take a trip back in time to when Baby Goose was not an actual baby, but a pre-pubescent star in the making. A bright shining star who loved that smooth, smooth ’90s R&B. Let’s rewind to his youth and ours. Let’s take it back to the Mickey Mouse Club . Because when I think Ryan Gosling, I think Jodeci: …and Boyz II Men: …and this sweet denim vest: … and answering Mouse Mail with JC Chasez: … and his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, “the place where most of the stuff is happening”: … and his early flair for comedy: … and that one time he and Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake and Xtina passed notes in class: … and how he and Justin Timberlake should do a buddy comedy together now that they’re both hot Hollywood properties even though they never seem to hang out in public, and what’s up with that because weren’t they like totally MMC besties? But when it comes to that patented Gosling “Hey Girl” touch, let’s skip ahead a few years to the teenagers-on-a-boat series Breaker High to witness the Baby Goose’s effortless sigh-inducing charms. There’s no doubt about it: Gosling had “Hey girl” down to a science long before “Hey girl” became a thing. You’re welcome, world. If you need me I’ll be working on my art, AKA this . Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
He and two of his team-mates hooked up with a 12-year-old. Reports say the alleged act was consensual , but the boys have been charged with child rape since the state rules ‘anyone under the age of 13 cannot consent’ to intimate adult activities…if convicted, they face 30 years in prison since Tennessee has very strict Age of Consent Laws. SMH. According to The Daily Mail : A small Tennessee town has been rocked by child rape charges against the high school’s star quarterback who allegedly had relations with a 12-year-old girl who fell pregnant. Princeton Harlan, 18, who has garnered interest from six colleges across the southeast to play football, was charged with two other team-mates for child rape in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee on Wednesday. Harlan, who was released on $100,000 bail, stands accused of having relations with a 12-year-old girl who fell pregnant in July and terminated the pregnancy, authorities said…Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Auburn, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Cincinnati have shown interest in the 6-foot-4, 188-pound senior quarterback, the paper reported. Holder, who knows Harlan and the family of the 12-year-old, added: ‘It’s traumatic for what’s happened for her. For both parties involved it’s pretty hard.’ Another local, Wayne McWright, called the news ‘alarming’. ‘It’s a tragedy more so for the young girl,’ he said. ‘Then also my heart goes out to the young fellow, too, because somehow he got off track. Young people sometimes do foolish things.’ Harlan was released from jail on Wednesday after posting $100,00 bail. He will be arraigned November 5. Authorities began investigating Harlan and two other suspects, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, last month after the girl told her mother she thought she was pregnant, WKRN reported. She was four-and-a-half weeks pregnant when the pregnancy was terminated, authorities said. They have not given any indication on who fathered the child. The teenagers allegedly had relations with the girl on separate occasions in July but police would not reveal how they met the child. Harlan was arrested without incident outside the high school. The other teenagers have not been named because of their ages but have been released to their parents. Too many questions for this one. Where were her parents? Wonder if these boys knew how old she was?? SMH…These kids grow up too fast these days. Images via facebook
They took the words right out of our mouths. In an interview that hits home for many of us, Kim K explains her branding and gives us a lesson in Hip-Hop. Love or Hate Kim and her ‘brand’, is it wrong to accept that she’s not going away any time soon? For those few who haven’t yet had the pleasure, Kardashian is a 31-year-old US reality TV star, lately prominent in Britain, who has, since becoming famous in 2007, ascended to the level of a symptom in the culture. Keeping Up With The Kardashians, currently in its seventh season, is contrived, sensationalist, repetitive and witless, but no more so than a lot of things one enjoys without accusing them of spiritual corruption. The difference in this case is reach. Twitter is an unreliable measure of influence, but Kardashian has nearly 16 million followers, putting her ninth in the world, three places behind President Obama. (Lady Gaga is number one; Taylor Swift number eight.) With her two sisters, Khloé and Kourtney, she runs a chain of clothing stores called Dash, has a Las Vegas-based outlet called Kardashian Khaos, promotes makeup and fashion lines under the label Kardashian Kollection, all of which act as window dressing for the business, merely, of being Kim Kardashian: a woman of above average looks, seemingly rather nice, who along with the rest of her family – emotionally speaking – strips on TV for tips. After the shoot, we sit in a courtyard at the back of the studio and Kardashian tries to explain what the fuss is about. “When I hear people say [what are you famous for?], I want to say, what are you talking about?” she says slowly, her eyes wide as a bushbaby’s. “I have a hit TV show. We’ve shot more episodes than I Love Lucy! We’ve been on the air longer than The Andy Griffith Show! I mean, these are iconic shows, so it blows my mind when people say that.” But you’re not performing; you’re just being followed around by cameras… “But to be able to open up your life like that and to be so… if everyone could do it, everyone would. It doesn’t make sense to me.” The day before the interview, I go to Dash in Beverly Hills, the flagship store aimed at Kardashian’s teen fan base. A bouncer stands outside letting teenagers in one by one, although the store is almost empty. “There’s a line!” he calls out to baffled passers-by, and the teenagers snigger. Inside, the clothes are very nice; soft T-shirts, cute shorts and dresses, but that isn’t why people are here. Kardashian says that since the show started airing, the store has become a “tourist attraction” and the stock is angled accordingly. After taking photos of themselves in front of a giant Kardashian family montage, the adolescents buy one of several items within their price-range; a $20 compact mirror; pencils for a few dollars; or a $10 bottle of water with the Kardashian sisters’ photo on one side. “Our water sells out all the time,” Kardashian says. “People collect them because each store has a different picture on the bottle.” That’s amazing. “It’s really crazy,” she says. “I mean, a water bottle? It’s crazy.” She blinks slowly at the wonder of effortless profiteering. Kardashian characterizes her typical fan as “a younger girl, like 15 or 16, who loves fashion, loves to be a girly girl, loves beauty, glam”, and whom she respects as a backwards projection of herself. If you can overlook the vacant materialism, she is in some ways not a bad role model. She points out that she is not “your stick-skinny typical model”; that she doesn’t go out on benders; that she tries not to swear too much. “I remember this one time when I used the F-word – and everyone was like, I can’t believe you said that! You never say that! I am really cautious about what I say and do. If I look at the message I’m portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.” And yet she makes people incredibly angry. “Yeah. I have no idea why. I work really hard – I have seven appointments tomorrow before 10am. I’m constantly on the go. I have a successful clothing line. A fragrance. I mean, acting and singing aren’t the only ways to be talented. It’s a skill to get people to really like you for you, instead of a character written for you by somebody else.” She is currently dating Kanye West, who might have had a hand in the following analogy. “When rap music first started,” Kardashian says, “rappers were not respected and people thought it was just a fad. And people thought reality shows were going to come and go. They have taken over the soap operas. So it’s a modern version of a soap opera.” For the record then, what is Kardashian’s talent? “What is my talent?” She cocks her head to one side. “Well, a bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he’s talented, but he’s not famous. Do you know what I mean?” Yeah Kim…we know what you mean. Source Images via WENN/Twitter
