From Terri:

I’ve known Lance for years as the owner of La Boheme. It sounds as if the Feds have set him right up for the weapons charges, asking him to “hold” some items for them. The MDMA charges are very serious - if they can back them up.

I just hope for Glenn Beck’s sake that Lance isn’t a ‘birther’. If the Feds release any emails to the public about “killing the Kenyan” or “just blowing shit up where Democrats hang out”, Lance might be in some real trouble. Damn, and I was convinced that watering the tree of liberty was something we all need to do every day.

Back in the good old days (long past, fortunately for me), I would have loved to know if Lance was holding. I might have actually gone to visit the club.

From ABC 7 News In Denver:

DENVER — Authorities raided the house of an actor and former owner of a Denver strip club, finding high explosives, including suspected C4, illegal weapons and a kilo of heroin, court records show.Lance C. Migliaccio, 46, is in federal custody after Migliaccio gave ecstasy and a 40mm round to a confidential informant in exchange for silencers, a machine gun and other weapons, federal court records say.A search warrant executed on Migliaccio’s Highlands Ranch house Aug. 4 found suspected C4 explosive, detonation cord, 40mm high explosive rounds, 40mm buckshot rounds, a kilo of heroin and 1000 tablets of ecstasy, court records show.

Neighbors told the CALL7 Investigators that agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Drug Enforcement Adminstration were at the home for 10 hours searching for items and conducting tests on some of what was found.

“This case poses an increased risk of harm to the community than the average case involving a firearm, due to the nature of the weapons seized from the defendant, devices that could lead to mass destruction,” the U.S. attorney’s office wrote in a filing this week to argue that Migliaccio be kept in custody.An audio recording of Migliaccio’s hearing in federal court this week was obtained by 7NEWS.During the hearing, a federal agent explained that Migliaccio was arrested following a sting using a confidential informant.

Mike South (MikeSouth.com) has been handed a few handfuls of shit the past few days for some things he has said to Christian X, and for some things he has said about his relationship to Kayden Kross.

I’ve known Mike for close to ten years. I don’t always agree with him, and I often tell him so. Guess what? If I’m right about something, he admits he’s wrong. If he doesn’t think I’m right, he tells me why, and we go from there.

None of the bloggers who routinely attack Mike have ever - to my memory - admitted that they’ve been wrong about anything. Ever. And most of them don’t even know Mike South personally.

For them, blogs are some kind of emotional outlet, divorced from reality, through which they can occasionally spew some bile.

Sorry people - in case you don’t know - that’s what the Word Press comments section is for.

So what’s my defense of Mike South? It’s not a defense. It’s an insult.

Most of those who’ve jumped all over Mike for defending Kayden (I don’t know her) or for criticizing Christian (don’t really know him either - he eats at a lot of interesting valley restaurants, though)

… are just weenies, who should stop embarrassing themselves by even maintaining the fiction of writing relevant industry blogs.

In a particulary tiresome letter intended to drum up more dollars for his personal war-fund, “Morality In Media” President Bob Peters recently sent an “open letter” to President-elect Barack Obama (did he forget the “Hussein”?).

http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/news/LettertoPresidentElectObama-Nov08.pdf

Wouldn’t it have been wonderful if the letter had looked like the following? Incidentally, we at TFW don’t support the “fairness doctrine” for talk radio. We also don’t support hate speech laws or hate crime legislation, per say. Let the Righties have their “hate porn”. We just think this clown’s priorities are unhinged. There are so many causes to which an American citizen can devote his time and effort - why go after sex, the First Amendment and the libertarian free speech tradition in this country, unless you’re either a money-grubbing charlatan, a religious extremist or a totalitarian (communist, fascist … pick a flavor)?

In a Letter to Presidential-elect Barack Obama, MIM President Bob Peters said: Your Choice is Either to Build on the Limited Progress Made Under Former President Clinton in Combating Hate Speech or to Follow in President Bush‘s Footsteps and Give Hardcore Right-Wing Talk Radio Haters Another ‘Free Ride’

NEW YORK (Nov. 6, 2008) – MIM President Bob Peters has sent President-elect Obama a letter. In his letter, Mr. Peters said in part:

…But if you now hope to become the President of all Americans, you will have to make policy decisions that citizens who voted for and against you can support.

I am writing to you again about the need to vigorously enforce federal hate speech laws…In particular, the individuals you nominate to serve as Attorney General, Director of the FBI…will play crucial roles in the matter of enforcement or non-enforcement of federal hate speech laws. In the longer term, your nominations for federal judges will also play a crucial role…

…The First Amendment does not protect hate speech materials. As the Supreme Court stated in a 1942 obscenity case, Chaplinksy v. New Hampshire, words “which by their very utterance inflict injury” and which “are no essential part of any exposition of ideas.” Are “wholly outside of the protection of the First Amendment” …

It is of course no secret that the U.S. has failed miserably at “enforcing effective safeguards against exposure to juveniles” over the public airwaves. AM radio in particular is awash with hardcore right-wing hate speech materials that are available to minors without cost or proof of age; and surveys indicate that large numbers of children have been inadvertently exposed to these materials or have sought them out.

Citizen organizations involved in the “war against right-wing hate radio” have often and rightly criticized the Bush Administration for its failure to vigorously enforce federal hate speech laws. But in fairness to the Bush Administration, this same administration has inadvertently given right-wing hate radio a bad name, since right-wing radio hosts parrot the talking points of Bush Administation propagandists, who have led the nation into a widely-acknowledged state of bankruptcy, both economic and moral.

The choice for you as the next President is either to build on the progress made by your Democratic predecessor or to allow the Justice Department to continue with the policy adopted under President Bush’s watch – namely, to give commercial distributors of hardcore radio hate speech a “free ride.” If you choose to be a builder, the large majority of Americans old enough to vote will support you….

I haven’t used this site as a political soapbox mainly because I didn’t want to join a company of industry nitwits trying to influence your vote, most by attempting to convince you that Barrack Obama is a muslim, terrorist, communist un-American threat of some kind.

I went to school with Barrack Obama. I contributed early to his primary campaign and late to his presidential campaign. My reasons for voting for him were similar to those expressed by The Economist Magazine:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=12511171

My reasons for supporting Barrack were cautious ones, but I believe that the payoff for this country will anything but tentative: a change in the tenor and scope of political campaigns; a reasonable approach to international affairs and domestic economic issues; and a change in the way we Americans see each other and in the way others in the world see us.

As someone who travels quite a bit, that last one will make a real change in my life. I’ve heard from friends in France, Italy, Mexico and Great Britain that they were planning parties last night to celebrate our election. What other country’s elections are celebrated around the globe - by non-Americans?

A couple of weeks ago, two or three industry websites tried to send the industry into a screaming panic over an HIV “outbreak” in Brazil.

How’s that story going?

Are we all dead yet?

According to same websites, a bunch of transsexual and female performers were infected in Brazil. The names of well-known Brazilian performers were thrown out for speculation (and blacklisting, including any Brazilian female performers whose names come readily to mind in the US, including of course, that of Monica Mattos); many of these performers were supposed to have shot numerous scenes in the US since they had been infected. Apparently sperm was flying all over the place and the US industry was horribly exposed, perhaps never to recover again.

The usual targets of industry homophobia were targeted (Christian of course, one of many male performers who’ve stuck it into a tranny or two), and it was decided by the publishers of these websites that it was time to shut down all porn production until they personally could give the ‘all clear’.

Whatever happened to this story? Did the websites running this publicity stunt pick up any extra traffic because of it?

Why, oh why didn’t this story spread to the mainstream, garnering more attention for the industry? Shouldn’t these websites call OSHA right now and share the line with Shelley Lubben?

Update: Turns out that Brazil’s porn industry always has HIV positive performers in its gay ranks, as the US industry does. What a surprise - HIV in a third world country. The women whose names were smeared by this campaign aren’t infected. Somebody in Brazil (one of apparently a dozen unnamed sources) must have a problem telling transsexuals and genetic women apart.