The women were rescued on Monday from the villa in Riva, a summer resort on the outskirts of Istanbul, according to a spokesman for the military police in the region who carried out the raid. He said the women were held captive for around two months, but refused to provide further details.
The women were led to believe they were being filmed for a Big Brother-type television programme, according to the Dogan news agency and other news reports. Instead, their naked images were sold on the internet by their captors.
Why would you agree with the terms etc?
“We were not after the money but we thought our daughter could have the chance of becoming famous if she took part in the contest,” one captive’s mother is quoted as saying. “But they have duped us all.”
The thing that surprises me is how little this surprises me.
Some major donors and GOP strategists have approached Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” about a national run, according to party sources.
Are these the same guys who told us that Tom Ridge was a leader?
ha ha AH ha ha ah ah ha ha ha
This deserves both an HA HA
and a YOU FOOL!
Clue to the clueless. Anybody pushing Joe Scarborough over SarahPalin isn’t out to help republicans win anything.
Update: Yeah they talk about Petraeus too but with the space they give Joe it’s still a large laugh.
…He actually called Mitt Romney the leader of the republican party and called upon him to restrain SarahPalin.
I’m so glad I wasn’t drinking when I saw it.
In fairness Joe has been pretty reasonable today, I woke up early and he has made some good points today from the right and has beaten democrats with the “filibuster proof majority” stick all day.
But Mr #25,538 is smoking something if he think Mitt is leading anything. He is playing Duck and Cover.
That was almost as funny as this line from Howard Kurtz:
Perhaps journalists are no more trusted than politicians these days, or many folks never saw the knockdown stories
Context is everything here. You are dealing with a pair of apparently superficial people who can’t get along. They are smug, they are smarky and they think they know it all…
THEN they need protection and they find themselves needing that woman with the shotgun to keep them alive. The “Oh my God it’s Sarah Palin” clip is exactly the reaction a pair of liberals might have, but they know that they need a Sarah Palin to keep them alive. When put in a different world they can’t cope.
I think it’s a perfect illustration of the reality.
When we whine about this kind of stuff we look not very much like the acolytes of the One. If that doesn’t scare you, it should.
You would think that any effort to reform our health care system would include tort reform, especially if the stated purpose for Obama’s plan to nationalize our health care industry is the current high costs.
So I have new questions for the president: Why no legal reform? Why continue to encourage defensive medicine that wastes billions of dollars and does nothing for the patients? Do you want health care reform to benefit trial attorneys or patients?
Many states, including my own state of Alaska, have enacted caps on lawsuit awards against health care providers. Texas enacted caps and found that one county’s medical malpractice claims dropped 41 percent, and another study found a “55 percent decline” after reform measures were passed. [4] That’s one step in health care reform. Limiting lawyer contingency fees, as is done under the Federal Tort Claims Act, is another step. The State of Alaska pioneered the “loser pays” rule in the United States, which deters frivolous civil law suits by making the loser partially pay the winner’s legal bills. Preventing quack doctors from giving “expert” testimony in court against real doctors is another reform.
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