San Diego Adult Entertainment: (Anna)stly: the oldest trade
April 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm | In San Diego adult entertainment | No CommentsIn 2002, National Geographic did a mini-series called “Prostitution: The Oldest Trade.” The series unearthed the realities of the million-dollar sex trade.
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At the time we did not discuss the issue, since prostitution is a taboo subject in our society. But the unsettling feeling remained. I could not quickly forget the girls rocking back and forth on their plastic heels.
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In the back of my mind I always knew that prostitution existed, but I had never firsthand witnessed it nor documented it.
I could not think of a more appropriate time to write my column on human trafficking and prostitution than this week, which is L.I.F.E. week on USD’s campus. L.I.F.E is an acronym for “living is for everyone.” University Ministry sponsors L.I.F.E. week to draw attention to major life issues such as human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, genocide, abortion, immigration and poverty.
See the full article from “USD Vista”
San Diego Adult Entertainment: UT: Probation Officer Met Teen Girl In Hotel Room
April 25, 2012 at 4:49 pm | In San Diego adult entertainment | No CommentsThe officer was fired sometime prior to November for insubordination, failure of good behavior, acts incompatible with and inimical to public service and conduct unbecoming of a county employee.
He appealed the termination order but the commission determined at its November meeting that the department had proved all four causes.
Because employees acts were so inappropriate, showed such an utter lack of good judgment and continued even after he was counseled to discontinue the contacts, removal is appropriate, the commission report states.
The Probation Department has about 1,000 sworn officers who supervise about 800 children detained in juvenile halls and about 22,000 adults and juveniles in the community.
The Girls Rehabilitation Facility in Kearny Mesa, where the ward was housed prior to her release, typically serves 50 or so 13- to 17-year-olds for periods up to one year. Many of the girls were drawn into prostitution prior to their commitments by a juvenile court.
San Diego Adult Entertainment: The politicization of the Secret Service scandal
April 24, 2012 at 6:37 pm | In San Diego adult entertainment | No CommentsIt’s hard to work up much outrage about the Secret Service prostitution scandal, in which 11 members of the president’s elite protective service and various military personnel were found to have picked up escorts in Colombia, where they were doing advance work for the president’s visit. I guess it is probably not a good idea for the people in charge of protecting the president to leave themselves vulnerable to sexual blackmail, but on the other hand we do not live in a John Le Carré novel or “24″ episode, and I don’t think the threat of a honey-trap assassination conspiracy plot is very credible. If members of the Secret Service want to get drunk and hire escorts after work, that is their business. (As Melissa Gira Grant says, the only actual scandal here — and the reason this became an international incident — is that all these guys tried to bilk one of the women out of the money she was owed.)
See the full article from “Salon”
San Diego Escorts: Poor Black Youth Targeted by Tobacco Ads
April 24, 2012 at 1:12 am | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsPoor black youths targeted by tobacco ads: U-T San Diego reports that tobacco marketing is targeting California’s low-income and African-American youths, according to researchers who examined advertising throughout the state. Academic researchers funded by the state’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program found that there was greater visibility of menthol-cigarette advertising at retailers near high schools where there are larger African-American student populations.
Warplanes bomb South Sudan town: The Washington Post reports that Sudanese warplanes bombed a South Sudanese town Monday morning, ignoring international calls to stop the attacks and ratcheting up the threat of a full-blown war between the two nations.
Prostitution part of life in Cartagena, Colombia: The Washington Post reports on how the sex trade works in the city where the recent Secret Service scandal took place.
Allen West warns of cultural suicide: The Florida Republican sounded the alarm over the FBI’s decision to scrap nearly 900 pages of training materials that had been determined offensive, culturally insensitive and in some cases entirely misleading or incorrect.
See the full article from “The Root”
San Diego Adult Entertainment: Bonita High’s Erick Velasquez wins full scholarship to Pomona College
April 23, 2012 at 8:25 pm | In San Diego adult entertainment | No CommentsErick said the Johns Hopkins center has helped him become more self-confident and informed and exposed him to academically and personally enriching adventures.
He cited summer academic camps at Cal Lutheran and Roger Williams universities, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins, a business camp and a cooperative Johns Hopkins-Network for Teaching Entrepreneurialship program among his favorite CTY experiences.
The business camp involved high school students building a business from scratch. He and his student partner Hector Escalante of Los Angeles Unified School District established Shandals, a corporation creating an unique shoe/slipper product.
“Adult business executives mentored us, but we had to do the actual work,” Erick recalled. “It was cooperative learning. Each team had to identify corporate mission and goals, establish a budget, name the corporate officers who’d handle executive, operations and finance duties and give a presentation to a panel of judges in Washington, D.C.”
San Diego Adult Entertainment: Roundtable: Mayoral Debate, Border Death Video, AG Reverses Kruzan Position
April 23, 2012 at 8:25 pm | In San Diego adult entertainment | No CommentsBorder agents are part of Homeland Security and not subject to the same public scrutiny as police. In the last two years, eight people have been killed along the border under disputed circumstances. The video is part of a new documentary on the use of excessive force by border agents airing tonight at 8:30 on Need To Know on KPBS.
Harris Reverses Self in Kruzan Case –- State Attorney General Kamala Harris has reversed her position in the Sara Kruzan case. Kruzan killed her pimp when she was 16 and spent 17 years in prison. Her horrific life included being molested, kicked out at 11, gang-raped at 13 and then pimped out the same year.
The AG’s original opinion, delivered to the California Supreme Court for a habeas corpus hearing, said that Kruzan’s relationship with her pimp was at best financial and professional. Therefore she wasn’t a victim of domestic violence and not entitled to early release.
See the full article from “KPBS”
San Diego Escorts: Hookergate v. Ann Romney
April 23, 2012 at 6:01 pm | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsIndeed, the presidential election of 2012 may well turn on the often-unexpressed, quiet revulsion for what I call the “debasing of America”—indelibly captured in the lavish GSA/Las Vegas party, the Secret Service sex scandal in Cartagena, Columbia, and the L.A. Times’ publication of the photos of U.S. soldiers gleefully posing with body parts of Afghan bombers.
Sadly, we have done it to ourselves.
As Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post, “We are, after all, the land of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Snooki. Debauchery is an American specialty.”
Milbank may have found the heretofore undiscovered mother lode of hidden rage among all Americans. It shows up periodically in the “right track/wrong track” polling question. Which currently reads highly negative, 61 percent wrong track, 31 percent right track, according to the CBS News/New York Times.
“Hookergate,” as the Secret Service prostitute scandal is now being dubbed, serves as another log on the fire of disgust that may shock the pollsters, and upend the carefully crafted strategies of both political parties.
See the full article from “Patch.com”
San Diego Escorts: Talking Politics: Hookergate v. Ann Romney
April 22, 2012 at 1:13 pm | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsIndeed, the presidential election of 2012 may well turn on the often-unexpressed, quiet revulsion for what I call the “debasing of America”—indelibly captured in the lavish GSA/Las Vegas party, the Secret Service sex scandal in Cartagena, Columbia, and the L.A. Times’ publication of the photos of U.S. soldiers gleefully posing with body parts of Afghan bombers.
Sadly, we have done it to ourselves.
As Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post, “We are, after all, the land of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Snooki. Debauchery is an American specialty.”
Milbank may have found the heretofore undiscovered mother lode of hidden rage among all Americans. It shows up periodically in the “right track/wrong track” polling question. Which currently reads highly negative, 61 percent wrong track, 31 percent right track, according to the CBS News/New York Times.
“Hookergate,” as the Secret Service prostitute scandal is now being dubbed, serves as another log on the fire of disgust that may shock the pollsters, and upend the carefully crafted strategies of both political parties.
See the full article from “Patch.com”
San Diego Escorts: 2 Marines, 2 sailors investigated in sex scandal
April 21, 2012 at 10:49 pm | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsSAN DIEGO (CBS 
– The US military says four local service members may be involved in the Secret Service prostitution scandal.
Eleven military members are now being investigated. That number is up, from the ten originally believed to be involved.
Two Marines and two Navy sailors are stationed in San Diego.
The group was staying in the same Colombian hotel as twelve secret service agents who allegedly hired prostitutes, ahead of President Obama’s arrival.
See the full article from “KFMB News 8″
San Diego Escorts: SCANDAL ENSNARES LOCAL TROOPS
April 21, 2012 at 8:24 am | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsThe troops, including six Army and one Air Force personnel, have been linked to a prostitution scandal involving a Secret Service advance team sent to Cartagena last week to prepare for President Barack Obama’s visit to the Summit of the Americas.
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The Secret Service announced the new resignations, bringing to six the number of agency officers who have lost their jobs so far because of events April 11 at their hotel in Cartagena, which involved at least some agency personnel taking prostitutes to their hotel rooms.
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News of the incident, which involves as many as 20 Colombian women, broke a week ago after a fight over payment between a prostitute and a Secret Service agent spilled into the hotel hallway. A 24-year-old Colombian prostitute told The New York Times that the agent agreed to pay her $800 for a night of sex but the next morning offered her only $30. She eventually left the hotel, she said, after she was paid $225.
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