today's interesting stories

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first up - swedish porn!

Benefit seekers offered Internet porn shows:

The Swedish Social Insurance Administration handles the mundane but necessary business of dealing with state benefits to the sick, pregnant and retired. But visitors to the organization’s site could have been forgiven for believing that it had a far more exotic purpose, after its web address was hijacked and redirected to a hard core porn site.

The organization is known in Swedish as Försäkringskassan, and uses the web address www.forsakringskassan.se. It recently became possible to register domain names containing the Swedish letters å, ä and ö, something that Försäkringskassan’s bosses thought they had done.

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now for a drive by shooter who's rights were violated!

Judge: Todd County school district violated student’s constitutional rights

For the second time in slightly more than a year, a federal judge has ruled that the Todd County School District, superintendent and school board members have violated a student’s constitutional rights by suspending him without a proper hearing.

U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann found in favor of the plaintiff, student Ernest Doe, along with his mother Danita Doe (both names are pseudonyms). Attorney Dana Hanna filed the complaint last December against the school district, superintendent Richard

Bordeaux and board members Randy Her Many Horses, Marlon Leneaugh, Charles Moe, Steve Her Many Horses and Troy Heinert.

The complaint alleged that Bordeaux and the board denied Doe, then an eighth-grader, of his right to a public education by improperly suspending him from school from Nov. 1, 2005, through May 17, 2006.

Hanna filed a similar suit against the district on behalf of another Todd County student, Levi Waln, under the Federal Civil Rights Act. Kornmann ruled in favor of Waln in September 2005.

Last week, Kornmann again found that the Todd County School District and its officials had violated a student’s rights.

“In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it’s deja vu all over again,” Hanna said Tuesday. He said he had hoped the district would change its practices after the Waln case. “I suspect the second time around that somebody’s going to realize there’s a problem.”

In this case, Ernest Doe, then 14, admitted to being one of four students who drove past Todd County Middle School late on Oct. 14, 2005, and to firing a .22-caliber rifle near the school from a moving vehicle. No one was in the school or on the grounds at the time.

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next up - england teaches lap dancing to the young

Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy

Tesco has been forced to remove a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website after it was accused of "destroying children's innocence".

The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!

"Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars".

The £49.97 kit comprises a chrome pole extendible to 8ft 6ins, a 'sexy dance garter' and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves.

The kit, condemned as 'extremely dangerous' by family campaigners yesterday, was discovered by mother of two Karen Gallimore who was searching for Christmas gifts for her two daughters, Laura 10, and Sarah, 11.

Mrs Gallimore, 33, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, said yesterday: "I'm no prude, but any children can go on there and see it. It's just not on."

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