Probably one of the worst ideas ever is to put The Gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia near, around or in charge of children. In the third episode of the season “Frank Reynolds’ Little Beauties,” not only are they put in charge of about a dozen children, but they also have to put on a beauty pageant. And as usual, when the gang tries to do something right, everything goes horribly wrong.
While at a strip club, Frank meets a man looking for investors for a beauty pageant. Frank is willing to front the money but finds out later that the man is a pedophile and that it’s actually a children’s beauty pageant. The gang starts out hesitant, but Charlie gets them on the right track. Charlie states that while in other countries women have to wear “big black tarps or whatever”, but that “in America, we can show toddlers in tiny bikinis, we can make them tan. Because that’s our right as Americans.” According to Charlie, “we should dress up our little kids, just to show other people we can.” After this rousing speech, the gang gets to work on their pageant.

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Millville Blotter – loitering for prostitution, defiant trespassing, resisting arrest
Published: Friday, September 30, 2011, 12:25 PM     Updated: Friday, September 30, 2011, 12:36 PM
File photoPolice charged two women with loitering with the purpose of engaging in prostitution.
MILLVILLE            
Editor’s note: Police on Friday were unable to provide information on bail amounts, or whether some of the accused were taken to the county jail or released on a summons.
* Edwin Hagelgans, 49, of Dandelion Road in Laurel Lake, was arrested Thursday and charged with loitering with the purpose of engaging in prostitution.
* Wanda Althea Barnes, 40, of North 2
Street, was arrested Thursday and charged with obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, and two counts of loitering with the purpose of engaging in prostitution.
* Danea M. Baker, 27, of Ladow Avenue, was arrested Thursday and charged with abandonment of a child.

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… We’ve got gangs, we’ve got guys with weapons. Now you’re going to have nobody to investigate that,” said Jim Carlucci of Crimestoppers of Trenton.
Some residents support putting at least some of the officers on foot patrol.
“When you’re out here you get to know the citizens, you get to know the people around and you know what’s going on,” said Tracey Chescon.
Over the last several years anti-crtime and vice units have made more than a thousand arrests, seized hundreds of weapons and confiscated drugs with a street value of over $5 million.
Phone store manager Hector Davila was shot in the leg last month in a struggle with two masked gunmen who tried to rob his shop. He worries about what will happen to crime without the specialized units.
  “Lots of drug activity, prostitution, whatever you want to call it. They’re going to be out rampant, crazy,” Davila said.

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Councilman George Mu-schal, a former city police officer, said crime will increase without police units keeping criminals on their toes.
“You signed the death sentence right here in the city of Trenton,” Muschal said. “People are going to go wild.”
James Golden, the police department’s first director, who recently announced he would challenge Mack if there is a recall election, said he was “outraged” by the move.
“Without these crime-fighting units, the police department will have virtually no ability to prevent and investigate drug dealing, prostitution and the violence associated with these serious crimes,” Golden said in a statement. “No one is more of an advocate for neighborhood-oriented policing, with officers walking the beat, than I am. This, however, is a poor management decision that could not come at a worse time.”

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Was it a public-relations ploy to impress the cops who were surveilling the denim-clad outlaws? Or is he, as so many locals insist about the Pagan’s, just an average guy who likes to drink beer and ride Harleys?
“We’re just here to have a good time,” said one brawny, bald-headed Pagan, who, like every other member that the Daily News attempted to interview, would not give his name. “We’ve got to party somewhere.”
Hobbled by federal indictments and state charges in recent years, the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club is trying to replenish its ranks these days while avoiding the types of violent crimes with nonbikers that make headlines and draw heat from the cops.
They still go by names like “Cripple,” “Knuckles” and “Slasher.” They still label their women as “property” with patches. They’re still selling drugs and shaking down strip clubs, police say.

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DAVID “RC” Winkler, a former ranking member of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, leaned forward and stared up at a black-and-white photograph that someone snapped of him in 1985. Bare-chested. Tattooed. Bearded. An outlaw. “That guy wouldn’t have talked to you,” Winkler told a reporter in the back room of his Delaware County tattoo parlor. “But none of us are who we were 10 years ago. Not this club. Not no cop. Not anybody.” He paused. “Does that mean I’m any less dangerous?” Winkler asked. “Try me and find out.”
The .45-caliber Glock tucked into the waistband of his jean shorts advises otherwise.
Winkler, now 48 and the owner of Tattoos by RC, in Ridley Township, is something of a rare specimen, an outlaw biker who joined the Pagan’s at 19 years old, rode the countryside looking for trouble, chased strippers, tattooed South Philly mobsters, rose through the club’s ranks – and got out relatively unscathed.

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… Also across the pond, Shakespeare’s Globe theater announced details of the “Globe to Globe” festival that will see all 37 of William Shakespeare’s plays performed in 37 languages, from Urdu to Swahili, over six weeks in 2012.
The fest will feature companies from six continents, including South Sudan, which became an independent nation in July.
Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole said a production of “Cymbeline” performed in the local Juba Arabic tongue would be the first time South Sudan has participated in an international cultural event.
“The size of their desire to come here was simply overwhelming,” he said.
And they got “Cymbeline”? You couldn’t give them “Hamlet”?
The festival, a cultural warmup for the 2012 Summer Olympics, kicks off April 23, Shakespeare’s birthday, with “Troilus and Cressida” in Maori, performed by New Zealand’s Ngakau Toa company. It also includes a drugs-and-strippers version of “Macbeth” from Poland.

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Instead of going the Eddie Murphy route, McElhenney actually gorged himself between filming seasons to become a more bloated version of Mac for the show. His reasoning for undergoing a drastic physical transformation with potential health risks? He simply thought his weight gain would make for a funny plotline. Shame on viewers who thought “Sunny” would run out of ideas.
As always, each member of the gang possesses an arrogant, self-interested and materialistic mindset, yet they all have endearing and viewer-sympathetic qualities. In this season’s opener, for example, the gnomish Frank (Danny DeVito) shows audiences his soft side when he falls for a crack-bingeing prostitute, Roxy (Alanna Ubach). Similarly, Charlie (Day), Frank’s illiterate and hygienically impaired partner-in-crime, demonstrates his commitment to the bonds of friendship as he devises a scheme to coerce Frank into finding a cleaner, more socially acceptable bride.

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Oh, in his published apology, says that was a temporary military designation, making him a “Special Forces candidate,” not a qualified Green Beret.
Oh’s attorney also takes issue with a follow-up column detailing Oh’s arrest and acquittal on gun charges. The attorney claims the column “presented unsupported claims that are in fact incorrect.”
He doesn’t cite any specific error.
Oh told us he was twice questioned by police in the 1990s after accusations that he pulled guns on people in his Cobbs Creek neighborhood. He was arrested and charged in a third incident.
Oh denied having pulled guns in the first two incidents, but confirmed that he had been armed in the incident that led to his arrest.
He was charged with firing in the air to scare away people he thought were prostitutes and drug dealers but were really undercover police officers.

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… Loved a somber-faced Kirk Herbstreit on ESPN Tuesday, angst-ridden at the prospect that conference commissioners would base all of their league-hopping moves on money! This, from a guy whose organization is at the wellspring of college football’s revenue stream and is driving the greediest of the greedy, the University of Texas. ESPN partners with The Longhorn Network in a 20-year, $300 million deal that Texas refuses to share equally with any prospective conference brethren.
Which is fine. Just don’t lament that the sanctity of college football is being ruined by the Almighty Dollar when your paycheck is signed by the lead pimp. That’s pretty much what Matt Millen’s expression said when they switched from Herby in his study to the former Penn State bad boy in the ESPN studio with Chris Fowler. Millen cracked: “Are we really surprised these decisions are made by money? It’s always been about money.”

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