Hookers and Halo ** HOAX **

Update 20080519 10:31am : According to World Net Daily, this story is false. That's what I get for posting just after midnight. My deepest apologies.



A 13-year old kid in Texas had been found guilty of fraud for using his dad's credit card to order escorts, with whom he and a friend played Halo:

Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

Ralphie apparently ordered an extra credit card and went on his spending spree because dad forgot to buy him a birthday present:

Ralph had reportedly told police that his father wouldn't mind, as it was his birthday last week and he had forgot to get him a present. The father, a lawyer said he had been too busy, but would take him on a surprise trip to Disneyland instead.

Best of all, the boys told the escorts that they were "people of restricted growth" and that state law prohibited discrimination against them:

Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.

The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played "Halo" on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.

Frankly, this all sounds like something out of a very odd version of GTA. The version specially for 13-year olds that acts as a virtualization system (so you can play Halo or WoW), and prepares you for one specific career:

Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.

Being from Texas, and with a lawyer for a father, it's easy to suppose that Ralph is a Republican. At least based upon the early criminal record involving escorts and fraud.

But really, what can you say about these kids that the video doesn't? It's a hilarious story, or it would be if it didn't involve criminal records and someone getting hit for a $30,000 credit card loss. I wonder if dad or the bank is going to take that hit?

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CNN Calls Texas PRIMARY for Clinton

Clinton  1,206,036
Obama    1,134,324

76% Reporting

Surprise win in the primary called, although Obama will apparently get many more delegates in Texas. Delegate count in Texas Primary 63 to Clinton, 63 to Obama.

Caucus: 5% reporting
Obama 3,737 56%
Clinton 2,906 44%

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Texas Primary Update

0% reporting.

Obama    36,784   58%
Clinton  25,628   41%

1% reporting

Obama    443,129 58%
Clinton  315,342 41%

This is so large because it includes the early voters.

And Mike Huckabee receive a sharp striking blow to the groinal area in Texas. 55%/32%, 68%/22% in Ohio!.

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Final Campaign Ads: Ohio/Texas

Below are final ads from the campaigns for tomorrow's election.

Senator Clinton is running a 30-spot each for Ohio and Texas.

Senator Obama is running a two-minute spot in Texas.

Clinton's Ohio ad


Clinton's Texas ad


Obama's Texas ad


h/t Salon War Room.

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These Kids Will Vote

In Texas early voting has started in some counties. More than 50 miles from Houston students of Prarie View A&M had a problem. The county (Waller) decided that the only early voting location would be at the county seat and they would only provide 2 voting machines.

Texas state law says that any person in line at the close of voting (7pm) may be allowed to cast a vote.

These kids are walking almost 10 miles to the county seat, thousands of them, and they will stand in line, and vote 2 at a time, until they have all voted, til' morning if they have to.

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