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Just to say Ken, I thought that sending her name into space yesterday was classy. Everybody else just threw her under a bus--but you did what Jesus would do--you had her name etched into a CD rom & sent to LEO.

I'd like to think if I were the DC madame, I could at least sneak into Canada--but I guess that's the "old" Canada with the longest undefended border in the world...

Oh, wait...

It's pretty shitty to put a woman's distraught 911 call all over the internet after her daughter commits suicide. Just me?

Too sad, even for me. And Ira glass <--- is still here.

Seventy six years old found her daughter hung
With a hundred and ten whore diamonds right behind
There were more than a thousand TV trucks springing up outside,
There were pundits of every shape and kind.

That's a pretty crappy suicide note. More like an unpublished screenplay. And not even stage directions.

Which of you sick fucks clicked on "MORE"? Not me.

Maybe the mom can go on Larry King, seduce him, and get the aged broadcaster to marry her.

"Bob" said it was a "hit"...pure and simple...no-ifs-ands-or-buts-about-"it".

I mourn her passing and lament the fact that the real whores in D.C. not only get off scot free, but prosper.

@ronaldpagan:
Whatever. If you don't want your transcripts showing up all over the interwebs, don't call 911!

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: For real. Just call 411, and ask to be transferred. They don't record that shit.

Did she mention anything about the fact that she was hanging from the ceiling by a giant diaper?

WTF was the 911 operator thinking when she asked Palfrey's mother, "Is she still hanging?" I mean, that's just plain wrong.

It is too early to rule out autoerotic-asphyxiation in my opinion.

@Serolf Divad: excellent. i hope the men who prosecuted this case slept well last night.

@ronaldpagan: No,it's not just you.Everything is fair game nowadays,and that's a fucking shame.

@Serolf Divad: Thank you.

Man, if you all think this is tacky, don't turn on the TV news; they actually played the tape. These things always get released, replayed and posted anymore.

This is so sad.

@NotAnEvilLobbyist: That had me really considering letting my daughter watch cartoons while eating her Kix in morning, rather than Headline News.

@NotAnEvilLobbyist: For real. TV news is all PARENTAL GRIEF! NAKED 15 YEAR OLD! BIRD STUCK IN TREE! ANGRY RELIGIOUS NEGRO! MORE PARENTAL GRIEF! SUICIDE NOTE FROM A PIMP! MILEY CYRUS BREAK!

And yet the lovely, descriptive word "cunt" is still taboo.

@NotAnEvilLobbyist: For real. Not only is murder itself tacky and low-class, but what kind of nancy fuck pays for sex, and then offs the sexee when things get inconvenient!

Bill Clinton didn't 'disappear' anybody. He got impeached like a man.

@Serolf Divad:

Bravo. Exactly on target.

Impeach me ! Impeach me !

RIP Deborah.

Madams should be feted, put on a pedestal and invited to the best Washington, DC galas and balls, not be condemned to a life in the slammer. Just imagine how much nastier Vitter would have been if he didn't get his weekly poopie wipes. The DC Madam provided a service to the whole nation, bless her heart.

Sweet Cream Ladies Forward March by The Boxtops

Sweet cream ladies forward march
The world owes you a living
Sweet cream ladies do your part
Think what you are giving

To the lost and lonely people of the night
Out of need they seek direction from the light
They will love you in the darkness
Take advantage of your starkness
And refuse to recognize you in the light

Sweet cream ladies forward march
Think what your providing
Sweet cream ladies show your starch
What's the use in hiding

Tell the socialites to look the other way
It's instinctive stimulation you convey
It's a necessary function
Meant for those without compunction
Who get tired of vanilla everyday

Sweet cream ladies forward march
Puritans ignore them
Sweet cream ladies do their part
Sweet cream men adore them

Let them satisfy the ego of the male
Let them fabricate success for those who fail
And should penalties pursue them
When there's really credit to them
They might keep a simple fellow out of jail

Sweet cream ladies forward march
Sweet cream ladies forward march
Sweet cream ladies forward march...

@Serolf Divad: Best work yet.

@JerkCade: depends on your definition of man, is...

Besides, have you seen any of his many, Kleenex, I mean girlfriends lately?

Not a joke: Prostitution should be legal. Seriously. Why is paying for sex illegal? Why are so many cops and prosecutors wasting our time, money and resources arresting people--for paying for sex? Every single person on this planet prostitutes themselves in some way or another, and, again, in some way, everyone pays for sex. Whether it's dinner and a movie or some drinks, or a flat fee, we all pay for sex. Prostitution should be legal. And let's raise a glass to the memory of Ms. Paltrey, who got one big raw deal.

But what was the "sad" part of this "sad" story?

Another aside: if they want to figure out whether it was a coerced suicide (and perhaps a coerced tape to save her mother's life next door) they should study the manner in which she tied the rope. Civilians have one way of tying a knot and members of the secret police have another!

Let's see here, a wealthy beautiful Madam who in '91 already served time in prison for a similar offense without a hitch but who, having learned her lesson, now has a shitload of evidence she could trade to 'normal' Prosecutors for leniency but because she's nailing Republicans and, in fact, and has 45 1/2 more pounds of phone records yet to be revealed, not to mention her beautiful young female college assistant who also 'commits suicide' and another attorney murdered while investigating Palfrey's connection to Republican politicos, decides to end it all in a cheap tin shed in a mobile home park with a dirty old rope.

Most of the above may be bullshit. But, please -a tin shed, a mobile home park and a dirty rope?

That's right out of a good ol' boy's wet dream.

@queeraselvis: Maybe operator thought she hadn't been hanging long? The first thing I'd do is cut someone down, you know? Maybe not too late.

Like the rest of you, I would like to think this was Dick Cheney's fault. But my understanding is that Ms. Palfrey's heart hadn't been removed and eaten, so I just don't think it was him.

@Serolf Divad: Seems to me that the whores are the ones shown on the bottom half of this picture.

It comforts me that the WHORES get busted and the customer "gets off."

@queeraselvis: It makes sense, especially if they are still alive to you know, stop someone from continueing to have their air cut off.

@hazmaq:

I have to agree.

But I can't visualize ANY backyard shed that is TALL ENOUGH to hang yourself in. Just how tall was she?

I would just like to point out something. The past tense of "hang", as in when you "hang yourself", is "hanged". If a man is well endowed, you say "he's hung well". Got it, y'all?

@Serolf Divad:
Great public service announcement.

@thefrontpage:
You have a point about legalizing prostitution and I would agree, as long as doing so would not make the acts themselves any less dirty. Sex must be dirty otherwise, what's the point?

@Serolf Divad: Bravo. I can't bring myself to laugh about this story but you just nailed the context. Whoops! Did i say nailed?

@ronaldpagan: No, not just you. Let's drop this. It's not funny anymore.

@Serolf Divad: Amen, but you won't hear any pundits speak of this. I hope David Vitter can't sleep at night.