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Foley breaks silence on sex scandal Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie with blue elephants, finally broke his silence. "I'm trying to find my way back," Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept. 29, 2006. Foley insists he did nothing illegal and never had sexual contact with teens, just inappropriate Internet conversations. Investigations by the FBI and Florida authorities ended without criminal charges. And while he concedes his behavior was "extraordinarily stupid," he remains somewhat unwilling to accept full public scorn. These were 17-year-olds, just months from being men...

From CHEAT SEEKING MISSILES We all remember Mark Foley, the Republican with a fondness for male pages, and the damage he caused the GOP in the last election. So ask yourself this question: How up are you on Tim Mahoney? Hint: Google Blog Search only turns up a paltry 445 hits for “Rep. Tim Mahoney affair.” Affair, you say? Well, yes. The Dem who defeated Foley by running on a holier than thou ticket is a serial adulterer. ABC broke the story, and Fox is building on it. This is from Fox: According to ABC News, Mahoney, who is married, started an affair with Patricia Allen while campaigning against Foley on a morality platform. Allen came on to his staff after he won the election in 2006, but when complaints about the alleged affair surfaced, Mahoney moved Allen to the campaign staff, aides told the broadcast network. ABC reported Allen tried to break off the affair after learning Mahoney was supposedly cheating on her and his wife with other women. In response, he threatened her job...

INSTANT MESSAGE STUD RETURNS Why oh why do these sex addicts, pervs, cheaters, liars and abusers lie? Or claim that the real victim was them? They get mad because someone caught them. They become righteously indignant that someone found out their little secret. And Damn It - someone had a tv camera or audio running to capture these lies. Nowadays - its the computer. Believe me, no matter how much you tell yourself you have deleted or erased something either from your own computer or a website? Its still there. Traces of it captured forever. And its not hard to find, people. I watched an NYPD Computer Technologist pull something out of what should have been cyber-oblivion 3 years ago. It took him all of 10 minutes. It took them even less time to verify that instant messages were not altered and where they came from, i.e. whose computers (IP traces) they came from. Scary. So Foley's back and Florida's pissed. Everyone's pissed because we found that what was being sa...