GOP Lawmaker's Graphic Sex-Bragging Caught On Tape

We've all seen those stories where a careless politician gets a little too candid when speaking into a hot mic. But this one's really in a whole different league.

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Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two and family values champion began describing, for the benefit of a colleague seated next to him, his ongoing affairs with two different women. In very graphic detail.

For instance:


She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And
 so, we had made love Wednesday--a lot! And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going 
up and down the stairs, and you're dripping out of me!' So messy!

Duvall's sophomoric braggadocio, of course, was picked up by the microphone in front of him, and wound up on a tape for the legislature's in-house TV station. From there it was sent to a local news station, KCAL, which ran this full report last night:

Berlin 2009 - Bolt smashes 100m world record

Jamaica's Usain Bolt shattered his own 100 metres world record to win the World Championship final in Berlin in a breathtaking 9.58 seconds.

The world's fastest man took a staggering 0.11 seconds off the 9.69 mark he set winning gold at the Beijing Olympics a year ago to the day, taking the event into a time zone undreamed of before his arrival on the scene.

American Tyson Gay, the 2007 world champion, ran the race of his life to finish second in 9.71, the third fastest time ever.

Jamaican Asafa Powell claimed bronze in 9.84.

In contrast to the Olympic final, when he was able to coast over the line, Bolt saved his celebrations until the race was actually finished.

He was pushed a little harder this time, though his victory on the blue track at the Olympic Stadium was never in doubt as he completed the set of major medals at the distance.

The 100 metres record usually comes down by one or two hundredths of a second at a time, making the bite Bolt took out of it on Sunday simply astonishing.

"I don't run for world records," a relaxed Bolt, 22, said. "The aim was just to come out here and execute because it was going to be a tough race."

"I got a pretty good start, I was there at 20 metres and that was it.," he said.

"I said anything could happen and it did. It was a big target but I got 9.58 and I am really happy with myself."

Bolt will now pocket $100,000 from the International Association of Athletics Federations for his world record but that is a mere fraction of what sponsors will now be ready to pay for him.

Bolt, who false-started in the semi-final, made a flying getaway in the final and was clear after only 20 metres.

He crossed the line with one eye on the clock before pounding his chest and blowing kisses to the crowd.

He hugged his friend Powell and completed a lap of honour roared on by some 70,000 cheering fans.

"Today was perfect. This gave me a lot of energy. Especially the crowd," Bolt said through the stadium microphone, immediately after the race. "I won't forget it."

Bolt, five days shy of his 23rd birthday, had pledged to wrestle the only major title still missing from his now perfect collection away from Gay, but had complained his preparation was plagued by rain and wind in the European meetings he ran.

He also had to undergo minor surgery to remove thorns from his foot in April, after stepping on them following a car crash.

"Now I plan to do even better in the future," threatened Bolt.

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NASA Looks to Fly Commercial

NASA will spend $50 million of federal economic stimulus funds to seed development of commercial passenger spaceships; however, a presidential panel reviewing the U.S. space program says that may be just the beginning.

According to the recommendations of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans committee, which delivered its preliminary findings to the White House on Friday, NASA should set aside $2.4 billion between 2011 and 2014 for rides to the International Space Station on commercial U.S. carriers.

"There are companies that would love to move forward with orbital launch service on their own, using only private funds, but it just wouldn't happen for many, many years," John Gedmark, executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a Washington, D.C.-based industry trade group, told Discovery News. "What the government funding would do is basically allow these companies to accelerate these efforts."

With the government as a base customer, commercial firms would be able to develop an array of new markets for orbital launch services, including tourism and scientific research, Gedmark added.

"When you have multiple companies doing this as part of their core business, you open the doors for all sorts of things that you can do in space," he said.

The agency has $50 million available for firms to flesh out plans to provide astronauts rides to and from space station, which orbits about 225 miles above Earth. Proposals are due by Sept. 22.

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Eto'o arrives for Inter medical

Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o has arrived in Italy for a medical with Internazionale as the swap deal for Zlatan Ibrahimovic edges towards completion.

The Cameroon forward has said he is delighted to be joining the Serie A champions and has targeted winning the Champions League for his new side.

"I'm very happy to be at Inter," Eto'o told the club's website. "I'm here to work and win the Champions League."

Eto'o, who helped Barca to a Spanish league and Cup double and victory in the Champions League last season, is set to join Inter as part of a complicated deal that would see Ibrahimovic move in the opposite direction.

The Catalans will also loan Belarus midfielder Aleksandr Hleb to Inter and pay cash reported to be in the region of 50 million euros (£43m).

Inter manager Jose Mourinho had said his sadness at seeing his best player go was balanced by his excitement at Eto'o's arrival.

"Inter had to choose whether to say: 'We're not selling you' to Ibrahimovic, or get Eto'o plus Hleb free for a year, plus 50 million euros (£43.2m)," he said. "The fans are ready to love Eto'o.

"This seems an extraordinary deal to me, a 100m (£86.5m) euro deal, the deal of the summer. For me it's worth 100m (£86.5m) because Eto'o is not worth a euro less than Ibra'".

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Five Roman-Era Shipwrecks Found Off Italy

A team of archaeologists has discovered a trove of five Roman-era shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island.

The find of well-preserved ships, made possible by sonar technology and the use of remotely operated vehicles, includes cargo of largely intact clay vases and pots transporting wine, olive oil, fish sauce and other goods.

Resting untouched between 330 to 490 feet underwater near the small island of Ventotene, which lies 30 miles off the Italian coast halfway between Rome and Naples, the ships date from the 1st century B.C. to the 5th century A.D.

From their cargo, archaeologists from the U.S. group AURORA Trust and Italy's Ministry of Culture, established that the vessels were transporting goods from Italy, Spain and north Africa.

They were probably heading for safe anchorage, but then sunk during a storm.

"Ventotene is a small island in the open sea. It was on major trade routes and was both a safe haven and a danger to shipping," Timmy Gambin, head of archaeology for the Aurora Trust, told Discovery News.

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