[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] An 18-year-old has been charged in the brutal rape and beating of an elderly nun in Aliquippa.
Andrew Bullock, of Orchard Street, faces at least 10 charges in the Friday morning attack.
The nun serves at St. Titus Church on Franklin Avenue.
She was walking in a parking lot behind the church when she was approached by a man who choked her, punched her, then threw her to the ground where she was assaulted and raped.
Bullock was arraigned at Aliquippa Police Headquarters.
The nun, who is in her 70s, is recovering at Allegheny General from a broken jaw.
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If Obama had a son, he'd look like Andrew Bullock
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Rape an old nun? This kid is seriously screwed up in the head.
Pappy, thanks very much for linking to the Post-Gazette story. I thought I'd heard more about this than I needed to know, but wow... those details hit awful close to home.
Though her meeting with evil was fateful,
This nun should be ever so grateful,
For a mere broken jaw
And a rape, under law,
Would be very much worse, were they hateful.
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You're welcome. Apparently it takes looking at multiple media sources (and those much farther way from the region) in order to get a report with some depth.
[Libya Herald] The international NGO Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW) has demanded that Libyan authorities drop criminal charges against two Libyan politicians accused of insulting Islam and a newspaper editor accused of insulting members of the judiciary.
Sarah Leah Whitson, director for HRW in the Middle East and North Africa, has attacked the charges saying they contravene freedom of expression. "It's disappointing that the prosecutor is still able to use old Qadaffy-era laws to muzzle free speech," Whitson said. "Anyone in Libya who wants to discuss corruption or other sensitive issues in public apparently still needs to look over their shoulder to see if they will be tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! ", she concluded.
The NGO says that Ali Tekbali, the Libyan National Party's policy and campaigns manager, and Fathi Sager, its secretary general, face multiple charges including insulting Islam and instigating division. The charges relate to allegedly offensive posters used during the 2012 election campaign for congress. Two of the charges carry a possible death sentence.
In a separate case, says HRW, the editor of Al-Umma newspaper, Amara Al-Khatabi, still faces trial for insulting members of the judiciary after publishing a list with 87 names of allegedly corrupt judges and prosecutors. Khatabi, who was held in prison for four months while being investigated but then allowed in August to go abroad for health treatment, could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.
HRW has said that Libya "should eliminate all laws that provide penalties for insulting public officials and institutions, and eliminate laws criminalising defamation".
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They (HRW) should be talking to the US colleges that have "hate speech" rules on campus. Basically the same thing.
[Al Ahram] Tunisia's political parties were holding final talks Saturday to choose an interim premier to end the country's political crisis, said the powerful UGTT union, which has been acting as mediator.
The negotiations come a day after a candidate agreed on by the Islamist-led government and the mostly secular opposition, 92-year-old Mustapha Filali, ruled himself out due to his age.
Mediators in the crisis, which was sparked by the liquidation of opposition MP Mohammed Brahmi by suspected jihadists in July, had originally given parties until 1100 GMT Saturday to make another choice, threatening to announce the talks' failure.
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[fin24] Chinhoyi [formerly colonial Sinoia] - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Friday his government would soon ban private trade in gold, and require producers to sell the mineral through a state company. MugabeGold ?
Addressing an annual conference of his Zanu-PF party, Mugabe also warned that platinum miners, including the local unit of South Africa's Implats Platinum, must build a refinery within two years or risk losing their licences. Presidential lectures, warnings, all too familiar.
The Zanu-PF government, he said, was determined to drive its black economic empowerment programme forcing foreign-owned firms to sell majority stakes to locals and helping to industrialise the country. Yes indeed, nationalization generally creates exceptional growth.... elsewhere.
[Guardian] Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most prominent figures in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, has been excluded from the funeral of Nelson Mandela on Sunday in what has been described as a politically motivated snub. See related stories: White House press corps flips out over restrictions.
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Early and forced marriage are a violation of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , as well as the worst form of gender-based violence, and many cases also involve physical and sexual violence, abduction, and threat of murder or murder. These kinds of marriages should be discouraged and there is a dire need for strict legislation along with a media awareness campaign to stem this trend, said LHRLA/Madadgaar National Helpline President Zia Ahmed Awan at a training workshop. The two-day workshop was organised to build skills of National Helpline staffers (Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Lahore, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
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[Pak Daily Times] Former Pakistain People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) MNA Aamir Yar Warren was jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! from the courtroom on Saturday in a fake degree case. Bahawalpur District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Rasheed Qamar on Saturday penalised the former MNA with Rs 0.5 million fine and three-year imprisonment. According to the prosecution, Aamir Yar Warren was elected MNA from NA-184 Bahawalpur in the General Elections 2008 and was later found to posses a fake degree.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) is leading the race in local government (LG) elections in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , according to official results announced by the Provincial Election Commission on Saturday.
Addressing a presser at the Election Commission Office in Quetta, Provincial Election Commissioner Syed Sultan Bayazid said that official results, compiled by the EC Balochistan, had been sent to the Election Commission of Pakistain ECP, which would issue a notification on the final and official results "within two or three days".
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly took on the left-wing hate mob that has come after her following a humorous segment that she featured on her program Wednesday evening in which she and her guests staged a mock debate over the racial identity of Santa Claus.
To the haters, Kelly had a message tonight: Lighten up and learn to realize what satire is. "Humor is a part of what we try to bring to this show but sometimes that is lost on the humorless," she said.
The critics are skinless people in a sandpaper world...
Since the Wednesday segment, an absurd controversy has been swirling around the newly minted primetime host in which Foxophobic television and internet outlets seemed unable (or unwilling) to comprehend that the entire segment, which began with a satirical disclaimer to "kids at home" that Santa was white and did exist, was not to be taken seriously.
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[SLTRIB] A U.S. District Court judge has sided with the polgyamous Brown family, ruling that key parts of Utah's polygamy laws are unconstitutional.
Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy dissects the ruling in detail. He's not impressed...
Judge Clark Waddoups' 91-page ruling, issued Friday, sets a new legal precedent in Utah, effectively decriminalizing polygamy. It is the latest development in a lawsuit filed by the family of Kody Brown, who became famous while starring in cable TV channel TLC's reality series "Sister Wives." The show entered a fourth season at the end of the summer.
Waddoups' ruling attacks the parts of Utah's law making cohabitation illegal. In the introduction, Waddoups says the phrase "or cohabits with another person" is a violation of both the First and 14th amendments. Waddoups later writes that while there is no "fundamental right" to practice polygamy, the issue really comes down to "religious cohabitation." In the 1800s -- when the mainstream LDS Churh still practiced polygamy -- "religious cohabitation" in Utah could have actually resulted in "multiple purportedly legal marriages." Today, however, simply living together doesn't amount to being "married," Waddoups writes.
"The court finds the cohabitation prong of the Statute unconstitutional on numerous grounds and strikes it," Waddoups later writes.
Utah's bigamy statute technically survived the ruling. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... Waddoups took a narrow interpretation of the words "marry" and "purports to marry," meaning that bigamy remains illegal only in the literal sense -- when someone fraudulently acquires multiple marriage licences.
The Browns could not immediately be reached Friday night, but issued a statement through their lawyer calling the decision humbling and historic.
"While we know that many people do not approve of plural families, it is our family and based on our beliefs," Brown wrote. "Just as we respect the personal and religious choices of other families, we hope that in time all of our neighbors and fellow citizens will come to respect our own choices as part of this wonderful country of different faiths and beliefs."
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So evidently you could have as many common-law spouses as you want under this decision. The judge not only took down the polygamy law, but also just made gay marriage legal in Utah.
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Seems that it's worst result is marrage to more than one wife, in many cases, a fate worse than death, I don't know many women who CAN get along with each other, much less in a close knit family life.
If not close nit, so much the worse.
You can have it, not me.
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Once they're done beating marriage into shape as just another tax dodge for rich people (moslems in particular), they'll eventually ban the practice. Which is what "they" are really trying to do.
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National Geographic had a detailed article on Warren Jeffs et al a few years ago. Jeffs and his followers are very creepy people. One of the byproducts of having the big shots controlling all the women, is that a lot of boys in their early teens get kicked out of the community--age 13 or 14--and wind up homeless.
Polygamy, female poverty, and chronic destitution go together.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] An 18-year-old has been charged in the brutal rape and beating of an elderly nun in Aliquippa.
[fin24] Chinhoyi [formerly colonial Sinoia] - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Friday his government would soon ban private trade in gold, and require producers to sell the mineral through a state company.
[Guardian] Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most prominent figures in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, has been excluded from the funeral of Nelson Mandela on Sunday in what has been described as a politically motivated snub.
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Early and forced marriage are a violation of 
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly took on the left-wing hate mob that has come after her following a humorous segment that she featured on her program Wednesday evening in which she and her guests staged a mock debate over the racial identity of Santa Claus.
