[WASHINGTONPOST] Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer sentenced to just six months and probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a campus frat house, has been banned for life by USA Swimming.
Swimming’s governing body confirmed to USA Today on Monday that Turner will not be eligible to compete in any sanctioned events, including Olympic Trials. The ban extends to any and all future events or trials. Turner, found guilty of three charges, assault with the intent to commit rape, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration of an unconscious person, would have to be a member of the organization to compete in sanctioned events.
A front man for USA Swimming, Scott Leightman, told the publication in an email, "Brock Turner’s membership with USA Swimming expired at the end of the calendar year 2014. He was not a member at the time of his crime or since then. USA Swimming doesn’t have any jurisdiction over non-members."
Leightman went on to discuss Turner’s eligibility as it would relate to USA Swimming’s code of conduct, noting that were he to apply, his application would be rejected.
So many of these cases recently have turned out to be other than as publicized by the social justice warriors, and some of the young men have successfully sued the schools and organizations that ruined their lives without proper examination of the facts. Given the judge's sentencing statement and the fact that Mr. Brock was released for good behaviour after serving only half of his six month sentence, I have to suspect this case will turn out to be in that category. If so, I hope his lawyers teach the key witchhunters a salutary lesson.
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True, TW, but in this case it appears he was guilty
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The Other McCain adds some facts not much discussed in the outpourings of indignation I've seen, FrankG.
I find it interesting that he claimed he had asked and she had given consent for what he was doing in light of the fact that she had called and spoken to her boyfriend evening, though she had no memory of it. This suggests she might indeed have given permission, which would make the only issue that she had passed out during the proceedings.
I don't imagine he was as innocent as I was when Mr. Wife rescued me from the orientation advisor who was hitting on me at my freshman orientation -- I was very sheltered, which most kids choose not to be. But if he saw a cougar and she saw a pretty boy...
I suffer from reasonable doubt. And the kind of Minute Of Hate lynch mobs that have appeared in this case make me suspect extenuating facts are not being discussed.
[ABC] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cut short his trip to the United States today after being denied permission to participate in critical aspects of Muhammad Ali's funeral, according to a report published by Turkey's Dogan news agency.
Erdogan traveled to the U.S. to partake in Ali's funeral services. He decided to leave after reportedly being denied the right to drape a piece of ceremonial cloth on Ali's coffin during funeral prayers. Before arriving on U.S. soil, funeral organizers had removed him from the list of potential speakers at Ali's funeral, citing a limitation of time as the cause for his exclusion, according to Dogan.
Adding to an air of discord surrounding the Turkish president's trip was a short quarrel that allegedly occurred between U.S. secret service officials and Turkish presidential body guards over a matter of standing room. A request for comment by ABC News to the U.S. Secret Service was not immediately returned.
Erdogan, who has made the promotion of his Muslim heritage a central part of his legacy as president, highlighted Ali's Muslim faith yesterday at a dinner with several American Muslims.
Erdogan and King Abdullah II of Jordan were scheduled to speak at the champion boxer's service on Friday, but was cut due to lack of program space.
'It's not about who they are, it's about the fact that we just don't have room on the program for them,' family spokesman Bob Gunnell said, adding that their representatives were 'gracious and understood' when told.
In addition, The Dogan news agency quoted presidential sources as saying funeral organizers refused to allow Erdogan to lay a cloth from the Kaaba on Ali’s coffin during the ceremony.
Erdogan and the Sunni cleric who heads Turkey’s religious affairs agency, Mehmet Gormez, had also wanted to give readings from the Quran but were not allowed to, it added.
Erdogan’s lightning visit to the US also caused consternation in Turkey, with Erdogan leaving the day after a bomb attack in Istanbul claimed by Kurdish militants that killed 11 people.
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It was the private funeral of a private citizen, however famous he might be. It is understandable that the family would prefer to involve people important to the person who died and his family, not heads of states from minor nations on the far side of the world. It is not clear to me that President Erdogan was even invited, rather than pushing his way in where he hadn't even been thought of.
[Breitbart] Canada’s highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.
In a quixotic ruling, the country’s high court ruled that a man who was on trial for raping and sexually exploiting his own daughters wasn’t guilty of "bestiality." The man reportedly, "smeared peanut butter on the genitals of his victims and had the family dog lick it off while he videotaped the act."
The convicted man took his case to the Canadian Supreme Court, demanding that the bestiality charge be nullified. In the end, the court agreed.
As a result of the rape case, the court ruled 7 to 1 that humans having sexual contact with animals is OK if there is no "penetration" involved in the act.
In its ruling, the court decided that the legislature had not clearly defined the terms in the country’s bestiality laws and the way the statute is written should be read to only outlaw animal penetration, whether that penetration is animal to human or vice versa.
"Although bestiality was often subsumed in terms such as sodomy or buggery.....
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Ima gettin married in the mornin!
Dink, dink her bells are gonna chime!
Pull out the stopper, we'll have a flopper,
But get me to the barnyard on time!
Maurice! Fetch the Triumph! It is my destiny to yet again ride around brooding Castle Rantburg.
WTF you brought the pompatus of love into the Triumph? WTF? You prevert! Take me directly to the nearest Honda dealer that me might be in Accord.
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I don't know but I've been told, sometimes if you want a cow impregnated the bull is gonna need some help.
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I think the humans involved need to be compelled to undergo psychiatric analysis, and then publicly shamed by the ASPCA or its equivalent. This is some sick abusive stuff with creatures that can't understand or consent. Disgusting...
[Rooters] Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant "super bacteria" off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete when the Games start on Aug. 5.
The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.
They also heighten concerns that Rio's sewage-infested waterways are unsafe.
A study published in late 2014 had shown the presence of the super bacteria - classified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an urgent public health threat - off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events will be held during the Games.
The first of the two new studies, reviewed in September by scientists at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Diego, showed the presence of the microbes at five of Rio's showcase beaches, including the ocean-front Copacabana, where open-water and triathlon swimming will take place.
The other four were Ipanema, Leblon, Botafogo and Flamengo.
The super bacteria can cause hard-to-treat urinary, gastrointestinal, pulmonary and bloodstream infections, along with meningitis. The CDC says studies show that these bacteria contribute to death in up to half of patients infected.
Yee-haw! :-D
EAGLE POINT, Ore. -- A man on a horse chased down and lassoed a suspected thief at the Eagle Point Walmart, according to witnesses.
Police say that a woman was yelling about her bike being stolen and a nearby man unloaded a horse from a trailer, lassoed the man and pulled him back toward the store. They say that the man grabbed onto a tree and wouldn't let go.
Eagle Point Police arrived on scene and arrested the man, identified as 22-year-old Victorino Arellano-Sanchez. He was lodged in the Jackson County Jail.
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Racis. Vigilante justice. Unwarranted use of force. Woman who claim bike ownership was lying. His mother says he was always a good boy and would never do anything like steal a bike. {Trot out usual commentary here}
[The Hill] Gen. David Petraeus and retired astronaut Mark Kelly announced Friday they are forming a new gun control group for veterans.
The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense will push to strengthen gun background check laws and help prevent veterans from committing suicide. It pointed to several alarming statistics about the military and gun violence.
According to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), about 22 veterans kill themselves each day.
Since September 11, 2001, more Americans have been killed by gun violence than combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"As service members, each of us swore an oath to protect our Constitution and the homeland," said Kelly, who formed another gun control group with his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), after she was shot and seriously wounded during a mass shooting in 2011.
"Now we're asking our leaders to do more to protect our rights and save lives," Kelly added in the statement. "Gabby and I are grateful to all of these incredible veterans and leaders who are using their voice to call for commonsense change that makes our communities safer."
In addition to Petraeus, the former CIA director, and Kelly, a number of other generals and admirals will join the group, including another former CIA director, Michael Hayden, and retired Adm. Thad Allen.
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First - Most Vet suicides are due to over prescription of psych meds...that is a fact.
Second - no one cares what dumb azz Dave Betrayus pontificates about anymore. He betrayed his wife, the Army and its soldiers, and shamed himself. He needs to go away. The sight of that perfumed prince sickens me.
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Easy on the bugger Tennessee. He's simply positioning himself for a future Clinton Administration job. Failing that, the extra cash will come in handy should 'lawyering up' become necessary.
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Suicide? How many DWI traffic fatalities are just another suicide covered up by liquoring oneself up to 'pull the trigger'? So much easier for the paper pushers to chalk it up as simply DWI. Number of deaths by guns vs the number of deaths by vehicles.
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You think a lot of this crap would go on if we made it that if you can vote, you can own a gun, if you can't own a gun, you can't vote. There's no color, race, creed, or gender involved there, so no 14th Amendment violation there.
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All RINOS including Mattis when the time comes. No one can be trusted without the pearl shine. RINO until you have the paper. Newt had the original, but he's slipping on the Martian CIA question and the guns for dawg's bill, looking and smelling kinda RINO.
Tuckup, Ariz. • Her dust trail hems in five dozen cattle while Tean Finicum — pronounced Tee-Ann — rides behind them from flank to flank, driving the herd toward a dirt road that borders a low mountainside.
As her saddle-length blond braid bobs in step with her horse, the 18-year-old shouts over the wind to direct the movements of her mom, Jeanette. Together with two frantic border collies, they impress upon the cattle that the most convenient option is to mosey on forward while sneaking mouthfuls of the windswept grass.
Weekend adventurers in motorcycles and SUVs wave as they pass on the road — “There are some real-live cowgirls back there,” one will announce to the passengers of a car parked ahead.
After a few miles, Tean rides away from the herd while Jeanette continues to drawl “Heeey, cow” at its rear. She waits for them just beyond a cattle guard, demanding that they turn more than 90 degrees and begin to climb the mountain where the scrub is less dense.
They’d rather not. The last time Tean tried this, when she was by herself, the cattle refused. The whole effort, including a 45-mile drive south from the family’s home near the Utah border in Cane Beds, Ariz., had been for nothing.
This time, the dogs scurry about to browbeat the grunting insubordinates as mother and daughter turn them toward slope and sky. The herd starts and stops, starts again and stops again. Finally, deprived of an easier choice, it heads unhurriedly toward the top, from which point memory alone will lead the cattle to the higher ground’s water source.
The day’s work has been a success, and the Finicums are pleased.
But even victories like these are dampered by a recurring thought.
[An Nahar] At least 30 people, including serving soldiers and an opposition MP, have been detained on suspicion of plotting to overthrow Uganda's government, the army front man said on Friday.
"We and the police are investigating the matter," Colonel Paddy Ankunda told AFP, saying the group was suspected of planning an armed uprising against President Yoweri Museveni, himself a former rebel who seized power 30 years ago.
Ankunda said the detainees were "linked to a rebel group" that he declined to name.
He said most of those locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! were soldiers, adding that at least one politician and another opposition politician had been arrested.
The only detainee named by the army front man was Michael Kabaziguruka, an MP from the main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party whose leader Kizza Besigye is in jug facing treason charges.
Besigye, who claimed fraud after coming second to Museveni in February's presidential election, was arrested last month for holding a mock swearing-in ceremony.
Besigye was previously charged with treason in 2005 but the case was eventually abandoned. At the time prosecutors accused him of leading a shadowy rebel group named the People's Redemption Army, a charge Besigye always denied.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen marched into a remote mountain village in Mexico on Friday and killed 11 members of the same family, including two children, authorities said.
Five women, four men and two girls were killed in El Mirador, a community in central Puebla state, near Oaxaca, and the motive of the massacre was under investigation.
"Two other minors were badly maimed and taken to the hospital," said Vicente Lopez de la Vega, the mayor of the town of Coxcatlan, which oversees El Mirador.
The Puebla state prosecutor's office said in a statement that initial reports indicate that "people arrived on foot where the family was located, fired several times and left on foot."
Prosecutors said the two maimed children were also girls.
The statement did not specify where the family was during the attack.
A state government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the attack took place inside one home.
But some local media said the bodies were found in several homes.
The prosecutor's office said two people witnessed the massacre and that both have been put under police protection.
The statement said more information would be available after authorities can communicate with Sherlocks, who are working in a remote region.
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[An Nahar] Venezuelan authorities set a timeline Friday for the next stage in the opposition's push to call a referendum to sack President Nicolas Maduro, but warned they would halt the process if violence erupts.
Electoral authorities will take fingerprint scans from June 20 to 24 to confirm the identity of people who signed a petition for a referendum, said the head of the National Electoral Board, Tibisay Lucena -- a small victory for the opposition as it races against the clock.
But Lucena warned the entire process would be halted if it turned violent.
"We want to say very emphatically (that) any aggression, disturbance or violence will lead to the immediate suspension of the process until order, peace and respect are reestablished," she told a presser.
The leftist president's opponents are scrambling to finish the lengthy process of calling a referendum by the end of the year.
After January 10, four years into Maduro's six-year term, a successful recall vote would simply hand power to his vice president, rather than trigger new elections.
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It's gonna get really ugly. If you're starving, rule of law means little
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Today, Friday, June 10 2016, the Baltic Dry Index decreased by 1 point, reaching 610 points.
Baltic Dry Index is compiled by the London-based Baltic Exchange and covers prices for transported cargo such as coal, grain and iron ore.
The index is based on a daily survey of agents all over the world. Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20, 2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on Wednesday the 10th of February 2016, when the index dropped to 290 points.
Freight rates for large capesize dry cargo ships on key Asian routes could nudge higher next week after hitting multi-month highs this week on strong cargo buying volumes, ship brokers said.
Capesize rates from Western Australia to China jumped to a six-month high on Wednesday after remaining flat all week following a surge in chartering activity by Australian miners including Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.
On the Brazil iron ore trade, rates for capesize vessels, which typically haul 170,000 tonnes of iron ore or coal, to China plateaued out this week after rising close to a near two-month high on June 6.
That came as iron ore futures on the Dalian Commodity Exchange held around their two-week highs this week with some Chinese steel producers replenishing inventories ahead of public holidays on Thursday and Friday.
Iron ore imports by top buyer China rose 22.4 percent on year to 86.75 million tonnes in May, China customs data showed.
Thermal coal demand has increased, partly due to supply disruptions, which has also helped the capesize freight market, brokers said.
“I feel next week is still going to be positive, with charter rates going north. The Brent oil price is finding support above $50 a barrel and there is a stable volume of coal cargoes,” a Shanghai capesize broker said.
“Sentiment is firm in the market. I feel the South Africa route has also got very active recently with almost two cargoes a week.”
Around 31 capesize ships were chartered in the week to June 8, compared with around 21 in the previous week, chartering data on the Reuters Eikon terminal showed.
“Cargo volumes are pretty good. Ship owners are in the driving seat,” a Singapore-based capesize broker said, adding tonnage availability was looking tight for the second half of the month.
Ship owners are now seeking $5 per tonne for capesize cargoes from Western Australia to China, the Singapore broker said.
“It’s taken six months for rates to get above $5. All the miners are in – it’s a perfect storm-ish.”
Freight rates for Brazil-China rose to $9.13 per tonne on Wednesday from $8.46 per tonne last week. Rates climbed to $9.15 on June 6, the highest since April 19.
Capesize charter rates for Western Australia-China soared to $4.85 per tonne on Wednesday, the highest since Nov. 30, against $4.31 per tonne the same day last week.
Charter rates for smaller panamax vessels for a north Pacific round-trip voyage fell to $3,864 per day on Wednesday, the lowest since March 30, from $4,378 a week earlier on thin cargo volumes.
Freight rates in the Far East for smaller supramax vessels held around $5,500 per day this week on strong fixture volumes, brokers said.
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index slipped to 610 on Wednesday from 612 last week.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Keith Wallis; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
[DAWN] A Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) senator reportedly used abusive language against female analyst and rights activist Marvi Sirmed during a television show on Friday, triggering a social media uproar.
The show aired on private television channel NewsOne was debating recent honour killings in Pakistain when JUI-F Senator Hafiz Hamdullah got angry over Ms Sirmed for what he believed was her support for the comments of Barrister Masroor, a panelist in the programme, over a lack of reaction from the Council Of Islamic Ideology on these killings.
Hamdullah was of the view that Barrister Masroor should not have used the words 'pee k soey hue hain' (sleeping after getting intoxicated) for the CII chairman and his fellow JUI-F member Maulana Sherani.
"I won't allow you to speak if you are supporting his words," Hamdullah said to Sirmed.
The argument between Hamdullah and Sirmed resulted in an exchange of hot words between the rights activist and the politician.
As seen in the video, Hamdullah continued that he would not allow Sirmed to speak.
The questionable language was omitted from the transmission. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Sirmed in her Facebook post claimed that Hamdullah began verbally abusing her with the worst possible expletives and tried to physically attack her as well.
Talking to DawnNews, Sirmed said Hamdullah also tried to physically attack her, forcing panelist Fayaz ul Hassan Chauhan to get in the way to stop him and have the channel's management call its security staff.
She further claimed that the whole episode is recorded in the channel's cameras.
PTI's Fayaz ul Hassan Chauhan and Barrister Masroor supported Sirmed's claim on social media.
On Twitter, politicians, politicians and media representatives condemned the attack on Sirmed, some also calling for revoking Maulana Hamdullah's Senate membership.
The JUI-F senator has in the past used abusive language against a female anchor during a television talk show.
He verbally abused the show host for what he called her misrepresentation of clergy's views on violence against women.
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My next gurl kittuah gonna be named Marvi, since The Fabulous Baby Cat is already taken.
[GEO.TV] A couple were murdered in Lahore on Friday for marrying without their family's consent, officials said, the second so-called "honour killing" reported from the quiet provincial capital this week.
Muhammad Ashraf, 56, killed his daughter Saba and her husband Karamat Ali a day after the couple returned to Lahore's Kahna area to smooth over rocky relations with the family who disapproved of the marriage, police said.
"18-year-old Saba had married Karamat Ali, who is 35, around a year and a half ago against the will of her family and returned to her home on Thursday night to settle matters with father and other family members," said Falak Sher, a local police official.
Ashraf, a security guard by profession, opened fire on his daughter and son-in-law after becoming infuriated during a heated conversation.
"He also killed his neighbour Muhammad Akram for supporting his daughter's marriage," said Sher, adding that Ashraf and his son Safdar later surrendered to police and confessed to the murders.
The incident comes just days after another woman in Lahore, Zeenat Bibi, was set on fire by her mother for marrying a man of her own choice. Bibi's mother later confessed to the crime.
Earlier on Friday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ordered a comprehensive investigation into Bibi's killing, calling the crime un-Islamic.
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Many knee operations conducted by keyhole surgery are no more effective than painkillers, according to a leading surgeon.
Professor Andrew Carr said the success of such procedures was often down to the ‘placebo effect’, where patients feel better as a result of their belief in the treatment.
He warned some who had keyhole knee surgery suffered serious complications such as infections or pulmonary embolisms. ‘Some people die,’ he said.
‘I don’t think we should be doing operations where the entire effect is placebo,’ the founder and director of the University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences told the Cheltenham Science Festival.
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Not necessarily true. If a person has a bucket-handled tear in the meniscus, often the cartilage causes the knee to lock up and painkillers are of little use. Arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery often will help for awhile.
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Most definitely NOT TRUE for me. I suffered a bucket handle tear in medial meniscus left side 1993, locked my knee in a partly flexed position, and was only relieved by an arthroscopic partial meniscectomy. Painkillers were completely useless. "good for awhile" - how about 23 YEARS?
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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