[NY Post] A "homeless-looking" man in Oregon has confessed to sexually assaulting a horse after its owner found the animal "tied up in an unusual way" inside its stable, police and court documents say.
Kenneth Lijah Duyck, 20, is in Washington County Jail Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault of an animal and second-degree burglary stemming from the incident last week on a rural property in Hillsboro.
Duyck broke into the stable and went after a black mare named Ellie, The Oregonian reported, citing court records and police statements.
The owner of the property later discovered a bucket overturned, and in a call to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, said the animal was "tied up in an unusual way," FOX12 Oregon reported.
[FOX 8] CHARLOTTE, N.C. ‐ Jacqueline Murphy was working the drive-through Thursday at a Charlotte Chick-fil-A when she learned she had received a $25,000 scholarship.
Murphy was surprised when restaurant operator and company leaders pulled through with a giant check. After the presentation, her friends and family were waiting to surprise Murphy.
Murphy started working at Chick-fil-A on East Woodlawn Road to overcome her shyness and even went to work on her off-days to shadow team members to help her become more engaged with guests, the press release said.
Murphy is a seasonal manager at the restaurant while also attending Wingate University’s School of Pharmacy.
Chick-fil-A will award $14.5 million to team members nationwide through its scholarship program called "Remarkable Futures."
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But, but, it's an eeevil Christian organization...
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Murphy is a seasonal manager at the restaurant while also attending Wingate University’s School of Pharmacy.
A smart, hard working young person — a good investment of scholarship funds. It used to be that a pharmacy degree was the equivalent of a Masters, but they made it even harder, and nowadays it’s the equivalent of a PhD.
[USA Today] John McCain's son-in-law, conservative pundit Ben Domenech, tweeted Saturday night that the senator, who is battling a deadly form of brain cancer, asked him to take care of his daughter, Meghan.
Yes, she is thirty-three, but he married her last November, so taking care of her is part of the job, as taking care of him is part of hers.
McCain, a six-term Arizona Republican, was released from the hospital last week. He had been in stable condition at the Mayo Clinic, according to his family and Senate office, following surgery for an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis.
McCain, 81, has been recovering at his family's retreat near Sedona, a tweet from his wife, Cindy, suggests.
Ben Domenech's tweet was posted at 8:16 p.m. Arizona time. It is unclear what prompted the message. He subsequently deleted the tweet sometime before 10 p.m.
"John hugged me tonight. He asked me to take care of Meghan. I said I would," Domenech wrote. "F--k you soulless crazies. F--k you all the way to hell."
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Yeah, I bet Meggie Moo can wrestle a barrel of ice cream twice her own weight...
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Dear 'Maverick' McCain (AKA 'Keating Five' John, AKA 'McCain-Feingold "Screw the 1st Amendment" John'), please Shut. Up. And. Just. Go. Away.
Acknowledge the 'health issues' and live out your remaining life with your family in dignified silence.
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Time to look at where Benny D might have cribbed his "F--k you soulless crazies. F--k you all the way to hell." line from. I bet he lifted it from P.J. O'Rourke's essay on memorable last utterances.
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[The Hill] President Trump is expected to speak at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual meeting this week, a White House official confirmed Sunday.
The NRA’s annual meeting will take place May 3-6 in Dallas. Vice President Pence is scheduled to speak there on Friday.
Trump has delivered remarks at each of the past two annual meetings for the gun rights group.
CNN first reported on Trump's planned appearance at the annual meeting.
This speech would come nearly two months after the Trump administration unveiled a series of proposals on school safety and gun restrictions in response to a Feb. 14 shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
Politix Subcontinental-style...
[Dhaka Tribune] Monti Chakma, general secretary of central Hill Women’s Federation, who was kidnapped along with one of her colleagues on March 18 by a group of gunnies, addressed a presser at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Sunday morning where she described the abduction in detail and named several of her abductors.
Surrounded by her friends and well-wishers, Monti said the abduction was carried out by people she knew, and accused the administration and law enforcement agencies of being aware of the incident.
[DailyMail] The crisis has emerged after the introduction of more gruelling fitness tests equal to those taken by other armed officers in the UK.
Some MoD police – who protect the nuclear submarine fleet at Faslane, GCHQ’s iconic base in Gloucestershire and Devonport’s historic naval dockyards – have failed the new tests, while others have simply refused to take part.
Last night, former Army officer Leo Docherty MP, who sits on the Defence Select Committee, said: ‘There is absolutely no reason why those serving in the MoD Police should not observe the same high standards of those in the Armed Forces.
The MoD Police protect the country’s nuclear weapons facilities, military bases and intelligence headquarters, while its armed officers have also been deployed on the streets of Britain in the aftermath of terror attacks.
But official documents reveal huge problems within the 2,500-strong force, where more than 30 officers were either sacked or allowed to quit for not patrolling top- security sites properly in a scandal revealed by the MoS last year.
That’s 1.2%, I believe.
The force is 200 officers short,
That’s 7.4% of the target 2,700.
yet faces huge budget cuts that could risk national security, while the new fitness tests have left many officers unable to perform their duties.
David Riddle, chairman of the MoD Police Committee, an independent body which oversees the force, wrote in its annual report: ‘The gap [in officers] is exacerbated by rising levels of sickness absence and officers unfit to perform the full range of duties.
‘In the short term, the problems are likely to get worse because of the number of officers who may fail the fitness standard or health check.’
No doubt.
Until last year, officers – ‘still heavily weighted towards over 50s’ according to the annual report – had to pass a shuttle run test set by the Institute of Naval Medicine and faced no sanction if they failed.
But now they have to complete the test to the more stringent standard expected of firearms officers in other police forces, and will face disciplinary procedures if they fail another three times.
So some have failed a test they were never before asked to pass, but they are given the opportunity to improve.
The annual report warns that the stricter rules ‘could initially produce more officers judged non-capable of carrying out armed duties (by reason of fitness or health)’.
Surely that was expected.
In the first year of the tests, the report said, ‘over 600 officers (around 25 per cent of the force) have not yet come forward to test themselves’.
Possibly they’ve been busy, or they are still in the queue, waiting their turn to be tested.
Another three per cent failed the test,
...that is to say, 75 failed first time. But they have two more chances to try...
while five per cent could not take it for health reasons.
Figures up to March 2017 showed that nine per cent of the workforce is currently assessed as not being capable to carry a firearm, with 60 officers on long-term sick leave, 152 deemed ‘temporarily non-capable’ due to illness, injury or lack of fitness, and another 19 suffering long-term medical conditions.
That’s a total of 231, but 9% of 2,500 is 225.
Eamon Keating, national chairman of the Defence Police Federation, said: ‘Given fitness testing was only introduced two years ago, it should not be a surprise that some officers have struggled to meet these requirements in the absence of any prior assessment.’
The ‘health and capability’ of the officers was described as among the most significant risks facing the force, said the annual report.
But it added that the ‘key issue’ facing the MoD Police was its lack of money. It faced a £15 million cut to its £130 million budget in the past year – ‘delivered at the expense of policing and security services’.
‘The spending cuts mean there is a large gap between resources currently available and the established level of customer requirements,’ the report stated.
[AAWSAT] Thousands of Nicaraguans staged peaceful rallies on Saturday, demanding justice for 43 people who were killed in a wave of protests that were suppressed by the authorities.
There was a sea of blue and white flags as the crowds massed outside the city's cathedral, among them young people, the elderly and farmers protesting against plans to construct a canal linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
The rally took place just hours after university students at the forefront of anti-government unrest issued conditions for talks with the government of embattled President Daniel Ortega.
Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the city's archbishop, said he would act as a witness and mediator in the dialogue called for by Ortega, adding he would impose a deadline of one month to see "if a real commitment exists" to carry out the agreements reached.
"If we see that they are not taking these steps, we will call a halt and we will tell the people of God that we cannot carry on," he said to widespread applause and chants of "Make them go!" in reference to Ortega and his wife, vice-president Rosario Murillo.
"We are no longer afraid, we want a free Nicaragua," a demonstrator called Rosa Herrera, 65, told AFP.
"Nicaragua wants peace so that there is no more bloodshed," said Maria Flores, a 40-year-old lawyer, while insisting: "There has to be justice for the dead and the disappeared."
"I came because the young people who died deserve a tribute, that we march for the peace in the country, for justice and for the return of the democracy that has been kidnapped by this government," said Marlene Alvarez, 26, who works in a laboratory in the capital.
Although Ortega has agreed to hold talks, the framework has yet to be defined, with the students on Saturday laying down their conditions for the dialogue to take place.
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[AlAhram] North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country, Seoul said Sunday, as Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal in his summit with the secretive regime.
The reported pledge from the North's leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
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The reports do not reveal whether these were native rapists, migrants from elsewhere, or Moslem colonists...
[DAWN] Tens of thousands of Spaniards erupted into the streets of Pamplona on Saturday to protest against the acquittal of five men accused of gang raping an 18-year-old woman at the city’s bull-running festival.
Demonstrators have filled streets across the country since the court ruling on Thursday, leading Spain’s conservative government to say it will consider changing rape laws.
The men were acquitted of sexual assault, which includes rape, and sentenced to nine years for the lesser offence of sexual abuse.
In Pamplona itself, police said that "between 32,000 and 35,000 people" took part in a demonstration on Saturday, rallying under the slogan "it’s not sexual abuse, it’s rape".
The protest passed off without incident, a police front man said. It marks the third day of protests.
Ana Botin, the influential head of Santander, one of Spain’s biggest banks, tweeted that the ruling was "a step back for women’s security" while former judge Manuela Carmena, now Madrid mayor, said it "does not meet women’s demand for justice".
The men, aged 27 to 29, had been accused of raping the woman at the entrance to an apartment building in Pamplona on July 7, 2016, at the start of the week-long San Fermin festival, which draws tens of thousands of visitors.
The five, all from the southern city of Seville, filmed the incident with their smartphones and then bragged about it on a WhatsApp messaging group where they referred to themselves as "La Manada", or "The Pack" in English.
An online petition calling for the disqualification of the judges who passed the sentence gathered more than 1.2 million signatures by Saturday.
Under Spain’s criminal code, evidence of violence or intimidation must exist for the offence of rape to be proved.
But that was a legal nuance that was "not always easy to establish," top-selling daily El Pais wrote in an editorial.
It "leads to the painful question of just how much a person needs to fight to avoid being raped without risking getting killed, and still get recognised as a victim of a serious attack against sexual freedom while ensuring that the perpetrators do not enjoy impunity," the newspaper said.
In their ruling, the judges said that "it is indisputable that the plaintiff suddenly found herself in a narrow and hidden place, surrounded by five older, thick-bodied males who left her overwhelmed and unresponsive.
"The videos show the plaintiff surrounded and stuck against the wall by two of the accused... she has an absent grimace, and keeps her eyes closed," they added.
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[DAWN] In a bid to reduce dependence on foreign satellites for civil and military purposes, Pakistain plans to launch an aggressive space programme during the next fiscal year by initiating several projects.
The budget of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Organisation (Suparco) for the upcoming fiscal year 2018-19 is Rs4.70 billion which includes Rs2.55bn for three new projects.
The funding includes allocation of Rs1.35bn for Pakistain Multi-Mission Satellite (PakSat- MM1) and the country is also planning to establish Pakistain Space Centre in 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 and Islamabad with the allocation of Rs1bn. The third project is establishment of Space Application Research Centre in Karachi with the budget of Rs200 million in 2018-19.
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[DAWN] A US diplomat stationed in Islamabad was taken into police custody after he rammed his vehicle into two motorcyclists in the federal capital, DawnNewsTV reported.
Second Secretary Chad Rex Ausburn hit the bike rider and his pillion passenger in a hit-and-run on Sunday in the premises of Secretariat cop shoppe. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where their condition is said to be stable.
Following the incident, the diplomat refused to step out of the vehicle. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... he stepped out and identified himself when police reached the site of incident.
The US diplomat was later taken into police custody and shifted to Secretariat cop shoppe. Police have impounded the vehicle and taken the diplomat’s cards for verification.
The US diplomat was in police custody till the filing of this report, awaiting verification and confirmation of diplomatic immunity.
Earlier this month, a motorcyclist in Islamabad was killed after being hit by a vehicle driven by the military attaché of United States.
Defence and air attaché at the US embassy Col Joseph Emanuel was driving a white SUV when he hit Ateeq and Raheel travelling on a cycle of violence. Resultantly, Ateeq went titzup while Raheel suffered serious injuries and has been shifted to nearby hospital.
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Good old State Department, acting like royalty and expecting appropriate treatment. I bet State refuses to pay a dime for the treatment of the men who were run over. It's the principle of the thing, royalty shouldn't accountable to deplorables.
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Herb - I'll bet I could almost fill a thimble with what you know about diplomatic immunity.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NY Post] A "homeless-looking" man in Oregon has confessed to sexually assaulting a horse after its owner found the animal "tied up in an unusual way" inside its stable, police and court documents say.
[FOX 8] CHARLOTTE, N.C. ‐ Jacqueline Murphy was working the drive-through Thursday at a Charlotte Chick-fil-A when she learned she had received a $25,000 scholarship.
[USA Today] John McCain's son-in-law, conservative pundit Ben Domenech, tweeted Saturday night that the senator, who is battling a deadly form of brain cancer, 
North Korea
