Another feel-good story from SA.
Cape Town - A man has been arrested for indecently assaulting a seven-year-old girl and then setting her alight, Cape Town police said on Tuesday.
Captain Elliot Sinyangana said the crime happened in Blue Downs on Saturday night and police had been searching for the 28-year-old since then.
"The man - who is close to the girl's family - allegedly took the girl to an open veld where he assaulted her and set her alight," said Sinyangana.
The child was taken to a local hospital where she was said to be in a critical condition.
Following a tip-off, police arrested the man in the Blackheath area around 07:00 on Tuesday.
He was expected to appear in court soon, said Sinyangana.
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What do you expect from a culture which believes that screwing an infant can cure AIDS?
Unfortunately, that's not new or limited to Africa. This is a horrible perversion that's existed in South Asia and Africa for ages. My sister was raped in India back in 1961 by a monster who had the clap. She's been paying for it every day since.
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Thanks for the thoughts guys. This is one of my hot-button issues (along with polio vaccination) based on family history.
Speaking of families: please tell your families how much you love them, even if they're staunch liberal Dems like mine. I'm about to return home from my mother's funeral - about the only thing could bring all six of us far-flung kids together in one place.
First it was one child. Now authorities say Beijing families will be allowed only one dog. The restriction is part of efforts to stamp out rabies, state media said Wednesday. It follows a campaign in August in which thousands of dogs were killed in order to fight the disease. Commies ... why do they hate us?
China's capital will institute a "one dog" policy for each household in nine areas, the official Xinhua News Agency said. "Only one pet dog is allowed per household in the zones, and dangerous and large dogs will be banned. Anyone keeping an unlicensed dog will face prosecution," Xinhua said.
It said rabies killed 318 people nationwide in September. Rabies is on the rise in China, with 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data were available.
Only 3 percent of China's dogs are vaccinated against rabies, which attacks the nervous system and can be fatal. China has limited most urban couples to one child and those in the countryside to two since the 1970s in an effort to limit population growth and ease the strain on resources.
The dog limit was announced by Beijing police and the city agencies for agriculture and commerce, Xinhua said. A notice on the police department's Web site did not refer to a "one dog" policy but said a clampdown on stray and large dogs would be implemented. It called on dog owners to "create a harmonious society and be a civilized dog-raiser." Harmonious society is the term for President Hu Jintao's campaign to share the gains of China's rapid economic growth more fairly across all levels of society. It has also been used in The Society For Righteous and Harmonious Fists Men, AKA the Boxers
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I've a friend playing trailing wife in Beijing, and she says a large part of the problem is that there are no trustworthy sources for rabies vaccines. Even the trained vets are perfectly happy to inject coloured water and collect the fee, and even the pharmaceutical suppliers are as likely to sell coloured water as they are legitimate vaccine. The only option when rabies shows up is to sacrifice all the dogs in the vicinity, vaccinated or no.
After all, their 1-child policy worked out so well....
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I AM SHOCKED!!!!! No one has made any refrence to NorKor. Neither shall I then. Don't want the neighbors jealous because they have a bigger pet farm than you. Wait, one pet is still more isn't it? Nevermind.
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A little debauchery in Canada sounds pretty good right now...
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The Chateau Lake Louise is a great place and one of the few old grand style "Railway Resorts" left in North America (we stayed there a few years back).
The other guests and certainly the staff (exceptional, by the way) didn't deserve to have these folks.
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KHIPRO: Khipro police found an eight-year-old girl on Tuesday morning after she was raped. Sohni had been thrown near a taxi stand. Police took the girl to a hospital where she was medically examined. Police also arrested seven suspected drug addicts.
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She'll have to be treated until she's well enough to be stoned.
A couple of excerpts, a nice soother for our frazzled nerves:
That is not to suggest, however, that our military is bereft of participation from the countrys educated elite. Whatever the intention behind Senator Kerrys ill-advised comments last week regarding those serving in Iraq, the lawmaker from Massachusetts nonetheless thrust the issue of our finest university students and the military into the limelight.
Even as our military has taken fire on elite campuses, a counterintuitive and little-noticed trend among those institutions has emerged. Graduates of Americas best colleges are joining the service for a variety of reasons. ... a considerable portion of the American student body believes in serving its country in time of war. It is in the salons of the anti-war, baby-boomer left, where the military is the degraded, unqualified force it was in the waning days of the draft.
Consider the example of First Lieutenant Joseph Kearns Goodwin. Lieutenant Goodwin, the son of President Kennedy speechwriter Richard Goodwin and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, was awarded a Harvard degree in 2001. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he joined the Army and was commissioned as an officer. He spent a year leading men in Iraq, and the Army awarded him a Bronze Star.
Retired Captain Paul Mawn graduated from Harvard in 1963 and joined the Navy. Today he lives outside Boston not far from where Lieutenant Goodwin grew up and is chairman of the Advocates for Harvard ROTC. The group was formed to promote a climate of tolerance and acceptance for those who believe in serving their country. His son attended Dartmouth College and opted for the Marines Corps, where he served in the elite Force Recon unit. Theres been a long sense of tradition, he says, speaking of Harvard.
Harvard participants in ROTC become members of the Paul Revere Battalion along with students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Wellesley, and three other schools. Enrollment in the Paul Revere Battalion, based at MIT, has grown 40% during the last year and a half. Some 18 months ago, there were 39 cadets; now the number is roughly 55. Seven Harvard seniors were commissioned on campus in 2005. The prior year the number was 10.
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
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