Category Archives: Just strange

No prison for Colorado college student who ‘raped a helpless young woman’ | US news | The Guardian – Woman violated, assaulted, raped; Guy gets no prison – though found guilty. Crap!

A jury convicted Austin James Wilkerson, 22, of sexually assaulting a “helpless” woman on 15 March 2014 when prosecutors say he “isolated and raped the half-conscious victim” after he had told his friends at a St Patrick’s Day celebration that he was going to take care of her.Wilkerson – who eventually admitted that he “digitally and orally penetrated” the woman while he “wasn’t getting much of a response from her” – was potentially facing four to 12 years in state prison for the felony offense.The law, however, gives judges discretion to issue lighter sentences, and in Boulder County court on Wednesday, district judge Patrick Butler ruled that the former student should not serve any time in state prison. Instead, he ordered Wilkerson to serve two years of so-called “work release” and 20 years to life on probation.That means that Wilkerson, who was suspended from the public university, will be able to work or go to school during the day and will have to return to a county jail at night while he serves his sentence.

Source: No prison for Colorado college student who ‘raped a helpless young woman’ | US news | The Guardian

In the Shadows of Men | nadiaharhash

No matter how the man’s role changes, he is totally convinced he is the only one, that he was born to be unique and special. He is the copy that will never be pasted. And what unites all men despite their differences is their absolute belief that they know you better than you know yourself. They are convinced that they possess the solution and the equation, and through them secrets are revealed and masks fall.I don’t blame men for this. And I cannot understand why women submit to this as well. Did the men give themselves this level of authority or did the women assign them this role? Even with the most specific details of their lives and emotions. You see the sheikh’s of men ruling in women issues. Books of law-shari’a are filled with rules that govern the inner lives of women, which, they claim, only men can specialize in.

Source: In the Shadows of Men | nadiaharhash

Carlotta Ferlito sparks fury with racist jibe at new world champion Simone Biles | Daily Mail Online – Ingrained classic racism x 2

He apparently added: ‘Why are there no black swimmers? Because their physical features don’t suit the sport.’ Ciaralli also said that black people ‘may not have some of the necessities to be, let’s say, a field manager or a general manager’ and that they aren’t good swimmers because they ‘don’t have the buoyancy’. Mr Ciaralli has also apologised for his remarks, adding that they were not intended to reflect the official view of the Italian Gymnastics Federation.

Source: Carlotta Ferlito sparks fury with racist jibe at new world champion Simone Biles | Daily Mail Online

Florida governor criticizes Washington for lagging in Zika fight | Reuters – This after his people refused to work with CDC two weeks ago – Scott is just CYA for being a dummy!

Scott said he asked U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas Frieden earlier this week for 10,000 additional Zika preparedness kits.

Source: Florida governor criticizes Washington for lagging in Zika fight | Reuters

David Leyonhjelm, Malcolm Roberts push for Section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act to be removed – Australian Broadcasting Corporation – “Racists just wanna be racist and never have to change, even if they are less humane than those they wish to insult and hold down!”

New One Nation senator-elect Malcolm Roberts also reiterated his similar stance on the race discrimination laws.”It is very important to the country because at the moment a lot of people are afraid to speak up,” he told Insiders. Mr Roberts had told reporters on Friday that Section 18C “needs to be addressed because [it is] curbing free speech”.Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act makes it illegal to carry out an act if: “(a) the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and (b) the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group”.Section 18D of the Act outlines some exceptions — for example, an offence isn’t illegal if it is a fair and accurate report or comment.

Source: David Leyonhjelm, Malcolm Roberts push for Section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act to be removed – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

‘Get the baby out of here’: Trump ejects crying infant from rally | US news | The Guardian

“Don’t worry about that baby – I love babies,” the Republican candidate said, to the mother of a baby that had started crying during his stump speech. “I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby, what a beautiful baby. Don’t worry, don’t worry. The mom’s running around, like, don’t worry about it, you know? It’s young and beautiful and healthy and that’s what we want.”The audience laughed and clapped politely.Later, when the baby continued crying, however, Trump was a little rougher.“Actually, I was only kidding – you can get the baby out of here,” Trump said firmly. “That’s all right, don’t worry. I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking. That’s OK. People don’t understand. That’s OK.”

Source: ‘Get the baby out of here’: Trump ejects crying infant from rally | US news | The Guardian

FBI employee admits to feeding confidential information to Chinese official for cash and prostitutes: Shanghaiist

The “spy vs. spy” saga between the US and China has been escalated in recent years, with both countries trading accusations of clandestine attempts to steal sensitive information — from the arrest of an ex-NASA contractor to the conviction of two men for stealing Oreo’s precious recipe. Last year, the US charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage. Meanwhile, to help catch agents operating inside its country, China has enlisted help from the masses with a nationwide hotline.

Source: FBI employee admits to feeding confidential information to Chinese official for cash and prostitutes: Shanghaiist

Mother of service member booed over Khan question at Pence rally – POLITICO

Barbara Weisenthal, 56, said she was among those booing and that Khizr Khan did not have the “right” to say what he did about Trump at the DNC. His speech “was almost like slander,” she said.Of the woman who asked the question, Weisenthal said it was “probably not the best place to do that.”Jack Christenson, himself a veteran, said the questioner may have had the right to ask her question of Pence, but not “to violate everyone else’s rights,” which he said she did by speaking out at the event.“She was claiming that Trump was somehow insulting the veterans,” said Roen Horn, 29. He called that idea “a bunch of crap.”“She was politicizing the veterans,” she said. “She had an agenda.”

Source: Mother of service member booed over Khan question at Pence rally – POLITICO

Putin enjoys early Christmas presents | Europe | DW.COM | 29.07.2016

‘Die for Danzig. No!’And Republican Trump ally and former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, has explained exactly how this will happen – just as it did in Crimea. Speaking on the CBS This Morning programme he said “Estonia is in the suburbs of St Petersburg. The Russians aren’t going to necessarily come across the [Estonian] border militarily. The Russians will do what they did in Ukraine. 40 percent of Estonia is Russian. They’re suddenly going to say they’re being mistreated. They’re going to have a militia. I’m not sure I would risk a nuclear war over some place which is the suburbs of St Petersburg.”The comments are reminiscent of the French neo-socialist writer Marcel Déat, who wrote an article in 1939 urging further appeasement of Hilter by giving back to Germany the former Prussian region of Danzig, which was within Polish territory and administered by the League of Nations. Déat coined the phrase “Die for Danzig. No!”Shortly afterwards Hitler – followed by the Soviet Union which had been promised the territories of the Baltics, Finland and a swath of Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – invaded Poland and all hell broke out in Europe for the second time. Let’s hope there won’t be a third.

Source: Putin enjoys early Christmas presents | Europe | DW.COM | 29.07.2016

Sorry Donald Trump, but ‘France IS still France’ – The Local

During a news conference in Florida on Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee brought up the recent attack on a church in Normandy, and said a friend who recently visited the country told him: “I wouldn’t go to France. France is no longer France.””They won’t like me for saying that,” Trump continued, “but you see what happened in Nice. You see what happened yesterday with the priest, who is supposed to be a spectacular man. France is no longer France.”Sorry to say, Mr Trump, but it is.And it’s largely because the majority French people defiantly won’t allow themselves to fall victim to the kind of reaction Trump would call for in the aftermath of a series of devastating terror attacks.No, France hasn’t closed its borders to Muslims.There have been some unsavoury incidents which saw some veil-wearing Muslim women verbally abused but the country’s five million Muslims are still free to wander the same streets as everyone else.There has been no walls put up around the banlieues – the poor suburbs home to mainly poor North African immigrant communities.There may be anger but communities have not turned on each other.

Source: Sorry Donald Trump, but ‘France IS still France’ – The Local