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-Lurid Crime Tales-
God smites man raping elderly woman
[Emirates 24/7] A man died while raping a 77-year-old woman, local media reported.

Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, Mexican, broke into the woman's rural home armed with a knife and attacked her.

But in the midst of the rape he complained he wasn't feeling well and "stopped having sex with her so he could rest," the Corpus Christi Caller reported citing the local sheriff's office.

The registered sex offender continued to fondle her, however, then rolled over and died.

The woman initially thought he had passed out drunk because she smelled alcohol on his breath. She fled her home in her car and called her daughter for help.

Investigators believe Gutierrez died of a heart attack after riding his bicycle two miles to the woman's home on a hot summer day but are awaiting the results of an autopsy.

He was on parole for sex crimes including indecency with a child in 1986 and had been released from prison in 2008.

The Refugio County Sheriff's Office was not immediately available for comment.
Posted by: Fred || 06/17/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Mexican, in Texas, reported in Arabic press, suggesting divine intervention but not inventing Allan? What's up with that?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/17/2011 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably for the benefit of the Iranian and Arab readers who slipped over the Mexican border to Texas. They are into this kind of thing. Karma's a b!tch.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/17/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  He obviously picked the right house. I know a lot of older women that if they were raped and the rapist passed out, they would put his courting tackle down the kitchen sink garbage disposal.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/17/2011 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Anonymoose, I find myself completely unable to imagine the physics of that if a sharp knife isn't involved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/17/2011 17:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Sharp, perhaps serrated, maybe hedge clippers.

Nobody would have ever dreamed of trying to rape any of my great aunts, because they would not have survived. And those were the ones without medical training. The one that was a surgical nurse would...ew.

It was an earlier and gentler age. A time when people dealt with Japanese war criminals, and didn't talk about it.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/17/2011 20:00 Comments || Top||


Economy
Don't Look Now, But Stagflation May Be Here
Stubbornly high unemployment has been the bane of this economic recovery. Inflation has been creeping higher for months. And on Wednesday, data tied to a key manufacturing index was disappointing, to say the least.

All of this turmoil has kicked up the volume on warnings that the U.S. is headed into a period of stagflation, a dreaded economic condition marked by sharply rising consumer prices accompanied by miniscule growth.

Consider what that would mean to the average consumer who has to pay more for everything from a gallon of milk to a new car, but can't expect a raise any time soon because his company is just getting by.

And that's assuming that the consumer has a job at all.

"To me the definition of stagflation is rising prices while there's a soft labor market. If those conditions were mutually exclusive we wouldn't have the word stagflation," said Larry Elkin, president of Palisades Hudson Financial Group, a financial planning and investment management firm in Scarsdale, N.Y.

Here are the numbers, just from today, that have reignited talk of stagflation: the Consumer Price Index, a widely watched inflationary gauge, rose 0.2% on a month-over-month basis. Economists had predicted the index would rise 0.1%. Minus food and energy prices, which are viewed as more volatile than the costs of other consumer goods, the index was up 0.3% compared with expectations of 0.2%. And year over year, overall inflation jumped 3.6%, while core inflation (minus food and energy) was up 1.5%. Economists had predicted 3.4% for overall inflation and 1.4% for core inflation.

So inflation numbers came in higher-than-expected across-the-board.

At the same time, the Empire State manufacturing index for June was an eye-opener. The index came in at -7.8 versus expectations of 12.

On top of it all, throw in unemployment, which jumped back over 9% in May.

"This is what a mild case of stagflation looks like, and it doesn't look very good," Elkin said.

Oh boy! Summer of Wreckovery II is well underway I see!
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/17/2011 13:05 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Haven't heard that term since the days of jimmuh carter. Malaise must be just around the corner.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/17/2011 13:55 Comments || Top||

#2  not to fear - VP Joe Biden (D-Slow) is in charge of teh economic turnaround. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/17/2011 14:38 Comments || Top||

#3  The Misery Index is the highest in 28 years! It took a big jump after 2008.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/17/2011 15:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Lest we fergit, FREEREPUBLIC [old] > US GOVT. HAS US$61.6TRILYUHN IN UNFUNDED MANDATES.

and

* DRUDGEREPORT/FREEREPUBLIC [old] > CARVILLE: 2012 COULD BE VERY ROUGH; [US]CIVIL UNREST
"IMMINENTLY POSSIBLE".

"Butter-N-Eggs", Jobs matter more to the American voter + mainstream than killing Osama or anybody similar.

versus

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > GREENSPAN: GREEK DEFAULT "ALMOST CERTAIN" [imminent?], COULD CAUSE DOUBLE-DIP [US Recession].

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > GREEK DEBT OF EU$330.0BILYUHN MAY BECOME EUROPE'S enduring = destructive?]SINKHOLE.

ARTIC = By Year 2014-15, Greece may need another EU$170.0Bilyuhn.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/17/2011 23:29 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Rioting in Canuckistan
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/17/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Love the title. Canuck.
The real deathplace of Davy Crockett and his Tennessee troopers, named in honor of Kaintuck.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/17/2011 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2 

Love this guy. Seriously isn't Vancouver known as a pot capital? How did all these stoners muster up the anger?
Posted by: Beavis || 06/17/2011 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Gee the smug folks up in America Jr. are acting like the Greeks then their welfare benefits are cut.

If their hockey teamed played more like the rioters and stopped flopping like the Florence soccer team, maybe they could have won the Skill vs Will battle.
Posted by: regular joe || 06/17/2011 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Got a new visual for this event:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aaxWub89k&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: regular joe || 06/17/2011 13:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Agreed, the most inspired play from Vancouver on the ice was the gentleman who sang, "O Canada".

I don't know if they were worn out from the series or just thought that they would win because they were at home, but it was their worst game (though not worst loss).

Credit to the Boston D, especially at goalie. The games they lost were because of mental farts at a critical time. The games they won they were just about impossible. Vancouver took horrible shots on goal in game 7, a lot of them unforced.

Oh, they mustered the energy...three hours too late to make any difference. Seriously, game 7 at home, way too quiet, kept waiting for the monocles to come out with polite applause for both teams.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/17/2011 16:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Compare and contrast with the Victory celebration and parade in Dallas.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1816929/North.Texas/Mavs.Parade.Rolls.Through.Dallas

200,000+ in Dallas, and not one riot or assault attributed to it.
Posted by: The Other Beldar || 06/17/2011 17:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Yah, steal something while being photographed. Makes sense to a moron.
Posted by: Whock Darling of the Welsh2846 || 06/17/2011 18:11 Comments || Top||

#8  The difference between Aussies and Canucks.
Posted by: tipper || 06/17/2011 21:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AARP Pivots on Social Security Benefit Cuts
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/17/2011 09:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AARP.......COMMUNIST BASTARDS !!
Posted by: armyguy || 06/17/2011 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, technically they're crony capitalists who front for various insurance and investment activities. Their support of Obamacare was because they're getting a 'piece of the action'. Note well how the German version of such capitalists, state sponsored and supported businesses, worked well with the National Socialist Workers Party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2011 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry......was having a pissed off moment this morning.....can I say NAZI ???
Posted by: armyguy || 06/17/2011 12:48 Comments || Top||

#4  At some point I think AARP must have given up on me and stopped sending me solicitations to join their little group. Thank goodness for some small favors.

Memo to all politicians: I am an old guy but AARP does NOT speak for me.

armyguy, inasmuch as AARP favors Social Security, I think you are correct in labeling them communist because Social Security IMHO is communism. It redistributes the wealth. It robs from the rich and it robs from everybody else and gives to the poor. I think it should be abolished but only after they give me back all the money they have stolen from me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/17/2011 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ...No they didn't:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/17/stage-set-for-social-security-talks-lawmakers-push-reform-aarp-reportedly-open/

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/17/2011 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Abu, I fill the return envelopes with junk mail and send them to AARP.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/17/2011 14:52 Comments || Top||

#7  I fill the return envelopes with junk mail and send them to AARP. The US Postal Service thanks you for your support.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/17/2011 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  It redistributes the wealth.

SS accounting till now relied upon payroll deductions FICA and not income tax to support its operation. Even though the books were officially cooked during the Johnson administration, that source pretty much covered what is due. Unfortunately, both parties, one largely committing relatively misdemeanor theft and the other engaged in large scale felony embezzlement, have used the payroll FICA withholding to finance the here and now without putting back into the books that which they took out. As a result we are now about to indeed start the process of income redistribution as other sources of revenue are going to have to be tapped to pay the now due obligations. A situation created in no small measure by AARP's alliance with the Donks and continued resistance to reform since the Reagan administration.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2011 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Sometimes I think it's time to drastically cut benefits - if not to kill SS once and for all.

When people complain tell them "Hey! *YOU* already spend the frigging money by voting in the thieves and frauds who stole it and replaced it with worthless IOU's!".

Sometimes.

I don't expect to get a dime of what I put into SS all these years. Most of it will go to illegal aliens and people who haven't paid a time into it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/17/2011 15:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Realistically, it is time to drastically cut federal bennies and expenditures. Even if the entire DOD were cancelled, the USA would still be in far, far over its head. The federal government's biggest liabilities are to Social Security, Medicare, and popular programs like that. That's why nothing has been done, those programs are popular and entrenched.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/17/2011 16:01 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Parents blame infant`s death on polio drops
[Dawn] A 13-day old baby died reportedly after she was administered polio drops in Naseerabad on Wednesday.

The incident took place in Naseerabad near Daroghawala when baby's father Abdul Khalid and other relatives raised an alarm shortly after her death and complained about the matter to the health department for a thorough probe.

The health department has launched a three-day polio campaign in the high-risk cities of the province -- Lahore, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rawalpindi and Dera Ghazi Khan.

Wednesday was the last day of the drive and hundreds of teams of the health department administered polio drops to children in the scenic provincial capital.

Lahore Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Umer Farooq Baloch suspended the four-member team which administered polio drops to the baby. The health department, however, rejected the impression about the baby's death due to polio vaccination,
saying no such example exists anywhere in the world.

"The polio vaccination is an oral treatment in the form of liquid which remains in the bowels while the other medicine is administered through the veins or stomach to be mixed in blood," said Punjab Health Director-General Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam. He said it was a WHO-approved vaccination with no side effect.

He said the premature baby was underweight (1.8kg) with poor physical health and declared her death natural.

The DG health said the health team administered vaccination to 17 children, including three children of Abdul Khaliq's
relatives, from the same vial which was used in the case of the baby of the complainant. "Each vial contains at least 17 to 20 doses. The death of a baby due to the polio vaccination is out of question," he said.

Chaudhry Aslam said 'misinformation' about the baby's death due to polio drops may create a panic and deprive hundreds of children of the vaccination launched to eradicate polio from the country.He said the parents should get their children vaccinated with full trust and confidence in the campaign. He said the health team was suspended for not handling the situation.

The DG health said the parents of the baby had been convinced by an inquiry committee comprising the health EDO, DHO and other bigwigs that their baby died of natural causes.
Posted by: Fred || 06/17/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Probably fake medicine. Happens in China all the time.
Posted by: gromky || 06/17/2011 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2  This is entirely possible. Every drug, including vaccines, causes adverse reactions in some. It may be 1 in a million, but if you vaccinate an entire population like the US then you are pretty much guaranteed a few hundred deaths.

It's an interesting game theory problem. Society's best choice is for everyone to get vaccinated, while your individual best choice is for everyone *else* to get vaccinated.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/17/2011 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  That's true, Iblis, but this particular claim probably needs to be seen as the result of claims by Muslim preachers that the West is killing Muslims through vaccination.
Posted by: lotp || 06/17/2011 16:01 Comments || Top||

#4  This particular claim is one of the innumerable justifications / propaganda tools for JIHAD!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/17/2011 16:02 Comments || Top||

#5  A 13-day old baby died reportedly after she was administered polio drops in Naseerabad on Wednesday.

It takes longer than that for polio to incubate.

He said the premature baby was underweight (1.8kg) with poor physical health and declared her death natural.

A 4 pound preemie in a, more barbaric than most, unsanitary third world country. I'd check for quran bits shoved down her throat (the local cure for everything).
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 06/17/2011 19:19 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Russia Backs Ban Ki-moon for 2nd U.N. Term
[An Nahar] Russia on Thursday became the last permanent member of the Security Council to support U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon's
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
re-election, saying it would back his candidacy in a vote due later in the day.

"We are ready to support the candidacy of the esteemed Ban Ki-moon for a second term as U.N. Secretary General at Thursday's upcoming vote," Interfax quoted foreign ministry front man Alexander Lukashevich as saying.

The 66-year-old former South Korean foreign minister has already received backing from the European Union, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay and Chile as well as U.N. Security Council members United States, China, La Belle France and Britannia.

The full U.N. General Assembly is expected to hold a formal vote before the end of June.

It was not immediately clear why Russia refused to make its announcement on Ban's candidacy until the last moment, with the front man saying little about the vote.

Lukashevich added only that "this is the position we will take during the discussion."

Russia and China have used the U.N. Security Council to defend their interests in Africa and the Middle East, where they often oppose the positions of the United States and other Western powers.

Moscow's threat to veto a U.N. resolution on Iraq forced the United States to find the support of a broader coalition partners before moving to oust Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

Russia also abstained from a U.N. vote that authorized the use of force in Libya in March.

Moscow has since threatened to veto a resolution calling for the use of force against Syria, a position it appeared to reaffirm in a joint statement issued with the visiting president of China on Thursday.
Posted by: Fred || 06/17/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are there term limits?
If so how long?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/17/2011 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  They'll just get someone worse.
Posted by: gromky || 06/17/2011 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Incompetency is its own form of job security.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/17/2011 17:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Think we can get Obama to run for it?

Corruption and incompetence seems to be the only job requirements - I think Bamma has those hands down.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/17/2011 17:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps the Russians or China would like to host the UN or a few decades. It'll make them look relevant.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/17/2011 19:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Terry Jones to lead rally at Dearborn city hall
Florida Pastor Terry Jones says he will bring a message of "welcome and warning" as he prepares for an afternoon rally at Dearborn City Hall, and his crew will be live streaming the spectacle for your viewing pleasure.

Jones plans to unveil his "five-fold plan to save America and create a better world," which includes the decidedly unwelcoming suggestiong to ban Muslim immigration in the United States, before marching to the Arab International Festival.

Speaking this morning on WJR-AM 760, Jones acknowledged his march may set off a reaction, disclosing that his return to Dearborn is part of a nationwide campaign targeting heavily-populated Muslim areas. He told guest host John McCulloch, "I do realize it is somewhat provacative. We definitely have no intentions -- we ourselves will not be in any means violent. We felt that it was just important to go beyond the steps of City Hall."

Mayor Jack O'Reilly has encouraged the local community to ignore Jones' return visit, proposing he intends to "bait and anger," but the non-religious activist group By Any Means Necessary is planning another large counter-protest.

"We would of course see ourselves as more of a peacemaker. We realize what we do does strir the pot, but that's probably actually the only way to get things done," said Jones.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/17/2011 13:45 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Huh? He has less than 4 dozen followers back home, and he lacks tax exempt status because he uses slave labor in a furniture store that supports the church. He's no Pied Piper.
Posted by: Whock Darling of the Welsh2846 || 06/17/2011 18:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Back up the accusation of "slave labor". And keep in mind that the people he's confronting support actual slavery as being their right ordained by Allah.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/17/2011 18:34 Comments || Top||

#3  About the group ByAny Means Necessary
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/17/2011 19:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Detroit News online 1707 today: Dearborn— Terry Jones, the Quran-burning controversial Florida pastor, was swept up by police this afternoon and driven away from an increasingly angry crowd as he tried to march from City Hall to the Dearborn Arab International Festival.
Following the confrontation, police and festival officials said Jones will not be attending the festival, as had been planned for weeks. It is not known if he decided against going or if police are prohibiting him.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/17/2011 19:46 Comments || Top||



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