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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
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More than 2,400 U.S. doctors have been sanctioned for sexually abusing their patients, according to a new report that surveyed records from all 50 states.
In New York City the former head of clinical research at the Mount Sinai hospital emergency room, Dr. David Newman, is facing charges that he abused four of his female patients, including one he allegedly drugged while she was in the ER.
Newman has pleaded not guilty to charges, and the hospital said he no longer works there.
Michael Hestrin, the district attorney in Riverside County, California is prosecuting a doctor accused of 26 felony counts of sexual assault. Dr. John McGuire has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is being held in jail on a $3 million bond. His license has been suspended by the state medical board.
According to a civil complaint, McGuire sexually assaulted a patient recovering in a private room from the effects of anesthesia. He allegedly lifted the “plaintiff’s gown and placed his ungloved hands on her bare breasts and felt all around looking for ‘swelling.’”
In another alleged incident, the lawsuit claims McGuire “rubbed plaintiff’s vagina with an ungloved hand and fingers,” supposedly to check on a rash.
Dr. David Mata, once praised on the floor of Congress as a “great humanitarian” and named doctor of the year in Oregon, was accused of 140 counts of sexual abuse of patients.
He pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual acts with patients but was not sentenced to prison and served his probation at home. The California medical board revoked his license. [ABC News]
New Conflict.
The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire that will take effect shortly.
The war in Yemen began in 2014 when Shiite rebels known as Houthis based in the north seized the capital, Sanaa. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies launched a campaign of airstrikes against the rebels. The Saudi-led coalition and the United States are backing the internationally recognized government of Yemen's president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
More than 4,000 civilians have been killed and 3 million of the country's 26 million people have been driven from their homes by the fighting. Hunger has become widespread in the Arab world's poorest country.
Do we have an alternative to Bombing?
Do we have an alternative to Bombing?
Monday, October 17, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Idiots...
Roseville Police Officers said Jaime Salinis and Elandra Sledge, both 18, dressed as clowns and jumped out of a car to chase two 14-year-old girls. Roseville Police Chief James Berlin called the women "idiots" in a news release.
Salinis and Sledge were arraigned on disorderly conduct charges and ordered held in the Macomb County Jail on $10,000 cash or surety bonds.
About 9 p.m. Thursday, the two 14-year-olds came to the police department "in hysterics." Officers were able to calm them, and the girls said they were walking in the 18000 block of Minnesota Street when a car stopped and two people dressed as clowns jumped out and started chasing them.
The younger teens fled, thinking they were going to be attacked. [USA TODAY]
Distorted.
The “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill and with luck, use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.
The easiest way would be to grab guns, go to the predominantly Somali apartment complex they’d been surveilling and start kicking in doors, court documents said. They would spare no one.
In the end, they decided to set off bombs similar to the one Timothy McVeigh used in 1995 to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City. They planned to strike after the Nov. 8 election, investigators said.
The three men face federal charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up an apartment complex, and a mosque.
It was ultimately undone by an FBI confidential informant and one of the conspirator’s girlfriend, who showed authorities the supply room after he allegedly hit her during a fight.
Earlier this year, investigators were tipped off by the informant, who had attended meetings of a group calling itself the Crusaders. The Crusaders referred to the Somali as cockroaches.
Nothing like the help of a girl friend. Nothing like it.
Compares...
Sinead O'Connor recorded a song this song. It made it to #1 on the charts in sixteen countries. Considered one of the best breakup songs.
It is a sad tale of depression that can follow after a tough split from the person you loved.
Every line of the song packs an emotional wallop. From the opening: "It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away …" It continues with a series of moods, from anguish, regret. through spitting anger, and finally to something close to resignation and acceptance. It is a lifetime's emotion magically condensed into four minutes.When Sinead cried in the video it was a real tear.
What launched the song was the video. Most of it shows O'Connor's almost shaven head – her eyes registering every line of the lyric. When she sings "all flowers in the backyard that you planted, mama, all died when you went away" two tears run down her cheeks. Later it was said that this was because she was reminded of her mother.
Here is the song from the nineties.
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