AUGUST 10, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
August 10 is … Lazy Day
August 9 was … National Polka Festival
Pay backs can be a bitch. The jury of Warren Jeffs peers took less than thirty minutes to reach a sentence for the convicted rapist and pedophile.
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides in what his church deemed "spiritual marriages."
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood quietly as the decision of the Texas jury was read Tuesday. He received the maximum sentence on both counts.
The jury deliberated less than half an hour. The 55-year-old Jeffs was convicted Thursday. During the trial, prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old.
Jeffs is the eighth FLDS man convicted since a raid of a ranch run by the church, which believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
I wonder how long it will take for us to see real relief at the pump. The price always seems to rise immediately and in big increments but it comes down slowly, a penny at a time. Oil's plunge to its lowest price of the year should provide Americans with some relief at the pump. But that may not be enough to calm their fears about the economy.
Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude fell 6.4 percent, to settle at $81.31 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday. That was the lowest settlement price of the year for crude, which is down about 30 percent from its high in April. Crude's falling price means lower costs in many parts of the U.S. economy. Airlines pay less for fuel, the price of plastics can fall and motorists see pump prices ease. But when the economy looks weak, consumers keep a tighter grip on the wallets, and won't necessarily spend more, even when energy costs are falling.
Worries about jobs, incomes and home values will overshadow falling gas prices, for example. Some analysts believe consumers and businesses will tuck money they don't spend on gas and diesel into savings until there is more clarity about where the economy is headed. And the economy's outlook is cloudy for now. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Friday said it no longer considered U.S. Treasury debt one of safest investments in the world. The news followed a number of gloomy reports that showed growth in the U.S. was faltering, which means less demand for energy.
Energy analyst Jim Ritterbusch believes that uncertainty will take months to resolve, prompting Americans to remain careful about how much they spend. The industry is already setting the groundwork for small price decreases. They are going to blame the consumer for not spending enough money, totally ignoring the fact we do not have money since the oil industry has been gouging us for years.
Who didn’t see this coming? A hotel maid who accuses ex-International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued him Monday over what she calls a "violent and sadistic" attack in an upscale suite that left her life "in shambles."
Lawyers for the maid, Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, wrote in the lawsuit that Strauss-Kahn "intentionally, brutally and violently sexually assaulted Ms. Diallo and in the process humiliated, degraded, violated and robbed Ms. Diallo of her dignity as a woman." The lawyers, Kenneth Thompson and Douglas Wigdor, promised to tell a jury about other instances when Strauss-Kahn sexually attacked women in hotel rooms and apartments, coerced employees into complying with sexual demands or accosted women with inappropriate sexual remarks and tried to get them to perform sexual acts.
They said the lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages, would "redress the violent and sadistic attack by defendant Strauss-Kahn on Nafissatou Diallo when he sexually assaulted" her on May 14 at the Sofitel hotel in midtown Manhattan. The lawsuit says Strauss-Kahn injured Diallo's shoulder, bruised her vagina, tore her pantyhose and violently grabbed the back of her head during the attack.
The lawsuit, filed in state court in the Bronx, accuses Strauss-Kahn of acting like a common criminal afterward, fleeing the hotel so quickly that he left behind traces of his semen, along with bloody tissues. "In his haste to flee the scene of a crime, he rushed out of the hotel with toothpaste smeared on the outside of his mouth and was looking over his shoulders," the lawsuit says. The attack has left Diallo physically and psychologically harmed, with permanent damage done to her professional and personal reputations along with severe mental anguish from which she may never fully recover, the lawsuit says. She suffers great emotional distress, humiliation, depression and physical pain, and the experience has "left Ms. Diallo's life and her young daughter's life in shambles," it says.
Assuming she gets even nuisance value for this lawsuit, this will likely end up being the best thing that ever happened to her. I do not condone the activity he allegedly engaged in but I do not believe the maid. Money is apparently good enough for her. Had she been paid in advance, it would be prostitution.
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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