14-Year-Old Girl Hanged Her Rapist in the Forest (Sweden)
www.friatider.se | September 27, 2023

A 26-year-old taxi driver from the Middle East was reported for raping a 14-year-old girl – then he was found hanged in a nature reserve. Now the girl, her boyfriend and three of his brothers are suspected of the very painful murder, which according to the prosecutor had the character of “an execution”

The events began in February this year when the then 15-year-old girl reported that the taxi driver had raped her when she was 14.

On March 26, a taxi was found abandoned, covered in snow and with the taxi meter running in a parking lot at the Hjälstaviken nature reserve in Enköping municipality north of Stockholm.

I don’t care if it was “very” painful. So was the rape and its threat of death. That was very painful. The journalist doesn’t mention that.

I applaud leaving the meter running.

“I assumed I had the right of way, being a reprehensitive and all.”

It’s only money.

California, the Great Destroyer – The current disaster has many parents
American Greatness | 2 Oct, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

In 1996, the California legislature created the high speed rail authority.

In 2008, voters passed a $33 billion bond to build an envisioned 800 mile project eventually to link Sacramento with San Diego.

Fifteen years later, a scaled-down plan from Bakersfield to Merced remains not even half finished. Yet the envisioned costs will exceed that of the original estimate for the entire project.

The rail authority now estimates that just the modest 178 mile route—only about a fifth of the authorized distance—will not be completed at least until 2030. Past high speed estimates of both time and cost targets have been widely wrong and perhaps deliberately misleading.

Total costs for the entire project are now estimated at nearly $130 billion. Many expect that figure to double in the next quarter-century. Planners also concede there will likely not be much high speed rider demand from San Joaquin Valley residents willing to pay $86 to travel at a supposed 200 mph from Bakersfield to Merced.

Nine years ago voters amid drought and water shortages also passed a state water bond, authorizing $7.5 billion in new water projects and initiatives.

Some $2.7 billion was targeted for new dams and reservoirs. The current water storage system had not been enlarged since the early 1980s, when the state population was 15 million fewer residents.

So far not a single dam or new reservoir has been built. And Californians expect more water rationing statewide anytime the state experiences a modest drought.

In 2017, a $15 billion bond authorized a complete remodeling of Los Angeles International Airport—recognized as one of the more congested, disorganized, and unpleasant airports in America.

Now the cost to complete the project has grown to an estimated $30 billion, with a proposed finish date of 2028—11 years after the project was authorized.

And the ongoing LAX remake is considered one of California’s more successful public construction projects.

In 2002, California began construction on the eastern span replacement of the iconic San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge—less than half of the bridge’s total length.

It was scheduled to be finished in five years at a cost of $250 million.

The job in fact took 11 years. And it cost $6.5 billion—a 2,500 percent increase over the estimate.

In contrast, original construction of the entire Bay Bridge began in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Yet the job was completed in a little  more than three years.

The list of such delayed, canceled, or prolonged projects could be expanded, from the proposed widening of the state’s overcrowded, antiquated, and dangerous north-to-south “freeways” to the now inert Peripheral Canal project that would have allowed the California aqueduct to transfer needed water southward by precluding the present inefficient pumping into and out of the San Francisco delta.

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The current disaster has many parents.

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The state’s public unions and bloated bureaucracies guaranteed Soviet-style overhead, incompetence, and unaccountability. The more California raised its income taxes—currently the nation’s highest, topping out at 13.3 percent—the more it borrowed, spent, and ran up huge annual budget deficits.

The nation’s highest gasoline taxes along with steep sales and property taxes—coupled with unaffordable fuel and housing, a homeless epidemic, dismal public schools, out-of-control crime, and mass, illegal immigration—soon all led to a bifurcated state of rich and poor.

The middle class either became poor or fled.

Indeed, businesses and millions of the middle class hightailed it out of California over the last three decades in one of the greatest state population exoduses in our nation’s history. But they also took with them the very prior experience, expertise, and capital that had once made California the nation’s envy.

In contrast, millions of impoverished illegal immigrants arrived over the last 30 years without legality, English, or high school diplomas.

And thus millions were immediately in dire need of costly state-supplied health, education, housing, and food subsidies. Currently well over half of all California births are paid for by Medi-Cal. Well over a third of the resident population depends on the state to provide all their health care needs.

Twenty-seven percent of California’s resident population was not born in the United States. That reality created a vast challenge of civic education to ensure assimilation and integration. Unfortunately, millions entered California at precisely the time of a new tribalism and racial essentialism that has taken hold of the state’s government, media, schools, and universities. Tribalism, not the melting-pot, is California’s paradigm.

California is a one-party state. There are no statewide Republican elected officeholders. Progressive Democrats also enjoy a supermajority in both houses of the legislature. Only 12 of 52 congressional seats are held by Republicans. And almost all of California leftwing politicians are funded or influenced by Silicon Valley—the richest corridor in civilizational history, with $9 trillion in market capitalization.

In sum, a now broke California became a medieval society of Leftwing ultra-rich and Leftwing ultra-poor. On one end, there was no longer the skill or expertise to modernize the state. And on the other, an elite became more interested in dreaming of heaven on earth for itself as it ensured a veritable hell for others.

Electoral Inscriptions Found in Pompeii House
Heritage Daily | September 28, 2023 | Markus Milligan

In a press announcement by the Pompeii Archaeological Park, archaeologists have found electoral inscriptions in a house located in Insula 10 of Regio IX in Pompeii…

Following the recent discovery of a still life fresco, the team have found electoral inscriptions in support of a candidate named Aulus Rustius Verus who is running for the role of an aedile. Aediles were responsible for maintenance of public buildings (aedēs) and regulation of public festivals. The office of the aedilis was generally held by young men intending to follow the cursus honorum to high political office, traditionally after their quaestorship but before their praetorship.

Aedile hands are the devil’s playground.

Much as I deplore coercive rich yuppie homo fops, I deplore the writing from the Daily Mail also.

Abercrombie and Fitch launches investigation into ex-CEO Mike Jeffries after accusations he groomed and exploited men at sex parties he hosted around the world
Daily Mail UK | 3 October 2023 | By Dan Sales and Paul Farrell

Abercrombie and Fitch said that it has recruited an outside law firm to investigate allegations made against former CEO Mike Jeffries.

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Clothing brand Abercrombie and Fitch has said that it has recruited an ‘outside law firm’ in order to

[And here’s the verb tense that makes you pause in wonder]

investigated the shocking allegations of grooming and other sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by former CEO Mike Jeffries.

The allegations were made in a BBC documentary that aired in the UK on Monday night. The film accused Jeffries and his partner Matthew Smith

[the word “of” would come in handy here, Daily Mail]

holding sex events around the world in which young men were forced into intimate acts.

[Were they over 18?]

A total of twelve men

[Men, huh? Sounds like they were over 18]

came forward for the documentary, half of them said that they were lied to about the nature of the parties they were asked to attend. While others said that they feared for their future careers if they did not participate in the acts.

[Choices… choices… choices…]

Jeffries ruled over Abercrombie and Fitch from the 1990s until 2014, transforming it from a struggling clothing brand to one of the trendiest in the United States.

[Now, this next sentence: it slipped by two authors and, presumably, one editor.]

During his career, Jeffries was accused discrimination, opulence and allowing his partner, Smith, to have influence over the company.

In the wake of the documentary, an official statement from the company said that it was ‘appalled and disgusted’ by the allegations and that the current management has ‘zero tolerance for abuse, harassment or discrimination of any kind.’

[Starting . . . NOW!]

Why Green Peas are Healthy and Nutritious
healtline | 9/27/23 | Brianna Elliot

Because they just are. (Personally, I’ve always viewed them as mere fillers, like chickpeas. But green peas still in the pod? A whole ‘nother treat.)

Green peas contain carbs, protein, and many beneficial nutrients, including fiber, vitamin A, and vitamin K, among others.

Green peas are a popular vegetable. They are also quite nutritious and contain a fair amount of fiber and antioxidants.

Additionally, research shows they may help protect against some chronic illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer.

And dried ones go great with straws.

“I thought that’s the proper way to hail a plane taxi.”

Funny. The IMAO Internship application is almost completely the reverse.

I can see what the wife is up to, but WTF is the girl up to??

Is that a torso she’s holding?

Still not as weird as the Bidens.