Thursday, February 07, 2013
Enrique Soto Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison
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posted on February 07, 2013 at 03:41 PM by Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) to amateur, athletics, general, international, latin america, oakland
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Enrique Soto, one of baseball’s most prominent trainers in the Dominican Republic for the last two decades, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of charges of sexually assaulting two boys that were part of his academy 10 years ago, according to a report that first aired Monday night in the Dominican Republic on Noticias Sin.
Better late than never.
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1 2 >The scariest thing I learned over the past few days reading up on the situation? Most foreign state departments and intelligence agencies think that Kim Jong Il was actually the moderate compared to his military braintrust -- pointing to the fact that when Il has occasionally disappeared from public sight due to health reasons, it tends to be when the country gets most belligerent and uncooperative in foreign affairs.
Still - with the recent glimpses into the cults of personalities around Saddam Hussein and Moamar Qaddafi - you have to say that they've got nothing on the Kim Jongs...
So, who knows? Perhaps in 2051, the North will have ditched this all for a grow-grow-grow economy. Of course, by then, I'll be 96 and not really caring.
There's a great book whose exact title escapes me, but it's something like "The Feats of Chairman Mao", a late 1960's compilation of scores of those fanciful escapades of Mao's, as reported with a straight face in the Chinese press. It has all the stuff about marathon swimming, soldiers inspired by his words who killed a thousand enemy soldiers with one rifle, and so on, and taken together it provides some real insight into what the poor Chinese had to live through every day. And then if after finishing that, you read the seminal Red-Color News Soldier, a book based on a bloodcurdling collection of photos (with accompanying text) smuggled outside of China during the Cultural Revolution, you'll have received a near-complete immersion course in the everyday reality behind the curtain of one of the all-time prison states.
Isn't that the same place you could buy Primate panties? Is Szym really Kim Jong Un?
I, for one, welcome our new Szym overlord.
Are you accepting resumes for your new government? I've been oppressing people in my spare time just in case this moment arrived. At least, I think my wife has given up on hoping for a better life.
We have limited openings now, but I can offer you an internship position in our Auto-da-fé Compliance Division.
What's my white smock and pointy hat budget? You have to pay through the nose for a good smock these days. I suppose we could substitute those Cafe Press baseball shirts but I think they carry about as much gravitas as the Marlins' new sculpture.
If you're interested in getting a sense as to how bizarre that country really is, this is a pretty good primer.
It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway...!
North Korea, the current World Champions, look forward to defeating the puny English capitalists by no fewer than 40 goals. Only the munificence of the North Korean people wills save them form a more humiliating defeat. Then we shall feast with a variety of cabbage and fish dishes.
Well, within the meaning of the act, just barely, but don't get your hopes up because the guy with the spatula, grater, loudener, and sundry Ronco attachments is leading the pack by a parasang at least.
I think it depends on what you put in their gift baskets.
Just hope that the Primier League hasn't caught on to the use of invisible cell phone technology!
Seriously, who's the new Bond Villain of Real Life? I think I might have to go with Putin. He's got the ridiculous photo ops, he's ex-KGB, he's turned his nation into an autocratic state and uses their resources to #### over anyone who looks at him sideways.
As long as they don't get struck by lightning.
Nah, that was Saparmurat Niyazov, AKA Turkmenbashi, LEADER OF ALL TURKMEN!
He was every bit as crazy and flamboyant (and repressive) as Qaddafi or KJI, but he had the good sense to not tick off the US government too much, so you didn't hear as much about him.
Turkmenbashi was a pretty awesome living deity, all you had to do was read his book 3 times and you were guaranteed to get into heaven!
I think we're passing out of a golden age. Kim Jong-Il, Turkmenbashi, and Muammar Qaddafi were all no doubt Hall of Fame wacky dictators. And their near contemporaries, like Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, were HoF too.
I dunno, but "Obama the Anti-Christ" in quotation marks comes up with 639,000 google hits. The rest of the world can take it from there.
Is this some sort of bizarre court-ordered community service? Or do you work for the CIA?
What is funny is that diplomats thought the same thing about Hitler and Stalin. You would think they would see that playing the moderate is an obviously useful facade for a dictator.
Famous last words of many a Soviet citizen before his final cigarette:
"You swine! If only Stalin knew about this!"
No, I am going to Burma willingly (if I get a visa), I went to Cambodia recently and loved it. Actually when I worked in Paris my European coworkers told me that they knew I was in the CIA because I was nothing like the cruel American overlords who ran the company. My trip to Malawi convinced them I was a spy, but maybe not CIA.
Jeeze. The only way I'd go to Burma is if they draft my ass.
But then again, I'mm squeamish that way. I only go to countries where the US ambassador can easily secure my release from the forced labor camps ;-)
"You swine! If only Stalin knew about this!"
And many Germans wrote to Hitler convinced he was unaware of the Holocaust.
You're going to all the places I want to go to! I almost went to Malawi last year but my cat go sick. I'm debating where to go this year--Africa (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia or Zimbabwe) or Thailand, up north near the Myanmar border.
The travel company I have been using (Canadian of course) has this trip: ZANZIBAR TO JOBURG OVERLAND, which I would be considering if I thought my knees would still let me get in and out of a tent for a couple of weeks. The trip I’m doing in January includes a few days in Thailand near Burma, but that area should be a trip in itself.
That would be fantastic. Sadly, I never have the time or the cash for trips that extensive. 2 weeks is as long as I can get away for. Namibia looks intriguing, too. Evidently you can just rent a Land Rover there and camp on the side of the road at night. It's a relatively wealthy country, too, so the roads are decent. It's very, very desert-y, though.
Go to Zimbabwe. That $500 in spending money is greater than the entire country's GDP, so you can get prostitutes for a penny(at which point she can retire).
Too bad for your cat, because when my wife was working in Malawi in 1990, their bestselling roadside snack was mouse on a stick.
Plus, once the regime collapses, it's probably the safest thing for everybody. Japan, China, South Korea and other local powers are not going to want an unstable country that potentially has nuclear weapons just a few miles away. There's going to be a lot of motivation for them to do something to create stability, and a unified Korea is probably the best assurance of that.
(Admittedly, way too much of my impression of the area comes from movies, particularly stuff like Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area.)
Agree with #41 that reunification might not take that long once the process starts in earnest. None of the "experts" saw the demise of Soviet Union's Eastern European Empire coming a generation ago.
A collapsing North Korea would be a client state of South Korea from day 1, it's only they who would pump in the billions needed to rebuild the country. And they would have to do it, the alternative is a huge migration south (part of which is unavoidable of course).
Incidentally, I would make a terrific head of propaganda for anyone considering setting up a dictatorial régime.
The difference in economy between the Germanys is significantly smaller than the difference in economy between the Koreas.
I'll be in Myanmar in january!
Primer meet up in the secret North Korean dug tunnels?
Interestingly enough - the German unification/reunification was less smooth than top line reports would have you believe... It was enormously expensive for the former 'West Germany' -- and ask an older German from the west about his feelings about his countrymen from the east. On the flip side, many in the east still feel like they're looked upon as second class, as least superficially, by the elitist westerners.
Don't get me wrong - at a macro level, enormously successful, but culturally and economically --- there's still a divide. I would have to think that Korea would be geometrically, if not exponentially worse.
Decent poker room though.
Do you CIA guys have a convention or what? "Come to sunny Myanmar for our seminar on Underhand methods. Enjoy the beaches and join us dabbling with regime change in your free time."
Interestingly enough - the German unification/reunification was less smooth than top line reports would have you believe...
I don't see how anyone could have expected it to go better than it has. Ofd course, they're Germans, so they will think anything short of perfection is a disaster.
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Don't get me wrong - at a macro level, enormously successful, but culturally and economically --- there's still a divide. I would have to think that Korea would be geometrically, if not exponentially worse.
Yes, which is a reason for keeping them separate. But still it is impossible to seal off a free North Korea. Things will have to get better fast.
On the other hand, the North Koreans might to start with be more satisfied with simple things like clean water and plenty of food, as opposed to the East Germans who had seen the West on TV for years and wanted it all directly.
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