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Live 8 and NASA Burrows Into a Comet
Early in the week everyone was talking about the Live 8 musical joke to raise money for the dictators and despots of Africa. That these very dishonest people have more money to spend on themselves instead of the suffering populace they are supposed to represent.
And NASA, God Bless Them, decided to go deep into a comet. What a hoot. They ought to be concentrating on hurricanes and tsunamis. Deal with the comets when they get to be a problem.
But that’s just me.
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Food Flap at the G8
Besides today’s most pressing issues of aid to African dictators and gasp, global warming, the G8 conference meeting in Scotland this past week has major food issues.
MORE HERE
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London Under Attack
Early in the morning, before five in the am EST, three explosions went off in the London subway. A bit later a bomb went off on a double-decker bus.
London is still struggling to get to the dead buried deep in the bowels of London.
The Wise I happened to be up early in the morn and was able to document the events on the day of the blasts as soon as it occurred and all day as they occurred.
London Explosion Post-recorded AS IT HAPPENED THAT DAY
London Explosions-More Here
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Dennis the Menace
No link. No special wisdom. As of this writing, Sunday evening 7/10/05, Dennis is attacking the panhandle of Florida and the Gulf Coast.
More on Dennis and the aftermath later this week.
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So Where’s the Coverage on the Congress Critters’ Visits to Gitmo?
Dear Lord we heard forever and ever about Koran abuse. Newsweek even had to make up a negative story about Gitmo. So a bunch of congress critters go to Gitmo, have nice things to say, and we hear nothing.
May the future show for Kaitlyn Mae that Grandmother has it all documented in the Blog named after her.
From Nationworld:
After tour, U.S. lawmakers defend Guantanamo
By Ben Fox
The Associated Press
U.S. Army Col. Michael Bumgarner shows the interior of a cell at Camp Delta Four on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, on Wednesday. A detainee spends time outside his cell at a medium-security facility at Camp Delta Four in the Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday. (Andres Leighton/The Associated Press )
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Three more U.S. lawmakers defended the American prison for terror suspects Wednesday after touring the detention center that has drawn worldwide calls for its closure because of alleged abuse of detainees.
The congressmen, two Republicans and a Democrat, said it appeared to them that detainees are treated well and that the lockup on the U.S. Naval base at the southeastern edge of Cuba should remain open.
''All of those stories that we have heard, I didn't find any evidence of those things being true,'' said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. ''I think those are old, old stories so I couldn't be more pleased with what our government
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Political Cartoon of the Week
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The Idaho Murders Solved
It would seem that one Joseph Duncan, pervert and candidate for the death penalty, bound and gagged Shasta and Dylan Groene’s family. He then bludgeoned them to death with what is believed to be a hammer.
He then took off with the two children. According to reports, Shasta, who was identified by a waitress at Denny’s and is the only survivor, said that Duncan methodically sexually abused both she and Dylan since the kidnapping.
Yesterday, 7/10/05, remains found in a campground were identified as belonging to Dylan Groene.
At first I thought this crime was an inside job, perhaps a setup by some family member angry over Shasta’s mother’s drug usage.
With a slow clarifying horror, it is revealed that this entire horrific crime was committed by one child molester. Who, while camping nearby or while driving down an interstate, decided to go into this house, kill everyone inside, and kidnap the children. Folks, this crime is more heinous by a child molester who shouldn’t have been walking the streets save for liberals in the court room, than the too many we’ve seen to date.
Who knows, maybe Duncan saw the two children playing outside and that is how he made his choice. The creep does have a web site in which he documents how the demons within him will soon cause him to cross a dangerous line.
There are also other unsolved missing children that are mentioned on his Blog.
Also of interest, Duncan has a physician friend who offered to take him into his own home with no fear for his own children. This fine doctor also vouched for Duncan’s ability to mingle with the public and pronounced him as “cured”.
More will be coming out on this guy. Who also lent Duncan thousands of dollars he loved the guy so much.
For it’s no mind any crimes of Shasta’s parents, this creep picked a house, murdered all occupants, all to get at the children within.
It could happen to any one of us.
And we’ll find more about Duncan’s doctor friend soon enough.
'We have the right guy'
Kidnap suspect only person who could have killed family, officer says Erica Curless
Spokane Spokesman-Review
July 7, 2005
Investigators linked Joseph Edward Duncan III Wednesday to the slaying of Shasta Groene's family, saying the convicted sex offender is the only person responsible for the killings and the kidnapping of the 8-year-old girl and her 9-year-old brother.
"There's a sense of relief that we have the right guy," Kootenai County Sheriff Capt. Ben Wolfinger said during a press conference.
Duncan was arrested Saturday when employees and customers at the Coeur d'Alene Denny's restaurant recognized the 8-year-old girl he was with as Shasta.
First Blog Post on Groene Murders
Groene Murders Update 1
Groene Murders Update 2
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What Now for Shasta?
I’ve seen Steve Groene on TV and he isn’t a fellow that would leave one with a favorable impression. His gray hair is long and unkempt. He wears motorcycle clothes and oddly, lives with his ex mother-in-law. I suspect the delay in releasing Shasta from the hospital was to allow authorities to investigate what her living circumstances will be.
Well Steve, God gave you another chance. You’ve admitted to drug abuse and your eldest son is in jail. Shasta survived a horrific ordeal.
Now cut your damn middle-aged shoulder-length gray hair, take a shower, remove the leather and live your life with the new lease God has given you.
``Shasta's doing very well,'' her father, Steve Groene, said Wednesday. ``Certainly more than we could hope for. She's very upbeat, she's pretty healthy, she's glad to be home.''
Shasta will benefit from a large extended family on both her mother's and father's sides, who worked diligently to keep the kidnapped children's faces in the media and have clustered around her now.
Her father, 48, is a blues musician. Her brother Vance, 20, visited his sister Saturday and told reporters he was ``more than relieved'' to see her. Another brother, Jesse, 18, is serving at least the next six months in prison on a burglary charge.
``This is all so incomprehensible,'' Steve Groene (pronounced GROH-nee) said. ``It will take quite a lot of time for us to even realize what happened here.''
Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, of Fargo, N.D., a fugitive from an earlier child molestation charge, was arrested Saturday at a Denny's restaurant with Shasta, believed to be the sole survivor of the attack at her home outside Coeur d'Alene and its aftermath.
Bludgeoned to death were Shasta's 13-year-old brother, Slade, her mother, Brenda, and her mother's boyfriend, Mark McKenzie. Their bodies were found May 16. Brother Dylan Groene, 9, abducted with Shasta, is likely dead, police say.
Duncan has been charged only with kidnapping, but authorities said he is believed to be responsible for the three killings as well. Sheriff Rocky Watson said he believes the motive was to acquire the children for sex.
Steve Groene, who had a new tattoo on his arm saying ``In Loving Memory Slade Vincent 13,'' said he was frustrated that Duncan was released despite his record.
``People need to get on their congressmen, their senators and even the president. This needs to change, now,'' he said.
Mental health experts caution that the savage ordeal that Shasta survived is bound to have lasting effects.
``She has witnessed horrible things,'' said Dr. Paul Domitor, a Spokane, Wash., psychiatrist. ``These things will stay with her.''
While it is the Associated Press' policy not to identify alleged victims of sexual assault in most cases, the search for the children and Shasta's recovery were so heavily publicized that their names were already widely known.
Privacy laws prevent Kootenai Medical Center from releasing any details of Shasta's condition, but family members say she did not suffer any physical injuries.
The hospital may still be the best place for Shasta, Domitor said. ``It gives her a place of safety and security,'' he said. ``It allows medical professionals an opportunity to talk gently with this child.''
By all counts, Shasta has already been a remarkable witness. She has described for law enforcement officers the night of her abduction, helped them pinpoint the Montana campsites where she and Dylan were kept, and told them Duncan was the only person involved.
``She's a normal 8-year-old girl,'' said brother Jesse, 18, in a pooled interview from a county jail in Wallace, Idaho, that was viewed on videotape. ``She's a little girly girl.''
He speculated that Shasta survived the captivity of staying quiet, while Dylan was likely to have been more rambunctious.
Jesse Groene recently pleaded guilty on a burglary charge and was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary. But he could be released on probation in six months.
Jesse, who has spoken with his sister by telephone, said she sounded good.
``Maybe she is too young for it to register in her mind,'' he said.
Steven and Brenda Groene were married in 1986 and had five children before they divorced in 2001. After the divorce, Brenda lived in a rural home owned by McKenzie. Slade, Dylan and Shasta lived with her.
Steven Groene, who lives with his former mother-in-law, has acknowledged heavy narcotics use in the past, and was arrested once for battery. Jesse and Vance both have had problems with drugs.
From jail, Jesse Groene said the tragedy has prompted him to reform himself from a life of petty crime.
``I'm done with the life I was living,'' he said.
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BTK’s Family Pays the Price
BTK’s house is up for auction. An interesting note in that houses sold by auction are usually up for quick sale. Seems Dennis Rader’s family wants that man out of their life.
Below he said he cried when he saw Nancy Fox’s father crying over her death. Nancy Fox was one of his victims from 1977.
Rader pled guilty to ten crimes of murder. Speculation is he did it for his family. Said family never suspecting a thing all those years but hey, forget I said this.
The self-professed “bind,torture,kill” murderer will never get the needle though he certainly deserves it. His murders all occurred before Kansas had a death penalty.
If it takes concern over his family to make this man feel bad, GOOD!
Not that Rader stopped his murders after his crocodile tears for Nancy Fox’s father.
And you know what, I don’t even care if his family suffers.
Dear Lord, next year they’ll have a book and be making millions.
Do I sound bitter? Well yes, yes I am.
From Yahoo.com
Rader said he felt for Dale Fox when he saw him cry on television while talking about the 1977 strangulation of Fox's daughter Nancy - a crime Rader has admitted - and said his own relatives also suffer.
"I am going to pay for it with a life sentence. The final victims are my ... family," he said.
Rader told the court last week that sexual fantasies drove him to kill. He told KAKE he was "totally unprepared" for the court's request for details of the crimes.
"I just wanted to get the facts out as quick as I could, try to not get too emotionally involved," he said.
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1 comment:
You are judgmental. Saying Steve Groene needs to "cut his hair and get rid of the leather". So he isn't a FIT parent or from your perspective a decent "person" because he looks like a biker? So what if he lives with his ex-mother in law? Maybe it's a great environment and relationship. The drug abuse is a logical concern if that was still a problem, but condemning a person because of their appearance, you should be ashamed of yourself. If he likes how he looks it's not your FUCKING business!!! Get a heart, get a brain, and GROW UP!!! I would rather have him in my company than a snob like you, my sucessful and brilliant parents taught me YEARS ago appearance is not what's important, it's CHARACTER. You are using LOOKS discrimination, shame on you! Kami
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