Below, Kaitlyn poses on Christmas Day 2010.
Below, Kaitlyn, her Mom and Dad, smile for the Christmas Day 2010 camera.
Below, the choir of St. Jude the Apostle Catholic church in Lewes, Delaware, featuring yours truly, sings “The Nativity Carol”.
Tuesday
Christmas 2010; The Choir of St. Jude the Apostle
Sunday
December 2009
Week Ending Sunday 12/27/09
We got news just over the wire this day of the post, 12/27/09. For the Nigerians have suddenly taken ill on our airlines and condoms filled with explosives stuffed in their bodies might well be the problem. Lots of other unexplained airline mischief, all involving Muslims, explored for the strangeness.
He tries to kill 2 year old stepson by shoving needles into his body. A story of evil.
Speeding Coast Guard Boat Kills young boy during holiday boat parade.
Updates on old crimes: Ballon Boy Parents Sentenced; Roman Polanski; Gets Found Guilty for Getting Naked In His Own Home.
Some great news reportage, stupid criminals and lots more.
All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
HERE
Blog Posts of Note:
Deviled Eggs-the Definitive Way to Prepare These Gems
A Brain Infection? A Medical Odyssey of Sheer Terror.
Those Celebrity Chefs-Who Cooks With Her Boobs and Who Is Disliked by All.
The Harmony Document Database Translations
Rush Limbaugh-What He Does Wrong; What He Does Right
Those Radio Talk Show Hosts-The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Week Ending Sunday 12/20/09
Guest Writer Michelle gets more blood drawn only this time it’s a tale of calm and cool.
Kaitlyn turns six. Pix from Chuck E. Cheese, Videos.
In this True Crime post, we’ve got a couple of airplane updates. First, that AirTran flight during which a fine Muslim fellow acted like an asshole and nothing less…we’ve got yet another passenger verifying this story. And I continue to pound on that Northwest Flight 188 which over flew its destination by over 150 miles. Folks, it’s a comedy of errors that will first make you laugh but will leave you crying. And scared out of your gourd to fly.
Will Josh Powell join the likes of Scott or Drew Peterson, ie husbands whose wives go missing while they’ve got phony-baloney alibis? He took the kids camping at midnight on a Sunday night in freezing weather?
A school drug counselor is arrested on charges of selling drugs. Why the surprise when we’ve got a Safe School Czar who teaches lewd sex practices and recommends obscene books for our children?
The child fiddled with a braid in school so the teacher cut it off! Yes she did. Teachers think they can do just anything any more.
The Obama administration continues to cover for Kevin Johnson, his perversion with young girls and the payoff with tax dollars. An update on this from Byron York.
Those five fine American fellows had everything this land of the free had to offer: they could worship as they pleased, they were seeking a higher education, they had nice homes, peaceful lives. So why did they, American citizens all, fly off to Pakistan to engage in God knows what acts of terror?
If you’re going to pee on someone, shouldn’t you avoid it being a cop?
Much more, All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
HERE
Week Ending Sunday 12/13/09
In this True Crime post, theft of money from the U.S. treasury to pay off campaign debts is a crime although Obama likely won't get charged. Same for appointing a pervert for "Safe School Czar".
We close the door on Amanda Knox with some final thoughts, A couple of intriguing incidents involving airplane behavior by Muslims and TSA Internet posts that could be way more sinister than we know.
Of course, there's some Tiger Woods commentary.
Much more...all with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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"The Charismatic, Catholic, Christmas Choir" is a little fiction piece meant for:Catholics; folks with a sense of humor; people who like Christmas; Those of us just needing a big smile for the season.
For the choir really meant well when it embarked on the ferry to entertain its passengers. The dunk into the bay of sopranos, altos and tenors and the resulting confusion was never part of the plan. DESC
HERE
Week Ending Sunday 12/6/09
Kaitlyn paid Mom-Mom a visit over the Thanksgiving Holiday. We went to see a special live performance of “Babes in Toyland”. Pics and a video snippet here.
“Planet 51”-a big yawn. Here’s a review of this okay kind of movie, rated on the wiggle meter at about a c+ or b-.
In True Crime this week, a couple of big ones covered.
First, Amanda Knox. She’s the American convicted in Italy for murder of her roommate. If you’re not sick of the “Dateline”’s and “48 Hours” of this trial, check in to this Blog for one really huge reason why the logical would know that Amanda is 99.99% more likely to be guilty than innocent.
I am sick of Mike Huckabee and in this True Crime post we re-visit Huck’s other very questionable pardons that also lead to the death of innocents. Fox News covers for Huck, all explained with better research on this Blog post than you’ll find in the Old Media.
A good guess as to why all the silly attempts to cover that stupid couple who crashed the White House last week. The Blog Post pooh poohs the guess and offers a better reason.
All this and much more with pics you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
HERE
Week Ending Sunday 12/27/09
We got news just over the wire this day of the post, 12/27/09. For the Nigerians have suddenly taken ill on our airlines and condoms filled with explosives stuffed in their bodies might well be the problem. Lots of other unexplained airline mischief, all involving Muslims, explored for the strangeness.
He tries to kill 2 year old stepson by shoving needles into his body. A story of evil.
Speeding Coast Guard Boat Kills young boy during holiday boat parade.
Updates on old crimes: Ballon Boy Parents Sentenced; Roman Polanski; Gets Found Guilty for Getting Naked In His Own Home.
Some great news reportage, stupid criminals and lots more.
All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
HERE
Blog Posts of Note:
Deviled Eggs-the Definitive Way to Prepare These Gems
A Brain Infection? A Medical Odyssey of Sheer Terror.
Those Celebrity Chefs-Who Cooks With Her Boobs and Who Is Disliked by All.
The Harmony Document Database Translations
Rush Limbaugh-What He Does Wrong; What He Does Right
Those Radio Talk Show Hosts-The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Week Ending Sunday 12/20/09
Guest Writer Michelle gets more blood drawn only this time it’s a tale of calm and cool.
Kaitlyn turns six. Pix from Chuck E. Cheese, Videos.
In this True Crime post, we’ve got a couple of airplane updates. First, that AirTran flight during which a fine Muslim fellow acted like an asshole and nothing less…we’ve got yet another passenger verifying this story. And I continue to pound on that Northwest Flight 188 which over flew its destination by over 150 miles. Folks, it’s a comedy of errors that will first make you laugh but will leave you crying. And scared out of your gourd to fly.
Will Josh Powell join the likes of Scott or Drew Peterson, ie husbands whose wives go missing while they’ve got phony-baloney alibis? He took the kids camping at midnight on a Sunday night in freezing weather?
A school drug counselor is arrested on charges of selling drugs. Why the surprise when we’ve got a Safe School Czar who teaches lewd sex practices and recommends obscene books for our children?
The child fiddled with a braid in school so the teacher cut it off! Yes she did. Teachers think they can do just anything any more.
The Obama administration continues to cover for Kevin Johnson, his perversion with young girls and the payoff with tax dollars. An update on this from Byron York.
Those five fine American fellows had everything this land of the free had to offer: they could worship as they pleased, they were seeking a higher education, they had nice homes, peaceful lives. So why did they, American citizens all, fly off to Pakistan to engage in God knows what acts of terror?
If you’re going to pee on someone, shouldn’t you avoid it being a cop?
Much more, All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
HERE
Week Ending Sunday 12/13/09
In this True Crime post, theft of money from the U.S. treasury to pay off campaign debts is a crime although Obama likely won't get charged. Same for appointing a pervert for "Safe School Czar".
We close the door on Amanda Knox with some final thoughts, A couple of intriguing incidents involving airplane behavior by Muslims and TSA Internet posts that could be way more sinister than we know.
Of course, there's some Tiger Woods commentary.
Much more...all with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
========
"The Charismatic, Catholic, Christmas Choir" is a little fiction piece meant for:Catholics; folks with a sense of humor; people who like Christmas; Those of us just needing a big smile for the season.
For the choir really meant well when it embarked on the ferry to entertain its passengers. The dunk into the bay of sopranos, altos and tenors and the resulting confusion was never part of the plan. DESC
HERE
Week Ending Sunday 12/6/09
Kaitlyn paid Mom-Mom a visit over the Thanksgiving Holiday. We went to see a special live performance of “Babes in Toyland”. Pics and a video snippet here.
“Planet 51”-a big yawn. Here’s a review of this okay kind of movie, rated on the wiggle meter at about a c+ or b-.
In True Crime this week, a couple of big ones covered.
First, Amanda Knox. She’s the American convicted in Italy for murder of her roommate. If you’re not sick of the “Dateline”’s and “48 Hours” of this trial, check in to this Blog for one really huge reason why the logical would know that Amanda is 99.99% more likely to be guilty than innocent.
I am sick of Mike Huckabee and in this True Crime post we re-visit Huck’s other very questionable pardons that also lead to the death of innocents. Fox News covers for Huck, all explained with better research on this Blog post than you’ll find in the Old Media.
A good guess as to why all the silly attempts to cover that stupid couple who crashed the White House last week. The Blog Post pooh poohs the guess and offers a better reason.
All this and much more with pics you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
HERE
True Crime-Airline Madness-Nigerians Try to Bring Planes Down;
We got news just over the wire this day of the post, 12/27/09. For the Nigerians have suddenly taken ill on our airlines and condoms filled with explosives stuffed in their bodies might well be the problem. Lots of other unexplained airline mischief, all involving Muslims, explored for the strangeness.
He tries to kill 2 year old stepson by shoving needles into his body. A story of evil.
Speeding Coast Guard Boat Kills young boy during holiday boat parade.
Updates on old crimes: Ballon Boy Parents Sentenced; Roman Polanski; Gets Found Guilty for Getting Naked In His Own Home.
Some great news reportage, stupid criminals and lots more.
All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
Pic of the Day
Why All the Sudden Strange Stuff Happening on U.S. Airlines?
It was a busy Christmas Day that had me opening gifts, preparing the holiday meal and playing games with granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law. A scene not much different from many households across America I suspect. Only this Blogger/News Junkee couldn’t keep eyes away from TV as reports came in about a Nigerian on a flight from Holland to Detroit, a declared terrorist incident, the bits and pieces of a news event then happening and a mind’s attempt to inhale the reporting while playing a serious game of Yahtzee.
It seemed that Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, a fine Nigerian fellow, got it into his head that he wanted to blow up the airplane he was on and ostensibly kill everyone on it. Passengers intervened and stopped the guy.
So Christmas came and went and this news story was reported, news junkees like myself watched the reports. Minds returned to holiday festivities I would assume.
But there’s bit a lot of strange airline incidents of late, every damn one of them involving a Muslim of some sort. Coincidentally. On this Blog post, I report on the odd story of the AirTran flight 297 on 11/17/09. This airline incident involved a bunch of misbehaving Muslims who would not put down the camera, were acting badly, in general rousing enough suspicion that the flight crew turned the plane around and refused to fly with these guys.
I hadn’t heard about THIS airline story involving live bullets found on a plane.
It is now 12/27/09 and I am seldom writing about this story this close to its actual occurrence but I cannot resist.
For yet ANOTHER Muslim, a Nigerian in fact, had what has been determined, as reported at the time of this writing, a simple case of food poisoning.
From ABCNEWS:
So this Nigerian gets verbally abusive with the flight crew, something all these muslims seem to do, locks himself in the bathroom for an hour, this on the exact same plane that had that other Nigerian pulling the same stunt, and it’s all just a coincidence?
For now I must believe the investigation of the many agencies who responded to this distress call from that flight as it landed. I’m thinking they didn’t find any explosive liquid in this Nigerian’s underwear but whose to say he didn’t flush it down while spending that hour in that bathroom?
These are True Crimes of Terrorism, folks, and I got a bridge to sell to anyone who believes this second incident is just a coincidence.
Either this second fellow was a copycat and decided to gain some attention for his loopy self, or he was “testing” out how tight the security has become after the first incident, or he was a genuine terrorist and had liquid explosion in his rectum that he “evacuated” during that hour long stint in the airplane bathroom because, I don’t know, maybe he determined the action was unsafe at that time.
It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Coast Guard Hits Boat Anchored to Watch Holiday Parade; Kills 8 Year Old Boy
This is an odd story, if not a very sad story.
A 24’ boat, with 13 people on board, was allegedly anchored in the San Diego Bay watching the holiday water festivities on the San Diego Bay. A 33’ Coast Guard Boat rammed into the 24’ foot boat and killed an 8 year old boy. I’m not sure this is a crime but it’s possible a manslaughter charge is in the balance.
No way should a Coast Guard boat be speeding through a line of docked and/or anchored boats to get at an “emergency” grounding of another boat and hit a boat specifically invited to come down, get comfortable and enjoy the show from your boat. Something is seriously wrong with that picture.
Further, in the first story, linked and quoted below, the collision occurred only when the Coast Guard boat suddenly turned around and returned from its emergency call so what’s that all about?
Two other people on the 24’ boat suffered major injuries, one requiring CPR before going to the hospital.
First report of the accident from Signonsandiego.com:
Anthony died of multiple trauma injuries, as reported on this follow up of the accident, from the same source as above.
The NTSB(National Transportation Safety Board) is investigating this accident and isn’t done its research.
But there’s some mighty puzzling stuff at question here. Per the quote above, it almost looks like somebody’s trying to lay fault on the DeWeese family. And some comments under one of the stories questioned the safety of having 13 people on board a 24’ boat. Other commenters said that alone was a danger. And above, an attorney hints that the little boat should have had its lights on if it was not anchored. Yet in the first report of the story, which could have been just shoddy reporting I understand, it was reported that the little boat WAS anchored.
First…folks…the town of San Diego has this great big holiday shindig and invites all boat types to come on down, watch the fireworks and the boat parade of lights. It’s a holiday thing. An ersatz map of the San Diego Bay and the parade route at the site shows a route that hugs close to shore as such things normally do. The boats that come to watch hug the shoreline as well.
I lived on the Chesapeake Bay most of my life. These water events are very common, festive, the sort of thing folks with boats come to with a bevy of passengers. It’s not like the boats are going out on a speed drive pulling water skiers is what I’m saying here. I doubt such as putting out big lights to the side is something the boaters think of, or even throwing down an anchor or even inviting the whole family and a bunch of neighbors to jump on board. Hey, the boats sit in the water and watch the fireworks, cheer on the boat parade of lights.
What the hell is a Coast Guard boat doing speeding along in such a venue fast enough that upon impact with a standing boat it seriously injures two passengers and kills one? All to get to an “emergency” involving a “grounded” boat?
Now I know a grounded boat can be an emergency, anything possible given the right conditions. But, again putting on my Chesapeake Bay experience hat, grounded boats usually involve a boat that got a bit too close to shore or maybe hit upon a sand bar. They are rarely “emergencies”. Further, as reported in the first story, this Coast Guard boat actually turned around and headed back without even “rescuing” the grounded boat. So it needed to ride along real fast upon returning, fast enough to kill a kid of a boat it impacted?
I’m going to keep an eye on this story. More than likely the DeWeese family will file a lawsuit, and win. I do think it’s a bit stinky dirty to cast aspersions on the family, it’s lack of big sidelights, the lack of anchor, the number of folks on board. None of these things, if true, caused those injuries and deaths. A big old Coast Guard boat going too damn fast under the circumstances of a bay filled with festive boating party-goers all INVITED to come join the fun.
If my gut instinct is right on this, someone driving that Coast Guard boat is guilty of a crime, a manslaughter crime you or I would be charged with if stupid enough to pilot a boat so stupidly in such a venue.
Ballon Boy’s Parents Get Sentenced
The Balloon Boy story covered on this Blog HERE and HERE.
From Yahoo.com:
I suppose this wraps up the rather sad story of the Balloon Boy.
How I remember the day of that story. It was around 3 o’clock or so. Sean Hannity’s radio show had begun. Sean began his show with the story, describing what he was seeing on TV with that balloon flying across the skies. I quickly flipped on the TV to CNN, always the best with breaking news, and watched, as mesmerized as the rest of the country I suspect.
I was in my bedroom and it was right after my afternoon nap. I quickly ran out to the living room to tell my husband to quick turn on the TV, that there was currently ongoing a story that was utterly amazing. Husband flicked on the switch and together we watched that balloon fly across the sky, believing along with the rest of the country that a little boy was huddled in the bottom of the thing.
It had all the elements to capture the nation’s fancy: a young child, an unusual flight across the sky, a camera bringing it all into our living rooms, a nail biting page-turner of a saga.
Husband and I watched the balloon land. We waited to see the little boy emerge, we were prepared to cheer. The container thing at the bottom of the balloon held no little boy. Had he fallen out somewhere over the mountains or on takeoff?
At some point it was reported that the little boy was found in his own home. It was still a captivating story. The poor kid went and hid in the “attic” of the family garage for fear of getting in to trouble for not minding his parents.
Later that evening, at choir practice, we all shared our stories of how we watched the saga unfold. We chuckled at the little boy who caused the nation such worry. Yet we understood. Kids do odd things and hey, he’s okay. That’s all that mattered.
In due course we all found out how one guy who’s obsessive about his damn hair thought this to just be the coolest thing to get him national attention, to get him a chance at his own reality series.
The first suspicion came when the boy said his father told him it was all for the show. My True Crime detective mind got to churning. The kid was allegedly found in the rafters of his garage roof. I’ve got a rafters on my garage roof and yes, a plank of plywood laid over the rafters provides a floor of sort. It was under a piece of furniture stored on this plywood floor on the “ceiling” of the Heene garage that Falcon was found.
There are no stairs leading up to this plywood roof of sorts in my garage and I suspected there was no such thing in the Heene garage. In fact we have to climb a steep ladder than “heft” ourselves up to get onto that plywood floor. I pondered that an adult would have to hoist little Falcon up to that garage roof. It wasn’t the sort of location that Falcon could easily get to.
I like that the Judge specifically denied Mr. Heene from making any profit off of this crime. Lest this fellow get it into his head to write a book about it some day is what I’m saying here.
Roman Polanski Keeps Trying
Roman Polanski stories covered on this Blog HERE and HERE.
I’m keeping an eyeball on this fine, fine child rapist who says his chasers and tormenters are just jealous as everyone loves to F_C_ young girls, yes he said this.
From Yahoo.com:
He flipped this country’s court system the bird. The only ones feeling sorry for him are Hollywood liberals who love evil. Whoopi Goldberg, fine example that one, says it wasn’t really “rape,rape”. If the fine Polanski deserves his freedom, why won’t the liberal courts of California give it to him?
Naked In His Own Home
This ridiculous story first reported on this Blog HERE.
I really hate to deal with this story again. Because at least two famously conservative web sites and no less than Fox News have fallen for this pervert’s scam. My argument is that Conservatives, which I consider myself one, condemn and mock the liberals of the world for falling for sound bytes and silly arguments.
So this guy, he likes to get naked in his own home. At least that’s how he tells the story. Well we all get naked in our home from time to time, there’s nothing wrong with this.
But how many of us get naked outside in our “car port”, wearing only a hard hat and in full view of passersby and young children walking by to catch the school bus?
How many of us get naked and follow passersby as they walk the path past our house from our window to picture window that they don’t miss our nakedness for a blink?
How many of us end up in court, and found GUILTY, with a bevy of witnesses testifying on our brazen and obscene behavior.
Yet this guy’s lawyer continues this pervert’s original mantra…that he was only nude in his own home and how is this a crime?
Naked Man’s Lawyer Uses Same Old Excuse from NINEMSN.com
I got me a garage. I’m not sure what that “Carport” refers to but even a carport is an outside kind of thing, hardly a quick run in the nude from bathroom to bedroom down a short hallway in our own home. If I stand naked in my own garage, which is technically my house, the whole world could quite plainly see me as the garage has a great big old door. This would include school children walking by to catch the school bus. How would this kind of nudity, wearing a hard hat remember…qualify as being naked in your own home?
In either case, garage or carport (which to me is a roof type of thing with NO WALLS AT ALL), this guy is spotted, naked, wearing a hard hat, something we ALL do, in full view of those walking by.
I won’t name the two notoriously conservative web sites that fell for this idiot’s story because he quite enjoyed his defense that his home is his castle, a conservative mantra indeed. But this pervert was laughing at the sincere conservatives who defended him, mocking the silly women who complained about his bizarre behavior of standing in front of his windows while following the female passersby along the route of the front of his house by moving from window to window. That carport/garage thing? Come on.
I heard Fox News repeat this guy’s bleating appeal that he should be charged with lewd and lascivious behavior for daring to undress in his own home so unfairly.
Fox News makes itself look as dumb as MSNBC when they tried to pass that black guy with a gun as some sort of white racist gun nut.
Meanwhile this pervert gets the last laugh as honest folks defend his right to undress in his own “castle”.
That judge and all those witnesses who testified against this perv weren’t ALL wrong.
I’ve lost a lot of respect for Fox News because of their very erroneous reporting on this story. Fair and balanced they are not.
Victim Goes to Jail
Got interested in this story because it involves a couple of Muslims.
What a hoot. The criminal breaks into the guy’s house, terrorizes his wife and kids. The home owner gets a chance to take on the intruder and evidently beats the living hell out of him.
The robbed fellow is going to jail, the robber gets a pass.
From Dailymail.uk:
Tries to Kill Stepson By Shoving Needles Into His Body
He forced the child to drink liquor to dull the pain. He then cruelly shoved needles into the child’s body hoping they would eventually kill the boy and not be detected.
From Foxnews.com:
Is there no limit to the evil on this planet?
As Reported
say they have glaucoma in memo
What Is With the Obama Administration and Its Love of Murdering Dictators?
There was that Czar of Public Relations who got caught on tape professing her love of China’s Mao T’se Tung, who murdered millions of his countrymen.
Now on the White House Christmas tree we have ornaments adorned with Mao’s image!
Michael Vick Wins Courage Award
Well hey, it takes a lot of courage to slam an already brutally injured dog into a wet wall or hell, throwing one into an electrified swimming pool to die a horrific death.
We give Nobel Peace Prizes to those who have done nothing.
Vick could have, were he angry at his losing dogs, had a lackey put them to sleep nice like if they were of no more use to him. Instead, even as they were bleeding and in blinding pain from the dog fight lost, Vick, the very BRAVE soul, slammed the dog into a brick wall to smash it brains or throw it into an electrified pool.
Such a courageous guy.
From sports.Yahoo.com
Man Climbs Into High Voltage SubStation and Takes 69,000 Shock as He Tries to Steal Copper Wire
This fellow has burns all over his torso. He is in stable condition and expected to live.
What these thieves would have gotten in terms of street value of the copper they were trying to steal is estimated at about a hundred bucks.
From WCCO.com:
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He tries to kill 2 year old stepson by shoving needles into his body. A story of evil.
Speeding Coast Guard Boat Kills young boy during holiday boat parade.
Updates on old crimes: Ballon Boy Parents Sentenced; Roman Polanski; Gets Found Guilty for Getting Naked In His Own Home.
Some great news reportage, stupid criminals and lots more.
All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
Pic of the Day
Why All the Sudden Strange Stuff Happening on U.S. Airlines?
It was a busy Christmas Day that had me opening gifts, preparing the holiday meal and playing games with granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law. A scene not much different from many households across America I suspect. Only this Blogger/News Junkee couldn’t keep eyes away from TV as reports came in about a Nigerian on a flight from Holland to Detroit, a declared terrorist incident, the bits and pieces of a news event then happening and a mind’s attempt to inhale the reporting while playing a serious game of Yahtzee.
It seemed that Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, a fine Nigerian fellow, got it into his head that he wanted to blow up the airplane he was on and ostensibly kill everyone on it. Passengers intervened and stopped the guy.
So Christmas came and went and this news story was reported, news junkees like myself watched the reports. Minds returned to holiday festivities I would assume.
But there’s bit a lot of strange airline incidents of late, every damn one of them involving a Muslim of some sort. Coincidentally. On this Blog post, I report on the odd story of the AirTran flight 297 on 11/17/09. This airline incident involved a bunch of misbehaving Muslims who would not put down the camera, were acting badly, in general rousing enough suspicion that the flight crew turned the plane around and refused to fly with these guys.
I hadn’t heard about THIS airline story involving live bullets found on a plane.
Turner said she boarded US Airways Flight 365 in Phoenix on Tuesday. When the plane pulled up to the gate in Sacramento, she said, passengers were asked to remain seated because of a security breach. A Sacramento County sheriff's deputy came on board and explained that two bullet casings had been found on the plane.
It is now 12/27/09 and I am seldom writing about this story this close to its actual occurrence but I cannot resist.
For yet ANOTHER Muslim, a Nigerian in fact, had what has been determined, as reported at the time of this writing, a simple case of food poisoning.
From ABCNEWS:
"A second scare of a possible bomb on Northwest Airlines flight 253 Sunday was the result of a passenger who refused to come out of the bathroom because he was sick with food poisoning, law enforcement officials told ABCNews.com.
FBI agents and local police swarmed the plane as it landed in Detroit after the pilot reported an "belligerent and uncooperative" passenger who had spent more than an hour in the bathroom as the flight neared Detroit.
Authorities said the passenger was a 36-year old Nigerian petroleum engineer who became unhappy to be ordered to his seat one hour before landing, as required under new in-flight rules following the attempted Christmas day bombing of the same flight by another Nigerian citizen. "...........
.................."Officials gave an "all clear" message a short time later after interviewing the Nigerian passenger and determining he was, indeed, ill.
So this Nigerian gets verbally abusive with the flight crew, something all these muslims seem to do, locks himself in the bathroom for an hour, this on the exact same plane that had that other Nigerian pulling the same stunt, and it’s all just a coincidence?
For now I must believe the investigation of the many agencies who responded to this distress call from that flight as it landed. I’m thinking they didn’t find any explosive liquid in this Nigerian’s underwear but whose to say he didn’t flush it down while spending that hour in that bathroom?
These are True Crimes of Terrorism, folks, and I got a bridge to sell to anyone who believes this second incident is just a coincidence.
Either this second fellow was a copycat and decided to gain some attention for his loopy self, or he was “testing” out how tight the security has become after the first incident, or he was a genuine terrorist and had liquid explosion in his rectum that he “evacuated” during that hour long stint in the airplane bathroom because, I don’t know, maybe he determined the action was unsafe at that time.
It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Coast Guard Hits Boat Anchored to Watch Holiday Parade; Kills 8 Year Old Boy
This is an odd story, if not a very sad story.
A 24’ boat, with 13 people on board, was allegedly anchored in the San Diego Bay watching the holiday water festivities on the San Diego Bay. A 33’ Coast Guard Boat rammed into the 24’ foot boat and killed an 8 year old boy. I’m not sure this is a crime but it’s possible a manslaughter charge is in the balance.
No way should a Coast Guard boat be speeding through a line of docked and/or anchored boats to get at an “emergency” grounding of another boat and hit a boat specifically invited to come down, get comfortable and enjoy the show from your boat. Something is seriously wrong with that picture.
Further, in the first story, linked and quoted below, the collision occurred only when the Coast Guard boat suddenly turned around and returned from its emergency call so what’s that all about?
Two other people on the 24’ boat suffered major injuries, one requiring CPR before going to the hospital.
First report of the accident from Signonsandiego.com:
An 8-year-old boy was killed and five people were injured when a Coast Guard vessel responding to an emergency call struck a pleasure boat during the San Diego Bay Parade of Lights Sunday night.
Anthony died of multiple trauma injuries, as reported on this follow up of the accident, from the same source as above.
Maritime law experts said that if the DeWeese family’s Sea Ray wasn’t anchored — as appears to be the case before the accident — it would need to have had a white light shining above the boat and navigational lights on either side of it.
If those weren’t on, the Sea Ray’s operators might be at least partly at fault, said Bill Turley, past president of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego.
If they were, Turley said, questions for the Coast Guard become:
• Was there a crew member serving as lookout, as required by law?
• How fast was the Coast Guard vessel traveling?
The NTSB(National Transportation Safety Board) is investigating this accident and isn’t done its research.
But there’s some mighty puzzling stuff at question here. Per the quote above, it almost looks like somebody’s trying to lay fault on the DeWeese family. And some comments under one of the stories questioned the safety of having 13 people on board a 24’ boat. Other commenters said that alone was a danger. And above, an attorney hints that the little boat should have had its lights on if it was not anchored. Yet in the first report of the story, which could have been just shoddy reporting I understand, it was reported that the little boat WAS anchored.
First…folks…the town of San Diego has this great big holiday shindig and invites all boat types to come on down, watch the fireworks and the boat parade of lights. It’s a holiday thing. An ersatz map of the San Diego Bay and the parade route at the site shows a route that hugs close to shore as such things normally do. The boats that come to watch hug the shoreline as well.
I lived on the Chesapeake Bay most of my life. These water events are very common, festive, the sort of thing folks with boats come to with a bevy of passengers. It’s not like the boats are going out on a speed drive pulling water skiers is what I’m saying here. I doubt such as putting out big lights to the side is something the boaters think of, or even throwing down an anchor or even inviting the whole family and a bunch of neighbors to jump on board. Hey, the boats sit in the water and watch the fireworks, cheer on the boat parade of lights.
What the hell is a Coast Guard boat doing speeding along in such a venue fast enough that upon impact with a standing boat it seriously injures two passengers and kills one? All to get to an “emergency” involving a “grounded” boat?
Now I know a grounded boat can be an emergency, anything possible given the right conditions. But, again putting on my Chesapeake Bay experience hat, grounded boats usually involve a boat that got a bit too close to shore or maybe hit upon a sand bar. They are rarely “emergencies”. Further, as reported in the first story, this Coast Guard boat actually turned around and headed back without even “rescuing” the grounded boat. So it needed to ride along real fast upon returning, fast enough to kill a kid of a boat it impacted?
I’m going to keep an eye on this story. More than likely the DeWeese family will file a lawsuit, and win. I do think it’s a bit stinky dirty to cast aspersions on the family, it’s lack of big sidelights, the lack of anchor, the number of folks on board. None of these things, if true, caused those injuries and deaths. A big old Coast Guard boat going too damn fast under the circumstances of a bay filled with festive boating party-goers all INVITED to come join the fun.
If my gut instinct is right on this, someone driving that Coast Guard boat is guilty of a crime, a manslaughter crime you or I would be charged with if stupid enough to pilot a boat so stupidly in such a venue.
Ballon Boy’s Parents Get Sentenced
The Balloon Boy story covered on this Blog HERE and HERE.
From Yahoo.com:
The parents who pulled the balloon boy hoax in hopes of landing a reality TV show were sentenced to jail Wednesday — 90 days for him, 20 days for her — and barred from profiting from their newfound celebrity status for the next four years.
I suppose this wraps up the rather sad story of the Balloon Boy.
How I remember the day of that story. It was around 3 o’clock or so. Sean Hannity’s radio show had begun. Sean began his show with the story, describing what he was seeing on TV with that balloon flying across the skies. I quickly flipped on the TV to CNN, always the best with breaking news, and watched, as mesmerized as the rest of the country I suspect.
I was in my bedroom and it was right after my afternoon nap. I quickly ran out to the living room to tell my husband to quick turn on the TV, that there was currently ongoing a story that was utterly amazing. Husband flicked on the switch and together we watched that balloon fly across the sky, believing along with the rest of the country that a little boy was huddled in the bottom of the thing.
It had all the elements to capture the nation’s fancy: a young child, an unusual flight across the sky, a camera bringing it all into our living rooms, a nail biting page-turner of a saga.
Husband and I watched the balloon land. We waited to see the little boy emerge, we were prepared to cheer. The container thing at the bottom of the balloon held no little boy. Had he fallen out somewhere over the mountains or on takeoff?
At some point it was reported that the little boy was found in his own home. It was still a captivating story. The poor kid went and hid in the “attic” of the family garage for fear of getting in to trouble for not minding his parents.
Later that evening, at choir practice, we all shared our stories of how we watched the saga unfold. We chuckled at the little boy who caused the nation such worry. Yet we understood. Kids do odd things and hey, he’s okay. That’s all that mattered.
In due course we all found out how one guy who’s obsessive about his damn hair thought this to just be the coolest thing to get him national attention, to get him a chance at his own reality series.
The first suspicion came when the boy said his father told him it was all for the show. My True Crime detective mind got to churning. The kid was allegedly found in the rafters of his garage roof. I’ve got a rafters on my garage roof and yes, a plank of plywood laid over the rafters provides a floor of sort. It was under a piece of furniture stored on this plywood floor on the “ceiling” of the Heene garage that Falcon was found.
There are no stairs leading up to this plywood roof of sorts in my garage and I suspected there was no such thing in the Heene garage. In fact we have to climb a steep ladder than “heft” ourselves up to get onto that plywood floor. I pondered that an adult would have to hoist little Falcon up to that garage roof. It wasn’t the sort of location that Falcon could easily get to.
I like that the Judge specifically denied Mr. Heene from making any profit off of this crime. Lest this fellow get it into his head to write a book about it some day is what I’m saying here.
Roman Polanski Keeps Trying
Roman Polanski stories covered on this Blog HERE and HERE.
I’m keeping an eyeball on this fine, fine child rapist who says his chasers and tormenters are just jealous as everyone loves to F_C_ young girls, yes he said this.
From Yahoo.com:
LOS ANGELES – A California appeals court has rejected Roman Polanski's bid to have his sex case dismissed.
The California 2nd District Court of Appeal announced Monday it had denied the petition, with justices saying they are "deeply concerned" about the alleged misconduct.
He flipped this country’s court system the bird. The only ones feeling sorry for him are Hollywood liberals who love evil. Whoopi Goldberg, fine example that one, says it wasn’t really “rape,rape”. If the fine Polanski deserves his freedom, why won’t the liberal courts of California give it to him?
Naked In His Own Home
This ridiculous story first reported on this Blog HERE.
The woman told police it was 8:40 a.m. when she was walking her son to school along a path between houses. She said they first spotted Williamson naked in an open door in the car port of his home.
She also told police that Williamson then walked across the house to a large window, facing the way she was walking.
I really hate to deal with this story again. Because at least two famously conservative web sites and no less than Fox News have fallen for this pervert’s scam. My argument is that Conservatives, which I consider myself one, condemn and mock the liberals of the world for falling for sound bytes and silly arguments.
So this guy, he likes to get naked in his own home. At least that’s how he tells the story. Well we all get naked in our home from time to time, there’s nothing wrong with this.
But how many of us get naked outside in our “car port”, wearing only a hard hat and in full view of passersby and young children walking by to catch the school bus?
How many of us get naked and follow passersby as they walk the path past our house from our window to picture window that they don’t miss our nakedness for a blink?
How many of us end up in court, and found GUILTY, with a bevy of witnesses testifying on our brazen and obscene behavior.
Yet this guy’s lawyer continues this pervert’s original mantra…that he was only nude in his own home and how is this a crime?
Naked Man’s Lawyer Uses Same Old Excuse from NINEMSN.com
I got me a garage. I’m not sure what that “Carport” refers to but even a carport is an outside kind of thing, hardly a quick run in the nude from bathroom to bedroom down a short hallway in our own home. If I stand naked in my own garage, which is technically my house, the whole world could quite plainly see me as the garage has a great big old door. This would include school children walking by to catch the school bus. How would this kind of nudity, wearing a hard hat remember…qualify as being naked in your own home?
In either case, garage or carport (which to me is a roof type of thing with NO WALLS AT ALL), this guy is spotted, naked, wearing a hard hat, something we ALL do, in full view of those walking by.
I won’t name the two notoriously conservative web sites that fell for this idiot’s story because he quite enjoyed his defense that his home is his castle, a conservative mantra indeed. But this pervert was laughing at the sincere conservatives who defended him, mocking the silly women who complained about his bizarre behavior of standing in front of his windows while following the female passersby along the route of the front of his house by moving from window to window. That carport/garage thing? Come on.
I heard Fox News repeat this guy’s bleating appeal that he should be charged with lewd and lascivious behavior for daring to undress in his own home so unfairly.
Fox News makes itself look as dumb as MSNBC when they tried to pass that black guy with a gun as some sort of white racist gun nut.
Meanwhile this pervert gets the last laugh as honest folks defend his right to undress in his own “castle”.
That judge and all those witnesses who testified against this perv weren’t ALL wrong.
I’ve lost a lot of respect for Fox News because of their very erroneous reporting on this story. Fair and balanced they are not.
Victim Goes to Jail
Got interested in this story because it involves a couple of Muslims.
What a hoot. The criminal breaks into the guy’s house, terrorizes his wife and kids. The home owner gets a chance to take on the intruder and evidently beats the living hell out of him.
The robbed fellow is going to jail, the robber gets a pass.
From Dailymail.uk:
After the incident, Munir was taken to a police station to make a victim statement, but arrested that night. 'He was put in a police cell and detained; he didn't get the opportunity to speak to anybody,' said Qadeer. 'In the the six or seven days he was locked up, he worried all the time about what was happening to the rest of his family.
'Knowing that two men who had broken into the house were still at large was absolute torture for Munir.
Tries to Kill Stepson By Shoving Needles Into His Body
He forced the child to drink liquor to dull the pain. He then cruelly shoved needles into the child’s body hoping they would eventually kill the boy and not be detected.
From Foxnews.com:
BRASILIA, Brazil — The 2-year-old boy who had nearly three dozen sewing needles shoved into his body by his stepfather is expected to undergo another surgery this week, doctors said Monday.
A day after a jailed Brazilian man admitted in a television interview he wanted to kill the boy to spite his wife, doctors said they will try to remove three needles from the boy's abdominal region on Wednesday.
Is there no limit to the evil on this planet?
As Reported
say they have glaucoma in memo
What Is With the Obama Administration and Its Love of Murdering Dictators?
There was that Czar of Public Relations who got caught on tape professing her love of China’s Mao T’se Tung, who murdered millions of his countrymen.
Now on the White House Christmas tree we have ornaments adorned with Mao’s image!
Michael Vick Wins Courage Award
Well hey, it takes a lot of courage to slam an already brutally injured dog into a wet wall or hell, throwing one into an electrified swimming pool to die a horrific death.
We give Nobel Peace Prizes to those who have done nothing.
Vick could have, were he angry at his losing dogs, had a lackey put them to sleep nice like if they were of no more use to him. Instead, even as they were bleeding and in blinding pain from the dog fight lost, Vick, the very BRAVE soul, slammed the dog into a brick wall to smash it brains or throw it into an electrified pool.
Such a courageous guy.
From sports.Yahoo.com
Man Climbs Into High Voltage SubStation and Takes 69,000 Shock as He Tries to Steal Copper Wire
This fellow has burns all over his torso. He is in stable condition and expected to live.
What these thieves would have gotten in terms of street value of the copper they were trying to steal is estimated at about a hundred bucks.
From WCCO.com:
Police and paramedics responded to several 911 calls of a man who was on fire at the Dakota Electric power substation located in the 1700 block of Deerwood Drive at around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Investigators said David Stachowiak, climbed onto a high-voltage power transformer, after cutting through the sub station's barbed wire topped chain link fence.
Evidence taken from the scene indicates that Stachowiak and possibly two other people were there to steal copper cable.
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True Crime-Susan Powell, Airlines, Home-Grown Terrorists, Schools Run Amok; Kaitlyn Turns Six; Guest Writer-Giving Blood
Guest Writer Michelle gets more blood drawn only this time it’s a tale of calm and cool.
Kaitlyn turns six. Pix from Chuck E. Cheese, Videos.
In this True Crime post, we’ve got a couple of airplane updates. First, that AirTran flight during which a fine Muslim fellow acted like an asshole and nothing less…we’ve got yet another passenger verifying this story. And I continue to pound on that Northwest Flight 188 which over flew its destination by over 150 miles. Folks, it’s a comedy of errors that will first make you laugh but will leave you crying. And scared out of your gourd to fly.
Will Josh Powell join the likes of Scott or Drew Peterson, ie husbands whose wives go missing while they’ve got phony-baloney alibis? He took the kids camping at midnight on a Sunday night in freezing weather?
A school drug counselor is arrested on charges of selling drugs. Why the surprise when we’ve got a Safe School Czar who teaches lewd sex practices and recommends obscene books for our children?
The child fiddled with a braid in school so the teacher cut it off! Yes she did. Teachers think they can do just anything any more.
The Obama administration continues to cover for Kevin Johnson, his perversion with young girls and the payoff with tax dollars. An update on this from Byron York.
Those five fine American fellows had everything this land of the free had to offer: they could worship as they pleased, they were seeking a higher education, they had nice homes, peaceful lives. So why did they, American citizens all, fly off to Pakistan to engage in God knows what acts of terror?
If you’re going to pee on someone, shouldn’t you avoid it being a cop?
Much more, All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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More on Those Muslims on Flight 297
First covered on this Blog
HERE, in short, a bunch of Muslims acted like children on AirTran Flight 297 on November 17 that the crew refused to fly the plane, the pilot stopped the plane during runway takeoff and the flight was eventually cancelled, albeit replaced by another flight later in the same plane.
The way AirTran covered this incident is reprehensible. One passenger told the story of what happened on that airplane and while it might not have been a “dry run” as the passenger asserted, a fine member of the religion of Peace acted like an asshole in general by refusing to sit down, turn off his camera and act like, well a polite human just for starters.
AirTran mocked the original passenger’s story, calling it, snarkily, “The Anatomy of a Legend”. Below, ANOTHER passenger on that flight tells the story, all on video, live before out lying eyes and ears.
HERE.
This fellow verifies what the poor original passenger said happened and he seems quite sober and rational to me.
As I stated in that original Blog post about this story, it might not have been anything so dramatic as a dry run to a planned terrorist attack, it certainly was an example of how those fine, fine Muslim fellows can act like jerks and get away with it due to companies like AirTran and that CAIR group that thinks Muslims can do no wrong and somehow convinces normally intelligent Americans to agree.
Northwest Flight 188-A Horror of a Foul-Up
So on Fox News, on the morning of 12/16/09, I hear a “breaking news bulletin”, for which Fox is famous and issues some twenty/thirty times a day. “There’s more information released on that Northwest Flight 188 that overshot its destination by over 100 miles.”
My ears were perked.
The story of this Flight was covered on this Blog HERE and HERE.
A fairly comprehensive synopsis of the foul-ups involved in this flight is covered on the Fox site, HERE.
Let’s review what happened that day. Flight 188 was due to land in Minneapolis at around 7 pm CDT in the evening on 10/21/09. At around 8:15 pm a Flight Attendant buzzed the pilot cabin to ask when the flight would be landing.
Supposedly the pilot and co-pilot had been working on a laptop computer, trying to learn the new scheduling system used by Delta, which had acquired Northwest. Those two got so involved with their learning curve, allegedly, they overshot their destination by what has been reported to be as much as 150 miles to 300 miles. When the Flight Attendant buzzed in the pilot, Timothy Cheney saw the plane was near Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Stop here a moment and know that I do not believe those two guys were learning a new scheduling system. I think they were asleep, pure and simple. But they don’t want to admit such a thing and there’s a reason they can get away with their silly lie, read on.
That’s not all that went awry that night.
According to the NTSB report, the pilot and co-pilot were not on good terms. They were flying together for the first time and the pilot indicated that he did not think much of his co-pilot’s skills.
Yet we are to believe that these two fellows got so engrossed in learning this new software, such was their companionability, that they lost all track of time and forgot they were flying an airplane?
But there were more screwups.
A controller was evidently trying to reach the airplane. He called Northwest to ask the dispatchers to please try reaching the plane. Only the controller could not get through to Northwest as…the phone NUMBER WAS OUT OF SERVICE!!
The Northwest dispatchers had been sending messages to the airline but they went unanswered. Unanswered, I argue, because the two guys flying the plane were fast asleep. Unanswered, so those same two guys would tell you, because they were all involved with learning new software.
The reason the Controllers could not get through to the Northwest dispatchers was because the phone number had changed once Delta acquired Northwest and NOBODY TOLD THE CONTROLLERS!
But it gets better.
There is something called Domestic Events Network, or DEN. It is a conference call of sorts between air traffic controllers, military commanders and other folks of authority. DEN was established because of the events of 9-11-01.
The Controller at the Minneapolis facility, well she was a bit of a dolt. First she could not be contacted by DEN because her duties required her to be away from her desk and she was, in fact, AWAY FROM HER DESK. So whoever in the gubmint designed this DEN system had no backup for this most ordinary event, the notion that the Controller Manager might be, um, doing his or her job? We got a team of terrorists all busy tying up passengers over Wyoming and tossing them out of the plane and the Air Force guy keeps trying to call the Controller to arrange an interception and the Controller is all busy counseling an employee for long lunch periods?
When contact was finally established with this Manager by DEN she wasn’t sure if the connection was secure so she asked someone to please contact her by phone. Don’t they teach this sort of thing? Of course it was secure, THAT WAS WHY DEN WAS CREATED! Or did no one from the gubmint make this clear to the Controllers whose job it was to, um, know such things?
We go on….
Once someone convinced the idiot Controller Manager at Minneapolis that the DEN network was secure and taught her the job she should have known before being given the position, the equipment had major glitches. There were screeches and clicks and static such that the original intent of the system…ie to conference Controllers, the Military, maybe even the President, simply did not work. So no one from the gubmint either a)tested the clarity of the equipment at inception or b)forgot to put a requirement in the manual that the equipment be checked periodically, much like cable companies have to do that awful buzz thing every month in the event of an emergency?
In the end the folks who should have been involved with intercepting that plane, had it been taken over by terrorists and at the time nobody knew because the pilots were asleep…er, learning new computer software…didn’t get any information on the errant airplane for over 69 minutes. An airplane that goes out of contact for ten minutes requires notification of authorities because hey, in 69 minutes dear Lord the terrorists could have poisoned everybody on the plane and been ten minutes from flying into the White House!
Finally, because this plane is older, the infamous “black box”, ie the device which records all cockpit conversations, “recycles”. Which means that after two hours of recording the machine “loops” back and tapes over the conversations.
From the Huffington Post we get a daring explanation for the delay in the pilots reporting in. Could it be that they deliberately flew that airplane enough so that the sounds of their snores, er their conversations about the scheduling software, would be overwritten and no one would ever know the truth?
I consider this incident so serious with so many failures that my mind reels. It’s been how long since 9-11-01?
And I’ve just got to say it. Do we really want the gubmint taking over our health care?
Susan Powell-Missing Woman But Husband Knows Nothing
So Susan Powell, a 28 year old Utah woman with two young sons, goes missing on December 7 and no one knows where she went. She left behind her pocketbook, cell phone, car keys, and most importantly, HER CHILDREN.
Her husband, another Drew Peterson in the making, says he wasn’t home the night she went missing as he took his sons camping on December 6 and when he got home Susan was gone.
Heh. He took his sons, ages 2 and 4, camping on a Sunday night, around midnight, when he had to go to work the next day. They made ‘smores and slept in the van. He “forgot” he had to go to work; he got his days mixed up.
From the Deseretnews:
He told police he left his house about midnight on Dec. 6 to go camping with their two sons, ages 2 and 4. He said they went to the Simpson Springs recreation area in Tooele County. Temperatures that night were well below 32 degrees.
I got a bridge to sell cheap anybody believes this story.
Obviously ole Josh Powell is under scrutiny by the authorities. The guy did finally get an attorney, as he should have. Those kids were questioned and hey, the oldest is 4 years old. He said that his Daddy did take them for a ride but who knows, that “camping trip” could just as easily have been a little trip to dispose of Mommy’s body.
I’ve seen Susan’s father gin up and act all brave during interviews this past week. I know the cops tell families of the missing to pretend like they’re on the side of the one most suspicious, which in this case would be Susan’s husband, Josh. I felt for the man. He said he believed his son-in-law and he didn’t know of any problems the couple had, that they seemed happy.
Only it turns out that Josh filed for bankruptcy for over $200,000 in debts and Josh acts about as guilty as anybody on the planet. That impromptu camping trip is about as phoney an alibi as any I’ll ever hear. Yet Susan’s father puts on a stiff lip and sticks to his story of love and harmony between Josh and Susan.
Sad Christmas for Susan Powell’s parents and those two youngsters of hers. Daughter and mother gone, likely tossed on some snow drift in the mountains of Utah.
Oh, and rumor has it that there were two wet spots on the carpet of the Powell household, with a floor fan blowing upon it when investigators came into the house with a search warrant.
Will the 90 Year Old Get the Death Penalty for Murdering the 100 Year Old?
Elizabeth Barrow celebrated her 100th birthday on 8/21/09. On 9/24/09 her body was found in the bed in her nursing home. Her head was encased in a plastic bag.
I covered this story in a True Crime post in October of 2009. The story as reported then already had Barrow as being declared the victim of a homicide. There was also a quick but very obvious reference to Barrow’s roommate in the article.
I nailed the murderer straightaway.
From the first post on this Blog about this very sad murder:
This murder had to be done by either that room-mate or an employee of the nursing home.
Now the roommate has been officially charged with Barrow’s murder.
Barrow’s son says that his mother’s roommate was often querulous and complained about her many visitors. The roommate often made threatening remarks, as the son reports, and she accused Barrow of taking her things.
Both of the women, according to the nursing home, had been offered the chance to change roommates and both refused.
Well I hope the nursing home got this in writing because this assertion is mighty convenient. For it sounds like this roommate, at age 98, is probably a bit senile and won’t likely get the death penalty or anything. FTA, the alleged murderer is currently being assessed for mental capacity.
I’d say Barrow’s children have a damn good case for a lawsuit.
School Drug and Alcohol Counselor Indicted on Drug Charges
From the Seattlepi.com:
A Seattle Public Schools drug and alcohol counselor has been indicted on drug charges following allegations that he and another man conspired to distribute prescription pain killers.
Rainier Beach High School drug and alcohol intervention specialist Robert Henry Smith, 59, was arrested Thursday night along with 37-year-old Adrian Demetrius Johnson, a U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman said Friday in a statement.
Well why should we be surprised?
Isn’t clear from the article if this fine fellow was selling to school children, but on one of these drug buys, Smith actually left the school to obtain the illegal drugs.
Why be shocked at a school drug counselor’s arrest for, duh, selling drugs, when we’ve got an alleged “safe school czar” advocating obscene books for our adolescents?
More lewdness from Obama’s fine appointee of a safe school czar reported on this Blog HERE.
So if the President appoints a safe school czar that describes and promotes obscene sex practices, encourages the reading of lewd literature and openly professes admiration of a supporter of the “Man Boy Love Association”, why should we surprised that a school drug counselor sells drugs on the side?
Teacher Cuts Off Child’s Braid For Fooling With During Class
On the subject of teachers, while it’s not as bad as being a drug counselor while selling drugs, I think cutting off this child’s braid to be a most ridiculous and hardly mature solution to the problem. For sure the punishment did not meet the “crime”.
From The Indy Channel.com:
A Milwaukee teacher was charged with disorderly conduct after cutting off a 7-year-old's braid in front of her classmates, WISN-TV in Milwaukee reported.
Now I can just imagine this child playing with one of those braids endlessly during a boring moment at school. I had pig tails when I was in the first grade and I remember playing with them quite a bit.
But to take a pair of scissors and cut out off a braid from someone’s head is a bit outrageous.
What the hell do the colleges teach future teachers of our children? What right did this woman have to grab a child and cut her hair?
I’m not saying the hair-twiddling wasn’t a distraction and some action wasn’t in order. But, going out on a limb here, the child could have been removed from the classroom, perhaps her parents called.
I’m happy that the teacher got a criminal charge for such ill-conceived behavior.
Americorps, Gerald Walpin and Michelle Obama
A big shout out to Byron York, who is the only journalist evidently following that horror of an abuse of power that involves the top people in this administration, a belligerant middle finger to the senate, and a child rapist. This story’s going to explode on the scene soon enough and I’m going to keep on top of it.
First covered Gerald Walpin on this Blog HERE.
Gerald Walpin is an Inspector General. Inspector Generals are folks assigned to oversee programs receiving federal dollars. The idea is that having independent investigators making sure that our tax dollars are not mis-spent is better than having the congress critter getting the pork also overseeing the pork project.
Inspector Generals cannot be fired without the approval of BOTH the administration and the senate.
That is until the Obama administration. All rules went out the window when this thugocracy took office.
Not only did the Obama administration summarily fire an Inspector General without prior senate approval, now it would seem that members of the administration lied outright to congressional investigators.
From Washington Examiner:
Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed.
Kevin Johnson is a former basketball player. He is also now Mayor of Sacramento, California. He also, ahem, likes young teenage girls and here’s the direction of the investigation.
Because Gerald Walpin was honing in on the use of taxpayer dollars by Johnson to pay off his young adolescent lovers and folks, it don’t get much worse than this.
The administration is covering for pervert Kevin Johnson and yeah I know he’s a basketball hero. He also has sex with young teen girls and uses tax dollars to pay them, or their parents off.
The wall the Obama administration is building around this case is deep and dense.
I don’t think they’ll be able to keep it under wraps much longer.
From Wikipedia
During the summer of 1995, a 16 year old girl alleged that Johnson had fondled her. Johnson apologized to the girl when confronted by her with that accusation during a phone conversation recorded by Phoenix police though he also stated that "what you're saying happened, I'm not entirely agreeing happened."[23] The Sacramento Bee stated that they had received a copy of a proposed settlement agreement, under which Johnson would have paid the girl's family $230,000.[24] After conducting an investigation, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office declined to prosecute, on the grounds that there was not a reasonable likelihood of conviction.[25]
At the link there’s way more about the fine, fine Johnson. The cops got this conversation on tape.
Those Five Fine Pakistani Home-Grown Terrorists
Their parents knew nothing.
From the NYTIMES:
Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to a militant group, American and Pakistani officials said.
One of the men had left behind an 11-minute video calling for the defense of Muslims in conflicts with the West and suggesting that “young Muslims have to do something,” said one person who had seen the video, describing it as a farewell of sorts.
Although the men were arrested at the home of one of the fellows’ father, Khalid Farooq.
And we’ve got the apologist group CAIR-Council on American-Islamic Relations, that admits that there is a “small number” of Muslims attracted to extreme behavior.
All five of these young men are American citizens. A few were born abroad but they were all citizens of this country, living a fine life, allowed to worship as they pleased, all obtaining a higher education in this land of the free and home of the brave. All five of them attended a mosque in Alexandria, Va, the same mosque attended by the Fort Hood shooter. All of them are described by various relatives and friends as quiet, studious, hardly terrorists.
And yet they all got on an airplane one day, flew over to Pakistan, met in a house owned by one of their fathers, and God knows what they planned.
FIFTH Drunken Driving Arrest, Perp Pees on Cop
FIVE TIMES HE’S CAUGHT DRUNK BEHIND THE WHEEL!
From Newsvine.com:
A Waldo man accused of urinating on a police officer during his fifth drunken-driving arrest has been sentenced to a year in jail. Court records released
The complaint said Shilts failed field-sobriety tests. It said as he was taken to the police station he urinated in the back of the squad car, spraying the back of the officer's head.
This time he loses his driver’s license for three years.
Christmas Overload
Merry Christmas to all yon two to three readers of this Blog.
Below, a pic of what happens when you get too carried away with the holiday spirit.
The Blood Test Test
I had blood drawn yesterday and I think it was a test, to see if the whole blood donation thing is for real.
I made my appointment, fasted for nine hours over the night before, drove to the place and presented myself for puncturing. The woman who did it was very good; I hardly felt the needle at all and she only stabbed me once, looking for the vein.
I got my cotton ball and a bandage to hold it on, instructions not to lift anything heavy for the rest of the day and she thought I was good to go . . . but I wanted proof. What if they lost my blood? How would I prove I was there? (On this relies my medical insurance discount for next year.)
Being a highly educated professional, she looked carefully into my eyes when presented with my request for a copy of the paperwork and eloquently said, "Uhn."
I told her why, and she said she thought she could make a copy, told me to wait in the room with people awaiting their turn at being stuck, and then disappeared in the back room. I went out to the waiting room. Several people looked at my bandaged arm and I could tell they were unsure why I might be hanging around. One fidgeted, and I sympathized; once upon a time that fidgeter would have been me.
The woman called my name and I went up to get my copy.
"Uhn," she said again, and motioned me into the office. She shut the door behind me.
"Uhn, you see the paper, it says *two* large vials. But the other tech said there was a memo that we are supposed to also get a *small* vial. I called another lab but they can't verify. I thought, uhn."
"You need more?" Was she seriously asking me to come back and get punctured again?
She nodded. Yes, she was. Or, she told me, I could leave and maybe have to come back.
"Let's do it now," I said, and she looked very relieved.
We went back to the torture chair and she stuck me again. This time I felt the needle - no doubt because I already had one hole - but she was still very good and it wasn't bad at all. Quicker, too, since this was only one of the little tubes.
I received a new cotton ball and a different bandage, and I went on to work, feeling pretty proud of myself for not flinching at being required to GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW. Wow!
And, since my arm was perforated rather than punctured, I left the bandage on all day.
Just in case.
Michelle
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