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"GROOMERS": MAGA parents who sexualize and teach kids to shoot are the real problem

TARA DUBLINMARCH 24, 2023

Every accusation is a confession when it comes to MAGA propaganda, and Donald Trump’s MAGA fanatics constantly prove this point over and over without any help from liberals.

They’ve also been carefully teaching their kids for decades to hate and fear anyone who isn’t a “white Christian nationalist” which essentially translates into “Nazi” with just fewer words.

At the same time, House Republicans have been aggressively scapegoating drag queens as “groomers” while ignoring the presence of credibly accused sex trafficking Florida-man rapist Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and other members of their party who have been arrested for child porn.

The GOP also votes against SNAP and Social Security benefits while trying to destroy public education and attempting to loosen up regulations regarding gun ownership.

Their “New Baby Boom” plan is a thinly disguised plot to create an obedient white army of complacent haters.

How much more proof do you need that MAGA is an evil sex and death cult?

Check this Christmas card photo of Lauren “Squeaky” Boebert (Q-CO via “The Charles Manson Room” at a Boulder condo owned by Ted Cruz) and her four unfortunate sons, one of whom recently impregnated his underage girlfriend.

Granny Bobo is going to be a great-grandma by age 50 if she doesn’t teach the rest of her sons how to use birth control.

And then there’s Marjorie Groomer Taylor Greene, who won’t stop transphobically tweeting about kids’ genitals while letting Gaetz hang out around her three teenagers, two of whom are girls.

Thankfully there’s at least going to be some accountability for two MAGA gun groomers in Michigan.

The parents of Oxford High School mass shooter Ethan Crumbley (oh what a name), who killed four of his fellow students and injured seven others, are being charged with involuntary manslaughter because they bought their underage kid a gun.

The Michigan state appeals court said the mass shooting wouldn’t have happened if the Crummy Crumbleys hadn’t purchased the death weapon gun for Ethan, or if they had taken him home from Oxford High School on the day of the shooting when staff became “alarmed” about his extreme drawings, according to court documents.

The Crumbleys have said they’ll take their case to the Michigan Supreme Court, but I don’t love their odds.

“What a nice family they seem to be!”, said literally no one on Twitter.

Follow Tara Dublin on Twitter @taradublinrocks.

Editor’s note: This is an opinion column that solely reflects the opinions of the author.

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OPINION: The Super Bowl represents everything wrong about America

VINNIE LONGOBARDOFEBRUARY 12, 2023

Somehow I didn’t get the sports gene — making me a rather atypical American male who doesn’t give a crap about the Super Bowl.

I’d rather read, listen to music, or go bird-watching for some superb owls than watch a bunch of testosterone-laden athletes give each other Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in order to offer an opportunity for America’s richest advertisers to hawk their wares in between plays.

I know that as a hetero male with no interest in sports, I am in the extreme minority in this country, and many people would find it difficult to relate to me accordingly.

I certainly know that the position I am about to espouse will not be a popular one.

I will state it proudly anyway:

The Super Bowl represents everything that’s wrong with American culture and with American politics in particular.

American football, like any team sport, is based on a divisive, us-vs.-them mentality that pits two groups and their supporters in opposition.

And unlike the sport referred to as football in the rest of the world (it’s called soccer here), no ties or draws are allowed, meaning that only one possible victor is possible in the competition.

In that regard, it’s pretty much exactly like politics — although we rarely witness losers of crucial games go on extended rants claiming that the game was “rigged” and refusing to accept the results.

It’s a sport of winners and losers, mirroring the outcomes of our capitalist economy on its participants.

While many an imagining of utopia envisions a cooperative, competition-free society where everyone looks after their neighbors and values their well-being as much as their own, the reality of human selfishness and the complex tribalism of our planet’s inhabitants means conflict is inevitable.

Does this mean that passionate obsession with team sports must be as well?

The divisiveness and violence inherent in the Super Bowl are indeed representative of some of the worst aspects of American culture, but the commercialization of the event is equally emblematic of our society.

Only the most lucrative enterprises can afford to pony up for a Super Bowl ad, reflecting the economic inequality between wealthy and poverty-stricken families.

Moreover, the ads that these flush corporations run reinforce the notion that money can buy happiness and success.

And how many players, coaches, and fans will invoke their deity today, praying for victory or cursing their misfortune, in a transactional form of spirituality devoid of the golden rule?

Another thing: while politics may be just as competitive a team sport as football, at least the Democrats and Republicans have added a few females to their teams, unlike the NFL.

With the fracturing of the media landscape brought on by the nearly infinite choices now available on the internet, the Super Bowl is one of the last live media events that can attract the type of mass viewing audience that regularly helped shape a common culture back in the days when viewing was restricted to three major TV networks.

It’s a shame that the only nearly universally-viewed programming that exists today is a violent exhibition of conflict, aggression, and extreme jingoism.

If only the one TV broadcast that attracts the biggest audience encouraged cooperation, instead of competition.

Still, it’s foolish not to expect the Super Bowl to reflect the reality of American culture.

But one can dream, can’t they

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17 Curious (And Occasionally Famous) Cincinnati Dogs

Early Aeronaut

Richard Clayton, proprietor of a watch shop on the corner of Sycamore and Second streets in Cincinnati, gained international fame in 1835 when he flew a balloon from Cincinnati to Monroe County, Virginia. Shortly after liftoff from an amphitheater on Court Street, between Race and Elm, Clayton released a parachute which descended slowly to earth. Suspended from the parachute was a little (and unnamed) dog, who was returned safely to its owner. The owner refused large sums of money to part with his pioneering aeromutt.

Lusus Naturae

Cincinnati witnessed the birth of a most unusual dog in 1858. A bull terrier owned by Smith Betts of Western Row (today’s Central Avenue) gave birth to a litter including a puppy with three normal legs and a foreleg from which, where a paw should have been located, was a perfectly formed puppy head. According to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune [17 May 1858]: “The little curiosity was as lively as a cricket, but Mr. Betts procured the service of a lad, who, for a dime, drowned it in the canal.”

Dog Days At The Zoo

In its early days, the Cincinnati Zoo offered displays of dogs. On the Zoo’s opening day in 1875, visitors could view a Newfoundland, two mastiffs, some poodles, “Danish hounds” (Great Danes) and greyhounds. Some of these dogs were trained performers, but others merely illustrated unfamiliar breeds. Cincinnatians could purchase dogs from the Zoo if they wished. The Zoo advertised Saint Bernard dogs especially as “docile . . . but a terror to tramps and evil-doers.”

A Canine Con Artist

Attorney John J. McCarthy had a friend who owned a dog. The dog preferred the company of Mr. McCarthy to that of his actual owner. As the Enquirer [27 January 1891] told it, the dog, on command, would sit up, wear a hat and smoke a cigar while displaying the “most sage look.” McCarthy turned down multiple offers to sell the dog, repeatedly explaining that he did not own the mutt. Some buyers persisted, however, to the extent that McCarthy took their money and turned over the dog. After every purchase, however, the dog was back at McCarthy’s feet within the hour.

A Dog With A Job

Willie Theobald was a clerk at the American District Messenger Office on Vine Street in 1894 and he owned a dog named Purp who followed him to work. In the days before email and faxes, a lot of business communication traveled through the city by messenger and Willie supervised a troop of young messengers – and a dog. While Willie sat at his desk, making assignments, Purp accompanied messengers on their rounds and often delivered messages on his own. Purp waited patiently until the receipt book was signed, then trotted back to Willie to await his next task.

A Vet’s Pride

Veterinarian L.A. Anderson was known throughout Cincinnati because of his dog, Jeff, esteemed to be the smartest canine in town. One day in 1894, Jeff was, as was his habit, holding the reins of his master’s horse while Dr. Anderson attended to some business. When a rainstorm blew up, Jeff led the horse onto the pavement and under the awning of a nearby store. As the rain abated, Jeff led the horse back into the street to await Dr. Anderson’s return.

It’s Not easy Being Green

Oscar A. Stuckenberg, a clerk in the city engineering office, donated to Cincinnati’s Natural History Museum the freshly deceased body of a greyhound pup which had died 36 hours after birth, 23 February 1897. The color of its coat was distinctly asparagus green, except the head, which was the ordinary grey color. Museum curators scrubbed the corpse with soap, then soaked it in alcohol for several hours, but were unable to remove the color. “Mr. Stuckenberg's assurance that the pup was born with the green color can not be doubted,” they concluded.

Pug In Lieu Of A Ring

Margaret Harrison was one of the most sought-after young ladies in Cincinnati, if not for her own charms then for the riches of her father, Learner Blackman Harrison, president of the First National Bank. She accepted the proposal of Ezra Howard Child, son of a wealthy Massachusetts manufacturer but, it being 1900, thought engagement rings were too old-fashioned for a modern couple and requested a dog instead. Margaret’s fiancé complied, and a pug, decorated with a white satin ribbon, accompanied her throughout the ceremony, attended by one hundred guests, at her parent’s house on Grandin Road.

Cincinnati’s Most Intelligent Dog

Word got around in 1902 that Prince, a white and brown water spaniel owned by Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Wirthwine of Evanston, could do anything except speak. The Wirthwines talked to Prince continually as they trained him and this, it was believed, educated Prince to understand every word spoken, so that he followed every command to the letter. Although 10 years old, Prince was described as frisky as a puppy, and much beloved by the neighbors on Harvard Avenue.

Cincinnati’s First Police Dog

Visitors to the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum are greeted by the stuffed remains of a scruffy mutt in a display case. This is Handsome, beloved companion of the Cincinnati Police who patrolled Rat Row, Sausage Row and the other unsavory neighborhoods that constituted what is now The Banks but was once known as The Bottoms. Handsome’s feats of investigative skill spread far and wide. On his demise in 1915, the cops chipped in and had Handsome preserved through taxidermy. For a while, he decorated police headquarters, but he’s now at home in the museum.

An Extra Leg

In 1926, somebody dropped off an unusual dog to Hamilton County Sheriff Richard Witt who, back then, also served as the county’s dog catcher. There was nothing wrong with the little puppy except that it had five legs. Witt turned the little fellow over to his deputy, Charles “Buck” Hauser, who promised to take care of it. Hauser had a history with freak animals; he also provided a home to a three-legged rooster.

Danny Dumm’s Greyhound

Cartoonist Harold E. Russell inked daily sports highlights for the Cincinnati Enquirer over a 52-year career that ended only with his death in 1966. Along the way, Russell is credited with inventing mustachioed Mister Red and the Cincinnati Royals logo. He also created a miniature alter ego named Danny Dumm who provided commentary on Russell’s cartoons for decades. In 1928, promoting racing meets at a Springdale greyhound track, Danny adopted a dog and the Enquirer ran a contest to name the pooch. Inundated with thousands of entries, Russell got two assistants to help him pick the eventual winning name – Big Swig – submitted by Miss Evelyn Klopp of Norwood.

Big Jon & Sparkie’s Pooch

For a decade, beginning at WSAI in 1948 and later on the ABC network, the most popular show on radio, “Big Jon & Sparkie,” was produced here in Cincinnati. Big Jon was the show’s host, Jonathan Arthur Goerss. Sparkie was an elf from the Land of Make Believe who wanted to become a real boy. Most of the characters were based on writer Don Kortekamp’s Cincinnati childhood, including Sparkie’s mischievous dog, a Boston toy terrier named Bunny.

Uncle Al’s Dog

From 1950 to 1985, it seemed mandatory for every kid in Cincinnati to appear at least once on WCPO’s Uncle Al Show. In addition to host Al Lewis himself and his wife, Wanda, aka “Captain Windy,” the show featured a multitude of supporting characters. Many of the subsidiary roles on the Uncle Al Show were created by artist and set designer Thomas York, including Ringo Rango the cowboy, Lucky the Clown, Chief Red Feather, Charley the Horse, the Merry Mailman and, of course, Pal the Dog.

Hattie The Witch’s Hound

At least two generations of Cincinnati children grew up with the Larry Smith Puppets, from his days on the Uncle Al Show on WCPO-TV through his decade-long run as the host of Larry Smith’s Cartoon Club on WXIX-TV. In addition to “Batty Hattie from Cincinnati,” Teaser the Mouse and Rudy the Rooster, the central canine character in this puppet menagerie was Snarfy R. Dog.

WEBN’s Program Director

When radio station WEBN first went on the air from a small, blue Considine Avenue house on “Price’s Mountain,” the owner and chief on-air personality, attorney Frank Wood Sr., was meticulous in crediting the talents of program director Miles Duffy. Visitors to the station may have suspected something funny about a dog bowl labeled “Miles.” In fact, Miles Duffy was a cocker spaniel, drafted into that significant position to give the impression WEBN’s employee roster was larger than it was. When Miles went to doggy heaven, the Woods had him taxidermied.

Cincinnati Reds In The Dog House

No review of Cincinnati dogs could be complete, of course, without featuring Marge Schott’s Saint Bernards, known as Schottzie and Schottzie 02. Reds managers were subjected to rubdowns with dog hair in often-vain attempts to attract good luck, groundskeepers had to pick up dog poop off the field, players had to dodge the beasts during pre-game warm-ups and the dogs sat front and center in the team photos during Schott’s ownership of the team.

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Metallo!Lena AU Pt 18

Wresting back control of LuthorCorp is easier than Lena expects. She's forgotten that she was voted in once, that the shareholders had actively wanted her in the lead, wanted her to pull them back from the brink. It doesn't hurt her case that the company floundered even further after her presumed death. Who better to bring it back to life, the board surmised, than the ressurrected Luthor herself?

Towards that end, Lena hires an army of people to bring her back to life. She recruits a publicity firm to handle the media, she hires a stylist team to shop an entire wardrobe for, and an accounting agency to figure exactly how much money she has to her name.

Lena allows her army free reign to put her life back in order, and in the meantime she devotes her time to resuming her battle for the good opinion of National City. As a vigilante, being Supergirl's friend helps a great deal, but for Lena herself, she has work to do.

Through a series of follow up articles, Lena shares herself with Kara, and by extension CatCo's readership. At LuthorCorp, she ingrains herself in the daily workings of the company. She's already laid much of the groundwork before the crash, but she's still full of nerves as she re-introduces herself to each and every department.

She's keenly aware that a handshake from her could now snap bones, so one corner of her mind is always conscious of her strength, always careful. Part of her now recognizes why Kara spent so much time at the DEO, where everyone knows her strength and how deadly she could be-- they know to keep their distance.

At L-Corp, everyone presses close, eager for smiles and soft words of welcome backs. Lena remains on the razor's edge of awareness, leaving her drained by the time she walks back into the apartment she shares with Kara.

"Oh, wow," Kara mutters when Lena returns after her first day. It takes Lena a moment to realize her friend is staring, and a moment longer to remember that Kara had been called away for an early DEO emergency that morning, and that this is the first time they've seen each other all day. Kara's already comfy in pajamas and an NCU sweatshirt, but Lena is still dressed for the office, in an outfit her stylist selected for her.

Kara blinks, her eyes traveling all the way down to Lena's feet, arched in killer heels. Only then does she shake herself out of it.

"Oh, wow," she repeats, this time less stunned and more concerned. "You must be exhausted."

Lena huffs, rolling her eyes. "You have no idea."

She's been sleeping on the sofa's daybed at night, but at the moment its folded up into the couch. Lena clicks her way over and slumps into the increasingly familiar cushions, chucking off her shoes haphazardly.

Kara scurries over and hands her a bowl of pasta. Lena accepts it with a grateful smile and waits for Kara to join her on the couch with her own bowl before she tucks in. Its simple, just a snack of buttered noodles to pick them up, but Lena devours it in record time.

"How's CatCo?"

Kara grimaces. "Awful. Snapper hates me. Which is actually normal for him, but... some of the others have joined in this time. A little less thuggishly, but still."

Lena frowns. "Wait 'til christmas. They'll be thanking you for their holiday bonus."

"I don't want them to like me because I helped get them money," Kara counters. "I want them to like me because I'm nice. Or good at my job."

Lena smiles. "I give them another week before they're eating out of your hand." When Kara looks at her, she shrugs knowingly. "Isn't that about how long it took you to break through to me?"

Kara scoffs, thumping her with a pillow. "You're different."

"Am I?"

"Well, yeah. You're.... you."

"That explains everything, thank you."

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Lena doesn't patrol with Supergirl anymore-- the district attorney's office serves a cease and desist the morning after her first interview with Kara airs, xiting that having such a high profile figure running amok on the streets would only incite chaos, not prevent it. But the DA's reach doesn't extend to the DEO, and so when Supergirl reaches out for help investigating the strange rash of young adults deliberately in harm's way in the hopes of being saved by the hero, Lena readily agrees.

With Kara in her guise as a reporter, they track the group to a meeting space, and discover that it's actually a religious group-- devoted to Supergirl.

"Miss Luthor!"

Lena's recognized immediately. Kara bristles at the exclamation, but Lena squeezes her wrist in reassurance. She can handle a room full of disillusioned young adults, but if anyone recognized Kara, they were done.

A slender man with a wet-eyed look approaches them. "It is an honor to have you here, Miss Luthor. Any friend of Supergirl's is a friend of ours. How did you learn of our group?"

Lena flashes one of the flyers they'd used to find the dingy little room. "We received one of these. What exactly is this?"

"You've arrived just in time to find out," the man says with a simpering sort of smile. "Please, find a seat, and make yourselves comfortable."

Sharing a look, Lena and Kara make their way to the rows of chairs, settling in towards the back. The meeting opens with a girl who shares her story of rescue-- one entirely genuine, not fabricated like the recent arsons and trespasses.

When a young man follows, then an older woman, Kara realizes she's saved all of these people. She doesn't feel honored-- she feels sick. But Lena has her eye on the leader, who introduces himself as Thomas Coville. There's something about him that rubs her the wrong way, and the moment they leave she says as much to Kara.

"I get that being saved from certain death could turn someone's life around," she hisses in a low voice. "But starting a religion? No one does that unless they want power, and when someone wants power, that makes them dangerous."

She resolves to get close to him, and to everyone's surprise, it's shockingly easy to do so. All it takes is modifying her cover story so that it's Supergirl who pulled her from the fiery helicopter crash and whisked her away to anonymity-- and she's in. It takes almost a month before Coville hints that he's got something big planned.

When he leads Lena and the rest of his congregation to the basement of the National City sports stadium, Lena puts a finger to her ear.

"Now."

Supergirl and the DEO swarm the basement. They begin arresting people, and shuffling them all out. The last to go is Coville, but the man is anything but perturbed.

"By Rao's will," he says, a sentiment echoed by his followers. None of them resist. Only then does Lena catch sight of the betahedron in one corner of the basement.

"Is that...?"

It powers up, its light pulsing more quickly. Supergirl cries out, dropping to her knees. Lena rushes to her side, only to jerk back when she sees her friend's skin threaded green kryptonite. Pressing the button on her watch, her vigilante suit forms around her-- she'd lined it with lead in case her kryptonite ever failed. But Kara continues to groan, and Lena realizes she isn't the culprit this time.

"The betahedron!" she calls. It's starting to pulse faster now, which can only mean one thing. "It's gonna blow-- get everyone out, now!"

"There's a packed house upstairs," Alex says over comms. "There's no way to evacuate in time. You'll have to find a way to disarm it."

"It's a fucking alien probe, Alex!" There might not BE a way to disarm it. Behind her, Lena can hear Kara struggling for breath. She can't do anything to disarm it, but she can't do nothing, either. A dozen ideas fire through her brain, but all of them are discarded as usless.

All but one.

With only a moment's hesitation, Lena approaches the betahedron and punches a hole through its plating, peeling the outer layer back until she can see the pulsing green crystal within.

Removing her gauntlet, Lena pages her comms. "Director Danvers!"

"You got something, Luthor?"

Lena takes a deep breath. "Maybe. If it works, I'm going to be radioactive as hell." She looks over her shoulder, meeting Kara's pained gaze.

"No matter what happens, don't let Supergirl touch my fucking body."

Kara's eyes grow wide with realization. "Lena, NO!"

Lena thrusts her arm into the betahedron and grips the kryptonite with all her strength. She screams as the radioactive energy crackles up her arm towards her chest, seeking it's grounding point in the crystal embedded there. The manufactured kryptonite absorbs the energy, buffering and containing it for long, perilous moments before the first cracks begin to form.

Lena hopes it'll last long enough to diffuse the kryptonite energy of the bomb and neutralize its explosive power.

As her senses go dark, all she can do is hold on with all her might, and not let go.

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Evocations: XVI

The Chief District Attorney drafts an over-eager redhead with too much to prove, to replace Alexandra within just a few weeks. Liv allows the natural rhythm of the work to sweep her along, pouring herself into it in order to keep the loneliness and the mourning at bay.

Darcie and Alexander check in regularly enough, even after the sale of the apartment is settled, two months after being on the market. She is genuinely touched that they call, but dreads it, too - being forced to sit in her sadness for that brief period every few weeks.

Elliot checks in too, in his own way. For the first couple months he pretends that he is being subtle about it: asking her if she's eaten, glancing at her fridge every time he stops by her apartment, making sure she is the first to nap in the cribs if they have a lull. As Christmas approached, he suggested drinks or pizza outside of work more often. He made it clear Olivia was welcome to celebrate Christmas with his family.

But Liv didn't want company. She didn't want Christmas. All she wanted was her life back, and if she couldn't have that, she wanted to work. So, she put her head down and plodded forward.

It was late in January when the phone call came. Olivia grabbed the phone on the first ring, assuming it was a case about to break. On the other end of the line, though, was Alexander's voice. Immediately, a chill snaked down Liv's spine. The Cabots never called her at work.

"Olivia," Alex's father said quietly, and the knot of tears in his throat was audible, "we lost Darcie."

Liv went stiff in her wheeled chair, fixing her eyes on a pile of paperwork in front of her. She listened to Alexander's soft voice telling her the basic details, all the while thinking of how he believed he had lost his entire family, when Alex was somewhere still alive.

She assures him she will call when she arranges her flight, and ends the call, walking straight into Cragen's office where she tells him she needs time off.

Alex has never been so sick of a winter as she is of that first Winter in Wisconsin. She has three layers to strip out of as she comes through the door at the end of the day, and Sky impatiently dances circles as she does so, waiting for her dinner.

Her job now is at an insurance firm. Not selling it, thank God, mostly just auditing and reviewing applications. Like everything else she has undertaken, the job is easy and she excels. Her skills are painfully underused in the position, and she is already exhausted with it by January.

Tina, her 'sister,' continues to see her regularly. Behind closed doors, they are acquaintances at best; any hope of having a close friend in the woman had sailed very early-on. Alex is, in fact, surrounded by acquaintances - in co-workers, at the stores she frequents, in her neighborhood. But nobody gets close.

Close isn't an option any more. Every time she forgets to respond for a beat to 'Emily,' every time she sees someone new, Alex is chilled through, wondering if she has been found out. She worries about people asking the wrong questions, about strangers who look at her a moment too long.

Is this the day? she has asked herself a thousand times, Is today the day I die?

In the bathroom mirror, she runs her fingers over the scar from her bullet wound, and tries to convince her reflection that she is Emily now. She practices it like daily affirmations, trying to accept her isolation, her loneliness, her confusion.

Once Sky is fed, Alex reheats some chicken soup for herself (she has refused to cook anything but hot meals since the first snowfall), and takes it to the spot where she has set up her desk and PC. She has gotten into the habit of keeping up with the news in New York, and in Dallas where her parents are; in her email are dozens of newspaper subscriptions she uses to keep on top of SVU cases and other tidbits.

A foot rubs Sky absently under the desk as Alex eats her soup and reads. Outside the doors to her back patio, the snow swirls and flutters with no end in sight to the frozen dairyland's stasis. This is when she sees it.

It rolls up on the screen of her digital copy of The Dallas Morning News:

Beloved Wife of Prominent Local Attorney Passes, Community Mourns

Below it, she reads her parents' names . . . her own name, words that she knows are a part of her real life, but at first she can't make them feel real. Again and again, she reads the blurb about the death of her mother, and the recent death of herself.

My mother is dead.

Mom has died.

Alex repeats the fact, continues to paraphrase it, until she rises from the computer and walks back to the kitchen with her half-eaten soup. Laying the bowl in the sink, she stares blankly into the receptacle until she feels the burn of her fingernails cutting into her palm.

When she looks up from her bleeding hands, her eyes land on the telephone, and she briefly considers calling Jack Hammond and demanding that he give her back her old life. To attend her mother's funeral, to be held by Olivia, to feel something again.

In the end, Alex takes Sky to bed under a thick pile of blankets, and her sleep is filled with nightmares where snow falls in Dallas, and she wanders the streets, screaming for her mother, who cannot hear her call.

Olivia has never been to Texas, and cannot think of a worse reason for her first trip there as she touches down in Dallas and embraces Alexander Cabot, who seems diminished without the two blondes who have always bookended him.

She moves into mothering mode quickly, encouraging Al to eat and sleep. She keeps a wary eye on his drinking, and makes sure that he is working through any paperwork Darcie left behind. As parents most often do, the Cabots had originally arranged to leave everything to Alexandra. After the cartel case, some reshuffling had occured, and Olivia is touched and conflicted when she finds out that some of it was shuffled to her.

When he falls into a fitful sleep the night before the funeral, Olivia slips silently, curiously into Alex's teenage bedroom. It is mostly intact: the walls showcase 80s movie posters alongside Feminist icons and clippings of political milestones of the decade.

Liv breathes deep of the ghost of her lover in the space, fingers reverently gliding over academic awards and dusty photos where Alex's smile beams out at her. On the bookshelf, she reads titles one after the other - Rubyfruit Jungle nestled right up next to Little Women . . . Jane Rule, Roald Dahl, Beckett, a gathering of strange bedfellows that brings a wisp of a grin to Olivia's face.

Finally she sits down on the narrow, creaking bed and picks up the tattered stuffed penguin at the pillow. The sigh that pitches from her is swollen with melancholy.

"His name is Shivers," Al tells her from the doorway, and Liv jumps at the sound. He fills the doorframe with his height and heavy sense of his grief.

"Of course it is," Liv sniffs with amusement, giving the flightless bird another once-over.

"You should have him," Alexander furthers.

The amount of restraint that Olivia has to employ to keep from confessing that the man's daughter is still alive is utterly monumental in that moment. She binds it, snuffs it, locks it away again and again. No confession comes, just a smile for Alex's father, and a nod.

The morning following the funeral, Liv flies out of Dallas with Shivers in her suitcase, leaving behind her a dozen yellow roses on Darcie's grave.

In mid-April in Wittenberg, much to Alexandra's dismay, the ground remains frozen. Most of the snow slowly melts, however every now and then, a light dusting of fresh flakes comes down in the morning or overnight, then melts with the climb of the sun.

She has lost weight through the winter months, and the sharp planes of her face in the mirror are painful to acknowledge. No proper mourning of her mother had come to pass; Alex had simply filed the knowledge away as a part of the life she lost, and continued the monotonous plod forward in the strange play she now acted in each day.

Before April gave way to the slightly warmer thaw of May, the insurance firm where she was working threw a social mixer - to break up the long change of seasons, they explained. Tina, who was concerned about Alex's weight loss and isolation, had pushed hard for her to attend, even if it was just to get out of the house for something other than work and errands.

So, on the evening of the mixer, Alexandra found herself at a local drink lounge called Doubles, quietly sipping a Shirley Temple. Her co workers were made up mostly of the usual office-job types: clad in off-the-rack suits, soft-spoken and nerdy, often shy, and unfortunately not very interesting. Alex stayed hugged to the bar, drinking and trying to decide how long she had to stay in order for her escape to be considered polite rather than asocial.

"Mind if I join you?"

The man that belonged to the voice was from the Claims Adjustment department of the firm. Alex had seen him around now and then, perhaps even passed polite words with him - but she couldn't recall his name. She waved her hand in the direction of the stool next to her in reply, and he settled in.

"You don't remember me, do you?" he chuckled, watching for the bar tender to free up so he could order a drink.

"I'm not so great with names," Alex told him apologetically.

"Well, I remember your name - Emily." He had a great smile, and he flashed it at her. "Mine is Greg."

"Thanks for reminding me."

He called to the bartender for a rum and coke, then checked if she wanted a refill, which she declined. "Where were you before Wittenberg?" he asked.

"Tulsa, Oklahoma," Alex told him, pulling from the pool of lies and backstory that she had been taught in October.

"Ah," his green eyes twinkled with amusement, "That explains it then."

"Explains what?"

"Why you seem to disdain Wisconsin winter so much."

"I didn't realize it was so obvious," Alex smirked.

He laughed, wrapping both hands around his highball glass. "Were you in insurance there?"

"No. No, this has been a big change for me," she admitted softly.

"Do you miss it?"

Alex startled. "Oklahoma?"

"Whatever it is you left behind."

The blonde paused, her blue eyes locked on the liquor in her glass. "Yes," she confessed, "I do."

They stayed at the bar, drinking slowly, while Greg asked her innocuous questions that were neither boring nor bothersome. Alexandra could feel herself relaxing, loosing herself from the lonely exile she had been prescribed. Before the evening was over, she even caught herself smiling at him, wanting to laugh at his simple jokes.

When the event began to empty out, she declined his offer for a ride home, and was genuinely surprised when he accepted it without pushing back. Neither did he ask her for her number, or to see him again. Alex wondered on her taxi ride home if perhaps she had misinterpreted a man's intentions for the first time since adolescence.

Her worry was quashed, however, when Greg reappeared at the office beginning of the week, and asked her if she would like to have lunch together. She agreed, and it slowly became a regular thing.

By the time he finally asked her on what could be considered an actual date, Alexandra was anxious at the idea of going back to being alone.

She considered the long winter, in which she hadn't put up a tree or celebrated the holidays. Considered the death of her mother, and the nightmares that had followed, leaving her breathless and shaking. Alex even considered the ring, somewhere back in New York, that might never find its way onto the finger of the love she had been forced to abandon.

Facing down the idea of that isolation for the rest of her life was too much to bear.

Alex said yes.

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CJ current events 10nov22

Fair point by Nellie Bowles

→ Someone please protect Paul: Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old investment banker husband of Nancy, was brutally attacked in his home late last week. A lot of theories sprang from that assault. On the right, the alleged attacker, David DePape, was Paul Pelosi’s gay lover. On the left, the attacker was a totally sane Fox News MAGA-inspired soldier on a mission from Tucker. Both of these are wrong. The suspect seems to be a mentally ill psychotic on drugs. And whenever we talk about psychotic people on drugs, I think of Michael Shellenberger (in a good way!). He delivers this week with a piece that includes interviews with the suspect’s ex and neighbors who say the guy’s insane. He’s a familiar character out west.

One sticking point for the right-wingers: Why would the alleged attacker let Paul Pelosi make a phone call to 911? Doesn’t that seem a little odd? To me, no. You tell a crazy man the phone is a banana and you’re making a call to the moon, and it might work. Why were they both in their underwear? I see semi-naked men in psychotic states wandering the sidewalks all the time, and I try to count how many blocks they are from my house (fewer than four blocks, and I don’t love it). It sounds to me like Paul Pelosi managed to talk his way out of being beaten to death.

Stepping back, though: Between driving himself around Napa after dinner parties (pleading guilty to a DUI with injury) and the fact that he seems to have little to no private security when Nancy is out of town, it’s clear no one is taking care of Paul Pelosi. TGIF worries about Paul.

https://www.commonsense.news/p/tgif-matches-made-in-hell-edition

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Killed someone for that?

A Denver man who used an AK-47 to kill a woman and wound a man while the couple was walking their dog near Coors Field was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

Michael Close was sentenced for the June 10, 2020, death of 21-year-old Isabella Thallas, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office. He was also sentenced to a 48-year prison term, consecutive to the life sentence, for wounding Darian Simon. Close was ordered to pay $37,000 in restitution.***

On Sept. 22, a Denver jury convicted Close of one count of first degree murder – after deliberation, and one count of first degree murder – extreme indifference; two counts of attempt to commit first degree murder; and two counts of first degree assault.

On the day of the shooting, Close first yelled out his window at the couple as they urged their dog to “go potty,” then went to another room, retrieved an AK-47 he’d taken from a friend who was a Denver police sergeant, returned to the window and began shooting.

He fired 24 times, prosecutors said. Thallas was hit in the back and died instantly; Simon was shot twice. He ran from the scene until he collapsed not far away.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/04/isabella-thallas-murder-michael-close-sentence/#:~:text=A%20Denver%20man%20who%20used,the%20Denver%20District%20Attorney's%20Office.

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Accessories

DENVER — Police on Friday arrested the brother of the man wanted in connection with the murders of four people in Aurora last weekend for investigation on a charge of accessory to first-degree murder after the fact.

The Aurora Police Department said officers arrested Juan Angel Castorena, 18, near West Belleview Avenue and South Federal Boulevard in Denver sometime Friday.

The department says it is investigating him for accessory after the fact but that “there is no evidence indicating Juan was involved in the shootings on Geneva Street on October 30, 2022.”

Joseph Castorena, 21, is still at large, Aurora police said. He is accused by police of shooting and killing 51-year-old Jesus Serrano, 22-year-old Maria Anita Serrano, 20-year-old Kenneth Eugene Green Luque, and 49-year-old Rudolfo Salgado Perez at a home around 2 a.m. Sunday in the 900 block of North Geneva Street in Aurora. Two young children and a woman who were at the house at the time were unharmed, Aurora’s police chief said.

The department said investigators believe the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute between the woman and Joseph Castorena. Castorena has a restraining order against him that prevents him from going near the home or his domestic partner.*** https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/brother-of-suspect-in-aurora-quadruple-murder-arrested-in-denver

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You cut him off, and you rage?

A 26-year-old Aurora man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer after authorities allege a passenger in his car shot at an officer during a road-rage incident.

Jaquey Talone Wyrick cut off an off-duty officer on Thursday morning near a fast food parking lot near Mississippi Avenue and Chambers Road in Aurora, police said. He then chased the officer to Interstate 225, where a 16-year-old passenger allegedly fired multiple shots at the officer’s car.

The teen, who has not been identified, later died by suicide after barricading himself in an apartment in the 1000 block of South Elkhart Way, police said.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/04/aurora-road-rage-arrest-i-225/

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Repub report on politicization of FBI - it’s only one party

https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/HJC_STAFF_FBI_REPORT.pdf

It’s only the Repub view.

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More weird Paul Pelosi news - how urban legends grow

NBC News has sparked backlash by pulling a segment describing the attack on Paul Pelosi, claiming the segment did not meet NBC News reporting standards.

The report said NBC had learned from sources that “when officers responded to the high priority call, they were seemingly unaware they had been called to the home of the speaker of the House.”

“After a knock and announce, the front door was opened by Mr. Pelosi,” the NBC video report said. “The 82-year-old did not immediately declare an emergency or try to leave his home, but instead, began walking several feet back into the foyer, towards the assailant, and away from police.”

“It’s unclear if the 82-year-old was already injured or what his mental state was, say sources,” the report continued. “According to court documents, when the officer asked what was going on, defendant smiled and said ‘Everything is good.’ But instantaneously a struggle ensued as police clearly saw David DePape strike Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.”

NBC has since pulled this report.*** https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/11/04/nbc-raises-eyebrows-pulling-paul-pelosi-segment/

DePape is probably just some random freak from Berkley, but all the secrecy and suppression is fertile ground for conspiracy theories and urban legends. If you don’t want conspiracy theories, be transparent, report the facts, publish the pertinent parts of the videos, etc.

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While you were gone

Five adults were found dead inside a Maryland home Friday, sheriff's officials said.

Deputies from the Charles County Sheriff's Office and La Plata Police Department officers responded to a report of a shooting at the home in La Plata about 4 p.m., the sheriff's office tweeted.

The La Plata officers found five adults dead inside, the sheriff's office said.***

The sheriff's office initially told the station the homeowner discovered and reported the bodies.*** https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/five-found-dead-maryland-home-rcna55783

***Tues

A cargo ship sailor was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Monday for stabbing to death his supervisor off the coast of Los Angeles during the pandemic.

Filipino national Michael Monegro, 44, pleaded guilty in May to stabbing Manolito Santillan 31 times in the face and body with a pair of knives that he wielded in both hands, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said.***

The MSC Ravenna, a 153-ton Liberian-flagged ship, was 80 miles off the coast finishing up a two-week journey from Shanghai. Monegro began arguing with Santillan in a hallway outside the ship’s locker room, saying, “You are the one who destroyed my family.”

Monegro then began the attack, knocking Santillan to the ground and climbing on top of him. This was witnessed by several crew members. At one point, the crew heard Santillan say, “What is happening, Michael? I hope the Lord forgives you. I’m dead, Michael.”

Someone threw a trash can at Monegro to stop the attack, and he was eventually restrained but not until after Santillan had died.

“Monegro stopped stabbing the victim only when he became too tired to continue,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/sailor-gets-20-year-sentence-for-cargo-ship-murder

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If your livelihood is threatened by crime

Until this year, Carlos Collado would never have put political campaign signs in the windows of the supermarkets he runs in the Bronx and Harlem. But all that changed when the state’s controversial bail reform initiatives threatened to derail his business.

Now, there are signs in Spanish supporting Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor, in the windows of four of his six establishments. Collado, who describes himself as a life-long supporter of the Democrats, said he changed his allegiance following a rash of shoplifting and sometimes violent encounters at his stores.

“We normally don’t post political signs because we don’t want to offend any of our customers, but we were pleasantly surprised with Zeldin’s promises to get tough on crime,” Collado, 55, told The Post Wednesday. “Since bail reform, there has been a tremendous uptick in shoplifting. Now people are getting aggressive and they feel they have the right to commit these crimes. They feel more emboldened.”

Collado said he is a member of trade group the National Supermarket Association, which has now contributed more than $80,000 to Zeldin’s campaign.*** https://nypost.com/2022/11/03/why-democratic-latino-supermarket-owners-support-lee-zeldin/

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irony

President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, and Democratic candidates John Fetterman and Josh Shapiro held a rally in North Philadelphia at Temple University on Saturday night. They discussed several topics ranging from abortion to violent crime. All of them expressed how much better Democrats were at helping people than Republicans and told the crowd they were the ones who truly cared about people. Yet, less than 2 miles from where they were rallying, a gunman opened fire and shot nine people.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obama-biden-gun-violence-philly-mass-shooting

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The battle to be San Francisco's district attorney has gotten ugly since the recall of soft-on-crime predecessor Chesa Boudin — and voters will now have their say to cap off a bitter campaign waged by four main candidates.

A series of issues plagued Brooke Jenkins, who was appointed by Mayor London Breed to clean up the city’s crime-ridden streets after Boudin's exit. Jenkins has cracked down on crime, specifically drug dealers and felons, but several slip-ups have also dogged her campaign for reelection.

However, some say her biggest problem in deep-blue San Francisco could be that she is actually enforcing the law rather than looking the other way.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-san-francisco-da-election-brooke-jenkins

***Wed

I hope that cat video was adorable

A former American military contractor pleaded guilty [8nov22] to involuntary manslaughter for fatally striking an active duty U.S. Air Force medical doctor with a forklift as she was walking on Al Dhafra Airbase in the United Arab Emirates.

According to court documents, on Nov. 27, 2020, Ari Taylor, 32, of Roxboro, North Carolina, was operating a forklift to deliver pallets of water on Al Dhafra Airbase in his role as a civilian employed by a U.S. military contractor. He drove the forklift through a space shared by vehicles and pedestrians, between a medical clinic and living quarters. Taylor acknowledged that pedestrians were frequently present in this area.

At the time of the fatal collision, Taylor was distracted while using his cell phone and never saw Captain Kelliann Leli. A crash reconstruction expert concluded that Taylor had almost nine seconds to prevent the crash, but Taylor admitted that he did not see Capt. Leli and failed to take any steps to avoid striking her with the forklift.

Taylor pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 25, 2023. *** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/american-contractor-pleads-guilty-death-us-military-doctor

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stupid can be a crime

Two police officers face criminal charges for leaving a woman handcuffed in the back of a police SUV parked on railroad tracks and failing to move the vehicle as a train was barreling down the tracks.

Fort Lupton Police Department officer Jordan Steinke is charged with one count of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter, one count of second-degree assault and one count of reckless endangerment, according to a news release from the 19th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Steinke is on administrative leave, Fort Lupton chief John Fryar said.

Platteville Police Department Sgt. Pablo Vazquez is charged with one count of reckless endangerment, one count of obstructing a highway or other passageway, one count of careless driving and one count of parking where prohibited, the DA’s news release said.*** https://www.summitdaily.com/news/police-officers-charged-for-leaving-handcuffed-woman-inside-cop-car-on-train-tracks-before-locomotive-crash/

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is that a crime?

Cain Velasquez was granted $1 million bail Tuesday after eight months in custody.

The former UFC heavyweight champion is being charged with attempted murder and 10 other gun-related charges in Santa Clara County (Calif.). Velasquez is being accused of chasing down a man, Harry Goularte, in his vehicle and shooting at him. Goularte is being charged with sexually assaulting a young relative of Velasquez.

Velasquez said in a civil lawsuit filed in June that Goularte molested Velasquez's 4-year-old son.

Velasquez will have to wear a GPS tracker and not come within 300 yards of the alleged victims in the case, per Velasquez's attorney, Mark Geragos.***

Velasquez, 40, had been in jail since Feb. 28 and pleaded not guilty in August. He was granted bail Tuesday by Judge Arthur Bocanegra at the end of a pretrial hearing after previously having been denied bail four times by Judge Shelyna Brown. Velasquez allegedly shot Goularte's step-father Paul Bender when he fired into the vehicle Goularte was riding in. Bender sustained no serious injuries.

Velasquez followed Goularte's truck in his own vehicle on an "11-mile, high-speed chase" through the city of San Jose, rammed the truck and fired a 40-caliber handgun multiple times into the truck, which carried Goularte, Bender and Goularte's mother, Patricia, according to the DA's office. Bender was hit with a bullet, though he sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Velasquez's son told police Feb. 24 that Goularte took him into the bathroom of a daycare center and touched his genitals, per a court document. The child said Goularte told him not to tell anyone what happened and that this situation might have occurred "100 times." The child told police that they witnessed Goularte go into the bathroom with other kids, as well.*** https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/34981513/ex-ufc-champion-cain-velasquez-freed-bail-murder-case

***Thurs

Not bad for a capital crime

A Maryland man and his wife were sentenced [9nov22] for conspiracy to communicate Restricted Data related to the design of nuclear-powered warships.

Jonathan Toebbe, 44, of Annapolis, was sentenced today to 232 months, over 19 years, of incarceration. His wife, Diana Toebbe, 46, was sentenced to 262 months, more than 21 years, of incarceration. The Toebbes pleaded guilty to the conspiracy in August 2022.***

According to court documents, at the time of his arrest, Jonathan Toebbe was an employee of the Department of the Navy who served as a nuclear engineer and was assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, also known as Naval Reactors. He held an active national security clearance through the Department of Defense, giving him access to “Restricted Data” within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act. Restricted Data concerns design, manufacture or utilization of atomic weapons, or production of Special Nuclear Material (SNM), or use of SNM in the production of energy – such as naval reactors. Jonathan Toebbe worked with and had access to information concerning naval nuclear propulsion including information related to military sensitive design elements, operating parameters and performance characteristics of the reactors for nuclear powered warships.

According to court documents, Jonathan Toebbe sent a package to a foreign government, listing a return address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, containing a sample of Restricted Data and instructions for establishing a covert relationship to purchase additional Restricted Data. Jonathan Toebbe began corresponding via encrypted email with an individual whom he believed to be a representative of the foreign government. The individual was really an undercover FBI agent. Jonathan Toebbe continued this correspondence for several months, which led to an agreement to sell Restricted Data in exchange for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.

On June 8, 2021, the undercover agent sent $10,000 in cryptocurrency to Jonathan Toebbe as “good faith” payment. Shortly afterwards, on June 26, Jonathan Toebbe serviced a dead drop by placing an SD card, which was concealed within half a peanut butter sandwich and contained military sensitive design elements relating to submarine nuclear reactors, at a pre-arranged location. After retrieving the SD card, the undercover agent sent Jonathan Toebbe a $20,000 cryptocurrency payment. In return, Jonathan Toebbe emailed the undercover agent a decryption key for the SD Card. A review of the SD card revealed that it contained Restricted Data related to submarine nuclear reactors. On Aug. 28, 2021, Jonathan Toebbe made another “dead drop” of an SD card in eastern Virginia, this time concealing the card in a chewing gum package. After making a payment to Jonathan Toebbe of $70,000 in cryptocurrency, the FBI received a decryption key for the card. It, too, contained Restricted Data related to submarine nuclear reactors. The FBI arrested Jonathan Toebbe and his wife on Oct. 9, 2021 after he placed yet another SD card at a pre-arranged “dead drop” at a second location in West Virginia.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-nuclear-engineer-and-wife-sentenced-espionage-related-offenses

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Blast from the recent past

FCI TALLAHASSEE

A low security federal correctional institution with a detention center.

https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/tal/

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Naturally occurring drugs are a little different

Proposition 122 — decriminalizing psilocybin mushroom possession for adults, and eventually allowing state-licensed treatment centers to administer the drug under the supervision of trained staff — is headed to victory.

By Wednesday afternoon, the initiative led by more than 49,000 votes out of more than 1.8 million that had been counted. That represented slow but steady growth in the margin that seemed to point toward a win for the measure.

The Associated Press had not yet called the race, but opponents of the measure conceded that it had passed.*** https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/09/colorado-proposition-122-psilocybin-mushrooms-decriminalization-results-2022-election/

Still, do you want people driving while tripping? Flipping your burger while tripping? Walking down the middle of the street?

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Good luck with that

BOULDER, Colo. – As we approach the 26th anniversary of JonBenet Ramsey’s homicide, the Boulder Police Department and Boulder County District Attorney’s Office wanted to provide another update about the ongoing homicide investigation.

Since JonBenet’s murder, detectives have investigated leads stemming from more than 21,000 tips, letters, and emails. We have traveled to 19 states to interview or speak with more than 1,000 individuals.***

As in any cold case homicide, the investigation can always benefit from the perspective of outside experts. So, in addition to talking with the private DNA labs, the Boulder Police Department will be consulting with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team in 2023. The Cold Case Review Team is comprised of professional investigative, analytical, and forensic experts from across the state. The Review Team is another tool to help further cold case homicide investigations, including making recommendations based on best practices in the investigative field.*** https://bouldercolorado.gov/news/news-release-jonbenet-ramsey-homicide-update

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No! Don’t use deadly force to defend property.

NORTHGLENN, Colo. — A suspect was shot Wednesday morning while stealing a car from someone's driveway in Northglenn, police said.

The Northglenn Police Department said officers responded to the 300 block of Brigitte Drive on a report of a car theft at around 8 a.m.

Officers were told the car's owner saw someone trying to steal it from their driveway. The owner fired a gun into the vehicle as it was being taken, police said.

The suspect drove away, and the car was later found a few blocks away with no one inside.

Police said the suspect was later found and taken to the hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds. There's no word on his condition, but police said he is stable.*** https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/car-theft-shooting/73-5a005017-ca29-4729-9ae4-fd6d8730287c

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Kind of have a point?

The Washington Commanders accused the top prosecutor for Washington, D.C., of neglecting to tackle rising crime in a swipe ahead of a scheduled press conference expected to provide updates of an investigation into the team’s alleged misconduct.

A spokesperson for the NFL team denounced Attorney General Karl Racine just hours after his office announced it would “make a major announcement” on Thursday, accusing Racine of “making splashy headlines, based on offbeat legal theories, rather than doing the hard work of making the streets safe for our citizens.”

“Despite the out-of-control violent crime in D.C., today the Washington Commanders learned for the first time on Twitter that the D.C. Attorney General will be holding a press conference to ‘make a major announcement’ related to the organization’ tomorrow,” a spokesperson for the team said on Wednesday. “The Commanders have fully cooperated with the AG’s investigation for nearly a year. As recently as Monday, a lawyer for the team met with the AG who did not suggest at that time that he intended to take any action and, in fact, revealed fundamental misunderstandings of the underlying facts.”

The team's representative pointed to an incident earlier this year when Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. was attacked by two juveniles in an attempted carjacking that left him with non-life-threatening injuries. Police later arrested a 17-year-old in connection to the shooting, officials announced last week.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/commanders-slam-dc-on-crime-as-attorney-general-teases-investigation

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Not much to say

A man convicted of strangling his mother and burying her body in her own yard nearly 20 years ago was executed in Texas Wednesday.

Tracy Beatty, 61, uttered “See you on the other side” before he received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

The inmate was found guilty of murdering his mother, Carolyn Click, who was just a year older than Beatty is now, after an argument in her East Texas mobile home in November 2003.***

“I just want to thank …,” Beatty spoke directly to his wife watching from the viewing room behind glass. “I don’t want you leave you, baby. See you when you get there. I love you.”

He blew a kiss to her and then offered his gratitude to fellow death row inmates, naming several.

“I love you, brothers,” he said. “See you on the other side.”

Prosecutors said Beatty strangled his 62-year-old mom and then buried her body beside her mobile home in Whitehouse before blowing her money on drugs and alcohol.

The mother and son had a “volatile and combative relationship,” prosecutors said. Click confided in a neighbor that Beatty had assaulted her several times before her murder. She said he once had “beaten her so severely that he had left her for dead,” the neighbor, Lieanna Wilkerson, testified.

Beatty moved back in with Click a month before her death and she had been excited for his return so that they could have time to mend their relationship, Wilkerson said.*** https://nypost.com/2022/11/10/texas-death-row-inmate-tracy-beatty-who-killed-mother-carolyn-click-shares-final-words-before-execution/

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Was a little concerned

For all my professional life I have fought for the rights of others. Then, eight years ago, I was accused of sexual abuse and found myself fighting for my own rights.

The accusation against me was unique: In other “Me Too” and related cases, the accused and the accuser knew each other. Sometimes they were lovers, office colleagues or friends. The issue was often one of degree: Was there consent? Did the flirtation amount to harassment?

My case was different: The issue was black and white; there was no gray area. Either I was totally innocent or guilty.

Now my accuser has recognized she may have made a mistake in identifying me as one of the men with whom she had sex. She has dismissed all claims against me and has ended the litigation. The accusation against me, it turns out, may have been a case of mistaken identity. The bottom line is — and as I have asserted from the very beginning — I did absolutely nothing wrong.

This case of mistaken identity has taken a terrible toll on me and my family. It has silenced my voice on behalf of Israel and other causes so important to me, especially now with recent rises in anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. As a direct result of this mistaken allegation, I was not invited to speak at Temple Emanu-El, the 92nd Street Y, the Ramaz School and several universities.***

I wish I had never met Epstein, but I did the right thing in defending him, especially because he was so hated. People can disagree with my choice of clients, and as a law professor for a half-century, I welcome reasoned disagreement. But no one should misuse these disagreements as a justification for blindly supporting accusations in a rush to judgment.***

Since the biblical Joseph was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife, civilizations have struggled to strike the appropriate balance in recognizing that accusations can be truthful or false. I commend Virginia Giuffre, who suffered much at Epstein’s hands, for having the courage to come forward and admit she may have made a mistake in identifying me. Now we can both move on with our lives.*** https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/exonerated-why-i-fought-to-clear-my-name-in-jeffrey-epstein-allegation/

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Family of Ohio student who died after drinking alcohol at fraternity event files wrongful death lawsuit Stone Foltz, 20, died in March after he was found unresponsive in his apartment, and a coroner ruled his death an accident resulting from a fatal level of alcohol intoxication during a hazing incident, prosecutors said. The autopsy showed that Foltz, a sophomore, had a blood alcohol content of .35, which is more than four times the legal limit. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, alleges that Foltz experienced “extensive hazing,” including being “forced to drink an extraordinary amount of alcohol in a short period of time” during a fraternity event. “The hazing caused bodily injury, emotional distress, and ultimately, Stone Foltz’s death,” the lawsuit said. The lawsuit, which names the national fraternity, the Bowling Green chapter and 20 individuals, is seeking compensatory and punitive damages as well as attorney fees. Eight people between the ages 19 and 23 were indicted April 29 on various charges in Foltz’s death, according to a press release from Wood County Prosecuting Attorney Paul A. Dobson. The charges include felony involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, hazing, failure to comply with underage alcohol laws, obstruction and tampering with evidence, the statement said. CNN on Wednesday reached out to Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity and the Delta Beta Chapter for comment on the lawsuit and has not received a response. Following Foltz’s death, the national fraternity said it was “heartbroken” and extended sympathy to “all of those affected by this senseless tragedy.” It said it has advised chapter leaders to cooperate with the university and law enforcement. “We will also pursue permanent suspension of Delta Beta Chapter as well as expulsion of all chapter members from the International Fraternity,” the statement said. In April, the university expelled the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity after an investigation into the incident. “This is permanent loss of recognition — the fraternity will never again be recognized at BGSU in the future,” university spokesperson Alex Solis said in a statement. “This expulsion is because of hazing, which is absolutely intolerable. The University’s investigation found the fraternity to be reckless with a disregard for the health and safety of our community. “This investigation also revealed a deep culture of deception rooted in the organization, filled with dishonesty and disrespect for our community,” the statement said. The eight men who were indicted in the case by a grand jury are scheduled to appear in court on May 19. The most serious manslaughter charge carries a maximum penalty of 11 years in prison, while other charges include multiple misdemeanor counts of hazing and failure to comply with underage alcohol laws. Source link Orbem News #alcohol #Death #died #drinking #event #Family #files #Fraternity #lawsuit #Ohio #StoneFoltz:FamilyofBowlingGreenstudentwhodiedafterdrinkingalcoholatfraternityeventfileswrongfuldeathlawsuit-CNN #student #us #Wrongful

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Family of Ohio student who died after drinking alcohol at fraternity event files wrongful death lawsuit

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Family of Ohio student who died after drinking alcohol at fraternity event files wrongful death lawsuit

Stone Foltz, 20, died in March after he was found unresponsive in his apartment, and a coroner ruled his death an accident resulting from a fatal level of alcohol intoxication during a hazing incident, prosecutors said.

The autopsy showed that Foltz, a sophomore, had a blood alcohol content of .35, which is more than four times the legal limit.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, alleges that Foltz experienced “extensive hazing,” including being “forced to drink an extraordinary amount of alcohol in a short period of time” during a fraternity event.

“The hazing caused bodily injury, emotional distress, and ultimately, Stone Foltz’s death,” the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit, which names the national fraternity, the Bowling Green chapter and 20 individuals, is seeking compensatory and punitive damages as well as attorney fees.

Eight people between the ages 19 and 23 were indicted April 29 on various charges in Foltz’s death, according to a press release from Wood County Prosecuting Attorney Paul A. Dobson. The charges include felony involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, hazing, failure to comply with underage alcohol laws, obstruction and tampering with evidence, the statement said.

Appradab on Wednesday reached out to Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity and the Delta Beta Chapter for comment on the lawsuit and has not received a response.

Following Foltz’s death, the national fraternity said it was “heartbroken” and extended sympathy to “all of those affected by this senseless tragedy.” It said it has advised chapter leaders to cooperate with the university and law enforcement.

“We will also pursue permanent suspension of Delta Beta Chapter as well as expulsion of all chapter members from the International Fraternity,” the statement said.

In April, the university expelled the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity after an investigation into the incident.

“This is permanent loss of recognition — the fraternity will never again be recognized at BGSU in the future,” university spokesperson Alex Solis said in a statement. “This expulsion is because of hazing, which is absolutely intolerable. The University’s investigation found the fraternity to be reckless with a disregard for the health and safety of our community.

“This investigation also revealed a deep culture of deception rooted in the organization, filled with dishonesty and disrespect for our community,” the statement said.

The eight men who were indicted in the case by a grand jury are scheduled to appear in court on May 19.

The most serious manslaughter charge carries a maximum penalty of 11 years in prison, while other charges include multiple misdemeanor counts of hazing and failure to comply with underage alcohol laws.

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'I Was Wrong' Says Officer Who Shot 911 Caller Gets 12 1/2-years

A former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman who had called 911 said Friday he “knew in an instant that I was wrong” and apologized to her family, just moments before a judge brushed off a defense request for leniency and ordered him to prison for 12{ years. The stiff sentence for Mohamed Noor capped a case that had been fraught by race from the start. Noor, a Somali American, shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond , a white, upper-middle-class dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, when she approached his squad car in the alley behind her home in July 2017. Noor, 33, testified at trial that a loud bang on the squad car startled him and his partner and that he fired to protect his partner's life. But prosecutors criticized Noor for shooting without seeing a weapon or Damond's hands, and in April, a jury convicted him of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Some people in Minneapolis' large Somali community and the larger black community argued the case was handled differently from police shootings across the country in which the victims were black and the officers were white. And Noor's conviction came after Jeronimo Yanez, a Latino officer, was cleared of manslaughter in the 2016 death of black motorist Philando Castile in a nearby suburb. Ahmed Nur carried a sign at the courthouse that had the words “Black, Muslim, Immigrant and Guilty” with boxes checked next to each word. He said he doubted a white officer would have been treated the same in Noor's situation. “There will be many cases after this where a white officer kills a black kid. It will happen,” Nur said. “Then what are you gonna do? Because now we set a precedent saying if you kill someone, you will be prosecuted. You will go to jail. Are you going to do the same things for those cops?” Friday's sentencing was marked by emotional statements from Noor, Damond's fiance and his son, and her family in Australia, who said they continue to struggle with the loss of a kind and generous person who had filled their lives with joy and laughter. Damond was a 40-year-old life coach who was due to be married a month after her death. Noor, his voice breaking several times as he spoke publicly about the shooting for the first time, apologized repeatedly to Damond and her family for “taking the life of such a perfect person.” “I have lived with this and I'll continue to live with this,'' Noor said. “I caused this tragedy and it is my burden. I wish though that I could relieve that burden others feel from the loss that I caused. I cannot, and that is a troubling reality for me.'' Noor said he was horrified to see Damond's body on the ground. “The depth of my error has only increased from that moment on,'' he said. “Working to save her life and watching her slip away is a feeling I can't explain. I can say it leaves me sad, it leaves me numb, and a feeling of incredibly lonely. But none of that, none of those words, capture what it truly feels like.” Noor's attorneys had argued for a sentence as light as probation, but Judge Kathryn Quaintance swept that aside for a term identical to state sentencing guidelines. “The act may have been based on a miscalculation, but it was an intentional act,” Quaintance said. “Good people sometimes do bad things.” It's rare for police officers to be charged for on-duty shootings, let alone convicted. Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who has tracked the arrests from on-duty police shootings from 2005-2019, said only three other officers have been convicted of murder in that period, with an average sentence almost identical to Noor's. Nineteen other officers convicted of manslaughter in that period had an average sentence of six years and two months, he said. Noor is the only Minnesota officer to be convicted in an on-duty shooting in recent history. Tom Plunkett, Noor's attorney, had asked Quaintance for a sentence as lenient as probation. He described Noor's desire to become a police officer in part to repay a debt he felt to the country that took him in long ago as a refugee. “I have never stood up at sentencing with anyone my entire career that's done more or worked harder to be a good person, to earn the gifts he's been given,'' Plunkett said. “That's who Mohamed Noor is.'' But prosecutor Amy Sweasy called for the recommended 12{ years. She noted that Damond had called 911 seeking help. “And it was the defendant's responsibility when he encountered her in that alley to investigate and appreciate and discern that before he pulled the trigger,'' she said. “That was his responsibility, and his failure to do that is what resulted in the criminal act.'' Justine's father, John Ruszczyk, in a statement read in court, asked for the maximum sentence and called her killing “an obscene act by an agent of the state.” Don Damond, Justine Damond's fiance, said in court Friday that every time he sees the alley where she walked barefoot and in her pajamas toward the police car he relives the moment. “In my mind I beg you to turn around,'' he said, speaking of a “lost future” of decades filled with “love, family, joy and laughter.'' He said Justine was his soul mate with “a Muppetlike way of being in the world.” Noor sat quietly at the defense table with hands clasped, eyes usually closed and showing no emotion as victim impact statements were read. Noor was returned after his sentencing to the state's maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights, where he has been held since his conviction in a secure unit for his safety. Under Minnesota law, he would serve two-thirds of his sentence in prison, assuming good behavior, and the remaining third on supervised release. His lawyers said they were disappointed in the sentence and hinted that they plan to appeal, which they have 90 days to do. from Blogger http://bit.ly/2XwOte4 via IFTTT

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