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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Nothing More to Say

Same $hit, different day, and it appears the Globe is only putting up its own exclusive stories. I have no idea why. Probably has something to do with increasing revenue amongst all the pre$$ organs. The readership must be tanking at this point.

I will say that yesterday was a much needed break. I enjoyed my time outside, and felt the best I have on an emotional and spiritual in quite sometime. Getting away from the Globe really did me well, and if this is the "new normal" going forward it looks like good riddance.

That being said, I will wrap up the few items worthy of note the last couple of days, beginning with yesterday's bu$ine$$ talking points:

"U.S. consumer confidence dropped in August to the lowest since 2014 as consumers soured on employment and business conditions, indicating Americans are becoming despondent amid persistently high joblessness....."

They buried that in the middle of all the chatter and immediately hid it in the clo$et:

"Sales of new homes jumped again in July, rising 13.9% as the housing market continues to gain traction following a spring downturn caused by pandemic-related lockdowns. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that July’s gain propelled sales of new homes to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 901,000, the most since 2006. That’s a far bigger number than analysts had expected and follows big increases in May and June. The government report has a high margin of error, so the July figures could be revised in the coming months....."

That's a nice way of saying they are lying to us, and what else is new?

"Best Buy Co. reported that online sales more than tripled in the fiscal second quarter, as shoppers bought computers, tablets and large appliances to help them cook, work and learn from home during the pandemic. Still, Best Buy’s sales were still not as explosive as the sales performance at its big box rivals like Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s, all of which stayed open during the lock-down of the U.S....."

It STILL looks like certain favored in$titutions are to be continued under the Great Re$et.

Tiffany Dives After Report That Deal With LVMH Is Uncertain

That reminds me, I forgot the ring!

What goes down must ri$e:

"Billionaire Richard Branson cleared a crucial obstacle on the tortuous journey to rescue his flagship airline, hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic. Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., founded and controlled by the serial entrepreneur, won creditor backing for a $1.6 billion bailout on Tuesday, paving the way for final approval at a court hearing next week....."

His is an exclu$ive airline, thus the bailout, and will either continue after the Great Re$et or is being paid off and set up for a GOOD LIFE!

Meanwhile, your flight has been cancelled:

American Air Sees 19,000 Job Cuts Once U.S. Payroll Aid Ends

Helane Becker, a Cowen & Co. analyst, says “we don’t think we’re going to see recovery for a long time. We think three to five years for domestic and five to seven for international to get back to last year’s levels. American’s job cuts are not surprising, and you’re going to see more.”

No recovery for 3-5 years?

That gets us to the magical 2025 date for the WEF project completion!

The White House will refund your ticket price:

"White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that the administration is eyeing executive action to prevent airline furloughs. Meadows's comments in a Politico Live event came a day after American Airlines said it would furlough or lay off some 19,000 workers starting in October unless the federal government steps in billions more in relief for struggling airlines....." 

The planes are going nowhere with no one in them, so this looks like an extended unemployment program and extortion by the airlines! 

Yup, they get billions because planes and travel will still exist after the Great Re$et, thus the billions while you get nothing, citizen, and the $tock prices go through the roof:

"Stocks were mixed on Wall Street Tuesday, but gains were strong enough for tech companies and other pockets of the market to carry the S&P 500 to its fourth straight gain and another record high. The modest moves followed some more mixed data reports on the economy. One showed that consumer confidence unexpectedly dropped this month, contrary to economists’ forecast for a strengthening. Another said sales of new homes accelerated faster than economists expected last month. They fit in with a general slowing of the economy recently, following its plummet into recession earlier this year and subsequent, initial burst off the bottom. Shares of Exxon Mobil, Pfizer and Raytheon Technologies all slipped in their first trading after an announcement that they’ll drop out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average before trading opens Monday. The market has been making a lot of small moves recently on snippets of news about the virus, developments on a potential vaccine for it and other concerns, but the economy is still hurting, with airlines running at a fraction of their capacities and restaurants still mostly empty. “That’s not an economy that’s back to normal,” said Tom Hainlin, national investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. “Ultimately, the economy doesn’t fully reopen until we get a vaccine or a therapeutic,” he said. For the moment, though, he said, “People are willing to see that the world’s cup is slightly half-full right now." 

Everything is on hold until Bill Gates rolls out his infernal vaccine, and as for "Raytheon’s brief moment in the spotlight of the Dow Jones industrial average will end next week, the Waltham aerospace company’s time in the most often-quoted stock index lasted all of five months. What does it mean for Raytheon? It shouldn’t mean much, really....."

Then why all the space and print about it?

"More blowout profit reports from big tech companies pushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 to another all-time high Wednesday. The benchmark index rose 1%, even though most of the stocks within it closed lower. Technology stocks accounted for the lion’s share of the gains, outweighing losses in healthcare, utilities, energy and other sectors....."

The "market" is totally distorted and COVID is making only a $elect few fabulously wealthy as it impoverishes the rest of us. 

Funny how that has all worked out, huh?

Related:

"The U.S. banking industry’s second-quarter profits fell by 70% from a year ago as low interest rates and the economic turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic weighed heavily on big and small banks alike. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday that total bank profits across 5,066 insured institutions were $18.8 billion, compared with profits of $62.5 billion in the same period a year ago. It was the second consecutive quarter of steep profit declines as banks set aside billions to cover potentially bad loans back in April. Most of the profit decline was tied directly to the pandemic. Banks are now holding tens of billions of dollars of loans that appeared healthy in March, but are now in forbearance or deferral because those borrowers can no longer pay. Further, the Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates to near zero once again to stimulate the economy, which limits what money banks can charge for loans. Bank balance sheets were helped partly by the Paycheck Protection Program, the $480 billion stimulus program for small businesses that needed help covering payroll in the first months of the pandemic. That program came in the form of bank loans, and each bank took a small fee for each application they processed. Loan sales and underwriting fees also helped out the banks in the quarter, the FDIC said. Despite tumbling profits, the FDIC said it did not see any systemic issues in the industry. Banks have taken in record deposits in the quarter — a sign of consumer confidence in the bank industry....."

Yeah, we are all getting rich, but somehow the programs benefited banks very well.

COIVD has been one big, agenda-pushing $cam, folks! 

You have been had, and they aren't done with us yet.

It turns out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, nation’s biggest business lobby, is behind Republicans’ push to shield employers from coronavirus liability -- you know, the same kind of legal immunity that the vaccine companies have for their dangerous and fatal side effects.

Part of the Great Re$et is placing selected corporations above the law, Corporate Communism, if you will, as the Totalitarian Future Globalists Want For The Entire World Is Being Revealed: putting homeowners out into the streets.

"When Jessica Ford’s Spokane-based marketing company Zipline Interactive needed to update one of its apps, she knew she’d need some outside help. So she turned to KWG Softworks, a Boston-based outsourcing startup, which found exactly the kind of software talent that Zipline needed, 9,000 miles from Spokane. Not in China or India, but in the east African nation of Kenya. KWG, co-founded by Kenyan immigrant Stephen Wahome, wants to establish Kenya and other African nations as major sources of high-tech talent. Despite the region’s reputation for poverty and political instability, African countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana have thousands of capable software developers, said Wahome, a Bridgewater State University business graduate with an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, but, despite a surge in African tech startups, these nations still don’t generate enough jobs to employ all their technically skilled citizens......"

America faces its greatest unemployment crisis ever, and the Globe is still promoting outsourcing?

Related:

"A crown worn by rapper Christopher Wallace (aka Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls/Biggie), three days before his murder in 1997 could fetch $300,000 at auction next month. The plastic prop is part of Sotheby’s first hip-hop auction on Sept. 15. The event will include 120 lots with iconic artifacts, contemporary art, photography, fashion, jewelry as well as fliers and posters that document the rise and impact of the musical genre. The majority of items comes from the artists and their estates, according to Sotheby’s. The crown is being sold by Barron Claiborne, a photographer hired by Rap Pages Magazine in 1997 for what became Wallace’s last recorded photo shoot. Wallace was killed three days later in Los Angeles....."

Where is the $y$temic raci$m?

The boycott is because of what happened in Kenosha (turns out the "victim" did have a knife).

To be honest, I really don't want to hear from pampered, over-paid athletes with their frustrated and angry whining as they boycott in protest games that no one is watching, and you can forget about football, too.

Who needs them anyway? 

I've hardly noticed that they have been gone, and it is probably for the be$t:

"The recent cancellation of the 2020 collegiate football season by the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences has reinforced a belief that has taken hold over the six months of the coronavirus pandemic: Without fall football, networks will be in trouble. The sport is America’s preeminent pastime, and broadcasters have fought bitterly to spend billions on its rights, yet a growing number of analysts and insiders are reaching a startling conclusion: While the NFL and its sky-high viewership may be critical to networks as marketers look to unleash their budgets on holiday shoppers, the scrapping of the college Division I football season actually might come with as many silver linings as drawbacks — maybe even more. The idea upends common wisdom about the pandemic, which holds that cancellations of any kind are bad for business, and it can seem counterintuitive, but conversations with industry experts and a dive into the numbers highlights a dirty secret: Buying the rights to college games has become so expensive that sometimes networks are better off if the games aren’t played at all....."

No kidding, Washington Compost?

So after all those years of effort and training to reach the pinnacle of their career and put their skills on display in the hopes of raising their families from a hard life, the rug has been pulled from under them because of COVID.

Do the short-sighted players realize that the plugging of the pipeline means soon the talent pool will dry up and there will be no lucrative pro sports contracts?

Good going, idiots, and what the WaCompo never mentioned was the elimination of college football will put a huge hole in the university operation budgets and ability to fund, among other things, women's sports.

It will be a future without sports, but at least the mayor of Bo$ton is good for a laugh:

"In Boston, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said he’s expecting a city task force to announce police reform recommendations in coming weeks. “What I witnessed on TV was an atrocity, what happened,” Walsh said of the police shooting in Kenosha. He said the city has already reevaluated training of Boston police in recent months, something he expected would continue. “We’re going to continue to make changes,” he said at a Wednesday news conference....."

He's going to get at the Root of things in his own $hithole city, the shameless hypocrite!


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Time to get you off to school:

Governor Charlie Baker.
Governor Charlie Baker (Barry Chin/Globe Staff) 

A picture truly is worth a thousand words, for look at that evil, demonic grin!

It's downright SATANIC!

"Baker says state officials monitoring colleges as students return, want to avoid superspreader events" by Travis Andersen and Jaclyn Reiss Globe Staff, August 25, 2020

Governor Charlie Baker said Tuesday that state officials are talking regularly with local colleges as students return for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Be afraid, be very afraid, and avoid the chaperones.

Baker, speaking during his regular press briefing, also noted that so-called superspreader events like the now-infamous February Biogen conference in Boston illustrate how the disease can move from one person to another in a short period of time.

“Our biggest concern at this point is unmasked, undistanced, unmanaged events, and the reason we said that is our own contact tracing activity has shown that big elements of the rise in cases that we’ve seen in some of the communities that we would call high-risk has not been the result of people coming to a place like this,” Baker said during his regular briefing following a tour of WheelWorks bike shop in Belmont, “because generally speaking, the people who work here are wearing masks and distancing, the customers aren’t allowed in the stores if they don’t wear a mask and distance,” Baker said.

Now I see why he is laughing. 

People are actually buying this spew coming from his hellish hole.

He said Massachusetts officials expect about the half the number of college students who normally come to the state for the fall semester to return this autumn. “Our primary focus right at this point is the colleges reopening, whether it’s remote or kids coming back to school, and with K-12 school reopening,” Baker said. “Those are big deals here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”

He said the reduced number of college students returning to the state will “have certainly a significant impact on what the task at hand would actually look like compared to a traditional year, and I fully expect that sometimes daily conversations going on between us and those local communities around enforcement and around messaging and around rules of the road, guidance and advisories, and everything else, are going to continue to be pretty regular practice for all of us as we head into the month of September.”

I don't want the kids anywhere near that monster, and they intend for this nightmare to last forever

So what is next, lockdowns with the military deployed for contract tracing purposes like in once-free Spain?

Baker at one point was asked about a forthcoming study from researchers who found that an international meeting of Biogen leaders at a Boston hotel in February led to roughly 20,000 cases of COVID-19 in four Massachusetts counties by early May.

The governor reminded reporters that he was criticized a few months ago for describing the Biogen event as a “seminalmoment for the virus in Massachusetts.

“I do think it speaks to the power of that virus to move from one person to another to another to another to another if people don’t wear a mask, don’t social distance, don’t take seriously the fact that the fundamental strength of COVID-19 is its ability to get from one person to the next, quickly,” Baker said.

This arrogant a$$hole is f**king diabolically evil.

Related:

"The research team analyzed the genetic sequences of the virus that caused COVID-19 in the 772 patients, almost all from Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk counties. By examining mutations in the genetic code that naturally occur as the virus makes copies of itself — subtle changes that act like a passport stamp showing where the pathogen has been — the sleuths identified more than 80 distinct SARS-CoV-2 genomes of viruses that infected the Boston area in the first five months of the year. Most of the viruses came from elsewhere in the United States and Western Europe, the scientists said, but one virus with a unique genetic signature had an outsize impact

I need to comment here because this is the $hit study he is citing, and it seems to confirm that COVID -- if it ever existed -- is like any other cold while basically admitting the vaccines in trials will be useless due to its mutation!

Some 289 of the 772 patients, or more than a third, were infected with a virus traceable to the meeting held on Feb. 26-27 by Cambridge biotech Biogen. In a remarkable sign of how the virus can spread unpredictably and take a disproportionate toll on society’s most vulnerable members, the 289 conference-related cases included 122 people living in Boston-area homeless shelters and employees who work there, the study says. It’s unclear what path the virus took to get there. The three authors said they have no idea how the virus spread from the conference to homeless shelters, “but it illustrates that we are all connected, and that more vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 ― once it enters homeless communities, the circumstances are ripe for it to spread extensively,” they said in the e-mail. 

They have no idea how it jumped into a vulnerable population, but it shows we are all connected! 

This is DRIVEL, folks, and DARE I SAY a HUGE LIE!!

The scientists emphasized that their estimate of 20,000 conference-related cases in four counties is a “back-of-the-envelope calculation.” The total number of people infected with the virus that spread from the conference could be far higher because the researchers didn’t look at cases outside the four counties or in other parts of the country or abroad. The outbreak at the conference is believed to have led to a cascade of cases in Tennessee, North Carolina, Indiana, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and overseas. “A precise estimate of the total number involved [globally] is not possible with current data and may not be possible at all,” the scientists said. “If tens of thousands of individuals seems large, it is important to point out that it is in [the] context of a pandemic that has infected tens of millions of people.” The three scientists offered some caveats. It’s possible, they said, that viral genomes from patients who sought care at Mass General and other health care providers weren’t representative of coronaviruses in the counties that the researchers used to make their extrapolation. It’s also possible that the version of the virus they believe ricocheted at the conference had spread undetected from another local super-spreader event beforehand and then infected people at the Marriott, confusing researchers about the true origin, but, the scientists said in their e-mail, “we see no evidence for that.”

That narrative-supporting BS had the full front-page banner to itself yesterday!

You read that last paragraph with the impossibilities and caveats and it could be any of the genomes, and what a STENCH!

Is that why Baker is smiling, using that as an I-told-you-so?

He also pointed to recent weddings in Maine and Rhode Island that resulted in COVID clusters.

They traced the alleged Rhode Island cluster to a bachelorette party, and Maine's to a Big Moose.

Yup, can't go to a wedding, can't go to a bar, can't go to a church, but can riot in the streets for three months with no end in sight and no testing, no tracing, no worries!

And NOW, the ULTIMATE HEIGHT of HYPOCRISY and GALL:

Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito also announced the launch of a new advertising campaign aimed at getting state residents to shop locally and encouraged constituents to take advantage of this weekend’s annual sales tax holiday in Massachusetts.

Just as residents have a role to play in stemming the spread of the virus, Polito said, “we also have a role to play in supporting our local businesses.”

OMFG!

HOW SHAMELESS!

Massachusetts has the HIGHEST RATE of UNEMPLOYMENT in the NATION thanks to these two tyrants, and now they are saying GO SHOP because we NEED TAX LOOT!

How are we to shop locally when all the local business are either out of business or closed because of their onerous and evil restrictions?

What total A$$HOLES!

The only question now is WHEN will the citizens of Massachusetts live up to their historical legacy and give this guy the English governor treatment?

He is an ABOMINATION!

The annual sales tax holiday allows shoppers to forgo paying the state sales tax on many retail items, according to the state’s official mass.gov website. It applies only to individuals buying items for personal use.

Certain items do not qualify for the sales tax exemption, including meals, motor vehicles, motor boats, telecommunications services, gas, steam, electricity, tobacco products, marijuana or marijuana products, alcoholic beverages, and anything priced above $2,500, the site says.

Try to think of it as a half holiday, and STAY HOME!

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Related:

"The death toll from confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Massachusetts rose by 12 to 8,729, the state Department of Public Health reported Tuesday, and the number of confirmed cases climbed by 349, bringing the total to 116,770. Key metrics being monitored by state officials are still low relative to the springtime surge, but Tuesday’s numbers come as Governor Charlie Baker said that he expects the state “to pretty much stay where we are” in the economy’s reopening....."

What reopen? 

There never was one!

He must be dunking his doughnut in beer, not coffee, and it's fall y'all so have a drink!

Might want to heat up that cup:

"Right before the 2018 midterms, a Homeland Security meeting gave birth to an extreme idea: zapping border migrants with a "heat ray" to make them feel like their skin was burning, former officials tell the New York Times. The so-called Active Denial System was created by the military 20 years ago to disperse crowds, but questions about its effectiveness and morality have pretty much put it on the shelf....."

Those of us who knew about the device said it would be brought home for use. 

Just because it is on a shelf doesn't mean it won't be used.

Could the appearance of the story now be a message to the city-sacking destabilizers that are bent on destruction?

Now put your hands up! 

Lisette Desouza of the Back Bay has her temperature taken by Vandi Sandy before entering the Boylston Street entrance to the Boston Public Library to pick up a book.
Lisette Desouza of the Back Bay has her temperature taken by Vandi Sandy before entering the Boylston Street entrance to the Boston Public Library to pick up a book (Barry Chin/Globe Staff). 

I'm told “today’s public libraries are critical resources for closing the digital equity gap and are more important than ever as we respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19, and the buildings are there for the local community,” in what $mells like Great Re$et Communi$m.

Even in union-free charter schools, leaders are embracing a virtual start to the school year "as concern over safety in the age of the coronavirus runs high in many of their students’ neighborhoods and communities. COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted people of color, and many charter students live in neighborhoods with high rates of residents testing positive for the virus, such as East Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan. Meanwhile, many students are still grappling with the fallout from the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and others, while they also feel growing urgency to combat racism — making in-person schooling an ideal place to tackle both as a community. Arianna Constant-Patton, an incoming senior at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, embodies many of the conflicting feelings students have about returning to classrooms amid the twin pandemics of coronavirus and racism....."

The kids are receiving a total mind fuck for an ejookhazion as all agendas flow into one!

Better off skipping school and hanging out at the beach:

"Two coronavirus cases linked to Aug. 17 beach party on Nantucket, health director says ‘now is not the time to let our guard down’" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, August 25, 2020

Two recent coronavirus cases on Nantucket have been linked to an Aug. 17 beach party on the island attended by “many locals,” town Health and Human Services Director Roberto Santamaria said Monday.

Santamaria confirmed the cases in a video address posted to his agency’s Twitter feed. He encouraged attendees to get tested as soon as possible and said contact tracing is underway.

“This irresponsible behavior threatens the safety our island has enjoyed for the past six months,” Santamaria said.

It's two f**king cases, and don't worry, I would never want to set foot on your $hit i$land!

He urged residents to continue following safety protocols such as hand washing, face coverings, and physical distancing, and cautioned against large gatherings.

“We are all vulnerable to this virus,” he said. “Now is not the time to let our guard down.”

Time to for the residents to feed him to the sharks.

He also noted that the island is entering a more concerning time as the summer winds down. During the fall and winter months, he said, “as we huddle indoors and come closer together the risk for transmission increases.”

Santamaria stressed that respecting the virus is potentially a matter of life and death.

The survival rate amidst the explosion of cases is now over 99.99%, but you gotta respect the virus he says, and so does his skank at HHS!

I know who I don't respect!

“These precautions will help prevent that transmission,” he said. “Please do your part, because the life you are saving may be in your own family. ... Thank you, and be safe.”

FUCK OFF with your goddamn guilt trip based on a distortion at best, abhorrent lie at worst!!

As of Monday, Nantucket Cottage Hospital, the island’s lone hospital, had logged 52 positive coronavirus tests out of just over 6,000 since mid-March, according to the hospital’s website. The island currently has about nine active COVID-19 cases, Santamaria said Tuesday by phone, and Nantucket remains in the lowest risk pool in Massachusetts for COVID-19 transmission, according to the most recent weekly public health report the state DPH released Wednesday, but the island, a popular summer tourist hub, has had prior issues with gatherings this season amid the pandemic.

Any deaths? 

Remember when this was just going to be 15 days to flatten the curve so hospitals would get overrun? 

They never were, and yet the tyrants press on with the rising case totals -- which I don't even believe anymore, they are simply making it up because the tests don't even work -- and plummeting fatality rates.

ALL EVIL, folks! 

EVIL!!!!!

In response, town officials last month voted during a joint meeting of the Nantucket Board of Health and Board of Selectmen to mandate that bars and restaurants close at midnight, with an 11:30 p.m. last call for alcohol. The order did not apply to restaurants that don’t serve adult beverages.

Santamaria had said during the joint meeting that many island visitors had been seen leaving restaurants inebriated after closing, often without masks or not observing social distancing.

“It’s mostly at night that we’re seeing the problems,” Santamaria said, adding that some restaurants had voluntarily started closing early, and Stephen J. Visco, chairman of the Nantucket Board of Health, said during that same July meeting that the early-closing order could help protect public safety“I believe that it’s going to help,” he said, “Any way we can help is fine with me.”

Why not just yank all their liquor licenses?

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Now get your hands behind your back and prepare to be suspended this semester.


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"The Massachusetts Gaming Commission plans to discuss oversight of Encore Boston Harbor on Thursday as it meets for the first time since a large party in a hotel suite drew a State Police response and spurred the Everett casino to tighten its COVID-19 safety measures. The party early in the morning of Aug. 16 drew about 100 people, according to State Police. Under state standards aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic, indoor gatherings are limited to 25. Encore has said it broke up the gathering as soon as staff became aware that it was happening, and that it has since made changes to ensure such an episode does not happen again. Gaming Commission Chairwoman Cathy Judd-Stein will make a statement about the commission’s oversight and the casino when the panel begins its scheduled meeting for this week, according to a news release from the commission. The raucous party wasn’t the only trouble at the casino this month ― two violent incidents connected to guests have taken place....."

Looks like no more going to the club.

Related:

"An 18-year-old man allegedly stabbed a 16-year-old in self defense as multiple intruders broke into a home in Stoughton and assaulted him Tuesday night, leading to three arrests, police said. At 10:15 p.m., officers were called to a breaking and entering at a home on Canton Street, Stoughton Police said in a statement. While en route to the scene, police received information over their radio that a person had been stabbed at the residence. Police found a “lengthy” trail of blood after multiple witnesses told them that several people had broken into the home and attacked them, officials said. Witnesses told police that an 18-year-old man had been stomped on several times by a 16-year-old boy during the attack, authorities said. “The victim was stomped on so hard that shoe marks were left on his chest,” police said in the statement. “Fearing for his life the victim grabbed a knife that was nearby and stabbed the 16-year-old attacker in the leg.” A State Police trooper heard about the stabbing over his radio and went to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton to see if anyone there was being treated for a stab wound, authorities said. The trooper found the 16-year-old, whose identity has not been released, at the hospital, police said. He sustained a significant injury and had to undergo surgery, but he is expected to survive. Stoughton officers arrested three suspects at Good Samaritan Hospital, police said. Cameron McGarry, 20, of Stoughton, and Jacob Oknin, 18, of Sharon, were both charged with conspiracy to commit a crime. Anthony Myers, 23, of Holbrook, was charged with breaking and entering in the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony, assault and battery, and conspiracy to commit a crime. The three suspects were arraigned in Stoughton Municipal Court Wednesday. Officers expect to file additional charges at a later date, authorities said. Police said at this time, “there are no plans” to charge the 18-year-old man who allegedly stabbed the 16-year-old. The incident remains under investigation."

Be prepared for more of that as long as the antifa destabilizers and terrorists are active, as they pave the way for the elite oligarchs they claim they are against and a total martial law tyranny.

They should be thankful they were robbers and not rapists:

Brockton soldier missing from Fort Hood found dead, family says

He didn't like getting cozy with his superior and now he ends up dead?

Grieving family of Brockton soldier demands answers

You won't get them from the Pentagon or reading the Globe.

"A former Phillips Exeter Academy math teacher allegedly “groomed” a shy 14-year-old freshman girl into years of sexual abuse and manipulated her parents into believing he was a trusted family friend, according to court records and a prosecutor. Szczesny Jerzy Kaminski pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault charges stemming from his alleged repeated sexual assault of the girl between 2014 and 2016 at the private boarding school in Exeter, N.H., where Kaminski was a math instructor and the girl a student from Florida. Rockingham County Attorney Patricia Conway said in court that the 59-year-old Kaminski targeted the shy teenager “who felt almost alone” when she arrived on campus in 2014. The girl soon found herself in a classroom, being kissed repeatedly by Kaminski, Conway said during Kaminski’s arraignment in the 10th Circuit Court, District Division, in Brentwood, N.H. Over succeeding weeks, months, and years, Kaminski allegedly intensified his control over the girl through in-person contact, e-mails, and text messages to the point where she was visiting his on-campus home multiple times a week. He also insinuated himself into her family so thoroughly that he traveled to China with them, helped the girl fend off a plagiarism allegation at the school, and, at the parents’ request, drove the victim to Boston for music lessons. “Not only did she trust him, but her parents trusted him,” Conway said. “The long and short of this story is that her parents trusted this man.” In 2016, school staffers raised concerns about what they saw as an inappropriate level of contact between Kaminski and the girl, ultimately leading the administration to alert Exeter police about their concerns. Police met with the child’s parents and, describing how sexual predators groom their victims, told them Kaminski might be victimizing their daughter, according to court records and Conway....."

There has been a lot of grooming going on out there, and yes, there is “nothing more horrible and depraved than sexually abusing a child, and in this case it is made even more unfathomable that the defendant is a former member of law enforcement,” so $oro$-$pon$ored Rollins is moving away from high cash bail to hold potentially dangerous defendants with a simple hearing -- meaning anyone can be declared dangerous and locked up by rubber-stamp judges (with the stench of full blown totalitarianism).

Related:

Alaska’s attorney general resigns after sending a junior staffer 558 texts

Some came with kissing emojis, and because the $cum is a Republican and conservative Christian, not a Democrat, the story is not buried and away he goes!

Also see:

In the bluest of states, a pair of Republican candidates face off in Senate primary

I'm told "Shiva Ayyadurai of Belmont and Kevin O’Connor of Dover are competing for the attention of voters attuned to a different primary contest. O’Connor, 58, is much more of a traditional New England Republican. Like Ayyadurai, O’Connor supports Trump, but parts of his platform differ significantly from the president’s agenda. Unlike the president’s tendency toward isolationism, O’Connor said the United States needs to be a global leader. “That means intervention to root out terrorism before it reaches our shores and defending human rights from authoritarians and failed, corrupt regimes,” O’Connor’s website states. On the environment, O’Connor said, “we need to tackle climate change using technology and be the global leader in the green industry."

Screw Kennedy-Markey as that nasty race allegedly goes down to the wire, I'm going to grab a Republican ballot and vote Shiva because the case has been made!

Related
:

"Though in practice, a party's platform often has little correlation with how a candidate campaigns or would govern as president, it has for more than a century served as guidance for what political parties believe....."

Or what they say they believe, and if so, why was a full-page, one-inch wide column devoted to such irrelevancy!?

"As their convention nears its conclusion on Thursday, Republicans are seeking to reconcile their depiction of President Donald Trump as a smooth, stable leader with the reality that the United States is facing a series of crises that include the demonstrations, a potentially catastrophic hurricane and a raging pandemic that is killing more than 1,000 Americans a day. The historic convergence of health, economic, environmental and social emergencies is only increasing the pressure on Trump, as he looks to reshape the contours of his lagging campaign against Biden with Election Day just 10 weeks off and early voting beginning much sooner....."

See:

Hurricane Laura gains strength, could bring ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge

It will be stripping Trump of his greatest support.

Related:

Floods in north, east Afghanistan leave at least 100 dead


The body of a child killed in a mudslide following heavy flooding is recovered, in Parwan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. The flooding in northern Afghanistan killed and injured dozens of people officials said Wednesday (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

That was the 7th in the unbearably gruesome slide show as a flood of tears washes down my face. 

Oh, God!

Pompeo has closed-door meetings with Bahrain, UAE leaders

They discussed the “importance of countering Iran’s malign influence in the region,” with no masks, but at least they are social distancing with plenty of elbow room as the F-35s are on the way!!

Related:

Ancestry Promises Holocaust Records Will Be Free

They have to write them up first.

Blackstone buys 75 percent stake in Ancestry.com

That private equity giant now owns your family tree!


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Katie Johnston of Globe Staff says work is weird these days — wherever you are and especially without a contract, and most office workers still won’t be coming back in January as promised
:

"The numbers could foretell a fundamental shift in the importance of centralized offices for employers, as well as potential economic development challenges for Massachusetts, but regardless of the poll results, Jay Ash, chief executive of the the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, remains hopeful that the crowds will eventually return to the city — even if it takes a few years after the pandemic ends. “I’ve got to believe five years after a vaccine, there’s going to be a desire to have more people return and have that collision and convergence [of ideas] that helps makes the Massachusetts economy as special as it is,” said Ash......"

FIVE YEARS for Bo$ton to come back to life?

That gets us to the magical year 2025 again, and he sure looks like he will be around after the Great Re$et:

Massachusetts Competitive Partnership CEO Jay Ash said: "People are less tethered to the office, and we need to ... consider that as we're thinking about fiscal policy."

Has he been tested yet?

"An abrupt shift this week in government testing guidelines for Americans exposed to the novel coronavirus was directed by the White House’s coronavirus task force, alarming outside public health experts who warn the change could hasten the disease’s spread. The new guidance — introduced this week, without any announcement, on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website — replaces advice that everyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested to find out whether they had contracted the virus. Instead, the guidance says those without symptoms “do not necessarily need a test.” Several leading infectious-disease experts predicted that, after months of public health exhortations encouraging people to get tested, the turnaround could heighten public confusion, impede contact tracing and lead to more cases. The CDC estimates that 40 percent of those who test positive for the coronavirus have no symptoms but may be highly infectious and spread it to other people. Brett Giroir, an assistant HHS secretary who oversees testing, denied the impetus for the shift came from the White House. He said the idea of altering the testing guidance originated with him and CDC Director Robert Redfield....."

Giroir says "a negative test doesn't mean you are negative," in typical Orwellian fashion amidst increasing survival rates for people who don't even know they are sick (because they aren't)!

Maybe that's why Kenosha has been destroyed, for the COVID LIE is COMING UNDONE!

"Winter is ending in the Southern Hemisphere and country after country — South Africa, Australia, Argentina — had a surprise: Their steps against COVID-19 also apparently blocked the flu, but there’s no guarantee the Northern Hemisphere will avoid twin epidemics as its own flu season looms while the coronavirus still rages. “This could be one of the worst seasons we’ve had from a public health perspective with COVID and flu coming together, but it also could be one of the best flu seasons we’ve had,” Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press. U.S. health officials are pushing Americans to get vaccinated against the flu in record numbers this fall, so hospitals aren’t overwhelmed with a dueling “twindemic.”

I already saw this movie in the spring, and he is a liar that is not to be believed!

It’s also becoming clear that wearing masks, avoiding crowds and keeping your distance are protections that are “not specific for COVID. They’re going to work for any respiratory virus,” Redfield said. The evidence: Ordinarily, South Africa sees widespread influenza during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter months of May through August. This year, testing tracked by the country’s National Institute of Communicable Diseases is finding almost none — something unprecedented. School closures, limited public gatherings and calls to wear masks and wash hands have “knocked down the flu,” said Dr. Cheryl Cohen, head of the institute’s respiratory program. In Australia, the national health department reported just 36 laboratory-confirmed flu-associated deaths from January to mid-August, compared to more than 480 during the same period last year. The coronavirus is blamed for about 24 million infections and more than 810,000 deaths globally in just the first eight months of this year. A normal flu year could have the world’s hospitals dealing with several million more severe illnesses on top of the COVID-19 crush....."

They are damn near admitted that seasonal flu was diagnosed as COVID, folks!

The article goes on to say "the U.S. CDC is urging record flu vaccinations, preferably by October, and Redfield’s goal is for at least 65% of adults to be vaccinated as states are being encouraged to try drive-thru flu shots and other creative ideas to get people vaccinated while avoiding crowds while in an unusual move, Massachusetts has mandated flu vaccination for all students — from elementary to college — this year."

See: 

Massachusetts Mandates Student Vaccinations

That comes as a New York Times survey found more than 26,000 cases at more than 750 American colleges, and you can start dining out in New York City sometime in 2021 even though the VMA Awards are airing from NYC this Sunday (how appropriate since both are filled with filth).

I'm no longer checking the Bo$ton Globe during the day, sorry, and it looks like I will no longer be blogging about them on a daily basis either, so I leave the link to you, dear reader.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Around the U.K.

"Skin cancer drug called too expensive in UK" October 15, 2011|Associated Press

LONDON - An independent British medical watchdog says the first treatment proven to help people with the deadliest form of skin cancer is too expensive to be used by the UK’s health care system, a recommendation critics called a potential death sentence.

The drug, Bristol-Meyers Squibb’s Yervoy, has offered some hope to people with advanced skin cancers, though a recent study showed it only worked in a small segment of patients studied, and they lived just four months longer than patients given older medications.

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence advised yesterday that at a cost of $126,600, Yervoy “could not be considered a cost-effective use’’ of health funds. A final decision is expected next month after a public consultation.

In the United Kingdom, most medicines are paid for by the government as long as they are recommended by the cost-efficiency watchdog. The agency commonly rejects expensive drugs, including recently advising against new treatments for prostate cancer, breast cancer, and multiple sclerosis.

The government usually adopts the institute’s recommendations, meaning doctors in the government-funded health service cannot prescribe Yervoy without its approval. 

Yeah, you wouldn't want a national health system, American.

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Speaking of cancers:

"Britain’s defense minister, Liam Fox, resigned abruptly yesterday after more than a week of damaging newspaper headlines about his personal and professional relationship with a 33-year-old man who accompanied him on numerous official trips abroad and appeared to have brokered access for wealthy individuals who shared Fox’s interest in close ties with the United States and Israel....

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Related: Was Mossad using Fox and Werritty as 'useful idiots'? Ex-Ambassador reveals how links made by 'advisers' set alarm bells ringing

"Ex-publisher to testify on phone hacking" October 12, 2011|New York Times

LONDON - Rupert Murdoch’s former chief lieutenant, Les Hinton, will appear before Parliament to answer further questions on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, lawmakers said yesterday.

The parliamentary committee investigating the scandal said Hinton will give evidence by video link from the United States on Oct. 24. Hinton was chairman of News International, the British newspaper unit of Murdoch’s News Corp. media empire, from 1995 to 2007; he then became publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

He resigned from that post over the summer after revelations that journalists at the company’s British tabloid weekly News of the World had repeatedly broken into the private voicemail boxes of celebrities and people in the news.

The scandal led the company to shut News of the World and threatened to shake News Corp. to its foundations. In dramatic hearings over the summer, Murdoch, his son James, and other senior figures from News of the World and News International were shown to be sharply at odds over the question of who knew that phone hacking was endemic at the newspaper, and when they knew it. The company had insisted until early this year that the practice was limited to one “rogue reporter,’’ Clive Goodman.

Hinton “was in charge during a lot of the critical period,’’ John Whittingdale, the committee chairman, said yesterday.

Of particular interest, Whittingdale said, is a letter sent to Hinton at News International in early 2007 by Goodman, which alleged that phone hacking was “widely discussed’’ at the paper.

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"Event hails music, life of King of Pop

CARDIFF - Three generations of Michael Jackson’s family - with a few notable absentees - joined an eclectic roster of entertainers yesterday to pay tribute to the King of Pop, a celebration of the late star’s life overshadowed by the Los Angeles manslaughter trial of his doctor. On a stage shaped like a giant glove, participants performed songs from throughout Jackson’s career."

"UK to open inquest in 2006 poisoning" October 15, 2011|Associated Press

LONDON - A British coroner has ordered a wide-ranging inquest into the 2006 death of dissident former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

Litvinenko died in a London hospital after ingesting a radioactive substance, polonium-210. On his deathbed, he blamed the Russian president at the time, Vladimir Putin, for authorizing his poisoning - bringing UK-Russian relations to a freeze.

London officials said yesterday that coroner Dr. Andrew Reid had asked police and intelligence agencies to carry out further inquiries into the death.

Russia has refused repeated British requests for the extradition of the chief suspect in the case, former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi, who denies any involvement.

Last month, in a step toward mending UK-Russian ties, Prime Minister David Cameron made the first visit to Russia’s capital by a British leader since Litvinenko’s death. He stressed that Britain and Russia must set aside their disputes over the incident to nurture new trading ties and help promote global stability.

Gee, who would want to mess that up?

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

A Thriller of a Trial

Sorry I haven't been paying attention to it, readers. Globe has had articles nearly every day and all I've been doing is giving them the big, black X with the pen. 

"Jackson investigator admits mistakes" October 07, 2011|Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - A coroner’s investigator acknowledged yesterday that she made mistakes while collecting medications and other evidence from Michael Jackson’s bedroom after he died, but she minimized the issues by saying no investigation is perfect.

It's the OJ chain of evidence all over again!

Investigator Elissa Fleak was aggressively cross-examined by defense attorney Ed Chernoff as he tried to expose flaws in the way medical evidence was handled by authorities in the case against Dr. Conrad Murray.

Chernoff pointed to pictures that he said indicated things had been moved in the room. In addition, Chernoff said Fleak didn’t note that she had found a bottle of the powerful anesthetic propofol inside an IV bag until March 2011, nearly two years after the singer’s death.

“Would you agree with me that you made a substantial number of mistakes in your investigation?’’ Chernoff asked.

“No,’’ Fleak said.

Prosecutor David Walgren tried to minimize the missteps.

“Ms. Fleak, did you conduct a perfect investigation in this case?’’ he asked.

“No,’’ she said.

“Have you ever conducted a perfect investigation?’’ he asked.

“No,’’ said the witness.

If the prosecution shovels shit you must acquit!

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Related: The 21st Century Marilyn Monroe

The cops f***ed up another crime scene?

Yeah, that kind of blew the whole case for me.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Flickers From California

"Firefighters relied on a giant air tanker to make steady progress yesterday against a five-day-old wildfire that has closed one of the main roads leading into Yosemite National Park....

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"Freeway reopens, as fire threat abates 

HESPERIA - Firefighters gained control yesterday on a wildfire that erupted on the main interstate between Southern California and Las Vegas. Officials lifted evacuation orders for some homes and reopened the freeway. The fire began along Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass (AP)."

Fires from one end of California to the other? And all they get are briefs?

Another hot topic:

"Appeal set in case on pop star’s death" September 04, 2011|Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - In an 11th-hour appeal, lawyers for Michael Jackson’s doctor sought to overturn a judge’s refusal to sequester jurors during the involuntary manslaughter trial. Attorneys also asked late Friday to halt the start of jury selection on Sept. 8 until the issue is decided by an appeals court. Dr. Conrad Murray is accused of giving Jackson an anesthetic overdose before the pop star’s 2009 death (AP)."
 
If you scroll through my Michael Jackson file you will find there are some rather interesting anomalies. Reminds me of the Marilyn Monroe case. 

How many times are the LA police going to botch the investigations of high-profile cases?

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Just Over the Border: California Thriller

I just called and canceled the appointment....

"Doctor charged in Jackson death can still practice" by Associated Press | June 15, 2010

LOS ANGELES —Michael Jackson died June 25 after Dr. Conrad Murray, his personal physician, administered propofol and other drugs to help him sleep. Murray maintains that nothing he did should have killed Jackson....

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You can scroll through my
MJ files and decide for yourself about the case.

If I were you, I would start at the bottom and work your way up.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Around AmeriKa: Other Arizona

The agenda-pushing immigration articles will require a separate post.

"
Arizona tribe settles suits challenging use of blood samples; University agrees to pay $700,000" by Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press | April 22, 2010

PHOENIX — An Arizona Indian tribe has ended a seven-year legal fight over blood samples members gave to scientists for diabetes research that were later used to study schizophrenia, inbreeding, and ancient population migration in what tribal members called a case of genetic piracy.

That's why I do not like giving mine to government or anyone else.

The Havasupai Indians, who live deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon, settled their lawsuits with Arizona State University in an agreement announced yesterday. It was approved by the Legislature’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee on Tuesday.

That is where everything ends up in AmeriKa.

The Havasupai contended ASU conducted the additional research without permission, invading tribal members’ privacy, betraying the tribe’s trust, and misrepresenting what researchers had done with blood samples and subsequent research results.

You figure the Native Americans would be used to such things.

The settlement includes a $700,000 payment to the 41 plaintiffs, and the university has agreed to help the tribe seek third-party funding to build a new health clinic and high school in the isolated village....

Carletta Tilousi, the lead plaintiff in the case and a tribal councilwoman, most of her family members, and other tribal members gave their blood to scientists in the 1990s thinking it would be used to help cure diabetes....

Tilousi said she hoped the settlement would make a statement on behalf of all indigenous people that their cultures should be respected, not analyzed by scientists....

Only if they are Zionist in AmeriKa.

Ernest Calderon, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, said the board “has long wanted to remedy the wrong that was done.’’

And we have hundreds of years more to make up for.

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It isn't like we don't remember history around here:

"Ariz. park is called a threatened battlefield; Civil War group cites budget cuts" by Steve Szkotak, Associated Press | May 14, 2010

RICHMOND — A desert peak where cavalry clashed nearly 150 years ago has joined an annual list of the nation’s most endangered Civil War battlefields because state budget cuts are set to close the park that marks the site....

In addition to Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg and the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, the list includes sites of some memorable battles waged in states where the Civil War still resonates on the eve of its 150th anniversary, primarily in the South and Mid-Atlantic.

Still trying to divide us, 'eh, MSM?

Picacho Peak stands apart from the rest. The state park is scheduled to close June 3 because of budget cuts.

On April 12, 1862, Lieutenant James Barrett led Union cavalry to the rocky spire 50 miles northwest of Tucson and skirmished with Confederate Rangers. While Barrett was killed and the Union army retreated, Union forces from California eventually moved on to Tucson and snuffed out a Confederate settlement.

Not something that is emphasized in your state schools, is it, America?

Civil War was North-South. WTF they doing way out West, right?

The battle, while a footnote in history, still attracts annual visits by re-enactors....

Of course, WE KNOW WHO DECIDES WHAT is HISTORY, don't we?

And what is wrong with these guys? Can't find a real war?

With the nation about to mark 150 years since the start of the Civil War, the 2010 installment was released with the support of Jeff Shaara, a member of the trust’s board and author of “Gods and Generals,’’ among other books on the Civil War.

“Nothing creates an emotional connection between present and past like walking in the footsteps of our Civil War soldiers,’’ Shaara said in remarks prepared for the formal release of the list yesterday in Washington....

Beware, America!

See:

"In researching the Bush administration’s manipulation of public perceptions, I came across an interesting summary of the State Department’s Philip Zelikow, who was Executive Director on the 9-11 Commission, that greatest of all charades. According to Wikipedia:

"Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths’ or 'public presumptions’ which he defines as 'beliefs (1)
thought to be true ( although not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’ In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing’ or 'molding’ events (that) take on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene….He has noted that 'a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter 1999, p 5-7)

Isn’t that the same as saying there is neither history nor truth; that what is really important is the manipulation of epochal events so they serve the interests of society’s managers? Thus, it follows that if the government can create their own "galvanizing events", then they can write history any way they choose.

If that’s the case, then perhaps the
entire war on terror is cut from whole cloth; a garish public relations maneuver devoid of meaning."

Could it be your WHOLE WORLD and EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE REAL is built upon MYTHS?

It couldn't be, could it?

Gettysburg, the battlefield where 160,000 Union and Confederate soldiers fought in the summer of 1863, is on the endangered list because of a second attempt to bring casino gambling within one-half mile of Gettysburg National Military Park.

Yeah, let's POLLUTE OUR PAST, America.

Like Gettysburg, Virginia’s Wilderness Battlefield was making a repeat appearance on the list. In this case, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is facing fierce resistance to building a Supercenter within a cannon’s shot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met on the field of battle....

Why not? It is who we are now.

A far cry from our forefathers, America.

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Also see: OK Corral coroner’s inquest uncovered

Disputed cross in Mojave Desert is stolen

Related
: Clear the Court: The Sign of the Southern Cross

Update:

"Jackson’s doctor helps passenger

PHOENIX — The doctor accused of administering a powerful anesthetic that killed pop star Michael Jackson helped stabilize a young woman who fell unconscious on a US Airways jet to Phoenix. Conrad Murray’s spokeswoman says the doctor found the woman yesterday with a very weak pulse. Miranda Sevcik says he stabilized her condition using equipment in the jet’s medical bag.

He saved her and killed the King of Pop?

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Also see: Jury deadlocks in murder trial

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Around AmeriKa: California's Morning Mist

And you know what it is made from when it comes from the MSM, right?

Just take a
whiff; you won't be wondering long.

"
Weak economy fuels assault on keystone Calif. climate law; Businesses seek to delay rules until employment rises" by Samantha Young, Associated Press | April 5, 2010

SACRAMENTO — Four years ago, California earned accolades for adopting a law that would slash its greenhouse gas emissions and serve as a model for national climate change legislation.

With the state mired in a crippling recession, the law that once looked like a landmark achievement is coming under assault.

It's a landmark, all right. Don't step in it.

The regulatory effort Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger set in motion is facing a political backlash and could come to an abrupt halt in the months ahead.

Translation: the PUBLIC does NOT LIKE being LIED TO!!!!

A coalition of businesses, financed largely by three Texas oil companies, is funding a ballot petition that would delay the law....

Which is strange because oil companies are backing the carbon tax bill.

Lot of other names I bet you didn't expect to see there.

The leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman, has vowed she would suspend the law on her first day in office, which she would have the authority to do.

A reason to vote for her if nothing else.

Even Schwarzenegger, who has staked his legacy on environmental issues, has begun urging air regulators to take a go-slow approach. But he has vowed to fight the ballot initiative.

I'll bet you are glad to be getting rid of that asshole, huh?

The possibility that a state that has set the national agenda on environmental change for decades might shelve its highly publicized climate regulations could have ramifications beyond California’s borders. In Congress, lawmakers are struggling to craft a national climate bill that uses California’s as a template, but are facing headwinds of their own....

Look at them all worried about their fart-belching plans!!

At issue: whether imposing costly regulations on businesses is a smart move as the nation struggles to emerge from recession....

Answer: NO -- unless you intend to kill this economy over a lie.

The global warming law also is a target of both Republican candidates seeking to replace Schwarzenegger, who will reach term limits after this year.

Yeah, and once again it is a cold spring.

Whitman intends to trigger a “safety valve’’ in the law that allows a governor to suspend climate regulations in “extraordinary circumstances, catastrophic events, or threat of significant economic harm.’’

I'm feeling another valve that needs opening, pffffft!

Ironically, it was a provision Schwarzenegger demanded on behalf of business interests at the time he was negotiating the bill with Democrats in 2006....

Yeah, how ironic that it is now biting him in the ass, pfft.

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Man, I'm feeling gassy. Must have been the Around AmeriKa breakfast.


"Calif. boosts sex offender tracking program" by Associated Press | March 20, 2010

SACRAMENTO — California parole officials said yesterday that they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist.

The new policy requires parole agents to more closely track the movements of offenders using GPS-linked ankle bracelets. It also requires agents to visit high-risk sex offenders at their homes twice a month, up from one monthly visit.

Oh, that will keep the long eye of the law on them.

The policy change came after agents were criticized for not discovering that a convicted sex offender was allegedly keeping Jaycee Dugard hidden at his Contra Costa County home for 18 years. Correction officials are also reviewing whether they should have revoked the parole of John Albert Gardner III, a convicted sex offender now charged with killing one San Diego County teen and being investigated in the death of another.

“We basically have higher-level tracking not only on high-risk sex offenders but even on low-risk sex offenders,’’ said Gordon Hinkle, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “This is basically areas that we felt needed improvement.’’

Isn't that supposed to be one of their top priorities?

Protecting the safety of us all?

Where is all that tax loot going, Californian?

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Wherever it is going, it is not going into the parole system:


"
Calif. parole panel lacks resources for inquiry" by Associated Press | March 30, 2010

SAN DIEGO — A state board examining why the accused killer of a teenager was not returned to prison for parole violations before the slaying occurred has no formal budget and minimal staff, a member said.

On March 12, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the Sex Offender Management Board to review the case of John Albert Gardner III, who spent time in prison for molesting a 13-year-old girl and committed seven parole violations in 2007-08 that could have put him back behind bars....

The 17-seat board was unable to get a quorum for a meeting this month, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported yesterday. The lack of resources makes it uncertain when the board will complete its review involving Gardner....

The volunteer board is made up of specialists, including psychologists, judges, and probation officers. It was formed to devise a comprehensive state plan to manage sex offenders and was supposed to disband earlier this year, but the state Legislature made it permanent. The board has operated without a budget since July and has only one staff member, who works part time.

That is almost a year.

Maybe that is how all government should operate.

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Also see: Calif. museum offers new views on life, land

Deputies kill suspect in Calif. slayings

Judge appointed in Jackson death case

No big deal now, what with the Tiger on the prowl.

And right back where we
started, readers.

Time for lunch.