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Me too..
The Port Arthur monster, never got to see his infamy..
In one case he did an interview, before the cameraman could leave - all footage of the monster was destroyed in front of him.
He was also denied access to all articles about him etc.
Yes remember the victims lives, they are more worthy.
The Port Arthur monster, never got to see his infamy..
In one case he did an interview, before the cameraman could leave - all footage of the monster was destroyed in front of him.
He was also denied access to all articles about him etc.
Yes remember the victims lives, they are more worthy.
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Almost 40 years too late.NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982, authorities confirmed Friday.
A state police investigator filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday at a town court in Lewisboro, New York, accusing Durst of second-degree murder.
The action wasn’t announced at the time by any law enforcement officials or Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah, who recently convened a grand jury to consider charges.
“The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office can confirm that a complaint charging Robert Durst with the murder of Kathleen Durst was filed in Lewisboro Town Court on October 19, 2021. We have no further comment at this time,” her office said in a statement Friday.
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Haven't watched this yet, but this has been a topic of discussion at times here so I thought some of you might find it interesting.
I believe there is more than three of us interested here, maybe, so we'll outnumber the Twits! (Is that what you call Twitter-ers? )
I believe there is more than three of us interested here, maybe, so we'll outnumber the Twits! (Is that what you call Twitter-ers? )
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raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:49 am Haven't watched this yet, but this has been a topic of discussion at times here so I thought some of you might find it interesting.
I believe there is more than three of us interested here, maybe, so we'll outnumber the Twits! (Is that what you call Twitter-ers? )
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AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:40 am https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus- ... ab200ff16a
Almost 40 years too late.NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982, authorities confirmed Friday.
A state police investigator filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday at a town court in Lewisboro, New York, accusing Durst of second-degree murder.
The action wasn’t announced at the time by any law enforcement officials or Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah, who recently convened a grand jury to consider charges.
“The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office can confirm that a complaint charging Robert Durst with the murder of Kathleen Durst was filed in Lewisboro Town Court on October 19, 2021. We have no further comment at this time,” her office said in a statement Friday.
Well if you watched any of his last trial you would have seen that the NY police (plural departments) didn't give a rat's ass about the missing Kathy Durst and the detectives who worked on it were busy having sex with witnesses and just generally were lazy and incompetent.
If we believe Dick DeGuerin, Bobby should be dead from COVID by now. But I don't believe Dick DeGuerin, so we'll see what happens.
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Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?
Marissa Higgins Daily Kos Staff
Thursday October 21, 2021 · 11:23 PM Central European Summer Time
When it comes to talking about how archaic and oppressive school dress codes tend to be, the conversation usually centers around girls’ clothing in the classroom or to events, like prom or homecoming. One Texas district, however, has been hit with a federal lawsuit concerning six boys and one nonbinary student. At the center of the suit? The length of the students’ hair.
The Magnolia Independent School District in the Houston, Texas area apparently forbids male students from having hair longer than the bottom of the ear. This is in addition to requirements that male students cannot have long sideburns, a mustache, or a beard, and that students of all genders must keep their hair “clean” and “well-groomed,” including out of their eyes, as well as a “natural” color. With the help of the Texas ACLU, the students allege the district violated both Title IX and their constitutional rights, as reported by NBC News.
According to the students involved in the suit, who range from seven years old to seventeen, they were stopped from participating in extracurricular activities, denied classroom learning time, and even suspended for over a month. The suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the South District of Texas, argues students met these obstacles because they refuse to “conform” to the district’s “stereotypical notions of gender.”
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TX can mandate hairstyles but not masks that could save the school from a deadly contagious outbreak?
Sounds about right.
Sounds about right.
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Of course! RW freedumb is "I am free to do as I wish and you too are free to do as I wish".Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:32 pm TX can mandate hairstyles but not masks that could save the school from a deadly contagious outbreak?
Sounds about right.
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Extreme couponers were sent to prison in $31.8 million fraud scheme
The FBI is revealing new details about a $31.8 million counterfeit coupon scheme that landed a Virginia Beach couple in prison for nearly 20 years, combined.
In a news release last week, the agency said that investigators found fake coupons in "every crevice" of the house belonging to Lori Ann Talens and her husband, Pacifico Talens, Jr. The falsified savings were worth more than $1 million. They also found designs for coupons for more than 13,000 products on Lori Ann Talens' computer.
"She trained herself in the different techniques she needed to manipulate barcodes to make these coupons work," said Special Agent Shannon Brill in the FBI release. Talens, who is considered the mastermind of the scheme, would create fake coupons with discounts "near or even over" an item's retail value.
Talens didn't use the fraudulent coupons for herself. The FBI said she sold them to subscribers that found her on social media and communicated with them using an encrypted messaging app. Talens was paid more than $400,000 in digital currencies such as bitcoin and sometimes "exchanged coupons for stolen rolls of the special paper stores use to print out coupons," the agency said.
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Montana Man Who Made Over 5,000 Illegal Robocalls Owes DOJ Nearly $10 Million
BY ANDRE J. ELLINGTON ON 10/21/21 AT 6:08 PM EDT
MMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC)
AMontana man has been served court papers to recover nearly $10 million dollars on behalf of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) due to him allegedly carrying out 5,000 unlawful robocalls.
On October 21, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana filed a complaint against 52-year-old Scott Rhodes from Libby, Montana. According to court documents, Rhodes allegedly made 4,959 illegal robocalls by using falsified called ID information with harmful intentions. Many of Rhodes's calls targeted residents of Brooklyn, Iowa during a time when a local woman was murdered. Rhodes allegedly told residents that the woman was murdered by a "biological hybrid of white and savage Aztec ancestors" and that if she "could be brought back to life for just one moment," she would ask the listener to "kill them all.
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The Flathead Valley is quite the gathering place for vile folks.
Edit: Apparently, before he was in MT, he was in Sandpoint, ID which also likes to collect racists, neo-Nazi, Ayran nation types nearby.
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And Mark Fuhrman.northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:09 pmEdit: Apparently, before he was in MT, he was in Sandpoint, ID which also likes to collect racists, neo-Nazi, Ayran nation types nearby.
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You repeat yourself.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:52 pmAnd Mark Fuhrman.northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:09 pmEdit: Apparently, before he was in MT, he was in Sandpoint, ID which also likes to collect racists, neo-Nazi, Ayran nation types nearby.
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Two people who used to work for the household of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have filed a pair of lawsuits against the billionaire couple and their numerous family-related corporate entities
The cases claim that the Chan-Zuckerberg family companies are responsible for alleged sexual harassment and discrimination by company employees. In the same lawsuits, Chan and Zuckerberg are personally also being sued for failure to pay wages, among other claims.
The plaintiffs are Mia King and an unnamed man referred to as John Doe. Facebook itself is not involved in the lawsuits.
The lawsuits, which were first reported on by Insider on Tuesday, were filed last month in San Francisco Superior Court against the Facebook CEO. Insider previously reported on these allegations over the last two years.
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Johnson & Johnson hides its 120-year-old baby powder business behind one-week-old company
In May of 2007, the nation’s largest coal company—Peabody Holdings—spun off its properties in West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana to a new company: Patriot Coal.
In October 2021, Johnson & Johnson spun off a company called LTL Management and gave it one of their most iconic products.
What do these two things have in common? Corporate bankruptcy law. Corporations are by their nature artificial structures set up to protect investors and corporate executives from taking personal responsibility for their actions. But there are some aspects of corporate bankruptcy law that turn that up to 11. Because here’s how the rest of these two stories play out.
What Peabody spun off to Patriot were its oldest mines, oldest miners, and generations of retirees who were entitled to both pensions and black lung benefits. In 2013, Patriot Coal filed for bankruptcy, asking the court to “slash healthcare and pension benefits for about 13,000 union workers.” At the same time, Peabody made it clear that “it no longer owes benefits to Patriot retirees.” A bankruptcy judge agreed, saying that Peabody “was relieved of that burden.”
What Johnson & Johnson spun off to LTL Management was even simpler: baby powder. Not just the product, but all the lawsuits and all the responsibility related to claims of asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder products. Two days after LTL Management was created, it was in federal court filing bankruptcy. And now Johnson & Johnson says it’s been relieved of dealing with lawsuits over the powder.
And now, as a bankruptcy expert explains to NPR, “Johnson & Johnson doesn't have this liability anymore. They pushed all of it into the company they created just to file for bankruptcy."
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'So many lies told': Judicial inquiry begins seven years after Eric Garner killed selling cigarettes
Some seven years after Eric Garner was killed after being targeted by police and put in a chokehold, a judicial inquiry into his death started on Monday. It is the very least officials can do after blocking several measures to hold the officers who targeted Garner accountable. Judge Erika Edwards has called for 13 witnesses, including New York City police officers and sergeants to testify in proceedings aimed at offering a transparent look at the use of force used against Garner, ABC News reported. Edwards is also looking to focus on allegations Garner did not receive adequate medical care and how Garner’s arrest history and medical past were allegedly leaked from his autopsy report.
"It's trailblazing if you ask me," Edwards said at the start of the inquiry. "Nobody will be charged or found liable. It's about transparency. It's about creating a record. It's about letting the public better understand what happened and what did not happen seven years ago."
Human rights activist Monifa Bandele, who petitioned for the judicial review, told the Black News Channel she's hoping to learn "why Eric Garner was stopped" and which officers were investigated for their misconduct. “We see, now that we have access to the police records, that there were so many lies told,” Bandele said. “One big thing that many people don’t know is that the lieutenant Christopher Bannon who was on the scene instructed officers to arrest Eric Garner even after they all knew that he was dead.”
Bannon was also accused of telling Sgt. Dhanan Saminath the incident was “not a big deal” after learning Garner was likely dead, The Guardian reported of text messages between Bannon and Saminath. Bandele also mentioned Officer Justin Damico, who after riding in the ambulance with Garner was accused of inflating charges sought against him. Damico said in paperwork the Associated Press obtained that Garner sold 10,000 untaxed cigarettes, a tax felony.
“So we really want to get to the bottom of this,” Bandele said. “We’re hoping that if we can have a public record of all of the misconduct then we can take the next step forward to get some real accountability in this case and to show how the city and Mayor (Bill) de Blasio and the commissioner helped to cover up the fact that there were more than one police officers that killed Eric Garner.”
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Civil rights pioneer wants arrest record for refusing to give up seat expunged
Claudette Colvin, who refused to give way to a white person nine months before Rosa Parks, is asking a court to delete all records
Earlier this year, she told the Guardian: “They [local civil rights leaders] wanted someone, I believe, who would be impressive to white people, and be a drawing. You know what I mean? Like the main star. And they didn’t think that a dark-skinned teenager, low-income without a degree, could contribute.
Parks, who died in 2005, is recognised with a statue in the US Capitol.
Colvin was 15 when she and a friend, another Black teenager, were riding a bus in Montgomery. They were approached and told they needed to move to the back of the bus, away from two white women sitting nearby. Her friend moved but Colvin resisted, according to a contemporary police report.
Citing other great civil rights figures, Colvin told the Guardian: “History had me glued to the seat. It felt as if Harriet Tubman’s hand was pushing me down on the one shoulder and Sojourner Truth’s hand was pushing me down on the other. Learning about those two women gave me the courage to remain seated that day.”
Colvin was arrested for violating segregation laws, disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer. She managed to overturn some charges and was only prosecuted for the assault charge, according to the Associated Press.
Her case was sent to juvenile court, where a judge found her delinquent and gave her probation “as a ward of the state pending good behavior”. Colvin was never told when the probation ended.
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California wins $3.5 million payoff in illegal gambling lawsuit
The cafes claim to avoid laws against illegal gambling by supposedly selling a product, such as prepaid telephone cards, that include sweepstake entries permitting customers to play the games. The cafes operate out of storefronts, gas stations and convenience stores in more than a dozen states and are estimated to take in more than $10 billion a year, according to a 2014 white paper by the American Gaming Association.
Some states, including California, have outlawed the cafes.
Pong's gaming system involved a private network of servers and computers in sweepstakes cafes up and down the state. The company continued operations even after the California Supreme Court in 2015 ruled that sweepstakes gaming systems were unlawful gambling, according to the lawsuit.
“For years, Pong has flouted California law and flooded our state with illegal gambling devices, profiting off of the harm done to some of our most vulnerable communities,” Kern County District Attorney Cynthia J. Zimmer said in a statement. “Pong’s illegal devices and software have bred unregulated pop-up casinos that have been magnets for criminal activity wherever they have arisen."
Under the settlement, Pong is barred in California from designing, manufacturing, providing or using any unlawful gambling device, software or computer system. It also may be held liable for as much as $15 million if the company fails to comply with the settlement terms.
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FOX: Supreme Court agrees to hear Republican effort to defend Trump-era policy on immigrants and welfare:
While the issue itself may be hot-button, the case likely will revolve around jurisdictional issues, like mootness.Arizona leads 11 Republican states in defending rule that restricted green cards for immigrants likely to rely on welfare
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by Republican states to take over the defense of a Trump-era rule that restricted green cards for immigrants deemed likely to be reliant on welfare – after the Biden administration dropped the legal defense of the rule.
The "public charge" rule was introduced during the Trump administration and expanded the definition of "public charge" as an immigrant who receives one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months within a 36-month period. Whether an immigrant would be a "public charge" would be considered when they applied for permanent residency in the U.S.
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Joining Arizona in the suit were Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia.
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The ACLU Says Hawaii Police Handcuffed and Arrested a 10-Year-Old Girl for Drawing a Picture
The civil liberties group says there's a clear pattern of police misconduct involving schoolchildren.
C.J. CIARAMELLA | 10.21.2021 3:40 PM
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Hawaii says Honolulu police handcuffed and arrested a 10-year-old girl in January for drawing an offensive picture of another student.
Now the civil liberties organization and a law firm representing the girl and her mother are demanding reforms from both the Hawaii Department of Education and Honolulu Police Department (HPD) to fix what they say is a clear pattern of misconduct involving school children.
The ACLU and the law firm Caballero Law LLLC are representing Tamara Taylor and her 10-year-old daughter, who is identified only as "N.B." According to those groups, school officials at Honowai Elementary called Taylor on January 10 because another parent demanded that the school report her daughter to the police. N.B. had allegedly participated in drawing an offensive sketch of a student in response to that student bullying her. (What alleged crime the young girl committed by drawing a picture is unclear.)
After she arrived at the elementary school, Taylor says police detained her in a room and did not allow her to leave. Meanwhile, officers interrogated her daughter in another room. The officers then allegedly decided that Taylor's daughter was not taking them seriously enough, handcuffed her, placed her in a squad car, and drove her to the police station, all without allowing her to see or speak to her mother.
Taylor's daughter was not ultimately booked or charged with a crime, but she was held in custody for four hours. Taylor and her daughter have since moved out of Hawaii.
"Although I was at Honowai Elementary, I was not told that my daughter was removed from the premises, handcuffed in front of staff and her peers, placed into a squad car and taken away," Taylor said in an ACLU press release. "I was stripped of my rights as a parent and my daughter was stripped of her right to protection and representation as a minor."
The ACLU and Caballero Law accuse the authorities of false imprisonment, racial discrimination, and excessive force. In addition to demanding $500,000 in damages, they are asking the HPD and the Hawaii Department of Education to enact several reforms, such as requiring that a parent or legal guardian be present whenever a minor is interrogated by an officer, and only calling police when a student presents an imminent threat of significant harm to someone.
https://reason.com/2021/10/21/the-aclu- ... a-picture/
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Besieds being an attorney, Steve Letho is an interesting author.. I have this book he wrote:
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Kewl!
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I've seen one of those cars in St Louis at a great transportation museum. At certain times, they fire it up. Or at least they used to. This would have been late 90s.
They also have a lot of old trains you can tour, including a locomotive from the 50s with fins (photo is not from the museum).
They also have a lot of old trains you can tour, including a locomotive from the 50s with fins (photo is not from the museum).
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That museum is near my brother's house!!!!! I took The Kid there for his 3rd birthday!
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams