I can’t even write about that girl who was kidnapped and tortured because I know I’ll go off the deep end, which is what I did when I saw the mugshots of those 6 inbred hillbillies. But I can’t hold their social status responsible when you have crimes like this one:
MINEOLA, N.Y. - A resident of an exclusive gated community has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the slaying of a neighbor whose head was found in the trunk of his car.
Evan Marshall, 32, a bedding salesman, entered the plea Wednesday to murder, assault and other charges about a week before jury selection was to begin in his trial.
Marshall was arrested a year ago in the death of retired schoolteacher Denice Fox, his neighbor in Glen Cove on Long Island.
He made a deal and will only get 30 years instead of life.
“I know it does little but I want to apologize to all the families involved,” Marshall said in court, reading from a statement. “I feel absolutely terrible.”
I’m sure you do.
He’ll get out, as will this rapist who’s gonna walk out early, albeit with some trouble:
“You understand that this procedure is the removal of your testicles?” Overstreet asked Allen.
Allen said he wanted to be castrated, The News Herald reported Tuesday.
The obviously mentally ill mother, or the sleepy social worker, who used words like “skinny” to describe a baby, now deceased?
The investigation into the death of a baby at a skid row shelter last month is focusing on a social worker who was ordered by a supervisor to take baby Jasmine from her mother to see a doctor but instead went home because she had worked a long shift without a break. The social worker arrived early the next morning to find the 7-week-old child dead.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has ruled the death a homicide, saying Jasmine died of starvation, dehydration and neglect even though she had lived all of her seven weeks with her mother at the Union Rescue Mission.
The social worker from the Department of Children and Family Services, whose name has not been released, had checked the child during an emergency visit early on Aug. 9, and had reported that the baby’s face was “narrow and skinny.”
Did that prompt any … concern, perhaps? The social worker’s interview with the mother is almost as incredulous:
During the social worker’s visit, Maxwell described herself as a weight trainer who “watches what she eats,” according to the documents released by the county.
She insisted Jasmine was fine but acknowledged that she needed to “put some fat on the baby.”
Sure, a weight trainer with a “narrow and skinny” faced baby who live at a homeless shelter. Oh and guess what? They didn’t even know it was a girl until after she died, because they never bothered to look past the narrow and skinny face at her body.
Sadly, a heat wave brings out another kind of wave - bad parenting skills at the expense of poor kids too little to get out of cars. I guess the only “bright side” is that they no longer have to suffer at the hands of idiots who are unable to comprehend taking care of a child.
This one forgot because she stopped to buy donuts. And she had been warned previously.
We’re not sure if this dim bulb was also getting donuts, but luckily they saved the kid.
This idiot forgot to drop the kid off at day care, and went to her job instead at guess where? City Hall! Meanwhile the other couple in the story, who are French and went to Wal-Mart*, had their kid rescued, who thankfully was taken away from them (and adopted out to non-Wal-Mart shoppers, one hopes.)
*somebody please, make the joke, these stories are too depressing for me to think of a good one.
This tard went to Circuit City to buy a cel phone, presumably so she could call 911 on herself in the future, while this one went to buy groceries; Miss Manners said the reason she left her kid in the car (well, the AC was on) was because she wasn’t properly dressed.
Still, nothing compares to this charmer who left his baby in the car - at a whorehouse!
Alex: That is the most awesomest bad parenting story evar!
DL: Y’know how easy it was to write? I just google news’d “child die car.” That’s how bad it is.
The people of New Orleans suffered, and in some cases died, while waiting for FEMA.
Meanwhile, after ignoring dire warnings from the National Hurricane Center, Bush flew to sunny, warm California, and fooled around in sun-drenched San Diego pretending to play guitar, like the incompetent, lying, uncaring prick he is.
Before rolling up his sleeves for a Photo Op, and complimenting his incompetent GOP crony, FEMA Director Michael “Brownie” Brown, on the magnificent job he was doing completely fucking up and mismanaging the federal government’s emergency response to the worst natural disaster in our nation’s history.
It’s a nice piece, my friend, but I must take issue with this:
The job change will answer one criticism that has dogged him — the suggestion that, however talented, he [James Wood] was a hatchet man for the editor Leon Wieseltier, whose literary pages at The New Republic manifest delight in popping reputations. “Somehow TNR got the best people,” the literary magazine N + 1 wrote in its debut issue, in 2004, “and encouraged their worst instincts.”
While it’s true that Leon had a hatchet man, it wasn’t Mr. Wood. Dale Peck, who essentially raped Rick Moody and was then, quite literally, bitch-slapped by Stanley Crouch, was not only Leon’s go-to for hatchet work, but actually wrote a book called…
Every now and then I check the news from back home.
According to a police report, Philbrook shouted at his wife just before shooting her that she had spent all their money on “scratch tickets.”
Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Suzanne Kontz said today George Philbrook overheard his wife call police Friday night. He then confronted her outside the couple’s Sea Street home shooting her four times before standing over her body saying, “Now call the (expletive) police,” Kontz said.
Police found the ex-wife outside her home Friday night around 8:15 with bullet wounds to her chest and head. She was still alive and crawling for help up a neighbor’s front steps, authorities told the Herald. Police say she died on her neighbor’s porch. An hour later and a mile away, Malden police spotted the ex-husband inside a liquor store with the .380 semiautomatic he used to gun down his ex-wife, police said. He was arrested after a struggle with police.
Authorities say the couple had been divorced for a few years but were still living in the same house.
Ronald Evano, 49, no address available, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 20 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and identity theft in a joint scheme with his wife, Mary, in which they allegedly collected more than $200,000 in compensation.
Prosecutors allege that Evano and his wife collected more than $200,000 in insurance claims and left more than $100,000 in unpaid medical bills in several states between 1997 and 2005.
On Aug. 19, 1998, prosecutors say Mary Evano, using the alias of Nancy Stevens, claimed she ate glass that was in a plate of beans at an unnamed restaurant in Burlington. Three days later, she was admitted to Saints Medical Center in Lowell, claiming to be injured by the glass she swallowed. Doctors at Saints performed a variety of procedures, including a colonoscopy, resulting in medical bills of more than $10,000, which remains unpaid.
Six months after the fraudulent incident, the restaurant paid Nancy and Ronald Stevens of Weymouth $11,745. While Mary Evano is still being sought by police*, her husband is in custody. He faces up to 100 years in prison at his sentencing hearing next month in U.S. District Court.
I can’t really add much more to this luminous commentary (click on the link — a must read) rescued from the memory hole by Digby, of which the climactic paragraph reads:
President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming “ex-president” Bush or he can become “President-for-Life” Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world? For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.
Except this: If Gaius Julius Caesar had been such a fucking moron he thought “disassemble” means “not tell the truth,” in those pre-heimlich days he never would have conquered eating prandium without choking to death, let alone Gaul.
If you put Bush in a Counsel’s garb and put him in charge of the legions, you get this:
At an “Ask Mitt Anything” forum this morning in Bettendorf, Iowa, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was quizzed about whether any of his five sons are serving in the U.S. military.
USA TODAY’s Susan Page, who was there, reports that this was his response:
“The good news is, we have a volunteer Army and that’s the way we’re going to keep it. My sons are adults. They’ve chosen not to serve in the military in active duty and I respect their decision in that regard. … And one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I’d be a great president.”
He’s all for other peoples’ sons going over to Iraq and dying in the noble cause, but his sons can choose not to — because they’re trying to get a vapid empty suit who happens to be their father elected President. If only Cindy Sheehan, Lila Lipscomb, or the tens of thousands of other parents whose children have been killed or partially dismembered were as small-minded and selfish as Mitt.
As if we need any other reason, other than K-Lo’s vast assortment of very small dildos named “Mitt” or “Romney,” not to want this jerkoff as President.
