The lost...

        


The heavily armed sniper who gunned down police officers in downtown Dallas specifically set out to kill as many white officers as he could, officials said. He was a military veteran who had served in Afghanistan, and kept an arsenal in his home that included bomb-making materials.

The ambush started with gunshots that killed five officers and sent screaming crowds scrambling for cover. Investigators determined Johnson was "the lone shooter in this incident," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said.

"This was a mobile shooter who had written manifestos on how to shoot and move, shoot and move, and that's what he did," Rawlings said at a news conference.

After the shooting subsided, Mr. Johnson, wielding an assault rifle and a handgun, held the police off for hours in a parking garage, claiming  to have planted explosives in the area, and threatening to kill more officers. In the end, the suspect was killed with an explosive delivered by a remote-controlled robot.

     

Elite ...?

United Kingdom Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage has a message for Donald Trump: The United Kingdom's problems are factors worse than those in the United States. But if his comments  are any indication, he is not too fond of Hillary Clinton.

We literally have lost our sovereignty, lost our borders, lost our ability," Farage told CNN's Richard Quest in an interview from Brussels, Belgium.

"Well, the problem that you've got in the U.S. is illegal immigration. Our problem is legal immigration to half a billion people."

"I think Trump will be better for us than Barack Obama's been."

Asked whether he would like Hillary Clinton or prefer to sit out this early in the general election, Farage was unequivocal.
"There is nothing on Earth that could persuade me ever to vote for Hillary Clinton," Farage said.
Quest followed up, "You sure you don't want to think about that for a second?"
"No, absolutely not," Farage said, laughing. "I mean she represents the pinnacle elite. It’s almost as if she feels she has this sort of divine right to have that job."

Just a thought.

Defend...*!

Image is not related

An Oregon woman fatally shot a home intruder after she found him in a bedroom. 
The woman, 33, said she had returned home with her two children when she found a stranger in one of her child's bedrooms. She was armed with a handgun and fired at least one shot at the man.  Officers found the man, 59, dead at the scene.

Local defense attorney Edward Kroll says a homeowner has the right to defend themselves in most cases.   He says, if the homeowner reasonably believes an intruder is in their house to commit a crime, they can use deadly force to protect themselves.   

Exceptions come into play when the intruder is a known to the homeowner and, perhaps, has been invited over before.  On a twist, neighbors said squatters have been coming to this house in the past.

Police can response very quickly, that is what they do, so step out of the house and call the police.          Just a thought.

Spells...*!

Two recently deciphered papyri were discovered and translated, dated to the third century. The spells are written in Greek, a language widely used in Egypt at the time.

Ancient, magical spells of love, subjugation and sex,  may sound like a "Game of Thrones" episode, but these evildoings are also found on two recently deciphered papyri from Egypt.

One spell invokes the gods to "burn the heart" of a woman until she loves the spell caster.  Another spell, targeted at a male, uses a series of magical words to "subject" him, forcing him to do whatever the caster wants.

The two spells were not targeted at a specific person, only need to insert the name of the person being targeted sort of like an ancient "Mad Libs."

Archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt discovered the spells in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, more than 100 years ago, among a haul of hundreds of thousands of papyri.   Many of them are now owned by the Egypt Exploration Society and are housed and studied at the University of Oxford in England.

 Nothing new under the Sun.   Been used since. Just a thought.  

I'm giving you up.....

Rich...*!

Famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, whose legion of high-profile cases includes the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has filed for bankruptcy in Maine in an effort to discharge an IRS debt of more than $5 million.

Debts to the IRS aren't normally discharged in bankruptcy proceedings, but the 83-year-old Bailey said that they can be if one abides by certain conditions.

Bailey served as one of Simpson's attorneys during the former NFL star's 1995 trial, which ended in his acquittal in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Bailey in the 1960s secured a reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard's conviction in the murder of his pregnant wife, and an acquittal at his second trial. 

Bailey was disbarred in Florida in 2001 over mishandling client assets, and Massachusetts issued a reciprocal disbarment in 2003. Bailey's bid to gain admission to the Maine bar failed in 2014, when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reversed a judge's ruling that would have allowed him to practice law in Maine.

Life is a struggle.   Just a thought. 

Hi Ya Doin..

Image is not related

In 2006, Hogan was having sex with Clem while being videotaped without his knowledge or consent.  On The Howard Stern Show, Hogan told Stern that he had slept with Heather with Bubba Clem's blessing and his encouragement. Hogan was so burnt-out from the trauma of his coming divorce that he finally gave in to the "relentless" come-ons from Heather who "kept going down that road".

Hogan said that he knew Clems had "an alternative lifestyle" and that he had stopped by their house "just to say hello" when Heather tempted him. 

Bubba testified that he burned the video to a DVD, wrote "Hogan" on it, and put it in a desk drawer.

On October 4, 2012, Gawker editor AJ Daulerio published a two minute extract from the 30-minute video, including 10 seconds of explicit sexual activity.

Hogan originally sued Gawker for copyright infringement in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, seeking a temporary injunction. U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore denied the motion, ruling that the validity of the copyright was in question, and that given the degree to which Hogan had already put his own private life into the public arena, the publication of the video might be protected by fair use.

Hogan dismissed the federal case and sued Gawker in Florida state court. There, his request for an injunction was granted by Judge Pamela Campbell in 2013. Gawker announced that it would not comply with the part of the court order requiring the removal of the post and associated commentary because it deemed the order "risible and contemptuous of centuries of First Amendment jurisprudence." Gawker removed the video itself, but linked readers to another site hosting the video.

The injunction was quickly stayed on appeal, and was denied in 2014 by the appeals court, which ruled that under the circumstances it was a prior restraint on speech that was unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Gawker tried to get Judge Campbell to dismiss the case based on that ruling, but the case went to trial.

Don't say Hello, it will be shown on YouTube and the likes. Just a thought.

To Stay or Not

 The rest of the European Union nations are looking at the possibility of a British departure from the bloc with disbelief, trepidation and anguish. But they are also preparing to retaliate.

If Britons leaves the European Union, they can expect a tough and unforgiving response, with capitals across the Continent intent on deterring other countries from following the British example, European officials and analysts said.

In other words, Britain will be made to suffer for its choice.

With other issues pressing, including Greek debt, the migrant crisis and terrorism, the largest and most powerful European nations will want clarity, and are not likely to tolerate a long period of post-referendum confusion.

“In is in — out is out,” the powerful German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, told Spiegel magazine. “I hope and believe that the British will ultimately decide against Brexit. The withdrawal of Britain would be a heavy loss for Europe.”

The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, spoke apocalyptically about a British exit, or “Brexit,” to the German tabloid Bild. He said all members of the European Union would suffer, as would the postwar structure of Europe that had kept the peace.

Britain will stay and will fix the migrant issue.  Just a thought.

Dry Crust .......

Ahedge fund manager was found dead this morning from an apparent suicide, according to a New York City police official. Sanjay Valvani was discovered dead at his residence in Brooklyn, the city police official told ABC News. Valvani was 44.  Police found a note at the apartment. 

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan accused him of persuading a former senior Food and Drug Administration official to give him confidential information about generic drug approvals, according to a statement last week from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Prosecutors claimed Valvani illegally earned about $25 million from 2005 through 2011. Valvani pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

Valvani's lawyers, Barry Berke and Eric Tirschwell, told ABC News in a statement today that their client's death was "a horrible tragedy that is difficult to comprehend."

"Sanjay Valvani was a loving father, husband, son and brother and committed friend, colleague and mentor," they said. "We hope for the sake of his family and his memory that it will not be forgotten that the charges against him were only unproven accusations and he had always maintained his innocence."

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet ......than a house full of feasting, with strife.    Just a thought.

Leslie...!

  

Nationally recognized pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, told jurors in the murder trial that Leslie Neulander died from multiple blunt force injuries to the head and brain.
The fatal blows to her skull ripped through the skin down to the bone, which had fractured. The irregular edges of the wound signified that it was not from a sharp object and the result of multiple blows, he opined.

Baden also estimated that Leslie Neulander died between 4:15 a.m. and 5:15 a.m., Sept. 17, 2012. That is hours before her daughter called 911 at 8:25 a.m. after her father alerted her that her mother was injured.

Dr. Robert Neulander, 63, the prominent obstetrician-gynecologist, has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering his wife, Leslie, in 2012.

"As I will one day be in front of God to be judged, I would not and did not take a life," Neulander said, shackled in jail garb. "I love my wife Leslie everyday, and I mourn her now and forever."

Nothing can be hidden.  Just a thought.