‘Sexomnia’ is an actual medical diagnosis that includes unintentional sex acts during sleep. However, I have a strong suspicion that this guy in Sweden conned doctors and the courts into believing he sexually assaulted the victim while asleep.
SWEDISH MAN ACQUITTED OF RAPE DUE TO ‘SEXOMNIA’
By Gillian Mohney
ABC News
September 20, 2014
A Swedish man who was convicted of rape had his charges overturned after an appeals court found the man could have been asleep during the attack and cited "sexomnia" as a reason he should be released.
Mikael Halvarsson was acquitted of rape this month after experts said he was asleep during the attack and had no memory of the incident, according to a translated court ruling from the Sundsvall appeals court in Sweden.
Halvarsson was accused after the victim woke up as Halvarsson allegedly assaulted her on April 2, 2014. They had been sleeping in the same bed, but they each had their own blanket, according to the translated court documents, which also noted that she called the police the next morning, and they found Halvarsson still asleep in her bed when they arrived.
In the appeal, Halvarsson's previous girlfriend testified that he had previously tried once to have sex with her when she was sleeping. When she stopped him, he then acted confused and asked what had happened.
His mother also confirmed that he had disturbed sleeping patterns before.
While the term sexomnia may seem made up for the purposes of getting away with a crime, Dr. Kingman Strohl, a professor of medicine and director of research at the Sleep Center at Case Medical Center in Cleveland, confirmed it's an actual medical diagnosis that includes unintentional sexual behaviors during sleep.
Strohl, who has no connection to the case in Sweden, said that sexomnia is one kind of parasomnia or undesirable behavior or experience during sleep. More common parasomnias can include sleepwalking or sleep talking.
“Usually people are very scared and also quite confused as to what's going on," Strohl said of patients who report sexomnia. "We look for signs,” of the behavior in the patient’s past, he said. That it has “gone on before and occurs in context of sleep walking and sleep talking."
Strohl said in cases of parasomnias, a person isn't usually dreaming but instead they are undertaking an automatic action, such as walking across a room, drawing a bath, or even driving around the block. According to Strohl, these kinds of sleep behaviors are more common if a person is very tired or has taken sleep aids.
Even though sexomnia is rare, Strohl said there are clear questions and diagnosis tools to figure out if a person suffers from the sleep disorder.
If a person is on trial and wants to claim they were asleep when they allegedly committed a crime, Strohl said doctors had to be particularly careful that people aren't trying to lie about their symptoms.
"You want to know how people react to it. You want to know what the people look like and want to know how each partner reacts to it," said Strohl of diagnosing a sexomnia incident. "You don't want to encourage unwanted sexual advances."
A person who is actually asleep will not have very refined actions or be responsive to their surroundings, Strohl said. For example, a sleepwalker will start walking into a chair and make no move to get around it.
Red flags that could signal a person is faking symptoms would include actions that are more refined and responsive, Strohl said. For example, a person might try to bake a cake in their sleep, but they won't finish baking the cake and then ice it if they are asleep.
Dr. Mark Eric Dyken, a professor of neurology and director of the sleep disorder clinic at the University of Iowa, said he's seen people who attempted to blame parasomnia for their actions.
Dyken said doctors have to be careful to remember that while sexomnia is a real and studied sleep disorder, it is also very rare.
"There are bad people and there are sociopaths," said Dyken, who was also not involved with the case in Sweden. "You worry about people utilizing this diagnosis."
Monday, September 22, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
AN AMAZING WALK BY THE GRACE OF GOD
I've been at the statue of Christ the Redeemer twice. The view of Rio is spectacular. Those guys working on the arm are alive by the Grace of God ... and if God should happen to fail them, by their safety harnesses.
If you ever get to Rio, be sure to visit both the statue and Sugar Loaf. In the video, you can see the statue looking at Sugar Loaf in the distance.
MEXICAN ARMY MAKES AMERICAN COPS LOOK LIKE CUB SCOUTS (UPDATE)
Soldiers shot to death a wounded teenage girl before executing 21 other young gang members after all had surrendered
Borderland Beat reports that President Obama has urged Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to conduct a credible investigation of the “Tlatlaya 22” killings by the Mexican army.
In response, the Mexican Attorney General’s office and the Mexican Defense Department both issued the same statement:
“With full respect for the rights of the people" we have begun "a complete and thorough investigation to get to the truth" of what happened on Monday, June 30 at Pedro Limón community in the municipality of Tlatlaya in the state of Mexico.
However, the Defense Department then insisted that the 22 young people were killed only because Mexican soldiers “repelled an armed attack.” So much for that credible investigation.
On Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters in Washington that:
We have seen these most recent reports and we've been following this case since June. We have encouraged the government of Mexico to investigate and we understand that several Mexican entities are investigating this incident. But as in all cases where security forces use lethal force, we think it's imperative that there is a credible review of the circumstances undertaken in response to them and the appropriate civilian authorities should conduct those investigations.
It’s no secret that Mexico’s military and police have resorted to periodic killing sprees. Most notable was the October 2, 1968 “Tlatelolco Massacre” during which soldiers and police killed up to 300 students that were participating in a peaceful demonstration in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.
My question is why has the President and his administration stuck its nose into the internal affairs of Mexico? Granted, the killing of the 22 young people on June 30 appears to be a gross human rights violation. But with the United States facing one international crisis after another – the Iranian nuclear threat, the Ukraine, North Korea, and ISIS – why in the hell is the Obama administration meddling with a relatively minor incident in Mexico?
Borderland Beat reports that President Obama has urged Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to conduct a credible investigation of the “Tlatlaya 22” killings by the Mexican army.
In response, the Mexican Attorney General’s office and the Mexican Defense Department both issued the same statement:
“With full respect for the rights of the people" we have begun "a complete and thorough investigation to get to the truth" of what happened on Monday, June 30 at Pedro Limón community in the municipality of Tlatlaya in the state of Mexico.
However, the Defense Department then insisted that the 22 young people were killed only because Mexican soldiers “repelled an armed attack.” So much for that credible investigation.
On Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters in Washington that:
We have seen these most recent reports and we've been following this case since June. We have encouraged the government of Mexico to investigate and we understand that several Mexican entities are investigating this incident. But as in all cases where security forces use lethal force, we think it's imperative that there is a credible review of the circumstances undertaken in response to them and the appropriate civilian authorities should conduct those investigations.
It’s no secret that Mexico’s military and police have resorted to periodic killing sprees. Most notable was the October 2, 1968 “Tlatelolco Massacre” during which soldiers and police killed up to 300 students that were participating in a peaceful demonstration in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.
My question is why has the President and his administration stuck its nose into the internal affairs of Mexico? Granted, the killing of the 22 young people on June 30 appears to be a gross human rights violation. But with the United States facing one international crisis after another – the Iranian nuclear threat, the Ukraine, North Korea, and ISIS – why in the hell is the Obama administration meddling with a relatively minor incident in Mexico?
BEST MOM OF THE YEAR
After being shot in the head by a drunken former Marine, Jessica Arrendale managed to save their 6-month-old baby’s life by hiding her inside the toilet bowl
Last Saturday night (Sept. 13), Jessica Arrendale, 33, and Antoine Davis, 30, went out for the evening in Smyrna, Georgia. Davis, a former Marine who served in Iraq, got drunk. When they got back to her three-story townhome sometime around midnight, they got into a fight. Davis chased Jessica up the stairs while she was holding their 6-month-old daughter Cobie in her arms. She tried to ward him off with a baseball bat. He took the bat away from her and struck her with it several times.
Jessica managed to get away and lock herself and the baby in a bathroom. Davis then got a military-style rifle and used it to break the bathroom door down. He shot Jessica in the head. As she was falling down, Jessica managed to throw herself over the toilet. With her last breath she dropped Cobie into the toilet bowl. She died partially covering the toilet bowl so that Davis was unable to see the baby.
Davis then went to the baby’s room where he shot himself to death. It is believed that he intended to kill Cobie.
Smyrna cops had arrived at the scene where they got no response from anyone in the townhome. Not knowing that Jessica and Davis were already dead, they remained outside in order to avoid a possible violent confrontation. They sent in a robot, but it could not negotiate the stairs. Several hours elapsed before they finally entered the home.
By the time they found the baby, 13 hours had elapsed since Jessica managed to hide the bay in the toilet. Cobie was rushed to Atlanta’s Scottish Rite Hospital to be treated for hypothermia and a traumatic head injury. It is believed that Davis caused the head injury with the baseball bat.
It appears that Jessica and Davis were in a salt-and-pepper relationship that did not turn out too well. Her mother claims that Davis was abusive to Jessica throughout their relationship.
For saving Cobie with her last breath, Jessica Arrendale deserves to be recognized as Best Mom of the Year.
Last Saturday night (Sept. 13), Jessica Arrendale, 33, and Antoine Davis, 30, went out for the evening in Smyrna, Georgia. Davis, a former Marine who served in Iraq, got drunk. When they got back to her three-story townhome sometime around midnight, they got into a fight. Davis chased Jessica up the stairs while she was holding their 6-month-old daughter Cobie in her arms. She tried to ward him off with a baseball bat. He took the bat away from her and struck her with it several times.
Jessica managed to get away and lock herself and the baby in a bathroom. Davis then got a military-style rifle and used it to break the bathroom door down. He shot Jessica in the head. As she was falling down, Jessica managed to throw herself over the toilet. With her last breath she dropped Cobie into the toilet bowl. She died partially covering the toilet bowl so that Davis was unable to see the baby.
Davis then went to the baby’s room where he shot himself to death. It is believed that he intended to kill Cobie.
Smyrna cops had arrived at the scene where they got no response from anyone in the townhome. Not knowing that Jessica and Davis were already dead, they remained outside in order to avoid a possible violent confrontation. They sent in a robot, but it could not negotiate the stairs. Several hours elapsed before they finally entered the home.
By the time they found the baby, 13 hours had elapsed since Jessica managed to hide the bay in the toilet. Cobie was rushed to Atlanta’s Scottish Rite Hospital to be treated for hypothermia and a traumatic head injury. It is believed that Davis caused the head injury with the baseball bat.
It appears that Jessica and Davis were in a salt-and-pepper relationship that did not turn out too well. Her mother claims that Davis was abusive to Jessica throughout their relationship.
For saving Cobie with her last breath, Jessica Arrendale deserves to be recognized as Best Mom of the Year.
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK ….. NO, NOT DENMARK, IT’S TURKEY
The release of 49 Turkish hostages by ISIS does not pass the smell test
With great fanfare on Saturday, the Turkish government welcomed 49 hostages in Istanbul that were seized by ISIS at Turkey’s consulate in Mosul when the Islamist State captured that Iraqi city on June 11.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, “After intense efforts that lasted days and weeks, in the early hours our citizens were handed over to us and we brought them back." He claimed the release was the work of the country's intelligence agency rather than a special forces operation.
The hostage release just does not pass the smell test. No one in their right mind would believe that Turkey obtained the release of the hostages without either paying a ransom or offering some kind of quid pro quo.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is universally recognized as an Islamist. Erdogan is a bitter enemy of Israel. Turkey and Qatar have been bankrolling Jihadist movements. There can be no doubt that Turkey gave ISIS something of value to the Islamist State in return for the release of the hostages.
Turkey is a member of NATO. The U.S. claims Turkey as a close ally. With friends like that, the U.S. does not need any enemies.
With great fanfare on Saturday, the Turkish government welcomed 49 hostages in Istanbul that were seized by ISIS at Turkey’s consulate in Mosul when the Islamist State captured that Iraqi city on June 11.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, “After intense efforts that lasted days and weeks, in the early hours our citizens were handed over to us and we brought them back." He claimed the release was the work of the country's intelligence agency rather than a special forces operation.
The hostage release just does not pass the smell test. No one in their right mind would believe that Turkey obtained the release of the hostages without either paying a ransom or offering some kind of quid pro quo.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is universally recognized as an Islamist. Erdogan is a bitter enemy of Israel. Turkey and Qatar have been bankrolling Jihadist movements. There can be no doubt that Turkey gave ISIS something of value to the Islamist State in return for the release of the hostages.
Turkey is a member of NATO. The U.S. claims Turkey as a close ally. With friends like that, the U.S. does not need any enemies.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
OBAMA PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE DEATH OF JOAN RIVERS
The president sent Joan’s daughter a handwritten condolence note despite Rivers having called Michelle a transgender and banning Mrs. Obama from attending her funeral
In a filmed interview during the first week in July, Joan Rivers said President Obama was gay and "You know Michelle is a tranny." When asked to confirm her shocking statement, she said, "A transgender. We all know. It's okay."
Furthermore, the Sidney Morning Herald reported that just weeks before her death, Joan Rivers told the Sunday Times Magazine in an interview that Michelle Obama was not allowed to attend her funeral because she was a 'tranny.'
Rivers has long made celebrities the brunt of her jokes, but it appears as though the gay and tranny cracks and the funeral ban remark were not said in jest.
Now if Rivers had called me gay, I would have simply brushed it off as so much tripe from an 81-year-old has-been comedian. But if she had called my wife a transgender, those would have been unforgivable fighting words. She would have been forever on my damnation shit list.
Not so with Obama. He sent Melissa Rivers, Joan’s daughter, a handwritten condolence note that read in part: “Not only did she make us laugh, she made us think.”
Now I don’t for one moment think Obama was being sincere, especially in light of what Joan Rivers had said about Michelle. The president was doing nothing more than playing politics with the death of Joan Rivers. He figured that Melissa would make a big deal of his handwritten note, which of course she did.
In a filmed interview during the first week in July, Joan Rivers said President Obama was gay and "You know Michelle is a tranny." When asked to confirm her shocking statement, she said, "A transgender. We all know. It's okay."
Furthermore, the Sidney Morning Herald reported that just weeks before her death, Joan Rivers told the Sunday Times Magazine in an interview that Michelle Obama was not allowed to attend her funeral because she was a 'tranny.'
Rivers has long made celebrities the brunt of her jokes, but it appears as though the gay and tranny cracks and the funeral ban remark were not said in jest.
Now if Rivers had called me gay, I would have simply brushed it off as so much tripe from an 81-year-old has-been comedian. But if she had called my wife a transgender, those would have been unforgivable fighting words. She would have been forever on my damnation shit list.
Not so with Obama. He sent Melissa Rivers, Joan’s daughter, a handwritten condolence note that read in part: “Not only did she make us laugh, she made us think.”
Now I don’t for one moment think Obama was being sincere, especially in light of what Joan Rivers had said about Michelle. The president was doing nothing more than playing politics with the death of Joan Rivers. He figured that Melissa would make a big deal of his handwritten note, which of course she did.
MEXICAN ARMY MAKES AMERICAN COPS LOOK LIKE CUB SCOUTS
Soldiers shot to death a wounded teenage girl before executing 21 other young gang members after all had surrendered
According to the Associated Press, the mother of Erika Gomez Gonzalez, 15, watched a confrontation between Mexican soldiers and a gang of young people in a warehouse outside the town of San Pedro Limon on June 30. Erika’s mother had gone to the warehouse to take the girl away from the drug gang she had recently joined.
According to the mother, there was a brief exchange of gunfire between the gang members and the soldiers during which one gang member was killed while her daughter and a young 'kid' were both wounded. The gang members, who were all teenagers or in their early 20s, then surrendered. Her daughter was sprawled face down on the ground. Soldiers rolled her over and shot her more than six times in the chest when they saw she was still alive and suffering only from a bullet wound to her leg. Then the soldiers stood up the wounded kid and shot him dead.
AP reporters said Erika’s mother told them that “the soldiers interrogated the rest of the gang members in front of the warehouse, and then took them inside one-by-one. From where she stood just outside the warehouse and in army custody, she heard gunshots and moans of the dying.”
The Mexican prosecutor’s office claims there was a fierce gun battle and "no evidence at all of possible executions." However, reporters questioned that version because only one soldier was wounded and an inspection of the warehouse seemed to bear evidence of executions.
Several days after the killings, AP reporters inspected the warehouse. They saw no evidence that a fierce gun battle had taken place there. But “at least five spots along the warehouse's inside walls showed the same pattern: One or two closely placed bullet pocks, surrounded by a mass of spattered blood, giving the appearance that some of those killed had been standing against the wall and shot at about chest level.”
It appears that only Erika’s mother and relatives of the other victims got their bowels in an uproar. Compare that to the Ferguson, Missouri police killing of Michael Brown and the police chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York. Compared to the Mexican army, those deaths make American cops look like Cub Scouts.
According to the Associated Press, the mother of Erika Gomez Gonzalez, 15, watched a confrontation between Mexican soldiers and a gang of young people in a warehouse outside the town of San Pedro Limon on June 30. Erika’s mother had gone to the warehouse to take the girl away from the drug gang she had recently joined.
According to the mother, there was a brief exchange of gunfire between the gang members and the soldiers during which one gang member was killed while her daughter and a young 'kid' were both wounded. The gang members, who were all teenagers or in their early 20s, then surrendered. Her daughter was sprawled face down on the ground. Soldiers rolled her over and shot her more than six times in the chest when they saw she was still alive and suffering only from a bullet wound to her leg. Then the soldiers stood up the wounded kid and shot him dead.
AP reporters said Erika’s mother told them that “the soldiers interrogated the rest of the gang members in front of the warehouse, and then took them inside one-by-one. From where she stood just outside the warehouse and in army custody, she heard gunshots and moans of the dying.”
The Mexican prosecutor’s office claims there was a fierce gun battle and "no evidence at all of possible executions." However, reporters questioned that version because only one soldier was wounded and an inspection of the warehouse seemed to bear evidence of executions.
Several days after the killings, AP reporters inspected the warehouse. They saw no evidence that a fierce gun battle had taken place there. But “at least five spots along the warehouse's inside walls showed the same pattern: One or two closely placed bullet pocks, surrounded by a mass of spattered blood, giving the appearance that some of those killed had been standing against the wall and shot at about chest level.”
It appears that only Erika’s mother and relatives of the other victims got their bowels in an uproar. Compare that to the Ferguson, Missouri police killing of Michael Brown and the police chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York. Compared to the Mexican army, those deaths make American cops look like Cub Scouts.
SOBIBOR UNEARTHED: ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVER GAS CHAMBERS AND BELONGINGS OF VICTIMS AT THE INFAMOUS DEATH CAMP IN POLAND THAT WAS DEMOLISHED AND BURIED BY THE NAZIS IN 1943
It is estimated that a quarter of a million Jews were gassed to death between April 1942 and October 1943 immediately upon arriving at the Sobibor death camp in Poland. Most of the victims were from Poland, the Netherlands, and Slovakia.
GAS CHAMBERS, JEWELRY UNEARTHED AT SOBIBOR DEATH CAMP
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Newsmax
September 19, 2014
Archaeologists have uncovered the long-buried remains of gas chambers, and jewelry and other personal items belonging to Jewish prisoners at the site of the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland.
"We uncovered four chambers," Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi, who has coordinated excavations at the site during the past eight years, told the Israeli publication Haaretz.
"Apparently, there were eight. We are in the midst of the excavations and we're now digging up the second part of the structure."
The discovery was the first time walls and cells of a building have been found on the site, which the Nazis demolished and buried in 1943 following a bloody prisoner uprising and escape, said Haimi.
Haimi said he and his Polish partner, archaeologist Wojciech Mazurek, also found jewelry
belonging to the Jewish inmates in an area near the chambers.
"We found earrings, gold wedding rings and a ring with the inscription, 'with this ring you are consecrated to me,' in Hebrew letters," said Haimi. "We also found a large Magen David and a coin dated 1927 from Palestine," he said. Perfume and medicine bottles were also discovered among the artifacts.
Haimi said some of the items were found in a well, which the Germans had plugged while demolishing the camp.
"We were able to pull hundreds of items out of there," Haimi told Haaretz. "We’re very excited. We haven’t even had a chance to clean them."
A new visitors center is planned for the site, so Haimi's team is rushing to excavate the area in the hope of saving the Holocaust-era artifacts before construction starts.
Haimi's team has also uncovered the remains of the Sobibor crematorium and what is thought to be a tunnel that prisoners tried to use as an escape route.
The gas chamber's discovery is important for Holocaust studies, said Dr. David Silberklang, a senior researcher at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.
"These findings are all that is left of those who were murdered,” Silberklang said. “A small window has been opened to their daily suffering. This is the first time that we will be able to better understand what the murder process in the camp was, and what the Jews went through until they were murdered.”
The gas chambers were used to slaughter an estimated quarter of a million Jews, mainly from Poland, the Netherlands, and Slovakia between April 1942 and October 1943, and determining the gas chamber size could help researchers re-evaluate how many Jews lost their lives.
The camp opened in March 1942, at the same time as death camps at Treblinka and Belzec. It was demolished after prisoners rebelled in October 1943, when half of them escaped. Nothing remains above ground but the commander's house and a railroad track leading to the camp.
The camp is the same one where John Demjanjuk, who had ended up living in Cleveland, had served as a guard. A German court sentenced him to prison in 2011 for being an accessory to the murder of thousands of Jews, but he died at 91 before serving his sentence.
According to the Jewish Virtual Library, the camp was small, only extending 1,300 by 2,000 feet, and consisted of administration buildings, barracks and gas chambers, which used carbon monoxide to kill the prisoners.
The camp was almost exclusively a death camp, reports The Washington Post.
According to one German officer's testimony, when Jews arrived, they were told by an officer wearing a white coat and appearing to be a doctor that they had to be bathed and disinfected, and then they would be put to work. Instead, they were taken into the gas chambers and murdered by the thousands.
GAS CHAMBERS, JEWELRY UNEARTHED AT SOBIBOR DEATH CAMP
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Newsmax
September 19, 2014
Archaeologists have uncovered the long-buried remains of gas chambers, and jewelry and other personal items belonging to Jewish prisoners at the site of the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland.
"We uncovered four chambers," Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi, who has coordinated excavations at the site during the past eight years, told the Israeli publication Haaretz.
"Apparently, there were eight. We are in the midst of the excavations and we're now digging up the second part of the structure."
The discovery was the first time walls and cells of a building have been found on the site, which the Nazis demolished and buried in 1943 following a bloody prisoner uprising and escape, said Haimi.
Haimi said he and his Polish partner, archaeologist Wojciech Mazurek, also found jewelry
belonging to the Jewish inmates in an area near the chambers.
"We found earrings, gold wedding rings and a ring with the inscription, 'with this ring you are consecrated to me,' in Hebrew letters," said Haimi. "We also found a large Magen David and a coin dated 1927 from Palestine," he said. Perfume and medicine bottles were also discovered among the artifacts.
Haimi said some of the items were found in a well, which the Germans had plugged while demolishing the camp.
"We were able to pull hundreds of items out of there," Haimi told Haaretz. "We’re very excited. We haven’t even had a chance to clean them."
A new visitors center is planned for the site, so Haimi's team is rushing to excavate the area in the hope of saving the Holocaust-era artifacts before construction starts.
Haimi's team has also uncovered the remains of the Sobibor crematorium and what is thought to be a tunnel that prisoners tried to use as an escape route.
The gas chamber's discovery is important for Holocaust studies, said Dr. David Silberklang, a senior researcher at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.
"These findings are all that is left of those who were murdered,” Silberklang said. “A small window has been opened to their daily suffering. This is the first time that we will be able to better understand what the murder process in the camp was, and what the Jews went through until they were murdered.”
The gas chambers were used to slaughter an estimated quarter of a million Jews, mainly from Poland, the Netherlands, and Slovakia between April 1942 and October 1943, and determining the gas chamber size could help researchers re-evaluate how many Jews lost their lives.
The camp opened in March 1942, at the same time as death camps at Treblinka and Belzec. It was demolished after prisoners rebelled in October 1943, when half of them escaped. Nothing remains above ground but the commander's house and a railroad track leading to the camp.
The camp is the same one where John Demjanjuk, who had ended up living in Cleveland, had served as a guard. A German court sentenced him to prison in 2011 for being an accessory to the murder of thousands of Jews, but he died at 91 before serving his sentence.
According to the Jewish Virtual Library, the camp was small, only extending 1,300 by 2,000 feet, and consisted of administration buildings, barracks and gas chambers, which used carbon monoxide to kill the prisoners.
The camp was almost exclusively a death camp, reports The Washington Post.
According to one German officer's testimony, when Jews arrived, they were told by an officer wearing a white coat and appearing to be a doctor that they had to be bathed and disinfected, and then they would be put to work. Instead, they were taken into the gas chambers and murdered by the thousands.
Friday, September 19, 2014
DON'T EAT SPATCHCOCK
You don't have to understand Aussie, which I don't, to get a good laugh out of this video sent to me by my Aussie friend Dorina Lisson.
E PLURIBUS UNUM
By Charlie Daniels
The Charlie Daniels Band
September 15, 2014
The term “E Pluribus Unum” appears on American currency and other official places of prominence around America. It’s a Latin phrase which translated means “out of many, one,” which of course implies that out of the many diverse peoples who make up the population of the United States, we all come together under one banner, or flag to become one when it comes to our commitment of patriotism.
It means that we, who came here from many nations around the earth, while still embracing our heritage and customs pledge allegiance to our adopted nation, to become citizens of this country and accept the responsibilities of defending her and pulling our own weight.
Out of many, one.
To be one people has always been the aim of the forefathers because they knew that a people united can stand against most anything and win the battle, wars, recessions, ideologies. United, we can take on all comers and be victorious in preserving our way of life.
I remember so well that unity during the dark days of the Second World War when Americans refused to even think about losing that war, willing to make what ever sacrifice or pay any personal price it took to win.
There was a "We're all in this thing together" feeling across the land. Men went to war, women interrupted their lives as homemakers and took jobs in defense industries, young kids gathered scrap metal and the whole population bought war bonds to fund the efforts to defeat our formidable enemies.
Well, by the grace of God, a valiant effort by our military and the public's devotion to the war effort, we won that war. A nation, fully committed, who truly believes in the cause they are fighting for and the leaders who lead them is near impossible to best.
On this past 9/11 in Woodruff, South Carolina, several high school students showed up at school with American flags flying from the beds of the pick up trucks they were driving.
The school principal confiscated the flags stating, "It was against district policy to draw too much attention to one's vehicle."
Well, I don't claim to be the swiftest horse in the corral, so can somebody tell me just what in the hell the principal is taking about? Does it seem to anybody besides me that what the boys were drawing attention to was not their vehicles, but to the to the banner that symbolizes our freedom?
Should the flag of the United States be looked upon the same as some offensive decoration or raunchy piece of graffiti, especially on a day that commemorates the most catastrophic terrorist attack ever carried out on American soil, when nearly three thousand innocent people were murdered at the hands Islamic fanatics who would have liked nothing better than to have destroyed our whole nation and all who are in it?
Is our flag not a rallying point for patriots and shouldn't anybody who wants to be able to fly it proudly on their own vehicles, expressing their support for our nation and the men and women who put their lives on the line to keep it free be able to do so?
I was traveling the weekend after 9/11 and all across the nation the marquees at fast food restaurants had patriotic slogans and flags flew everywhere, from radio antennas on cars and even from the back of trailers on eighteen wheelers.
Every retail outlet was sold out of flags; you couldn't buy one anywhere. Some of the newspapers around the country printed a full page American flag so that people could at least have a flag of some kind.
Draw too much attention to one's vehicle by flying an American flag?
No, this is political correctness run amuck, if the school board of that county has a rule against "drawing too much attention to one's vehicle" shouldn't it be altered to exclude the Star-Spangled Banner?
We need to get back to E Pluribus Unum folks.
The Charlie Daniels Band
September 15, 2014
The term “E Pluribus Unum” appears on American currency and other official places of prominence around America. It’s a Latin phrase which translated means “out of many, one,” which of course implies that out of the many diverse peoples who make up the population of the United States, we all come together under one banner, or flag to become one when it comes to our commitment of patriotism.
It means that we, who came here from many nations around the earth, while still embracing our heritage and customs pledge allegiance to our adopted nation, to become citizens of this country and accept the responsibilities of defending her and pulling our own weight.
Out of many, one.
To be one people has always been the aim of the forefathers because they knew that a people united can stand against most anything and win the battle, wars, recessions, ideologies. United, we can take on all comers and be victorious in preserving our way of life.
I remember so well that unity during the dark days of the Second World War when Americans refused to even think about losing that war, willing to make what ever sacrifice or pay any personal price it took to win.
There was a "We're all in this thing together" feeling across the land. Men went to war, women interrupted their lives as homemakers and took jobs in defense industries, young kids gathered scrap metal and the whole population bought war bonds to fund the efforts to defeat our formidable enemies.
Well, by the grace of God, a valiant effort by our military and the public's devotion to the war effort, we won that war. A nation, fully committed, who truly believes in the cause they are fighting for and the leaders who lead them is near impossible to best.
On this past 9/11 in Woodruff, South Carolina, several high school students showed up at school with American flags flying from the beds of the pick up trucks they were driving.
The school principal confiscated the flags stating, "It was against district policy to draw too much attention to one's vehicle."
Well, I don't claim to be the swiftest horse in the corral, so can somebody tell me just what in the hell the principal is taking about? Does it seem to anybody besides me that what the boys were drawing attention to was not their vehicles, but to the to the banner that symbolizes our freedom?
Should the flag of the United States be looked upon the same as some offensive decoration or raunchy piece of graffiti, especially on a day that commemorates the most catastrophic terrorist attack ever carried out on American soil, when nearly three thousand innocent people were murdered at the hands Islamic fanatics who would have liked nothing better than to have destroyed our whole nation and all who are in it?
Is our flag not a rallying point for patriots and shouldn't anybody who wants to be able to fly it proudly on their own vehicles, expressing their support for our nation and the men and women who put their lives on the line to keep it free be able to do so?
I was traveling the weekend after 9/11 and all across the nation the marquees at fast food restaurants had patriotic slogans and flags flew everywhere, from radio antennas on cars and even from the back of trailers on eighteen wheelers.
Every retail outlet was sold out of flags; you couldn't buy one anywhere. Some of the newspapers around the country printed a full page American flag so that people could at least have a flag of some kind.
Draw too much attention to one's vehicle by flying an American flag?
No, this is political correctness run amuck, if the school board of that county has a rule against "drawing too much attention to one's vehicle" shouldn't it be altered to exclude the Star-Spangled Banner?
We need to get back to E Pluribus Unum folks.
FIRST A DILDO, NOW A GUN
Philly robber uses banana to simulate gun, then flees on a bike with the convenience store loot
Police report that on Tuesday, a man using a banana to simulate a gun, robbed a convenience store in the East Parkside neighborhood of Philadelphia. The man had been waiting in line at the checkout stand when he grabbed a banana off the counter, stuck it in the front pocket of his sweat shirt, and then pointed it at the cashier while demanding cigarettes and cash. He got an undetermined amount of cash and fled the scene on a bicycle.
Although bananas have long been used by women as dildos, they are rarely used as guns. If the robber is not a homeless person, he can always giftwrap the banana and give it to his girlfriend with a note: “Honey, I hope this sex toy will give you many moments of passionate pleasure when I'm not with you.”
Police report that on Tuesday, a man using a banana to simulate a gun, robbed a convenience store in the East Parkside neighborhood of Philadelphia. The man had been waiting in line at the checkout stand when he grabbed a banana off the counter, stuck it in the front pocket of his sweat shirt, and then pointed it at the cashier while demanding cigarettes and cash. He got an undetermined amount of cash and fled the scene on a bicycle.
Although bananas have long been used by women as dildos, they are rarely used as guns. If the robber is not a homeless person, he can always giftwrap the banana and give it to his girlfriend with a note: “Honey, I hope this sex toy will give you many moments of passionate pleasure when I'm not with you.”
THE COW THIS AUSTRALIAN MAKES LOVE TO
The Unconventional Gazette
September 18, 2014
An Australian walks into the bedroom with a sheep on a leash and says, "Honey, this is the cow I make love to when you have a headache."
The wife, lying in the bed reading a book, looks up and says, "If you weren't such an idiot, you'd know that's a sheep, not a cow."
The guy replies, "If you weren't such a presumptuous bitch, you'd realize I was talking to the sheep."
September 18, 2014
An Australian walks into the bedroom with a sheep on a leash and says, "Honey, this is the cow I make love to when you have a headache."
The wife, lying in the bed reading a book, looks up and says, "If you weren't such an idiot, you'd know that's a sheep, not a cow."
The guy replies, "If you weren't such a presumptuous bitch, you'd realize I was talking to the sheep."
Thursday, September 18, 2014
TEXAS EXECUTES LESBIAN TORTURE AND STARVATION MURDERESS
When paramedics found Davontae Williams dead they believed he was only 3-5 when he was actually nine years old
Lisa Ann Coleman and Marcella Williams were cohabitating in a lesbian relationship in Arlington, Texas when Marcella’s nine-year-old son Davontae Williams died in their apartment on July 26, 2004.
Here is how the Associated Press described Davontae’s death:
When paramedics responding to a 911 call arrived at a North Texas apartment, they found on the bathroom floor a dead boy clad only in bandages and a disposable diaper. He appeared to be 3 to 5 years old. Further investigation determined Davontae Williams actually was 9.
His emaciated body weighed only 36 pounds, about half of what a boy his age should weigh. Evidence showed he had been restrained repeatedly at his wrists and ankles. A pediatrician later would testify that he had more than 250 distinct injuries, including burns from cigarettes or cigars and scars from ligatures, and that a lack of food made him stop growing.
Coleman and Williams were tried separately for capital murder. Coleman was tried first and sentenced to death in 2006. When Williams saw what happened to her lover, she quickly copped a plea to avoid the death penalty. Now 33, she was given a life term and will not be eligible for parole until 2044.
According to the AP, “evidence showed child welfare officials repeatedly investigated Marcella Williams but would lose track of her because she kept moving to evade them, fearing they would take away her son and two younger daughters.”
On Wednesday evening Lisa Ann Coleman was pronounced dead 12 minutes after a single dose of pentobarbital was injected into her veins. The execution proceeded without a hitch.
Coleman, 38, became the ninth murderer executed by Texas so far this year. She is the sixth woman put to death by the Lone Star State since 1982 and only the 15th woman executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Since that time, nearly 1,400 men have been executed nationwide. With Coleman’s death, Texas has executed 517 murderers since 1982.
The murder of Davontae was so unspeakably horrendous that no African-American group came forth to claim that Lisa Ann Coleman was sentenced to death because she was black.
Lisa Ann Coleman and Marcella Williams were cohabitating in a lesbian relationship in Arlington, Texas when Marcella’s nine-year-old son Davontae Williams died in their apartment on July 26, 2004.
Here is how the Associated Press described Davontae’s death:
When paramedics responding to a 911 call arrived at a North Texas apartment, they found on the bathroom floor a dead boy clad only in bandages and a disposable diaper. He appeared to be 3 to 5 years old. Further investigation determined Davontae Williams actually was 9.
His emaciated body weighed only 36 pounds, about half of what a boy his age should weigh. Evidence showed he had been restrained repeatedly at his wrists and ankles. A pediatrician later would testify that he had more than 250 distinct injuries, including burns from cigarettes or cigars and scars from ligatures, and that a lack of food made him stop growing.
Coleman and Williams were tried separately for capital murder. Coleman was tried first and sentenced to death in 2006. When Williams saw what happened to her lover, she quickly copped a plea to avoid the death penalty. Now 33, she was given a life term and will not be eligible for parole until 2044.
According to the AP, “evidence showed child welfare officials repeatedly investigated Marcella Williams but would lose track of her because she kept moving to evade them, fearing they would take away her son and two younger daughters.”
On Wednesday evening Lisa Ann Coleman was pronounced dead 12 minutes after a single dose of pentobarbital was injected into her veins. The execution proceeded without a hitch.
Coleman, 38, became the ninth murderer executed by Texas so far this year. She is the sixth woman put to death by the Lone Star State since 1982 and only the 15th woman executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Since that time, nearly 1,400 men have been executed nationwide. With Coleman’s death, Texas has executed 517 murderers since 1982.
The murder of Davontae was so unspeakably horrendous that no African-American group came forth to claim that Lisa Ann Coleman was sentenced to death because she was black.
KEEPING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT FROM BECOMING CHILD ABUSE
Never ever administer corporal punishment while you are angry!
I am a strong advocate of corporal punishment. I believe the ‘Don’t Hit Your Child’ fanatics are full of shit when they claim that kids who are subjected to corporal punishment will become violent adolescents and adults.
My own experiences as a child were at times painfully laughable. My father had a teutonic temper. Whenever I pissed him off, and that was often, I would receive an ohrfeige – a slap in the face (literally a punch in the ear) - and believe me it wasn’t a love slap. He rang my chimes hundreds of times. Did his form of corporal punishment make me violence-prone? Of course not! On the contrary, it made me a stronger and better person. I really miss my dad, although not the ohrfeigen.
The problem with corporal punishment is that it often crosses the line between punishment and child abuse. That is what happened with NFL star Adrian Peterson who spanked his son with a switch, causing several injuries.
I have a cardinal rule that, if followed, will never result in corporal punishment becoming a case of child abuse: Never ever administer corporal punishment while you are angry!
Whenever my kids made me angry, my personal method was to send them to their rooms and tell them I would be in shortly to give them a good spanking. Then I would wait until I had completely cooled down before entering their room to administer their punishment.
Of course, we are talking about punishing pre-adolescents. By the time kids are in their mid-teens there are better options than corporal punishment. Withholding of certain privileges can be effective.
If you use a paddle, or a switch like Peterson did, you have to be extra careful, otherwise you may end up injuring your child even when you are not angry. The open hand on the butt works just as well as a paddle or switch.
Remember: Never ever administer corporal punishment while you are angry!
I am a strong advocate of corporal punishment. I believe the ‘Don’t Hit Your Child’ fanatics are full of shit when they claim that kids who are subjected to corporal punishment will become violent adolescents and adults.
My own experiences as a child were at times painfully laughable. My father had a teutonic temper. Whenever I pissed him off, and that was often, I would receive an ohrfeige – a slap in the face (literally a punch in the ear) - and believe me it wasn’t a love slap. He rang my chimes hundreds of times. Did his form of corporal punishment make me violence-prone? Of course not! On the contrary, it made me a stronger and better person. I really miss my dad, although not the ohrfeigen.
The problem with corporal punishment is that it often crosses the line between punishment and child abuse. That is what happened with NFL star Adrian Peterson who spanked his son with a switch, causing several injuries.
I have a cardinal rule that, if followed, will never result in corporal punishment becoming a case of child abuse: Never ever administer corporal punishment while you are angry!
Whenever my kids made me angry, my personal method was to send them to their rooms and tell them I would be in shortly to give them a good spanking. Then I would wait until I had completely cooled down before entering their room to administer their punishment.
Of course, we are talking about punishing pre-adolescents. By the time kids are in their mid-teens there are better options than corporal punishment. Withholding of certain privileges can be effective.
If you use a paddle, or a switch like Peterson did, you have to be extra careful, otherwise you may end up injuring your child even when you are not angry. The open hand on the butt works just as well as a paddle or switch.
Remember: Never ever administer corporal punishment while you are angry!
THIS IS WHY I CALL IT KOOKFORNIA!
Have Californians completely lost their minds?
PROPOSITION 47 DOES NOT PUT PUBLIC SAFETY FIRST
By Los Angeles Police Protective League Board of Directors
LAPPL Blog
September 16, 2014
Californians are facing one of our most serious public safety threats in recent memory. The threat is Prop 47 — a ballot initiative that would flood the streets with thousands of dangerous felons and soften penalties to make misdemeanors out of serious crimes that are now felonies.
We face a huge uphill battle to defeat it. According to a recent San Francisco Chronicle column, the pro-Prop 47 forces have raised more than $3 million, compared to just $8,000 by the opposition. Recent polls show that about 6 in 10 people support it. But do they really know what Prop 47 is going to do if it passes?
That’s why it’s so important for you to get the word out about this ill-conceived and dangerous initiative. Its backers are peddling the sham that it would create safer neighborhoods and provide money for schools. They don’t want the public to know the following:
An estimated 10,000 inmates could apply to have their charges reduced to misdemeanors and get early releases. An independent analysis determined the vast majority of these people have violent crime histories. Felons with prior convictions for armed robbery, kidnapping, carjacking, child abuse, residential burglary, arson, assault with a deadly weapon and many other serious crimes will be eligible for early release under Prop 47.
Prop 47 will protect gun thieves by eliminating the current automatic felony prosecution for that crime. Under Prop 47, firearm theft would be a felony only if the value of the gun is greater than $950, and almost all handguns sell for less than that amount. People don’t steal guns to add them to their collection — they steal guns to commit other crimes, including murder.
Prop 47 will reduce the penalty for possession of date-rape drugs, such as ketamine, to a simple misdemeanor. No matter how many times the suspected sexual predator has been charged with possession of date-rape drugs, or with stalking female victims, it will only be a misdemeanor. The judge will be forced to sentence them as if it were their first time in court.
A defendant with priors for carjacking and armed robbery will receive a misdemeanor sentence for daytime commercial burglary.
Judges will be prevented from blocking the release of dangerous felons, except in very rare cases. Even if the judge finds that an inmate poses a risk of committing crimes such as kidnapping, robbery, assault, spousal abuse, torture of small animals, carjacking, or felonies committed on behalf of a street gang, Prop 47 requires their release.
All drug possession cases, including possession of heroin, methamphetamine or cocaine, will become automatic misdemeanors.
Shoplifting, theft, forgery and fraud — where the value of the stolen goods or forged documents is less than $950 — would be misdemeanors. The language of the measure suggests that even if a person forges multiple documents whose total value exceeds $950, the person could only be charged with a misdemeanor.
Prop 47 coddles sexual predators, increases the prospects of addicts continuing their addictions and committing crimes to feed their habits, eliminates current gun-theft deterrents and puts an enormous burden on small business by going easy on petty theft and fraud. It will burden our criminal justice system by overcrowding jails with dangerous felons who should be in a state prison, and it will jam courts with hearing requests from inmates seeking to obtain “Get out of prison free” cards.
Law enforcement professionals, prosecutors, business leaders and crime victim advocates recognize Prop 47 for what it is; a radical package of poorly thought-out policies, wrapped in a poorly drafted initiative, that will endanger all law-abiding Californians.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe put it succinctly when he recently told the San Jose Mercury-News, “Someone can commit petty theft 10,000 times and we’d still have to always charge it as a misdemeanor.”
Clearly, we’re not going to win the Prop 47 fundraising battle. But we must win the ballot box battle, and it’s critical for this state that we do. So, please talk to your friends, neighbors, relatives — everyone you can think of — and encourage them to vote NO on Prop 47 in November. Call and email your elected officials and encourage them to speak out against this dangerous and irresponsible initiative.
When a career criminal steals a firearm, or a suspected sexual predator possesses date-rape drugs, or a carjacker steals yet another vehicle, there needs to be an option besides a misdemeanor slap on the wrist. Proposition 47 DOES NOT put public safety first.
PROPOSITION 47 DOES NOT PUT PUBLIC SAFETY FIRST
By Los Angeles Police Protective League Board of Directors
LAPPL Blog
September 16, 2014
Californians are facing one of our most serious public safety threats in recent memory. The threat is Prop 47 — a ballot initiative that would flood the streets with thousands of dangerous felons and soften penalties to make misdemeanors out of serious crimes that are now felonies.
We face a huge uphill battle to defeat it. According to a recent San Francisco Chronicle column, the pro-Prop 47 forces have raised more than $3 million, compared to just $8,000 by the opposition. Recent polls show that about 6 in 10 people support it. But do they really know what Prop 47 is going to do if it passes?
That’s why it’s so important for you to get the word out about this ill-conceived and dangerous initiative. Its backers are peddling the sham that it would create safer neighborhoods and provide money for schools. They don’t want the public to know the following:
An estimated 10,000 inmates could apply to have their charges reduced to misdemeanors and get early releases. An independent analysis determined the vast majority of these people have violent crime histories. Felons with prior convictions for armed robbery, kidnapping, carjacking, child abuse, residential burglary, arson, assault with a deadly weapon and many other serious crimes will be eligible for early release under Prop 47.
Prop 47 will protect gun thieves by eliminating the current automatic felony prosecution for that crime. Under Prop 47, firearm theft would be a felony only if the value of the gun is greater than $950, and almost all handguns sell for less than that amount. People don’t steal guns to add them to their collection — they steal guns to commit other crimes, including murder.
Prop 47 will reduce the penalty for possession of date-rape drugs, such as ketamine, to a simple misdemeanor. No matter how many times the suspected sexual predator has been charged with possession of date-rape drugs, or with stalking female victims, it will only be a misdemeanor. The judge will be forced to sentence them as if it were their first time in court.
A defendant with priors for carjacking and armed robbery will receive a misdemeanor sentence for daytime commercial burglary.
Judges will be prevented from blocking the release of dangerous felons, except in very rare cases. Even if the judge finds that an inmate poses a risk of committing crimes such as kidnapping, robbery, assault, spousal abuse, torture of small animals, carjacking, or felonies committed on behalf of a street gang, Prop 47 requires their release.
All drug possession cases, including possession of heroin, methamphetamine or cocaine, will become automatic misdemeanors.
Shoplifting, theft, forgery and fraud — where the value of the stolen goods or forged documents is less than $950 — would be misdemeanors. The language of the measure suggests that even if a person forges multiple documents whose total value exceeds $950, the person could only be charged with a misdemeanor.
Prop 47 coddles sexual predators, increases the prospects of addicts continuing their addictions and committing crimes to feed their habits, eliminates current gun-theft deterrents and puts an enormous burden on small business by going easy on petty theft and fraud. It will burden our criminal justice system by overcrowding jails with dangerous felons who should be in a state prison, and it will jam courts with hearing requests from inmates seeking to obtain “Get out of prison free” cards.
Law enforcement professionals, prosecutors, business leaders and crime victim advocates recognize Prop 47 for what it is; a radical package of poorly thought-out policies, wrapped in a poorly drafted initiative, that will endanger all law-abiding Californians.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe put it succinctly when he recently told the San Jose Mercury-News, “Someone can commit petty theft 10,000 times and we’d still have to always charge it as a misdemeanor.”
Clearly, we’re not going to win the Prop 47 fundraising battle. But we must win the ballot box battle, and it’s critical for this state that we do. So, please talk to your friends, neighbors, relatives — everyone you can think of — and encourage them to vote NO on Prop 47 in November. Call and email your elected officials and encourage them to speak out against this dangerous and irresponsible initiative.
When a career criminal steals a firearm, or a suspected sexual predator possesses date-rape drugs, or a carjacker steals yet another vehicle, there needs to be an option besides a misdemeanor slap on the wrist. Proposition 47 DOES NOT put public safety first.
MEXICAN CARTELS OPERATING IN TEXAS
The Texas DPS reports that the following Mexican cartels are operating within the state, trafficking in drugs and humans:
Gulf Cartel (CDG)
Sinaloa Federation
Juarez Cartel
La Familia Michoacana
Beltran Leyva cartel
Los Zetas
Knights Templar (Caballeros Templarios)
The Mexican Attorney General’s Office identifies the following cartels as operating within Mexico:
Pacific cartel
Arellano Felix organization
La Familia Michoacana
Carrillo Fuentes organization
Beltran Leyva organization
Los Zetas
Gulf cartel
La Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar)
Cartel Jalisco New Generation
The DPS says the seven Mexican cartels operating in Texas represent the greatest threat the security of the state.
Gulf Cartel (CDG)
Sinaloa Federation
Juarez Cartel
La Familia Michoacana
Beltran Leyva cartel
Los Zetas
Knights Templar (Caballeros Templarios)
The Mexican Attorney General’s Office identifies the following cartels as operating within Mexico:
Pacific cartel
Arellano Felix organization
La Familia Michoacana
Carrillo Fuentes organization
Beltran Leyva organization
Los Zetas
Gulf cartel
La Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar)
Cartel Jalisco New Generation
The DPS says the seven Mexican cartels operating in Texas represent the greatest threat the security of the state.
ONE HELL OF A HEADACHE
The Unconventional Gazette
September 17, 2014
Joe went to the doctor for a chronic headache.
The doctor said, “Joe, the good news is I can cure your headaches. The bad news is that it will require castration. You have a very rare condition, which causes your testicles to press on a nerve at the base of your spine and the pressure creates one hell of a headache. The only way to relieve the pressure is to remove the testicles."
Joe was shocked and depressed. He wondered if he had anything to live for. He had no choice but to go under the knife.
When he left the hospital a few days later, he was without a headache for the first time in 20 years, but he felt like he was missing an important part of himself.
As he walked down the street, he realized that he felt like a different person. He could make a new beginning and live a new life.
He saw a men's clothing store and thought,'That's what I need... A new suit.'
He entered the shop and told the salesman, "I'd like to try on a new suit please."
The elderly tailor eyed him briefly and said, "Let's see now - size 44 long should do it."
Joe laughed, "Wow, that's right; how did you know?"
"Oh, I've been in the business 40 years" the tailor said.
Joe tried on the suit, it fit perfectly.As Joe admired himself in the mirror, the salesman asked,"How about a new shirt to go with that lovely suit sir?"Joe thought for a moment and then said, "Sure, why not."
The salesman eyed Joe for a moment and said,"Let's see, 34 sleeve and 16 1/2 neck."Joe was surprised again.
"You're absolutely right, how did you guess that?"
"Been in the business 40 years sir."
Joe tried on the shirt and it fit like a glove!
Joe walked comfortably around the shop and the salesman asked, "How about some new underwear?"
Joe thought for a moment and said, "Sure, I might as well."
The salesman said, "Let's see... Size 36."
Joe laughed, "Ah ha! I got you! I've worn a size 34 since I was 18 years old."
The salesman shook his head, "No way! You can't wear a size 34 sir. A size 34 would press your testicles up against the base of your spine and give you one hell of a headache."
September 17, 2014
Joe went to the doctor for a chronic headache.
The doctor said, “Joe, the good news is I can cure your headaches. The bad news is that it will require castration. You have a very rare condition, which causes your testicles to press on a nerve at the base of your spine and the pressure creates one hell of a headache. The only way to relieve the pressure is to remove the testicles."
Joe was shocked and depressed. He wondered if he had anything to live for. He had no choice but to go under the knife.
When he left the hospital a few days later, he was without a headache for the first time in 20 years, but he felt like he was missing an important part of himself.
As he walked down the street, he realized that he felt like a different person. He could make a new beginning and live a new life.
He saw a men's clothing store and thought,'That's what I need... A new suit.'
He entered the shop and told the salesman, "I'd like to try on a new suit please."
The elderly tailor eyed him briefly and said, "Let's see now - size 44 long should do it."
Joe laughed, "Wow, that's right; how did you know?"
"Oh, I've been in the business 40 years" the tailor said.
Joe tried on the suit, it fit perfectly.As Joe admired himself in the mirror, the salesman asked,"How about a new shirt to go with that lovely suit sir?"Joe thought for a moment and then said, "Sure, why not."
The salesman eyed Joe for a moment and said,"Let's see, 34 sleeve and 16 1/2 neck."Joe was surprised again.
"You're absolutely right, how did you guess that?"
"Been in the business 40 years sir."
Joe tried on the shirt and it fit like a glove!
Joe walked comfortably around the shop and the salesman asked, "How about some new underwear?"
Joe thought for a moment and said, "Sure, I might as well."
The salesman said, "Let's see... Size 36."
Joe laughed, "Ah ha! I got you! I've worn a size 34 since I was 18 years old."
The salesman shook his head, "No way! You can't wear a size 34 sir. A size 34 would press your testicles up against the base of your spine and give you one hell of a headache."
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
STATUE HONORS MAN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED OF RAPE
Tim Cole died in a Texas prison after having been misidentified by a rape victim
Gov. Rick Perry and other dignitaries will attend a ceremony this week during which the city of Lubbock will unveil a statue of Tim Cole, a man who died in prison after having been wrongfully convicted of rape. Perry had granted Cole a posthumous pardon on March 2, 2010.
In 1985, Michelle Mallin was raped in her car at knifepoint. The Texas Tech student was shown a now discredited police photo lineup from which she identified Cole as her rapist. Cole was tried and convicted in 1986 and given a 25 year prison sentence. Cole died in prison during an asthma attack on December 2, 1999.
In 2008, DNA testing showed that Mallin’s rapist actually was Jerry Wayne Johnson, a convicted rapist. In 1995, four years before Cole’s death, Johnson started writing letters confessing it was he who had raped Mallin.
After granting the posthumous pardon, Gov. Perry signed a law named after Cole that provides exonerated former inmates with $80,000 for each year they wrongly spent in prison. In addition, college tuition will also be granted to each exonerated inmate. That is this nation’s most generous inmate compensation law.
Michelle Mallin has been devastated ever since learning that she had misidentified Cole as her rapist. Cole’s mother does not blame her and says Mallin has been as much a victim as her son.
New procedural guidelines have been established to prevent misidentifications from police photo lineups.
Gov. Rick Perry and other dignitaries will attend a ceremony this week during which the city of Lubbock will unveil a statue of Tim Cole, a man who died in prison after having been wrongfully convicted of rape. Perry had granted Cole a posthumous pardon on March 2, 2010.
In 1985, Michelle Mallin was raped in her car at knifepoint. The Texas Tech student was shown a now discredited police photo lineup from which she identified Cole as her rapist. Cole was tried and convicted in 1986 and given a 25 year prison sentence. Cole died in prison during an asthma attack on December 2, 1999.
In 2008, DNA testing showed that Mallin’s rapist actually was Jerry Wayne Johnson, a convicted rapist. In 1995, four years before Cole’s death, Johnson started writing letters confessing it was he who had raped Mallin.
After granting the posthumous pardon, Gov. Perry signed a law named after Cole that provides exonerated former inmates with $80,000 for each year they wrongly spent in prison. In addition, college tuition will also be granted to each exonerated inmate. That is this nation’s most generous inmate compensation law.
Michelle Mallin has been devastated ever since learning that she had misidentified Cole as her rapist. Cole’s mother does not blame her and says Mallin has been as much a victim as her son.
New procedural guidelines have been established to prevent misidentifications from police photo lineups.
HOW TO BECOME A CELEBRITY PAROLEE
Joseph A. Oberhansley, 33, already on parole for manslaughter, murdered his girlfriend and ate part of her guts. That should qualify him as a celebrity.
INDIANA MAN ATE PARTS OF DEAD GIRLFRIEND’S BODY
By Baylee Pulliam
The Courier-Journal
September 15, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Southern Indiana man accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend told police that he mutilated her body and ate several of her organs, according to court records.
Joseph A. Oberhansley, 33, who appeared in Clark County Circuit Court on Monday, is accused of killing Tammy Jo Blanton, 46. He is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and breaking and entering in the case.
"After you've been prosecuting for so long, you think you've seen everything," Prosecutor Steve Stewart said. "... I've never seen this."
Oberhansley — who has a previous conviction for manslaughter in Utah — was arrested Thursday after police came to Blanton's house looking for her because she hadn't shown up for work. Police said he acted suspiciously when officers asked him about Blanton's whereabouts after knocking on the door about 10 a.m.
There was a fresh cut across his knuckles, according to a police affidavit made public Monday in court.
Based on their observations, the affidavit said, the officers searched Oberhansley for weapons and found a folding blade tucked in his back pocket, covered with what appeared to be blood and hair.
An officer then walked through the house calling Blanton's name before finding her bloody body under a vinyl camping tent draped over the bathtub, the affidavit said. Her skull had apparently been crushed, the affidavit said.
An autopsy Friday revealed Blanton died of multiple sharp force trauma to the head, neck and torso, and that parts of her heart, lungs and brain were missing.
Police also found a "plate with what appeared to be skull bone and blood" on it, the affidavit said, as well as a skillet and pair of tongs with blood on the handles.
Police said Oberhansley told officers he removed several of Blanton's organs and ate them, both cooked and raw. Tissue was found in a garbage can, the affidavit said.
Prosecutor Steve Stewart said, "After you've been prosecuting for so long, you think you've seen everything. ... I've never seen this."
When he appeared in shackles Monday before Judge Vicki Carmichael, Oberhansley said he could not have committed the crimes.
While Joseph Oberhansley is accused of the gruesome acts, he said, "that's not my name. Obviously you've got the wrong guy."
Instead, he said, his name was actually "Zeus Brown." And he said he did not know how old he is and whether he is a U.S. citizen.
Carmichael said a public defender would be assigned to him.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Mull, a chief deputy prosecutor, said he was "not buying" the defendant's story. "There's a motive and a reason" for Oberhansley's denials, he said.
"There's no doubt in my mind that he is responsible for" Blanton's murder, Mull said.
Jeffersonville police said they had visited Blanton's house about seven hours before finding her body.
According to the affidavit, officers came to the house about 3 a.m. after Blanton called police saying that Oberhansley was trying to break in. After police arrived, Oberhansley agreed to leave while saying that "police always side with women," according to the documents.
Police stayed with her for several minutes after he left, the affidavit said.
Oberhansley's mother Brenda Self said he awoke her about 3:30 a.m. at her home, according to the affidavit. She said Oberhansley was upset about his job and the incident at Blanton's house, and she followed him to his 2002 Chevrolet Blazer to talk to him. He then left alone, she said.
The Blanton case is not Oberhansley's first brush with the law.
He served time in Utah after being convicted of manslaughter in the 1998 shooting death of his teenage girlfriend, 17-year-old Sabrina Elder, who had recently given birth to their son, The Associated Press reported.
The incident occurred in the suburban Salt Lake City home of Oberhansley's grandmother. He also shot his mother in the back and arm as she tried to defend Elder, according to the AP. Oberhansley then put the gun to his chin, and his brain was damaged when the bullet entered his frontal lobe.
He was released from prison in 2012.
He is charged in two separate cases in Clark County. He was charged in March 2013 with putting a man in a chokehold then resisting police trying to break up the fight, and last July with leading Jeffersonville police on a car chase that crossed into Kentucky, Mull said.
Oberhansley was arrested by Louisville Metro Police, Mull said, adding that he charged Oberhansley with criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement in that case.
Oberhansley was arrested on a warrant, and Mull said he requested a $25,000 full-cash bond because Oberhansley had a criminal record and was a "danger to the community." But a deputy prosecutor not under Mull's supervision and, he said, "without my knowledge or approval" met with Oberhansley's attorney and agreed to reduce the bond.
Oberhansley was released for around $500, Mull said.
He is being held without bail in Blanton's murder. His trial has been set for Feb. 16.
INDIANA MAN ATE PARTS OF DEAD GIRLFRIEND’S BODY
By Baylee Pulliam
The Courier-Journal
September 15, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Southern Indiana man accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend told police that he mutilated her body and ate several of her organs, according to court records.
Joseph A. Oberhansley, 33, who appeared in Clark County Circuit Court on Monday, is accused of killing Tammy Jo Blanton, 46. He is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and breaking and entering in the case.
"After you've been prosecuting for so long, you think you've seen everything," Prosecutor Steve Stewart said. "... I've never seen this."
Oberhansley — who has a previous conviction for manslaughter in Utah — was arrested Thursday after police came to Blanton's house looking for her because she hadn't shown up for work. Police said he acted suspiciously when officers asked him about Blanton's whereabouts after knocking on the door about 10 a.m.
There was a fresh cut across his knuckles, according to a police affidavit made public Monday in court.
Based on their observations, the affidavit said, the officers searched Oberhansley for weapons and found a folding blade tucked in his back pocket, covered with what appeared to be blood and hair.
An officer then walked through the house calling Blanton's name before finding her bloody body under a vinyl camping tent draped over the bathtub, the affidavit said. Her skull had apparently been crushed, the affidavit said.
An autopsy Friday revealed Blanton died of multiple sharp force trauma to the head, neck and torso, and that parts of her heart, lungs and brain were missing.
Police also found a "plate with what appeared to be skull bone and blood" on it, the affidavit said, as well as a skillet and pair of tongs with blood on the handles.
Police said Oberhansley told officers he removed several of Blanton's organs and ate them, both cooked and raw. Tissue was found in a garbage can, the affidavit said.
Prosecutor Steve Stewart said, "After you've been prosecuting for so long, you think you've seen everything. ... I've never seen this."
When he appeared in shackles Monday before Judge Vicki Carmichael, Oberhansley said he could not have committed the crimes.
While Joseph Oberhansley is accused of the gruesome acts, he said, "that's not my name. Obviously you've got the wrong guy."
Instead, he said, his name was actually "Zeus Brown." And he said he did not know how old he is and whether he is a U.S. citizen.
Carmichael said a public defender would be assigned to him.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Mull, a chief deputy prosecutor, said he was "not buying" the defendant's story. "There's a motive and a reason" for Oberhansley's denials, he said.
"There's no doubt in my mind that he is responsible for" Blanton's murder, Mull said.
Jeffersonville police said they had visited Blanton's house about seven hours before finding her body.
According to the affidavit, officers came to the house about 3 a.m. after Blanton called police saying that Oberhansley was trying to break in. After police arrived, Oberhansley agreed to leave while saying that "police always side with women," according to the documents.
Police stayed with her for several minutes after he left, the affidavit said.
Oberhansley's mother Brenda Self said he awoke her about 3:30 a.m. at her home, according to the affidavit. She said Oberhansley was upset about his job and the incident at Blanton's house, and she followed him to his 2002 Chevrolet Blazer to talk to him. He then left alone, she said.
The Blanton case is not Oberhansley's first brush with the law.
He served time in Utah after being convicted of manslaughter in the 1998 shooting death of his teenage girlfriend, 17-year-old Sabrina Elder, who had recently given birth to their son, The Associated Press reported.
The incident occurred in the suburban Salt Lake City home of Oberhansley's grandmother. He also shot his mother in the back and arm as she tried to defend Elder, according to the AP. Oberhansley then put the gun to his chin, and his brain was damaged when the bullet entered his frontal lobe.
He was released from prison in 2012.
He is charged in two separate cases in Clark County. He was charged in March 2013 with putting a man in a chokehold then resisting police trying to break up the fight, and last July with leading Jeffersonville police on a car chase that crossed into Kentucky, Mull said.
Oberhansley was arrested by Louisville Metro Police, Mull said, adding that he charged Oberhansley with criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement in that case.
Oberhansley was arrested on a warrant, and Mull said he requested a $25,000 full-cash bond because Oberhansley had a criminal record and was a "danger to the community." But a deputy prosecutor not under Mull's supervision and, he said, "without my knowledge or approval" met with Oberhansley's attorney and agreed to reduce the bond.
Oberhansley was released for around $500, Mull said.
He is being held without bail in Blanton's murder. His trial has been set for Feb. 16.
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