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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Gunman at a Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school kills 19 students and two teachers

 

Gunman at a Texas elementary school kills 19 students and two adults before being fatally shot



'Adventurous' fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles among those killed in Texas school shooting






Texas State Sen. Gutierrez Recalls 'Uncontrollable Crying' Of Parents of School Shooting Victims








Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Payton Gendron Shooting Massacre Buffalo New York May 14

 “We have people who are racists. We have people who don’t like us because of the color of our skin and that’s what happened today. He had nigger written on the tip of the gun and he has a manifesto. I was told, which I don’t know, that he planned on killing more people, basically going down the street, randomly shooting people,” Buffalo, N.Y. resident Cariol Horne said. She was speaking in the aftermath of a racial massacre executed by a “gleeful” Payton Gendron, who police say plotted and carried out the worst mass murder of 2022.

A mother, grandmother, anti-police brutality and community advocate, Ms. Horne was in a meeting about violence in her hometown. She left and rushed over to a Tops supermarket in the heart of the Black community after hearing about a mass shooting. Upon arrival, she saw a body lying on the ground. Then she heard the stories of loss and trauma inflicted May 14 by a White outsider, who came to town to kill Black people.


Liz Bosley, 64, a member of Most Valuable Parents of Buffalo, an organization seeking to improve relations between local public schools, parents and their children, told The Final Call she was in the same meeting as Ms. Horne when word of the shootings arrived. She joined others and rushed to the supermarket.

Tops employee named Latisha told WGRZ that when an 18-year-old shooting suspect arrived at the supermarket on the afternoon of May 14 and began his rampage that eventually killed 10 Black individuals in what FBI Director Christopher Wray is calling "a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism," she tried to call 911 for help.


“I pulled up on the scene and actually saw them putting the young man in the (police) car,” Ms. Bosley said. “It was chaotic when I arrived. They were just releasing the employees and they all were coming out a back door, and the crowd got crazy because they had people in the store and didn’t know if they were let out or were in there dead. I had a childhood family friend who was killed in the store, Deacon Patterson,” she said.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

A 103-year-old World War II veteran finally gets his combat medals Peter Fantasia

a group of people standing in front of a crowd: Peter Fantasia received the medals he earned in WWII 75 years later.

Peter Fantasia, of Somerville, Massachusetts, received eight medals including the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal and American Defense Service Medal. US Rep. Seth Moulton presented him with the medals at a special ceremony Monday.
Fantasia previously received his Silver Star, the nation's third-highest award for valor in combat, Tim Biba from Moulton's office told CNN.
Fantasia served with the Lima Company, of the 3rd Battallion, of the 104th Regiment of the 26th Infantry Division as a US Army medic, according to CNN affiliate WHDH.
Fantasia was captured in Rodalbe, France, in 1944 while tending to a wounded sergeant and lieutenant in a foxhole and was held as a prisoner of war until he was liberated by Russian forces on April 28, 1945.




Saturday, January 4, 2020

Thursday, November 14, 2019

CBS TV 60-MINUTES

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Friday, June 28, 2019

University of Utah track star Lauren McCluskey was gunned down

a woman in a red shirt: Jill McCluskey/University of UtahThe 21-year-old was on the phone with her mother, walking home from a Monday night class, when she was “hunted down” and shot seven times by her ex-boyfriend, the lawsuit states.

Saturday, February 2, 2019

Rosemary Mariner made history as a Navy pilot, Dead at 65

Navy Cpt. Rosemary Mariner, among the first class of women military pilots and the first to fly tactical jets. (Courtesy Mariner family)Mariner died Jan. 24 of ovarian cancer at age 65.

Capt. Rosemary B. Mariner, the first woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron, in 1990. She led VAQ-34 during Operation Desert Storm and retired as a captain in 1997 after 24 years of service. (U.S. Navy)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-made-history-as-a-navy-pilot-an-all-female-squadron-just-flew-over-her-funeral/ar-BBT4Lba?ocid=spartanntp
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Friday, January 4, 2019

Donald Trump and Trade War with China

David W. Rudlin


political junkie
Trump is used to small contractors terrified of him and his army of lawyers. He tells them he’ll pay half of what he contractually committed, and if they don’t like that they can see him in court. Unable to afford a prolonged court case, the contractors settle.
Countries are different. Not only did China refuse to back down, it responded with tariffs targeting states that are politically important to Trump. Probably their best shot was cutting off purchases of US soybeans, hitting Trump right in the heartland.
Far from getting him the love and adoration of his base, the initial skirmish in the trade war ended with his supporters questioning the fight.
In other words, Trump is learning that trade wars are NOT “very easy to win.”
Also, movement with North Korea means he needs China to keep up pressure on Kim. Plus they invested $500 million in a project in Indonesia that will benefit Trump personally (he’s planning a resort there). Combine the three factors and Trump really had no choice but to put the war on hold.
https://www.quora.com/profile/David-W-Rudlin


Thursday, December 27, 2018

State taxation of Social Security benefits

State taxation of Social Security benefits

Kiplinger reports that the following states tax Social Security income in at least some situations:
  1. Colorado
  2. Connecticut
  3. Kansas
  4. Minnesota
  5. Missouri
  6. Montana
  7. Nebraska
  8. New Mexico
  9. North Dakota
  10. Rhode Island
  11. Utah
  12. Vermont
  13. West Virginia

Saturday, December 15, 2018

American student killed in Netherlands Sarah Papenheim



Sarah Papenheim

Sarah Papenheim

Sarah Papenheim




Joel Schelling


A young American blues drummer murdered in her Netherlands apartment reached out to a friend in the days leading up to her death with a series of text messages, saying her roommate had expressed a desire to kill people.
Sarah Papenheim, 21, was fatally stabbed Wednesday in her home near Erasmus University in the port city of Rotterdam, where she had been studying psychology since 2016. Less than a week earlier, the Minnesota native texted her friend, Adam Pryor, with concerns about the man she’d been living with.
“I work full time and I have school full time and everything is just so f----d up right now,” she wrote in a message sent on Dec. 6. “My roommate told me he is going to kill three people so I'm gonna to have to go to the police.'"
Pryor, who connected with Papenheim through the Minneapolis music scene, told Good Morning America he knew something was off with his friend, but did not believe her to be in any immediate danger.
“After she told me that I thought he got mad at some people. I didn’t feel like she was in any danger. I never could’ve guess it was her,” he said.
“Just the way she made it seem like, it was some other people he was mad at or something happened. I had trust in her. She was very responsible, that she would go to the police and take care of everything. I didn’t think something like this was going to happen.”
Authorities earlier this week arrested a man in connection with the case at a rail station following an attempt to flee, but have not yet released his name.
Papenheim’s mother, Donee Odegard, in an interview with the Star Tribuneidentified the suspect as her daughter’s 23-year-old roommate, Joel Shelling, who had reportedly been getting “more and more angry” in recent weeks.
Odegard said she urged her daughter to avoid the man, but that she pushed back saying that she was his only friend.
“They’d talk about music all night,” the grieving mother said. “They kinda clicked on that. Then as time went on, he’d get highs and lows.”
Pryor, a 19-year-old keyboardist, remembered Papenheim as a smart and caring woman as well as a naturally gifted drummer and musician.
“Most people my age don’t know what blues music is, much less can play it and much less can play like she did,” he said. “She was just so special in so many ways.”
Schelling made his initial court appearance Friday, when a judge ordered he remain in custody as the investigation unfolds over the next two weeks. Police are still working to determine a motive in the killing.
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Papenheim, a graduate of Foothill High School in Palo Cedro, played drums in the school's jazz and marching bands. She moved to Minnesota after her graduation in 2015. Kritzer described her as a talented musician who always had a smile on her face.

Monday, November 12, 2018

Fire in Paradise California November-3018


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Updated: 03:13 EST

Authorities have reported six additional deaths in a Northern California, raising the death toll to 29 and making it the deadliest wildfire on record in California history. Butte County Sheriff Cory Honea said the human remains recovered on Sunday included five bodies found at homes and one in a vehicle in Paradise. Honea said the devastation was so complete in some neighborhoods that 'it's very difficult to determine whether or not there may be human remains there'. Honea said that ‘in some cases, the only remains we are able to recover are bones or bone fragments’. He also announced that 228 people remain unaccounted for since the fire began Thursday and incinerated the foothill town. The statewide total of deaths from wildfires reached 31. Strong Santa Ana winds returned to Southern California on Sunday, causing flare-ups of a huge wildfire that has scorched a string of communities west of Los Angeles, but no additional structures were believed to have been lost, authorities said. Officials said the wildfires may intensify due to the strong winds as more than 8,000 firefighters continue to battle the deadly infernos. Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said Sunday evening that wind gusts up to 50mph are expected to continue through Tuesday.