What Kind of Killer?

Guess the crime!

Here’s part of the story:

Politicians and law enforcement agents had harsh words about the suspect.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson, who represents the area, called him “twisted and depraved, somehow really not right as a human being.”

“Thankfully, for this community,” Sorenson said, “the terror has come to an end.”

Palmetto Bay Mayor Eugene Flinn said a motive is hard to fathom: “No one here can get in the head of a person capable of such a heinous act.”

I agree with the comments shown above.

But what crime are they talking about?

Partial birth abortion?

Regular abortion?

Terrorist decapitation?

Murder by torture?

Or what?

This is today’s news quiz. Here’s the source: Online postings led police to suspect

But if you have to read the story, please don’t post the correct answer. 🙂

Thanks!

Israel’s Opportunity?

Just wondering after reading this: Clashes erupt for 2nd day in Tehran over vote.

Here’s a bit from the piece:

There’s little chance that the youth-driven movement could immediately threaten the pillars of power in Iran — the ruling clerics and the vast network of military and intelligence forces at their command — but it raises the possibility that a sustained and growing backlash could complicate Iran’s policies at a pivotal time.

Maybe Israel will figure out this is a great time to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Or maybe they’ll decide a strike now will reverse the opposition to Iran’s president and thus could be counter-productive to Israeli interests.

Perhaps in his much-anticipated speech today, Israel’s Netanyahu will borrow one of President Reagan’s lines: “The bombs start falling in five minutes.” 😯

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

And of Tehran.

Helping the Enemy

Meet the newest Trojan Horses:

Certain products designed to treat open wounds and sanitize skin could actually infect patients and even cause permanent damage.

The Food and Drug Administration said an inspection of Utah-based company, Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory, Inc., revealed that products marketed to sanitize and clean skin were contaminated with disease-causing bacteria. The agency said that some of the bacteria could severely infect skin and underlying tissues, requiring treatment or even surgery.

It said the public should throw away all products made by Clarcon, including:

  • Citrushield Lotion
  • Dermasentials DermaBarrier
  • Dermassentials by Clarcon Antimicrobial Hand Sanitizer
  • Iron Fist Barrier Hand Treatment
  • Skin Shield Restaurant
  • Skin Shield Industrial
  • Skin Shield Beauty Salon Lotion
  • Total Skin Care Beauty
  • Total Skin Care Work

Source: Skin sanitizer, other products contain harmful bacteria

OK, maybe not the newest Trojan Horses, but hey, it’s got a nice ring to it. 🙄

But ring or no ring, you’d better check your inventory for any of the above items.

You’re welcome.

June 9

68 — Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by
flogging.

1833 — President Andrew Jackson goes on a train ride for the first time…and becomes the first President to ride a train.

1909 — Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife/mother, drives across the
United States with three non-driving female companions (in fifty-nine days in a Maxwell automobile).

1925 — Walter Percy Chrysler starts a company and names it after himself: The Chrysler Corporation.

1932 — It starts small enough — 1 cent per gallon — the first gas tax in the US, thanks to the Revenue Act of 1932.

1944 — Operation Overlord (aka D Day) begins with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

1946 — US-born King Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Bhumibol Adulyadej Mahitalathibet Ramathibodi Chakkrinaruebodin Sayamminthrathirat Borommanatbophit (Bhumibol Adulyadej for short) ascends to the throne of Thailand (where he still rules, the world’s current longest reigning monarch!).

1966 — James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.

1967 — Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six Day War.

1968 — President Lyndon Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy.

1978 — Voters in California approve Proposition 13, a state constitutional amendment slashing property taxes.

1984 -– Tetris is released.

2004 — The body of President Reagan arrives in Washington to lie in state in the Rotunda before his funeral.

2005 -– The US Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning marijuana, including medical marijuana.

2008 — Retail gasoline prices rise above $4 per gallon in the USA.

2009 — The sun didn’t rise. And nobody panicked or thought anything of it. What’s with that? (I just checked for Significant Breaking News and found none, so the sunrise thing will have to do. Well, wait, I just see this from North Korea.) Like I said, the sun didn’t rise this morning. Neither did a man-made sun.

Good day?

Nuke Woodburn?

The first comment on the following story says so:

Woodburn police say more than a dozen people, some of them gang members, got into a street fight late Thursday, sending one person to the hospital for stab wounds.

Source: Woodburn Police Respond to Large Street Brawl

Weird 🙄

(We used to live in Woodburn. We still do lots of business there. We like Woodburn.)

Anyway, here’s some Oregon news causing less of a flap:

In thousands of Oregon neighborhoods and condo buildings, covenants and other rules ban clotheslines, even from private backyards. Homeowners using clotheslines face threatening letters from their homeowners’ associations and potential fines — not to mention simmering tension with neighbors who consider hanging clothes an eyesore or an emblem of poverty.

[…]

A bill that may soon become law would prohibit homeowner associations and condo associations from banning clotheslines in areas maintained by individual homeowners. House Bill 3090 cleared the Oregon House and could soon reach the Senate floor.

The effort joins others from Hawaii to Connecticut, where state lawmakers are caught in clothesline politics.

Source: Oregon legislation puts backyard laundry on the line

I’m all for clotheslines. In fact, we used them extensively in the past. I’ve even posted about them previously:

Above all, love God!

since November 9, 2005