Reader-Researcher AL Writes:
ANTHONY WEINER
| GEORGE ZIMMERMAN
HILLARY CLINTON
OBAMACARE
In a nutshell here is the problem with the media in the U.S. This from
The Daily Caller what is TRENDING right now.
You take it from there.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
TRENDING at The Daily Caller: The Wonderful American Media: A Reader Writes
Reader-Researcher AL Writes:
ANTHONY WEINER
| GEORGE ZIMMERMAN
HILLARY CLINTON
OBAMACARE
In a nutshell here is the problem with the media in the U.S. This from
The Daily Caller what is TRENDING right now.
You take it from there.
Eloi at Salon: A Reader Writes
Posted by Nicholas Stix
[N.S.: I did not write the following letter, and pretend that it came from a reader. However, seeing as I was thinking about “Eloi” (and thus about Lawrence Auster) just a day or two ago, and about how it might be impossible for America to ever win another real war, the writer may have read my mind.
In case you think I’ve gone balmy in the equatorial heat, I engage in mind-reading all the time. I’ll be watching a Mets game, and I’ll respond to a play or pitch, with “X Y X,” and seconds later, Gary Cohen or Ron Darling will say, “X Y Z.” I’ve been listening intently to these guys for about 10 years. And it’s not because they’re cliché machines. They’re great, but I know them.
Likewise, in the Stix house, people finish each other’s sentences all the time. I have people who have been reading me for 20 years, going back to my Chronicles days.
Dear admired writers,
I just arrived home from a drive spent listening to NPR (please consider it snooping behind enemy lines) and heard an interview with a guy who personifies the very concept of Eloi. Here's the article referred to throughout the interview, though I have no plans to invest more time in it:
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/what_i_learned_from_getting_shot/
And here's a stream of the interview I heard:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=214158017
When I listen to a guy like this, I begin to wonder if the U.S. could ever again win another war, let alone expecting him to safeguard his own neighborhood.
PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH MY NAME, IF YOU PURSUE THIS SUBJECT FOR YOUR WRITING.
Keep up the great work, everybody.
[N.S.: I virtually never publish the names of friendlies, even when they don’t say not to. I often have to save my readers from themselves. This reader addressed me in the plural, because he wrote to me and four colleagues.]
[N.S.: I did not write the following letter, and pretend that it came from a reader. However, seeing as I was thinking about “Eloi” (and thus about Lawrence Auster) just a day or two ago, and about how it might be impossible for America to ever win another real war, the writer may have read my mind.
In case you think I’ve gone balmy in the equatorial heat, I engage in mind-reading all the time. I’ll be watching a Mets game, and I’ll respond to a play or pitch, with “X Y X,” and seconds later, Gary Cohen or Ron Darling will say, “X Y Z.” I’ve been listening intently to these guys for about 10 years. And it’s not because they’re cliché machines. They’re great, but I know them.
Likewise, in the Stix house, people finish each other’s sentences all the time. I have people who have been reading me for 20 years, going back to my Chronicles days.
Dear admired writers,
I just arrived home from a drive spent listening to NPR (please consider it snooping behind enemy lines) and heard an interview with a guy who personifies the very concept of Eloi. Here's the article referred to throughout the interview, though I have no plans to invest more time in it:
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/what_i_learned_from_getting_shot/
And here's a stream of the interview I heard:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=214158017
When I listen to a guy like this, I begin to wonder if the U.S. could ever again win another war, let alone expecting him to safeguard his own neighborhood.
PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH MY NAME, IF YOU PURSUE THIS SUBJECT FOR YOUR WRITING.
Keep up the great work, everybody.
[N.S.: I virtually never publish the names of friendlies, even when they don’t say not to. I often have to save my readers from themselves. This reader addressed me in the plural, because he wrote to me and four colleagues.]
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Chris Lane: It wasn't "Boredom," and It wasn't "Random": It was a War Crime, and He was Murdered for Breathing While White
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Slain Australian player mourned on 2 continents
August 20, 2:27 P.M. (ET)
By Kristi Eaton
AP/My Way News
(AP) In this undated photo provided by the Essendon Baseball Club, player Chris Lane wears his baseball...
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DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) - It is a chillingly simple motive: Police say three bored teens killed an Australian collegiate baseball player attending school in the U.S. for "the fun of it."
As authorities prepared to charge the teens Tuesday with first-degree murder, family and friends on two continents mourned 22-year-old Christopher Lane, who was being remembered as a wonderful young man whose life ended too soon. His girlfriend tearfully laid a cross at a streetside memorial in Oklahoma, while half a world away, his team in Australia placed flowers at home plate.
Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying and that apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday. A 17-year-old in the group has given a detailed confession to police, and charges were expected Tuesday afternoon.
"They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: 'There's our target,'" Ford said. "The boy who has talked to us said, 'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'"
(AP) In this undated photo provided by the Essendon Baseball Club, player Chris Lane wears his baseball...
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He said they followed Lane, a student from Melbourne attending college on a baseball scholarship, in a car and shot him in the back before driving off.
Ford told the television station KOCO in Oklahoma City that one of the teens said they shot Lane for "the fun of it."
On Tuesday, Lane's girlfriend, Sarah Harper, laid a wooden cross at a memorial that formed along the road where Duncan was killed.
"We just thought we'd leave it," Harper said. "This is his final spot." Harper said she doesn't know who started the memorial, but it means a lot.
Australia's Herald Sun newspaper said Lane's former team, Essendon Baseball Club, would turn its Sunday game against the University of Melbourne into a tribute to Lane to raise money for the family. Roses and a baseball were placed on the home plate on Monday with the message, "A wonderful young man taken too soon. Why?"
(AP) A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, along the road where he was shot...
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Police said witnesses rushed to help Lane after hearing a shot Friday and seeing him stagger and collapse on a road in Duncan, a south-central Oklahoma town of about 24,000 residents.
"He was face down on the ground and he was shot in the back with a .22 revolver," builder Richard Rhodes told Australian broadcasters. "I had another lady stop and we tried CPR on him. And he passed away right here."
Harper said she and Lane had only returned to the United States from Australia last week.
Lane attended East Central University in Ada, about 85 miles west of Duncan. He started 14 games at catcher last year and was entering his senior year.
"He was an absolute joy to coach," baseball coach Dino Rosato said in a statement issued by the school. "Chris was an extremely well-respected teammate. ... He set a great example for all of his teammates, but more importantly for the younger players. He was a mature student-athlete who his teammates could look to for advice and support."
(AP) Sarah Harper,Christopher Lane's girlfriend, stands beside a memorial along the road where police...
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Peter Lane told Australian media there was no explanation for his son's death.
"It is heartless and to try to understand it is a short way to insanity," he said.
"You just have to gather together as a family and hold on," he told Sky News TV. "And that's what we're trying to do at the moment - hold on."
Slain Australian player mourned on 2 continents
August 20, 2:27 P.M. (ET)
By Kristi Eaton
AP/My Way News
(AP) In this undated photo provided by the Essendon Baseball Club, player Chris Lane wears his baseball...
Full Image
DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) - It is a chillingly simple motive: Police say three bored teens killed an Australian collegiate baseball player attending school in the U.S. for "the fun of it."
As authorities prepared to charge the teens Tuesday with first-degree murder, family and friends on two continents mourned 22-year-old Christopher Lane, who was being remembered as a wonderful young man whose life ended too soon. His girlfriend tearfully laid a cross at a streetside memorial in Oklahoma, while half a world away, his team in Australia placed flowers at home plate.
Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying and that apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday. A 17-year-old in the group has given a detailed confession to police, and charges were expected Tuesday afternoon.
"They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: 'There's our target,'" Ford said. "The boy who has talked to us said, 'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'"
(AP) In this undated photo provided by the Essendon Baseball Club, player Chris Lane wears his baseball...
Full Image
He said they followed Lane, a student from Melbourne attending college on a baseball scholarship, in a car and shot him in the back before driving off.
Ford told the television station KOCO in Oklahoma City that one of the teens said they shot Lane for "the fun of it."
On Tuesday, Lane's girlfriend, Sarah Harper, laid a wooden cross at a memorial that formed along the road where Duncan was killed.
"We just thought we'd leave it," Harper said. "This is his final spot." Harper said she doesn't know who started the memorial, but it means a lot.
Australia's Herald Sun newspaper said Lane's former team, Essendon Baseball Club, would turn its Sunday game against the University of Melbourne into a tribute to Lane to raise money for the family. Roses and a baseball were placed on the home plate on Monday with the message, "A wonderful young man taken too soon. Why?"
(AP) A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, along the road where he was shot...
Full Image
Police said witnesses rushed to help Lane after hearing a shot Friday and seeing him stagger and collapse on a road in Duncan, a south-central Oklahoma town of about 24,000 residents.
"He was face down on the ground and he was shot in the back with a .22 revolver," builder Richard Rhodes told Australian broadcasters. "I had another lady stop and we tried CPR on him. And he passed away right here."
Harper said she and Lane had only returned to the United States from Australia last week.
Lane attended East Central University in Ada, about 85 miles west of Duncan. He started 14 games at catcher last year and was entering his senior year.
"He was an absolute joy to coach," baseball coach Dino Rosato said in a statement issued by the school. "Chris was an extremely well-respected teammate. ... He set a great example for all of his teammates, but more importantly for the younger players. He was a mature student-athlete who his teammates could look to for advice and support."
(AP) Sarah Harper,Christopher Lane's girlfriend, stands beside a memorial along the road where police...
Full Image
Peter Lane told Australian media there was no explanation for his son's death.
"It is heartless and to try to understand it is a short way to insanity," he said.
"You just have to gather together as a family and hold on," he told Sky News TV. "And that's what we're trying to do at the moment - hold on."
A Note to My Readers
A Note to My Readers
By Nicholas Stix
We've been in Trinidad since August 14. Evey trip here mans roughing it, but this time has been a bit rougher than usual.
Finding functioning computers and Internet connections has been more difficult even than previously. On top of that, the sister-in-law who devotedly collects the rent money form our tenants upstairs "forgot" to pay the electric bill since April 9, and so yesterday the technician came by and shut off the juice. That's why I am presently using the pc of yet another sister-in-law.
The delinquent sister-in-law couldn't keep her lies straight, an among otjher things told me over a third sister-in-law's borrowed cellphone that it was our fault we didn't tell her the power was going to be shut off. At that point, I was able to keep my insults and threats straight, but I don't know how much she heard, since the next thing I knew, the line had gone dead.
I'll report again, when I find a better pc and connection.
By Nicholas Stix
We've been in Trinidad since August 14. Evey trip here mans roughing it, but this time has been a bit rougher than usual.
Finding functioning computers and Internet connections has been more difficult even than previously. On top of that, the sister-in-law who devotedly collects the rent money form our tenants upstairs "forgot" to pay the electric bill since April 9, and so yesterday the technician came by and shut off the juice. That's why I am presently using the pc of yet another sister-in-law.
The delinquent sister-in-law couldn't keep her lies straight, an among otjher things told me over a third sister-in-law's borrowed cellphone that it was our fault we didn't tell her the power was going to be shut off. At that point, I was able to keep my insults and threats straight, but I don't know how much she heard, since the next thing I knew, the line had gone dead.
I'll report again, when I find a better pc and connection.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Non-Violence in Miami: Jailer Helps 3 Non-Violent Drug Dealer Inmates Try to Murder 4th Non-Violent Drug Dealer Inmate, Who is Himself a Suspected Murderer
- Computer glitch blamed for doors at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center being thrown open
- Some question whether some inmates knew the doors would be unlocked
- At least two inmates ganged up on rival gang member and attacked him with prison shivs
PUBLISHED: 12:54 EST, 13 August 2013 | UPDATED: 17:57 EST, 13 August 2013
Surveillance cameras captured the moment every door at a maximum-security jail wing in Florida swung open and released a flock of violent criminals, who ganged up and attacked another inmate with vicious homemade knives.
The inmate was forced to jump over a railing and fall one story to escape his assailants, who are believed to be members of a rival gang in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City.
The Miami-Dade Corrections Department says it still doesn't know why the security system unlocked and opened every door in the maximum-security wing of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on June 14.
However, two inmates immediately crept out of their cells - seemingly moving with purpose - as soon as the doors slid open.
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Open sesame: Two inmates crept out of their cells the moment the doors slid open - leading to speculation that they knew they would be released
Target: The men ganged up to attack Kenneth Williams, left, who is the leader of a rival gang. The men were allegedly armed with homemade prison shivs
The Miami Herald reports that this has led some to speculate that the prisoners knew that their doors would open and that they were waiting to be let out to execute their attack.
The Herald obtained a copy of the June 14 surveillance video.
It shows an attack on Kenneth Williams, believed to be a leader of the New Moneii gang that deals drugs in a Liberty City public housing project, by three rival gang members - all of whom were allegedly armed with shivs - crude prison knives.
Williams jumped over a railing and landed on the floor below to escape his assailants. He can be seen writhing in pain, holding his leg.
Doctors later said he suffered a fractured vertebrae and a broken ankle.
CCTV: Inmate jumps over balcony to avoid stabbing
Williams, pursued by armed assailants, hikes up his trousers and throws himself over a railing to escape the knife-wielding inmates
Williams, seen on the floor after his fall, broke his ankle and shattered a vertebra when he landed on story below
Williams is believed to be the leader of a violent Miami street gang
Williams was awaiting trial on charges he tried to intimidate witnesses testifying against two gunmen accused of killing one of Williams' rivals and his 10-month-old son.
The Herald reports that police suspect Williams ordered the hit, but have been unable to produce evidence to charge him.
The beleaguered Maimi-Dade Corrections Department said it is still working to figure out why the doors in the maximum security wing opened.
Inmates in that wing are never let out of their cells more than a few at a time and are never allowed to mingle in common areas together.
In May, a similar incident allowed the computerized control panel to open all doors on the wing when a guard accidentally pushed the wrong button.
After that happened, a safety was installed that forced jailers who pressed the button to open all doors to confirm the selection first.
Still the Corrections Department claims that no jailer released the doors.
Williams' lawyer questions that conclusion.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Las Vegas: In Four Separate Hate Crime Attacks, Black Man Lee A. Sanford Tries to Murder Four Whites with 9” Kitchen Knife; Cops, Media Follow SOP Cover-Up, Calling Attacks “Random”; Look for Crazy Card Defense
Re-posted and translated by Nicholas Stix
Thanks to reader-researcher “W” for the sendalong.
The reporting could have been worse. Many media operatives would have withheld a mug shot of the perp, and censored all references to race, including his statement. However, it would have been nice if the reporter had given us Sanford's priors.
Newlywed among 4 stabbed in random spree attack near Vegas Strip
Associated Press/New York Post
August 12, 2013, 6:01 P.M.; last updated, 6:04 P.M.
LAS VEGAS — A newlywed was back home in Salt Lake City and facing more medical tests, her mother said Monday, after being stabbed in the back in what authorities called a random attack on four people [Read: a racially-motivated, black-on-white hate crime] on a sidewalk just off the Las Vegas Strip.
Laralynn Stock Caldwell, 20, was honeymooning with her husband, Jackson Caldwell, when she was stabbed in the lower back late Thursday as the couple walked on Harmon Avenue, Diane Stock told The Associated Press.
Laralynn Caldwell told police she thought a man punched her in the lower back, and she didn't realize she was wounded until she reached back and felt blood.
Her husband told KTNV-TV in Las Vegas that he thought a [black] man slapped his wife's backside, but he also saw what he thought was a fake knife in the man's hand.
[I added "black," because I suspect that Jackson Caldwell would have reacted more aggressivley to a white man slapping his bride on the butt, even though the case should have been the reverse.]
The couple returned home to Utah on Friday, where Diane Stock said her daughter was in good spirits but faces ongoing tests to rule out the possibility of blood-borne disease.
"She works at Staples. She's joking that now she has (surgical) staples in her back," Diane Stock said. "She's doing great."
The accused attacker, Lee Anthony Sanford, 53, surrendered to Las Vegas police at a fast-food restaurant minutes after the 11 p.m. Thursday attack. Police say he had a nine-inch kitchen knife and was bleeding from a cut on his hand.
Sanford remained jailed Monday pending a court appearance Tuesday on multiple battery with a deadly weapon charges that could get him decades in prison.
Police said they found no prior connection between Sanford and the people he's accused of attacking.
Also injured were a 56-year-old woman who underwent surgery Friday for a stomach wound, according to police; a 25-year-old man who reported that he was stabbed in the elbow and lower back; and a 15-year-old boy who was with his parents when he said he felt something hit his shoulder.
Sanford, who is black, told police that he thought white people kept bothering him because people like to mess with the poor, according to a police report.
He said he retrieved the knife at home after walking away from a verbal sidewalk altercation with a man he described as white and a bully.
[He started showering a white man he'd crossed paths with with racial epithets, and wanted to murder him, but realized he didn't have any deadly weapons on him, and the man was alert to the possibility of Sanford suckerpunching him.]
Police said Sanford also was sometimes incoherent during a police interview following his arrest [sic]
Countenance: The New York City Mayoral Race Comes Down to the Cost of Condoms and the Cost of Crime
By Nicholas Stix
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:
“Countenance Blog Praises Joe Lhota in NYC Mayor’s Race; Joe Who?”]
Countenance Blogmeister wrote minutes ago:
There is no liberty option. And that includes freedom of speech.
Heck, it’s almost six years since New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s Gestapo (Hate Crimes Task Force) chief, now Deputy Chief Michael Osgood, hunted for a white man for committing a “hate crime,” simply because the man had complained on a flier of the then over 20-year-long tradition of violent black racism at elementary school P.S. 225 (since rebranded as “The Waterside School,” and now containing elementary school, PS 317/(27Q317)/PS317Q, The Waterside School, and middle school MS318/27Q318, The Waterside School for Leadership.
Amid much media praise, Commissioner Kelly rewarded Osgood for his violations of white New Yorkers’ civil liberties by promoting him to Deputy Chief, and adding running the also politicized Special Victims Division to Commissar Osgood’s portfolio.
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:
“Countenance Blog Praises Joe Lhota in NYC Mayor’s Race; Joe Who?”]
Countenance Blogmeister wrote minutes ago:
Just read on the front of Drudge that that far left oil driller Bill de Blasio is now the Democrat front runner. If he wins the nomination, and Lhota keeps campaigning on SQF [stop, question, frisk], it won't be Joe Who, it will be Mr. Mayor.New York voters, which includes me, will have a choice between a dictatorship of colored criminals and a dictatorship of increasingly colored cops. Christine Quinn is the most aggressively pro-criminal candidate, though black former comptroller, Bill Thompson, recently emphasized his support of colored criminals, in order to boost his practically invisible campaign. (Invisible, because the pro-Quinn media had made it that way.)
I take him, as the only sane man in the race, as someone who, in a city full of people who pay either way too much or nothing at all for condoms, pays close to the big box mart national average when he buys condoms.
There is no liberty option. And that includes freedom of speech.
Heck, it’s almost six years since New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s Gestapo (Hate Crimes Task Force) chief, now Deputy Chief Michael Osgood, hunted for a white man for committing a “hate crime,” simply because the man had complained on a flier of the then over 20-year-long tradition of violent black racism at elementary school P.S. 225 (since rebranded as “The Waterside School,” and now containing elementary school, PS 317/(27Q317)/PS317Q, The Waterside School, and middle school MS318/27Q318, The Waterside School for Leadership.
Amid much media praise, Commissioner Kelly rewarded Osgood for his violations of white New Yorkers’ civil liberties by promoting him to Deputy Chief, and adding running the also politicized Special Victims Division to Commissar Osgood’s portfolio.
Countenance Blog Praises Joe Lhota in NYC Mayor’s Race; Joe Who?
By Nicholas Stix
Countenance:
We get Time-Warner Cable, such that when we turn on the TV, we automatically get NY1 “news,” 24/7. According to NY1, there is no Joe Lhota in the mayoral race. No John Catsimatidas, either. Lhota and Catsimatidas, you see, are running as Republicans. NY1 has even been whiting out black Democratic candidate Bill Thompson.
About which mayoral candidate do we constantly hear fawning “reportage” on NY1? Christine Quinn, the openly homosexual City Council President, natch. NY1 used to be the All-Sharpton News Network (Fred Siegel), and while it is still anti-white, since circa 2004, it has been first and foremost, New York’s Gay News Network.
Countenance:
Michael Bloomberg is worried that New York City post-him will fall into Detroit-style dysfunctionality. I don’t think there’s that much to worry about, as long as the NYPD does SQF. And if you want the NYPD to continue doing SQF, Joe Lhota should be Michael Bloomberg’s successor.Joe who?
We get Time-Warner Cable, such that when we turn on the TV, we automatically get NY1 “news,” 24/7. According to NY1, there is no Joe Lhota in the mayoral race. No John Catsimatidas, either. Lhota and Catsimatidas, you see, are running as Republicans. NY1 has even been whiting out black Democratic candidate Bill Thompson.
About which mayoral candidate do we constantly hear fawning “reportage” on NY1? Christine Quinn, the openly homosexual City Council President, natch. NY1 used to be the All-Sharpton News Network (Fred Siegel), and while it is still anti-white, since circa 2004, it has been first and foremost, New York’s Gay News Network.
Portland, Oregon: Media and Cops Cover Up Obama Attack of Convenience Store Clerk
By Nicholas Stix
Reader-researcher Jerry writes,
Reported assault at North Portland business under investigation
By Everton Bailey Jr. | ebailey@oregonian.com
Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on August 12, 2013 at 10:11 P.M., updated August 12, 2013 at 10:13 P.M.
The Oregonian
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Police are investigating an assault reported at a North Portland market Monday.
The incident was reported about 8:50 p.m. at Jesusito Market at 7000 N. Interstate Ave., and a male employee was injured.
Details of what caused the incident and descriptions of any suspects have not been released.
Anyone with information is asked to call Portland police.
-- Everton Bailey Jr.
[Thanks, Everton Bailey. You whited out the gun, the mob, and the descriptions. Why bother "reporting" at all? This is the journalistic equivalent of a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich without the bacon, lettuce, or tomato. There's just two slices of bread, and not even any mayo. My reader gave me more meat than you did!]
Reader-researcher Jerry writes,
I saw a news report yesterday evening that had more details to this story.
What happened was: A group of "people" tried to pass a bad check as a convenience store. The clerk refused to accept it. They left and came back with a gun and forced the clerk to apologize. He apologized and they viciously beat him anyways.
The below link refers to this story but offers no details. The TV news reports I saw last night gave no description of the perps. Just looking at the details of what happened I can guess at the "description". I will bet anyone any amount of money I'm right.
It says in this newspaper item that the police have released no details, though there were more details on the TV news report, of course the reporters were on the spot interviewing the clerk but they didn't ask him to describe the attackers. I'm not sure what's going on here but when the news and police are being shifty about details like this it always involves black perps.
You have violent attackers with a gun running around and our "boys in blue" and "watchdog media" are more concerned with protecting the sacred cow of racial political correctness than public safety. It's like a broken record, happens over and over.
Reported assault at North Portland business under investigation
By Everton Bailey Jr. | ebailey@oregonian.com
Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on August 12, 2013 at 10:11 P.M., updated August 12, 2013 at 10:13 P.M.
The Oregonian
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Police are investigating an assault reported at a North Portland market Monday.
The incident was reported about 8:50 p.m. at Jesusito Market at 7000 N. Interstate Ave., and a male employee was injured.
Details of what caused the incident and descriptions of any suspects have not been released.
Anyone with information is asked to call Portland police.
-- Everton Bailey Jr.
[Thanks, Everton Bailey. You whited out the gun, the mob, and the descriptions. Why bother "reporting" at all? This is the journalistic equivalent of a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich without the bacon, lettuce, or tomato. There's just two slices of bread, and not even any mayo. My reader gave me more meat than you did!]
Jody Rosen on Eydie Gormé (1928–2013)
Excerpted by Nicholas Stix
With gratitude to Kathy Shaidle, at Five Feet of Fury.
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Jody Rosen on Eydie Gormé (1928–2013)
By Jody Rosen
Vulture.com
Eydie Gormé, who died on Saturday at 84, was the beneficiary of two mid-century inventions: the television variety show and the Great American Songbook. Both were actually gentrified updates of earlier pop culture. TV variety reworked brash, bumptious vaudeville for the electronic age; the Great American Songbook was the fifties invention of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and other great singers, who set the pop hits and show tunes of the twenties, thirties, and forties to lush, swinging big band arrangements, put on tuxes and ball gowns, and codified a body of durable American song standards — musical holy writ. Gormé met her husband and musical partner, Steve Lawrence, when both were working on The Tonight Show with Steve Allen. They sang together, onstage, on record, and, frequently, in front of television cameras, for nearly half a century.
In the sixties and seventies, Steve and Eydie’s act was familiar to millions. They joked and they sang, interspersing tart, affectionate, mildly racy husband-and-wife banter with songs by Berlin, Gershwin, and Porter. The shtick was charming, but it wouldn’t have worked if the music hadn’t been good. They could really sing. Lawrence was a smooth, suave stylist in the Dean Martin and Mel Torme mold. Gormé burned hotter. She could sing delicately, tenderly, but she sounded great when she belted; she had a bit of Sophie Tucker brassiness in her voice and made a side specialty of fiery Spanish-language songs....
[Read the whole thing here.]
Whitey Bulger: In an Almost Complete Failure for the Government, Mob Boss and SK
Whitey Bulger: In an Almost Complete Failure for the Government, Mob Boss and Serial Killer Will Never Face Justice
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
The Whitey Bulger story is larger than life, the stuff of a screenplay lacking all credibility. While he was the biggest gangster in Boston, his kid brother, Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger, and later president of the University of Massachusetts, was the state's biggest politician. Let me rephrase that: The Bulger brothers were the biggest crooks in Massachusetts.
Criminologists don't use the concept of serial killer, as regards crime bosses, but the latter, if they achieve any sort of notoriety, have to be serial killers. Bulger was charged with "participating" and "involvement" in 19 murders, and convicted of "participating" in 11, and yet, I don't see any indictments or convictions for murder. Apparently, this prosecution was a big, sloppy, federal racketeering deal, where the feds throw everything and the kitchen sink at a guy, screw the procedural rules, and take whatever sticks.
A mob boss doesn't "participate" in murders; he kills people, though someone else may pull the trigger. For instance, John Gotti wasn't convicted of "participating" in 18 murders; he was convicted of 18 murders, even though Sammy "Bull" Gravano pulled the trigger for him.
The report below says that Bulger could get sentenced to up to life. Life? For 11 murders? The killer is 83 years old, for crying out loud! He's enjoyed the high life for a zillion years. If he gets "life," he goes to prison for at most five years, until he either kills himself, or dies of old age. How is that punishment? And if he doesn't kill himself, in a couple of years, he'll be gone in the head, anyway.
The feds wasted millions of dollars hunting and prosecuting Bulger, his victims got nothing, and yet, racist, affirmative action CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin called it "a complete victory for the government."
For a Hostin, words have no connection to reality or morality.
A real victory for the government, and a legitimate prosecution would have entailed charging Bulger with Murder One for any number of cases, getting one or more convictions, getting him sentenced to death, and executing him within the year. The feds have the death penalty option, regardless of the sentencing guidelines in the state in which the murders were committed.
This may sound like small potatoes, but a certain non-murder caped of Bulger's sticks in my craw. Sometime during the 1990s, I believe on 60 Minutes, there was a story about a guy in Boston or environs who won a million-dollar or more lottery payout. A few days later, the winner announced that actually, Whitey Bulger owned half the ticket.
The only way that happens is if Bulger hunts the guy down, and tells him something like, 'You know, something terrible could happen to you and your family with all that lottery money. You'd better get some insurance, and I'm just the guy to provide it. It'll only cost you 50 percent.'
Mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger guilty of racketeering, involvement in murders
By Josh Levs and Michael Martinez, CNN
updated 3:48 P.M. EDT, Mon August 12, 2013
James "Whitey" Bulger, the reputed former head of Boston's Winter Hill Gang, evaded police for 16 years before being arrested with girlfriend Catherine Greig in Santa Monica, California, in 2011. After a lengthy trial, Bulger, seen here in his booking photo from June 23, 2011, has been found guilty on 31 of 32 counts -- including involvement in 11 murders.
William Bulger [r] chatted with Mayor Thomas M. Menino at a memorial last month for Paul Cellucci. Bulger's friends say he has slowed down since heart surgery in 2011. (John Tlumacki/Globe staff)
James "Whitey" Bulger, the reputed former head of Boston's Winter Hill Gang, evaded police for 16 years before being arrested with girlfriend Catherine Greig in Santa Monica, California, in 2011. Bulger seen here in a 1984 FBI photo.
According to prosecutors, Bulger's crew learned that a bookie named Richard Castucci was cooperating with the government, and John Martorano was sent to kill him. Castucci was shot in the head and stuffed in a sleeping bag in the back of his car.
Steve "The Rifleman" Flemmi, left, and bookie Dick O'Brien in one of several surveillance photographs entered into evidence in the Bulger trial. Flemmi, Bulger's partner, would meet O'Brien to collect thousands of dollars in "rent" every month.
Bulger is accused of murdering Flemmi's stepdaughter, Deborah Hussey, in 1985 because she became a liability.
Flemmi met Debra Davis at a jewelry store, and the couple dated for more than seven years. In 1981, Bulger is said to have killed Davis because she knew that Flemmi was an informant.
Dr. Ann Marie Mires, a Massachusetts state forensic anthropologist, was brought in to show photos of Bulger's alleged victims, including Debra Davis. Because Davis' body was put into bags, almost all of her remains were recovered. Even some of her hair was preserved.
Mug shots of Bulger in 1953.
Bulger was the godfather to John Martorano's first son. Martorano has admitted to 20 killings as part of Boston's Winter Hill Gang and is the government's star witness against Bulger.
In 2008, John Martorano testified against former FBI agent John Connolly, who was accused of leaking sensitive information about former gambling executive John Callahan. Martorano testified that he shot his friend Callahan on Bulger's orders in 1982.
John Callahan was an organized crime associate of the Winter Hill Gang and former president of World Jai Alai. Prosecutors allege Bulger ordered a hit on Callahan after he learned he would be cooperating with the feds on the high-profile murder of an Oklahoma businessman, Roger Wheeler.
Bulger is accused in the slaying of Wheeler, who was gunned down outside a country club in Oklahoma in 1981.
Joe Notorangeli was gunned down by the Winter Hill gang in 1973, according to Martorano.
John Connolly was convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of Callahan and received a 40-year sentence in 2009.
Former FBI supervisor John Morris testified at Bulger's trial on Friday, June 28, saying that he provided information to Bulger in exchange for money and gifts. Here, Morris testifies during the John Connolly murder trial in Miami in 2008.
Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison in 2012 for identity fraud and helping the reputed mob boss avoid capture for 16 years.
J.W. Carney, Bulger's defense attorney, arrives at the U.S. Federal Courthouse for the start of Bulger's trial in Boston on Wednesday, June 12.
This undated surveillance photo released on Monday, July 8, by the U.S. Attorney's Office at federal court in Boston shows Bulger, left, with his former right-hand man, Kevin Weeks. Weeks took the witness stand at Bulger's racketeering trial and described a double slaying, multiple extortions and drug dealing.
Bulger and Kevin Weeks walk around Castle Island on Boston Harbor.
Kevin Weeks leaves the courthouse on Monday, July 8, after testifying in graphic detail about how Bulger killed Arthur "Bucky" Barrett, Joey McIntyre and Deborah Hussey.
The remains of Thomas King, former member of the Winter Hill Gang, was found in late 2000. A bulletproof vest, a navy suit, driving gloves and a claddagh ring were found among the remains. Martorano, one of Bulger's hitmen, testified that he himself had shot King in the back of the head.
The body of Stephen Rakes was found on Wednesday, July 17, in Lincoln, Massachusetts, west of Boston. Rakes was scheduled to be a witness for the prosecution before he was dropped from the list.
Trying to show a softer, lighter side of Bulger, his defense lawyers have released photos that they expect to show the jury should he decide to testify.
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The trial of
· NEW: Bulger linked to 11 of the 19 murders he was accused of involvement in
· Bulger guilty on 31 of 32 counts, includign [sic] involvement in some murders
· He also was charged with 13 counts of extortion and money laundering
· Sentencing November 13
(CNN) -- The jury in the trial of convicted mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger found him guilty Monday on 31 of 32 counts -- including involvement in 11 murders.
The guilty verdicts in the federal racketeering trial could bring a sentence of up to life in prison. Now age 83, Bulger could die in prison.
Sentencing was scheduled for November 13.
It's "a complete victory for the government," said CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin.
In one of the racketeering counts, Bulger was accused of involvement in killing 19 people, including two women.
Attorney: Bulger pleased by outcome
Bulger verdict brings closure for some 
James 'Whitey' Bulger found guilty
The jury found Bulger played a role in 11 murders, and that the government failed to prove he was involved in seven other murders. The jury made no finding in one murder.
"Pat Donahue is crying," Feyerick tweeted from court. "Her husband's murder was proved." And Eddie Connor's daughter Karen clenched her fists and said, "Yes" when her father's death by Bulger was proved, Feyerick reported.
But the daughter of Buddy Leonard left court after the jury did not find enough evidence to link Bulger to his death.
And Debra Davis' brother Steven Davis left the court in disbelief after the jury had "no finding" in her death.
It's been called "the Hub of the Universe," and though Boston isn't at the center of American life the way it was when it received the nickname in the 1800s, it's still a place many American notables call home ... though, in some cases, Boston might wish they didn't. Take Whitey Bulger, for example. The gangster has been found guilty on 31 of 32 counts -- including involvement in 11 murders. His reputation was already well-established: He was the basis for Jack Nicholson's character in the Oscar-winning "The Departed."
Actor Ray Bolger, on the other hand, became best known for playing the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz." He grew up in an Irish Catholic family in a Boston neighborhood called Dorchester and also went on to star in a number of Broadway musicals. He died in Los Angeles in 1987, five days after his 83rd birthday.
Mark Wahlberg, a member of "The Departed" cast, is also a proud son of the city. After rising to fame with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, he's become an in-demand actor, with performances in "Boogie Nights" (1997), "Three Kings" (1999), "The Italian Job" (2003) and "Ted" (2012). ("Ted" writer/director Seth MacFarlane, incidentally, is from Connecticut.)
Though Ben Affleck was born in California, his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he was young -- and it was there he met Matt Damon, who lived a few blocks away. The two won Oscars for writing "Good Will Hunting." Affleck is now an Oscar-winning director as well, for "Argo," and Damon is one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
What list of Bostonians would be complete without a Kennedy? John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, the son of [gangster] mogul Joseph P. Kennedy and grandson of former Boston mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, and represented the area in Congress before becoming a senator and then the 35th president.
Kennedy's grandfather was succeeded as mayor by James Michael Curley, a colorful figure who served four terms in office -- and two stints in jail for corruption. He was wildly popular, especially among Irish-Americans, and almost certainly inspired the protagonist in the novel "The Last Hurrah."
OK, so Larry Bird is actually from French Lick, Indiana. Still, given his impact on the Boston Celtics -- a storied team built by a New Yorker (Red Auerbach) and spurred to greatness by a Louisiana-Californian (Bill Russell) -- Boston is proud to claim the Basketball Hall of Famer. Larry Legend won three NBA MVP awards, three championships, an Olympic gold medal and scored bucketloads of points.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, left, and Nicola Sacco were the defendants in one of the most famous cases in U.S. history, convicted of a South Braintree murder more because of their anarchist beliefs than the evidence. Their execution, in 1927, spawned protests, demonstrations and riots around the world.
[What a bunch of Barbra Streisand! This is commie propaganda. Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty as hell! The Sacco and Vanzetti Hoax may well have provided the template for every leftwing hoax that followed, for generations.]
MIT grad and Polaroid employee Tom Scholz built a recording studio in his basement. He formed the band Boston and the recordings he made with fellow musicians -- including singer Brad Delp -- eventually became one of the most successful debut albums of all time, best known for the single "More Than a Feeling." Scholz has since gone on to invent the Rockman amplifier.
Former "Simpsons" writer and longtime talk-show host Conan O'Brien was born in Brookline and didn't even leave the area for college -- Harvard, of course. (Could there be something in the Charles River water? Jay Leno and Louis C.K. were also born and/or raised in the area.)
Dick Dale, the "King of the Surf Guitar," was actually born in Boston. He and his family moved to California when he was a teenager, though he incorporated his Lebanese heritage -- including music he heard at Boston-area festivals -- into his fast-paced style, heard on such cuts as "Let's Go Trippin'" and "Misirlou."
Ever wonder who the "Logan" is in Boston's airport? The name belongs to Edward L. Logan, a brigadier general, veterans advocate and politician who grew up in South Boston. A statue of him was unveiled at the airport when it was renamed in 1956.
New Kids on the Block was one of the heartthrob boy bands of the late '80s and early '90s. Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg ["Marky Mark" Wahlberg's brother] and Danny Wood all hail from the Boston area. The group came off a lengthy hiatus in 2008 and has issued two albums since then.
Led by Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, Aerosmith has been referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston." When they got their start in the early 1970s, all five members shared a small apartment in the city. They went on to become one of the best-selling American rock bands, and in 2001 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Longtime TV journalist Barbara Walters was born in Boston. After five decades in broadcast news, Walters has no shortage of major accomplishments to be proud of, including being the first network evening news anchorwoman when she moved to ABC in 1976. Earlier this year she announced that she will retire from television in 2014.
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the [murderous] Nation of Islam, was born in the Bronx but his family moved to the West Indian section of Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood, in the mid-1930s. He has been criticized for controversial and hateful rhetoric [and for leading a murder cult!], but in 1999 he started preaching a message of racial and religious harmony. [Huh?!] His new outlook was said to be the result of a near-death experience during treatments for prostate cancer.
Albert DeSalvo took responsibility for about a dozen murders when he confessed to being the Boston Strangler. He recanted his admissions and was never convicted of any of the killings before his death, but a recent lab test matched him to DNA evidence taken from the body of one of the victims. DeSalvo was stabbed to death in 1973 while serving a prison sentence for rape. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, across the river from Boston.
Comedian Amy Poehler, a former SNL cast member and the star of the "Parks and Recreation," grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts. In a 2011 commencement speech at Harvard University, she joked: "I graduated from Boston College, which some call 'The Harvard of Boston.'"
Louis C.K. was born in Washington but moved to his father's native Mexico at age 1. When he was 7, his family relocated to suburban Boston. "I grew up in Boston and didn't get the accent, and one of the reasons is that I started in Spanish," he said in a recent issue of Rolling Stone. He is now a stand-up comedian and the writer, director, producer and star of the FX series "Louie."
Donna Summer, who helped define the disco genre of the 1970s, was raised in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood. Her hits -- including "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Love to Love You Baby" and "She Works Hard for the Money" -- electrified dance floors and prompted her coronation as America's queen of disco. She died in 2012 at age 63. [Shoot the caption editor! Summer's biggest and best hits were "Last Dance" and "On the Radio." Who wrote this, a Gloria Gaynor fan?]
"Star Trek" actor Leonard Nimoy grew up in the West End of Boston. Although he took drama classes at Boston College, he never completed his degree. But Nimoy became a household name when he took on the legendary role of the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock in the original "Star Trek" series (1966--1969) and a number of film and television sequels.
Sumner Redstone is the owner of National Amusements, Inc., the parent company of Viacom and CBS Corp. The media magnate was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard University. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in March he was ranked number 267 on the Forbes 400 List of the World's Billionaires.
Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, and resides in Boston. He stepped down as the chairmen and CEO of GE in 2001. The media nicknamed him "Neutron Jack" for his no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners approach to business. In 2007, he made a failed attempt -- with other investors -- to buy the Boston Globe. [I believe that "Neutron Jack" referred to Welch's proclivity for making workers disappear, without losing non-human assets.]
John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A descendant of Plymouth Rock pilgrims, he was a Harvard-educated lawyer and public figure in Boston. He was a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses and served on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Paul Revere was a silversmith from Boston's oldest residential neighborhood, the North End. He became famous for his role in the American Revolution. In 1775, he embarked on a "midnight ride" to Lexington, Massachusetts, where he informed Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming to arrest them. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dramatized the ordeal with the poem "Paul Revere's Ride."
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Debra Davis was dating Bulger's partner Steve Flemmi, and one day just didn't come home.
The only count Bulger was not found guilty of was on the alleged extortion of Kevin Hayes, a ticket broker, who had said he was warned in 1994 that he had to give "payoffs" to Bulger in order to operate.
Bulger showed no emotion as the verdicts were read.
The eight men and four women of the jury deliberated for five days, over more than 32 hours, before reaching their verdict.
It came after seven weeks of testimony about murder, extortion, drug trafficking, loansharking, bookmaking and other gangster crimes covering the time Bulger ran Boston's Irish mob from the early '70s through 1995, when he fled the city.
The verdict closes an epic criminal tale that included a life on the lam for 16 years that began in 1994 when a crooked FBI agent told Bulger that he was about to be indicted on federal racketeering charges.
The Irish mob kingpin of tough-talkin' south Boston soon became one of the most wanted men in America. Bulger the FBI informant became Bulger the FBI fugitive.
It was the stuff of Hollywood moviemaking, and in fact, Bulger's mob-boss brutality inspired Jack Nicholson's character in the film "The Departed," which was directed by Martin Scorsese and won four Oscars in 2006, including best picture.
Then, in 2011, the FBI finally tracked him down: Bulger was living on the other side of the country in an apartment just blocks from the beaches of Santa Monica, California, caressed by year-round sunshine and ocean breezes.
It was a fine life, with about $822,000 in cash -- largely $100 bills -- hidden inside a wall in his apartment, located in a tourist haven right beside Los Angeles. Bulger also kept 30 guns in his residence.
Daring to the end, Bulger was hiding in plain sight, living under an alias with his girlfriend. They called themselves Charlie and Carol Gasko.
It was a long fall for Bulger: One of America's notorious mob bosses was called "a rat bastard" and "a coward" by victims' relatives and former associates who attended or watched the trial.
Bulger declined to take the stand to testify in his defense, telling the judge, outside the jury's presence, that his trial was "a sham" because he had an immunity deal with federal authorities in exchange for being an informant. The judge had ruled he couldn't make that claim during his trial.
Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig, pleaded guilty in March to charges of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.
Her crime was "the most extreme case" of harboring a fugitive, prosecutors said.
Greig, 61, was sentenced in June to eight years in federal prison.
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