Jayson Jack was 16 when he allegedly tried to carry out a hit against Synsyr Lewis’s father in a restaurant parking lot in Federal Way, Washington. According to prosecutors, Jack “circled the parking lot several times” before “firing 15 rounds into the windshield” of th[...]
Archive for October, 2024
October 4th, 2024 - 11:14 pm § in Law and Courts
What should happen to a 16-year-old who guns down a toddler?
Trump rally crowd boos soldier over base name
Disrespecting our military personnel and veterans has been a Trump hallmark. That hasn’t changed and isn’t going to. At a townhall-style campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, October 4, 2024, Trump “chuckled” as his crowd booed an active-duty soldier. The soldier’[...]
October 4th, 2024 - 2:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP candidate claims America was a “bad guy” in WW2
Royce White’s specialty is basketball, not history, and it shows in his public comments. White (profile here) is a non-serious candidate in Minnesota’s 2024 U.S. Senate election. He’s a throwaway candidate, i.e. a placeholder on the ballot for a hopeless race shunned by career poli[...]
Arrest made in Springfield, Ohio, goose killing
Well, if they weren’t eating pet dogs and cats, then they’re killing ducks and geese. That was the charge leveled by Republicans against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrants, who are in the U.S. legally on work visas. A cat did go missing. It turned up alive in its owner’s [...]
What’s wrong with Republican voters?
Trump’s attempts “to unravel American democracy” might not prevent his return to power. That’s because “while he horrifies many Americans, his conduct after the last election is not seen as disqualifying by millions of others,” CNN says (read article here). The articl[...]
October 3rd, 2024 - 9:26 pm § in Misc.
Mt. Adams more seismically active
Washington’s Mt. Adams, rising 12,281 feet above the Columbia River 30 miles away, is rumbling. Wikipedia says (here), “Seismic activity around Adams is very low and it is one of the quietest volcanoes in Oregon and Washington.” Not anymore. Mt. Adams typically records an earthqua[...]
October 3rd, 2024 - 8:36 pm § in Misc.
Ex-aides say Trump conditioned federal disaster aid on loyalty
Several times during his presidency, Trump refused to release federal disaster relief funds, until he was shown those areas had voted for him. That’s according to former Trump advisers, “if Trump wins the White House again, he will view disasters through a political lens that values pers[...]
Look, a reasonable Republican!
They’re rare these days, but they still exist. Christina Loren works for RSBN, a rightwing media company (details here). At a Trump rally in Saginaw, Michigan, she interviewed a flag shop owner. She told the man, who was wearing a Trump hat, he’s “selling something that we can all[...]
Prominent Nevada MAGA politician convicted of stealing charity funds
Michele Fiore (photo, left; profile here), 54, a former Nevada state representative and failed candidate for state treasurer, was convicted on federal wire fraud charges on October 3, 2024, and could spend years in prison (read story here). Fiore, a controversial figure in Nevada politics, got in tr[...]
October 3rd, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Jury convicts cops in black man’s beating death
Tyre Nichols (photo, left), 29, was beaten to death by 5 police officers (photo at bottom) on January 7, 2023 (details here). All the cops involved, like Nichols, were black; this wasn’t a white-on-black incident, but it is a case of police brutality and misconduct. On October 3, 2024, a jury [...]