OK I’m all caught up on sleep, not all caught up on life.
Just got an well-needed massage from Christina . I gave her an extra tip because she totally worked out the knots made from walking the convention floor all weekend.
We listened to this while I squirmed like a little bitch with her elbow into my shoulder:
More blogging soon!
So they say when people talk about self-defense cases:
The first time Beatrice Ann Ibanez stabbed a boyfriend to death, in 1996, the charges were dropped due to her claims of self-defense.
The criminal justice system wasn’t as sympathetic to her Wednesday.
“I would have thought one dead body in your history would have kept you out of the courtroom,” state District Judge Sid Harle told the Von Ormy resident as he sentenced her to 30 years in prison for the September 2011 murder of Alfredo Ramirez, 46, then her boyfriend, who was stabbed in the heart.
The sentence was the maximum possible under a plea agreement Ibanez, 44, reached with prosecutors in January.
Immediately after both slayings, Ibanez told police she had been in an abusive relationship and was tired of being targeted.
She also was drinking heavily on both occasions, she acknowledged.
Every self-defense case is also a murder investigation. Like everything, no system is perfect. If she had shot them, this would be all over the “Gun Death” blogs…but it isn’t!
You gotta love these malignant narcissists in New York!
A new cupcake shop thought it would be funny to create a 25-pound treat with the mayor’s face, but the health conscious Michael Bloomberg said the gesture was anything but sweet.
On Thursday, Food Network personalities Ron and Ruthie Bzdewka will open House of Cupcakes in Chelsea with a mega-sized cupcake called “The Mayor.”
Reminds me of the Bloomberg Duracoat Collection
They even made a rifle with Bloomberg’s face on it!
And his sanctimonious response?
Bloomberg, a staunch leader in fight against obesity, called out the cake shop for poking fun at his nutritional initiatives such as the plan to ban large sugary sodas. He reminded reporters that obesity is becoming a major epidemic. “There is nothing funny about making a joke about people dying,” he said.
Sorry asshole, cupcakes aren’t killing anybody. People with poor lifestyle choices are causing the problem, and restricting private business will do nothing to change that!
And Chucky Schumer on the Liberator printed gun:
Man, he’s not even living in reality.
What is WRONG with New York, electing such uppity goons???
Baby duck feels like I do this morning:
Eh, off to work!
On the eve of City Council hearings on a proposed ordinance to ban energy drinks in Chicago, the maker of one brand of those beverages is disputing allegations that its products are dangerous.
A Maryland family whose child died after consuming monster energy drinks disagrees. They want to help stop the sale of the drinks.
Alderman Ed Burke has proposed banning high-caffeine energy drinks in Chicago. A hearing Tuesday afternoon will address that proposal.
Go read the story, I don’t think the drink was actually to blame…still ban it anyway..should work as well as the other bans Chicago does!
h/t Wallphone
I guess Not Really:
In their Leesburg neighborhood of Edwards Landing, Kyung and Dae Hwang struck everyone as a couple full of love and generosity….Capt. Clagett Moxley of the Leesburg police said Kyung suffered “several stab wounds all over the body.” Knives have been recovered from the Hwangs’ home, and authorities are awaiting the autopsy report to confirm the official cause of death. Police said they had never responded to the house for any emergency before Saturday’s visit.
Adds an interesting spin on the whole “Hidden Criminals” thing, or “Guns Make it too easy to murder”. Odd and sad case, but not interesting to the anti-freedom crowd, as no guns were used.
h/t Nancy
Ok after a good night sleep I’ll be feeling a lot better.
Until then enjoy some baby geese I saw today on my way to work!
They are made of yellow softness!!!!
Plane landed at midnight, thankfully my face was mashed into my pillow at 1am…Saddly Mrs. Weer’d obeyed my foolish request to wake me up at 5:30.
More blogging after more sleeping.
Japan, the land of gun control, and sadly the land of “Gun Death”.
A Romanian boy who stabbed a young Tokyo woman in the back in a mugging has explained that “stabbing her was simpler than threatening her” and that he needed her money “as I spent all mine at the arcade.”
The 17-year-old unemployed Romanian boy resided in Tokyo’s Musashino city, and explained that “I thought I’d rob someone as I spent all my money at the arcade. It occurred to me that it would be simpler to take their money if I just stabbed them, rather than threatened them.”
Wow, good thing nobody had a gun, right?
h/t Roadkill
