Yep another Cord used for murder.
Convicted Wednesday of strangling his 78-year-old mother to death, Michael Lee Reineke said Thursday he couldn’t take it anymore…Reineke choked out her life with a knotted computer cord
You’re probably reading this on a computer, and it probably has a long cord. If tools cause murder, why are you not a murderer?
“Gun Death” indeed.
She just had another seizure. This one seemed to last a long time. And if you’ve never seen somebody in a full-blown grand Mal, there’s no way to describe how horrible they are.
Mother-in-law hollered to me, and I came running. After the smoke cleared she mentioned how glad she was that I was here.
Certainly I made the right choice to head home.
Meds are on board, I guess we just have to wait for them to kick in.
Former three-term Fort Wayne Mayor Paul Helmke said Thursday he’ll step down July 10 as president of the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Helmke, 62, said he’s undecided about his next career move and whether he’ll stay in Washington or return to Fort Wayne, where he maintains a home.
My guess is his best bet is to collect Social Security or Unemployment, unless they will actually take somebody this slippery and stupid in the TSA.
Sebastian and his commenters are speculating who might become the new president.
Doesn’t matter, if you support gun control you are both evil and stupid.
Period, Full Stop!
Well I’m back in Massachusetts now, after giving a very impromptu promotion to one of my staffers to Assistant Security Chair. Hopefully Portcon will do well in my absence.
Why am I here? Well I got a call from the Mrs. at 1am last night and she was really upset. She was concerned she had had a seizure in her sleep. Her muscles felt sore, and she just had a bad feeling about it.
She took some Lorazepam which essentially conks the brain out and quiets any seizure activity and let her go to sleep.
Next morning we talked and chalked it up to her lugging some heavy groceries home, coupled with a epilepsy nightmare. The nightmares are not uncommon to her, as you can imagine for a woman who’s dealt with this condition for about half of her life.
Well optimism was not to win out. With the first Convention attendees getting their badges and my staff starting their duties my phone rang.
It was the Mrs. again. She was disoriented, groggy, and talking funny on account that she had bit up her tongue pretty bad. There could be no doubt that she had had a seizure.
I gave things a little bit of thought, then I tracked down the con chair and told her my dilemma. A few more meetings with a few more people, and I was encouraged to get the hell out of Dodge and take care of my wife, and assured the slack would be picked up, and I would be missed.
So on the highway I went and returned. Also Mom-in-Law was coming down anyway, so she’s here as well, so Casa de Weer’d is well staffed with caregivers.
She also talked to the doctor who is putting her back on an intermediate dose of her meds. During her med taper we knew this was a possibility, just we got a little confident when the last of the pills were taken and 3 weeks passed with no ill effects.
Still 10 months without a seizure and 3 weeks of no meds without a seizure is a vast improvement for a woman who had about 12 seizures a month on a very high dose of medication.
Spirits are pretty low here, but I suspect a reasonable end-game of no seizures on a low dose of medication is in our future.
Still if you got any of those thoughts and prayers laying around, they’d me much appreciated, especially since the Mrs will be reading this once she’s feeling a bit better.
An interesting chapter in Boston crime and politics comes to an end. What’s most interesting in how it ended.
After all these years, how do the feds finally catch Whitey?
By running an ad on “The View.” Or “Rachael Ray.” Or some other silly daytime women’s TV show. Whitey, the president-for-life of the He Man Woman Haters’ Club, brought down by the likes of Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.
Of course while Whitey was dealing drugs, running rackets, and brutally murdering people, his Brother was a ranking official in Massachusetts Politics with NO knowledge of his Brother’s nefarious doings *wink wink*.
Like so many major US cities that have ties between their governing bodies and the local mob, Boston is no different.
I’m glad they got him. I’ll be interested to see who gets the $2million reward for Bulger, and the $100,000 for his long-time girlfriend.
Does the woman in your life cook? Are there knives in your kitchen? Maybe you should rethink that!
Police have arrested a woman who witnesses said spent the night with a man who later was found stabbed to death in his bedroom.
You see knives in the hands of woman CAUSE death! A KNIFE killed this man! The fact that she was a drug using prostitute has NOTHING to do with this case. Not at all!
So I’m safe and sound in Maine, probably soon to be hitting the rack. Saw an oddity on the highway heading up. As I was driving in Southern Maine (Around Wells for those keeping score) I saw a black Mustang sideways in the opposite lane. As I passed I realized it wasn’t sideways but turning into the Law Enforcement turn-around gap.
Dad had been telling me that Maine Highway patrol had bought a bunch of Mustangs and were running them Unmarked in the speed traps.
Well not only did he pull into the turn-around, but he started heading my way at about 80. I slowed down and let him pass, and while he did I got a good look.
2011 Mustang GT 5.0L, all black with blacked out windows. Also the licence plate was the standard Chickadee civilian licence plate, and a fully uniformed highway patrol officer behind the wheel.
Really slick ride, and scary-camouflaged, He could have snuck up on me and speed-matched me without me even suspecting it was the Five-Oh in the 5.0.
Slick ride but: No back seat or security cage for apprehending criminals. No Push bars for a PIT maneuver, and while I’m sure that 412hp 302CI muscle car will do wonders running down perps in a high-speed chase, who does those things anymore when we have helicopters and spike strips?
Nope its all about speeding tickets which are about money-money-money. Sad really, because all I could think of was this:
Call it a V8 Interceptor, call it the Pursuit Special, certainly call it cool!
Gonna be light Blogging ahead. Portcon is this weekend. Should be a great time and another fun convention.
If you’re in the area, and enjoy video games, Anime, and general G33k Culture, swing on by, it’ll be a hoot!
We talked about this before. Now the Surgeon General is going to unveil ugly and I’m sure expensive new warning labels for Cigarets.
I won’t go over what I’ve said before. I will say that NOBODY who’s ever smoked a cigarette ever thought they were doing something good for their bodies. Nobody said “Nah, I didn’t eat my broccoli with dinner last night, but I did smoke three Newports after dessert…the box is green, so its the same thing!”
I’ll just say in college I knew a guy who smoked these cigarettes, and he was quite pleased with them.
Again they’re adding lots of expense to the cost of making smokes (not to mention the massive taxes), and NOTHING will change.
Government is stupidity. End, FULL STOP.
Lawmakers in Wisconsin, one of the last states to prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons, approved lifting the ban Tuesday and sent Republican Gov. Scott Walker a measure he is expected to quickly sign into law.
Once Wisconsin’s measure takes effect this fall, Illinois will be the only state that bans carrying guns, knives and other concealed weapons.
I’m watching all the anti-gun heads pop around the internet. From the Article:
“Putting more guns on the streets, particularly in Milwaukee, is the worst thing we can do,” said Rep. Leon Young, D-Milwaukee, who pushed for barring guns at neighborhood festivals. His proposal was rejected.
Again see the top of the page. Its just you and Illinois left. EVERY OTHER state has some provision on Conceal Carry. Places like my state make it a royal bitch to get a permit, but with some determination, work, and sadly, willingness to move out of certain towns that hate freedom, you can get your LTC-A for carry.
Other places like New Jersey or Maryland, its damn near impossible. Still The vast majority of this country permits are “Shall Issue” and fairly straightforward to aquire. Some require special training and tests, others just want a check and do background checks, other states like Vermont, Alaska, Wyoming, Arizona, and most of Montana could care less what you do with your gun once you legally acquire it.
If you’re in Wisconsin and you’re nervous about conceal carry, you’re like the idiots in Massachusetts who are TERRIFIED of buying beer in the grocery store, or letting a construction worker direct traffic around the work zone (Mass we require a Police officer get paid time-and-a-half to direct traffic….and if you’re new to driving in Massachusetts, they don’t give a shit and WILL direct you into oncoming traffic or into heavy machinery, ignore them or you will die…they don’t care so long as the check clears).
Trust me, NOTHING bad will happen. You need to understand that you’re afraid because you’re ignorant. Remedy that!
And good on Wisconsin! I’ll note that Wisconsin isn’t terrible when it comes to guns, and they, like many other states, allow open carry without permits or permission. Still demanding open carry in Wisconsin in February when the CO2 in the air is condensing on the metal of the lamp posts is nothing more than the denial of the “…And Bear” part of the constitution. As well as places like Florida and Texas that require carried guns to be concealed in August when your tennis shoes are melting to the pavement is just foolish as well.
Go on Wisconsin, and let’s all the states (Especially my Anti-Rights Prison) push back the stupid laws more towards reason, and…you know…REAL common sense.
