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Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Need to push the reset button on 2016Burt Kwouk, who was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 85."
That's terrible news.
Two weeks' vacation starts NOW. I am in dire need of time off. I am ready to kill everyone I work with and half my clients.
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Given your Memorial Day thread, I'm hoping that 'fire up the laptop' is a metaphor...
Shock! Leafmarks has announced they are shutting down on July 1st.
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Couldn't resist
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Now at least their hourly e-mails to me will stop!
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Woke up to this FB message from Burl Barer: Hey, I've been such a busy boy! Were the Goodreads people nice to me Feb-March? Or did they grill me like a swordfish?
I found two places on Goodreads with "How To" stuff for anyone looking for help:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
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Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Posting this here because i closed the relevant thread and don't want to turn on my laptop. Woke up to this FB message from Burl Barer: Hey, I've been such a busy boy! Were the Goodreads people n..."
How did you reply? I looked back and it seems he did okay in that regard.
What's wrong with being grilled like a swordfish?
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Just an aside -- I finally opened my latest two National Geographics, and the June issue has a very encouraging article on how Juarez, Mexico has turned itself around since the peak of their drug wars, when 3,766 people were murdered in a single year. The "femicides" appear to be over, the prisons are no longer being run by the prisoners, the police actually do their jobs now, and it's safe to walk the streets again.
The July issue has a very thought-provoking piece on the gaps in the forensic sciences, the mistakes that are being made and the efforts to make that area of science more accurate and reliable. Great stuff.
The August author of the month has been posted. It is John Douglas.
And of course I just got through reading my only book by him. Sheesh.
Got me a new lap top. Oh my gosh, I cant believe how fast it is compared to my 10 year old model. I will be able to do so much more posting now!
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Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "He's just a normal guy ... that tried to shot the president. https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05..."Never has spent a day in prison, having been found guilty by reason of insanity. I guess the difference is that the president didn't die.
They looked into their hearts, decided that Jodie Foster would never fall for this guy no matter whom he killed, and made their decision.Remember everyone that the McNaughton Rule was created due to an almost identical situation in Britain!
This a big issue ... insanity defense and what to do with people who really are insane. I found the following quote in the book about Andrea Yates to be thought provoking:START OF QUOTE
Joe Owmby [prosecuted Yates], too, had given the insanity defense some thought. “I don’t know what the right answer is,” he says. “This is a decision that people like to put off on the judicial system…. You guys [citizens]have got to tell us, we’re going to follow the laws that exist as they are right now. If there’s something different that we should be doing, you’re going to have to tell us…. The debate is going to get worse, because psychology is moving ever closer to…claiming the ability to attach an organic cause to every instance of violence…very close to arguing there is no free will.”
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From: Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
The last sentence is what the one that got me thinking.
Shelley wrote: "This a big issue ... insanity defense and what to do with people who really are insane. I found the following quote in the book about Andrea Yates to be thought provoking:START OF QUOTE
Joe Owmb..."
I think anyone who could kill another human being without remorse aint right in the head. Thus every killer could be considered insane, right?
Koren wrote: "Shelley wrote: "This a big issue ... insanity defense and what to do with people who really are insane. I found the following quote in the book about Andrea Yates to be thought provoking:START OF..."
No, I don't believe so. To me there is a big difference between a psychopath who commits murders and other crimes but is not mentally ill and someone who is psychotic. A truly insane (which is a legal term) person does not know right from wrong, can't understand the charges against them, can't help with their defense, etc. A psychopathic sicko knows they are doing wrong and doesn't care, feels entitled, etc. They aren't insane.
But in any case, society needs to be protected from them. They can't be free in society either way.
Then there is a question of who is truly insane and who is just a jerk/psychopath and you get the dueling psychologists hired by both sides saying different things. And we go around and around .....
And most people who kill someone are neither psychotic nor psychopathic. They're just really, really angry.
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Need to push the reset button on 2016."2016 is not shaping up to be great for me, personally. Besides having a broken leg that won't heal, one of my two dogs died Sunday night. She was 14 1/4. Poor baby, I miss her terribly.
That is kind of terrible. I knew about the puppy being sick, but the broken bone is news. Why in the world won't the leg heal? Are you hypothyroid or something?
I broke the leg way back in early April in Italy, on the second day of my vacation. Got it splinted, bought a pair of crutches, and continues with things. After getting back to the states 10 days later, I had it re-splinted, eventually placed in a hard cast, and then in a pin-cam 'walking' brace. It was at about that time that the doc noticed it really wasn't healing. Apparently about 5% of long bone breaks are 'non-union' - that is, they stop connecting. I'm now using a bone stimulator device daily to try to avoid surgery. It runs electricity through the bone ends for 3 hours - in fact, I'm using it now as I sit here. At least I've been allowed to go down to a smaller brace that will fit in a shoe so I can walk around some.
Well, doesn't that sound delightful.
Yeah.I'm sure there's a joke about non-union and scabs in there somewhere...
I just heard on the radio that they recently passed a concealed-carry law allowing anyone to carry on any Texas college or university campus. There's a nice tribute to the memory of all the people who died at the hands of Charles Whitman. They talked to a survivor of the massacre -- he was standing next to Harry Walchuk at a newsstand and felt the bullet whiz past his ear as Walchuk was killed -- and asked him if he thought a law like that would have helped on that day. "Well, no!" he said. "He was dressed like a workman and carried his arsenal upstairs in a toolbox on a dolly. He presented no [visible] danger at all."
Plus, anyone else wielding a gun in that vicinity would probably have been taken out by the police pretty quickly.
And all you could really see of him, once things got started, was his gunsmoke:
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Yeah, someone who saw blood on the floor of the lobby said she thought it was wood stain.
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Of course all the crazies are coming out of the Facebook woodwork, hoping she writes 'the truth', you know, that Manson is innocent. BAER
Burned Area Emergency Response Team, in my lingo...
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Burt Kwouk, who was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 85.