January 26, 2020

"I gave up my life to move to Washington to help Americans," Ivanka Trump says in Davos interview.

https://twitter.com/vickiringer/status/1221059823124537344

January 25, 2020

George Takei... Star Trek as hopeful. Trump is the mirror image

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/25/george-takei-star-trek-vision-was-hopeful-trumps-is-mirror-image/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

January 25, 2020

Wife Dies After Husband Trips While Carrying Her, Husband suing over pothole that tripped him

Wife Dies After Husband Trips While Carrying Her
He's now suing over pothole that tripped him, leading to her fatal head injuries

A young Marine was carrying his wife to their car after a night out with friends when he tripped on a pothole—and five days later, she was dead. John and Robyn Pinkham were newlyweds when tragedy struck on June 14 of last year, People reports. They were leaving the Coyote Bar and Grill in Carlsbad, California, when John tripped, sending Robyn to the ground, where she hit her head on the pavement and lost consciousness. The 22-year-old was rushed to the hospital, but ultimately died from the severe head injuries she suffered. John, 23, who was also injured in the incident, is now suing the restaurant's parent company, NBC San Diego reports.

"Young, in love, and newlyweds, John Pinkham was carrying his wife Robyn Pinkham in his arms as they moved towards the group’s car. As John Pinkham walked through the poorly lit, un-even, and pothole-ridden parking lot while lovingly holding his wife, John stepped into a pothole causing him to lose his footing and fall forward," the lawsuit states, accusing the company of an "inexcusable failure to maintain their parking lot in a safe condition." But a restaurant manager tells NBC San Diego the area in question is not technically a parking lot, but a street owned by the city, one side of which is used as commuter parking for North County Transit. Local workers also say the parking spaces are typically patched by the parent company every summer.

January 25, 2020

long long train of military vehicles pass by in California

starting at 9:45 on the video. this was filmed recently What's going on?

January 25, 2020

autistic son of NYPD locked in unheated garage overnight. Father and girlfriend charged with murder

Eight-year-old autistic son of NYPD cop 'was starved, beaten and locked in a garage and left to freeze to death overnight' say police as his father and his fiance are charged with second-degree murder

NYPD officer and his fiancée are charged with second-degree murder in the death of his eight-year-old son, Thomas Valva, on January 17

Michael Valva, 40, and Angela Pollina, 42, were arrested Friday in Long Island, New York

Authorities say Valva beat his son before forcing him into an unheated garage overnight, while outside temperatures were 19 degrees

Doctors say Thomas' body temperature was just 76 degrees while trying to revive him

Authorities say Valva's other two sons suffered 'food deprivation and exposure to extremely frigid temperatures'

Valva's sons and Pollina's three children were placed in Child Protective Services




‘Both Anthony and Thomas come into school hungry and frequently say they did not eat breakfast because they did not ask for breakfast or got in trouble.’

‘The boys were afraid to go to the nurses’s office for a while and they said it was because they were directed by Mr. Valva and Angela not to go to the nurse’s office.’

Anthony had allegedly dropped around 11 pounds over the course of nine months.

Police conducted a welfare check at the home in May 2019, but the family was not home at the time.

January 24, 2020

Officials believe they've found the 'Pillowcase Rapist.' The suspect was building a 'dungeon'

Officials believe they've found the 'Pillowcase Rapist.' The suspect was building a 'dungeon' beneath his home, officials say



https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/us/robert-koehler-pillowcase-rapist/index.html

Authorities believe a Florida man arrested last weekend is the so-called Pillowcase Rapist and is responsible for a string of notorious South Florida assaults that took place in the 1980s, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

Robert Eugene Koehler was arrested in Palm Bay, Florida, after new DNA analysis allegedly tied him to a rape in Miami in December 1983, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court documents show.

But that DNA also matched samples from a number of cases between 1981 to 1986 left by a suspect who became known as the Pillowcase Rapist, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a news conference.

The assailant in those cases is believed to have attacked more than 40 women in metropolitan Miami, often concealing his face with a pillowcase, shirt or towel.

In all, authorities have linked Koehler to at least 25 cases, Fernandez Rundle said.

Investigators searched Koehler's home, underneath which they found an excavated area where they believe Koehler was building "a dungeon," Miami-Dade County Prosecutor Laura Adams said.

"We feared very much that if we had not gotten him into custody that he may have had other plans even worse than what he executed on all of these women from these cases," Adams said.

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The "key breakthrough" came when Koehler's son was recently arrested in an unrelated domestic violence case, Fernandez Rundle said. His DNA was similar enough to the Pillowcase Rapist's that investigators believed the unknown assailant was his father.

January 24, 2020

Six Teen Boys Played A Ding-Dong Ditch Prank. Minutes Later, Three Were Dead.

Anurag Chandra, 42, was charged with murder after he “intentionally” rammed his car into a vehicle carrying six teenage boys, killing three of them, authorities said.


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On Sunday night, the six teens were having a sleepover when they dared one of the boys to “jump into a pool at night or ding-dong-ditch a house,” Campusano said.

The investigation by the California Highway Patrol confirmed that during their sleepover, one of the boys was dared to do a "doorbell ditch," the Riverside County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.

Being the oldest of the group, Campusano drove the group less than a mile to a nearby house.

Once there, one of the boys got out of the car, rang the doorbell, and ran back to the Prius, authorities said.

Chandra, the resident of the house, then allegedly got into his car and began chasing the teens’ car in his own vehicle, the DA’s office said.

“He got really close and I was like, What is this guy doing?” Campusano told NBC4. “And I felt like a nudge forward like he hit me from the back and I was like, There’s no way he just did that… like, this guy is insane.”

Campusano said that when the man rammed their car from the side, he thought, "If anything happens, I love these guys.”

“He just got next to me and I was confused. What is he going to do?” Campusano said. “I just saw him ram his car into my back. And I whipped into my window and I blacked out and then I remember I woke up on the floor. I don’t remember how I got there. I was shaking."
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/california-murder-teens-crash-ding-dong-ditch-prank

January 23, 2020

Trump Visits Doral Golf Resort Where RNC Is Spending Another Half-Million Dollars

Trump Visits Doral Golf Resort Where RNC Is Spending Another Half-Million Dollars
Republicans attending the RNC’s winter meeting said they had no problem putting money into the president’s pocket.

DORAL, Fla. — President Donald Trump flew to his for-profit golf resort Thursday beside the Miami airport, where the Republican National Committee is putting another half-million dollars into his cash registers by holding its second meeting there in two years.

Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, shrugged off the occasional whiffs of mildew and the resort’s location beneath constant jet traffic. “I don’t think anybody thinks about putting money in Trump’s pocket,” he said in the chandeliered lobby. “It’s just part of the overall persona of who Donald Trump is.”


RNC officials did not respond to HuffPost’s queries about how much they are spending to host this three-day meeting. However, a similar meeting in May 2018 ended up costing the party $602,765. The RNC already paid the resort $169,763 on Nov. 6, 2019, in advance of the current meeting. It also paid Doral $84,822 to hold a lunch fundraiser there in June 2019.

RNC members and guests also pay Doral about $1,000 each out of pocket for rooms and food at the higher-than-average-priced restaurants on site.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-resort-doral-rnc_n_5e29ec56c5b67d8874ae887e

January 23, 2020

Trump loves saying "sir"

January 23, 2020

Minority Voters Told Us What It Takes To Win Their Vote