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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 3:25am

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 He remembers thinking he might die and pleading with the masked classmate with the shotgun to stop, to get help.

 Cole recounted the scene in court Wednesday as he urged a Champaign County judge to give teen gunman Ely Serna the maximum possible sentence for the January 2017 shooting at West Liberty-Salem High School that critically injured him and slightly hurt another student.

 The judge obliged, sentencing the 18-year-old Serna to more than 23 years in prison.

 Defense attorney Dennis Lieberman blamed Serna’s actions on mental illness, saying the then-17-year-old believed he was following a deity’s orders when he opened fire with his own shotgun in a bathroom and at classrooms of the school in West Liberty, roughly 45 miles northwest of Columbus.

 Serna told the court he didn’t have a particular motive or target.

One student was shot at a school in Ohio early...

 Lieberman said he was disappointed that Serna’s mental health wasn’t given greater consideration in the sentencing, noting that psychologists have diagnosed Serna with major depressive disorder and concluded he didn’t know right from wrong at the time of the shooting.

 He said Serna’s family is considering whether to appeal the judge’s decision.

County Prosecutor Kevin Talebi acknowledged mental illness was a factor but argued that Serna knew his actions were wrong and that he deserved the maximum sentence.

 Lieberman sought leniency, pointing out that Serna was remorseful and pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and inducing panic because he wanted to spare others from enduring a trial and reliving what happened. Another 10 counts were dropped with that plea.

 Cole, who still has hundreds of lead shotgun pellets in his body, said the shooting ravaged him physically and emotionally.

  He forgives Serna, he said, but “there is a difference between forgiveness and justice.”

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 3:01am

Oklahoma man, 57, dies after rattlesnake bites him twice: 

 Don't mess with snakes!'

By Madeline Farber | Fox News

 The man had wrangled snakes before, which is why he was confident he would be able to remove the rattler from the road.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 2:58am

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 Barry Lester was driving in Osage County on Sunday when he saw the snake in the middle of the road and decided to stop and move it out of the way, the Tulsa World reported.

  A 57-year-old man in Oklahoma is dead after being bitten by a rattlesnake, his wife said. “It bit his left hand, and then he put it in his right and it bit that hand too,” Lester's wife, Roberta, told the newspaper.

 The couple was traveling to Keystone Lake when the incident occured.  

“We were just going to walk and have a day outside enjoying the lake.

It was his birthday,” she said.

 After realizing he was bit, Barry told his wife they needed to go to the hospital. The couple rushed to meet the ambulance at their Turley home, which would then take Lester to a hospital in nearby Tulsa.

 But then Lester's head suddenly dropped — and "that was it," Roberta said.

Emergency officials tried to revive the 57-year-old but it was too late.

  Barry died from a “combination of the rattlesnake bite and an existing heart condition," according to the Tulsa World.

 Barry had wrangled snakes before, Roberta told the Tulsa World, which is why he was confident he would be able to remove the rattler from the road.

 Now his wife has a warning for others:

"Don’t mess with snakes. If you hear it rattling, you leave it alone.”

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 2:40am

Murder suspect was at crime scene asking what happened.

May/2/18 | 5:05pm  By Jackie Salo

Bexar County Jail

 A Texas teen accused in a fatal stabbing reportedly went to the crime scene and asked reporters there what happened hours before his arrest.

 Jorge Carmond, 17, joined neighbors and news outlets Thursday outside the South Bexar County home on his street where an elderly couple was killed earlier that morning, mySanAntonio reported.

 Carmond approached a reporter around 9 a.m. to inquire what drew the police presence to the neighborhood, according to the news site.

 He showed “minimal visible shock” when he was informed of the stabbing deaths of 61-year-old John Smith and 59-year-old Melinda Smith.

 Using a false name, Carmond agreed to give an interview about his neighbors, the news site reported. “There hasn’t been anything like this. The couple mostly kept to themselves. He claimed he was friends with the couple’s daughter and one of their sons. “They didn’t really like me, you know,” Carmond said. “They were pretty mean.”

 Mid-interview, Carmond was pulled aside by a deputy who said someone reported him to authorities as a suspicious person.

 He was reportedly brought for further questioning to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office where he was arrested. “Though the process of the investigation, investigators gather enough information to charge and book Jorge Carmond for capital murder,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

 The teen was booked on charges for capital murder. He remains held in Bexar County Jail on $500,000 bond. No motive has been released in the double murder.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 2:19am

 What really happened with Worthless ted kennedy at Chappaquiddick?

With the 2018 release of the film Chappaquiddick, decades-old questions have resurfaced about what really happened during the incident that not only claimed the life of young political staffer Mary Jo Kopechne but also sapped the presidential aspirations of Massachusetts Senator Worthless ted kennedy.

  Early reviews suggest the film fails to present any new information and does not adequately address the considerable damage control efforts taken by kennedy's enormously powerful and influential family. 
 However, the conversation about the tragedy that forever reshaped an American political dynasty is now being revisited.

  What exactly happened the night of July 18 and early morning of July 19, 1969 on that quiet island adjacent Martha's Vineyard?

The 'second passenger' theory:

 The most popular conspiracy surrounding the incident at Chappaquiddick, which suggests that kennedy actually left the party with a different young woman, Rosemary Keough, and didn't even know Mary Jo Kopechne was in the car at all. This theory is the basis of yet another Chappaquiddick book — kennedy once groused about there having been "upwards of twenty" written about it — written by research physicist Donald F. Nelson, called Chappaquiddick Tragedy: kennedy's Second Passenger Revealed.
 Speaking with the Cape Cod Times about his work, Nelson said that he collaborated closely with John Farrar,  "the fire department water-rescue expert" who retrieved Kopechne's body.

 Farrar endorsed Nelson's work so heartily, he even "wrote a blurb for the back cover." Nelson's assertion is that since Kopechne was found in the backseat and had none of the facial trauma that would have been consistent with the shattered glass from the front passenger window, combined with the fact that Keough's purse was also retrieved from the car, there must have been another passenger: Rosemary Keough.
 "My book is not a work of imagination, conspiracy theories or political animus.

All my conclusions are based on facts published in that era," Nelson told the Cape Cod Times. "kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident was a historic incident in American presidential politics and thus deserves resolution.

I believe I have done that."

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 2:17am

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The alleged cover-up:
 Yet another version of the "second passenger" theory came to light when a "retired CIA operative" told TMZ almost an identical version of Donald F. Nelson's hypothesis, with one big difference. kennedy was allegedly having an affair with "the wife of a very powerful politician," who was supposedly also at the Chappaquiddick cottage shindig. 
 Here's how this theory plays out:

kennedy and the mystery mistress wanted "some alone time," so they jumped in kennedy's car and headed for a secluded beach.

  However, neither bothered to check the backseat where Mary Jo Kopechne was apparently passed out drunk. The operative said that after the crash, kennedy and lover "both swam to shore safely" and "were not injured."
 As for the non-Kopechne purse found in the car? That supposedly belonged to the politician's wife, which the officers "immediately knew," and which sparked the elaborate cover-up that led to kKennedy's dubious hole-punched narrative of the incident.
 Granted, this is pure speculation from an anonymous source, and even the most thorough debunking of kennedy's testimony, like this one from The Washington Post, identifies the purse as belonging to Rosemary Keough, who requested it from the Edgartown Police after the accident. Keough was most certainly not a politician's wife, but rather another of the aforementioned "boiler room girls."
 As for how her purse ended up in kennedy's car that ill-fated evening?

We'll never know, because amazingly, Edgartown Police Chief Arena never asked her.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 2:16am

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ted kennedy's presidential aspirations die:
 Though his senate seat survived for an astonishing four more decades, ted kennedy never made it to a presidential candidacy. It's impossible to think the shadow of Chappaquiddick didn't have a lot — or everything — to do with that, which is a sentiment shared by many in the party who in the aftermath of the incident lamented, "kenkedy's finished," according to Newsweek.
 But kennedy did take a stab at the White House in 1980 during a contentious primary in which he tried to defeat the embattled and widely unpopular incumbent president at the time, peanut breath jimmy carter.

 According to ABC News, kennedy had a fighting chance until something entirely unrelated to Chappaquiddick derailed his opportunity.
 During an interview with journalist Roger Mudd, kennedy was asked why he wanted to be president. His answer was a perplexing and vague diatribe that another journalist, who was present for the interview, seemed to think was indicative of how the so-called Lion of the Senate's heart, just wasn't in it anymore.
 kennedy did manage to muster up some passion during his concession speech, known as "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech, at the Democratic National Convention, but it seemed that's exactly what had happened, at least in terms of his presidential aspirations.

kennedy's last words on Chappaquiddick:

 Sen. Worthless ted kennedy passed away Aug. 25, 2009, making the remarks about Chappaquiddick in his posthumous memoir, True Compass, his final sentiments on the incident.

  kennedy wrote that the night was "a horrible tragedy that haunts me every day of my life." He once again accepted responsibility for Mary Jo Kopechne's death and claimed that he made it a point to make nothing but apologies when it came to his public statements on the matter.
 The reason for that, and for never addressing the "totally false, bizarre, and evil theories that do not deserve to be repeated" was because of the personal principle he held to "never respond to false gossip and innuendo," even when it came to matters outside of Chappaquiddick.

 kennedy also wrote that a big part of his reticence toward "public discussion of that terrible night would only have caused Joe and Gwen Kopechne, Mary Jo's parents more pain."
 That's a very interesting perspective for kennedy to have about Kopechne's parents, because…

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 2:15am

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Mary Jo Kopechne's family still wants closure

 According to E! News, on the night of ted kennedy's TV appearance, Joe and Gwen Kopechne gave two very different reactions to his remarks.

 Joe described them as "not enough," while Gwen said, "I am satisfied with the Senator's statement — and do hope he decides to stay on as Senator."
 Somewhere along the way, Gwen changed her tune dramatically, telling Ladies' Home Journal, "I think there was a big cover-up and that everybody was paid off. The hearing, the inquest — it was all a farce." She added, "The kennedys had the upper hand, and it's been that way ever since."

  Both Gwen and Joe also alleged that they "didn't learn anything about Mary Jo]'s death from kennedy, nor did they ever hear him say he was sorry."
 The Kopechnes never pursued a lawsuit against kennedy, but they did receive a payment of $90,904 from him, as well as a $50,000 insurance payout.
 Both Joe and Gwen have passed away, but some of their surviving family members, Mary Jo's aunt, Georgetta Potoski, and her son, William Nelson, spoke with People about the film Chappaquiddick.

 On top of the hope that the film would "convey something about the real Mary Jo, who was reduced at the time to what William calls 'the quote-unquote Girl in the Car,'" they expressed the family's desire for further disclosure on what happened that night. "We're happy more information is coming out — that's the path to the truth."

  Read More:

   http://www.nickiswift.com/116950/really-happened-incident-chappaqui...
       
  

 

                    
                   

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 4, 2018 at 12:09am

Bill Cosby Had A Meltdown In Court After Guilty Verdict.

The comedian yelled this at the District Attorney.

 As expected, Bill Cosby was likely displeased with the guilty verdict he received in connection to his sexual assault retrial.

 According to reports, the 80-year-old comedian had a profanity-laced outburst directed towards District Attorney Kevin Steele soon after the jury was dismissed.

 According to CNN, the spirited reaction was sparked after Steele's argument that Cosby's $1 million bail should be revoked as he might flee to anywhere in the world. He went on to argue that the fallen comic had a private plane and that there was no set dollar amount that would guarantee his appearance.

 At this point, enraged at that comment, Cosby stood up and yelled, "He doesn't have a private plane, you a**hole!"

Judge Steven O'Neill, who is presiding over the case, decided not to revoke the bail, adding, "I'm not simply going to lock him up, right now."

 Specifically addressing Steele, Judge O'Neill said, "You are making a very big deal of something where there is a very high bail and he has appeared at every appearance."

 The judge further instructed that Cosby be put on house arrest, preventing him from leaving his Pennsylvania home or the state, as a whole.

  Arrangements were also made for a GPS tracking device to be attached to the accused.

 As previously reported, Cosby was found guilty of all three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.

  He now faces up to 10 years in prison on each count. A sentencing is yet to be scheduled.

See how Twitter reacted to Cosby's outburst, below:

 Cosby can yell at the DA all he wants. It won't change the fact that he's guilty and going to jail. https://twitter.com/ap/status/989570918291734529 …

 I  watched this slug be shuffled in and out of court for awhile appearing almost blind and disabled. The gig is up - not too disabled to rant and yell at DA in response to his guilty verdict!

 Cosby interrupting post-conviction court proceedings to curse out his prosecutor and yell that he doesn't own a plane is my "quit while you're ahead" cue for this news cycle. See y'all later.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 3, 2018 at 10:13pm

The End of an Era: Queen Elizabeth Names Her Successor.            Prince Charles

 Apr/20/18 By Greta Heggeness 

This just in: The longest-standing British monarch is preparing to take her final curtsy.

 Queen Elizabeth, who turns 92 years old tomorrow, issued a formal request for the Commonwealth Heads of Government to appoint her son Prince Charles as her successor during an official meeting at Buckingham Palace yesterday.

 She said, “It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations and will decide that one day the Prince of Wales should carry on the important work started by my father in 1949.”

 The monarch went on to say that she hopes Prince Charles will carry on her legacy, adding, “By continuing to treasure and reinvigorate our associations and activities, I believe we will secure a safer, more prosperous and sustainable world for those who follow us: a world where the Commonwealth’s generosity of spirit can bring its gentle touch of healing and hope to all.”

 Prince Charles is the first in a long list of heirs to the throne, so the announcement was a long time coming.

 Nevertheless, Queen Elizabeth hadn’t publicly backed her son as the next Commonwealth leader…until now.

 May the odds be ever in your favor, Prince Charles.

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