It all started on September 29, 2005 in a small town of Pineville, Missouri; at 340 Pleasant Ridge Road between the hours of 1:30pm and 3pm. Orlie Mc Cool, 70, and his former daughter in-law Dawn Mc Cool, 47, were the first victims of the 48 hour killing spree. Mr. Levi King pleads guilty in the two count of first degree murder of Orlie and Dawn Mc Cool. These led to two life sentences without parole and are to run consecutively. Before being captured Mr. King killed Brian and Michell Conrad and Zach Doan and shot their daughter Robin 10 years of age from Lubbock, Texas on September 30, 2005. Robin called 911 and was the sole survivor of Kings killing spree. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors arrested King on September 30, 2005, when he tried to return to the United States from Mexico. King had various firearms in the Mc Cools truck that was stolen; this included a .380-caliber handgun that was allegedly stolen from the Mc Cools also. It took the jurors eight hours to decide to spare his life and grant him life in prison without parole.
When I first read these articles in http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=11270442 and http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_109204750.html my stomach turned with anger and disappointment. You can’t have a heart and change your mind on how you feel about murders such as Levi King, someone who doesn’t care for life, his own or others surrounding him.
People expect no more then what the justice system offers them as Mr. Kings Defense Attorney Maxwell Peck stated so eloquently, “He will be held accountable for his crimes; he's going to serve every day of his life in prison for the rest of his natural life. Ultimately we are gratified but there are no winners." Personally this man needs to be put to death, he didn’t give his victims a chance at a fair trial why should he have one? Mr. Levi King gets for the rest of his life a free three course meal daily along with room and board, that the tax payers have to pay. Am I the only one that see’s a problem with the whole justice system here? The unspoken words from the victims Orlie Mc Cool, Dawn Mc Cool, Brian Conrad, Michell Conrad or Zach Doan, never received their day in court, the victims never had a chance to plead their case, to tell their side of the story, no they was just murdered with no recourse and now the only payment received is life in prison. Mr. King took lives, his should be taken as well, and it shouldn’t matter if it is one murder or five. If there is proof of premeditated murder, not an accident but had full intent, then the same should be received by the accused.
An old saying comes to mind, “an eye for an eye.” My thought is keeping these convicts in prison for life is wrong, they should be executed and done. They deserve no rights as their victims received none.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Ohio ponders injecting lethal drugs into muscle, bone
Ohio State is thinking of new ways to administer lethal drugs to death row inmates, since the last execution failed. A representative of the prison states another way is injecting into the bone marrow or muscle. These suggestions just might be a backup plan for the old traditional intravenous injection style. Romell Broom couldn’t even be executed do to the fact of not being able to find a suitable vein. This execution is now on hold until a federal court hearing takes place on November 30th. The governor of Ohio has issued a reprieve for two other death-row inmates until the study of this execution procedure has had more time for evaluation. Governor Ted Strickland ordered a five month reprieves to give the prisons department adequate time to update their rules regulations on dealing with long periods of time when they can’t find a sufficient vein on a prisoner. As of date, thirty five of the fifty U.S. states have the death penalty, Texas is the most active in this. Ohio has put thirty two men to death since the year 1999.
I am a bit overwhelmed reading the sympathy of these people that have created heinous crimes against their fellow human beings. I as a mother can’t in any manner understand or comprehend what a family member of a victim would feel like knowing this person that created such horrific crimes against my child, mother, sister, father or spouse could get sympathy from the justice system.
Horrible murders such as John Allen Muhammad that frightened the Washington area or Darryl Durr was scheduled to executed next month for strangling and raping a sixteen year old girl, Angel O’Nan in 1988. These facts are www.usatoday.com is letting everyone out there know that these heinous crimes that are constantly being committed are allowed by our stringent justice system. This article hit home so closely because I lived in Olathe, Kansas my teen age life and my best friends sister was tragically murdered she was but a young girl coming home from school and her psycho killer was waiting in her closet and stabbed this girl over one hundred times. This murder was up for parole several years ago and I seen my friends mom sitting in the audience making sure her daughters voice is still heard. Although she and many other family members try to make their loved ones voice or life itself be heard, do they make a difference? Is it for your heart sake and nothing more? Are they talking to the wall of justice to only be heard by a mute ear?
I have always believed and was taught to believe that the United States Justice System is fair, as we grow up in life and reality sets in I think we all see the true light of our justice system. From mass murders, to psychotic killers, to the smallest car wreck or a ticket, the truth of the matter is sometimes it isn’t what you know it is who you know. What happened to the Truth, What happened to the Honor, and last but not least what happened to our Justice?
I am a bit overwhelmed reading the sympathy of these people that have created heinous crimes against their fellow human beings. I as a mother can’t in any manner understand or comprehend what a family member of a victim would feel like knowing this person that created such horrific crimes against my child, mother, sister, father or spouse could get sympathy from the justice system.
Horrible murders such as John Allen Muhammad that frightened the Washington area or Darryl Durr was scheduled to executed next month for strangling and raping a sixteen year old girl, Angel O’Nan in 1988. These facts are www.usatoday.com is letting everyone out there know that these heinous crimes that are constantly being committed are allowed by our stringent justice system. This article hit home so closely because I lived in Olathe, Kansas my teen age life and my best friends sister was tragically murdered she was but a young girl coming home from school and her psycho killer was waiting in her closet and stabbed this girl over one hundred times. This murder was up for parole several years ago and I seen my friends mom sitting in the audience making sure her daughters voice is still heard. Although she and many other family members try to make their loved ones voice or life itself be heard, do they make a difference? Is it for your heart sake and nothing more? Are they talking to the wall of justice to only be heard by a mute ear?
I have always believed and was taught to believe that the United States Justice System is fair, as we grow up in life and reality sets in I think we all see the true light of our justice system. From mass murders, to psychotic killers, to the smallest car wreck or a ticket, the truth of the matter is sometimes it isn’t what you know it is who you know. What happened to the Truth, What happened to the Honor, and last but not least what happened to our Justice?
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Pumpkin pie filling may have to be frozen or from scratch
As pumpkin pie is a fall and winter tradition for many families we are falling on hard times, and finding a can of pumpkin products is not going to be easy. Food 4 Less in Joplin, Missouri states the canned pumpkin shelf has been pretty bare for at least a month or more. Libby Pumpkin blames a poor growing season last year. “Right now we can’t get our generic at all,” Store Manager Brooke Rentfro explains. Local pumpkin farmer Rich Wood suggest making your pumpkin pies from scratch. Wood blames the poor weather is to blame for the bad pumpkin crops. “Our pumpkins, our regular Jack O’Lantern pumpkins did alright, but we’ve had a lot of molding this year. And our big prize winner pumpkins did great because they like lots of water. We’ve had pumpkins up to 200 pounds this year,” stated Wood.
I am not shocked this has happened knowing how poor the weather has been the last year or so, but you never think about not having canned pumpkin on the shelf to fix your pie. It is tradition, I guess you can take this as looking a gift horse in the mouth, always expecting it to be there never thinking of it not for any reason. As I read the article on http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11242907&nav=menu657_3 I found myself looking for the first time small resemblances of the recession, what grandma and grandpa used to tell us of how the food was short during the great dust bowl, and how you made sure there was nothing that went to waist. Now I see.
This is an eye opener for me and my family, I can’t say it hasn’t changed my thought in regards to this thinking that it would not ever be an issue to go to your store and get what you want off the shelf. Always expecting it to be there, never thinking that it wouldn’t.
As mom always said, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”
I am not shocked this has happened knowing how poor the weather has been the last year or so, but you never think about not having canned pumpkin on the shelf to fix your pie. It is tradition, I guess you can take this as looking a gift horse in the mouth, always expecting it to be there never thinking of it not for any reason. As I read the article on http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11242907&nav=menu657_3 I found myself looking for the first time small resemblances of the recession, what grandma and grandpa used to tell us of how the food was short during the great dust bowl, and how you made sure there was nothing that went to waist. Now I see.
This is an eye opener for me and my family, I can’t say it hasn’t changed my thought in regards to this thinking that it would not ever be an issue to go to your store and get what you want off the shelf. Always expecting it to be there, never thinking that it wouldn’t.
As mom always said, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Swine Flu: Intense Tracking for Side Effects
It has been recorded more than three thousand people a day have a heart attack. If you’re one of these people the day after your swine flu shot, would it not make you wonder if the vaccine was to blame and not all the poor food that you eat on a daily basis. The government is starting an unprecedented system stated from www.morningsun.com to track possible side effects as mass flu vaccinations begin next month. The main idea is to detect any rare but real problems that may arise quickly the inevitable coincidences that are sure to cause some false alarms. As stated by Dr. Neal Halsey, “We don’t have any reason to expect any unusual problems with this vaccine.” Because this H1N1 flu concentrates on the young more than the older folks, along with vaccine concerns are from 1976, when 500 cases was reported of the 45 million vaccinated against that year’s swine flu. The CDC is racing to gather a list of what is normal: 25,000 heart attacks every week; 14,000 to 19,000 miscarriages ever week; 300 severe allergic reactions called anaphylaxis every week. Any massive increase would mean fast checking to see if that vaccine really to increase and how much so that the health officials could set out the appropriate warnings.
This article is very obvious that many people’s fear is honest and true. My feelings haven’t changed as to how I feel about this outbreak. Our lives have changed so drastically compared to the way it was prior to the announcement of H1N1, we are more clean, and aware of our hygiene.
It scares me to death seeing all the possibilities of side affect’s along with the unknown of any side effects that might show at a later time. My family has low immunity systems, a father with cancer and my daughter with MRSA and my father as well with MRSA. I have had many years of my life with lung issues, pneumonia, or bronchitis and such, so this scare brings more fear in my life. We have supplied our house and our pocket books with hand sanitizers and anti bacterial soaps. Hand washing has become more frequently then it was before. I have noticed about my family that has changed and one that is very obvious is when we go out shopping, at department stores or such, they grab the anti-bacterial wipes to wipe the carts down, to keep the germs under control. They make me so proud! As long as the changes that we have made stays and doesn’t diminish. I feel that the public needs to be more conscientious about the flu, the germs, about watching how people cough and sneeze without covering their mouths. My family and I went to Wal-Mart the other day in Fort Scott, Kansas and our cashier was an older woman and she was coughing and sneezing in her hands as she was taking our food and scanning it. My jaw was dropped, I was speechless, then the straw that broke the camel’s back was when she took a Kleenex and wiped her nose as she was handling our food, and stuffed it in her pocket and back to handling my food again. She didn’t use hand sanitizer she didn’t clean her hands in any manner. I was standing there shaking my head. I ended up taking it to the manager and complaining. I came close to telling the manager I want everything new in my cart and they can deal with the rest of the stuff that was contaminated in my cart from her.
The concept of a pandemic is petrifying, but the fear is real, and can very much be a reality for this generation. Knowing the overwhelming amount of people that passed when the Plague was running ramped through the many civilizations of that era is insurmountable to the H1N1. Paranoid? Afraid? Should we be? Maybe that isn’t the question I should ask, maybe I should ask what are you doing to stay healthy and flu free. This is one time I think all of our mothers wouldn’t mind that we don’t share, none of your fellow humans want whatever you have, so cover your mouth, wash your hands, sneeze or cough in the crack of your arm.
This article is very obvious that many people’s fear is honest and true. My feelings haven’t changed as to how I feel about this outbreak. Our lives have changed so drastically compared to the way it was prior to the announcement of H1N1, we are more clean, and aware of our hygiene.
It scares me to death seeing all the possibilities of side affect’s along with the unknown of any side effects that might show at a later time. My family has low immunity systems, a father with cancer and my daughter with MRSA and my father as well with MRSA. I have had many years of my life with lung issues, pneumonia, or bronchitis and such, so this scare brings more fear in my life. We have supplied our house and our pocket books with hand sanitizers and anti bacterial soaps. Hand washing has become more frequently then it was before. I have noticed about my family that has changed and one that is very obvious is when we go out shopping, at department stores or such, they grab the anti-bacterial wipes to wipe the carts down, to keep the germs under control. They make me so proud! As long as the changes that we have made stays and doesn’t diminish. I feel that the public needs to be more conscientious about the flu, the germs, about watching how people cough and sneeze without covering their mouths. My family and I went to Wal-Mart the other day in Fort Scott, Kansas and our cashier was an older woman and she was coughing and sneezing in her hands as she was taking our food and scanning it. My jaw was dropped, I was speechless, then the straw that broke the camel’s back was when she took a Kleenex and wiped her nose as she was handling our food, and stuffed it in her pocket and back to handling my food again. She didn’t use hand sanitizer she didn’t clean her hands in any manner. I was standing there shaking my head. I ended up taking it to the manager and complaining. I came close to telling the manager I want everything new in my cart and they can deal with the rest of the stuff that was contaminated in my cart from her.
The concept of a pandemic is petrifying, but the fear is real, and can very much be a reality for this generation. Knowing the overwhelming amount of people that passed when the Plague was running ramped through the many civilizations of that era is insurmountable to the H1N1. Paranoid? Afraid? Should we be? Maybe that isn’t the question I should ask, maybe I should ask what are you doing to stay healthy and flu free. This is one time I think all of our mothers wouldn’t mind that we don’t share, none of your fellow humans want whatever you have, so cover your mouth, wash your hands, sneeze or cough in the crack of your arm.
Before Lucy came Ardi
The story of humankind is reaching further back to 4.4 million years ago in what is now called Ethiopia and the subject found has been given a name, “Ardi.” The gender is a female and the weight approximately 110 pounds and estimated to be 4 foot tall. C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University a well known anthropologist has said that the older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution. Rather than humans evolving from the ancient chimp like creatures, this new find provides that chimps and humans have common ancestors and each evolved and changed separately along time. Tim White, director of Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley states; “This is not that common ancestor, but it’s the closest we have ever been able to come. The lines evolved into modern human and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6-7 million years ago.” There was 125 pieces for scientist to reassemble the skeleton. As stated at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucy , Ardi was found in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, where they have found many other fossils and skeletal remains from the wooded environment of that period. There were fossils of 29 different kinds of species of birds and 20 other different kinds of small mammals. Ardi’s upper canine teeth are stubby, which resembles more human characteristics and not chimpanzees. As the scientist analyzed the enamel from the tooth it was found that the diet of this creature was one of fruit, and other foods as nuts and leaves.
I have for many years not believed in the theory of man coming from ape, it is not in my religious belief and when I saw this article I was interested in reading what new discovery that was found. As knowing and believing my ancestry wasn’t from a chimpanzee, doesn’t keep me from seeing and reading and even finding what new things that has been dug up and discovered of the many millions of years ago.
I in no way have changed my thought that humans did not come from chimps, and this article did not sway my thinking in any manner regarding this. Even with Ardi’s feet being rigid enough for walking but still having that big toe for grasping and climbing, gives no proof that this is the remnants of man.
My belief of not coming from chimps have not changed and this article did not sway it in any manner but I do find all new finds of the past millions of years ago, I just don’t feel now nor ever can it be hooked to man.
I have for many years not believed in the theory of man coming from ape, it is not in my religious belief and when I saw this article I was interested in reading what new discovery that was found. As knowing and believing my ancestry wasn’t from a chimpanzee, doesn’t keep me from seeing and reading and even finding what new things that has been dug up and discovered of the many millions of years ago.
I in no way have changed my thought that humans did not come from chimps, and this article did not sway my thinking in any manner regarding this. Even with Ardi’s feet being rigid enough for walking but still having that big toe for grasping and climbing, gives no proof that this is the remnants of man.
My belief of not coming from chimps have not changed and this article did not sway it in any manner but I do find all new finds of the past millions of years ago, I just don’t feel now nor ever can it be hooked to man.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Census Employee Dies Tragic Death
On September 12, 2009 Bill Sparkman a 51 year old teacher and part-time Census worker was found hung from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with a word carved on his chest and that word was, “fed.” They hung Bill in a secluded part of Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. Mr. Sparkman’s body was severely in the state of decay. Bill Sparkman was a Eagle Scout that decided his services would be best served in this area as a Boy Scout Director, in which he later became a substitute teacher. Laurel county had a lot of possibilities for Bill and his future. Henrie Sparkman has ideas regarding her sons passing but she wouldn’t share them with us at this moment. She feels it is best to sit and wait for the FBI to come up with their own conclusion regarding her sons untimely demise. Gilbert Acciardo, a retired Kentucky state trooper who is now the director of an after school program. He stated several times that, “Based on my years in the state police, becareful because people are going to perceive you different than they do elsewhere,” Acciado stated again, “Even though he was the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as, “The government.” Mr. Accaido goes on to describe Bill Sparkman as a, “innocent.”
It reminded me of the 50”s and 60’s where they hung blacks , not for doing any wrong just for the color of their skin. Upon my first reading of this article at www.foxnew.com my jaw hit the floor and the first thing that came rushing to my mind is what era are we in? How old are we? Better yet what country is this? Liggett questions huh?
The horrific conception of someone torturing this poor gentleman for trying to make a living, trying to make ends meet, where is this a crime? Barbarians? Savages? Cave Men? Which label are we? Not compassion, Christian. This brings me to tears and utterly nausiation. “Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as , “The Government.” Labels, funny how you get a lot of that in school and just as much in the real world. I have surmised, to live as Mr. Sparkman, as much as possible and do what is necessary not that we have any choice in today’s society.
I have always viewed the Kentucky state to be gorgeous and the people who reside there to be as beautiful, but I am afraid my outlook has changed unexpectedly. As stated, the Census Bureau has yet to allow it’s employees to start resuming their jobs from door to door in Clay County pending the invstigation. The quantity of government officials will have grown by leaps and bounds next year to 1.2 million temporary employees to find these hard to find people. Secretary Gary Locke stated, “ We are deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker, he was a shining example of hard working men and women employed by the Census Bureau.”
It reminded me of the 50”s and 60’s where they hung blacks , not for doing any wrong just for the color of their skin. Upon my first reading of this article at www.foxnew.com my jaw hit the floor and the first thing that came rushing to my mind is what era are we in? How old are we? Better yet what country is this? Liggett questions huh?
The horrific conception of someone torturing this poor gentleman for trying to make a living, trying to make ends meet, where is this a crime? Barbarians? Savages? Cave Men? Which label are we? Not compassion, Christian. This brings me to tears and utterly nausiation. “Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as , “The Government.” Labels, funny how you get a lot of that in school and just as much in the real world. I have surmised, to live as Mr. Sparkman, as much as possible and do what is necessary not that we have any choice in today’s society.
I have always viewed the Kentucky state to be gorgeous and the people who reside there to be as beautiful, but I am afraid my outlook has changed unexpectedly. As stated, the Census Bureau has yet to allow it’s employees to start resuming their jobs from door to door in Clay County pending the invstigation. The quantity of government officials will have grown by leaps and bounds next year to 1.2 million temporary employees to find these hard to find people. Secretary Gary Locke stated, “ We are deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker, he was a shining example of hard working men and women employed by the Census Bureau.”
Friday, September 18, 2009
Taylor Swift and Kanye West
According to http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/taylor-swift-and-americas-future/, on the MTV Video Music Awards there was a little more excitement that what most would have thought happen. Taylor Swift was up against Beyonce for the woman’s music video. And as Twilight’s Taylor Lautner announced that Taylor Swift the winner she was surprised when announced. With that she went to the stage and began to make her acceptance speech when Kanye West got on to the stage and took the microphone away from Taylor and said that Beyonce had the best video. With that announcement made Mr. West went back to his set and stayed the remainder of the show. When Beyonce finally won an award she asked Ms. Swift to come out to the stage and share the spot light. Pink also felt sorry for the way Mr. West treated Ms. Swift. At some point Kanye apologized to Ms. Swift’s mother with a very distraught Taylor Swift in the back.
As I began reading this story I just could not believe a musician would do that to a fellow musician. I continued to read and my respect for Beyonce increased and my respect for Kanye decreased. I felt bad for Taylor Swift and only could image what Taylor was thinking when she saw him coming to the stage. Along with what Beyonce was thinking when Kanye made that statement. I feel that the producers made a big mistake he should have kick out.
My respect for Beyonce increased because she allowed Taylor Swift to come out on to the stage with her to share the spotlight just a little more. Yes, Kanye has the freedom to speak what is on his mind but there are times they are appropriate time to way it. One of them is not taken taking microphone and saying it on world wide networks.
With this going on I had to find out what the other papers were saying. Then finally I look on mtv.com were I found the store and everything that happened during breaks. I found out that during a break he gave the audience the bird and some more things. Then finally returning to his seat, after sometime Pink got up and shook her head discuss. What was going through his mind when he interrupted her? I could only think that Ms. Swift is one of the most strong willed people that has grazed my ears with their music. I think when Kanye’s mother God rest her sole, decided to go over the “Golden Rule,” he must have been playing his music or he just doesn’t care about other people like that. Looking at the many different pictures regarding this matter one caught my eye and that is with Kanye holding a bottle of alcohol, it was bad enough he dishonored a good person, but he being a celebrity bring alcohol to an event that people use him as an example. I would ask what was he thinking but obviously he wasn’t thinking about anyone. It amazes me knowing how this man loved his mother as he did but finds it acceptable to act in the manner he does in front of millions as he did. His actions reflects his mother and that was a slam in my eyes.
As I began reading this story I just could not believe a musician would do that to a fellow musician. I continued to read and my respect for Beyonce increased and my respect for Kanye decreased. I felt bad for Taylor Swift and only could image what Taylor was thinking when she saw him coming to the stage. Along with what Beyonce was thinking when Kanye made that statement. I feel that the producers made a big mistake he should have kick out.
My respect for Beyonce increased because she allowed Taylor Swift to come out on to the stage with her to share the spotlight just a little more. Yes, Kanye has the freedom to speak what is on his mind but there are times they are appropriate time to way it. One of them is not taken taking microphone and saying it on world wide networks.
With this going on I had to find out what the other papers were saying. Then finally I look on mtv.com were I found the store and everything that happened during breaks. I found out that during a break he gave the audience the bird and some more things. Then finally returning to his seat, after sometime Pink got up and shook her head discuss. What was going through his mind when he interrupted her? I could only think that Ms. Swift is one of the most strong willed people that has grazed my ears with their music. I think when Kanye’s mother God rest her sole, decided to go over the “Golden Rule,” he must have been playing his music or he just doesn’t care about other people like that. Looking at the many different pictures regarding this matter one caught my eye and that is with Kanye holding a bottle of alcohol, it was bad enough he dishonored a good person, but he being a celebrity bring alcohol to an event that people use him as an example. I would ask what was he thinking but obviously he wasn’t thinking about anyone. It amazes me knowing how this man loved his mother as he did but finds it acceptable to act in the manner he does in front of millions as he did. His actions reflects his mother and that was a slam in my eyes.
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