THIS COULD HAVE BEEN WAY WORSE ....

  Oh My - the attacks in MN could hae been so much worse!!

It turns out there were at least 2 other homes where this guy went ... but they are NOT releasing the names of the people - leaving that up to them to decide ... but the did mention a couple of differenct cities.

and YES - there are FEDERAL CHARGES involved, and YES there is in fact, a death penalty as well.

I'm going to GUESS - and it's just a guess - that he is going to take a plea to remove that penalty.

Interestingly, I have heard several different stories of how he was taken into custody - based on which news channel I'm watching ...

At first, they said he was spotted on a camera in a corn field ....
Then there was the story of him crawling out of the woods, giving himself up to the FBI ....
and the latest, is a woman claiming she had spotted him in her culvert (ditch for draining), and he was squatting down ....

But no matter the real story - he is in CUSTODY and went to trial this afternoon ....

CHANGES IN FBI TIMELINE OF THE SHOOTINGS IN MN

 It sounds as if things have changed .... AGAIN ... and there were other people who were "visited" on Saturdy morning as well  .....

Wow - this is a lot scarier than I had first thought ....

Here's Garage Logic which off the top of the show, they go over this new timeline:

THEY GOT HIM ... FINALLY .... 36 HOURS LATER

 They caught the guy they say shot Rep Hortman and her husband, as well as Sen. Hoffman and his wife ...

Charges are 2 counts of ATTEMPTED MURDER 
as well as, 2 count MURDER ....

No Death Penelty in MN though - but I've got to guess this could be seen as a Federal crime, since the FBI was pulled in as well.

We will have to see ....

GLAD WE AREN'T IN MN THIS WEEKEND ....

 Well, unless youve been under a rock, you likely know about the 4 people shot this morning .... 2 were killed - one of which used her own body to SHIELD her young daughter (news says infant, others say toddler, I've even heard she was 4 yrs old - I have no idea)

Hubby got a message from our county sherrif - his name is NOT on the list of people they found in his car .... BUT .... it's still scary as heck.

Told my daughter to stay at her boyfriends place tonight ... we will see what happens.

This guy - identified as a "person of interest" - is STILL on the loose .... over 16 hours after running into a real officer ....

He was dressed like a cop - even had a SUV that had lights flashing on top, just like a cop car, AND he wore a badge of some sort.

And he was spotted completely by chance - you see, a neighbor heard the first shooting - Sen. Hoffman and his wife were both shot - and called the police ....

While officers were on their way, someone at the station went "hey Rep Haufman lives fairly close as well" so they decided to go check it out ....

Well - just as the officer showed up, the murderer was coming out - he drew his gun and started shooting at the police.  The officer finally went in, after back up arrived, and they found the body of her husband ....

They attenpted CPR but realized he was gone - so they sent in a ..... DRONE tle plane thing, anyone can buy them - why can't I remember what that's called? .... any how - they sent it in, and found the Rep. dead as well.

It wasn't until they cleared the scene they went in and found her child beneah her, alive, but scared. NOTE: THIS WAS AT THE HOFFMAN SHOOTING, where both people survived, not the Hortman shooting where both died.

Apparently, each were shot at least 6 times.

So sad .... but - now he knows he's being hunted ... bu t he was able to get a couple texts off to his friend.

So the FBI have put out a $5o,000 REWARD for the ARREST/CONVICTION of 

VANCE BOELTER

Age:" 57 years old
Ht: 6ft. 1 in.
Wt" 220lbs
Hair: Brown, close crop
Eyes: Brown

He has been caught on security cam this morning - no time given - and it looks like he has tried to change his looks ...

Keep and eye out for him .... he seems to have SEVERAL addresses.

GET IT STRAIGHT!!

 Despite what they are sying on the "news", ICE is not going after everyday, productive, only crossed for a better life immigrants ....

ICE is going after criminals .... the rapists, murderers, drug dealers, child molesters, wife beaters, etc .... those who fled their country so they didn't have to go to jail THERE type of people ....

Sometimes, yes, regular folk will get rounded up as well - wrong place, wrong time - but in general .... NO, the average immigrant is safe.

They generally are not he ones being chased through a field of strawberries.

AND despite what ABC news (Good Morning America, to be specific) ... the LAPD did not try to overrun the protesters wih their mounted police!

You need to understand the way these patrols work - it's the fricking "whipping" incident all over again - the MASS of the HORSE is used to move the crowd ... just like in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, they simply push foward or sideways and people move ... 

While most big cities HAVE mounted police, they will rarely use them for anything other than parades or state fairs, but they are TRAINED TO MAINTAIN PEACEFUL dispursement of civilians.

If someone gets hurt, it's usually because THEY themselves did something really stupid - like not moving out of the way of a horses foot, or stood too close to a horse and got either kicked or batted with the horses nose .... I'm just saying.

But - until the PUBLIC holds the NEWS up to the light, they are going to fill it with a bunch of smoke .... and ABC should be more careful, they've got enough trouble on heir hands.

SPEKIN ZA DUTCH?

 As you can tell - I do not speak German .... lol .... well, I know a few phrases, but can't spell it.

During the last census, it was found lots of people speak somehing other than English in the home, or their PRIMARY LANGUAGE ...

Here's an interesting report from our local station, KARE-11

DON'T LET HE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YOU

 as we used to say in my day ....

So the MN legislature got a Special Session - basically the new "norm" for up here, I can't remember the last year we didn't have to have one .... only this year we knew it was going to happen at the very beginning - when HALF THE HOUSE & HALF THE SENATE didn't bother to show up for a month!!!!!!

Well - the Gov. (Tim Walz) gave them until 7am TOMORROW morning to pass the new state budget .... they went in with a bunch of stuff to do ....

They needed to:

Health and Human Services
Educatiotn
Transportation
Enviorment/Natural Resources

Well, they had decided last week to split into groups, small groups - like 2 prople, one person from each party, and work out "deals"

Well - it sounds as if only one or two  of these groups actually tried to work something out .... one of them being about MEDICAID .... not Medicare  as they keep saying .... basically saying it was okay for CHILDREN, MINORS to be on it, but ADULTS were not IF they were ILlegals .....  MN tookit in th, at least tha pants on this one - what was supposed to be "only" 7,700 immigrants enrolled, very quickly jumped to 20,187 enrolled, as of 2025 April 24.  Costing Minnesotans $3.9 MILLION at least, that's the current estimate.

Totoal number of claims made so far?  4,300 .... which is actually not that much when you think about it.  But - still!

DHS is projecting expenditures of at least $200 MILLION FY 2025=2026 .... YIKES.

Thins are so tight in the Senate and the House that a single vote could be all that's passing something or not.

 ..But - they couldn't do it - they could not work together as of noon on Monday .... let's hope stuff gets straightened out over night.

ICE: PROTTESTERS ARE GOING NUTS

 So - in the city of Los Angeles things have gotten totally out of hand.

But this didn't start here, it didn't start now .... it started several months ago, when ICE first went o collect some bad guys in New York ... or Chicago? ... anyhow, when ICE showed up, people rushed to the scene and stared harrassing ICE - they started using blowhorns to yell for people to run because "immigration" was there

Well - a couple of those people got detained, and released - I don't even think they were ticketed for disrupting the peace.

Well, it has continued on .... ICE shows up, somehow the activists get word about it, and they show up an interfere .... Now I have to be careful here - my kids, some of them, stand on one side of the issue, some stand on the other ..... I'm not quite sure where I am on it all.

So - then the detained migrants were sent home, to their original countries if they could go - and it seems that some guy from Maryland was sent (I might have already posted on him) ... but he ACLU jumped in and said these people weren't given their "due rights" - they weren't told why they had to go, they weren't given any sort of trial ....

Well - the Maryland "dad" as they called him, it turns out had a case brought against him for beating/hitting his wife .... but since she had dropped the lawsuit against him, the Democrats say it should be forgotten.
HOWEVER, it turns out, he had been caught for a speeding ticket, but the more interesting part is - that his car had about 10 other people in it - a violation of the law, you must have a seat belt for everyone in you vehicle - and all claimed to live at this man's apartment, with his wife and children.

Yeah - he wound up detained ... and then deported back to his own country where apparetly he said he couldn't go for fear of his life .... that he might be killed by member's of other gangs .... hello????

Well, because of a lawsuit the Trump Administration had to bring him back - where he will go on trial, likely serve a term for transporting others ILlegally, and then will be sent back to his country.

Well, then there was the  arrest of a WI judge - may have a post on this as well - where she had a guy brought into her courtroom on trial for domestic abuse and she helped him get away from ICE.  She and her clerk helped him leave the buildingwithout detection - using a secret way for judges to ensure their safetly!!!! 

Well -it turned out it was all CAUGHT ON SECURITY CAMERAS, so she was ARRESTED AND CHARGED with a crime .... trial is pending.

So that's just a few .... Well Saturdays, I was scrolling trrough YouTube when I saw a LIVE STREAM from AgendaFree, it's a good, fairly unbiased, news show - anyhow they had video of some people protesting the LA ICE officers ....

I told hubby, who said "in New York?"  I didn't realize things were happening in NY too!

I am so dead to the world on the weekends, you know?

and in 24 hours it has gone from bad to worse - it seems I had missed them throwing rocks and bottles at ICE BUSES AND OFFICERS ....

They said that they called LAPD for help but were told that unless someone was hurt, they weren't going to come ..... WHAT???

Well, it turns out, an officer was hurt - so the call went back out for back up - oherwise, things could have gotten ugly out there - and it still took LAPD 2 hoursB to show up ....

The official statement is, they were "unprepared" for such and emergency, and needed to gather things together - I'm sure that will give business in your city confidence to know how "prepared" your officers aren't.

Anyhow - Mayor of LA and Gov. Newsome some it was mostly peaceful protesting going on, so they weren't going to call out any extra forces to help them.

Meanwhile, officers as well as those they were trying to get out of there, were trapped by the crowds who were setting fires in the streets ....

No food - limited water - limited bathroom supplies

Well - ICE didn't give in, they waited.

Trump contacted Newsome and talked to him - and this is where it gets a bit iffy - Newsome says Trump never mentioned calling out the National Guard, but I just can't see that not happening...

We' e all heard Trump - he has no filter, he had to have said it at least once.  Before the mention of sending in the MARINES if need be ....

Well, yeasterday 700 Nat. Guard troops showed up.... to keep the protesters from blocking the roads basically ....

Overnight - CARS - whole cars were set ON FIRE in the middle of the streets. And not just any cars - these were the AUTOMATIC, SELF-DRIVING CARS which are being tested in the area .... each car costs up to $100,000!!!!

OMG .... I hope insurance will pay for it, but somehow, I'm doublting it.

Today - it got even rougher .... now MARINES are on stand by (I haven't watched much news today, so I'm not sure what's happened).... overnight POLICE SQUAD CARS (LAPD by the looks of it) were TORCHED in the streets ....

People, the "peaceful protesters", were standing on overpasses of the 401 freeway, and dropping HUGE ROCKS onto cars as they passed underneath ....

So what was ICE's warrant about anyways?

MONEY LAUNDERING and a couple other mafia style issues .... so .... nothing big I guess.

This is nuts ..... it's like the 1980s all over again .... which was a repeat of he 1960s .....

OMG - YOU SHOULD SEE MY PHONE

 I have this habit - mostly because of this blog - of taking photos .... not so much to capture images of family, but to get shots of the news.

Normally - I used to be right on it .... would delete photos after I used them .... but since .... I'm going to guess March, maybe April, I have just been collecting them.

So now my phone is FULL of pics of different news programs ....

And I'm just sitting here .... doing NOTHING with them

I've got stuff of trials ....
stuff on Trump ....
stuff on California, Oregon, New York ....
I've got a ton of "stuff" but no posts .....

But .... I'm going to get on top of this .... right now.

GET READY for a post overload .... without labels when they first post - I ain't got time for that stuff!