GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES

VERDICT IN JOSE REIBARA trial .... he was the man accused of kidnapping, raping, and killing LAKEN RILEY ....

It will be interesting to see how Biden will say about this ....
Remember, during the State of the Union address, Biden called her "Lincoln" Riley ....
And EVERYONE in America screamed "IT'S LAKEN, NOT  LINCOLN, YOU IDIOT!"

So, this was an incredibly SHORT trial .... 

The day Jury Selection was supposed to begin ... the turd (I refuse to say his name anymore) decided - or at least his lawyer said he had - he didn't want a Jury Trial, he would rather have ONE person make the decision.

Closing statemens were this morning, and the verdict came back about 1/2 hour later ... it was quick ....

So, they then took an hour break - because both sides said they would like a bit of a break - and the judge was going to come back with the SENTENCE ....

Well, since the turd was found GUILTY of ALL CHARGES .... 

Witness Impact Statements were given by Laken's family and friends .... this took almost an HOUR if not more ... so I had to do some hunting for the acual verdict ...

Not as easy as you might think - most of the news networks had already moved back to their regular programming/subjects ....

I did find one video on YouTube .... but I'm not going to link/embed it here ...

The prosecuting attorney began reading the stentences she would like to see ... and they showed the turd sitting at the table ....

And he looked as if he had been crying - he was certainly sweating ... A LOT ....

here's his sentences:

Count 1: Malice Murder - Life without parole
Count 2 vacated as matter of law
Count 3: vacated as matter of law
Count 4: vacate as matter of law
Count 5: Life in Prison, to run consecutive with Count 1
Count 6: 20 years, to serve consecutively with Count 5
Count 7: To merge with Count 1
Count 8: 12 months, consecutive
Count 9: 12 months, consecutive
Count 10: 5 years, consecutive to Count 6

This is supposed to put the felony crimes (Rape & Murder) ahead of the misdemeanors (peeking Tom & hiding the body) ....

I am now waiting for a cry from the ACLU that he didn't get "adequate" represntation ... or that the inerpreter had made some sort of mistake, or he wasn't told something he should have been...

I'm just waiting for that shoe to drop ... 

FOAMING AT THE MOUTH .......

Oh Trump!

You rascal, you ....

So the main story this weekend on the talk shows was ONE subject ... and one subject only ... except Fox ...

TRUMP'S CABINET PICKS

OMG - you would have thought he dropped a cherry bomb in every toilet in the building, the way they were acting ....

ABC, CBS, EVEN Fox had a go at it ... heck, even my local news stations show At Issue (KSTP, ABC affiliate) had a segment on it which lasted quite a while, although, it was fairly mellow ...

And while every one seemed worried about Hegseth was going to be nominated (especially on ABC ... see, he was a host on Fox up until his nomination), to RFK leading "Health & Human Services" - more on this later - to the Senator who was being looked at for "sexual misconduct' ....

Interesting enough, I don't even remember hearing anything about Matt Gaetz until he was nominated.

It seems there was an Ethic Report being done on him ... which was about to be released - but it was dropped as soon as Gaetz resignedB as a senator .... and no - the reports are NOT usually released once the person has left ....

HOWEVER - I guess there have been 4 times in the history of the Senate where it has happened - I will have to see if I can get more information on it, though.

They were saying that a woman claimed that when she was 17 years old, she had had sex with Gaetz .... but it sounds as if it was consentual ... and there was no abuse.

But until this weekend's This Week ... (ABC) the number of women saying he paid for hem to have sex while they were under age has grown to 4 ....

So the quesion becomes ... why would Trump pick such controversial people ...

RFK - they are raking RFK over the coals because he said something abut immunizations - even though he says he and his children have all had their immunizations, with the exception of the .... have to be careful here ... C ... pick a varient ... shot.

It is a fairly new vaccine type - it uses RNA varients to be effective - I think, I'm NOT a doctor by any stretch ...

To most Americans, I think it falls under the same category as the Flue shot ... it won't stop you from getting it .... they have to guess at which strain is comng up ... if you do catch it, it will only likely lessen they symptoms or the duration.

You would have thought RFK was a pack of racoons hiding in the coop, waiting for the hens to come in ....

PERSONALLY - I think Trump nominated RFK for the position figuring that he would not get it .... Same with Gaetz ....

Makes sense - get their support behind your campaign, offer them a post which can't be filled until after you are elected ... knowing that chances are, they won' get it.

Some of his posts make perfect sense ... Rubio, Bergman, etc. and then there are these ones ....

I think Trump plays Chess, while others play checkers ... and if they play chess, he plays 3D chess ....

MR. BIDEN, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND ...

I did not see this story on any of the other Sunday morning shows .... only Fox News Sunday (FOX, KMSP local) had it on ... and at first I thought Shannon Breem was going to just glaze over it ....

The G-20 met in Peru this weekend .... and they took a GROUP PHOTO ... and you know that the front row is going to be the big wigs of the conference ....

Peru, obviously since they were hosting this year, and some oth the other countries .... 

So where was Biden this time? You know, the represtation of the United States?

Last row .... on the corner

Who else was in the front row?

CHINA

Yeah - seems they just opened a BASE of some sort IN PERU ....

Nice to see Joe has been doing his job agains ... not.

GAMES POLITICIANS PLAY ....

By now you have heard about the current hopefuls for Trump's cabinet .... such as Bobby Kennedy jr for HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES???

WTH??BidHe has absolutely NO medical background! Geez

Anyways .... this isn't abgoBout that....

This is about NEW YORK ... back in June - with everything surrounding Biden doing so poorly during the debate, calls that he should drop out, etc ....it seems that Kathy Hoklum, Governor of NY, set aside a new tax she had planned ....

she simply tabled it ... and the controversy went away ....

 I suppose most NYers figured it was gone, never going to rear it's head again ...

But with Trump having won the election ... and it being - what 10 days? - after the election ... she has again released the Kracken ....

The tax?  you're gonna love this one ...

a CONGESTION TAX ....

for daring to go into MANHATTAN during "certain hours" of he day ....

huh .... so ... no set times??
So ... no way to know if you can AVOID it?

Yup .... sounds like New York ...

The current cost?

$9 

per vehicle .... per time .... no exceptions.

I'm going to guess UPS and other carriers are going to have a say on this one!

BIG VOTERS DON'T CRY ...

So, I honestly was going to try not to post today ... 've got screen shots of stuff like you wouldn't believe this morning ... but I digress ...

But when i say this on The Faulkner Focus (FNC), towards the end of the show ... about 50 minutes in ... she did a story about people carrying this over to the Thankgiving holiday ...

Okay - but it gets even worse than simply eating without being about to talk about - well - anything, really ...

She had a tweet from a man who had just ran for Congress ... i think he loss, but I can't say for sure ...

It seems his aunt called to ask about Thanksgiving dinner - I usually check for head counts, just to be sure I have a seat and plate at the table for everyone .... I also let people know if I need them to bring anything besides themselves ...

During the conversation with his aunt, though, somehow it got to who SHE had VOTED for .... she said" T"rump" ... just like 54% of the nation did ...

He said he told her he doesn't eat wih TRAITORS ... wait ... she didn't vote the way YOU wanted her too, so she's a "traitor"?

WOW - how "democratic" of you ... NOT

And what if things had gone the other way?

Would you have excepted such a statement from your aunt as the one you gave her??

I'm going to guess not ....

And there were plenty of other examples from news service clips all over the place ....

C'MON PEOPLE ....

GROW THE F--- UP!!!

The nation survived every other Presidential election ... it will survive this one as well ...

IF people simply GROW UP and stop trying to dictate how everyone else should behave ... or at least vote.

I've had more than one family meal like this, where no one dared to talk about anything for fear of offending someone ... kind of hard for me ....l

I love offending people ... lol .... actually, I enjoy a good debate about an issue ... no shouting, no crying, no getting angry ... just I feel this way, yiu feel that way, let's try to meet in the middle.

MARLOW MURDER CLUB: SEASON 1, EPISODE 3 .... i think

With the election last week, and my having a flu, I'm afraid I don't really know if I've lost a week or not ... but I don't think so

The ladies are up to their sleuthing still ... yet ... and Judith still hasn't learned to use a cell phone yet ....

but I'm jumping ahead already ...

Okay - I have to say ... for being a British show, and they are supposed to be way ahead of the USA on "equality" issues -- there's one male detective who needs a trip to HR ... or is it HC now??

Anyways - he is so condescending it almost makes him unbelievable .... Tikka (the lead detective) announces that she's bringing in the Club as "civilan consultants"  .... she has her supervisors okay to do this, so it's not like she's gone rogue ... but this - and pardon the potty fingers here - this ASS keeps giving Tikka grief over bringing them in.

But the three ladies (Judith/Susan/Beck) have done more than the police have!

In this episode, the ladies find out thatt there was a mysterious red-headed woman at the funeral of victim #1 (Judith's neighbor) - Beck says she remembers seeing her there and she knows the woman from her yoga class ....

The ladies go to speak to this woman ... and somehow get some trash she threw away - which they take to the police o get fingerprints off of ... 

They also find out that she had used the taxi service tha victim #2 provided, but she said she had never known him .... so the ladies go to his house, because Susan has his huose-keys - she needs those to be able to pick up/drop off the dog if he isn't home - and she seems to know exactly where to check to see who/where/when he may have picked up the red-head.

Judith opens the taxi drivers mail - which was still being delivered, btw - and reads a letter from a lawyer which the cab driver had hired.

It seems that Luna's previous owner had left all of his estate o the cab driver ... but a few weeks before the man's untimely death, he had gone to see a lawyer who had changed his will ... and appointed himself, the lawyer that is, as sole beneficiary of the will.

The ladies figure out a "sting" operation to see what he would do at the mention of Luna's former owners name .... or was it the taxi driver's name? I don't really recall now ... 

And humor insues!

First, there's Beck's use of code words ... OMG - "the chess piece is moving" for when he leaves the pub where he was eating his lunch ... and it gets better.

He then gets ttailed by Susan - no dogs though - and she almost gets caught while trying to stay on his trail.  You see, she is so intent on him, she didn't see the car driving down the road ,,, who slammed on his breaks to avoid hitting her ....

She hen pops in on the walkie-talkie thingy they are using to let Judith know he is coming her way.

Judith pops ou and says she needs to speak to him abut her aunt ... and then tells a tale, very simular to the swapping of the beneficiariies of Luna's previous owner's will.

I hope you can keep up with all this ...

Judith then sneaks into the law firm - without the lawyer knowing about it - and observes him shredding some papers in his office ... she tells the otthers about it.

Wait - the funny part isn't over yet ...

The gals plot to get the paper out of the shredder ... but they will need a distraction .... Which Beck figures out.
Susan and Judith need some sort of disguise.

Oh my - the entire show is worth seeing how they do this ... 

Beck sneaks up to he break room, where she stuffs jelly sandwiches into a toaster - one of her kids must have done it at one point - to set off the fire alarm.

But things go awry when the office gets evacuated out the front of the building instead of the back as the ladies thought it would .... so much for "fire drills" over in England!

Judith is supposed to be some wheelchair bound woman, Susan her health care aide, and they wait outtside a ground floor window for the evacuation to begin ...

Susan then uses the wheel chair to get enough of a boost to get partially up to the window ... ground floor my Aunt Petunia (I have never had an Aunt Petunia, btw) ... 

Seeing her try to struggle geting her 200 lb self through that window was hilarious!  But she did it ... and she gathered the shreds ...

But when someone finds the toaster, everyone re-enters the building too soon - Susan isn't out yet!
And there's a lawyer which entered the room - but Susan can't be seen - so Beck ttalks the lawyer ino going out for some "fresh air" ...

And Susan crawls ou from ... UNDER THE DESK!!

If she were 120 lbs, maybe - but this gal is 200 lbs and maybe 40-50 years old!  Seeing her crawl out made my back hurt!

So the ladies get away - and then they decide to look at what Susan grabbed ... the shreds ...and discover ...

This isn't going to be as easy as they thought ...

Judith remembers that the lawyer had shredded somehing shiny, like a magazine cover/paper - so hey've narrowed it dwon that far ... at least until Susan finds her fingers are sticky ...

The police in the meanwhile have gottten the fingerprints back from what they gotten from the Club ... and they are a match to the mysterious fingerprints at victim #1's house ...

The police, descend upon the boat club which the red-head and her husband own/operate ... and find her - DEAD - with anoher medallion ... this time it says "charity" on it.

When the husband shows up, he talks to Tikka (head detecive) abut his wife .... Susan is over-hearing the conversation when suddeny her phone rings ....

It's her daughter saying she has heard about the murders and will be coming home ... Susan tries to discourage her, but finally says to call her when she lands and she will pick her daughter up at the airport.

Tikka, who isn't deaf, comes around to where Susan is standing ... Susan pretends to have been checking the tires of the police vehicle ....

Tikka tells her "this isn't a joke" to which Susan replies "I know"

Well, of course she knows -- of all the members of the Club, she was the only one to actually find a body (victim #2)!!!

And that's where the episode ends.

I have left a LOT ou of this - so I highly suggest you find a copy of it someplace ....

or check my past posts to find a link to he audiobook version of it ... but I'm going to guess the humor may not be as obvious.

BODY COUNT this episode: 1

TOTAL BODY COUNT as we know it: 3

WHEN PEOPLE JUST NEED A BITCH SLAP!

I have to give Shannon Breen props here .... I am watching Fox News Sunday (FOX, KMSP local) and I wanted to Bitch Slap this panelist so bad ...

Marie Harf ... she is a frequent guest on Outnumbered (FNC) and Special Report (FNC) and I have seen her behave herself ... sometimes she can get a bit testy, but for the most part she does well - and usually, depending on the subject, she can say things that make me think ....

But on this show -- she was RUDE, and childish ... I'm sorry but she was ...

At one point during the panel segment, she told the Republican spokeswoman to hush, and that she had let her (Republican) talk for a long time ... that made my eyes go big ...

Then she just spewed out a bunch of rhetoric left over from the campaign .... eye roll from me ...

When they returned to speak about the use of podcasts & TicTok videos - again Harf was being rude ... she openly scoffed (made the actual sound) when the Republican panelist said that apparently Republicans are better about Free Speech - oh this lady had had enough of Marie Harf's antics ... so did Shannon, who under her breath said "Marie please"

The camera finally got off Harf and stayed only on the Republican chick ... but that didn't stop Harf!

She (Harf) tried to talk over the Republican gal ... who simply said "oh my goodness" and continued on wih her point - not even looking at Harf.

She was on Outnumbered after the election, and while testy .. she was no where near this RUDE ...

Between the two - I would say the Republican lady was the ADULT, and Harf was a SPOILED CHILD ...

I think Marie Harf should be "suspended" from all the Fox news channel programs until she can keep herself in check.

Oh, the two men on the panel??

They looked as surprised about it as I was ... Shannon ended the panelist segment on them, and seemed a bit glad to send it to a commercial.

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POT, MEET KETTLE ...

 OMG - so, how ironic is it that the Democrats are now discriminating against one of their own based soley on ag AND (*e????

I'm watching Fox News Sunday (FNC) and it seems the higher ups of the party are so worried about what Trump mi

ght do to whatever plans they had = which would have been carried out under Harris - that they want Sonia Sotomayer to RESIGN HER POSITION 

NOW

BEFORE Trump takes office .... 

Why??

Because she is 70 years old ...

that's it ... that's all ... no other reason ...

Hmm ...

I don't agree with much, if any, of some of the things she has said/ruled on since she's been on the Bench ... BUT ... 

Wow - so the party which kept Biden running all the way up to June 26th - when he FAILED at the debate, and even afterwards - are going after HER ...

She still has all her mental facilties ... she hasn't fallen asleep during any of the hearings ... hasn't seem to have done anything that could land her in jail ... doesn't seem to have any major health issues ... etc.

They just don't want to take the chance that something might happen to her .... and Trump will then be able to appoint her replacement pure politics ...at it's absolute worse! 

Do they really think they would even have TIME to place someone there??

Do they not remember how long it would take to VET a prospective judge?

How long the APPOINTMENT HEARINGS take?

((wow, i have a fingernail which is playing havoc with my typing ... forgive any massive errors, please)

IF I remember correctly ...

Firing someone because of their age .... is .... AGAINST THE LAW!!!!!!!

The issue with Biden was not his age -- it was his mental accuity ... he was having issues speaking, remembering, walking, staying awake ...

He was having enough issues, that in ANY other non-government job,it would have been "resign or be terminated

Sotomayer?

Leave her be ... she's doing fine.  She's a liberal voice ... but she asks some really good questions during hearings ...

 

JUST SHUT UP DUDE!!!!

OMG - I am soooooo glad he didn't get the nomination now .... I never thought he was that stupid

So I'm watching This Week ... (ABC) .... I'm getting better ... and Vivek Ramaswamy was on the show ... introduced as a "former rival" and now supporter ...

Way to be "unbiased" ABC ... NOT ...

And he was asked about Trump's massive deportation plans ... and then the host (Not George Snuffalupagus .... I'll be nice) mentioned some huge number in the double digit millions ...

the moment these people crossed the border  

And they even showed clips of people who expressed "distress" about the thought of having INS showing up at their front door ....

Vivek - why is he a spokesperson again???  Oh yeah, he's a major butt kisser -- he started right off with mentioning that the moment an ILlegal entered the country, they broke the law ....

SHUT UP VIVEK!!!

Instead of going though how it was going to be a TIERED system .... like how Trump, himself, did before the election ... as well as AFTERWARDS ....

 .... and I don't

Instead of saying, The ones who havecommited FELONIES go first ....

instead of doing that ....

he decided to throw gas on embers ....

OMG - so now .... if you are going to believe this IDIOT ... I do NOT ... people are going to decide to just "self-deport", a massive amount - according to Vivek - and then he flipped to "deporting" all those bureaucrats in D.C.  .....

OMG - can we name him as embassador to Antartica??

Jiminy Crickets!!

I thought he would have been a great VP or some high ranking cabinet member ....

But ...

Holy Crap man!

I can't imagine he would have liked ANY of these things said about HIS PARENTS ... even if they did come here through proper channels, it's a horrid thing to say.

Let's get the killers, rapists, and gang members out of the country FIRST ... this will give the rest time to straighten their statuses out ...

I'VE GOT A QUESTION ....

 A) THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO ...I just wanted to share it wih you

B)I've only watched ONE Turkey Day game - at my in-laws house ... and they were so many smokers (2 Brother in laws, Mother in law, and on cigar was my faher in law!) ... I'm an ex-smoker - and it was so thick in the family room, I couldn't breath! 
Who was playing?
Vikings (YAY) vs Packers (BOO) ... 
I had to keep leaving the room so I could get a breath ...
Oh My Goodness -- it was tough to breath!

C)Watch the video all the way to he end ... the list is impressive to say the least.