Ukraine Prepares to Fight Back, Americans Doubt Economic Recovery, Lennon's Killer Says He's Sorry: A.M. Links
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Ukraine is preparing to defend itself against Russian forces in its eastern regions. "The invasion by Putin of the regular Russian army is a fait accompli," said Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, on his Facebook page Thursday, while Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko canceled a visit to Turkey to focus on Ukraine's military response.
- Even as economic recovery moseys forth, most Americans—71 percent—now say the Great Recession "exerted a permanent drag on the economy." In November 2009, only 49 percent said the same.
- Gun tourism is a thing, and an increasingly popular one.
- What happens when one half of a California mall has an $8 minimum wage and the other half must pay $10 per hour?
- Ferguson and other St. Louis-area police departments face steep overtime costs for all that time cops spent out pepper-spraying people and playing conquering army.
- Let's talk about Gen X for a change! Overall the generation is in more debt than either millennials or boomers; the single most indebted cohort are 44 year olds, who owe on average $142,077.
- John Lennon's killer says he's "sorry for being such an idiot."
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Ferguson and other St. Louis-area police departments face steep overtime costs for all that time cops spent out pepper-spraying people and playing conquering army.
Money well spent.
Agreed!
/F.O.P. local
They do have to buy their own pepper.
Gei? sou.
The masses will be honored to pay more taxes to fund their own oppression.
Maybe if the masses hadn’t been lootin’ and burnin’, the overtime wouldn’t have been needed.
Oh, well.
John Lennon’s killer says he’s “sorry for being such an idiot.”
Letting Jared Leto play him, he means.
Cover your balls…
Trigger warning?
I thought you were supposed to trust the police, not fear them.
If you’re not cowering in fear then you are a threat.
There is no right way to behave around the police.
Not acting suspicious is more suspicious than acting suspicious.
And doing everything legally is a sign that you’re doing something illegal. I only wish I were making that up.
If you do everything legally then it is a sign that you are afraid, and thus suspicious.
If you don’t show sufficient fear then cops are justified in threatening to kill you.
Doesn’t matter what you do.
That cop looks like the BTK murderer.
Did he mean that he was going to ass fuck him? If he meant that he would shoot him, then he would put a bullet into him, not the whole round.
Am I allowed to call a black cop a nigger now? I imagine that wouldn’t go so well. It’s lucky for that kid that white people usually don’t give a shit about being called a cracker.
by taking robber down in hail of bullets
Robbery is a crime punishable by death now?
Police academies should reconsider teaching the “Bullet Hail” volley fire maneuver to cadets.
It’s called “spray and pray,” Drake.
I think of spray-and-pray as an individual move. We need a better term for a dozen cops simultaneously spraying bullets everywhere.
The Tet Offensive?
Spree sprayers.
Death Blossom.
Or is that one already taken?
“Iraqi Death Blossom”
Without trial, too.
Hail, Ming.
I guess we know who’s not around in the afternoons. 🙂
I’d really like to be able to have some sympathy for Mr. Dion, but am unable to muster any because of his work on a show glorifying cops.
aye
I don’t feel that show glorifies cops so much as shows what kind of dbags your dealing with when you encounter them.
Meh – just another working stiff trying to make a paycheck.
Why did he have to turn the camera off? (That’s a rhetorical question, of course.)
And swatting is a good reason why most of the country’s SWAT teams should be disbanded.
People should start swatting the homes of cops.
Are they trained to all yell different shit at the same time?
Gale: All right, ya hayseeds, it’s a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.
Feisty Hayseed: Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if’n I freeze, I can’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m a-gonna be in motion. You see…
Gale: Shut up!
Feisty Hayseed: Okay then.
Gale: Everybody down on the ground!
Evelle: Y’all can just forget that part about freezin’ now.
Gale: Better still to get down there.
Evelle: Yeah, y’all hear that, don’t ya?
[Everybody lays down. Gale looks at the now-empty teller windows]
Gale: Shit! Where’d all the tellers go?
Teller’s voices: We’re down here, sir.
Evelle: They’re on the floor as you commanded, Gale.
Still my favorite Coen film.
I luv ta drive.
[Tosses grenade at rabbit.]
Sometimes it’s a hard world for small things.
“Boy, you got a panty on your head.”
Without confusion and contradiction, people might not give the cops an opportunity to kill them.
People Aren’t Buying Guns
I hope they stop buying ammo too. I finally broke down and bought a brick of .22 lr for $70 on Monday. I looked at my last box, $21.90.
I’d like to think that things like that will get progs to question the omnibenevolence of government. The more likely outcome, however, is that they will care only insofar as there is a racial angle and will still believe that government is omnibenevolent the rest of the time.
A micro-secessionist
…most Americans?71 percent?now say the Great Recession “exerted a permanent drag on the economy.”
Yeah but what do they know? They re-elected the most economically illiterate administration in recent memory.
But … but … Bush!
Roman toilet seat unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall
Designed by the Emperor Commodus.
+1 merciful
I’ll bet you’re just flushed with a heady sense of pride at coming up with that stinker.
/He has a wife, you know.
The seat was discovered intact and well preserved…
Was it left up?
That it was intact means Warty never used it.
I didn’t think he ever bothered with toilets
He sends all his shit through a temporal rift to Sandi, who applies it.appropriately.
Who will be the first to take a shit on it?
Hello. Very busy this morning.
Some Roman. It’s probably a used seat.
Lisping Fonzie, I think.
Lisping Fonzie
Now that’s a great online handle.
splinters!!!
The perfect pet for a libertarian
Ah, the idyllic bliss you could have, escaping this land of confusion with your true love, who could become Mama to your children, soothing you with here invisible touch, and finally retiring to a home by the sea to play domino.
What’s the big deal? I saw ten women hotter than her on the train to freaking Philly this morning.
I live in Maine. Google “hot Maine women” and then cover your eyes.
I feel like I would expect to see a lot of penis for some reason.
She’s that guy from genesis daughter.
What happens when one half of a California mall has an $8 minimum wage and the other half must pay $10 per hour?
Brother against brother?
Stores move to the $8 side?
Sotres on $8 side can’t get labor and the stores on the $10 side lose money.
Lose-Lose…so a perfect governmental outcome.
^this. Also, “see, capitalism does not work -Prog”
Even more government intervention will be required.
The comments are derptastic:
I liked this response, though:
Mexico is laissez-faire? Derp.
Ah yes, teddy Roosevelt, saver of the unions, sociopath of all the sociopaths.
Wasn’t there an article yesterday that Germany would be like 31st in the state rankings of GDP/capita?
A learning experience?
In the end, Ryzak raised her prices a little bit and made up the rest by cutting into her profits.
See, teatards? It worked. We reduced profits with no other consequences.
Its all fun and games until you accidentally trigger her prey instinct and she bites a hole in your brain pan.
Winchester woman finds 3ft wasp nest on bed
Not really related: the internet has taught me that a lot of people don’t know the difference between a yellow jacket and a bee. What’s up with that?
They just see a yellow, winged bug that scares them.
It pays to know the difference, since one wants to horribly murder you, and the other just wants to frolic among the flowers.
Indeed – every time I see a yellow jacket, I wish for flame thrower.
Wait, aren’t they* all just undifferentiated bugs to you, Alpenhorn Boy?
(*)What the rest of us call arthropods.
I know the difference.
As much as I would love to start the lobster/sea bug thing again (heh heh heh)… I just think the average knucklehead or urban dweller sees yellow-bzzz-ouch.
Mother’s annoyed Facebook post leads to her 4 year old getting expelled
http://www.news.com.au/technol…..7040490450
YOU know those moments when you instantly doubt hitting that ‘post’ button?
The ‘mail’ button? I can never get a handle on the language.
The DM doesn’t have to the Paparazzi know they can sell the pics, so they do it on spec.
I don’t know what it is about her, but I just find this girl thoroughly unattractive. She looks like I should find her attractive, but just like Taylor Swift, there is this inexplicable unattractiveness about her.
Hello Kitty is not a cat, plus more reveals before her L.A. tour
I’m reminded of the Simpsons’ episode where they go to Japan and pass the Hello Kitty factory. 🙂
I also miss Bonsai Kitten.
Scotland’s gingers in pictures.
Trigger warning: rangas, everywhere
Is that why even the Highland Cow is a ginger?
Auric applauds.
“I was bullied at school and thought it was because of my red hair but it was probably because I was annoying”
heh
My kiddo’s best friend is a ginger and both his parents are. I think they sought each other out, somehow, because of the ginger-ness.
Spiders force Suzuki to recall more than 19,000 cars
There are people who buy Suzuki cars?
Suzuki made 19,000 cars?
This story is all kinds of suspicious.
*Honda employee flees, dropping large jar labeled ‘spiders’*
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick ’em by smiling…
Those spiders might be from mars.
Oh Bobarian, you took it all too far, but man could you play guitar
the single most indebted cohort are 44 year olds, who owe on average $142,077.
McMansions cost more than that, don’t they?
No offense, but does anybody else dislike the term “McMansion” and its “you have a type of house I don’t like” snobbery?
There used to be a troll here named Chad who thought the government should confiscate everyone’s wealth since they’d just waste it on “cheap Chinese crap” and “McMansions”. Meanwhile, he’d brag about his art collection with no sense of irony. He also had a hardon for Japan.
So….a customer for the “Dutch Wife” then?
Whatever happened to Chad?
Something horrible and ironic, I hope.
OFFENSE TAKEN.
I always used it to mean mortgaging a certain type of house for outward appearances and then not having the means to furnish it.
I thought it meant big new house of low construction quality on tiny lot in subdivision filled with variants of the same floor plan. See also: cookie cutter house.
Just a matter of personal taste, but I could never understand pouring so much money into a place on such a tiny lot.
There’s been envious types ever since Org crawled out of the cave and built a hut in the open air.
Is it ok if I use the term without snobbery? It just fits.
I find your anti-snobbery snobbery to be micro-offensive.
Is the Universe a 2D Hologram?
It would explain why so many seem so shallow.
That joke was a little flat.
Ah, the perils of being 3d, but thinking so much differently.
Trial set for woman accused of running over husband for not voting
Talk about self fulfilling prophecy!
They warned his wife repeatedly that if she voted for Mitt Romney terrible things would happen – and they were right.
Vote or die.
Hmm, so do I go for Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich?
It doesn’t matter which candidate you vote for – Your planet is doomed.
hah!
It’s not as if his vote would have mattered.
See, proof of GOP voter suppression efforts.
Boomer Wealth Dented by Mortgages Poses U.S. Risk
How does math work? If I want to retire in 16 years, what term mortgage would be appropriate?
Typical loonytarian, asking people to plan ahead like that. We need a government program to take care of that.
Now they’re going to ratchet up the “fair share” bullshit. God forbid they live in a house they can afford, eat food they can afford, and drive a car they can afford. Nope, those of us who plan on paying our houses off by 40 are the crazy ones, and it’s just so unfair that we are so lucky! It definitely has nothing to do with minimizing debt, setting realistic expectations, and sticking to a damn budget! Nooooo none of that shit matters.
John Lennon’s killer says he’s “sorry for being such an idiot.”
Now when will Yoko Ono apologize?
An honest-to-God gorgeous song from Yoko Ono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B43UCr8py70
Well, that was garbage.
+1 Julian Lennon
The CBO’s New Budget Outlook: Debt Ahoy!
“line by line” baby, “line by line”.
Bernie Sanders: Companies Relocating Abroad Are Disrespecting Vets
Spoken like a true fascist.
No, actual fascists are snappy dressers.
+1 Hugo Boss
They’re more patriotic because they’re trying to keep the government from getting their money.
Piss on you, Bernie.
/a vet
If anyone knows how Veterans feel, it’s Bernie Sanders.
I think Richard Blumenthal knows better.
I’m sure the CNN reporter asked him how corps could be disloyal if they aren’t people.
Would you think about all them people
Who gave up everything they had?
Would you think about all them War Vets
And would you start to feel bad?
Freedom isn’t free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don’t all chip in
We’ll never pay that bill
Freedom isn’t free
No, there’s a hefty fuckin’ fee.
And if you don’t throw in your buck ‘o five
Who will?
“Preparing to defend themselves” !?! They’ve had how long to ‘prepare’ for this? It’s not like it was freakin Pearl Harbor or anything.
Mayor: Adult Illegal Aliens With ‘Graying’ Hair Enrolled in Public Schools
Since the schools don’t start till next week, how the fuck has the mayor formed an opinion of what they look like? I don’t see any new student orientation sessions on the district calendar…
In our school district, the school is open the week before classes start so you can go in and find locker, load it up with stuff, check your class locations and drop off your paperwork (registration, physicals, etc). No formal “student orientation” until day before or such. Maybe their district is the same?
For my son’s school, that was last week… they even do class pictures at that time.
That’s not how it works in MA.
At least in my district, the new students start a day early…
It could be true that there are geriatrics attending public schools here in MA. Or the Mayor of Lynn could be simply another racist New England democratic politician. My bet is on the latter.
Probably a few older illegals, now conflated to a horde?
Probably a parent, and a racist new england democratic politician.
Ah, Parent…had not thought of that. Bet you have it right.
Hasn’t the mayor ever heard of progeria?
Gee, if only they had to present some sort of age-verified ID to register…
racist
AGEIST!!
Gun tourism is a thing, and an increasingly popular one.
Headline from a news story I did not read:
Why Do We Allow Kids to Shoot Guns?
That kid- you’re not allowed to raise him.
Xers bought too much house, at the wrong time.
Re: Gen X debt. Most of that debt is in mortgages. So that’s not “bad debt”. That’s called “rent money”. Bad debt would be revolving credit i.e. credit card debt. Bad debt would be student loan debt, yet you’re still unemployable. Bad debt would be an unaffordable car note.
The only problem with mortgage debt is that Gen X overpaid for their houses. But that is because the Fed and it’s artificially low interest rate schemes of the last 20 years led to inflationary home prices.
Most people as they go through life, tend to probably have their highest incomes and most debt while in their 40’s. When you’re younger, you typically aren’t able to accrue as much debt and at fifty youare starting to take retirement seriously and are focused on reducing debt.
So I don’t see this as news.
Ferguson and other St. Louis-area police departments face steep overtime costs for all that time cops spent out pepper-spraying people and playing conquering army.
This brings to mind one of Fearless Fosdick’s finest hours, when he was braying ecstatically about all the overtime the cops were racking up during the Boston Lockdown.
Protect and Serve, indeed.
Watch 100 topless people get tasered by their loved ones
Damn it. Now I have a new fetish. Hope this doesn’t turn me into a filthy degenerate. Or a cop.
I’m not an engineer, but 300,000 volts sounds…dangerous.
Volts get your attention, but its the amperes that kill ya!
To accent Servator’s point, the most dangerous current is around 0.1-0.2 amps. Not enough to stop your heart, but enough to induce fibrillation.
Looks like an orgasm compilation
I wish people would stop reporting on Lennon’s killer. Regardless of what you think about Lennon, he was a father and a husband and a human being who was minding his own business when that asshole murdered him. The fact that Lennon happened to be famous shouldn’t buy the asshole who killed him extra attention. Like all murders, he deserve to rot in a hole to be forgotten by the world. The media just needs to stop printing stories about him. He doesn’t deserve the attention.
Yeah, and “murderer says oops, he’s sorry” isn’t exactly headline-grabbing material.
Yes, he should repent, but the media won’t tell us if a purported repentance is sincere, we can’t look into his heart. So are we going to report on every killer who *claims* remorse?
Liberals have a white privilege problem too
What t he hell does that even mean? It is just a bunch of words and catch phrases thrown together. There is not a single meaningful sentence in that entire quote. Nothing. There is not a single concrete example or any meaningful connection to anything in the real world. It is all just make believe concepts thrown up in the air.
What would constitute confronting our history, if previous attempts don’t count – the Civil War, the fight for civil rights, the bookshelves groaning under the weight of commission reports, studies, and historical work, the self-flagellating blot posts, etc?
Oh, right, we haven’t fully confronted our history until we realize that we must become racist against whites.
Wait, there are cap-R racists? Like they have an actual Racist Party or something?
It’s also known as the Democrat party.
they have an actual Racist Party
With a name like Tonio, you’ll never get on the guest list.
“Privilege” is just a rhetorical cudgel used to shut down debate from anybody you don’t like.
This. It’s the latest thought-terminating clich
If white privilege is a real thing, then why do people seek out and amplify their minority status? From outright frauds like Churchill and Warren to mixed race people Soledad O’Brien it seems that everybody wants to be something other than white.
And it wasn’t always like that. Passing for white was a real phenomenon among African Americans before the 1960s.
It’s Salon, did you expect anything less than full retard?
I wonder how much privilege a white person feels in an all white community, like some shit town in the middle of Idaho.
By CBO’s estimate, the federal debt held by the public will reach 74 percent of GDP at the end of this fiscal year, a level not seen in the US since the topsy-turvy budgetary days of FDR and WWII.
But having the Fed hold interest rates at or near zero is helping the economy!
S&P 500!!!11oneoneeleven
Ryzak says she’s fine with raising the minimum wage.
Then, why weren’t you paying your staff more to begin with? Are you suggesting they weren’t worth it before, but now, suddenly, they are?
She just wishes it was the same everywhere ? across the mall, California, and the entire country.
Oh, I get it, you want everyone to be as fucked as you want to be.
It’s like when people selling raffle tickets give 3 or 4 tickets to every person who buys them, saying “you have more chances to win.” No, everyone has the same chance to win if they all get the same number of.tickets for a nominal fee. I have actually seen people do this.
L.A. Mayor Garcetti expected to announce plan for $13.25 minimum wage
Full Speed Ahead, California!
She just wishes it was the same everywhere ? across the mall, California, and the entire country.
CONFORM.
Everything not prohibited is mandatory.
How can someone not look at this rationally and realize that at the very least raising the minimum wage nationally would do absolutely nothing as it would just increase the cost of living across the board? Are opponents are so tiresome.
You don’t understand!
People deserve a living wage!
They deserve it!
DESERVE!
“Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”
There should be a simple slogan to express this. Maybe “money is not magic” gets the point across.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-yo…..gettable-o
This isn’t an important or particularly interesting story. But you don’t often get to say
The Price is Wrong Bitch!!
I am so glad that the yankees spent all that money and suck this year. Anybody who thought the yankees would be a playoff team with that horrendous infield was probably an idiot.
Anybody who thought the yankees would be a playoff team with that horrendous infield was probably an idiot.
And yet, the Royals and O’s are going to make the playoffs with infields that are even worse.
Hang on there Kemosabe. While at the moment things are looking good for the Royals, Detroit still has 6 games left with KC and the Tigers have basically the whole month of September against their division rivals and the Royals have the last two weeks against the division and 3 with the Yanks. Don’t write it up yet. Detroit was back in July when they were 7 ahead of the Royals.
This cannot be said enough:
Fuck the Yankees!
Let’s talk about Gen X for a change! Overall the generation is in more debt than either millennials or boomers; the single most indebted cohort are 44 year olds, who owe on average $142,077.
Older people with higher salaries and greater earning potential than their younger counterparts are more credit worthy and are able to buy bigger things on credit. News at 11.
Yeah, $250K/yr income – $20K debt on a nice car, $122K left on a $550K mortgage…..NEEDZ A BAILOUT!!!!
Catfight among abortion supporters –
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/j…..goes-rogue
I love it that they can’t figure out how a movement designed around the premise that women should be able tokill kill unwanted children just can’t find a positive message.
“Reproductive Justice” I love that. How about a sub tag “Rich White Women helping to keep minority birth rates in check since 1973”
“Rich White Women helping to keep minority birth rates in check since 1973 1913”
FIFY
Well Grandpa he sells condoms
That he sticks in the head with a pin
Grandma does abortions –
My God, how the money rolls in!
No justice, no piece?
http://www.dailynews.com/gener…..ing-deputy
Officer driving on narrow road. Takes eyes off road to type on the computer in his car. Hits cyclist. Cyclist dies.
You get one guess as to whether anything else happened.
Ummmm….nope?
Q2 officially 4.2% GDP growth. There are some really disappointed wingnuts out there now.
Of course there is danger of it ever being quietly adjusted down later “unexpectedly”. That only seems to happen with every single economic statistic. And gee, the Black Jesus only needs 20 or 30 more quarters like this before he makes up all of the damage to the economy he has done. Just thing, ten or twelve more quarters like this and some of the 11 million long term unemployed might find jobs. Looks like everything is coming up Obama.
Yes, “all the damage” he caused in the 2008 Financial Collapse.
You really are an ignorant partisan.
Palin’s Buttplug|8.28.14 @ 10:19AM|#
“You really are an ignorant partisan.”
Yes, you are, turd.
One quarter of growth (assuming it doesn’t get revised down later)! THE ECONOMY IS SAVED!
Fuck off, troll.
“Troll” = not sufficiently Team Red here.
Palin’s Buttplug|8.28.14 @ 10:20AM|#
“Troll” = Partisan, lying turd.
Re: Peter Caca,
Until they revise it again, blaming the weather or something. Just like last time.
You get one guess as to whether anything else happened.
Cop went home safe at the end of his shift?
Not only that, but he deserves pity. I mean, he has to live with this for the rest of his life. He’s the real victim here. Poor cop.
I don’t know how I feel about this story:
He got off, I can’t even imagine being in his situation; however he did kill a guy.
If I was on that jury there’s no way I would have convicted the guy. At least not based upon what I know.
I get reasonable doubt and the fact the drivers were asshats, but the circumstantial evidence is off the charts and saying he had motive would be an understatement. People don’t need to cum on everything to earn a conviction. However if you are looking at it from the fact that the drunks were scum I agree, I just don’t know if I could acquit.
and I really don’t envy the jurors.
Then again it is Texas.
however he did kill a guy
No weapon, no witnesses, no confession.
The state argued he killed the guy but couldn’t prove it.
It was right to put him before a jury of his peers, it was right for them to acquit. That is the very definition of justifiable homicide under common law.
I’m not ambivalent about it at all. I’d have shot the fucker too.
aye
I’d have probably bare-handed murdered the drunk…
But I’d have probably convicted the Dad too (but of the lightest possible sentence)
There were witnesses who said the dad never left the scene…. his hands had no gunfire residue.
Personally, I think he is innocent. I think one of his relatives did the deed. The witness accounts have the dad bawling his eyes out on the side of the road until after the shooting.
I wonder if they decided to charge the dad because it was easier than doing actual police work?
I did not follow into the details…
disregard my conviction.
Juries don’t sentence though.
Even if he admitted to it, they just committed manslaughter at the least (felony)and were still in the vehicle(weapon).
“i saw him trying to start the vehicle”
Sexism in the Senate!!! I guess they were all Democrats, because no names…
Good news, everyone; the chocolate ration has been increased. Instead of two six ounce pieces, you will now receive SIX one ounce pieces.
Big Brother wants you to be happy.
Double-plus good!
Mr. Cortopassi points out that “Arithmetic is not an opinion!” and shows the CA “balanced budget” sort of ignores a debt of $250Bn.
http://www.liar-liar.com/
(8/28 issue)
Yeah, thanks for the reminder.
I, personally, am in great shape as long as the state of Florida pension system remains solvent. My father is five or so years into his second guaranteed benefit pension. As a taxpayer I hate it, as a probable heir to much of the pension money he is collecting while working a state job, I’m more sanguine about it.
Are you surprised that insurance companies have found ways to compensate for “pre-existing conditions”?
Of course not:
“Have insurers found new ways to avoid the sick under Obamacare?”
http://www.pottsmerc.com/healt…..-obamacare
I don’t see how a high copay singles out people with pre-existing conditions. Anyone with that policy would have to pay the same copays right?
Our long lost Caucasoid Ainu brother is back in the news. What continues to vex me about this ever since the remains were found is how easily the government got away with quickly and totally destroying the site, obliterating all context for the find.
The Smithsonian‘s tagline: He’s the most important human skeleton ever found in North America implies he was found at “the most important archaeological site in North America” which was then almost immediately crushed under thousands of tons of rip-rap.
That is very cool, but depressing how the Corps of Engineers is still stonewalling further scientific enquiry while the Native American tribes are continuing to assert ownership of the skeleton in contradiction of all facts discovered to date.
Like any government agency, they can be counted on to do the wrong thing.
“What does this prove? My granddaughter plays with human dolls”
Lennon’s killer can rot in prison. AFAIAC, when he dies, his corpse can remain in the cell. He should never leave.
He should have extra time tacked on his sentence for failing to even hit Yoko Ono EVEN ONCE.
They have him incarcerated in the Hotel California?