Each day, with a strong cup of wakeup elixir, I scan the headlines for an important news item to share with facebook friends and family, one that might spark an ‘over the fence’ dialog. (facebook thread aka string) Scanning the news is difficult these days and choosing an item is more so. Because of the personal nature, ‘In the Eye of the Beholder’ so the proverbial saying goes… What I deem interesting someone else might think nonsense and unimportant. However, with much of the headlines being so dismal, my personal nature shuns most of them, I don’t want to become even more cynical than I already am, about the human race, so I avoid reading anything beyond the headline. Here are a few bleak examples:
Good morning, November 19, 2014, here are today's headlines: Death toll in Jerusalem synagogue attack rises to seven. Worshipers return to synagogue; Israel begins razing homes… (IMHO, Many babies and children are going to die again because of a couple of psychopathic killers… that is not what I call an EYE FOR AN EYE.)
Senate Republicans block bill: NSA will continue monitoring your calls - Libertarian Champion, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul helped kill an NSA reform bill on Tuesday, despite his frequently voiced opposition to the NSA. (IMHO, Rand Paul made Hypocrisy a household word.)
France has confirmed that a second Frenchman features in a video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners, and the body of US hostage killed by Islamic State (IS). (IMHO, More psychopathic killers but these thugs video their carnage in order to brag about their atrocities. SICK!)
New York health officials test person's remains for Ebola (IMHO, and spread fear)
Missouri executes Leon Taylor for killing a suburban Kansas City gas station ... (IMHO, State sanctioned murder!)
Six people, including a child, have died during the action at the Hisar ashram to arrest controversial sect leader Rampal, but the cause of their deaths is yet to be known, Haryana police said Wednesday. (IMHO, HUH?)
Man charged in fatal subway shoving in New York City (IMHO, Senselessness in a senseless society.)
Why Republicans Think They Can't Lose a Showdown with Obama - Many in the GOP have, once again, convinced themselves that they've got nothing to lose from a government shutdown. (IMHO, More proof that GOPers do not care a whit about America)
It’s a choice between extreme grotesque and utter unadulterated political hypocrisy. What kind of a choice is that? So when I came across this headline, which depicts how science technology, can and will make our world a bit less frightening. (Take that you science deniers!) Carlesha Freeland-Gaither fought off her attacker, (not allowing her fear to make her weak) which saved her own life. And, with the help of a capitalistic gizmo that gives the sales industry, a tool that reduces a buyers dignity, a GPS that will not allow your vehicle to start if you happen to get behind in your payments. You had better hope you’re not trying to take your child to an ER with a life threatening injury at the time of shutdown… but in this case, it saved a life. What a story! thinkingblue
Now that 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither has been found, details of her time captured and her heroic rescue have been revealed. Gaither was abducted in Philadelphia by an undentified man, who has since been identified as Delvin Barnes on Sunday at 9:40 p.m. in Germantown after she left a party for her godson. The authorities have released a shocking video of the abduction, which shows the moments leading up to the abduction as well as the horrifying abduction!
Freeland-Gaither struggled to get free of her attacker, and was forced into his car. She continued battling and smashed the car’s rear window while Barnes allegedly was trying to drive away as quickly as possible. It was reported that Gaither’s phone was recovered on the scene and according to ABC News, police believe that she either purposefully dropped it while she struggled with Barnes or threw it out of the window to tip off police. “She’s an intelligent girl,” Philadelphia Police Det. Jim Sloan told ABC News last week.
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Gaither then provided the correct pin number to Barnes, who withdrew money from her account at an ATM in Aberdeen, Maryland. This big mistake on Barnes’ behalf led them to Gaither. Authorities said Barnes made a number of mistakes himself which also contributed to the search, the most notable of which was his apparent disregard for surveillance cameras.
I watch enough Law & Order: SVU and The Blacklist to know that detectives were able to read the exact time when Gaither’s card was used at the ATM and they cross checked it with security camera feeds from around the ATM. They were able to release the footage to gain tips from the public.
Law enforcement in Virginia recognized a telling sticker on the suspect’s car and connected that car to Barnes, who was wanted in Virginia in a different attack. Authorities said investigators were able to determine the Virginia car dealership where Barnes bought the car. That dealership had GPS installed in the car as part of a program for financially worrisome customers. That GPS led police right to the vehicle in Jessup, Maryland, where agents took him into custody and rescued Gaither.
Hooray for technology and Gaither’s amazing ability to think on her toes, leaving clues for the authorities to find her.
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