Time Warner was shot down last week. They were trying to charge customers for EACH WEBSITE they visit, calling it 'Excessive Internet Usage". And they are not the only cable company or business that want to charge us not only a monthly fee for internet connections, they also want to add, on top of that monthly charge, a charge per site or session, or to put us on some sort of meter, like the electric meter or water meter, and charge us for using it as well as for connecting to it monthly.

Luckily, there are activists out there fighting against this. But they don't have the money and contacts and resources that these Big Corporate companies do, and if we don't get involved and tell our Representatives that we will not tolerate this, they will eventually win the right to milk us dry some more. Save The Internet.com is one of the most powerful and active groups trying to stop this. They're also connected to groups calling for a complete reform of the media.

Just check out their website, find out what's going on - be aware, be informed. You don't have to do anything nor spend any money, tho you certainly can if so moved. Even if you never so much as sign a petition, at least you'll KNOW, they won't be pulling the wool over your eyes.

Random Pix: gravestone for gay soldier, humorous bank sign, today's barbie

Found this surfing the web. Assuming it's a statement on the new vogue subject of obesity in the US. Or just a joke along the lines of trailer trash barbie with the baby on her hip, tattoos, short denim cut-offs and tube top, and cigarette. Then again, maybe that was also a statement...Hm...Anyway, its funny.

Stating the obvious? Think it works?

Now on a more serious note: this is quite witty, but sad. And when you look at it that way, it's ok to kill but n

ot to love, well, its quite a statement. Certainly gives me pause, thinking about our society and what we accept and how we think and judge, etc.

MUG SHOTS of a different sort: the good guys (well, up in the air on Jackson...)

Now, I've read a lot about Jesse Jackson, or however ya spell Jessie in his name, and I just ain't thrilled with the man. Mostly what got to me were accusations from Martin Luther King Jr's family that Jackson had something to do with King's assassination. And if you haven't read the

details, please, do. It's known that Martin Luther King was shot on the 2nd floor, on the balcony, and at the time Jessie was in the parking lot below. A couple of people have said Jessie kept looking at his watch then looking up toward the road and toward the GENERAL direction the shots later supposedly came from. Also, its known that King stayed at this hotel often, and had a special set of rooms that were positioned to be safer, and that those rooms were reserved, and someone from his group called and changed the rooms. If you've seen the pics, that set of rooms was wide open, he could've been shot by a sniper with a scope through his sliding glass doors, but no way could he come or go without going out onto the wide open balcony. It's also been said tho I cannot recall by whom, tho it was a member of King's closest people, that the only person he ever saw King lose his temper with and yell at was, guess who, Jesse Jackson. Supposedly said Jackson was doing this for all the wrong reasons, and only wanted to be famous and rich. I don't know if this was even a reliable source, and since I can't recall a name, this is far-fetched to readers. BUT, it IS known that Jesse was in the parking lot below King when King was shot, and Jackson never went up the stairs nor did he get near Mr King after the shooting. But the next day Jackson went around to different news stations and talk shows, showing a bloody shirt, (though I've no idea if it was real blood, like pig blood, or fake blood, or what - whichever it was not King's blood unless he managed to get it later off the dead man's poor body) saying Martin Luther King Jr died in his arms - a complete and sick lie, done at best to milk attention for Jackson from this tragedy, this terrible injustice, and that makes me sick. I sorta hate having both of them on the same page, and I wasn't gonna write anything on these mug shots since I spent so much time on the previous set, but I had to say something - couldn't just leave Jackson's picture here with King's without telling what I know, showing the difference in this great man and this.... opportunistic egomaniac , at best.

Ms Rosa Parks, after standing her ground. Or, sitting her ground? I always thought of her as an older lady, and in this picture she looks quite young. She's a pretty girl, too, even though you KNOW she has had a rather rough day before this was taken.

And here is The Man himself. Martin Luther King Jr. I THINK, but am in no way sure, this was after the bus boycott. Site I found it on says this shot was found in a police station when they were cleaning out some old files, again I'm not sure but I think it was a PD in Alabama, which would make sense, huh. Note the remark written in ink "DEAD 4-4-68". Site said nobody knows who wrote this, nor why, nor exactly what it's supposed to mean: did the person who wrote it think they just needed to note this general person was dead and no longer could be used as a photo for a suspect? Or was it a racist or a hater bragging? Or was it a fan mourning? There are other words written on King's suit but I can't make it out.

Mug Shots: mobster, serial killers and assassins WARNING, VIOLENCE, VERY GRAPHIC, SEXUAL CRIMES

DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO DO SO, NOR IF YOU GET TOO UPSET READING ABOUT SUCH CRIMES, AS I HAVE DETAILED SOME OF THEM, AND THEY ARE EXPLICIT, GRUESOME, AND VERY DISTURBING

I came across a bunch of mugshots and chose a few to share. First, John Gotti, famed mobster.






John Joseph Gotti was born October 27, 1940, and died June 10, 2002.
He became boss of the Gambino crime family after the murder of the former boss, Paul Castellano, of which Gotti later convicted. Gotti was aka Dapper Don due to his flamboyance and love of expensive clothing, and as The Teflon Don (Don is Italian mobster-speak meaning "boss") because of prior prosecution attempts that would not stick. The FBI tapped his apartment and was finally able to successfully prosecute him. In 1992 he was convicted on several counts: racketeering, 13 murders, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit murder, illegal gambling, extortion, tax evasion, and loansharking. He was sentenced to life in prison, and died 10 years later.










John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown: born March 17 1942, died May 10 1994. Convicted and later executed by lethal injection for rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 when he was finally arrested. 27 of these were buried in the crawl space under the floor of his house, and 2 more found on his property in Cooke County Illinois, on the northwest side of Chicago in Norwood Park. The rest found in nearby rivers. He became notorious as the killer clown because he'd throw block parties for neighbors and friends and entertain the children dressed up as Pogo the Clown.
Gacy was a businessman, owning his own construction company, PDM Contractors. He was vice president of the Illinois Jaycees, a political activist and very involved in the Democratic Party in and around Chicago (worried a bit about CHicago politics and law enforcement as well as Secret Service investiations),and met and was photographed with then 1st Lady Rosalynn Carter. In the photo he can be seen wearing and "S" pin, which indicates a person who has received special clearance by the United States Secret Service - a huge embarrassment to the Secret Service when the picture was found. Mrs Carter met him while she was in town for the annual Polish Constitution Day Parade, and Gacy was the director of the parade for the 3rd consecutive year.
After the 2nd of his employees disappeared, the 2nd victims parents asked the police to investigate Gacy, but they did not. If they had merely looked up his record, they'd have seen he had a few arrests for this and that, and had served time for sodomy. But they did not. A 3rd employee went missing. Still the cops didn't look at Gacy. Then this vic's car was found when it's driver stole gas. The driver said he got the car from Gacy - Gacy told police he purchased the car from the missing employee before the young man left town, and they left it at that. Then in 1977 a 19 yr old man told cops Gacy had kidnapped him and raped him at gunpoint - he specifically named Gacy, and cops took NO ACTION still. In 78 Gacy lured Jeffrey Rignall into his car, chloroformed him, took him to his house and raped and tortured him, then dumped him in Lincoln Park. The man survived, and though he'd been drugged he could remember the car and parts of the route they took. Instead of relying on the police, Rignall decided to take action himself, and staked out the exit he recalled them taking. He finally spotted the car, and followed it to Gacy's address, and told the police. The cops got a warrant and found several drivers licenses of missing boys and young men, syringes, torture devices, clothing too small for Gacy, etc. Well, they left, even though they also noted a funny smell coming from the floor. ONly later did cops get another warrant and discover the 27 bodies/skeletons under his floor and in his yard. (on a different subject, I wonder why Chicago is so overrun with crime.....)
Gacy was finally arrested - I wonder how many lives could've been saved had police looked at him when his 2nd employee went missing and Gacy was mentioned by the family as a suspect, but it's too late for that now I guess. Gacy was found guilty and given the death penalty. While on trial he remarked that the only thing he was guilty of was running a cemetery without a license. He never showed any remorse, and supposedly remarked that killing him wouldn't bring anyone back. HIs last words were reported to be to a guard on the way to the execution chamber, and he supposedly said "kiss my ass". He was given lethal injection on May 10 1994. His brain was removed, and studies found no abnormality. Its now owned by a woman who interviewed several serial killers and was looking for patterns to how or why they killed.









Jeffrey Dahmer, May 21 1960 - Nov 28 1994. Killed 17 men and boys,most Asian or African American, between 1978 and 1991, with most murders occurring between 87 and 91. The very gruesome murders involved rape, torture, necropilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism.
A reported normal child, he began to change between the ages of 10-15, growing more and more withdrawn with no interest in any hobbies or socializing, and a very strange interest in dead things. He'd go around the neighborhood on his bicycle looking for dead animals. Then he'd bring them home and dissect them, going so far as to put a dog's head on a stake. He began drinking heavily at a young age, and was a full-blown alcholic by his senior high school year. He dropped out of college after less than one term and his father made him join the Army. This seemed well at first, but he was discharged after 2 years for his alcoholism. He lived with his grandmother next, from 1982, but she did not like his strange behavior; for example, she found a male mannequin in his closet, had funny smells coming from the basement - he told his father he dissolved a dead squirrel in acid. He was arrested twice for indecent exposure, the 2nd time masturbating in front of 2 boys. His grandmother could not take anymore, and made him leave her home in 1988. Even with all this, nobody realized he'd already committed murder - his first in 1978 when he'd picked up a male hitchhiker and beaten him to death with a barbell after sex - an event that would come back around to Dahmer in the end.
In Sept 1988 Dahmer was arrested for drugging and fondling a 13 yr old boy. (Get ready to be outraged again, in some ways worse than the Gacy story, concerning the police.) He was sentenced to 5 years probation (even with the prior arrests for indecent exposure and masturbating in front of 2 boys) and 1 year in a work-release camp. He was released 2 months early from the work camp, and soon after the killings began in earnest.
In May 1991, 14 year old Konerak Sinthasomphone was found in the early morning hours wandering the streets, drugged, naked, and bleeding from his rectum, by 2 women. Oddly enough, this boy was younger brother to a former victim of Dahmer's, by chance seemingly. (Imagine that poor family's pain and anger.) The 2 women called 911, and 3 police responded. In the meantime Dahmer had tracked down his victim and tried to take him, but the 2 women wouldn't let him. When the cops arrived, Dahmer told them the 14 year old naked drugged bleeding boy was in fact his 19 year old boyfriend, and that they had fought after heavy drinking. The police released the boy into Dahmer's custody! Later on, Dahmer tortured and dismembered the boy. These cops later reported a funny smell in the home of Dahmer, which was the rotting body of his previous victim in the bedroom. The police audiotape was later released, where 2 of the cops were joking to the dispatcher, making homophobic remarks, joking they needed to be disloused and making fun of reuniting the lovers. Public outrage resulted in them losing their jobs, but 2 officers, - John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish evidently didn't feel at all responsible for the boy's death, did not feel they were unfit as cops, etc, as they fought for their jobs back. They won, and were reinstated WITH backpay, and named officers of the year by the police union for their valiant fight to win their jobs back. John Balcerzak was elected president of the Milwaukee Police Association in 2005. (The 3rd officer was unnamed in the articles I read for this blog.)
Finally, would-be victim Tracy Edwards escaped from Dahmer after a struggle, kicking him and punching him in the face even tho Dahmer had a knife. He led police to the house. Cops were unable to ignore what they found there this time. After being told to check the bedroom by the victim, they saw the photos Dahmer had on his wall of dismembered and mangled victims. Searching the place they found a severed head in the refrigerator, and other body parts including a heart in the freezer. Around the home they also found severed hands and penises, corpses in vats of acid, and such.
Dahmer was officially indicted on 17 murder counts. He pled not guilty by reason of insanity, but was found sane, guilty of 15 murders, and sentenced to 15 life sentences, or 957 years. After expressing remorse and claiming to be a born-again Christian, he was baptized. There was an attempt on his life - an inmate tried to slit his throat, but he escaped. Then in November of 1994, fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution, Christopher Scarver, beat Jeffrey Dahmer to death with a metal bar from a weight machine (Dahmer's 1st vic, you'll recall, he beat to death with a barbell). Dahmer died in the ambulance of massive head trauma.









Son of Sam, aka .44 Calibur Killer, David Berkowitz was born June 1 1953. He is a serial killer and arsonist. Arrested in 1977,he confessed to killing 6 people and wounding 7 in a series of 8 shootings in New York City between 1976 and 1977. He claimed a demon possessed his neighbor's dog and commanded him to kill. Later he said he was the actual shooter in only 2 cases, killing 3 and wounding 1, and the others were killed by a satanic cult which he belonged to. Some in law enforcement, including those who investigated the case from the police dpts and journalists, think he may be telling the truth. Before Berkowitz was arrested, they suspected more than one shooter. The case was reportedly reopened in 1996 and remained open at least as late as 2004.
Berkowitz says he joined the cult in 1975, and at first it was only harmless stuff such as seances. Then they began with drugs, sadistic porn, and then violent crimes. He says they began killing dogs, especially German Shepherds, and indeed over a dozen dogs were found slaughtered around Yonkers - an area close to the park he says they used as a meeting place.
A letter was found in the street at one of the crime scenes, full of misspellings and rather crudely written, the author calling himself the Son of Sam. The letter claimed Sam beat him badly, along with the rest of his family, and that father Sam was getting old and needed blood to remain young - he liked to drink blood. The entire letter is easily found thru a Google search or on Wikipedia (most of all this info I got from Wikipedia, and I've only written small summaries - there is much more information on all these criminals and crimes if you're interested in finding out more, and very easy to find). "I am the monster Beelzebub", "I don't want to kill", "I love people" "don't belong on Earth", "return me to yahoos" "I'll be back" are examples of exerpts of this letter, and he also warned that they must kill him to stop him. It was signed "Yours in murder, Mr Monster".
Another letter was mailed to Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News. This letter had none of the crudeness of the first letter and seemed it must be written by a more intelligent person, though the unreleased details of the first letter were found in the second as well, leading police to believe they were from 2 different people yet both were at the least witnesses to the murders. The police were very thorough and hard-working in this case, unlike the above cases. They confiscated all the registered .44 cal guns in NYC and did ballistics tests on all of them, were investigating all of the 900 matching Volkswagens in NYC, formed a task force of 300 officers, set up traps in the newspapers and such, and roadblocks, dragnets, etc. There, they were on it boy. They finally were led to Berkowitz, and at first sought him as a possible witness, quickly realizing he was a suspect.
Berkowitz was arrested June 12 1978 and sentenced to 6 life sentences, a maximum of 365 years. He became a born-again Christian, and regularly councils troubled inmates and leads a prison ministry. He has written a letter to NY governor saying he has come to terms with things and knows he deserves life in prison , and does not want any parole hearings. The state has held 2 hearings for him anyway, neither of which he attended nor cooperated with, and both times his parole was denied due to the violent nature of his crimes, though noted he is an exemplary inmate. He says the cult led him to his crimes, though at the same time, he accepts full responsibility for his actions.
Berkowitz warns still that this cult is real, and has 2 dozen core members in NYC. He says he cannot tell too much or his family will be in danger. The cult supposedly has ties all across the US and is deeply involved in drug smuggling and other crimes. In a 1977 letter to the NY Post, the letter closes with "There are other Sons of Sam out there, God help the world". Journalist Maury Terry investigated and found strong evidence that a violent offshoot of the Process Church was responsible for Son of Sam murders and many other crimes. Terry's book, The Ultimate Evil, is about this, and has been expanded several times since first published in 1987. The case was reopened but nobody else has ever been arrested.
Berkowitz said that real life brothers John and Michael Carr, real sons of Yonkers resident Sam Carr, were in the same cult Berkowitz was in. John, he says, was referred to in the Breslin letter, "John Wheaties, rapist and suffocator of young girls". Both Carr brothers died within 2 years of Berkowitz's arrest. John was found dead in February 1978 at his girlfriend's North Dakota home. Police first suspected a homicide, but later ruled it a suicide. Michael was killed in a car crash in 1979 in Manhattan. Berkowitz says both were likely murdered due to heavy drug use, which made them untrustworthy, and seen as apt to inform on the rest of the cult if arrested.

Mark David Chapman, assassin of John Lennon. Born May 10 1955. On Dec 8 1980 shot Lennon 4 times out of 5 shots, with hollow point bullets, outside The Dakota apartment building in NYC. Then he stayed on the scene, reading the book he'd bought that morning, and had been obsessessed with, The Catcher in the Rye. He first pled guilty by reason of insanity, but later changed his plea to guilty of murder in the 2nd degree (though he'd planned the assassination for a long time and came to NYC specifically to kill Lennon). An assessment at Bellvue found him to be delusional but competent to stand trial. (There are many forms and degrees of insanity, and the measurement for crimes and trials is whether or not one knows right from wrong, and he knew killing Lennon was wrong. Many who try to claim insanity are undone when it is proven they tried to hide their crime, thus proving they knew they'd done wrong and would be punished, and trying to escape this fate. Chapman didn't even try to escape, but it was clear from everything he said that he simply didn't want to try and run, but knew it was wrong and knew the police were coming for him because he'd committed a crime.)

Chapman had waited outside Lennon's apartment all day with other fans. At one point he met the housekeeper taking Lennon's son Sean out for a walk, and knowing he was going to try to kill the boy's father, he shook Sean's hand. Lennon and Yoko Ono came out about 5 pm on their way to the recording studio. Lennon stopped to talk to fans, and shook Chapman's hand, and signed his autograph to an album Chapman had. Photographer Paul Goresh snapped a photo of this moment. Later Chapman said the bigger part of him won out at the time, and he wanted to go back to his hotel, but couldn't. "He knew where the ducks went in winter, and I needed to know this," a reference to the Catcher in the Rye.

About 10 minutes before 11 that night, Lennon and Ono returned. As they walked toward the entrance, Chapman turned and fired 5 hollow point bullets from a Charter Arms .38 revolver at Lennon, striking him 4 times in the shoulder and back, with 1 bullet piercing his aorta. Then he calmly took out his book and read til police got there. The first cops on the scene recognized the severity of Lennon's injuries and took him in the police cruiser to the hospital. Chapman was arrested without incident. Lennon died at the hospital at 11:07 pm.

Chapman has been denied parole each time he's up for it. Yoko and an online grassroots campaign work to prevent his parole. Chapman is a prisoner at Attica State Prison, confined to the Security Housing Unit for violent and at-risk prisoners, where officials say he is with 105 prisoners who pose no threat to Chapman. They fear putting him in the general population, that a Lennon fan will kill him.

Charles Manson. Lookin rough ain't he? This has taken longer than I planned on giving it, and most people are familiar enough with Charlie Boy here, so I'm just gonna show you his latest, 2008 mug shot, and anyone who wants his story can find it very easily.

SWINE FLU: Don't Panic!!!!!

Here's the thing: it's flu. Just another variety of flu.

I looked up the figures, and checked several

sites to be sure I am telling you correctly.


In the United States each year, about 36,000

people die of complications of the flu. Many of these complications/deaths could've been avoided if proper medical care were taken once it was clearly beyond mere flu or symptoms lasted too long. Other deaths were due to the flu complicating other diseases or illnesses, and so on.

Now, let's break that number down. Remember we are not talking about the Swine Flu yet - just flu : whatever type of flu, every type, just the general flu on a yearly basis. Of course the numbers will be different from month to month, being much higher in flu season and smaller when its not the season, but for the sake of simplicity I'm gonna break it down by averaging the whole year, and every month as if it were the same, since it's simpler and the point is the yearly average.

36,000 per year, 12 months, equals an average of 3,000 per month. That is
an average of 750 per week. Of the general, normal, non-panic-causing,
non-epidemic or -pandemic threatened flu. For the United States alone.
It's obvious it could get worse, but, we have not had anywhere near that number of swine flu-related deaths WORLDWIDE, much less just in the US.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) know these figures. I'd imagine most of our reps in Congress have a good idea, or have been briefed, and surely Pres. Obama knows or has been told. So, why oh why are they TRYING to induce a panic that will inevitably have a big negative effect on the nation, and the world, economy? Well, the medical industry and Big Pharmacy will certainly be booming due to this. What is going on? I'm realistic and a cynic, and normally laugh at anything sounding far fetched, but something ain't right here, ya'll. And Biden and Pelosi saying they're keeping their bunch at home? If this is real, and they believe this, we are in bigger trouble than I thought due to lack of intelligence Washington. If not, then why did they say it? We have schools shutting down, sending kids home if they sneeze, etc. These are EDUCATORS, and they should also know better, if not by common reasoning and good sense, then by doing what should come natural to someone in the educational world - research. I'm just a common housemom with no more than a high school diploma and I managed to figure it all out.

So, what do you think? What's going on?