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I’ve been watching this.  I thought it was over when, faced with Greece’s imminent default, the EU said “whatever.”  Why Germany and Ms. Merkel seemed to be the rallying-point I don’t understand and don’t really want to know.

So now they have this election.  Actually, it was scheduled a short while ago, before the whole world watched the required payment not happen.  At first the news here in Colorado was that the election was too close to call.  Now we receive word that it is a landslide rejecting whatever austerity measures may have been proposed.  Put differently, even the austerity measures that were in place are now seriously in question because the debt will be downgraded and…  It is going to get worse.

Sadly, the elections don’t matter much.  Apparently even the specific wording was hard to understand.  It is not funny at all.  Greece is a country without banks and money in a global economy.

The people seem virtually helpless.  Elections and celebrations are not going to help.

I don’t remember paying much attention at the time and I didn’t like the movie (based on the novel) much.

The case has received publicity recently because (some) of the murderers are being set free.

They’re all stupid, but Pam Smart is dumber than them all.  The bookless professor (apparently they, the books, were confiscated by the prison) in the documentary said she’s super-smart.  She did have a good job and she sure has a lot of energy.  She too was very young when it happened (22, and close to 23).  She had been married one year.

‘Poor guy’ is not funny.  Why four fifteen year-olds would kill for her I just don’t know.  Helen Hunt was attractive in those days…  I mean I wouldn’t want to marry her, not then or now.  But if I was fifteen?  Well, chances are I would still have the good sense to avoid twenty years in prison.

The whole crowd is whacked, her, the four boys, and that Cecilia chick.

There is something annoying about this woman, still, even today.  Just being annoying is not a crime.  Again, none of them are too bright—you can’t kill someone in your home town, among people you know, in a premeditated fashion, and not expect to be found.  You’re going to crack.  At least run to Mexico, which a 15 year-old probably couldn’t do.  And she’s going to go right back to work at the school?  Her husband had a one-night affair.  It was her own living room, and apparently they almost went through with it a few weeks before too.  It does seem like she either planted the seed or was heavily involved in premeditated murder.

I think the D. A. had it right when he said she believes she is innocent and that will not change.

The unique things about this case are that it was heavily publicized and Pam Smart is viewed in a role model or educator or at least adult way.  Even though she was only in her early twenties, the boys were only fifteen.  They are not exactly choirboys, and that’s another thing, she had to have known that.  Manipulating yourself into her bed is about as unusual as…  doing lines before your testimony to make it more emotional.

Like the Roman Polanski case, the judge seemed to like the attention and allowed the show.  The jury should have been sequestered.  The prosecutor was overzealous (and right).  The whole state can…  I’m not moving to New Hampshire.

 

That is the thing I remember most about the Ross Ulbricht obituary.  He lived in some great cities.  Why didn’t he get a job?  Why was he such an outcast?  “Disillusioned” is the term applied to many of the mass murderers.

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matt

If you read the brief Wiki post it is pretty clear this “person” is an escape risk.  Geez, talk about living off the government.  It makes me really rethink prison overcrowding.  I mean, I’m all for it.

It is informative and disturbing to watch the coverage.  It affects communities in a large portion of the state.

Just looking at prisons is always creepy.  The prison employees are not uplifting either.  Someone has to do it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/new-york-prison-escape/prison-escape-joyce-mitchells-husband-recounts-her-confession-n380131

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Difficult to watch (interview with mother).  “I wish he would have gave up a long time ago,” said Pamela.  “I love you, always have and always will.”

http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2015/06/ny_prison_escape_dog_bounty_hunter_reward_david_sweat.html

Like the Boston Marathon killings these manhunts provide a look into law enforcement militia.  When multiple agencies combine the force is extraordinary.  There is no way you are going to escape it.  The man who killed the Washington family (see below) drove back and forth to NYC and was followed the whole time.  The Spice Road guy was watched logging-in at the library.

The NY Times and Washington Post said it differently—25 square miles or a circle with a 25 mile radius.  A line of people, each within eyesight of the next, provided a perimeter.  They knew Sweat was within it.

That was the area in which you couldn’t open the windows at your house.

They knew where he was.  “Less than two miles from the Canadian border” but they knew where he was.  It isn’t as if he almost made it.

As soon as Sweat was spotted by the man who shot him (big safe vehicle vs. man on foot) the swarm was in motion and it was over.

Everything is magnified because they of course have nothing to lose—the pictures, they hold him up like a shot animal.

The woman who helped them and discussed killing her husband (also a jail employee)…  It seems inconceivable that anyone would be so dumb, and so desperate, that they would pick up escaped murderers and help them.  Given that she helped them get that far suggests that is not improbable at all.  It is the new definition of living your life in a sink hole.  This is in addition to not understanding or performing her job at all.  It is a maximum security prison.  Could you be more pathetic, present convict company excluded?  Look at what you have done.  People in the whole area were scared, homes were broken into, cars everywhere were stopped and searched.  A force of thousands at a cost of millions was assembled; the governor has better things to do.  Oh, but she decided not to go through with it.

The first one was found and shot…

good video

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/29/us/new-york-prison-break/

http://www.inquisitr.com/2211101/clinton-correctional-facility-over-the-wall-transfer-of-possible-contraband-has-public-concerned-video/

Does this place have a warden?  Who is in charge?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/nyregion/new-york-prison-escape-an-array-of-oversights-set-the-stage.html

“procedures and reminding officers of what their job is”

“She explained she’d been unsure of his love and flattered by attention from Matt, who had tried to kiss her a few times, Lyle Mitchell said. But he said her fondness turned into fear when she told Matt she’d changed her mind about being their driver and he threatened to have her husband killed.”

Perhaps she did not plot to kill her husband.  Yes, she was conned.  But she was working in a prison, not a tailoring business.  Her job was to keep the prisoners there and the public safe.

http://www.people.com/article/joyce-mitchell-seduced-by-killers Denouement.  Fun comments.  Pamela Smart!

If you cannot afford it, one will be appointed for you.

http://www.psychologymatters.asia/article/141/nothing-is-as-healing-as-human-touch.html

http://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/07/the-morning-after-finding-bobby-fischer/

“It sounds terrible to leave a 16-year-old to his own devices, but he is probably happier that way.”  A quick reading suggests Regina was a smart, independent, and attentive mother.  The husband, birth certificate, and degree things are legit.  She appears to have helped in his education and chess development; moving and a lack of funds was not her fault.  Was she warm?

Fischer had lots and lots of contact with intelligent, mature chess players.

Aside from the weird, chess-playing woman Zita, there is no mention of a woman.  (EDIT:  The Japanese wife?)

Strange, the continued run-ins with the State Department.  Prelude to paranoia.

FBI reports is the wrong way to find out about your family.  I know.

There is no doubt he worked hard to realize his gift.

The HBO documentary is good; the film is very good.  Maybe he could have been happier if the childhood years were different.  He still had plenty of chances.

I wonder how many parents realize their kids, no matter how old, will always want their love.

Still my favorite playlist.

 

Shelleyan Orphan.  Sugar is new.  I don’t want to know how to control it.

3×3 watt LED ceiling light in a can.

The fairway, under construction.  Tees are to the right and up.

 

From the first tee.

         

 

From the second tee.

         

 

“I can’t touch what I feel.”

This is the wrong playlist but it is close.  The lyrics are pretty depressing.  No, that is the wrong word–it is just really different.  My favorites are the deeper cuts, maybe that is because I have heard…  them all so many times.  Also, Cheryl Wheeler, Arrow.  Odd what I can and can’t find.  Schooner Fare, Leviathan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/savopoulos-family-thanks-law-enforcement-after-arrest-in-slayings/2015/05/22/4b5b488a-0077-11e5-8b6c-0dcce21e223d_story.html?hpid=z1

The good news is that it was a targeted crime.

For those who don’t know, a family was held captive in their home, ransom paid, murdered, house set on fire and the “suspect” is caught after going back and forth to NYC in a van and car with others.

The family was absolutely in their prime and the victims included a household employee.

And the story here is that TMZ got it wrong.  Hang himself at 25?