HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. MAY EVERYTHING YOU WISH FOR COME TRUE IN THE UPCOMING YEAR 2010.

I want to wish my handsome hubby, Tony a very happy birthday!

My hubby has given me some home news tonight. I will let Tony announce it later on this evening.

Tony and I hope that you all have a safe and happy holiday season.

I want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas!

That Guy Got To "Ride The Lightening," Well, Sort Of, Here.

Ohio killer executed with one drug

Kentucky has stayed with the three-drug method

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins • Associated Press • December 8, 2009

Comments (79) Recommend (3) Print this page ShareThis Font size:AA LUCASVILLE, Ohio — An Ohio killer was put to death in an efficient 10 minutes Tuesday in the first U.S. execution to use a single drug injection instead of the standard three-chemical combination that has come under legal attack because it can cause excruciating pain.

Kenneth Biros, 51, was pronounced dead shortly after one dose of sodium thiopental began flowing into his veins at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected his final appeal two hours earlier.

Experts had predicted that sodium thiopental — used in many parts of the world to put pets down — would take longer to kill than the old method. But the 10 minutes it took Biros to die was about as long as it has taken other inmates in Ohio and elsewhere to succumb to the three-drug combination.

 

The mother, sister and brother of Biros' victim, Tami Engstrom, applauded as the warden announced the time of death.

"Rock on," Debi Heiss, Engstrom's sister, said a moment earlier as the curtains were drawn for the coroner to check on Biros. "That was too easy."

Ohio's switch to one drug was born of a botched execution attempt on another inmate in September, but critics of the three-drug method have long argued that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution because it can subject the condemned to extreme pain while leaving them immobile and unable to cry out.

The three-drug method consists of sodium thiopental, a common anesthetic, along with pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes muscles, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. The single-drug technique amounts to an overdose of the anesthetic — a method that injection experts and defense attorneys agreed would not cause pain.

 

Biros' executioners struggled for several minutes to find suitable veins, inserting needles repeatedly in both arms before completing the process on just his left arm. He winced once, and his attorney, John Parker, said he was concerned by all the needle sticks. But prison officials declared nothing amiss.

 

"There was no problem with anything in us carrying out the law of this state in this particular execution — none whatsoever," Ohio Prisons Director Terry Collins said. "The process worked as we said it would work."

After the chemical started flowing, Biros' chest heaved several times, and he moved his head twice over a span of about two minutes before he lay perfectly still.

In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld lethal injection in a case from Kentucky involving a three-drug method similar to the one used in Ohio and practically every other death penalty state. After a seven-month moratorium on the death penalty while the high court decided the case, executions resumed across the country.

In its ruling, the Supreme Court said states would have to change from the three-drug process if an alternative method lessened the possibility of pain.

Deborah Denno, a law professor at New York's Fordham University and a lethal injection expert, said she is highly skeptical that Ohio's single experience Tuesday will change the landscape around the country. She noted that the Supreme Court questioned the one-drug method, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying it "has problems of its own."

All 36 death penalty states use lethal injection, and 35 rely on the three-drug method. Nebraska, which recently adopted injection over the electric chair, has proposed the three-drug method but hasn't yet adopted it.

Kentucky, Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia are among those that have said they will keep the three-drug method.

Sodium thiopental is a barbiturate often used to anesthetize surgical patients, induce medical comas or help desperately ill people commit suicide. It is also sometimes used to euthanize animals. It kills by suppressing breathing.

Ohio switched to sodium thiopental after a failed attempt to execute Romell Broom in September. Executioners tried for two hours to find a suitable vein, hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 needle sticks. A hearing begins in federal court Wednesday on Broom's attempt to block the state from trying again.

After the botched attempt, the state consulted with an array of experts, including pharmacologists, pharmacists, coroners and an anesthesiologist, with two goals: to end a 5-year-old lawsuit claiming that Ohio's three-drug system is capable of causing severe pain, and to create a backup procedure if the first one didn't work.

That backup plan — also untested on U.S. inmates — allows a two-drug injection into muscle if a usable vein cannot be found. That did not become necessary in Biros' case.

Biros killed his 22-year-old victim in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattered her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Before dying Tuesday, he apologized for his crime.

"I'm being paroled to my father in heaven," Biros said. "I will now spend all of my holidays with my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ."

What Goes Around Comes Around, EVENTUALLY.

Execution awaits local murderers

By Jon Craig • jcraig@enquirer.com • December 8, 2009

Today's execution was the 33rd in Ohio since capital punishment resumed in 1999 and the eighth during Gov. Ted Strickland's tenure.

The Ohio Supreme Court has set dates for one execution per month through June 2010, including two convicted killers from Hamilton County next spring:

Michael F. Beuke, 47, is scheduled to be executed on May 13, 2010. Beuke was convicted of the June 1, 1983, murder of Robert Craig, who he met while hitchhiking on Interstate 275. Beuke shot Craig twice in the head and once in the chest, dumped his body in the bushes and stole his car, according to court records.

Richard Nields, 59, is scheduled to be executed on June 10, 2010, for the March 27, 1997, murder of his girlfriend, 59-year-old Patricia Newsome, at their home in Finneytown. Nields beat and strangled Newsome after she asked him to move out of her house, according to court records.

Neither here, nor there.

Hello All:

I am posting this blog here instead of over in my bad ettiquite blog, because what I have to say is actually one of those things that actually falls in to one of those "Well, it's actually both, but it's more stupid than bad ettiquite things," to be honest here.  I just really wanted to talk about something that I feel is more, well, stupid ignorance on the ettiquite end of things with somebody I know, whom I am going to eventually talk to here about this situation, whenever I see the culprit again of this incident in the near future.

First, let me clarify some stuff in relation to what I am talking about here.  I have a guy friend, (do not think that I am talking about my hubby, Tony here at all, because I am not talking about him here at all, but somebody totally different from Tony here!!)  Tony knows that what this person did really rubbed me the wrong way and that if I had talked to this third party, I would have probably ripped the guy a new rear end, right on the spot, because I was livid when I found out what this guy did here.

Tony and I have this mutual acquaintance who, well, to make a long story short is a devout Roman Catholic.  This acquaintance is a guy, whom I am (for the sake of this story), going to call this guy Ash.  Ash is basically a good guy, but as I have told Tony, Ash has had Ash's head up a priest's rear end way too long here.  Ash is in his 30s now and for all intents and purposes, Ash should be more worldly than he really is right now, but Ash is not that worldly.  I think that my 12 year old girl cousin on my mom's side of the family is more worldly than Ash is right now and that's saying something here, folks.

Ash has just started "Dating," (if you can call it that really, to be honest!)  If you were to meet Ash, you would realize that where he is mentally is somewhere developmentally/on the social scale somewhere near an 11 year old kid, where as Ash is (as I mentioned above), well in to his 30s here.  Granted, Ash is straight, (in other words, he likes women), but there's just times when I want to give Ash what I call the "V8 slap" sometimes and ask Ash WTF he was thinking, because Ash does some pretty stupid ass shit from time to time.

Well, an example of this stupidity on Ash's part happened here reciently.  Tony and I were going to do something with Ash lately, just Ash here, when Ash decided to just up and invite his girlfriend to come with us, without asking me or Tony if it was okay for her to come along.  It is not that I minded the girlfriend coming along with Ash, mind you, it's just I wasn't expecting it to happen at that time, nor was I ready to meet the girlfriend at the time.  Ash was also planning on bringing the girlfriend along with him to my house.

My response to Ash bringing the girlfriend to my house before I meet her is a definate no go on there.  Tony and I agree on this matter, because neither one of us, (being Tony and myself) have met this supposed girlfriend Ash has here, nor have Tony and I met this woman to say that she's welcome to come to our house.  Now, don't get the impression here that Tony and I are inhospitible, it's not that at all  --  it's more like we just don't like letting strange people in to our house here  --  that is what the big sticking point was for us, (especially me, because let's just say that since I know of Ash's wierd taste in hanging out with the "Strays of the world" is the norm here for Ash, I'm not too hip with that idea for myself.)  Tony and I agreed that no, Ash can not bring the girlfriend over to the house until A:  Both Tony and I have met this supposed "Girlfriend" of Ash's here and B:  We have met this person in a very public place here, not our home!

Let's just say that when I caught wind of Ash wanting to bring his "Girlfriend" with him, I was royally fit to be tied, because Ash has a complete and utter lack of not only good manners and upbringing on that end, but Ash has a complete lack of any common sense here as far as that goes with going to any event.  You know, it's just common sense and good manners to ask the host or hostess of an event that you were (or are) invited to if it is okay for you to bring a "Friend" or "Associate" along with you, if you weren't told that outright by the host or hostess here.

Oddly enough, the "Girlfriend" ended up backing out at the last minute, (thank God!), so Tony and I didn't have to worry about meeting her in the end.  I just wanted to also say that as far as meeting this supposed girlfriend goes, I will only meet her somewhere in like a restaurant, a library or some other very public place, as I mentioned above here and Ash has to be with this person the whole honking time as well.

Any way, I just felt the need to rant about Ash being a goober here and his bad manners.  Trust me, I really am not in to people being presumptious with me and thinking that I want to meet somebody or do something without me expressly saying so here.  Besides, if you met me in person, you would know that I am the kind of person who, if I did want to do something, then I'd come right out and tell you as much.

I hope that you all have a great week and I will talk to you all some time soon!  I hope that you all have a happy Thanksgiving 2009 as well!

Now THAT is discusting!!

Questions arise over how kidnapper went undetected

– Tarps, tents and a wooden structure are seen in the backyard of alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido in

Kidnapped Calif. girl emerges 18 years later

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By TERRY COLLINS and BROOKE DONALD, Associated Press Writers Terry Collins And Brooke Donald, Associated Press Writers – Fri Aug 28, 7:46 pm ET

ANTIOCH, Calif. – His neighbors knew he was a registered sex offender. Kids on his block called him "Creepy Phil" and kept their distance. Parole agents and local law enforcement regularly visited his home and found nothing unusual, even after a neighbor complained children were living in a complex of tents in his backyard.

For 18 years, Phillip Garrido managed to elude detection as he pulled off what authorities are calling an unfathomable crime, kidnapping and raping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard, keeping her as his secret captive for nearly two decades and fathering two of her children.

The question about how he went unnoticed became more pressing Friday when Garrido came under suspicion in the unsolved murders of several prostitutes, raising the prospect he was a serial killer as well. Several of the murdered women's bodies — the exact number is not known — were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido worked during the 1990s.

Authorities acknowledged that they blew a chance three years ago to rescue Dugard from the backyard labyrinth of sheds, tents and outbuildings that were concealed from the outside world.

A neighbor called 911 in November 2006 and described Garrido as a psychotic sex addict who was living with children and had people staying in tents in his backyard.

The investigating officer spent a half-hour interviewing Garrido on his front porch but did not enter the house or search the backyard, Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said. The deputy, who did not know Garrido was a registered sex offender even though the sheriff's department had the information, warned Garrido that the tents could be a code violation before leaving.

"We missed an opportunity to bring earlier closure to this situation," Rupf acknowledged. "I cannot change the course of events but we are beating ourselves up over this and continue to do so."

"We should have been more inquisitive, more curious and turned over a rock or two."

It was not the only missed opportunity.

As a parolee, Garrido wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his every movement, met with his parole agent several times each month and was subject to routine surprise home visits and random drug and alcohol tests, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Gordon Hinkle said.

The last unannounced visit by a team of local police agencies was conducted in July 2008. Paramedics also were summoned to the house five times since 1999, presumably to help Garrido's 88-year-old mother, who had dementia.

"There was never any indication to my knowledge that there was any sign of children living there," Hinkle said.

As it turns out, Dugard and her two children were living there as prisoners, authorities say. The heavily wooded compound was arranged so that people could not view what was happening, and one of the buildings was sound-proofed and could only be opened from the outside.

Neighbors knew there were children living there. Damon Robinson has lived next door to the Garridos for more than three years and his then-girlfriend in 2006 told him she saw tents in the backyard and children.

"I told her to call police. I told her to call right away," he said.

Dugard, now 29, was reunited with her family and said to be in good health, but feeling guilty about developing a bond with Garrido over the years. Her two children, 11 and 15, remained with her.

"Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy. She really feels it's almost like a marriage," said Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn, who was there when little Jaycee was snatched from a bus stop in 1991.

Probyn has been in constant contact with Dugard's mother, his ex-wife Terry Probyn, since she found out her daughter was alive on Wednesday.

Probyn said both mother and daughter are trying to avoid the public eye for now. After not seeing each other for 18 years, Dugard greeted her mother by saying, "Hi, mom, I have babies," according to Probyn. Dugard had her two daughters with her at the reunion, and it appears she never told them she was kidnapped by their father, he said.

The authorities say they do not yet know whether she ever tried to escape or to alert anyone of her whereabouts, but she had chances to escape Garrido, who did a stint behind bars during the period of captivity.

Garrido and his wife pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment. Phillip Garrido appeared stoic and unresponsive during the brief arraignment hearing. His wife cried and put her head in her hands several times.

Garrido gave a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview to KCRA-TV from the county jail Thursday in which he said he had not admitted to a kidnapping and that he had turned his life around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago. He told the television station that he walked into the FBI's San Francisco office on Monday with Dugard's daughters and dropped off several documents containing rambling passages about religion, sexual compulsion and mind control.

FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler confirmed Garrido left the documents with the agency, but declined to discuss any further details.

Garrido was required to register as a sex offender because he was convicted in 1977 of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman from parking lot in South Lake Tahoe, the same town Jaycee Dugard lived in when she was snatched from a school bus stop.

In the case Garrido took the woman across the state line into Nevada, where he raped her in a mini-warehouse in Reno that had been furnished with rugs, pornographic magazines and sex toys, according to prosecutors and news accounts from the time.

Gail Powell, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety, said Garrido met his wife while he was serving time for the rape at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan.

He served about 10 years of a 50-year federal sentence for kidnapping, and less than a year for a concurrent Nevada sentence of five years to life in prison for sexual assault. He was paroled in 1988, said Nevada Department of Corrections spokeswoman Suzanne Pardee.

A violation of Garrido's parole conditions sent him back to federal prison from April to August of 1993. Dick Carelli, spokesman for the federal Office of Court Administration, did not know what Garrido did to violate parole. Authorities are trying to piece together how and by whom Dugard was held during Garrido's four-month absence.

Hinkle said the alarm raised by the neighbor who contacted the sheriff's department never were relayed to Garrido's parole agent. But there was no ban on him having contact with children, nor restrictions on his travels.

Hinkle said Garrido's parole agent was shocked Tuesday when University of California, Berkeley, police told him that the man he had been monitoring for years had been seen with two small children.

The agent, whom officials refused to name or make available for interviews, called Garrido into his office the next day. Garrido arrived with his wife, the children and a woman who initially identified herself as Allissa. She turned out to be Dugard and investigators said Garrido confessed to the kidnapping.

Monica Adams, 33, whose mother lives on their street, said she knew Phillip Garrido was a sex offender and that he had children living with him. Other neighbors knew, too, but they assumed police were keeping tabs on him.

"He never bothered any one, he kept to himself," Adams said. "What would we have done? You just watch your own."

Probyn said he was frustrated to find out that a car matching the description of the one he saw speeding Dugard away in the day she was kidnapped was found in the yard of Garrido's home. Nancy Garrido also fits the "dead-on" description he gave of the woman who pulled her into the car, he said.

"He had every break in the world," Probyn said of Garrido's close encounters with the law.

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Associated Press Writers Don Thompson in Sacramento, Terence Chea in Berkeley, Paul Elias in San Francisco, Juliet Williams in Placerville and Michelle Rindels in Orange, Calif., contributed to this story.

Forever Knight bloopers gag-reel

Blooper reel from "Forever Knight." This garanteed to make you laugh your ass off.

FK Blooper Theme

Okay, now THIS is stupid!!

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler's Fall From Stage

Hello All:

I think that Stephen Tyler needed to be told "Watch your step, stupid!!" at one point in this video, because he falls down and busts himself all up physically. Oh, well, folks -- "Stupid is as stupid does," according to "Forrest Gump."

Cops Caught Breaking Law

This is funny stuff here -- I think that this video shows how stupid some people are in this world.

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