JULY 27, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
July 27 it is… Take Your Pants For A Walk Day
Stay in your pants to do this. Congressman Wu might still have a job if he had left his pants on.
At least one Congressman has learned something from Weinergate. If you are caught with your pants down, do not bother trying to cover-up. It just will not work. Democratic Rep. David Wu of Oregon announced Tuesday that he will resign amid political fallout from an 18-year-old woman's allegations she had an unwanted sexual encounter with him.
Within days of the allegation, Democratic leaders requested a House Ethics Committee investigation of his conduct. Wu had said Monday he would not seek re-election, but had come under increasing pressure to step down. "The wellbeing of my children must come before anything else," Wu said in a statement. "With great sadness, I therefore intend to resign effective upon the resolution of the debt-ceiling crisis. This is the right decision for my family, the institution of the House, and my colleagues."
Wu is the second House Democrat in the last six weeks to be forced to resign as a result of a sex scandal. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York resigned after sending lewd photos of himself through Twitter.
It is hard to make Wu in Congress any more. It’s about time.
On this day in 1909, Orville Wright (one of the famous Wright Brothers, along with Wilbur) set a record for the longest airplane flight. Not that there were many records available ... after all, it was the Wright Brothers who worked so hard at making plane flight practical in the first place!
Orville was testing the Army’s first airplane and kept it aloft for 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia. He was so tired from the experience that the plane crash-landed. He and his passenger (name unknown) were OK. I wonder if he wore p[ants for this flight?
On this date in 1953 the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was signed at Panmunjon, Korea. The war lasted three years and 32 days. The truce negotiations between North Korean and U.S. delegates (representing South Korea) lasted two years and seventeen days.
Also on this date in 1990, Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop. She is still alive but apparently in poor health.
Serial killers are always among us. They have been around for hundreds of years or longer but were just given a name in the late 1970s. A serial killers suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder and appear normal or charming, sometimes referred to as the "mask of sanity." Sometimes there is a sexual element to the murders and they may have a commonality such as gender, occupation, appearances, race, etc.
The term serial killer was coined in the 1970s due to cases such as Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz. According to an FBI Behavioral Unit study 85% of the world's serial killers are in America. At any given time 20 to 50 unidentified active serial killers are at work continually changing their targets and methods. Prostitutes, runaways, and others who lead transient and anonymous lives are usually not reported missing promptly and receive little police or media attention, making them excellent targets. Experts speculate on what happens to unsolved cases of murderers. Some may commit suicide, die, be incarcerated, in mental institutions, relocate, or stopped killing; a few turn themselves in.
Experts don't agree on an exact definition of a serial killer but general definitions are based on numbers and patterns: two or more unrelated victims in distinctly separate incidents. The Northwest has a notorious history of prototype killers -- among them are Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer. Lesser known serial killers have claimed scores of lives but are only charged and/or convicted of one or two murders, but suspected of more.
A couple of years ago the BTK killer from Wichita, Kansas resurfaced after nearly 30 years since his first suspected killing. Dennis Rader was active from 1974 to 1994. In 2004 he began writing letters about his crimes. He had written letters while he was active, teasing the authorities and daring them to catch him. After his desire to reenter the spotlight resulted in the letters in 2004, he got his wish and was captured.
Are you tired of political correctness? Do you find it difficult to say what you believe because someone is always looking to pick a fight? I am tired of it. I did not bomb anything on 9/11. I never enslaved anyone. I do not owe anyone a free ride regardless of their upbringing, social status, color, race or lot in life. I see no reason to apologize for being an American, for being from the greatest nation the world has ever known no matter what Pres. Obama does. I am not happy with our President but I am proud of him. I do not agree with everything our country does overseas and around the world but I will defend these actions to my death.
Remember political correctness. "Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical and radical minority, rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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