May 11, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
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The Long Island serial killer being hunted in New York may be two different killers. It is unclear if they are working together. Human remains that have been found along a New York beach highway – including the head of a prostitute whose torso was dumped 40 miles away in 2003 – are the work of at least two killers, a prosecutor said Monday.
The head and hands of 20-year-old Jessica Taylor were among 10 sets of remains found in recent months along a Long Island highway, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said at a news conference. Her headless, handless body was found in July 2003 in Manorville near the eastern end of Long Island.
The information Spota disclosed Monday only served to deepen the puzzle about the remains found in the underbrush along Long Island's Ocean Parkway since December.
Authorities still have not identified a suspect connected to any of the remains, but earlier they theorized that investigators could be on the trail of a serial killer. Eight sets of remains were found in Suffolk County. Two sets were found in neighboring Nassau County. Spota said at least two suspects killed the eight people whose remains have been found in his jurisdiction, judging from the methods and circumstances of the crimes.
"It is clear that the area in and around Gilgo Beach has been used to discard human remains for some period of time," Spota said. "As distasteful and disturbing as that is, there is no evidence that all of these remains are the work of a single killer." Of the Suffolk County victims, four had been identified earlier – all of them prostitutes. Taylor's name now joins the list of victims. Spota said another woman, also a prostitute, was similarly hacked to pieces. He said parts of her were found in Manorville in 2000 and parts of her along Ocean Parkway last month. The Suffolk County remains also included a man and a girl between 18 and 24 months old, Spota said. It was not clear whether the child was a homicide victim.
Serial killers are typically loners but not all the time. According to the standard profile a serial killer operates alone. However, there have been many examples of serial killers who worked in pairs or even groups. One of the most notorious killer pairs was Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, "The Hillside Stranglers." These two cousins caused a reign of terror throughout Southern California from 1977 to 1979. Gwendolyn Gail Graham and Catherine Wood were two lesbian lovers who killed elderly patients at the nursing home where they were employed. The end of the murders came when, in a fit of rage and jealously Wood told her and Graham's secret to her former husband. Dr. Morris Bolber and his two cousins killed in Philadelphia in order to receive portions of life insurance plans. The three men would seduce a woman and then convince her to give them a cut of the insurance policy if they killed her husband. In this instance there were always at least three people involved in the killings, making it a group effort.
Ray and Faye Copeland also went against the profile. Ray was 76 and Faye was 69 when they began their killing spree in Missouri aimed against laborers who worked on their farm. The "typical" profile of a serial killer is a Caucasian male between the ages of 18 and 32.
Freedom of the press should be a two-way street but for an ultra-conservative Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn, it isn’t. A Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper removed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and another woman from the now-iconic photo of the Obama national security team watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden from the White House Situation Room. The original photo, taken as the raid was occurring, famously shows Clinton in the center of the room, with her hand over her mouth. But the newspaper Der Tzitung, described by the Jewish Week as "ultra-Orthodox," has a policy of never printing photos of women in its pages because it thinks they could be sexually suggestive. Thus, Clinton and counterterrorism director Audrey Tomason, who was seen standing at the back of the room, were removed from the picture.
The blogger Failed Messiah was the first to notice the Photoshopping.
Der Tzitung sent a statement to the press, apologizing for altering the photo—which the White House had forbidden news outlets from doing—and explaining why they had removed Clinton and Tomason. “In accord with our religious beliefs, we do not publish photos of women, which in no way relegates them to a lower status," the statement said in part. "... Because of laws of modesty, we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we regret if this gives an impression of disparaging to women, which is certainly never our intention. We apologize if this was seen as offensive.”
Get a clue, join the current times or get out of America. This country is not afraid of the news and does not want, need or appreciate some editor rewriting history. It does not matter that you may be religion based.
The White Sox streak ended at three. Jake Peavey makes his season debut tonight; it could be interesting. The Bulls won and lead that series 3-2.
Microsoft agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion on Tuesday. Skype is the world’s largest provider of internet video phone calling services. The company, started in 2003, has never made a profit because most of its users take advantage of the free service. Skype lost $7 million last year on revenues of $860 million. One of the major owners of Skype is Ebay.
Microsoft has a history of buying companies that are losing money but they quickly change that. Look for the free service to end within 18 months and for Skype to be incorporated into a new version of Windows. Skype will also be added to the Xbox game console, the Windows smartphone platform and Outlook Email.
Microsoft is not in this to be nice to the consumer. They, like many computer technology companies, use the heroin dealers‘s sales program. It is free until you are hooked, then you pay dearly for it.
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
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