JULY 29, 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 29 is … Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
I do not have a clue what we are celebrating today or why.
No budget deal yet. No Obama plan yet. Still clueless in Washington DC; Surprise, Surprise.
Politicians were once seen as a necessary evil. Now, they are just evil.
You can run, sometimes for quite a while, but you cannot hide. Frederick Mark Barrett, a Florida murder convict who had been running from the law for 32 years, was arrested near Montrose, Colorado, Wednesday morning, according to a report from Fox31. The Grand Junction Sentinel reports that Barrett escaped Florida's Union Correction Institute in 1979. He was serving a life sentence for the murder of Carl Ardolino in 1971.
Authorities posing as U.S. Forest Service officials stormed Barrett's remote cabin where he had been living for 17 years under the name 'Neil Richard Meltzer.' The Montrose Daily Press expects Barrett will be extradited to Florida.
Barrett was detailed on America’s Most Wanted in 2010. At the time, officials speculated he may have fled to Hawaii, California, Colorado or Maryland. No word on whether the television exposure aided in his capture.
This guy was on the run longer than Forrest Gump.
From the HuffPost, less than two years after an Army officer killed 13 people in a shooting attack on Fort Hood, police have arrested an AWOL soldier with weapons and explosives who reportedly confessed about his plans to attack the base in Killeen, Tex.
Officers from the Killeen Police Department apprehended a man alleged to have been in possession of firearms and bomb-making materials after authorities received a tip about a suspicious individual, Fox News reports.
The suspect -- identified in multiple media outlets as Pfc. Naser Abdo -- was assigned to a Kentucky base, but had reportedly gone absent without leave around July 4 after officials accused him of possessing child pornography on his government computer.
“Yesterday afternoon, at about 2 p.m., we arrested a Fort Campbell, Kentucky, AWOL solider who was wanted for child pornography," Killeen Police Department spokeswoman Carol Smith told The Huffington Post. "He was arrested at the America’s Best Value Inn, and that's all I can confirm for you right now. He is in our jail, but anything else I can't comment on." FBI spokesman Erik Vasys claimed firearms and "items that could be identified as bomb-making components, including gunpowder" were discovered in the suspect's motel room, according to NBC DFW.
Investigators recovered 18 pounds of sugar, a pressure cooker and six pounds of smokeless gunpowder -- enough raw materials to create two bombs, reported Fox News. Abdo has admitted to authorities that he was planning an attack on Fort Hood, according to an Army alert obtained by the Associated Press.
I may be just paranoid but it seems all of the soldiers looking to commit mass murder in the military are Muslim or have Middle Eastern names. We should just not let Muslims or Middle Easterns into the military for three years. That should be enough time to get rid of the one already in the military and allow us to get a better grip on the problem.
In a democracy, the majority rules and I bet that rule would be supported by over half of the voters in this country.
Tiger is back; he is rejoining the circus that is his life. Tiger Woods returns to golf next week at the Bridgestone Invitational, ending an 11-week break to heal injuries to his left leg.
Woods announced the decision on his website on Thursday. On his Twitter account, Woods says he's "feeling fit and ready to tee it up at Firestone next week. Excited to get back out there!"
It marks the third-longest layoff of his career, only this time Woods returns with as much uncertainty about his future as ever. Along with questions about the strength of his left knee and Achilles', he embarks on this latest comeback with a new caddie. Woods has plunged to No. 21 in the world — his lowest ranking since Jan. 26, 1997.
No word on who the caddie will be but he has a niece that is the top ranked female collegiate golfer in America. That would be a nice summer job for her and a nice way to earn a few bucks for college expenses.
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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Holmes the Ripper
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