Mars co-owner charged in northern Va. fatal crash October 30, 2013 06:05 CDT
ALDIE, Va. (AP) -- The Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney's Office says Jacqueline Badger Mars, an owner of McLean-based candy company Mars Inc., will face a reckless driving misdemeanor charge in a fatal crash.
The office says Mars was served Tuesday with a summons. The sheriff's office says Mars was driving a Porsche SUV in Aldie on Oct. 4 when it crossed the center line and hit a minivan. The sheriff's office says 86-year-old minivan passenger Irene Ellisor of Huntsville, Texas, died at the scene.
Seventy-four-year-old Mars, the company founder's daughter who has been ranked by Forbes Magazine as the world's seventh richest woman, is set to appear in court on Dec. 5. A personal spokesman says Mars "regrets this tragic accident" and her thoughts and prayers are with those who suffered injury and loss.
UPDATE :
Sources tell FORBES that the pregnant driver of the minivan lost her eight-month-old unborn baby boy in the crash.
Two deaths resulted in this accident and there was not a mention that there was a possibility of drugs or alcohol playing a role in it.
Any news story I ever read that involves a death will always mention if there was involvement or if that the possibility was being investigated. As I wrote yesterday, big dollars talk in this country. According to FORBES, Jacqueline Badger Mars is ranked #15 on the billionaires list.
This story caught my eye today.
St. Anthony's Spirituality Center in Marathon, Wisconsin has been sold to a group that pledges to continue its mission.
The center will stay open thanks to a newly formed nonprofit, St. Anthony's of Marathon, Inc. Vice President Barbara Ceranski says the acquisition includes the center's property and its mission. St. Anthony's had become too much of a financial burden for the Capuchin friars who have lived there since 1918. The friars will still leave at the end of the year.
I never heard of this group so I did a quick search. I came up with this.
Capuchins admit mishandling Wisconsin sex abuse cases in new audit.
In what's being touted as a first-of-its-kind voluntary airing of a Catholic religious order's culpability in the church's sexual abuse crisis, a branch of the Capuchin Franciscans on Tuesday issued an independent audit recounting its own history of sexual abuse of young people and coverups that spanned decades.
The audit was commissioned last June by the 10-state St. Joseph Province of the Capuchin Order, which has several ministries in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. It lists 23 current, former and deceased friars with confirmed allegations of sexual abuse of minors, many of them occurring in Wisconsin, and suggested the true number could be higher, but documentation was lacking.
Echoing many of the complaints about the broader church's handling of the global sex abuse crisis, it says that, dating back to the 1930s, the Capuchins:
* Moved offenders from position to position without divulging their histories, or sent them to treatment then back into ministry, where they would re-offend.
* Rarely reported allegations to civil authorities, even after they were required by law.
* Routinely placed concerns for their accused friars and their organization over those of victims.
* Spent vastly more on lawyers than on compensating or caring for victims.
* May have lost or destroyed documents.
* Often re-victimized survivors, especially those who sued the order or sought compensation, transparency or other forms of accountability; in one case, the order's attorney threatened to publicly divulge a victim's sexual orientation if he sued.
So this new group taking over will continue with the friar's previous mission? What mission was that? Bending young boys over and fucking them? I hope these perverts move somewhere out of the state of Wisconsin. Everywhere you look, you are up to your eyeballs in scum. I am finding it more difficult to stay positive, but I will -- somehow.
Penn State will pay $59.7 million to 26 sexual abuse victims of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the school said Monday.
Sandusky, 69, was convicted in June 2012 of 45 criminal counts involving abuse over a 15-year period. Several young men testified that Sandusky would shower with them, grope them, and in some cases have oral and anal sex with them. Sandusky has admitted showering with the boys but has vigorously denied wrongdoing. He has been pursuing appeals while serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence.
Big money talks loud, especially in this country. So Penn State turned a blind eye to 15 years of perversion occurring right under their noses? Who else was involved in this atrocity? Makes you wonder. That's how things are done. Toss money at it and make it all nice and clean. Jerry Sandusky is a pervert but I don't think he acted alone. That's my slant on this matter. The real truth will never be known now that this child molester is in jail, tossed under the bus to take the full blame. I'm surprised he is still alive. He must be in protective custody.
Speaking of tossing people under a bus.
Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, has been released from prison. Murray was convicted in 2011 of causing Jackson's death in June 2009 by providing the superstar with an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid. Jackson was in the midst of preparations for a series of comeback concerts and Murray was serving as his personal physician.
With a guilty conviction, the real story that Jackson was a drug addict on death's doorstop is nicely buried. The parasites need to pick his bones clean of every nickle they can in record sales while the picking is good. If the truth came out that he was a drug addict and a sexual predator, those sales might be in jeopardy. Murray was a scapegoat. He never had a snowball's chance in hell of receiving a fair trial.
US officials responsible for the secret CIA drone campaign against suspected terrorists in Pakistan may have committed war crimes and should stand trial, a report by a leading human rights group warns. Amnesty International has highlighted the case of a grandmother who was killed while she was picking vegetables and other incidents which could have broken international laws designed to protect civilians.
Please read the following publication : “WILL I BE NEXT?” US DRONE STRIKES IN PAKISTAN.
When the hand of retribution reaches out, it won't be the necks of those who are responsible for these atrocities that will be rung. It will be the necks of the common man and woman in the streets. It has been written, when the ruler is wise the people prosper. When the ruler is corrupt, the people suffer.
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So these yahoo Boy Scout leaders are saying they destroyed the rock formation in Utah for saftey reasons? What boggles the mind is that these three piles of dog shit are role models for young boys. This is what this country has degenerated into. A nation of hillbillies stupid as the day is long. I hope those who have worked to dumb this culture down are satisfied with the results.
Being stupid probably doesn't really matter anymore. It might even be preferable. This fiasco at Fukishima is coming to full view.
Sailor: “After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead — Nothing alive for over 3,000 miles — No longer saw turtles, dolphins, sharks, birds — Saw one whale, it appeared helpless with big tumor on head."
I've read an abundance of outlandish and fringe material in the past 10 years of researching whatever it was that was tripping my trigger at that particular time. Along this journey, I believe I have come to a unique perspective on what is happening behind the veil. It isn't a 100% accurate depiction, but it is my own. Only a moron could think it was OK to dump billions of gallons of seawater onto the smoldering Fukishima nuclear reactors. The oceans have been destroyed beyond repair. I don't think it is even possible to repair the damage that has been done to mother Earth. She is dying and we will die right along side of her. The time to take stock in who you are and what your purpose is in this present life has never been greater. I face two choices. The first is to hate and despise everything I see lain before me. This is the path of least resistance. I have chosen to rise above this. If I am to succeed remains in question. I have a debt to repay.
Having seen what the Koch aka crotch brothers have done to Wisconsin with their shill, cock sucking governer in place, I can not agree more with what Ted Torbich is saying about them. Wisconsin was called the labratory of democracy. Now, we are the labratory of fascism. Everyday I wake up, I tell mysell I am one more day closer to leaving this shit hole state and moving someplace where it is possible for me to experience economic opportunity. It may not actually exist, but I know for certain it doesn't exist here.
For the record. The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. President Obama must not have gotten the memo.
I had a rather strange dream last night. The van came to pick me up for work and it was filled with people I have known in the past. The van then dropped me off at a particular job I was holding down at that specific time I knew these people. The people were the same as I had remembered them. I said "hello", and they didn't give me the time of day. The jobs were also as dreary as I remembered them being.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The people I know today really don't have time for me. Apparently, someone like me is beneath them. I can not depend on receiving any kind of help if I need an extra hand to get something done. The majority of people today will exert a great deal of energy trying to avoid doing anything that requires effort, and spend the majority of their time pointing their fingers at others and conducting personal witch hunts.
The world they live in is the world they see on the television set. The streets are filled with parrots mimicking the sound bytes of sycophants they listen to. They never acquired the skill of critical thinking or evaluation. The schools don't teach that anymore. Heaven forbid a young man may grow up in the present culture with a backbone.
I used to create a number of web pages a week trying to preserve what I considered to be worthy news and publish those stories onto my web server. I have not been doing this. I should but there is no guarantee they will survive the coming apocalypse. This isn't a good reason to stop doing it, but I am more concerned with my immediate survival. I apologise for being selfish but my back is against the wall. I have no choice but to look the reality that is rearing it's ugly head before me squarely in the eyes. In the past, books were burned and knowledge contrary to the status quo were destroyed. Those who opposed the jackboot at their neck were also tossed into the fire. No use letting a good bonfire go to waste.
I'm tired. This isn't good. It has always been my intention to move forward till my last dying breath, striving to become something better than I presently am today. That kind of thinking doesn't fit in with the brain dead zombies conducting Twitter wars and updating their Facebook accounts. The master is one who can rise above these things. I don't know if I am up to the challenge. Whether I am up to it or not, I have no choice.
I may be tilting at windmills, but I do it well.
I felt a touch of the creeping crude crawling over me last Friday, so I laid low this weekend nursing myself back to normal. I feel OK. I am well enough to go back to work in the morning. I did watch a number of C# video from my online course I downloaded off the Internet -- Comp 170; Introduction to Computer Science in C# - LOYOLA University of Chicago. The course includes a large selection of video to go with written course materials.
Along with learning C#, you learn how to work with the MonoDevelop IDE. I even downloaded Microsoft's Visual Studio Desktop Edition, which is free. I also found a ton of C# video on YouTube. It's all good. I am not looking to find a job coding. I am doing this just for the sake of expanding my own personal knowledge of computer science. Once I get back to full strength physically, I have to get back on the horse. I'm a wreck and I am not pleased with the condition I presently find myself.
In celebration of 25 years of the Wisconsin Lottery, the 25th Birthday Raffle went on sale September 1, 2013, with a drawing to be held on October 3, 2013. A total of 75,000 tickets are available, and there will be five top prize winners of $25,000 each. There will also be eight winners of $2,500, and 170 winners of $250 in the game. Winning tickets for the 25th Birthday Raffle can be redeemed starting October 4, 2013.
I bought two separate $5 tickets for this raffle. I didn't win a dime. I had thought that $25,000 falling into my lap would solve some immediate financial problems and I could most definitely get my plans on relocating to a better state rolling along. Looks like I will have to stick to Plan A; work my ass off and save every nickle possible. If I can accomplsih this task, I can pack up and leave by the end of the coming summer 2014. Things could be worse. I could be down to my last $500 like I was before I got this job with Remedy Intelligent Staffing. My one year aniversary with the company was September 9, 2013. I sometimes wonder just how in the hell I ended up here where I am and then I stop myself. You are right where you are supposed to be. Don't put yourself down for this. I have come a long way and have made great progress on becoming something better than I was. I have to take some pride in this accomplishment.
