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Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
   

• Arthur Bates
cigarettes and methadone

• George Bell
tall

• Nadia Cassini
actress, Starcrash

• David Steven Cohen
writer, Courage the Cowardly Dog

• Émilie Dequenne
actress, Rosetta

• George Foreman
grill

• Scott Anthony Gastal
a tortured, troubled, and difficult life

• Robert Ginna Jr
"There Is a Case for Interplanetary Saucers"

• Wings Hauser
actor, Tough Guys Don't Dance

• Josiah Hooker
2nd Amendment

• Kanzi
bright bonobo

• Jeffrey Bruce Klein
co-founder, Mother Jones

• Gyorgy Kun
Josef Mengele's experiments

• Jack Lilley
actor & stunts, Little House on the Prairie

• Kilmer McCully
homocysteine in heart disease

• Charles Medawar
consumer activist

• Ralph Munro
curb cutaways for wheelchairs

• Tuppy Owens
activist, The Sex Maniac’s Diary

• Hugues Oyarzabal
surfer

• Felice Picano
author, The Joy of Gay Sex

• Samantha Richardson
forgotten person

• Lenny Schultz
comedian

• David Sellers
architect of Prickly Mountain

• L. J. Smith
author, The Vampire Diaries

• Larry Tamblyn
rock'n'roller, The Standells

• Guy Thomas
sci-fi fan on wheels

• Slick Watts
basketballer, Seattle SuperSonics

• Jesse Colin Young
rock'n'roller, the Youngbloods

• Anaya Zachary
2nd Amendment

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously dead

SOURCE: time.com

They entered their cold cells, 80 men per cell, with steel planks for bunks, no mats, no sheets, no pillow. No television. No books. No talking. No phone calls and no visitors. For these Venezuelans, it was not just a prison they had arrived at. It was exile to another world, a place so cold and far from home they may as well have been sent into space, nameless and forgotten.

• 30 days in jail for former pastor found guilty of sexually abusing a relative from ages 6-11 during family visits

• North Carolina pastor under investigation for child rape has died, investigators say

• Priest accused of killing cats pleads not guilty, jury trial set

• Retired priest, school teacher charged with child sex crimes

• Church deacon arrested on 82 charges of bestiality, child pornography

• California religious leader faces new sexual assault charges

• ‘Her children will carry that emotional scar forever’: Minister kills mom and seriously injures her kids in wrong-way crash just hours after being released for DUI arrest, cops say

• Florida pastor arrested for child molesting

• Mississippi ex-pastor and school bus driver arrested for alleged child sex crimes

• Former Kentucky pastor sentenced to 2 years for stealing money from elderly parishioner with dementia

• Priest, teacher charged with sexual abuse at Wilmington school 30 years later

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

• Police officer who made his daughter hold a degrading sign in freezing conditions may lose his job

• $20 million lawsuit filed in Alabama police tasing incident

• Florida cop raped woman during traffic stop, lawsuit claims

• Texas police officer arrested in connection to sexual assault of a child

• Jury awards $6 million to widow of California man killed by deputies

• Mississippi’s no-knock raids have led to death and injury. Dozens of warrants lacked clear justification.

• Arrest of Milwaukee officer who allegedly sold guns and ammunition, funneled intel to gangs from police databases, shows need for community oversight, activists say

• New details in Tuscaloosa officer's arrest; cybertip from MeetMe app led to charges

• Thousands are suing states over sexual abuse in juvenile detention facilities

• Family says new video shows more negligence by DeKalb jail in loved one’s death

• Woman dies in Greene County Sheriff's Office custody. No foul play suspected.

• 26-year-old inmate found dead in Lancaster County Prison cell

• Lehigh County Jail reports another inmate suicide -- the third in eight months

• 'They can't keep letting this happen': Family members want answers after Louisville Metro Corrections inmate dies

• Marinette County Sheriff releases more information on inmate who died at county jail

• Marion County Jail inmate who predicted she wouldn't survive incarceration doesn't survive incarceration

• 49-year-old man incarcerated at the Milwaukee County Jail dies after health crisis

• Oklahoma County jail inmate dies day before her 29th birthday

• Portland man taken into custody died suddenly; his arrest 2 days before remains a mystery

• Inmate dies shortly after arriving at Rutherford County jail

• Inmate dies at Sacramento County Main Jail after fight in cell

• $3.5 million settlement over medical neglect in Sacramento Jail death

• San Mateo County jail sees 6th death in 2 years

• Santa Rita Jail inmate dies after being found injured in his cell

• 31-year-old inmate found dead inside Santa Rosa County Jail cell

• Investigation underway into inmate death at St. Joseph County jail

• St. Lawrence County DA says inmate’s death was a suicide

• Tarrant County Jail in-custody death went unreported for 30 days to attorney general's office

• Over traffic stop, South Carolina cops chase vehicle into wreck, killing two

• Florida cop speeds through intersection, killing pedestrian

• Over traffic stop, New York cops chase driver into fatal wreck

• Over alleged reckless driving, cops chase driver at 90mph until he shoots himself

• Mississippi cops haven't said why they chased vehicle into wreck that killed passenger

• Over traffic stop, Louisiana police chase driver into wreck that kills two, leaves another seriously injured

• Over traffic stop, Indiana cops chase man into fatal wreck

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

• Trump'ϟ FBI moves to criminally charge major climate groups

• Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

• Climate change is throwing the water cycle into chaos across the US

• NASA analysis shows unexpected amount of sea level rise in 2024

• Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn

• Earth’s oceans rose faster than expected last year as the world experienced its hottest year on record, NASA says

• Tornadoes, wildfires and blinding dust sweep across U.S. as massive storm leaves at least 37 dead

• Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to keep up with climate change

• What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

• Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

• The American beef industry understood its climate impact decades ago

• 'Benevolent billionaire' Bill Gates guts climate philanthropy organization

• Sobering evidence that America’s birds continue to decline across the board.

• Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: report

• "So many people will needlessly die because of this": EPA will close all environmental justice offices

• One in five butterflies lost in the US since 2000, study finds

• On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brink

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
   

• Barney
seal

• Junior Bridgeman
basketballer and billionaire

• Larry Buendorf
saved Gerald Ford from Squeaky Fromme

• Enos Clark
forgotten person

• Joshua Daywalt
forgotten person

• Pete Dewell
rock worker

• Thomas J. Drozdick
forgotten person

• Kevin Drum
blogger, Washington Monthly

• John Feinstein
author, A Season on the Brink

• Simon Fisher-Becker
actor, Doctor Who

• Flo Fox
blind photographer

• Athol Fugard
anti-Apartheid playwright

• Raúl M Grijalva
US Congressman (D-Arizona)

• H Hale Harvey III
abortion hero

• Mark Klein
whistleblower

• Tommy McClendon
forgotten person

• Selma Miriam
feminist restaurateur, Bloodroot

• Joe Nickell
a skeptic's skeptic

• Rick Riff
forgotten person

• Art Schallock
baseballer, New York Yankees

• Maria Grazia Spina
actress, Hercules Against the Mongols

• Marceline “Maman” Tawembi
forgotten person

• Maisie Trollette
drag queen

• Seng Kok “Sam” Ung
Phnom Penh Noodle House

• Charles Whelan
forgotten person

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously dead

• Family speaks out after police mutilation of dead homeless man's body

• San Diego cops didn't check for survivors after wreck; woman found dead in her van at the tow yard a month later

• 4 West Memphis police officers suspended with pay amid sexual misconduct allegations

• Former Brevard deputy charged with murder in death of 72-year-old Titusville woman

• Ex-cop, now notoriously crooked mayor of New York City, has backed a secretive NYPD unit ridden with abuses

• Border patrol agent admits telling women to expose breasts

• Upstate NY cop hits 7 parked cars in 3 separate crashes, still faces no charges

• Two men framed by police for 2003 murder are awarded $120m, setting new Chicago record

• Activist punched by Chicago police officer at Columbus statue protest in line for $280,000 settlement

• Massachusetts trooper Terence Kent accused of trading sex for leniency

• Framed by prosecutors 27 years ago, Texas death row inmate has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court

• Secret recordings reveal LAPD cops spewing racist, sexist and homophobic comments, complaint alleges

• Muslim women sue NYPD, allege excessive force at anti-war protest

• 5th Circuit: No immunity for cop who killed woman by shooting her through her own backyard window

• Former Greenfield police officer recorded teen girls changing in school locker room, complaint says

• Former LASD jailer pleads no contest to sex crimes against inmate

• Detroit PD sued over yet another bogus arrest based on an unverified facial recognition ‘match’

• Massachusetts police lieutenant accused of covering-up OUI for fellow officer

• With 10 deaths so far in 2025, Los Angeles jails continue deadly trend

• Inmate at Allegheny County Jail dies while awaiting arraignment

• Female inmate dies at Marinette County Jail

• ‘Tremendous breach in the standard of care’: Nurse never took now-dead Beltrami County Jail inmate’s vitals because she thought he was ‘faking’ illness, cops say

• Death investigation underway after inmate is found dead in Madison County Jail

• Fulton County Jail inmate dies after being found unresponsive in cell, sheriff’s office says

• Dougherty County Jail inmate found dead in cell, GBI investigating

• Officials identify inmate found dead at Monroe County Jail, determine cause of death

• Man in addiction dies in Philadelphia jail days after arrest

• Man found dead in Dallas County Jail cell about 24 hours after being arrested

• Richmond City Jail inmate found dead

• Traffic stop leads to driver's death in water-filled ditch

• Two killed, two in critical condition, as traffic stop escalates into 118-mph police chase

• Over traffic violation, police chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

• Over traffic stop, cops chase Texas man to watery death in Lake Ray Hubbard

• Over missing tabs, cops chase perp into four-vehicle wreck killing 3-year-old

• Man was "driving erratically," so cops chase him into fatal wreck at church

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

• Nearly 100 childhood sexual abuse allegations have emerged against the Mormon church in California

• Amid measles outbreak, Christian school brags about having the worst vaccination rates in Texas

• Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, is indicted for child sex crimes

• San Bernardino pastor indicted for alleged fraud targeting friends

• Illinois pastor charged with disseminating child porn

• "Apostle" is arrested at Miami Airport, charged with fraud

• Former Fort Worth pastor ordered to pay $124M for sexually abusing woman as a child

• Louisiana pastor John Raymond gets 2-year sentence in child cruelty case

• Mississippi pastor accused of sex crimes including rape, unnatural intercourse

• Lawsuit claims defrocked priest sexually abused boy for years at Illinois church

• Former Missouri youth minister pleads guilty in federal court to child pornography charge

• Georgia police charge youth pastor with possession of child sexual abuse materials

• Passenger on flight to Miami kicks flight attendant, swallows rosary beads to protect plane from demonic spirit invading cockpit

• White House faith advisor Paula White says God wants to bless you, but only if you give her $133

• Sexual abuse: New York pastor admits 'sweet spot' for molesting children was between 11 and 15

• Former Iowa priest charged with theft

• Former chaplain at Catholic high school is accused of sexual misconduct with students

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

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BACKGROUND: 442nd Infantry Regiment

Skijoring, or skikjøring in Norwegian, means “ski driving”, and it originated in Scandinavia, where reindeer pulled skiers for transportation.

Competitive skijoring first started in the Nordic Games in Sweden in 1901, and by 1949 a slower carnival event version was introduced to the United States in Colorado.

Today, the western US largely dominates the sport. Each year, the Skijoring World Championship is held in Whitefish, Montana, and dozens of races happen in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. Abroad, Switzerland, France, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia all have their hand in the sport, too.

It was once an exhibition sport in the Olympics, but it’s mostly a thrill sport for the people involved. The top teams receive prize money and rodeo belt buckles.

In the midwest, equine skijoring is less common, with skijorers harnessing themselves to one or several dogs instead. Oftentimes, people skijor on cross-country trails with their personal pup for an outing and not a competition.

Published 7/12/2024
SOURCE: military.com

In speaking with more than a dozen Pentagon officials as well as outside experts, what emerged was a landscape where few concrete legal protections exist to prevent an abuse of power by a president, especially if that president chooses to lean on the Insurrection Act, a vaguely worded law originally passed in 1792...

SOURCE: forbes.com