Powell murder-suicide not sparked by Utah missing person case, police chief says | The Salt Lake Tribune

Graham, Wash. • West Valley City Police Chief Thayle “Buzz” said Monday that his investigation into Josh Powell’s missing wife had nothing to do with the man’s decision to kill himself and his two sons on Sunday by setting fire to his Washington state home.

At a press conference near the burned ruins of Powell’s Graham area house, Nielsen said, “What he did is a decision he made and had nothing to do with wherever we were on a criminal case. That was his call.”

Powell had been fighting an uphill battle to gain custody of the boys. He also has been a person of interest in the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell since she went missing in December 2009.

But Nielsen insisted: “Where ever we were on the criminal case, Josh didn’t know about it.”

Killed in the fire were 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden, who by court order were living with their maternal grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox.

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Powell murder-suicide not sparked by Utah missing person case, police chief says | The Salt Lake Tribune.

Every once in a while a news story comes around that leaves me shaking my head wondering if Mephistopheles is walking the Earth.

What the fuck?

I can understand wars and terrorism and evil corporations. I can understand diabolical serial killers and random acts of violence. But who the fuck kills their own kids?

Don’t get me wrong, I am sure a lot of people want to kill their kids from time to time, they can be annoying after all.

But you have to be the sickest fuck in the world to go ahead and really kill a kid, let alone you own kids. Remember when Susan Smith drove her car into a lake with her 2 sons? Or when Andrea Yates drowned her 5 kids in the bathtub? I am sure there are others, but I am too tired to google them.

This Josh Powell guy looked like your average murdering husband. He had a certain regular guy, Scott Peterson feel about him.  I could never understand why Scott Peterson killed Lacie. He had a fishing boat and a pickup truck. He could have just driven away. Killing Lacie was a crime of passion. I get that. What I don’t get is the whole premeditated thing.

But then, I don’t have a killer instinct.

The next guy to die in this awful mess ought to be Josh Powell’s twisted nut job of a father. He got caught with child pornography, which means he abused his kids. He also go caught surreptitiously video taping his daughter in laws and neighbors, which means he has boundary issues.  The guy must have done some severe damage to his son to raise a person who can light his children on fire. No one is just born that bent. You have to get hurt to do this kind of shit.

Is there a worse way to go than burning to death?

I am wracking my brain trying to think of a worse way to die. Let me know if you can think of one, because I sure can’t.

I can’t imagine giving anyone the Joan of Arc treatment, let alone going up in flames with them.Fuck that shit!

I’m more of a kill myself and let everyone else live kind of person. Give me a nice Heath Ledger cocktail and the deep sleep of eternal peace. I’d leave all you assholes to clean up the mess.

Someone ought to do a public service announcement to all mass murderers. Kill yourself first. Maybe a Super Bowl ad?

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New York Times loses $40million in 2011 | Mail Online

The New York Times Company suffered a net loss of almost $40million in 2011, with its fourth quarter profits falling by 12.2 per cent compared to the same period in 2010.

The company is grappling with sinking advertising revenue and a recent change in the top management after losing CEO Janet Robinson, who received a multimillion dollar severance package.

They said it continued to add subscribers for its digital products in the fourth quarter.

The company’s loss was blamed on the terminal decline in print advertising. The problems plaguing newspaper companies are well known.

Readers have ditched print for digital, causing circulation and advertising revenue to plummet.

The company, which rolled out an online pay system last year for digital subscribers, said paid digital subscribers of The Times and the International Herald Tribune rose 20 per cent from the third quarter to about 390,000.

via New York Times loses $40million in 2011 | Mail Online.

What kind of backasswards world do we live in? The New York Times loses $40 million because it can’t sell enough advertising. And over in cyberspace Mark Zuckerberg is going to be a billionaire 28 times over.

I don’t get a lot of things. I don’t understand complex equations, or how the dinosaurs disappeared or how man evolved from a single cell organism. I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. I am a rusty rake in the back of the yard.

I can roll with be stupid. I make my way through life pretty much like every other stupid person does. I wander around oblivious as to how the world really works. I live a luckily careless life.

But once in a while I get a pinch in my brain that makes me wonder if we are all just living in someone else’s Angle Dust trip.

I smoked some dust back when I was keen on killing brain cells. It was the weirdest experience of my life. From what I can remember, everything became disjointed and distorted.  I couldn’t string two words together. And most of all nothing made sense.

An angle dust trip pretty much sums of my understanding of modern day economics.

How the fuck does facebook make money? It is supposed to be through advertising, but what advertising? Those shitty little ads on the side of the page? Really? Who the fuck clicks on them? Have you ever bought anything online because you saw an online ad?

I sure as shit haven’t.

The New York Times Online on the other hand has nice color ad online. Some of them even play movies. I don’t click on them either but I do notice them a lot more than the shitty facebook ads. The New York Times actually makes something.

I understand the gigantic eyeball advantage facebook has over the New York Times. And by understand, I mean I have no clue why so many more people would want to waste their time on banality and drivel than actually reading the news. I know I lost a bunch of braincells smoking dust, but I’d still rather read the real news than some fake friends news.

There are ads on this site and no one ever cllcks on them. No one. It is the only way this site makes money. Which means it doesn’t make any money. No blog with ads makes any money unless someone actually cllcks on the ads. Which means none of them make any money.

Once, I told people to cllck on them and the Google bot made me remove that text. Even now I can’t write cllck without fearing the bot. The bot is a punishing beast.

What I truly don’t understand is where all these billions of facebook dollars are coming from. Is this money out there right now waiting to be thrown at facebook stock? Is it just sitting there gathering dust until the IPO?

Or is it nowhere right now, waiting to be born into existence at the push of a button? Loaned into existence by a bunch of banks who will just ad it to the giant pile of fake money floating around the economic universe. Demanding interest on their benevolence.

I wish someone would tell me how it all works.

Another thing I don’t understand is how Mark Zuckerberg can sleep at night. How can Mitt Romney sleep at night for that matter?  A money mattress must ease the soul like nothing else.

Where is Saint Francis when we need him?

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New York Archdiocese Bookkeeper Accused of Stealing $1 Million – NYTimes.com

The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday arrested a Bronx woman who is accused of stealing more than $1 million from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York when she worked in the archdiocese’s finance office, law enforcement officials and church leaders said.

The woman, Anita Collins, 67, had been previously convicted of grand larceny in one case and had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in another case, but the archdiocese said it did not know of those legal troubles when she was hired, because she did not undergo a background check.

Ms. Collins worked at the headquarters of the archdiocese, at 1011 First Avenue in Manhattan, for more than eight years, first in accounts payable for the education finance office, and then for the chancery, the main office that manages the archdiocese’s extensive finances.

A law enforcement official said that though she appeared to colleagues as a quiet, unassuming woman, Ms. Collins used her position to carry out a sophisticated fraud that consisted in part of billing the archdiocese for nonexistent services and channeling the money into accounts she controlled. Because checks of $2,500 or less did not require approval from a supervisor, Ms. Collins kept the payments just under that amount, issuing over 450 such checks to herself over seven years, according to the official, Adam Kaufmann, the chief of investigations for the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

“Every entity has controls in place to try to protect themselves, and the sad thing is that if you’ve got a corrupt employee they’ll find a way around the controls,” Mr. Kaufmann added. Most of the money, he said in an e-mail, was spent on mortgage payments and on “a lifestyle that was not extravagant but was far beyond her lawful means.”

Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the archdiocese, said the scheme diverted money “designated for the purpose of helping to provide Catholic education.”

Questions were raised during a routine audit, officials said, and Ms. Collins was confronted about the missing money in December. She was then fired.

When she was hired in the summer of 2003, the archdiocese did not regularly conduct criminal background checks on all of its employees, and her past convictions were not noticed, Mr. Zwilling said.

via New York Archdiocese Bookkeeper Accused of Stealing $1 Million – NYTimes.com.

Is this woman going to hell? Is stealing from the Catholic Church really stealing? If she confesses will Jesus forgive her? Will the Church?

Who the fuck cares? I am kind of impressed that she could get away with it for so long. And that she was able to get a job after being convicted of stealing from her previous employer. She must be a very charming woman.

But I think the real crime here is that she was working at 67 years old. If she had stolen enough money to retire on from her last job, she would never have been in the position to steal even more.

She stole a million dollars. That seems like a lot, but in comparison to Jon Corzine’s MF Global stealing $1.2 billion, it’s is spit in the ocean.

And compared to Mitt Romney “earning” $20 million in  year where he didn’t have a job, well I say this old goat worked for her spoils.

I blame the system for squeezing the middle class. For forcing them to get creative in their accounting practices. For gathering up all the entrees while leaving the poor to fight over the scraps.

Mitt and Jon, get away with stealing, but because they write the rules, it isn’t called stealing and they won’t see the inside of a jail cell.

I wonder how Mitt got a hold of so much money that his big pile of green “earns” more and more each year. He went to the office everyday just like Anita Collins. But in his office was a big spigot of dollars. All he had to do was put a bucket underneath it and watch it fill. It flowed with abundance. The water pressure in his spigot was stronger ever time he went to work.

Anita Collins had to figure out how to make the spigot work for her. Her spigot trickled. She had to coax it. She had to be crafty and conniving.

I’m not saying that I approve of what she did. But for the life of me, I can’t figure out why everyone isn’t doing it. What if every working American went to work and stole a little every day? There aren’t enough jail cells to hold us all.

Let’s all Occupy the AP clerks office!

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