[NYPOST] A Long Island man convicted of stabbing and robbing a funeral home director in 2023 exploded in a Suffolk County courtroom Wednesday — attempting to fire his attorney, interrupting prosecutors and calling the judge ''the devil'' before receiving a 25-year prison sentence.
Jason Funderburke, 39, who was convicted by a jury in March, stormed into the courtroom Wednesday and attempted to reject its authority to deliver a sentence — obnoxiously objecting every time the prosecutor spoke and causing the judge to tell him to ''shut up'' during the testy proceedings.
''You were convicted by a jury of your peers,'' a befuddled Judge Timothy Mazzei replied.
Funderburke, who hails from Hempstead, then began shouting over the judge, rattling off random cherry-picked sections of state and federal law, accusing the court of violating his First and 14th Amendment rights.
He also refused to address the judge with respect, instead calling him “Mr. Mazzei” because he is “not honorable.”
“Will you shut up?!” the judge eventually snapped at Funderburke, briefly removing him from the court before bringing him back for final sentencing.
His attorney asked the judge to take into consideration his client’s “clear and serious mental health issues” displayed throughout the trial
Ah hah!
— which only further enraged Funderburke, leading him to attempt to fire his legal counsel on the spot.
“You don’t represent me! I’ll represent myself,” he shouted.
In Aug. 2023, Funderburke and an accomplice stabbed an Amityville funeral home owner during a robbery.
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For 39 years his methodology worked. Probably even got him a diploma. He has several years for a rethink. Stats are certainly not is his favor.
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Jason Funderburke? He's probably just pissed off because that name carries zero street cred ...
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"Candidly, your Dishonor, this stuff is all jurisfiction, for I can only be tried under the law of Westphalia! You see, my seventh great-grandma was the seventh servant of the seventh lady-in-waiting to the sister of the Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh..." [an hour later, halfway down the courthouse steps, drops Strat he's been playing on a hundred foot cord and hauls ass]
[NYPOST] The eerie discovery of seven decaying corpses across three New England states warrants ''review and investigation'' after police shut down growing fears the deaths are linked to a serial killer, an expert said.
Matthew Mangino, a Pennsylvania-based defense attorney, said police in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island should be working together after the human remains uncovered in nearby coastal towns between March and April fueled online theories of a ruthless lone-wolf on the loose.
''Whether it's coincidental or not, I think it merits review and investigation, at least,'' Mangino, former Lawrence County District Attorney, told Fox News Digital.
''Collaboration between the different jurisdictions to determine whether or not there is some threat out there to individuals — that may be going on as we speak. We don't know that, but I think it does merit that kind of scrutiny.''
The decaying bodies were discovered in New Haven, Groton, and Killingly, Connecticut, Plymouth and Framingham, Massachusetts, and Foster, Rhode Island — with authorities identifying the remains of three women.
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[Regnum] Five people were killed and four were injured in a shooting at a university in the US state of Florida. This was reported on April 17 by the local television channel WFTV.
"Five were killed, four were wounded," the statement said.
According to WCTV, the number of victims has risen to six, one of whom is in critical condition.
Earlier, the University of Florida reported a shooting and urged students to take shelter.
[FoxNews] The shooting began at around 11:50 a.m. During a press conference later that afternoon, authorities identified the suspected shooter as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a student at the school.
Ikner was taken to an area hospital after being "neutralized" by authorities. Police also said his mother is a sheriff's deputy with the Leon County Sheriff's Office, and said Ikner used his mother's weapon in the killing.
The suspect's mother, Jessica Ikner, has been an officer for over 18 years and authorities said she has done a "tremendous job" in her position.
"Her service to this community has been exceptional," Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said at the press conference. "Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene. And we are continuing that investigation into how that weapon was used."
The two people who were killed were not FSU students, according to authorities.The area is still considered an active crime scene, and authorities believe that the suspect acted alone.
"There is no further threat to our community at this point," Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The school shooter who killed two people and injured at least six others at FSU held 'white supremacist' beliefs, according to former classmates.
Extraordinary footage has now emerged of Phoenix Ikner, a registered Republican, stalking campus grounds as terrified students ran for their lives on Thursday.
The cause is that the equipment has not been maintained for decades.
[JustTheNews] The outage happened during the day on Wednesday and resulted in 1.4 million customers being without electricity.
Crews are continuing to work Thursday in Puerto Rico to restore power after the island was hit by a blackout that has impacted hospitals and the main international airport.
As of now, the cause of the blackout is not known.
The outage happened during the day on Wednesday and resulted in 1.4 million customers being without electricity, according to CBS News.
Hundreds of thousands of people don't have water.
The local utility, Luma Energy reported that as of 6 a.m., about 609,000 customers now have service restored.
"Our crews will continue working throughout the day today with the goal of restoring service to 90% of our customers within 48 hours, conditions permitting," the company said.
Luma Energy said it was investigating the cause of the blackout.
The blackout is the second island-wide blackout that has hit Puerto Rico in four months.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s National Communications Authority has granted a license to Elon Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink, paving the way for the launch of its services in the country.
The license was officially awarded during a ceremony Sunday in Mogadishu, attended by government officials and Starlink representatives, according to a statement from the authority.
Representing the company were Ryan Goodnight, senior director of market access, and Micaela Pawlak, market access manager. They said Starlink’s satellite internet services would soon be available nationwide.
Mustafa Yasin Sheikh, director of the Communications Authority, said Starlink’s arrival would support the country’s efforts to expand internet access and improve digital infrastructure.
While Somalia is already connected to several undersea internet cables, officials said the addition of satellite-based service will help extend connectivity to rural and remote areas.
"We have been in talks with this company (Starlink) for a period of two and half years. We gave them the licence today," Mustafa Yasiin, director of communication in the telecommunications ministry said in a video posted on state news agency SONNA's Facebook account on Sunday.
"We hope Starlink will increase the quality of the existing internet in Somalia and will make the internet service reach more remote areas," he added.
[FinancialPost] Russia’s ruble has surged to become the best performing global currency, posting this year’s strongest gains against the U.S. dollar to outpace even the traditional safe haven of gold. The uncertainty is temporary — enjoy it while you can, guys. The arbitrageurs certainly will.
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The ruble has a very limited number of businesses and countries, outside of Russia, that are willing to use it for trade that it's very easy for the Bank of Russia to manipulate it.
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You mean the Fed/US Treasury doesn't manipulate the US dollar?
[WhiteHouse.gov] THE ORIGIN
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally.
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The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
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Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
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Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
[DAILYCALLER] Death row inmates granted clemency by former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... sued the Trump administration on Wednesday for ordering their incarceration under the most ''oppressive conditions'' available.
President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... issued an executive order on his first day in office that directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure 37 death row inmates were ''imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose,'' which the lawsuit alleges is unconstitutional.
''By categorically condemning Plaintiffs to indefinite incarceration in harsh conditions in response to their receipt of clemency from the previous President, it exceeds the statutory authority granted to the Attorney General and her deputy, and is arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion; it was made without proper notice and comment; and otherwise is not in accordance with law,'' the lawsuit alleges.
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The other inmates are there. The accommodations are far better than their victims got.
[FoxNews] HUD headquarters building faces over $500M in 'deferred maintenance,' and only half the building is being used
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pointed out that only half of its D.C. headquarters is being used after the agency's building was added to a list of federal properties marked for sale by the Trump administration Thursday.
HUD's headquarters became the first major federal agency building to be added to the General Services Administration's list of "assets identified for accelerated disposition" amid GOP efforts to slim down the government's real estate portfolio and potentially relocate agency headquarters outside the nation's capital.
Simultaneously, Democrats have taken steps to block these efforts, including through the introduction of legislation in Congress.
Last month, the GSA retracted a list of 440 "non-core" assets, including the HUD headquarters and more than a dozen other federal buildings it had initially listed for sale or disposal, according to the Federal News Network. The GSA subsequently posted a new list, but HUD is the first major executive agency headquarters to be included.
President Donald Trump campaigned on relocating federal agencies outside the nation's capital in 2024 as part of his wider efforts to clean up waste, slim down the federal government and "dismantle the deep state."
Earlier this week, Trump signed an executive order rescinding two prior executive actions put into effect under the Carter and Clinton administrations, which the president said in his directive "prevented agencies from relocating to lower-cost facilities." Trump's directive also points out that by moving federal agencies closer to the people they are serving, rather than being centrally located in the nation's capital, it will help the departments more successfully carry out their missions.
"HUD’s focus is on creating a workplace that reflects the values of efficiency, accountability and purpose," HUD Secretary Scott Turner said Thursday. "We’re committed to rightsizing government operations and ensuring our facilities support a culture of optimal performance and exceptional service as we collaborate with our partners at GSA to deliver results for the American people."
HUD indicated Thursday the timeline and final location for the headquarters relocation were still being considered. But the agency did note that the Washington, D.C., metro area remains one of the top options under consideration.
The HUD headquarters is located inside the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, which is in the Southwest part of D.C. According to HUD, the building is facing $500 million in "deferred maintenance and modernization needs," which the agency said costs taxpayers more than $56 million annually in rent and operations expenditures.
Media reports earlier this month indicated the Department of Agriculture has been putting together plans to relocate its federal headquarters outside D.C., according to several officials briefed on the plans.
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The HUD HQ building, aka, the Robert C Weaver building, is one of the ugliest buildings in the world. Even by the standards of the brutalist architecture movement, it is a model of neo Stalinist ugliness.
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Always thought somebody oughta animate that sucker. [monstrous Corbusian caterpillar rampages around Godzilla-style gobbling up neighborhoods and shitting out projects]
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[Regnum] Scientists have discovered signs of possible biological activity beyond the Solar System. This was reported on April 17 by the press service of the University of Cambridge.
It is noted that chemical traces of two rare gases were found in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b - dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS). This was learned thanks to data collected using the James Webb telescope.
"On Earth, DMS and DMDS are produced only by life, primarily microorganisms such as marine phytoplankton. Although the source of these molecules in K2-18b's atmosphere may be an unknown chemical process, the results provide the strongest evidence yet that life can exist on a planet outside our solar system," the paper says.
The scientists also said that the findings are not conclusive and that new observations are needed to ensure that the DMS and DMDS findings were not a measurement error.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on March 6, the Metro publication stated that Joe McMonigle, who participated in a secret project of the US Department of Defense, saw evidence of life on Mars.
It was noted that between 1978 and 1995, the man was engaged in telepathic research that led him to a planet one million years before our era. There he saw a giant pyramid in which very tall and thin beings in strange clothes were hiding from a powerful storm. Then he told how he saw other areas of Mars where there were supposedly bones and ruins of buildings.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] The eerie discovery of seven decaying corpses across three New England states warrants ''review and investigation'' after police shut down growing fears the deaths are linked to a 
...46th president of the U.S. 
