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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Unrepentant killer dad refuses to give up location of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery's body after he beat her to death
[NYPOST] The New Hampshire dad who brutally beat his 5-year-old daughter Harmony Montgomery to death was given 45 years to life in prison after he dramatically refused to reveal where her body was in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Adam Montgomery, 34, who was found guilty of murdering his Harmony, remained silent and stone-faced at his court hearing Thursday despite a surprise offer from prosecutors to reduce his sentence by as much as 21 years, WMUR reports.

Montgomery stuffed his daughter’s body in a tote bag, then a cooler as he hid her death for months, prosecutors said. He even stashed the little girl in the freezer at the restaurant where he worked — before disposing of it in an unknown location, authorities allege.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati told the judge that if Montgomery could give Harmony’s family closure by revealing where he left the toddler’s body, then the state would no longer ask for a that maximum of 56-years to life, but instead seek 35-to-life.

Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [144 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Put him in an electric chair on trickle charge.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 05/10/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot can happen in 45 years: pandemic relaxes, soft on crime Marxist releases, bogus reversals on appeals because someone didn’t deliver paperwork on time…. There is a guy in CA who has killed multiple inmates…. I hear he needs a cellmate
Posted by: Airandee || 05/10/2024 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  To me it sounds as if the girl was molested. No proof or evidence. It is just a puzzle piece that fits.
Hopelessly, they revoked his Dad of tge Year mug and tee shirt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/10/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Remarkably - the family court judge who released the little girl into the custody of the scumbag is not named. The fact the judge is not named - big tell to me. Only one article I read excruciated the judges poor decision.

Judges are not Kings. If repercussions are the norm for the rest of us, why not judges. If their decisions kill people, involuntarily manslaughter is a bad thing, I think most can agree.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/10/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NOAA says tonight's 'cannibal' solar storm could be worst in 165 YEARS and cause GPS and power outages - as they reveal exact time it'll hit
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Earth could suffer the worst solar storm in 165 years as six streams of plasma that erupted from the sun this week are set to make crash into our atmosphere tonight.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed today that the worst-case scenario would be what happened during the 1859 Carrington event, which set telegraph stations on fire, cutting communications worldwide.

In our modern-day society, a geomagnetic storm of that magnitude could cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage to critical infrastructure.

The event could also trigger magnificent nighttime auroras, or the northern lights, which will be visible in the US starting around 11pm ET and lasting through Saturday.

Scientists will know how severe the storm will be at around around 8 pm ET when the explosions of plasma racing through space will be nearly one million miles from our planet - and NOAA plans to issue alerts immediately.

Scientists have also predicted that three of the six streams, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), could combine to create a powerful 'cannibal CME.'

Geomagnetic storms take place when high-energy particles released from solar flares ejected by the sun reach Earth. The sun is continuously erupting and hurling particles into space, but given that its 93 million miles from Earth, it rarely reaches us.

'We anticipate we will get one shock after another. We are really buckling down here,' Clinton Wallace, director of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), said during the Friday media briefing.

While officials are predicting an event a step below than Carrington, which was a geomagnetic storm level 5 (G5), they are not discounting that we could reach a an event on the lower end of the same measurement that ranges from G1 to G5.

Dahl explained that 165 years ago, auroras reached as far as Central America and Hawaii. He said 'we can, of course, not discount that we could reach kind of a low end.'

When the sun emits a solar flare, it creates an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) similar to that of a nuclear bomb which in turn can disable or destroy all electronic equipment, including satellites.

Earth has been hit with one of the streams of plasma already, as a space weather psychists told DailyMail.com that there could be five more on the way. Dr Tamitha Skov said NASA's satellite captured CME, determining it was a geomagnetic storm level 4 (G4) that is moving more than 400 miles per second.

Skov said the storm could reach a G5 and as the other streams make their way toward Earth, she predicted things may not calm down until May 13.

Dahl said during the media event that he and NOAA 'have not seen this in a long time, which is why they are giving special attention.

'We have discussed this with FEMA because they need to know, not that we are expecting a catastrophic collapse.'

NOAA issued a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch late Thursday night, noting a a large sunspot cluster had produced several moderate to strong solar flares since Wednesday. Sunspots are cooler parts on the sun's surface caused by massive changes in our star's magnetic field. Often bigger than planets, sunspots appear dark on the sun's surface because they are cooler than other parts - although they're still very hot, around 6,500°F.

'This is an unusual and potentially historic event,' said Wallace.

NOAA said that people should prepare as they would for a power outage - batteries, flash lights and generators.

However, the agency has been in contact with infrastructure operators in preparation for the geomagnetic storm.

'[People] won't have to do anything. And if everything's working like it should, will be stable they'll be able to go about their their daily lives,' said Steenburgh.

'You may get to see a fairly impressive aurora display.'
BLUF: Probably pretty lights but nothing more.

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/10/2024 12:00 || Comments || Link || [119 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess I should fill the tubs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/10/2024 15:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Collapse the electric grid?

Nature doing what the EPA and DoE has been trying to do for years.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/10/2024 16:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I blame Climate Change and Colonialism!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/10/2024 20:11 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules - and it causes horrific symptoms and kills group of hamsters
[DM] Perhaps one with an affinity for epicanthic folds?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [222 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  In my experience, Chinese "scientists" are superbly trained technicians with no imagination, intuition, and terrifying narrowness of vision. Since they are also insanely competitive - leading to cutting corners (e.g. bet you they didn't bother to check if the engineered virus is infectious to humans), these are very bad news.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/10/2024 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Spot on #1. In a few words you covered it all very accurately. Cutting corners to save money in nearly everything. I have seen this in the medical field though my experience was limited. I would include Pakistanis. I would have to add Pakistanis well known for quality surgical instruments.
Posted by: Dale || 05/10/2024 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Life has always been short for lab rats.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/10/2024 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  maybe concentrate on curing "existing diseases" instead of trying to cook up 'new diseases."
Posted by: Wholuns Barnsmell3679 || 05/10/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I am getting gah dam tired of my cookie disappearing due to no action on my part...
Posted by: M. M || 05/10/2024 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  OTOH, it's early and if this is the extent of my problems today I have nothing to complain about.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/10/2024 8:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Just remember, this is only what we're hearing about, and the truth is likely much worse.
(I'm just a little ray of sunshine...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/10/2024 8:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks Ed! I'm gonna go try to get a good night's sleep then.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/10/2024 8:51 Comments || Top||

#9  Fortunately, the nuclear fires are likely to kill the virus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/10/2024 9:39 Comments || Top||

#10  First the Monkeypox, now Chibola. Hamsters getting a rough go.

Good to see DM admit Chyna does bioweapon stuff.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/10/2024 11:43 Comments || Top||

#11  I agree with #1 in a good lab. Under poor supervision or given poor lab material conditions, any communist worker will still try to meet the goal or quota to avoid punishment. I think that is what we are seeing in some of the clandestine labs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/10/2024 13:05 Comments || Top||

#12  A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body.

I.e. they have done Gain of Function by adding an Ebola protein to a different virus' proteome.

Why would one expect any effective vaccination/antiviral medication to do anything about the original Ebola disease which is caused by the original Ebola virus?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/10/2024 22:14 Comments || Top||


Economy
Warner Bros. Discovery hiking Max price, mulling layoffs in cost-cutting move: report
[NYPOST] Warner Bros. Discovery is looking at additional opportunities for cost-cutting and raising prices for its Max streaming platform, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

The cost-cutting plans could include possible layoffs at the media company, which has already eliminated more than 2,000 positions over the past year, according to the report.

The company’s streaming business, which includes Max and Discovery+, could see hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts, mostly in marketing and technology, Bloomberg News reported.
Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [189 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hollyweird is about inclined to give consumers what they want as much as Congress is inclined to seriously cut spending.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/10/2024 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  If only they had content worth viewing.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/10/2024 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Soon you will be mandated to buy overpriced big media. J6 treatment for those who don't.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/10/2024 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Fortunately, my stash of VHS tapes and DVDs are still usable and paid for.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/10/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Stop using google. Every movie and tv show is available in HD if released in HD via foreign search engines.
*cough* Yandex *cough*
It's like what I imaged Netflix should have been.

Posted by: mossomo || 05/10/2024 12:28 Comments || Top||

#6  We are not entertained.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/10/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Was enjoying the Tom Brady Roast until that DEI inclusion nobody did her..uggh..bit. It wasn't just bad, it was mood breaking.

Members of the Board: When the tv show Suits is outperforming you...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/10/2024 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Fortunately, Disney doesn't get any of my money anyway. Don't like their stuff and don't buy it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/10/2024 17:15 Comments || Top||

#9  You'll be happy to know then, the latest Star Wars steamer has an character going by they/them and it flat turned a whole group of Allies in Theory into FUs. 'jarring', 'unnecessary', 'destroys the immersion'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/10/2024 17:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Got hit with an absolute cringe ad from DEIsney. What looks like a gay boy is with what looks to be about an 8 year old boy child. Gay boy calls the boy child, "Baby" and has him convinced that fantasy can be real.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/10/2024 17:54 Comments || Top||



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