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Team Fortress 2 good community servers (mainly NA, some EU- May 2024)

2024.05.14 04:18 SnackPatrol Team Fortress 2 good community servers (mainly NA, some EU- May 2024)

Last updated 5/14/24
About a month ago I literally went through every single community server, empty/full/whatever, and added any that sounded interesting, and didn't have crazy ping to Favorites (My region is Northeast US (NJ), FYI). There are still a bunch of good ones out there (I've also had many solid ones in my favs for quite some time).
For reference:

Scroll down a few lines to my "To keep it simple..." header for the best ones. The following 2 links were a fuller list I am not happy with anymore & will update when I have time. Keeping them in case people want more ideas/IPs:

(The green line ones are my seal of approval, pink line ones I haven't checked out as much but seem to be ok.)
Server page 1: https://i.imgur.com/NQujz3H.png
Server page 2: https://i.imgur.com/c7GkvGm.png

To keep it simple, I think the best ones right now (for me are):

tiny kitty's girl pound - friendly community, runs really solid, nice-looking custom maps, meme maps wednesday is a blast (played 3 hrs last night without loadouts), always has people in it, just be wary of nsfw furry sprays (yeah I know...put cl_spraydisable 1 in console to disable)
1st server: 74.91.115.12:27015
2nd server: 74.91.113.115:27015
OPRAH's PETROL STATION - Friendly community, always has people in it, no goofy instant respawn which has no place in payload yet half of all community server owners see fit to do that, pre-round scramble
108.181.63.51:27015
-EOTL- Payload - same deal
74.91.114.223:27015
redsun.tf - This community is the poster child for tastefully modded custom game modes, and is very active. It's very well maintained & polished and even though I may not enjoy every game mode I've been very impressed by this server network (esp. as a former highly modded community server owner). The EU one fills up most of the time, and I deal with the ping because it's a cool community (it even runs a battle royale mode that is surprisingly well-made). I'd recommend downloading their asset pack here as it's fairly sizeable to DL upon server connect:
EU (actually gets players): 141.95.28.56:27015
US: 66.206.13.139:27015
Trigger Happy Gamers (EU) - Trigger Happy Gamers have been around forever and even though they are in the UK I deal with the ping to play with them because they are a solid community. Their mainl server gets reliably full from around 1 PM - 3 PM EST every day, and on the weekends a little longer. Their Nocrits server also gets full Saturday
main: 87.98.254.85:27015
Nocrits (gets full Saturdays @ 1 PM - 2 PM): 87.98.254.85:27025
Fucked in the Head - Another community that has been around forever. To be honest, they have equal respawn on red & blu, even for payload, which I hate with a searing passion, HOWEVER, the regulars are entertaining af and give off vibes of drunk buddies goofing off and not giving a fuck that it almost offsets it. It's also decently populated.
216.52.148.223:27015
Skial Payload & Casual servers - I never got the hate for this server network, decent spawn times, Halloween mode year round, no power tripping admins, feels like a bunch of randoms having a good time. The Payload+ EU in particular has some really chill/cool regulars, Dustbowl+ US some interesting/funny peeps. Payload US generally decent also. Casual is solid too:
Payload+ EU 91.216.250.226:27015
Payload+ US 91.216.250.11:27015
Dustbowl+ US* (has become very stack-prone lately) 91.216.250.12:27015
~~~~~
Casual NY 91.216.250.34:27015
Casual US 91.216.250.40:27015
Casual LA 91.216.250.21:27015
Uncletopia - Pretty standard Casual experience except the skill level is generally higher, though it seems to be evening out honestly. And tbh from my experience people in these servers seem pretty cool. If you're looking for Vanilla I'd say this is your best bet.
https://uncletopia.com/servers
Southern Cross Gaming (Rainbow Swirl in particular) - Stumbled across this & played 1 round with these guys running a cool custom mode but apparently they run stock maps as well as custom maps/game modes. Their rules had a huge emphasis on keeping it fun & being respectful and everyone seemed really cool & laidback. It was full at peak time on the weekend. They also have other servers, even in other games & seem to have been around awhile:
IP: furfortress.com:27016
Site: https://www.scg.wtf/servers#team_fortress_2
ciggyland 18+ LGBT+ Furry server run by puppygirls
Funny, chill vibes, lots of custom maps. Seems to get full around peak time. Another diamond in the rough I discovered recently.
74.91.115.82:27015
Bad Weapon Rehabilitation (Vanilla US)
A really solid rebalancing of all weapons in-game. Nothing really feels overpowered or underpowered anymore, also fun things like flames stay on surfaces & I think spy or engy can radar enemies within a few feet or something to his team? It's really fun and gets full. Here's the site with IPs and stuff (The US server gets full around peak time, esp. on weekends)
74.91.126.159:27015
redstar.gg - Arena server, the owner ComradeYazoo seems pretty dedicated to starting it up and I hop in whenever I can. Believe it or not it's still very fun with little people but it's gotten pretty packed a couple times. It also has like every good custom arena map, and scrambles if a team wins 3 in a row. North America I believe.
204.12.240.186:27015
The Furry Pound - Some people list this one as one of the best non-UT for Vanilla TF2, however the one time I decided to give it a try I was met with some weird overly dramatic BS happening in Voice chat, and I heard someone else give a similar criticism the other day here. BUT, I've also seen people say they're ok. Might depend on what players/admins are on maybe, IDK:
Main server: thefurrypound.org:27015
UGC High Tower servers - They run no carts, so it's the TDM High Tower everyone's always dreamed of. They also run Instant Respawn and on any other map I hate that setting with a searing passion but because it's reworked as TDM I feel it actually improves the gameplay (put "high tower" including the space, and without quotes in the search box for a list of 'em in the following link):
https://www.ugc-gaming.net/servers/tf2/
UGC also runs other servers which I cannot vouch for but might be worth looking into.
GFL Clan (maybe???) - Someone said these guys are chill too, though I hate 2fort with a passion:
https://gflclan.com/forum/26-team-fortress-2/
Kogasatopia if you're desperate. They run some really fun mods, and solid (especially good gimmicky) custom maps, but their community is 4chan edgelords that like to say racial slurs. Just mute chat & voice I guess by entering this in console (replace with 1's to re-enable)- hud_saytext_time 0;voice_enable 0
Custom Weapons servers (including a guide to the best one via TF2Classic)
More Arena Servers
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2024.05.13 20:06 SanderSo47 Part 1

As Reddit doesn't allow posts to exceed 40,000 characters, Eastwood's edition had to be split into two parts because his whole career cannot be ignored. The second part will be posted tomorrow.

Here's a new edition of "Directors at the Box Office", which seeks to explore the directors' trajectory at the box office and analyze their hits and bombs. I already talked about a few, and as I promised, it's Clint Eastwood's turn.
Eastwood was a troublemaker at school, and he had a bunch of odd jobs such as lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, and golf caddy. In 1951, he was drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War and was discharged two years later. Through this, he got into contact with a Hollywood representative, who got him into acting classes and started his acting career. He got his start by starring in the hit show Rawhide, but he said he was exhausted by the experience. This caught the attention of some film producers and he decided to act in films directed by the then-unknown Sergio Leone. His career was on the rise, and then he got the chance to make his directorial debut.
From a box office perspective, how reliable was he to deliver a box office hit?
That's the point of this post. To analyze his career.

It should be noted that as he started his career in the 1970s, some of the domestic grosses here will be adjusted by inflation. The table with his highest grossing films, however, will be left in its unadjusted form, as the worldwide grosses are more difficult to adjust.

Play Misty for Me (1971)

"The scream you hear may be your own!"
His directorial debut. It stars Eastwood, Jessica Walter and Donna Mills, and follows a radio disc jockey being stalked by an obsessed female fan.
Before his colleague Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the idea of producing a film that was to give Eastwood the artistic control he desired, and his debut as a director. Eastwood said he was ready, "I stored away all the mistakes I made and saved up all the good things I learned, and now I know enough to control my own projects and get what I want out of actors."
The film was a huge success for Eastwood, and it also received positive reviews. So far, his directorial career was off to a great start.

High Plains Drifter (1973)

"They'd never forget the day he drifted into town."
His second film. The film stars Eastwood, Verna Bloom and Mariana Hill, and follows a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town.
Eastwood reportedly liked the offbeat quality of the film's original nine-page proposal and approached Universal with the idea of directing it, which would make it his first directed Western. The screenplay was inspired by the real-life murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in 1964, which eyewitnesses reportedly stood by and watched. Holes in the plot were filled in with black humor and allegory, influenced by Sergio Leone.
It was well received, and the film even surpassed Play Misty for Me at the box office. Eastwood was just going up.

Breezy (1973)

"Her name is Breezy."
His third film. It stars William Holden and Kay Lenz, and follows the relationship between a middle-aged real estate agent and a young hitchhiker.
This was his first directed film without starring on it. And his lack of presence certainly hurt the film; it received mixed reviews and flopped at the box office.

The Eiger Sanction (1975)

"His lifeline, held by the assassin he hunted."
His fourth film. Based on the novel by Trevanian, the film stars Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, and Jack Cassidy. It follows Jonathan Hemlock, an art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin once employed by a secret government agency, who is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession for one last mission.
The film received mixed reactions for its writing, and it wasn't a box office success either.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

"An army of one."
His fifth film. Based on the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, it stars Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney and John Vernon. The film tells the story of Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered by Union militia during the Civil War. Driven to revenge, Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla band and makes a name for himself as a feared gunfighter. After the war, all the fighters in Wales' group except for him surrender to Union soldiers, but the Confederates end up being massacred. Wales becomes an outlaw and is pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers as he tries to make a new life for himself.
Eastwood was fascinated by the novel and he bought the film rights, hoping to star on the film. He got Philip Kaufman involved as screenwriter and possible director, but left after disagreeing with Eastwood in the material adapted to the screen. Kaufman insisted on filming with a meticulous attention to detail, which caused disagreements with Eastwood, not to mention the attraction the two shared towards Locke and apparent jealousy on Kaufman's part in regard to their emerging relationship. This caused Eastwood to take over as the director. Kaufman's firing angered the DGA, as he did most of the pre-production, and sanctioning a $60,000 fine. This resulted in the Director's Guild passing a new rule, known as "the Eastwood Rule", which prohibits an actor or producer from firing the director and then personally taking on the director's role.
The film received critical acclaim, and in subsequent years, is ranked among Eastwood's greatest films. It was also a huge success at the box office, doubling his previous highest grossing film. It was also one of the few Western films to receive critical and commercial success in the 1970s at a time when the Western was thought to be dying as a major genre in Hollywood.

The Gauntlet (1977)

"The man in the middle of..."
His sixth film. It stars Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, and Mara Corday. It follows a down-and-out cop who falls in love with a prostitute, to whom he is assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix for her to testify against the mob.
While it received mixed reviews, it became another box office success for Eastwood, becoming his now highest grossing film.

Bronco Billy (1980)

"The most outrageous of 'em all."
His seventh film. The film stars Eastwood and Sondra Locke, and focuses on the financially-struggling owner of a traditional Wild West show and his new assistant.
It became another critical and commercial success for Eastwood, who referred to the film as one of his most affable shoots of his career.

Firefox (1982)

"The most devastating killing machine ever built... his job... steal it!"
His eighth film. Based on the novel by Craig Thomas, it stars Eastwood, Freddie Jones and David Huffman. The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumors say that the jet is undetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam War pilot Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
The film received mixed reviews, but it earned almost $47 million, becoming Eastwood's highest grossing title as director.

Honkytonk Man (1982)

"The boy is on his way to becoming a man. The man is on his way to becoming a legend."
His ninth film. It's based on the novel by Clancy Carlile, and it stars Eastwood and his son Kyle. It follows Red Stovall, a country music singer and composer. With his nephew Whit by his side, he travels to Nashville to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in the backdrop of the Great Depression.
While the film received acclaim, it earned just $4.4 million, becoming his second worst performer.

Sudden Impact (1983)

"Dirty Harry is at it again."
His tenth film. The fourth installment in the Dirty Harry series, directed, it stars Eastwood and Sondra Locke. The film tells the story of a gang rape victim who decides to seek revenge on her rapists 10 years after the attack by killing them one by one. Inspector Harry Callahan, famous for his unconventional and often brutal crime-fighting tactics, is tasked with tracking down the serial killer.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, but it earned over $150 million worldwide, Eastwood's first film to pass that milestone. It's also very popular for including the iconic catchphrase, "Go ahead, make my day."

Tightrope (1984)

"A cop on the edge..."
His 11th film. It stars Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood and Jennifer Beck, and follows a detective determined to hunt down a sadomasochistic serial killer of prostitutes.
The film became another critical and commercial success for Eastwood.

Pale Rider (1985)

"...And Hell followed with him."
His 12th film. It stars Eastwood, Michael Moriarty and Carrie Snodgress. A couple and their daughter, along with a few others, are driven out of Lahood, California, by goons working for a mining baron. However, a stranger enters their life to assist them in their fight.
There was no stopping Eastwood: another critical and commercial success.

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

"The scars run deep."
His 13th film. It stars Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, and Mario Van Peebles. The story centers on a U.S. Marine nearing retirement who gets a platoon of undisciplined Marines into shape and leads them during the American invasion of Grenada in 1983.
The film was inspired by an account of American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division using a pay telephone and a credit card to call in fire support during the invasion of Grenada, and fashioned a script of a Korean War veteran career Army non-commissioned officer passing on his values to a new generation of soldiers. Eastwood was interested in the script and asked his producer, Fritz Manes, to contact the US Army with a view of filming the movie at Fort Bragg. However, the Army read the script and refused to participate, due to Highway being portrayed as a hard drinker, divorced from his wife, and using unapproved motivational methods to his troops, an image the Army did not want.
It received mixed reviews, with some deeming the film as "imperialist propaganda". But it was still another box office success.

Bird (1988)

"There are no second acts in American lives."
His 14th film. The film stars Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora. It is constructed as a montage of scenes from saxophonist Charlie Parker's life, from his childhood in Kansas City, through his early death at the age of 34.
Eastwood, a lifelong fan of jazz, had been fascinated by Parker ever since seeing him perform live in Oakland in 1946. He approached Chan Parker, Bird's common-law wife on whose memoirs the script was based, for input, and she lent Eastwood and arranger Lennie Niehaus a collection of recordings from her private collection Before Eastwood was involved, Richard Pryor was originally cast as Parker.
Despitive positive reviews, it performed poorly, earning just $2.2 million in North America.

White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

"An adventure in obsession."
His 15th film. Based on the novel by Peter Viertel, it stars Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong and Marisa Berenson. It follows a famous movie director, John Wilson, who goes to Africa to make his next movie. He is an obstinate, contrary director who'd rather hunt elephants than take care of his crew or movie. He has become obsessed with one particular elephant and cares for nothing else.
Despite positive reviews, it made just $2.3 million domestically, not even 10% of the budget.

The Rookie (1990)

His 16th film. The film stars Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Tom Skerritt. It follows a veteran police officer teamed up with a younger detective, whose intent is to take down a German crime lord in downtown Los Angeles, following months of investigation into an exotic car theft ring.
It received negative reviews for its acting and story, and it became another flop for Eastwood. That's three bombs in a row. Ouch.

Unforgiven (1992)

"Some legends will never be forgotten. Some wrongs can never be forgiven."
His 17th film. It stars Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris and Morgan Freeman. It follows William Munny, a widower with two young kids, who was once a very vicious gunfighter who gave up everything after marriage. Now, a man named Schofield Kid brings him an offer that he cannot refuse, forcing him to come out of retirement for one last job.
David Webb Peoples wrote the script all the way back to 1976, and it was optioned by Francis Ford Coppola, but he lacked the funds needed to helm it. By Eastwood's own recollection, he was given the script in the "early 80s" although he did not immediately pursue it, because, according to him, "I thought I should do some other things first". Eastwood has long asserted that the film would be his last traditional Western, concerned that any future projects would simply rehash previous plotlines or imitate someone else's work. He dedicated the film to his close friends and mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. Hackman initially refused to participate as his daughters were upset that he was starring in too many violent films, but he became fascinated by the script that he agreed.
It opened with $15 million and it legged all the way to $100 million after playing for almost one year, closing with $159 million worldwide, his now highest grossing film. The film received Eastwood's best reviews of his career, with many considering the film as his magnum opus as director. It received 9 Oscar nominations, and won four: Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Hackman, and Best Film Editing. So Eastwood, on top of being a reliable box office draw, was now a 2-time Oscar winner.

A Perfect World (1993)

His 18th film. Kevin Costner, Eastwood and Laura Dern, and follows an escaped convict who takes a young boy hostage and attempts to escape on the road with the child, while being pursued by a Texas Ranger.
The film received critical acclaim, and has appeared as one of Eastwood's best films. The film disappointed in North America, but it earned up to $100 million overseas (Eastwood's first film to gross that much) and ended with $135 million worldwide.

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

"The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces."
His 19th film. Based on the novel by Robert James Waller, it stars Eastwood and Meryl Streep. The film is set in 1965, following a war bride, Francesca Johnson, who lives with her husband and two children on their Iowa farm. That year she meets National Geographic photojournalist, Robert Kincaid, who comes to Madison County, Iowa to photograph its historic covered bridges. With Francesca's family away for a short trip, the couple have an intense, four-day love affair.
It received more critical acclaim, and made over $180 million worldwide, becoming his highest grossing film. For her performance, Streep was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.

Absolute Power (1997)

His 20th film. Based on the novel by David Baldacci, it stars Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, and Richard Jenkins. It follows a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents.
It received mixed reviews, and disappointed at the box office.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

"Welcome to Savannah, Georgia. A Ccty of hot nights and cold blooded murder."
His 21st film. Based on the book by John Berendt, it stars John Cusack and Kevin Spacey. It follows the story of antiques dealer Jim Williams, on trial for the killing of a male prostitute who was his lover. The multiple trials depicted in Berendt's book are combined into one trial for the film.
It received mediocre reviews, and flopped at the box office.

True Crime (1999)

His 22nd film. Based on the novel by Andrew Klavan, it stars Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, LisaGay Hamilton and James Woods. It follows a journalist covering the execution of a death row inmate, only to discover that the convict may actually be innocent.
This was another project that received mediocre reviews and flopped at the box office.

Space Cowboys (2000)

"Boys will be boys."
His 23rd film. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four aging former test pilots who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.
It received very positive reviews, and earned over $128 million worldwide.

Blood Work (2002)

"He's a heartbeat away from catching the killer."
His 24th film. Based on the novel by Michael Connelly, it stars Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. It follows a retired FBI agent who recently had a heart transplant but still takes up the job to nab a killer.
It was another film with mediocre reviews and flop status.

Mystic River (2003)

"We bury our sins, we wash them clean."
His 25th film. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, it stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. It follows three childhood friends who are reunited 25 years later when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Michael Keaton was originally cast in the role of Det. Sean Devine, and did several script readings with the cast, as well as his own research into the practices of the Massachusetts Police Department. However, creative differences between Keaton and Eastwood led to Keaton leaving the production. He was replaced by Kevin Bacon. This was the first film in which Eastwood would be credited as composer.
The film had a slow roll-out, but it was aided by strong word of mouth, closing with a wonderful $156 million worldwide. It also received acclaim, and was named as one of Eastwood's greatest films. Sean Penn received universal acclaim for his performance, with some naming it among the best acting of the century, particularly for one scene (if you watched it, you definitely know which scene). It received 6 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. It won two: Best Actor for Penn and Best Supporting Actor for Robbins.

Come back tomorrow for Part 2

MOVIES (FROM HIGHEST GROSSING TO LEAST GROSSING)

No. Movie Year Studio Domestic Total Overseas Total Worldwide Total Budget
x The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Warner Bros. $71,516,617 $110,500,000 $182,016,617 $22M
x Unforgiven 1992 Warner Bros. $101,167,799 $58,000,000 $159,167,799 $14.4M
x Mystic River 2003 Warner Bros. $90,135,191 $66,460,000 $156,595,191 $25M
x Sudden Impact 1983 Warner Bros. $67,642,693 $83,000,000 $150,642,693 $22M
x A Perfect World 1993 Warner Bros. $31,130,999 $104,000,000 $135,130,999 $30M
x Space Cowboys 2000 Warner Bros. $90,464,773 $38,419,359 $128,884,132 $60M
x Heartbreak Ridge 1986 Warner Bros. $42,724,017 $78,975,983 $121,700,000 $15M
x Absolute Power 1997 Sony $50,068,310 $42,700,000 $92,768,310 $50M
x Tightrope 1984 Warner Bros. $48,143,579 $0 $48,143,579 N/A
x Firefox 1982 Warner Bros. $46,708,276 $0 $46,708,276 $21M
x Pale Rider 1985 Warner Bros. $41,410,568 $0 $41,410,568 $6.9M
x The Gauntlet 1977 Warner Bros. $35,400,000 $0 $35,400,000 $5.5M
x The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Warner Bros. $31,800,000 $0 $31,800,000 $3.7M
x Blood Work 2002 Warner Bros. $26,235,081 $5,559,637 $31,794,718 $50M
x Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997 Warner Bros. $25,105,255 $0 $25,105,255 $30M
x Bronco Billy 1980 Warner Bros. $24,265,659 $0 $24,265,659 $6.5M
x The Rookie 1990 Warner Bros. $21,633,874 $0 $21,633,874 $30M
x True Crime 1999 Warner Bros. $16,649,768 $0 $16,649,768 $55M
x High Plains Drifter 1973 Universal $15,700,000 $0 $15,700,000 $5.5M
x The Eiger Sanction 1975 Universal $14,200,000 $0 $14,200,000 $9M
x Play Misty for Me 1971 Universal $10,600,000 $0 $10,600,000 $950K
x Honkytonk Man 1982 Warner Bros. $4,484,991 $0 $4,484,991 $2M
x White Hunter Black Heart 1990 Warner Bros. $2,319,124 $0 $2,319,124 $24M
x Bird 1988 Warner Bros. $2,181,286 $0 $2,181,286 $14M
x Breezy 1973 Universal $200,000 $17,753 $217,753 $750K

The Verdict

Hope you liked this edition. You can find this and more in the wiki for this section.
The next director will be Robert Zemeckis. One of the biggest falls from grace.
I asked you to choose who else should be in the run and the comment with the most upvotes would be chosen. It had to be a controversial filmmaker. Well, we'll later talk about... Zack Snyder. Oh, BoxOffice chose fuego 🔥
This is the schedule for the following four:
Week Director Reasoning
May 20-26 Robert Zemeckis Can we get old Zemeckis back?
May 27-June 2 Richard Donner An influential figure of the 70s and 80s.
June 3-9 Ang Lee What happened to Lee?
June 10-16 Zack Snyder RIP Inbox.
Who should be next after Snyder? That's up to you.
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2024.05.13 16:14 Leather_Focus_6535 The currently 124 offenders executed by the state of Oklahoma since the 1970s (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk) [part 2, cases 63-124]

This is the second half of my list for Oklahoma's execution roster. As mentioned in the first part, I broke it in half to comply with reddit's character limitations. For the link to part 1, please click here.
The currently executed 124 offenders, cases 63-124:
63. Robert Knighton (~1960s-2003, lethal injection): In 1973, after being released from a 1968 armed robbery conviction, Knighton went on his first major crime spree. He stabbed and strangled several men and women during many robberies and home invasions. The only victim that was killed, 32 year old Coffier Day, was shot dead while Knighton was arguing with him in his home. Coffier's father, 53 year old Claude, was also injured in the shooting. Knighton's first crime spree ended when he kidnapped a married couple and their 6 year old daughter. They escaped when the wife and mother of the family attacked Knighton with a knife to protect her husband and daughter. The family then notified the police of their abduction. Knighton managed to secure a 30 year manslaughter conviction and a 10 year armed robbery conviction with a plea deal, and was released to a halfway house in 1989. There, he began dating a female addict and befriended a teenage boy. The trio embarked on a nationwide robbery spree together. In Missouri, they shot and killed 59 year old Frank Merrifield and his 40 year old stepson Roy Donahue while robbing their home, and stole guns and money from them. In Oklahoma, the trio fatally shot a couple, 64 year old Virginia and 62 year old Richard Denney, while carjacking them. Their rampage ended when a woman in Texas grow suspicious of them circling a neighborhood. Knighton had a long history of theft convictions dating back to his childhood, and joined the Aryan Brotherhood in prison. Behind bars, he frequently attacked black and Native American inmates out of racial hatred for them.
64. Kenneth Charm (1993-2003, lethal injection): Charm and his teenage cousin lured a family friend, 14 year old Brandy Hill, into their car. They raped Hill and tried strangling her with a towel. When that failed, the cousins bludgeoned her to death with a sledgehammer.
65. Lewis Gilbert II (1994-2003, lethal injection): Gilbert and his teenage accomplice committed at least 4 robbery murders in Missouri, Ohio, and Oklahoma, but he was executed for the killing of 37 year old Roxanne Ruddell. They ambushed and kidnapped Ruddell while she was fishing alone. She was robbed of $3 and her truck, tied to a tree, and shot to death. The pair also fatally shot Ruth Loader, a 79 year old Ohioan woman, while abducting her from her residence, and gunned down a Missouri couple, 86 year old William and 76 year old Flossie Brewer, in their home. Gilbert was also sentenced to death for the Brewer murders by the state of Missouri, but was incarcerated in Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s death row.
66. Robert Duckett (~1980s-2003, lethal injection): After breaking out of prison, Duckett was picked up hitchhiking by John Howard, a 53 year old store owner. Howard agreed to let Duckett stay with him until he could find a job. The pair soon had a failing out, and Duckett was evicted by his host. He retaliated by tying Howard up with wire and then beating him to death with a fireplace poker. Duckett made off with his car after he switched the license plates, and took several bank bags from his store. He had a long violent criminal history, which included several incidents of assault and robbery. One of the incidents involved the beating of an 83 year old man. Allegedly, Duckett was previously gang-raped by other inmates, and suffered from PTSD from the incident. His attorneys claimed that Howard’s sexual advances trigged those memories, and he was killed as a result of Duckett lashing out at them. However, the prosecution shot the argument down, citing that the murder happened after Duckett was evicted from the apartment.
67. Bryan Toles (1993-2003, lethal injection): Toles and his two accomplices forced themselves into the home of the Franceschi family, and shot and killed the family patriarch, 39 year old Juan, in a struggle. Juan's son, 15 year old Lonnie, was also murdered "execution style" out of fear that he could identify Toles and his accomplices. The only survivor of the attack was Norma, Juan's wife and Lonnie's mother, who escaped by hiding in her older daughter's bedroom.
68. Jackie Willingham (1994-2003, lethal injection): Willingham was a door to door salesman selling perfume in an office building. One women, 62 year old Jayne Van Wey, he tried to solicit rejected him despite his repeated offers. Angered by her "rude behavior", Willingham attacked Van Wey when they had a chance encounter near the building's restroom. He dragged Van Wey out of a stall after following her inside, slammed her head against the bathroom wall several times, and kicked her head. Reportedly, Van Wey choked to death on her own blood.
69. Harold McElmurry III (1999-2003, lethal injection): While under the influence of meth, McElmurry and his wife Vicki broke into a home that a WW2 veteran, 80 year old Robert Pendley, shared with his wife, 75 year old Rosa. Robert and Rosa were both quickly subdued and physically restrained by the couple. McElmurry clubbed Robert to death with a pipe in front of Rosa, who was forced to watch by Vicki. Vicki then held Rosa down as McElmurry stabbed her several times with scissors. After killing the Pendleys, the McElmurrys fled with $70 in cash, a pair of guns, and the victims' car. A few days after the murders, they were captured by border agents while trying to cross into Mexico.
70. Tyrone Darks (~1990s-2004, lethal injection): Darks rammed his ex wife, 26 year old Sherry Goodlow, off the road as she was driving with their 2 year old son. After Goodlow crashed, Darks pulled their son out of the wreckage, shot her to death, and then drove away with him. Just before she succumbed to her injuries, Goodlow managed to call and notify the police about her son’s abduction. The police confronted and arrested Darks at his home, and they found the boy unharmed in their search. Darks and Goodlow’s former marriage was marred with violence, and he was arrested on numerous occasions for assaulting her. On death row, Darks was involved in a scheme to defraud a foundation for 9/11 survivors.
71. Norman Cleary (~1980s-2004, lethal injection): While burglarizing an upper class home with an accomplice, Cleary shot and killed a housekeeper, 44 year old Wanda Neafus, and took her purse and a cane that her employers purchased from the Smithsonian Institution. Cleary had a long criminal history and was previously convicted of beating an 87 year old woman in her home.
72. David Brown (~1983-2004, lethal injection): For several years, Brown violently harassed his ex wife and her family. In one incident, Brown abducted his ex wife and 11 of her customers from a beauty saloon she owned, and held them hostage until he surrendered to police. He was able to leave custody on bond and went into hiding. A few years after the hostage crisis incident, Brown broke into his ex wife's family home and gunned down her father, 47 year old Eldon McGuire.
73. Hung Thanh Le (1992-2004, lethal injection): Le crept into the apartment of another Vietnamese refugee, 34 year old Hai Nguyen, and found him watching TV on the couch. He struck Nguyen from behind with a weightlifting bar, and continued stabbing him with a meat cleaver when he screamed his wife for help. Nguyen's wife phoned the police, and Le fled with the couple's safety deposit box that contained $36,000 and their wedding ring.
74. Robert Bryan (1993-2004, lethal injection): Bryan shot and killed his estranged aunt, 69 year old Mildred, dumped her body on his parents' property, and forged a $1,800 check to himself under her name.
75. Windel Workman (~1980s(?)-2004, lethal injection): Workman beat his girlfriend's daughter, 2 year old Amanda Holman, to death while babysitting her in their home. His ex wives reported that he had a history of child abuse and often violently spanked their children during their marriages.
76. Jimmie Slaughter (1991-2005, lethal injection): Fearing that she was going to tell his wife of their affair, Slaughter stabbed and shot his ex girlfriend, 29 year old Melody Wuertz, and their daughter, 1 year old Jessica. According to court documents, Slaughter mutilated both of their bodies, and he carved an "R" on Melody's stomach. He tried pinning the murders on a black man, but the investigators and the courts dismissed his allegations.
77. George Miller Jr. (1994-2005, lethal injection): During the robbery of a hotel, Miller attacked the auditor, 25 year old Kent Dodd, with a hedge shear and paint cans, and took $122 from the register. Dodd was severely beaten, had muriatic acid shoved down his throat, and was left to die. Just before he died of his injuries, Dodd gave a description of his attacker to the police that matched Miller. A massive amount of circumstantial evidence, such as wearing shoes that resembled the bloodstained footprints next to Dodd's body, a microscopic drop of blood found on his shoes that was tentatively linked to Dodd, his wife's testimony of his unaccounted absence from their home during the murder, and what appeared to be Dodd writing Miller's alias that he knew him by in his own blood, convicted him. Miller’s friends also reported that he was broke and begging them for money a day before the murder, and his wife mentioned him giving her the same amount of money that was stolen from the robbery a day after it happened.
78. Michael Pennington (1991-2005, lethal injection): Pennington shot and killed a clerk, 20 year old Bradley Grooms, while trying to rob a 7-eleven grocery store. He left empty handed when the register failed to open.
79. Kenneth Turrentine (1994-2005, lethal injection): Under the belief that they were stealing money from him for drugs, Turrentine shot and killed his sister, 48 year old Avon Stevenson, and his girlfriend, 39 year old Anita Richardson, during confrontations in their homes. He also gunned down Anita's two children, 22 year old Tina Pennington and 13 year old Martise.
80. Richard Thornburg Jr. (1996-2006, lethal injection): A month after he was shot by an unknown assailant, Thornburg and his accomplices sought revenge by abducting 5 men that he thought was responsible from a trailer. Three of the hostages, 51 year old James Poteet, 39 year old Tery Sheppard, and 24 year old Kieth Smith, were gunned down on the spot, and Thornberg forced the fourth to shoot the fifth with the threat of killing him if he didn’t comply. They then burned down the trailer with the wounded fifth victim still trapped inside, but he managed to escape with his life. Despite being forced to put all the blame on himself in exchange for being spared, the fourth hostage still went forward to the police.
81. John Boltz (1984-2006, lethal injection): To spite his estranged wife following an argument, Boltz attacked her son, 23 year old Doug Kirby, with a knife. Kirby was stabbed a total of 11 times, and he received several fatal wounds to his chest, stomach, and neck.
82. Eric Patton (1994-2006, lethal injection): Patton forced his way into the home of 56 year old Charlene Kauer after she refused his pleading for money. After dragging her around the house as he searched for valuables, Patton stabbed Kauer several times with many different blades objects at hand such as scissors, barbecue forks, and kitchen knifes. Although he confessed to the murder, Patton blamed it on alleged demonic possession and his cocaine addiction.
83. James Malicoat (1997-2006, lethal injection): Malicoat slammed Tessa Leadford, his 13 month old daughter, against a dresser. After she died from the beating, he tucked her into bed, and waited until his daughter's mother returned from work to take her to the hospital. The doctors found that Leadford had been dead for several hours at the time of her arrival, and discovered several injuries such as broken ribs, bite marks, abdominal bleeding, and facial bruising on her body. By his own account, he had abused Leadford on a daily basis. For her role in enabling her boyfriend's treatment of their daughter, Leadford's mother was convicted of first degree murder and given a life sentence.
84. Corey Hamilton (1992-2007, lethal injection): During the robbery of a restaurant, Hamilton shot and killed 4 employees, 26 year old Sandy Lara, 24 year old Stephen Williams, 19 year old Ted Kindley, and 17 year old Joseph Gooch, and made off with $2,000.
85. Jimmy Bland (~1975-2007, lethal injection): Bland shot his boss, 62 year old Doyle Rains, in the head over an argument regarding a borrowed car and dumped the body in a creek. He was previously convicted of killing a soldier, Raymond Prentice (age unknown), and abducting the man's wife and son at the age of 19. Bland served a 20 out of 60 year sentence, and murdered Rains a year after he was released.
86. Frank Welch (~1987-2008, lethal injection): In 1987, Welch attacked 28 year old Jo Cooper, who was 4 months pregnant with her second child, in her home. She was tied up with leather straps, raped and violated with plastic toys, and strangled to death. Cooper’s body was found laying near her infant son by her husband. Another woman, 32 year old Debra Stevens, was also bound, raped, and strangled to death in her home in a near identical fashion a few months later. Although both murders went unsolved for several years, Welch abducted and raped a woman in 1994, and he received a 45 year sentence for it. His DNA samples was collected and filed after his abduction conviction, and linked to both Cooper and Stevens’ murders in a 1997 test.
87. Terry Short (1995-2008, lethal injection): In an attempt to kill his ex girlfriend, Short blew up her apartment complex with a firebomb. She and her family managed to escape, but the blast killed Ken Yamamoto, a 22 year old Japanese exchange student. Yamamoto had no connections to the targeted ex girlfriend's family beyond him having the misfortune of residing in the same apartment.
88. Jessie Cummings Jr. (1991-2009, lethal injection): Cummings was a polygamist that had married and lived with two wives. Under his orders, Cummings’ wives shot and killed his estranged half sister, 46 year old Judy Mayo, and kidnapped her daughter, 11 year old Melissa. He bound his niece to his bed with handcuffs to be raped, and stabbed her to death.
89. Darwin Brown (1995-2009, lethal injection): While robbing a grocery store with three accomplices (including Billy Alverson and Michael Wilson), Brown tied up the clerk, 30 year old Richard Yost, with handcuffs, and then bludgeoned him death with a metal baseball bat. The killing was caught by security cameras, and the footage was used by the prosecution to secure the convictions of Brown and his accomplices.
90. Donald Gilson (1995-2009, lethal injection): Gilson routinely physically abused his live in girlfriend's 5 children (who were all between the ages of 8 and 12 years old). The youngest, 8 year old Shane Coffman, was beaten to death with a board for defecating on the living room carpet. He and his girlfriend then hid the body by stuffing it in a freezer. The body was kept inside it for 6 months until it was discovered by a sheriff's deputy investigating the family's abuse allegations. Gilson's girlfriend was spared the death penalty with a plea deal, and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for her part in her son's abuse and murder.
91. Michael DeLozier (1995-2009, lethal injection): While camping with his friends, DeLozier ambushed another pair of campers, 60 year old Orville Bullard and 54 year old Paul Morgan, and shot them to death. They stole Morgan and Bullard's generator, pick up truck, and other camping gear. To cover up their tracks, DeLozier and his friends set their victims' campsite on fire, and severely burned the bodies.
92. Julius Young (1993-2010, lethal injection): For breaking off their relationship, Young beat his ex girlfriend, 20 year old Joyland Morgan and her 6 year old son Kewan, to death with a baseball bat in their apartment.
93. Donald Wackerly II (1996-2010, lethal injection): Wackerly and his wife ambushed and gunned down Pan Sayakhoummane, a 51 year old Laotian immigrant, while he was fishing in the Arkansas River. After he placed Sayakhoummane's body in the man’s own truck, he pushed into a river, and stole his fishing gear. A few months after the murder, Wackerly’s wife turned him in to the police.
94. John Duty (~1970s-2010, lethal injection): Duty was given a life sentence for abducting, raping, and non fatally shooting a female store clerk during a robbery. While incarcerated, he tricked a fellow inmate, 22 year old Curtis Wise Jr. into allowing himself to be tied up as a part of a hostage ruse, and then strangled him to death with shoelaces. At the time of his murder, Wise was serving a conviction for burglary and contributing to the delinquency of minors. Duty's execution caused some controversy for the use of pentobarbital, a drug more commonly utilized by veterinarians to euthanize pets.
95. Billy Alverson (1995-2011, lethal injection): Alverson assisted the above mentioned Darwin Brown and Micheal Wilson in the beating death of Richard Yost while robbing a convenience store.
96. Jeffrey Matthews (1994-2011, lethal injection): Matthews and his accomplice shot and killed his great uncle, 77 year old Otis Short, while robbing the man's home. In the robbery, they stole Short's truck, his .32 calibre pistol, and $500. The pair also slit the throat of Short's wife, but she survived her injuries.
97. Gary Welch (~1993-2011, lethal injection): During a fight over a drug shipment, Welch and his partner stabbed another dealer, 32 year old Robert Hardcastle, to death with broken glass bottles. He was previously convicted of battery with a deadly weapon, and was off on probation at the time of Hardcastle's murder.
98. Timothy Stemple (1996-2012, lethal injection): Stemple conspired with his girlfriend to murder his wife, 30 year old Trisha, for her life insurance policy. With the help of his girlfriend's 16 year old nephew or cousin [sources vary], Stemple beat Trisha with a baseball bat, and rammed her to death with his truck.
99. Michael Selsor (~1975-2012, lethal injection): Selsor and his accomplice went on a crime spree and robbed several convenience stores. During their robberies, the pair shot and killed two clerks, 55 year old Clayton Chandler and 20 year old Ina Morris, and injured two others in shooting and stabbing attacks.
100. Michael Hooper (~1992-2012, lethal injection): Hooper kidnapped his ex girlfriend, 23 year old Cynthia Jarman, and her children, 5 year old Timothy and 3 year old Tonya, from her boyfriend's residence. He shot all three of them dead, and buried the bodies in a rancher's field. According to court documents, Hooper was hyper-violent towards Cynthia in their year long relationship.
101. Garry Allen (1986-2012, lethal injection): Allen shot and killed his fiancee, 24 year old Lawanna Titsworth, during an argument at a day care she worked at. He fought with the responding officers trying to arrest him in an attempt to provoke a "suicide by cop" outcome. Despite the officers' best efforts to avoid harming him, Allen lost his eye from an accidental discharge. Due to claims of him having schizophrenia, Allen's execution was a source of controversy.
102. George Ochoa (~1993-2012, lethal injection): A Southside Locos gang member, Ochoa and another hoodlum shot and killed a couple, 38 year old Francisco Morales and 35 year old Maria Yanez, while burglarizing their home. The murders were witnessed by the couple's 14 year old and 10 year old children and stepchildren, who then phoned the police after the shooters' departure.
103. Steven Thacker (~1980s-2012, lethal injection): Thacker kidnapped 25 year old Laci Hill during a botched robbery of her home, and took her to a remote cabin to be raped. She was then strangled and stabbed to death. He fled to Missouri, fatally stabbed 24 year old Forrest Boyd while carjacking him, and used his car to hide out in Tennessee. After the stolen car broke down, Thacker called a tow truck to pick him up. When the driver, 52 year old Ray Patterson, found that he was using a stolen credit card, Thacker stabbed him to death as well. As a teenager, Thacker committed several acts of auto thefts and burglaries. He also engaged in inappropriate relationships with underaged girls, and was released from a Florida prison after serving time for a bad check conviction months before his murders.
104. James DeRosa (2000-2013, lethal injection): DeRosa and his accomplice tricked a couple, 73 year old Curtis and 70 year old Gloria Plummer, that he worked for on their ranch, into letting them inside their house. After they stabbed the Plummers and slit their throats, DeRosa and his accomplice stole $73 and drove away with their truck.
105. Brian Davis (2001-2013, lethal injection): Davis went searching for his girlfriend and their daughter when he found them missing from their home, and called his girlfriend's mother, 56 year old Josephine Sanford, about their whereabouts. Sanford dropped by the couple's residence after failing to find her daughter and granddaughter. At her arrival, she was raped, beaten, and stabbed to death by Davis. He then left the body in the house, drove off with Sanford’s van, and injured himself in a car accident. As Davis was high while driving, he was arrested for being under the influence. The detaining officers weren’t aware of the murder until Davis’ girlfriend returned to the home later that night, and called 911 after finding her mother’s corpse.
106. Anthony Banks (~1978-2013, lethal injection): In 1978, while robbing a grocery store, Banks shot and killed a clerk, 22 year old David Fremin. A year later, he abducted Sun Travis, a 24 year old South Korean immigrant, from a parking lot. He then sexually assaulted Travis in his car and shot her in the head. Although he was captured and convicted for Fremin's murder, Travis' killing went unsolved until a 1997 DNA test. Banks was originally sentenced to death for Fremin's murder, but it was lifted in favor of a life sentence. He was condemned for a second time after his conviction for Travis' murder.
107. Ronald Lott (~1980s-2013, lethal injection): A sexual predator of elderly women, Lott broke into the homes of 93 year old Zelma Cutler and 83 year old Anna Fowler after cutting off their power. They were tied up with cloth, anally penetrated, beaten, and suffocated to death with pillowcases. The case attracted controversy when another man was erroneously condemned for the murders, and he spent 11 years on death row until a 1997 DNA test linked the murders to Lott. At the time of the discovery, Lott was serving time for two rape convictions.
108. Johnny Black (~1984-2013, lethal injection): Black, two of his brothers, and two other men went looking for a man they feuded with for a fight. While they were crusing on the road, the group encountered a rancher, 54 year old Bill Pogue, and mistook him for their target due to them driving similar vehicles. They forced Poque off the road, pulled him out of his car, and stabbed him a total of 10 times. Pogue's son in law was also dragged out and attacked, but he managed to escape with his life. Black was previously convicted of manslaughter for shooting 49 year old Cecil Martin dead in an argument.
109. Michael Wilson (1995-2014, lethal injection): Wilson was the third participant in the above mentioned beating death of Richard Yost to be executed.
110. Kenneth Hogan (1988-2014, lethal injection): Hogan stabbed 21 year old Lisa Stanley to death while she was babysitting his children. According to autopsy reports, she was stabbed at least 25 times. Stanley had previously accused him of sexual misconduct, and prosecutors believed that she was killed during an argument over the allegations.
111. Clayton Lockett (~1992-2014, lethal injection): Lockett, his cousin, and another accomplice kidnapped 23 year old Bobby Bornt, 18 year old Summer Hair, and Bornt's 9 month son after burglarizing a home. After tying them up with duct tape, they forced their captives to lure a friend, 19 year old Stephanie Neiman, with a phone call. Neiman was also bound and initially survived getting shot multiple times. Out of frustration, Lockett buried her alive, and she succumbed to a combination of suffocation and her injuries. Lockett and his accomplices also gang-raped Hair and beat Bornt, but spared them on the forced condition of their silence. His execution was controversial, as Lockett convulsed for 45 minutes after being injected, and then died from a heart attack. He also had a long criminal history, and was first arrested for burglary as a teenager.
112. Charles Warner (1997-2015, lethal injection): Warner raped his girlfriend's daughter, 11 month old Adriana Waller, and shook her to death. His execution sparked outcry, as the wrong fatal drug was administered by mistake, and Warner complained of "burning pain" as he was being injected. With the botched executions of Lockett and Warner back to back, the state of Oklahoma delayed further executions until 2021.
113. John Grant (~1970s-2021, lethal injection): While serving a 130 year sentence for armed robbery, Grant stabbed a prison cafeteria worker, 58 year old Gay Carter, to death. He had a long criminal history dating back to the ag e of 11, had several previous convictions of theft and armed robbery, and frequently fought with and assaulted other inmates behind bars. Due to reports of "adverse reactions" to the lethal drugs, Grant's execution was scrutinized by a number of national media outlets.
114. Bigler Stouffer II (1985-2021, lethal injection): Stouffer shot and killed his ex girlfriend, 35 year old Linda Reaves, in her boyfriend's home for breaking up with him. Reaves' boyfriend was also seriously injured in the shooting.
115. Donald Grant (2001-2022, lethal injection): During a robbery of a hotel, Grant fatally shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned two employees, 43 year old Felicia Smith and 29 year old Brenda McElyea, and ran off with $1,500. He spent $200 of the stolen on paying for his girlfriend's bail.
116. Gilbert Postelle (~1998-2022, lethal injection): Postelle’s father was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, and they suspected that 57 year old James Anderson, 56 year old Terry Smith, 49 year old Donnie Swindler, and 26 year old Amy Wright were deliberately involved. Out a desire for vengeance, he recruited Postelle, his other son, and another man to kill them. All four victims were fatally gunned down in what was described as a “blitz attack” on their trailer. He was an addict and had several arrests for drug possession and manufacturing dating back to the age of 12.
117. James Coddington (1997-2022, lethal injection): After robbing a grocery store, Coddington went to the home of a friend and co worker, 73 year old Albert Hale, to ask for money. When Hale turned him down, Coddington retaliated by beating him with a claw hammer. Coddington stole $525 and went on to rob 5 more grocery stores. Hale was left alone with his injures for nearly an entire day until he was discovered by his son, and died in the hospital a day later.
118. Benjamin Cole Sr. (2002-2022, lethal injection): Out of anger that her crying interrupted his Nintendo game, Cole beat his daughter from his second wife, 9 month old Brianna, to death. He was previously convicted of abusing his son from a different marriage in California.
119. Richard Fairchild (1996-2023, lethal injection): Fairchild got into a fight with his girlfriend’s 17 year old daughter after making drunken sexual passes at her, and was enraged that she left with a cab driver. He took his anger out on the girl’s younger brother, 3 year old Adam Broomhall, and scalded him with a wall heater. He then repeatedly hit the boy, threw him against a table, and fatally hemorrhaged his head. Bromhall received over 26 blows during the beating.
120. Scott Eizember (2003-2023, lethal injection): Eizember snuck into his ex girlfriend's house to lie in wait for her. However, her roommates, 76 year old A.J. Cantrell and his 70 year old wife Patsy, arrived home earlier then she did. He shot and beat them both to death and then fled the scene.
121. Jemaine Cannon (1995-2023, lethal injection): Cannon was put in prison for assaulting an unidentified woman. He managed to escape and stabbed his girlfriend, 20 year old Sharonda Clark, to death in her apartment.
122. Anthony Sanchez (1996-2023, lethal injection): Sanchez kidnapped 21 year old Jewell Busken from her apartment complex, and then raped and shot her to death. He amassed a following from the anti death penalty movement for claiming that his father was responsible, but such notions were debunked following a 2023 DNA test that concluded Sanchez’s guilt.
123. Phillip Hancock (~1982-2023, lethal injection): In 1982, Hancock shot a drug dealer, 27 year old Charles Warren, dead in a dispute over stolen jewelry and was given a manslaughter conviction for it. He was released after serving a 2 year term. About 17 years later, he shot and killed 58 year old James Lynch III and 37 year old Robert Jett Jr. in a drug house. Despite an eyewitness account describing Lynch and Jett begging for their lives, the case attracted scrutiny when Hancock's attorneys claimed that the shootings were done in self defense.
124. Michael Smith (~2002-2024, lethal injection): A member of the Oak Grove Posse gang, Smith was responsible for two separate fatal shootings on the same day. In one of his murders, he killed Sharath Pulluru, a 24 year old Indian immigrant that worked as a clerk, while robbing a gas station. The other murder occurred when he tried to confront a gang member that he thought was a police informant in his apartment, and gunned down the target’s mother, 40 year old Janet Miller-Moore, when she refused to give away her son’s location. Smith was also given a life sentence for delivering a gun to a shooter that carried out another gang killing.
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2024.05.13 01:27 9082898724 Does the show Sweet Tooth overdo it with the strong female characters?

(Updated after resuming to finish the show.)
1) A 16 year old female teenager who is named “Bear”. Leads an entire army that also has a live tiger as a weapon. Kills military grown men in hand to hand combat. Joins the Last Men boot camp and out scores everyone, despite not having formal training nor a strength and conditioning routine.
2)Zoo keeper, a female therapist who has a mother who saw combat and has PTSD and outsmarts General Abbott and his army. Rescues Big man who is a plus 300lbs former football player. Has connections with the mercenaries, who are also lead by a woman.
3) Judy, an oldeheavy set woman fights off and kills several of the Last Men with a flamethrower.
4) Mercenary leader (gave up on the show at this point and didn’t bother to learn her name). She at some point fires a gun to shut up the childish bickering men.
5) Tiger, eventually overthrows “Bear” to become the new leader. Several time tries to kill Big Man or is seen striking him.
6) General Abbottt’s right hand, a woman who is seen wearing a beret and sunglasses. At some point says “just say the word, General” in reference to killing the Utah leaders.
7) Head Research woman, who Birdie works for.
8) Helen, the most powerful leader of the outer territories that General Abbot wants to win over.
It’s also worth noting that nearly every male character who is a villain is either or both white and stupid.
I’m sure some people will like to respond with insults or align some kind of insulting narrative to why I point out these observations, but I still ask if you do or do not notice this pushed agenda?
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2024.05.10 19:12 SocialDemocracies Megapost: A list of statements, press releases, and other sources reporting and expressing concern and criticism about Israel's war in Gaza and related aspects of the war. (Part 3)

Megapost: A list of statements, press releases, and other sources reporting and expressing concern and criticism about Israel's war in Gaza and related aspects of the war. (Part 3)

Notes: This is a work that is currently in progress; please check back for updates. Titles have been edited to provide details.
Part 1 is here: https://www.reddit.com/Social_Democracy/comments/1clx1uc/megapost_a_list_of_statements_press_releases_and/
Part 2 is here: https://www.reddit.com/Social_Democracy/comments/1cmjhpk/megapost_a_list_of_statements_press_releases_and/
Part 4 is here: https://www.reddit.com/Social_Democracy/comments/1crvrde/megapost_a_list_of_statements_press_releases_and/
Ayanna Pressley, Interfaith Coalition Hold Vigil for Lives Lost in Gaza and Israel, Renew Calls for Ceasefire ["Joining Rep. Pressley at the vigil was Rev. Carrie Ballenger, University Lutheran and Lutheran Chaplain at Harvard; Rabbi Rebecca Hornstein, Boston Workers Circle Executive Director; Imam Ahmad Barry of the Islamic Institute of Boston; Reverend Darrell Hamilton of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain; Hadar Ahuvia, Rabbinical Student at Hebrew College; Rev. Willie Bodrick, II of the Twelfth Baptist Church; Rabbi Becky Silverstein; Rev. Otto Concannon of First Parish Malden; Rev. Elizabeth Carrier-Ladd, First Parish Dorchester; and hundreds of faith leaders and community members from across Greater Boston."] (January 25, 2024): https://pressley.house.gov/2024/01/25/pressley-interfaith-coalition-hold-vigil-for-lives-lost-in-gaza-and-israel-renew-calls-for-ceasefire/
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EuroMed Rights): A conditional ceasefire is not sufficient – The EU must call for an unconditional, immediate and permanent ceasefire (January 25, 2024): https://euromedrights.org/publication/a-conditional-ceasefire-is-not-sufficient-the-eu-must-call-for-an-unconditional-immediate-and-permanent-ceasefire/
Communications Workers of America Executive Board Statement on the War in Gaza (January 26, 2024): https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/communications-workers-america-executive-board-statement-war-gaza
Bernie Sanders: The US must act to end the Gaza disaster (January 27, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/the-us-must-act-to-end-the-gaza-disaste
Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza: Black congregants’ dismay at President Biden’s posture on the war could imperil his re-election bid. (January 28, 2024): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/politics/black-pastors-biden-gaza-israel.html
Right-wing Israeli ministers join thousands at event calling for the resettlement of Gaza: Several ministers within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government were among conference attendees, with two delivering keynote speeches. (January 28, 2024): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/right-wing-israeli-ministers-join-thousands-event-calling-countrys-res-rcna135863
Israel and Russia Have No Place in the 2024 Paris Olympics: The International Olympic Committee has declined to curtail Israel’s involvement in the 2024 games and has placed half-hearted limits on Russia. The IOC claims it opposes the politicization of sport — but the Olympics are a historically political institution. (January 29, 2024): https://jacobin.com/2024/01/israel-russia-war-invastion-olympics
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: “Gaza is a massive human rights crisis and a humanitarian disaster” (January 30, 2024): https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2024/01/gaza-massive-human-rights-crisis-and-humanitarian-disaster
Texas AFL-CIO becomes first state labor federation to call for ceasefire in Gaza (January 30, 2024): https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2024-01-30/texas-afl-cio-becomes-first-state-labor-federation-to-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza
Former U.S. Representative Andy Levin: Military action won’t solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s time for diplomacy. (February 1, 2024): https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2024-02-01/military-diplomacy-israel-palestinian-conflict-12863912.html
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and Anglican Church of Canada: Church leaders urge Canadian government to support ICJ ruling (February 2, 2024): https://www.anglicanlutheran.ca/statements/church-leaders-urge-canadian-government-to-support-icj-ruling/
US city councils increasingly call for Israel-Gaza ceasefire, analysis shows (February 2, 2024): https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-city-councils-increasingly-call-israel-gaza-ceasefire-analysis-shows-2024-01-31/
Sister Nabila's appeal from Gaza: ‘We want peace, respect for human rights’ (February 3, 2024): https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2024-02/sister-nabila-gaza-holy-family-parish-appeal-peace.html
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’: Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives (February 4, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias
Young Taiwanese go against the tide to amplify Palestinian voices (February 4, 2024): https://www.arabnews.com/node/2453726/world
Bosnian genocide researcher warns Israel repeating ‘same patterns’ in Gaza war: ‘We are seeing a genocide unfold before our very eyes,’ says genocide researcher and war survivor Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura (February 6, 2023): https://www.aa.com.ten/europe/bosnian-genocide-researcher-warns-israel-repeating-same-patterns-in-gaza-wa3129741
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO): Statement on the Situation in Israel and Gaza (February 8, 2024): https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-statement-situation-israel-and-gaza
Green Left: Rojava revolutionary leader Salih Muslim warns escalation could lead to World War III [Salih Muslim "declared his support for the Palestinian people and condemned the genocide they were being subjected to in Gaza by Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu's regime."] (February 8, 2023): https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rojava-revolutionary-leader-warns-escalation-could-lead-world-war-iii
Human Rights Watch: How to End America’s Hypocrisy on Gaza: The Biden Administration Must Assess Israel’s Conduct—and Hold It to Account (February 8, 2024): https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/08/how-end-americas-hypocrisy-gaza
Carter Center Calls on Israel to Halt its Plan to Force 1.3 Million Palestinians Out of Rafah (February 9, 2024): https://www.cartercenter.org/news/p2024/israel-020924.html
International Rescue Committee: The collapse of Gaza’s health system (February 9, 2024; Last updated: May 6, 2024): https://www.rescue.org/article/collapse-gazas-health-system
J Street’s Pro-War Stance Prompts Staff Departures (February 9, 2024): https://jewishcurrents.org/j-streets-pro-war-stance-prompts-staff-departures
Bishop William Barber on the “Moral Case for a Ceasefire” in Gaza (February 12, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/12/rev_william_barber_gaza
CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE (CMEP) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOINS 22 CHURCH-BASED DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS IN A LETTER TO PRESIDENT BIDEN [Signed by: Joyce Ajlouny, General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); Rev. Eddy Alemán, General Secretary, Reformed Church in America; Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, Ecumenical Director and Diocesan Legate Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern); The Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, President, Unitarian Universalist Association; Rev. Bronwen Boswell, Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A); Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, Executive Director, Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP); Rev. Emmett L. Dunn, Executive Secretary-TreasureCEO, Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention; Ann Graber Hershberger, Executive Director, Mennonite Central Committee U.S.; John Hill, Interim General Secretary, The United Methodist Church - General Board of Church and Society; Sr. Teresa Hougnon, M.M., President, Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic; Rev. Dr. Gina Jacobs-Strain, General Secretary, American Baptist Churches USA; Bridget Moix, General Secretary, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL); Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, General Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada; The Rev. Dr. David Peoples, President, Progressive National Baptist Convention Inc.; Elvira Ramirez, Interim Executive Director, Maryknoll Lay Missioners; Richard Santos, President and CEO, Church World Service (CWS); Andrea Smith, Founder and Board Member, Evangelicals4Justice (E4J); Rev. David Steele, General Secretary, Church of the Brethren; Nikki Toyama-Szeto, Executive Director, Christians for Social Action (CSA); Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ (UCC); Stephen M. Veazey, President, Community of Christ; Archpriest Thomas Zain, Vicar-General, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America; Reverend Elijah R. Zehyoue, Ph.D., Co-Director, Alliance of Baptists] (February 13, 2024): https://cmep.salsalabs.org/pr-feb152024
Senator Peter Welch: I cannot, in good conscience, support sending billions of additional American taxpayer dollars for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s military campaign in Gaza (February 13, 2024): https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-i-cannot-in-good-conscience-support-sending-billions-of-additional-american-taxpayer-dollars-for-prime-minister-netanyahus-military-campaign-in-gaza/
Bishops of the Church in Wales support call for Gaza ceasefire and release of hostages (February 14, 2024): https://www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-events/bishops-endorse-call-for-gaza-ceasefire-and-release-of-hostages/
‘Lead or Lose!’ Young People Arrested at Biden’s Campaign Headquarters Call for Climate Action and a Ceasefire: The youth-led Sunrise Movement warns Biden that he’ll lose the votes of the young people he needs to win the presidency without decisive action on global warming and Gaza. (February 14, 2024): https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14022024/young-people-arrested-at-biden-campaign-headquarters-call-for-climate-action-and-ceasefire/
The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Calls for Immediate Withdrawal of Financial Support from Israel (February 14, 2024): https://mailchi.mp/6640b1d7ce56/council-of-bishops-calls-for-immediate-withdrawal-of-financial-support-from-israel
Unitarian Universalist Association: UUA Condemns Violence Against Gaza, Urges Immediate and Total Ceasefire (February 14, 2024): https://www.uua.org/pressroom/press-releases/uua-condemns-violence-urges-ceasefire
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and Anglican Church of Canada: Call for a day of prayer and fasting for Israel/Gaza and Ukraine (February 16, 2024): https://www.anglicanlutheran.ca/statements/call-for-a-day-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-israel-gaza-and-ukraine/
Mandate Trade Union donates €5,000 to UNRWA (February 16, 2024): https://mandate.ie/2024/02/mandate-donate-e5000-to-unrwa/
New national labor network formed to “end the death and devastation” in the Israel-Hamas war. National Labor Network for Ceasefire aims to further expand unprecedented ceasefire support. (February 16, 2024): https://www.laborforceasefire.org/new-national-labor-network-formed-to-end-the-death-and-devastation-in-the-israel-hamas-wa
Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association: A letter from the UUMA Board of Trustees (February 19, 2024): https://uuma.org/latest-news/a-letter-from-the-uuma-board-of-trustees/
Open Letter: Humanity & Inclusion and 61 other non-governmental organisations urge MPs to support the motion for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza [Signed by: Action Against Hunger; Action For Humanity; ActionAid UK; Age International; Amnesty International UK; Amos Trust; Bond; Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu); CAFOD; CARE International UK; Christian Aid; Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK); Convivencia Alliance; Development Initiatives; Elrha; Embrace the Middle East; European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS); Greenpeace UK; Humanity & Inclusion UK; Inminds Human Rights Group; International Alert; International Health Partners (IHP); International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF); International Rescue Committee UK; Islamic Relief UK; Jewish Network for Palestine; Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights; Mercy Corps; Mines Advisory Group (MAG); Minority Rights Group; Muslim Aid; Muslim Community Helpline; Muslim Hands; Na’amod; Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC); Omega Research Foundation; Oxfam GB; Peace Direct; Peacemaker Trust; Penny Appeal; Plan International UK; Protection Approaches; Quakers in Britain; Resistance Kitchen; Sabeel-Kairos UK; Saferworld; Save the Children UK; Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF); Scotland’s International Development Alliance; Stamp Out Poverty; Tearfund; Trócaire; The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK); UK-Palestine Mental Health Network; United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK); War Child; War on Want; Welfare Association; Womankind Worldwide; Women for Women International; Women’s Platform] (February 20, 2024): https://www.humanity-inclusion.org.uk/en/open-letter-hi-and-61-other-ngos-urge-mps-to-support-the-motion-for-an-immediate-and-permanent-ceasefire-in-Gaza
Presbyterian Church USA: Calling for a stop to the destruction of Gaza (February 20, 2024): https://www.pcusa.org/news/2024/2/20/calling-for-a-stop-to-the-destruction-of-gaza/
Stand Against Genocide and Imperialism, from Palestine to Ukraine: Statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network on the Second Anniversary of Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine (February 20, 2024): https://newpol.org/stand-against-genocide-and-imperialism-from-palestine-to-ukraine/
National Priorities Project: United We Dream and Allies Demand Permanent Ceasefire and Immigrant Protections (February 21, 2024): https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2024/02/21/united-we-dream-and-allies-demand-permanent-ceasefire-and-immigrant-protections/
The Animation Guild / IATSE Local 839: In the struggle for human rights and the protection of innocent lives, The Animation Guild stands for justice across the globe, and officially calls for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. (February 21, 2024): https://twitter.com/animationguild/status/1760448111611097419
‘We will not be complicit in this’: Hill staffers challenge their bosses on Gaza (February 21, 2024): https://rollcall.com/2024/02/21/we-will-not-be-complicit-in-this-hill-staffers-challenge-their-bosses-on-gaza/
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference's Office for Social Justice: End the Violence in Gaza (February 23, 2024): https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/2024/02/23/end-the-violence-in-gaza/
Beto O’Rourke supports uncommitted campaign in Michigan’s Tuesday presidential primary (February 24, 2024): https://michiganadvance.com/2024/02/24/beto-orourke-supports-uncommitted-campaign-in-michigans-tuesday-presidential-primary/
Hindus for Human Rights: Indians For Palestine: A Call to Action for Peace (February 26, 2024): https://www.hindusforhumanrights.org/en/blog/indians-for-palestine-a-public-meeting-on-the-icj-ruling-for-palestine
‘Stop the massacre’: Hong Kong activists call for ceasefires in Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Hamas wars: Demonstrators read out a statement calling for Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine, and for Israel to order a ceasefire and end its blockade of Gaza. (February 26, 2024): https://hongkongfp.com/2024/02/26/stop-the-massacre-hong-kong-activists-call-for-ceasefires-in-russia-ukraine-israel-hamas-wars/
Waiting for ‘pro-life’ legislators in Kansas to call for a ceasefire in Gaza (February 26, 2024): https://kansasreflector.com/2024/02/26/waiting-for-pro-life-legislators-in-kansas-to-call-for-a-ceasefire-in-gaza/
67 Vermont lawmakers sign letter calling for Gaza cease-fire (February 27, 2024): https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-02-27/65-vermont-lawmakers-sign-letter-calling-for-gaza-cease-fire & https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/05/b8/3d1901af417499640d96288a716a/final-draft-of-letter.pdf
Liberal Jews for Justice in Israel/Palestine: As British Jews, we call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (February 27, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/as-british-jews-we-call-for-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&Ds): Palestinian lives matter! We call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza (February 27, 2024): https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/sds-palestinian-lives-matter-we-call-immediate-and-unconditional-ceasefire-gaza
IBEW Local 48: Resolution Against the War in Gaza (February 28, 2024): https://www.ibew48.com/sites/default/files/files/gaza_resolution.pdf
It is time for US Catholics to take significant risks for Gaza (February 29, 2024): https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/it-time-us-catholics-take-significant-risks-gaza
Japanese student urges Gaza cease-fire as U.S. universities quiet dissent (February 29, 2024): https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/02/0db05a4f79ab-japan-student-urges-gaza-ceasefire-as-us-universities-quiet-dissent.html
Malala Yousafzai: "It's heartbreaking that this school — a place for children in Gaza to learn and dream — is now home to thousands of people fleeing Israel's attacks. Every Palestinian child deserves to live in peace and be back in their schools as students. We cannot wait another day for a ceasefire." (February 29, 2024): https://twitter.com/Malala/status/1763265614985003421
Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. “Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza (February 29, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/29/jeff_merkley_gaza_ceasefire
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights Calls for Immediate Ceasefire to Safeguard Children in Gaza (February 29, 2024): https://www.theyoungcenter.org/stories/2024/2/29/young-center-for-immigrant-childrens-rights-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-to-safeguard-children-in-gaza
A Statement from Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC’s Intervention in Democratic Party Politics (March 2024): https://usjewsopposingaipac.org
European Trade Union Confederation: Grave and worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza calls for more urgent EU response (March 2, 2024): https://www.etuc.org/en/node/24119
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Conference of Bishops calls for permanent bilateral cease-fire in Gaza (March 3, 2024): https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/8217
Israel/Palestine Conflict: Over 100 Americans in Taiwan Send Letter to American Institute in Taiwan: Urgent Appeal for Ceasefire and End to Occupation in Palestine (May 3, 2024): https://newbloommag.net/2024/05/03/ait-gaza-lette
Die Linke (The Left party) MP Nicole Gohlke: Germany Should Be Supporting a Cease-Fire, Not Israel’s War (March 4, 2024): https://jacobin.com/2024/03/germany-die-linke-cease-fire-gaza
Some Black and Latino voters to back Democratic candidates who want a permanent cease-fire in Gaza: They say their solidarity with Palestinians reflects the struggles they experience every day. (March 4, 2023): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-latino-voters-back-democratic-candidates-want-permanent-cease-fi-rcna141241
Brazilian Trade Union Confederation (Central Única dos Trabalhadores; CUT) demands an end to Brazil's military cooperation with Israel (March 5, 2024): https://www.workersinpalestine.org/news/brazilian-trade-union-confederation-demands
Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference: ‘Let us all say: enough … Stop the War!’ (March 5, 2024): https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2024/03/05/let-us-all-say-enough-stop-the-war-irish-bishops/
Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem: Gaza ceasefire more urgent than ever (March 5, 2024): https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2024-03/patriarch-pizzaballa-gaza-ceasefire-christians-church-peace.html
PREPARED REMARKS: Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Out the Absurdity and Hypocrisy of Continued U.S. Support for Netanyahu’s Horrific War (March 6, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remarks-bernie-sanders-calls-out-the-absurdity-and-hypocrisy-of-continued-u-s-support-for-netanyahus-horrific-wa
‘We can no longer be silent’: New York’s Latino faith leaders call for cease-fire in Gaza (March 6, 2024): https://religionnews.com/2024/03/06/we-can-no-longer-be-silent-new-yorks-latino-faith-leaders-call-for-cease-fire-in-gaza/
Democratic former senator Patrick Leahy warns US is violating aid conditions law known as the Leahy Law by sending money to Israel (March 7, 2024): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/patrick-leahy-israel-gaza-aid-b2509035.html
Protesters outside American Institute in Taiwan say US aiding genocide in Gaza (March 7, 2024): https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5109362
Artists Call for Ceasefire Now [Including: Bryan Adams; Ben Affleck; Eric André; Christine Baranski; Jon Batiste; Cate Blanchett; Billy Bragg; Priyanka Chopra; Bradley Cooper; Brian Cox; David Cross; Alfonso Cuarón; John Cusack; Rosario Dawson; Diplo; Drake; Brian Eno; Francesca Fiorentini; Judah Friedlander; Liz Garbus; Andrew Garfield; Richard Gere; Lily Gladstone; Selena Gomez; Amanda Gorman; Tom Hardy; Simon Helberg; Oscar Isaac; Tony Kushner; Padma Lakshmi; Cindi Leive; Simu Liu; Jennifer Lopez; Macklemore; Zayn Malik; Miriam Margolyes; Ewan McGregor; Adam McKay; Alyssa Milano; Hasan Minhaj; Michael Moore; Viggo Mortensen; Ebon Moss-Bachrach; Cynthia Nixon; Frank Ocean; Rosie O'Donnell; Sandra Oh; David Oyelowo; Mandy Patinkin; Jordan Peele; Kal Penn; Joaquin Phoenix; Boots Riley; Mark Ruffalo; Susan Sarandon; Jean Smart; Noam Shuster-Eliassi; Jon Stewart; Kristen Stewart; Jeremy Strong; Wanda Sykes; Channing Tatum; Michelle Wolf; et al.] (Updated as of March 8, 2024): https://www.artists4ceasefire.org
T'ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights: U.S. Rabbis and Cantors Call on President Biden to End War in Gaza [+450 signatures] (March 8, 2024): https://truah.org/press/north-american-rabbis-and-cantors-call-on-president-biden-to-push-for-end-of-war-in-gaza/
Middle East Studies Association Board Joint Statement with Committee on Academic Freedom regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza (March 11, 2024): https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2024/03/11/mesa-board-joint-statement-with-caf-regarding-the-ongoing-genocidal-violence-against-the-palestinian-people-and-their-cultural-heritage-in-gaza
Writers Guild of America members criticize union for silence on Gaza: Some WGA members signed on to an anonymous letter criticizing the union for its silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza (March 11, 2024): https://prismreports.org/2024/03/11/wga-members-criticize-union-silence-gaza/
Amnesty International: NGOs sue the Danish state to stop arms exports to Israel ["The organisations involved in the lawsuit are Amnesty International Denmark, Oxfam Denmark, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (Action Aid Denmark) and the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq are suing the Danish National Police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stop Danish arms exports to Israel."] (March 12, 2024): https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/03/denmark-ngos-sue-the-danish-state-to-stop-arms-exports-to-israel/
Gaza medics tell BBC that Israeli troops beat and humiliated them after hospital raid (March 12, 2024): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68513408
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EuroMed Rights): Annihilation of education: 100 European academics sign Euro-Med Monitor petition against systematic Israeli destruction of Gaza Strip’s educational system (March 12, 2024): https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6220/Annihilation-of-education:-100-European-academics-sign-Euro-Med-Monitor-petition-against-systematic-Israeli-destruction-of-Gaza-Strip’s-educational-system
NEWS: Senators Bernie Sanders, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff Merkley, Mazie Hirono, Peter Welch, Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, and Ben Ray Luján Urge President Biden to Enforce U.S. Law with Netanyahu (March 12, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-van-hollen-merkley-and-five-colleagues-urge-president-biden-to-enforce-u-s-law-with-netanyahu/
Rabbis for Palestinian Rights Counter 'Warmongering' AIPAC in DC: "We refuse to be bystanders as the Israeli government wages a genocidal campaign in our name," one rabbi said. (March 13, 2024): https://www.commondreams.org/news/rabbis-dc-lobby-aipac
United Methodist Church Council of Bishops calling for ceasefire in Gaza (March 13, 2024): https://www.unitedmethodistbishops.org/newsdetail/united-methodist-bishops-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-18303396
Vermont progressive Senator Peter Welch warns Biden Israel-Gaza will be election issue: ‘Young people are just horrified’ (March 14, 2024): https://www.welch.senate.gov/vermont-progressive-senator-warns-biden-israel-gaza-will-be-election-issue-young-people-are-just-horrified/
Anita Nikaj: Voices in Solidarity with Palestine from Prishtina, Kosovo (March 15, 2024): https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/voices-in-solidarity-with-palestine-from-prishtina/
Great Irish Famine historians issue St. Patrick's Day statement on Gaza: A group of historians is urging Irish Americans to use their influence to avert a Famine in Gaza as severe as the one faced by their Irish ancestors. (March 15, 2024): https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/irish-american-famine-gaza
Thirteen Town Meetings in Vermont Call for Ceasefire in Gaza, No More Weapons to Israel (March 16, 2024): https://www.rakevt.org/2024/03/16/thirteen-town-meetings-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-no-more-weapons-to-israel/
International Labour Organization: Palestinian unemployment rate set to soar to 57 per cent during first quarter of 2024 (March 18, 2024): https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/palestinian-unemployment-rate-set-soar-57-cent-during-first-quarter-2024
Israeli Assurances to Use US Arms Legally Are Not Credible: Oxfam and Human Rights Watch provide evidence of Israel's violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza, undermining credibility of assurances for President Biden's NSM-20 arms policy (March 19, 2024): https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/03/19/israeli-assurances-use-us-arms-legally-are-not-credible
Irish National Teachers' Organisation statement on Palestine – critical action vital to prevent famine (March 20, 2024): https://www.into.ie/2024/03/20/into-statement-on-palestine-critical-action-vital-to-prevent-famine/
Right-wing media have spent months disparaging liberal and anti-Zionist Jews to undercut support for Palestinians: Trump channeled and echoed a long-running trend in conservative media when he said Jews who vote for Democrats “hate” their religion (March 20, 2024): https://www.mediamatters.org/middle-east/right-wing-media-have-spent-months-disparaging-liberal-and-anti-zionist-jews-undercut
Humanists UK: Call for ceasefire in Gaza (March 21, 2024): https://humanists.uk/2024/03/21/call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/
Gaza Strip in maps: How life has changed (March 22, 2024): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20415675
Association of Legal Aid Attorneys: CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA OVER PRO-PALESTINIAN SPEECH VIOLATES FREE SPEECH, ALLEGES ATTORNEYS' AND LEGAL WORKERS' UNION IN ITS RESPONSE (March 25, 2024): https://www.alaa.org/media-releases/congressional-subpoena-over-pro-palestinian-speech-violates-free-speech-alleges-attorneys-and-legal-workers-union-in-its-response
Franciscan Action Network: 12 Christian leaders arrested in Senate calling for ceasefire in Gaza ["The endorsing organizations include Christians for a Free Palestine; Churches for Middle East Peace; Church of the Brethren, Office of Peacebuilding and Policy; Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces; Dorothy Day Catholic Worker; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Festival Center; Franciscan Action Network; Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA); Georgetown University Medical Students for Palestine, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd; National Council of Churches, USA; Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace; Pax Christi USA; Quixote Center; Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Justice Team; Sojourners; United Church of Christ; The United Methodist Church — General Board of Church and Society; US Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph; and the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)."] (March 25, 2024): https://franciscanaction.org/12-christian-leaders-arrested-in-senate-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/
NEWS: Bernie Sanders on State Department’s Statement that Israel Has Not Restricted Humanitarian Aid to Gaza (March 25, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-on-state-departments-statement-that-israel-has-not-restricted-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza/
Russian actions in Ukraine to pave way for Gaza war crimes case in ICC: Lawyer leading investigation draws parallels between crises facing Ukrainians and Palestinians (March 25, 2024): https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2024/03/25/russian-actions-in-ukraine-to-pave-way-for-gaza-war-crimes-case-in-icc/
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: A/HRC/55/73: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 - Advance unedited version ["After five months of military operations, Israel has destroyed Gaza. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 13,000 children. Over 12,000 are presumed dead and 71,000 injured, many with life-changing mutilations. Seventy percent of residential areas have been destroyed. Eighty percent of the whole population has been forcibly displaced. Thousands of families have lost loved ones or have been wiped out. Many could not bury and mourn their relatives, forced instead to leave their bodies decomposing in homes, in the street or under the rubble. Thousands have been detained and systematically subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. The incalculable collective trauma will be experienced for generations to come. By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. One of the key findings is that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people."] (March 25, 2024): https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5573-report-special-rapporteur-situation-human-rights-palestinian
In New Letter, 140+ Global Christian Leaders Call for Permanent Gaza Ceasefire, Halt of Arms Sales to Israel (March 26, 2024): https://cmep.salsalabs.org/ps-mar262024letter
Over 1,000 People Join 22-Mile Interfaith Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage (March 26, 2024): https://oaklandvoices.us/2024/03/26/over-1000-people-join-22-mile-interfaith-gaza-ceasefire-pilgrimage/
Former State Department official Annelle Sheline: Why I’m resigning from the State Department (March 28, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opinions/gaza-israel-resigning-state-department-sheline/index.html
I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy (March 28, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/28/annelle_sheline
‘We cannot be silent’: A statement from the Jesuits on Gaza (March 28, 2024): https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/03/28/jesuits-gaza-israel-ceasefire-247605
'I kept on saying goodbye': Gaza hospital reports rise in stillbirths and neonatal deaths: Doctors in Gaza are reporting an increase in adverse pregnancy outcomes, with staff members at a Rafah hospital saying they no longer see "normal-sized babies." (April 2, 2024): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-hospital-stillbirths-neonatal-deaths-rcna145582
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: The Unprecedented Destruction of Gaza Demands an Unprecedented Response (April 2, 2024): https://rosalux.nyc/the-unprecedented-destruction-of-gaza-demands-an-unprecedented-response/
'Unprecedented In Modern History': U.S. Aid Experts Warn Gaza Likely Already Experiencing Famine: The officials made the comments in a government cable sent within the Biden administration on Tuesday and obtained by HuffPost. (April 2, 2024): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-collapse-famine_n_660c96aae4b0328a72be47f5
A Former State Department Staffer on Why She Publicly Resigned Over Gaza: “There are people working very hard inside State to try to hold Israel accountable, but none of that will actually go into effect unless Biden wants it to,” says Annelle Sheline. (April 3, 2024): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/former-state-department-official-regisns-joe-biden-gaza-israel-palestine-annelle-sheline/
The Independent: It’s time to stop: Editorial: The seven aid workers killed by an Israeli air strike have become symbolic of the lawless, reckless manner in which Benjamin Netanyahu has prosecuted this war. The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force the government of Israel to end it (April 3, 2024): https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/aid-workers-gaza-israel-killed-air-strike-b2522745.html
UK Judges’ and Lawyers’ Open Letter Concerning Gaza [1000+ signatures] (April 3, 2024): https://lawyersletter.uk
Former officials speak out against Biden’s Israel support after aid worker killings: ‘No one can change his mind’ (April 4, 2024): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-israel-arms-gaza-b2523435.html
Trócaire: The people of Gaza are Starving; for Food and for Justice (April 4, 2024): https://www.trocaire.org/news/the-people-of-gaza-are-starving-for-food-and-for-justice/
Elizabeth Warren says she believes Israel’s war in Gaza will legally be considered a genocide: “If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so,” Warren said of the case before the ICJ. (April 8, 2024): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/08/israel-gaza-war-elizabeth-warren-00151120
Letter to the Editor: Don’t downplay the realities in Gaza (April 8, 2024): https://baptistnews.com/article/letter-to-the-editor-dont-downplay-the-realities-in-gaza/
DENMARK: ‘Many are eager to see tangible action to address the situation in Gaza’ ["CIVICUS speaks with Vibe Klarup, Secretary General of Amnesty International Denmark, about the joint civil society lawsuit brought against the Danish state to stop Danish arms exports to Israel."] (April 9, 2024): https://www.civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/interviews/6954-denmark-many-are-eager-to-see-tangible-action-to-address-the-situation-in-gaza
Labour Party of Ireland Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Words on Gaza must be matched with action (April 9, 2024): https://labour.ie/news/2024/04/09/words-on-gaza-must-be-matched-with-action/
Ex-Obama aides become Biden critics on Gaza (April 10, 2024): https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4583525-obama-allies-expose-dem-rift-over-bidens-israel-hamas-war-strategy/
Israeli strikes killed 7 humanitarian workers with World Central Kitchen. Right-wing media responded by attacking founder José Andrés. Conservative media figures have accused the WCK founder of “blood libel” and called him “self-aggrandizing,” a "swamp favorite,” and a “political radical” (April 10, 2024): https://www.mediamatters.org/middle-east/israeli-strikes-killed-7-humanitarian-workers-world-central-kitchen-right-wing-media
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor joins labor groups calling for cease-fire in Gaza (April 10, 2024): https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-04-10/l-a-county-fed-joins-labor-groups-calling-for-a-ceasefire
Young European Socialists (YES) calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. More than 30.000 civilians have been killed in Gaza following Israel military actions. We recall that the protection of civilian lives is a fundamental principle of international law. (April 10, 2024): https://twitter.com/YESocialists/status/1777993174654275791
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EuroMed Rights): 13,000 Palestinians reportedly missing in the Gaza Strip (April 11, 2024): https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6264/13,000-Palestinians-reportedly-missing-in-the-Gaza-Strip
Feroze Sidhwa and Mark Perlmutter: As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza: We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues. (April 11, 2024): https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/surgeons-cruelty-israel-gaza
Former State Department official Annelle Sheline explains resignation over US support of Israel (April 11, 2024): https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former-state-department-official-explains-resignation-us-support/story?id=109083137
Democratic Coalition Sends Biden a Demand on Military Aid to Israel: In a letter, a dozen groups and labor unions called on the president to enforce a law that bars military support from going to any nation that restricts the delivery of humanitarian aid. (April 12, 2024): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/politics/letter-biden-israel-gaza.html
Meeting between Norwegian Prime Minister Støre and Spanish President Sánchez on the war in Gaza (April 12, 2024): https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/meeting-between-prime-minister-store-and-president-sanchez-on-the-war-in-gaza/id3033979/
Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on the Escalation in the Middle East (April 15, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-the-escalation-in-the-middle-east/
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland: Prayers and statements on violence in Israel and Gaza (April 16, 2024): https://ctbi.org.uk/prayers-and-statements-on-violence-in-israel-and-gaza/
Amos Goldberg, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Yes, it is genocide (April 18, 2024): https://thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-genocide-634a07ea27d4
Georgetown University Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine hold second vigil for Gazan academics killed by Israel (April 18, 2024): https://georgetownvoice.com/2024/04/18/faculty-hold-second-vigil-for-gazan-academics-killed-by-israel/
New Hampshire Jews say “Not in My Name” [67 signatures] (April 20, 2024): https://www.nhgazette.com/2024/04/20/n-h-jews-say-not-in-my-name/
Statement from U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Joaquin Castro, Nydia Velázquez, Lloyd Doggett, Ro Khanna, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Becca Balint, Greg Casar, Mark Takano, Jim McGovern, Barbara Lee, Earl Blumenauer, Judy Chu, Hank Johnson, André Carson, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jesús “Chuy” García, Jonathan Jackson, and Jill Tokuda on the Israel Security Supplemental (April 20, 2024): https://jayapal.house.gov/2024/04/20/statement-from-jayapal-castro-velazquez-doggett-khanna-ocasio-cortez-balint-casar-takano-mcgovern-barbara-lee-blumenauer-chu-johnson-carson-watson-coleman-jesus-chuy/
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2024.05.09 23:53 TwinPeaksRose [The Definitive Dossier?] Twin Peaks Season 3 - Part 3

  1. Dale Cooper in The Black Lodge [ Episode 2]
“You may be brave in this world Cooper, but there are other worlds.”
Dale and Laura, 25 years later. It’s time to Dale leave the Black Lodge. In this scene, Laura ‘s essence is sent to a Alternative Reality where she is named Carrie Page and her parents are Leland and Sarah but she doesn’t remember the name Laura. Since the beggining, The White Lodge wanted Bob’s head and the Blue Rose Task Force wanted Judy’s Head. It matchs with the end of season 3, anyway. I think the goal is she be killed again, by Judy. On Episode 18, Cooper finds her and wants to take her home, to her family, for she is a missing girl named Laura. Her return leads to Judy’s death in somepoint of the history. It explains why they can’t find her family.
The Arm said: “Your doppelgänger needs to back BEFORE you leave.”
Bob said to Darya he will not back to Black Lodge because he has a plan [Dougie Jones]. Dougie Jones was pulled back and Dale Cooper came out. Once it happened, we have two Dales in the same reality and on Episode 4, Mike said to Dale “ You were tricked. One of you must die.” So it shows that there is no doubt that in the end of season Bob died, not sent to BL.
1.1 Dale Cooper Inside Glass Box.
a) What is it?
A magic trap built by a scientist that believes in occultism [ As we can see in an example in The Secret History of Twin Peaks – Jack Parsons] with Bob Cooper’s Money[The anonymous billionare]. But do we have two billionares? Who paid half million to kill Bob? It is possible that was FBI. But, when Freddy Sykes said to James Hurley that a man in the sky said to him to go to Twin Peaks and when he arrived at the airport to buy the ticket, “the ticket were bought,already”. Who paid? Or The White Lodge Paid or they used someone to pay [ Major Garland Briggs when he was among us or the FBI. Dale Cooper knew Freddy when they met]
The White Lodge dragged Bob Cooper to the White Lodge and sent him to Twin Peaks Sheriff Departament where Freddy Sykes was arrested with his green gloves [what coincidence]. The White Lodge had everything under control all the time despite FBI, Officers, Blue Rose efforts. Gordon Cole received Ray Monroe SMS for FBI paid that Hal Million but didn’t pretend to be Jeffreis. Albert didn’t know Gordon’s plan so it was Phillip Jeffreis who called.
When Cooper tried to leave Black Lodge, a doppelganger of the Arm said “Non-Exist-ence” and he was caught by the Glass Box before sexual activity. He was sent to the Purple Sea [ The Non-Exist-Ence Place] where he was pulled out by eletricity and replaced Dougie Jones in Racho Rosa.After that, minutes later, a thing appeared when the couple were having sex.
Dougie Jones was missing several days, for he had a football bet. When he was replaced for Dale Cooper, many men were around to kill him and explode his car. They were hired by Lorraine that was hired by Duncan Todd that obeyed Bob Cooper orders to kill Dougie Jones. I believe that he was aware that The Black Lodge was agains’t him, like Mike used to be.
On Episode 6, was sent a Red Card to Duncan Todd who sent a white envelop with a black dot to a Little Man, to kill Lorraine and Dougie Jones.On Episode 5, we see Lorraine sending a message to someone named Argent that means “money” in french, that can also means Argentina.And then, a black box, a receptor turns on a red light. When Bob Cooper was in jail, he makes a call to this same receptor and then it dismantle itself.
Note: In Alchemic, the symbol of Argent is Two Twin Triangles (Twin Peaks) HERE
a.1) Dougie Jones
In Rancho Rosa, two men in a red car are awaiting for Dougie come out. A house near them [ Episode 5] has a symbol that can be encontered in the Map that leads to Black Lodge. Up above the door of that house there is Saturn Symbol [ Named Lead in Alchemical List Symbols] [you can see it here https://symbolsandmeanings.net/alchemy-symbols-signs-their-meanings-elemental-symbols-list/\]. Saturn is one of the planets needed to open Glastonbury gate [ Season 2 Episode 22] “where King Arthur where buried”.Dougie lived in the house with a red door at 25140 Lancelot Court, near Merlin's Market. On Episode 3,when Dale Cooper replaces Dougie, the symbol is a Crux and a retangle and it is the symbol of Potassium. It’s spiritual meaning is open or close gates [https://symbolsandmeanings.net/alchemy-symbols-signs-their-meanings-elemental-symbols-list/\] [ The fact that Potassium deals with the opening and closing of stomata lets me know that in a metaphysical sense it deals with communication which is an aspect of the spirit body. Stomata is the Lung of the Plants. https://ifestropicalfruitandherbdistribution.wordpress.com/metaphysical-relation-to-potassium-and-opening-and-closing-of-stomata/\]. The house with these symbols are inhabited by the drugged woman who screams one-one-nine.When asked why the woman repeats "one-one-nine,", Mark Frost merely stated that “The people who have one foot in the other world have a pronounced tendency to speak backwards."
Source: HERE
As happened before with Mrs. Chalfont and grandson, now is the drugged mother and her son. Note that they are the same design pattern “ The Giant and the Little Man”. Also we see this pattern in Otis’s house: A big man and a small one in a wheelchair.
b) The Purple- Sea or Mauve sea
The purple sea is a great, mauve-tinted body of water, home to several different supernatural beings. There is a Fortress where The Giant and Senorita Dido live. There lives Naido or Diane, Cooper’ Secretary.
This place might be inspired by the "Mauve Zone" from the writings of Kenneth Grant – A thelemist. Grant described the Mauve Zone as a self-contained world at the very edge of reality between what human beings can experience and "non-existence"[ What The Evolution of The Arm Doppelgänger said when Cooper tried to leave The Waiting Room: “ Non-Exist-Ence” Episode 2] Magical manipulations of human reality could be done there by alien beings that could be considered as monsters, it could be visited in a particular kind of sleep, it sent messages to human reality via phenomenon like UFOs and one of the main entities associated with it is called "the daughter."
Note: In Episode 3, The actress who played Ronnette Pulaski appeared in the Mauve Zone but in the credits she is named “ An American Girl”. She said to Cooper: “Be Hurry, my mother is coming.”
So, she is the image of “The Daughter”.
Grant also emphasised on the role of the nuclear bomb in an "occult revival" or increase of magical phenomena after World War II.
Source: HERE
c) Major Garland Briggs
When Douglas Milford brought Briggs to Twin Peaks to a Very Confidencial Work he made clear that he will be the chosen one to be The Guardian of The Forest and keep his works with the Supernatural.
"Only moments ago, while writing the previous passage, Cooper called, as I had requested. He’s on his way to the house right now--the bell just rang, he’s here. Betty is letting him in…
12:05 PM MARCH 28, 1989
“He just left. Something’s wrong. The message holds the answer, just as I thought, but I’ve misinterpreted it. Protocols are in place. I must act quickly.
I’m heading to the LPA alone."
* M * A * Y * D * A * Y * - Last Page of The Secret History Of Twin Peaks
“We know that the man whom Sheriff Truman found in the sycamore grove after Agent Cooper’s disappearance was not, in fact, Agent Cooper, but his Double. We know that when Cooper’s Double checked himself out of the hospital the next day, it paid Briggs a visit at his home. We know that Briggs had been expecting a visit from his new Blue Rose “control,” after the death of Doug Milford, and he may have assumed, or even been told, that Agent Cooper was going to be that control. During the Double’s visit, Briggs became alarmed by their interaction and wrote about it in his final entry of the dossier. Given his intuitive capacities, it’s
not too great a supposition to assume that Briggs realized, at some point during their meeting, that the man in front of him was not Agent Cooper—and that this was the reason for the Mayday call that he wrote as the last words in the dossier. We can also assume Major Briggs realized that, rather than confront the Double, he’d best keep that realization to himself, but, given what we have since learned about the Double, it’s fair to suppose that it saw through Briggs’s intention.” - Major Briggs Dossier from Final Dossier.
In his autopsy , we learned that Major swallowed a ring: To Dougie with Love, Jane-e. Dougie Jones was wearing the Jade ring in his left hand.Jane-e is Diane’s younger sister – the Dale’s secretary. The ring would lead FBI’s Blue Rose Task to Dale Cooper through out Diane and find Good Cooper. Also, on Episode 8 we are told that he had a conversation with Bob Cooper, one day before his death. His wife said that he told her : “Bobby, Hawk and Sheriff Truman will appear to inquire after Dale Cooper.When it happens, give this to them.”. Clearly, Major Briggs saw many things in the future but not Dale’s Double until minutes before his death, when Dale Cooper left the Black Lodge.
Note: On Episode 7, Tammy Preston saw that Bob Cooper’s fingerprint wasn’t normal and doesn’t match with 25 years old Dale’s Fingerprint. The exact finger whose fingerprint was flipped is the “Mound Finger, The Spiritual Finger” as Gordon said. Is the Ring Finger from the left hand – To the Blue Rose Task, this finger is named VERY. When Gordon talked to Bob Cooper, he said: “ I yrev very happy to see, you my old friend”. Both Gordon and Albert noticed the Black Lodge language.
d) Are we having problems with delays on the time?
On Episode 9, we have Time issues here, for in Twin Peaks, Sheriff Truman said that October ,1st is “In two days for now” but in the same episode, in Buckhorn is September 20.
It explains that black box in Argentina where Bob and Lorraine were in touch? For they were in delayed times? I had the feeling since the beggining that things were happining on backwards but it was just a feeling. Or not….
On Episode 10, this conversation happened:
Chad: I'll bet you're a girl who appreciates a beautiful day.
Lucy: That depends on what time it is.I mean, sometimes there's not even enough time to think of anything.One time, Andy was even thinking that the clock had stopped,and then we realized that we didn't even know what time it was.It seemed like forever.
We also can see throughout the Season many delays or reverse moviments like in Episode 14, the funny situation with Wilson, the FBI guy from Las Vegas. His boss says the golden phrase: “Wilson, how many time have i told you…. That it is what we do in the FBI!!!”. You can see, while he hits the table that it reverses 4 times.
We can see delays in the face of the father whose son shot the gun in the car. Bobby Briggs saw that the boy and the father are different things. Watch it in Episode 11 on 22:22 min.
  1. Jade- The Sex Worker
If you remember, in season 2, Jade is a character of a Soap Opera. The Jade Stone is a Symbol of cure and David Lynch used Jade codiname as a reference to Madeleine while Emerald, the brightest stone, is Laura. Jade and Emerald were twins.
Jade, the Sex Worker, helped Cooper and sent his key to Twin Peaks.
She also said, when saw Twin Peaks Grand Nothearn Hotel Key and no keys of the Car: So it mean that Jade will give you two rides!
Then, they passed in a Street named Sycamore, and Cooper Said: Jade gave two rides.
Note: In Caballah, Green Colors Means VICTORY.
“The 7th Sephirot( number) of Victory, Green colored Netzach. Netzach is called victory because it’s a victory to have made it this far in emanation. The victory over the beauty of ego, the victory over the self. The victory of experience as well a positive pleasant feeling of victory over the mind. Netzach is controlled by Arch Angel Haniel.”
It probably show us that even with Laura (Emerald) and Maddie( Jade) dying, we had victory. Dale Cooper wears green while living as Dougie Jones because he is victorious.
Source: HERE
  1. Laura Palmer never died
Because of what Cooper did [ entering in his former room 315 at the Hotel Great Nothearn from where that humming sound comes from.] he changed the history of Laura. According to Final Dossier, Ronette Pulaski indeed was with Leo Johnson and Jacques Renault buT she said that Laura was at the woods and never stayed with them, for Cooper appeared in the woods [ Episode 17]. Then, she was reported as a missing person and her father commited suicide 1 year later, in her disappearence birthday. Laura never died but it doesn’t means that she never was raped by Bob or her mother isn’t Judy. Everything happened but never died.
When it happens, the scene goes to Black Lodge, when Mike asks: “Is it the future or is it the past?” and then, no Laura Palmer appears in there. Everything was rewrited.
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2024.05.08 18:46 BrJames146 RE: Emil Pagliarulo & Game Development (Part 1 of ?)

Greetings, Redditors!
If this post is reasonably well-received, I might do one of these every couple of days until I feel I've sufficiently critiqued Skyrim's writing; if this post is not well-received, then you likely won't have to worry about seeing me again.
The first thing that I wanted to address is Emil Pagliarulo's series of Tweets from several months ago:
https://twitter.com/Dezinuh/status/1734978443899510795
I wouldn't have been made aware of these Tweets without Youtuber, Luke Stephens, who can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/@LukeStephensTV
Before we get into my commentary on Mr. Pagliarulo's Tweet and the writing in Skyrim, I would first like to add a few disclaimers:
DISCLAIMERS:
1.) I love Skyrim; I absolutely adore The Elder Scrolls series. (Morrowind is still my favorite; it has much better writing.)
2.) As I'll shortly acknowledge for a second time, I don't know anything about game development; I come here as someone who has written, for a living, for the last eight years. I'm not here to critique the game itself. Specifically, I am here to critique the writing of quests and certain key characters.
3.) As the community is well-aware, Skyrim has a lot of content that ended up on the cutting room floor; that being the case, I fully acknowledge that there may have been better versions of the quests and characters that I am going to be critiquing; however, it should also be said that the cutting room floor is not the game in the hands of the players. It's not the story we were told.
With that out of the way, I shall quote Mr. Pagliarulo's opening salvo in its entirety:
"Loooong (1/15) Funny how disconnected some players are from the realities of game development, and yet they speak with complete authority. I mean, I can guess what it takes to make a Hostess Twinkie, but I don't work in the factory, so what the hell do I really know? Not a lot."
The first thing that I would point out is that an individual does not need to be a game developer to critique video games. By Mr. Pagliarulo's logic, people would also be required to abstain from commenting on movies, TV shows, music and basically anything else that they didn't care for (or did) and think could be made better. I believe that Mr. Pagliarulo's apparent position becomes even more absurd when discussing content that the consumer is paying for.
Furthermore, I doubt if Mr. Pagliarulo would be so quick to attempt to invalidate the opinions of people who like, in this case, Starfield. However, if the people who have liked it are ALSO not game developers, then why wouldn't they also be disqualified from having an opinion.
To put this absurd position to bed once and for all, let's contemplate if someone went to a high-end restaurant and ordered some sort of chicken dish: If the individual cuts through the chicken and sees that the inside is not only pink, but also, colder than room temperature to the touch, does that person need to be an executive chef to know that the chicken needs to be recooked? I think not.
After that, Mr. Pagliarulo spends the next several Tweets detailing that he used to be a game reviewer (who had no development experience), that he now knows how difficult making games is, that nobody sets out to make a bad game and that making games takes a lot of time.
I'm going to address all of that---as far as I can tell, nobody said that making, in this case, Starfield, was easy. Perhaps someone can correct me, but I haven't seen one single review that asked, "How can BGS screw up the incredibly simple and quick process that is making a video game?" As far as people not setting out to make a bad game, my only guess is that Mr. Pagliarulo never played any Tiger handheld games, but I don't think BGS sets out to make bad games. Also, multiple companies (particularly in the days of Atari and Nintendo) would occasionally release games that weren't even functional, but that's not here nor there.
The next few Tweets (9/15 to 14/15) briefly list some of the difficulties when it comes to making video games.
And, the final Tweet:
"(15/15) But... just know that the game you're playing is in some ways a freaking miracle in and of itself. Normal people have come together to work FOR YEARS for one goal - to bring you fun and happiness. So it helps to remember that... and them!"
Basically, even if you think a game sucks, you shouldn't say that it sucks.
I'm not here to critique Starfield as I've never played it and don't think it looks particularly interesting. What I think it would be more productive to do is to critique a game that I love (Skyrim) exclusively based on the aspect that I know a bit about (writing).
Today, we will start with the extra tasty crispy former leader of The Dark Brotherhood, Astrid.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF ASTRID:
As this is already a bit lengthy, I have no plans to address anything about The Dark Brotherhood quest line aside from the very basics; I will perhaps discuss The Dark Brotherhood quest line, as well as other members of the faction, at a later time.
Also, SPOILERS, but what are you even doing on this subreddit if anything said about Skyrim could constitute a spoiler for you?
When we first meet Astrid, we have already killed Grelod The Kind and have received a mysterious letter from The Dark Brotherhood. The trigger for Astrid/TDB to abduct the player character is to go to sleep, at any point, after receiving the letter.
The first problem that this creates is that the abduction of the player character doesn't always make sense. I don't want to dwell on quest line too much, but let's imagine that you've chosen to go to sleep at The Winking Skeever, for one example. In order for the player character to be abducted:
1.) A Dark Brotherhood assassin must first go to your room at The Winking Skeever and, we would assume, poison you somehow. It's tough to say what specific poison is used, but in game logic, we can assume that someone hit with a paralysis poison would remain asleep during the duration. While the duration wouldn't last long enough for any paralysis poison NOT created by the player character (Fortify Restoration Glitch), it's possible that TDB continues reapplying the poison or knows someone with the Paralysis spell.
2.) While it only takes one assassin to go into The Winking Skeever and paralyze the player character, there aren't any NPC's in TDB (aside from maybe Arnbjorn, Astrid's husband) who are going to be solo carrying a limp body out of The Winking Skeever at all, much less, all the way to the Abandoned Shack.*
*However, we can assume that the player character's body would not need to be carried all the way to the shack and that TDB might have a carriage nearby; there's also no reason Shadowmere couldn't carry two people.
3.) However, someone from the TDB first has to go into Solitude, enter The Winking Skeever (the main room of which is generally populated), walking directly past Gulum-Ei who, one would think, is not going to be terribly pleased to see the player's lifeless body carried out if the player has made it a sufficient way through the Thieves Guild quest line; if the player has not, then Gulum-Ei wouldn't care. TDB would still have to carry the player's lifeless body past Corpulus Vinius, and generally, at least a few other NPC's prior to leaving The Winking Skeever.
4.) Everything after that is probably fine as it would rely on TDB to go only to the side door that leads out of Solitude and to the hill that leads to the stables/docks/etc.
The point is that we start off with some shenanigans, depending on where the player chooses to sleep after receiving the letter. An even more ridiculous example might be if the player was abducted from The Ragged Flagon Cistern despite being a member of The Thieves Guild...any number of which would be in the Cistern at the time.
Naturally, if the player sleeps in the wild, or perhaps a dungeon, then this manner of abduction makes sense. What would perhaps make the most sense is if the player character was hit with a potion of paralysis, out of nowhere, just roaming the wilds and then woke up in The Abandoned Shack.
When we first meet Astrid, she's perched on a bookshelf waiting for us to wake up. Cindy Robinson voices Astrid and does an incredible job giving the character a portrayal that is equal parts sultry, teasing and confident.
Astrid tasks the player character with killing one of the other three prisoners of the room; in typical Skyrim (and Emil Pagliarulo) fashion, the character (or combination of characters, if not all three) that you choose to kill has no impact on the result of the interaction with Astrid. The only alternative result to joining The Dark Brotherhood is to kill Astrid, on the spot, and then report her death to a guard followed by going to The Penitus Oculatus, whereupon the player character will be tasked with destroying TDB.
We next meet Astrid at The Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary of Falkreath; Astrid exhibits the same personality traits as before and her character still makes sense. Astrid sends you to speak to Nazir (a well-written character-perish the thought!) about some entry level contracts.
So far, so good. After completing Nazir's first set of contracts, our next interaction sees her sending us to speak with Muiri, in Markarth, about a contract on her former lover and an optional side contract on Nilsine Shatter-Shield (you monster!).
After completing Muiri's quest(s), things start to go off the rails. Astrid first sends us to spy on Cicero who Astrid suspects of conspiring against TDB because, reasons. Why would Astrid not send someone with more experience with TDB on this task? Why does she trust the player character over all others? After all, the player character and Cicero arrived at about the same time, so if Cicero would be conspiring with anyone against TDB, then certainly, it would be the player character who also stole a kill.
In any event, the player character hides inside The Night Mother's coffin, The Night Mother speaks to the player character who then surprises (and, initially angers) Cicero. At this point, after convincing Cicero that The Night Mother did indeed speak to the player character, Astrid appears (immediately defying The Night Mother's wishes, but fair enough, at this point) and sends the player character to get more contracts from Nazir, instead.
After completing at least one of the two side contracts given by Nazir, the quest, "The Silence Has Been Broken," begins. The player character speaks to Astrid who orders the player character to go to Volunruud after all. The player does so and is given an amulet and sealed letter by Amaund Motierre.
Upon bringing the letter to Astrid who, "Needs time to read it," the player character is sent to Delvin Mallory, located in The Ratway, to have the amulet appraised. Delvin Mallory indicates that the amulet is one that is only given to members of the Emperor's Elder Council.
From this point forward, Astrid, as a character, will make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
We first note that The Night Mother sent the player character to Volunruud to find Amaund Motierre, who was there and, as it turns out, is almost certainly a member of the Emperor's Elder Council (or close enough to someone who is a member to have obtained the amulet).
During an optional conversation prior to the quest to kill Cicero, Astrid admits that she thought it may haver simply been a coincidence that the player character was sent, by The Night Mother, to a dungeon far to the north to speak to someone...who just happened to be there and had on his person an amulet of The Emperor's Elder Council...who wants to have Emperor Tidus Mede II assassinated.
It doesn't matter how stupid Emil Pagliarulo intended for Astrid to be (also, nothing about listening to her speak...other than her decision-making...would indicate stupidity), there is absolutely no way that the player character was coincidentally sent to Volunruud by The Night Mother.
Let us also not forget the sorry state of The Dark Brotherhood upon our arrival. Not only is there not a Listener, but worse than, Astrid is hearing about people performing The Black Sacrament secondhand, and without that secondhand information, wouldn't even be aware of many of the contracts that The Dark Brotherhood receives. All of a sudden, a new recruit (that, ironically, Astrid brought in despite that The Dark Brotherhood (most playthroughs) has already been sent to kill...and could have, evidently) becomes The Listener and, consequently, knows things that Astrid cannot possibly know.
Back to the quest.
The assassination of Vittoria Vici is basically fine.
The next quest involves the stalking and murder of Gaius Maro, an officer of The Penitus Oculatus and son of Commander Maro. There are a number of ways that this quest can be completed, but Astrid still makes fundamental sense as a character during this quest. The player character kills Gaius and plants the incriminating evidence upon him.
In, "The Cure for Madness," we return to find that the mad jester, Cicero, has evidently lost his mind and attacked multiple members of The Dark Brotherhood, followed by fleeing the Sanctuary. In finding Cicero's journals, it is established that he fled to the Dawnstar Sanctuary. Astrid bids us to find him, save her husband and to take her horse, Shadowmere.
The player character finds Astrid's husband, Arnbjorn, severely wounded outside of Dawnstar Sanctuary. Arnbjorn indicates that he equally wounded Cicero, and of no use to the player, sends the player inside of the Dawnstar Sanctuary as he mounts Shadowmere (after we enter) and departs for Falkreath. In an optional conversation, Arnbjorn indicates that he distrusted the player character, at first, but has a new perspective given that the player character saved his life.
Astrid, as we will soon find out, doesn't seem to care that the player character is a capable assassin who may even have followed all Dark Brotherhood contracts/bonuses to the letter, is definitely The Listener, has set The Dark Brotherhood on the path back to relevance and has been nothing but trustworthy. As mentioned above, it is prior to this quest that the player character can converse with Astrid who mentions that she thought Motierre actually being in Volunruud could have been a coincidence. (WHY!?)
The player character may, in Dawnstar, choose to either kill or spare Cicero. Sparing Cicero will result in an amusing interaction after the main Dark Brotherhood quest line is completed; after that interaction, Cicero becomes available as a follower. Cicero is the LAST follower I would ever want, but has his fans; either way, I generally choose to spare him even if I don't want him as a follower. The Dawnstar Sanctuary would be even emptier without him.
As far as Astrid is concerned, the remainder of The Dark Brotherhood quest line involves the player character finally posing as the gourmet and going to Solitude, purportedly, to kill the Emperor by poisoning his meal.
Unsurprisingly, The Emperor turns out to be a decoy; the player character now needs to escape Solitude, but is met by Commander Maro. Maro claims to have made a deal with Astrid to avenge his son by which Astrid gives up the player character in exchange for being allowed to continue to operate and the Falkreath Sanctuary being left alone.
In a 'plot twist' to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Astrid aside, Commander Maro opts not to keep his end of the deal and decides to destroy the organization (TDB) as well as the person (Astrid) who ordered the murder of his son.
What's astounding about this is that Astrid, who betrays the player character (who is also definitely The Listener) for exactly no reason when TDB is on the cusp of assassinating an Emperor, a feat it hadn't done in quite a few centuries---is shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that Commander Maro would go back on his word and take out an organization that not only killed his son, but also, that the Penitus Oculatus is duty-bound to eliminate, if it can, anyway.
CONCLUSION:
We understand that Pagliarulo wanted to portray Astrid as the matriarch of The Dark Brotherhood who was blinded by a combination of arrogance, power and wanting The Dark Brotherhood, her 'family' to continue to be guided by her and her alone.
In that, I would say that Pagliarulo was successful; in writing terms, however, the cost of this success was not justified.
The cost of this successful portrayal is that it requires making Astrid blind to the point of absurdity. For whatever reason, relatively late in the quest, Astrid still believed that the player character meeting Motierre, in Volunruud, where The Night Mother said he would be, was somehow a coincidence.
Furthermore, while it might be somewhat understandable that Astrid wouldn't want the player character, as Listener, to become the de facto leader (or co-leader) of TDB, the following points stand:
1.) The player character has shown nothing but loyalty to TDB.*
*The only exception to this is if the player character lies and tells Astrid that he/she killed Cicero, despite sparing him. Of course, when we look at when that happens in the quest line, Astrid will have already betrayed the player character to Commander Maro.
2.) The player character saved Astrid's husband's life.
3.) The player character may have executed every contract to the letter, from Nazir and Astrid alike, and earned every single bonus.
4.) The player character never challenged Astrid's authority. Even when the player character was given her first instructions by The Night Mother*, the player character did what Astrid wanted first.
*As a side note, it's strange that The Night Mother wouldn't have warned the player character that they were walking into a trap, in Solitude and that Astrid is not to be trusted.
Astrid is a poorly written character because the quest unfolding as it did requires her to be both power-hungry and impossibly stupid. Amaund Motierre being in Volunruud (as well as the amulet being legit) can only mean that the player character is The Listener, which means The Night Mother speaks to her, which then validates Sithis---because, prior to, it could be argued that Astrid didn't truly believe in Sithis.
Astrid knowingly threw away a return to relevance for TDB (by killing The Emperor) to keep her power over TDB's pathetic Falkreath Sanctuary in which they relied on second and thirdhand information, rather than The Night Mother, to know when The Black Sacrament is performed and get their contracts.
The worst part is that Astrid, in so doing, sold the player character out to Commander Maro...who nobody in Astrid's position could have possibly trusted.
When we look at a character, from a writing standpoint, the most important question a writer should ask themselves is, "Does this character's words/actions make sense?"
Astrid is not only impossibly stupid; Astrid does not make any sense.
From a writing standpoint, Astrid is an abysmal character. The only aspects that save Astrid, as a video game character, are excellent voice acting work by the phenomenal Cindy Robinson and that her character model/TDB gear, is pretty cool-looking. It's also implied that she used to bang Delvin Mallory, so that's kind of neat.
WAYS TO IMPROVE ASTRID:
Obviously, I could write an entirely new Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim story from scratch, but I'm not going to do that. Instead, let's keep as much of the current story as we can and determine what Astrid could have done that would make sense.
1.) Immediately, Astrid must recognize (after Volunruud and the visit to Delvin, anyway) that the player character is absolutely The Listener.
2.) Everything else can go basically the same until just before the attempt on (the decoy) Emperor's life.
3.) In the story, have the quest require that the player character is to arrive (as the gourmet) to Solitude the day before the decoy Emperor's visit. At this point, the player character can be required to spend the night somewhere in Solitude; a good choice for this would be the Thalmor Headquarters, as they are always empty anyway.
4.) The player character goes to sleep in the Thalmor Headquarters only to be awakened by Astrid. Astrid explains to the player character that, while they might be The Listener, Astrid is the leader of The Dark Brotherhood and is sure that The Night Mother will forgive her, and perhaps even make her the new listener, for killing the player character, in fair combat. The reason Astrid says The Night Mother will forgive her is, after dispatching of the player character, Astrid will pose as The Gourmet and assassinate Emperor Tidus Mede II herself. Astrid tells the player character to make ready to defend themselves.
5.) The end of Astrid's involvement in The Dark Brotherhood quest ends up being fixed in a creative way: If the player declines to join TDB, then the player kills Astrid after waking up to her in the room; if the player does join TDB, Astrid's involvement/leadership of the factions ends after the player kills Astrid after waking up to her in the room.
In terms of optional events to this alternate ending: If Cicero is spared, then Dawnstar Sanctuary becomes available (with a quest to visit there and speak to Cicero) and can be furnished. The player character will decide if they want the primary Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary to be located there or in Falkreath.
If the player chooses Falkreath, then Arnbjorn (who the player can kill if they want) will say he is leaving The Dark Brotherhood, but understands that the player was left with no choice but to kill Astrid, and consequently, TDB has nothing to fear from him. The player character will take over the room that used to belong to Astrid and Arnbjorn.
If the player chooses to move the primary Sanctuary to Dawnstar, then Arnbjorn will approach the player character, state that he understands the player had no choice but to kill Astrid, and will request to remain in the faction as well as the Falkreath Sanctuary. He will state that it makes sense, especially in light of the Emperor's successful (at this point) assassination for TDB to begin to expand its influence again. The player character will accept this; Festus and Veezara will remain in Falkreath with Arnbjorn who will also be given a few generic initiates.
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2024.05.07 21:20 TwinPeaksRose [The Definitive Dossier?] Twin Peaks Season 3

“What is our mission here?”
“Monitor our array of equipment in order to detect signs of intelligent nonhuman life not only in deep space, but here on earth, in our immediate surroundings. Attempt to discern their intentions and keep a watchful eye for signs of imminent attack." - Major Briggs asking to Douglas Milford.
"He also told me the LPA would be my responsibility now, alone, until my new control arrived. After Doug's cremation service (...)I scrutinized Doug’s final words to me; he had been my “control,” and now that he was gone, a new control would appear. An ally who knew the score, but I had no idea who this might be, or from where they might come.
I awoke before dawn the next morning with a stark and startling revelation. During the night, my subconscious mind had made a breakthrough, sifting through the jumbled wreckage of numbers and strange language and my lost time in the woods until all the pieces fell together and I felt with swift and utter certainty that I knew how to proceed toward the answers that Doug had been so certain we could never find. The answer, in other words-as best I can describe-had been “downloaded” into my mind during my “abduction,” and left there for me to sort it out. Which against all odds I had done. So I awoke knowing that the identity of my “control,” the person I needed to complete our mission, was right in front of me, in the mysterious message I’d already received: Cooper.
Of course. Perfect sense. It must be Cooper. All the stars aligned. Why else would Gordon Cole have sent him here? Maybe Cooper wasn’t yet fully aware of the whys or wherefores himself, but I’d learned by now that “chance” events often prove providential, convincing myself that Special Agent Dale Cooper would be the one with whom I’d carry on this work."
  1. Is Phillip Jeffreis Ray’s Master or someone pretending to be him?
Episode 17
Gordon Cole: For 25 years,I've kept something from you, Albert.Before he disappeared,Major Briggs shared with me and Cooper his discovery of an entity,an extreme negative force called in olden times "Jowday." Over time,it's become "Judy. Major Briggs, Cooper, and I put together a plan that could lead us to Judy.And then something happened to Major Briggs, and something happened to Cooper.Phillip Jeffries,who doesn't really exist anymore,at least not in the normal sense,told me a long time ago he was onto this entity,and he disappeared. Now, the last thing Cooper told me was:‘If I disappear like the others,do everything you can to find me. I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone.' [Note: Bob and Judy are these two birds. Remember that birds, in Twin Peaks verse, are messengers from spiritual worlds.] And recently,a paid informant named Ray Monroe sent a cryptic message indicating that the Cooper we met at prison is looking for coordinates,coordinates from a certain Major Briggs.This plan, Albert, I couldn't tell you about, and I'm sorry. And I don't know at all if this plan is unfolding properly 'cause we should have heard by now from our dear Dale Cooper.”
Ruth Davenport knows a coordinate but she is not Ray’s informant but Betty, William Hastings’ secretary from Buckhorn [ BUCK HORN] High School.
“I will get you this information…. she is Hastings’ secretary. She knows what he knows.”
This coordinate is the place Judy is. [48°53'48.79"N, 117°55'24.88"W according to a Reddit User took from Frank Truman’s Notebook. .48°55'14.2"N 117°56'34.58"W On Ruth’s arm. On Episode 11, Albert shows to Gordon the coordinates in Ruth Davenport’s arm in a picture but once Diane is working to Bob Cooper, Albert rearranged the coordinates to 48°55'14.2"N 117°39'5.6"W ]
Ray called to Darya saying he is about to be arrested and that he talked to Jeffries.
Ray: Darya, is that you?
Darya: Ray, where the hell are you?
Ray: Federal prison, South Dakota.
Darya: What the fuck? What did you do, Ray?
Ray: Carried weapons over the state line. I fucked up, the worst possible moment.
Darya: How are you calling me?
Ray: This is a burner. Don't worry about it. Nobody's listening.
Darya: So what do we do about Cooper?
Ray: I got another call from Jeffries.You have to hit Cooper if he's still around tomorrow night.
That means it’s you now, Darya. You have to do this.
Darya: Fuck.
Final Dossier – Ray Monroe
Ray Monroe, the deep-cover informant who apparently wasrecruited by someone involved with our task force to work on the “missing Cooper” case, succeeded in making contact with “the Double.” Strong evidence suggests that Monroe penetrated his inner circle, met with him, and worked with him in the weeks or months prior to the Double’s surfacing in Buckhorn, South Dakota.In a partially garbled phone message to an agency cutout, Monroe claimed he was reporting directly to someone inside the Blue Rose Task Force, but he never specified who it was. (If it was you, Chief, I believe you would have told us, wouldn’t you?) we know that at some point before he died, Monroe made a phone call on a burner found at the location in Montana where we also found Monroe’s body. Based on data retrieved from that phone, it seems that Ray Monroe believed that he had originally been recruited by, and had all along been working for, … Phillip Jeffries.
Let me repeat that: Ray Monroe believed he had been recruited by and was working for Phillip Jeffries, a man the Bureau had not seen or heard from since he disappeared from your Philadelphia office in 1989.What if Jeffries, not unlike Major Briggs a few years later, had gained access to the same system of “portals,” holes in dimensional space that allowed him to disappear and reappear, in places far apart in geographical terms, more or less at will? I’ll take it one step further, Chief: What if these same portals also allowed him to comeuntethered from time?Wouldn’t that help explain why Briggs hadn’t aged a day in twenty five years? Could it also explain how Ray Monroe believed that he was receiving instructions from Phillip Jeffries?”
Philip Jeffries didn’t deny that he called Ray also didn’t deny that he sent Ray to kill Bob but sounds very confused when he sees Bob as Dale’s doppelganger but he is very aware who is it [On Episode 17 He treats real Cooper as someone who have been working together everyday. “Phillip?” “ Please, be specific” “ The Date, February 23, 1989”] but tries Bob Cooper, first.
PJ:Oh, it’s you.
Bob Cooper : Jeffries.
PJ: Thank God.
BC:Why did you send Ray to kill me?
PJ: What?! I called Ray.
BC: So you DID send him. Did you call me five days ago?
PJ: I don’t have your number.
BC: So it was someone else who called me.
PJ: We used to talk.
BC: Yes, we did. 1989. You showed up at FBI headquarters in Philadelphia. And said you’d met Judy.
PJ: So... You ARE Cooper.
BC: Phillip. Why didn’t you wanna talk about Judy? Who is Judy? Does Judy want something from me?
PJ: Why don’t you ask Judy yourself? Let me write it down for you.
48° 55’
BC: Who is Judy?
PJ: You’ve already met Judy.
BC: What do you mean I’ve met Judy? Who is Judy? Who is Judy?
In 1989, he reappeared 2 years after been reported missing. He said: We will not talk about Judy…” then, he points to Dale Cooper : “Who do you think is in there?”.
Perhaps this explains when he said : so… you ARE Cooper. [ Now the Cooper is you...]
After killing Darya, he makes a call to someone who suppose to be Phillip Jeffries but he doubts if is he.
My thoughts:
Is Phillip Jeffries BUT Is the same voice who talked to Garland Briggs through Sarah Palmer’s mouth: “I am in The Black Lodge with Dale Cooper” [Season 2 Episode 22] That can be Mike [ whose name is Phillip Gerard] and/or The Arm.Notice that the voice said to Bob Cooper: “You will back and I will be with Bob,AGAIN”. Perhaps is MIKE, his former partner for he is helping Cooper all along the season. Note that is Mike who is the one who receives every Dopelgänger in the Lodge -Dougie, Diane- and make a new Dougie with Cooper’s physical appearence. If is possible to talk to Jeffries with a physical phone, is possible with Mike and The Arm.
The Call:
Man: You're late.
Bob Cooper:Couldn't be helped.
Man:I missed you in New York,but I see you're still
in Buckhorn.
Bob: And you're still nowhere,is that correct?
Man:You met with Major Garland Briggs.
Bob: How did you know that?Phillip?
Man: Actually, I just called to say good bye.
Bob: This is Phillip Jeffries, right?
Man: You're going back in tomorrow and I will be with Bob again.
Bob: Who is this?
To me, sounds like Phillip Jeffreis talking inside of a Tea Pot and he didn’t answer his questions that’s why he thought it was Gordon Cole or Albert Rosenfield. It was him all the time. Also, when questioned about this call, he said: “I don’t have your number”. Indeed… that box had no number to call but when they meet each other at the Dutchmen’s Lodge, a phone did ring and when Bob picked up the phone, he was transported to the outside of the lodge. He can call without a number if he wants to.
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2024.05.06 15:33 Leather_Focus_6535 The 113 inmates executed by Virginia in the post Furman era and their crimes (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk) [part 1, cases 1-58]

This is the list that I wrote for the 113 inmates executed by the state of Virginia, from the 1976 Gregg national reinstatement of the death penalty to the state abolishing it in 2021. For the sake of clarification, the dates given here are an approximate timeframe of the offender's earliest known criminal activities to their executions. Many of the crimes surveyed here are also extremely horrific, and the gory details are discussed in my descriptions. Please read at your own risk.
Unfortunately, as with Missouri, the list exceeds the maximum 40,000 character count Reddit allows for submissions, and thus I had to split it into two separate posts. Here is the link to part 2 of this list.
The 113 executed offenders:
1. Frank Coppola (~1960s-1982, electric chair): Coppola, his wife, and two other accomplices hatched a plan to rob Payton Wetchell, a 55 year old car dealer, at his home. One of the accomplices posed as a delivery girl, and lured Payton's wife, 51 year old Muriel, out by ringing the doorbell. The group then forced themselves inside at gunpoint and tried extorting from her valuables though beatings. Mariel’s head was slammed against the door numerous times, and she ended up dying from suffocating on her vomit and a brain hemorrhage. When Peyton arrived at the scene, he was beaten as well. Although he survived, the treatment for the fractures required Peyton to have a steel plate grafted on his forehead, and he took his own life about a decade after the incident. The Coppolas and their accomplices made off with $3,000 and 3 rings. Coppola was a career burglar, and lost his job as a policeman for failing to report inmate abuse. His execution caused some controversy, as a witnesses described Coppola's legs catching fire during the electrocution.
2. Linwood Briley (~1971-1984, electric chair): In 1971, at the age of 16, Briley killed his neighbor, 57 year old Orline Christian, in a sniper attack from his bedroom window while she was laying clothesline. He escaped prosecution by convincing authorities that it was an accident. 8 years later, Briley went on a rape and robbery spree with two of his brothers (including James) and another accomplice. They murdered anywhere between ~12-21 males and females in their attacks. Their means of killings were very diverse and circumstantial, and completely indiscriminate on who they killed. The eldest known victim was 76 year old Mary Gowen, whom they raped and shot to death, while their youngest was 5 year old Harvey Barton, who was shot dead after the gang gang-raped and murdered his pregnant mother, 23 year old Judy. Some like, 17 year old Christopher Philips had his head crushed with a concrete block, a few others like 62 year old Mary Wilfong were beaten to death with baseball bats, and 59 year old Charles Garner was fatally stabbed with scissors and a fork. Almost all the victims were murdered in their homes, but some were attacked at their jobs. While on death row, Briley and James escaped with 4 other inmates, but were recaptured after a 3 week long manhunt.
3. James Briley (~1970s-1985, electric chair): He was one of Linwood Briley's brothers, and he assisted in him in the robbery, rapes, and murders of at least 12 to 21 people. As previously mentioned, Briley and Linwood broke out of prison on death row with several other inmates, and were all recaptured within weeks after their escape.
4. Morris Mason (~1960s-1985, electric chair): Mason broke into the homes of two elderly women, 86 year old Ursula Stevenson and 71 year old Margaret Hand. In both attacks, the victims were raped, beaten with an ax handle, bound and nailed to chairs, and burned alive when he set their houses on fire. He also attacked a pair of sisters, who were 12 and 13 years old, in their home. The 13 year old grabbed a gun from their father’s closet for protection, but Mason wrestled the gun away, and shot her instead. She survived with crippling injuries. Mason then kidnapped the 12 year old, took her to a nearby forest, and sodomized her. He covered the girl with leaves, lit them on fire, but she survived with only minor burns to her hair and shirt. Mason was also responsible for several burglaries during his crime spree, and was convicted several previous times for arson attacks. Authorities believe that Mason was committing acts of arson since his childhood. His execution sparked some controversy, due to him allegedly having a cognitive disability.
5. Michael Smith (~1970s-1986, electric chair): Smith kidnapped 35 year old Audrey Weiler while she was walking from a beach. He dragged her into a forest and raped her. During the sexual assault, Smith stabbed Weiler and drowned her in a nearby river. At the time of the attack, Smith was a sex offender with a rape conviction, and had reoffended against Weiler only months after his release from prison.
6. Richard Whitley (1980-1987, electric chair): Whitley went to the home of his occasional employer, 63 year old Phoebe Parsons, to vent about his broken marriage. As they were conversing, he stabbed Parsons to death. During the attack, he sodomized Parsons with an umbrella, and engaged in sex acts with her body. He then sacked the home of any valuables, stole her car, and fled to Florida.
7. Earl Clanton Jr. (~1971-1988, electric chair): At the age of 17, Clanton killed an unidentified woman in circumstances largely undisclosed beyond it being a robbery. Although Clanton was given a 26-28 year sentence, he was paroled 8 years later. A year after his release, he strangled a neighbor, 38 year old Wilhemina Smith, during a robbery of her home. He also had a malicious wounding conviction when he badly injured a teenage boy with brass knuckles, and his mother had made complaints of him stealing money from her. However, Clanton claimed that she faked her complaints in retaliation for him refusing a sexual relationship with her. Clanton also took part in the mass prison escape orchestrated by the Briley brothers, but was recaptured with them.
8. Alton Waye (1977-1989, electric chair): Waye invaded the home of 61 year old Lavergne Marshall, and stabbed her 42 times. He then raped Marshall and poured bleach on her body.
9. Richard Boggs (1984-1990, electric chair): After Boggs killed an unidentified man in a hit and run accident, he rushed to the home of his neighbor, 87 year old Treeby Shaw. When she offered him tea, Boggs hit her in the head with a steel object, and stabbed her to death with a butcher knife. He stole some silver from the home, which was discovered by investigating police officers in his car. On an unrelated side note, Boggs' older brother was shot dead by police during a car chase some years after his execution.
10. Wilbert Evans (~1964-1990, electric chair): While incarcerated for a robbery in North Carolina, Evans was transferred to Virginia to testify at a murder trial. While being transported in a prison van, he decided to take the opportunity to escape, and seized a gun from one of his escorts, 47 year old William Truesdale. Truesdale was shot dead during the struggle and Evans used the gun to destroy his handcuffs. Although he managed to jump out of the van, Evans was cornered by police officers only a few blocks away, and was recaptured followed a bungled suicide attempt. Evans had an extensive criminal history, and was convicted of robbing a gas station at the age of 18. During his time on death row, he protected staff members held hostage from being raped and abused by the Briley brothers during their attempted escape. His execution caused some controversy, as blood was observed coming out of his blood, nose, and eyes during the fatal shocks.
11. Buddy Justus (1978-1990, electric chair): Justus abducted and raped 3 women, 32 year old Rosemary Jackson, 21 year old Stephanie Hawkins, and 21 year old Ida Moses, and shot them to death. He was charged with a 4th murder, as Moses was pregnant and her unborn child also died in the attack. In two of his known murders, Justus was assisted by an 18 year old man that he befriend after he picked him up hitchhiking. He also received several life and death sentences in the states of Georgia and Florida.
12. Albert Clozza (1983-1991, electric chair): Clozza snatched 13 year old Patricia Bolton while she was walking home from a bookmobile. He dragged the girl into a forest and sodomized her with a twig. She was also severely beaten in the attack, and the corner's report mentioned that Bolton was "asphyxiated by her own blood."
13. Derrick Peterson (1982-1991, electric chair): During a holdup of a grocery store, Peterson shot and killed the manger, 45 year old Howard Kauffman. He then ran off with thousands of dollars worth in checks and cash.
14. Roger Coleman (~1977-1992, electric chair): Coleman tricked his sister-in-law, 19 year old Wanda McCoy, into letting him inside her house. He then raped and stabbed her, and she was nearly decapitated in the attack. A long standing sex offender, Coleman was convicted of raping a woman in her home a few years prior to McCoy's murder, and had exposed himself to two other women just before the killing. Unfortunately for him, one of the women happened to be an artist, and she drew a sketch that enabled the police to identify him for the murder. Despite his past offenses, Coleman had a strong following for his innocence among the anti death penalty crowd. A notion that was debunked following a 2006 DNA test that concluded his guilt.
15. Edward Fitzgerald Sr. (1980-1992, electric chair): Out of fear of her being a police informant, Fitzgerald abducted his drug dealer, 22 year old Patricia Cubbage. He raped and stabbed her 184 times, and reportedly carved a "tick-tack-toe design" into Cubbage's back.
16. Willie Jones (1983-1992, electric chair): Jones tricked the parents of an acquaintance, 78 year old Myra and 80 year old Graham, into letting him inside their house by pretending to be an undercover cop searching for missing children. He shot and killed Graham, tied up and gagged Myra, locked her in a closet, and stole their entire life savings (which amounted to $30,000). To destroy any evidence of his crime, Jones set the house on fire. Myra, who was still tied up and trapped in her closet, was burned alive. Jones was also one of the inmates that escaped from death row with the Briley brothers, but was recaptured weeks after the breakout
17. Timothy Bunch (1982-1992, electric chair): Bunch, a then active service Marine, was dating Su Cha Thomas, a 40 year old South Korean immigrant. Believing that Thomas was too much like his “slut” ex wife, Bunch decided that he wanted to rob and kill her. He tricked Thomas into letting him inside her home with the promise of a date. She was shot in the head and Bunch hung the body to a closet doorknob with a scarf. Bunch then ransacked the home, and stole a watch, diamond ring, and a pearl necklace. According to investigators, he confided in them that he had an orgasm while robbing and murdering Thomas. After the killing, Bunch was deployed to Japan, but extradited back to Virginia to face trial for Thomas’ murder.
18. Charles Stamper (1978-1993, electric chair): While robbing a restaurant that he worked at, Stamper shot and killed three of his co workers, 43 year old Agnes Hicks, 35 year old Franklin Cooley, and 20 year old Steven. He stole a total of $4,000 in the robbery. On death row, Stamper was attacked by fellow death row inmate Lem Tuggle for allegedly being a snitch. The assault left him permanently paralyzed, which made his execution somewhat controversial.
19. Syvasky Poyner (~1970s-1993, electric chair): Poyner shot and killed 5 females, 72 year old Louise Paulett, 45 year old Joyce Baldwin, 44 year old Carolyn Hedrick, 43 year old Chestine Brooks, and 17 year old Vicki Ripple during a two week long robbery spree. He directed his attacks towards beauty parlors, supermarkets, ice cream shops, and motels. A life long career criminal, Poyner had several auto theft, forgery, and burglary convictions, and his earliest date back to when he was 14 years old.
20. Andrew Chabrol (1991-1993, electric chair): Chabrol, a Navy serviceman, made unwanted advances on a fellow married sailor, 27 year old Melissa Harrington, and refused to back down despite repeated rejections. Harrington filed sexual harassment charges, and Chabrol was dismissed from service following an investigation. Angered by the loss of his career and her rebuffing his advances, Chabrol kidnapped Harrington from her home with the help of a friend, and tied her to his bed. He then raped and strangled her to death. The case attracted outcry years later when it was discovered that Chabrol and Harrington’s remains were buried in close proximity to each other in the Arlington cemetery.
21. Joe Wise (1983-1993, electric chair): Wise abducted 45 year old William Ricketson during a robbery. He beat and shot his captive in the eye and chest, dumped him in a water hole used for an abandoned power plant's lavatory, and drove off with his truck. Although Ricketson survived the shooting, he drowned in the hole.
22. David Pruett (~1975-1993, electric chair): In 1975, Pruett fatally stabbed his co worker, 22 year old Debra McInnis, while robbing a restaurant they worked at together. As the investigators weren't able to solve the McInnis murder, Pruett remained a free man. 11 years later, he tied up his friend's wife, 35 year old Wilma Harvey, in the couple's home while her husband was out of town. He raped Harvey, stabbed her 29 times and slit her throat, ransacked the house for any valuables, and stole an undisclosed amount of money. Pruett was also tried and sentenced for an unrelated rape incident alongside Harvey and McInnis' murders.
23. Johnny Watkins Jr. (1983-1994, electric chair): Watkins gunned down two store clerks, 41 year old Carl Buchanan and 22 year old Betty Barker, during a week long robbery spree. In the robberies that killed Buchanan and Barker, Watkins stole a combined total of $125. His brother Ronald was also executed for an unrelated robbery murder [for more details, please see section 49 on Ronald Watkins].
24. Timothy Spencer (~1980s-1994, electric chair): Spencer broke into the residences of at least 5 women and girls, 44 year old Susan Tucker, 35 year old Debbie Davis, 32 year old Susan Hellams, 32 year old Carolyn Hamm, and Diane Cho, a 15 year old South Korean immigrant, and raped them. All the verified victims were strangled to death with ligatures and ratchets. Another man was falsey convicted of Hamm's murder, but was cleared of guilt in a 1989 DNA test. The falsely accused man was one of the first inmates to be exonerated using DNA testing, while paradoxically Spencer was the first serial killer to be convicted with DNA evidence. Spencer also had a history of burglaries before his killing sprees.
25. Dana Edmonds (1983-1995, lethal injection): During a robbery of a grocery store, Edmonds tied up a grocer, 62 year old John Elliott. He bashed Elliot's head with a brick, stabbed his neck, and took $40 from the register.
26. Willie Turner (~1970s-1995, lethal injection): In 1978, Turner shot and killed W. J. Smith, a 54 year old jeweler, during a jewelry store robbery. A few years prior to Smith's murder, Turner had killed an unidentified inmate in largely undisclosed circumstances while serving time for a malicious wounding conviction, but was let out on parole. While on death row, Turner took part in the Briley brothers led breakout, and made several escape attempts on his own. In one incident, Turner pretended to have smuggled a gun in his cell, and used the hoax to make threats against the prison staff.
27. Dennis Stockton (~1950s-1995, lethal injection): 18 year old Kenneth Arnder allegedly crossed a dealer during a drug deal. The dealer retaliated by paying Stockton $2,000 to kill him. Stockton lured Arnder in his car with the promise of driving him to safety, and shot the youth in the eyes. He cut the hands off his body to prevent identification and dumped it in a remote North Carolinan forest. Stockton had a long criminal history since he was a teenager, which included several convictions of arson, safecracking, drug dealing, and weapons possession charges. Police also found dismembered body parts kept in a jar in his home, but Stockton claimed that it was simply a gift given to him by a biker gang, and he only kept the remains to show off at parties.
28. Mickey Davidson (1990-1995, lethal injection): Davidson’s wife, 36 year old wife Doris, made a decision to leave him for her ex husband. In a jealous rage, he beat her and her two daughters, 14 year old Mamie and 13 year old Tammy Clutterback, to death with a crowbar.
29. Herman Barnes (1984-1995, lethal injection): Barnes held up a grocery store at gunpoint, and shot and killed the owner, 72 year old Clyde Jenkins. Mohammad Afifi, a 42 year old Palestinian immigrant that worked as the store’s clerk, was also gunned down when he came to his boss’s aid.
30. Walter Correll Jr. (1985-1996, lethal injection): Correll and two accomplices ambushed, carjacked, and kidnapped 24 year old Charles Bousman Jr. after they motioned him to stop on a remote highway. After they stole his rings and watch, they beat and stabbed Bousman to death, dumped his body in a nearby forest, and drove off with his car. His execution was a source of contention, as Correll's supporters and attorneys assert that he was an intellectually disabled man set up by his accomplices for lesser sentences.
31. Richard Townes Jr. (~1970s-1996, lethal injection): Townes shot a clerk, 32 year old Virginia Goebel, in the head while robbing a grocery store, and stole $183 from the register. He had a long history of violent robberies, and had shot and wounded a taxi driver after holding him hostage for 6 hours several years before Goebel's murder.
32. Joseph Savino III (~1980s-1996, lethal injection): After he was released on parole from an armed robbery conviction, Savino beat his boyfriend, 64 year old Thomas McWaters, to death with a hammer in their home. According to Savino, McWaters was pressuring him for sex, and threatened to have his parole revoked if it was withheld.
33. Ronald Bennett (1985-1996, lethal injection): Bennett broke into the home of Anne Vaden, a 28 year real estate agent. After he tied Vaden up, Bennett beat, strangled, and stabbed her to death. One of Vaden's rings was stolen in the robbery, and he gave it to his wife. The murder was left cold for a year, but was solved when Bennett's wife drunkenly confessed her husband's deeds to a friend while showing off the ring.
34. Gregory Beaver (~1980s-1996, lethal injection): After Beaver escaped from a Maryland rehab center, he went on a rampage that involved stealing a car and storming a restaurant his stepfather owned to rob and assault him. While speeding away from the scene with a hitchhiker he picked up, Beaver was pulled over by Leo Whitt, a 49 year old state trooper. In the scuffle that broke out, Beaver shot and killed Whitt. The hitchhiker then tricked Beaver into stopping at a nearby restaurant, and he used the payphone to call the police on him. Beaver previously had 10 unspecified felony convictions, which was why he was placed by his family in the Maryland rehab center.
35. Larry Stout (1987-1996, lethal injection): Stout assaulted a dry cleaning store with a knife, slashed the throat of the owner, 40 year old Jacqueline Kooshian, and stole $1,200.
36. Lem Tuggle Jr. (~1971-1996, lethal injection): In 1971, Tuggle raped and fatally strangled 16 year old Shirley Brickey, and was given a 20 year sentence for it. He was released from prison after serving 10 years. Two years after his release, Tuggle lured 52 year old Jessie Havens from a dance hall, and then raped and shot her to death. On death row, he participated in the mass escape orchestrated by the Briley brothers, and paralyzed the above mentioned Charles Stamper for allegedly being an informant.
37. Ronald Hoke (1985-1996, lethal injection): Hoke forced his way inside the home of 56 year old Virginia Stell, a woman he met at a bar. He raped and stabbed her to death with a knife taken from the kitchen, and stole some medication from Stell's purse.
38. Michael George (1979-1997, lethal injection): In 1979, George lured 9 year old Larry Perry from his grandparents' home, and shot the boy dead after raping him. As the body was never found and the prosecution couldn't disprove his claims of it being an accidental killing, George was able to secure an involuntary manslaughter plea deal from the courts, and was released within two years for good behavior. After his release, he molested several teenage boys, and expressed fantasies about them being sexually tortured by "evil creatures" in the forest in his written works of fiction. In 1990, George made his fantasies a reality when he ambushed and abducted 15 year old Alexander Sztanko while the boy was ridding a motorbike. He shackled Sztanko to a tree, sodomized him with a stun gun, sliced pieces of his skin with a machete, shot him in the head, and stole his motorbike. Other teenage boys in the area also reported being assaulted in the same manner as Sztanko by a “Rambo like” camouflaged assailant. Although it is strongly believed that George was responsible for the attacks, he wasn't convicted of them.
39. Coleman Gray (1985-1997, lethal injection): Gray kidnapped 49 year old Richard McClelland while robbing a store he managed. He forced McClelland to collect over $12,000 in cash, drove his captive to a remote dirt road, and shot him six times in the head.
40. Roy Smith (1988-1997, lethal injection): Smith got into a violent argument with his wife in their home, and the neighbors called the police on him. He fired on the responding officers, and killed John Conner, a 38 year old sergeant. The remaining officers managed to subdue him after a brief standoff and physical struggle.
41. Joseph O'Dell III (~1958-1997, lethal injection): O'Dell was condemned for the abduction, rape, and strangulation murder of 44 year old Helen Schartner. She was last seen leaving from a night club, and her body was found near a beach. His execution was controversial, as O'Dell had a massive support base who believed in his innocence. The circuit court's decision to burn the DNA evidence relating to the Schartner case in 2000 sparked further outcry from them. Despite this, O'Dell was a long time felon with over 17 convictions dating back to the 1950s, and a woman claimed to have escaped a kidnapping attempt from him.
42. Carlton Pope (~1982-1997, lethal injection): Pope shot and killed 24 year old Cynthia Gray and wounded her sister while robbing them at a pool. He had a malicious wounding conviction when he shot a friend in the toe, and was paroled months before Gray's murder for that sentence.
43. Mario Murphy (1992-1997, lethal injection): 37 year old James Radcliff's wife hired Murphy to kill him in order to collect a life insurance policy. She, her boyfriend, Murphy, and 3 other conspirators pounced on Radcliff while he was sleeping in his bed, and they stabbed and beat him to death with a metal pipe. Due to all the other conspirators accepting plea deals, Murphy was the only one sentenced to death for the murder, which he perceived was because of Mexican nationality. His death sentence and execution also caused a minor diplomatic dispute with Mexico.
44. Dawud Mu'Min (1973-1997, lethal injection): At the age of 19 in 1973, Mu'Min shot and killed Charles Shupe, a 43 year old taxi driver, while robbing his taxi. He was given a 48 year sentence for the murder. 15 years later, Mu'Min was assigned to a inmate labor program. While working on a road, he pretended to be on a lunch break, and took the opportunity to sneak away from his escorts and supervisors. Mu'Min broke into a shopping center, raped Gladys Nopwasky, a 42 year old retailer, and stabbed her 16 times with a screwdriver. After he stole $4 from her purse, Mu'Min returned back to the work program.
45. Michael Satcher (1990-1997, lethal injection): Satcher ambushed 23 year old Anne Borghesani while she was biking near a highway. He raped, beat, and stabbed her 16 times with an axl. Another young woman was also assaulted by Satcher in a similar fashion, but she survived the attack. Both of their purses were stolen and disposed of in the same bush.
46. Thomas Beavers Jr. (1990-1997, lethal injection): Beavers broke into the home of 61 year old Marguerite Lowery, and raped and suffocated her to death with a pillow. He sacked the house, stole her jewelry, and drove off with Lowery's car. The killing went unsolved until a year later when Beavers was arrested for sexually assaulting a neighbor in circumstances nearly identical to Lowery's murder. A police search while investigating the neighbor incident found Lowery's stolen jewelry in his house.
47. Tony Mackall (1986-1998, lethal injection): While holding up a gas station at gunpoint, Mackall shot the cashier, 31 year old Mary Dahn, and took $515 from the register.
48. Douglas Buchanan Jr. (1987-1998, lethal injection): Enraged that his father, 43 year old Douglas, married a much younger woman, 31 year old Geraldine, shortly after his mother's passing, Buchanan shot him to death in their home. He also gunned down and stabbed Geraldine and her two sons, 13 year old Joel and 10 year old Donnie.
49. Ronald Watkins (1988-1998, lethal injection): While robbing a store that he formerly work at, Watkins stabbed the store owner, 29 year old William McCauley, 7 time in his back and slit his throat. McCauley's body was discovered by his father, who stopped by to check on his son after he failed to return home on time. As a sidenote, Watkins was the younger brother of the above mentioned Johnny Watkins Jr..
50. Ángel Breard (1992-1998, lethal injection): Breard stabbed his neighbor, 29 year old Ruth Dickie, to death during a botched rape in her home. He also made another unsuccessful attempt at sexually assaulting a second neighbor half a year later, which enabled investigators to tie him to Dickie's murder. His death sentence and execution sparked outrage in his native Paraguay.
51. Dennis Eaton (1989-1998, lethal injection): Eaton and his girlfriend, 24 year old Judy McDonald, carjacked 68 year old Ripley Marston Sr. and 26 year old Walter Custer Jr., and shot them both dead. While speeding away from the murder scene, the couple were pulled over by a state trooper, 48 year old Jerry Hines, and gunned him down as well. In the following police chase, Eaton ended up crashing his car into a telephone pole, and injured McDonald in the process. As they were corned, Eaton finished off McDonald by shooting her in the head, and made an attempt to commit suicide before he was subdued.
52. Danny King (~1980s(?)-1998, lethal injection): King and his then wife duped Carolyn Rogers, a 55 year old real estate agent, into letting them inside a vacant house by posing as clients. They jumped Rogers as she was giving them a tour of the house. She was choked with King's bare hands and stabbed to death in the assault. The couple then stole rings and checks from her purse. Both King and his ex wife blamed each other for the murder, but King was the one that was convicted of it by the courts. King also had a long history of robbery and car thefts, and was released from prison 10 days before the murder.
53. Lance Chandler Jr. (~1987-1998, lethal injection): Chandler shot and killed a clerk, 33 year old William Dix, during a convenience store robbery. He had a criminal record dating back to the age of 14, and had previous arrests for armed robbery, assaulting officers, and public intoxication.
54. Johnile DuBois (~1990s-1998, lethal injection): During a convenience store robbery, DuBois and 3 teenage accomplices tried forcing the clerk, 39 year old Philip Council, to open the register for them. When they thought he was acting too slow, the DuBois and the other robbers beat Council and shot him to death. DuBois had a history of thefts, illicit firearms possessions, assault, and probation violations.
55. Kenneth Stewart Jr. (1991-1998, lethal injection): Stewart separated from his wife, 35 year old Cynthia, after their marriage disintegrated. He was forbidden by the courts from being in contact with their son, 5 month old Jonathan, without Cynthia's consent. To overcome the custody barriers, Stewart tried to reconcile with Cynthia. When she refused, he shot her and Jonathan dead in her home.
56. Dwayne Wright (1989-1998, lethal injection): Wright went on a weeklong crime spree in Maryland and Virginia. In his Maryland attacks, he shot and killed 31 year old Odell Thomas and 24 year old Reginald Turman, and stole Turman's car and a total of $400. He then drove to Virginia, and held Saba Tekle, a 34 year old Ethiopian refugee, at gunpoint in her apartment. Wright forced Tekle to undress, shot her dead when she resisted his attempts at sexual assault, and swapped Truman’s car for hers.
57. Ronald Fitzgerald (1993-1998, lethal injection): Fitzgerald shot and killed 39 year old Coy White in his home in order to get his hands on the man’s 13 year old daughter. He abducted and raped the girl after forcing her to steal money from her father’s pockets, and left her locked in the trunk of his car. After abandoning White’s daughter, Fitzgerald flagged down a taxi driver, Hugh Morrison (age unknown), and shot him dead. Fitzgerald used Morrison’s stolen taxi to kidnap an 18 year old woman and her two children, and drove them to a motel. He raped the 18 year old in the motel room while her two children were watching tv. The family were spared and released, and Fitzgerald forced a couple to drive him to a courthouse with the intentions of committing suicide there. However, the attempt failed with his gun jamming, and he was captured by the police.
58. Kenneth Wilson (1993-1998, lethal injection): Wilson forcibly entered the home of his cousin's girlfriend, 31 year old Jacqueline Stephen, with a knife. He bound Stephen to a bed, and tied her 12 year old daughter and her daughter's 14 year old friend to the bed's posts. Wilson then made an attempt to rape Stephen, and cut her and the girls' throats. Stephen died at the scene, while both of the girls survived their injuries.
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2024.05.05 16:29 Yurii_S_Kh The Grandeur of Greek Pascha

The Grandeur of Greek Pascha
Xenia Klimova
Pascha is the principal festival of the Greek calendar. Preparations for Pascha begin from Holy Week, and Paschal holidays start on Holy and Great Friday, when the Orthodox have permission to be absent from work and pray in church. Xenia Klimova, an expert in Greek traditions and folklore, senior lecturer at the Department of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ph.D in Language and Literature Study, speaks about Paschal dances, traditional cakes and cookies, and other customs associated with the celebration of the Radiant Resurrection of Christ in Greece.
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—Xenia, how do Greek people prepare for Pascha?
—Like in Russia, preparations begin from Holy Week. In Greek it is called «Εβδομάδα των Παθών» (that is, “the Week of Passion”, or “the Passion Week”) or «Μεγάλη εβδομάδα» (“the Great Week”). According to their custom, even those who didn’t keep the fast during Great Lent shouldn’t eat meat and milk products during Holy Week. Many people, especially the elderly, try to fast on only bread and water through this week. On Holy and Great Friday they only drink water into which they add some vinegar because the Savior was given vinegar when He was on the Cross.
Bells don’t ring on Holy Week in Greece. As Greeks say: «οι καμπάνες χηρεύουν» (“bells are widowed”).
Special preparations commence on Holy and Great Wednesday: people tidy up their homes and collect food for the Paschal meal. In rural areas priests visit villagers’ houses and bless Paschal food. Though in cities priests normally don’t visit homes of the faithful for this purpose, parishioners can come to church to have their Paschal food blessed.
Tsoureki
—Do they bake kulichi on Holy Thursday, as we do?
—Yes, they do. And Greeks have several varieties of Paschal cakes and cookies. For example, «τσουρέκι»—that is, “tsoureki”, which is a sweet rich braided cake topped with sliced almonds.
The second most important cake is «Λαμπροκουλλούρα». Pascha in Greek is «το Πάσχα», or «η Λαμπρή», meaning “shining”, “luminous”. Hence the name of Paschal round loaf.
It is decorated in a very interesting way: there is a cross in the center, and there are various cosmogonic patterns, like birds, spirals, and herringbone patterns, on either side.
Traditionally baking Paschal bread was associated with marriage. Unmarried young women did the baking and thus demonstrated their skills as future housewives. They would arrange fairs on Pascha and choose the best Paschal bread. The maiden who baked it was considered “a good catch” (likewise, the guy who could retrieve the cross from water on the feast of Theophany was regarded as “a man any girl would marry”).
Some of interesting examples of the so-called folk etymology are connected with the most important Christian festival. “Pascha” is a lexeme borrowed from Hebrew. But in popular consciousness it is associated with the Greek verb “pascho” (πάσχω), meaning “to suffer”. Therefore, the meaning of the feast is associated with the Passion of Christ on the Cross.
—Do they color eggs on Holy Thursday as well?
—Yes, by tradition Paschal eggs are red. But nowadays (like in Russia) eggs come in a variety of colors. They say that those who are in mourning dye their eggs blue or dark purple, though I personally have not seen this.
Commercial production is developed so much in Greece that colored hard-boiled eggs are sold in supermarkets before Pascha.
—Were there any special ceremonies observed on Holy Week?
—In Thrace, for instance, on Holy and Great Thursday or Friday people made an effigy of Judas, dressed it in old clothes, carried it around the village and sang ritual songs:
Ράτσα, κεράτσα δωσ'μια κληματσίδα να κάψουμε τον Οβριγιό πόχει πολλή κασσίδα. Οβριγιός φορεί φτερό στο κεφάλι το ξερό...
“Hey, Kind Lady, Give us a grapevine, We will burn down a Jew With bad eczema, The Jew has a plume on his withered head…”
In effect, it is a variation of the ceremony of burning a dummy of “winter” (of Maslennitsa in Russia) on Pancake Week preceding Great Lent.
—Are there Paschal holidays in Greece?
—Yes, and they last almost a week after Paschal Sunday. But in fact for many they begin from Holy and Great Friday, when people get a day off. When believers want to take their time off on Holy Friday, their employers are very understanding.
In schools and higher education institutions Paschal holidays are long enough to allow students living in Athens to travel to their native villages in the regions and back.
—How do Greeks celebrate Pascha?
—The feast begins the night before Paschal Sunday. Most Greeks come to church only to walk in the procession and then go home to celebrate the festival. Despite this, first and foremost Pascha is a religious festival for them, and they look forward to the moment when the most important event is announced: “Christ Is Risen!”
Greeks stock up on large candles beforehand. The Greek for “large candle” (for example, a Paschal or a wedding candle) is λαμπάδα. Thus, some of our terms differ. The Greek for “icon lamp” which usually hangs in front of an icon is καντήλι; the Greek for “censer” is «θυμιατήρι».
—Are Paschal candles always red?
—In Greece they are not necessarily red. When Greeks come to Russia for Pascha, they ask in amazement: “Why are your candles red?!”
—Is the Paschal meal arranged in parishes?
—No, Greeks celebrate at home. Following the festal service families gather and go to somebody’s place to eat Paschal soup, μαγειρίτσα, made of lamb pluck. As a rule, they go to the hostess who cooks this dish perfectly. This soup is not too heavy and very tasty, so it is just fine after the service. Then all go to sleep, and next morning they get up and begin the preparations for large-scale celebrations. They roast a lamb or a goat on a spit in the yard.
The μαγειρίτσα “magiritsa” Paschal soup
In Greece Paschal dinner is the most lavish meal of the year. There is even a special verb in Greek, πασκάζω, meaning approximately “to enjoy hearty and delicious food, as on Pascha”.
A wide range of dishes are present on the table: the above-mentioned cakes and cookies, colored eggs, meats…
—Do Greeks practice egg-tapping, too?
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—Yes, they call it τσουγκρίζω. One member of each family becomes the winner in this “fight”. Many Greeks like to tell stories about how one or another family member tried to trick them by using a wooden colored egg instead of a chicken egg. Greeks are sure to tell you that once one uncle had allegedly beaten everybody, that they had wanted to eat that miraculous egg, but he hid it and his fraud was exposed. Similar horse stories are also widespread in the army.
There is a custom in northern Greece (Thrace, Macedonia) which is called χάσκα. Χάσκω means “stare with one’s mouth open”. A Paschal egg is attached to a string and suspended from the ceiling, and the contestants should try and catch it while it is spinning. He who manages to eat this egg is called “a Paschal lucky player”.
Formerly, people used to collect eggshells and bury them under fruit trees so that they could produce more fruit.
In some regions of Greece people observe the custom of building bonfires on Pascha. Paschal fire is very important to them. Unlike Russians, Greeks don’t bring the fire of Holy and Great Thursday home but take Paschal Flame with them. If you observe the faithful walk home after the midnight service in Athens, carrying candles ignited with this fire, you will find that it is a beautiful sight.
At home people would cross their windows, doors, household, animals and fruit trees (not least the trees that wouldn’t bear fruit) with Paschal Flame.
Paschal Fire
Vigil lamps were lit from it and burned throughout the year or at least over a period of Bright Week.
The Paschal Flame is also conveyed to their neighbors—elderly and sick people, and those who couldn’t go to the Paschal service.
—How do they celebrate Pascha in Bright Week?
—Festivities continue in Bright Week. The first day is called «Δευτέρα της α γάπης»—that is, “Monday of love”. In the Greek regions where blood vengeance was widespread the ritual of αδελφοποιϊα (meaning “sworn brotherhood”, “fraternization”) was performed. Members of the feuding parties would make cuts on their own hands, mix the flowing blood, shake one another’s hands and thus become “blood brothers”. Of course, not only enemies could do it, but this ritual was above all associated with reconciliation.[1]
This custom has pagan roots (they would sometimes pour blood out into one cup and take turns drinking it), but the time chosen was Pascha. This tradition is familiar to everybody, though it has not been observed recently. It was very vividly described by Nikos Kazantzakis (1883—1957) in the early twentieth century. Some of my informants recounted how they “had sworn brotherhood” with somebody else decades ago.
On Bright Monday dancing parties were arranged in the square in front of the village church attended by the whole village.
In insular Greece, lads used to swing lasses or swing together with them in Bright Week. While swinging, they would sing mantinades—folk-style short romantic songs that contained two rhyming fifteen-syllable lines. As a rule, they were sung by guys. Sometimes a youth would compose such songs on the spot at the first try. For example:
Κούνια μου, κούνησέ μου την, για να βραδιάσει η μέρα, να ξημερώσει, να τη δω, να πάρει ο νους μου
“O swings, rock this girl for me, so that the evening can set in and then dawn come, so that I can see her and lose my heart to her.”
And young ladies could respond:
Που να χαρείς τα χέρια σου τα μαργαριταρένια που κούνησαν κι άλλες πολλές, τώρα κουνάν και μένα
“Admire and be proud of your pearly hands, which have swung many others and are now swinging me.”
Sport competitions are held during Paschal fairs. The winner was rewarded with the best Paschal cake baked by the most desirable prospective bride.
The festivities are normally arranged by church. Today each village has a folk society, and people try to play folk instruments, sing traditional songs and dance.
Pascha in Perachora. The 2000s
—Do priests dance too?
—Everybody dances on Pascha in Greece, and the priest is always the first to come out dancing. I used to collect local folklore in the village of Perachora in the south of mainland Greece. There are two churches there, and each family is registered in one of these parishes so it attends only one of them. On Bright Monday they would perform a spiral dance, each family in its own parish, headed by their priest. First they danced in a circle inside church, and then went outside and danced around the church. There is a road in the village which connects these two churches. So the two groups of parishioners got on the road dancing, met, danced in front of each other for some while, exchanged greetings, and walked in opposite directions towards each other’s churches while dancing, danced there, and then walked back to their respective parishes to continue their celebrations. Again, a kind of “sworn brotherhood”.
Pascha in Perachora. The 2000s
Curiously enough, now that all the old priests who used to dance on Pascha are dead, the Church has assigned new young priests to these parishes, but they refuse to dance. And old women from Perachora are absolutely displeased. They complain: “Our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers danced, all of our priests danced, but these refuse!”
—And what do Greeks sing on Pascha? Are there any special songs, like Christmas carols?
—As a rule, these are Pascha-themed songs, but here we don’t see as much diversity as we see on the Nativity of Christ or Pancake Week. Judas is often mentioned in songs, but not necessarily.
Σήμερα Χριστός Ανέστη καιστουςουρανούςευρέθη...
“Today Christ is our Resurrection, and He has ascended into Heaven...”
True, there are metaphors and elements of cosmogony in a number of songs. For instance, we can find a metaphor of cosmic jubilation or similes which are a typical feature of folklore: “There are youths, standing like strong trees, and young maidens, like lemon trees adorned with flowers.”
But all in all, all the texts are within the limits of Christian tradition.
—But there must be some rites in addition to what you’ve mentioned.
—For example, in northern Greece, τουλούπα was prepared on Bright Wednesday. It was a torch made of sheep’s wool. A woman would kindle a huge flame and carry it while dancing at the head of a line of dancers.
As a matter of fact, sheep are traditional “Paschal” animals. One week before Pascha people would sometimes take their lambs home for a week to fatten them up. They would give them names which were associated with the feast—for example, “Lambros” (from “Lambri”), “Paschalis” etc.
Despite varying degrees of religiousness, Pascha is still the most important feast for Greeks. In Greece it is celebrated with a greater magnificence than any other festival.
Olga Bogdanova spoke with Xenia Klimova
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[1] This practice is of course not condoned by the Church, and some holy Greek fathers of the Churchs have spoken against it.
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2024.05.05 03:00 onex7805 Restructuring the Daniel Craig-era James Bond movies Spectre should have come out before Skyfall

The Daniel Craig Bond continuity is a hot mess. There have been worse Bond movies before, but the attempt at serializing and self-mythologizing what was largely an episodic series made it into the most inconsistent era out of the entire Bond canon.
And I'd say it began with Skyfall. Yes, Quantum of Solace sucks, but the idea of continuing where Casino Royale left off and having Bond on a vengeful path isn't a bad idea in itself. Book You Only Lives Twice and the movie Diamonds Are Forever briefly tapped into that, and License to Kill exists, and that is considered one of the best Bond films. Resolving who Bond is and putting an end to his memories and regret for Vesper is an interesting premise. It's just that the execution was terrible.
Skyfall is when the Craig films got screwy. Bond in Skyfall is boring and resembles nothing of his Casino Royale counterpart in his personality, completely lacking in humor and wits. Action set-pieces except for the opening and the sniper fight are unexciting. While they are gorgeous to look at, they all lack the bombastic energy shown by Campbell's films. And yes, that's the point. It's because he's out of his form. The intention is that this isn't a fun Bond movie, but a subversion of it. He is depressed, frailing, and alcoholic... but that's the problem. Why do that here? The two movies before were all about the prequels "Becoming Bond" and right in the next film he is too old and needs to be retired. Roger Moore was older than Craig in Skyfall when he was cast as James Bond.
It's about Bond's failures. He keeps failing every single goal for over two hours. He failed the opening mission and got shot. He failed the test. He failed to protect Sevrevine. Silva escapes. MI6 gets bombed. Bond's childhood house gets bombed. He failed to save M. Yet the movie ends with "James Bond is Back!" and returns to the 00 status... What? He is immediately ready to get back to work. If anything, it would make more sense if Bond retires from the 00 status. He lost people he cares about and acknowledged he is aging, failed everything. The story feels like it was written as a goodbye to the character--as a meta finale to the series as a whole--yet it ends as a glorious return to the series.
Then Bond spends the next two films turning rogue and retiring again before they conclude his run. Even though Spectre was meant to be a "farewell" movie, it honestly felt like a new beginning. The new villain organization is introduced, Blofeld is introduced, Bond succeeds at capturing him, and his adventure depicts James Bond as "his peak". He's humorous, charming, strong, and... Bondian. Yet the film suddenly ends on a different note than all the other Bonds by sending him off to live happily with Madeline. What is the reason for him to retire now? Why introduce the "ultimate villain" and then just retire him?
Spectre in particular is a dead horse, but it deserves another round of beating. I do not understand Sam Mandes's obsession with Bond's past and legacy, and it has gotten far worse with Spectre. Spectre fundamentally rubbed me in a way any other bad Bond flick has not. Die Another Day and Moonraker had 'so bad it's good' quality, but watching Spectre just depressed me. I was in utter disbelief as to how any producer in their right mind thought the "Brofeld" was a good idea.
They just retconned everything when they made Spectre and linked all of the films together. All of a sudden, Le Chiffre, Dominique Green, and Silva are all Spectre agents, did what they did because Blofled was Bond's jealous stepbrother with a daddy issue... If this was actually the plan all along, then there would have been subtle hints dropped in CR and QOS that foreshadowed the events of Skyfall and Spectre. There are none. They are just going along with the Hollywood flavor of the month. With QOS, it was Bourne. With Skyfall, it was The Dark Knight. With Spectre, it was Marvel: turning itself into a huge interconnected cinematic universe.
It's a twist that retcons the long-running series into a familial soap drama. It's doubly worse if it is done for "fan service". This quote "I am the author of all your pain" from Spectre is the perfect illustration of modern franchise filmmaking. Examples like the iconic hero and the villain suddenly having a familial connection with each other, or suddenly all the past installments written to be episodic, unrelated the hero went through are "connected" as one big scheme by this secret hidden family mastermind. Not that this can't be done well, but it is often a lame attempt at copying The Empire Strikes Back. It is almost a surefire way to alienate the fans and make your story fanficy. Hell, even fanfictions today don't pull shit like this. The moment Spectre copied the twin twist, it killed Austin Powers by becoming a parody of itself.
Craig wanted to retire with Spectre, but Broccoli persuaded him to do another movie, and they had to find a way to top the "Bond retires" ending. So we got No Time to Die, a movie that kills off James Bond. Although it is my second favorite Craig Bond movie, it is not good. Aside from how the second half stalls the exciting pacing and momentum, the attempts at flexing "we are trying meta and doing something new!" didn't hit. The impact of Bond just retiring and living a normal life didn't land because we already saw it... twice. MI6 doing shady shit didn't hit hard because we already saw worse with Silva.
The ending comes across as a cringy soap drama attempt. If Spectre was their attempt at what Marvel was doing, No Time to Die was EON's Logan because EON didn't want to do a normal Bond adventure without copying another Hollywood trend. "Oh, you killed Wolverine? Well, we are killing Bond! How about that?!" If anything, the movie is at best when it is just doing normal fun Bondian tropes (which is why the first half shines), but Bond can't just have a normal adventure without an attempt to be "meta" about it. He is 1) not 007, 2) a rookiee, 2) goes rogue, 3) frailing, 4) retired, and 5) dead.
So... here is how I would restructure the Bond films. The limitation is that I am not able to change the story too much. I will have to keep the serialized nature to the Craig era. I believe a lot of problems could be solved by the different ordering.
The order should have been:
Casino Royale - Quantum of Solace - (Standalone Bond film) - Spectre - Skyfall - No Time to Die
Casino Royale is perfect as it is. I'm confident that I will never see a better Bond movie. For Quantum of Solace, I'd link these two YouTube videos as to show how the movie could be improved.
Standalone Bond Movie:
One of the biggest wastes of the Craig era is that he didn't have his standalone in-his-prime Bond movie. He didn't get to have his own "Goldfinger" or "The Spy Who Loved Me" where Bond gets to do a normal job because his films came out at the time when "connect, personalize, and serialize every series!" was the mantra of the industry due to The Dark Knight and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Craig Bond went from a reckless newbie to an old dog who needs to retire immediately without a normal middle Bond adventure to bridge. So much so that video games like Blood Stone and 007 Legends tried to fill that gap.
This is where Craig is at his peak. Bond just doing his normal episodic mission as 007, without tying himself to a larger big bad organization. There are many non-Flemming books to adapt. Apparently, Raymond Benson's books are very much like the Bond films. I remember Devil May Care being hotly debated as the next Craig Bond entry. John Gardner's Scorpius could easily be changed into the modern "War on Terror" setting.
This is also a place where you introduce Moneypenny and Q, and a bunch of cool gadgets and supercars for Bond to play with. Have Moneypenny as a Bond girl throughout the adventure and then she gets hurt, and that injury leads to her retiring a field agent to a desk job.
Spectre:
I inherently dislike the filmmakers attempting to serialize the Bond films, and we had a disastrous result, but if you want to do it, I believe Spectre and Skyfall should have switched their places. Just by this switch, the consequences that affect the overall story work way better. Because Spectre would have worked better as Bond in his prime, facing his ultimate arch-nemesis.
Skyfall being nominated for five Academy Awards made EON delusional about making an Oscar Bond movie. They thought what made it successful was the legacy elements. Spectre's horrid twist and No Time to Die's ending exist because the filmmakers wanted to capitalize on Skyfall's success of self-reflection and mythologization. This is why Blofeld turns out to be Bond's stepbrother and Bond dies. Without Skyfall, both Spectre and No Time to Die would have been fun, dumb superspy movies.
This post by u/jolipsist is a near-perfect rewrite of Spectre. No Brofeld, better romance, better third act, and better internal struggle within MI6. Bond is just a nuisance to Spectre. Blofled's plan is to reprogram Bond's head with the drill and rewrite his brain into killing M when he returns to England, which will prove how unreliable field agents are and allow C to take over British Intelligence.
When Q tells Bond that Spectre is Quantum in the middle of Spectre, it comes across as a shoehorned attempt to tie these two films despite the fact that it wasn't clearly planned. Instead, we get this weird retcon on how Quantum works. Quantum was one organization and Spectre was another. They had nothing to do with each other until the filmmakers decided to make them the same organization.
Shit on Quantum of Solace all you want, but Spectre as a criminal organization is just such an outdated concept in today's world (it was already dated in the 60s), while Quantum as a cabal of multinational business interests working for mutual gain is more believable. The former would screw up enough somewhere that major powers would take them down while the latter would easily thrive within global capitalism. I do like how Quantum adapts SPECTRE in a more modern, grittier sense in the form of Quantum. This is what I wanted from the Craig-era Bond films. Take the old elements and modernize them in a proper way.
So start the story with Bond trailing and investigating Quantum--a loose thread from QOS. This way, we have this constant progression from the previous films, rather than a "surprise". And instead of Quantum secretly being Spectre all along, it should have been Blofeld swallowing Quantum after it was crippled by Bond in QOS. In the meeting where Bond sneaks into where he first sees Blofeld, that's when Blofeld gains power within Quantum and renames it into Spectre. When Blofeld meets Bond, he mocks him with the fact that Bond indirectly helped him rise to power.
Skyfall:
If Skyfall was a response to the events in Spectre, then it would make more sense. The incident at MI6 in Spectre led to a public outcry and inquiry. C's actions have leaked the files about MI6's undercover agents, leading to the Istanbul chase.
Remember a scene in Skyfall where Bond uses his presumed death to retire and lives with some other girl on the bed? It would have made way more sense if that girl was Madeline. Maybe the movie can have her in a minor role by having her tell Bond not to go back to London. Build upon the chemistry established previously.
Already having Madeline established as his faithful lover means you can cut the creepy shower scene with Severine, which as time goes on will age as well as the barn rape scene from Goldfinger and the blackmail sex scene from Thunderball. Imagine a police officer tasked with helping sex slavery victims escape their captors, and while the victim is reliant on his help, he takes advantage of it by suddenly barging into her shower unprompted...
The classic Aston Martin DB5 reveal also makes more sense by placing Skyfall later in the chronology. In Casino Royale, Bond wins a DB5. It's a beautiful car and a nice homage to Goldfinger, and that's pretty much it. In the movie Skyfall, it is revealed he kept it somewhere secret, and the service didn't know about it. But then it is revealed it is a completely modified Bond car with all the identical gadgets and weapons from Goldfinger... And Bond is very well familiar with the DB5, knowing the weapons and functions inside out. But then M also knows about... the ejector seat in the car? So it is not even that Bond modified the car in secret. When Skyfall was released, there were speculations that Bond was a timelord because of it. Then Spectre tried to retcon this by having Q tell Bond to bring the DB5 back in one piece, implying he made it for Bond, even though Bond didn't meet Q until this film. What's going on here? If Q was introduced earlier into the chronology, it could have been implied that he modified the DB5 Bond won from Casino Royale.
I always found Skyfall's climax to be boring, so with Madeline and Moneypenny established in the previous film, maybe the third act can incorporate them. In the Scotland part, it is revealed Silva has captured Madeline and is holding her as a hostage, threatening Bond to bring M out. Bond uses his wits and distracts Silva, while Moneypenny goes in to save Madeline. This adds more stakes and tension to the climax. Maybe Bond chooses to save Madeline over M--choosing a retirement.
M's death in Skyfall would have been a better way to motivate Bond to retire with Madeline. He was already rugged and disillusioned with his worth as 007 by the start of the story, and his beliefs are confirmed with M dying. Then Bond's secret agent job inevitably put Madeline in danger, and she could die like M did. Also, by this point, Craig Bond has five films. We saw his peak. That's enough crazy adventures for his health. He is aged. He failed the test. Blofeld is in the cages. Spectre is no more. He got his new girlfriend Madeline. What else he can do for the country? This is the point where it does make sense to do a retirement movie.
Skyfall has an aura of finality that even No Time to Die didn't have. It serves as a perfect end to Craig’s era. It has all the meta elements and Bond's character arc, but it feels out of place in anything other than a final film. If you don't like No Time to Die, you can retire Craig completely here because it is the perfect final movie to end, alongside the tenure of Judi Dench's M.
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2024.05.04 11:31 jayhawkwds Greensburg Tornado - The Day After

The day after the Greensburg Tornado 5/4/07, my Dad wrote his account of the night in an Email to my Grandpa. He sent this Email 5/6/07 right after midnight. I have changed some names, but it is almost exactly as my Dad typed it out, fresh in his mind. I figure people in this sub would find it interesting.
Father:
I got off work yesterday morning at about 6:15 a.m. About 4:00 a.m. in the morning I received a twx from the National Weather Service in Dodge City predicting large hail, rain, and the possibility of tornadoes after 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon. Also, txt indicated storm spotters would probably be needed after 4:00 p.m. After work I went home, fed & watered my cats and dogs and then went to the barber shop to get my hair cut. After I got back home, I took a bath and took about an 1 ½ hour power nap. Judy had already left for April’s house before I got up from my power nap. I mowed my lawn and Melvin, my neighbor just across the alley east of my house, trimmed my lawn with a weed-eater while I was mowing my lawn. I then roto-tilled my garden for the 2nd time as was hoping to start planting my garden this weekend. Might add, just installed new bolo tines on my Troy-bilt horse roto-tiller!!!! After I got done roto-tilling, I went over to Melvin’s house and visited with Lena & Melvin for about an hour or so. Went back home, ate a little snack, watched my recorded evening news and then went to bed about 8:00 p.m. or so. Lakyn was in our front room watching TV when I went to bed. About 8:30 p.m. or so, Lakyn called Judy on her cell phone as Lakyn was scared from the thunder & lightning in Greensburg. While Lakyn was still on the phone with Judy, the tornado sirens when off in Greensburg. Lakyn woke me up, I put on a tee-shirt, sweat pants and house slippers and Lakyn headed for Melvin’s cellar under his house. Lena & Melvin were just getting into the cellar when Lakyn & I arrived at there house. A few minutes later it started to hail in Greensburg. Both Lakyn & Melvin when outside to bring in a few hail stones the next couple of minutes. Then Melvin shut the door to his cellar. Might add, Melvin had just finished a new entrance to the cellar to his basement. About 9:45 p.m. the “air pressure” dropped or whatever “popped” our ears when the tornado hit Greensburg. Do not remember how long the tornado lasted, but did not seemed more than 5 minutes. We could see water dripping all over the ceiling above the cellar. The entrance to the cellar blew into the entrance to the cellar. I helped Melvin clean the wood, etc., from the entrance to his cellar. Melvin then looked outside and commented we must have been at “Ground Zero”!!!! All of us then got out of the cellar and walked around to the front of Melvin house. All the neighbors on Melvin’s block were ok. Melvin, somehow, found a pair of his rubber boots for me to wear as I only had on my house slippers. After ½ hour or so, really do not remember, Lakyn and I walked to our house via streets as there was too much “stuff” between Melvin former house and my former house. My Chevy Malibu was parked in my garage, but my garage was no longer there!!! Back window was broken out and lots of damage to the outside of the Chevy Malibu. I tried to get into my trunk to get a flashlight, but trunk was bent too much and could not get the trunk open. My dog house was in my garage with a dog entrance to the dog run on the east end of the garage. Both of my dogs were sitting by a small area by my chest freezer and were ok and no apparent injuries to the dogs. Took a few minutes to get the dogs out, as there was debris everywhere. After we got the dogs out, let the dogs run around for a few minutes, then put the dogs in my Chevy Malibu and hope the dogs are still in the car. Judy talked to April, who is currently staying in Pratt, talked to Pratt animal control about dogs today and they were suppose the check and/or pick up my dogs today. We did not see any of our 3 cats and hope they are ok. We then headed back to Melvin’s house. A few of Lakyn’s friends were on the way back to Melvin’s house and they were suppose to go to the hospital basement and that was the last time I saw Lakyn!!!! I got back to Melvin’s, visited with Melvin for a few minutes and then I walked to the Dillons store, which was suppose to be the staging area, but since nobody was taking down names and I walked back to Melvin’s house. I saw Jeff, Cecilia’ boyfriend, on the way back to Melvin’s house, visited with him for a few minutes and ask him to call Cecilia to inform her Lakyn and I were ok. Then I saw Dennis, the guy I used to ride to work at the LSH and he said I could stay at his house last night as his house was one of the few houses not totally destroyed in Greensburg. Dennis’s house is located in the west side of Greensburg and the house had some roof damage, but not much if structure damage. When I got back to Melvin’s house, Lena & Melvin were gone, but one of their daughters and son-in-law had just arrived from Coldwater in their Hummer. Hummer had a flat tire from the debris is the streets. They loaned me a flashlight and then walked back to my house to scope out the damage to my house and garage. Both are totally destroyed and not much left, but I am hoping we can retrieve a few things (like my new laptop computer) tomorrow or whenever they let us return to Greensburg. I then returned the flashlight and walked to Denni’s house on West Grant Avenue. Nobody was home, so I got into the back seat of Dennis’s car in his garage but never could get to sleep. Dennis finally showed up an hour or so later, then I went into his house and laid down on his couch, but never did go to sleep. About sunup, a police officer knocked on Dennis’s front door and informed us everyone had to leave Greensburg. Dennis & I were going to walk to the Dillons Store to get a bus ride to Haviland, but Joe, Dennis’s son and one Warren’s best friends, drove up in his truck with his wife, Dennis’s wife, Tish, and Tish’s mother. Joe drove us to the Dillons store and Judy was at Dillons, but still no sign of Lakyn!!!!! Joe’s wife took lots of pictures on our drive to Dillons from Dennis’s house. Dennis & I got into the back of Joe’s truck and Joe drove us all to Haviland, where the red-cross, etc., was set up with cots, food, drinks, etc., in the Haviland high school gym. A short time after we arrived in Haviland, we were informed Lakyn had spent the night on a farm outside of Greensburg and Judy made contact with Lakyn via cell phone. Judy registered us with the red-cross and then we headed for Bonita & Jerry’s farm via Judy’s Ford Escort. On the way to Bonita’s when you turn north at the dead end on the blacktop, all the utility poles were blown down and the Edwards County road department were still moving 3 poles off the roadway. About a quarter mile or so from Jerry’s farm all the utility poles were standing, so thank God the tornado did not hit Jerry & Bonita’s home, etc. Dave, April, Zachery & Ethan, who came down to help us and are staying at Pratt, a couple of Jerry’s daughters and spouses and two of their children, Bonita & Jerry were all outside talking when we arrived. Might add there is no power at the “Poor Farm”!!!! After we visited for awhile, Judy & I headed for Hays America for Mandy & Warren’s House. NOT A GOOD SIGN just after we got out of LaCross on US-183, 5 or 6 tornado tracking vehicles headed South!!!!!We arrived at Warren’s about noon. Judy & Warren then went to Wal-Mart to purchase me a couple pair of jeans, tee-shirts, tooth brush, etc. They, also, brought back Kentucky fried chicken, etc., we ate, I then took a shower and then took a nap about 2:00 p.m. and woke up about 8:00 p.m.I heard on the news this afternoon, State Farm Insurance has several mobile units in Haviland, so I hope to talk to State Farm Insurance in the morning. Also, I think we will be able to go back home to look for “stuff” after noon tomorrow. Warren & I will head down early in his truck, Judy will drive to Pratt to get Lakyn and then go to Greensburg. Dave, April, Zachery & Ethan will also help, that is if we can get into Greensburg.
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2024.05.04 05:05 Dr_GIR Judy O'Connor, wife of former Pittsburgh mayor Bob O'Connor, dies

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2024.05.03 10:26 onex7805 Restructuring the Daniel Craig-era James Bond movies Spectre should have come out before Skyfall

The Daniel Craig Bond continuity is a hot mess. There have been worse Bond movies before, but the attempt at serializing and self-mythologizing what was largely an episodic series made it into the most inconsistent era out of the entire Bond canon.
And I'd say it began with Skyfall. Yes, Quantum of Solace sucks, but the idea of continuing where Casino Royale left off and having Bond on a vengeful path isn't a bad idea in itself. Book You Only Lives Twice and the movie Diamonds Are Forever briefly tapped into that, and License to Kill exists, and that is considered one of the best Bond films. Resolving who Bond is and putting an end to his memories and regret for Vesper is an interesting premise. It's just that the execution was terrible.
Skyfall is when the Craig films got screwy. Bond in Skyfall is boring and resembles nothing of his Casino Royale counterpart in his personality, completely lacking in humor and wits. Action set-pieces except for the opening and the sniper fight are unexciting. While they are gorgeous to look at, they all lack the bombastic energy shown by Campbell's films. And yes, that's the point. It's because he's out of his form. The intention is that this isn't a fun Bond movie, but a subversion of it. He is depressed, frailing, and alcoholic... but that's the problem. Why do that here? The two movies before were all about the prequels "Becoming Bond" and right in the next film he is too old and needs to be retired. Roger Moore was older than Craig in Skyfall when he was cast as James Bond.
It's about Bond's failures. He keeps failing every single goal for over two hours. He failed the opening mission and got shot. He failed the test. He failed to protect Sevrevine. Silva escapes. MI6 gets bombed. Bond's childhood house gets bombed. He failed to save M. Yet the movie ends with "James Bond is Back!" and returns to the 00 status... What? He is immediately ready to get back to work. If anything, it would make more sense if Bond retires from the 00 status. He lost people he cares about and acknowledged he is aging, failed everything. The story feels like it was written as a goodbye to the character--as a meta finale to the series as a whole--yet it ends as a glorious return to the series.
Then Bond spends the next two films turning rogue and retiring again before they conclude his run. Even though Spectre was meant to be a "farewell" movie, it honestly felt like a new beginning. The new villain organization is introduced, Blofeld is introduced, Bond succeeds at capturing him, and his adventure depicts James Bond as "his peak". He's humorous, charming, strong, and... Bondian. Yet the film suddenly ends on a different note than all the other Bonds by sending him off to live happily with Madeline. What is the reason for him to retire now? Why introduce the "ultimate villain" and then just retire him?
Spectre in particular is a dead horse, but it deserves another round of beating. I do not understand Sam Mandes's obsession with Bond's past and legacy, and it has gotten far worse with Spectre. Spectre fundamentally rubbed me in a way any other bad Bond flick has not. Die Another Day and Moonraker had 'so bad it's good' quality, but watching Spectre just depressed me. I was in utter disbelief as to how any producer in their right mind thought the "Brofeld" was a good idea.
They just retconned everything when they made Spectre and linked all of the films together. All of a sudden, Le Chiffre, Dominique Green, and Silva are all Spectre agents, did what they did because Blofled was Bond's jealous stepbrother with a daddy issue... If this was actually the plan all along, then there would have been subtle hints dropped in CR and QOS that foreshadowed the events of Skyfall and Spectre. There are none. They are just going along with the Hollywood flavor of the month. With QOS, it was Bourne. With Skyfall, it was The Dark Knight. With Spectre, it was Marvel: turning itself into a huge interconnected cinematic universe.
It's a twist that retcons the long-running series into a familial soap drama. It's doubly worse if it is done for "fan service". This quote "I am the author of all your pain" from Spectre is the perfect illustration of modern franchise filmmaking. Examples like the iconic hero and the villain suddenly having a familial connection with each other, or suddenly all the past installments written to be episodic, unrelated the hero went through are "connected" as one big scheme by this secret hidden family mastermind. Not that this can't be done well, but it is often a lame attempt at copying The Empire Strikes Back. It is almost a surefire way to alienate the fans and make your story fanficy. Hell, even fanfictions today don't pull shit like this. The moment Spectre copied the twin twist, it killed Austin Powers by becoming a parody of itself.
Craig wanted to retire with Spectre, but Broccoli persuaded him to do another movie, and they had to find a way to top the "Bond retires" ending. So we got No Time to Die, a movie that kills off James Bond. Although it is my second favorite Craig Bond movie, it is not good. Aside from how the second half stalls the exciting pacing and momentum, the attempts at flexing "we are trying meta and doing something new!" didn't hit. The impact of Bond just retiring and living a normal life didn't land because we already saw it... twice. MI6 doing shady shit didn't hit hard because we already saw worse with Silva.
The ending comes across as a cringy soap drama attempt. If Spectre was their attempt at what Marvel was doing, No Time to Die was EON's Logan because EON didn't want to do a normal Bond adventure without copying another Hollywood trend. "Oh, you killed Wolverine? Well, we are killing Bond! How about that?!" If anything, the movie is at best when it is just doing normal fun Bondian tropes (which is why the first half shines), but Bond can't just have a normal adventure without an attempt to be "meta" about it. He is 1) not 007, 2) a rookiee, 2) goes rogue, 3) frailing, 4) retired, and 5) dead.
So... here is how I would restructure the Bond films. The limitation is that I am not able to change the story too much. I will have to keep the serialized nature to the Craig era. I believe a lot of problems could be solved by the different ordering.
The order should have been:
Casino Royale - Quantum of Solace - (Standalone Bond film) - Spectre - Skyfall - No Time to Die
Casino Royale is perfect as it is. I'm confident that I will never see a better Bond movie. For Quantum of Solace, I'd link these two YouTube videos as to show how the movie could be improved.
Standalone Bond Movie:
One of the biggest wastes of the Craig era is that he didn't have his standalone in-his-prime Bond movie. He didn't get to have his own "Goldfinger" or "The Spy Who Loved Me" where Bond gets to do a normal job because his films came out at the time when "connect, personalize, and serialize every series!" was the mantra of the industry due to The Dark Knight and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Craig Bond went from a reckless newbie to an old dog who needs to retire immediately without a normal middle Bond adventure to bridge. So much so that video games like Blood Stone and 007 Legends tried to fill that gap.
This is where Craig is at his peak. Bond just doing his normal episodic mission as 007, without tying himself to a larger big bad organization. There are many non-Flemming books to adapt. Apparently, Raymond Benson's books are very much like the Bond films. I remember Devil May Care being hotly debated as the next Craig Bond entry. John Gardner's Scorpius could easily be changed into the modern "War on Terror" setting.
This is also a place where you introduce Moneypenny and Q, and a bunch of cool gadgets and supercars for Bond to play with. Have Moneypenny as a Bond girl throughout the adventure and then she gets hurt, and that injury leads to her retiring a field agent to a desk job.
Spectre:
I inherently dislike the filmmakers attempting to serialize the Bond films, and we had a disastrous result, but if you want to do it, I believe Spectre and Skyfall should have switched their places. Just by this switch, the consequences that affect the overall story work way better. Because Spectre would have worked better as Bond in his prime, facing his ultimate arch-nemesis.
Skyfall being nominated for five Academy Awards made EON delusional about making an Oscar Bond movie. They thought what made it successful was the legacy elements. Spectre's horrid twist and No Time to Die's ending exist because the filmmakers wanted to capitalize on Skyfall's success of self-reflection and mythologization. This is why Blofeld turns out to be Bond's stepbrother and Bond dies. Without Skyfall, both Spectre and No Time to Die would have been fun, dumb superspy movies.
This post by u/jolipsist is a near-perfect rewrite of Spectre. No Brofeld, better romance, better third act, and better internal struggle within MI6. Bond is just a nuisance to Spectre. Blofled's plan is to reprogram Bond's head with the drill and rewrite his brain into killing M when he returns to England, which will prove how unreliable field agents are and allow C to take over British Intelligence.
When Q tells Bond that Spectre is Quantum in the middle of Spectre, it comes across as a shoehorned attempt to tie these two films despite the fact that it wasn't clearly planned. Instead, we get this weird retcon on how Quantum works. Quantum was one organization and Spectre was another. They had nothing to do with each other until the filmmakers decided to make them the same organization.
Shit on Quantum of Solace all you want, but Spectre as a criminal organization is just such an outdated concept in today's world (it was already dated in the 60s), while Quantum as a cabal of multinational business interests working for mutual gain is more believable. The former would screw up enough somewhere that major powers would take them down while the latter would easily thrive within global capitalism. I do like how Quantum adapts SPECTRE in a more modern, grittier sense in the form of Quantum. This is what I wanted from the Craig-era Bond films. Take the old elements and modernize them in a proper way.
So start the story with Bond trailing and investigating Quantum--a loose thread from QOS. This way, we have this constant progression from the previous films, rather than a "surprise". And instead of Quantum secretly being Spectre all along, it should have been Blofeld swallowing Quantum after it was crippled by Bond in QOS. In the meeting where Bond sneaks into where he first sees Blofeld, that's when Blofeld gains power within Quantum and renames it into Spectre. When Blofeld meets Bond, he mocks him with the fact that Bond indirectly helped him rise to power.
Skyfall:
If Skyfall was a response to the events in Spectre, then it would make more sense. The incident at MI6 in Spectre led to a public outcry and inquiry. C's actions have leaked the files about MI6's undercover agents, leading to the Istanbul chase.
Remember a scene in Skyfall where Bond uses his presumed death to retire and lives with some other girl on the bed? It would have made way more sense if that girl was Madeline. Maybe the movie can have her in a minor role by having her tell Bond not to go back to London. Build upon the chemistry established previously.
Already having Madeline established as his faithful lover means you can cut the creepy shower scene with Severine, which as time goes on will age as well as the barn rape scene from Goldfinger and the blackmail sex scene from Thunderball. Imagine a police officer tasked with helping sex slavery victims escape their captors, and while the victim is reliant on his help, he takes advantage of it by suddenly barging into her shower unprompted...
The classic Aston Martin DB5 reveal also makes more sense by placing Skyfall later in the chronology. In Casino Royale, Bond wins a DB5. It's a beautiful car and a nice homage to Goldfinger, and that's pretty much it. In the movie Skyfall, it is revealed he kept it somewhere secret, and the service didn't know about it. But then it is revealed it is a completely modified Bond car with all the identical gadgets and weapons from Goldfinger... And Bond is very well familiar with the DB5, knowing the weapons and functions inside out. But then M also knows about... the ejector seat in the car? So it is not even that Bond modified the car in secret. When Skyfall was released, there were speculations that Bond was a timelord because of it. Then Spectre tried to retcon this by having Q tell Bond to bring the DB5 back in one piece, implying he made it for Bond, even though Bond didn't meet Q until this film. What's going on here? If Q was introduced earlier into the chronology, it could have been implied that he modified the DB5 Bond won from Casino Royale.
I always found Skyfall's climax to be boring, so with Madeline and Moneypenny established in the previous film, maybe the third act can incorporate them. In the Scotland part, it is revealed Silva has captured Madeline and is holding her as a hostage, threatening Bond to bring M out. Bond uses his wits and distracts Silva, while Moneypenny goes in to save Madeline. This adds more stakes and tension to the climax. Maybe Bond chooses to save Madeline over M--choosing a retirement.
M's death in Skyfall would have been a better way to motivate Bond to retire with Madeline. He was already rugged and disillusioned with his worth as 007 by the start of the story, and his beliefs are confirmed with M dying. Then Bond's secret agent job inevitably put Madeline in danger, and she could die like M did. Also, by this point, Craig Bond has five films. We saw his peak. That's enough crazy adventures for his health. He is aged. He failed the test. Blofeld is in the cages. Spectre is no more. He got his new girlfriend Madeline. What else he can do for the country? This is the point where it does make sense to do a retirement movie.
Skyfall has an aura of finality that even No Time to Die didn't have. It serves as a perfect end to Craig’s era. It has all the meta elements and Bond's character arc, but it feels out of place in anything other than a final film. If you don't like No Time to Die, you can retire Craig completely here because it is the perfect final movie to end, alongside the tenure of Judi Dench's M.
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2024.05.02 08:09 babybeewitched quit job on my first day

i'd been working as a hostess since march and i can't take it anymore, so i applied to a local small arcade where i know a few former employees. got called for an interview yesterday, owner was chill and the job seemed easy. he told me to come in on my day off from my current for training to see how i like it.
i showed up today and was immediately overwhelmed. the owner started taking me around the back and showing me stuff and then asked one of the managers to show me how everything works. in my interview, i was told i'd be starting with ticket redemption. i walked in and was told i was starting with everything. ticket redemption, security, registers, making food, stocking, cleaning, managing/creating reservations, EVERYTHING. not to mention they have panic buttons that call the police when pressed for us to take when we go outside. the fact that it's even needed was a huge red flag..
owner asked all the workers to make sure i rang up every customer that came in at the register. there was only about 5 since its a weekday, but i messed up every single one and had a few upset people. that's not even including how much i struggled to count the change. i absolutely can't do mental math. i couldn't even understand what they were saying to me most of the time. i have SPD, and trying to understand someone from behind a counter while the tv, music, and arcade machines are blasting is a nightmare.
i guess i'm glad my plan for quitting my first job was to just not show up, because i would've been screwed if i had told them i was quitting and then also quit this job.
all this being said, if anyone has job recommendations, that'd be great. hosting is my only job experience. my highest education is high school (i did receive my diploma). i don't think cashier would be good for me because of my mental math issue. hosting is much too stressful for me and i don't communicate very well. i wanted to try being a barista, but i was told i'd have to memorize things and i have worsening short term memory issues. i wanted to do prep cook, but i can't control my hands very well. ugh. it feels like i was doomed to fail. my few skills are only useful in unrealistic careers. yeah im good at games and writing, but what am i gonna do, become a top twitch streamer or best selling author?
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2024.05.01 05:37 b1ackm1st Attempting to build my support network / group as fast as possible, I feel like the countdown clock has started. It's getting serious.....imo

I know the book talks about mordid worries, well I'm an absolutely psychosomatic hypochondriac of the utmost degree (the old beta me, not the new masculine I'm trying to build, the old, weak me is the anti-thesis of this alcoholic). (I feel like I shouldn't be alive and I have massive PTSD, so said my last sponsor K). It's true, I've had legitimate near-death experiences, I was 2 weeks from heart failure from having Anxorexia Nervosa......survived that. There's been some other pretty serious encounters with knocking on death's door as well. I mean, c'mon, we're alcoholics, we know what it's like.
Guess I'm just providing some context for my personal situation.
I'm in the process of trying to crank out my first assignment but I obviously have terrible issues with perfectionism from getting bullied, struggling to keep up with my intellectually superior best friend/mentor during my formative years (emotionally, I'm probably 8 years old, maybe 11, who knows).
In 6 days, I'll have 6 months, but I've been seldom sliding backward a bit lately. Playing whack-a-mole with my addictions (it was food and porn, and no, not both simulatanously. Good God). However, I do feel like a fraud (not really, but). I'll have 6 months clean from my DOC, but not my addiciton...if that makes sense..
I am strugging also thinking this sponsor may not be the best fit for me, because I have this like weird intellectual superiority complex from hanging around smart people pretty much my whole life and now I'm mostly alone so I've driving myself insane. I don't have a job and have gotten social security since I was 18 (my parents used it to raise me up until then, unfortunately they had their own struggles and could not stow a penny or two away from me).
My life is not sustainable the way it is, only being able to eat 12 foods (monastic diet due to food hypersenitivities), so then because it's so bland I am also getting addicted to "sweet" stuff, which is some of the most addicting stuff, imo. I quit smoking and cigarettes and vaping like a madman after that. Don't recall how I did that.
One step at a time, easier said than done.
I got totally lost in my tanget but I"m hoping that somebody could help me figure out how to choose the idealistic therapist for my situation (in NA, we have this lady "Judy" who just got here PhD in Psychology, also being an addict. How can I find somebody like that (albeit male) that would be the ideal/perfect fit for me and my recovery (having first-hand and now possessing speciality knowledge dealing with a SUD). Would it be enough to just find somebody that has speciality knowledge in dealing with SUD and would that be enough I guess is what I'm asking.
Thanks for listening....
If anybody wants to call or text me to check-in, that would be cool, PM me?? Idk if I should just openly be throwing around my number here in public. Maybe, though?? i've been slowly collecting phone numbers but I don't call anybody, but somebody did say just recently, "Just call somebody and say their name, 'Hey Jerry Seinfield!" It's so-and-so....' and they would simply do the talking"..... Pick up the phone and it's suddenly like double-gravity. WHOA.
I understand there's nothing more therapeautic than working the steps, but surely there must be more to a therapist/psychologist/what have you than just merely being an accountability partner. However, since this is anonymous, they're not really going to admit on their record that they were a former addict unless given a special opportunity or enterence to do so (boss is in the program, etc.).
Also, witha sponsor, guess that's also a life-long endeavor as well? Not sure if finding somebody than has some intellectual prowess as well as being a well-rounded individual and having a successful professional life/career is possible. Maybe I'll reach out to Rich Roll and see if he'd be willing to sponsor me, lol. Shoot for the moon but maybe I'll hit a nearby star. Anyways, getting caught up here.
Please feel free to supply me with heavy criticism, honesty, whatever because that's the only way I'll grow. My friend really good at that. We had a falling out, though.
He held in for an unbearably long time and had the utmost tolerance with me until we just got older and he grew out of it. It was clearly time to move on. He went from being a drunk loser to getting a $90,000 at Bosch and a $30,000+ raise within 3 months. Supposedley there was a way he calculated his professional salary's ceiling and said it was somewhere around $250,000-$350,000/yr. Moral of the story, get your kids involved in STEM if possible and pay somebody really smart to tutor them (like my friend, although you'd be really lucky to find somebody like that, they do exist and don't have to be completely identical, just saying) (unless it's just not for them). Typical EngineeINTJ genius for you........
Of course that's an outdated psychometric model at this point. Big 5 is the new personality standard, I believe...
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2024.04.30 08:03 JohannGoethe Transport 🚀 mechanism?

Transport 🚀 mechanism?
Abstract
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Overview
The question of how each genius gets to the year A1111 is a riddled one?
Dream?
The simplest mechanism, is that the transport of each genius to the future occurs like Alembert’s Dream 😴, as penned by Diderot, wherein Alembert has “feverish” dream about a dialogue where he is probed about his beliefs on whether rocks 🪨 think 💭 or how an atom can form an elephant 🐘, among others:
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The “dream” in this scenario would be had by Thims or by some “future“ fictional sleeper, in the year A1111, who goes into a coma for a month, dreaming a new nightly dinner interaction for a month long, after making a top 1000 geniuses list of all time, or something along these lines?
Re-Synthesis?
Diderot envisioned that his atoms might be re-combined in the future someday, and that he might again meet his lover Sofie Volland:
“When the cell is divided in a hundred thousand parts, the primitive animal dies, but all his laws still exist. Oh, my Sophie, I still have the hope to touch you, to feel you, to love you, to seek you, to blend with you when we no longer exist!
If there were in our nature a law of affinity; if we were destined to blend into one common being; if in the space of eternity I could remake a whole with you; if the dispersed molecules of your lover became agitated and began to search for yours! Leave me this hope, this consolation. It’s so sweet. It assures me of eternity in you and with you.”
— Denis Diderot (196A/1759), “Letter to Sophie Volland”, Oct 15
There is some remote possibility of this, per reason that the “laws of affinity”, after Clausius, became the laws of thermodynamics; which after, following Gibbs and Lewis, the affinities, or forces that assembled Diderot and Volland, became the “formation energies”; which Norman Dolloff (A20/1975) put into his “synthesis equation”, as follows:
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How exactly the “mind” or memory state of a re-synthesized genius” would be programmed, seems dubious? Yet we might surmise that someone, in say 700-years, figures out a way to re-make the “electromagnetic state” of one’s mind, exactly?
Transporter?
At the simplest-level, to get things rolling, barring digression on the reality and feasibility of the mechanism, we might just assume that Thims (or his associates) goes back in time and convinces each genius to come to the party, using some modern form of the Star Trek transporter device:
https://preview.redd.it/fh7bln6l6kxc1.jpg?width=1709&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad7328e35d62105103f80cd7d532d5bfebedf689
Notes
  1. The ”mechanism” of how each genius gets to the future, is really irrelevant; the point is to juxtaposed two or more geniuses to make new dialogue.
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2024.04.30 04:11 One-Yam2819 Oh lawd 😫 he's dying for attention. Might as well join his LGBT community because the Retrumpblicans didn't accept his ass

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2024.04.28 00:24 Leather_Focus_6535 The currently 73 inmates executed by Alabama and their crimes since the 1970s (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk)

Here is the list of the currently 73 inmates executed by the state of Alabama that I wrote for my post Furman death penalty project. Alabama has set plans to carry out additional executions in the next few months, and this list might be reposted with the updated information if they happen as scheduled.
Something that should also be clarified is the dates given here are an approximate timeline of their earliest known criminal activities to their executions rather then time spent on death row. Many of the cases here are quite graphic by nature, and I don't shy away from it in my descriptions. Please read at your own risk.
The states I have left are Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, Oklahoma, and the still in progress Texas. I'll probably post my list for Georgia next whenever I have time next week.
The currently executed 73 offenders:
1. John Evans III (~1976+-1983, electric chair): A year after Evans was paroled, he and another ex convict, Wayne Ritter, went on a two month long crime spree that involved 30 armed robberies, 9 kidnappings, and 2 extortion incidents. Their rampage ended when they shot dead 34 year old Edward Nassar in front of his daughters while robbing his pawn shop. Evans' execution was controversial, as it took 24 minutes and three pulls of the switch to electrocute him. Any information on his crimes before his 1977 spree is unavailable to me.
2. Arthur Jones (1981-1986, electric chair): Jones gunned down Vaughn Thompson, a 21 year old storekeeper, and William Waymon, a 72 year old cab driver, in two robberies.
3. Wayne Ritter (1976-1986, electric chair): Ritter was the accomplice of the above mentioned John Evans. After being released from prison, he assisted him in several robberies, abductions, and the murder of Edward Nassar. Like Evans, Ritter's earlier criminal history wasn't disclosed in the sources on hand.
4. Michael Lindsey (1981-1989, electric chair): Lindsey broke in the home of 64 year old Rosemary Rutland. After tying her up, he shot and stabbed Rutland to death, and stole her Christmas presents.
5. Horace Dunkins Jr. (1980-1989, electric chair): Dunkins abducted 26 year old Lynn McCurry, bound her to a tree, and raped her. He stabbed McCurry 66 times, and left her body on the tree she was tied to. His execution was a source of controversy, as Dunkins was allegedly cognitively disabled.
6. Herbert Richardson (1977-1989, electric chair): Richardson threw a pipe bomb into the home of one of his ex girlfriend's family members in retaliation for her breaking up with him. Her niece, 11 year old Rena Callins, was killed in the attack.
7. Arthur Julius (1972-1989, electric chair): In 1972, Julius beat his boss, 74 year old Herbert Chisenhall, to death during an argument over his wages. He was given a life sentence, but was able to leave custody in 1978 on a one day release. Julius took advantage of his leave to rape his cousin, 29 year old Susie Sanders, in her home. She was strangled to death during the assault.
8. Wallace Thomas (1976-1990, electric chair): Thomas and a partner abducted 21 year old Quenette Shehane from a convenience store. She was raped, robbed, and shot to death.
9. Larry Heath (1981-1992, electric chair): Out of a desire to marry another woman, Heath orchestrated the kidnapping of his 21 year old wife Rebecca (who was 9 months pregnant with their child) with the help of some men he hired. She was abducted from their home and shot in the head.
10. Cornelius Singleton (~1972-1992, electric chair): Singleton was condemned for the robbery of a Catholic monastery that ended with the fatal strangulation of a nun, 51 year old Ann Hogan. His execution was hotly contested by his lawyers and supporters, who have alleged misconduct in the trial and investigation. Despite the controversy, Hogan's stolen watch was found in Singleton's possession. Singleton was previously convicted for a 1972 incident involving arson and burglary.
11. Willie Clisby Jr. (1979-1995, electric chair): Clisby broke into the home of 58 year old Fletcher Handley, beat him to death with an ax handle, and left with $80 in hand.
12. Varnell Weeks (1981-1995, electric chair): Weeks abducted and carjacked 24 year old Mark Batts. He bound Batts, placed a pillowcase on his head, and shot him through it. While driving Batts' stolen car in Ohio, he was flagged down by police officers, and Weeks fired on them in the confrontation. In the shootout, Weeks was captured without any causalities to the responding officers. His execution was controversial, as his lawyers claimed that he was a paranoid schizophrenic.
13. Edward Horsley Jr. (~1976-1996, electric chair): After escaping from prison with Brian Baldwin, Horsley abducted 16 year old Naomi Rolon while she was hitchhiking. Horsley raped and dismembered Rolon with an ax, and ran her body over. Although Horlsey's culpability is an overwhelming certainty, the extent of Baldwin's alleged involvement is a significant source of contention. Horsley was previously convicted of a string of robberies that ended up with a non-fatal shooting of a police officer.
14. Billy Waldrop (1982-1997, electric chair): Waldrop snuck into the home of 72 year old Thurman Donahoo and shot him in the head. He then stole $130 and a 5-carat diamond ring. To destroy any evidence of his crime, Waldrop burned the house down, and fled to California. While in hiding, he was detained by the local law enforcement for a DUI and extradited back to Alabama to face trial.
15. Walter Hill (~1952-1997, electric chair): As a teenager in the early 50s, Hill beat Sam Atmore (age unknown) to death. He was given a 10 year sentence for that murder, and took part in an escape attempt that was temporarily successful because of the watchman's negligence. After his release, Hill became a career criminal and was involved with several abduction robberies, and wound up in a cycle of repeatedly being in and out of prison. During one of his incarcerations, Hill stabbed an unidentified inmate to death, but was cleared of any charges on the grounds of self defense. In 1977, Hill started an illicit "relationship" with a 13 year old girl, and sought the permission of her stepmother, 60 year old Willie Hammock, to marry but she refused. Out of anger, Hill shot Hammock, her 34 year old daughter Lois Tatum, and Lois' 36 year old husband John dead in their home, and abducted the girl and her 16 year old adopted brother. The brother managed to escape, but Hill kidnapped a motorist he encountered in Georgia. The man escaped captivity in North Carolina, and reported Hill and the abducted girl to the local police.
16. Henry Hays (1981-1997, electric chair): Hays was a member of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter, and the son of one of the most prominent KKK leaders in Alabama. In the area, the sentencing of a black man, who was accused of murdering a white policeman, kept on getting delayed due to a string of mistrials. Hays and other members of the KKK chapter interpreted it as a sign that blacks will be able to get away with murdering whites, and sought revenge by lynching a black person at random. The unfortunate victim was 19 year old Michael Donald, who was abducted while walking home from a gas station. Donald was beaten with a tree stump, strangled with a rope, and his throat slit by Hays and his fellow Klansmen. His body was hung on a nearby tree.
17. Steven Thompson (1984-1998, electric chair): Thompson abducted 25 year old Robin Balarzs, a friend's fiancee, from her home. After he tied up and gagged her, Thompson raped Balarz and penetrated her with a knife, shaved her head, and dragged her to death with his car over a distance of 3,000 feet. He stole Balarz's wedding ring and a dollar from her purse, and sexually mutilated her body.
18. Brian Baldwin (~1977-1998, electric chair): Baldwin was the accused accomplice of the above mentioned Edward Horsley, and allegedly helped him with the sex murder of Naomi Rolon after they escaped from prison together. As mentioned in Horsley's section, Baldwin's involvement with Rolon's killing remains hotly contested to this day, and he and his supporters alleged that he was set up by institutionalized racism and tortured into confessing by investigating police officers. He was previously in prison for stealing a car.
19. Victor Kennedy (~1980-1999, electric chair): Kennedy, a career burglar, and an accomplice, Darrell Grayson, broke into the home of 86 year old Annie Orr to search for money. They bound, beat, raped, and suffocated her with a pillow case. When they failed to find any money, Kennedy and Grayson left the residence empty handed.
20. David Duren (1983-2000, electric chair): Duren and an accomplice kidnapped 16 year old Kathleen Bedsole and her date, 17 year old Charles Leonard, and stole $20 that was given to them by Bedsole's father. The couple were tied together, and locked in the trunk for several hours. When Duren stoped his car, he shot both of the teenagers. Bedsole was killed, while Leonard managed to survive and escape.
21. Freddie Wright (1977-2000, electric chair): Wright was convicted of robbing a store owned by couple, 40 year old Warren and 37 year old Lois Green, with 3 other men. The Greens were tied together, dragged into a backroom, and shot to death. Their watches and $900 were stolen in the robbery. His execution was controversial, as his attorneys and supporters push that he was convicted both out of racism and the participants allegedly naming him to avoid death sentences.
22. Robert Tarver Jr. (1984-2000, electric chair): Tarver fatally shot 63 year old Hugh Kite, while he and an accomplice were robbing him outside of his store. Kite was just done closing his store when he was attacked, and had $80 taken from him.
23. Pernell Ford (1983-2000, electric chair): Ford forced himself into the home that 70 year old Willie Griffin shared with her 42 year old daughter Linda. He stabbed both of them to death after a struggle. Several undisclosed items were stolen from the Griffin home, and Ford used their car to flee to Illinois.
24. Lynda Block (1992-2002, electric chair): Block, her common law husband, George Sibley, and her 9 year old son were sitting in car that was parked in a Walmart parking lot. A passerby was concerned by Block's son apparently looking distressed, and reported them to the police. When a police officer, 38 year old Roger Motley, came to question them, Block and Sibley shot him to death. The couple was previously involved in assaulting and stabbing Block's ex husband in a dispute over their home, a crime they were on the run from at the time of Motley's murder.
25. Anthony Johnson (1984-2002, lethal injection): While Johnson and two unidentified men were robbing a jewelry store, they engaged in a gun-battle with the owner, 51 year Kenneth Cattrell, and killed him. Although Johnson's wasn't directly responsible for Cattrell's death and only acted as a lookout, he was the only member of the gang to be captured, and thus bore the brunt of the judicial retributions when he refused to testify against them.
26. Michael Thompson (1984-2003, lethal injection): During a nighttime convenience store robbery, Thompson kidnapped the clerk, 57 year old Maisie Gray. Thompson forced Gray into his car, drove her to a well, and tossed her inside it. He then shot a trapped Gray to death with his married girlfriend holding a torch for him. His girlfriend had a longstanding record for armed robberies, and Thompson's defense tried to use the argument that she goaded him into the killing or did it herself.
27. Gary Brown (1996-2003, lethal injection): Brown and a few other men went to the home of Jack McGraw, a 59 year old Korean War veteran, to "party." On numerous previous occasions, McGraw had paid them for sex acts. They planned on robbing McGraw's house after he passed out drunk, but he refused to drink as he had work the next morning. Undeterred, Brown and his accomplices attacked McGraw, and stabbed him a combined total of 78 times. More specifically, McGraw's back was stabbed 59 times, his throat and neck were slashed 16 times, and he had 3 cut wounds on his head. The group then stole $67 and a VCR set from his home.
28. Thomas Fortenberry (1984-2004, lethal injection): Fortenberry fatally shot four people, 51 year old Wilbur Nelson, 43 year old Robert Payne, Robert's 29 year old wife Nancy, and 21 year old Ronald Guest, while attempting to rob a gas station.
29. James Hubbard (~1957-2004, lethal injection): In 1957, Hubbard shot and killed 28 year old Carl Dockery in what was described as a "domestic disturbance." He was paroled in 1976 with the help of 62 year old Lillian Montgomery, a woman he befriended behind bars. Hubbard repaid the favor by shooting and killing her while robbing a store she owned in the following year. He stole $500 and her diamond watch, and tried to stage Montgomery's death as a suicide despite the fact that he shot her in the face, head, and shoulder.
30. David Hocker (1998-2004, lethal injection): Hocker was living in a motel and didn't have a car at hand. Thus, he asked his boss, 47 year old Jerry Robinson, to drive him around for an errand. When they were in the car together, Hocker stabbed Robinson to death, stole his credit card, and withdrew $400 from it to buy cocaine. Hocker had an extensive criminal history, but the specifics weren't given in my sources.
31. Mario Centobie (1995-2005, lethal injection): Centobie and another prisoner escaped from a Georgia prison during his 40 year sentence for the double kidnappings of his ex wife and son. They fled to Alabama, and were pulled over by local policemen. Centobie opened fire on them and killed Keith Turner, a 29 year old officer, and wounded another. The pair were recaptured in Georgia near the home of Centobie's ex wife. While awaiting trial, Centobie yet again escaped by seducing a guard, but was quickly recaptured.
32. Jerry Henderson (1984-2005, lethal injection): On his sister-in-law's payroll, Henderson lured her husband, 33 year Jerry Haney, outside of his house and shot him dead.
33. George Sibley Jr. (1992-2005, lethal injection): Sibley was the common law husband of the above mentioned Lynda Block, and assisted her in the killing of officer Roger Motley. He also took part in the assault of her ex husband.
34. John Peoples Jr. (1983-2005, lethal injection): Enraged that 34 year old Paul Franklin refused to sell him his car that he coveted, Peoples broke into his home, and beat him to death with a rifle. Peoples stole the car and abducted Paul's wife, 34 year old Judy, and their 10 year old son John. They were also beaten to death with Peoples' rifle.
35. Larry Hutcherson (1992-2006, lethal injection): Hutcherson broke into the home of 89 year old Irma Gray, and slit her throat. He stole her air conditioner and microwave in the robbery.
36. Aaron Jones (1978-2006, lethal injection): After being fired by them, Jones and his partner invaded the home of their former employers, 61 year old Carl and 45 year old Williene Nelson. They shot Carl and Willene dead and chopped their bodies into several pieces. The pair also shot their 3 children, 21 year old Tony, 13 year old Brenda, and 10 year old Charlie, and Carl's mother, 85 year old Annie, but they all managed to survive their injuries.
37. Darrell Grayson (1980-2007, lethal injection): Grayson was the accomplice of the previously mentioned Victor Kennedy, and partook in the rape and murder of Annie Orr and the burglary of her home.
38. Luther Williams (1988-2007, lethal injection): While John Kirk, a 63 year old WW2 veteran, was driving home from work, his truck broke down. He was found and abducted by Williams and 2 other men, and shot to death by them. The trio then stole money from Kirk's body and his truck.
39. James Callahan (1982-2009, lethal injection): Callahan kidnapped 26 year old Becky Howell, while she was walking from a club her fiance was performing to switch laundry that she left at a laundromat. Howell was raped and strangled to death.
40. Danny Bradley (1983-2009, lethal injection): When his wife was hospitalized, Bradley was left to care for his stepdaughter, 12 year old Rhonda Hardin, and his stepson. After he put his stepson to bed, Bradley sodomized Hardin and choked her to death with his bare hands.
41. Jimmy Dill (~1983-2009, lethal injection) Dill shot his dealer, 33 year old Leon Shaw, in the head during a deal gone bad, and stole $200 and a few bags of cocaine. Shaw was left comatose and died of his injuries 9 months later. Dill had an extensive criminal record for theft and drug possession.
42. Willie McNair (1990-2009, lethal injection): McNair and an accomplice went to the home of his occasional employer, 68 year old Ella Riley, to ask for some money. When Riley declined to give them any, McNair tricked her into letting him inside by asking for a drink of water. After walking in, he stabbed Riley in the neck and strangled her to death. The pair then fled with her purse.
43. Jack Trawick (~1972-2009, lethal injection): Trawick was convicted or credibly confessed to a minimum of 3 murders. His verified victims consist of 27 year old Aileen Pruitt, 21 year old Stephanie Gach, and 17 year old Betty Richards. In his known murders, he forcibly abducted his victims from public locations, and raped and tortured them. They were then stabbed and beaten to death with a hammer. Trawick bragged in graphic details about committing other murders on a website made for death row inmates, which he also used to taunt the victims' families. However, investigations into the alleged additional killings brought no results, and are now believed to have been fictionalized by Trawick for clout.
44. Max Payne (1992-2009, lethal injection): Payne robbed a store at gunpoint, and kidnapped the owner, 58 year old Braxton Brown. He took Brown to his sister's house and tried forcing him into giving them money. When his sister objected, Payne dragged Brown to a bridge, shot him in the head, and dumped his body in the nearby creek. A total of $1,085 in cash and many of Brown's belongings were stolen, which included bank deposit checks, rings, cigarettes, food stamps, and a handgun.
45. Thomas Whisenhant (~1963-2010, lethal injection): At the age of 16, Whisenhant fatally shot 72 year old Lexie Haynes in one incident and robbed an unidentified blind woman in another. For uknown reasons, the charges were dropped against him, and he was able to join the air force. A few years later, he assaulted Rose Covington, a 22 year old WAF servicewoman, with an ashtray, and was discharged and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for the attack. Whisenhant was granted parole in 1972. Another couple years later, he went on a crime spree, and abducted 3 women that worked in convenience stores he robbed. His victims, 44 year old Venora Hyatt, 28 year old Patricia Hitt, and 23 year old Cheryl Payton, were all raped and shot in the head.
46. John Parker (1988-2010, lethal injection): Parker and his accomplice Kenneth Smith was hired to kill 42 year old Elizabeth Sennett, by her husband, who wanted to use her life insurance policy to fund his ministering. Her husband was also Parker's landlord. The pair tricked Sennett into letting them inside the house by pretending to be hunters inquiring about for a hunting spot, and stabbed her to death. Sennett's husband then gave Parker and Smith their stereo and video cassette recorders to make it look like a robbery.
47. Michael Land (~1990-2010, lethal injection): Land kidnapped 30 year old Candace Brown from her apartment after he cut her telephone line. He raped Brown, shot her in the head, and stole her purse. Land had prior convictions of burglaries and receiving stolen goods, and previously met Brown in prison when she ministered to him.
48. Holly Wood (~1981-2010, lethal injection): In 1994, Wood shot his ex girlfriend, 34 year old Ruby Gosha, at point blank range in front of her children at her mother's home. He had also (non-fatally) shot another ex girlfriend from outside her bedroom window several years before Gosha's murder. His criminal history was extensive, and had 18 different felonies on his record. Some of the charges pertained to incidents of assault.
49. Phillip Hallford (~1978-2010, lethal injection): Hallford was jealousy enraged that his 15 year old daughter, whom he had been sexually abusing since she was 7, was dating 16 year old Charles Shannon. He forced her to lure Shannon to a bridge, gunned him down, and stole his wallet. With the coerced help of his stepson, Hallford dumped Shannon's body into a river. As a memento, Hallford forced his daughter to wear a necklace with the shell casing used in the murder.
50. Leroy White (1988-2011, lethal injection): White shot his estranged wife, 35 year old Ruby, dead while she was visiting her sister out of anger at their upcoming divorce. Ruby's sister was wounded in the shooting. White had also previously shot and injured Ruby's leg during an argument.
51. William Boyd (1986-2011, lethal injection): Boyd and a partner broke into the home of married couple, 76 year old Fred and 41 year old Evelyn Blackmon, and duped them into thinking that Evelyn's daughter (whom Boyd previously dated against her mother's wishes) was kidnapped. They made the couple believe that they had to pay a $3,000 ransom for her safe return. The couple were then both tied up, forcibly separated into their captors' cars, and beaten and shot to death.
52. Jason Williams (1992-2011, lethal injection): Under the influence of cocaine, Williams shot his roommate, 46 year old Gerald Paravicini dead in the trailer they shared. William then walked over to his neighbors, the Barber family (consisting of parents, 50 year old Freddie and 45 year old Linda, and their sons, 22 year old Bryan and 16 year old Brad) and intruded into their home. He shot and killed Freddie, Linda, and Bryan, and wounded Brad. Cash and credit cards were taken and Williams fled in the family van.
53. Eddie Powell III (~1990s-2011, lethal injection): Powell broke into the home of 70 year old Mattie Wesson, and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Wesson was beaten and shot in the attack, but she managed to drag herself to a neighbor's house for help before she succumbed to her injuries. Powell had several previous convictions for burglary, theft, and assault.
54. Derrick Mason (1994-2011, lethal injection): Mason held up a convenience store, and forced the clerk, 25 year old Angela Cagle to turn off the cameras and undress. However, he shot Cagle in the head before any assault could occur. He then tried to open the register, but ran off when he failed to open it.
55. Christopher Johnson (2005-2011, lethal injection): To avoid paying child support and to spite his estranged wife, Johnson smothered his 6 month old son Eilas with his fingers, and struck him in the head.
56. Andrew Lackey (2005-2013, lethal injection): After being told about the existence of a vault inside the home of Charles Newman, a 80 year old WW2 veteran, by Newman's grandson, Lackey decided to steal it from him. He invaded Newman's house, and shot and stabbed him 70 times in the ensuring confrontation. Despite Lackey waiving his appeals and actively petitioning for his own execution, his death sentence attracted controversy due to him being diagnosed with Asperger's.
57. Christopher Brooks (1992-2016, lethal injection): Brooks snuck into the apartment of 23 year old Jo Campbell. He sexually assaulted Campbell in her bedroom, and bludgeoned her to death with a barbell. Several items, including a credit card, were stolen from the scene.
58. Ronald Smith Jr. (1994-2016, lethal injection): Smith and some accomplices robbed a convenience store, and fatally shot the clerk, 26 year old Casey Wilson. According to Smith's attorneys, Smith and Wilson were allegedly involved in a love triangle with a local stripper. If such accounts are to be believed, he shot him dead in a dispute over her, and Smith staged it as a robbery to avoid embarrassing his parents. However, the stripper strongly denied having any connections with both men. His execution sparked controversy, as witnesses reported him coughing and heaving for 13 minutes during it.
59. Thomas Arthur (1982-2017, lethal injection): Arthur's married girlfriend hired him to kill her husband, 35 year old Troy Wicker, for his insurance policy. He gunned down Wicker while he was sleeping in his bedroom. To mislead investigators, Wicker's wife claimed that an intruder broke into her home, shot her husband dead, and raped her.
60. Robert Melson (1994-2017, lethal injection): Melson and his partner held up a Popeyes store at gunpoint. They rounded up the employees, 23 year old Darrell Collier, 18 year old Tamika Collins, 17 year old Nathaniel Baker, and 17 year Bryant Archer, into a freezer, and shot them. Archer was the sole survivor, and identified Melson's accomplice, a former employee, to the police. Although Melson's accomplice was initially given a life sentence due to him being a minor at the time, he was later also sentenced to death for killing a cellmate, and is currently awaiting execution.
61. Torrey McNabb (1997-2017, lethal injection): McNabb skipped bail when he was facing charges for receiving stolen property and drug possession. He was tracked down by a bondsman sent to bring him back to court, but he shot at him when he appeared at his doorsteps. The bondsman then called the police for support. One of the responding officers, 30 year old Anderson Gordon, was killed in the standoff with McNabb.
62. Michael Eggers (2000-2018, lethal injection): Eggers and his ex employer, 67 year old Bennie Murray, were in talks about him returning to his former job at her carnival. While Murray was driving Eggers and his 15 year old son, they got into an argument. During the fight, Murray slapped Eggers, which enraged him. He beat and choked her with his hands until she went unconscious, and tossed Murray out of her car. Eggers continued to beat and kick Murray, and crushed her throat with a tree branch. After she was killed, Eggers stole money from Murray's purse, and drove away in her car.
63. Walter Moody (~1972-2018, lethal injection): In 1972, Moody was building a bomb to kill an auto dealer that repossessed his car. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, and critically injured Moody's then wife instead. Although Moody was cleared of charges relating to the construction of the bomb, he was still convicted of it being in his possession. His appeals were thrown away, which gave him a resentment against the justice system. After Moody was released from prison, he murdered a federal judge, 58 year old Robert Vance, and a civil rights attorney, 42 year old Robbie Robinson, and injured Vance's wife, in two separate bombings. To disguise his attacks, Moody sent bombs and hate letters to various NAACP targets.
64. Domineque Ray (1992-2019, lethal injection): Ray shot and killed two brothers, 18 year old Ernest and 13 year old Reinhard Mabins, for refusing to join his gang. In the following year, Ray and his gang members kidnapped 15 year old Tiffany Harville from her home and raped her. Her throat was slit and she was dumped in a remote cotton field.
65. Michael Samra (1997-2019, lethal injection): During an argument over a pick up truck, Samra and his teenage friend shot and killed his friend's father, 39 year old Randy Duke, and step mother, 29 year old Dedra Hunt. The pair also slit the throats of Dedra's two children, 7 year old Chelsea and 6 year old Chelisa.
66. Christopher Price (~1990-2019, lethal injection): Price invaded the home of Bill Lynn, a 57 year old pastor, while he was busy wrapping Christmas presents for his grandchildren. He stabbed Bill 30 times with a sword and injured his wife Bessie when they confronted him. Despite being only 19 at the time, Price had an extensive criminal history that involved trespassing, auto theft, and "criminal mischief."
67. Nathaniel Woods (~2004-2020, lethal injection): A squad of 4 police officers, 58 year old Carlos Owen, 40 year old Harley Chisholm III, 37 year old Michael Collins, and 33 year old Charles Bennett, were searching a drug house that Woods, a long time dealer, had been operating in. As they were arresting Woods, one of his associates opened fire on them and killed Chisholm, Bennett, and Owen. Collins was wounded, but managed to flee to safety. Wood's execution was extremely controversial, as he wasn't the triggerman in the shootings. His supporters and the shooter himself claimed that he was an entirely innocent party, while the prosecutors pushed that he deliberately lured the officers to their deaths.
68. Willie Smith III (1991-2021, lethal injection): Smith kidnapped 22 year old Sharma Johnson at gunpoint near a bank, and forced her to withdraw $80 from an ATM machine. He locked Johnson in the trunk of her own car, and shot her dead while she was trapped in it. The car was then burned to destroy the evidence.
69. Matthew Reeves (1996-2022, lethal injection): Reeves and two other men pretended to be hitchhikers on a remote highway as a ruse to lure motorists. The target they ensnared was 38 year old Willie Johnson Jr. They robbed Johnson of $360 when he stopped to pick them up, and Reeves shot him to death with a shotgun. Reeves then attended a party reportedly still covered with Johnson's blood, and celebrated by pretending to pump the gun and mockingly mimicked his death throes to the other guests.
70. Joe James Jr. (1993-2022, lethal injection): James tracked down his ex girlfriend, 26 year old Faith Hill, at her friend's apartment. She was in the company of her children, her friend, and her friend's children. The friend shielded the children from James with her body, while Hill tried desperately to calm him down. Despite her efforts, she was shot dead. His execution sparked controversy for it taking over 3 hours to complete, and caused the state of Alabama to delay executions until 2023. James was previously arrested and reported several times for harassing Hill's family, which included an incident of him burglarizing her grandmother's home.
71. James Barber (2001-2023, lethal injection): Barber assaulted 75 year old Dorothy Epps, who was both his ex girlfriend's mother and a former employer, with a claw hammer in her home. Despite her efforts at fighting him off, Epps was beaten to death, and Barber stole her purse.
72. Casey McWhorter (1993-2023, lethal injection): McWhorter conspired with a 15 year old friend and a 16 year old friend to kill 34 year old Edward Williams, the father of the 15 year old. The group tried to force Williams to had over a safe, but he tried to fight back. They shot him a total of 11 times with a .22 rifle equipped with a makeshift silencer in his home and took his truck, wallet, and an undisclosed amount of money. The stolen truck was destroyed in order to sell the parts for scrap metal.
73. Kenneth Smith (1988-2024, nitrogen hypoxia): Smith assisted John Parker in the contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett on the behalf of her husband. His case attracted controversy when he survived a botched execution in 2022, and received international attention for being the first inmate in history to be executed with the controversially experimental nitrogen hypoxia method.
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2024.04.27 16:19 nutraxfornerves Followers of Michael Protozoan (-48) are heading back to Dallas. That is, some of them. There is a lot of dissension among the splintered groups.

Edit Thank you Autocorrect. HIs name is Protzman, although Protozoan also works.
From Kelly, a rabid follower on Telegram:
Kindly be aware there are currently no planned events related to the Negative48 / -48 Channel. Any group or entity issuing invitations for upcoming events is not affiliated with the Negative48 Channel / -48 Crew and are not authorized to use the Negative48 / -48 name or its likeness for any events in the future.
A response from a rabid follower of the opposition party, on the Platform Formerly Known as Twitter.
Okay so this came my way and to that I say Kelly I'm stating facts.
You're trying to get everybody to act in a way that is completely against God's will.
Once you tried to tell us who we were allowed to love and who we weren't and you tried to silence us on our social media platforms many of us left.
I am merely stating a fact and that is many of us from the -48 Dallas crew that were with Michael are gathering from May 26th through May 29th in Dallas Texas.
That's a factual statement!!
We are honoring Michael as some of the people that were with him as -48 to honor him for all he did for all of us.
I was part of -48 Dallas Crew from November 2021 until right after Michael passed away and Kelly told me to shut down my chat after she made the decision that despite the fact we had all been with Michael and been with him all over the country that we should find out from the newspapers that he died.
She told us she would keep us informed.
She said well the family didn't want her to say anything.
I'm here to tell you that there were many times Michael or Kelly said don't say this or that or you'll be out of the group and we never said anything I'm still keeping big huge things to myself out of respect for Michael.
Kelly doesn't deserve that respect from me because she didn't give me that respect. She wants people to give her respect she doesn't feel any responsibility to give others.
So she's saying I'm not authorized to say we're gathering as people that were part of -48 Dallas crew because Kelly basically told everybody to act in a manner in which I feel is ungodly. WE LEFT!
Michael would often ask us what would JFK Jr do? What would Jesus do?
I don't think JFK Jr or Jesus would ever tell us that to be part of this group you must remove the love of so many others that became your family and it doesn't matter what they did for you it's irrelevant to Kelly.
You must dismiss them to continue to be part of -48. NOT!
MANY OF US REFUSED! WE WILL CONTINUE TO WALK IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH GOD AND THAT IS TO LOVE! For one I will never be able to explain to people all that Judy Austin and her husband and Sharron Babb and Anna have done for me especially when I was in jail for January 6th.
Kelly wants me to dismiss all of them while Kelly managed to squeeze out one card while I was in jail.
I even felt it was just something she did because she felt she had to, not any real genuineness to it at all.
Regardless many of us will be gathering at the Hyatt on May 27th for a final filming for the docuseries I've been part of on real Patriots and we will be gathering at 2:18 at the grassy knoll in Dallas Texas on May 28th to honor Michael Brian Protzman AKA -48.
I WAS PART OF DALLAS -48 CREW FROM NOVEMBER 2021 UNTIL MICHAEL PASSED AWAY AND SOMEONE TOOK OVER THAT I REFUSE TO FOLLOW HER FOOTSTEPS BECAUSE I THINK SHE IS A HORRIBLE LEADER. SHE REMOVED ME BECAUSE I WOULDN'T FOLLOW HER DEMAND TO SHUT DOWN MY CHAT. I wouldn't follow her demands to remove people from my life because they are no longer part of the group.
I'M GOING TO LOVE WHO I WANT TO LOVE AND KELLY'S NOT GOING TO STOP ME!!!
THAT'S WHAT I THINK JFK JR WOULD DO AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK JESUS WOULD DO? I DON'T THINK FOR A SECOND JFK JR OR JESUS WOULD TELL US TO REMOVE ANY SMIDGEN OF LOVE FROM OUR LIVES JUST BECAUSE SOME PERSON TOLD THEM TO.
So if you're able to put Kelly's bullshit behind you and would like to honor Michael Brian Protzman AKA -48 that I was part of and proudly part of, join us on May 28th 2024 at 2:18 and for a candlelight visual from 911 to 11:11 I really hope you'll come out Michael deserves it!!!
Also if you would like to honor President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 107th birthday we will be at the grassy knoll at 911 to 11:11 on his birthday May 29th 2024 and then we will gather again from 9/11 to 11:11 to do a candlelight visual.
If you're capable of putting these two honorable men ahead of Kelly's nonsense then join us.
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2024.04.26 01:26 galaxystars1 Nature’s Haru now works at a hostess club in Japan. She states that she is a former k-pop idol.

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