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Winnie Shrout, "Sovereign Citizen"

Shrout, a sovereign citizen who doesn’t recognize the authority of the U.S. government, didn’t show up on March 4 when he was due to report to a federal prison in Sheridan, Ore. A federal judge issued a warrant for the 70-year-old anti-government activist’s arrest. As of April 22, Shrout, with a Hillsboro, Ore., address, had not been arrested and the Bureau of Prisons, on its website, listed him as not in custody.

Shrout faces 10 years in prison after being convicted of issuing fake financial documents to banks and the U.S Treasury. He also didn’t file tax returns from 2009 to 2014. Shrout’s lawyers, through motions, delayed his prison report date at least three times before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered him in to begin serving prison time.

A federal judge Monday sent tax dodger Winston Shrout, a prominent sovereign citizen with an international following, to prison for 10 years for issuing fake financial documents to banks and the U.S Treasury and failing to file tax returns from 2009 to 2014.

"You're 70 years old. This may well be a life sentence,'' U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones said. "I'm well aware of that.''

Now he's on the run. Excuse me while I break out the world's tiniest violin to play for this guy.

 

Florida man, Yet Again

A South Florida man whose car was stolen with his 6-year-old son in the back seat chased the car down, then repeatedly shot the car thief, according to published reports. The Palm Beach Post is among those reporting that Lamar Thurman, 29, stole the 2012 Honda about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Thurman was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The Post reports that he likely will face criminal charges if he survives. He was just released from prison on Feb. 4 after serving three years for carjacking, robbery and aggravated battery of an elderly person, state records show.

We can only hope that Lamar doesn't make it. He's used up more than his share of chances as it is.

 

Notre Dame Cathedral Is On Fire Today

The medieval cathedral was completed in the 13th Century and today, with its towers, spire, flying buttresses and stained glass, is considered a feat of architecture as much as a religious symbol. It is one of Paris' most popular attractions, drawing an estimated 13 million visitors a year.

This is going to take a lot of francs and a long time to restore.

 

8 Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

From outward appearances, the four little black kids singing a song called “We Are Provided For” seemed happy. Along with two other Children of Color, they had been adopted by a married white lesbian couple named Sarah and Jennifer Hart. This odd menagerie consisted of three siblings adopted from one family and three from another, and along with their sexually atypical moms, they constituted a progressive Brady Bunch who presented a grinning face to the world.

Then came the murmurs of abuse, which seemed to trail the family wherever they moved—and they moved often.

When the family moved to Oregon, reports of abuse followed them.

Things unspooled even more wildly after they relocated to Washington State in 2017.

In March of 2018, Devonte Hart—the child who was famous for a photo that showed him hugging a white cop while crying—begged neighbors for food, alleging that his parents withheld food as a form of punishment.

On March 26, 2018, social workers knocked on the door of the Hart family house.

Three days later, the Harts drove themselves and their six children over a 100-foot cliff in Mendocino County, CA. All of the bodies except Devonte’s have been recovered.

A special jury recently ruled that this was no accident.

Pardon me for thinking that this sounds intensely self-centered of these two homicidal dykes.

Mind The Potholes, Holder

“[Mitch McConnell] has done a whole bunch of unpatriotic things, has really been a force of polarization in this nation. History will not be kind to him,” Holder declared Monday on MSNBC.

Mitch didn't run "Operation Fast and Furious", Eric.

During the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal, he became the only sitting Cabinet official in American history to ever be held in contempt of Congress. Why? Because of the efforts he made to obstruct justice by purposefully hiding information from congressional investigators.

In a fair and just world, Eric would be doing his interviews from behind bars.

 

Seems A Bit Fishy

WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly released documents show that a former adviser to Russia’s president sustained a complete fracture of his neck “at or near the time of his death” in a Washington hotel room in 2015.

The official ruling was that Lesin, 57, died accidentally of blunt force trauma after falling repeatedly in his room while intoxicated.

Yet there is intrigue surrounding the case, fed by circumstantial evidence: It seems odd for someone Lesin’s age to die of blunt force trauma while alone in a room. There is also a gap in security video footage for the hours after Lesin was last seen alive. The police report eventually released to the public has been heavily redacted.

Above all, there is a long history of high-profile Russians turning up dead or seriously ill in foreign countries.

It does seem to happen with considerable regularity.

 

London (CNN)Five thousand years after people in the British Isles began building Stonehenge, scientists now know precisely where some of the massive rocks came from and how they were unearthed.

A team of 12 geologists and archaeologists from across the United Kingdom unveiled research this month that traces some of the prehistoric monument's smaller stones to two quarries in western Wales.

The team also found evidence of prehistoric tools, stone wedges and digging activity in those quarries, tracing them to around 3000 BC, the era when Stonehenge's first stage was constructed.

It's rock-solid evidence that humans were involved in moving these "bluestones" to where they sit today, a full 150 miles away, the researchers say.

 

Yeah, they transported those huge stones overland, not by rivers as was formerly believed.

 

Probably used Irish slaves....

 

 

 

Apollo 11

It's 93 minutes of all-archived footage.

Interesting times. Today, we'd never be able to pull it off.

 

Changing The World

The Boeing 747 was first pulled out of the production plant in Everett, Washington in 1968. It changed aviation history.

The plane, which would soon be dubbed “Queen of the Skies,” was big — maybe too big. At twice the size of the Boeing 707, it was by far the largest civilian passenger jet ever conceived: 231 feet long with a 196-foot wingspan — enough room to play regulation basketball on each wing — and a tail as tall as a six-story building. Impressive to look at, but would it fly?

Yep, it would. And equally important, it could land as well.

Nothing like that had ever been done. It was a great American-made success story.

And when Barry was in office, he said we couldn't do things like that any more.

I despised him then, and I despise him now.

 

Torture

Exercising on a treadmill often feels like torture, and that’s not exactly a coincidence.

In 1818, an English civil engineer named Sir William Cubitt devised a machine called the “tread-wheel” to reform stubborn and idle convicts.

That's right, the treadmill originated in prisons. As prisoners walked up the wheel for eight-hour periods, the mechanism was used to pump water or grind grain, which is why it was referred to as a treadmill. English prisons finally got rid of them in the late 19th century, as consigning inmates to tread on them all day came to be regarded as cruel and inhumane. The US prisons abandoned them well before then, in favor of chain-gangs.

The treadmill went away, lost in the mists of history, until the 1960s, when the benefits of aerobic exercise were described. Today, every gym features them. Even "exercise rooms" in hotels have them.