malaise

malaise's Journal

November 5, 2016

South Carolina Body found at home of South Carolina sex offender as kidnap details emerge

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/05/body-found-south-carolina-sex-offender-todd-kohlhepp
<snip>
Authorities found a dead body late on Friday on the South Carolina property where a missing woman was discovered “chained up like a dog”, the coroner said, as horrific details emerged of the kidnapped woman’s ordeal.

Kala Brown, 30, had gone to the rural property of Todd Christopher Kohlhepp, a 45-year-old registered sex offender, for a cleaning job around 31 August, accompanied by her boyfriend, a family friend explained to the Associated Press on Friday.

“They were going to do some work, help cleaning up the property. And he pulled out a gun and took them hostage,” said her friend, Daniel Herren, after visiting Brown in hospital.

Brown saw her boyfriend, Charles Carver, 32, get shot and killed, prosecutor Barry Barnette said on Friday. Authorities did not identify the killed victim.

Kohlhepp spent about 14 years in jail for a 1986 crime in which he kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old girl when he was 15. He has been listed on South Carolina’s sexual offender list since at least 2012.

=================
This is a horrific story
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/missing-south-carolina-woman-found-chained-up-container

November 4, 2016

Trump campaign hit with restraining order over voter intimidation fears

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/nov/04/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-swing-states-election-2016-campaign-live

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/civil-rights-lawyer-tweets-voter-suppression-hearing-donald-trump
<snip>

In a surprise ruling, a US district judge in Ohio issued a restraining order against Donald Trump's campaign to prevent anyone working on the campaign from harassing and intimidating voters at the polls on Tuesday.

The order came after a two-hour hearing in which the judge pressed Trump's lawyer to justify the candidate's inflammatory rhetoric about voter fraud. It also applies to close Trump adviser Roger Stone, who has organized poll-watching activities, and the "officers, agents, servants, and employees" of Trump and Stone.

Voter fraud has been a popular theme among Republicans this year, from Trump to state Republican leaders who cite fraud as a reason to make it more difficult to vote. But as Friday's ruling shows, it's a lot easier to warn about fraud on the campaign trail than in front of a judge.

November 4, 2016

After the Election

Someone will have to clean up the media - tabloid as in unsubstantiated unscientific bullshit with nothing associated with knowledge is now cited by so called journalists, producers, etc. Ratings and profit supersede everything else.
Anything for money - money is the only religion in America.

The silence from renowned academics is deafening.

November 4, 2016