Barry Markson
Barry Markson's Journal59 years ago, Friday May 7th 1965, Fridley Mn tornadoes.
I was 17 years old and obviously survived the storms but members of my high school athletic teams were literally called on to help go through the rubble looking for those who might not have, many of whom would have been our classmates.
I still have dreams about those days, I woke up this morning to one, it happens almost every year.
On the evening of May 6, 1965, Twin Cities residents knew that there was going to be a storm. They just didn’t know how devastating it would turn out to be. When Fridley residents saw the sky turning dark green and spotted baseball-sized hail raining down around 7:00 pm, they called their kids inside. Eyewitness accounts describe the air smelling of sulfur. Many who were children at the time later remembered putting large pieces of hail in their refrigerators.
At 7:06 pm, the first tornado touched down in southwestern Fridley. Over the next fifteen minutes, it cut a 6.8-mile path to the northeast and dissipated in Blaine. This tornado was an F4 classification—the second-most powerful category of storm on the Fujita scale. The most common shared experience that people later remembered was hearing the deafening, train-like noise that accompanied the tornadoes.
By the end of the storm, there were three fatalities and 175 injuries. People emerged from their destroyed homes and helped others who were trapped in rubble or injured. However, they did not have much time to do so before a second tornado appeared.
This second tornado touched down in Golden Valley at 8:14 pm. It travelled for 17.3 miles from there through Fridley and Mounds View before dissipating west of Centerville at 9:02 pm. The second tornado was also an F4 storm; this time, there were six fatalities and 158 injuries. Although many homes were mostly destroyed, that night people gathered together with their neighbors and slept in basements and cars that were still intact.
https://www.mnopedia.org/event/fridley-tornado-1965
Prosecutors won't retry Arizona border rancher on murder charge after hung jury
Source: Arizona Daily Star
A Nogales rancher who was accused of killing an unarmed Mexican man on his property is now a free man, after prosecutors declined Monday to retry the case that ended in a mistrial last week.
"Because of the unique circumstances and challenges surrounding this case, the Santa Cruz County Attorney's Office has decided not to seek a retrial," said prosecutor Kim Hunley, Santa Cruz county attorney, during a status hearing in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Monday afternoon.
Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the closely watched trial and deadlocked 7-1, in favor of acquittal, according to Kelly's defense team.
After asking jurors to keep trying to reach a verdict, Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared a mistrial on April 22.
Read more: https://tucson.com/news/local/border/arizona-border-rancher-mistrial-hung-jury-murder-charge-dismissed/article_d8c5eedc-0653-11ef-be51-a74a35b43877.html
It is now open season on climate migrants seeking asylum on our Southern border.
President Biden's humane Title IX changes take effect in early August.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Thursday his state “will not comply” with recently unveiled changes to Title IX by the Biden administration.
“Florida rejects [President Biden’s] attempt to rewrite Title IX,” DeSantis said in a video posted to the social platform X. “We will not comply, and we will fight back.”
“We are not gonna let Joe Biden try to inject men into women’s activities,” DeSantis continued. “We are not gonna let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents, and we are not gonna let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida.”
Will the President send Federal agents or troops to enforce the mandates as has been done before?
It could be a Ruby Bridges moment and the images will be just in time for the convention.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4621642-desantis-florida-will-not-comply-with-new-biden-title-ix-rules/
It has been said that one reason the Beatles quit touring was because
They felt their music couldn't be produced live on stage.
Well, the Dutch group The Analogues does it.
Being a lifeguard is now controversial?
Raygun was claimed to have saved 77 people from drowning!
Here he is as governor supposedly saving a kid, and a Black kid at that!
Nancy probably pushed the kid in.
Does it get any more disingenuous?
With regards to events of the day
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down]
If you know, you know.
ESPN MUST SILENCE OR FIRE @StephenASmith
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1782923731951661270Does a shooting at a Senior skip day count as a school shooting?
https://twitter.com/TBifford/status/1781433655950557200AG Brag had better lock Trump up!
This is an in your face violation of the judge's gag order.
Trump Goes From Court to Campaign,
Blames Bragg For NYC Crime
"It's Alvin Bragg's fault," Trump said outside the Sanaa bodega in Harlem, referring to the Manhattan district attorney who has indicted him on 34 counts regarding allegations of falsifying business records to cover an alleged hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
(snip)
Bodegas are small convenience stores typically located in lower-income neighborhoods, and many operate 24 hours. Trump's campaign claims the city has failed to uphold public safety for its 13,000 bodegas because of budget cuts to the police force, which it said is on track by 2025 to fall to its lowest numbers since the 1990s.
The one Trump visited Tuesday, at the invitation of the city's Bodega and Small Business Group, is where Jose Alba, a 61-year-old clerk at the time, stabbed to death Austin Simon, 35, who was trying to assault him, on July 1, 2022.
But Alba was arrested for second-degree murder and locked up for days at Rikers Island until his bail was lowered to $250,000. On July 19, 2022, Bragg dropped the charges against Alba, and Alba then filed a federal lawsuit in September against the city for racial discrimination, wrongful prosecution and for jailing him at Rikers Island.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-newsmax-alvin-brag/2024/04/16/id/1161276/
Ya, I know, wingnut Newsmax. Doesn't make it irrelevant.
Fines won't stop him, only the judge enforcing the gag order with jail time is going to keep him from attacking city officials.
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