Monthly Archives: November 2008

Does the world suffer from overpopulation?

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Does the world suffer from overpopulation? The website of Fathers for Life (affiliated with the blog of dads & things) contains a number of web pages that discuss various aspects of world-population control, such as the concerns raised by politicians, social engineers and the media about the specter of the world-population “explosion.” It seems that the argument is raised for the purpose of creating unreasonable fear, which fear is then used to rationalize population control though voluntary and compulsory means that bring about, and have done so for more than two decades already on an unprecedented scale, the killing of children about to born, thereby to prevent those children from … Continue reading →

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Revenge by arson

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 01 22: Added links to related articles. DowntownJerseyCityList 2008 11 26 Charge: Told to leave apartment, she set fire By MICHAELANGELO CONTE; JOURNAL STAFF WRITER After being told by her roommate to pack her bags and leave for not paying rent, a Jersey City woman instead decided to try and burn down the apartment building, officials said. After being told by her roommate to pack her bags and leave for not paying rent, a Jersey City woman instead decided to try and burn down the apartment building, officials said. Fashima “Sash” Newson, 37, was arrested this week on charges she doused her roommate’s bed with gasoline, locked the … Continue reading →

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Woman in custody after fatal shooting

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 01 23: Added links to related articles. Kansas City Star – MO, USA 2008 11 25 A woman was in police custody Monday night after telling officers she shot and killed a man in the 9600 block of Bannister Road, Kansas city. Police were called to the shooting about 11:10 p.m. Officers found several women in the house, along with a man thought to be in his 50s dead from a gunshot wound. Police said one of the women told the officers she shot the man….(2019 01 23: The link to that article is now broken, but the following item pertains to a related update.) Update 2008 11 … Continue reading →

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Woman shot boyfriend to death

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 01 23: Added links to related articles. Fort Scott Tribune – Fort Scott, KS, USA 2008 11 25 Toson awaits trial on murder charges in K.C. Toson A Kansas City woman remains in custody after being accused of shooting her boyfriend, a Fort Scott native, to death in his home earlier this year. A Kansas City woman remains in custody after being accused of shooting her boyfriend, a Fort Scott native, to death in his home earlier this year. Kansas City Police officers were called to the home of John Barbieri, 37, former employee of Vista Pharmacy, on Monday, March 17 after receiving reports of shots being fired … Continue reading →

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75-year-old woman shot and killed husband

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 01 23: Added links to related articles. Benton County Daily Record – Bentonville, AR, USA BENTONVILLE – The attorney for a Rogers woman accused of killing her husband will use a mental disease or defect as defense against the crime. Myrtle Walter, 75, was arrested for capital murder on Oct. 4 after admitting to police she shot and killed her husband. Prosecutors have not filed a charge in the case…. Full Story (2018 04 27: That link is now broken, but this link to a related article still functions.) 76-year-old woman charged with capital murder by The Associated Press | February 24, 2009 BENTONVILLE — Prosecutors have filed a … Continue reading →

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Woman shot sleeping boyfriend

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 01 23: Added links to related articles. WDSU.com – New Orleans, LA, USA Police: Woman Shot Allegedly Abusive Boyfriend 2008 11 24 VIOLET, La. — A woman who claimed she had been abused allegedly shot her live-in boyfriend to death as he slept, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’ Jack Stephens said. Ralph Brossette, 35, was shot to death just before 10:30 a.m. Monday in a rented house on Meraux Lane in Violet. Sheriff’s deputies charged 31-year-old Connie Reeb, who had lived with Brossette for six months, with second-degree murder. The woman initially told detectives that she walked into the couple’s bedroom from the bathroom and saw an unknown man shoot … Continue reading →

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Killing of child near Hollister defies rational explanation

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Updated 2019 01 23: Added links to related articles. Mercury News; San Jose, CalPosted: 11/20/2008 By Scott Herhold In the killing of a child, it is the details that haunt us, boring into us like slivers deep in the skin. The more we strive to make sense of what cannot be explained rationally, the more our wound festers. No iodine works for this grief. Here is what we know – just the facts, ma’am – about the death of Donna May Busch. She was killed about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in her playpen in her rural home north of Hollister. She was shot twice, once in the chest and once in … Continue reading →

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Army wife accused in arson that killed her 2 kids

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Army wife accused in arson that killed her 2 kids Associated Press By BILL POOVEY 2008 11 22 GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — An Army wife accused of setting her apartment on fire botched an attempt to collect on her husband’s $400,000 insurance policy when he survived and her two children died instead, a federal prosecutor said. Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, was denied bond at a Friday hearing in northeast Georgia, where she appeared on federal charges of damaging government property by fire…. Full Story (2018 04 27: That link no longer function, but this link to a related article still does.) ____________ Comment by F4L: She was charged to have … Continue reading →

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Social worker unlawfully harassed home-school family

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider

Updated 2019 01 23: Added links to related articles. Home-school family harassed by social worker OneNewsNow – 11/18/2008 6:00:00 AM A home school legal advocate is disturbed by the recent actions of a social worker in Florida. According to Kris Klicka of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a social worker in Miami, Florida, overstepped the boundary of law when she demanded to interview a home schooler’s children. He says the social worker showed up at the family’s home when the father was at work — and out of fear and intimidation, the mother let the social worker into the home to interview her children, even though the worker neither had … Continue reading →

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