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The mother of a Wallabies star has infiltrated the church of Israel Folau. Picture: Mark Metcalfe
The woman who infiltrated Israel Folau's church
by James Campbell and Matt Johnston
9th Oct 2019 9:14 AM
THE mother of rising Wallaby debutant Jordan Petaia has been revealed as the woman who infiltrated the church run by fallen Rugby Australia star Israel Folau's father.
Helen Petaia, whose son Jordan scored a try in his first match against Uruguay last week, has admitted she corresponded via Facebook with Folau's cousin Josiah using a false name.
In the correspondence, which has been obtained by the Herald Sun, Ms Petaia probed the 20-year old student, about the beliefs of the Truth of Jesus Christ church which is run by Israel's father Pastor Eni Folau.
Part of the correspondence between the pair was later leaked to a newspaper triggering Josiah Folau's dismissal from this job as a teacher and boarding house supervisor at St Gregory's College, a Catholic private school at Campbelltown in south-west Sydney.
Israel Folau's cousin, Josiah, was dismissed from his job at a Catholic private school after the correspondence between himself and Helen Petaia was leaked.
The incident came after Israel Folau was dumped by Rugby Australia over social media posts that suggested homosexuals would go to hell.
Ms Petaia told the Herald Sun that in the aftermath of this sacking Folau was held up as a model of Christianity and she was motivated to reveal the truth about what his church taught.
"I suppose I was concerned with Izzie's influential factor that he, in a sense, was someone who was influential with young people, because I have seen that happen before," she said.
When asked whether her son, Jordan, was among those who she was concerned about she said: "I would say my son amongst other young people. Not just my son".
Calling herself Josie Benc, Ms Petaia had pretended to live near Bondi, though she in fact lives in Queensland, telling Josiah Folau she was at a cross roads and needed "some teaching and Christians to grow with".
Israel Folau arrives at the Truth of Jesus Christ. Picture: David Swift
Israel Folau preaching at the The Truth of Jesus Christ Church. Picture: Facebook
She then questioned him for weeks about the church's beliefs, though Mr Folau said he had only been a member for two months at the time they began exchanging messages.
At one point she asked him "is every Catholic going to hell?"
At the time they were writing to each other Israel Folau was suing Rugby Australia and Ms Petaia was particularly interested to find out the Church's attitude to litigation.
"What does the bible say about suing people?" she asked at one point, later saying "I would really like to understand what the bible teaches about suing people for money.
"I wonder if this is something Jesus would ever consider doing since really what's the point (sic).
" (Y) our cousin Israel seems not to understand forgiveness and demonstration of the love of Jesus, he is behaving just like non-believers even though he says he is standing up for all people of faith."
Ms Petaia said her interactions were "almost like a mother trying to talk to her son".
"I think in my interaction with Josiah, who I also think is a lovely young man, he's the same age as my children, I think if you want to give a balanced view of my interactions I've also challenged Josiah on perhaps he's a little bit narrow in his views and beliefs as well, he could be doing so much more if he was having a broader interaction."
Helen Petaia is the mother of Jordan Petaia, who made his Wallabies debut during the World Cup in Japan. Picture: Dan Mullan
Ms Petaia said she believed that the "truth" about the church's teachings should be provided to the Australian Christian Lobby, because it might impact on how they and others were treating the Folau incident and the money being raised for his court case.
She spoke to the head of the ACL Martin Iles, who she said expressed some concern about Folau's views but "said it was more a freedom of religion issue".
"I didn't have an issue if the Australian Christian Lobby wanted to support him and raise money for (Folau) and all of those things but I felt they needed to tell the truth about what his church is all about," she said.
"I personally, and still am, gutted that he's not still playing for the Wallabies. It's just a tragedy on so many levels."
On other occasion she challenged him asking "Why take all that money from Rugby Australia and then destroy the livelihood (sic) of the players he says he cares about?"
Ms Petaia was particularly interested the Church's attitude to litigation
She later travelled from Queensland to Sydney to attend a prayer meeting at the Folaus' church.
Ms Petaia declined to answer questions about whether she had taped the meeting, but said she had evidence of what was said at bible studies but that this had not been shared with anyone.
She said she had not revealed the interactions to Jordan, who she is currently in Japan with for the World Cup.
"I suppose I am not my son, I am an individual with my own identity and I already have a track record of having public views about different things," she said.
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Crime |	 November 28, 2018
10 Absolutely Brutal Child Killers
Joe Duncan . . . Comments
Of all of the aspects of the human existence, very little has been as constant and ubiquitous as the tendency to become violent. Whether the dead had elaborate burials or were left out in the sun to rot, murder has been around since as long as there have been humans, and as long as there has been murder, there have been bodies to discover and people to hold accountable for such crimes. But in some seemingly unusual cases, the person discovered to be the evil murderer is a child.
The question of why children commit murder leads us down a long, winding path of possible explanations, some of which give credence to the idea that some people are just quite simply born violent. Another line of thinking suggests that children who murder are, more often than not, victims of abuse, neglect, or other chaotic home lives which make for a recipe for disaster.[1] Children under 12 years old who commit murder are exceedingly rare, but it does happen, and child murderers over the age of 12 are actually quite common and have been throughout the entirety of human history. Here are ten child murderers from the past and their stories.
10 Nathaniel Abraham
Photo credit: Timetoast
On October 29, 1997, Nathaniel Abraham was only 11 years old. He had borrowed a .22-caliber rifle and headed down the street to a hillside near a local convenience store in Pontiac, a suburb located near Detroit, Michigan. It was then that Abraham raised his rifle and shot a teenager, 18-year-old Ronnie Greene, in the head. This seemingly spontaneous act of murder was senseless. Greene was a complete stranger to Abraham—this was a random killing in cold blood. What on Earth could possibly possess an 11-year-old to commit such a heinous crime?
Nathaniel was arrested and brought up on charges for homicide and faced life in prison. But the prosecution made the suggestion that the young boy be reassessed at age 19 and again at age 21. He was released from juvenile detention on his 21st birthday.[2] But it would only be two years before Abraham was in trouble again, this time for selling ecstasy in 2009, violating the conditions of his release. He received a four- to 20-year prison sentence.
9 Cindy Collier And Shirley Wolf
Photo credit: The Auburn Journal
Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were an interesting duo of child murderers and were practically straight out of a horror movie. The two girls were only 15 and 14 years old, respectively, on June 14, 1983, when the duo would come together to commit one of the most senseless crimes of all time: the murder of Anna Bracket, an 85-year-old woman.[3] The girls simply walked right up to the elderly woman's door, knocked, and explained that they were being followed by strange men. They proceeded to ask this caring woman if they could use her phone to call for help, to which she agreed. That's when the two seemingly innocent young girls would strike.
Collier was definitely the brains and the evil behind the plot to kill an innocent grandmother, and Wolf probably just went along for the ride. Cindy Collier had a long history of violence and criminal acts, including burglary, theft, possession of drugs, and a foreshadowing charge of assault. Like all too many child murderers, Cindy had been sexually assaulted and raped at a very young age. Wolf came from a background of sexual assault as well. After her father was arrested for molesting the poor young girl, she went in and out of various foster homes.
Upon entering the home, the two teenage girls proceeded to stab Anna Bracket a total of 27 times. Later, Shirley Wolf would write in her journal one of the most cryptic messages ever left behind by a killer: "Today, Cindy and I ran away and killed an old lady. It was lots of fun." Even more terrifying, the girls had only met one another eight hours before they decided to commit the murder. The stars seemingly aligned in just the right way to create a dark disaster. Upon their arrest and during their trial, the girls were notably cold, uncaring, and completely devoid of all emotion. They were the definition of coldhearted, personified evil.
8 Mary Bell
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Like Nathaniel Abraham, Mary Bell committed murder at the age of 11 years old, and like Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf, her early life was marred by sexual abuse. She was even prostituted by her parents to make ends meet.[4] Bell was born to an extremely impoverished family in 1957 in Newcastle, England, and would live an extremely troubled life, from abusive and alcoholic parents to being prostituted and raped. Her mother was highly mentally unstable, and young Mary never really had a chance at a normal life. At age 11, Mary Bell would meet another girl, Norma Bell (of no relation), who was 13 years old, and the two would become friends.
Then, on May 25, 1968, Mary Bell and Norma bell murdered a four-year-old boy by the name of Martin Brown in an abandoned building, though Mary herself actually killed Martin, while Norma was just present. The police initially wrote the murder off as an accidental death, but upon further investigation, they realized that the boy had been strangled. This is when Mary and Norma broke into an abandoned building and decided to vandalize it. They left a note behind in the building, claiming responsibility for the killing, which the police initially took to be a prank.
Then came the next murder, when the two girls killed a three-year-old boy, this time together, named Brian Howe, luring him into the woods to strangle him. The police would then make the connection and take the two girls a bit more seriously, and they would be brought up on charges. The charges against Norma were dropped, but Mary ended up serving 12 years before being released. In a bizarre twist of fate, she would give birth to her first child on May 25, 1984, exactly 16 years to the day after the murder of Martin Brown.
7 Luke Woodham
Photo credit: Amino
Luke Woodham of Pearl, Mississippi, was only 16 years old on October 1, 1997, when his killing rampage began.[5] He had been a well-behaved boy and student all the way up until that date, when something inside him snapped and took him down a dark road of rage and murder. While Luke didn't grow up in a particularly violent household, there were definitely some problems at home, and Luke was ostracized at school for his appearance. In 1997, Luke fell in with a sort of pseudo-cult, much like The Vampire Clan, which was headed up by youth killer Rod Ferrell. They were called "The Kroth" and only consisted of three members. Even before that, Luke had been writing some pretty bizarre essays in class. The following assignment, based on a prompt asking the students to describe what they'd do if they spent the day as their teacher, read:
If I could spend a day as Mrs. Neal, I would be very, very nice to Luke Woodham and pass him for the year. Then I would knock the crud out of the 'omniscient dork' for putting junk on my computer.
Then I would go crazy and kill all of the other teachers. Then I would slowly and very painfully torture all of the principals to death.
Then I would withdraw all of my money in the bank and give it to Luke Woodham. Then I would get all of the other teachers and principals' bank account numbers, withdraw all of the money and give it to Luke Woodham.
Then I would do acid. Then I would get a gun and blow my brains out all over the dog-gone room and leave my house to Luke Woodham.
It seems as if his mind was slowly cracking and going insane. Then October 1 would come, and Luke would murder his mother, Mary Woodham, by bludgeoning and stabbing her. He then took a .30-.30 rifle, drove to school, handed his close friend his notebooks (containing his diary, which would tell us a lot about the young murderer), and shot nine of his classmates, killing two of them. Luke Woodham would be caught, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. This was a historically notable event, as it was the first of a series of school shootings in the United States in the late 1990s and helped to inspire subsequent ones, most infamously the Columbine massacre.
6 Jesse Pomeroy
Jesse Pomeroy was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1859, with a defect in his right eye which made it appear almost completely white. His alcoholic parents were often extremely violent and abusive. Jesse would be mocked and tormented by other kids and even his family, who were repulsed by his eye. His social awkwardness didn't help him, either.[6] Pomeroy was an extremely twisted child from the start. Today, the DSM-V would probably define him as a psychopath, and the FBI would consider him an organized lust killer, one who tortures and kills for erotic pleasure above all else.
It all began in 1871, when Jesse began luring young boys to an undisclosed location, stripping them nude, tying them up, and beating them ruthlessly with a rope or other objects as well as often cutting them with a knife. While Pomeroy would eventually confess to 29 murders in total (a probable lie), he was convicted of the murders of two young children, four-year-old Horace Millen and ten-year-old Katie Curran.
On March 18, 1874, Curran disappeared, and the last place she was seen was a shop owned by Jesse's parents that he often worked at. Her disappearance was strange to the police, but they didn't have any evidence to implicate Jesse, who was only 14 years old at the time. Some five weeks later, in April 1874, the body of Horace Millen was discovered by two kids walking along the beach in search of shells and other fun things. He was almost decapitated, strangled, cut with a knife, almost completely castrated, and had been set on fire. A witness saw a young boy running from the scene but couldn't make out who it was, but this was enough for police to immediately begin to suspect Pomeroy.
Upon finding him, police noticed that his boot prints matched the boot prints found at the scene, he had blood all over him, and he was carrying a bloody knife. The police were certain they had their man. They arrested Jesse Pomeroy and pressured him into a confession to the murder of young Horace. Jesse would be sentenced to die for the two murders he was charged with, but shortly before his 17th birthday, his sentence would be committed to life in prison, largely due to his young age. Jesse Pomeroy would spend the rest of his life behind bars.
5 Peter Barratt And James Bradley
Peter Barratt and James Bradley were another murderous duo, a pair of young boys from Stockport, England. These two eight-year-olds would go on to commit a crime so horrific that it defies reason, as we wonder how two children so young could actually kill someone. In April 1861, the body of a two-year-old boy, George Burgess, was found with all of the marks which indicated murder. While the police discovered old scars on the body which were indicative of previous child abuse, multiple witnesses said they had seen George last with Peter Barratt and James Bradley. The two boys had taken young George's life by beating him brutally and drowning him by shoving his face into a nearby brook.
The courts of the day were a bit different and claimed that the Devil had possessed the boys, who had steered too far from the path of God, and that he was the real cause behind the murder. When questioned, the boys confessed, admitting in detail everything they did to the two-year-old George as they savagely murdered him. While the boys were found to be capable of deciphering good from evil, a trial would find that they didn't understand the consequences of their actions, due to their young age.[7] As a result, Barratt and Bradley were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to one month in jail, followed by five years in reform school.
4 Alfred Dancey
Alfred Dancey was a schoolboy of 14 years old when he committed murder. Outside of school, Alfred Dancey was merely an errand boy, and details aren't exact on how the event came to be, as we have old newspaper sources to go by and very little else. In May 1850, Dancey and another boy named Collins were hanging out near the Bedminster iron bridge in Bristol, when another group came up, passed them, and said something. Dancey and his counterpart immediately began calling the other boys (Horgan, Coggan, and William Braund) vulgar names. A scuffle ultimately broke out after more words were exchanged in several different locations. For quite a while, Dancey and his friend had followed the other three around and insulted them.
Finally, Dancey, filled with rage, drew a pistol and ran toward William Braund, pointing it at him and threatening to shoot before eventually pulling the trigger.[8] Braund was killed. What the dispute was over is unknown, but Alfred was shipped to Australia, where he would serve a ten-year sentence for the murder.
3 Michael Carneal
Photo credit: WickedWe
Michael Carneal was yet another 14-year-old with an inclination to kill and a gun. Michael was an unassuming, bespectacled boy and not exactly the definition of physical prowess. Michael didn't fit in at all with his peers. He finally exploded on December 1, 1997, the year the school shooting was seemingly born. Armed with a .22-caliber semiautomatic weapon, he entered a hallway in Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. A group of Christian students had gathered to pray, and Michael opened fire on them. Of the approximately 40 students present, Carneal managed to tragically kill three girls and wound five more people.
Immediately after striking the students, Michael Carneal became terrified as what he'd done began to sink in. He pleaded with those around him to kill him as he cried tears of both fear and pain. Carneal then laid down his weapon and surrendered. Police took him in, and he was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole in 25 years.[9]
2 William Allnut
According to court records, William Allnut was 12 years old when he committed his murder in England in 1847. He, too, was odd-looking, in that he was only 150 centimeters tall (4'11") and had a long face and freckles. His father was said to have been insane, and William would reportedly sleepwalk and hear voices. William was often dishonest and would lie to or argue with his grandfather, a man named Samuel Nelme. Apparently, on one occasion, the two got into a massive argument, and Samuel hit him. This caused the 12-year-old boy to fall and hit his head.
Angered by the fight, and especially losing it, William devised a plan to get back at his grandfather: He went and stole some arsenic and put it in the sugar bowl, mixing it in so that it blended with the sugar. The arsenic ended up killing Samuel Nelme, and William would be arrested and stand trial. His trial was littered with prosecution witnesses, and even his own mother came to testify against him, saying that he was a particularly bad child.[10] William was convicted and sentenced to transportation to Australia for life. He died of tuberculosis at age 18.
1 William York
William York is the earliest case on our list and was extremely young when he took the life of his victim, Susan Mahew, in 1748. Susan was only five years old at the time, and William was ten. While sources are scarce on this event, it definitely did happen, as we have newspaper stories and other media concerning the incident. William York apparently met Susan Mahew at a workhouse in Eyke, Suffolk, England. According to William, an argument had broken out between them before he smacked Susan, and she began to cry.
She began to flee, but York went inside, got a knife, and then came out. He grabbed Susan by the hand and proceeded to slice her wrist. He then continued to cut her elbow and wrists down to the bone, before finally cutting into her thigh, all the way down to the bone, so that she slowly bled out. William York then realized he had a body on his hands, which he washed and then buried. He was caught, tried, and convicted of the murder. He was sentenced to death but eventually pardoned.[11]
I like to write about murder, dark stuff, and history.
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MST3K: Play MST for Me 2
I'm watching all of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes in order. More about that here and here.
Video: Play MST For Me 2
First released: VHS, Best Brains, 1994
Availability: Best Brains VHS (out of print), Best Brains DVD (Play MSTie For Me Triple Decker)
My favorite selection from this collection.
This is not an episode of MST3K.
It's a video.
Yeah, I know, I said I'm watching all the episoded of MST3K. I didn't say anything about the videos.
Well, how do you think I got to see all the episodes? Taped them myself? Only a crazy person would do that.
The only thing crazier than that would be somebody who paid money or other good and valuable considerations for a copy of the videos that the crazy person recorded off the television. And guess what? I'm not the person that recorded the shows. I'm... just never you mind.
Crow loves Kim.
Anyway, this video was released during the run of the show. It came out in the Spring of 1994, between Season Five and Season Six. At least, that's what the information I've been able to find about the video says. I didn't get my VHS copy in 1994 -- I have it on VHS, I just didn't get it in 1994 -- so I can't say that's when it came out. The copyright date on the video says 1994, so I suspect it was released before the end of Season Six (which ran into March 1995).
Why does this matter? Well, three of the 13 songs on the video are from Season Six. Which means that, if this was released in the Spring of 1994, then those that got the tape right when it came out got an advance look at some Host Segments from the upcoming season.
Play MST for Me contained songs from Seasons Two and Three. Play MSTie For Me 2 contains songs from Seasons Four, Five, and Six:
Here they go a-caroling.
Oh, Kim Cattrall from Episode 403: City Limits. Crow's ode to the lovely actress.
The Janitor Song from Episode 514: Teen-Age Strangler. Mike sings of the hard life of a school janitor who, as we find later in the film, kills teens.
My Wild Irish Ireland from Episode 516: Alien from L.A. An Irish ditty about the lovely Ms. Ireland.
Toobular Boobular Joy from Episode 519: Outlaw. A Vaudeville-era-like number that celebrates the joys of skin. Round supple skin.
TV's Frank & Dr. Forrester from Episode 519: Outlaw. They dance.
Whispering Christmas Warrior from Episode 521: Santa Claus. Mike leads a hard rock Christmas band.
Merry Christmas -- If That's O.K. from Episode 521: Santa Claus. A political correct holiday for everyone. If that's O.K.
Doughy Guys from Episode 522: Teen-Age Crime Wave. A celebration of people that look like me!
Mystos from Episode 522: Teen-Age Crime Wave. A parody of the Mentos commercials.
The Greatest Frank of All from Episode 523: Village of the Giants. Celebrating Frank.
Cosmic Freight Train from Episode 603: The Dead Talk Back. The Dead. Get it? It's a joke, son.
Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter from Episode 605: Colossus and the Headhunters. Frank takes the spotlight.
Square Dance from Episode 607: Bloodlust! Seems Joel isn't the only one that likes to make fun of certain types of music involving barns and overalls.
While that list covers much of those three years, there were some that, for some reason, didn't make the cut. These songs from Seasons Four, Five & Six were omitted:
Danger to Myself and Others from Episode 406: Attack of the Giant Leeches. Joel & the Bots sing of the "Hey, Y'all, watch this!" crowd.
Pants! from Episode 410: Hercules against the Moon Men. What the men in this movie needed.
Estelle from Episode 411: The Magic Sword Crow has a new love.
The Gypsy Moons from Episode 417: Crash of the Moons. A Vaudeville-era-like number about heavenly bodies. You're reading more into that than you should.
Hired! from Episode 423: Bride of the Monster. It's actually from the short film of the same name. J&tB turn it into a musical.
What a Pleasant Journey/Cars from Episode 509: The Girl In Lovers Lane. A train song. At first. We are saved by Movie Sign.
Who Will I Kill? from Episode 624: Samson vs. The Vampire Women. Dr. Forrester laments the loss of Frank.
I started to wait on this video until after Season Six, then decided to go ahead. Then I changed my mind and decided to wait. Then I decided to go ahead.
They sing goodbye to Frank when he didn't leave.
That whole back-and-forth happened a lot. In just a few minutes (as I write this), I'm going to schedule it to appear. I may change my mind again before it publishes. If I do, you'll never know, because I'll rewrite these couple of paragraphs. But, if I decide to go ahead and publish them, then you'll get to read all about how torn I was inside about writing this now.
The things I agonize over. Of course, most things are pretty straight-forward. I just don't have 100% certainty that this video came out between Season Five and Season Six. If I find out it came out later, I'll ... well, I don't know what I'll do.
It's so nice when I know everything about what happened. That's most things. At least, being a know-it-all, I like to think that. This project, though, has shown me just how much I don't know about MST3K. I'm working on correcting that.
Up soon... Season Six!
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MST3K: Season 5 wrapup
Did Joel's discomfort with behind-the-scenes dealings cause him to suffer distress, including such symptoms as a Daktari Stool?
I've completed Season Five, and will hit Season Six soon. But first, let's look back at Season Five of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
This was the year where Joel Hodgson (playing Joel Robinson) left the show and Mike Nelson (playing Mike Nelson) took over as host.
The season was split evenly, with Joel hosting the first 12 episodes, and Mike hosting the last 12. The transition was smooth. Behind the scenes, there was lots of tension and in-fighting between Joel Hodgson and Jim Mallon over the direction of the franchise. Joel decided to leave the project he created rather than let it be torn apart from within.
Into this mess stepped Mike. He had been with the show since it went national, and the transition to his role as subject of Dr. Forrester's experiment was a smooth one.
In Episode 505: The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, Joel gets to see the pyramids. In Episode 518: The Atomic Brain, Mike gets to see the pyramids.
As I mentioned before, I was much more familiar with Mike's tenure than Joel's prior to this project, but quickly became a huge fan of the Joel Robinson character. So much so, that when Mike took over, I still missed Joel. But don't get me wrong, I like Mike. A lot.
From Episode 517: Beginning of the End, Mary Jo gets a wrong number.
One of the biggest differences for me, though, isn't the different styles of Joel and Mike. It's their ages. True, Joel is not quite five years older than Mike, but those five years made enough of a difference in some of the things they reference. Joel mentions more things from my childhood than does Mike. Those few years make a big difference. Mike rarely mentions anything from the 1960s. Joel, on the other hand, was at home there, as was I.
Mary Jo Pehl begins to take on more roles. She's Jan in the Pan from Episode 513: The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Mike's first experiment. She also appears as a trailer park queen who calls Mike on the phone in Episode 517: Beginning of the End. It's a wrong number.
Bridgett Jones plays Nuveena in Episode 524: 12 to the Moon. We'll see her again.
From Episode 508: Operation Double 007: "It's a herd of Miss Kittys!"
We also saw the demise of the Invention Exchange. Well, that's not true. We really didn't see it. And that's what did it in.
Joel was the gadget guy. Mike wasn't. They kept it up for a bit, but after a few episodes, it deteriorated into a one-sided thing, with only one or the other actually doing an invention. The last actual invention was Dr. Forrester's Mace Mousse from Episode 522: Teen-Age Crime Wave. Yes, Mike had a rocket pack, but it was for an actual escape attempt. He used the Invention Exchange as a cover when it went horribly wrong.
Some of the inventions over the years were funny. Some weren't. I suppose I'll miss them. I didn't really remember them from before, since when the show aired, I didn't see many of the Joel episodes. But, having seen them now, I'll miss them a little.
Season Five started strong, lulled slightly (from excellent to very good), then got the shock of the change from Joel to Mike, settled back down to very good again, then finished excellent.
Season Six will be starting soon. Here, at least. And we'll get to it soon. It'll be Mike's first full season as the experiment subject. And, it'll have more shows that I'd previously seen than other seasons.
I'm looking forward to it.
MST3K: Episode 524 - 12 to the Moon
Episode 524: 12 to the Moon
First aired: Comedy Central on 5 February 1994
Availability: MST3KVideos.com Fan Copy
Why 12? Why not?
If I told you that 12 to the Moon was the best film that Mystery Science Theater 3000 ever included in an episode, what would you think?
You'd think I was a liar or just plain crazy. Either would be right.
So I won't tell you that. I'll let you come to that conclusion on your own. And, if you do, then you're either a liar or just plain crazy.
Oh, it's not the worst movie they did. But it's definitely a bad one.
It's directed by David Bradley, who also directed Madmen of Mandoras. You may know that film under another title. They added some footage and repackaged it as They Saved Hitler's Brain. I'm sure that tells you all you want to know about The Talented Mr. Bradley.
The moon is for lovers. It's also dangerous.
But, there's more to the talent behind this film. Writer Fred Gebhardt also wrote The Phantom Planet. And three of the stars of this movie also appeared in The Phantom Planet: Richard Weber, Anthony Dexter, and Francis X. Bushman. We'll get to that film in Season Nine.
For now, let's look at this steaming pile of move.
Giant steps are what you take, walking on the moon. I hope my legs don't break, walking on the moon.
The International Space Something Something launches a rocket to the moon piloted by Stewpot from South Pacific and a crew of stereotypes from across the globe and a puppy and some kitties and some monkeys and other critters but they encounter dangers along the way such as caramel popcorn asteroids, but they get through it all just fine and return to their lawn furniture scattered about the 4800 square foot capsule and make it to the moon safe and sound where all twelve go for a walk and discover there's air inside the caves, along with quicksand and steam, and some of them even survive the exploration of the surface, but then beings who live in Moon Valley sent a text message written in Roswell language to the ship and told them they were dangerous and to return to earth but leave the cats, so they did, but they had trouble trying to get away, so the Jewish guy and his son-of-a-Nazi friend sacrifice themselves to help the ship escape, and everybody is saved, except for those that died. Oh, and the cats. The end.
Can't we all just get along? Before we die horribly in a rocket explosion on the moon? We find out that the Moon People are fascinated with pussy. (Yes, those are cats.)
It's bad film, as you can tell, in the "future as it used to be" mold. Rockets that look like rockets when they blast off, then turn into Buck Rogers rockets with more fins than a 1959 Cadillac. Space ship interiors about the size of the top floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Space suits that wouldn't protect you from a fart, much less the vacuum of space.
Mike Nelson was in the Tea Party from way back. Frank likes the idea of Dr. Forrester roasting ... in hell!
Yes, it's perfect for MST3K. And the riffing is nearly perfect. But there's more to this episode than the riffing and the movie. A lot more.
There are a couple of throw-away sketches, like Mike attending a tea party thrown by Gypsy. It doesn't go well. There's the roast of Dr. Forrester that starts mean then goes downhill. And, there's the tennis match with the Bots.
You could say the short film is the star. Or, you could say the star of the short film is the star.
But, the highlight has to be the short film. Design for Dreaming is a short film by General Motors, featuring Tad (Thelma) Tadlock as a woman whisked away to the 1956 GM Motorama where she is amazed by all the great cars and the appliances in GM subsidiary (in 1956) Frigidaire's Kitchen of the Future.
Nuveena invites Mike to come away with her. Mike rejects Nuveena after she uses the Bots as kitchen appliances.
The woman from the short film is given a name during a Host Segment. Nuveena appears on the SOL and invites Mike to go with her to the world of the future. He agrees, but changes his mind after getting fed up with all of her quirks, like having to sing to communicate and thinking every machine (Tom, Crow, Gypsy) is a kitchen appliance.
The inside joke is that Michael J. Nelson is married to Bridgett Jones, who played Nuveena.
Lots of funny. Both a short and a feature that offer visions of the future that just didn't happen. Everything clicked.
I hope this one gets released on video soon. My fan copy is of good quality, but I would love to have a commercial release. This is a good episode. Season Five ended on a very high note.
MST3K: Episode 523 - Village of the Giants
Episode 523: Village of the Giants
First aired: Comedy Central on 22 January 1994
Not exactly how H. G. Wells imagined it.
A bunch of teens grow to large proportions. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, throw in the kid from The Music Man -- you may have seen him in other stuff -- and you have ... a really bad movie.
Maybe it's the source material. This film claims to be inspired by H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods but I think they just made that up. In The Food of the Gods, a scientist develops a growth formula and creates giant chickens. In Village of the Giants, it's a bunch of ducks that grow large. Totally different plot.
More proof? In The Food of the Gods, the stuff gets away from the scientist and other stuff starts growing. It's also given to some children, and they grow large. In Village of the Giants, the stuff gets away, and other stuff starts growing, and some teen ingest the stuff and grow large. Plus, and Beau Bridges is involved! Totally different.
Funny thing, though. Bert I. Gordon, who made this film, did a straight version of The Food of the Gods in 1976. This one was actually a little closer to the plot than the '76 version, in some respects. Which doesn't say how good this movie is, it says how bad the other movie is.
Frank gets fired. But, he gets a going-away dinner. Dr. Forrester interviews Torgo as Frank's replacement.
How bad is this one?
Tom Servo: "Mom?"
A little kid genius who looks just like Opie Cunningham accidentally creates some goop that makes things grow, and one of the locals who's hot for the kid's big sister decides it can be used to grow big animals for food, but some troublemaking teens led by Beau Bridges who are passing through town find out about it and decide to grow big themselves and take over the town but the genius kid develops some smoke that puts things back to normal so they shrink the teens back to normal and then the teens leave but run into some midgets who are looking for the growth stuff. The end.
Despite it being a bad movie, it does have a couple of things going for it: giant boobies. Lots and lots of giant boobies. Acres and acres of giant boobies.
This movie has giant boobies! Lots of giant boobies!
Did I mention the giant boobies?
Chuck Connor's kid hangs from the bosom of a 25-year-old teen.
And, no, I'm not a perv by looking at a bunch of teenage girls boobies. The youngest actress to play one of the giant boobie teens was 21 when the movie was made. That's only slightly creepy, given my age.
It's a watchable film, but not quite as fun as other films by The Notorious B.I.G.
His '50s movies were better.
Still, this isn't nearly as bad as lots of other MST3K movies. Just not quite as much fun as Bert I. Gordon's other films.
The Host Segments are fun. Dr. Forrester fires Frank -- actually, he assigned Frank to fire Frank -- as part of cutbacks. Then he goes out and starts interviewing replacements. Dr. Forrester hires Torgo -- now known as TV's Torgo -- to take the job.
Mike sings The Greatest Frank of Them All because he'll miss Frank. Of course, at the end of the episode, they change the meaning by dedicating the episode to the recently-deceased Frank Zappa.
A good, fun episode. It's never been released on video, and only fan copies of the episode are available. MGM owns it, so there's the whole rights thing to deal with. Not that it's impossible, but I'm not holding my breath.
Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery. Photo by Department of Defense
Remember those that gave all for you.
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How I spent my Nielsen Diary money
You know the Nielsen ratings? That company that counts what the top TV shows -- among other things -- are?
They have households that they use all the time. From what I understand, these households have equipment in their homes that report every day the viewing habits of those households.
Then, they have the diaries. That's where people write down in a book what they watch. Those aren't the same families from week to week. But, in my lifetime, I've participated in three of those. Well, sort of.
The first Nielsen Diary I saw was one where my parents' house was chosen one week. I was a teen then, and I remember the diary was sort of filled out and returned late.
As an adult, I've participated in two surveys. One several years ago, and one within the last month. For participating in the survey, they enclose some cash. Not a lot, but a few dollars. Sequentially-numbered small bills, in my case.
I filled out the diary. But, I suspect they don't get a lot like me doing it. You see, we don't have cable, and we don't have satellite. And, we never watch anything live over the air. Most of our TV watching is via the Internet.
Turns out, though, that they do account for that. If you watch something from, say, Hulu, Netflix, or iTunes, they want to know that, too. But only if you watch it on your TV. They don't want you to count what you watch on your computer screen.
No problem. I don't watch anything on the computer. Everything I watch is on the TV, although it's from the Internet.
Watching TV via Hulu Plus.
So, I wrote down all the shows we watched. In Plain Sight. Psych. Grimm. Eureka. Bones. House. Castle. Supernatural...
Okay, you can tell that Wife has her shows among those that we watch. I recorded all of our watching, not just what I watched.
But, during the week we kept the Nielsen Diary, we watched nothing live. Everything was by a streaming source. Well, except for some movies I had on DVD. But, the TV watching? Every bit of it from the Internet.
I really enjoy the way we watch TV. There's always something on, and we let the TV work around our schedule.
I don't know how many diaries they get back every week where all the viewing is via Internet. But, that week, we got our say in the survey.
Oh, yeah. The money. How I spent it?
I bought some Cokes.
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MST3K: Episode 522 - Teen-Age Crime Wave
Episode 522: Teen-Age Crime Wave
Don't cry. Don't raise your eye. It's only Teen-Age Crime Wave.
This episode is the first of five consecutive episodes that haven't been released on home video. And, it's part of a stretch where 8 of 10 episodes haven't been released on video. Five of the last six episodes of Season Five and three of the first four episodes of Season Six have never been released on video.
Of the national seasons, this is the longest stretch like that so far. The only stretch that's longer is in Season Eight.
My copy is, of course, a fan copy. I got mine from MST3KVideos.com. It's a good quality recording. I'm hoping, though, that this one gets released on video. But, since Sony owns the rights, it's not likely to be released anytime soon. I hope that changes. It's a pretty good episode.
I had never seen the movie before I saw it on MST3K. Even then, I missed this episode during its 10 airings on Comedy Central. Only one of those came at a time where I would have been able to have seen it, and I didn't see it then. So, until I got this episode as part of this "watch 'em all" project, I had never seen it. And, if fan copies weren't available, I wouldn't have been able to see it then.
What's a Bad Girls In Prison film without a shower scene? Or a cat fight?
At first, I thought it was going to be a typical Bad Girls In Prison kind of movie. You got your shower scene. You got your cat fight. You got your bad girl and your good girl who shouldn't really be in prison.
About 15 or 20 minutes into it, though, it becomes a jailbreak movie with the criminals holding a farm family hostage. Not exactly the feel-good hit of the summer. Still, not an awful film, just a bad one.
Mace Mousse.
Bad Girl Blonde Chick picks up Doughy Guy in a bar, then leads him to where Hoodlum Boyfriend and Sidekick beat up Doughy Guy and rob him, but the cops come and arrest Bad Girl Blonde Chick and Good Girl Brunette Chick, who get sentenced to juvy, but Hoodlum Boyfriend breaks them out during transport and kills Cop in the process, upsetting Good Girl Brunette, but the Teen-Age Criminals take her along anyway, and then they stop at a farm house and hold the elderly couple hostage while awaiting Other Hoodlum Friend who gets killed before he gets to the farm house, so the Teen-Age Criminals conclude their Crime Wave by getting caught, so everybody lives happily ever after, except for the criminals who would go to jail and the Bad Girl Blonde Chick who got killed at the end. The end.
The Invention Exchange is still around during this episode. Dr. Forrester's Mace Mousse is funny, and before the episode is over, we get to see it again. And again. And again. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide says that the episode ran short, so they had to pad it out. They redid the gag from Episode 307: Daddy-O, sort of. That's the one where the button wouldn't stay pushed. In this one, the credits would start, then they'd cut back to Frank getting Mace Moussed by Dr. Forrester. Then the button would get pushed and the cycle began again. Still funny.
That's not LOX (Liquid Oxygen) in the tank. A salute to Doughy Guys everywhere.
The escape attempt by Mike & the Bots was humorous. Crow using lox instead of LOX foiled that one.
Oh, and no Doughy Guy would leave out the Host Segment where they saluted Doughy Guys. So I won't.
Funny episode. The movie started and ended with a bang, kinda slowed down in the middle, but that's movies for ya.
MST3K: Episode 521 - Santa Claus
MST3K: Episode 520 - Radar Secret Service
MST3K: Episode 519 - Outlaw
MST3K: Episode 518 - The Atomic Brain
MST3K: Episode 517 - Beginning of the End
MST3K: Episode 516 - Alien from L.A.
MST3K: Episode 515 - The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
MST3K: Episode 514 - Teen-Age Strangler
MST3K: Episode 513 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
MST3K: Changing of the guard
MST3K: Episode 512 - Mitchell
MST3K: Episode 511 - Gunslinger
MST3K: Episode 510 - The Painted Hills
MST3K: Episode 509 - The Girl in Lovers Lane
MST3K: Episode 508 - Operation Double 007
MST3K: Episode 507 - I Accuse My Parents
MST3K: Episode 506 - Eegah
MST3K: Episode 505 - The Magic Voyage of Sinbad


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Приамурське державне утворення, з 23 липня 1922 р. Приамурський земський край, (неофіційно Приамурський край, «Чорний буфер») — державне утворення, що існувало з 26 травня 1921 року по 25 жовтня 1922 року на частині території колишньої Приморської області Російської імперії, що номінально належала Далекосхідній Республіці.

Найменування «Чорний буфер» виникло в радянській публіцистиці часів Громадянської війни і згодом широко використовувалося у вітчизняній історіографії.

Історія

Початком існування Приамурського державного утворення прийнято вважати 26 травня 1921 року, коли в м. Владивосток білі повстанці повалили уряд Приморської земської управи на чолі з більшовиком В. Г. Антоновим, що визнавало владу Далекосхідної Республіки. Влада була передана З'їзду Несоціалістичних Організацій Далекого Сходу. Ним було обрано Тимчасовий Приамурський Уряд.

Керівний орган Приамурського державного утворення мав назву Тимчасового Приамурського уряду, підпорядковані йому збройні сили складалися з частин білої Далекосхідної армії, що раніше входили до армії генерала В.О. Каппеля та отамана Г.М. Семенова. Вищим представницьким органом влади були Народні збори.

Підтримку новому державному утворенню надавали США та Японія в особі консульського корпусу, остання надавала і військову допомогу за рахунок розквартированих у Примор'ї в період інтервенції японських військ.

Першим главою нового Приамурського уряду став присяжний повірений С.Д. Меркулов. Практично негайно після перевороту біля Примор'я відновився широкий партизанський рух, організоване партіями соціалістичної орієнтації, насамперед більшовиками.

Нездатність упоратися з партизанським рухом, що набирало силу, а також поразки, завдані підпорядкованим Тимчасовому Приамурському уряду військам Народно-Революційної армії Далекосхідної Республіки (НРА ДСР) під Хабаровськом узимку і навесні 1922 року, призвели влітку 1922 року до відставки меркуловського уряду і переходу реальної влади до генерала М. К. Дітеріхса, який об'єднав посади глави уряду і головнокомандувача і проголошений 23 липня 1922 Правителем Приамурського державного утворення.

Своїм указом за № 1 Дітеріхс перейменував Приамурське державне утворення на Приамурський земський край, а армію — на Земську рать. Земська рать з 1 вересня розпочала наступальну операцію проти НРА ДСР, проте вже в жовтні була практично повністю розгромлена.

Ліквідація «Чорного буфера»
19 жовтня близько 13 години НРА ДСР підійшла до Владивостока на відстань 9 км, однак їй перетнули шлях японські частини. У цей момент уже повним ходом йшла евакуація білогвардійців та інтервентів із Владивостоцького порту. Японське командування та представник японського міністерства закордонних справ у Владивостоці висунули ультимативні вимоги призупинити евакуацію, якщо відбудуться зіткнення між частинами НРА та японськими військами. Багато в чому японці розраховували створити цим привід для залишення своїх військ у Владивостоці. Американський консул Макгаун також зробив заяву в місцевій газеті про те, що «в разі небезпеки американськими військами буде вжито найрішучіших заходів». Військова рада НРА звернулася із закликом до особового складу відійти організовано на кілька верст від міста та чекати на вказівки.

Японське командування прагнуло всіляко зволікати з переговорами про вступ НРА у Владивосток. Одночасно інтервенти та білогвардійці вантажили на судна цінне майно та обладнання, підривали кріпаки та склади з озброєнням, а що не встигали чи не могли вивезти — знищували та топили в морі.

Навіть у цей момент інтервентами була спроба створити у Владивостоці ще один маріонетковий «уряд», роль якого зіграла група сибірських обласників на чолі з А. Н. Сазоновим, що замінила уряд Дітеріхса, що втекло на японському пароплаві. Проте дії нового уряду обмежилися розклеюванням 22 жовтня по Владивостоку рукописних плакатів про прийняття влади, за що він отримав найменування «плакатного уряду», а також тим, що три міністри цього квазіуряду в той же день здійснили наліт на міську думу для захоплення грошової каси, яка на момент їхнього «візиту» виявилася вже розграбованою.

Уряд Далекосхідної республіки та уряд РРФСР звернулися до Японії з протестом проти зволікання японцями евакуації своїх військ із Владивостока та поклали відповідальність за анархію та розграбування міста на японський уряд. Водночас робітники Владивостока, вимагаючи негайного відходу інтервентів, оголосили загальний страйк. Тільки після цього японське командування було змушене укласти 24 жовтня на роз'їзді Седанка угоду про залишення своїми військами Владивостока та прилеглих островів не пізніше 16 години 25 жовтня 1922.

25 жовтня о 16 годині слідом за військами інтервентів, що відступали, передові частини 1-ї Забайкальської стрілецької дивізії і школа молодшого командного складу 2-ї Приамурської стрілецької дивізії вступили до Владивостока.

Далекосхідна Республіка відновила контроль над усією територією Примор'я. Приамурський земський край і весь білий рух у країні припинили своє існування.

У культурі
Приамурському земському краю та Білому виходу 1922 року з Примор'я присвячена пісня «Спадкоємці», що завершує альбом «Есхато» сибірської групи «Калинов Мост».

Примітки

Література
 Лазарєв З. Є. Тимчасовий Приамурський уряд // Росія Громадянської війні. 1918—1922: Енциклопедія: в 3 т. / Відп. ред. А. К. Сорокін. Т. 1: А-З. М: Політична енциклопедія, 2020. С. 429—432.

Посилання
 Harold van Vechten Fay: Witness to Japan's april 1920 offensive in the russian far east ; reports of Capt. Fay є використаний в розділі «Ataman's exile and White Russia's last spasms (October 1920 — November 1922)» of book Jamie Bisher . White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian — 2005. — ISBN 0-7146-5690-9 .

Див. також
 Якутський похід

Історія Далекого Сходу
Далекосхідна республіка
Засновані в Росії 1921
Нерадянські держутворення часів Громадянської війни
Сторінки з неперевіреними перекладами

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The Pussycat Dolls are suing the Mail Online's parent company after it published two articles last year in which the girl band was described a "prostitution ring" by a former member.
The pop group's founder, Robin Antin (pictured), is also named on the lawsuit against Daily Mail Corporation, Daily Mail and General Trust and DMG Media, the company's divisions in the US and UK.
Mail Online followed the story up with an exclusive interview with Jones, published on 17 October.
In the interview Jones said she had to deal with "sexual predators and verbal and mental abuse" from recording executives while she was part of the band.
In the lawsuit, filed by litigation lawyer Richard Busch, the articles are described as an, "intentional, reckless and malicious publication by the Daily Mail".
Busch described Jones's claims as "false and defamatory statements made by a disgruntled, unreliable and biased person looking for her fifteen minutes of fame".
He added: "[The Daily Mail] should have known, with even the most basic check, that Ms Jones was unreliable and her story obviously false.
Antin is seeking damages for reputational harm and emotional distress and claims she went from a "well respected business woman" to being viewed as "the head of an international prostitution ring".
The lawsuit goes on to dispute the fact that Jones was ever a member of the band, despite providing backing vocals for some of their early songs prior to leaving the group in 2004.
DMG Media did not respond when asked to comment.
The article applies structure to the plaintiff's accusations but not the defendants. In turn a degree of bias is experienced.


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Social sciences → Religions → Religions A - Z → Christian religions → Christian denominations → Catholic religion
The First Sex Abuse Case Against a Catholic Priest was Published in 1989, why is it taking the Catholics more than 30 yrs. to root it out?
https://www.osvnews.com/2021/12/14/french-bishops-discuss-abuse-report-archbishops-resignation-with-pope/
by Hulk70166 3 hours ago
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Haven't you worked it out yet the church hides rock spiders. They move them to other parishes. They have lied and told people certain priests are overseas while they are still in the parish they are still covering up for paedophile priests today. If you give money to the catholic church you are paying lawyers to defend paedophile priests or compensation to victims. Paedophilia in the church still happens today.
The first sex abuse case in the US was in 1874, why hasn't it been eradicated? And why single out one church? It happens to atheists too, DUH!!
Atheists don't go to church. lol They don't believe in God.
"The First Sex Abuse Case Against a Catholic Priest was Published in 1989"... Response: nonsense. Sex abuse cases against Catholic priests - and other religious officials - go back at LEAST several decades earlier. PROBABLY they go back to the time of the enactment of the first sex-abuse laws.
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Toulouse Oliver praises COVID for creating 'great turnout' in elections
By John Block / December 6, 2022 December 6, 2022 / New Mexico, News, Politics
On Tuesday, the Bipartisan Policy Center held its 2022 Elections Summit in Washington, D.C., where Democrat New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver was a panelist. Toulouse Oliver joined moderator Carrie Levine, a story editor at election reporting site Votebeat.org, as well as Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein, Nevada County, CA Clerk-Recorder-elect Natalie Adona, and U.S. Election Assistance Commissioner Ben Hovland.
During the panel, Toulouse Oliver repeatedly took sly jabs at county commissioners, such as those in Otero County, who audited votes and also decertified potentially fraudulent election results and then were forcibly mandated to go back and certify upon the threats of removal.
She also spoke about the close relationship between her office and the media to "pre-bunk" so-called "election myths."
"The field of election administration, over time, has just become incredibly more professional, incredibly more diverse. It used to be, you know, whoever sort of the local political favorite was got the job of being election administrator in a jurisdiction," she said.
Regarding her campaign to try and quell supposed misinformation, Toulouse Oliver said, "I'll also add I think we started doing this pretty darn well in 2020: foreseeing the post-election challenges. We didn't know exactly what they were going to be, but we did a good job as a community of 'pre-bunking,' if you will, some of the things we could see coming down the pipeline of, you know, 'We're not gonna know on election night, you know, because we have all of these critical states that are still gonna have ballots to count and this is how the process works.' I think we did an even better job of that, and that isn't just the work of election administrators."
She then praised the media, telling the panel, "I think we did an even better job of that, and that isn't just the work of election administrators. It's also the work of the media, which has really invested incredible amounts of time and effort working with offices like mine and local election offices to get information — how does this actually work? — because the media wants to be good partners and helping us pre-bunk or debunk some of the election myths that are out there. As a result, I think the electorate, whether they want to be or not, is much more informed about how the election process works, and I think that significantly contributed to the success of the 2022 election and to the fact that we didn't see as much strife, or we're not seeing as much strife – We're still immediate post-election 2022 — than we did in 2020."
Then, Toulouse Oliver attacked citizens who asked for public records from her office, claiming their requests for data were political. She said, "When we're dealing with not the normal level, I mean, any government office should expect and anticipate public records requests, and we should be responsive to them. That is not the question we are talking about here. We are talking about this coordinated, weaponized effort to make it so hard for us to fulfill those requests that we can't do the rest of our job properly or we can't fulfill the record requests properly. And that's intentional. That is a tactic, and it is intended to keep us from being able to do our jobs properly."
She added on that note, "like many states, we're looking at how we can better craft our public records laws. For example, one thing we want to make sure, in my state, that we aren't doing is giving away the keys to the castle, right? What is a public record that anybody should be able to just take a look at whenever they want, and what is something that is, you know, what we need to keep internal so that we can keep hackers from getting into our system, right? So we are taking a look at that, and I think those are conversations that are happening in legislatures throughout the country. But again, I don't want to be a broken record, but as Ben said, it's resources, resources, resources. We do want to be able to give out this information, but we need to make it so we can all have an office that functions like Seth's where they can focus on their work. We can focus on the work and not on fulfilling records requests."
Toulouse Oliver bashed local leaders who defy her edicts, saying, "I think county government is sort of the most obscure to folks. And I would like to start with just my commissioners understand what their job is. I don't think they want me coming to their county telling them how to do dogs, dumps, and driving. Likewise, I don't want them making election policy because that's not their job."
She concluded in her commentary on the panel, "So I think just demystifying local government is important. One thing I think was good about COVID — many bad things — is that I think that was part of the reason we did have such great turnout in 2020 because people really started to realize the impact that state and local government had n ther daily lives. And so whatever we can do… to continue to sort of expand that understanding is a plus."
Watch her remarks on the panel below:
Toulouse Oliver threatens counties that won't certify election results
8 thoughts on "Toulouse Oliver praises COVID for creating 'great turnout' in elections"
norteno
Of course the communist media is one big part of the election fraud scam. We the rubes are supposed to believe that finding storage lockers full of votes all for the losing commie candidates that then helps them "win" is perfectly normal, as is finding them days after the election. Then there's the casino slot machines we vote on that can be programmed to "elect"desired candidates ,of course all communists or useful idiots. Then there's my favorite more votes tabulated than registered voters. Yes the "sanctity " of elections is safe in communist hands. God help NM and America.
Labguy
Maggie got those extra chins by going to all the Dominion Voting sponsored excursions. Good job fatty!
Stephanie McKenzie
This young woman is so twisted in her thinking that she actually believes that we have no right to question the validity of our elections. It is already proven that the machines used in Bernalillo county were tampered with, that many illegals voted who have no right to vote in our elections. The county commissioners are elected to serve we the people, yet she is proud that she threatened the commissioners to validate the elections they were questioning on our behalf. I hate to think that a person is evil but as far as I'm concerned, she is.
If anyone out there can translate Maggie's jibberish, I'd be most appreciative.
These people are so drunk on power, so corrupt, and so low IQ, is it any wonder this state is so messed up? "keys to the castle"? You mean your mafia mob running this state further down the toilet with Grisham sitting on the porcelain throne? Good Lord, when will they be rounded up? When will the people of this state finally say enough is enough, stop cowing down to them, and make their voices heard?
She's just another communist freak that is definitely getting fat on our money. Pray for our state and country folks.
NMis run by witches!
Gerald Schell
New Mexico politics are and will always be a joke. Glad I left the state.
Too Loose Oliver Demon of NM
I'll praise the day this evil woman has to meet God and explain what a waste of life she was. That's if she does not go straight to hell where she belongs.
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Did you know I have a YouTube channel where your little believer can come and see a "real fairy" in Fairyland!
Venture down the garden path, all the way through the magic gate called YouTube and say hello!
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You see, I have fairies at the bottom of my garden.
I like to leave them to their shenanigans, their twists and turns of magical adventures.
Once in a while, I visit. They don't seem to mind. In fact they welcome me with open wings. Well, not all of them. Some would prefer I stay away – too shy. Especially now I have taken my camera into their realm.
I tread very lightly, there are many unknowns and unseens during the day in the enchanted world. Not wanting to be seen by "human folk" the enchanted are very skilled at hiding. I don't want to hurt anyone, or break anything!
Some of the enchanted are happy to see me. It's been so long, they said they thought I had stopped believing. I assured them that would never happen. For each and every day I think of the enchanted and I wish I could be part of their world.
I was so excited to see that there was a new addition to the family! Mother faerie was eager to show me and asked me to take some pictures of her little munchkin.
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I bent low, closed my eyes and imagined myself growing down…I really wanted to take a peek inside the house!
There was a lovely and inviting entry, I could'nt quite see inside….yet….


Fianna Fáil's spokesperson on Health, Stephen Donnelly, has said the Government could benefit from celebrity architect Dermot Bannon's help, when it comes to constructing the new National Children's Hospital.
His comments follow the assertion by the Tánaiste in the Dáil today that 'nobody is suggesting we can build this hospital for less than it's currently costing'.
Deputy Donnelly explained, "That's exactly what I'm saying; this hospital could and should be built for a lot less than its present €1.73 billion price-tag. It must be possible to reduce costs without compromising on quality for the vulnerable children we're trying to help here.
"Let's start by taking a look at the structure of the building itself. The design is a donut-shaped vanity project for the Health Minister with curved-glass walls and a hole in the middle. There's a reason that we don't see many donut-shaped buildings, with curved-glass walls and a hole in the middle, that's because they're so expensive to erect. If we were on an episode of 'Room to Improve' this design would be the first thing that Dermot Bannon would change.
"And even Dermot, who notoriously adds expensive extras to his plans, would balk at the idea that the price has more than doubled since the project first began. The Cabinet appear to be engaging in collective delusion that nearly two billion Euro is a 'reasonable price', but Irish taxpayers know they're paying for this fiasco.
"I also was really disappointed that the report published yesterday, by auditors PwC, didn't try to scale back 85 percent of costs, because the contracts are already agreed. Surely these deals could be renegotiated. And sadly the report failed to even consider the possibility of switching sites to the grounds of Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, something the Dáil unanimously voted for.
"I know it's tongue-in-cheek to compare the hospital with a reality show, but the harsh truth is that a team of TV producers would have managed this project better than the Health Minister has done", concluded Donnelly.


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