[TAMPABAY] Florida executed an inmate Thursday who was convicted of killing two people after a night of drinking decades ago.
Michael Lambrix, 57, died by lethal injection at 10:10 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Bradford County.
For his final words, Lambrix said, "I wish to say the Lord's Prayer." He recited the words, ending on the line "deliver us from evil," his voice breaking slightly at times.
When he finished and the drug cocktail began flowing through his veins, Lambrix's chest heaved and his lips fluttered. This continues for about five minutes, until his lips and eyelids turned silver-blue and he lay motionless. A doctor checked his chest with a stethoscope and shined a light in both of his eyes before pronouncing him dead.
Corrections spokeswoman Michelle Glady said Bryant's sister was the only victims' family member to attend and she did not wish to speak with news hounds afterward.
Lambrix was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant in 1983 after a long night of partying in a small central Florida town, Labelle, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Fort Meyers. Lambrix said he was innocent.
He and his roommate, Frances Smith, had met the victims at a bar, and returned to their trailer to eat spaghetti and continue the party, prosecutors said.
At some point after returning to the trailer, Lambrix asked Moore to go outside. He returned about 20 minutes later and asked Bryant to come out as well, according to Smith's testimony.
Smith testified at trial that Lambrix returned to the trailer alone after the killings, his clothes covered in blood. The two finished the spaghetti, buried the two bodies and then washed up, according to Smith's testimony cited in court documents.
Prosecutors said Lambrix choked Bryant, and used a tire iron to kill Moore. Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.
Lambrix has claimed in previous appeals that it was Moore who killed Bryant, and that he killed Moore only in self-defense.
"It won't be an execution," he told reporters in an interview at the prison Tuesday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "It's going to be an act of cold-blooded murder."
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"It's going to be an act of cold-blooded murder."
He would know. Bye, asshole
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[CNN] On May 21 2016, a handful of people turned out to protest the opening of a library at an Islamic Center in Houston, Texas. Two held up a banner proclaiming #WhiteLivesMatter. A counter-protest began across the street; video shows a noisy but non-violent confrontation.
The rally -- called "Stop Islamization of Texas" -- was called and promoted by a Facebook page called Heart of Texas, which had wrongly alleged that the Islamic library had received public funding. But the Heart of Texas page listed no contacts in the Lone Star state. In fact, it was operated by a "Troll Factory" called the Internet Research Agency thousands of miles away in St Petersburg Russia, CNN has learned.
One of the people who attended the rally later complained: "Heart of Texas promoted this event but we didn't see ONE of them."
The Houston rally sheds light on an effort originating in Russia to sow discord in the U.S. through social media; in this case it had real impact on the ground.
A source familiar with the matter tells CNN that Heart of Texas was among the 470 accounts and pages that Facebook turned over to Congress, following its investigation into ads generated by the Internet Research Agency. Neither the Facebook page nor a companion Twitter account @ItsTimeToSecede is still accessible. The link between Heart of Texas and the Russian campaign was previously reported by Business Insider.
It's not just Heart of Texas that embraced secession. The potential secession of Texas and other states has also been a popular subject for RT America, the Russian state-funded television network that's widely available in the US. It featured several long segments about the subject last year. A 6-minute story in June 2016 has received 250,000 views on YouTube.
Does this mean the California secession movement was also a Russian psyop project?
[INVESTORS] Among the more volatile, extreme and dangerous political movements to arise within a major American political party in recent U.S. history is the so-called "resistance" to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... . What's especially disappointing is finding out who is behind it.
An investigation by the Washington Free Beacon looked into the progressive community organizing group called the Center for Community Change Action (CCCA), which has spearheaded the anti-Trump "resistance." What the Beacon found by looking at the group's unredacted tax returns was surprising: Far from being funded by like-minded activists and grass-roots contributions, the anti-Trump CCCA is secretly funded by major charities with respectably wholesome, centrist images. In some cases, the charities fund other Commie activist groups, too.
Among those giving money to the CCCA ‐ which, the Beacon notes, "has been involved in direct action against President Donald Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections" ‐ include the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation and billionaire George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... ' Open Society Foundation, which have together funneled millions of dollars to the anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican activist group.
Kellogg alone gave $3 million, while the Ford Foundation ponied up $2.3 million. Soros delivered a cool $1.75 million to the anti-Trumpistas.
And there were others, among them the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Endowment (created by the 1996 acquisition of WellPoint Health Networks by Blue Cross of California), $524,500; the Marguerite Casey Foundation (started by UPS founder Jim Casey), $515,000; and the National Immigration Law Center, $316,000.
Yes, these bland-sounding charities and others help fund the far-left "resistance," arguably damaging our democracy in the process. Sadly, in most cases, if these charities' founders were alive today, they would be deeply ashamed and, perhaps, even enraged.
So how can charities that began as dispensers of aid and advice to the needy and to local community groups have morphed into funders of chaos and anti-democratic activism, against their original founders' wishes?
Well, as with all organizations in the U.S., over time even the most well-meaning and well-run charities eventually get taken over by the far-left and progressives. It's a tried-and-true tactic, one that has worked not just in charities but in local school districts, university administrations, local governments, the federal bureaucracy, even in the arts.
And it's not an accident.
Italian Marxist-strategist Antonio Gramsci, who died in 1937, called this the "long march through the institutions." The website Discover The Networks describes the Marxist theorist's ideas thusly: "Gramsci called for Marxists to actively spread their ideology in a gradual, incremental, stealth manner, by infiltrating all existing societal institutions and embedding it, largely without being noticed, in the popular mind."
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Sounds like they aren't charities anymore. Tax time!
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No surprise, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Ford Foundation both donate to PBS. The self loathing racist Christaphobic lib media hiding in plain site, of our children.
PBS had thanked the Ford Foundation for funding its "investigations".
Jun 25, 2014 - The largest gift from an individual in FRONTLINE's history and a two-year Ford Foundation grant will support the series' digital transformation.
Also see Mega-companies distance themselves from charities found donating ...
www.foxnews.com/.../mega-companies-distance-themselves-from-charities-found-donati...
1 day ago.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/06/mega-companies-distance-themselves-from-charities-found-donating-to-anti-trump-group.html
First their donations fall off precipitously after they lose the election, then they have to give away a chunk of what they've got since. It's a tragedy, so the outcome is the inevitable result of the characters flaws, leading to catharsis in the viewer.
[IsraelTimes] Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren among party members giving away thousands contributed by disgraced Hollywood producer
Congressional Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. and potential 2020 presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren among them, are starting to give charities thousands of dollars in donations they had received from disgraced Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein.
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Usually, they only use tax (other peoples) money to give to charities. Guess tainted money now is a fall back. Technically, reelection money isn't 'technically' theirs, till its converted at retirement.
[Townhall] Hillary Clinton refuses to accept reality and is desperately trying to cling to political relevance. She has enjoyed a lifetime of political privilege as a First Lady, a United States Senator, a Secretary of State and a presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Sadly, she was awarded all of these prestigious positions because of her husband, not due to her own merit.
On her own, Hillary Clinton is a disastrous loser. In fact, she is the most famous two-time presidential loser in U.S. history who should have received a clear message from the American people. The voters of this country do not want her to be President of the United States.
In 2008, she lost the Democratic Party nomination to an unknown and unproven United States Senator. In 2016, as the infamous email disclosure proved, Clinton was the beneficiary of a corrupt Democratic Party nomination process. Despite having a Democratic National Committee giving her every advantage, and CNN giving her advance notice of debate questions, Hillary Clinton barely defeated an elderly socialist Senator for her party’s nomination. In the general election, she lost the presidency to a political novice, Donald Trump, who was facing incredible disadvantages.
Clearly, Hillary Clinton cannot move past her election loss and will not "go quietly into that good night." She is a bitter loser, who is mad at the world and especially livid at the American people. As part of her media tour promoting her new book, "What Happened," Hillary was recently interviewed for the Irish television program, "Late, Late Show." Hillary claimed that the loss was "excruciating." She admitted that she did not even prepare a concession speech and that the loss left her in a "state of shock."
[UNIONLEADER] Rep. Carol Shea-Porter will not seek re-election in 2018 for New Hampshire’s First District seat in Congress, a seat she has held, off and on, since 2006.
"You gave me the great honor of representing our state and being the first woman ever to be elected to federal office from New Hampshire, and the first Democrat to represent New Hampshire’s First District in 22 years," she said in a statement released Friday afternoon.
"I have worked each day with only one thought ‐ to serve our state and our nation. But the time has come in my life to pause and decide on a different path, so I am announcing my intention to leave the House of Representatives in January 2019, when my present term ends."
Shea-Porter defeated Republican incumbent Jeb Bradley for the seat in 2006 and again in 2008 but was defeated in 2010 by former Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta.
In 2012, she defeated Guinta in a rematch but lost to him in the 2014 election.
In 2016, she defeated Guinta for the second time in the fourth straight election involving the two candidates.
"I felt the tug of family at our reunion on Independence Day, and I have continued to feel it," said Shea-Porter. "My family has said repeatedly that they would support any decision I made, and I am grateful to them for that and for all of their love and support through the years."
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Club for Growth gave her a 6% score in 2014. Won't be missed.
[The Hill] Advisers and allies of President Trump have suggested replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, according to an Axios report.
Trump is said to have a good rapport with Pompeo, who delivers the President's Daily Brief. According to Axios, Pompeo would be seen by world leaders as a member of Trump's inner circle in a way Tillerson is not.
At the same time, however, White House chief of staff John Kelly has reportedly urged the president against high-level shake-ups before next year, fearing that it would only add to the chaos in the administration. Results oriented, business executive T-Rex, unfamiliar with the 'swamp' and far too much of a beltway outsider, fails to understand Foggy Bottom inter-agency, swampish nuances. Oh WAIT !
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
[Townhall] Hillary Clinton refuses to accept reality and is desperately trying to cling to political relevance. She has enjoyed a lifetime of political privilege as a First Lady, a United States Senator, a Secretary of State and a presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Sadly, she was awarded all of these prestigious positions because of her husband, not due to her own merit. 
[The Hill] Advisers and allies of President Trump have suggested replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, according to an Axios report.
