[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.
Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.
Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos' rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.
After emerging from the house with blood 'dripping' down her face, she confessed to police that she 'freaked out,' claiming there was 'something important about Election Day.'
Burke reportedly told detectives that 'she knew that she could not convince her father to keep the lights off', so went upstairs and retrieved the murder weapon.
She then tripped her father and strangled him before attacking him with the ice axe.
Burke then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe, cops say. His body was found in the basement.
Burke claimed she knew the killing 'needed to happen today,' according to a police report.
She allegedly told police she had to bite her father while choking him because 'he was too strong.' Burke added that she felt better once her father 'went limp.'
Burke also told police that as her father labored to breathe after the attack, 'the defendant sat next to him until he stopped breathing.'
Investigators say Burke came out of the Rainier Valley home with a bloody face and appeared to be having a mental health crisis.
Burke had apparently smashed several windows and later told police she did so in an 'act of liberation' after she killed her father. She had reportedly been 'clapping inside her home' when cops arrived.
The police report also includes her claims that she'd been 'reborn' on her 33rd birthday last month.
She initially did not [let] police enter the home, and detectives only went in after neighbors expressed concern for her father.
A neighbor first dialed 911 after spotting her smashing picture windows. The officer who responded to that call discovered the horror she'd unleashed inside.
Police say they recovered a bloody silver-and-blue ice climbing pick at the crime scene.
Burke was initially taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation.
The day after the murder she reportedly whispered to one police officer, 'I killed him.'
Burke added that she had a strained relationship with her father and said she had been 'overwhelmed' on election day.
She added that she wanted to help people 'change their attachment to their parents.'
According to police documents, Burke allegedly described how she killed her father, saying 'it was really hard, really fu****g hard' and 'there were points where she felt she wasn’t going to be able to.'
Burke was charged with first-degree murder on Friday and is being held on $2million bail.
She is due in court on November 21.
Neighbors told police the father and daughter lived in the home together, and that Timothy was mostly home-bound because of health issues.
She purchased the home she shared with her father in 2023.
Her wife, Samantha Leigh Allen is an editor at Conde Nast's transgender news website Them.
So the wife was born male, which mathematically reduces to a heterosexual couple with a very odd kink.
Allen previously worked as a writer covering LGTBQ issues for The Daily Beast and Fusion media.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Blue Origin for comment on this story.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chinese police have cracked down on an internet craze that saw thousands of cyclists throng a highway under cover of night to gorge on dumplings in a nearby city, after local government officials were spooked by the mass gathering.
University students sparked the trend weeks ago when they posted on social media about an evening ride from the central city of Zhengzhou to Kaifeng, around 50 miles away, to enjoy some famous local soup dumplings, according to state media.
The activity went viral, with images of more recent rides showing a multi-lane motorway linking the two cities crammed with thousands of cyclists, some straddling brightly coloured shared bikes - dubbed the 'Night Riding Great Army'.
Authorities, who have long been fearful of young people meeting up in their masses, initially welcomed the wholesome revelry, but later imposed traffic restrictions, citing traffic chaos and safety concerns.
An online statement from the provincial police on Saturday said the road would be 'closed to non-motorised vehicles' from 4pm to midday on Sunday 'due to its occupation by shared bikes and other objects at various points'.
Three major shared bike companies said Saturday that they would impose new local geographic restrictions, adding that the vehicles would lock automatically if riders persisted in travelling in prohibited areas.
Oh, the pleasures of living in a totalitarian society
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is the surreal moment police arrest a cigarette smuggler disguised as a water plant as he tries to cross a river from Paraguay to Argentina.
Gendarmes in military fatigues shone their torches at the 'floating plant' as it came towards their boat under the cover of darkness.
Their suspicions about the real nature of the unexpected object in front of them proved spot on as a close inspection revealed what was under the clever camouflage.
An officer ended up hoisting the human being hidden under the hyacinth aboard before handcuffing him.
They then discovered he had been pushing 200 packs of 'Rodeo King Size' cigarettes in four black boxes under a flexible wire mesh covered with a mix of leaves and artificial plants and tied to his body.
The 42-year-old smuggler was checked over to make sure he wasn't suffering from hypothermia or any other health problems before being taken to a police station for questioning ahead of a court appearance.
The wetsuit he was wearing is thought to have kept his body temperature higher than it would normally have been.
The bizarre incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning local time near Cerrito Island in the Argentinian Litoral region where the Paraguay and Parana Rivers meet.
The man arrested had reportedly been trying to get the picture-postcard island from Paraguay when he was intercepted by officers from the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
A source told local press: 'No-one had ever seen a plant like that floating so fast on top of the water-line and it made them take a closer look.'
The unnamed tobacco smuggler, dubbed Aquaman after the half-human American comic book superhero by social media users, is expected to appear before a judge in the northern Argentinian city of Resistencia later today.
[WSJ] WASHINGTON—The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a "warrior board" of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.
“We have a little list — they never will be missed…”
If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be "lacking in requisite leadership qualities," according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. But it could also create a chilling effect on top military officers, given the president-elect’s past vow to fire "woke generals," referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.
As commander in chief, Trump can fire any officer at will, but an outside board whose members he appoints would bypass the Pentagon’s regular promotion system, signaling across the military that he intends to purge a number of generals and admirals.
The draft order says it aims to establish a review that focuses "on leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence." The draft doesn’t specify what officers need to do or present to show if they meet those standards. The draft order originated with one of several outside policy groups collaborating with the transition team, and is one of numerous executive orders under review by Trump’s team, a transition official said.
The warrior board would be made up of retired generals and noncommissioned officers, who would send their recommendations to the president. Those identified for removal would be retired at their current rank within 30 days.
Karoline Leavitt, the Trump-Vance Transition spokeswoman, declined to comment on this draft executive order, but said "the American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver."
#2
Given too many, DOD Leadership quickly sided with the Biden Perversion and Citizen rights violations just to keep their jobs. Verses following their Sworn Oath to protect the US and follow the US Constitution.
I agree a review needs to be done.
BUT !! Extreme care must be taken to avoid a Witch Hunt type purge.
#8
Wholeheartedly agree w/Comment #2; this could devolve into a purity test. Perhaps a cap on numbers and attrition will reduce the flag ranks.
Q: wasn’t something similar done by Germany?
#10
If you need to create a new government department to abolish another government department...
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The generals that ran their mouths weren't just following orders. Let them to be the first to get fired. The rest can be reviewed.
Recall Milley to active duty and court martial him for treason. Same for the officers who refused orders to reduce number in Syria.
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#12
Start with the commanders of all of the military service academies. They've forgotten what their first duty is. The rest of the military needs to be reminded: First order of business is to "Support and defend the Constitution of the United States and bear true faith and allegiance to the same". EVERYTHING else is secondary. Those who cannot comply need to find a new job.
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Obama purged the flag ranks and did purity tests already. Purge them again until you get to folks with combat experience. For the Navy, you may have to reactivate folks that should not have been purged.
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"Witch Hunt type purge"
What did Obama do?
What do commies do?
Do you expect them to treat us any better?
We need to stop tolerating home grown communism.
So pardon me when I say this, but
Marxism wont be defeated with vagina tactics.
[Daily Mail, where America get its news] Mysterious objects were spotted falling from the sky and breaking apart over several states, leaving thousands baffled by the cosmic display. Streaks of glowing lights appeared over parts of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving people questioned were a possible fireball or part of a series of meteor showers. Dozens of people reported the phenomenon at about 9pm ET, saying the lights streaked through the sky for up to 60 seconds before disappearing.
Witnesses captured the show, revealing what appeared to be a red and orange meteor shower shining bright as it broke up into several parts before it slowly dimmed and disappeared from the night sky.
A Texas resident reported that it 'first seemed like it was going straight up toward the sky then went directly over our head and we could see it breaking up as it traveled directly over us.'
McDowell told Space.com that these satellites 'are dominating' the clutter in Earth's atmosphere, adding that 'there is now a Starlink reentry almost every day, sometimes multiple.'
Another person in the Lone Star State described it as 'by far the brightest meteor event I have ever witnessed.'
However, astronomer and orbital debris expert Jonathan McDowell confirmed the light show was caused by a SpaceX Starlink satellite breaking up as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere.
SpaceX has thousands of its Starlink satellites orbiting Earth to provide internet access to remote areas around the world, launching 98 this year as of mid-October. At the end of their mission, internet satellites are designed to re-enter the atmosphere to avoid cluttering Earth's orbit with space debris.
McDowell told Space.com that these satellites 'are dominating' the clutter in Earth's atmosphere, adding that 'there is now a Starlink reentry almost every day, sometimes multiple.'
The satellite re-entered over Washington state and continued southeast before disappearing over northern Texas.
An Oklahoma resident described the satellite as a 'bright fire ball heading southeast, slow moving, looked like it split into 3 parts,' while another called it 'the coolest thing I've seen.'
Some people speculated that the satellite was part of a series of three meteor showers - the Leonids and Southern and Northern Taurids - that reached peak activity this month.
The number of Starlink satellites that have reentered the atmosphere has drastically increased over the last fiver years, jumping from between 50 and 100 per year to around 300 annually.
'We are seeing a similar increase in the number of satellites now that hundreds of Starlink satellites are starting to come down,' McDowell told Space.com.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A NASA astronaut gave a cryptic explanation about why their four-person crew was mysteriously hospitalized after returning to Earth from space last month.
Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps were taken to a medical facility in Florida after splashing down on October 25, with one of the crew staying overnight for 'observation.'
Russian cosmonaut, Alexander Grebenkin, returned with the NASA crew and was also taken to the hospital in nearby Pensacola, but did not speak at a live briefing Friday.
NASA has been tight-lipped about the reason for the hospital visit and the crew continued to dodge questions at the briefing Friday.
'Spaceflight is still something we don't fully understand,' Barratt said.
'We're finding things that we don't expect sometimes. This was one of those times and we're still piecing things together on this.'
The trained medical doctor only referred to the emergency room visit as a 'medical event,' saying that NASA will reveal all details 'in the fullness of time.'
While NASA has refused to provide any other information, an insider told DailyMail.com that 'blood pressure issues' could have landed them in the Florida hospital.
The NASA astronauts continued to touch on the 'medical event,' but shying away from details about which one of them stayed overnight.
'Everyone's different,' Epps said, 'and that's the part you can't predict.'
Dominick, however, noted: 'The big things you expect, being disoriented, being dizzy.
'But the little things, like just sitting in a hard chair, my backside has not really sat in a hard thing for 235 days... It's rather uncomfortable, right? I did not expect that.'
Astronauts returning to Earth experience a dramatic drop in blood pressure, which can lead to orthostatic hypotension, a form of low blood pressure that happens when a person stands up or lies down.
Orthostatic hypotension happens in astronauts because gravity pulls blood downward when their bodies have been in low gravity, thus causing a shock-like impact on their system.
Symptoms of orthostatic hypotension include lightheadedness or dizziness and occurs in nearly all astronauts after long-term missions.
While the source told DailyMail.com that this could have been the cause of the hospitalizations, they said: 'NASA can play the 'medical privacy issue' all day long.'
#5
I'm tending toward a more prosaic ailment like...crabs?
Regular crabs are hard to get rid of. Space crabs would be almost unstoppable due to their exposure to radiation.
While my personal preference is to watch The Andromeda Strain play out in real time, maybe just some fungal infection like athelete's foot. NASA might find it embarrassing if all its astronauts came down with Space Crotch.
[FoxNews] The Chinese navy, already the world's largest, aims to create a 'blue-water' force capable of operating globally
China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, signaling its progress toward developing a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
The project, located at the Longwei site in Sichuan, is identified as part of China's plan for naval nuclear propulsion.
China’s navy, already the world's largest, aims to create a "blue-water" force capable of operating globally.
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This will not end well.
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Making a nuclear reactor for an aircraft carrier isn't that hard. Making that can generate enough power for all systems while being safe for the operators and personnel is the hard part.
#4
Many years ago, I heard that Russian sailors on nuclear submarines called their extra pay for submarine duty "childlessness pay". Why? Because many of them were bald due to radiation exposure.
Unless the Chinese are VERY careful about nuclear safety, the will end up with the same problem with their carrier and other nuclear powered ships.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.
I lost my balls, now I'll probably lose my job as well. 
