Scotland Yard has taken possession of a policemanÂ’s memoirs which names the serial killer.
Private handwritten notes by the man who led the hunt for Jack the Ripper naming the chief suspect were given to Scotland YardÂ’s Black Museum yesterday.
Chief Inspector Donald Swanson kept quiet for years but in retirement, frustrated that the murderer had escaped justice, could not resist scribbling notes in the margin of his bossÂ’s memoirs, naming the man that they both believed had become the worldÂ’s most famous serial killer.
The man he named was Aaron Kosminski, a Polish-Jewish hairdresser living in Whitechapel, East London, who was eventually committed to a lunatic asylum, where he died.
According to Swanson the police were so convinced that Kosminski was the killer of at least five prostitutes in the 1880s that they organised a secret identity parade at a police rest home. The witness was a Jew who was said to have refused to give evidence.
Swanson made his notes in a book called The Lighter Side of My Official Life by Sir Robert Anderson, who was an assistant commissioner, for whom Swanson became staff officer.
Sir Robert said as a “definitely ascertainable fact” that the killer was a Polish Jew. He said that the only person who ever had a good view of the killer “unhesitantly identified the suspect the instant he was confronted but refused to give evidence”.
Mr Swanson wrote: “Because the suspect was also a Jew and also because his evidence would convict the suspect and witness would be the means of murderer being hanged — which he did not wish to be left on his mind.”
He said that the suspect had been taken by police to the rest home for the identification and that Kosminski knew he had been identified. He was taken back to his brotherÂ’s home in Whitechapel and police kept a secret watch.
Eventually he had to be taken, bound, to a workhouse and then to an asylum where he died “shortly afterwards”. Swanson wrote: “Kosminski was the suspect.”
Yesterday as the Swanson family handed over the book with its margin notes to the YardÂ’s refurbished Crime Museum, Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Lovelock, who heads detective training and the museum, said that the identification was very interesting.
Mr Lovelock said that the name had been mentioned before and the margin notes were revealed some years ago but he believed that they were significant.
Nevill Swanson, the Victorian detective’s grandson, said; “My grandfather thought he had got his man but never nailed him.”
Yard researches suggested that Kosminski was arrested by police after he threatened his sister with a knife and they were struck by his resemblance to descriptions of the Ripper.
But he was considered too mentally ill to be questioned, He was taken in the care of his brother to a Yard police rest home in Brighton and the identity parade was held there.
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Jack the Ripper is remembered solely because he was the first media sensation serial killer. It was one of the first times newspapers realized their power to cause public panic.
A woman who risked 20 cents on the Superfecta at a Michigan track ended up with $21,584. Chris Locking, the general manager of the Sports Creek Raceway, told the Detroit News the woman made two 10-cent bets and one paid off. Both were on a race simulcast from the Hollywood Park track in California.
The woman's name has not been released.
"Pretty good return for 10 cents, isn't it?" Locking said.
To win a Superfecta bet, the gambler must pick the first four horses in a race in the winning order. Many tracks have introduced exotic bets, sometimes known as "sucker bets," and allowed very low wagers to draw in more money.
Locking said the dime bets have been very successful at Sports Creek. "Twenty-thousand doesn't happen every day but on a regular basis you'll see people winning $70, $200, $500 on a dime bet," he said. Takes a heap of losers to make those payoffs and leave a profit...
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I can't see how the tracks can afford the transactions costs.
Coin operated machines. I remember when you could make a phone call for a nickle. And an article like this is worth a lot more than $21K in marketing expense.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Tequila may have blurred the memory of many a drinker, but the Agave fields that produce it wonÂ’t soon be forgotten after UNESCO put them on its list of World Heritage sites.
Residents of Mexico’s mountainous Jalisco state on Wednesday toasted the addition of their blue-tinged, Tequila-producing Agave landscape to the list of places “considered to be of outstanding value to humanity,” in the words of the UN cultural agency’s Web site. “We are very emotional,” said Yadira Gaytan, the assistant mayor of the town of Tequila in Jalisco state. “There is a lot of joy among people here because we have been waiting for this for a long time.”
The cactus-like Agave plant, which is native to the area, is grown in abundance around Tequila to meet the worldÂ’s thirst for the fiery liquor. The sprawling blue fields make for an impressive spectacle, even from overflying passenger jets. Located about 70 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of the city of Guadalajara, the town of Tequila is packed with breweries and cantinas, and most of its 60,000 residents work in the spirits industry or in its spillover tourism sector.
Gaytan predicted that being a World Heritage site would bring more visitors and investment to the region.
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I'm pretty sure that to become a World Heritage Site, all you gotta do is donate $100K to the Kojo Annan college fund.
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This has been a growing concern of mine., since I was 21 18
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I haven't spent much time in Jalisco, but stills are everywhere in Colima. Mexicans often scold you for buying Tequila from liquor stores. Locals like to drink it while eating salted sugar beets, doused with lemon juice. I like it with a squirt of lemon and Grenadine.
...That's right. Oregon, where only one of eight statewide elected officials, Sen. Gordon Smith, is a Republican. Oregon, where Democrats have controlled the governor's mansion since 1986 and where every Democratic presidential candidate since then has carried the state.
First state with a bottle bill, first with an all-public coastline, first with an urban growth boundary, first with vote-by-mail, first with physician-assisted suicide—that Oregon is unmistakably losing its Democratic majority, Looper says.
As seismic as such a shift would be, it is a well-kept secret. Reed College political science chairman Paul Gronke was unaware of Democrats' dwindling power. "I'm stunned," Gronke says. "I find that very surprising and something that has not been highlighted by the press at all."
Former state senator and Oregon Republican Party vice-chairwoman Marylin Shannon says Republicans' gathering strength is little recognized even among her party's leaders.
"When I show the data at [Republican] Central Committee meetings, people say, 'I didn't know this,'" says Shannon.
"This" is the fact that, absent major demographic shifts, Republicans are on track to soon outnumber Democrats in Oregon.
In the liberal Portland echo chamber, such a notion might seem absurd. But a Republican-controlled Oregon would probably be an entirely different place on issues ranging from abortion, school funding and the environment to the judiciary and the Legislature...
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What's the bottle bill, I've never heard of this one?
My Dad retired out there a couple years back but I've never made the trip. Being fairly libertarian I don't care about the rest of their social policies. Anybody here know what taxes are like up there?
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Maybe the construction of the wing-nut bureaucracy exposed waste. It is obvious that he public is sick of something. All bad ideas in Oregon, come out of Eugene.
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Broadhead6, I think it means the deposit you pay on bottled beverages. It's something like 5 cents per, in order to cut down on the amount of them tossed on the highways. Pay it when you get your Coke, then get it back when you bring the bottle in to the store.
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Oregon USED TO be the "Leave me the hell alone" state. Even old hippies tired of the in-your-face holier-than-thou crowd in California went north to get way from that crap.
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Just how the heck did we wind up with the Red/Blue disignations we have. The first thought I had was that the Stalinist wing of the local CPUSA was on the verge of taking over
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I've always felt that the Republicans deserved the color "Red" due to the fact that Reagan was the main man responsible for the bring-down of the Soviet Union (the "Reds"), even though they hit the ground during Bush I.
They'll have a solid lock on the color when they take out Red China.
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Oregon has horrible taxes to pay for all of the great services they offer. The liberal Portland folks may be getting sick of their taxes, though I don't know. May also be California people sick of liberal policies moving north.
Idaho is getting an influx of liberal types. Those that don't get out of Boise think that it's fair game for Democrat influence. Hillary is going (or already went) because the new McKlatchy (spelling?) newspapers give the liberals the idea that they have more power than they do. But that's cause they don't leave Boise or Sun Valley or the three other resort areas in the state echo chambers. The whole Eastern half of the state is Mormon, most of the folks are still conservative and the rural areas might think the hunting accident of a fellow attempting to change their independent ways wasn't really all that sad.
In general - I think lots of people are sick of the failed liberal ideas and are looking to move to areas where they can raise a family in a wholesome environment.
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Guys, I've lived in Oregon since 1998. This article is from the Willamette Week, the local "who's in town this week and 'bash-the-fascist-republicans'" rag.
I'd love Oregon to become a Red state, but until proven at the polls, my reaction is snort-chortle-guffaw.
WASHINGTON - Republicans are in jeopardy of losing their grip on Congress in November. With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard and profess a desire to see Democrats wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule.
Further complicating the GOP outlook to turn things around is a solid percentage of liberals, moderates and even conservatives who say they'll vote Democratic. The party out of power also holds the edge among persuadable voters, a prospect that doesn't bode well for the Republicans.
The election ultimately will be decided in 435 House districts and 33 Senate contests, in which incumbents typically hold the upper hand. But the survey underscored the difficulty Republicans face in trying to persuade a skeptical public to return them to Washington.
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AP/IPSOS is leftist fantasy polling. I even wonder if they made any phone calls at all. Why waste money when you know what results you are going to have ahead of time.
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Well, there's really no point in actually holding the elections, is there?
I looked yesterday on the official John Kerry website to see what his plan was for "handling" the current crisis in the Mideast. * crickets *
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3 to 1 margin? This is getting stupid. Do people really believe this bullshit? It's the ol Jeddi Mind Trick, some people will vote not on who they would like to win, but on who they think will win anyway. But that's not enough to win anything.
Look, I might *prefer* to vote Dem in a perfect world. However, I'm going to look at the candidates that I actually have presented to me. If I think the Dem personifies the party mascot, no freakin' way will I vote for him or her.
Very, very few voters actually think about whether or not they are "punishing" or "rewarding" the current President when they vote. It's more along the lines of "what have you done for me lately?" no matter what high, noble ideal they tell some goofy pollster.
"There's only one poll that matters, and that one comes in November."
I'd also note this was before Israel/Lebanon heated up. The more we get reminded about the fanatics we face, the more the vote heads Repub. I'ma just sayin' is'all.
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Not according to what I read. The Aspen Institute also did a poll, very, very interesting.
People don't want dems, they actually want more conservative policies and 2/3 wanted more religion in politics.
Oh, and the Senate overwhelmingly voted AGAINST funding said fence down the South way.
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So they surveyed 1,000 folks. So what! They probably went to Berkley or the NY Times cafeteria to get the data. This is just planting data to try to turn those that want to be able to say they voted for the winner toward the Dems. Won't help.
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They are just plowing the field for the kook-squads. Just like those famous exit polls of 2004, if they have a poll of 1,000 people it must be the gospel. I work with both liberals and conservatives in the VERY red state of California. While I am sure there are a few conservatives that have converted to liberalism, I have found that most often people turn in the other direction. I was very liberal when I was young (and stupid) but the older I got the more conservative I became. I highly doubt that the Liberals will get a great many conservatives to vote for say Hillary, Gore, Biden, or Kerry. Truth is told you can always piss off a liberal by making them defend a moonbat position by one of the fore mentioned political leaders. they get extememly mad if you ask what the Democratic plan is for ______ (fill inthe blank).
Hat tip: Drudge
No comments needed. The Donks speak for themselves. (There's a reason they have an ass as a symbol.)
In today's intense Democratic politics in Connecticut, "The Kiss" does not refer to great works of art. Speak of "The Kiss" and you conjure up an embrace immediately after the President's State of the Union address in January 2005. The embrace was between George Bush and the state's junior senator, Joe Lieberman. A better name for it would be the kiss of Judas - or the kiss of death.
Mr Lieberman is one of the Democratic Party's grandees, a vice-presidential candidate in 2000 who, two years later, ran for President. Today, however, he is in the fight of his life; a senator of 18 years standing who must endure the ignominy of a primary against a dangerous challenger who has built his campaign on his opposition to the war in Iraq.
The candidate himself remembers his brush with Bush slightly differently. "I don't think he kissed me," he told Time magazine. "He leaned over, gave me a hug, and said, 'Thank you for being a patriotic American.'"
But in anti-Bush and anti-war Connecticut, the dispute is academic. Bush's alleged words only remind voters of Mr Leiberman's still unwavering support for the invasion of 2003. "He's a Republican mole in the Democratic party," says Pravil Banker, director of a financial company and a man who in other circumstances might be a natural Lieberman supporter. "He's the guy who goes on [Republican-supporting] Fox News. He's the tame Democrat that even conservatives can stomach.
We do like him, don't we.
The Lamont-Lieberman struggle is a battlefield in the civil war within his party. The race will set the tone for the mid-term election campaign this autumn, and have a large bearing on the contest for the Democratic nomination for the White House in 2008.
If all that sounds oddly familiar, it is. In 2004, a similar conflict played out, as the populist Howard Dean, a previously little known governor of Vermont became the darling of the activists. Propelled by internet-raised millions and the enthusiasm of his volunteer supporters from across the country, the governor briefly seemed a sure thing for his party's nomination. Moderates were horrified. A vote for Mr Dean, warned Mr Lieberman, would be "a ticket for nowhere", that could sent the party "back to the political wilderness for a long time".
Turned out Joe was wrong, voting for either Dean or Kerry had the same result because the nutroots are the same regardless.
Today the roles are reversed. The bloggers and activists have rallied behind Mr Lamont, making him the symbol of what Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, current king of the liberal blogs, calls "the people-powered movement".
Daily Kos, and organisations like Moveon.org, have thrown all their energies into toppling Mr Lieberman. The primary outcome will thus also be a measure of the true influence of the blogs, held by some to be the new arbiters of American politics. Alas however, even the vote count on the evening of 8 August may not settle things. More at the link. More proof (if you need it) that the Dems are f#@*ing NUTS.
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The candidate himself remembers his brush with Bush slightly differently. "I don't think he kissed me," he told Time magazine. "He leaned over, gave me a hug, and said, 'Thank you for being a patriotic American.'"
That's what really tics off the Donks -- Lieberman's a patriot.
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We do like him, don't we.
I can remember when we didn't like him. Guys like him and Tax and Spend Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson (D-Boeing, Jack Kennedy, et al. But we didn't hate them, either. It was a respectable two party system full of patriots, not today's circus.
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He lost me big time back when Bush first proposed the tax breaks. He was qouted as saying (paraphrased) "He can't do that, that's our money". Typical socialist.
ROME, Ga. - The same federal judge who threw out Georgia's voter ID law last year has blocked the state from enforcing its revised law in this year's elections. The Wednesday ruling came less than two hours after the Georgia Supreme Court denied the state's request to overrule a state court order that blocked enforcement of the new photo ID law during next week's primary elections and any runoffs.
U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy's ruling, which he delivered verbally from the bench, was much broader, also including the Nov. 7 general elections and any runoffs. If the rulings stand, Georgia voters will not have to show a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot this year. The state's primary election is scheduled for Tuesday.
That means they can bus ringers in from all over the country, vote half a dozen times in a half dozen districts, or, if they're Dem districts, a half dozen times in the same district. Hizzoner seems to like his politix dirty in the traditional manner.
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Mexicans need voter ID to vote. So free ID's in GA are 'scriminatory James Crow problem? Recalling the learned judge would be imposible?
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let me guess where Judge Murphy's patriotism lies? Oh yeah, with his so-called "American" political party. Not with American citizens (especially the living), that's for sure. But, of course, I'm sure he's apolitical
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Oops, my bad: Murphy, 78, obtained his law degree from he University of Georgia in 1949. A highly regarded trial lawyer, Murphy also served in the state Legislature from 1951 to 1961 as a Democrat.
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As someone looking to flee Blairistan this is very worrying.
How can a judge make the law?
Don't Americans have The Common Law and The Constitution?
In theory he's not making the law, but rather reviewing it to ensure it's compatible with more basic laws, namely the Constitution.
In reality, we've had rule by judges pretty much my entire life. The best anyone's figured out how to get around them is by amending the constitution they're citing (state or federal), but that's difficult and, frankly, the judges have started citing foreign and imaginary laws in an effort to maintain their power.
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Very true, RC. In fact, the GA State Supreme Court threw out a case just last week (or earlier this week) brought by our Former Govrnor (Donk) Roy Barnes on behalf of 2 GA citizens who would supposedly NOT be allowed to vote. Ended up both of those citizens already had one of the forms of ID required by the law, so the judges correctly threw it out for lack of "standing."
How they can turn around and not overrule the lower court is beyond me. The Federal judge is another issue. He's been against this law from the get-go, but the Federal Dept. of Justice has ALREADY approved this law. Basically, all laws changing how voting has to take place in Jim Crow States has to be "approved" by DOJ. This has already happened in this case (basically the DOJ agrees it passes the Constitutionality test), so how can a Fed. judge overrule that?
Now, for the basics of the law (Neal Boortz has been all over this). The law allows for something like SEVENTEEN different forms of ID to be used. The 2 citizens mentioned above already had these (one of them was an out of state College ID). PLUS, you have the "free" State-issued IDs, as well as allowing you to vote absentee WITHOUT an ID! How in the world is this harming anyone? When I can use an (old) out of state college ID to vote (or any of the other 16 forms of ID), this ruling has cow-towing to the amigos written ALL over it!
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Harold Murphy's a Clinton appointee. Another gift that keeps on giving.
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.
A woman who risked 20 cents on the Superfecta at a Michigan track ended up with $21,584. Chris Locking, the general manager of the Sports Creek Raceway, told the Detroit News the woman made two 10-cent bets and one paid off. Both were on a race simulcast from the Hollywood Park track in California. 
...That's right. Oregon, where only one of eight statewide elected officials, Sen. Gordon Smith, is a Republican. Oregon, where Democrats have controlled the governor's mansion since 1986 and where every Democratic presidential candidate since then has carried the state.
ROME, Ga. - The same federal judge who threw out Georgia's voter ID law last year has blocked the state from enforcing its revised law in this year's elections. The Wednesday ruling came less than two hours after the Georgia Supreme Court denied the state's request to overrule a state court order that blocked enforcement of the new photo ID law during next week's primary elections and any runoffs.
