MR. SHADOW'S CATCH UP REPORT AGAIN

Wow! This fall has certainly been an extremely busy one for this humble blogger. My Doctorate classes have picked up and hopefully will be over by December. Then its on to the Dissertation blocks.

Well that was a good feeling for my Angels until they ran into the Yankee wall and were sent home. Football season is at its halfway point and my Raiders still suck. To me the teams to beat are Indianapolis, New England, Pittsburgh and New Orleans.

Basketball season is finally here and the Lakers recieved their championship rings and has gone on to post a 6-1 record without Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum. Another battle testing road awaits my team but in the end the Lakers will again come out on top. Yes, all you haters the Lakers will remain as NBA champions.

The Health Care Reform package passed the House on Saturday which is good. The bad is the last minute bullshit Abortion prohibiting package that was included with it. Just like chauvanistic men to want to control the reproductive rights of women. The timing comes as the twenty-fifth(or is it twenty-sixth?) anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

My thoughts and prayers go to the loved ones of the brave U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in the tragic shooting at Fort Hood.

ANGELS WIN A.L. WEST TITLE

A fine performance from the Angels. I have a feeling they will go far this year. Freeway series against the Dodgers? One can hope. The tribute the team did in honor of their fallen teammate Nick Adenheart was sincere and touching.

A SICK SENSE OF HUMOR ON DISPLAY

Some people have no sense of decency or honor. This is what an amusement park in Cincinatti calls a joke. Someone there had the bright idea to have an exhibit reanacting the tragic murder/suicide of Steve McNair that happened this past summer. I hope his wife and kids don't see this but I have a feeling they will.

More on this stupidity here.

IN MEMORIAM: TONY AWARD WINNING ACTOR ZAKES MOKAE DIES

From the Associated Press

September 16, 2009

Zakes Mokae dies at 75; Tony-winning South African actor

He was best-known for his work with playwright Athol Fugard in apartheid dramas such as 'The Blood Knot' and 'Master Harold . . . and the Boys.'

Read more on this great actor and his life.

A DEGREE OF JUSTICE: DUNBAR RAPIST SENTENCED ON ALL 13 COUNTS

Good, I hope that's omly the start of this punk's journey into hell. As Ms. Gina put it:

"Now the need to arrest all of the remaining participants.
I hope they exhibit SOME remorse at sentencing if that’s possible. All the better to start naming names."

I think some time in prison should ensure that. Get the rest of those "beasts and get them off the streets!

MORE DUNBAR VILLAGE TESTIMONY VIA WOAD PART 2

From What About Our Daughters September 17th:

The Palm Beach post actually has audio of the victim’s testimony from Thursday in the trial of Jakarius Taylor. They also have audio from her testimony in Walker and Poindexter’s trials as well. I’m not going to listen to it, but it is there for those who feel the need.

Avion Lawson rebutted Taylor’s defense that Taylor just happened to be around and was there to convince his friend to leave when Taylor tripped and his penis fell out of his pants. Whatever!
Avion said they went to that apartment that night for one reason:

But while Marie and her son testified that the youths demanded money, Lawson said his friends had only one thing on their mind: “We’re going to get some.”
Two others – 20-year-old Tommy Poindexter and 18-year-old Nathan Walker – were convicted last month. They face life in prison. Two others Lawson said participated in the attack haven’t been charged.

Assistant State Attorney Craig Williams asked Lawson the question that has haunted many: “Did you guys care about what happened to Marie?”
“Guess not,” Lawson answered in a monotone. “They started it.”
“How about you? Did you care?” Williams continued.
“After it was over with, yeah, I thought about it.” Palm Beach Post.

In addition Taylor was identified as the person to hold a gun on the 12 year old son and hit him over the head. Lawson also said that Taylor searched for a lighter to set the mother and son on fire.

This Goddamn Taylor needs an eternal ass whupping. This little snot must think he's invincible. What kind of monster does what he did? I hope the put his ass in general population and let the other inmates tear his skinny rear up.

INFORMATION ON THE SECOND DUNBAR VILLAGE TRIAL PART 1

I was checking Ms. Gina's blog and came upon news of the second trial for those "beasts" that brutally gang raped a mother and beat her son in West Palm Beach over two years ago. She covers it better than I can and so I will showcase what she wrote:

From What About Our Daughters September 16th

Second Dunbar Village Trial Underway:
Why are Melvin Young, Augustus Fontaine still Running Loose?

Well this one snuck up on me. The last of the Dunbar Villag Trials began yesterday.
Blame Tommy Poindexter. Blame Avion Lawson.

But don’t blame Jakaris Taylor, a youth who played sports and went to church but was drawn into the brutal gang rape of a 35-year-old Dunbar Village woman out of the love of a friend and the fear of another youth who had long terrorized the poverty-wracked housing project. Palm Beach Post

Oh yeah RIIIIGHT! Oh it gets BETTER and BETTER:
So, he went to the apartment, hoping to persuade Lawson, whom he often called his “brother,” to leave, Haddad said.

Instead, Taylor stood and watched while the Lawson and at least four other young men repeatedly raped the woman, ultimately forcing her to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.
When he tried to leave, Haddad said, Poindexter taunted him.
“What about you? What about you little bro’? You ain’t never done it before?” Haddad said, quoting Poindexter.

Fearing Poindexter, known as “Crazy Tommy,” would turn one of the two guns he was holding on him, Taylor approached the woman for oral sex. He “simulated a sex act” hoping it would show Poindexter and the other boys in the room that he was on their team, Haddad said.
Well if that’s what he is admitting to, then he should stay on their “team” and serve the next 45 years in the cell next to his “team mates.” Lawson is expected to testify again. The Palm Beach Post has video of his testimony in the first trial.

This looks like the same strategy as the first two, the “I was there, but I didn’t do as much evil as everybody else.” In a sense they are throwing themselves on the mercy of the jury.
Meanwhile two others implicated in the attack are running around free; Melvin Young, Augustus Fontaine.

Still, the victim testified that 10 men assaulted her. Lawson identified six: Poindexter, Walker, Jakaris Taylor, Melvin Young, Augustus Fontaine and himself. Taylor goes on trial next month. Why haven’t West Palm Beach police arrested Young and Fontaine? Law enforcement officials say only that it’s an ongoing investigation. It had better be. For those who were there on June 18, 2007, with Poindexter, Walker and Lawson, the truth still awaits. And all of those who were there should face it. Palm Beach Post


You know it still shocks and agers me when I read about what these "beasts" did to this poor mother and her son and the criminals try to make excuses and the weak ass "I was just there defense. Yet these punks didn't have the decency to help the woman as she was repeatedly violated in her apartment. As far as I'm concerned just grab all of these bastards and throw them out into the desert. They deserve the worst kind of hell that can be devised with Dante's vision being the entry level.