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"Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of Robert F. Kennedy assassination, seeks parole with no opposition from prosecutors/Attorneys say that 53 years behind bars is sufficient punishment for the 77-year-old; Kennedy family declines to weigh in."

 

The Washington Post reports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/25/sirhan-parole-hearing/

 

Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón told The Washington Post shortly before his inauguration in December that he was creating a sentencing review unit to revisit the cases of about 20,000 prisoners for possible resentencing, analyzing both the fairness of long sentences and the cost savings for releasing low-risk or older inmates.... 

 

In Sirhan’s case, Gascón’s office is remaining neutral....Kennedy is survived by his wife, Ethel Kennedy, and nine children, many of whom declined to comment....

 

Ethel Kennedy is still alive. She's 93 and has never remarried. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for some reason has come to believe that Sirhan was not the killer, and he's met with Sirhan and told him so.

 

Under California law in effect in 1968, a life sentence with parole would have made Sirhan eligible for release after seven years. He has had no disciplinary violations since 1972, and although he claims not to remember the act of shooting Kennedy, he has expressed remorse in parole hearings since the 1980s.... 

 

 

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What high-school history books teach about 9/11

 

Author gives description of the 911 account from the 5 most used school books, see at link

 

FTA:

 

These five books are on the whole disappointing in their treatments of one of the defining moments in post-World War Two American and world history. They are factually accurate but estranged from the meaning of what happened — the meaning for the terrorists but even more so the meaning for Americans. With the exception of Warner, these history textbooks minimize the events of that day, not by understating the body count, but by portraying the attacks as just something that happened. To the extent those events have importance in the eyes of these instructors, it arose from the ‘War on Terror’ that followed.

 

Do these books represent the best we can do in teaching children born after 9/11 what that catastrophe meant and still means to Americans? Or do they represent an antiseptic effort to push 9/11 into a past, quarantined from our present discontents? Today our schools and all too many of our teachers are head-over-heels in the effort to teach 1619, anti-racism and America as wall-to-wall oppression. Their ideology is a distant cousin, but a cousin nonetheless, of those who 20 years ago sought to destroy the symbols of American pride. Without exactly denying what happened on 9/11, many teachers using these textbooks and others like them seem to be on track to turning that history into dust.

 

 

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/high-school-history-books-teach-about-9-11/

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On Wednesday, U.S. gymnasts testified before a Senate committee and blasted the USOPC, DOJ and the FBI for enabling serial sexual predator Larry Nassar.

 

The FBI has gotten plenty of criticism this week, but Drew Holden has pointed out something they got right:

 

 

 

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On 9/17/2021 at 2:02 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

One Down, Ohio Republican Who Voted to Impeach President Trump Announces He Will Not Seek Re-Election 

 

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/17/one-down-ohio-republican-who-voted-to-impeach-president-trump-announces-he-will-not-seek-re-election-as-trump-backed-challenger-positioned-to-win/

 

 

Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16) was one of the ten House republicans (pictured above) who voted to impeach President Trump. As President Trump announced his support for Gonzalez’s challenger, Max Miller, former House Speaker John Boehner went to Ohio to support Gonzalez. Apparently the support of Paul Ryan and John Boehner was not enough to help. Max Miller was in position to primary Gonzalez. Tonight, Gonzalez conceded his seat:

 

 

 

 

Mess with the bull, you get the horns.  

 

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