Amanda Knox Gets DNA Review
To read my thoughts on Amanda Knox, click here. Then scroll to the bottom as posts are in reverse chronological order.
Shelley Malil Sentenced 12 Years to Life
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You can click here to read my original post on Kendra Beebe when she testified against Shelley Malil.
Thanks, Breccia, for the update.
Urbach–Wiethe disease: Feel No Fear
You all imagine living in a world where one can spot lies, but have you ever thought about living in a world without fear? That’s the world that a 44-year old woman who scientists are studying lives in. She has a rare condition called Urbach–Wiethe disease in which scientists believe has destroyed her amygdala, the brain structure that is responsible for storing emotional memories.
Researchers have tried to scare this woman without success and even more interesting is that she cannot register the emotion of fear in other people. She has unfortunately paid for that as she has been held up by knife point, accosted twice and nearly killed in a domestic violence.
While it may sound good for those of us who do feel fear, it definitely has consequences to not feel fear.
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Sorry topics are light. They will resume to normal in January! Happy Holidays.
School Board Gunman had “Grimace”
A man whose wife was fired by a school board in Panama City, Florida, came to a school board meeting wielding a gun Tuesday, spray painted a circle with a “V” on the wall, and ordered the women out of the room as he pointed a gun at the men on the board.
Bay City Schools Superintendent Bill Husfelt said, “”He had that look in his eyes. I’ve seen anger before, and he almost had like a grimace, a smile. He had planned to do this and we knew it wasn’t going to end well.”
Husfelt, in a tragic time, quickly put together the inconsistencies in perpetrator Clay Duke’s behavior. He also knew to take Duke seriously and trust him when Duke said he was going to die that day. He trusted what was likely gut responses because in these split seconds he didn’t have time to think things through. In hindsight, I suspect he remembered the clues.
I have to wonder if that grimace was an expression of contempt.
Bill Husfelt talks about this incident and recalls it. He displays a classic expression of sadness in his eyebrows that is painful to watch. You can see by simply looking at Husfelt’s face he is very sad about what happened.
Duke left a message behind on his Facebook page. He wrote, “Some people will say I was an evil monster…no…I was just born poor in a country where the wealthy manipulate.”
What a tragedy.