06.10.13
Bean Pounding: Hubby made me do it
Not a good look.
From the wire:
Despite the fact that a Texas woman admitted to sending ricin laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week, the woman is now apparently trying to pin the crime on her husband.
[An] FBI affidavit says Richardson failed a polygraph test and investigators found inconsistencies in her story. No charges have been filed against her husband. His attorney says the couple is divorcing and the letters were a setup.
And this isn’t the thing to say, either:
Richardson’s court-appointed attorney, Tonda Curry, said there was no intention to harm anyone and noted that it’s common knowledge that mail is checked before it reaches the person to whom these letters were addressed.
“From what I can say, based on what evidence I’ve seen, whoever did this crime never intended for ricin to reach the people to which the letters were addressed,” Curry said.
What? Someone thinks there’s mitigation because everyone knows the President doesn’t read his mail? Pathetic.
What about the poor sods who do actually have to deal with the greasy powder falling out of the letters?
This is going in a video.
Procedural note: I don’t know about you but I’ve come to hate news websites that pull the endless load routine. It’s an increasingly grasping tactic employed by corporate America to tie up eyeballs.
When I run into them the scripting overhead becomes a burden on the machine. And, henceforth, upon encountering such sites, material will be taken without attribution other than “from the wire” and will not contain backlinks.
What are your thoughts on websites that practice the never-ending load?