I've been following this story, as I follow (and appreciate) Eichenwald on Twitter. He has really stirred up the hate, by refusing to back down, and the responses have been dispicable.
The arrest of a Salisbury, Md., man accused of giving a well-known journalist a seizure by sending him a flashing image online represents a new kind of prosecution for a new kind of crime.
The journalist, Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, suffered a seizure in Dallas after viewing the flashing animation when he received it via Twitter late last year, according to a statement from the Justice Department. Eichenwald had written about his epilepsy and publicly described a similar attack several weeks before the Dec. 15 incident, and authorities said the alleged attacker sent Eichenwald the image in an attempt to hurt him as revenge for what he saw as the reporter’s critical coverage of President Trump.
Here's the description of his attacker:
Neighbors in Salisbury, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, said Rivello lives alone in the house that he grew up in, usually seen only when he was out mowing the lawn or arriving home in a pickup truck that appeared to have a bad muffler.
Rivello told one of his neighbors that he worked as a financial markets day trader. He appeared to live modestly.
“I’ve only talked to him a couple of times,” said Phillip Kemmerlin, who lives next door. “I’ve never really seen him walking in or out with anybody. I didn’t know he was a political type of guy.”
Online, Rivello has been exuberant about his hard-right politics, often tweeting dozens of times per day about his support for Trump and his frustration with anyone out of step with the White House agenda.
Hmmmmmm......
(Ok, I'm mostly kidding. Still, some of the similarities are interesting )
OMG - It's wes!
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:45 am
by RayThom
You're getting anxious... very anxious... feel the light drilling deep into your frontal lobes... deep... deeper... you're losing control...
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:06 pm
by wesw
hah!
very funny.....
not my style anyway.....
the really funny thing is that I only logged on to post a random thought about lawnmowing.....
nobody wants to be the first one in the neighborhood to cut the grass.....
we are all just watching it grow tall...., waiting for the other guy to crack first......
it s a risky game if you only have a push mower..., a risky game....
luckily my rickety old rider is still riding.....
it is even parked on the front stoop because I have my truck in the garage.....
(and no... I m not fixing the muffler....., it s the exhaust manifold gasket anyway..... and I ain t fixin' that either... )
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:09 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I still have the plow on my garden tractor.
Came in handy a week or so ago as snow blower sucks with the snow/rain/slush we got. But the tractor plow just pushed it water and all. Sctratched up the driveway with the wheel chains though. I'll have to seal coat the driveway this spring.
Spring is in the air. (even if the temp has been in the 30's for the last few days).
And I went snowmobiling this past weekend.
Maybe the daffodils that have been up out of the ground for the last month will bloom soon.
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:13 pm
by wesw
my daffodils bloomed a couple of weeks ago....
they are slowly disappearing as two girls who live up the street generally pick a couple every day as they walk home from the bus stop....
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:27 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Hope they give them to their mom.
Or at least put them in a vase for a few days.
Hate to see them thrown on the ground and trampled on.
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:34 pm
by wesw
yeah, I think that they do give them to their mom....
this is the third year that they have been snitching them....
the first couple of years they looked like they were worried that that I d say something.... and took them kinda furtively...
this year they are just taking them without a care as they have figured out that I don t care....
they don t take them all....
I used to snitch daffodils when I was a kid too...
they are my favorite flower. first up in spring...
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:41 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Croucuses (however it's spelled) are first here.
I have a little bundle that grows in the back of the yard. Never planted them there, one year they just showed up and have been coming back every late winter.
And the little blue bells (hiacinths?). I have them all over, even in the weeds grass/lawn. I hold off on the first mow till they have bloomed for a few days.
Then the daffodils.
Then the tulips.
Then everything else.
But when I think about it, the weeds are first.
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:21 pm
by Bicycle Bill
oldr_n_wsr wrote:But when I think about it, the weeds are first.
Weeds are just plants whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -"BB"-
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:23 pm
by BoSoxGal
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ~ A. A. Milne
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:27 pm
by Lord Jim
They're not called weeds any more...
They're called "wild flowers"...
Sort of like the way a "swamp" is now a "wetland"...
Re: O. M. G. - it's wes!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:33 pm
by BoSoxGal
There isn't really any such thing as a weed from a botanist's perspective. Some plants are invasive, others are hard to grow.
As my grandmother used to say, a weed is anything that you don't really want in *your* garden. Somebody else might be growing the same flower on purpose.
This is akin to the dictionary definition:
weed
wēd/
noun
1.
a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
'Wild plant' otherwise known by botanists as 'native species'. They're excellent to rely on if you want a colorful garden that is drought tolerant and easy to keep.
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