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If you would like to submit a yearbook photo of a public figure, send it to mostlikelytokill@gmail.com. Note: Unless otherwise requested, the sources for all submissions will remain private (by making a submission, you waive the right to make any claim against this website, its owners or anyone else affiliated with the owners). Now get scanning!Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-11692388491855177262010-10-21T19:47:00.001-07:002010-10-22T07:50:39.870-07:00Tony Robbins<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TMD7M8HQ2XI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/LVHPP-PhGNc/s1600-h/Lo-Robbins-Portrait%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="Lo-Robbins-Portrait" border="0" height="390" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TMD7NBk4DtI/AAAAAAAAB4c/Y15C7O6it2U/Lo-Robbins-Portrait_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Lo-Robbins-Portrait" width="268" /></a><br />
Long before he exhorted his devoted followers to walk over hot coals or shell out ten-thousand dollars for a seminar, the freakishly tall motivational phenomenon <a href="http://www.tonyrobbins.com/">Tony Robbins</a> was president of his class at Glendora High School in Southern California. According to classmate Julie Fellinger, the future self-help guru sold his candidacy with a speech about his childhood struggles. “It was very touching, it was very compelling, it was inspirational,” recalled Fellinger for A & E’s <i>Biography</i> in 2005. Although Robbins resigned his office early because of difficulties at home, he declared his abbreviated tenure to be a rousing success in the 1978 yearbook:<br />
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<blockquote><span style="color: yellow;"> GLENDORA TARTANS!</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">When I came into office I set a goal. That goal was to make 1977-1978 “the best year ever.” I wanted to build a “new spirit,” and I had a group of the most outstanding, exciting, and dedicated student leaders ever assembled.</span><br />
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Elephant races, pep rallies, spirit weeks, Channel 7, open forums, better food, “G” on the mountain, lighting for the soccer field, new and different assemblies: all these things marked the hard work of the leadership class to make your year more enjoyable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">Were we successful? If there was ever a time when interest filled your eyes or a smile broke out on your face, if there was ever a time when you looked forward to some activity, or, most importantly, if there was ever a time when you were proud to say, “I’m a Glendora Tartan,” 1977-1978 was truly successful.</span> <span style="color: yellow;"><br />
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I would like to thank every person on campus for making my years at Glendora so enjoyable, and a special thanks to the leadership class of ’78 for a year that will truly live forever...</span><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
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Sincerely, </span><br />
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Tony Robbins </span><span style="color: yellow;"></span><br />
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A.S.B. President 1977-78 </span></blockquote><br />
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The remainder of Robbins’s term was served by his vice-president, Brian Brooks, who was also voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by his fellow Tartans. We were unable to locate Mr. Brooks to ask him if he ever gets to “fire walk” with his former superior in student government. <br />
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By the late 1980s, Robbins was a best selling author (<i>Unlimited Power</i>) and an infomercial star. In the 1990s, he released another hugely successful book (<i>Awaken the Giant Within</i>), counseled President <a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/05/bill-clinton.html">Bill Clinton</a> during the <a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/05/monica-lewinsky.html">Monica Lewinsky</a> scandal and appeared as himself in the terrible <a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/05/gwyneth-paltrow.html">Gwyneth Paltrow</a> movie, <i>Shallow Hal</i>. Today, Robbins’s various business ventures (including a nutrition line) earn him eighty million dollars a year. <br />
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Some critics call the toothy giant a charlatan for charging people exorbitant fees to hear his ridiculous empowerment mantras (“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant”), but there is no shortage of customers for his “product,” so who are we to judge?<br />
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In 2001, Robbins—who also promotes himself as a relationship expert—was accused of stealing another man’s wife. The self-help star was preparing to marry a 28-year-old former health food clerk named Sage, when her ex-husband, John Lynch, a Canadian businessman, told the media his wife had been carrying on an adulterous affair before their divorce. Robbins filed defamation suits in Canada against Lynch and the two newspapers that published his allegations. <br />
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After the controversy subsided, the couple was wed and they now co-star in an educational DVD series entitled “<a href="https://www.tonyrobbins.com/products/relationships/">Love and Passion: The Ultimate Relationship Program</a>.” Robbins’s ex-wife Becky, whom he divorced shortly before marrying Sage, probably has not availed herself of the “risk free” offer to see these videos.<br />
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<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TMD7PhxuPfI/AAAAAAAAB40/QX0Pd_f5cHg/s1600-h/Tony-Sage%20Robbins%5B4%5D.jpg"><img alt="Tony-Sage Robbins" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TMD7P1shv0I/AAAAAAAAB44/kkjlFWXtnA4/Tony-Sage%20Robbins_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Tony-Sage Robbins" width="163" /></a><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>REFERENCES<br />
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Bellendaine Yearbook, 1978, Volume 19, Glendora High School, p. 151, 172, 244.<br />
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Ann O’Neill, “One Unhappy Ex,” Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2001, p. E-2. <br />
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A & E Biography, Tony Robbins: The Secret of his Success, 2005.<br />
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Steve Salerno, Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless [New York: Crown, 2005], pp. 75-87. <br />
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Rita Cosby, “Clinton Advice,” Fox News Channel, December 15, 1998.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terry Jones, pre-mustache, pre-insanity</td></tr>
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Before achieving fleeting infamy as the organizer of something called the "International Burn a Koran Day" (09/11/10), the insane and racist preacher, Terry Jones, graduated with <a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/09/rush-limbaugh.html">Rush Limbaugh</a> from Cape Girardeau (Missouri) Central High School in 1969. Jones played baseball for the school, while the beefier Limbaugh played football.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX3jab4eCPAplhviCOG49ICH7uef363FsqoQvqqaEfUhFQtpvHVLW6vT2inq7mzQpnA1CssOYOm0YljOtPH9fWZyY2TpY2udBN39v2QKlu_Dr5_IFR9MEx61cBjuzxI7EZQu9GUSX5ZIvg/s1600/Terry-Jones-Truck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX3jab4eCPAplhviCOG49ICH7uef363FsqoQvqqaEfUhFQtpvHVLW6vT2inq7mzQpnA1CssOYOm0YljOtPH9fWZyY2TpY2udBN39v2QKlu_Dr5_IFR9MEx61cBjuzxI7EZQu9GUSX5ZIvg/s320/Terry-Jones-Truck.jpg" /></a></div>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-71754658879917659752010-09-11T11:00:00.000-07:002010-09-11T12:01:20.010-07:00Rush Limbaugh<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Rusty" Limbaugh, Class of '69</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Rushton Hudson Limbaugh III graduated from Cape Girardeau (Missouri) Central High School in 1969. Limbaugh, the beefy son of a prominent attorney, played football and apparently had no interaction with classmate--and future would-be Koran burner--<a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/09/terry-jones.html">Terry Jones</a>, who evidently preferred baseball.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terry Jones, '69</td></tr>
</tbody></table>After dropping out of Southeast Missouri State during his freshman year, Limbaugh went on to unremarkable careers as a pop music DJ (as "Rusty Sharpe" and "Jeff Christy") and as the promotional director for the Kansas City Royals. Ironically, the famously hawkish conservative successfully avoided the Vietnam War draft with the help of a medical condition known as a <a href="http://www.pedisurg.com/PtEduc/Pilonidal_Cyst.htm">pilodidal cyst</a>. For more on the host's awkward attempts to avoid talking about his ass malady and how it kept him from personally combating Communism in Asia, see <a href="http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.asp">Snopes.com</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Jeff Christy" does a charity promotion in the '70s.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The bloated broadcaster first became famous in the late 1980s as the host of a national conservative talk show based out of New York City. The program, now heard on over 600 radio stations throughout the United States, is little changed from its mid-1980s incarnation on KFBK in Sacramento, California. The average three-hour installment contains long-winded, often inaccurate, frequently racist political rants punctuated with comments from callers (aka "Dittoheads") who agree with everything "El Rushbo" says. Limbaugh also delights his audience with sophomoric, bullying "humor" and musical parodies such as the infamous "Barack the Magic Negro" clip produced by the singularly unfunny <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanklin">Paul Shanklin</a>.<br />
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As of this post, the multimillionaire host has been married four times. The lucky ladies are:<br />
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Roxy Maxine McNeely, 1977-1980<br />
Michelle Sixta, 1983-1990<br />
Marta Fitzgerald, 1994-2004*<br />
Kathryn Rogers, 2010-<br />
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In 2006, the pro-law enforcement, anti-drug conservative superstar surrendered to authorities in Palm Beach County, Florida on the charge of "doctor shopping" for prescription medication.** The <i>National Enquirer</i> had broken the story of Limbaugh's Oxycontin habit three years earlier in an embarrassing cover story. In the expose, the tabloid described in detail how the radio host would meet his dealer at night behind restaurants for the pills that he fondly referred to as "little baby blues."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Limbaugh 2006 mugshot</td></tr>
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For more on Limbaugh's countless misdeeds, including his insinuation that a thirteen-year-old Chelsea Clinton resembled a dog, visit these sites:<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895">FAIR</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/rush_limbaugh">MEDIA MATTERS</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh">DICKIPEDIA</a></div><br />
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* <span style="font-size: x-small;">Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas officiated Limbaugh's wedding to Ms. Fitzgerald, an aerobics instructor whom the radio host met on CompuServe. </span><br />
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** <span style="font-size: x-small;">Charge subsequently dropped as part of a court settlement.</span>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-749527511432518952010-09-07T21:05:00.000-07:002010-09-07T21:11:39.686-07:00L. Ron Hubbard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>L. Ron Hubbard (LRH to his fans) was born in 1911 and he "discard[ed] his body" in 1986. <br />
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He is best known for being a certified <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/tom-cruises-main-man">nutcase</a> who founded a cult called the Church of Scientology in 1954. His youth, at least as recounted by the "biographers" at the <a href="http://www.lronhubbardprofile.org/profile/exhib.htm">L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition</a>, reads like something out of <i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</i>. Of course, Hubbard made a career out of embellishing and fabricating his life story, so the only thing that we're reasonably sure of is that he was once a Boy Scout.<br />
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After his "decision" to continue his "research" in an "exterior" state (i.e. he dropped <a href="http://www.xenu.net/archive/hubbardcoroner/">dead</a> in a motor home in the California desert), Hubbard's psychotic protege, David Miscavige, took over the "church." Every Scientology "org" (location) has an office ready and waiting for the founder's return, but so far he's chosen to remain somewhere in the Van Allen Belt with his space pal, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu">Xenu</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mr.</i> David Miscavige, keeper of the flame </td></tr>
</tbody></table>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-44306686832453562602010-09-05T14:22:00.000-07:002010-09-08T07:40:10.839-07:00Laura Bush<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura Welch became Mrs. Bush in 1977</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Before bringing her Stepford-esque grace to the White House as first lady to President George W. Bush, Laura Bush (then Laura Welch) was a student at Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas. She graduated from Lee in 1964 and went on to study education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. <br />
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On the night of November 6, 1963, the seventeen-year-old Laura Welch's life changed forever when she ran a stop sign in her father's Chevy Impala and killed her good friend*, Michael Dutton Douglas, who was driving another vehicle. Welch and a girlfriend were chatting in their car as they rushed to a drive-in movie when the accident occurred. <br />
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In her 2010 autobiography, <i>Spoken From the Heart</i>, Mrs. Bush finally discussed the troubling incident in detail:<br />
<blockquote><span style="color: yellow;">In those awful seconds, the car door must have been flung open by the impact and my body rose in the air until gravity took over and I was pulled, hard and fast, back to the earth...The whole time I was praying that the person in the other car was alive. In my mind, I was calling 'Please, God. Please God,' over and over again. </span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In her book, Mrs. Bush reveals that she was consumed with guilt for many years, particularly after missing her friend's funeral--her parents did not want her to attend and she wound up sleeping late the day of ceremony. <br />
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Mrs. Bush also uses her book to try and exonerate W. for his bungling of Hurricane Katrina which caused over 1,500 deaths. And they said the Clintons were deadly...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* <span style="font-size: x-small;">Laura Bush states in <i>Spoken From the Heart</i> that she was never romantically attached to her victim. Some accounts had previously reported that she and Michael Dutton Douglas were dating at the time of the accident. </span></div>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-66507975671109197722010-09-05T12:47:00.000-07:002010-09-05T13:03:16.459-07:00Tony Blair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Future war criminal, Tony Blair, with the Fettes College basketball team</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Former Prime Minister of England <a href="http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/">Tony Blair</a> graduated from Fettes College in Edinburgh before moving on to Oxford and finally to St. John's College where he studied law. As a student, Blair enjoyed music. He sang and played guitar in a rock band called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Rumours_%28band%29">Ugly Rumors</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blair without the infamous wanking gesture... (we're a family blog)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>In 1983, Blair was elected to Parliament as a member of the Labour Party. In 1997 he was elected as Prime Minister, a post he would hold for a decade.<br />
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</tbody></table>During a stop in Ireland on Blair's book tour (for his autobiography <i>A Journey</i>) in 2010, protesters through eggs and shoes at him because of his role in the Iraq War (they missed). In his memoir, Blair continues his poodle-esque admiration of George W. Bush by describing his partner in preemption as a "true idealist" who exhibited "genuine political courage [and] sincerely believed in spreading freedom and democracy." The U.S. president rewarded Blair for his naive allegiance with one of his patented "charming" nicknames: "Landslide" (certainly better than Vladimir Putin's handle, "Pootie Toot" and "Ostrich Legs.").Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-74989925139039501712010-09-01T19:14:00.000-07:002010-09-05T13:38:17.711-07:00Random PersonalitiesJust some random personalities because summer's almost over and we're not trying very hard...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former actress/Scientologist, Katie Holmes</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-62944928768504653852010-07-08T10:44:00.000-07:002010-07-08T11:32:49.118-07:00David Koresh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrKrW0A9kLkxSphyFHXIfw4xvl89lBlsm0JfDhzN-JeRm6uJTN9X9rswz6Trx8vDQqMmRSn4ZPSUxbhLJONn7qHqT8Lfl5ZxA6fZkwPFXHEqCES_zKy9zkv8CwQtCNUEx4UXVzzYwhZAi4/s1600/Koresh-Age-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrKrW0A9kLkxSphyFHXIfw4xvl89lBlsm0JfDhzN-JeRm6uJTN9X9rswz6Trx8vDQqMmRSn4ZPSUxbhLJONn7qHqT8Lfl5ZxA6fZkwPFXHEqCES_zKy9zkv8CwQtCNUEx4UXVzzYwhZAi4/s320/Koresh-Age-14.jpg" /></a></div>Frustrated <a href="http://www.m-1.us/David_Koresh_-_Mad_Man_in_Waco.mp3">musician</a> and future apocalyptic cult leader David Koresh (1959-1993) attended Garland High School in Texas (as Vernon Wayne Howell) before dropping out during his junior year. From his earliest days in elementary school, Koresh was a poor student diagnosed with multiple learning disabilities. However, when it came to the bible, he turned out to be a savant. Indeed, Koresh had a photographic memory and nearly total recall of numerous passages of scripture. In 1981, he joined the Branch Davidians, a Waco, Texas-based religious sect that had broken off from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1930. Koresh soon became romantically involved with their "prophetess," Lois Roden, a woman in her seventies, but later tried to diminish her standing by proclaiming his own powers as a visionary. After Roden's death and following the commitment of her son, George, to a mental hospital in the late 1980s, Koresh effectively took command of the Branch Davidian faith.<br />
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Like Charles Manson, Koresh fancied himself a rock musician, but he was not nearly as prolific a recording artist as his fellow cult leader (who has put out at least two albums of psychotic material). Koresh's best known song is an eerily prophetic composition that he released in 1987 that concerned arch rival, George Roden. The song, entitled <a href="http://www.m-1.us/David_Koresh_-_Mad_Man_in_Waco.mp3"><i>Mad Man In Waco</i></a>, contains the lyrics "There's a mad man living in Waco, praying to the prince of hell..." It was issued on 45 and cassette to local record stores, and according to a biography of Koresh by Brad Riley and Bob Darden, failed miserably. It has, however, served as catchy promo music for the various documentaries that have been produced about the Waco incident.<br />
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By 1993 Koresh and his adherents who resided at the church's headquarters at the Mount Carmel ranch outside of Waco, had become the focus of the federal authorities because of their activities with firearms. Specifically, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had determined that the Davidians had been converting guns into automatic weapons. After a horribly botched February 28, 1993 ATF raid on the compound (a protracted shootout left four agents and six cult members dead), a 51 day standoff ensued.<br />
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During the media-saturated siege, it became known that Koresh had committed numerous statutory rapes of girls he had chosen from his flock to become his "wives." The cult leader reportedly had as many as 19 wives and sired at least 12 children. On April 19th, the FBI breached the Davidian compound with tanks and began shooting tear gas canisters into the building. Several hours later the structure was in flames. By the end of the standoff only a few Davidians had escaped the building with their lives. A total of 74 men, women and children died in the inferno (Koresh and his chief lieutenant, Steve Schneider, were later found to have died from gunshot wounds). All of the official investigations into the siege have determined that--based on audio and visual evidence--the Davidians started the April 19th fire. <br />
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In the days following the arrest of <a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/05/timothy-mcveigh.html">Timothy McVeigh</a> (1968-2001) for the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, it was revealed that the accused mass murderer had been <a href="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/mcveighwaco.html">interviewed</a> by a journalism student near the Davidian compound during the standoff. McVeigh had traveled to Waco to demonstrate his solidarity with the "oppressed" cult members and to sell bumper stickers with phrases such as "Fear the Government that Fears Your Gun," and "A Man With a Gun is a Citizen, A Man Without a Gun is a Subject." McVeigh would later cite the outcome of the Waco siege as the principal source of his hatred of the federal government (and, no doubt, it was also the inspiration for the date that he chose to commit his act of domestic terrorism). <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdh_b2CCXmEg1tEN0kOFnEqEx4IHHJsaQQYKAeAl0BSrqotfy3q3iEecPe_c64WDy0kjGG9CDXXgnddxRGdsw44gWG9U54mVAfFG__hH1XkZoKnusfyh6sk8LtsIiTecK9jleZz-ssWHl/s1600/McVeigh+Interviewed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdh_b2CCXmEg1tEN0kOFnEqEx4IHHJsaQQYKAeAl0BSrqotfy3q3iEecPe_c64WDy0kjGG9CDXXgnddxRGdsw44gWG9U54mVAfFG__hH1XkZoKnusfyh6sk8LtsIiTecK9jleZz-ssWHl/s320/McVeigh+Interviewed.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Legacy: McVeigh is interviewed near the Davidian standoff on March 30, 1993</span></div>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-5970577555470552592010-07-08T08:20:00.000-07:002010-07-08T11:39:49.602-07:00Lynndie England<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7EUz6hryM2l3MUt14fcGH6WQjxqTcRzO0Pp3PX9zg5XoYHUMCvtzqFWYETo5K-D_Eqmoe3Wx4TZp21BKeaRtSo7_CV0d9nwNidwVxJOAOedeD7QevalLh8CmzNAEGGh2oh4_LVWSOjya/s1600/Lynndie+England.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7EUz6hryM2l3MUt14fcGH6WQjxqTcRzO0Pp3PX9zg5XoYHUMCvtzqFWYETo5K-D_Eqmoe3Wx4TZp21BKeaRtSo7_CV0d9nwNidwVxJOAOedeD7QevalLh8CmzNAEGGh2oh4_LVWSOjya/s320/Lynndie+England.jpg" /></a></div>Lynndie England, the pixieish, leash-holding mascot of the Abu Graib torture scandal, graduated from Franfort High School in Ridgely, West Virginia in 2001. During her junior year at Frankfort, she joined the U.S. Army Reserves. After a post-high school stint working in a chicken processing plant, she was called up for service in Iraq and was assigned to the 372nd Military Police Company at the soon-to-be notorious Abu Ghraib Prison (now known as Baghdad Central Prison).<br />
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In 2004, leaked photographs of England humiliating Iraqi prisoners (particularly shots of her holding an inmate by a leash and pointing at a stripped prisoner's genatalia) put an American face on the torture outrage. England was among eleven people--including the father of her son (Charles Graner)--convicted of various charges of mistreatment of prisoners. She was sentenced to three years and served 531 days at the Naval Consolidated Brig at Miramar. After her parole was completed in September of 2008, England was dishonorably discharged.<br />
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In the poorly received book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/TORTURED-Lynndie-England-Photographs-Shocked/dp/0578023709/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278601978&sr=1-3">Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs that Shocked the World</a></i>, England maintains that she was just following orders at the prison.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpY0_vAywVxRe6uoRr0W1d00zDukdigB_jpcz_ZK2hPrv66Yqy9GUZnuIqpZtimSEvvM1fer4wXBz2Yik7A-2pOOONqNqVU-HT53cv7e8-3IzuDb64heXsQhDUeTMQLg_hPeJciol0FUWc/s1600/england-pointing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpY0_vAywVxRe6uoRr0W1d00zDukdigB_jpcz_ZK2hPrv66Yqy9GUZnuIqpZtimSEvvM1fer4wXBz2Yik7A-2pOOONqNqVU-HT53cv7e8-3IzuDb64heXsQhDUeTMQLg_hPeJciol0FUWc/s320/england-pointing.jpg" /></a></div> Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-69738241069015339422010-07-05T13:23:00.000-07:002010-09-08T09:36:48.179-07:00John Mark Karr aka Alexis Reich<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACVi1Swyf2lFR6E8hsITfQj8CGCL7IMSyD10hYjG7sDCY_LfyKR5ECvGBm6MMzqMYrByCfTO1RyH0pTmhznT5GzMLXr7zQS2_bocFJIgYoS1O1RBeBKmnK9QnbTIiWKessU6Y-kQaVLGt/s1600/John+Mark+Karr-200-Percent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACVi1Swyf2lFR6E8hsITfQj8CGCL7IMSyD10hYjG7sDCY_LfyKR5ECvGBm6MMzqMYrByCfTO1RyH0pTmhznT5GzMLXr7zQS2_bocFJIgYoS1O1RBeBKmnK9QnbTIiWKessU6Y-kQaVLGt/s320/John+Mark+Karr-200-Percent.jpg" /></a></div>John Mark Karr, the supremely creepy former grade school teacher who falsely confessed to the JonBenet Ramsey murder in 2006, graduated from Hamilton High School in Hamilton, Alabama in 1983. The photo presented above is from his junior year in 1982.<br />
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Karr's admissions, however, turned out to be nothing more than the fantasies of a deeply troubled person. But even after a DNA test eliminated him as a suspect in the Ramsey murder, he continued to maintain his guilt. He was then extradited to Petaluma where child porn charges were still pending. However, the computer seized in his 2001 arrest had been lost by police, so the case was dismissed. At this point, Karr was free to enjoy a brief period making the talk show rounds and then he largely disappeared from view. In 2007 he was charged with battery and obstruction in a domestic altercation with his girlfriend at his father's residence near Atlanta, Georgia. <br />
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Further reading (if you must): Alexis's <a href="http://alexisnexus.wordpress.com/">website</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://alexisnexus.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/reichcv.pdf">resume</a>.Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-37172303515021290082010-07-05T12:30:00.000-07:002010-07-05T12:35:41.528-07:00Donald Rumsfeld<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lSy1RUJS12JCNx8SGTiPDc8jz_QPX9hgnigUSDykvBL1KN_eQho9OmTl7YiVYrKyu4P2Fj5t2YvoLIYqvhgNlmMDzwKw0mvQI5460qw7SJ2fxanTq6lRv_QIs2r5ytTln5ziAXxd2cqZ/s1600/DonRumsfeld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lSy1RUJS12JCNx8SGTiPDc8jz_QPX9hgnigUSDykvBL1KN_eQho9OmTl7YiVYrKyu4P2Fj5t2YvoLIYqvhgNlmMDzwKw0mvQI5460qw7SJ2fxanTq6lRv_QIs2r5ytTln5ziAXxd2cqZ/s320/DonRumsfeld.jpg" /></a></div>Donald H. Rumsfeld graduated from New Trier High School (whose diverse alumni also includes Charlton Heston, Bruce Dern and Liz Phair) in Winnetka, Illinois in 1950. In high school, he met his future wife, Joyce Pierson. He also pursued football, swimming, and track, but excelled in wrestling, the sport in which he would win many medals. A New Trier classmate named Ned Jannotta is quoted in the Rumsfeld biography, <i>Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait</i>, citing wrestling as a key to the future two-time Secretary of Defense's personality: "Wrestling is, after all, a sport in which there is no such thing as second-place money. You go head to head, winner take all." <br />
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Rummy is now busy writing his memoirs. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QEMS233uoKL9CVzp480PMw3RYPJdoN_mSVxwViH2yfLm4whSTo8Xim4MQhFFndWREjo6NKUq2Sd-Lpb3uTh9zJtxFzYwmpM54oY7RfiuPzhZepqaSaMsiexKgfEmvbQBIpCcqrRrXsnh/s1600/Rumsfeld+Press+Conf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QEMS233uoKL9CVzp480PMw3RYPJdoN_mSVxwViH2yfLm4whSTo8Xim4MQhFFndWREjo6NKUq2Sd-Lpb3uTh9zJtxFzYwmpM54oY7RfiuPzhZepqaSaMsiexKgfEmvbQBIpCcqrRrXsnh/s320/Rumsfeld+Press+Conf.jpg" /></a></div>Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-16326800822761836542010-07-05T10:28:00.000-07:002010-07-28T09:36:07.470-07:00Charles Whitman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBXFRsUiT6-PIUJ3-uUtIIfEgMhf5sXd6xFmFe4lbWbIFLnVwOQpQPJ4WcGm8WzJoDsyFn9sab0qj06uo-31Jamg0BPf1uYTHfsMib_YB6cWG6TMIkU_YTBI_gnbVEELzzpgtf2vlhaSt/s1600/Whitman-Headshot-Normal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBXFRsUiT6-PIUJ3-uUtIIfEgMhf5sXd6xFmFe4lbWbIFLnVwOQpQPJ4WcGm8WzJoDsyFn9sab0qj06uo-31Jamg0BPf1uYTHfsMib_YB6cWG6TMIkU_YTBI_gnbVEELzzpgtf2vlhaSt/s320/Whitman-Headshot-Normal.jpg" /></a></div>Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower mass murderer, killed 15 people and wounded 32 others on August 1, 1966 in Austin, Texas. The night before these shootings he killed his wife and his mother, making his total death count 17. His rampage was finally ended by an Austin Police Officer who shot and killed the sniper. Whitman, an Eagle Scout and former Marine, was enrolled at the university as an engineering student at the time of the murders.<br />
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Before joining the Marines, Whitman attended St. Ann's High School in West Palm Beach, Florida. He studied piano and was a pitcher on the school's baseball team. As a child, he was an altar boy at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. From his earliest youth, Whitman was fascinated by firearms--an interest encouraged by his troubled, abusive father.<br />
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Today Charles Whitman is perhaps best known for being one of the subjects of a rant by drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) in the 1987 Vietnam War film <i>Full Metal Jacket</i>. In a scene set near the rifle range, Hartman attempts to inspire his soldiers by praising the marksmanship of former Marines Lee Harvey Oswald and Whitman. Summing up, Hartman says, "Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will all be able to do the same thing!" Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-11346961715671141942010-07-05T08:47:00.000-07:002010-07-05T08:48:16.186-07:00George Tenet / Ron Jeremy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmcvQX4-yWN842NHGp4uo-LruLHs4na55_fZlcqSvM-9QaXQ00cFWP-LuZzSbWUYfqfYMDCLNT0RtT3OX4flP6uWfghvv6DTHwMzsUEqin7yZkb0ubLms5zyHlClNipAd7Pj6azcsWIcW/s1600/George+Tenet-solo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmcvQX4-yWN842NHGp4uo-LruLHs4na55_fZlcqSvM-9QaXQ00cFWP-LuZzSbWUYfqfYMDCLNT0RtT3OX4flP6uWfghvv6DTHwMzsUEqin7yZkb0ubLms5zyHlClNipAd7Pj6azcsWIcW/s320/George+Tenet-solo.JPG" /></a></div><br />
Long before former CIA Director George Tenet helped enable the Iraq War with his infamous statement that the case for weapons of mass destruction was a "slam dunk," he was an overachieving student at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, New York.<br />
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One of his fellow players on the Cardozo soccer team was none other than Ronnie Hyatt, better known by his nom de porn, Ron Jeremy. Jeremy recalled his high school relationship with Tenet to TMZ in 2007 thusly: "We didn't speak much, and didn't have much in common..." <br />
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Since stepping down from his seven-year term as head of the CIA in 2004, Mr. Tenet has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, written a memoir, and is now the managing director of the investment bank, Allen & Company. Ron Jeremy, on the other hand, has honored his alma mater by being listed in the <i>Guinness Book of World Records</i> for "Most Appearances in Adult Films."<br />
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</a></div>Eric Schaeffer (not to be confused with the film historian or theater director of the same name) attended Brattleboro Union High School in Vermont in the late 1970s where he impressed at least one classmate with his budding narcissism. In addition to being active in the school's theater program, the diminutive student also played on the basketball team. According to a 2000 <a href="http://www.observer.com/node/42591"><i>New York Observer</i> profile</a>, Schaeffer also attended the Calhoun School and Columbia Preparatory School before going off to Bard College. At Bard, he earned a degree in drama and dance after which nine years of driving a cab in New York City awaited him. During this period, the energetic grad allegedly wrote two stage plays, a novel and twenty screenplays--all of which he seems hellbent on turning into awful movies. <br />
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The sins of Eric Schaeffer are too numerous to explore in one blog post, but most of them have been dutifully <a href="http://gawker.com/tag/eric-schaeffer/">indexed</a> by Gawker. However, if you are short on time, the trailer for his misbegotten film <i>Fall</i>, embedded below, tells you just about all you need to know...<br />
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O'Keefe's intense, vaguely McVeigh-ish senior year portrait--complete with Nietzsche quote--are more than counterbalanced by other, cheerier photos in the yearbook. Indeed, the shots of the future activist reporter singing and dancing in the school's musical, <i>Crazy for You</i>, make the reader totally forget about Hitler's favorite philosopher. O'Keefe's early interest in the theater certainly helps to explain the pimp outfit (if not the duplicitous video editing).<br />
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Unfortunately for him and his fans, it appears that Mr. O'Keefe's career as a would-be muckraker has pretty much petered out. His "investigation" of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's office's telephones (or something?) resulted in a misdemeanor conviction and a mild rebuke from Michelle Malkin - but no real story. O'Keefe's latest "scoop" concerns census workers and his "findings" helped land him and his primary benefactor, Mr. Breitbart, on <i>Good Morning America</i>. The host George Stephanopoulous, though, seemed to regret inviting them on approximately a minute into the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jbUH_yOlU">interview</a>.<br />
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Well, O'Keefe can always go back to his roots...<br />
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<blockquote>Dearest V.,<br />
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The sweetness of the spring time rain runs down the window pain [sic.] (I can't help it. It just flows out).<br />
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Theodore Robert Bundy<br />
Peot [sic]</blockquote>After graduating from college Bundy became more involved with the Republican Party and volunteered on the re-election campaign of Washington Governor Dan Evans, who would later write a letter of recommendation for young Ted when he applied to law school. He was accepted at the University of Utah Law School in 1973, but backed out at the last minute. Bundy wound up attending law classes at night at Pugent Sound. During the day he worked as an assistant to the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. It was around this time that Bundy's long killing spree began--his first victim was an unknown hitchhiker in May of 1973.<br />
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Prior to his execution in Florida's "Old Sparky" electric chair in 1989, Bundy confessed to thirty murders, but he was sentenced to death for only two. Specifically, the gruesome killings of sorority sisters Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman at Florida State University in 1978. He gave his final, exclusive death row interview to Christian psychologist and radio host, Dr. James Dobson, the founder of the conservative organization Focus on the Family. Dobson soon exploited, for his own idealogical purposes, Bundy's previously undisclosed contention that his crimes were influenced by exposure to violent pornography. Dobson has video <a href="http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?MediaId=%7B710D67E8-7AFB-411F-8A37-503EA8B69B5B%7D&FAMILYTYPE=null">clips</a> from his execution eve interview entitled <i>Fatal Addiction</i> on the Focus on the Family website. <br />
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After a short-lived stint as a professor at Berkeley, the increasingly crazed Kaczynski eventually made his way to a one-room cabin in Montana. It from this unassuming shack that he would stage his infamous war on "industrial society" and write a long, rambling indictment of technology. It was this 35,000 word screed that ultimately proved to be Kaczynski's undoing. When the manifesto was published in the <i>Washington Post</i> in 1995 David Kaczynski recognized the language and style as being similar to letters he had received from his wayward sibling. Through his lawyer, David turned over the correspondence to the FBI.<br />
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In 1998 Kaczynski pleaded guilty to his crimes in a plea deal that spared him the death penalty. The former mountain man now lives in a luxurious cell at Colorado's Supermax prison where he is forced to put up with indoor plumbing and a permanently mounted TV/radio. The Unabomber's old digs now reside at the <a href="http://newseum.org/exhibits-and-theaters/temporary-exhibits/g-men-and-journalists/unabomber/index.html">Newseum</a> in Washington, D.C. <br />
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In 1989 the Night Stalker was convicted of thirteen killings and thirty other counts including attempted murder and multiple sexual assaults. He is currently awaiting execution on San Quentin's Death Row. In 1996 Ramirez married a 41-year-old self-proclaimed virgin named Doreen Lioy.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglfLYFORBEajPRyHCxe9RwWMK7LwP-CzdSgN_f09uyca-crhXgG_VerWJm32EboLLbe1hblU9s2LfujQVRegwVvz1U8Vstr429-Fj3jl9h0eUOQQgh_9X1kZXou1Lm5duezIpcTnX8F41h/s1600/Ramirez-Wife.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglfLYFORBEajPRyHCxe9RwWMK7LwP-CzdSgN_f09uyca-crhXgG_VerWJm32EboLLbe1hblU9s2LfujQVRegwVvz1U8Vstr429-Fj3jl9h0eUOQQgh_9X1kZXou1Lm5duezIpcTnX8F41h/s320/Ramirez-Wife.jpg" /></a></div> Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-51767528520824883962010-06-21T08:56:00.000-07:002010-06-21T08:56:26.001-07:00Bernard Madoff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YtjY6Txp3fchUvqLwuaUod1sD7ZDSjaza3GpqHdwRmV8RNgQZL74RKII6N6EoKkCy60VVWfRytFAKDUn1fLCI-NLutBNpbkZABfPeU9O8sXhlc_vGjhWNxu0obtL4zunREU1uzH6Lmb7/s1600/Madoff+Yearbook+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YtjY6Txp3fchUvqLwuaUod1sD7ZDSjaza3GpqHdwRmV8RNgQZL74RKII6N6EoKkCy60VVWfRytFAKDUn1fLCI-NLutBNpbkZABfPeU9O8sXhlc_vGjhWNxu0obtL4zunREU1uzH6Lmb7/s320/Madoff+Yearbook+Photo.jpg" /></a></div>Bernard Madoff graduated from Far Rockaway High School in New York in 1956 and briefly attended the University of Alabama (which is where the above photo is from). At Alabama he became a brother of the Tau Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He graduated from Hofstra College in 1960 with a degree in political science. Madoff is now serving 150 years at the Butner (North Carolina) Federal Correction Institution for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history. His financial misdeeds ruined the lives of an untold number of ordinary Americans, but it was, of course, the celebrities who caught the attention of the media. Among the famous people Madoff ripped off are: Steven Spielberg, Larry King, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Uma Thurman, Elie Wiesel, Eric Roth (<i>Forrest Gump</i> screenwriter), Senator Frank Lautenberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Mort Zuckerman.<br />
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The aging convict has apparently settled into his new life behind bars and shows no signs of remorse. According to an extensive <i>New York</i> magazine <a href="http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/66468/">article</a>, Madoff's new credo is "Fuck my victims!"<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVgWae78DJNI7G4-jKjzrFMRo8Lybab8xGSdtZrQZ4TZO69fzJXUE8_IXFTysAAFKU8Q-eWAKc1kEupZX1w6zL_bb-TZsNImmNs778TpDwlbPY4-S1Te6eHnl0Em359Q80GL8jRvORldL/s1600/Mugshot-Madoff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVgWae78DJNI7G4-jKjzrFMRo8Lybab8xGSdtZrQZ4TZO69fzJXUE8_IXFTysAAFKU8Q-eWAKc1kEupZX1w6zL_bb-TZsNImmNs778TpDwlbPY4-S1Te6eHnl0Em359Q80GL8jRvORldL/s320/Mugshot-Madoff.jpg" /></a></div> Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-84750453790493315602010-06-21T08:05:00.000-07:002010-06-21T08:26:58.664-07:00Michele Bachmann<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5Qvw_1uVCdf52tdGt-0-kCyxzmmrWpN7E2Vt3BFA5g5hHUq_O5_ZiWOG9XrgYE9RiMrouiLI5mEsGQxPZ0syHbg9LvEbWtARFQ5v1oOowJm-ZeWXE0buXkd9CmwTbZZeyTBvIJRT3RXW/s1600/Bachman-Yearbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5Qvw_1uVCdf52tdGt-0-kCyxzmmrWpN7E2Vt3BFA5g5hHUq_O5_ZiWOG9XrgYE9RiMrouiLI5mEsGQxPZ0syHbg9LvEbWtARFQ5v1oOowJm-ZeWXE0buXkd9CmwTbZZeyTBvIJRT3RXW/s320/Bachman-Yearbook.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Michele Amble (Bachmann) graduated from Anoka High School in Anoka, Minnesota in 1974. In high school Bachmann, like <a href="http://mostlikelytokill.blogspot.com/2010/06/liz-cheney.html">Liz Cheney</a>, excelled in cheerleading. After college, she earned her J.D. degree from O.W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University. Bachmann's 1986 graduating class was Coburn's last (the troubled institution had, for a time, lost its accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1981 due to Christian litmus tests for students. In 1986 the school donated its library to Pat Robertson's Regent University which started its own law school, but did not become accredited until 1996). Bachmann also earned an LL.M. degree in tax law from William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law (which has never lost its accreditation). During the 2008 election Bachmann said that Barack Obama "isn't well-schooled and prepared to be President of the United States." He graduated from Columbia University undergraduate and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School; he also became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. But, apparently, Obama never picked up an LL.M. from Marshall-Wythe, so Bachmann's criticism is clearly warranted. <br />
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After a wacky early career that can be read about in more detail <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_bachmann">here</a>, Bachmann, a Congresswoman from Minnesota since 2007, quickly became a household name in October of 2008 after she appeared on <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZEcdXHvsU">Hardball with Chris Matthews</a></i> and called Barack Obama "anti-American" and called for an investigation of "anti-American liberals" in the Congress. Since Obama's election to the presidency, Bachmann has become a darling of the Tea Party movement and has exhibited some <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/40416/bachmann-birther-resolution-obama-hawaii">signs of solidarity</a> with the wingnut "birthers" who question the President's American citizenship.<br />
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Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-25179274127960185672010-06-20T19:54:00.000-07:002010-06-20T21:49:04.761-07:00Newt Gingrich<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU6bPm6IK0z9CvbWYwBVFKZAbTptdzK3_kF4hd29qaEu2DUJoXPEI5vYUGWlfznExmI5A4Z7pN8zIN602b5xBS_5qztWyJSY11eJ8AUlPJqePAx24EkDy4RRtzoXHFe4q9nziu_Qm7PVP4/s1600/newt+gingrich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU6bPm6IK0z9CvbWYwBVFKZAbTptdzK3_kF4hd29qaEu2DUJoXPEI5vYUGWlfznExmI5A4Z7pN8zIN602b5xBS_5qztWyJSY11eJ8AUlPJqePAx24EkDy4RRtzoXHFe4q9nziu_Qm7PVP4/s320/newt+gingrich.jpg" /></a></div>Newt Gingrich graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia in 1961 and earned his undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta in 1965. Presumably to continue receiving student deferments (the hawkish conservative Republican did not serve in Vietnam), Gingrich continued his higher education with M.A. and PhD degrees in history from Tulane University which he received in 1968 and 1971, respectively. The woman who helped finance Gingrich's advanced studies was none other than his high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, whom he had started sleeping with at age 19. In 1981, after supporting him and bearing him two children, Gingrich's wife/math teacher got abruptly traded in for a newer model (the second Mrs. Gingrich, Marianne Ginther with whom the ever classy Newt had been carrying on an affair before the separation). To add insult to injury, Gingrich browbeat his wife about the terms of their divorce while she was still in the hospital recovering from uterine cancer. According to a Salon.com article, "<a href="http://marriage.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=marriage&cdn=people&tm=220&f=10&su=p284.9.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.salon.com/news/1998/08/28news.html">Newt's Glass House</a>," the congressman refused to pay alimony or child support and his hometown Baptist church had to take up a collection to help the family he walked out on.<br />
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Before leaving the House over ethics violations in early 1999, Gingrich led the charge for Bill Clinton's sex scandal-related impeachment. He did this even though he was <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2161566">having an affair</a> at the time - a fact that he revealed in 2007 when he was considering a presidential run. On Mothers Day, 2000 the retired Speaker called his second wife and asked for a divorce. Soon after he married the third and current Mrs. Gingrich, Callista Bisek, the young congressional aide he had been cavorting with during the Clinton investigation.<br />
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The insufferable former congressman now spends his time writing awful books, attacking President Barack Obama and being worshiped by Sean Hannity - who still calls him "Mr. Speaker."<br />
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In his capacity as an executive producer, Seacrest is responsible for all of the Kardashian product that washes up the E! network. He is to blame.Bill Geerharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15054044275993801966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-743550812928571807.post-90249605769196787982010-06-20T17:10:00.000-07:002010-06-20T19:05:54.246-07:00Kim Kardashian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0L9DaKTvLDoZXgXd7qPLS5bxShAvDEPzThC8ZlCTsjIMP8blxfKBt79t3MfGbb8iaQ5XMQwpBkxyUljw8pRvaP6yo1pKlyFC60FI1YFaUkxLw5B__4tb9RyB9CJjeNJn_ToegIDYygQRH/s1600/Marymount-Kardashians.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0L9DaKTvLDoZXgXd7qPLS5bxShAvDEPzThC8ZlCTsjIMP8blxfKBt79t3MfGbb8iaQ5XMQwpBkxyUljw8pRvaP6yo1pKlyFC60FI1YFaUkxLw5B__4tb9RyB9CJjeNJn_ToegIDYygQRH/s320/Marymount-Kardashians.jpg" /></a></div>In the 1990s Kim Kardashian (above right) and her older sister Khloe (above left) attended Marymount High School, a private Catholic school for girls in Los Angeles. In the 2000s, of course, Kim perfected the art of the "leaked" sex tape and parlayed her dubious fame into a successful reality television career with offshoots in modeling, acting and a fragrance line. Ms. Kardashian's surprisingly durable tabloid celebrity has also rubbed off on her entire extended family including, most hilariously, a wastrel douche from Long Island who knocked up her sister, Khloe.<br />
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If Kim Kardashian's father, OJ Simpson enabler Robert Kardashian, had lived to see what has become of his dysfunctional brood, the expression on his face might look a little something like this...<br />
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On September 29, 2006 Foley stepped down from his office. A few days later ABC <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/new_foley_insta.html">reported</a> that a new batch of text exchanges proved that the congressman had interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in order to participate in "Internet sex" with a high school student who was a former page.<br />
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A criminal investigation into Foley's actions did not result in any charges. As an openly gay man, he now hosts a political <a href="http://www.seaviewam960.com/pages/5384753.php">radio show</a> in Florida.<br />
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