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Washington Post reports a former Montgomery County teacher accused of sexually abusing 15 young students was ordered held without bond Friday after prosecutors recounted a story alleging that he faked his death to avoid one of the victims who tried to track him down after she’d become an adult.


“The victim sought to locate the defendant and confront the defendant,” Assistant State’s Attorney Tim Hagan said in court.

In response, Lawrence W. Joynes posted a fictitious death certificate on his personal Web site and wrote a post indicating that he had committed suicide, according to Hagan and court papers. The ruse appears to have worked.

Hagan’s allegations speak to what authorities say was a concerted effort by Joynes going back more than two decades to cover up his abuse. The music teacher was arrested early last year and has been held behind bars since.

The latest court hearing addressed whether Joynes, 55, should be allowed to leave jail on bond prior to any trial in Montgomery. Hagan argued that Joynes’s deception over his death showed that he is a flight risk.

The alleged faking of his death is connected with what court papers describe as Joynes’s first victim, someone he met in 1991 when she was a seventh-grader at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring. The student got to know Joynes and confided that she had been abused by a family member.

“Joynes had become the victim’s advocate and confidant,” Montgomery Police Detective Gary Irwin wrote in an affidavit filed in court. “The victim increasingly felt safe and secure with Joynes.”

As the two spent more time together, Joynes spoke to her about God, told her that he loved her, told her that he would take care of her and eventually kissed her, according to the affidavit. The contact escalated over several months to intercourse.

In 2005, when the woman was about 26, she “began an attempt to bring closure to this chapter of her life by confronting Joynes.” She found his Web site (www.bearded
wolf.com) and sent an e-mail. “Shortly after, the ‘beardedwolf’ website posted the death certificate of Lawrence Joynes and also displayed a posting that indicated that Joynes had committed suicide. The victim believed this to be true,” the affidavit states.

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The Lieja-Sánchez criminal organization from Chicago manufactured fake driver licenses, green cards, social security cards for illegal aliens who paid hundreds of dollars and then forced them to work for the organization to pay off their debt, according to the federal criminal complaint.

Alfredo "Freddy" Fuentes

Fox Nation reports a Republican super PAC committed to defeating the tea party in 2014 congressional primaries is mostly funded by labor unions.


The super PAC Defending Main Street, formed by moderate Republican and former congressman Steve LaTourette, has committed itself to destroying tea party challenges to establishment GOP candidates in the 2014 midterm elections.

“Hopefully we’ll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them,” LaTourette said. His PAC has already committed itself to defending Republican Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson from tea party opponent Bryan Smith, who is backed by the conservative Club for Growth due to Simpson’s support for the Wall Street bailout.

Daily Mailreports a 24-year-old high school teacher has confessed to performing sex acts with multiple students, one as young as 15 years old, inside her locked classroom, as well as sending them sexualized pictures of herself.

Meredith Powell, of Tacoma, Washington, allegedly is accused of sending three male students inappropriate pictures of herself in a bathtub, as well as engaging in sex acts with two of the students, police said.

Powell, a math teacher at Lincoln High School, pleaded not guilty on Friday to two counts of third-degree child rape and one count of communication with a minor for immoral purposes for alleged inappropriate conduct with three students, according to The News Tribune.

Tacoma police began investigating this week after learning that Powell wrote a letter to one of the boy’s girlfriends apologizing for 'promiscuous' and 'unprofessional' drunken text messages she exchanged with one of the boys.

Powell was arrested on Thursday and placed on unpaid leave.

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Joe is not afraid to confess Jesus.  And that's right; Jesus is not a pussy---he's God who was manifest in the flesh.  Next he's coming to execute judgement upon the ungodly:

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
--HEBREWS 12.26

A lesson in basic radio gear for emergency communications...

The culture is now being transformed.  You would do well to learn Spanish.  It will be our second language in the new North American Union.  French may also be the next language also.  Very interesting times already happening...

The News UNIT recently reported CNN's transformation to the Hispanic culture and also it shows that they are promoting BITCOIN for some reason.  Could we be having BITCOIN as our new currency soon?
http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/cnn-begins-reports-in-spanish.html

The old culture of America is being diminished now as we have been already overthrown by an African American Heritage in the White House.  Now we will be embracing the Mexican/Hispanic American culture along with those who may be called French/Canadian Americans later on. 

Will this eventually be the North American UNION of Soviet Socialist Republics?
It certainly will be changing soon:

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Purveyor of Truth

It's 1998, a sitting United States President has a liaison with a white house intern.

The United States House of Representatives votes in favor of Articles of Impeachment and William Jefferson Clinton is the second president in United States history to be impeached.

The United States Senate does NOT convict President Clinton and the matter is dropped, as set forth in the United States Constitution.

Fast forward sixteen years to 2014.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a presumable 2016 republican presidential candidate brings the issue of the Clinton sexual dalliances to the forefront once again. This in response to the current democratic party claim that conservatives, and republicans in particular are waging a war against women.

So, a 1998 Congress impeaches the President, the Senate does not convict, the President serves out his second term of what was essentially a successful administration, and Senator Rand Paul thinks this strategy is a winning idea? That it will make a difference in the minds of the American voters in 2014 and 2016? That the electorate (other than hard core righties) actually cares about 1998 and an issue put to bed at the time?

Yep, when you ain't got the goods, when you're floundering for substance, when ya just know the road ahead is going to be rutty and difficult, why just dredge up some stuff from the past that the majority of the American people could not at this point give a s*it less about, and run with it.

Sounds like a republican plan to me.

Read the entire Washington Times story below the fold.

Via: Memeorandum

If a crime is committed against a Gay person it’s automatically labeled as a bias crime.  So how is it that an attack on a religious statue isn’t a religious bias attack?

The Morning Call  reports Emmaus police have found the teenagers involved in the burning Sunday morning of a statue of Jesus outside St. Ann's Catholic Church in the borough, police said Friday.


Police also said they had determined the crime was not an attack on a religion.

"There was no indication of anti-religious motives or hate crimes or that the church was specifically targeted, but more likely a matter of vandalism," police said in a news release.
In the act, discovered just before 7 a.m. Mass at the 415 S. Sixth St., church, one teenager set fire to the head of the statue as the other youths watched, Sgt. Tim Hoats said.

"There were several people together, but only one did the act," he said.

That one 13-year-old is likely to be charged and the case will be referred to the Lehigh County Juvenile Probation Department for sanctions, Hoats said.

The fire disfigured the face of Jesus and caused $2,000 in damage, police said. After passers-by put out the flames, an empty lighter fluid bottle was found nearby.

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I totally disagree that this is not considered a bias attack.  Once again Christianity takes it in the neck. 

Kristen Smith and Kayden J. Powell

Salah I. Salahadyn and Universal K. Allah

And so we have BrotherJohnF with his price expectations again and usual chart analysis trendlines:





Ernie Varitimos disagreed vehemently with BrotherJohnF and then makes his VIDEO PRIVATE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEqTL4170b0

...developing...

The following chart shows annual food services and drinking places employment growth.


Click to enlarge.

3.7% annual growth! Very impressive. Each time we get a recession (the deeper the recession the better), we get more growth. More recessions for the win! Genius!

We just need to stay in that strong, resilient, predictable, and consistent trend channel long-term, preferably near the top. The long-term trend is so obvious that I don't even feel the need to add a trend line. Did I mention how stable and sustainable the channel is? Just look at it! A few more years of this and it will be almost impossible to leave the channel no matter what happens. Who doesn't love certainty?

The annual data in the first chart doesn't include 2014 yet, but I can give you a glimpse of how the year is starting off using monthly data.


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There are a whopping 10.5 million people employed in this rapidly growing industry. Growth appears to have peaked back in July. As of January, the growth is still above 3% though and there's nothing but biscuits and gravy on the horizon! Can't you see it? And with average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers in this industry coming in at $10.96 (December 2013), what's not to like?

In honor of the charts, I suggest we all try to work Chipotle into our conversations (more than we already do). Start the day off right. When we wake up each morning we should exclaim, "What a great day to Chipotle!" Or alternatively, "The future's so bright I gotta Chipotle!"

January 30, 2014
Traffic jump boosts Chipotle restaurant sales, stock soars


People braved the extreme weather to eat burritos? It's a frickin' polar vortex miracle!



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St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #1
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