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Following a year-and-a-half of silence, Juror 785 from the ‘Murdaugh Murders‘ trial – a.k.a. the “Egg Juror” – is preparing to tell her side of the story in a new book detailing her last-minute dismissal from South Carolina’s ‘Trial of the Century’ last spring.
And discussing the forces she believes were instrumental in her removal…
In addition to pleading guilty of fraud and theft, 55-year-old Alex Murdaugh– the once untouchable scion of one of South Carolina’s most prominent and powerful legal and political dynasties – was determined by a Colleton County jury to have savagely murdered his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, and younger son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh, on the evening of June 7, 2021 at Moselle, the family’s hunting property near Islandton, S.C.
Those convictions nearly didn’t happen, though.
Juror 785 – who did not believe Murdaugh was guilty – was removed from the panel by S.C. circuit court judge Clifton Newman just hours before the verdicts were handed down.
That decision proved decisive…
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“She was dug in,” a source familiar with the deliberations told me at the time. “She said he was ‘not guilty’ and there was nothing anyone could do to change her mind.”
“She would have hung the jury,” another source confirmed.
Newman removed the egg juror for allegedly having improper conversations with three individuals about the case. The juror then allegedly lied to Newman about these communications, which were in violation of his orders not to discuss the case with anyone.
While Newman claimed removing the egg juror was necessary “to protect the integrity of the process,” he praised her as she was dismissed.
“You have been by all accounts a great juror,” Newman said, describing her as “attentive to the case.”
Newman said he was “not suggesting you intentionally did anything wrong” – and thanked her for her service.
As she was preparing to leave the packed courtroom, Newman asked the juror whether she had anything remaining in the jury room.
“A dozen eggs,” she replied.
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“A dozen eggs?” Newman responded, smiling.
“You want to leave the eggs or take the eggs?” the judge asked the juror, who indicated her desire to take them.
“Mister bailiff: Can you retrieve from the jury room her dozen eggs?” Newman said.
Newman’s decision to boot the egg juror was based on a mid-trial investigation conducted by the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) – the same agency which investigated the ‘Murdaugh Murders.’ Our media outlet’s founding editor has previously questioned the impartiality of such an inquiry – as well as the impartiality of those who are currently tasked with prosecuting former Colleton County clerk of court Becky Hill, who stands accused of tampering with the Murdaugh jury. He has also questioned why the state of South Carolina is refusing to release records from its investigation of the egg juror.
According to Murdaugh’s attorneys, Hill’s tampering “included conspiring to have the egg juror removed from the panel.”
With whom did Hill conspire, though?
According to our sources, the forthcoming book will name names…
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RELATED | CONTROVERSIAL RECORDS REMAIN SEALED
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Entitled Because Enough is Enough, the egg juror’s book is slated for release on August 27, 2024. It promises a revealing look behind the scenes from the perspective of the lone juror who could have hung or swayed the jury’s decision. It could also provide fresh insight on the jury tampering allegations against Hill as Juror 785 was not allowed to give testimony at a recent hearing on whether Murdaugh should receive a new trial.
Co-authored by Crime and Cask – who previously published a book entitled Defending Murdaugh – the book will also address the international ridicule Juror 785 has received related to her nickname.
Some viewed the moniker as a memorable moment of levity in a long, often monotonous trial. However, for that one juror it was much more personal – and far more raw and rotten.
Not only has this dismissed juror been ridiculed, her character has been battered and her credibility has been poached in court filings debating the allegations of jury tampering against Hill.
All the while she remained silent… until now.
“Doing the right thing isn’t easy,” Juror 785 told FITSNews. “No one can fully understand the trauma, isolation, and anger you go through. To say unjust is too little – so much deception. I hope everyone who reads this book can benefit from my insight.”
The book is expected to offer a detailed refutation of the guilty verdict as well as an unprecedented glimpse into what she says was really happening in the jury room.
For more information, check out the book’s Facebook page. Also, readers can pre-order a signed copy here.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Callie Lyons is a journalist, researcher and author. Her 2007 book ‘Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof and Lethal’ was the first to cover forever chemicals and their impact on communities – a story later told in the movie ‘Dark Waters.’ Her investigative work has been featured in media outlets, publications, and documentaries all over the world. Lyons also appears in ‘Citizen Sleuth’ – a 2023 documentary exploring the genre of true crime.
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In the face of the evidence that was presented, it’s hard to understand how Juror 785 could have been so “dug in” that nothing could change her mind. She may have been the subject of a conspiracy, but more likely one that planted her on the jury as a backstop against a guilty verdict. And perhaps it would have worked, if not for her clear violation of the judge’s orders to not discuss the case.
Just Some Guy, have the courage of your convictions to say that to Juror 785’s face!
She was the only one who had the sense to see that the kennels video means NOTHING. The deaths did NOT occur right after that video based on the victims’ stomach contents at autopsy.
The food left in their stomachs was too little and too digested for the deaths to have occurred ONLY 22 minutes after the victims’ KNOWN large and relatively fatty last meal.
This is OBJECTIVE scientific evidence which should guarantee Alex Murdaugh MORE THAN a new trial: outright acquittal.
But FITSNews has completely sold out to those who oppose any revelation of Alex Murdaugh’s actual innocence.
And more recently, FITSNews has completely sold out his pretend-libertariansim and supports state governments throwing husbands in prison if, in the privacy of their own homes, they criticize their wives for over-spending on unnecessary “second pair of boots.”
This is how far paid-bloggerism has deteriorated.
I am sure FITS will not let this reply through; but, thank God, I no longer need him. I just need him to go coercive-control himself.
Since, thank God, FITS has apparently seen the light and let through my comment (albeit under “JustSomeGuest”), I continue to pray that FITS is on the road to atoning and expiating for his role in getting Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) wrongly convicted of the murders of Paul Terry Murdaugh (“PTM”) and Margaret Kennedy Bransetter Murdaugh (“MKBM”), let me recap here the SCIENTIFIC evidence I explained here for the convenience of the readers.
But before I do, I hope, God willing and FITS permitting, the readers understand why I am so passionate about this.
I am NOT a lawyer, only better than most by the TRANSCRIBED assessment of at least on prominent jurist before whom I advocate pro se (meaning for myself without a lawyer). I am a great medical doctor and biostatistician/epidemiologist.
In the recently released transcript of RAM’s federal sentencing, U.S. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel (“RMG”) of the U.S. District of South Carolina (DC-DSC) reports that he lectures law students all over the country that a law license is a license to do good.
As I recently found out, RMG’s brother is a doctor, a psychiatrist in Ashville, NC.
So, it should be easy for RMG to verify with his brother that a medical education/degree/license is/are an OBLIGATION to do good.
Certain things are not just options for us physicians, they are DUTIES. For example, a lawyer has no obligation to accept a client (s)he does not like. BUT a doctor in war (and I am an absolute pacifist but this is a salient fact) has an OBLIGATION to fully treat a wounded enemy soldier. Let someone else decide what to do with that soldier once (s)he is kept alive by God acting through the ethical doctor. The doctor’s OBLIGATION is to ensure that enemy soldier remains alive if at all medically possible.
But I am not just any two-graduate-degree doctor, not just any quadri-lingual one, not just one VERY highly educated in the literature of three of three of the four languages I speak, read and write flawlessly.
I am one who has PERSONALLY known the brutality of a system which, not only indulges, but CELEBRATES and rewards prosecutors who conspire to KNOWINGLY bring false criminal charges against the known-innocent for that prosecutor and/or his/her family/friends/payors to gain some advantage in separate civil litigation or some other dispute.
And yet, I do not wish for that prosecutor who conspired to put ME in prison for 46 years, God forbade, to be imprisoned for even 46 seconds. I want her to be like Saul of Tarsus (Saint Paul to Christians) on the road back from Damascus.
I want every one, God willing, who even in unexpressed thoughts, hated the innocent, to experience the joy of helping exonerate them.
So far, thank God, I had a hand in the ultimate exoneration of at least five human beings who do not share my faith or my race.
I also want the readers to go back to Genesis and read the very poignant part of Joseph’s brothers fearing his retaliation against them once they realized who he is, how prominent he had become, and how capable he was to exact retribution on them HAD HE CHOSEN to do that.
Instead, Joseph HAD CHOSEN forgiveness. But forgiveness CANNOT be chosen by the victim before the oppressor repents.
Joseph still understood Hebrew but was letting an Egyptian-Hebrew translator mediate the conversation between him and the brothers who had once wanted to kill Joseph but “relented” and “only” sold him into bondage instead.
Joseph heard his brothers acknowledge to each other in Hebrew the “great evil” they had done to Joseph.
THAT is the beginning of redemption.
God speed back from Damascus, and God bless.
In his most recent Week-in-Review, where Jen Wood threw the naked-thighs-and-dress-sandals gauntlet at Lauren Taylor, Will Folks announced that he was Presbyterian but is now Lutheran. Not that I am against conversion. In adulthood, I converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, mostly on cultural grounds because the theological differences, even the filioque, are in my view more semantic than spiritual, and make no difference in how a Catholic or an Orthodox laity lives her life on earth.
But until I came to America, at then-President-Carter’s invitation no less, I had thought the differences between the Protestant churches and the pre-protestant churches were merely about liturgy and divorce. So, in full disclosure, and in no way disrespecting others’ choices to believe as they wish, I still do not understand how the salvation-by-faith-alone people get past the clear scripture that faith without works is dead.
When Sara Heather Savitz Weiss tried to put me in prison for 46 years on criminal charges SHE KNEW to be FALSE but, thank God, I thwarted her WITHOUT A LAWYER, she threw more false claims against me including that I (who had, thank God, dazzled judges and juries with my brilliance) am mentally incompetent and that I am not pleading guilty to criminal charges of which I am innocent solely because I am hostile to the prosecutor’s “religion.”
One of my problems with Hatchet-for-Hire Heather, of whose claim to Judaism I learned later, is that she is not Jewish enough. If she ever read the Old Testament, how could she have gotten past the 40 times Jewish people are told to love the immigrant among them and treat him as the native? How did she get past “thou shalt not hate an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land”?
She probably got past those and other Biblical injunctions because, to her, Judaism is partying, the Halloween-in-March of Purim, not the deeper meaning of the Book of Esther. Hatchet-for-Hire Heather probably got past the Biblical injunctions to not conspire against the innocent because she never read them. She bragged about her son’s after-Mitzvah party but, in that same report, we read that son got help from his teacher on reading Hebrew to get past the necessary exam. A Tree-of-Life version of the Georgia teacher-assisted cheating scandal.
But read the Bible in any language not infected by inadvertent or intentional translation errors and you will see it clearly defines justice: Justice is PRECISION. Honesty in counting and weighing. Justice is transparency. Conspiracies do not survive transparency. Justice is restitution. And justice is objectivity, scientific observation, and creative imagination.
Back to my beloved Old-Testament Joseph (who I believe is one of my BIOLOGICAL ancestors via the children he had after Ephraim and Manasseh according to Genesis 48:6). He had the scientific imagination to invent grain storage. But before implementing his life-saving idea, he “went out to survey the land of Egypt.”
In plain English if translated correctly from Hebrew, Joseph was focused on saving others’ lives from a coming famine; but he did not sit on his butt and issue orders because he was powerful. He actually went out and took measurements, noted them accurately, acted accordingly, and God gave Joseph prosperity and power for the saving of lives, not for destruction of lives. God also gave Joseph the gift of willingness to forgive BUT ONLY AFTER the wrong-doers confess their sins.
Those who used voodoo theories to pin on Alex Murdaugh two murders he did not commit and used IMPRECISION or outright falsehoods on the time of Maggie’s and Paul’s deaths, should take a lesson from Joseph’s brothers.
Juror 785, from the little we read she said to Judge Clifton Newman on the partially-released transcript, is a highly-intelligent, sensitive, and honorable lady who deserves to have her full story told with precision and heeded.
God speed and God bless.
Just because my comment on DN’s story on Kamala Harris’ immigration policy is so beautiful but had some typos, please let me post it here too for the readers’ convenience. What do you lose by that?
Here it is with one typo corrected:
DN and Will, first, no human being is “illegal.” A human being can be “born out of wedlock” or “undocumented” but NEVER “illegal” or illegitimate” as was (and still is) said of children born out of wedlock.
EVERY human being is legal and legitimate by the power of life itself. Remember “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”?
Life is FIRST; and those who use “illegal” and “illegitimate” to refer to living human beings cannot possibly be truly pro-life. You either respect all human life or none at all. That is why I do not even believe in the so-called “rape, incest. and life-of-the-mother” exceptions that Trump loudly claims he believes in and for the first time said something good about Ronald Reagan for believing in those exceptions.
A word about “life of the mother” though. That is pure intellectual laziness. Modern medicine, which can push viability of preemies to 20 weeks and earlier, can, if it REALLY wanted to, find ways to save both lives of mothers and fetuses at the same time. The unsalvageable fetuses are USUALLY taken care of by NATURE itself through spontaneous miscarriages.
Having made the pseudo-left hate me, let me make the pseudo-right hate me even more.
And, of course, DN and Will already hate me plenty.
Listen carefully to J.D. Vance’s acceptance speech, “we will let immigrants in under our own terms.”
He did not claim, “under the law or the Constitution.” He claimed “our own terms.” Whose are “our” terms?
They are the terms of his hillbilly family who want to spend their time smoking, drinking, and verbally and physically injuring each other while immigrants slave around to grow food and empty hospital bedpans without occupational safety.
Trump also said in his press conference after promising mass deportation, “we will bring immigrant in because they are needed for agriculture and for the tech and AI that is coming.”
It is not beyond imagination that J.D. Vance’s hillbillies want to bring immigrants in as LITERAL slaves.
Indeed, it is not beyond imagination that “Son of Project 2025” would advocate for invading Mexico, not to prevent immigration from Mexico, but to capture Mexicans and bring them in as LITERAL slaves.
Notice, J.D. Vance also now says, “the country your GRAND-parents built.” Your parents’ contribution to this country do not count if they were immigrants. They could have won a Nobel Prize in some science for an American university. But if your parents were first-generation immigrants when they did so, you have no right to partake of this country.
And DN, did it ever occur to you that Dreamers would RESCUE, rather than burden, what you call “the U.S. debt[-]subsidized healthcare” if only they were allowed to work in it as equal, well-trained professionals and pay taxes on that work?
It is indeed “broken by design and working exactly as it is intended to work”: replacing slavery which was frankly called slavery by slavery which is enforced by terrorizing working, possibly VERY creative, human beings by calling them “illegals.”
And why is that? In my opinion free from false humility, because America never developed the tools, the competence to treat human labor equally.
Nor did Europe for that matter. After almost exterminating each other in two World Wars in the 20th Century, Europe needed workers “under its own terms.” So, let Eastern Orthodox Christians exterminate each other in Russia-Ukraine wars and the refugees will flee to Europe as the new slaves not called slaves.
Let the South Sudanese exterminate each other and the refugees will flee to Europe as the new slaves not called slaves. Etc., etc., et cetera.
REAL “pro-life” means, not just opposing abortions, but seeing the potential of EVERY human life of making wherever that life is found or goes a better place.
Whether FITS is paid to promote Valerie Bauerlein’s book or is just pumping Valerie up to get back at Malicious Mandy Matney (“MMM”), the real test of whether Will loves his children more than money is how he will face up to his role in getting Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) falsely convicted of what was done to Paul Terry Murdaugh (“PTM”) and Margaret Kennedy Bransetter Murdaugh (“MKBM”).
Will, your children will learn from what they see you do, not what they hear you lecture to them or what candy you give them.
Let this comment of mine through because it is WRONG of you to continue to pump Valerie Bauerlein’s book after her inadvertent admission.
Valerie Bauerlein’s publisher told her “who’s the reader going to root for?” so she cleaned up David Owens, the man WE KNOW lied to the grand jury about blood on Alex Murdaugh’s shirt.
If Valerie Bauerlein ever was a real journalist (and I doubt anyone who ever worked for The State Newspaper could have been), she stopped being one and became a book peddler just like Malicious Mandy Matney (“MMM”) and the rest of them.
The differences between MMM and Valerie is that MMM caused what was done to Paul and Maggie and that MMM got to profiting first.
In MMM’s book, she claims she refused to shake Valerie’s hand. There is no honor among thieves when they are trying to divide the loot. The only so-called honor is that the thieves do not argue loud enough so outsiders could hear them.
From my comment on the recent 48 Hours + Postmortem:
“Somebody else had to die” says Sandy Smith at 19:28 for “Stephen’s case to finally get the attention it deserves,” 19:25. Well, “you do the math!” If you can’t, I did it for you.
Sandy Smith got Murdaughs unalived for Stephen Smith’s case, not reverse.
The Murdaughs, all of them now, are victims of Stephen Smith, not the reverse.
AND that Thomas Moore is one of the laziest, most incompetent, ignorant, and hateful law enforcement officers ever. He should be investigated for his harassment of Dr. Erin Presnell and his trying to pressure her to change her first autopsy findings, which, incidentally, were confirmed by the second autopsy.
Are you real journalists if you do not pursue obvious leads?
Just speaking in general, not specific to this author. I get the whole Murdaugh saga is really intriguing and so many people are interested in it, but it just seems dirty to me for people (jurors, authors, podcasters, the clerk) to be making money off of this sleeze. Just seems like “blood money” to me.
Katie, when the whole truth comes out, God willing, you shall see that the false murder charges were brought against Richard Alexandar Murdaugh (“RAM’) for his opponents in civil litigation to extort a huge settlement, including Moselle itself, from RAM and his family, which is EXACTLY what happened to Moselle and everything on it.
It is also becoming clearer that Paul and Maggie themselves were killed, not by RAM to gain sympathy, but by agents of Sanctimonious Sandy Smith (“SSS”) to bring attention to Stephen Smith’s motor-vehicle-versus-pedestrian event because, in SSS’s own words “somebody else had to die.”
The sleaze and “blood for money” really began with the murders themselves, not after the trial.
Katie, when the whole truth comes out, God willing, you shall see that the false murder charges were brought against Richard Alexandar Murdaugh (“RAM’) for his opponents in civil litigation to extort a huge settlement, including Moselle itself, from RAM and his family, which is EXACTLY what happened to Moselle and everything on it.
It is also becoming clearer that Paul and Maggie themselves were killed, not by RAM to gain sympathy, but by agents of Sanctimonious Sandy Smith (“SSS”) to bring attention to Stephen Smith’s motor-vehicle-versus-pedestrian event because, in SSS’s own words “somebody else had to die.”
The sleaze and “blood for money” really began with the murders themselves, not after the trial.
Finally, we saw and heard the wonderful, smart, and conscientious Ms. Myra Crosby (“Juror 785”) in living color; and she does have great taste in color of dress: classy, understated, and eye-pleasing.
That did not stop the Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) cheap hireling Kassidy O’Connell from launching savage attacks on Myra and stealing pay-walled clips from Martha Maccallum’s interview with Jurors 785 and 630 on Fox Nation yesterday in the process.
Kassidy O’Connell is so cheap and has such limited but fawning audience that she is not worth my finding an alliterative but polite name for her. That would be casting my pearls before swine, an act Jesus Christ told us to not do.
But FITS, Callie Lyons, Andy Fancher, and the other two, and their readers should CORRECTLY assume they are worth my pearls.
Kassidy O’Connell savagely attacked Myra for finding the kennel video probative of the Murdaughs being “happy and humble.”
I have previously written and repeated why the Prosecution’s time of death is wrong based on the autopsy MEASUREMENTS of the contents of the victims’ stomachs, which contents show food too little AND too digested for the deaths to have occurred ONLY 22 minutes after the KNOWN large and relatively-fatty last meal.
Another Prosecution lie was that Paul did not send his video to Rogan Gibson because Paul got killed right after the video was made.
The truth is that the video shows NOTHING wrong with Cash’s tail; therefore, there was no reason for Paul to send anything to Rogan.
The word “pone” has many uses in Southern dialect; and Rogan Gibson had used it in his interview with SLED but not in his testimony at the trial.
And that is crucial.
In his interview with SLED, Rogan Gibson said Paul thought “the pone” on Cash’s tail was an insect bite and asked Rogan if Paul should put salve on it; but Rogan wanted to see that “pone” first before giving Paul leave to put anything on Cash’s tail.
Look carefully at the WHOLE video.
Paul runs Cash’s entire, healthily-wagging, tail though Paul’s other-than-phone-holding hand THEN opens that hand and photographs it.
No “pone” on Cash’s tail OR on Paul’s hand.
Paul realizes he either had made a mistake about “a pone” being there in the first place, OR, if there ever was one, it fell off; and NO veterinary consultation needed. End of story.
But the Prosecution spent a lot of time of witnesses proving that Paul was such a loyal and helpful friend (ironically, contrary to hid demonization by the boat crash plaintiffs) that ONLY DEATH would have prevented Paul from sending that video to Rogan.
What REALLY prevented Paul from sending that video to Rogan were: (1) a dying cell phone battery; and (2) COMMON SENSE: no need to bother with a non-problem.
I hope FITS has by now listened to me and coercive-controlled himself long enough to let this comment of mine through. Or else, he may need to be reminded to go coercive-control himself some more.
On Jen Woods’ REMARKABLE interview with Myra Crosby, someone asked if I were new to the case; and someone else replied “Marie knows more about it than the rest of us combined.” I tried to detail how and why I know; but my comment disappeared from Google.
Please FITS, let it through here:
? @WhyLie706 , one of the reasons I know a lot about this case if that I had faced those SAME prosecutors in a jury trial presided over by the SAME Judge Clifton Newman but, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, initially avoided a conviction (hung jury) then obtained dismissal WITH PREJUDICE of the two main false criminal charges against me.
In the 2.5 years between the hung jury and the ultimate dismissal, they put five more contempt-of-court charges against me to stop me from researching and exposing the extent of their fabrication of FALSE evidence against me.
A different courageous judge dismissed the two of five contempt-of-court charges against me which came before His Honor on post-conviction relief.
I continue to be DISILLUSIONED in Judge Clifton Newman for his failure to defend me after he had complimented me ON THE TRANSCRIBED RECORD as “most pleasant and gracious” and “not frivolous at all” but saw me insulted and persecuted by OTHER judges as “vexatious and disruptive.”
What those OTHER judges really mean by “vexatious and disruptive” is that they do not want the headache of someone challenging the system’s faults.
God willing, Myra Crosby’s courage shall bring to light the system’s faults on a national platform I was never able to have.
Continuing to paste here, God willing and FITS permitting, my replies to those who already single the wonderful and genuine Ms. Myra Cosby for attack:
? @carrie2024 , but why are you, albeit implicitly, attacking THIS juror?
Did you say anything about the jurors who flew, all expenses paid, to New York with Becky Hill “plus one” the day RIGHT AFTER the guilty verdict?
And BTW, one of those jurors who accepted the first New York junket ALSO accepted another junket with Eric Bland AND has written a book, apparently with Eric Bland as her ghost writer.
Heck! Did you say anything about the male juror who, according to Becky Hill’s book, received “thousands of dollars” to continue sitting on that jury instead of returning to his job and meeting his child support obligations?
If you did “slam” those other jurors, I understand.
If you did not, please explain the difference.
Thanks!
Every time additional evidence of Becky Hill’s tampering with the jury comes to light, this more stupid-than-stupidity itself “theory” pops us: Becky Boo was secretly working for Murdaugh to get him convicted in a messed-up trial then get him a new trial when Becky’s deed get discovered.
This is how far into nonsense Murdaugh-hatred gets people: if Becky Hill were secretly working FOR Alex Murdaugh, would she not have manipulated the jury to find him NOT GUILTY in the first place?
Or, knowing that THIS Juror 785 was for acquittal for insufficient evidence, would Becky Hill not have left this juror in place on the jury resulting in a hung jury and a new trial?
But Murdaugh-haters think they are very brilliant in suspecting a reach-your-elbow-through-your-knees scheme between Becky Hill and Alex Murdaugh.
I guess these are the same people who bought that a man would kill his wife and younger son just to get a two-week delay in the discovery of his financial misdeeds.
That illogic is beyond me; but, so help me God and so permit me FITS, I have to keep puncturing those bubbles whenever they show up.
The Kleenex box became more touching after Jen Wood’s interview of Myra Crosby and the latter’s explanation of why she pushed a Kleenex box towards Alex Murdaugh as he cried REAL tears while testifying.
That gesture reminded me of the saint who wiped the blood (caused by the crown of thorns) off Jesus Christ’s brow on the Path of the Cross.
Of course, Alex Murdaugh is no Jesus Christ; but the latter said “what you did for the least of these, you did for me.”
IF you allow that Alex Murdaugh did NOT shoot his wife or younger son (as I am SURE he did not), think of the violence done to that man: having to discover their bodies then relive everything in front of the whole world and denied even the right to cry about it!?!?!?!?
Thank God for Myra. Her gesture must have been some balm to Alex Murdaugh’s heart; and when, God willing, the whole truth comes out, Myra’s Kleenex gesture will remembered as one of modern saint.
“Blessed are the merciful for they shall see mercy.”
When, God willing, Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) is exonerated of the murders, my doubters should remember that I just got vindicated about something else I wrote on another thread on this outlet.
See: ONLY A MONTH AGO (in my 22 August 2024 comment on “Kamala Harris Unveils her Immigration Policy”) I warned of dark evil dark dreams of a LITERAL new slavery.
My doubters need look no farther than North Carolina.
IF, but only if, now-Lieutenant-Governor and Republican-gubernatorial-hopeful Mark Robinson’s posting on “Nude Africa” are truly his, what did he write there?
He fantasized about bring slavery back AND HIMSELF “owning a few [slaves].” He did not specify black slaves, not that it would make his fantasy any less shocking.
Nor should anyone be shocked (as I naively was when I first learned it) that when slavery was legal, few free blacks themselves owned a slave or two, as did some Jewish people. Dreams of owning another human being is the secret sin not on the list.
And just as I am WAY ahead of my time in detecting the lurking evil, I am WAY ahead of my place in prescribing the cure/prevention: learn the JOY of doing for yourself even what you consider menial tasks.
In my SubZeroIQ world, no task is too menial (from threading a needle to cleaning a tub) for me to revolutionize it and make it an intellectual achievement.
So, go enslave yourself to the beauty of self-reliance and innovation.
AND go preach my ideas to the Mark Robinsons and his ilk.
God speed and God bless.
Did the cat-eating rumor ever die?
Anti-Murdaughism and anti-Busterism have something in common with antisemitism and the other antis of history and geography: they are all based on filthy false and heartless rumors that take a life of their own and never die.
Here is my response to FITS’ pontification that Kamala Harris has a Moslem problem:
Kamala Harris does not have a Moslem problem. It is the Palestinians who have an Islamist problem.
And just so you and all the history-and-geography illiterates who may write on your blog or read it know: Not all Palestinians are Arabs; not all Arabic speakers are Moslems; not all Israel’s citizens are Jewish; and not all the world’s Moslems care about people who identify as Palestinians.
The problem for all of us is the Islamist agenda which is as anti-Coptic, anti-Hindu, anti-Armenian, and even anti-Shi’a, as it is antisemitic, depending on the place in the world the Islamists take root.
Smart U.S. policy should be able to dis-tangle Islamist movements from anti-colonial movements. So far, it has not done so BECAUSE it has not even tried.
Intellectual laziness, sometimes manifested in pseudo-analytic wordiness, is the real enemy.
I shall, God willing, leave you to think about that for yourselves.
Did the rumors about Springfield, Ohio, ever die?
Well! Anti-Murdaughism and anti-Busterism have much in common with antisemitism and the other antis of history and geography: they are all based on filthy false and heartless rumors that take a life of their own and never die.
Here is my response to FITS’ pontification that Kamala Harris has a Moslem problem:
Kamala Harris does not have a Moslem problem. It is the Palestinians who have an Islamist problem.
And just so you and all the history-and-geography illiterates who may write on your blog or read it know: Not all Palestinians are Arabs; not all Arabic speakers are Moslems; not all Israel’s citizens are Jewish; and not all the world’s Moslems care about people who identify as Palestinians.
The problem for all of us is the Islamist agenda which is as anti-Coptic, anti-Hindu, anti-Armenian, and even anti-Shi’a, as it is antisemitic, depending on the place in the world the Islamists take root.
Smart U.S. policy should be able to dis-tangle Islamist movements from anti-colonial movements. So far, it has not done so BECAUSE it has not even tried.
Intellectual laziness, sometimes manifested in pseudo-analytic wordiness, is the real enemy.
I shall, God willing, leave you to think about that for yourselves.