Posted on 04/16/2004 6:37:21 PM PDT by Mo1
Which site?
When's post time, and will this be the year for another Triple Crown winner?
Have a ball down there, Cuttn.
Cheers, everyone.
Not bad for a left wing web site.
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Its now 54/46
New York Post | 13 May 2004 | LAURA ITALIANO
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20789.htm
MAN JAILED FOR BEHEADING WIFE
By LAURA ITALIANO
May 13, 2004 --
Oscar Pilamunga was 15 and Beatrice Yually was 13 when they married nine years ago in their native Ecuador.
Yesterday, Pilamunga, now 24, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for brutally decapitating his childhood sweetheart in a jealous rage inside their Corona, Queens apartment.
The horrific slaying caused a sensation a year ago, when the wife's headless body turned up stuffed in a suitcase, sitting on a Harlem street.
"I lost my head," Pilamunga later explained to cops.
His wording was awkward, to say the least. It is the wife's head Pilamunga lost - it has never been recovered.
Pilamunga was a kitchen worker. His wife sold ice cream on the streets of Brooklyn. The story of their young love's tragic unraveling was recounted by the murderer himself, in his graphic confession.
"She had her bags ready, and I asked her where she was going," Pilamunga explained when he was caught last summer.
"She told me that she did not have any feelings for me, and that she wanted to leave. But I closed the door, and she told me she felt more love for Bolivar."
Bolivar apparently was Yually's lover. His identity was not fully disclosed in Pilamunga's police statement.
"At that moment, I lost my head and I punched her in the head," Pilamunga said. "She was sitting in the bed when I hit her. She got up and grabbed me by my shirt. I then grabbed her by the neck with both of my hands, and I squeezed her," he said.
"We were already on the floor. She stopped breathing and moving. At that moment, I saw that she had no life."
After an hour went by, Pilamunga said, he "took the handsaw and cut her head off."
Then he took a nap. He stuffed the head in a Dumpster on 35th Avenue in Corona.
Pilamunga kept the headless body in a black bag behind his refrigerator overnight before stuffing it into a suitcase and taking it - by taxi - to a Harlem street corner.
Pilamunga was caught easily. Although he had apparently tried to hide the identity of the body - by removing the head - he made the mistake of leaving an incriminating phone number in the corpse's clothing.
He pleaded guilty to the depraved killing last month.
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Wondering if the Juice had to have a snooze, or two?
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread
Posted on 04/26/2004 3:06:41 PM EDT by HairOfTheDog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1124735/posts?q=1&&page=1351
Just started this new site on General
Interesting thread there- thank you for the linkage, Resty.
Well said Loddy!! I actually watched LKL last night. And "Hack" basically said, this smelled of CIA. It was then revealed that the CIA operatives were basically "in control" of what was going on in this prison. Your right, it was ORDERED and approved from above. Shoshana Johnson came off as very self-righteous imo. I didn't think she should have said "well these soldiers KNOW right from wrong." As if they could have just disobyed on the spot. General Hackworth said, were dealing with crazy people. I honestly don't know what the big surprise is.
Great picture Val!!
.....Westy.....
Hackworth is a legend in his own mind now. I used to admire him, really. Hey, Westy, he became a sappy soldier, too. LOL
Where is everyone
I wounder if he had bad kiddney before or if this torture and denying of water did it?
We will win this war but it will be a big price which is Unavoidable. These young traders of today haven't a clue what price the American Revelution cost for liberty!
Either the world is made free or Envy created by tyrants will destroy us!
The NEA (REDS) has done an injustic this great nation to undermind and not teach Am.History.
Just in at WND
FAITH UNDER FIRE
Muslims torture Christian to death
Seminary students tried to force him to convert to Islam
There is such a Thunder Storm here in NYC I thought it was a preview to Art Bell New Movie!
Report: Muslims slaughter 600 Christians
'Bodies of pregnant women were ripped open and . . . burned'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38513
Library of Alexandria discovered
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world's first major seat of learning.
A Polish-Egyptian team has excavated parts of the Bruchion region of the Mediterranean city and discovered what look like lecture halls or auditoria.
Two thousand years ago, the library housed works by the greatest thinkers and writers of the ancient world.
Works by Plato and Socrates and many others were later destroyed in a fire.
Oldest University
Announcing their discovery at a conference being held at the University of California, Zahi Hawass, president of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the 13 lecture halls uncovered could house as many as 5,000 students in total.
A conspicuous feature of the rooms, he said, was a central elevated podium for the lecturer to stand on.
"It is the first time ever that such a complex of lecture halls has been uncovered on any Greco-Roman site in the whole Mediterranean area," he added.
"It is perhaps the oldest university in the world."
Professor Wileke Wendrich, of the University of California, told BBC News Online that the discovery was incredibly impressive.
Alexandria was a major seat of learning in ancient times and regarded by some as the birthplace of western science.
Birthplace of geometry
It was a tiny fishing village on the Nile delta called Rhakotis when Alexander the Great chose it as the site of the new capital of his empire.
It was made Egypt's capital in 320 BC and soon became the most powerful and influential city in the region.
Its rulers built a massive lighthouse at Pharos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the famed Library of Alexandria.
It was at the library that Archimedes invented the screw-shaped water pump that is still in use today.
At Alexandria Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the Earth, and Euclid discovered the rules of geometry.
Ptolemy wrote the Almagest at Alexandria. It was the most influential scientific book about the nature of the Universe for 1,500 years.
The library was later destroyed, possibly by Julius Caesar who had it burned as part of his campaign to conquer the city.
mmm mm mor morning *YAWN*
What an amazing discovery! Thank you.
Morning yawns out there, Nully.
It's raining here, but the flowers need it.
Hard night Garn?
Oh no Nully.. not a hard night.. just that I didn't check out the thread early enough.
Well.. actually I did but it was too early to post.. and then I got tangled.. ;)
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