The 5ft 2 in mother of two and civilian police sargeant is recovering from wounds sustained when she exchanged gunfire with Hasan during his murder spree.
Newton, MA residents recall Munley from when she was waiting tables at an Elliot St. pub a few years ago.
“She really didn’t have a lot of fear,” said Dunn-Gaherin’s Food & Spirits owner Seana Gaherin, who was Kimberly Munley’s boss from 2003-2005, when the young cop did a stint as a waitress at the Newton pub on Eliot Street.
“We’re so proud of her. We’re just happy that she’s OK,” Gaherin told the Herald yesterday
Back then, she was Kimberly Barbour and she dreamed of returning to law enforcement, Gaherin said. She even took the Boston police exam, according to Gaherin.
The waitress was known for being tough. One Halloween, she dressed as Demi Moore’s character in the movie “G.I. Jane,” and she played shortstop on the bar’s softball team.
Gaherin said the bar has been flooded with calls from people who recognized Munley as their former waitress who spent her breaks reading the Boston Herald.
“We want to host a big party and bring her back. We know she touched a lot of lives,” Gaherin said. “She was just a nice spirit.”
Thursday, November 12, 2009
This Just In: Chicago's Mayor Daley is a Tool
But that's probably not news to some of you in Chicagoland.
Never mind the confirmed attempts to contact extremist muslim preachers and never mind the PTSD cooties narrative the mainstream media's been trying to sell us. Chicago's Croney Prince Daley insists that guns are to blame in Malik Nidal Hasan's murder spree at Fort Hood last week.
“Everyday in society,” Daley said, “somebody is being killed. Unfortunately, America loves guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group. You don’t blame a society, an immigrant community because of actions of one group...one individual. You cannot say that.”
You'd think that the mayor of one of America's largest metropolitan areas could at least pretend to give a damn about the soldiers killed and wounded in Hasan's spree. Or at least get his facts straight and understand that Hasan wasn't an immigrant.
But damn, the dude's got a point- while we're at it Daley might as well ban railroad ties effective immediately. We've seen that those can be pretty devestating in the wrong hands as well.
If we follow Daley's idiocy to it's logical conclusion, I suppose that means he's advocating the following:
1) Active duty military personnel cannot purchase firearms
2) United States Military installations should be 'gun free zones'
3) Muslims in America should not be able to legally purchase firearms
If stricter gun control laws are put in place, then I'm sure the whole Killeen/Waco/Ft. Hood area will become the glistening 100% crime free oasis that Chicago is to this day!
/Cripes I've had about enough of these idiot Chicago politicians. Oh....and how's that 2016 Olympic bid coming along, Mayor?
Never mind the confirmed attempts to contact extremist muslim preachers and never mind the PTSD cooties narrative the mainstream media's been trying to sell us. Chicago's Croney Prince Daley insists that guns are to blame in Malik Nidal Hasan's murder spree at Fort Hood last week.
“Everyday in society,” Daley said, “somebody is being killed. Unfortunately, America loves guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group. You don’t blame a society, an immigrant community because of actions of one group...one individual. You cannot say that.”
You'd think that the mayor of one of America's largest metropolitan areas could at least pretend to give a damn about the soldiers killed and wounded in Hasan's spree. Or at least get his facts straight and understand that Hasan wasn't an immigrant.
But damn, the dude's got a point- while we're at it Daley might as well ban railroad ties effective immediately. We've seen that those can be pretty devestating in the wrong hands as well.
If we follow Daley's idiocy to it's logical conclusion, I suppose that means he's advocating the following:
1) Active duty military personnel cannot purchase firearms
2) United States Military installations should be 'gun free zones'
3) Muslims in America should not be able to legally purchase firearms
If stricter gun control laws are put in place, then I'm sure the whole Killeen/Waco/Ft. Hood area will become the glistening 100% crime free oasis that Chicago is to this day!
/Cripes I've had about enough of these idiot Chicago politicians. Oh....and how's that 2016 Olympic bid coming along, Mayor?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Veteran's Day. November 11, 2009.
No updates today. As far as I'm concerned, November 11 is sacrosanct. No sports scores, no trains, no politics, no dysfunctional beauty pageant winners. Today is not the day....
To all the other Veterans of our armed forces, past and present and their loved ones- thank you for your service and sacrifice. To those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, may you at last find peace on the other side.
To our allies north of the border, here's a moving tribute to Canada's fallen from Don Cherry on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Today's Train of Thought- Fading Footprints; Nov 10, 2009
Today's train of thought comes to us from Colorado's Denver-Pueblo Joint Line. Here, railpictures.net contributor Caroline J catches BNSF SD70MAC #9621 and C44-9W #5696 charging south with a coal train over Highway 105 at Larkspur, CO in October 2008. A closer examination reveals a faded Santa Fe logo adorning the span.
Student Expelled- Then Readmitted- to Brazilian University Over Miniskirt
(screencap courtesy lalate.com)
(AP/Letcia Moreira)Oh...those uptight and puritanical Brazilians are at it again! Last week, 20 year old student Geisy Arruda was expelled from privately-run Banderiante University in Sao Paulo state. School officials accused her of dressing and behaving in a provocative manner which led to her being hustled off of campus by security while wearing a professor's coat over the offending garment and running a gauntlet of taunts and verbal abuse from other students (apparently some of this is on YouTube)- Ms. Arruda is shown in the photos above, reportedly clad in the offending garment.
Now, the University has done an about-face.
SAO PAULO — A woman expelled for wearing a mini-dress that caused a near riot at a Brazilian college and made her an Internet sensation said all she wants is to go back to school. Well, she got her way.
Geisy Arruda, a 20-year-old tourism student, can return to the classroom after Bandeirante University reversed its decision to expel her following a flood of negative reaction in a nation known for tiny bikinis, beaches and Carnival.
The dean of the private college in suburban Sao Paulo released a statement Monday announcing the reversal, without saying why it had decided to let her back in.
Now, I'm pretty sure Brazilian students don't show up to their classes clad in the itsy bitsy 'dental floss' bikinis one would find in Ipanema- I mean, if I thought that for a second I'd be getting my TOEFL certificate and spending several months out of the year trying to get hired on at such institutions down there. Having said that, I didn't think Geisy's choice of attire was all that provocative and actually pretty tame compared to some of what I've seen worn on campuses here. Do they take their dress codes that seriously or is there some underlying issue here (like the school accusing her of exhibitionism before the minidress incident)? Truth be told, I thought it would've been something downright scandalous to have Brazilians so worked up. Given the uproar that's surrounding this, the university and press initially made it out as though Ms. Arruda was wearing next to nothing.
/And if Ms. Arruda needs to seek asylum, I can be contacted by way of this blog to make arrangements.
Beltway Sniper John Muhammed Executed in Virginia.
It's official.
JARRATT, Va. – John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002.
He looked calm and stoic, but was twitching and blinking as the injections began, defiant to the end, refusing to utter any final words. Victims' families sat behind glass while watching the execution, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.
"He died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims," said Prince William County prosecutor Paul Ebert, who witnessed Muhammad die by injection at 9:11 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center, south of Richmond. Muhammad, dressed in a blue shirt, jeans and flip-flops, had no final statement.
'Good Riddance' is about all I can say.
John Allan Muhammed, we are richer for having lost you.
JARRATT, Va. – John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002.
He looked calm and stoic, but was twitching and blinking as the injections began, defiant to the end, refusing to utter any final words. Victims' families sat behind glass while watching the execution, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.
"He died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims," said Prince William County prosecutor Paul Ebert, who witnessed Muhammad die by injection at 9:11 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center, south of Richmond. Muhammad, dressed in a blue shirt, jeans and flip-flops, had no final statement.
'Good Riddance' is about all I can say.
John Allan Muhammed, we are richer for having lost you.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Today's Train of Thought- Copper Creek Showdown; Nov 9th 2009
Today's confusing Train of thought features coal, a creek named Copper, high flying trestles and a little bit of role reversal in Appalachia. Railpictures.net contributor Christoper Anderson caught this rather intricate and confusing shuffling of steel, horsepower and black diamonds on September 20, 2008 at Clinchport, VA as a pair of CSX GEVOs head back downgrade on Norfolk Southern's Appalachia District having shoved a train over the grade to Watkins. Meanwhile, above the two locomotives in CSX's Kingsport Subdivision, which was hosting a trainload of NS empties heading back to the mines. Norfolk Southern has trackage rights on CSX between Frisco, TN and St Paul, VA.
Applebee's Veteran's Day Promotion.
I thought this was pretty cool. Applebee's has a promotion where Veteran's and active duty military eat free on Wednesday, November 11th.
More about it here if you're interested or want to spread the word.
More about it here if you're interested or want to spread the word.
Rushing to Judgement
July 22nd 2009- from the White House:
Obama: Cambridge police acted stupidly
"Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in own home," Obama said during a prime-time news conference that otherwise focused on the health care debate.
"What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," Obama said. "That's just a fact."
November 6th, 2009- from the White House:
Obama says don't jump to conclusions on shooting
"We don't know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," Obama said in a Rose Garden statement otherwise devoted to the economy.
Hmm....What a difference a couple of months makes, eh? I guess there's a lesson to be learned in all of this.
Jumping to conclusions when a muslim officer in the United States Army murders 13 of his unarmed fellow soldiers and wounds 31 more on an army base is wrong.
But there's nothing wrong with jumping to conclusions about a whole police department after an officer arrests one of your race-baiting academic buddies.
Do I have that about right?
Obama: Cambridge police acted stupidly
"Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in own home," Obama said during a prime-time news conference that otherwise focused on the health care debate.
"What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," Obama said. "That's just a fact."
November 6th, 2009- from the White House:
Obama says don't jump to conclusions on shooting
"We don't know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," Obama said in a Rose Garden statement otherwise devoted to the economy.
Hmm....What a difference a couple of months makes, eh? I guess there's a lesson to be learned in all of this.
Jumping to conclusions when a muslim officer in the United States Army murders 13 of his unarmed fellow soldiers and wounds 31 more on an army base is wrong.
But there's nothing wrong with jumping to conclusions about a whole police department after an officer arrests one of your race-baiting academic buddies.
Do I have that about right?
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Como você diz "Drill Here! Drill Now!" Em portugês?
Not too long before the House passed cap and trade in a bid to save all those drowning polar bears and decimate jobs in the transportation, utility and energy sectors while cutting ourselves off from domestically available resources, Brazil's nominally socialist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (who everybody understandably refers to as Lula for short) authorized the quasi-private energy company Petrobras [NYSE: PBR] to begin drilling for oil on the offshore Campos and Santos Basins.
For a 'socialist', the Brazilian economy has been doing relatively well under Lula's watch. The BOVESPA (Brazil's stock exchange) has been performing admirably in the last 52 weeks, Petrobras is going after oil and natural gas deposits in the region and Rio even managed to land the 2016 Summer Olympics. Couple this with the burgeoning economic alliance with China, India and Russia and Brazil is now an economic force to be reckoned with in the southern hemisphere, if not on the global stage.
I can't begrudge the president of Brazil or Brazilian companies for seeking greater access to energy resources in the region. In fact, I wish our government had similar priorities. But isn't it interesting how all the solutions to 'climate change' so far seem to involve increasing government control by unaccountable agencies into our daily lives?
With that in mind, Lula seems to be a big supporter of the USA crippling itself economically before Brazil does the same.
He said highly industrialized countries who have been emitting greenhouse gases for more than a century have a responsibility to adopt tougher targets.
"The United States has more responsibility than China; Europe has more responsibility than South America or Africa," Lula said.
China has replaced the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases because of its fast-growing economy and dependence on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Obviously this is a means for Lula to let his country and the others in the CRIB bloc off the hook while shifting the blame to the United States or European Union. The very sad part is that America's very own Congress and President seem more than willing to go along with it.
Interestingly, Lula seems to have no issue with PetroBras drilling for oil offshore.
For a 'socialist', the Brazilian economy has been doing relatively well under Lula's watch. The BOVESPA (Brazil's stock exchange) has been performing admirably in the last 52 weeks, Petrobras is going after oil and natural gas deposits in the region and Rio even managed to land the 2016 Summer Olympics. Couple this with the burgeoning economic alliance with China, India and Russia and Brazil is now an economic force to be reckoned with in the southern hemisphere, if not on the global stage.
I can't begrudge the president of Brazil or Brazilian companies for seeking greater access to energy resources in the region. In fact, I wish our government had similar priorities. But isn't it interesting how all the solutions to 'climate change' so far seem to involve increasing government control by unaccountable agencies into our daily lives?
With that in mind, Lula seems to be a big supporter of the USA crippling itself economically before Brazil does the same.
He said highly industrialized countries who have been emitting greenhouse gases for more than a century have a responsibility to adopt tougher targets.
"The United States has more responsibility than China; Europe has more responsibility than South America or Africa," Lula said.
China has replaced the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases because of its fast-growing economy and dependence on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Obviously this is a means for Lula to let his country and the others in the CRIB bloc off the hook while shifting the blame to the United States or European Union. The very sad part is that America's very own Congress and President seem more than willing to go along with it.
Interestingly, Lula seems to have no issue with PetroBras drilling for oil offshore.
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