Monday Reads

I hope this is the end of it.

First of all he is a Skakel and not a Kennedy. He is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy. Second of all, he had nothing whatsoever to do with the killing. There was never any evidence of it.

It is just that the late Dominick Dunne, who must have been cut out of Kennedy family events and was butthurt about it, started making claims about Skakel and Moxley. And later on, Mark Fuhrman of O.J. Simpson notoriety got into the act, writing a bestseller about the case. However, it was all guilt by being associated with the Kennedy family through marriage. It appeared that somebody else was most likely responsible, but it may be a murder case that will never be officially solved. I feel bad for her family, but our judicial system cannot rightfully convict on the basis of innuendo.

Glad the USSC likely put an end to this case once and for all. Skakel has been through enough.
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Looks like the tax refunds will go out as scheduled.  It also appears there is dwindling support for Trump's wall.
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Speaking of which, he is suffering fro borderline insanity.  He is trying like hell to find an escape from the crisis he caused and hopes to con the public tomorrow night, when he goes on national television to argue his case.
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Obituary:  Television journalist Sylvia Chase, 80, has died.  She was getting treatment for brain cancer.

Sylvia Belle Chase was born on Feb. 23, 1938, in Northfield, Minn., to Kelsey David Chase and Sylvia (Bennett) Chase. After her parents divorced, she was raised by her grandmother in Minneapolis. The grandmother was listed in census records as the custodian of an apartment house whose tenants included Sylvia’s aunt, a radio announcer.

Sylvia’s first broadcasting job was reporting on junior high school doings for a show that she and her older sister produced for local radio.

“People said Sylvia was ‘tough,’ but in fact it was principle that prompted her to stand her ground,” Mr. Moyers said. She was, he said, shaped by the New England liberalism of Northfield’s founders and by its good Samaritan heritage. (The town’s local hero was a banker who in 1876 refused the James-Younger gang’s demand to open the vault because he would not betray the trust of his fellow citizens.)

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