week in tweets

Tweets from @mlampy (that's me!) from court last week:

• A new week and a new shirt - white - for the man accused of murder. No eye contact as he's lead to the prisoner's box. #crime #grimtweets
• I wonder what a bag of scalp looks like. Some people have the most unique/horrifying/interesting jobs.
• I wonder how the tragically sad-looking teen felt as she talked about her dead mother in front of the man accused of murder.
• 12 sat staring at a pic of a woman. Body half sunburnt, half white and bloated, snagged on a tree in the river. Her hair was falling out.
• A female juror looked at the pic of holes in the dead woman's head. Lips pursed, brows furrowed, she glanced at the man accused of murder.
• Why are sheriff's uniforms so squeaky?
• Do you know a dead body's various stages of decomposition? I now do. Gross.
• Six years after Heather Hamill slaying, murder trial begins: http://tinyurl.com/lsyfp5 #kamloops #crime
• Roe will get second murder trial in 2010: http://tinyurl.com/ll2n2q #kamloops #crime
• Sting suspects back in court next week: http://tinyurl.com/lbogmy #kamloops #crime
• Robert Balbar sat, head left-leaning, motionless for two hours. He wore no shoes. Jury didn't look at the man accused of killing his g/f.
• Stephen Roe's new shoes squeaked as he walked by. They were auburn brown. He gets a new trial in 2010 for stabbing David Holditch to death.
• I spent the majority of my day in the company of two alleged murderers. Who's hungry? I sure am...

courting

So I've finally got a computer at home — I splurged and bought a MacBook! — so I'm back to blogging — albeit, my focus has changed a bit.

In addition to my current beats, I'm also the new court reporter and will be blogging about my experiences covering exciting trials, like the first-degree murder trial of Robert Balbar and the upcoming Allan Schoenborn, to the less-intense matters in provincial court.

Check back for more on the Kamloops crime beat.

RIVER NORTH

My head is pointing North North crosses the mighty river
Flows constant with water Swift, decisive, cold
Never a question of direction
Of which I have none
Streaming, twisting, turning, thrashing
Drowning
Cannot ride the current to stay afloat
Only one thing constant
My head is pointing North

PUPPET FACE?

I love the Internet.

Like I don't have enough crap to waste my time doing, but recent gossip about Lady Gaga being a puppet for the Illuminati has totally absorbed me — which is waayy more interesting than the rumours she is a hermaphrodite.

Illuminati — not to be confused with the Glitterati — refers to the secret Bavarian society founded in 1776 and means "enlightened."

It's argued the Bavarian society has survived to this day, forming the New World Order, a conspiracy theory in which a secretive and powerful group want world domination and have been conducting an elaborate plot to do so.

Thanks to an offhanded comment from a co-worker, explaining the gist of the story, I've now spent the better part of an hour — OK, more like 1.5 hours — researching this claim. And there are some serious connections and symbols that make for a strong case.

The Vigilant Citizen did a great exposition that — in my mind — outs the strangely vapid, yet utterly absorbing, songstress.

"Lady Gaga is a poster-girl for Illuminati mind control, a puppet who embodies exactly what the public represents in the eyes of the elite: mindless drones, mannequins, remote controlled robots, hypnotized degenerates incapable of thinking coherently. On the other hand, her symbolism is deep, esoteric and even spiritual. This paradoxical aspect of Lady Gaga is something that deserves to be analyzed and understood. While masses of young people imitate Gaga’s brain-dead persona, the subversive symbolism surrounding her art still reaches the fan’s subconscious. She is not the Antichrist though (last I’ve heard), she is simply one of the many pop stars sending out similar messages to the public. Combined with Hollywood movies, TV shows and commercials, media outlets are programming young minds to think and act a specific way."

Her songs, so repetitive and catchy, stick in your head all day. I don't know how many times I've caught myself singing Poker Face while cleaning the house or driving in the car.

And the videos — totally mesmerizing! I can't physically make myself change the channel when Paparazzi is on.

After a closer look, tons of Illuminati symbolism can be found: The satanic ram's head, masonic checkered pattern, the robot and Mickey Mouse clothing, the "seeing eye" thing (she does this a lot, actually), her bound by lights and lots more.

Seriously, after checking a few things out, Gaga is either under Illuminati control and l'm an off-my-rocker conspiracy theorist or she has brilliantly and single-handedly crafted a persona for herself that the public is eating up with spoons.

MIA

Sadly, I am taking a bit of a hiatus from blogging. Temporarily.

It seems PCs and I cannot live harmoniously and, thus, I have killed desktop No. 2 this year.

So, I'm gonna gather my beans and buttons for the next while and — hopefully — splurge on a mac laptop. (For they are the superior product in the computer world.)

Until then, however, I might post quickies here and there, but, since it'll be done during working hours, they'll be brief, if anything.

Please stay tuned...