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Charity Lee was approaching the supermarket checkout when a fellow shopper blocked her path. “I know who you are,” shouted the woman. “You should watch your son be executed, because he is a monster and you raised him!” Drawing on all the strength she could muster, Lee shakily replied: “Ma’am. I don’t know who you are, but you really need to get counseling.” With that, the mother of child-killer Paris Bennett, age 13, abandoned her grocery cart and rushed out. The stranger’s harsh judgment only added to her agony: In a shocking twist, her son’s victim was Lee’s 4-year-old daughter, Ella. Paris had stabbed his half-sister to death in cold blood with a kitchen knife. ‘I have forgiven Paris for what he did, but it’s an ongoing process.’ “There have been other moments like that,” Lee tells The Post of the 2007 incident in the Abilene, Texas, store, “But people often have one opinion at first, and then change it once they’ve talked to me and offer compassion.” The 44-year-old’s powerful story of grief, love, fear and forgiveness is featured in the documentary “The Family I Had,” airing on Investigation Discovery Thursday at 9 p.m. It examines Lee’s conflicted emotions as she struggles to come to terms with the catastrophe that tore apart her life 10 years ago. A prison-rights activist, she keeps Ella’s memory alive while frequently visiting her now-24-year-old son in jail. He is serving a 40-year sentence (the maximum in Texas for a juvenile for murder) and will be eligible for parole in 2027. “I have forgiven Paris for what he did, but it’s an ongoing process,” explains Lee. “If he was free [from captivity] I would be frightened of him. “The fact that he is incarcerated gives me peace of mind, but I worry about his own safety.” It was about 12:30 a.m. on Feb. 5, 2007 that Lee was met by cops at a Buffalo Wild Wings near Abilene where she worked as a waitress. “[The police] told me that my daughter had been hurt,” she recalls in the film. “And I was saying: ‘you need to take me to Ella now’ and they were like: ‘You can’t go … she’s dead.’ “And that made no sense, because I knew that I’d left her at home with a baby sitter and her brother, so I said, ‘Is my son OK?’ And they said, ‘We have him.’ … That’s when everything stopped making sense.” Sometime around 10 p.m., Paris, an unusually gifted child with an IQ of 141, had convinced the baby sitter she could go home. It was after that, according to detectives, that he grabbed a knife and entered the room where Ella was sleeping. He proceeded to beat, choke and stab his little sister 17 times. Next, the boy spent six minutes calling a school friend before waiting two minutes and phoning 911 to report the murder. “He pretended to follow the dispatcher’s directions and do CPR,” says Lee. “But that was all a lie.” Cops found no evidence of attempted first aid. At first, Paris claimed he suffered a vivid hallucination in which an inflamed, demonic version of Ella was laughing maniacally at him. But he later described how he had awakened that morning wanting to kill someone. Says Lee: “Ella was an easy target — predators don’t ever pick on anybody bigger than themselves.” Paris told investigators that his original plan was to murder Ella before lying in wait for his mother and stabbing her when she returned from work. “He said the first reason he didn’t go ahead with it was because it was a lot harder to kill someone than he thought,” says Lee. “The second reason was the realization if he’d killed me, I only would have suffered for five, 10, 15 minutes. But, if he left me alive [without Ella], I would suffer for the rest of my life.” One of Paris’s motives was punishing his mother. A former heroin addict who kicked drugs shortly before conceiving her son, she’d relapsed on cocaine when he was 9 and Ella was 2. This followed a decade of sobriety for Lee. Paris claimed she had put her habit before him. “The only regret I’ve ever had about my own personal behavior is my relapse,” says Lee, who has not abused narcotics since Ella’s death. “The fact is, it made him angry and he chose to handle it that way [by killing Ella]. “It’s just another indication that he is a sociopath. I don’t regret how I’ve handled Paris, I feel like I’ve been true to myself and followed the right path.” Her son was given the “sociopath” tag in 2009 by a psychiatrist Lee hired when he was held at a juvenile detention center. He confessed to having had homicidal thoughts since the age of 8, often expressing them through violent and disturbing drawings. Since becoming an adult, Paris has refused further psychological evaluations. In a jailhouse interview behind glass in “The Family I Once Had,” he tells directors Carlye Rubin and Katie Green: “I chose to do my crime and I take full responsibility for my crime. And I wouldn’t say there was a predisposition to what happened. “I’m not insane and I don’t suffer from any mental illness.” ‘I am not going to be that parent who abandons their kid.’ While Lee describes him as “manipulative” and “narcissistic,” she is quick to explain how her maternal instinct means she puts her love for her son above her anger. “I sometimes have to say to myself [during visits]: ‘Okay, Charity, take a breath, you know how Paris is wired,’ ” she says. “But I am not going to be that parent who abandons their kid.” In 2012, the single stay-at-home mom became pregnant with a third child, Phoenix, now 4. She was delighted to at last be given a new hope. The pair now lives in Savannah, Ga., and Lee goes to see Paris in the Lone Star State for four-hour stretches as often as she can. She is grateful that prison rules ban him from having visitors under age 17. “Texas won’t allow him to see Phoenix because he killed a child. “If Paris wasn’t in prison or was able to meet Phoenix, I would have to do a lot more soul-searching.” Mercifully, the soul-searching is helping Lee cope with the devastating loss of Ella, whom she describes as “extroverted, very outspoken and very smart.” Butterflies became Ella’s symbol after her preschool teachers gave her mother a remarkable picture she had painted of the insect. A friend also found a butterfly brooch in Lee’s backyard on the day she finally returned to the house where the murder took place. Ever since then, Lee associates butterflies with the presence of her daughter. “That’s her thing, I guess,” adds Lee, who has a collection of butterfly tattoos. In 2011, the grieving mom founded the nonprofit ELLA Foundation — an acronym for Empathy, Love, Lessons and Action — which assists people involved in the criminal-justice system and those affected by trauma. “On the night that Ella died, I vowed to do something meaningful in her memory,” concludes Lee. “It also gave me a place to direct my rage, other than at my child.” Through all this, she is also a loving mother to Phoenix who, she says, gave her “joy, life and happiness again.” “Because I was living with the dead, I was barely living,” adds Lee. “Phoenix really brought me back into the moment.”
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A Florida cop held on for dear life as a suspect he stopped suddenly gunned his engine, dragging the officer alongside his vehicle at high-speed. The scary ride was captured on Officer Jon Cusack’s body camera. The incident began when Cusack, a 20-year veteran of the Pembroke Pines police force, responded to a local resident’s call about two people passed out inside a car, ABC-affiliate KABC reported. The officer put on gloves to protect himself from what he thought were drugs inside the car. But as he tried to enter the vehicle, the driver woke up, and suddenly accelerated, with the officer hanging off the driver’s side door. He eventually lost his grip and tumbled along the pavement. He’s recovering with numerous injuries but hopes to return to work soon, KABC reported. The suspect, Thomas Cabrera, 38, led cops on a 20-mile high-speed chase before he was stopped and taken into custody. He later admitted to using heroin and cocaine that day, KABC reported. Cabrera faces charges of attempted murder of an officer, fleeing and eluding and driving with a suspended license.
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Have you ever had a package stolen from your door?
samhexum replied to marylander1940's topic in The Lounge
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Working XMAS Eve / Day or New Year's Eve / Day???
samhexum replied to Electra225's topic in Questions About Hiring
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Who's your favorite athlete? (for real, not sexually)
samhexum replied to samhexum's topic in The Sports Desk
Not a favorite athlete, but a good guy: Texas Rangers pitcher Cole Hamels and his wife, Heidi, donated a mansion and 100 acres of land in southwest Missouri to charity that provides camps for children with special needs and chronic illnesses and their siblings. The donation of the 32,000-square foot home to Camp Barnabas was made Friday. It was listed for $9,418,400, according to Realtor.com, at the time of the donation. Hamels said in a news release that he and his wife wanted to help the charity make children's dreams come true. "Seeing the faces, hearing the laughter, reading the stories of the kids they serve; there is truly nothing like it," he said in the statement. "Barnabas makes dreams come true, and we felt called to help them in a big way." The mansion and land is near Table Rock Lake near Reeds Springs. Heidi Hamels grew up in Buffalo, Missouri. An attorney for the couple told the Springfield News-Leader that they thought the mansion would be their dream home. However, when Hamels was traded to the Rangers, they moved to Texas and never moved into the Missouri house. -
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The iconic New Jersey strip club that was the model for the Bada Bing hangout in HBO’s hit show “The Sopranos” served its last drink on Sunday. Satin Dolls in Lodi, N.J., was shuttered under a court order after New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino and the Division of Alcohol Beverage Control moved against the club. A.J.’s Gentleman Club, which has the same owners, was also shut down. Actors playing Garden State mobsters regularly filmed at the Route 17 jiggle joint, and memorials to James “Tony Soprano” Gandolfini were erected there after the star’s untimely death in 2013. Both clubs have to either sell or transfer their liquor licenses by Jan. 3, Porrino said. Anthony Cardinalle, a convicted racketeer from Saddle River, is barred from having a liquor license. But authorities alleged he continued to run the clubs despite that. They also allege that a large amount of cash flowing in and out of the business was not accounted for. Other members of the Cardinalle family tried to retain ownership of the licenses and continued to operate the businesses, Porrino alleged. On Nov. 20, the division’s director David Rible signed the order barring the Cardinalle’s involvement with the club. “The Cardinalles may have wanted to keep the business in the family, but that’s not how it works. Their continued flouting of Alcoholic Beverage Control laws cannot and will not be tolerated,” Porrino said in a statement. “Illegal activity was glorified at the ‘Bada Bing’ in the fictional world of Tony Soprano, but it has no place in modern-day New Jersey. It’s time to shut it down.” In May 2017, the division charged the club with prostitution and lewd activity. A 2011 consent order for Cardinalle’s company, Route 17 Entertainment, said Luceen Cardinalle, who was listed as the owner, had to turn over the licenses to her daughter, Loren. The Cardinalles also had to pay $1.25 million in penalties. “The Cardinalles, quite simply, have not played by the rules despite many opportunities to correct their behavior, and it’s time to get them out of the alcohol business once and for all,” Rible said. In 1995, Anthony Cardinalle pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion for not reporting cash payments from “gentleman’s clubs” in which he held undisclosed interests. In 2013, he was indicted by the feds for involvement in a waste disposal company controlled by the Genovese crime family. He pleaded guilty in December 2013 to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit extortion. He spent 30 days in jail and was ordered to pay a fine and restitution. Lodi police claim that Anthony Cardinalle continued to be the contact person for the club. When the cops came to the club on a burglary report, he was the club’s representative. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3707018.1513613056!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/badabing19n-1-web.jpg
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However big it is, it works... The secret’s out. Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova welcomed twins on Saturday, TMZ reports. The incredibly private couple, who have been together 16 years, reportedly named their babies Nicholas and Lucy. The little ones were born in Miami. The news comes as a complete surprise to the public, as it hadn’t been reported that the former tennis pro was pregnant. The longtime couple met on the set of Iglesias’ “Escape” music video and started dating shortly thereafter. Kournikova, 36, and Iglesias, 42, are also rumored to have secretly tied the knot, but neither one of them has confirmed nuptials. Iglesias’ rep didn’t immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
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Maybe you're finally going through puberty and you've hit a growth spurt. Have you started getting hair in new places (besides your ears)?
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A silly trifle that I found amusing and sweet: Connie & Carla. Nia Vardalos' follow-up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. With Toni Collette. Best pals Connie (Nia Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) have a song-and-dance act at a Chicago airport, but they go on the run after witnessing a murder. In Los Angeles, they glimpse the city's drag queen scene, and believing that stage success is just a wardrobe change away, they become female impersonators. They fall into a circle populated by Connie's beau, Jeff (David Duchovny), and bar owner Stanley (Ian Gomez)(Mr. Nia Vardalos). But the killers want to make sure the women never tell what they know.
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He was a known skirt-chaser. He and Bu-bu-bu-Bing were quite the role models for husbands. Never found him the least bit funny. Rose Nylund could have done much better in picking out a fantasy biological father. Her actual biological father turned out to be better (Don Ameche). He wasn't American, ya know. He died on Arod's (& my former roommate's) birthday.
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What about when you entertain in your bedroom?
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It can be interesting when TV shows do this. One fond memory... Dan Conner is making chili for the family on ROSEANNE. The camera is set up behind the stove, pointing at his face. He looks up, directly into the camera, and starts talking like Julia Child. It's at the end of this clip: Another example (sort of) was from an episode of LAROQUETTE, John's criminally-underappreciated sitcom. Also-criminally-underappreciated Allison LaPlaca co-starred as a nurse/John's love interest. Joey Lawrence guest starred once and his character developed a crush on her. She was treating him for a cut & made a joke. He responded "Wow, beautiful AND funny!" She replied "I know. It's hard to believe I was on 5 sitcoms that bombed. Nobody gets me. That's why I became a nurse."
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Hotties on HGTV/Home & Garden TV
samhexum replied to Poolboy21409's topic in TV and Streaming services
They've had some legal problems. I always went back and forth between which cousin I found more attractive. -
Batman & Robin (Batdude & Throbbin' was one of my favorite gay porn titles).
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DEAR ABBY: My father -- aged 68, active and in good health -- has become increasingly obsessed with deciding who will get which of his belongings when he passes. Almost every conversation now consists of some form of "Do you think your cousin Joey would like my antique fishing lure collection?" I'm glad he's thinking ahead and putting his affairs in order, but it has been months since we've been able to talk about normal things, and I feel like he's missing out on living in the present. I finally had to tell Dad to stop asking my young kids which of his childhood toys they would like when he dies because it was freaking them out. They no longer want to go over there because they're terrified he's going to keel over in front of them. How do I get him to stop this, move on and continue living his life? I'm pretty sure he doesn't have an illness he's keeping secret. Obsessiveness is normal for him, but this topic is new. -- ADULT SON IN FLORIDA DEAR ADULT SON: Have you asked your father directly what has caused this change in his behavior? If you haven't, you should. Have you any idea how long it has been since his last physical and neurological examination? If it has been more than a year, suggest the two of you go together to make absolutely sure nothing is wrong with him. Because you prefer he stop talking about death and distribution of assets with your children, let him know that today's young people prefer electronic gadgets rather than the toys he played with in his youth. It's the truth, and he needs to hear it. DEAR ADULT SON: Tell your father the only thing anyone wants after he dies is his money. It's the truth, ain't it?
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