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Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi testifying in September 2008.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
Accused Boston mob boss James ?Whitey? Bulger hasn?t laid eyes on his old partner, Stephen ?The Rifleman? Flemmi, since he skipped town in 1994 on the cusp of being indicted.
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James "Whitey" Bulger, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of participating in 19 murders and a range of other crimes involving money-laundering, extortion, drugs and weapons. If he's convicted of just two counts, he could go to prison for life.
That will change this week ? and if the recent past is any indication, Flemmi?s turn as star prosecution witness at Bulger?s racketeering and murder trial could be explosive.
When Bulger?s former prot?g?, Kevin Weeks, took the stand against him last week, hard stares were exchanged and expletives flew across the federal courtroom.
Bulger, 83, also lost his cool when retired FBI agent John Morris testified the gangster had secretly worked as an informant, calling him ?a [expletive] liar,? according to prosecutors.
Flemmi, 78, was the No. 2 man in the Winter Hill Gang but he stayed put in Boston to face federal charges while Bulger went on the lam for 16 years.
When he pleaded guilty in 2003, admitting to 10 murders, the brother of one of his victims became so enraged he started yelling and was escorted from the courtroom.
?It was hard to take,? said Steve Davis, brother of Flemmi's girlfriend Debra Davis, who was allegedly strangled in 1981 and buried on a riverbank because she knew too much.
Davis said he would try to control himself when Flemmi makes his return to Boston ? but no promises.
?I?m disgusted thinking about him,? he said. ?Guy makes me sick.?
And, he said, no one knows how Bulger will react to having his former right-hand-man working to put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
"This could be the boiling point of the whole trial," said Davis, who has not missed a day since the trial began with opening statements June 12.
While Bulger was living under an assumed name in California, Flemmi testified in 2009 at a civil trial on lawsuits filed by victims against the FBI and said Whitey wanted Davis dead out of jealousy and fear.
"Bulger kind of resented the fact that I didn't spend enough time with him," Flemmi told the court. "He would contact me and I wouldn't respond."
He said that when Bulger learned that Flemmi had told Davis about their relationship with the FBI, she was doomed.
"He wanted to kill her," Flemmi said.
For this trial, Flemmi will follow a rogue?s gallery of state witnesses to the stand, including hitman John ?The Executioner? Martorano, who served just a dozen years in prison after admitting to 20 murders.
Courtesy Steve Davis
Debra Davis, ex-girlfriend and murder victim of Stephen Flemmi.
Like Martorano, Flemmi is expected to detail a number of bloody crimes he claims he committed with Bulger, the slaying of Debra Davis among them.
What will really anger Bulger, however, is if Flemmi joins other witnesses in portraying his old friend as informant who snitched for the FBI.
When Weeks called him a "rat," Bulger cursed at him in the courtroom.
Davis' hope is that whatever Flemmi says on the stand will infuriate Bulger so much that he feels like he needs to testify and tell his side of the story ? the only way he thinks he can get answers about his sister's death.
If not, he'll have to settle for Bulger stewing at the defense table while Flemmi relives the past. Does Davis think that Bulger will hurl a few choice words at Flemmi like he did with Weeks?
"I don?t know," he said. "But that was fun."
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July 29, 2013(CBS News) Pope Francis frankly discussed topics that have historically been controversial for the Catholic church aboard his flight back to the Vatican Monday, including homosexuality within the priesthood and the ordination of women as priests.When questioned on what his response would be upon learning that a cleric was gay, though not sexually active, the Argentinian-born pontiff said he wouldn't judge gay priests and explained, "You can't marginalize these people.""If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" he said.The conciliatory comments represented a shift from his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI, who signed a document in 2005 saying that men with deeply rooted homosexual tendencies shouldn't be priest.However, he insisted that the ban of female priests will remain in tact, telling reporters the question was "definitively" answered by Pope John Paul II.Pope Francis was returning from his first foreign trip to Brazil. He told a crowd gathered for the farewell ceremony at the airport in Rio de Janeiro, "I leave with a soul filled with happy memories."On the tarmac Sunday night, the pontiff said his final goodbyes and gave one last blessing after delivering an open-air mass to three million Catholics gathered on Copacabana beach earlier in the day.The faithful were gathered in Brazil for World Youth Day, a bi-annual gathering of young Catholics from around the world -- the group performed a flashmob to welcome the pope as his helicopter landed."The homily was so amazing and so touching," California resident Kayleigh Lembke told CBS News' Adriana Diaz. She added, "So simple but so profound."Vatican officials are calling the trip a success and are hoping it will help invigorate the Catholic church.Accompanying video at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57595894/pope-francis-on-gay-clergy-who-am-i-to-judge/© 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.***Dear Fred,Aboard his return flight to Italy, Pope Francis made the following comments. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/pope-francis-on-gay-clergy-who-am-i-to.htmlIt is often said that "The Vatican changes by centuries whereas the world changes by decades." Often, this glacial pace is a good thing.However, the "medieval ice" has begun to break as surely (and as unexpectedly) as the Arctic ice shelf is giving way to The Northwest Passage.I recommend Matthew's entire passage about "not passing judgment." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:%201-5&version=MSG Alongside better known translations, I find that my understanding of The Good News is enhanced by "The Message." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_(Bible) In my early 20s, reading the Gospel in Spanish had similar effect.Pax tecum Alan ***On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:who am I to judge?” Francis said.Moving with astonishing speed from simplicity to stupidity, Francis abdicates all responsibility.Who is he to judge? He is the Pope. His role is make judgments. He might have exercised his authority as judge to determine that the gay clergy deserve a better deal. Doing that would indicate he is using the brain that God gave him and he intends to use it.Why do we have a Pope? We don't need really need one. Actually, why do we have priests? Are we all not children of God?Fred Owens - My blog is Fred Owenscell: 360-739-0214***Dear Fred,Thanks for your email.I think Francis' judgment is where it should be - in his behavior.Passing judgment - particularly the damning sort - almost always inspires counterproductive reaction, particularly in the "group" one is "apparently" trying to convert.Pax tecumAlan
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HAPPY DAY MICK.! Mick Jagger Biography Sir Michael Phillip Jagger (better known as 'Mick Jagger', born 26.7.1943)Mick Jagger is an English rock singer who rose to fame in the 1960s as frontman of The Rolling Stones.Mick Jagger: ChildhoodMick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent. His father, Basil Fanshawe Jagger, was a teacher and his mother, Eva Ensley Jagger was an active member of the Conservative Party.Mick was a successful scholar and passed three A-levels at Dartford Grammar School and won a scholarship to London School of Economics, though he did not graduate from the college.Jagger loved to sing as a child and sang in the church choir. Aged 19, Jagger began to perform as a singer at a London club, The Firehouse. Sharing a love of rhythm and blues music, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards moved into a Chelsea flat together with Brian Jones, where The Rolling Stones was conceived.Mick Jagger: Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones performed their first gig as a three-piece at the Marquee Club in London. They later added drummer Charlie Watts to the lineup and recruited Andrew Loog Oldham as their manager.The band relied on cover songs for their early chart success but Jagger and Richards soon found their feet writing their own compositions, and one of their early numbers, ''Satisfaction', was their first international hit. They were portrayed by the music press as a gang of rugged troublemakers: a far cry from the clean-cut image of The Beatles.In 1967, Jagger was arrested and sentenced to three months imprisonment for possession of four pep pills that he had bought in Italy. The sentence was eventually reduced but this would not be Jagger's last run-in with the police.Jagger now controls the band's business affairs, along with his friend Rupert Löwenstein. The band continues to perform, decades after their formation and Jagger continues to court controversy. On their 2005 album, A Bigger Bang, the singer openly attacks George W. Bush on the song 'Sweet Neo Con'.The Rolling Stones were reported to have earned a combined $437 million on their A Bigger Bang tour of 2007 and they were listed in that year's Guiness World Records book for the achievement. Jagger's own fortune is estimated to be worth around £215 million.Mick Jagger: Film careerJagger's most famous film appearance is probably in Nicolas Roeg's 1968 film Performance. In 1970 he also appeared as a bushranger in Ned Kelly. In 1969, Jagger improvised the soundtrack to Kenneth Anger's Invocation of my Demon Brother on a Moog synthesizer. In 1978, Jagger was cast in the Rutles film, All You Need Is Cash, a take on The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love.' Later on, he gained a reputation for playing the heavy, in films such as Freejack (1992), Bent (1997) and the Man From Elysian Fields (2002)Jagger formed his own film company in 1995, entitled Jagged Films. Its first release was Enigma in 2001, followed by a documentary about Jagger, entitled Being Mick, the release of which coincided with the release of Goddess in the Doorway.In 2008, Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary, Shine A Light was screened in Berlin. The film features footage of the band on their A Bigger Bang tour.Mick Jagger: Personal LifeMick Jagger has had a number of high-profile relationships. His six-year relationship with singer Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s was widely publicized. In 1971, Jagger married Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías. They were divorced in 1980, when Bianca discovered Jagger's infidelity with Jerry Hall. Hall and Jagger lived together for a long time and had several children together. They eventually married in 1990, in a Hindu beach ceremony. This marriage was annulled in 1999 when Jerry had discovered that Jagger had fathered a child with Luciana Gimenez, during the time that he was married to her. Mick has also been linked to Chrissie Shrimpton, Bebe Buell and Carla Bruni. In total, Mick Jagger has fathered seven children, to four different women. He has three grandchildren.In 2008, a story emerged that the Hell's Angels had plotted to kill Mick Jagger in 1969, when he refused to use them as a security service at the Altamont Free Concert.In December 2003, Mick Jagger was awarded with a knighthood for his services to music. Some fans were disappointed that Jagger accepted the honour, arguing that it contradicted his anti-establishment views.
"View of the Lincoln Memorial from Virginia"Oil11 x 14© 2013 by Rebecca CroftThis month at The Gallery Underground our show will feature paintings from around town so I decided to paint a few different local scenes. This view of the Lincoln Memorial was interesting to me because of how the light was shining through the bridge. I also love the sky! It was fun painting this for the show. I'll also be posting a local Arlington scene soon. 
The next segment involved CM Punk coming out to the ring after which he spoke about Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman. Fandango then came out and did his normal dance routine only to receive a GTS in the end after which Punk left the ring.The 2nd match of the night involved Mark Henry and The Uso's against Wade Barrett and Prime Time Players. It was Mark Henry who eventually won the match up for his team as he planted the World's strongest slam.Alberto Del Rio spoke to Vickie Guerrero and asked her to allow him to pick his opponent just like John Cena did. RVD then joined the conversation after which Rio asked him to prove himself a worthy contender for the title. RVD claimed that he would that during the night. Sandow then went backstage looking for his briefcase and spoke to Sin Cara who didn't speak English.The match between Rob Van Dam and Alberto Del Rio ended with Rio emerging a winner via a kick just as RVD was speaking to a referee.Sandow who was still looking for his briefcase went to Mark Henry and Booker T. They acted as though Rhodes was a thief while Sandow was sure that this happened because of Booker T. AJ was the next to come out to the ring with Big E Langston as she called out Dolph Ziggler. She claimed that she was the champion and was doing fine and showed Ziggler his house key after which she threw out Zigglers belongings out of the ring. The segment ended with Kaitlyn hitting a spear on AJ and Dolph planting a fameasser on Langston.The match between The Wyatt family and Tons off funk went in favor of the Wyatt's.Sandow went to complain to Vickie about his lost case and claimed that he was going to find it tonight.Moving on at WWE Smackdown 26/07/2013, Christian won a match against Jack Swagger after he used his finisher.Sandow was then in the ring and issued a reward for his case. Rhodes then came on the big screen with the case after which Sandow chased him outside.The Match between Fandango and CM Punk on 26/07/2013 went in the favor of CM Punk.The final segment of the match saw Cody Rhodes having the Briefcase and throwing it into the bay. The WWE Smackdown went off air with Sandow yelling for his case and the title shot. He jumped into the ocean but was quickly out from the corpus christi bay.The last dark match of the night between Dolph Ziggler and Big E Langston went in favor of Ziggler after he planted a finisher on Langston.Take a look at the quick recap of what happened during the course of the show below. table.tableizer-table { border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: ; font-size: 16px; } .tableizer-table td { padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc; } .tableizer-table th { background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold; } WWE Smackdown 26/07/2013 ResultsRandy Orton Defeated Damien SandowMark Henry and The Usos defeated Darren Young, Titus O' Neil and Wade BarrettAlberto Del Rio defeated Rob Van DamEric Rowan and Luke Harper defeated Tensai and Brodus ClayChristian Defeated Jack SwaggerCM Punk Defeated FandangoDark Match: Dolph Ziggler defeated Big E LangstonWhat are your thoughts about the WWE Smackdown 26/07/2013 Results?
Keystone/Getty ImagesChristine Granville, circa 1950.Yet this woman, so ripe for Hollywood hagiography, is almost unknown today. Her obscurity is the consequence of her gender (spy history is notoriously sexist)...That's why you've never heard of Mata Hari -- or Vesper Lynd. (The NY Times just has to stick in its politically correct interpretation of practically everything, it just can't help itself.)...her nationality (she was Polish, and Communist Poland did not encourage praise of British spies)...Wouldn't it have been Britain which praised her?...and above all her character. She was a complex and mysterious individual. "Complex and mysterious" usually = "difficult," and difficult sometimes = sociopath. She survived the war only to be murdered by an obsessed former lover in the lobby of a London hotel. As Clare Mulley reveals in her admirable and overdue biography, “The Spy Who Loved,” Granville was not a straightforward personality, and all the more fascinating for that.Born Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, the daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and a wealthy Jewish heiress, she enjoyed a comfortable, uneventful and spoiled upbringing. Indeed, her main achievement before the war was to be a runner-up in the 1930 Miss Poland beauty contest. War changed her utterly.She was in South Africa, the wife of a Polish diplomat, when the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939. She immediately headed for London, presented herself to the British secret service and offered to ski over the Carpathian Mountains into Poland in order to take British propaganda into Nazi-occupied Warsaw. “She is absolutely fearless,” a secret service report noted, a “flaming Polish patriot, . . . expert skier and great adventuress.”"Absolutely fearless" and "great adventuress" often = sociopath as well. And whatever happened to that husband?She was duly recruited into Section D, which would evolve into the fabled Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.), the sabotage, subversion and espionage unit established by Churchill to operate behind enemy lines and “set Europe ablaze.” She adopted the name Christine Granville, received a British passport and shaved several years off her real age on official forms — self-reinvention was part of her makeup, as it is of many spies. The British gave her the code name “Willing,” an apt reflection of her attitude toward sex as well as her readiness to embrace extreme peril.Self-reinvention is part of the makeup of sociopaths, and a wanton attitude toward sex is often a result of a sociopath's lack of inhibitions and impulsive nature.Deployed to Hungary, Granville spent the first part of her war ferrying messages and people in and out of Poland. She crossed the mountains between Hungary and Poland no fewer than six times, bringing out Polish resisters and soldiers who would go on to fight for the Allied cause. She was usually accompanied by Andrzej Kowerski, a one-legged Polish patriot who would become her most enduring (and long-suffering) lover.The stories of her exceptional sang-froid come thick and fast: skiing past the corpses of refugees frozen to death in the mountains, bribing guards, dodging bullets from a Luftwaffe plane on an open hillside and escaping from the Gestapo by biting her own tongue, spitting blood, and thus convincing her captors that she was ill with tuberculosis.If these stories are true, there is much to admire about Granville; yet "exceptional sang-froid" is something sociopaths specialize in, and the ability to ad lib under pressure is another thing they excel at.According to one account, she could even charm her way around animals: when a “vicious Alsatian dog, trained to bite and break necks,” found her hiding under a bush with some partisans, she placed her arm around it, and “it lay down beside her, ignoring its handler’s whistles.” Such tales, as Mulley observes, are “the stuff of legend,” and she is too good a historian to take them entirely at face value. Granville was an expert at her own mythologizing, telling her stories of pacifying enemy dogs “right and left, to whoever was willing to listen.”No one is more of an expert in their "own mythologizing" than a sociopath. Especially when it's only a myth.Along the way, she picked up lovers at astonishing speed, and dropped them just as fast. Sometimes, they took rejection badly. One hilarious British intelligence report describes how Granville’s “attractiveness appeared to be causing some difficulty in Budapest.” One spurned lover had gone to her flat and threatened to shoot himself “in his genital organs.” He missed, and shot himself in the foot.Granville was “politically naïve”: “An opportunist, keen on action, who fell in with whichever personal contact would give her an assignment to work for the freedom of her country.” Her patriotism was whole-souled, ferocious and probably the only uncomplicated thing about her."Opportunist" is a yellow flag for sociopathy.In 1944, she was parachuted into southern France to aid Francis Cammaerts, the celebrated (and married) S.O.E. agent who became, inevitably, her lover. She carried vital messages and matériel between resistance groups; she addressed Polish conscripts in the German Army, urging them to change sides; she carried a razor-sharp commando knife and a cyanide tablet sewn into the hem of her skirt.It takes a certain physical courage to be a paratrooper, and a certain cavalier disregard for one's own well-being to be in a position to have to carry around a cyanide tablet. These are both hallmarks of sociopathy. Her crowning achievement was to spring Cammaerts and two other captured agents from the Gestapo jail where they were awaiting execution. She bribed her way into the prison, claiming to be General Montgomery’s niece, and informed the French collaborator in command that if the executions went ahead, he would face swift and lethal reprisal from the advancing Allies. The Frenchman saw the force of this argument, and escaped along with his prisoners.Sociopaths are nothing if not skillfully manipulative.Granville’s postwar life was as grim and bleak as her war had been vivid and exhilarating. Dismissed from S.O.E., she was, like so many other exiled Poles, unable to return to a homeland now under Communist rule. She found work as a telephone operator, a sales assistant and finally a stewardess on a shipping line. Sales assistant? Telephone operator? After having basically been Mata Hari/Vesper Lynd? What a comedown that must have been. And how contemptuous must she have been of the people she worked with, and for?Britain’s failure to support a woman who had risked her life so many times was shameful, but in truth Granville was fickle, demanding and virtually unemployable, at least in the way she wanted to be employed. She did not want to be a typist, a wife or a mother; she wanted to be a spy."Fickle, demanding and virtually unemployable" are code words for narcissism, a key part of every sociopath's makeup.Mulley — the author of “The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save the Children” — makes excellent use of newly released archive material, the voluminous secondary sources and interviews with former colleagues, friends and lovers. But there is an unavoidable gap at the heart of this book, and that is the missing voice of Christine Granville herself. Only 11 of her letters seem to have survived. She never wrote an account of her exploits or described her own feelings. On the rare occasions that we do hear her voice, it is in fractured English that comes as a jolt: “Tell them that I am honest and clean Polish girl. . . . I like to jump out of a plane even every day.”Who ever bothers to point out that they are "honest and clean" unless they are dishonest and unclean?Granville’s story is told, inevitably, through the eyes of others, principally men, who tended to project onto her the fantasy of what they wanted to see. Of no man is this truer than the one who killed her: Dennis Muldowney, an unstable and infatuated ship’s steward unable to cope with Granville’s rejection after a brief affair. Muldowney stalked her, and then stabbed her in the heart in June 1952. He was condemned to death, and went to the gallows proclaiming he was “still very much in love” with the unsung heroine he had killed.As I said above, there is much to admire Granville for. If she did even a fraction of the things attributed to her, she is an amazing person, and both a British and Polish national heroine as well. But throughout the review, I couldn't help but hear the not-so-faint echo of sociopathy reverberate in the descriptions of her temperament and actions and thirst for thrills. The most successful spies, like the most successful con men, are often sociopaths, for good reason. Granville is living proof that in wartime, you want the sociopaths to be on your side. And that there's really no time you want them on the opposing side.
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Pitching Match-Ups:Friday, 7:10 - KK vs. Jeremy HefnerSaturday, 1:10 - Cole Hamels vs. Zack "Not Chris" WheelerSunday, 1:10 - Cliff Lee vs. Matt Harvey Mets Bats: R - 376 (19th)AVG - .235 (28th)OPS - .680 (28th)Their offense is horrible, but have managed to outscore the Phillies, despite playing 5 fewer games. Marlon Byrd/RF (.271/.818) and David Wright/3B (.304/.903) are the only real threats with established track records. Eric Young Jr./CF (.308/.782 in 24 G) has hit well since joining the Mets out of Colorado. Ike Davis is no longer the starter at first base, that now belongs to Josh Satin (.361/1.044 in 22 G). Mets Arms:ERA - 3.85 (13th)WHIP - 1.32 (19th)Their 3 best starting pitchers take the mound this series. Hefner may not have the wins (only 4 in 18 GS), but his ERA/WHIP combo is deserving of better fate (3.33/1.15). Wheeler is the much hyped prospect getting a chance to impress and has 3 wins in 5 starts with a 3.54 ERA. All-Star Matt Harvey and possible NL Cy Young and , Matt Harvey, is having one helluva season (7-2, 130 IP, 147 K, 2.35/0.92). In the bullpen it's Bobby Parnell (17 SV, 2.30/0.91) securing the fort with in-season additions David Aardsma (2.55/1.13) and Carlos Torres (0.79/0.88) providing quality late inning relief as well.Prediction:The Phillies veterans (Chooch, Michael Young, Lee, Hamels, J-Roll, KK, Utley, Papelbon) know they need to win over the next 2 weeks, so that Amaro doesn't decide to implode the squad. Therefore, I'm picking them to take the first 2 games with a loss to Harvey on Sunday.What I'm Drinking:Great Lakes Brewing Co. out of Cleveland, Ohio. I've heard great things about them over the past few years from craft beer aficionados, but was unable to attain any of their libations due to distribution limitations in my area. No longer! Great Lakes is finally in my region of PA and I am excited. They produced some fantastic brews. They're celebrating 25 years of microbrewing. Check out a variety case of the following to believe what you're reading.
Burning River Pale Ale- dry, crisp, a bit of spicy hops with earthy undertones and a touch of citrus. This one is a winner. It has a refreshing quality to it that you don't get in all pale ales. With 6% ABV and 45 IBU, this will please the hop-heads, but not overwhelm those who are not. RateBeer.com score- 96. Eliot Ness- rarely an I impressed with a lager, but damn this one is good. This Vienna style lager has a reddish hue, smooth and sweet malt profile, and has just enough hops to be noticeable (ie- enjoyable). It is named after Cleveland’s most respected safety directors, who frequented the brewpub’s bar during his tenure from 1935-1941 and, according to popular legend, was responsible for the bullet holes still evident today. RateBeer.com score- 95.Edmund Fitzgerald- easily one of the best porters out there. Chocolate malt aroma hits the nose instantly upon pouring. Chocolate and coffee in the flavor. Deep sweet malty taste with a bit of smoke. Great stuff. RateBeer.com score- 99.Dortmunder Gold- hazy gold in color with thin bubbly head. Nice soft carbonation mouth feel with bread and nuts in the aroma/flavor. Smooth and easy drinking. RateBeer.com score- 94.
