An inquest into his death today, not attended by either parent, heard neither of the family's two pet dogs were being supervised at the time of the attack, shortly before 2am.
The two dogs being, of course, the obligatory Staffies...
When paramedics arrived, Daniel and Amy refused to hold Reuben, the inquest heard.
If that didn't ring alarm bells, nothing should.
The parents were both arrested by police on suspicion of child neglect following the death, but prosecutors decided not to charge them in December 2020.
Detective sergeant Emma Compson said police will take no further action against Mr McNulty or Ms Litchfield and the pair had 'separated as a result of the trauma'.
No doubt they will say 'it's in the public interest', but is it? Really?
Ruth, Amy’s mother, said: 'We’re just glad it’s finished and we can properly move on.'
Yeah, just get another one. FFS, it was a baby, not a bloody goldfish!
A Rhodes Scholar who won a coveted scholarship at Oxford after claiming she overcame childhood abuse and grew up in foster care has been accused of lying to officials and is in fact the daughter of a radiologist who went to private school.
Mackenzie Fierceton, 24, describes herself as a 'queer, first generation, low income' student at The University of Pennsylvania. In 2020, she was given a scholarship to go to Oxford after dazzling the Rhodes Trust with her story of how she overcame welfare, an abusive mother and the foster care system.
In other words, she saw the boxes and decided to tick them all. After all, why not? It's not like anyone ever checks, clearly:
But after a November 2020 Philadelphia Inquirer news article about the scholarship, lauded her as a 'first-generation student' who 'has been low-income throughout her life, and grew up in foster care,' an anonymous tipster contacted the Rhodes Trust and UPenn to report her for being 'blatantly dishonest'.
Ooops!
Now, she has withdrawn from the Rhodes program and UPenn is withholding her masters degree pending further investigation.
Be sure your sins will find you out...but what does mum - sorry, mom - have to say about this?
In a statement to The Chronicle in light of the scholarship being revoked, Dr. Morrison said of her daughter: 'Mackenzie is deeply loved by her mom and family.
'Our greatest desire is that Mackenzie chooses to live a happy, healthy, honest, and productive life, using her extraordinary gifts for the highest good.'
She could go into politics or journalism, I guess. She seems eminently qualified.
I'll not be hearing any anti-Scottish sentiments today, ye ken? Except of course for Krankie and her anti-Scots communist SNP ... ye can say all y'like about her, a disgrace t'Govan she is.
Why don't we get a figure for men? Is it because it outstrips the figure for women (like this one year) two to one?
We know it is, don't we, Reader..?
Their names have been written out and remembered individually in recent days. A majority of these women were killed in their own homes, by a man they knew, by men they loved, men they had children with. How do we protect against that?
Well, you could start pointing out to women that 'I love him, I can change him!' isn't a strategy for survival. And you could start campaigning against open borders on the basis that Ireland doesn't need to import more misogynists.
But you don't do any of that, do you? I wonder why...
Not too sure how happy the lady will be to share her birthday with a blog birthday but there it is - she has precedence of course. Also, not too sure how happy she'll be about the same format as for last January but I can't think of a better cake and song.
Julia approacheth now,
U neither see nor hear,
Like thylacosmilus, the enemy
Is really quite in fear,
As we all stand and wildly we do cheer!
.o0o.
Many happy returns of the day to a special gal, from all here at OoL!
But OoL too has its birthday as we restarted here after the shuffling off of our host, whose server had the blog coming from it, unbeknowns to many - yep, we were doing an Andrew Torba of our own.
Julia and I have never had a serious discussion about OoL and its future direction, where it goes; it largely flies under the radar and as we both run other blogs in a more or less full time way ... well, there it is. Of course, if you have any great ideas, those are always welcome but until now, we've worked on "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
So once again, many happy returns to the chief admin of OoL and to OoL itself.
If I tend to address more "out there" topics, it's because Julia is so grounded in the minutiae of what's going down in real life, she has that covered.
One of my core topics is trad relationships, meaning marriage in order to bonk and it's for resistance to social engineering reasons, of the danger of the State becoming mother and father - see Krankie's named person scheme north of the border, of mentoring, seizure of children from parents, even over a vaxx, any excuse - and it seems I'm not alone in the concern. Gigi Giraud 83 brings this one:
The issue is not so much whether it's possible, happening etc. but more the mindset of the Schwab and Krankie minds who conceive of these things, excuse the pun. For pun it is, because the core result of all this is a sterile, non- reproductive wasteland of indiscriminate bonking in perverse ways, with zero responsibility for what one does.
That's happening right now in schools with curricula hidden from parents who are told they've relinquished their rights once the child is within the school gates. For a former head teacher like me, that's a horrifying thought. Are teachers not also parents to a great degree?
Then look at the other side of it - state supported single motherhood either through the 'put it about, get preggers, go onto benefits' lifestyle or through IVF and an offputting aggressive feminazism, plus a work culture now which has less and less place for all but wimpy demi-men with wispy face fuzz. The new SNAGs.
However it pans out, The Who were not that wide of the mark, methinks:
I for one am implacably opposed to agendas trying to kill off the ability of men and women to form meaningful partnerships where neither side runs the risk of either total ruin from mercenaries, nor physical danger in the home, despite the massed array of force turning that seemingly simple goal well nigh impossible in this social and political climate.
Or to put it more simply, I want men and women to like one another as people, quite aside from the chemistry.
When Lloyd Williamson lay on his back in a GP’s clinic late last November, it was for the surgical culmination of years of soul searching. Williamson, who is 30 and from Essex, remembers wanting a family as a child, but something changed in his early 20s. “I thought: you know what? I don’t want to bring a life into this world, because it’s pretty shitty as it is and it’s only going to get worse,” he says, two weeks after his vasectomy.
You'd think his personality would be contraception renough, wouldn't you?
Williamson, who works as a data support officer for Essex county council (he stood unsuccessfully as a Green party councillor in Chelmsford in 2019), says he knows of other young, childless men who are thinking of doing the same thing.
But then, this is Essex!
Sadly, it's not confined to Essex:
It should not be surprising that a generation with increased awareness of the climate emergency is asking big questions about traditional family structures.
Translation: "These people are stupid enough to swallow anything, so no wonder they collude in their own destruction!"
For Nate Miller (not his real name), a 36-year-old from Colorado, the election in 2016 of Donald Trump, a climate science denier, was the clincher.
Good. Maybe when enough of these people have embraced their own destruction, the overall IQ will go up a point or two.
This essentially follows on from reader Woodsy's comment which mentions Boris ... and I add that it only takes one person to make someone else's experience, most times fairly innocuous, either a pleasure or misery.
I do have an obnoxious neighbour just now who last evening was ranted at by another resident, he's quite oblivious that he could possibly be the cause of stress to others - this is the downside of libertarianism. To him, 'others' just get in the way of his 'progress', like carpentry in his flat at 9 p.m., then living it up through the night.
I'm not sure he's malicious at core, maybe just thoughtless as young men are, couldn't care less.
There are degrees of pathology and shifting the focus to those watching this blog for any signs of dissent from authoritarian decree, from an adopted and now exploded position which results in blanket application of a handed-down and increasingly wrong stance by those above us ... this has its parallel in the whole despotic behaviour by what we call 'karens', male and female.
By the way, that's a lower case first letter, not capitalised, it's a general term, like peeping tom ... it does not mean every Tom, Dick or Harry are involved.
What is dismaying and dispiriting about this, a phenomenon well known by the cabal above, the hidden rulers of the darkness of the world, is that the common joe or jo so readily reacts to her/his newfound power to 'turn someone in' for not adhering to the exploded narrative in a jawohl mein fuhrer way, that this person almost 'gets off on' this newfound power, without any legal or constitutional authority to do so.
Former footballer Ian Wright has lamented cuts to youth centres and linked them to “lives being wasted” as he discussed an Arsenal-backed anti-knife crime campaign he is fronting alongside Idris Elba.
*sighs* Here we go again. Why are 'youth clubs' regarded as a key to stopping (mostly) black youths from acting like animals?
Wright and Elba said one of its aims was to increase spaces for young people which may offer an alternative to gang violence.
Speaking to ITV, the former Arsenal striker said he had been “lucky” when he was growing up to have access to youth workers and “people who were looking out for me”.
You mean, your parents and relatives weren't..?
“When you look at the last 10 years, 750 youth centres closed down, 4,500 people out of work, youth workers, people you build relationships with, people who know you, and then when you look at the lives that are being wasted… this campaign is about… inspiration and action.”
No, this campaign is about avoiding the elephant in the room. And it's clearly a Loxodonta africana. I don't see a rise in knife crime among young Chinese or Thai youth.
The campaign was praised by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who described it as “hugely powerful” while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also backed the drive.
That's all you need to know how effective it'll be, isn't it?
