#MorningMonarchy: February 15, 2018


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#MorningMonarchy: February 15, 2018Olympics misconduct, presidential paintings and exploiting tragedy + this day in history w/the attempted assassination of FDR and our song of the day by Suicidal Tendencies on your Morning Monarchy for February 15, 2018.

Notes/Links:

#Olympics Roundup – Shaun White wins historic third Olympic gold in men’s halfpipe, calls sexual misconduct suit “gossip”
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/963977729015033856

Shaun White Apologizes For Comments On Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964032579841110017

“I get so tired of pink”: female chocolatiers turn to death for Valentine’s day
https://twitter.com/CrimsonMistUT/status/963753413748994050

Shooter was known wolf, identified as a threat last year, made to leave campus. Ex-member of Army Jr. Reserve Officers Training Core
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/963920908963471360

19-year-old #NikolasCruz arrested off campus in deadly Florida school shooting (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964033475991953408

YouTube user ‘Nikolas Cruz’ – the name of the shooter who killed 17 people in a Florida high school – posted a comment under a documentary on 1966 mass shooting, saying he wanted to do the same
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/964012510532816896

Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/963890866032005120

Nikolas Cruz wearing a “Communist Party!” t-shirt and KMFDM hat
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964013415227207680

Dead Male Prostitute, Piles Of Meth Found In Clinton Mega-Donor Ed Buck’s Home — No Arrests
https://twitter.com/jim22747/status/963955698366164992

#GemmelMoore’s Suspicious 2017 Death At Wealthy Democrat Donor’s House Being Investigated (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964034158480601088

Black Lives Matter Activist Assassinated
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961784740805197824

North Carolina minister with a violent past is being tried on charges that he wounded an ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend with close-range gunshots.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/963488220708253696

Nickell 3:33: 5 Dead in Kentucky
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/963072885450403840

Planters yield remains of six in serial killer probe of Toronto landscaper, more victims expected
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/961749279328079874

Death of man who ran into Burning Man flames ruled suicide
https://twitter.com/erikmoshe/status/963033331326648320

Rose McGowan’s Former Manager Dies By Suicide At 50
https://twitter.com/swaggerprance/status/961829325015105544

Nothing to see here: Producer #JillMessick, #RoseMcGowan’s Former Manager, Dies By Suicide At 50
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964206859107184640

Bill Paxton family sues hospital, doctor for wrongful death
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/963647134582091778

‘Charles in Charge’ Actor Alexander Polinsky Has Accused Scott Baio Of Sexual Harassment And Abuse
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/963955843598356480

Tea Party Leader and Trump Campaign Chairman Pleads Guilty to Prostituting Kids, plus Other Crimes
https://twitter.com/pckconsult/status/963572136701968384

Trump campaign co-chair gets 20 years for sexual abuse and trafficking teens
https://twitter.com/XEyezWideOpenX/status/962995951492313091

Portland Public Schools (@PPSConnect) admits retaliation against teacher who spoke out on sexual misconduct, will pay for lost wages
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/963541929613967360

Ed Crane, a founder of The Cato Institute, a major beltway think tank has been accused of sexual harassment by three former employees
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/961807131753287682

#FactCheck: Did @BarackObama’s Portraitist Paint an Image of a Black Woman Holding the Severed Head of a White Person?
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964018546442305537

#ObamaPortraits Unveiled at Smithsonian Museum (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964034873475215360

Rwanda’s media watchdog orders a US-owned Christian radio station shut for three months after a ‘vile’ sermon against women
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/963308765742182400

Maryland ‘Psychic’ Convicted of Scamming Clients Out of $340K
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/962642173219893249

How Scientology gamed Google to increase the effectiveness of its Super Bowl ad
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/963368947444727808

Investigators say famed hijacker D.B. Cooper had CIA ties
https://twitter.com/CourageSower/status/959836277158789120

#DBCooper Washington DC Press Conference // Clues Point to Former #Stockton Resident as Parachuting Skyjacker D.B. Cooper (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/960454484534075393

Donations surpass $450,000 to 13 siblings in California torture case
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/962642152101634048

Dog caught riding neighbour’s one-eyed pony in the middle of the night
https://twitter.com/rayvahey/status/961938771745714176

#KimCattrall rejects Sarah Jessica Parker’s condolences, “Stop exploiting our tragedy”
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/962781064929320960

#ThisDayInHistory: #February15 w/”deranged, unemployed” loner #GiuseppeZangara shouts “Too many people are starving!” and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, #FDR in 1933 (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964201406256197632

+ #USSMaine explodes, #DukeEllington records “Take The A Train”, #ENIAC dedicated, #NatKingCole dies of lung cancer, #JeffreyDahmer sentenced, #IraqWar protests, #Chelyabinsk meteor
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964203213510492160

Flashback: Sander Hicks, ‘Big Wedding’ Author, In Portland (Feb 15, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/sander-hicks-big-wedding-author-in/

+ #Galileo, #SusanBAnthony, #CesarRomero, #HaleBoggs, #KevinMcCarthy, #HankLocklin, #HarveyKorman, #ArtSpiegelman, #MattGroening, #ChrisFarley, @Miranda_July, @ConorOberst birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964203991381942272

#PumpUpThaVolume: Suicidal Tendencies – “Nothing To Lose” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/964015806844514304