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I hate this. I hate that I'm suspicious. I hate that if my suspicions are wrong, that someone would do something this heinous to another person. I don't like anything about it.
You've probably read this morning about the McCain volunteer who claims she was robbed, assaulted and branded with a "B" by an African-American man because of the McCain sticker on her car.
I find I'm suspicious that this happened at all. Here's why: the young woman is heavily bruised around her left eye. That's consistent with a right-handed attacker, who is more likely to strike that side of her face. Yet the "B" is on her right cheek, which would be consistent with someone left-handed (think of how you'd have to hold the knife with your right hand to write on someone's right cheek), or by a right-handed person making the mark on their own cheek. Adding to that second suspicion is the fact that the B is backward. Sure, it's possible that the attacker is illiterate enough to have made the B facing the wrong way.... but if you were doing this to yourself by looking in a mirror and didn't remember that the mirror renders letters backward, well, you'd end up with a backward B on your cheek. And it's strangely nice of her assailant that the B was created by shallow scratches that didn't even break the skin, so there won't be permanent defacement.
I'm suspicious. I wonder if this isn't someone trying to cover up another assault with a story that has racial and political overtones. I hate that suspicion. I really do. But I looked at the picture of her and had to wonder.
I hope I'm wrong, and if I am wrong, I hope they catch the bastard and toss him in jail, because anyone who would do such a thing doesn't deserve his freedom, and is ratcheting up the already-tense emotions in this political season.
Argh!
You've probably read this morning about the McCain volunteer who claims she was robbed, assaulted and branded with a "B" by an African-American man because of the McCain sticker on her car.
I find I'm suspicious that this happened at all. Here's why: the young woman is heavily bruised around her left eye. That's consistent with a right-handed attacker, who is more likely to strike that side of her face. Yet the "B" is on her right cheek, which would be consistent with someone left-handed (think of how you'd have to hold the knife with your right hand to write on someone's right cheek), or by a right-handed person making the mark on their own cheek. Adding to that second suspicion is the fact that the B is backward. Sure, it's possible that the attacker is illiterate enough to have made the B facing the wrong way.... but if you were doing this to yourself by looking in a mirror and didn't remember that the mirror renders letters backward, well, you'd end up with a backward B on your cheek. And it's strangely nice of her assailant that the B was created by shallow scratches that didn't even break the skin, so there won't be permanent defacement.
I'm suspicious. I wonder if this isn't someone trying to cover up another assault with a story that has racial and political overtones. I hate that suspicion. I really do. But I looked at the picture of her and had to wonder.
I hope I'm wrong, and if I am wrong, I hope they catch the bastard and toss him in jail, because anyone who would do such a thing doesn't deserve his freedom, and is ratcheting up the already-tense emotions in this political season.
Argh!
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Regardless, I agree that the bastard needs to be locked away.
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Exactly. He was facing her and writing on her right cheek. Ergo, he writes left-handed.
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I'm sure this will turn out to be a case of her being a total whackjob. Somehow these things always do, like firefighters turning arsonist.
In any event, whoever did this--be it her, or an actual assailant--does indeed need to be locked up in an appropriate facility.
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And the person who beat her deserves what he (that being the most likely gender, unfortunately) gets.
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I assume lots of other people are similarly inclined.
I'll hasten to add that I have an alibi!
And I'll agree with your other comments.
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But it's certainly possible.
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The mirror image thing confuses me -lefties usually have no problem with writing correctly when looking in a mirror. Maybe our brains really 'are' wired differently!
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Usually when you're learning a new skill, the person teaching you doesn't even bother to find out which is you dominant hand, assuming it's the right. But sometimes they do, and that leads to a weird mishmash of handedness.
I (for example) write, play guitar, use chisels, and throw projectiles left handed; I fire guns, prepare food, and use scissors and saws right-handed. (I don't bat or bowl often, so I'm equally dismal with both hands.)
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I don't believe the story in the least. Which is sad, yes, but it's my reaction.
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busted!
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
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I'm just happy it got out to all the major media as quick as it did. CNN,et al.
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*sigh*
Bloomfield, the neighborhood in which this is alleged to have happened, is a mixed working class neighborhood. She first claimed she was assaulted at 9pm. I drive through that neighborhood all the time; the odds of being assaulted around that time are slim and none.
When I read the story last evening, the "she did not seek medical attention" was what hit me. Huh? No matter how "not hurt" you claim you are, if you were attacked you should always get medical attention to immediately document your injuries, no matter how minor.
When I saw the photo, it looks like she was scratched by a pin or a nail rather than a knife. And wouldn't a mad assaulter be less neat about how he carved up her face???
I think this is completely bogus, and payback for the reporter who was assaulted at a Palin rally. Also, Palin was in our area last night and this morning - wonder if the staffer was trying to get attention from Palin?
While the Obama people immediately apologized, I think the rest of us should be extremely skeptical of this young woman's story. I heard a rumor she's going to be sent to have a lie detector test. Should be interesting...
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She's already changed her story.
I thought the same thing when I read it. There was something in the description that just didn't sound or feel right to me. I attribute it to working in IT and being, for too many years, the person who received every single gosh-darn urban legend e-mail received by anyone in the office. Sigh!
I'm betting she WAS beaten, but invented a story to explain the injuries to her parents. At least, if I was an author... [grin]... that's when I'd start complaining that the story was too predictable.
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I know right where you were coming from when you wrote how you hated that you were suspicious. I had that same reaction to another horrific news story a few months ago. And, yes, my suspicions proved true. But it's little comfort. As Rivka wrote, it's all just sick and sad.
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*sigh*
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Much as I know better than to expect it, I haven't stopped wanting to live in a world where a person's word is their bond. And where those bonds are something other than worthless.
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This does not fare well for McCain.
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In a fair society, this would be a total nothing story, having no consequence for either political side.
I'm just not sure we live there.
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Silver Lining
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