1. The Devil’s Advocate
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- New Year’s Resolutions Can Be Satanic Check-Ins
- On their face, New Year’s resolutions are sad excuses for lazy individuals to pretend like they’re going to get off their asses.
- They use new year’s resolutions to temporarily put their lives in focus and make hollow attempts to improve oneself.
- Satanists are actively doing this year round, so we don’t require a hollow gesture like this. However we can use it as a self check in.
- Take the opportunity to reflect on the goals you set out for yourself the previous year, and examine the progress you have made toward them.
- Take the opportunity to celebrate your successes.
- Reevaluate the choices you made toward the goals, and if need be, readjust your direction, focus, or change the goals entirely to fit the pragmatic actions in your life.
- Let’s be honest, we change as individuals and a goal one year may not even be on our radar the next. Or alternatively, it may no longer be relevant.
- There is nothing wrong with the setting of a goal, then abandoning it for other pursuits. Stubbornly forecasting on something that no longer interests you simply because you made it a goal in the past is counter productive at best.
- Welcome your evolution in thinking. Debate the pros and cons with yourself over your life choices, it’s the only way you can be as focused as possible in your actions.
2. Infernal Informant
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- Execution of only woman on US federal death row can go ahead, court rules
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/execution-of-only-woman-on-us-federal-death-row-can-go-ahead-court-rules
- A US appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before president-elect Joe Biden takes office.
- The ruling, handed down on Friday by a three-judge panel on the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, concluded that a lower court judge erred when he vacated Lisa Montgomery’s execution date in an order last week.
- US district court judge Randolph Moss had ruled the justice department unlawfully rescheduled Montgomery’s execution and he vacated an order from the director of the bureau of prisons scheduling her death for 12 January.
- Montgomery had been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the federal correctional complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, in December, but Moss delayed the execution after her attorneys contracted coronavirus visiting their client and asked him to extend the time to file a clemency petition.
- Moss concluded that under his order the bureau of prisons could not even reschedule Montgomery’s execution until at least 1 January. But the appeals panel disagreed.
- Meaghan VerGow, an attorney for Montgomery, said her legal team would ask for the full appeals court to review the case and said Montgomery should not be executed on 12 January.
- Montgomery was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the north-west Missouri town of Skidmore in December 2004.
- She used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, and then cut the baby girl from the womb with a kitchen knife, authorities said. Montgomery took the child with her and attempted to pass the girl off as her own, prosecutors said.
- Montgomery’s legal team have argued that she has serious mental illnesses. One of her lawyers, Sandra Babcock, said in an earlier statement: “Given the severity of Mrs Montgomery’s mental illness, the sexual and physical torture she endured throughout her life, and the connection between her trauma and the facts of her crime, we appeal to President Trump to grant her mercy and commute her sentence to life imprisonment.”
- Biden opposes the death penalty and his spokesman, TJ Ducklo, has said he would work to end its use. But Biden has not said whether he will halt federal executions after he takes office 20 January.
- Infant smothered to death by dog on New Year’s Eve
- https://myfox8.com/news/infant-smothered-to-death-by-dog-on-new-years-eve/
- A Dayton baby was found dead in a home on New Year’s Eve.
- Authorities say four-month-old Raelynn Harrison of Dayton died Thursday. A dog was found lying on top of her.
- Montgomery County regional dispatch says a man called 911 around 7 p.m. on Thursday.
- He said he woke to find the dog on the baby, which was not breathing.
- The girl was taken to Dayton Children’s Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
- Police are still investigating the incident.
- The breed of dog involved in the incident remains unclear, though neighbor Lonnie Dapier described it as “big” and said the animal had gotten out of the family’s house before.
- “God bless that child and I just hope they get that dog taken care of one way or the other so it won’t injure anyone else,” Dapier told WRGT.
- A GoFundMe page arranged to raise money for Raelynn’s funeral called the death an “unexpected tragedy.”
- “We lost our beautiful four month niece,” the page read. “Please help in any way you possibly can so that we can lay this beautiful girl to rest.”
3. Creature Feature
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- Chaos at the Heart of the Orion Nebula
- https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/chaos-at-the-heart-of-the-orion-nebula
- Gaseous swirls of hydrogen, sulfur, and hydrocarbons cradle a collection of infant stars in this composite image of the Orion Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space telescope. Together, the two telescopes expose carbon-rich molecules in the cosmic cloud of this star-formation factory located 1,500 light-years away.
- Hubble’s ultraviolet and visible-light view reveal hydrogen and sulfur gas that have been heated and ionized by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive stars, collectively known as the “Trapezium.” Meanwhile, Spitzer’s infrared view exposes carbon-rich molecules in the cloud. Together, the telescopes expose the stars in Orion as a rainbow of dots sprinkled throughout the image.
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