Another in a String of "Curious Coincidences"?
[BIG Hat Tip: DP]
The above image is a reproduction of the flight log of a private plane, N178AX, registered to Baron & Budd PC from Dallas' Love Field to Providenciales International Airport in the Caribbean on August 14.
More on this in a few paragraphs.
The National Enquirer reported that Rielle Hunter and baby daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, flew out of the U.S. on August 7 to the St. Croix in the Virgin Islands to stay at the home of John Edwards' acquaintance, Lee Rohn.
Rohn is "controversial" in the words of the Enquirer. The Enquirer also reported that the Hunters later moved out of Rohn's house and into other accommodations. Rielle and Frances Hunter, stayed in St. Croix from August 7 until August 17, when they returned to Santa Barbara, CA.
During their stay in the sunny Caribbean, the above-mentioned Raytheon Hawker 800 twin jet, registered to Baron & Budd PC landed a short distance away at Providenciales International Airport on August 14. We have no word--as yet--how many passengers this plane carried, who they were or whether the passenger(s) found their way to other points in the Caribbean.
[Background information: access over 100 DBKP stories on the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair and cover-up: John Edwards Love Child Scandal Library.]
The information turned up at DBKP in an email titled "Interesting Flight". We thought so, too.
It may turn out that nothing about this flight is out of the ordinary. The rich who own such jets regularly visit the Caribbean for both the fun and the sun it provides. At least, so we've heard.
We only mentioned it in passing for a couple of reasons.
1 - By publishing the information of the flight, we may receive an email with additional information about the flight's passenger(s) and purpose(s)--either by the parties involved or another reader as curious as we are.
2 - By publishing the information, we receive no additional info.
In the event of (2), the August 14 flight of N178AX to Providenciales International Airport will join the stack of curious coincidences that have surrounded the affair of John Edwards and his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
Lately, those curious coincidences have included Frances Quinn, purported to be the daughter of Edwards and Rielle Hunter; as well as Fred Baron, the finance chair of Edwards' run for president earlier this year.
How about it?
Are there any out there that can shed further light on the particulars of N178AX? Is the flight's timing/destination just a coincidence?
We're just asking.
In a later post today, DBKP will ask additional questions concerning the flights and travel arrangements between the John Edwards campaign and its finance chair, Fred Baron. We also have some additional questions for Julian Chambers, the campaign treasurer, concerning certain--some might say "curious"--campaign travel arrangements.
And in yet another post later today, we hope to provide a few answers to some of those questions.
As was previously stated, this flight--taken during the Hunters' stay in the nearby Virgin Islands--may be nothing about which to ask any questions.
On the other hand, curious coincidences--and the questions concerning them--have a habit of following the main actors in this story.
It makes no difference to DBKP either way.
But, we'll continue to keep asking questions.
by Mondoreb
[hat tip: DP]
Edwards Flees From Reporters 2nd Time in 10 Days
See, Johnny Run
It may be too late for John Edwards to try out for the 1000 meters at the Beijing Olympics, but he's certainly getting in some practice running from reporters.
Using a side area, usually reserved for the kitchen staff, John Edwards, fled from reporters, "at least some of whom wanted to question him about recent reports in the National Enquirer that alleged an inappropriate relationship with a former campaign videographer."
The Raleigh News & Observer account below (via PJ Gladnick at Newbusters):
About a dozen reporters and photojournalists attended a speech Edwards gave to an AARP Foundation symposium on poverty and aging in Washington. Afterward, he avoided most of the waiting reporters, at least some of whom wanted to question him about recent reports in the National Enquirer that alleged an inappropriate relationship with a former campaign videographer.
...
On Wednesday, Edwards apparently ducked out a side area used by the kitchen staff in the fourth-floor ballroom of Washington's historic Hotel Monaco. Edwards emerged from a lower-level handicap ramp near the rear of the hotel with two men. When approached by a Charlotte Observer reporter, Edwards said, "Can't do it now, I'm sorry" and quickly walked past.
Raleigh News & Observer: Facing questions, Edwards evades reporters
NewBusters: Cracks Emerging in MSM Wall of Silence on John Edwards Scandal
Gladnick updated his article above with the mention that Edwards' whole "Two Americas" Traveling-Poverty-Salvation Show was--just an gimmick?
UPDATE: In what could be seen as an indirect acknowledgement by Edwards that this alleged scandal might have destroyed his political future, comes this report titled, "Edwards ending college program," in today's Raleigh News & Observer:
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is pulling the plug on a scholarship program he started at an Eastern North Carolina high school -- a program he once promised would be a model for the nation under an Edwards presidency.
Edwards' presidential hopes have evaporated. And he recently informed Greene County officials that he would end the pilot program at Greene Central High School.
To the suspicious mind of your humble correspondent, it looks like John Edwards' whole poverty tour shtick was just that...shtick. Once it looked like his scholarship program would serve him no purpose, Edwards ditched it immediately.
Say it ain't so.
Patterico has caught the LA Times in some blog post sleight-of-hand shenangigans, regarding the John Edwards/Reille Hunter rumors, as posted by Andrew Malcolm:
by Mondoreb
image: frugal yankee
.jpg)
[hat tip: mjazzguitar at Little Green Footballs]
The Foreign Affairs Committee Of The National Council Of Resistance Of Iran is reporting a story out of Iran that the "clerical regime is trying very to hard to prevent the news of the incident to leak."
NCRI - Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, November 13) a series of explosions rocked Parchin Military Site (where missiles, including Cruise missiles, are manufactured) in southern Tehran. As a result, several military personnel of the site were injured.
The explosions reportedly started in missile industries section of the Site. When shrapnel of the explosions hit another sections, eight other warehouses located next to each other were engulfed in flames.
An interesting tidbit on the Parchin site:
The huge site is organized into 11 different projects for production of various weapons and munitions. Projects 4 and 11 are devoted to production of Cruise missiles; projects 1, 2 and 8 are devoted to chemical weapons production.
Parts of the Parchin site are devoted to conducting research on uranium enrichment using laser technology.
No word yet if the explosions were a result of the "ongoing" Zionist Conspiracy.
Source - Foreign Affairs Committee Of The National Council Of Resistance Of Iran
Image [weaponsblog.org]
By LBG
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
