This quote in a CBC article is messing me up, in the implication that there’s something normal about this because it’s a big American city …
“It sucks that someone had to ruin the celebration, but we are in a big city,” Sanders said.
It’s not normal and it’s all making me feel very sad.
Wasn’t Talyor Swift told not to come because here safety couldn’t be guaranteed? I thought I heard something like that earlier today.
Looks like no one else’s safety could be guaranteed, either.
Yup, despite all the LEO security present.
I wonder how long it will be before another Boston Marathon bombing style event, despite enhanced security.
Our pro-gun, asshole GOP governor was spotted fleeing the scene (ala our pro-gun, asshole GOP senator Josh Hawley) with his security detail. You’d think he and his squad of good guys with guns would have run towards the danger.
Mike Parson was in the Army (in their police force) and was later a sheriff, so it’s not even like he doesn’t know how to use a gun or lacks combat training. He could have charged out there with gritted teeth and tough guy quips like a Harrison Ford movie character. Isn’t that how the GOP imagines their leaders?
There’s a whole slew of things they imagine that have only tenuous connections to reality.
It it’s possible to be evil and pitiful at the same time, Dr. Joe Mercola is managing it.
A charter member of the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s Covid-19 “Disinformation Dozen”, Mercola has come under the spell of a psychic identified as “Bahlon”, and as a result is declaring himself the new Jesus. No, really.
Details here.
Mercola has gotten rich selling dubious supplements and other products (he claimed a net worth in excess of $100 million back in 2017) and has bankrolled fellow antivaxers and the virulently anti-GMO Organic Consumers Association to the tune of millions of dollars.
His associates are quite alarmed at Joe’s coming under the spell of Bahlon. They must fear that access to the Mercola gravy train is slipping away.
Really, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
He’s probably counting on not being dealt with the way the first one was.
Ever heard of Gnosticism? There’s a strong thread of Jesus was replaced on the Cross belief there, so this dude’s probably not concerned.
Maybe Bahlon can set him straight about COVID.
“A 41-year-old man in Indiana is charged with posting threats using interstate communications after allegedly threatening (on Facebook) to “kill every Jew” in Fort Wayne”
He also reportedly posted on the CIA’s website threatening to “make sure that every CIA member who is pro-Israel is eliminated."
He claims to have been drunk when posting, so no biggie.
*a freedom of the press defense would be…interesting.
There’s a group you really don’t want to see knocking at your door.
Their “knock” is kinda loud and tends to leave splinters where the door used to be.
I think “freelance reporter” is a great catch-all term for “has no visible means of support, posts a lot online, and is hoping to gain some First Amendment protections for their noxious drivel.”
On the contrary. There’s no knock and the door, driveway and lawn remain perfectly intact.
YOU, on the other hand, are somehow nowhere to be found.
Or at least that’s how it would go, if their harebrained conspiracy tales had any substance to them…
Never mind. Joke response ninja’d.
Cue Weird Al’s “Party In The CIA.”
As a Jew living in Indiana only a short drive from Fort Wayne I’m kinda glad that nutball is now locked up…
Student beaten brutally in school bathroom, and dies the next day
OPD said no fight was reported to them before the teen’s parent told them. A school resource officer took details about the incident from the parent at the hospital.
The school said a fight started in the bathroom at the Owasso High School West Campus. The students were in the bathroom for less than two minutes before other students and a staff member broke it up.
According to OPS, district administrators took statements and called the parents/guardians for all of the students involved.
The school said all of the students walked to the principles office and nurses office on their own. All were check out by the on-sight nurse and was evaluated for their injuries. It was determined that none of the injuries required an ambulance, according to the school.
There’s a lot of other information out there that is not confirmed, but this is bad enough. The most reliable other source I can find is this
which includes this bit:
Benedict’s mother, Sue Benedict, told the publication that she was furious the school didn’t call an ambulance or the police. To add insult to injury, the school then informed her that the bloodied teen—a straight-A student who enjoyed drawing, reading, and taking care of the family cat—would be suspended for the next two weeks.
Note: the child, Nex Benedict, was in the girl’s bathroom, as legally required by Oklahoma law, but apparently identified as non-binary.
OK, help me here, non-binary is not trans, right?
That poor kid and parents. I hope they sue the pants off that school and I hope those other kids get some time in juvenile detention at least. I’m so disgusted by all the hate generated by people at the top.