Here we go again. So far, best coverage here.
And by that “here we go again” I mean “Great. Another incident for which the media gets to go all out with the rumor milling! Another opportunity for people to shoot off at the mouth about things they do not understand and claim expertise for something in which they have no knowledge.”
I first noticed the tendency of the Media to get moonbatty during Columbine. I should have noticed it earlier, but well, anyway. I remember watching the reporters interview kids leaving the scene. One kid was scared, of course, and said so. The reporter turns to the camera and says “There you have it, the student was in total shock!”
No, he wasn’t. Total shock is something else entirely involving blood pooling in the torso. That kid was scared, stunned maybe, but in “total shock”? Nope. And it only got worse as the day, then days, then weeks and months that followed.
The same thing happens every single time some event occurs that the media can glorify and make money off of. (That’s their business, never forget it.)
Here is the thing to remember during incidents like this: Nearly ALL early reports are wrong. Rarely do any of the words used by reporters to describe a situation actually apply to the situation. Facts, timelines and motivations are made clear, when they can be, after an investigation.
My recommendation is that we wait for concrete information. So, I’m not saying anything other than this: 12 people are dead, their families are grieving. Their loss is more than they can bear right now so tonight I pray for them. 30 + people are wounded, some may yet still die. Their families are frightened for them. So, tonight I pray for them also.
I also pray for the police, the investigators and the men and women involved in the clean up. I pray that they get it right the first time.
Later, when the facts are in, I am sure I’ll have something more to say.
Death in the news can be funny or totally unfunny.
The funny:
Bear kills two militants in Valley hideout. “Mili-bear deployed, Sir!” In the Kashmir Valley, a Himalayan Black Bear killed two muslim militants who stupidly hid in his cave. The bear may have injured others. Good bear!
The funniest information in the whole story?
“The two bodies were recovered from a cave hideout along with two AK-47 rifles, six magazines and 130 rounds of ammunition,” Brar said. “The injury marks on the bodies suggested that a bear attacked and killed them. We handed over the bodies to the police.” Postmortems on the bodies have since been performed.
Even fully armed these idiots were no match for a bear. Good bear!
And now for the decidedly NOT funny.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The stench in the air near East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue left residents baffled for years.
Drain pipes were flushed. A sewer line was replaced. But the smell still lingered.
Some residents believed the overpowering odor came from a 57-year-old sausage shop on the corner. Others were still convinced it was the sewers.
Last week, police discovered the source of the odor — it was beyond residents’ worst fears. At least six decomposing bodies lie in and around the house at 12205 Imperial Ave. The corpses could have been accumulating there for years, authorities said.
WTF???!!1!!!!!!! How many times do we need to do this drill? John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Ringing a bell anyone? Nefariousness discovered in search of stench that won’t go away? Is this starting to sound familiar? AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, allow me to point something out: If in the course of daily life you come across a stench that a) won’t go away and b) has no obvious source – contact the police and remind them of the above mentioned evil killer body dumping maggots and encourage them to start searching frickin houses and buildings until they find the source!!!!!!! Really, WTF??? How is it that this same scenario repeats itself?
The worst that can happen is you find a dead dog in a blind spot and the stench is gone. The best is that you find some vile foul son of a bitch and end his killing spree at one.
Politico is reporting that, according to Gibbs, Obama was not watching the election returns last night.
Dude. Really?
There are only two options, neither of them is flattering.
1. Obama is the kind of self-centered jerk who only watches returns when HE is in the race.
2. Obama is the kind of self-absorbed jerk who watches returns but lies about it unless his team is winning.
Either option means he’s a jerk. Even working hard he could have a TV on mute in the corner so he could check the returns at a glance.
My opinion is that Option #2 is the truth.
UPDATED: I was wrong. It was #1. But, even worse than just not watching returns he isn’t involved in, no friends, it’s worse. Obama was watching the HBO haigiography of his OWN ELECTION LAST YEAR! For the second time!!! OMG!
During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”
MOAR UPDATEY: Fox News Misreported and have now corrected the report. Obama wasn’t watching the returns OR his bio-pic. So it’s back to my original thought. Though, I read that he gets emailed updates, I’m not buying that he doesn’t check the returns himself. I don’t buy it.
Dear Congressman Hoyer,
I have written to you multiple times regarding my opposition to this form of health care reform. I have called your office as well.
What I continue to fail to understand is why you and the congress insist on this wasteful, expensive and confiscatory legislation. I do not understand why you and your co-workers think that ADDING to the Medicare, Medicaid, VA and Indian Bureau debacles is a good thing and that the American people are for this. Did you not pay attention this summer? Were you not listening?
I am asking you to please FIX THOSE FIRST!!!!! Do not mess with MY PRIVATE healthcare before you fix the existing GOVERNMENT healthcare.
Do you not understand that we do not trust congress to “fix” private healthcare when Congress has never yet been able to figure out how to efficiently and affordably run the current government-run health care plans.
Additionally, we the people of these United States insist that Congress covers itself with this healthcare plan. Do not exempt yourselves from this monstrosity you are planning on crushing us with.
You still have not apologized to me for calling me un-American because I oppose this ridiculous farce legislation. I am still angry about that and I am still waiting for my apology.
Sincerely,
Vivian Saavedra
*I sent this via email to Congressman Hoyer’s office this morning. I will post his reply.
Abby Johnson has spent the last 8 years facilitating the deaths of unborn children in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas. Recently she watched an ultrasound of an abortion. Then she received orders to focus on selling more abortions.
Ms. Johnson quit her job with Planned Parenthood soon after.
I’m thrilled for her. I simply can’t imagine what went through her head when she saw that footage of an abortion.
Am I surprised that Planned Parenthood is going after the abortion for profit market? No.
I am always surprised when people work for Planned Parenthood and have no clue of it’s founder’s reprehensible beliefs. When you understand who and what Margaret Sanger was, no modern person with any kind of street cred as a human would ever work for Planned Parenthood or patronize one.
Margaret Sanger was a devotee and rabid proponent of eugenics, a foul philosophy she shared with a man we all know and hate, Hitler. It remains incredible to me that, in general, American blacks would have hissy fits about plastic dummies in nooses and be totally okay with the for profit abortion providing legacy of a genocidal racist crazy person is all kinds of okay to operated in their neighborhoods while, you know, dealing out death everyday.
Oh, and hey, by the way, your tax dollars fund these palaces of death.
Crickets. My home is packed with the bloody things. Crickets moved in, they don’t pay rent and they party all night.
Though, on the bright side, Moxie has lots of new toys to kill that actually bleed. I’m glad she’s happy.
An additional dark side is that Moxie doesn’t clean up her kills, so my floors have cricket gut landmines in interesting places that are especially easy to find with bare feet!
For some reason I can’t say the name of these pies to save my life. I’ve called them all sorts of things but rarely Pumpkin Whoopie Pies. I’ve called them cushions, mangled whoopie, mangled pumpkin, mangled pies. I can not say the name of these treats to save my frickin life. It’s wack.
But what is equally wack is how good they are. I saw them on Serious Eats and had to make them for Halloween. The recipe is at the link. I was very surprised at how easy these were to make. I think next time I’ll try to find a less sweet filling, maybe I’ll use honey and cream cheese. Maybe dark chocolate something. Whatever it is, I’ll be making them again.
The dry ingredients:
Now the batter: (I forgot to get a picture of the wet stuff.)
My favorite tool for stuff like this?
This scoop is the perfect size for a two/three bit whoopie pie. I don’t think I’d want to make them smaller. The scoop also make scooping the neat option for this recipe. I ♥ my scoop.
Here are some pre-oven raw whoopies on thier little sheet of baking wonderment, parchment paper:
And now in their post-ovenness:
Here is a whole bunch of them!
And the filling:
And now for the completed whoopies!
I’m going to start posting the weekly Obama Administration’s Friday Afternoon News Dump! just to make sure I don’t lose track of what the heck is going on.
This week’s episode finds Timmy Geither’s Treasury Department admitting to lying to congress, stonewalling and misplacing all that taxpayer money that went out with the TARP.
Maybe the Treasury Department needs to hire Lassie to find what Timmy lost down the well.
SURPRISE!
Now, go have a great weekend and don’t think about the government, your safety and the banks. Obama’s asked Timmay to lock up for the weekend. You can trust him, he files his taxes on time.
Join us next week when the Obama Administration lets more cats out of the bag! You will find this listed under OAFAND!
!!!!PS!!!!! – Just so you people are clear – I detested this waste of money when Bush ran it as much as I detest it under Obama. It was ALWAYS going to end badly. Giving away free taxpayer money always ends badly. I hate this kind of crap.
Eric Williamson was making coffee in his kitchen at 5:30 AM. Also, he was naked.
A woman passing by with her child sees the naked man and calls the police, Mr. Williamson gets arrested for indecent exposure.
Sounds like the woman was an idiot busybody and a peeping tom, also that the cops were overreaching, right?
However, if the follow up story is to be believed, this man has allegedly made a habit of standing at his window naked during daylight hours. Also, there is a school bus stop across the street from his house.
So, I’m waiting to see what pans out here before getting my frothing outrage up. If the original story is accurate, then the woman and the cops need to back off. If you look into someone’s home without their knowledge then don’t get all offended if suddenly you’ve got a view of some beans and franks. Quit looking. On the other hand, if dude is intentionally exhibiting himself in his altogether before the school children, well, that’s something completely different.
I Has A Girl Crush
Okay, not really with the girl crush. She’s just really pretty flipping awesome. Well, maybe a little.
Kimberley Munley. She’s a mom. She’s a wife.
She’s also a kick ass cop who brought down a mad killer AFTER she herself was shot by the mad killer.
Kimberley Munley is the reason that yesterday’s death toll didn’t rise above 13. She calmly did the job she was trained to do, she did it selflessly and with ruthless precision.
Dang, she’s my new imaginary BFF.
Also, by the way, go read about the tactics she used, Active Response. The tactics were developed and put into practice after multiple similar incidents. This article is a pretty good explanation of the tactic and the reasons for it. Texas implemented the use of Active Response and their officers are trained in it. BooYaah!
The most interesting thing I read was that most incidents like this are over within 10 minutes.
Let that sink in. 10 minutes. There is no time for planning a response. You just have to act, like Officer Munley did. Act aggressively and immediately.
Klebold and Harris were dead for quite some time before the police at Columbine actually got to them. Had they entered the building earlier multiple victims may have survived. Regardless, this tactic was used to good effect in the Ft. Hood attack.
My favorite quote from the article?
I am still praying for the wounded and grieving.
from → Commentary, News