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PRESS CONFERENCE: ‘Heroic Actions’ of Police Saved Lives in Oak Creek Shooting UPDATE: Shooter Reportedly Played in Hate-Metal Rock Band ‘End Apathy’

Posted on | August 6, 2012 | 18 Comments

Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Mayor Stephen Scaffidi praised “the heroic actions of our officers” during a press conference about the Sunday shooting at the Sikh Temple in the Milwaukee suburb. The officer critically wounded in the incident — shot nine times, as the city police chief said — has been identified as Lt. Brian Murphy, 51.

UPDATE: Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards confirmed that the shooter, who was shot dead after firing on with police, was Wade Michael Page, 40, who served in the Army 1992-98, received a “general discharge” and “was ineligible for re-enlistment.”

UPDATE II: Chief Edwards said Lt. Murphy, the first officer on the scene, was “ambushed” by Page and shot nine times “at close range.” The chief said the next two officers who arrived at the Sikh Temple, unaware of what had happened to Lt. Murphy, then confronted Page with “squad rifles” (which I would assume to be M-16s). The officers commanded Page to drop his weapon; instead, Page fired at the officers, striking one of their cars, and was shot dead by the officers’ rifle fire. The officers then located Lt. Murphy, who attempted to “wave them off” — urging them to assist the wounded worshippers at the Temple first. Lt. Murphy had a “very serious” neck wound.

UPDATE III: The names of the six people killed by Page: Bhai Seeta Singh, Bhai Parkash Singh, Bhai Ranjit Singh, Satwant Singh Kaleka, Subegh Singh and Parmjit Kaur Toor. Three others were reportedly wounded, two of those critically. Abby Rogers of Business Insider reports from the press conference:

Teresa Carlson, the FBI’s Milwaukee Special Agent is now speaking. The FBI has no reason to believe more than one person was involved in the shooting, according to Carlson.
Carlson held up a photo of a man she called a “person of interest” in the case. She asked that anyone with information about this unnamed person call the tip line. . . .
According to Edwards, the unnamed person of interest was on scene after the shooting. Some on the scene thought he looked suspicious, but he left before officers could speak with him.

UPDATE IV: This doesn’t come from the press conference, but from Business Insider and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The suspect, Wade Michael Page, is reported to have spent more than a decade in the racist skinhead/metal rock scene and performed with the band End Apathy. Page was reportedly interviewed in April 2010:

End Apathy began in 2005 and the concept was based on trying to figure out what it would take to actually accomplish positive results in society and what is holding us back. A lot of what I realized at the time was that if we could figure out how to end peoples apathetic ways it would be the start towards moving forward. Of course after that it requires discipline, strict discipline to stay the course in our sick society. So, in a sense it was view of psychology and sociology. But I didn’t want to just point the finger at what other people should do, but also I was willing to point out some of my faults on how I was holding myself back. And that is how I wrote the song “Self Destruct”.

UPDATE V: Summary of the interview with the reported shooter:

[Page said] he had been a part of the white power music scene since 2000, when he left his native Colorado on a motorcycle. He attended white power concerts in Georgia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Colorado. At various times, he said, he also played in the hate rock bands Youngland (2001-2003), Celtic Warrior, Radikahl, Max Resist, Intimidation One, Aggressive Force and Blue Eyed Devils. End Apathy, he said, included “Brent” on bass and “Ozzie” on drums; the men were former members of Definite Hate and another band, 13 Knots.

Via Memeorandum.

UPDATE VI: More on the shooter:

FBI Special Agent in Charge, Teresa Carlson, said a motive is still under investigation, and noted that authorities are looking at Page’s “ties to white supremacist groups.”
Carlson said the shooting is being investigated as a “possible act of terrorism.” She said the suspect “had contact with law enforcement in the past,” but said there was no reason to believe he was capable of such violence.
“Nobody knew that this guy was a threat,” Carlson said.
Reuters reported that [Page’s less-than-honorable] discharge [from the Army in 1998] was for “patterns of misconduct,” including being drunk on duty.
Page served at Fort Bliss, Texas, in the psychological operations unit in 1994, and was last stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., attached to the psychological operations unit. He was an E4 psychological operations specialist, but was never deployed. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct award, the National Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and Parachutist Badge. . . .
A woman who says she was a neighbor of the suspect tells FoxNews.com that last week she heard yelling coming from the apartment she believes is the same one the FBI is now searching.
The neighbor says, as she understood it, the suspect had lived in the apartment with his girlfriend until their recent break-up. The suspect had then moved into another apartment nearby two weeks ago. She says he had returned to the old apartment and was banging on the door of his old apartment, demanding to be let in.

So, according to the FBI, this ex-military skinhead covered with neo-Nazi tattoos who had previously “had contact with law enforcement” was not viewed as a “threat.” Then he broke up with his girlfriend and became a mass murderer. Just another random coincidence.

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Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Panic Time in Hopeville: GOP/Romney Report Record July Fundraising

Posted on | August 6, 2012 | 14 Comments

OK, the important thing here is $185.9 million cash on hand for the Republican team, because we know that (a) DNC fundraising is in the toilet, and (b) the Obama campaign’s “burn rate” in June was already unsustainable. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Team Obama was already more than $20 million down on cash-on-hand after June’s numbers, and with their burn rate, even a showing of fund-raising parity in July would probably put them further behind the eight-ball.

Three weeks before the GOP convention, the Romney campaign is clearly positioned to go toe-to-toe with Obama after Labor Day, when most people actually start paying attention. Now, if we can just talk Mitt into making Paul Ryan his VP pick . . .

 


Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney

‘Who’ Is First of 5 W’s; ‘Why’ Is Last UPDATE: Wade Michael Page … MORE: Reported Discharged From Army in 1998

Posted on | August 6, 2012 | 37 Comments

This ABC News story annoys me:

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Special Agent Thomas Ahern said the suspect had tattoos and that authorities were investigating whether he was a “skin head or “white supremacist” as two ABC Sources said.
“It is being investigated. And what his tattoos signified is being investigated. They are all pieces of a possible puzzle to learn what was his motive in carrying out such a horrific act,” Ahern said.

Who, What, When, Where, Why — it is irresponsible to present a speculative motive, until we have the name of the suspect.

UPDATE: Jana Winter of Fox News reports:

CUDAHY, Wis. – The man authorities say killed six in a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple before police shot him was a heavily-tattooed, 40-year-old ex-Army soldier, sources told Fox News, but what triggered his rampage remains unclear.
Sources identified the dead suspect as Wade Michael Page, who was at one time attached to the Fort Bragg Army installation in North Carolina. Local authorities have scheduled a 10 a.m. press conference, where more details may emerge about Page and what the FBI is treating as an act of domestic terrorism in the temple, in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek. Six people were killed and four wounded, including a police officer, before the man being identified as Page was shot dead by a police officer.

UPDATE II: Fort Bragg is home to the 82nd Airborne Division, as well as to an elite Special Forces unit, but we do not yet know whether Page was a member of either of those outfits.

UPDATE III: Headline at Wizbang:

Sikh Temple Investigated As Domestic Terrorism,
Ft. Hood Shooting Is Still Just “Work Place Violence”

When Army troops are killed in a shooting spree by a guy named Nidal Hassan — no, that can’t be “terrorism.” But let a guy with an Army background commit a shooting spree . . .

UPDATE IV: There is a report, attributed to military sources, that Page served six years in the Army, from April 1992 to October 1998, and was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, before subsequently being stationed at Fort Bragg. This is an unconfirmed report, however.

UPDATE V: OK, now CBS News has it confirmed:

According to sources in the U.S. Army, Page enlisted in April 1992 and given a less-than-honorable discharge in October 1998. He served at Fort Bliss, Texas, in the psychological operations unit in 1994, and was last stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, attached to the psychological operations unit. The details of his discharge were not immediately clear.

This is intriguing for three reasons: First, “psy ops”? Hmmm. Second, it is known that there was an investigation in the 1990s of soldiers at Fort Bragg involved in white supremacist activity. Third, what was the cause of his “less-than-honorable discharge”?

UPDATE VI: Here’s a 2005 Pentagon report (PDF) about possible security risks presented by extremists — including both white supremacists and Islamic jihadis — in the armed forces. Please see “Appendix A” for some disturbing evidence about how many neo-Nazis boast of their military status.

UPDATE VII: This story illustrates why it is so important to wait for facts before jumping to conclusions based on partial information or, even worse, politically-motivated speculation.

Before we knew anything about the perpetrator, some liberals rushed to blame this atrocity on Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann (who had called for investigation of alleged Muslim Brotherhood influence at the State Department). Last night, we had a report that the suspected shooter recently had broken up with his girlfriend. And now we have the report that the suspect was less-than-honorably discharged from the Army.

Meanwhile, the usual suspects continue to play “Pin-the-Tail on the Republican” — as if the only important thing about any news event was what political purpose it might serve: “Natalie Portman Wedding: Is This Good News for Anti-Gay Marriage Movement?”

Why the hell must we politicize absolutely everything?

Look: If it were to turn out that Wade Michael Page was chairman of “Wisconsin Neo-Nazis for Romney,” and that the last Web site found on his computer’s browser was RushLimbaugh.com — or even my own blog — I would report that fact, and let the chips fall where they may.

Facts are more important than politics, at least in the news business.

UPDATE VIII: PRESS CONFERENCE: ‘Heroic Actions’ of Police Saved Lives in Oak Creek Shooting

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Category: Crime, Wisconsin

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.06.12

Posted on | August 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
FBI: Motive In Oak Creek Sikh Gurdwara Shooting Unclear

Amardeep Kaleka, son of the slain gurdwara president, prays in the parking lot

Seven dead, including the shooter; possible white supremacy angle?

PRC Calls In Senior US Diplomat Over South China Sea Remarks
Chicoms unhappy about recent State Dept. comments


Jamaica Gets Rain As Tropical Storm Ernesto Passes By
No casualties and little damage



POLITICS
NASA’s Global Warmening Guru Ties Heat Waves To…You’ll Never Guess

James Hansen, NASA climate alarmist

Heat waves so severe they’ve never been seen in human history! Well, okay, since the 1930s, anyway…

Rice, Haley, McCain Announced As Speakers At GOP National Convention

Battles Over State Voting Laws Head To Court In Ohio And Elsewhere

Video Shows Senator Kirk’s Progress In Recovery From Stroke

Kansas Conservatives Seek To Purge Obstructionist Moderates In Tuesday’s Primary
Related: At Red States Gathering, Tea Party Ready To Flex Muscle Again



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Slips After Weekend Surge; NYMEX $91.17, Brent $108.47
Knight Capital To Get $400 Million Lifeline, But At Steep Cost
US Hiring Picked Up In July. So Did Unemployment.
Monti Warns Germany: Eurozone Crisis Threatens Europe’s Future
Facebook & Twitter Set Off New Platform Wars
One Year Later: What US Downgrade?
Apple’s Fancy E-Commerce Could Trump Facebook’s
Blackberry Boss: “Our Platform Isn’t Burning”
Social Engineering, Weak Tech Support Make Strong Passwords Useless
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On iPad
Amazing “This Is Now” Website Shows Live Stream Of Instagram Pix In Major Cities



SPORTS
Rain Hits At Perfect Time For Pocono Winner Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon celebrates with his family

Gets first victory at rain-shortened Pennsylvania 400
Related: One killed, 9 injured by lightning strike after race

Ninth Straight Loss A Nightmare For Tribe

Gonzalez, Crawford Power Sox To 6-4 Win Over Twins

Lincecum, Giants Beat Rockies 8-3

…And Some Stuff Happened At The Olympics

Strasburg Rebounds On The Mounds As Nats Fillet Fish 4-1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Natalie Portman Gets Married

Benjamin Millepied & Natalie Portman

Hitched after two-year engagement

Kristen Stewart Hysterical Over Cheating Scandal

Amanda Bynes Accused Of Another Hit & Run

Nick Jonas Hoping For “American Idol” Judge Nod

Unlike Senate Majority Leader, John Travolta Denies Sexually Assaulting Other Men

Lindsay Lohan Signed For “Scary Movie 5” With Charlie Sheen

Stevie Wonder Files For Divorce

Karina Smirnoff Weighs In On All-Star “Dancing With The Stars”

Just Like A Teenage Crush: Devoted Beyonce Decorates Fingernails With Portrait Of Jay-Z

Octomom – The Topless Album Cover



FOREIGNERS
Syrian Rebels Hold Iranians Prisoner
Gaza Gunmen Killed After Murder Of Egyptian Border Guards
Ambassador Oren Ties Iran To Border Crossing Attack
Hiroshima Marks Anniversary Of Atomic Bombing
Israel Upgrades ABM Systems
Suicide Bomber Kills 45 At Funeral In Yemen
Sudan Oil Deal Hits snag On Security
Karzai Moves To Reassure Allies After Security Ministers Dismissed
Turkish Security Forces Kill 115 Kurdish Rebels On Syria/Iraq/Turkey Border
Spanish Judge Chrges, Jails Two Russians On Terrorism Charges
Massive Rallies By Philippine Catholics To Oppose UN-Backed Birth Control Bill



BLOGS & STUFF
Weasel Zippers: Harry Reid Has Obama Campaign’s Blessing To Repeat Bogus Romney Tax Claims
Charlie Mahtesian: GOP Tells Reid “You’re Next”
Joshuapundit: Axelrod Walks Back DOJ Suit Against Ohio’s Military Voting Extension
Hit & Run: Roseanne Still Running For President
Blazing Cat Fur: Can’t Be Worse Than Obama
Atlas Shrugs: Anna Ringstrom of Reuters Thinks Freedom Equals Racism
PJ Tatler: Obama Campaign Spends $400 Million In 18 Months
Daily Pundit: Too Late 2
Israel Matzav: Tom Friedman’s Quid Pro Quo?
Power Line: Green Weenie Of The Week – Thomas Friedman

Category: Live at Five

Patch.com Reporter Jessica McBride Gets Scoop on Sikh Temple Shooting Suspect UPDATE: More Details Emerge

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

Earlier I linked the report that the suspect in the Oak Creek Sikh Temple shooting had reportedly just broken up with his girlfriend. I urged caution because the source is secondhand: The mother of the suspect’s landlord. But kudos to Jessica McBride of the Patch for her resourcefulness in getting this scoop, the first personal information reported about the shooter, who police said was shot dead at the scene.

UPDATE: More details from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

A source familiar with the investigation said the shooter was a white male in his 40s who had been discharged from the Army. . . .
Kurt Weins said he rented the upper flat of the duplex authorities were searching to a single man in his 40s about month ago. Weins lives across the street from the duplex.
Weins said he had just been interviewed by law enforcement authorities and said he was uncomfortable providing much detail. However, he said, he was surprised by the attention his tenant has attracted.
“I had him checked out and he definitely checked out,” Weins said. “The cops told me they don’t want me to say nothing right now.”

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that it was the gunman’s tattoos that caused the FBI to declare this a “domestic terrorism” case. What kind of tattoos? We don’t know yet.

UPDATE II: OK, there are unconfirmed reports (including in the Hindustan Times) that the gunman’s tattoos referenced the 9/11 attacks, which is kind of confusing to me. If the guy was a military veteran, then a “Remember 9/11” tattoo would have a more or less patriotic symbolism. However, if the guy was military, he almost certainly would have understood that Sikhs had nothing to do with 9/11.

UPDATE III: A little more detail:

According to CNN, two semi-automatic handguns were recovered at the scene, and member of the temple described the gunman as tall male with what appeared to be a “9/11 tattoo.” Officials told NBC the suspect, who served in the U.S. Army, had many tattoos.

This report of a military veteran with a “9/11 tattoo” is, as I say, confusing. There are probably lots of military guys — and, for that matter, cops and firefighters — with tattoos of a patriotic “Never Forget” sort of message, none of whom would ever go on a murderous rampage.

Many have suggested that the attack on the Sikh Temple was, in fact, misdirected rage against Muslims, but as I said previously, it seems to me that someone from a military background would not make that kind of misidentification. Of course, going on a terroristic shooting rampage against Muslims would be equally senseless, but we cannot expect deranged killers to act on any logical or rational basis in choosing their targets.

UPDATE IV: The suspect has been identified as Wade Michael Page, 40.

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Rule 5 Sunday: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Having wasted most of my Sunday (listening to baseball and rereading the Civil War novels of Newt and William Forstchen), it is now time to consider the handiwork of God, as Lewis Grizzard once said before heading down for a tour of Atlanta’s strip clubs.
I am, as usual, obliged to remind the Loyal Readers that while most of the links to follow are quite tasteful and artistic, others are Not Safe For Work, and clicking on them could lead to a serious contamination of your purity of essence, among other unfortunate eventualities. On with the linkagery!


Emboldened by her runaway successes last week in exploring the new frontier of Olympic Rule 5, EBL devotes her attentions this week to Dutch field hockey babes. Unfortunately, she also sent a link about the former Larry Wachowski.  In other news, we learn from the Rio Norte Line that Jorgie Porter has been named the hottest girl in UK soaps, and that the Femen Olympic protest was not a contender. Valley of the Shadow rattles the tip jar with the aid of Goth songstress Patricia Morrison, of The Damned and Sisters of Mercy. Reaganite Republican offers an installment in the Know Your Enemy series, spotlighting Nork Traffic Babes From Pyongyang. IMNSHO offers Rule 5 Friday, and Randy’s Roundtable this week is all about the Katy Perry. First Street Journal’s ongoing salute to our women in uniform continues this week with some swabbies.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Arianny Celeste; his vintage babe is Elaine Stewart, and of course there’s Sex in Advertising! Dustbury has an unusually pop duo this week with J-Lo and Ginger Spice, and Three Beers Later has some summer games of a non-Olympic variety. At the Camp of the Saints (where all Rule 5 comes with free waffle fries), it’s Shay Maria, Kayla Harrison, Natasa Malbasa, and the American Women’s Olympic Volleyball Team.


A View From The Beach brings us The Women Of Warehouse 13, asks Should Women Be Doctors?(with Olivia Wilde), maintains an Ongoing Olympic Babes & Links Page, Lady Gaga’s “Naked Tweet”, the obligatory cave girl post with bonus rat cuisine, and the observation that Kafka Was An Optimist.


El Opinador Compulsivo, celebrating his recent escape from Hugoslavia (a/k/a The Bolivarian Silliness of Venezuela), sends us many tasty links, including Betanie Badertscher, una moza muy buena, Apotheosis Now (Rule 5 Version) in Quebec, Romney supporter Jenna Jameson, a member of Brazil’s Olympic volleyball team, Heather Vandeven, and the mandatory “at the beach” post. Bonus: scenes from the class struggle in Caracas.


Soylent Green starts with sunrise succulence, continues with the Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation, Spassfabrik Doggie Days, a welcome to Chilean Go(oglers), Snoochita Baby!, evening awesome, Corsetcare 3DDD, Saturday Sunny, and a repost of Valentina Because Most Of You Missed It The First Time.


DaleyGator’s Daley Babes this week include Brittany Dailey, Anna Konno, Kadie Ann Johns (leading a Rule 5 Trek), Candice Swanepoel (and her breasts), Janina Gavankar, Nana Tanimura, Tiara Styles, and Devon Stiles; also, a special “Nothing Beats A Great Butt” Edition and coverage of the Bob Belvedere/Stacy McCain Water Polo Nekkidness Scandal.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday will be due on Saturday, August 11 at the
Rule 5 Wombat mailbox.

Category: Rule 5

‘It’s Pretty Much a Hate Crime’ — Seven Reported Dead in Sikh Temple Shooting UPDATE: Act of ‘Domestic Terrorism’ UPDATE: Liberals Blame Bachmann UPDATE: Report Says Shooter ‘Had Just Broken Up With His Girlfriend’

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 48 Comments

While we do not yet have definite information on the identity of a man who went on a shooting rampage in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, one worshipper at the Sikh Temple summarized the situation pretty bluntly:

One of the temple’s committee members, Ven Boba Ri, said that based on communication with people inside the temple, the shooter was a white male in his 30s.
“We have no idea,” he said of the motive. “It’s pretty much a hate crime. It’s not an insider.”
According to Ri, the man started shooting after he walked up to a priest who was standing outside, and shot him.
Then he went inside and started shooting.

UPDATE: There will reportedly be a press conference at 5 p.m. ET (4 p.m. in Milwaukee). Jazz Shaw at Hot Air was reporting the story as it broke, and you can see from his updates how confusing these stories tend to be in the first few hours. There are reports that a police officer was badly wounded in a gun battle that took down the shooter.

UPDATE II: Donald Douglas was also on this story early.

UPDATE III: “We do not have a lot of answers right now,” a police spokesman said, beginning he press conference.

Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said that the “heroic actions” of his department’s officers “stopped a tragic event that could have been a lot worse.” Chief Edwards said the FBI will be handling the investigation of a crime that is being treated as an act of domestic terrorism.

UPDATE IV: Chief Edwards did not identify the shooter. We have the report of the temple official that the gunman was a white male in his 30s, and the fact that the FBI is investigating the crime as “a domestic terrorist incident,” as Chief Edwards called it, would seem to narrow down the motive a good bit.

There are reports that some people on Twitter are in a hurry to blame this crime on Republicans, as if “let’s go kill some Sikhs” were a plank in the GOP platform, and as if the murder of innocents had no meaning except as an opportunity to play politics.

Linked by The Mr. G Guy — thanks!

UPDATE V: Statement from Mitt Romney:

“Ann and I extend our thoughts and prayers to the victims of today’s shooting in Wisconsin. This was a senseless act of violence and a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the entire Oak Creek Sikh community. We join Americans everywhere in mourning those who lost their lives and in prayer for healing in the difficult days ahead.”

So, apparently, shooting innocent Sikhs is not endorsed by Republicans. This news may be a traumatic shock to certain liberals on Twitter, who are in need of psychological counseling.

UPDATE VI: The superior power of Liberal Logic™ enables Twitter users to identify the suspect: Michele Bachmann did it!

Why didn’t the FBI figure this out first? It was so obvious, when Bachmann ran for president with the slogan, “Go Shoot Some Sikhs.”

UPDATE VII: Here’s an important clue:

CUDAHY, Wis. — WISN 12 News has learned that police and FBI agents descended upon a Cudahy neighborhood late Sunday afternoon.
Crews report a police presence in the 3700 block of East Holmes Avenue near Packard Avenue.
Officials are not yet commenting on the situation in Cudahy or what may have prompted the police and FBI response.

We have no evidence that Michele Bachmann recently moved to Cudahy, but according to Liberal Logic™ that doesn’t mean it’s not her fault.

UPDATE VIII: More on the Cudahy situation:

Shortly after 5 p.m. [i.e., 6 p.m. ET], neighbors said a team of law enforcement officers, including from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, had entered a home in Cudahy.
Police have cordoned off the 3700 block of E. Holmes Ave., just south of downtown Cudahy. A large contingent of law enforcement and fire department vehicles are in the vicinity of what is described as a single family house on the south side of the street. It’s a tree-lined residential neighborhood of single-family homes with some duplexes sprinkled in.
It was unclear whose home it is and how the search may be related to the shooting itself.

Permit me to restate the obvious: We don’t yet know who the shooter was. We don’t know his motive, or his political affiliations.

We have the report of a witness who says it was a white male in his 30s, and we know that the FBI is treating the case as an act of domestic terrorism. This obviously suggests some sort of hateful attitude toward Sikhs, or perhaps a more generalized sort of xenophobia, but until we at least have the name of the shooter, we can’t actually know anything about his motives.

It would not be necessary to state something so obvious, were it not for the fact that those endowed with Liberal Logic™ keep telling us they know exactly what inspired this crime: Michele Bachmann called for an investigation of reports that the Muslim Brotherhood is influencing State Department policy and therefore — as a direct result of Bachmann’s investigation — this guy went on a shooting spree at a Sikh Temple.

Does that make sense to you? No, because you are just a stupid conservative, and therefore don’t have Liberal Logic™ which confers psychic powers on anyone who votes Democrat.

UPDATE IX: Linked by The Lonely Conservative who says:

My prayers and condolences go out to the victims of this terrible crime.

Amen.

UPDATE X: Let’s not jump to conclusions, because it’s a secondhand source, but Jessica McBride of The Patch says she’s interviewed the mother of the gunman’s landlord:

The woman said she is “completely freaked out” and that she believes her son found the man as a renter for his home in the 3700 block of E. Holmes Avenue “through an ad.”
“He lived with my son for three weeks, then the house across the street became empty, and he moved there,” she said.
Her son owns both houses, so he remained the man’s landlord, she said.
She said that she doesn’t know much about the man, other than his first name . . .
“He was quiet. He worked second shift,” she said of the alleged shooter, who has not been named by authorities. “They (her son and the shooter) both worked a lot, so they never got to see each other.”
She said she remembered the man had just broken up with his girlfriend because “he mentioned that to my son. Then he wanted to move on his own. So he moved to the duplex across the street.”

Again: Let’s be cautious, and not jump to any conclusions based on this one report. More information will be available soon enough.

UPDATE XI: More details emerge on the killer.

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

You Had Me at ‘Boobs’

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 23 Comments

I protest the inherent unfairness of sending me an e-mail with the subject line, “The Big Boob Conundrum (aka ‘Breasts of Mass Destruction’)“:

Given that the average amount of milk produced by a lactating mother (850 ml/day) is well over 16 ounces (473.2 ml), those 38DDDs are “containers” which clearly violate your Big Gulp edict (breast milk is sweet, and since it’s not alcoholic, that technically makes it a “soft” drink).

She’s got a point: Mayor Bloomberg is a gigantic boob, but I usually try to ignore gigantic boobs, because it’s not polite to stare.

Stop staring at Mayor Bloomberg you sick freaks!

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