In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 27, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Evening Edition)

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Fifteen Calls To Police In One Year
EBL: Larry McMurtry, RIP
Twitchy: Hollywood Actors Upset With Senators Manchin & Sinema, also, Over 18,000 Unaccompanied Illegal Alien Minors In Custody – Is It a Crisis Yet?
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Visits Border, Releases Shocking Video On Border Crisis
Vox Popoli: Congress Shall Make No Law, also, Investments Are Buyouts
According To Hoyt: They Can’t Drag Us To The Past, also, Ah, To Be Extreme Now That Spring Is Here
Monster Hunter Nation: Target Rich Environment – Now On Audio, also, John Brown & I Were On The Blades & Blasters Podcast Talking About Gun Runner
Stoic Observations: The Real Steely Dan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Boomers Move To France, Have No Plan
American Conservative: Farms Are Coming To Cities
American Greatness: Where Is The GOP Outrage Over DOJ’s Capitol Probe? also, The Scandalous Cruelty Of Biden’s Border Disaster
American Power: Trey Gowdy Clear Leader In Viewers For Fox News Rotating Primetime
American Thinker: COVID & The Semmelweis Reflex
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Road Trip Friday
Babalu Blog: The Fantasy Vs. The Reality Of Communism
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 26
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Bigelow Sues NASA For $1 Million
Cafe Hayek: A Future Of Playing Whack-A-Mole With Risks
CDR Salamander: Kafka & The Corps
Da Tech Guy: Am I The Only One Who Feels I’m No Longer Living In The U.S.A.? also, Keeping Secrets – Maureen O’Hara & Glenn Kirschner
Don Surber: Harvard Is The Hotbed Of Anti-Asian American Hate
First Street Journal: The Washington Post Dances Around The Right Question But Never Asks It
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Lawless Lawmaker
Hollywood In Toto: Must-Read Movie Books For Your Library, also, TAKE TWO – Nobody Keeps Us On Our Toes
The Lid: Rep. Ted Lieu Goes Ballistic When Witness Brings Up Harvard’s Anti-Asian Discrimination
Legal Insurrection: Ohio State Has 150 Diversity Officials But Will hire 50 Profs To Address Social Justice, also, SecTrans Buttigieg Declares War On Rural Red States With Call For Mileage Tax
Nebraska Energy Observer: Elder Abuse & Selling Out
Outkick: MLBPA Threatens To Move All-Star Game After Georgia Passes Election Reform Bill, also, Deshaun Watson Sent Accuser NDA
Power Line: Critical Race Theory – The Great Evil Of Our Time, also, “A Sickening Spectacle”
Shark Tank: Eskamani & Democrats Push Ahead With More Divisive & Racist Rhetoric
Shot In The Dark: We’ve Seen This Before
STUMP: Moneypalooza Monstrosity – State & Local Governments Should Pay Down Pension Debt
The Political Hat: Whiteness As A Disease To Be Cured, also, Moons Are People Too
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Biden To Leave Troops In Afghanistan Past May 1 Deadline
Victory Girls: Ted Lieu Throws Toddler Tantrum At Hearing
Volokh Conspiracy: Asymmetrical Nationwide Injunctions
Weasel Zippers: WaPo Retroactively Editing Its Stories On Border Crisis To Conform To Biden Narrative, also, Biden Needed Cheat Sheet With Photos To Identify Reporters
The Federalist: Nancy Pelosi On Trying To Steal Iowa House Seat – I Am The House, also, Mr. President, Most Gun Owners Aren’t As Reckless As Your Son
Mark Steyn: When Survivors Succumb

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More Bisexual Tumblrina Craziness (and Other Random Insanity Updates)

Posted on | March 27, 2021 | Comments Off on More Bisexual Tumblrina Craziness (and Other Random Insanity Updates)

The phrase “crazy Tumblrina” is wrong, because it’s redundant.

No sane person is on Tumblr, and if you add bisexual to the descriptor (i.e., “crazy bisexual Tumblrina”), you’ve just wasted two words, because basically everyone on Tumblr is bisexual, or at least somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum. But mostly, yeah, they’re bisexual.

Let us parse this particular example, just for fun:

“I hate men as much as anyone else but . . .”

(Notice how confidently this Tumblrina assumes that everyone who reads her blog hates men because, of course, everybody on Tumblr does hate men. It is a masculinity-free zone. If you don’t hate men, you’re not welcome on Tumblr, and therefore nobody who reads this Tumblrina’s blog would dare disagree with her opening clause.)

“. . . it’s rly annoying that bi women have to like constantly downplay their attraction to men . . .”

(Wait a second, sweetheart. You just said you “hate men as much as anyone else,” like a charter member of the Andrea Dworkin Fan Club, and now you’re saying you’re attracted to men? Please explain this bizarre love/hate thing you’ve got going on, and also give me your address so we can set up a picket line to warn men to stay away from you.)

“. . . to be taken seriously in the lgbt community . . .”

(Why is it so important to you “to be taken seriously” within this alleged “community”? What is it that you want to be “taken seriously” about? Your orange wig, red nose and giant floppy shoes, perhaps?)

“. . . and god forbid be in a relationship with one…. annoying . . .”

No, ma’am, what’s annoying is that your “bisexuality” (as you call it) seems rather hypothetical. If you are attracted to men (despite hating them) and in a relationship with a man, please explain how this entitles you to membership in a political “community” organized around the idea (however misguided) of being victims of oppression? Who is oppressing you, and what specific form does this oppression of bisexuals take?

Never mind all that. The main point about “bisexual” women is that men should avoid them. Bisexual women are always either:

a. Lesbians embarrassed to tell their parents they’re lesbians;
or
b. Sociopathic perverts looking for a chance to ruin a man’s life the way Amber Heard ruined Johnny Depp;
except when they are
c. Both (a) and (b).

Now that we’ve cleared that up — and after I’ve reminded everyone that Tumblr is “a money-losing dumpster fire full of pornography and mentally ill LGBTQ activists” — it’s time for this update:

Ashton “Aimee” Challenor is back in the news, not in a good way:

A Reddit employee whose hiring sparked a wave of communities to go private this week is no longer at the company, CEO Steve Huffman has confirmed.
Hundreds of communities went private this week in protest at the employment of a former U.K. politician called Aimee Knight, previously known under the surname Challenor, who was recently hired as an administrator by the popular messageboard platform.
“The employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit,” Huffman said in a post on Wednesday explaining Reddit’s perspective on the situation.
Many of the subreddits that went dark had over one million members, including r/apple, r/Music, r/HistoryMemes, r/pokemongo, r/PrequelMemes and r/Cringetopia.
Knight, 23, was suspended by the U.K Green Party in 2018 after it emerged her father, David Challenor, was appointed as Knight’s election agent despite him previously being charged with multiple serious sexual offenses, including taking indecent photographs, false imprisonment, rape and sexual assault of a child in November 2016.
An investigation found that Knight appointed David Challenor as her election agent in both April 2017 and mid-2018. In August 2018, David Challenor was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison, and was formally expelled from the party.
In 2019, Knight was suspended by another political party, the Liberal Democrats, after her partner, Nathaniel Knight, allegedly shared child sex fantasies online. Knight has maintained the Twitter account used to share the posts had been hacked.
The controversies spilled over onto Reddit this week after a moderator of the popular community r/ukpolitics shared an article that mentioned Aimee Challenor by name, seemingly triggering the website’s anti-doxxing protection for its employee.

Read the whole thing. Ask yourself why, of all the people Reddit could have hired as a site administrator, they hired this person?

What was Challenor’s previous claim to fame? He/“she” and his/“her” pedophile father “were credited with creating ‘Terfblocker,’ a list that enabled Twitter users to automatically block the accounts of feminists who are critical of transgender ideology. More than 50,000 so-called ‘TERFs’ (trans-exclusive radical feminists) were reportedly blocked by the list that the Challenors created.” So when Reddit hires site administrators, apparently, special consideration is made for people with a proven track record of Thought Police censorship.

Meanwhile, Donald Douglas thinks he’s found nude photos of Ellie Goulding, although I’m 99.9% sure they’re deepfakes. I hesitate to mention this immediately after discussing “Aimee” Challenor, because it would be a terrible thing if some sicko 4chan pranksters decided to do deepfakes of this grotesque beast. As you might have guessed, there is an extensive Kiwifarms thread on “Aimee” Challenor.

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In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 26, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Sometimes I wish I was still in the Guard or Reserve. Then I read the news.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Welcome To The New Soviet Union
EBL: NO MORE ASIAN JOKES! NOT FUNNY!
Twitchy: Seth Meyers Spends Five Minutes Bashing Ted Cruz For Maskless Press Conference, Says Nothing About Joe Biden’s Maskless Press Conference
Louder With Crowder: Dan Crenshaw Gives Four Examples Why Kamala Harris Is Horrible (To Lead Border Crisis Response)
Vox Popoli: Unlikely To End Well, also, Impact Day Approaches

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Biden Amps Up The Immigration Delivery System
American Greatness: The Nature Of Red China’s Contempt For Us
American Power: Ellie Goulding Enhanced, also, Ellie Goulding, “Lights”
American Thinker: The Unfit President
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily 2022 News
Babalu Blog: Where NOT To Do Your Taxes, also, Cuba’s Socialist Revolution In All Its Glory
BattleSwarm: Norm MacDonald Slamming Bill Clinton
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Ice-Filled Crater In Mars’ Glacier Country
Cafe Hayek: A Blessing In Disguise
CDR Salamander: Why Not Just Festoon The Entire NCR With Razor Wire?
Da Tech Guy: Foreign Policies, also, Mafia Families & The Priests That Serve Them Deride Vatican’s Continued Stance Against Murder, Theft, & Prostitution (Satire)
Don Surber: Press Openly Desires Chauvin’s Conviction
First Street Journal: Why Is It The Left Only Notices The Killings In Mass Murders?
Hogewash: The Glenn Kirschner Pledge, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Faith-Friendly Angel Studios Defies Hollywood Gatekeepers, also, Odenkirk’s Nobody Flunks Vigilante 101
The Lid: Why The Green New Deal is Even Worse Than You Think
Legal Insurrection: WV Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Ban CRT In State’s Education System, also, Senator Cotton Introduces Bill To Ban Critical Race Training In The Military
Nebraska Energy Observer: 2022 – But First
Outkick: Oakland To Give $500 To Poor People, Unless They’re White, also, March Madness Betting Update
Power Line: Sidney’s Powell Doctrine, also, Biden Meets The Press [updated]
Shark Tank: Fried & Black Legislators Play Racial Politics With Elections Bill
Shot In The Dark: Compliance, also, Go Ask Lyle
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Likelihood Of Senate Control Changing Due To Death
The Political Hat: Newspeak Dictionary – “Slave” No Longer A Word, “Black” Banned, & Chaucer Purged
This Ain’t Hell: Oh, You Want What? also, Thursday FGS
Victory Girls: Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker Says Her City Is A Rapist
Volokh Conspiracy: Mass Shooters BY Race & Hispanic Ethnicity – Not Far Off From The Whole Population
Weasel Zippers: Nancy Pelosi Thinks She Has The Power To Decide Who Goes To Congress, also, Minnesota Production Of “Cinderella” Canceled Because Cast Was Too White
The Federalist: Two Weeks After Texas Lifted Its Mask Mandate, COVID Cases Spiraling Down, also, Secret Service Tried To Clean Up Mess Resulting From Hunter Biden’s Missing Gun Incident
Mark Steyn: Chairman Xi’s Birthday Cake, also, Jim Eagle Has Landed

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In The Mailbox: 03.25.21

Posted on | March 25, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.25.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

So Biden’s presser was a disaster?

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1301
357 Magnum: Cops Behaving Stupidly – California Edition
EBL: Kamala Goes South
Twitchy: “When I Came To The Senate 120 Years Ago…” Detailed Play-By-Play Thread Shows What A Dumpster Fire Biden’s Press Conference Was
Louder With Crowder: Woman Sings Disney Song About Biden’s Stimulus Bill – It’s Even Worse Than It Sounds
Vox Popoli: The Conservative Case For Mandatory Vaccinations, also, The Not-White Party

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Henry James & Victimhood Culture
American Greatness: Crazy Hirono Joins Duckworth In Promising To Oppose Every White Nominee For Biden’s Cabinet, also, GAO To Investigate Biden’s (Possibly Illegal) Decision To Halt Border Wall Construction
American Thinker: The Great Reset Is Just A Euphemism For Total State Control, also, You’re Racist Whether You Like It Or Not
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba’s Health Tourism Business – What Tourists Get That Cubans Don’t, also, Former Nicaraguan Riot Cop Defects, Says He Was Trained By Cubans
Baldilocks: Pat Scopelliti – The Local Patriot’s Reading List
BattleSwarm: Is The World Finally Tired Of Red China’s BS?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans – Washington & Lincoln, also, SpaceX Successfully Launches Another 60 Starlink Satellites
Cafe Hayek: Man-of-System Madness!
CDR Salamander: The Terrible 20s Get Crunchy
Da Tech Guy: Oh THAT Deshawn Watson & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Report From Louisiana – Biden’s Job-Killing Environmentalist Agenda Hits State Hard
Don Surber: Too Cowardly To Sue A Muslim Baker, also, Facebook Can’t Buy Conservatives
First Street Journal: Virtue Must Be Signaled!
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Making Votes Count
Hollywood In Toto: Watch These Six Conservative Films On Amazon Prime While You Still Can, also, Twenty Years Later, Monkeybone Is Still A Complete Disaster
The Lid: Viral Video Exposes Democrats’ Hypocrisy On Conditions At The Border
Legal Insurrection: Thirteen States Sue Biden Administration Over Drilling Ban, also, Black Intellectuals Demand Smith College Apologize To Workers Smeared As Racist
Michelle Malkin: MSNBC’s Serial Smear Merchant
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Old Mill
Outkick: Deshaun Watson Exposes Sports Media’s Identity Politics Hypocrisy, also, Nick Saban Shares Praise For Mac Jones
Power Line: Whiny Narcissist Meets Empty Suit, also, The Boulder Murderer
Shark Tank: Cammack & Demings Call For Higher National Guard Funding
Shot In The Dark: Fairness, also, Consequences
STUMP: House Of Representatives Apportionment Visualization, 1910-2010
The Political Hat: France Vs. Critical Race Theory, also, Pedagogy Of Discomfort
This Ain’t Hell: Update On Kelsie Hoover, aka “EOD Soldier”, also, Questions That Have No Answers
Transterrestrial Musings: UFOs
Victory Girls: The Biden-Harris Administration Is Now A Reality
Volokh Conspiracy: Funny Twitter Exchange
Weasel Zippers: Bill Gates Wants To Spray Megatons Of Chalk Into The Atmosphere To Stop Global Warming, also, Another Day, Another Biden Senior Moment
The Federalist: Mexican President Blames Border Crisis On Biden, also, Nancy Pelosi Needs Another House Seat, So She’s Stealing It
Mark Steyn: Locked Down For Your Own Good, also, Green Fraud Meets The Big Shut-Up

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In The Mailbox: 03.23.21

Posted on | March 24, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.23.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The lamestream media on the Boulder shooting.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Oakland & Defund The Police
EBL: Nomadland – A Review
Twitchy: Attention Whore Meena Harris Tries Deleting Tweet That Used Boulder Gunman To Frame White Men As Violent & “Greatest Terrorist Threat”
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Disembowels Democrats Over “Ridiculous Theater” Of Gun Control
Vox Popoli: Operational Support Or Boomer Dodos? also, Oscar Fades
Stoic Observations: Revenge Of The Nerds

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Searching For Beauty
American Conservative: Modern Monetary Theory For Republicans
American Greatness: Illegal Immigrant Says He Wouldn’t Have Crossed Border If Trump Was President, also, Biden’s CBP Admits Releasing Illegals Without Court Dates
American Power: Jack Phillips Said No Again
American Thinker: The Democrat Party Has Declared War On America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Electric Car News
Babalu Blog: In Defense Of Speedy Gonzales
BattleSwarm: Democrats Push “Drive Plastics Manufacturing To Red China” Bill, also, Kristi Noem’s Tranny Pander
Behind The Black: Perseverance Dumps Debris Shield To Prepare For Ingenuity Deployment, also, Today’s Blacklisted Americans
Cafe Hayek: The Mischief Of “Pecuniary Externalities”
CDR Salamander: Extremism Training – The One-Eyed Horse
Da Tech Guy: Cryptocurrency For Conservatives, also, The Answer To Don Surber’s Question
Don Surber: Finally, Someone Holds A Biden Rally, also, Twitter Allows Racist Tweets
First Street Journal: Do The Mandatory Mask Orders Really Protect Us From COVID?
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, The Blue-Anon Body Count
Hollywood In Toto: Jimmy Kimmel – From Man Show Host To Biden Propagandist, also, Liberal Chuck Lorre Dragged By Cancel Culture
The Lid: Biden’s Open Border Policies Make Cartels’ Human Trafficking Programs Worth More Than Smuggling Drugs
Legal Insurrection: Faculty Voice Concerns As Cornell Considers Dual Degree Program With Peking U., also, Exit Polls Show Netanyahu Winning Slim Majority
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Power
Outkick: Teachers’ Unions Not Done With Shakedowns, also, Re-Seeding The NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Power Line: How Woke Media Becomes Broke Media, also, Kids In Cages [Updated]
Shark Tank: Controversial Energy Preemption Bill Advances In The House
Shot In The Dark: Just A Quick Note, also, So Let’s Get This Straight
The Political Hat: The Dangerous Wokeness Of The “George Floyd Justice In Policing Act”
This Ain’t Hell: Biden Insists Grossly Political Issue “Is Not A Partisan Issue, It’s An American Issue”, also, Tanker Tuesday Video
Transterrestrial Musings: Environmentalists, also, Europe’s Response To The SpaceX Challenge
Victory Girls: Boulder Shooter Isn’t Whom The Media Wanted
Volokh Conspiracy: Universities Can’t Selectively Enforce Nondiscrimination Policies Based On Student Groups’ Viewpoints
Weasel Zippers: The FBI Fails Again To Stop A Terrorist Attack In The U.S., also, Senator Duckworth Says She Won’t Vote To Confirm White Male Biden Nominees
The Federalist: CNN Ratings Collapse Without Bad Orange Man, also, LGBT Activists Haul Jack Phillips Into Court Again, This Time Over Transgender & Satan Cakes
Mark Steyn: Of Moons & Mountin’, also, Election Integrity In America

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Syrian Immigrant Ahmad Al-Issa Identified as Boulder Gunman

Posted on | March 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Syrian Immigrant Ahmad Al-Issa Identified as Boulder Gunman

Early this morning — it was about 2:30 a.m. — I noted that there was something odd about how police were dealing with the shooting in Boulder. Even though they had the shooter in custody, they didn’t name him. Why? What purpose was served by withholding that information?

It was not until about 11 a.m. today we discovered why:

he 21-year-old Arvada man arrested in Monday’s mass shooting at a Boulder King Sooper’s was violent, short-tempered and paranoid during high school, his former classmates said Tuesday.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is suspected of killing 10 people at the grocery store Monday when he walked in around 2:30 p.m. and began shooting, according to law enforcement. He was taken into custody about an hour later with a gunshot wound in his leg.
Alissa was hospitalized for treatment and is expected to be transported to the Boulder County Jail Tuesday to face 10 counts of first-degree murder.
He attended Arvada West High School from 2015 until he graduated in 2018, Jeffco Public Schools spokeswoman Cameron Bell confirmed Tuesday. He was on the wrestling team his junior and senior years.
“He was kind of scary to be around,” said Dayton Marvel, a teammate on the wrestling team. Alissa once had an outburst and threatened to kill people during an intra-team match, Marvel said.
“His senior year, during the wrestle-offs to see who makes varsity, he actually lost his match and quit the team and yelled out in the wrestling room that he was, like, going to kill everybody,” Marvel said. “Nobody believed him. We were just all kind of freaked out by it, but nobody did anything about it.”
He said he did not like spending time with Alissa, and Alissa was not close with anyone on the wrestling team. Another teammate, Angel Hernandez, said Alissa got into a fight in the parking lot after the match.
“(The other wrestler) was just teasing him and goes, ‘Maybe if you were a better wrestler, you would have won.’ (Alissa) just lost it. He started punching him,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez said Alissa frequently appeared to be paranoid about perceived slights against him, and Marvel said Alissa was often concerned about being targeted because of his Muslim faith.
“He would talk about him being Muslim and how if anybody tried anything, he would file a hate crime and say they were making it up,” Marvel said. “It was a crazy deal. I just know he was a pretty cool kid until something made him mad, and then whatever made him mad, he went over the edge — way too far.”
“He was always talking about (how) people were looking at him and there was no one ever where he was pointing people out,” Hernandez said. “We always thought he was messing around with us or something.”
In 2017, Alissa, then 18, attacked a classmate at Arvada West High School, according to an affidavit filed in the case. He punched the classmate in the head without warning, and when the boy fell to the ground, Alissa continued to punch him. The classmate suffered bruises and cuts to his head, according to the affidavit.
Witnesses told police they didn’t see or hear any reason for Alissa to attack the classmate. Alissa told officers that the classmate “had made fun of him and called him racial names weeks earlier,” according to the affidavit.
He was convicted of misdemeanor assault in 2018 and was sentenced to probation and 48 hours of community service, according to court records.
Despite his short temper, Hernandez said Alissa could also be friendly and “joyful.”
“The sad thing about it is that if you really were to get to know him, he was a good guy,” Hernandez said. “Whenever you went up to him, he was always so joyful and so nice. But you could tell there was a dark side in him. If he did get ticked off about something, within a split second, it was like if something takes over, like a demon. He’d just unleash all his anger.”
Another former classmate, Keaton Hyatt, said he took a weightlifting class with Alissa and never knew him to be violent. Hyatt liked Alissa’s quick wit and sharp comebacks during locker room banter.
“He was super cool and super funny,” Hyatt said. “… It was never violent jokes about people or America or anything.”
Arvada Police Detective Dave Snelling confirmed Tuesday the local department had at least two interactions with Alissa over the past several years, including a case of criminal mischief. The details of that case were not immediately available.
Snelling would not say whether local police had received any warnings or complaints about Alissa recently, however, and instead deferred the question to the FBI.
Alissa lived with his family in an Arvada subdivision on West 65th Place, a quiet neighborhood of single-family homes. Neighbors said the household appeared to be multi-generational with a large number of family members living there.
The home is owned by Ali Aliwi Alissa, who also owns a nearby restaurant. The eatery, in a strip mall that shares space with a coffee shop, UPS store, battery store and other restaurants, was closed Tuesday.
Jamie Poeling moved her business, Dream Dinners, a few doors down from the restaurant just over a year ago and said she ate there infrequently. Employees there gave Poeling a discount and she returned the favor.
Poeling said she doesn’t know everyone in the family by name, but that she never had a negative experience at the restaurant. Employees would go out of their way to offer food to a homeless woman living behind the restaurant, she said.
“I’ve been in the shop while they’ve given her food and they’re very kind,” Poeling said.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday whether any of Alissa’s family knew of his plan to attack King Soopers.
A relative told investigators Monday night that she’d seen Alissa “playing” with a gun that looked like a “machine gun” about two days prior, according to the affidavit.
“Alissa had been talking about having a bullet stuck in the gun and was playing with the gun,” the affidavit said. Others in the home became upset that he had the gun inside and took it from him, the relative told police, although she believed it had later been returned to him.
Alissa purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol six days before the attack, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday. Witnesses to the shooting described the gunman as firing a “patrol rifle,” Boulder police have said.
On a Facebook page that appeared to belong to Alissa and has since been removed, the user posted in 2019 that he believed his former high school was hacking his cell phone. In a comment to someone who asked why the school would do that, he blamed racism.
“I believe part racism for sure,” he replied. “I believe someone spread rumors about me which are false and maybe that set it off.”
In other posts, the user expressed anti-LGBTQ sentiments and warned about perils he perceived from too much government control.

Now brace yourself for this:

The suspect’s identity was known to the F.B.I. because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials.

So the FBI actually knew about this gun-wielding Syrian psycho, but they were too busy chasing down “white supremacists” to do anything.

Category: Colorado, Crime

Boulder: 10 Dead, Including Police Officer; Suspect in Custody, Not Yet Identified

Posted on | March 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Boulder: 10 Dead, Including Police Officer; Suspect in Custody, Not Yet Identified

There is something . . . off about this story, and I don’t know what it is yet. We saw the suspect walked out in handcuffs and yet, several hours later, police have still not identified him. While I have seen some speculation online about the gunman’s identity, the fact that police did not name him at their press conference strikes me as significant, because why not name him? Certainly, his identity will be public very soon, so what is accomplished by delaying the release of this information?

What this delay has done, in practical terms, is to allow the media to build the narrative that this is a gun-control story. The shooter reportedly used an AR-15-style weapon, and so the narrative is not about the shooter and his motive, but rather about his choice of weapon.

Is it paranoid to suspect that perhaps police delayed the identification of the shooter for this very reason? That is to say, it may be that police believed that publicly naming the shooter would have some undesired political consequence, and so they delayed this, to prevent the public from reacting in an undesirable way. Meanwhile, this delay gives the media a chance to spin it as a gun-control narrative, even though we have no reason to believe that any proposed gun-control measure (short of outright confiscation) could have prevented this particular shooting.

As always in cases like this, I discourage speculation about motives, particularly when we don’t know the identity of the shooter. Yet the delay in identifying the suspect strikes me as significant. Once we learn who it is, perhaps we will be able to deduce the reasons for the delay.

Anyway, here is what is actually known so far:

The Boulder Police Department confirmed 10 people are dead, including one Boulder Police officer, in a shooting at the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive.
Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold confirmed Officer Eric Talley, 51, was the first to respond to the King Soopers minutes after initial 911 calls around 2:30 p.m. He was shot and killed. Talley had been with the department since 2010.
“I’m grateful for the police officers that responded, and I am so sorry about the loss of Officer Talley,” Herold said. . . .
The Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said the suspect is in custody and his office will do everything they can do to get justice for the victims.
“I also want to stress how incredibly sorry I am for all victims who were killed at King Soopers. These were people going about their day, doing their food shopping, and their lives were cut abruptly and tragically short by the shooter who is now in custody,” Dougherty said.
Officials confirmed the suspect went to the hospital. They say he is the only person injured that they’re aware of and they know of no other serious injuries at this point.

To summarize, we don’t actually know much yet — and this is unusual. I’ve covered plenty of events like this, and cannot remember any case where a mass-shooting suspect was in custody but police waited more than eight hours before publicly identifying the suspect, as in this case.

In a paranoid age, where trust of the media is at an all-time low, this concerns me, and not just because CNN is using this as an excuse to run 24/7 gun-control propaganda. Let me get ahead of that by saying that the vast majority of homicides in America (about 45 a day, on average) are committed with common pistols — 9mm, .380, .40 — and that the use of “assault rifles” in homicides is a statistical rarity. So the predictable push to ban “assault rifles” in the wake of this Boulder massacre will be in contradiction of facts and logic. For 10 years, beginning in 1994, we had a federal ban and, after Congress allowed it to expire in 2004, it was demonstrated to have no impact on the overall level of violent crime.

Category: Colorado, Crime