Robert Paul ‘Robin’ Westman and his ‘Kill Tump’ gun
Every website on the planet is full of commentary about the massacre at Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis, and I’ll just briefly quote from the New York Post article:
The deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured at least 17 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis has been identified as a transgender woman — as disturbing videos posted by the shooter show a handwritten manifesto and “kill Donald Trump” and “for the children” scrawled on gun magazines.
Robin Westman, formerly Robert Westman, opened fire through the stained glass windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School — where he attended — during a celebratory back-to-school Mass filled with children around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Just hours before the cowardly massacre, Westman, 23, posted a series of twisted videos on YouTube, which included a manifesto, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed at a press conference.
In one 20-minute video, Westman flips through the disturbing handwritten manifesto. Much of it is written in a homespun code that uses Cyrillic characters and English phonetic words.
In the deranged writings, he gleefully fantasizes about “being that scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids” and reverently confesses admiration for the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
Westman applied to change his birth name from Robert to Robin in Dakota County, Minn., when he was 17 years old, according to court documents. That name change was granted in January 2020.
The petition added that Westman “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”
You can read the rest of that. People are feeling grief and anger, but what I mainly feel is complete disgust at ~90% of the news media in this country. You cannot hate the media more than they deserve to be hated.
Here we have a story about a demonic freak — a monster right out of a horror movie — who deliberately targeted school children, and the main concern of the media seems to be that honestly reporting the story might somehow incite “transphobia.” Let me just point out that the word “phobia” describes an irrational fear. When people look at this sick freak who murdered little children, is their fear irrational? Not at all. You’d be crazy if you didn’t fear dangerous weirdos like Robert/“Robin.”
Why do so many journalists treat such people as victims of social injustice and wrongful “hate”? Even when they commit mass murder, somehow they’re still victims, as far as the media are concerned.
Anyway the headline contains an allusion to an infamous scene in the 1988 thriller The Silence of the Lambs:
What that scene establishes about the killer “Buffalo Bill” is his utter lack of empathy for his victims. The girl is “it” — totally dehumanized, an object, whom he intends to murder and carve up to turn her skin into a “woman suit.” Did you know that “Buffalo Bill” is based on three real-life serial killers? One of them, Ed Gein, actually made such a “woman suit” from the skin of his victims. One of the characteristics of sociopaths and psychopaths is their inability to feel empathy toward others. They are so self-centered that, to them, others exist only to be used for whatever purpose the psychopath has in mind. Having skimmed over a few pages of Robert/“Robin” Westman’s journal (or “manifesto”), it’s so easy to see this lack of empathy, the inability to see others as human.
And really, isn’t this the case with most journalists? They don’t see the children shot by Robert/“Robin” as entirely human; no, those people are just statistics, fodder for a story, the core narrative of which is the real victimhood of the killer — the transgender maniac is the only person in the story to whom these journalists can relate.
They are as evil and depraved as he was. You can’t hate them enough.
ABC News' Aaron Katersky says the Minneapolis terrorist wrote "criticism of Israel" and Trump's name on the guns
He did not say what was actually written:
"Kill Donald Trump" "Israel must fall" "Kill Trump Now!" "Burn Israel" "6 million wasn't enough"pic.twitter.com/Jzm7AOw9Jc
I believe that transgender people should be treated with kindness … by the staff of the mental health facilities where they are locked up for their own safety and ours.
Travis Kelce wasn’t messing around when he knelt to the ground and pulled out a diamond ring for his new fiancée, Taylor Swift.
The pop superstar, 35, gave fans an up-close look at her stunning engagement ring Tuesday when she announced the Chiefs tight end, also 35, had popped the question after two years of dating.
The dazzling piece features an old mine brilliant-cut diamond set on a gold band, according to Page Six, which noted the ring was crafted by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry with input from Kelce himself.
Kelce proposed to Swift in a dreamy garden setting, complete with a floral arch and colorful blooms. . . .
First linked in 2023, Kelce famously made headlines in July of that year when he expressed interest in Swift on his “New Heights” podcast after failing to pass along a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during an Eras Tour stop in Kansas City.
The 14-time Grammy winner, who attended her first Chiefs game two months after Kelce shot his shot, said on “New Heights” this month that she’s grateful the three-time Super Bowl champ “decided to use [the show] as his personal dating app two years ago,” as the pair ended up together.
Look, I’m not a “Swiftie,” and take a dim view of her songwriting oeuvre — date a guy, dump a guy, turn it into a revenge song — and considering how many guys she’s done this with, it’s difficult for me to imagine a “happily-ever-after” finale for the future Mrs. Kelce. Taylor’s been passed around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert. She’s been used as a pump-and-dump by Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhall and a long list of other guysthat we know about, and who can estimate how many secret hookups she’s had with various drummers, guitarists, backup dancers, etc., over the years? There were even rumors of a lesbian affair with model Cara Delevingne a few years ago, but never mind that.
My point is, when a woman is 35 years old with a track record of busted relationships with more than a dozen previous boyfriends, what does one say to the fellow who decides she’s wife material? “Good luck”?
Man, if you had good luck you never would have ended up with her. Imagine being Taylor Swift’s husband. Forget to take out the garbage? Bang, there’s her new hit song denouncing you as a lazy bum.
No, this will not end well for Travis Kelce, although we can expect Taylor to get three or four new albums’ worth of songs out of it. I’ve warned my sons, “Never date a girl who dated a Jonas brother.”
An unexpected road trip suddenly looms, as I just got word that my Aunt Joanne (actually a second cousin, but we kids called her “aunt” by courtesy) has died at her home in Montgomery, Alabama. Joanne’s mother was my maternal grandmother’s younger sister, and Joanne was especially close to my mother’s younger sister, Barbara Ellis.
Like Aunt Barbara, Joanne was a teacher, and her obituary notes her passion for politics as “a proud Democrat and a committed civil rights activist.” Some of my conservative friends don’t believe me when I say that many of my dearest relatives are Democrats, so there’s your proof.
The funeral will be Friday, which means I’ll have to rent a car, leave Thursday and drive more than 800 miles to get there. Which, of course, means it’s time for a return of the Big Yellow Button.
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“Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prejudice, and no facts will persuade them:
School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired.
The return to diesel school buses comes as Quebec-based Lion Electric, which the Biden administration awarded $159 million “to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024,” has fallen into bankruptcy, according to the Washington Free Beacon. As a result, the company has “warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing” the electric school buses.
Several superintendents explained to the outlet that while they would try to keep the “electric fleet” of school buses operating “for as long as possible,” they would eventually have to “return to diesel” due to diesel school buses being more affordable.
“We are going to keep our electric fleet on the roads for as long as possible,” Mike Leskowich, who serves as the superintendent of the Homer Community School District in Michigan, told the outlet. Leskowich’s school district “received $2.8 million in federal funding to procure seven Lion buses in 2022.”
“Eventually, however, we will return to diesel, as the cost of the vehicle is far less than electric,” Leskowich added. . . .
The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this year that Lion, then nearing bankruptcy, had yet to deliver $95 million worth of the electric buses it pledged to produce as part of the Biden administration’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program. Since then, Lion was sold for just $6 million during bankruptcy proceedings after being valued at $4.7 billion as recently as June 2021. The company also permanently shuttered multiple manufacturing plants, fired the majority of its employees, and told consumers that it could no longer honor warranties and purchase orders in the United States.
Travis Fisher, who works as the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, explained to the outlet that this was “yet another example that perhaps there will be large bumps in the road” in switching to electric vehicles (EVs).
Repair costs aren’t something that “green energy” enthusiasts are capable of calculating, just like they never ponder whether the process of manufacturing wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, etc., produces carbon emissions and other pollution in such quantities as to completely offset the alleged “planet-saving” benefits. Such basic issues — the whole cost/benefit aspect of their carbon-free pipe dreams — don’t make any impression on them, the same way it’s useless to try explaining to a Scientologist that L. Ron Hubbard was a mediocre science-fiction writer who cooked up a scam to defraud his dimwit followers.
The alleged “climate crisis” is a hoax, and even if it weren’t, the measures proposed by the “green energy” cultists — e.g., government-subsidized electric school buses — would do nothing to solve the problem. Meanwhile, here’s some simple arithmetic: Divide $159 million by 435 and you discover that the Biden administration spent $365,517.24 per electric bus. You can buy a Ferrari with 819 horsepower for less.
