Here’s an interesting article about it at Wired, but as Paul Hsieh notes, the best thing about it is the hilarious correction at the end.
The Shooter’s Politics
While it has no bearing on this guy going nuts and killing 12 people, it’s rather ironic that he’s a liberal Obama supporter considering the left always jumps at the chance to paint a killer as a Christian or conservative.
And of course, if he was a Christian or a conservative, it would obviously be the motive.
[Update a few minutes later]
“If we’d had ammunition, we could have cleared that building.”
But it was an unarmed victim “gun-free” zone.
Oh, and here’s a bonus from that idiot Piers Morgan. The type of gun used is obviously very important, until it isn’t.
[Update a while later]
The media remains obsessed with AR-15s, even though the shooter didn’t use one, and didn’t even attempt to get one. Instead, he used a Joe Biden special.
[Late-morning update]
If Obama had a fan, he’d look like Aaron Alexis:
Now we learn that Alexis was a Prius-driving, African-American liberal who liked Obama. Facts aren’t much fun, eh, libs?
So now the MSM narrative will magically transform this mass murder from “yet another damning indictment of gun-toting, right-wing racist America” to “the completely isolated actions of a misunderstood victim of society.” Just watch. It happens every time. And every time, they think we won’t notice.
Meanwhile, their ratings and their circulation numbers continue to plummet, and they blame everybody but themselves.
What tools they are.
Why Tea-Party Groups Were Targeted
…because of their anti-Obama rhetoric.
You don’t say.
Gutting The Second Amendment
As a commenter says, it’s educational malpractice to “summarize” something as short and sweet as the Bill of Rights.
Transparency
A CIA employee involved with Benghazi has been suspended for refusing to practice omerta:
The CIA reiterated its denial in a Tuesday call to a Free Beacon reporter, calling Wolf’s allegations “categorically false.”
Well, if the CIA says it, it must be true.
Life On The ISS
Joel Achenbach has an interesting article about the station.
Heckuva Job, Raj!
Judith Curry reviews Donna Laframboise’s new book
The 2007 IPCC report mistakenly said that Himalayan glaciers were in danger of disappearing by 2035. When various parties tried to tell the IPCC this was ludicrous, Pachauri called those people names and disparaged their intelligence. He said they were practicing “voodoo science” and “schoolboy science.” Eventually, however, the IPCC admitted its glacier claim was wrong.
…Pachauri has publicly ‘joked’ that his critics (aka climate skeptics) should be given a one-way ticket to outer space. He has alleged that they are part of a “carefully orchestrated” campaign, and that they believe “asbestos is as good as talcum powder – and I hope they put it on their faces every day.” Are these remarks worthy of the leader of a prominent international body?
No. He’s a hack. And so is John Kerry for praising him.
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I’ve switched themes in an attempt to solve my ongoing difficulties in logging in to the site. It’s TwentyTwelve, the same theme I use for SafeIsNotAnOption. If it fixes the technical issues, I’ll start to pretty it up.
When You Make Government Responsible For Your Health
You give them control over your life.
The Founders would be appalled at how much of our liberty we’ve willingly surrendered.
The Noble, Objective Scientist
…exists primarily in mythology:
There is deeply ingrained in American culture — particularly nowadays on the Left — the stereotype of the scientist as pure in intent and action, caring only for the Truth, let the chips fall where they may. The scientist works readily with other scientists (except when s/he is working alone, late into the night, thinking deep thoughts), accepts — nay, encourages — challenges to her/his theories and findings, welcomes new information and hypotheses, and is always willing to change his/her mind based on better data, models, and/or reasoning.
It is, to quote the late Douglas Adams, a load of dingos’ kidneys. A very large, steaming, rotting load of dingos’ kidneys.
Particularly when it comes to a politicized field like climate “science.”