What is it with Denver and mass shootings? Especially around schools! If you thought California was all kinds of crazy, just try Colorado. There are some serious problems there.
So it seems that this '18' year-old (I guess those Argentinian girls are different) has been unusual for a long time now, in keeping with her interesting name, and has been doodling guns and death and such. In fact, she's given those around her, and those who look for things like this (hint to psychopaths: If you post your insanity on a web-site, you're really crying for help.) (And we'll give it to you.), reason to believe that she plans on following in the footsteps of the Columbine High School shooters. She then went so far as to leave her Surfside (a suburb of Miami), Florida home for the Denver area, where she reportedly bought a pump-action shotgun (just like the Columbine shooters), and a camouflage outfit, just like ... uh ... NOT the Columbine shooters. More like a soldier.
And it's not like there haven't been mass shootings and other disturbing behavior in Florida for decades. Antita Bryant was right.
They're so worried about this that they've put all the local schools on lockdown, and called out the bloodhounds (figuratively speaking). They're serious about finding this bird.
Just to make it even more interesting, we have a female soldier, who could be just about the same age as Sol Pais, turning up missing from an Expert Field Medical Badge competition being held on Fort Carson Army Base, just 77 miles from Columbine High School.
Now, to be fair, she was out, on foot, on the Land Navigation course. On the other hand, this course isn't the Sahara or the Himalayas, as the military humor here makes pretty clear. (In case you don't get it, these guys are mocking it.) Besides, you're surrounded by people. If you go missing, you are either extremely unlucky, terribly incompetent, or deliberatly AWOL. Either way, they've got half the military out looking for this missing soldier.
Could they be connected? There's certainly a lot of confusion on the news wires. One says she wanted a gun while another says she has a gun. What else are they confused about?
10:25 EDT
As if their troubles weren't already bad enough already, Lori Laughlin and her designer husband are now being charged with money laundering. Shoulda taken that plea deal, your majesty.
But it doesn't stop there. Now, one of their daughters, probably the one who looked most shocked at all of this, is now also being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly having been fully aware of her parents' plot to bribe her way into USC.
Jussie Smollett is back in the news. How ironic. He was supposed to break the Mueller Report news cycle. Not only did he fail at that, he created an entirely new news cycle all around himself AND Kim Foxx. Newly revealed texts between her and the prosecutor, Joseph Magats, not only reveal that she regarded Mr. Smollett as a "washed up celeb", but that she was never actually recused. She had her fingers in this pie all along.
Just a hunch, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Mr. Smollett will make a plea deal on the mail fraud charge, get probation and community service, after which he'll land yet another bit part on some obscure show that fails in its first season, after which he'll never gets his face in the paper again until, three or four years later, he's arrested for DUI, heroin trafficking, or some such thing.
I know. I'm beginning to feel like a gossup columnist. But, hey, this all began as an alleged 'hate crime' perpetrated by two, white, presumably straight, Trump supporters. And that hits pretty close to home. This was clearly politically motivated, either way. And it still is. It's just bizarre how all these other details start popping up. It's like watching an old Keystone Cops movie. Eventually, they'll all gather in a circle, and shoot each other in their feet.
And it doesn't even stop there. Jussie, now vacationing in Hawaii, has not managed to put any of this behind him yet. There is now video of him in a heated exchange with someone on the phone, insisting that he beat the rap. (No, he has NOT!) (Not yet anyway.) (There's still the mail-fraud charge to be dealt with, and that one is a federal offense.) Now, who could have been on the other end of that call? I'm pretty sure we'll find out soon.
Gee. It must be awful being on the receiving end of the club you beat so many others with for so long. And by club, I mean setting the media hounds loose on them. In this world of 360 degree politics, your enemy is seldom actually the one who seems to be after you. They're just the weapon. The wielder is somewhere else.
I'm beginning to think that the ... You Know Who ... have a special program where, every day, someone gets handed a list, and they go into a special room, and they pick up a special phone, and they start dialing numbers, which are the numbers of reporters and/or police hot-lines. Then they say something like, "Hi. I have an anonymoust tip. I overheard my classmate boasting to her boyfriend how her famous mom bribed the rowing coach to get her into school here. And that's just not right. I actually had to study."
Q has already been proven correct in his/their prediction that "THERE WILL COME A TIME NONE OF THEM WILL BE ABLE TO WALK DOWN THE STREET."
11:55 EDT
I'm sure you, too, can read the hand writing on the wall.
12:26 EDT
You're going to be hearing his name more and more.
12:58 EDT
More imortantly, if true, why was it done? Did someone in the FBI figure out that Huma Abedin was ratting out her boss, HRC, out to some other intelligence agency? Were they trying to protect HRC by spying on her enemies? Or were certain elements within the FBI worried that they'd been left out of the loop when the loop changed tactics, with the new plan making them the fall guys?
And why was the FBI still surveilling Bradley/Chelsea Manning while (s)he was in jail?
13:28 EDT
Boo Hoo.
Have almost a thousand of their mosques been vandalized by Christians last year alone?
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14:01 EDT
Is it any wonder I'm so skeptical of these guys?
14:44 EDT
What's with all the burning treasures?
Sprinklers have been around about a century now, but they had none. The firefighters ran out of water because the government had neglected to maintain the hydrants.
I hope they at least had everything fully photographed and documented.
Look at all the effort that went into bringing us the Book of Mormon. If we lose our past, we lose our future.
15:58 EDT
Sol Pais is dead by her own hand.
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