Day: May 27, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety admits “it was wrong” not to immediately breach the class door

This is just horrible.

Seriously, awful.

This week has been one of the worst in some time. We are mourning.. we are angry.. we are sad.

What makes this entire situation worse is new information that maybe police could have done more to stop Salvador Ramos before he killed as many as he did in Uvlade’s Robb Elementary.

Steven McCraw, the Director and Colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety, points to a map of the shooter’s movements during a press conference in front of Robb Elemenary School where a deadly shooting left 19 children and two teachers dead, in Uvalde, Tx., U.S., on Friday, May 27, 2022. Ninteen children and two teachers were killed when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Tx. Photographer: Matthew Busch/CNN

New information today has created more public anger:

While taking questions from reporters during Friday’s news conference, Col. Steven McCraw of the Texas Department of Public Safety criticized some aspects of the police response to the shooting, in particular regarding the time it took for officers to engage with the gunman.
“A decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation,” McCraw said of the incident commander’s “thought process” at the time.
Rather than immediately try to breach the classroom and engage with the gunman, McCraw said the commander — who he later identified as the school district’s chief of police — decided that “there was time to retrieve the keys, and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject.”“From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision, period. There’s no excuse for that. But again, I wasn’t there,” he added.
“We believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can,” McCraw continued. “When there’s an active shooter, the rules change.”

Just awful.

May 27, 2022
IT’S MOURNING IN AMERICA

Can we admit, this week has been awful.. the mood of America is divided.. depressed… morbid.. and angry. We are mixed with rage and rot..

The apple has been browning for years.. it has made it to the core..

We have no other words to offer.. Just that it’s all sickening, and awful. Just awful..

May 27, 2022
BUFFALO NEWS SPLASH: DID SOMEONE HAVE 30 MINUTES ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF GROCERY STORE SHOOTING?

The New York paper doing great reporting not being seen in national sources:

Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist’s plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, two law enforcement officials told The Buffalo News.
Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, the two officials said.
The two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation stated these individuals were invited by Gendron to read about his mass shooting plans and the target location about 30 minutes before Gendron killed 10 people at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14.
The News could not determine if the retired agent accepted the invitation.

MORE INFORMATION AND THE ENTIRE ARTICLE CAN BE READ HERE..

May 27, 2022
Monkeypox pop: More states

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified nine cases of monkeypox across seven U.S. states, officials said Thursday: in California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

“The U.S. has the resources we need to help us respond to monkeypox in this country right now. We’ve been preparing for this type of outbreak for decades,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a briefing.

Walensky mentioned two vaccines that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for smallpox and stored in the National Strategic Stockpile. The U.S. has 100 million doses of one vaccine, called ACAM2000. The second, called Jynneos, is FDA-approved for use against monkeypox in particular and some doses of it have already been distributed.

Although some of the U.S. patients have a history of travel to areas where monkeypox has been spreading recently, that’s not true for every one. Given that, Walensky said, “we need to presume that there is some community spread.”

May 27, 2022
Winnie the Cruel

First let’s report what Variety has splashed across the Internet yesterday:

A.A. Milne’s original “Winnie the Pooh” stories only lapsed into the public domain five months ago, but the tubby little cubby has already made his foray into slasher films.
“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” wrapped earlier this month, and the first stills showing a demonic Pooh and Piglet about to pounce on a scantily-clad young woman relaxing in a hot tub have already set the internet on fire.
In an interview with Variety, director Rhys Waterfield, who is in post-production on four other films including “Firenado” and “Demonic Christmas Tree,” said the response to the stills has been “absolutely crazy.”
“Because of all the press and stuff, we’re just going to start expediting the edit and getting it through post production as fast as we can,” said Waterfield. “But also, making sure it’s still good. It’s gonna be a high priority”

We get it.. due to licensing changes anyone can use Winnie the Pooh now in whatever way they want… But does something seems a little bit creepy about this at this time, doesn’t it?

Maybe it’s the notion that we just got through another mass shooting, with this crime spree injuring and killing children.

And now one of the last vestiges of innocence, Winnie the Pooh himself, is being turned into a blood curdling, murderous rampaging monster.

Nothing is sacred in Hollywood anyway. But it’s just that something seems to be a little off kilter with announcing this news this week.

Perhaps we are just getting old, gray, and a little more melancholy.. But .. let Winnie just be the Pooh.. (PS, we know the movie will suck anyway)

May 27, 2022
Documents are revealing that the government is at least trying to think about the apocalypse?

The New York Times is splashing some very interesting information about apocalyptic battle plans that the United States government has formulated.

The TIMES has published documents, and has been given copies showcasing what the government has done to prepare for things like nuclear Armageddon, the president taking over all communications during a national crisis, and much much more.

From the report:

WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios — like the aftermath of a nuclear attack — when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies.
Until now, public knowledge of what the government put into those classified directives, which invoke emergency and wartime powers granted by Congress or otherwise claimed by presidents, has been limited to declassified descriptions of those developed in the early Cold War. In that era, they included steps like imposing martial law, rounding up people deemed dangerous and censoring news from abroad.
It has not been clear what is in the modern directives — known as presidential emergency action documents — because under administrations of both parties, none have been made public or shown to Congress. But the newly disclosed documents, which relate to the George W. Bush administration’s efforts to revise the draft orders after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, offer clues.

For years, this was the stuff of conspiracy theory dreams. People accuse those who would say such things as being arbiters of misinformation. But now we see, the government has at least attempted to get prepared for in time scenarios. The best laid plans of mice and men will go awry, anyone who saw any Hollywood blockbuster will know that despite the best intentions to keep a country surviving through nuclear Armageddon, unless Will Smith or Bruce Willis is involved, most things will fail.
But that’s not saying it’s not worth still trying right?
Now that we’re on the subject, let’s see some of those files about what happens if the alien invasion lands on plan of Earth and begins to devouris. As Ian Punnett would say on COAST TO COAST AM, “eat the Canadians first”

May 27, 2022