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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Motive remains a mystery after suspected gunman in Lunar New Year mass shooting found dead
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[LATIMES] Authorities have identified the man responsible for a deadly shooting inside a Monterey Park dance studio as 72-year-old Hemet resident Huu Can Tran.

Tran died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a strip mall parking lot near Sepulveda and Hawthorne boulevards in Torrance, law enforcement sources said.

"We still are not clear on the motive," Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. "The investigation continues ... we want to know how something this awful can happen."

The manhunt began after the shooter opened fire inside Star Ballroom Dance Studio on West Garvey Avenue around 10:20 p.m. Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring 10 others. It was Lunar New Year’s Eve.

About 20 minutes after the shooting in Monterey Park, Tran walked into Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in nearby Alhambra, officials said. "The suspect walked in there, probably with the intent to kill two more people," Luna said. "But two community members disarmed him, took possession of his weapon, and the suspect bravely ran away."
A pack, not a herd. Well done, guys!
At 10:20 a.m. Sunday, police located the white cargo van that was seen leaving the scene of the shooting, Luna said. When officers left their patrol vehicle to make contact with the occupant, they heard one gunshot come from the van.

At 1 p.m., a SWAT team determined that the suspect had a self-inflicted gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
at the scene. The man inside the van was Tran, the mass shooting suspect, authorities said.

During the search of the van, several pieces of evidence were found linking the suspect to both locations. A handgun inside the van, which had stolen license plates, authorities said.

"I can confirm that there are no outstanding suspects," Luna said.

The weapon taken by community members in Alhambra was a magazine-fed semiautomatic assault pistol, with an extended magazine attached, according to authorities. This particular firearm with an extended magazine is illegal to possess in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
Oh dear me. How absolutely dreadful.
An advisory from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department identified the suspect as an adult Asian man, about 5 feet 10 inches and weighing 150 pounds. An image showed the man in a black leather jacket, beanie and glasses. Tran had been living at The Lakes at Hemet West, a trailer park whose sign billed it as "A 55+ Active Living Community," according to a public record and law enforcement sources. A security guard turned away a Times news hound at the front gate Sunday night.
A bit long in the tooth to go suddenly amok...
"I still have questions in my mind, which is, what was the motive for this shooter? Did he have a mental illness? Was he a domestic violence abuser? How did he get these guns, and was it through legal means? Well, those questions will have to be answered in the future," said U.S. Rep. Judy Chu during a Sunday night news conference.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Motive remains a mystery after suspected gunman in Lunar New Year mass shooting found dead

How about, "He was a homicidal nutcase"?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/23/2023 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  magazine-fed semiautomatic assault pistol, with an extended magazine attached Now we have assault pistols?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/23/2023 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  His hat was on too tight?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 9:15 Comments || Top||


#5  Gee, maybe the motive of "jealous rage" against wife and those around her mentioned in the headline is, in fact, the motive? Journalism has really hit yet another rock bottom.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/23/2023 14:02 Comments || Top||

#6  BREAKING:. Another mass shooting in gun controlled California tonight.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 01/23/2023 21:40 Comments || Top||

#7  It is weirdly similar.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/23/2023 22:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Another ederly Asian shooter. Zhao Chunli.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 01/23/2023 23:24 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Perplexed by Power Slap League
[Breitbart] Those absorbing the slaps in Dana White’s Power Slap League are not the only ones left dazed and confused by the new sport. Bills star wide receiver Stefon Diggs can’t seem to make sense of what he’s watching either.

The Power Slap League, promoted by UFC President Dana White, premiered on Wednesday and showcased a particularly brutal episode where Sheena Bathory knocked out Kortney Olsen.

Diggs commented on the spectacle on his Instagram story.

“This some crazy sh-t right here,” he said. “They be out here smacking the sh-t out of each other.”

“What am I watching? I never watch TV anymore only Netflix and this what be on TV Jesus Christ,” Diggs wrote. “Is this a real sport?”

According to the New York Post, “The UFC-backed league featured individual matches between two opponents who alternate between ‘striker’ and ‘defender’ roles. A striker — determined by seeding or coin toss — has 30 seconds to wind up and deliver a slap, while the defender has 30 seconds to recover. Matches can go from 3-5 rounds, and a defender who is knocked down has a 10-count to get back on their feet and continue. If there is no knockout, judges score each round on a 10-point system.”

Is that a sport?

Everyone will have to decide that for themselves, but it certainly doesn’t require the training, skill, technique, savvy, or preparation time that normal combat sports do. Unfortunately, it also could be far more dangerous to participants than most things we consider to be sports.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Slap contest Heavyweight Knockouts Compilation 2020 from Russia.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2023 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  What is the Ottoman Slap and How Effective Is It?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2023 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  The slap of the Ottoman Russian
That ended their latest discussion
Knocked Heinie a verst,
"But I got to slap first,"
Which appealed to the fair-playing Prussian.
Posted by: Gomez Hupolurong3358 || 01/23/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Now somebody is beating up an Olson twin and calling it a sport. I will stick to curling.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/23/2023 19:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Looks like a quick path to multiple concussions. Boxing at least has body blows.
Posted by: magpie || 01/23/2023 23:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Georgia Bulldogs visited strip club with recruiters before tragic auto crash
[FOX] A new report surrounding the fatal car crash that took the lives of Georgia Bulldogs football player Devin Willock and staffer Chandler LeCroy shows footage taken outside a strip club early morning on Jan. 15 that adds some context to the tragic incident.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution acquired footage that shows multiple Georgia players, along with Bulldogs staffers, leaving Toppers International Showbar around 2:30 a.m., 15 minutes before the fatal car crash.

The crash also involved Warren McClendon, a teammate of Willock’s, recruiting staff member Tory Bowles and two female staff members from the club, who were seen leaving with them 30 minutes after the club had closed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 07:14 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No tox reports released yet. No mention made of crash in the UGA Alumni Website, only woke happy talk and smiley faces.

College football recruitment, the seamy side. Or is this where we are supposed to simply bow our heads and move along ?

UGA Alumni
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  College football recruitment, the seamy side. Or is this where we are supposed to simply bow our heads and move along ?

Beso,

Sadly, I think that's the idea.

And I'm sorry...but I really don't think Ms. LeCroy was there to figure out rushing stats.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/23/2023 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Sex, drunks, and rock&roll (or crash)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/23/2023 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Big time college football. Lots of money involved.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/23/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref "rushing stats" at #2. That really should take Snark O'The Day.

(Fred....any chance for a 'working girls' topical category. Or is it just too soon ?)
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't even get me started about ball-handling skillz
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Likely amateur night.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 13:41 Comments || Top||


#9  The wrecked vehicle is about as messed up as any wrecked vehicle I've ever seen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/23/2023 18:04 Comments || Top||

#10  So, like, visiting a strip club is not really a big deal.

Performing some interesting acts in a moving vehicle, though....hmmmm
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/23/2023 20:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Hand jobs can't shift, or steer.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 23:27 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
China has reported nearly 13,000 COVID19-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] What went around came around?
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 
While
China is ranked #153 out of 166 reporting countries providing WHO data.

The USA is ranked #3 with 147,761 "reported/claimed" infections and 1,576 C-19 "claimed" deaths in the last 7 days.

Note: Japan and S. Korea are #1 & #2.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/23/2023 3:46 Comments || Top||

#2  And I should believe any Chinese statistics, why?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/23/2023 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ This.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/23/2023 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The point I have been making for almost 2 years now.
CCP has never published true C-19-23 figures.

Its figures were like the same numbers plus or minus <100 for months in 2021 & again 2022.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/23/2023 14:50 Comments || Top||

#5  NN2N1 - From your time at the Red Roof Inn did you know Gary Harrell? A friend told me last week that he is rapidly slipping away from an inoperable brain tumor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 15:17 Comments || Top||

#6  GARY? GARY HARRELL!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 23:28 Comments || Top||


Kentucky grandma, 72, was struck and killed by falling Denny's sign that crushed her car while collecting her dying husband from hospital and taking him to hospice with their daughter
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Lillian Mae Curtis, 72, died after being crushed in a car by falling Denny's sign
  • The Denny's Grand Slam?
  • She had been returning from picking her husband up from heart surgery, who was in hospice and given only three months to live by doctors

  • Officials believe the sign fell due to high winds and are investigating
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What are the odds?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/23/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I can only say, a higher authority needs them both elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3  What are the odds?

Shoulda bought a lottery ticket instead.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 01/23/2023 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  RIP Lillian Mae Curtis.
Posted by: Lumpy and Tenille4614 || 01/23/2023 15:23 Comments || Top||


VIDEO – California Man Exits Car Moments Before Boulder Crushes It: ‘I'm a Little Traumatized'
[Breitbart] A California man narrowly escaped death on the Pacific Coast Highway recently when his car was crushed under a boulder.

Moments after Mauricio Henao parked on the side of the road in Malibu, he got out to answer a phone call, Insider reported Sunday.

“I was in the driver’s seat, walked out, got a call, ran back inside, came out, and the car was just totaled. I ran out and saw my car just crushed,” he recalled.

A four-foot boulder was sitting on the crushed roof of the vehicle and Henao described it as being as big as the car’s hood.
"There was a roadrunner, and a coyote,..."
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To quote, the Barroom scene from "My Name Is Nobody" Lucky $hit.......
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/23/2023 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  So... Karma does warning shots?
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/23/2023 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  "I'm a little traumatized."

I don't dare open that link to read the story now.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/23/2023 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps,...it was his wife's car?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 23:36 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Rep. Allen To Introduce Legislation Targeting Chinese Military Access To U.S. Research Funding
[Daily Caller] Georgia Republican Rep. Rick Allen is introducing legislation to close loopholes exploited by Chinese military firms to access federal research grants.

Allen’s legislation would prohibit the National Science Foundation (NSF) from providing grants to any individual or entity affiliated with or related to a Chinese military company. The bill is known as the American Science First Act and seeks to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from exploiting research funded by U.S. taxpayers.

"The American Science First Act takes concrete steps to combat the CCP’s persistent efforts to steal American intellectual property and use it against us," Allen told the Daily Caller.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 03:38 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  This should have ended long ago. Why does our government continue to facilitate the betrayal ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Follow the money, B. Follow the money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/23/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  File this under: common sense
Posted by: mossomo || 01/23/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  How about legislation allowing Universities to take money from either the US government or the CCP but not both.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/23/2023 19:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Republican Bill Would Defund Planned Parenthood
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2023 00:09 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Basic Logic Applied
Why would any government use Taxpayer $$$$$ to fund the killing of future Taxpayers?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/23/2023 4:06 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Because they are NOT actually paying taxes ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2023 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Because they're planning on illegal aliens as their future voters? Basic logic applied.

Planned Parenthood is for eugenics, cleaning out the undesirables by refusing to let them breed. Why do you think their clinics are located where they are?
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 || 01/23/2023 6:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Planned Parenthood turns tax payer dollars into cash for Democrats. Why do you think Dems support gender transitions? Because PP is the #1 provider of drugs and surgery for conversions.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/23/2023 6:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Another "Great Pumpkin" perennial mythical story like "Republicans will defund NPR."

Y A W N!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Why would any government use Taxpayer $$$$$ to fund the killing of future Taxpayers?

"To Serve Man"
Posted by: Glang Omoth6305 || 01/23/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#7  I think they'd have better results defunding the FBI, CIA, ATF and the NSA.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/23/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Another "Great Pumpkin" perennial mythical story like "Republicans will defund NPR."

Underlining that there will be a lot of posturing over the next few years, because very few Republican-controlled House initiatives will make it through the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2023 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  I think they'd have better results defunding the FBI, CIA, ATF and the NSA.

Amen!
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/23/2023 10:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I hate to be the constant negative Nancy but GIVERnment budgets grow, freedoms are shrunk and taxes go up. There will be more funds for PP, NPR, FBI…. Next year than this year.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/23/2023 20:02 Comments || Top||

#11  This Republican bill should be defunding a helluva lot more than Planned Parenthood, that's for sure.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/23/2023 20:41 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Study of airplane wastewater shows COVID-19 travel restrictions failed
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While I don’t doubt that COVID restrictions failed, unless the aircraft tested had documented tank sterilization I wouldn’t bet the ranch on this study. The airlines’ honey wagons only empty, not sterilize the tanks.
And just for fun, while you are waiting to board your next flight, watch the various servicing activities that take place. You might notice that some aircraft have the potable water service location behind the lavatory tank drain. Picture what a subsonic wind does to any spillage and its path. Never drink airplane water.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/23/2023 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ..or down stream.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/23/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  This is an example of why you should avoid a biology degree at all costs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/23/2023 19:32 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2023-01-23
  Burkina Faso says 66 women, children freed from extremists
Sun 2023-01-22
   Iran Guards warn EU terror label would be 'mistake'
Sat 2023-01-21
  Turkish-Backed SNA Leader Killed, Militants Wounded In Syria’s Azaz
Fri 2023-01-20
  Antifa Shoots a Cop in Atlanta; Call for a ''Night of Rage''
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  Boko Haram Terrorists Launch Attack On Borno Community, Kill Farmer, Abduct Eight Others
Wed 2023-01-18
  Al-Shabaab attacks military base after loss of key stronghold, driven off leaving 21 deaders behind
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  Terrorists Storm Church In Katsina, Northwest Nigeria, Kidnap 25 Worshippers
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  Man arrested after uranium found at UK’s Heathrow Airport
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  33 ISIS Militants Arrested In Five Iraqi Governorates
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  Senior ISIS leader killed in Somalia’s Puntland state
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  Coordinated attacks kill 14 Malian soldiers
Thu 2023-01-12
  Al-Qaeda Emir Killed During Ma'rib Clashes with Sana'a Forces
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  Thai troops kill six Bad Guys near Myanmar border
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  McCarthy confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees
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