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To all Muslim members of the Balloon Juice community, Ramadan kareem!
Apologies if I should have posted this last night, but it just didn’t seem appropriate given the theme of the evening…
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To all Muslim members of the Balloon Juice community, Ramadan kareem!
Apologies if I should have posted this last night, but it just didn’t seem appropriate given the theme of the evening…
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David Koch
Romney is so desperate to get the Bain/Tax return scandals off the front page he just killed a bunch of people in Denver.
JPL
@David Koch: We know that the problem was not enough people had guns.
JPL
Wow, At least ten dead and thirty nine injured.
David Koch
@JPL: This could have been avoid if they had passed out guns to all the theater patrons.
Also too, this is obviously the work of Huma Abedin.
JPL
They are saying it was a long gunman. MSNBC has a live feed from Denver.
msnbc.com
David Koch
Hollywood special Xfects have gone too far, now they’re shooting live ammo at the IMAX!
Calouste
Ok, blogpimping:
Inspired by SteveM and his stories about Joe Olivo, the small businessman who shows up on TV or in the papers every other week whenever someone wants to talk to a small businessman spouting Chamber of Commerce talking points, I decided to do a bit of research on Jack Gilchrist, the independent businessman who appears in the ad that Romney released today.
And what do you know? Both Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney visited Gilchrist’s company during the primaries. Isn’t that a coincidence? An independent businessman is visited by both the Mormon Republican candidates in the race. A businessman so independent, that he endorsed Huntsman as part of “New Hampshire Job Creators for Huntsman”, before later appearing on a Romney campaign conference call.
amk
Tennessee judge rules that a Muslim congregation has the right to occupy their newly built mosque.
isildur
@amk: I saw this turd at the bottom of your linked article.
“A lawyer for the mosque’s opponents told the Daily News Journal he believed the ruling had circumvented the public will.”
The public fucking will. Because that’s what we should be listening to on fundamental issues of religious freedom. The public will.
Hell, why even have a bill of rights? Let’s just enforce rights by polling and referenda
David Koch
They said Batman was gonna kill at this weekend’s box office, but I didn’t think they meant it literally.
Which reminds me, I need to call my broker and short sell Time Warner stock.
Citizen_X
Holy crap. Now msnbc.com is reporting 14 dead and at least 50 injured.
Joseph Nobles
http://www.icmtn.org/statement_ICMTN.html
It sounds like they will get in by the end of Ramadan at least.
JPL
I had to turn off the live feed. My knowledge of guns is limited to bb guns so it’s hard for me the fathom a device with a clip that can kill and injure that many.
JGabriel
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Citizen_X:
NYT is reporting the same, at a showing of The Dark Knight Rises.
I’m wondering if it’s another right-wing stochastic terror attack inspired by Rush’s, and others, tirades against the Bane/Bain homophone.
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mai naem
Werll, I’m sure it was done by the musleem islamofascistcaliphatearabbrownskins because white caucasians never do mass shootings in movie theaters. Also too, this is all proof of further conspiracy that liberal Hollywood wanted Bane to be a bad character and connected to Mitt Romney’s Bain .
Yeah, I know this comment is in bad taste but, hey, David Koch started it already.
JPL
@mai naem: Hopefully it is a white guy. The police have him in custody so we should know soon. The Muslim community suffers enough from our ignorance.
mai naem
Speaking of poor taste, my page has an ad featuring Chuck Norris telling me to trigger to vote.
freelancer
Holy Shit. I just got back from a midnight showing that went off without a hitch. Only to read this horror story. WTF. The movie is overtly political without taking a side, and this isn’t going to help it any further.
The film is AMAZEBALLZ, btw.
ETA: This is sickening and my sympathies go out to everyone impacted. That should have been obvious.
Narcissus
Anybody know anything about the shooter yet?
JPL
@Narcissus: The haven’t released information yet. They are searching his apartment for explosives.
JGabriel
@Narcissus:
AP is reporting that the police have a suspect in custody, and that he may have explosives at his residence, but they aren’t releasing a name yet.
From the Denver Post:
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Winston Smith
@David Koch:
Pam Geller to blame this on the start of Ramadan in 3… 2… 1…
NotMax
Guardian live blog about this is here.
Unlikely to be much of solid import until the next police press conference Fri. morning Denver time.
JPL
msnbc.com has a live feed from Denver. Homeland Security notified the President this morning of the shooting.
freelancer
MSNBC links to a local Denver station here.
freelancer
I wonder what Coldplay song Aaron Sorkin will use for the montage about this night in Season 3 of the Newsroom.
BruinKid
Holy shit, I just got back from a midnight showing of the movie at UCLA. Was sky high, and I come home to see this.
So incredibly horrific.
:-(
NotMax
@JPL
SOP.
He was almost certainly also notified of the mass shooting earlier this week in Toronto (25 shot, 2 died).
WereBear
We don’t know yet, but the last seven or eight were, what? White, right wing, paranoid gun nuts (or am I repeating myself?)
What kind of lunatic picks the release of a Batman movie? Unless it was the Bain/Bane thing; and how stupid is that?
mai naem
@NotMax: Wow, Obama’s got the power to take their guns away from Canadians too?
JGabriel
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MSNBC:
Shooting location is about 20 miles from Columbine.
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JPL
@NotMax: I understand that.
NotMax
What kind of lunatic picks the release of a Batman movie?
A lunatic who wants to inflict as much damage as possible in a darkened enclosed space with narrow aisles and limited exits and which will be guaranteed to have a large, packed crowd of civilians due to the popularity of the event.
That it happened to be named “Batman” may quite well be irrelevant.
freelancer
Anne Hathaway is about to become an incidental Right-Wing Hero for a line she has in the film that is quippy, but is going to reverberate with the NRA crowd and they are sure going to be putting their feet into their collective maw soon enough in response to this psycho and actions.
JGabriel
The Guardian liveblog is reporting that the shooter is a 24 year old male, based on information from the local police chief.
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LGRooney
My first after-coffee thought on this was Columbine – goth kids bored with their suburban lives… My second was gang stupidity but I know neither the level of gang activity there nor in what neighborhoods it occurs.
My next thought was Balloon Juice so I popped in and now I am engrossed in one overriding thought: where’s my atheist conspiracy holiday?
gene108
Heard in earlier news reports that people didn’t react initially, because they thought the sound of a gun being shot was part of the movie, i.e. the movie sound is so loud, it makes it hard to distinguish a gun going off at close range.
NotMax
Anyone with any close familiarity about Colorado gun laws?
I don’t know, but Denver may have its own statutes separate from the state as well.
JGabriel
Guardian:
The “smoke bomb(s)” set off by the shooter may have been something stronger, which would line up with reports that the shooter was wearing a gas mask:
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JGabriel
@mai naem:
And mine is featuring ads for “Target Grocery Coupons”.
Someone needs to look at building some sensitivity into advertising placement algorithms.
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NotMax
@JGabriel
Don’t much relish what I’m about to say, but that initially calls up speculation of someone with military training.
Cermet
@LGRooney: Gang? Almost all the time it is a white male under the age of thirty; gangs rarely target random mass numbers of people to kill (really, never heard of that) – most such killings that do occur by gangs when a number of people are killed occur when they target other gang members amoung a crowd (still, mass murder.) But this type of cold blood, brutal murder of large numbers of innocent woman, teens is always done by younger white males – just like most all serial killers. What is it about white males in this country? Wish black males would teach us how to behave – if you are gonna kill, kill the F’er that crossed you, not inocent people or far worse, hunt people (mostly women) down as if they are just animals to be killed for pleasure. Monsters.
And we lock blacks up and call them criminals … .
Anya
This is beyond horrible. My heart goes out to all the victims. I bet you most of them are young people.
EDIT – removed the unnecessary speculation.
JPL
@NotMax: When mass shootings occur, if the shooter is white, then he is deranged. If he is brown, then all browns are bad.
This is tacky but is Netanyahu blaming Iran yet.
Ash
Wonder if it someone from the military base considering he had automatic weapons and an f’n bullet proof vest.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@LGRooney:
That ‘goth kids” meme was exploded years ago. You probably need another cup of coffee, then read Columbine by Dave Cullen.
And the gang thing? What Cermat said.
someguy
@JPL:
Hopefully it’s a white republican guy. This country suffers enough from *their* ignorance and the more of this shit we can lay at their doorstep, the better a shot we have at reclaiming it from these gun toting, extremist religious fanatics. The Republican next door is the real threat.
NotMax
@JPL
Not yet.
Tacky?
Have to prove it was not a deranged “Make Mine Marvel” fanboy first.
Tacky.
JPL
The fact that they aren’t releasing his name, doesn’t surprise me. They probably want to see if he received outside support.
I’m surprised that neighbors who had to be evacuated haven’t said anything yet.
PurpleGirl
On topic: To BJ Muslim readers: Have a Blessed Month and many satisfying evening feasts with family and friends.
NotMax
@JPL
And he may have requested counsel, which can slow down release of some info until certain procedures and formalities are finished.
JGabriel
WereBear @ 29:
Presumably the same kind of lunatic that targets a Congresswoman’s “Congress On Your Corner” event, a Unitarian Church, or the ACLU and Tides Foundation.
But that’s just speculation at this point, albeit based upon recent history.
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NotMax
Will Rush go there? Or Beck? Or Tucker Carlson? Or Malkin? Or the Breibartistas?
It will happen. Count on it.
Ramadan + Mass Shooting = Fast & Furious
Not a betting person, but would lay down some real folding money that one of those cited or of their ilk will step over that particular line to try to somehow, some way, tie this to the Obama administration and the Mooslumsssss.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Geller or Malkin.
JGabriel
@NotMax:
Probably not. Police have already released at statement that Muslims are not involved in the attack.
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Omnes Omnibus
@JGabriel: That’s what “they” want you to think. You know Obama ordered the police to say that, right? The cover-up is a part of the plan.
NotMax
@JGabriel
Now you’re bringing in those pesky facts. :)
The looney right wears fact-proof body armor.
Hayy
Thanks !