Media Shouts, "America's Deadliest Mass Shooting" (Pulse Shooting: 12 June 2016; 49 Dead)

Orlando Pride is the name of Orlando, Florida's national professional women's soccer team, to first play in 2016.

Death toll...20, 50, 59 (Orlando Fire Dept), 50 (Orlando Police Dept)...

"Orlando authorities revise death toll to 49; previous number included terrorist."~ Jake Tapper, CNN

Injured...42, 53...

When the media proclaims and leads their stories with announcements that the 6.12.2016 Pulse shooting is "America's deadliest mass shooting," and variants like that, they are setting up the next act of violence.

The psychological need to increase and compete in the body counts is a media-driven phenomenon. I discussed this in my book, and throughout my writings for a dozen years.

Robert Damon Schneck shares the following from Instapundit:

A selfie of the terrorist.

Fifty-nine were killed, 53 have been hospitalized, and the shooter was killed.

Breaking: Local and federal law enforcers noted at a 7:15 am Orlando news conference that there were "multiple fatalities," perhaps as many as 20 dead. Reportedly 42 injured were sent to the local hospitals. The gunman may have had Islamic terrorist "leanings," according to the FBI spokesperson.

Omar Mir Seddique (or Saddiqui) Mateen has been named as the gunman who killed as many as 20 people and wounded 40 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, CBS and NBC News reports. He was later killed by police after taking hostages at the LGBT club. Mateen, 29, is a U.S. citizen from Port St. Lucie, Florida, according to CBS News. He has ties to radical Islamic ideology, CBS reports.

Both of Mateen’s parents are originally from Afghanistan, according to CBS News.

Mateen was born in New York, NBC News reports.

He was married in 2009, public records show. It is not clear if he was still married at the time of the attack.

Mateen is a registered Democrat who has also lived in Fort Pierce, Florida, according to online records.

Florida Senator Bill Nelson says, according to intelligence committee staff, Mateen has ties to ISIS.

Mateen called 911 at the time of the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS, a U.S. official tells CNN, and mentioned the Boston bombers in the call. He had been investigated by the FBI in the past for possible ties to Islamic extremism, officials say, but there was no evidence to charge him with anything. ISIS sympathizers have praised the attack on jihadi forums.

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The name Omar is a Hebrew name meaning, "eloquent," "speaker." The grandson of Esau in the Old Testament. Famous Bearers: 12th century Persian poet and astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam; Caliph Omar II, who made Islam an imperial power; actor Omar Sharif.

Mir is Muslim (common in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India), from a title of Persian origin, a short form of Arabic Amir "prince," "commander."

Siddiqui is a family name or surname meaning "The Truthful" in Arabic. Siddiquis are spread all over the world mainly Asia Pacific and Europe. Siddiquis are generally considered to be the descendants of the first Muslim Caliph Abu Bakr as-Siddiq of the Rashidun Caliphate (The four Rightly guided Calips).

Mateen is a Muslim name meaning "powerful, and thus, for example, variants like the name Abdul Mateen is a Muslim name meaning, "servant of the firm," "strong."

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(Thanks, Theia Aiether)

The day after singer Christina Grimmie died from an Orlando shooting, a Florida gay club in the same city has erupted in gunfire. The Orlando club named Pulse was the 2 a.m. target of a long-gun attack and possible hostage situation early Sunday, June 12,  2016.

Multiple injuries are reported. "Mass casualty situation" is what it is being called. Some reports said 250 have being hit, with at least 42 have been sent to hospitals.

"Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running," the club posted on its Facebook page.

Pulse describes itself as "the hottest gay bar" in the heart of Orlando. Hours before the shooting, the club urged partygoers to attend its "Latin flavor" night Saturday.

Ricardo Negron Almodovar said he was in the club when the shooting started about 2 a.m.
"People on the dance floor and bar got down on the floor and some of us who were near the bar and back exit managed to go out through the outdoor area and just ran," he posted on the club's Facebook page.

Police conduct "controlled explosion" outside Orlando nightclub Pulse, scene of shootings.

Reports of a someone with a gun, a long gun, holding hostages are coming in. At almost 6 am, CNN says the shooter has been found dead inside the club. He had been holding several people hostage. Thirty hostages were freed when the police shot the gunman dead, at 5:00 a.m.

Police are holding updates at Orange and Gore, near Pulse.

Pulse is located at 1912 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32806, which is four miles from The Plaza Live, where the Christina Grimmes shooting occurred on June 10, 2016.

This is the beginning of a month of gay Pride events that are celebrated with parades and parties throughout the various gay communities in the USA.

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The New York police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn (a gay club), located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, resulted in the “Stonewall riots” and ultimately, to the Gay Pride movement.

Other notable June 12 events:

* 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.

* 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.

* 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.

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What Purpose Are The Reptilians?

People are interested in Reptilians, Reptoids, and Reptiloids, no matter what you call them. Last weekend, I posted a thoughtful essay looking at the use of hypnosis in eyewitness investigations, entitled "Are Bigfoot Witnesses Really Seeing Reptoids?" Almost 10,000 people read it in the first 8 hours. Amazing reaction.

So why are people so fascinated by the notion of Lizard People among us? Surely, folks can't consider there is any reality to this? Skepticism and critical thinking can't be dead, can it?

I see that Nicholas Pell recently thought about this business in his posting, "The Odd Reptilian Theory and The People That Believe It."

Pell records an intriguing exchange with a friend of his. He was explaining the Reptilian hypothesis to a friend of his...then he was asked:

“Who’s David Icke?”

“Some weird British writer who thinks that Al Gore is a shape-shifting, blood-sucking reptile.”

“How is he not?”

I was stumped there.

I suppose we'd find the same thing happening to Pell if "Al Gore" was replaced with the name "Dick Cheney" or "Mitt Romney."

So what's going on here. After all, depending on your politics, some people think Obama is a reptoid too.

Political humor and reptoids appear to go hand in claw. 


In the closely fought 2008 U.S. Senate election between comedian and commentator Al Franken and incumbent Senator Norm Coleman, one of the ballots challenged by Coleman included a vote for Franken with "Lizard People" written in the space provided for write-in candidates. Lucas Davenport who later claimed to have written the gag ballot, said, "I don't know if you've heard the conspiracy theory about the Lizard Men; a friend of mine, we didn't like the candidates, so we were at first going to write in revolution, because we thought that was good and to the point. And then, we thought the Lizard People would be even funnier."


That seems to be a key.


Reptilians equal humor. In a world in which you can daily read on the Drudge Report of bank runs in Greece or scandals of fallen Democrats, or on Huffington Post of melting icebergs or dogs being strapped to the top of cars, we all need a little comedic relief. The Reptilians give us that. After all, what if Queen Elizabeth is a Lizard Woman or the head of Facebook is a Lizard Man? Would you look at the world in a different way?

Of course, if the Reptilians are aliens, then why hasn't anyone thought about the obvious? 

Perhaps Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a Reptilian? :-)

Comedic art by Matt Low, thanks to my friends on Coast to Coast AM.