White House Correspondents' Dinner.shooter had a manifesto

In a conversation with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, President Trump praised the "unified" response of guests and law enforcement after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton, injuring a Secret Service agent and forcing the evacuation of the entire Cabinet during the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting told law enforcement after his arrest Saturday night that he intended to target Trump administration officials, senior federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

Authorities identified the suspect as 31-year-old scumwafer Cole Allen, of Torrance, Calif. He prepared a manifesto outlining his intent and shared anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on social media. As the dinner was underway, Allen allegedly rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton while armed with multiple weapons and opened fire, striking a Secret Service officer in his ballistic vest. 

Agents returned fire and tackled the shooter to the ground. The suspect and the injured officer were transported to a hospital. The Secret Service agent is expected to recover and the Democrats are expected to find a way to blame Trump.

This incident adds to a growing list of threats against President Donald Trump, including two confirmed assassination attempts and a recent incident involving an armed intruder at Mar-a-Lago.

Overnight, the FBI and local law enforcement secured Allen’s home in Torrance, California. A federal judge in the Central District of California is expected to approve a search warrant, which would allow investigators to search the residence.

The White House said Sunday that Allen’s brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut prior to the shooting. He reported that Allen had sent family members an alleged manifesto outlining his intent to target administration officials.

Officials also said Allen’s social media included anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. President Trump, speaking on Fox News’ "The Sunday Briefing," described Allen as "a very troubled guy," citing the manifesto. He said that if the White House had the ballroom he wanted, this would have never happened. 

He's probably right.

Allen’s sister, Avriana Allen, told investigators in Rockville, Maryland, that her brother had made increasingly radical statements and often spoke about doing "something" to address issues in the world.

She said he had purchased two handguns and a shotgun, which he stored at their parents’ home without their knowledge, and that he regularly trained at a shooting range.

She also told authorities that Allen was affiliated with a group called "The Wide Awakes" and had attended a "No Kings" protest in California, indicating that in all likelihood, he is a dedicated Democrat.

Investigators believe Allen traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by train, with a stop in Chicago, according to acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. He said the investigation is ongoing and that more details are expected as formal charges are filed.

Blanche also noted that while the motive remains under investigation, authorities preliminarily believe Allen was targeting administration officials.

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Madonna's a real crass act

Madonna, an old 58-year-old, is doing everything she can to be relevant and edgy but it turns out she's as relevant as an encyclopedia to a worm and as edgy as a bubble. She appeared at the Women's March in Washington DC and made it clear that she is extremely upset over President Donald Trump's inauguration and title.

The once-relevant singer and "Strumpet to the Bars" didn't hold back with her vulgarity and disrespect to the office of the presidency.

"I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House," she said. She then began dropping the "F word" and other vulgarity in an anemic attempt to sound 'cool.' 

Rather than performing a sex act on something or someone she sang "Express Yourself" and "Human Nature," during which she led the frenetically emotional crowd in the chant: "I'M NOT YOUR BITCH!"

She refused to reveal whose bitch she is, but that will likely become public soon enough for anyone who cares about the desperate has-been.

Others appeared on stage including Janet Mock, Alicia Keyes and everyone's favorite woman advocate, Michael Moore, who ate the stage.

I wonder, can Madonna be arrested for her not so veiled threat about blowing the White House up?


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Washington Airbnb host pull listings to avoid Trump supporters

We are at a point in American history where everything has become politicized and it isn't good for the country.

Now, in spite of its recently updated listing policies designed to discourage racial discrimination among its hosts, Airbnb hasn't cleansed its property-rental app of internalized biases--especially biases against President-elect Donald Trump supporters.

Now that Clinton fans canceled their January reservations for attending the Washington D.C. event, Trump fans are snapping them up from all over the country in order to attend the event. 

The cancellation rate for the Party of Snowflakes is around 70% but some DC Airbnb folks who have listed with the company now say they feel "conflicted" about renting to Trump supporters and are taking down their listings to avoid having to share their homes and properties with people whose opinions differ from theirs. 

One snowflake host who was planning to rent one of her three bedrooms to a Hillary Clinton inauguration guest said, "I have a visceral reaction to the thought of having a Trump supporter in my house. No amount of money could make me change my mind. It's about moral principles."

In other words, everyone who voted for Donald Trump, an obvious narcissist, rather than Hillary Clinton, an obvious incompetent, arrogant liar, is an immoral deplorable. How insightful of this woman.

Another host who called herself "Meredith," and actually looks like Burgess Meredith, told the HuffPo that she worried what Trump supporters would do to her condo, particularly to the "priceless" works of art she collected on her international travels. "We don't trust Trump supporters to stay in our place," she said--although she noted that she didn't mind overcharging Trump-loving guests (price goughing worm that she is) as punishment for their decision to vote for the person she didn't vote for.

But a snowflake who calls herself "Ellie" said she was "feeling afraid" of "the white men" who might want to rent a bedroom in her home. She said that she needed the money, however, and would have to simply "look past our differences and happily welcome them."

Perhaps Ellie will discover that all "white Trump voting men" simply thought he was a better candidate than Clinton, and that they are not evil "white men." Some Trump voters aren't even white and aren't even men.

It's amazing how the left has formed such horrible opinions of half the nation. But even more, it's sad.

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Out of Control Gun Control

Several gun manufacturers are getting fed up with some of the new legislation being passed into law on gun control. They are refusing to sell guns to any buyers in New York, for example, because of the harsh new laws being put into play. Even the police departments will not be able to purchase guns from these manufacturers. 

Gun control advocates claim that stronger gun control will lead to fewer gun-related murders, but the facts don't prove that liberal theorizing. In fact, most of the time, facts run contrary to liberal thinking. So what are some of the facts? The facts in this article were compiled from JustFacts.com, which I believe are accurate and unbiased. You can judge for yourself or go to other resources that offer hard data. 

In 1976 the Washington DC City Council passed a law prohibiting residents from possessing handguns and requiring all firearms in private homes be a) unloaded, and b) rendered temporarily inoperable with either a trigger guard or by disassembly. During the time this law went into effect, until the time it was deemed unconstitutional, the murder rate in DC went up 73% higher than previous, where the US murder rate decreased 11%. This fact is something most conservatives might predict while most liberals would hide.

In the UK, gun control went into effect in 1968 and by 1997 all guns were confiscated from the public. The homicide rate has shot up (forgive the pun) 52% higher after the gun control law first went into effect.

Chicago (Obamaville) passed gun control legislation in 1982 where there was a ban on handguns that prevented the possession of such weapons except those registered with the city government prior to the law. The law required those who possessed handguns to register them every two years or stand to lose their guns, and in 1994 the registration was required annually. In 2005, 96% of all firearm murders were committed with handguns. Good job.

When Florida allowed concealed carry permits (Oct. 1987), the murder rate dropped 30% while the US rate overall dropped only 15%. When criminals wonder whether or not their intended victim is "carrying," it may give him a reason to go hunting for victims in, say, New York or Chicago.

There are anywhere from 2000 to 5200 gun shows a year in the US. In a 1997 survey of 14,285 inmates who used firearms in their crime, about 0.7% got their gun at a gun show, 1% at a flea market, 3.8% at a pawn shop, 8.3% at a retail store, 39.2% from an illegal street source, and 39.6% from family or friends. These statistics are somewhat old and do not reflect how some illegal guns were provided by our Department of Justice--but that's another story and does not get much air time in the left wing mainstream media.

It amazes me how facts can be readily disregarded when they don't fit into the liberal mindset. It almost seems obvious what the real problems are with gun violence in this country. We glorify violence in our movies, and in our video games. Our cultures is programmed to accept violence as a way of solving problems. Then we have mental health issues that, if screened, are disregarded because we don't want to impinge on anyone's rights--unless, of course, if it has to do with the first two Amendments. In states where involuntary mental health institutionalization is easier to obtain, there is a significantly smaller propensity for mass shootings to occur. 

But liberals, having their own mental health issues, will always blame the tools of violence rather than the actor of the violence.

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