Joke School Louisiana State Makes Headlines Again.

Their dorms are alive with the sound of murder, all because LSU doesn’t give a shit who it recruits for football as long as they can play the game.

This is a very old story, one that UD has blogged about for years: LSU routinely recruits criminals. It really doesn’t care. Players come from bloody cities like Alexandria LA and bring their big guns with them.

Sometimes they bring their friends, too, like a recent recruit who turned out to be hiding two buddies – both murder suspects – in his dorm room. Big ol’ guns too? Big ol’ guns too.

It must be really wild to teach at LSU.

Basically boring – Shooter too old (17), no kills, v. brief panic.

Coverage only cuz took place in Times Sq.

Next time, look sharp! Fourteen year old massacrist, real body count, mass panic pls.

‘You were wrong.’

Mr UD helpfully points out that my confident assumption the Anaconda Montana mass murderer was dead, up in them thar hills, was dead wrong. They’ve captured him.

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His niece speaks up:

“We as people failed… failed to report suspicious behavior because ‘that’s just Mikee’…”

Man, it’s gotta be said that when dangerous people are heavily armed, living in a place where being visibly heavily armed is no big deal, you got BIG problems.

‘Princeton Eliminates Tuition for Families Making $250,000 a Year’

Gevalt. TOLD you this is a rich country.

‘The Canadian Council of Muslim Women … said … removing the poster sent the wrong message, effectively rendering Muslim women in Montreal invisible.’

So the city of Montreal is now officially taking down the Welcome to Montreal — women cover themselves here sign, due to loud and broad objection from its secular citizens.

But local hijab enthusiasts are complaining that women who dress in order to be invisible are in danger of being made invisible if the city takes down a sign depicting them as draped up and down in order to be … invisible…? Head neck hair torso arms legs all invisible but God forbid you make hijabis/body drapers invisible? Don’t make no sense.

Become what you are, sillies. If you’re dedicated to hiding the female body, go right ahead. But don’t complain that we’re erasing you.

‘“The danger Mr. Neff poses to this community cannot be understated,” Kristina Beske-Keplinger, deputy prosecuting attorney for Snohomish County, told the court last week in asking for a higher bond.’

The higher bond happened (a million bucks), but UD thinks the prosecuting attorney means cannot be overstated, cuz it’s hard to know how much higher you can go than 73 unsecured guns, multiple explosive devices, and plenty of methamphetamine all over a house with two kids, in an attached townhouse community.

Barbara, a reader, sent me this story out of Washington State, and UD is grateful she did, since these facts, in this our current USA, don’t add up to a big enough story to have appeared in UD‘s Google News searches…

His four year old son took Neff’s Glock from under his arm while he was sleeping (sleeping here is a euphemism for in meth oblivion), wandered over to the bathroom where his mother was showering, and shot her in the arm. Not sure who called the police (the father was still noticeably out of it when they arrived), but searching the house must have been quite a hoot.

Notice no neighbors have yet appeared before news cameras to say Well, they kind of kept to themselves but they seemed okay because… because why? WHY? I’ll tell you why! They don’t want to get detonated by their very own private Hitler, as in, THEY ARE SCARED FUCKING SHITLESS.

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And what to do with the children? Hm hm hmmmm. They love Daddy Demento! They love Dishrag Mom who, you know, KNOWS there’s something… uh, WRONG with Daddy and the guns and the meth and the bombs and the sketches he draws of murdering the neighbors but she loves him and he needs her and after all he’s not wrong that life sucks and killing yourself and your family I mean he’d never DO it but she can understand how …

What to do with the children when it’s actually hard to imagine a more disgusting domestic setting? Everyone hates the idea of foster care, so we have to hope there’s at least one non-degenerate family member or very close friend who knows and loves the children… ?

On the up side, Master Meth is out of the picture; someone else is going to have to clean and care for his 73 weapons while he’s in jail for the next ten years. But state officials have sympathy (we all do) for Women Who Love Not Wisely But Too Well, and while she will be facing drug/negligence/whatever charges, she probably won’t get any jail time…

OTOH it’s only a matter of time before she falls in love with someone even worse (let’s assume she’s also addicted to meth) and invites him to help raise the little ones plus he’ll knock her up a few times. No good options for the two innocents.

Some suicides seem to be about shame.

With the understanding that we can never assert anything with real confidence about any particular suicide, UD will nonetheless speculate that the death of a mad child-massacrist’s mother on August 1 had something to do with this emotion.

Her motive might have been a simpler one – she feared going to jail for whatever she might have contributed to her daughter’s notorious crime – but I don’t think she was likely to have been indicted. Her ex-husband, with whom the killer lived (he gave her the guns she used), is currently on trial.

But this woman – at various points in her life an addict, married to the killer’s father three times in a turbulent union clearly destructive to the killer’s mental health, and the mother of one of America’s most hideous shooters – might well have decided she’d had enough of the mess. She might have decided she didn’t want to testify in her ex-husband’s trial. She might have decided she hated herself too much to go on.

‘These guys all seem likable enough: [people tend to think] that they are misunderstood, outlaws from the old days, and they ride motorcycles instead of horses,’ [one policeman] said. ‘Even cops think, “Oh they are just tattooed long haired guys who like to ride motorcycles.” And the reality of it is they are long-haired tattooed guys who ride motorcycles and sell a hell of a lot of methamphetamine and murder people and steal motorcycles and extort people and beat people up in bars for no reasons.’

We’re revisiting the Red River massacre of 2023 — after which the town of Red River NM, population 500, decided no longer to host the Red River biker rally, attendees 28,000 — because the Sturgis SD biker/GUN rally is just wrapping up… And UD wouldn’t mind knowing how that went, public safety-wise.

This was Day One. How did the rest of the week go? I’ll try to find out.

Lucky Luciano – or no, his name is Michael Lucchesi – held important positions at a financially struggling hospital in Brooklyn…

… and through seven long years he stole and stole and stole from it. His reported haul was $1.4 million, but I’m thinking that’s all they could trace, cuz for a serious larcenist, capable of watching closeup while patients suffered due to … mysterious underfunding, less than three or four million over that period of time is unthinkable.

This story is about the perils of hospitals (and universities — recall the University of Louisville) which become stinky pigsties. They start attracting only pigs, and things get worse and worse. Nor are these pig pits about to detect the rootin’ going on inside them. By definition the only people left in the sty are thieves or idiots.

Pierogi Postlude

After Dershowitz Dustup, Islanders Line Up for Pierogi

Hundreds of people attended the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market this week to show support for the pierogi vendor who refused to sell dumplings to prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz at the market last week…

Skeezy Greece…

… won’t investigate high-ranking government/party thieves cuz … why? Cuz it’s Skeezy Greece! It has a reputation to uphold.

‘The visitors considered Mr. Epstein fun, smart and curious. Another perk: getting to mingle with the young, attractive women who roamed the property and worked as his assistants.’

WAY Story of O.

Not my world.

SOOO not my world. (Although Anaconda’s county voted – just barely – for Kamala Harris!) But give me a Montana minute here; let a blue coastal elite take a gander at our country’s deep red, Number One For Suicide, state, as one of its towns grapples with a mass murder.

Lane “Shorty” Ruegamer, a regular at the Owl [Bar, site of the massacre], said he doubted Brown would attempt a return to Anaconda.

“He knows that every person down at the bottom of that hill has guns, and there’s no doubt in my mind that every person does,” Ruegamer said. 

Yeah but see here Shorty you’re thinking rationally; the paranoid schizophrenic who killed your buddies is a maniac who does not think rationally, ja? He comes bombing back into town, naked, trailing the dead birds he’s been snacking on, and announcing he’s a visitor from the neolithic era; and before you can say Heckler & Koch HK G11 ACR he’s killing you and your kids.

That’s the problem with arming crazy people – don’t make no never mind how many weapons you’ve stored up. They’re going to surprise you. It took a raving lunatic to just park his car in the middle of Park Avenue and just walk up to folks in a Manhattan lobby and just powpowpow … That’s fucking nuts and that’s why it worked so well. Your local killer’s not going Oh everyone’s got guns so I better stay clear. He doesn’t think the way you do, and maybe if your local police/medical establishment had hold of that fact a little earlier…

The Running of the Bullshitters…

… is an old Spanish tradition where the truth about their bogus advanced degrees is loosed on politicians, and then they all run like hell from it.

UD thanks Dirk, a reader, for linking her to the Guardian‘s painstaking account of each liar from across the ideological spectrum, including one nervous nellie who kept fakery-fussing:

Juan Manuel Moreno, the president of the PP-led Andalusian regional government, has been asked to explain the apparent vicissitudes of his CV, which stated in 2000 that he had a degree in business management. The qualification was modified in 2004 to “studies in business management”, before being upgraded in 2008 to a master’s in the same subject.

Apparent vicissitudes is excellent.

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Memory lane.

Great.

[David Jabarek] isn’t afraid of the prospect of [mass shooter Michael] Brown returning [to town].

“Everybody around here has two dozen firearms in their house, and right now they’re within hands reach,” Jabarek said.

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