The Red Deer Walmart shooting

Central Alberta has been rocked this week from the horrific attack at the south Walmart on Friday night, and confused by the nonsense that has come out since.

Unlike that poor nurse is the burning car I have no knowledge of anything involving the case. I was drinking at The Pint downtown at the time of the shooting and only found out about it because after the hockey game one of the TVs was left on CityTV.

In the aftermath as we learn more, from the Red Deer RCMP deliberately lying about the shooting to try and discredit (accurate, it turns out) reports being shared on social media to the entirely predictable discovery that the savage killer was in fact a Red Indian, we are still left with a few "why"s, as the official "robbery goes wrong" seems odd. At least, I was...until watching Global TV interview the victim's wife.

Things are about to become more clear. Let's start with the timeline as we understand it as of today, Christmas Eve:
~6:35pm: Charles (Jim) Williams is in the Walmart apparently only buying deodorant and interacts with Chase Freed. It is unclear where the accomplice Crystal Maurice was at this time. This apparently occurred inside the Walmart. The conversation was not violent and appeared civil enough that RCMP claimed this was why they first thought Williams was targeted.
6:45pm: Williams is now outside of the Walmart now and his confrontation with Freed fires at him. Williams walks over to the car where his wife Roxine is waiting for him, and he opens the car door and vehemently tells her to stay put. This is the last she ever sees him alive.
6:47pm: Freed shoots at Williams multiple times and flees to a black SUB that Freed and Maurice have stolen together. On the drive out of the parking lot, he fires shots out the window possibly at two onlookers and possibly into the air like he's in a western.
9:17pm: Freed and Maurice drive out towards Rimbey and steal a red pickup in or near the town.
10:30pm: Both the pickup and the SUV are spotted near Sylvan Lake, and driving eastbound on Highway 11 are stopped by a spiked belt. They find the suspected murder weapon and surprise surprise it isn't legal.

In between 6:47pm and 10:30pm, Rimbey RCMP are looking for the suspect kinda not really while Red Deer RCMP are instead in full on fake news mode.

Police initially said the shooting was targeted, but later determined it was not. Calls to 911 and social media reports also indicated the shooting had occurred in the main entrance of the store and that there were multiple victims.
RCMP had initially said there was no danger to the public on Friday evening. Groves said that while the suspects were still at large at that time, RCMP were trying to cull rumors of a mass shooting.

“We wanted to let everybody know that the culprits who had committed the shooting had left the scene,” Groves said. “What we were dealing with at the scene was the result of the violence that had taken place… the accused had departed.
I'm not sure whether or not "quelling rumours" was the correct term for this. They made Williams out to be something he wasn't so that people didn't get the crazy idea that this was a "mass shooting"...even though additional shots were fired at multiple people that night. It's not even clear that at the times Williams was killed he was the first person shot at: Roxine says there was a "pop" sound before he told her to stay put, no guarantee it was directed at him. In other words, police admitted they lied about the scenario because people's social media accounting erred one way and they felt it was best to err the other.

As an armed robbery gone wrong the story doesn't make a lot of sense: Williams was buying a $4 can of Right Guard. Even evil Red Indian thieves tend to aim higher than that: after all they stole a flashy red pickup in Rimbey, not a 2008 beige sedan. Why didn't he get into a confrontation with a middle aged asian woman struggling with a 55" Smart TV, or somebody pushing a cart full of Christmas booty? If this wasn't a "targeted" shooting it certainly doesn't resemble an armed robbery.

So then I watched the widow's interview on Global...here is the victim, Jim Williams with Roxine:

Suddenly everything seems a lot more clear. Williams likely was targeted...because of his facial deformity. I suspect the scenario went something like this: Freed was there to commit robbery, likely by watching people taking stuff back to their vehicle and then following them out. Since it's the Red Deer South Power Centre he was possibly looking for somebody who would drop off bags and then proceed to Five Guys or Reitman's and leave their (locked) vehicle unattended. The weapon was likely intended (at least in the pre-planning phase) to only be brought out if required. A scuzzy Red Indian up to no good would easily draw the ire of other people, and the feel of all those unfriendly eyes who knew what kind of punk he was but just didn't know how far he would go must have put him on edge. Williams probably was the latest in a long line of such eyes, and his own physical abnormality would have been an easy target for Freed to lash out at in return. Williams at this point would have reacted: harshly or patronizingly wouldn't have been unfair replies and either could set Freed off even more. While Williams is shopping Freed's hate festers and instead of moving onto his targets he instead thinks of some good responses to Williams (who may have come up with some good material on his own). The second confrontation goes much more aggressive than the first, and Freed reaches for that hidden weapon.

Is that what actually happened? I wasn't there, I can't tell you. But you can believe the theory of the Red Deer RCMP who have already lied to the public about Freed, or start looking for more likely reasons that a jackpine savage shot a guy with a screwed-up face holding less than $10 worth of merchandise.


Grey Cup 2019

In just under an hour the 107th Grey Cup begins live from Calgary.

Last year, I attended the Grey Cup here in Edmonton, and while my cousin is at the game and suggested I come along, I decided to continue my streak of never attending a game at McMahon Stadium and give the hated Stampeders organization hard currency (it's the same reason I don't go to Cuba or Montreal).

It goes without saying that this year's edition is much less rage-inducing than last year's edition: I don't hate either of these teams though I'm still mad at Hamilton over last week's debacle. And it goes without saying that after the events of earlier this year there's no reason to cheer for Hamilton about anything.

So...uh, let's go Blue Bombers.


The Wrath of Abrams









Physics must be racist now

Bianca Andreescu has defeated Serena Williams and won the US Open. If the Serena-loving leftwing media went ape over racism when she was rightly defeated by a half-Jap half-negress last year, just wait for what the excuses are this year.

Note Serena's closest chance to win was only taken away when she double-faulted. I assume the only thing that can come next is the Lucy van Pelt defense...


2019 Edmonton Fringe Review: Game of Chrohn's

"I was failing biology and biology failed me."

One of the downsides of fringing...
a) at the very end
b) with other people
...is that you're at the mercy of what the group wants to go see. While nobody in my circle has Chrohn's Disease, one of the girl's brother did and therefore we ended up spending Friday night watching Game of Chrones and trying to laugh at disease.

Play play features one of my least favourite tropes: "the story of my life". "Write what you know" is good advice and all that, but it also comes across as horribly narcissistic, which we all know arts majors are notoriously guilty of, but they don't have to remind us so effectively. Dan Rosen, helpfully styled as "Dan B. Rosen" fortunately gets that fact about him out of the way relatively early.

Growing up in Halifax, both of Dan's parents were doctors. He was the always seeking attention class clown, when suddenly he got hit by a debilitating illness that neither of them could work out. I'll take a brief aside here to note I know a girl (not one who attended the show) with two doctor parents and she's also diseased. Read into that as you will. Anyways, Dan (a balding guy who vaguely resembles Enrico Colantoni from "Just Shoot Me!") is constantly in hospital before discovering that what he has is Crohn's disease.

He goes into the dietary restrictions quite a bit which resonated well with those of us (most of us) who have diabetic family members who also suddenly can't eat the foods they like to eat. I counted five Game of Thrones references. I'm not a fan of the show, so there may have been more. Martok seemed to think there were a dozen, but I consider his input unreliable. The crowd generally ate it up (Dan had to smack down a brief heckling comment), as the fru-fru fringe crowd (especially on Friday night) really likes their poop jokes. Is it because of all the homos, they have shit on the brain so to speak? Who knows.

There were a few legitimate laughs, a lot of uncomfortable moments when he went into detail about medical stuff I don't like hearing about, He also yammered about "white privilege" because of course he does. For a guy who's been stuck in the hell of the Canadian healthcare system he didn't have much material about its failings: whether that's because he's as delusional about socialized medicne as all "white privilege" talkers are or because he never thought anything abnormal about his experiences, who can say.

For those interested in hearing a sympathetic tale of a teenager whose romantic and professional future was sabotaged by his own bowels, it's engaging enough. I didn't feel it though. Rosen's energy is just enough to keep you interested without being manic however, and except for the third quarter of the play really dragging and getting repetitive, it flowed well enough.

Flowed well. That insane far-leftist Fish Griwkowsky made a half dozen poop jokes in his review. I only made the one, and it wasn't even intentional.

Dan Rosen may become the public face of Crohn's disease, but I'll still keep typing "Chr" and having to correct myself until the day I become worm food.

Where the Wild Thi...wait is that really the theme this year? Ugh. 2019 Edmonton Fringe

It's that time of year again, and after missing the first half by being on vacation I've been able to fit in the final weekend of the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Just like 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and most years going back to 2007 and 2006.

And as always for my fringe reviews, I have the standard rule:


Read the Game of Crohn's review here.


Day 1 of the Hipster Millenial Holocaust

YouTuber Emily Hartridge killed in UK's first fatal electric scooter crash


A Third Edge of the Sword Success Story

A special thank-you to everybody on team Third Edge of the Sword.

I honestly didn't think Operation Destroy FagWalk From Within would work, but you guys who pretended to be women and got outraged that dykes are allowed to exist.

Excellent work!!


145th running of the Kentucky Derby

Break out the mint juleps, tell your woman to put on a silly hat, and get ready for the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby from beautiful soaking wet Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky.

Currently Tacitus and Improbable have met up at 5-1 to be tied for the favourite this year, with strong contender Omaha Beach already being scratched. And since I'm sitting at home with mint juleps in a proper silver cup instead of somewhere I can gamble, I provide my (mostly) seat of the pants predictions for the main event.

Win: War of Will (17-1)
Place: Vekoma (21-1)
Show: Tacitus (5-1)


ALBERTA ELECTION: Global Edmonton tells lies about conservatives

As you may have heard this week, Far Left Big Tech further banned Faith Goldy from social media because of her political beliefs.

As you may have also heard, Faggot-Familiar Alliances are still big news because Jason Kenney dares to think maybe parents should know when child molesters like Kristopher Wells or Mike Morrison are being invited to secret meetings with young children who have shown an interest in an evil and unacceptable lifestyle choice.

And if you watch Global TV Edmonton, you'll hear all about the "online reaction":

What you definitely won't hear in the extremely biased and one-sided reporting of fake news peddler Sarah Kraus is anybody opposed to Faggot-Familiar Alliances in school, or even opposed to keeping parents in the dark. Why is that? Because Global News is only looking on platforms that are already setup to exclude those voices. Kraus and her bosses know this, but they'll push the sodomite agenda endlessly and claim ignorance to anybody who pushes back.

So I'm calling out Kraus, her bosses (Jim Haskins and Kerry Powell), and any other media member pushing this false narrative. They know, surely, that Twitter won't even let you call a man by his name to satisfy the insane tranny activists. As a result, the people likely to support Kenney are either removed from the platform (as what happened with Faith Goldy this very week) or forced to self-censor in order to avoid the axe falling on them as well. As a result is it any wonder that pillow biting teachers extolling the benefits of exposing the children they are supposed to protect to sexual deviants are the only tweets Kraus can find (or pretends to find) in her disgusting story?

I call on Global News Edmonton to apologize to Jason Kenney for their story that makes it sound like he's a crazed maverick standing against universal opposition. I demand that they permit those of us who oppose these sick schools airtime in accordance with the popularity of our views in accordance with Global's own news policies which Kraus and Haskins violated:

Integrity, fairness and transparency are at the foundation of our newsgathering process. We are committed to reporting news without distortion or misrepresentation.
How is it not distorting and misrepresentation to talk about "online reaction" and not admit that these social media platforms are biased against conservative expression, especially social conservative expression?
We will not formulate news content based on our own personal cultural beliefs, opinions, corporate influences or those of anyone else engaged in its preparation or delivery.

News events and public issues may be analyzed and put into context, as long as comment or opinion is clearly identified and kept distinct from regular news coverage.
Based on the fact that child raping sodomite Kristopher Wells is a routine guest on Global Edmonton's morning show, it's clear that this story is part of a longstanding trend of Global TV stories about the Edmonton uranist community formulated on the personal beliefs and opinions of Global TV News department.

Kerry Powell, will you promise going forward that Global News will cease publishing anti-conservative opinion under the fake guise of "reporting on online reaction"? If not, will these stories feature a disclaimer in the future that the social media platforms these reactions are posted on have a long history of banning, shadow-banning, and suppressing viewpoints that would provide a more balanced (and accurate) set of views?

We all know this story was written, coordinated, and aired in order to attack Jason Kenney. No "online reaction" news stories have ever been posted when conservatives not yet banned on social media have used their accounts to blast Trudeau or Notley. Global News owes an apology to us all, and a promise that in accordance with their own journalistic principles they will not push false narratives in the future.

The chance to set the record straight on the eve of polls closing is fading fast, Global. Your move.


Eugenie Who?





Now she just needs to do some more suggestive photo shoots.