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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41924</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The shooter was a white dude, a legal, native-born, American citizen.

There was another shooting in Jacksonville just a few days before that at a high school football game, and another in Miami, and unless you live in Florida, you wouldn&#039;t have heard about them either.

My Deplorable correspondents always send me I-told-you-so email whenever a Muslim or a Mexican commits a crime, but they never bother when its just another All-American bullet-headed Saxon mother&#039;s son.  Rocky Raccoon and Bungalow Bill are always aberrations but Mohammed and Manuel will always fit the profile. 

Racism is all about cherry picking and confirmation bias.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The shooter was a white dude, a legal, native-born, American citizen.</p>
<p>There was another shooting in Jacksonville just a few days before that at a high school football game, and another in Miami, and unless you live in Florida, you wouldn&#8217;t have heard about them either.</p>
<p>My Deplorable correspondents always send me I-told-you-so email whenever a Muslim or a Mexican commits a crime, but they never bother when its just another All-American bullet-headed Saxon mother&#8217;s son.  Rocky Raccoon and Bungalow Bill are always aberrations but Mohammed and Manuel will always fit the profile. </p>
<p>Racism is all about cherry picking and confirmation bias.</p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41921</link>
		<dc:creator>RL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/26/us/jacksonville-madden-shooting/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#039;Mass shooting&#039; at Madden video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, authorities say&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/26/us/jacksonville-madden-shooting/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">&#8216;Mass shooting&#8217; at Madden video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, authorities say</a></p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41501</link>
		<dc:creator>RL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 12:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So they are &#039;good people&#039; and this is only a mental health issue...

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So they are &#8216;good people&#8217; and this is only a mental health issue&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41500</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 03:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or we&#039;d never hear the end of it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or we&#8217;d never hear the end of it.</p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41499</link>
		<dc:creator>RL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 22:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/school-shooting-santa-fe-texas.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=span-ab-top-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;10 Dead in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting; Suspect Used Shotgun and Revolver&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/school-shooting-santa-fe-texas.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=span-ab-top-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">10 Dead in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting; Suspect Used Shotgun and Revolver</a></p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41097</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Last week an 18 year old was arrested for attempted murder for planing a school shooting. His grandmother called police after finding detailed plans in his jornal. 

This is the first time I can remember that someone&#039;s been arrested and charged with attempted murder before the the act. It&#039;ll be interesting to see how it plays out. 

http://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/everett-911-call-hes-planning-on-having-a-mass-shooting-at-one-of-the-high-schools/281-518703506</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week an 18 year old was arrested for attempted murder for planing a school shooting. His grandmother called police after finding detailed plans in his jornal. </p>
<p>This is the first time I can remember that someone&#8217;s been arrested and charged with attempted murder before the the act. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how it plays out. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/everett-911-call-hes-planning-on-having-a-mass-shooting-at-one-of-the-high-schools/281-518703506" rel="nofollow">http://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/everett-911-call-hes-planning-on-having-a-mass-shooting-at-one-of-the-high-schools/281-518703506</a></p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41096</link>
		<dc:creator>RL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your president has done exactly the opposite- this is what you cast your vote for... pretending to wring your hands and be concerned is pretty silly at this point, Rob...

And if the shooter were a muslim you wouldn&#039;t give a damn about his motives, or what went wrong in his life to bring him to do such a thing... you wouldn&#039;t wonder &#039;what to do&#039;- you would call for the death penalty and the banning of all muslims, with no concern of the innocent people such a ban would harm.... we know this because its what you have done in the past.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your president has done exactly the opposite- this is what you cast your vote for&#8230; pretending to wring your hands and be concerned is pretty silly at this point, Rob&#8230;</p>
<p>And if the shooter were a muslim you wouldn&#8217;t give a damn about his motives, or what went wrong in his life to bring him to do such a thing&#8230; you wouldn&#8217;t wonder &#8216;what to do&#8217;- you would call for the death penalty and the banning of all muslims, with no concern of the innocent people such a ban would harm&#8230;. we know this because its what you have done in the past.</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
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		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teachers-say-florida-suspect’s-problems-started-in-middle-school-and-the-system-tried-to-help-him/ar-BBJj7XE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teachers-say-florida-suspect’s-problems-started-in-middle-school-and-the-system-tried-to-help-him/ar-BBJj7XE" rel="nofollow">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teachers-say-florida-suspect’s-problems-started-in-middle-school-and-the-system-tried-to-help-him/ar-BBJj7XE</a></p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41080</link>
		<dc:creator>RL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/15/nikolas-cruz-threatened-murder-mass-shooting-youtube/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;He went on to write, &quot;f*** antifa wish to kill as many as I can.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; This second comment was posted 6 months ago, which suggests these were not passing thoughts. He returned to the same video to reiterate these hateful thoughts. He added, &quot;I am going to kill them in the future.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://s.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/dac95be8e732e0c6fd16c783459bc96a/206131194/Screen+Shot+2018-02-15+at+3.08.09+PM.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thedailybeast.com/nick-cruz-parkland-florida-shooting-stoneman-douglas-high-school?ref=scroll&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cruz always had his hair short and had a penchant for wearing patriotic shirts that “seemed really extreme, like hating on” Islam, Parodie said. The suspected gunman would also deride Muslims as “terrorists and bombers.”&lt;/a&gt;

“I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat,” the student said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

In other words he was what you would call &#039;very fine people&#039;, and absolutely not a racist...





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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/15/nikolas-cruz-threatened-murder-mass-shooting-youtube/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">He went on to write, &#8220;f*** antifa wish to kill as many as I can.&#8221;</a> This second comment was posted 6 months ago, which suggests these were not passing thoughts. He returned to the same video to reiterate these hateful thoughts. He added, &#8220;I am going to kill them in the future.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><img src="https://s.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/dac95be8e732e0c6fd16c783459bc96a/206131194/Screen+Shot+2018-02-15+at+3.08.09+PM.png" alt="" /></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/nick-cruz-parkland-florida-shooting-stoneman-douglas-high-school?ref=scroll" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cruz always had his hair short and had a penchant for wearing patriotic shirts that “seemed really extreme, like hating on” Islam, Parodie said. The suspected gunman would also deride Muslims as “terrorists and bombers.”</a></p>
<p>“I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat,” the student said.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words he was what you would call &#8216;very fine people&#8217;, and absolutely not a racist&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2017/10/02/only-in-america/#comment-41075</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/breakingnews/nikolas-cruz’s-lifetime-of-trouble-family-loss-flashes-of-rage/ar-BBJdoFP</description>
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