Posted on 07/22/2012 11:35:51 AM PDT by ColdOne
BYERS, Colo. – Less than a month before carrying out the midnight movie massacre that left 12 dead, suspected shooter James Holmes applied for membership at a private gun range, unnerving the club’s owner whose calls to Holmes’ apartment reached a “creepy, weird” Batman-inspired voicemail message.
“His answering machine message was incoherent, just bizarre, really bizarre -- slurring words, but he didn’t sound drunk, just strange -- I could make out “James” somewhere in it,” Glenn Rotkovich, of the Lead Valley Range, in Byers, Colo., told
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No, crossing 7’s and z’s is not an affectation, at least not in the mathematical and physical sciences: it keeps z’s and 2’s, and 7’s, and > signs clear when writing hastily (and separates 7’s from 1’s which may be written with a serif to avoid having them look like l’s or pipe-signs: | ).
Kiristy Alley.
Shelley actually tried to kill herself a few years back, after her husband left her.
Some time ago (probably here), I read that the rest of the Cheers cast and crew HATED Shelley. They thought she was a stuck-up jerk. In contrast, they absolutely loved Kirstie.
Believe me, it was affectation. :0)
“The crossed 7 is just a way to differentiate it from the 1 when it is hand written.”
Used throughout Europe. I lived in Europe, then worked in the US with many European contacts.
And I used their numbers after awhile, until I reverted to olde fashioned American draftsman precisely shaped figures.
"Violence like the massacre that happened in Aurora, Colo., today is a staple of action films, including Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. A similar, now haunting, scene unfurls in "The Dark Knight Rises" when a masked villain leads a violent gang into a packed football stadium and deploys guns and explosives on the unsuspecting crowd.
While there has been no indication as to the motives of James Holmes, the suspected 24-year-old shooter who is now in custody, new evidence suggests that he was inspired by the Batman series of comic books and/or movies.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that Holmes said "I am the Joker" when apprehended by authorities. His hair was painted red, the same hair color of Heath Ledger's Joker at one point in 2008's "The Dark Knight."
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There are more parallels. In Frank Miller's iconic 1986 comic book series, "The Dark Knight Returns," the Joker murders a television studio audience by deploying "smile gas." Holmes began his massacre by setting off smoke bombs throughout the theater.
In the same book, Arnold Crimp, a disturbed man who just lost his job, pulls out a handgun in an adult film theater and kills three people. A scene from the strip shows a news anchor saying, "Three slain in Batman-inspired porn theater shoot-out." ..."
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/07/18/dark-knight-rises-review-batman-bain-ows
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"Law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that Holmes said "I am the Joker" when apprehended by authorities. "
There is nothing wrong with crossing your sevens and your zees when you are in science and engineering. Very easy to look similar to a two without that. I got into the habit when I was in college. BME, MSME.
I liked the old “I’d hit it” Laz better. Some of the funniest posts and graphics in the old days.
"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."--Boston Herald, February 15, 2010
'Oddball' portrait of Amy Bishop emerges:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100215oddball_protrait_emerges_suspects_family_pals_offer_clues/srvc=home&position=0
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"The day of the shooting, [Amy] Bishop taught her anatomy and neurosciences class and then attended a faculty meeting in the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology."
"Holmes had been a student at the University of Colorado, but withdrew last month, according to the university. He was getting a PhD in neuroscience. A "James Holmes" is listed as enrolled in a class at the university called "Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders."
Holmes also received a B.S. in neuroscience from the University of California Riverside in 2010, where he graduated with honors."
I say "cheers" all the time while having adult beverages with friends. This is just dumb a** stupid.
There will always be psycho's and the more reason that more citizens should be allowed to carry. Guns will never ever disappear as much as the unrealistic Brady crowd want to pass laws to outlaw guns.
They could shut down American gun manufacturing tomorrow and guns and ammo will STILL be available, if not from American gun manufacturers, then from out country imports, not to mention the millions of guns that already exist, and not to mention the probably billions of rounds of ammo.
Need I say it? Guess I should, "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Just a couple of people, even in the fog of his tear gas could have at least given some people time to escape.
This is another awful tragedy, but how can anyone know when a psychopathic nut job goes ballistic? Best defense is defense, with the weapon of choice.
Yes, I've seen all the discussions from gun experts and the thinking about not being able to see the shooter. So what? If I had a CCW and been in that theater, I would have shove my wife under the seats, moved away, and shot at the muzzle blast. If just one person got away when he targeted me and I went down - good.
I actually laughed out loud at that claim.
I picked it up from other oil-field trash working in job sites around the world.
Cheers.
"Holmes, who wore all black, a ballistic vest and a gas mask during the shooting, was arrested by authorities shortly after. He used three weapons--an assault rifle, shotgun and handgun--in the shooting"
“A black bloc is a tactic for protests and marches where individuals wear black clothing, scarves, ski masks, motorcycle helmets with padding, or other face-concealing items.[1][2] The clothing is used to conceal marchers’ identities, allow them to appear as one large unified mass, and promote solidarity.”
“Tactics of a black bloc can include offensive measures such as street fighting, vandalism of corporate property, rioting, and demonstrating without a permit, but mainly consists of defensive tactics like misleading the authorities, assisting in the escape of people arrested by the police (”un-arrests’ or “de-arrests”), administering first aid to persons affected by tear gas, rubber bullets and other riot control measures in areas where protesters are barred from entering, building barricades, resisting the police, and practicing jail solidarity.[25][26][27] Property destruction carried out by black blocs tends to have symbolic significance: common targets include banks, institutional buildings, outlets for multinational corporations, gasoline stations, and video-surveillance cameras.[28]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc
"Occupy Oakland Embraces Nonviolence, but Debates 'Black Bloc' Tactics"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2098891,00.html
For what its worth...
“UPDATED: Is James E. Holmes A Occupy Black Bloc Member
He Plotted to Kill Cops
James E. Holmes Shoots Up Aurora Co Movie Theater Killing 12 And Wounding 59 As Batman Movie Slams OWS”:
http://cheatersflorida.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/updated-is-james-e-holmes-a-occupy-black-bloc-member-he-plotted-to-kill-cops-james-e-holmes-shoots-up-aurora-co-movie-theater-killing-12-and-wounding-59-as-batman-movie-slams-ows/
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“More Signs Point to James E. Holmes As Occupy ‘Black Bloc’ Member He Plotted to Kill Cops With Firebombs Just Like Black Bloc Chicago”:
Someone’s stuck in a bygone era...
not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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