Actor Jussie Smollett‘s attorney suggested the Osundairo brothers, two Nigerian men who claim Smollett hired them to stage a hate crime, may have been wearing “whiteface” during the incident.

Attorney Tina Glandian, who appeared n NBC’s Today show this morning, pushed the theory after being asked about Smollett’s claim that he was attacked by a white man.

“He only saw one of the attackers. One of them he didn’t see. He saw one through a ski mask,” Glandian said. “Again, he could not see their body. Everything was covered, and he had a full ski mask on except the area around the eyes.”

“He did tell police that he — from what we saw, he thought it was pale skin or white or pale skin, was I think what he said,” she added. “And that was what he — and that’s why he initially did have a hard time.”

Jussie Smollett’s Attorney: Nigerian Brothers May Have Been Wearing Whiteface During Attack

It is not like Ms Glandian is stupid, it is that she considers everybody else so stupid, they will buy the explanation.

We need to bring back duels.

My wife and yours truly are fans of the TV show “The First 48” and we joke that up North,  Self-Service Car Washes are almost as dangerous as meth houses. In Miami-Dade are not very common but there are some and by principle I avoid them.

But there is one car-related location that has no problem collecting bodies in South Florida: Gas Stations.

It is a predictable pattern: Gas station with a 24/7 Store and just about all shootings occur at night.  In one of the companies I used to work for on the Midnight shift, we had one of this stations across the street and if one week went by without the cops being called to the location, we would have been mighty surprised.

I am going to hazard a guess and blame a lot of the stuff on drugs. People at night are attracted to light, it makes them feel safe even if they are doing illegal stuff like getting their dose of heroin. The problem is Bad Guys don’t mind shooting you in any condition, including under lights and surveillance cameras. Sometimes it is simply people without a lick of security sense and not a worry in the world actually getting gas and criminals know they have a soft target.

This is a gas station some miles from the house. It is next to a major highway so it is supposed to be making a lot of business during the daytime. But that station has the dubious honor of having two homicides occurred at different dates. Both at night, of course.

It goes without saying that we avoid getting gas when it is dark outside. Lately we have been using the new gas station in our Big Box Club Store which has no store in it and closes at 10 pm same as the store. If I am down to fumes and I am near the house at night, I know one of my nearby stations is used by MDPD to fill up their patrol cars in the area.

And here is an example of what I have been talking about people unaware of gas Station dangers:

They were lucky as hell. No question about it.

so, we make 24/7 gas Stations at night an official Stupid Place and add to the list, shall we?

It’s been  while since I touched on Keith Olbermann.  I don’t follow the sportsball so there is no reason for me to go anywhere near ESPN.

But the other day, Olbermann slithered out and decided to Tweet about a story from Mississippi.

This from the Clarion-Ledger.

‘I was shaking I was so nervous.’ Mississippi hunter harvests bizarre white turkey

It’s spring turkey season in the south.  I have some coworkers that I know will not be in the office next week because of it.

This story is just a local interest story in the outdoor section of the paper, covering a local hunter who stalked and bagged a unique white turkey.

Eriksen said he believes it is partially albino. Also known as leucism, it is a genetic abnormality which causes animals to be pale or spotty in coloration. It is unlike true albinism because it causes a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin.

“Often this trait is expressed with patches of color as in a piebald deer, but this specimen does not exhibit patches,” Eriksen said. “Occasionally piebald deer are reported without brown patches but the eye and hoof color is retained as normal.”

So it will make a very interesting story and trophy for this hunter.

What about the bird?

Adam Butler, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Wild Turkey Program coordinator, said he has never heard of or seen a wild white turkey in Mississippi, much less one that managed to survive to adulthood.

“I would say it’s exceptionally rare,” Butler said. “I would assume that occurs in one out of several hundred thousand individuals.”

So not that rare to happen, but rare for the all white bird to live that long.  Still, it’s a turkey, not some sort of endangered species.

It was taken legally, during the season, by a licensed hunter.

So you know where this is going.

Holy shit.

So an ESPN anchor with over 1 million Twitter followers says that some guy from a small town in Mississippi (Kiln Pop. 2,238) “should do our best to make sure the rest of his life is a living hell” over a turkey.

Not to mention the “pea-brain scumbag” ad hominem  attack.

Lastly, calling for a local Mississippi reporter to be fired for reporting on a local interest story?  I thought attacks on the media were undermining our democracy?

This is unbelievably fucking horrific.  It lead to people piling on Hunter Waltman for killing a white turkey.

Of all the Tweets sent by Olbermann’s followers, I just had to save this one.

Eric O’Grey lives in Washington DC.  He clearly has an issue with the term “harvested” which is normal hunting and game management jargon.  To him, this turkey was the last white rhino instead of a not uncommon mutation in a very common species.

But my favorite part is that he had to get all gender neutral with the bird.

It’s a male turkey, a tom, we know this because of the beard and fan.  Only males have those.  Turkeys are not Politically Correct, there are no turkeys running around identifying a hens as they strut and fan and gobble.  Woke O’Grey know so little about wildlife but so much about social justice Twitter that he opines like fucking idiot.

As for Waltman…

This Mississippi turkey hunter says Keith Olbermann’s tweet has led to more threats

Waltman said he is receiving verbal attacks due to Olbermann’s actions. While no one directly threatened to harm him, some said they hope harm comes his way.

Keith Olbermann told his more than 1 million Twitter followers that they should make a Mississippi hunter’s life “a living hell” for shooting a white turkey.

“I didn’t like the idea of that too much,” Waltman said. “I don’t think a lot of people would like to be called out on social media like that, especially (by someone) with so many followers.

“They text me all kinds of stuff. If he (Olbermann) hadn’t done that, none of this would have happened.”

Waltman said he had never heard of the ESPN commentator and former MSNBC political host prior to Olbermann’s attack on Twitter. Waltman said now he considers Olbermann a threatening individual.

Olbermann got what he wanted.  A small town guy in Mississippi being savaged online for a legal hunt.

The management of the Clarion-Ledger responded as well, clearly having more dignity and character than all of ESPN.

Clarion Ledger executive editor Sam R. Hall responded to Olbermann’s initial tweet on Tuesday.

“Keith Olbermann says Brian Broom should be fired for writing this story,” he wrote. “What was I thinking? I guess I should have fired our outdoors writer for writing about a hunter killing an unusual turkey during turkey hunting season.”

Hall followed up on Wednesday with a written statement.

“Keith Olbermann‘s tweet was recklessly irresponsible,” Hall wrote. “Someone with his following needs to understand the possible impact of his words.

“Telling over 1 million people to make someone’s life a living hell could have seriously dangerous consequences. In our newsroom, that would be a fireable offense, not writing a story about a hunter bagging a turkey.”

So how did ESPN respond to this despicable punching down?

They gave Keith Olbermann a talking to and made him give a half-ass quasi-apology.

It was a turkey, which mean Waltman here is going to eat the thing, so the trophy hunting part is utter horseshit.

“Nobody should feel threatened” stands in stark contrast to “should do our best to make sure the rest of his life is a living hell,” so that is horseshit to the power of bullshit.

This is something that should be of concern to each and every one of us.

Olbermann isn’t just anti-hunting, he is anti-gun too.

ESPN didn’t fire him for this, and the fact the Olbermann’s Twitter is still active (but that Tweet was deleted) shows that this doesn’t violate Twitter’s targeted harassment policy.

Just don’t tell Keith Olbermann to “learn to code” because that is worse than organizing a lynch mob against some small town guy in rural Mississippi.

If Olbermann can get away with doing this for a hunter, and anti-gun celebrity on Twitter can do this to shame any one of use for anything gun related.

It’s become obvious that public shaming is their weapon of choice to get what that want.

As for Hunter Waltman, I really hope a bunch of attorneys have reached out to him because Olbermann and ESPN should really pay for what was done.

Just imagine the guns, ammo, and ATV that can be purchased from a seven figure settlement from ESPN.

The House Appropriations committee voted 16 Yeas, 9, Nays and 5 Missed. Thanks to everybody who took the time to contact the Senators.

The text of the bill regarding lifting the ban against volunteer teachers carrying a concealed weapon is still there and negative on informing parents what teacher is carrying a firearm in school.

If I am not mistaken, the bill now goes to the House Floor for full vote. I’ll try to figure when and let you know. We still have the companion bill in the Senate SB 7030 but I am not sure if it is also on its way to the Senate Floor or there is still some other unmentioned committee left. I don’t see any, but I am not an expert on this stuff. I swear it is easier to conjure demons with the Necromicon…geez.

Color me slightly optimistic. Do understand that there will be grandstanding on the floors from the Gun Control legislators.

Oh crap… I don’t think I have the full list of Senator’s emails…

I’ll get it.

Caught this New Yorker article over Clayton Cramer’s;

Walking to lunch past the center’s Maya Lin–designed memorial to civil-rights martyrs, we’d cast a glance at the inscription from Martin Luther King, Jr., etched into the black marble—“Until justice rolls down like waters”—and intone, in our deepest voices, “Until justice rolls down like dollars.”

The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The author is a Believer. He joined the “cause” with stars in his eyes and even when it was obvious the place was a cesspool, he continued working there till he almost drowned in the sludge. And the he remained silent, not that he could do much as SPLC was morally impeccable because the politicians needed it to be even though it was a shameless scam since its foundation.

I am not getting the emails… anybody else?