Monthly Archives: November 2023

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Daily Broadside | Someone Just Leaked the Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto

Or at least part of it.

Back in March of this year a troubled young woman who pretended she was a man walked into a Christian school in Nashville and gunned down six people, including three kids, before being taken out by a responding officer. The killer was identified as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student of the school.

After the massacre, rumors of a “manifesto” that detailed why she had done what she had began circulating. Demands to publish the manifesto were put off with “active investigation” excuses and it eventually became clear that the authorities had no intention of releasing whatever writings they had from Audrey.

Nashville Council member Courtney Johnston told The Post the FBI has already ruled the manifesto would not be released in its entirety. 

“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” she said, when reached by phone.

“That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she added.

She said she believed part of Hale’s writings would come out but that “the vast, overwhelming majority of it,” presented too much of a danger to the public.

Indeed they have “come out.” Apparently someone has had enough of the regime’s suppression of this document.

Louder with Crowder is publishing three pages of the long-awaited Nashville transgender mass shooter’s manifesto. These pages of the manifesto were exclusively obtained by MugClub Undercover.

The never-before-seen manifesto details how Audrey Hale planned to carry out the targeted massacre.

In the pages reviewed and corroborated by MugClub Undercover, Hale said she hoped to have a “high death count” and wanted to “kill” kids with “white privileges.”

A mentally unbalanced white woman who believes in the woke slur of “white privilege.” A detailed list was offered earlier on in the article:

  • The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as “DEATH DAY”, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
  • Audrey Hale: “Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready…I hope my victims aren’t.”
  • Hale: “I hope I have a high death count.”
  • Hale: “Kill those kids!!!”
  • Hale: “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
  • Hale: “Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privileges”• Hale: There were several times I could have been caught especially b—ack in the summer of 2021.
  • Hale: “It might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. Its gunna go quick.”

Taking this alleged manifesto at face value, I’m struck by the depth of hatred over superficial qualities that indicate “white privilege.” She writes about “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”

Fancy khakis? Sports backpacks? Sports cars?

That sounds a lot like self-pity and envy. It’s the kind of thing a high-schooler would say when trying to insult someone who is elevated on the social ladder. By “fancy” she probably means “expensive” or “name brand” since khakis aren’t particularly “fancy.”

The Covenant School, where she was a student, is a private Christian school, serving Pre-K through 6th Grade students. Tuition ranges from $7,250 to $16,500 per student per school year. Not inexpensive, but scholarships and other financial aid is available.

Audrey was able to enroll back when she was a little kid. Was she, too, “privileged”?

We still don’t know why she chose her former school as her target. If she attended there through sixth grade, she would’ve been 11 or 12 years old. At the time of the shooting, she was 28. That’s a 16-year differential.

Was she holding onto some slight or victimization from her time there? Was she blaming the school’s overt affirmation of faith in Jesus Christ for her sexual confusion?

Her woke demonization of “white privilege” hardly applies to 6th graders or younger students. How many of them are driving daddy’s car to school?

Whatever her motivation, it’s clear she wanted to kill children, white people, and the Christians at The Covenant School.

So why suppress the manifesto? Because you’re supposed to see the protected classes as victims. It won’t do for you to have evidence that there are, in fact, hateful spiteful woke people who harbor murderous intentions before they carry them out. That would leave the regime looking like it’s hiding something—like their implicit support for hateful, spiteful killers.

WSMV has confirmed that the images are from the killer’s notebooks.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The images leaked on social media Monday morning are confirmed to belong to The Covenant School Shooter, a source told WSMV4 Chief Investigator Jeremy Finley.

On Monday morning, a political commentator released documents he said were related to The Covenant School shooting in Nashville.

Steven Crowder, host of “Louder with Crowder,” released three photos of writings in notebooks. Crowder claims they are images of the shooter’s writings. Now, a source has confirmed to WSMV4 that those images are indeed from the shooter.

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Daily Broadside | Our Vets Deserve Our Thanks

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

On Saturday I attended a Veteran’s Appreciation Night put on by my local church fellowship and sponsored by local VFW posts. We had vets from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.

The program included the singing of the national anthem, a dinner, some light musical entertainment, a comedienne, a raffle, and the offer of hope found in Jesus Christ.

But the whole night started with the entrance. Every veteran who walked in the door was greeted with a reception line of volunteers from the church, who cheered, applauded, waved American flags and shook their hand as they walked a red carpet to the registration table, where they had their photo taken by a red, white and blue balloon arch, and then were escorted to their table by other volunteers.

As part of the greeting committee, I got to shake hands with many of the vets, but a highlight was shaking hands with a sprightly 101-year-old WWII veteran and thanking him for his service.

Do you realize it’s been 78 years since the end of World War II? According to US Department of Veterans Affairs, only 119,550 Americans who served in WWII are currently alive. Even the youngest enlisted men, knowing some snuck in at age 16 or 17, would be in their 90s now.

I was there with my wife to host, meaning that I would wait on the guests seated at my assigned table. As it turned out, only one vet and his wife sat at my table. Because there weren’t any other guests for that table, I was invited to have dinner with them so they weren’t stranded by themselves.

Denny (not his real name) was a Navy vet who had always wanted to serve in the armed forces. He enlisted before he graduated from high school, then spent 10 years in the service. He now works for the DOJ. I asked him if he was busy tracking “white supremacists” like me, and he laughed. No, that’s not what he does.

When I asked him how he got to the appreciation dinner, he said that his neighbor is also a veteran and had attended the dinner last year. It was so good, he said, that he kept badgering Denny to attend this year. I asked him if he ever attended an appreciation night like this and he said no.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to ask him how he enjoyed the evening when it was all over; I was busy cleaning up with the rest of the volunteers when he and his wife left. I hope it was enjoyable for them.

The idea behind the event is to truly appreciate our vets. We live in polarized times, when our military is being wrecked by social experimentation, our war heroes are being “cancelled,” our past and present military engagements are being criticized, and our veterans have been abused by government incompetence.

We forget that our veterans are people who were asked or who volunteered to serve our country and often faced dreadful circumstances in which they had to engage in terrible acts that perhaps defeated our enemies, but that some carried home in their psyches.

To thank a 100-year-old man who served in our military is not to approve of what he did or didn’t do. I didn’t get to have a conversation with him, so I don’t know his rank or where he was deployed or what sort of experience he had. For all I know, he was a clerk in a general’s office in Topeka, Kansas.

My appreciation is to recognize that he performed a noble act, that he took on a role that put “country” before himself, that he put himself at risk on behalf of those who couldn’t. Many of our vets never made it home, having made the ultimate sacrifice. That could have been him, and I deeply appreciate the courage it took to expose himself to that risk on behalf of a country to which he pledged his loyalty.

A “country” isn’t some amorphous entity. A country is citizens like you and me. Every veteran who served in the military did so on behalf of the people who make up the country.

I’ve made it a personal commitment to thank our servicemen and women. While many of them aren’t looking for thanks, I can see that it’s meaningful to them when they are thanked.

I encourage you to thank a vet this Veteran’s Day, November 11.

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Daily Broadside | John, Paul, George and Ringo Play Together One More Time

Welcome to November. I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but on October 31 we had flurries that actually became blizzard-like for about 10 minutes during the afternoon with strong winds and the snow blowing sideways across the front of the house.

I hope that’s not a taste of what this winter will be like.

On October 5, 1962, a single called “Love Me Do” hit record stores in England.

It was the debut 45 by the Beatles – though, at the time, that name didn’t mean much to many English fans outside of Manchester and their native Liverpool. (The band’s frequent performances at the Star Club in Hamburg had already won them a devoted following in Germany, however.) The song was a surprise hit, rising to Number 17 on one of the many weekly charts around the U.K., a strong enough showing to convince EMI they had made a smart bet in signing the Beatles. 

Paul McCartney began writing “Love Me Do” a few years earlier, in 1958, when he was playing hooky from school at age 16. Soon afterwards, he sat down with John Lennon to flesh it out. “It was completely co-written,” McCartney later said. “It might have been my original idea, but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea.”

Lennon had a slightly different recollection of events. “‘Love Me Do’ is Paul’s song,” he said in 1980. “Let me think. I might have helped with the middle eight, but I couldn’t swear to it. I do know he had the song around, in Hamburg, even, way, way before we were songwriters.”

The Beatles, as we all know, went on to become the biggest and most influential rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. Their catalogue of hits included “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “All You Need is Love,” “Get Back,” “Yesterday,” “Eight Days A Week,” “Cant’ Buy Me Love,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Twist and Shout,” “Help,” “A Hard’s Day Night,” “Penny Lane,” and their masterpiece watershed album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

They wrote and recorded all of that, and much, much more, from October 1962 to April 1970—just 7 years—when they broke up and went their separate ways. They were all still in their twenties.

Now, 61 years after they released their first single, and long after both John Lennon (1980) and George Harrison (2001) died, comes a new song featuring all of The Beatles.

The song started as a demo that John had recorded and that Yoko Ono had given to George. But whereas they were able to record “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love” from similar cassette demos, “Now And Then” presented a bigger challenge because they couldn’t separate John’s voice from the piano he played on while recording the demo.

After giving it a few tries, they gave up.

It wasn’t until Peter Jackson developed the software to separate vocals, voices and instruments during the creation of the documentary, “Get Back,” that an opportunity presented itself to complete “Now And Then.” They had John’s voice, George’s guitar and backing vocals, and Paul and Ringo took the pieces and added their parts including bass, drums, vocals, and some strings.

What they produced is a meloncholy, down beat tune. Yet with John’s soulful vocals and the harmonies added by Paul and George, it sounds like … The Beatles.

It’s astonishing that more than a generation later, the surviving half of the band were able to perform, once more, with their missing bandmates.

According to Paul McCartney, this is the last Beatles song. There are no more recordings. It truly is The End.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Even Now The Search for Noah’s Ark Continues

In the Bible is a story that almost everybody is familiar with.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him. (Genesis 6:11-22 NIV)

All three theistic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — include the story of the flood, and flood stories are found in nearly every culture. Atheists argue that this means there’s nothing special about the account in Genesis because that just means as humanity spread out, they carried the “myth” with them. Then the “myth” took on a life of its own and was embellished with each culture’s priorities.

But a nearly universally existing “flood” account doesn’t prove a myth. The obvious question is that if every culture has an account of a worldwide flood, couldn’t that instead point to some kind of ancient cataclysmic event? (By the way, the primary meaning of cataclysm is “flood.”)

At least one study seems to suggest that there is a common event being remembered, and that the original account is to be found in the Bible:

Strickling concluded from his study of flood legends from all over the world that “nearly all” flood accounts “are variations of the theme in the biblical account … however, a statistical analysis indicates the purity of the biblical account and reveals evidence of subsequence [sic] upheavals having corrupted in varying degrees all other accounts” [53, p. 152]. Among the similarities that Strickling found include a favored family was saved in thirty-two of the flood accounts, and in twenty-one survival was due to a “boat” of some type. He concluded that a correlation exists between them in the following areas: 1) survival by boat, 2) a forewarning, 3) one flood only, and 4) preservation of non-human types of life such as animals. The same correspondence with the biblical account is also found in world wide-creation accounts.

Among the aspects of the early history of the world found in Genesis and the flood that also appear in many or most creation stories are the confusion of tongues at Babel. Syrian, Sumerian, Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, Persian and even the Estonian, Irish, American Indian, Toltec and Cholulan creation stories all include a variant of the flood story. In the American Indian tradition the flood causes “universal destruction” because the world grew “extremely sinful” [37]. Warshofsky notes regarding the great flood that “with variations” the

biblical account of a great, universal flood is part of the mythology and legend of almost every culture on earth. Even people living far from the sea—the Hopi Indians in the American Southwest, the Incas high in the Peruvian Andes—have legends of a great flood … covering the tops of the mountains and wiping out virtually all life on earth [56, p. 129, emphasis mine].

I bring all of this up because there has been an enduring fascination with Noah’s ark and whether the biblical account is true or not. The most recent report I’ve seen comes from just a couple of days ago.

Scientists have placed humans at the site of what is believed to be the “ruins of Noah’s Ark,” in the eastern mountains of Turkey.

The findings, released earlier this week, of rock and soil samples determined that “clayey materials, marine materials and seafood” were present in the area between 5500 and 3000 BC, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

The study is comprised of three Turkish and American universities that have been investigating the theory of the site since 2021.

It certainly looks like a boat. What’s also fascinating is that the structure pictured above corresponds to the dimensions of the ark as described in Genesis 6:

The size and shape of the formation correlate with the dimensions of what the ark is said to be in the Bible Book of Genesis, a “length of three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.”

In the Bible readings, God commanded Noah, a 600-year-old father of three, to build the ark and fill it with two of every animal before a global flood hit.

The Durupinar site is 18 miles south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, which the Book of Genesis states is where the ark came to rest on the seventh month and seventeenth day.

There have been many other claims of finding the remains of the ark frozen in the snow and ice on Mt. Ararat, none of which have been conclusive, but many of which are consistent in what they describe: a very large, dark rectangular object sticking out of the ice and resembling a barge.

That description does not fit the object nor the location being discussed in the Post article. However, the very next sentence in the article does reflect the skeptics:

The holy texts of three major religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have references to Noah and the ark, but scientists have yet to determine the authenticity of the stories.

You see, we have to wait for SCIENCE to validate scripture in order for it to have any credibility. Just like SCIENCE validated the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Which means we’ll have to wait for Dr. Fauxchi, who is the SCIENCE, to weigh in.

JK! Some of us are willing to look at the rest of the Scriptures and, seeing that they are reliable, trust that the stories of creation, the flood and, say, the Tower of Babel, are true. After all, both Jesus and Peter referred to the account of Noah as though it really happened:

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.” (Jesus in Matthew 24:36-39)

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.” (1 Peter 3:18-21)

4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others…” (2 Peter 2:4-5)

If Jesus and Peter spoke of it as a real-world event, then I trust that it did, in fact, happen. It’s fun to speculate along with the explorers and researhers what might come from their investigations.

Even if they were to prove that there is some kind of giant ship-like structure, however, it still wouldn’t be enough to convince the atheists, who would explain it away as not “proving” anything about the existence of God or the reliability of the Bible because you couldn’t conclusively prove that the structure was in fact “Noah’s.”

Even so, it’s amazing that after 5,000 years, there’s still interest in trying to discover whether or not the remnants of Noah’s ark still exist.