Parker’s father calls for stronger gun laws
Andy Parker says that gun laws must be strengthened:
Everybody that she touched loved her, and she loved everybody back. I’m not going to let this issue drop. We’ve got to do something about crazy people getting guns. [I will do ] whatever it takes to get gun legislation to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes and background checks. This is not the last you’ve heard of me. This is something that’s Alison’s legacy that I want to make happen.
Flanagan named as suspect
Police say Flanagan, who goes by the name Bryce Williams when reporting, is the suspect in the murders. He is reported to be driving a cream-colored Dodge Charge, and to be 20 minutes north of Verona.
Police in pursuit
Governor McAuliffe says on the Ask the Governor radio show on WTOP that the suspect is believed to be a disgruntled employee of WDBJ-TV. He says police are pursuing the suspect on Interstate 64. He says that law enforcement personnel have a photo of the suspect and that he was known to the victims.
We believe it’s a disgruntled employee of the station, and they’re in pursuit.
ABC receives Manifesto
ABC News says a man claiming to be Bryce Williams called the network over the last few weeks saying he wanted to pitch a story and wanted to fax information. A little after 10 a.m. the network receives another phone call from a man identifying himself the shooting suspect. The caller says the authorities are after him and “all over the place” before hanging up. The network says it receives a 23-page fax. The writer says the attack was triggered by his reaction to the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them…The church shooting was the tipping point… but my anger has been building steadily.. I’ve been a human powder keg for a while.. just waiting to go BOOM!!!!
He says Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act, and quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, calling him “his boy.” as well as expressing admiration for the Columbine High School killers. Part of the document is titled A Suicide Note for Friends and Family.
Flanagan posts video
Flanagan posts his video of the shooting to Facebook (viewer discretion advised).
Tweets after shooting
Flanagan tweets (under the name Bryce Williams) that he filmed the shooting, as well as claiming Parker was racist. The account is deactivated by Twitter.
Alison made racist comments…EEOC Report filed…They hired her after that???…Adam went to HR after working with me one time!!!…I filmed the shooting see Facebook.
Tweets ‘black hand’ source pic
Right to Rise tweets the original photograph, showing Bush meeting a voter in an entirely different location.
Mysterious hand revealed. Meant to use Valencia. Fail. Not deleting it from our servers. pic.twitter.com/sczIMf1REx
— Paul Lindsay (@Paul_Lindsay) August 22, 2015
Declines McWhopper promo
McDonald’s declines to participate in Burger King’s “McWhopper” promotion
https://www.facebook.com/McDonaldsUS/posts/10153001312727014
Proposes McWhopper
Burger King proposes the McWhopper, which combines elements of the “Big Mac” and “Whopper” burgers to create a new double-decker burger, sold for one day in a franchise jointly run by employees of both companies. Burger King says the promo will promote Peace Day, linked to 21st September, which is The United Nations International Day of Peace. Burger King promotes the idea in full page ads in the New York Times, social media, and a taste test on the TODAY show.
We come in peace. In fact, we come in honor of peace. We know we’ve had our petty differences, but how about we have a ceasefire on these so-called “burger wars”?.. We appreciate that’s a lot to swallow so we’ve put together mcwhopper.com to give you a better understanding of our proposal. Let’s end the beef, with the beef.
Dog found thumb drive
A Black Labrador named Bear is credited with sniffing out a hidden thumb drive during a search of Fogle’s home, helping lead to his arrest and conviction. The two-year-old rescue dog is trained to detect electronic devices by the scent of their chemicals. Trainer:
It’s just like any other K-9 training, like with the narcotics or explosives or anything. You get the dog used to the odor and reward them as they indicate on it.
Porn star claims affair while wife pregnant
Dillon says Duggar met her in March 2015, at Philadelphia’s Gold Club, and paid her thousands of dollars to spend two nights with her, while his wife was approximately five months pregnant.
He walked into the Gold Club like a normal patron and said he’d been a fan for a long time and has watched my career grow. He even said from before my boob job until recently, and that he loved watching my very first scene on [an adult website].
After spending $600 on private dances, he offers her a $1,500 to spend the night togehter. However she says he “manhandled ” her:
He was basically tossing me around like I was a rag doll. It was very traumatic. I’ve had rough sex before, but this was terrifying. He [later] said something along the lines of, “I’m sorry, I was not in my right mind…that’s what you do in your movies , so i figured you’d be OK with it…
They spend another night together, which she says she was fine with except that he called her degrading names.
I actually really hope that his wife leaves him and takes his children away from him and leaves him a lonely, bitter man. I don’t think he deserves happiness.
Report: Almost no women used site
Gizmodo’s Editor-in-chief says that an an analysis of Ashley Madison’s data shows that women rarely used the site. looked for patterns in IP addresses, profile data, email addresses and mails sent. Newitz:
Then, three data fields changed everything. The first field, called mail_last_time, contained a timestamp indicating the last time a member checked the messages in their Ashley Madison inbox. If a person never checked their inbox, the field was blank. But even if they’d checked their messages only once, the field contained a date and time. About two-thirds of the men, or 20.2 million of them, had checked the messages in their accounts at least once. But only 1,492 women had ever checked their messages. It was a serious anomaly.
The pattern was reflected in another data field, too. This one, called chat_last_time contained the timestamp for the last time a member had struck up a conversation using the Ashley Madison chat system. Roughly 11 million men had engaged in chat, but only 2400 women had.
Overall, the picture is grim indeed. Out of 5.5 million female accounts, roughly zero percent had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created. The men’s accounts tell a story of lively engagement with the site, with over 20 million men hopefully looking at their inboxes, and over 10 million of them initiating chats. The women’s accounts show so little activity that they might as well not be there.
Top Gun 2 possible
At the Mission: Impossible premiere, Cruise says it would be fun to do Top Gun 2.
It’s tricky to figure out. If I can figure it out, if all of us can figure it out, it’d be fun to do. I’d like to fly those jets again, but we’ve got to do all the jets practical — no CGI on the jets … If we can figure all that out, and the Department of Defense will allow us to do it, that would be fun. There is an amazing role for Maverick in the movie, and there is no Top Gun without Maverick.
Kelly ‘not a quality journalist’
Trump says he “totally disagrees” with Ailes and said he does not think Kelly is a “quality journalist”:
I totally disagree with the FOX statement. I do not think Megyn Kelly is a quality journalist. I think her questioning of me, despite all of the polls saying I won the debate, was very unfair. Hopefully in the future I will be proven wrong and she will be able to elevate her standards to a level of professionalism that a network such as FOX deserves. More importantly, I am very pleased to see the latest polls from Public Policy Polling showing me at a strong number one with 35% in New Hampshire, the Monmouth University poll showing me, again at number one, with 30% in South Carolina and the latest national poll from Gravis where I am again the clear front runner with 40%. It was also just announced that I won the prestigious corn kernel poll at the Iowa State Fair by a landslide.
Farrakhan, Eminem meet
In an over 2 1/2-hour dinner in Eminem’s Detroit hotel room, Farrakhan talks about the responsibilities that stars like Eminem have toward society to influence people positively. Spokesperson:
It was a beautiful discussion. Eminem was engaged. His manager (Paul Rosenberg) was engaged. It was a great time and experience…[Farrakhan talked to Eminem about] using his influence and using his power through rap music and hip-hop culture to influence people positively, so our children, our youth, can grow into more positive humans.
https://instagram.com/p/62NQ3kTadC/
Ailes: trump should apologize to Kelly
Alies responds to Trump’s tweets about Kelly:
Donald Trump’s surprise and unprovoked attack on Megyn Kelly during her show last night is as unacceptable as it is disturbing. Megyn Kelly represents the very best of American journalism and all of us at FOX News Channel reject the crude and irresponsible attempts to suggest otherwise. I could not be more proud of Megyn for her professionalism and class in the face of all of Mr. Trump’s verbal assaults. Her questioning of Mr. Trump at the debate was tough but fair, and I fully support her as she continues to ask the probing and challenging questions that all presidential candidates may find difficult to answer. Donald Trump rarely apologizes, although in this case, he should. We have never been deterred by politicians or anyone else attacking us for doing our job, much less allowed ourselves to be bullied by anyone and we’re certainly not going to start now. All of our journalists will continue to report in the fair and balanced way that has made FOX News Channel the number one news network in the industry.
Stern: Trump will be nominee
Stern says Trump will be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee.
I’ll tell you why I think he’s going to be the nominee: He’s proven that no matter what he says, people dig him. [Voters] hate illegal immigrants but they just feel funny saying it — whether it’s rational or not — ‘Is the illegal immigrant draining your economy?’ Possibly. ‘Is he taking away your job?’ Possibly. I think more or less, people are super tired of politicians, meaning that they like the idea of a successful businessman running the country who might actually be able to get s— done…But the problem with it is, and Donald Trump will find this: being the president isn’t like being the president of a corporation. You still got to go through Congress for everything you want to do. And that’s the tough part. You’ve got to be one who can consolidate on both sides of the aisle, some sort of coalition. And it’s very difficult.
Attacks Kelly
Trump tweets and retweets posts attacking Kelly:
I liked The Kelly File much better without @megynkelly. Perhaps she could take another eleven day unscheduled vacation!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
"@mstanish53: @realDonaldTrump @megynkelly The bimbo back in town . I hope not for long ."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
Break for solo work
One Direction plan an extended break as the members work separately on different projects. One Direction will promote their latest album until February and released the official music video of their single, Drag Me Down before their extended break.
They are taking a hiatus so they can work on individual projects for a while but they are not splitting up
Eat lettuce grown in ISS
NASA astronauts on the International Space Station eat red romaine lettuce, which they freshly harvested from the orbiting lab’s vegetable plant growth system. The space garden snack marks the first time NASA had cleared its astronauts to eat what they grew. Before eating, they clean the lettuce with citric acid-based sanitizing wipes.
Lindgren: That’s awesome
Yui: I like that
Kelly: It tastes like arugula
The three save a few leaves for their Russian cosmonaut crewmates, two of whom are out on a spacewalk. Half of the harvest is frozen on the station so it can be returned to Earth for scientific analysis.
It was one small bite for man, one giant leap for #NASAVEGGIE and our #JourneytoMars. #YearInSpacehttps://t.co/B7Gkfm1Vz0
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) August 10, 2015