The mall in Roseville California is burning down. The 25 year old man who set it on fire is a drug addict and had been living in a homeless shelter.
Thanks to a non-traditional news outlet and the guy having a Facebook page, we see within a couple hours that he is black,
Based on the peculiar name and his facial features, I strongly suspect he is an African immigrant, not an African American.
Let’s see how long before NPR has an accurate description.
Roseville, of all places. I used to live very near there in south Sacramento and my son still does, now in Citrus Heights. When he was a baby I recited a rhyme to him while tugging at his toes:
This little Piggee torched a market
This little Piggee burned a home
This little Piggee scorched roast beef
This little Piggee charred a nun
And this little Piggee went “Heee hee hee!”
All the way home
I sense more than one SoB wallowing in these ashes.
I can’t believe Hesperus lived close to there! (Nice poem ….)
Me too. In fact, when I was attending UC Davis I used to sell 8 track tapes (about a hundred years ago) out a the Roseville Flea Market. Superfly put me through a least a quarter of college!
Hey Art – I hope you’re not holding your breath waiting on NPR disclosing anything!
Speaking of NPR, should we start a pool on how long it’ll take for NPR to “Juan” Mara Liason (sp)? She appears on Fox News a lot.
And have you seen the link to Nina Totenberg hoping Jesse Helms gets HIV? She should really have to go since she was attacking Jesse, who was a Democrat, and even Bubba Clinton said ole Jesse was okay running around in sheets since “he had to get elected to help us out.”
Whazzup with all the bigots at NPR?
I fondly remember the 1980s when NPR for 8 straight years had nothing positive to say about any person in or action of the Reagan Administration, despite him having 60+% popularity.
In 1982, I was working in Oklahoma, and there isn’t a lot to do on the weekends. I specifically remember driving around one afternoon through the grazing lands listening to NPR drone on and on about William Casey and his connections CIA connections with United Fruit and the CIA killing anyone in Central America who supported Communists…. the “George H.W. Bush could have hopped into a SR71 spy plane to fly to France to negotiate the Iran hostage release to embarrass Jimmy Carter” theory…
When people tried to shut down the gay bathhouses in San Francisco in the early 1980s, they bemoaned the homophobia. When HIV/AIDs was discovered and promiscuous male gay a/r sex was the dominant transmission vector, they complained that Reagan didn’t act fast enough.
The reason NPR thinks they are “middle of the road” politically is they don’t understand where the middle is, similar to the way the “Moral Majority” defined “Moral” as “what we believe” or Progressives define “Progress” as “What we believe”
So a day later, lets tally which news organizations have protected us from the truth:
(The stories this evening focus more on when the mall will reopen, rather than who and why the fire started)
Business week – “23 year old man”, no name, no picture
Sacramento Bee – names the suspect, no description, no picture
Associated Press – mentions his nane, no picture, no description, no mention of his drug history or living in a homeless shelter
Examiner.com (not to be confused with the Examiner newspapers) – has picture, name, his mental health problems, that he was fired from a job recently, that he was a suspect in two fires in the previous day, and links to his Facebook page
Roseville Press Tribune – Name, picture, age
CBS (KOVR) – name, picture, age, only source so far to mention an employee in the gamestop was a friend of his, that he was recently in a car accident, was taking Oxycontin, and his mother recently kicked him out of her house, and that he had posted a suicide indication on his facebook page. Ding Ding Ding!
UPI – mentions only his name, age, no picture, no further description – focuses mainly on his actions “caused no injuries”
CNN International – name, age, no picture, says Mom claims the “police didn’t help her” with his mental health issues
NPR – focuses on the economic impact – name, age, picture at the very end of the story, mention of his mom kicking him out of the house
For some peculiar reason, the Governator has issued a “state of emergency” in Roseville. Are malls that important?
One source says that the reason for the State of Emergency is it will let mall employees collect unemployment right away instead of waiting for a week.
Holy Cow, ICC! We used to hit the Roseville Flea Market on a highly regular basis. Prolly bought some eight tracks from ya. I seem to recall buying enormous red onions from farmers there, too. Small world.
Art, I found most of the information the Fifth Col…, er, the Forth Estate I mean, managed to miss via a simple Google search, including Piggee’s doofus Facebook page and the suspicion that the poor misunderstood lad also “inflamed” a Wal-Mart and another store earlier.