A story from Saturday

Published on Daily Mail December 11, 2021. Source

One of the useful things about the Blogger platform is that I can schedule posts for a future date.

This story came out nationally on Saturday. I scheduled the post to show up three days (72 hours) later.

The reason I am doing this is because this could be a watershed story or it could be a Jussie Smollett me-to.

It is a watershed if...

It is a watershed story if the perp was motivated by BLM rhetoric.

If so, it is domestic terrorism and the perp was a sleeper agent who was activated by the unhinged rantings of a provocateur goading idiots toward civil war.

The implicit message is "If we can do this to your puppy, we can do this to your children". That message has nation-wide implications and all involved should be dealt with harshly.

If it is a Jussie Smollett me-to...

The Jussie Smollett case should be a reminder that most of us are easily duped by the media. What they tell us. What they do not tell us.

At this point, the media is reporting that it MAY have been motivated by the dog owner's job in law-enforcement.

Facts that could derail that narrative would be

• If the dog-owner herself killed her dog because it was inconvenient and then she concocted the story to deflect blame. The cynic in me puts the odds of this at 25%
• If the dog-owner's romance interest killed the dog. The cynic in me puts the odds at 50%
• If the perp never heard of BLM or Antifa. 0.1%
• If the perp is a local frequent-flier of the pale persuasion. 10% chance.

That leaves the odds at about 1-in-7 of this story having national significance.

One-in-seven is high enough for me to follow the story but six-in-seven change of not-relevant makes it important for me to time-delay it. The fact that this story still has "legs" ten days after the event suggests that it was not the dog's owner.

Why preload it?

My attention span is not what I wish it was. Nor is the media's attention span.

Therefore it makes sense to load the torpedo tubes and to set an alarm clock.

I AM curious about the evidence that led them to announce that they believe this was motivated by a hatred for police.