Houston Church Shooter Identified as Transgender With a Long Criminal History

From The Epoch Times.com (Feb. 12):

A shooter who was killed by off-duty police officers after opening fire at a Houston megachurch while seemingly using a 7-year-old child as a human shield has been identified as a woman named Genesse Moreno, who police said also identified as a man named Jeffrey Escalante.

Police said a woman in her early 30s entered Lakewood Church on Feb. 11 wearing a trench coat and backpack, armed with a long rifle, and began firing.

Before managing to kill anyone, the shooter was taken down by two off-duty officers, one a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent and the other a Houston police officer, according to Houston Police Chief Troy Finner.

“I want to commend those officers. She had a long gun, and it could’ve been a lot worse, but they stepped up and they did their job,” Chief Finner said during a media briefing on the afternoon of Feb. 11.

An affidavit seeking a search warrant for a home in Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston, identifies the shooter as 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno, according to the Associated Press. The warrant was released by the Montgomery County district attorney’s office.

Records cited by the Houston Chronicle and other media outlets, and which are circulating online, show that the shooter also identified as Jeffrey Escalante, who had a long criminal history, including assault, drug, and weapons charges.

Twitter, that featured a series of the shooter’s mugshots over the years.

“My information is biological female per the medical examiner,” he wrote in an earlier post. “They were looking at the body when brought in.”

Chris Hassig, commander of the Houston Police Department homicide division, said during a media briefing on Feb. 12 that investigators have identified the shooter as a 36-year-old Hispanic female named Genesse Moreno.

“There are some discrepancies [regarding the individual’s gender],” he said. “We do have reports she used multiple aliases, including Jeffrey Escalante. So she utilized both male and female names.”

However, Mr. Hassig said the investigation indicates that “she has been identified this entire time as female.”

He noted that the gun used by the shooter had a sticker with the word “Palestine” on it.

Child as Human Shield?

At the Feb. 12 briefing, Mr. Hassig said two people were injured in the incident, including the child who accompanied the shooter.

The other person injured was a 57-year-old man, who was shot in the hip or leg.

Mr. Hassig said the 7-year-old child who accompanied Ms. Moreno was struck in the head in the exchange of gunfire and remains in critical condition.

He said Ms. Moreno pulled up to the church in a vehicle with the child inside and then entered the building with the little boy and, after entering, “she immediately starts firing inside of the hallway.”

The two officers returned fire.

“Multiple shots are exchanged by all three,” Mr. Hassig said. “She eventually falls to the ground; the 7-year-old child falls to the ground as well from gunfire. One gunshot wound to the head.”

A Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson was cited by the Houston Chronicle as saying on Feb. 12 that the 7-year-old was not expected to survive.

While it’s unclear who shot the child, Chief Finner blamed the shooter.

“That female, that suspect put that baby in danger,” he said during the Feb. 11 briefing. “I’m going to put that blame on her.”

Lakewood Church, which seats roughly 16,000 people, is led by pastor Joel Osteen.

In a statement posted on X, Mr. Osteen praised law enforcement for acting swiftly to neutralize the threat and said that he was “devastated” by the shooting.

“In the face of such darkness, we must hold onto our faith and remember evil will not prevail,” he said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statement calling the shooting a “heinous act” and praising law enforcement for acting “quickly to respond to this tragedy.”

“Our hearts are with those impacted by today’s tragic shooting and the entire Lakewood Church community in Houston,” Mr. Abbott wrote.

A motive for the attack remains unclear.

Ms. Moreno’s posts on social media show a history of leftist politics, according to independent journalist Andy Ngo.

Alan Guity, a member of Lakewood Church since 1998, said he heard gunshots while resting inside the church’s sanctuary as his mother was working as an usher.

He told the Associated Press that he ran to his mother and that they both lay flat on the floor as the gunfire continued.

Mr. Guity told the outlet that he and his mother prayed and stayed on the floor for about five minutes until they were told it was safe to leave the building. He said that as he exited the building, he could see people crying and looking for loved ones. [source]

It seems more and more that mass shooters are transgender. Something strange is going on.

43 Democrats Vote Against Resolution Condemning Pro-Genocidal Phrase

From Townhall.com (Apr. 18):

On Tuesday afternoon, the House overwhelmingly passed in a bipartisan fashion a resolution from Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY) condemning the pro-genocidal phrase of "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." The vote was not unanimous, though, as 44 members voted against the resolution, and one voted "present." Nine members did not vote.

From the House floor, D'Esposito called out those who would chant or spray such a phrase for what they are. "When anti-Semitic activists masquerading as merely pro-Palestinian spray paint this slogan on the site of the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympians, we know, and they know, exactly what they are communicating."

He also made clear that "this slogan communicates one thing and one thing only. It is not human rights, it is certainly not peace, it is the violent destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people that live within it!"

The "no" votes came from the usual suspects, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (KY), as well as all of the Squad members, plus other Democrats. Rep. Madeline Dean (D-PA) was the one member who voted "present."

When people say "from the river to the sea," they are calling for the genocide of the Jewish State of Israel. Late last October, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), appeared in a digital ad accusing President Joe Biden of genocide for what support he had dared to show Israel at that point following the October 7 attack from Hamas against our ally in the Middle East. The ad contained chants of "from the river to the sea" from pro-Hamas agitators in Dearborn, where Tlaib's district is located. She also shared it from her personal X account a few days later. In part for her pathetic defense of the phrase, Tlaib was censured by the House in early November of last year.

Not surprisingly, Tlaib also voted against the resolution on Tuesday. She has had a record against supporting Israel, even when it comes to the condemnation of the rape that Israeli women endured at the hands of Hamas. She was the only member to vote "present" when it comes to voting for such a bipartisan resolution in February.

In addition to Massie and Tlaib, the other votes against the resolution on Tuesday included Democratic Reps. Becca Balint (VT), Don Beyer (VA), Suzanne Bonamici (OR), Jamaal Bowman (NY), Cori Bush (MO), André Carson (IN), Greg Casar (TX), Judy Chu (CA), Yvette Clarke (NY), Danny Davis (IL), Mark DeSaulnier (CA), Debbie Dingell (MI), Veronica Escobar (TX), Valerine Foushee (NC), Maxwell Frost (FL), Chuy García (IL), Sylvia Garcia (TX), Robert Garcia (CA), Al Green (TX), Jared Huffman (CA), Jonathan Jackson (IL), Sara Jacobs (CA), Pramila Jayapal (WA), Hank Johnson (GA), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA), Barbara Lee (CA), Summer Lee (PA), Jim McGovern (MA), Gwen Moore (WI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Chellie Pingree (ME), Mark Pocan (WI), Katie Porter (CA), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Delia Ramirez (IL), Jan Schakowsky (IL), Jill Tokuda (HI), Lauren Underwood (IL), Nyida Velázquez (NY), Maxine Waters (CA), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ).

In a post, D'Esposito noted that the 44 who voted against his resolution "should be ashamed for promoting hate."

It's also worth highlighting Dean's "present" vote, though. Her post, sent from her official account over X, claimed the resolution was a waste of time. She also specifically blamed Republicans.

"Since the fall, I've been firm that 'From the River to the Sea' has no place in discussing long-term peace for Israel and Palestine," she claimed, despite rejecting an opportunity that would give her the chance to prove that. "But Republicans prefer games over bills to support our allies & humanitarian aid," she went on to claim. "We must be purposeful with our words — and also with our time."

This resolution was also a bipartisan one, though, having been co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ) and Jared Moskowitz (FL), as the New York Post noted. 

The statement she included, from when the resolution was introduced last November, recognizing how the phrase "evokes fear for many, especially in the Jewish community," makes her refusal to vote for it even more significant. Her phrasing was curious in other ways, though. "While the phrase dates back to the 1960s and originally described freedom for Palestine, the phrase has now been co-opted by terrorist groups like Hamas to mean complete and total destruction of the Jewish state," she mentioned, which is a funny way of acknowledging that it means to wipe Israel off of the map.

It also came just a day after Dean refused to join 22 of her fellow Democrats who voted to censure Tlaib for defending "from the river to the sea" as "an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate." [source]

All those Dems that voted against the resolution are showing their true anti-Semitic feelings.

Biden’s agency bosses say Americans have ‘too much freedom’

From MSN.com:

The ‘swamp’ thinks you have it too good.

In an unusual look at federal agency managers, most believe Americans have too much freedom, and they back President Joe Biden's efforts to impose new regulations.

The bosses of federal agencies were asked in a new Napolitan Institute survey about the “individual freedom” Americans have, and 51% said they have “somewhat” to “far too much freedom.”

But just 16% of voters agreed and 57% believe the government has too much control over their lives.

Democratic “swamp” managers felt the country has too much freedom at the highest levels in the survey, at 68%. Among Republican federal agency chiefs, just 33% agreed.

But the partisan bureaucrats were more in agreement when it came to choosing who is best at deciding if new regulations are needed, found the polling outfit headed by Scott Rasmussen.

Said the analysis shared with Secrets on Friday, “Fifty-four percent (54%) of government managers say that if, after carefully researching an important issue, they determine that a regulation is needed, yet voters overwhelmingly oppose it, they should follow their research and issue the regulation anyway. This includes 49% of Republican government managers and 60% of Democrats,” it said.

Unlike Democrats and Republicans in America, and even on Capitol Hill, partisans that work in the swamp generally think like the other, according to Napolitan’s latest poll of America’s 1% elitists.

“On many topics, there is a disturbing level of bi-partisan agreement among federal government managers. Fifty-three percent (53%) of Republican government managers and 48% of Democrats believe the federal government should be allowed to censor speech that is posted on social media platforms. Forty-three percent (43%) of ‘Elites’ and just 16% of voters share this view. Seventy-four percent of Republican government managers and 79% of Democrats favor banning private ownership of guns. This view is shared by 77% of ‘Elites,’ but just 36% of voters,” said the analysis.

In his polling of elites, Rasmussen has found a stunning gap with Middle Americans, which could be a danger sign considering the outsize effect of elites, especially in the media.

Rasmussen said, “The ‘Elite’ 1% wield a tremendous amount of institutional power but are wildly out of touch with the nation they want to rule. Over the years they have built institutions and mechanisms of regulatory power that are immune to the checks and balances of elections. Worse still, these same ‘Elites’ own, operate, and control a large majority of media outlets, blocking out the true voice of the American people and broadcasting their own out of touch viewpoints.” [source]

Well, of course they would say that. Makes sense. Now, if the elites were asked if they have too much freedom they would say no, definitely not. Some elites might say they don't have enough.

Leibniz: A Remarkable Thinker Guided by God’s Authority

From Breakpoint.org (Nov. 14, 2022):

Today, November 14, marks the 306th anniversary of the death of Gottfried von Leibniz, a German polymath, committed Lutheran, and one of the most wide-ranging intellects in all of history.

Leibniz was a child prodigy. At 13, he composed 300 hexameters of Latin verse in one morning for an event at school. In 1661, at 14, he enrolled in the University of Leipzig, completing a bachelor’s and master’s degree by 17. The following year, he earned a bachelor of law degree, and a doctorate in philosophy the year after that. When, that same year, the university turned him down for a doctorate in law, likely because of his youth, he left Leipzig for the University of Altdorf, presented his dissertation, and was granted a license to practice law. This was before he turned twenty.

Despite a busy legal and diplomatic career, Leibniz remained active in scholarly pursuits. Like many intellectuals of his time, Leibniz was engaged with Enlightenment thought and active in a variety of fields. As a thinker, he stands out for not only grasping the depths of contemporary philosophy but also contributing to them, all while remaining dependent on the authority of Scripture and the Church.

Leibniz is best remembered as one of the discoverers of calculus, along with Isaac Newton. The two developed this mathematical field independently. Though Newton more often receives the greater credit for his famous work, Principia Mathematica, it’s Leibniz’s notations that their successors have often found to be most precise.

Leibniz anticipated Einstein by arguing that space, time, and motion were relative. In fact, Einstein referred to himself as a Leibnizian and argued that Leibniz’s views would have won out over Newton’s had the technology of the day been more advanced.

Speaking of technology, Leibniz dreamed up a primitive computer that used marbles, punch cards, and binary numbers to make advanced calculations. He further described a machine that could, theoretically, do integral and differential calculus. In all these ways, he anticipated modern computers and even helped lay the foundation for their development.

Leibniz is also well known for his work in philosophy, particularly in relation to theology. He argued that since both reason and faith are gifts of God, the two fields, if properly understood, could not be contradictory.

Leibniz also argued for what came to be called “Optimism,” the idea that any flaw of our world must also exist in others. Quite unfairly, the French philosopher Voltaire misrepresented this idea in his famous book, Candide, as though it meant that everything is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds. This is just close enough to Leibniz’s argument to sound plausible while at the same time being totally misleading about his philosophy.

Close to Leibniz’s heart was the reconciliation of Lutherans and Catholics. He had been born just two years before the end of the Thirty Years’ War, which was fought between Catholics and Protestants, primarily in Germany. Though a devout Lutheran, he held a deep appreciation of Catholic thought, and partly due to work toward reconciliation, he won the respect of high-level Catholics. He was even offered the prestigious position of curator of the Vatican library. To take it, Leibniz would have had to convert to Catholicism, and he didn’t want to “send a message” that Catholicism was better.

Leibniz’s work is so far reaching it is impossible to fully summarize in a brief commentary. In addition to his work in philosophy and theology, politics, law, history, and philology, he laid the foundation for modern analytic and linguistic philosophy and logic. He also anticipated developments in probability theory, computer science, geology, biology and medicine, linguistics, and psychology. The various elements within what was an incredible range of work were integrated together by his Christian faith, anchored in his belief in the Trinitarian Christian God. [source]

Interesting. Leibniz is definitely a polymath. His primitive computer is interesting.

Dr. Rand Paul Sounds Alarm on 6,000+ Earmark Spending Bill

From Paul.senate.gov (Mar. 8):

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke on the senate floor ahead of a vote on a $468 billion spending bill filled with over 6,000 earmarks.

The spending bill being considered by the Senate contains more than 6,000 earmarks detailed over 605 pages which include:

1. $4 million for a waterfront walkway in New Jersey
2. $3.5 million for Detroit’s Thanksgiving Parade float maker’s new headquarters
3. $1.75 million for the Met (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) in New York City
4. $1 million for an environmental justice center in New York City
5. $500,000 for gardens in San Francisco
6. $1 million to a non-profit in Minnesota to build a coffee shop and a greenhouse for refugees
7. $1 million to help San Francisco organic dairy farmers
8. $500,000 for a “cybercrime vehicle” for the Honolulu police department
9. $1.2 million for bike path resurfacing in Rhode Island
10. $209,000 for HVAC replacement for the “Charles Town Opera House” in West Virginia

As Dr. Paul said on the floor, “These are only ten of the over 6,000 wasteful earmarks included in the minibus… But these are my terrible ten, and there are more. And this is only funding half of government. And a couple more weeks they are coming back. And if there were 6,000 earmarks this week, I’m guessing they’ll have 6,000 next week.

“It gets worse. It’s leading to generalized inflation. So, not only are they ignoring the general welfare clause, which means that spending and taxation is supposed to help everyone equally – has to be for a general cause such as the national defense that we don’t have for Maine or Rhode Island or Kentucky, the national defense is for everyone it is a general cause.

“But when we spend it on parochial causes, when we run up this enormous deficit, it hurts us all generally. Inflation is a general punishment. So, I would say this bill is not for the general welfare of the country. It is for the general punishment of the country, because if it continues a $1.5 trillion deficit that leads to inflation, that causes all of us to not be able to afford food, clothing, gasoline.

“That’s what this is. This bill is an insult to the American people. The earmarks are all the wasteful spending that you could ever hope to see, and it should be defeated.”

You can watch Dr. Paul’s full floor remarks HERE. [source]

Porkzilla!  $1 million for a environmental justice? Stupid. Nature doesn’t care or know about justice. Geez.

Mystery UFO drones swarmed a U.S. military base for 17 days, and Pentagon says it can't stop them

From WND.com (Oct. 13):

(NEW YORK POST) — Fleets of dozens of mysterious UFO drones are surveilling America's most sensitive military sites, and the Pentagon admits it can't do much to stop the aerial intruders, according to a new report.

Drones of unknown origin have been spotted flying over military bases in Virginia and Nevada over the past year, including the secret base for the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six commando unit and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval port, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Federal laws, however, prohibit the military from shooting down the drones over the potential risks to troops and civilians. [source]

Unknown origin?  Here's an idea: Shoot an EMP at one of them and see if there any markings on it when it hits the ground. Even dissect it. Could this be a trial run? Or even a test? A fleet of drones sounds like a country is doing this. Not good.

An article on the incident:

Sen. Moran to Introduce Legislation After Reports of Unidentified Aircrafts Hovering Over U.S. Military Base

Harris Accused of Plagiarizing Portions of 2009 Book

From Newsmax.com (Oct. 14):

Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarizing sections of her first book, published in 2009, after a renowned "plagiarism hunter" found multiple passages that closely resembled or were taken word-for-word from other sources without attribution.

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo independently verified and then published the purported lifted sections in Harris' book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," first surfaced by Austrian Stefan Weber. Harris co-authored the book with ghostwriter Joan O'C. Hamilton.

Rufo said the violations "are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis."

According to Rufo, Harris lifted language from an Associated Press report verbatim, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice news release, a Bureau of Justice Assistance report, Wikipedia, and an Urban Institute report.

"Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here," Rufo wrote. "Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism. They not only lifted material from sources without proper attribution, but in at least one case, relied on a low-quality source, which potentially undermined the accuracy of their conclusion."

Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Republican Donald Trump's running mate, noticed.

"Hi, I'm JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia," he wrote in a post to X.

Wrote Donald Trump Jr. in a post on X: "Yikes! More evidence that Kamala Harris is a fraud!!!"

When contacted by the New York Post, Harris' ghostwriter replied, "Oh gosh."

"I haven't seen anything," Hamilton told the Post. "I'm afraid I can't talk to you right now, though, I'm in the middle of something. Let me go try to figure that out."

Harris also is accused of plagiarizing the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the same book. The Telegraph reported that an anecdote in Harris' "Smart on Crime" book closely resembles one that King gave in an interview to Playboy magazine in 1965.

It was the work of Rufo and Christopher Brunet who outed former Harvard President Gay, whom they found plagiarized sections of her 1997 doctorate dissertation. Gay subsequently stepped down as president of Harvard but remains on staff as a professor of government and African American studies.

Harris has published four books overall, including a children's book titled, "Superheroes Are Everywhere." [source]

I think she's incapable of original thought. Without a teleprompter or script, she is lost in thought. She stole Trump's economic ideas (no tax on tips) so plagiarizing makes sense.

Other articles on her plagiarizing:

• Publisher In ‘Damage-Control Mode’ After Report Detailing Kamala’s Alleged Plagiarism
• Kamala Harris Announces All-New Original Book: 'The Art Of The Deal'
• The Media Shouldn't Overlook Kamala Harris' Plagiarism