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Steve Kangas - How many shots?

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As we all know here, Steve Kangas died in 1999.

Howver, i was browsing, when The Existentialist Cowboy wrote in a recent blog post about a Kangas essay.

existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2009/08/steve-kangas-it-was-liberals-and.html

here is the kooky part:

Kangas [the quoted author] was found in the men's room of Richard Mellon Scaife's office buildling in Pittsburgh, reportedly dead of two gun shots wounds to the head!

It was ruled 'suicide'!

You have to be very, very quick to shoot yourself twice in the head!

Why have the police not questioned Scaife, since his newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, depicted Kangas as an obsessed lunatic who had come to that city with the intent of assassinating Scaife, but allegedly turned the gun on himself instead? And if Kangas was of no concern to Scaife, why did the reclusive billionaire dispatch his No. 1 private detective, Rex Armistead, to dig into Kangas' past.

Moreover, isn't strange that those who still insist presidential adviser Vince Foster was murdered, a theory promoted by Scaife, have no interest in how or why Kangas died?

The major media may be afraid of Scaife, who is known for going after his critics, but veteran journalist Mike Snow is continuing his quest for the answers to all these questions.

--The Kangas Chronicles

Think about it! TWO gun shot wounds to the head! Suicide, it was ruled! But in Scaife's bathroom?? Now --Scaife is reported to have 'threatened' Kangas and his vehement disagreement with Kangas is, for folk of this perverted ilk, motive enough to hire the thugs who conveniently found Kangas' body in Scaife's office building shot 'twice' in the head!

Who had Method, Motive and Opportunity to Murder Kangas?

I simply do not believe that someone contemplating suicide would make a trip to another city, look up the address of an arch nemesis, go to the bathroom there and proceed to kill oneself! That's just obvious ********!

I say that there is sufficient and probable cause to indict Richard Mellon Scaife and his hired gunsels, specificaly Armistead!

Armistead among other things is the famous private investigator used by Scaife to dig up dirt on President Clinton and Steve Kangas. He was paid $250,000 for one job. Rex Armistead was aided by Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Richard Gazarik and Steve's grieving parents eager for any information to fill the terrible vacuum. His mother now seems to regret being used that way. The Tribune-Review published some of the sleaziest dirt jobs you will find in any tabloid -- against Kangas. Below, you will see how one witness (Steve's mom) was mysteriously manipulated into telling lies about her son. Propaganda and mind bending. It's what they do.

--Evidence of Kangas' murder, Who Killed Web Warrior Steve Kangas

Odds are this case --if it should EVER be investigated for real --would be just another instance in which the right wing murders those who disagree. We are reminded of Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, who said: "When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth!" By that rule, you can RULE OUT 'suicide' That leaves a murdered Kangas in Scaife's men's room!

Afterward it leads to a rambling about the right.

But i was wondering, how many head wounds were there?
 
One. There were two fragments of a bullet in his brain, so the claim that he shot himself twice is the usual "I don't believe it would happen that way" argument from incredulity that we always see from CT nutbars.

Remember, the kooks on this try to ignore that Kangas definitely purchased a gun in Las Vegas, took a bus instead of a plane to Pittsburgh (so that he would not set off metal detectors) and hung out in the bathroom on Scaife's floor. There can be little doubt that Kangas went there to assassinate Scaife, who at the time was a bete noir of the left. Drunk and panicking, Kangas ended his own worthless life.
 
As much as I would like to believe bad things about Scaife, this doesn't quite have the ring of plausibility. You could shoot yourself in the head twice, if the first shot missed the important parts.
 
I used to have a book kicking around here on forensics with a case of a old guy who committed suicide by slashing his throat, as the three gunshot wounds to the head didn't kill him. The bullets passed through the front of his face, missing his brain each time. So yes, if you miss the ol' computer, you can shoot yourself multiple times in the head.
 
As much as I would like to believe bad things about Scaife, this doesn't quite have the ring of plausibility. You could shoot yourself in the head twice, if the first shot missed the important parts.

It was an amazing thing at the time, because here was this guy I used to debate on Usenet who suddenly became a big story.

And I will admit I thought he was pretty sane compared to the rest of his group (called the lying socialist weasels).

But the back story is pretty tawdry; he claimed to be a super genius and have figured out a computer program on how to bet on the horses; of course any bettor knows that horse races are terrible bets as the house rake is about 17%. He claimed to be making $200,000 per, but had a roommate in his $700 a month apartment. Of course, to the nutbars this was further evidence of a mystery, whereas to most of us it was evidence that he was lying about the money he made.
 
I never heard of this story before. Brainster, you used to debate him? Well you sure don't wind up shot dead so near RM Scaife without being interesting at least. I don't plan to go off on this one, but it's interesting.
 
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