Friday, August 22, 2014

Bill Whittle: Ferguson and the Real Race War

Bill Whittle: Ferguson and the Real Race War | Truth Revolt:

History for August 22

History for August 22 - On-This-Day.com:
In 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad began. During the five-monthlong battle, the city of 500,000 dwindled to a population of 1,515.

Anniversary of the beginning of the Vietnam conflict: a team of Free French parachuted into southern Indochina in response to a successful coup by a communist guerilla named Ho Chi Minh in the French colony (1945).


Birth anniversary of  author and friend of libraries Ray Bradbury (1920-2012).


Birth anniversaries of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), and Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003).

Happy Birthday! Valerie Harper, Bill Parcells, Cindy Williams


1485 - The War of the Roses ended with the death of England's King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry V II. 


1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there. 


1865 - A patent for liquid soap was issued to William Sheppard. 


1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200. 


1910 - Japan formally annexed Korea. 


1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II. 


1950 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition. 


1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. 


1984 - The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in New Stanton, PA


1986 - Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients. 

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Mexico Is Complaining, But Rick Perry Just Showed Them Who's Boss On The Border

Mexico Is Complaining, But Rick Perry Just Showed Them Who's Boss On The Border:
"Texas deployed about 1,000 guardsmen Thursday to aid in stopping the flow of illegals across the most porous sections of the border.
Reiterating his defense of the bold move, Perry said he went ahead with the deployment after repeatedly calling on the federal government to secure the border and enforce the nation’s immigration laws."

Border Officials Say They Don’t Know Who’s Actually Crossing Into the U.S.: ‘We’re Struggling to Determine Who Is Really Who’ | TheBlaze.com

Border Officials Say They Don’t Know Who’s Actually Crossing Into the U.S.: ‘We’re Struggling to Determine Who Is Really Who’ | TheBlaze.com:
"The same U.S. border sector that’s seen tens of thousands of Latin American immigrants illegally stream into the United States has also been the site of crossings by people from nations with links to terrorism, raising serious national security concerns among Border Patrol agents who say they are ill-equipped to handle them."

Fire all union employees who interact with children!-----High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in

High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in - NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News: "SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) -
A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun.
Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it was a Facebook page.
Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.
Stone says his statements were taken completely out of context.
"I could understand if they made him re-write it because he did have "gun" in it.
But a pet dinosaur?" said Alex's mother Karen Gray."I mean first of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore.
Second of all, he's not even old enough to buy a gun."
Investigators say the teacher contacted school officials after seeing the message containing the words "gun" and "take care of business," and police were then notified on Tuesday.
Summerville police officials say Stone's bookbag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found.
According to Gray, Stone was suspended for the rest of the week. Gray says she is furious that the school did not contact her before her son was arrested."

We are DOOMED!-----Americans Think Kids Need Constant Supervision

Lenore Skenazy: Americans Think Kids Need Constant Supervision - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A whopping 83 percent of Americans think that 9-year-olds should not be allowed to play at the park unsupervised. 
In fact, they would like to see a law prohibiting it.
And 62 percent feel the same way about 12-year-olds: Kids can be old enough for the seventh grade but not for unsupervised play time, according to most Americans.
Those are the results of a Reason/Rupe poll confirming that we have not only lost all confidence in our kids and our communities—we have lost all touch with reality, writes Lenore Skenazy.
"I doubt there has ever been a human culture, anywhere, anytime, that underestimates children's abilities more than we North Americans do today," says Boston College psychology professor emeritus Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, a book that advocates for more unsupervised play, not less."

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The Interesting American History Lesson With a ‘Common Core Twist’ | TheBlaze.com

The Interesting American History Lesson With a ‘Common Core Twist’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Speaking to about 500 juniors at Enochs High School in California, social studies teacher Janeen Zambo read from a breakup note to the students about how the writer needed space and that it was best to part ways."

The Meltdown

« The Meltdown Commentary Magazine:
"The president, according to the infatuated view of his political aides and media flatterers, was supposed to be playing o jogo bonito, the beautiful game—ending wars, pressing resets, pursuing pivots, and restoring America’s good name abroad.
Instead, he crumbled.
As I write, the foreign policy of the United States is in a state of unprecedented disarray. In some cases, failed policy has given way to an absence of policy.
So it is in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and, at least until recently, Ukraine.
In other cases the president has doubled down on failed policy—extending nuclear negotiations with Iran; announcing the full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

Sometimes the administration has been the victim of events, such as Edward Snowden’s espionage, it made worse through bureaucratic fumbling and feckless administrative fixes.
At other times the wounds have been self-inflicted: the espionage scandal in Germany (when it was learned that the United States had continued to spy on our ally despite prior revelations of the NSA’s eavesdropping on Chancellor Angela Merkel); the repeated declaration that “core al-Qaeda” was “on a path to defeat”; the prisoner swap with the Taliban that obtained Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s release.

Often the damage has been vivid, as in the collapse of the Israel–Palestinian talks in April followed by the war in Gaza.
More frequently it can be heard in the whispered remarks of our allies.
“The Polish-American alliance is worthless, even harmful, as it gives Poland a false sense of security,” Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister and once one of its most reliably pro-American politicians, was overheard saying in June.
“It’s bullshit.”"

14,646 duplicate voters flagged in Fairfax, Maryland

14,646 duplicate voters flagged in Fairfax, Maryland « Watchdog.org:
"FAIRFAX, Va. — An election-integrity group is challenging the status of nearly 15,000 voters reportedly registered in both Fairfax County and Maryland.
Virginia Voters Alliance on Wednesday urged Fairfax’s electoral board to do what state officials have so far not done across the commonwealth: Purge those duplicate voters.
VVA President Reagan George complained the state Department of Elections is classifying all duplicate registrations as “inactive voters.”
That means 43,896 voters alleged to be registered in both Virginia and Maryland would stay in Virginia’s statewide database — and remain eligible to vote — until 2019."

Democrats. Teamsters Threaten 'Top Chef' Star: “We’re gonna bash that pretty face in, you f*cking whore!”

Teamsters Threaten 'Top Chef' Star: “We’re gonna bash that pretty face in, you f*cking whore!” | RedState:
Some things never change. 
After nearly 15 years of trying to clean up a reputation marred with corruptionshake-downs of the film industry, as well as violence, Boston’s famous Teamsters Local 25′s public face turned very ugly earlier this summer when the popular Bravo network show Top Chef rolled into Beantown using non-union production assistants and drivers.
Although it was only briefly reported on in June, the incident received wider coverage yesterday when Deadline.com covered it in some more detail.
In summary, when Bravo’s Top Chef began taping at Boston’s Steel & Rye in June, Teamster members from Local 25 greeted the crew and stars with picket signs, verbal abuse, alleged vandalism and even death threats.
When cookbook author, actress, model and ‘Top Chef‘ host Padma Lakshmi appeared at Boston’s Steak & Rye, according to Deadline.com, Teamster picketers got even uglier by threatening the famous host.
The Teamsters picketers were already mad. By the time Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s car pulled up to the Steel & Rye restaurant in the picturesque New England town of Milton just outside Boston, one of them ran up to her car and screamed, We’re gonna bash that pretty face in, you f*cking whore!
The Teamsters’ threats didn’t just stop with threats at the show’s host, according to Deadline Hollywood’s report.
Jenn Levy, Bravo’s SVP Production, wasn’t spared. Arriving at the restaurant in her black SUV, she soon found herself running a gauntlet of vitriol. “She got of her car in front of the location and quickly ran through the picket line,” a source said. “They were yelling, ‘You bitch! You slut! We’re gonna get you!’ It went on like that all day.”
One report, dated back in June, states that, in addition to verbal assaults, there were “just under a dozen cars” that had their tires slashed.
There was a large film crew at Steel & Rye today filming a television program. During the course of the taping union picketers arrived and hassled members of the crew, pedestrians and a police officer who had been hired as safety detail. One passer by said the picketers were “aggressive”. Deputy Chief King stated that just under a dozen cars had their tires slashed at some point.
A ‘Top Chef’ crew member told Deadline that, in addition to the threats, there were racial, sexual and other verbal assaults on the crew.
As any employee of our show walked on or off set, the picketers verbally attacked us, calling the gays ‘fags,’ the blacks ‘niggers’ and most of the women ‘sluts and whores,’ ” the crewmember said. “It got worse as the day went on. They chased us down the sidewalk when we had to run from one end of the location to the next in the middle of our busy work day. They threatened to kill us, beat us, and said that they would find us and force us out of the city. Needless to say, we were terrified. I’m a strong person, but being called names and yelled at and harassed for 12 hours while working, I started to crumble. I was scared and worried for my safety.

Comedian Bill Maher Ignites Twitter Firestorm With Just 21 Words on Islam: ‘You Sound Like a Right Wing F***tard’ | TheBlaze.com

Comedian Bill Maher Ignites Twitter Firestorm With Just 21 Words on Islam: ‘You Sound Like a Right Wing F***tard’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Comedian Bill Maher faced some backlash on Tuesday after he expressed his disgust with radical Islamic groups following reports that Islamic State militants beheaded an American journalist on video."

Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson Beaten Nearly Unconscious, Suffered Eye Socket Fracture Before Shooting Michael Brown: Report | Video | TheBlaze.com

Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson Beaten Nearly Unconscious, Suffered Eye Socket Fracture Before Shooting Michael Brown: Report | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was beaten nearly unconscious and suffered an orbital fracture before he fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, according to a new bombshell report."


Lawsuit asks San Francisco to share pain on green regulations

Lawsuit asks San Francisco to share pain on green regulations - Washington Times:
"The Endangered Species Act has wreaked havoc for decades on rural communities, but a newly filed lawsuit could force San Francisco urbanites like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to share their pain.
A federal complaint filed this week contends that the Hetch Hetchy Project, which supplies water to San Francisco and the Bay Area, has unfairly enjoyed an exemption from the “severe cutbacks” required in rural California in order to save endangered fish species.
Craig Manson, who heads the Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy and Reliability (CESAR) in Fresno, said the lawsuit is aimed at addressing the “double standard” that forces farmers to give up water in the name of species conservation — without requiring Bay Area residents to do the same.
Mr. Manson wants the National Park Service to press the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end the special exemption from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), but “the Park Service just won’t do it.”
Why not? 
Jeffrey Olson, National Park Service spokesman, said the agency cannot comment on ongoing litigation, but critics point out that San Joaquin Valley farmers have nowhere near the political clout of San Francisco’s political leadership, which includes Mrs. Pelosi and a good chunk of the state’s dominant liberal power structure."

Wimps!-------College newspaper changes its name because editors thought “The Bullet” perpetuated violence

College newspaper changes its name because editors thought “The Bullet” perpetuated violence | Rare: "Students at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. will have something new to get used to when they return to school this fall.
The school newspaper has dropped a name that was almost a century old. “The Bullet” will be re-branded the “The Blue and Grey Press.”
“The editorial board felt that the paper’s name, which alludes to ammunition for an artillery weapon, propagated violence and did not honor our school’s history in a sensitive manner,” a university press release said."

Drunk teacher wins unemployment benefits; gets to keep license

Drunk teacher wins unemployment benefits; gets to keep license « Watchdog.org:
"DES MOINES, Iowa — If Dennis Pagel had taken a box of school supplies while working as a teacher at Dallas-Center Grimes Middle School, he could have gotten in serious trouble.
Luckily for Pagel, he just showed up for work drunk and on OxyContin.
For lighting up a breath test at three times the legal limit, Pagel received a three-day suspension with pay and later was allowed to resign.
He’s now collecting unemployment, thanks to a ruling by an administrative law judge earlier this month.

Contempt

RAMFclr-082014-putter-IBD-C.gif.cmsContempt [Updated] | Power Line:
"In recent months, Barack Obama has crossed an important threshold.

He has always shown contempt for his opponents; now he shows contempt for his supporters. 

He has quit pretending to be a leader, and more or less quit pretending to be a president. 

On the right and the center, he has become a joke. "


Liberals Behaving Badly: Political Scandals the Networks Are Hiding from You

Liberals Behaving Badly: Political Scandals the Networks Are Hiding from You | Media Research Center: "The Big Three networks, so far, have refused to report allegations of unethical behavior like Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid using campaign funds to pay $31,000 to his granddaughter, or allegations that Illinois Democratic Governor Pat Quinn using an anti-violence initiative as a slush fund. 
Embarrassments such as Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley, who mocked farmers in his home state, and Democratic Wisconsin Gubernatorial candidate Brett Hulsey making KKK hoods to give to Republicans, have gone unreported by the Big Three networks.
The following is a rundown of some of the 2014 scandals involving Democrats that the Big Three networks have chosen to bury or outright ignore on their evening and morning shows:"



DEMOCRATS ENGAGED IN POTENTIALLY CRIMINAL OR UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR


 Democratic Senator John Walsh Drops Out of Race After Plagiarism Scandal-Big Three coverage: A 31 second story aired on the July 24 CBS This Morning
 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Paid $31,000 in Campaign Funds to Granddaughter for ‘Gifts’Big Three coverage: 0 stories
 Democratic Governor Accused of Turning Anti-Violence Initiative Into a Slush Fund-Big Three coverage: 0 stories
 Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu Charged Campaign Flight to Taxpayers-Big Three coverage: 0 stories 

New Jersey Democrat Leaves Congress Amid Ethics Probe-Big Three coverage: Nothing on the ABC, CBS or NBC morning and evening newscasts but the May 11 edition of 60 Minutes devoted 88 seconds to Andrews during a Steve Kroft piece about the misuse of campaign funds.

 

Anti-Gun Democrat Accused of Illegal Arms Trafficking-Big Three coverage: A 10 second brief by ABC’s Amy Robach on March 27 edition of ABC’sGood Morning America. Robach never attached the Democratic label to Yee in the following brief: “And a California lawmaker who pushed for gun control has been arrested in a gun trafficking scheme. State Senator Leland Yee is fighting those charges.” -There was nothing about Yee on CBS and NBC.

 

California State Democrats Suspended By State Senate for Corruption-

Big Three coverage: 0 stories
Charlotte Mayor and ‘Friend of Barack’ Goes Down on Bribery Charges-Big Three coverage: Two briefs totaling 49 seconds. A 12 second brief by ABC’s Amy Robach on the March 27 Good Morning America. Robach failed to identify Cannon as a Democrat in the following brief: “Mayor Patrick Cannon accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes and then soliciting another million in bribes.”
NBC’s Brian Williams on the March 26 Nightly News offered the following 37 second brief, in which he never disclosed Cannon’s party affiliation. “The beautiful city of Charlotte, North Carolina, tonight is coming to grips with an ugly story involving its mayor who has been in office for a grand total of one hundred fifteen days. He was busted today by the FBI after a sting operation several years in the making. Patrick Cannon is facing charges of theft and bribery after the FBI says it launched a fake real estate scheme. They say he asked for and received forty-eight thousand dollars, use of a luxury apartment, kickbacks, and in the most recent payment he accepted twenty thousand dollars in cash, they say, in his office. If convicted, he could face up to twenty years in prison.” -
CBS never ran a story on Cannon. 

Child Pornography Charges Filed Against Former Illinois Democrat State Representative- Big Three coverage: 0 stories


Democrat Running for U.S. Senate in Iowa Insults Farmers-Big Three coverage: 0 stories

 

Democratic Congressman Calls Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom”-Big Three coverage: 0 stories

 

Democratic Candidate for Mayor in New Jersey Uses the “N Word”-Big Three coverage: 0 stories


Democratic Candidate for Governor in Wisconsin Wants to Make KKK Hoods for Republicans-Big Three coverage: 0 stories

Rick Perry Releases Scathing New Video of Drunk Democrat Texas DA Lehmberg Wearing a “Spit Mask”

Rick Perry Releases Scathing New Video of Drunk Democrat Texas DA Lehmberg Wearing a “Spit Mask”:
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry issued a scorching video of belligerent drunk Rosemary Lehmberg, the Travis County District Attorney behind the junk indictment issued by the drunk-driving Democrat. "

Ferguson: We Need To Stop Talking About “Media Bias”—And Start Talking About Media Evil.

Ferguson: We Need To Stop Talking About “Media Bias”—And Start Talking About Media Evil. | VDARE.COM:

Ferguson: We Need To Stop Talking About “Media Bias”—And Start Talking About Media Evil.

Reports today that Michael (“Gentle Giant”) Brown inflicted an eye socket fracture on Ferguson police office Darren Wilson could further threaten the Main Stream Media’s white-guilt morality play—but they’ll figure something out. (Note that Christine Byers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who tweeted yesterday that a dozen witnesses supported Wilson, seems to have been placed on leave).
The plain fact is that, probably via what seems from the outside to be some sort of a Journolist II-type co-ordination, the MSM has made huge contributions to the Ferguson fiasco—and above all to the paralysis of the police and to the near invisibility of the GOP, once again ducking its role as GAP, the Generic American Party.
If the MSM did have any honesty, they would have asked questions along the following lines:
  • What injuries did Mike Brown inflict on Officer Wilson?
  • Why did Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, not apologize to the South Asian convenience store manager whom her son had robbed, assaulted and battered, or to the white policeman, whom her son had attacked and had probably sought to murder?
  • Why would a mother who was supposedly racked with grief immediately run out and engage the nation’s most racist, unethical lawyer, Benjamin Crump, whose specialty is race hoaxes and shaking down white taxpayers?
  • Does Lesley McSpadden intend to share any of her misbegotten windfall with the store owners whose lives her son and his supporters have destroyed?
  • What sort of people respond to their friend robbing a store by looting and burning down a store—and then, a few days later, realizing that they’d hit the wrong store, looting and burning down a second store?
  • What kind of people burn down their own town?
  • Why are “respectable” blacks supporting the rioters and looters?
  • Why do the “eyewitness” stories contradict each other so, and why are they so lacking in credibility?
  • “Why didn’t they shoot those looters?”—in the words of ablack Ferguson resident. (In fact, police-inflicted injuries seem vanishingly rare).
  • Why are President Obama and the highest lawman in the land, Attorney General Eric Holder, conspiring to obstruct justice, and violate the civil rights of white Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson?
The MSM have followed the same script they followed in promoting the Trayvon Martin Hoax. They are trying to score millions for the family of the “victim” (and his lawyers); diminish, excuse, and glorify black felons; handcuff and demonize white policemen; and get the man who killed their darling murdered.