Monday, July 15, 2013

New York Times Slurs America as 'A Country Plagued by Racism...'

Compare the New York Times' editorial on the verdict to the Wall Street Journal's. It's a huge gap in outlook, and seriously enormous consequences flow from which version prevails in the competition for truth in American politics. If the Times' version wins --- and the Zimmerman verdict is only a brief respite from this kind of relentless attack on truth --- then precarious days are ahead for freedom fighters of honesty, decency and justice.

 See, "Trayvon Martin’s Legacy":
It may not be possible to consider the case of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted Saturday of all charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin, as anything but a sad commentary on the state of race relations and the battle over gun rights in America today.

Certainly it is about race — ask any black man, up to and including President Obama, and he will tell you at least a few stories that sound eerily like what happened that rainy winter night in Sanford, Fla.

While Mr. Zimmerman’s conviction might have provided an emotional catharsis, we would still be a country plagued by racism, which persists in ever more insidious forms despite the Supreme Court’s sanguine assessment that “things have changed dramatically,” as it said in last month’s ruling striking down the heart of the Voting Rights Act. (The Justice Department is right to continue its investigation into whether Mr. Zimmerman may still be prosecuted under federal civil rights laws.)
And remember, the entire leftist program was beaten up badly by six honest jurists who just refused to be sucked into the regressive left's racial recrimination scam. But how long do we hold out as a nation against the forces of black shakedown socialism, with President Hussein rattling the beggars' cup? It's not looking good, folks. Keep fighting for justice. Rank and file patriots are all that's between truth and tyranny.

Who Ruined the Humanities?

From Lee Siegel, at WSJ:
When people wax plaintive about the fate of the humanities, they talk, in particular, about the slow extinction of English majors. Never mind that the preponderance of English majors go into other fields, such as law or advertising, and that students who don't major in English can still take literature courses. In the current alarming view, large numbers of people devoting four years mostly to studying novels, poems and plays are all that stand between us and sociocultural nightfall.

The remarkably insignificant fact that, a half-century ago, 14% of the undergraduate population majored in the humanities (mostly in literature, but also in art, philosophy, history, classics and religion) as opposed to 7% today has given rise to grave reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal arts.

Such ruminations always come to the same conclusion: We are told that the lack of a formal education, mostly in literature, leads to numerous pernicious personal conditions, such as the inability to think critically, to write clearly, to empathize with other people, to be curious about other people and places, to engage with great literature after graduation, to recognize truth, beauty and goodness.

These solemn anxieties are grand, lofty, civic-minded, admirably virtuous and virtuously admirable. They are also a sentimental fantasy...
Continue reading.

A lovable essay!

'Kept in line with truncheons, rifle butts and truncheons…'

Laura Nelson's tweet from the rioting in Hollywood reminds me of Discharge, "State Violence, State Control":


Kept in line with truncheons

Rifle butts and truncheons

This is state control, this is state control

State control, state control, this is state control

Beaten up behind closed doors

Cracked and bruised ribs, bloody mouth

Cracked and bruised skull, bloody mouth

State control, state control, this is state control...

Who Needs a Fork?

Not Jenny McCarthy, that's for sure.



Oakland #TrayvonMartin Protesters Turn Violent, Attack Journalists and Police

Because, you know, right-bloggers were just making this shit up, or whatever, assholes.

At KGO-TV ABC 7 San Francisco, with video:



And from Natalie Neysa Alund:



Left-wing scum, before your very eyes. And the idiot online leftists scoffed at the violence. The assholes. They're complicit.

And see, "#TrayvonMartin Partisans Burn the American Flag at Oakland #Zimmerman Protest."

Glenn Greenwald Warns #Snowden Files Could Become 'Worst Nightmare' for the U.S.

Greenwald denies he was threatening the U.S. government, "About the Reuters article."



And see Politico, "Glenn Greenwald: Edward Snowden has NSA ‘blueprints’" (via Memeorandum).

Vengeance for #TrayvonMartin

These idiots need to take a basic visual design class.

Other than that, I don't doubt their determination.

Via Michael Cabanatuan on Twitter.

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PREVIOUSLY: "#TrayvonMartin Partisans Burn the American Flag at Oakland #Zimmerman Protest."

'F-k Zimmerman i got the 30 and I'm coming for that nigga...'

At the Blaze, "‘I GOT THE 30 AND I’M COMING FOR THAT NI**A’: HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOST DISTURBING TWEETS FOLLOWING ZIMMERMAN’S NOT-GUILTY VERDICT."

#TrayvonMartin Would Still Be Alive — If He Hadn't Been Such a 'Nigga' Thug in the First Place

Dan Riehl nails it on Twitter.



And see Doug Ross, "Trayvon Martin, Burglary Tools, and PCP-style Drug Cocktails."

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Anarchy in the U.S.A.

This certainly seems appropriate:



Cool vintage clip, by the way.

Criminal #TrayvonMartin Protesters Block Interstate 10 in Los Angeles

You know, because the right-bloggers were wrong about rioting, or something.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Trayvon Martin protesters block freeway, clash with LAPD."



More:



A "citywide tactical alert." Because there ain't no Zimmerman verdict "mass" riots or anything.

More, Occupy LA tweets photos of the police presence, because peace!



More shots from earlier, via LAT's Matt Pierce:



More:



#TrayvonMartin Partisans Burn the American Flag at Oakland #Zimmerman Protest

This is from John Alston at ABC 7 San Francisco, this evening:



And here's his earlier tweets, chronologically from earlier this evening:




This is a direct result of the left's anti-Zimmerman racial demonization campaign, and President Hussein's inflammation of racial tensions, "President Obama's Statement on George #Zimmerman Not Guilty Verdict."

#HoodiesUp #NoJustice — 'Every F-king Cop Is a F-king Target...'

At Munz's Place, "Portland 'Justice for Trayvon' Rally: 'Every F-ing Cop Is a F-ing Target'."



And here's the comment from the revolutionary International Socialist Organization, "A racist killer is acquitted":
FOR MILLIONS of people in the U.S., the shock of learning about Trayvon's murder in February 2012 will still be fresh in their memory.

Martin was doing nothing more than walking through an unfamiliar neighborhood after a trip to the convenience store. But, like young African American men around the country, he was guilty of walking while Black. And so there was nothing to protect him from being identified as a threat--preemptively branded a criminal, to be stopped, questioned, searched, arrested...or worse.

It took weeks for the story of Martin's killing to emerge--after those who learned the facts of the case spread the word on the Internet, and people in Florida and around the country began holding protests. A series of galvanizing demonstrations took place in Florida, along with expressions of solidarity far and wide. The words "I am Trayvon Martin" were repeated in city after city.

As SocialistWorker.org wrote at the time, the killing:
proves that racism is alive and well in 2012, while the first African American president sits in the White House. The widespread shock and anger over what happened to Trayvon--and the beginnings of protest around the case--tell us something else, too: That large numbers of people are outraged by racist injustice in this and other forms.
The basic fact that Martin had been racially profiled and stalked before his death couldn't have been clearer. For example, on tapes of 911 calls eventually released by police under pressure, Zimmerman declared, "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something." Zimmerman explicitly defied the operator's instruction not to follow Martin.

To obscure those simple facts, Trayvon Martin was put on trial--in the media after his death, and then by defense lawyers during Zimmerman's trial.

For example, the defense team claimed that Zimmerman--who at the time of the murder outweighed Martin by more than 100 pounds--was attacked without provocation and feared for his life, rather the other way around. Judge Debra Nelson allowed defense lawyers to present results from a toxicology report showing that Martin had small amounts of marijuana in his system on the night he died. The lawyers and their champions in the right-wing media also attempted to claim that Martin had a history of violence--based on a video on Martin's cell phone showing two men fighting, neither of whom was Trayvon nor anyone he knew or was connected to.

The bigotry didn't stop with the verdict, either. At a press conference after the not-guilty decision, Zimmerman's co-attorney Mark O'Mara declared that his client was the real victim--and never would have been charged if he was African American "because those people who decided that they were going to make him the scapegoat would not have."

By contrast, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda seemed perfectly content with the verdict, stating that the jury system is "not perfect, but it's the best of the world. And we respect the jury's verdict." Critics of the prosecutors say they made a series of mistakes and missteps throughout the trial....

Protests were already underway in cities around the country as this article was being written. There will be more in the days to come, and anyone horrified by Trayvon's murder a year ago and by the acquittal of his killer on Saturday night should participate and raise their voices.

That's in the days to come -- Trayvon Martin's killer should be held to account. And in the weeks and months that follow, we need to channel anger at this latest example of justice denied into an increased determination to confront the system that let it happen. We need to build the broader challenge to a world where a young Black man's life is in danger because he was walking where someone thought he shouldn't be--and where the political and judicial establishment protect the racists, rather than the victims of racist murder.
I've highlighted the thinly veiled promise of revolutionary street justice against Zimmerman.

This communist boilerplate is virtually identical to what comes out of the bilge ducts at MSNBC nightly. It's the far-left revolutionary dregs against the rest of us folks trying to go about our lives in peace and human decency.

Progressives will kill you. Assholes like Trayvon Martin will ground and pound you into the sidewalk and President Hussein and the Democrat-Socialists in Congress continue their devil's work to deprive you of your basic constitutional right to self-defense.

The shock on the faces of the MSNBC dirtbags last night revealed a deep-seated anger. Their hatred is becoming ever more unhinged. It's pretty mind-boggling.

Get ready to stand a post against the f-kers.


@MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: 'It's Okay to Kill an Unarmed African American Child Who Has Committed No Crime...'

When you're this f-king obsessed with race it's no surprise that your comments on something like this are completely incoherent. In one breath she says the verdict was completely justified given the evidence at trial and in the next she says it's open season an African American children. This, frankly, is why MSNBC's ratings are in the gutter. And it's increasingly clear now that NBC will be facing a lawsuit from Zimmerman for the epic lies, smears, race-baiting and revenge-mongering the network as perpetuated against the defendant.

I watched this segment last night after the verdict was announced. I was actually on CNN but Twitter was lighting up with reports about Al Sharpton bawling about racism, blah, blah, and I switched over in time for Angela Corey's own disgusting press conference. After that, anchor Chris Jansing opened up the panel and you saw this most melodramatic leftist racism imaginable. These people are scum:



Push for #Zimmerman Federal Civil Rights Charges Risks Double Jeopardy

The Wall Street Journal nails it with this editorial, "The Zimmerman Verdict":

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An American criminal defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and that's the standard to keep in mind when considering the jury's not guilty verdict Saturday for George Zimmerman in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

The case has been fraught with racial politics from the start, but inside the Sanford, Florida courtroom, the jurors had to wrestle with the standard that is a hallmark of American justice. No one but Mr. Zimmerman knows what happened that early evening in 2012 when he followed Martin, an unfamiliar young, African-American male visiting the neighborhood. A scuffle ensued, Zimmerman shot Martin in what he says was self-defense, and prosecutors never produced an eyewitness or even much evidence to disprove Mr. Zimmerman.

The verdict compounds the tragedy for the Martin family, but no one can claim that their son was not represented in court. The state threw everything it had at Mr. Zimmerman. Gov. Rick Scott replaced local prosecutors with a special team from Jacksonville, the judge often ruled favorably for the prosecution, including the addition of the lesser manslaughter charge (in addition to second-degree murder) at the end of the trial.

Still the state could not prove its case to the satisfaction of the six jurors, all women, for whom the easiest decision in terms of public approval would have been to convict. No less than President Obama had commented on the local case after Mr. Zimmerman was not originally charged by local authorities.

"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Mr. Obama said. He was echoed by hundreds of politicians and commentators who wanted to put racial profiling on trial as much as they did Mr. Zimmerman. But a criminal trial is not a legislature, or a venue to debate social policy.

Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP is already lobbying Attorney General Eric Holder to indict Mr. Zimmerman on federal civil-rights charges. To do so and win a conviction would require proof that Mr. Zimmerman was motivated by racial animus when the record shows little more than a reference by Mr. Zimmerman to "punks" in a comment to a police dispatcher.

Millions of Americans would see such federal charges as an example of double jeopardy, and a politicized prosecution to boot.
More at the link.

And check on the action at Memeorandum, where the idiot regressives are all over the talk of federal prosecution of Zimmerman.

PHOTO CREDIT: The Los Angeles Times.

#Zimmerman Riots Rule 5 Break

It's been pretty hilarious with all the left's whining about "no rioting" following the Zimmerman verdict.

The race-baiting left is epic fail, and President Hussein is the freakin' worst.

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I'll have more later on that later. Meanwhile, here's some Sunday babe blogging.

So, check Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See……is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer bottle, you might just be a Warmist."

Plus, at Wirecutter's, "Supper is served."


Also, from Ron Russell, "Busty Babes and ..."

And from Proof Positive, "Women of PETA XXXV."

At Izismile, "This Average Girl Is Not Average Looking Anymore" (via Linkiest).


Plus, from Drunken Stepfather, "KATE UPTON IN A BIKINI OF THE DAY."

And Soylent has "Your Afternoon Generic Ginger."

Dana Pico has more, "Rule 5 Blogging: The IDF Again!"

At Reaganite, "ACHTUNG! 'Miss Germany 2013' Caroline Noeding - ist 'Die Schönste Frau Deutschlands'~."

And at Gator Doug's, "DaleyGatorDaleyBabe Saven Mi."

Check Egotastic! as well, "Thank God It’s Funbags! Hayley-Marie Coppin Scrubs Her Kitchen Clean and Naughty."

As always, if I missed your Rule 5 entry, drop it in the comments and I'll update.

More, from Bob Belvedere, "Rule 5 News: Judy Tyler, R.I.P."

New Black Panther Party Called for George #Zimmerman Death in Prison

Hey, incitement to death for George Zimmerman.

Keepin' it classy, leftists.

At the Daily Caller, "New Black Panther hopes Zimmerman is killed in prison [VIDEO]":



SANFORD, Fla. – At least one member of the New Black Panther party hopes George Zimmerman is found guilty and murdered in prison.

“Anything less than death for George Zimmerman is not justice,” Kojo Kayrallah told The Daily Caller Friday afternoon. Kayrallah, who identified himself as the Chief of Staff for the state of Florida said he and his group were here in Sanford seeking “justice for Trayvon.”

When asked if death in prison was satisfactory, Kayrallah said “praise be to God.”

The New Black Panther Party protested in front of Seminole County Courthouse along with several other groups on Friday as the six-person jury began deliberating Zimmerman’s fate. He can be convicted of either second-degree murder or manslaughter for the shooting death of Martin.

Brother James Muhammad also spoke to The Daily Caller saying “we’re not advocating any acts of violence against anyone in prison or out of prison.” But he added that there’s “always that possibility” that a “child killer” would face that fate of death behind bars.
Also at Breitbart, "New Black Panther Vows: 'Black Man Will Exact Justice on Zimmerman'."

Boy, they've got those Gandi lessons down cold.

Reporter Claudia Peschiutta Hit by Bean Bag Round in Nonexistent L.A. #Zimmerman Rioting Last Night — BWAHAHAHA!!

OMG, I can't stop the lulz!

The lying leftist losers are claiming there was no rioting last night following the Zimmerman verdict, but I guess they forgot to check with Los Angeles reporter Claudia Peschiutta, who was on the scene when LAPD riot patrols, surrounded by vicious rioting criminals, cleared the streets with non-lethal rounds.



Bwahaha! So peaceful. And hey, look over there! No riots!

Actually, I reported on L.A.'s rioting earlier --- but hey look over there! No "mass" riots! Bwahaha!!


Bwahaha! Idiot Leftists Push Hilarious Meme of No 'Mass' Riots!

OMG, this is freakin' hilarious!

Leftists were out in force yesterday denying there'd be rioting after the Zimmerman verdict. The hopelessly left-wing tool Dave Weigel sums up the fail with an entry at Slate, "The Night Without a Riot." But the regressive retard had to modify a bit when tweeting it out, for the lulz!


Hey, no "mass" riots. Look over there!

On the contrary, we had some mf big rioting in Oakland last night, and Occupy claimed "thousands" were on the streets in Los Angeles, but for a massive police presence we'd have seen more mf devastating black shakedown anarchy and destruction. I guess the New York Daily News didn't get the left's disinformation memo.



And check Twitchy, "‘Kill pigs’: Anti-cop vandals in Oakland riot, smash windows, burn flags over Zimmerman verdict [photos,video]."



Bwahahah!!

New York's Teams Have Fewer True Stars in All-Star Game Since the 1930s.

Or, so says USA Today, "New York: All-Star city with few real stars":
NEW YORK — This city loves stars — on Broadway, on Wall Street and on the diamond. But as baseball's best prepare to gather for Tuesday's All-Star Game, New York's teams have fewer true stars to call their own than in any of the eight previous All-Star games played here since the game's inception in the 1930s.
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President Obama's Statement on George #Zimmerman Not Guilty Verdict

And it's all about Trayvon.

The country's biggest loser just couldn't resist fanning the flames of additional racial strife.

At the White House homies' page, "Statement by the President":
The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son. And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.
Yeah, yeah. We shall overcome, mf.

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IMAGE CREDIT: iOWNTHEWORLD.

Sunday Cartoons

Here's a generic link to Flopping Aces, since the "Sunday Funnies" aren't up yet.


Also at Randy's Rountable, "Friday Nite Funnies," and Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's SUNDAY FUNNIES."

And see Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Fanning the Flames."

More Riots Planned After #Zimmerman Acquittal

ABC 7 Bay Area reports, "More protests planned in Oakland, SF after Zimmerman acquittal."

San Diego protests are planned as well, to say nothing of more rioting in Los Angeles.


Photographer Ahmed Assem Videotapes Moment of His Own Death During Clashes in Cairo

Man, this is intense, at NYT, "Parents Mourn Photographer Killed in Cairo."



Riot Police Break-Up Violent Los Angeles Protests Following #Zimmerman Verdict

Occupy Los Angeles claimed to have thousands of rioters on the streets following the verdict.

And more violence is planned for this afternoon, "Trayvon Martin protest planned Sunday in South L.A."

ADDED: More from AP, "CALIF. PROTESTS PLANNED AFTER ZIMMERMAN ACQUITTAL" (via Memeorandum).

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Obama is Biggest MF Loser in #Zimmerman Acquittal

From Roger Simon, at Pajamas Media, "Obama Big Loser in Zimmerman Trial" (at Memeorandum):

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Forget the over-zealous prosecutors and the repellent state attorney Angela Corey (who should be immediately disbarred or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security) and even the unfortunate Trayvon Martin family (although it is certainly hard to forget them — they have our profound sympathies), the true loser at the Zimmerman trial was Barack Obama.

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a onetime law lecturer, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years. This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.

It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.

Congratulations to the jury for not acceding to this tremendous pressure and delivering the only conceivable honest verdict. This case should never have been brought to trial. It was, quite literally, the first American Stalinist “show trial.” There was, virtually, no evidence to convict George Zimmerman. It was a great day for justice that this travesty was finally brought to a halt.

We all know Al Sharpton, the execrable race baiter of Tawana Brawley and Crown Heights, agitated publicly for this trial more than anyone else. But he most likely would not have succeeded had it not been for Obama’s tacit support. As far as I know this is unprecedented in our history (a president involving himself in a trial of this nature).

The media also followed Obama (as they always do) by enabling the demagogue Sharpton, as if he were a serious person. The media, as I wrote before, treated this case like pornography, something to be exploited, giving it all sorts of racial import it didn’t have. The New York Times, acting like true reactionaries of the Obama era (how can we use the word “liberal” with these people?), even went so far as to invent the term “white Hispanic” to fit the case. The National Enquirer couldn’t have done it better. (I take it back. The Enquirer behaves more ethically.)

The irony is that the people who suffer most from the media behaving in this manner are black people who are manipulated into acting as an interest group when they have no interest. They are literally victims of the media and of Obama.
Continue reading.

Actually, the administration is already foisting yet more racism on the country. At Jammie Wearing Fools, "Racial Arsonist Holder Pressured by Democrats, NAACP to File Charges Against Zimmerman."

The race riots have kicked off in Oakland, and the left is pushing for more. These people will stop at nothing to bring this country down.

IMAGE CREDIT: iOWNTHEWORLD.

#Zimmerman Verdict: State Never Proved Its Case, Legal Analysts Say

An analysis at the Miami Herald (via Instapundit):
SANFORD -- After five weeks of trial and 56 witnesses, few legal observers believed prosecutors came close to proving Sanford neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman committed second-degree murder when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

So for many legal analysts, it was no surprise that jurors rejected even a lesser “compromise” verdict of manslaughter, acquitting Zimmerman outright of all criminal charges and deciding he acted in a reasonable way to protect his own life.

The acquittal was a stinging blow for prosecutors and their decision to file the second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman, who was not initially arrested by Sanford police after claiming self-defense. And it was a resounding embrace of the defense’s strategy during closing arguments not just to establish that prosecutors hadn’t proven Zimmerman guilty, but also to show he was “absolutely” innocent.

“Justifiable use of force is one of the most difficult areas of the law,” State Attorney Angela Corey acknowledged Saturday after Zimmerman’s acquittal. “Make no mistake, Trayvon Martin had every right to be on the premises as did George Zimmerman ... that’s what makes this case unique.”

Zimmerman defense attorney Don West ... called the prosecution’s case a “disgrace.”

“We proved that George Zimmerman was not guilty,” he said.
Continue reading.

Oakland Riots After #Zimmerman Not Guilty Verdict

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "No arrests in Oakland vandalism."


Across the bay in Oakland ... about 125 protesters gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall before marching through downtown, starting small fires and smashing windows at the Wells Fargo Bank at 12th Street and Broadway and at several locations, including the Dogwood Bar, the Oakland Tribune, the Foot Locker shoe store and the Sears store.

A BART police car parked outside the 12th Street BART Station had its windows smashed, and protesters spray-painted "F- the police" and "Kill Pigs" on the side of the vehicle.

About 11:30 p.m., Oakland police formed a skirmish line near their headquarters at 7th Street and Broadway and came face-to-face with protesters.

As Argus, the police helicopter, monitored from above, the crowd soon moved away from the intersection and headed east on 14th Street, stopping at a McDonald's restaurant shortly after midnight to burn several flags and to spray-paint "Kill Zimmerman" and "FTP," an anti-police epithet, on the side of Alameda County's Rene C. Davidson Courthouse.

The protesters then returned to Broadway and Telegraph Avenue by about 12:30 a.m., smashing more windows, setting more fires and throwing garbage cans at motorists before dispersing, police said. No arrests were made, and there were no reported injuries, said Officer Johnna Watson, an Oakland police spokeswoman.
Well, it's Oakland, so it's like completely unexpected, or something.

More at Memeorandum, and especially at Protein Wisdom.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

#Zimmerman Verdict Unleashes Social Media Avalanche

At the Los Angeles Times, "Zimmerman not guilty: Verdict sparks social media avalanche."

Here's one of my tweets that was retweeted over a couple of dozen times.



At lots at Twitchy, "‘Apoplectic’ Terry McMillan declares the verdict ‘was all about race’." And, "It’s ‘n*gga season’: Marlon Wayans tweets epic meltdown about ‘fat guck Zimmerman’." And check the "Zimmerman verdict" search.

More on the news at the New York Times, "Zimmerman Is Acquitted in Trayvon Martin Killing. " (At Memeorandum.)

And at Instapundit, "ZIMMERMAN VERDICT REACHED: Not Guilty. This is a prosecution that never should have been brought."

More on the reactions later, especially on MSNBC's meltdown, when I find some video.

George #Zimmerman Found NOT GUILTY in #TrayvonMartin Murder Trial

I should probably post something.

Unlike a lot of people, I make no claim to expertise on this case. All along I thought it was a racial carnival show that brought out the worst in America's left-wing politics, mass media, and black culture.

I had no doubt that Zimmerman would be acquitted, as I posted on Twitter moments before the verdict was read.




We're going to continue our long national debate on race and racism after this trial, simply because the racial grievance industry won't let it go. It's a victory for decency and rationalism, a rare one in our upside down world of political correctness and radical left-wing lies and deception. The leftist media comes out particularly poorly.

I'll be updating, but here's the Miami Herald, "George Zimmerman not guilty in murder of Trayvon Martin." And at London's Daily Mail, "George Zimmerman found NOT GUILTY of murder or manslaughter of Trayvon Martin."

More at Twitchy as well, on the calls for George Zimmerman's death, "Twitter lynch mob threatens to kill George Zimmerman."

'No Justice, No Peace — #Trayvon'

A photo from the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, via Jacob Langston on Twitter.

A verdict could come any minute.

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Angry Protesters Await #Zimmerman Verdict

At LAT, "Tempers flare as crowd at courthouse waits for Zimmerman verdict":
As the six-woman jury continued their second day of deliberations Saturday, local authorities staffed the emergency operations center and sheriff’s deputies lingered at the edge of the courthouse lawn, where metal barricades had been erected.

“Shouting at each other -- it’s not going to do anything,” Campbell said.

As the white-haired man made his way through the crowd, a chorus of angry voices trailed him.

“Zimmerman’s a killer!”

“He’s a murderer!”

“You’re a racist!”

Eventually, half a dozen protesters surrounded the man with signs, chanting. One of the young women wore a T-shirt that said, “What if it were your son?” They talked about the O.J. Simpson case, one holding a sign that said, “The glove don’t fit.”

GRAPHIC: Who's who in the Trayvon Martin case

They tried to convince the white-haired man that he was wrong, but the man just shook his head.

“He has a right to self-defense,” he said of Zimmerman.

Tempers flared. Voices rose. But no one came to blows.

In the end, the old man walked away to talk to more Martin supporters, including a young black man wearing a T-shirt with Zimmerman’s face in the cross-hairs.




Homosexuals Protest FDA's Tainted Blood Ban

At Lonely Con, "What Could Go Wrong? Gay Men Want Ban Lifted On Blood Donations."

Lots could go wrong, like untold numbers of innocent people contracting AIDS.

And despite clear evidence that the blood supply becomes infected every year with HIV-tainted blood, a left-wing campaign of political correctness seeks to override public health safety and pooh-pooh the odds of infection. Homosexuals are simply pushing one more area of public life where they say efforts to protect the public have "stigmatized" the homosexual culture of depraved abandon and licentiousness. Oh the humanity!

Here's the New Yorker's extremely sympathetic (and stupid) report, "Breaking the Blood Ban":
Over the past fifteen years, the F.D.A. has reëxamined its policy on blood from M.S.M.s on several occasions. It continues to stand by it. The “FDA’s primary responsibility with regard to blood and blood products is to assure the safety of patients who receive these life-saving products,” Morgan Liscinsky, an F.D.A. spokeswoman, told me in an e-mail. She stressed the “much higher rates of transmissible diseases among some MSM than in the non-MSM general population.” Liscinsky did tell me that the F.D.A. is open to a discussion on the matter, though she employed some startling double negatives to make the point: “Although scientific evidence has not yet demonstrated that blood donated by MSM or a subgroup of these potential donors does not have a substantially increased rate of H.I.V. infection compared to currently accepted blood donors, FDA remains willing to consider new approaches to donor screening and testing.”

But there is good evidence to suggest that dropping the ban, and screening gay men who wish to give blood in the same way that people in other high-risk groups are screened, would pose almost no additional risk to the public. In fact, the evidence suggests that such a change in policy might actually save lives by increasing the amount of available blood.
I recommend showing this video to any person about to get a blood transfusion, informing them of the statistics on risk from homosexual infection. Let's see how well that goes over. Homos not only want to get in your face, they want to get in your bloodstream.



Or show them this one, featuring the homosexual organizer Ryan James Yezak and his homosexual freak supporters prancing in the background. Again, ask someone getting a transfusion, do you want blood from these people? How about that big black homosexual bitch in the background? You want that mf's blood?

 

And more at CBS, from Michelle Castillo (who looks like a damned tranny), "Activists hold first gay, bisexual blood drive to get FDA to change rules." The piece includes no voices of those supporting the ban, and nothing is offered to contradict the homo activist left's claims, despite the ample evidence.

Frankly, progressives don't care about public health. They're destroying every corner of American life, from your child's school to the blood supply. No citizen is safe from the freak homosexual takeover of American life.

Hey, man, we're going to be like the Castro nationwide in no time, mf's!

Cool Instagram Account for U.S. Department of the Interior

I love this.

At London's Daily Mail, "Inside story: Photographs from U.S. Department of the Interior's Instagram account reveal the stunningly diverse landscapes of the United States."




Weiner?! — Spitzer?!

Saw this just now on Twitter:


And at the magazine, "The Steamroller Returns."

Stranahan in Sanford

Check Lee Stranahan on Twitter and Instagraham.





Malala Yousafzai Addresses the United Nations

At the Telegraph UK, "Malala tells UN she will not be silenced by Taliban attack":
Malala Yousafzai has she will not be silenced by terrorist threats, in an address to the United Nations on her 16th birthday that was her first public speech since being shot by the Taliban.



“Let us pick up our books and pens,” said the Pakistani teenager, who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman as she left school last October.

“They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world. Education is the only solution.”

Malala, who has been recovering in Britain, delivered her address in New York in front of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to an auditorium packed with 1,000 students from around the world.

Her parents watched proudly as she assured her audience that she was “the same Malala”.

Wearing a loose-fitting pink shawl that had belonged to assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, she continued: “I am not against anyone. Nor am I here to speak against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak up for the right to education of every child.”

It was a typically impressive performance by a teen who earned the enmity of the Taliban in her home country for campaigning for girls’ rights to go to school. She said she was speaking for human rights activists across the world fighting for education, justice and equality.

“Here I stand not as one voice but speaking for those who have fought for the right to be treated with dignity, their right for equality of opportunity, and their right to be educated,” she said.

She called on governments to fight for the rights of women and children deprived of an education by child labour and forced marriages at early ages.

“The extremists were afraid of education,” she said. “That is why they’re blasting schools every day. Because they’re afraid of progress, afraid of change.

“If we want to achieve our goals, let us empower ourselves with a weapon of knowledge and shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.”

During a series of standing ovations, she said that the attempt on her life had only made her more resolute. “Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, courage and fervour was born,” she said.”I speak not for myself but for those without a voice.”

Unable to safely return to Pakistan, she started at a school in Birmingham in March after medical treatment there during which doctors mended parts of her skull with a titanium plate.
I think she should be condemning the Taliban. Let's hear it.

Don't be all "Imagine" on us, okay. You've got to stand up to evil, and you've experienced it like few others.

Also at the New York Times, "Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N."

University of California at Critical Juncture for Napolitano

I'm still processing the mindlessness of this appointment.

It's astounding. This lady fails upward.

At LAT, "Janet Napolitano would take UC helm at a critical time":
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be assuming the presidency of the University of California's system as it emerges from several tough financial years and is under increased pressure from elected leaders to increase graduation rates and make greater use of technology.

"We're coming out of a recession so there's an opportunity to be strategic," said Timothy P. White, who was the president of UC Riverside before being named chancellor of the California State University system last year. "It's an absolutely fascinating and important time in higher education."

After years of raising tuitions in the face of increasingly heated student protests, including one in which UC Davis students and alumni were pepper sprayed, regents will keep undergraduate tuition the same for the second year in a row and are expected to approve hikes affecting only about 800 graduate students.

UC has an annual budget of $24 billion, 230,000 students, 191,000 faculty and staff members, five medical centers and three national laboratories.

The system is under pressure from Gov. Jerry Brown to increase graduation rates. He proposed, and then backed off of, tying future funding to improving graduation rates. About 60% of UC students who enter as freshmen graduate within four years and about 83% of them graduate within six, according to a UC report.

Napolitano, who will begin her term in September if her nomination is approved as expected next week, will also have to help steer the system through a potentially complicated technological transition. Brown has proposed increasing the number of online classes — something the public supports, according to polling, although many academics have been resistant.

"Technology is going to be one of her biggest challenges," White said.
Here's something that relates, "UC programs in lieu of affirmative action show limited success":
UC has struggled to enroll more blacks and Latinos since a state ban on race-based admissions, an issue central to a recent Supreme Court case.
Actually, the system's perverted the prohibition on affirmative action in a million ways, and they still can't make up for the abject failure of minorities at the K-12 level.

And see Heather Mac Donald, at City Journal, "Multiculti U."

It's messed up all around.

Yay Regents of the University of California! I'm sure Napolitano can turn things around (not). She'll be a fundraising whore and that's about it ---- although, maybe that's good.

New York's Hempstead Union Free School District Disciplines Employee Who Compiled Misspelled Summer Reading List

Well, it could happened anywhere, I guess.

At WSJ, "Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gypsy'? School Book List Fails Spell Check: Hempstead Summer Reading Recommendation Rife With Errors":
When the Hempstead Union Free School District put together a summer reading list this year, students and parents were introduced to some unfamiliar new titles.

Among them: "The Canterbury Tale," by Geoffrey Chaucer; "The Lovely Bone," by Alice Sebold; and, most notably, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gypsy."

School officials in the Long Island community said Thursday that they had disciplined an employee who made the dozens of spelling errors and typos in the 13-page list outlining recommended summer reading for students.

Alicia Figueras, the district's spokeswoman, said at a news conference that the district apologizes for what she called an isolated incident.

"I would like to announce that disciplinary action has been taken against the personnel who made the unfortunate clerical errors while compiling the list," she said.

The district declined to identify the employee, provide his or her title or say how he or she was disciplined.
RTWT.

Well all make typos, especially me.

But I think there's more to this story than the school district's letting on. But you'd need a FOIA request to get the full story out of these derps. Sheesh.

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Riverside Couple Accused of Animal Cruelty, Gets Death Threats

Well, you're nothing these days unless you've got people threatening your ass.

At NBC News Los Angeles.



Well, It's a Slow Game After All

When folks compare sports, the oldest complaint about baseball is that it's often boring, with a lot of really lackadaisical, er, action.

Well, here's proof, at WSJ, "In America's Pastime, Baseball Players Pass a Lot of Time":
In any given year, roughly 70 million people will attend major-league baseball games. A lucky handful will be treated to something unforgettable: a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam, a player stealing home. Many more fans will see towering home runs, late-inning rallies and diving catches. But there is one thing every single fan who buys a ticket is 100% guaranteed to see: a bunch of grown men standing in a field, doing absolutely nothing.


Baseball is remembered for its moments of action, and it is no secret that such moments are fleeting. But how much actual action takes place in a baseball game? We decided to find out.

By WSJ calculations, a baseball fan will see 17 minutes and 58 seconds of action over the course of a three-hour game. This is roughly the equivalent of a TED Talk, a Broadway intermission or the missing section of the Watergate tapes. A similar WSJ study on NFL games in January 2010 found that the average action time for a football game was 11 minutes. So MLB does pack more punch in a battle of the two biggest stop-and-start sports. By seven minutes.

The WSJ reached this number by taking the stopwatch to three different games and timing everything that happened. We then categorized the parts of the game that could fairly be considered "action" and averaged the results. The almost 18-minute average included balls in play, runner advancement attempts on stolen bases, wild pitches, pitches (balls, strikes, fouls and balls hit into play), trotting batters (on home runs, walks and hit-by-pitches), pickoff throws and even one fake-pickoff throw. This may be generous. If we'd cut the action definition down to just the time when everyone on the field is running around looking for something to do (balls in play and runner advancement attempts), we'd be down to 5:47.

We chose three very different games to get a fair sampling of variation. The first game was as close as we could find to an average game in terms of batters faced and length of game—a 3-2 Twins win over the Tigers on April 3 that clocked in at 3:01 for nine innings. (The average MLB game this season is three hours and three minutes, according to the firm Stats LLC.) Then, for balance, we decided to throw in a slugfest—the Indians 19-6 victory over the Astros from April 20 at 3:45 and a pitchers' duel, the Nationals 1-0 victory over the Reds on April 26 that lasted 2:08. The sample conveniently included both leagues and six different teams.

So where did all the time go? The missing 160 or so minutes? The answer: Huge chunks of inaction that absolutely dwarf everything else that goes on in the game...
Continue reading.

And baseball beats football for action? It's counterintuitive, no doubt.

Maria Sharapova for Porsche Design

Amazing!

At London's Daily Mail, "Life in the fast lane! Maria Sharapova flashes her long legs... as she poses on the hood of a bright red Porsche 911 Carrera."


KTVU Anchor Tori Campbell Read the names Off the Teleprompter and Didn't Bat An Eye

That's from London's Daily Mail, which picks up on the "Ho Lee Fuk" story.

See, "Outrage as news station is duped into reporting false and racist names for the Asiana crash pilots... as it emerges an NTSB INTERN was behind the prank."

Look, even X's Exene Cervenka's pissed:



More:



And check Memeorandum.

Van Nuys Tagger Hits $2.3 Million Lear Jet

Well, if you're gonna go for it, might was well go big!

At NBC News Los Angeles:



Jury Deliberations Continue in #Zimmerman Trial

At LAT, "Jury weighing George Zimmerman's fate adjourns for the night."

Plus, the lovely Judge Jeanine Pirro discusses the case, with Laura Ingraham on last night's O'Reilly Factor:



Jennifer Nicole Lee Topless in Miami

I've posted on this lady quite a bit.

Maybe she's upping the wow! factor.

At Egotastic!, "Jennifer Nicole Lee Bikini Pictures Falling Off to Beat the Heat."

Friday, July 12, 2013

Democracy Now!'s Barrett Brown Puff Piece Ignores Hacker's Threats Against the FBI

I watched this Democracy Now! segment last night, but the headline at the video alone indicates how Amy Goodman and crew ignored Barrett Brown's threats against FBI Agent Robert Smith.

You gotta love it, "Jailed for Sharing a Web Link? Prosecution of Barrett Brown Could Set Chilling Precedent."



And here's the title of the entire 20-minute segment, "Jailed Reporter Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years For Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms," available here and here.

And these people consider themselves real journalists? Shoot, they're almost right up there with KTVU San Francisco.

Seriously, Robert Stacy McCain did the key reporting on Barrett Brown's epic personal self-destruction. See, "‘Anonymous’ Spokesman Barrett Brown Arrested After Bizarre Video Meltdown," and "‘The Kook Who Knew Too Much’: Heroic Fantasy, Paranoia and Barrett Brown." Check the "Barrett Brown" search results as well. The FBI came down hard on him at precisely the time he posted a YouTube video making threats against Agent Smith. It's a little more complicated than "sharing a web link," no?

The fact is, the left's "reality-based community" lives in an un-reality make-believe world of fantasy and lies. The extreme romanticism surrounding the NSA surveillance scandal only explains part of this. Simply, anything that fits the leftist narrative will be pumped up unceasingly, with no corroboration of the facts. Confirmed low-level hacker and all-around idiot ass-wipe Barrett Brown gets pumped up there along with the likes of Daniel Ellsberg for really bringing it to the man! 

The lulz. Stop. They hurt.