Sunday, July 21, 2013

Communists Protest Police Brutality in Anaheim — #JusticeForTrayvon

The background is here, "Justice for Trayvon Martin! Shut Down the Racist System!," and "Communists March Against Police Brutality in Anaheim!"




He was interviewed at the Los Angeles Times, "Police-related shootings focus of Anaheim protest march Sunday":
"This is not just the anniversary of the murder of Manuel Diaz," said Mike Prysner, a self-described activist from Los Angeles who is helping to organize the march. "It's also the anniversary of Anaheim being brought into the national and international spotlight as a center of police brutality."
There's more at the Times, "Anaheim marchers mark one-year anniversary of police shooting."

Robert Stacy McCain has this at Viral Read as well:



And my coverage on Twitter:



I just caught the 6:00pm broadcast at KABC7 Eyewitness News, and I'll update when that clip becomes available. Plus, I'll be trolling for other updates on Twitter, YouTube and what not.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro Slams Rolling Stone's Disgusting Celebrification of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Via Nice Deb, "Pirro Tears Into Rolling Stone for Boston Bomber Glamour-Boy Cover (Video)."



And David Carr at the New York Times gives Rolling Stone the benefit of the doubt, "Behind Rolling Stone’s Cover, a Story Worth Reading."

Well, I think the universal condemnation of Rolling Stone, especially among real Hollywood celebrities, puts the lie to the piece as "worth reading." But things are pretty f-ked up in this country, thanks to the left.

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A Trickle of Strangers Were All That Were Left Alive...

Posted this five years ago, "The Only Survivor of the National Peoples Gang..."

Seems relevant today, considering, at CSM, "With Detroit bankrupt, is 'blue model' to blame?"



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ObamaCare is Falling Apart

From Ed Rogers, at the Washington Post:
As the reality of Obamacare emerges, a disastrous calamity imposed on the American people, even the most compliant members of the Obama fan club are beginning to panic. Three union presidents have sent Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a scathing letter decrying Obamacare, showing just how out-of-control this law has become. This astonishing reversal has been underreported so far, except by the ever-vigilant Tom Gara in the Wall Street Journal.

The fact is that the crater of Obamacare is getting deeper, with sharper edges. The unions are first-tier political allies of President Obama and the Democratic Party, and it was surely their last resort to put their grievances with Obamacare in writing in the public sphere. A lot must have happened behind the scenes before they felt sufficiently frustrated with the Obama administration to take this step.
That's pretty messed up when even communist unions bail out on Obama's communist clusterf-k, but RTWT.

Image: At the People's Cube, "Labor Union Movement Demands Reform of Healthcare Reform."

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'Problems'

Some classic Sex Pistols:



Too many problems
Oh why am I here
I need to be me
'Cos you're all too clear
And I can see
There's something wrong with you
But what do you expect me to do?
At least I gotta know what I wanna be
Don't come to me if you need pity
Are you lonely you got no one
You get your body in suspension
That's no problem, problem
Problem, the problem is you

Eat your heart out on a plastic tray
You don't do what you want
Then you'll fade away
You won't find me working
Nine to five
It's too much fun a being alive
I'm using my feet for my human machine
You won't find me living for the screen
Are you lonely all your needs catered
You got your brains dehydrated

Problem, problem
Problem, the problem is you
What you gonna do

Problem, problem

Problem, problem
Problem, the problem is you
What you gonna do with your problem
The problem is you
Problem

I ain't equipment, I ain't automatic
You won't find me just staying static
Don't you give me any orders
For people like me
There is no order

Bet you thought you had it all worked out
Bet you thought you knew what I was about
Bet you thought you'd solved all your problems
But you are the problem

Problem, problem
Problem, the problem is you
What you gonna do with your problem
I'll leave it to you
Problem, the problem is you
You got a problem
What you gonna do

They know a doctor
Gonna take you away
They take you away
And throw away the key
They don't want you
And they don't want me
You got a problem
The problem is you
Problem, what you gonna do
Problem, I'll leave it back, I have a
Problem, you got a problem

Problem, problem,
Problem, problem,
Problem, problem,
Problem, problem,
Problem, problem,
Problem, problem,
Problem, problem,
Problem

Problem, problem,
Problem
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'Kids on the Street'

Angelic Upstarts.

Off of 1981's "2,000,000 Voices."

Here's a recent live clip and the awesome studio version below.



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Communists March Against Police Brutality in Anaheim!

Here's the announcement for today's protest, at ANSWER LA, "STAY IN THE STREETS! FROM THE RACIST POLICE TO THE RACIST 'JUSTICE' SYSTEM - STOP THE WAR ON BLACK & BROWN YOUTH!"

Also at WORD: Women Organized to Resist and Defend, "July 21 in Anaheim: Statewide March Against Police Brutality: Demand an end to the war on Black and oppressed youth!"

And the response at the Anaheim Blog, "Radicals Working to Make Anaheim March More Combustible":
The left-wingers working with Genevieve Huizar and Donna Acevedo to bring a cavalcade of radicals and anarchists to protest in Anaheim this Sunday are now trying to mix in the explosive George Zimmerman verdict, with a healthy dose of race-war rhetoric.
I blogged about Anaheim's political disfunction after last year's riots. ANSWER LA certainly knows how to take advantage of circumstances, although they don't usually push for violent unrest. But we'll see.

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#TrayvonMartin and the Moynihan Report

It's Erin Aubry Kaplan, at the Los Angeles Times, "Trayvon Martin, an American son."

She gives the standard review of the Moynihan Report, which was perhaps the most important piece of sociological research in the second half of the 20th century, but which was attacked by blacks and leftists for putting the blame for black American family dislocation at the individual level level rather than the structural level, with its easy excuses of "institutional racism."

Her piece then goes on:

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All of which brings us directly to Trayvon Martin. The 17-year-old was killed because he was seen by Zimmerman and many others as a potential threat, a conflation of racial fact and fantasy that obscured the more critical fact that he was a child and somebody's son — a loved member of a family.

The battle lines were drawn long before the trial even started. Zimmerman supporters circulated images of Trayvon as a wannabe bad guy and lone predator who seemed much older and harder than 17, complete with a gold grill on his teeth; Trayvon supporters emphasized the dignity and caring nature of his parents in an attempt to counter not just those stereotypes but the bigger assumptions that broken black families produce broken and potentially dangerous kids.

Trayvon's parents were divorced, hardly uncommon in America, but viewed through a racial lens, that was seen as just one more bit of black pathology. But the truth is that black families, whether nonnuclear or traditional, poor or middle class, are all subject to damning stereotypes and to a deeply rooted belief that they are somehow lesser.

The recent acknowledgments of high-profile black men such as Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. that they have been racially profiled by police speak to this long-standing truth. Black pundits such as MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry have also aired their personal frustration and a sense of what she poignantly called the "demoralization" of all black people in the wake of the not-guilty verdict.

The question now is whether Holder or anyone high up in the government, including our first black president, will be able or willing to make black crises a matter of national import again.

I have to say, I am not hopeful. Obama's unscripted remarks on Friday about race and his own experiences — an elaboration of his comment last year that "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"— were undoubtedly a relief to many who've been frustrated by the president's calculated silence on everything racial. There are reasons for that silence. From the beginning, he has gotten fierce blowback for even the mildest expressions of empathy with other blacks. His public addresses to black audiences have stressed so-called family values and personal responsibility on the part of black men, steering clear of systemic problems such as racism and employment discrimination. The Moynihan Revisited project, despite some laudable goals, has more than a whiff of that do-it-ourselves conservatism about it.

Personal responsibility has a role to play, of course, but that conversation can only take place in a society equally determined to address the broader systemic issues.

Pulling back from the philosophical extremes that all Americans — black, white and other — have accepted for far too long as normal will take much more than another report or retooled initiative. Real and sustained change on the racial equality front has to be a family effort, an effort of the entire dysfunctional American family to which we all belong.
Yes, the "broader systemic issues."

Those always help take the onus off personal responsibility, and they keep the left's perpetual race-grievance machine in business.

PHOTO CREDIT: The Other McCain, "The Greater Good’: Heretical Facts vs. the Myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie."

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Heidi Klum Goes Topless in Bora Bora

She posted to Instagram, via Londons' Daily Mail, "No clothes? No problem! Heidi Klum posts yet another topless Instagram snap as she adds to her collection of raunchy selfies."

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The Militarization of American Policing

From Radley Balko, at WSJ, "Rise of the Warrior Cop":
On Jan. 4 of last year, a local narcotics strike force conducted a raid on the Ogden, Utah, home of Matthew David Stewart at 8:40 p.m. The 12 officers were acting on a tip from Mr. Stewart's former girlfriend, who said that he was growing marijuana in his basement. Mr. Stewart awoke, naked, to the sound of a battering ram taking down his door. Thinking that he was being invaded by criminals, as he later claimed, he grabbed his 9-millimeter Beretta pistol.

The police say that they knocked and identified themselves, though Mr. Stewart and his neighbors said they heard no such announcement. Mr. Stewart fired 31 rounds, the police more than 250. Six of the officers were wounded, and Officer Jared Francom was killed. Mr. Stewart himself was shot twice before he was arrested. He was charged with several crimes, including the murder of Officer Francom.

The police found 16 small marijuana plants in Mr. Stewart's basement. There was no evidence that Mr. Stewart, a U.S. military veteran with no prior criminal record, was selling marijuana. Mr. Stewart's father said that his son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have smoked the marijuana to self-medicate.

Early this year, the Ogden city council heard complaints from dozens of citizens about the way drug warrants are served in the city. As for Mr. Stewart, his trial was scheduled for next April, and prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. But after losing a hearing last May on the legality of the search warrant, Mr. Stewart hanged himself in his jail cell.

The police tactics at issue in the Stewart case are no anomaly. Since the 1960s, in response to a range of perceived threats, law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier. Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment—from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers—American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop—armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.
I pretty much hate cops, but to be sympathetic here you have to think having 16 plants growing downstairs is just routine. I don't. But RTWT. I think any decent person's going to be more of a civil libertarian these days, what with the criminal Obama gang still in power. Sheesh.

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Demonstrations Across the Country Commemorate #TrayvonMartin

A report at the New York Times (via Memeorandum).

And at Twitchy, "Rally we much: Al Sharpton’s tweet about Jay and Bey sparks mockery."


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'The Whole System is Racist!' — The Left's Poisonous Post-#Zimmerman Untruths

From Heather Mac Donald, at National Review, "The Post-Zimmerman Poison Pill":

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The most poisonous untruth being peddled in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal is the claim that American justice is racist. The criminal law regularly announces that black Americans are “worth less than other Americans,” Cardozo Law School professor Ekow Yankah wrote on the New York Times opinion page this week. It wasn’t activists who “injected” race into the discussion, scoffed The American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie on Monday, the “criminal-justice system” is “already” racial. An e-mail alert on Wednesday from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School proclaimed: “An ugly truth rears its head again: Racial disparities are alive and well in our criminal-justice system.”

The idea that the criminal-justice system discriminates against blacks — and that this bias explains blacks’ disproportionate presence in custody — is a staple of civil-rights activism and of the academic Left. Every effort to prove it empirically, however, has come up short. A 1994 Justice Department survey of felony cases from the country’s 75 largest urban areas discovered that blacks actually had a lower chance of prosecution following a felony than whites did and that they were less likely to be found guilty at trial. Alfred Blumstein has found that blacks are underrepresented in prison for homicide compared with their arrest rates. A meta-analysis of charging and sentencing studies showed that “large racial differences in criminal offending,” not racism, explained why more blacks were in prison proportionately than whites and for longer terms, according to criminologists Robert Sampson and Janet Lauritsen.

Criminal-law professors across the political spectrum agree that the Zimmerman verdict resulted from prosecutorial overkill, not juror bias. The trial was scrupulously fair and presented the prosecution with full opportunity to make its case.

Close on the heels of the “biased justice system” conceit, however, is the preposterous implication that the primary homicide threat faced by young black males comes from honorary whites such as George Zimmerman. “Our children are targeted. Our community is targeted,” Martin Luther King III told the NAACP national convention on Wednesday. Protesters at the Orlando, Fla., courthouse this week held signs proclaiming “Endangered species: young black men and boys.” The New York Times ran an article today about the “painful talks” black parents are having with their children about how not to get gunned down by whites. A nurse’s assistant in Missouri told the Times: The whole situation ‘“would just make me skeptical about what crowd of white people I put [my son] around.’”

In fact, if a black parent wants to radically reduce his son’s chance of getting shot, he should live in a white neighborhood. New York’s crime profile is typical of urban-crime disparities across the country. The per capita shooting rate in predominantly black Brownsville, Brooklyn, is 81 times higher than that of predominantly white and Asian Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, according to the New York Police Department. Blacks in 2012 committed about 75 percent of all shootings in New York, and whites a little over 2 percent, though blacks are 23 percent of the city’s population and whites 35 percent. Blacks are 60 percent of the city’s homicide victims. Their killers? They aren’t white.
Well, the entire leftist model is predicated on lies. It keeps the protesters in the streets and the president can make distracting speeches about how he was racially profiled. Meanwhile, dead cities like Detroit proliferate.

That's the program of the regressive left in action.

The left's battle cry right now: "The whole system is racist!" (See, "Justice for Trayvon Martin! Shut Down the Racist System!")

Hat Tip: Blazing Cat Fur, "This is just getting freaky… NRO goes all Derbyshire on Trayvon."

PHOTO CREDIT: Twitter.

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Kelly Brook – Nuts Magazine July 2013

Cover girl.



Photos here.


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The Italians Are Coming!

I keep seeing this commercial.

I like it, but it's not enough to get me to buy a Fiat. They look so small. Not much smarter than those "smart" cars which will get 100 percent killed in a collision.


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Protesters Heckle Oakland Mayor Jean Quan at #TrayvonMartin Rally

I just mentioned this the other day, hilariously:
Idiot city leaders like this are completely bum-f-ked when they realize the protesters with whom they share ideological solidarity couldn't give a rat's ass about them and their words of "beautiful" peace and freedom speech.


And heckling the mayor is not a good sign that protesters want to keep it peaceful today. But we'll see.

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Nick Gillespie on Detroit's Tragedy

A nice little clip:



And Obama's former car czar Steven Rattner wants a bailout, naturally.

At NYT, "We Have to Step In and Save Detroit" (at Memeorandum).

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Jay Z and Beyoncé Attend New York #JusticeForTrayvon Protest

Star treatment.

Commentary from Becca Lower, "Why We’re Losing the Narrative on Race."



And at the Los Angeles Times, "'Justice for Trayvon' rallies unfold across the U.S."

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#JusticeForTrayvon March in Los Angeles

So much for solidarity.

At the Los Angeles Times, "L.A. marchers for Trayvon Martin continue on Wilshire Boulevard":
Several hundred participants in a “Justice for Trayvon” march in Los Angeles split up Saturday in the Mid-City area, with one group continuing west on Wilshire Boulevard while another faction headed north on Coronado Street.

Blowing whistles, beating drums and chanting “No Justice, No Peace,” the protesters made their way from the federal building downtown to the Mid-City area. The group was followed by more than a dozen officers on motorcycles and bicycles, while a police helicopter hovered overhead.

But no arrests and no problems were reported during the march. Police closed intersections as marchers passed and eastbound Wilshire remained open.

It was unclear where the marchers were headed.


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Oakland Police Cancel Days Off So That Every Officer Available on Saturday

The video at this report is worth your time, at NBC Bay Area, "Oakland, San Francisco Join 100 Justice of Trayvon Rallies."

Hopefully it all stays peaceful today. Either way, the authorities aren't taking any chances.

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Sybrina Fulton Wears #HoodiesUp T-Shirt at #JusticeForTrayvon Rally in New York

The story's at CBS News, "Trayvon Martin's Mother Speaks Out With Sharpton at Rally Outside NYPD." (Added: A Memeorandum thread.)

I guess the #HoodiesUp shirt is more honest than the baby pictures the media keep blasting of St. Trayvon.



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Obama's Race Talk Gets Marquee Treatment at the Los Angeles Times

Almost six years into his administration, the president's personal race reflections have made the press corps drop to its knees in worship.

Here's the coverage at LAT, "President Obama speaks personally on Trayvon Martin and race":
On the eve of more protests over the George Zimmerman verdict, Obama discusses black skepticism of the legal system and his own experience with prejudice.
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Controversial Journalist Helen Thomas Dead at 92

A raving anti-Semite, Helen Thomas ended an otherwise pathbreaking career in ignominy.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "White House Gargoyle Helen Thomas Dead."

And at the New York Times, "Helen Thomas, Barrier-Busting White House Reporter, Is Dead at 92." (At Memeorandum.)

The video covers her entire professional life, including her shift to radicalism and Jew-hatred.



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Australian Scientists Develop 'Invisibility Suit' to Protect Surfers From Sharks

This is really cool, at National Geographic, "Invisibility Suit Aims to Protect Humans From Sharks."

It's surfers, divers, and anybody at risk of a shark attack. But you can fool 'em.



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Bill O'Reilly Repudiates the Nanny State on 'CBS News This Morning'

This was on earlier in the week. As readers will recall, I rarely watch GMA anymore, with George Stephanopoulos especially making me sick. I like the morning news shows, however, and I'm often pleasantly surprised with Charlie Rose and Co.

And this segment with O'Reilly roiling the leftist waters was great, especially with soft and squishy liberal Norah O'Donnell all discombobulated listening to the highly popular Fox News bloviator.



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Bill Whittle's Afterburner: 'The Lynching'

A don't miss segment from Bill Whittle, who gets much more animated in this clip than usual.

Behold a powerful summation that doesn't pull punches. He slams the race-baiting liars who perpetuated this farce as blanket demons, despicable people who deserve all the angry condemnation they can get.



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Hey Frank Newport, STFU!

You're upsetting the narrative, cracka!

At Gallup, "Fewer Blacks in U.S. See Bias in Jobs, Income, and Housing" (via):
PRINCETON, NJ -- Black Americans are significantly less likely now than they were 20 years ago to cite discrimination as the main reason blacks on average have worse jobs, income, and housing than whites. Today, 37% of blacks say these differences are due to discrimination and 60% say they are caused by something else. In 1993, 44% said such differences were due to discrimination and 48% something else.
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Yeah, well, that old racial shuck and jive only works so long, and then you gotta come up wit sumpin else. Just 20 percent of whites chalk up differential outcomes to racism, so the left's shakedown artists better step up their game, mf's.

Yo, Al Sharpton, you wit me brother?!!

Via Memeorandum.

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New York Times Editorial on President Obama's Race Speech

Oh brother.

At the Old Gray Lady, "President Obama’s Anguish":
President Obama did something Friday that he hardly ever does — and no other president could ever have done. He addressed the racial fault lines in the country by laying bare his personal anguish and experience in an effort to help white Americans understand why African-Americans reacted with frustration and anger to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Mr. Obama’s comments during a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing crystallized the dissonance around this case. In the narrow confines of the trial, all talk of race was excluded, and the “stand your ground” element in Florida’s self-defense law was not invoked by Mr. Zimmerman’s lawyers. But in the broader, more profound and more troubling context of Mr. Martin’s death, race and Florida’s lax gun laws are inextricably interwoven.

On the first, Mr. Obama said: “The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner. The prosecution and the defense made their arguments.” The jurors, he added, “were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict.”

But on the broader context, Mr. Obama eloquently rebutted those — like Representative Andy Harris, a Republican, with his dismissive “get over it” remark on Tuesday — who said that the verdict should have ended discussion of the case, especially talk about race and gun laws.

“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” Mr. Obama said, adding that “it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.”

He said there are “very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store” or “the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off.”

“That,” he said, “includes me.”
Whatever.

It's a sideshow for the most part.

Race wasn't even a factor at trial. The left made this about race, and the president couldn't resist getting involved. Gotta satisfy the Democrat race masters, no doubt.

More at that top link.

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William and Kate Lookalikes Punk the Press Outside Hospital

At the Sun UK, "It’s a ploy! Royal lookalikes in Kate tot stunt":
Britain’s favourite newspaper sent the pair — dead ringers for Prince William and wife Kate — to lift the mood outside the clinic where well-wishers and news crews had been huddled in anticipation of the imminent royal birth.


And at the Telegraph UK, "Royal baby: lookalikes and bets for a Leo cause media frenzy outside Lindo Wing."

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Race Hustler Blowout on Hannity's!

I was watching this, and it was weird because it was like 6:57pm and at the very end of the show. But boy, did it get heated there for a minute.

 Via Gateway Pundit, "BLOWOUT ON HANNITY – Leftists Blast Monica Crowley After She Slams Race Baiters (Video)."



Incidentally, this is the national conversation on race everyone's talking about. Sean Hannity deserves massive plaudits for really airing the important issues. An impressive night of television.

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Justice for Trayvon Martin! Shut Down the Racist System!

It turns out there's a big communist protest rally scheduled for tomorrow in Anaheim.

Maybe I'll dust off my reporter's badge and get out there for some original coverage.

Here's the announcement from L.A.'s International ANSWER, "July 21: Zimmerman is Free - Killer Cops are Free - We've Got to Fight Back!"



PREVIOUSLY: "'Justice for Trayvon' National Day of Action."

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@MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Creams Her Shorts at Obama's 'Absolutely Historic' Race Speech

It wasn't all that impressive a speech, as I noted in my comments yesterday afternoon, but Melissa Harris-Perry is a special case of leftist crazy, especially when it comes to anything related to black politics and possibility of making big government even bigger.

MSBNC's ratings are floundering. I'm not going to be surprised when the network big wigs send this lady packing.



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Responding to Obama's Race Speech

New York Magazine does a poor Twitchy imitation here, "How Conservatives Are Reacting to President Obama’s Race Remarks":
In a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing this afternoon, President Obama spoke in depth on the death of Trayvon Martin and, more generally, the complex nature of race in America and the disenchantment and alienation felt by many African-Americans. The unscripted remarks were arguably the most personal and heartfelt he's made as president.

On Twitter and elsewhere, prominent conservatives reacted pretty much as expected: They called Obama a racist, accused him of faking emotion, and claimed that he's only trying to distract from the IRS scandal, which isn't even a thing anymore.
Okay, but Detroit's a thing, via Alan Caruba:

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Bernice King on #Zimmerman Verdict: The Value of Some Lives Are 'Not the Same...'

She's an idiot race baiter, claiming some bullshit about the "language Zimmerman was using on the 9/11 call." It was the dispatcher who asked about race. Zimmerman never mentioned race on his own, so in fact he was not profiling. She's a tool and her speech sounds not much better than Rachel Jenteal. Frankly, you'd think we never had the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, the way she's blabbering on about "institutional racism." A very disappointing woman, considering the contribution and sacrifice her father made to and for American politics.



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Friday, July 19, 2013

San Diego County Sheriff Sets Up Bob Filner Sexual Harassment Reporting Line

From the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up department, at the Los Angeles, "S.D. County sheriff's hotline fields sex accusations against mayor":


The San Diego County Sheriff's Department announced Friday that a telephone hotline has been established for anyone wishing to report sexual misconduct allegations against Mayor Bob Filner.

Filner, battling accusations of sexual harassment of staff members and constituents, said late Friday that he's fine with the idea of a hotline because it might lead to an objective investigation rather than just "press conferences and innuendo."

If an investigation is warranted, the Sheriff's Department will be the lead agency, not the San Diego Police Department which reports to the 70-year-old Democrat, officials said.

Under state law, victims of sexual abuse are provided anonymity and can be accompanied by a representative or advocate during interviews, sheriff's officials said.

Sheriff Bill Gore said that "these are extremely sensitive matters and should there be an investigation, [the sheriff's] department as the lead agency, will not be providing any details as the investigation proceeds."

Announcement of the hotline came as three-dozen people rallied outside City Hall to talk about their effort to recall Filner and to seek volunteers to gather the signatures necessary to put a recall on the ballot.
Keep in mind that's Democrat Mayor Bob Filner.

He's a former Member of Congress, it turns out, and Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is standing by her sexual harassing man. At Weasel Zippers, "War on Women: Nancy Pelosi Refuses to Call 0n San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign Over Sexual Harassment Claims…"

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Oakland #TrayvonMartin Protesters March on Fruitvale BART Station

Here we go again. Maybe there will be some pretty good protest action this weekend.



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Hugh Jackman Interview at the Telegraph UK

I love the X-Men movies, and of course Wolverine. And it turns out they're already filming another movie for the franchise.

See, "Hugh Jackman: 'My wife gets fairly excited when I put the Wolverine outfit on'":


It ["The Wolverine"] is the sixth time Jackman has portrayed the Wolverine character and when we talk he is on a brief trip from Quebec where he is filming his seventh turn as the conflicted steel-clawed superhero in X-Men: The Days of Future Past which reunites the original X-Men casts of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender etc.
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Nate Silver Moving to ESPN

Brian Stelter reports, "Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff" (via Memeorandum):
Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, is parting ways with The New York Times and moving his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN, the sports empire controlled by the Walt Disney Company, according to ESPN employees with direct knowledge of his plans.

At ESPN, Mr. Silver is expected to have a wide-ranging portfolio. Along with his writing and number-crunching, he will most likely be a regular contributor to “Olbermann,” the late-night ESPN2 talk show hosted by Keith Olbermann that will have its debut at the end of August. In political years, he will also have a role at ABC News, which is owned by Disney.
This ought to be interesting.

It's good for Silver, whose resources as a sports analyst have been badly underutilized at NYT. But it'd be hilarious if Silver were to force Olbermann off message to the point of violating his contract by talking about politics. Otherwise, Silver will be rolled out periodically during the election year to talk about his presidential predictions. In 2016 it's going to be a GOP year, so allegations of Silver's bias for the Dems will be seriously tested.

Anyway, more at the link.

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'Justice for Trayvon' National Day of Action

It seems to me that the urgency of events has died down by now, but here's Occupy Oakland'S announcement for the National Day of Action that race-baiter Al Sharpton's been agitating for, "“JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON” NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION VIGILS IN 100 CITIES."

And Occupy Wall Street's got a flyer announcing a "Million Hoodies for Justice."

I'll have more on this.

Meanwhile, here's Katie Pavlich, "Al Sharpton to Continue Stoking Bogus and Non-Existent Racial Element of Zimmerman Case."



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Charles Krauthammer on #Zimmerman Verdict and Obama's Comments to the Nation

Krauthammer's weekly Washington Post column discusses the verdict and the responses to it on the left, "The Zimmerman case: A touch of sanity."

And the video's from this afternoon's Fox News All-Stars. A great segment:



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Authorities Warn Against Organized 'Bash Mob' Crime Rampages

The video discusses Long Beach, but it's a region-wide warning for Southern California, according to the Los Angeles Times, "'Bash mobs' sweep through Southern California."



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President Obama's Comments on #TrayvonMartin and Being Black in America

I've watched the entire clip and I think it's good to recognize that the president was sincere in his desire to add something meaningful to the discussion of the Zimmerman verdict and the controversial issues of race in America that we've been having. I'm not particularly impressed with his comments, especially those about racial profiling, but since I've often in the past criticized Obama for not using the bully pulpit to speak about the crisis of black America I've got to give at least mini props to his later comments about using the powers of his office to convene resources for our vulnerable black youth across the nation. As a second term president with declining capital, this could be one of the most important legacies of his entire time in office. And notice how the president blew off talk of grand new federal programs to address such concerns. That's both a recognition that he wouldn't get much done legislatively as well as a statement on the need to increase private social capital in distressed communities outside the purview of government. I think that's important.

Other than that, like I said, there's really not much here for me. Check Ace of Spades HQ's comments, for example, where he mentions that mostly Obama speaks in "Notional Sentences, that is to say, assemblages of words which mirror the structure and form of a content- and idea-conveying sentence but which actually contain far less than the sum of their word-parts." That's true, so again mostly we're dealing with symbolism rather than action. I don't even expect much follow through on that bit about helping black youth. Mostly it's just fair enough to note that the man has spoken and I expect a lot of inner city folks can take that to heart.

In any case, here's the New York Times' piece, "In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Obama Makes Extensive Statement on Race in America" (at Memeorandum).



I'm going to troll around for awhile and will update with additional reactions. Obama conceded, at the earlier part of the speech, that it's not likely that federal civil rights charges will be brought against George Zimmerman, so that's not likely to go over well with the hardline race grievance monsters on the Democrat race plantation, but we'll see.

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SeaWorld Launches Preemptive Strike Against 'Blackfish'

I mentioned sometime back that I was really disappointed with our last trip to SeaWorld. The excitement has completely drained out of that park, and the attractions have been turned into wannabe Cirque du Soleil people-driven circuses rather than animal-driven water shows. Clearly, the concerns for the welfare of the sea life has overtaken concern for the quality of performances. And while I love the animals and wouldn't want harm done to them, it's pretty amazing how the animal rights movement has destroyed this once majestic family entertainment complex.

In any case, it's probably better in the last analysis, although SeaWorld's fighting back in this case.

See, "Seaworld’s Unusual Retort to a Critical Documentary":


SAN DIEGO — Hollywood has just cast SeaWorld as a bad guy. But SeaWorld has decided to diverge from the story line.

In an unusual pre-emptive strike on the documentary “Blackfish,” set for release on Friday in New York and Los Angeles by Magnolia Pictures, SeaWorld Entertainment startled the film world last weekend by sending a detailed critique of the movie to about 50 critics who were presumably about to review it. It was among the first steps in an aggressive public pushback against the film, which makes the case, sometimes with disturbing film, that orca whales in captivity suffer physical and mental distress because of confinement.

Magnolia and the film’s director, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, shot back with a point-by-point rebuttal in defense of the movie.

The exchange is now promising to test just how far a business can, or should, go in trying to disrupt the powerful negative imagery that comes with the rollout of documentary exposés. That kind of dilemma has surfaced with previous documentaries like “The Queen of Versailles,” which last year portrayed the lavish lifestyle of the real estate moguls Jackie and David Siegel, and even with narrative films like “The Social Network,” which took an unflattering look at Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in 2010.

Businesses accused of wrongdoing in films often choose to lie low, hoping the issues will remain out of the public mainstream and eventually fade away without much fuss. That’s especially true of documentaries, which generally have small audiences.

SeaWorld, advised by the communications firm 42West, which is better known for promoting films than punching back at them, is taking the opposite approach. By midweek, the company was providing top executives and animal caretakers for interviews about the movie and its purported flaws. It was also deliberating possible further moves, which might conceivably include informational advertising, a Web-based countercampaign or perhaps a request for some sort of access to CNN, which picked up television rights to “Blackfish” through its CNN Films unit and plans to broadcast the movie on Oct. 24.

Among other things, SeaWorld claims that “Blackfish,” which focuses on the orca Tilikum’s fatal 2010 attack on a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, exceeded the bounds of fair use by incorporating training film and other video shot by the company. The company also contends that Ms. Cowperthwaite positioned some scenes to create what SeaWorld executives see as a false implication of trouble or wrongdoing.

Asked whether SeaWorld was contemplating legal action against the film, G. Anthony Taylor, the general counsel, said decisions about any such step would have to wait until executives were able to more closely assess the movie. “Blackfish” made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January and has since screened at other festivals in the United States and abroad.
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Anthem Blue Cross Won't Participate in California's Small Business Insurance Exchange for ObamaCare

This entire article mentions not one word about "ObamaCare," perhaps because the decision by Anthem Blue Cross sticks the middle finger right in the face of Washington and California bureaucrats --- and mind you, rates will be going up, not down, contrary to President Hussein's repeated claims that his national socialism would reduce rates.

See LAT, "WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross spurns Calif. small-business exchange."

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'I’m a feminist who enjoys being dominated during sex. Help!...'

Because if you demand respect while while simultaneously being choked during sex you're an empowered feminist, or something.

At Toronto's Globe and Mail, "I consider myself quite the feminist – I really think gender equality is very important, but sex with my new boyfriend has me questioning my feminist ways. We have been having sex for three weeks now and it gets physical. To my surprise, I have found I like to be dominated. He hits me during sex and chokes me, and I actually like it. I find myself asking for it. How can I be a feminist and still enjoy this?"

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Dude on Motorcycle Slams Into Chevrolet Camaro for No Good Reason

He says he was distracted, looking to the right of the roadway. I guess.

At London's Daily Mail, "Heart-stopping moment motorcyclist crashed into a Camaro, lands on its roof and clings on for dear life as it speeds away."



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Daily Caller Intern Gabe Finger Rips Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney

At Jawa Report, "DC Intern Asks Relevant Question; Gets Mocked by Carney and Media."

And you gotta love the contempt for this at CNN, especially the black airhead Jason Johnson:



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Nazi Revival in Indonesia?

At Blazing Cat Fur, "From the Moderate Muslim Nation of Indonesia... Your Nazi Café."

And from the Telegraph UK, on Twitter.



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Panama Charges North Korean Freighter Crew

Bizarre story.

At NYT:


Panama brushed aside North Korea’s demands on Thursday that it release an impounded North Korean freighter and its 35-member crew, pressing criminal charges against all aboard for endangering public security by attempting to transport a concealed cargo of Cuban weapons through the Panama Canal.

The charges against the crew members, lodged by the office of the prosecutor, Javier Caraballo, heightened the Panamanian confrontation with North Korea over the ship, the 450-foot Chong Chon Gang, which had been awaiting permission to cross the canal for the voyage home after a visit to Cuba.

The vessel was impounded on Sunday after the crew, armed with what officials called sticks, tried to fend off Panamanian marines investigating whether it was carrying contraband. They found old radar, missile and aircraft components buried in the hold of the ship, underneath more than 200,000 bags of Cuban brown sugar.

A statement by the prosecutor’s office said all the accused had exercised their right to remain silent when the charges were formally lodged. The crew was expected to remain in detention while the Panamanian authorities finished unloading the vessel, which could take days.

The criminal charges were announced as North Korea broke its silence over the impounded ship and demanded that Panama let the vessel and crew depart. A statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry asserted that the ship had been transporting the Cuban weapons to North Korea for refurbishment under a legal contract. The North Korean statement also criticized Panama for using what it called the pretext of searching the vessel for narcotics and for Panama’s violent treatment of the crew.

The seizing of the vessel has cast a light on the clandestine maritime trading practices of North Korea, one of the world’s most isolated and impoverished countries, which has been further hobbled by United Nations sanctions over its nuclear weapons and proliferation activities.
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Anderson Cooper Interview With Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

The full interview is here and here.



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Britney Spears to Announce New Las Vegas Show

At Hollywood Gossip, "Britney Spears to Announce "Cool, Hip" Las Vegas Show."



More at the Other McCain, "Former Disney Child Starlet News."

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'Pro-life my fucking ass. These people are killers...'

That's leftist hate-blogger Melissa McEwan going batshit over the new pro-life legislation signed yesterday by Governor Rick Perry.

Background from Steven Ertelt, "Texas Governor Rick Perry Signs Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions," and "Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Closing Three Clinics After Perry Signs Ban."

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Detroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in U.S. History

At WSJ, "Record Bankruptcy for Detroit: Motor City 'Is Broke,' Governor Says, as It Seeks to Restructure $18 Billion in Debt":


DETROIT—The city of Detroit filed for federal bankruptcy protection Thursday after decades of decline, a new low for a city that once defined industrial America's might but was hollowed out by the flight of residents and businesses to the suburbs.

The filing by the automobile capital and onetime music powerhouse—which has liabilities of more than $18 billion—is the country's largest-ever municipal bankruptcy case.

The move to restructure the debt is bound to set off months, if not years, of legal wrangling, asset sales and cuts to benefits for Detroit workers and retirees, including 20,000 on city pensions. Owners of the city's bonds are expected to battle with retirees and others for pieces of the city's diminished wealth.

Detroit is no stranger to bankruptcy after two of its most prominent companies—General Motors Co. GM +1.32% and Chrysler Group LLC—entered and quickly exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009, thanks to an $80 billion federal bailout.

But without a similar rescue—which the White House has indicated isn't forthcoming—Thursday's filing is fundamentally different and potentially much more treacherous for the city, officials and experts said. It casts the nation's 18th largest city into largely uncharted legal waters because few municipalities—and none this size—have undergone financial reorganization.

"I am terrified, and I am nervous," said Vaughn Derderian, the 36-year-old manager of the Anchor Bar, a fixture in downtown Detroit. "It is like being on a speeding freight train and you have no idea where it's going to go."
Yeah, well Detroit's lacking the big union clout, apparently.

See Walter Russell Mead, "Obama to Detroit: Drop Dead" (at Memeorandum).

And at Twitchy, "Motown Memory Lane: Obama ‘wasn’t going to let Detroit go bankrupt’."

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Hollywood's Highest Paid Actors

At the New York Post, "Robert Downey Jr. Hollywood Highest Paid Actor - 2012-2013":

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Every project “Iron Man” actor Robert Downey Jr. touches is turning to gold.

The action-adventure hero tops Forbes magazine’s list of highest-earning Hollywood actors — raking in $75 million for the year ending June 1.

It’s been a remarkable ride to superstardom for the 48-year-old Downey, who burst on the scene as a teen — but whose life and career were in shambles amid his drug addiction and related legal troubles from 1996 to 2001.

Downey’s “The Avengers” and “Iron Man 3” were box-office smashes this past year.
More at the link.

Downey is cool.

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Federal investigators Demand Hold on #Zimmerman Trial Evidence

I don't doubt for a second that George Zimmerman could be brought up on federal charges, despite being easily acquitted at trial and without the slightest whiff of racial intent in the case. All the claims of "racism" are in the fanatically wild imaginations of the depraved leftists.

At WESH-TV Orlando, "Hold placed on George Zimmerman trial evidence."


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Race-Baiting Leftists Push Gun Control After #Zimmerman Trial

Attorney General Eric Holder, along with the MSNBC hacktivists, has been pushing to ramp up gun control efforts in the wake of Zimmerman's acquittal, even though the trial wasn't at all about gun rights or stand your ground laws.

This letter to the editor at the Los Angeles Times really captures how regressive-leftists fantasize about this, "Letters: Trayvon Martin, race and justice":
A relatively minor altercation resulted in a tragedy. Who really knows who was the aggressor and who was the defender?

But what is clear is that the gun used by George Zimmerman escalated what should have been a relatively minor altercation. Without the gun, Zimmerman and Martin would have exchanged a few blows and then been on their way.

This is another example of why firearms do not make us safer. It is insanity to arm the populace. Arguments that should end by both parties walking away with bruises now end with one party being taken away by the coroner.

Jim Stetson
Torrance
Actually, the brutal fact is that Trayvon Martin could have killed George Zimmerman, the way he was pummeling him ground and pound style, like a drugged-out MMA mf.

And notice that "arm the populace" line, which is code for repealing Second Amendment rights. F-king depraved people.

But never mind. Regressives won't ever see clearly on this, because they've got too much invested in shaking down the system and disarming law abiding Americans.

More at the Washington Times, "NRA blasts Eric Holder for pushing gun control on Trayvon Martin's back."

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#HoodiesUp — March Against Gun Violence, Orlando, Florida

They say "this is just the beginning," and in fact Al Sharpton promised hundreds of Trayvon protests nationwide this weekend. Let's see if these mf's keep it peaceful.

At the Orlando Sentinel, "Orlando protesters rally 1,200 strong against gun violence in honor of Trayvon Martin."



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Real Face of Terror: Dramatic New Photos of Boston Bomber Released

Man, folks aren't taking too kindly to Rolling Stone's celebrification of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and for good reason, the ghouls.

See this at Boston Magazine, "The Real Face of Terror: Behind the Scenes Photos of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Manhunt."

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'If Trayvon Had Been White, This Never Would Have Happened...'

Well, it's all about racism for the left, even though the trial never did focus on race. But when that's all the morally bankrupt race-greivance mongers have, they'll bludgeon you until you capitulate. People get tired of this shit and they just sop off the pleaders with grub and collective booty. The Democrats are the worst at this. They're out of ideas and corrupt to the core. It's sickening.

Background at the race-mongerer the Root, "Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin Speak Out on Verdict."



Here's my earlier entry, "Next Frontier of the Civil Rights Movement?"
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Contaminated School Lunches Kill at Least 23 Children in India

The costs of "free" food.

At the Wall Street Journal, "Tainted School Lunch Kills at Least 23 Indian Children: Free Food Was Provided Under Government's Midday-Meal Program":


PATNA, India—In a threadbare hospital here, 5-year-old Rashmi Kumari is fighting a powerful poison. "She is a brilliant student," said her uncle as he tried to distract her by asking her to recite poems.

Rashmi is also the only child in her household left alive.

Her cousins, Anshu and Kushboo, died after eating a school lunch now believed to have been contaminated with a pesticide compound, according to a hospital official. The disaster has left at least 23 children dead as of Thursday morning and spotlights the shortcomings in a government school-lunch program intended to feed India's millions of malnourished students.

Initial investigations suggest that organophosphorus, commonly used in farm pesticides, may have been mixed into the rice, beans and potato curry served Tuesday at an elementary school in Gandaman, a village in the impoverished state of Bihar, according to Amarkant Jha Amar, medical superintendent at the hospital.

The students became sick and suffered from vomiting, fainting and foaming at the mouth. More than two dozen victims are still being treated. Mr. Amar said patients are receiving medicine to neutralize the chemical, which is similar to nerve agents such as sarin.

It remains unclear how or where the chemical got into the food. A state-level investigation is under way and the first report is expected Thursday, according to local police and a district magistrate.
Foaming at the mouth? Sarin? What a horrible way to die, and so senselessly tragic.

More, "India’s Problems With Free School Meals."

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Next Frontier of the Civil Rights Movement?

At the clip, Al Sharpton calls this a "social movement for justice," and Jesse Jackson claims "massive protests" will lead to legislation combating the purported states' rights movement threat to civil rights.

It wouldn't have mattered what the verdict had been, we'd be having some kind of "social justice" shakedown scam coming down against the evil "white supremacist" regime. This is what's become of the post-MLK civil rights movement: angry, racist leftists grasping at anything remotely relevant to an agenda, so they can confiscate a bigger piece of the collective pie. Total moral bankruptcy. It's disgusting.

Oh, and at the second half of the clip you get the bonus of black racist Joy Reid. The discussion immediately devolves to stand your ground laws and the so-called proliferation of concealed carry permits, which allegedly empowered George Zimmerman to kill Trayvon Martin. The radical left is milking this for all it's worth, man.



And see Peter Wehner, "The Zimmerman Trial as Rorschach Test":
In response to my post on the George Zimmerman trial and the left’s reaction to it, I heard from some people I know who felt like I erred in my analysis. They believe Trayvon Martin was targeted as a suspect because he was a black teen, that it’s clear that Zimmerman engaged in racial profiling, and so race was a motivating factor in the Martin killing.

People can decide for themselves if what I wrote is sufficiently careful and fair-minded. But I thought I’d use the comments and concerns raised by these individuals to clarify and expand on some points.

What I argued was that there’s simply no indication that George Zimmerman is a racist. No evidence was presented at the trial that the killing was the equivalent of what the head of the NAACP called a “modern-day lynching.” It matters that neither the prosecution, nor the defense, nor the police, nor the jurors ever said that this trial was about race. In fact, they said the opposite. Many in the media (especially NBC/MSNBC) have acted in deeply irresponsible ways. And comparisons to what happened in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012 to what happened to Emmett Till on August 28, 1955 is a terrible disfigurement of history.

On the matter of whether Martin was targeted because of his race: Sanford Police Department detective Chris Serino’s interpretation sounds plausible. He told the FBI that Zimmerman’s actions were not based on Martin’s skin color but rather based on his attire, the total circumstances of the encounter and the previous burglary suspects in the community. And if Trayvon Martin had been a 75-year-old African American man in a suit using a cane and walking next to his four-year-old grandchild, we all know nothing would have happened that night. If, on the other hand, a 28-year-old “white Hispanic” male with rough attire had been walking around his neighborhood on a rainy night, George Zimmerman may well have followed him. It appears what Zimmerman was doing was engaging in criminal profiling. Now, whether it’s inappropriate for race to ever, under any circumstances, be taken into account when it comes to criminal profiling is an issue worth discussing. But that is entirely different than Zimmerman killing Martin was based on racial animus, which is what racial demagogues like Al Sharpton are saying.

At the same time, I want to underscore again my belief that George Zimmerman made some tragic errors. He’s no hero. Moreover, Trayvon Martin not only didn’t deserve to die; he was innocent of any wrongdoing. The fact that he was killed is a crushing blow from which his family will never fully recover. His parents are living through an ordeal they didn’t deserve. A month from now the rest of us will have moved on from this trial. They will not have. Those of us who believe the Zimmerman verdict was correct should not forget that.

But the trial and its aftermath demonstrated something else as well. It served as a kind of Rorschach test. Some people who paid close attention to the trial came away convinced that the second-degree murder charge against George Zimmerman was indefensible, that the jury verdict was correct, and that the effort by some on the left to turn this into a Mississippi Burning moment is wrong and reckless. And many of those who claim solidarity with the African American community right now have had little or nothing to say about black-on-black crime, which is doing far more damage to the African American community than the type of incident that occurred in the Zimmerman-Martin confrontation. The moral outrage therefore seems somewhat contrived and convenient.
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Added: From Jonathan Tobin, "Back to Full-Time Racial Incitement."

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'A Tsunami of Anti-Capitalism'

Hey, a pretty good description when you think about it, from Fox News' Eric Bolling.



Yes, and the so-called "peaceful protesters" are unilaterally lowering the prices of goods and services --- by helping themselves to the booty.

At the Los Angeles Times, "'Flash mob' of thieves causes chaotic night in Hollywood":
The rallying cries shot out across Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday evening.

"Take the riot to Hollywood," one expletive-laden message on Twitter beseeched. "Hollywood. 7:30."

That invitation for trouble and others like it, police believe, were the seeds of a bizarre, chaotic night in the city's entertainment mecca that caught the LAPD off guard and left city officials scrambling to assure tourists and revelers, once again, that Hollywood is a safe place to be.

A group of 40 to 50 people, mostly teenagers, heeded the social media calls and went on what police described as a rolling crime wave.

LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith said it appears the group thought Hollywood would be an easy target because police were focused on patrolling the Crenshaw District, which had been the scene of renegade violence during protests over the George Zimmerman verdict in Florida on Monday evening. As the problems began in Hollywood, the department was also dealing with protesters marching through downtown.

"What we're thinking is these youngsters took advantage of our redeployment of officers down to the Crenshaw District last night and decided that this would be a good night to come up to Hollywood and act a little crazy," Smith said.
Just a little.

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Trayvon Martin's Parents Interview on 'CBS News This Morning'

I think they did the right thing laying low while a lot of the violence and leftist regressive recrimination roils over.

At LAT, "Trayvon Martin's parents 'stunned absolutely' by Zimmerman verdict":

For the first time since George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering their son, Trayvon Martin's parents gave TV interviews Thursday morning to decry the verdict and ask the federal government to continue to investigate.

Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, said in a "CBS This Morning" interview that she was "stunned absolutely" by the not-guilty verdict handed down Saturday by the six-woman jury in Seminole County, Fla.

"I thought surely that he [Zimmerman] would be found guilty of second-degree murder, manslaughter at the least," Fulton said. "But I just knew that they would see that this was a teenager just trying to get home. This was no burglar. This was somebody's son that was trying to get home."

In the same interview with CBS, Martin's father, Tracy Martin, said he wanted Americans to know "that Trayvon was a fun-loving child. He was our child. We miss him dearly."

Martin added, "Just to have your child's life taken away from you like that, it hurts. And it's a process that will take a long time to start the recovery from."
I feel for the parents, but their views of Trayvon aren't rooted in reality, as much as they love him.

See JWF, "The Myth of St. Trayvon."

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Actor James Woods Calls Out 'Puke' Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner

And in style too.

At Twitchy, "Epic: James Woods shreds ‘sh*t rag’ Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner’s ‘erotic fantasies’: ‘F*ck them both’; Update: Calls out ‘liberal bias’."



Meanwhile, feminist Nazi Amanda Marcotte gears up for the "Free Jahar" fan club, "Amanda Marcotte defends Rolling Stone: ‘Tsarnaev *is* handsome’; Blasts critics as ‘stupid’."

And there's still an impressive level out pissed-off outrage at Rolling Stone. Check the Twitchy search results.

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Marisa Miller and Malin Akerman at the ESPY Awards

Great stuff!

At London's Daily Mail, "Bouncing back! New moms Marisa Miller and Malin Akerman show off their killer post-baby bodies at the ESPY Awards."

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