Sunday, June 21, 2015

Emma Quangel, Feminist Who Outed Dylann Roof Manifesto, is Militant Communist Who Wants U.S. 'Eradicated'

I posted on Emma Quangel last night, "Far-Left 'Anti-Racist' Says the United States Should be 'Eradicated'."

She's the self-proclaimed communist who wants the United States destroyed.



She's starting to get some prominent media coverage for her role in sleuthing the Dylann Roof manifesto. See the Daily Beast, for example, "How Twitter Sleuths Found Dylann Roof’s Manifesto":
It took two independent writers working together on Twitter and $49 to make what could be one of the biggest discoveries yet in the case of Dylann Roof. In a South Carolina courtroom on Friday, Roof was charged with nine counts of murder for the killing of nine black parishioners who invited him into their Bible study group. A webpage registered under Roof’s name contains a trove of photos of the suspected killer, and a white nationalist political manifesto.

Emma Quangel, the nom de guerre of writer and Twitter user @EMQuangel, discovered the website that appears to contain Roof’s manifesto. After I congratulated her for her investigative work, Quangel told me that she saw it as her duty. “As a communist,” Quangel said, “it is my duty and obligation to spend at least $49 to help ruin this guy’s insanity plea.”
As you can see from her tweets, Ms. Quangel's a proud communist, and as seen at her Daily Beast interview, she's got the perverted propensity to reply to inquiries with the ideological self-identification, "As a communist..."

More specifically, it turns out Ms. Quangel's also a radical feminist and a militant Maoist. She's a contributor to the "Feminist Current" website and runs the far-left Manyfesto blog (ironically), where we find this robust ideological defense of "red" communism and genocidal regime of Mao Mao Tse-tung, "Red-baiting as the cliff approaches":
I’m a red. The people dearest to me in this life are reds. I have immense respect for Mao Tse-Tung, who liberated the Chinese people not only from imperialism, but also from poverty. Maoism inspired millions of people worldwide to struggle towards their own liberation. And I don’t recall Maoists in China kidnapping women and putting heads on spikes, but perhaps this is a part of the story Maz might not want to discuss. Regardless, back to the context – really? Are reds in a position of power as ISIS is? Can we fairly compare the two? Or is this is a smear against reds in the same tradition as the US State Department video mentioned earlier.
As any "sane and educated" person would know (to borrow from the commenters at my place), Chairman Man was the most murderous totalitarian leader of the 20th century, if not in world history. Tens of millions died in the revolutionary spasms of Mao's puritanical communist program. As Lee Edwards points out, at the Heritage Foundation, "The Legacy of Mao Zedong is Mass Murder":
Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong.

According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with -- by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
Sixty-five million people. That's more than ten times the number of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. That's even more than the number of total lives lost, military and civilian, during World War II (about 60 million).

Folks like Emma Quangel, Marxist-Leninists and Maoist totalitarian collectivists, just do not care about human rights or "BlackLivesMatter." They care about the global revolutionary transformation that eliminates capitalism in the name of the so-called proletarian classes. Leftists exploit race and "racism" as a front for the communist ideological struggle. They don't care how many people die for the dialectical cause of anti-imperial Utopianism. Their practical program is to align with any and all murderous dictatorships and tyrannies committed to war against the United States and its Western allies.

Talk to any hardcore leftists and they'll tell you that the crimes of 20th century Communism were a perversion of the Marxist ideal, that "actually existing socialism" was a criminal deviation from the pure Utopian vision of the original Marxist paradigm of dialectical materialism. Of course, that's one of the left's Big Lies of the last 100 years. As Jamie Glazov indicates in his book, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror:
The Left habitually attempts to distance itself from its own history and obfuscate any straightforward analysis of its political motives, goals, and allegiances. In so doing, the Left intentionally blurs its own complicity in the greatest crimes of the twentieth century.
There is no defending a murderous psychopath like Dylann Roof. But there's not a single person on the co-called "right" of the political spectrum who is defending the murders in Charleston. Not one. Rather, what we've seen is far-left activists and the Democrat-Media-Complex mounting a full-court press to attack conservatives and Republicans for the Confederate Flag (which is in fact a symbol of Democrat Party racism, segregation, and domestic terrorism).

It's a good thing that the full truth is emerging on Dylann Roof's mental deterioration and his dabbling with historical Democrat Party racism and white supremacy. And if the release of the manifesto helps prosecutors gain a prompt conviction, all the better.

But the motives of people like Emma Quangel aren't anti-racism and racial integration. These are people whose entire ideological lives are bent on division and disruption. #BlackLivesMatter itself is a revolutionary communist movement and professional protesters have descended on Charleston to foment a new round of communist agitation.



It would be a waste if this moment of crisis were to devolve simply to a lower common denominator of decrepit and wicked leftist exploitation and opportunism, but when you look at the ideological bona fides of "sleuth" Emma Quangel, it's obvious that Americans will once again get played by communist deception to further demonize regular patriotic conservatives and Republicans.

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Democrat Bill Clinton Commemorated the Confederacy on Arkansas State Flag in 1987 — #TakeDownTheFlag

Look, leftists aren't too well informed on their racist history.

I'm getting all these lunatic commenters screaming about how it's really the Republicans who're the KKK confederacy racists. That takes some serious denial bordering on literal insanity, but then, that's what you get in today's genuinely unhinged Democrat Party left.

Here's the low down on Bill Clinton's racist commemoration of the Confederacy when he was serving as the Democrat Party governor of Arkansas in the 1980s:



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Democratic Strategist Maria Cardona Says Bernie Sanders Could Win New Hampshire Primary (VIDEO)

Well, the Vermont socialist grandpa looks to make it a race, heh.

And of course at the same time he'll pull the Democrats to the left and make them own their party's hardline radical left socialist ideology.

Shoot, Cardona suggests that Cankles Clinton could lose in Iowa as well. Hell, that's going to be a treat!


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Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Cartoons."

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Also at Theo Spark's, "Cartoon Round Up...", and Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's SUNDAY FUNNIES."

Cartoon Credit: Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Jurassic Tactics."

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New Research Says Dads' Goofy Play Helps Babies Grow and Develop

I love this.

The hilarious thing is of course dads know this intuitively. It's how they raise kids and make it fun. It's natural, in other words.

At WSJ, "Moms, Let Dad Be Dad":
That goofy teasing and hyper play actually help young children develop, according to new research.

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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Far-Left 'Anti-Racist' Says the United States Should be 'Eradicated'

There's extremely few Democrat-leftists who will go on the record like this, but if they did, this is what they'd say:



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From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond, Anguish About Race Keeps Building

Oh brother.

Here we go. Black radicals are "anguished" and ready for an all out "race war."

At the New York Times:

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Ferguson. Baltimore. Staten Island. North Charleston. Cleveland.

Over the past year in each of these American cities, an unarmed black male has died at the hands of a police officer, unleashing a torrent of anguish and soul-searching about race in America. Despite video evidence in several of the killings, each has spurred more discord than unity.

Grand juries have tended to give the benefit of the doubt to police officers. National polls revealed deep divisions in how whites and blacks viewed the facts in each case. Whites were more likely to believe officers’ accounts justifying the use of force. Blacks tended to see deeper forces at work: longstanding police bias against black men and a presumption that they are criminals.

Then, on Wednesday night, a young white man walked into a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., and joined a group of worshipers as they bowed their heads over their Bibles. He shot and killed nine of them. In his Facebook profile picture, the suspect, Dylann Roof, wore the flags of racist regimes in South Africa and the former Rhodesia.

The massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston was something else entirely from the police shootings. But it, too, has become a racial flash point and swept aside whatever ambiguity seemed to muddle those earlier cases, baldly posing questions about race in America: Was the gunman a crazed loner motivated by nothing more than his own madness? Or was he an extreme product of the same legacy of racism that many black Americans believe sent Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Walter Scott and Tamir Rice to their graves?

The debate has already begun.

“I just think he was one of these whacked-out kids,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a white Republican from South Carolina who is running for president, said in a telephone interview with CNN, echoing a sentiment that had begun to blossom. “I don’t think it’s anything broader than that. It’s about a young man who is obviously twisted."

Mr. Graham later amended his remarks, calling Mr. Roof “a racial jihadist” and saying that the only reason the victims had died was their race.

Bryan Stevenson, a black lawyer who has specialized in death-penalty cases and chronicled the legal system’s unfairness to African-Americans, sees deep and systemic connections between Mr. Roof’s actions and the police killings of black males, as well as the rough actions of a police officer breaking up a pool party in McKinney, Tex.

“This latest violent act is an extreme and terrifying example, but not disconnected from the way black men and boys are treated by police, by schools, by the state,” Mr. Stevenson said in an interview. “The landscape is littered with monuments that talk proudly about the Confederacy and leave no record about the lynchings of the era.”

America is living through a moment of racial paradox. Never in its history have black people been more fully represented in the public sphere. The United States has a black president and a glamorous first lady who is a descendant of slaves. African-Americans lead the country’s pop culture in many ways, from sports to music to television, where show-runners like Shonda Rhimes and Lee Daniels have created new black icons, including the political fixer Olivia Pope on “Scandal” and the music mogul Cookie Lyon on “Empire.”

It has become commonplace to refer to the generation of young people known as millennials as “post-racial.” Black culture has become so mainstream that a woman born to white parents who had claimed to be black almost broke the Internet last week by saying that she was “transracial.”

Yet in many ways, the situation of black America is dire...
Yes. Dire.

Because a literal lone wolf leftist murdered some beautiful black Christians in the Old South.

Leftists never let a crisis go to waste.

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Dylann Roof Planned College Campus Shooting Instead of Church, Says Black Drinking Buddy Christon Scriven

At London's Daily Mail, "Charleston killer planned to shoot up college campus instead of a church, claims black drinking buddy who says they were 'homeboys'."

Yeah, his "drinking buddy" was a black kid, just like all the Southern homeboys hanging out with their black bros.

Stogie at Saberpoint has more, "Sick Freak Murders Nine in Black Charleston Church; Irrational Outpouring of Outrage Ensues."

PREVIOUSLY: "Leftist Flag-Burner Dylann Roof's 'Last Rhodesian' Manifesto Rooted in Democrat Party Ku Klux Klan Racism."

And, "Crazy Emo-Prog Dylann Roof Doesn't Fit the Left's 'Right-Wing Racist White Supremacist' Narrative," and "Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, is Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist' with Androgynous Haircut."

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Leftist Flag-Burner Dylann Roof's 'Last Rhodesian' Manifesto Rooted in Democrat Party Ku Klux Klan Racism

Well, one thing's for sure.

Dylann Roof hates the American flag like any classic leftist today.

On top of that, his manifesto is a throwback to the white supremacist racial segregation era of the Jim Crow Ku Klux Klan Democrat Party South. The kid confesses right off the bat that he wasn't raised in a racist home --- obviously because his family just doesn't fit the left's white supremacist stereotypes. As he writes at his racist left-wing screed:

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Segregation was not a bad thing. It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back negroes. It existed to protect us from them. And I mean that in multiple ways. Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals. The best example of this is obviously our school system.
Interestingly, Roof combines his Democrat segregation-love with classic leftist BDS-style anti-Jewish hatred. He spews perfectly dead-on memes of the left's global anti-Semitic, anti-Israel annihilationist ideology:
Unlike many White naitonalists, I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White. In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities. Just like niggers, most jews are always thinking about the fact that they are jewish. The other issue is that they network. If we could somehow turn every jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening, because people would be able to see plainly what is going on.
And he's no anti-immigration "Minuteman," as he indicates that he likes Hispanics and Asians. And he just hates the American flag. He hates it with all the combustible disgust of America that you'd find in an Occupy Wall Street rape-infested protest camp. He's a perfect emo-prog flag-hating loser:

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I hate the sight of the American flag. Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. People pretending like they have something to be proud while White people are being murdered daily in the streets. Many veterans believe we owe them something for “protecting our way of life” or “protecting our freedom”. But im not sure what way of life they are talking about. How about we protect the White race and stop fighting for the jews. I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940's American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion. So I dont blame the veterans of any wars up until after Vietnam, because at least they had an American to be proud of and fight for.
He's a sick, racist deluded lefty-prog who glommed onto sick anti-American, pro-Confederacy hate sites. A weird product of progressivism, Israel-hatred, and segregationist Democrat legacies.

He's a weirdo, frankly.

More at the the Telegraph UK, "Dylann Roof: The Charleston killer's racist manifesto."

And at the New York Times, "Website With Manifesto and Photos of Suspect Surfaces."

PREVIOUSLY: "Crazy Emo-Prog Dylann Roof Doesn't Fit the Left's 'Right-Wing Racist White Supremacist' Narrative," and "Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, is Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist' with Androgynous Haircut."

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Indira Esparza, Illegal Immigrant Student, Unfurls Mexican Flag at U.C. San Diego Graduation Ceremony

This is unreal.

And to think, this girl has been in the U.S. since she was 2-years-old. How's that assimilation going for you, leftist open-border fanatics.

At the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Undocumented UC San Diego student waves Mexican flag at graduation, unfurls controversy":

University graduates routinely show great emotion (spontaneous and sometimes scripted) as they stand in front of crowds to mark momentous occasions. Onlookers clap and cheer, hoot and holler, and then wait to see what the next student (or student body) will do.

But one UC San Diego student's Mexican flag-waving exuberance has sparked a conversation that's transcended her brief moment Sunday.

Indira Esparza, a 22-year-old undocumented student who moved to the U.S. when she was 2, proudly unfurled the green, white and red flag of Mexico as she walked across the stage.

Lyndsay Winkley, a reporter with The San Diego Union-Tribune, covered the graduation while U-T photographer John Gastaldo captured images. As colleges often do with media outlets at this time of year, UCSD had suggested we focus on Esparza for several reasons.

As Winkley wrote, she overcame financial insecurity, anxiety over losing family members to deportation and judgment from others because of her Mexican citizenship. She helped establish the Undocumented Student Services Center at the university so students like her could talk about their struggles. She wants to become an educator. And she refuses to waste any time beginning a master's program at UCSD; she started two days after the ceremony.

Winkley made the flag unfurling the lead of her story, which ran underneath Gastaldo's image and with photos of other students.

Reaction to Esparza's demonstration was immediate -- and visceral. Read on then take our poll at the bottom of this post.

Winkley received nine emails and two phone calls about the story, well above her norm. When one reader called Esparza's action "a slap in the face to the United States," Winkley replied: "I don’t think Indira meant any disrespect toward America/Americans nor was she trying to express ungratefulness by unfurling the flag of Mexico during her graduation. I think she is proud of her Mexican and her American heritages. While she plans to use her own experiences as an undocumented student to help others with similar struggles, I don’t think that precludes her from being supportive of students from all walks of life in their pursuits of higher education. Thanks for your email."

Discussion continued with dozens of posts in the story's comment section...
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Obviously, if the girl loves Mexico so much she should go live there.

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Whoa! Greece Consumers Withdraw €1 Billion in Banking Run as ECB Pledges New Funds to Stave Off Grexit

This is amazing.

At the Telegraph UK, "Greek debt crisis endgame: ECB agrees to pump more money into Greece's banks as Russia enters the ring."

Plus, "European authorities forced to stave off Greek banking collapse as capital controls loom":
ECB increases tap on emergency funding as prospect of capital controls and bank closures beckon before Monday's emergency summit.

Greece's banking system was saved from a weekend collapse after the European Central Bank was forced to pump emergency rescue funds and halt the immediate threat of capital controls.

The ECB took the unusual move to raise its emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) twice in the space of three days as a further €1.2bn fled the financial system on Friday. The ceiling on ELA was reportedly raised by €1.8bn according to reports, and came following a request from the Bank of Greece.

The Frankfurt-based central bank took the drastic action after its officials warned European finance ministers that Greece's banks may not be open for business on Monday. Total deposit flight has now soared to €4.2bn this week as full-blown panic over the country's eurozone future has set in.

ELA funding is one of the last critical links keeping Greece in the single currency.

Without the funds, Greece would likely find itself in the midst of a bank run, forcing the Leftist government to impose draconian capital controls to prop up the banking system. Such measures, which include deposit withdrawal limits, were last seen in the eurozone in 2013 in Cyprus after the ECB had threatened to cut the life support for Nicosia's financial system.

The drip feed of cash will now be reviewed by the ECB's governing council on Monday, when EU leaders and finance ministers will convene for a last ditch attempt to thrash out their differences with Athens.

Donald Tusk, the man chairing summit, confirmed that Athens would be delivered an ultimatum deal as the country's future reached a "critical" point.

"We are close to the point where the Greek government will have to choose to accept what I believe is a good offer for support, or to head towards default," said Mr Tusk.

"The game of chicken needs to end, and so does the blame game. There is no time for more games."

He added the meeting would not produce a final resolution to the country's five-month negotiating impasse, with any ultimate decision remaining with the eurozone's finance ministers.

"There is time, but only a few days. Let us use them wisely," said Mr Tusk...
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I still don't believe that European leaders will allow Greece to exit the EMU. It'd be the beginning of the end of the modern European Union, setting a precedent in other states, especially the PIIGS nations --- Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain --- and create centrifugal pressures on the system.

It's going to be an interesting week next week.

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Charleston Shooting Reignites Debate About Confederate Flag

I don't care about the Confederate Flag. I think it's a kind of scary emblem when I see it displayed on redneck pickup trucks, and what not. But folks from the South routinely speak about the symbolism and heritage. Stogie at Saberpoint had ancestors who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He speaks often eloquently about that heritage, but he's no racist. His family is multicultural in fact. So it's an extremely complicated issue.

If you're on the left it's an easy call because the Confederate Flag is supposedly the ultimate symbol of racial oppression. Ta-Nehisi Coates posted an emotional and overwrought harangue against it earlier, at the Atlantic, "Take Down the Confederate Flag — Now." That's just race-bait for the hateful demons of the regressive left's fever swamps.

Still, lots of good black folk down in South Carolina are pained at this image, regular folks, holding down jobs and holding together families. I imagine they'd like to see it go.

In any case, the New York Times reports, FWIW, "Charleston Shooting Reignites Debate About Confederate Flag":

On Thursday, hours after a white gunman killed nine people in a black church in Charleston, S.C., a Confederate flag continued to fly over the grounds of the state’s Capitol.

The Supreme Court ruled the same day that Texas did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to allow the flag on its license plates.

The conflict over the banner of the Confederacy has been raging for decades between those who feel it is a symbol of free speech, and others who see it as a symbol of white supremacy. But with a photo emerging of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect in the Charleston church shootings, posing in front of a car with Confederate plates, the debate has been reignited on social media and beyond about whether the flag should be displayed, and whether politicians should continue to defend the flag as a symbol of Southern heritage.

Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a Republican, and the state’s Republican governor, Nikki R. Haley, are both drawing criticism for their views on the flag. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mr. Sanford called the idea of removing the flag a “Pandora’s box” and a “complex issue within our state.”

Ms. Haley, who on Friday called for Mr. Roof to face the death penalty, was also facing criticism for referring to the flag as a “sensitive issue” but refusing to remove it in the past.

A Haley spokesman told ABC that use of the Confederate flag — seen flying high in the South Carolina capital while other flags flew at half-staff — could not be altered without approval from the state Legislature.

Cornell William Brooks, national president of the N.A.A.C.P., said on Friday that those who said the flag was “merely a symbol of years gone by” had it all wrong. The flag, he said, is an “emblem of hate” that should be banished from public life.

“That symbol has to come down,” he said, speaking at a news conference in Charleston. “That symbol must be removed from our state Capitol.”

Several hashtags, #takedownthatflag, #takeitdown and #ConfederateTakeDown, were also being used Friday on Twitter as an informal campaign to prompt South Carolina politicians to remove the flag.

Elsewhere, writers and academics found fault in the argument that the flag was meant to preserve a Southern way of life. In a post for The Atlantic titled “Take Down the Confederate Flag — Now,” Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote that the argument that the flag preserves a heritage of racist behavior was what motivated Mr. Roof to attack black people.

“More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demanded — with human sacrifice,” Mr. Coates wrote.

Edward E. Baptist, a professor at Cornell University who specializes in the history of slavery, said in a series of posts on Twitter that the flag had been used as justification for attacks on blacks since the Civil War...
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Obama Pushes U.S. Mayors on Stricter Gun Control

I'm really kinda shocked how fast the Gun Grabber-in-Chief started exploiting the Charleston massacre. It's just shameless political opportunism. I don't think he really cares about the folks who were killed. He cares more about heading out to hobnob at the high-dollar Los Angeles fundraisers. It's grotesque.

At the Los Angeles Times:




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Black Americans Killed at 12 Times the Rate of People in Other Developed Countries

This is kinda mind-boggling, especially the graphic on black homicide deaths per 100,000 of the population.

See Bearing Arms, "“Black America” Is a Bloody Mess."

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Center-Right Opposition Ousts Social Democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt in Denmark Elections

You know, the European left keeps getting hammered at the polls, especially on the issue of unchecked immigration. And in Denmark, that bastion of social democrat progressivism!

At Reuters, "Danish centre-right opposition wins election, PM quits party":
Danish voters ousted Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt in an election on Thursday and handed power to an opposition centre-right alliance including huge gains for a eurosceptic, anti-immigrant party.

Opposition leader Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he would try to form a government but is likely to have to make big concessions to ensure support from the right-wing Danish Peoples' Party (DF), which ended up with more votes than his Liberal Party.

With all of the votes counted on the mainland, the centre-right won 90 seats in parliament to 85 seats for the centre-left bloc of Thorning-Schmidt, who wrongly gambled that an economic upturn would win her re-election.

Denmark's first female prime minister, elected in 2011, Thorning-Schmidt conceded defeat and quit as party leader after the vote.

DF, the second-biggest party behind Thorning-Schmidt's Social Democrats, has supported the Liberals in government before and its backing gives the centre-right led by Rasmussen its overall majority.

"Tonight we have been given an opportunity, but only an opportunity, to take leadership in Denmark," Rasmussen told supporters in parliament.

"We take that upon ourselves and I take that upon myself ... What I offer today is to put myself at the head of a government," he said.
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Yeah, immigration's obviously a touchy issue with the voters, especially after the leftist government's Islamic appeasement policies: "Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt: 'This is not a war between Islam and the West...'"

And at Instapundit, "CHANGE: Obama’s Favorite Prime Minister Concedes to Center-Right Bloc."

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Friday, June 19, 2015

In Aftermath of #Charleston Church Slayings, a Day of Forgiveness and Thought

At the Charleston Post and Courier:


Dylann Storm Roof stared at the camera in front of him and blinked occasionally.

He saw a judge on a video screen and heard crying. But he couldn’t see the rest of the courtroom on the other end of the video link. He couldn’t see the people who fought through tears and stood up in the crowded room.

He heard the words of Felicia Sanders as she rose and spoke. Roof had been accused of killing her son and eight others as Sanders watched two nights earlier at a downtown Charleston church.

“We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms,” she said. “We enjoyed you, but may God have mercy on your soul.”

The bond hearing Friday afternoon served as the first opportunity for family members to talk to the 21-year-old Eastover man suspected of fatally shooting the nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. They spoke of hurt, grief and longing for a chance to say goodbye to the people they loved. They also offered forgiveness, despite the accusation that Roof, a white man, had carried out one of the worst American hate crimes of the generation at the historically black church.

Roof also could not see beyond the courtroom, where Charleston has been transformed by tragedy into a ground zero for the racial strife reignited in recent years by a call of “black lives matter.” He faces nine murder charges in the attack that some say exposed an underbelly of the Deep South that bubbled to the surface in a bloody way around 9 p.m. Wednesday at 110 Calhoun St.

The Confederate battle flag still flew above the Statehouse, despite calls from critics nationwide to take it down. And some pointed to the bond judge who faced Roof as another example of deep-rooted problems here. The judge, who has been reprimanded and suspended for using the N-word in the past, called Roof’s family members victims, too.

“Saying that semblances of that ugly underbelly does not exist would be a disservice to the lives that were lost,” said Antonio Tillis, a longtime African studies professor brought to the College of Charleston amid the school’s turmoil over the hiring of a Confederacy memorabilia aficionado as its president. “We need to question our national identity and Americanism. Who gets to claim it? To hear a young man say that black people have taken over the country, we have to question that.”

But that man also couldn’t see the wall of flowers being built on the sidewalk in front of the church, each bouquet with a message from people in Sheridan, Wyo.; Crawfordsville, Ind.; and Madison, Miss. Black and white visitors from other states knelt next to residents from Charleston and cried as they penned messages on a banner. Roof also couldn’t hear what they said.

“Where is our country going?” Donna Lea Needham, 83, of Sanford, Fla., said as she cried. “How many times is hatred going to cause this kind of sorrow? This has gone on for long enough.”

That call on Calhoun Street echoed from the courtroom with the victims’ families, to Charleston City Hall, to California, where President Barack Obama again spoke out against the violence.

“It is not good enough to simply show sympathy,” he said. “We as a people have got to change. That’s how we honor those families.”
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Leonna Mayor, World's Sexiest Jockey, Strips Down to Lingerie

For Zoo Today.

Nice: "Leonna Mayor, the world's sexiest jockey, strips to her lingerie for ZOO!"

And watch the video: "Leonna Mayor: the world's hottest horse rider!"

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How Our Touchy-Feely Feminized Society Creates Young Male Mass Killers

From Milo Yiannopoulos, at Big Government, "TO STOP MASS KILLERS, WE HAVE TO STOP DRUGGING OUR YOUNG BOYS" (via Blazing Cat Fur):
As America comes to terms with a monstrous shooting in Charleston that has left nine churchgoers dead, bewildered members of the public are seeking rationality in apparently wanton and inscrutable crimes.

We may never know quite what drives some people to kill. But it seems that in young Dylann Storm Roof, we have further evidence of a trend that should worry us all. I’m talking about his dependence on prescription drugs: suboxone, to be precise.

Roof is just the latest in a long line of young men who have committed appalling crimes after a lifetime on psychotropic drugs. If you don’t believe me, consider some of the most notorious young male shooters in American history.

Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza? Lexapro and Celexa. Red-headed Aurora killer James Holmes? Clonazepam and sertraline. Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho? Prozac. Charles Whitman, the “Texas Tower Sniper”? Dexedrine. Columbine executioners Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Zoloft and Luvox.

You get the idea. These young men were all on prescribed medication. Feminism helped to get them there. In particular, female teachers who either dislike men or are completely ignorant of healthy behaviour norms for boys are creating a generation of emotionally stunted, drugged up young men.

Millions of young American men are prescribed powerful drugs after being diagnosed with the phantom condition “ADHD,” better known as a mixture of natural boisterousness and poor parental discipline. The mere fact of being male has become pathologised.

When they get into their teens and early twenties, they graduate onto drugs like Zoloft and Prozac, drugs that can produce a powerfully dissociative effect in the mind, muddying the distinctions between reality and fantasy. All this, because boys are now treated as though they are defective girls.

I once clumsily wrote that video games helped to “shape the fantasies” of Isla Vista gunman Elliot Rodgers. I intended not to incriminate video games in his spiral into madness and murder but rather to point out that young men who lose grip on the real world often retreat into imaginary ones, which can then have a stylistic effect, if you like, on their crimes.

After a year of reading the research on what America is doing to its men, and interviewing hundreds of young men in preparation for my book on the GamerGate controversy, I have come to believe that in most cases it’s not games, or movies, or “misogyny,” or “racism” that drives young men to kill. It is the increasing sense of isolation and disorientation young boys feel in a world that now feels architected against them...
Well, I'm not sure that feminism and ADHD are causal factors here, but certainly there's something to this idea of the "isolation of disorientation young boys feel." It's a point I raised earlier today in my essay, "Crazy Emo-Prog Dylann Roof Doesn't Fit the Left's 'Right-Wing Racist White Supremacist' Narrative."

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Crazy Emo-Prog Dylann Roof Doesn't Fit the Left's 'Right-Wing Racist White Supremacist' Narrative

My post yesterday got a lot of attention, "Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, is Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist' with Androgynous Haircut."

Notice the leftists disagreeing angrily in the comments, and of course go on Twitter and notice how the left's murderous lynch mobs have taken the debate hostage from reason.

Roof's thoughts are certainly racist, but the idea that the kid fits some common stereotype of the Southern red-neck Confederate flag-waving cracker --- who for leftists is essentially a racist mass murderer in waiting --- is a joke. The right-wing "racist mass murderer" premise is itself a joke. But then, leftism is a joke. Leftists are not rational people. They don't care for science. From abortion politics to global warming, leftists reject science and adopt faith-based arguments that cannot not be repudiated with empirical evidence. Anyone who attempts to do so is a heretic who must not only be shunned, but destroyed. Professor Mark Regnerus, the Texas sociology professor who published a rigorous study on the life chances of children of same-sex marriages, was attacked as a "hateful bigot," and the leftist outrage industry fomented an investigation of him for "academic misconduct" by the University of Texas. Deranged leftists wanted him fired. Similar cases have become legion more recently, most immediately on the issue of the so-called "rape culture." It's now so bad that outraged progs have started eating their own in a kind of Thermidorian Reaction that's just now getting going.

In any case, folks need to read Robert Stacy McCain's essay on the national reaction to the shooting, "Dylann Roof: A Ninth-Grade Dropout Who Was Playing Too Many Video Games." Robert's a journalist's journalist who uses evidence to reach to conclusions, rather than attempting to pigeonhole the facts into some  kind of preexisting narrative.

As I noted yesterday, Roof is not mentally fit. He's a drug abuser whose racist views have been formed quite recently, likely the result of an alienation process developing out an extremely dysfunctional home life. He shuttled around from school to school as his family broke apart due to marital separation. He dropped out of school and became increasingly aimless. He was arrested and charged twice with felonies. His dad had been haranguing him to stop playing so many videos games. Somewhere along the line he glommed onto some white supremacist websites and unconvincingly adorned the paraphernalia of a Southern Klansman.

This is not the basis for an ideological program. It's the basis for involuntary commitment.

But be sure to read Robert's piece:

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Charles Manson was a hippie guru whose cult followers did a lot of drugs, listened to Beatles records and committed mass murder, but most hippies who did drugs and listened to Beatles records were neither cult members nor mass murderers. So what lessons could we, as a society, have derived from the notorious “Helter Skelter” killings? Most people at the time recognized the Tate-Labianca murders as conclusive proof that the whole 1960s peace-and-love tune-in-turn-on-drop-out mythology of hippie culture was a lie. Manson collected his followers from among the broken flotsam and jetsam of castoff kids and runaways who flooded into San Francisco during the late 1960s. It was the Law of Large Numbers, really. When millions of kids climbed aboard that kind of bandwagon — rejecting parental authority to pursue a lifestyle of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll — it was inevitable that very bad things would happen to some of them.

You see that the example of the Charles Manson cult is not one chosen at random in this case, because Manson’s “Helter Skelter” fantasy was to incite an apocalyptic race war in America, and Dylann Roof’s murders had the same motive. Also, Dylann Roof had a drug problem. For that matter, Dylann Roof even had a Beatle haircut. Whether or not he was listening to the White Album backwards, we don’t know.

Please excuse my habitual sarcasm, but if you’re following the liberal media coverage of the Charleston shootings, you keep seeing allegedly intelligent people making a few simple-minded connections that may not actually have much to do with Dylann Roof’s crimes. “It’s the guns! It’s the racism! This happened in South Carolina! OMG! They fly the Confederate flag there!” All of this is obviously true, but exactly how much of this is really relevant? There are about 3 million white people in South Carolina, many of whom are racists and gun owners, but they didn’t kill people in Charleston, nor do they condone hateful violence.

As always, the liberal biases of the media lead them into a hasty pell-mell rush to assign collective political blame for a high-profile crime, a bias that fosters false beliefs which in turn have the effect of psychologically disarming society. We cannot prevent crime if we don’t understand crime, and understanding crime requires us to focus on the individuals who commit crime. Yes, the hippie culture of the 1960s was dangerous. And yes, we may say that South Carolina is a particularly “racist” environment. However, most hippies were not mass murderers, nor are most South Carolinians, and the attempt to defame white people in South Carolina by assigning collective blame to them — which is what the liberal media are so obviously doing — is the exact opposite of what responsible journalism is about. Let’s focus on the criminal:
According to classmates, Roof is a frequent abuser of prescription drugs.

Court records from Lexington, [South] Carolina — where he has been living in a trailer park — reveal he was arrested twice this year on charges of trespassing and drug possession. . . .

Roof used to skateboard in a Lexington suburb in South Carolina when he was younger and had long hair then.

Childhood friend Joey Meek had seen him as recently as Tuesday, said Meek’s mother, Kimberly Konzny. . . .

‘I don’t know what was going through his head,’ Konzny said. ‘He was a really sweet kid. He was quiet. He only had a few friends.’Joey Meek alerted the FBI after he and his mother instantly recognized Roof in a surveillance camera image that was widely circulated after the shooting.

In the image, Roof had the same stained sweatshirt he wore while playing Xbox video games in their home recently, Konzny said. It was stained because he had worked at a landscaping and pest control business, she said.

Roof attended ninth grade at White Knoll High during the 2008-09 school year and went there for the first half of the following academic year, district spokeswoman Mary Beth Hill said. The school system gave no reason for Roof’s departure and said it had no record of him attending any other schools in the district.

According to CBS News, school records show that between fourth and ninth grade, Roof attended six different schools, and repeated the ninth grade.
He dropped out of school after ninth grade. His parents were divorced, and his father and stepmother also reportedly had divorced. According to the Wall Street Journal, Dylann’s father had been pressuring him to stop playing video games constantly, and to find steady employment. His grandfather is reportedly a lawyer. His father is a contractor. There are some very interesting clues in this Mother Jones story:
Ken Mathews, an attorney who has been representing Roof in an ongoing drug-possession case, was, he says, “very shocked” to hear about what Roof had allegedly done. He tells Mother Jones, “The dealings I had with him, he was just a normal kid.”

Mathews, a Columbia, South Carolina, attorney, notes that so far in the drug case he has had “very limited dealings” with Roof. He says he saw “nothing that would indicate that [Roof] would take this type of action.” . . .

Mathews has known the Roof family for years, dating back to a custody dispute between Dylann’s father Ben and mother Amy over visitation rights concerning Dylann. . . .
So his family life was disrupted, he was shuttled from one school to another from the time he was nine or 10 years old, he dropped out of school as a teenager, became a drug-addicted loser living in a trailer park, constantly playing video games and, also, Dylann Roof was a racist who sewed Rhodesian flag patches on his jacket and had a Confederate flag tag on his car...
Continue reading.

And check Ace of Spade HQ's Twitter feed for regular dose of sanity amid the left's hysteria:



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Goodnight, California, a once great state

A fascinating piece, as always, from Victor Davis Hanson.

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Leftist Lynch Mob Terrorizes Miami Herald's A.J. Delgado on Twitter

Well, false memes and leftist terror campaigns. What else is new these days?

Here's A.J. Delgado explaining why she left Twitter yesterday, "a clarification":

While I tried to correct this false narrative, I was forced to privatize my Twitter account due to a barrage of misogynistic and (ironically) racist messages sent to me, including detailed threats.
"Detailed threats."

Yay progs. Way to win friends and clinch the winning arguments.

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CNN's Don Lemon Heckled as 'Uncle Tom' on Live TV — ‘White people are TERRORISTS!' (VIDEO)

Oh man!

Things are crazy out there yo!

At Twitchy, "Don Lemon heckled as ‘Uncle Tom’ on live CNN report; President Obama, too."



Also at Truth Revolt, "Don Lemon Heckled On Air By a Black Woman: 'Uncle Tom, Hello!'"

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

False Dylann Roof Memes Started on Twitter

That would be false leftist memes on Twitter, naturally.

At AceofSpadesHQ, "Racist Terrorist Makes Us All Focus on the Really Important Things, Like Getting Stupidly False Memes Started on Twitter":
Of course, the real big news is that runt-of-the-litter angry loser's roommate says that Roof had been planning this attack, to spark off a racial civil war, for six months, and just got around to telling us about this, um, today, so, Thanks for the heads up, buddy!

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Charleston Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Was a 'Loner'

The kid's an emo-prog racist loner.

He was definitely not a classic Southern red neck, and he wasn't raised that way. Frankly, he's not fitting into the left's cookie-cutter "white supremacist" narrative. They never do, in fact. Virtually all the mass shooters in recent years have been leftists, to the one.

At the Wall Street Journal, "Charleston Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Became a Loner in Recent Years":

About a month ago, Dylann Roof’s family was concerned. The once-quiet, bright boy from a middle-class South Carolina family was espousing troubling racist views.

“He apparently told people that he was involved in groups, racist groups,” said a woman who said she was the mother of Mr. Roof’s former stepmother. “He was kind and sweet and polite to my daughter. He didn’t even want her to know what kind of things he was doing. She told him she didn’t approve.”

Mr. Roof, 21 years old, was the son of a contractor, did well in school in early years and loved animals, his relative said. But he stopped going to high school and was adrift, she said.

“He turned into a loner in the last couple of years and no one knew why,” she said. “He just fell off the grid somehow,” she said. The woman was reached at the home of Mr. Roof’s former stepmother, who couldn’t be reached to comment.

Mr. Roof repeated ninth grade at White Knoll High School in Lexington, S.C., and left in 10th grade in February 2010, a spokeswoman for Lexington County School District One said. A month later, Mr. Roof enrolled as a ninth-grade student at Dreher High School in Columbia, S.C., according to Richland County School District One. He attended through May of 2010 but didn’t return, a district official said.

Police said Mr. Roof fatally shot nine people who had gathered Wednesday evening at a historic black Charleston church for a prayer meeting. They called the shooting a hate crime and said Mr. Roof had shouted antiblack sentiments at his victims.

He was arrested Thursday in Shelby, N.C. Mr. Roof’s last known address was in Eastover, S.C., a rural community about 15 miles southeast of Columbia, the state capital. The property has two homes, and people at both homes declined to comment.

Mr. Roof lived off and on with his father, Ben Roof, in Columbia, a family friend said. He described the father as a hard-working, friendly, churchgoing man who had recently expressed concerns about his son’s lack of direction, the friend said. He was trying to get his son to be productive, to stop playing as many video games and stay employed, said the friend.

The friend described the suspect as a lanky young man who looked younger than his age, and a loner who rarely smiled. “You could see that he was troubled,” he said.

The elder Mr. Roof has a racially diverse set of friends, and wouldn’t have taught his son racial intolerance, the friend said. “There are African-Americans over at that home all the time,” he said.

Police blocked off the Columbia street where the elder Mr. Roof lives, and he couldn’t be reached for comment.

Dylann Roof was acting suspiciously in the months before the shooting, according to a police report. On Feb. 28, he was arrested for drug possession at a Columbia mall, where the report said he was wearing all black and rattling employees at two stores with unusual questions about staffing and operating hours.

In the incident report, the arresting officer said Mr. Roof was nervous and said his parents were pressuring him to get a job, though he acknowledged he hadn’t asked for an application from the stores. He consented to a search, and the officer found an unlabeled bottle with multiple, orange-colored square strips in a jacket pocket, the complaint said. Mr. Roof said the strips were Listerine, but they were the pain drug Suboxone, for which he didn’t have a prescription, the report said.

Mr. Roof was released two days later from the Lexington County Detention Center on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond, said Maj. John Allard, a spokesman for the county sheriff...
And note this at the New York Times, "Dylann Roof, Charleston Suspect, Wore Symbols of White Supremacy":
On Twitter, a black woman named Kimberly Taylor who said she had gone to school with Mr. Roof wrote, “Dylann use to be a super emo, with long blonde hair and he was pretty quiet.” She was apparently referring to a type of music sometimes known as “emotional hard-core.”
Yeah, an "emotional hard-core" drug-addled Southern white supremacist loner whose father gave him a gun for his 21st birthday. Well, blow me down! FBI profilers will be stumped. Stumped I tell you!

PREVIOUSLY: "Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, is Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist' with Androgynous Haircut."

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Oh My! Rafe Esquith, Award-Winning Teacher, Removed from Classroom for Reciting Passages from 'Huckleberry Finn'

My goodness.

This guy is like the superhero of public education. I attended a one-day conference with him at Cerritos College a couple of years ago.

He's so good you just say to yourself, "I don't know if I can match that kind of tireless energy and advocacy." A real inspiration. And he's a major author too. I got a signed copy of his latest book, Real Talk for Real Teachers: Advice for Teachers from Rookies to Veterans: "No Retreat, No Surrender!"

Taking your best teachers out of the classroom is like Stalin purging his entire general staff in 1937, virtually guaranteeing a military calamity on the first stages of World War II.

That's the left for you. The revolution eats its own eventually.

At CBS News Los Angeles, "Award-Winning Teacher Removed from Classroom Gives LAUSD an Ultimatum":
KOREATOWN (CBSLA.com) — A distinguished elementary school instructor is fighting to teach again.

Rafe Esquith was removed from the classroom at Hobart Elementary — a LAUSD school in Koreatown — after a fellow teacher complained about Esquith reciting a passage from Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The book, of course, is a classic but often criticized mainly for continual use of the N word. Although it is not clear what the complaint was officially.

High-profile attorney Mark Geragos is representing Esquith and on Thursday issued an ultimatum to the Los Angeles Unified School District: publicly apologize and let him get back to work, or battle a lawsuit.

Geragos said on Monday: “The State of California has thoroughly investigated and cleared Rafe, who is a nationally recognized and award-winning teacher. If LAUSD does not immediately reinstate Rafe and issue a public apology, we will file immediate legal action.”

A district spokesperson would only say that Esquith is still on the payroll. He is left in what parents call Teacher Jail.
CBS’s Jeff Nguyen spoke to many parents Thursday hoping to get Esquith a get out of jail free card.

More than 50 parents and students met Nguyen in front of the school to show their support for the award-winning teacher.

Emanuel Cuapio, 11, says his beloved teacher was notably absent during graduation earlier this month.

“It was really hard graduating because we weren’t with Rafe… we all grieved,” Cuapio said.

A lawyer with Geragos’ firm said the district hasn’t been upfront about the suspension...

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Charleston Shootings Undercut Hope Obama Brought for Better Race Relations

Hope and change came and went.

The country's most polarizing president fails in his long-forgotten pledge to unify the country against racial division.

It's a failed presidency. Obama's going down as one of the worst ever. Particularly sad to see him push the tired gun control narrative before the last rites were read for the dead. But that's the scope of things with the far-left Democrat Party these days. Political and moral bankruptcy, with the president barely able to phone it in before he leaves office in 2017.

At the New York Times:



WASHINGTON — The shooting massacre of a black pastor and his parishioners at a South Carolina church on Wednesday night once again confronted President Obama with a moment of racial turmoil in a country that for all its progress has yet to completely shed the burden of hatred and division.

After a series of police shootings, protests and riots, this latest eruption of violence reflected a country on edge and a president struggling to pull the American people together. Any hopes of what supporters once called a “post-racial” era now seem fanciful as Mr. Obama’s second term increasingly focuses on what he termed “the darker part of our history.”

In a pattern that has become achingly familiar to him and the nation, Mr. Obama on Thursday strode down to the White House briefing room to issue a statement of mourning and grief as he called on the country to unify in the face of tragedy. This time, though, the ritual was made all the more poignant because Mr. Obama personally knew the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, the pastor slain at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., as well as other members of the congregation.

“This is not the first time that black churches have been attacked and we know that hatred across races and faiths pose a particular threat to our democracy and our ideals,” Mr. Obama told a national television audience. “The good news is I am confident that the outpouring of unity and strength and fellowship and love across Charleston today from all races, from all faiths, from all places of worship indicates the degree to which those old vestiges of hatred can be overcome.”

If those words of optimism were belied by his own grim face and subdued tone, perhaps it reflected a certain weariness or frustration over the limits of his ability to change the nation he leads. While his own election nearly seven years ago once seemed to harken a new era in race relations, the events of the last couple years especially seem to continually mock that hope.

The racially charged killing of Trayvon Martin, the fatal encounters with police in places like Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island and North Charleston, S.C., and the upheaval in Baltimore have all served to put the nation’s unfinished business back on the agenda. By virtue of his own background, Mr. Obama has addressed them with a personal perspective none of his predecessors in the White House ever could. And yet easy solutions elude him just as they did them.

“Part of what I take from this is on the one hand the realization that this struggle still continues and despite profound change there is still profound hatred,” said Lonnie Bunch, the founding director of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, set to open in Washington next year. “It is a fundamentally different country. It’s a country that has changed in ways that are amazing. But it is still a country that is still torn apart by race.”

Such a realization occurs at a moment when the president who responds with words of comfort and the attorney general who announces a vigorous joint investigation are both African-Americans.
Mr. Obama has spent much of the last couple years addressing race in a more expansive way than he did in his first term, because of stark events as well as because of the anniversaries of iconic moments in the civil rights movement. He has started an initiative called My Brother’s Keeper to help young Latino and African-American men, and he indicated that effort will be one of his primary missions after leaving office.

In the meantime, it seems likely that issues of race and violence will shape the conversation for the rest of Mr. Obama’s tenure as well as during the campaign to succeed him. Many of those aspiring to Mr. Obama’s job have been wrestling with how to address the nation’s persistent divide, and they weighed in about the latest violence with statements of grief and outrage...
Ed Morrissey has more, at Hot Air, "Obama: This kind of violence doesn’t happen elsewhere, you know."

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Temperatures to Hit 100 Degrees in Parts of Southern California

You'll want to head to the beach, or just chill in the shade at your homestead.

(Hangin' inside watching TV with the air condition on counts for chillin' as well, heh.)

At LAT, "Southern California temperatures expected to hit 100 degrees this weekend."

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Poll: Democrats Shift to Extreme Far-Left of Political Spectrum — Bernie Sanders Leads the Way!

At Gallup, "Democrats in the U.S. Shift to the Left" (via Memeorandum):
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Democratic candidates for the 2016 presidential nomination face a significantly more left-leaning party base than their predecessors did over the last 15 years. Forty-seven percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents now identify as both socially liberal and economically moderate or liberal. This is compared with 39% in these categories in 2008, when there was last an open seat for their party's nomination, and 30% in 2001.

This combined group of Democrats consists of 25% who are pure liberals -- identifying as liberal on both social and economic issues -- and 22% who are social liberals but moderate on the economy. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, a scant 7% of Democrats are socially and economically conservative. Most of the rest of Democrats have more mixed ideological leanings, with 18% moderate on both social and economic issues, and 12% socially moderate or liberal but economically conservative.
Almost half of rank-and-file Dems are very far left. And notice how this shift coincides with the hatred fueled by the ideological demonization of the G.W. Bush years, and then consolidated into the crypto-Marxism of the Barack Obama presidency. The left has taken the country to the extreme left fringes of the political spectrum, and it's not likely to ease up any time soon. As Frank Newport notes at the entry:
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton faces a more liberal base than she did when she last ran for president in 2008, and no doubt will be calibrating her positions accordingly. The shift in the electorate may help explain the attention being garnered by long-shot candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont who has used the label "socialist" to describe himself and who is avowedly liberal across the board. Two other announced Democratic candidates -- former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Republican senator from Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee -- have taken liberal positions in the past. In the 2016 election, they will be seeking to connect with the electorate on that basis, while also attempting to position themselves against Clinton on specific issues.
Yes, and the socialist Sanders is pulling up close to Hillary in the polls, "surprisingly" close. See WaPo, "Hillary Clinton only beat Bernie Sanders by 8 points in a straw poll. So?"

And at the Hill, "Sanders surges in New Hampshire poll":
Sen. Bernie Sanders is surging in New Hampshire, where one poll shows him just 10 percentage points behind Hillary Clinton and tied with the front-runner among self-identified liberals.

Sanders (I-Vt.) gets 31 percent in a new Suffolk University poll, compared to Clinton’s 41 percent. It’s one of his best showings in the Granite State.

The two are also tied among liberals at 39 percent, though Clinton holds a 20-percentage-point lead with centrist Democrats.

Clinton also holds strong leads with white voters and female voters, while Sanders has a slight lead among men.

The results come just one day after an opt-in poll from the Morning Consult showed Sanders within 12 points of Clinton.

Sanders has emerged as the leading liberal challenger to Clinton with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) declining to enter the race.
So Sanders ties Hillary among hard-core liberals at 39 percent at the Suffolk poll?

You think the Vermont socialist might pull the old "centrist" grandma to the left?

Well, check out this beautiful graphic at the Monkey Cage. The fulcrum of the Democrat presidential field is tilting way over to the left, and Hillary's going to have to out socialize Sanders on the trail -- if she's hoping to skate to her supposed coronation. And then how's that pivot back to the "moderate" center going to work out for her, heh? Boy, this is going to be a blast of a presidential primary season. Sanders even said he's in it to win. He's no spoiler!


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Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, is Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist' with Androgynous Haircut

First of all, thank goodness the suspect is in police custody and unable to mount any new racist attacks.

The main story's at Charleston's Globe and Courier, "Suspect in Charleston church shooting arrested in North Carolina traffic stop."

And see "Charleston shooting suspect: White supremacy patches, Confederate flag, drug arrest."

Also at Memeorandum.

It turns out the suspect, Dylann Roof, is an ideological amalgam of old-line Southern segregationist Democrat KKK white supremacy combined with 21st century emo-progressive-anarchist sensibilities. Top that off with a horrendous androgynous emo bowl cut and a drug arrest, and you've got a poster child for new age leftist counter-culture abomination.

The guy is a product of the Democrat Party and contemporary moody emo-oriented pop-cultural leftism. As commenter firstHat points out at Althouse:
Sorry, that isn't the hair cut of a good ole boy. It's the haircut of an wannabe Emo Anarchist more interested in how he looks to the world than anything else. Waiting for the next shoe to drop (somewhere outside the earshot of the Main Scream Media no doubt).
All these pro-Obama leftists online whining about white supremacy need to take a good look in the mirror and face the logical outgrowth of their decades-long ideological agitation and hatred. From 1960s-era racial segregation to modern racist, Israel-bashing ideological extremism, the dude Roof is perfectly at home on the far-left of the political spectrum. He's a product of the left. He's a Democrat terrorist, just like the Klan terrorists of the Democrat Party South.

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The kid is a classic leftist loser, stuck in the racist stereotypes of the Democrat Party South, with a confused androgynous moody identity. Turns out he was something of a loner as well.

I've never met a conservative like this, but far-left emo anarcho-progressives like this are a dime a dozen. Hopefully their parents don't buy them guns for their 21st birthday.

ADDED: According to Kathy Shaidle, an "instant classic," from Jim Goad on Adam Lanza and Sandy Hook, at Taki's, "Gunsville, USA":
Maybe those who claim they’re earnestly seeking an answer to Friday’s bloodbath should focus less on Gunsville and more on Pillsville. But right on the heels of their howling about NO GUNS came cries for MORE PSYCHIATRY. I don’t expect these remnants of 1960s ethics to ever blame drugs for anything. But what puzzles me is their newfound blind support of government. How did they turn from being the harshest critics of “The Man” in the 1960s to being his most brainwashed advocates today?

It’s also mildly amusing/disturbing how closely all the nerdy, medicated, spree-killing geeks resemble the progressive pundits who are caterwauling for unilateral disarmament of the citizenry. They look nothing like the fat and hairy—yet unmistakably male—Georgia hilljacks who milled around the gun show in Gainesville. And although I’m supposed to fear those “angry white males,” I felt far less hostility emanating from the convention floor than I do whenever I’m around leftist girly-boys.

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9 Killed in Mass Shooting in Charleston, South Carolina

God have mercy.

At the Charlotte Observer, "9 fatally shot at historic black church in Charleston, S.C.":


CHARLESTON, S.C. - A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, killing nine people in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime. The shooter remained at large Thursday morning.

Police Chief Greg Mullen said he believed the attack at the Emanuel AME Church was a hate crime, and police were looking for a white male in his early 20s.

“The only reason that someone could walk into a church and shoot people praying is out of hate,” said Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley. “It is the most dastardly act that one could possibly imagine, and we will bring that person to justice. … This is one hateful person.”

The attack came two months after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, by a white police officer in neighboring North Charleston that sparked major protests and highlighted racial tensions in the area. The officer has been charged with murder, and prompted South Carolina lawmakers to push through a bill helping all police agencies in the state get body cameras.

In a statement, Gov. Nikki Haley asked South Carolinians to pray for the victims and their families and decried violence on religious places.

“While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we'll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another,” Haley said.

Soon after Wednesday night’s shooting, a group of pastors huddled together praying in a circle across the street.

Community organizer Christopher Cason said he felt certain the shootings were racially motivated.

“I am very tired of people telling me that I don’t have the right to be angry,” Cason said. “I am very angry right now.”

Even before Scott’s shooting in April, Cason said he had been part of a group meeting with police and local leaders to try to shore up better relationships...
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And at the Charleston Post and Courier, "Nine shot, multiple fatalities reported in downtown church shooting":
Nine people were shot, some fatally, inside one of Charleston’s oldest and most well known black churches tonight. A bomb threat complicated the investigation and prompted police to ask nearby residents to evacuate.

Reporters and other onlookers huddled at the scene awaiting details on what could prove to be one of the worst mass shootings in South Carolina history.

Mayor Joe Riley confirmed there were fatalities.

“We’re still gathering information so it’s not the time yet for details,” he said. “I will say that this is an unspeakable and heartbreaking tragedy in this most historic church, an evil and hateful person took the lives of citizens who had come to worship and pray together.”

Riley said city police were being assisted by sheriff’s deputies, the State Law Enforcement Division and the FBI.

Police and emergency vehicles swarmed several blocks surrounding Henrietta and Calhoun streets, just east of Marion Square. Barricades blocked off several streets to traffic, and police asked nearby residents to leave their homes.

The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. inside Emanuel AME Church at 110 Calhoun St. Police were seen exiting the 19th century church, and their presence extended blocks beyond the site.

Police were still looking for the gunman late Wednesday, and helicopters are hovering above. Police spokesman Charles Francis described the suspect as a 21-year-old white male in a gray sweatshirt/hoodie and jeans with Timberland boots. He has a slender build.

There are victims involved, but police have not said how many. No deaths have yet been reported. A chaplain is on the scene.

State Sen. Marlon Kimpson, D-Charleston, said he has been talking with Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon and said, “It’s my understanding that there are some very serious injuries and possibly deaths.”
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And the update, "Nine dead after ‘hate crime’ shooting at Emanuel AME."



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