Monday, April 14, 2014

Three Killed at Jewish Centers Near Kansas City — New York Times Reporting

Here's the story at the country's unofficial newspaper of record (for the record), "Man Kills 3 at Jewish Centers in Kansas City Suburb":
A man opened fire outside a Jewish Community Center and a nearby retirement community in a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday afternoon, killing three people before he was taken into custody.

The man, who was identified as Frazier Glenn Cross of Aurora, Mo., in Johnson County booking records. He was charged with first-degree murder and was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon.

The suspect, 73, is a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of anti-Semitism and racism, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups. It identified him as Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, commonly known as Glenn Miller, and said he was the founder and grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

The shootings took place in Overland Park, Kan., a major suburb located just across the state line from Kansas City, Mo. Overland Park is the second-biggest city in Kansas and has a population of about 170,000.

A doctor and his 14-year-old grandson were killed in the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and a woman was killed a short time later in a parking lot at Village Shalom, a senior living community about a mile away, the police said.

Mr. Miller was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon at a local elementary school near Village Shalom, the police said. In video taken by KMBC, a local television station, the suspect yelled “Heil Hitler!” while sitting in a police car.

The Southern Poverty Law Center said it sued Mr. Miller in the 1980s for intimidating African-Americans, and he has had several run-ins with the law since then. He served six months in prison after he was held in criminal contempt for violating the terms of the court order that settled that lawsuit. He also served three years in federal prison for weapons charges and for plotting robberies and the assassination of the center’s founder, Morris Dees. As part of his plea bargain, he testified against other Klan leaders in a 1988 trial.

The police said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether the attacks were a hate crime...
The Times mentions that Miller "made several unsuccessful runs for public office," although specifically omitting that he first ran as a Democrat in South Carolina's gubernatorial primary in 1984. (More at the link, FWIW.)

NBC News picked up Miller's KKK partisanship, as Instapundit points out, "NBC NEWS: KANSAS CITY SHOOTER IS FORMER DEMOCRAT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, KLANSMAN. Okay, they pushed the Democrat part down a ways in the story. Can you imagine the glee at the SPLC, though? They’ll fundraise off this for a decade."

Yeah, they just pushed that part way down, but at least they got it in there.

More from Ed Driscoll, "Meet Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr."

PREVIOUSLY: "Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., Kansas Jewish Murder Suspect, Made Democrat Congressional Bid in 2006, " and "Three Dead in Shootings at Kansas City Jewish Centers."

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., Kansas Jewish Murder Suspect, Made Democrat Congressional Bid in 2006

The suspect ran for office numerous times, but he started as a Democrat in 1984, running in the North Carolina gubernatorial primary. After a number of other attempts at elected office, he returned home to the Democrat/Ku Klux Klan/Party in 2006, running in the Democrat primary for Missouri's 7th congressional district in 2006. His candidacy had the far-left hate site Daily Kos freaking out, "Racist felon running for the Dem nomination in MO-7."

Frazier Glenn Miller is a Democrat to the core.

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Gateway Pundit has the full background, "BREAKING: KS Jewish Center Shooter ID’d: “WHITE NATIONALIST LEADER” Fraiser Glenn Cross, Jr. from Aurora, Missouri."

Anti-Semitism has been natural home for the Democrat Party going back 150 years, and now more than ever it remains the go-to center for Jew-haters across the country. The suspect Glenn Miller was only doing what traditional Democrat Party ideology taught him to do.

PREVIOUSLY: "Three Dead in Shootings at Kansas City Jewish Centers."

Bloodthirsty Leftists Go Absolutely Psycho-Killer Over Cliven Bundy Resistance to Federal Power

As I said at my last post, the Bundy family appears to come up short on many of the issues in the roundup saga and its antecedents. But the level of seething hatred among leftist over this story was frankly shocking, and I'm not often shocked by the leftist ghouls.

Here's a couple of tweets to give you a feel for the murderous mentality leftists express for the Bundys:



And here's pretty bloodthirsty post at the hard-left hate site Daily Kos, "Cliven Bundy is a Big Fat Million Dollar Welfare Dead Beat!":
I mean, if you really look at the facts of the case at the heart of his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees he's refused to pay for the last 20 years - Cliven Bundy has long enjoyed the benefit of Federal Resources without actually meeting the requirements for access to those resources.

The issue has been litigated in court, more than once, and Bundy has lost each time on the merits of his case. He is NOT ENTITLED to access to this land. It doesn't belong to him. In fact that land Belongs to ME and to every other citizen of the United States. That's MY Land that his cows have been grazing on for 20 years and he OWES ME and the rest of the American People for it.

Cliven Bundy is a God Damn [Corporate] Benefits Dead Beat and a THEIF. He's a Moocher! A Lazy Taker!. He should pay the frack up, or else face jail. I mean isn't that how all those good Americans on Fox News like Eric Bolling are constantly telling us about people who Improperly take Federal Benefits!
It's much more complicated than that, but should any American family stand up against federal power, leftists will be first out of the gate to have them crushed --- murdered even --- for resisting the all-powerful collectivist state.

The Saga of #BundyRanch

From Logan Churchwell and Brandon Darby, at Big Government, "The Saga of Bundy Ranch — Federal Power, Rule of Law and Averting Potential Bloodshed":
Hundreds of the Bundy family neighbors have been pushed out of ranching, a profession and culture the families shared with generations of their ancestors, by the federal government slowly restricting more and more of the usage of federal lands. The Bundy family has held on—but holding on meant ignoring the rule of law, as much as they would argue that the federal government has ignored the rule of law. After years of federal overreach and corruption—especially from federal agencies restricting public lands or effectively taking the value out of privately-held lands to protect tortoises, spotted owls, and ponds a bird might someday land in—many Americans are boiling and looking for an instance to stand against. The Bundy ranch has filled that role for many. Stated concerns over this being a new Waco or Ruby Ridge have come from the family. The federal government clearly views the armed Bundy supporters with concern—as evidenced by reports of government snipers being nearby and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issuing a no-fly zone for three miles surrounding the Bundy ranch.
Be sure to RTWT. Sounds as if the Bundy family may have bitten off more than they could chew.



More, "Feds Blink — Leave Bundy Ranch Area."

Alessandra Ambrosio in Busting Bustier and Hotpants at Coachella

Well, you know.

I've got a thing for this lady, heh.

At London's Daily Mail, "Alessandra Ambrosio shows off her svelte physique in bustier and hotpants as she dances her heart out at Coachella."

RELATED: At the Daily Beast, "Coachella, Oasis for Douchebags and Trust Fund Babies, Should Be Avoided at All Costs."

Three Dead in Shootings at Kansas City Jewish Centers

And the suspect screamed "Heil Hitler"?

Man, that's blood curdling evil.

At Pamela's, "UPDATED: Screaming ‘Heil Hitler’, Killer slaughters at least three in shooting spree at Jewish community center and Jewish retirement home in Kansas City."

And at the Kansas City Star, "Three dead, man arrested in shootings at Johnson County Jewish centers."

Video, "BREAKING: At Least 3 Killed, Gunman Yells 'Heil Hitler' in Shooting Jewish Community Cen," "Is shooting a hate crime against Jews?"

Also at Memeorandum.

Forgetting Freedom on Passover

From Caroline Glick:
Passover, which begins on Monday night, is the festival of freedom.

The holiday reminds us of the brutal enslavement of the Jews by Pharaoh and the Egyptians. We recall their midnight flight from Egypt, pursued by the mighty Egyptian army, and God’s miraculous rescue of the Jews at the shores of the Red Sea. We remember how Moses led them for 40 years in the desert, and taught them what it means to be a nation, and what it means to be free.

We repeat the story of enslavement, flight, redemption and freedom each year at Passover, because our sages wanted to ensure that we never forget the value of freedom, and remain vigilant in our fight for it.

In Israel, where our freedom is physically threatened, most Jews understand and live by the lessons of Passover.
But something is happening to the Jews in America.

More and more, every day we see American Jews embracing intellectual bondage. We see American Jewish leaders embracing the intolerant, who seek to constrain freedom, and shunning those who fight for freedom and the rights of Jews and other threatened peoples and groups.

To a large degree, this rejection of the lessons of the Exodus among the American Jewish community reflects the growing intolerance and tyranny of the political Left, to which most American Jews pledge their allegiance.

With increasing frequency, leftist groups and leaders in the US are openly acting to deny freedom of expression to their political and ideological foes, and to destroy the lives of people who oppose their dogma.

For instance, last week we saw the growing tyranny of gay activists. Under assault from homosexual thought police, the Mozilla Corporation of Firefox browser fame fired its CEO Brendan Eich because he once contributed $1,000 to a campaign to block the legalization of homosexual marriage in California.

Eich’s firing was only the latest assault by gay rights bullies on private citizens who oppose their goals. The aim of these assaults is to silence all opposition to their agenda using the tools of social ostracism and intellectual terror...
Keep reading.

The essay ranges far beyond the left's hateful, intolerant and terroristic attack on Eich.

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

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Also at Randy's Roundtable, "Friday Nite Funnies (early edition)," and Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's SUNDAY FUNNIES."

More at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Pay Back."

The Left's Medieval Torquemadas

At Patriot Post, from Victor Davis Hanson, "Our civil liberties will not be lost to crude fascists in jackboots."

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We are in a new Inquisition. Self-appointed censors try to stamp out any idea or word that they don't wish to be aired – in the pursuit of a new race, class, gender and environment orthodoxy.

Hounding out people with different views is seen by the Left as a necessary means to achieve its supposedly noble goals – just like the Spanish Inquisitioners who claimed God was on their side as they went after religiously “incorrect” Jews, Muslims and heretics.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration has been part of the problem, not part of the solution. Its appointees used the once-impartial IRS against conservatives. They monitored Associated Press reporters. They denied that the NSA was eavesdropping on average citizens. They arbitrarily chose not to enforce laws they didn't like.

The president bragged of using “a pen and phone” to circumvent the legislative branch, and urged his supporters to “punish our enemies.” The attorney general calls Americans who have different views from his own on matters of affirmative action “cowards.”

All of that them/us rhetoric has given a top-down green light to radical thought police to harass anyone who is open-minded about man-caused global warming, or believes that gay marriage needs more debate, or that supporting Israel is a legitimate cause, or that breaking federal immigration law is still a crime and therefore “illegal.”

Our civil liberties will not be lost to crude fascists in jackboots. More likely, the death of free speech will be the work of the new medieval Torquemadas who claim they destroyed freedom of expression for the sake of “equality” and “fairness” and “saving the planet.”
Torquemadas. Heh, I love that.

I called out leftist gay rights Torquemada Tara Dublin last weekend and she delivered with an hilarious meltdown: "If @TaraDublinRocks Didn’t Exist, Would @AmPowerBlog Have to Invent Her?"

And the idiot Ms. Dublin is just the tip of the Torquemada iceberg (unmelted iceberg, to their endless idiot consternation). More at the leftist hate-hole Lawyers, Gays and Murderers, "Today’s Specious 'Free Speech' Martyr." (And yes, remember loser Lemieux's attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali the next time depraved leftists tell you they're all about human rights. They're not.)


Woman Jogging with Headphones Killed by Freight Train

A young woman of 27 years, Janaki Rose Hayes from Truckee, California, in Nevada County.

What a way to go, man.

At iOWNTHEWORLD, "Woman Killed by Train While Running on Tracks with Headphones."

And at London's Daily Mail, "Woman run down by freight train she did not hear coming while running on the tracks with headphones on."

HATRED & DIVISION: The Democrat Platform, Illustrated

At Director Blue.

Subaru of Wichita Dubstep!

My youngest son loves this stuff, "‘Awesomeness’: Subaru dealer takes on union bullies with ‘dance party’ that will make you smile [video]."



Saturday, April 12, 2014

#BundyRanch Update

Don't miss this excellent Judge Jeanine segment, "Judge Jeanine Pirro - Feds Retreat From Nevada Ranch Standoff."

Also at Politico, "Feds release all cows gathered during Nevada roundup," and LAT, "Citing armed protesters, BLM returns seized cattle to Nevada rancher."

More at Epoch Times, "Cliven Bundy Ranch Dispute: Shockwaves of Nevada Cattle Range Showdown Spread Through West."

And at I'm 41, "Improved #BundyRanch Cow."

More, at London's Daily Mail, "Victory for Nevada's last rancher! Federal agents release cattle and back down from 'range-war' after armed protestors rally to support rancher 'kicked off land his family has held since 1870'."

Caroline Glick, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Pamela Geller

Like a nuclear bomb of moral clarity.

From Pamela Geller, to which I linked earlier, "I don't want to kill 'all Muslims.' I would like to kill more of them who're trying to kill us, however. And for that reason I won't stand with regressive leftists who apologize for Islam and mount campaigns of hatred against good people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali."

And picked up at iOWNTHEWORLD, "How Do You Solve a Problem Named Sharia?"

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And ICYMI, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Here's What I Would Have Said at Brandeis."

Federal Government Ends #BundyRanch Standoff

Following up on my earlier coverage, "Bundy Ranch, the Federal Government, and the Nevada Water Tipping Point — #BundyRanch."

Now here's an update at Free Beacon, "Feds End Standoff on Bundy Ranch."

Also at Gateway Pundit, "VICTORY! Cattle Is Finally Released Back to Bundy Family," and TPNN, "UPDATE: Obama BLM Retreats After Tense, Armed Standoff with Protesters."

And go to "BundyRanch" on Twitter for further updates.




The Legacy of Aunt Zeituni

From Michelle Malkin, "The legacy of Obama’s illegal alien aunt":

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Zeituni Onyango, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt, died this week of cancer and other complications. I hope she rests in peace. America, however, should be up in arms.

Auntie Zeituni is an enduring symbol of all that is wrong with this country’s immigration “policy” — or rather, its complete lack of a coherent, enforceable system of laws and rules that puts the national interest first. She was a beneficiary of the welfare state run amok, enabled by bipartisan fecklessness. To the bitter end, she bit the hand that fed her with predictable ingratitude and metastatic entitlement.

Zeituni’s 14-year illegal overstay is a reminder that our temporary visa program is an abysmal joke. Like millions of foreign students, business people and tourists to this country, Auntie Zeituni obtained a short-term visitor visa in 2000. It had an expiration date. She was supposed to go back to Kenya in two years after traveling here with her son, who had been accepted at a college in Boston.

But like millions of other “temporary” visa overstayers, Auntie Zeituni never went home. And despite billions spent on homeland security and immigration enforcement, no one ever went looking for her to kick her out of the country after her time was up.
Auntie Zeituni had no job skills, no special talent, no compelling reason to keep her here in America as an asset to our culture or our economy. She didn’t value the American Dream. She was a dependency nightmare. She collected $700 a month in welfare benefits and disability payments totaling $51,000. Somehow, Auntie Zeituni also drummed up money to apply for asylum and finagled her way into both federal and state public housing in Boston.

She contributed nothing to this country. The only “work” she did was gaming the system, complaining about her lot and blaming everyone else for her problems while they subsidized her 14-year illegal overstay.

Auntie Zeituni’s ridiculous asylum application and what happened afterward are reminders that our asylum and deportation systems are appalling jokes. Auntie Zeituni’s bogus request was rejected by the immigration court system. A judge ordered her to return to Kenya in 2003. She appealed. She lost. A judge again ordered her to leave in 2004.

But Auntie Zeituni never went home. Like an estimated 700,000 other deportation absconders, she evaded the judicial order for nearly a half-dozen years and continued to feed at the government trough. When the Bush administration had the chance to put the pedal to the enforcement metal in 2008, they caved. Pandering to pro-amnesty forces, Bush officials issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his auntie right before Election Day.

As an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source told me at the time: “The ICE fugitive operations group throughout the U.S. was told to stand down until after the election from arresting or transporting anyone out of the U.S. This was done to avoid any mistakes of deporting or arresting anyone who could have a connection to the election, i.e., anyone from Kenya who could be a relative. The decision was election-driven.” Such stand-down non-enforcement orders are standard operating procedure in Washington.

Auntie Zeituni’s illegal activity and ingratitude were rewarded time and time again...
More.

Obama could've kicked her out. Instead, Auntie Zeituni got a green card in 2010.

God bless America!

Jessica Davies Wins Hot Shots Calendar Competition

Here's the background at the South Wales Evening Post, "Glamour and lingerie model aiming to be Wales's first 'hot shots' girl - to raise cash for injured soldiers."

And the announcement at Hot Shots:


And a bonus cleavage selfie from Ms. Davies.

Shots Fired in Eastern #Ukraine Town Kramatorsk

At the BBC, "Ukraine crisis: 'Another police building seized in east'."

At the Washington Post, "Pro-Russian gunmen seize police headquarters in eastern Ukraine":


MOSCOW — Trouble flared in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as pro-Russian gunmen occupied a police headquarters in a small city north of Donetsk and attacked government buildings in several nearby towns.

To Ukrainian officials it looked like the beginning of a replay of the Crimea takeover by Russia, which began with men in unmarked uniforms storming the regional parliament, then spreading their control throughout the peninsula...


Say Goodbye to Erasmus Longfellow!

A closed-minded wannabe conservative with 285 followers.

He/she's been tweeted me for a few weeks, has had a few interesting things to say, and I followed back. But this afternoon I tweeted and retweeted a few from Pat Dollard, and that was too much, apparently:


I didn't even catch the whole debate about Dollard and "kill all Muslims." Must've been working that day, although I did see the unhinged leftist reaction.

No one is right on 100 percent of the time. Pat Dollard has the courage of his convictions and stands up for what he thinks is right. And he's entitled to his opinions. He'll pay for them in the marketplace, including being thrown under the bus by a good number of conservatives. Fine by me. It's not my fight. Frankly, though, it's going to take something a little more obscene for me to go all leftist with the totalitarian thought policing, although it's clear that sometimes even conservatives in good standing sadly ape the worst characteristics of hate-filled leftist pathology.

I won't go there.

I don't want to kill "all Muslims." I would like to kill more of them who're trying to kill us, however. And for that reason I won't stand with regressive leftists who apologize for Islam and mount campaigns of hatred against good people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

"Erasmus Longfellow" is in that category, as far as I'm concerned.

DLTDHYOTWO, lol!

Bundy Ranch, the Federal Government, and the Nevada Water Tipping Point — #BundyRanch

You might have seen the furor over Bundy Ranch on Twitter.

And now from Monica Morrill, at American Thinker:


Many Americans have been watching with great consternation the ongoing struggle between the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Marshals against Cliven Bundy and his family. There are no signs of either side relinquishing its position. Many onlookers have been informed that this dispute is over protecting the desert tortoise. But it is nothing of the sort. In fact, the reality of the dispute goes far underneath what is being talked about. The more appropriate source of the dispute is ground water as well as surface water – this is a war over water.

Cliven Bundy and his family claim that they can trace their family ownership back to around the 1870s on their current property in Clark County. This is well before any federal offices such as the EPA, BLM, or water management were created. This corresponds with the Homestead rights that were established during the Lincoln administration in 1862 to entice people to settle the western frontier and expand the U.S. agricultural enterprises. This 19th-century policy was meant to encourage and support settlement by families like the Bundys. Now, over 150 years later, what seemed to be borderless country surrounding small-town Bunkerville in Nevada is an inhospitable petri dish for the experiments of growing federal regulations.

The Bundy Ranch “VO” is now the last large cattle ranch standing in Clark County. According to an anonymous source who has lived in Nevada for thirty-five years, the other major ranches in Clark County have been driven out of existence for one reason or another by the BLM and the Feds. It is claimed that the BLM are masquerading as conservationists, using their federal power to wield the final blow to reclaim the settlement rights they once honored to settlers like the Bundys...
And see Dana Loesch, "The Real Story Behind The Bundy Ranch Harassment":
By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. (If not, check the backstory and my radio interview with him here.) The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers. In fact, the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle.

A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They want his land...
More at iOWNTHEWORLD, "Feds to Stand Down at Bundy Ranch."

And at Twitchy, "Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh arrives in Nevada with questions as #BundyRanch standoff ends."

Still more, FWIW, at ABC News, "Nevada Cattle Rancher Wins ‘Range War’ With Feds" (via Memeorandum).