Navy Yard Shooting Suspect Had Gun Battle With Police

Initial Thoughts on the Navy Yard Shooting "The call for a muscular governmental response each and every time that something bad happens in America is an unsavory reminder of what can best be described as our dumb first instinct — a hard-coded human reaction that is closely and dishonorably related to the same primeval impulse that leads frightened children to respond to disasters, abominations, and tragedies with a touching, but useless refrain, “make it better, Mommy.” "

Here’s How The Lamestream Media Completely Screwed Up Reporting About The Navy Yard Shooting
This from Mediaite:  “I used to work in Washington, live in Washington. This seems so unusual to me that a gunman could create this kind of havoc at a U.S. military facility,” [Carol] Costello asked her producer, Brian Todd. “Have you ever heard of this happening before, Brian?”
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“I was just saying that this is so unusual, because this is such a heavily-secured military facility. I’ve worked in Washington for many years, I’ve never heard of such a thing happening,” she asked.
“Well, we haven’t either in this area, Carol,” Todd replied. “This is the first time we’ve seen something like this, at least in many, many years. Now you remember the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, where that was a member of the service who was convicted eventually of doing that shooting.”

ABC News   "Aaron Alexis, the former Navy reservist who killed 12 people during a shooting spree at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. today, exchanged gunfire with police multiple times before he was finally shot and killed by an officer.

" 'I think the actions by the police officers, without question, helped to reduce the number of lives lost," Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference today.

"The death of Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, brought the toll of the carnage at the Navy Sea Systems Command headquarters to 13. Officials said at least a dozen others were injured.

Friends Describe Navy Yard Gunman as ‘Very Polite’ Buddhist Who Loved to Meditate

Obsessed Sharpton Distorts O'Reilly 'Parasites' Comment Seven Times in a Month

Newsbusters  " Between August 13 and September 13, MSNBC's PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton has been so obsessed with FNC host Bill O'Reilly's criticism of food stamp abuse, the MSNBC host has on seven separate occasions played a clip of O'Reilly complaining that some food stamp recipients are "parasites" who abuse the system.

"But Sharpton has repeatedly portrayed O'Reilly's comment as a general attack on the poor, as his PoliticsNation program has repeatedly played the same clip -- or a shorter version -- of the FNC host. O'Reilly, from the Monday, August 12, The O'Reilly Factor on FNC:
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More here: MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses FNC's O'Reilly of 'Attacking the Poor'

Krauthammer On Putin Op-Ed: ‘These Are The Fruits Of A Completely Incompetent, Epically Incompetent Foreign Policy’

Downtrend  “Here is the President of the greatest democracy on Earth,” Krauthammer continued, “being lectured, insultingly really, in an American newspaper about human rights, about international law, about the protection of the elderly and children in war time. I mean, the chutzpah of writing that by a KGB thug whose last adventure in the world was to invade Georgia, to detach two of its provinces and declare them independent, and who for the last decade has been essentially supplying Assad, whom we are essentially calling a war criminal, with huge amounts of weaponry, including the elements of poison gas.”
"Tell us how you really feel, Charles." 

Leno’s Opening Monologue Mocks The Obama Administration For Incompetence On Syria

Downtrend  "Last night on The Tonight Show, Jay Leno wasted no time in mocking the Obama Administration. He repeatedly joked about how President Obama and members of his cabinet have bungled the Syrian crisis.
" “You can tell Fall is coming to the East,” Leno quipped, “the leaves are changing faster than a White House position on Syria.”" 

 

...".Leno also loves to goof on Biden. Last night was no exception. “Vice President Joe Biden has been very quiet on Syria,” he said. “So at least some good has come out of this' .”

Here Are The 6 Funniest Tweets About Syria A bit of Islamic murder humor.

Alan Caruba; My Cold War and Now Yours

Warning Signs

 

"The historian, John Lewis Gaddis, author of “The Cold War”, noted that “By the end of the Cold War, there was little left to hope for from communism, and nothing left to fear.” Now it’s America’s turn to be governed by a president other nations do not fear and who is increasingly mocked by bad actors throughout the world."
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 "Mentored in his youth in Hawaii by Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. to figure out why Barack Obama has brought this to pass. When that is combined with his raging narcissism, pathological lying, and incompetence, you can begin to understand the events surrounding the Syrian crisis."
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"The events leading up to Putin’s editorial were the most glaring example of President Obama’s manifest lack of fitness for the job. Unfortunately, the only means of recall is impeachment and a sharply divided nation is not going to go there. We have forty more months of Obama’s destruction of America’s economy and reputation."  Full article.

That NY Times Putin column: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria