Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Washington Navy Yard shooting: The victims

BBC  "Police have disclosed the identities of the 12 people killed by gunman Aaron Alexis in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in the US capital on Monday."

Atlas Shrugs lists the victims:
  • Michael Arnold, 59
  • Sylvia Frasier, 53
  • Kathleen Gaarde, 62
  • John Roger Johnson, 73
  • Frank Kohler, 50
  • Kenneth Proctor, 46
  • Vishnu Pandit, 61
  • Martin Bodrog, 54
  • Arthur Daniels, 51
  • Mary Francis Knight, 51
  • Gerald Read, 58
  • Richard Michael Ridgell, 52

  •  Survivor's ordeals 
    As it became clear a gunman was on the loose, Cmdr Jirus and a man he had just met tried to help friends and colleagues out of the building. They were standing outside when two shots rang out.



    "One hit him. The other one - it didn't hit me," says Cmdr Jirus. "I looked down. The other guy's dead."
     Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy

    New York Times gets it wrong, media obsessed with linking AR-15 with Navy Yard shooter

    Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden
     
    The Washington Times  "The liberal media is so obsessed with linking the Navy Yard shooter with the AR-15 rifle that it is making up false tales of Aaron Alexis trying to obtain one.
    "The New York Times attempts to give the impression that a so-called assault-weapon law stopped Alexis from buying a rifle in Virginia, but that is not true.

    The author, Emily Miller quotes this from the New York Times:

    “The gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test fired an AR-15 assault rifle at a Virginia gun store last week but was stopped from buying one because state law there prohibits the sale of such weapons to out-of-state buyers, according to two senior law enforcement officials.”
    Jon Stewart: CNN's Navy Yard Misinformation 'Deliberate'  "Comedian Jon Stewart opened his serious/comedic segment by saying, "For sheer accumulation of breathless wrongness, there is only one source that matters…." After the chuckles quiet, Stewart gets serious and accuses CNN of deliberately spreading misinformation."....
     (Language bleeped, but still regrettable.)
    Political Cartoons by Eric Allie

    NYT Camouflage​s Palestinia​n Terrorism

    American Thinker  "If you pick up the Sept. 18 edition of the New York Times, you will encounter the following headline on page 7 of the front section: "Palestinian Killed in Raid In West Bank."
    "If you then go on to peruse other stories, you will leave with a negative impression of Israel, thanks to a headline that suggests indiscriminate killing of a Palestinian by Israeli forces. A Palestinian was killed for no good or given reason, it would seem.".... 

    The Palestinian killed grew up watching theseTV programs as a child:

    With a laugh track, yet.

    The curse of "progressive" feminism

    Youtube   "Wake up, girls. You're on the wrong side. As Muslim women suffer, feminists avert their gaze."


    Here is the reaction of a Che Guevara groupie for all you feminists with Che posters in your room:
    Che Shakur
    Fag Condell is a RACIST WHITE DEVIL.

    The usual progressive response to reasoned arguments they dislike.

    "Someone's reasoning why Western feminists are quiet over the oppression and subjugation of women under extreme Islamic societies.....the gist of this person's view included an opinion, not mine, that Western feminists are death oriented, and as such, the tiresome abortion issue was brought into the discussion, most unfortunately. My firm response was....."
     

    Obama softens on nuclear Iran: Keep components, just promise not to weaponise them

    DEBKAfile  "Obama’s willingness to accept Khamenei’s oft-repeated assurance that his country’s  nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes – while letting its military program advance to the brink – leaves Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lagging far behind and his Iranian policy with nowhere to go."
     

    Operation Market Garden - September 17, 1944

    Blackfive
    " 'It looks very rough. If I get through this one I will be very lucky." Brigadier General James M. Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division - diary entry, night of September 16th, 1944, on the upcoming mission into Holland. "
     

    Sen.Manchin Says Obama's Coal Policy's Beating The Crap Out His State (Too Late Joe You Helped To Elect Him)

    The Lid
    "West Virginia knew what it was doing when it overwhelmingly voted against President Obama in the recent election, they were trying to save their jobs. The number two coal mining state in the country knew that the President's energy policy has a goal of killing the coal industry. Well not everybody in the state knew. West Virginia Democratic Senator Manchin woke up this morning and realized that the president he helped to elect is anti-Coal.
    "Manchin exploded over the Obama administration’s anti-coal policies during a senate hearing today. " ....