Bowdoin offers to cover full tuition for slain New York City police officer’s son, a student at the Brunswick (Maine) college

Bangor Daily News

"BRUNSWICK, Maine — The son of one of two New York City police officers killed Saturday night in Brooklyn is a sophomore at Bowdoin College.

"Barry Mills, president of the college, informed the family of student Justin Ramos on Sunday morning that the college would provide full financial aid to enable Ramos to complete his Bowdoin education.

"In a post on the college’s Facebook page, Mills urged respect for the family’s privacy in the wake of the “unspeakable tragedy.”
..."New York police Officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjiian Liu, 32, were fatally shot in their squad car Saturday by a 28-year-old man who then killed himself.

"On Sunday, the New York Yankees Silver Shield Foundation offered to pay for the college educations of Justin Ramos and his younger brother, but Bowdoin College spokesman Scott Hood said Monday that the college would provide the aid." ...more...

As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels

 

 http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/12/22/nypd-officers-killed/

Commentary Magazine "Conservatives know very well that attempts to politicize violence on the part of the mentally ill is deeply unfair. They know that liberal claims that either the Tea Party or conservatives such as Sarah Palin were somehow responsible for the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was sheer slander. If some angry supporters of the police now try to say Obama, Holder, or de Blasio approved or countenanced the actions of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, they are just as wrong. Obama, Holder, and de Blasio have all rightly condemned the murder of the two officers.
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"If there is any reproach today that should be laid at the feet of Obama, Holder, and de Blasio, it is that by helping to foster one false set of assumptions, they have now left themselves vulnerable to questions about their own willingness to accept and exploit calumnies against the police and the justice system."
 Jonathan S. Tobin
Excerpts of comments to this post follow:

  ...I might be less resistant than Tobin about Farrakhan given his outright and outrageous call for reciprocal violence and given that the killer was apparently a black Muslim.

LET’S TALK ABOUT ERIC GARNER

 

Neal Boortz      ... "But like I said … someone should have been indicted.  The cop(s)?  Perhaps.  But I’m thinking of the politicians who put this absurd punishing tax on cigarettes in the first place.  They knew what would happen.  New York is surrounded by states with a lower tax rate on cigarettes, so they knew smuggling and resale would be an issue.  No problem though.  They had the cops.  And they had to lawful right to order those cops to use force to make sure that by God those taxes were collected.  And Eric Garner is dead.  Find the right politician and indict them.  Let them explain why a father had do die so they could collect their taxes."

Bloody Handsl

..."Eric Holder has aggressively been stoking the fires of race hatred and anti-cop sentiment. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan have all been pushing the "hands up" myth, while either hinting at or actively calling for violence.

"New York mayor Bill de Blasio has been allowing "hands up" demonstrators to close down city streets, assault police officers, and chant "What do we want? DEAD COPS!" - while also speculating that his own black son should be afraid of police officers." ...  More at Hopenchangel 

More liberal media

Battle of the Bulge; Dec 22, 1944

  www.history.army.mil/books/wwii

December 22, 1944: Siege of Bastogne: NUTS!

"The many memorable December dates in American history include the Battle of the Bulge during December 1944. General Anthony McAuliffe is remembered for his courageous action on the 22nd of that month.

"Commanding the U.S. Army’s beleaguered and surrounded 101st Airborne Division during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe received a German surrender ultimatum. “Nuts!” he replied, and became a lasting symbol of American courage and determination under fire….


From "BASTOGNE: The Story of the First Eight Days" By COLONEL S. L. A. MARSHALL:
CHAPTER 4, FIRST MEETING WITH THE ENEMY

 Bastogne Then and Now

 

Frostbite caused many casualties

The race-pimping elite in our nation: how long must we tolerate it? The subject roundly discussed here.

 

 http://terrellaftermath.com/

Truth Revolt: Are Sharpton, de Blasio -- Even Obama -- Culpable in Murder of NYC Cops?

 "Al Sharpton has been everywhere these last few months, organizing marches through his National Action Network to protest the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers. Everywhere he goes, violence follows as protesters chanting "No Justice, No Peace" set fires and loot stores.

"In New York City just a week ago, Sharpton led a march in which protesters assaulted two NYPD officers and blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. Their chant then: "What do we want? Dead cops!" The reverend stood by and smiled.

Video: Bill Whittle: Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism

Gangbangers Unbound   "That there is an agenda is not in question. Presidents, attorneys general, sports and entertainment celebrities, and the media sphere as a whole do not get involved in small local disturbances for no reason. Stepping back, we can see a consistent thread of deliberately aggravated racial incidents throughout the Obama presidency, from the Gates incident through the Trayvon Martin controversy on to Ferguson. All featured intervention from Obama, and most from Eric Holder as well. You can search all you like among previous presidencies for comparable actions, but you will do so in vain.

'How many more dead police officers will the mob want'?  "It's not just de Blasio. It's Holder, Obama, Sharpton, and the host of race hustlers and professional protestors who may have convinced themselves that they are not anti-police and are only peaceful in their intent, but have to recognize that they have attracted a mob of people out for the blood of cops." ...

Targeting police officers: looking forward, looking back ... "Today, unlike in the 70s, even some of our leadership—and by that I mean Barack Obama (who consorts with the likes of Al Sharpton), Eric Holder, and Bill de Blasio, for example—fan the flames of the hatred in ways subtle and not-so-subtle."

 

NRO: Hate Speech Leads to Hate Crimes "The culpability for inciting the murder of two cops reaches to the highest levels of media and government."

Next, let’s poll the police  "The big change in circumstances since this time last year is, of course, the rise of ISIS. “Ending wars” did not make Obama popular with the military. And the consequences of ending U.S. involvement in Iraq, now that they are in plain view, have helped make him massively unpopular." 

As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels ..."Even worse than that, they have empowered and legitimized racial demagogues like Al Sharpton who have sought to profit from exploiting these tragedies to promote their own agendas. In turn, Sharpton and those like him who are given prominent air time on networks like MSNBC and CNN have encouraged protesters who have not only engaged in violence but often openly called for the killing of police, a stance that has been openly endorsed by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and other radicals."

Hobbits and Christ: The worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien

World Mag

Martin Freeman, left, and John Callen in a scene from The Desolation of Smaug

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... "Where do you find a Christian worldview in The Hobbit?  Look at Tolkien’s contemporaries and what were they saying about life. You don’t have to be an English major to know his contemporaries were people like [Jean-Paul] Sartre, [Albert] Camus, and [Samuel] Beckett, who said there’s no purpose to life, there’s no meaning to life, there’s no such thing as truth. In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we find all those things. There’s a distinct reason why Gandalf chose Bilbo, and it’s a particularly Christian reason. It’s going to be good for Bilbo, but also good for the world, and the believers in your audience will know that that’s how God works in our lives.  … So we see a providence, we see a purpose, and we absolutely see a moral universe where there’s absolutely a clear right and wrong, and Tolkien’s contemporaries rejected all of those things[.]"