Washington Post Says Fake Hate Is Rare, and Other Fairy Tales

Colin Flaherty  "The Washington Post promised us that fake hate crimes are “rare.”  The news hounds of D.C. know that because the Southern Poverty Law Center, America’s greatest purveyors of fake hate crimes, told them so.

"That is the biggest hoax of all.

"The occasion for their latest prevarication was this week when even the Post had to admit that three recent nationally publicized stories of white on black hate crimes were fake as a nine-bob note. At the Air Force Academy Prep school, a black student admitted he was responsible for the racist graffiti that drew so much virtue display from so many high places. Ditto for racist drawings in Lawrence, Kansas and racist graffiti at a Missouri church.

Despite the recent hoaxes of white racism, the Post its satraps at SPLC felt the need to reassure us that white racist hate crimes are real and widespread and of course all the fault of Donald Trump.

That’s the fantasy. The reality is that black victimization is the biggest hoax of our lifetimes, and fake hate is a part of that huge liberal con game. And it is easy to see with even a cursory look at a list of recent fake hate stories that gathered national attention.

"As I listened to that song, I kept thinking about the Texas church shooter, Dylan Roof, Las Vegas."

Althouse   "Wrote Annie C in the comments to the first post of the day, which was about Roy Moore but ended by taking an off ramp into the old Doors song "People Are Strange.' "

I had a similar response. Jim Morrison experienced intense love from his fans. He was perhaps the most sexually attractive man on earth as you see him in that old video. But the words were the words of the complete social outcast, utterly unsuccessful with women and taking his loserdom to a dark place.

There's the repeated line that resonates with today's sexual harassment stories: "Women seem wicked when you're unwanted...."

By the way, I've never been a Doors fan, but I've always liked that one song, "People Are Strange." . . .

Comments in this post about Morrison include:

"But he IS better looking than Louis CK." . . . who apparently emulated Morrison's stage actions. Another comment:

. . . "But she also remembered Morrison had told her he had been fat in high school and that lithe body was achieved by basically giving up food for alcohol and drugs. The booze diet worked until it didn't - Morrison was pretty bloated by the time he died. " . . .

At least Morrison didn't slaughter worshippers in a church, though perhaps many of his groupies killed themselves by living his lifestyle. TD

Patrick K. O’Donnell on Veterans Day: ‘So Many Fake Heroes in Society Today,’ Real Heroes ‘Sacrifice Their Lives for This Great Country’

Rich Terrell

John Hayward  . . . "'For instance, the entire Middle East was created from a flawed treaty from World War One,” he noted. “The rise of communism, international finance, America’s rise to the world stage, all begins in World War One, the modern military. It’s an incredibly important event.”

“Very few people know about it. It’s kind of a lost generation in many ways. That generation of doughboys that fought World War One is an incredible generation that’s largely been lost to time. To this generation, we don’t even know about them and what they fought for, why they fought for liberty and freedom, in one of the most brutal wars of the 20th Century where millions died,” O’Donnell said.

“The sacrifice that these individuals made for America is really staggering. This is a time when America was completely unprepared. The size of the standing army in 1917, 1916 was on par with, like, Belgium. That’s how small it was. It had to grow to nearly four million men overnight. That in itself is an incredible story of how we mobilized, and really the United States made the difference in World War One,” he said.

“One of the most deadly battles of World War One was at the Meuse-Argonne, which took place beginning on September 26th, and it spans all the way to November 11th. Some of the most deadly combat occurred after the armistice was effectively signed. On November 10th, men were still crossing the Meuse river,” he recalled." . . .

Amazing then and now photos of WW1 battlefields  

1916: a French soldier walks in the ruins of Verdun after German bombing. 11 March 2014: a car is parked near the former Episcopal Palace. Verdun was the site of one of the bloodiest, longest and most costly battles of the entire conflict. The attack on the city was conceived by the German chief of the general staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, who initiated a massive offensive to break French troops. After months of bombardment, the French managed to hold the line against the Germans. There were an estimated 700,000 casualties.

Site of Sutherland Springs church shooting will be demolished, pastor says

MySA   "After raising a family in the San Antonio area, Farida Brown moved to LaVernia about 20 years ago and found a community at the First Baptist Church, as so many others have.

"It was the type of place where congregants had developed an unofficial seating chart and greeted each other by name each Sunday.

"But that building will soon be gone.

" 'Pastor Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention it would be too painful to continue using First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs as a place of worship and he plans to demolish the building.

. . . "The group's spokesman, Sing Oldham, said Pomeroy expressed hope he could turn the site into a memorial for the more than two dozen people who were killed last Sunday and build a new church on property the church owns.

 Brown was attending services on Sunday, as she's done for the past 10 years, when a man marched in with a rifle and shot nearly everyone inside. He killed 26 people and wounded 10 more.

When David Brown got word his 73-year-old mother was shot during church services, he didn't know what the protocol was.

"This is my first disaster of this sort that was so close to home," he told mySA.com.

Doctors were amazed Farida Brown's blood vessels were not struck by one of the bullets and pieces of shrapnel that hit her body. Bullet shrapnel struck her left hip, under her kneecap and above her left knee, traveling up to the top of her femur bone, David Brown said.

"The floors, all the pews and the walls are splattered with blood," David Brown told mySA.com. "The flooring is completely covered with blood."

"I heard it was so bad that it was almost raining out of the church."

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"Rod Green, 71, an elder at the First Baptist Church, said he went to a yard sale Sunday morning instead of attending services. He learned about the tragedy over a series of phone calls.

"Green recalled how, at the beginning of each service, everyone would stand up in the pews and greet each other. It was a chance to reconnect with each other, each week, Green said."

"I shook every hand in that church," he said. "Let them know that it's good to see them."

"The church didn't have a seating chart, but after years together everyone had settled into their particular spot. Green said Dennis Johnson, one of the victims, always sat in the row next to him, across the aisle."He said he won't be able to stomach seeing empty seats without thinking of their former occupants.

" 'I don't think it's going to be possible to get back in that building, Green said. "I know myself and my wife Judy don't want to use that building."