Why the sketch of Jazmine Barnes' alleged killer didn't match the suspects in her death

What to make of this? Knew the Killers were Black Men, Killer Was Online Friend

"Picture of Jazmine Barnes Killer Ironic Her mother was Facebook friends with her daughters own killer."The mother knew damn well he killed her and blames the white man. "Sick and Twisted."

. . . "The original reports from the family who witnessed the shooting death of Jasmine described the shooter as a “white male in his 30s.” 

. . . "And police sent out a drawing of the shooter based on the family’s description." . . .

Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle  "While two suspects have been identified in the shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, many people are still questioning why the initial sketch of the possible suspect looked completely different.
"Barnes' killing on Dec. 30 near a Walmart parking lot sparked outrage and sadness across the country. The girl was riding in a car with her mother and three sisters when a gunman opened fire, shooting her in the head.

"National figures, like activist and writer Shaun King, pleaded with the public to help find her killer. As King continuously upped the reward for finding the suspect, hundreds of tips started pouring in, he said.Last Thursday, the Harris County Sheriff's Office released a sketch of the suspect showing a thinly built white male in his 30s or 40s with sunken cheeks and a stubble beard. At the time, police said they believed the shooter fled the area in a red pickup truck.

"Activists claimed that the child's death could have been racially motivated. However, the person now charged in the child's death, Eric Black Jr., is a 20-year-old black man who was arrested while driving a different car on Saturday.

"Black reportedly told police that he and a second black male suspect, partially identified in court as Larry Woodruffe, mistook Barnes' vehicle for another. Woodruffe has not been formally charged in the child's death, but court records indicate he was arrested on a drug possession charge Sunday." . . .

Dem. Rep. Denies Responsibility for Mistakenly Labeling Girl’s Murder ‘Hate Crime’
"Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) refused to take responsibility Sunday for labeling the murder of a seven-year-old African-American girl a “hate crime” before sufficient evidence materialized to support the claim.
"Jackson Lee, who encouraged the public to treat Jazmine Barnes’s murder as a hate crime during a rally days after her death, claimed Sunday that her earlier statements, made before the police arrested and charged an African-American man with the murder, were not irresponsible.
"While addressing a crowd of hundreds gathered near the Houston, Texas street where Barnes was shot and killed on December 30, Jackson Lee urged her audience to call the murder a hate crime, citing eyewitness accounts that suggested a white man was responsible.
"On Sunday, Houston Police arrested and charged Eric Black, a 20-year-old African-American man, with the killing. Asked at a news conference Sunday afternoon whether her initial characterization of the murder as a hate crime was irresponsible, Jackson Lee responded, “absolutely not.” . . .

Suspects Arrested in Murder of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes, But Questions About Media's Behavior Remain

Vermont Newspaper: We ‘Beg’ Sanders Not to Run in 2020

WFB  "A Vermont newspaper is urging Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) not to run for president in 2020: "In fact, we beg him not to."  

"Another Sanders run would hurt the state of Vermont and the Democratic Party at large, argued the editorial, which appeared in The Barre Montpelier Times Argus on Jan. 5. 

"The newspaper endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016.

""We have repeatedly hit the senator on where his loyalties lay: Vermont or a bigger calling? We have asked him to make a choice, which he would argue was his recent re-election to Congress," the editorial board wrote. "But in his previous run for the presidency, Sanders, an independent who ran for the White House as a Democrat, missed dozens of votes that likely would have helped Vermonters."

"The editorial also accused Sanders of caring more about cable news limelight than his own constituents and expressed fear that another presidential run might split the Democratic voting base.

""For us, this comes down to principle over ego," the board said. "It is one thing to start a revolution, but at a certain point you need to know when to step out of the way and let others carry the water for you." . . .

"Sanders has inspired a younger generation to campaign for "rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure; reversing climate change; creating worker co-ops; growing the trade-union movement; raising the minimum wage; pay equity for women workers; trade policies that benefit American workers; making college affordable for all; taking on Wall Street; health care as a human right; protecting the most vulnerable Americans; and tax reform," the board said. But, as a candidate, the senator is "exhausting.' " . . .

The Coming Democratic Disillusion

Rich Terrell

Smiling at Republicans

Control of the House isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  . . . "Actually, the victories of the 110th Congress were much more modest: a minimum-wage increase, lobbying reform, and a ban of incandescent light bulbs. Health care had to wait for a subsequent Congress and a Democratic president. So did withdrawal from Iraq — though retreat didn’t work out as planned, and America returned, in much smaller numbers, in 2014. The history of Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as speaker is a reminder of the limitations and tenuousness of political victories (and defeats).

"I suspect Pelosi is aware of this lesson. I doubt her caucus is. More than a quarter of them are freshmen, many are young, and two are self-avowed democratic socialists. They are inclined to believe history began

Taunting TEA Partiers

when Barack Obama entered Mile High Stadium in Denver. It’s an impression encouraged by cable news, which spent the run-up to Pelosi’s investiture celebrating the youth, diversity, and ambition of the House Democratic freshmen. And yet, for all the talk of Allison Spanberger and the “Badass Caucus,” of how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib “aren’t going to take no for an answer,” of grand plans for a Green New Deal and Medicare for All, there remains the inescapable reality of power. Democrats don’t really have it. Indeed, they have even less than the last time Pelosi became speaker." . . .

Child Yells Out ‘Boring!’ During 78-Year-Old Nancy Pelosi’s Acceptance Speech
. . . “ 'If the House wasn’t a joke before, it legit is a joke now,” one reader wrote. “What an embarrassment.' ” . . .

Democrats in the House make us yearn for serious people

Silvio Canto, Jr.  Hat tip to Doug Ross Journal   "We've seen some remarkable immaturity from the new Democrats this week, from introducing a bill to curb presidential pardons to a congresswoman talking about impeaching the "m-f."  Isaac Hayes and "bad mother (shut your mouth) Shaft" must be jealous of her language!

"It makes you yearn for serious people, or the type of American who stands up for life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

'Back this week in 1942, Bob Feller, who had won 76 games over the last three seasons, went into the U.S. Navy.

'We learned a few Decembers ago that Bob Feller passed away after at age 92.

'I did not see Feller pitch, but every baseball fan knows about him. 

'This is an account of his baseball career:

Before his career ended on Sept. 30, 1956, months before the inaugural Cy Young Award was presented, he had won 266 games, struck out 2,581 batters, won 62 percent of his decisions, pitched three no-hitters, 12 one-hitters and 44 shutouts and won a pitchers' Triple Crown.

He led the league in victories six times and strikeouts seven times.

'But there is more!

'He enlisted after Pearl Harbor and served in World War II for almost four years!  He did not seek a "safe space" or look for excuses.  He gave up four of his prime years for country.  I wonder how many of these Democrats have a clue of what that means!

"What a remarkable life! What a contrast from the people now serving in the U.S. House."

Now we have internet trash like this.
Map in Rashida Tlaib's new office"

Dem who called Trump ‘motherf***er’ wants women to stop having sex with their husbands  . . . “I am disappointed, Mr. Speaker, that we are launching a war on women today while doing nothing to launch a war on poverty,” Tlaib said at the time, according to the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC.
“ 'In that case, stop having sex with us, gentlemen, find somebody else to do it with,” she added.
“ 'Seriously, I ask women to call Michigan to boycott men until these bills stop moving out of the House. Oppose this bill for the love of your wives, for the love of your daughters and for the love of mothers,” she continued." . . . The Media Equalizer

Democrats and Cream puff journalism: CBS's 60 Minutes 'interviews' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Memo to morons: Neither Sweden, nor Britain, nor Norway has a socialist command economy.  Some are led by right-wingers.  All of them pay for state projects such as health care through high taxes.  Shouldn't Cooper have brought up that the Other People's Money has run out on Britain's socialist health system, and there's been a problem with ambulances dumping patients at the hospital doors, in addition to long waiting lines, and horrors such as the killing of baby Charlie Gard?  All of that, courtesy of government control of health care.

Monica Showalter "In an example of journalism used to conceal, rather than expose, truth, CBS's 60 Minutes can stand up and take a bow for its mother of all puff pieces on New York's newly elected socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"Cream puff journalism at its finest.  Heck, it was a campaign ad.  Or call it a belated campaign contribution, because it was anything but hard-hitting.

"Here is the CBS transcript, along with the full televised report, and here are some CBS-released trailers:

"How was this report biased?  Well, start with the camera lighting and coloration, which we learned all about back when 60 Minutes manipulated it to make President Trump's former adviser, Steve Bannon, look like a bleary-eyed drunk.

"Ocasio-Cortez's lighting, seen in the whites of her eyes and her teeth, comes off as blindingly white.  Yes, she's young, and yes, she has access to WhiteStrips for that movie-star smile.  But not all of the frames show that blinding whiteness and utter smoothness of skin, which apparently has been applied to some extent to interviewer Anderson Cooper, too.  This clip shows Ocasio-Cortez with more natural coloring and facial lines.  This one shows what looks like an apparent re-touch to cartoon-like coloring and line-free skin.

"What a nice favor they did for her.

"It gets worse." . . .  Read on...

Dems are starting to endorse confiscatory taxation of the 'rich' "Fair share" and all that, of course. Does the sun rise in the east?

"The left wing of the Democrats is playing with fire, advocating revenge against those who have succeeded in making a lot of money by taking almost all of it away.  Yesterday, a probable candidate for president (and a former Obama Cabinet member) one-upped even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who broke the ice on public discussion of stratospheric income tax rates by suggesting a marginal 70% federal rate on incomes of ten million and up.  That would yield an effective rate over 80% for residents of New York and California, the states that produce the highest number of super-earners.

"Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and HUD secretary under President Obama, makes her look like Grover Norquist, appearing with George Stephanopoulos yesterday:" . . .

NYT Puff Piece On Democrat Ilhan Omar Again Whitewashes Her Apparent Anti-Semitism  . . . "The problem with this sort of propaganda is what was left unreported. According to the story, “Her support for the boycott, divest and sanctions movement to pressure Israel to improve treatment of Palestinians is making Jewish leaders nervous.' ” . . .

Video surfaces of WaPo op-ed contributor chanting ‘Death to America’

"Less than two months after he was given prominent op-ed space in the Washington Post, a video has surfaced of Houthi rebel leader Mohammad Ali al-Houthi launching a shoulder-fired missile and then reciting the Houthi slogan, which calls for “Death to America.' ” . . .

OUCH! Mitt Romney's niece Delivers Knock Out Punch To Her Anti-Trump Uncle

100%FedUp (January 2)

Trump loyalist, Romney-McDaniel slammed Uncle Mitt with this tweet: POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7. For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack [this President] as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.

"President Trump shot back at the failed presidential candidate, Mitt Romney following his scathing, anti-Trump, op-ed in the Washington Post.  President Trump won the presidential election in 2016, in spite of Mitt Romney’s best efforts to destroy his chances. To his credit, in 2018, President Trump rose above Mitt Romney’s petty sniping against him in 2016 and came out in full support of Romney’s US Senate campaign. The freshman Senator handily won a seat in the November election, in the Mormon stronghold state of Utah.
"In his op-ed, Romney wrote:

As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit.

. . . But only when he was reprimanding us.

"During his presidency, Barack Obama made no secret of his disdain for America and for the history of our nation. During his campaign, his wife, Michelle claimed it was the first time she was proud of our nation. During a commencement speech at the historically black Tuskegee University, the former first lady bemoaned being forced to live a the White House, a house that was “built by slaves.”

With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable.

"Even the New York Times called out Barack Obama for creating a massive divide in our nation: "Sixty-nine percent of Americans say race relations are generally bad, one of the highest levels of discord since the 1992 riots in Los Angeles during the Rodney King case, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll." . . .