Monday, May 4, 2015

Baltimore; A Great Society Failure/ Not enough money? Baltimore got $1.8 billion from Obama Stimulus

Yet Baltimore students say they are using 20-year-old textbooks. Should we be looking for corruption at the administrative level? What other explanation could there be?  I'd say America has third-world voters who chose a third-world president and third-world local governments. TD


Thomas Lifson  "Last Tuesday, President Obama blamed the GOP-controlled Congress for its failure to fund the “massive investment in urban communities” that could “make a difference.”  Well, how does $1.8 billion for the 622,000 people of Baltimore sound?  Pretty massive – actually, just about $2900 for every man, woman, child, and baby of the entire City of Baltimore.

"But that’s the total amount of Obama Stimulus money sent to Charm City, according to an analysis by The Free Beacon:

 The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.
"Moreover, that spending was concentrated in Baltimore’s inner-city areas:" . . .

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/

Political Cartoons by Robert Ariail

Marytland Politically More Corrupt than Chicago or Illinois

Rich Lowry: Baltimore, a Great Society Failure. . . "Obama said, cuttingly, that this Congress won’t approve “massive investments in urban communities.” Dating back to the Kerner Commission in the aftermath of the riots of the 1960s, the left’s go-to solution to urban problems has been more social programs. Since then, we’ve gotten more social programs — and just as many urban problems.

"Exhibit A is Baltimore itself. The city hasn’t been “neglected.” It has been misgoverned into the ground. It is a Great Society city that bought into the big-government vision of the 1960s more than most, and the bitter fruit has been corruption, violence and despair.

"All you need to know about the confused ineffectuality of the city’s leadership was evident in the purposefully inadequate initial response to the mayhem, apparently on the theory that a little rioting is OK.

"And why not? The left has a soft spot for rioters." Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine

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ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm

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 Judicial Watch "ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.

 "The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.
 
"During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.

"Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez Cartel”), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.

"According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.

"Mexican intelligence sources report that ISIS intends to exploit the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM (a US port-of-entry). The sources also say that ISIS has “spotters” located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations. ISIS is conducting reconnaissance of regional universities; the White Sands Missile Range; government facilities in Alamogordo, NM; Ft. Bliss; and the electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, NM.

  ISIS Camp Discovered in Mexico, Just Miles From US Border 

 

Free the Baltimore Six

Free the Baltimore Six  . . . "So keen were Mosby and her supporters on convincing those who were “angry, hurt or have their own experiences of injustice at the hands of police officers” that Mosby charged three black officers along with three white ones.

"The driver of the transport vehicle, Caesar Goodson, Jr., an African-American, faces the most serious charges, including second-degree depraved murder, manslaughter, and second-degree assault.  By Mosby’s own account, Goodson never laid a hand on Gray and stopped more than once to check on his status.

"The last of the pre-postmodern civil rights activists, Harvard’s Allen Dershowitz, said there was “no plausible, hypothetical, conceivable case for murder” and called Mosby out for creating a “show trial.”  Said Dershowitz all too accurately, “This is a very sad day for justice.” Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/free_the_baltimore_six.html#ixzz3ZBVFkaMW

http://terrellaftermath.com/
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was quoted by police ordering them to retreat from the street protestors Monday and allow the stores to be looted. She said that it was just property. As a result, everything was taken from the CVS pharmacy and discount store except the cowboy boots.  Comedian Argus Hamilton
After Baltimore looting, one Jewish-owned store assesses losses
 A day and a half after it was hit by looters, the inside of Baltimore store SportSmart was a sea of shoe boxes and other debris, April 29, 2015. (Hillel Kuttler)
. . .  "A human tornado blew through this sports apparel store on Monday night, carrying away $1 million in sneakers, work boots, jackets, shirts, sweats, caps – nearly all the merchandise in a business that Leon Levy, now 89, started in 1980 with his sons Harvey, Marc and Brian."

Like the Iranians, the Saudis Think Obama Is Weak


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 NRO  . . . "These two events encouraged the Saudis to believe that President Obama is unreliable and uninterested in their concerns. Their view has been reinforced by subsequent events. The president’s malleability toward Iran, for example, has been especially problematic. Witnessing Iran’s growing empire of Khomeinism and President Obama’s apparent acquiescence to that endeavor — take Obama’s silence to this week’s capture of a vessel that was under U.S. protection — the Saudis are panicking. The central problem is that while both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are aware of Iran’s aggressive ambitions, each nation has a different conception of America’s deterrent power against Iran. Where President Obama sees American regional strength via the (semi) formidable U.S. military presence in the Gulf, the Saudis see America’s regional weakness via Iran’s political domination in Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and now Sana’a, Yemen. 
 
"And the distinctions seem to reveal something deeper. President Obama has decided that Iran’s geographical empowerment is a price worth paying to limit American involvement in the Middle East. " . . .
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417832/iranians-saudis-think-obama-weak-tom-rogan
 
 

Bill Clinton "Hillary Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Donor"

 

The Lid  " Former President William Jefferson "Bubba" Clinton appeared on the Today Show on Monday, essentially to defend the pay for pay charges first leveled against him and his wife in Peter Schweizer's "Clinton Cash."

"If his statements sound a bit familiar, that's because former president Bubba is using the same subterfuge he used when deflecting scandals when he was president--well not all he did copy his most famous excuse by saying,  "Hillary Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Donor," or some form of that comment.

"Below are some examples". . .

Former terror suspect well known to the FBI is named as one of two gunmen shot dead by cops after attack on anti-Islam 'draw Muhammad' art contest near Dallas

 ISIS supporters claimed on Twitter that one of the gunmen was a man calling himself Shariah Is Light on the social media site
 "ISIS supporters claimed on Twitter that one of the gunmen was a man calling himself Shariah Is Light on the social media site"

UK Daily Mail ...Below: " Controversial: On Sunday, two heavily armed police officers can be seen securing art work following the shooting. The art competition, which was awarding $10,000 to the best caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, had been condemned by critics.  This photo is not satire.

Controversial: On Sunday, two heavily armed police officers can be seen securing art work following the shooting. The art competition, which was awarding $10,000 to the best caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, had been condemned by critics

. . . "A senior FBI official has identified one of the men as Elton Simpson, who was previously the subject of a terror investigation, according to ABC News.

"Simpson, identified in court papers as an American Muslim, had been convicted of lying to federal agents about his plans to travel to Somalia five years ago, but a judge ultimately ruled it could not be proved that he was heading there to join a terror group. He was placed on probation.

"After his identity emerged, FBI agents and a bomb squad swarmed Simpson's apartment in north Phoenix, Arizona and used a robot to carry out the first sweep of his home, the channel reported. The second gunman's identity is not yet known." . . .
. . . 
"The attack unfolded shortly after Dutch member of parliament and leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, had delivered his keynote speech. There had been calls by members of Congress for him to be stopped at the border so he would not be able to speak.

 ''We are here in defiance of Islam to stand for our rights and freedom of speech,' he said during his speech shortly before the building was shut down. 'That is our duty... Our message today is very simple: we will never allow barbarism, never allow Islam, to rob us of our freedom of speech.'

 "His remarks were met with a standing ovation. He then told the audience that most terrorists are Muslims, and 'the less Islam the better'.

"In 2009, he sparked controversy for showing a controversial film which linked the Koran to terrorism and has previously said the Netherlands is being taken over by a 'tsunami of Islamisation'. 

"Pamela Geller, the organizer of the event and the leader of Stop Islamisation of America, wrote on her personal website after the attack: 'This is a war. This is war on free speech. What are we going to do? Are we going to surrender to these monsters?'". . .

 Elton Simpson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
. . . "The tweet, which includes the hashtag #texasattack, reads, “The bro with me and myself have given bay’ah to Amirul Mu’mineen. May Allah accept us as mujahideen. Make dua”
"The post was made at 6:35 p.m., about 20 minutes before news of the shooting was first reported. The account contains several tweets referencing ISIS and Islamic terrorists.
"Bay’ah means to give an oath of allegiance, in this case to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS known also as Amir al-Mu’minin.
"“Make dua” means to call out in prayer." . . .

 Simpson's pre-loved car shown here:

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 FBI searches Phoenix home in Texas prophet contest shooting 
 . . . "Geller's group is known for mounting a campaign against the building of an Islamic center blocks from the World Trade Center site and for buying advertising space in cities across the U.S. criticizing Islam.

AP Photo"When a Chicago-based nonprofit held a January fundraiser in Garland designed to help Muslims combat negative depictions of their faith, Geller spearheaded about 1,000 picketers at the event. One chanted: "Go back to your own countries! We don't want you here!" Others held signs with messages such as, "Insult those who behead others," an apparent reference to recent beheadings by the militant group Islamic State."


Picture of three people we figure are marked for death below: Winner: Artist  and former Muslim Bosh Fawstin   (left) is presented with a check for $12,500 by Dutch politician Geert Wilders (center) and Pamela Geller (right) during a ceremony at the Curtis Culwell Center just before the shootings occurred .

About Bosh Fawstin:
 My name is Bosch and I'm a recovered Muslim. That is, if Muslims don’t kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires them to do. That’s just one of the reasons I’ve been writing and drawing against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now. But fortunately for us, Islam hasn’t been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism wasn’t able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and Muslims who don’t aren’t.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Shots Fired at Mohammed Art Contest: Officer Down, Two Suspects Dead, Report Claims Explosives in Area

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 Gunfire Reported At ‘Draw Muhammad’ Event In Garland, TX…Update: 2 Suspects Killed, Police Officer Shot…Update: Evacuated Attendees Sing National Anthem…Update: Tweet From Attacker? Claims ISIS Affiliation 

"Religion of peace is offended by the First Amendment.
"Via Dallas News
A spokesman for Garland ISD has confirmed that gunfire was reported at an anti-Islam event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland ISD.
Police believe two people were shot outside the facility where an art show centering on caricatures of Muhammad was being held, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported.
There were reports that an officer was involved in the shootings, and police had sealed the doors to the center as SWAT personnel responded to the incident. . .
Breitbart

 Shots Fired, Pamela Geller Event in Texas

Keep posted here at Pamela Geller .com

Muslims Praise Allah for Shooting Our Free Speech Event in Texas 

“Allahu Akbar!!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire at the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) art exhibition in texas!” 
 AbuHussainAlBritani

Alan Dershowitz says charges against Baltimore officers will be dropped

 

Examiner.com..."In an exclusive interview with NewsMax TV on Saturday, Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer, jurist, author, political commentator and a prominent scholar on constitutional and criminal law stated that the charges against the Baltimore police officers would be dropped due to lack of evidence. Dershowitz appeared on NewsMaxs', “The Steve Malzberg Show” in which he explained that this is not only a sad day in America but also that under the Constitution, the only people who are entitled to justice are the defendants, those who are charged with a crime, not based on political justice or agendas.
Dershowitz

"Dershowitz told Malzberg, “This is a very sad day for justice. Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots. The mayor outrageously said we're going to get justice for the victim, the family and people of Baltimore, never mentioning the defendants. Under our Constitution, the only people who are entitled to justice are the defendants.”

“ 'They are presumed innocent, they need due process of law, and the mayor and the state attorney have made it virtually impossible for these defendants to get a fair trial. They have been presumed guilty, “Dershowitz said. “I understand why the mayor and state attorney want to prevent riots… but that's not the job of the justice system. You cannot allow police officers or any other defendants to become scapegoats for crowds demanding a continuation of rioting.”

"Dershowitz’s comments comes days after the start of the riots and the ensuing decision by the Mayor of Baltimore who issued orders for the police to stand down and not fight back. As a result, over 100 Baltimore police officers were injured and some had to take medical leave due to the seriousness of their injuries. The Baltimore Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk had stated they were not pelted with pebbles, but with bricks and some with embedded glass were thrown at his officers."
 

Perhaps The One Should Try Some Soul Searching?

Voice of Lillpop..."Barack Obama finally took time to address the arson, looting, and violent assault on law enforcement officers in the city of Baltimore, less than 50 miles from the comfy confines of the White House and all the privileges that come to those lucky enough to call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home.

"The One took the opportunity to make political hay from the tragic events by blaming society for ignoring poverty, and by demanding a campaign of ‘soul-searching’ for the police, the looters, and all of the rest of America, except, that is, his administration and the flawed Democrat politicians in charge of the afflicted city.

"Obama’s dance around the facts included his curious silence concerning the statement by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, about “Leaving space to destroy,” a perfect synopsis of the liberal mindset on violence, riots, and looters.

"Above all else, the Mayor was reminding PC-addled residents, that she was watching out for the best interests of the looters, rioters, arsonists and other destroyers, while every one else was fretting, unnecessarily, about the safety and lives of the police.

"Clearly, in the mind of Mayor Blake, the police needed no advocacy since they were armed to the teeth and, after all, it was they who killed Freddie Gray, said murder providing provocation for the justifiable mob violence, which needed space.

"Barack Obama picked up on the Mayor’s odd thesis with these words: We can’t just leave this to the police,” Obama said. “There are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. I think there are some communities that have to do some soul-searching. But I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching. This is not new. It’s been going on for decades.”

“Obama said that the country had left behind impoverished communities that had been “stripped of opportunity”, in which children born into poverty are given little chance to obtain an education or to make a living outside the drug trade”

"Once again, the ugly head of progressive lunacy emerges as Obama blamed lack of opportunity, poverty, and societal indifference for the fact that Baltimore has been torched and police officers seriously injured!

"If only white society would join us in spending another 13-14 trillion dollars, he was suggesting, we could transform Baltimore into a bountiful metropolis, worthy of emulation throughout America and the world.

"A question lingers: If it is true that the lack of education and jobs are the cause of black distress in Baltimore and throughout America, why in the hell is Obama issuing unlawful Executive Orders to bring tens of millions of foreign illegal aliens into the nation?*

"Illegal aliens who are not citizens, do not speak English, are unskilled, and who will compete directly with black CITIZENS for employment and prosperity opportunities?

"Perhaps Obama himself should do some soul searching to determine why stuffing Democrat Party voter rolls with foreign invaders through unconstitutional Executive Orders is more important than the well being and success of black CITIZENS?"  *Emphasis mine, TD 
 

The Great American Traveling Riot Circus

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Clarice Feldman   . . . "In the United States for the past few years the traveling inner city riots seem to be playing the same role with their own stock characters.

"There are the young men who died in the course of criminal acts, portrayed at first by the media as innocent children who later turn out to have extensive rap sheets; the cops brought to the scene for gladiatorial type contests with stone throwing mobs; the press chasing, and sometimes by their presence and words, encouraging the staged battles; and an army of pundits seeing in the chaos whatever visions they project onto it. In the rear of the tent organizing the events are leftwing agitators, Black Muslims, and anarchists who show up with preprinted T-shirts and placards and plaintiffs’ counsels and race baiters stirring the pot for their share of whatever settlements they can get for representing the aggrieved family (who generally seem not to have paid much attention to the deceased when he lived). The referees are local officials too often swayed by the mob's call for blood. Instead of Christians, the sacrifices are small merchants, often Korean or Jewish, who eke out meager livings providing services to the underserved poor and the decent citizens of those communities whose lives are upended and slim resources diminished. Another sacrifice is the weakening of the communal bonds of trust and respect for law that make America work and the increased likelihood of ever more urban violence.

"Like the Brown, Martin, and Garner riots before them, the Baltimore riots follow this program."

Read about the cast:
 A)  The Dead Man...
 B)  The Cops...
 C) The Press...
 D) The Pundits...
 What also deserves mention is that in the face of all of this, many black Baltimoreans in the riot area turned out to try to prevent the looting and to stand as shield between the cops and the rioters. Bless the peacemakers. Bless those who play by the rules and trust fact over emotion. Without them we will all live in chaos, violence and want. (Emphasis added)
What also must be asked, is how much of the president’s and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s and Sharpton’s, conduct  and speech are part and parcel of Obama’s new push for federalizing local law enforcement?
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05

Lloyd Marcus: #WhiteLivesMatter
Lloyd Marcus

"A picture online showed a white Baltimore business owner with friends standing guard in front of his establishment, protecting his livelihood from looters.  The men were armed with ax handles and a big dog.  The image gave me a queasy feeling.

"Don't get me wrong – I sympathize with the business owner.

"Baltimore's wacko liberal mayor ordered police to “let them loot, it's only property.”


. . . "White cops killing a black person is extremely rare (1%).  Blacks routinely kill blacks, over 90% of the time.  Stats confirm that the left has created a climate in which it is open season on whites, sparking violent assaults on whites across America.

"So tell me, folks: how long can you poke innocent people (whites) in the eye with a stick, expecting them not to push back?" . . .

America has "stood down" for the last seven years

NYPD cop in coma after being shot in the head

NY Post

 NYC cop shot in Queens

"A city cop was critically wounded by a cowardly ex-con who blasted two bullets into his head on a Queens street Saturday evening — the fifth NYPD officer to be shot in as many months.

Officer Brian Moore
"Plainclothes officer Brian Moore, 25, was in a medically induced coma after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

"The suspected gunman, Demetrius Blackwell, was in custody Saturday night after allegedly firing at Moore as the cop approached in an unmarked police car.

"Blackwell was charged with attempted murder, assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said." . . .