9/11: 19 Years Later

 Images of 9/11: A Visual Remembrance

Can we ever recover that patriotic unity we had in the aftermath of that horrible day? Or has 2020 set us on a path to utter disintegration?   . . . "The elections of 2016 brought America’s divisions to a head. While Hillary Clinton railed at flyover state “deplorables”—expressing more empathy for illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists than for hard-working, law-abiding, middle Americans who’d been economically decimated by globalism—Donald Trump consecrated himself to the service of those deplorables. Yes, from the beginning of his administration, he sought to be a president for all the people. But it was far too late. 

"Too many Americans had been conditioned to respond to America-first rhetoric with a reflexive, implacable contempt. From the moment Trump won, the Democratic Party treated his victory as illegitimate and—with the help of a mainstream media that, since 9/11, increasingly had become an instrument of left-wing propaganda—sought to bring him down by unlawful means. At totally unfounded impeachment hearings, House Democrats hit a new low for naked and mendacious partisanship." . . .

FLASHBACK: How the Lefty Media Used and Abused the Memory of 9/11

. . . "These are the profoundly unserious people that expect Americans to turn to them in times of strife, sorry and calamity? Not likely."For more examples from our FLASHBACK series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here." . . .

Left-Wing Agitator Arrested for Starting Fire in Washington, Suspected of Starting Two Other Wildfires

 By Debra Heine   "A Washington man with a history of left-wing agitation was arrested Wednesday evening after he allegedly started a fire in the brush along a highway near Tacoma.

"Jeffrey Acord, 36, was charged for reckless burning in the second degree. He is now reportedly also a suspect in two other Washington wildfires.

"Acord appears to be a man of the left, according to his Facebook page." . . .

Previously in 2014, Acord was caught with a cache of weapons and arrested during the Ferguson Decision Protest. Officers found the man carrying a 7-inch knife in his backpack, a box of ammunition, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a box full of illegal fireworks in his car, according to a KOMO news report. When officers contacted Acord, he admitted to carrying a loaded gun without a permit. His bail was set for $10,000. The following charges were levelled against him.

"In the 2014 incident, officers reportedly found Acord carrying a 7-inch knife in his backpack, a box of ammunition, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a box full of large fireworks in his car." . . .

Antifa Radical Arrested For Arson In Washington State — Was Caught On Highway Live-Streaming On Facebook Before Arrest (Video)  . . . "Jeff Acord also filmed a Bernie rally and posted on Facebook.

"He has a long history of supporting social justice actions and ideology." . . .

Chiefs and Texans Pre-Game ‘Moment of Unity’ Gets Booed by Fans

Maybe they are just sick of people's businesses and nights out with friends being destroyed by bullies screaming at them and looting stores in the name of BLM and "equality". TD

 

RedState   . . . "There were even allegedly shouts of “Trump 2020” and “just play.”

Folks on the left are already interpreting this as “racist.”

If I were to hazard a guess, people are just tired of politics in a football game, making the National Anthem not about the National Anthem. Most people want unity but they don’t view this as really trying to achieve unity. They’re tired of the endorsement of the BLM that isn’t really about unity but has been connected to rioting, assaults, death and disunity.

But there was something else that the moment seemed to have missed that perhaps should have been there, considering the timing and talking about “unity.” . . .

The kneeling players and the following are, for many of us, the face of BLM:

. . . "The footage, taken by a Washington Post reporter shows the woman, identified as Lauren Victor, being shouted at by white protesters after she refuses to raise her fist. "The group crowded Victor's table, with two female demonstrators leaning down and shouting in her face. " . . .

2020 & the Great Convergence II: The Coming Storm

2020 & the Great Convergence II: The Coming Storm

"The progressives will not accept a Trump victory in November, thus ending an unbroken history of 232 years of peaceful transfer of power in our nation dating to when the Constitution was adopted in 1788.  Seemingly the only question is how progressives will attempt to end Trump’s tenure if their vote-fraud-by-mail schemes fail to deliver victory?" . . .

"To put this in perspective, the progressive left is attempting to balkanize America.  They have condemned our history and seek to erase both our history and our culture as immoral. It is, in many ways, our version of the bloody Maoist Cultural Revolution.  The radical neo-Marxist progressives are intent on turning us into groups of warring tribes — and they are perilously close to succeeding.   As Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote:

We are living in the most racially polarized climate since the 1960s. America’s past, present, and future are in the process of being recalibrated entirely through the lens of one’s skin color. Columbus is reduced to nothing more than another racist white Italian sailor of a half-millennium past. Grant might as well have fought for slavery in the mind of today’s campus ignoramus. Apparently, the Antifa thug thinks he could just as easily have written the Gettysburg Address or sculpted a statue of Frederick Douglass.

The old liberal ideas of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage are being destroyed by the Left under the specious doctrines of cultural appropriation, or “acting white” or “how we look is who we are.”

A new fuzzy Jim Crow returns with racially segregated campus safe spaces and theme houses or the race-based reeducation and training sessions in the workplace—all predicated to stop racism! Somehow selecting strangers on the basis of their race to bully in a restaurant, or targeting old anonymous men and women to beat up in the street by their race, or singling out suburbanites by their race for racial taunts and profanity is redefined as reparatory justice or overdue payback—on the assumption that no one would dare say that the arson, looting, and rhetoric are descending into ever more hate-filled nihilism.

Our collective future of nationalized tribalism will become what always results when citizens identify by superficial appearance or shared religion. Just go to Lebanon, the Balkans, or Iraq to see what is in store first hand. . . .

"This is, collectively, the predicate to the coming storm.  On the ground, the armed wings of the Democrat Party, BLM and Antifa, have executed over 570 violent riots in 22 cities during the past several months, most tolerated, if not outright aided and abetted, by local and state officials, including DA’s funded by George Soros.  The left is stoking a race war even as they comprehensively attack the pillars of our society and Western Civilization as a whole.   Tyler O’Neil, at PJM, has written an insightful article likening this convergence and the violence in the streets to the similar events that occurred in the years prior to 1861 and the start of our first Civil War.  For his part, Weather Underground ex-terrorist Bill Ayers agrees. Just as a reminder, the Civil War, fought in the days of largely solid-shot cannon, single-shot rifles, cutlasses and bayonets — and in a country of only 31 million people — cost the lives of well over six hundred thousand Americans, more by far than any other conflict before or since.  All four horsemen of the apocalypse roam free anywhere there is civil war." . . .

. . . "Not only has the progressive left shown that they now hold the Constitution and laws in contempt, they are openly plotting that, not if but when they return to power, they will change the rules of the game such that they then remain in power for decades, if not permanently.  To name but a few of the plans they have quite seriously floated:

• end the Senate filibuster, a procedure that has existed since 1806;
• change the balance of power by offering statehood to reliably Democrat voting entities, including the District of Colombia and Puerto Rico;
• end the Electoral College (going to the pure democracy the Founders feared and abhorred as mob rule);
• pack the Supreme Court with progressive judges;
• do away with proportional representation in the Senate, thus giving permanent political power in the nation to a handful of the largest cities and states.
• and permanently move national elections to vote by mail.

"In all of this, they have virtually lockstep support from a media that has jettisoned all journalistic ethics.  And should the neo-Marxist succeed in taking power, they would immediately begin extra-legal targeting of Trump’s constituency.  This election is for all the marbles." . . .  Keep reading...

Nine-eleven through the eyes of a child

 

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September 11, 2001 through the Eyes of a Child   . . . "Americans need to understand that life has not been the same for 9/11 victims such as Matthew.  The victims want the memory to stay in the minds of Americans.  Yet the powers that be have another attitude.  Using the excuse of COVID-19 they decided to cancel the New York commemoration of September 11.  The memorial display featured twin beams of light to honor the fallen victims of the terror attacks.  Also canceled is the in-person ceremony at Ground Zero, where, among others, family members read the names of the 9/11 victims.  Was it done because among those honored were the 23 police officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and 37 police officers with the Port Authority who died that day attempting to save people they didn't know?  Because of the outcry, both ceremonies were reinstated, with some changes: there will be a recording of the names broadcast in order." . . .

9/11: Phone Calls from People Trapped in the Towers | 911 Documentary

Voices of 9-11    "The thing that bothers me the most about the deceased from the towers is that they all just kinda vanished without a trace. The force of the collapse vaporized most and there are many people who don’t have a single remain of them. It’s one thing to square yourself around the loss of a loved one; when you have a body to bury, look at and process through grief. It’s quite another when they left for work in an ordinary desk job on an ordinary day and literally disappeared, never to be see or heard of again. To this day it’s gotta be agony dealing with that." Comment to this post.

Woodward and Bernstein’s take on anonymous sources reveals media incompetence

 

                                                                                   Tony Branco

"Woodstein"?

BPR  "Famed Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (“Woodstein”) have recently weighed in on the use of anonymous sources in the reporting of President Trump’s alleged slurs of deceased soldiers.  While they use their iconic status to support the “truth” spoken by such unnamed witnesses, they unwittingly prove the profound incapability of modern journalism in its assumed role as the arbiter of truth. 

"There can be no better example of this than Woodstein’s discussion of their use of anonymous sources in Watergate.  These sources, Woodstein argues, were all proven truthful and brought down a sitting president.  Therefore, they contend, the present anonymous sources must be telling the truth.  But this jejune reasoning shows precisely how modern journalism got out over its skis in Watergate and continues to careen wildly downhill.  

"It is better to be lucky than good, and the reporters were fortunate that their witnesses in Watergate were speaking contrary to their own interests against a White House to which they were otherwise loyal.  And the reporters knew from the employment of the witnesses that they knew whereof they spoke.  To litigating lawyers, these factors are critical, that is, competence (basis for knowledge) and lack of motive to falsify.  But to journalists, such analysis is foreign, and when attempted, usually is performed amateurishly.  

"Moreover, all of Woodstein’s “anonymous” witnesses were not unknown to the FBI, on whom the reporters tailgated.  That they had been willing to speak to the FBI on formal interview was another indicium of truth. " . . .  More 

Dr. Fauci disputes alleged quotes from him in Bob Woodward ...  . . . "Woodward wants us to believe that Trump intentionally deceived the American people. He knew how serious the virus was, but wanted to hide its seriousness from the public to avoid a panic. That’s the line.

"Dr. Fauci, who ranks even higher than Woodward in the esteem of liberals I know, isn’t buying it. Fauci, who had the advantage of being there, says:

I didn’t get any sense that [Trump] was distorting anything. I mean in my discussions with him, they were always straightforward about the concerns that we had. We related that to him. And when he would go out, I’d hear him discussing the same sort of things. . . .

Laugh or Cry? Reporter's Defense of Atlantic's Anonymously-Sourced Anti-Trump Hit Piece Is Cringeworthy    . . . “So, please, by all means, tell me why a journalist would risk ruining their career and tarnishing their industry by making up a source,” she added.

"Well, I bet you can imagine the responses. Many are inappropriate and totally out of line, but what is this? Is the liberal media bubble that dense, or does Ms. Krauth simply not know about past events where the liberal media did invent stuff out of thin air? Maybe it’s a little of both, but Dan Rather peddling fake documents to smear George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service during the 2004 election is certainly a prime example. Why was Brian Williams yanked off of NBC’s Nightly News? Have we forgotten about Richard Jewell and the 1996 Summer Olympics? Oh, yes, and The New Republic dealing with Stephen Glass, one of the most successful fakers out there—some people cited these examples in the replies. The New York Times had to deal with the lies of former reporter Jayson Blair." . . .

Kamala Harris's embrace of Jacob Blake is the latest blow to #MeToo

Tiana Lowe, Commentary WriterWashington Examiner "It's been quite a week for Kamala Harris. In addition to promulgating anti-vaccination conspiracy theories about any coronavirus vaccine released during the Trump presidency, she met with the family of Jacob Blake, a man famous for fleeing from the police with his children in tow when he violated an existing restraining order after being charged with sexual assault.

"Blake has been famously lionized by the Left after being shot by the police when officers tried to arrest him as he reached in his car (telling them after the shooting that he had a knife, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel). Unlike the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, both of whom did not pose a semblance of deadly threats to officers and were preventable, it's unclear if any feasible policy change would have prevented Blake's shooting. After all, Blake subverted multiple nonlethal attempts to subdue him, and by all available evidence, the police in question only resorted to shooting him when the officers had reasonable suspicion that he was reaching for a knife.

"Yet, it's not just the radical Left that has embraced Blake. Harris decided to wade into the active criminal investigation and take the side of a man charged with sexual assault and domestic violence.

" 'I mean, they're an incredible family," said Harris after meeting with his family while Blake called in. "And what they've endured, and they just do it with such dignity and grace. And you know, they're carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders."

"To recap, Blake broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend back in May, digitally raped her while one of their children slept in bed beside her, and stole her car keys and debit card prior to fleeing the scene of the crime. Wisconsin issued both an open warrant for Blake's arrest for third-degree sexual assault and a restraining order for the victim. Blake violated the restraining order, triggering the police encounter in question.

"So, one has to ask Harris, really? An incredible family? Not just the man who knowingly endangered his children by evading arrest for sexually assaulting their mother, but also his father, Jacob Blake Sr., who has spewed the sort of anti-Semitism that wouldn't be out of place on the Daily Stormer?" . . .

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Some FB posts by Jacob Blake, the guy

@JoeBiden

is planning to meet with. He’s a vicious antisemite. If the investigation finds that his son’s shooting was unjustified those responsible should be held accountable, but there is no excuse for Biden to meet with a Jew hater.

Clinically Deranged Adam Schiff Mounts His Dead Russia Horse Again

“We’ve received a whistleblower complaint alleging DHS suppressed intel reports on Russian election interference, altered intel to match false Trump claims and made false statements to Congress,” Schiff, D-Calif., tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “This puts our national security at risk.”

 

PJ Media  . . . "Yes, the polls have been tightening, but the Dems have been in a sort of flop-sweat panic mode since the Republican National Convention ended. There is, of course, the fact that every public appearance by der Bidengaffer since then has been hovering in the neighborhood of “unmitigated disaster.”

The Democrats do seem to be trying to get to their October surprises early this year. That reeks of desperation.

Speaking of reeking, California’s little impeachment pitbull Adam Schiff is back. Guess what, kids? He’s got another whistleblower!

Fox News:

The House Intelligence Committee received a whistleblower complaint claiming Trump administration officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security suppressed intelligence reports related to Russian election interference, Democratic Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Wednesday.

In a statement, Schiff said former Intelligence and Analysis Acting Under Secretary Brian Murphy filed the whistleblower reprisal complaint on Tuesday with the DHS Office of Inspector General.

Exiled from the kingdom by the Queen of San Francisco

 San Fran Nan Tried to Destroy Salon Owner; Now, There’s Some Awesome News

And while there’s no word on whether Kious will take Gov. Noem (R) up on her offer to relocate her business to South Dakota, at least she has a chance now to take back control of her salon’s future thanks to the generous support she’s received.

"When we last checked in with the Saga of the Covert Blow-Out, longtime, San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious had spoken to Tucker Carlson about it, including revealing how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) words and actions essentially destroyed her salon — and inspired people in the community to fill her phone with hateful text messages and death threats. Kious also shared how destructive the shutdowns were for her business.

"Meanwhile, my colleagues reported that a group of ladies in the congresswoman’s district put up a unique display in front of Pelosi’s home, in protest of her ornery outburst at salon owner Kious for turning her in for breaking coronavirus masking rules. And the Mayor of San Francisco mixed it up, too, defending the Speaker’s need for beauty services because “she’s fighting a terrorist.” And by ‘terrorist,’ Mayor Breed meant our President, by the way.

"Of course, President Trump used the situation as an opportunity to take a dig at San Fran Nan:

"Crazy Nancy Pelosi said she was “set up” by the beauty parlor owner when she improperly had the salon opened (and didn’t wear a MASK!). Does anyone want a Speaker of the House who can be so easily SET UP?"

. . .

 Remember, Nancy Pelosi, it’s always those little things that bite . . . "For Pelosi and her Congressional Democrats, this is one of those embarrassing coronavirus rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me moments that drive Americans crazy, especially now, during COVID-19 restrictions.

"Most people are stuck in their homes, losing their jobs, bored, sick of TV, only to see the political elite flouting the rules.

" 'This salon owes me an apology,” Pelosi told reporters, using the old Marion Barry defense. But unlike the former mayor of Washington, D.C., caught on FBI tape with a prostitute and a crack pipe, Pelosi didn’t use the “B” word." . . .

Hair Salon Owner Smeared by Pelosi 'Afraid to Go Back' to San Francisco  . . . "But it's Kious who feels more entitled to an apology, because the Democratic leader may have singlehandedly ruined her livelihood. In the wake of the controversy, Kious says she's been receiving nasty Yelp reviews, emails, and text messages saying they "hope I under and that I fail." In some cases, she's even received death threats. 

"In fact, Kious is "afraid to go back" to San Francisco, the city she's lived in for 15 years, she said. "Because of the emails I've been getting. It's a little scary and sad." . . .

Pelosi Says Trump Downplayed COVID Threat, but Backed Chinatown Visits Amid Early Virus Fears  "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has criticized President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers for "downplaying" the threat of COVID-19 after it was that the commander-in-chief was already aware it was more harmful than the flu in early February.

"But critics of the top Democratic lawmaker have pointed out that she encouraged people to visit Chinatown in San Francisco as fears of the novel coronavirus grew in late February.

"Posting on social media on Wednesday evening, the House speaker's campaign team said Trump and Republicans had "downplayed the deadly threat of the #coronavirus" and said their "failure and denial" had cost lives.

" 'The President's own words spell out the devastating truth: Trump was fully aware of the catastrophic nature of the coronavirus but hid the facts and refused to take the threat seriously, leaving our entire country exposed and unprepared," said another tweet." . . .

Babylon Bee finds a way to parody the parodical:

'Scram! It's A Setup!' Screams Pelosi Running Out Of Salon To Getaway Car  

"SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Nancy Pelosi was minding her own business this week when a salon owner called her and said in a gravelly voice, "Listen, toots -- I got a proposition for ya." The salon owner then explained how she wanted her to come in to get a perm, absolutely free. "It's a great deal -- no strings attached. No funny business. Take it or leave it. Come around back. No cops."

"Pelosi showed up for the appointment but felt uneasy from the beginning since the salon owner wore a shirt saying "I HATE NANCY PELOSI." But despite her misgivings, she continued on, really needing to get her hair done and her skin tightened.

"Just as her head was being dipped in the bowl, Pelosi noticed one of the hair stylists pressing a button labeled "SUMMON POLICE TO FRAME A POLITICIAN" under the counter. The Speaker of the House leaped to her feet and made a break for it, screaming for her chauffeur to start the car.

""Step on it, Bugsy!" she shouted at her getaway driver. "It's a setup! The popo's comin' in hot!" The hair stylist almost nabbed her, but Pelosi pushed over a rack of shampoos and conditioners, slowing down her pursuers just in time for her to leap into the back seat of her car.

"A police car came screaming around the corner just as she and her driver peeled out, taking a hard right down a nearby alleyway. The police officer riddled the back of her car with bullets from his Tommy gun before Pelosi narrowly managed to escape by driving off the end of the docks, where her car turned into a steampunk submersible and she got away scot-free." . . .

That invisible Durham investigation

 What’s going on with the Durham investigation, if anything?  "Ever since Attorney General Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion probe, Trump supporters have been waiting for the bomb to drop. And waiting. And waiting. But nothing ever happens.

Judicial Watch’s founder Tom Fitton thinks that conservatives are being scammed. Instead of an investigation, it’s just another Washington cover-up. I suspect (or, maybe, hope), though, that Barr and Durham are holding their fire because of the election.

Tom Fitton, whose organization doggedly uncovers documents the Swamp wants to hide, was on Fox News’ Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is concerned that the John Durham investigation is a sham:" . . .

Full article

More Durham probe charges possible, Barr says   "Possible"?   "Attorney general declines to say whether any charges would be announced prior to Election Day"

New Report On the Durham Investigation Is Bad News for Justice If True

Megyn Kelly Hammers Kamala Harris for Her Visit to Indicted Sex Offender Jacob Blake

RedState  "On Sunday, Democrat Vice President-nominee Kamala Harris visited Kenosha, WI, to hold court at the bedside of Jacob Blake.

"Blake, if you recall, is the man shot in the back seven times by Kenosha police. While his shooting, based on a very incomplete video and accounting of events, set off days of riots in Kenosha by Antifa thugs LARPing as outraged Black people, we have since learned a lot more about the affair.

. . . 

"And, extensive background was omitted:

According to the police association, the initial call that brought officers there was that Blake was trying to steal the keys to the caller’s vehicle, and that the SUV Blake is seen entering in widely shared video was not Blake’s vehicle. It also says the responding officers were aware Blake had an open warrant for third-degree felony sexual assault before they were on the scene. When officers tried to speak to Blake, he wasn’t cooperative.

The police association says Blake got one of the officers in a headlock during a confrontation on the passenger side of the SUV. Two officers fired stun guns and neither of them stopped Blake.

The attorney says Blake was armed with a knife at that time. Although police initially weren’t aware of the knife, they saw him holding it before he walked around to the driver’s side of the SUV and were ordering him to drop the knife as he walked away from him. He ignored repeated verbal commands to drop the knife.

“The officers involved gave Mr. Blake numerous opportunities to comply,” the statement reads. “He chose not to.”

"In addition, Blake had a previous arrest for threatening bar patrons with a pistol.

"So, as a recap, Blake essentially invaded the home of a former girlfriend whom he had sexually assaulted. He was the object of a restraining order and an outstanding arrest warrant. He had demonstrated violent behavior in the past. He took his ex’s keys and was trying to take her car. He fought with police, and Tasering him proved ineffective. He was armed. He tried to escape. He got shot." . . .