CNN Hypes Audio Recording of Gunshots

Beware of news reports from a source that is trying not to go broke.

 

Powerline    ... "Various observers, including CNN’s talking heads, have tried to attach great significance to the audio recording. CNN, promoting the recording as if it were a Blowup-type moment, recruited an audio expert who says he hears ten shots on the recording. I think there are pretty clearly eleven. CNN says that the recording “tells a different story” from Michael Brown’s autopsy, which found that he was shot six times. Beyond that, CNN and other observers have laid great emphasis on the fact that there is a “pause” in the shots. Six are fired, then a couple of seconds go by, and four–or five, as I think–additional shots are heard." ...
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"In short, the audio recording is interesting, but a non-story, at least for now."
Via Lucianne

Call the Islamic State What It Is: Evil

Jonah Goldberg  ... "For most of the Obama years, talk of evil was largely banished from mainstream discourse. An attitude of “goodbye to all that” prevailed, as the War on Terror was rhetorically and legally disassembled and the spare parts put toward building a law-enforcement operation. War was euphemized into “overseas contingency operations” and “kinetic military action.” There was still bloodshed, but the language was often bloodless. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a protégé of al-Qaeda guru Anwar al-Awlaki, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as he killed his colleagues at Fort Hood. The military called the incident “workplace violence.' ”...

Obama's disconcerting speech to the American Legion

Thomas Lifson   ... "Obama himself seemed completely disconnected, as if he were doing this speech because he had to, because his staff told him that he had blown off the Legionnaires too often sending Biden or videotaped remarks the past few years, and now that the VA scandal was in the news, it would look terrible for him not to show up in Charlotte. Going through the motions, but without any conviction or heart.

"And the Legionnaires responded in kind. There was no outright booing, but there was also no response, or even worse, a smattering of applause in response to obvious applause lines, which soon went flat or silent. The UK Daily Mail, which is unafraid to violate the American journalistic conventions around coverage of Obama, put it this way:..." 
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... "I have given enough speeches in my life that I have an auto-empathy response to a speaker flailing as badly as Obama was yesterday. After a few minutes enduring the Great Disconnect, I could watch no more, and I went back to my ordinary nausea. You can watch as much of it as you have the stomach for:" 

In the UK, the Daily Mail reported it this way:   Tepid clapping greets unpopular Obama's VA speech at American Legion convention in his first speech to group since 2011

Not impressed: American Legionnaires only rose to their feet to praise fellow

veterans and  hoot about firing VA miscreants, while they sat on their hands

 for Obama's applause lines about his military strategy

... " 'You know that we should never send America's sons and daughters into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary and we have a plan and we are resourcing it and prepared to see it through.'

"Tepid clapping followed pregnant seconds of emptiness.

" 'We removed more than 140,000 troops from Iraq and welcomed those troops home. It was the right thing to do.'

 

"Nothing. " ...

From IBD: Obama describes a happy, thriving America to veterans, who know better
... "We've gathered some excerpts with our comments in italics to provide a flavor of the alien land this president sees through his bullet-proof windows. He doesn't seem so much detached as delusional:" ...  Read More At Investor's Business Daily
 

Daggers: Republican US Senator Richard Burr is no fan of Obama and hopes

his flagging numbers drag down Hagan to provide his state with a GOP replacement.

At Michael Brown funeral, Al Sharpton's double-edged eulogy evokes anger; But not all in the way some observers expected.

Washington Examiner  "The shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has been so heavily politicized that it would have been unreasonable to expect Brown's funeral to be free of politics — especially when it featured a eulogy by the Rev. Al Sharpton. And indeed, the Brown service, held Monday at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, was intensely political. But not in the way some observers expected."

Nice to see the different races working together, isn't it?

Hat tip to Don Standlee; Arlington, TX

... "But the middle part of Sharpton's speech was something altogether different, and it fit uneasily into a debate that has been going on about the larger meaning of Ferguson.

"After a demand for broad reforms in American policing, Sharpton changed course to address his black listeners directly. "We've got to be straight up in our community, too," he said. "We have to be outraged at a 9-year-old girl killed in Chicago. We have got to be outraged by our disrespect for each other, our disregard for each other, our killing and shooting and running around gun-toting each other, so that they're justified in trying to come at us because some of us act like the definition of blackness is how low you can go."

Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon's Precedent

"Lawrence of Arabia" dealt with a bit of this topic.

STRATFOR   "Sykes-Picot, named for French diplomat Francois Georges-Picot and his British counterpart, Sir Mark Sykes, did two things. First, it created a British-dominated Iraq. Second, it divided the Ottoman province of Syria on a line from the Mediterranean Sea east through Mount Hermon. Everything north of this line was French. Everything south of this line was British. The French, who had been involved in the Levant* since the 19th century, had allies among the region's Christians. They carved out part of Syria and created a country for them. Lacking a better name, they called it Lebanon, after the nearby mountain of the same name.
 

Syria's Geographic Challenge

"The British named the area to the west of the Jordan River after the Ottoman administrative district of Filistina, which turned into Palestine on the English tongue. However, the British had a problem. During World War I, while the British were fighting the Ottoman Turks, they had allied with a number of Arabian tribes seeking to expel the Turks. Two major tribes, hostile to each other, were the major British allies. The British had promised postwar power to both. It gave the victorious Sauds the right to rule Arabia -- hence Saudi Arabia. The other tribe, the Hashemites, had already been given the newly invented Iraqi monarchy and, outside of Arabia, a narrow strip of arable ground to the east of the Jordan River. For lack of a better name, it was called Trans-Jordan, or the other side of the Jordan. In due course the "trans" was dropped and it became Jordan."...   Read more:

"*The Levant, also known as the Eastern Mediterranean, is a geographic and cultural region consisting of the "eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt". The Levant today consists of the island of Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and part of southern Turkey (the former Aleppo Vilayet).
"Precise definitions have varied over time, and the term originally had a broader and less well-defined usage. The Levant has been described as the "crossroads of western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and northeast Africa", and the "northwest of the Arabian plate". "

Area Residents Take to the Streets of Ferguson. But Not for the Reason You Think.

The Daily Signal

 

"St. Louis County residents who wanted their voices to be heard decided to show up in Ferguson, Mo. Their goal: To give some much-needed business to shops damaged by vandals and looters.
More than 40 members of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition headed to the embattled town Thursday evening to shop at the small businesses and support the local economy.

"Led by Bill Hennessy, one of the group’s founders, they shopped at a variety of stores in Ferguson and made plans to “buycott” the St. Louis suburb again next weekend.

Bill Hennessy (in green shirt) joins in a “selfie” with other “buycotters” and staff of 911 Hair Salon in Ferguson. (Photo: Courtesy Hennessy’s View)

Looting Lockdown: Ferguson Police Guard Local Businesses   " Police officers stand in position by the 911 Hair Salon as they watch demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on Saturday, in Ferguson, Missouri. Missouri "

 

 

Alan Caruba asks: What is the Difference Between the DNC and the CPUSA?

Warning Signs

 

... "If one looks at the Democratic Party today, there is often scant difference between it and the self-professed Communist Party USA which twice endorsed the election of Barack Obama, a man whose father was a Communist, whose grandparents who helped raise him were Socialists, and who was mentored in his youth by a card-carrying member of the CPUSA.

Photo added by TD

 

"We have a President who believes that the problems throughout the world have been caused by America. His disdain for the nation and the military that serves to protect it is on full display. And the Democratic Party twice chose him as its candidate.

 

"If you want to see what Communism looks like, acts and says, watch and listen to the Democratic Party."

 

From 2008: Che flag sends 'disturbing' message about Obama   

"The Fox TV affiliate in Houston has captured images of a volunteer in a campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who became Fidel Castro’s executioner after the communist takeover in Cuba." ...

 

 

The voices that drown out reason in places like Ferguson

Racism Forever; The never-ending rallying call for progressives.

 

... "But that is not a story that the attorney general or the president wants to tell. They will stick to the narrative that allows them to deflect blame on others — and to go on acting as if they are champions of poor and downtrodden."

 

Al Sharpton: Obama's Racial Pyromaniac 

"Politico's Glenn Thrush reports in this week's edition of the magazine that Al Sharpton has become President Barack Obama's "go-to man on race" in Ferguson and elsewhere. Thrush tells the story as one of Sharpton's own reform and revival, dwelling on his weight loss, his self-professed caution with words, and criticism (envy?) from his old allies on the left. Yet he leaves out a few crucial details that are important to the Sharpton story." ...

"In reality, Sharpton's role is to stoke divisions, acting as Obama's agent, as well as his eyes and ears on the ground.

"Another "tell" in Thrush's piece is the omission of any reference to Yankel Rosenbaum, the Jewish religious student murdered by the mob Sharpton helped to incite in Crown Heights 20 years ago. Thrush writes that Sharpton "stoked black rage," but leaves it at that. "

Ferguson logic: rebuild local businesses 'or it's going to be be hell to pay'  

... "I would be willing to wager that in another year we will be hearing complaints that whatever businesses do manage to open in Ferguson are charging unfairly high prices. The notion that insurance costs will skyrocket and that rebuilding and restocking costs will have to paid for out of revenue will be too complex for the passive-aggressive community that knows only victimhood and protest.

"Sundance summarizes:

If you don’t rebuild those businesses we looted and torched, we’ll loot and torch some more – until you do.

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White war on African-Americans? Not according to Bill Whittle and this evidence he presents. 

DARREN WILSON SUPPORTERS Bash Mainstream Media in First Public Statement (Video)

The Gateway Pundit

 

"Many of the Darren Wilson supporters say they have received death threats.

“We are not speaking on behalf of Darren Wilson or his appointed representatives. We are speaking totally on behalf of the online campaign “Support Darren Wilson.” Our Mission is to formally declare that we share the united belief that Officer Wilson’s actions on the night of August 9th, were warranted and justified and he has our unwavering support….we want to thank the media for finally highlighting the OTHER side of this story. However, the media has shown a strong bias against the supporters of Darren Wilson. [applause] We believe this has only intensified the destruction of Ferguson and the surrounding St. Louis areas.

 

"Many of us have received death threats to ourselves and our families. Contrary to media suggestions, we are not affiliated with any hate groups. However, we respect each individuals first amendment rights in this country. We will not hide. We will not live in fear. We ask this question: ‘can justice ever be obtained if one side’s supporters live in fear of speaking out’?' ”

 

White House Can’t Make Generals Funeral; Guess Who’s Funeral They’re Attending?

 

 

... "No one from the White House shows up for the funeral of Major General Harold Greene but they go to the funeral of a guy who allegedly robbed a convenience store, punched a cop, tried to steal his gun, then tried to bum rush and further injure the police officer. Nice…

"Via Washington Post:"

 

 White House aides to attend Michael Brown funeral   ... "Leading the group for Monday's service will be the chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force, Broderick Johnson. My Brother's Keeper is an Obama initiative that aims to empower young minorities.

"Also attending will be the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Marlon Marshall, and an adviser for the office, Heather Foster."

Rev Jackson vs. Dr. Ben Carson; debate on Fox News Sunday

BEN CARSON SCHOOLS JESSE JACKSON! MUST SEE!

Dr. Ben Carson Smacks Down Jesse Jackson On Ferguson: It’s About ‘Respect For Authority’ And ‘Personal Responsibility’, Not Race
... "Dr. Carson: “If you take race out of the issue altogether and you take a group of young men and you raise them with no respect for authority, not learning to take on personal responsibility, having easy access to drugs and alcohol, they’re very likely to end up as victims of violence and incarceration."  “Has nothing to do with race.”

"Jackson replied: "Well, first of all, I wish Dr. Carson and I were on that white panel you just had because it does have a race dimension. We come by it from experience differently than your previous guests, number one. Number two, it seems to me that when blacks kill whites, which is rare, it's swift justice. When it's white on black, it's slower. When it's black and black, it's drugs in, jobs out. Racial disparity and alienation and distrust are very combustible formulas, factors.' "

Bill Whittle: THE STRUGGLE FOR STUPIDITY

The Absurd Report
 

Alan Caruba; Freedom OF Religion, Not Freedom FROM Religion

Warning Signs

 

"The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution do not abandon religion, they embrace it. They do not, however, require that Americans believe in God, nor punish them for failing to do so.

"Central to the liberties enshrined in these documents is the belief that they come from a higher power and America exists because of that belief. Without it there would have been no America. There are those among us who insist that, as a nation, we abandon faith in God and, if we do, America will cease to be a power for good in the world.

 

"When Thomas Jefferson presented the Declaration to those who would pledge their lives and their sacred honor to achieve independence from England John Adams asked that it include the words “They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” after the phrase “all men are created equal” and Benjamin Franklin agreed, suggesting that “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence” be added as well.” In their 2004 book, “Under God” by Toby Mac and Michael Tait, said “The changes demonstrated Congress’s strong reliance upon God—as delegates added the words “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions.' ”  Full article...