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UPDATE: Less than an hour after delivering a mortally flaccid and limp wristed denouncement of Russia invading Ukraine’s Crimea, Dear Leader shows up at DNC fundraiser to announce HAPPY HOUR.
RT @NoahCRothman: CNN: U.S. confirms that Russian troops are present in Ukrainian Crimea.
— Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) February 28, 2014
Putin: rolling into Ukraine. Obama: running in circles through the White House with Biden.
— John Hayward (@Cobretata) February 28, 2014
YESTERDAY – CNN’s Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, informed network anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that there was no indication that Russian forces were planning to intervene militarily in Ukraine. Less than 24-hours later, Russian forces militarily intervened in Ukraine.
“Some are concerned we might be on the eve of another Cold War,” Blitzer fretted. “What, if anything, would stop Vladimir Putin from getting involved?”
“There doesn’t seem to be any notion that he is actually going to do so,” Amanpour insisted.
“The U.S. right now says it only sees Russia’s military exercises ‘within the normal range,’” she continued. “It does not see any of the kind of massive planning that Russia would have to do in terms of planning, and logistics, and securing air, and land, and rail, and road corridors to incur into Ukraine.”
TODAY – Reports indicate that Russian paramilitary forces under Moscow’s control occupied airports in the autonomous Ukrainian Republic of Crimea overnight on Friday, less than 12 hours after Amanpour made this declaration. This preliminary occupation turned out to be a prelude to Russian forces exploding out of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol and taking control of the regional capital just 80 kilometers to the Northeast. (more…)
That statement should strike the independent psyche as odd. Alas, it does not…. why? Because the filtering prism witnessed (as applied) is only based on one thing, the perception of importance.
Why would skin color even factor in to whether or not the policy/ideology is wrong, unless you think the skin color is a defining factor in your view toward the policy/ideology.
Like most within the professionally aggrieved class, Lemon is stating he’s black first and a journalist second. He has to overcome his inherent sense of race, to carry out his responsibility of a journalist. Such is the reality of something that rings true in all progressives; ideological bias trumps all else when expressed.
In Don Lemon’s case it’s his race and skin color because this is what he views as central to his own psychological definitions. Black is his foundational principle.
For non-black media types the foundational principle, which overlay their decisions, is their liberal sense of world-view.
Time’s up. It ran it’s course…. but like most things seasons change.
Vinyl became tape, eight tracks became cassettes, tape became CD’s… CD’s became digital downloads, Etc. Bill O’Reilly is a CD sale in a download world. Few buyers.
I know the Neilson’s show it, because they are no-longer touted. Of course, it’s still early in the transitional phase.
In the beginning phase you could still sell CD’s if you put them on sale, and transitionally VHS players combined with DVD ports in one package to try and stay marketable.
Eventually VHS disappeared completely, and K-Cars ran their course.
Time’s up. Time to cull the herd before the brand is destroyed under the optical weight of painful visibility. It’s getting too painful to watch now.
Last night, watching B.O.R get played by Valerie Jarrett was almost as painful as watching Mitt Romney flounder in the third presidential CNN debate replete with Candy Crowley playing the role of Jabba The Hut. We sat in our living rooms shouting to Romney “quit trying, they’re just not in to you” – “you look foolish”. (more…)
Remember it was President Obama who said there was not even a “smidgen” of corruption in the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
WASHINGTON DC – The attorney for Lois Lerner, a central figure in the IRS scandal, said Wednesday his client will not comply with a request to return to Capitol Hill next week to testify.
Attorney William Taylor said Lerner, who resigned last year as the agency’s tax-exempt organizations chief, will return only if compelled by a federal court or if given immunity for her testimony.
Taylor stated his position in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He was responding to a letter Tuesday from Issa saying, in part, that Lerner’s testimony remains “critical to the committee’s investigation.” (more…)
Yeah, think about it. What lengths do you think these people will go to in their efforts to avoid sunlight ? Carvalho is deeply connected to the political machine. He turned down the position of Federal Asst. Secretary of Education – He’s connected deeply to both the President and First lady, as well as Eric Holder. He’s also deeply politically attached to FL State Attorney General Pam Bondi.
This is the man who created the M-DSPD issues which led to illegal diversionary programs in Miami-Dade Schools and eventually Trayvon Martin’s death….. It just sickens me to see this guys get away with this, like – you have no idea.
The School Superintendents Association announced in Nashville Thursday that Carvalho had won the 2014 National Superintendent of the Year. Carvalho, who attended the event with two school board members, said he was “humbled and honored” and as he accepted his award his first thoughts were of his father.
The award, given to one of the country’s 49 state superintendents of the year, is likely to further ever-present speculation about whether Carvalho will seek public office or a job on a bigger stage. But Carvalho said in an interview Thursday evening that he remains as focused as ever on working for the 350,000 students of Miami-Dade County. (more…)
This story is horrific. A white male, Davis Woods, was leaving a local deli in Western Philadelphia when a black male walked up to him from behind and *brutally* smashed him in the head with a hammer. Mr. Woods friend, Bernard Williams, was in their truck and witnessed the attacker.
The suspect was identified by the police using CCTV systems. Last night (2/24) they named the suspect as Nathanial Maybin, aged 29. Today (2/25) Maybin turned himself in.
The police are calling this an “attempted robbery”. However, there is video available where you can decide for yourself –CLICK HERE– which was broadcast on local Philadelphia ABC channel.
If you watch the video, and listen to the statement of the witness, Bernard Williams – the man’s friend, you will note the friend does not think this was robbery either.
The friend thinks it was attempted murder.
The friend, Mr. Williams, also happens to be black.
It’s obvious to both Mr. Williams, and any non-PC infected observer, this was not a botched robbery. WATCH THE VIDEO However, the PC infected police department just cannot allow the truth to be discussed. (more…)
We wrote about the attack yesterday, but we just noticed an ABC media report which includes another version of the victim statement to the police. Identifying something the media refuse to accept is real:
Waggoner told police that he heard a suspect say:
…“if you want to be all the way in the club, you have to kill the polar bear.” (ABC News)
Screen shot from ABC/Yahoo News Report
A white Dayton Ohio bus driver was fixing a bus when a group of three black teens savagely attacked him in their attempt to gain gang membership.
Rickey Wagoner (pictured left), was shot multiple times in the chest, and hip.
Wagoner described the attackers as young black males, likely in their late teens. He said they fled in a dark-colored 1990s model Ford. No arrests have been made.
According to a police report, Wagoner told investigators he believed the shooting may have been a gang initiation. He said he heard one of the suspects tell another to kill him “if you want to be all the way in the club.” (full story link)
Notice in the local Dayton Daily News article (screen shot above) they cut out the full victim quote to remove the part: “you have to kill a polar bear“?
USA TODAY – America’s ruling class has been experiencing more pushback than usual lately. It just might be a harbinger of things to come.
First, in response to widespread protests last week, the Department of Homeland Security canceled plans to build a nationwide license plate database. Many local police departments already use license-plate readers that track every car as it passes traffic signals or pole-mounted cameras. Specially equipped police cars even track cars parked on the street or even in driveways.
The DHS put out a bid request for a system that would have gone national, letting the federal government track millions of people’s comings and goings just as it tracks data about every phone call we make. But the proposal was suddenly withdrawn last week, with the unconvincing explanation that it was all a mistake. I’m inclined to agree with TechDirt’s Tim Cushing, who wrote: “The most plausible explanation is that someone up top at the DHS or ICE suddenly realized that publicly calling for bids on a nationwide surveillance system while nationwide surveillance systems are being hotly debated was … a horrible idea.” (more…)