From cartoonist A.F. Branco at ComicallyIncorrect.com.

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We appreciate the clarity of some emails – certainly not every email received is lacking in context. Unfortunately, the majority are, which makes it far less likely that the contents will be seriously reviewed or  seen as helpful. (more…)

Apparently the U.S. is the only country he is aware of with mass shooting events.

…”once again, someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. Now is the time for mourning and for healing, but let’s be clear – at some point, we as a country, will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency, and it is in our power to do something about it. I say that recognizing the politics of this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now. But it’d be wrong for us not to acknowledge it.”…

Police have identified and captured 21-year-old Dylann Roof from Columbia South Carolina.   A drug abusing meth head.  Court records reveal that a February drug charge cited Roof’s possession of methamphetamine, cocaine and LSD

(Via Daily Mail)  The 21-year-old Columbia-area man–who friends describe as a frequent abuser of prescription drugs–was arrested twice this year, Lexington County court records reveal, on charges of trespassing and drug possession.

Roof, who became the focus of a massive manhunt after he fled the church in downtown Charleston, was given a gun by his father as a 21st birthday present in April, his uncle told Reuters on Thursday.

In the hours after the bloodbath, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group that tracks hate organizations and extremists, said it was not aware of Roof before the rampage. And some friends said they did not know him to be racist.

‘I never thought he’d do something like this,’ said high school friend Antonio Metze, 19. ‘He had black friends.’ (more…)

White Male, 21 to 25 years old, 5’9″, slim build – The suspect is in his early 20s, 5’9″ in height. “He has on a very distinctive sweatshirt as well as the vehicle, with a very disctintive license plate,” the police chief said.  First draft:

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A man walks into a church and shoots nine people dead; that’s terrorism regardless of race.  If the shooting was based on race, then it’s a racist hate crime and terrorism, period.

The number one objective of everyone in law enforcement should be to catch the mass murder suspect and bring him to trial.  As currently described that suspect is: “A 21-year-old, white male, with sandy blonde hair, clean shaven, wearing Timberland boots, jeans and a grey hoodie“.  Every resource should be deployed to catch that criminal.

“Every resource” includes the principle that this horrific crime should be treated with the same intensity as the Boston Marathon bombing.   Every resource in the arsenal of local, state and federal law enforcement should be immediately dispatched to catch this person, period.

Unfortunately, this horrible event will focus attention in many divergent directions based solely on the current environment permeating the national dialogue; and as a consequence of manipulative activists who relish anxiety to advance their various causes.

For those who have intensely followed the evolution of that manipulation for the past several years, the brutal event in Charleston carries a set of additional aspects which ring immediate alarm bells.   Taken individually none of the aspects seem too controversial; however, when you put them together something else begins to assemble.

WIPING CLEAR THE WHITE BOARD – Just the facts: (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

12:45am Presser:  Police Chief Gregory Mullen and Mayor Joseph P Riley Jr held a press conference: ♦ Shooting occurred at 9:05 pm.  Emanuel AME Church.  ♦ 8 people killed in the church, one person died in hospital.  Nine total dead.  ♦ One victim being reported as wounded ♦ Suspect Description: White Male, early 20’s, sandy blonde hair, suspect still at large.  ♦ Local, State and FBI investigating as a “hate crime” – manhunt underway.  ♦ Conflicting number of people who survived injury (“one”, or “several”) ♦ Police report surviving witness(es) assisting investigators.

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Clinton and Julison, apropos on so many levels….

“riding dirty”

SOUTH CAROLINA – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton phoned Walter Scott’s family Wednesday, offering them her condolences following his death in a police shooting earlier this year.

Clinton called his mother, Judy Scott, while campaigning in South Carolina, according to CNN.

Ryan Julison, a spokesman for the Scott family’s legal representation, said Clinton promised his surviving loved ones that she was “going to work to make sure this doesn’t happen to another family,” it said.

“She told Mrs. Scott that she was very sorry for her family having to go through this,” Julison said of the five-minute phone call, the publication reported.

“Mrs. Scott asked if it was possible for them to meet, to which Secretary Clinton said they would try to make that happen next time she was in the area,” Julison said, according to CNN. (more…)

Considering the fraud throughout the presidency, it should come as no surprise a 2009 DC inaugural ball was funded through similar scheme.  The ideological Democrats couldn’t raise money via donations, so they stole taxpayer money from a children’s fund to pay for a lavish black tie affair….

WASHINGTON—Neil S. Rodgers, a former District of Columbia government official, was sentenced today to a period of incarceration and ordered to pay full restitution on a charge stemming from his role in channeling $110,000 in youth and drug prevention grant funds that were used to pay for an inaugural ball.

[…] According to the government’s evidence, Rodgers aided [Harry] Thomas in illegally securing funds for the 51st State Inaugural Ball, held on Jan. 20, 2009, at the Wilson Building.

“Neil Rodgers worked with former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas to perpetrate a fraud that diverted money from at-risk children to throw a black-tie ball for adults,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Cohen. “His conviction at trial brings to seven the number of people convicted as part of Harry Thomas’s chronic abuse of the public trust.” (more…)