It’s been six months since we brought you the uncomfortable story of Black Day Care workers who created their own version of “Gladiator Training” for the three-year-olds in their care who were forced to fight eachother and videotaped.  In that real-life story we outlined the culture of thuggery, and violence, and how it was not only supported by -but advocated by- black women in the community.

The three women seen here: 19-year-old Tiana Harris, 21-year-old Estefania Myers and 47-year-old Lisa Parker were arrested last year and charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangering and conspiracy.  The story is HERE.

Well what do you think happens when a generation of those who survive “fight school” reach the streets?    It is interesting how Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama and Eric Holder disengenuously avoid any conversation about the violence so easily witnessed within the black community.   Here is the latest example:  (more…)

Use this thread as an open thread just for Zimmerman Case stuff. A place to just dump, collect, or discuss general information about the Trayvon Martin VS George Zimmerman Case.

“The sensationalized, fact-deficient coverage of this case has achieved the
desired results. The networks got their ratings. The politicians got their
talking points. And if it means innocent people get caught in the middle of the
racial enmity they’ve fomented, obviously it’s considered acceptable collateral
damage. Congratulations, geniuses. Job well done.” Jim Treacher, The DC Trawler

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-Corporate profits are high, but wages are stagnant… it is therefore our task to restore the unfinished task that [redistributes wealth] opens the doors to opportunity.

-The nations interests should come before party.   [cept’ I’m gonna work on my agenda regardless of what y’all want]

-We are more than 1/2 way (2.5) to $4 trillion in deficit reduction [400 billion/yr].  The question is how to cut more.    [Republicans want to kill essential services, Democrats want to protect them]….  We won’t grow the middle class by shifting more cuts, “we cannot cut our way to prosperity”…..   I say more “investment”.

-Medicare payments should be made only for essential services to the elderly.   Doctors should not be allowed to order any test they want…. they should only order the tests that “I” approve.   That’ll help.

-Why should deficit controls impact Social Security?   We just need to raise more taxes, close loopholes, insure millionaires cannot avoid payment, stop companies from moving overseas and reform the tax code. (more…)

UPDATE:  Feb 13th:  Police issue a statement this morning affirmatively confirming that “charred remains”  were recovered from the smoking cinders of the cabin in the mountains at Angelus Oaks, CA.  The remains will be positively ID’d through DNA analysis and dental records matching, states the San Bernandino Sheriff’s Dept, which has jurisdiction in this incident.

The British media are reported on purported recordings of the police scanner in which the police discuss burning the cabin deliberately as a planned strategy to force Dorner to leave and/or perish in the cabin.

Police say they have no idea on Dorner status.   They “hope” his body is inside the cabin (video)

CRISPY CRITTER FOUND?   Update 10:05 pm ET:   Body removed from cabin believed to be Dorner’s,  ABC News reports. 

11:06 pm ET:  LAPD spokesperson states at a live press conference that the recovery of a body, if any, has not been confirmed and/or ID’d.  States cabin is still to hot to search properly.  Affirms jurisdiction is with the San Bernandino Sheriff’s office, not LAPD.  LAPD still on tactical alert.  Any remains recovered could take “weeks” to positively ID with DNA or dental records analysis.

LA Times reports on Dorner’s purported last moments:

A single gunshot was heard as authorities moved into the cabin where Christopher Dorner was believed to be holed up.

According to a law enforcement source, police had broken down windows, pumped in tear gas and blasted a loud speaker urging Dorner to surrender. When they got no response, police deployed a vehicle to rip down the walls of the cabin “one by one, like peeling an onion,” a law enforcement official said.

By the time they got to the last wall, authorities heard a single gunshot, the source said. Then flames began to spread through the structure, and gunshots, probably set off by the fire, were heard…

[Updated at 8:07 p.m. ET] More details on the authorities’ recent assault on the cabin, which is on fire: It’s not clear whether the suspect is still in the cabin, but the area is surrounded by law enforcement personnel, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Cindy Bachman said. (more…)

WASHINGTON – President Obama will have lunch Tuesday with several TV anchors and hosts, fulfilling a White House tradition held the afternoon before giving the State of the Union address.

The annual lunch, which is off-the-record, allows the president to frame his upcoming speech before influential figures in TV news, all of whom will be leading or part of their networks’ coverage later on. While Obama will personally give anchors a sense of what he’ll outline in the address at the 12:30 p.m. lunch, White House aides have already been speaking to reporters for days — typically not for attribution — about what to expect on Tuesday night. (more…)

  First I find out police are shooting the paper ladies across the street from my old apartment building, now I find out the subject of their attention has been shopping not far from my house.  Wow…how lucky can one Treeper get?  (Looks out back window to see if drone is circling overhead….) 

In the video below, Dorner appears to be laughing and chatting up the unknowing salesclerk.  And, as always, he’s got that characteristic grin plastered on his face.  He’s got to know he’s on a surveillance camera somewhere…..could this all be a decoy attempt?  He (allegedly) tried to steal a boat in San Diego last week, now US Marshals say there is “probable cause to believe” Dorner has traveled to Mexico;  however, there are no confirmed sightings… as yet.

In still another nauseating turn of events,  a Facebook page entitled “I support Christopher Jordan Dorner”, has sprouted up with almost 16,000 likes from his sick supporters.  “I love how the LAPD says ‘we will not stand for this reign of terror’ when they are the ones acting like terrorists,” one commenter wrote.   O.J. Simpson 2.0…. 👿

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TV reports confirm Korea admits to seven kiloton (7,000 metric ton tnt equivalent) nuclear test.   President Obama to issue sternly worded letter in 3…. 2…. no, wait.. what?

(CNN) – North Korea appeared to have conducted its third underground nuclear bomb test Tuesday, as the U.S. Geological Survey reported a seismic disturbance centered near the site of the secretive regime’s two previous nuclear tests.

The area around the reported epicenter of the magnitude 4.9 disturbance has little or no history of earthquakes or natural seismic hazards, according to U.S. Geological Survey maps. The disturbance took place at a depth of about 1 kilometer, the USGS said. (more…)