Gut wrenching.   I held off posting anything about this yesterday, trying desperately to see through the fog of speculation.   Almost every news outlet was framing a narrative trying to  explain, or lay blame, or find a bigger meaning, or use as ideological reference for their specific agenda.    Damn hard to just find facts without opinion.  Frustratingly so.  Below is the most unbiased report I can find.   But first a word of praise for President Obama.
I’ve been critical of Obama when he led off with an apologetic narrative for the unintentional Koran burning.   But I’ll give him credit for this official statement yesterday: (more…)

Never let it be said that I refuse a good challenge. This challenge was brought on by a previous visitor who challenged me on my framing, actually it was a warning, that Derrick Bell was a Marxist using Freudian language to frame his flawed racist ideology:

Cheryl von Tress  – I view your linking of CRT to Marxist-Freudian ideological propaganda as over-reaching.  What’s your evidence for such a link.? […]

Well, you asked.   Video and Transcript: Derrick Bell Describes Marxist Foundation of Critical Race Theory in 2007:

But I thought according to Soledad O’Brien, Critical Race Theory was just about the intersection of race and politics and stuff? (more…)

In Memoriam 1969 – 2012

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 †

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — An elderly gorilla that lives at a Pennsylvania zoo has a new companion: a bunny named Panda. The Erie Zoo‘s gorilla, Samantha, has been without a full-time friend since the death of Rudy, a male gorilla, in 2005.
But officials say the 47-year-old western lowland gorilla is too old to be paired with another gorilla. So they opted last month to introduce her to Panda, a Dutch rabbit, last month.
The Erie Times-News (https://bit.ly/yu3yzd ) reports Samantha and Panda get along well. Samantha will gently scratch under the bunny’s chin and share her food.  Officials at the zoo say Samantha has always had a gentle personality. She was hand-raised and was more comfortable around humans even when Rudy was alive.  (article)

A precursor of what lies ahead.  It would appear the Paulbots are just like those Occupier peeps with their “up Twinkles” and “Down Twinkles”, and “Point of Order”, meeting strategy….  Rut Roh, the GOP convention is looking more and more like it could be a circus…..
(Daily Caller) In Colorado on Saturday morning, video correspondent Kelly Maher videotaped a  meeting of the Denver County Republican Assembly. When a group of Ron  Paul-pledged delegates arrived, she told The Daily Caller, things got crazy — and Coloradans may have caught a sneak peek of Republican events to come later  this year.
Maher told TheDC on Thursday that trouble was likely, and that she would be  rolling video.

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While interviewing Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, O’Brien uses a trick to have her producers Google words for her so she can pretend to know what she’s talking about.
She and her guests unveil themselves as a bunch of racists while making false accusations against Pollak. Where Breitbart would have Liberals loaded-for-bear, Pollak seems to lull them into a half-witted stupor where their inner ugliness bubbles to the surface. The self-righteous smugness of the guests is something to behold.

O’Brien behaves like a 13 year old girl throughout the interview – sighing, making faces and repeating the same arguments over and over as if frequency will supersede logic. The irony is that she thought they had won the day.
BIG LEFT knew better and started their Orwellian scrubbing of data from the internet. It is sick that CNN’s ‘source’ turns out to be Wikipedia.

Love and Heroism…… 
SIBLEY, Mo. – Fire crews say an elderly man jumped from the second story of  his burning home Friday morning, broke his leg, and then crawled back inside to  save his wife.  The fire started around 8 a.m. in Sibley, on Johnson road near the power  plant.
“[Jim Hodkins] broke out the upper story window and jumped out, and broke his  leg in the fall, then he crawled back into the house to get his wife out of the  house,” said Ed Winfrey, who owns the home the couple rents.   Winfrey said the wife, Bertha Hodkins, has Alzheimer’s Disease. (more…)