Philadelphia Politician Claims He Was Misunderstood

At least two undiscussed issues here. One is that police more often than not, refuse to identify the race or religion of suspects. The second is that police, prosecutors, politicians and journalists have no reluctance to "paint with a broad brush" (the mayor's words) all persons who have ever been accused of being crazy. It is always reported by journalists repeating what police and prosecutors say in open court that a suspect has "a history of mental illness" as if that has anything to do with the criminal complaint. The mayor joins the rest of the hypocrite nation defending his own bigotry.


From L to R: Police Officer Jesse Hartnett and suspect Edward Archer

Photos via Philadelphia Police Department
[From article]
Philadelphia’s Mayor Jim Kenney has earned himself a place in the Doofus Hall of Fame for telling a press conference about an attempted assassination a police officer by a man who told police he acted “in the name of Islam” because “the police defend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the Quran”:
In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen. That is abhorrent. It’s just terrible and it does not represent this religion in any way shape or form or any of its teachings. And this is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.
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Via CBS Philadelphia:
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I have confidence in the FBI and our police department working together to determine the actual reasons for this.
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The 200,000 Muslims who live in Philadelphia are not represented by the actions of Mr. Archer. He is a criminal and they are not criminals. I think it is important that we make very clear that regardless of where this leads that those folks, who are God-fearing, tax paying Americans, should not be painted with that broad brush. I think it is important that we highlight that.
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The FBI and police have not concluded that this is an act of terrorism. They are investigating it as it could be, but I think our FBI and police know more than Rush Limbaugh.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/philly_mayor_claims_he_was_misinterpreted_on_claims_terror_attack_had_nothing_to_do_with_being_a_muslim_or_following_the_islamic_faith.html

January 16, 2016
Philly mayor claims he was ‘misinterpreted’ on claims terror attack had ‘nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith’
By Thomas Lifson

Savage Behavior Becoming The Norm, Where Did United States Go Off The Rails?

[From article]
Once my husband and I rounded the wrong bend in the middle of Montana and, being as far from civilization as one can get in the lower 48,
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America is now living through such a lost period in our history, and it’s high time we thought about where things went wrong. In my Montana wanderings there were several factors involved; we’d neglected to bring the charger for the GPS, had consulted the wrong map, and had failed to pay attention when the road veered gradually to the left. The same is true for our national journey.
As with most errors this one started with bad thinking; we’ve made two huge philosophical mistakes, one an outgrowth of the other, and they may cost us everything: 1) we have been lazy and wimpy on the issue of truth and, as a result, 2) we have bought the lie that human nature is basically good.
Let’s look first at the issue of truth. I say we wimped out because it is much easier, at least for a while, to whitewash all controversies and claim that truth is so flexible that it can take any shape we want it to. If we assume that truth is merely a human construct, we can claim that it comes in thousands of differing colors and sizes, tailor made to fit any need. Thus we avoid having to discern differences, make moral judgments, or stand up for anything. We can act superior to those who still see vast chasms between belief systems and we claim “open-mindedness” utterly unaware of the meaninglessness of that term.
If nothing is really true, then there’s no reason to knuckle down and learn anything, no reason to think very hard, no reason to amass facts –- we suspect they’re not true anyway. I am dumbfounded by the ignorant assertion that Muslims and Christians worship the same god. A person doesn’t have to know, can’t know, anything much about either belief and make that statement. In an untruthful world ignorance is not only bliss, it is the inescapable condition.
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You see, if one decides against absolute truth, one decides against logic; it is, after all, a self-refuting logical impossibility to say, “There is no such thing as absolute truth.” And what happens when a society decides to ignore the nonsense factor and base its “thinking” on such a floppy foundation? Insanity is what happens.
We have a society in which one can scream about a “war on women” but support passionately a group that excels at subordinating, torturing, mutilating, raping, and terrifying its women from their childhood. We have a society that has frozen in the face of an enemy so horrifying that we can’t even work up the courage to publicly condemn them, let alone commit to war. We have a society that has no moral boundaries, other than avoiding offending another person’s sensibilities. We have no problem with killing inconvenient babies in spite of its genocidal results, no problem with sexual promiscuity regardless of the physical disease and family turmoil that causes, and worst of all, we no longer expect our leadership to be truthful people of integrity.
As the Clinton campaign drags itself forward I am amazed at the number of her supporters – both public figures and private acquaintances of mine -- who are content to make excuses for her habitual, pathological duplicity.
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Sooner or later reality will come crashing through the door and it will have to be dealt with. That’s where we are right now. Grendel is splintering the gates and we can no longer just pass the joint, sing loudly and pretend he’s not out there. He is.
Because we have treated reality like a do-it-yourself kit, we’ve arrived at a second philosophical no-man’s land; we’ve decided that, despite all evidence to the contrary, humanity is basically good. [. . .]
If we are basically born good, then childrearing becomes nothing more than keeping the child alive until he can fend for himself, never mind the fact that such parental neglect has created at least two generations of self-centered, amoral monsters. We are not naturally good. We can be good, but we don’t start that way. What baby has ever given a rip that his mother hasn’t had a full night’s sleep since he was born? What two-year-old goes sweetly off to her nap because she knows mommy needs some quiet time? Children need to be taught, sternly and consistently, to put others first.
If our children aren’t trained out of their natural tendencies we end up with mobs of teenagers terrorizing mall shoppers, having sex at school (sometimes with the teacher, because that generation doesn’t know any better either), and destroying any learning that might be able to happen in a classroom.
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How can we process the knowledge that some of our fellow human beings are quite at ease with the idea of raping babies, beheading fellow countrymen, burning people alive? How do we explain that?
We try to blame such behavior on poverty, on racism (which also needs explaining), on society in general, which is a pretty rocky hypothesis since society is built of the crooked bricks of fallen, sinful individuals; it’s not a separate entity, but an outgrowth of all that is rotten in Denmark.
Human beings, unless trained to be decent, humble, and caring, have in our very DNA the capacity to think and commit evil –- absolute evil. Each generation comes face-to-face with that fact. All of human history has been a trail of tears –- not because the rich have too much, or because our parents didn’t love us enough, or because some stranger didn’t approve of us. We hurt each other because something in us pushes us to do so. This is why humanity needed a Savior. Only with His sacrifice and His influence has the world crept slowly out of the toil and horror of life on this earth.
But if we deny truth (i.e. God) and continue looking past all the evidence of our flawed nature, the prosperity and progress of the last 2,000 years will be lost, is being lost. I pray consistently that enough of us will wake up and realize that there is an absolute mountain of truth out in front of us, and we’re about to crash headlong into it. truth is immutable; it isn’t going to move out of our way.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_wrong_turn_.html

January 18, 2016
The Wrong Turn
By Deana Chadwell

Texas Democrat Boasts of Organized Crime Connections

Harold Dutton

Undercover video, American Phoenix Foundation, Screenshot
[From article]
An undercover video shows a member of the Texas state house talking about apparent connections to organized crime and his meeting with a sheriff who allegedly told him his friendship meant the rep could get away with murder.
Now Texas Democratic Rep. Harold Dutton says he was simply making the whole story up at the time.
Ben Wetmore, general counsel for the American Pheonix Foundation, the organization which produced the undercover video, told TheDCNF it was recorded at a hotel in downtown Austin in April.
In the video provided exclusively to The Daily Caller News Foundation, Dutton says he was told that Austin lobbyist Nick Kralj, who he describes as his “forever friend,” has connections to the Bonnano crime family based out of New York. Dutton, who can be seen drinking wine, also talks about former Galveston Sheriff Joe Max Taylor, saying he flew to Galveston with Kralj and the sheriff told him that since he’s the sheriff, so they could get away with anything, like, say, killing someone.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/23/texas-lawmaker-caught-on-camera-talking-organized-crime-out-of-control-sheriff/

Texas Lawmaker Caught On Camera Talking Organized Crime, Out-Of-Control Sheriff
9:49 PM 09/23/2015
CASEY HARPER

South Carolina Politician Blames Fox News For Mass Murder, Does Not Explain His Irrational Comment.

After every mass murder, misguided politicians, and journalists begin the blame game. Here a South Carolina state Rep. blames Fox News. Others blame guns. Still others blame mental illness. Few blame psychiatric drugs which has a causal connection to violence. Fewer still blame evil. Flip Wilson used to defend his character Geraldine after she bought an outrageous dress saying, "The devil made me do it." Then there was the Twinkie defense. 

[From article]

On his Thursday “The O’Reilly Factor” program, host Bill O’Reilly took on South Carolina state Rep. Todd Rutherford (D-Columbia), who also serves as his House’s minority leader, for his comments earlier in the day broadcasted on CNN blaming the Fox News Channel for Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
“You said this Roof kid watches Fox News,” O’Reilly said. “Do you know that he watches Fox News?”
Rutherford downplayed the accusation and said that he said he watches things “like” Fox News.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/18/oreilly-hits-back-at-sc-dem-rep-blaming-fox-news-for-sc-shooting/

O’REILLY HITS BACK AT SC DEM REP BLAMING FOX NEWS FOR SC SHOOTING
by JEFF POOR

18 Jun 2015

Published on Jun 18, 2015
Bill O'Reilly To Todd Rutherford Fox News Justifies Brutal Crimes Against Black Americans? todd Rutherford appeared on Fox News tonight, and Bill O’Reilly confronted him about those “disturbing” remarks. Rutherford stood by them and said there are a lot of black people disturbed by a lot of what Fox coers. O’Reilly really challenged Rutherford on what he’s talking about, who on Fox says what he thinks they say, and whether he’s honestly “equating what Dylann Roof did in that church to our commentary.”
Rutherford said that Fox is in the business of demonizing President Obama, playing up race issues in a negative way, and raising the birther issue. O’Reilly scolded Rutherford and said his friend the late reverend would not have “embraced that kind of rhetoric today.”
Watch the video below, via Fox News:Todd Rutherford, a South Carolina state legislator and a friend of one of the victims, spoke out on bill o'reilly on fox news about how “the rhetoric in South Carolina, the rhetoric nationwide, has led people to believe… that it’s okay to walk into a church and take nine lives.”
Rutherford spoke to bill o'reilly about the Charleston church shooting and the death of his friend Reverend Clementa Pinckney.
He said that South Carolina is part of the problem because there’s no hate crimes law and the Confederate flag flies at the capitol. Rutherford referred to networks using “coded language” before calling out one network in particular: “[The gunman] hears that because he watches the news and he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they’re really not. They use that coded language, they use hate speech, they talk about the president as if he’s not the president, they talk about churchgoers that they’re not really churchgoers. And that’s what this young man acted on. That’s why you can walk into a church and treat people like animals when they’re really human beings.”

Money For Homeless Used For Computer Services

Perhaps some of the money should be used for sensitivity training to prevent rape and homophobia. This shows the strength of the lobby for the wifi industry. It is as strong as the psychiatric industry which provides drugs to homeless persons but no housing. The priorities of the government are truly amazing. They match the public safety priorities which target harmless vulnerable citizens and ignore violent criminals. What can you expect with a lawless White House and Department of Justice?

[From article]
The Seattle City Council was expected to vote Monday on a measure that would fund Internet access at the city's homeless camps.
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"That's too much opportunity for abuse," resident Cindy Phillips told local television station KING 5. "There are public libraries, and other public resources such as WorkSource, that can better assist the homeless in finding the jobs, or other resources they need," she said.
The money to fund Internet and wireless access would come from a budget item set aside to improve other conditions in Seattle's homeless tent cities, including access to showers, electricity and cooking facilities.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/seattle-councillors-vote-funding-internet-access-homeless-camps-140125272.html

Seattle councillors to vote on funding Internet access at homeless camps
Reuters
Yahoo
November 24, 2014

Soundbites on Current Events

[From list]

This just in
"I think the delusion is often very deep."
- "House of Cards" actor Kevin Spacey on members of Congress

Enough already
“The naiveté of Barack Obama and John Kerry is stunning.”
- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on the White House response to the turmoil in Ukraine

http://washingtonexaminer.com/soundbites-whos-delusional-now/article/2544422

Soundbites: Who's delusional now?
BY CHARLIE SPIERING

FEBRUARY 22, 2014 AT 10:46 AM

Some Politicians Are Pathetic

[From Article]
But what about the weak media response to Rep. Henry C. Johnson, D-Ga., who, during a 2010 House Armed Services Committee hearing concerning U.S. military buildup on Guam, told Adm. Robert F. Willard, the then commander of U.S. Pacific Command, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize"? Adm. Willard replied, with all sincerity, "We don't anticipate that." I'd pay serious money to know what the admiral and his white staff said about Johnson after they left the hearing room.
Then there's Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, who asked NASA scientists whether they could drive the Mars rover to where Neil Armstrong placed the American flag. Actually, Armstrong planted the flag on the moon in 1969. In 2010, Jackson Lee pointed out: "Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace." The fact of business is that as a result of North Vietnam's conquest, today it's only one nation, Vietnam. Another Jackson Lee geographical observation was her reference to "countries like Europe." But we shouldn't be that critical of her, because President Obama also has referred to people from "countries like Europe."

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns012214.php3#.UuSwBN30Czs

Jewish World Review 

Jan. 22, 2014/ 21 Shevat, 5774
OK to Feel Sorry
By Walter Williams

Why Are Politicians Unable to Be Cordial?

The panelists all missed the elephant in the room, not the NJ Governor. Let me explain simply. You are all wrong, stupid, evil, extremist, tea baggers, and mentally ill. Only I know what is best because I have credentials, making me an expert. So stop talking, wasting people's time, and let me teach you what needs to be done.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/14/iop-gridlock-business-partisanship/?page=1

Panelists Discuss Business and Bipartisanship
By OLIVIA R. GOLDBERG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
November 13, 2013

Police Take Weapons Violating Second Amendment, Can't Protect Citizens

In addition to police abuses and inability to protect, the comments of elected officials are disappointing. What kind of idiots get elected to office these days?

http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/watch-cops-warn-youre-on-your-own/

WND EXCLUSIVE
WATCH COPS WARN: YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN
Advice to resist crime? 'Get some bleach,' 'Start yelling and screaming'
Bob Unruh
March 6, 2013

Hungarian Politician Wants List of Jews Who Are Security Risk

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/65793d06-38c6-11e2-981c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2DUiD0ay0

November 27, 2012 10:26 pm
Hungarian MP calls for Jewish ‘threat’ list
By Kester Eddy in Budapest

Bloomberg An Idiot?

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/10/report-lhota-apologizes-for-saying-bloomberg-acted-like-an-idiot/

Report: Lhota Apologizes For Saying Bloomberg Acted ‘Like An Idiot’
November 10, 2012 10:11 AM
CBS News New York NY

Politicians Make Reason a Bad Word

[From article]
In both Europe and America, there are many people who get angry at those who tell them the truth that the money is just not there to sustain huge welfare state programs indefinitely. But that anger might be better directed at those who lied to them by promising them benefits that were inherently unsustainable.
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It is today's young people who are going to be left holding the bag when they reach retirement age and discover that all the money they paid in is long gone. It is today's young people who are going to be dumped over a cliff when they reach retirement age, if nothing is done to reform entitlements.
Yet the young seem not to be nearly as alarmed as the elderly, who have no real reason to fear. Try reconciling that with the belief that human beings are rational.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/08/29/entitlement_reforms

Entitlement Reforms
Thomas Sowell
August 29, 2012
TownHall.com

US Is Already Over the Debt Limit

[From article]
"According to everything you've heard, the US will reach its borrowing limit next Tuesday, or maybe the Tuesday after that, or the one after that -- depending on which clown you are paying attention to.
Well, here's news for you -- we are already over the limit and through the ceiling.
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But as of July 25 -- which was this past Monday -- the nation's "total public debt outstanding" was $14.343 trillion. If you don't believe me, look it up at treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np.
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Of that $14.34 trillion in debt, $4.6 trillion is intergovernmental loans -- mostly borrowings from Social Security.
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Nothing Washington will do on the debt limit, whether it's spending cuts or tax increases, is going to help the econ omy. In fact, it'll do the opposite. You can't lay off government work ers or raise taxes without the economy slowing.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/in_dc_the_sky_is_really_the_limit_rV2a4vHSS6KW5RM3RKSdEP

In DC, the sky is really the limit
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:23 AM, July 28, 2011
Posted: 12:21 AM, July 28, 2011

Weiner Is a Gold Standard Politician

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/weiners_wusses_and_wonks.html

June 13, 2011
Weiners, Wusses and Wonks
By Stuart Schwartz
American Thinker

Barney Frank Explains Himself

In his own hilarious words, US Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) explains what he supports and why, what he is good at and what he is not good at.

[Video embedded]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36904

Stunning 2006 Barney Frank VIDEO Surfaces: Banks Forced to Report Too Much
by Connie Hair
Human Events
May 07, 2010

Misguided MA Attorney General

The MA Attorney General focuses on a federal law on same sex marriage while the rest of the country wonders why MA criminals are killing people their states. Still wondering why Scott Brown won the election?

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20100220martha_coakley_fed_wed_law_too_binding_unfairly_ties_states_hands_ag_argues/

Photo by Boston Herald file

Martha Coakley

Martha Coakley: Fed wed law too binding

Unfairly ties state’s hands, AG argues

By Associated Press
Boston Herald
Saturday, February 20, 2010

John Edwards' Unique Abilities

"He is a failure as a father and a husband and even managed to disgrace the business of being a politician, which is pretty hard to do these days."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/zero_pity_for_sorry_sleazy_ruin_6jdJ0CiKJUfDDs8P0JXj2O

Zero pity for sorry, sleazy ruin of a man
Last Updated: 7:14 AM, January 24, 2010
Charles Hurt
New York Post
Posted: 4:52 AM, January 22, 2010

Harold Ford Will Not be Running for Office in New York


This interview shows how disgusting politicians can be. This also shows that black politicians are no different from white politicians. They are liars and deceivers and in this case Ford is another black elitist.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-14/harold-ford-implodes/?cid=hp:mostpopular4

Harold Ford Implodes
by Peter Beinart
Daily Beast
January 14, 2010

Man convicted or murder being held in a secure psychiatric facility allegedly murders two men convicted of murder at the same facility.


After many years of conflating psychiatry and crime the criminals being held in psychiatric facilities continue their criminal ways. Drug companies persuaded legislatures that psychiatry is the solution to campaign funding. The politicians respond with more laws to allow increased use of psychiatry to address crime. Now the psychiatry is exposed as meaningless. Why spend extra taxpayer funds to get the same results as when crime was treated as crime for less money. Nazi party officials medicalized social problems in Germany as the US is doing now. There is no appeal from a medical diagnosis.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/murderer-stabs-two-killers-to-death-at-psychiatric-hospital/story-e6frg6of-1225794566390

Murderer stabs two killers to death at psychiatric hospital
AAP
November 05, 2009 9:34AM
The Australian

If George W Bush was an idiot


If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.