Richard’s links on Boston #2

The previous post was getting a little code heavy so I am continuing it here. Thanks again Richard for compiling these.

5. Bombs said to be made from pressure cookers.

6. Tuesday, Obama did call it an act of terror.

7. Runner, 78 YO, finishes race anyway after being knocked down by bomb yards from finish line.

8. Acts of kindness at the site

9. Muslim Brotherhood double faces the Boston attack. English site is appropriately sympathetic while Scribbely side of Ikhwan site tells the US they had it coming.

(This site is behind a sort of pay wall but you can read it if you scroll up and look between the top and the login screen)

 

Some links on yesterdays horror in Boston

First of all, my deepest condolences to the victims of this terrorist act. There are no words that can counterweight the tragedy of this. There may however, be future actions that those who abhor these kinds of deeds can take to discourage them in the future. But that is not ours to commission.

Richard sent in the following links which I will try and summarize.

1. Saudi suspect not seen for 2 days by roommate prior to the bombing, moved in 5 months ago. NY Post.

Also works part time as a towel dispenser

2. The Saudi man of interest, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi at Debbie Schlussel  (H/T Tundra Tabloids) 

3. ‘He’s a quiet, devout Muslim – he couldn’t do that’: -Neighbors Daily Mail 

4.Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston

from My Fox Boston

Room mate of the Saudi person of interest

12 dead, nearly 50 injured after 2 explosions rock Boston Marathon, law enforcement sources confirm

H/T Richard

NY Post:

  • From POST STAFF REPORT
  • Last Updated: 4:11 PM, April 15, 2013
  • Posted: 3:04 PM, April 15, 2013

BOSTON — Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers in the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.

A federal law-enforcement source told The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured. Fox News reported that Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 10 people with amputated limbs and all operating rooms were on hold.

Law-enforcement sources said at least the first explosion occurred in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel.

“There were two bombs that exploded near the finish line in today’s Boston Marathon,” The Boston Marathon’s official Facebook page read. “We are working with law enforcement to understand what exactly has happened.”

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2 simultaneous explosions

 

Boston: 3 dead so far, witness: Shrapnel bomb

ACTUAL BLAST:

Latest updates as of 4:05 pm:

A third bomb was detonated by Boston police on Boylston St.

The Mass. National Guard is on the scene.

NYPD is deploying counter-terrorism vehicles around New York landmarks and prominent hotels, per Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

In Wash. DC, Pennsylvania Ave. has been cleared of pedestrians.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-two-explosions-boston-marathon_716390.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near-finish-line-boston-marathon-spokesman-says/

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/15/several-hurt-in-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line/

Richard sent in these links

Teacher who assigned essay on why Jews were evil faces discipline

For some reason I get the sense that this teacher is more terminally stupid than antisemitic or vicious. But its a funny story in any case. Possibly a massive over-reaction. It is a good exercise to try and imagine yourself under the authority of a totalitarian regime to understand why it operates as it does. If nothing else its good practice for sharia.

H/T Bear

Yahoo News:

By Holly McKenna

ALBANY, New York (Reuters) – A New York state high school English teacher who asked students to imagine they were Nazis and give reasons why Jews were evil could be reprimanded or dismissed, a school district superintendent said on Friday.

City School District of Albany Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard apologized at a news conference and pledged officials would personally express regret to Albany High School students who were given the assignment and their families.

“This assignment for some of our students at Albany High School was completely unacceptable. It displayed a level of insensitivity that we will not tolerate in our school community,” Vanden Wyngaard said.

“I’m deeply apologetic to all of our students, to all of our families and the entire community,” she said, appearing with representatives of the Anti-Defamation League and the United Jewish Federation (UJF) of Northeastern New York at the UJF office in Albany.

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Another woman who really should run for president.

This woman is a throwback to the days when truth and facts actually mattered when it came to setting policy. Coincidentally, when truth and facts where factors in policy as opposed to political correctness, the narrative and insistence that if you force people to believe a thing it will be true (political wish-craft) the US economy was tops in the world and people enjoyed the greatest amount of genuine freedoms and rights.

H/T Magic Martin.

Articles here and here

Is this a case of selective enforcement?

If a Jewish florist refused to sell a floral arrangement to an opening of a  Nazi school for antisemitism would the state sue the Jews? Methinks not. The problem with forcing people to do business with those to whom they are morally opposed is that these laws will be selectively enforced, just like hate speech or thought crimes laws. Its never about what the law claims to be its cause. But it is always about political fashion.

Im pretty sure that if a gay florist, and its a reasonable bet there are a few, refused to sell flowers to a Klan wedding, if such a thing were allowed, the state would not sue them either.

It is noteworthy that the gay couple themselves were far more OK in this case about the florists own choice than the state was. The gay community cannot be blamed for this one. Like so many similar issues its leftists pushing counterfeit rights allegedly on behalf of certain communities.

Disabled Purple Heart veteran, embarassed at local business.

Adventures of a broken soldier:

I am a disabled combat veteran. I served in Iraq and worked in Afghanistan. I took an IED because my country asked me too, and I was injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. I have a Purple Heart and an ARCOM with Valor. I fully expect to be treated differently when I am visiting another country – when I am in America I expect equality and toleration; but what I experienced today is something that I never would have thought I’d have to go through in my own country. The country I fought for!

I am a skydiver with around 300 jumps under my belt. I’ve done jumps from 30,000 feet, helicopters, hot air balloons, wingsuit skydives and so forth. So with that being said I travel around doing this sport quite a bit. Today was my second time at a dropzone called “Florida Skydiving Center / Skydive Lake Wales”.

Coincidentally there are soldiers from the country of Qatar being trained there.

The picture is of the tattoo I have. Here is the definition of said tattoo: “Kafir (Arabic: ????? k?fir, plural ????? kuff?r) is an Arabic term used in an Islamic doctrinal sense, usually translated as “unbeliever,” “disbeliever,” or “infidel.” The term refers to a person who rejects God or who hides, denies, or covers the “truth.” The Muslim’s from Qatar saw that tattoo and complained to the dropzone. Once they did so I was called to the back office…

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Political correctness, anti-white racism and galloping Marxism

It is difficult to overstate just how deleterious the policy detailed in this mornings article about deliberately ignoring merit in order to find a reason not to hire white people as lifeguards. The fact that very possibly someone will die due to the inability of the lifeguard will not deter the leftists so well entrenched now at every level of government as they will claim more would have died as they would rather drown than trust a white person to save them.

Not this this is believable but it causes enough cognitive dissonance to not get as strident a reply as it deserves.

President of North Korea, not qualified for anything, so first pick as Az lifeguard

President of North Korea, not qualified for anything, so first pick as Az lifeguard

The kind of reasoning that the people who implemented this policy use is simultaneously absurd, and yet oddly unimpeachable.’

To dispel the racist slogan 'Swims like a brick'  Arizona pools have hired actual bricks as lifeguards

To dispel the racist slogan ‘Swims like a brick’ Arizona pools have hired actual bricks as lifeguards

Many times growing up I heard the hurtful phrase, ‘Swims like a brick’, or, ‘Floats like a Brick’ (to indicate how terribly bricks swim and float) which are clearly racist memes intended to prevent bricks from achieving their rightful place as lifeguards at Arizona pools.

Yes I exaggerate for humor but I actually once saw a vegetarian silenced by accusations that she was racist because she felt that just because an organism had no central nervous system it was OK to eat them while animals are not OK to eat. Basically accusing her of being mamalio-centric so to speak. She actually had no answer to that as it was the kind of reasoning she considered to be axiomatic and self evident. She just wasn’t used to having it used against her.

Hiring Yams to save the drowning since 2013

Hiring Yams to save the drowning since 2013

And why stop there? Hiring a yam as a life guard does double duty as it looks natural in a pool, especially in inner city areas, and is a way of dispelling racism and hatred often directed with commonly heard slurs, towards the profoundly disabled.

 

Ultimately, the greatest prejudice of them all:

Hiring the metabolically challenged has been a great boon to the goth community at public pools.

Hiring the metabolically challenged has been a great boon to the goth community at public pools.

Probably the greatest single aspect of civilization Vs. totalitarian states in the history of the world, is the principle of merit over nepotism and group-ism. The great irony being that leftist groups who have now created endless systemic racism under the banner of getting rid of it. Laws such as hate speech laws, affirmative action and so on are always selectively enforced either by design or by manipulation post hoc. While the jokes above are silly examples of the humour of logical extremes, the photos below are not.

Where are the Chinese people?

No affirmative action here

Racist Chinese restaurant hires no Khalghari Bushmen

As much as it pains me to say it, the craftily worded slick PR campaign by the KKK seems to have more merit than it should.

Multiculturalism is indeed code for anti-white racism.

North Korea releases more war propaganda videos.

H/T Magic Martin

Youtube video above appears to have been removed. It is now below. 🙂

In the one below, I can’t help but think it would make a better soup advert than a scary military video. Maybe it’s cause I can’t read the signs. But the font and style reminds me a lot of some pretty excellent soup packages made on the other side of the Korean peninsula.

In the video below, the commander shows how they are making ready to deal with an American bomber from 1942

The song below reminds me quite a bit of Stalin era Soviet material.

Man shoots his father at Easter Sunday church service while screaming that it ‘is the will of Allah’

The Daily Mail is one of two news services I have found so far that has not deliberately falsified the event to avoid mentioning that the murderer was doing it for Islamic reasons. There needs to be many giant class action suits against the legacy media for trying to shape opinion by lying to the public in such a systemic way.

Below, a relevant account by

the Daily Mail:

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 22:02 GMT, 31 March 2013 | UPDATED: 19:13 GMT, 1 April 2013

Witnesses say the 25-year-old man accused of walking into an Ohio church and fatally shooting his father after an Easter service Sunday was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.

Police say Reshad Riddle walked into the Hiawatha Church of God in Christ in Ashtabula and killed his father, 52-year-old Richard Riddle, with a single shot from a handgun Sunday afternoon.

Associate Pastor Sean Adams said Reshad then continued into the church, still holding the gun, and yelled that the killing was ‘the will of Allah. This is the will of God.’

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Making his case: Reshad Riddle made rambling comments about God and said he wanted to be treated fairly in Ashtabula Municipal Court on Monday Making his case: Reshad Riddle made rambling comments about God and said he wanted to be treated fairly in Ashtabula Municipal Court on Monday

Adams told The (Ashtabula) Star Beacon newspaper that worshippers started screaming, ducking down and calling 911 on cellphones after the shooting.

‘It was terrifying,’ Adams told the newspaper.

‘The children were screaming and people were dialing 911. We were afraid to breathe.’

Reshad Riddle was quickly subdued by officers, who arrived just moments after the shooting. They say he has been mostly cooperative.

The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland reported that another church pastor said congregants were leaving when they heard a gunshot.

Reshad Riddle, pictured, shot his father in an Easter Sunday church service
Reshad Riddle, pictured earlier at left and in court on Monday at right, shot his father in an Easter Sunday church service

Reshad Riddle, pictured earlier at left and in court on Monday at right, shot his father in an Easter Sunday church service

‘People pushed me into a back office and said, “Somebody’s here with a gun,”‘ said the Reverend David Howard Jr.

‘The guy was outside hollering and acting crazy.’

He said the church has about 175 members, none of whom knew what led to the shooting.

‘It’s such a tragic loss,’ Crockett said.

County Coroner Pamela Lancaster said Richard Riddle’s wound was ‘immediately fatal.’

Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell said the younger Riddle offered no motive for the shooting.

‘Witnesses at the scene said the shooter entered church and made some references to Allah, but we are not sure if that was a motive or if there was a family problem,’ Stell said.

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Man shoots father dead at Easter service in Ohio, shouting it is “the will of Allah”

Published on Apr 1, 2013

Ashtabula Police have identified the suspect and victim from Sunday’s church shooting at the Hiawatha Church of God and Christ in Ashtabula.

The incident happened around 1:15 p.m. outside the church.

According to police, Reshad Riddle waited for his father, Richard Riddle to exit the church after services were over Sunday before shooting him in the head.

Richard Riddle’s mother witnessed the shooting although most of the congregation was still inside the church.

The church was packed because of the Easter holiday.

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