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-Lurid Crime Tales-
8 dead, including gunman, at multiple homes in Missouri
[FOXNEWS] Seven people were murdered Thursday night in a house-to-house rampage in the small Missouri town of Tyrone before their suspected killer was discovered dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

A ninth person found dead in connection with the investigation is believed to have died from "natural causes," according to authorities.
Posted by: Fred || 02/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


-Obits-
Spock beamed up for the last time.
He lived long, and prospered. Well done Mr. Spock.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2015 10:27 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All the trekkies will be in deep depression. I guess the healing device failed?

star trek,healing device. .. remember those lollipps that were in that switchblade-like case?It kinda` looks like that
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/28/2015 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, all this trekkie can say is...

He's Boldly Gone, In Search Of, The Undiscovered Country...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/28/2015 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Did anyone say "He's Dead Jim" yet?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/28/2015 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  This is a beautiful and poignant cartoon tribute to Leonard Nimoy

Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 02/28/2015 12:43 Comments || Top||

#5  make imaginary puissant ... 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings ... turning accomplishment of many years into an hourglass.
Posted by: Snakes Spearr1483 || 02/28/2015 13:20 Comments || Top||

#6  He got typecast big time, but managed to overcome it. Most of the original Star trek cast couldn't
Posted by: Jiggs White1864 || 02/28/2015 14:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Guess who made it all about him?
Posted by: Beavis || 02/28/2015 14:37 Comments || Top||

#8  NASA salutes
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/28/2015 22:13 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Incident raises concerns a domestic or international terrorist could tamper with U.S. infrastructure
All it took was a hacksaw cutting a fiber optic cable in the desert.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2015 11:22 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This AZ man was doing some gardening, hit a pesky root, axed it and planted his begonias. Next, he went for swim to cool off after all his hard work.

Posted by: Shush Sheger4811 || 02/28/2015 16:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
This Week In Guns, February 28th, 2015


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Something completely positive is happening in Washington state. A pro 10th Amendment advocate, Anthony Bosworth was detained by federal goons this week, and then released five hours later after said goons tried to get the advocate to become a federal snitch.

Read the story here,
but the following is what struck me as positive:

It’s been reported that the Spokane County Sheriff was called and Bosworth was released on the basis of the sheriff’s intervention. What you may not know is that the sheriff was told by certain parties, in no uncertain terms, that if he did not go to the federal building and get Bosworth released, that a large number of armed patriots were available to do it for him. The sheriff dutifully marched into the building and did his job, and Bosworth did end up being released, although he’s still waiting for his firearms to be returned.

My question to federal law enforcement would be: What good did it do you to try to turn someone in Washington state, whose rights had been violated by a plebiscite last November? What good did it do your side to attempt to turn, then attempt to intimidate Anthony Bosworth?

In reaction, an armed protest is planned for Friday, March 6th at 11:00am at the Tom Foley Federal Building, 920 W Riverside Ave, Spokane, Washington.

Word is spreading throughout the internet about the proposed ban on M855 5.56mm ammunition, as I am still getting notifications on my Facebook wall about the proposed ban.

Leftists driving this ban think they are being oh so clever banning ammunition as if ammunition is a separate thing from the rifle itself. They are inextricably linked.

Any questions about where this is heading will be answered at Homan Square in Chicago. It's a test site for application nationwide. How do I know? Because it was generally known in the legal community that the Chicago law enforcement had the site, yet no one in the legal community said a word, nor protested its existence including the local judiciary.

I don't care about your legal pedigree. As an officer of the court, you had not only the inviolable right to file a civil lawsuit -- if not a criminal charge to end the practice -- you also had the Constitutional duty to do so, but you did nothing.

Bastards!
Could I take the liberty of prefacing that with worthless 'Bastards'...?
Loads.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Prices for rifle ammunition and pistol ammunition were mixed.

** Prices for .22LR were lower than indicated, except that one vendor wanted pre orders, so I won't count that lower price (by .02 Each) in this context.

Prices for used rifles and used pistols were mixed.

Pistol Ammunition

.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Blok Tactical, Kinetic range, reloads, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2014))

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SOWW Armory, Summit, FMJ, reloads, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store brand, reloads, .24 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks))

9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2014)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Cased, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Bullets.com, Reloads, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))

.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)

Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, store brand, Bulk, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: -.04 Each)

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.03 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bellagio Security, Brown Bear, steel cased, FMJ, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Sinclair International, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .26 per round (From Last Week: +.03 Each)

.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2014)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Silver Bear, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LG Outdoors, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .48 per round (From Last Week: +.03 Each After Unchanged (3Q, 2014))

7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Wolf WPA, steel case, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each Unchanged (2 Weeks) **
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Sale, Geco, RNL, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Bang It Ammo, CCI, RNL, .10 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles

.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $556 Last Week Avg: $599 (-) ($600 (17 Weeks), $515 (3 Weeks))
California (212, 230): Palmetto State Armory: $600 ($650 (6 Weeks), $425 (9 Weeks))
Texas (245, 268): Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Sport: $480 ($675 (6 Weeks), $450 (21 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (144, 142): Palmetto State Armory: $500 ($600 (20 Weeks), $490 (10 Weeks))
Virginia (210, 206): Bushmaster Carbon 15: $600 ($700 (3 Weeks), $500 (4 Weeks))
Florida (313, 324): Tactical Weapons Solution: $600 ($600 (2 Weeks), $450 (18 Weeks))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,200 Last Week Avg: $1,140 (+) ($1,200, $953 (17 Weeks))
California (38, 44): Noreen AR15: $1,350 ($1,700 (11 Weeks)), $1,000 (12 Weeks))
Texas (48, 54): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,450 ($1,500 (14 Weeks), $900 (19 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (35, 34): DPMS Sportical: $800 (!) ($1,100 (18 Weeks), $800 (7 Weeks))
Virginia (37, 38): Bushmaster: $1,450 ($1,450 (2 Weeks), $900 (15 Weeks))
Florida (49, 47): Rock River Arms: $950 ($1,500 (15 Weeks), $750 (4 Weeks))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $626 Last Week Avg: $649 (-) ($626, $462 (14 Weeks))
California (50, 50): Saiga: $600 ($695 (14 Weeks), $320 (9 Weeks))
Texas (42, 50): Npap AK-47 (Srbska): $635 ($699 (3 Weeks), $350 (16 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (63, 57): Centurion C-39: $700 ($750 (4 Weeks), $450 (17 Weeks))
Virginia (60, 61): Centurion C-39 (Decked Out): $600 ($625 (2 Weeks), $350 (4 Weeks))
Florida (92, 85): CAI: $599 ($625 (2 Weeks), $300 (14 Weeks))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $390 Last Week Avg: $425 (-) ($489 (7 Weeks), $320 (6 Weeks))
California (14, 14): Mossberg 464: $400 ($400 (7 Weeks), $375 (9 Weeks))
Texas (12, 14): Winchester Model 1894: $400 ($550 (4 Weeks), $300 (8 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (13, 10): Marlin 336: $350 ($450 (4 Weeks), $250 (9 Weeks))
Virginia (6, 5): Marlin Model 30AS: $425 ($425 (5 Weeks), $350 (8 Weeks))
Florida (19, 21): Marlin 336Y: $375 ($475 (3 Weeks), $300 (7 Weeks))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $390 Last Week Avg: $427 (-) ($450 (9 Weeks), $370 (8 Weeks))
California (159, 177): Thompson Auto Ordance 1911: $400 ($600 (4 Weeks), $350 (15 Weeks))
Texas (170, 162): Llama Max: $350 ($600 (14 Weeks), $350)
Pennsylvania (153, 168): Regent Arms 1911: $350 ($525 (10 Weeks), $325 (12 Weeks))
Virginia (151, 150): Rock Island Armory: $400 ($495 (6 Weeks), $250 (11 Weeks))
Florida (316, 304): High Standard: $450 ($450 (4 Weeks), $350 (20 Weeks))

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $336 Last Week Avg: $315 (+) ($336, $286 (6 Weeks))
California (167, 167): Glock 19: $350 ($450 (3 Weeks), $250 (8 Weeks))
Texas (226, 229): Glock 17: $350 ($355 (2 Weeks), $235 (10 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (246, 237): Glock 19: $350 ($350 (19 Weeks), $275 (6 Weeks))
Virginia (181, 183): Smith & Wesson SD9VE: $325 ($350 (20 Weeks), $275 (15 weeks))
Florida (368, 382): Smith & Wesson SW9VE: $300 ($375 (11 Weeks), $270 (12 Weeks))

.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic) Average Price: $343 Last Week Avg: $333 (+) ($345 (16 Weeks), $300 (18 Weeks))
California (89, 96): Smith & Wesson SW40VE: $300 ($350 (21 Weeks), $250 (8 Weeks))
Texas (100, 110): Smith & Wesson SD40: $340 ($425 (14 Weeks), $300 (20 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (110, 124): Smith & Wesson SD40VE: $300 ($340 (16 Weeks), $250 (3 Weeks)
Virginia (82, 89): Glock 22: $375 ($450 (11 Weeks), $275 (7 Weeks))
Florida (152, 178): Stoeger: $400 ($400 (2 Weeks), $275 (17 Weeks))

Used Gun of the Week: (Tennessee)
Enfield No4 MK 2 Chambered in .303 British

Chris Covert writes for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Posted by: badanov || 02/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only part of the economy that the Obama administration has proven it could actually stimulate. Someone in OMB think they need to spike the economic numbers a wee bit?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2015 19:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Little Valley, and the stuggle of an ethnic minority you'll not hear much about.
Sunette Bridges is an amazing woman. She and others are busy building Kleinvallei (Little Valley) - a kibbutz-style farm - to help desperate Afrikaners (including the elderly) with housing and a means to feed themselves. These Afrikaners have been living in squalor among the Blacks in townships. That is no place for them or their children to live, especially the young girls.
About me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2015 06:15 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is a dreadful thing, about which the Afrikaners are doing about the only useful thing that can be done... at least for as long as they are permitted to do it. The other option is for their fellows abroad to sponsor their emigration to places that are not so unremittingly hostile to their very existence. Any country would benefit from such people, coming as they do from a culture of hard work and sacrifice for future prosperity.

If Africa wants to win so badly, let them wallow in the resulting Heinleinian "bad luck".
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2015 22:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Whites in the US are under attack. The first wave of attacks is to make White Americans a minority as well. I will provide a detailed comment about that in the next edition of Rantburg.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 02/28/2015 23:16 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Boris Nemtsov, outspoken Putin critic, shot dead in Moscow
[CNN] Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed Friday night after he was shot seven or eight times from a car on a bridge he was walking across, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement Saturday.
If a non-entity like Kirchner can do it so can the Tsar of all the Remaining Russias...
He was deputy prime minister in the late 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin and had been one of current President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
's most vocal critics.

Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov, Russian state broadcaster, Russia Today, said early Saturday.

A criminal case has been opened for murder and weapons trafficking, the investigative committee said.

The bridge was not far from the Kremlin in a part of the city normally busy on a Friday night.
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#1  Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov ...
I wonder if he told them to take the cannoli?
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/28/2015 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Envy in White House circles.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2015 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  To kill a man at the doorstep of the Kremlin, in an area heavily watched over by security cameras, on a busy Friday night... this sends a message: IF YOU ARE AGAINST US YOU ARE NOT SAFE. NEVER. NOWHERE.

Russia's back where Ronald Reagan located it 30 years ago.
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/28/2015 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  It's old style Russian politics: If you speak out, you bleed out.
Posted by: Grunter || 02/28/2015 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Envy in White House circles.

Not to worry, there is a Clinton in the race.

Russia's back where Ronald Reagan located it 30 years ago

Hey EC, the 80s called, asked if we need some balls. Hey, wait.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/28/2015 12:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Shot while resisting suicide.
Posted by: charger || 02/28/2015 12:31 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Senior AKP deputies request easing of three-term ban from President Erdogan
[Hurriyet Daily News] Dozens of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) politicians, including a number of former ministers, who are banned from running for parliament in the upcoming elections due to the AKP's internal three-term limit, have met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
to demand an easing of the rule.
Can they not do the local equivalent of a Putin?
Some 68 politicians reportedly met with Erdogan over a dinner and sought to persuade the president about the "importance of some figures continuing to stay in politics for the sake of party."

Erdogan, who is known to be against a change, reportedly preferred to adopt a softer tone and told the politicians to discuss the issue with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, saying he is the one who should decide about the issue.
Posted by: Fred || 02/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Not again! Meet Obama's new controversial pastor
[WND] Wallis, however, is a longtime socialist advocate and founder of a far-left magazine, Sojourners, that has championed communist causes.

He currently serves on Obama's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He reportedly is a spiritual adviser to Obama and has known the president for years.

Wallis began his activism as a protester and then later Michigan leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960s anti-war group from which Bill Ayers' Weatherman domestic terrorist organization splintered.

Discover the Networks said that as a theology student, Wallis founded an anticapitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving "social justice."
Also see: The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller novel about the son of a prominent US political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 02/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But... But... But... Did he buy a used tanning bed??

That is, by far, worse then having a string oh anti American, anti capitalist, real terrorists for mentors and close friends. Just ask the media!

Why the F wasn't this boy vetted properly?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/28/2015 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Wallis was the farthest left roadcone.
I will not say at this point, after ALL OF THIS, it is worth anything.

No. It will not be in the future.
Posted by: newc || 02/28/2015 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  'Dhimmi Christian Jim Wallis to Pamela Geller: “Please stop talking”'
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 02/28/2015 1:53 Comments || Top||

#4  New pastor, just like old pastor. So Nothing actually changed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2015 3:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Let me repeat: "The FSB wanted to check up on their long-term investments and provide further instructions to the Manchurian Candidate."
Posted by: Unirt Ebbick6972 || 02/28/2015 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  1960, Fidel Castro - I'm not a communist
2008, Barack Obama - I'm not a communist

Redistribution doctrine by any other name, it still is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2015 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  who [Wallis] has championed communist causes and previously labeled the U.S.Communism “the great captor and destroyer of human life

FIFY reverend. Just acknowledging the 100 million or so. Add Boris Nemtsov to the list.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/28/2015 13:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Man jailed for 28 years in acid attack case
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court on Friday handed down 28-year imprisonment to a man in an acid attack case here on Friday.

Awais was found guilty of throwing acid on Neelum of the Civil Lines area for refusing to marriage him.

The prosecution said the victim received critical burns on her face and the police investigation also found the accused guilty.

The suspect refused the allegation leveled against him and claimed he was implicated in the case by his opponents.
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Child raped by 65-year-old man in Akora Khattak
[DAWN] A seven-year-old girl from Nowshera District's Akora Khattak tehsil was allegedly raped by a 65-year-old man, it emerged on Friday.

According to the child's father, the incident occurred a few days ago when the victim was playing outside her house one evening.

She was kidnapped and allegedly raped before being set free by one Shah Nawabzada, a 65-year-old resident of Akora Khatak,

The victim's father also said that the police have tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
the main accused but a trial is yet to begin.

He added that because the alleged perpetrator wields influence, the police is being forced to reach a 'compromise' or outside court settlement through back-channel negotiations.

This incident comes a day after BBC reported the horrifying story of a gang-rape victim who was filmed during the crime. The film was later distributed widely on social media sites, with little to no repercussions for the alleged perpetrators.

This case adds to the plethora of paedophilia cases reported across Pakistain each year, with the state machinery proving incapable of curbing this in the near future. A similar story was released in a documentary titled 'Pakistain's Hidden Shame' that premiered in Britannia's Channel 4 last September.
Posted by: Fred || 02/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
U.S. Spymaster Warns over Low-Level Cyber Attacks
Still more from the talkative Mr. Clapper.
[AnNahar] A steady stream of low-level cyber attacks poses the most likely danger to the United States rather than a potential digital "armageddon," U.S. intelligence director James Clapper said on Thursday.

U.S. officials for years have warned of a possible "cyber Pearl Harbor" that could shut down financial networks, poison water supplies or switch off power grids.

But Clapper told politicians that American spy agencies were more focused on lower-profile but persistent assaults that could have a damaging effect over time.

"Rather than a 'cyber Armageddon' scenario that debilitates the entire U.S. infrastructure, we envision something different," Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"We foresee an ongoing series of low-to-moderate level cyber attacks from a variety of sources over time, which will impose cumulative costs on U.S. economic competitiveness and national security," he said.

The past year had seen "destructive cyber attacks" for the first time on US soil carried out by other countries, Clapper said.
Here's a fellow who might be able to assist with this sort of thing, he's studied the threat for decades. Oh wait! You've already FIRED him.
He cited North Korea's alleged hacking of Sony Pictures in November and an Iranian attack a year ago against the Las Vegas Sands Casino Corporation.

Pyongyang was accused of targeting Sony over a comedy film that portrayed the fictional liquidation of North Korea's leader. And Iran went after Sands purportedly because the company's CEO, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is known as a hawkish supporter of Israel.

Foreign "actors" are conducting reconnaissance and gaining digital access to U.S. infrastructure systems, so they can launch a cyber attack if necessary in the future, he said.

Russia and China had particularly sophisticated cyber capabilities, according to the director of national intelligence.

Russia is creating its own cyber command that will be able to orchestrate propaganda and insert malware into adversaries' computer systems, he said.

Countries such as Iran and North Korea have "lesser technical capabilities but possibly more disruptive intent," he said.

Clapper acknowledged America had "offensive capabilities" in cyberspace but offered no details.

But he said there were questions about how to use such weapons and what sort of doctrine would govern digital operations.

"I think the issue, though, is what is the policy? What is it that would achieve cyber deterrence? And that is an issue that, at the policy level, we're still, frankly, wrestling with," he said.

The United States and Israel were reportedly behind an elaborate cyber attack on Iran's nuclear program in 2010 that damaged hundreds of centrifuges. Dubbed "Olympic Games," the operation employed the Stuxnet computer worm that was introduced through an infected USB flash drive, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Government
Eric Holder's Parting Advice to America: €˜Read Malcolm X'
[Breitbart] "I would hope that I say this not to every African-American of his age but for every American, that you read The Autobiography of Malcolm X to see the transition that that man went through, from petty criminal to a person who was severely and negatively afflicted by race, to somebody who ultimately saw the humanity in all of us, and that would be a book I would recommend to everybody," said Holder.
Great idea! I'll start on it as soon as I finish Mein Kampf.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2015 05:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess we now know that he didn't read that old piece of paper labeled the Constitution. Little things like -

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


Cause all animals are equal, but some animals* are more equal than others.

* see special interest groups of the Inner Party.
Posted by: Thronter Ulineck2002 || 02/28/2015 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Oops, that's me
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2015 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Eric you might consider reading the Constitution and after that Friedrich Hayek and a bit of American history. The online courses at Hillsdale College might be helpful also. You might lose your arrogant attitude and ask for the forgiveness of the American people for stomping all over the Constitution.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/28/2015 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Buh-bye, Eric, and good riddance. Now if we can just hold on until your boss leaves office we might be able to begin healing all the wounds you inflicted on this nation with your bitterness, hatred, your blatant disregard for the laws of this country that you were supposed to uphold, your contempt of Congress and your own racism.

Martin, Brown and Garner were all just petty criminals who got what they deserved. You wanted to prosecute the people who gave it to them, you tried your damndest but they did nothing to violate the law. You, on the other hand, either violated the law or obstructed justice on numerous times. Let's see...there was Fast and Furious, the IRS, the New Black Panthers. What else? The redactions? Remember the Border Patrolman who got killed with a weapon that you delivered to Mexican narco-terrorists? Remember all the documents those congressmen subpoenaed and you sent them pages that were all blacked out? What was it that you were so afraid they might see? Fuck off, Eric. Go to hell.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/28/2015 13:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Extradition to Mexico for FnF
Posted by: Frank G || 02/28/2015 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  I will read it. Know your enemy. Read Cloward Pivens as well. You must first understand your enemy if you are to defeat him. READ MALCOLM X...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/28/2015 15:04 Comments || Top||

#7  I'll miss him like I'll miss a blistering, itchy rash on my balls.
Posted by: Raj || 02/28/2015 15:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Few people realize, unabridged support of radicals can cause socially transmitted mental disorders, especially in lawyers.
Find out if an STMD could be causing your itch, and what you can do about it.
Posted by: Vernal Flolugum8046 || 02/28/2015 15:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Vernal STMD will likely make it into the next DSM after they vote next on what is a disease.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 02/28/2015 17:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Next thing I read related to him had better be his tombstone.

Or conviction notice.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/28/2015 19:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Mr. X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister preaching the black nationalism tripe.

Looking at that recommendation from 'My People' Holder wraps up the Obama package perfectly.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 02/28/2015 20:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Haven't read it but I had a friend who studied Malcom X and he claimed Mr X had a big change of heart in his later years.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/28/2015 22:30 Comments || Top||



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