Duck! and Gather

“WTF?”, you’re saying. Here is the explanation for this picture. I’m re-posting here since I have a number of friends who visit this blog from time to time.

Check out Gates Case Shocker. Here’s the money quote:
The 40-year-old woman whose emergency call to Cambridge police sparked the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a raging national debate on race relations claims she never said “black” men were breaking into his house.
“This woman is 100 percent clear on what she said,” [...]

Check out the video at 0:33. Officer Crowley recounts his version of the incident with Prof. Gates. He says, in a calm, non-threatening, voice: “I asked him if he could step outside and speak with me”. He says this as if the request is an entirely reasonable and straightforward one. Maybe [...]

For me, the whole Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest story comes down to the first 10 seconds of the interaction between himself and Sergeant Crowley. In Gates’ own words, those first ten seconds went like this:
So I went over to the front porch still holding the phone, and I said ‘Officer, can I help you?’ [...]

In my last post, I call the Henry Louis Gates arrest a perfect story and a “matchstick”. The reason I call it “perfect” is that:

No reasonable person could confuse Gates, a short, 58-year-old, handicapped, egghead, with a perp.
No reasonable person could confuse Crowley, an intelligent professional, with an honorable track record, [...]

The only American holiday that I “buy into” is July 4, Independence Day. To me, the rest of the holidays seem either anachronistic and/or contrived, and certainly driven by the retail corporations. But July the 4th will remain live and meaningful so long as there is an America. This is because America is a live, [...]

Out of context, this seems like a reasonably interesting video. But in context, it’s moving and powerful. A regime would love nothing better than to find out who this poster is, and crush his skull. They’ve put up every roadblock they could think of up to stop this fellow from posting [...]

Back in the summer of 2006, in the heat of the midterm elections, George Allen experienced his infamous “Macaca Moment” which was captured on video and posted on YouTube:

Up until that moment, Allen was considered not merely the favorite for the Senate seat for which he was running, but also for [...]

Boy, this is one unproductive day for me. Blog-o-rama. Many thoughts coming from this shooting today at the Holocaust Museum in DC. Here’s my next one:
I’m one of the people driving the up the viewer numbers on the stormfront.org discussion forums today. Probably the most important topic in those forums is one, originally posted back [...]

OK. So I couldn’t summon the motivation to watch the whole 10 minutes of it either. But just skip forward to the last minute or so and you’ll get the flavor.
I found this fellow starting with a Google search for James von Brunn, and following the links. Mr. von Brunn has [...]