As The War Hits Home Again, Mr. Obama Continues To Frolick

Effective Immediately:
The Official "White House Schedule" will be renamed "Tee Times."...WH Press Secretary 

• Yesterday, before Obama's presser on ISIS, I Tweeted: "How quickly will Obama return to the front 9?" Well, it only took him about ten minutes according to many news reports.
•  There's no doubt Obama is taking a lot of heat for appearing to be "disengaged" as the world burns. He's even getting some long-overdue criticism from some in the presstitute media. For example, Maureen Dowd of the NY Times wrote, "The president who was elected as a hot commodity is now a wet blanket." (Note she didn't write "viewed" as a wet blanket). Later in her piece this week, she continued, "The man whose singular qualification was a uniter turns out to be singularly unequipped to operate in a polarized environment."
• But then there was Joe Scarborough of MSNBC. You don't have to watch "Morning Joe" too long to understand that he's a tad schizophrenic. This former Republican congressman moves almost gracefully from being a liberal to a moderate to a conservative---sometimes within just a few minutes. Then again, he does work for MSNBC. But he added new meaning to stretching a defense of Pres. Obama's entertaining himself on the golf course immediately following the ISIS presser yesterday. According to Joe, he believes Obama portraying himself as "one cold bastard" (Joe's words) is to give the terrorists the impression, "Screw you, we're not going to live by your rules." (again Joe's quote). In my opinion, there's a big problem with his theory. Obama has golfed several hundred times in the last few years, and the savage terrorists are still murdering innocents including Americans. In other words, the terrorists are sending the same message to Pres. Obama: Screw you! And to show you we're serious we'll just murder one of your journalist and post his execution online. 
• The fact is these guys are brutal homicidal fanatics. And just as disturbing, they are now also getting recruits from the West. How serious a problem is it? Just this week, Newsweek reported twice as many British Muslims are now fighting for ISIS than in the UK military. That fact alone implies there are many Brits who sympathize with savage terrorists. And one more item. Muhammed is now the most popular boys name in Britain. That's one outcome of progressive immigration policies.
• While it was good to hear Pres. Obama speak about bringing these maniacs to justice, we expect more than rhetoric from our leaders. Benny Avni of the NY Post reminds us of that scene in "Casablanca" when Bogart's character says, "I bet they're asleep in New York, I bet they're asleep all over America." His character finally realized he could not longer be neutral about WWII.  I know most Americans are not asleep especially after hearing and viewing the barbarism of ISIS and others of their ilk (including what happened on 9/11). But we certainly don't expect our leaders to keep entertaining themselves as terrorists openly threaten us.

A Vacation Update For Pres. Obama: ISIS and Fergurson

How quickly will Obama return to the front 9? My Tweet after Obama's statement today on the murder of journalist James Foley.

• I felt compelled to Tweet that statement out today considering Pres. Obama was on the golf course within 10 minutes of his news conference last week that addressed the Ferguson shooting and subsequent rioting  and looting.
• The events now occurring in Ferguson and in many other major cities run by progressive democrats gives us a glimpse into the past as we hurdle into the future. In just the last several years, we've watched as Occupy Wall Street was treated as relevant. And today, in Ferguson, we've witnessed irrelevant, race-baiting hacks in the media, Sharpton and the Black Panthers take center stage. Michael Goodwin of the NY Post attributed much of this to a political class that "only panders to the least common denominator."
• Everyone now knows, ISIS beheaded an American journalist and are threatening to do the same to another. This is a group of savage murderers who have committed one crime after another against humanity. As Amir Taheri correctly pointed out this week, ISIS and their ilk are "enemies of mankind." He added, "The Islamic State kills people because it can." Yet throughout history, civilized nations took appropriate action against those who were enemies of humanity. Yes, in a few cases, they were late to the dance. But as we saw during WWII and its aftermath, the Nazis eventually paid for their crimes. Israel didn't waste time in hunting down the leaders of the massacre of their athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. 

The Kangaroos Keep Encircling Ferguson

Dear Black America: I apologize for our predominantly white and racist media that only pretends to care when there's a political upside...Tweet by John Nolte of Breitbart

As I watched the news conference today of one of the autopsy investigation s of Michael Brown, I asked myself: Has the trial started already? Only Kangaroo Courts drive charges against defendants before all the facts are in.

Almost a year ago to this date, I wrote a piece entitled: "The Continued Exploitation Of African-Americans By The Media, African-American Leadership and Progressive Frauds." That article was written shortly after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Prior to that trial, we witnessed some of the same racially charged rhetoric that's now coming out of Ferguson, MO, even before all the facts have been made known (facts that generally come out in a court of law). In that piece, I also pointed out that 11,000 black were murdered since Trayvon was killed. For example, in Chicago this weekend, there were 29 wounded and 7 were killed. Approximately 80% of homicide victims in Chicago have been black over the past several years.

Yet, the news about the shootings and killings in Chicago and other cities throughout the nation don't make the news because they don't fit the narrative established by the media and those who continually exploit African-Americans. On the other hand, the shooting of a black youth by a white cop does. The media and the race hustlers will always grasp on to the racism angle hence the appearances of the Black Panthers, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Moreover, Ferguson and all the way up to the governor's office, has been run by Democrats. So once again, as in most Democrat controlled major cities in the United States, we see the exploitation of the poor, black and Hispanics by the media as well as the progressive political class.

Also, it appears many of the looters---they are not protesters---are from out of town. The First Amendment protects the actions of protesters but not looters. We can leave dealing with looters to the Second Amendment.

So what are the facts as I write this today. They include, but certainly are not limited to the following:

• Preliminary family autopsy findings indicate that Michael Brown was shot at least six times. Two of the shots to the head were probably fatal.
• We know prior to the shooting that Michael Brown robbed a convenience store (from the released video). It appears the police officer charged in the alleged shooting, Darren Wilson, did not know Brown had robbed the convenience store. He stopped Brown for jaywalking. (But keep in mind. Brown knew he robbed the store). 
• Wilson is a six year veteran of the police department. According to initial accounts, he has no disciplinary actions in his jacket.
• John Belmar, Chief of the St. Louis County Police Department, reported all the shell casings collected at the scene were from Wilson's weapon.
• There are several eye-witness accounts to the shooting including the account by the police

In my opinion, the bottom line in all of this is for the court to decide. Are there bad cops? You bet just as there as bad teachers, bad soldiers and bad clergy. But as Rich Lowry wrote in a recent piece, "Too many people are already vested in not letting that happen." The kangaroos appear to be in charge.

Sidebar:

In the last decade, 1,500 law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty or about 150 a year. To date, there have been 66, twenty-seven of those by gunfire. In addition, there have been just over 58,000 assaults against law enforcement EACH YEAR. Those have resulted in almost 16,000 injuries to the officers. Officer Down Memorial Fund + National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Postscript: Since this was posted, Darren Brown was not indicted.