Appalling And Insane

The current headline from Dallas:

Dallas Police: Snipers Shoot 11 Officers, 4 Dead

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A peaceful protest has taken a turn after snipers shot 11 police officers, killing four, according to Dallas Police Chief Brown.

“Some officers were shot in the back,” said Chief Brown, who added during a press conference that they believe a bomb may be hidden somewhere downtown.

UPDATE: CBS from Dallas:

At a news conference Friday, Brown said the suspect made the comments during a standoff with police in a downtown Dallas parking garage.

“We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours,” Brown said. “Negotiations broke down, we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect.”

He said the suspect told officers he was upset about the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent police shootings.

“The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,” Brown said.

The suspect was later killed by an explosive used by police, Brown said.

“We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” Brown said. “Other options would’ve exposed our officers to grave danger.”

Well, then - as in Orlando, his true motive will never be known.

 

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sarah Palin must have used crosshairs on FB again.

[buccaneer morgan]

category error on parade,

http://fusion.net/story/322630/second-amendment-black-people-philando-castile/

[buccaneer morgan]

mostly harmless, right,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3447324/posts

[squaredance]

Right. This is not about Obama instigating, it is about the NRA.

[buccaneer morgan]

no you jackass, they were executed because the (redacted-redacted) carp, that carlos slims has been putting out for the last four years,

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/dallas-police-officers-killed.html

[GUS]

Those JOM'ers still awake.
Watching Chief Brown, and the Mayor.
Does it occur to you that nearly EVERYONE on JOM, is more capable, intelligent and able???

It's almost surreal. It's like I'm getting DUMBER just watching them.

It scares me.

[Threadkiller]

Asymmetrical, it seems.

[buccaneer morgan]

from the leo affairs (law enforcement's grapevine)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/13/fredricka-whitfield-cnn-anchor-calls-dallas-gunman/

a toxic land fill is more useful than rupert pupkins network

[buccaneer morgan]

sorry that was from last year. the point still remains.

[GUS]

Fredricka Whitfield, is an AFRICAN-AMERICAN person....(I don't know how she "self-identifies")

[buccaneer morgan]

thinkregress, oh good cnn has charles blow, on to call the situation down,

http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2016/07/07/is-think-progress-correct-in-claiming-convicted-felon-alton-sterling-was-carrying-a-gun-legally/

[GUS]

What "caused" this planned and coordinated attack on Dallas Police???
What heinous actions did Dallas Police perpetrate to cause a COUPLE of BLACK PEEPS, to create an ASSAULT on the POLICE and to shoot people in the back?
There must be a ROOT cause!!

[buccaneer morgan]

if they had sheriff clarke instead of this factotum, the police wouldn't be as demoralized, but all departments, have cigar store indians, whose allegiance is to the civil rights zampolit first, and their officer's wellbeings second,

[GUS]

Narciso, I KNOW Sheriff Clarke. He has walked the walk. He was a Milwaukee Police Dept. beat officer and Detective for 25 years. He is black and he is educated. He doesn't play the "race card".
He's pretty cool.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wretchard's latest;
Denial Dies in Dallas

[CBS News]

Breaking

Possible photo of 2 suspects
*unconfirmed*
Story still developing

[buccaneer morgan]

final thought for the night, red queen and doc brown have been summoning these nazguls, trump takes the side of the defenders,

[Dave (in MA)]

The Associated Press
14m
The Associated Press‏ @AP
Dallas police chief: Negotiations with shooting suspect underway at parking garage.

[buccaneer morgan]

it's not insane, it's all too predictable, where we would end up, with that I bid adieu,

[glasater]

Posting this pic again just because it's so good.

This is quite a compelling image showing police shooting up. So the sniper description is apt.

Couldn't get the size thing to work. Apologies.

[glasater]

Fifth police officer has died. This is just horrible.

[GUS]

Black Lives Matter Glasater

[glasater]

This fellow has a bird's ey view of the scene

[GUS]

This Evening completely, illustrates what a COMPLETE FUKWAD Obama is.
I will guarantee all of you, that Obama will in NO WAY, apologize for his DISGUSTING political MEME.
Obama is a UGLY and DISHONORABLE LOSER.
If you cannot see this, you are part of the PROBLEM.
Obama is a sick and mentally ill freak. I've prayed for his ugly ass. No more.

[GUS]

Glasater, as I type this, a black pundit on FOX, is asking for OBAMA to come out and LEAD. VIS a VIS Dallas.

ABSURD. Obama is PART and PARCEL, THE PROBLEM.
OBAMA Has no character. Obama is a sick and DIVISIVE BASTARD.
If WE do not recognize this by NOW, we never will.
Obama is filth.

[rse]

Oh. My. Watched the network news last night and turned to red and said the continued false narrative being pushed about ferguson was dangerous and look.

It's not just the lies to save hillary and make trump seem to be a racist buffoon. It's the lies to make blacks believe they are targeted uniquely regardless pf personal behavior.

[Thomas Collins]

The news reports I have read so far don't describe the suspects. Are they white lower class bitter clinger Trump supporters? Must be.

[rse]

Wearing confederate flag t-shirts tc.

[Sandy Daze]

See what happens when high-powered weapons of war are allowed in the public ??

How much longer will America stand for this ?

Orlando, Dallas ?

When will these weapons be made illegal ?
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/sarc

[daddy]

Amazing news to get off a flight to Taiwan and read about in the Taxi-cab. I was interested in the intentional bombing in this country of a passenger train' yet up pops the BLM motivated assassins our President has helped breed in racially divided America.

[Sandy Daze]

A Dallas woman called Hugh Hewitt this morning and asked that people put blue ribbons on their car antennas and turn on the headlights for solidarity with the police. Another called and said, thank a policeman today when you see him /her.

I still turn on a blue light over my front door at night.

BLUE LIVES MATTER.

[henry]

This changes the threat level for Cleveland and Philadelphia.

[Free James D]

Rse @ 5:22

Exactly. And it's also the fruit of years of progressive "success" on the schools to plant the seeds for that narrative.

[rse]

This is apparently one of the suspects. https://twitter.com/DallasPD/status/751262719584575488

henry-I spend a fair amount of each day reading about how people's 'mental models' are to be manipulated. Well, they have been for purposes of building support for transformative political change and now those 'mental models' are reaching for violence as the solution, not politicians to lead the way forward.

[Jack is Back!]

Welcome to post-racial America.

Don't worry the FBI is on the case.

Feel better?

[rse]

James-mental models is not just the target, with the media then building on the emotions implanted via the false models, it is literally defined in the ed lit as the "deeply held internal images of how the world works."

Part of the focus is that the mental models need to be 'shared' and the need to not be about 'facts' with scare quotes in the lit just like that. The point is for the beliefs to be generative of action.

Well, this is action.

[rse]

Here is a quote from a paper on school as a learning organisation that came out this week. Please do not tell me either that I don;t know what goes on in Dallas schools as hinojosa left there to come to cobb in metro atlanta and now has gone back. I know what he has pushed both places in the schools as he worked on the Reimaging Education project with the nea and aft and brookings and I have all their lit.

Here's the definition: "knowledge is a constantly changing collective understanding not of 'facts' but of the action implications of what is known together.

When they brought in miles as the super in between hinojosa's stints his contract let him continue to push his side business of pushing transformative change on schools as long as dallas was not one of his customers. Every school board member of dallas isd has undergone Alinskyite Alliance training.

What has been bubbling up in the schools does matter and texas has long been cutting edge. Ft Worth was where the New Standards Project had a field office in the 90s.

[rse]

http://education-reimagined.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pioneering-Issue-16_FINAL.pdf is the vision for the project hinojosa worked on while he was the cobb super without telling the school board he was moonlighting.

That came out about two days ago.

[Janet the expert]

The pics of Obama at 2:02...someone on FB asked, Who is that woman?.

[DrJ]

In other news (WSJ):

Theranos CEO Banned From Operating Labs for Two Years

U.S. Federal health regulators dealt a major blow to Theranos, banning founder Elizabeth Holmes from operating a blood-testing laboratory for at least two years and yanking regulatory approval for its California lab.

I spoke with a fellow who worked for Theranos back in the early days. He said the company definitely need adult supervision.

[Miss Marple 2]

Woke to this terrible news.

Fox reporting 3 people in custody, including a woman. All are being uncooperative, according to police.

[clarice]

Comment on wretchard's latest: Subotai Bahadur:
"Acknowledging that the first 24 hours reports of matters like what is happening in Dallas are always shot through with static, most induced by incomplete and inaccurate reporting, I am noticing at least one thread I have not seen before in commentary all over the Web.
"Dallas is blamed on [Black Lives Matter] BLM and the Obama administration together. The shootings are considered the intended consequence of the policies of both operating in concert. There are also reports, awaiting confirmation, that the tactical skills of the snipers and possible allies [one cop was shot from behind on camera, at short range by one of the enemy while ducking for cover from sniper fire] were beyond those of untrained street rats. So we may be seeing joint action by BLM and Jihadi's. They are natural allies.
?Parallel with that is the realization after the events of the last week or so, that the government itself is just a lawless conspiracy, and that it is the enemy regardless of party. Comey and Hillary have rubbed everyone's noses in that fact, and the absolute knowledge that the Republicans are in on it and will do nothing is making people say that the organic waste is in the process of hitting the fan.
"I have said for two years that there was a very good chance that there would not be elections this November. That chance is getting larger. The ballot box may not be effective in our society any more, with all that implies."

[Neo]

This outcome has been brewing since Ferguson.
Obama and Eric Holder's DOJ have been heading us in this direction.
This is not to mention the celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg who have advanced the "BLM" manta over "all lives matter."

[Miss Marple 2]

Sheriff Clark was on Fox and flat-out called Obama partially responsible for his reckless words. Asked about Jesse Jackson's comment that this was due to Donald Trump causing a climate of hate (!!!) he said that Jackson was a blowhard whose time is past and who says stuff like that to make himself sound relevant.

Sheriff Clark was extremely angry and said he prayed Donald Trump got elected so that we would have someone in office who stood behind police rather than attacking them.

[Momto2]

Horrible, horrible events! I am going to an officer's funeral this morning. (brain tumor). There will be a huge contingent of uniformed officers there. He was a K-9 officer and his wife is a friend.

I can't even imagine how I would feel if my husband had to put on the blue and go out into the streets right now.

Agreeing with all of you... Obama + BLM + Media hype = 5 officers killed

[rse]

There is a story out in NYT on trump and hillary campaigning that talks about hillary wanting to build on a BLM coalition and makes the lead about the 'unprovoked' attacks in Minnesota and LA and making what happened in Dallas essentially an afterthought.

Stunning way to continue to manipulate this and how trump and hill are seen. It does feel like the twilight zone.

[James D]

So can we call BLM a terrorist group now?

The left has spent 7 years calling the tea party terrorists, when the only people who have ever been injured because of the TP are IRS agents who got papercuts while conducting illegal audits of TP members and groups.

BLM calls for violence, coordinated violent events, and its members murder multiple police officers in a planned, coordinated attack. How are they different from ISIS or Al Qaeda?

[Buckeye]

The shooting of one policeman in the back by an individual standing on the ground and behind the officer was likely random and opportunistic.

If in fact there was more than one sniper, nothing about the remaining shootings was random or a simple reaction to the shootings in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis.

The skill level required for the shooter(s) to have been this effective isn't innate, It requires training and practice. And if more than one shooter?

Not a simple reaction at all.

[Miss Marple 2]

Buckeye,

Seems like it was well-planned, doesn't it?

[Captain Hate]

Assuming there will still be a November election, if you liked what happened in Dallas, vote for Rodham. Also it's time for the Cleveland police to tell the crooked judge and his ACLU puppetmasters to go fuck themselves and massively reduce the RNC convention "protest areas" if not completely eliminate them.

[Buckeye]

Seems as though. The press conference will hopefully provide some facts. My confidence in the media to report anything accurately is zero.

[Captain Hate]

The MFM has as much blood on their hands on this as 404.

[Buckeye]

CH

The circus must go on in Cleveland. It won't be until Cleveland burns and Republicans look bad that measures will be taken....in Philadelphia.

[Marlene]

This is terrible. CH,the daughter will be in Cleveland for work related events at the convention. I'm not happy. Do you have concerns about local law enforcement being able to contain protests?

In minor news,I don't have a tick bite,just an allergic reaction to something else,maybe a spider? My PA told me that they have seen so many tick bites this summer and take every concern seriously. Check for ticks!

[squaredance]

Yes, and none of them will either admit it or be held accountable.

[rse]

The Thursday evening march, scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., was announced Wednesday by the Next Generation Action Network, a local faith-based civil-rights group.

That sounds tied to the Industrial Areas Foundation affiliates called Alliance that also are involved with the school board training. I wrote about it several years ago after the Annenberg Foundation did a story touting these groups in Texas and their ties to churches.

[daddy]

Amid today's discouraging news, here's something to actually be encouraged about, via a Tim Blair link from Australia: Muslim Brats Refuse ‘Western’ Lesson, So Authorities Refuse Something Of Theirs

USA Today reports that Muslim students refused to take mandatory swimming lessons at a Swiss school because they would be using the pool with the opposite sex. The girl and their families understood that the class was part of the federal curriculum and that refusal would result in disciplinary actions. Again, they refused, so authorities laid down the law.

Finding that the girls had applied for Swiss citizenship, authorities immediately denied their applications, citing the students’ refusal to comply with school curricula like all the other children of various races, backgrounds, and religions. Their refusal to assimilate to and respect the very culture they wanted to take them in and give them the privilege of citizenship was proof enough that they weren’t there to better Swiss society but to force its citizens to adopt their foreign beliefs.

A ray of sanity in an insane world.

[squaredance]

You got that right, Buckeye.

Imagine that, the Democrat party operatives literally shooting at their opponents. What happens of Hillary get in?

[James D]

It won't be until Cleveland burns and Republicans look bad that measures will be taken....in Philadelphia.

And if some of the attendees to the convention are injured, or killed, the BLM terrorists and the Dems will just consider that a bonus.

[Marlene]

DeRay McKesson attended Bowdoin and every time he says something the Maine media slobber.
He is an "education professional." rse might know more about his connections.
I've always thought he's the next Obama.

[Old Lurker]

Yay for Marlene.

[Threadkiller]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/08/the-curious-case-of-philando-castile-falcon-heights-mn-police-shooting/#more-118450

[Miss Marple 2]

Dallas police chief saying the divisiveness between police and the people must end.

[Captain Hate]

Marlene, where will she be staying? The events last night could serve as an early heads up for some of our black robed tyrants to stop coddling Soros's stooges (and why is his bankrolling this crap continuing unabated) and get serious about security or it could continue spiraling out of control. Right now I'm not sure which is more likely. Remember after Saint Tamir, the Cleveland police are under the thumb of Lynch's goons.

[Threadkiller]

Glad it's not worse, Marlene. Thanks for the update.

[daddy]

Won't link to it, but the Sydney Morning Herald is onboard pushing Obama's calls for "Gun Control" over the bodies of the slain Dallas Policemen. Here's the headline: "Powerful weapons" Obama speaks out:

President Barack Obama makes a statement on the police shootings after arriving in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 8, 2016. ...
President condemns 'vicious, calculated, despicable attack', flags return to gun control debate.

[Jim Eagle]

Looking at that video of the lone shooter in body armor looks like prior military training and operational experience. Either US military or Syrian trained Jihadi. But your average gang-banger is not that sophisticated in their movement, tactics and riflemanship.

[Dave (in MA)]

Just heard on the radio: After negotiating with one of the suspects, he refused to surrender and continued firing, so a robot was sent to his proximity and an explosive device was used. The suspect is deceased.

[Miss Marple 2]

Suspect who is dead did not kill himself.

When he refused to give up after negotiations broke down, they sent a bomb on a robot and detonated it.

Said it was the only thing they could do without exposing officers to great risk.

[Lurker Susie]

"The ice under us in this country is very thin, and is made very weak by the warm fogs of prejudice." - Frederick Douglass

[buccaneer morgan]

Good news marlene, I'm in witness protection from mosquitoes.

Well daddy it worked with port Arthur, Rupert even helped fan the flames.

[Janet the expert]

Amen to this from Captain - The MFM has as much blood on their hands on this as 404.

[Captain Hate]

I've always thought he's the next Obama.

Hopefully he'll have all the electoral appeal of Sandra Fluke.

[henry]

BREAKING #Dallas Police Chief Brown says suspect told police he "wanted to kill white people, white police officers."

This is an Indianapolis radio station tweet.

[henry]

Plus no funding for sanctuary cities? Or is this more okie doke?

[James D]

Janet @ 8:48

I agree completely.

Except maybe it's not even worth separating them at this point. They're all part of the same movement.

[Captain Hate]

Or is this more okie doke?

I hope not; cutting off those leeches from money is always an effective way to get them in line as long as they don't find some alternative means of getting it. Much vigilance is needed. But for now that is very good news.

[buccaneer morgan]

I restate my opinion of CNN and MSNBC.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

"When he refused to give up after negotiations broke down, they sent a bomb on a robot and detonated it."

When someone is involved in killing police and "refuses to give up", IMO it is suicide.

[Miss Marple 2]

henry,

That tweet is correct. I heard the police chief read the series of statements from the now-deceased by detonation shooter.

[Miss Marple 2]

Police chief also said shooter said other things but they weren't going to release the statements while investigation is on-going.

[Jim Eagle]

I see Tim Stanley has gone the full Vizzini today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/08/dallas-shooting-a-democracy-as-racist-as-america-will-never-be-a/

[daddy]

Help!

On my iPad somehow my keypad has split in half so that qwert and the letters below qwert are on the far left of my screen, while the yuiop and the letters beneath it are split off far to the right side of my iPad screen. How do I put them back together again and get an undivided typepad?

[Miss Marple 2]

daddy,

Have you tried powering down and then turning it on again?

[Marlene]

CH,I'm not sure about the exact hotel. Big retail is very strict about travel expenses,so it is usually a mid-price hotel.

[Old Lurker]

daddy, you are supposed to be able to pull the two halves back together with your fingers.

[Buckeye]

daddy
under "general"

[Buckeye]

"keyboard"

turn off "split keyboard"

[Miss Marple 2]

Capitol Building in DC in lock down. Shelter in place for those inside. "Event" underway, possible armed person.

[Buckeye]

My iPad does all kinds of random crap including application crashes at a high frequency.

Anyone who thinks bug free software is the norm is smoking something.

Quality in much of any endeavor anymore seems too much to ask for.

[Dave (in MA)]

"VB" on the radio said after Chief Brown's report that it sounds like they're saying it was all one shooter. Did anyone else get that sense?

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dallas-police-shooting-black-power-8378177#ICID=sharebar_twitter

[Old Lurker]

"Capitol Building in DC in lock down."

Harry Reid must be complaining about those smelly summer tourists.

[henry]

Buckeye... a note from our Chitown lurker:

Tell Buckeye not to worry, the bugs in the FBI app he downloaded will be updated in due time.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Last night's shooting should have been foreseen as a wholly predictable, possible result of the Ferguson/BLM propaganda campaign.

I've wondered from the very beginning just how involved the Dem Party is in planning and supporting the BLM demonstrations, 'resist authority' training seminars, and helping fund their sizable expenses.

I suspect their plan is to blame the killings on the 'racist' campaign of Trump, in a calculated move to bring out more of the oBOzo vote for Hil-LIAR-y.

[sbw]

We cannot let ourselves be goaded. Keep focused on the November ballot box. We believe in civil society. They don’t.

Expect a Reichstag fire or two to be fabricated by the left to foment civic unrest that they could then use as a pretext to further their attempt to control us all.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Just so you know:

http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/comey-has-long-history-of-clinton-related-cases/#LUIiGJi2P8rOVtrG.01

With the term for the Director 10 years, the Clintons will apparently be free to do anything they want until 2023 at least.

[Old Lurker]

"Tell Buckeye not to worry, the bugs in the FBI app he downloaded will be updated in due time."

Mel probably does not know that Google secretely downloads that FBI app every time somebody searches on "Comey + A**hole"...

[Buckeye]

Henry

Tell Chi-Town that as they are making their "list", I am making mine:)

[James D]

I've wondered from the very beginning just how involved the Dem Party is in planning and supporting the BLM demonstrations, 'resist authority' training seminars, and helping fund their sizable expenses.

I don't wonder at all.

The Dems are clearly heavily involved in BLM and openly encouraging violence. They make no secret of it.