He Died A Hero

Here is the NY Times on the tragic fire in the Bronx that killed twelve:

After Saving Many From Fire, Soldier Died Trying to Rescue One More

Emmanuel Mensah was a handsome, strongly built young man in his late 20s who immigrated to the Bronx from Ghana five years ago. He joined the Army but returned to his apartment on Prospect Avenue in December after undergoing training.

And on Thursday night, he lost his life trying to save people from his furiously burning apartment building, one of 12 people to die in the blaze.

“He brought four people out,” said his uncle, Twum Bredu, who lives next door. “When he went to bring a fifth person out, the fire caught up with him.”

Mr. Mensah was found in Apartment 15, his uncle said, but he lived in Apartment 11, with a friend of his father’s who was at home with his wife and four children. Mr. Mensah got that family to safety, then pulled out four more people, his uncle said, before returning to the building. He never emerged; authorities said he died of smoke inhalation.

Assuming this is roughly true I hope the Army and the good people of the greatest city in the world do something to honor this guy.

Comments

[Bubarooni]

Early Bird and all that....

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Paul Ryan
‏Verified account @SpeakerRyan
5h5 hours ago

Important that we support the nonviolent protesters in #Iran. This is the result of a regime more focused on propping up terrorist organizations than addressing the plight of its citizens.

[daddy]

Good Morning.

Over here in a Breakfast Buffet room surrounded by brand new adopted Chinese baby girls and their new American parents. Always uplifting.

I switched both TVs here off CNN to a local Chinese News Channel. It has been running a recap of the top stories of 2017 and they keep putting up the video of Trump's cute granddaughter serenading the Chinese President and his wife with some old Chinese Folk Song.

I can't over-stress how huge that played over here. Every time it comes up the News gal breaks out in a delightful smile and recaps the incident. Trump and Ivanka were brilliant to organize that compliment to thaw relations. It definitely was one of the top News moments to a Billion Chinese.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Hi, daddy!

Thanks for the info on what's popular in China.

As you can tell the big things popping here are the Iran uprising and the Huma Abedin emails.

When do you leave for the states?

[henry]

Damn. Mensah was a good one. RIP.

[narcisoyea]

They would have to step up to be ladling carp

https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesHasson20/status/946890973967200256

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Important that we support the nonviolent protesters in #Iran.--

Glad the Frogs didn't feel that way toward the Americas a couple hundred years ago.

[boatbuilder]

Ted Cruz tweets in support of the Iranian resistance and some asshole responds "Not our problem Ted" and exhorts him to work on pending Senate bills. Really?

[Catsmeat]

Of course it's our problem--and one of our biggest problems internationally could be solved if the mullahs go down.

[narcisoyea]

This ultimately was why we were in Iraq, this was why the sepah armed the militias and armed them epms against coalition forces.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Greater love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/22/james-rosen-leaving-fox-news-after-18-years/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

[boatbuilder]

From what I have read that apartment in the Bronx was a firetrap tenement from the turn of the previous century. This is 2017, where local regulation is ubiquitous, except where it isn't. Like the Oakland fire, the apparent willingness of the local authorities to turn the other way for somewhat sketchy situations involving certain communities appears to be at the heart of things. RIP Emmanuel Mensah.

[daddy]

Hi Miss M.

2 more days on deck here in Guangzhou (sunny and 80 degrees) and then we do an evening leg to Seoul and sit there for 36 hours. Then straight home on I think the 3rd or 4th---I've lost track of time.

Just catching up and plus I'm sober now:) but I don't recall Pop ever making a big deal of Lena Horne. I do recall that as a kid I would go through his War chest and in it were a number of small white cartoon sort of things dropped behind Allied lines by the Germans from planes or fired by shell, and they would say stuff like 'Surrender American soldier and go home because we are going to win the war and your girlfriend back home is cheating on you." Those were fascinating, as was all the other stuff in his war chest, like I suspect your pop's was also.

[lyle]

My iPhone is crapping out on me in SV. Sidebar to Beasts: great email.

49 degrees here today. We took a beautiful walk about 2pm. Grilled salmon with red curry veggies. '07 Casanova di Neri Brunello. Cheers!

[narcisoyea]

I wonder how he managed that?

https://www.longroom.com/discussion/826041/exclusive-bronx-slumlord-who-owned-apartment-building-where-12-died-had-hundreds-of-complaints-and-violations-across-his-property-empire

[boatbuilder]

Willowed from the last thread:

One of the commenters on that Josh Caplan twitter post said "this is a CIA/Israeli backed coup attempt." I wish I knew how to respond on twitter because my thought is "God one can only hope so."

[Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there]

What do you guys think is going on in Gitmo?

Do you think Jordan and Saudi Arabia on the same page?

Is there any sign we are helping in Iran?

The whole world appears to be rumbling.

[narcisoyea]

Carrying over from the other thread

1) hard to know

2) like we did for solidarity

3) yes for the most part.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jane,

Gitmo is a good place to hold bad actors. Sessions and Mattis have already been there.

A lot of people think people like the Podestas are already there.

I don't know. I just report.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--A lot of people think people like the Podestas are already there.--

Huh?

[James D.]

A lot of people think people like the Podestas are already there.

In my fondest dreams, they certainly are, and they're not alone.

[lyle]

You should be so lucky to dine with me, anonymous.

Apropos of willowing: we're dog sitting a sweet golden retriever named Willow tonight.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Ignatz,

I only report what I read. Neither of them has posted on Twitter in a couple of weeks.
People are drawing connections to the EO the President signed and the sealed indictments which are in courts all over the country.

I don't know what to think. I am, as I said, reporting what I read.

[narcisoyea]

The daily express is the only paper that even obliquely covering the story, re reaction from Washington.

[Neo]

According to new documents, Hugh efner specified that his widow, 31-year-old Crystal Harris, and his four children, ages 26 to 65 from prior marriages, must not use any unprescribed drugs or become dependent on alcohol.

If they do, they will be kicked out of the trust, which is valued at $43 million dollars.

[narcisoyea]

Ok and this one:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/thousands-take-to-streets-across-iran-in-protest-at-regime-g8m0rcwt7

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/iranprotests-grow-this-time-u-s-backs-the-protesters/

[narcisoyea]

Who do think he is Ted Stevens:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast

This re Jacob zumba warlord of johannesberg

[Thomas Collins]

Re Ryan and nonviolent protests: It's fine with me if politicians talk about nonviolence. Clearly taking down Imam Khameinei will take violence or the credible threat of violence. I just hope that if we are involved in helping coup plotters, we are prepared to do the necessary, so that we don't have Bay of Pigs redux.

[Clarice Feldman]

Can't get enough of heroes. where would we all be without them?

[matt- deplore me if you must]

There are several Army decorations for bravery outside of combat, notably the Army Commendation Medal. There is also the Soldier's Medal, which is a higher decoration. It sounds like this soldier deserves the latter. God bless his soul.

Reading

[Thomas Collins]

Or if we are not prepared to do the necessary, the Saudis and Israelis are.

[Dave (in MA)]

Apparently the Hezbos are less popular in Tehran than they were in the 44 White House.

[narcisoyea]

Good grief, you have one job, and its not to preach about ecology or inequality or some such,
Because they are symptoms of the larger dysfunction:

https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/12/29/pope-urges-theologians-faithful-anchored-vatican-ii/

[boatbuilder]

I will go on the record as being in support of both nonviolent and violent protesters in Iran. Iran is not Berkeley.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://nypost.com/2017/12/29/soldier-home-for-holidays-died-saving-lives-in-bronx-inferno/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

[Captain Hate]

I'm hoisting a glass of Great Lakes Barrel Aged Barley Wine to the hero of the thread and the brave Iranians who thirst for freedom.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wasn't criticizing you, MM, just questioning a highly unlikely assertion by whoever said it.
If it's true I might have to start wondering about Trump's authoritarian streak, which in fact is an utter fantasy of the professional victims of the left.

[Buckeye]

First half was a flat out ass whooping by the Buckeye defense.

See what happens in the second.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--It's fine with me if politicians talk about nonviolence.--

Me too if it is a strategic decision. Has Ryan ever made a strategic decision? He's hell on tactics but strategery seems a foreign language.

[narcisoyea]

They used to keep them on the top left corner of Hollywood squares

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/366767-jersey-shore-cast-member-to-trump-global-warming-is-more

[Dave (in MA)]

Joining CH, hoisting a Gulden Draak 9000 in a glass that my wife made for me.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Curious what anyone here thinks of Johnathon Richman.
Sometimes he seems brilliant and at others a moron and most of the time he seems. as I saw it put somewhere, like music's version of Andy Kaufman; making a career out of manipulating people into wondering whether he's serious.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

ALERT!

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
4m4 minutes ago

Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching! #IranProtests

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Hoisting an inferior A&W root beer; the Mogen David of root beers.

[Dave (in MA)]

I drive past the Stop & Shop that the song likely refers to every day on my way to work.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

I'd take that "slumlord" piece with some large grains of salt. Seems like the fire likely had nothing to do with any code violations, but was started by a 3-year-old "playing with a gas stove." Even fancy Park Ave buildings get cited for violations, and it sounds like many of the complaints were about things like elevator problems. Maybe the landlord is an evil villain, but maybe tragedies happen without an evil mastermind. But regardless, Emmanuel Mensah was a hero. RIP.

[Dave (in MA)]

Current musical selection, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEcdK72nZ0
which was under the tree alongside the delicious ale.

[daddy]

And right on cue, as the Iranian population hits the streets in a mass movement in search of freedom, the Archbishop of Canterbury sees fit to dump on Trump.

Man, I would hate to be in a foxhole with Justin Welby.

[narcisoyea]

Probably they are viewing it through the template of grenfell towers which happenedvunder aomeqhat similar conditions. But this real life Mr. Potter is hard not to pigeonhole.

[Dave (in MA)]

Reportedly the tot was known to have a tendency to play with the stove, so preventive measures such as putting the knobs in a cabinet would have been the smart thing to do.

[narcisoyea]

Aomeqhat, wow that's cobvolutrex for you. What is the purpose of Utonistake.

[daddy]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
4m4 minutes ago

Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching! #IranProtests

But I thought Obama signed a wonderful Peace Plan with the moderate Iranians. Was I misinformed?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

daddy,

I see you have noticed that the "Peace Plan" isn't woth sour owl crap.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"The BBC documentary questions whether transitioning is the best path for every child with gender dysphoria."

So it was canceled by the CBC because of protests by "activists."

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-cbc-canceled-broadcast-of.html

But it's conservatives who are anti-science.

[narcisoyea]

Morrisey was filling in for Gallagher this morning and he had a guest who had been to nineveh a place that finally been able to celebrate Christmas after three years, whose Christian roots go back to thomas missionary work, whose coversion to Judaism goes back to Jonah

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Come again, narc@11:12?

[Buckeye]

USC defense playing well in the second.

[narcisoyea]

Explaining my error, by adding more of it. We have some other licours we keep for days like this.

[Dave (in MA)]

Narciso was quoting from the May 9th 1907 New York Sun, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1907-05-09/ed-1/seq-1/ocr/

[narcisoyea]

Azadi is the Farsi word for freedom.

[daddy]

President Trump to New York Times:

“Whatever happened to this Pakistani guy who worked with the DNC?”

Good question.

[GUS]

Emmanuell Mensah, emigrated from GHANA, 5 years ago. He served his beloved Country. He SERVED.
GOD BLESS THIS MAN.

Ask not what your Country can do for you, Ask what YOU can do for your Country.

Even the 1%'er JFK served his COUNTRY.

God bless Emmanuell Mensah. He deserves to be interred at ARLINGTON.

Ted Kennedy, NOT SO MUCH.

[Dave (in MA)]

Azadi's just another word for nothin' left to lose.

[narcisoyea]

In this case its called liquor d' anis Azadi!

[GUS]

Daddy, are you suggesting Kerry's RIGHT HAND MAN, was not up to the challenge?

https://www.google.com/search?q=OBAMA%27S+ENERGY+secretary+PICTURE&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS763US763&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=yTkfK-W8E68hAM%253A%252CTMOXSFbWwhBOTM%252C_&usg=__uCJuOFhBgMphvVe3ePROwL-u2tU%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP2prj9LDYAhUE4CYKHdGdDcsQ9QEIQTAL#imgrc=yTkfK-W8E68hAM:

[narcisoyea]

Point taken.

You forget Gus, cpl e m Kennedy was invaluable at the battle of champs elysee guarding the croissant aupply

[narcisoyea]

Or maybe like the matarese circle, he wee replaced by the son of Corsican financier who they resurrected 20 years later for the sequel

[daddy]

Anyone know why Comey's FBI was doing search warrants on Trump supporter Sheriff Clarke?

Gateway Pundit Breaking: Deep State Hacks at FBI Executed Search Warrant of Trump Supporter Sheriff David Clarke in March

[GUS]

Yes, E.M. KENNEDY was known as the CROIS-WAITRESS SANDWICH Senator. Teddy was one slice of BREAD. Chris Dodd was the other.

[daddy]

Has Marie Harf given credit yet to Obama for the protesters in the Iranian street?

[Dave (in MA)]

guarding the croissant aupply

The Man with the Golden Croissant

[narcisoyea]

How is it, their justice ayatem is operating better than ours, how is it possible?

https://babalublog.com/2017/12/29/justice-catching-up-to-cristina-kirchner-argentinas-corrupt-former-president/

[daddy]

Posting this just because I love the headline:

Jailed pervert Anthony Weiner had CLASSIFIED emails belonging to wife Huma Abedin on his laptop – which the FBI seized after he sexted 15-year-old girl

[Clarice Feldman]

Thomas wictor on twitter has best info on Iran woth lots of videos. I'll be traveling this weekend but I'll pop in now and then to make sure you all BehAVE! Happy New Year .

[lyle]

I hope to enjoy a golden croissant soon!

[Dave (in MA)]

Spicier returned after a 2 month hiatus.

Sean Spicier@sean_spicier 

Somebody tell ESPN to put news of the Iran 

protests on the ticker so Obama sees it

[Beasts of England]

The USC center must've had some Brylcreem on his towel... :)

[GUS]

Daddy, I know Sheriff Clarke, he went to Marquette High, where my son goes.
He was targeted and surveilled, because he was a McGOVERN supporter apparently..

OR PERHAPS, because he is BLACK?????

The CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE goes deeper and deeper.

[Beasts of England]

I can't be the only one relieved to never hear Lurch say 'ISIL' or 'Daish' again, amirite?

[narcisoyea]

I second the motion, he betrayed people on three continents, south Asia middle east and central America.

[Dave (in MA)]

He betrayed people on NA first.

[GUS]

Daddy, I have mentioned to many peeps here in "Sconsin, that ISIL is never mentioned any more.
Nor does SINGIN' JIM TAYLOR wax poetic to the PARISIANS' about being THEIR FRIEND!!!!
I guar-an-fuckin'-tee, that Lurch Kerry Kohn Heinz, has ZERO ZERO shame at his CLASSLESS/CLUELESS time at FOGGY BOTTOM.
ZERO SHAME. His entire life's story is of a USER and SELF PROMOTING BLITHERING FUKWAD.

[narcisoyea]

Statement true, Dave.

[Buckeye]

There offense was just no match for our defense.

[narcisoyea]

Because pearshaped doesn't cover it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CShadegg/status/946945805381861376?p=v

[narcisoyea]

They would be shipping steel to the Luftwaffe:

https://mobile.twitter.com/FitzpatrickIISS/status/946931631666933762

[GUS]

How could ANYONE pay MARIE BARF...fitty cent, for her pathetic, and POMPOUS ....CRAP??
Good lord, this broad has outlived her 15 seconds of fame a long long time ago.
Go back to IU and say HEY, to LIL JOHNNY COUGAR.

[GUS]

OH, I'm sorry, I suggested that David Clarke Jr, was a McGOVERN supported. THAT WAS A DIFFERENT PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL of EPIC PROPORTIONS..

And once again....Sheriff Clarke is African-American.

[daddy]

GUS,

Your 11:38 won't open for me over here so I was wondering who was Kerry's right hand man. I take it now it was

[narcisoyea]

I think they were investigating his Phd at the war college or words to that effect,

[daddy]

.

[Dave (in MA)]

daddy, it was a google image search link to Bammy's Secretary of Giving The Iranians Nukes, Ernie Moniz, who in his spare time poses for oatmeal boxes.

[GUS]

Daddy, I agree, I love BLUNT TRUTH of RODHAM passing on CLASSIFIED ,via, her UNSECURED, NON-STATE-DEPT-EMAIL and SERVER. AND, I love her AID HUMA ABEDIN, BEING EQUALLY CARELESS and FELONIOUS, as ABEDIN,forwards CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, to her CRIMINAL HUSBAND. CARLOS DANGER.

Comey said WHAT???????????

[narcisoyea]

But he dies look like James Taylor compressed by a white dwarf.

[Dave (in MA)]

Carlos Danger's sticky laptop was secure. Who would want to get anywhere near that damn thing?

[GUS]

DADDY, try this one....https://energy.gov/contributors/dr-ernest-moniz

He's a beauty!!!! Obama's Energy queen.

[Captain Hate]

Anyone know why Comey's FBI was doing search warrants on Trump supporter Sheriff Clarke?

Jimmy "Fuckface" Comey vs Sheriff David Clark. Two of them enter a 20 foot steel cage. One man leaves.

[GUS]

Thank you Dave. He's really more of a CREAM of WHEAT boy.