NBC alters 911 tape in order to stir passions, promote mob justice

   One hundred to 150 years ago, when lynching was still a fact of life in much of the United States, the press could be counted on to make a public stand against mob justice. No more. Today the mainstream media is leading the fight for lynching and mob justice.
    Consider the case of George Zimmerman, the mestizo Hispanic commonly referred to as white. He killed black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and claims he acted in self defense. While I tend to believe his version of events, it's clear that the police did a very poor job of investigating the case, as I said in an earlier post. Certainly the case calls for better investigation.
    So bring on the race hustlers -- Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Barrack Obama and their ilk. They are doing everything they can to stir up racial passions, in much the same manner that Mike Nifong and Duke's liberal faculty members did in the Duke Lacrosse case. The Duke players were, of course, completely innocent; their only crime was to have the wrong skin color when facing down a black mob seeking white scapegoats.
    Just as in the Duke Lacrosse case, the media are doing everything they can to "get" George Zimmerman. Whether Zimmerman is arrested and brought to justice, or just murdered as many national figures propose, doesn't seem to matter. Several Hollywood types have publicized Zimmerman's address, knowing full well that their actions could lead to his murder. Scumbag Spike Lee actually Tweeted a wrong address, sending an elderly couple fleeing their home for their lives to escape harassment and possible murder.
    Now we find that much of this turmoil has been caused by certain media outlets who have intentionally lied about the case in order to stir passions and increase news ratings. Fox News -- the truthful network -- just reported that NBC had intentionally altered a 911 tape in order to make it look like Zimmerman was concentrating on Trayvon Martin's race on the night he called 911 to report a suspicious person in the neighborhood. (Next time you hear someone criticize Fox News, remember that if it wasn't for them liars like these would likely never be caught).
    NBC actually cut and spliced this tape. Here's the phone conversation as it was played on the Today Show:

ZIMMERMAN: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good … he looks black."

   Now here's the 911 without the deceiving cut-and-splice job:

ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about.
911 DISPATCHER: Okay, is this guy, is he white, black, or Hispanic?
 ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.

   Note that Zimmerman never mentions race until he is asked by the dispatcher what race the suspect was. When searching for a suspect, race or skin color is a a pretty important thing. Even then, Zimmerman said Martin "looks black." In other words, he appears to be unsure about it.
    We all know the liberal media lie to us all the time. This time they got caught, but it does make one wonder how many times they don't get caught.
   I certainly plan to write to the Federal Communications Commission asking that the broadcast licenses of NBC stations which participated in this defamatory news story be terminated. I would urge others to do the same. Needless to say all of us should boycott NBC news -- like CBS, it is Rather Biased.
    Mob justice was a bad idea 100 years ago and it's a bad idea now. Unfortunately, today's media barons are encouraging lynching in order to create more news and further their left-wing agenda. It's truly a disgrace.

Ruby Chinese is alive and well, says Google

    I took the screen shot of this map of eastern Oxford near the new high school from Google Maps recently.
    If you look at the intersection of Webb and Murray streets, just northeast of Avent Park, you'll see a marker for Ruby Chinese restaurant. All these years we though it was closed. Turns out they only moved!
    Can't wait to dine there again, although I can't figure out why they located in a residential neighborhood.

Call Kroger at 866-245-1858 for your Angus beef refunds!

    If you shop at Kroger chances are there is some free money waiting for you. All you have to do is make a call.
    My old Daily Mississippian friend Julie Evers Crump posted on Facebook about the fact that Kroger is giving refunds to people who purchased "Angus" beef in its stores over the past 18 months. Apparently the stores occasionally sold non-Angus beef at the higher Angus price and is now issuing refunds.
    Julie said she knew people who had gotten as little as $2 and as much as $300. I got $77.99 which will feed my family for the better part of the week if we are careful. I think this roughly represents the difference in price between Angus and regular choice beef.
    I had gotten a phone message from Kroger telling about the refunds but had just neglected to call. I told my cousin about my good fortune and he said he had gotten the call but hadn't bothered to call Kroger, either. I have no idea what the deadline is on this, but I wouldn't delay calling too long!
    For what it's worth, my best recollection is that I usually buy Angus beef off the deep-discount, about-to-go-bad rack. It's the only way we can eat beef in our house! I figured I wouldn't get any refund for this deeply discounted beef. But judging from the size of my refund, I'm guessing Kroger credited these discount purchases.
    The number to call is 1-866-245-1858. The woman I talked to was just as nice as could be. The money was credited to my Kroger card and will be subtracted next time I shop.

A Saturday walk around Jackson

    I took Lucy to Jackson Saturday to observe a twirl competition. Her twirl teacher, Emily Wicks, was named Miss Majorette of Mississippi and will compete nationally. Emily is an Ole Miss student and twirls during football halftimes as well as other events.
    The competition was held at the First Baptist Church activities building, so Ash and I went looking for lunch. First stop on the way was the state capitol, across the street from the Baptist Church.

Ash: What do they do there?
Me: That's where they meet every year to pass new laws.
Ash: What if we don't need any new laws?
Me: [No intelligent response].

    I had forgotten about the large statue in front of the Capitol, placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and paying tribute to Mothers, Daughters and Sisters while being festooned liberally with Confederate flags. Momma and the Rebel flag, what more is there in life?
    My plan had been to take Ash to the Mayflower for lunch, but it was closed so we went elsewhere. I also was going to take Ash into the lobby of the Gen. Walthall Hotel to see if they had his portrait in the lobby. It appears to be out of business.
    I have to say all in all I found downtown Jackson to be a pretty attractive place, and not the mound of decay that some have described. We'll return next year, and Lucy will actually take part in the twirl competition instead of just watching.

Trayvon Martin case calls for a full investigation into both parties' backgrounds, not a lynching

    I don't think any of us will ever know all the facts about the Trayvon Martin case, but the race pimps are out for blood. Martin was black and Zimmerman is a Hispanic mestizo who is being referred to as white in order to promote a sense of racial grievance.
    The Baltimore Sun has a story today about how Trayvon's killer, George Zimmerman, apparently took a good beating before using his gun. Certainly it's starting to appear that Zimmerman "disrespected" Martin by stopping to question him and that after Zimmerman started to return to his truck Martin gave him a little payback.
    The picture that has been given to the public is that of Trayvon Martin as a 10- or 12-year-old -- literally. The family didn't dare release to the public photos such as the one above which show Martin with gold teeth, or the photos from his MySpace site showing him festooned with tattoos (who allows these permanent modifications on a child?). Likewise, the oft-seen photo of Zimmerman is from a 2005 arrest on charges from which he was found "not guilty." Today he is the much slimmer and wimpier looking guy pictured above. Martin was 6'3" while Zimmerman is 5'9". I know which of the two I would bet on in a street fight.
    The character of both Zimmerman and Martin are the subject of legitimate investigation. Martin was in Sanford with his father because he had been suspended from school for 10 days. The family first said it was for five days and was for being "tardy." When this lie didn't wash they said it was for being in some place he wasn't supposed to be. A 10-day suspension is a pretty big deal, and the public has a right to know what it was for. Likewise, one of Martin's friends posted something on his Twitter account about him taking a swing at a bus driver. Although the account has now been scrubbed, the public has a right to know about this. I think we all can agree that someone who would take a swing at a bus driver is an extremely violent individual.
    As awful as the death of Trayvon Martin is, it doesn't hold a candle to the brutal burning of a white 13-year-old that occurred just a few days later. This child was almost home when two 16-year-old black teens started following him. They followed him onto his porch and doused him with gasoline, and lit it while one said, "This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy." No doubt about this being a hate crime, but society's response has been a giant yawn.
    It's no secret that there are far more blacks who commit hate and other violent crimes against whites than the other way around. Nobody cares about these crimes. The white boy who was set on fire doesn't look like Obama's son might look, so he says nothing. Certainly there needs to be a full investigation into the events surrounding Trayvon Martin's death, but the need is for an investigation, not a lynching.
    As a child of 11 I took a small thrashing for daring to attempt to deliver newspapers in a black neighborhood. I had been warned by these kids that they didn't want any whites in their neighborhood and I ignored the warning. In the end I had only bloodied knees and gravel burns, plus terribly wounded pride. But I still remember thinking, as I peddled my bike towards home, that if what had happened to me had happened to a black child in a white neighborhood, "every TV station in Memphis would be down here." And they would have been.
    Nobody needs to tell me about racial discrimination. I know all about it.

Syria's civil war is theirs alone; they are acting just as the U.S. would, and has before

    I always thought the official opinion of the United States was that it was perfectly acceptable to crush a rebellion through massive military force.
    For example, when the Southern states voted to exercise their right of self-determination, our dear Northern friends came down and killed a quarter- to half-a-million of us. Then they burned everyone's houses, killed their livestock, stole anything they could and turned the South into a permanent colony of the North. No hard feelings of course -- just a detail of history.
    But now, to justify interfering in the Arab world our leaders have taken the opinion that governments don't have the right to maintain order. In Libya, we ordered Gaddafi to just leave anyone who wanted to run riot alone. When terrorist rabble attacked his troops he refused do allow it, so Obama had his family murdered, then hunted him down and had him sodomized and killed. (Please, please, please, don't let me hear another Democrat talk about George Bush "war crimes" so long as this modern-day Jack the Ripper remains in the White House.)
    Now we're after Syria. It seems that when citizens who are unhappy with the government have fired guns at soldiers the soldiers acted with poor form in firing back. What an outrage! Everyone knows these government soldiers should simply allow themselves to be killed in the name of serving NATO.
    What's going on in the Middle East? I think it's fair to say there is some civil unrest. And civil unrest is dealt with in one way and one way only: the government gets guns or tanks, points them at those causing unrest and says "stop or we'll shoot." In Syria the protesters aren't stopping and so the government is shooting.
    When civil unrest gets bad enough, it's called a civil war. Perhaps Syria has reached this point. One thing you don't do in a war is stop shooting until the other side has surrendered. We hear a lot of quack-quack-quack about how the Syrian army is shelling a couple of cities that have harbored rebels. The fact is that these cities chose to harbor rebels and are now suffering the consequences. Essentially they asked to be shelled and the Syrian government is obliging them.
    We shouldn't be taking sides in a sectarian war. The president of Syria is an Alawite, a group that makes up about 15 percent of the population. In the Middle East there are numerous semi-secret religions, the Alawi being one of them. One hundred years ago they could be described as half-Christian, half-Shia. In recent years they have moved from Christianity towards Islam. It's hard to say for sure, since they have few or no written texts, or none they care to share. Because of their minority status, Alawites have opposed Muslim extremists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which they see as a threat to themselves and to Syria's Christians.
    Syria has been aligned in recent years with Iran. We don't like Iran. Saudi Arabia and Eygpt don't like Iran, either, because Iran is Shiite and Saudi Arabia and Egypt are Sunni. So nothing would suit the Saudis more than to foment turmoil in Syria; and since we as Americans do what our Saudi masters tell us to do, we're pushing to overthrow the Syrian government, too.
    In fact, Saudi Arabia has made no secret of the fact that it is arming those who are attempting to topple the Syrian government and replace it with a radical Islamic regime. I certainly believe that the United States has had a heavy hand in creating all of the Mid-East unrest of the past several years.
    Is there any doubt what would happen if a person or group of people took up weapons and started shooting at the White House with the stated intent of overthrowing the government? I can assure you the president would not simply hand over the government. These people would be arrested if they could be easily arrested, if not they would be shot dead. And don't give me any of this nonsense about our government not killing civilians. Ever hear of Waco? Ruby Ridge? The innocent Serbian journalists murder by Wesley Clark? Muammar Gaddafi's grandchildren?
    In other words the Syrian government is acting exactly as our government would act if faced with people trying to overthrow it with force of arms.
    Every civil war ends, and when it does the people who win are heroes and those who lose are goons and traitors. I don't know which side will win in Syria, and as long as the United States doesn't get involved I don't care. It's time to resurrect the Monroe Doctrine and limit ourselves to the Americas and let Europe and the Mid-East handle their own war. It's their war and I'm willing to let them fight it.
    What's really going on is that the money interests in the U.S. are trying hard to start a regional war in the Mid-East. Saudi Arabia is apparently convinced that this war will serve its interests, as it has been doing everything it can to destabilize its neighbors.
    I said a long time ago I thought we might intentionally be trying to disrupt the Mid-East in order to hurt China, as China depends far more than we do on the Mid-East for oil. In some ways this is a brilliant cold-war-type military strategy.
    But we don't need to be doing this. The regional war we are trying to start will not serve America's long-term interests. Should we feel the need to step in and "crush" Syria and attack Iran, we will win at some cost, but we are likely to find out what terrorism really is.
    When it comes to foreign policy, don't kid yourself about Obama being better than Bush. In my opinion he is far worse. But at best it's the same people calling the shots. Everybody wants war, nobody wants peace, and our future is bleak. The good news is that Russia just stationed some peacekeepers in Syria; unlike NATO, Russia might actually bring peace.
    Just be aware of that when you hear news stories from Syria or Iran that are upsetting and make you want to commit American troops to solve the problem that you've been played. Somebody's pulling your strings and you, like many others, are playing the part of a puppet.

Defense secretary afraid to address his own troops

    Apparently never before in the history of our country have our soldiers been stripped of their weapons when being addressed by the secretary of defense. There's a first time for everything.
    Today Leon Panetta ordered the troops disarmed before he would address them. The official line is that he wanted them to be unarmed just like their Afghan "brothers." The real reason is that he was afraid he might be fragged -- you know, shot by his own troops.
    It's a sad day. I just wonder how many military ballots will make it into the box this November. I'm sure the administration will do everything it can to make sure they don't make it back home. I will concede that a few black military men may vote for Obama just because he's black, much as Colin Powell did. But overall, does anyone really think this man is going to get any military vote at all?
    A secretary of defense too afraid to address his own troops. All things considered, I suppose he ought to be.