What Bill De Blasio Thinks About the Police

If you want a taste of what NY Mayor Bill de Blasio thinks about the police, you need to know about the people he hires. Meet Tony Baker and Kicy Motley. This NY Post article goes back to April 2013 before de Blasio became mayor.

http://nypost.com/2013/04/16/your-hate-parade-staffer-shames-de-blasio-with-vile-tweets/

"A staffer in Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s office quickly resigned from his city post yesterday after The Post uncovered a string of his vile tweets targeting Jews, women and cops.

Anthony “Tony” Baker took aim at Jews in particular while using the Twitter handle “Hyman Doodlesack,” including one tweet last year when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the United Nations.

“AIPAC makes me want to be a Nazi,” Baker tweeted March 5 in a reference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee."

"Just last month, de Blasio scolded campaign worker Kicy Motley after The Post found a series of vulgar tweets, including: “F–k. The. Police.”

Baker, too, tweeted, “kill the police,” on Aug. 19, 2012."

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That is how much respect Bill de Blasio has for the police.

Brandeis University Students Rally Around Their Heroine

Hat tip Jihad Watch

Guess what happens when a Brandeis student says she has no sympathy for the NYPD cops who were murdered. She becomes a heroine on campus.

Guess what happens to the student who reports on what she said. He becomes a pariah.

Jihad Watch has the report on the statements of Brandeis student Khadijah Lynch..

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/brandeis-students-rally-around-student-who-wrote-i-have-no-sympathy-for-the-nypd-officers-who-were-murdered

"Piccione’s lament refers to Lynch telling Truth Revolt that her public tweets are her “own personal opinion.” Lynch had threatened that she does not want her tweets “publicized in any form and if you do not abide my wishes i constitute your disregard as slander.”

Where have I heard that before?

At any rate, the African-American Studies Department is not standing by Ms. Lynch. According to the Brandeis campus paper, Brandies Justice, she has resigned her position as student representative in the department, which has distanced itself from her statement.

http://www.thejustice.org/article/2014/12/lynch-resigns-from-udr-position-after-social-media-backlash

"Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS), who is the chair of the department, wrote in the statement that Lynch’s tweets do not represent the views of the department. “AAAS, unequivocally, does not promote nor condones a disregard for the loss of human life,” he wrote. “The deaths of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu are a tragedy and should be treated with proper respect. We express our most sincere condolences to their family and loved ones.”

 If Ms Lynch hates this country so much, she is free to leave.

New York Protests Resume

Is there no shame?

Hat tip Breitbart

As I write, the anti-police protesters are back on the streets of New York, cursing, taunting police, and giving the finger to the TV cameras. So much for Mayor de Blasio's request to hold off until the two slain police officers are buried.

Breitbart has a live stream.

Welcome to Opinion University (in Texas)

Hat tip Eagle Rising


If you happen to be going to South Texas College, here is what you can expect if you take Dr Blake Armstrong's psychology class. A heavy dose of opinion, one of which is comparing the Tea Party to the Nazi Party. My friends at Eagle Rising even have a video of this boob in the class. Once a student realize this professor was sliding off the charts, the cell phone came out.

http://eaglerising.com/12457/public-school-professor-compares-tea-party-nazis/

Yes, Folks. In Armstrong's "psychology" class, you can learn all about those Tea Party death camps and the world war the Tea Party started.

OK, OK. He was comparing how Tea Party-supported politicians came to power with how the Nazis came to power in the "Reichstaeg" (SIC). That's pronounced by Armstrong like "hash-tag", which shows how much he knows about either party.  There is still no comparison. The Tea Party does not engage in beer hall brawls or street brawls with communists, nor do they beat up socialists or other assorted lefties. If you want violence, talk about the Occupy movement.

How Common Core Promotes "a Certain Religion" in English Class

Hat tip Todd Starnes and David


This is one of  the sneakiest ways to indoctrinate students you can imagine. In a North Carolina English class, new vocabulary words are introduced by putting them in sentences that put a big happy face on-you guessed it- Islam.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/12/20/school-islamic-vocabulary-lesson-part-common-core-standards/

This is hardly the only example. As a teacher of English as a second language, I had a grammar-writing class a few years ago and had to use an English-writing  textbook in which every chapter was devoted to the environmental with tributes to Greenpeace, no less. I always made it a practice to tell my students that I am not advocating any position on the matter or any other matter.

This is really despicable.

Seattle Jewish Federation Praises JVP Anti-Cop Rally

Hat tip The Mike Report


It is hardly surprising that the radical, anti-Israel organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, has joined the anti-police protests around the country. Nor is it very surprising that the Jewish Federation of Seattle has praised JVP's protest.

http://mikereport.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/shock-video-jtnews-whitewashes-anti-police-rally/

Hopefully, we won't see any dead police officers in Seattle. I find the whole thing sickening.

De Blasio-Bratton Press Conference

I watched the press conference yesterday given by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton. You could say there was much positive about what both men said, but when you break it down to basics, both were calling for a moratorium on protests until after the two slain officers were laid to rest. Bratton wanted his cops and their Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to hold off on criticism of the mayor, and de Blasio called for anti-police protesters to hold off until after the funerals. Thanks a lot!

Since I was on the treadmill, I had difficulty hearing the questions, but the responses pretty much confirmed what the questions were about. De Blasio conceded that his previous remarks were a "mistake" and "were wrong". He showed the most emotion, however, (anger) when one reporter asked him how he would feel if his son came home mouthing the same statements that many of the protesters had been chanting (about wanting cops dead). De Blasio angrily defended the majority of the anti-police protesters who had not called for death to cops or assaulted police.

For his part, Bratton defended de Blasio and downplayed the fact that "some" cops disliked the mayor. Is either man prepared to speak out against the outrageous incitement by Al Sharpton?

I still hold a very negative opinion of de Blasio, and I'm not sure what I think about Bratton at this point. Bratton has done many great things during his career including his first stint as police commissioner in New York. I was less impressed with his performance as LAPD chief under Mayor Tony Villaraigosa, and I think he is compromised having to work under de Blasio.

More Anti-Israel Nuttery

Hat tip Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers



The Turkey Agenda


After the Palestinians' crazy reaction to Israeli tolerance of gays, which they labeled "pink-washing", I figured I had seen it all. Now comes this crazy article from the Islamophobia Studies Journal at-where else? UC Berkeley. It is written by a research asst. by the name of Shawndeez Davari Jadali in something called the Turkey Agenda. Here the writer argues that the vegetarian movement is one big Zionist plot.

http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.in/2014/12/anti-vegan-rant-by-shawneez-davari.html

This is the kind of lunacy we have come to expect at Beserkley, especially from those who are hanging out with Professor Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Center at UCB pictured below (with microphone).

So remember, Folks. Don't eat veggies. Smoke your socks.

NYPD Killer Connection to Islamic Society of North America?

Hat tip Got News and Jihad Watch

It appears the killer of two NYPD cops had a connection to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)  according to his Facebook page. It also appears that Ysmaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley went by the name of Ysmaaiyl Abdullah Mohammad.

http://gotnews.com/breaking-exclusive-nypd-cop-killer-worked-muslim-terror-front-group/

ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood Front Group and was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial in the Northern District of Texas involving charity money being funneled to overseas terrorist groups.

Patrick Poole in PJ Media points out another Facebook reference to visiting the Al Farooq mosque. If this refers to the Al Farooq mosque in Brooklyn, that is a mosque linked to extremist activity.

Aside from his name, Brinsley's social media had also contained a reference to the Koran sura 8 verse 60, which says to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah. Thus, it appears that aside from his criminal past, psychological issues and desire to avenge the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown as well as strike back at police, he was driven by Islamic extremism to some degree.

Are the authorities and media trying to ignore this aspect to the case?

The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel

Hat tip Divest This




Below is a cross-post from Divest This, which gives a book review for the newly-published book, The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. I have previously noted the publication of this book.

http://divestthis.com/2014/11/case-academic-boycotts-israel.html

I plan to order this book, and I hope you will too. The figures in academia who are pushing this movement are acting like modern day Brown Shirts. They must be rejected.

Another Car Attack in France

Hat tip Ynet News, Gallia Watch  and Francois de Souche


There has been another car attack in France, this time in Nantes, where a motorist shouting, "Allahu Akbar" drove his car into a crowd of people at the Christmas Market. He stabbed himself before being captured by police.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4606649,00.html

Over the weekend, there was another car attack in Dijon by a man shouting, "Allahu Akbar" and a knife attack by a Muslim immigrant from Burundi at a police station near Tours. (He was shot dead.) The French blog, Gallia Watch, has a report on the first two attacks. It is in English.

http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2014/12/jihadists-trigger-violent-weekend.html

For those who read and speak French, here is a report with two videos by the French blog, Francois deSouche. It says that that driver shouted, "Allahu Akbar" and was known to the police.

http://www.fdesouche.com/547125-nantes-voiture-fonce-marche-noel

That makes three "lone wolf" attacks over the weekend/Monday in France. The authorities can spout all the politically correct nonsense they want about there being no connection to terrorism and search for a motive.

The motive is clear:

J-I-H-A-D

New IRS Revelations

IRS Deputy Commissioner Steve Miller considered admitting to the IRS targeting of conservative groups prior to the 2012 election-but decided not to-according to a report by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/22/gop-report-top-irs-official-considered-admitting-targeting-before-2012-election/

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is accusing the Republicans of cherry-picking the information.

Really? Cherry pick this:

“I am beginning to wonder whether I should do [the hearing] and affirmatively use it to put a stake in politics and c4,” Miller told his chief of staff, Nikole Flax, in a June 2012 email obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Miller ultimately testified at the July 25 hearing but never revealed his knowledge of the misconduct."