NAACP Looking For Revelance

The NAACP realizes that it has lost its mojo.
They will seek a new CEO afer their current President, Cornell W. Brooks, completes his three year term. The NY Post reports:

“We believe as an organization, we need to retool to become better advocates, better at educating the public, better at involving them,” Derrick Johnson, vice chairman of the NAACP board of directors, said in a conference call announcing the change.

Johnson said the group would embark on a national “listening tour” as part of its re-branding. That kind of tour, which is a common strategy among politicians as they seek to gain public support, has never been done in the NAACP’s 108-year history, Johnson said.

Their "listening tour" better pay heed to their 75% illegitimacy race and the fact that although they only comprise 13% of the US population they commit over half the murders in the US. Is it poverty? Racism?  Sociologists are divided and there is no clear verdict, but business as usual means nothing changes. Educating the public does not stop murders and it gives the appearance that NAACP officials are trying to shore up support and perhaps lagging donations.

It's not social problems or financial woes that plague us, it's moral issues.

Awwww, They Gave Him A Bicycle Rack

Family's private investigator: There is evidence Seth Rich had contact with WikiLeaks prior to death 

WASHINGTON - It has been almost a year since Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now.

Rich was shot and killed last July in Northwest D.C and police have suggested the killing in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood was a botched robbery. However, online conspiracy theories have tied the murder to Rich's work at the DNC.

Just two months shy of the one-year anniversary of Rich's death, FOX 5 has learned there is new information that could prove these theorists right.

Rod Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the Rich family, suggests there is tangible evidence on Rich's laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.

Now, questions have been raised on why D.C. police, the lead agency on this murder investigation for the past ten months, have insisted this was a robbery gone bad when there appears to be no evidence to suggest that.

When The Police De-Police

The guys in patrol react in several ways to perceived threats and injustices. One of the favorites was to to stop writing parking tickets which was a major source of revenue for the city. The citizenry was not endangered as the overwhelming majority of illegally parked cars do not represent a threat to public safety. Our commanders might thunder but since everyone was doing it they could not single anyone out for retribution. However what is transpiring now is completely different; it's on a whole new level and it is not going to be quickly addressed.

The WashTimes reports:

EXCLUSIVE: FBI report finds officers ‘de-policing’ as anti-cop hostility becomes ‘new norm’

An unclassified FBI study on last year’s cop-killing spree found officers are “de-policing” amid concerns that anti-police defiance fueled in part by movements like Black Lives Matter has become the “new norm.”

“Departments — and individual officers — have increasingly made the decision to stop engaging in proactive policing,” said the report by the FBI Office of Partner Engagement obtained by The Washington Times.

The report, “Assailant Study — Mindsets and Behaviors,” said that the social-justice movement sparked by the 2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, “made it socially acceptable to challenge and discredit the actions of law enforcement.”
FBI spokesman Matthew Bertron said the study was written in April.

“Nearly every police official interviewed agreed that for the first time, law enforcement not only felt that their national political leaders [publicly] stood against them, but also that the politicians’ words and actions signified that disrespect to law enforcement was acceptable in the aftermath of the Brown shooting,” the study said.

There are several of my readers who understand completely what is going on. You guys know who you are. This is a major sea change that will drive crime rates up. All crime rates will go up, not just homicides, as police officers take a few steps back.

This is no longer your grandfather's America where a healthy dollop of respect for authority and accountability was infused into young people. That is gone, particularly in minority communities. Generations of haphazard child-rearing have seen to that as fathers fled the families as government moved in. In many minority communities - yes, black neighborhoods - police are mistrusted. Cooperation with authorities is stymied by prideful attitudes like "stitches for snitches" that stop investigations dead in their tracks. People do get away with murder.

Police officers are subject to violence, but that has always been the case. Look at the following chart that depicts police officers killed in the line of duty for the past 51 years. A total of 9,313 officers lost their lives, an average of 183 per year.

Source

Look at the spike in  officer deaths that started with the 1967 race riots. That didn't begin to calm down until the mid 70's. Interestingly, cops started wearing Kevlar vests about that time too. The spike in 2001 is self evident. But there was still a downward trend until the tail end of the chart. The lowest point is 2013 (the lowest number of officer deaths in 50 years), the year before the events in Ferguson.

Of course not all of these officers were murdered.
In the last ten years 1,511 officers were killed. The most common causes of death were:

• 612 (41%) officers were killed in automobile, aircraft and boat accidents
• 553 (37%) officers were murdered
• 270 (18%) officers died from illness - deaths from 9/11 diseases were not listed.

But in the last four years - since the 2014 riots in Ferguson and the subsequent attacks of Obama's Justice Department -  the number of officers murdered (shot, stabbed, beaten and strangled) has almost doubled; a 92% increase from 36 to 69  and the number of officers murdered in the past year (2016 vs 2015) has jumped 57%, from 44 to 69. Only eight of these 201 murders did not involve a firearm; the number of police shot to death since Ferguson has increased 94%.
Source

So, are officers concerned? 

Hernandez Suicide

People self destruct for any number of reasons. Chief among them is a dirty life martini containing equal amounts of hubris and self pity, garnished with a heavy dash of despair and shaken by circumstances, not stirred.

Such is the end of New England Patriots' tight end Aaron Hernandez.

Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, killed himself in prison early Wednesday, prison officials confirmed.

He was discovered hanged in his cell by corrections officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., about 3:05 a.m. Wednesday, corrections officials said.

“Mr. Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population unit,” a statement from the Department of Correction reads, the Boston Globe reported.

More.

God is not pleased with this turn of events - "Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live."
Eze. 33:11.

Cincinnati Shows England How It's Done

Here England, hold my beer and watch this.

One person has died and multiple victims have been shot after police say two gunmen opened fire on revelers inside of a Cincinnati nightclub.

Authorities are searching for the two shooters who fled the scene after the incident that happened around 1am at Cameo Club on Kellogg Avenue in the city.

At least 15 people were taken to nearby hospitals after being struck by stray gunfire inside the venue.

Capt. Kim Williams said there was 'just a lot of chaos, obviously, when shots were fired.

'Saturday night, it is a very young crowd. We have had incidents here in the past, but this is by far the worst.'

Story here.

Build The Wall

Of course all illegal immigrants (aka criminals) are not satanists. But those that are...

Two illegal immigrant members of the ruthless MS-13 gang were arrested in Texas this week and charged with killing a woman as part of a Satanic ritual, according to reports.

The El Salvadoran suspects, Diego Rivera and Miguel Alvarez-Flores, allegedly killed a woman they were holding hostage in an apartment when she spoke out against the group’s devil worship, ABC 13 reported.

After the woman, known only as “Genesis,” made the comments, Alvarez-Flores — the group’s ringleader — attempted to give a lit cigarette to a Satanic statue as an offering.

But he said Satan wasn’t having the offering, telling his fellow gangbangers that “the Beast” wanted a soul instead, the station reported.

[...]Rivera shot Genesis once in the head on the side of the road before Alvarez-Flores blasted her in the chest, the station reported.

Build the wall.

Story here.

More Scams Supported By The Taxpayers

This is a problem in many jurisdictions that employ ex-cons in violence interdiction efforts. The cons use their positions to mask their continuing criminal enterprises. Street cops see this, shake their heads and curse the incompetent fools who support these efforts. The politicians and administrators (see incompetent fools) just wring their hands, mouth the "this is terrible" and "he was turning his life around" platitudes and continue their nonsensical attempts to keep the lofos, government bureaucrats and academia happy.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) claims an employee with Baltimore’s Safe Streets violence intervention program is tied to “a drug trafficking organization” associated with numerous shootings in the city.

The employee, 43-year-old Terrell Allen, is charged “with distribution and possession with intent to distribute drugs.” The ATF alleges that “Allen was overseeing a drug organization operating in the Latrobe Homes area.”

According to The Baltimore Sun, the Safe Streets program “hires ex-offenders to use their credibility on the streets to mediate disputes and prevent violence, out of the view of law enforcement, and city officials say it has been successful in cutting down violence in historically troubled areas.”

The city I work in uses the same kind of tactics; despite using this model for the last three years, last year broke all records for shootings and murders. The street crisis interdiction teams we use are provided up to date gang information but refuse to supply police with information that could save lives. This is in direct contradiction to the memorandum of understanding that supports these useless teams. Yet ... they are still supported with taxpayer dollars.

Story here.

IMHO many violence intervention programs are scams foisted by criminal justice professors/sociologists looking to publish and get lucrative consulting contracts and community-based not-for-profits seeking another government teat.

Christmas In Chicago

Dashing through the snow
Straining with each panicked breath

Muzzle blasts aglow

Harbingers of death!

Screams and sirens sing

How desperate is my plight

Oh God! Oh God! Please let me live

Through this Chicago night!

Oh Jingle Bells! Shotgun shells!

I just can't get away!

It ain't no fun without a gun

And the gangs want me to play!

Oh Jingle Bells! Shotgun shells!

I just can't get away!

It ain't no fun without a gun

And the gangs want me to play!

A heartwarming tale of Christmas joy in America's third largest city.

43 Shot, 11 Fatally, In Christmas Weekend Shootings In Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — The three-day Christmas weekend in Chicago has already become more violent than it was during the entire holiday weekend last year.

Eleven men were killed and at least 32 others have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, according to Chicago Police.

Last year, a total of 30 people were shot in Chicago over the four-day holiday weekend, leaving six dead.

Story here.

Russia's Woes

I'm starting to wonder if someone is trying very hard to start a war. Or has the cheese slid completely off Hillary's cracker and she has armed her flying monkeys and sent them overseas? I mean, seriously, WTH?

First, Turkey:

ISTANBUL — Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated at an Ankara art exhibit on Monday evening by a lone Turkish gunman shouting “God is great!” and “don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria!” in what the leaders of Turkey and Russia called a provocative terrorist attack.

The gunman, described by Turkish officials as a 22-year-old off-duty police officer, also wounded at least three others in the assault on the envoy, Andrey G. Karlov, which was captured on video. Turkish officials said the assailant was killed by other officers in a shootout.

Then Chechnya:

In a special operation, police have arrested four gunmen while killing a total of seven who had attacked police in the city of Grozny earlier, the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced.

On Saturday, a group of militants attacked a police officer and seized his car, after which they looked for another police officer at his home to no avail.

Officers later engaged in a shootout with some of the suspects in downtown Grozny after they tried to pull over a suspect’s vehicle. The tense standoff was caught on camera by witnesses, with police seen raining fire upon the gunmen.

And a report that some big wig in the Russian Foreign Ministry was killed in Moscow:

The head of one of the departments of the Russian Foreign Ministry found shot dead in Moscow, according to the source REN TV journalists. Officially, this information is not confirmed in the department.

His body with a gunshot wound to the head was found in the apartment. According to some reports, the site of two shells from a traumatic gun found. The gun was found under the sink in the kitchen.

The source reports that in an apartment where the body was found, was the wife of the man. At the moment, we consider two versions of what happened: suicide and murder (this is a Google translation~sig94).

This last one sounds very weak, perhaps a fake news items that Weasel Zippers found irresistible. I can't find any other source for this.

If anything does trigger a confrontation, I only hope the Rooskies hold tight until next month when we get a grown up in the White House. I imagine Mr. Putin feels the same way.

♫ While My Nine Iron Gently Weeps ♫

Obama Heads to Golf Course After Receiving Reports on Berlin Attack and Russian Ambassador Death

With the dual breaking news events surrounding potential terrorism and a foreign diplomat being shot to death, White House pool reports showed that President Barack Obama headed to a country club in Hawaii near his rental house, where he is vacationing.

Don't expect much from El Presidente for the next four weeks, he's got his work cut out consoling his Big Bertha. Or is it his Little Loretta? He is getting on in years ya know.

Story here.

The 2016 Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign Workout

It is exhausting work running for President and no one knows this better than Hillary Clinton. There's all the speeches and fund raising and travel and fund raising and begging for money and raising funds and asking for more money... and don't forget the killing.

Over the course of 30 years there are quite a few bodies strewn around the Clinton landscape. This site has been busy keeping track of the corpses (almost a full time job) and here at It Don't Make Sense we offer just those killed during the final months of the 2016 Presidential Massacre, oops, Election.

Anyone seeking employment opportunities with the Clintons' should be aware of the incredible odds that your death will be classified as a suicide no matter how suspicious or bizarre the circumstances.The following are excerpts from here.

Berta Caceres
Human Rights Activist
Died: March 3, 2016
Killed while sleeping in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. Berta Caceres had named Hillary Clinton as responsible for the Honduran coup which toppled democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since the coup, Honduras has become one of the most violent places in the world. Growing awareness of Hillary's role in Honduras became a serious liability during Hillary's 2016 campaign.

Note: I was not certain if I should take this one too seriously as Berta's life was allegedly threatened for years by anti-environmentalist (is that a word?) operatives in Honduras. But then there's this:

Hillary must answer for Honduras: Another assassination raises more questions about her involvement in coup: Days after Clinton campaign dismisses calls for accountability, a second activist is killed by unknown assailants

So yeah, if Salon says Hillary's in, I think she's in.

Next, WikiLeaks scourge Julian Assange had a lawyer.
Had is the operative expression, as in "Hillary had a hemorrhoid that was bothering her so she called this guy named Guido in Philly? and he took care of the hemorrhoid for her."

John Jones
Julian Assange's lawyer
Died: April 18, 2016
John Jones, QC, was killed when struck by a commuter train on his way to work. The police immediately declared the death as non-suspicious. The Q.C. initially said it was not suicide. Great Britain has the highest per-capita presence of surveillance cameras of any nation in the world, yet no video has been forthcoming as to just how Jones wound up in front of that train.

John Jones was working to prevent the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. Assange and WikiLeaks have produced some of the most damaging information about Hillary Clinton's scandals.

There was another Assange lawyer, Michael Ratner, who on May 11, 2016, also ended up on a slab. The suspect in this case is cancer. Coincidence? I think not.

Now this one is truly a mystery. Whoever dreamed up this murder had to have been a fan of Columbo. I think Mr. Ashe was resisting his murderer(s) and they took him out with a blow to the throat.

John Ashe
Former United Nations General Assembly President
Died: June 22, 2016
Initially reported as having died from a heart attack, John's throat had obviously been crushed. At that point the official story changed to him accidentally dropping a barbell on his own throat (the plotline from the episode "An Exercise in Fatality" from the TV series "Columbo.") crushing his larynx.

Ashe was about to begin trial for a bribery charge involving Chinese businessman Ng Lap Seng, who had been implicated but not charged in the 1996 "China-gate" scandal for funneling illegal donations to Bill Clinton's re-election fund through Arkansas restaurant owner Charlie Trie. Ashe was supposed to testify about Hillary's links to Ng Lap Seng later the same day he died.

The TV Guide magazine has this to say:

"An Exercise in Fatality, Part I"

First Aired: September 15, 1974

Part 1 of 2. A fitness expert murders a business associate.

Coincidence? I think not.
This was truly bizarre in that they thought no one would notice. Forty-two years have passed since this episode was aired.

As we continue on the Clinton Cadavers Parade, this one made the news for awhile, but nothing ever came out of the police investigation.

Seth Conrad Rich
DNC Voter Expansion Data Director
Died: July 10, 2016
Seth Conrad Rich was shot several times in the back a block from his home in D.C.'s neighborhood of Bloomingdale. The police declared it a robbery gone bad, but nothing had been taken; Seth still had his wallet, watch, and cell phone. One possible motive for his assassination lies with the WikiLeaks dump of 20,000 DNC emails which proved the DNC was rigging the primaries to favor Hillary Clinton. The scandal forced DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz to resign. Although Hillary's people tried to portray this as a hack by Russia, to cast Hillary as a victim of international intrigue, WikiLeaks, while not identifying the leak, denied it was Russia, and stated it was an "internal" leak.

If Seth (who was in a perfect position to acquire the data) were the leak, that would be ample motive to murder him, as a warning to others inside the DNC not to blow any whistles. Shortly after the killing, Redditors and social media users were pursuing a "lead" saying that Rich was en route to the FBI the morning of his murder, apparently intending to speak to special agents about an "ongoing court case" possibly involving the Clinton family. A reward has been offered for information on this murder.

Snopes tried to minimize Seth's access to data. But from what was apparently a very sloppy security set up, Seth, as a data director, most likely would have the same accesss as any other director in the system. Over the past 36 years I have been the system administrator for several secure law enforcement data systems, I still am. Many systems use  security templates or "profiles" granting common access to people who have similar responsibilities so Snopes is full of shit. Seth most likely had access that could damage the DNC.

For this next Clinton Corpse, at first I thought that Hillary had former 49er's QB Joe Montana murdered and I was like OMG! You bitch! But then I read it again and I'm okay now. Joe Montano and Shawn Lucas died within three weeks of each other; Joe from a heart attack and Shawn from a drug overdose.

Joe Montano
Chairman DNC (before Debbis Wasserman Shultz) and Regional Director for Tim Kaine
Died: July 25, 2016
Supposedly died of a heart attack right after the WikiLeaks e-mail dump, proving, the DNC had worked to sabotage Bernie Sanders and hand the nomination to Hillary Clinton. Joe was 47, with no history of heart problems.

Shawn Lucas
ATTORNEY
Died: August 2, 2016
On July 3, 2016, Shawn Lucas and filmmaker Ricardo Villaba served the DNC Services Corp. and Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz at DNC's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in the fraud class action suit against the Democrat Party on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters. This was before Wikileaks released documents proving, the DNC was working against the Sanders campaign during the 2016 primary.

Shawn was found dead by his girlfriend. He had been in perfect health and did not do drugs. The authorities are refusing to disclose the cause of death even after three weeks. Meanwhile, the DNC is trying to delay the lawsuit until after the November election by saying Lucas did not "properly" serve the papers ... with Lucas conveniently unable to testify on his own behalf.

Joe died of a heart attack, so did Breitbart. Shawn suddenly starts using drugs and overdoses on an exotic cocktail of fentanyl, cyclobenzaprine, and mitragynine. Coincidence? I think not.

In truth, the only thing that makes sense, if all these deaths are indeed connected (and there is a chance that they really are), is that someone is trying to send a message. Why kill a process server? It's like killing the waitress because the cook burnt your steak.

Blind In San Francisco

There is a special kind of blindness that liberals exhibit. Or maybe it's a cognitive disconnect between what they say and do on one day and what they say and do on the next. Whatever the cause, it's maddening to witness it.

Take the death of Kate Steinle, a beautiful, 31 yr. old San Francisco woman who was murdered by an illegal alien, a Mexican, Francisco Lopez. Lopez, a known narcotics trafficker with a half dozen arrests, was released by San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi who refused to honor a request from ICE authorities to detain him. Ms. Steinle's Father is suing San Francisco and the federal government for their willful acts leading to the death of his daughter. On December 2nd, the feds and the City of San Francisco asked Mr. Steinle to drop the lawsuit.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The U.S. government and the City of San Francisco are asking Kate Steinle’s family to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit in a hearing on Friday.

Kate Steinle was shot and killed in July of 2015 on Pier 14 along San Francisco’s waterfront. Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant, has been charged in the murder.

Lopez-Sanchez was released from the San Francisco City Jail in Apil.

The family of Kate Steinle filed the federal lawsuit in May of 2016 against former San Francisco sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement, and the Bureau of Land Management.

The lawsuit seeks to hold the Bureau of Land Management, ICE, and former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi accountable for providing “the means and opportunity for a repeat drug felon to secure a gun and kill Kate,” according to the complaint.

Lopez was freed on these grounds:

Lopez-Sanchez has five felony convictions for entering the United States illegally and was released from federal prison earlier this year and sent to San Francisco because of a 20-year-old warrant in a minor marijuana case. Federal immigration authorities were not alerted when his charges were dropped, and Lopez-Sanchez was freed to the streets under San Francisco “sanctuary city” law that limits turning over illegal aliens for deportation.

Now just the day before asking for relief from this lawsuit, the City of San Francisco passed a resolution, a "middle finger" to President-elect Trump, stating the following:

HEREAS, On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That no matter the threats made by President-elect Trump, San Francisco will remain a Sanctuary City. We will not turn our back on the men and women from other countries who help make this city great, and who represent over one third of our population. This is the Golden Gate-we build bridges, not walls; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That we will never back down on women’s rights, whether in healthcare, the workplace, or any other area threatened by a man who treats women as obstacles to be demeaned or objects to be assaulted. And just as important, we will ensure our young girls grow up with role models who show them they can be or do anything; and,

So on Thursday the City comes out with an in-your-face pledge to a) break the law and b) protect women and the VERY NEXT DAY asks the family of a murder victim who was killed because they broke the law - to drop the law suit seeking to hold them accountable for their reckless actions. It sounds like the City by the Bay figures it is a woman's right to be killed in front of her family - sounds very Sharia-ish, doesn't it?

Forgive me, but I am praying to Saint Andreas to give that fault line a little nudge. Just a little one.

More here and here.

Someone Better Tell Quasimodo

Sanctuary:
1. A consecrated place.
2. A place of refuge and protection.
3. A place where intoxicating beverages and buggery are available.

A Thanksgiving Day mass shooting in an Albany, NY, gay club has left one dead and three wounded. A gay community leader remarked that:

"[...]an act of violence happened in one of our community spaces and a life was lost in one of our sanctuaries."

Story here.

Trump Is Trump And Chicago Is Chicago

We have a new President-elect that has promised to drain the swamp of corruption and we have a swamp of corruption that promises to drain its population.

The City of Chicago is a swamp that keeps its promises.

Chicago Year to Date

Shot & Killed: 610

Shot & Wounded: 3,215

Total Shot: 3,825

Total Homicides: 680

Statistics here.

A Chicago Week is Everyone Else's Year

How Did I Miss Thee? Let Me Count The Ways.

In 1914 Carl Sandberg wrote a poem, "Chicago."

"Hog butcher for the world,

Tool maker, stacker of wheat,

Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;

Stormy, husky, brawling,

City of the rolling gunfire."

Wow, how did he know?

From the Chicago Tribune:

Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 — about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.

Between last Friday afternoon and early Thursday, at least 99 people were shot in the city, 24 of them fatally. At least nine people were killed on Monday alone, the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, according to Tribune data. Among the wounded that day was a 10-year-old boy shot in the back as he played on his front porch in Lawndale.

The number of shooting victims in Chicago stood at 2,514 Thursday morning. At this time last year, 1,725 people had been shot. The city has not seen this level of gun violence since the 1990s, a trend the Police Department has blamed on lax gun laws and feuding gang factions.

Yeah, lax gun laws.
In Chicago.
Right.

New York Was First

No, we ain't talkin' about Abner Doubleday and the game of baseball.We're talkin' about capital punishment in the days when people were getting squeamish about hanging.

The Execution of William Kemmler

The first ever execution by electrocution was carried out at the Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890.

The electric chair was invented by a Buffalo dentist, A.P. Southwick, in 1881. It was considered a more humane way to dispatch a felon to his eternal reward and it gradually replaced hanging as the prevalent form of execution in America.

Hanging was the oldest form of capital punishment in this country but fell out of favor after several executions were badly mishandled. Too short a drop and the prisoner strangles painfully; too long a drop and the prisoner is decapitated.  Since 1977 there have been only three executions by hanging in the US.

William Kemmler, 30, who was convicted of killing his wife with a hatchet, was the electric chair's first victim successful execution. However, there were some problems. The initial current was not strong enough to kill Kemmler. He didn't regain consciousness but his chest started heaving again after the first "treatment."

"Start the current! Start the current, again!" a doctor yelled.

The voltage was doubled to almost 2,000 volts, and this time the electrocution lasted for about two minutes.

The room filled with the smell of burned cloth and flesh, and reporter G.G. Bain of the United Press fainted.

When the current stopped this time, Kemmler was pronounced dead.

Success.

AUBURN PRISON'S "OLE SPARKY"

More here.

France Under Attack ... Again

It is very difficult to fault the citizens of an ally when their country is run by fools. The citizens of France deserve better. Their leaders permitted them to be overrun by brutish 7th century animals and now that the savage Muslim population has reached the tipping point, France is paying the price. 

Of course it is Jean-Paul six pack who is suffering the consequences and not the political elites who are protected by armed security. 

For the life of me I cannot understand the false reasoning that would allow an entire continent to commit suicide. As in America's border crisis, this must be fueled by financial considerations. I see how American businesses are using the massive influx of unskilled workers to reduce wages (of course they get tax breaks while the tax payers foot the bill for illegal aliens welfare benefits), but how are Europe's elites profiting from this invasion?

And off I go into another rabbit hole...

Replace the German "Die Wacht am Rhein"  from Casa Blanca with  the Muslim call for prayer.

Perhaps France is prepping for another bloody revolution, and speaking of bloody revolutions, France is not unacquainted with the notion:

“La Marseillaise” was written and composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, captain in the Engineering corps garrisoned in Strasbourg during the night of 24 to 25 April 1792 at the behest of the city’s mayor, Baron de Dietrich. The song, originally entitled Hymne de Guerre Dédié au Maréchal de Luckner, became known as Chant de Guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin when it was adopted as the marching song of the National Guard of Marseille. The Marseille troops were singing it as they entered Paris on 30 July 1792, and the Parisians dubbed it the Marseillaise. The anthem is probably the first example of the “European march” style of anthem.

Islam's imposition of a tax on infidels ( jiya) on subject populations is already showing up in British prisons. Parisians may be singing "La Marseillaise" pretty soon in response to Islam's enslavement of unbelievers.

La Marseillaise's English translation.

Let's go children of the fatherland,

The day of glory has arrived!

Against us tyranny's

Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)

In the countryside, do you hear

The roaring of these fierce soldiers?

They come right to our arms

To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

(Refrain)

Grab your weapons, citizens!

Form your batallions!

Let us march! Let us march!

May impure blood

Water our fields!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings,

What do they want?

For whom these vile shackles,

These long-prepared irons? (repeat)

Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!

What emotions that must excite!

It is us that they dare to consider

Returning to ancient slavery!

What! These foreign troops

Would make laws in our home!

What! These mercenary phalanxes

Would bring down our proud warriors! (repeat)

Good Lord! By chained hands

Our brows would bend beneath the yoke!

Vile despots would become

The masters of our fate!

Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors,

The disgrace of all groups,

Tremble! Your parricidal plans

Will finally pay the price! (repeat)

Everyone is a soldier to fight you,

If they fall, our young heros,

France will make more,

Ready to battle you!

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,

Bear or hold back your blows!

Spare these sad victims,

Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)

But not these bloodthirsty despots,

But not these accomplices of Bouillé,

All of these animals who, without pity,

Tear their mother's breast to pieces!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Sacred love of France,

Lead, support our avenging arms!

Liberty, beloved Liberty,

Fight with your defenders! (repeat)

Under our flags, let victory

Hasten to your manly tones!

May your dying enemies

See your triumph and our glory!

Refrain

We will enter the pit

When our elders are no longer there;

There, we will find their dust

And the traces of their virtues. (repeat)

Much less eager to outlive them

Than to share their casket,

We will have the sublime pride

Of avenging them or following them!

Chicago's 21 Gun Salute To Fathers

I hope all my readers had a great Fathers' Day, I know I did.

Other unfortunates, not so much. Especially in Chicago.
Perhaps this is some kind of ghetto ritual to locate unknown fathers?

I shoots a 9mm into the air

I hope it finds my Daddy

If it kills him I don't care...

Another holiday brought another slaughter of innocents in heavily gun-controlled Chicago. Fifty-six people were shot during Father’s Day weekend, and 13 of those shooting victims died.

According to the Chicago Tribune, “The city recorded its 300th homicide this weekend and went on to record six others over a 60-hour period that saw 56 people shot, 13 fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning.” From Friday into Saturday alone, five people were killed and another nine were wounded.

So far this year about 1800 people have been shot in Chicago. This in spite of...

Chicago has an “assault weapons” ban, a “violence tax,” and stringent limits on the number of gun stores allow, as well as limits on the locations of those stores.

I think Chicago also has a "know your daddy" ban.

Story here.

Public Health A Menace To Pubic Safety

How has the government's public health initiatives to control sexually transmitted diseases worked out? Not so well.

In the past 13 years, STD cases reported to the CDC have increased by 63%. Primary and secondary syphilis cases have increased by 160% (from 6,158 in 2000 to 17,768 in 2013). So much for doctors trying to control how people screw.

Now they'll try their hand at how people handle firearms.

Apparently public health concerns are now a smoke screen for every liberal initiative meant to enslave us and to increase corporate profits. The following propaganda is from CNBC:

The massacre in Orlando spurred the American Medical Association on Tuesday to formally call gun violence "a very public health crisis," and say the organization will "actively lobby" Congress to end a funding ban on federal health research into the problem.

The move by the largest group of doctors in the United States, during a meeting in Chicago, came days after a gunman slaughtered 49 people and wounded 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday morning with a legally purchased .223-caliber Sig Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle.

The article rambles on about "...approximately 30,000 men, women and children dying each year at the barrel of a gun..." without noting that more people are murdered by hammers each year than are killed by rifles.

In 2014 (the latest year for complete FBI homicide statistics) there were 8,124 people murdered by firearms and only 248 (3%) were killed with a rifle. There were 660 people punched or kicked to death that year and 435 killed with hammers and clubs. As semiautomatic "assault" rifles are but a small percentage of the rifle category, the AMA should be picketing Home Depot and Lowes instead of the NRA.

Over 68% of firearm murders were by handguns and most of these were blacks shot in urban centers where Democrat Mayors rule the roost and where highly restrictive gun control laws are in place.

[...]"Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries."

Actually firearm murders have decreased by 39% from 1993 to 2011. The overwhelming majority of firearm deaths are suicides. Over 60% of all firearm deaths are suicides. This is a mental health issue. About 50% of all suicides are with a firearm and the suicide rate in the US is increasing.

How many of these suicides were committed while the victim was under the supervision of a doctor/psychiatrist and taking proscribed medications? How many doctors profit from their association with proscription drug providers? How many doctors kill their patients with these drugs?

Antidepressant drugs such as Zoloft, Paxil and Prozac are known to increase suicidal thoughts as well as violent, aggressive behavior.

An eight year old article from Fox News states:

[...]Until now, the Food and Drug Administration's attention to the suicide risks of medications has focused on psychiatric drugs, such as antidepressants prescribed to youngsters. But this year, officials unexpectedly broadened their concerns to include a medication for asthma, drugs for controlling seizures and even one for quitting smoking. Those are medical conditions not usually associated with psychiatric disorders.

Several independent experts say the safety alarms point to a gap in the FDA's knowledge of how drugs affect the brain. Even if medications are intended for physical conditions, some drugs can have unforeseen consequences if they are able to enter the brain. A group at Columbia University has developed a method for assessing the suicide risks of drugs, possibly helping identify risks before a medication goes on the market. But the FDA only requires use of such assessments on a case-by-case basis.

Six of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the US spend between two and six million dollars a year on lobbying. How much of their lobbying is spent to ensure that the FDA only conducts pharmaceutical suicide assessments on a case-by-case basis rather than industry wide?

A Bloody Shame

Baltimore is enjoying a Renaissance of homicide, as is Chicago and Washington, D.C. This uptick in violence is almost the exclusive providence of blacks and makes the BLM movement a bad joke... no wait, a bad joke is a poor attempt at humor. This is not funny.

              Murders in 2015
Baltimore ................... 344 murders (90+% black)
Chicago ...................... 507 murders (80% black)
Washington D.C. ....... 162 murders

Last year these three cities  had 1,013 murders (preliminary stats - not UCR reports) in a total population of 3,344,238. This works out to a murder rate of 30.3 per 100,000 population.

Mexico has a murder rate of 21.5 per 100,000.

In contrast, New York City had a murder rate of 4 per 100,000. The three cities had a murder rate seven and a half times higher than NYC.

In truth, NYC with a population of 8.5 million had fewer murders (339) than either Baltimore or Chicago.

The overall murder rate in the US for 2014 (2015 will not be available for months) was 4.5 per 100,000. In 2014 the three cities with the highest murder rates in the country were Detroit (45.2 per 100k), new Orleans (41.4 per 100k) and Baltimore (37.4 per 100k). All were run by Democrats as are most large American cities.