Breaking: Black Power group claims responsibility for Dallas attack - "

Terrorist, pure and simple.

A Facebook community dubbed the ‘Black Power Political Organization’ has claimed responsibility for the shootings in Dallas, which killed at least five police officers. Their page retrieved from cache reveals they promise more attacks.

The group’s page on Facebook appears to have been deleted or blocked, but its content is still available on Google cache.

On Friday, the group claimed their “sniper assassins” took down “five police officers,” according to the screen grabs.

The FB page is down now but here's a screen grab via Google Cache..

Bill Sparkman was a Republican

Not that it would matter to the jump-to-anything-bad-that-happens-is-a-rightwing-conspiracy, but it's a fact. Clay County is solid Republican, via Wiki:

The county has been solidly Republican for decades. In the last 16 years the only Republican to receive less than 60% was Bob Dole, who still won the county by nearly 25%. In 2008 John McCain received 77.5% of the vote.

But another fact is that he wasn't killed because he was a census worker.

  The hanging of Bill Sparkman according to two sources within the KBI,  Sparkman stumbled onto a meth lab and was killed because "that's what they do with you when you're in the wrong place.

 Big Creek, where Sparkman was killed, is on the Kentucky State Police's list for meth labs, and in fact the address of the lab, 5693 S. Hwy 66 in Big Creek, isn't far from where he was found.

 In fact Clay County is infested with with an abundance of meth labs and marijuana fields, and it's amazing that the Census Bureau would not have warned Sparkman of the dangers of the area.

 We'll know once the investigation is complete, but right now it appears that Spearman was killed by drug dealers. If anyone has questions to answer, it should be why the Census Bureau sends it's workers into such areas without warning.

Patrick Swayze RIP

Patrick Swayze passed away today of Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 57.  Too young.  Wasn't much of a Dirty Dancing fan, but loved his performance in it as well as his other movies.   But it's this Saturday Night Live Skit with Chris Farley that I loved the most.

Classic funny.

Patrick Swayze - Chippendale
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RIP

Note to the Media - It's Called a Revolution

Much like the American Revolution  that founded this country, the British underestimated the "motley crew" of colonialist who protested the King of England, citing it as a passing phase or annoyance that would eventually die out.

It didn't.  The Washington Post's take on yesterday's massive turnout out in Washington?

"The demonstrators are part of a loose-knit movement that is galvanizing anti-Obama sentiment across the country, stoking a populist dimension to the Republican Party, which has struggled to find its voice since the 2008 elections."

Thereby they miss the point.  The fact that this "movement" of Americans isn't tied to just one group or even leader is more telling of it's authenticity and true heartfelt intentions.  In that crowd yesterday there were  This isn't "anti-Obama", it's simply a demand to hand this government back over to the people.  A principle which is outlined in our constitution.

""We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."


This isn't my idea, it was placed in the Constitution by the founders who realized that there may come a time when the people would have to rise up when their government got out of control.  I don't believe in a takeover of Government per-se, just because I disagree with the opposition party's way of doing things.  However when those ways of doing things goes directly against the principles that this nation was founded on then I do believe that the people of the United States should rise up.

What we are witnessing now isn't a "movement" but an awakening. The people are rising up and in greater numbers than the media would have us believe.   People met not only in Washington yesterday, but all across the country, from the West, East, North and South.  White and Black, Hispanic and Asian and all in between.  Americans are rising up and this is only the beginning.

The Obama minions and enablers in the MSM would have Americans think that this is a flash in the pan - a passing moment in time.

The British thought that too.

NFL Sunday Predictions!

New item here at Macsmind, but the Ranger is a long time prognosticator of pig-skin outcomes.  Here's my  predictions on today's games.

TEN @ PIT Thu 8:30PM Taking Pit

JAC @ IND Sun 1:00PM Taking Indy

DET @ NO Sun 1:00PM Taking Saints

DAL @ TB Sun 1:00PM Taking Dallas

PHI @ CAR Sun 1:00PM Taking Pitt

 KC @ BAL Sun 1:00PM Taking Baltimore

 NYJ @ HOU Sun 1:00PM Taking Houston

 MIA @ ATL Sun 1:00PM Taking Miami

 DEN @ CIN Sun 1:00PM Taking Denver

 MIN @ CLE Sun 1:00PM Taking Minnesota

 WAS @ NYG Sun 4:15PM Taking the Giants

 SF @ ARI Sun 4:15PM Taking the Cards.

 STL @ SEA Sun 4:15PM Taking Seattle.

 CHI @ GNB Sun 8:20PM Da Bears.

 BUF @ NE Mon 7:00PM Taking New England

 SD @ OAK Mon 10:15PM Taking San Diego

 There they are! Update after the games to see how the Ranger fared. Comment away with your takes!

Internet Anonymity Being Challenged in Court

Via Network World:

"Be careful the next time you engage in an Internet flame war: it could land you in court.

The Maryland Court of Appeals is taking up a case this week that could have major implications for Internet users' ability to anonymously post their opinions on the Web. The case revolves around Zebulon Brodie, a Maryland businessman who is alleging that he has been defamed by anonymous Internet users who posted messages on a Web site owned by Independent Newspapers, a community newspaper company that owns local papers in Arizona, Delaware, Florida and Maryland.

Specifically, Brodie wants Independent Newspapers to disclose the names of three anonymous users whom he alleges defamed him by calling him a polluter.

According to a report in the Maryland Daily Record, an attorney representing Independent Newspapers argued in court Monday that the First Amendment grants citizens the right to make anonymous controversial comments and that compelling hosts to disclose the identities of anonymous posters would have "a chilling effect" on free speech."

This case is worth watching for a number of reasons. Specifically for bloggers but especially for commenters who use anonymous names to post comments that sometimes border defamation and slander. Bloggers have to be especially careful because no matter what they are responsible for the content of what's on their blog.

It's one of the reasons I have such a strict moderation policy and occasionally have to delete a comment.

Man who shot up fellowship in Knoxville wanted to kill liberals

I hate liberals, but only in the political sense. Not in the person to person sense. This is a travesty.

"The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of “the liberal movement,” and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.

Jim D. Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he stated his “hatred of the liberal movement,” Owen said. “Liberals in general, as well as gays.”

Adkisson said he also was frustrated about not being able to obtain a job, Owen said.

The letter, recovered from Adkisson’s black 2004 Ford Escape, which was parked in the church’s parking lot at 2931 Kingston Pike, indicates he had been planning the shooting for about a week.

“He fully expected to be killed by the responding police,” the police chief said.

Owen said Adkisson specifically targeted the church for its beliefs, rather than a particular member of the congregation.

“It appears that church had received some publicity regarding its liberal stance,” the chief said. The church has a “gays welcome” sign and regularly runs announcements in the News Sentinel about meetings of the Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays meetings at the church.

The church’s Web site states that it has worked for “desegregation, racial harmony, fair wages, women’s rights and gay rights” since the 1950s. Current ministries involve emergency aid for the needy, school tutoring and support for the homeless, as well as a cafe that provides a gathering place for gay and lesbian high-schoolers."

This is sad. But first let's be clear. This is ot a "Church" under the New Testament definitions as no place that celebrates sin could possibly be a member of the body of Christ. Just because someone names Christ or calls themselves a "Church" doesn't mean they are the real thing.

Nevertheless NO fellowhip or organization deserves to have some nutbag come in and shoot the place up and kill people. Like it or not they are free to practice what they believe in America so long as they obey the law.


God will sort out the false prophets and adherants on the final day, he doesn't need our help.

This man is very definitely disturbed and it's not a "conservative" vs. "liberal thing", although the usual idiots will gloat through the blood to make their point.

Liberals commit similiar crimes as well. But then you couldn't expect the idiots at FDR to fact check before they bark.