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JANUARY 29,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

A GOOD STEP FORWARD – OVERNIGHT:  Virtually ignored by the American press, which is reluctant to give former President Trump credit for anything, the Abraham Accords are moving forward in the Mideast, expanding peaceful relations.  Now, a real breakthrough, from the Times of Israel:  Israeli President Isaac Herzog took off for the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, marking the first-ever official visit by an Israeli president to the Gulf state.  Herzog was invited for the two-day visit by Abu Dhabi’s powerful Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, known colloquially as MBZ and seen as the UAE’s de facto ruler.  Herzog is slated to visit Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and will meet with bin Zayed, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Dubai ruler Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Expo 2020 Dubai Commissioner-General and Tolerance Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak, Emirati business leaders, and members of the Jewish community in the country.    Thanks are due to President Trump, who started the peace train moving in the Mideast, and to his son-in-law, who did the legwork.  In fact, President Trump should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Abraham Accords.  Some chance.  President Reagan should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Cold War.  Some chance.

January 29, 2022      Permalink

WHAT A WONDERFUL CHARITY – OVERNIGHT:  You'd think that, by now, our so-called "free press" would have been all over Black Lives Matter, demanding to know exactly what it does for African-Americans.  If you thought that, you'd be wrong.  BLM is a hard-left, Marxist organization whose manifesto is chilling.  Have you ever seen that manifesto printed in any newspaper?  The national press has given BLM a pass.  Big corporations have written large checks because "black lives matter."   There's even a Black Lives Matter Square in Washington, D.C.

But now some ugly things are being reported.  Maybe, just maybe, we'll see an accounting that is long overdue.  From Fox: 

Black Lives Matter (BLM) moved millions of dollars to a charity in Canada run by the wife of co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors to purchase a mansion that used to be the headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada, according to public records reviewed by the New York Post.

M4BJ, which is a non-profit based in Toronto that was set up in part by Janaya Khan, bought the 10,000-square foot mansion for $6.3 million in July 2021. Khan is the wife of Khan-Cullors, a self-professed Marxist who helped found Black Lives Matter Global Foundation Network.

Last year, Khan-Cullors resigned from the organization after an investigation revealed that she spent $3.2 million on homes in Georgia and Los Angeles. She reportedly denied that the homes were purchased with donations to BLM.

It was lunch money she saved up in a jar.

The purchase of the Toronto mansion, which is also called Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, drew criticism from within the organization.

"For BLM Canada to take money from BLM Global Network [Foundation] for a building without consulting the community was unethical," Canadian BLM activists Sarah Jama and Sahra Soudi recently said. "For BLM Canada to refuse to answer questions from young Black organizers goes against the spirit of movement-building."

According to a recent investigation by the Washington Examiner, two activists who were supposed to assume leadership after Khan-Cullors' resignation left abruptly in September.

Cullors stepped down from her role as executive director of the activist group’s central foundation last year amid questions about her finances. Cullors was questioned intensely on a series of real estate investments and property purchases, leading to criticism for her perceived opulence while claiming to be a Marxist.

COMMENT:  I love it.  Her real offense was, apparently, acting in an un-Marxist manner.  Do they execute for that?

January 29,  2022      Permalink

JANUARY 28,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

SICKENING – OVERNIGHT:  This is symbolic of what we are facing in the collapse of order in our large cities.  From the New York Post:   A 16-year-old, up-and-coming rapper charged with shooting an NYPD cop in the Bronx walked free on bond Thursday — and cops are fuming over it.  Camrin Williams, who is also known by the rap name C Blu, posted his $250,000 bond after being locked up at a Brooklyn juvenile facility on gun and assault charges in the shooting of a 27-year-old cop in Belmont.  “If anybody wants to know why we have a crisis of violence in this city, or why we’re about to bury two hero police officers, look no further than this disgraceful bail release,” NYPD Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said in a statement.  “This individual chose to carry illegal guns twice,” Lynch said. “He chose to fight with and shoot a New York City police officer. There’s no reason to believe he won’t do the exact same thing when he’s out on the street tonight."  This farce began with attempts to "reform" the bail process.  The result is hardened criminals who' are released without bail, running around the streets ready to strike again.  Common sense tells us that this is wrong.  But common sense means little to the proprietors of leftist thinking.  They have their own logic, and it's killing us.

January 28, 2022       Permalink

A HORRIBLE TREND – OVERNIGHT:  Attacks on police officers are escalating.  It is nationwide.  It is the culmination of two-years of anti-police hatred by the hard left, as our so-called "free press" averts its eyes.  From Fox:     

Police and law enforcement officers continue to be the victims of a violent trend, as six officers were the victims of gun violence over just the past two days.

Two police officers were shot Wednesday afternoon in St. Louis; a Milwaukee sheriff's deputy was shot several times during a traffic stop Wednesday evening; and, three more police officers were shot in Houston on Thursday, in separate instances, authorities said.

One St. Louis police officer was in "very critical, very unstable" condition after he was shot in the leg and another officer was shot in the abdomen around 1 p.m during a traffic stop, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief John Hayden said during a press conference on Wednesday.

"I am asking the public to pray for our officers. This is a rough time," Hayden said. "They're doing everything they can to keep people safe, and we keep having these critical incidents."

The officer who was critically injured had been serving in the force for three-and-a-half years, while the other officer has been on two-and-a-half years, according to the chief. Both are in their mid-20s.

Officers spotted the vehicle that was wanted in a homicide case from the night before and pulled it over, Hayden said. The individuals inside the vehicle shot at the officers as they approached the vehicle, striking both, before fleeing. The four individuals were all taken into custody, the chief said.

Three police officers were hospitalized during a separate shooting incident in Houston, after a suspect shot one officer in the foot, another in the leg, and a third officer in the arm, all of which were hospitalized in stable condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital, authorities said.

The officers, all of them belonging to the Northeast Patrol, were identified as N. Gadson, 35; D. Hayden, 32; and A. Alvarez, 28, by a tweet from the Houston Police Thursday evening.

After shooting the officers, the suspect fled and barricaded himself in a house, authorities said.
A short time later, police officers surrounded the building and, after a gunfight where the suspect was shot in the neck, the unidentified 31-year-old suspect surrendered.

During a third incident in Milwaukee, a sheriff's deputy shot several times in his arms and torso after he pursued a passenger who fled on foot from a traffic stop, officials said.

The unidentified deputy, 26, has been with the agency for 18 months and was hospitalized, Milwaukee County Sheriff Earnell R. Lucas said during a press conference Wednesday.

COMMENT:  The impact is devastating.  People don't feel safe in their own cities, sometimes their own homes.  Police departments report difficulty recruiting new officers.  And hard-left prosecutors are refusing to prosecute many forms of criminality, which leads to more criminality.  Trust in the press is also declining.

There's no evidence that President Biden has any plan to deal with this crisis on the federal level.  Vice President Harris is asleep. 

It's hard to believe that the anti-police attacks will end.  We look with dread at our increasingly unstable future.

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