New Information on the PA Shooting

First off, information on what has been said by the shooter, this gives more insight into this guys mental state:

Via The Philly Inquirer:

Richard Poplawski thought that Police Officer Stephen Mayhle was faking being dead as he lay in front of a home in the Stanton Heights section of the city on Saturday morning. So he shot the officer again “to make sure.”

He also shot Officer Paul Sciullo II a second time as he lay inside the house “just for the hell of it,” according to investigators.

In interviews with police, Poplawski, 22, showed no remorse when describing the deaths of Officers Mayhle, Sciullo and Eric Kelly, who were shot as they responded to a 911 call placed by Margaret Poplawski, the suspect’s mother.

Investigators said Richard Poplawski maintained a cold demeanor as he answered their questions, occasionally yawning.

He also said he thought he had killed as many as five police officers, including Timothy McManaway, who was hit on the hand by a bullet or shrapnel while trying to rescue Kelly.

“Yeah, I thought he was dead,” Poplawski told police.

Another officer, Brian Jones, broke a leg while scaling a fence behind the house.

Poplawski engaged in a lengthy gun battle with police, firing an AK-47 from his bedroom window and exchanging hundreds of rounds of gunfire with SWAT officers before surrendering.

Poplawski, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was hit multiple times in the leg during the four-hour standoff, and he called friends and told them he was going to die.

The gunman later told investigators he had planned for police to kill him. But he changed his mind and agreed to surrender, hoping to go to prison so he could write a book.

I’ve wrote about this before, so search for the guys name and look for it. But this here tells me, that this guy is nothing more than a cold-blooded killer. He ought to spend the rest of his life in jail. Something else that bothers me:

Via AP:

The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn’t relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says.

The dispatcher should have asked more questions about the weapons, but didn’t, and certainly should have told officers so they could take necessary precautions, Allegheny County Chief of Emergency Services Robert Full told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“There is no excuse. It could have been handled better, without a doubt,” Full said in Tuesday’s editions.

Richard Poplawski’s mother, Margaret, had dialed 911 Saturday morning to summon police after threatening to evict him

[….]

9/11 Transcript:

In a recording of the call that county officials played for the newspaper, Margaret Poplawski sounded impatient as she called 911 at about 7 a.m. and asked for police to come take her son out of the house.

“Are you moving or what? Or the police gotta come?” she asks.

“Does he have any weapons or anything?” the dispatcher asked.

“Yes,” the mother said. After a long pause, she added, “They’re all legal.”

“OK, but he’s not threatening you with anything?” the dispatcher said.

Without answering, Margaret Poplawski mother said, “Look, I’m just waking up from a sleep. I want him gone.”

“OK, we’ll send ’em over, OK?” the dispatcher said.

“Sounds good,” the mother said, as the call ends.

Police union president James Malloy said officers would have responded differently had they known Poplawski had weapons.

“You approach the house with a different attitude. You approach the house from a distance,” said Malloy, a retired police sergeant. “You park your car a distance from the house so you can hit the dirt.”

Obviously, there was a direct case here of negligence by the 911 operator. This message should have been directly relayed to the police on scene, but it was it, and now three police officers are now dead. Of course, the Liberal Blogs or the Liberal MSM won’t touch this aspect of the story, because they are too busy blaming the Conservative media for the shooting itself. When in all honesty, it would have avoided, had someone done their job properly.

U.S. Ship captured by Pirates, Far Right Blames Obama

For the first time, A ship registered in the United States has been hijacked by Somali pirates, the Story via AP:

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with 20 American crew members onboard, hundreds of miles from the nearest American military vessel in some of the most dangerous waters in the world.

The 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama was carrying emergency relief to Mombasa, Kenya, when it was hijacked, said Peter Beck-Bang, spokesman for the Copenhagen-based container shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk. It was the sixth ship seized within a week, a rise that analysts attribute to a new strategy by Somali pirates who are operating far from the warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden.

The company confirmed that the U.S.-flagged vessel has 20 U.S. nationals onboard.

Cmdr. Jane Campbell, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said that it was the first pirate attack “involving U.S. nationals and a U.S.-flagged vessel in recent memory.” She did not give an exact timeframe.

When asked how the U.S. Navy plans to deal with the hijacking, Campbell said: “It’s fair to say we are closely monitoring the situation, but we will not discuss nor speculate on current and future military operations.”

…..and naturally the far right is blaming Obama and is asking “Well, that are you going to do?”

Somali pirates have decided that it is great time to capture an American flagged ship crewed by our citizens.

Naturally, I have a few questions.

Why has this not happened before? Why were these pirates not deterred by the prospects of a response from the United States Navy (the very first mission of which was to stop piracy from Africa)? What will our president do about it?

This is a far more important moment for Barack Obama than the news media, judging by the lack of coverage on cable news this morning, believes it to be.

Unless I miss my guess, this President is going to do the SAME THING as the LAST President did; absolutely nothing. Seriously Republicans er… I mean; Wilsonian Neo-Conservatives, can you get any more lame? You honestly going to blame Obama and are going to expect him to send an invading Military force? Please, Obama’s name is not George W. Bush.

I mean, I can understand critizing his Political policy, but placing blame on Obama for something that he had zero to do with. Like I said in a previous posting, the Conservative Blogsphere is starting to look like the party of circus clowns.

Update: MSNBC is reporting that there are unconfirmed reports that the crew of the ship, have regained control of the ship. The reports say that the crew opened fire on the crew and one was killed, the others either were thown overboard and jumped. YES! Thank God for GUNS! wOOt! 😆

Humor, Glenn Beck, and the whole rhetoric thing…

First off, a rather hilarious exchange between two bloggers; both of which I respect highly.

From Robert Stacy McCain:

I’m just askin’ questions. BTW, does this tinfoil hat make my butt look big?

In to which Jimmie over at the Sundries Shack responds:

(via Stacy McCain who wants to know if his tinfoil hat makes his butt look big. Dude, it ain’t the hat)

Rolling on the floor Ha! I love it. too funny! Laughing

Okay, on the subject of the whole question of rhetoric thing. I realize that there are some who want to place the blame for the shooting in PA on to Glenn Beck. You can count me in the column of those who will not do this; and here’s why. I am under the belief that if someone is that paranoid about the Government and that person takes a gun and starts shooting cops with it, that person is going to do this, no matter who or what they are listening to. Besides this, if you are going to blame Beck; you are going to have to blame Savage, Hannity, O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Joe Farah of WorldNetDaily, NewsWithViews.com and all the rest of the right wing media community.

Any person that cannot tell the huge difference between a peaceful revolution or even a rhetorical revolution, and a armed violent revolution is got something wrong “Upstairs” and has no business being in the possession of a firearm in the first place. I agree, the rhetoric has been turned up a bit too high, especially in the “Not so Main Street Media” Department. Fox News picked up on it, finally, after it being this way long before Obama ever took office. This may have been a bad thing, Glenn back became the mouth piece to that vein of discourse.

You see, there is, on the Conservative side a thin line between what I like to call the “Legitimate” media circles, like HotAir.com, Fox News, and several other reputable outlets and what I also like to call the “Sensationalized” Media circles; that being like WorldNetDaily, NewsWithViews.com, NewsMax, and several blogs that fit that bill. I will not name those because I don’t want to start a Blog war. One of them is in my Blogroll. It is a female; and no, it is not Michelle Malkin or Ann Althouse. All I will say is, I wonder what Mrs. Rand would think, of her using this woman’s book name on a blog that puts out blatantly false information about Obama and Muslims?

I said all that to say all this; When reading the Conservative Blogosphere, as well as the Liberal or even hell, even the Libertarian Blogosphere, one must engage one’s brain, a little. On the Internet, as well as everywhere else; if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. This is why I don’t like Alex Jones; because he majors in the absurd.

My advice to everyone; Media, Bloggers, everyone. Let’s all take a deep breath, step back from the ledges a little and relax. Obama is not going to take our guns. The Democrats tried that in the 1990’s and got their butts kicked in Congress. The Democrats are not going to do that again, trust me. I also believe it would most benefit everyone; Media, Blogs, talking heads and everyone else, if we just turned the blast furnace down to a level of legitimate criticism about Policy and not all of this “Obama is a radical Muslim that’s going to take our guns” stuff. It gets out nowhere and makes the entire Conservative movement look like circus clowns. Clown

Update: Gah! I no sooner hit publish and then I realize that I forgot to put something in this entry. D’oh! Anyhow, what I was going to add here is the fact that I find it so very ironic that the people that are really hammering the Right for the shooting in PA, were the same one’s who are interestingly silent about the Black thug who shot the cops in LA last week. I wonder, where was all the outrage about that, and where was the outrage of the Main Stream Media towards the protesters who marched in support of the supposed oppressed Negro thug? I really wonder. 🙄  The truth is, the left only gets on to a subject when the situation fits their ideology. The Neo-Con right does it too, to an extent. But in this sitution, this goes well beyond Right or Left or even Neo-Con vs Paleo-Con. This shooting in California was just wrong and ANY sane America would have or should have been outraged by it. But you think the left wing media or Bloggers would even talk about that? No. Because they don’t wanna appear as racists. Cowards, all of them.

Two Perfect Reasons why I do not listen to Right Wing Talk Radio

First off, we have Michael Savage basically insulting Glenn Beck:

The we have Rush Limbaugh insulting a member of the United States Armed Forces, live on the air:

Transcript:

LIMBAUGH: We’re going to go to Chicago. This is Charles. Charles, thank you for waiting and for calling. Great to have you here. Hello.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, listen, I voted Republican, and I didn’t — really didn’t want to see Obama get in office. But, you know, Rush, you’re one reason to blame for this election, for the Republicans losing.

First of all, you kept harping about voting for Hillary. The second big issue is the — was the torture issue. I’m a veteran. We’re not supposed to be torturing these people. This is not Nazi Germany, Red China, or North Korea. There’s other ways of interrogating people, and you kept harping about it — “It’s OK,” or “It’s not really torture.” And it was just more than waterboarding. Some of these prisoners were killed under torture.

And it just — it was crazy for you to keep going on and on like Levin and Hannity and Hewitt. It’s like you’re all brainwashed.

And my last comment is, no matter what Obama does, you will still criticize him because I believe you’re brainwashed. You’re just — and I hate to say it — but I think you’re a brainwashed Nazi. Anyone who could believe in torture just has got to be – there’s got to be something wrong with them.

LIMBAUGH: You know —

CALLER: And I know Bush wanted to keep us safe and all of that, but we’re not supposed to be torturing these people.

LIMBAUGH: Charles, if anybody is admitting that they’re brainwashed it would be you.

CALLER: No, no, no, Rush. I don’t think so.

LIMBAUGH: Charles. Charles, Charles —

CALLER: You, Hannity, Hewitt, and Levin are all brainwashed and you know it.

LIMBAUGH: — you said — you said at the beginning of your phone call —

CALLER: Yeah.

LIMBAUGH: — that you didn’t want Obama in there —

CALLER: That’s right.

LIMBAUGH: — but you voted for him because of me.

CALLER: I didn’t vote for him. I voted for McCain. I voted Republican.

LIMBAUGH: Oh, so —

CALLER: I voted Republican.

LIMBAUGH: — you’re saying I turned people off to —

CALLER: You turned people off with all your — all this “vote for Hillary” and all this BS, because you must think people are really stupid.

LIMBAUGH: That was Operation Chaos. That was to keep the —

CALLER: You — no. It didn’t work.

LIMBAUGH: — chaos in the [unintelligible] of the Democrat primaries.

CALLER: It didn’t work. And now what we have with you Hannity, Levin, and Hewitt: sour grapes. That’s all we have. And believe me, I’m not — I’m more to the right than I am to the left.

LIMBAUGH: Oh, of course, you are.

CALLER: I am, and that’s —

LIMBAUGH: Of course, you are. You wouldn’t be calling here with all these sour grapes if you weren’t.

CALLER: Well, I’m so tired of listening to you —

LIMBAUGH: Oh, of course, you are.

CALLER: — go on and on with this — you’ve been brainwashed.

LIMBAUGH: I don’t know of anybody who died from torture. I do not ever —

CALLER: We are not supposed to torture people.

LIMBAUGH: I do not ever —

CALLER: Do you remember World War II, the Nazis? The Nuremberg Trials?

LIMBAUGH: I —

CALLER: Do you remember the Nuremberg Trials?

LIMBAUGH: Charles —

CALLER: Klaus Barbie?

LIMBAUGH: Charles, let me say —

CALLER: Huh?

LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama —

CALLER: What’s the matter with you?

LIMBAUGH: Barack —

CALLER: You never even served in a military.

LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama is —

CALLER: I served in the Marine Corps and the Army.

LIMBAUGH: Charles, Barack Obama is president of the United States today because of stupid, ignorant people who think like you do. You pose — you and your ignorance are the most expensive commodity this country has. You think you know everything. You don’t know diddly-squat.

You call me a Nazi? You call me somebody who supports torture and you want credibility on this program? You know, you’re just plain embarrassing and ludicrous. But it doesn’t surprise me that you’re the kind of Republican that our last candidate attracted. Because you’re no Republican at all based on what the hell you’ve said here.

One of these days, Rush Limbaugh is going to do this, and he is going to end up in a body bag because of it. Does anyone remember Allan Berg? For those too young to remember; Allan Berg was shot dead outside of his own house, for limbaughsavagebergessentially doing what Rush Limbaugh did to this man here. This goes beyond politics, this man served our Country and Rush Limbaugh insulted him. That is, my friend a disgrace. Rush should apologize to his audience for this.  Nothing says megalomania more than calling your own audience liars and saying they are the one’s brainwashed.

Hence the reason why I will not listen to talk radio. I’m just too smart for it.Plus, the man was correct Rush Limbaugh never served a day in the United States Military, because he had a cyst on his rather large ass. Rush Limbaugh is the perfect example of what a “Chickenhawk” is.

There is more that I could write about this man, but I will refrain, Limbaugh is not worth the waste of bandwidth.

Answer to an obvious question.

Well, the answer to this question is very obvious:

The current Real ID debate, which has been under discussion since 2005, clearly illustrates what a basket case the government of Maryland is (“Foes denounce driver’s license bill as ‘amnesty,’ ” Metro, March 29). It has been manipulated by the agents of foreign governments for the sole purpose of benefiting financially from the illegal acts of immigrants hiding within our borders. This amounts to a criminal enterprise, much like the Mafia. The sponsors of this inane bill should be kicked in the posterior for falling for a scam that any high school student would have seen coming.

The picture is painted more darkly by the two Democratic delegates. Delegate Kathleen M. Dumais of Montgomery County cannot figure out what “proof of legal presence” is. Is this person another Clintonite who is looking for the definition of “is”? Are all politicians morons? Do they exist to press their own personal agendas or to serve their constituents?

via LETTER TO EDITOR: Politics is not self-service – Washington Times.

The answer to that question up there underlined is obvious; Yes.

They have for years, which is remarkable, seeing we the people pay their salaries.

Mitt Romney, Obama Lover

How Ironic:

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney doesn’t agree with President Obama on much. But, when he does, he’s quick to note it.

“He’s right on some things,” said Romney of Obama. “He’s right to have taken on the effort to stabilize our financial system.”

Romney, who spent much of the last year running for the chance to take on Obama in the general election, insisted in a recent interview with the Fix in Washington (as part of our “The Rising” series in which we profile politicians to watch over the next few years) that it was critical for his party to acknowledge where Obama has been right in order to offer a believable critique of where he has strayed.

“Simply saying ‘no’ to Barack Obama” is not enough, Romney said.

For Romney, a failed presidential candidate with an eye on a return engagement in 2012, this is the new reality: out of elected office but still a major force within a party scrambling to define (or redefine) itself without control of any of the traditional levers of power in Washington.

via The Fix – Mitt Romney’s Quiet Campaign.

The reason why Mitt Romney loves President Teleprompter so much, is because he is a RINO, A Republican in Name Only. Someone who’s flip flopped on more issues, than any other person that I’ve ever seen. Just ask Ann Coulter, she’s taking hell from the Religious Right on the issue of abortion, because She supported and lied for, Mitt Romney.

This douche nozzle also went around saying that he grew up in Detroit. The man left when he was like seven years old, and don’t even get me started on his Mormonism.


Neo-Conservative Double Standards

A very humorous observation:

The Weekly Standard sets a new standard for hypocrisy in this week’s Scrapbook column that attacks Eliot Spitzer for trying to rehab his image in the wake of his involvement with a prostitution ring:

“Not so long ago, when a politician was caught in bed with a whore, it meant not only the end of his political career, but extended exile from polite society. This was particularly true of politicians–Client No. 9, for example–who wore their virtue on their shirtsleeve.”

The Standard is certainly entitled to its opinion about Spitzer but it shouldn’t treat the former Governor differently than other politicians that have been Johns (Sinner David Vitter comes to mind).

By the Weekly Standard’s standards, Vitter should also be in “extended exile from polite society.” Spitzer left elected office but Vitter is running for another term in the Senate. If the Standard thinks Spitzer should be in extended exile, presumably it thinks Vitter should join him.

via When It Comes To Politicians & Hookers, The Weekly Standard Sets A New Standard For Hypocrisy « The Marathon Blog by Phil Singer.

Perhaps Mr. Singer is not aware of the inverted logic of the Neo-Conservatives and possibly the entire Republican Party; “For Thee and not for Me.”

Which sums up the whole last 8 years.

(H/T Harpers)

The Southern Avenger on "Newt's Foreign Policy Fantasies"

Synopsis: When Kim Jong-il finally conducted a missile test, Newt Gingrich not only said that the U.S should have launched a pre-emptive strike against North Korea, but that President Obama’s refusal to do so reflected a “fantasy foreign policy.” But it is Gingrich, who has long been the most delusional on the subject.

My only comment is, what was Mark Sanford trying to say?

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