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Baltimore in Flames
City Journal ^ | April 28, 2015 | By Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 04/29/2015 12:17:22 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The apologetics began almost as soon as the fires were lit in Baltimore yesterday, heralding a night of violence and looting that would leave 24 police officers injured and 19 buildings torched, including a $16 million senior center providing affordable housing and a CVS drugstore providing crucial medications for elderly customers.

Society “refuses to help [young blacks] in a serious fashion,” Michael Eric Dyson announced on MSNBC. “We’re only there when they riot.” Mika Brzezinski observed on Morning Joe: “This was an extremely, desperately poor city. This was bound to happen.” We were seeing an “uprising of young people against the police,” the result of a “combination of anger and disparity,” said professional talking head Wes Moore. Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore police officer and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, blamed the drug laws. . .

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TOPICS: Editorial; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimoreriots; blackkk; elijahcummings; maryland
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1 posted on 04/29/2015 12:17:22 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harvard-media-dead-last-on-trust-list-behind-u.n.-congress-obama/article/2563763

Speaking of MSNBC:

Poll: MSNBC least trustworthy source of news, Fox News ranked first


2 posted on 04/29/2015 12:19:38 PM PDT by GOPJ (The thugs loot stores. The community leaders loot cities. - Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Right. Because free food, housing, health care and college just isn’t enough.


3 posted on 04/29/2015 12:19:43 PM PDT by YourAdHere (It's Hillary's turn (to testify))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

No EBT Cards in Somalia....


4 posted on 04/29/2015 12:19:56 PM PDT by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

serious fashion rejects, anyway


5 posted on 04/29/2015 12:21:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: YourAdHere

Free pot and malt Abe we have a deal!


6 posted on 04/29/2015 12:22:28 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Brad from Tennessee

apologetics

1

: systematic argumentative discourse in defense (as of a doctrine)

2

: a branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin and authority of Christianity


7 posted on 04/29/2015 12:22:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Nails it!

What happened last evening in Baltimore was simply a larger and better-covered version of the flash mobs that have beset American cities for the last half-decade, in which black youths gather via social media to steal from stores and assault whites.

8 posted on 04/29/2015 12:22:40 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: GOPJ

The Mayor’s STAND DOWN order is Baltimore’s Benghazi!!


9 posted on 04/29/2015 12:22:55 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Mika Brzezinski observed on Morning Joe: “This was an extremely, desperately poor city.

Ms. Bressinzski obviously has no clue what "desperately poor" means.

The "desperately poor" in America live lifestyles -- which are the envy of half the world's population.

10 posted on 04/29/2015 12:24:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

And- I’m not smoking anything!


11 posted on 04/29/2015 12:24:47 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

Baltimore prev govnor wAs jailed no? Ahh d rat rule


12 posted on 04/29/2015 12:26:45 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: YourAdHere
Wow! For ME It would be.

I can't even imagine where I could have gone in life with free food, housing, health care, free education, etc.....
Wow! I'd be doi’n alright!

13 posted on 04/29/2015 12:28:27 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Interesting resume. Not what I expected.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald.htm

Maybe she really did mean apologetics — and wasn’t just confused.


14 posted on 04/29/2015 12:28:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Now that’s not fair.

There is nothing more cruel than watching NFL on a measly 50” flat screen.


15 posted on 04/29/2015 12:28:52 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

disparity [dih-spar-i-tee] noun, plural disparities.
1.lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference:
a disparity in age; disparity in rank.

There’s that Obama-Clinton: “We’re going to take your pie so someone else can have more” BS.
What happens when the pie’s gone? It’s `Lord of the Flies’ time everywhere then.


16 posted on 04/29/2015 12:36:17 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
There are plenty of jobs for young healthy blacks willing to work in the fields. No need for those jobs to be done by illegal immigrants. If the Nation of Islam really cared about black youth they would finance a program to train, relocate, and support black youth in the agricultural industry.

They'd be killing two birds with one stone: giving black youths job opportunities and eliminating the need for illegal labor.

17 posted on 04/29/2015 12:39:25 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Brad from Tennessee; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!


18 posted on 04/29/2015 12:51:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Celebrate Holy Week by flogging a banker. It's what Jesus would have done.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There is a huge sub-culture in this country that virtually nobody seems willing to address.

It’s not just Inner-city Blacks.

The Sub-Culture is, IMHO made up of primarily Liberal zombies and Black/Hispanic communities.

If you polled the “Protestors” and the “Rioters” I bet you would find that at least 60% of the “protestors” and 80-90% of the “Rioters” believe that 911 was an inside/Gov’t job.

They believe these conspiracies because they don’t either have the desire to learn, they believe what the Liberals tell them and or they find comfort in blaming someone else.

The liberal elites are clearly exploiting this fact whether the elites believe it themselves or not. 911, is just one example.

Clear examples of “Police Brutality” are never used as a rallying call for protest. This is because that in those cases their is no potential for a “Government/Police” cover-up. The race hustlers and Liberal/Progressive/Communist/Antagonist’s need a scenario in which they can question the “Official” report.

They need a scenario in which they can exploit the known tendencies of their “Foot soldiers”.

All for political gain.

Useful idiots?

You bet.


19 posted on 04/29/2015 1:08:39 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: bicyclerepair

Your brilloant.


20 posted on 04/29/2015 1:10:09 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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