Posted on 06/05/2023 8:09:42 AM PDT by jagusafr
WHT? SA is the capital of "If it bleeds, it leads", but this is ridiculous. My receptionist's kid was at North Star Mall when it happened and did the right thing: went back into the store she was in and out the back entrance of the store, avoiding a lot of the chaos.
And people still think that CC everywhere is an overreaction or paranoia...
I’m getting used to it now....
Where is Gov Abbott on this lawlessness in SA?
Yeah, it amazes me that there’s no information on IDs or subsequent actions of the NSM perps. Just nothing. Journalism school triumphs again...
Come to Atlanta. You can listen to the gun fire all night. We go nowhere without a gun.
So how many of these shootings involve legal conceal carry or open carry folks. Seems to me most of these shooting involve “people of color” and yet the DOI ... I mean DOJ is still pontificating about white supremacist terrorists.
San Antonio is terrible. This is old but it is happening fairly often now and it’s not being reported.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/12/29/multiple-armed-robbers-hijack-armored-truck-on-fm-78-steal-substantial-amount-of-money-converse-police-sat/
We have had to become like Soviet citizens who kind of understood what was going on, but had to read between the lines to glean any information at all.
Just like folks behind the Iron Curtain, you have to go to foreign news sources to get the truth about what is happening here.
That is so depressing.
SA is an annex of Mexico City
That’s true but not just any foreign source a select few. Most are no better than ours.
True, you have to go to several different sources and filter out their bias’.
“Just like folks behind the Iron Curtain, you have to go to foreign news sources to get the truth about what is happening here.”
That started happening in the left wing cities in N. California about 2+ decades ago.
My wife and our adult children on their own (all of them), stopped watching any local tv news of their bias re no real identity of the criminals and the Bay area eliminating any real news re riots, shootings and stabbings.
My wife cancelled her long time SF Chronicle subscription. Basically, FR became our news site.
Cal Thomas: Infamous Scribblers
World Magazine ^ | June 3, 2023 | Cal Thomas
Posted on 6/5/2023, 9:34:57 AM by Retain Mike
Today, the press is seen by large numbers of Americans as only selectively truthful—slanted toward a particular point of view, usually one that is both secular and progressive.
A 2022 Gallup poll found that just 7 percent of Americans have “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the media, and 27 percent have “a fair amount.”
Meanwhile, 28 percent of U.S. adults say they do not have “very much confidence” and well over a third have none at all in newspapers, TV, and radio.
“Notably,” Gallup reported, “this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined.”
And yet nothing changes.
Journalism is the only profession of which I am aware that seems not to care what the public thinks of it. Imagine a restaurant trying out a new menu only to learn its customers hate it and are patronizing other establishments. Only if the restaurant wanted to go out of business would it continue to serve the unpopular fare.
The media—which encompasses more than just news—ignore or disparage what large numbers of people want. Increasingly they write and broadcast for themselves—money, ratings, fame—and the liberal or conservative demographics to which they cater.
That is because the so-called Fourth Estate, once envisioned as a check on government power, now enjoys virtually unchecked power itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at wng.org ...
I haven't been downtown in years.
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”― Mark Twain
We went to San Antonio in 2021 on Labor Day weekend. Our son was having his engagement party in Liberty Hill and the next day (Sunday) we went to Riverwalk.
It was great. Since we live in New Mexico and our authoritarian governor still had us in a state of fear, going to Texas where there were no masks and everything was open was wonderful. The Alamo had re-enactments going on. The bars and restaurants were busy. We had a lot of fun.
Fast forward a year. My son gets married October 1st and we decide that we are going to go back to San Antonio the day after. Talk about the difference a year makes! Many of the restaurants were closed. Riverwalk was dirty and unkept. There were homeless people everywhere. As the afternoon wore on, shopkeepers warned us to get out before it got dark for our own safety. Many shops closed before sundown.
It was sad.
We’re in Lilburn. Its turned into crime central. As soon as the house rehab is done we’re going to Cornelia where the only gunfire is us or our two other neighbors practicing. Everyone has at least 5 acres. No diversity. 😏
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