It’s Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013…and here’s The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of Carl Polizzi and The Marietta Daily Journal, it’s the “MSM Bias…WHAT Bias?!?” segment, and yet another crime curiously not covered by any of the major news outlets:
Mableton teens linked to gang are accused in beating death
Four south Cobb teenagers are in custody in connection with the beating death of a 36-year-old Mableton man on Mableton Parkway early Sunday morning. The incident initially was reported by police as a hit-and-run death over the weekend, but the narrative changed drastically Tuesday after the arrests of four teenagers on murder charges.
Jekari Oshay Strozier, 19; Antonio Shantwan Pass, 18; and Johnathan Donald Anthony, 18; all from Mableton, are in the Cobb County jail without bonds on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of the Georgia Street Gang Act. The fourth suspect, 18-year-old Kemonta Bonds of Mableton, turned himself in to police Tuesday afternoon. They have been accused in the beating death of Joshua Heath Chellew, 36, of Mableton and all but Bonds were arrested Monday afternoon by Cobb County investigators.
According to the warrant, the four teenagers are accused of starting a fight with Chellew at a Chevron gas station in the 6200 block of Mableton Parkway near Community Drive at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, according to police. While attempting to escape, Chellew backed into the center five-lane highway and was pushed to the ground and knocked unconscious, the warrant states.
They then walked away from Chellew, “leaving him helpless,” and he was eventually hit by a car, the warrant states. Witnesses on the scene told police that “at no time did (the four teenagers) attempt to aid (Chellew), or to stop the approaching vehicle,” according to the warrant.
So why hasn’t the story of a crime exponentially more heinous than the Zimmerman-Martin narrative received national exposure? Perhaps it’s because of the colors of the victim…
…and the perps…
…don’t fit the script! Or maybe it’s just the MSM wasn’t able to locate the “boys” baby pictures prior to the release of their mugshots.
In a related item, as Hope ‘n Change notes…
Following decisions by the Sanford Police, the FBI, and a unanimous jury that Trayvon Martin’s death had nothing whatsoever to do with race, Barack Obama essentially declared that it was all about race, America’s history of racism, and black youths who are unfortunately stereotyped as being criminals because, statistically, they very likely are – because of (again) America’s sad history of racism except when electing presidents.
But what honked off Hope n’ Change the most was when Barry not only encouraged protests over this non-racial event, but said that if they become violent the ONLY thing he’ll do is “remind folks that it dishonors Trayvon.”
Really, Barry? You won’t do anything to actually stop the violence or hold anyone responsible? For once, we actually believe you.
Of course, while Barry is dabbing crocodile tears about the cruel racism he suffered when a security guard in a department store once gave him a raised eyebrow, he’s also planning his taxpayer-funded vacation in Martha’s Vineyard – “The Whitest Place On Earth.” Although it’s unclear whether he wants to avoid brown people, poor people, or just rabble in general.
And since we’re on the subject of fruits of deliberately-destructive Liberalism, Jack Fowler, writing at NRO‘s The Corner, offers some…
Reflections of a Detroit Native
Eric Pianin, Washington Bureau Chief of The Fiscal Times, reminisces about his home town, which has been singing the blues for decades as it headed for bankruptcy. Part of that journey has been on Motown’s infamous “People Mover”:
Some time back in the early 1990s, I returned to my hometown of Detroit and took a ride on the “People Mover,” an elevated train that looped through the Motor City. The federally funded project was supposed to help revive a downtown in need of a jumpstart, but instead it showcased the plight of a once-great city caught in a downward spiral.
My brief trip around Detroit that one Friday afternoon revealed a shocking and troubling insight: My sister and I were practically the only passengers on the train. And at virtually each of the 13 stops along the way, we were greeted with boarded up or dilapidated buildings. . . .
Detroit’s People Mover in a small way epitomized much of what has led to the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. It was a superficial fix that lined the pockets of developers and provided politicians with a photo-op, while doing little to improve people’s lives. The train was like an aging car with a sputtering engine that could run smoothly with new hubcaps.
The multi-million-dollar train was designed to accommodate up to 15 million passengers a year on its three-mile track. But after the ceremonial ribbons were snipped in 1987, it was quickly ignored by locals and tourists, serving a few thousand riders a day. For years, the city essentially was spending $4 or more to subsidize every 75-cent rider fare.
And now, Liberals want to do the same thing for, or more appropriately to, the ignorant masses…
…of California! Just like the denizens of what has become Notown, the Fruits & Nuts get the government they deserve.
For more on the subject of fraud, waste and abuse involving taxpayer funds, we turn to the WSJ, which reports…
The U.S. Marshals Service has lost track of at least 2,000 encrypted two-way radios and other communication devices valued at millions of dollars, according to internal agency documents, creating what some within the agency view as a security risk for federal judges, endangered witnesses and others.
The problem, which stretches back years, was laid out in detail to agency officials at least as early as 2011, when the Marshals were deploying new versions of the radios they use to securely communicate in the field. Agency leaders continued to have difficulty tracking their equipment even after they were warned about the problems by an internal technology office, according to the documents, which were obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
Some Marshals officials told The Wall Street Journal that besides the wasted money and resources, the inventory problems raise the possibility that criminals could get their hands on radios and listen to them to learn details of security or law-enforcement operations. Such radios are a key communications tool of U.S. Marshals.
USMS spokesman Drew Wade said the agency believes “this issue is in large part attributable to poor record keeping as a result of an older property-management system, as opposed to equipment being lost.”
...While more than 1,600 then-missing radios “cannot be accounted for today,” one official wrote in an email to Marshals executive William Snelson on July 13, 2012, “I wholeheartedly believe that many of these items can be located, or will eventually be found.”
And in an eerie replay of Benghazigate, USMS spokesman Wade went on to say…
…none of the Marshals officials named in the documents were available for comment.
President and Mrs. “More Equal Than Others” reacted to the news of the multi-million dollar mistake by…
…shrugging and noting, “Hey, what’s a few million here and there; after all, we spend hundreds of times more than that on ourselves and our daughters every year!”
We only wish misplacing radios was the worst of what the not-so-good guys are about; unfortunately, as evidenced by our next item, it ain’t even close:
In a similar story, the WSJ reports on the…
Yeah…and we’re to believe these guys are on our side?!? With friends like these, why would Der Obafuhrer need his brown shirts?
Next up, James Taranto comments on The Obamao’s attempt to lynch George Zimmerman:
Can We Talk? Nah.
President Obama has come in for plenty of criticism from both right and left for his Friday comments on the George Zimmerman case, but we’d like to highlight a portion with which we agree:
There has been talk about should we convene a conversation on race. I haven’t seen that be particularly productive when politicians try to organize conversations. They end up being stilted and politicized, and folks are locked into the positions they already have.
Obama has plenty of experience in the futility of trying “to organize conversations.” The Washington Post reported last month that he had called for what the headline calls “a national conversation about mental health.” The White House website informs us that “President Obama has started a National Conversation on Responsible Fatherhood and Strong Communities.”
A week after Obama’s re-election, the Associated Press reported that he “said he hopes to begin his second term by opening a national ‘conversation’ on climate change.” A Wall Street Journal headline the following month: “Obama Calls for National Conversation on Gun Control.” And just last month, ABC News reported, with respect to revelations about National Security data gathering efforts, that Obama told interviewer Charlie Rose that “what I want to do is to set up and structure a national conversation, not only about these two programs, but also the general problem of data, big data sets.”
It’s hard to imagine how we’d hear what anyone has to say about race above the din of all those other conversations. Or maybe Obama just belatedly read Bill Kristol’s March 24, 2008, New York Times column, in which The Weekly Standard’s editor observed: “The last thing we need now is a heated national conversation about race.
But wait; there’s MORE!
Obama to talk jobs in struggling Illinois town
Ever notice whenever Obama talks about anything, it seems to cost more Americans their jobs?
Turning next to someone who should be out of a job, and likely in prison, courtesy of and The Daily Caller, the latest on the IRS scandal:
Embattled IRS chief counsel met with Obama 2 days before agency changed targeting criteria
The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins’ boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.
On April 25, 2012, Wilkins’ office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit “additional comments on the draft guidance” for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector general’s report.
Between 2010 and 2012, the IRS sent letters demanding groups’ training materials, personal information on groups’ donors and college interns, and even the content of a religious group’s prayers.
Wilkins’ meeting with Obama on April 23 was attended by 13 people.
Wilkins, who is one of only two Obama appointees at the IRS, is a former lobbyist with the firm WilmerHale, where he spent his time “counseling nonprofit organizations, business entities, and investment funds on tax compliance, business transactions, and government investigations.” At the firm, Wilkins defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Chicago-based United Church of Christ from a 2008 investigation into whether Wright violated his church’s nonprofit status by speaking in favor of Obama. Wilkins successfully defended Wright’s church pro bono.
The White House did not return a request for comment.
And in the Wild Blue Yonder segment, as the LA Times reports…
“…Today, just 65% of pilots are deciding to extend their service past their 11th year, when they choose whether to stay for an additional five years. That’s compared with 80% in 1993.”
Gee; wonder what could have…
…changed?!?
On the Lighter Side…
Finally, we’ll call it a day with the latest installment of Hope ‘n Change, whose thoughts on a hypocritical harpy’s long-overdue demise speaks for us:
And finally, Hope n’ Change couldn’t go to press without a last salute to the Whitehouse press room’s grand old lady of anti-Semitism, Helen Thomas. The 92-year-old alleged journalist died of natural causes in a freak mirror explosion, but her spirit lives on. Specifically it lives on as the newest virgin that Tamerlan Tsarnaev will be forced to canoodle for eternity.
Thomas’ passing evokes, at least in us, the opening of Diamonds Are Forever, and Bond’s thoughts upon dispatching Ernst Stavro Blofeld to the Nether Regions:
Magoo
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