The Death of a Man Who Felt Like a Friend

Patrick Sky

I'm writing this just about ten minutes after I learned that one of my favorite folk singers, Patrick Sky, had died this past May. It was his version of "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" that helped convince me to joint the Marine Corps. And as I write this, I'm listening to his music with the help of Alexa.

Patrick died at the age of 80. That's a pretty good run--I'm still a few years shy of that--but in spite of saying that, I'm very sad. Very sad.

I cried.

Brian

Like I did when my son, Brian, was murdered seven years ago.

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Far-left Black Rep. uses her freedom of speech to say Black folks aren't free in U.S.

One angry, entitled, anti-American woman 

Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is an example of a Black woman who has achieved a seat in Congress after an early life of being homeless.  She supports both criminal justice and police reform, the killing of babies in the womb, Medicare for All, college and trade school tuition paid for by taxpayers regardless whether they or their children attend or plan to attend college or trade school; and canceling student debt, which would either be paid for by taxpayers or the companies that loaned the money on the good faith of the borrower paying back the loan. 

Bush is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a group whose political aims are indistinguishable from socialists, and receives the support of commie colleague Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Bush is also a fan of the anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic Boycott Divest and Sanction  (BDS) movement against the Jewish state of Israel, and during her campaign, she advocated defunding our entire U.S. military. She tried to walk that back when confronted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) by weakly saying that she would like the reallocation of defense funding to go to healthcare and low-income communities, but that's the same thing as defunding the military.

On Sunday, Independence Day, this entitled congresswoman made a disgusting claim about the United States: Blacks are not free, she said.

“When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they’re referring to is for white people,” Bush tweeted. “This land is stolen land and Black people still aren’t free.”

Even Black Americans\ (who one might suspect would be called 'white racists' by Bush and her ilk) were pissed off by her lying.

Podcast host Darrell B. Harrison tweeted:

Cori Bush is an angry black woman—a very angry black woman. Her anger is eating her alive from the inside out. I pity her because the "freedom" she seeks is not the freedom she needs. As such, freedom will continue to evade her as long as she carries that anger within her heart. https://t.co/YIi9AYSoUQ

— Darrell B. Harrison (@D_B_Harrison)

Leo Terrell, attorney and Fox News political commentator wrote:

Do not respond to this idiot: She just wants attention: She hates herself!!! https://t.co/fOhMv6pfpx

— TheLeoTerrell (@TheLeoTerrell) July 4, 2021

One might also suggest that she hates America even more.

Katrina Pierson, political adviser and former Trump adviser tweeted:

Apparently history continues to escape black Democrats who have probably never heard of Crispus Attucks.

But then, these are the same people that continue to be, and vote for, Democrats who marginalize, compartmentalize, and victimize minorities in this country then complain. https://t.co/GkpntgwTfs

— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) July 4, 2021

Thomas Chatterton Williams, writer: 

Another thought: Who is the "they" in this construction? The implication is that black people (and presumably other non-whites) uniformly feel alienated from such notions of freedom. This would shock Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, and countless anonymous others.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧 (@thomaschattwill) July 4, 2021

Richard Grenell, former Trump administration official: 

We should be clear: many Democrats hate America.

Stop supporting these radicals who hate the greatest country in the world. https://t.co/WeReLogBdr

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 4, 2021

Although Grenell is not Black, he is a prominent public figure. Here are a few more:

Erick Erickson, political commentator:

America is so awesome even people who aren’t free can get elected to the United States Congress! America F— Yeah! https://t.co/7oMfLYG527

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 4, 2021

Allie Beth Stuckey, podcast host:

If you believe this, the moral thing to do would be to leave for a more virtuous country where black people are free and the land wasn’t stolen. Maybe there you’ll be able to run for political office. https://t.co/pDxhSXO7a5

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) July 4, 202 

 Jay Caruso, editor:

You’re an elected member of the United States House of Representatives. You’re not only free, you’re one of the privileged.

Have some self awareness. https://t.co/y7SY2oHbaN

— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) July 4, 2021

Ellen Carmichael, commentator: 

FFS I don’t mean to be this person but if you hate this place so much, just go. There are some folks who see America as not only having zero positive qualities but also as having no hope for redemption. It’s tiresome and quite frankly boring at this point. https://t.co/mAmw5CYDnF

— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 4, 2021

My husband is an immigrant who wrote “USA! USA! USA!” on July 4th on our family calendar. People like Cori Bush are out of their minds.

— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 4, 2021

Ronald Reagan once said "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." 

I say, "I notice that everyone who hates the United States of America cannot name a better country on Earth, nor is willing to go there."

Talk is cheap and actions speak louder than leftist bull crap.

Dear Brain Flushings Readers, I hope you all had a great Independence Day.

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Target cuts store hours in San Francisco to quell shoplifting: may cut number of products for same reason

Midnight Special Sale

Target is just one of many stores in San Francisco that is being hit hard with shoplifting as the city is inundated with crime. In order to force shoplifters to "get on with it" more quickly and not waste the best part of their day hanging out, they will now be forced to shoplift in a smaller window of time, that is, up to 6 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. This should eliminate those shoplifters whose mom's don't allow them to go out when it's dark.

You might remember last month when a young shoplifter took his bike into a Walmart's store, began loading up a sturdy garbage bag with merchandise, and peddled out of the store while the guard watched him shoplift and then made a perfunctory grab at the garbage bag as the kid rode out. It seemed to happen during the daytime, before 6 p.m., so it's unclear how Target got this brainstorm of an idea.

The situation in San Francisco is so horrible, in fact, that Target shuttered their doors of one city location just days ago, SFGate noted.

Perhaps another solution would be to drastically cut the selection and category of merchandise Target sells. If, let's say, they only sell toilet paper, shoplifters would not be able to load up on very much of the product as it is relatively bulky, and additionally, this would virtually eliminate shoplifting by Middle East and Asian miscreants.

But as a last resort, large retailers could hire real security guards who would actually be more than uniformed decoration. And when it comes to policing, it might be a good idea to actually arrest criminals and prosecute them, regardless of race or ethnicity. After all, isn't everyone supposed to be equal under the law?

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LA La Land spa protest turns violent after transgender "woman's" alleged un-lady-like incident

Los Angeles, CA -- protests broke out Saturday outside the LA spa where a man with gender dysphoria, [a guy thinking he's a woman] allegedly showed his penis and testicles to female children, teens and adults in the women's area.

Groups of people showed up at the spa to support the brave woman who complained about the incident, but people who think that men who believe they are women should be allowed to show their genitalia to children as long as these men are delusional.

Images show Antifa fascists wearing masks and flak vests, some of them carrying weapons and others waving signs or flags, not one of which was Old Glory.

Another video shows a mob of people clad in dark clothes and masks, some wearing flak vests bearing the word "PRESS," mocking and chasing a man down the street. He can be seen wearing a T-shirt that reads "Obey Jesus." He is punched from behind at least once, and subsequent photos show him with blood running down his face and chest.

If this doesn't make your stomach flip, then nothing with blatant anti-American values would.

The LAPD confirmed that cops were on the scene and had taken control of the situation, but could not immediately provide figures on potential arrests, if any, or injuries.

It's well past the time to do something about Antifa or any group when they're being violent. We need more, not less police, and we need to take a stand against Marxism, because that is what this is all about. We must get rid of the present bail reform nonsense when a person commits a violent crime and are let back out on the street within hours.

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Comrade Mayor de Blasio isn't concerned about NYC's spike in crime

Big Apple Mayor and faithful Comrade Bill de Blasio [whose real name is Warren Wilhelm, Jr.]  doubled down Friday on his logic-defying decision to not hire more cops in spite of the huge surge in crime in New York City, and even after acting President Joe Biden,  provided federal tax dollars for the increase in policing for large, Democrat-run cities that have seen violent crimes go through the proverbial roof.

Meanwhile, de Blasio has an armed security force that shields him from those problems.

He was asked about his feckless decision not to increase the police force's ability to fight crime after the city received $6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief. Biden even mumbled that the money could be used for dealing with crime issues, but the Communist mayor told Brian Lehrer of WNYC "That's not the whole reality."

"The money that the president focused was for certain cities that were dealing with much more profound gun-violence problems than New York is," de Blasio said, pretending that the city he poorly runs has not been affected by a crime wave.

"We have a problem, Brian. I’m not trying to minimize it. We have a lot of work to do to turn around. But a number of other American cities unfortunately are going through much, much worse, and that’s where that money was targeted," de Blasio lied.

And speaking of money, we still don't know what happened to the $850 million his wife was given by the taxpayers to deal with the city's mental health issues. And if anything, the mental health of New Yorkers is in a down-spiral.

De Blasio blatantly Thursday claiming the Biden was mumbling about other cities, not New York, when he mentioned federal coronavirus funding could be used to pay for more police. In fact, a White House source who wishes to be anonymous based on the cancel culture mentality sweeping the nation, said that de Blasio was "incorrect," which is politispeak for "lying."

"Cities like New York that are experiencing a spike in gun violence as a result of the pandemic are eligible to use [the] money to hire additional police officers above a pre-pandemic baseline level to help address that," the anonymous source said.

But City Hall pointed to data that compared the number of shootings in the Big Apple to other major cities on a per-capita basis, which showed New York had the fewest number of shootings per 100,000 residents. So if New York had more shootings than another city, but the other city had fewer residents, that would be just super for de Blasio's way of thinking. What an idiot.

New York's data doesn't include annual rates of shooting increases. Its own figures show that shootings in New York are actually up 64.8 percent — more than any other city listed except for Baltimore, where gun violence has risen 84.2 percent. And based on City Hall's statistics, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, NJ, and Philadelphia have smaller increases than New York, proving once again that de Blasio is, if fact, an idiot.

New York City's budget of $98.7 billion for next year added $200 million to the NYPD budget after having slashed it $1 billion last year, but the new money will not be used for hiring more police.

Last week, Biden mush-mouthed that the billions of dollars handed out through his "American Rescue Plan" can be used by cities "experiencing an increase in gun violence … to hire police officers needed for community policing and to pay their overtime."

On Friday, comrade de Blasio said,  "Right now we have a police force of 35,000, I think that’s the right number, we need to take those officers and continue to apply a neighborhood policing approach, re-bond police and community."

"There were real challenges last year, we have to overcome them with more dialogue, more working together, more reliance on community based solutions to violence, I think we are hitting the right balance point."

And New Yorkers think you are unbalanced, Bill, and yes, many New Yorkers think you are an idiot, in case I forgot to mention it.

Crimes committed with guns across all five boroughs has soared over 40 percent thus far in 2021. They're shooting people in broad daylight in Times Square and the Bronx. Kids are being caught in the crossfire of gangs whose AR-15s are actually illegal handguns. And you refuse to hire more police in spite of having the money to do that. 

Perhaps you have more personal plans with the money, comrade.

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Racist Maryland Democrat blasted by sheriff for interfering in police business re: Black driver

Frederick County, Maryland sheriff Chuck Jenkins (R), accused a Democratic county council member Kai Hagen of putting one of his deputies at risk by intervening in a traffic stop involving a Black motorist--a risk the councilman had no business being involved in.

"The actions of Councilman Hagen were unlawful, totally inappropriate, unnecessary, and created both an officer safety issue and traffic safety issue," Jenkins wrote in an email to County Executive Jan Gardner and the council leadership. "His actions created an unnecessary risk to himself, my deputy and other motorists."

But perhaps Hagan believed he was saving the Black driver from the clutches of an evil officer of the law because the deputy was White and, according to Critical Race Theory, all White people are racists, especially those who don't believe they are and don't see race as an issue that should divide us. It's a perfect illogical logic trap.

"He [Hagan] demonstrated a complete disregard for the safety of anyone involved, and disregard for the law," the letter continues.

The pair got into their verbal scrap during a Wednesday radio interview, with Jenkins calling Hagen’s actions "outrageous" and asking, "Who the hell does he think he is?"

Obviously, Hagan puts himself in the same category as Miep Geis, or any of the others who harbored the Jewish child Anne Frank and her family and hid her from the Nazis during the Second World War. Hagan sees himself as a legend--a legend in his own mind.

"My wife and I were driving up Route 15," Hagen said after calling into the show. "We noticed that a deputy was pulling over a car that wasn't speeding, so we didn't know what that was all about, and obviously it could be a lot of different things. And as we drove past ... we noticed that it was a Black driver."

Apparently, in Hagan's analytic mind, the only reason a deputy should pull a car over is for speeding.

"I was polite to him, and we left as soon as one very basic question was answered," Hagen claimed, also saying his car was mostly on the road but "ever so slightly" off, in the spirit of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots with their arson, looting, street violence and several killings were "mostly peaceful."

Hagan, who has served as a councilman since 2018, said in the interview that he wasn’t "saying that the deputy did anything wrong" before going after Jenkins during the call. 

No, the only person that did anything wrong seems to be Hagan.

"...You don't believe that there's any such thing as systemic racism in — not only Frederick County but law enforcement in the United States," Hagen said, failing to point out exactly which "systems" he was referring to that are racist. 

It seems as though the Civil Rights Act made systemic racism illegal. In fact, the only current racism that favors one group over others is the Affirmative Action laws that favor Blacks over Whites and Asians, but we aren't allowed to say that.

"That's correct. I do not," Jenkins responded. "If there's a racist on the line, it's you, my friend."

Hagan had no business [note the word 'business' has 'busy' as its root] interfering with the lawful process the deputy was conducting. In fact, the deputy should have given him a traffic ticket for the way he parked, but he didn't.

And Jenkins is correct: treating Black people as perpetual victims who are less capable of dealing with their own issues, infantilizing them, having them look up to the woke White person for support, is the hard bigotry of low expectations. 

Hagan is a bigot.

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Biden doesn't allow Florida building tragedy go to waste: alludes to global warming

President Biden checks is eyelids for holes

Joe Biden mush-mouthed at a press conference on Thursday the alleged concerns of some members of the Miami community as to the possibility that global warming may be to blame for the tragic building collapse of the Surfside Condo. As of this post, at least 18 people are confirmed dead and 145 are still missing.

“We don’t have any firm proof of what’s happened,” Biden said. "We also don't have any firm proof that aliens from somewhere out there did not cause this tragedy and loss of life.  You hear about those things all the time--I'm serious. There’s all kinds of rational speculation about whether or not rebars are, were, maybe were rusted, old, weather beaten, whether or not the cement, or whatever they used back then, whether it’s limestone, shale, marble or not, and whether or not, but a lot of the, a lot of the families, a whole lot of families who survived and didn't die talked about how upset with sorrow and sad, very sad they were that in the last years that they’ve been here, how there was or is, was one condominium complex built across the street, like the kids say, 'yonder,' and a road was purchased and built, built by strong men; Americans, one and all. And while they were living there, they would hear the drilling,  the noise was unbearable but they bared it, and they feel their building moving and shaking. I'm not joking.”

“There are all kinds of talks and discussions about whether or not they thought that water level rising, what impact it had,” he added. “And interesting to me and maybe to you, I don't know that for a fact, I didn’t raise it, but how many of the survivors, the Americans who refused to give up; refused to die, and how many of the families talked about the impact of global warming. Is it just me, or is it warm here today?  How much, and they [don’t] know exactly, [but] they talked about sea levels rising and high tides raise all those boats, and about how, how they were, and and the combination of that and the concern about incoming storms, incoming tropical storms, incoming enemy storms.  And so, but I don’t think there is at this point, any definitive judgment as to why it collapsed, but I like to think it was global warming and I'm going to go with that, and how much money we can spend to prevent it from happening and what other buildings may have to be inspected to determine if they have the same problems. And the Green New Deal would have prevented that collapse. I'm serious.”

So to Biden, global warming is the rational reason the building collapsed because, um, AOC.

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Man stabbed on Manhattan train in likely hate crime

Police are calling it a possible hate crime, but when a guy yells homophobic  slurs and singles out a guy in the subway car sitting across from him and makes homophobic comments to him which elicits an altercation, can we really say it isn't a hate crime?

It began Monday on the northbound No. 2 train around 3:30 a.m., a time when you have to be either incredibly brave or incredibly clueless to be traveling the subway system at that time. The 29-year-old man was sitting across from a Black man who was shouting anti-gay statements at other passengers.

The dispute began around 3:30 a.m. Monday aboard a northbound 2 train. The victim, a 29-year-old man, was sitting across from an unidentified man who began shouting anti-gay statements at other passengers. The Black man then began directing his anti-gay rhetoric at the victim and they began arguing and soon it turned into a physical fight.

The train stopped at 34th Street--Penn Station and the fight spilled onto the platform where the Black suspect stabbed the victim with a sharp object, police said.

The victim didn't realize he'd been stabbed and got back on the No. 2 train when he discovered a stab wound in his chest and torso. He went to Mount Sinai West Hospital and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect fled. Police describe him as a dark-skinned man approximately 5 feet, 11 inches tall, weighing about 185 pounds with a medium build and partial facial hair. He was last seen wearing a red Chicago Bulls hat, a gold chain around his neck, a black shirt, green cargo shorts and gay-looking multicolored sneakers.

Police released surveillance images of the suspect taken at the subway station. The stabbing is being investigated by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force as opposed to their Buddy Crimes Task Force.

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