Saturday, April 04, 2009

"waited for about an hour..."

If this is accurate, then what, exactly, is the point of calling 911?
The attack came just after 10 a.m. at the American Civic Association, an organization that helps immigrants settle in this country...One receptionist was killed, while the other, shot in the abdomen, pretended to be dead and then crawled under a desk and called 911, he said.

Police said they arrived within two minutes.

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Police heard no gunfire after they arrived but waited for about an hour before entering the building to make sure it was safe for officers. They then spent two hours searching the building.

Seriously. That can't be right, can it?

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Thursday, April 02, 2009

A comment on the tragedy in Oakland

If you had intentionally set out to destroy the black community, you couldn't have done it any more efficiently and effectively than the liberal social policies of the last 40 years have done it...
(Sadly, but predictably, there wasn’t a father anywhere to be seen.) If you stood in front of the home where this occurred and proceeded to walk in any direction, you wouldn’t get two blocks before you reached a spot where one young black man had been shot by another in the last year; yet all these women could do was rail about how the police harass their sons.

It may be a cliche to say that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," but where has the road paved with support for unwed mothers, unpunished juvenile crimes, non-demanding schools and "second chances" led, if not to hell on earth?

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