What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread
I’ll start things off with a question.
Do they have a point? Let’s face it, this bunch has been agitating the snot out of the situation. Is this just an unavoidable tragedy, or have they helped egg this on with their racist rhetoric?
From TheDailyMail “Many are blaming the murder of two New York City cops on Saturday afternoon on Mayor Bill de Blasio following his recent support for protesters in the city marching in opposition to a grand jury’s decision to not indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner.
Hundreds have taken to social media to say that de Blasio has ‘blood on his hands’ and should ‘be charged with murder’ after the two men were killed ‘execution style’ in Brooklyn.
What’s more, many feel that de Blasio should not attend the officers’ funerals, this after many members of the NYPD signed a petition asking that the Mayor not attend their service should they be killed in the line of duty in light of his recent actions.
This as hundreds of NYPD members turned their backs on de Blasio as he entered a news conference Saturday afternoon. These same officers later lined the streets outside the Woodhull medical Center and silently saluted as the bodies of the two slain officers were taken away.
Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said in a statement; ‘That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall in the office of the Mayor.’
Mayor de Blasio responded to this, saying in a statement; ‘It’s unfortunate that in a time of great tragedy, some would resort to the irresponsible, overheated rhetoric that angers and divides people.'”
Says the man who along with Sharpton and Obama did all that and then some.
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Wandering Views 
I fear that instead of being a “Melting Pot” we have become a boiling pot.
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Conservatives have certainly been on the receiving end of the “blood on your hands” because of your stand tactics. Many blamed all pro-lifers for abortions clinic violence and we remember Sarah Palin being blamed the Gifford shooting. We rejected these attempts to shut us up for the freedom of expression and individual responsibility arguments.. Now do we want to stick to our principles or get revenge?
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Anonymous is kBells.. I don’t why it’s doing that.
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It is my observation that politicians often “stir the pot” in order to manufacture crises that divide people. As to allegations that the Mayor “has blood on his hands”, I am pretty sure that would never hold up in a court of Law. He would have had to have encouraged the murder of these two officers. As to whether he bears some of the responsibility, he does. Words bear consequences. Jesus even said we would be judged by the words we utter.
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Interesting piece on a look inside at ISIS (They’re “more dangerous than people realize”):
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/world/meast/inside-isis-juergen-todenhoefer/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
“There is an awful sense of normalcy in Mosul,” Todenhoefer said in an exclusive interview with CNN.
“130,000 Christians have been evicted from the city, the Shia have fled, many people have been murdered and yet the city is functioning and people actually like the stability that the Islamic State has brought them.”
Nonetheless, he says, there is an air of fear among residents: “Of course many of the them are quite scared, because the punishment for breaking the Islamic State’s strict rules is very severe.”
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I wonder what the price of oil does to ISIS?
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