The police discovered a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening.
There was no explosion.
“It appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth” Avenues on 45th Street, said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.
The device, he said, contained “explosive elements” that included “propane tanks, some kind of powder, gasoline and a timing device.”
“This is very much an active investigation,” he said.
Mr. Browne, speaking shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, said that no one was in custody. “We haven’t identified any kind of a motive,” he said. “It appears to be a car bomb, but we haven’t attached a motive to it.”
Mr. Browne said the police were checking security cameras after reports that someone had fled from the car.
A federal official said that domestic security officials had been informed that the event did not appear to be a terrorist threat. The official referred all requests for additional information to New York City police.
The explosive materials were discovered about 6:30 by a mounted police officer who saw a box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder, Mr. Browne said. The officer called for backup, and the Fire Department and bomb squad.
The Pathfinder’s back window was broken out, Mr. Browne said, and the police sent in a “robotic device” to “observe it.”
Mr. Browne said gunpowder had been found in the vehicle, but not a high-grade explosive. The timing device was a clock attached to wires. The gasoline was in two five-gallon cans and there appeared to be three propane tanks, like those used for barbecue grills.
Wow… thanks to some friends who are Boyz in Illinois for this gem. This video is from back in 2006 on a scandal about not only Charlie Crist, but also Mark Foley and others. And who is Jason Wetherington? From the Boyz’ post:
The GOP has been protecting Charlie Crist for years. Watch the video above from 2006.
It’s from before Crist ran for Governor, when the Mark Foley scandal was cresting. In this report, it says conservative Christian groups were part of the conspiracy to protect Crist, because Crist was willing to make anti-gay remarks and push anti-gay policy…so long as he got to date 21-year-old men, be as hypocritical as possible, and remain as orange as he wanna be.
We talk repeatedly about Democrats knowing who all the gay Republicans are — including the three in Illinois’ Congressional delegation, Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, and others at large (and in charge). Democrats blackmail these closet cases into backing bad legislation, trading their submission for secret-keeping.
Republicans, ALSO, know who all these closet cases are, and keep their secrets because, as this video illustrates, some of these guys can be used to attack gays as proxies for the far Right. Who better to stick it to gays than closet cases, whom Democrats are also using, and whom Democrats won’t out or expose as hypocrites because they are so useful as pawns?
These guys are pawns to just about everyone it seems.
For those of you who think our country was not founded and rooted in Christianity, you must check out the book by David Barton called “Original Intent.” In this episode, Barton & Beck discuss what was known as either the “Black Robe Brigade” or the “Black Regiment.”
The British long blamed the Revolutionary War on these clergymen, but this part of our history just proves exactly how religion served such an important part of this country’s founding. These brave clergymen were also members of the regimental Army and fought hard for this country, to be wrested from British rule, knowing that Christianity was based on the relationship between God and individual men; not the collective.
“Social Justice” was/is merely a tool of socialist Marxism, which our Founding Fathers wanted no part of. It’s what set us apart from the Monarchy and socialist Europe.
For more information on Faith and our Founding Fathers, check out David Barton’s website, Wallbuilders.
It’s not as simple as it sounds. In fact, a co-worker of mine who is from Puerto Rico says she bets money that this will never pass. She said they’ve been trying this for eons and the vote has always been “no.” But, one thing she didn’t know (and neither did I) until today was what the ballot question would be; it’s not “Do you want to become a state?” anymore – it’s more nefarious than that. The manner of question does, indeed, dictate a pre-determined answer desired by the one posing the question. This technique is called many things, but ethical is not one of them. It is underhanded at the very least.
I’m going to show this video to my friend to see if she’s ever even heard of the Puerto Rican Progressive political movement and their platform before. I think she’s probably only known about the “yes/no” statehood votes before. We’ll see. If they opt for something like the “Tennessee Plan,” the outcome could be deleterious than the PR voters think.
Yesterday Beck hit it out with the park regarding the left’s lack of balance when reporting on the pro-illegal immigration rallies and the tea parties. We now have race pimp Al Sharpton involved, comparisons of the AZ law’s advocates to Nazis, Bill Clinton’s pseudo-defense of the WTO anarchists vs. his treatment of tea partiers, and the list just goes on and on.
I, like Glenn, wonder why so much fuss is being made about what’s going on in AZ when government officials in Illinois are asking for the National Guard to come help fight crime in Chicago. Which police state does the left prefer? Only the one that doesn’t sully their political points? Why is no one else talking about how bad the crime rate is in Chicago? Well, they don’t talk about Phoenix’s much either, but why is enforcing one more popular than the other? In both cases the majority of the offenders are minorities, so why is one more acceptable than the other? Why is one effort to enforce laws at the state level a RAAAAACCIST thing, yet the other is a TRUE “police state,” calling for military to perform local law enforcement duties?
Someone please explain this to me as I don’t understand the difference here.
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Listen…I’m no fan of Obama, and like Mark Levin, I’d vote for a can of orange juice before I’d vote for Obama in 2012. Somewhere along the way, just because our president is black, videos like this are becoming more mainstream and more acceptable on YouTube and other sites, and it should not be.
This is tastleless to the n’th degree, but if it’s okay for black people to do this, how is anything ANY of the Republican candidates do remotely deemed racist at all?
If this country ever truly wants to progress and become a more civilized nation, why is trash like this even tolerated? I’m not asking for this garbage to be censored, but I’d love to see at least SOME condemnation of things like this to be more prevalent. Can we please all agree this is unacceptable in a civilized world? You cannot condemn one group of people for being allegedly “racist” while simultaneously approving of another group of people for creating videos such as this, villifying a single race of people in the process of glorifying the creators of these videos? One need only search certain terms on YouTube to find thousands of videos like this one. And they’re all equally disgusting.
What say you, Eugene Robinson, Goldie Taylor, Donna Brazile, Marc Lamont Hill, etc., etc.? I’m waiting for you all to openly condemn videos like this on YouTube. If you don’t, then I have no reason to listen to your small and petty complaints of racism from Fox News, Republicans as a whole, and GOP candidates in the 2012 primary. Your silence about videos like this are tacit approval of them.
As is said in many places, “hilarity ensues” (h/t Mediaite):
Frances Martel does a fabulous write-up about it, and I couldn’t have said it any better, so here it is direct from the Mediaite post:
“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”
O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this– namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” Harpootlian finally replied, blaming Republicans for injecting race into the matter by calling this “the most important election since 1860.” “We in the South have a little different version of that election,” he noted, suggesting that talking to Southerners in such a way was a sort of dog whistle. O’Reilly disagreed and just asked Harpootlian to give it up, adding, “you’re getting killed here!”
Today on Neil Cavuto, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar, Mark Levin was on to discuss his new book, “Ameritopia.”
Levin’s previous book, “Liberty and Tyranny” was a best-seller, as was another book before that titled, “Men in Black.” “Liberty and Tyranny” is a must-read for anybody who wants to know how we got to the point where we are in America today.
I’ve been stewing on this and stewing on this figuring out the right way to convey how I feel about it, and I’ve been struggling with just the right words to describe my sentiment. I read a fabulous screed by Deebow over at BlackFive, but it wasn’t until I saw the headline in a Weekly Standard piece today that quoted Lt. Col. Allen West (R-FL) on this matter. I couldn’t have said it better myself:
‘Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell’
Yes, you got that right. Congressman West has weighed in on this flap over the Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban terrorists, sending an email to the Weekly Standard, who got his permission to print what he said. Here’s a portion of his commentary:
“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I’m not even quite sure that what the Marines did was wrong, but since when in the hell did we become so indignant and self-righteously outraged about treating killers like they deserve to be treated? Sure, they probably shouldn’t have videotaped what they did, but who the hell cares? And don’t give me this “don’t stoop to their level” B.S. either. Until you have been in the shoes of our warriors, or our first responders (cops, firefighters, etc.), or, heck, even ever been a crime victim yourself, you have no idea what you would do, given the same circumstances.
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