Category Archives: Fail!

New York’s Own Anti-Gay Massacre, Now Barely Remembered – The New York Times

“He aimed his Uzi at a group of men standing in line outside the Ramrod bar and squeezed the trigger,” Edward M. Alwood wrote in “Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media.”“Blood spattered against the wall and door as bullets ripped into one man’s shoulder and another man’s arm,” Mr. Alwood wrote. “In barely the time it takes to light a cigarette, 40 rounds tore into the crowd.“As bullets sprayed the front window of the bar, panic swept the crowd inside. Customers dropped to the floor. Several crawled to a stairway at the back of the building in a desperate attempt to survive.”Vernon Koenig, 21, an organist at nearby St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, was killed instantly. Jorg Wenz, a 24-year-old Dutch immigrant working as a doorman at the Ramrod, died at St. Vincent’s Hospital after an hourslong struggle by doctors to save his life.Olaf Gravesen, 37, and John Litaker, 36, were wounded out on the sidewalk. John Gamrecki, 27, was hit inside the Ramrod. Thomas Ron, 54, was hit inside Sneakers. (Different accounts give varying name spellings and ages for the victims.)PhotoRonald K. Crumpley, the gunman, the morning after the shooting. “I’ll kill them all — the gays — they ruin everything,” he was reported to have said. Credit Jeffrey D. SmithMr. Crumpley made it plain to the police that he would have been satisfied with a higher toll.“I’ll kill them all — the gays — they ruin everything,” he was reported to have said.Though nowhere near as deadly as the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., or the arson fire at the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans that killed 32 in 1973, the West Street rampage chills those who remember it.“It was especially stunning because it was hitting at the heart of what was the epicenter of gay life,” Mr. Alwood said this week.

Source: New York’s Own Anti-Gay Massacre, Now Barely Remembered – The New York Times

Video: Off-Duty Cop Pulls Gun On Bike Messengers In Road Rage Standoff: Gothamist {Breaking WTF News! :(}

An off-duty cop pulled a gun on bike messengers in Greenwich Village yesterday afternoon. According to the messengers, the incident on West 10th Street near Greenwich Avenue began when the officer pulled his car into a bike lane. “My friend kind of screamed at him as he’s riding off,” Aaron Lawrence, who shot video of the confrontation and uploaded it to Facebook, told the Daily News. “He stops his car, and he’s getting out of the car. As soon as he gets out of the car, I see a gun in his hand.” Without identifying himself, the gun-wielding motorist commanded, “Get on the floor, get on the floor!” Lawrence said. Video of the encounter shows a man in shorts and a T-shirt pointing a silver revolver as the four bike messengers object. “Put that away. Put that away. You on camera! I have you on camera, bro!” Lawrence yells. “You almost fucking hit me!” “I didn’t hit you,” the driver says. Lowering his gun he waves the cyclists off, and momentarily turns away. “You pulled into a fucking bike lane!” Lawrence yells. With the gun pointing in his friends’ direction again, he yells, “I have no weapon! I have no weapon!” The cyclists demand to see the man’s badge—it’s unclear from the video if he states he is a police officer at this point, and he retreats into the restaurant Rosemary’s. A man, apparently Dejaune Jones, grows more heated, yelling, “Show me your fucking badge!” and follows the officer, taking off his backpack. Just before the video ends, the man who uploaded the video to Facebook, Aaron Lawrence, seems to try to convince Jones to let it go, saying, “Yo, De, we off this.”

Source: Video: Off-Duty Cop Pulls Gun On Bike Messengers In Road Rage Standoff: Gothamist

Thinking About Hillary — A Plea for Reason — Medium

My current conviction is that the main fuel that powers the anti-Hillary crowd is sexism. And yes I’m serious. So go ahead and roll your eyes. Get it over with. But I think the evidence supports my view, and I’ve seen no other plausible explanation. And just to be clear, I don’t think it’s ONLY sexism. But I do think that this is the primary force that has generated and maintained most of the negative narratives about Hillary.

Source: Thinking About Hillary — A Plea for Reason — Medium

Violence and Contradictions on the Path to a Gay Nightclub – The New York Times

“Why did he do this?” his father asked. “He was born in America. He went to school in America. He went to college — why did he do that?” “I am as puzzled as you are.”

Source: Violence and Contradictions on the Path to a Gay Nightclub – The New York Times

Homophobia and a “desire” to go out in blaze of delusionary “glory” makes more sense than the arguments above. Very similar to Timothy McVeigh of Oklahoma City infamy!

Georgia Senator prays for Obama’s death – in public

Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. This sort of behaviour is UNACCEPTABLE from anyone, much less a United States Senator.  Perdue should be censured by the Senate for this despicable behavior. These so-called “patriots” are nothing but ignorant racist morons.

Source: Georgia Senator prays for Obama’s death – in public

Netanyahu’s paper uses Orlando massacre to demonize Israel’s Arab citizens | +972 Magazine

The context: The photos were used to illustrate an article by Israel Hayom columnist Boaz Bismuth — known for his ties to Sheldon Adelson and support for Donald Trump — who writes about the Orlando attack as proof that Obama cannot contend with Islamic terrorism let alone recognize it. The schadenfreude is hard to miss: Another Islamist terrorist attack in Barack Obama’s America — the same America that decided to wipe the term “Islamist terrorism” from its lexicon. Alas, the terrorists are doing Obama’s job for him. How embarrassing. Bismuth refers to Israel only in passing when he writes about last week’s attack by Palestinian gunmen, which left four Israelis dead in a central Tel Aviv restaurant: This is a toilsome war that could last decades. Who knows this better than Israelis? Just a few days ago, in the middle of a popular city market in Tel Aviv, four Israelis were murdered. Yesterday it was 50 Americans. That’s 54 people who wanted to go out and live life, not have their lives cut short. According to Bismuth, Israel and the United States are fighting a common enemy. The only difference is that unlike “Obama’s America,” Israel is not bogged down by nuisances such as political correctness. Unlike our liberal friends in the United States, we have no issues speaking openly about the problem, and know exactly what it takes to deal with it.

Source: Netanyahu’s paper uses Orlando massacre to demonize Israel’s Arab citizens | +972 Magazine

Trump Suggests Obama Is Somehow Behind The Orlando Massacre: Gothamist – NewsBreak WTF News

As some families waited to learn whether their loved ones are among the dead in Orlando Monday morning, Donald Trump appeared on television and suggested that President Obama was pleased with, and perhaps even encouraged, the mass shooting. Trump offered up his YouTube-comments-grade conspiracy live on (where else?) Fox & Friends, leaping from his typical Obama criticisms to something much more sinister all in one sentence. “He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands. It’s one or the other,” Trump said. “We’re led by a man who is a very—look, we’re led by a man that either is, is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind. And the something else in mind, you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot—they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the ways he acts and can’t even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable.”

Source: Trump Suggests Obama Is Somehow Behind The Orlando Massacre: Gothamist

MP: ‘Only thing worse than a devout Muslim is a convert’ – The Local – Denmark

Ahrendtsen also directed his comments toward devout Muslims in general.    “Devout Muslims damage democracy and therefore we need to crack down on them. And converts are particularly extreme – in fact, they are the worst,” the DFer said.    The organisation AnmeldHad (Report Hate) said over the weekend that it would file a formal complaint against Ahrendtsen on Monday, contending that his remarks violate article 266b of Denmark’s penal code, best known as “the racism paragraph”.   “We were contacted by numerous people who were offended by the remarks Alex Ahrendtsen made on Friday night,” the organization’s chairman, Qasam Ijaz, told TV2.    “They were deeply offensive comments and when a member of parliament speaks in that way, it become acceptable for normal Danes to express themselves in the same way,” Ijaz added.    Ahrendtsen said he wasn’t particularly worried about the complaint leading to a criminal charge.

Source: MP: ‘Only thing worse than a devout Muslim is a convert’ – The Local

Two injured after man fires air gun at refugee home – The Local – Breaking WTF News!

The 21-year-old man targeted the shelter from his third-floor apartment just 40 metres away in the shooting on Sunday, police said in a statement. The mother of the Macedonian girl had noticed that her child was hurt in the leg but initially thought someone had thrown stones or sand at her. But shortly after, a witness saw the suspect shooting from his apartment, wounding an 18-year-old Syrian in the leg. Police searched the man’s apartment and removed an air rifle and munition. The suspect was however not detained as “there were no grounds for arrest”, a police spokesman told AFP. “It is unclear if the act was politically motivated,” added police, adding that investigations were ongoing.

Source: Two injured after man fires air gun at refugee home – The Local

My Father is an Indian, My Mother a Nepali, and I’m a ‘Stateless’ Child: Apsana – The Ladies Finger – “Racism, sexism, religious bias have no boundaries!”

I am twenty-six now, which is a common age for a girl to get married in my community. I might marry soon. And once I get married to a Nepali guy, I know I will be qualified enough to apply for the citizenship of this country. This constitution gives more credentials to a Nepali man than a Nepali woman despite holding the same citizenship certificates. My husband, a Nepali man, will be the person who will liberate me from this crisis.Though this might be a way out for me, I wonder how my brothers are going to fight for it. Also Read:  How We Make Our Way in Dilli Sheher I have fought lots of battles which I have lost. But I still feel independent and am able to face numerous upcoming fights for my rights. If I ever get a citizenship through my to-be-husband, I am sure I would consider myself a humiliated Nepali throughout my life.

Source: My Father is an Indian, My Mother a Nepali, and I’m a ‘Stateless’ Child: Apsana – The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger