After meeting with several Horry County elected officials about the fatal shootings during Memorial Day weekend in Myrtle Beach, Gov. Nikki Haley bluntly said Friday that the Atlantic Beach Bikefest event must end.
“This is no longer a law enforcement issue”.
Haley said the shootings and violence during the weekend hurt tourism and the potential for new industry and jobs to move into the Grand Strand because of the national attention it received. (more…)
MARYLAND – A high school graduation in Maryland is gaining national attention for the immaturity of the adults in attendance rather than the success of the students onstage.
A massive brawl broke out outside Towson University’s SECU Center on Tuesday after the Randallstown High School class of 2014 took the stage for their diplomas, according to local media.
Full-grown men and women were exchanging punches while their embarrassed children looked on in graduation gowns.
Another Prog vanity project swirls down the drain …. glug, glug, glug …..
According to the NY Post, NPR has cancelled its racial issues show “Tell Me More” due to lack of interest and any real audience or meaningful corporate sponsorship. (!)
The show, which ran on the taxpayer subsidized radio network for seven years (As an aside, can you think of any other event that happened, oh, about seven years ago, coincidentally timed to the launch of a radio show based on lecturing/hectoring white people about “race” that may have had some influence over an organization that depends upon generous federal government financial support for survival? Remember to write your answer in the form of a question!)
“Tell Me More”, produced at the NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. was a production of NPR News in association with the African American Public Radio Consortium, representing 20 independent public radio stations that serve predominantly black communities. (more…)
While the national media continue to re-run the various nuance stories stemming from shooter Eliot Rogers (shot 3 people, and stabbed 3 others, killing 6 in California), there have been three other mass shootings the same weekend without so much as a snippet of attention on CNN or other National Media.
• The First non-reported shootings were in Myrtle Beach where 10 people where shot, and 3 killed, during memorial day “Bike Week“. (link)
• The Second silent shooting was in Tampa/Clearwater Florida where a crowd of 15 people at a hotel came under fire from another gunman, again on Memorial day this time four people where shot. Luckily no-one was killed. (link)
• The Third unmentionable was in New Orleans, Louisiana, where a group of 150 people were gathered to celebrate a graduation. A solo gunman opened fire on the crowd killing one and wounding seven others. (link)
Via Neal Boortz […] We’re going to talk about elephants. Not the GOP kind of elephant, but actual big-eared lumbering wild African elephants (loxodonta Africana) living in Africa, as African elephants are predisposed to do.
These particular elephants are living in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya, where they have been the subjects of some rather extensive studies by people who extensively study elephants. I learned of the results of these studies reading an article by Virginia Morell of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Let’s get to the (elephant) meat of this study.
The elephants in question are living in close proximity to two different African tribes; the Maasai and the Kamba. The men from these tribes differ in dress, language, and, more importantly, how they treat the elephants. Maasai men sometimes kill the elephants. It seems the Maasai don’t particularly appreciate the elephants attacking Maasai tribesmen and their cows. The Kamba men, on the other hand, are gentle farmers who live among, but do not threaten, the elephants. Perhaps they don’t own cows. (more…)
[Transcript From Video by Sundance]
…” We will continue from this point on, til’ next year, to try and come up with a way to solve the problems that we have. Because you’re right, I see it wasn’t safe, we were held hostage”.
The reason we have continued to follow the story as it unfolds is because the event and consequences show a great example of how paralyzed a community can become when it allows fear to drive political correctness.
In addition, how the local government is responding is a case study in cultural fear and fear of the racist labeling. In this specific case Myrtle Beach is also afraid of the NAACP because they have a previous history of being sued by them.
The local city government is willing to pay vast sums of taxpayer money just to avoid confronting the root of the weekend violence. The violence is ironically created by, and enhanced by, their own avoidance policies. Subsequently the entire community is subjected to violence because they are caught in a catch-22 of political correctness.
To that end during a North Myrtle Beach City Council Meeting held 5/27/14 the local city council came prepared to fight the reality of the citizens angst with a litany of PC statistics to support their position.
The city council quickly coordinated their defense within hours of the Memorial Day holiday ending. Literally within hours. At 2pm the day after Memorial Day the local government was ready to defend themselves with charts and statistics, as if they already knew what to expect and were preparing in advance for the ire of the victims. Hmmmm? (more…)
Just as the national media is censoring the violence at Black Bike Week in Myrtle Beach, so too they are censoring violence at Black Beach Weekend in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The event is officially called “Urban Beach Week,” and unofficially referred to as “Black Beach Week”. The Facebook page is HERE and the website for Urban Beach Week is HERE.
As you may have noted in a few disingenuous media articles – Miami was prepared for the event. Consequently it seems some of the annual chaos shifted North to Fort Lauderdale.
Miami police arrested 225 people in connection with the 2014 event. The drop in arrests in/around Miami was offset by the increase in arrests in Fort Lauderdale. (more…)
Myrtle Beach ain’t got nothing on Miami Beach and Clearwater Beach, except for the lack of massive law enforcement. Apparently there’s a commonality….
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – Fort Lauderdale police believe hundreds of young people made their way to the beach for one reason this Memorial Day, to cause trouble.
Police described a volatile scene Monday night as they had to arrest dozens of people that were part of unruly crowds. Two separate incidents late Monday afternoon kept officers busy. One scene was near the area of 31st Avenue and West Broward Boulevard.
The other was near the beach close to A1A. Police said around 5 o’clock in the afternoon, hundreds of young people made their way to the beach for one reason this Memorial Day, to cause trouble.
Fort Lauderdale Police were in riot gear as a large crowd of young people moved through A1A reportedly causing mayhem. (more…)