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December 18, 2014 · 2:25 pm

My theory on the Jessica Lane Chambers murder

The horrific murder of MS teenager, Jessica Lane Chambers, caught my attention due to it reminding me of the murder  of a young black man, Deandre Joshua, in Ferguson, MO on the night of the grand jury verdict being released.  As I’ve mentioned before, The Last Refuge blog has done an outstanding job gathering information that the mainstream media failed to uncover.

I’ve been reading the posts over there and even commented several times, but in LB fashion, I offended some poster and decided to keep my comments here on my blog from now on.  The interesting thing about crowdsourcing, where people post whatever information they come up with and theories, is you have to sift through a lot of information and weigh it for veracity and then decide if it’s relevant to figuring out what happened.  I’ll leave it to the police and FBI to find her murderer(s), but I’d like to post my present running theory and mention the pieces of information I would like to know.

Jessica Chambers dated black gang-bangers and there are several gangs there in Panola County, MS.  Her boyfriends were part of the Disciples gang.  Jessica had two arrests for assault on her record, one in 2013 and one in  June 2014.  Who she fought, I don’t know. Recently, she had been at Leah House – a drug rehab facility.  I suspect she went there after some run-in with the law.  I also suspect she may have been encouraged to become a police informant, again, to avoid being prosecuted.  This is just a theory at this point.  The local DA and sheriff seemed very peculiar and hesitant to pursue her killers initially and made bizarre statements.

There are many conservative posters at The Last Refuge blog wanting to romanticize this young woman, who chose to hang out with gang-bangers and had a drug problem.  I’ve read all sorts of theories over there, but no one has really honed in on this stay at rehab.  I find it highly doubtful, with an arrest in June of this year for assault, Jessica just out of thin air had an epiphany and decided to go to drug rehab.  Something happened to facilitate that.  We’ll see how close I am to the truth, when the authorities resolve this case.  I also think some woman was involved in the actual murder of Jessica and I base that on so far two facebook pages have been uncovered, where  women connected to this gang posted angry comments about Jessica – one stated something about “burn that white bitch” and the other woman (a white woman) posted something about “BBQ the bitch”.    I want to put this down, so I can compare my reasoning to what emerges from the investigation.

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December 18, 2014 · 1:50 pm

Please, just let it go Barack and Michelle

The President and First Lady continued the black grievance campaign in a People piece, “The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences”, recounting their many encounters with white racists, oh the horror to be mistaken for a waiter or lowly store employee. Their arrogance knows no bounds and the smallness of their characters smacks you in the face, as they wine and dine tax-evading, race pimps, like Al Sharpton, on the taxpayers’ dime.  Quite the divider, this wolf in sheep’s clothing turned out to be, as he foments racial animosity and escalates racial tensions in America.

To lump the recent high-profile cases of police shooting/killing black males into one basket as “racism” masks a glaring problem among young black males that the President and the black grievance industry prefer to ignore – gang and escalating criminal activity. This statement from a sitting US President, highlights why he continues to fuel divisiveness and racial distrust in America:

“Obama said. “It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.””

Well, lets, be clear the problem is,  young black men aren’t finding inspiration in the first black president’s Mom jeans or career path, instead the “way teenagers dress” emulates gangsters (CRIMINALS)  and the hip-hop gang-banging behavior.  Of course, Hillary jumped on the bandwagon offering her usual pathetic, political pandering, she declared, “yes, black lives matter,” parroting the slogans from recent demonstrators around the country protesting the Ferguson grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri and the death of Eric Garner during an arrest in New York City.”

If you truly believe “black lives matter”, well, how about instead of marches and “national dialogue, or blaming policing methods, you take a hard look at what young black men , in increasing numbers, value.  So, instead of dealing with the violent gang culture, the myriad problems caused by young black men, cycling through the criminal justice system, it’s easier for politicians to promote “white guilt” and support angry protests and attempts to hobble police efforts to cope with gang-bangers and other criminals.

Here’s a home truth – Michael Brown was a suspect in a CRIME, not a poor, misunderstood black child.  A few months ago, his heartbroken  mother was involved in attacking his grandmother for selling MB t-shirts  without her permission, lest someone else profit from his death.  While Al Sharpton and the black grievance posse can dress her up and parade her around the country as a poor, aggrieved mother, the truth is her boyfriend incited a riot after the grand jury decision was released and he’s a twice convicted drug dealer.  Michael Brown was living, not with his devoted mother, but with his grandmother, when she hooked up with this drug dealer, whom the press flocked to for interviews.

Certainly, opinions differ on the Eric Garner case, because video, bandied about the MSM with furor, shows a situation where fair minds might decide too much force was used.  No problem, it’s good to look at situations objectively.  Lying and willfully blaming everyone except yourself for your choices is epidemic in American culture, across the board.   Personal bad choices become victimization by some malevolent larger social construct that supposedly holds you down, obviating the need to man-up to failures and take responsibility for yourself.

Blame, blame, blame, but when the police need to consult a team of precinct lawyers before responding to calls and civil order falls to the hounds of street warfare, drug-dealers, thugs and hordes of foreign criminals (many this President allowed to stay here) preying on our weakness, the collapse from within can only widen and spread.  Yet, our President will still sit in the Oval Office whimpering about some racist white woman on an elevator clutching her purse…..  Really, that is how pathetic and lame he really is – still whining about perceived racism, even though he rode the Affirmative Action train all the way to the White House.

I hear the Frozen song in the background……… Let it go, Mr. President, just let it go!!!

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December 16, 2014 · 10:19 am

Boston bombing case update

Reuters reports: “Friend of accused Boston bomber may plead guilty in gun, drug case”, where Stephen Silva, high school friend of, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is facing charges:

“Stephen Silva was charged in July with having possessed a Ruger P95 9mm pistol with its serial number filed off, as well as with conspiracy to distribute heroin. He pleaded not guilty in an August hearing but may be planning to file a new agreement this week, according to papers filed with the U.S. District Court in Boston late Monday.”

Surprise, surprise another drug connection to a radical Islamist terrorism case in America.  I highly recommend The Last Refuge blog, with their ongoing investigation into the murder of Jessica Lane Chambers and continue to connect the dots between the black gang, the Yemeni gas station owner, (who now claims to be just a worker there), and the drug trafficking angle.  The FBI and ATF are on the ground in Panola County, MS investigating now.

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December 13, 2014 · 10:49 am

Mississippi Burning – Day #6 – The Murder of Jessica Lane Chambers Exposes Massive Problems In Panola County Mississippi…

Mississippi Burning – Day #6 – The Murder of Jessica Lane Chambers Exposes Massive Problems In Panola County Mississippi….

The Treepers over at The Conservative Treehouse have outdone their exhaustive and excellent investigative work on #Ferguson with just a week’s worth of digging for information on the horrific murder of 19 year-old Jessica Lane Chambers in MS last weekend. They’ve uncovered gang-related links to her ex-boyfriend and even the chatty, gas-station owner, who provided the CCTV video of Jessica’s stop there for gas the night of her murder, has turned out to be a radical Muslim from Yemen, who also happens to be involved in the local black gang. Surprise, surprise, his gas station is the hub of drug-dealing in the community. Read their excellent reporting and then consider the little picture/big picture possibilities with this small-town story suddenly sprouting international wings… Let’s keep connecting the dots. One can only wonder how far radical Islamists have penetrated poor, black communities in America.

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December 12, 2014 · 8:02 pm

Bill Whittle: Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism | Truth Revolt

Bill Whittle: Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism | Truth Revolt.

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December 12, 2014 · 6:28 am

Doomed?

From National Review Online, “Progressives Gnaw at the Curriculum”, Mona Charen writes:

“Only about 18 percent of American colleges require a survey course on U.S. history or government. Then again, when they do teach U.S. history, they tend to do so in a highly tendentious fashion. As my colleague Jay Nordlinger has observed, “It’s all slavery, racism, and the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.”

This is deadly serious business. Civilizations are not self-sustaining enterprises. People must believe that their society and culture are worth preserving. If we don’t teach our children the fundamentals of American history and government, they will not have the knowledge or perspective necessary to maintain it.”

Her article offers dismal statistics on how young Americans fare at understanding US history, with the educational system mired in grievance politics.  This brought to mind an old LB post, “A few thoughts about the Lewis and Clark expedition”, where I offered my views on teaching history:

“In recent decades so much hot air has been expended over how to teach history and just about every other subject.  Truly discouraging battles continue to be waged over textbooks, where politically charged combatants wrestle over every single entry.  The Texas textbook fights have garnered national media attention.   With so much information available, it seems to me that instead of fighting over whether to include this or that historical figure and how many lines get devoted to each, the time might be better spent teaching kids how to explore history – it should be a journey, or an expedition into uncharted territory not a political mud-wrestling match.   Just look at a few of the entries in the Lewis and Clark journals, where they charted maps and terrain features, they drew pictures of the flora and fauna, talked to the natives, they wrote as many detailed entries as their harsh conditions allowed.  They did this so that they could come back and share it with others.  This is what education should be – sharing knowledge.”

On a tangential topic, teaching kids to be survivors, let me once again recommend Gladius’ essay, “Gimme a Knife” and a wonderful exploration of the Lewis and Clark journals from an American Thinker article by David L. Lenard, “Looking Back at Lewis and Clark”.  Lenard takes you on a rich trip through the journals, offering up fascinating tidbits that contrast survival techniques like caching supplies (burying them) for later use, which will make modern-day, hide and seek,  geocaching using GPS for entertainment seem rather silly.  Lenard contrasts the abilities of the Lewis and Clark explorers to our modern-day culture:

“What a difference from today, where the handwringing of nervous housewives (“God forbid little Jimmy should encounter peanut traces in his food”) dominates our daily existence, and the liberal imperative of nanny-state overregulation promises the illusion of lives lived in perfect safety and perfect comfort, without risk or suffering or even unpleasantness.  Self-sufficiency is anathema to this mentality, but the Lewis and Clark expedition was self-sufficient to an almost unbelievable degree: they not only hunted their own food, but, when necessary, built their own boats; sewed their own clothes; and when it was too cold to travel, built their own forts — not once, but twice.

In our modern republic, where large segments of our population compete to be declared helpless victims so they can receive government handouts, one cannot help but think that little Jimmy might benefit from being sent out with Drouilliard: “Here’s a musket, son — now go kill that deer, and don’t miss, because if you do, there’s a strong possibility you might starve.””

I’ll leave it there for you to think about the educational riches we have available, free and easily accessible, in America, yet so many Americans lack the will to improve themselves:

“Survival is more a mind-set than a setting. Attitude is everything.” – Gladius, “Gimme a Knife”

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December 11, 2014 · 1:15 pm

Crime in black and white…. not really

If you want an objective character reference, let’s all agree that parents and family members should be excluded.  Here, in black and white, are two horrendous murders with some disturbing similarities, yet in all likelihood no easy pop culture, politicized race banner waving connection exists.  Yes, both victims were set ablaze inside their cars and died unimaginably gruesome deaths, on that point there’s no debate.

The night of the Ferguson grand jury decision, Deandre Joshua, 20 was murdered – shot in the head while inside his car and then his car was set on fire.  Details related, please take with a few extra grains of salt, because the facts might be completely different than the reporting.  So, a photo of a much younger Deandre hit the press  (Trayvon Martin anyone), and reporters gathered all sorts of quotes from assorted family members… “employed at Wal-mart”, “never in trouble”, “good kid”, etc., etc., etc.   Here’s that photo from the Huffington Post.

Most of us don’t have the time to research new reports, in fact, there’s a presumption that the professional journalists would employ an ethical standard, whereby scrupulous fact-checking would be the rule.  This sweet-faced young man’s face stuck with me, leaving a feeling of deep sadness, and I wanted there to be some connection, as the blogosphere buzzed, with Joshua’s death being because he was a grand jury witness.  Officials in Ferguson stated Joshua was not a grand jury witness.  Yet, Joshua, the good kid with a job, was friends with Dorian Johnson, who was present with Michael Brown during the commission of a strong arm robbery and also at the scene during the confrontation between Brown and Officer Wilson.

Alas, today, weeks later, I came across other photos of Deandre Joshua, ostensibly gleaned from his social media.  A very different picture emerged as I reviewed these photos of Joshua, the Wal-mart employee, flashing big wads of cash.  According to GotNews:

“Media outlets all over the planet reported on the death of DeAndre Joshua as the “First Ferguson Riots Fatality.” They ran with a years-old photo of Joshua taken in high school.

He was, in fact, a drug dealer, according to both law enforcement sources and his Facebook page.”

Now, the next crime up, that has the press once again talking to the grieving parents, is the horrific death last weekend of Jessica Lane Chambers, 19, from MS.  Details to emerge assert she was doused with lighter fluid and set ablaze.  The blogosphere’s been abuzz with assertions that she had ended an abusive relationship with a black boyfriend.  Her mother stated that Jessica was just going to wash her car and pick up fast food Saturday night – perfectly innocent.  Maybe that’s true.  The Treepers over The Conservative Treehouse blog once again are putting together all the loose threads about this case.  They offer photos of the crime scene, aerial view of the area and a timeline they’ve pieced together, with the missing data that might reveal what really happened:

“Her vehicle entered the gas station from North, headed South. Her model car (2005 Kia Rio) gas tank access is on the drivers side of the vehicle.

She then leaves the gas station headed again in a Southbound direction at approximately 6:32pm. Her home is in the opposite direction, North.

Approximately 90 minutes later the fire department responded to the call at Herron Road. What happened between 6:30 and 8:00pm is the unknown timeframe.

According to her mom, Lisa Chambers, either she called home -or her mom called her- at 6:48pm. Prior to that call when Jessica left home she stated she was going to “clean her car”, and then “get something to eat”. Jessica was wearing PJ style camo (black and white) pants, possibly flannel, and a dark zip-up hoodie.”

The press ran with photos of this young woman, provided by family, show a younger, very innocent-looking blond girl.  Perhaps the truth will support neither the racial angle to the story some are promoting nor the completely hapless victim angle. There’s more to why she was at this isolated area.  Time and more digging will uncover the facts, but my hunch is that instead of race or politics, maybe drugs played a central role in both crimes, providing that link that crosses racial, socio-economic and political boundaries.  Just a thought…

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December 7, 2014 · 1:56 pm

Monster mash…

Watching these ever-increasing national media circuses vie for center-ring attention, a constant theme remains that age-old battle of truth vs. lies.  All those memorable quotes on lies, like the Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.”, come to mind, yet truth doesn’t seem to matter to many of the purveyors of rabid, partisan political agendas.  Moral relativists scream louder that the truth about the event doesn’t matter, with even elected national leader, Eleanor Holmes Norton heatedly arguing with Sean Hannity a few days ago (Mediaite video here):

“My interest is not in what happened, my interest is in what should happen!”

Finding left-wing examples of this disturbing disregard for the truth about the events that transpired doesn’t take much effort.  The deafening silence from the vast, right-wing conspiracy of elected Republicans, squirming and slithering away from openly discussing matters where race plays a role, screams of a moral cowardice, quaking with fear of awakening the wrath of race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  They adopt generic, milk toast sound bites, carefully avoiding, by word or inflection, anything that might offend the PC gatekeepers on the left.  The left does not hold a monopoly on “leading from behind”!

If I were an alien intercepting American electronic data, from TV to the internet, well, I suspect I would decide, “Skip them, there’s no intelligent life left there!”  If I were a human being somewhere far beyond America’s boundaries, likewise, I probably would wonder how such a sleazy, mendacious, morally-bankrupt culture still invents so much of the world’s technological marvels, discovers amazing medical treatment advances, and fields a military that is the envy of the world.  Yet, being an American,  I know the pop-culture doesn’t represent the large portion (not sure if it’s still a majority) of America, who struggles to fight against the tide of the negative, pernicious reach of moral relativism that seeps into our daily lives, gradually lulling people into accepting warped reasoning, meaningless slogans and deliberately deceptive “narratives”.

Words carry meaning.  That is why the moral relativists devote so much effort to creating new phrases that turn Judeo-Christian morality, from which America’s cultural mores grew, on it’s head, leaving a zombie like acceptance and regurgitation of the lexicon of the left.  With each submission to the new phrases, reasoning recedes, mindless, emotion-driven narratives fill that deafening silence left by cowardly Republicans, leaving us with the Zombie Apocalypse upon us.  Yes, we should fear our demise from mindless, political zombies rampaging on the streets of America!  Life imitating fiction, somehow fitting for the moral-relativist script for our national  “narratives”, replete with cannibalistic monsters who feed on human flesh…

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December 1, 2014 · 10:33 pm

Militarization in America – except for the US Armed forces

I didn’t really want to jump into the Ferguson mess, but being libertybelle, it’s hard to remain silent.  Enough already!   President Obama and all his friends in the far left activism circle are pulling a fast one on our incurious, gullible mainstream media and playing the race card to silence any who dare question them.  President Obama met with leftie radicals,like La Raza,  race agitators like Al Sharpton, along with assorted leaders from the NAACP, hip-hop, and select law enforcement folks (those who support President Obama’s agenda).  President Obama wants to create a federal police force and he’s using the Ferguson situation to move toward that.  Naturally, he’s already at work on another executive order to nudge more federal controls and oversight of local police forces around the country.  President Obama, through his community organizing friends, staged this entire national crisis. 

Frankly, a lot of bad stuff has happened to black folks in America since our country’s founding – that is a fact.  Racism still exists, also a fact.  To pick a thug who robbed a convenience store as the poster boy for all that is wrong with the police rubs many law-abiding Americans the wrong way – Michael Brown was a suspect for a strong-arm robbery.  His mother and her husband/boyfriend (not sure which) are inciting riots, which is a crime too.  The husband/boyfriend is a two time convicted drug dealer.  Yet, the professional race agitators descended on Ferguson and keep trying to bury the facts, rewrite the narrative and do complete character makeovers for this decidedly unscrupulous cast of characters.

The altercation between Darren Wilson and Michael Brown, unlike the Zimmerman/Martin situation, took place in broad daylight.  Plenty of  eye witnesses exist.  Some, who the Brown lawyers and professional race agitators presented, were obviously coached.  Now, in modern America cell phones are everywhere.  I work in a store where customers will whip out their cell phones and snap photos of incorrect labels, misplaced merchandise behind the wrong label, etc.  The Brown handlers first tried to pawn Michael Brown off as an innocent child until the convenience store robbery videotape emerged.  With all these eyewitnesses, most, if not all, who had cellphones, photos and videos of  the altercation must exist.  I’ve been wondering who has suppressed those from hitting the media.

While President Obama looks into the militarization of police forces around the country, who is looking into his militarization of the executive branch of the federal government?  President Obama has armed even the Department of Agriculture, but he’s disarming a whole bunch of the US Armed Forces…..  Odd!

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December 1, 2014 · 12:25 am

Books vs e-books, I choose both…

  After enduring working through another Black Friday sale madness, it sounded wonderful to spend the weekend lounging around the house in pajamas.  With no intentions to shop for anything, yesterday, amazon.com enticed me into purchasing two Kindles for my oldest two granddaughters, ages 9 and 11.   Only $49 a piece – what a deal!  Of course, I added the insurance plans and then thought, “they definitely need Kindle covers too!”   That’s the thing about electronic devices, there’s always more stuff you need to get.  Decisions, decisions, so I registered their Kindles to my amazon.com account, so they can access my library and this afternoon I happily thought about books I enjoyed at their age, browsed lists of classic children’s books and even the list of Newberry medal winners back to 1922.  No half-hearted efforts in the libertybelle world, lol.   Amazon.com offers so many choices and great customer service, plus I think they have mind-readers there who crawl inside avid readers heads and analyze what readers would love.  So, I signed up for a 30-day free trial of Kindle Unlimited too.

My kids pushed me into the world of e-books with a Kindle for my birthday in 2010.  They hoped that would end my penchant for hardcover books acquisition and prevent my eventual decline into shamefully becoming a candidate for a hoarders intervention.   Yes, the Kindle helped slow down my hardcover book acquisitions, but I still love the feel of an actual book in my hands and yet, I also love the portability of an entire library that e-readers offer.

Unexpectedly, once the newness of my Kindle wore off,  I succumbed to a Black Friday sale price on a Nook tablet a couple of years ago, much to my regret.  Oh my gosh, my Kindle library was not transferable to my Nook, yes, a pox on proprietary corporate designs.  Beyond that the Nook doesn’t hold thousands of books effortlessly like my Kindle.  Eventually, a Kindle Fire blazed into my thoughts and I kept reading the reviews, reading the details and alas, I purchased one.   So now, I, the technologically-challenged butt of family jokes,  am the owner of THREE e-reading devices and I’m hoping that by providing classic children’s literature, in Kindles with cool covers, to my granddaughters, they will find whole other worlds to explore.

Sadly, there are die-hard clingers to nostalgia, who refuse to explore new vistas in the world of books. Today’s e-books and even access to venues to locate books rests a far cry from growing up being the proud collector of mostly hand-me-down books… of which most are still in my possession….  I’ve even got my oldest sister’s, 1957 copyright, Scholastic Book Services copy of “Watchwords of Liberty: A Pageant of American Quotations”, that still comes in handy when I’m searching for inspirational American quotes writing this very blog.  Then came the joy of purchasing cheap paperbacks from my Scholastic Books flyer in grade school, the definitive start of my book-collecting interest.  From there I moved on to joining not only Doubleday Book Club, but Literary Guild too, in my teens, using my own money from babysitting jobs to pay for my hardcover books.

The vast, easy access to information of all sorts, great literature, individual global communication capability and so much more should give us all pause to be thankful that some innovative people didn’t accept naysaying or believing in the “impossible“… or even worse accept the status quo.  So, if you’re old and dug in your heels against e-readers, please reconsider and give them a try….. one of the best features for older people is you can adjust the font size larger effortlessly.  Take it from me, a reformed e-reader critic.

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