DAVID RAY
1989
San Bernardino, United States
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Showing posts with label San Bernardino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Bernardino. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 5, 2015
The New York Times has had it! Runs cover demanding gun control for US in first front-page editorial since 1920
From: OMG
The paper is calling on all Americans to unite in anger against “the elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but who place a higher premium on the money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from the unfettered spread of ever more powerful firearms.”
It has been many decades since The Times ran an editorial on Page One. We do so today to deliver a strong and visible statement of frustration and anguish about our country’s inability to come to terms with the scourge of guns. Even in this digital age, the front page remains an incredibly strong and powerful way to surface issues that demand attention. And, what issue is more important than our nation’s failure to protect its citizens?
Terror Sell
From: Boy Culture
1st look at Friday's Page 1…
MASS MURDER MADE EASY https://t.co/vvmLcF6aJl
MASSACRE MISSION https://t.co/IlDcIZeAds pic.twitter.com/tyMEZpwMP1
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 4, 2015
Snapped: Killer Couples
Killer Wife Pledged Allegiance to ISIS on Facebook During Attack
From: kenneth in the (212)
From: kenneth in the (212)
The Oxygen network is going to have a field day with this tragedy. It's like when we thought Bobby Brown was the bad influence on Whitney. Read HERE.
How The Daily News Misses the Point With Its Lauded Cover
From: kenneth in the (212)
The Daily News is 100 percent right. But since these other lone-wolf gun nuts don't have a worldwide network recruiting legions of others to do the same thing, what really is their point? Fine, they're ALL terrorists. But it still reeks of false equivalency to me. I keep trying to say Muslims are not the problem -- Islamism is -- but hardcore liberals say it's still a dressed-up way of pointing the finger at Islam, which makes me [insert horrible word(s) here]. (Ouch! It was the first time I understood why the right calls liberals "bullies.") (See also: Afflecking.) Well, here's the thing. Every religion has skeletons in its closet. And they've all been particularly horrible to minorities, women, LGBT people and so on. But there's no denying that Islam is the one major religion that hasn't progressed as far into the 21st century. One of my friends is from Yemen and spent his childhood moving from country to country, watching his mother and sisters go from being treated as people to treated like dirt depending on which type of government was in power. Girls in "modern" Indonesia are given "virginity tests" to enter the military. Saudi Arabia cuts criminals' hands off as punishment. And you can be KILLED IN THE STREET for holding hands with your same-sex partner in many Muslim nations. I don't know about your level of "religious tolerance," but this is UNACCEPTABLE to me. Secular and secularish members are, obviously, not the problem. But there ARE way more people who follow Islam more by the book -- and it's obviously having an effect on large groups of people, making the Islamist movement possible. If we don't acknowledge this, how can we address it? We talked openly about not wanting the religious right telling us we couldn't get married, so I don't understand why we aren't allowed to talk openly about this.
Hard to tell out "ally" apart from our enemy, isn't it?
Friday, December 4, 2015
Tactless Header On Shameless Rag
From: Boy Culture
Hey, the killers were Muslims, but the New York Post making that the entirety of the headline gins up anti-Islamic (as opposed to anti-extremist) sentiment in an inexcusable, Trump-friendly way. Why not: HOMEGROWN TERROR?
My response, as executed by my trusty hack designer Anthony Coombs:
No lies told, though I'm sure Chelsea Manning is the least despised of the first five faces, but pretty jarring, no? (Zsa Zsa, who at 99 years old deserved a shout-out to lighten the moment.)
Thursday, December 3, 2015
"God Isn't Fixing This!" - Congress Needs to Step the F*&K Up and ACT NOW!
From: Wicked Gay
WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA, enough is enough with democrats and liberals being passive on this topic, we MUST fight for gun control legislature NOW not later. This is ridiculous America. The NRA and a fringe group of Republicans have blood on their hands and it is unacceptable. They are ALLOWING this murder to take place and feel not an ounce of guilt or responsibility!
I had a person tell me yesterday that this wouldn't happen if every man and woman in the USA had a gun. Really? That would solve it? That makes a lot of fucking sense?!
I had an uncle tell me recently that he won't give up hunting. That's fine, but how much firepower does one need to hunt a defenseless deer?
I am not suggesting no guns. I am suggesting gun controls, better checks, psychological evaluations, decreased fire power ability.
There have been 355 mass shooting in the United States this year alone. Something needs to be done now!
Gay Coffee Shop Manager Among 14 Killed in San Bernardino Massacre
From: Towleroad
A 42-year-old gay coffee shop manager was among the 14 people killed in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Daniel Kaufman managed a coffee shop at the Inland Regional Center where the shooting took place, training developmentally disabled clients who worked there.
Kaufman is one of four killed in the shooting who’ve been identified thus far.
The Los Angeles Times tells the heartbreaking story of how Kaufman’s boyfriend of three years, Ryan Reyes, learned of his death.
Reyes dropped Kaufman off at work Wednesday morning and exchanged text messages with him up until shortly before the shooting, when Reyes began frantically calling to find out whether his boyfriend was OK.
When Kaufman didn’t respond, Reyes traveled to a community center where survivors were brought. After hearing secondhand reports that Kaufman was injured and in surgery, he began calling and visiting local hospitals, but none of them had Kaufman. Finally, Reyes was asked for a description of Kaufman to compare with bodies at the shooting scene.
It wasn’t until Thursday morning, 22 hours after the shooting, that Reyes learned Kaufman was among the dead.
LA Times photojournalist Rick Loomis captured this image of Reyes’ reaction upon learning of his partner’s death:
A 42-year-old gay coffee shop manager was among the 14 people killed in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Daniel Kaufman managed a coffee shop at the Inland Regional Center where the shooting took place, training developmentally disabled clients who worked there.
Kaufman is one of four killed in the shooting who’ve been identified thus far.
The Los Angeles Times tells the heartbreaking story of how Kaufman’s boyfriend of three years, Ryan Reyes, learned of his death.
Reyes dropped Kaufman off at work Wednesday morning and exchanged text messages with him up until shortly before the shooting, when Reyes began frantically calling to find out whether his boyfriend was OK.
When Kaufman didn’t respond, Reyes traveled to a community center where survivors were brought. After hearing secondhand reports that Kaufman was injured and in surgery, he began calling and visiting local hospitals, but none of them had Kaufman. Finally, Reyes was asked for a description of Kaufman to compare with bodies at the shooting scene.
It wasn’t until Thursday morning, 22 hours after the shooting, that Reyes learned Kaufman was among the dead.
LA Times photojournalist Rick Loomis captured this image of Reyes’ reaction upon learning of his partner’s death:
Heart hurt 2 be in room when man finds his boyfriend was killed. https://t.co/gEryFH72F4 #SanBernardinoShooting pic.twitter.com/IMyM1W36SP
— Rick Loomis (@RickLoomis) December 3, 2015
In The Wake Of The San Bernardino Shooting: Ryan Reyes Waited Over 22 Hours To Hear If His Boyfriend Was Safe
From: Towleroad
“He was his usual cheerful, chattering self.”
That’s what Ryan Reyes (pictured) remembers when he dropped his boyfriend Daniel Kaufman off at work on Wednesday, around 7 a.m. All through the morning, they traded texts and photos.
42-year-old Kaufman ran the coffee-shop in building 3 at the Inland Regional Center, training the developmentally disabled clients who worked there.
The last message Reyes received was at 10:37 a.m., and it was a picture of a friend he’d met at a comic book conference.
An hour later, Reyes got a text from his sister: “Hey Ry does Daniel work at the Regional Center in Sb? Check the news.”
He called Kaufman repeatedly, but he kept being sent to voicemail.
“Call me ASAP!” he texted.
No response.
Hours passed as slowly as possible. It was the worst kind of torture.
Conflicting reports about his boyfriend’s fate kept surfacing.
Finally, he learned the awful truth.
Kaufman was among 14 people murdered on Wednesday at the regional center.
Or perhaps not.
Hours later, around 4 p.m., Reyes’ cousin posted on Facebook that Kaufman was alive.
He’d been wounded. Shot in the arm. But alive.
That’s the word he heard right from his girlfriend, one of Kaufman’s disabled clients.
Officials at the community center had a similar story.
Kaufman was in surgery, and totally safe.
No one knew which hospital.
There were more phone calls. Visits to six hospitals.
None of them had him.
At the community center where survivors congregated, buses arrived all night, issuing shell-shocked survivors into the gym.
Kaufman wasn’t among them.
He wasn’t there and there were no more buses coming.
Reyes’ aunt, Wanda Clemmons, says, “We were the last family there.”
Oficers told Reyes that the bodies of the dead were still at the crime scene. They would need a physical description of the man.
He was a little under 6′.
Roughly 195 pounds.
Reyes remembered he was in black dress shoes. Square toes. Khaki pants. Black polo shirt. The coffee shop's uniform.
No, no tattoos. But lots of rings, necklaces.
Both ears were pierced. That was something. Rainbow bars for gay pride on either side.
Reyes swallowed sleeping pills — four — and finally, somehow, fell asleep well after midnight.
He fell asleep in the worst kind of uncertainty.
The two men shared a love of horror films. They’d been together for almost three years.
Kaufman was masterful at engaging in conversation, meeting people. Even holding up the check-out line at the grocery store.
He never got a driver’s license. Why would he? That would mean giving up the daily rides to and from work with Reyes.
After his parents died, Kaufman was adopted by his aunt and uncle. He lived in Pasadena for most of his childhood, but moved to Rialto during high school.
For the last five years, he’d worked at the social serves center.
Reyes waited for news the next morning at his house in Rialto.
“I don’t know if I want to scream, cry or break a window,” he said. “I’m trying to cling to hope.”
Then at 10:30 Thursday morning, the cellphone rang.
It was the aunt who’d adopted Kaufman.
He was dead.
Here’s How the 2016 GOP Candidates Reacted to the San Bernardino Shooting on Twitter
From: Towleroad
In the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California yesterday that has left 14 people dead and many more injured, Republican presidential hopefuls took to Twitter to offer their solution to gun violence in America: prayers.
None of the Republican candidates indicated that the deadly shooting was emblematic of a larger problem with mass shootings, let alone one that should be curbed by stricter gun laws. Instead all they could muster the strength to do was to pray for victims and first responders.
Vox points out that there have been “at least 1,042 mass shootings, with shooters killing at least 1,312 people and wounding 3,764 more” since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A map created by Mass Shooting Tracker details where those shootings have taken place over the past three years.
Read the Republicans’ responses to this latest mass shooting, below.
California shooting looks very bad. Good luck to law enforcement and God bless. This is when our police are so appreciated!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2015
Our prayers are with the victims, their families, and the first responders in San Bernardino who willingly go into harm’s way to save others
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 2, 2015
My thoughts and prayers are with the shooting victims and their families in San Bernardino.
— Dr. Ben Carson (@RealBenCarson) December 2, 2015
Marco Rubio — No response on Twitter as of posting.
Praying for the victims, their families & the San Bernardino first responders in the wake of this tragic shooting.
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 2, 2015
My thoughts & prayers go out to those impacted by the shooting in San Bernardino, especially the first responders. -John
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) December 2, 2015
Praying for all those victimized by the shootings in San Bernardino, California today.
— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) December 2, 2015
Carly Fiorina — No response on Twitter as of posting. Fiorina is from California.
Praying for those impacted by the shooting in California today.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) December 2, 2015
Praying for the victims and first responders in #SanBernardino for a quick resolution.
— George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) December 2, 2015
Thoughts & prayers are with #SanBernardino
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 2, 2015
Rick Santorum — No response on Twitter as of posting.
Meanwhile, the three remaining Democratic presidential candidates took a different tone on Twitter
I refuse to accept this as normal. We must take action to stop gun violence now. -H https://t.co/SkKglwQycb
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 2, 2015
Mass shootings are becoming an almost-everyday occurrence in this country. This sickening and senseless gun violence must stop.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 2, 2015
Horrifying news out of #SanBernardino. Enough is enough: it's time to stand up to the @NRA and enact meaningful gun safety laws
— Martin O'Malley (@MartinOMalley) December 2, 2015
UPDATE:
Rick Santorum weighed in. As of 9:21 AM PST on December 3, Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio had yet to address the shooting on Twitter.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their loved ones and all those impacted by today's tragedy in California #SanBernadino
— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) December 3, 2015
San Bernardino Shooter ID'd as Syed Farook
From: kenneth in the (212)
Law enforcement are saying Syed Farook, 28, and his baby mama wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were the two shooters that killed 14 and injured 17 at the Inland Regional Center, and that they acted alone. They also had explosive devices, which along with their cadre of weapons and killer duds shows premeditation. Both were killed in the shootout with police. U.S.-born Farook had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with Malik, whom he met online. They have a 6-month-old. (Farook's brother is still being described as a person of interest.) Hard to know what to make of this. Doesn't quite sound like a terrorist cell, yet not a typical (for lack of a better word) revenge plot, either. Perhaps a long-simmering grudge that may or may not have had ideological influences. (Women have been known to help their disgruntled men when they believe they've been wronged.) The fact that Farook's brother-in-law already appeared at a press conference with the Council for American-Islamic Relations to condemn the violence could hint that he was an Islam nut, or it could just be a preemptive apology given the anti-Muslim climate in the weeks following the Paris ISIS massacre. Whatever the case, it's yet another incredibly dark day in America that will sadly be quickly forgotten.
BRAVO, New York Daily News!
From: OMG
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| Thursday’s cover will address politicians relying on prayers to fix the USA’s reoccurring problem of mass shootings — rather than implementing stricter gun control policy. Thoughts? |
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
There Have Been More Mass Shootings in 2015 Than Days in the Year
From: The Slot
Less than a week after the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting—a day during which the FBI processed two firearm background checks per second, and on which four people were shot at a restaurant in Sacramento—news of another mass shooting is rolling in. This time it’s in San Bernardino. If it seems like this happens every day in America, you’d be wrong: it happens more often than that.
This year, the Washington Post has been updating Wonkblog regularly with thenumbers on mass shootings, as compiled by a Reddit community that counts a mass shooting as “any event in which four or more people, including the gunman, are killed or injured by gunfire.” This year, there have been more shootings than days. Today, December 2, is the 336th day of the year; with this shooting, we are (at least) at 352 shootings.
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The total number of shootings has already surpassed 2014’s number and will soon surpass 2013’s, a cycle which shows no signal of stopping, as America tends to respond to gun violence by buying more guns. Via the AP:
The previous record for the most background checks in a single day was Dec. 21, 2012, about a week after 20 children and six adults were shot to death in a Connecticut elementary school. The week following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary saw the processing of 953,613 gun background checks.
There are no solutions in sight, except any number of obvious solutions that have been immediately obstructed by GOP lawmakers, like expanded background checks or bans on assault weapons that no civilian should ever desire to own. Our nation now exists in a state of constant mourning; the Republican response to these shootings has rendered the idea that “All Lives Matter”—let alone black lives—an excruciating farce.
At this point, we may be down to this.
If every Black male 18-35 applied for a conceal& carry permit, and then joined NRA in one day; there would be gun control laws in a second
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) November 23, 2015
The (Killer) Elephants in the Room
From: kenneth in the (212)
Not all Americans are gun nuts -- but America DOES have a "gun problem." Just as ...
Why are most liberals willing to be honest about the former but not the latter? I love what Alan Bao said and drew for the Friendly Atheist about the subject HERE.
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