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Let’s make one thing clear: Rabbi Aaron Bergman, liberal loon extraordinaire, does not speak for me as a Jewish-American. Nor does he speak for most Jews. His absurd rantings are jarring and jaw-dropping in their absurdity. Actually, it’s an insult to most liberals to call his extremist column in The Detroit Newsistan “liberal.” Here’s a hint–the headline of the column: “Corporate Sponsors Deserve More Criticism Than Vick.”
Today, the esteemed Rabbi joins the in defending Michael Vick’s torture and murder of dogs through drowning, dog-throwing, and other barbaric forms that the Rabbi has been outraged with when they are used on terrorists bent on our destruction, rather than helpless innocent creatures (ie., dogs).

Clueless, Far-Left Rabbi Aaron Bergman Defends Dog Torture,
Plays Race Card
His column, today, plays the race card–a usual theme for the Rabbi. It’s strange because while he’s constantly talking down to all of us racist White people, the fancy, exclusive private Jewish school he heads–the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit–has few, if any, Black students or faculty. Do as I say, not as I do.
He also invokes a preposterous non-existent concept he made up about Jewish law regarding corporations. How this is a defense for deliberate dog torture remains an enigma ( and clearly the Rabbi–who should be trained in reading texts–forgot to read the Michael Vick, er . . . “Ookie” indictment). And, by the way, Rabbi, who cares about Jewish law regarding corporations? Neither Michael Vick, nor Nike, nor the NFL are Jewish entities. And neither is the Court of Law trying him. This is a secular (or Christian, if anything) country, something you love to stress, when it conveniently aids in your columns attacking Christians.
The only thing the Rabbi does not do to defend Vick is invoke his puppy love for Islamists (he’s written columns gushing over Keith Ellison’s election as the first Muslim Congressman (column reposted on this Islamist website), attacking America’s treatment of Islamic terrorists, etc.).
I do agree with one single sentence in his entire column, though it has no place in a column defending Michael Vick:

These companies receive tremendous financial incentives to keep their offices in the United States, though they employ relatively few Americans.

That sentence would have an iota of credibility coming from the Rabbi, were he not an extremist defender of open borders and unlimited immigration for Muslims and other aliens who take jobs from Americans.
So, without further ado, here’s an excerpt of Rabbi Aaron Bergman’s absurd column:

Much of the coverage of black athletes is biased, despite the case of the Duke lacrosse players.
White athletes are often given the benefit of the doubt. Black athletes are guilty unless proven innocent. Take cycling’s Lance Armstrong and baseball’s Barry Bonds, both of whom are accused of using performance enhancers. Both have passed every drug test. Only Bonds’ record gets challenged. There is no asterisk next to Armstrong’s.
Scott Olsen, a white baseball player, was arrested for assaulting a police officer. There was little coverage. Olsen was called a hothead, not a menace to society. It is no wonder that many suspect bias in the reporting of the Vick case, even though the case may have merit.
The other aspect that bothers me concerns corporations cancelling their endorsement deals with Vick, apparently worried about their image. The irony is many of these companies lack morality. Vick may have done great harm, but nowhere near the amount of damage these companies do to the world.
Many of these corporations make products in poor countries and justify the pittance they pay to the workers as being in line with the local economy, if not slightly better. These companies do little to improve the appalling work conditions. Corporations have a vested interest in keeping the poor in manageable poverty.
These companies receive tremendous financial incentives to keep their offices in the United States, though they employ relatively few Americans. They sell their products for incredible profits, creating strain on working-class families.
It would be easy to say parents should just not buy these products. However, many advertising agencies bombard youngsters with messages that create artificial obsessions for these goods. In turn, the youngsters pressure their parents, who have trouble buying them because the company they worked for sent their job overseas.

Blah, blah, blah. Did he plagiarize this from Noam Chomsky? Karl Marx? The corporations made Michael Vick do it? Oy vey.
Defending Michael Vick’s torture murder of dogs–a sure sign of a sick, murderous pathology–should disqualify the Rabbi as a principal of what is supposed to be a community Jewish day school. Clearly, the Rabbi does not even know even the most basic tenets of Jewish law, which demand kindness–and forbid any form of cruelty–to animals. That is one of the reasons we as Jews have a specific form of slaughter for meat and poultry. Even though we are killing the animal that we will ultimately eat, we want it to feel as little pain as possible. And we don’t hunt for sport (or at all, given the Jewish laws of slaughter). Humane treatment of animals is also why we do not eat meat/poultry ingredients and dairy ingredients together and wait several hours between consuming them (because it would be inhumane to “cook a goat in its mother’s milk,” which would likely be the case in the days of ancient, small self-sufficient farms).
Time for someone to call this noxious Rabbi Run-Amok to the carpet. He DOES NOT speak for me or my religion.
Do us all a favor, Rabbi Bergman. Quit invoking Judaism to back up your bizarre, preposterous views.

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I’m quoted in today’s New York Times, regarding the , a back in May. Here’s the NYTimes quote:

On her Web site, , a conservative lawyer and blogger in Southfield, Mich., posted, “Forget about the Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state … at least when it comes to mosque and state.”

University of Michigan-Dearborn Islamist Campus by David Lunde
Unfortunately, it looks like New York Times “reporter” Tamar Lewin did little reporting, other than getting a couple of quotes pro- and con- the foot baths. She pretty much copied and repeated what was written in the Detroit Newsistan several weeks ago, including using the exact quote from my blog, the exact way the Newsistan identified me, and repeating false “facts” on the foot baths, like how much they really cost. And they claim the New York Times is “the newspaper of record”? More like the lazy, liberal echo chamber.
There’s more to this, and I and fellow blogger, Dearborn Underground (who has been doing excellent work on this and many other issues), are writing a follow-up about the lies that U-M Dearbornistan has been telling and what they’re really doing behind the scenes, none of which Ms. Lewin bothered to look into. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you are a Michigan taxpayer–but especially if you are a tuition-paying University of Michigan-Dearbornistan student–please let me know if you are interested in fighting this in the Courts. E-mail me with your name and phone number and permission to forward it on to a third party.
Thanks to Barry Popik for the tip on the NYT piece.

University of Michigan-Dearbornistan Campus by David Lunde

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Don’t be ignorant. Learn what the glittering ignorami know. (I know, I know, it’s ignoramuses, but I like ignorami better.)
USA Today teaches us a new word, “shawty.” If you thought it was someone with a Southern, New York, New England, or Cajun accent’s version of shorty, you would be right . . . in another era. But now, shawty means woman. (I hear the new word for man is “be-ig”.) And that’s from the authorities in the Queen’s, er . . . the Hoodz English, like Yung Joc and another guy that sings, “I’ma Buy You a Drank.”
More from my new lexiconologists at McPaper:

A trio of shawty-titled songs have been bubbling up the airplay charts in recent weeks ‚Äî T-Pain’s eight-week No.1 hit Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’), featuring Yung Joc; Plies’ Shawty, featuring T-Pain; and Lloyd’s Get It Shawty.
And probably at least another dozen current songs use the term in their lyrics.
Shawty – a Southern derivation of “shorty” or “shortie” (Bow Wow’s Shortie Like Mine was a hit last year) – has multiple meanings, according to several Internet slang dictionaries. It can reference a good friend, a small child, a newcomer or even someone shorter than you.
But the most prevalent use, and the one found in these songs, is to describe a girlfriend or particularly attractive woman. That’s what T-Pain has in mind when he sings, “I’ma buy you a drank/Then I’ma take you home with me/I got money in the bank/Shawty, what you think ’bout that?”
T-Pain says he uses the term so much in everyday conversation that it was only natural for it to work its way into his music.
“It’s something that’s just real fun to say, like ‘homeboy’ or ‘homey’ or any other slang for a friend or girl,” he says. [DS: It’s fun to speak like a pimp?]
The term has been around for a few years, and the Tallahassee, Fla., singer/rapper says he’s not sure why it has become so popular. “It just started catching on and people started putting it in songs like crazy,” he says. “I don’t know if it’s because of me. It came from Atlanta, as far as I know. It’s Atlanta’s time right now, and I guess all of their slang is going out across the board.” . . .
“I find the term a little flirty,” says Cori Murray, Essence entertainment editor. “I don’t find it disrespectful. It’s like ‘boo’ a couple of years ago.”

Memo to self: Word I never used, “boo,” is out. Word I’ll never use, “shawty,” is in.
Gotta keep up with these trends in the great popular celebration of illiteracy.

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All weekend long (and today, too) readers have been sending me news of the two Florida-based, non-U.S. citizen, Muslim Arab college students, er . . . “Middle Eastern” men–Yousef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed –who were detained in South Carolina for having explosives in their car. (I didn’t write about it previously, b/c I try to take the weekend off from blogging, especially lately.)
There has been almost no media coverage of this story except locally in South Carolina and on blogs. Wasn’t in any of the four papers I read this morning (Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Detroit Free Press, Detroit Newsistan).

Thank You, America, for Arresting Us. . . .
Soon We Will Urinate All Over Your “Justice” System, Stupid Infidels
Ahmed Abda Sherif Mohamed is a native of Kuwait and Yousef Samir Megahed is Egyptian. They were stopped, initially, for speeding on U.S. Highway 176 near Goose Creek, South Carolina. The highway was closed by authorities for seven hours thereafter. They were found in possession of incendiary and explosive devices, which they claimed were for fireworks (Memo to Muslim Terrorists: the Fourth of July was a month ago; get your stories and timing for attacks, straight). Is there a fireworks-and-hotdogs holiday on the Fourth of August I never knew about? What’s more, they are college students at the USF–the University of South Florida a/k/a the University of Sami’s (Terrorist Professor Al-Arian) Friends. Same school as not only Al-Arian, but also , the two Saudi students who boarded a schoolbus of children in Tampa as a dry run, last year.
Cue the usual FBI Richard Kolko refrain:

“There’s no (terrorism link) that we’ve identified at this point,” FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told Reuters. . . . “We don’t think there’s that much to it.”

We’re from the government, and we’re here to help you.
Why has there been virtually no media attention? Is it not a source of concern that authorities believed the explosives and the men dangerous enough that a whole highway was shut down? And why isn’t their religion being discussed or even mentioned? Oh, and why were the two Muslim suspects smiling in their mug shots? That one I can answer, with what they were likely thinking: “F— you, you stupid Americans, whose country we are using, roaming free, and studying at your universities. You idiots.”
So, were the men testing the system or were the explosives such that they could lie and claim they were for fireworks, when they really had a dual, more sinister purpose? It’s hardly “phobic” or bigoted to be suspicious of Muslims with explosives (who aren’t even citizens, not that that makes much of a difference). And I love how Muslims driving late at night, suspiciously, with explosives are the innocent, wrongfully-profiled ones. Hello . . .? Guess who else was stopped for speeding and then cleared to move on? Why, one of the 9/11 hijackers. But no biggie. No cause for concern.
Oh, and by the way, if they’re not terrorists, and the materials were just for the “Fourth of August-ly (lie?)” fireworks, then why are the men still being held in jail?:

No charges were filed in the case, but the men were being held Sunday evening at the Berkeley County detention center, WCIV-TV, the ABC network affiliate in Charleston, reported on its Web site.

**** UPDATE: Surprise, surprise. It wasn’t “just fireworks,” after all. The police now say they had far more than that, and they’ve been charged:

Two men arrested after police found a suspicious item in their car and detonated it were charged Monday with possession of an incendiary device, authorities said.
Ahmed Abda Sherif Mohamed, 24, and Yousef Samir Megahed, 21, were being held at the Berkeley County jail. A bail hearing was scheduled Monday afternoon, Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said.
“They admitted to having what they said were fireworks. Based on the officer’s judgment at hand, based on what he had seen, we judged it to be other than fireworks,” DeWitt said.
The sheriff refused to say what items authorities found in the car. He said some items were being analyzed by the FBI, which did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment. . . .
Goose Creek is home to the Naval Weapons Station, which houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held.
The car was heading west, away from Goose Creek, when it was pulled over about 7 miles from the sprawling Navy facility, police said.

It’s always the local officials who have the guts the FBI doesn’t, when it comes to Muslim terror suspects.
So, which terrorist group do these two work for? What else did they find in the car? Just askin’. Stay tuned. I will.
The University of Sami’s Friends is having a press conference about this, today. More PC jibberjabber, I’m sure.
More from CNN:

The men arrested did not have ready explanations for materials found in the vehicle. That raised questions.

As it should have. “Fireworks,” indeed.

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**** UPDATE: So, a few terrorists give back someone else’s guns in exchange for Israeli amnesty, and then . . . Israel gives them 1,000 new guns?! ****
If a solution doesn’t work in West Compton, then of course it will be a magnificent success in . . . the “West Bank”?!
That’s the logic of idiotic Israeli liberals who, yesterday, began their gun amnesty program for Islamic terrorists in the so-called “West Bank” (which we here at call by its real name, Judea and Samaria).
Remember all those gun amnesty and gun turn-in programs in Detroit, Compton, Gary, and pretty much every other ghetto you can think of in America? Police and politicians in these cities offered money, basketball tickets, you name it, to those who turned in illegal guns.

Fatah Terrorists Turn in Someone’s Guns for Complete Amnesty
But what happened was that criminals, hoods, etc. turned in non-working old guns in exchange for cash or sports tickets . . . while they kept their caches of AK-47, Saturday Night Specials, handguns, Uzis, etc. It didn’t do a thing to stop gun violence in the hood–or even the possession of illegal firearms by inner city criminals.
Now, this absurd, failed experience is being retreaded for similarly destined failure with Palestinian terrorists. Only it’s worse. Palestinian terrorists, included hardened mass murderers, need only turn in “their” weapons (like they’ll actually turn in their real weapons) and pledge not to engage in violence for three months.
In exchange, they get complete amnesty for murders, torture, mutilation, etc. from the Israeli government.
Anyone expecting this to work, please contact me. I have a greenhouse in Gaza to sell you.
One wonders what is coming next–Midnight Basketball for Islamic Terrorists?
Dumb: Palestinians Enjoy New Guns Israel Gave Them, After Giving in Old Ones . . .

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. . . No-one cares that he hit 755 Homers while on steroids. Well, almost no-one. Yes, there were a few fans holding up asterisk signs in the the stadium in San Diego and Bud Selig, while gracing Bonds with his presence, then tried to send a mixed message by not clapping.
But, really most people, frankly, don’t care. They care more about home run races and records, not the substances someone was on when he achieved them.
Sorry, but the steroids hysteria isn’t. It’s a media-created story. And even President Bush mentioning it in his State of the Union Address–where it really didn’t belong–won’t change that.

Who is the Real Home Run King?:
Hank Aaron v. Steroidal Barry Bonds
There are a lot of things that were different in the days of “Hank” Henry Aaron. They didn’t have the nutrition coaches, the fitness consultants, the vitamins. Some fields were set farther back. They drank, smoke, and caroused all night (much more than they do now). All of these things–not just the lack of use of steroids (which some say some baseball players used even back then and before)–made it much harder to “hit one out of the ballpark.” Although, some might even say that the added muscle mass from steroids negatively affects a players’ swing, making hits harder.
Things are different now. But one thing isn’t:
Baseball fans don’t care that Barry Bonds is on steroids. They only care about #755 and, soon, #756.
Yup, steroids is cheating. And illegal. But it’s only one more thing that makes Bonds’ accomplishment different from the days of Aaron.
And no-one noticed. They don’t care if the “juice” you’re on isn’t Florida Orange Juice.
My friend, USA Today sports columnist (and boxing connoisseur extraordinaire) has a different take:
“Thanks to Bonds, 755 Doesn’t Mean What it Used To.”
Oh, and BTW, Ty Cobb was a drunk when imbibing alcohol was illegal. Not that it helped his game or anything. But no asterisks there.
PREVIOUS: “Home-Run King Racial Divide: “”

**** UPDATE: Reader Ari writes:

Bonds may have been on steroids, but many many players back in Aaron’s time were on “greenies” according to Jim Bouton. Greenies, of course were amphetimines. I don’t know if Aaron took them, but they were VERY common, and they were performance enhancing.

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of Little Concrete Piranhas that Muslims from Your Black Muslim Bakery murdered classy investigative journalist Chauncey Bailey.
Well, deputize those bloggers at LCP, because their hunch, posted yesterday right after news of Bailey’s murder, has proven correct. Muslims Murdered Bailey in cold blood. And it appears to have been pre-meditated, too.
Reader Kevin sends this report from San Francisco’s KTVU–oh, and by the way, note that these holier-than-thou, “pious” Muslims flock like moths to a flame to strip clubs:
Muslims Executed Chauncey Bailey . . .

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Your Black Muslim Bakery Now Your Black Muslim Murderers

OAKLAND — Police said Friday “firearm evidence” confiscated during a series of early morning raids, including one at a bakery linked to a black Muslim group, was connected to the slaying of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey.
Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said that while the department had been involved in a long-term investigation of the group tied to Your Black Muslim Bakery, new firearm evidence turned up by a series of raids Friday at the bakery and several residences of individuals linked to the black Muslim group now firmly links the shooting death of Bailey as well as another fatal shooting to the group. . . .
The bakery had been the subject of a story being written, according to colleagues, by veteran journalist Bailey who was ambushed and slain in downtown Oakland Thursday.
Nineteen people arrested in the raids at Your Black Muslim Bakery and three other locations are currently being interviewed by Oakland Police. Two additional suspect are still at large.
Bailey had been working on a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery, according to Joseph Debro, an Oakland businessman who writes a column for the Post. Debro said Bailey had recently asked him for information about bankruptcy proceedings for a story about the bakery.
“To him it was just another story,” Debro said. “He wasn’t apprehensive or anxious about it at all. He said he was working on a bunch of stories and this was one.” . . .
Bailey was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune before becoming editor of the Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the Bay Area black community, earlier this year.
He had written stories for the Tribune about the bakery and its founder when Bey was facing rape charges in Alameda County. Most of those charges were later dropped, although one was still pending when Bey died in 2003.
Bey’s son, Yusuf Bey IV, took control of the original bakery and several franchises. In 2005, he was accused by police of being the ringleader in a group of black Muslims who smashed liquor bottles in Oakland corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community, because alcohol is forbidden by Islam.
In 2006, Bey was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly trying to use his BMW to run down several bouncers after being thrown out of a San Francisco strip club. He also faced felony charges in Solano County for allegedly fraudulently using false identification to buy a car.
Your Black Muslim bakery has been plagued with financial problems for several years, culminating in a bankruptcy filing last October.
In a declaration filed with the bankruptcy court on June 29, Yusuf Bey IV conceded he was “inexperienced in the business world,” and had “received advice and consultation from those who had proven to me they did not have my best interests at heart.”

The moral of this story: Watch your back if you dare to expose Islam and its extremism.
Believe me, I’m watching mine.
As I wrote earlier today, I liked Chauncey Bailey, whose work I knew from his days in Detroit. He was a classy, brilliant journalist, reporter, and writer.
Chauncey Bailey, Rest in Peace.

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I took a break from screening some movies this week due to scheduling conflicts and media appearances. Therefore, no reviews of “Becoming” Jane,” about the life of authoress Jane Austen, and “Bratz,” the movie version of the incongruous, sluttily-dressed competitors to Barbie. I’m sure most readers of this site don’t really care about either of those, though I will consider seeing “Jane” over the weekend and posting a late review. “Underdog” was not screened for critics, usually a bad sign.
Of the major box office releases that I did see, I have mixed emotions:

* “The Bourne Ultimatum“–I liked AND disliked the third chapter of, 2nd sequel to “The Bourne Identity.” It’s definitely the best and most exciting of the three and full of heart-pounding action and interesting turns. That said, the plot is just silly and a liberal’s wet dream. You know how we torture and waterboard terrorists? Well, in this one, the CIA does it to those like Jason Bourne to make them better agents. Yeah, like that really happens . . . as much as I wouldn’t mind seeing Valerie Plame’s head in a toilet.
The jittery camera-work at the beginning of the movie is annoying and distracting, but it gets better from there, with exciting chases and escapes of every kind imaginable. Some of the death-defying–as in a car chase and repeated crashes or Bourne holding his own against a giant-sized Muslim CIA assassin–are completely unbelievable, just like similarly absurd, impossibly death-defying feats in “.” But the rest is good.
Biggest faux pas: Julia Stiles, as a friendly fellow agent, dyes and cuts her hair to escape Tangier unnoticed. Hello . . .? She’s in a Muslim-dominated town where every woman is in a hijab and she doesn’t just don one of those instead? Are real-life CIA agents this inept? I have a hunch that art imitates life on that one. (Also very annoying to hear the actress on ABC’s yenta-fest, “The View,” gushing over how exciting and lovely it was being there during Ramadan to film the scenes. Sure it was.)
The plot: Jason Bourne is still trying to find out who he is. And he finds out. We even learn his real name. And all the while he is trying to escape the corrupt CIA officials and assassins they’ve assigned to kill him. It takes us from Moscow to London to Tangier to New York. He keeps having flashbacks of waterboarding and torture. And that’s why the CIA wants to kill him–so he won’t remember. Dumb. You get it? We like Jason Bourne, and we’re hurt they’d hurt him that way. So we should be hurt they treat Islamic terrorists that way, too. That’s the message.
Reader Andy G sends this San Francisco Chronicle anti-war diatribe posing as a movie review:

If showed the tragedy, “The Bourne Ultimatum” shows an America living with the aftermath. The events of 9/11 aren’t mentioned, but they don’t need to be, as their aftershocks are all too apparent. This is a movie about fear – a government’s fear of its citizens and citizens’ fear of their government. It’s a movie about surveillance, with people being watched at virtually every moment. Finally, it’s about philosophies in collision, about how much safety can be bought at the price of freedom and about the kinds of personalities that gravitate toward the totalitarian mind-set. . . .
Bourne is a young man who has been betrayed by old men – men he trusted, like a good son. Thus, the film presents a kind of metaphorical story of a son who was lied to and abandoned by fathers who are now trying to hide from the consequences. In any era, that metaphor has powerful unconscious resonances, but its reverberations become downright transcendental at those times when older men are betraying younger men’s idealism by sending them into wars they cannot win.

Watch for a fourth installment, The Bourne Annoyance.
* “Hot Rod“–I have mixed feelings on this one, too, because it’s absolutely one of the worst, most amateurish movies of the year. But it’s so stupid and the mildly humorous, occasionally funny jokes (’80s music on the soundtrack, the way they did it in ’80s movies) are repeated so much that the movie is mildly amusing and entertaining. It’s a really, really bad, pointless movie. It looks like a 12-year-old made it–plot, set, actors, and all. Would love to get the soundtrack from this one though. That’s the high point of this dumb film. It is light and mildly fun, if completely stupid.
The plot: Saturday Night Live regular Andy Samberg plays Rod, a kid who believes his late father was a stuntman for Evil Knievel. He dreams of beating up his stepfather, Frank, who always beats him in fights. But Frank is now dying of an ailing heart. He can’t get a transplant unless he gets $50,000. Rod–a bad stuntperson–plans a stunt to jump over 11 buses to raise the money. He wants Frank to live, so he can finally beat him up. In the meantime, he has a crush on a girl member of his crew, played by Isla Fisher, Borat’s Sasha Baron Cohen’s real-life, Omani-born fiancee.
Interesting twist on this movie: Takes place in present time with the Internet, cellphones, etc. But everyone looks, acts, dresses, talks, and does everything else like they are in the ’80s and ’70s. Been there, seen that, in “The Brady Bunch Movie.”

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about theory that prominent journalist and editor Chauncey Bailey was murdered in Oakland, CA
As it turns out, their theory appears to be far more than that. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that, early this morning, Oakland Police concluded a year-long investigation by raiding Your Black Muslim Bakery, arresting 19, and seizing all kinds of arms inside the bakery. Because, after all, you do need an AK-47 to protect your pies, cookies, and cakes.

And now, Los Angeles TV Station KCBS is adopting Little Concrete Piranhas’ speculation (without proper credit, of course–can’t be caught agreeing with or citing a blog), noting:

Longtime Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey was reportedly researching an investigative piece into Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was shot and killed just yesterday morning.

Ditto for Associated Press:

Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said the pre-dawn raids of Your Black Muslim Bakery and three other locations were part of a year-long investigation into several violent crimes, including “murder, robbery and kidnapping.” He did not identify the other three locations.
Jordan would not say whether the raids were related to the brazen daytime shooting death a day earlier of journalist Chauncey Bailey, who was gunned down near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland.
Nineteen people were detained, but Jordan refused to provide further details and scheduled a news conference for later in the day.
Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post and a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune, had written stories about the bakery. KCBS-AM reported Friday that Bailey had been researching a new investigative piece about Your Black Muslim Bakery.
Television stations reported that S.W.A.T team negotiators and various high-ranking police officials were at the bakery to oversee the operation.
The late Yusuf Bey founded Your Black Muslim Bakery in 1968 as a haven for struggling urban families. It sells natural baked goods alongside books by Malcolm X and other black leaders.
Bey’s reputation later took a hit as he defended himself against rape allegations in Alameda County. Most of those charges were later dropped, and one was pending when he died in 2003.
More recently, Bey’s son and other men were identified as the young toughs who bashed liquor bottles in Oakland corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community.

Oh, and by the way, you know those miniature Sweet Potato and Bean Pies you sometime see at Muslim-owned (as most are) gas stations? If you buy those, you are supporting Black Muslims who usually sell them to the gas stations or have them there on consignment.
Your Black Muslim Bakery did that in California, and other similar split-off from the Nation of Islam make and sell them at gas stations around the country.

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**** UPDATE: Well, this time the religion is something other than Islam, and the men with the submarine had no ill intent. That’s THIS time. Thank G-d. ****
So, three guys walk into a makeshift submarine in the East River. . . .
Sorry, no punchline. Just a question: What is the religion of the three men brought in for questioning over a makeshift submarine found New York’s East River, this morning?
Just askin’:

Makeshift submarine found in East River: Vessel found just feet from Queen Mary 2

(New York- WABC, August 3, 2007) – Several people are being questioned by police after being stopped apparently attempting to set sail off Brooklyn in a makeshift submarine-type vessel.

Police say the men were caught in the area of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn, near the Queen Mary 2, just after 11 a.m. this morning.
No threatening devices or materials were found on board the vessel.
The initial indication is this is not terrorism related.
Authorities say they were in a large barrel put together as a type of makeshift “submarine-type vessel,” complete with oxygen tanks.
Officers responded to the area, found the men and are questioning them. Their intent was not immediately clear.

Ri-i-i-i-ght. Hmmm . . . maybe the new Al-Qaeda song can be the Beatles’ “The Yellow (Makeshift) Submarine.”
Thanks to reader Sharon for the tip.