Tuesday Wrap-Up (How to Save MO and IL A Lot Of Money)

I’ll be on the road tomorrow at this time, back to STL to eat sleep-inducing food the next day.  But I’m right back here that night, as I got work on Friday.  Then right back to STL for the weekend.

(1)  Anti-Hispanic hate crimes were down in 2008 compared to 2007.  What I’m curious about is that if a Hispanic is a victim of a hate crime (or any crime), he or she is categorized as Hispanic in th stats.  But if a Hispanic commits a crime, he or she is classified as white.  So if a Hispanic clobbers another Hispanic and yells anti-Hispanic slur words in the process, this means it’s counted as a white-on-Hispanic hate crime.  How much of those are part of these stats?

(2)  What I’m more worried about when it comes to US-India relations is the H-1B and outsourcing issues.

(3)  I should say that any guy who tries to climb the water tower does have an “emotional issue.”  The emotions have to do with some woman, and he’s got a can of spray paint.

(4)  Everyone was worried about British laws mandating that authorities collect DNA from criminal suspects would lead to a dystopian state.  Except the database is not much longer for this world, as it has been discovered that three-quarters of black Briton boys and men under the age of 35 have had their DNA collected.  Just a little bit of yelling racism, and someone will hit delete.

(5)  Blow Jobs:  Not okay when “singers” simulate it on other guys on TV, but okay when Presidents actually do it to subordinate interns then lie about it to a grand jury.

(6)  Jewish woman who won the German national high jump record in events running up to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has had her record restored; the Hitler government had rescinded it because she was Jewish.

And they’re just NOW getting around to it in 2009?

Like, 1946 would have been nice.

(7)  Let me save the Illinois Senate a lot of time and money.   Here’s your study:  Blacks misbehave more.  And therefore, they get suspended from school more often, in spite of being in a state whose very symbol is the Abehole of racial equality, and whose public school system does everything it can not to suspend black students.

(8)  How to save Missouri $5.3 billion:  Give every person a high school diploma as a civil right of his or her turning 18 years old, if s/he hasn’t otherwise earned it.  Therefore, all the social ills and lost wages caused by the dropout “crisis” will go away.

BTW, I don’t agree with the stats, because if all the dropouts earned/received HS diplomas, this would only dilute the job market for those with HS and some college but no college degree, and mean lower wages for all of them.

(9)  Cass Sunstein wants to shut down websites that spread false rumors.  Nice knowing ya, splcenter.org and adl.org.

(10)  U.S. Attorney for Southern Illinois says that late closing times for bars and clubs in East St. Louis is the reason why crime is so high.  Mayor Alvin Parks says that “drugs, gangs, drugs and domestic violence” are the causes.  I say that they’re both wrong.  ESL has so much crime because it’s almost entirely black.  (BTW, I dealt with this issue earlier this year.)

(11)  Israel has a thriving tech industry, in both hardware and software, for two main reasons.  First, Israel’s population (save a certain minority that loves to strap dynamite to its back) has a high average IQ.  Second, Israel doesn’t believe in outsourcing every job to Bangalore or insourcing Bangalore into Israel so that corporations can have cheap labor.  That wasn’t hard now, was it?

BTW, how’s that Palestinian tech sector doing?

And a few headlines.

Slashdot:  Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort

Take a hint, assclown:  American students (at least the white and Oriental ones) aren’t bad at science.  It’s just that most of them can’t find jobs thanks to all your wonderful H-1B visas.

CNS:  Pelosi Won’t Say Whether Osama Bin Laden Should be Told He Has the Right to Remain Silent and Get a Lawyer

They’ll have to tell him that, otherwise his public defender will try to dismiss his criminal case in court by saying that the cops didn’t Mirandize him.

UK Telegraph:  Nearly one in three schools failing children, Ofsted finds

A simple transposition might be in order here:  Children failing in nearly one in three schools.

KFVS:  20 arrested on more than 100 felony charges

Only five felonies per person, so it must be a white city.

P-D:  Rams will go with just two healthy QBs this week

But no good ones.

Happy Retirement, Bonds.

P-D:  St. Louis County to retire bonds early

I can just see the bonds, lapped out on a lawn chair on the sand on a Florida beach, drinking a pina colada.

AP:  Pa. university students upset about fitness class

Just announce there will be coed locker rooms, and nobody will be upset anymore.

P-D:  On health-care bill, Bond feeling like “mosquito in a nudist colony”

Duh, stupid.  Why do you think most nudist colonies are on saltwater beaches?

P-D:  Motown caps 50th anniversary with hometown gala

Of course, nobody seems to remember that Motown left Detroit because the neighborhood was getting too dangerous.

SEMOIAN:  On the right track: Cairo is showing signs of improvement after decades of economic decline

Then again, Cairo couldn’t go any place but up.

UK Telegraph:  Boy, 14, wants sex change

That’s what happens when feminist studies teachers give out homework.

Another Reason Why KSM in NYC Was a Bad Idea

I postulated on Friday, after having read PJB’s column about trying KSM for 9/11 in NYC (I know, acronym overload), that getting a guilty verdict and the death penalty would be impossible without overturning hundreds of years of common law, statutory law and judicial precedence when it comes to criminal trial procedure.  The point I made is that we just had to bring them here instead of summarily executing them at GTMO because of the supposed “slippery slope” of not doing so.  It looks like doing so is really causing the slippery slope.

Now the first fruits of my theory are rolling in — German government won’t hand over evidence against KSM unless the U.S. Attorneys back away from the death penalty.

I have a simpler idea — just smoke his ass right now.

Disappointed In Opera

Opera hearts Great Firewall of China.

Awaiting Mayor Slop’s Reaction

St. Louis 2nd worst crime city, seyz CQ.  When STL showed as #1 in 2006, Mayor Slay tried to have it both ways:  He tried to say that Morgan Quitno was wrong, b/c of the flawed methodology, but then turned right around and said that MQ was right, and crime was that bad, so that’s why we needed to pass a sales tax to build new recreation centers, one of which just opened in Carondelet Park.

Now I wonder what Slay’s gonna do — he can’t use the recreation center angle now, so he’s gotta either try to refute the methodology, or use it to push for a new tax.

The Full Employment Bill For Anti-Trust Lawyers

MSFT at it again — in cahoots with Murdoch so that Murdoch can deindex his websites from GOOG and have an exclusive search deal with MSFT/Bing.

Hello, Justice Department?  Hello, Sherman Anti-Trust Act.  Isn’t MSFT still under judicial probation for its monopolistic activities?

What I think is going on here is that MSFT is trying to take a tire iron to GOOG’s knees before GOOG takes a tire iron to MSFT’s knees.  GOOG’s bread and butter is ad revenue for GOOG searches, and I guess MSFT figures that drawing eyeballs away from GOOG also seeps revenue away from GOOG.  Meanwhile, some (including many in MSFT) interpret GOOG’s new fisher price toy OS as a threat to Windows; I don’t.

Speaking of MSFT, they’re laying off coders and developers so fast that you’d think that only coders and devleopers carried H1N1.  But they can afford to hire more PR hacks.  MSFT:  Don’t need to write good code, just make you think they’re writing good code.

Birth of a Nation

Why watch the movie when you’ve got the Northeast Fire and Ambulance District in near north St. Louis County?

ACC Is Right

Noting what I did awhile back, that budget problems in public defenders’ offices will mean that courts wil dismiss masses of current criminal cases and vacate numerous existing criminal convictions because of the lack of competent defense attorneys.  The other possibility that courts rule that states must spend more for PD offices to head off mass judical dismissals.  Already, SCOTUS has ruled that a Murder 1st convict must have at least a PD for the death penalty appeals process — underfunding in PD offices could well bring executions to an end.

Raw Numbers

There are more Han Chinese in China than there are white people in the whole world.  There are more Indians in India than there are white people in the whole world.

Now, the number of people in Africa is higher than the total number of white people in the world.  There are probably more blacks in Africa than there are white people in the whole world.

This Is What They Mean By Insanity

If Thomas Edison would have spent most of his time and money on light bulb designs that didn’t work, we’d still be in the dark at night.

But that’s the way the Federal and most state governments deal with education.  Far more money goes to deal with the stupid than the smart.

Why?  I don’t need to tell you, because you read this medium on a regular basis.  But just in case you’re new, let me spell it out for you:

R-A-C-E.

From the article:

“In the age of Sputnik, we put money into math and science, and we ended up on the moon,” said Del Siegle, a University of Connecticut researcher who wrote the report. “We really need to consider that again. We cannot afford as a country to ignore talent.”

That’s because we were lucky enough, when the Russians used German technology to launch Sputnik in 1957, that we were a few years away from Lyndon Johnson turning the American government’s education efforts upside down.  The money spent on the smart between 1957 and 1964 helped the United States use German technology to launch its own space program.

The federal government spent just $7.5 million last year on research and grants for the estimated 3 million gifted children in the U.S. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have tried to eliminate that money entirely, but Congress put it back into the budget each year.

That’s because both assclowns support diversity and racial equality.

Some oppose having separate classes for gifted kids. Mara Sapon-Shevin of Syracuse University argues that gifted programs create “haves and the have nots.” She prefers grouping students together and then tailoring the curriculum to each child. Sapon-Shevin kept her own daughter out of a second-grade gifted program in the 1980s.

Again, R-A-C-E.

I wish the situation were the other way around, that the Federal and state governments would spend much more money on the smart than on the stupid.  But I’m not way too worried that not enough is being spent on gifted children — like I have said on this medium before, if a child is that smart, then he or she will learn on his or her own.

Everything New Is Old Again

I happened to be driving around this past Saturday night, though I wasn’t driving at the time, and not in my own car.  The car radio just happened to have 550 AM KTRS on, and from 8-12 on Saturday evenings they run an Art Bell oldies repeat, “Somewhere In Time.”  I happened to hear the last 45 minutes, from 11:15 to Midnight.

The show they played was from August 23, 1995.  Actually, most of it would have been on August 24, because at that time, Art Bell was on from 1-6 AM Central Time, 2-7 Eastern, 11 PM-4 AM Pacific.  But that was the overnight that Windows 95 went on sale, and through the hours that Art Bell was on the air that night, people were buying and installing Windows 95.  And Art had a special “Windows 95″ line, for people to call in and tell about their experiences with the new Microsoft OS, and he was interested in advice on whether he should upgrade from Windows 3.11 on his existing computer, which had a 66 MHz processor, 8 MB of RAM and a 540 MB hard drive.  I can tell you that it wouldn’t have run well; I was starting my freshman year of college at that time, and my roommate’s computer was 90 MHz, 16 MB RAM and 900-some-odd MB HD.  It came preloaded with 3.11, and he did buy Windows 95 later that day, and upgraded.  It ran acceptably on that system, though by the time he upgraded, he was kicking himself for not having paid the extra $30 for the 120 MHz processor system.

I listened to the calls he took on the Win95 line, at least that last 45 minutes.  Talk about everything old is new again.  I heard one guy explaining to Art that Win95 was a hybrid 32/16 bit OS, and the real goal was to move to (what was then called) Windows NT, which was a wholly 32-bit OS.  The guy implied that it would be within 2 years that that would happen — In reality, it wasn’t until six years later with the rollout of Windows XP that home users were migrated to the NT kernel (XP was officially Windows NT 5.1).  Contrast that to today’s migration to 64-bit client OSes, and thanks to AMD’s x86_64 architecture, 32-bit apps can run in a 64-bit OS — the Intel Itanium 64-bit CPUs didn’t have that ability.  A few people said to Art that if he did upgrade, to make sure he also downloaded the 32-bit Netscape.  (Internet Explorer was not included on the floppy disk Win95 set, and while IE 1.0 was included on the CD-ROM, it was buried under a lot of menus.  And IE was buggy as hell even through version 3.)  One guy said that Win95 didn’t have the drivers for his very high end 4 MB video card, so he had to go to the text-mode BBS of his card’s manufacturer to get the W95 drivers.  And of course a Mac fanboy called in telling Windows users that Mac users have already had that experience for years — that happens every time Windows comes out with a new version :)  Art told the Mac fanboy that all Macs would be buried and collecting dust in a decades’ time.  It didn’t turn out that way, because Steve Jobs came back a few years later and hopped Mac OS on a BSD UNIX kernel; once OS X came out in 2001, Mac has been making a surprise comeback.  When Jobs returned, Apple almost sold themselves out to Microsoft literally; they did do that virtually by signing a “cooperation deal,” mainly so that MSFT could push Internet Explorer on the Mac, which didn’t make a MacWorld audience very happy.

But through all this, thinking about 66 and 90 and 120 MHz processors, 4 MB video cards, 8 and 16 MB of RAM, and 540 and 900 MB hard drives, it makes me realize how much better computer specs have become in 14 years.

Prediction Re Civil Rights “Cold Cases”

AP:

By SHELIA BYRD (AP) – 10 hours ago

JACKSON, Miss. — Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.

Now, the agency is at a dead end in the search for relatives in at least 33 civil rights-era cases, and the FBI needs the public’s help. Agents are appealing for relatives of the victims to come forward, the latest challenge in a three-year-old effort to right historical wrongs.

That “dead end” is called ex post facto.  Because the acts were committed before Federal civil rights laws were passed, there’s nothing the FBI or the Federal prosecutors can do about it…(but continue reading).

Of course, you know who and you know what had to be quoted:

Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen said his organization has turned over information to the FBI in hopes someone will be prosecuted in at least a few of the remaining unsolved killings.

“The justice that is achieved in those few is going to have to serve as symbolic justice for the whole,” Cohen said.

It says here that Cohen “hopes someone will be prosecuted” when, like I said above, nobody can be prosecuted.

(BTW, when did Morris Dees die?  I wasn’t aware that the President ordered all flags flown at half-staff, that his remains lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda, and that his birthday be declared a national holiday.  But he had to have died recently, because the only SPLC people that I ever see quoted in the media are Cohen, Mark Potok and occasionally Heidi Beirich.)

I have a prediction.

Should evidence be found, the U.S. Attorneys will press charges in spite of ex post facto.  Of course, one would expect the trial level Federal judge to dismiss it out of hand because of ex post facto, but I predict the Feds will shop it to a liberal judge, a Democrat President appointee, who will let the trial go forward anyway, in spite of the Constitution.  The Constitution doesn’t matter to most Democrats when it comes to anything else, why should three little ole Latin words get in their way?  If the defendants are found guilty, their lawyers could appeal it to the Federal Appellate Courts, but the Appellate Courts that serve states like AL and MS are full of black judges.  If it gets to SCOTUS, don’t look for them to do the right thing.  One word:  Sotomayor.

The only other possibility is if they bring a state level murder charge, and most states don’t have statutes of limitation on murder.  MS doesn’t, b/c Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of the Medgar Evers murder three decades after the fact.

Back to the Drawing Board

I agree with people like Rush Limbaugh that he didn’t need proof that glow-bull (not) warming is a lie simply because it’s only libs pushing the issue, but that’s only half the truth.  I think that all we have to do is scratch the surface a little bit, and find that America’s corporate establishment is behind it.  The reason they are is because they want to brainwash/convince enough people that they have to contend with a lower standard of living in order to save the Earth.  Then, corporations won’t have to pay their American employees as much.

Now that glow-bull (not) warming has been exposed as a lie, what will our corporate establishment do next to convince us that we should work for peanuts?  Or maybe they don’t have to convince us, maybe they can force us.

Prediction:  The corporate/media/government axis is going to start pushing immigration amnesty and open borders for anyone but whites, and they’re going to start pushing it hard.  Really hard.  Like, all four barrels.  The propaganda and invective and demagoguery and invective is going to get intense.

Friday Wrap-Up

I’ll be a little too busy on Sunday, so I’m wrapping up all the loose ends this evening.

(1)  I’m surprised the leftist kooks and the SPLC haven’t yet made an issue of Rush’s linking to Alex Jones’s website re the Gore photographic alteration.  I’m surprised Rush vocally cited Alex Jones’s website at all, though he only used “Prison Planet” — Rush no more likes people like Alex Jones than the SPLC does.

(2)  Save UTEP sports — put up the border wall.  Don’t forget, the UTEP basketball team (then known as Texas Western) and its all black starting five beat Adolph Rupp’s University of Kentucky all-white starting five in the 1966 National Championship game for college basketball; maybe we can sucker some NAACP types into joining us using that angle.

(3)  Again, how can you have a serious plot to blow up the Sears Tower when you don’t even know where the Sears Tower is?

(4)  Speaking of Chicago, wave bye bye to The Oprah — Not even President Obama’s biggest fan wants to stay there.  She’s gonna do her new show starting in the fall of ‘11 on a new cable network (adding one more to the eight she already has) from SoCal.  She says she’ll get to use a mansion in SoCal that she rarely gets to spend time in.  She didn’t need Tony Rezko’s help to buy it.

(5)  Officers who run Fort Bragg didn’t want any MSM covering Sarah Palin’s book signing event on base, because they thought media would bring conservative civilians, which would turn the event into a protest against the Commander in Chief, and of course political activity is not allowed on military bases.  (For good reason:  To prevent a military coup or dictatorship.)  They were so concerned that someone might insult the current President at this event, but they didn’t seem so concerned about Obama’s successor — what were her feelings and desires?

(6)  NOT Andrew Martinez.

(7)  SLPS teachers are going to take a two-day furlough to save the district some money.  Other than a few schools in the district, how are we going to be able to tell when they do it?

(8)  St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Privacy violations on social networking sites by private businesses bad, privacy violations on social networking sites by diversity commissars good.

(9)  PJB on KSM in NYC.  That got me to thinking — how is it that we’re going to be able to get a guility verdict and the death penalty against KSM without violating hundreds of years of common law, constitutional law, statutory law and judicial precedence?  The whole reason we just had to bring him here and give him a domestic criminal trial was to avoid the dictatorial slippery slope of our not doing so.  Looks like bringing him here is the real slippery slope.

(10)  Nobel Peace Prize for Linus Torvalds?  I’m for it.  But I don’t think the Norwegians that run the Nobel Committee will like the idea of an ethnic Swede born and raised in Finland getting an NPP, after centuries of Norwegian-Swedish hostility — Sweden occupied Norway for more than a century, and nearly wiped out the Norwegian language.

(11)  Duh of the Day:  Isaac Newton the greatest Cambridge University student of all time.  We’re talking about someone who practically invented integral calculus just to help his development of physics.  That would be like an average guy inventing a handheld nuclear fusion reactor just to get power to a light bulb in his closet that’s in a hard to reach place.

(12)  The reason five-year old Britons are staying up late to watch porn is because kindergarten sex ed class teachers give out homework.

(13)  Just remember what Mike Anderson witnessed while the media get so outraged over a black woman playing the ghetto lottery in Kennett.

(14)  Of course, the new city rec center down in Carondelet Park is going to be place where you can “feel safe about sending your children,” Mr. Slay.  That’s because it’s the one in South City.  The similar one up in O’Fallon Park won’t be so safe.  And in ten years, neither will the one in Carondelet, the way the race demographics are going.

(15)  There’s a high school dropout problem in Southwest Missouri all of a sudden.  Why, you ask?  I’ll spell it out for you:  H-I-S-P-A-N-I-C.  The attraction is the chicken plucking plants all around SWMO, the suits just love that cheap labor.

Not Worried

About the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation’s near total reliance on GOOG for revenue.  Ever since the Chrome browser came out, tech press nabobs have been worrying (more like gloating) that GOOG would pull the rug out from under Mozilla/Firefox to clear away a Chrome competitor.  The trouble is, Firefox is up to 25% world market share, all of them having the Google search bar on the URL line with a default install.  (I just happen to remove it, and use URL bar keyword searches for Google, Bing, Yahoo and others.)  Even though GOOG would rather people use Chrome instead of Firefox, one in four people and growing every month do use Firefox.  Would you turn away or piss off 1 in 4 customers at a brick and mortar store?  GOOG isn’t leaving Firefox netime soon.

And all this is notwithstanding the fact that for those who want to be productive with a browser, Chrome still sux.

Yawn.

GOOG tips its hand on Chrome OS.  Chrome browser on top of a highly customized Linux kernel.  Yawn.  I don’t use Chrome regularly, therefore, I’ll have no use for Chrome OS.

And only on netbooks, for the time being, and only for solid state hard drives.  It’ll be a few years before SSDs are on price/capacity parity with even the highest end traditional HDs, and quite a bit longer for SSDs to become a better value option than mainstream HDs.

I dare you to be a productive (and by “productive,” I mean as an adult in the first world) on a netbook.  I dare you to be productive in any definition in Chrome browser on any computer.  Useful extensions? Lawdy lawdy Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nuttin’ ’bout no useful extensions.  If it’s lucky, Chrome OS will succeed as the OS of choice for secondary computers, i.e. inexpensive nettops/small form factor computers that are only needed for light duty i’net use.  GOOG admits that all apps in and available for Chrome OS will be cloud only.  When your connection borks, or you’ve gone over your monthly bandwidth cap, your Chrome OS computer is a fancy glowing paperweight, not even big enough for a doorstop.

And I’ve always dreamed of putting all my personal data on the servers of a for-profit corporation.

UPDATE 11/20: Chrome OS’s /root partition will be read-only, meaning that if you fuck things up, you’ll be automagically taken back to the default install. Since all apps and data are on the cloud, you would have virtually no work to do. That’s fine for an OS so limited as Chrome, but I wouldn’t want it on a real Linux distro. It’s all moot anyway — Like I found out yesterday, only netbooks with SSDs can have Chrome OS. But it’s worse than that — not any SSD netbook — ONLY specialized “Chrome OS” netbooks; I suppose GOOG will strike deals with OEMs for that purpose.  Suck up to China indirectly, GOOG already does it directly.  That reminds me too much of Apple with Mac OS X — can only run it on iCabal hardware. Heck, I guess I should start calling GOOG the gCabal :)

Meanwhile, Ubuntu makes a real non-dumbed down netbook distro, and you can customize a Fedora install for a netbook environment with its official release .iso images. You can get any damned netbook you want and have either Ubuntu, Fedora or probably a number of other Linux distros today. Not a year from now, today.

East Coast vs West Coast

PC World has a rundown of the 25 most legendary quotes in tech history.

You know Bill Gates’s “640K RAM is enough for anyone” is here, but Number 21 interests me, when a founder of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) thought that there was never going to be a reason for an average person to have a computer in his or her own home.

I have a theory why he said it, it’s sorta original and sorta not on my part.

DEC was founded near Boston, because its founders grew out of MIT.

If the world were entirely controlled by East Coast companies, especially companies with three-letter acronyms, like DEC, IBM, and many others, computers would have never been developed for home users.  The reason is that they were/are all big corporations who are used to dealing with other big corporations.  Therefore, IBM only made and supported mainframe and other large computers for business and corporate use for quite a long time.  In contrast, the West Coast of America, at least until recently, had an individualist, atomistic and narcissistic mentality — the only reason we have computers in every house now is because people in Albuquerque, San Jose and other places on the West Coast and intermountain West had big enough egos to have the audacity to think that every human being deserved a computing device.

For the same reason, Olympic games tend to have the highest television ratings in western cities, and team sports do better in the old industrial Northeast and Midwest.  The reason is that most Olympic sports fit well into the individualist west coast mentality, many people there engaging in the same kinds of sports and events, because an individual human being can ski and surf, while playing football requires herding ten other human cats.  Team sports represent the lingering factory/assembly-line/union labor mentality of the industrial (or formerly industrial) cities where team sports are popular.  The narcissist in San Francisco who likes everyone having a computer and dislikes computing as an exclusive corporate province, also likes to snowboard and swim, and avoids football.  (To the extent that he does, he shows up an hour after kickoff and leaves an hour before the game ends — That’s typical California football and baseball fan for you.)  The UAW member Pittsburgh whose profession involves teamwork and cooperation to assemble automobiles, and whose union membership precludes and discourages working too well as an individual, and whose mentality wouldn’t include him owning a computer, is the perfect fan of teamwork sports like football, and finds snowboarding alien.

However, this east-west dichotomy is breaking down, mainly because of Indoamerican (aka Hispanic, aka Latino, aka Chicano, aka Mestizo) immigration in the West, and the deindustrialization in the east.

This Is What Happens When You Elect Democrats

CNS:

University of California May Hike Fees 32 Percent

Los Angeles (AP) – The University of California is preparing to ask students to pay $2,500 more over two years, a plan that has drawn protest at two major campuses.

President Mark Yudof told reporters Wednesday he couldn’t rule out raising student fees again if the state is unable to meet his request for an additional $913 million next year for the 10-campus system.

“I can’t make any … promises,” he said.

The university’s governing board is expected to approve a plan Thursday that will boost undergraduate fees, the equivalent of tuition, by 32 percent in two stages by 2010. The proposal was met with student protests across the state Wednesday that led to 14 arrests at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.

At the University of California, Berkeley, more than 1,000 demonstrators condemned the pending fee boost and high salaries for university administrators. Protesters carried mock gravestones to represent programs that have suffered under state budget cuts and waved signs reading “Save our university.” At the University of California, Santa Cruz, police blocked roads leading into the main entrance because of a demonstration.

They have approved the increase as of late this afternoon.

I think it has less to do with budget shortfalls, and more to do with the fact that with Democrats running everything in the Federal government, they’ll give whatever it takes to a college student to afford his or her tuition.  This gives college and university boards permission to raise tuition, and all this funnels more money through academia, i.e. community organizers for the Democrat Party.  Any Democrat attempt to lower student loan rates or increase government grant programs is specifically designed to launder more money through leftist institutions of lower living, moreso than making college more affordable.  (Hint:  Why has tuition rates increased way faster than inflation for the last several decades?)

I wonder how most of these student demonstrators vote.  I bet they vote Democrat, most of them.  They only have themselves to blame.

This Is Going to Be One Debate Worth Watching

British court rules that self-flagellation devices are not deadly weapons, such that those in possession of them are criminally liable for weapons possession charges.

The case in question revolves around an adherent to the Shiite sect of Islam.  But, as fanatical as most public schools are about sex education, I’m waiting for the day that a student or teacher brings an S&M device to school that could be construed as a deadly weapon.

From “Yes We Can” to “Saving Obama’s Can”

I don’t believe John Conyers at face value.  I think he’s trying to create the impression that he and President Obama have differences, to sucker moderate Democrats to supporting various Obama agenda items. 

Bill Clinton triangulated by pretending to distance himself from the usual Democrat agenda.  John Conyers is helping the President to triangulate by demanding hard left policies and claiming the President isn’t doing enough in that stead.  The difference is that Bill Clinton wanted and Barack Obama wants to win re-election; John Conyers doesn’t have to worry about that.

Constantine — Converting Me to 64-Bit Linux

Fedora 12 is out.

Because I now have a 64-bit CPU, I took the dive into 64-bit F12.

When F11 came out, all I had to do to upgrade to it from F10, the first Fedora version that I used as my exclusive Linux distribution, was to use the command line.  But because of my new CPU, and my desire to switch to x64, I had to do a full clean re-install, you can’t do an in-place upgrade install from a 32-bit to a 64-bit OS of any kind.

And everything is working out well, especially since Adobe has a version of Flash for 64-bit Linux, but not 64-bit Windows.  Go figure, after all these years that Adobe drug their feat supporting Linux, they release their 64-bit Flash for Linux first.  Java has been out with 64-bit for a little while.

When I installed F10, I used the install and post-install guide on the website www.my-guides.net.  Since I upgraded directly from F10 to F11, I didn’t need that site.  But I needed it again because  my F12 is a new install.

It shows you how to get the 64-bit Flash, and gives you some instructions for 64-bit Java, but you’re kinda on your own.  I wish the guy who runs My Guides would give you some clear command line instructions to install 64-bit Java, but here I come to save the day.

(1)  Download Download 64-bit Java (.bin, NOT .rpm.bin) from Sun’s website.  Current version at the time of this writing is jre-6u17-linux-x64.bin — If it has been updated by the time you’re reading this, then “6u17″ will read “6u18″ or “6u19″ or “6u20″ etc.  Save it in your home directory’s download folder,i.e. /home/(yourusername)/Download

(2)  Open a terminal, log in as root (su – then your password; you can use sudo if you’ve been able to configure Fedora’s pain in the ass sudoers file).  Here’s the commands:

cd /home/(yourusername)/Download
mv jre-6u17-linux-x64.bin /opt
cd /opt
chmod a+x jre-6u17-linux-x64.bin
./jre-6u17-linux-x64.bin
yum remove java-*-openjdk-plugin
ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_17/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so

Obviously, you put in your own user name, without the parentheses.  If the Java version is different, then you change “6u17″ and “jre1.6.0_17″ to whatever it is now, (without the quotes).  If no major revisions are made in Java, it’s just a matter of changing all the “17″s to “18″ or “19″ or “20″ or whatever, without the quotes.

The last line is different from what you’ll read at My Guides.  It makes a symbolic link between the browser plugin in the Java director and Mozilla’s plugin folder for 64-bit Java in 64-bit Firefox/Mozilla.  Sun changed the plug-in name and where it installs it in 64-bit Java compared to the 32-bit.  I had to find that by trial and error.

(3)  You can download Google Chrome (Chromium) 64-bit and Java will work out of the box.  Download 64-bit Opera as show in the My Guides tutorial, but it’ll take a bit of fiddling around to make Java work.

Open Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content.  Enable Java (not enabled by default), open up the Java options box, then enter /opt/jre1.6.0_17/lib/amd64/ in the command box.  Opera uses the Java plugin directly, not from the Mozilla plugin folder.  Strangely enough, Opera knows to find 64-bit Flash in Mozilla’s plugin folder.

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And there you have it.  64 bit Opera, Chrome and Firefox using 64-bit Java and Flash.

It’s Fun Time

Local control advocates have a blog.

And they have a poll — which at the time of this writing shows that 95% of the 129 people that have voted so far are against local control :)  Though more yea votes will come in; I found out about this blog at STL Cop Talk, and I imagine that city cops were most of the first voters.

Just in case you’re wondering — I’m opposed to local control of the SLPD because it would put police-hating and white-hating cracker jack box theology degree black “ministers” and the panoply of welfare-dependent “community activists” in St. Louis in charge of the cops.  To think, Francis Slay supports local control.  He’s a real stupid ass; I guess he went all through high school wearing the “Kick Me” sign on his back.

Still, I’m gonna have some trollish fun once they start in on real posts.

When Worlds Collide — Without Lubricant

UK Daily Mail:  Afghan asylum seeker wins right to stay in Britain after converting to Christianity

Uh, hello?  Taqqiya, anyone?

CNS:  Washington, D.C., Wins V.D. Triple Crown–Leads Nation in Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Rates

I always thought that syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia were the three most common names for baby girls born in D.C.

CNS:  Fort Hood Slayings Prompt Full Pentagon Review

Yawn.  Nine words:  Commander In Chief Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm

P-D:  New phone books are out, but you need to ask for White Pages

Don’t need the actual book.  Just tell me if Zebo Zzzent is still the last entry.

P-D:  Two worlds collide at [Jeff] Smith’s sentencing

Oooh, I know this one:  The Kings and the Queens.  No, make that the pitchers and the catchers.  No wait, the aceys in the deuceys.

Beaver Cleaver Wants a Day Without Complaining

Yep.

 

He’d do better to push for a day without hypocrisy.

Donald Manzullo For Governor, or Senate

Pisses in CAIR cheerios.

And yet, we’re pretty much pre-ordained with Mark Jerk and Jim Ryan as the Repugnican Party nominees for Senate and Governor.

Take a hint, Manzullo :)

Repatriations — Full Steam Ahead

Professors at Indiana University want to send “struggling inner city” (read: typical black) Indianapolis school students to a better environment:

Ghana.

Multiply by 50 states, AFAIC.

And take Lizz Brown with you — she knows the ropes in Ghana.

Cigar-Smoking Marine Announces Candidacy for Congress

SAN DIEGO, Calif.  (FNN)  –   A decorated Marine veteran famously photographed smoking a cigar after the fall of Baghdad is running for Congress.

However, he has declined to run in the district where he currently lives, that being California’s 51st Congressional District.  The racial demographics of this heavily gerrymandered Hispanic majority district, which includes most of the Imperial Valley, and slivers of southern San Diego, make it nearly impossible for a Republican to win.

Instead, he will run in the newly created 86th Congressional District in Arizona, as noted by Recovery.gov, the White House-created website to tout jobs created or saved by the $780 billion stimulus packaged passed earlier this year.

Known as “Gunny Pop,” the 42-year-old Popaditch was awarded the Silver Star for combat actions in Fallujah, where he was blinded in one eye by a rocket-propelled grenade.

That April 2004 attack came nearly a year after photographers from press wires that cover real news captured a smiling Popaditch smoking a cigar, with the just-fallen statue of Saddam Hussein in the background. The photograph landed on newspaper front pages, garnering Popaditch worldwide attention.

Arizona’s 86th Congressional district is expected include the towns of Holbrook, Two Guns, Don’t Forget Winona, and will also be gerrymandered to include only one street corner in Winslow.

Popaditch would fare much better in AZ-86 than he wound in CA-51.  However, if it looks like his campaign is credible, then House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer tells Fake News Network that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will resurrect a previously tabled bill to charge an extra $10 tax for every cigar sold.  A document prepared by a Hoyer staff member projects that the tax would mean that 95% of Popaditch’s campaign budget would to to cigars, and not TV and radio ads.

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Hoosegows Over Factories

Some citizens of Thomson, Illinois are anxiously awaiting the Federal buyout of the state hoosegow in the town, and the arrival of sundry terroristical boogie woogies.  The thought is, as Sen. Dick Durbin told the media today, that the Federal prison guard jobs would lead to an economic revival in the town, which has been circling the drain in recent decades thanks to five decades worth of Republocrat free trade stupiology.

Here’s the big hitch in the town’s and Turbin Durbin’s hopes in this stead — what happens when the Muslim jurors in New York City find them not guilty, and they’re shipped back to Afghanistan?  That’s the end of the hoosegow, and therefore the end of Thomson.  I guess, as Rush said today, the Yankee government will have to keep importing more and more terroristical boogie woogies, as that seems to be the only way Dummocraps know how to create jobs.  And, as Rush noted, the guards would belong to Federal employee unions, which doesn’t make AFSCME very happy, as I noted yesterday.

Paul Huebl Is Asking Too Many Questions

Goes down memory lane re his being deployed to Germany:

The exchange rate for a dollar was four marks and that made me very comfortable. Many Germans still did not trust the American occupying force. Parents were never happy to see their daughters dating American servicemen.

Translated into English, what that means is that they didn’t want their daughters going out with black American GIs.  To this day, there are some children of black American GIs and German native women that are, along with their fathers and mothers, on the German welfare dole.  Most Germans are happy that we’re in the process of, as they might say in private, taking our (racial pejorative censored) and going home.

I never understood why the Army did not require mandatory German classes for soldiers. In combat soldiers need to be able to communicate with the civilian population and helps in getting needed cooperation.

For the same reason why American public schools slowly removed German classes starting with American involvement in WWI, such that they were all gone by about 1970.  Anti-German bigotry.

In Germany the unwashed minority are the dreaded Turks. The Turks are gypsy like people who just don’t fit in the German culture. The Turks that immigrated into Germany didn’t seem to fit in Turkey any better.

The Yankee government forced their half of Germany to take all these Turks after WWII.  Mainly because Germany had a labor shortage.  (Gee, I wonder why.)

To reiterate what I have said in this medium before, the damned Greek tragedy that resulted in the American involvement in World War I changed history forever, and not for the better.  Woodrow Wilson and the American plutocrats that were behind him wanted American in the war, because the American bankster plutocrats were heavily invested in England, and in fact were the same establishment as England (the Anglo-American Establishment theory of Carroll Quigley.)  The Germans knew that “passenger ships” were also carrying munitions, Woodrow Wilson knew it.  It was Wilson vs the Krauts in a staring contest to see who would blink first, and the Krauts did.  We know the Krauts knew what was going on, because they tried to take out ads in American newspapers (and were successful in a few cases, but not successful in every case b/c many American newspapers were owned by the Anglo-American establishment), to warn American passengers that they were risking their lives if they took a passenger ship to England, because munitions to help England make war on Germany were also on the boat.  So the Germans knew it was bait, which begs the obvious question:  Why did they bite?  Follow the chain reaction:  Germans sink Lusitania – Wilson declares war – America tips balance to Allies – Reparations lead to severe depression in Germany – Hitler – Holocaust – The ever-lasting fear among elites in white countries that right wing nationalist movements will lead to gas chambers.  Five hundred years from now, Historians will consider WWI and WWII to be the same war, the time between them being an operational pause.  That is, the Chinese historians, because white people will have died out, if not literally but in essence, because too many fratricidal wars and too much Hitler guilt has tapped out our will to live as a collective civilization.

I’ve Got My Headline Mojo Working

Malkin:  SEIU thugs vs. the Boy Scouts — and other related Big Labor antics

Thinking out loud here — I wonder if having to defend yourself against blue T-shirt-wearing overweight dullards was in the Boy Scout Handbook.

Politico:  Charlie Crist loses his mojo

He’s got snow white hair.  It’s been a very long time since he’s had any mojo, unless he’s taking those pills.

UK Telegraph:  Raids on suspected terrorist recruitment network

Read further down — It’s against Muslims.  And that’s racial profiling, so no can do in England.

DaniWeb:  Mark Cuban’s Plan to Kill Google

Eat ten triple cheeseburgers a day for a year, then get on a stage, yell “developers developers developers developers…” and then throw a chair.

P-D:  ‘2012′ has worldwide box-office take of $225 million

The bad news is that Sony Pictures only has three years left to spend that money before the Mayan Moon God opens up the sky and ends the world.

KSDK:  Nation’s largest gay newspaper publisher closes

This time, they’ll throw a going out party.