Sarah Palin Is Cashing In, IMHO

Greetings from Wisconsin.  I know I promised no new posts until Monday, but wouldn’t ya know it — Events overcame me.  The news of Sarah Palin resigning as Governor of Alaska later this month happened just minutes after Rush Limbaugh left the air, and he’s out on vacation all next week.  He won’t have a chance to react until a week from Monday.  I, however, merely needed to find a computer, after having sobered up.

I don’t think she is resigning in order to have more time to run for President.  As it is, even as prolonged as the Presidential campaign season has become, it doesn’t really begin until the start of the year before the election, in the case of 2012, that being January 2011.  Second, serving out one’s own full term as Governor but not running for re-election worked out so well for Mitt Romney, and Palin won’t even finish her first and only term.  Current occupant notwithstanding, you really need to have been elected to multiple terms as Senator or Governor in order to have credibility in the Presidential campaign.

Why would she chuck the almost certain reality of her being the Republican nominee for President in 2012, and her actually being President if Obama flops or the economy remains bad?  My guess is that she has some sort of big money offer from some political organization, lobbying group, quasi-political Christian ministry or church, or something like that.  Follow the money.

Now, the GOP field in ‘12 looks really barren and putrid.  President Obama might not actually need to campaign for re-election.

No Blogging Until Monday

Headed to Wisconsin for the Weekend of the 4th, to end the lives of random fish, and the requisite destruction of brain cells.  I can far better guarantee the destruction of my own brain cells at my own hand than the death of a fish.

Thursday Headline Blow-Out

Jihad Watch:  Former Jordanian PM: “Israel is a cancerous body” that must be “eradicated“

“Cancer” implies that it is growing and multiplying to the detriment of normal units.  That better describes Israel’s Arab and Muslim neighbors and domestic minorities rather than Israel itself.

CNS:  Naked Passenger Prompts Flight Diversion

If she’s young, white, blonde and a hard body, I can understand why the pilots didn’t want to fly.

CNS:  Govt Announces ‘Operation Short Change’

That’s what they’re calling the IRS now?

John Lott:  Congressional travel expenditures have risen by 50 percent in two years

They could triple Congressional travel expenses as far as I care, as long as they’re one way tickets to Hell.

AP:  Which Al Franken will show up in Washington?

You mean there’s more than one?  I didn’t need any more bad news.

KSDK:  Father shoots sons in chores dispute

They will have many more chores to do now that their father will be sitting in prison.

AP:  Families visit prison from comfort of their homes

I can think of two boys who won’t be tele-visiting their father very much.

USNAWR:  Strategists Worry Obama’s Popularity is Dropping

Rahm and Axelrod’s contingency planning paper for an under-50% approval rating is entitled “If The Sun Stops Shining.”

NPR:  U.S. Military Launches ‘Strike Of The Sword’

U.S. Military launches ‘Fall On Your Sword’

AFP:  US slaps sanctions on Al-Qaeda backers, others

Now that’s what I call getting tough.

Reuters:  Taco Bell replaces McDonald’s as NBA sponsor: source

This should give Taco Bell some leverage when Ronald McDonald becomes a free agent in 2011.

“Not Appropriate For High School Football”

But does anyone remember college football before about 1996?  Guys folding their jerseys under the pads to show off their whole chest between the waste and the pecks got so bad that the NCAA finally had to crack down.  And this wasn’t during practice, this was during the actual game.  Many did it, but the wide receivers and cornerbacks were the most likely to show off.

No “Boy Crisis”

LiveScience:

U.S. Society Ignoring Serious Boy Problems

Growing up is tough. But for boys, it may be even tougher.

While both boys and girls face issues – in school and out – the problems affecting boys are serious and have not been properly addressed by policy makers, according to a new review article by psychologist Judith Kleinfeld. Among the results: high rates of functional illiteracy and a troublingly high suicide rate that’s become even more pronounced in recent years compared to the rate among girls.

“Boys’ issues are being neglected, whereas girls’ issues have been addressed for over 20 years, with great success,” said Kleinfeld, a professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. “Now it’s time to turn our attention to boys.”

Following concerns about psychological and educational problems affecting girls in the early 1990s, discussion of a so-called “boy crisis” emerged. Some publications claimed that boys were falling behind girls in school success and that feminist ideology was partly to blame for lack of attention on the issue.

In her paper, Kleinfeld examines gender differences through a number of academic and social measures. She looked at educational achievement, school grades, engagement in schools, dropout rates, college entrances tests, suicide rates, depression problems, and conduct disorders for both girls and boys. She concludes that, while neither gender is in a crisis, boys’ issues are troubling and overlooked.

Johnny struggles to read

Kleinfeld finds that, compared with girls, American boys have lower literacy rates, lower grades, less engagement during school and higher drop-out rates. Boys also have higher rates of suicide, arrests and premature death.

This is so dishonest and misleading, I don’t know where to start.

Ever hear of testosterone?  That would explain the higher arrest rate and premature death rate, i.e. from risky behavior, especially from boys and men under the age of full brain development, about 25 years old.  Of course sophomoric and risky behavior might make for a bad civilian, but it makes for a great soldier.

As far as suicide, I’ve heard it said numerous times that girls try more often, but boys succeed more often.  I don’t know if it’s true, and just hearing something repeated over and over again ad nauseam and taken as an article of faith is the main reason I doubt it.  But if it is true, and if girls could knock themselves off at the same success rate as boys, then suicide would be a girl problem.  Also, race comes into play in a discussion of suicide; whites have a higher suicide rate than non-whites, especially blacks, because suicide is most often a direct result of shame.  You have to have a conscience and intelligence to feel shame.

Most of the rest of this can be explained by race and racial differences.  The United States of America does not have a “boy crisis,” it’s just black and Hispanic boys being who they are.

An Old Fiend Is Back in the News

P-D:

Pa. law firm to pay penalty for Gephardt donations

JEFFERSON CITY– A Pennsylvania law firm is to pay $155,000 to settle allegations that it illegally funneled money to the presidential campaign of former Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt.

The Federal Election Commission had accused the Karoly Law Offices, of Allentown, Pa., and its president John Karoly Jr. of reimbursing employees for $13,000 of contributions to Gephardt’s campaign in 2003.

Federal law bars corporate contributions to candidates and prohibits people from contributing money under another person’s name.

I wonder what the attraction of the Karoly Firm in Allentown, Penn. was for a St. Louis-area Congressman running for President.  Search engines yield no answers.

Since the reimbursements happened in 2003, I am assuming that they related to contributions to Gephardt’s nascent and never-gotten-off-the-ground 2000 run.  The only other time he ran was in 1988.

Is Roy Blunt Really That Stupid?

P-D:

Roy Blunt touts his insider support; Democrats do, too

JEFFERSON CITY — Congressman Roy Blunt wants to make sure he controls the news cycle this quarter.

The Republican from Springfield who is running for U.S. Senate in 2010 took a first quarter beating in the political press in Washington, D.C., and Missouri after Democratic opponent Robin Carnahan doubled him up in fund-raising.

This time, Blunt is touting his success before the dollars have all been counted. Spokesman Rich Chrismer sent a news release today saying that Blunt raised more than $1 million this quarter, which would be about twice what he raised during the campaign’s first three months.

In the release, Blunt continued to tout his big-name endorsers, from outgoing Sen. Kit Bond, to John Ashcroft, Peter Kinder, Jim Talent, Jack Danforth and Jo Ann Emerson.

At the same time, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is noting the same names, but as a criticism of Blunt’s ties to the Washington, D.C., establishment. The DSCC, which has been ramping up its criticism of Blunt, is picking up on a line Sarah Steelman used in criticizing Blunt, calling him “another white guy in a suit.”

I suppose Blunt is that stupid.  Touting that insiders like you.  What will he do in his last months in the House to bolster his Senate bid?  Introduce a bill called No Billionaire Left Behind?

Add together Bond, Ashcroft, Kinder, Talent, Danforth and Old Lady Emerson, and you still don’t get a real human being.

I still think that Mrs. Antolinez will win, but with digs and antics like “another white guy in a suit,” i.e. hating white people, the Democrats are themselves doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Who Says Recessions Aren’t Good For Anything?

NYT bemoans state budget cuts affecting summer school programs, because:

…research [shows] it can narrow the achievement gap between poor and affluent children…

In other words, spend more money on the stupid (mainly black and Hispanic) rather than the smart (mostly white).  If Thomas Edison would have spent more time on light bulb designs that failed rather than ones that succeeded, you would still be lighting wax to light your nights.  If the Wright Brothers had spent more times on planes that didn’t fly than ones that did fly, you’d still be going to Europe on a boat.

We’ll Be Thinking About Affirmative Action for a Very Long Time to Come

WaPo:

Obama downplays affirmative action as an issue

(snip)

In an Associated Press interview Thursday, Obama said affirmative action can be made an “afterthought” when problems such as malnutrition, poverty and substandard schools are dealt with, and “everybody has a level playing field.”

No such thing.  See Murray and Hernstein, The Bell Curve.

Malnutrition, poverty and substandard schools are symptoms of racial differences, not causes.  If you transvert an inner city school district to their cities’ suburbs, you would have a great school district.  Likewise, if you transvert the “good” suburban districts to the inner cities, they would get bad all of a sudden.  How good or bad a school district is depends on whether the district’s students want to learn, which itself is a function of intelligence, which in turn is a function of race.

This is President Obama’s attempt to triangulate the affirmative action issue out of the public consciousness, so that it doesn’t hurt Democrats in 2010 and himself in 2012.

Racial Profiling

Houston Chronicle:

Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time

(snip)

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”

All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizona.

Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as seeking explanations as to how their guns ended up used in murders, kidnappings and other crimes in Mexico.

(snip)

The mission is especially challenging because, officials say, that while Houston is the number one point of origin for weapons traced back to the United States from Mexico, the government can’t compile databases on gun owners under federal law.

Agents instead review firearms dealers’ records in person.

Except that legal American guns are only a very small percentage of Mexican guns used in crimes.

You may think this is unconstitutional harassment, and I agree.  But it won’t take the Federal judiciary to stop it.  It’s only a matter of days until ADL, SPLC, ACLU, La Raza, MECHA, MALDEF and LULAC start bitching.  At that point, it will only a matter of milliseconds until the ATF stops it.

Our Yankee Government will go through all of this, at great expense, but won’t spend dime one to secure the fiction formerly known as the “border” to make sure that Mexican gangsters cannot enter to U.S. to procure said firearms.

Boys and Girls, Repeat After Me: Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration Goes Through Joe Biden.

And Joe Biden is going through Iraq as I type these words.

If there is any one good thing that has come out of the Obama ascent to power, it is the evisceration of Clinton, Inc.  And him making her the “Secretary of State” on paper is a doubly brilliant strategery to isolate both her and Bill.  It’s the worst of both worlds for her:  She can’t pull any of the real fopo levers.  In spite of that, if the Obama Administration is a success, it precludes her from running in 2012, and if it is a failure, his failures will also be her failures, so she can’t run in 2012.

Pursuit Policy

The Marines in Afghanistan now have a pursuit policy very similar to the St. Louis City Police Department in St. Louis.  Which is too bad for Afghanistan — Have they seen North St. Louis?

Again With the Redundancy

I’m not a big fan of redundancies.

Image credit RockyMountainRoads.com

Oxymoronika For Oxymorons

CNS:  Are We Setting Ourselves Up For a Jobless Recovery?

Are we reading oxymoronic headlines?

CNS:  Police Say Drug Dealer Sold Marijuana in McNugget Boxes

The Happiest Meal.

CNS:  ICE and ATF to Share Intelligence to Stem Flow of Guns and Drugs Between U.S. and Mexico

When are they going to share intelligence to stem the flow of illegal aliens between Mexico and the U.S.?

CNS:  Palin Says She’d Have ‘More Endurance’ in Run Against Obama

She means that both in the sense of a marathon and the 2012 Presidential race.  Also I’d bet on her if she went one-on-one against Obama in basketball.

Jihad Watch:  NYC Mayor: No Muslim holidays in NYC public schools

Don’t take it too hard, Muslims.  I don’t think Bloomberg wants Christian holidays in NYC public schools, either.

Malkin:  Obama to Democrats: Lincoln wants you to pass cap and trade

That’s the best reason to vote against it, as if I needed convincing.

P-D:  Ex-cop gets 11 years for robbing drug dealers

Because it’s so wrong to steal someone’s ill-gotten gain.  “911, someone stole my hot hooptee.”

P-D:  Residential White Pages may soon go away

It was nice knowing ya, Zebo Zzzent.

Slashdot:  In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net

Especially not for right wingers criticizing leftist racial sacraments.

P-D:  Gov. Nixon should support St. Louis Public Schools’ stability

Didn’t I say something about oxymorons a few minutes ago?

KSDK:  Soldier who fought Taliban in pink boxer comes home

Not for long, the Pentagon is going to redeploy him to Hanesistan.

KSDK:  LIVE VIDEO: Al Franken victory rally in Minnesota

Franken to the crowd:  “Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me!”

KSDK:  Step outside the Sears Tower — 103 stories up!

And watch AQ ram a hijacked jumbo jet into the building 20 stories beneath your feet?  No thanks.

SEMO:  Do you know of any bilingual or Spanish language church services in Cape Girardeau?

Good question to ask if you’re with ICE.

Reuters:  Without state budget, California readies “IOUs”

Cali can’t pay cash, will have to get it on Arnie’s good looks.

CSM:  For black America, Jackson was an icon who transcended race

Literally!

CSM:  Latin leaders unite against junta in Honduras

“Junta.”  Is that what they’re calling the proper enforcement of the Constitution against a leftist wannabe dictator these days?

Census Bureau Tells the Truth; Mayor Slay Will Soon React By Asking Census/Obama/ACORN to Lie

CB seys STL’s pop declined 2008 over 2007.  Of course it declined the several previous years before that, except that gooberfuck at Room 200 pulled propaganda strings to get the CB to “correct” its findings, i.e. lie.

The legerdemain used to “raise” St. Louis’s population for the several few years was to count the number of people a renovated or new loft or residence could house, and assume that there were that many people living there, even if there really were not.

AQ Honors Its Sisters and Daughters — By Cramming Them Into Burquas

AFP:

Qaeda warns France of revenge for burka stance

Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to take revenge on France for its opposition to the burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country, the US monitoring service SITE Intelligence reported.

Earlier this month, President Nicolas Sarkozy said the burka, which covers the whole face, was not welcome in the strictly secular country.

“Yesterday was the hijab (the Islamic headscarf long banned in French schools) and today, it is the niqab (the full veil),” Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was quoted as saying.

“We will take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters against France and against its interests by every means at our disposal.”

What the stupid fanatical asses at “Qaeda” do not realize is that the same French liberalism that let them into France also wants to ban the burqua.

But Nobody’s Going to Do Anything

AP:

Gunmen fire on group of Detroit teens, wounding 7
DETROIT – Gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding seven including two who were in critical condition, authorities said.

Five of the teens had just left Cody Ninth Grade Academy, where they were taking summer classes, when they were shot at the nearby bus stop.

The gunmen exited a vehicle and “asked for a person by name” before they “opened fire at the crowd,” said Detroit Public Schools Police Chief Roderick Grimes.

Detroit Police were looking for two suspects in a green minivan, said spokesman Rod Liggons. Officers were interviewing some of the victims in the hospital Tuesday evening, he said.

Four boys and three girls ranging in age from 14 to 17 years old were hospitalized, two of them — a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old female — in critical condition, said Deputy Chief James Tolbert.

Gas station owner Steve Hakim said he saw two people with T-shirts covering their heads run across his lot toward the bus stop. Then he heard about 10 gunshots, saw a boy and a girl fall down and called 911.

“It’s pretty scary,” Hakim said. “Somebody’s got to do something.”

The irony of someone with an Arabic name in Detroit saying that is that almost all of the Arabs and blacks in Detroit are there because Henry Ford invited their immediate ancestors to Detroit to be scabs and union busters.  This is why responsible right wingers don’t lionize Henry Ford, unlike those whose standards are so low, that they turn him into a big supposed racial hero, because he once made a few comments about a certain ethnicity.  Didn’t like Jews, but loved his Arabs and blacks.  Last I looked, Jews weren’t mowing down teenagers at a bus stop in Detroit, nor were they ramming jumbo jets into skyscrapers.

Hot Times, Summer in the City

WBBM-CBS-2 Chicagograd:  Six Men Shot Dead In 24 Hours In Chicago

Sounds to me like Chicago’s thugs wasted 18 perfectly good hours.

AP:  AP source: Guard to seek volunteers for border

Unlike the real border volunteers, the Obama Border Brownshirts will hand pamphlets to our new illegal arrivals to teach them how to say “me immigrant you racist I sue ACLU.”

Arch City Chronicle:  Palin trashed by members of McCain’s campaign team in Vanity Fair

And you wonder why he lost.  With Repugnicans like that, who needs the Democrats?

CNS:  Ford Analyst Says June May Be Best Month for ‘09

Of course, Ford is the only American car company not yet Obama-owned.

Alex Jones:  Bernanke Threatens Economic Collapse If Fed Audited

Correction:  Bernanke threatens to collapse the economy because Ron Paul showed him up.

NPI:  Anarchists worked with terrorists

Again with the redundancy.

P-D:  Local teens get a chance to demonstrate their texting and driving skills

Hopefully not at the same time.

Slashdot:  13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week

I don’t know which was more shocking to the boy:  That there is such thing as audio media that moves, or that the implication of listening to music through headphones is that you should walk.

WSIL:  Praying to Save Social Services

While you’re on the line to God, ask Him for a good economy with good jobs so that people don’t need as much social services.

AFP:  The daily grind: Sex for a week boosts sperm quality

“Yes, dear, we gotta fuck again tonight.  You’re interested in my sperm health, aren’t you?”

Reuters:  In U.S. scandals, wives don’t stand by their men

There was one notable exception.  She didn’t have much problem with her husband standing in front of his kneeled-down intern.

Financial Times:  Insight: Protectionism comes knocking

For pete’s sake, open the door!

AP:  Wall-to-wall media coverage of Jackson receding

And while you were inundated with Michael Jackson coverage, the U.S. House voted to fuck you up the ass with “cap and tax,” Senate Democrats want you to wait 15 years to get your toothache taken care of, and President Obama sent the message that his leaving the White House in 2013 or 2017 won’t be so peaceful.

“To Improve the Community”

Oakland, Calif.’s semi-legal weed dealers want to pay more taxes, and are asking for a ballot referendum to do so, because:

“We’re basically trying to say that we are like other businesses, you know. We’re here to pay taxes, create jobs and improve the community,” Lee says.

That’s the first thing that I think of when I think about a hallucinogenic, carcinogenic and psychosis-inducing substance, improving the community.

ACLU: Accost More 80-Year Old White Grandmothers; They’re the Real Terrorists and Illegal Aliens

Deja le meme chose.

I’m Thinking of a Word That Is a Portmanteau of “White” and a Certain Racial Pejorative That Starts With “N”

Seems to me that it applies aptly to a Johnston City, Ill. couple.

WSIL:

Deadly Dog Attack Called a “Tragic Accident”

JOHNSTON CITY– Investigators say the family of a toddler– killed in a dog attack– will not face any criminal charges.

The death of 3 year-old Gabrial Mandrell has been ruled an accident.

Around 8:00 Saturday night, dispatchers in Williamson County received a distressed call regarding the toddler.

Family members had found Gabrial outside his home on Willow Pond Road in Johnston City, and the child was in serious condition.

(snip)

Less than an hour later, Gabrial was pronounced dead.

Investigators say Gabrial had been sleeping at his home, then woke up, pushed out the screen in his bedroom window, and crawled outside.

It was there he was apparently attacked by the family’s three dogs.

The animals– a collie mix and two pitbull mixes– were taken from the home. They were brought to the Williamson County Animal Control facility. It’s not clear what will happen to the dogs.

What the fuck is a “white” family with a toddler doing with two pit bulls?  Meth dealers, are we?  Sounds to me like Johnston City’s Finest didn’t do enough investigation.

The collie mix wouldn’t have participated in the mauling all by itself.  I happen to think that one of the two pit bulls was the alpha dog in that household, and in a pack, lower dogs take on the demeanor of the alpha dog.

Note to Southern Illinois Cab Drivers: If You Get a Service Call In the Middle of a Weekend Night From the Black Part of Carbondale, You’re Probably Going to Get Robbed

Three black men, with apparent ages of 15 to 21, evidently did not get the message that the election of Barack H. Obama II as President meant that it was time to put down the guns and pick up the chemistry textbooks.

Mississippi Gets It Right, South Carolina Gets It Wrong.

CNS:  No Decision on Anti-Hillary Movie

Oh no, if the general public gets to see this movie, it might well end HRC’s Presidential ambitions.

CNS:  Sanford Digs in Heels, Says Resigning Would Be ‘Easiest Thing’

Sometimes simpler is better.

P-D:  Area gays, lesbians celebrate 30th anniversary of PrideFest

One of these years, that crowd will stop being proud and start being ashamed.

P-D:  Windows 7 release moves closer: Are you ready, or willing?

I’ve seen what MSFT wants to lighten your wallet for Windows 7.  The question might well be:  Are you able?

Slashdot:  India To Put All Citizen Info In a Central Database

You might think that making a database of 1.1 billion people would be huge task, but the saving grace is that you won’t need an open variable for the last name, just a drop-down menu box with six options.

Dan Stein:  Mississippi Gets It When It Comes to E-Verify

Mississippi gets it when it comes to just about E-Verything.

UK Telegraph:  Censorship of the web is futile, says Google CEO

Then why do you do it?

AFP:  Britons paying out more to fund royal family: accounts

Imagine all the minority welfare that that £41.5 million could pay for.

USNAWR:  How To Tell When a Mall Is In Trouble

There are more black curtains each time you go through the mall.

AFP:  Black stars salute [Michael] Jackson at awards show

Said one of the stars to the media:  “He was pretty fly for a white guy.”

SCOTUS Overturns Its Soon-to-Be Newest Member

So much for the “wise Latina.”

I’m reading the Ricci opinions, and the analysis of those opinions.  From what I can gather, SCOTUS found for Ricci without striking the “disparate impact” monster in the heart.  I don’t think the decision will be much if any precedent, but even if it could be, would it matter?  As it is, the very judge they overturned will join them some time this summer.  The only saving grace is that Sotomayor replacing Souter would be, at least in the context of cases like this, a no vote replacing a no vote.

I’m disappointed in Prof. John Lott today.  Prof. Lott had a problem with the NYT writing a headline for this story that shows it being a victory for “white firefighters.” As if being white is such a big fucking sin that you can’t defend it?  Last I looked, Prof. Lott is white.  I expect this kind of shit from the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, not from one of the 10 conservative professors in the country.  As it is, from what Peter Brimelow Steve Sailer at V-Dare Taki Theodoracopulous observes, there is, for some reason, civil rights sympathy for white firefighters that are AA victims that there isn’t for white police, white grocery store clerks, white bus drivers and white office workers victimized by AA.

UPDATE 6/30: The P-D thinks that the Ricci ruling bodes well for the St. Louis Fire Department and its similar problems.  An example of how “culturally biased” their promotion test was is that one of the questions was this:  You are 90 feet away from the fire.  Each hose is 30 feet long.  How many hoses must you string together to reach the fire?  Who knew that 90 divided by 30 is culturally biased?  Second grade arithmetic be racist.  Keep in mind that this brain-buster was on a PROMOTION test, not an entrance test.  So the SLFD is not so bigoted as to expect its private-level firefighters to know 90 divided by 30.

Like I said above, Ricci isn’t good precedent at all, because the Justices weaseled out of lassoing disparate impact to the ground.

Madoff Gets a 150-Year Bid

With good behavior, he’ll be out in 125 :)

What I don’t get was this notion by his attorneys that he only should have gotten 12 years.  I mean, why the fuck shouldn’t he have been incarcerated for the rest of his life?  What would there have been for him on the outside?  The Feds confiscated his and his wife’s ill-gotten gain, so he would have been essentially homeless.  Are we supposed to think that he could start a stockbroker business after he got out?  Duh, nobody would have fallen for that same gigascam twice.

And, of course, he’ll do his time at some rape-free Club Fed.  If I were Andrew Cuomo, I’d bring some state charges, and ask the Feds to let the state house him at Rikers Island.  Let him experience the joys of diversity he wanted other people to have (almost all of his political contributions were to left-wing Democrats).

11-Year Old White Briton Does His Public School Proud

Converts to Islam, under the tutelage of imams and clerics so extreme that they got tossed out of England.  And you sure have to do a lot to get banned from England if you’re a protected minority, all you have to do to get banned from England if you’re white is to have a Cal-Berkeley Ph.D.

The Obama High

P-D:

Cartoon-shape drugs hit KC streets

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Drugs shaped like such popular cartoon characters as Snoopy and Transformers have begun showing up in Kansas City, and local officials are worried that children are at risk of mistaking the tablets for vitamins or candy.

While drug dealers are marketing the pills as Ecstacy, local drug officials say the shaped tablets often don’t contain any Ecstacy at all, but instead are a combination of drugs once used to treat stomach parasites.

The brightly colored pills — some have turned up shaped like President Obama’s head, while others are in the shap of Homer and Bart Simpson or Ninja turtles — are aimed at teens and young adults. Experts say the intent is to promote the drug as light fun, rather than a dangerous experiment.

I think a “teen” or “young adult” has probably outgrown Bart Simpson and the TMNTs, even the drug addicts. (Though that’s not always a given.)  Now, as for the ones shaped like Obama’s mug — there are plenty of blue states for those to be in demand.

The Human Leonite

Here we have another example — just as a new male that takes over the pride kills the cubs of the pride’s females that aren’t his, so as to get the females undistracted and ready to promulgate his own DNA, human beings are good for that behavior.  One stayed on Destrehan near Hyde Park on the north side.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger reports that the infanticide rate is 60 times higher in stepfather families than it is in biological father families.

Also, the new males kick out the near-adult adolescent males of the pride, to clear away competition.  That shows up in the human realm often, too.  From the very same city, I found out this weekend that St. Louis hip-hopper and one-hit wonder J-Kwon was bounced out of his house by his mother when he was 12.  My guess is that mama had a new boo, and he forced her hand.

Transferrance

No wonder President Obama supports Honduran lefist President Manuel Zelaya over the military that rightly escorted him out of office after he was term-limited out.  Obama sees himself in Zelaya.  Look for hot times in the cold January city of Washington in 2013 or 2017 when President Obama has to depart the White House after having lost his bid for re-election or is term limited out, respectively.

Making the Bomb Threats That Americans Won’t Do

KFVS-12:

Illegal alien charged with making terroristic threats

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – 23-year-old Pedro Quino-Teodoro is charged with two counts of making a terroristic threat and one count of attempted obstruction with a governmental function for threats he apparently made to blow up the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

Patrolman [*****] reported when he was identifying Quino-Teodoro at the scene of an assault on June 27, Quino-Teodoro threatened to kill [*****] family if Hill contacted immigration authorities. Ignoring the threat, [*****] contacted authorities and found Quino-Teodoro was an illegal alien, taking him into custody.

During the drive to the station, Quino-Teodoro threatened to “destroy” the police department with explosives when freed from custody. Noticing the United States Courthouse, he threatened to “make it fall” with explosives as well.

If convicted, the suspect could face up to fourteen years for the bomb threats. Quino-Teodoro is currently being held on a $100,000 cash bond.

You can tell that Channel 12 is a different, i.e. more respectable and honest, news source, because it uses “illegal alien,” and not “undocumented person.”  I’m waiting for his defense attorneys to make the excuse that Mr. Quino-Teodoro isn’t to blame because he was provoked by the court house being named “Rush Limbaugh.”  Count the hours.

He might get prison time, but after that, he will be “deported.”  What that means is that the Federal courts will ask him nicely to return to his native country.  Any resemblance to that and his actually leaving is purely coincidental.

No link because Channel 12 prints the name of the cop.  The Cape PD used to keep officers’ identities a secret, and as ganged up with MS-13, Mara 18, Latin Kings, etc. this guy probably is, this cop needs the anonymity.\

UPDATE 6/30: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s telling leaves “illegal” in terms of his immigration status toward the end of the article, and certainly doesn’t have it in the headline.  They do tell us how to pronounce his name properly.  How culturally sensitive of them.