How much news can fit in a day?
Alito confirmed. Greenspan retires. Coretta Scott King passes. Bush speaks. Ken Lay on trial. Oscar nominations. Media Day at Super Bowl.
That’s not counting the day’s most pressing affair. The ear-splitting screamers are on Fox tonight the hour before the State of the Union.
So, the New York Times thinks that ABC News is using the Bob Woodruff tragedy to pump its own ratings.
Pardon me, but this is the same New York Times that, just last year, fawned over its very own ever-precious Judith Miller, making her a cause celebre, as the Judge in the CIA “leak” non-controversy threw her into a camp cupcake because she wouldn’t give up her source. Of course, Ms. Miller all but admitted that she withheld her source for as long as she did just to draw publicity to herself. So much for martyrdom.
I am just sure that the New York Times and its suits up on the top floor had absolutely no hope at all that the Judith Miller affair would mean more copies of their newspaper would move off the newsstands. Even if the Times did sell more papers, look at how they rewarded the Miller goose that laid the golden egg – the suits practically forced her to resign. So much for martyrdom.
From SwissInfo.Org:
Dominique Lescure, head of the small ultra-nationalist group distributing the soup, disputed charges by angry protesters on Wednesday evening that what he called his “patriots’ soup” was meant to exclude Jews and Muslims…..”I’m not excluding anyone,” he shouted in a heated exchange with a handful of jeering protesters. “We’re tired of being treated like little Nazis. If a Muslim comes, I’ll serve him, but the real poor these days are our people.”
And there is the real problem that the establishment has with Lescure and his group handing out pork soup. Lescure has this silly idea that white people should help white people. And we can’t have any of that now, can we?
While watching the late local news last night, I was standing up and cheering at my television, as KSDK’s helicopter was circling over the marvelous sight of four men, clad in blue shirts adorned with badges, were using their fists and their batons to bash in the thick skull of one of this city’s many, useless, no-good, good-for-nothing-but-trouble Predatory Thug Babies.
This PTB, identified as Edmon Burns, 33, of north St. Louis County, who had a number of outstanding warrants (explaining his bad decision to flee), led Maplewood and St. Louis City Officers in a high-speed chase through both cities, all the while speeding away in a full-size van, a kind of vehicle that has a very high rollover risk when its driver is negotiating sharp curves at high speeds.
Naturally, the whole cabal of police-bashing sharks are circling for the kill. Missouri Highway Patrol, FBI, U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division and the NAACP are already part of the shark parade. Expect more big fish to join them, and for things to get mighty hysterical on the WGNU morning drive show.
Despite that, I think some medals of commendation are in order – for the cops.
Despite the fact that, for a generation or more, MSM news and MSM entertainment sources have produced positive news and entertainment imagery (propaganda) of and about African-Americans, and despite the fact that almost every movie Denzel Washington is in is one where he saves the world from the forces of evil, and despite the fact that the USA Today newspaper (McPaper) has an in-house policy of displaying non-whites in a positive light on the front page of their newspaper:
The [Social Psychological Study] found that substantial majorities of Americans, liberals and conservatives, found it more difficult to associate black faces with positive concepts than white faces — evidence of implicit bias.
This is according to the Washington Post. Most of the article deals with a Social Psychological study, which has a fundamental thesis that Republican voters hate African-Americans.
For perhaps the 387th time, the United Nations has released a Plan Nine from Outer Space on how to rid the world of all its evils, including poverty, disease and warfare. And here I thought so foolishly that only God (literally) could accomplish all of these things. The UN is apparently fount of its own authority. Heck, if the U.S. Supreme Court can get rid of God, the I suppose the UN can change the internal hard-wiring of the human species to engineer utopia. So much for not making thee any graven images.
This “plan,” for what it’s worth (and the UN-ocrats are blabbering on about $7 trillion), will be accomplished by what appears to be a sophisticated global tax-and-spend strategy. What hasn’t worked domestically to the tune of $7 trillion since the 1960s is now expected to work globally for that same sum. Though the “plan” promises to end poverty, the only poverty it will end is that of the UN itself. Plain words, it would be world history’s most far-reaching Full Employment Bill for those whose college diplomas would otherwise be worthless.
Oh, and before you buy that next version of Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office:
If the scheme seems far-fetched, consider that it already has the backing of the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to the London Independent.
That is from WorldNetDaily.
Piggybacking that on the fact that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to spend $600 million for TB vaccinations in Africa, and this UN “plan” involves sophisticated global taxation methods to “pay” for global social welfare spending, specifically including vaccinations, I wonder if Bill and Melinda think that a nice percentage of this $7 trillion is going to make its way back to Redmond, Washington, USA, Earth.
Alan Greenspan, one of the world’s most powerful individuals, does not know how to use the internet.
That claim comes courtesy of his wife. Any doubts I had about her claim were all laid to rest when I found out that she is a MSM journalist. We all know for sure that MSM journalists don’t lie, or embellish, or make things up, don’t we, Mr. Blair, Mr. Duranty?
Nevertheless, operating on the assumption that Mrs. G is telling the truth, once Mr. G retires from the Fed this week, one of his top priorities in his golden years is to learn how to use the internet. Perhaps Al Gore could show him the ropes.
Mrs. G also said that Mr. G will be getting his own personal e-mail address. With that having been said, you know that it won’t be long before his inbox gets deluged with you-know-what. I would be curious to know if Mr. G will actually believe that this stuff will fill in his bald spot and cure his E.D. Caveat Emptor, Alan — it doesn’t just apply to interest rates on bank loans.
Prominent anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced this past week, appropriately enough while visiting neo-Marxist Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, that she wants to be a U.S. Senator, as a Democrat, of course. Trouble is, she lives in California, and doing so would require her to scale Mt. DiFi, challenging the left flank of a a pretty left wing sitting Senator.
I would love to be a fly on the wall during those debates, to listen to those two try to out-liberal each other. If you’re thinking that Saturday Night Live or Mad TV could parody the debates, forget about it. The real thing will be so goofy and insane that it will be a bad parody of itself.
Internet Search Engine Google is lobbying the European Union to oppose “internet regulation” measures. At the same time, Google is indicating that it will self-comply with Chinese “internet regulation” in order to get its foot into the Chinese door.
The Chinese government wants to censor internet sites that deal with freedom, human rights, and similar issues. The European Union’s motives are almost the same, as evidenced by this paragraph in the U.K.’s Telegraph:
For example, the proposals suggest that member states should ensure that media service providers. . . do not offer material which contains incitement to hatred on grounds of, for example, disability or age. I’m the last person to say that issues like this are not important and of course we have been discussing race and religious hatred in our own Parliament only recently.
This means that the EU wants to censor white-authored conservative web pages that tell the truth about our non-white bretheren and all the revelry they are responsible for.
The following is an open letter to those of you who play football for any of the high schools in the P.H.L. (Public High League, i.e. St. Louis City). Specifically, this refers to Beaumont, Career Academy, Cleveland NJROTC, Gateway Tech, Roosevelt, Soldan, Sumner and Vashon. If you fit in that category, you will want to read this letter, and perhaps print it out so that everyone else on the team can as well.
I found out, by watching KSDK-TV’s news several days before the writing of this letter, that football fields and facilities at P.H.L. schools are in deplorable shape. Among other problems, the playing fields are full of rocks, glass, bricks and litter, the locker rooms are dilapidated, the showers are filthy, the spectator bleachers are structurally unsafe, and certain playing and practice equipment is old, substandard, worn-out, and in some cases non-existent.
A group of people decided that this was unconscionable, and have taken the initiative and organized themselves into a non-profit organization, called P.H.L., Inc., in order to raise money and coordinate volunteers who will make all the necessary repairs and purchase and donate the necessary equipment to rectify these problems. At the organization’s website, one can see the some progress they have already made at some of your schools, and see what else needs to be done.
I’m glad for them, and I’m glad for all of you.
But all of these things makes one collective group of people look bad. That is the St. Louis City Public Schools administration. Here’s why I say that.
For the 2004-05 School Year, the total budget for the St. Louis City Public Schools, in terms of spending per student, was $10,357, and total spending overall was $443 million.
Compare this to some of your competition in St. Louis County. For the sake of fairness, I will not compare apples to oranges, in that I will only compare the St. Louis City Public Schools to County districts that have multiple high schools under its aegis. Therefore, I will not compare St. Louis City to Kirkwood or Webster Groves, for both of those districts only have one high school in each.
The Parkway district, which contains Parkway Fern Ridge, Parkway North, Parkway South, Parkway Central and Parkway West High Schools, spent $9,063 per student and about $220 million overall in 2004-05.
The Rockwood district, which contains Eureka, Lafayette, Marquette and Summit High Schools, spent $7,389 per student and about $224 million overall that same year.
The Hazelwood district, which contains Hazelwoods East, Central and West High Schools, spent $7,774 per student and about $181 million overall that same year.
The source for all of these figures is a spreadsheet downloaded from the website of the Missouri State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The spreadsheet requires Microsoft Excel; if you need a program that can read Microsoft Excel files, Click Here. Alternatively, you may download the same spreadsheet in Open Document Spreadsheet format (.ods), viewable in OpenOffice.org and KOffice, directly from this website. The spreadsheet uses vague acronyms on the top column, this text file shows what they stand for.
All of this means that your schools have more money than their schools, definitely more in terms of money per student, and about twice as much (if not more) for a yearly overall budget. Not only does your St. Louis City district spend more per student than these other three districts, but since it has far more students than the others, its total budget is far higher. In the field of economics, there is this concept called economies of scale. To explain fully the concept would take up the space of an entire term paper, but basically what it means is that larger and richer institutions are able to do things better and more cost-efficiently and more time-efficiently than smaller similar institutions. Applying that to you, this means your facilities and equipment ought to be BETTER than your counterparts in the Rockwood, Hazelwood and Parkway districts.
Obviously, it is not that way.
Somehow, the men and women who are entrusted to run your schools, who are entrusted with significantly more money than districts with schools that have far better football facilities and equipment than yours, don’t seem to have two nickels to rub together to keep your football infrastructure in anything better than a deplorable condition.
While we’re all glad that P.H.L. Inc. exists and are doing what they are doing, it is not their fundamental responsibility to do so. That duty belongs to the people who spent $443 million overall and $10,357 per student on your behalf last school year.
As an aside, I have found out on the spreadsheet I downloaded that, as late as several school years ago, the St. Louis City Public Schools spent over $500 million overall and about $11,400 per student. Between then and now, budget cuts in earnest of revenue shortfalls were made, but City Schools spending is still high. If your football infrastructure in 2002 was good but degraded for the sake of neglect from then until now, it might be understandable. But the truth of the matter is that even then, these problems you experience firsthand existed. The neglect has existed for quite a long time, notwithstanding the budgetary ebbs and flows of the City District.
If I were you, I would say something about it. The squeakiest wheel is the first to get greased, and perhaps you would do well for yourselves to start squeaking. http://www.slps.org, or 801 North 11th Street (The Daniel Schlafly Building) is where to squeak.
In an earlier blog post, I suggested that Harry Belafonte takes his Day-O and put it where the sun doesn’t shine.
If he wants to do so, perhaps he could consider China. From the AP Environmental Desk:
China’s skies have darkened over the past 50 years, possibly due to haze resulting from a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions, according to researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy….. Air pollution is widespread in China. Antiquated factories billow smoke, many residents still use coal to heat their centuries-old houses, and a sharp increase in car ownership has bathed the motorways in exhaust fumes…..Using data from more than 500 weather stations in China, researchers found the amount of sunlight hitting the ground has fallen by 3.7 watts per square yard in each of the last five decades amid a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions, the study said.
And yet, China would be in compliance with the Kyoto “environmental” treaty if they ratified it, and I am not sure that they have not. The reason China is compliant and the USA isn’t is because Kyoto measures pollution in terms of pollution per person. China has a really bad pollution problem as the numerator, but a whole hell of a lot of people as the denominator. The USA does not have the numerical luxury of a large denominator (at least not until the open borders lobby gets through neutralizing what’s left of American immigration law), so we can never be Kyoto-compliant. Canada, which has ratified Kyoto, but might now back out thanks to a new conservative government, is not Kyoto-compliant, either, because of their low population.
I believe some of the fundamental, behind-the-scenes, scratch-the-surface forces behind Kyoto and the drive for the American government to adopt it are multinational corporations. In such a circumstance, they would have a “legal” excuse to move what’s left of the American industrial base out of Kyoto-violating America and into Kyoto-compliant China, facilities that, for political and PR reasons, haven’t already been transplanted in our free trade uber alles climate.
The left-wing blogosphere is trying to do to Samuel Alito what conservative talk radio did to the unqualified cronyism pick Harriet Miers. The left-wing blogosphere has not given up the dream of filibustering Alito’s nomination, and has been beating the drums for it incessantly over the last few weeks.
John Kerry has apparently gotten the message.
Kerry reportedly told the press, while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he is going to (pph) “try his hand” at a formal filibuster. “Try his hand” is an interesting choice of words, especially because the connotation is that a Supreme Court nomination is something as trivial as, for example, snowboarding down the Swiss Alps. “Try his hand” is also an appropriate choice of words, because he has reputation of being lazy in his job, not bothering to do anything but vote on bills. For him to try to start a filibuster would actually mean that he is trying something new.
Kerry’s filibuster attempt, it if even gets off the top of the mountain, will probably crash into some obstacle halfway down the hill.
So this begs the obvious question: Has Kerry lost his mind? Or is he just feeling his ketchup?
The Occam’s Razor answer is that he needs to keep himself relevant and his name above the newspaper fold, so he is going to say and do some relatively outrageous things to draw attention to himself, so that by the time 2008 comes around, and he wants to be President, people won’t be saying, “John Who?”
Here’s another good, relatively simple theory, thanks to a story I came across on my daily stop at slashdot.com:
According to ZDNet.com, it has been confirmed that the (real) John Kerry has become a netizen on the left-wing blog site DailyKoz.com, which is one of the big hitters in the left-wing blogosphere.
So the math here is simple. Left-wing blogosphere demands that Democrats filibuster Alito. John Kerry becomes a regular poster on a left-wing blog site. Ipso facto…..
If the pattern holds, then maybe, just maybe, some U.S. Senators will be taking cues from the St. Louis CofCC Blog.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has announced that he is going to waste $600 million of his own foundation’s money in another futile attempt to rid the world of Tuberculosis. That’ll put a smile on your face the next time you buy a copy of Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office.
Wasted, because all other such attempts have failed, because the drug regimen for Tuberculosis requires that TB patients be faithful and persistent in taking their daily drug cocktail. The black Africans whom these TB efforts are aimed at are apparently either too stupid or too lazy to be either faithful or persistent, and despite the fact that they have the required medications, they skip out on some doses, and/or quit taking the medicine altogether once they feel better and they think they’re cured. And because they aren’t cured, they then spread TB to their bretheren, who then repeat the cycle.
You would wish that Bill Gates would give his money to people who show at least a little initiative in helping themselves.
Christian Brothers College (High School) is considering mandatory but random drug testing of all of its students, beginning with the 2007-08 term. If the school’s administration approves its own proposal, then students of the all-gentleman high school will be chosen at random, clip clip of the hair, off to a lab, test for most illegal drugs. A flunked test will put a young man on probation for 100 days, at which time he will get a mandatory re-test, and flunking the second test will mean that he is permanently expelled from CBC.
I have heard from several credible sources that the darker your hair is, the longer that traces of an illegal drug will stay in your hair. So, for example, if you smoke a joint in June, and you get your hair clipped for a dope test in October, you’re more likely to fail it if you have black hair or brown hair than you would if you’re a blond.
And wouldn’t you know it. Black people tend to have black hair.
This has the wheels of paranoia going among certain black callers to certain talk radio shows in St. Louis. Their consensus is that CBC is engaged in a big damned conspiracy to purge all of its black students to create an all-white environment.
Far be it from me to use logic to deconstruct an argument, but to say that is also to assume that 100 percent of the black students at CBC are at least recreational users of illicit drugs. Are these callers just engaging in hyperbole, or do they know something that we don’t?
Far be it from me to use some facts and an item of personal conjecture to rebuke an argument, but consider the following:
1. For at least several years in the mid-1990s, CBC flew the United Nations flag in front of its campus when it was on Clayton Road in Richmond Heights.
2. CBC has a black head football coach. (Bob Shannon)
3. Personal conjecture: A majority of the black students who attend CBC aren’t there because their parents paid full tuition. Ergo, they are full or partial charity cases.
I can never be convinced that an institution that has done #1 and #2, and probably does #3, is going to turn right around and engage in a racist conspiracy to rid itself of black students.
It simply appears to me that CBC’s administration is simply engaged in a conspiracy to keep its students from using illegal drugs. Keep on conspiring, brother.
John Mittelbuscher is going to prison today.
Well, maybe not literally today, but he did find out that he will be spending most of the next three years as a guest of the state.
If you don’t remember, he’s the Ballwin drunkard that was driving his truck while drunk, and he hit St. Louis City Police Officer Matt Browning and pinned him between his (Mittelbuscher’s) truck and a parked car in the parking lot south of Busch Stadium in October 2004. The accident caused Browning to lose his legs and his law enforcement career.
St. Louis City Police Officers and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) implored the presiding judge to hand Mittlebuscher a prison sentence longer than the relatively short one agreed to when he and his lawyers reached a plea agreement with the prosecution. The judge agreed, and sent Mittlebuscher away for three years, which is about twice as long as he thought he would serve based on his earlier plea agreement. For the record, he faced up to 14 years for the crime he pled guility to committing.
There is more to this story than most people remember. Truthfully, I can’t blame anyone for not knowing or remembering the following facts of the matter. The MSM mentioned this during the fact, but has made only scant mention of it in subsequent stories on the Browning tragedy. So if you don’t know these things, or did know them but forgot them, it’s certainly not your fault.
Question: Why was Officer Browning in the parking lot south of Busch Stadium that night?
Answer: Because he was pursuing one of this city’s many, useless, no-good, good-for-nothing-but-trouble Predatory Thug Babies. IIRC, this one was a robbery suspect. If my recollection of the facts is correct, Officer Browning spotted the PTB robbery suspect on foot along a street. Browning then confronted the PTB, who then fled on foot, and Browning gave chase on foot. The PTB ran into that parking lot, and Browning followed him there, where he would be standing at the wrong place at the wrong time.
This goes to show you how brave these PTBs are. They’re certainly brave enough to stick a rod in the face of some retired widow so they can lighten her wallet to feed their dope habits. But when they confront a real man with a real gun, a real badge and real power, they revert to the pieces of chicken excrement they really are (and were all along) and run.
If I had any power over the prosecutorial affairs in this city, and assuming that this PTB that Officer Browning was pursuing is in custody and still not out on the lam, I would see to it that some way, some how, that this PTB shares in some of the criminal liability for Officer Browning losing his legs. The reason is obvious: If this piece of chicken excrement PTB would have been man enough to face his own music and not fled, (or maybe even man enough not to engage in the kind of behavior that gets a city cop interested in his affairs), then Browning would have never been in the parking lot to be an accidental target for the Ballwin drunkard.
After all, if you flee from the cops while driving, you are entirely responsible for all the damage caused by that high-speed flight and pursuit. The same should apply to foot pursuits.
Ford Motor Company is shutting down their plant in a city whose mayor has C-A-R as the first three letters of his surname.
Allow me to introduce you to two relatively high ranking pseudo-Caucasian public officials in the city of St. Louis. Because they are such altruistic, public-spirited people, I will spare them the embarrassment by only revealing their initials.
First, we have F.S. F.S. is a St. Louis City public employee, and predictably, F.S. has a keen interest in politics. Also, like this webmaster, F.S. has recently taken to the electronic art of blogging.
Second, we have J.M. J.M. also draws a paycheck from the City, and so I understand, one of his hobbies is law enforcement.
The reason F.S. and J.M. are relevant is because they probably have differing reactions to certain news released by the Associated Press on January 25, 2006. Quoting directly from the AP wire:
Violent crimes rose sharply in St. Louis last year, but police say the city’s overall crime rate is still down considerably from the mid-1990s. Police statistics released Wednesday showed 8,321 crimes against people in 2005, up 19.6 percent from 2004. The city had 131 homicides in 2005, up 14.9 percent from 114 a year earlier. Robbery was up 12.7 percent, aggravated assaults rose 22.5 percent and rape reports rose 61.4 percent. Overall, while property crimes declined 1.4 percent, the city’s crime rate rose 1.7 percent.
Because J.M. likes law enforcement, he did partake this bad news. Thanks to some keen reporting on the part of St. Louis television news media, word is getting around the metropolitan area that J.M. isn’t a very happy camper today. Apparently, J.M. works in an industry where he, and more so his subordinates, have close business dealings with certain individuals, whom J.M. reportedly refers to as “teenagers,” “young men” and “young people,” that hold great sway over the crime rate in the City. The TV media are reporting that J.M. and his people are going to liason with these “teenagers,” these “young men,” these “young people,” to enlist their help in order to reverse the trend.
F.S., however, is probably not aware of the bad news, for the TV newscasts say nothing of what F.S. thinks of it, or wants to do about it. But the TV news and St. Louis’s other MSM sources do tell us that F.S. is a proponent of the concept of people choosing to live in St. Louis City in contrast to other options, and people moving back into St. Louis City from suburbs far, far away.
This webmaster, in a previous blog entry, came up with the silly theory that maybe, just MAYBE, the things that F.S. is doing, that makes F.S. happy, is precisely the reason why J.M. is upset. Perhaps F.S.’s success only serves to create more opportunity for J.M.’s enemies to do the sort of things that drives J.M. bonkers.
Because I have heard they both work in downtown St. Louis, maybe one day, F.S. and J.M. will meet each other. After they exchange life histories, war stories, photos of their wives and children, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and at that, perhaps F.S. will get J.M. to read his blog, they can also trade their professional experiences, and when J.M. figures out that F.S. is contributing to J.M.’s consternation, maybe those two heads can combine their years of professional experience and formulate real solutions.
Or perhaps, unfortunately, Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet, and we will all be that more ignorant and unenlightened.
From the January 25, 2006 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, byline Bill Bryan:
An [*******] Cab driver fatally shot a 16-year-old youth who may have been trying to rob him on Tuesday night, St. Louis police said.
Corey Blanks was fatally shot about 10:45 p.m. in the 3200 block of Nebraska Avenue, police said. The cab driver drove off after the shooting, but was later found. Homicide detectives are attempting to determine if the cab driver’s account of what transpired is truthful.
The name of the cab company is blocked by this webmaster, for a host of reasons.
According to KSDK’s TV news, the cab driver was recently released from Federal Prison after spending some time with Uncle Sam for a Federal felony rap, therefore, the cab driver could not legally own the handgun that he used to send the useless Predatory Thug Baby Mr. Blanks to his just reward. KSDK also reported that the cab company that hired him did a background screening, therefore they knew about his rap sheet, and that he was (and still is) on Federal parole, and his Probation Officer approved the employment. Yet, they hired him anyway.
At the time of this writing, the St. Louis City Police Department is not requesting that the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney file state criminal charges on the cab driver. However, Mrs. Hanaway and her throng of Federal prosecutors down on 10th Street might not let him get away without plopping a Federal felon-in-possession rap on him.
Relevant question: Since when did cab companies start trusting ex-cons?
Our bretheren of color are philosophically contradicting themselves.
When WGNU actually had decent programming, I would listen to some of its shows. I can recall a number of conversations between white, somewhat conservative talk hosts and militant black callers that went like this:
WHITE HOST: The fact that the National Football League (NFL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) are disproportionately black in terms of player personnel, and very well paid player personnel, shows that there’s no discrimination against blacks in the society at large.
BLACK CALLER: Yes, but there are 40 million black people, and just a few hundred black people in America are in the NFL or NBA. They’re doing well, and they may not be discrimination victims, but that by itself does not prove that there isn’t discrimination against the other 40 million, who are largely economically destitute.
A broken clock is right twice a day, and somehow, some way, the black militant callers to WGNU who argued this point with roughly these words did accidentally stumble on a good, logically sound argument.
Fast-forward to January 2006.
After the end of every NFL season, some teams fire its head coaches and coaching staffs, and during January and perhaps early February, the ones that do search for a new head coach, hire him, and then he hires assistants. This year, there are an unusually high number of firings and retirements, ten in all compared to 32 NFL teams, which means almost a third of the NFL was looking for a new head coach.
Several years ago, in response to repeated complaints from NAACP-types about the lack of African-American coaching staffs in the NFL (as if that’s the black community’s most pressing problem), the NFL Commissioner’s Office developed sort of a “gentleman’s agreement” with team owners and general managers that, when a head coaching vacancy comes up, at least one man of color should be interviewed for each opening.
For some reason, the “gentleman’s agreement” fell apart this year, and virtually no black men were interviewed for head coaching vacancies. Furthermore, very few if any black men were chosen by the newly-hired head coaches for assistant coaching positions.
Naturally, the caterwauling from black militant callers to St. Louis talk radio has begun. It won’t be long until the venerable NAACP chimes in on the question.
I have already heard some of the very same individual gentlemen of color (I recognize their names and voices) who made the argument above, turn right around now and say that the fact that almost no black men were interviewed much less hired for head coaching or assistant coaching vacancies this month is proof in itself that there is anti-black discrimination in the NFL and in society at large.
The average black person is no more a professional football player than he is a professional football coach. So how the “player” part can’t be used to prove the lack of discrimination in general, and how the “coach” part does prove it, is beyond me.
I don’t catch the drift of that.
Hey, French Government. Are you insane?
The Jihad Brotherhood rioted in hundreds of French cities, and some Belgian and German cities, just this past fall. And all you’re concerned about is that that “far right” is handing out free soup to homeless people.
You whine and moan about how you think (probably correctly) that the “far right” is deliberately serving pork soup to keep homeless Muslims away, so that they are, in effect, limiting their services to homeless white people. Does this mean you oppose the concept of homeless white people eating?
From RedHerring.com:
Researchers from Harvard and Oxford universities teamed up Wednesday to fight malware with an initiative to track down spyware, adware, and other malicious software back to their source and spotlight the companies that benefit from their distribution.
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Oxford Internet Institute are partnering on the initiative and a web site, StopBadware.org. The initiative has received backing from Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems. Consumer Reports’ WebWatch will play a pro bono role as a consumer advisor.
“Intruders are now in your house without your permission,” said John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard’s Berkman Center. “They entered through your computer to bombard you with sneaky pop-ups and install tracking software to spy on your every move and steal your most personal information.”
How about a desktop computer operating system that does not easily lend itself to spyware, malware and virus attacks, Mr. Gates?
Canadians might have once again demonstrated this H. L. Mencken observation about Canadian politics.
Canada is Canada, not Alabama. This is the place that practically invented gay marriage, legalized dope smoking, gun control, criminalizing opposition to racial diversity and homosexuality, and nationalized health care.
Yet, for Canadian voters to swing away from left-wing parties toward an extremely moderate conservative solution, with the Calgarian Stephen Harper as its leading face, means that there is something amiss north of the border.
Mr. Harper did not promise to end abortion, criminalize marijuana, or rescind national health care; as far as I can tell, all he promised is to enact nuanced reforms in many of these, and perhaps try to re-criminalize gay marriage, but even that is not a given. Still, some dynamic behind the curtains was at work for even a moderate conservative party to win as many new converts as it did. Sometimes, politics works that way. Don’t forget, Jerry Springer was once mayor of Cincinnati at a time when that city still had a lot of conservative white voters.
Consider all of the pieces to the puzzle: One, there was a significant vote swing from liberal parties to Mr. Harper’s Conservative Party. Two, the MSM here is barely saying anything about it. Three, the Canadian MSM isn’t much more helpful.
The Council of Conservative Citizens is blessed to have someone on its Board of Directors who is a Canadian, and perhaps, from him, we will find out the truth, but my instincts right now, knowing what little I know, leads me to believe that Mr. Harper made veiled appeals to white Canadian voters based on racial and immigration issues. Obviously, neither our MSM or the Canadian MSM will be sure to let us know that, because if they did, it would send the message that you win white voters by being pro-white. What a concept.
Canadians by-and-large, white or otherwise, are not fond of American military prowess, and do not have much of their own. To wit: You St. Louisans remember the Illinois Air National Guard member who was court-martialed for his accidental bombing-deaths of several Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002. Those were Canada’s first combat deaths in their Armed Forces since the Korean War.
Mr. Harper was dogged by his friendliness toward the Bush administration and his tacit approval of the Iraq War, but still won enough swing votes in anti-war, anti-military Canada. Perhaps the reason for that is that Mr. Harper linked the American War on Terror to a Global Race War on Arabs/Muslims, and then pointed the finger at increasingly Arabic/Muslim Toronto. Once again, that is just my theory. Only time, and a conversation with a certain Canadian, will tell.
From the BBC:
A Mexican government agency is to issue some 70,000 maps marking main roads and water tanks for people wanting to cross illegally into the US. The National Human Rights Commission says the maps will be aimed at cutting the death toll among migrants. US advocates of tougher border controls have criticised the move, saying it will encourage illegal immigration.
These maps are apparently the perfect companion for the “Wetbackking for Dummies” comic book provided by the Mexican Government to prospective “migrants.”
All of this proves that the Mexican government is encouraging illegal immigration of its citizens into the USA, all the while cracking down on its own southern border with Guatemala.
The reason that the Mexican Government wants some of its people sneaking across our Southern Border is that the USA is the social welfare safety valve for the Mexican Government, i.e. Mexico can rid itself of a lot of its social malcontents and dump ‘em off on Gringo to prevent a peasant revolution in Mexico.
In addition, I would not be surprised to learn that Arab terrorist groups and governments are bribing the Mexican government to let some of their sleeper cells hide among the Mexican illegals and slip across the border. If not, then illegal immigration from Mexico by itself and the reconquista-style social upheaval it will eventually cause in the American Southwest and other places will destabilize America enough to distract Washington from the War on Terror, i.e. Global race war on Arabs/Muslims, i.e. Fifth Crusade. (I count the British occupation of the Middle East in the late 19th/early 20th centuries as the Fourth Crusade.)
Not to be out-liberaled by the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church (American Anglican) is considering sanctifying former Supreme Court Justice and NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall, someone who once said that there was “nothing profound” about the United States Constitution.
If the ecclesiocratic measure passes Episcopal muster, then Episcopals will celebrate May 17 as the Feast of St. Thurgood Marshall. Not that he was born on May 17, but because May 17, 1954 was the day of Black Monday when the Supreme Court decided to become a nine-person monarchy over us all.
And if the Episcopals are succesful in pushing Thurgood Marshall on through to Sainthood, they will probably consider Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) next.
In a speech delivered by Leahy at the Georgetown University Law School five days ago, he outlined his manifesto of disapproval with Samuel Alito. Most of his speech is the usual crypto-seditious blabbering designed to pander to the MoveOn.org crowd to keep their contributions coming; if you want to bother, the link is here. But one paragraph of his diatribe needs to be responded to because it is probably factually inaccurate:
No President should be allowed to pack the courts, and especially the Supreme Court, with nominees selected to enshrine presidential claims of government power. Our system was designed to ensure a balance and to protect against overreaching by any branch. The checks and balances that should be provided by the courts, Congress and the Constitution are too important to be sacrificed to such an agenda. The Senate stood up to President Roosevelt when he proposed a court-packing scheme. And today, the Senate should not be a rubber stamp to this President’s effort to move the law dramatically to the right and to give him unfettered leeway.
In the mid-1930s, when President Roosevelt and the Democratic House and Senate were passing “New Deal” legislation at a breakneck pace, the Supreme Court, which at the time had nine members, and was dominated by Republican appointees who were suspicious of ideologies which bore New Deal legislation, declared many New Deal laws unconstitutional.
In reaction, President Roosevelt proposed legislation to increase the size of the Supreme Court from nine to fifteen members, meaning he could appoint six new members to the court in one felt swoop and therefore create a court that would not block the New Deal. History calls this FDR’s “Court Packing” plan, the analogy that Leahy is trying to draw when he uses the phrase “pack the courts.”
President Bush is merely making a nomination for an open seat, not proposing to add seats to the Court.
Leahy is probably incorrect about his contention that the Senate of the time “stood up the President Roosevelt.” It is my understanding of the history that FDR’s Court Packing legislation enjoyed very good support in both branches of Congress, because both branches supported the New Deal measures and the immediate necessity of adopting them. The only reason it did not pass is that the Supreme Court, in earnest of the popularity of the Court Packing plan, backtracked and reversed its own decisions on many of the New Deal programs they had just found to be unconstitutional. (The reason that they didn’t want their own court’s size to increase from 9 to 15 members is obvious: If you’re one member of the Supreme Court, if that happens, then your personal prestige is marginally diminished. You go from being one-ninth to one-fifteenth of the Supreme Judicial Power of the Federal Government in an instant.) Then and only then did the Court Packing plan get set aside, because after the Court flip-flop, it was a moot point.
In plain words, FDR and the Democrats in Congress bullied the Supreme Court into changing their minds. And to think, they were all their day’s liberal Democrats. Their bretheren of the next generation would come to worship the Federal judiciary in the 1950s through 1970s when it declared itself a monarchy and adopted by fiat much of the left-wing agenda.
The WB, an over-the-air television network, one that has existed since 1995, owned by the AOL Time Warner, and seen locally on KPLR-TV, Channel 11, has a prime time schedule whose shows can be dividied into one of four categories:
1. Teenagers having sex
2. Teenagers having more sex
3. Teenagers having lots of sex
4. Teenagers having non-stop sex
The UPN, another over-the-air television network, one that has also existed since 1995, owned by Viacom, which also owns CBS, and seen locally only since 2003 on WRBU-TV, Channel 46, has an unmemorable prime-time schedule replete with low-grade, low-intelligence sitcoms with every non-white hood ornament of both genders that central casting can produce.
Both networks have consistently low ratings, but are able to survive because they are doing something the media insiders call narrowcasting. The WB’s ratings are laughably low overall but great among white teenagers and young adults, while UPN’s are similarly low overall but good among African-Americans. Therefore, advertisers will line up in droves to buy ads on the WB and UPN to peddle products and services that appeal to white teenagers and African-Americans, respectively.
Viacom/CBS and AOL Time Warner have swung an agreement that will combine the two networks into one, to be called The CW, that will replace and supplant WB and UPN in the Fall of 2006, at which time the WB and UPN will cease to exist. Depending on how empty and unfulfilling the programming on the CW will be, which promises to combine the best of the WB and UPN (insert laugh tracks here), it shows that sometimes, two heads are not better than one.
The President is dead. (Martin Sheen) Long live the President! (Geena Davis)
Oops, I forgot, her ratings are slipping, too.
From the January 23, 2006 Christian Science Monitor, the article entitled Triumph of the Redistributionist Left:
The political left in America is emerging victorious…..Republicans’ capture of both Congress and the White House was, understandably, a demoralizing blow to the left. But the latter can take solace that “Republican” is no longer synonymous with spending restraint, free markets, and other ideals of the political right.
The rest of the article postulates that increased domestic spending, countenanced by both parties, will in and of itself force the rest of the American Federal government policy leftward, in that tax rates will not be able to be lowered, and that domestic spending will crowd out defense spending.
In addition, and not mentioned in this article, as the as the USA becomes more non-white and less white, the new voter blocs will inevitably win political power, and its relatively younger poplulation base will itself crowd out Social Security and Medicare (which by then, retired white baby-boomers will exert the highest demand upon it), not to mention the rest of the Federal budget, for the sake of social welfare benefits for younger blacks and Hispanics.
The final nail is now set to go into the coffin of the Ford plant in Hazelwood.
Several callers to St. Louis area talk radio this morning suggested that the city of Hazelwood eminent-domain the Ford property after 2007, and sweeten the pot so that a Japanese car manufacturer can move in.
That is very unlikely to happen. Whenever the Japanese or European carmakers build or open facilities in America, they almost always build in rural areas away from major metropolitan areas. The answer to that riddle is obvious: If they built in or very near major metropolitan areas, American employment and civil rights laws would force them to have a virtual quota of non-white workers. Their rural placement strategy is virtually a white employee base strategy.
Hazelwood is obviously not rural, and is itself in the process of “changing,” as a certain St. Louis rap star is helping the process.
Even American carmakers have taken to building facilities in Canada. For one, at least until now, Canada is whiter, and for another, Canada’s state-provided universal health care, even as questionable as it is, means that the carmakers do not have to provide health insurance in their employee benefits package for Canadian employees.
From the January 19, 2006 edition of the Alton Telegraph:
More than half of the elementary students in the Alton School District will be at a different school next year as a result of a reconfiguration plan to spread low-income and black students equally among Alton’s seven planned elementary centers. The five current elementary school boundaries will be transformed into seven next year, and three schools — Horace Mann, Mark Twain and J.B. Johnson Elementary — are slated to close at the start of next school year .
The district’s goal is to spread black and low-income students — specified as those who receive free or reduced-price lunches — across the seven elementary schools next year.
This webmaster predicted in a previous blog entry that the new authority that the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has to dissolve “low performing” school districts will eventually mean that school district boundary lines would be racially gerrymandered such that in a given “district,” there would be enough white students to make the “district” standardized test results numerically passable.
It appears that this is what is happening in Alton, Illinois, albeit it is happening entirely within a school district. Nevertheless, don’t think that educrats on the west bank of the Mississippi haven’t gotten the message.
Latest from the CofCC National Blog