No Wonder

Former University of Texas and 2006 Rose Bowl MVP Vince Young, who led his Longhorns to the 2005-6 College Football National Championship, and is now in the NFL Draft, has a little something missing upstairs.

Those who come out for the NFL Draft are administered the Wonderlic Test.  It is 50 simple questions in 12 minutes, and your score is meant to measure your reasoning ability under pressure.  The test is scored one point for each correct answer, meaning the top possible score is 50.

Some sample questions from the Test were read on a sports talk radio show in St. Louis on Monday, and I can assure you that it doesn’t take Albert Einstein to answer them.  Here are some sample questions of the Wonderlic, on ESPN.

Teams want Quarterbacks to score relatively high, because that’s a position that requires decent reasoning skills under pressure.  Mr. Young expects to play QB in the league like he did in college, yet, with a Wonderlic score of 6 in his first try, and 16 in his second attempt, doubts can be raised about his reasoning skills.

By comparison, Rams wide receiver Kevin Curtis scored a 48, and Rams third-string QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, a Harvard graduate who took some live snaps this past season, scored a perfect 50.

Statistically speaking, if you take this test and just guess at the questions that have multiple choices, you would be very likely to get more than six right.

Six – you really have to be as dumb as a box of rocks to take the test, actually try, and score only six.

This begs the question:  How did he get admitted to the University of Texas, and how did he continue to remain academically eligible to play intercollegiate athletics?

If I don’t know the answer to that one, then I’m as naive as a box of rocks.

Another Bromide Rebuked

Another fashionable argument among the pro-Dubai crowd is that, if we reject the deal, it would turn a relatively friendly Arab-Muslim government hostile.

A caller to Drudge Radio this past Sunday advanced a theory that our rejection of the Port Deal would be the best thing for the UAE ruling government. 

His line of reasoning was this:  If the deal was approved, Al Qaeda would ambition to carry out terrorist attacks against one or more of the ports that the UAE would then “own,” and it would do this even if the UAE would not give them any help. 

In doing this, Al Qaeda would kill two birds with one stone – it would hurt America, and hurt the UAE, which it considers to be a “traitor.”  The UAE would be hurt physically and financially, and, so goes the theory, the American government would blame the UAE government for weak security, instead of Al Qaeda, thereby severing ties between the two.

The trouble with the last part of this theory is that I hardly doubt our intelligence-gathering mechanisms are that bad to where we wouldn’t read Al Qaeda’s fingerprints on any such attacks.

There’s A Mouse In The G.O.P. House

According to Variety.com, the Disney Corporation, via its PAC, and unlike most Hollywood entertainment companies, has given a slight majority of its political contributions to Republicans, 56% to be specific.

Phyllis Schalfly solved this riddle more than seven years ago.  The bread and butter of Disney’s existence is its continuing ownership of the intellectual property rights (copyrights, trademarks) of things like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and so on.

Disney PAC will scoop up politicians who will then extend Disney’s I.P. rights far beyond their original time limit.  Since a typical Republican is more sensitive to Big Business than a typical Democrat (though not by much), this 56% figure is no surprise to me.

They’re Just Cartoons

From World Net Daily:

Tom and Jerry, the lovable cat and mouse locked in cartoon combat, is a Jewish conspiracy, according to an Iranian official…..”The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon,” said Bolkhari…..According to the professor, “Tom and Jerry” was created to irradicate the association between mice and Jews created in the minds of Europeans by Hitler.

The article then goes on to say that Tom and Jerry is a creation of Hanna-Barbera, not Disney.

C’mon people.  They’re animated cartoons.  They are figments of people’s imaginations.

Only a stupid, moronic, juvenile mind could attach any more meaning than that to an animated cat and mouse whose pretend antics are meant to entertain a six-year old.

You’re getting yourself all worked up over CARTOONS~!  Then again, you all have proven in the last several weeks that Cartoons seem to be very important to your sensitivities.

When Hate Is Really Hateful

In most European countries, it is a crime to deny that the Holocaust happened, or to diminish the generally accepted circumstances of the Holocaust; that is, if you’re a white right-winger.  Non-whites and Muslims are exempt, so it seems.

Apparently, European governments are exempt as well.

Many European governments have now communicated the message that they approve of the murder of Jews, because they are going to prohibit El Al airliners equipped with missile defense systems from landing at European airports.

Ultimate Spin

Paraphrasing Eleanor Clift, from this past Sunday’s McLaughlin Group on PBS:

For the Bush Administration to say that a privately-owned port company that is British is the same as a government-owned and operated port company from the United Arab Emirates is the ultimate in spin, and is just B.S. coming from the White House.

In that, she agrees with her panelmate, Pat Buchanan.

All of a sudden, the good liberals of the world admit that not all human beings are equal.  At this rate,  Miss Clift will write a glowing review of The Bell Curve in her next Newsweek op-ed, and will be the keynote speaker at the next American Renaissance Conference in 2008.

I.R.S. Sees Sharp Increase In Jealous Losers

From the New York Times:

The I.R.S. said yesterday that it saw a sharp increase in prohibited political activity by charities and churches in the last election cycle, a trend that it aims to reverse as the country heads into the midterm elections.

If you want to read the rest of the article, fine, but it’s really nothing more than this:  The left-wing is jealous that the “Christian Right” in southwest Ohio swung the state and therefore the National Election to Bush over Kerry in 2004.

One of the principles in the anti-Church effort is the Alliance for Justice, which, as I demonstrated earlier, is a group that is for all “individual rights” except the Second Amendment.

All Aboard The Baby Train

From Mayor Slay’s Blog:

Reading a memo about the task force’s work on a recent evening, I was struck by the fact that none of the people caught by the police during the commission of a crime was a stranger to the officers: all of them had long and recent records.  In fact, the six people arrested that night had combined rap sheets of 30 prior arrests for various felonies and serious misdemeanors.  The oldest arrested person was only 26.

The police are arresting the same people over and over again in the same neighborhoods. Until the rest of the criminal justice system is fixed, the police – and the people who live in those neighborhoods – are at a serious disadvantage.

Of course, as Mayor Slay is a partisan Democrat, and votes for Democrats in every National and Statewide election, the “rest of the criminal justice system” will never be “fixed,” if the sort of people he votes for win elections.  Mr. Slay was even the National Vice-Chairman of the Finance Committee of the John Kerry for President in 2004 organization.

The reason why the “system” is out of “fix” is because of:  (1)  Black Jury Nullification, and  (2)  Lenient judges, most of whom were appointed by Democrat Party Governors and Presidents.

If the oldest PTB arrested that night was only 26, then they’re definitely all nothing but little bitty babies, in the judgment of a certain WGNU morning motormouth.

Making Friends

Dear Volkswagen:

After seeing the suggestion in your latest TV commercial, I have decided that I am going to make friends with my slow.

The reason is that I don’t want the St. Louis City Police Department to make friends with my bank account.

Sincerely,

St. Louis CofCC Webmaster

Chickens and Eggs

I think I have solved a “the chicken or the egg” question I had.

In an earlier blog post, I mildly criticized Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Her contention was that the cartoon riots in the Middle East were provoked by unfriendly Middle Eastern governments.

My contention was that, while that might have been true, any provocation on the part of those governments would not have been successful unless the average person in those countries had a fanatical mindset that was easily provoked.

Playing fast and loose with the English language, as you can see, I invented a new adjective to describe that propensity, “whoopupable.”

Now comes this news from the AP:

Thousands of Muslims defied a ban on rallies Friday in Pakistan’s capital, joining protesters across the country in condemning the Prophet Muhammad cartoons printed by some Western newspapers.

The current government in Pakistan is pro-Western and pro-American, so nobody could claim with any good evidence that the Pakistani government is doing any “whooping up.” In fact, with the ban on ralles in Islamabad, it’s trying to preclude such riotous protests, as futile as those efforts are.

This only proves that my “whoopupable” thesis is far closer to the truth than Miss Rice’s “whooping up” thesis.

What Thugs Do

From World Net Daily:

A Maryland organization that runs four government-funded day-labor hiring centers is training volunteer “legal observers” to videotape members of the Minuteman border security group and to picket their homes, places of work and their children’s schools…..it is Torres threat to recruit individuals to picket Minuteman members’ children at school that has the greatest likelihood to escalate the tense, but so-far peaceful, situation…..”Threatening children like this is outrageous,” said Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Chris Simcox. “Casa de Maryland’s funding should be pulled and its contracts cancelled. It is beyond belief that taxpayer dollars are funding this thuggish behavior.”

No additional commentary is needed.

Street Corner Editorial

From the New York Times:

The illegal immigrants who trim our hedges, prepare our food and care for our children have been compared to an invading army.

Also the ones that commit violent crimes at high rates, assault ranchers, private property owners and Border Patrol agents on our southern border, and the ones whose very existence puts a downward pressure on wages and compensation for everybody in this country.

The mayor of Greenport, N.Y., a tiny village on Long Island, has opened his arms to all residents and proposes to survey them, the legal and the illegal, to better determine what services they need.  The mayor, David Kapell, considers it a calculated provocation – a gesture of solidarity with his poorest neighbors and a cry of protest at federal inaction.

Mr. Kapell’s complaint is absolutely justified.  Local officials like him live and work in the real world, and while they wait for the federal government to do its job, the task of restoring order has fallen to them.  It is not their place to become the immigration police or to crack down on policies that Washington has shown no interest in fixing or enforcing.

Mr. Kapell lives in a pollyanna dream world where his political enrichment is served by the browning of Greenport, N.Y. and the browning of America.  The real world consists of neighborhoods, suburbs and cities that are no longer liveable for whites because of mass non-white immigration, and of two high-rise buildings in the same city where the New York Times is headquartered, that are no longer standing, because of the these policies that the Times prescribes.

I should say that if Mr. Kapell has his way, that bucolic, tiny little village of his won’t be so peaceful for much longer.  Wait until he has to deal with MS-13.

Immigration measures that rely only on punishment and deterrence are unenforceable, in no small part because the public rejects their cruelty.

They are not unenforceable; our open-borders establishment does not want them enforced.  The only kind of “public” that “rejects their cruelty” is the kind of public that thinks the world’s boundaries are the Hudson, the East River, Wall Street and Harlem.

Shower Me With Some Fairness

While this blog has had harsh words to describe such people, this is one time when fairness and truth demands that I defend them.

Some “neo-Nazi” group, and the news article on the matter did not identify the group, is going to march in Orlando, Florida this weekend.  In response, a prominent black state Senator, one Gary Siplin, is organizing a counter-march before the fact to “shower love” on the neo-Nazis.

If Mr. Siplin is worried for his saftey, or his life, then he is under the false assumption that the swastika-in-the-retina far right wing is against non-white people.

In reality, as I have come to find out through observation, that extreme end of the modern American political existence, though they call themselves “white supremacists,” is not for white people, or against non-white people, they’re just anti-Jewish.  If Mr. Siplin would join the “neo-Nazi” march and start denouncing Jews, he would make dozens of new friends.

Nevertheless, this paragraph from Local6.com is in blatant error:

The same neo-Nazi group that instigated violence in Toledo, Ohio, last year will march along Hughey and Church streets and then head north on Terry Avenue to Washington Street before ending at the Federal Courthouse.

Wrong.  The “neo-Nazi” march was finished and their participants were far away from their parade route when the violence happened in Toledo.  Therefore, it was not possible for the “neo-Nazis” to instigate the violence.

What happened was that Negroes who were there in opposition to the “neo-Nazis” themselves took out after the Toldeo police officers who were there to preclude “neo-Nazi” violence.  Looks like the cops had their heads pointed in the wrong direction.

In addition, some of the Negroes fought among themselves, as it turns out they were members of rival drug gangs in Toledo.

The Day of the Fake Police

There must be some sort of new constellation in the sky dedicated to phonies that pose as police officers.  The sun must have been in that constellation on Wednesday.

On that day, individuals dressed as, and pretending to be police officers, pulled off the largest bank heist in Britain’s history, and bombed a sacred Shia mosque in Iraq.

Incidentally, the Iraq bombing is so significant that the MSM is starting to whisper that “C” word that we all knew would come to pass in Iraq.

Deja Vu

A 29-year old man from the Birmingham, Alabama area is taking American Idol by storm.  I could swear that I have seen this before.

Whatever you people in Birmingham are putting in the water, keep it up.

One-Arm Bandit

If the United Arab Emirates had any hope of salvaging the Port Deal after our domestic outrage, it didn’t help itself by hiring someone to be a lobbyist for their cause, someone who, while running for President in 1996, gave these three compelling and scintillating reasons why we should have voted for him over his major competition that year:

1.  “I’m a Republican.”
2.  “It’s my turn.”
3.  The damned Krauts almost shot my arm off in the war.

With Bob Dole on the other side’s case, us opponents can rest a lot easier.

A Failure of the Failures

Bill Bennett and Alan Dershowitz have joined forces in a Washington Post Op-Ed criticizing the MSM for censoring the Great Danish Cartoons.

The irony in Messrs. Bennett and Dershowitz saying these things is that the reason why the MSM have censored them are fundamentally the same philosophical reasons why both Bennett and Dershowitz oppose immigration control – that is, sensitivity to the feelings of non-whites.

Remember, it was Bill Bennett, and his neocon friend, Jack Kemp, who were among the loudest mouths against California’s Proposition 187 in 1994.

And we don’t even need to elaborate on the love that Mr. Dershowitz has for the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Adding Insult to Insult

Hey, German Government.  Are you insane?

Radical Islam is eating German cities alive.  But you seem to be more concerned about one of those passe white Germans insulting Islam and the Koran, instead of what some do in the name of Islam and the Koran.

If I were you, I would get out my compass and figure the direction from Berlin to Mecca.  For if you keep this insanity going, it won’t be long until you’re all on prayer rugs five times a day bowing your heads in that direction.

They’re Young, Poor, Urban and White

From World Net Daily:

The most likely victim of a hate crime in the U.S. is a poor, young, white, single urban dweller, according to an analysis of Justice Department statistics collected from between July 2000 and December 2003…..While race is, by far, the No. 1 factor cited as the reason for hate crimes, blacks are slightly less likely to be victims and far more likely to be perpetrators, the statistics show.

In the last several years, I have seen more and more MSM stories that say that non-whites have been charged with “hate crimes.”  Now that The System is no longer blinding itself totally to hate-motivated violence at the hands of non-whites, I knew it would only be a matter of time before this story would come out.

And no, you won’t be reading this story in the SPLC Intelligence Report.

School of the Supremacist

From New York Newsday:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies – or even a government-funded “School of the Jihad.”

What Mrs. Clinton means by this is that she believes that voucher programs would allow white parents in urban areas to extricate their school-aged children from largely non-white public schools.

In reality, voucher programs, to the small extent they have actually been implemented, have worked to the opposite – they are contributing to the increasing non-white student bodies in what used to be mostly white parochial and private schools.

This is why Mrs. Clinton is right to oppose vouchers, even if her reasons are totally wrong.  Vouchers can, do and will hasten the “desegregation” of private and parochial schools.

Real Life NCIS

The real world NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigation Service) has a job on its hands.  But if you’re expecting the CBS show with the same name to “rip it from the headlines” as a future show idea, forget it.  The reason is that it makes a black athlete look bad.

After all, they still have to save the Navy from all those white supremacists and homophobes every Tuesday at 8/7c.

Upside Down A Little Longer

Charles Schumer is concerned about port security moreso than certain conservative oriented talk radio hosts.  Now, Dianne Feinstein has come out for border control, something which John McCain has yet to do.

Dianne FEINSTEIN~!

Sen. Feinstein has discovered that it is not a Federal crime to create a non-authorized trans-border tunnel, as many have been found between the USA and Mexico, which have been used to smuggle illegal aliens and illicit drugs from South to North.

So she is going to introduce a bill to make it a crime.

To be fair, this isn’t the 101st Airborne on the Border, but it demonstrates more concern about border security than many Republicans and their President have shown.

Foolishness Must Be Stopped

I’m getting to be too much of a curmudgeon and too cynical before my time.

Because the actions of these two individuals were the type that were designed to draw publicity to themselves, I will not be saying many details about these two human beings. 

If you already know more details, by watching St. Louis MSM, then that’s fine, but I’m not going to make it easy for you to find info about these two people via this blog.  They don’t deserve one word of publicity from their acts.  If there was not a larger social point to make, I wouldn’t be covering this at all.

Two afternoons ago, two people, who I will not identify in any way, except to say that they were two human beings, went to the top of a certain high-rise office building in St. Louis County, both the building’s name and location in St. Louis County will not be identified here.

Once they were on the roof, the two people scaled down one side of the building as if they were rappelling down the side of a mountain.  The side of the building they decided to rappel down just happens to face an interstate highway.

They made it down the building safely, where police officers from the certain suburban St. Louis department where this building was located took the two into custody.  They will probably be charged with the piddley offense of trespassing. 

Fire Department and Ambulance services were also present at the scene, in case something went wrong with their descent.

That was the reality of the situation.  Here is what I hoped would have happened:

Once these two people made it to the ground safely, the two cops should have knocked them to the ground, taken their big black batons out of their holsters, and taken a good hard whack at their skulls several times. 

After that, then they should have been hauled to the St. Louis County Jail in a paddywagon, and, using your imagination, once they were booked in, certain things would happen to them that always seem to happen in houses of incarceration, especially in such edifices which house a large percentage of Predatory Thug Babies.

Then these two suburban cops should have crossed over into St. Louis City.  Their first stop should have been at 5915 Berthold Avenue, where they should have found the KTVI News Director that decided to air these events as live breaking news, and then thumped his skull with their batons.  Then they should have hoofed it over to 1 Memorial Drive in Downtown St. Louis, found the KMOV News Director that did the same, and bashed in his skull as well.

“What did they do?”

These News Directors gave these two fools the publicity they wanted.

And yes, it was a stunt that was insane and dangerous.  Rappelling down a cliff is one thing; rappelling down a high-rise building is something else.  The glass in this building’s windows is probably very strong and hard to break, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that, in their descent, these two people could have broken through one of these windows, and the shattering glass could have hurt some people inside of those rooms and office space. 

Even if not for that, first responder resources, in terms of police, fire and ambulance, had to be devoted to the scene because of these two fools.  I could imagine that some elderly woman might have had a heart attack, and she might have died because the ambulance didn’t get to her house fast enough, because the ambulance that would have gotten to her house in a jiffy was wasting time minding these two fools.

On top of that, traffic on the interstate highway slowed to almost a standstill so that drivers could watch the whole set of events.  This could have precluded some critical traffic.

Foolishness must be responded to, and it won’t stop until someone has the courage to use an uncomfortably heavy hand against it.  Drama Queens are just that, and won’t knock off their goofy public theatrics until nobody pays them attention.

Due to the lack of harsh action against these two fools, and the continuing MSM tabloid-like fascination with Drama Queens, we’re only giving license for fools like these two to keep on engaging in these dangerous stunts.

The sadist in me was hoping that their rope would break and they would have fallen to the parking lot concrete below and splat.  In that case, natural selection would have carried the day.

Bromides

BROMIDES

In the past few days, people who either defend the Dubai port deal, or are not that concerned about it, have advanced two main arguments that need responses.

THE ‘OWNERSHIP’ BROMIDE

This line of argument is that the United Arab Emirates government-owned port management company will not operate the six ports lock stock and barrel; they are just going to take operational control and nothing else.  Essentially this would mean that the only thing UAE about it is that the financial accounting profits will wind up in Dubai banks.

While that is most likely the truth of the matter, where there’s ownership, there is control.  Those that make this argument are trying to say that there won’t be a nuclear bomb going off in New York City the day after the UAE-owned company takes control of the ports.  And they are right.

But nobody who opposes the Dubai port deal is making that contention.  If anyone is, then it is an irresponsibly fanatical thing to say, because it’s not true.

However, the deal should be opposed for reasons that are much more subtle and nuanced than that.

The UAE, like its big neighbor on the Arabian Peninsula, and like other “friendly” Arab-Muslim governments, like Pakistan, has a ruling government that is in a precarious situation.  While they are and want to be pro-Western, the majority of the UAE’s population is either radical Islamist or sympathetic to radical Islam.

Therefore, the UAE, like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, has to play both ends against the middle, which means they have to throw bones to the fanatics.  Otherwise, the fanatical population would rise up, and overthrow the ruling governments, which would be bad for them and us.

This is why the UAE government recognized the Taliban when it ran Afghanistan, and why it does not recognize Israel, and why Dubai-based banks were used to funnel resources necessary for 9/11.  Those were “bones” that the UAE government had to throw to the fanatics to save itself.

This is why I think we haven’t apprehended Osama Bin Laden.  I think we’re doing the pro-Western regime in Pakistan a favor by not doing so, because if we did, it would set the fanatics afire, and they would overthrow the existing government, and then fanatics would be in control of a nuclear weapons program.

It’s depressing in a way that the definition of a “friendly” Arab-Muslim government simply means that it’s not overtly hostile, but que sera sera.

Even though the UAE’s control over our six ports would only be on paper, I fear that would be just enough that the UAE would appease its country’s fanatics by using its control to requisition an “opening” into the USA via these ports to smuggle in people or contraband that would eventually be used by radical Islamic cells in our country in future terrorist attacks.

This does not mean that a nuke will be exploded in New York City next month; it means increased risk of a damaging but smaller-scale terrorist attack.

And these unfavorable odds are the reason why the Dubai port deal should be nullified.

THE ‘INTELLIGENCE’ BROMIDE

The “Intelligence” argument goes like this:  The Bush Administration wants the UAE to control these ports, so that our secret law enforcement apparatus can gather intelligence on the UAE and its involvement with terrorism.

That argument contradicts the “Ownership” Bromide above.  If the UAE’s control is just on paper, then there’s nothing to find out from their paper-only ownership.

Otherwise, the problem with that argument is the lack of non-barking dogs.

In The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sherlock Holmes, the dog that didn’t bark was a clue that solved the crime.

The reason I don’t buy this “Machiavellian plan to gather intelligence” argument is that certain dogs ARE barking.

Both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate have permanent committees called the Intelligence Committee.  Those who sit on the committees are privy to many of the intelligence secrets otherwise confined to the Executive Branch of government and the Armed Forces.  Obviously, Senators and Congressmen on the Intelligence Committee are (I hope) sworn to secrecy.

The virtue in having standing committees on Intelligence in both chambers is to create a center of gravity to run legislative interference for the confidential intelligence-gathering mechanisms of the USA.  In other words, the House and Senate ICs will block or accelerate certain bills that will hurt or help American national security, respectively, based on the secrets they are privy to.

If there were some grand, clever, master plan on the part of the Bush Administration to gather intelligence on the UAE, then the House and Senate IC members should know this.  If that were the case, then both ICs should be blocking any legislation to block the deal, and at the same time, members of both ICs wouldn’t be against it.

However, some of the House and Senate members that have expressed opposition to the deal are people that I know are on their chamber’s IC.

Since the dogs are barking, there is no indication of a clever scheme.

Memo

Open Memo to a certain talk radio host, who will only be identified as R.L.: 

I don’t care if Senator Schumer’s motivations for opposing the Dubai port deal are disingenuous. 

I don’t care if his opposition has everything to do with campaign contributions from the Longshoreman’s Union. 

I don’t care if Mrs. Clinton is being hypocritical in opposing the port deal and several years ago supporting a UAE-financed Professorship at Columbia University, the chair being held by a radical Islamist and viciously anti-Semitic Professor.

I don’t care if the liberal Democrats’ opposition to the port deal means that they are fundamentally contradicting themselves in the many ways that you say they are.

I don’t care if the liberal Democrats’ opposition has everything to do with PR and posturing on national security in an election year.  I say it’s about time, and it only proves that nationalism is a winning political issue.

I don’t care that the Clinton Administration engaged in corruption and perfidy to turn ports on the West Coast and the Panama Canal to the Chinese government.  Actually, I do care, but that is wrong in and of itself, and not germane to the topic at hand.  Your saying this is supposed to show hypocrisy on the part of liberal Democrats.  If anything, once we get done blocking the Dubai port deal, we should start looking into all these other port ownership schemes.

I agree with your points.  But this port deal must be stopped.  In this situation, the ends justify some of the questionable means.

What Super Bowl Bounce

The phrase “Detroit Zoo” is a redundancy.  All one needs to say is “Detroit.”

From WXYZ.com:

Detroit’s financial mess has put the Detroit Zoo on the endangered list.  City council members said their vote was not to close the zoo, but some felt they were being bullied by a state deadline and lawmakers who look down on Detroit…..Collins said, “The symbolism is that Detroit is a black city and that we’re unable to govern ourselves.  So we need an overseer, the state legislature, or what have you, to step in and tell us what we must do and how to do it.”…..”That is a racist attitude.  I resent it very much.  I’m trying not to let it color my judgments, but we’re not a plantation, blacks aren’t owned by white folks anymore,” said Collins.

Maybe not, but you’ll gladly take white folks’ money.

Keep in mind that the “state government” that is referred to pejoratively here has a liberal Democratic governor.

Long Walk Off A Short Port

Portgate Update Time.

(1)  The Department of Homeland Security, from mid-level spokesmouths all the way up to Chertoff, is trying to calm our nerves about the prospect of major American ports essentially being run by the United Arab Emirates.

Their fundamental argument is that, no matter who runs the ports, the U.S. Border Patrol is still responsible to be the firewall, even if Dubai starts in on some monkey business.

The U.S. Border Patrol, on our southern border, is pandemically understaffed, overworked, engaged in a low-level shooting war with the Mexican armed forces, and compromised from within by open-borders quislings.

Worse, any given field-level Border Patrol agent, like his brothers in local law enforcement in Chocolate City, lives in a constant state of fear that, in the process of doing his proper job, his toe is going to “cross the line” slightly, and he is going to face the eternal wrath of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department.

If that’s the same U.S. Border Patrol that’s supposed to be our firewall in case of all else failing at these six ports of entry, then I am not reassured by Chertoff’s statement.

(2)  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while making her rounds through the Arab world, had to explain the Portgate uproar:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Arab journalists in an interview Friday at the State Department, that it was “the considered opinion of the U.S. government that this can go forward.” She pledged to work with Congress because “perhaps people will need better explanation and will need to understand some of the process that we have gone through.”…..”I would hope that our friends in Abu Dhabi would not be offended by the fact that in our democracy, we debate these things,” Rice said in the interview with the Arab journalists.

This is in stark contrast with President Bush showing off his nice, new, shiny Natan Sharansky book in 2004.

As the late Dr. Samuel Francis and others showed, a republican form of government that is sensitive to civil liberties does not exist in a vacuum, and does not just appear because you invade a country with no history of republican liberty and impose a Constitution upon it.

Any given society where republican liberty thrives is one whose people maintain a specific set of sociological and cultural norms.  Otherwise, the written constitution is meaningless ink on paper.

If our “friends in Abu Dhabi” have to be lectured by Miss Rice that there is debate over important public policy matters in a free society, instead of the head of state always getting his way and never being checked or challenged, then the good people of the United Arab Emirates are not ready for a Jeffersonian way of life, and there is no way that the UAE will be mistaken for New Hampshire anytime soon.

The irony in this is that the UAE is a “friendly” Muslim country for the same undemocratic reason why Saudi Arabia is “friendly.”  Clearly undemocratic but non-hostile heads of state are suppressing the radical fanatics.  So, on the one hand, we are made to think that turning the ports over to the UAE isn’t harmful because they’re “friendly,” and on the other hand, that pure democracy is the cure for terrorism.  In that case, pure democracy would only turn the UAE “unfriendly.”

(3)  Not helping President Bush’s effort is the fact that Jimmy Carter endorsed the UAE Port deal earlier this week.  This is in contrast with Carter’s four ideological siblings who are the U.S. Senators from New York and New Jersey, who were the first politicians to denounce the deal, and who are taking the most action to make sure it doesn’t go down.

It’s fine for Jimmy Carter not to have a problem with the deal; he’s not elected to anything.  In contrast, Messrs. Schumer and Lautenberg and Mrs. Clinton are elected officers, and Mr. Menendez is a duly-appointed replacement for the man elected to that seat resigning to run for and become Governor of New Jersey, and in turn appointing his own temporary replacement.

All this talk about “peace and love and harmony man” and “bring it all down girl” doesn’t seem to work when you’re a U.S. Senator from New York or New Jersey, even a liberal Democratic one, and your state is staring down the barrel of the radical Islamic rifle.

All the gibberish about “we are the world” and “globalism” and “diplomacy uber alles” goes out the window in such a circumstance.  Now, Schumer, Clinton, Lautenberg and Menendez are as nationalistic as anyone.  Even Mr. Schumer denounced the overemphasis on diplomacy when he was a guest on Michael Savage’s radio show last Friday.

Mr. Schumer has come so far that yesterday, he had to defend himself against charges of anti-Arab bigotry (source: PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer), and said that it would be better if Halliburton ran those six ports.  Keep in mind that “Halliburton” is a cuss word in the left-wing blogosphere.  At this rate, he will join the NRA next week, and be our keynote speaker at our 2006 National Conference in June.

One more thing:  Don’t you find it bizarre that Charles Schumer has displayed more moral indignation against the port deal than Rush Limbaugh?

(4)  President Bush is vowing to veto any Congressional legislation that finds its way to his desk that would block the Dubai deal.  Somehow I think that any such bills will win in both chambers by override margins.

Now and only now is President Bush promising to veto something.  Where was this zeal on campaign finance non-reform, or no educrat left behind, or bloated Federal budgets?

Connect The Dots

The title of this blog post is an imperative.

Dot Number One, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencier:

Houston’s police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers…..Scott Henson, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Police Accountability Project in Texas, called Hurtt’s building-permit proposal “radical and extreme” and said it may violate the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches.

Note that “apartment complexes” were cited specifically.

Dot Number Two, from Science Daily:

Houston police have charged 11 Hurricane Katrina evacuees with crimes, and say they are seeing an escalation of violence in the city…..Police say some of the crimes are gang-related and connected to turf battles that moved from New Orleans to Houston.

Okay, let me see you draw that nice straight line between these two dots.

Rage Against the Infidel Machine

Muslim anger over the Cartoongate non-scandal is now spreading to American targets. All over Muslim countries and non-Muslim countries with large Muslim minorities, Muslims are attacking American installations, mulling boycotts of American products, organizing a rally against President Bush when he vists India later this year, among other things.

What did we in the collective sense do to deserve this?

I’ll tell you what “we” did:

* President Bush, to the extent he has said anything at all about them, has opposed the cartoons.

* The U.S. State Department has come out officially against the cartoons and sided with Muslims.

* The most right-wing of legitimate American newspaper columnists, one Patrick J. Buchanan, has had two columns within the last several weeks taking even harder swipes at the cartoons, the cartoon artists, newspapers that run or reproduce them, and us Infidels that enjoy the cartoons, and he has demonstrated tacit sympathy toward the Muslim revelry.

* As far as I can tell, no major American MSM outlet has shown the cartoons. In fact, in most instances, when showing film of someone reading a newspaper with the cartoons, the MSM will blur out the cartoon images as if they were pornographic.

* Former President Bill Clinton did them all one better. While visiting Pakistan, he suggested that such cartoon artists and newspapers that run or reproduce them should be convicted using “hate speech” laws in countries that have them.

* And this is coming from the same Bill Clinton, while, during his Reign of Error, by his actions in trying to broker an Israeli-Palestinian “peace deal,” and his conducting the wag-the-dog War on Serbia in 1998-9, took incessant action that accrued to the empowerment of Muslims.

The fact that the “religion of peace” has taken swipes at two kinds of white peoples that had nothing to do with the Great Cartoons – Jewish people, in terms of mocking the Holocaust, and now Americans, PROVES that the “religion of peace” THINKS that these Great Cartoons were a conspiracy of white civilization in general.

So in their minds, the proper retribution is to mock the most horrible thing that ever happened to what they believe is that “flagship” division of the white race (Jews) and attack symbols and installations of white civilization’s mightiest military-economic superpower (The USA).

No good deed goes unpunished. Therefore, I propose a toast to bad deeds.

Those Two Fascists

The radical Islamists of the world can’t even get their ducks in a row when it comes to insulting people.

Over this last weekend, there were the usual riotous protests over Cartoongate in the Middle East (and there apparently will be until the Twelfth of Never), while in New York City, Islamic groups organized a big protest march that was relatively peaceful.

In one Middle Eastern event, a woman was seen holding a sign that read, “Hitler Was Right,” or something similar.  Meanwhile, in Gotham, one of that event’s participants waved a flag that looked to be a blend of American and Nazi Reich flags; this was supposed to be a form of disapproval of whatever “sins” this person thought the American government is committing vis-a-vis Cartoongate.

The answer is obvious.  There’s just so much rage and hate in the realm of radical Islam over these piddley cartoons that they’ll grasp at straws to insult the white infidel world in any way they believe the white infidels could be insulted, even if doing so means that they must simultaneously support and implicitly oppose 1930s German-era fascism.