Missouri’s automobile emissions testing scheme has been vastly changed, according to St. Louis local MSM reporting.
However, the vast changes only mean that you don’t have to run your car through the emissions test if it is newer than four years old, or older than 1996 model year.
For those of you who drive something between 1996 and (This year minus four), this means you are still legally compelled to aecede to the Babbitt Hustle if you want to get your car licensed.
Mayor Slay has a new plan to combat violent crime.
In it, you will read multiple line-item proposals that involve either police or prosecutorial authorities.
What you do not see in this plan are any mentions about the really weak links in St. Louis City’s criminal justice system: Judges who coddle violent criminals, and black juries that too often acquit black defendants in spite of facts.
If nothing is done about those questions, then we could spend all the money in the treasury on a million police officers and a million prosecutors in this city, and it wouldn’t do any good.
KTVI Channel 2 News tonight at 9 PM reports of a “racial profiling” incident in north St. Louis city.
You’re thinking: White cop and black motorist?
No. Just the opposite — black cop and white woman motorist.
The woman tells KTVI that she was driving around north St. Louis, albeit after dark, looking for residential real estate for sale. Perhaps this was grounds enough for any cop to pull her over — any white person that crazy to want to buy into north St. Louis must be a recent escapee from the looney bin.
But, back to the serious angle of this story, the woman is already taking her gripe to the ACLU. Though this time a victim of “racial profiling” was white, I still think the cop, black or not, was right do do what he did.
Often times, white motorists in north St. Louis after a certain hour are there to look to buy illegal drugs. What happened to this white woman was not racial profiling as such, but it was suspect profiling.
As an aside, I know someone personally who is white, who has been pulled over by city cops after dark on the very street where he lives in a largely black St. Louis city neighborhood.
The Chicago Tribune is upset that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) is going on the same kind of election-year spending spree that he berated then-Gov. George Ryan (R) for in 2002. My favorite line item o’pork is $30,000 for a hip hop exercise class that had all of 20 patrons.
What is not mentioned in this article, but indicative of the same, is that Blagojevich is unusually vociferous and public in opposing Missouri’s plan that a proposed new Mississippi River Bridge north of downtown St. Louis be tolled. Obviously, since any new bridge would be used heavily by Metro East commuters who work in St. Louis, Blagojevich is pandering to Metro East voters.
But, c’mon C-Trib. Did you really think that there would ever be some kind of CONSERVATIVE elected as Governor of Illinois? Please! I mean, perhaps a conservative can win dog catcher in Marion, but that’s about it.
Quoting from both George Strait and today’s news:
“I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona,
From my front porch, you can see the sea,
I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona,”
“The FBI, in the wake of its having recovered a stolen laptop computer from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which contained the names and social security numbers of some 26 million Veterans, stated that they do not believe that the confidential information was copied from the laptop’s hard drive, and that they do not believe that any Veteran has been the victim of identity fraud.”
“And if you’ll buy that I’ll throw the Golden Gate in free.”
In the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District, there are about two dozen young men, (KSDK Channel 5’s reportage on the issue implies that they are all African-American), who are/were/should be students at Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School, the only high school in the district, that are homeless.
KSDK informs us that, in virtually all of these cases, (though not in these exact words), mama lets some new boo come in and shack up with her, and new boo, jealous that mama is devoting some of her attention to her teenage son, and probably fearful that he and the teenage son could lock horns to determine household leadership, prods mama into choosing between boo and teenage son. In at least two dozen instances in Maplewood, mama picks boo and kicks teenage son out on the streets.
This sounds like what happens in the leonite world. When a new male topples an existing male pride leader to take control of a pride, he will do two things when he takes over: Drive out the existing adolescent male offspring of the pride’s females, to stamp out leadership competition, then kill small cubs, in order to ready their mother for breeding with him.
We know that the former happens more in the human world than anyone should be comfortable with — Dr. Laura Schlessinger once said that the rate of infanticide in step-families is 60 times higher than in “normal” families, and in virtually all cases in step-families, it’s mother’s new boyfriend murdering mother’s infant children.
Now it appears that the latter is also a little too true in the human realm. If the African-American population in Maplewood has this problem, the you can bet that it has been going on in St. Louis City, East St. Louis, and other similar places, for a long time.
The reason why the Maplewood occurances have become newsworthy is that the MRH District is on the verge of purchasing a residential domicile on Oakland Avenue, near MRH H.S., so that those two dozen homeless young men can have a roof over their heads, and be able to attend high school with one fewer personal distraction.
I am wondering why districts like Parkway, Rockwood, Francis Howell, Ladue and Clayton aren’t mulling the same sort of action.
When I saw this on Tongue Tied, I thought that Boise, Idaho was starting to go the way of north St. Louis or south Chicago or most of Detroit. Perhaps the blacks were beating the Mexicans in colonizing a formerly American city in the western third of the country here in the early 21st Century.
But then I read down a little further and saw that these were not personalized license plates — they were standard issue random number/character plates. I suppose nobody in Idaho’s government does any proofreading.
School Board member Bill Purdy has picked another public fight with St. Louis Public School Superintendent Creg Williams. That is unfortunate. It is another sign the district is sinking.
Yes, and the first sign that the St. Louis City district was “sinking” came on May 17, 1954. Though I should say that “sinking” was a matter of external sabotage and attack.
From CNS News:
America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. “We’re about to enter the ’60s again,” Dean said, but he was not referring to the Vietnam War or racial tensions.
The reason that many modern-day liberal Democrats are so enthusiastic about the 1960s is that decade was one that was their best in terms of the advancement of their political prescriptions.
And we’re the ones who are said to be retrograde.
The City of Jennings is going to start putting artifical barriers on through streets that easily continue into St. Louis City, very near the border between Jennings and St. Louis City.
The reason that the city government in Jennings wants to do this is to preclude violent crime in St. Louis City from spilling so easily into Jennings.
Actually, and if it works, it would just as much preclude violent crime from spilling so easily from Jennings into St. Louis City.
Also, Belleville once had the same idea vis-a-vis East St. Louis. Look what the TV Show 60 Minutes and the U.S. InJustice Department did to those barriers, and look at the shape Belleville is in today.
But I doubt that the barriers will work as advertised. After all, this is the same rationale used by St. Louis City in the 1980s and 1990s to use flower pots creatively to make otherwise through streets not so through.
The screwy theory at the time, in the absence of public officials being sane and rational, and realizing the scientific truths of racial differences, is that black crime was so high, and white suburban crime was not so high, because white suburbanites lived in neighborhoods that had lanes, drives and cul-de-sacs, while the largely black central city of St. Louis had long stretches of square and rectangular blocks where long stretches of through streets were featured.
Obviously, so went the theory, crime was able to thrive in neighborhoods with many easy and straight getaways, easy for those who weren’t literally from that neighborhood, whereas out in suburbia, you couldn’t find your way in or out unless you were one of the denizens.
Therefore, the city of St. Louis used large “flower pot” contraptions, and concrete pours in some cases, to block the “throughness” of many through streets in the worst neighborhoods. If the city was able to simulate lanes, drives and cul-de-sacs in its residential neighborhoods, then obviously the Predatory Thug Babies would magically drop their pistols, quit the dope hustle, and morph into white-collar office workers with their usual $30-some-odd-Gs salary, health, dental and 401-K plans.
As we can all see, it just turned out to be another best laid scheme.
So, all you Mex-loving neo-cons are just thrilled that Chris Cannon, a five-term incumbent Republican Congressman, was able to knock back a big scintillating 55% of the vote in his own party’s primary against someone with questionable mental health and social skills.
That a nut could get to 45%, instead of the 5% he would have otherwise received and deserved, means the immigration IS an issue. Though Cannon won on paper, I think any legislation that is, or seems to be, or portends amnesty, is dead. Heck, even Reconquista Chris might change his tune for awhile, or perhaps permanently, if he thinks that he could be toppled soon by some Republican challenger who is both credible and sane. Now all we need to dust off the ole “Operation Wetback” papers from the 1950s.
If this happened in Arizona instead of Utah, I think the result would have been different. But just give it ten years, when Ciudad Salado Lago becomes more and more Mexican and Latin-American, and somehow I don’t think the power of incumbency would do the Reconquista Chrises of the world much good.
Oh, and note to TPA: If God really did ordain Cannon’s victory last night, then I officially declare myself an atheist here and now.
UPDATE: Right Wing News, a relatively conservative blog, has posted a pretty good piece breaking down the Cannon paper victory and the Jacob moral victory. While RWN is nothing like the blog in front of your face, this analysis is far more fair and rational than any of the neo-con shrill hatemongering you’ll see coming out of Ruidoso, New Mexico.
I would add to RWN that Cannon pretended to be One Of Us in the waning days of the campaign, and that probably fooled enough people to push him over the top. Also, immigration isn’t as hot in Utah as it is in the border states and other states of high Hispanic growth rate (like GA, NC) — but it soon will be.
This story is currently at the front of CofCC.org and a few other immigration blogs.
The details need not be repeated here, but this phrase from the Knoxville area MSM article on the matter grabbed mine eye:
A Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesperson, Lt. Glenn Cantwell, told 6 News troopers were prepared for the worst.
“You never know who may show up to these things,” he said.
Authorities had received word that the Tennessee Minutemen and Ku Klux Klan members might show up to protest.
Well, geez louise. I wonder WHY the “authorities” would have the mind to equivocate Minuteman Project with “ku klux klan.” I wonder WHY they were made to be so fearful of an event, that they overreacted to the point that they thought an old man with an American flag was brandishing a weapon because a sharp-edged Eagle figurine was at the top of the flagpole.
You want to know WHY?
Here are some of the many answers:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Anti-Defamation League
Center for New Community
Arch Pundit
Edward Sebesta
Mark Pitcavage
Pondering American
S.J. Reidhead
John Pankey
Now, are you all proud of yourselves, you schmucks? When all of you, day in and day out, constantly spew your vile streams of vitriol, your cockeyed, half-baked, flimsily-concocted “conspiracy theories” about the “far right,” it’s only a matter of time that someone with public authority accidentally takes your jibberish seriously, and some innocent person, who wouldn’t know “ku klux klan” from “Steely Dan,” winds up getting hurt.
Rush Limbaugh is on the purple pills. So what.
Diane Meyer thinks his ratings will go up this week because of the new mini-controversy. Trouble is, this is one of only two weeks in the year that the Arbitrons don’t take radio ratings — this is why most of talk radio is on vacation this week. So if this tree falls in the forest…
World Net Daily ran an article today exposing how corrupt some largely Latino-American cities are becoming, centering around Latin-American drug cartels.
Somewhere in Louisiana and somewhere in Ruidoso, New Mexico, two neo-cons are smiling for the sake of it.
A white nurse at Barnes Hospital St. Peters was robbed last night by a yet-to-be-apprehended PTB gentleman in his 20s, in the hospital’s parking lot. The nurse told the police that the PTB said that he was driving in a stolen car, had to ditch it in order to elude police apprehension, so he had to steal her car to have transporation for a little while longer.
East St. Louis Mayor Carl Officer is upset that his city is so crime ridden, mostly due to the ill side-effects of the illegal drug trade. Mr. Officer wants East St. Louis to have more police officers (no pun intended). But as his city is so financially strapped that it couldn’t afford to engrave a new police badge, it would need help to do so.
There is a cooperative in Southern Illinois that would provide funds for ESL to hire new cops. The fund receives monies from cash and other liquidated assets that have been seized in “asset forefeiture” as part of police knocking back dope houses and dope dealers.
So, East St. Louis has to rely on the fruits of the illegal drug trade to hire cops to help squelch crime in ESL largely spawned by the illegal drug trade.
And you really think anything is going to change.
The American Interstate Freeway System turns 50 years old (on paper) in 2006. It was one of the best things the Federal government has ever done.
This article on the subject has a historical point I want to knit-pick over:
Although some historians claim that Eisenhower’s motivations were military in nature, the nation’s civilian population reaped the rewards.
Before Congress officially renamed the system in Eisenhower’s honor, the word “Defense” was in the official title of the system. Even though, to this day, the Interstate system can be closed to civilian traffic and limited to emergency and military traffic with the stroke of a Presidential pen, I do not believe that national defense was a motivation in building the Interstate System, or a significant political tool to get Federal politicians of the mid-1950s to agree to the project.
Remember, this was 1956. Everyone was worried about the Russians dropping a nuke on us, and the Cold War was in full swing. So anything called “Defense” was bound to earn some sympathy points. Those who advocated for the system used National Defense as a bullet point, but just about anyone at the time who was intellectually honest knew that it was just a self-induced delusion to accomplish what public authorities wanted to do anyway for motivations other than Defense: Build better roads for widespread domestic utilization.
The reason there was any political opposition at all to various Interstate Highway bills that were bandied about Congress, starting in 1954, is that big city politicans were upset that urban cores were excluded from the System’s original plans.
The original plan was this: Many major cities would be surrounded by circular beltways, and the trans-city routes would begin and end at the beltways, and not penetrate inside. For example, in St. Louis, this would have meant that I-255/270 would exist, but Interstates 44, 55, 64, 70 and 170 would not have existed. Urban traffic would have been expected to use urban boulevards and arterials.
But that plan had no prayer of getting past Congress, especially the House, and all of its representatives from urban districts.
After several revisions, a plan with more urban routes and construction (and by deduction, more Davis-Bacon work for skilled trade unions) made it through Congress, and President Eisenhower signed it into law.
As the concrete started pouring, though, Eisenhower reportedly cast regrets that he allowed a bill that meant that freeways were overrunning many old urban neighborhoods. In that, he was well ahead of his time in the realm of all citizens, and way ahead of his time in the arena of elected politicians.
Mayor Slay’s blog suggests ways for people to keep cool in the heat.
Of course, since he is saying this on a blog, and by all measures, the typical blog reader is of higher income and education than the general population, there’s a very good chance that their cooling needs are well met by some contraption, fundamentally invented late in the century before last by some guy named Carrier.
Beyond that, I know something that really gives me chills: Mayors that are pandering, two-timing, two-faced and blatantly inconsistent, such as the ones that always complain about liberal judges coddling violent criminals, yet at the same time vote and lobby for Democratic Party Governors, Senators and Presidents, who appoint those liberal judges.
Channel 2 News is reporting this evening that Overland Mayor “Raggedy” Ann Purzner has started a publication, which is being distributed to every household in Overland, that is essentially her propaganda in her effort to replace the City Police Chief and Overland City Attorney Robert Herman with her own cronies.
If “Attorney Robert Herman” rings a bell with you, then you’re right.
What I was worried about, upon first hearing this story, is that Raggedy Ann was going to use us to try and drag Herman through the mud. Channel 2’s reporting of the issue did not bring that up, but Raggedy Ann did state the fact that Herman represented “the Ku Klux Klan in Missouri” (read: Michael Cuffley) in their (read: Cuffley’s) effort to adopt I-55 in St. Louis County south of I-270, to try and discredit him.
As an aside, that was a dumb thing to do on Cuffley’s part. It only drove the State Legislature to name the stretch of I-55 after Civil Rights Charlatan Rosa Parks, out of spite. And Cuffley lost the Adoption rights to that stretch of highway after he failed to clean it up like he was supposed to…of course, it would be hard for him to do that, being as he was on the lam in Florida for a burglary warrant in Missouri, which he was eventually hauled in on, and now, presumably, sits in a Missouri state prison for.
Back to Raggedy Ann — while this first issue of her propaganda rag didn’t mention us (unless KTVI isn’t reporting everything), she promises to throw more and future issues onto Overlandians’ lawns. I bet we eventually will get a mention in her ever lovin’ dead tree and ink.
For those of you who live in Overland, help this blogmeister stay on top of the issue.
Hilarious. Thanks to Edward Nash for finding this little gem.
Miss Shakur is obviously a Farrakhanite, Nation of Islam parishioner. To wit:
WHAT IS THE WHITE RACE?
Nothing more than a hybrid, a mutant, a grafted parasite that through a period of a little more than 6,000 years, have developed into a humanoid race able to (think) independent of its programmers, also known as A.I or artificial intelligence.
So if we’re thinking independently of our “programmers,” then we had to have somebody “program” us. The Farrakhan/NOI kook ideology espouses that black people created white people in a test tube, so it fits.
Miss Shakur had better hope that those orbiting spaceships get here soon.
National Review magazine has coined a new phrase:
Let me be clear what I mean by a post-American. He’s not an enemy of America — not Alger Hiss or Jane Fonda or Louis Farrakhan. He’s not necessarily even a Michael Moore or Ted Kennedy. A post-American may actually still like America, but the emotion resembles the attachment one might feel to, say, suburban New Jersey — it can be a pleasant place to live, but you’re always open to a better offer. The post-American has a casual relationship with his native country, unlike the patriot, “who more than self his country loves,” as Katharine Lee Bates wrote. Put differently, the patriot is married to America; the post-American is just shacking up.
Now, there are two kinds of post-American. David Frum, in his “Unpatriotic Conservatives” article for NR last year, highlighted what I think is the less important kind: Those who focus on something less than America, whether white nationalists or neo-Confederates, etc. The second, more consequential and problematic kind are those who have moved beyond America, “citizens of the world,” as the cliche goes — in other words citizens (at least in the emotional sense) of nowhere in particular.
The reason why “post-Americans” exist is because the United States of America has become particularly universal — that is, it’s trying to be something special and something typical at the same time.
Here is an example of the American schizophrenia in that regard:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
On the one hand, Mr. Lincoln speaks here of forming a new particular nation (which, ironically, was a result of a successful secession from the British Empire), but he speaks of that nation having founding ideals for the sake of universal human equality. These are two diametrically opposed philosophical vectors.
As such, today, those who hold loyalties to things more specific than universal humanity (particularists) are upset, and those who have no loyalties to anything but the world (universalists) are just as upset.
Georgia Governor Sonny “Benedict Arnold” Perdue is going to have a challenger in the Georgia Republican Primaries on July 18: Himself.
Well, not literally himself. The man’s name is Ray McBerry, but in him, you have what Sonny Perdue seemed to be four years ago.
To wit:
McBerry also is chairman of the Georgia League of the South, and said if elected he will call for a referendum on the state flag.
Quadrennial echo chamber.
McBerry enhances that good stance on The Battle Flag and Southern Heritage with being:
…against amnesty programs for illegal immigrants, supports a constitutional amendment limiting the scope of eminent domain to strictly defined public infrastructure needs, opposes abortion or infringements on the right to bear arms and says the federal government has no authority to keep the state from erecting displays of the Ten Commandments in public venues.
As southern white voters have a very low tolerance for B.S. from song-and-dance right-wing politicians, (See also: Moore, R., James, F., et al.) I think Mr. McBerry will do really well in this primary. I’m hoping for, but not predicting an upset. I do think if McBerry gets over a third of the vote, Perdue is toast this fall.
AP via Belleville News-Democrat:
A federal judge on Monday halted executions in Missouri until the state Department of Corrections makes sweeping changes to its execution protocol.
In a 16-page opinion, U.S. Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. said the state’s lethal injection procedure subjects condemned inmates to an “unnecessary risk” of “unconstitutional pain and suffering.”
I wonder if the people that these death row inmates murdered felt any “unconstitutional pain and suffering” while their lives were ending at the hands of these perps.
Since Drudge Radio last night was Drudgeless, I flipped around the TV and radio dials for something else to occupy my mind.
I found myself listening to some talk radio show on some station in St. Louis. I cannot remember the station’s call letters, or the host’s name. But this host had an interesting story and guest.
In Harvey County, Kansas, which is a bit north of Wichita, a youth basketball team, comprised apparently of 13- and 14-year old young men, from Lawrence, Kansas, was playing a similar team from Wichita. Supposedly, the Lawrence team was all-white, including the coach, while the Wichita team was all-black, including the coach.
A few minutes into their game, one of the black players from the Wichita squad assaulted one of the white Lawrencians to the point of unconsciousness. The victim’s father just happens to be the coach for the Lawrence squad.
On this show, I found out that the police authorities in the area refused to lobby for criminal charges, even though the criminal nature of the act was clear. What isn’t clear is whether the black player yelled any racial slurs at the white, or wheter racial enmity was a factor here.
The Lawrence coach, the father of the assaulted player, was a guest on this show, and he said that the black coach for the Wichita squad blames the victim for having provoked the assault. Naturally.
If you reverse the races hypothetically, the MSM would be running with this story in almost full throttle. As it is, this snippet from the ABC Affiliate in Topeka is the only MSM corroboration of this assault, though it does not mention the racial nature of the crime.
Pandering: I'm through jerking your chain for awhile. Before we bore each other's faithful readers with continuous cuts-and-pastes from each other's blogs, let's agree that you're you and I am myself.
After all, it's Monday, and the blogosphere is buzzing with real news again. But fear not, we're coming up on what will effectively be a five-day weekend, and barring Mahmoud Ahmedinejad going nuclear nutzo, it should be a slow news period. Then we can quote each other all those live long days.
You did get this point almost correct:
For clarity, I will refer to the blog master in St Louis as the CoCC. I realize that he does not say he speaks for the National CoCC and is perhaps not making statements officially for the Council of Conservative Citizens St Louis Branch.
This blog should not be construed as the official policy of the National Council of Conservative Citizens or the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Council of Conservative Citizens. I try to stay as close to official policy as possible; still, most of our members could disagree with one minor point or another I make once in awhile.
Also, I am well aware that even though this blog does not always line up with official Council policy, that I (along with others that sometimes post to this blog) should take great care in what is said, because our enemies will construe what is said on this blog as official policy. After all, if there were (by our standards) extreme and provocative statements made on this blog, (e.g. about a certain German dictator from last century), our enemies wouldn't give us any of the benefit of this doubt.
But you were a little off base here:
This is a group that will abandon any connections to mainstream conservatives quick and might strike out as an independent party especially as it becomes more radical. I for one can't wait for that to happen.
As the CofCC is a 501-c-4 organization, we cannot formally endorse candidates or become formally involved in partisan politics. Some of our people like third parties, but I am of the opinion that harping on them as a solution is a waste of time. I wish I had a dime for everyone of our ideological persuasion who advocated a third party.
Those right-wing third parties that actually make it to functionality usually just turn out to be one of two things (or both): (1) A money hustle, or (2) An instrument for the ego gratification of some individual.
Barring special circumstances, my personal rule of thumb is to vote for the most conservative (or least liberal) of the legitimate contenders.
Oh my, here's a bonk:
As to the immigration issue. I have yet to see that its a huge factor in individual races.
One word: Bilbray.
That's enough cutting and pasting for now.
However, there is an important point I should make. There is a particular irony in you and Subway Vulture complaining about what has become of the Minuteman Project.
Both of you have an ideology that seems to be at, or very close to, the gestalt of the bodies of thought collectively known as neo-conservatism.
As I said in the Minuteman Project blog post from last week, the one you like so much and are begging your readers to visit, some portions of the now-schismed Minuteman Project (and it's erroneous to say that they have "split," because to say that something has "split" means that they were one unitary thing to begin with, and even in their Halcyon Days, that was never the case about the M.P.), have fallen under the influence of what Joe McCutcheon terms as beltway neo-conservative fundraising operatives.
I am making a good educated guess in that he was referring to the Simcox wing, because they're the part involved in the Fence hustle. And with (what seems to be) the Simcox wing wanting you to sign the half-baked legal agreement that you are not a "racist," then it seems to fit.
However, with all that having been said, you should be happy that at least part of the Minuteman Project has drifted that way, ideologically speaking.
The Subway Vulture, via Pink Flamingo:
Wow, I'm as good as the late, great Lee Atwater! Well, I don't mind. I learned my grass roots GOP politics from Lee years ago. What a complement.
Well, with your racial universalism, you didn't learn much. The irony in you saying that is that Lee Atwater himself was the brain behind the Willie Horton ad, which rescued Bush 41's 1988 Presidential Campaign, i.e. it suggested to white voters that he was against black crime. Also, Atwater, unlike his protege, Karl Rove (who is way overrated, IMHO, Bush 43 won two national elections in spite of Rove, not because of him), agreed with the Nixonian "Southern" (i.e. white) Strategy, and exploited it.
Of course, Rove himself has actively jettisoned the Southern Strategy for the laughable "Hispanic Strategy," which makes me suspicious that you and Pandering American are Republican establishment astroturfing hacks, as the two of you seem to embrace it so whole-heartedly.
As I was listening to the Fox News Radio top-hour news before Drudge Radio tonight (which is Drudgeless), the announcer said that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is rejecting President Bush's request to send more California National Guard troops to the border to be useless paper-pushers in order to support the useless U.S. Border Patrol.
Schwarzenegger was reported as saying that the Guard should not be stretched so thin in case California has an emergency.
Duh, Arnie. A virtual invasion across our southern border is NOT an emergency?
Pandering American ridicules my "Astroturf" theory:
The secret is out Subway Canaries and the Pondering American blogs are actually plants by the Republican Party Establishment. Possibly coming from the Hallowed halls of the RNC Building in Washington DC itself. I better get Karl Rove on my cell phone and ask him where my check is.
But behold this snip from the Subway Vulture's own Mission Statement:
The Subway Canaries are Republican First and conservative second. Any other way is a betrayal of the Republican Party.
Exhibit A, Your Honor.
This blogmeister noticed the "Pondering American," and Mr. American has noticed this blog. Only fair.
From TPA:
In fact, as it is using us its has designs to destroy the Republican party.
The Republican establishment is doing a good enough job to destroy itself — if the GOP does hold the House in November, it will be BECAUSE of Tancredo, Sensenbrenner, et al., not in spite of them.
That is you can't trust what they say about us because they are all LIBERALS or worse. Well we shall see.
I'll never accuse you of being "liberal," but I will accuse you of being neo-conservative.
For the record, I am no liberal. I am a Republican. I also am very pro-life-,anti gun control, very pro Bush, Pro war on terror, and a fiscal conservative.
And I believe you.
At the same time, as a Christian conservative I reject the hate and koodum.
Hm, well, it has been more than two years since I responded to that kind of shibboleth, so I'll do so again by quoting my favorite source, myself. From February 13, 2004:
This brings up another rub. Some of you, in your complaining, claim that our political activity is un-Christian, because Christianity ordains racial equality. Of course, this webmaster is nothing more than a hack amateur theologian, but he cannot find anything in the Old or New Testaments demanding that human societies engage in egalitarianism.
This webmaster also finds it strange that it has only been in the last half-century or so that Christian churches “found” this “calling” to be universalist, so it leads this webmaster to believe that the propensity for universalism (including racial equality) within Christian Churches today is merely a symptom of Churches whoring themselves to Babylon.
Compare that to C.F.W. Walther, who was one of the principal founders of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church. On the verge of the War Between The States, he instructed young Lutheran gentlemen who were about join the Union Army that (paraphrased): “If you want to go to fight to free the slaves, go ahead, but don’t say that God told you to do so, because he didn’t.”
Beyond that, this webmaster’s best advice to you Christian egalitarians is similar: If you feel in your heart of hearts that equality is the best route for a civil society to follow, then you have as much right to lobby for that paradigm as we do for what we think. But don’t go e-flaming us telling us that we’re going to go to Hell because God doesn’t agree, because that’s not the case, at least in His Revealed, Inspired Word. I would point to you the very last admonition in the very last book of the New Testament. Read it, live it, love it, learn it.
Back to the Ponderer:
I also believe that by exposing groups as this pseudo Klan like group , that Republicans I admire will not feel the need to go and pander to them in close elections.
Well, the SPLC, the ADL and the left wing kookosphere have done just that for months and years, and that hasn't precluded some Republicans from "pandering" to us. How you and that Subway Canary will change that by merely block-quoting SPLC material on your "little ole blogs" is beyond me.
I am quite aware of the battle between the CoCC and Morris Dees of the SPLC. I am under no illusion that Mr.. Dees is a member of the Republican party. However, this group has done some good work in exposing hate. Its their niche in the political debate.
Wrong. Their niche is to scare rich left-wingers into thinking that the Nazis are just over the hill waiting to throw 'em all into gas chambers, and that the only way to stop it is to write Mr. Dees a check with a lot of zeros in the numerical box. Whatever hustle you think that part of the Minuteman Project has devolved into (and I agree with you), and whatever consternation you hold for the sake of it, your consternation toward Mr. Dees and HIS hustle should be a hundred times more vicious.
What the Council fears is that real conservatives and Republicans will start putting them and others under the magnify glass. That is what Subway Canaries, other bloggers , and myself are going to do. In essence the Conservative Right will excise Kookdum from our midst and they fear that.
If you got what you want, how would Poe say it? Something like, "Ye shall be electorally victorious, nevermore." Frankly, I don't give a damn what neo-conservatives ("real conservative and Republicans," in your parlance) do. I only care about real human beings. There are a lot more human beings that vote than neo-conservative ideologues.
Perhaps the CoCC is mad because they are not getting a cut.
Nah, none of our Directors want to be hauled away in handcuffs for Federal wire and mail fraud.
We shall follow this development closer here at the Pondering American because it seems that Greed and the almighty dollar is about to triumph over the need to perserve the White race and ship all the illegals (Mexicans) back over the border.
Where have I heard that song before. Profits before Patriotism.
Also look at that last line of that entry. What does that mean?
You can't be that naive, can you?
My question to the Council of Council of Conservative (hijack word alert) Citizens of St Louis is what are you denying in any of these reports. What do you object to and what do you accept?
It's not necessarily veracity that's an issue in any of these grand "exposes." It's the fact that these "exposes" concoct a flimsy fabrication of one person being "linked" to another or one group being "linked" to another to formulate a "thesis" that there is a vast right wing conspiracy out to get us all. Also, you and Subway keep bandying about "KKK," as if there really is such a thing as "KKK" that has more than three adherents that are not Federal law enforcement informants.
This is a man that even tried to deny his connections to you but you talk about him in your June 20th 2006 post as now appearing at you glorious convention last weekend.
Even Judas regretted what he did to Jesus.
How come politicos have to deny your very existance when asked about it at times and pretend they don't have a clue.?
Because they're scared of the power of the mainstream media. Of course, that contradicts your own frustration with them "pandering" to us.
The fact that the council is often the organizer and main body of particpants at some of these anti illegal rallys that the media reports on is about to be exposed. What you are trying to pass off as mainstream America is about to be exposed for what it is.
I hope.
But true conservatives and Republicans will deny you a role in this debate masquerading as one of us.
Keep on talking, this is sounding better and better.
By the way, the Nation magazine has quoted leaders of the CoCC that Representative Tancredo has met with the President of your Organization and other folks over planning sessions on the immigration issue.
Wow, perish the thought. One of our executives SPOKE with an elected politician on matters of common interest! What'll they think of next. Well, hold on to your hat, Pondering, because I got one that will floor you. Nearly all of our members VOTE in ELECTIONS on a regular basis!
The St Louis Council of Conservative Citizens is a pretty big chapter, I think in the whole Council scheme of things.
I'll take that as a compliment.
Just remember when you hear that there are groups protesting against the President Bush's views on immigration to ask these questions. Who is organizing it and who are the main participants.
And did you spell the name of the organizing groups correctly? And how does one join the group? Yes, Pondering, PLEASE make sure you throw that all in.
Well slap me silly.
I'm tempted.
A few points about his disscussion of astro turf. This is exactly what has been alleged against the the anti immigration movement. It is amusing that he is trying to turn this around. I will quote them anyway even though the Council will object because of its source.
And the pro-immigration side is as pure and clean as the wind driven snow. I mean, all that corporate money backing just about every radical Latino group you can think of is just an example of pure altruism, and NOT an example of elitist self-perpetuation. Yes, Pondering, us kooks in the 60s to 90s of percent of people (the "radical fringe," no doubt) who oppose amnesty and want real immigration control simply have to resort to faking it. Your side has the astroturf, and it's the really soft and juicy kind that wreaks havoc on the ankles and ACLs of quarterbacks and center fielders.
I have noticed a new trend appearing very recently.
As you know, one of the items in our blogroll, even though it's not a formal blog as such (though you can subscribe to its RSS feed), is a running search, using the Google Blog Search Engine, of any mentions of the words "Council of Conservative Citizens" or "CofCC" in the blogosphere. I have done the same using the Technorati Blog Search Engine.
In other words, I want to keep up about what is being said about us in the blogosphere.
Most of the time, vitriolic blog posts that drag our good name through the mud are spawned from the ilk of Daily Kos, Arch Pundit, Info Shop, Edward Sebesta. But in the past week or so, two blogs that aren't fond of us have caught mine eye for a different reason.
I know you're smart, and I know you can pick up on things right away. I'm going to give you the opportunity to see the anomyaly that I saw. Take a look at these two blogs:
Pondering American
Subway Canaries
I'll give you a minute.
(FINAL JEOPARDY theme music plays in the background)
Here's the answer, though I know you already know the answer:
REPUBLICAN Party oriented.
That's right. These two blogs use Kos-ish and SPLC-ish language, especially when dealing with us (and also the remainder of what they perceive to be the anti-immigration universe), but they are biased toward the Republican Party, not the Democratic Party.
What gives?
I think the answer is pretty simple. All you have to is to examine the modern day immigration debate.
In our world, on this issue, the most strident and powerful enemy we face is not the immigrant population blocs, or their left-wing Caucasian fellow travelers. It is the Big Business establishment that wants cheap migrant labor.
Though the Big Business establishment does not blatantly throw its support to one political party over another, ample evidence shows that they are somewhat biased toward the Republican Party.
Because the Democratic Party and its elected officials are too invested in the migrant vote, any anti-immigration verve must manifest itself through the Republican Party.
So there's the contradiction. On the top level of the Republican Party, we find the pro-immigrant corporate hacks. On the bottom level, we find real human beings.
Something has to give. As the first President of the Republican Party once said, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
So we come to these two errant weblogs. I have a theory to explain them. Keep in mind, it's only a theory. This is where astroturf comes in.
What we might have here, in the Subway Canaries and the Pondering American, is an Astroturf Campaign of the Republican Establishment.
"Astroturf Campaign? What's that?"
You know what a "grassroots campaign" is. To net it out, it's an effort by individuals who are otherwise unconnected to some power source advocating on behalf of some issue or question.
Astroturf on ball fields is meant to look like grass, but not actually be grass. Therefore, the word "astroturf" can be interpreted to mean "fake grass."
An Astroturf Campaign is one where shills of a given institution or person pretend to be ordinary Joes and Janes, and advocate for that institution, in a pretend grassroots effort.
Software giant Microsoft is good for astroturf campaigns. We know that, on occasion, they have ordered some of their employees to act as average schmucks and spread the Microsoft propaganda gospel as if they were regular people who just happen to agree with the gospel. The purpose of the astroturf campaigns were to combat Microsoft's legal or business enemies.
I just find it strange that two blogs, that have a pedestrian appearance, and appear to be written by regular people out in the hinterlands, accrue politically to the benefit of the Republican establishment and their Big Business masters.
What we might be seeing with Subway Canaries and Pondering American is an Astroturf Campaign on the part of the Republican establishment. While these blogs could be composed anywhere, I would not be surprised to learn that they are being written inside RNC Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Raisons d'etre would be to purge the Republican Party (and by deduction, the American body politic at large) of any effective anti-immigration forces, so that open borders and cheap labor can carry the day, and also to try and sever conservatives from genuine conservatism (really, populism-nationalism).
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