My New Idol

Sorry, Lou.  You’re ancient history.  This is Internet Time.

I’ve got a new Idol now.

And yes, The Big Secret is out.  CofCC CEO Gordon Lee Baum is manipulating him behind the curtains.  Or, that’s want certain kooks would have you believe.

Truthfully, if Allen were has half as right wing as the Lenin-wing kookosphere believes, I would be happy.

Just remember –  this particular member of the Lenin-wing kookosphere is about to be (if he is not already) a Full Tenured at UMSL — which means he’s about to start infecting innocent minds.  He shouldn’t be allowed to get close to as much as a group of ten kindergarteners.

Why Ramble When You Can Net It Out?

RedState.com asks today:

Is Requiring Basic Competence by Teachers Racially Discriminatory?

The ten-paragraph long blog post details events in a lawsuit bought against the New York State education authorities in that spirit.

If you don’t want to read ten paragraphs, read these few words:

Yes.  Any intellectually honest and methodologically sound examination of intelligence and/or competence for the sake of hiring, promotion, acceptance, etc. will always have the disparate impact of discriminating against non-whites, simply because there are inherent racial differences in IQ (inherent intelligence).

Range and Ross

A made-for-TV film is coming out that is a fictional future-set documentary about the assassination of President Bush at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago in October 2007. The film, written and directed by Gabriel Range, is 90 minutes long, and will be premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

Among other things, an “innocent” Middle Eastern Muslim will be “framed” for the crime, and it will critique the American War on Terror, but not critique radical Islamic terrorism. The article linked toward above also describes the film with glowing phrases like “gripping,” “thought-provoking,” “powerful,” “pointed,” and “sophisticated.”

Unless there’s something I am missing, the Secret Service has not yet opened an investigation of Mr. Range and his close associates.

You would think that the Secret Service would. After all, in 1996, St. Louisan John Ross, and investment banker (?) by trade, who was also the Democratic Nominee for U.S. House MO-2 in 1998, and who also holds conceal-carry classes for people to pass the Missouri CCW exams, wrote a book, entitled Unintended Consequences.

In it, Ross creates a fictional future-set documentary involving the uprising of various Second Amendment activists, whose ire about various Federal legislation involving Second Amendment issues provokes them to assault various Federal politicians, one of whom, at least in the fictional story, had a surname and political standing that suggests he was the fictional analogue to the real life Richard Gephardt.

Several years after Ross published the book, and during the process of the amicable separation between he and his wife of the time, the FBI actually approached the wife to try and get her to claim that Ross’s book wasn’t fiction but was instead a non-fictional methodological guidebook to “domestic terrorists” that might have had designs on really assassinating public figures.

Obviously, it wasn’t, and she wouldn’t lie and say that it was, but the fact that the FBI did this meant two things: (1) They had these thoughts about Unintended Consequences all along, and (2) They assumed that a divorce would necessarily mean hostile feelings, and they thought that by swooping down and grabbing the wife on the way out of the marriage, she would be so mad at him that she would either “truthfully” rat out his “real” motives for the book, or lie to the FBI and claim that there were pernicious motives for the book, either way it would justify the FBI’s paranoia and create a legal tar baby for John Ross.

With all this having been said, I’m waiting for the U.S. Secret Service to try and play these kind of tricks on Gabriel Range. If they don’t, that’ll communicate a lot to me about the political bent of Federal law enforcement.

Too Bad Virginia McCarthy Wasn’t Here To See This, Part 2

He and his delusional fantasies took us for a ride.  It’s too bad that the Boulder County DA didn’t want to (or maybe could not) charge him with some crime for his false confession, or at the very least, confine him to a looney bin so that head shrinks can find out why he’s such a nut.

Now, you watch.  Every flake, nut and screwball with any real or imagined link to Boulder, Colorado is going to come out and say that he did it, just to get his fifteen.  Thanks a lot, MSM.

This is one of many reasons why I advocate that law enforcement agencies do not release the identities of criminal suspects until/if a guilty verdict or plea occurs.

Save Potosi Now

Arch City Chronicle:

Seen on the corner of Wyoming and Texas. Can anybody decipher the meaning?

The blog post linked to above has a photo of white spray-painted graffiti reading, “Potosi Will Burn!” with the encircled-A Anarchist logo next to the words.

My theory is that Potosi, Missouri used to be the location of Missouri’s Death Row and lethal injection chambers.

If you’re an anarchist and you’re reading this, and my theory is correct, then you should know that the state moved death row elsewhere a few years ago.  It is now located in Warson Woods, Missouri.

Don’t Pull the Pulled Pork

The Hancock County, Mississippi school district is being urged by a bunch of dork vegans dressed as doctors to jettison pit roasted pork shoulder from its school lunch menus for a menu that would win the approval of hippie libs.

Looks like there’s going to be a new Battle of Memphis.

Safer

Mayor Slay:

Beginning today, the state’s youngest drivers — and their friends — are likely to be a little safer.

A new state law limits to three the number of non-family members under 19 years old who can ride with the holder of an intermediate drivers license. And during the first six months the driver has the license, the new law limits the number of young passengers to only one.

This is a prudent reform which I hope will be widely observed and vigorously enforced.

I can think of some “prudent reform” that the State Legislature took just about three years ago that made a lot of people a lot “safer,” which Mayor Slay vigorously opposed and still does.

Office

NBC has an Emmy-winning show called The Office, and its lead actor has a last name that sounds like the maker of an office productivity software suite, one that the legal profession prefers over a competing and similar product from someone named Bill in Redmond.  (I think I can count all the people who noticed that on two hands, counting the first finger for myself)

I’m glad to see both of them win their Emmys.  Though when it came to Best Drama, since it was nominated, and since I turn my phone ringers off when he’s on, I was hoping for another eccentric:

Joe Biden the Slavemaster

Joe Biden:  Yeah, I can appeal to black voters.  After all, my state was a slave state.

I’m not a black voter, but if I were, I would want to throw something non-lethal at Joe Biden right about now.  C’mon Joe, what kind of logic that?  I understand you, and I can be a good President in the spirit of your racial interests, because I’m from a state that allowed slavery until the War Between The States?

By the same logic, a modern-day distant descendant of one or more Nero’s Pretorian Guardsmen is the beaux ideal of a political represenative of Roman Catholics.

Actually, Delaware was such a slave state, but of the states that permitted slavery until the WBTS, Delaware was the state that had the lowest rate of household ownership of slaves, at 3.5% of the state’s households.  Compare that to 49% in Mississippi, the other bookend of that statistic, and a 26% south-wide average.

Anxiety, Or Not

Nine days and counting. I’m just so anxious, sitting on pins and needles, just waiting…er, maybe not.

During the summer, CBS has run promos by outgoing interim CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer, lauding Couric. In the promo, he claims that he has been watching and admiring Couric from afar rise in her career and stature and status.

If you believe that, then I have a bridge to Dan Ratherville for sale. But going out on a limb and assuming that he’s telling the truth, this means that, for the last 15 years, he has been watching NBC Today during the morning hours instead of the pathetic offerings of his own network that compete(d) with Today.

That can’t make Bryant Gumbel very happy.

Age Is Just A Number

If you asked these Planned Parenthood aborticide fanatics whether the 21-year old minimum age to buy handguns should be lowered, so that those under 21 could protect themselves from the high number of violent crimes of which they are victims, they would likely reject the idea.

Harsh Description

This article calls them AK-wielding home-invading illegal aliens.

That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?  I mean, we needn’t be so insulting and glib.

I prefer to think of them as pondering Americans.

Hardly a Liberal

Even as Barry Goldwater’s great nephew is running for Governor of Arizona on an anti-immigration platform, Barry’s granddaughter made and produced a film for HBO lauding her late Grandfather “as a kind of liberal.”

The support for this flimsy thesis is Goldwater’s opposition to the Christian right, his libertarian attitudes about homosexuality, and his criticism of Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Many people think that Goldwater had a change of philosophy to lead him from being a civil rights opponent in the 1960s to a Christian basher in the 1980s.  Really, there was nothing inconsistent about Goldwaterisms two decades apart — he was a conservative-libertarian all his political life on virtually all issues, including economics, the role of government in enforcing racial equality, and the role of governments in enforcing morality.

As for his anti-Nixon atttitude during Watergate, even as Goldwater enthusiastically campaigned for Nixon for President in 1968, and considered Nixon a very good friend, most conservatives were anti-Nixon during the Watergate scandal, simply because the fact of the matter was that Nixon actively covered up and destroyed evidence in a criminal investigation.  Of course, there were right wingers who were trying to toll the bell about Nixon long before Watergate, John Schmitz being one of them.

Then again, I hardly think Schmitz, a speaker at the 1999 Council of Conservative Citizens National Conference in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, will have a HBO movie made in his honor.  About the only thing HBO would care about Schmitz is that he fathered Mary Kay Letourneau.

The New York Times reporter who interviewed C.C. Goldwater calls Barry “a half-Jewish cowboy from Phoenix.”  (The “half Jewish” crack is a reference to his Jewish father, but in Judaism, “Jewishness” is matrilineal.  So Barry himself couldn’t verily call himself Jewish).

Really, Barry Goldwater was hardly a cowboy.  His parents and later he owned and operated the Goldwater’s Department Store chain in Phoenix, and Goldwater himself was proud of the fact that Goldwater’s was the first major business in Phoenix to hire African-Americans (Yes, during the 1940s and 1950s, Mexicans were not the dominant racial minority in Arizona).

This proves that Goldwater’s opposition to Civil Rights legislation during his Senate days was motivated by entirely different reasoning than the opposition put up by Senators from the Deep South; I could ill imagine that if Richard Russell owned a chain of Department Stores in Atlanta, that there would have been any black employees at “Russell’s.”  Later, the Goldwater family sold their stores to St. Louis-based May Corporation, and all of May’s properties were recently sold to Federated Department Stores.

New Spin on G.P.A.

Not Grade Point Average, it’s Gay Point Average.  The Advocate, a national magazine oriented toward the alternate lifestyle, not to be confused with the Baton Rouge Advocate, the MSM DTI (Dead Tree and Ink) organ in Louisiana’s Capital City, has published a book highlighting what the book’s editors believe are the 100 most homosexual friendly colleges and universities in America.

Why bother with such a book?  And why fuss over gradations of “gay friendliess” in the American college and university system, which itself is so “gay friendly” that anti-homosexual opinions are sanctioned and punished by many schools’ administrations?

Really, all you need to do to find an American college or university that is “gay friendly” is to find an American college or university.

The Lesser of the Slowpokes

As if it were in a competition with Microsoft Windows Vista to see which of the two can get finished more behind schedule, the Forest Park-to-Shrewsbury Metro Link line opens for business tomorrow.  It’s too bad for Bill G. that passengers using laptop computers running Windows on the new light rail extension will still be running Windows XP.

When this line was being planned in the late 1990s, Clarence Harmon was Mayor of St. Louis.  He floated a plan that would have taken it through and underneath Forest Park in nearly a NE-SW diagonal, then toward Clayton, then to Shrewsbury.  This would have meant significant construction and earth movement in Forest Park to create the cut-and-cover tunnels.  Not only that, it would have made the new light rail line far more expensive (as if the cheaper plan eventually built didn’t go about half again over original cost projections).

At the time, I wondered why the left wing wasn’t complaining at the top of its lungs about the Harmon plan — after all, to them, their precious Forest Park is such sacred ground that taking 12 feet of it from its south end to widen Highway 40, as MoDOT was pondering in the early 1990s, was just intolerable, so sacrelidge.

Kissing It Hello

During the 1950s, school children were taught to hide under their desks for nuclear bomb drills.  By the 1980s, everyone had wised up; the futility of hiding under a desk to save one’s self from a nuke was realized.  Then the drill went like this:  If The Big One was about to land on your city, drop your head between your legs, curl your head up, and kiss it goodbye.

A Polish man who had to have his tongue removed because of cancer had a new one created for him, with tissue from his buttocks.

If this man has enemies, and they ever accuse him of “talking out of his a**,” then they won’t know the half of it.

Silver Street Lining

Predatory thug baby shoots a St. Louis City Police Officer overnight in The Ville neighborhood of North St. Louis, but thankfully not fatally.

There is another silver lining –  the PTB himself was shot and killed by the shot officer’s partner.  That will save state taxpayers the cost of giving this thing due process of the law and the cost of several decades-long incarceration.

“Nothing ever became him in life like the leaving of it” –  E.P.H.

Too Much Computer

To match the “slap on the hand” punishments that see violent street criminals released back onto the streets so they can commit more violent crimes, a British judge has sentenced a 16-year old spammer to home confinement during curfew hours.

Pardon me, but didn’t this teenager get in trouble precisely BECAUSE he spent too much time in front of a computer?  This “punishment” practically begs him to flood the e-mail world with more spam.

Background Noise

He did NBC Nightly News this evening from St. Louis, on the rooftop of the KSDK building, on 10th and Market.  The pretense was the Valley Park immigration controversy.

One thing that jumped out at me, at least when Williams was shown live, was the background noise of cicadas and katydids.  State Conservation Department entymologists have confirmed that they’re unusually numerous in Missouri this summer, something I have been able to discern with my own ears during the evening.  But that is so much true that, even in the heart of Downtown St. Louis, where trees and open space are reduced, there are enough cicadas and katydids to be a distraction at 5:30 PM in August for live television.

According To Google

Majority Rights:

A quick survey of blogs according to Google shows that 85% of the bloggers hate Pat Buchanan’s currently #1 Amazon book, State of Emergency:  The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.  A question immediately comes to mind:  Why the profound disconnect between the bloggers and the buyers?  One is to expect this sort of response out of the mainstream media but what is it about bloggers that makes them so in tune with the mainstream media and out of tune with the people on this issue?

That’s not a hard one.  In the last several months, many conservative blogs and news sites have been delisted, or have mysteriously unreliable ping frequency, by Google’s News and Blog services.  Despite the fact that every post made to this blog you are reading is pinged to Google Blog Search engine, a majority never get catalogued.

The fashionable theory, one which I think has credence, is that Google’s two co-founders are left-wing, and are seeing to it that conservative news sources and blogs are e-censored.

As most of the blogs that Google sees are left-wing, that means that most Google-catalogued blogs and bloggers won’t like Buchanan’s new book.

Real Estate Is All About Location, Location, Location

KTVI News this morning:  A travel agent from west St. Louis County bought some land on the moon.

“What a moron!” you must be thinking.

Actually, no.  This person is younger middle aged, so elderly suckerbait is out of the equation.

Stupid people don’t fall for a scam like this, because they would be confused about the proposal.  Average people will turn it away just on pure common sense.  Highly intelligent people wouldn’t buy acreage on the moon because they know of the impossible logistics, and that international treaties state that no country or individual may own the moon or any parts of the moon.

The kind of people who go for this scam are people who have somewhat above average intelligence, but who think they’re more clever than they actually are.  As this scam victim (who doesn’t even realize that he’s been taken) told KTVI reporters, he thinks this purchase, which lightened his wallet by $100, will mean that his distant descendants will be rich due to all the minerals that will be found under the lunar surface of his moon acreage.

As for him, maybe he can ride the next golden unicorn up there and have a look at what he bought.

The Guilty Party

Now, some researchers are claiming that hip-hop “music” is to blame for teen pregnancy and promiscuity.

While that genre is responsible for a lot of things, I think it’s impossible for a CD or MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files to procreate human life.

St. Louis Hills Under the Gun, Literally

You all know about the seven-year old black girl that was accidentally shot yesterday evening in south St. Louis, the shooting being unrelated to her or her family.

However, what grabbed me was where it happened:  The 4900 block of Chippewa.  That’s just west of Kingshighway, in the 63109 zip code, arguably the best residential zip code in the city.  It is the chosen destination for those city police officers and firefighters who are still hobbled by the city residency rule.

But it’s apparently starting to get black enough to be condusive to gang warfare.  That’s actually no surprise considering that many domiciles on 63109’s eastern fringe (where this crime took place) are apartment buildings.

Good Name, not Cure AIDS, por favor

Drudge informs us that Bill Gates is using his foundation to purchase newspapers.  Whether or not they have gotten around to purchasing the Washington Post was not stated, but as Gates’s wife, Melinda French Gates, is on the Board of Directors of the Washington Post company (which also owns and publishes Newsweek), it probably doesn’t matter.

This, combined with other news stories I have read concerning non-charitable spending of the Gates Foundation, proves to me that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation exists to make the world safe for Microsoft as much as it does to cure AIDS.

New to the Blogroll

The Town Crier.  If it looks like the Pondering American’s blog, has the same background, and fonts, as the Pondering American’s blog, and it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…well, fear not, this one’s not another lame duck.  This is an anti-immigration blog based in the Pacific Northwest.

Minor Hurdle

Minuteman Blog Central:

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Fence Project is moving right along with the final regulatory hurdle having been cleared when the 30-day grace period expired for any challenge to the Cochise County Planning Commission ruling that they did not have jurisdiction over the fence.

Indeed; I don’t think there’s much bureaucratic red tape when you want to put up chicken wire.

Where’s the Nationalism?

Q:  When is Nationalism really not Nationalism?

A:  When Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) proposes it.

There is nothing really nationalistic here (save perhaps the tidbits on becoming more energy efficient to avoid dependence on foreign oil), certainly not in the racial sense.  If anything, his blabber about “multilateral institutions” to win the war on terror (read:  world government) is the polar opposite of nationalism.

The irony is that Emanuel invoked the name of Theodore Roosevelt, whose statements on race and racial differences would ill equip him for good standing in the House Democratic Caucus if he were alive today.

New to the Blogroll

A threefer of additions today.

Majority Rights.  As if to justify their name, this one seems to be very right.  It should be noted that, in the world at large, whites are 9% of the population, and falling.

This one has a juicy post today this blogmeister had to chime in upon — scroll down to “Rip It Apart.”

SUSE Blog.  My favorite distro.

“Yeah, but why do you have those Linspire links?”

Because, someone who reads this blog regularly is a Linspire Insider, and they’re good blogs on their own, and I like what Linspire is trying to do.

By the way, for those of you who are congnizant of the Freespire controversy, I am for Freespire and what it is doing.  Remember, the *Spire distros are aimed at average users, who have no care or use for open source philosophy/religion, and who want their day-to-day OS to do as much as possible, as well as possible, as hassle-free as possible, right out of the box.

To say that an OSS OS shouldn’t make use of proprietary software and codecs in order to make it more ubiquitous is as foolish as saying that gas stations shouldn’t have convenience stores.

Linux and right-wing politics (or any wing politics) share something in common:  They both need to start appealing to non-geeks and non-activists, respectively, else neither one will ever win.  As such, the *Spire distros might do for Linux what George Wallace did for the populist/nationalist right, i.e. “put the crumbs down to where the ducks can get to them,” as Wallace himself said.

OneAndOneIs2.  Another comp/tech blog, by a blogger who evidently missed out on New Math.

And Hustlerism

Al Sharpton:  “Gangsterism” glorified in rap music is hurting blacks, and precluding their involvement in the political process.

Yes, Al, you’re right.  Hustlerism is also doing the same.

Shrinkage

Hey, Andy.  You got it all mixed up.

It’s not that non-black grocers rip off black communities, it’s that too many members of black communities rip off non-black grocers.