We’re off to the South Carolina High Country (“Upcountry,” in Southern lingo) for the Council of Conservative Citizens 2007 National Board Meeting and Conference.
I have left you with plenty of reading material. That is, unless you’re coming to the Conference, too, which would be even better.
But it does not appear that they permitted strikes. So don’t celebrate yet, AFSCME. Bricks won’t stand long without mortar, and likewise, collective bargaining is useless without the privilege to strike.
If you’re going to take on a dictator and all his guns, that better be one strong back
I thought he was going to save Venezuelans from the big bad evil repressive gringo monster. Now all that remains to be seen is whether Hugo Chavez bears a greater resemblance to Napoleon or to Snowball.
Though I don’t think they’re peddling pills for Dyslexia just yet. Much of the same hustle exists in England as it does here, that over-diagnoses of these conditions are a way for school systems to tap into extra “mental health” funds.
It has been found that any number of ADD “advocacy groups” are heavily sponsored by the pharmaceutical firms that produce and sell ADD medicines.
Minneapolis-St. Paul area anarchists are planning to crash the party when the Republicans convene at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Enter for the Republican Presidential Nomination Convention in the late summer of 2008. They’re upset that some people are actually pretending to enforce immigration law.
If the Republicans nominate an amnestyaire like Giuliani, McCain or Huckabee at that convention, the irony, not to mention the density of anarchists, will be so noted.
That infamous attitude among some young blacks that learning is a “white thing” and should be avoided? It’s worse among Hispanics.
There’s a dark side to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, who at one time expressed public opposition to President Bush’s plan to resettle 7,000 Iraqis here, and namely Ohio. Of course that 7,000 will have three more zeros added to it before long.
But don’t count on him to be the Buckeye Bilbo. From Campaigns and Elections via Modern Tribalist:
Governor Ted Strickland and former state Sen. C.J. Prentiss, the Governor’s Special Representative for Closing the Achievement Gap, will host a conference tomorrow, May 30, in Columbus focused on increasing the graduation rate of African American males.
“The low graduation rate of African American males is a problem with widespread implications for our state,” Strickland said. “We need to work to keep these young people in school — for the benefit of themselves, our communities and the economic strength of the state.”
In the 2004-05 school year, only 64.4 percent of black males graduated from high school in Ohio, compared to white males at 88.2 percent. Overall in the 2004-05 school year, 68.4 percent of black students graduated from high school in Ohio, while 89.8 percent of white students graduated.
Easy solution to the problem: Just give every man of color in Ohio a high school diploma as a civil right of his reaching his 17th or 18th birthday. That way, all the social ills that Gov. Strickland reminds us that are a domino effect of lower high school graduation rates for the demographic will disappear.
He was on a jet ski without a life jacket on Lake Pontchartrain, which isn’t really a lake, but backage from the Gulf of Mexico, and thus has ocean-like undercurrents. If you do that kind of thing, it’s not if you’ll fall off the ski, into the lake and drown, but when.
Nevertheless, I’m waiting for white people and white racism to be blamed. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has already greased those skids.
Most likely not to cheat
People who are socially dominant and either very friendly or very antagonistic tend to be more sexually promiscuous, according to a new study.
Friendly, warm people may enjoy sharing their warmth with others by sleeping with them, whereas antagonistic people may sleep around to avoid having a monogamous relationship. And having a dominant personality makes it easier to approach potential partners.
Past studies have suggested that people who are dominant tend to have more sexual partners than people who are submissive, but there has been little research into whether a person’s level of interpersonal warmth — the way in which they interact with others — affects their sexual actions.
Ladies: This means that if you’re looking for a potential husband that won’t cheat, you will need to latch on to someone with all the charisma and sophistication of Jon Q. Arbuckle. Lizz should stop playing hard-to-get; she will find none more faithful.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya launched a new national atlas on Tuesday that seeks to unearth links between poverty and the environment in a country which, like many in Africa, depends heavily on farming and tourism.
More than three-quarters of Kenya’s 35 million people rely on agriculture for a living, but management of scarce resources is often poorly understood — leading to misuse and conflicts.
For the first time, the atlas, “Nature’s Benefits in Kenya,” binds natural data like water sources, wood supply and wildlife populations to information including human habitation, economic activities and household expenditure, its authors say.
Kenya’s planning and national development minister, Henry Obwocha, said the atlas would help formulate government policy, and Kenya’s Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai also praised it.
IQ-poverty has a much statistically stronger correlation, I predict.
BRUNSWICK, Georgia (Reuters) – President George W. Bush is likely to announce this week a candidate to replace World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned after a storm of criticism over a salary increase for his companion, White House spokesman Tony Snow said on Tuesday.
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Among other names that have been mentioned are Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer, 63; former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, 79; and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, 53, although Republican sources say Fischer and Volcker seem unlikely. Another possibility, former Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Frist, has said he does not want the job.
Pick Gutierrez. That way, he will be in a position to where he could actually implement his suggestion that we should pay illegal aliens to sneak across the border. That way, it’ll prime the anti-immigration pump faster than anything.
Is there some unwritten rule that every time the establishment wants to make some major decision about banking, or wants to screw us over in the same, that they have to make the decision in coastal southeastern Georgia?
AP:
FISHKILL, N.Y. – In the day room, white-haired men in robes watch “The Price is Right.” Out on the balcony, another looks through bars as he fidgets from side to side.
Prisons have been dealing with the special needs of older prisoners for years, but the one here in Fishkill state prison is considered unique because it specializes in dementia-related conditions.
The unit — 30 beds on the third floor of the prison’s medical center — is a first for New York and possibly the nation, though experts say it likely won’t be the last as more people grow old behind bars.
The unit has the clean-white-wall feel of a nursing home — but for the prison bars. A marker board in the day room includes a picture of a sun with a smiley face and a reminder to “Have a great day.” The activity calendar lists puppies on Thursday and bingo on Friday. As long as they behave, patients can wander from their rooms to the day room.
“Have a great day.” And they’re old men in prison. Not even they are so stupid or dense that they wouldn’t know the phoniness of it all.
Reading is fundamental to noticing legislative scams, as he found out
CNN:
A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq.
Clinton did not read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according to “Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
For members of Congress to read the report, they had to go to a secure location on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that no more than six senators and a handful of House members were logged as reading the document.
They’re assuming that politicians read the junk they pass. When GATT was ratified in 1994, it was so long that it exceeded 10,000 printed pages. Then-Sen. Hank Brown (R-CO), was the only Federal politician who claimed to have read the whole monstrosity, and said that because of it, he changed his vote from Yes to No.
I understand the same thing is happening with the 600-page Senate Amnesty bill, that some ambivalent Senators are cooling to the proposal once they read the whole thing. Most of those that vote for it won’t actually read a word of it.
It all depends on what the definitions of “America,” “enforce our border,” “reform,” “comprehensive,” “decency,” “respect,” “courage,” “fencing,” and “barriers” are.
And here’s Bush’s laugh track moment:
Bush chastised those who say the proposal offers amnesty to illegal immigrants. He called it empty political rhetoric.
At least when Bill Clinton obfuscated with words, the only one he tried to muddle up is “is.”
Public health authorities now fear that methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), once thought of as a a hospital and locker room infection, will become an epidemic among any group of people that are simultaneously bereft of good hygiene habits, and are crowded closely together as a matter of regular existence. The article speculates that the “urban poor” (read: blacks and Hispanics) in public housing projects, jails and prisons, are sitting ducks for MRSA.
The next MSM article on this subject will say that white racism is at fault, because it causes the poverty, which in turn causes the crime, which is why blacks and Hispanics are forced into projects and hoosegows.
A simpler idea would be for the NAACP-LDF and MALDEF, with the assistance of the ADL and Morris Dees, to sue the MRSA bacterium for civil rights violations.
Let’s see: (1) Open borders mania. (2) Anti-gun fanaticism. Once I get this list to 95, I’ll have to find a hammer.
Rev. Michael Pfleger, a white pastor of a black Catholic parish in Chicagograd, People’s Republic of Illinois, announced that gun dealers and gun control opponents are Satanic, and should be killed.
If one of his fanatical parishioners takes him up on his advice, I would be surprised if the Cook County State’s Attorney actually files any charges against him. Therefore, the ball is in Benedict XVI’s Court. We’re all waiting for the news that there was a call made from Vatican City to Chicagograd, when someone asked for someone else’s figurative badge.
Miss USA Rachel Smith, part Hispanic (Panamanian-American) herself, last night at the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City. This happens with relative frequency in USA vs Mexico sporting events played not only in Mexico, but in former American states and cities that are now part of Mexico, like Los Angeles and Arizona.
Still want amnesty, President Bush?
Yes, they hate us, but they sure like our welfare checks.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that lawsuits brought over pay, wage and salary discrimination for racial reasons cannot be brought if the discriminatory torts are excessively old. It was a 5-4 decision, and if one of the judges voted the other way, the Federal courts would have seen a flood of lawsuits over things that happened in the 1960s.
President Bush announced today that the American government will enact sanctions against the Sudanese government, in order to punish them for their violent dispossession of black animists, Christians and other black non-Muslims by the Muslim government in the Darfur region of the country.
Some of this charity should begin at home. He should have announced that the American government will do what it can to stop the violent dispossession of American whites by black and Hispanic crime, as well as the double-standard white judicial, social and corporate system, in major cities and other large swaths of the country, and in regards to their economic prosperity and standard of living.
P-D:
Steve Sorocko retired in one piece, a laudable feat for any big-city cop with 41 years on the job but especially for one who spent most of it on the bomb and arson squad.
It was decades of pipe bombs, fire-for-profit schemes and grisly deaths by the hundreds.
But nothing matched the early 1980s, when an underworld feud within the so-called Syrian organized crime family here exploded — literally and figuratively.
In arguably the most dramatic moment, Jimmy Michaels Sr., patriarch of the clan, was killed when a remote-control bomb ripped apart his car as he drove along Interstate 55 in south St. Louis County. The brazen act triggered a series of retaliatory acts that included two more car bombings.
“A car bombing is like a signature,” Sorocko, 62, said in a recent interview. “You don’t know who did it, but you kind of know where it came from.”
The investigation into that bloody feud shaped Sorocko’s career, both professionally and, years later, personally. By coincidence, he met and married a granddaughter of Michaels.
Sorocko became a trusted member of an investigative partnership with federal authorities, and remembers sometimes withholding information from his own department.
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The case whetted his appetite for knowledge of all 19 car bombings in the St. Louis area from 1962 to 1981. His research made him the go-to source for local, state and federal prosecutors tackling organized crime across the region.
He probably did a very good job, but his “job” was becoming obsolete even then. Unlike black drug gangs, if you didn’t get mixed up with the mafia, the mafia didn’t get mixed up with you. If the enforcement resources are so limited that the choice is between investigating black gangs or the mafia but not both, the answer is the black gangs.
On the Omnibus Senate Immigration Bill, as it is currently written.
KMOX’s headline says that Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), wants that taken out of the bill which President Bush claims is not the essence of the bill.
If you’re a 17-year old Missourian, a bill by Sen. Jack Goodman (R-Mt. Vernon) would have required that you retain the services of a Philadelphia Lawyer to know when and under what circumstances you are a legal adult and when you are a juvenile. The bill died at the end of this year’s session of the General Assembly.
I would prefer the General Assembly to pass a bill to make it even more simple. Either you’re a legal adult at 17, with all the rights, responsibilities and privileges of one, or you’re not, with none of them. No lawyer required.
A year after false accusations of rape and kidnapping by a stripper/ho that team members (actually didn’t) hire for a party against three team members, buttressed by a conniving district attorney that gave her accusations legitimacy so that he could win black votes to get re-elected, and soon after the team’s school administration and faculty left the accused and the whole team for dead, and the whole affair eviscerated their 2006 season, this year’s Blue Devil lacrosse team lost to Johns Hopkins in the NCAA D-I national championship game in the sport, by one goal.
Following what appears to be a trend in cities nationwide, religious leaders in Pittsburgh say there has been a rise in black conversions to Sunni Islam since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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Rashad Byrdsong, an elder in Pittsburgh’s black Muslim community, hopes the rise in interest in Sunni Islam will help the Mumin Mosque collect money to expand their small house of worship into a larger community gathering place.The new mosque, still in the planning stages, will look more like a community center than a traditional minaret-topped Muslim place of worship found in the Arab world.
The expanded Homewood mosque will have a daycare facility, a re-entry program for released inmates, a health clinic and a program for entrepreneurs, features that are in great need in the downtrodden neighborhood.
“First, the spiritual aspects, the dawa, but also basic, physical, fundamental needs,” Byrdsong said.
In the fourth year of its seven-year expansion plan, Pittsburgh’s tight-knit Muslim community has raised much of the $1.5 million needed in the project’s first phase through book sales, telephone fundraisers, auctions and banquets. It has purchased all but two lots it will need, and already has the sketches for the future mosque complex.
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A growing number of Muslims in America, especially blacks, are building mosques that offer a variety of community services, partly because the federal and state governments do not answer to many of their social needs, Islamic experts say.
These complexes take the religion back to its roots before the modern-day state began providing services to the population.
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The Homewood mosque, though unique, follows a model similar to other black mosques in the United States, Mamiya said.
In Harlem, the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque has built apartment buildings and townhouses, offers social services and even owns a sanitation company used to provide jobs to former prisoners, Mamiya said.
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Byrdsong, executive director of the Community Empowerment Association, was attracted to Islam while serving a 10-year prison sentence for robbery. He said the religion appeals to many, including those in prison, because of strict rules banning alcohol and drugs and its success at keeping people from deteriorating into a life of crime.
I’m for this. It’s about time that black people did for black people, instead of sticking their hands out to white taxpayer and begging for white pity constantly.
Aside from the fact that I think that they’re being disingenuous about why Islam attracts black prisoners, any criticisms I could have of this article have been stated in this blog many times before. I won’t repeat them here, simply because of the good news I found.
P-D:
JEFFERSON CITY — The Republican majority that controls the Missouri House has decided to pick a successor to Speaker Rod Jetton in September, 15 months before he leaves office.
Republicans say the unusual move will provide continuity and help them focus on keeping the majority next year, when all 163 House seats are up for election. But the move also has drawn criticism.
Jetton’s spokesman, Aaron Willard, said the future speaker wouldn’t “actually have any power. They’re just a speaker-in-waiting. It’s a chance to shadow” Jetton and learn the ropes.
Critics say the plan is unfair because it will deprive legislators elected next year from having a voice in choosing the House leader for 2009-2010.
What are they waiting for? Jetton needs to go now.
I agree with that last paragraph. Perhaps the current crop of Missouri Republicans in the state House will pick another race pandering liberal like Jetton or worse, and knowing that the House Republican leader would already be pre-ordained, this might preclude Missouri voters from retaining a Republican majority in the House in November 2008.
Otherwise, and notwithstanding that, it’s the height of arrogance to assume that other factors won’t arise, and the voters won’t hand the House back to the Democrats in 2008.
AP:
CONIFER, Colo. – Most likely to succeed? Try most likely to go to jail.
The yearbook for the high school in this mountain town near Denver published photos of students smoking marijuana and drinking beer, drawing the ire of parents and administrators.
Hannah Fredrickson, the senior who served as yearbook editor, said she regrets not balancing the yearbook pictures of teenagers smoking pot with pictures of non-drug users. She also said she is sorry about not warning her principal.
She should regret putting pot-smoking into the yearbook to begin with. Pray tell, why didn’t this school’s principal exercise incessant editorial quality control over the yearbook’s publication process? Supervise now, or forever hold your peace.
But she said people need to know what is going on.
“The point of the yearbook entirely is to cover what happens in the year,” she told KCNC TV. “You’d be surprised at how many children at Conifer High School smoke pot. I wanted to push more for a deeper side of Conifer, which, for a lot of students, is drugs and alcohol,”
Group orgies happen among high school students during the school year. I wouldn’t want to see it in a yearbook.
As long as the lovebirds are adequately armored.
Reuters:
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – A motel in northern Mexico is putting steel doors on its rooms to protect guests from kidnappings and shootings in an escalating war between rival drug cartels.
Owners of the Rancho El Trueno, or Thunder Ranch, began fortifying the highway motel near Monterrey a year ago but have decided to shield all 35 rooms as drug killings have worsened in the area in recent months.
Complete with hot tubs, red imitation-leather beds, mirrored walls and striptease poles, the rooms are shuttered behind steel gates about 1.5 inches thick and some already have steel doors.
“We want people to have fun and be able to feel safe. Lovers come, big groups come, we are full on weekends,” said Emilio Massa, the motel manager.
You might be safe if you make it there, but getting there and getting back are risky propositions all by themselves.
American resorts, take heed. This is our future, thanks to Bush, McCain, Kennedy, Lindsay Graham, Chertoff, and the rest of the Amnestyaires.
Now, the scam isn’t to sell beachfront property far away from the ocean, it’s to sell beachfront property that is in the ocean. I could imagine that the people lining up for this scam are already owners of lunar acreage, and actually think that that Nigerian’s rich uncle is as rich as he says he is.
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