Social Justice Advocate Collapses and Dies At Edwardsville High School Gym

KSDK-NBC-5:

A 15-year-old Edwardsville High School student collapsed at school Friday and later died at an area hospital, officials said.

Leamon “J.R.” Anderson Jr., an incoming sophomore, was participating in an open gym when he collapsed around 3 p.m., Superintendent Ed Hightower said.
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J.R. was taken by ambulance to Anderson Hospital in Maryville, Ill., where he was pronounced dead at 4:11 p.m., officials said.

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English teacher Carol Wilkerson said J.R. already had an idea about what he wanted to do with his life.

“He cared passionately about social injustice — he was always interested in helping those who were downtrodden and in speaking out for those who needed assistance.

As if to say that his presence was needed to counterbalance most of the rest of the faculty, staff and students at Edwardsville High School, who surely advocate social injustice.

Ganged-Up Moms

Here we go again:  Another story about a gangland mother prodding her son to go pop someone because he got dissed.  Remember Clarence Johnson?

Ain’t That a Shame

So, it’s “shameful” for a Beverly Hills cop to leak a report, but it’s not “shameful” that your client drives drunk and snorts coke. Better not start with the moral equivalency games, girl.

Swinging Singles

AFP:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Unmarried Americans are a growing segment of the population but vote less than their wedded counterparts in elections, tending to favor Democrats over Republicans, said a study published Friday.

Single Americans 15 years of age and older now account for 45.2 percent of the US population, against 34.4 percent in 1960, Women’s Voices Women Vote said in its study titled “Unmarried America 2007: America’s New Majority.”

I hope there aren’t many 15-year old married people. I hope there aren’t any 15-year old voters.

Note to Virginian in Virginia: Slow Down

The man is out to siphon your wallet.

In Tennessee There Is No Beer

Well, not that there isn’t any beer, it’s that everyone will be carded when trying to purchase beer in grocers and retailers. It does not apply to wine and liquor, and does not apply to restaurant settings.

How convenient that a state known for hard liquor rather than beer would exempt hard liquor. Of course, if this law were passed in Missouri, it would have applied to hard liquor, and not wine (Missouri has a relatively well-known wine industry), and certainly not to beer.

I have had a CofCC member in Tennessee tell me that, on the occasions they’re visiting St. Louis and Missouri, they take advantage of the cheap prices and stock up on beer.

Blacks Are Being Refreshingly Frank About Themselves Lately

Gary Sheffield last week, and Tavis Smiley this week.

WND:

Tavis Smiley: Blacks too ‘emotional’ to obey rules

The moderator of Thursday’s Democrat presidential debate said he did not ask the mostly black audience to refrain from applauding candidates’ answers, because blacks are too “emotional” to obey such a rule.

Asked by C-Span host Brian Lamb why he didn’t enforce a no-applause rule for his PBS-sponsored debate like other debate formats, moderator Tavis Smiley explained: “Because black people are an emotional people. I know it wouldn’t have worked.”

Smiley says the black audience attending the 90-minute session at Howard University would not have listened or complied with such a request for silence, suggesting African-Americans are unable to control themselves.

Where would he get a silly idea like that? Actually, the more pertinent question is this: Why are white candidates for President on the Democratic ticket giving a black audience something to be emotional and whoop and holler about?

In May 2002, when St. Louis City Firefighters Rob Morrison and Derek Martin perished trying to battle a fire in a south St. Louis industrial building, their memorial services demonstrated a stark reminder in racial differences. Morrison’s was at a Lutheran church in south St. Louis, and you can imagine what its services were like. Martin’s was at an AME church in the Central West End, and from all the whoopin’ and hollerin’ and rolling around in the pews that its attendees did, one would think that they were at a celebration rather than a funeral.

Who’s More Irritating?

Their first names are similar.

Hancock Family’s Lawsuit Is Crumbling

The part against the tow truck driver has now been rendered moot, and now, the state division of alcohol and tobacco control has determined that Mike Shannon’s did nothing wrong.

Somehow, This Wasn’t Such a Bad Thing to Do At an Akon Concert

Chicago Sun-Times:

A Burbank mother expressed her outrage after Toyota Park concert sponsors handed her disabled 12-year-old daughter a goodie bag including condoms and a sex-toy catalog.

Pam Richard, 39, says she spent $167 to take her daughters Heather, 12, Crystal, 14, and Hola, 18, to the B96 Summerbash at the Bridgeview stadium Sunday.

The trip to see pop music stars including Akon, Rihanna and Hilary Duff perform was intended to be a family celebration of Crystal’s eighth-grade graduation.

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“I asked again, and he handed Heather a pink bag — when I saw what was inside, I was shocked.”

Inside the bag, put together by Lisle-based nightclub promotions company Mixmaster Throwdown, were two condoms, a catalog for the adult store Lovers Lane, an explicit CD titled “Vigina,” “Bearly Legal” suntan lotion sachets printed with marijuana leaves and a book of gag “sex coupons” entitling the bearer to direct sex videos and other sexual favors.

“I am disgusted they would promote sex and drugs to a 12-year-old,” Richard said.

“About 90 percent of the people at the concert were teens and pre-teens. This was completely inappropriate.”

Handing out condoms at a concert where one of the acts is a man who committed an act of simulated outercourse rape in April in Trinidad might not be such a bad idea.

While the state of Illinois is fairly libertarian on strip joints, hence, the Metro East of St. Louis, I’m sure there are laws that restrict such establishments to people of a certain age. I’m wondering if the state’s attorneys there will file any charges of promotion to minors, solicitation to minors, contributing to the delinquency of minors, and so on. If there was anything in these “goodie bags” about guns or firearms, then the prosecutors would be crabbing right now.

And, pray tell, are some of these same parents this upset when public schools and their sex education are so frank?

Three Shibboleths Thrown Out the Window

They are: (1) Islam is a Great Religion of Peace (TM, President Bush), (2) Pakistan is a reliable ally in the War on Terror, and (3) Muslims shun homosexuality.

Christianity Today:

Lawyers in Pakistan are investigating a report that up to 30 men tortured and gang-raped a young Christian man for refusing to convert to Islam.

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“To make matters worse, the government is pushing through a law which could impose the death penalty for any Muslim man who converts to Christianity – and life imprisonment for any woman.”

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Taking It to the Street

Philadelphia Mayor John Street was in line today to buy an iPhone. He showed up to the queue at 3:30 am this morning, waiting for the 6 pm release. At 11:30 am, a smart-aleck 22-year old mohawked punk came up to him and asked him, “How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?” After that, he left. Whether he ever got his iPhone is unknown.

Would his presence at City Hall today have deterred, prevented or precluded any murders or other violent crimes in his city? If you’re going to think that his presence as Mayor is so crucial to reducing crime, then by deduction you would have to think that he’s not doing something right as Mayor for there to be all those murders. At that rate, one would hope that he doesn’t show up to work. It’s a logical paradox.

In reality, neither Mr. Street nor any big city mayor can have any effect on violent crime, unless you have a particularly good or particularly bad one.

Look on the bright side — At least Mr. Street had the tact, the good social graces, and the good sense to line up for his iPhone just like everyone else. Typical arrogant big-city mayor would have forced himself to the front of the line at 5:59 pm.

High School A La Carte

No swimming pool. How will the students ever learn anything?

Chicago Sun-Times via CofCC National Website:

Ald. Isaac Carothers [29th] and two community leaders Wednesday demanded a new high school for Austin, vowing to “march and march and march” until the community gets its fair share.

Plans to convert the old Austin High School into three small high schools have left a “big void” in the community, Carothers told Chicago School Board members.

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Citing rock-bottom test scores, violence and poor attendance, officials ordered Austin High to stop accepting freshmen in 2004. Before that, it held as many as 1,810 students, CPS officials said.

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Virgil Crawford of the Westside Health Authority decried the small-school “experiment.”

“We are calling for a comprehensive, state-of-the-art high school with a football field, a baseball field and a track. OK? And an Olympic-size swimming pool,” he said.

“We are willing to march and march and march and do whatever we have to do.”

Just checking off items as if it were a lunch menu? Notice that, in Mr. Crawford’s mind, a “state-of-the-art high school” means sports and athletics, not academics. He doesn’t want a high school, he wants a health club. No mention of chemistry or physics labs, multimedia centers, computer and information technology labs, vocal and instrumental music halls or art galleries.

At this rate, I’m surprised he forgot to add weight rooms, spas, saunas, a cardio room, yoga and pilates floors. What about soccer fields, lacrosse fields, outdoor and indoor tennis courts, and squash and racquetball courts?

Don’t forget the Under Armour apparel and uniforms. What about towel service? Everything has to be ADA-accessible, and that at least a few of the shower heads have to be nine feet above the floor, to accommodate tall men. The locker rooms, which should have wooden lockers like they do in the pros, and plush carpeting, should be flanked by clubhouses (for both home and visiting teams), which must have plasma TVs and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Pat-downs from massage therapists should be available to the young athletes on demand.

In his list of demands, Mr. Crawford forgot the most important item and priority of most urban high school athletic programs, indicative of the sporting interest of the students: Basketball. The seating capacity of the showcase arena should be at least 3,000. As it is so important, there has to be separate gyms and floors for sports like volleyball and gymnastics.

If there’s going to be an Olympic-sized swimming pool, then swimming classes should be a Freshman requirement. Don’t forget that white racism, discrimination and slavery forgot to teach black youths how to swim, such that they wouldn’t be able to jump into the lake and swim away from the slave masters and from Jim Crow. Otherwise, the school’s swimming pool will become a death trap thanks to evil white people and their bigotry.

And why only ONE Olympic-sized swimming pool?  If you’re going to have a “comprehensive, state-of-the-art high school” where athletics are the alpha and omega, then you’ll have a swim team, a diving team, and a water polo team.  Why inconvenience everyone with the logistical nightmare of fitting diving practice around a water polo match?  There’s also the aforementioned swimming lessons, and P.E., and open swims for the students.  You’ll need multiple pools for such a first-class A-1 facility.

Hockey?  Luge?  Bobsledding?  The reason these and other Winter Olympics-like events are heavily white is because white bigots don’t spend enough money constructing hockey rinks, figure skating rinks, speed skating rinks, and luge/bobsled courses at urban public high schools.  If all this would have been done like it should have in the past, one Mr. Shani Davis from Chicago would not have had to relocate professionally to Canada to win a gold medal in speed skating.

Because of Title IX, just about everything in the facilities and venues realm will have to be doubled-up.  And because of the delineation between Freshman teams, Junior Varsity and Varsity teams, you might have to triple them in turn.  After all, a world class first rate comprehensive state-of-the-art high school should not be a place where varsity girl’s volleyball and Freshman boy’s basketball have to fight over practice gyms.

To top it all off, Mr. Crawford should have demanded a special gold-plated trophy plaza where all those trophies and plaques for state sports championships and other sports and athletics honors that the school’s administration will expect the students to earn will be displayed.

For real, Mr. Crawford et al. seem to behave as if the presence of a well-manicured football field and an Olympic-sized swimming pool will make Austin H.S.’s students less violent and more intelligent. The Kansas City experiment proved that notion the farce that it was all along.

He Should Know

L.A. Times via RedState:

A question on the high rate of HIV infection among African American teens triggered the liveliest exchange when Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware said: “I spent last summer going through the black sections of my town, holding rallies in parks, trying to get black men to understand it is not unmanly to wear a condom, getting women to understand they can say no, getting people in the position where testing matters. I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS.”

Now we know why Biden thinks Obama is “clean.”

Post-Dispatch Bemoans the Fact That the Fourth of July is on July 4

Because it’s on a Wednesday this year, most people will have to work the day before and the day after, and won’t be able to drink and party like they could if they had the next day off.

Of course, the original July 4 wasn’t exactly a festive occasion. I could well imagine that most of the Signers of the Declaration figured that they would be hung from British gallows, and wouldn’t live to see the next July 4.

Damn those Founders for signing the Declaration on a Thursday. They should have waited a few days, then their descendants could place the observation for Independence Day on the first or second Monday in July, so that everyone can have a three-day weekend, and drink to their heart’s content.

Yet Another Ambiguous MSM Headline

Fox News headline:

Texas Teen Has to Be Restrained After Being Sentenced to Death

I thought that was impossible. Remember, the U.S. Supreme Court, in all its wisdom, has declared that it is not possible for people under age 18 to develop the mens rea to premeditate the murder of another human being.

Read a little closer, and you’ll find out that the guilty is 19-year old Dexter Johnson, who was convicted of murder and other crimes for his actions in a crime spree during Father’s Day Weekend of 2006. Meaning that he was probably 18 when he committed the murder.

So they’re calling him a “teen” because he happens to be as old as one can possibly be and still be of an age whose name ends with “teen.” Otherwise, the more accurate headline and article would have had “man” in place of “teen.”

If it were the LBNN (Lizz Brown News Network), he would have been a “baby.”

Cost of Goods Sold

AP:

MONROE, La. – While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of felony theft.

According to police reports, Simms carried a 42-inch Sanyo Plasma TV to a self-checkout aisle after switching the original price tag of $984 with one for only $4.88. Wal-Mart Loss Prevention officers witnessed the alleged transaction and called police.

When the store officers stopped Simms on his way out the door, he produced a receipt for a television purchased at the West Monroe Wal-Mart, authorities said.

Simms told officers that he purchased a TV from the West Monroe store and planned to returrn that one and keep the one he purchased for only $4.88 from the Monroe store. He was then arrested and booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center.

I bet the total cost of labor in China to assemble this TV wasn’t that much higher than $4.88.

Student of the Year

So, a public school district in Vermont suspended a seventh-grade student for wearing an anti-Bush T-shirt. I’m surprised they didn’t make him student of the year.

Looking Emaciated These Days

Drudge headline:

Hunger-Striker Collapses in Lieberman’s Office

I kinda thought he was looking a little emaciated as of late.

C’mon Joe.  In the immortal words of Keith Olbermann:

EAT SOMETHING~! 

Save EIU’s Orthography

Eastern Illinois University, of Charleston, Illinois, is cutting men’s wrestling. The school cites poor academic performance of the men in the wrestling program. This sign means that the school’s administration was on to something.

Really, though, can the academic prowess be much better for football and men’s basketball players? The difference here is that those sports make money, and wrestling does not. The real reason why wrestling was shut down is Title IX.

Her Mini-Revolution Petered Out Quickly

Vivica Fox, an actress best know for her role as the shack-up g/f opposite the Will Smith character in Independence Day from 1996, has a major attitude problem.

In March, the Chips popped her for DUI. She tried to get the Hispanic cop to turn Judas against the white cop, accusing the latter of “racism” in accosting and arresting her. (“Brother help a sister — are you going to let this racist white cop do this … well are you?”)

Newsflash, Viv: This is California. This Hispanics don’t think of you as their kin, just because you’re not white, they aren’t, and you didn’t like the fact that a white cop got you for driving drunk. Jails, prisons and streets in California are proof of black-Hispanic animosity. If you get the six months in the can that you could get, you just might find that out first-hand, or maybe you’ll get Paris’s cell and learn nothing first-hand.

Not only that, the Hispanics have plenty of political clout on their own in the state, and it will only grow with time and demography.

Seven Years Behind the Times

CNN via KSDK tells that El Cenizo, Texas is essentially a Mexican town, where Spanish is the official language, and the town’s government has enacted a sanctuary policy.

You’re finding out about this from the MSM in 2007. This was covered in the Citizens Informer in 2000.

I Want a Front Row Seat For This

Looks like liberal Judaism and liberal Christianity are about ready to start a full-scale cold war.

Giving America the Bird

The Bald Eagle is no longer endangered.  But the country that the Bald Eagle represents is.  Figure that one out.

I.W. and the R-Word

Dragging out the R-card, are you, dude?

Realize that if there’s any “racism” in your dismissal from “Gray’s,” it’s that you weren’t canned on the spot immediately after your remarks. You get one guess why.

Skating On Thin Buckeye Ice

Careful there, Georgey. You see what happened to Mike DeWHINE last November.

Washington Lettuce Party

Tancredo sent Chertoff a head of lettuce to protest the latter’s paranoid and disingenuous fulminations about the lack of immigration soft amnesty destroying America’s agricultural prowess.

He would have done better to send a potato. Hmmm, Chertoff, or a potato. Which one is Chertoff, and which one is the potato? Hard one.

He Picked the Wrong Marine to Rob

Reach into his pocket, and he’ll give you a knuckle sandwich

AP:

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.

He immediately grabbed the person’s wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.

“I guess he thought I was an easy mark,” Barnes, 72, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Tuesday.

He’s anything but an easy mark: Barnes served in the Marines, was an accomplished Golden Gloves boxer and retired after 20 years as an iron worker.

Jesse Daniel Rae, 27, was arraigned Monday in Rockford District Court on one count of unarmed robbery.

And the judge probably wondered why Mr. Rae’s face was a little banged up. We know what Mr. Barnes looks like, let’s see a pic of Mr. Rae.

That’s What I Call a “Happy” Meal

The Vice-President of Indonesia supports legalizing marijuana for use in food preparation in his country.

It’s a Corps, But Not For “Peace”

CSM:

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Across the border from South Sudan, in the small Ethiopian village of Asossa, Sun Yingtao, a young agriculture student from Hebei Province in China, is teaching subsistence farmers – many of them refugees from war-torn Sudan – techniques for getting good yields out of their meager lands.

Seconded to the Ethiopian Department of Rural Development, Mr. Sun spends his days trying to identify various vegetable diseases, discussing possible alternative water usage, and debating the pros and cons of sowing onions and peppers in rows or in a scattered fashion.

Sun, who has been here for six months, is a civilian volunteer – one of a group of 50 young men and women who have been sent by the Chinese government as part of a new, experimental “peace corps” project in the country. This is the program’s second year, and there are small volunteer groups in three locations: Ethiopia, the Seychelles, and Zimbabwe – three countries of limited economic importance for China.

Tens of thousands of young Chinese went through a rigorous three-month application process last year to compete for a spot on the volunteer team, says Liu Wei, another volunteer in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. And, though small now, the program is expected to expand.

Sinologists who are intellectually honest know that this Chinese “peace corps” does not have entirely “peaceful” motivations for the Chinese government. The real reason, I think, is that the Chinese government is greasing the skids in Africa for colonization.