If anyone who writes for or is associated with the blog I will now affectionately call Little Goober Freakballs, thank you for your recent public service. You reminded me that I needed to purge my blogroll of links to the the shrill, hateful neo-con kookdum machine, or to anyone who tries to sell themselves as some kind of “conservative” AND cites the Pro-Defamation League (ADL) as a “credible” source.
By the way, nice democracy you got over there in Iraq.
Can you believe the MSM today? They’re all whining about how all the other candidates (all men, BTW), “ganged up” on the poor helpless woman. If you have any memory beyond five minutes ago, you’ll realize that all the MSM could talk about yesterday in the run-up to this debate is if/should the other Dems go after HRC. So if the MSM doesn’t like what they did, the MSM only brought it on themselves.
Also, make no mistakes about them: HRC is for drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens, and the main reason New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is for them is that it would create hundreds of thousands of new voters in New York City, neutralizing the votes of upstate whites, and virtually guaranteeing that Democrats will run Albany forever.
NEEDHAM, Mass. — It was 6:30 p.m. The lights were still on at Needham High School, here in the affluent Boston suburbs. Paul Richards, the principal, was meeting with the Stress Reduction Committee.
On the agenda: finding the right time to bring in experts to train students in relaxation techniques.
Don’t try to have them teach relaxation in study hall, said Olivia Boyd, a senior. Students, she explained, won’t want to interrupt their work. They were already too busy before or after school for the training.
No one is busier than Josh Goldman. Captain of varsity tennis, president of the Spanish club and a member of the student council and the Stress Reduction Committee, Josh was not able to squeeze in the meeting at all.
Mr. Richards noted his absence wryly. “Josh is a perfect example,” he said. “He’s got a hundred things going on.”
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Mr. Richards is just one principal in the vanguard of a movement to push back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools amid the extreme competition over college admissions. He has joined like-minded administrators from 44 other high schools and middle schools — most in the San Francisco Bay Area but others scattered from Texas to New York — to form a group known as S.O.S., for Stressed Out Students.
Most conservative websites, blogs and talk radio hosts who are running with this story are focusing on the Yoga angle. But here’s the more interesting aspect:
Educators like Mr. Richards have told a generation or more of high school students (and their parents) that they won’t amount to anything in life, and will be picking crud with the chickens, if they don’t get into as good of a college or university as they possibly can. Of course, educators have a vested institutional interest in portraying education as a means to an end and an end to itself. The same fast food joint that serves the wings and thighs also wouldn’t mind if you developed a taste for breast meat.
So it should be no surprise when students like Mr. Goldman take this kind of advice seriously, and over-extend themselves with extracurricular activities like sports, clubs, councils, committees, and so on, which they think they have to do to glitter up their college admission application. And when one does it, the others have to up the ante. So it also should be unsurprising to people like Mr. Richards when their students are so stressed and are trying to burn a two-ended candle at three ends. They’re only doing what you want, and now you complain about how stressed they are?
If you really want them to relax, tell them to take a few irons out of their fires.
AP:
WASHINGTON – Responsibility for stopping illegal immigration belongs to the federal government and not to cities, states or businesses, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday.
Giuliani told small-business owners he would not punish them for unwittingly hiring illegal immigrants.
Thereby giving them virtual permission to hire illegal aliens, because this policy would put the benefit of plausible deniability on their side.
“If you elect a Democrat, they’re just going to open the borders, and more illegals are going to come in,” he said.
In contrast to Giuliani, who will kinda open the borders, and almost as many illegals will come in.
Giuliani says he would build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that includes high-tech monitoring to detect those trying to enter the U.S. illegally. He also calls for hiring more border patrol agents.
Oh, a virtual fence. We can see how well that works even in a trial run situation. (It would seem like they’re using Microsoft SQL Server on top of IIS on top of NT for the software that will run the virtual border fence. At that right, you might as well have no fence). And in today’s climate, more BP agents will mean more useless professional doughnut munchers who will be sent to Federal prison like Ramos and Compean if they actually try to do what is in theory their jobs.
I slightly disagree with Pat Buchanan about Giuliani. I have come to the conclusion that, if the Republicans nominate him, they will lose both power and their soul.
Think: Morris Dees with a tire iron
While the powers that be in the 1960s were all bloviating about how evil that certain white sheet group was, how its racial rectitude and its terrorist tactics were precluding an era of harmony and peace in the South, the U.S. Justice Department, and the “great” J. Edgar Hoover, (and I wouldn’t doubt that LBJ knew about it and countenanced it), were using the Sicilian mafia (which we know, of course, was totally free of ethnic rectitude and never engaged in terrorist tactics), to break the K-people in Mississippi, and to solve a murder supposedly ordered by that group (and the mafia never murdered anyone, don’t ya know).
Remember, all ne’er-do-wells are equal, but some ne’er-do-wells are more equal than others. Now if the K-people did more to elect JFK in 1960 than the mob did, then JFK/LBJ/Hoover would have used them to bust up the mob in New York and Chicago.
Mitt Romney Compares Hillary Clinton to an “Intern” on Fox News Channel “Hannity & Colmes”
The bad news is that if the average voter realizes that about the only thing she has had executive experience with is the document shredder at the Rose Law Firm, they might not want to give her the keys to the country. The good news is that her husband would all of a sudden want to start having sex with her once again.
He was a native of West Plains, Missouri, and broke into show business in Springfield. I always wondered why he never settled down in Branson when it became big.
It looks like he’ll be challenging Ken Salazar for his Senate seat in 2010.
Aside from formally deciding not to run for another term of his House seat, this 2010 announcement is also the functional equivalent of TT dropping out of the Presidential race. After all, if he were so confident in his Presidential campaign, he would know that he would have more important things to do in 2010 than run for a Senate seat. That said, there’s a very good place for you Tancredo supporters to go.
There’s a Senate race in Colorado in 2008, to replace to retiring Republican Wayne Allard. I take TT’s decision to wait until ‘10 as clues that he thinks: (1) Congressman Mark Udall (D-CO) has that Senate seat in the bag, because (2) HRC will become President, win Colorado in the process, and Udall will ride her coattails, (3) Salazar’s vulnerable, and (4) By the time 2010 rolls around, two years of another Clinton Presidency will create a 1994-like hot iron climate for Republicans.
And this time, it’s not at our expense :)
In a Slashdot post about Apple’s new policy that purchases of iPhones sold at Apple Stores can only be done by credit or debit card, and not cash, and in reaction to concern that refusing cash as payment for goods or services might be illegal, the post links to this U.S. Treasury Department page, which states that private businesses, organizations and individuals can have their own policies about compensation for goods and services. However, since Federal Reserve Notes and (older) U.S. Notes (and other instruments representing their transfer) are legal tender for the payment of taxes, fees, dues, fines, etc. to the Federal government, virtually all private businesses, organizations and individuals, and state and local governments, find it convenient to accept them for their private transactions.
In the July-September 2006 issue of the Citizens Informer, the official dead tree and ink quarterly of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the feature article was about the Liberty Dollar. One thing we found out in the article is that the U.S. Mint, a division of the Treasury Department, tried to claim (but later retracted) that neither Liberty Dollars nor anything other than Federal Reserve Notes and U.S. Notes are legal tender for private transactions. However, they are right that Liberty Dollars cannot be used to pay taxes to the Federal government.
This is yet another example of the lack of communication within government agencies, much less between them. And I thought nothing could top the IE-FEMA spat from 2005.
Related: Ron Paul’s visage minted on Liberty Dollars; Massachusetts towns develop their own media of exchange
Call out the diversity politburo.
AP:
Minorities less likely to trick or treat
WASHINGTON – Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows.
The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat on Wednesday.
That disparity in the survey is similar to the difference in how people view the safety of their neighborhoods, according to the poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. Lower-income people and minorities are more likely to worry that it might not be safe to send their children out on Halloween night.
Never fear. They’ll find some way to blame this on white people. I’m surprised this article didn’t already.
Actually, I partially disagree with the article’s title. Some minorities are actually more likely to trick.
At least not from Francis Slay about the *national* news that AT&T’s plans for making all of St. Louis City a Wi-Fi hotspot have been scaled back to just downtown. Of course, what was conveniently being downplayed during the hoopla was that the free service would be slow and have a 20-hour-per-month limit. Even so, this slow and crippled system can’t be deployed city-wide.
They have this silly notion that members of Indian tribes should be at least one-quarter Indian. Perhaps the semi-autonomy of Indian reservations amounts to a BS shield that deflects away the insane ideology of racial diversity.
The main criticism that the left-wing in America have leveled against nuclear missile defense initiatives, programs and systems, since the proposals of SDI (“Star Wars”) in the 1980s, is that these systems aren’t just for defense, that they will also have the clandestine power to launch nuclear weapons.
I’m starting to think that they’re onto something. Russian President Vladimir Putin is adamant that the American government not build a nuclear defense system in a country that is both an American ally and borders Russia. In doing so, Putin has equivocated such a system with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Now, if this system were purely a defense mechanism, why would Putin compare it to the Soviets actually wanting to put nuclear warheads on Cuba? Does Putin know or think that the missile defense system is really a missile offense system? Otherwise, logic and common sense would dictate that he would want a defense system near Russia, as the Russians and radical Islamists have been at each other’s throats for several decades.
Some Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers have been testing a device that can detect even microscopic traces of methamphetamine with the simple click of a button.
The scanner, which still is in the developmental stage and hasn’t been put on the market, is considered by some to be the future of crime-fighting technology. To others, it represents a potential affront to constitutional rights.
A Tucson, Ariz., firm, CDEX Inc., created the hand-held device and decided to test it in Missouri because of the high number of meth labs in the state.
It has been field-tested in Joplin, Springfield and Willow Springs. After receiving feedback from the patrol, CDEX altered the device and came out with a second version.
“Right now, we are still in the crawling-to-walking stage,” said patrol Capt. Tim Basinger. “Forming an opinion now would be like basing it on Windows 1.0. We haven’t seen the finished product.”
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Critics include civil libertarians and defense attorneys who question its use in the prosecution of drug cases. While the device has been tested, none of the results have been independently verified.
If civil libertarians really want a cracker jack argument, they should apply immigration logic to this issue, and ask why these devices are only being tested in places like Joplin, Springfield and Willow Springs, and (as you’ll see in the source), rural eastern Arizona. Why not north St. Louis City, or Jennings, or Caruthersville? Aren’t the state authorities using these unproven devices in a racially discriminatory way? Also, when will the SPLD get crack scanners?
And if we’re going to compare these meth scanners to Microsoft Windows, then each new edition of them going forward will get heavier, more inaccurate, break down more often, and the fourth generation will want to integrate the handle of the scanner to the hand of the State Bear that uses it, for the benefit of the officer, and starting with the fifth generation, the cops will have to “activate” these scanners with a 25-digit alphanumeric UPC from the manufacturer.
Maybe he was joking, but gregarious Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder confessed today he didn’t know until Tuesday that people spoke English in London.
Crowder, a former Florida Gator and Atlanta native, apparently isn’t sure where the plane is headed when it takes off this afternoon for Sunday’s game against the New York Giants in Wembley Stadium.
“I couldn’t find London on a map if they didn’t have the names of the countries,” Crowder said. “I swear to God. I don’t know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I learned that.
“I know (Washington Redskins linebacker) London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That’s the closest thing I know to London. He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London. I’m sure that’s a coincidental name.”
A lot of the commenters seem to think that he’s just joking, but I also hope that he’s joking when he says that “He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London.” That would come as a shock to all of London’s Nigerians and Jamaicans.
This reminds me of an episode of Married With Children. The Bundy family visits England, and Kelly (played by Christina Applegate) carries around an English-to-English translation dictionary all around London, thinking that the English speak a foreign language.
He lived in Florissant, yet went to school at Career Academy in the City. He’s black, so deseg did not apply to him. So how does this work?
Did some of Floyd Irons’s bad habits rub off on Career Academy?
Fun with Headlines, Rudy Giuliani edition.
McPaper: GOP’s Giuliani says he’s a ‘coast-to-coast candidate’
Right — from the sandy shores of the Hudson River to the banks of the East River, he’s wildly popular everywhere in between. Or is he?
AP: Giuliani talks tough on immigration
America will be a sanctuary country. Don’t like it? Tough.
So, Cofman and Townsley is the official law firm of the St. Louis Rams.
The team hasn’t won anything yet this season — I hope the same isn’t true for the law firm.
Chrissie’s got her men top ho and spiffin’. Or rather, Washington Governor “Landslide” Christine Gregoire picked out some prize-winning uniforms for her State Troopers. Even the dog looks ready for prime time.
Why should Microsoft appeal its punishment for European Union anti-trust violations? I wouldn’t appeal them, either, if the punishment was a slap on the hand, a one-time fine that amounted to 2.5% of my yearly income, and a drop in my stock price of one penny per share.
First, the good: The New York State Senate, by more than a 2-to-1 margin, rejected Gov. Spitzer’s plan to give drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens. Yesterday at the State Capital in Albany, there were “Impeach Spitzer” rallies.
Now, the bad: Frances Semler was able to chase La Raza out of Kansas City, but not the NAACP. The latter bunch of rabble-rousers have decided to convene in KC in 2010 anyway.
Firefighters in England aren’t allowed to climb ladders, slide down poles, or run. What are the allowed to do? Pose for calendars? Attend diversity seminars? Next thing you know, they won’t be allowed to fight fires, because it’s an occupational hazard.
You Britons had better become adept with fire extinguishers.
Did anybody else see this morning’s news on Channel 2? (KTVI-Fox, St. Louis)
Twice during the morning news, they did segments on a Hindu cleansing routine in India. What happens is that parents drop their young children from a second-floor porch or balcony, onto a trampoline-like cloth below, positioned well above the ground, and held taut along the sides by a number of people.
During both stories, the anchors admitted that in the centuries that this ritual has taken place, not one child has been anything close to hurt. Yet, this didn’t preclude them, and (as the anchors noted during the second story) Channel 2’s guest bloggers, from preaching on as if this was some horrible abuse of children. One of the anchors even made a comparison to Michael Jackson’s stunt in Berlin a few years back, where held his infant son over the hotel balcony with nothing but onlookers and the ground under the boy.
Are you people insane? I mean, this is the kind of ugly American (really, ugly Caucasian, or more accurately, ugly liberal and neo-liberal Caucasian) mentality which leads to the American government invading and overthrowing a regime on the other side of the world for no reason other than it didn’t like the regime’s dictator, or that the dictator might have tried to come by nuclear or biological weapons (even as the American government still has enough nukes to blow Earth out of its orbit). And now with this Turkey-Kurdish-Armenian domino that’s falling in the wake of it, and the pressure it’s creating on the world oil market, we’ll never have anything approaching cheap gas ever again. That’s not counting all of Iraq’s other problems before then, in that toppling Saddam opened up a power vacuum that could only be filled by AQ extremists, or a perpetual American military occupation.
Mind your own business, ugly American.
Besides, if we want to wail about the welfare of children, we have pee-wee league football. How would you like it if a morning TV news show in New Delhi had anchors and regular viewers that poked fun of those retrograde knuckle-dragging child-abusing American parents that prodded their 8-year old sons to play a physically violent game with a high rate of injury?
The local news media are all beside themselves in joy because a ramp opened today.
This goes to show you how Highway 40-centric this city’s brain trust is. When MoDOT was replacing the I-55/I-255/I-270 interchange in South County in 1992-6, and then the I-44/I-270 interchange in Southwest County in 1996-9, there wasn’t as much media publicity then, and certainly no daily fawning over a new ramp being opened. In contrast, when 40 at 270 was replaced between 1988 and 1994, there was a lot of MSM hoopla then, too.
Reason? Highway 40 traverses St. Louis’s big money zip codes, both old money and nouveau riche, for most of its route in St. Louis County. Anyone who’s anyone in St. Louis lives close enough to it, and messing with it in any way is like fooling around with a person’s jugular vein. Ask Eric Vickers about that — he and his band of civil rights agitators were able to get away with “shutting down” Interstate 70 in north St. Louis City in July 1999 (with the help of the then-black Police Chief of St. Louis who sympathized with their ideology), but when they wanted to run the same racket on Highway 40 in Richmond Heights and Ladue, this town’s liberal PC plutocrats who were cheering him on then laid the law down, literally.
P-D:
Two men were being held by St. Louis police after they allegedly shot another man during an armed robbery near St. Louis University Hospital early today.
The injured man, 21, and two acquaintances told police they were walking in the 1100 block of South Grand Boulevard about 12:30 a.m. when the pair approached, pointed a handgun at them and demanded their money.
If you’re going to get shot, you might as well get shot near an ER that specializes in gunshot wounds, like SLU’s ER does, as it sees a lot of them.
Just to make you forget all about the pit bulls:
He went there determined to bring home as much bacon as possible for his district, bacon in the form of public works jobs and dollars for his Democratic labor base. The late Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton dubbed Mr. Young “The Prince of Pork,” and Mr. Young reveled in the title.
Eagleton was a fine one to talk. Everything Bob Young did with his pork was above board. Eagleton, by contrast, had to deceive and lie, and pretend for about one week in the Fall of 1980 that he was against deseg, to win re-election.
If there is a political bar of justice beyond this world, Bob Young just went to the place way up high, and Tom Eagleton recently went to the place way down low.
Which doesn’t surprise me, because every time I saw Chuck Norris on TV, it seemed like his character was a cop who was campaigning against “racists,” and I don’t mean the real ones with black and brown skin, I mean the imaginary ones with pickup trucks, Southern flags, rifles and accents.
When you match that with the fact that Mike Huckabee is the worst racial panderer in the Republican field (he’s even more liberal on race than the former President that also hailed from Hope, Arkansas — that wasn’t an easy accomplishment, but Huckster did it), you get the feeling that CN landed with the right goofball.
This is why the MSM are all of a sudden promoting Huckster as their new hero, touting him as “the most conservative” (insert laugh tracks here) candidate in the field. Like pied pipers, they’re trying to lead the sheople to their shearing.
Congresswoman JoAnn Emerson (R-MO-8) endorses Giuliani. Her reasoning is that he can beat Clinton.
I remember the last time Republicans make a Presidential endorsement in a primary season based on the fact that he could beat Clinton — the man who received such endorsements is doing TV ads for erectile dysfunction today.
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