Screenshot from the second Dragnet, Season 3, Episode 3, which aired in the Fall of 1969. Friday, Gannon and a black LAPD cop are speaking to recent graduates of a high school in the black part of town, trying to get more non-white recruits.
The unidentified man whom Orenthal is playing seems interested. Otherwise, one might think he was asking this:
“Officer, if the fuzz thinks I knocked off my white wife, how fast should I flee from them in my whiter-than-my-dead-wife Ford Bronco?”
One is Morris Dees. One is Joseph P. Kennedy II, RFK’s first son. Can you tell which is which? What’s not confusing is that they’re pursuing almost the same political agenda.
C|Net: Microsoft to Mac users: Use Firefox, not Safari
Microsmeg wants you to use Firefox? Now I’ve heard everything.
Drudge (Yesterday): NY GOV. WARNS OF HARD TIMES AHEAD…
Six months ago, New York’s Governor might have taken that as a narcissistic double entendre vis-a-vis some ho.
AP: Obama says Republicans trying to scare voters
Then goes on a tirade about how global warming is going to kill us all.
Malkin: Seattle’s planet-saving plan: Jump rope, draw chalk art
And light candles.
MissouriNet: Obama pleased with tour of rural Missouri
I’m glad rural Missourians could live up to His high standards.
P-D: Ill. prison head gets 2 years for corruption
Some public official in Illinois is corrupt? That’s news to me. </Rod B.>
Springfield News-Leader: Obama wants new direction on energy
A “new direction” on energy would be more drilling, more refineries and more nuclear power plants.
P-D Political Fix: Nixon ad touts “tough” reputation
Yes, he’s real tough on old widows, kicking them out of their houses because their late husbands spent time in a nursing home.
P-D: Most Missouri candidates decline Political Courage Test
I’m waiting for a media courage test.
Reuters: World’s oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
World’s first sideick, Edwardivs McMahonivs, traced back to about 300 BC.
Reuters: IOC “surprised” by Games web censorship
Which cave did you just crawl out of?
AFP:
Bangladesh gaining land, not losing: scientists
DHAKA (AFP) – New data shows that Bangladesh’s landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say.
Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh’s landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that impoverished Bangladesh, criss-crossed by a network of more than 200 rivers, will lose 17 percent of its land by 2050 because of rising sea levels due to global warming.
I’m happy about this story for two reasons. One, this take a lot of wind out of the global warming sails. Two, AFAIK, Bangladesh has been the only country to reciprocate American emergency aid. During the 1993 Flood of the Mississippi-Missouri, the Bangladeshi government sent us what for them was a lot of money. Several years previous, we sent a lot of aid to Bangladeshis victimized by a Ganges River flood.
Business and Media Institute: House Majority Whip: Climate Change Hurts Blacks More
I’m rooting for climate change.
CNS: More Homeless People Expected to Vote This Fall
So will more children, dogs and dead people.
CNS: Jerry Lewis Cited in Vegas for Gun in Luggage
The cop was a close relative of Dean Martin.
NPI: Italy’s communists shift left after defeat
How is it possible that a communist can shift left?
P-D: Canadian gets 23 years in $8.2M scheme
I would say that what works in his favor is that it computes only to 14 years after the exchange rate, but theirs is worth as much as ours these days.
P-D: E. StL police seek help after shootings
Seems like the shooters need help even more.
AFP: China to censor Internet during Games: official
And after the Olympics, it will be totally free and open?
Houston Chronicle: New immigration strategy — Deport yourself
New? And what’ll they think of next? Sliced bread?
AFP: Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA
Since they’re hydrocarbons and ethane, Pelosi is already urging Obama to promise to issue an executive order against drilling there.
WKMG-CBS-6 Orlando: School To Put Students In ‘Prison’ Jumpsuits As Punishment
As new high schools’ architectural plans are very much inspired by prison design, the only thing left to complete the circle is frequent intragender rape.
KSDK: Yankees Acquire C Rodriguez
Asks the other Yankee named Rodriguez if Madonna has a sister.
Malkin: Dems attack Sen. Coburn for delivering babies for free
Right before they complain about the high cost of health care.
CNS: Latino Lawmakers Agree With Obama: ICE ‘Terrorized’ American Communities
Funny, I’m not scurrying about on a daily basis in fear of ICE, and I’m an American.
CNS: Barack’s No Reagan
I’d like to meet the idiot who thinks that he is … oh, wait, it’s Newsweak.
James Edwards: WNBA gets A+ for Diversity
It ought to, as it’s entirely female, majority black and heavily lesbian.
LoS: The SPLC is hiring!
Ed Sebesta, don’t you feel like that 6th grade nerd who raised his hand so often that the teacher just ignored him?
John Lott: “Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism”
Stealth? Glad I found out now, because his free-market capitalist rheotric had me going.
P-D: Obama promises in Rolla to restore ‘American dream’
Even more audaciously, he came out for health care and education.
KSPR-ABC-19 Springfield: Obama Will Try to Win Southwest Missouri Voters
Just as Adolph H. tries to win Tel Aviv.
Springfield News-Leader: Obama item sales to aid Guatemalans
And that money probably won’t have to cross as much as one border.
Rush Limbaugh: Ludacris Attacks Hillary, McCain
And thus goes to the top of Obama’s list of prospective National Endowment for the Arts chairmen.
WND: McDonald’s profits help fund naked homosex-fest
And will break the ice, Ronald will take off his clown suit and do the Hamburgler.
AP: 2,100-year-old gadget tracked Olympics
And was really popular with women, who thus knew when it was time to go up the Mount and see some naked guys.
AP: McCain camp compares Obama to Spears, Hilton
He would have lost me if he would have likened Michelle to Lindsay Lohan.
McPaper: Jessica Simpson: Just a country girl in love
Yep, that’s about all. Otherwise, there’s no there there.
Reuters: Bin Laden’s driver swore loyalty oath: witness
Like, duh, if you’re the world’s most famous terrorist, you kinda want the guy driving you around to agree with the cause.
McClatchy: Some Iraq athletes will go to Olympics
The ones with suspiciously large backpacks?
McPaper: Teens have harder time landing a summer job
It’s July 30. I think all of the teens who were looking but couldn’t get one have given up by now.
AP: LA officials set sights on limiting paparazzi
The Paparazzi Union was set to brainstorm over PR strategy at Carl’s Jr., just to find out that L.A. got rid of the fast food joints.
Reuters: Police hunt stolen rare shark
Just how do you steal a huge fish? By hoping that the British equivalent of the ADA forces the aquarium to hire a deafmute security guard?
AP: Boy, 10, turns mom in for making phony money
“Son, are you sure you’re 21?,” the bartender asked the boy — at that point, he had nothing to lose.
P-D :
Cyclists to leave clothes behind
(snip)
On Saturday, dozens of cyclists will strap on their helmets and strip off their clothes for the World Naked Bicycle Ride.
(snip)
Pollution and global warming are hardly titillating issues, said Pittman.
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Anti-illegal immigrant group comes to City Hall for raucous protest
About a dozen members of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the U.S.-Mexican border in an effort to keep illegal immigrants out, stood on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall today to decry the city’s sanctuary policy and demand that Mayor Gavin Newsom resign.
And then what? Get a right-winger as Mayor? I love you guys, but you’re jousting a windmill with this one.
Remember, when Gavin Newsom first ran for Mayor in 2003, he was actually the more conservative of the two major candidates. The other one, who had a Hispanic surname, was an out-and-outright Marxist who wanted the city to dump its entire treasury into the laps of violent street bums (“homeless.”). Newsom won, but not by too big of a margin.
This is San Francisco we’re talking about here.
To my 2008 Missouri Primary Election Preview. My preferred Republican candidate for Governor, Jim Guest, isn’t on the ballot. He evidently backed out at the last moment. H/T Clint Lacy. Therefore, I’m voting Steelman.
Bloomberg: Gonzales Aides Used Politics in Hiring, Report Says
I’m shocked. Politics were used to hire for political jobs?
CNS: GOP Reps Urge Bush to Push China to Free Dissidents
Sorry, Stupid Party. There’s no making a country that owns a lot of your debt and can crash your economy with a stroke of a pen do anything.
WLS-ABC-7 Chicago: Ministers push skipping 1st day of school in protest
If they do, then that first day will be the most productive academically in the recent history of the Chicago Public Schools.
I would say that the city doesn’t care if the middle class gets fat and croaks from fast food, but there aren’t any more middle class areas in Los Angeles.
Yeah, sure, because I can see an Organic-to-Go having a really hopping business in Watts.
AFP: McDonalds to power Manila’s police cars
If they powered the LAPD’s police cars, could they patrol the areas where fast food joints have been banned?
Fox News: LifeStyles Condoms Wants Miley Cyrus for Spokesgirl
She might have to take it, as none of the bra makers seem to want her for some odd reason.
In spite of his campaign rhetoric. He’s for Mexican Matricula Consular ID cards, which effectively legalizes the presence of any illegal alien that has one.
And here’s why you’ve seen it. Want to know what I think?
Just as I avoid using the G-word as a verb for internet search, I also try to avoid the P-word as a verb for photographic alteration. But that’s what I’m thinking.
Of course the local MSM had to flub this story.
They’re making you think that a consequence of this project is that the Hanley overpass over 40 will have to be closed for eight months staring in January. It would have been closed anyway, in order to be demolished and replaced for the 40 project, even if this jughandle would have never been thought of.
Earlier this month, I predicted top five overall and the second-highest AM.
Turns out, it’s 22nd overall and the 5th highest AM. Among the AMs, KMOX is obviously first, but KTRS, KATZ and KFNS are ahead of KZQZ. Once the baseball season is over, KTRS’s numbers will fall. KFNS is a weak sports station, and KATZ is black gospel — do you actually think the kind of music that the Crazy Q plays will perpetually lose out to black gospel? I’m still standing by my prediction, but I think it might take several ratings periods for KZQZ to reach those lofty heights.
NY Post: THAT ‘70S WOE IN RERUN – GOV WARNING OF WORST ECONOMY IN DECADES
He’s blind, yet he can see what most of the experts can’t.
CNS: U.S. Spends $1 Million Researching Syrians ‘Hooked on Hookahs’
If you think the Syrians are mad at us now, wait until we sick our anti-smoking activists upon Damascus.
CNS: Obama Urged to Condemn ‘Imagine No Religion’ Billboard
Jo Mannies: Obama to bring his “world tour” to rural Missouri
I know Jo was being glib, but what’s bad about Obama is that, if you didn’t know she was being glib, you might actually believe that he thinks rural Missouri isn’t part of America.
St. Louis Beacon: ‘A different kind of Republican’: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder cultivates black voters
Hold on to your wallet. But Peter, don’t expect any more votes.
MissouriNet: MODOT provides commuter lots, but safety is up to you
Like you can guard your car while you’re at work.
P-D: With economy down, lottery sales up
Because when you lost your job, that means that you’re all the more likely to be that one out of 96 million.
AP: National gas prices dip below $4 a gallon
Wow, now it’s really cheap (as vague memories of 68 cents a gallon in November 1998 fade into the background.)
AP: Details missing from Obama’s Social Security plan
Details missing from Obama’s (fill in the blank) plan.
AP: Fire destroys 12 homes near Yosemite National Park
And if an arsonist started the fire, those homeowners could sue him for anti-YoSemitism.
McPaper: 100 days to go: The presidential race’s red-letter days
I wish there were a pill that would make me go to sleep for 99 days.
AP: Report: Empty prison in Iraq a $40M ‘failure’
If there were an empty prison here, people would be calling it a success.
Time: San Francisco’s Sanctuary Dilemma
If Mississippi would create a sanctuary for civil rights violators who are white, Time magazine wouldn’t be calling it a “dilemma.”
AP: Obama looks for VP who says more than ‘Yes, sir’
So true. If my prediction comes true, he’ll have one that says “Yowza, boss.”
Politico: McCaskill implies she’d accept VP nod
C’mon Claire. Time to practice. Let’s hear you say, “Yowza, boss.”
E!Online: Nick Hogan Turns 18, Treated Like a Man
Considering where he is right now, that might include biting a pillow.
I have conditioned myself not to use that G-word as a verb meaning “search the internet.” Even though they have the lion’s share of that market, they’re not the only game in town.
Now, some ex-G**glers have created another alternative, called Cuil. (Think: “Cool.”) Now all they need is to add a news search and a blog search, and I’m there. As it is, Cuil promises not to keep logs of users’ searches vis-a-vis their IP numbers, unlike those G-people.
Accoona, an alternative I promoted on this medium a few years ago, has now repurposed itself as a business records search engine. However, their news search engine is still there.
As usual, my endorsements are only my own. Voting day is August 5.
MISSOURI GOVERNOR, REPUBLICANS
Recommendation: Jim Guest Sarah Steelman
Prediction: Sarah Steelman
Analysis: I’ll be voting for Jim Guest, because he’s a Ron Paulite with an excellent platform, but I know that this is essentially Steelman vs Hulshof. I have already stated the problems with Hulshof, except to add that he lives in Columbia, so I think he’s too much influenced by the little red schoolhouse. He’s saying a lot of the right things, but at the end of the day, I just don’t trust him. I don’t know how much I can trust Sarah Steelman, but I already know I mistrust her less than Hulshof.
I think she’ll win because she’s already a statewide office holder, and he’s just a Congressman. Ergo she started out with more statewide name rec.
UPDATE 7/29: H/T Clint Lacy: Jim Guest isn’t on the ballot, as he backed out at the last moment. I’m voting Steelman.
MISSOURI GOVERNOR, DEMOCRATS
Recommendation: None
Prediction: Nixon
Analysis: It’s Jay vs a bunch of nobodies.
Beyond the primary, he’ll be hard to beat no matter which Republican takes him on, though I don’t think he’s as invincible as CW suggests. Not only his links to La Raza, but the fact now that one of his recent moves as AG is to confiscate the estates that otherwise automatically transfer between husband and wife on the death of one spouse if the deceased spouse spent time in a nursing home funded by Medicaid. It’s one thing to do this after both spouses have died, but this is the first time I have ever heard interference of an interspouse transfer — I always thought property was considered completely joint during a marriage.
What this means, is that if your husband is in a nursing home, and your insurance has run out, and Medicaid has started to pay for it, once your husband dies, the state will kick you out of your house if you own your house. They won’t wait until both of you die and put a lien on the estate, which would be the humane thing. And all this was Jay Nixon’s idea.
These things I think have made Nixon vulnerable.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, REPUBLICANS
Recommendation: Arthur Hodge, Sr.
Prediction: Kinder
Analysis: Obviously, Kinder will win this primary. However, the more I see of Peter Kinder, the less I like him. With his close associations with House Speaker “Reparations” Rod Jetton, and Kinder’s own racial pandering (his campaign is running ads targeted to black voters on black radio stations in St. Louis), I just don’t feel he’s my kind of politician. Of the two novelty candidates opposing him, I like Hodge the better.
As for the fall, I don’t think I’ll vote for either Kinder or the Democrat. And Kinder better not bank on black voters saving his bacon, because if they’ll get incensed over anything, it’ll be the Medicaid cuts, which Kinder supported and any Democrat opposing him will say they want to reverse. You can’t outspend a Democrat, no matter how hard you try.
ATTORNEY GENERAL, REPUBLICANS
Michael Gibbons, State Senator from the district that includes Kirkwood, is the only Republican on the ballot. I don’t know too much about him, but will very likely vote for him in November. The Gibbons law firm is probably the most famous one in Kirkwood. Michael Gibbons was the deciding vote in the State Senate in 2003 for conceal-carry.
ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEMOCRATS
Recommendation: Margaret Donnelly
Prediction: Dunno
Analysis: I’m recommending a Donnelly vote (she is not related to Phil Donnelly, who was Governor 45-49 and 53-57), because Chris Koster is a fink. Koster, currently a Senator from a district south of Kansas City, recently switched parties from R to D mainly because of stem cells. And now all he can do (even in his campaign ads) is bash Republicans. My bet is that he’s heavily invested in some biotech startup. Of course, if you take a Republican ticket, you wouldn’t be able to make this vote. Margaret Donnelly is a State Rep from central St. Louis County.
Also, since Koster is from western MO, near KC, if he wins the primary, and faces off against Gibbons in November, Koster will automatically get a lot of votes from the Kansas City area, simply because he’s from there and Gibbons is from the St. Louis area. If Margaret Donnelly wins, it’ll be St. Louisan vs St. Louisan for AG, and that will nullify the STL-KC political rivalry, and marginally help Gibbons.
SECRETARY OF STATE
As they aren’t running anyone with previous political experience, the Republicans are conceding November to the incumbent, Mrs. Robin Antolinez.
SENATE, 7TH DISTRICT, REPUBLICANS
Recommendation: Gina Loudon
Prediction: None
Analysis: I’m recommending Loudon because I don’t want Jane Cunningham to win. If you want to know why I don’t want Jane Cunningham to win, click here. I’ll give you a hint: It has to do with deseg.
U.S. HOUSE, 2ND DISTRICT, DEMOCRATS
Recommendation: Bill Haas
Prediction: None
Analysis: Vote Haas if you take a D ballot because that loony toon will ensure another term for Todd Akin.
U.S. HOUSE, 3RD DISTRICT, REPUBLICANS
Recommendation: Greg Zotta
Prediction: None
Analysis: I’m voting for him as opposed to the other three Republicans seeking to oust Russ Carnahan because Zotta e-mailed me and advertised his URL. And he has a good platform. ALSO: Zotta is the “Mr. Z” that often called WGNU talk radio’s conservative shows (including “The Right At Night.”)
ST. LOUIS CITY “COUNTY” RACES
Because St. Louis City is both a city and a county, it has both city and county elected officials. However, the city ones run in March/April elections like all other MO cities, while the county ones run in August/November like all other county officials. Jennifer Joyce has no Jerryl Christmas (a.k.a. Lizz Brown) to worry about this time. Both Sheriff Jim Murphy and Treasurer Larry Williams have challengers, but I don’t think either incumbent has anything to worry about.
If Joyce would have been opposed, I would have been tempted to take a Democrat ballot just to keep her in office. The prosecutorial power in a city like this is too important to risk it being lost to a Lizz Brownie. But she’s unopposed, so that won’t be a problem.
U.S. HOUSE, 9TH DISTRICT, REPUBLICANS
Recommendation: Bob Onder
Prediction: Either Onder or Luetkemeyer
Analysis: Hulshof is running for Governor and thus opening up the 9th. Only Onder and Luetkemeyr have media buys, so it’ll be one of them. Brock Olivo, former Mizzou quarterback, is also in the race, and I guess he was relying on his football reputation to put him over the top. But his Mizzou teams were still the backwater conference doormats, so that dog won’t hunt for him. There are two other nobodies in the race.
Both O’s and L’s media buys tout their anti-immigration stance, proving that at least some Republicans know where their bread is buttered. The reason I’m recommeding Onder is that some conservative tax groups don’t have very kind words about L, and I’ve heard nothing bad about O. I think O is more trustworthy.
U.S. HOUSE, 9TH DISTRICT, DEMOCRATS
Recommendation: None
Prediction: Steve Gaw
Analysis: Of the four Democrats running, the only name I recognize is Steve Gaw. He was the last Democrat Speaker of the House before the Republicans won the House in 2002, and he tried to run for a statewide office in either 2000 or 2004 but lost. I think he’ll win because he’s the only “name” in the race.
Jihad Watch: Grover Norquist: “Spencer hates Muslims”
Correction: Illywah bin Alawyi (formerly Grover Norquist): “Spencer hates Muslims.”
SPLC: Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN’s ‘Black in America’ Series
Combine this, with Paula Zahn’s lust for James Edwards, plus Lou Dobbs citing the CofCC as a source last year, and it’s not hard to see that CNN is becoming the Council News Network.
AP: Iowans to congressmen: Stop immigration raids
We know the headline isn’t telling the truth because the part after the colon is in English.
AFP: Memorabilia of late US civil rights hero Rosa Park on sale (sic)
What remains to be seen is how the emerging Parks, Inc. will assuage the fund-raising prowess of MLK, Inc.
Politico: Obama not basing VP pick on geography
Only on race (I predict).
LiveScience: Worms Do Calculus to Find Food
This story will be passed around to everyone attending the next National Council of Teachers of Math (NCTM) Convention, wondering why high school seniors can’t do calculus.
PC World: Google Counts More Than 1 Trillion Unique Web URLs
And 2 million of them don’t even have anything to do with porn or Viagra.
AP: NYC adds double dutch rope jumping as school sport
And teams will travel to away meets on double dutch buses.
AP: China ’sets up Olympic sex determination lab’
They’re called showers.
AP: San Francisco Mayor Newsom weds in Montana
Since he didn’t wed in San Francisco, we know for sure it was a woman.
AP: Swift receives her high school diploma, in mail
Then she didn’t receive it swiftly.
Daily Mail: You must be nicer to Muslims, Britain is told by UN human rights chiefs
How much f’n nicer can they be?
Dhimmi Watch: Obama promises to “tear down walls” between Muslims and the rest of the world
The rest of the world then better get used to bombs and burquas.
AP: Big change for welfarist Sweden: School choice
Who says it’s not welfarist?
AFP: US, NZealand push for elections in Fiji
Get ready to hear about Fiji’s WMDs if they don’t comply.
AP: Indian army to help prevent rhino poaching
Come to think of it, I’d like to “poach” a few RINOs of our own.
LiveScience: Diamonds May Have Jumpstarted Life on Earth
And they still do — about five years after you buy a girl a diamond worth one-sixth of your yearly income, you have one or two new lives in your midsts.
AP: FDA: Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US
So, in other words, we need some border control when it comes to peppers.
AFP: Lancet study blasts Swiss stance on HIV protection
For some reason, I don’t think HIV is very high on the list of Swiss social ills.
AFP: Britney Spears to pay $20,000 a month child support
See, Shaniqua Tompkins? K-Fed can make it on $20G a month.
Take Two: AFP: Britney Spears to pay $20,000 a month child support
Since Britney’s paying, this means that K-Fed got custody, meaning that Britney must be really f’ed up for the courts to give HIM the kids.
Reuters: Unwitting [Dutch] gardener man tends marijuana plants
And will soon get the Netherlands’ highest medallic honor — The Sacred Order of the Doob.
Russia slams Bush for linking Nazi and Soviet evils
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday that U.S. President George W. Bush had insulted veterans of World War Two by equating the evils of Soviet communism with Nazi fascism.
The Foreign Ministry said Bush had coupled Nazi fascism and Soviet communism as “a single evil” and thus “hurt the hearts” of World War Two veterans in Russia and allied countries, including the United States.
It’s really tempting to think of both persuasions as samey-same, and to create a portmanteau of their names such as “Communazi” and use it flippantly. But if they really were the same, then why did their heads of state fight each other viciously in the last century? Why do their few modern-day adherents have nothing but vitriol to describe each other?
The reason is that, while both were dictatorial and murderous, Naziism was based around the ambitions of a particular people, and communism was (in theory) pursuing the universal brotherhood of man. Remember, “fascism” comes from the Latin “fasces,” that being an artisitc symbol that showed relatively similar wooden rods being tied to an axe, symbolizing Roman authority over Romans for the sake of Romans and Romans alone. The political analogy is that a fascist regime is nationalistic in some way, for the sake of people that are alike in some way, and definitely not globalist or universalist. And “communism” obviously has its root in “common.”
I’m thinking of a scene from the 1964 Rat Pack movie, Robin and the Seven Hoods, starring Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Peter Falk and Bing Crosby, which dramatizes the Prohibition-era gangland life of illegal booze and gambling in Chicago. After Robbo (Sinatra) starts giving money Robin Hood-like to Allen A. Dale’s (Crosby) orphanage, and starting other charities in Chicago, people start gravitating toward Robbo’s gang’s illicit beer joint and casino, leaving little business for rival gangster Guy Gisborne’s (Falk) joint.
The scene contrasts the big and jubilant crowd spending a lot of money at the Robbo joint, and the few people at the Gisborne joint, one woman therein said that she “would like a dollar’s worth of [poker] chips.” That was the straw that broke Gisborne’s back, so he and his gang hatch a revenge plot.
That packed house vs empty house dichotomy is how the Twin Cities will look late next month. The Republicans will have their convention at the XCel Energy Center in St. Paul, where the city’s NHL franchise plays, while Ron Paul will have an alternate convention at the similar Target Center in Minneapolis, where the city’s NBA franchise plays. (Each arena is very similar to St. Louis’s own Scottrade Center.) Six hours after they went on sale online, 6,200 tickets were sold to the Paul event, and they will probably have all 15,000 sold out soon.
At the end of next month, the Target Center will be Robbo’s hoppin’ affair, while the XCel Energy Center will be Gisborne’s slow night.
Obama News Network: Report warns of Southern AIDS ‘crisis’
Not until you get to Paragrah #8 on Page #2 do you get any hints of race, though most people won’t read past the first page.
KSDK: ‘Pantyhose Bandit’ Loose in Mass. Neighborhood
Probably will be used for party favors at one of those weird “marriages” that Massachusetts now allows.
AP: Boy Bites Pit Bull to Fend Off Attack
And, speaking of rare news, the Obama News Networks covered John McCain today for a few seconds.
MTV: Nas Set To Deliver Petition To Fox News Decrying Obama Smears
So says the rapper who entiled his recent release with the N-word.
KC Star: Knowing who’s who in the race for Missouri governor
I already know who Jim Guest is, unlike the KC Star and the STL P-D.
MissouriNet: Civil case filed over Missouri’s method of lethal injection
And another deal was swung for Ballpark Village.
KSDK: More Than 30 Candidates Apply to be St. Louis Public School Superintendent
Sorry, P.T. There’s more than one sucker born every minute.
McPaper: Bilbray: Suspect’s release in Mexico ‘a huge blunder’
When Mexico makes a “huge blunder,” it’s dog bites man. When they get something right, it’s man bites dog.
Space.com: European Team Discovers New Alien World
And Barack Obama tells Berliners that they should be allowed to immigrate into Europe and have the full complement of civil rights and welfare benefits.
AP: China says has more people surfing the Web than US
China calls it “the web,” we just call it Chinese government propaganda.
McPaper: ‘NCAA Football 09′ is well short of a touchdown
As many of those who will play it are a few short of a six-pack.
PC World: Fugitive Spam King Dead in Apparent Murder-suicide
As people all over the world today are getting spam e-mails memoralizing his death with an embedded cheap Viagra ad.
AP: N.M. researchers hope to cultivate `calming herb’
But the DEA takes none too kindly to cannabis farms.
Reuters: NZ students offer cash for “arrest” of U.S.’s Rice
But retract the offer when they realize they were engaging in racial profiling.
This Mokwa-car impound scandal is begging me for an opinion.
You think Joe Mokwa is the only person with public authority in this city that has done something at least a little corrupt? What’s behind the mania about this relatively minor scandal is the civil rights industry’s desire to get Mokwa out and to install a black Police Chief.
And as we all know, there is absolutely no corruption or misdeeds surrounding black elected or non-elected officials.
UPDATE 5 PM: Mokwa is retiring, and he and the Police Board came to a deal on a severance package today. Lt. Col. Steve Pollihan will be acting chief.
As for the next Chief, there is a lot of talk that the BOPC will look outside the department. If they stay in-house, and considering that the history of the SLPD Chief going back all the way to at least Bob Sheets has been that Chiefs come from the rank of SLPD Lieutenant Colonels, my preference is Roy Joachimstaller. He’s very tall, muscular, baritone-voiced, and almost exceptionally communicative. When I was going through the Citizens Academy in 2000, he (then a Major) led a couple of sessions. The symbolism of having him as Chief would be great — not that having a physically big, well-spoken baritone would necessarily stop all crime in the city, but there’s a reason why FDR didn’t want his disability and his wheelchair-boundness well known.
UPDATE 8/5: St. Louis Cop Talk has a poll about the next Chief. At the time of this writing, Joachimstaller is in the lead.
AP:
McCain visits German restaurant _ in Ohio
(Really? Maybe the person who wrote this article might want to look up the history of the American “Kraut Belt,” Ohio being in the heart thereof. — Ed.)
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As Barack Obama delivered a high-profile speech in Berlin, McCain said he was focusing his attention this week on economic issues, including soaring food and fuel costs. He has been busy campaigning and raising funds in key battleground states like Ohio.
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At the same time, the Republican National Committee was running anti-Obama ads in Berlin, Pa., and other namesake villages in Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
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German Village is in the 15th congressional district, held by Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce. It encompasses most of the city of Columbus and its southern and western suburbs. Pryce won in the last congressional election by a narrow margin.
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He was overheard remarking on the “great sausages here.” The restaurant’s specialties are “Bahama Mama” bratwurst and cream puffs.
“Can we have a couple of cream puffs to go, too?” he asked.
While they’re all at it, they should realize that half the whites in America, and most of the whites in the swing states like Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, are of significant Germanic ancestry. A good way to get their votes is to stem the tide of hatred and bigotry of, and ignorance toward, the German-Americans, and pointing out the innumerable contributions, both tangible and intangible, they made to the founding of America and its rise to a world superpower.
First off, we found out that the reason the attendance was so high at the Obama speech was that there was a free concert before then. This has been a common scam to pump up the numbers of those who show up to BHO rallies.
From the speech:
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
And if you were just a junior Senator from Illinois, there’s no way he could get an audience in Berlin.
I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city.
Yet, you look like a lot of American soliders that are still occupying Germany, and the ones that look like you seem to commit a lot of crime around the German towns where there are American bases. Some are even collecting German welfare system benefits.
His father — my grandfather — was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.
Obama has more American slaveholder lineage than slave lineage.
Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.
On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin.
Some of that was our doing.
The rubble of this city had yet to be built into a wall.
There had to be a wall because the three biggest empires of the world had to gang up on Germany, and then divide the spoils between them when they realized they weren’t all alike.
The Soviet shadow had swept across Eastern Europe, while in the West, America, Britain, and France took stock of their losses, and pondered how the world might be remade.
And the Germans were doing a good job beating back that “Soviet shadow” in the years just before and the first few years of WWII. Yet, we had to interfere.
The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe. Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin.
Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.
I don’t think the Germans on either side of the wall had much of a choice.
Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle; where a victory over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to defend our common security.
Part of the German miracle in the American-occupied West was that they were German and they were relatively free. As far as NATO, its real purpose was threefold: (1) To keep the Americans in, (2) To keep the Russians out, and (3) To keep the Germans down.
People of the world — look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.
The Berlin Wall falling had nothing to do with the universal brotherhood of man — it had to do with Germans reuniting.
The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope. But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers — dangers that cannot be contained within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.
The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.
While Obama said this, there were a lot of boos and jeers from the crowd. That’s why I suspect a good part of this crowd were Turks and other Muslims.
The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin.
And the Taliban almost had the poppy crop eradicated. We go marching in, and it’s thriving again. My bet is that the CIA is financing black budget projects on the backs of Berlin’s heroin addicts.
In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common. In America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe’s role in our security and our future. Both views miss the truth — that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world; and that just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the globe.
That’s the problem. Europe doesn’t want American bases anymore. They want us to take our Negroes and go home.
That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.
We knew this already, but BHO is tipping his open-borders hand.
Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice; and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid.
The Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland ended their juvenile religious war only after 9/11, because the demonstration of absurdity on 9/11 showed their own. That “Atlantic alliance” re the Balkans is a ne plus ultra demonstration of Clinton-Blair Anglo-American arrogance, by neutering the Christian Serbs to let the Muslim Kosovars overrun the region, and to give AQ/OBL bragging rights. And I don’t have to say anything about South Africa — if anything, the forced overthrow of the white apartheid government was taken as a final victory by the world’s few remaining Communists. The ANC and other similar organizations were Soviet-financed for much of their existence.
That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic. Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the sky above our heads, and people to assemble where we stand today. And this is the moment when our nations — and all nations — must summon that spirit anew.
I agree with this part somewhat and with qualifications. If we are to have transnational alliances and cooperation, it should ONLY be with other white countries and ONLY for the purpose of defending whites against non-white invasions, immigration, terrorism, etc. Recent history shows the insanity of siding with non-whites against whites.
If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.
We didn’t beat Communism with ideas. We did it with strategic bluffing with military might. And, by the way, the fall of the Soviet Union wound up rubbing the radical Islamic genie out of the bottle. And our obsession with Soviet communism vis-a-vis Afghanistan in the 1980s inadvertently created AQ/OBL, which bit us in the foot two decades later.
This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the traffickers who sell drugs on your streets.
And yet, BHO is opposed to border walls.
No one welcomes war. I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO’s first mission beyond Europe’s borders is a success. For the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be done. America cannot do this alone. The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild their nation. We have too much at stake to turn back now.
If you think Iraq is a quagmire, Afghanistan is even worse. The only reason it doesn’t seem that way is that our presence in Afghanistan isn’t as big as ours in Iraq. But mark me — nobody has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan. The Soviets’s attempt in the 1980s weakened them enough so that Reagan’s SDI/military buildup bluff worked to topple the empire. You can easily topple their laughable governments or Boy Scout-acumen warlords and juntas, but you can’t occupy them to the point to where they’ll have a form of government that they don’t want. We should do for Afghanistan what we should do for Iraq — find a Karzai-like or Saddam-like secular dictator, put him in charge, give him a bunch of armnaments, and get out.
This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
That effort being financed by the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love.
But they didn’t, and wouldn’t have had: Mutually Assured Destruction. Two mega-empires pointing thousands of nukes at each other is what kept the world fairly peaceful for several decades.
This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday. In this century, we need a strong European Union that deepens the security and prosperity of this continent, while extending a hand abroad.
Sensible Europeans want an EU that defends Europe, and keeps its nose out of abroad.
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet. This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.
Which is why EU countries are still somewhat protectionist.
This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East. My country must stand with yours and with Europe in sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions.
And? The United States of America has tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, the UK has thousands, and Israel has several hundred. And all of them together are telling Iran that they can’t have one. Yes, Ahmadinejad is a loose cannon, but there are ways to deal with him if you just use your brain. The only reason he’s still in power is because of our saber-rattling, and Iranians rallying around him for nationalist reasons. Stop the saber-ratting, pretend in public that Iran isn’t a problem anymore, and then Mahmoud the nut will eventually be tossed out of power. The cooperate with the new Iranian government to discipline him.
We must support the Lebanese who have marched and bled for democracy, and the Israelis and Palestinians who seek a secure and lasting peace.
By killing Jewish children on a regular basis. That’s a real cracker jack way to peace.
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Let us resolve that all nations — including my own — will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere. This is the moment to give our children back their future. This is the moment to stand as one.
The Germans would like nothing better for us Americans to reduce our standard of living, because it would instantly make us less competitive vis-a-vis them in the arena of briefcases.
Sixty years ago, the planes that flew over Berlin did not drop bombs; instead they delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful children. And in that show of solidarity, those pilots won more than a military victory. They won hearts and minds; love and loyalty and trust — not just from the people in this city, but from all those who heard the story of what they did here.
Of course the West Berliners loved us, because we were giving them food when they would have had none.
Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?
And as an Irish newspaper recently noted, in a rare fit of racial common sense, the more you help the third world, the more third worlders there are in such scourges.
Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words “never again” in Darfur?
Zimbabwe? Well, who caused that? “Never again” in Darfur? Barack, go visit a Bismarck memorial, there might be someone there who might tell you about Pomeranian grenadiers.
Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don’t look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people?
Who, protected by the white liberals’ “equality,” will then go on to bomb subways, trains and fly airplanes into tall buildings, and riot in the streets by burning cars on almost a monthly basis.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.
So, the United States of America is nothing more than a long struggle for liberty and equality? Note to Berlin: We’re not all Lincolnians.
But I also know how much I love America.
Just not its flag lapel pins.
Most of this speech was an attempt by Obama to channel JFK and Reagan. It came across as merely a laundry list of liberal, egalitarian globalist pablum. At least there were no jelly doughnut references this time.
KSDK: Obama to Open 23 Rural Offices in Missouri
Most of them will have the activity level of the Maytag repairman, if you don’t count the media.
AP: Schwarzenegger threatens minimum wage for workers
For many California workers, the minimum wage would amount to a pay raise.
WND: U.S. government: We know parenting better than you
So says the institution that insisted that Saddam Hussein had WMDs.
WND: Reid: $5-a-gallon gas is no problem
For him.
WND: WND columnists to honor king of radio
To do that, you have to go to Memphis.
WND: Nancy Pelosi: The new George Wallace
You’re kidding, right?
AP: 50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign
Taco Hell countersues alleging that, because of inflation, 50 Cent should be calling himself 94 Cent today.
CNN: Young Republicans worry about McCain’s appeal
That 50-year old Republican Youth Leader is worried that JSM won’t appeal to his 45-ish flock.
CNN: Poll: ‘Sharp reversal’ for Obama with Latino voters
Sorry, JSM. No matter how hard you try, you can’t out-liberal a liberal.
AP: [Green Bay, Wisc.] Couple claim mysterious noise plagues their house
It’s probably Brett Favre having it out with Ted Johnson.
Reuters: Ford to keep small-pickup plant open for 2 more years: report
Get back to me in two years.
CQ Politics: Gingrich to House GOP: Stay on Message
What message?
Reuters: Soy-based foods may lower sperm count: study
Oh, I get it now. You take a blue pill to get it up, then drink a bottle of soy sauce so you don’t get a phone call nine months later.
AP: Pamela Anderson starring in new reality show
The headline is oxymoronic.
ABC:
Obama On Tonight’s Berlin Speech: “A Crapshoot”
How does one prepare to speak to a million screaming Germans?
I asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, this question as he boarded O Force One and came back to the reporters’ veal pen before the plane took off from Tel Aviv, Israel to Berlin, Germany.
This evening Obama will give a speech at the Victory Column at Tiergaten Park.
“I doubt we’re gonna have a million screaming Germans,” Obama said.
You might get a million screamers, but they won’t necessarily be traditional Germans.
CNS:
Mass. House Advances ‘Gender-Neutral’ Bill
Boston (AP) – The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given its initial approval to a bill that would require all future legislation be written in language that is gender neutral.
And it would also require that all legislative language be cleared by Pat from Saturday Night Live.
T.S. Eliot’s teenage home on 4446 Westminster, and his last home as a St. Louisan and an American, before he expatriated himself to England, is up on the market, for $774G. That area is kinda “iffy,” in that it’s about on the dividing line between white liberal yuppie mecca Central West End, and the black north side. So I doubt that even a historical joint like this will bag $774, considering today’s housing climate.
What gets me is that T.S. Eliot is probably among the very small handful of famous authors and poets with St. Louis lineage, and his grandfather founded Washington University. Yet, there wasn’t a peep about this on the local news. I had to find out about this from the Georgia-based Conservative Heritage Times Blog.
In case you’re wondering, another famous address in St. Louis, 5135 Kensington (hint: Judy Garland) isn’t there anymore. That block is solid ghetto.
NPR: Sen. Dodd: Fannie, Freddie ‘Too Big To Fail’
Any given Roman Senator, 400 A.D.: Empire “too big to fail”
P-D: Man gets 7 years in slaying over a beer
Thanks to a certain Belgian corporation, beer will get more expensive, and these kinds of stories will proliferate.
AP: R.I. police say man had 0.491 blood alcohol level
I think the only thing that can have a 0.491 BAC is a can of beer.
Steve Patterson: Some People Shouldn’t Procreate or Have Firearms
Ironically, those same libs who agree with the latter start screaming about bent crosses and gas chambers when someone agrees with the former.
CNS: Study, Poll: News Coverage Favors Obama
Common sense of those both blind and deaf: News coverage favors Obama.
CNS: How Big Can Government Get?
Do you really want to test this President or the next one on that?
KSDK: Foreign-Born TB Cases Need Better Control, [CDC] Says
Gee, Mr. Dees. I thought we weren’t supposed to equate immigration with epidemiology.
Walter Williams: Academic fraud in black schools
Naw, really?
Reuters: Obama calls Israel a “miracle,” vows staunch support
What’s a miracle is that Israel is still here, considering demographics and the country’s world-famous liberalism and racial egalitarianism.
McPaper: Richard Simmons pushes to get kids active in school
While the pediatricians push Ritalin to the kids to make them less active in school.
AFP: Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores
Plastic bags: L.A.’s 359,492,110,088th biggest problem.
AP: Inglewood residents demand change after shootings
A few of them will be demanding cash.
AFP: Viagra helps depressed women: study
“I took them little blue pills, and all of a sudden my wife is less depressed.”
AP: Magazine: Obama girls have youthful zeal, manners
You’re telling me that two girls aged 10 and 7 have youthful zeal? Whodathunk?
Politico: House Republicans push to get McCain editorial in NY Times
You know, the one written on stone tablets and taken to the paper via horse-drawn covered wagon.
McPaper: More college cafeterias dump food trays
“They eat with their hands anyway.”
AFP: Videogames getting minds of their own
As gamers gradually lose gray matter.
Reuters: Not everyone can meet our nudist standards
If they have standards, they’ll soon be challenged in Federal court.
AP: NY man earning $100K lived in company paint shed
Otherwise, he would have had to spend $4.50 a gallon in gas to commute from the $800,000 one-bedroom condo.
The Hill: Man threatens to jump from [Senate Office Building]
He won’t be institutionalized because doing so means that they’d have to send about one-quarter of the Senate to the dippy farm.
NY Post: THE NAKED CITY — NUDES FLASH: IN-BUFF STUFF IS HUGE!
I’m guessing Rump Roast is the most popular dish.
Mayor Slay: Declaration of Independence Visiting
I recommend that you read it, Mayor, because parts of the first half might well apply to thee.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: McDonald’s robber is finalist in jingle contest — for McDonald’s
What would really be the topper is if the Brady Campaign had him give speeches against conceal-carry.
CNS: Jay Leno’s Last ‘Tonight’ Show Will Be May 29
Johnny Carson did his last “Tonight” in late May, too, but Jay Leno, you’re no Johnny Carson.
Slashdot: Firefox’s Effect On Other Browsers
You mean there are other browsers?
Malkin: Open-borders Wachovia bank posts $8.9 billion loss
Oh well, as the purveyor of a similar political persuasion once said, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
Now we know what symbol we’ll have to pledge allegiance to after January 20.
McClatchy: Crackdown in Zimbabwe forces activists into hiding
The good news is that they all made off with a lot of money, perhaps trillions of dollars.
AFP: Amazon powers Atlantic Ocean’s carbon sink: study
Jeff Bezos eases global warming along with selling books.
AP: Men sentenced for setting friend’s crotch ablaze
I’ve heard of burning love, but this is ridiculous.
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