Passed today at the age of 90. He was a vocal supporter of Joe McCarthy and George Wallace. Even better, the Mexica Kookment called him a Nazi.
He is tied to St. Louis, in that he met his wife of many many many years while she was a grad student at Washington University, at the same time he was the News Director at KXOK radio.
Oh no, he might not win re-election 2010.
AFP: NBA reportedly set to borrow 175 million dollars
Will barely cover an offseason’s worth of weed for the players.
Jihad Watch: Al-Qaeda top dog: “Islam is the only way to escape from the economic crisis”
So that the American economy will be as good as Afghanistan’s.
P-D: Lemay video game shop owner indicted on sex charges
He might also soon go up the river for grand theft auto.
P-D: Sarah Steelman to Red State blog: I am not a jerk!
Maybe not, but she can be a bitch.
CNS: Obama Paving Way for Health Care Rationing, Say Budget Committee Republicans
There are two people with brain cancer from Massachusetts — one is a 45-year old dock loader, and the other is a 76-year old U.S. Senator. Who’s gonna get the health care and who isn’t?
CNS: Obama’s Budget Chief Doesn’t Know Total Cost of Obama’s Health-Care Plan
He couldn’t think of the word for the number that comes after trillion.
The Onion: ATF Agents Closing In On Nation’s Most Notorious Cigarette Bummer
“Buy your own cigs, kids need health care.”
P-D: Thieves smash auto through St. Louis store and take off with televisions
Maybe they’re not thieves, but just citizens frustrated with the DTV transition.
P-D: St. Louis doesn’t have the market cornered on Obama streets
FGS, don’t tell them that, or every street in St. Louis not named after a black preacher or ballplayer is going to be named Obama.
Washington Times: Hill targets Mexico drug feuds
“Give us enough weed and coke for the weekend, or we’re gonna shut you down.”
AFP: Sinister business: Lefties have evolutionary boon
If they’re talking about the current President and the last one, then evolution isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
AFP: US government takes up 36 percent of Citi
Congratulations, you now own a share of the Titanic — too bad the whole iceberg incident was hours ago.
Fox Biz: American Society Of Newspaper Editors Cancels ‘09 Convention
The reason they had to cancel is truth in advertising laws — at the rate newspapers are going, by the time this convention would start, “Editors” would be falsely plural.
AP: Jennifer Hudson: Performing is ‘like therapy’
Fine, but for the rest of us, watching you perform is ‘like enema.’
E!: Slumdog Stars Get Huge India Homecoming
Really, it’s a cardboardboxcoming.
I’m taking most of the weekend off from blogging, so I’m going to round up some of the Friday news in short snippets.
* I hope this means what I think it means, or what I hope it means — Several British cities will be hosting Conventions on Modern Liberty where, they will among other things, call for the UK to enact a formal Bill of Rights. Knowing England, this might not mean what I think it means, it might be a curious grabbag of minorities and left-wingers who think “civil liberties” means letting radical Muslims do whatever they want.
* The University of New Hampshire has released a study stating that simulated juries are more likely to be lenient towards defendants of their own race who are accused of committing a violent crime against someone of another race (only black-white was studied here). The most shocking find of the study is that if the defendant is black (i.e. the victim is white), and the defendant’s attorneys emphasize race, white jurors are more likely to take pity on the black defendant than if the defense lawyers didn’t mention race. Which is kind of a moot point because the jurors can see the defendant. The researchers speculate that whites don’t want to appear racist, which of course is a religious commandment at universities like the UofNH.
* The City of St. Louis practically had to bribe Schnucks to open a location at Union and Natural Bridge (soon to be the corner of Obama and Obama). This goes to show you how bad that area is — Schnucks, which is liberal enough to put the No-CCW signs up on its doors, don’t want to be around diversity, without a really sweetened pot. Now we see where they were coming from: The St. Louis City Circuit Attorney’s office alleges that one Jimmy Davis Love-El, 26, made holes in two of his pals, 23 and 22, in the parking lot of that Schnucks last month.
* Nebraska’s Supreme Court finds no constitutional fault for the decision by the Nebraska State Highway Patrol in firing a State Bear who joined an organization that had “links” to the Ku Klux Klan. Now, do they mean real “links” or do they mean “links” as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center, i.e. if you stayed in the same motel room that was occupied on the night before by someone whose fifth cousin once removed lived next door to a man whose best friend attended a Klan rally for five minutes, that means you’re linked to the Klan. My guess is that since hiring and firing are subject to a lot of civil rights and discrimination constraints, that the State Bears had to have their ducks in a row, and to define “link” in a way far more solid than the SPLC does.
What gets me is that the Court’s majority opinion bloviated about Nebraska being founded in the spirit of “equality and tolerance.” I wonder if this sword will cut towards State Bears who are black and belong to controversial “brown Klans” or Hispanics (a rapidly growing population in Nebraska) who are La Raza (The Race)/MECHA/Mexica Movement members. And it wouldn’t take very much to find 19th century laws in Nebraska that belie the “equality and tolerance” legerdemain that we’re supposed to think its founders were thinking about way back when.
* There was an armed robbery at the Metro Link station at the Delmar Loop in St. Louis yesterday morning. Two men believed to be in their late teens jacked up at gunpoint someone waiting on the ML. What jumps out at me is that this happened in broad daylight (8:30 AM), and in the obvious presence of Metro Link “security.” Like the Mardi Gras shootings this past week that happened in plain view of the cops, it’s another example on how brazen black thugs are getting in the Age of Obama. If it were 11 PM and no security guard at night, you could figure it. It used to be that the least risky time to be in the ghetto was between 7 and 11 in the morning, because those are the hours when the miscreants were most likely to be sleeping. Not anymore.
* Jim Bunning Shrugged: Ron Paul’s second son Rand, an eye surgeon in Bowling Green, Kentucky, might want to be the new Junior U.S. Senator from the state. Ron Paul himself gave up his house seat in 1984 after having won it in 1976 to run for U.S. Senate from Texas, to try to replace the retiring John Tower, but lost the Republican primary to Phil Gramm. So perhaps in Rand Paul’s mind, his Senate run are “Dreams of My Father.”
* This is interesting: The parents of a young woman killed with her friend while riding a motorcycle, the responsible party being an illegal alien driving a car, the illegal alien fleeing the scene on foot and still hasn’t been found, is going to sue the illegal alien’s employer. They are alleging that the roofing company knew that he was here illegally, and that they gave him a job that would require him driving in spite of the fact he didn’t have a drivers license.
The anti-gun nuts on the left would like to see people who don’t lock their guns up in safes to be held responsible if someone breaks into their house, steals the gun and then the gun gets used to commit a violent crime. I wonder what they think about this, except they would probably say that we should have given him citizenship so that he could get a drivers license, and if he had a drivers license he wouldn’t have been such a bad driver — as if states don’t hand out drivers licenses like candy anyway.
Second-degree murder in many states is defined as someone dying in the course of you committing another felony. It might be a long stretch to charge the people who hired him knowing he was here illegally (if they did know) with second-degree murder, if knowingly hiring illegals is a Federal felony, but crazier things have happened.
* Someone shot at two AmerenUE linemen working at a substation halfway in between Cape and Jackson this morning, near I-55 at US 61 Center Junction. The suspect, who killed himself as he was about to be apphrehended by police, is said to be from Perryville. This sounds like an insane thing to do, and if there is any motive at all to what he did, it might have something to do with his utility bills.
* The Beat Goes On: The family of a Murphysboro murder suspect and the family of the victim got into a melee on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse. You can probably figure out the rest of the details. This keeps up, another one of them will be wearing county stripes.
* St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s newest ad in his bid to win a third term touts the fact that his administration took 5,000 landlords to court, and this is why certain St. Louis neighborhoods are turning aroud. Except that this damage was done by the tenants, not the landlords. The way he figures, there are lot more tenants than landlords that vote.
Also, there has been chatter among real estate professionals in St. Louis that Slay and St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley swung a secret deal, where the city would stop taking new applications for Section 8, while the county would accept many more. This would de-blacken the city, meaning less crime and more left-wing white yuppies moving in, and blacken the county to keep Charlie Dooley and County Democrats in power forever. Wherever the neighborhood in Slay’s ad is, it might have benefited from that more than anything.
Many of the renovations the Mayor boasts about are happening in city neighboroods like Soulard and Benton Park that just so happened still to be mostly white.
* What can you say for a country that is so fucked up that one of its own ambassadors doesn’t want his own people to go back to his and their own country?
* Newtonian Laws of Courage: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich calls out AG Holder on the “nation of cowards” thing. Except when he was actually Speaker of the House, Gingrich poured cold water all over House Republicans that did want to be so “courageous” and to end affirmative action.
Phyllis Schalfly collapsed yesterday after giving the Feminazis hell in their own home office no less, that being the University of California at Berkeley.
Not a peep in the St. Louis media, at least its internet version. Being she’s a St. Louisan, you would think that they would at least mention it, even if it is with scorn and ridicule. I had to read about it on Michelle Malkin.
Her prognosis is good, and it looks like she’s gonna bounce right back. I hope I can be in half that good of a shape when I’m 85, and think half as well as she does when I’m that age. And because all six of her children are doctors, she’ll have plenty of help right on the home front.
All three of Arizona’s major universities are imploring their students to heed the U.S. State Department travel advisory about Mexico, and not to choose the country as a spring break destination.
Question: Not so much NAU in Flagstaff, but if you’re a student at ASU in Tempe or UofA in Tuscon, why do you think you need to go south of the border to get to Mexico, when you’ve already got plenty of Mexico right where you are?
ESPN: Brooks, Dunn done in Tampa Bay
Their next concert is in Atlanta.
CNS: Study Finds 1 in 5 NFL Players in ‘80s Used Steroids
Almost 0 in 5 AFC players used.
CNS: Use Stimulus As Intended or We’ll Embarrass You, Biden Says
What’s he gonna do? Give wedgies to Republican governors at the next NGA meeting?
CNS: Barney Frank: Republicans Didn’t Applaud Obama for Fear of Limbaugh and Hannity
As opposed to the Democrats, who had all sorts of different opinions about the porkulus and had no fear of the President.
Malkin: Helen Thomas said what about Bobby Jindal?
That he was pitiful — proving a broken clock is right twice a day.
P-D: Rescued tiger is moving closer to St. Louis
Hide the pork chops and the small dogs. Otherwise, they’ll be Grrrrrrrrreat!!!
NYT: I Ponied Up for Sheryl Crow?
Yes, Maureen, you’re helping to stimulate the economy of Kennett, Missouri.
AP: LA County urges name change for Negrohead Mountain
I have a suggestion: Monicahead.
Sky News: Immigration Crisis On Britain’s Doorstep
Huh? Britain’s an island, and unless they’re the world’s best endurance swimmers, you’re pretty safe.
CNS: Intelligence Chief: ‘Global Economic Crisis,’ Not Iran or Al Qaeda, Is Top Security Threat to U.S.
Who says Iran or AQ didn’t have anything to do with the global economic crisis?
P-D: House ignores Obama’s call for sacrifice, boosts 09 budget
Oh no sucker, “sacrifice” didn’t include House Democrats, it means you.
SEMO: Rush Limbaugh offers $800,000 for Cape Girardeau airport improvements
Maybe it needs a new runway to handle all those BBQ and Rush Limbaugh Museum tourists?
AP/Obama: Police: Miami piano teacher kills kids, wife, self
The piano was unharmed.
AP: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews explains ‘Oh God’ remark
He was sorry for taking Barack Obama’s name in vain.
Reuters: Mexico vows more troops for drug war near U.S. border
And by “troops” they mean drug runners.
Reuters: Obama forecasts $1.75 trillion deficit this year
Remember the good ole days when you could get a whole Federal budget for $1.75 trillion? You know, like nine years ago?
NPR: Expert: 10-Minute Workouts Can Have Big Payoff
The 10-minute workout that most people get can have a big payoff nine months later.
LiveScience: Sex Goes Way Back, Fossil Find Shows
Not long after jawed fish invented sex, a male asked a female for sex in exchange for a piece of algae, starting the world’s oldest profession.
AP/Obama: Apple director says no change in Jobs’ plans
Someone named “Jobs” might not have one.
AP: Pop star Stevie Wonder celebrated at White House
Stevie Wonder is almost has glad as Obama that American society is colorblind.
Some $27,000 in money raised by DeSmet High School students for missions and charity work in Central America has gone missing. This is on top of another $8,000 raised by and for the same two years ago.
Oh well, if it wasn’t stolen now, it would have wound up in the hands of some Banana Republic kleptocrat. Better to be stolen now and kept in country than stolen later.
It looks like Congressional Democrats and the D.C. City Council are inadvertently doing us all a favor, by pulling the rug from under a D.C. voucher program.
While the neo/lamers on the right are all upset, (indeed, I found the NYP story on Michelle Malkin), I’m not. This program is probably some expensive boondoggle (like KIPP) that only brings the mostly black students its serves close to the white average. However, put this same money in the white suburbs of D.C., and you’re likely to get some exceptionally high achievers.
Common sense tells us that we should use more resources on things and ideas that work rather than things that don’t work. If Thomas Edison would have spent his time on electric light bulb ideas that didn’t produce any light instead of the one that did produce light, you would be in the dark today.
Yet, we’re not allowed to apply this common sense to education, especially in the United States of America. Mainly because of the uncomfortable racial truths of the situation, we direct more money at black students that tend not to do well than at white students who do better even in schools with very low per student per year spending amounts.
I have a radical proposal — spend more money on bright students than dumb students. This D.C. news is a good start.
Ann Coulter rips a new one into the Obama/NEA-AFT axis today. She notes:
In fourth grade, the earliest grade for which international comparisons are available, American students outperform most other countries in reading, math and science. Fourth-graders score in the 92nd percentile in science, the 58th percentile in math and the 70th percentile in reading, where they beat 26 of 35 countries, including Germany, France and Italy.
But by the eighth grade, American students are only midrange in international comparisons. (On the plus side, by the eighth grade they’re noticeably fatter.)
By the 12th grade – after receiving the full benefits of an American education – Americans are near the bottom. Let X represent the number of years spent in U.S. public schools, and Y represent average test scores in math and reading – oh, never mind.
With an additional eight years of a public school education under their belts, Americans fall from the 92nd percentile in science to the 29th percentile. While American fourth-graders are bested only by South Korea and Japan in science, by 12th grade, the only countries the American students can beat are Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa.
There are a couple of reasons for this, one of which is an uncomfortable racial truth. Black children, and to a lesser extent, Hispanic children, mature more rapidly than white children. But, in about the 4th grade, perhaps a little later for Hispanics, they level off really quickly at least in mental development, and white children as a measure of central tendency catch up at about that point and then move ahead.
So, in the fourth grade, American students are doing pretty well, even as many of them are black and Hispanic. However, as you look at the 8th and 12th grade numbers, you can see the leveling off effects, as “Americans,” and their average weighted down by blacks and Hispanics, fall further behind white students in Europe.
The other reason is that in many of these other countries, only the brightest fraction of students reach the grade level that is equivalent to the American senior year of high school. The dumber ones are tracked out of education. IIRC, in Japan, only the brighest half of (what we would think of as) middle school students get to go on to high school. In England, you’re finished with school at 16 if you don’t have the brain chops. So at least with the 12th grade numbers, it’s an unfair comparison — it’s all of ours (including the minorities) against their better ones (nearly all white and Oriental).
In se, our low numbers aren’t that big of a problem in context.
U.S. Tumbles to Sixth in Innovation
Long the unchallenged global leader in innovation and competitiveness, the United States now ranks No. 6 among the 40 most developed economies, according to a report published on Wednesday.
The report from Washington, D.C., think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation comes a day after U.S. President Barack Obama offered details of his administration’s plan to combat a worsening recession. (Group Asks Obama for $30B Tech Stimulus)
The United States now lags behind Singapore, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and South Korea in that order and placed dead last among the top 40 economies in terms of competitive growth.
I was all ready to pontificate about race, and our dumbed down education that panders to minorities and gives the short shrift to whites, as a cause of our decline in innovation. However, I wanted to hold off because I had a sneaking feeling that a think tank called “Information and Innovation Foundation” along K Street might have an ulterior agenda.
Voila:
The report came up with a number of areas that need improvement including … liberal immigration rules for high-skill candidates.
There you go, H-1B whores. This “study” is likely replete with faulty methodology, logical errors and statistical distortions. All in order to make the situation look worse than it is, because this “think tank” is nothing more than a front for the tech corporations that want cheap labor.
If they are telling the truth about innovation, maybe it’s because India’s doing so much of our tech industry now, meaning that if they get what they want, it would get worse.
SIL:
Bill would restrict private gun sales
SPRINGFIELD – A House panel narrowly endorsed an attempt Wednesday to toughen state gun laws, resurrecting an issue that fell two votes short of passage in the Illinois House last April.
The proposal, which was forwarded to the House floor on a 6-4 vote, aims to close the so-called private-sale loophole.
Under state law, people buying firearms from private sellers at gun shows must undergo a background check.
But, other private handgun sales are not subject to background checks. Supporters say current law allows guns to get into the hands of criminals who would otherwise not be able to buy firearms.
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The legislation comes as a handful of downstate lawmakers are pushing a number of proposals to allow Illinoisans to carry concealed weapons – an idea that has drawn the scorn of Chicago-area lawmakers, who oppose the concept.
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Opponents say the proposal would make felons out of people who are trading or selling firearms.
The National Rifle Association says the proposal would require virtually all handgun transfers – even those between a neighbor or a cousin – to be processed through a licensed firearm dealer.
Somehow, I think this bill is nothing more than cross-state sniping (no pun intended). South wants CCW? So North is going to respond by making things stricter. My bet is that this bill goes away if the CCW bill is withdrawn.
I have a solution — good state lines make good neighbors.
Carbondale’s Finest are trying to bag the people that have been responsible for a number of residential and commercial burglaries in the northwest part of the city. In spite of the fact that one home owner who was being hit at the time he was home saw two of the burglars, and were able to describe them as “young men,” we’re not given any other details, especially the most important one.
Not that a LEA or a newspaper in a state that has the Old Egalitarian Reprobate on its license plates and its conscience of idolatry would ever tell us.
NPR:
Deskercise: Staying Jazzed And Focused At School
Students at Mitchell Elementary School in Charleston, S.C., don’t just write their multiplication tables. They jump them.
Innovations like this are part of the burgeoning movement to promote more action-based learning. Some studies suggest that incorporating physical movement into the classroom improves student focus and attention.
When I was in elementary school, the school had a novel away to allow kids to burn off energy so that we were focused on our school work. I’m trying to remember what they called it, the word’s on the tip of my tongue…
…Oh yeah, that’s it. RECESS~!!!!
More and more schools have been eliminating traditional recess because of the paranoia about student achievement, especially in black schools. (Note the first photo in this article, from Mitchell Elementary in Charleston.) However, recess and physical activity is necessary for all students of that young age — if they don’t get it, and they’re fidgety in their desks, then people are going to wonder. At that time, the put the students on brain dope like Ritalin.
The black political power brokers in LA-2 are hunting Joseph Cao’s head. There are already a couple of recall petitions out on him, because on a couple of occasions he voted against The Messiah.
The article makes the point that I made earlier in this medium — it’s stupid for Dorkpublican leaders to call him the future of the Dorkpublican Party when he’s not even the future of his own district.
Whatever hope the AIDS researchers had to find a cure for the virus in the traditional sense, it’s fading fast. As it turns out, the faster AIDS spreads, the more likely it is to evolve and to develop resistance to the traditional cocktail of antiretroviral drugs.
And the virus has a ready-made population where it can spread quickly — sub-Saharan (black) Africans, not only in Africa, but any place else where they are, Europe, the Caribbean and the USA.
Rush Limbaugh took up for Ron Paul today, namely Barney Frank’s refusal to allow Dr. Paul to grill Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke when he testified about the porkulus at the House Financial Services Committee this morning. The tagline on Rush’s web version of the story denotes Frank’s authoritarian tendencies.
It’s too bad Rush didn’t take up for Ron Paul more than a year ago, instead of bashing and trashing him all the while pumping up Mitt Romney, who as early as late 2007, if you remember, advocated a $200 some odd billion bailout at the time; in other words he was for nine-figure bailouts before bailouts were cool — propose “only” a $200 billion bailout today and you’re a fiscal conservative by today’s impossible D.C. standards.
Then again, it’s too bad for Ron Paul that the financial crisis wasn’t eight months earlier, for he would have done much better than he did in the primaries and caucuses, even though a million votes is nothing to laugh at.
Then again, this “financial crisis” is the aftermath of what I think were George Soros and Co. machinations close enough to the election to get people to vote Obama. So it’s a moot point.
Disclaimer: Duncan Hunter was my first choice during the primaries, with Ron Paul being a close second.
Another month, another story blaming “weak” American gun laws as the source of illegal guns in Mexico. Look at how well Mexico’s gun laws have worked in that stead.
As usual, we are told that most illicit weaponry in Mexico has its legal genesis in American gun shows and gun shops. Then again, that’s the case for illicit weaponry in America, too. And, as usual, the talking heads blame straw purchasers, where I think residential and other thefts are the main way that guns make it off the legal supply line and into the illicit market. And, as you can predict, Mexico wants America to enact stricter gun laws. Or at least to end straw purchases and thefts, which is easier typed in a blog post than done.
The most obvious solution would be a comprehensive border security solution. And by comprehensive, I mean triple fencing, 100,000 votes AND the 101st Airborne, comprehensively. That would virtually bring gun smuggling from north to south to a halt. And if there’s the political will to do this, then there will also be the political will to deport a large enough fraction of Mexican illegals, such that it’ll compel the rest to self-deport. That way, most of miscreant Mexico won’t be able to access our legal gun market to begin with.
But Mexico doesn’t want this solution, because it would also mean that it wouldn’t be easy for people to move from south to north illicitly; this kind of migration is quasi-countenanced by the Mexican “government,” so that the Carlos Slim-style plutos/kleptos can rule Mexico forever w/o the threat of a Chavez/Castro type rebel rising up. Even though their failure to do so might have that effect anyway, not from leftists, but from drug gangs.
They can’t have it both ways, but knowing what kind of quisling government we have, we’ll certainly try to let them have it both ways.
On the other hand, Glenn Spencer over at American Patrol speculates that the drug violence is worst in parts of Mexico near the “border” with Aztlan that happen to have some semblance of border security, fencing and otherwise. His theory is that while the illicit guns are already in Mexico, the real border security near Juarez and Tijuana mean that it’s not so easy for miscreants to flow back and forth between countries. That forces them to remain in Mexico, where they inevitably mingle and then battle with rivals.
UPDATE 2/26: Right on cue, Obama wants to reinstate the 1994 “Assault” weapons ban that expired in 2004, which didn’t ban much. Really clever, when Mexican gangs get American guns in violation of American law, then sneak them into Mexico in violation of Mexican law, the way to solve the problem is to pass another law.
UPDATE 3/11: Maybe it’s not all America’s fault. A poster named “Ranger” wrote on AR today:
I just want to add a response to Eric Holder’s alleging that banning AK-47 “assault weapons,” in this country, will mean that Mexico will not be able to arm the drug trafficker’s 100,000 man army, because the AK-47 is the drug gang’s choice of weapons. That’s nonsense, and everybody should know why.
First of all, an AK-47 is a fully automatic rifle, which is already banned in this country, so Mexico does not purchase them here. There are AK-47’s manufactured here, but they are a semi-automic type, and, although they could be converted to fully automatic, it would be an unecessary task, because the cartels can buy the Kalishnikov AK-47, fully automatic, from more than two dozen countries around the world.
Hugo Chavez just bought 175,000 of them from Russia. Although Russia wouldn’t offer them to drug dealers there’s plenty of other arms dealers who would, and I imagine Chavez’s interest is to have enough on hand to sell them to FARC and other insurgency groups in the area, plus to the cartels in exchange for by-passing Venezuela on drug distribution and/or just to undetmine the US by arming groups hostile to them.
Also, I think it’s important to mention the following to prove what a liar this pitiful attorney general is. His concern is with automatic rifles not available in the US, just so he can start by banning certain rifles in order to give the radical leftists a toe hold of sorts for further restrictive bans and laws, because he knows he can’t create dictatorial control over an armed public.
But isn’t it odd that he never mentioned that the drug gangs had other weapons besides the AK-47 that cannot be bought in this country either, because they’re illegal? For example, the border patrol has confiscation photos of 60mm mortars, (These are out-dated in the US military but they are small and can be easily hand carried, like in an excursion across the border) land mines, RPG’s (Rocket propelled grenades that can penetrate armor.), night vision goggles, sniperscopes with night vision, deadly claymore anti-personnel mines, light anti-tank weapons, M-79 grenade launchers, white phospherous grenades with the capacity to burn clear through a human being upon contact with hundreds of red hot projectiles and can’t be extinguished, and regular hand grenades. I suspect they could even get 155 millimeter howtzers and armored personnel carriers on the black market as well.
But, keep in mind, with a 100,000 man army, already armed to the teeth, how big a deal would it be to take over Mexican armories and drive off in tanks, APC’s pulling howtzers, 50 caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft weaponry? In fact every piece of military equiment the Mexican government has is available to the cartels anytime they decide to lay seige to an army post/armory and take it over. Have no doubt they have highly qualified pilots on their payroll also.
For this sub-standard attorney general to lie so blatantly just in order to ban guns in this country, because he knows bullying governmental ideologies can’t succeed when the populace is armed is an absolute disgrace, but, more importantly, it shows the shallowness of his mental abilities.
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Baltimore Sun: Police: Man stabs son in left buttock after he refused to take off his hat in church
If it were a 19-year old son of mine, I’d gladly ignore any stupid hats he wears just so that he goes to church.
Arch City Chronicle: Classical Music Radio Station KFUO Explores Possible Sale
Who knows? If he can get a promise that the FCC would let him transpose “F” and “U” in the call letters, Art Bell might buy it.
P-D: Bong blamed for fire at MU fraternity
When did Michael Phelps come to Mizzou?
Fox News: California School Spends $10G a Year to Teach AP Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spanish
You would think that they would all get As, but I’m not betting on it.
KFVS-12: Obama says it’s up to parents to help educate
And by “educate,” he means to give their public school district a blank check, and always agree with the NEA, and never plant seeds of doubts in their sprog’s minds about liberal sacraments.
LAT: David Beckham: A shooting star flames out
When you pay an over-the-hill soccer player to play on a team more than the team’s league is worth, in a sport that most Americans stop caring about at the age of 12, you have to expect failure.
So all those people that jam-packed the Soulard neighborhood to a functional standstill on Saturday to swill beer, expose themselves and urinate in public are now going to abide by the demands of the Lenten season. IMHO, if you miss the pain, then you gotta miss the dance.
Schlafly on WND: LBJ’s Great Society on steroids
“Great Society” gets a tryout with the Kansas City Royals, makes the team, gets traded in July to the San Diego Padres for a player named “Later” that has been traded by every team to every other team in the last 50 years, and then he leaves the A’s next winter to sign a nine-figure contract with the Yankees.
AP: Schwarzenegger to play himself in Stallone film
Hope the state comes in and takes away a 90% income tax on what Arnie gets paid, in order to pay down the deficit.
AFP: US will pull through crisis, Obama vows
Sorry if we don’t believe him based on the track record of his first month on office, promising the cleanest Administration since George Washington yet can’t find a cabinet nominee that obeys their own tax laws.
AP/Obama: Obama tells nation: ‘We are not quitters’
Except for many of your cabinet nominees.
Reuters: Detroit mayoral field narrows from 15 to two
With apologies to Acton, power corrupts, and the Mayor of Detroit is corrupt absolutely.
NPR: GOP Leader Says Obama Speech Hit Right Notes
Sounds to me it hit the blue note right after the beginning and stayed there for 45 minutes.
SPACE.com: Natural Explanation Found for UFOs
Nah, that would be too simple and common sensical to make the uFOOLogy industry happy.
LiveScience: T. Rex Gets Weighed
I dare you to tell Rex to go on a diet and to lean off the red meat.
PC World: Microsoft Office 14 Won’t Ship This Year — Does Anyone Care?
I do, because I’m really looking forward to another verison of Orifice that’s slower, buggier, more invasive, more abusive, with an incrementally more fucked up UI, and that wants even more often to collect your soul.
Yet another radical Islamic terrorist type who was radicalized in the West, not in spite of the West in his native land.
We keep hearing that these terrorist boogie woogies only get involved in that scene because their countries are destitute. If they only had a better environment, they wouldn’t get mad enough to go blow up people.
So we bring some of them over here to experience our better environment, and it cuts in the other direction.
My theory is that back in Somalia or Pakistan or Afghanistan, they only understand Western prosperity in the abstract, vis-a-vis their own biting poverty. When they are allowed to relocate to Minnesota, or Stockholm, or London, then they see Western prosperity and high individual and family standards of living first-hand. As mad as they were when thinking about white prosperity in the abstract, they get all the more enraged when seeing it in the concrete. And, of course, they have wee little brains which are filled mostly with religious fundamentalism/racial jealousy; they can’t consider that there are anything other than diabolical explanations for the differences. Making for a volatile situation.
And of course our oh-so-bright idea is to bring them not only to white countries, but to the whitest of white countries, the whites that are almost always at the top of desirability and livability indeces, Scandinavians and their American diaspora in the Upper Midwest. Making the situation marginally worse.
You’ve heard about the shootings at the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans by now. Just in case you haven’t, here is the P-D’s version of the story.
What this version doesn’t say, but some of the morning shows this morning admitted, (other than the obvious racial angle), is that this parade was replete with cops, and there are at least a half dozen within eyeshot of the scene of the shooting. Yet, even in the obvious presence and supervision of police, these two black thugs shot a lot of people.
Think about this when you hear a lib Democrat mouth off about how we need the Federal government to pay for more police on the streets, to stop crime. The black thugs are getting more and more brazen, (Gee, I wonder why? Gee, I wonder who’s been trying to tell you this all along that this would be a consequence of electing Obama), not even the police can stop them. And, Federally-funded local cops will have all sorts of civil rights handcuffs holding them back.
The article does tell us that an Air Force surgeon who is being deployed to Crapistan this summer, (and from what he said, I presume he has been there before), made the quote that is the title of this blog post. I don’t know if the photo in the article is of this surgeon, but it is definitely of a white man who took off his shirt to heal the wounds of a black victim. Three and a half years ago, people like this victim would have shot at people like this good samaritan in the aftermath of Katrina. Whoever this man is, he should realize that the more compassionate he is, the more likely it’ll be that he is a victim of a violent crime at the hands of one of them. What we call compassion they call chumps.
A couple of years ago, I saw a photo on Drudge where a resident of New Orleans held up a sign in the city that read “America’s Baghdad.” I could imagine that someone in Baghdad held up a sign reading “Iraq’s New Orleans.”
UPDATE 2/26: CofCC.org has the pic. I doubt they’re really Phillies or Cardinals fans, they just wanted something in red.
Last night in his quasi-SOTU speech, President Obama implored us not to harbor feelings of class envy and jealousy and demagoguery, for his administration certainly was not basing any of their policies on these feelings. (LOL)
Except when it comes to private jets. HLS is considering placing private aviation under the same regulations as commercial aviation, which means that you’ll have to go through all the TSA bullshit for flying in a private plane as you would flying commercial. You couldn’t take guns on to the plane, and you’d have to cross check your passenger list with the oft-fucked up TSA/HLS “no-fly list.” All this would negate the benefits of paying for private aviation.
This hoopla all started when the Detroit Auto execs flew to Washington in private jets to put their hands out. The row over that compelled the execs to take a convoy of automobiles from Detroit to D.C. the second time, when they had to come back to Capitol Hill with long-term viability plans. You know, a bank that ignored all common sense in lending standards could get a $700 billion giveaway with nary a hesitation, but the car industry with a few scant remaining high-paying blue collar jobs emblematic of what’s left of the working middle class had to grovel for not even $40 billion worth of loans.
It was probably cheaper to use the private jets, and with a smaller carbon footprint.
After that, we found out that many companies receiving Federal TARP/bailout money were spending money on lavish office renovations and private jet expenses. Not with TARP money, but the TARP money freed up other resources to use for those things. So in effect, TARP was being used by these execs as a fungible contribution — such as when a government gives a grant to the NAACP for one of their charitable functions, it frees up privately-raised NAACP money to be used for politics. So the government grant is in effect a political contribution.
So the new administration is reacting to all the hoopla, by proposing these new regulations.
If you take the proposals at face value, they would essentially end the private aviation industry, all the good blue-collar jobs and some white-collar jobs associated with it.
But I don’t take these proposals at face value. Both major parties are very much funded by big corporations, and other very wealthy individuals. I’m not buying the fact that even the Democrats are going to pull that rug from underneath their feet. Even if not for corporate contributions to Democrats, there’s always Hollywood and the Google Brats, and people like that. Are they going to deny Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand (“Vince” informs me that she doesn’t like to fly), Sergey Brin and Larry Page their jets? Even the Democrats have learned from the yacht disaster that they bought us in the early 1990s — they, like private jets, may be the toys of the rich, but their manufacture, operation and maintenance are the careers of many regular people.
I think these proposals for private aviation are an Obama administration hope-a-dope. It’s the same thing as the Ray LaHood “mileage tax” deal from last week, where they float up a radical proposal to grease the skids for a less radical proposal that itself wouldn’t have a chance if proposed on its own. You know, the Clinton era “implode the Capitol” trick. My guess is that the Obama administration wants new taxes on items associated with the private aviation industry — increased per gallon taxes on jet fuel, excises on the purchase prices of private jets, and so on.
Just about all of Official Chicagograd and Official Illinois want Sen. Roland Burris to resign, based on his troubled relationship with the truth and sworn testimony thereby. But it was okay for President Clinton to lie to a Federal Grand Jury. Now, Turbin Durbin is in on the Throw Burris Under The Bus chorus.
What gives?
The best theory I can come up with is that the Democrats in Illinois somehow have the silly notion that Roland Burris can somehow not win election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois, even with all these lead anchors around his leg. If they feel this way, they’re making two wrong assumptions about the DuPage County Plutocrat Club (a.k.a. Illinois Republican Stupid Party): That they are (1) Politically savvy and clever, and (2) Right wing. Either they’ll send up another ho hum Ryan, or truck in some Alan Keyes figure. No way in Hades that they’re going to let some real right-winger that could actually beat Burris (like Jim Oberweis) have a chance.
Many of Chicago’s black preachers want Burris to resign. I think they’re somehow connected into the Jesse Jackson empire, so they want to clear the deck for Junior.
…He’s an amnestyaire. Perhaps Mr. Kyl ought to pay close attention to Fitna, and realize that what is described in the film might very well come to pass for the United States of America if the “comprehensive immigration reform” he wants becomes law. Then criticizing Islam will be as illegal to do here as it is in Europe.
Yes, he actually said that. You are forgiven if you thought that a telemarketer was calling you at that time of the evening. About the only thing missing was the jingle for the mortgage firm, and the whiny voice repeating “839-9999.”
It would be too tacky to have an “Applause” sign at a State of the Union, but who needs one when you’ve got Nancy Pelosi? Seems like she jumped out of her chair like there was a spring attached to her rump about five seconds before Obama was finished with what she thought was an applause-worthy line. And of course everyone else had to give the standing ovation five seconds later. Methinks she was the applause sign tonight, as if to say, “time to stand up and clap you dumb sonofabitches.”
“Nobody messes with Joe.” Judging from his last Presidential campaign, nobody votes for Joe.
Piyush gave the “Republican” “response.” If I didn’t know better, from what he said tonight, I would have thought that he was a moderate Democrat Congressman.
P-D: 2 men found dead on vacant lot in St. Louis
I’ll adopt St. Louis City’s crime statistics accounting methods and just assume that two dead men all full of holes has to be just an accident.
CNS: Boycott Called for Rape-Simulation Video Game in NYC
What’s a lib to do? Either domestic violence activists or anti-censorship folks will get the short straw.
CNS: Obama’s Pledge to Halve Deficit Still Means Huge Deficits for Years to Come
Not hard to cut the deficit in half after having it driven it way up, just have a deficit the size of last year’s.
P-D: Mayoral candidate Irene Smith gets boost from teachers
Haven’t we had enough double entendre headlines about Miss Wee-Wee?
Health Day: ‘Degrading’ Lyrics Linked to Teen Sex
When are we going to get the study linking hormones and puberty to teen sex?
AFP: ‘Sober’ Obama to chart path to brighter days
I don’t blame him, I’d drink heavily too if I had all these problems on my plate.
AP: Missing Mass. teacher, teen student found in W.Va.
I think I know why they fled to West Virginia — I guess they thought a 24-on-15 relationship was legal there.
Politico: Gibbs hints at ‘Reaganesque’ speech
When did Democrats start to want to sound like Reagan?
Microsoft was the fifth largest user of H-1B visas in 2008. Contradictorily, Microsoft wants a tech training program for Americans, for it are those selfsame “Americans” who won’t get jobs at Microsoft because they foolishly think they can be able to raise a whole family in a middle class part of town on their salary.
Maybe it’s not so contradictory, because “Americans” in this case doesn’t mean you.
Surprisingly, my state’s Senior U.S. Senator wants to clamp down on the promiscuous use of H-1B visas. This is the same Richard Stalin Durbin that foams at the mouth about “white racism” and loves radical Islamic terrorism. And Durbin’s part of the reason why Barack Obama is President, the former having talked the latter into running in late 2006. How all of that is consistent with his opposition to H-1B is beyond me, but I predict it’ll go away when some big business-funded “diversity” think tank accuses him of racism. For most sitting U.S. Senators, death by a thousand knifes is a better fate than being called a racist.
For the first time, both the President giving tonight’s State of the Union Address and the Respondent from the other major party will be non-white.
Minneapolis wants out of desegregation school district
Some fear that a pullout by Minneapolis schools could spell the end of the West Metro Education Program.
Minneapolis schools want to pull the plug on its participation in the Twin Cities’ first desegregation district, charging it isn’t succeeding in its lofty goals.
Some say such a move has the potential to cripple the two-decade effort to bring more racial balance to Twin Cities schools.
Minneapolis Superintendent Bill Green said he will present a resolution to the Minneapolis board today to end district participation in the West Metro Education Program (WMEP). Started in 1989, WMEP covers Minneapolis and 10 suburban districts that banded together to achieve more racial integration in Twin Cities schools and help narrow the achievement gulf separating middle-class white kids from low-income minority students. Minneapolis schools tend to have far higher percentages of poor kids and minority students than do most suburban schools.
Whenever they talk about “narrowing the achievement gap,” they mean applying an insanely high amount of resources to black children that might result in bringing them up close to the white average, and at the same time dumbing down white students (Outcome Based Education), so they do less well than they otherwise would have. That way, everyone is equal.
I’m sorry now, I have to end this post because there’s some nagging ringing in my ears. That Miss Glampers is at it again.
John Lott: ‘Guns for vasectomy’ in the UAE
If you shoot bullets, you’ll have to shoot blanks.
P-D: St. Louis Rams to retain DE Leonard Little
Not one iota of concern about the family of the late Susan Gutweiler.
Reuters: Soros sees no bottom for world financial “collapse”
It better turn around, or else the very President he helped elect by deliberately crashing the economy last September won’t win another term.
AP/Obama: ‘Slumdog’ celebrations fill Mumbai’s crowded slums
Hollywood’s gushing over your plight and the millions the spent last night to do so got a golden-colored statue modeled after a naked Mexican. Not food, shelter, clothing, education, health care or clean water.
CSM: California, once a dream state, strives to get back its groove
Not while its “groove” (read: taxpayers) is moving out in droves because it’s turning into Mexico.
AP/Obama: Demand for GED classes increase with job losses
That way, they’ll have diplomas in order to get all those jobs that only require a high school education.
Time: As Crime Mounts, Mexicans Turn to Vigilante Justice
Yes, Mexicans can take law enforcement into their own hands when crime is high and authority is absent, but not white Americans in border states near the border when crime is high and authority is absent.
Politico: Reid: Don’t call it nationalization
Okay, let’s call it Jeffersonian liberty.
News Factor Network: Microsoft Seeks to Elevate America with Tech Training
You’ll get training from Microsoft, but not a job from Microsoft — you’re the wrong color and won’t work for peanuts.
Health Day: Watching R-Rated Movies Boosts Kids’ Smoking Risk
Yep, that’s what I worry about when I think of kids watching R-rated movies, that all the sex and violence will go right over their heads, and that they’ll be inspired to go out and smoke a cigarette.
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