* There were two shootings in St. Louis City on Friday night. However, they took place where you might not expect, but if you keep up on the decline and fall of St. Louis, you won’t be surprised. One was on Potomac and Michigan, and the other was on the 3700 block of Iowa.
* It looks like Gary Condit might have killed Chandra Levy after all. Not in the way that you think, but it turns out an El Salvadorian illegal alien actually was the doer. Just doing a search on Gary Condit plus Immigration shows that he has a mixed record on the issue, according to both pro- and anti-open borders groups. What this does is bring back what was America’s most pressing issue, that is a September 10 America.
* A self-described Satanist who is also a Montana prison inmate is not having his religious sensitivities appealed to. (Surprise, a satanist does something bad enough to get sent to prison, what a shock.) Though since he went through a criminal trial, he didn’t have his religious sensitivities appealed to when witnesses said “So help me God” with their hands on top of Bibles
* Even after a year and a half of trying to explain the DTV transition to people, the media still screwed it up. Much to the consternation of what used to be the TV owned by a 70-year old Joplin man.
* This is purely a matter of “you slap me and I slap you.” The SVP, the right-wing party in Switzerland, similar to LePen in France and the BNP in the UK, is making waves for another reason: They’re poking Washington’s eye over their effort to open up Swiss bank accounts. I don’t think it’s anything too cerebral, it’s because Washington has been trying to use its influence all over Europe to make life hard for real right-wingers and their parties. Mainly to suck up to Muslims. So now the SVP is going to slap back.
* Steve Patterson floats a trial balloon, to reform St. Louis City’s municipal elections so that they’re more like Louisiana’s “beauty contest and runoff” system. His reasoning is that since the Democrats win everything anyway, it would save money. If it comes to pass, then it would eliminate the tricks turned by credible candidates of one race that run a minor candidate of another race to draw votes away from the major candidate of the other race. If we’re honest with ourselves, then that’s what happened with Freeman Bosley – Tony Ribaudo in 1993, and Francis Slay – The “other” Maida Coleman this year. Such a system in 1993 would have resulted in a Bosley-Tom Villa runoff, with Villa winning in all likelihood. Since it marginally hurts the black body politic of St. Louis, look for them to oppose such reforms if they ever take legs.
