United Caliphate

Not allowed into England, because he’s a “threat to public order.”

I can see why — he might use England as a base from which he’ll plan terrorist attacks upon New York City and Washington, and the London Subway System.

You Asked…

You probably want to know my assessment of the country’s 16th President, as tomorrow is his 200th Birthday.  I’ll answer by quoting my favorite source, myself.

Almost five years ago today, I wrote:

Before we end this rant, it’s also time to flame the Old Reprobate whose birthday we are upon.

This webmaster is sure that the equivocation between Abraham Lincoln and the first name of Adolph Hitler and the surname of V.I. Lenin will invoke a couple of flames, especially from some of you “neo-Confederate” types who delude yourself into thinking that the Southern Confederacy of 1861-65 was purely an egalitarian exercise. You will dutifully tell me about Lincoln’s very “politically incorrect” statements on race, statements that would place him well into the “white supremacist” category today. You will also tell me about his repatriationist rhetoric.

The response to that foolishness is fundamentally the same as the response to the left-wing nutbars that we are devoting this space to slapping around. “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” – Matthew 7:20.

This webmaster’s personal assessment of the 16th President derives from his actions, especially his actions in conducting the enemy side of the War Between The States. Granted, Lincoln’s childhood situation and upbringing leads this webmaster to believe that his “supremacist” attitude was his heartfelt one; you know how that goes, will the real Abe Lincoln please stand up.

Poor white southerners of the era (of which Lincoln was born into) were both fearful of black revelry and hostile to the slave system, which hindered the creation of a bona fide middle class. In the antebellum South, there was virtually no middle ground between “Being To The Plantation Born” and being hard scrabble dirt poor. We believe that Lincoln’s decision to invade Dixie was as much a result of his personal vengeance as it was his doing the bidding for the newly-rising ruling class north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Even at that, don’t take Lincoln out of context. By the time the WBTS was in full swing, Lincoln did develop the bad habit of telling one group of people one thing, and another group of people something totally contradictory. (See also: Kerry, J.F.). Lincoln’s “supremacist”/repatriationist words of the war era can be matched by egalitarian and pro-Lincoln scholars, such as Ray Yitzana, almost word for word, speech for speech, with evidence that Lincoln “really” was an exponent of true-blue equality.

Both Lincolns are right, and both are wrong. The answer to that riddle was that Lincoln was a typical whore politician who would say anything to get anyone to like him. So if Lincoln was a bigot at heart, it was immaterial to the situation. The only difference between then and today is that Lexis-Nexis and the Drudge Report did not exist in the 1860s; if they did then even the most dim-witted public-spirited citizen of either country would have seen Lincoln for the two-timing two-faced cretin that he was.

But still, talk is cheap, cheaper than dirt. The net consequence of Mr. Lincoln’s actions is that military force representing the paradigm of racial equality and the consolidation of power necessary to enforce it, all for the better business interests of the rising industrial ruling class based in the northeastern seaboard, defeated the military force representing the better interests of the southern, agricultural establishment that depended on free labor and free trade to thrive.

In that, we wound up with a Frankenstein U.S. Just-Us Department that runs almost totally unchecked, and can get away with almost anything (locking dentists up in Federal prison hospitals for years without a trial and trying to claim they need to be doped up with nut medication because they need to fry their brains so they can’t call the cowboy Federal law enforcement out for all their terrorism and abuse), and there’s not a damned thing we can do about it, short of hoping that Attorney General John A**croft looks up “hypocrite” in the dictionary and sees his visage next to it; maybe then he’ll repent of his civil transgressions.

We need to tie a noose around the neck of the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is placed in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and topple it just as the Romanians did to monuments to Nicolai Ceausescu, and the Russians to Stalin/Lenin, and the Iraqis to the “Mad Ass Shoe Shine Boy” Saddam Hussein – and fundamentally for the same reason, philosophically speaking. Anything less would be an affront to Dr. Sell.

Think we’re engaging in hyperbole when we mention Lincoln in the same breath as Lenin and Stalin? Remember, during the Spanish Civil War, when Marxist nutcases tried to gut Spain of all its traditions and folkways with the veneer of state legitimacy, groups of left-wing and communist-sympathizing Americans went to Spain to fight as mercenaries for the Communist government against the “mutiny” of the legitimate Spanish Army headed by General Francisco Franco. That American mercenary force was called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

The only reason there’s a modicum of individual liberty left in this country (and there is, to wit: This website; in most other heretofore white countries, this website would probably be considered illegal “hate speech” as deemed by the Lenin-wing rat finks that run their governments), is because for some reason, our magistrates are adamant about striking down governmental restrictions on what lawyers call “fully protected” expression.

However, liberty and equality are diametrically opposing concepts. Practical experience shows us that the more of one necessarily leads to the less of the other. So after another generation or two of the political consequences of the actions that Mr. Lincoln started and you left-wing detractors of this website endorse, the liberty of thought, conscience and political expression which we can still enjoy at present time will go by the wayside, as if it were a quaint, anachronistic highway-side relic that’s worth glancing at for a few seconds as we traverse down the road to the People’s Paradise.

This also reminds me, Ray Yitzana did not live to see this day.

Remember the Good Ole Days? GM Used to Manufacture Cars in America, and Chris Brown Was the Boy Next Door.

Latin American Herald Tribune:  General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations — Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program

Hey you, UAW assembly line worker who’s holding signs asking for the Porkulus — how’s it feel to be used?

UK Telegraph:  Ed Balls: minister fears rise of fascism amid economic gloom

Translation:  BNP might win an election and make England so sane that it could actually see straight.

LoS:  Pro-Southern blog banned in Red China

Funny, that China and the ADL both want to censor the same websites.

News Factor Network:  Ballmer: Upgrade To Windows 7 or Face Backlash

Or face a big fat CEO throwing a chair across the stage.

AP:  Chris Brown’s squeaky clean image falters

What’s worse for him is that he doesn’t sing the genre of music where there is a direct relationship between the number of felonies the artist has committed and his sales stats.

AP:  Teen charged with billing school for $37K of candy

I hope he was able to keep the candy, because he’s gonna need it while in prison to keep from being raped.

Klosing?

What a difference a decade makes.  When it started, The Kreme could do no wrong — every new store christening was an event.  When the first KK opened in Denver in 2001, people were lined up for a mile to get in, and some people were dancing inside the store after they got their doughnuts.  Its IPO rocketed to astonishing highs, then dropped like a rock, as if The Street thought KK was a dot com.  As the decade is about to end, Double-K is on the verge of closing altogether, so thinks Yahoo Finance.

Six Flags is also on that danger list.  If both The Kreme and Six Flags go, this should make a drive on Interstate 44 west from St. Louis less interesting.  After all, the routine was that you got off of 44 at Bowles to get some Krispy Kreme, then back on it going west to get off at Six Flags.

What’s an E?

This is one Trenton O’Neal, a high school freshman in Chesapeake, Virginia.  Mr. O’Neal’s parents think that their son has been dogging it in school, as both of them have graduate degrees so their son should have at least some brain pans, so they are punishing him as you can see above, hoping that he’ll be embarrassed enough to bring up his grades.

If I were these parents, I would ask the school what an E means.  I get the feeling that it’s really an F, but the school replaced the F grade with an E, mainly to increase the self-esteem of their dummies and slackers.  At least in Algebra and English, it didn’t work for one of their students.  Also, Freshman Science must not be very hard at that school, for someone who flunked Algebra and English to pass.

Also, what’s with letting him show off his A in Gym?  As if that’s going to help his future.  Skinny beanpole that he is, I don’t see the NFL or NBA in his future.

I See a Civil Rights Suit A’Risin

A suburban school district in Denver is proposing a paradigm shift — they want to eliminate the traditional age-level grades of K through 12 and implement a ten-level gradation that does not rely on the student’s age but instead relies on meeting academic standards.

I would like to believe that they are actually proposing that students meet something resembling hard requirements before advancing from one level to another, as if elementary and secondary education is a video game.  But my experience with these sorts of things has been that they really don’t mean standards, it’s usually mindless fluff.

If the school district is serious, then they’re going to be in for some rough times.  Anything that amounts to a hard-and-fast quantitative standard is going to have a disparate impact on black and Hispanic students.  (The Adams district is becoming rapidly more Hispanic, the article admits.)  I’m waiting for a scenario ten years down the line when some 20-year old black or Hispanic student is sitting in the same level with smart 8-year old white kids.  The NAACP and MALDEF will see you in court.

Which is why I don’t think that the school district is serious about real standards.  They know the time of day as well as anyone else.

Besides, how are these ten levels that much different than 13 age-level grades?  It used to be that you had to meet standards to pass from one grade to another.

University City’s White Libtards Just Love Their Black Population — Except When It’s After 10 PM And They Want To Go Drinking In The Loop.

Isn’t it just like typical libtard to mouth off about diversity, then they don’t live anywhere near the diversity they love so much?

The St. Louis suburb of University City is somewhat strange.  It’s half black, half white in population.  But the whites are almost entirely libs, mostly influenced by Washington University, most of which lies in U. City.  The city’s body politic is mostly white liberal, and it does the things that white libtards like to do.

But as usual, the white libtards don’t want to be around the diversity they love so much.  Olive Boulevard might as well be a Berlin Wall that divides U. City between its mostly black northern half and its mostly white libtard southern half.  And now, the City Council has made the bong of 10 PM at night a Berlin Wall of the fourth dimension, in that they have set that time as a curfew for those under 17 (read:  young blacks) to be off the street, so that white libtards can feel safe enough from the young black criminality (that we’re not supposed to notice lest they scream racism) so that they can swill booze in The Loop with some peace of mind.

I’m just waiting for some libtard to e-mail me and whine that they’re not really picking on blacks because it applies to all young people under 17.  I have two words for you, that your types love to use so much:

Disparate impact.

UPDATE 2/11: And U. City’s teenagers aren’t going to take it lying down.  I say good for them — and that they should have a look at this URL.  It’s Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday, don’t let all those good Lincolnian egalitarian progressives get the same crap thrown in their faces that they’ve thrown in the faces of white Southerners for decades.

Bring It On, Barry: You’re Being Too Clever By Half.

GOP crying foul over President Obama’s decision to supervise the 2010 Census directly.

If they knew what was good for them, they’d welcome the move.  Everybody realizes that the reason the White House wants to do this is to politicize the census to increase the percentage of the population on paper is that is black and Hispanic, and to draw racially gerrymandered district.

But the GOP can’t seem to figure out that these kinds of districts helped them, and were indispensable in the GOP winning the House in 1994, and their dismantling eventually cost them the House in 2006.  The reason is that if every black voter in a given state were cooped up in their own district, then white liberal Democrats running in purely white districts wouldn’t have any guaranteed pro-Democrat black votes to rely on to defeat white conservative Republicans.

Also, I am of the opinion that, as a percentage of the whole, blacks and Hispanics are higher than it seems on paper, because they’re so hard to count.  (Blacks dominate every major city in the country, and yet we’re supposed to think they’re only 13%?  Yeahright.)  The Obamaites might be too clever by half if they think that arriving at a more accurate number using statistically sound guesstimation methods will accrue to the benefit of the left wing — it might work the other way around — white people might finally get it thrown in their faces about their dispossession if they had accurate racial population stats, and might finally do something about it by joining the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Today’s Heroes are Tomorrow’s Defendants

Southern Illinoisan:

Four men honored by Marion City Council

MARION – Marion police cited the quick-thinking actions of four men in the capture of a suspected thief last month.

The four men, Joshua B. Maloney, Eric Schneider, Zach Hart and Shaun Haley, were recognized with citizen’s commendation awards during Monday night’s city council meeting for “their personal courage resulting in efficient and effective police service.”

According to the commendation, Maloney was dining at Red Lobster in Marion Jan. 11, when he spotted someone trying to get into his vehicle parked outside the restaurant. The person then attempted to get into two other vehicles before finally gaining entry to a van.

Maloney, Hart, Haley and Schneider, the restaurant’s general manager, ran outside to confront the suspected thief. When the man jumped out of the van with a purse and other items and began to run, Schneider tackled him and took him to the ground, the commendation said.

The suspect was restrained by Schneider, Hart, a Red Lobster employee, and Haley, who was a restaurant guest, until police arrived.

“As a result, property was recovered and the offender was taken into custody without incident or injury to citizens or police personnel,” the commendation read. “These men have displayed the traits and qualities of model citizens and their unselfish actions have shown that when police and citizens work together to help prevent crime, our quality of life is greatly enhanced, thereby making our communities a safer place to live.”

My recommendation is that Messrs. Maloney, Schneider, Hart and Haley get themselves good lawyers ASAP.  For if the suspect they wrestled down is black or Hispanic, the four of them will be promptly sued by the appropriate racial lobby plus the Southern Poverty Law Center.  We all know how wrong it is for whites to use force in order to defend themselves against non-whites.  Especially in a state adorned by the visage of the Great Egalitarian Idol, whose 200th Birthday is tomorrow, incidentally.

The New York Times Will Praise This

Mexico will begin a national registry of cell phone users that include fingerprints and photos.  The reason is that kidnapping for ransom is so common in Mexico that the authorities figure that this measure would help them track down kidnappers.  Though most of Mexico’s “authorites” have been bought out by the drug gangs anyway, so I think it’ll work in the opposite direction, that this information will be used to hurt Mexico’s honest people (all twelve of them).

Guess who thinks the measure isn’t draconian enough?  That’s right, someone who made his billions in the cell phone business, that being Carlos Slim, who owns the New York Times for all intents and purposes.

Do you think the NYT, which did nothing about whine and complain about how it such an abuse of power and a violation of privacy that the NSA would tap a phone call originating from Karachi to a disposable GoPhone in Detroit, will have a bad word to say about this?

Unclad

Reuters:

Naked hikers face spot fines

GENEVA (Reuters) – Naked mountain hikers in the Swiss canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden will in future face on the spot fines of 200 Swiss francs ($170), Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger reported over the weekend.

A wave of naked hiking — particularly popular with German visitors — outraged people last year in the traditionally minded canton, Switzerland’s smallest by population, which gave women the vote only in 1990.

(snip)

It was not clear where the naked hikers would find the money, although hikers often carry rucksacks.

I thought they were naked.  Yet they’re going to be expected to have fanny packs to carry the money to pay these spot fines.

This won’t help the women that like to hike naked through Appenzell-Innerrhoden, but the guys can use their rucksack to cover up their junk when they see a cop.  No harm, no foul.

Ninth Circus Swings the Cali Prison Doors Open

From what I understand, California has one of the most lenient sentencing systems in the country.  But it’s not lenient enough, such that the state’s prison system is overcrowded, in the opinion of a three judge panel of the Ninth Federal Appellate Circuit.  The panel suggests that the state could grant parole more often, though the only reason parole (and probation) has any teeth at all is the threat of actual imprisonment upon violating terms.  If parolees know they can never be sent back to prison, they won’t obey their parole terms.

It’s going to get to the point where the only kind of criminals in California that are even sent to prison are those convicted of murder, rape, homophobia or being white.

Zeno’s Paradox

A U.S. Attorney of that name wants a Federal judge to jail former D.C. Mayor/Crackhead Marion Barry because he didn’t follow the rules of the Federal Income Tax, which of course are managed under the same Executive Cabinet Department headed by someone who didn’t follow the rules of the Federal Income Tax.

Hey Look Everybody! I’m President!!!

To think, House was pushed back a week just for this.  My Monday night deserved better.

I suppose President Obama actually thinks that nobody remembers that he’s President, and that it’s lost on him that the average American has 15 different reputable news networks and MSNBC at their disposal to remind them on a minutely basis, and that Helen Thomas hasn’t made an ass of herself in front of millions of people for awhile.

Today, he was in Elkhart, Indiana, the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country, to stand on top of all those unemployed Elkhartians in order to get us to mortgage our grandkids’ future for his Porkulus.  I guess nobody told him that Elkhart has most of the country’s RV manufacturing industry, and that RV sales went way down this summer when gas was over $4 a gallon, and that it’ll soon be that high again because the Obamaites don’t want us to drill for oil anywhere.  RVs don’t run on windmills, Barry.

Fun With Alexander (Rahm) Emmanuel Roid-Riguez — The Bad News? He’s a Damned Cheat. The Good News? Katie Couric Got Her Feelings Hurt — Beyotch Got Her Comeuppance.

Media Bistro:  A-Rod: “How Could I Be Truthful With Katie Couric or CBS?”

OMG, you mean someone actually lied to CBS?  Because I couldn’t possibly imagine that it would work the other way around, that CBS would try something so underhanded, like using fake documents to torpedo a Republican Presidential candidate.

Four Letter:  A-Rod admits, regrets use of PEDs

One too many incorrect verbs here.

Boston Globe:  All about A-Rod

Just think, Boston, you almost had this headache.

Dallas Morning News:  How do you punish A-Rod?

Trade him back to the Rangers.

Houston Chronicle:  Berkman: Public can’t believe baseball is clean

You have to forgive them, Lance — Some people are actually smart enough not to believe that Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire turning from beanpoles to massive sluggers overnight are just coincidences or a matter of a good offseason in the weight room.

USNAWR:  A-Rod Took Steroids: Felt Under Pressure to Perform

A-Rod getting a call from the White House at this moment, someone who also as “Emmanuel” in his name wants to know how to score some of this stuff for his similarly overpressured boss.

C-Trib:  Will ARod get Capitol Hill treatment?

He might have to get lectured by the same members of the House Oversight Committee that couldn’t be bothered to oversee bailout money being wasted on golden curios and private jets.

ABC:  ‘A-Rod’ Alex Rodriguez Admits to Steroids Use: ‘I Was Stupid, I Was Naive’

Was?  You still are.

SI:  A-Rod controversy spoils entire 2009 campaign before it begins

Oh no, with this distraction, those overpaid overpampered group of whining dilettantes they call the Yankees might not be able to win the World Series, like they did last year.

Party Like It’s 2008

Politico:  McCain blasts Obama

Too late, John.  That’s so last year.

News Blaze:  New York Times Columnist: I Dreamt Obama Was In My Shower

Why not?  Obama’s own Vice-President described him at one point last year as “clean,” and the NYT carries his water when they’re not busy reprinting SPLC material, so it stands to reason that he showers somewhere on a daily basis, and it might as well be with a NYT employee.

CNS:  Stephanopoulos Not Advising White House on Policy, ABC News Says

That’s a relief, he’s not advising the White House on policy, only on strategy and tactics.

Fox News:  Liberal Group Praises Crossover Republicans as Minority Leaders Balk at Partisanship

Republicans in Name Only become Democrats in Name.

AP:  Hero pilot and crew get keys to NYC

You’d think by now they’d want to stay away from New York.

Reuters:  Whirlpool shares tumble on profit fall

Agitated stock traders cold on WHR.N, until its financial troubles dry out and its prospects warm considerably.

Anyone Can Have a Good Start

Though I did not vote for her, Sen. Claire McCaskill had a very good first year in the Senate, IMHO.  She not only opposed the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” of that year, she took an active leadership role in her attempt to block amnestyaire Julie Myers from running ICE.

That said, 2008, with her pushing, as Silvio Berlusconi calls him, the well-tanned chatterbox, in our faces, was a bad year for Claire.

Her 2009 isn’t any better.  She complained on MTP yesterday that President Bush “starved” the Federal budget.  The inconvenient truth of the matter is that Bush’s last budget was an amount more than his first budget than the whole entire final Federal budget of the Reagan Administration.  In fact, the Bush budgets blew right past both the $2 trillion and the $3 trillion watermarks.  By comparison, President Clinton’s first budget was about $1.5 trillion and his last was $1.7 trillion.

Ran Up the Flagpole, Then Taken Down

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s was notorious for using teenagers and young adults to do their dirty work, to take on the most confrontational duties.  The reason was that they would inevitably be arrested, and be indisposed for several days at a time at several instances, and since they had no serious livelihoods and no families, they had nothing to lose.  Unlike the adults, who did have a lot to lose, in spite of all the “racism” and “discrimination” that they wanted us to think there was.

The AP today celebrates the life of one Claudette Colvin, who might have been Rosa Parks instead of Rosa Parks.  For it was Miss Colvin, who, as a 15-year old, disobeyed Montgomery’s public bus segregation rule.  We know that, in spite of the propaganda, Rosa Parks was not just some innocent seamstress when she challenged the rule, but instead a long time NAACP-type operative, something which the left now admits.  If Rosa Parks and her actions were planned well in advance by The Movement, and she was the public face for outward consumption, then it stands to reason that Claudette Colvin would have been, too.

But reading between the lines of the story, The Movement dropped her like a hot potato when:

The idea of a bus boycott, which King went on to lead, was gaining momentum in the black community, Hoose said, but its organizers didn’t think Colvin was the one whose case should trigger such a risky campaign.

“It always gets to the point where she’s deemed unacceptable to be the face of the movement,” the author said. She was described as “feisty” and “profane” — even though she never used foul language — at a time when black leaders were bent on someone who would project an image of unimpeachable integrity.

Hoose suggested that other factors also may have come into play. Colvin had dark skin, at a time when fairer skin carried more status among blacks. She also came from a neighborhood of unpaved streets lined with shotgun shacks and outdoor privies.

To complicate matters, Colvin discovered during the ordeal that she had been impregnated by a much older, married man. When the pregnancy was discovered, she was expelled from school.

So they ran her up the flagpole, then took her down when they figured that she wasn’t the best front for the purpose.  While the truth was often the opposite, the Civil Rights Movement did want to appear to take the moral high ground, to fool northern whites into thinking that it was entirely about fairness.  This is why they settled on Rosa Parks, a lighter skinned ostensively working middle class straight-as-an-arrow woman to be the face of the movement.

And They Said That Conservative Comics Would Be Bumming Under Obama — Along Comes the Former Mrs. Sonny Bono.

CNS:  Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’

Married to Sonny Bono for 11 years, and it was 8 years of George W. Bush that almost did her in.  Sure.

P-D:  Is 13 the new 18?

Actually, I think it’s more like 40 is the new 13.

SEMO:  Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder says Cape has ‘great potential’ for Tour of Missouri

I would hope that a Lieutenant Governor from a certain city should advocate for that city.

KSDK:  Olympic swimmers in Chesterfield react to Phelps incident

They don’t have enough medals in order to drive drunk and smoke weed.

KSDK:  Obama poster artist arrested on graffiti charges

Hope they thought the Obama posters were the graffiti.

AP:  Report: A-Rod tested positive for steroids in 2003

It wasn’t long before that he suckered the Texas Rangers into giving him $25 million a year, so, to paraphrase Vince Lombardi, he had to do something to show that his ass was worth so damned much.

AP:  Whitney Houston makes triumphant comback at party

It was such a great night that she smoked weed at the afterparty.

USNAWR:  New SCHIP Law Gives Kids Mental Health Coverage

Do you get the feeling that just about every kid is about to come down with a mental illness?

AP:  Bugatti found in Britain gets big bucks at auction

For the $4.4 million that the 1937 Bugatti went for, you could have had two 2009 Veyrons.  Not that it’s an easy thing to get just one.

Politico:  [Barney] Frank warns of job losses

Sorry, Barn, you’re a year late and a trillion short.

Politico:  Steele: WaPo should be ashamed

“Right back at ya, Mikey.” — WaPo

SPACE.com:  Scientist: Keep Mars Pristine

From what?  The Martian coal industry?

FWD:  Celebrating Jason Wu

Who?

Accident Shmaksident

LAT:

Confidential LAPD misconduct files mistakenly posted on Internet

A clerical error is blamed for the disclosure, which violates the Police Commission’s own privacy policy, and perhaps state law.

The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct.

The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks an embarrassing misstep for a police department that has staunchly rebuffed efforts by the public to learn the identities of accused officers and gain greater access to the discipline process.

(snip)

Word of the report sent the department and commission into damage-control mode. The website was taken down within an hour while representatives from the commission and Police Chief William J. Bratton’s command staff called the president of the union that represents 9,500 rank-and-file officers to apologize.

I guess they don’t realize that there’s no such thing as unringing a bell when it comes to the internet.  And I don’t think it was an accident — I bet some black, Hispanic or white liberal employee deliberately leaked the list, because they want black and/or Hispanic gangs or thug types to murder such cops.  Not that they’ll ever tell us, but mark me:  Something bad will happen to at least one of these cops.

One Year On

Yesterday was the year anniversary of the Cookie Monster massacre in Kirkwood.  At the time, your blogmeister, while writing in another medium, paid close attention to the local media and their telling of the story, not only during the evening of the shootings, but in the days afterward.  The reason is that when something like this happen, the media will accidentally slip up and either tell you truths or imply truths that they’ll cover up later on.

And, they did just that.  From what I read on the night of the shootings and going forward a week, combined with what I already knew about Kirkwood, I was able to piece together a version of the story — Mr. Thornton was a perpetual malcontent, and Kirkwood is the kind of place that looks conservative on paper and in some election results, but on race, they’re liberal/egalitarian all the way.  For months and years, Official Kirkwood did nothing but pander to and mollycoddle Mr. Thornton, when any fair jurisdiction would have stopped giving him the time of day long ago.  The more they pandered to him, the more ostentatious and erratic his behavior became.  There was almost no way that it would have ended any differently that it did a year ago.

Also, once I made this conclusion, I predicted that Official Kirkwood would learn nothing.  Not that it was an espcially prescient thing to say, but it has indeed come true.

The P-D has these two treatments from yesterday’s rememberance:

(1)  A motley organization started in the aftermath of the shootings feted an essay contest for Kirkwood elementary school students.  Predictably, the winning essays, and probably all of them, had the Lennonite “Imagine” theme.  If any of them had brains, they would realize that this is the mentality that got them into this mess to begin with.

(2)  Todd Smith, a Kirkwoodian who was at the fateful City Council meeting a year ago, has an op-ed in the P-D blaming guns.  Not that I paid that much attention to the gun issue in the aftermath of the shootings (my mind was on the more obvious factor), but someone I know did an analysis and figured that Mr. Thornton had to violate at least five city, state and Federal laws just on the day and evening of the shootings.  Mr. Smith thinks that “microstamping” (guns already have SNs) would help cops solve crimes — need I remind everyone that the authorities in Kirkwood had no trouble solving this crime.  It’s the motive that Official Kirkwood has trouble grasping.  Guns can’t have motive.

Sebelius to HHS (Why Not DOT? She Seems to Know a Lot About Roads)

That’s the chatter.  If she goes, then Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson, a Democrat, becomes Governor.  Parkinson is Kansas’s equivalent to Chris Koster, a longtime Republican who flipped parties a few years ago for the sake of cold pure opportunism.  Once he did that, Sebelius picked him as her running mate for her second term as Governor.

When Sebelius first ran for Governor in 2002, she made a flippant remark comparing Missouri roads to a 9/11 tragedy.  That said, I’m surprised Obama didn’t send her to DOT.

Georgia En Mi Mente

On the recent scandal with peanut butter and salmonella — we’re told that the suits deliberately concealed bad news and went on with production anyway.  But we’re not told about the other half of the coin.

I understand that the processing plant in question is in north Georgia, which happens to have a high Hispanic growth rate.  Hispanic farm workers don’t have a very good track record when it comes to hygiene.  Could it be that the other half of this coin has to do with the workers at the plant?

Just wondering.

Nothing But Dark Skies Do I See

AP:

New Zealand town is in the dark — and proud of it

TEKAPO, New Zealand – This little town is in the dark and proud of it.

Where other places greet the night by lighting up their streets and tourist attractions, this one goes the other way — low-energy sodium lamps are shielded from above, and household lights must face down, not up.

The purpose: to bring out the stars.

The town of 830 people on New Zealand’s South Island is on a mission to protect the sight of the night sky, even as it disappears behind light and haze in many parts of the world.

The ultimate prize would be UNESCO’s approval for the first “starlight reserve,” and already the “astro tourists” are coming.

I don’t know if this analogy holds for Tekapo, New Zealand, but doing this would be like turning out all the lights only in Yonkers and none in New York City, and expecting the skies in Yonkers to be completely free of light pollution.

Light pollution is measured on something called the Bortle Dark Skies Scale — on a whole number scale from 1 to 9, where 1 is the cleanest and 9 is the most light polluted.  Believe it or not, there is no place in the continental United States that has a Bortle number of 1 — even in the remotest place in central Nevada, the lights from even faraway cities like Vegas and Reno has an effect, such that 2 is the best you’re going to get.  All this, of course, assumes that the atmosphere is ideal, which it usually is not.

Attention Somali Pirates: Read This

I understand that the American Navy wants to make your lives and livelihoods a little more difficult.  I have a weapon which you can use to defeat them, in fact two weapons.

If you understand its power, you will come to realize that it’s the most effective weapon in your arsenal.  While guns, grenades, explosives and dynamite can kill people, the weapons I’m about to give you will do much worse — eviscerate the resolve and morale of your enemy.

What are these weapons?

(1) Scream racism.  You’re black, and for a white American politician, being considered an anti-black racist is worse than death.

(2) Complain about how the Americans are being insensitive to Islam and Muslims.  For an American imperialist trying to spread “democracy” using 9/11 as an excuse, being considered anti-Islam is worse than death.

Once you make these accusations, those whom you accuse will tell you that many of their best friends are black Somali Muslims.  And, they’ll let you do anything you want.

When Bill Gates Wastes a Couple of Billion, He’s Just Warming Up

CNS:  Ashley Judd Targets Palin for Alaska’s Predator Control Program

The 45th President of the United States responds by ticketing Judd for noise pollution.

CNS:  CIA Nominee Panetta Touts Political Experience, Garners Bi-Partisan Support

Looking in vain for the acronym “CIA” in his work experience.

P-D:  Ads target Bond and his opposition to Obama stimulus bill

Or what?  He might lose re-election in 2010?

Steve Sailer:  Bill Gates admits he’s blown $2 billion on Bill Ayers’s small schools boondoggle

He better get on the ball, because he’s only got $40 billion left to waste.

KSDK:  Science experiment goes awry at Kirkwood High

Not if the experiment had something to do with making fire.

WND:  Al Gore: Don’t listen to your parents

Heed this advice, Al Gore III.

AFP:  Americans outraged by tax cheats, survey

Especially the American guests of the Federal government who are at Club Fed for tax “accidents.”

Reuters:  Octuplets’ mother dreamed of having “huge family”

Yes, I’m sure it’s every little girl’s dream to have 14 children.

Time:  Should School Districts Drug-Test Teachers?

Should they drug test school board members?  It seems like St. Louis might have benefited from that a few years ago.

AP/Obama:  Will Ferrell relives 8 years of George W. Bush

For someone who made his name by imitating George W. Bush, that’s a rather good strategery.

AP/Obama:  Val Kilmer ponders run for NM governor in 2010

Uh oh, I’m not taking this as good news for the future of Knight Rider, if the voice of KITT thinks he’ll soon have enough time to run for Governor.

“But He Can’t Do That”

A formative experience in my life happened in almost an instant more than 11 years ago.  It was my first trip that took me through the heart of the Smoky Mountains along Interstate 40 (yes, I know, it’s really the Pisgah National Forest).  Through that section, the interstate is two lanes in each direction, with a concrete barrier between the sides, and almost no left shoulder.  The lanes are slightly narrower than their standard width, and the left lane going each way is prohibited to heavy trucks.  The speed limit is 55, and, IIRC, it narrows to 50 at points.

At one point, I saw an eighteen-wheeler not only using the left lane, but going at least 65.  My blurted reaction?  “He can’t do that!!!”

One of the passengers in the car, a really smart lawyer, said these words that I’ll never forget even if I live to be a thousand years old:

“Oh, but he is doing it.  If he rams some car from the back and everyone in the car dies, are they any less dead because he shouldn’t have been driving in that lane?  That’s the story of the world, boy — people do s*** they shouldn’t go and sometimes get away with it.”

The truck driver had the truck.  The state had the sign.  Guess who won?  Fortunately, the state also has men with guns, fast cars and legal monopoly power on the use of force.  They sometimes help out the signs very much.

This is why I cringe when I hear dorkey libtard say that all you need to make a city park safe is to put up a sign saying “No Guns,” or all you need to preserve human rights in Africa is to sign a treaty with a warlord.  The drug dealer has the gun, the city has the sign.  The warlord has machetes, the State Department has a piece of paper.  Guess who wins.

Prominent and learned men associated with thirteen British colonies on the North American continent also had a lot of high ideals.  The British had the world’s most powerful military.  Guess who would have won without the remarkable skill and brashness of George Washington.

Of course, some of this is based in the lib worship of racial equality.  After all, if they can obey a sign that says no guns in the park, then why can’t their neighborhood black thug?  If their heads of state hold themselves to treaties, why can’t genocidal African warlords do the same?  My saying this ironic, when considering the news to which I’m about to refer.

All this ran through my mind when I read this P-D story today, which also ran yesterday, so I’m guessing it’s rather prominent in the St. Louis media.  A six-time drunk driver (white) who had no legal authorization to drive did just that, and doubly drove the wrong way on Interstate 255 in Madison County, crashing head on with another car, the crash killing a mother and her two children (black).  He was not allowed to drive, and not allowed to travel the wrong way on an interstate highway.  But does this mean that three people are any less dead for it?

And yes, I think most states, definitely Missouri and Illinois, are way too lenient with drunk drivers.

PJB Puts 2 and 2 Together to Make 4

New York Times + Hatin’ on Anti-Invasion Right-Wing Patriots = Carlos Slim.

I first thought that the NYT couldn’t offer Slim any consideration because the paper can’t get any more open borders.  I was wrong, they can and indeed did, with their almost daily editorial railing against people and groups who think that having open borders isn’t a good idea.

V-Dare exposed the link between the NYT and the Southern Poverty Law Center a couple of days ago, and now the NYT is beholden to Carlos Slim.  Now we know how the SPLC will raise more money if they ever need it.  NYT-SPLC-Slim, three peas in a pod.

Fun With Almost All of Today’s Headlines

Houston Chronicle:  Job prospects unclear for the ousted Blagojevich

Stamping out license plates for a dime an hour.

P-D:  Organization for Black Struggle backs Smith for mayor

Sure, it looks to me that she was struggling to urinate into that wastebasket.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram:  Plano police arrest suspect in slaying of Sherlock Holmes

Now it’ll be all up to Watson to make the case against Moriarty.

AFP:  Deutsche Bank posts first loss since WWII, rejects state aid

Now I hope we found a media outlet that can pronounce “Deutsche” correctly; some ignorant American media say “De-SHOOT.”

WaPo:  Holder Seen as a Chance To Right Racial Wrongs

Unlike most of Obama’s other Cabinet nominees, who sought chances to right tax wrongs.

AFP:  MIT researchers make ‘sixth sense’ gadget

I get the sneaking suspicion that it isn’t going to work.

Blue Collar Republican:  Obama Warns Of Doom If The Money Is Not Handed Over

If it’s that drastic, why can’t all 58 Senate Democrats unite behind the rescue?

John Lott:  So why is George Stephanopoulos holding daily strategy sessions with Democrats?

Oh, I dunno, maybe he’s a Democrat?

Slashdot:  Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes

It’s not the first time he’s released a lot of bugs into the wild, to wit:  Windows Vista.

V-Dare:  Are The New York Times And SPLC Coordinating Their Attacks?

I don’t know about the NYT, but it seems to me that the SPLC does the writing, and the rest of the MSM does the Ctrl-C-Shift-Ins.

KSDK:  Constituents finding it hard to reach Senator Burris

He’s a black man holding a Senate seat in a liberal state.  Who’s gonna hold him accountable?

Reuters:  Madoff client list peppered with big names

We didn’t need to wait for the list of victims, we had the Palm Beach phone book all along.

AP/Obama:  AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image

They elected him, so I guess they figure they own him.

Take Two:  AP/Obama:  AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image

“All your hope are belong to us.”

Take Three:  AP/Obama:  AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image

If they lose, then perhaps Barack Obama will have to stand along Constitution Avenue holding a sign reading, “Will Hope For Food.”
Politico:  Senators crack down: No free porn

“That’s what the internet is for.”

McClatchy:  Obama looks to nation’s mayors for stimulus support

He’ll have a hard time, because Michael Nutter is still in line to buy an iPhone, Luke Ravenstahl is still trying to change his name back to what it was before the Steelers started the playoffs, Francis Slay is still bickering with the Census Bureau about population figures, Mark Funkhouser is turning himself into a human slinky, Tom Menino is shining the sports championship trophies earned by the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics this decade, and Richard Daley and Mike Bloomberg are jointly cursing at a handgun.

Rasumssen:  23% Fear Global Warming Will End World – Soon

That’s about the same percentage of people that have admitted to going on acid trips.

AFP:  Microsoft-backed celebrity news website unveiled

Hell, for about ten minutes every day, neither Perez Hilton nor TMZ is making a new post, so someone had to fill that void.

Illinois Considers Joining the Union

Haven’t heard a peep about this news down here in far Southern Illinois, mainly because the Cape-Carb-Pad media market is still covering the ice storm.  But it looks like the figurative ice representing the opposition to conceal-carry in Illinois among state law enforcement is beginning to thaw.

The Illinois Sheriffs Association has come out for CCW.  St. Clair County’s Sheriff is mostly for it, and if there’s any place in Illinois south of Springfield that needs it, it’s St. Clair County.  Madison County’s Sheriff is coming around.  And, Sen. John Bradley, a Democrat representing the district one place over to the east of me, which encompasses Marion, has introduced a bill to give Illinois a CCW system similar to Missouri’s.

In November, there were non-binding plebiscitical resolutions in a number of Illinois counties about CCW.  Most of the counties endorsed the concept, with almost all of those that did being south of Springfield.