Sure, I’m Going to Waste My Precious Lunch Hour on an SPLC Webcast.

Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch:  Kilroy ‘outraged’ by report that Chase will send jobs overseas

The Rockefellers want cheap labor?  That’s been going on for more than a century, dear.

LoS:  SPLC Webcast

http://www.webcasts.org/us/alabama/montgomery/fiction/splc/the_right_wingers_are_going_to_kill_you_give_me_money_so_I_can_stop_them-20090318.wmv

P-D:  Higher taxes, fees in plan to balance Ill. budget

Real creative, Illinois.  That’s a solution I’ve never heard before in my life.  Especially the part about higher cigarette taxes, pretty shrewd and original!!!

CNS:  Millions Hungry, But North Korea Tells U.S. to Stop Sending Food

It may not be in the kindest way, but North Korea is about to solve its hunger problem.

CNS:  Older Books Hazardous to Children? Government Agency Investigating

The investigation concluded that while older books do have a lot of lead, it won’t matter because kids don’t read books anymore.

Jihad Watch:  Netherlands: Most serious teenage criminals are Muslim immigrants, get no jail time

They’ve got three things going for them:  They’re teenage, Muslim and in a liberal country.  Were you so foolish as to think that they would actually go to jail?

P-D:  St. Louis Police Department no longer accepts lost items

Losers weepers.

KSDK:  US orders diplomats to leave Madagascar

No, don’t.  If we don’t have an embassy there, we might not have good relations with that noted superpower.

SIL:  Jackson County Jail holding on: After 21 years, structure sound but needs grow

It’s showing its age well, in spite of heavy use.  Why heavy use?  Carbondale and Murphysboro are heavily black.  Nuff said.

P-D:  Cards payroll is going down

At $93.2 million for 2009, we could only afford three A-Rods.  Then again, David Eckstein has more World Series MVP trophies than A-Rod, so I wouldn’t want one A-Rod.

AP:  Pope in Africa says church must help the poor

“Pretend to be Catholic, whitey’s about to give stuff away.”

NPR:  House To Vote On National Service Measure

Oh no, don’t think you can flee to Canada this time, all this is for good liberal causes, they’ll send you back.

AP:  Police: Conn. teacher made boy eat from garbage

Shocked?  Get used to it, this is going to be you after a few years more of outsourcing and H-1B visas.

Reuters:  [British Cities] declare war on jargon

Will be fought better than the Brits’ part of the War on Terror.

“Provided Two-Thirds of the Senators Present Concur”

Forgot about that part, didn’t ya, Obammy?  Of course, since there are some who think you also forgot about the “natural born citizen” part in that same Article, it’s all par for the course.

Too Good To Be True

The good news is that the East Bridgewater (Mass.) Savings Bank is on good financial ground, mainly because they avoided drawing risky mortgages earlier this decade.  The bad news is that they’re on good financial ground mainly because they avoided giving out affirmative action welfare mortgages to favored minorities earlier this decade.  Guess whether the FDIC gravitates toward the good news or the bad news.

And guess which Federal agency charged with insuring bank deposits is running out of money, because many banks are going bust because of the affirmative action welfare mortgages that the East Bridgewater Savings Bank was wise enough not to draw.  Oh the irony of it all.

St. Ann Doesn’t Condone Any of its Cops Disrespecting Its Many Predatory Thug Babies That They Have to Arrest Often

Calling a black criminal suspect the n-word, tripping him up and banging his head against the roof of a cop car?  Oh no, not in St. Ann.  That’s much worse than leading cops on a ten-mile high speed chase along one of St. Louis’s busiest stretch of interstate highway, risking their own lives, the lives of the cops chasing them, and the lives of other motorists.

IMHO, the suspects got off easy.

If I Could Be Like Mike…

…I too could buy my way into the city changing its charter so that I can be Mayor for life.

Interestingly, New York City is under the supervision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Justice Department of the government that this Bald Eagle represents had to approve this change in New York City’s charter.  Those who wanted the DOJ to reject the change argued that a two-term limit has the disparate and marginal impact of precluding incumbency and therefore opening the field for non-white candidates.

What gets me is that Bloomberg is as left wing as a Republican can get, so he probably worries about white racism.  But his own city must be white racist enough such that the DOJ considers it on par with the Mississippi Delta, in terms of their making sure black and other minority voters and machines are able to commit voter fraud.

SCV’s Guest

The good news is that Jim Guest is still in the State House, even though he actually didn’t run for Governor.  The better news is that he’s coming to Southeast Missouri to speak to the John T. Coffee SCV Camp to talk about States’ Rights.  The best news is that there is still a MSM newspaper in this country that covers it and without an ounce of hate or scorn.

Indian Marriage

IBM wants to buy Sun.  IBM is based in Westchester County, New York, and Sun is based in the Silicon Valley.  So why is the news of the merger coming from Bangalore?  If you’re a white American that works for IBM or Sun, be really worried.

As If South African Governments Would Function Properly Even If They Had Not Died From AIDS?

Almost half of South Africa’s municipal elected officials have died before the age of fifty this decade.  And the AFP is worried that governments won’t be able to function properly.

Pardon Me, But When Did “ATF” Become an Acronym For Mexican Border Guard?

BATF agents are headed to the Mexico-Aztlan “border” to keep guns flowing from north to south.  But not to keep illegal aliens from moving from south to north, which is precisely why guns are flowing from north to south.

In that, the ATF agents will essentially serve as the Mexican Border Patrol.

A-Rod Has Made It to First Base With His New Significant Other

Hey, don’t be hatin’ on A-Rod.  You gotta feel sorry for the guy a little bit — after his wife ran off with Lenny Kravitz, his only recourse for that kind of companionship was Madonna, who’ll be collecting Social Security in a few years.  Any idiot could see that that wasn’t going to last.

So I’m glad for him that he found someone, and more importantly, someone of his own age.  We know for sure that they’ll be with each other every step of the way going forward, and that they will grow old together.

The only thing I wonder is this:  Have they consummated the relationship yet?

***

When the Yankees go out on the road and come to your town, everyone in the ballpark should start singing these lyrics when A-Rod comes up to bat, here’s how it’s supposed to be sung just in case you’re under 50.

Really Forbidden Fruit Is Really Tempting to the Young

Reuters:

German teens drawn to neo-Nazi groups – study

BERLIN (Reuters) – Roughly one in twenty 15-year-old German males is a member of a neo-Nazi group, a higher proportion than are involved in mainstream politics, according to a study released on Tuesday.

Many politicians fear a resurgence of right-wing extremism as unemployment creeps higher in Germany, which is facing its deepest recession since World War Two. Government figures have shown anti-Semitic crimes rose at the end of last year.

“It is shocking that right-wing groups have more success recruiting male youths than the established political parties,” said Christian Pfeiffer, author of the report issued by Lower Saxony’s criminal research instute.

(snip)

The study, conducted in 2007 and 2008, also revealed that neo Nazi-symbols — in either rock music, stickers or special clothing — were used by one in 10 of the youths surveyed. The swastika and other Nazi symbols are banned in Germany.

You’ve heard the phrase forbidden fruit is tempting to the young?  Well, Nazi-era fascism is so prohibited in Germany that it’s actually illegal.  FGS, they’re 15 years old, they’re only rebelling.  Check back in 20 years and see how many of them are still Nazis.  Similarly, all those white 17-year olds listening to rap music and mouthing off about the evils of white racism will be listening to a different tune and singing a different tune in 20 years.  There’s just something about turning 30…

It’s so much an object of rebellion to be a Nazi that there are a surprising number of Jewish (especially Jewish American) teenagers that are becoming Nazis.  An example would be Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine shooters of almost ten years ago now (geezo, ten years, where’d they go?) — he played around with Nazi symbols and language mainly to shock his grandmother, who was a Holocaust death camp survivor.

Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s interior minister, said at the presentation of the state-sponsored report he would push for the creation of more sports clubs in regions with social problems.

No, what you ought to do is make sports more illegal than Naziism, then all the 15-year olds will quit the Nazis and play sports.

Government figures have shown anti-Semitic crimes rose at the end of last year.

Do I have to spell that out for you?  M-U-S-L-I-M.

Take It From Me Don’t Be a Do-Gooder a, Do-Gooder a, Climb Up That Step Ladder and Climb the Other Way.

FT:  Mexico to impose sanctions on US exports

Luckily for us, we don’t actually export anything.

AP:  Sudan’s president: Foreign aid groups must leave

He just saved a lot of foreign aid do-gooders from becoming a missionary stew sacrifice to Allah.

Reuters:  Nigerian student gets 19 years’ jail for love scam

You didn’t need to say “scam,” we implied that from “Nigerian.”  And vice-versa.

CNS:  Pelosi Won’t Say if She Supports Reid’s Proposal to Repeal Automatic Annual Raises for Congress

Let’s untangle some of the double negatives in this headline to make it simpler:  Betty Boop Wants Mo’ Money.

Business Weak:  As Jobs Dry Up, MBAs Seek Alternative Paths

Don’t need an MBA to be a liberal do-gooder feel-gooder in A-freak-a, you learned enough liberal bromides and platitudes to do that job well while you were in middle school.

NPR:  Wisconsin’s New State Slogan May Sound Familiar

“Our diversity is our strength?”

Health Day:  Black Male Children Face Highest Risk for Food Allergies

Damn those Ku Kluxers, riding in during the middle of the night, sneaking into the bedrooms of black boys, and robbing of them of their immune systems.

Keep Turning the Cheek, and Keep Getting Slapped.

Hartford Courant:

Free Speech Under Fire At Universities

Should college students be challenged by new and unfamiliar ideas, even if those ideas offend them or make them feel uncomfortable? An incident that occurred last fall at Central Connecticut State University suggests that the answer, as far as campus administrators are concerned, is no — that the comfort level of students matters more than their education.

In October 2008, students in a class in the department of communication at Central were asked to select a topic covered by the mainstream media and discuss it in class. Students were free to express their opinions on the topic they selected. At least that is what they thought they were allowed to do.

One student, John Wahlberg, who believes in the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, chose the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. In his presentation, he expressed the opinion — for which John R. Lott Jr. and other opponents of gun control measures have provided ample empirical corroboration — that had students and faculty at Virginia Tech been allowed to carry concealed weapons on the campus, the shooter might have been shot before he could kill anyone. In fact, had the shooter been cognizant that his intended targets might be armed and able to defend themselves, he might have been deterred from attempting to carry out his plan in the first place. At the very least, the number of victims might have been fewer.

How did the adjunct professor who taught the course respond to Wahlberg’s presentation? Because she believed students were scared and made uncomfortable by Wahlberg’s opinion — for merely expressing it he somehow became a threat to their physical safety and that of the other 12,000 Central students — she called the campus police, who that evening ordered Wahlberg to report to them for the purpose of explaining why he should not be considered a potential assassin.

Fortunately, Wahlberg was able to disabuse the police of their suspicion. And to her credit, the professor did not punish him for the adverse effect she thought his opinion had on other students by lowering his grade.

As far as Wahlberg is concerned, the matter is closed.

There you go, she slanders him, sicks the (admittedly) Barney Fife campus cops on him, they accused him of being a potential assassin, and he’s going to turn the other cheek.  The bullshit isn’t going to stop until somebody stops it.  If it were me, I would sue until I had this professor’s job and CCSU’s endowment bank accounts at my disposal, at which time I would make a nice big donation to this organization.

City Journal Blows the Lid Off Of Hispanic Support For President Bush in 2004

They run the numbers and find out that President Bush didn’t do as well as first thought among Hispanic voters in his successful 2004 bid for re-election.  As such, the margin by which Hispanic voters shifted from Bush in 2004 to Obama in 2008 is about the same by which white voters flipped.

What little support Bush had in 2004 among Hispanics, most of it came from Texas Hispanics and Florida’s Cubans.  Back those out, and he had almost none.

In contrast with the musings of the Republican open borders lobby, the reason some Republicans don’t do well among Hispanic voters, compared to others, is because they’re weak Republicans to begin with.  Not that any Republican will ever get a majority of the Hispanic vote, but comparing one election to another, a Republican that has less white support will have similarly less Hispanic support, and one that has more white votes will have more Hispanic votes.  Granted, the percent of whites voting for the Republican will be far higher than the percent of Hispanics voting Republican, but the up-down trends mirror each other.  It’s the “strong vs weak” thesis advanced by the Late Great Dr. Samuel T. Francis, The Bard.

Odious

Because they believe that Our Diversity Is OUr Strength (ODIOUS).  And, unlike Missouri, when the Escondido, Calif. Police Officers Union tells you about a problem, they show you the true face of the problem.

Rumors of Education

The P-D, describing “big ideas” gathered for the sake of SLPS reform in the wake of another big round of school closings:

In February, the teachers union gave the board a 32-page presentation to expand and revamp the district’s school-based community centers, adding, for instance, workout programs, health screenings, counseling services, police substations and “designated community space within the schools.”

Who knows, in between their health screenings, time on the treadmill, and inevitably being arrested, students in this community center school might actually have time to learn something.

Life’s Getting Hard Out There for a Gimp

Especially if you were disabled while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.  President Obama is going to “balance the budget” (read: reduce the budget deficit to only $500 billion so that illegal aliens can have health insurance) on your broken backs.

I’m the Problem

Maryland Daily Record:

Salisbury mayor: Malicious blogs endangering city

SALISBURY — In her final State of the City address, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman warned residents of what she sees as a great danger to the city: malicious bloggers.

Tilghman said in her address Thursday that over the last five years, the presence of a small group of suspicious, mean-spirited people focused on the negative has grown, endangering the city’s vitality.

Tilghman says some people are avoiding serving their city because it’s not worth chancing the scorn of bloggers. But Tilghman says they need to stand up for the city.

Tilghman’s final day in office is April 19, but she says she plans to remain active in the city. She says she plans to give a less formal farewell address before leaving office.

Ironically, the article has a link to this newspaper’s own blog, to the post that is an editorial on the part of one of the paper’s reporters about the Mayor’s opinions.

I looked up Salisburyigrad, People’s Republic of Maryland on Wikipedia, and at least on paper, it’s 31% black.  That means in reality, it’s probably 40% black.  Madame Mayor Tightwad, you probably have many more important problems than a few smart ass bloggers.  I’m a smart ass blogger, and I don’t consider myself part of the problem, at least when I’m smart ass blogging.

Muddy Motive

AP:

MANSFIELD, La. (AP) – Authorities arrested a 32-year-old Texas man on drug charges on Thursday after construction workers saw him on his hands and knees, eating mud and growling like a dog. A woman who accompanied the man from Texas told investigators he had been wandering around the complex and eating dog food.

Sheriff’s Lt. Horace Womack said a small bottle of PCP, a half-pound of marijuana and one-fourth ounce of crack cocaine were seized during the man’s arrest.

The man was booked with possessing all three drugs with intent to distribute them. He was placed in a cell where jailers at the DeSoto Detention Center could keep an eye on him.

If he’s acting that crazy, I’d want to keep an eye on him too, just for comedy relief.

Any human being who is on his hands and knees, eating mud and growling like a dog is probably on drugs, and the combination of PCP, crack and weed probably explains it.  Though the authorities first had to consider firstly that this was all some kind of freaky sex foreplay.

Alone

Paducah Sun:

Missing mathematician described as brilliant loner

HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — A wealthy Kentucky man whose burnt remains police believe have been found in Indiana was known to former co-workers as a brilliant but reclusive mathematician who was reluctant to put his name on a patent and refused a face-to-face interview for a lucrative job.

Police investigators said remains recovered last Friday in woods near Indianapolis are believed to be those of Walter Sartory, 73, who was reported missing more than two weeks ago.

It’s definitely foul play.  Anyone who is a brilliant loner is going to be okay all by himself in the middle of nowhere.

No link because it is indeed foul play and it mentions the name of the judge who his overseeing the initial parts of the disposition of due process.

Touchdown Jesus

Costs $46,000 a year.  That’s probably double what it was 15 years ago, and is very close to Ivy League rates.  That’s a nice thing to know on St. Patrick’s Day.

By the time this young lady gets out of med school, most of this country’s pediatric endocrinologists will be insourced from Bangalore using H-1B visas, and she’ll be stuck with probably half a million dollars in student loan debt that she’ll have no hope in repaying.  If she is a physician, it’ll be at not much more than minimum wage, and her student loan payments will be twice her after-tax income.

It’s That Time of Year

Same story, different dates.  While still poor, and in some cases (including the University of Missouri) very bad, the graduation rates for the 65 “March Madness” teams, i.e. to determine the champion of NCAA Division I basketball, has increased overall and for black student-athletes in the last six years.  Like clockwork, every early January and mid-March, we get stories about the poor graduation rates (especially among black student-athletes) of the sport/school combinations that are in the BCS for football in January or March Madness for basketball in March and early April.

The story mentions the University of ConnectiNUT.  The university and its basketball program have been in the news lately, because there are too many politicians upset that head coach Jim Calhoun is making $1.6 million a year in salary.  In this day and age, for a successful program, that’s a bargain, and really a bargain compared to the money that the basketball program makes for the school.  In passing, we find out that UConn’s graduation rate is 22 percent for its black student-athletes.

Otherwise, my opinion of the issue has not changed, as I have gave it three years ago and again two years ago almost to the day.

The Naked and the Red

P-D:  St. Charles County authorities investigating deaths

That’s a new one on me — cops start asking questions when a dead body shows up.

CNS:  White House Says Economy Is Sound Despite ‘Mess’

“And if you take out the murder rate, Washington D.C. is a safe city.” — Marion Barry

CNS:  Bristol Palin’s Ex-Fiance Hopes to Reunite Some Day

By some strange coincidence, he’ll go back to her in about seventeen and a half years.

AFP:  Naked Spaniards in seal-cull protest

Why is it that stupid lib thinks that being naked is going to do any good?  If just being naked cured social problems, I’d take off all my clothes right away.

KVFS-12:  Obama jokes the GOP wants him to get lost

It’s no joke — I think he’s already lost.

AP:  Fewer teens sniffing inhalants to get high

They’re getting high the good ole fashioned way, by smoking it.

LiveScience:  Trend: Daughters Follow Dads’ Footsteps

Not a good idea if you’re the daughter of Osama bin Laden, Ron Jeremy, Kurt Angle, or Pol Pot.

LiveScience:  Teen Dinosaurs Got into Trouble

Daddy T-Rex ripped his boy a new one (literally) if he wasn’t inside the cave before curfew.

Reuters:  Fish may be brain food for teenage boys

If you’re a teenage boy, and your parents have made reservations to Red Lobster every night this week, now you know why.

Reuters:  Tupac’s mother files cross-suit over film project

She’s worried that people might found out how she raised such a thug.

AFP:  Czech man shamed in handcuff hazard

He cuffed himself and came to the police station.  Give him some credit for doing part of the job by himself.

On the Losing End

Local yokel California conservative talk radio is on the decline.  A combination of the bad economy and the Mexicanization of the state and therefore declining white population has forced stations to dump local conservative talkers for nationally syndicated ones.  That, of course, is merely an intermediary step, on the way to these stations becoming Spanish language.

The John and Ken show on KFI (the most listened to talk radio station in the country) is one of the last few successful local hosts in Cali.  God love ‘em, but they’re fighting a losing battle, being in that big northern suburb of Tijuana.

“Higher than West Africa, and On Par With Uganda and Parts of Kenya”

That is the reaction of Washington, D.C.’s city AIDS czar, on the news that 3% of District residents have HIV or AIDS.  Seven percent of D.C’s black men have it, as well as 10% of all D.C. residents in their forties.

Washington, D.C., West Africa, Uganda and Kenya.  What’s the commonality?

As Long As We’re All Equal

Two law profs at Pepperdine University, evidently fuming over the fact that it looks like California’s Prop 8 is going to stand, are floating the proposal that governments stop recognizing marriages.  After all, if gays can’t have it, then nobody can.

While it’s tempting from a libertarian perspective, I think almost everyone, including most libertarians, know in their heart of hearts that a society that sanctions marriage and only heterosexual marriage is qualitatively better.

Grudge Match in ConnetiNUT

Why is there an outbreak of now-illegal cockfighting matches in Waterbury, Connecticut?  There’s probably more cockfighting after it became illegal than before.  How can such a thing be happening in the most enlightened and progressive region of the country, where a Republican dare not trod?

The Boston Globe provides unusually frank answers:

Located at the intersection of Interstate 84 and state Route 8, Waterbury finds itself easily accessible to people from Boston, New York, Worcester, and Springfield. And some cockfighting fans have certainly been making the trip. The people arrested at Waterbury cockfights hailed from 26 communities in four states, including Massachusetts.

“Almost all of them are from out of town, which is a bigger concern for me because how do they find out about it?” asked J. Paul Vance Jr., president of Waterbury’s Board of Aldermen. “How is it being advertised? And how do we shut these people down?”

Perhaps more important than Waterbury’s geography are its demographics. The city’s population, about 108,000, has remained stagnant for nearly 50 years as the brass industry and other manufacturers have shut down. Yet since 1970, Waterbury’s Hispanic population has grown nearly eightfold, according to US Census data, from around 3,900 to nearly 30,000.

Hispanics now account for more than one-fourth of the city’s population. The vast majority of them hail from Puerto Rico, where cockfighting is legal. That more than anything might explain what’s happening, said Alderman Albert Negron, whose father moved from Puerto Rico to Connecticut in the 1960s. Most of the people arrested in the raids have been Hispanic.

“We have Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and in all their countries of origin, that’s a national pastime,” Negron said.

Now all those good ConnetiNUT libs are in a Catch-22.  Their love of animals is itself in a fight up against their worship of diversity and sincere desire never to be “racist” by enforcing any kind of antiquated and bigoted “border” between whites and non-whites.  Which rooster is going to win that bout?  I can tell you this much, it’s going 15 rounds.

Bye Bye Minot, Hello Bangalore

AFP:

US firm to close branch due to lack of employees

TAMPA, Florida (AFP) – A Florida-based firm will soon close one of its North Dakota offices for a reason that seems unfathomable during the deepening US recession: it can’t find enough employees to hire.

Sykes Enterprises, which specializes in creating and maintaining computer customer care services for corporations, opened a telephone call center in Minot, North Dakota in 1996. Last May, management wanted to increase the number of employees to 450.

Yet an unexpected thing happened: so few people applied for the Minot jobs that the Tampa-headquartered company will have to close the call center on May 10 — a cutback by Sykes that will result in 200 people losing their jobs.

“We’ve been working for several months there (in Minot) to find enough applicants for the work, since we have been experiencing significant growth in the US,” said Sykes spokeswoman Andrea Burnett.

She also told AFP that Sykes advertised for many months in the local Minot electronic and press media for applicants.

Really?  You did?  What did you do, run a 5-second TV ad on a Sunday night infomercial aired on Minot’s lowest-rated TV station, or a 10-second radio ad on an overnight rerun of Pinko McFarland’s Hog Talk, or a 2-point classified on page Q45 of the Sunday edition of the Minot newspaper?  Advertising minimum wage jobs, no less?

And why does your supposed inability to hire 450 more people mean that the 200 Minotians who work in that call center have to lose their jobs?

It was something like that, specifically generated to create a low applicant base, so that the company could use that as an excuse to move those open jobs and by deduction the 200 existing jobs to Bangalore, based on the pretense that no Americans wanted to do those jobs.  Call centers are ripe for this kind of treachery.

Preponderance of the Economic Frustration

White House wants to halt the granting of some $165 million (though what’s a million dollars these days?) of bonuses due to AIG execs.  AIG responds by saying that the bounuses are in their employment contracts, and they could sue if AIG doesn’t pay.

I say don’t pay and let ‘em sue.  Good luck in this near-depression economy of ours finding nine out of twelve random people who’ll say that people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not millions should get $165 million more, when at least some of those civil trial jurors are out of jobs and the ones that still have jobs are taxpayers helping to bail out AIG.

UPDATE 3/17: But I think the demagoguery and invective on the part of some Washington politicians (yes, Charles Grassley, I mean you) is getting to be too much.  AIG’s execs are posting armed guards at their offices.

No need to mouth off and fuel the flames of hate and jealousy, just don’t pay them their bonuses.  Yes, they’ll sue, but like I said, in this economy, you’re not going to get a civil court jury to side with you.  And there is a chance that the AIG execs might sue any politician of serious stature, who says that AIG shouldn’t pay their bonuses, and sue them for tortious interference of contract.  But again, find 9 out of 12 people who would side with AIG execs.

No Joy in Obamaville

Well well.  I’m looking at this thing the call a “bracket” this morning, and Oregon State isn’t in it.  Gee, is their new basketball coach doing for Beavers hoops what his brother-in-law is doing for the country?  Enjoy your trip to the NIT, and your NITwit brother-in-law.

And Go Mizzou.