Did You Know? Mexico Had a Government and an Economy Such That Swine Flu Is Shutting Them Down. Could’ve Fooled Me.

CNS:  Labor Secretary Says Making Sure Undocumented Workers Get Paid Will Be Priority

They will be paid every pay period, on time, and paid an amount indicative of their $1.50 an hour wage rate.

Jihad Watch:  Egypt calls for the “immediate” death of all pigs

Charles Manson once called for the same thing.

CNS:  Specter Calls for ‘Revolution’ and ‘Uprising’ Against Republicans ‘Far to the Right’

I’m stockpiling on every sort of armament there is to defend Carbondale against the imminent Klingon invasion.  What’s that you say, there are no Klingons?

NPI:  Food Stamps Create Jobs… in India

What say you, President that promised no more outsourcing?  Oh, I forgot, he didn’t actually promise that, he just said there would be no tax breaks for companies that outsource.  So we should look forward to new taxes on the food stamp administration?

CNN:  Obama pushes for immigration reform

Nice timing, slappy.  Isn’t that Rahm Emmanuel I hear coughing?

KSDK:  Teens & Texting: How do you manage your cell phone bill?

Take the phone away.  You’ll be amazed how parsimonious your teenager will become all of a sudden after you give it back a month later.

MSNBC:  Mexico to shut down government in flu fight

What government?

Reuters:  Mexico shuts down economy as flu pandemic imminent

What economy?

USNAWR:  Most Americans Think Obama’s First 100 Days Were Successful

I think Obama’s first 100 days have been successful.  Lenin’s five year plans were successful, too.

AP:  Girl beats off muggers with marching band baton

He must have been the world’s weakest mugger if a marching band baton could take him.

McClatchy:  Somali pirates say foreign trawlers made them do it

I was wondering how long it would take before they started pulling out the Jesse Jackson card.

AFP:  Facebook exec eyes California [Attorney General] position

If you become AG, you’ll have to learn really quickly that you can’t be as gabby about the cases you bring as the average FB user is about his or her daily activities.

AFP:  Internet ‘flooded with swine virus spam emails’

Wouldn’t it be ironic if some of those spams had computer viruses attached to them, perhaps with names like swine.w32?

Three Tech Stories

Two of them involving the Borg Lite.

(1)  Why I don’t have or want an iPod — KGB South is pulling out all the stops to keep you from finding out that you don’t need iTunes to use an iPod.  (In case you’re wondering what I do own in lieu of an iPod)

(2)  Bye bye x86 and x86_64 — it looks like KGB South is slowly moving away from those commodity processors.  If anything, they should be moving in the other direction.  The Mac OS will perpetually be at under a 10% American market share unless KGB South decouples Mac OS from Apple hardware, i.e. allow the Mac to be installed on any PC.

(3)  The first decade of the 21st Century — in like a lion, out like a lamb.  Or to translate the metaphor into plain English, it starts with AOL buying Time-Warner, and ends with Time-Warner spinning off AOL.

It’s Called Course Title Inflation, Dummy.

CSM:

High-schoolers have made little progress since the 1970s, study says

(snip)

The flat math scores among 17-year-olds happened despite the fact that larger percentages have taken higher-level math courses than in previous decades. That raises questions about whether such courses are really offering higher-level curriculum, whether the students bring the necessary math background to be successful, and whether the teaching is effective, Ms. Wilkins and others say.

The Oprah (of all people) solved that riddle.

More on course title inflation.

Eighteen Years Old, and Already Filmed Getting the Underwear Perp Walk. Not a Good Way to Start Life.

CNS:  Obama Seeks to Change Crack Sentences

A quarter century ago, the Obamas of the world wanted longer crack sentences because of the way crack was impacting the black community.

CNS:  Obama’s Request to Cover Christian Symbol Reveals Country’s Move toward Socialism, Secularism, Congressman Says

Or it just means the non-Christian President and his non-Christian Chief of Staff hate Christians.

Jihad Watch:  Fort Dix jihadists sentenced to life of prison da’wa

Won’t be their last experiences with “Dix.”

MOPNS:  Can You Say Cluster F@*K!

Apparently, you can’t, but I can.  Clusterinbev!

P-D:  Madison County offers free bus passes to youths

In this age where “youth” in terms of childrens’ health care means anyone up to 30, the county’s gonna hand out a lot of free bus passes.

WPMT-Fox-43 Harrisburg, Penn.:  Teen Arrested Wearing Only Underwear

If only he could have lost the underwear, he might have been the next star on COPS Naked.

CNS:  Specter Ushers In a Brave New World

Though I wouldn’t attribute his actions to bravery.

Rasmussen:  Pennsylvania Senate Primary: Toomey 51% Specter 30%

Fuggedabowdit, that whopping 30% just made itself a Democrat.  No wonder why he flipped.

Jihad Watch:  North Carolina jihadist: “Anyone with eyes can clearly see that this new disease is a curse from Allah upon America. The Mujahideen and those who support them continue to ask Allah to destroy America.”

A curse from Allah?  Or something engineered in an AQ biowarfare lab?

P-D:  President Barack Obama leaves Arnold, Mo.

Elvis has left the building.

P-D:  Ill. lawmakers tell kids to play outdoors

Too bad some of the Illinois lawyers who make a living around the laws those lawmakers make don’t want kids to play outdoors because somebody might fall down and make a boo-boo and somebody’s parents will sue in earnest.

CNS:  Obama Tells Americans, ‘Wash Your Hands’

We’re not all in the first grade, Barry.

USNAWR:  Chicago Tests a Year-Round School Schedule

That way, they’ll be a failing school system for three more months out of the year.

PC Mag:  Microsoft: We’re Still Not Making a Phone

And I’m still not buying a Microsoft Phone even if you did.

E!:  Sex and the City Sequel: More Men on Board

Now to get more men to watch, female nagalogue needs to be reduced drastically.

Don’t Peak and Don’t Boo

Slashdot:

Social Networking Sites Getting Risky For Recruiting

“While many recruiters and HR managers are taking advantage of the Web and online social networks to screen candidates for positions inside their organizations, a bank in Texas has decided that using social networking websites in its recruiting process is too risky legally. Amegy Bank of Texas now prohibits internal HR staff and external recruiters from using social networking sites in its hiring process. Amegy’s decision to ban the use of social networking sites in its hiring process demonstrates its respect for prospective employees’ privacy. It also sends a message to the employers and recruiters using social networks to snoop into job seekers’ personal lives that their actions border on discrimination and could get them in a lot of legal trouble.”

I figured as much that it wouldn’t take long for personnel departments to prohibit the use of MyS/FB sites in their hiring process.  The reason is obvious — someone could say that they didn’t get a call for an interview, or they weren’t hired, because those making the hiring were able to see the applicant’s race, gender or sexual orientation.

Frequent and Fleeting Expletive Strewn Headlines On Tap Today

St. Louis Beacon:  For Obama, Jefferson County represents the heart of the heartland

Does that mean he’s trying to score some crystal meth?

CNS:  Pro-Life Harvard Prof Refuses Award from Notre Dame Because it is Honoring Obama

Sorry, CNS.  April Fools Day was almost a month ago.  It’s the part about a pro-life Harvard professor that gave it away.

LoS:  With Swine Flu Cases Rising, Borders Are Tightened

Every country’s borders than ours.  Sounds like our next export should be Janet Sap-olitano.

P-D:  Ill. prosecutors weigh charges in boy’s death

Since the boy was crushed to death under the weight of a dump truck, I think “weighing” charges is a poor choice of words considering the circumstance.

P-D:  Supreme Court keeps ‘fleeting expletives’ policy for now

I’m keeping my ‘frequent expletives’ policy for good, damn it.

P-D:  Clay, Danforth sit together for PBS NewsHour panel here

As a native St. Louisian, I apologize to the rest of the country.

Slashdot:  Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism

Look at author of the work.  If it looks like “Doris Kearns Goodwin,” that’s how you know it’s plagiarized.

Fresno Bee:  Gang member accused of forcing son’s tattoo

Just getting him ready for the inevitable.  Somebody’s gotta pick up the slack when daddy gets murdered or enhoosegowed this summer.

Politico:  Website lets users rate Congress

It’s a waste of your time, because they won’t let you give grades any lower than F.

I’m Thinking of a Word With Three Letters. It Starts With D-U-H.

So, businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens and know that ICE is going to breathing down their necks soon are complaining that ICE isn’t telling them how they’re going to conduct their investigation?

Well, how ungracious of ICE.  What have we come to in this country when law enforcement doesn’t inform criminal suspects about every exact detail of the actions they’re going to take against them?

Actually, they might have one complaint that’s worth addressing.  If you’re a business that operates in an area with a substantial population of illegal aliens, you’re caught between the rock of immigration and the hard place of racial profiling.  In other words, if a Hispanic applies for a job, and you ask him for his immigration paperwork, you could get sued or prosecuted for racial discrimination in hiring, and racial profiling (“how dare you presume that a Hispanic might be here illegally.”)  But if you don’t ask, ICE has got you on knowingly hiring illegals.

The Strange Case of Metherson County

St. Louis Beacon:

For Obama, Jefferson County represents the heart of the heartland

Posted 6:30 p.m. Mon., April 27 – Jefferson County Executive Chuck Banks and other top local leaders are thrilled — but not surprised — that President Barack Obama has chosen their county for a town hall Wednesday that will mark the president’s first 100 days in office.

Obama recognizes that Jefferson County is an important “bellwether county in a bellwether state,” says state Sen. Ryan McKenna (right), D-Crystal City.

Just like Missouri, Jefferson County, which, according to Banks has a population of 229,000 people, has long been seen as key swing political territory that often reflects the national mood, especially among middle-class voters.

And what it’s also full of are white people or the sons and daughters of white people who were driven out of north St. Louis as it was becoming black.  You would think such people would know the time of day when it comes to race.  But when they have their racial-political chops tested last year, they go and vote for a black President.  So much for white supremacy, back to the drawing board.

My estimation of Metherson County dropped a lot after November.

He’s Half Right

WND:

U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net ‘Fairness Doctrine’

Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama’s nominee for “regulatory czar” has advocated a “Fairness Doctrine” for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period.

The first part is inane, but I wish there were some way to implement the second part without it being a violation of civil liberties.  When you’re pissed off, or just pissed drunk, stay away from the computer.  You’ve heard of liquor courage?  There is such a thing as e-mail courage, in that you’ll say things to someone else in an e-mail that you wouldn’t say to them over the phone or face-to-face.  If you happen to be drunk, it’s only worse.  I’ve been down that road, and don’t care to again.

As for his first part, how are the regulars at Daily Kook, AlterNut, Hussytown Post, MyUSSR and Demon-Ratic Underwear, who are given partial credit for the election of Mr. Sunstein’s about-to-be boss, going to like it when they have to stare at links to right-wing blogs and other internet sites?

Ten Years After the Fact…

…Arlen Specter has announced he’s switching to the Democrat Party.

Pat Toomey’s life has just gotten a lot easier.

UPDATE 4/29:  If there is any one person responsible for this thing still being a sitting U.S. Senator, it’s former President George W. Bush.  In 2004, Pat Toomey, then holding PA-15, gave up his House seat to challenge Specter in the Republican primaries.  Specter barely won, 51% to 49%, and the difference was then-President Bush’s enthusiastic endorsement.  Part of the reason that Bush endorsed Specter over the more ideologically compatible Toomey is that Bush thought that Toomey couldn’t beat a Democrat in Pennsylvania.  Even so, the net result as of today, April 29, 2009, would have been the same:  A Democrat holding that Senate seat.

Lying to You.

AP:

Fox sticking with schedule instead of Obama

NEW YORK – The Fox network is sticking with its regular schedule over President Barack Obama this week.

The network is turning down the president’s request to show his prime-time news conference on Wednesday. The news conference marks Obama’s 100th day in office. Instead of the president, Fox viewers will see an episode of the Tim Roth drama “Lie to Me.”

How is that not like an Obama news conference?

The TARP Check Has Come In. Now It’s Time to Figure the Mandatory 15 Percent Gratuity on $2.9 Trillion.

CNS:  ‘Choose Life’ License Plates Approved in 24 States

Evidently, death is the only option in the other 26 states.

Reuters:  Obama vows 3 percent of GDP for science research

Except that when he’s promised 60 percent of the GDP for bailouts, 45 percent for rescues, 56 percent for TARPs, 31 percent for slavery reparations and 0.001 percent for loans to automakers to save the last few good working middle class manufacturing jobs left in America, there won’t be any space for that 3 percent.

CNS:  TARP’s Price Tag Could Reach $2.9 Trillion, Inspector General Says

If I could only get a $2.9 trillion line of credit like our Yankee government.

P-D:  IBM computer to take ‘Jeopardy!’ challenge

My money is still on Ken Jennings, as long as they don’t ask any questions about accounting firms.

KFVS:  2 Chicago-area schools to be horror movie sites

If they pick the right schools, the horror won’t be fiction.

AP:  Taliban deride ‘worthless’ truce with Pakistan

So saith the most worthless entity in the world, besides the High School Musical franchise.  (I wonder what “we’re all in this together” is in Pashto and Arabic.)

AP:  Obama: Swine flu not reason for ‘alarm’

And certainly not a reason to close the border.

USNAWR:  Get Your Kid Off Video Games and Into a Job

So he’ll learn how to compete in the real world, i.e. work for slave wages, cheaper than illegal aliens.

Time:  Forget Math. Women Lag in Becoming English Professors!

Men or women, I think we don’t need any more English professors.

Reuters:  GM to slash costs, drop Pontiac

And with it, that certain racial joke involving Pontiac being an acronym.

Sunday Wrap-Up (Afterwards, I’m Headed to Chicago to Eat a Misdemeanor Wiener)

(1)  Sean Penn says that Hugo Chavez is “warm” and “friendly.” Of course a dictator is going to be warm and friendly if you agree with everything he says.

(2)  MODESE is going to do a “comprehensive review” of the St. Louis City Public Schools next week.   The review is to see whether the SLPS should remain under state control or be returned to the flourescent balloon acts they call a locally elected school board.  Knowing how the word “comprehensive” has been sullied in recent years, a “comprehensive review” of the SPLS will tell us that it’s doing really great.

(3)  A P-D blogger has noticed that MySpace’s day is gone, and now Facebook is the new cool.  Actually, that’s not quite true:  The difference between MySpace and Facebook is that men who don’t wear shirts go for the former, and those who do go for the latter.

(4)  You can’t have your hot dog and eat it, too.  A Chicagograd city politician is okay with a hot dog restaurant starting in his ward, and the owner’s mission to hire ex-cons is commendable, but he doesn’t like the fact that it’ll be called “Felony Franks,” and be home of the “Misdemeanor Wiener,” and otherwise use a lot of crime double entendres.  Sorry, Mr. Politician. It’s par for the course.

(5)  “The future of financial mathematics?,” huh?  I think the future of financial mathematics is the present of ghetto mathematics, that is a complicated formula to figure out how much time you’ll spend in prison.

(6)  The Pakistani Taliban has set the punishment for men who listen to music as having their heads shaved.  The RIAA wants the scalps of Americans that listen to music.  C’est la vie.

(7)  This Mexico swine flu thing?  I’m thinkin’ AQ.

(8)  Various white do-gooder high school and college students held a “solidarity event” on the Arch grounds yesterday to show their concern about the use of “child” soldiers in Uganda.  The irony is that in the very city which they held their protest, especially in the northern half, there are similar problems, for much the same reason.

And a few headlines:

P-D:  MARYVILLE: Mom charged with battery

I bet she worked for Energizer.

Slashdot:  What Did You Do First With Linux?

It’s an operating system, not the back seat of a car.

P-D:  Raid in East St. Louis nets drugs, weapons, six arrests

What else would a police raid in ESL net?  A budding cellist playing Brahms?

For Whom the Bells of St. Mary, Missouri Toll

CNS:  Obama Plans Prime-Time News Conference on His 100th Day in Office

Maintaining his one a month average.  The networks have to be pulling their hair out of their heads when they think about him eating up golden sweeps time.

ZDNet Asia:  Open source challenges students to think

Oh no, not that.  If they think, they might not microsoft.

P-D:  Mo. House requires permits to own lions, tigers and bears

Oh my!

P-D:  Mo. House OKs right to pray

The Illinois House also OKed a right to pray.  The only difference between Missouri and Illinois is which deity to whom you may pray — Missouri goes with God, while Illinois opts for Obama.

P-D:  Don Calloway is walking home — from Jefferson City to Bel Nor

I knew Missouri doesn’t pay legislators very much, but I never thought it was that low that one of their own had to take the ten-toe express.

Slashdot:  Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities

No don’t.  Geocities, a 300-level Political Statistics textbook which I kept, and the ticket stubs for a Spice Girls concert I found in the glove compartment when I bought my current car are my only vestigal links to 1997.

CNS:  Barney Frank: Marijuana, Internet Gambling O.K. for Americans, but not ‘Total Freedom’ in Financial Matters

Weed and gambling aren’t freedom, they’re distractions.  Some, and by some, I mean those religious fundamentalists that nobody wants to listen to anymore, would even say they’re hedonistic.

KOMU-8 Columbia, Mo.:  Catching Up With Bob Holden

“Catching up” with Bob Holden falsely implies that he’s in a hurry because someone needs his services.

KFVS-12:  St. Louis County Police looking for evidence in case in St. Mary

If you’re the doer in St. Mary, just hide the evidence in an unlocked closet, and that’ll be enough to fool the St. Louis County Incompetents Department.

President Obama Makes His One and Only Good Accomplishment As President

He got it in before day 100, no less.

Because of his insistence that he shouldn’t give up his CrackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the CrackBerry, have made CBs for the President, the First Lady, and certain top White House staffers that are so secure that they pass NSA muster.  And in a couple of years, we’ll be able to buy them.

Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.

Now if George W. Bush would have been so persistent with his own e-mail account in 2001, we might actually have e-mail these days worth using.

Outboard Motor Voter

P-D:  Convicted ex-St. Peters Mayor Shawn Brown says he’ll run again

Sorry, Shawn.  This is St. Peters, not Detroit or Washington, D.C.  And you’re not black.

P-D:  House approves promoting voter registration for hunters and anglers

Just call the measure “outboard motor voter.”

P-D:  Illinois dentists pushing 5-percent tax on softdrinks

You know what would be funny?  If this tax made people stop drinking sugary sodas, and nobody needed to go to the dentist anymore.

P-D:  S.F. mayor borrows from Robin Carnahan’s campaign play book

Such as batting for the home team.

P-D:  University of Oklahoma adds rules for student athletes use of social networks

If you’re at the University of Oklahoma on a badminton scholarship, no pictures of you guzzling shots of whiskey of you!!!  If you’re mortgaging your future to take pre-med classes, then it’s okay :)

The Onion:  Spam A Global Warming Issue

Global warming is a spam issue, because we’re being spammed by an entire party and ideology with doomsday paranoia.

NPI:  Ethnic ‘entitlement’ does not bode well for Kenya and its communities

As I turn in the direction of a certain powerful Kenyan, and ask, “what say you?”

AP:  Youth volunteering dips, first time since 9/11

Don’t worry.  The Hopefather’s gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse.

UK Telegraph:  Children tracked by sat nav to stop bad behaviour -  Children will be tracked by satellite on public transport and encouraged to spy on their friends and report bad behaviour, under a pilot scheme by the Welsh Assembly.

And what’s going to happen when these GPSes show that certain kinds of children are responsible for most of the “bad behavior?”  Will the GPS units be charged with hate crimes?

AP:  New jobless claims rise more than expected to 640K

We’ve reached the nadir, because 640K of unemployment should be enough for anybody.

Reuters:  Nepal firm to expand mobile coverage to Everest

Can’t breathe, but you can use your iPhone.  Talk about priorities.

Inferior Goods

Fox Biz:

Supervalu Shares Surge 16% On Earnings Report

SAN FRANCISCO — Supervalu Inc. shares surged 16% early Thursday after the supermarket chain reported stronger financial results than analysts expected. Supervalu reported a net loss of $201 million, or 95 cents a share, compared to a year-earlier profit of $156 million, or 73 cents a share. But excluding non-cash charges, Supervalu said it earned 87 cents a share, compared to the 79 cents a share analysts had forecast, according to FactSet Research. Supervalu posted sales of $10.8 billion. The grocer, which owns regional chains Albertsons, Jewel-Osco and Sav-A-Lot, said it remains in compliance with all debt covenants. Investors have been concerned about Supervalu’s heavy debt load. Supervalu shares rose to $16.97 in recent trades.

Supervalu also owns the St. Louis and Vicinity supermarket chain Shop ‘n’ Save.

Economists call these “inferior goods.”  Not that the goods are deficient, it’s just the definition of a good that sells more in a bad economy.  The supermarket house brand soup sells better than Campbell’s in economies like these because they’re cheaper.  Likewise, stores like Save-a-Lot and Shop ‘n’ Save will do better than Schnucks, Safeway, Winn Dixie and Bashas in a bad economy.  Hence, Supervalu’s earnings are up.

Amnesty By Any Other Means

CNS:

Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Fight Deportation

Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court has made it easier for illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation to get another chance at a court hearing.

The decision Wednesday came in the case of Jean Marc Nken, who came to the United States in 2001 and did not leave when his visa expired.

Nken has since applied for asylum, married a U.S. citizen and had a child, who also is an American. But immigration authorities and federal courts have repeatedly rejected his claims, which include the prospect of persecution if he is sent back to the African nation of Cameroon.

The federal appeals courts have split on what standard to apply to requests to temporarily block deportation while taking another look at immigration cases.

It won’t take long, and nobody will be deported, based on the pretense that they would be “persecuted” if they are sent back.  Except of course for certain white immigrants, who will be sent back from where they came, where they really will face persecution.

President Obama and the open borders lobby might not actually have to push a formal amnesty for illegal aliens to get amnesty.  All that is necessary are SCOTUS decisions like these, plus a refusal to enforce immigration law, plus turning our heads to immigration violations in other fashions.  Over time, immigration law will become dead letters.

Protection

CNS:

Official: FDA to OK Plan B for 17-Year-Olds

Washington (AP) – The Food and Drug Administration, reversing field, will allow 17-year-olds get the ‘morning-after’ birth control pill without a doctor’s prescription, a government health official said Wednesday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the agency will comply with a federal judge’s order overturning a Bush administration policy that restricted access. The official was not authorized to speak publicly before the FDA announcement, expected later Wednesday.

(No link to the article because it mentions the name of a Federal judge who recently made a ruling in similar subject matter.)

I bet the reason for this is that not all college freshmen are 18 years old.  Some don’t turn 18 until some time during the academic year.  Someone on my dorm floor in my freshman year of college, he himself was also a freshman, didn’t turn 18 until a week after the last possible day of finals, meaning he turned 17 just a few weeks before graduating from high school.

That said, let’s apply this logic in other ways.  Let’s say it’s not a 17-year old young woman who needed some emergency contraception after she got loaded in some guy’s dorm room.  What if it were one of the young men on the floor who wanted emergency protection in the form of a handgun and a conceal-carry permit because he thinks there are credible threats of violence against him?  Or maybe he fears run of the mill violent crime because his campus is in a bad part of town?  (I’m looking at you, St. Louis University.)  Will there be judges and Federal bureaucrats in the Obama administration (or any administration) going out of their way to help him?  Hell no.

The Missouri legislature wants to force college campuses to allow existing CCW permit holders to pack heat on campus, and at the same time lower the permit age to 21.  Even if both parts come to pass, 21 is older than a majority of undergraduate students.  The current minimum age of 23 is older than almost all undergrad students.  And the college administrators in this state are fighting the former proposal tooth and nail.

Patented Pigs

Tree Hugger:  No Kidding, One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse

The rest got Ds or Fs in third grade environmental science, and are also in danger of failing both diversity studies and Martin Luther Kingology.

CNS: Plan to Stop Flow of Guns into Mexico Will ‘Respect’ 2nd Amendment Rights, DHS Official Says

This doesn’t exactly comfort me, coming from the same institution that executed Randy Weaver’s wife, kids and dog for his having failed to pay a $5 transfer tax on a shotgun sawed off a quarter inch too short.

CNS:  U.S. Education Secretary Signs Partnership with Chinese Communists Who Put Dissidents in Re-Education Camps

Do we need new textbooks, or advice on how to design the re-education camps?

Slashdot:  Biotech Company To Patent Pigs

Monsanto is doing this to compete with Warner Brothers patented pig.

Slashdot:  The Road To Terabit Ethernet

Too bad you’ll hit your monthly bandwidth cap in .02 seconds if you have an ISP like Time-Warner, Charter or UNT&T.

Steve Patterson: Mayor Slay Calls for Local Police Control, City Rejoing County

Who’s going to want to be joined at the hip with a city that’s essentially a black gang war zone because white-hating police-hating “community activists” and black preachers run the police department?

Springfield News-Leader:  Obama to visit St. Louis on 100th day in office

Wait until his 666th day to visit St. Louis, that would be more appropriate.

Fashion Week Daily:  Gap Launches 1969 Premium Denim

The store changes its name to “Generation Gap.”

Worry Warts

Tree Hugger:

No Kidding, One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse

There’s a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn’t imaginary. Us. One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won’t exist when they grow up, while more than half—56 percent—worry that the planet will be a blasted heath (or at least a very unpleasant place to live), according to a new survey.

Commissioned by Habitat Heroes and conducted by Opinion Research, the telephone survey polled a national sample of 500 American preteens—250 males and 250 females.

On a sliding scale of anxieties, minority kids have it worst; 75 percent of black children and 65 percent of Hispanic children believe that the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood.

And yet, the parents of those black and Hispanic children worried about global apocalypse are the ones that tend to waste energy.  You know, yank the thermostat to 80 or higher in the winter, don’t do maintenance on the car so that it pollutes to the best of its ability, run every light and appliance in the house all day and night long.  And certainly don’t use the St. Louis City dumpsters marked for yard waste recycling for yard waste, put any and every thing but yard waste in there.  Ecological altruism and energy consciousness is a white thang, you don’t understand.

Different Rules, Same Game

P-D:

Five hurt in incidents at Imagine charter high school

ST. LOUIS — A 16-year-old student was seriously injured and two school security officers, a teacher and a St. Louis police officer also were hurt in incidents Tuesday at the Imagine College Preparatory High School, officials said.

(snip)

The department said officers had responded to multiple disturbances at the school over the past six months. Seven criminal complaint reports have been written in those cases.

Tell me again how charter schools are so great?  We can “imagine” that they are, and “imagine” that Imagine charter high school is really such.

“Ubuntu” — An African Word Meaning “Get Out Honkey”

CSM:

Is South Africa about to become more ‘African’?

Johannesburg – Rising crime, crumbling roads, pernicious corruption, and landslide victories for the ruling party in charge: these are the signs that South Africa – so “First World” at first appearance – is now on the decline.

But the one complaint that seems to top them all here these days is that the country is becoming more “African.”

(snip)

A central concept in southern African cultures is the notion of ubuntu, which literally means “being a human being.”

“If you look at ubuntu, that is the way in which people look after those who are vulnerable and weak,” says Dumiso Matshazi, a political analyst in Tshwane, as Pretoria is now called. Ubuntu is a collective compassion that holds people together, that won’t allow someone to starve or to remain homeless; it is the glue that can hold society together, he adds.

Ubuntu, seen in the many families who take in AIDS orphans, and in voluntary township soup kitchens, has been weakened significantly in recent years, anthropologist Pearl Sithole says, as blacks move from tightly knit rural areas to the cities in search for jobs, and as politically connected Africans use their personal connections to achieve personal wealth.

Where is all this “ubuntu” when it comes to South African whites?  It’s not there.  Instead, South African whites are victims of black crime, black violence, black hate, land expropriation, wealth expropriation, and the overall degradation of the formerly first world country they created into the usual African third world mehe that just had to happen, because racial equality is more important than anything.

Extremists, One and All

Thomas Sowell:

Are You an ‘Extremist’?

While the rest of us may be worried about violent Mexican drug gangs on our border, or about terrorists who are going to be released from Guantanimo, the Director of Homeland Security is worried about “right-wing extremists.”

Just who are these right-wing extremists?

According to an official document of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, right-wing extremists include “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

“Opposition to abortion” — that means virtually every Catholic who is not a Democrat member of the U.S. House or Senate.

Wrong Information

Linux Planet:

You Thought Sarbanes-Oxley Was Bad? Wait til You See What’s Coming

Get Your Waders, You’re Going to Need Them

A tidal wave of new compliance regulations looks set to wreak havoc in IT departments when it hits some time in the next 12 to 18 months.

The new regulations will be introduced as a direct result of the current crisis in the financial markets, and as their scope becomes clearer they will have a huge effect on data center activities, said Chris McClean, an analyst at Forrester Research. “I reckon the impact of these new regulations has the potential to be much, much bigger than Sarbanes-Oxley,” says McLean. “The push for new regulation will be enormous. When you look at the amount of people affected by Enron and WorldCom, it’s small compared to those affected by the current financial crisis. IT will have to be involved in a big way.”

He believes it’s likely that the purpose of many of the new regulations will be to push for better corporate auditability. That’s because one of the problems that may well have contributed to the financial crisis is that although banks and other financial institutions had large amounts of information about their businesses, they still made bad decisions because they couldn’t access the right information when they needed it.  “Essentially, they made bad decisions because they didn’t have the right technology,” McClean said. The new regulations will ensure organizations have better control over the activities particular groups can carry out.

Sorry, it wasn’t a matter of not having “access to the right information when they needed it,” it was a government-corporate-banking voulez vous le bon temps roulet of affirmative action mortgages.  You know, giving $720,000 mortgages to illegal aliens claiming (but not really making) $14,000 a year as an agricultural laborer, so he could remit half of it to his relatives in Mexico and use the other half to buy an overpriced sardine box in San Bernardino.  And they wonder why he couldn’t make the payments.

You can’t solve a problem unless you first identify a problem.  And you can’t identify a problem if you’re prevented from doing so by the religion of racial equality.  Therefore, you come up with half-assed “solutions” that will majorly inconvenience every business IT department with more than two racks.

Low DiFidelity

Why now are the MSM telling us the truth about the corruptocrat Dianne Feinstein, when we (and they) have known it for years?

Answer:  Because she’s thinking about running for Governor, and I think the MSM in California are thrown in for Gavin “Any Twosome” Newsom, mainly on the gay marriage issue.  That and I think they think Feinstein would come off as a bitch up against the probable Republican nominee, former Ebay CEO Meg Whitman.  But if they weaken DiFi to help Newsom, it’ll only split the San Francisco vote (she was once Mayor of SF), and help Education Secretary Jack O’Connell.

I’ve been predicting an O’Connell win, mainly because he’s quietly doing all the hard work and sucking up to all the right California libdem constituencies (“white teachers are to blame for black and Hispanic academic failure”), and Newsom, DiFi and Lt. Gov. Garamendi are the same kind of candidate, expecting to ride their own steam to victory, and they’ll split the vote.

I think the MSM’s fears are unfounded, at least if they’re worried about the general election.  The Democrat primary is the election, IMHO.  This is California 2010 we’re talking about here, the GOP have already exhausted their supply of steroid-filled over the hill left-wing quisling actors.

UPDATE 8 PM:  Jack O’Connell is in the news today.  He wants to eliminate the California high school exit exam, that state’s answer to the New York Regents, which he claims disparately discriminates against girls and minorities.  That is as good as a dozen campaign rallies in the ghettos and barrios.

Destination: Nude Ranch. Don’t Forget to Pack the Boots.

Slashdot:  Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price

Because that’s one battle that MSFT tends to lose.

P-D Tech:  Researcher figures out way to twitter without having to type

Do we really need to have people who couldn’t muster high school typing class to twitter more?

Yahoo Sports:  New Detroit logo features fiercer, leaping lion

And neutered.

AP:  Somali pirate arrives in NYC, awaits court hearing

Sure, because piracy on the high seas is merely a domestic purse snatching.

AP:  Jimmy Dean, wife unhurt as fire damages Va. home

The fire started in the pork sausage pan.

NPR:  Sierra Leone’s First Lady Takes On Health Care

She has come out for universal witch doctor insurance.

AFP:  Britain among the worst places to grow up: study

Worse than The Congo?

Reuters:  Cartel tells smugglers to live “clean” life

They better hope their customers don’t start living clean lives.

AP:  Fla. lotto winner seeks to open a nude dude ranch

Was he bored with the big house and the BMW?

Reuters:  Movie studios tout job creation

A zit-faced teenager selling you overpriced popcorn, juju beans and soda isn’t a job.

Welcome to Mount Vernon, Amigo

WSIL-3:

Jefferson County Jail Gets Federal Detainees

MT. VERNON– The Jefferson County jail is getting 50 federal detainees from northern Illinois this week.

The sheriff says the move will generate revenue for the county.

The detainees are from Immigrations Customs Enforcement– or ICE. They are illegal immigrants who have committed a crime in the United States, or illegal immigrants who need to be processed so officials can check whether they have a criminal background.

So they’re going to get fifty illegal alien criminal suspects from Chicagograd, and plop them in a jail that probably has a lot of black “residents,” as Mt. Vernon is East St. Louis East.  You can count the months until we’ll hear about a black-Hispanic fight in the jail on your hand.

Good Positioning

On the heels of next weekend’s NFL draft, we find out that offensive linemen have the highest average Wonderlic score, while running backs have the lowest average.

Coincidentally, O-Line is one of the whiter positions in the NFL, and running back almost entirely black.

Then again, some quarterbacks don’t do so well, either.

Alright, Who Left the Door Open and Let the Monday In?

Reuters:  Sept. 11 planner waterboarded 183 times: report

Which is much worse than murdering 3,000 people and bringing down three important New York City buildings.

Slashdot:  Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids

So much for riding my centaur down to New Orleans.

Slashdot:  Why Republicans Won’t Retake Silicon Valley

They’d have a better chance at Silicone Valley.

Fox News:  Obama Endures Ortega Diatribe

In the same sense that I endure a six pack of Sam Adams.

LoS:  Janet Reno honored with “lifetime achievement award”

From whom?  The Arson League?

Steve Sailer:  The Obama Administration Is Playing with Fire

Janet Reno played with fire, too.  And sixteen years later, Morris Dees gives her an award.

John Lott:  Making it hard to repay TARP money

That’s a new one, government turning down money.  I guess that is change you can believe in.

Dani Web:  What do piracy and porn have in common?

Potentially poisoned warez.

P-D:  Defendant’s request for quick trial agitates lawyer

He’s probably paid by the hour.

Jihad Watch:  Algeria: Al-Qaeda crackdown hits potato market

What?  Did someone carve an visage of Mohammed out of a spud?

MOPNS:  “Democrats For Education Reform” Gather in St. Louis

There’s a real novel idea that hasn’t been tried once in the last 45 years, letting Democrats “reform” education.

P-D:  Prostitutes work greens at Kansas golf course

Getting your knob polished doesn’t always refer your best driver anymore.

ABC:  Meghan McCain: ‘Old School Republicans’ Are ‘Scared S**tless’ of the Future

A future where, for some odd reason, Republican nominees for President wouldn’t know good campaign strategy from a hole in the ground.

Take Two:  ABC:  Meghan McCain: ‘Old School Republicans’ Are ‘Scared S**tless’ of the Future

S**t and the McCains seem to go together.

Fox News:  Miss California Sparks Furor With Gay Marriage Comments on Miss USA Telecast

Miss Congeniality Perez Hilton Took Miss USA Away From Miss California.

KFVS:  Mo. attorney general warns of mortgage scams

You’re years late and trillions short, Chris.

KSDK:  UPDATED: Missouri school districts hope to curb the dropout rate

It’s not that they’re actually going to curb the dropout rate, it’s that they’re hoping to curb the dropout rate.  And that is how things are done in the Era of Obama.

P-D:  Google app helps police catch criminals

You mean to tell me that Larry and Sergey, good progressives that they are, are going to let Google help those evil white ray-cist poleeeeceseseses apprehend those noteworthy victims of discrimination and slavery?

P-D:  Biden joins Jay Nixon in introducing new summer employment program

“Summer employment program,” i.e. Federally-funded make work for black teenagers to trick them into not being dope dealers.

AP:  Obama seeks $100M in government ‘efficiencies’

That’s like you cutting back by not buying a candy bar tomorrow.

AP:  Jamaica hijacking foiled, but what about security?

No time for that.  This is Jamaica, and today is 4/20.  So it’s doobie rollin’ time.

NFN:  Adobe Flash Is Coming To a TV Set Near You

Oh nuts, I was getting so used to clear, steady and high resolution video on my TV.

AP:  New Dan Brown novel coming in September

The requisite movie starring Tom Hanks will hit theaters by Memorial Day 2011.