Wichita Man Performs Very Late Term Abortion on Dr. George Driller, er Tiller

Or, to put it another way, there’s this thing called karma.

I hardly approve of it, because the motive seemed to be vengeance, and vengeance for sin is not our personal possession or charge.  But I’m not exactly bawling my eyes out for the victim, either.

What is curious in my eyes is that this happened just weeks after the first polling that shows more Americans are pro-life than pro-choice in many many years, if ever, and that the “suspect” seemed to be relatively easy to catch.  Maybe vengeance wasn’t the motive, methinks the suspect has links to the aborticide industry, and that either he did it, or pro-aborticide fanatics egged him on to do it, to swing the sympathy and the polls back in the other direction.

UPDATE 6/4: Driller was an usher at the Lutheran church in Wichita he attended, where he was murdered.  His wife is in the choir.  Makes me want to wear a bag over my head with the words “I Was Baptized Lutheran” written on the bag.

Sunday Wrap-Up

Short and sweet this Sunday.

(1)  The Post-Dispatch headline is “An Underperforming Arts School.”  Underneath is a photo.  Anyone want to put two and two together?

Actually, the truth of the matter is a little more complicated than my glibness here would suggest.  VAP used to be pretty good, at least for St. Louis City standards, but like a car model that comes out at first as a cheap subcompact suffers feature creep every model year, making it bigger, more powerful and more feature-laden, eventually that model bears no resemblance to the subcompact it was at first (Yes, Toyota Corolla, I’m looking at you), the car company starts the whole process again by introducing another model that is subcompact, VAP has suffered admission creep, i.e. they gradually lower the standards over time, mainly to make itself more important to protect itself from the next round of SLPS closures, and to whet the mentality that parents need to send their children to “good schools,” not aware of the fact that the school was good to begin with because it had good students and got to cherry pick.

(2)  Susan Boyle lost Britain’s Got Talent to diversity.  Figuratively and literally.  You know diversity, both figurative and literal, was not to be denied in the progressive egalitarian light of the world.

Is It Already Over? Where Did Seventeen Years Go?

Do you realize that a baby born on the day that Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show from Johnny Carson can now go to R-rated movies by him/herself, and enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces?  Where’d all those years go?  Makes me feel old.  This writer wrote in another medium upon the election of the former Josef Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 that JP II had been the only Pope of my conscious lifetime, and that it would be strange seeing another human being wearing the Papal White.  Though on that day, I wasn’t so scared as I was during the weeks and days leading up to January 20, 1989, when the only President I ever knew wasn’t going to be President anymore.  The 1988 Presidential election process was the first of my conscious lifetime that I was able to follow with some semblance of adult comprehension.  I knew that Ronald Reagan couldn’t be President anymore, and I knew that the two major political parties had state-by-state elections and meetings that picked their respective nominees, that those nominees would each choose “running mates,” and the nominees would run up against each other and debate each other in the fall, and the nominee that won would be President come 1/20/89 instead of Ronald Reagan.  Still, I thought the world was going to fall apart because Reagan wasn’t going to be President anymore.  Needless to say, the world didn’t fall apart that Reagan wasn’t the American President.  In 1990, the only British PM that I ever new, Margaret Thatcher, stepped aside, but by then I realized that life goes on.  The Tonight Show didn’t fall apart when Johnny Carson retired, and now the man that replaced him is moving on to other things himself.  The Catholic Church didn’t fall apart upon JP II’s death.  The British Monarchy, notwithstanding other things, will survive the death of the only monarch I ever knew, Elizabeth II, and the installation of Charles III (or William V if Chuck hasn’t died before his mother does, which is a real possibility) as King.

When JL started his stint as permanent host at Tonight, his hair was black and the President was white.  At the end, his hair is white and the President is black.

No, last night’s final show did not have the same feel as Johnny Carson’s final show.  Seventeen years ago was a retirement party, last night was a changing jobs celebration.

Conan O’Brien blows.  He’s gonna be the best thing that ever happened to David Letterman.  Jay Leno will draw better ratings at 10/9, probably twice as much, as Conan O will on Tonight.  But both will be far below NBC’s expectations.

I got my inspiration to do almost daily Fun With Headlines on this medium from two sources.  One was the tech blogger Paul Thurrott, and the other was Jay Leno’s newspaper article fun he did once a week.  In 1993 or so, I snail mailed him a three-quarters page ad that the Sappington Farmers Market along Watson Road not far from Crestwood Mall in St. Louis County.  That ad advertised something called “Low Fat Farmers” for $3.29 a pound.  The way I figured, if it really was a low fat farmer, he could be had in whole for under $500 :)  I wonder what a low fat farmer tastes like.  As far as I know, Jay Leno never used my clipping.  Later, I called Sappington Farmers Market and told them all this, and the ad was supposed to be for cheese.

And if  “Jaywalking” isn’t an indictment on the American education system, nothing is.  You can talk to people all day long about education, they won’t have the foggiest.  Ten minutes once a week at night, then people get it.  It’s like the Wal-Mart issue, all the pages and paragraphs written and spoken about the detrimental effects of Wal-Mart go right over people’s head.  A three minute JibJab cartoon, and they get it.

UPDATE 6/2: Conan’s first Tonight drew a 7.1.  Which is pretty good, save that Jay Leno’s last Tonight this past Friday drew an 8.8.

Friday Free-for-Some Headline Blowout

Drudge:  Soyuz Docks With Space Station, Increases Crew to Six; Record Breaking 13 to be Aboard…

The last time the number 13 played so prominently into a space launch, it didn’t turn out so well.

Drudge:  Man fathers 21 children by 11 different women — and he’s only 29!

And it’s so shocking that a man has had sex at least 21 times by his 30th birthday?

CNS:  ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith: Raising Taxes is ‘Shaky’ — Can Spur Layoffs and Raise Unemployment

Speaking as someone that just got laid off by ESPN.

CNS:  More College Grads Join Teach for America

It’ll only work if they have students that join Learn for America.

CNS:  US to Host Next G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh

All the world will be a yin for a weekend.

CNS:  Obama Administration Proposes Text for New Global Warming Treaty That Would Impose Stricter Rules on U.S. Than on China or Saudi Arabia

Of course not, our oligarchs are not to be denied their cheap labor.

P-D:  Durbin’s dream: Chicago to St. Louis in four hours

You know I hear that by the mid-1970s, you’re going to be able to drive from every major city to another major city on roads that are divided, have no grade junctions or stoplights, have two lanes per side or more, and are engineered for speeds as high as 70 miles and hour.

P-D:  [SLPS] to slash 350 jobs

Oh no, it might become a crummy school district.

P-D:  Ill. tax hike could be temporary

The tax on home telephone service to fund the Spanish-American War was only temporary, too.

Slashdot:  Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement

You tell young people they can’t do something, and bye golly they go and do it.

V-Dare:  Britain’s Anti-BNP Campaign: “In Which Case, Why Not Abolish Elections Altogether?”

As Sam Francis might have said, the Labour Party is the Evil Party, the Tory Party is the Stupid Party.  When they get together to circle the wagons around the BNP, it’s both evil and stupid.

AP:  Army investigates nude photos at Fort Dix

When I got to college, I was amazed that there were so many University of South Carolina football and basketball fans from places nowhere near South Carolina at a school nowhere near South Carolina?

WND:  Mandatory ‘gay’ day for K-5 students

Imagine the confusion when science class turns its attention to bugs.

Time:  Oil Is Plentiful, Demand Weak. Why Are Gas Prices Going Up?

Because Monopoco wants the money.

Politico:  BHO compares himself to FDR

Both have three letters, that’s one point for Barry.

AP:  Society warns cuckoo bird in danger of extinction

No worry, there’ll be enough House Democrats for a very long time to come.

Kansas City Here He Goes?

Some Kansas City citizens want Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s scalp.

Or, to put it more accurately, at least in my opinion, they want his white scalp.

If you ask me, all this is about race.  KC’s black power structure is fuming that a white person was able to slip in and win the Democrat Primary several years ago because there were several credible blacks splitting the black vote, opening the way for the then city auditor.  This is similar to Memphis’s U.S. Congressman, Steve Cohen.

Remember, this is the same Mark Funkhouser that came out a couple of years ago with the brain fart that convicted adult felons should be allowed to become KCPD officers.  Of course it can’t happen, because adult felons can’t own guns.  I think it was all a bait and switch, proposing the “ridiculous” that everyone would have been so scared of that they would accept the “sublime” as a compromise, of course the “sublime” option would have been ridiculous if it would have been proposed on its own face.  The sublime option, I guessed, was lowered standards for non-felon black applicants to the SLPD.  This racial pandering hasn’t helped him.

I’ll Take the Unethical to Avoid the Disaster

The Ways and Means Committee of the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen has voted to plonk out the SLPD’s lobbying budget.  Officially, it’s because money is tight, but the real reason is that that money is being used to lobby state legislators to oppose local control of the SLPD, and almost all of the black Aldermen and many of the white ones want local control.  What that would mean is that white-hating police-hating black “community activists” and preachers would not allow white cops to arrest black criminal suspects.

Penny Foolish and Pound Foolish — Though It’s Not Their Pennies and Not Their Pounds

P-D:

Ill. hunger strike sends one to hospital

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – One member of a small group of Illinoisans who have pledged not to eat until May 31 to protest state budget cuts went to the hospital this morning after the Capitol’s on-duty nurse found her blood pressure was high and her heartbeat erratic.

Mahaley Somerville, 87, is in stable condition with doctors pumping fluids into her, said Margaret Jackson, a fellow hunger striker. Somerville hopes to return to support the cause but probably will not be permitted to go without food.

Jackson said Somerville noted fatigue while walking around yesterday and earlier this morning so they decided to have her checked by the nurse.

The group, Hungry for Justice, is on its third day of striking and lobbying lawmakers to reject budget cuts, especially those that affect healthcare and human services.

Odds are that “Hungry for Justice” mainly consists of Chicagograd welfare dependents.  Going way out on a limb and assuming that Miss Somerville is a Medicare recipient, it seems kinda weird that her hunger strike to protest state “budget cuts” (i.e. they’ll spend more next year than this year, just not as much more as they thought) contributed ever so slightly to the Federal budget.

Must I Make It Any More Clear? Vote Steelman!!!

Bugs Bunny and the Mrs. are almost seven grand in arrears to D.C.’s tax man, for their $1.62 million residence in Georgetown.

It’s not the tax thing (which, as you can read by the story, might not be as cut-and-dry as my sentence above implies) that bothers me as much as this:  What is a supposedly conservative Congressman doing buying real estate and therefore fattening the tax coffers of one of the most liberal political jurisdictions in the country?  This looks like something that has Jack Abramoff’s fingerprints all over.  I’m just sure all those 2nd Amendment activists and NRA members in his district and this state are glad to hear that he helped make D.C. richer.

If it were me, I would buy in Northern Virginia, but not in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

President Obama Has Forgotten That He’s For Racial Justice

Yahoo Tech:

Obama to name White House cybersecurity czar

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

President Barack Obama said he will name a White House-level czar to coordinate government efforts to fight an epidemic of cybercrime, which even touched his presidential campaign.

“Cyberspace is real and so are the risks that come with it,” said Obama in remarks Friday at the White House in which he discussed threats to the nation’s digital infrastructure from organized crime, industrial spies and international espionage.

Yes, President Obama.  It’s real.  And it’s also Nigerian.  It’s also a hate whitey thing meant to open up his pockets.  Reparations, if you will.

Ahh, The Life of a Bankrupt Felon

Aren’t you glad you worked hard, played by the rules, obeyed the law and paid your bills all these years?  Imagine the skid row you could’ve ended up on.

Seek and Ye Shall Stink

WSIL:  Uncovering Illinois State Government

Some sewer manholes are meant to stay screwed on.

WND:  Obama plan: Paint roofs white to save world

Or it could mean that we’re surrendering to AQ.

AP:  NZ white tiger mauls keeper in front of tourists

On the other hand, the tiger was white, and therefore saved the world from glo-bull warming.

NRC (Netherlands):  Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals

That’s because nothing is illegal there, except of course right-wing “hate speech” on the part of whites.

AP:  Calif. wants federal government to back its loans

Wanna buy a California bond?  You just might do so whether you want to or not.

Arch City Chronicle:  Former Mayor [Clarence Harmon] Says City’s Future Depends On Tackling Troubled Schools

Clarence who?  </2% of the vote>

WSJ:  Sharper Drop Is Forecast for Factory Production

Knowing how our Yankee government defines “manufacturing,” this means McDonald’s isn’t as busy as it used to be.

P-D:  Best Buy employees find cash inside computer

It wasn’t a Best Buy in North County.  I know that because the rightful owner got his money back.

P-D:  Yulkendy Valdez fails to make spelling bee finals

Why is it that the kids with names you can’t spell are the ones that do well in spelling bees?

P-D:  SW Missouri man charged with stealing grease

Restaurant grease has become all the more valuable because envirofascists tell us that it’s the new gas.

Slashdot:  AT&T Says 7.2Mbps Wireless Coming This Year

It’s too bad that with UNT&T’s “bandwidth caps,” i.e. dropping trou for RIAA/MPAA, you’ll use up your month’s allotment in 56 seconds.

Asia One:  Castro blasts Cheney’s defense of harsh interrogations

I read the whole article, and Asia One forgot to attribute this story to its original author, The Onion.  They also forgot to file the story under “Pot Kettle Black.”

KSDK:  ‘75 Gerald Ford attacker hoped to start revolution

She did get a revolution, she spun her wheels in Federal prison for three decades.

Reuters:  Bombs, gun battle, rock Pakistan’s Peshawar

So the bombs detonated themselves and the guns grew arms and legs and started firing at each other?  I feel so sorry for Peshawar.

LiveScience:  Music Soothes Circumcision Pain

Which song?  “Cuts Like a Knife” by Bryan Adams?

Briar Patch 2009

Fox News:

NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight

A flag fight is brewing in southern Florida.

Members of the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP want the Confederate flag banned from the Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway, and they will meet Thursday to decide whether to boycott a NASCAR race slated there for November.

How will anyone be able to tell when blacks starts the boycott?

Wow, Nine Bucks an Hour. (Note: College Degree Required)

WSIL:

Young People Head to Work Thanks to New Program

MARION–Long lines at the unemployment office has been a sign of the times over the last few years. But some relief is on the way.

Man Tra Con has funds from President Obama’s recovery plan to put young people to work for the summer.

(snip)

The program is called Summer Works. Young people between the ages of 16 and 24 from Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, and Williamson Counties are eligible for employment at several businesses.

“If they have a high school diploma or less it’s $8 an hour, if they have post secondary it’s $8.50, and if they have a post secondary degree, associates, bachelor, it’s $9 an hour. They can work 20 to 32 hours per week.”

Lively says so far the city of Carbondale is on board with the program. Several engineering firms, the USDA, and many park districts are participating too.

“Hopefully they’ll learn horticulture, repair and maintenance of machinery. This is about a true work experience and not just mowing lawns, not just clearing brush.”

(snip)

Man-Tra-Con will pay the salaries of at least 400 youth workers through September.

Youth workers must met certain income guidelines.

Wow, a whole bachelors’ degree and you get $9 an hour.

Pray tell, what is so special or complicated about this dirt shoveling Federal porkulus make work that you get paid 50 cents an hour more if you have college credit and a buck an hour more if you have a college degree?

Honestly, $8 an hour isn’t bad for a summer job if you’re still in high school.  It should be noted, though, that most of the honest work they could have has now evaporated, mainly because of all our “guest workers” here to do the jobs that Americans won’t, and because older adults now have to settle for these jobs as globalization has outsourced their previous jobs to Bangalore or H-1Bed Bangalore here.

I’m sure that any young person who wants to take an $8-9 hour job probably isn’t to the manor born, so those “income guidelines” aren’t going to be an issue.

UPDATE 5/28: “Maryann” from Pennsylvania e-mailed this blogmeister this afternoon with this:

I think I have a good guess why those who have some college get paid more an hour than those who do not, and why those who have a college degree get paid even more.  It is presumed that those with college credit have some student loan debt, and that those who have a full degree four years have even more student loan debt.  Having an “on the books” job like these will be mean that they either make the student loan payments, or else it is garnished.  I think this whole thing about this “summer jobs” bit is mostly a backhanded, behind the scenes way to fund “higher education,” especially its loan Sally May authorities, or as you call it on your blog, Education Industrial Complex.

Great point, Maryann.  Since Obama/Dems and the Education industry are in a vicious cycle with each other, I wouldn’t put it past them for this to have been a consideration.

UPDATE 5/29: At least 8% (and probably more) of the “stimulus package” jobs touted by the White House are such teenage and young adult summer make work.  Expect a demand for another stimulus package come September.

Practical Considerations

CNS:

Global CEOs Back Greenhouse Gas Cuts, Carbon Caps

Copenhagen (AP) – Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new U.N. climate treaty by agreeing Tuesday that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century by setting specific limits on carbon.

Government officials reported little progress in setting such limits, however, showing how distant a new treaty remains.

Some 500 CEOs and other top business experts said at the conclusion of the three-day World Business Summit on Climate Change in Denmark that “immediate and substantial” emissions cuts were needed by 2020, followed by cuts of at least 50 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. They said governments should use the marketplace to set a global price on carbon instead of taxing it, according to a statement from conference organizers.

Why are corporate CEOs around the world beating the drums for “cap and tax?”  Because it would mean they now have a quasi-legal excuse to move every job from high wage America and Europe to low wage China and India, jobs that they have not yet been able to move for political concerns and labor union strength.   Moving those jobs would not violate “cap and trade” in China and India, because even though they’re high polluters in raw terms, they have more than a billion people apiece, and therefore their carbon output per capita is low.  It’s all a play for cheap labor.

Yet He Immigrated To America

KTVT-CBS-11 DFW:

Supervisor Asks Woman To Take Down American Flag

Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. “I was just totally speechless. I was like, ‘You’re kidding me,’” McLucas said.

McLucas’ husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, “I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing.”

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie’s flag herself.

Oh the wonders of diversity.

Is anyone surprised?  This is a for-profit corporation we’re talking about here.  Your loyalty is supposed to be with it, and not any antiquated notion of geography or people.  Get with the New World Order program.  Corporations uber alles.

This is why I am not a pure paleo-libertarian and not a lassiez-faire capitalist.  All that would mean is is that we would be the slaves of big corporations and not the slaves of big government.  The hard truth of the matter is that, for the average white American (and many non-whites, too), the most accute threat and prior restraint to the exercise of civil liberties is not the Federal government, or state or local governments, but the dictates of their supervisor and the big corporation s/he represents, and the fear of losing their jobs.

One would think that this story puts the corporations uber alles crowd over at the neocon blog Crud State in a Catch-22.  On the one hand, they fulminate against anyone who would dare suggest that individual citizens have rights such that the rights of corporations must be curtailed.  On the other hand, they want you to wave the flag and be patriotic, i.e. towards the corporations that are making a fortune from our invade the world mentality and actual practice thereof.  My prediction is that said bloggers will come down on the side of the corporation here.

If this supervisor doesn’t like the American flag and the country he immigrated to so much, then he should go home.

Advisory Role

NPI:

Missouri MIAC Documents Scandal Leads to Advisory on SPLC & ADL

FOX Radio Network is reporting that Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (R-MO) has asked that Missouri Public Safety Director John Britt be placed on administrative leave. The report also says Kinder has issued a public apology to Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin.

March 26, 2009

ALIPAC is issuing a national advisory to all local, state, and Federal law enforcement agencies and officers, along with all DHS Fusion Centers, a warning against any reliance upon faulty and politicized research issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti Defamation League (ADL).

I agree, except ALIPAC is looking at the glass half empty instead of half full.  It’s not that that the SPLC advised MIAC, it’s that the SPLC wrote the report and advised MIAC to put their seal on it.  Yeah yeah, the SPLC denies writing it and Janet Nappy’s HLS report, blah blah blah.

Peter Kinder is being hypocritical here, even though I agree with what he’s trying to do.  The reason he’s a hypocrite because he’s a left winger on race, pandering to blacks and the like.  All MIAC/SPLC/ADL did was to take his left-wing racial ideology seriously.

From Personal Experience?

Reuters:

Healthy school lunch efforts face daunting hurdles

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – School cafeteria meals like low-fat pizzas with whole grain crust don’t taste too bad to Paola Villatoro, a 17-year-old at Downtown Magnet High School in Los Angeles.

“Some of it is pretty good,” she said.

But West Adams Preparatory School student Alfredo Segura doesn’t like them. “It tastes like prison food,” said Segura, 16, as he and other students ate snacks at a fast-food joint near the school.

And how would you know that, Mr. Segura?  From personal experience?

Probably not, I’m just being glib.  The better explanation is that he’s whining.

You Wouldn’t Hit a Guy With Glasses, Would’ya?

AFP:  Upholding values will shield US from terror: Obama

So Obama will be standing on the shores as the next round of Jihadists are coming to wage a terrorist attack, and Obama will ask, “You wouldn’t hit a country with values, would you?”

P-D:  Colin Powell: Still a ‘Republican’

Just not endorsing ‘Republicans’ for President, or voting Republican most of the time.

CNS:  Colin Powell: GOP Needs to Stop Listening to ‘Diktats’ from ‘Right-Wing of the Party’

All these demands that those who call themselves “Republicans” actually endorse Republicans for President and voting Republican more often than not — that ideologically rigid narrow-mindedness has to stop.

CNS:  Authorities Search for SC Mother, 555-Pound Son

A 555-pound boy shouldn’t be hard to find.

P-D:  Home pools a hazard for tots

I agree.  After a fried breaded potato bit has fallen into water, you might as well pitch it.

Slashdot:  Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3

Great, just what I want to see — old men chasing after that which they’re going to be in a few years.

AP:  Obama vows not to send people to war without cause

Like I’m thrilled about what he considers a just cause to go to war.

P-D:  Reality check? Blagojevich sees himself as Harry Truman

I see Blagojevich as Tom Pendergast, so he’s not that far off.

Slashdot:   US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista

I can just imagine that thousand UAC popups that will become a five-star General — “Are you sure you want to invade Fredonia?  Y/N”

IT Pro UK:  Has the US Army declared war on Windows 7?

Don’t be too dismissive of Windows 7 in a war with the U.S. Army.

Urban Review STL:  The History of Problems in North St. Louis

My answer wouldn’t nearly be so long as Steve Patterson’s, nor as free of pejoratives.

Kansas City Star:  New laws in Missouri and Kansas take aim at teen drivers’ cell phone use

But not adult drivers’ cell phone use?

AP:  British Conservative leader calls for change

Meaning that David Cameron is going to vote BNP?

Reuters:  WTO members tackle protectionism, urge Doha deal

Yeah, but can they pronounce “Qatar” correctly?

Time:  Germany’s Kindergarten Teachers Go on Strike

It’s the first grade and above teachers that should go on strike.  Their grade levels don’t have cool German names.

AFP:  China to build world’s largest quake simulator

Like putting a snowblower in the Rockies.

The Region in the News

A few stories from the area that have caught my eye:

(1)  Pray tell, what do Southeast Missouri children picking strawberries have to do with Mexican drug gang bangers drying out?

(2)  Last week, we had one man stabbing another in Barnhart, Mo. over a can of green beans.  I remarked then that it had to be white, that no two blacks would fight each other with deadly weapons over a vegetable.  On Saturday night in Carbondale, one man stabbed his younger brother over the custody of a piece of watermelon.  If only some fried chicken would have been involved, then I could go ahead and make the obvious conclusion :P

(3)  Speaking of the obvious and Carbondale, the city has accepted a grant to turn an abandoned high school, named after Crispus Attucks, into an African-American museum.  Fine as far as it goes, but don’t serve any watermelon.

(4)  Now this Lowery I might like.  Sorry, but I had not had good experiences when dealing with men named Lowery until now.

Rock Head, Meet Sparky

Missouri’s Supremes play matchmaker.

What’s That You Say? Being a Poor Minority From New York Is All the Rage These Days.

AP:

Harvard student: Racism plays into ban from campus

BOSTON – A Harvard University senior who lives in the dorm where a student was fatally shot says school officials ordered her out of the building and told her she could not graduate, singling her out because of her race.

Chanequa Campbell is a friend of the suspect’s girlfriend, another Harvard student, but has no connection to the suspect or victim, her attorney, Jeffrey Karp, told The Associated Press.

She was ordered off campus Friday with little notice and without being told why, Karp said. She was allowed to gather only a few personal belongings from her room after receiving a no-trespassing order, he said.

“There is no citation to the student code, no citation to any law, no citation to any facts,” he said.

Harvard spokesman Robert Mitchell said in a statement that the school does not comment on an individual student’s status.

Campbell, a sociology major, lived in the dorm where 21-year-old Justin Cosby was killed May 18 in what authorities say was a drug-related robbery attempt. Jabrai Jordan Copney, a 20-year-old songwriter from New York City, has been charged with murder.

Copney gained access to Kirkland House with an electronic card key given to him by a student, prosecutors said. That key did not come from Campbell, Karp said. She was at an exam and work the day of the shooting and lives in a part of the dorm far from the scene.

Copney is being held without bail after a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf on Friday in Cambridge District Court.

Karp did not know of any other student ordered off campus because of the shooting.

“I do believe I am being singled out,” Campbell told The Boston Globe for a story Tuesday. “The honest answer to that is that I’m black and I’m poor and I’m from New York and I walk a certain way and I keep my clothes a certain way.”

I take the fact that an uberlib institution like Harvard jettisoned a favored minority to mean that she’s leaving out a lot of facts.

Be of good cheer, Chanequa.  If today’s any indication, you’ll be Supreme Court-bound in about three decades.

Scotusmayor

I like the life story.  It’s too bad that she has used her tenure on the 2nd Appellate Circuit, and will probably do the same at SCOTUS, to cut off such opportunities for non-rich whites.

Did I miss the provision in the Constitution that Supreme Court justices must have graduated from an Ivy League law school?  I think we need more Jesuit law school grads on SCOTUS.

It is more likely that the moon is made of green cheese than the Senate Republicans will put up a filibuster.  With luminaries in its ranks like Lindsay Grahamnesty, John McAmnesty, Samnesty Brownback, John Cornesty and Kay Bailey Amnesty, the Stupid Party sits in the election patch every other early November waiting for the Great Hispanic Vote Pumpkin to arise from the ground.  Of course it never arises, though Linus Van Amnesty never has to worry about missing the party because the other party is the one that wins.  I think many Senate Republicans would rather die or live under Marxist tyranny than offend a Hispanic.

OKC Pharmacist Defends His Life By Shooting a Charter Fool

Aspiring rapper, honor roll student at a “charter school,” good afawete, who just happened to fall in with the wrong crowd, yadda yadda.  The pharmacist was a Desert Storm veteran.  Guess who won?  I’ll give you a hint:  Antwun got kilt.

And guess which side many of the neighborhood’s “residents” are taking?

UPDATE 5/29: And the pharmacist has been arrested, charged with Murder 1st, and is free on $100,000 bond.  I think that such a low bond on a such a serious charge means that the prosecutor’s office in that county had to “do something” to keep the NAACP at bay, and that this is all perfunctory.  I predict that they’ll soon drop the charges.  The AP article about him getting arrested says that “The pharmacy is in a crime-ridden section of south Oklahoma City and had been robbed before.”  That means it’s in the black part of town, meaning that this has to be in Oklahoma County, which is about 20% black.

I get the feeling that there’s about to be one less pharmacy in the ghetto section of OKC.  How long will it take for the NAACP types to start bitching about no services?

UPDATE 6/6: And it gets more weird:  The very same D.A. that files the charges against the pharmacist turned right around and asked a judge to make an exception and allow the pharmacist to retain his 2nd Amendment rights while under indictment for a felony.  The judge said no; I do not know if it is the same judge that gave the pharmacist a rock bottom bond of $100G.

Double-T’s Shrewd Strategery

Tom Tancredo is now testing the drug decriminalization taboo.  The main reason is that Mexican drug gangs are further infesting his home state of Colorado with each passing year, and he figures (and it’s very likely true) that leg/decrim deflates their money supply.  Not only for the obvious reason, I think, but it would then also mean that these drugs are no longer forbidden fruits, and therefore their use among the young will go way way down, taking even more money out of the drug gangs’ hands.

Patrick Fitzfong Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot

Sorry, Fitzfong.  Many of Chicagograd’s felons already do have jobs.  It’s called dope dealing.  Yes, it may be illegal, and illicit, and (depending on your views) immoral and unethical, but a job nonetheless.  Heavily subsidized “internships” (read: make work) that don’t pay in a week what a slow night of dope slinging can pull in, won’t make a difference.

Pink Slips

Over the long Memorial Day weekend back in St. Louis, I notice that Charter is running ads on local radio.  In those ads, they use the melody from “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” and insert new lyrics advertising their three most famous services.  The point of the ad is that in this recession, having Charter’s cable, internet and phone service is a good money saving alternative to days and nights on the town.

Charter, as much as anyone, can testify about the “belt tightening” that people have to do.  With all their outsourcing of call centers, they’re the reason why some people have to tighten their belts.

Storm Damage

About sixty years ago, Cape Girardeau took a direct tornado hit.  The Southeast Missourian republished some photos of the damage.  Number six is the most noteworthy.

Weekend At The Movies

Watched a couple of DVDs over the weekend.

First was Bobby.  On November 1, 2006 in this space, I assailed the movie, which was then about to come out in theaters, for what I thought was going to be its RFK sanctification.  Turns out it was nothing like that, it was merely a representation of the about 36 hours leading up to his assassinaton, showing composite staff, management and guests at Los Angeles’s Ambassador Hotel.

The other was Frost/Nixon.  It is significant for me because the real David Frost recorded the interviews with Richard Nixon at the time I came into this world, however, if the movie holds true to the reality that the interviews only took place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, then I wasn’t born on a day of actual interviewing, as March 31, 1977 was on a Thursday.

The beauty of the F/N interviews, both as shown in the movie and reality, in my never so humble opinion, is not that Frost got some contrition and regret out of Richard Nixon.  The beauty is that Frost proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the person of Richard Millhouse Nixon committed three Federal felonies as President in the years 1972, 1973 and 1974, for obstruction of justice, mail fraud and money laundering.  Because Nixon resigned before the impeachment process really got going, and because Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon shortly after the resignation, this is as close to a real day in court that Nixon was ever going to get.  Ford forfeited (say that ten times in row really quickly) the Presidency when he did that, because his pardon communicated the message that Nixon was above the law, which was Nixon’s own philosophy.  Ford turned himself into Nixon.  As a result, Richard Nixon got to retire to the Orange County, California beach front instead of the eight-by-twelve Graybar Hotel.

You can probably imply that I’m not a Richard Nixon fan.  If you’re a liberal, and you’re upset about the way Nixon treated his left wing opposition, be of good cheer — Nixon was just as bad dealing with his opponents and critics on the right wing, such as George Wallace and John Schmitz.  And just because the purpose of breaking into DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel was to prove that George McGovern was taking money from the Soviet Union doesn’t cut it with me.  It’s not as if McGovern had a shot anyway.  He would have lost the same 49 states that he would have sans the break-in.  Richard Nixon was horribly insecure, mainly caused by his losing to JFK in 1960.  At that point, Nixon should have never been trusted with power again.

Moral Equivalence, Eh?

P-D:

Tougher U.S. border security rules will go into effect June 1

WASHINGTON — After years of delay and hundreds of millions of dollars in preparations, Customs and Border Protection officials said new security measures would go into effect on June 1, requiring Americans entering the country by land or sea to show government-approved identification.

Currently, Americans crossing borders or arriving on cruise ships can prove their nationality by showing thousands of other forms of identification. But after the start of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Americans will be required to present a passport or one of five other secure identification cards.

Coming as the summer vacation season starts, the measure is expected to lengthen lines at least temporarily at border crossings and seaports. But the biggest impact is expected along the nearly 4,000-mile border that the United States shares with Canada, where security measures have gradually been tightened since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Nearly 20 percent of all land trade between the United States and Canada — valued at an estimated $130 billion — crosses the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, makes no apologies for the tightened security measures, including using unmanned Predator aircraft to patrol the border with Canada.

“One of the things that I think we need to be sensitive to is the very real feeling among southern border states, and in Mexico, that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border,” Napolitano said at a recent conference on the northern border at the Brookings Institution.

Bull.  Canada ain’t Mexico.  You’d have to believe in nonsense like racial equality to think that.  Er…

Violence and Rumors of Violence

The CEO of the Annie Malone organization is accusing the St. Louis MSM of racism in their coverage of violence associated with parades.  His question is this — why do the media cover shootings and other violence around the Annie Malone parade, but not related to Thanksgiving, Independence Day and Mardi Gras parades?

Does he seriously think we’re that stupid?   Like duh, because there is no violence around the other parades.  Except several years ago, when there was a shooting in the evening of the Mardi Gras parade in the Soulard neighborhood where the parade takes place, the banger and bangee both having come to the parade from other parts of the city.  The Annie Malone CEO might not want to gloat about that, for they were both gentlemen of color.