Hot Times, Summer in the City

WBBM-CBS-2 Chicagograd:  Six Men Shot Dead In 24 Hours In Chicago

Sounds to me like Chicago’s thugs wasted 18 perfectly good hours.

AP:  AP source: Guard to seek volunteers for border

Unlike the real border volunteers, the Obama Border Brownshirts will hand pamphlets to our new illegal arrivals to teach them how to say “me immigrant you racist I sue ACLU.”

Arch City Chronicle:  Palin trashed by members of McCain’s campaign team in Vanity Fair

And you wonder why he lost.  With Repugnicans like that, who needs the Democrats?

CNS:  Ford Analyst Says June May Be Best Month for ’09

Of course, Ford is the only American car company not yet Obama-owned.

Alex Jones:  Bernanke Threatens Economic Collapse If Fed Audited

Correction:  Bernanke threatens to collapse the economy because Ron Paul showed him up.

NPI:  Anarchists worked with terrorists

Again with the redundancy.

P-D:  Local teens get a chance to demonstrate their texting and driving skills

Hopefully not at the same time.

Slashdot:  13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week

I don’t know which was more shocking to the boy:  That there is such thing as audio media that moves, or that the implication of listening to music through headphones is that you should walk.

WSIL:  Praying to Save Social Services

While you’re on the line to God, ask Him for a good economy with good jobs so that people don’t need as much social services.

AFP:  The daily grind: Sex for a week boosts sperm quality

“Yes, dear, we gotta fuck again tonight.  You’re interested in my sperm health, aren’t you?”

Reuters:  In U.S. scandals, wives don’t stand by their men

There was one notable exception.  She didn’t have much problem with her husband standing in front of his kneeled-down intern.

Financial Times:  Insight: Protectionism comes knocking

For pete’s sake, open the door!

AP:  Wall-to-wall media coverage of Jackson receding

And while you were inundated with Michael Jackson coverage, the U.S. House voted to fuck you up the ass with “cap and tax,” Senate Democrats want you to wait 15 years to get your toothache taken care of, and President Obama sent the message that his leaving the White House in 2013 or 2017 won’t be so peaceful.

“To Improve the Community”

Oakland, Calif.’s semi-legal weed dealers want to pay more taxes, and are asking for a ballot referendum to do so, because:

“We’re basically trying to say that we are like other businesses, you know. We’re here to pay taxes, create jobs and improve the community,” Lee says.

That’s the first thing that I think of when I think about a hallucinogenic, carcinogenic and psychosis-inducing substance, improving the community.

ACLU: Accost More 80-Year Old White Grandmothers; They’re the Real Terrorists and Illegal Aliens

Deja le meme chose.

I’m Thinking of a Word That Is a Portmanteau of “White” and a Certain Racial Pejorative That Starts With “N”

Seems to me that it applies aptly to a Johnston City, Ill. couple.

WSIL:

Deadly Dog Attack Called a “Tragic Accident”

JOHNSTON CITY– Investigators say the family of a toddler– killed in a dog attack– will not face any criminal charges.

The death of 3 year-old Gabrial Mandrell has been ruled an accident.

Around 8:00 Saturday night, dispatchers in Williamson County received a distressed call regarding the toddler.

Family members had found Gabrial outside his home on Willow Pond Road in Johnston City, and the child was in serious condition.

(snip)

Less than an hour later, Gabrial was pronounced dead.

Investigators say Gabrial had been sleeping at his home, then woke up, pushed out the screen in his bedroom window, and crawled outside.

It was there he was apparently attacked by the family’s three dogs.

The animals– a collie mix and two pitbull mixes– were taken from the home. They were brought to the Williamson County Animal Control facility. It’s not clear what will happen to the dogs.

What the fuck is a “white” family with a toddler doing with two pit bulls?  Meth dealers, are we?  Sounds to me like Johnston City’s Finest didn’t do enough investigation.

The collie mix wouldn’t have participated in the mauling all by itself.  I happen to think that one of the two pit bulls was the alpha dog in that household, and in a pack, lower dogs take on the demeanor of the alpha dog.

Note to Southern Illinois Cab Drivers: If You Get a Service Call In the Middle of a Weekend Night From the Black Part of Carbondale, You’re Probably Going to Get Robbed

Three black men, with apparent ages of 15 to 21, evidently did not get the message that the election of Barack H. Obama II as President meant that it was time to put down the guns and pick up the chemistry textbooks.

Mississippi Gets It Right, South Carolina Gets It Wrong.

CNS:  No Decision on Anti-Hillary Movie

Oh no, if the general public gets to see this movie, it might well end HRC’s Presidential ambitions.

CNS:  Sanford Digs in Heels, Says Resigning Would Be ‘Easiest Thing’

Sometimes simpler is better.

P-D:  Area gays, lesbians celebrate 30th anniversary of PrideFest

One of these years, that crowd will stop being proud and start being ashamed.

P-D:  Windows 7 release moves closer: Are you ready, or willing?

I’ve seen what MSFT wants to lighten your wallet for Windows 7.  The question might well be:  Are you able?

Slashdot:  India To Put All Citizen Info In a Central Database

You might think that making a database of 1.1 billion people would be huge task, but the saving grace is that you won’t need an open variable for the last name, just a drop-down menu box with six options.

Dan Stein:  Mississippi Gets It When It Comes to E-Verify

Mississippi gets it when it comes to just about E-Verything.

UK Telegraph:  Censorship of the web is futile, says Google CEO

Then why do you do it?

AFP:  Britons paying out more to fund royal family: accounts

Imagine all the minority welfare that that £41.5 million could pay for.

USNAWR:  How To Tell When a Mall Is In Trouble

There are more black curtains each time you go through the mall.

AFP:  Black stars salute [Michael] Jackson at awards show

Said one of the stars to the media:  “He was pretty fly for a white guy.”

SCOTUS Overturns Its Soon-to-Be Newest Member

So much for the “wise Latina.”

I’m reading the Ricci opinions, and the analysis of those opinions.  From what I can gather, SCOTUS found for Ricci without striking the “disparate impact” monster in the heart.  I don’t think the decision will be much if any precedent, but even if it could be, would it matter?  As it is, the very judge they overturned will join them some time this summer.  The only saving grace is that Sotomayor replacing Souter would be, at least in the context of cases like this, a no vote replacing a no vote.

I’m disappointed in Prof. John Lott today.  Prof. Lott had a problem with the NYT writing a headline for this story that shows it being a victory for “white firefighters.” As if being white is such a big fucking sin that you can’t defend it?  Last I looked, Prof. Lott is white.  I expect this kind of shit from the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, not from one of the 10 conservative professors in the country.  As it is, from what Peter Brimelow Steve Sailer at V-Dare Taki Theodoracopulous observes, there is, for some reason, civil rights sympathy for white firefighters that are AA victims that there isn’t for white police, white grocery store clerks, white bus drivers and white office workers victimized by AA.

UPDATE 6/30: The P-D thinks that the Ricci ruling bodes well for the St. Louis Fire Department and its similar problems.  An example of how “culturally biased” their promotion test was is that one of the questions was this:  You are 90 feet away from the fire.  Each hose is 30 feet long.  How many hoses must you string together to reach the fire?  Who knew that 90 divided by 30 is culturally biased?  Second grade arithmetic be racist.  Keep in mind that this brain-buster was on a PROMOTION test, not an entrance test.  So the SLFD is not so bigoted as to expect its private-level firefighters to know 90 divided by 30.

Like I said above, Ricci isn’t good precedent at all, because the Justices weaseled out of lassoing disparate impact to the ground.

Madoff Gets a 150-Year Bid

With good behavior, he’ll be out in 125 :)

What I don’t get was this notion by his attorneys that he only should have gotten 12 years.  I mean, why the fuck shouldn’t he have been incarcerated for the rest of his life?  What would there have been for him on the outside?  The Feds confiscated his and his wife’s ill-gotten gain, so he would have been essentially homeless.  Are we supposed to think that he could start a stockbroker business after he got out?  Duh, nobody would have fallen for that same gigascam twice.

And, of course, he’ll do his time at some rape-free Club Fed.  If I were Andrew Cuomo, I’d bring some state charges, and ask the Feds to let the state house him at Rikers Island.  Let him experience the joys of diversity he wanted other people to have (almost all of his political contributions were to left-wing Democrats).

11-Year Old White Briton Does His Public School Proud

Converts to Islam, under the tutelage of imams and clerics so extreme that they got tossed out of England.  And you sure have to do a lot to get banned from England if you’re a protected minority, all you have to do to get banned from England if you’re white is to have a Cal-Berkeley Ph.D.

The Obama High

P-D:

Cartoon-shape drugs hit KC streets

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Drugs shaped like such popular cartoon characters as Snoopy and Transformers have begun showing up in Kansas City, and local officials are worried that children are at risk of mistaking the tablets for vitamins or candy.

While drug dealers are marketing the pills as Ecstacy, local drug officials say the shaped tablets often don’t contain any Ecstacy at all, but instead are a combination of drugs once used to treat stomach parasites.

The brightly colored pills — some have turned up shaped like President Obama’s head, while others are in the shap of Homer and Bart Simpson or Ninja turtles — are aimed at teens and young adults. Experts say the intent is to promote the drug as light fun, rather than a dangerous experiment.

I think a “teen” or “young adult” has probably outgrown Bart Simpson and the TMNTs, even the drug addicts. (Though that’s not always a given.)  Now, as for the ones shaped like Obama’s mug — there are plenty of blue states for those to be in demand.

The Human Leonite

Here we have another example — just as a new male that takes over the pride kills the cubs of the pride’s females that aren’t his, so as to get the females undistracted and ready to promulgate his own DNA, human beings are good for that behavior.  One stayed on Destrehan near Hyde Park on the north side.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger reports that the infanticide rate is 60 times higher in stepfather families than it is in biological father families.

Also, the new males kick out the near-adult adolescent males of the pride, to clear away competition.  That shows up in the human realm often, too.  From the very same city, I found out this weekend that St. Louis hip-hopper and one-hit wonder J-Kwon was bounced out of his house by his mother when he was 12.  My guess is that mama had a new boo, and he forced her hand.

Transferrance

No wonder President Obama supports Honduran lefist President Manuel Zelaya over the military that rightly escorted him out of office after he was term-limited out.  Obama sees himself in Zelaya.  Look for hot times in the cold January city of Washington in 2013 or 2017 when President Obama has to depart the White House after having lost his bid for re-election or is term limited out, respectively.

Making the Bomb Threats That Americans Won’t Do

KFVS-12:

Illegal alien charged with making terroristic threats

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – 23-year-old Pedro Quino-Teodoro is charged with two counts of making a terroristic threat and one count of attempted obstruction with a governmental function for threats he apparently made to blow up the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

Patrolman [*****] reported when he was identifying Quino-Teodoro at the scene of an assault on June 27, Quino-Teodoro threatened to kill [*****] family if Hill contacted immigration authorities. Ignoring the threat, [*****] contacted authorities and found Quino-Teodoro was an illegal alien, taking him into custody.

During the drive to the station, Quino-Teodoro threatened to “destroy” the police department with explosives when freed from custody. Noticing the United States Courthouse, he threatened to “make it fall” with explosives as well.

If convicted, the suspect could face up to fourteen years for the bomb threats. Quino-Teodoro is currently being held on a $100,000 cash bond.

You can tell that Channel 12 is a different, i.e. more respectable and honest, news source, because it uses “illegal alien,” and not “undocumented person.”  I’m waiting for his defense attorneys to make the excuse that Mr. Quino-Teodoro isn’t to blame because he was provoked by the court house being named “Rush Limbaugh.”  Count the hours.

He might get prison time, but after that, he will be “deported.”  What that means is that the Federal courts will ask him nicely to return to his native country.  Any resemblance to that and his actually leaving is purely coincidental.

No link because Channel 12 prints the name of the cop.  The Cape PD used to keep officers’ identities a secret, and as ganged up with MS-13, Mara 18, Latin Kings, etc. this guy probably is, this cop needs the anonymity.\

UPDATE 6/30: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s telling leaves “illegal” in terms of his immigration status toward the end of the article, and certainly doesn’t have it in the headline.  They do tell us how to pronounce his name properly.  How culturally sensitive of them.

The Bad Die Young

HealthDay:

15 Percent of U.S. Teens Think They’ll Die Young

MONDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) — Challenging the notion that risky behavior reflects a youthful sense of immortality, a new study has found almost 15 percent of American teens believe they will die before age 35 — a perspective strongly linked to risky behavior.

But…

Race and wealth appeared to affect the risk for that belief. About 10 percent of white teens bore this pessimistic view, compared with 15 percent of Asian youth, 21 percent of Hispanic teens, 26 percent of African American teens and 29 percent of Native American teens.

Maybe the disparity can be explained by the fact that they know they’re engaging in risky behavior.  My recommendation for the Indians is less booze, and for the blacks is cold showers.  Then you’ll make it to the ripe old age of 35.  (Geezo, I’m just about staring down that barrel.)

A Draft of the New Generation

I noticed at the end of last week that Poplar Bluff’s own Tyler Hansbrough was taken 13th in the NBA draft, by the Indiana Pacers.  The top pick was some mulatto named Blake Griffin, who will have to slum for three years in the NBA’s minor league franchise, the Clippers, before he can sign with a real pro team.

That got me to thinking:  Blake and Tyler — those are two very common first names for boys and men (mostly white) under 25.  Shea, too.  There must have been some sort of Blake/Tyler/Shea fad that became new parents a few years after I was born, which actually continues to this day.  I’m guessing it was something on a soap opera.

As it is, there are a lot of men named “Matt” my age and slightly older, so there must have been a “Matt” fad in the mid to late 1970s.  You can tell it was a new day when a “Matt” won Missouri Governor in 2004, and when one almost did in Arizona in 2002, losing to now HLS-Sec. Janet Napolitano.

Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  The State of Rhode Island, officially Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, wants to drop “and Providence Plantations” because of its allusion to slavery, even though no slavery ever took place in Rhode Island (I think, correct me if I’m wrong).  If the good progressives of Rhode Island and blah blah blah really want to be sensitive racially, they’ll drop the entire name and call the state “Hot Ghetto Mess,” and change Providence’s name to “Pimp My Ride.”

(2)  Who says that Birth of a Nation was just a movie?

(3)  There’s this thing called Karma — The civil rights-endowed citizens of Pennsylvania’s capital city have been so violent lately, that the city’s official civil rights endower wants Gov. Fast Eddie Rendell to declare martial law and send in the National Guard.  If that actually happens, look for the selfsame NAACP to complain about Rendell’s and the NG’s racial profiling within three months.

Illinois Cap-and-Taxers

Mark Kirk, a “Republican,” voted for, he’s IL-10, northern Chicagograd suburbs.  My Congressman, Jerry Costello, a Democrat who represents the IL-12 starting in St. Clair County and paralleling the river all the day down here, voted against.

All of Missouri’s U.S. House members voted on the party line.

“Tighter Control From the Center”

The Late Great Bard wrote in April 1992:

Having now perfected the manipulative arts to global scale, it is in the process of extending its dominion to the entire world, actually disengaging from its territorial base in the nation-state and constructing a transnational apparatus of power by which nations and their populations, resources, and cultures can be managed.  There is a good deal of talk about how computers and other post-industrial technologies will lead to a radical decentralization of organizations.  Don’t bet on it.  The technology works both ways.  It can be used to promote decentralization, but it also lends itself to tighter control from the center.  Human nature seems to prefer more power and less responsibility, and my own bet is that post-industrial technologies will accommodate that preference.

Slashdot, yesterday:

“Over the last couple of weeks, those who believe in the transformative power of technology to battle an oppressive state have pointed to Iran as a test case. However, as Farhad Manjoo writes on Slate, the real conclusion about news now coming out of Iran is that for regimes bent on survival, electronic dissent is easier to suppress than organizing methods of the past. Using a system installed last year, built in part by Nokia and Siemens, the government routes all digital traffic in the country through a single choke point, using the capabilities of deep packet inspection to monitor every e-mail, tweet, blog post, and possibly even every phone call placed in Iran. ‘Compare that with East Germany, in which the Stasi managed to tap, at most, about 100,000 phone lines — a gargantuan task that required 2,000 full-time technicians to monitor the calls,’ writes Manjoo. The effects of this control have been seen over the past couple days, with only a few harrowing pictures and videos getting through Iran’s closed net. For most citizens, posting videos and even tweeting eyewitness accounts remains fraught with peril, and the same tools that activists use can be used by the government to spread disinformation. The government is also using crowdsourcing by posting pictures of protesters and asking citizens for help in identifying the activists. ‘If you think about it, that’s no surprise,’ writes Manjoo. ‘Who said that only the good guys get to use the power of the Web to their advantage?’”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, yesterday:

Guatemala arrests man for tweet against troubled bank

GUATEMALA CITY — Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter.

That message has now earned him a potential five-year prison sentence and the unfortunate distinction of becoming one of the first people in the world to be arrested for a tweet.

Writing under his Internet alias “jeanfer,” Anleu urged depositors to pull their money from Guatemala’s rural development bank, whose management has been challenged in a political scandal:

“First concrete action should be take cash out of Banrural and bankrupt the bank of the corrupt.”

These words illegally undermined public trust in Guatemala’s banking system, according to prosecutor Genaro Pacheco. Authorities proved Anleu sent the message by searching his Guatemala City home, and then put him in prison with kidnappers, extortionists and other dangerous criminals for a day and a half before letting him out on bail.

Anleu’s lawyer, Jose Toledo, believes the government wants to make an example of him.

“Clearly, the message was: Watch out, any of you guys that want to post messages, this can happen to you. … It was a dissuasive measure,” Toledo said.

As an aside, that’s all the banking system is under the fractional reserve system, a big trust and confidence game.

Sam Francis was right about the centralizing nature of technology.  Then again, Sam Francis was right about everything.

Not the Greatest Entertainer Ever

Bob Hope mastered Broadway, Vaudeville, radio, TV and the Big Screen.  Al Jolson might have been a great TV star, but he died before he could take it up, otherwise he was Broadway, Vaudeville, radio, records, and the Big Screen (the first mass release movie with sound was The Jazz Singer).  As great a singer Frank Sinatra was, he was just about that good an actor.

Michael Jackson sold three quarters of a billion records, both albums and singles, in his career, both with his family, and then later solo.  And he mastered the music video.  But I can’t crown him as the greatest entertainer of all time.

“Human Nature” is my favorite song from Thriller.  And it was probably the least hyped of all the songs from Thriller that were ultimately released, and hasn’t been played at all today from what I watched in the media.  That seems to be the theme of the day with me and MJ:  Everybody knows about Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad, the three Quincy Jones-produced albums.  But Dangerous (1992) seems to be a bit overlooked.  Most people panned it, but I think it was a great front-to-back release that was very listenable from wire to wire.  Unfortunately, Dangerous came out at about the time when MJ started to go weird.  Some of his bonking out might not have been his fault; Jacob Weisberg wrote in Slate about four years ago that:

I’ve never believed Michael Jackson was a pedophile. To begin with, he doesn’t fit the profile. Child abusers tend to do the same thing again and again. According to one study, the average molester of boys commits 280 crimes over a lifetime. Yet despite the lure of getting rich by making accusations against Jacko, only two alleged victims have ever come forward with detailed allegations.

(snip)

People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson’s multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7. (If he’d been sent into a factory or coal mine, instead of onstage, we’d have more compassion for him.) As a boy, he was denied what even most abused and underprivileged children have: school, friends, and play.

Instead, Michael was made into a performing sexualized freak, a boy whose soprano voice kindled passion in grown women. He was made to witness adult sexuality at an age when it can only have been terrifying and incomprehensible to him. By 10, he was performing in strip clubs and hiding under the covers in hotel rooms while his older brothers got it on with groupies. At 11—the age at which his psyche seems frozen—he was a superstar. “My childhood was completely taken away from me,” he has said. Almost everything that seems freakish about him can be explained by his poignant, doomed effort to get his stolen childhood back.

I’m with Weisberg.  What I’m about to say might ultimately be wrong, and actually be rather unpopular, but I don’t think that Michael Jackson ever molested any minor, and by “molested,” I mean actual penetration.  I think he did engage in a lot of curious and inappropriate behavior, but he was so weird that he could act like that and not take it to the level of molestation.  Yeah yeah, I know, the lawsuit, but don’t forget that the civil lawsuit, which only required a preponderance of the evidence and 9 of 12 jurors, never went to trial; MJ and the plaintiff settled out of court.  When Tom Sneddon took it to the level of a criminal trial, there you need beyond a reasonable doubt and 12 out of 12 jurors, those jurors came back with a “not guilty” in pretty short order.  Those jurors actually did what they’re supposed to do; one of them told the media that they knew their job wasn’t to decide whether MJ had ever molested any child, their job was to decide if Sneddon proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he molested this particular minor at this time in this place in this manner.  And the answer to that was no, Sneddon didn’t sell the deal.

Slow Friday

Daily Mail:  I’ll end Labour’s Big Brother state: Cameron vows to scrap intrusive laws

And then implement a Tory Big Brother state.

CNS:  Possum Plays Dead Inside Gym’s Soda Machine

Or it was trying to get a Mountain Dew without paying.

AP:  Tainted SC governor tries to get back to business

There’s a family values conference this weekend that he’s scheduled to keynote.

Politico:  Biden reaches out to gay community

Straight eye for the queer guys.

He’s Baaaaaaack

Again, for like the 87th time.  And I would be referring to Onion Horton.

Mike Anderson:

WFXX (1490 AM) has finalized plans to broadcast in an “urban sports-talk” format starting July 22.  The station, which like KSLG is owned by Simmons Media Group, will drop programming from Fox Sports Radio in favor of local shows.  Hosts are expected to be Richard “Onion” Horton, Charlie “Tuna” Edwards, Rob Dezir and Maurice Scott.  Last ditch attempt to monetize a loser.

***

The 1490 AM station is the weakest AM signal in the St. Louis market.  From its East St. Louis transmitter, it barely makes it to Kirkwood during the day, and at night, it doesn’t even cover the whole of St. Louis City.

No Respite Just Yet — Alan Beany Baby Won’t Hear of It

CNS:

Jena 6 Case Wrapped Up with Plea Bargain

Jena, La. (AP) – Five members of the Jena Six have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor simple battery and were sentenced to seven days probation and fined $500 plus court costs.

It was a far less severe end to their cases than seemed possible when the six students were initially charged with attempted murder in a 2006 attack on Justin Barker. They became known as the “Jena Six,” after the central Louisiana town where the beating happened.

Later, charges against Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw were reduced to aggravated second-degree battery. The only member of the group to serve jail time was Mychal Bell, who pleaded guilty to second-degree battery and was sentenced to 18 months.

A civil hearing is also scheduled today to settle Barker’s lawsuit against the group.

Oh no, we haven’t heard the end of it.

And we wouldn’t have heard any of it, and nobody in Jena, black or white, turned the Jena Six Thugs into civil rights martyrs, and nobody made any link between their beating Justin Barker and the school pride nooses a few months earlier, until a kook leftist preacher from Dallas named Alan Beany Baby rode into town to stir up shit.  Once he started flapping his lips, this activated the media and the civil wrongs movement.  This peaked with their big march in Jena.  During the march, two 18-year old white men drove by the marchers in a pickup truck with a noose attached to the fender.  One rolled over on the other, who is now sitting in Federal prison for having committed racial intimidation.  All Alan Beany Baby’s fault for having stirred up shit.  And it gets worse than that –  As far as I’m concerned, Alan Beany Baby has blood on his hands.  I can all but guaran-damn-tee you that there was a least one black-on-white murder with the “injustice” of Jena as a motive.

Tip of the Iceberg

LAT:

Veteran Latino-rights advocate charged with voter fraud

Felony charges have been filed and an arrest warrant issued for a well-known Orange County political activist suspected of committing election and voter registration fraud, the California secretary of State’s office announced Wednesday.

Investigators in the agency’s election-fraud unit said Nativo V. Lopez, 57, of Santa Ana leased office space in Boyle Heights and registered to vote using that address although he lived with his family in Orange County. They also say Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Assn., cast an illegal ballot in L.A. in the 2008 presidential primary.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, which is working with the secretary of State, charged Lopez with four felonies: fraudulent voter registration, fraudulent document filing, perjury and fraudulent voting. A warrant was issued for his arrest and bail was set at $10,000. The offenses carry penalties of up to three years in prison.

Remember, at least 3 million illegal aliens voted in the November 2000 Presidential elections, probably more in 2004 and last year.  This is one way they get registered to vote, but even then it doesn’t have to be that complicated.

You figure, in illegal alien heavy states like California, Hispanics and white leftists run the Canvassing Boards, Boards of Election Commissioners, or whatever they’re called.  Do you honestly think most Hispanics are going to tell other Hispanics that they can’t register to vote?  White leftists won’t tell them no, either.  Amnestyaire U.S. Presidents, which have been all of them JFK onward, and their amnestyaire Attorneys General, certainly won’t prosecute illegal aliens for having voted.

Of Porn Belts and Horn Belts

WXII-NBC-12 Triad:  Program Pays Girls $1 Per Day To Not Get Pregnant

Which would work, except welfare is more than $30 a month.

Daily Oklahoman:  Oklahoma City woman trades sex for case of chips

I guess she really was all that and a bag of chips.

San Francisco Chronicle:  D.A.: Illegal immigrants were playing by rules

It’s easy to play by the rules when there are no rules.

CNS:  African-Americans Fear Climate Change Bill Will Hurt Economy, Households, Poll Shows

They’re worried that the utility bills many of them never pay will go up.

CNS:  Man Plays Porn Loudly to Keep Kids Away from Home

If anything, that would attract certain kids.

CNS:  Man in Drag Caught Watching Porn Gets Busted for Drugs

In drag, watching porn and doing drugs.  That would have made for one curious evening.

P-D:  Pine Lawn mayor: Not in Argentina, but maybe not in Pine Lawn

I’d have more respect for him if he picked Argentina over Crime Lawn.

Slashdot:  Google To Promote Web Speed On New Dev Site

I wish Google would promote web speed on YouTube and Google Maps, both have been as slow as snails lately.

CNS:  Hoyer Slams Reagan Administration While Discussing D.C. Metro Accident

Don’t blame him, most Democrats blame Bush for everything, except Steny Hoyer must have been listening to Huey Lewis and The News, and got temporal confusion.

CNS:  New ‘Transformers’ Movie Subject of Racial Controversy

They say that the cars are bigoted racial caricatures, but I didn’t see any chrome retro spinning wheels, nor did I hear the thundering bass of a 1000-watt subwoofer.

Jihad Watch:  Jihadist forum: “If we are forced to eat Americans, let’s make them into a gunpowder-flavored kabsa with some hors d’oeuvres made of apostates”

We can always tell them that us infidels taste like pig.

Bloomberg:  Wall Street Sets Campaign on ‘Populist Overreaction’

In contrast to the measured steady hands and rock solid stability of Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and many others.

NPR:  Author’s Short Stories Offer Peek Into Zimbabwe

“It sucks” is two words, not a short story.

AP:  SC gov to pay state for trip where he saw mistress

And that’s going to be only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Mark Sanford shelling out.  The future ex-Mrs. Sanford is next in line.

Politico:  Gore stays in Tenn. to work phones

Imagine, all that power used and all that carbon emitted, when Gore could have used string-attached tin cans.

Fox Business:  Fitch Downgrades California To A-minus

Even A- seems like the world’s worst grade inflation.

Macworld:  App Store adult content: Now you see it, now you don’t

Say you’re home alone, and you want to jerk off all night to hard core porn.  There’s an app for that.

Boogie Board

New York Times touts the virtues of the naturalist lifestyle, including not having to do laundry as often, which reduces your energy use.  But in said article, the Times didn’t even have the stones to show an example of such lifestyle in its fullest, thanks to the guy having a strategically placed surfboard.

Memo to Jay Nixon: Get a Good Physical From a Good Doctor to Make Sure You’re Good to Go For The Next Eight Years.

For if you kick off before then, this thing, which is about this close to coming out against the death penalty, becomes Governor.

Even if it accrued to my benefit in a political sense, what is the morality or the ethics of getting the votes of people who like you because you don’t want to put their murderers to death?  That’s one wee slight baby step below advocating murder out and outright.

The Good News? Chris Dodd Is Vulnerable. The Bad News? His Opposition Is the Stupid Party.

Me, on April 10:

I have said in this space numerous times that the industry of political consulting and campaign management is only one wee slight little baby step above snake oil.  The reason is that the managers and consultants for winning candidates get the credit for the victory, even if their advice had nothing to do with their candidate’s winning the election.  They parlay that into climbing the ladder to run bigger campaigns.

Now the Republican Party is taking that to an all time low.  Now the way to climb the ladder is to lose.

Gregg Keller, who ran Jim Talent’s failed 2006 bid for re-election to the Senate, and who helped run Mitt Romney’s failed campaign for President last year, is now hoofing it to ConnetiNUT to run into the ground the campaign for a Republican former ambassador to Ireland who wants Chris Dodd’s job in the Senate.

Tort And Punishment

CNS:

Supreme Court Says Teen’s Strip Search Illegal

Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court said Thursday school officials acted illegally when they strip-searched of an Arizona teenage girl looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen.

In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said that school officials violated the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches when ordered Savana Redding to remove her clothes and shake out her underwear.

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The court also ruled the officials cannot be held liable in a lawsuit for the search. Different judges around the nation have come to different conclusions about immunity for school officials in strip searches, which leads the Supreme Court to “counsel doubt that we were sufficiently clear in the prior statement of law,” Souter said.

So it’s unconstitutional, but you can’t sue them for that.  What incentive will they have not to do it again?  It’s like passing a law against a certain behavior but not stating a punishment for violating the law.  (The Missouri General Assembly made this boo-boo in the last few years, can’t remember the occasion though.)

The Hump Day Headline Hump

CNS:  Obama Seeks to Join Global Rights of Child Pact

Wouldn’t it be funny if it passed, and the the Obama daughters would file a complaint with the UN about their parents’ discipline methods?

Jihad Watch:  High-ranking Afghan jihadist entered Britain illegally, dodged deportation, now living a Glasgow flat

But at least he’s diverse.  And that’s all that former Home Sec. Jacqui Burqua cares about.

P-D:  New ethics policy planned for panel

Among the issues they will cover are the picking of pickle peppers by Peter Piper, and the sea shells that she sold on the sea shore.

P-D:  Aging population will put greater strain on global economy

Translation:  Die, old honkey.  Hispanics need the welfare.

Slashdot:  [Memphis] Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Liver Transplant

The transplant couldn’t happen in Cupertino; Apple has not yet gotten the iLiverTransplanter out of beta.

NYT:  Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers

I wonder what the attraction could be for certain “American” tees to Mexican drug cartels.  “Where there are Mexicans, there is Mexico.” — Vincente Fox

Kansas City Pitch:  John Danforth has tried to save the GOP from itself.  Now, by endorsing Roy Blunt, he’s sold his soul.

Correction:  John Danforth has already collected your soul.  Now, he’s collecting Roy Blunt’s soul.

WJXT-4 Jacksonville, Fla.:  JSO: Wendy’s Employee Kills Co-Worker

Oh no, just what we didn’t need, the loss of a good American manufacturing worker.

Fox News:  Football Coach Shot in High School Weight Room

Not even the sacred weight room is sacred anymore.

CSM:  NASA’s new breed of astronaut

Let me guess, low Earth orbit needs more diversity.

LiveScience:  Why Moms Go Mad

She’s expected to do everything for everyone at once.  That’s why.

AFP:  Mozambique factory to sell HIV drugs by December: officials

That’s great, for years I’ve been wondering when we’ll get those quality Mozambiquian pharmaceuticals.

AP:  Spector wants TV, music player for new prison cell

The last time a California prisoner was so musically inclined, someone from the Ma Barker gang was teaching Charles Manson how to play guitar.

Futher Proof That Richard Nixon Was The Typical Hypocrite Whore Politician

Was ambivalent about aborticide in the Roe v. Wade aftermath, but approved of it cases of black-on-white rape.  Which, coincidentally, is the reason why most whites in the Deep South and in and around big cities aren’t totally pro-life, because of the ever present threat of white women being raped by black men.  All the pro-life community needs to do is to add rape to the list of exceptions they will allow, and the pro-life position will get a lot more popular.  They don’t even need to say anything about race; enough people will understand the circumlocution.

Meanwhile, this was the same Richard Nixon who: (1) Started affirmative action, and (2) Tried to bash in George Wallace’s knees.  Arthur Bremer pulled the trigger, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ever came out in the wash that Nixon supplied the gun, figuratively speaking.  We do know for sure that Nixon wanted to plant George McGovern literature in Bremer’s Milwaukee apartment, but that failed b/c the Milwaukee cops sealed off the joint before the goons could get there.