New Archbishop In St. Louis

And leave it to Mayor Slay to use the occasion to open mouth and insert foot.

Ibid.:

I attended yesterday’s installation of Robert Carlson as the 9th Archbishop of St. Louis. I found the service, in which prayers were read in English and in the languages of some of the City’s historic immigrant groups and new Americans, deeply moving. With social and business issues often at the forefront, we sometimes forget that the Archbishop’s primary job is to lead tens of thousands of people who have a deep faith in God.

The Post-Dispatch’s able religion writer Tim Townsend has offered up a good “To Do” list for Archbishop Carlson. Among the line items Townsend identified for the new Archbishop to tackle are shrinking enrollment in the parochial school system; the complex financial, social, and theological challenges posed by St. Stanislaus Church; and friction between the archdiocese and Catholic Charities. To these, I would add the challenges posed by good stewardship of the Church’s real estate holdings in the City; more active engagement with new Americans, immigrants, and – particularly – our new Muslim neighbors; and a better relationship with Saint Louis University.

I find it interesting that the Mayor is promoting both diversity and Catholic K-12 education.  The last I heard, the two don’t exactly mix — There are rumors going around among St. Louis real estate professionals that, back during the halcyon days of city rehabbing and gentrification several years ago, some of the big name rehabbers were offering secret deals to white homebuyers that included free Catholic school tuition as part of their house purchase.  If you don’t know what that was a circumlocution around, then get thee back to thy cave.  As far as anyone knew, the Archdiocese was unaware of the scheme.

ADL, SPLC Running Low On Money

So they had the FBI/ATF provoke some ancient curmudgeon/dipshit to fire a shotgun inside the Holocaust Museum in D.C.  If you have given money to the ADL or SPLC in the past, expect his image on a fund-raising letter within a few weeks.

Yeah yeah, disclaimer, no proof.  But sometimes you can’t be crazy to think that past performance is indicative of future results.

I thought at first that this was done at the hands of the Religion of Peace.  I thought that because the media initially didn’t describe the suspect as white and right-wing, and that eventually Media/CAIR/ACLU denying terrorism would be the dead giveaway.  They probably said that he was white, old and anti-Semitic as soon as they themselves found out.

UPDATE 6/11: And wouldn’t you know it.  There was supposed to be a play premiering yesterday night about an imaginary rendezvous between Anne Frank and Emmett Till.  Prediction:  100 times more people will now see and hear about this play than would have w/o this shooting.  How convenient.  As the Romans asked, Cui Bono?  I think the reason this play was written and will be performed at all is to try and patch up now strained relations between the black civil rights movement and liberal and pro-Israel Jews, thanks to President Obama’s Middle East perfidy and pandering to Islam.

UPDATE 6/11: He’s a native St. Louisan.  The weird part about his growing up in St. Louis is that he is an alum of Clayton High School and Washington University.  The former is probably the most Jewish public high school in the St. Louis area, and the latter is probably the most Jewish institution within 300 miles of any direction of St. Louis that isn’t explicitly Jewish.  Whatever you think of Patterson’s First Axiom, it works the opposite with Jews — nothing about the time I spent in St. Louis’s Hebrew Belt, roughly following Lindell and Olive through St. Louis City and County, has ever made me want to hate Jews, and nothing about it has ever made want to diminish, trivialize, ridicule or comedisize the Holocaust.  This character, of all people on Earth, should know better.

UPDATE 6/11: Perhaps the flaw in my theory above is that he was born in 1920, so this puts him graduating H.S. in the late 1930s, and assuming he served in WWII, graduating college in the late 1940s.  Clayton was still an exurban town in the 30s, and almost entirely white and gentile.  And even through the 40s, Wash. U. was still dominated by a mix of WASPey Brahmins and gentile Unitarians, the Eliot family that founded WU (T.S. Eliot being the grandson of the founder) were Unitarian ministers.

The U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. is opening a two-front investigation.  First, for the actual murders and other crimes themselves, and second, to see if there is enough evidence to add hate riders to the charges, which isn’t going to be hard to find.  I contrast this to almost every time there is a brutal non-white-on-white murder or heinous crime that seems to be motivated by enmity; the authorities always come up with the bullshit that there’s not enough evidence for hate.  The reason there isn’t enough evidence is that the authorities don’t strain themselves to find the evidence.  Meanwhile, you can see how quickly the system starts looking for hate when it’s an extreme righty knocking off a usual target of the extreme right.  They’ll take 500 years to find enough evidence of hate if they have to, and then charge him posthumously.

I don’t agree with Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of the suspect as a left-winger of some sort, just because he shared some of the common rhetoric with the anti-Zionist (but not necessary anti-Semitic) left, including some Jews.   Also, Rush’s first segment in the first hour was about this matter, and after the first commercial break, the bumper music was “Shotgun” by Junior Walker & The All-Stars.  Probably the worst possible song to play when you’re talking about this whole matter.

UPDATE 6/11: John Lott reports that the Holocaust Museum in D.C. has the “Gun Free Zone” sign on its doors.  Wasn’t so much of a gun free zone, was it?  Also, suspect is a convicted felon, ergo no guns allowed.  I’m sure ATF is on the case right now tracing the route of the shotgun.

UPDATE 6/11: Along with giving the ADL and SPLC the ability to raise money, this happens at a curiously fortunate time for the left wing.  This will give legs to various and sundry gun control measures (as you read above, the HM was already a “gun free zone,” and the suspect is an ex-con), and expanding hate crimes laws (even though there won’t be a problem adding hate crimes riders in this matter).  Also, the UK Daily Worker has discovered a “link” between this suspect and the BNP, as the suspect attended one or two meetings of a now defunct organization called the American Friends of the British National Party, based in D.C.  They can’t find any evidence that he gave any money to the AFBNP, and after 2001, it became illegal to fund British political campaigns with non-UK money, therefore the AFBNP dissipated.

In the interests of full disclosure, your blogmeister went to an AFBNP meeting in July 1999, they happened to meet at the same time the Council of Conservative Citizens had its National Conference in NoVa.  IIRC, their hall was in Arlington, most of their meetings took place on a second floor with an exquisite view of D.C.  If this meeting was indicative of the rest of their meetings, all they ever did was raise money, (including some of mine that night), a raffle of mainly history books and also many of the same racialist books that are for sale at the AR Store, (though I don’t think that AR provided them), including Why Race Matters by a Jewish CCNY Professor, Michael Levin.  There was hardly anything in the way of speeches or activism, so I presumed that they knew that anyone who came already knew about and supported the BNP, so preaching to the choir was superfluous.  So if this suspect went to a few AFBNP meetings and stopped going, I guess it is because he was fishing for help to make some sort of loud and spectacular scene of a criminal nature, and he found none at AFBNP.  That and if he saw books on the raffle table by Jewish professors, he probably didn’t think he was truly entre amis.

As it was, after the AFBNP dissipation, Mark Cotterill, who headed the group, and who I had met several times before 1999, went back to England to start a rival party to the BNP.  I’m guessing he got into some dispute with Nick Griffin or other BNP big wigs over something, perhaps it was a personality clash.  For the Mail to link someone to the BNP who went to the meetings of an American group supporting the BNP, may not have ever given any money, and a group whose leader started a competing bottom-feeder party to the BNP after the group’s viability ended, is stupid beyond comprehension.  But it’s not irrational:  The Mail has a hard-on for the BNP because they’re still scared that the BNP will draw away enough Tory Party votes to keep the Mail’s precious David Cameron from becoming Prime Minister.   And for the Mail to complain about “neo-fascist” is hypocritical, because the Mail was pro-Hitler and pro-Nazi all the way up to the invasion of Poland and the start of war between England and Germany.

UPDATE 6/11: There’s a part of the Daily Mail story that totally flew by me.  It mentions another AFBNP official, Todd Blodgett.  The Mail confirms what we on the professional hard right had been suspecting for years, that Blodgett was an FBI “informant”/provocateur/professional shit stirrer-upper.  Too, I met him at the AFBNP meeting I went to, and IIRC, he only said about two words that evening, both words were “Hello.”  I knew he went to at least one CofCC National Conference, and through the grapevine, I heard he attended at least one AR biannual conference.  A libtard blog named “No More Mr. Nice Guy” is trying to link the suspect and Ronald Reagan himself, using the fact that Blodgett was once a Reagan White House errand boy, but  “No More Mr. Nice Guy” fails to realize that Blodgett’s just been exposed.

Now I’m beginning to piece it together.  SPLC/ADL -> FBI -> Blodgett -> Von Brunn.

Before I let that go, I have to explain again the significance of that food chain.  About eight or nine years ago, a George Mason University Ph.D. candidate was doing his dissertation on groups like the SPLC.  He found out that the nature of the relationship between SPLC/ADL Paranoia-Industrial Complex groups and Federal Law Enforcement was symbiotic; the latter used the former for spying and voyeuristic functions that they weren’t allowed to do, and, though the dissertation did not say this, it implied that the payback was that the FBI’s “informants”/provocateurs/professional shit disturbers would provoke violence and/or scary activity among the hard-to-far-to-extreme right wing, and this would be how the SPLC and ADL could raise money.

We now know that Todd Blodgett is a person that Von Brunn and the FBI had in common.  Von Brunn went to AFBNP meetings, and so did Blodgett.  They had to have become familiar with each other, and as Blodgett was FBI, he would have become instantly interested in Von Brunn, due to his homicidal anti-Semitism.  For someone looking for criminal behavior or hoping to provoke it, AFBNP was a dry well, Von Brunn was the fortunate cold and clear stream in the desert.  As I said above, Blodgett also hung around CofCC and AR, but didn’t hang along for long because they, too, are the same kinds of dry wells.

Several years ago, it was found out that Tampa Bay area “neo-Nazi” group was led by either an FBI agent or informant.  I go one step further — that most of this group’s members were FBI as well.  You can bet that ADL/SPLC photogs were conveniently close by.  Of course, all this goes way back before Morris Dees — the Birmingham Church Bombing in 1963 that killed four black girls was provoked by FBI agents/informants dressed up in white sheets.  Most of the other right wing violence in the 60s was also FedLEA provoked to get civil rights bills passed.  I’ll go to my grave thinking that the Machiavellian Sonofabitch that was President from 1963-69 gave the direct orders, and that he would have personally dressed himself in white sheets and firebombed black children to get a civil rights bill passed.

Why should this surprise anyone?  The left wing is merely the domesticated and tame version of the original ideology that advocated “by any means necessary,” and that is Marxism-Leninism.  Karl Marx himself called racial civil rights “a revolution in permanence.”  Blodgett was a Lee Atwater protege, and Atwater never shied away from bashing knees and assassinating characters.  It’s what he had to do to make George H.W. Bush the President when Bob Dole was the front-runner going into the ’88 R-Primaries, and when Dukakis at a wide lead coming out of the DNC over Bush.  Neither Dole nor Dukakis were born with silver spoons in their mouths, as Atwater got people to believe.  His guy was actually the plutocrat.  Electoral politics are cold, cruel, Machiavellian callings.  It’s not beyond the realm of possibility for Blodgett to use Atwater tactics to his personal efforts.

So here’s my line of thinking:  SPLC and ADL yank the FBI’s chain.  FBI yanks Todd Blodgett’s chain.  Blodgett provokes Von Brunn into the HM shootings.

Once again, this is all my educated speculation; I have no proof.

UPDATE 6/11: Sorry, Politico.  That Von Brunn apparently targeted the offices of  The Meekly Standard and wasn’t fond of Bill O’Reilly isn’t proof that he wasn’t right wing.  In fact, that’s more proof that he was, because once you get to about Pat Buchanan territory on the right wing, and further on, Irving and Bill Kristol are just two more establishmentarians, and Bill O’Reilly is one wee slight little baby step better.  It might shut the standard domestic left-wing up a little bit, but it won’t the SPLC and ADL.

UPDATE 6/11: Does this and the untimely demise of Dr. Driller vindicate Janet Nappy/DHS and MIAC?  No, because they both kept looking at groups, not individuals.  And until I see proof otherwise, I still think Dr. Driller was offed by the pro-aborticide crowd using an apparent pro-life extremist as the front, and that Von Brunn was egged on.  When it comes to terrorism and the right-wing, to the extent that it’s provocated, or not, it’s never really groups, it’s “lone wolves” that fly under the radar screen.

UPDATE 6/12: Von Brunn was a Darwinist, and viciously anti-Christian.  But again, that doesn’t make him left wing, because anti-Christianity is an outgrowth of the anti-Semitism espoused in certain circles of the extreme right, based on the belief that Christianity is a “Jewish religion.”  The rifle he used at HM was a .22, a squirrel gun.

Some hosts on conservative talk radio have been bashing Prof. Carol Swain, a PolySci Prof. at Vanderbilt, for her response after the HM shootings.  Actually, Prof. Swain, although she is left wing on most things, is actually reasonable when it comes to thinking about and writing about white right wingers and organizations.  And she is not for amnesty and open borders, mainly because of its detrimental affects on blacks and their economic prospects (Prof. Swain is black).

Truthfully, for as long as I have been observing the left wing, and its criticism of white racialism, nationalism and racial realism, the worst vitriol, hate and bigotry and invective comes from the white left wing, not black civil rights organizations and its leaders.  The reason is that the blacks have nothing to prove to anyone about their political chops.  The white ones, on the other hand, are always worried about their progressive credentials, and live in deathly fear of showing as much as one millisecond of “racism,” as if they’re guilty for being white.

UPDATE 8/28/2010: Someone claiming to be Todd Blodgett e-mailed me today and said that his hands were clean, because he supposedly left the FBI’s shit disturber program in 2007.  Take it for what it’s worth; I take it with a grain of salt.

Fun With Head-Lies

Michael Savage:  Biden to cops:  Sotomayor ‘has your back’

Speechwriter for Biden:  Do a better job at proofreading.  You must have accidentally typed “has” when you meant “stabs.”

CNS:  ‘American Idol’s’ Adam Lambert Admits He Is Homosexual, Used Drugs

I sense a lawsuit.

Jihad Watch:  Georgia Tech jihadist guilty; father says: “He’s not guilty of any crimes in the eyes of Allah. He’s guilty of U.S. laws.”

Well fine.  He’ll be free and clear once he gets to Allah.  In the meantime, his ass belongs to Uncle Sam.

KTVI:  Law Hopes To Help Men Who Are Not Biological Fathers

A subsection of the new law allocates funds to create the antimatter Maury Povich.

AP:  Geithner: No caps on pay for corporate executives

On the other hand, they’ll have to pay taxes on those high salaries.

CSM:  US high school graduation rate climbs to 69.2 percent

“Graduating from high school,” i.e. you have a pulse and attended school more often than not.

Reuters:  U.N. powers agree on draft North Korea sanctions

You want to run an unchallenged dictatorship?  Have the U.N. pass sanctions against you.  That way, there will never be any challenges to your authority.

Politico:  Coach Obama: Shape up now

But when he says “drop and give me twenty,” he doesn’t mean pushups.  IRS don’t accept pushups.

Business Weak:  Oxford’s Said: Admissions Q&A

List your first name as Deshawntavious or Shaniqua, and complain in your essay about white racism that is one or more (preferably more) of the following four:  Institutional, Structural, Systemic or Systematic.

AFP:  Bee Gees singer lends voice to copyright fight

Robin Gibb worrying about people downloading Bee Gees songs instead of buying them is about as silly as worrying about a rainout in the Sahara Desert.

AFP:  New Orleans mayor released from China quarantine

How’s that make you feel, New Orleans?  They Mayor you just had to elect, China doesn’t even want

The Era of Hope Is Over

Two moderate former Democrats in the New York State Senate flipped parties, returning control of the chamber to the Republicans.

While I’m happy that this is a poke in the eye to the Hopester, I don’t expect much good to come of it.  After all, Republicans ran the NYS Senate for a long time, and George Pataki, a Republican State Senator before he as Governor for 12 years, but this didn’t preclude New York State from being one of the bluest in the Union.

Anglophiles, Help Me Out

Six black Briton gang members, ranging in age from 17 to 20, face life sentences in prison (i.e. they’ll be out in five years) for the wanton murder of a black 14-year old teenager, one Shaquille Smith, at a London park.  The victim was described as an “Army Cadet.”

I thought that you couldn’t join the British Armed Forces until you were at least 16 years old.  The reason that you can at 16, unlike the U.S., where the minimum is 17, (even though in either country, you can’t be on the front lines of combat until you’re 18), is that, at least for several more years, if you are found not to have post-secondary education ambitions or brain chops, you’re done with school at 16.

Perhaps “Army Cadets” does not literally mean the sworn Army.  Internet search engines give me no answers.

No link because the Sky News article mentions the name of the Judge that will hand out the sentences next month.

When Did We Annex Afghanistan?

Here I am pushing for Southern Illinois to be the 51st State.  I may have missed the boat.

First, the President essentially redefined what was once called enemy waging war against members of the U.S. Armed Forces as nothing more than domestic criminal violence, such that those who are suspected of it need due process in an American domestic courtroom.  Now, the next shoe has dropped:  Those apprehended arrested in the State of Afghanistan are now read Miranda Rights.

I usually count the names I’m about to mention in this paragraph as intellectual idols, or people who I usually trust in a political sense, but this is why I (1) Don’t agree with Alex Jones, Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul when they complain about our “torturing” terrorists enemies criminal suspects, and (2) They are being hypocritical/inconsistent when they do that AND oppose globalism.  Their doing (1) is actually the globalist/universalist position when compared to those who don’t fret about torture.  I mean, what’s the difference between a world government run out by the UN out of New York and and one run by the United States out of Washington?  They’re both equally undesirable.

Likewise, I don’t lose sleep that the FBI didn’t do all the necessary paperwork to tap a phone call between Detroit and Damascus.  Nor do I think their not doing so means that we’re on a slippery slope to Hitler.  In contrast, I think of all the people that were living before they tapped such a phone call, and continue to live afterward, that didn’t die in terrorist attacks that were precluded by LEAs tapping such phone calls.  Rights are not absolute.  In a conflict between the survival rights of Americans and the civil rights of Muslim terrorists, I think this is a more than adequate compromise.  Also, The Federal Government has a much a right to monitor international phone calls with one end in American territory as they do to regulate foreign trade and immigration, for the same reasons.

In related news, the Pacific Island nation of Palau will take about seventeen “Chinese” Club GITMO vacationers.  Call me crazy, but I tend to think that these “Chinese” Muslim enemies aren’t really Chinese save Chinese territory that has a boundary with many of the -Stans, ex-Soviet and otherwise.

UPDATE: Rush made a good point about this.  How can we now deny amnesty and open borders to illegal aliens citizens of the world?

What’s In a Number?

NTSC Analog TV finally ends on Friday.

Not that what I’m about to say ever had any chance of happening, but it would have been a good idea.

Even though the TV stations’ digital channel will not correspond with the analog channel they used, e.g. WSIL-3′s digital channel uses Channel 34, it will still appear as Channel 3 on HDTVs that receive over-the-air TV, because the TV stations can use virtual channels, broadcast their virtual channel number in their digital signal, and the HDTVs are smart enough to link the virtual channel number with the real channel on the digital signal.  A TV here in Southern Illinois that is tuned to Channel 3-1 will see the WSIL digital signal, but will be looking for it on Channel 34.

The opportunity that DTV presented was to standardize the American TV networks on a single virtual channel.  In Australia, the major TV networks go by the number of the analog TV channel they used in the five major metro areas, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbande, Adelaide and Perth.  The “7 Network” was Channel 7 in all those cities.  Same with the 9 Network and the 10 Network.

It was never that way with American networks, but the saving grace was that in the two biggest TV markets, New York and L.A., CBS is on 2, NBC on 4, ABC on 7 (and the ubiquitous 7 in a circle used by almost all ABC affils on 7).  In Chicago, CBS is on 2 and ABC is on 7, but NBC is on 5.  Many other cities follow this patter of C/N/A on 2/4/7, if not for all three nets, then for one or two of them.  IIRC, Channel 11 is the most common analog channel for a CW affiliate (New York and St. Louis included).  Not sure what it is for Fox, though it’s 5 in NY and 11 in L.A.

My idea would have been for all CBS affiliates to use the virtual channel 2, NBC to use 4, ABC to use 7, Fox, CW and PBS each to pick a number.  DirecTV, DISH and the cable providers could have followed suit, and that way, there would have been no ambiguity about where to find certain network in other cities.

BTW, there are a lot of people asking what was the point in switching from analog to digital.  Pick up the book Defining Vision by NYT writer Joel Brinkley to find out.  I’ll give you a hint –  It was a cynical move by the titans of TV to block the FCC proposal in the mid-1980s to use unused TV stations for police and fire communication.  However, their proposal, which TV never really wanted to do save to head off the FCC, spun out of control, and along with several other innovations, we got HDTV in digital form.  The irony of it all is that digital transmissions will mean that police and fire can use any unused TV channels in a market for communication in analog radio, and they won’t interfere with each other even if, e.g. the Carbondale P.D. uses TV Channel 33 or 35 and WSIL uses Channel 34.

Constantly Accelerating Fun With Headlines

CNS:  Gardening Nudists Claim Landlord Discrimination

Maybe so, but perhaps their problem was that they were using too much natural man-made fertilizer.

CNS:  Obama Administration About to Say Which Banks Can Repay Bailout Cash

I’d love to have that kind of loan, one that the President says I’m not allowed to repay.

P-D:  U.N. is seeking a ban on plastic grocery bags

Meanwhile, I recycle my plastic grocery bags as trash bags, and that’s where the UN belongs.

P-D:   Biden points to Missouri as stimulus success story

I’d hate to see how he defines a stimulus failure story.

Politico:  Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush

George W. Bush was referring to the noted religious leader.  Barack Obama is just mad.

AP:  Police: 2 teens killed to escape NY halfway house

And leave it they did.  They’re now back in the noway house, for the rest of their lives.

Rasmussen Polling:  New Jersey Governor: Christie (R) 51% Corzine (D) 38%

Don’t rest on your laurels yet, Chris Christie.  Your opponent has displayed a great ability to accelerate from 38 to 51 in a split second.

Et Tu, Brute?

Washington Times:

Doctor likens Tiller’s killing to MLK’s

Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions, called on the federal government to treat as hate crimes all activities by “anti-choice domestic terrorists,” compared the slain Dr. George Tiller to Martin Luther King and said planting crosses was equivalent to actions by the Ku Klux Klan.

“This is the equivalent of Martin Luther King being assassinated,” Dr. Carhart said of the May 31 slaying of one of America’s best-known late-term abortion providers. “This is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania and any other major historic event where we’ve tolerated the intolerable for too long.”

Believe it or not, I agree.  But not for the reasons that Dr. Driller, Jr. states here.  I think MLK was knocked off by member(s) of his own civil rights entourage, because they knew he was about to be become discredited big time because of his depraved miscreancy, and better to have a dead martyr than a living dinosaur.  Similarly, until I see proof otherwise, I think the suspect in the Wichita killing of the original Dr. Driller was the James Earl Ray sent in by the pro-aborticide left to kill Dr. Driller, because just a few weeks ago, pro-lifers surpassed pro-aborters in polling for the first time in a very long time.

Meal Ticket

Medea killed her kids, this woman, last name Medina, just takes somebody else’s kids.  She’s done it before in New York, and now it seems she has done it again in Madison, Illinois.  Her stated reason the first time she did it is that she wanted “a baby real bad,” so we have to presume that that is her reason this time.

Why would you want a “baby real bad” when you’re 16 years old, and now again only 17?  Answer:  Welfare meal ticket.

How Quickly We Become Un-Egalitarian

EdSec Arne Duncan is floating a trial balloon that teachers should be judged based on the performance of their students.  I don’t think he’s proposing this seriously, because NEA/AFT oppose it, and this administration is not about to cross the teachers’ unions.  It’s all a faux triangulation play.

That brings me to the teachers’ unions opposition.  For as long as I can remember, and a long time before that, public school teachers have promulgated the official line that the races are fundamentally equal, and that there is no heritable racial differences in IQ, and any such “achievement gap” was due to social factors (or worse, white bigotry), and therefore remediable.  But when it comes down to the nad-cuttin’ time, and their own members’ skins, wallets and purses, we see how fast the NEA/AFT lose the equality bullshit and adopt the implied position that the races aren’t equal, such that teachers who have the indignity of teaching students that are all, mostly or becoming more black, must be punished for the incapability of their students.

Good Tax Bad Tax

Reuters:

Tech cos enlist Democrat to blast Obama tax plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of technology heavyweights, including chiefs of IBM (IBM.N) and Motorola Inc (MOT.N) enlisted a former Clinton administration economist to beat back President Barack Obama’s plan to boost some taxes on overseas profits.

The Technology CEO Council recruited Robert J. Shapiro, a former top Commerce Department official, who wrote a report released on Monday arguing that significant jobs losses could occur under Obama’s plan.

Last month, Obama introduced a proposal to raise $210 billion over a decade in part by tightening tax rules on income earned abroad. The administration says current policy spurs job creation overseas, while U.S.-based multinational companies say precisely the opposite is true.

As I have said in this space before, this was how Obama got white votes in states like Ohio that he won, with this Axelrod triangulation.  The Democrats are just as much beholden to the cheap labor lobby as the Republicans, but they also need the votes of the victims of cheap labor.  The way out was this business about taking away tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas.  (What about companies that move overseas over here H-1B to put you out of a job just as much?).

The reason it’s bullshit is because the extra taxes these companies will have to pay are far less than what they save in labor costs by moving jobs overseas.  As such, I think this supposed oppostion by IBM and MOT is a game of good cop, bad cop, to pretend Briar Patch like that this “drastic solution” is one that they viciously oppose, knowing that the anti-corporate wing of the American body politic will react in earnest by doing it and only it, stopping there and doing nothing to solve the actual problem.

Baltinomore

A VC firm based in the urban heart of Baltimore for the last thirty years is being driven out of the city, and feet don’t fail me now to the suburbs, because…

…of the high level of crime in our neighborhood.  Over the last several years, many of our cars have been broken into resulting in very expensive repairs, our employees have been robbed at gun point, drug needles and used condoms have been left on our front stoop, and psychotic homeless people have menaced our employees and threatened to kill them.  We have voiced our frustrations to the local community leaders and police, but the environment has only worsened.  The recent local beatings by roving teenagers during the day in this neighborhood, the raucous club in the basement of the Belvedere, and other gang violence throughout the city reinforces the appropriateness of New Enterprise Associates’ decision to move in order to protect its employees.

Lotsaluck getting the black crooks and thieves and hustlers that pass for Baltimore’s “community leaders” and control its “police” to do anything about black crime.  If the victims are repressive cracker honkeys, that’s just one more reason not to to anything.

I keep hearing the left wing say that poverty causes crime.  My opinion is that it’s the other way around, that crime causes poverty.   This is true in both the practical definition (try getting a good job with a felony sheet), and the philosophical and general — who wants to lay down roots and invest serious capital in a neighborhood, city, country where it can be stolen or expropriated from you without a thought or care?  Insurance costs for a business in a bad part of town are higher, if you can get insurance at all, because you’re sure to use the insurance.  Heck, a certain part of Oklahoma City, Okla. can’t even sustain a pharmacy.

Once upon a time, all Chevy Corvettes were made in North St. Louis City.  Many of its parts were also made in nearby factories. In the 1970s (?), GM closed that plant, built two new plants, one in Bowling Green, Kentucky to build the Corvettes, and one in (was was then) exurban St. Louis, Wentzville, Mo., so that the St. Louis GM assembly line workers could have another job, in that case, full size vans.  GM didn’t go through all that expense for nothing, it was because the neighborhood got black, i.e. crime ridden.  Unfortunately for Wentzville, some of the GM workers that moved from North St. Louis to Wentzville were also black, and this created a mini-ghetto that still exists there to this day, even though Wentzville is now a solid suburb.  Whenever you hear about a heinous crime committed in Wentzville, or by a Wentzvillian, it’s almost always black, and almost always in turn relations to a black GM worker.

Similarly, I bet this VC firm was affirmative action and race pandering all the way.

Reciprocity

Daily Mail:

Working-class white boys at bottom of educational heap, warns new expert report

White boys have fallen to the bottom of the educational heap, a report says.

They do worse in their GCSEs than all pupil groups apart from gipsy and traveller children and those in care, whose schooling has been disrupted.

The under-achievement of white boys is particularly acute among working-class backgrounds, the research found.

They are falling behind Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, black Caribbean, black African and Chinese children, as well as girls from all ethnic backgrounds.

Experts warned that white boys had lost sight of the connection between doing well at school and their future success.

I can ill imagine that black Caribbean students are smarter than working class white boys.  I think the last sentence says it all — Official England has done nothing but flip the bird to its traditional population for years and decades.  All three of the leaders of major British political parties (not to mention the newspaper I’m quoting here) could do nothing but spew hate and vitriol towards the political party that comes the closest to advocating for the interests of said population, on the heels of that party’s success last weekend, that being the BNP.  Working class white boys don’t have a horse in the race.  So why should they even go to the track?

Hey, Don’t Drag My Perfectly Good Headlines Through the Mud.

WDSU-NBC-6 New Orleans:  Nagin Quarantined In China Amid H1N1 Case

Let’s see how well all his talk about turning Shanghai into a Chocolate City goes over.

WSIL:  Police: [Murphysboro] Man Bites Officer

Distant relative to Mike Tyson, are we?

Washington Times:  Mexican drug cartels ‘hide in plain sight’ in U.S.

That’s because so much of Mexico is here that you can hardly tell the difference.

CNS:  DHS Nominee Drops Out Over Ties to CIA Tactics

His name is Mudd, so I wonder if his interrogation tactics were true to his name.

CNS:  China Requires PCs to Come With Anti-Porn Software

Chinese Government:  Why fantasize about it on American websites when you can get it for real at one of our many massage parlors?

VOA:  N. Korea Sentences US Journalists to 12 Years Labor

England is now at the end of its own 12 year sentence of Labour.

Fox News:  Evangelical Group Banned From Tulsa Housing Projects, Chapter Leader Says

Not because of religious concerns, but because of bad results.  Monogamy don’t go over too well in the hood.

P-D:  Suspect in Kansas doctor’s death warns of violence

So you’re telling me that Dr. George Driller’s life is in danger?

P-D:  Pine Lawn officers equipping themselves with better guns

They’ll be within a hair’s length of the firepower of the typical Crime Lawnian thug.

KFVS:  Large Mo. fertilizer facility to open

In New Madrid, no less, right on a fault line.  When the next big one happens, you’ll be able to smell the stench in St. Louis.

WND:  Kenyan governor for California?

If he wins and does well, you never know — we might have a Kenyan President one day.

CSM:  In Dresden and Nazi camp, Obama highlights capacity for reconstruction

Rebuild the Dresden concentration camp?  Now there’s a non-starter.

Politico:  Palin versus GOP

I’m takin’ odds.  1-27,339,812 for Sarah, neone?

Reuters:  Apple cuts iPhone to $99, Jobs nowhere in sight

Now there’s how you know we’re in a bad economy;  the CEO whose name has “job” can’t even show up to his own company’s orgasmfest.

AFP:  Indian scientists clone buffalo: report

I don’t blame them.  Buffalo is a pretty crummy city by American standards, but a great one by Indian standards.

E!:  Kris Allen Inks Record Deal With 19/Jive

As if he had a choice of labels; I think the American Idol contract states that Simon Cowell owns your actual ass.

AP:  McDonald’s customer gets party — on 100th birthday

Glory be, somebody made it to triple digits on a diet of crap in a sack.

Rapper Loses Record Deal After Secret Life Exposed

NEWARK, N.J.  (FNN)  –  Hip Hop Artist Zlik-G-Murder was released from his recording contract earlier today, after a number of scandalous photos were published last weekend on the gossip website Exhaling Gun.

Newark native Zlik-G-Murder, whose real name Sebastian D’Andre Montgomery IV, 27, was signed with the hip-hop label ExtraScope in 2007.  His first release, entitled Fackin Da’Hoes, did not have the sales that label executives projected, and none of the three singles released from the album made the Top 20 of the Williamboard rap and hip hop hit chart.  Montgomery was about to begin studio recordings for his second release, tentatively entitled Yardbird, until today.

The Exhaling Gun photos clearly show that Montgomery not only has an overground existence as a husband in a monogamous relationship with his wife, and that their consummation of the marriage was the end of both of their virginities, a revelation more damaging than that from the set of paparazzi-taken photos is that Montgomery has two children, all by his wife, and that he knows who his children are, and his children know who their father is, and worst of all, they both have their father’s surname.  Perhaps the final nails in the coffin of his rap career are TEG’s document searches that shows that Montgomery sunlights as a person with an actual job, and has no felony or misdemeanor criminal convictions.

Among other vicious rumors that FNN was unable to substantiate but promulgated in TEG’s story is that Montgomery has a high school diploma as a result of four consecutive school years of almost perfect attendance while he was a teenager, a credit rating, and that his gainful employment was with a northern New Jersey law enforcement agency.

“We are glad that this all came to life,” ExtraScope CEO D. Piddy told FNN.  “I can’t say anything for sure until I talk with our Illegal Department, but this behavior is almost a certain violation of the immorals clause in his contract.  I myself got suspicious when Zlikkey didn’t go out on the campaign trail for Barack Obama last fall.”

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Yeah, it’s fiction.  But…

CV

Battery of a jailhouse guard, battery of a teacher three times, theft, crack and sundry assaults.  And now, the rape and murder of the eight-month old son of his current g/f. All before 18.

He admitted to beating the infant to death because the boy was inconveniencing him, but why rape?  Was that some sort of sick perverted form of punishment?

And again, we have another instance where a man murders the children of a woman he is involved with by another man.  It’s the lion thing, all over again.

Bye Bye Mexico

Big time drug gang bang bang shoot’em’up in the heart of the Acapulco hotel resort zone.  With this, American tourism to Mexico, (at least the above board style anyway), will be just about zero.

Why the BNP Won

England’s education system operates under the philosophy of no non-whitemale child left behind.

On The Other Hand, $8,556 of Federal Money For Something Is So Little By Today’s Standards That It Seems Like They’re Taking Money Away From You

Cincy to spend 8,556 Obamabucks on teen pregnancy prevention education.  Meanwhile, when I was 10 years old, I reverse-engineered the information I learned in one of those $0 “birds and the bees” booklets, to figure out how not to procreate.

Just between you and me, this was all stuff that I really wasn’t supposed to find out for another year, I figured as much when my mother outsourced “the talk” to my uncle, and all that he told me is what I had known already for a year.  And as it was, most of the “official talk” given to me was about puberty and human maturity, and its practical consequences for me as an individual, and personal habits that I had to start adopting;  heterosexual vaginal sex was only lightly broached.  I was surprised that my uncle stopped there, for I knew “the rest of the story,” and I presumed that “the rest of the story” was left out due to maternal or avuncular discretion, and that the intention was for me to learn “the rest of the story” on my own, and furthermore my not being told “everything” up front was a subtle clue that certain things are not to be talked about in an inter-generational family setting.  (Actually, I should make a slight correction, because between ages 10 and 18, even though I knew what homosexual men did, I had no idea about what lesbians did, it wasn’t until I got to college that I learned that there are devices to simulate the male anatomy.)  Even at age 11, I could understand the accidental lesson about discretion.

By the time I got the official talk, I had already been using deodorant for a year, and had my mother found that out, she might have suspected that I had been hearing things :P  As it is, I started playing organized baseball in the summer between fourth and fifth grade, and I deduced from the booklet that I needed to start using deodorant, even though I really didn’t for a couple more years.  That was also my first experiences with communal showering, mandatory for team athletes at the Boys Club in South St. Louis at the time.  Combining it all together, the Speed Stick in my locker, the showers and the self-deflowering of my mind, all of it made me feel grown up :P  Even though I didn’t know beans from shinola.

Point is, I didn’t have the internet in 1987, but there’s the internet now.  Nobody on top of nobody that needs to know doesn’t know how not to procreate.

Land of the Living

Guess what — he’s gonna get to live out the rest of his days, because Mrs. Antolinez’s father died before he could undo the stay of execution that he ordered.  Is Missouri like the worst state for technicalities or what?  St. Louis City and County wouldn’t issue CCW permits starting in September 2003 because the stupid ass state legislatures forgot to link the CCW permit fees and the cost to the requisite LEAs do run the NCIC and other checks.  That took until 2005 to fix.

The Other Shoe Drops

Half of Wentzville gone.  The other half will be gone once the glow-bull warming nuts ban cars larger than a lawn mower.

Clean Cole Technology

Brad Cole, the Republican mayor of the most liberal city in the most conservative part of Illinois, (though I will never confound Carbondale for Chicagograd), is smelling greener pastures.  I haven’t lived here long enough to get a full sense of Cole’s record, but from what little I’ve seen so far, they can keep him.

UPDATE 7/13:  For Lieutenant Governor.  He’s got links to George Ryan.

New to the Blogroll (And Hopefully Soon New to America)

Southern Illinois Statehood Blog. Hopefully soon, cause I’m getting tired of wearing this paper bag over my head.  “Illinois?  That’s like Obama land.”

A few weeks ago, I did a satirical piece about the state of Illinois changing its name to Tax.  In it, I used a fictional person with the first name of Emery in Massac County as the leader of the Southern Illinois statehood movement.  I must be psychic or something, because the Southern Illinois Statehood Blog is a production of someone whose last name is Emery.

UPDATE 6/11: And wouldn’t you know it, there’s already a Facebook group, which organized a meeting last night in Carbondale.  I would have been there had I known.

Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  The impossible just became possible — We found a white woman in public office not named HRC who is not given to Obamagasms upon His mere presence.

(2)  President Obama visited Buchenwald concentration camp site this past Friday after Ang gave him the cold shoulder.  I wonder why the President went there.  Perhaps he wants to see how it’s done so that he knows what to do when he’s ready to do it to us right wingers?

(3)  8th Circuit:  It’s okay for Valley Park to help enforce Federal law.  Even if it involves apprehending future Democrat voters.  The ruling probably sends good tidings for similar Missouri laws past last year.

(4)  Wyatt Earp is going to prison, whodathunk?  Or rather, one Steven Wyatt Earp, 32, of St. Louis County, for feloniously overbilling the St. Louis Community College system when he ran their pro campaign on a bond issue vote three years ago.  It’s perhaps the first baby step in putting the snake oil business of political consultancy in prison, where it belongs.  Yes, Karl Roverrated, I’m thinking of you.

(5)  Sonie the Phony is on this kick about the death penalty being racist?  Actually, she’s right.  Whites who are convicted of first degree murder are more likely to be executed than blacks or Hispanics who are convicted of first degree murder.  But that’s not the kind of “racism” I lose sleep over.

(6)  Half the civilized world is playing hot potato over who should get the vacationers at Club Gitmo.  Eventually, the bell is going to ring when someone’s holding it.

(7)  Paul Huebl took ten paragraphs; someone much older and wiser than myself compressed it to a sentence:  Every traffic stop by a white cop of a black suspect is a potential career and life ender for the cop.

(8)  It took a decade, but the U.S. House has finally passed a bill that disallows states and localities from creating sanctuary jurisdictions.  I agree, but it shouldn’t have taken this long.  If a majority white city in Mississippi with a sizeable black population passed an ordinance disallowing its city officials and cops from cooperating with the FBI on civil rights investigations that involve white perpetrators and black victims, the left wouldn’t have needed ten years.  The FBI would have rode cowboy into town and lassoed the city officials who passed the ordinance, and the U.S. Justice Department would draft charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice against said authorities.

(9)  Four suspects (of the usual variety) in a fatal robbery of an armored car guard in Tacoma, Washington dropped $175 at a nearby Red Lobster after the killings.  That figures to $43.75 a person.  How do you spend almost $44 a person at Red Lobster without driving half the shrimp species on Earth into extinction?  Otherwise, the only other possibilities are alcohol or a big tip, and they’re not exactly known for their gratuity towards service, if you know what I mean.

(10)  It has been just about six years since the mysterious disappearance of one Christian Ferguson in St. Louis.  He was 9 years old at the time, and would be 15 now.  The fact that the case involves a pre-teen and then eventually a teenage boy rings off a bunch of alarm bells in my head.  I’m thinking Devlin.

It went from its home in Kirkwood to Richwoods, Mo. to kidnap then 11-year old Shawn Hornbeck, and to Union, Mo. to snatch then 13-year old Ben Ownby.  So there’s no reason why it wouldn’t hoof it to the city to kidnap a boy; the only difference was that Ferguson was not riding a bike in a rural area.  Being as it is in a prison that is probably majority black, there is no way in hell that it would admit to kidnapping (and probably worse) to a black boy, if it did.

Question:  Why isn’t it dead yet?  Why have not we heard the good news after more than a year and a half as the guest of the state?  Why hasn’t some inmate who has a wee bit of honor among thieves stepped up to the plate and done the honorable thing, to save the taxpayers the cost of having to feed, house and care for it for life, and the Governor give a pardon or commutation to said inmate in earnest?  Are they keeping it stashed away in ad/seg until it admits to other kidnappings?  Such as Arlen Henderson who went missing from Lincoln County, Mo. in 1991, as he, like Hornbeck and Ownby, was riding his bike.  And perhaps Ferguson.

This Just Makes James Edwards’s Day

Memphis is the most violent crime-ridden major city in America.

Good Question

In the wake of recent crime waves at the hands of non-white mostly Muslim Australian immigrants against Indian students studying a Australian universities, the left wing of India’s body politic is asking a question that I and others have been asking rhetorically for some time.  If importing Indians is the way to make your country great, then why shouldn’t they stay in India and make India great?

The Indian left might not know any better, but we do — these are India’s intellectual elite getting the kinds of educations that they really could not in India.  The flip side of this coin, though, is that when it comes to Indian CSIT majors at American universities, they’re the prime source for corporations getting H-1B visa holder cheap labor.  It’s not that Microsoft, Google, et al. go to India to recruit such employees, because they don’t need to, they’re already here at the college level.  This is what frustrates me about Dick Durbin and his lame attempt to reform the H-1B program by mouthing off about not allowing companies to go overseas, because they don’t have to do that.  Ironically, the very few American H-1B visa holders who were recruited in their home countres are expensive labor whites, like Linus Torvalds, and “DVD Jon” Lech Johansen, who MP3.com and Linspire founder Michael Robertson bought over here not so much for work but to escape the political persecution wroght by Norway’s equivalent to the RIAA/MPAA copywrong extremists.  All Durbin’s proposal would do is to cut the whites out.

No More Polka Grammies

Because the same guy has won it year in and year out for almost as long as I’ve been alive.

Zoloft II, Especially Reformulated For Detroit.

CNS:  Senate Democratic Leader: ‘If I’m Fortunate, I Won’t Have To Read One’ of Sotomayor’s Judicial Opinions

From what I hear, there’s not much brain cell stimulation that comes from doing so.

Schlafly:  Phyllis Schlafly Warns About Obama’s Socialist Policies That Are to the Left of Chavez and Castro

And it’s not just Phyllis Schlafly saying that Obama’s policies are to the left of Chavez and Castro, it’s also Chavez and Castro saying that.

P-D:  Actor Danny Glover to rally for condemned killer

Hopefully he’ll be heckled and ridiculed by KFTK’s Dave Glover.

Bloomberg:  Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore

So he’ll take all his Indian workers back to India.

Politico:  Reid wants immigration bill this year

So that all those Hispanics can vote Democrat next year.

AP:  11 people charged in Detroit painkiller scam

If you’re going to peddle illicit drugs out of Detroit, it should be a Detroit-appropriate drug, like an anti-depressant.

Oooh, Cat Fight

Gillibrand’s Gone Lefty.  But Not Lefty Enough For Carloyn MaPhoney.

The goofball who would rather blame an inanimate object that the white-hating black bigot used to murder her husband rather than the black-hating white bigot himself wants to bash in Kirstin Gillibrand’s knees.  While KG has gone too left wing for me to vote for her if I lived in New York State, the thing I’m looking forward to is that she gets her bitch on, MaPhoney already playing that part well, and the two tear into each other with the full force of their claws and fangs.