This Is What Happens When You Tell People That They Matter

Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party (Partij Voor de Vrijheid, PVV) finished in second place, with 15% of the vote, in today’s European Parliament elections in The Netherlands.  They finished behind only the Christian Democrats, the country’s lamestream conservative party, which took 20%.  The Freedom Party’s 15% will get them four out of 25 Dutch seats in the EP.

The UK also voted today, and the outstanding showing for the PVV foretells of good news for the BNP.  Stay tuned.

Unlike elections for seats in the British Parliament, where the first place finisher gets the seat even if it’s not by a majority vote, “winner take all” in American parlance or “first past the post” in British, thereby deterring votes for parties other than Labor and Tory, the MEP elections are condusive to non-lamestream parties, so nobody has to fear about throwing away their vote.

UPDATE 6/5: The BNP has done well in the UK’s local elections, and have in fact won three county council seats so far, that position is indeed similar to the American elected office of the same name.  It won’t be until tomorrow how well the BNP did in the MEP vote.

UPDATE 6/8: BNP takes two MEP seats, one of which goes to party leader Nick Griffin himself.  These victories will mean that Griffin, Andrew Brons, who won the other BNP seat, and the BNP itself will receive £4 million ($6.3 million at today’s exchange rates) of EP salaries, expense accounts, and public financing for the BNP in aggregate per year over the next several years.

Right wing parties did well in other countries, many taking MEP seats.  Heck, Sweden’s Pirate Party (anti-copywrong extremism) got a seat.  Overall, lamestream conservative parties gained, lamestream liberal parties lost.

When it wasn’t throwing smears and pejoratives at the BNP as if it had become the Daily Worker all of a sudden, the Daily Mail, good Tory Party shills that they are, dismissed BNP wins as a “protest vote” against Labor and Gordon Brown.  This is a common canard trucked out by the lamestream media and body politic every time a right winger wins.  This was their reaction when Pat Buchanan either won or showed strong seconds in Republican primaries when he ran for President as a Republican in 1992 and 1996.  The trouble is, almost every British party save Labor gained votes.  Why aren’t those protest votes against Labor and its PM?  Hell, the GREEN PARTY doubled its MEP take compared to four years ago, and that’s not a protest vote?  Actually, that is, I guess that its gain could be explained by white left-wing voters who figured the Labor party as hopeless in these elections.  Even the UKIP, an aracial Euroskeptic party, finished ahead of Labor.  As it is, I think the British media pumped up the UKIP to preempt the BNP.  If not for that, the BNP might have won a lot more seats.  But the scheme didn’t preclude them from winning seats, thankfully.

Geert Wilders’s PVV wound up with 17% of the vote.

UPDATE 6/8: At least in the context of this vote, the BNP drew most of its blood from Labor.  If this is to be taken at face value, the Daily Mail can knock off its BNP playa’ hatin’, for whenever Gordon Brown finally accepts reality and calls for the elections which will see him lose his ass, one vote for the BNP will be one fewer vote for Labor, and in essence one vote for the Tories.  But I don’t take this at face value, because the political calculus might work for elections like the MEPs that are conducive to smaller parties but won’t work for the upcoming PM/MP elections where winner takes all, and therefore discourages non-large parties.  With LibLabCon flipping the BNP the bird in the last 24 hours with rude and hateful remarks, I get the feeling that a good percentage of BNP loyalist voters won’t vote, and those who might have fallen in line with either Labor or David Cameron will also tend to stay home.  The only exception is if there is a constituency where the BNP has a chance to be first past the post.

UPDATE 6/13: AR has had several posts about the BNP successes in the last week, and I have read some comments that reminded me of something that I totally forgot, and which might not portend well for the BNP growing much beyond what it is now.  What I’m about to say is going to seem alien to the American mind, but is the key to understanding the whole thing.

British societies, and by that, I mean the UK itself sans Northern Ireland, and also Australia, (not counting their racial minorities), are fanatically class-conscious.  There are extremely tight Berlin Wall type boundaries of persona, behavior, personality, attitudes, sociology and swagger between the various economic classes of British life.  Class mobility is extremely difficult; even if a working or middle class household wins the lottery, they rarely if ever move to the rich part of town, mainly because of the social ostracism they will face in their new neighborhoods; their staying where they are means they will remain in familiar and friendly class territory.  A rich person who loses their shirt would rather commit suicide or slum uptown than move to the middle or working class areas.

The BNP has typecast itself in the working class, and therefore, its glass ceiling is the numerical limits of the working class.  The UKIP came in second place, mainly because it was favored by middle class conservatives who want something more than Tory squeamishness.  Even if the establishment had not pumped up the UKIP to co-opt the BNP, the BNP would have still gotten just about the same number of votes that it did.  Without the UKIP,  those that voted for it probably would have settled for Tory, or stayed home.

The vitriol and hate directed toward the BNP from all the major political parties, Tory, Labor and LibDem, is just as much, if not more so, class contempt and jealousy and bigotry towards the white working class from the middle class and upper class, as it is political disagreement.

The only way out for the BNP is if it makes some sort of deal and patches things up with the UKIP, a joint party would be able to appeal to the voter-rich British middle class.  But I don’t think that can happen, mainly because of the contempt that the middle class and working class have toward each other.  Asking the Brits to overcome their classism would be like canceling a whole soccer season, but if they don’t, England is done for.

Proud Puerto Ricans, Who Happen Not to be In Puerto Rico

The South Bronx is coming to the defense of Sonie the Phony against charges of racism.

Originally, I was impressed with her life story.  I’m sorta backtracking on that.  While I still think it’s a good life story, and that it would have been really easy for her to default into the typical lifestyle of a typical South Bronx Hispanic woman, you do have to admit that her climb out of the ghetto and up to SCOTUS has been more like an affirmative action elevator.  If Sonia Sotomayor would have been born exactly as she was except white, male and in Beckley, West Virginia, he would have been at best a lifetime ambulance chaser.

Be of Good Cheer, Cape.

That Downtown Cape Girardeau has many vacant and run-down buildings is not unique to The Cape.  It’s happening to many medium size American towns that are along interstate highways.  After the interstate opens, the town builds out toward the interstate, and this empties out the town’s traditional and usually old and graceful downtown.  Sikeston is also suffering the same fate.

“Peaches” and “Pumpkin” Now Wear Hoosegow Orange In the Place Where They Used to be Guards

Heroin smuggling at the St. Louis City Justice Center.

48 and 54, and we still have kiddie nicknames.

Hussein Obama, WTF? Rush Limbaugh, WTF?

President Barack Hussein Obama II told the throng in Cairo, Egypt gathered to see him that one of the reasons his country is so horrible and the Muslim world is so superior is that there have already been several women heads of state of Muslim countries, unlike the United States of America.

WTF?  Does anybody even remember last year at this time?  It seems to me that we were about to get a woman President, but there was a really thick tinted glass ceiling above her head.

I just got done listening to today’s Rush Hudson Limbaugh III show, recorded on my CCWitness thigamajig, which, BTW, is now fifty clams cheaper than when I bought it late last year, damn it.  In his first hour, he was denouncing Hussein for all the “world order” globaloney he presented in his Cairo speech, and said that it meant the sacrifice of American sovereignty and liberty.

WTF?  Does anybody even remember the mid-to-late 1990s?  It seems to me that there were a lot of right wingers opposing “world order” globaloney because it would destroy American sovereignty and liberty, but a certain talk radio host were denouncing them as “kooks” and “nuts.”

Steve Cohen Has Discovered Freedom, All of a Sudden

And by “freedom,” he means the right of eighteen-year old men to play in the NBA.  Whether he will take the next step and extend this logic to rights actually found in the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and to the rights of the NBA to maintain some semblance of standards, remains to be seen.

Food Chain

Brian Williams < President Obama < King Aziz of Saudi Arabia

There Once Was a Judge Named Sonie, Who Showed to be a Big Phony. RIAA Calls for Help, So She Gives Them Thy Scalp. For MPAA to Say You Can’t Watch the Flick, She Gets a Big Kick. Why’s There No Napster? All I Say to Thee Is to Ask Her.

CNS:  Biden Defends Pace of Stimulus Spending

This sounds like the kind of speech that only a group of calculus teachers or accountants wouldn’t fall asleep in the middle of.

Wired:  High-Court Nominee Mirrors Industry Copyright Stance — Update

Sonia Sotomayor, RIAA Whore.  Hey, it rhymes.  Ironically, it could become a song :)
Slashdot:  GM’s Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company

If they would have done some creative marketing, Hugh Hefner might have purchased it.

LiveScience:  Half of All Friends Replaced Every 7 Years

Statistically speaking, you’ll have only the same 0.00024 friends you had at age 70 that you did at age 12.

WCBS-2 NYC:  Foiled Robber Begs For Mercy, Asks To Join Islam

You’re not winning my mercy like that.

CNS:  NASA Research Could Help Policymakers Restrict Carbon Emissions

Going out of the space exploration business, are we?

CNS:  I, Barack Obama

, the LORD thy God…

CNS:  Kerry Calls $819,848 Tax Lien a Clerical Error

I’m sure the accountants who made the error got a paper cut, and are therefore eligible to get a Purple Heart in Kerryville.

Paul Huebl:  A horrible Chicago News Story

Again with the redundancies.

P-D:  Investigators: 2 charged after dispute over shoes

It’s gotta be women.  No way that guys would go ballistic over shoes.

Steve Patterson:  The Future of a Tiny Vacant Lot on Cherokee Street

Parking for the taco trucks.

Buffalo News:  Horse and buggy chase ends in suspect’s arrest

Oh boy, imagine the pretty penny the guy’s gonna have to pay to get his horse and cart out of the impound lot.

The Morning Call (Lehigh Valley, Penn.):  Solehi to seniors: You snooze, you lose – School wants 17 students charged for camping out on campus as a prank.

Let ‘em go, that was probably their first good full night of sleep since they’ve been in high school.

KFVS:  Former inmate sentenced to five years for aggravated battery

Now he’s a former former inmate.

KSDK:  Maine topless coffee shop gutted by overnight fire

The city rejected the shop’s application to use temporarily an outdoor lot next to an elementary school.

KSDK:  Tax on soda, beer, wine widely opposed

There’s something for everyone of all ages to get mad about.

LiveScience:  Single Women Look Longer at Men

You would think the married women would look longer at men, to see what they could have had besides the crummy no-good loser they’re stuck with.

AP:  Obama visits Saudi king, finalizes speech

Make sure there are enough instances of “Allah u Akbar.”

AFP:  Anti-piracy pup sniffs out 35,000 illegal DVDs

The dog’s name is Paddy.  How does a Singaporean dog get an Irish name?

AP:  Sparks already flying in NJ governor’s race

Governor Corzine was racing some dude driving a souped-up Mustang along the NJ Turnpike, a wheel fell off of Corzine’s SUV, and the grinding of the wheels and the concrete produced sparks.  Is that what they mean?

Reuters:  Madoff sons have not spoken to parents: report

Neither Ma nor Pa Madoff can tell the kids where the secret booby hatch with a hundred million in cash and Bolivian citizenship papers is hidden, the fuzz has all their lines of communication tapped.

Reuters:  Public asked to help monitor life on earth

I look out my back yard, and see my neighbor’s dog blessing my dandelion garden.  Yep, I do think there is life on Earth.

WaPo:  Obama Willing to Consider Tax on Employer-Paid Health Benefits

WTF?  Did John McCain actually win that election but wound up spending too much time out in the Arizona sunshine?
Reuters:  Class hanging has authorities seeing red

School officials are mum, apparently hoping that in the minds of others, no noose is good noose.

Reuters:  Burn armed robbers, says Guinea crime chief

St. Louis would be ablaze all summer every summer.

When a Landlord Comes Along, You Must Whip ‘Em. You Won’t Get a Vote, Unless You Whip ‘Em.

Edwardsville now wants landlords to register with the city.  Officially, the reason is that the city can contact landlords in the event of an emergency.  I think the real reason is that in Edwardsville, and many other places, such as the major city of which Edwardsville is a suburb, landlords are convenient and politically risk-free whipping boys for the problems created by their tenants of a certain hue.

Leave Bo Alone. Go After B.O.

Why all this media playa hatin’ on Bo just because he went after a reporter’s camera?  FGS, he’s a Portuguese Water Spaniel, that’s what he was bred to do.  They’re supposed to chase after and retrieve small to medium sized items and bring or return them to their masters.

Who Knew That Two Atlantans Could Endorse Something So Stupid?

Washington Times:

New Zealand rated most peaceful, U.S. 83rd

Americans pining for a peaceful existence might consider moving to New Zealand, the most peaceful nation on Earth, according to the 2009 Global Peace Index released Tuesday by an Australian-based research group that counts former President Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner and the Dalai Lama among its endorsers.

The U.S. is 83rd on the roster, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace that rated the relative tranquility of 144 nationsaccording to 23 “indicators” – including gun sales, the number of homicides, the size of the military, the potential for terrorism and the number of people in jail.

(snip)

After New Zealand, the top 10 most peaceful nations are Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Austria, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Finland and Slovenia. In the bottom 10 are Zimbabwe, Russia, Pakistan, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Israel, Somalia, Afghanistan and, in last place, Iraq.

Traditional U.S. allies generally fared well on the list: Germany is at 16, Australia at 19, Spain (28), South Korea (33), Britain (35) and Italy (36).

Libya, Nicaragua, Jordan, Cuba, China, Peru and Ukraine all are rated more peaceful than the United States. Rwanda is rated 86, Syria 92, Iran 99 and Mexico 108.

(snip)

“Peace is a concrete aim that can be measured and valued, not just in social terms but in economic terms. There is a clear correlation between the economic crisis and the decline in peace,” Mr. McConaghy continued, adding that peace tends to promote productivity and trade.

(snip)

“Although the United States saw an increase in ranking despite the economic crisis, some factors – such as the ease of access to weapons, a large prison population and ongoing combat deaths – prevented it from ranking higher this year,” Mr. Abruzzese said.

An group of Australian libkooks bolstered by Jimmah, Ted Fonda and the Dolly Llama prefer New Zealand to the United States?  What a surprise.

You, 2nd Amendment advocate, don’t need me to refute the notion of “gun sales” and “the ease of access to weapons” as a hindrance to peace.  I will say that it is not a surprise that Australians, either on the right or the left, think that way.  The reason is that Australia does not have the history or tradition of a firearms culture as does the United States.  The reasons are twofold:  (1)  Australia was founded as a British penal colony.  Its “inhabitants” were therefore considered prisoners and obviously denied gun rights.  (2)  As an indigenous population, the Abos, unlike the Amerindian tribes, put up virtually no fight.  Therefore, there was no great need or desire to arm Australians even after it lived down its reputation as a prison continent.  Even today, there is lingering hostility to firearms and lingering sympathy to criminal behavior among Australian whites for that very reason, because they’re rowdier and more boisterous than, say, Swedes or Americans.  It’s not so bad as to make Australia unlivable, though; it has the highest average standard of living in the Pacific Rim.

You also don’t need me to refute “number of people in jail” and “size of the military” as antithetical to peace.

As such, this is why the study comes to such stupid and blatantly untrue conclusions, such as the list of countries that are considered to be more peaceful than The Good Ole.

Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever!!! (In Europe, Among Plants)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution:  Feds rip Georgia voter system

Not allowing dead cats to vote eight times in one day all for Democrats amounts to discrimination.

P-D:  Blagojevich’s wife eats tarantula for kids

One of the kids gets up and yells, “You Cannibal!!!”

P-D:  Republican enters St. Louis County executive race

The last time a Republican won St. Louis County Executive, record stores still sold actual records, the Soviet Union was still a threat, air bags in cars were unheard of, the internet was something you accessed in text mode from university computers, a black man in the White House was unfathomable, the concept of GM going bankrupt was unfathomable, a can of vegetables costs more than a gallon of gas, and Tom Cruise was a sane clean-cut All American boy.

KSDK:  Two men charged in High Ridge deadly crash

Damn those hoosiers in Metherson County, err……..

Salt Lake Tribune:  Dad accused of growing marijuana with son

Couldn’t these charges have waited until after Father’s Day?

USNAWR:  Two Republican Moderates in Senate Worry About Future of GOP

Really?  You Are?  Then look in the mirror to find the problem.  Then again, Olympia Snowe, don’t.  I’m worried about the future of your nearest mirror.

AP:  Segregation needed for gene crops in Europe: scientists

Just call them the Jean-Phillipe Crow Laws.

Reuters:  China puts a stop to snake-bitten cock-in-a-pot

No way.  It was about to be come the signature meal in every gay bar on Earth, or the worst nightmare of every guy that has to take a dump.

Birds of a Feather

* Hated the efforts of the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

* Was born Carlos Bledsoe, and is currently 23 years old.

* Wanted to kill as many people associated with the U.S. Armed Forces as he possibly could.

* Studied Islam in Yemen, and had just returned to the U.S. from there.

* The G-Men had him on their watch list.  Like, Duh.

My theories and thoughts:

Since he’s 23, he’s old enough to have done a stint in prison.  So I’m guessing from the fact that he changed his name from an English one to an Arabic one as a young black man in America that he is a hoosegow convert to Islam, his prison Imams whooped him up into a frenzy of hate (which isn’t hard to do, considering who you’re dealing with), and therefore convincing him to get trained and ultimately kill the infidel/crusader/cracker/honkey was not a hard sell, AQ et al. paid his freight to Yemen, and they paid his way back when they thought he was ready to strike.  Why was he allowed to return to the country if everyone knew that he was up to no good?  I’m also hazarding a guess that AQ expected him to do a lot more damage than he ultimately did, which is what happens when you rely on the most impulsive, impatient and impetulent race/gender/age combination on Earth.

At the time of this writing, there was nothing on the DOJ website about this, but they did find the time and space to put something up about how evil it was to kill the Hole Driller of Wichita.  Nothing on the White House website, either, but of course there would be no condemnation of an anti-military hate crime on the part of a black Muslim, not by this President.  Birds of a feather…

I find it ironic that this took place at an Army-Navy recruiting office in Little Rock.  Those are the two branches of the Armed Forces least involved in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Army isn’t being used that much because it was found to be so incompetent; coincidentally and ironic considering what happened in Little Rock, it’s the blackest branch of the Armed Forces.   The Navy obviously can’t conquer and occupy a foreign country on the ground, its part on the War on Terror is tangential.

Reading Material:  KATV-ABC-7 Little Rock;  ABC News;  Jihad Watch

UPDATE 6/10: The former Mr. Bledose all but admitted that enmity was a motive, so much so that hate crimes riders could be added.

Bartender With Irish Name Gets Murdered While Working at a Downtown St. Louis Bar With an Irish Name — I’m Guessing Not By Irishmen

The police aren’t giving a description of the suspects, but I don’t think they need to.

It is said that the bartender didn’t have a gun with him at work.  First off, CCW permit or not, you can’t carry into an establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, even if you don’t drink, that’s in Missouri’s CCW law.  Second, the Post-Dispatch would moan and whine and bitch if reversing this gains steam in the General Assembly, even if they put in the provision that you can’t drink while you’re carrying.  Third, the victim lived in Lafayette Square, so I’m guessing yuppie lib — the good progressive wouldn’t pack heat anyway even if he could.

A couple of more incidents like this, and all the yuppie gentrification of certain St. Louis City neighborhoods makes a sudden reversal.  It has already stopped because of the bad economy.

UPDATE 6/12: Inside job.  The inside jobber was an East St. Louisan who had worked at Maggie O’s for a decade.

Not Convinced Yet

Noted Feminist Scholar Sharon Begley writes in Newsweek this week that there is virtually no gender gap between men and women in mathematical ability, save at the highest extremes of the science.  She tries to explain away the gap by noting that there is a strong correlation between the gender gap of a country’s math students and the general tenor of gender equality in said country, as defined by feminists.

I don’t doubt that that part is true, but her causation might be wrong, or it might not be.  Just as likely as Begley’s notions that a more equal country foists no stereotypes on girls and women studying math, is that the more feminist-friendly a country, the more anti-male is its education system and pedagogic philsophy.  Or, to put it another way, it’s the Christina Hoff Sommers theory that feminism in power doesn’t unshackle girls and women, it shackles boys and men.

To find the ultimate answer, we would need to examine the gender gap among non-white American students.  Begley does say that there is a 2-to-1 gender gap among white American K-12 students who score in the 99th Percentile in math.  However, she does say that there is hardly any gender gap among Asian-American K-12ers who are 99%ile in math.  They both live under the same gender repression, at least “gender oppression” in the opinion of Miss Begley.  How can there be a gap in one race and not a gap in the other?  I would like to see the sane numbers among black and Hispanic American students, however, there might not be enough of those who place in the 99th Percentile in math to be able to tell.

The other pressing problem is this — a gap of what?  If, among a certain racial category, the men score 90 and the women score 70, that’s a big gap.  But if among another, the men score 52 and the women score 51, there is only a slight gap.  But both are lower than 70.  I think Miss Begley only seems to care about equality itself, and not excellece overall.  Equality or quality, your choice.

No, Not That Number Two

The team that loses the Super Bowl gets no Lombardi Trophy.  The second place finisher in the Presidential Election has no power.  But finishing in second place in the Murder Rate Bowl still means you have a dangerous and unstable city.

But The Boat Is Still Sinking

British Home Secretary Jacqui Burqua, the antagonist in the Michael Savage affair, has stepped down from her cabinet post.  I don’t know whether she is also going to resign from her seat in Parliament.  Remember, in the Westminster System, the Prime Minister is the head of state, but he is also a legislative creature, i.e. s/he is a Member of Parliament from one of the many constituencies (districts) in the UK.  His/her cabinet secretaries are mostly also MPs, if not all MPs.  This is also the case for the leader of the opposition, i.e. usually the leader of the party in Parliament that does not have a majority.  The opposition leader also appoints “shadow” cabinet secretaries from the Members of Parliament of his own party, i.e. experts in the given field that provide alternate and opposing viewpoints from their majority party counterparts.  They are presumed to become the requisite cabinet secretaries should the minority party win the majority, their opposition leader becoming Prime Minister.  It is a little similar to the Chairman/Ranking leadership of U.S. House and Senate committees, though since the U.S. Constitution demands the separation of powers, those are only relating to the business of Congress, and not the Executive Branch, the President, or any of his/her hand-picked Cabinet secretaries.  The only real link is when a President chooses someone for his/her Cabinet, the nominiee will start the Senate confirmation process in the committee most relevant to his or her pontential Cabinet position, i.e. for Sec. of Defense will start in the Senate Armed Services Committee, for AG starts in the Judiciary Committee, and so on.

Miss Burqua’s resignation is said to be in advance of Gordon Brown’s reshuffing of the cabinet.  Isn’t that like rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs at about 1 in the morning on April 14?

A Ram?

That’s the bzzt bzzt bzzt.  If it happens, watch for there to be daily protests and vigils outside The Ed.  Which would be so wonderful, to show the world that St. Louisans seem to care about a dead dog more than a dead white woman.  Does anybody remember Susan Gutweiler?  A few more people might recall off the back of their heads that Leonard Little had something to do with it.  You watch, most of those protesters will be white women.

BTW, the Rams are now on the market.  Don’t fall for the propaganda that they need you to buy them a new stadium or they’ll move.  To where?  The gossip seems to be back to L.A., but there’s a reason why L.A. lost their two teams in 1995 and haven’t gotten one back since, in spite of massive league pressure.  It’s because football really does appeal to the average Angelino, if it’s the kind where the ball is round.  Hispanics don’t much like the football of the oblong ball variety.  The Rams are going to be in St. Louis and the building currently known as the Edward Jones Dome for a long time to come.

What’s Good For GM Is Better For America

They have far more many dollars of liabilities than assets, and absolutely no hope of turning a profit in the foreseeable future.

Oh, wait.  You thought I was talking about GM.  I meant the institution that’s about to own 60% of GM.

It looks like the Wentzville plant is going to make it.  Their diamond in the rough is that they’re the only plant that makes Chevy/GMC full size vans, which sell well among businesses.  Give it some time, though, until the Obamaenvirohippies start demanding that plumbers and rug cleaners start cram jamming into Priuses.  When Wentzville closes, St. Louis will then manufacture no automobiles.  At late as the start of this decade, St. Louis was sort of a runner-up Detroit, having a GM, a Ford and two Chrysler plants.

The Wheels Are Truly Coming Off These Headlines

Reuters:  Car loses all four wheels on highway

Was it made by the same car company that just lost all four wheels?

KFVS:  Poplar Bluff students raise money to build well in Kenya

I wonder what could have driven their decision to focus their attention on Kenya :O(bama)

P-D:  Black drivers continue to be arrested more than expected

Black drivers continue to tend toward the criminal just as expected.

AP:  AP Exclusive: Blago talked to Durbin about Senate

Taking about the U.S. Senate than a sitting U.S. Senator?  I wouldn’t be so quick to tag that as an exclusive.

Daily Herald (Suburban Chicagograd):  Chicago has 7 shooting deaths in 24 hours

Summer has officially arrived.

AP:  UK singing star Susan Boyle suffering exhaustion

She was just beat.

AP:  Italy: 1st wedding held at Juliet’s presumed house

Did the newlyweds even go to high school?  The first marriage held at that house didn’t end well.

The Obama Economy

Background checks for conceal carry applicants, and presumably the number of CCW permits issued, were way higher in 2008 compared to 2007 in all Missouri counties that comprise the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.  And they’re probably going to be even higher in 2009.  Warren County already has 135 for almost the first five months of this year, compared to 43 for all of last year.

The reasons cited by the Post are the state of the economy, and potential Obamaite gun grabbing.  I think both reasons are right, but they both also have racial undertones.

While there are a lot of promising studies about the crime deterrent effects of CCW, there need to be a lot more permit holders and a lot more heat packing for it to become the whiz-bang (no pun intended) deterrent that it can and should be.  What I hope happens in the coming years is that many many thousands of non-felonious adult black men and women (believe it or not, they are the majority of the black population) get permits and start packing.  That way, the crime rate brought on by the usual suspects will go way down.