(1) On Thursday night, I officially became a sheeple. I joined the herd and started a Twitter account. The main reason I did was to be able to link this blog’s feed to Twitter, which will perhaps draw me a few more eyeballs. In the process, I found out that some of the news sources I read regularly and do not push RSS feeds are on Twitter, so I follow those. It saves me from having to visit those websites in my browser on a daily basis.
One of the Twitterers I follow is named Dana Loesch, a young woman about my age who has a show on 97.1 FM talk station in St. Louis. She spearheads the St. Louis tea party movement. On the evening that I started using Twitter, she pushed out a couple of tweets that the insurance company that insures the St. Louis tea party public events pulled the rug right out from under them. She eventually found a new insurer, just in the nick of time to hold the Tea Party on Saturday. She also found out that the driving force was the insurance company’s reinsurer. That got her (and me) to thinking — Obama? AIG? Was this all a last minute attempt on the part of the Obamanuts to stop the July 4 tea parties? As it turns out, this happened to tea party organizers in a couple of other cities. Obviously, the tea parties need insurance, because it’s now way too big a target, and it’s only a matter of time until some libkook/Marxist/anarchist/provocateur comes to one of the tea parties and stirs up shit. Sans insurance, the tea party organizers would be liable personally, and could lose their shirts.
(2) A cousin of mine back in St. Louis e-mailed me and said that he was watching some credible news source on Thursday night, which said that when Elvis Presley left this world a few months after I came into it, the news of his death didn’t happen on the Walter Kronkite-anchored CBS Evening News until 17 minutes after the beginning. Contrast to Michael Jackson, which was the MSM wall-to-wall story at the end of last week; I’m sure that there was no more than 5 minutes of real news on Gibson, Couric and Williams combined, plus the non-Fox cable gabbers. Can anyone confirm the source of this Elvis contention, and the veracity of it?
(3) A Chicago P.D. blogger named “Second City Cop” notices that assaults on CPD officers by black thugs are not only happening more frequently, but are also “more brazen lately.” Hmm, I wonder if the election of a black Chicagoan as President has anything to do with it.
(4) The UK’s crime rate is worse than America’s and worse than South Africa’s — the only reason it didn’t seem that way up until now is that the Blair/Brown Labor Party governments have been whitewashing crime stats.
Will this now end patronizing holier-than-thou British and European liberal know-it-all from lecturing the United States of America? England is nowhere near as non-white as the United States, but already has a higher crime rate. Imagine how bad it will be once England gets to where America is now, 1/3 non-white.
So much for gun control.
UPDATE: BNP disputes, speculating that these stats are Tory election year propaganda.
(5) Shades of Ricci: Florida Supremes knock back Gov. Charlie Sotomayor Crist’s rejection of a recommended list of Florida Appeals Court nominees. Crist rejected the list because it was too white, FL Supremes say you can’t do that.
The Florida Supreme Court is notable because one of its members is Charles Canady. Canady was a Congressman from Florida through the first several years of the “Republican Revolution,” and he foolishly believed that Nut Gingrich was actually conservative. When Canady tried to eliminate Federal government affirmative action mandates, Gingrich rebuked him over and over again. Canady got so disgusted that he quit the House in disgust. Now, he’s on the Florida Supreme Court, where at least in the context of this ruling, he got his sweet payback. Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it, Charlie?
I hope the Democrats nominate a black man or woman for Senate in 2010. This will put Crist in the world’s worst Catch-22.
(6) The Gillibrand vs Maloney “fight” in New York State pits the Obamas vs the Clintons, respectively. And, like last year, I think the Obamas will come out on the winning side of that next year.
(7) Lori Drew went to Federal district court in Los Angeles, expecting to be sentenced to a stint in Club Fed. Instead, the judge did freedom a big favor, and nullified her conviction, opining that if Lori Drew broke Federal law, then “everyone who has ever violated a website’s rules would” have also.
(8) The Obama administration is inadvertently doing freedom a big favor, and attaching net neutrality mandates to rural broadband access plans. Now it can go one step further and ban broadband caps.
(9) When the U.S. Armed Forces could not find evidence of Saddam Hussein ever having WMDs, I thought that Saddam had them moved out of Iraq in advance of the invasion, and that the Pentagon and CIA wasn’t telling the truth, because telling the truth would have been really embarrassing, so much so that they promulgated the notion that Saddam never had them. As it turns out, Saddam never really had them, and only huffed and puffed and bluffed about having them to stave off Iran. That said, it’s another reason why we should have never gone into Iraq. Didn’t any of the six-figure salary Pentagon/CIA geniuses consider the possibility that Saddam was bluffing before we went in?
(10) The U.S. is telling Russia to get over the Cold War? Now there’s the pot calling the kettle black. Not one of the six-figure salary foreign policy geniuses at State has ever considered the option of bringing Russia in to a nuclear missile defense shield, not isolating them from it.
(11) Someone should tell Michael Bloomberg to get over the War Between the States. There hasn’t been this much interference by New York City into the internal affairs of the state of Virginia since 1865.
(12) There are so many Colombian inmates at the D.C. city jail that have real links to drug gangs and rebel groups that the city is asking the Feds for reimbursement and extra security. Yeah, they have a real problem on their hands; all they can do now is dream about the good ole days when the jail’s inmates were all domestic blacks.
