A San Franciscan Named Jones

NewsBusters busts President Obama’s “green czar,” Van Jones, and his younger years in SF.  Among the curiosities of his past, Jones “started a pretty radical, kind of communist, socialist, utopian group that was supposed to end all racism though central planning.”

I can think of another San Franciscan named Jones who “started a pretty radical, kind of communist, socialist, utopian group that was supposed to end all racism though central planning.”  It didn’t end well; perhaps this Mr. Jones was too young to hop that plane to Guyana.

It Might Be Hard to Find — But the New York Times Told the Truth

The unemployment rate of African-Americans in New York City is increasing four times as much as it is among New York City’s whites.  While the black unemployment rate is rising faster than whites all across the country, the acceleration is acutely high in Gotham.

Buried in the second half of the article:

Government jobs had also become a prime source of solid, stable work for many blacks in the city, he added. But lately there have been cutbacks there, too, as falling tax revenue has forced the paring back of budgets.

James Parrott, the chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group, pointed out that employment with the Postal Service in the city has declined by about 2,000 jobs, many of which were held by blacks.

Most of the non-government black increase in unemployment I think can be explained by two reasons that have also contributed to white unemployment increases:  Outsourcing and mass Hispanic cheap labor immigration.

Read, Read, Read, Read, Ready to Run

Houston Chronicle:  Suspected drug boss ‘taunting’ feds – Fugitive wanted here is living the good life in Mexico, authorities say

All he needed to make were about three sales in order to have enough money to afford the Mexican good life.

UK Telegraph:  Muslim who justified killing British troops back at Treasury

I’m sure his hate earned him a promotion.

UK Telegraph:  New era of council [public--ed.] house-building proposed by [Tory Party]

I have a better idea — reduce the demand for public housing.

San Francisco Chronicle:  Tiburon may install license plate cameras

Let me translate this for you:  Hypocrite white liberals don’t want any of San Francisco’s diversity.

New York Post:  CITY’S $5.5M PAYOUT TO INJURED CRACKHEAD

That $5.5 million is going to buy a lot of crack.

P-D:  Obama makes Arch project, Metro East connection, a “priority” — sets 2015 deadline, will “move heaven and earth” to finish sooner

Now he’s interested in the St. Louis Arch.  According to himself, he never even saw the Arch with his own eyes until a few days after he won the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate in the state that is directly east of said Arch.

UK Independent:  Student hoax wins magazine’s top prize

Egg on my face:  I said that Jayson Blair would never get another journalism job ever again.

CNS:  Zogby Poll: Most Americans Want Strengths and Weaknesses of Darwinism Taught In Schools

I can start out with a weakness — how does one “evolve” wings?

P-D:  On All-Star eve, McKenna says he regrets McGwire Highway

Yeah and I bet about 175,000 Jefferson Countians are regretting their State Senator.

WSJ:  What Detroit Can Learn From Silicon Valley

I don’t want Detroit to learn anything from H-1B Valley.

New York Post:  CORZINE CONSIDERS ‘APPRENTICE’ WINNER FOR RUNNING MATE

If you’re gonna run with Jon Corzine, you’re not just gonna run, you’re gonna fly.

Take Two:  New York Post:  CORZINE CONSIDERS ‘APPRENTICE’ WINNER FOR RUNNING MATE

Funny, because it just might be Jon Corzine being told “you’re fired” this November.

Alex Jones:  Egypt Calls for Establishing New World Order to Overcome Crises

The last time Egypt ran the world, the Jews were none too happy.

P-D:  Shannon bash caps big day downtown

Mike Shannon is 70 now?  Hell, he sounds like he’s been 70 for the last twenty years.

KSDK:  Lake Saint Louis in top 10 of “Best Places to Live” list

Not for long.  I never remember any place that’s chosen as the “best place to live” ever repeating on that list.  Wonder why.

AP:  Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for first time

I was alive when the national debt went over $1 trillion, and I’m not old.  That’s the scary part.

AP:  Sotomayor vows impartiality if confirmed to court

Don’t get your hopes up.  Remember everything we were promised about the man she is replacing?

LiveScience:  Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds

As we speak, cats are starting a website called LOLhumans.

AP:  NAACP to use latest technology to fight racism

Sorry, guys.  Retro chrome spinning wheels and a 1000-watt subwoofer aren’t technology, they’re tacky.

News-a-Rama:  Review: 3′s [Almost] the Charm in Latest ‘Ice Age’ Entry

Enjoy it while you can, because Scrat might not be in IA4.  You see, Scrat and Fox Studios are in a contract dispute; they pay him in acorns.

Community

New York Times blames the lack of community for young Somalian-American men, mainly from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, for their penchant to return to Somalia to join the Jihad.

It seems to me that all they’re doing is returning to the “community” they need so much.  Also, the Times admits that there are whole sections of MSTP that have turned into Somalian neighborhoods nicknamed “Little Mogadishu.”

Emmanuel Cleaver, America’s Newest Segregationist

A coalition of conservative Republicans and conservative-to-moderate Democrats in the House approved an amendment in the House Financial Services Committee that would prohibit public housing authorities that place tenants in Federally-subsided housing, public housing or Section 8, from prohibiting said tenants from owning firearms while living in such housing, as long as the firearms were acquired legally.  To untangle the double negative, 2nd Amendment rights don’t end at the public housing door.

Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5) expressed his opposition to this amendment, and therefore restricting the 2nd Amendment rights of public housing tenants:

“There was a time during the ’70s and ’80s when public housing developments were considered killing grounds,” said Emanuel Cleaver II , D-Mo., who grew up in public housing. “It is just foolhardy to place guns in developments of poor people, many of whom are unemployed, and place these guns around children. . . . Why would we try to put guns in the most densely populated areas in the urban core? It’s just unbelievable.”

I bought my first shotgun when I was a few days past turning 18, and my first handgun a few months before turning 22.  And I didn’t have all the money in the world.  I guess Beaver Cleaver thinks I’m a problem.

However, I don’t think he does.  All this flowery language of his is merely a circumlocution around race.  He might have been glad to know that the Jim Crow-era South did just what he wanted, i.e. to make it almost impossible for blacks to own firearms legally.  Of course, the segregationist system is something that Cleaver and people like him just couldn’t wait to dismantle.  Following that, I have argued on this medium many times that blacks in charge of other blacks wind up implementing most of the segregationist system, under different names and pseudonyms.

However, as much of a bigot as I am, I’m not willing to go that far.  I think the felon prohibition is quite adequate.  For gun ownership and conceal carry to reach its true potential as a crime deterrent, far many more non-criminal black adults are going to have to exercise such rights and privileges.

Question:  What is it about denizens of government housing in big cities that make guns behave so badly?

In related news:

Several Democrats also backed a separate Price amendment that would require anyone applying for Section 8 rent vouchers to produce a biometric ID card, such as a passport or other identification approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The committee adopted the amendment, 37-31.

Opponents of the amendment argued that the measure, if intended to weed out illegal immigrants, was redundant, as they are already prohibited from receiving public housing assistance.

“This just hurts Americans,” said Baca, who said the measure would likely keep those who cannot afford to pay for such identification, such as the chronically poor and homeless, or the eligible relatives of uncooperative applicants, from getting the public subsidy vouchers.

Lee Baca (who was on the right side of the gun issue) doesn’t realize that illegal aliens aren’t supposed to have jobs or vote, but they do anyway.  Why are we to assume that they don’t get public housing or Section 8?  I don’t know this for sure, but I’m almost certain that Baca has benefit from the votes of illegal aliens.

The Wheels of Justice Already Turn Slowly Enough

P-D:

Jay Nixon vetoes public defender bill

JEFFERSON CITY — Legislation setting maximum caseloads for public defenders wouldn’t solve the overburdened system’s problems, Gov. Jay Nixon said today.

Nixon vetoed the bill (SB37), along with more than a dozen others. The actions wrapped up his decisions on legislation passed this year by the Missouri General Assembly.

The public defender bill, sponsored by Sen. Jack Goodman, R-Mt. Vernon, would have allowed the state to contract with private attorneys to handle cases that exceeded a new maximum. If money ran short, a waiting list would have been established for indigent defendants needing a lawyer.

Nixon said the bill would have given the Public Defender Commission “too much unfettered discretion” to set caseload limits and would have shifted responsibility for managing the public defender docket to trial courts. He promised to work to find more money for the system instead.

I can’t say that the opinion I’m about to give is fully informed and credible, but at first glance, I think Nixon did the right thing.  If we start allowing long waiting lists to get PDs, especially in black-heavy jurisdictions like St. Louis City and Jackson County, then judges will start dismissing the criminal charges against them summarily because of the lack of a speedy trial and of a lack of a defense attorney.

The wheels of justice might turn slowly, but better that than their stopping.

Britain’s Home Office Discovers: Our Diversity Isn’t Our Strength

They have prepared a crime map showing the most dangerous and violent parts of England and Wales.  Just like St. Louis’s crime map, I can will imagine that the England/Wales crime map and a map of the concentration of certain “diverse” minorities will line up quite well.