JZ, CJC Hearts AQ

Jihad Watch:  Chairman of Joint Chiefs seeks new ways to woo Muslims

Woo?  I thought he said “kill.”

John Lott:  Congressman Charlie Rangel left off half of his net worth from financial disclosure forms

But was totally honest about his nut worth.

Steve Sailer:  America needs college football in NYC and DC

Oh goody, that’s just what Florida needs is two more powder puffs on the schedule like Southeastern Washington D.C. University and Upper Brooklyn State.

P-D:  St. Louis remains Nielsen’s 21st largest TV market

Civic Progress’s motto:  “We still haven’t sunk to 30th.”

NYP:  JAY-Z TO HOLD SEPT. 11 BENEFIT CONCERT

Just in time, too:  Al Qaeda is running short on money and needs the cash infusion.

NYP:  Chris Brown: I Don’t Remember Hitting Rihanna

So every time you go up on Cloud Nine you turn a woman’s face into a pepperoni pizza?

CNS:  Retired NBA Star Claims Racial Bias in Reckless Manslaughter Conviction

I believe him — It’s physically impossible for black men to commit felonies.

CNS:  While on Vacation, Obama’s Approval Rating Dropped to All-Time Low, Says Gallup Poll

It should actually go up — If he’s on vacation, he can’t be screwing up the country from the Oval Office.

LoS:  Communist China cites SPLC for fighting “injustice”

There’s an idea, Morris:  Move to China, where there there is no injustice, racism, xenophobia or pollution.

KSDK:  33 arrested during Operation A.R.R.E.S.T.

Almost that many will go free during Operation B.A.I.L.

Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  An 11-year old Jewish girl from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn was assaulted this past Tuesday by three black boys.  While they were attacking her, they yelled out phrases like “Dumb Jew Bitch” and “Why are you in this world?“  I have said it once before on this medium, so I don’t need to say it again.  Some anti-Semitisms are more equal than others.

(2)  The Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, the country’s largest quasi-public private bank, was a victim of ID theft.  And I’m sitting here practically butt naked without a punchline.

(3)  Some are asking:  Why does Missouri’s new anti-texting-while-driving law only apply to people under the age of 22?  Answer:  Almost all politicians are over 22; can’t interfere with their TWD.  45-year old business executives that TWD also tend to vote.

(4)  NAACP complaining that MoDOT projects funded by porkulus money isn’t hiring enough blacks.  Then again, rural Missouri outside of the Delta really doesn’t have any blacks.

(5)  MSFT is mucking it up on K Street in order to marginalize GOOG.  That they are conducting their anti-GOOG campaign from Washington, D.C. instead of Washington State is probably a clue that they’re going to use political tricks rather than coding prowess to pull it off.

(6)  Naomi Campbell, a “black” (i.e. at least 75% white by genetics) model, is complaining that companies that have a lot of use for models aren’t using black models like they have in the past, due to the recession.  All I can say is that recessions do have a way of squeezing inefficiencies out of the market :)

(7)  Banking Queen Hearts Ron Paul.  Not in the way that the Banking Queen usually hearts other guys.

(8)  They Didn’t Start the Fire:  Many wild fires set in national forests and parks recently have been done at the hands of Hispanic drug gangs to create diversions to their trafficking.  The U.S. Forest Service has chosen the environment over race, and this has the open borders lobby up in arms.  I wonder which side the Sierra Club, an “environmentalist” organization, is going to take.  Actually, I don’t need to wonder.  That nine-figure donation says it all.

(9)

The cop is right.  It ain’t America no more.  It’s Zimbabwe.

(10)  Guess who was right in the middle of fake CNN footage during Gulf War I?  Yep, good ole Charles Jaco, stifler of food donations everywhere.

(11)  Shorpy has 1865 photos of the remnants of the CSS Virginia in enemy hands.

(12)  Lori Drew is now off the Federal sling completely.  The next thing we need to find out is why Megan Meier’s parents let her run loose on the internet.  If I were the parent of a 13-year old boy or girl, all their internet traffic would be logged and I would be reading it, on top of their not having their own private computer.

NAACP, SLPD Open Joint Civil Rights Investigation

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (FNN) — The St. Louis Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of What Used to Be an Acceptable Term for Black People 40 Years Ago and the St. Louis City Police Department have joined forces to carry out an investigation to see if certain activities in the City of St. Louis violate Federal or State civil rights laws.

In a joint press conference the Eat-Rite Choke & Puke on the corner of Chouteau Ave. and 7th St., SLPD Chief Dan Isotope and St. Louis NAACP President Ben Dover said that murders in the city disproportionately affected one subset of people.

“Almost all the murder victims in St. Louis for the past three years have been either one of two things — An aspiring rapper, or an asipiring pro athlete.  If it were only half the murder victims, then we would not be suspicious, the usual mehe of an urban area.  However, the trend of holes being made into asipiring rappers and pro athletes is noxiously suspicious,” Dover said.

Chief Isotope reiterated statistics gathered by researchers at Saltandpepperdine University in East St. Louis, Ill., that show that while 80% of St. Louis City’s black teenagers and adults between the ages of 14 and 24 are aspiring rappers and pro athletes, they comprise 97% of the city’s murder victims since the beginning of 2007.  The Chief also added that hardly anybody that is actually of a profession is murdered in St. Louis, only those aspiring to do something.  “Why must my city’s criminals only kill people who are thinking about doing something rather than actually doing something?”

Dover ended the press conference with remedies that the NAACP will seek.  Among them are that the U.S. Justice Department force aspiring nuclear physicists, aspiring gay porn actors, hip-hop artist Lil’ Eazy E and perpetual NFL malcontent Jeremy Shockey to loiter around the corner of 20th and Penrose in north St. Louis City after dark, holding rolls of $100 bills out on the open and wearing multiple gold chains around their necks, until they are murdered.

“That would increase the self-esteems of aspiring rappers and athletes in St. Louis, to know that they’re not the only ones that get smoked around here,” said Dover.

You Shall Not Discriminate Against a Bottle of Whiskey For the Color Of Its Label.

CNN:  Kennedy remembered as an advocate for all

Hard liquors.

McPaper:  Students’ take-home assignment: Census kits

Here’s the better headline:  In an effort to save money, the U.S. Census Bureau has hired your kids for no pay.

Slashdot:  “Violent” Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela

Damn, and Rockstar was about to make a fortune on Grand Theft Auto:  Overthrow Hugo Chavez.

CNS:  ‘Condom Olympics’ at Miss Universe Pageant Blasted by Women’s Groups

Why?  Don’t they want to see which guy needs the biggest condom?

John Lott:  Democrats endanger individual privacy

Now that’s a pretty broad-brushed statement.  Democrats do support the privacy rights of Muslim terrorists.

P-D:  Education Secretary Arne Duncan lauds St. Louis union-district partnership

That’s about the only thing that he can laud about the SLPS.

NPI:  Harvard University Divinity School Scholar Advances Aztlan Territorial Claims

It’s easy to advocate for Aztlan from Boston.

Jihad Watch:  Toronto jihadist: “I am not a lunatic”

Meaning that he believes that shit with a sane brain.  That’s not one point for him.

That’s One Gun He’ll Never See Again

Bob Barr, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Police Run Roughshod Over Lawful Handgun Owner

No good deed goes unpunished — that’s a lesson George Boggs of Fayetteville, North Carolina, learned earlier this month when he voluntarily turned his handgun over to the local police for safe-keeping while he went into the hospital following an automobile wreck.  When Mr. Boggs (who maintains a valid concealed-carry permit for the handgun)  later attempted to retrieve his firearm, the police said, sorry, we’ve sent it out for ballistics testing and can’t give it back to you yet.

Apparently the police in North Carolina believe themselves empowered to retain a law-abiding citizen’s firearm, and test it to see if it matches any firearms or ammunition on which the police have records that were used in crimes, regardless of whether they have any suspicion whatsoever that the firearm is illegal or has ever been used in the commission of a crime.  And, the police do this even if the person has voluntarily and temporarily left a firearm with the police for safe keeping.  In this case also, the owner of the handgun did not want the firearm fired because it had never been fired since he purchased it new, and he believed its value would be diminished.

Tough luck, according to the law enforcement authorities; so long as they get a firearm — however they get a firearm — they keep it as long as they want to test it, and , if it matches ballistically with some record they have, they would keep it indefinitely.

So much for property rights.  So much for Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure.  And so much for being a good citizen.  When it comes to firearms, many law enforcement agencies believe they can do pretty much whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever they want.

Good luck enforcing your Fourth Amendment rights in situations like these.  The only recourse Mr. Boggs has is to have an attorney file a Writ of Replevin.  However, over something whose value is only a few hundred bucks, it’s not worth the time, effort and legal fees to file one, and it’s just as well anyway because almost no lawyer would take it on.  Therefore, law enforcement agencies have virtually dictatorial power to seize firearms.  I fully expect that sometime in the near future for the Federal judiciary to put LEAs under a consent decree, to make sure that they return firearms in situations where they should.

Too Much Web

In a follow up to a story from this past April, a revised version of a computer security bill would still give the President to take control of private networks during a “cybersecurity emergency.”  Supposedly, we’re supposed to give the government that sort of power because Johnny Jihad over in Iran is messing around on a laptop, ready to inflict a megavirus on all the infidels’ computers.  (Of course, nobody will discuss that the reason that Mr. Jihad of Iran could pull off such a stunt is because almost everybody uses a certain buggy operating system by a certain monopolistic software company.)

However, this is the Obama administration we’re talking about, the same one that sucks up to Islam and its propensity for terroristical boogie-woogieism.  You’d be a fool to believe that this was the intent.

I think there are two reasons for this:

(1)  The “emergency” of too much right wing content on the internet, as defined by the ADL and SPLC.

(2)  Our good buddies over at the RIAA and MPAA, who think that anyone who wants to listen to a song or watch a movie is an “emergency.”

Like I said in April, (see the link above), legislation about emergency powers is doubly unnecessary and dangerous.

In other news about the relationship between governments and the internet, a friend of mine e-mailed this to another friend of mine more than four years ago, which I was cc’ed on, in response to a proposed Missouri law to combat spam:

Spam will end NOT by blocking the tools but by reducing the pool of suckers who make it so profitable.  True, it costs little to send millions of emails and fines, etc. can be considered “costs of business” although I don’t think most will be brought to justice.  But still one cringes when you realize that a LOT of people do spend their money based on SPAM and as marketing it “works” so well that it won’t go away.  I think most purchasers are embarrassed to admit they are such a fool, but there is a large supply of them.  I am generally against regulation, but the only effective legislation for anti-spam would be to require a test similar to a driver’s test before one could sign up with an Internet Service Provider and TEACH some basic things about privacy, security, spam, reliability and robustness of software (or lack therof especially of Windoze) and common sense.

An Australian criminologist has proposed just that.  Compared to giving President Obama the power to cut cables, this is far more desirable.

Headline Requiem

KSDK:  Former State Senator Jeff Smith: “We aren’t white knights”

Just pale queens.

KSDK:  Kennedy ‘fashioned the modern day’ immigration system

It worked out so well that the rotten system has been “reformed” three times since them in the same rotten way, with a fourth on the way..

CofCC:  Fidel Castro joins MSNBC in denouncing Obama’s critics as “racists.”

Newsflash:  MSNBC has doubled its viewership.

Jihad Watch:  Daily Kos sides with Islamic supremacists who want to extinguish free speech and oppress women and non-Muslims

Who wants to start the investigation to see how the money that starts at Al Qaeda gets laundered on its way to the Daily Kook?

CNS:  VH1 Cancels Reality Shows with Dead Murder Suspect

The bad news?  A man murdered his ex-wife then killed himself.  The good news?  One fewer reality show.

CNS:  Preparing to Mark 60 Years of Communist Rule, China Worries About Terrorism

I’ve always wanted to see a tiger and a grizzly bear go at it.  I just might get my wish when it comes to China vs Islam.  Sit back, pop open a Sammy Adams and enjoy the carnage.

CNS:  SC Lt Gov Will Ask Embattled Sanford to Resign

You don’t think the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina has any personal incentive here, do you?

John Lott:  Felons in prison sent stimulus checks

$250 in prison will keep your ass unstimulated for quite a long time.

MOPNS:  Chris Matthews: “Barack Is The Last Kennedy Brother”

Oh boy, Joe Kennedy was running out on Rose with a black woman.  At least we’ll see a birth certificate soon.

Paducah Sun:  Walgreens ready to open 13,000-square-foot drug store in Metropolis

Could you imagine?  A Walgreens store is getting almost as big as a Wal-Mart store, but you don’t have to walk past as much crap in Wal-Mart to get to the pharmacy.

WND:  College kids recruited to join Obama’s ‘army’

If you join the Obama Army, you’ll inflict almost as much physical pain through violence was you would in the U.S. Army, though you’ll be wearing a blue SEIU shirt instead of camos.

A Blessed Union

LoS:

A marriage in Charleston, South Carolina might look very different from a marriage in Cairo, Illinois, but both are recognized as marriages because of the mutual obligations they create for the parties involved, and for the aims they strive for.

I don’t know if I could confirm this theory or not, because there aren’t too many marriages in Cairo, Illinois.

MicroCFR

Just when this day couldn’t get any worse — Foreign Policy, the official publication of Treason, Inc., is against open source software and for the proprietary model.

Hooray For Poland

Microsoft Poland digitally alters a photograph to replace the head of a black man with the head of a white man superimposed over the same business suit.  Funny, because both versions, the supposedly real one and the altered one, look altered.  The black man’s head in the “real” pic looks too big for the suit.

The reason for the alteration is that nobody would take as credible the concept of black businessmen in Warsaw.  Where would one get a silly idea like that?

Usually, these kinds of alterations (and no, I will not genericize the trademarked name of a certain Adobe program used for the purpose, because I use GIMP) are done to put blacks into the picture, to peddle the notion of diversity.

The Last Brother

Any kind of cancer is a horrible way to die, but the thing that was most insidious about the neoplasm that ended the life of Edward Moore Kennedy is that brain cancer really can’t be reversed or mitigated by conventional means.  Even the experimental treatment that Kennedy (and also Bob Novak, who died from the same kind of cancer just last week) received at Duke University Medical Center only extended his life not even a year more than his initial prognosis at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2007.

The timing is probably the worst possible for our side.  My real prayers is that his cancer would go into remission and he would live on for decades more to come, but if he was going to die soon from it, I didn’t want it to come while the Democrats have so much power.  Since he left this world during a lot of unfinished business in the HCR issue, you can be sure that fifty million pieces of legislation that start with “Ted Kennedy Memorial (Fill-in-the-Blank)” will come down the pike.  I wouldn’t want to be a  Blue Dog Democrat in the House or a moderate Democrat in the Senate right now; the pressure to vote for the Ted Kennedy Memorial (Fill-in-the-blank) Act/Reform is going to be unfathomable.

As for his replacement, I think that any effort to undo the 2004 changes to Massachusetts’s procedure to fill vacated Senate seats is moot now.  If the state legislature does what Kennedy wanted, and surely Governor Deval Patrick would sign it, it wouldn’t apply to this Senate seat because of ex post facto concerns.  Therefore, there will be a special election within five months of today.  My guess is that they’ll do it ASAP, to get the seat filled.  The Democrat leadership in the Senate will sit on HCR before this seat can be filled.  My early handicap is that the Banking Queen will be the replacement.

Jeff Smith’s Enemies Taste Blood

I think someone wanted his ass on a platter, and not in the way that Mr. Smith usually thinks of that concept.

This is mostly a hatchet job, engineered by Smith’s political opponents.  Don’t forget, he made a lot of enemies during his two political campaigns in 2004 and 2006.

In 2004, Russ Carnahan barely beat Smith in that contentious Democrat Primary to succeed Dick Gephardt in MO-3.  That district consists of parts of St. Louis City (mostly South and CWE), much of South County, all of Jefferson County and all of Ste. Genevieve County.  Russ Carnahan won the whole district without winning any one of those parts.  Jeff Smith won St. Louis City and St. Louis County, and Steve Stoll, then a State Rep. from Festus, won Jefferson and Ste. Gen.  Smith wasn’t much liked south of the Meramec, and Stoll had no name recognition north of it.  However, the whole impetus is that Jeff Smith pissed off the Carnahan World Empire by daring to be an obstruction.

In 2006, Smith won the Democrat Primary for State Senate District 4, which is heavily black, beating a black State Rep. in the person of Yaphett El-Amin, and a white conservative former Democrat State Rep. from The Hill, which is now in SEN-4, in an election that did the impossible — it got St. Louis’s liberaldom fighting with each other; those battles between the Arch Pundit and Lizz Brown were legendary.  The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia had nothing on those two.  In the whole process, we found out what a payola queen Lizz Brown was.  To sum it all up, Jeff Smith rolled the black power structure in a black district.

In both 2004 and 2006, winning the Democrat Primary was in essence winning the election.  Smith’s victory in that primary in August 2006 meant that he won that seat, which he resigned from today.  Guess who has thrown her hat in the ring to replace him?  Yep, Jamilah Nasheed, a black woman State Rep. from North City.

Jeff Smith made enemies out of the Carnahan World Empire and north St. Louis’s black wheeler-dealers.  Why wouldn’t the U.S. Attorneys that serve a black Democrat President do a called-in favor to string Smith up on some ticky-tack offense that 95% of all elected politicians commit?

Waste Money. Die Sooner.

Yahoo Finance:  Officials OK Walmart near Va. battlefield

And they won’t sell Confederate flags in that Wal-Martinez, either.

P-D:  Missouri man arrested after threats to Walmart

Strangely, the cops were wearing blue vests and told the suspect to have a good day before they slapped the cuffs on him.

AFP:  Houston schools ban ’sexting’

But keep the condom bowl.  Meaning that you can have the actual sex, but you just can’t simulate it with text messages.  And no cigarette afterwards.

CNS:  U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation

If you have a 5- to 8-year old, you might not want to tell him to go play on his or her own.

NYP:  FORMER MISTRESS: MADOFF A ‘GOOD KISSER’ WITH A ‘WELCOMING SMILE’

That’s only because you had a lot of money to invest, dear.

UK Telegraph:  Children’s books are too bleak, says Anne Fine – Children’s books should have more happy endings, the former Children’s Laureate Anne Fine has said.

Don’t hold your breath.  When you live in a country whose obsessions are glo-bull warming and the sensitivities of Muslims, there’s no room for happy endings, beginnings or middles.

CNS:  R.I. State Government to Be Shut Down for 12 Days

Which is not good news for notorious Rhode Island liberals like Brian Griffin.

KSDK:   Cowboys coach, aide sue over collapsed facility

You think the Dallas Cowboys have legal issues now?   Just wait till that megamonitor perched over the 50-yard line falls down and plunks a running back.

Auction Chamber

The City Council of the city of Colorado Springs, Colo., over the objections from senior leadership within the Department, has mandated that the CSPD sell seized and no longer necessary firearms at auction so that the CSPD can have an alternate revenue stream in light of the city government’s budget problems.

I oppose this, but for reasons that are far different than those of anti-gun nuts.  The reason I oppose this is because I oppose law enforcement agencies being able to auction any seized property for its own benefit.  Likewise, I oppose a law enforcement agency keeping seized drug money.  The reason is that it is begging for corruption and abuse in the process of property seizure.  There will be a number of cops that will illegally seize legal and borderline illegal guns, cars, and other property, just so the department can have something to sell.  Also, it gives cops an incentive to plant a bag of weed inside a pulled over expensive car, so the car can be seized as a “drug car,” then sold at auction to benefit the department.  Also, departments being able to keep drug money gives the department a disincentive to crack down on drug activity in their jurisdiction, because eliminating it also eliminates the money stream for the department.

Property that is legitimately and judiciously seized, and by that I mean that prosecutors have to prove that the assets were ill-gotten, should be used for purposes other than police departments and sheriff’s offices, and should be funneled in some way that it doesn’t lead to abuse and corruption.  Missouri has the right idea — some seized assets to to a state crime victims compensation fund.  Those funds are then used to recompense victims of crime that need the money for some reason.

How to Turn a Boy Into a Man: (1) Cut His Thing Off. (2) Give Him a Bed and a Woman With Chlamydia. (3) Have Him Lobby for Obamacare.

MSNBC:  Ex-reporter Jayson Blair now a life coach

I think they accidentally left in an “f.”

CNS:  Obama ‘Quite Comfortable’ As One-Term President, White House Spokesman Says

Of course, that’s because he will have served more terms as President than he did as a Senator.

AP:  Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight

That’s because before, it was a matter of being cool by voting for a black guy.  Now the arena involves mundane two-syllable political catch words that is beyond the acumen of the average Obama groupie.

The Local of Sweden:  Chlamydia helps young men feel more ‘manly’: Swedish study

Now that you have chlamydia, my son, you can now call yourself a man.  Next challenge?  Spell chlamydia.

NYDN:  Gov. Paterson says people ‘nervous’ over minorities in office; White House: Obama doesn’t agree

Everybody, chill out.  There is no reason to be nervous about minorities in office.  Haven’t you ever read about Zimbabwe and Detroit?

UK Telegraph:  CCTV cameras: If they do not stop crime or catch criminals, what are they for?

They’re trying to find that guy in Leeds who was handing out BNP flyers so they can execute him for treason.

P-D:  Man charged with murder in shooting

No shit, I thought he would have been charged with loitering after having shot someone.

Fox News:  Report: CDC Considers Promoting ‘Universal Circumcision’

Does this includes illegal aliens?  This might preclude about half of all illegal immigration.

RTT News:  Reports: Bernard Madoff Apparently Dying Of Cancer

Oh good, I hope they let him out and send him to Libya.

P-D:  ADHD drugs misuse can be real downer for teens

So is a diagnosis that you have some sort of “disorder” just for acting like a normal kid.

Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  His Accidency plays race card. What gives?  Methinks he’s insecure about never having been elected Governor, and probably not winning election in his own right next year.  He may be blind, but not color blind.

(2)  A foundation created by the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard is dumping a half mill on Wikipedia.  I don’t know what I think about this, or if it will have any impact on W/P’s neutrality.  I do know that HP loves them H-1Bs.

(3)  Britain’s Tory Party is launching a program called “Operation Black Vote.” They want to make sure that the Tories’ black voter comes out to the polls.

(4)  There was a race riot in a Kentucky hoosegow on Friday night.  The reason I know it was a race riot is that state correctional authorities nor the media give a reason for the riot.

(5)  Tales from the Late Great United States of America:  IBM and NASA are “detaching” from the country where they were founded.  I guess people finally saw through the B-schoolese that was the word “outsourcing,” so I guess they figure they have to come up with a new name for sucking the life blood out of the formerly great American economy.

(6)  And more tales from the Late Great United States of America:  The aggregate in bonuses for the 13-member board of Motherfuckers, Inc. is almost double this year so far what it was all of last year.  A few of the Busches are on that board; their being on the board was part of their sellout deal.  Which is something you should be happy to know as Brito and Co. are planning to close the St. Louis brewery and end the good working middle class Teamsters Union jobs.

(7)  Watch out, Wall Street Journal.  The Southern Poverty Law Center is out to get you.  How dare you link open borders and formerly unheard of diseases?

(8)  The British government is getting ready to add nudism as a category of civil rights protection.  Meaning that you can’t discriminate against people if they are nudists.  It’s just too bad the only kind of people that want to be nudists are those who nobody wants to look at.

(9)  Now there’s a real swift idea, California GOP.  Run two former CEOs of H-1B happy tech companies up the flagpole.

(10)  The British Post Office (Royal Mail) will soon end the concept of having a steady and dedicated letter carrier for given neighborhoods.  That’s the way it is in many American neighborhoods, you have a different letter carrier from day to day.  And I suspect that the Royal Mail is doing this for some sort of racial reason.  Affirmative action plays into this somehow, mark me.

140 Letters

CNS:  Traffic Noise May Impede Sex Lives of Frogs

I have news for you — It also impedes the sex lives of humans.  That’s why when people do it in cars, they’re parked and the engine is off.

P-D:  Sticky problem: Nixon, Isom team-up against license tab theft

Why is Governor Nixon talking to the St. Louis City Police Chief about license plate sticker theft?  Is he some kind of bigot who wants you to think that blacks are doing most of it?

CNN:  Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter

That’s because nobody wants to tweet “IhateBush” anymore.

Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader:  State orders accountant to stop

It’s like the snail hitching a ride on a turtle said, “OMG slow down you’re gonna get us both kill3d~!”

Nine Lives

I mean, what are the odds?  A town of not even 5,000 and all nine of their robbing ne’er-do-wells have something obvious in common?

It has to be a big damned coincidence.  After all, we keep hearing that there’s no such thing as…

Senate Democrats Don’t Trust Democrat Governors to Fill Vacant U.S. Senate Seats Formerly Held By Democrats

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution passed by a 5-to-3 margin an amendment to the document of their expertise that changes the power to fill vacant U.S. Senate seats from the Governor of the state in question to a special election to be called for by the state’s Governor at some point in the future, though the proposed amendment does not specify a time limit.  The reason?  Yep.  RodB.

Ironically, Massachusetts did just that in 2004, mainly to keep then-Gov. Mitt Romney from appointing a Republican to replace the arrogant Ketchup Man in case he won the Presidential election that year.  Now, with health care on the front burner, and Ted Kennedy is getting worse by the day, the Lion of the Senate wants to undo the 2004 changes so that Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, can quickly fill that Senate seat with a Democrat so that the Democrats in the Senate can have their precious 60 votes.  I get the feeling that if Massachusetts does as Kennedy asks, he will resign instead of waiting for the brain cancer to run its path of destruction, to let Patrick make a choice as quickly as possible.

My opinion of the amendment is that they’re doing the wrong thing.  They should repeal the 17th so that state legislatures could elect U.S. Senators.  State governments need a direct voice in the Federal public policy formation process.  Do you honestly think that the Federal government would force states to give welfare to illegal aliens if one-half of the Federal government’s legislative power represented the very same people who have to draw state budgets?

Other than Russ Feingold’s yea vote, the sponsor of the amendment, one of the other yeas was from Alaska’s Mark Begich.  He might know a little something about fishy Senate appointments at the hands of a state Governor.  Perfidy, thy name is Murkowski.

If the 5-3 margin is indicative of the measure’s prospects in the whole Senate, then it won’t pass.  Out of eight Senators, five voted for it, meaning 62.5% support.  Multiply that by 100, and you only get 62.5 Senators, it needs 67 for two-thirds.  And even if they get the 67, it would then need the majority approval of at least 38 state legislatures to become part of the Constitution.  With all the state budget shortfalls, and the expense of holding a special election, it’ll be a non-starter in places like Bismarck and Frankfurt.

Positive Action

High achieving students in Britain’s private schools are finding that it’s harder and harder to get admitted to the country’s universities.  Not once in the whole article could the matter of race and affirmative action be cited as the reason.  However, if you know how to decode Britegalitarian codewords like “poorer backgrounds” and “postcode diversity,” then you’ll know the time of day.  And that you’re not getting it.

America Just Ain’t What it Used to Be

P-D:  Skelton: Time to view climate change as a security issue

It’s like being worried about an invasion by Fredonia.

P-D:  Study says average video game player is 35 and depressed

I know what you could be depressed about if you’re a 35-year old gamer:  You’ve blown so much of your life on games that you couldn’t possibly get any even if you wanted it.

Second City Cop:  God Reduces Crime?

What kind of God would just reduce crime instead of eliminating it altogether?

P-D:  St. Louis United Way sets ‘realistic’ goal of $66.5 million

If they reach that goal, I wish some wiseass would give them $100,000.

P-D:  Where is Rep. Clay During the Recess? Ghana!

Oh Boy!  I Hope He Stays There!

P-D:  Feds say deputy liquor commissioner asked for sex, liquor and bribes

Take out the bribes and that could be any guy in East St. Louis over the age of 15.

WPTZ-NBC-5 Burlington, Vt.:  Flanagan Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation – Senator Accused Of Masturbating At YMCA

What’s this country coming to that you can’t whack off like there’s no tomorrow in the locker room of the Y?

UK Telegraph:  Drunk and urinating on a monument: portrait of the British tourist

And they’re the country that won’t let Michael Savage in.

SEMO:  Man accused of biting off earlobe in assault

A clue that led the cops to their man is that he was wearing a T-Shirt with Marv Albert and Mike Tyson on the front and “Bite Me” on the back.

AP:  On talk radio, Obama stands by health care plan

You mean the one that hasn’t been written yet?  No wonder he said he would finance it with money from the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

UK Sun:  Spector: I’m scared in this snake pit prison

They had to audacity to put a crazed murderer in with other crazed murderers.

CNS:  South African Runner’s Relatives Dismiss Gender Controversy

How bigoted of us to think that a person with a flat chest, six pack abs and a mysterious bulge between the legs just might not be a woman?

CNS:  Postal Service Managers Angry at Obama for Denigrating Postal Service While Defending Government-Run Health Plan

I have a way for you USPS workers to strike back — Don’t show up to work tomorrow.  Of course, there’s this whole matter of a tree falling in the forest.

Washington Examiner:  Mexico: Billionaire businessman [Carlos Slim] joins academics, activists demanding freedom of expression

Oh good, does this mean that the newspaper Slim effectively owns will stop using invective and being hateful towards right wingers?

Lake Slaybegon

Mayor Slay complains about Missouri’s ACT average being only slightly above the national average.  Likewise, I’m sure that 50% of the test takers are also complaining that they are below the national average.  That they don’t understand basic statistics is probably why they’re below average.

Take a hint, Mayor:  Not everybody can be above average.

St. Louis Saved From At Least One Problem

KMOV:

Man gets naked on Southwest flight to St. Louis, beats female passenger

Authorities say a St. Louis-bound Southwest Airlines flight was forced to return to Oakland International Airport after a male passenger stripped, hit another passenger and fought with crew members.

Alameda County sheriff’s deputies say flight 947 returned Thursday morning after 21-year-old Darius Chappille of Oakland allegedly exposed himself to the female passenger sitting next to him and punched her in the face.

Lt. Howard Jacobs says flight attendants and other passengers then subdued Chappille, as he disrobed. He was apparently completely naked when sheriff’s deputies arrested him.

Well, good for him –  His fellow inmates won’t have to waste any time getting to their prize.  They’ll take, as airline pilots might say, a direct flight to their destination.

Hundred Taken for Thirty

KYW-CBS-3 Philly:

100-Year-Old Beaten, Robbed In SW Philadelphia

Southwest Detectives are going door to door trying to get information about a robbery and assault that left a 100-year-old man beaten to the ground.

According to police, the disturbing attack happened in broad daylight on the 6700 block of Grovers Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia.

“He placed his hands around his neck, threw him to the ground and began striking his head against the cement sidewalk,” said Lt. John Walker. “He took the man’s groceries and $30 out of his pocket and fled on foot.”

Neighbors, who said the man was “very nice” and “friendly,” are shocked and concerned that such a violent encounter could happen on their street.

“I am very concerned about that, if it could happen to him, it could happen to anybody,” said Andrew Wongeh.

Seems to me like it did happen to anybody.  What, are we now supposed to be scared for all those helpless 20-year olds?

And of course we get no racial identification of the suspect, that is, if the cops know it yet.  If they do, then this TV station has a perfectly good reason for covering it up — We all know how those 100-year old white men like to go on lynching rampages against blacks and Hispanics.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

P-D:

Rams staffers, ex-players to greet city students on first day of school

Thursday is the first day of classes in the St. Louis Public Schools system, and Rams staffers, alumni and cheerleaders will be on hand at four high schools — Beaumont, Roosevelt, Sumner and Vashon — to greet students. That’s just part of an initiative that the team has formed with the school district.

The Rams, in partnership with Office Essentials, will donate more than $25,000 in supplies. They also will be handing out 1,000 tickets to Friday night’s preseason game vs. the Falcons at the Edward Jones Dome.

It is part of the club’s monthly “Days of Service” program.

What about the best high school in the state, that just so happens to be in the St. Louis City Public School System?  For all the shining academic accomplishments of its staff, faculty and its half-black student body, they get no Rams at the front door meeting them on the first day of school.  Game tickets?  Fuggedabowdit.  Even though the football supplies are of no use to them, the school has never been able to field a team, there are probably at least two dozen students who know enough physics and calculus to work out the mathematics behind the trajectory of a Hail Mary to the end zone.  A few students can write papers about the social didactics of the movie North Dallas Forty.  And many of them will be doing part of their mandated community service unpacking and sorting the food purchased by Rams donations for local pantries and social service agencies.  Oh, no, they don’t get shit.

Let Me Guess

AP:

Coroner: Wild dogs killed Ga. woman, then husband

LEXINGTON, Ga. (AP) – An elderly woman killed by a pack of wild dogs had been out for a walk when she was attacked, and her husband died trying to fight off the mauling animals when he discovered the bloody scene near their rural Georgia home, authorities said Tuesday.

Preliminary autopsy results showed Lothar Karl Schweder, 77, and his 65-year-old wife, Sherry, died from multiple animal bites.

Authorities have rounded up about 11 dogs suspected in the rare attack and returned to the area Tuesday to find four more spotted by a deputy. The dogs were being held by animal control officials while authorities decide what to do with them, said Jim Fullington, special agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

“It just appears that a large number of dogs had started living, running together, multiplying and had grown into what I would describe as a pack of wild or feral-type dogs,” Fullington said.

Sherry Schweder had told one of her sons that there were several dogs wandering the neighborhood that no one seemed to be caring for, Fullington said.

Lots of dogs running lose and uncared for.  Add that to check cashing joints, bail bondsmen, trashy liquor stores and numerous probation and parole officers as a classic sign of the ghetto.

Several years ago, a black kid who was no more than 10 years old was similarly killed by a pack of former ghetto pet feral dogs in a St. Louis city park very close to the old Enright CJA Middle School

When the Sun Goes Down, It Gets Dark Outside

Paterson, N.J. city officials are considering a midnight-to-7 curfew for everyone, adults included.  Apparently, Paterson is suffering from a spate of deadly shootings.

I found Paterson’s official city government website, and took a look at the Mayor and the city’s nine Aldermen.  Yep, you guessed.  All Swedes.  It’s the blonde hardbodies running around after midnight causing all the crime and trouble.

Seattle Voters Do America Proud, for the Second Time This Decade

CNS:

Seattle Voters Reject 20-Cent Grocery Bag Fee

Seattle voters rejected a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores.

With about half the ballots counted in the all-mail vote, the bag fee was failing 58 percent to 42 percent in Tuesday’s primary.

In 2001, Seattle’s voters rejected a 10 cent per cup tax on enhanced coffee beverages like latte and espresso, but not plain ole coffee itself.  The purpose of the tax would have been to fund early childhood education programs.  Not only did Seattlistas reject the tax, which was a good thing, the process wound up exposing liberal hate and bigotry.  A few weeks before the vote, I was for some reason listening to NPR.  The subject was this vote, and they interviewed some woman who opposed the tax, because (and I’ll never forget this exact quote even if I live to be a thousand years old) “I don’t see why we have to pay for our kids.  Let them dirty rednecks down South in trailer parks pay more in cigarette taxes for our kids.”

That’s the master key to understand the Democrat/left obsession with tobacco cigarettes.  It’s not only their bigotry toward the decidedly non-Democrat white Southerner and working middle class whites in general, it’s that tobacco companies tend to prefer Republicans in their overall political money dumps.

Spitting In the Wind

P-D:

Meth bill in Jefferson County has doubters

HILLSBORO — Over an hour of testimony in favor of a bill being touted as the panacea to Jefferson County’s methamphetamine lab problem appeared to do little to convince two county executives that it will work.

The other county executive, Chuck Banks, proposed a bill in July that would require a prescription for the sale of some common cold and allergy medications that contain pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient found in meth.

I thought that the monthly limits passed by the state and eventually on the Federal level through Talent-Feinstein ended Metherson County’s meth problem.  Actually it did — trailer park meth labs are almost down to zero.  But what it has not ended is meth users’ addiction, which does get satisfied.

And who is filling the void?

Let me spell it out for you:

H-I-S-P-A-N-I-C.

Agree with the SLPOA

Informants on the Federal level are nothing more than agents provocateurs and shit disturbers, the whole setup is meant to allow the ADL and SPLC raise money.  But on the local level, especially in big cities like St. Louis, they are the key to the SLPD having a second to none intelligence department.

No link below because it mentions the name of a Circuit Court judge.

P-D:

St. Louis police bristle at bosses’ inquiry on their confidential informers

Worried about liars in their ranks, city police officials are demanding that up to 20 officers tell bosses details about their confidential informers.

But the St. Louis Police Officers Association has won a temporary restraining order to block the inquiry, pending a hearing in court next week. The organization says the probe would jeopardize informers’ lives, officers’ careers and public safety.

At issue is whether officers have attributed fabricated information to confidential informers to obtain search and arrest warrants, according to documents in the lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court.

Police brass acknowledge in court filings that they believe “one or more” officers “have included false information in affidavits” for warrants, and say the investigation is aimed at stopping “the concerns of police abuse and violation of civil rights.”

So it is certain cops (I’m betting most of them have something in common, ahem ahem) that are lying on search warrant applications, so the informants have to suffer.  There is concern that informants lie.  Believe me, the SLPD is not going to mess around with bullshitting informants, and the informants have a very good incentive to tell the truth, even if it is a little inflated at times — the informants are themselves persons of SLPD interest, and are turning snitch in order to save their own asses from the sling.  In other words, the SLPD tends to make informants out of lower level criminals in order to bag the bigger ones.  For example, if you live near College and Carter in north St. Louis, and you’re 14 years old, and you get popped selling weed as your first offense, you’ll get a light punishment, or you won’t be charged, and you’ll be used and milked for all the information you can give as long before the statutes of limitations expire, or you turn a certain age, if you can provide the SPLD with credible intelligence on the real ne’er-do-wells up on College and Carter.  And of course what you say to the cops will be cross-checked with what other 14-year old first time weed slingers who live close to College and Carter tell the cops, to make sure you’re telling the truth (or close to it.)   Therefore, when some girl winds up all full of holes lying out on the middle of the street at the corner of College and Carter, the cops are able to use the information you and others gave them to triangulate toward a doer.

If the SLPOA loses this case, then this flow of intelligence stops.