Dear Chicago: You’re About to Get a $40 Billion Lead Weight Tied To Your Ankle. Enjoy. Love, St. Louis. (BTW, How ‘Bout Those Cubbies?)

KSDK:  St. Louis County considers deploying “bait houses”

And then goes and tells the world so that criminals will stay away from houses and do something else.  Good going, Keystone Cops.

WHAS-ABC-11 Louisville:  UofL students concerned about increased crime

All of a sudden, they figured out that UofL is in the middle of the ghetto.

KSDK:  St. Louis could benefit if Chicago gets Olympic Games

St. Louis already benefited from Chicago getting the Olympic Games.  It’s just that in 1904, the Olympics were not money pits.

AP:  Gingrich, Sharpton tour Philly with ed secretary

There’s Nut’s 2012 Presidential campaign slogan:  Me Hearts Sharpton.

Chicago Sun-Times:  Makeshift memorial for slain Fenger student turns chaotic

Some might call this news, I happen to call it typical censored racial pejorative behavior.

AFP:  Chicago youth’s killing ‘heinous’: White House

Some might call it heinous, …

Hollywood Reporter:  Streisand Admits At Historic Show: “Singing ‘People’ Is Boring”

Listening to it is boring, too!

Earth Times:  Los Angeles to require anti-graffiti coating on new homes

The pro-graffiti lobby responds by demanding that we start calling it “minority artwork.”

UK Times:  Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’

“I should know, I helped bring it about.”

BNP:  Body Cavity Bombs: The Latest Threat from Islamist Terror Groups

That and a few other things they can put where the sun doesn’t shine.

CNS:  Regimes Arising From Coups Should Be Barred From U.N. Institutions, African Official Says

Now that’ll be a big problem for those who gain power as a result of a coup — You’ll have to pay for your international junkets with money you stole yourself, because the white man won’t pay you way anymore.

Schlafly:  How Lincoln Learned to Read

WTF?

John Lott:  Democratic Congressman: “Republicans want you to die quickly”

So saith the party that wants death panels.

Malkin:  “Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”

But you did f— young girls, Mr. Polanski.  So that will soon make you something the judges, jurors and most everyone else isn’t:  A felon.

P-D:  Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District may get a name change

Too many people thought that it was the official name of St. Louis in general.

P-D:  Blago tells `The New Yorker’ he (probably) won’t run for president

He’s got no chops.  Nobody’s gonna vote for a Chicago machine cog!

Gore of the Rings

Sign of the times:  GM is hitting the delete button on Saturn.  To me, it’s redundant, because GM hit the delete button on Saturn several years ago when they closed the Saturn plant south of Nashville.

NYT: Mark Steyn Was Right

NYT, on the recent success of European lamestream conservative parties:

Some American conservatives demonize President Obama’s fiscal stimulus and health care overhaul as a dangerous turn toward European-style Socialism — but it is Europe’s right, not left, that is setting its political agenda.

Europe’s center-right parties have embraced many ideas of the left: generous welfare benefits, nationalized health care, sharp restrictions on carbon emissions, the ceding of some sovereignty to the European Union. But they have won votes by promising to deliver more efficiently than the left, while working to lower taxes, improve financial regulation, and grapple with aging populations.

This is one of many reasons why Mark Steyn opposes ObamaCare.  It will forever change American conservatism, and inevitably push it to the left.  As you can read above, “conservatism” in the European parlance means that you think the left-wing system should be more efficient.  (This isn’t new.  Margaret Thatcher, while she campaigned for the Tories in 1979, their eventual victory making her Prime Minister, flat out said that she wouldn’t drastically dismantle the welfare system, only make it more “efficient,” whatever the hell that means.)  On the other hand, this leaves the field open in Europe for nationalist parties to claim the mantle of the real right-wing opposition, but electorally and ideologically.

Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

The Second Great Depression has gotten so bad that many panhandlers really need the money, for legitimate expenses like utility bills and food, and many other non-alcoholic things.  As a result, Raleigh, N.C. is handing out panhandling permits to those whose needs are real (i.e. non-alcoholic) and aren’t intrusive or obstructive in their begging.

NC voted Obama, Raleigh being the epicenter of North Carolina’s Obamagasm.  How’s all that hope and change working out for ya?

It’s About Time

Is Cold Case on the way out at The Tiffany?

It seems that way.

Part of CC’s problem is that CBS keeps fucking around with its time slot.  When it debuted, and for most it of its run, it was on at 8/7c, and therefore most people could watch it even if they had to hit the hay early.  Last season and the one before that, they moved it to 9/8c.  Now, it’s 10/9c.  Football usually runs past 7 PM Eastern, 6 PM Central, and assuming a half hour overage, which is typical, that means that people in the Eastern time zone won’t see CC come on until 10:30.

Save Cold Case, move it back to 8/7.

Look Ma!

Guess who’s conservative all of a sudden, with his cracker jack little ACORN/SEIU chart.

That’s right, Mark Kirk.  The same Mark Kirk who couldn’t be bothered to say boo about ACORN and SEIU before now.

I think he figures that if he wants to be a U.S. Senator, he needs to win the Republican primary next March.  He will need Republicans from south of Joliet to vote for him, so we gotta put on a play act.

Sorry.  I’m not bitin’.

Raising Heller

SCOTUS gives Cert to a matter out of Chicagograd that is very similar to Heller, with a decision expected in June of next year.

MSM are trying to draw a distinction between this case, McDonald v Chicago, and the Heller case.  They say that Heller isn’t a precedent germane to McDonald because Heller was in a Federal district while McDonald was in a state, a rehash of the “states rights” precepts of the 10th Amendment vs the “incorporation doctrine” of the 14th Amendment debate that’s been going on for decades.

The reason this reasoning doesn’t fly is because Scalia’s singular majority opinion finding for Heller didn’t use the Federal district reasoning at all.  As a matter of fact, I was fearful that SCOTUS was going to weasel out of a major precedent-setting decision by finding for Heller and using the Federal district as the sole reason.  The late Rhenquist and early Roberts court was loath to make any big decision, and Heller was the first real big decision from SCOTUS in quite a long time.  Scalia relied only on the 2nd Amendment to find for Heller, and added that the part of 2 that speaks of “militia” and “free state” is, in Scalia’s exact word, “perfatory,” or in other words, a preface.  All it means is that it is one possible purpose of the real germane part of 2, the part about “the right of free people to keep and bear arms.”  There could be many other purposes.  And the perfatory clause of 2 is no more relevant to the restrictions set by the germane clause of 2 than the Preface to the Constitution is to the operation of the Federal government in general.  All the glittering generalities that the Preamble lists are reasons (but not the only reasons) why the Constitution was established, and says what it says, but it doesn’t mean that those glittering generalities are a responsibility of government.

That said, Heller should be precedent for McDonald.  But it might not be.  One word:  Sotomayor.  All the jurisdictions that were running afoul of Heller drug their heels to comply, because they were waiting for the results of the 2008 elections, and hoping for an Obama win.  (By the time Heller was decided, Obama had already dispatched HRC.)  They probably would have complied if McCain would have won, but they wanted Obama and his judicial appointments.  Heller was a good decision, but SCOTUS should have backed it up with a consent decree on D.C.  That would have scared Chicago and other cities to comply, even if it were only for a few months.

McDonald will put the left in a conundrum.  If SCOTUS finds for Chicago, then it’s doing what the libs want, and knocking back 2, but bolstering 10 and spiting 14 in the process, which the libs don’t want.  If they find for McDonald, they’ll be supporting 2, which the libs don’t want, but spiting 10 and bolstering 14, which the libs want.

He’s Qualified

The St. Louis FBI office has a new leader.  In fact, he used to be in charge of the St. Louis division.

The reason we just had to bring him back is that he had an office at the top floor of the St. Louis FBI building when Michael Devlin was arrested, and he evidently attended the law enforcement war room that came about when Baby Abby was kidnapped.  He also wrote a couple of papers as a young man.  I could also add that the mother of a six-year old boy in South County was right there at his soccer game with a tube of ointment that she could rub it on any boo-boos he might have gotten during the game, and since the person in question was the head of the FBI at St. Louis when the boo-boos happened, he’s the reason why everything was a-ok.

But he is otherwise qualified for the job; I digress.  Hint:  Don’t read the words.

Why Can’t Limey Read? (Only Applicable For Limeys Whose Parents Vote BNP)

The very same racial minorities that screwed up the British public school system so badly that whites don’t do as well as they used to (hint:  any idiot can jump over a bar lowered so far that everyone can flop over it, especially if those who couldn’t flop over it before had something taboo in common), are now gathering in Birmingham (hint:  not Alabama) to figure out what to do about it.

The reason they’re confabbing is NOT because they have any sort of altruistic concern about whites, especially boys.  No, the reason is that the parents of such white boys vote BNP.

AFAIC, there’s your solution right there if you want to improve education for whites.