Montclair, New Jersey, Repeat After Me: The Maury Povich Show Is Pure Fiction.

To justify spending 65 kilobucks to hire Duane West, aka “Duane D,” a well known motivational speaker who is often featured on the Maury Povich show, (oops, that was D.West I was thinking about, see below), an official for the Montclair, N.J. school system says:

The kinds of things that this kind of program D. West offers … include parent outreach, motivation, character education, leadership — all those things that play a role in achievement,” said Federico. “We try to support the whole child, because the statistics show that students perform due to a whole range of factors.”

Because D.West has such a great track record otherwise, they just have to hire a reasonable imitation thereof.  It’s amazing what you can accomplish on TV — You take stock teenage girl actors out of central casting, mess up their hair, dress them in trashy clothes, give them some makeup to appear like they just waltzed into the studio straight from strolling in the red light district all night, make them memorize a script which has them being fifty times worse than the wildest conceivable real world teenage miscreant, bring in a studio audience that loves to boo and sneer at the deficiencies of other people even though it’s a matter of pot kettle black for most of them, and hit record.  Then, after they’re through reading their script, in struts an overly muscular black man who evidently doesn’t own a sweater with sleeves nor any undershirts.  He screams at the “wild” girls, takes them on a tour of a TV set made to look like a jail, where more central casting actors made out to look like jail inmates also yell at them, and explain to the girls how they fucked up their own lives.  (How many real jail inmates have that much guilt and contrition?  Don’t forget, everyone in jail or prison is either innocent, or has been railroaded by the white racist justice system and/or had a crummy defense lawyer.)  Just before the credits roll at 59 past the hour, the “wild” girls have completely straightened out their lives.

It’s too bad that some real people with real taxpayers’ money fell for it.

UPDATE 11/13: “Mary” from New Jersey adds:

I’m with you about some of these shows like Maury being fake.  I live close to Montclair, too.

Sometimes, I see people on Maury’s show say they did the most insane things, sometimes they’re crimes.  So where are the police, to arrest them right on the set when the show is over?  And the D.A. could use the show as evidence.  The cops and prosecutors don’t use this, so this tells me that it’s all fake.  I was kinda fooled about the wild teen shows, but I got the suspicion that they were fake because everything else on Maury is fake, why shouldn’t the wild teen girl shows also be fake?  What you said proves it for me.

By the way, there’s no woman on Earth who can’t find the father of her children after calling in dozens of men for a blood test.

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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s War Cry for the Next Election Cycle: “People Don’t Kill People, Guns Kill People.”

To be fair, he did say that we shouldn’t “blame a group” of people for mass shootings.  Better that we should blame an inanimate object, rather than a fairly reliable Democrat constituency, that being the Allah-u-Akbar crowd.

Therefore, it’s just a big damned coincidence that probably 80% or more of the murders in Mayor Daley’s city are done at the hands of black men, because you can’t blame groups for crime.  Of course, bleeding heart libs love to tout stats that show that (e.g.) 80% of Chicago’s murder victims are black.  If you can’t “blame a group” for crime, then you can’t pity a group for being crime victims.

Tuesday’s Headlines. In a Hurry.

Paul Thurrott:  Microsoft: Save Money with Exchange 2010

Better yet, get your money back with Refund 2010

KTVI:  Sumner Principal Reassigned After Incident Where Students Were Maced

So it’s the principal’s fault when the students go on a rampage.  They ought to keep the principal and reassign the students.

KSDK:  Teen shot to death in vacant lot, gunman on loose

Keep an eye on mayorslay.org.  I predict that he will blame vacant lots, and call for vacant lot control.

Phoronix:  Reiser4 May Go For Mainline Inclusion In 2010

They’re thinking about changing its name to CellBlock4.

WCBS-2 NYC:  Paterson: NYS Will Be Broke Before Christmas

This is the only time liberal politicians have a use for a holiday they’d otherwise make war on — to sweet-talk modern day followers of the religious leader born on that day to pay more taxes.

KSDK:  St. Joseph’s Academy students compete in the Battle of the Belts

Vashon students will also compete in the Battle of the Belts — who can wear their belts the loosest so that their pants can sag the most.

Fox News:  University Claims ‘Academic Freedom’ in Inviting Convicted Bomber

I hear that Terry Nichols might be getting out soon.  Let’s test the “academic freedom” of this university.

Tuesday’s News

Got stuff to do 2nite, so I’ll have to summarize the news items that grabbed my attention 2day.  I’m so rushed, I can’t even properly spell out “tonight” and “today.”  :)

(1)  A 94-year old British war vet is going to return the five medals he earned to PM Gordon Brown because he was denied a heating assistance subsidy based on a technicality.  One of the bigger unmentionable scandals out of England in the past few years is the number of white elderly and retired people who have perished in their cold houses because heating costs have been so high, and that government fuel bill assistance has been hard to get.  All the while, the Blair/Brown governments shower non-whites with welfare money galore.

(2)  A terrorism official for Scotland Yard is worried about lone wolf right-wing terrorism.  While he doesn’t have much to be worried about in that regard, relative to the wonderful Muslims running around London, he is right to say that resources that should be used to chase Muslims are being diverted into the fight to snuff out the next mythical Hitler.  What I think he means by that is that Muslims are a Labour Party constituency, so they can’t be arrested.  Therefore, to justify their jobs, sinecures and salaries, government anti-terrorism officers have to focus on the rare incidents of terrorism committed by those who don’t vote Labour.

BTW, part of the reason why lone wolfism on the part of the right-wing that’s too extreme even for my tastes has come about in recent years is because they have to go “lone wolf.”  If they came up to the surface with any hint of central organization and location, then the UK’s numerous analogues to the Southern Poverty Law Center would sue them out of existence, just like the American SPLC has done in this country.  If right-wing terrorism worries you, then better that you should want it easier to find, then sundry hard-to-find “lone wolves.”  That was the unintended consequence of SPLC legal activity.

(3)  Don’t worry, Miss Barney.  As soon as Harrow’s “citizen snoopers” see that most of Harrow’s crime and non-crime ills are caused by racial minorities, that’ll be the end of the citizen snooper program.

(4)  Three memorable things about San Francisco’s Cow Palace:  (1) Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, (2) Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue, and (3) Gun shows draw big crowds, even in San Francisco.

(5)  I’ve had some dealings with people that are associated with “independent media centers,” a.k.a. “indymedia” websites, before.  What they really are are “anarchists,” i.e. left-wing extremist neo-Marxist college students who have no problem with committing organized acts of minor and moderate vandalism at the behest of one or more college professors, the goal of their political and other activity being the cheap and easy access to illicit drugs.  But even left-wing extremist neo-Marxist college students and the professors that egg them on have free speech rights, and the right not to be snooped upon by busybody Federal agents.

The irony of all this is that “indymedia” would have no problem if the U.S. Justice Department would similarly snoop on right-wingers.

(6)  David Coursey, a columnist at PC World, marks the 5-year anniversary of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 by predicting that Firefox won’t be as successful in the next five years.  He thinks the main reason will be that Google Chrome OS, mated with the Chrome browser, and Microsoft/Windows/IE will increasingly compete with each other using web-based “cloud” applications, application execution, and storage.  He also thinks that the paradigm of the browser as an application platform will help GOOG and MSFT, and squeeze Firefox out.  Though Coursey doesn’t mention Opera, he would probably think that Opera would suffer the same fate of irrelevancy as Firefox.

First off, I’ve been hearing this bullshit about browser-as-a-platform ever since 1995, with Netscape.  I get the feeling that if it could have been done by now, it would have.  That it has not means that it’s a stupid and impractical idea.  Browsers are designed to view documents in hypertext markup language, not word processing documents and spreadsheets.  There is a reason why desktop applications for those things are doing well.  Because they work, and you don’t have to be connected to the outside world to doodle around in Excel or type a memo in Word.  That’s the reason why I think the cloud is the same kind of bullshit pie-in-the-sky idea that browser-as-platform was all along:  With more and more ISPs putting up monthly bandwidth caps, cloud apps are going to be impossible for some people.  What if you have UNT&T’s basic DSL line, which has a piddley 5 GB monthly bandwidth cap?  Once you’ve used up your five gigs, then no more internet for the rest of the month.  That means if you can’t edit your sales report at home, because the word processing app is in the cloud, and you can’t get online.  If you have a desktop application for word processing, then you don’t need to get online.  A whole OS, like the upcoming Chrome OS, that is supposedly in the “cloud” means that your computer is a big glowing doorstop while your internet connection is down.

The main problem with the Chrome browser is that it’s still minimalist.  There’s not the neat ecosystem for add-ons like there are with Firefox.  I have exactly the Firefox extensions that I want/need to accomplish what I want to accomplish.  If I had to work with only Chrome, I’d feel naked and useless.  IE, by contrast, has Chrome’s problems of very few add-ons, but is also slow and clunky as a tortise.  I fail to see how slow ass IE or useless Chrome is somehow going to “squeeze out” Firefox.

(7)  Now that Missouri’s Blue Books are going online, Senate Majority Leader Kevin Engler (R-Farmington) wants to end the dead tree and ink BBs, to save a little money.  I don’t know what I think about that, but one thing that bugs me about the BBs is that they plaster the names, pix, identities, and worst of all, the home addresses if Missouri’s state level Supreme Court, Appellate Court and Circuit Court judges.  It used to publish the home street address of every state employee.

(8)  A black Architecture prof at Columbia punched a white woman employee of the U. in the face, in the heat of an argument about white privilege.  I predict Professor McIntyre will pioneer the field of architectural white privilege, finding secret, subliminal messages of hate and racism in pre-1950 building designs and engineering.  You know how that goes, if you play the record backwards at double speed, you hear Satanic dirges…

Read the Disclaimer. Otherwise, Enjoy the Headlines.

KSDK:  Rihanna: Chris Brown ‘had no soul in his eyes’

Nor in the rest of him.

NYP:  Brazilian student suspended for mini-dress

Pardon me, isn’t that the country whose name, translated from an indigenous language to English, means “micromini thong?”

P-D:  St. Louis Public Schools needs help from many hands

On the other hand, too many cooks spoil the sauce.

St. Louis Cop Talk:  We are being bugged by the department!!!

It’s better than being buggered by the department!!!

KFVS:  Marion High honors vets with 3K run/walk

If I were a vet, I’d be insulted that teenagers would honor me with not even two whoopdee-doo miles of walking and running.

KSDK:  Family of black bears wander into Montana town

“There goes the neighborhood,” some of the townsfolk thought, until they realized that these were bears.

KSDK:  Rams’ Chris Long relieved to get first sack of season

I did the math, and thus far this season, he’s being paid $4.3 million per sack.

WND:  Josh McDowell’s advice to Palin on Oprah grilling

“Don’t eat anything off of Oprah’s grill.  See Oprah to see the results of that.”

CNS:  Man Confesses to Shooting Kansas Abortion Provider

He had a crummy lawyer — I would have advised him to admit to committing an extremely late term abortion.  At that time, queue pandemonium at NARAL.*

* — I’m not a lawyer.

From the Other Side of the Pond

There’s a lot in my stack today from Merry Ole.

(1)  Unemployment of those under the age of 25 is highest in raw numbers, and is the second-highest in terms of growth rate, in the UK compared to other European countries.  Most of the growth, and also most of the overall number, comes from recent college and university graduates who can’t seem to convert their degree into a real job.  Gordon Brown’s government proposes more education.  That also seems to be the solution of the “opposition,” led by David Cameron.  The BNP hasn’t chimed in on the issue yet, but if/when they do, I suspect that we’ll find out the truth, and I suspect that truth will be that outsourcing to Bangalore is a big cause.

(2)  No, you don’t have a right to free “speach.” That’s because the object of your criticism is a protected racial minority.

(3)  How dare you.  A couple of British soldiers serving in Iraq kicked an Iraqi “detainee.” The soldiers also committed the serious offense of not calling the “detainee” Sir and bringing him his bi-hourly caviar.

(4)  Scotland Yard alerted the FBI to serious plots on the part of certain terroristical boogie woogies to blow up NYC subways this past September 11.  How politically correct has American law enforcement become that they need the help of even more politically correct British law enforcement to catch terroristical boogie woogies red-handed?

(5)  I think I’m interpreting this story right, but I think David Cameron is proposing that those who are on the UK equivalent of Section 8 be dispersed to other subsidized rental units in otherwise good neighborhoods.  Which won’t be good neighborhoods for much longer.  Need I say it again?  Vote BNP!

(6)  Groups of “boys” as young as six surround and assault both the paramedics, threaten to shoot them, and damage their vehicles as they’re called to what looks to be a public housing complex to assist a toddler who suffered from burns.  Because it looks to be a public housing complex, I’m guessing that these “boys” were black.

(7)  Just a few days after Scotland Yard reported that 92% of all London area gang rapists are non-white, Scotland Yard is going to solve the problem of gang rape — They will prohibit its officers and officials from using the phrase “gang rape.” Instead, they are to use the phrase “multi-perpetrator rape.”  I’m surprised they’re still allowing the word “rape” and “perpetrator.”  They’ll soon want us to use “multiple participant involuntary orifice penetration.”

Two Decades Ago Today

The first domino fell in the several month long drama that saw walls falling and statues of dictators being toppled, and the translation of Communism away from the eastern half of Europe and into the environmentalist movement and American higher education.  To extend the metaphor, Pope John Paul II blew the first breath of air on the first domino when he came out for the Solidarity organization in his native Poland earlier in the decade.  (It might not amaze you that Catholics get really energized when a Catholic Pope likes what they’re doing.)  Bolstered by Papal imprimatur, Solidarity soldiered onward and upward, and once Solidarity became a legitimate and tolerated political party within Poland by the Summer of 1988, Moscow didn’t have the will, energy or means to roll the Red Army in.  This was about the time that the USSR gave up on Afghanistan after having wasted a lot of men and money, and this was the biggest part of the reason why they couldn’t squash Solidarity.  It became clear that Moscow could be had, which gave moral energy to other freedom fighters in Eastern Europe, which started paying off 20 years ago tonight.  I know there’s that book about Reagan, Thatcher and JP II, those three getting the joint credit for ending Communism as a serious threat, but the person born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland in May 1920 is the one human being on Earth that deserves the singular credit, if you have to boil it down to one person.  (Why do you think the KGB hired a Turkish assassin to try and take him out?)

I was 12 years old and in the 7th grade that late fall and early winter.  It was obviously a daily topic of discussion in class.  I remember my first class the first morning after the Berlin Wall officially became moot (it would take awhile for it to be popularly and formally dismantled, but Wall fragments made it to St. Louis department stores a few weeks before Christmas), that night being 20 years ago tonight.  It was instrumental music class at Enright CJA, and our band teacher, one Michael Collins (shout out, there), pretty much kept my trombone and all the other noisemakers quiet and talked about what was transpiring in front of our faces.  Now there was a great school, that a band teacher could do that, and that 7th graders so willingly participated.  He predicted that:  (1) The USSR wasn’t long for this world, perhaps replaced or dissolved within a year.  He predicted that the majority Muslim SSRs would become independent countries, but the Caucasian European SSRs like the Ukraine and the Baltic States would join with Russia to form a new, somewhat decentralized country.  In reality, it took a little longer than that, and all the SSRs devolved into independent countries.  And that (2)  The aforementioned confederation of white former SSRs would become a “democratic republic” (his own words — remember, this is a band teacher) and would, in time, surpass the United States in innovation, power, influence, and perhaps military might, but benevolently.  That did not come to pass.  Mr. Collins was the first teacher I encountered who gave us the deodorant talk, (he had a good sense of smell), after we call came into band class after lunch time recess on a warm September day in the 6th grade.  Though as you have read before, I had already been using it for a year and a half.  The “talk” perhaps vindicated my precociousness in this regard.  Did I say he was a great teacher?  But I digress.

Question:  When’s that line of dominoes finally going to come our way, so we can topple that ugly concrete visage of our own Nicolae Ceausescu?  If you’re not familiar about who I’m talking about, I’m talking about that old reprobate who is ironically situated about halfway between two D.C. east-west boulevards, one named Constitution, the other named Independence.  Ironic because Adolph Lenin didn’t have respect for either the Constitution or a certain country’s independence.  Nor did he have respect for the private property that his concrete visage directly stares upon; it took a SCOTUS ruling to return Arlington back to the Lee family, which is why I’m not as reflexively anti-judiciary as most right wingers.  However, the damage had already been done, and there was really no other recourse for Lee’s sons than to sell the property back to the enemy for a few peanuts.

If you think I’m engaging in hyperbole, the original Marxist, Karl Marx, was pro-Lincoln and anti-secession during the WBTS, calling the concept of secession “anti-peoples.”  (Evidently, Dixie’s people didn’t count as people in Marx’s worldview.)  Marxist militant nutcases in Spain who tried to overthrow the Franco government called themselves the “Abraham Lincoln Brigade,” mainly because of their mutual support of equality.  None of this was lost on Berliners, either.   The Confederate Battle Flag is the world’s best selling flag; I bet your reading this is the first time you’ve encountered this fact.  Of course, the Powers That Be suppress that little piece of good news.

What was the fate of a good egalitarian like Ceausescu should be that of that other good egalitarian, Lincoln.

Speaking of freedom anniversaries, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released 5 years ago today.  Talk about timing.

“He Had To Do What Was Right For His Constituents”

Ole Yella’ ‘splains his HCR treason.

About a year from now, his precious constituents will do what they think is right for them.

I heard Rush start in to calling him “Cash Cao.”  He must be reading.  Hi, Rush :)

Those SEIU N-Words Used the N-Word

But, according to WGNU Ph.D. “The Project Girl,” blacks “own” that word, so they can do whatever the hell they please with that word.

Yeah, sure lady.  You “own” a racial pejorative.  I’m really jealous.  Not.

The person who wrote this blog post wonders why the prosecution hasn’t filed charges.  Duh — That’s because the “prosecution” in St. Louis County is Circuit Attorney Bob “The Truth Squader” McCulloch, who, along with St. Louis City CA Jennifer Joyce and Metherson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, ganged up together and made the implication (in violation of Federal civil rights laws, I might add) that they were going to arrest and prosecute people who “told lies” about Barack H. Obama mmm mmm mmm during the last few months of the Presidential campaign.  Yeah, I know they said “take action.”  But when prosecutors and sheriffs get together and say they’re going to “take action,” that doesn’t mean they’re going to picket in front of a meth lab.

Also, McCulloch was talked about as U.S. Attorney for STL.  That never materialized.

The ONLY reason why I’m not ready to take this police report as Gospel Truth is because it was authored by the Keystone Cops, aka the “Internationally Accredited” St. Louis County Police Department.  I’ve had enough second- and third-hand experience with them to know they’re not playing with a full deck.

The Torrent At Tarrant

NRA:

Texas: Judge allows students to hold Right-to-Carry protest at Tarrant County College

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday allowing two Tarrant County College students to stage their “empty holster” protest at the community college campuses. U.S. District Judge [*****] said in his ruling that Clayton Smith and John Schwertz Jr., who attend TCC Northeast Campus in Hurst, can wear empty gun holsters and hand out fliers in “public forum areas including, but not limited to, public streets, sidewalks, and common or park areas.” TCC wanted to restrict the protest to a small designated area.

For all of the hassle of going into one, that’s the one good thing about Federal court houses — They’re buildings full of judges who say that you can’t restrict free speech.

Mayor Slop: St. Louis City Police Department Doing Its Job Too Well

And we can’t stand for that now, can we?

Gotta get that local control and a civilian review board ASAP, so that the SLPD can be hamstrung by St. Louis’s glut of welfare-dependent “community activists,” its cracker jack box theology degree “black preachers” and its Lizz Brown style militants.

The Color of Juvenile Crime in St. Louis City: Almost Monochrome

Hank Thompson, St. Louis black talk radio’s avuncular voice of erudition, heard from a prominent St. Louis City circuit juvenile court judge that 99% of all juvenile offenders in his court are black.  Mr. Thompson doesn’t like this, and, drawing the only conclusion that a good racial egalitarian can, thinks that the white cops are ignoring white juvenile crime in the City.  The problem with that is that 98% of adult offenders in the City are black, so it’s not especially deviant, unless you find something suspicious with that, too.  And while white teenagers are more rambunctious than white adults, St. Louis City doesn’t have way too many white teenagers.  If there are any, they are the sons and daughters of white cops and firefighters who have to live in the City.  Most city whites are either upper middle aged or elderly, or young childless yuppies.  In 1990, St. Louis City’s whites had a median age of 55, while the City’s blacks had a median age of 21.  I’m sure the white median has dropped b/c of yuppie gentrification in the earlier parts of this decade.

According to Jared Taylor’s interpretation of statistics, black teenagers are eight times as likely to commit a violent crime as a white teenager.  While that disparity is the lowest among age groups, i.e. showing the highest likelihood of white criminality, the disparity is still very significant.  What this means is that in a jurisdiction with equal numbers of white and black teenagers, then the juvenile courts’ defendants will have 8 blacks for every 1 white, so it will be 88.9% black and 11.1% white.  The St. Louis City numbers are 99% black and 1% non-black (i.e. not necessarily white, could be Hispanics counted as white, or Vietnamese-American), that there are so few white juvenile criminal defendants in the city I think is merely a function of the paucity of white teenagers in the city.

Prediction:  The black civil rights power structure will start demanding “equality” in juvenile arrests in St. Louis City.  Therefore, the SPLD will be compelled either to:  (1)  Arrest black teenagers less often, especially for the less serious end of violent crimes, or (2)  Arrest white teenagers more, or (3) A little of both.  I think it’ll be a little of both, but moreso (2) than (1).  White teenagers will be arrested for increasingly tickey-tack offenses just to make a dent in the stats that Mr. Thompson whines about.  If you’re a white teenager in St. Louis City, you better start being purer than the wife of Caesar and the wind driven snow combined.

While we’re on the subject, the judge that fed that stat to Mr. Thompson is going to be the Headmaster of a new juvenile offender middle/high school in the City, based at the abandoned Blewett Middle School on Cass Avenue.  According to the P-D, (no link b/c it mentions the judge’s name), the yet to be named school will have:

…a police substation, a police athletic and boxing program, “gang resistant” training, a state Youth Services day treatment program, job placement services, a chess club, culinary training, Cameron Youth Orchestra music classes, and Harris Stowe State University tutoring, according to the St. Louis Public release.

Sounds like a pretty damned good high school.  If you’re a white teenager in St. Louis City, and your parents don’t have the money to send you to a Catholic H.S., and you don’t have the grades or luck to get into Metro or Gateway Tech, you ought to commit a crime so you can go to this school.  Except if you’re good in math, and do well in high school calculus, don’t expect Harris-Slow to have enough students sign up for second semester college Calculus, as I so rudely found out the summer between my junior and senior years in H.S.  BTW, I wish boxing would be offered in many more high schools, but if anyone dares say that a school like Parkway Central ought to have a boxing team, the libs will bitch a fit about violence.  Ironically, the violent teenagers will get boxing.

UPDATE 1/24/2012

I see that a forum of bodybuilders is sending this article a lot of traffic.  “Stoliolie17″ doesn’t grok the point of the second paragraph, to which he refers.  It’s not that the juvenile crime rate in St. Louis is 88.9% black 11.1% white, it’s that it would be about that if the city had equal numbers of black and white juveniles of the exact same age distribution curve.  In reality, as this states, 99% of St. Louis’ juvenile crime is black.

Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  House passes PelosiCare by a 5-vote margin last night.  39 Ds voted against, and 1 R voted for.  Guess who the R was.  That’s right:  John Boehner’s yellow butt buddy, Joesph “Cash” Cao.

The Senate HCR bill won’t have the five years of ass pounding provision.  I think that’s a deliberate move on the part of Senate liberal Democrats.  They want the House bill to have a lot of radical shit but the Senate bill not to have, so that there will be easy fodder for compromising out, instead of provisions that Democrats really do want.  Basic rule of negotiating:  You go into the negotiation initially demanding way more than you want, so that when it comes time to bargain and compromise, you’re not bargained out of your comfort zone.  The Democrats will be glad to have one chamber’s bill threaten 5 years in prison for HCR dissidents but the other chamber’s bill not have it, because Republicans will then focus their energy on knocking that part out, but won’t have any steam left to knock out the public option.

(2)  London Mayor Boris Johnson saved a filmmaker from further injury when she was being assaulted by a London girl gang.  Which makes me wonder:  Did the girl gang just not recognize Johnson as one of their own?

(3)  George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning,” nor any other song glorifying the Texas panhandle city, will be playing on London radio anymore.

(4)  The ACLU and the state of Illinois are still fighting over an aborticide parental notification law passed 14 years ago.  Evidently, aborticide is the only right that the ACLU thinks teenagers should have.  Certainly no guns and cigarettes.

(5)  Three-quarters of American men and women between the ages of 17 and 24 would be unable to join the U.S. Armed Forces because of educational deficiencies, physical unfitness or criminal history.  In passing, the article says:

Even with a high school degree, many potential recruits still fail the Armed Forces Qualification Test (the AFQT) and cannot join. The test is used by the military to determine math and reading skills. About 30 percent of potential recruits with a high school degree take the test and fail it.

That means that 30% of H.S. diplomas are nothing more than feel good pieces of paper.  I wonder what the racial demographics are among those thirty percent.

(6)  Bring It On:  Cumulative Voting, a mechanism that is thought to help minority groups in certain voting jurisdictions, also helps the outside-of-the-lamestream hard right wing, perhaps a little bit way too far outside the lamestream.  Some people better be careful what they wish for.

As an aside, Willis Carto once proposed in The Spotlight that a given state should change to statewide at-large cum vote for U.S. House elections, instead of dividing a state up into a given number of districts of approximately the same population.  What that means is that to elect Missouri’s 9 Congress(wo)men, all the candidates would be on the ballot everywhere in the state, with 9 holes next to each of their names.  One could vote for one of the candidates 9 times, or nine candidates once, or one candidate 5 and another 4, or three each for three candidates, or any combination of 9 votes for anywhere from one to nine candidates.  The top 9 candidates in terms of total holes punched would go to Congress.  (The U.S. Constitution does not mandate Congressional districts, just a given whole number apportionment of House seats per state, each state having at least one.  Therefore, Carto’s idea would be Constitutional.)  I wouldn’t mind a smaller state trying it out as an experiment, to see if people could grok it, and to see if it would have Carto’s desired effect, but it sure would be confusing in California.

(7)  Unviable tissue masses can acquire the language accents of its haploid cell donors.

(8)  Todd Akin read the Pledge of Allegiance at Michelle Bachmann’s “House Call” on Thursday at the Capitol Grounds, and he left out “indivisible.” Fine by me, that’s always been my least favorite part of the Pledge anyway.  That word is perhaps the only reason why I don’t want the PoA mandated in public schools.

(9)  Now there’s the pot calling the kettle black.

(10)  Paint his face white, give him an Anglo or Germanic name, and find a picture of him at a tea party.  Then we wouldn’t be hearing excuses about how his life spiraled downward.

(11)  I, too, was a map nut when I was that age.  The only difference is that I used the toy car on the map to go on fantasy roadtrips.

(12)  Because SCOTUS, in all its wonderful wisdom, said no death penalty for people younger than 18, because they’re all dumbasses who can’t possibly cook up premeditiation, gangs are outsourcing their murderous dirty work on those under 18, because they can’t get the chair.  Now, SCOTUS is thinking about prohibiting life sentences for juveniles, at the very least prohibit it for crimes other than Murder 1st.  That way, the gangs will push even more of their non-murderous dirty work on those under 18, becuase they’ll be able to get out of the hoosegow before too long.

(13)  Cameras on every street corner haven’t eliminated crime in London and Chicago.  So why are we to think that cameras in every room would eliminate corruption in government?

(14)  If I were a medic, doctor or nurse with a “Hasan” in my case load, I’d pull the plugs while nobody’s looking.  (“Oops darn, it slipped.”)  That would be my way to keep a fancy ACLU or CAIR lawyer from getting him out of the electric chair.

(15)  Wouldn’t it be just the shits if his lawyers enter a copy of The Bell Curve as evidence?

PelosiCare: Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200.

Five years in Federal prison if your health insurance doesn’t pass muster with the Botox Queen.

I can just hear the conversation among new fish:

“Hey, Butch.  Whaddaya in for?”

“Running a meth ring across state lines.”

“Hey, Leroy.  Whaddaya in for?”

“I didn’t do it.  The racist justice system fucked me over.”

“Hey, Cornelius.  Whaddaya in for?”

“Not having a good enough health care plan.”

At that point, Cornelius can count the last few remaining moments of his asshole staying intact.

Methinks the Democrats have already lost the House in 2010.  Imagine the fodder this will serve for GOP candidates’ TV ads.  Imagery of a Federal prison (and the implications for one’s asshole therein) will sway a lot of votes!

UPDATE 11/10: President Obama de facto agrees with pounding your ass in Federal prison for five years.  To his credit, ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed him multiple times on the issue.  That the President couldn’t oppose that line item in the HCR bill tells me that he agrees.  The President tried to equate mandatory health insurance with mandatory car insurance, but they’re not samey same — You have to get car insurance because (1) You want to operate a motorized vehicle on public roads, which is a privilege, (whereas there is a right to travel, just not with motorized vehicles in public roads), and (2) The only insurance you’re required to have is liability, which means protecting others financially when you cause an accident.  Note that government mandates for liability car insurance has driven up the cost of liability only policies in the years since states started making you be insured, and the same will happen with health insurance with the Obama/Pelosi bill.  I’m for liability car insurance mandates, but I think we should consider the Australian model, where you pay something like AUS $1,000 to register the car for a year, but that includes liability through a state-run insurance bureaucracy.  In other words, the car doesn’t get a license plate unless it gets liability insurance attached with it, and the insurance follows the car, not the driver.  From what I have been told (BTW, how ya doin, Brad?  Long time no talk), there is no age/gender actuarial variability in rates, but if you’ve caused accidents before, you will pay more to register a car.  It keeps liability cheap.  If you want any car insurance beyond liability, then you buy it privately.

Fun With Tired Cliches

P-D:  Ideas flow at summit on DWI

I presume that liquor didn’t so easily flow.

KSDK:  Chris Brown is unsure about his image

I’m sure about his image, so let me help him out.  It’s called being a punk coward pussy.

UK Sun:  [McCartney]:  The Beatles weren’t that good

A fact which seemed to get lost over the screams of millions of teenage girls in the 1960s.

P-D:  Scott response to Fort Hood shootings

Does this “response” involve a press release with a dozen cliches learned in business school?  Or does it involve putting the “Armed” back in Armed Forces?

KFVS:  Machine topples over during Cairo demolition; no one hurt

Why do you need a machine to demolish building in Cairo when you could just wait for the next strong cold front?

UK Daily Mail:  Secondary schools may get a specialist teacher for gypsies

Just make sure the teachers don’t have wallets or purses.

Mass Hispanic Immigration Also Causes White Crime

As Kurt Angle might say, “It’s true, it’s true.”  Just remember, “supervised probation” is an oxymoron.

San Jose Mercury-News:

Scathing report details how state agents missed chances to discover Jaycee Dugard

State parole officials who oversaw the man now charged with Jaycee Dugard’s abduction and years-long sexual bondage repeatedly missed chances to discover Jaycee and her girls, even failing to look into a 12-year-old girl a parole agent found during a visit to Phillip Garrido’s home near Antioch, according to a scathing report released today by a state watchdog agency.

The report, by the state Inspector General’s Office, chides parole officials who have repeatedly claimed that Garrido complied fully with his parole conditions.

“While it is true that Garrido’s California parole was never officially violated,” the report states, “our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims.”

The rest of the article tells you that State Probation officers “dropped the ball” literally dozens of times when it came to obvious warning sings that Garrido was up to no good.  I think the better metaphor is that they didn’t have enough time to hold onto the ball.  You see, thanks to pandemic Hispanic crime, much of it illegal alien, in the state of California, the state’s POs have a massive per-PO caseload, and therefore very little time to “monitor” each probationee.  Had the United States of America had a sensible (i.e. white) immigration policy since 1965, then California’s probation officers wouldn’t be so busy with MS-13 and Latin King gang bangers, and therefore might have had the time to rescue Jaycee Dugard and toss Garrido, one of those rare white criminals, back in the clink much sooner than they actually did.

While all this is brewing in your head, I’m about to lay some bad news for you:  It’s coming to Illinois.  Governor Quinn just signed off on early parole for some one thousand supposedly non-violent felons.  Though the slight silver lining with that is that they’ll probably be mostly white and really non-violent, because Chicagograd’s impossibly lenient justice system means that non-violent black felons from Chicago don’t get sent to prison.  (Neither do many of the truly violent felons.)  But white/rural justice systems, especially Southerners/Dixie and Krauts, i.e. all of Illinois south of Springfield save ESL, Cairo, Carbondale and Murphysboro, are hanging judges and juries.  (Hint:  Illinois from about Route 13 south is essentially the mid-South.  You can hear slight accents in natives of the kind that you hear more heavily pronounced in western Kentucky.  The Southeast Missouri accent is more like Mississippi, the Mississippi River Delta commonality holding true there.  Most of rural Illinois south of about Peoria and north of about Rend Lake is largely German/Kraut.)

 

Ghetto Lottery Played at Kennett Wal-Mart

Diary of a Mad Black Woman:  Kennett, Mo. Wal-Mart patron, a belligerent black woman, claims that white customers pushed her and white city cops called her racial slurs.  Most of the time, when blacks claim that a white uttered a racial slur, they’re trying to cover their own asses.  Black thugs of the other gender play this card a lot, when trying to smear a white cop who accosted him, or a white potential victim who fought back.  I imagine most of them learned this trick in prison, and it spread from the hoosegowbirds to their women relatives and acquaintances.

UPDATE 11/10: The Dunklin County assistant C.A. who would have prosecuted the woman for charges filed against her stemming from the incident has stepped aside.  A Cape County assistant C.A. will be the special prosecutor.  It’s too bad the prosecution can’t move the case out of Dunklin, because I think Miss Ellis is already trying to bias potential jurors.  To wit:

The article, “Felony charge for cutting in line while black in Missouri,” tells Ellis’ side of the story in which she claims to have been racially targeted by both Wal-Mart employees and Kennett police officers. The story also accuses a police officer of intimidating her family with a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) business card.

Dunklin County has enough blacks such that, combined with Federal civil rights laws, there will be at least one, probably at least two, blacks on the jury that will decide her fate, if the matter makes it to trial.  Miss Ellis is trying to engineer sympathy among the county’s blacks, so they won’t find her guilty.

Affirmative Action Kills

Army Major with three Arab names goes on a shooting rampage at Ford Hood, killing 12 other soldiers.  The U.S. President, also with three Arab names, has been briefed about the matter.  And I’m supposed to feel comforted?

The media are saying that it’s not terrorism, so that’s my first clue that it’s terrorism.  The only other scenario is that the suspect is a black American convert to Islam, and therefore this was a typical black crime.  However, going on a rampage and shooting twelve people at one time isn’t typical black behavior.

UPDATE:  KTVI on Twitter says he’s Jordanian.  Only the damned fool Yankee Army would accept these kind of people and then turn around and make them Officers while we’re fighting a war against their ilk.

UPDATE:  NBC reports that Major Hasan was a mental health professional.  Do I have to say something about the damned fool Yankee Army again?

UPDATE:  The U.S. Army evidently doesn’t like its own soldiers packing heat on or off base.  That makes them sitting ducks for tragedies like these.

11/6

Yelled “Allah u Akbar” before shooting.  Proof:  Terrorism.

Claire McCaskill said she was “sick” about the “tragedy.”  She should be enraged about the terrorist hate.

He has a long history of making internet posts and ranting in person about how wonderful jihadists were/are.  And yet, he was never disciplined for any of this, and was even promoted to Major during this time span.

The Deputy Director of an organization of Muslim veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces says that there has not been one incident of religious harassment against Muslims in the military.  This contradicts what the suspect’s relative told Shep Smith on Fox.  The more fundamental question in my mind is this — Why isn’t there any harassment of Muslims in the Armed Forces, while we’re supposedly in a low level racial holy war against them?  There ought to be.  If this organization of Muslim vets isn’t seeing this harassment, it’s probably because most Muslims in the U.S. Armed Forces are black American converts to Islam.

Suspect was a homeland security adviser to the Obama transition team.

11/8

Evidently, there is a whole community of Muslims at Hood.

Many of those who knew Major Hasan knew that something bad was about to happen, but were scared to report him.  Why, you ask?  Two words:  Flying Imams.  The CAIR has blood on its hands.

11/9

Not even God’s messengers can figure out why Major Hasan did what he did.  Amazing that little ole me, just some schmuck from flyover schmuckville, can figure it out, but the Army’s own preachers can’t.

The CIA knew that Major Hasan was actively linking himself with AQ.  This is why I don’t believe that numerous CIA surveillance powers and spying mechanisms are a panacea, even if they’re constitutional.  The reason is that the CIA, FBI, ATF and the whole alphabet gang can easily gather information about Hasan and his ilk.  The problem is that the information they gather show that protected minority racial and religious groups are mostly the ones being terroristical boogie woogies, so the information gets sent to File 13.  It’s like London and Chicago having surveillance cameras on every corner — Fine as far as it goes, but they show mostly blacks doing the crime.  Therefore, the video gets panned.

General Casey, please do something for me that nobody else that regurgitates the same mindless bromide that you just did seems to be able to do.  And that is this:  Tell me why or how our diversity is our strength.  And don’t say that diversity is a strength because it means many different kinds of people in one place — that is a DEFINITION of diversity.  But that doesn’t explain why/how it’s a strength.  I can think of 13 plus 31 reasons right off the top of my head why it ISN’T a strength.

It is said that Flimsy Grahamnesty has jumped the shark over the Hasan question.  If you ask me, that jumped that shark many many episodes ago.

Sappy Crappy Nappy is worried about an “anti-Muslim backlash.” She should have been more worried about a Muslim frontlash.

Major Hasan was a frequent customer at local strip joints.  He last went to one certain establishment a week before he started shooting.  The 9/11 hijackers also liked strip clubs.  Perhaps the FBI can forecast future terrorist attacks by going to strip joints and watch for Muslims.  Wouldn’t you like to be on that detail? :)  Your wife might be a harder sell.

About the PTSD excuse — He had not yet been deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan, and, as a psychiatrist, wouldn’t have engaged in active combat anyway.

11/10

Like Mayor Daley, I think the gun issue can be blamed.  The only difference is that he thinks there are too many, while I think there weren’t enough.

BTW, guess who ordered gun control on military bases.  As if you had to guess…

Hasan:  “We love death more than you love life.” Quoting his hero and mentor, one Osama bin Laden.

The FBI has opened an investigation, though don’t expect that to go anywhere — like the Armed Forces, the FBI has been in big time Muslim kiss ass mode for most of this decade.

PJB rings in on the issue, though what he said can be boiled down to just a few familiar words:  Ye cannot be the servant of two masters.

11/16

It turns out the heroism of the woman MP might be a little bit of an embellishment.  I think that social concern for gender issues is involved, because the whistleblower wants to remain anonymous, otherwise he is worried that his telling the truth would damage his military career.

11/17

In violation of doctor-patient confidentiality laws and edicts, Hasan snitched on his own patients, who admitted to him that they committed acts not square with the ACLU Handbook.

 

2009 General Election in Review

I know many people that read this medium won’t agree with me, but I’m not exactly jumping up and down for joy due to last night’s election results.

Yeah, VA.  Rs swept all three statewide offices, including one Ken Cuccinelli, who is going to make an exceptional Attorney General, and that’s coming from someone as jaded as yours truly.  There were a lot of good signs for conservatives and Republicans in yesterday’s local races from across the country, including the main host of XM/Sirius’s Catholic Channel, who interviews Cardinal George once a week, becoming Westchester County, N.Y. County Executive.  Westchester is about as liberal and aborticide-happy a county as you can find.  Remember, that’s where Bill and Hillary Clinton bought a house within the last year of his Presidency, in the upscale Westchester Co. suburb of Chappaqua (“Disgraceland”).  They bought there mainly so HRC could carpetbag her way into the U.S. Senate, and inevitably use that to reclaim what they thought was their birthright after Bush 43′s Presidency.  The irascible Nita Lowey represents most of that county in the U.S. House.  For a well-known pro-life Catholic to win there is amazing.  (UPDATE 11/9:  Turns out the big issue in Westchester County was “affordable housing,” i.e. moving more blacks and Hispanics in.  The long time incumbent was for, the man who won is against.  Which is sort of amazing, because I’m sure the Diocese in the NYC metro area advocates for this sort of thing, so he went against the political opinions of The Church.  The other thing that jumps out at me is that any given Westchester County voter just loves this sort of “scatter site” housing for other people in other places, but oh no — liberal hypocrite doesn’t want to get hoisted on his or her own petard.)

But the combination of New Jersey Governor and NY-23 House disturbed me.  I said in my election preview last week that I DIDN’T want Chris Christie to win because of his moderate image, and that he beat a real conservative named Lonegan in the NJ-R-GOV primaries, and that I thought Corzine would eke it out, mainly b/c of linking himself to BHO, his linking Christie to Bush, and ACORN voter fraud.  I also said that I wanted Doug Hoffman, the upstart CPA, to win in NY-23, and that I thought he would.  That both Christie won and Hoffman lost is the worst possible outcome for our side.  Now, the Stupid Party will start preaching moderation and pushing David Brooks in our face.  They’ll start funneling more money to libs.  I’m actually happier that a Christie win means that his running mate, Kim Guadagno, becomes Lieutenant Governor.  (NJ changed its Constitution to force candidates for Governor to pick running mates, as sitting Governors don’t seem to have much luck holding onto office as of late, thanks to all the “Gay Americans” and seatbelt hypocrites.  Before now, the State Senate President served as acting Governor, that responsibility going to Richard Codey twice in the last decade.)  Like Christie, Guadagno is a former prosecutor, but was most recently the Sheriff of Monmouth County.  Much to her credit, she signed up for the 287(g) program, which meant that county sheriff’s deputies and the county’s jail had joint immigration jurisdiction with the Federal government in general and ICE in particular.  I don’t wish ill on anyone, but it’s not lost on me that Miss Guadagno is one heartbeat or ink pen stroke away from being Governor.  Either way, she’s got a good future ahead of her — U.S. Senate, perhaps?  For a middle aged white woman, she’s actually sorta hot :)

BTW, what is it with New Jersey and people named “Christ…?”  There was Christie Todd Whitman, and now Chris Christie.  Maybe they’re not so anti-Christian after all :)

In St. Louis County, Missouri, the war of cultural genocide against the white working class trudged along by an almost 2-to-1 margin.  That triggers a similar smoking ban in the City, because the City passed theirs contingent on the County, mainly because they both wanted to be the same so that it wouldn’t attract or repel smokers to the one that did or away from the one that did not have it.  Also, a tax measure to fund 911 technology upgrades passed by a 2-to-1 margin; taxes destined to help cops and firefighters rarely fail, and rarely have organized opposition.  But this one did, based on the premise that St. Louis County should have made these upgrades years ago with other monies, and that this 911 measure winning would only allow them to screw up their budget priorities.  The last time there was something like this on the ballot was in April 1999, and it failed.  It was little noticed, because that was the same day as the statewide conceal-carry vote.

I don’t mind more money going to fire departments, but there has been a lot of problems with law enforcement in St. Louis County in the last few years.  For instance, the “internationally accredited” St. Louis County Police Department couldn’t find a dead body in a closet until the third time they scoured a south county house — it didn’t occur to the dumbass cops that went through there the first two times to open closet doors.  Were it not for a resident of a Kirkwood apartment complex showing two dumbass Kirkwood cops that there was a certain white pickup truck parked in the apartments’ parking lot, a truck that everybody in town was looking for for two days, then Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck might still be Michael Devlin’s sex slaves.  Those cops had that apartment complex on their daily beat, and it all slipped passed their pea brains.  I was in a moderate car wreck in St. Louis City a few years ago that the cops who pulled up on the scene wouldn’t have noticed the vehicle I was in was part of the accident, because the accident pushed it about 50 yards from the impact.  I had to get out and show the dumbasses that there was another banged-up car other than the one that forcefully caused the accident.  I don’t know what it is with cops, but they seem to be getting dumber and dumber and dumber lately.  I think what it is is that departments in big cities are having to lower the standards so that more blacks can get in, but if they lower the bar far enough, this means that more dumb whites can get in as well (all the cops, save one of the many city cops that showed up to the accident I describe, were white.)  Smarter whites are too smart not to get involved in the impossible thankless imbrogliana that is urban law enforcement, because the know that every accostation of a black motorist, pedestrian or other is a potential career or life ender, or at the very least fodder for decades of civil rights lawsuits and NAACP bitching.

Until all those problems are fixed, I wouldn’t vote for one more penny for cop departments.

Was this a referendum on Obama?  Maybe so, but exit polls show that voter turnout among people under 30 (fast fading into my background :() was way down, and those that did had higher margins for Republicans.  I don’t think this means that Obama’s gone in 2012, because all those young libs will turn out once again, for sure.  At the same point in Clinton’s first term, November 1993, Republicans won Governor in NJ (Whitman) and VA (George Allen), and Mayor’s races in NYC (Giuliani) and LA (Riordan).  And Rs did take back the House and Senate the next year, but then Clinton came back and won a second term in 1996.

There is really nothing to report from southern Illinois.  Not much down here except for the odd tax measure in the odd town or two, and nothing at all for where I live.

For Every Tuesday Election Euphoria, There’s a Wednesday Hangover

AP:  La. justice quits after interracial wed flap

In other words, the left wing mounted a campaign of assassinationist vitriol and hate against a judge.  Because we all know that criticizing the rulings of a judge is the same as wanting to assassinate him or her.  Right?

CNS:  Pelosi’s Health Care Bill Would Regulate Snack Machines at Estimated Cost of $56 Million the First Year

Get ready for the $7 bag of vending machine Doritos.  (Hint:  You get 50 times the amount of chips for half the price if you go to a supermarket.)

CNS:  Republican Chris Christie Plans to ‘Turn Trenton Upside Down’

But he’ll leave Newark, Atlantic City, Camden, Passaic, Upper Saddle River and Point Pleasant right side up.  (I was also considering a House pun, or a takeoff of “Trenton Makes The World Takes,” but House is fictional, and Trenton’s only manufacturing these days is handcuffs.)

UK Telegraph:  Child support investigators get new spying powers – Spying powers designed to combat terrorism and serious crime are to be used to track down absent fathers who do not pay for child support.

Boys and girls, this is what they mean by “anarcho-tyranny.”

KC Star:  Taxing yoga and Pilates

Finally, we found a tax that libs won’t like.  Maybe we can use this money to fund S-CHIP and give smokers back their buck a pack.

CNS:  Group urges CW stations not to air ‘Gossip Girl’

That would otherwise be a pock mark on the CW’s otherwise wholesome, family oriented prime time lineup.

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Evidently, free food isn’t its own best reward anymore.  In an effort to get more otherwise income-eligible parents to sign up their children for free or reduced school breakfasts and lunches, the St. Louis City Public Schools will be raffling off iPods to random students whose parents sign them up for the program.

Imagine all that extra food the $200 multiplied by how many ever iCabal portable music players can buy.

Race Trumps Jungle Preservation

Another example, I think, of race trumping pet concerns within the left wing.

Slate:

What Ever Happened to the Amazon Rain Forest?

We used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, but lately not a word. So what happened—did we save it or not?

(snip)

By that point, popular interest in the Amazon was on the decline. Using the Nexis news database, the Lantern found 993 articles about the Amazon forest in U.S. papers from 1990. In 1995, that number dips by more than one-third, even as deforestation rates spiked higher than they’d ever been. Today, about one-fifth of Brazil’s remaining forests are officially protected, but huge swaths of land in states like Mato Grosso have been taken over by cattle plantations and soy. Brazilian laws require Amazonian landowners to maintain 80 percent forest cover, but the law is rarely enforced. Even now, Brazil continues to encourage landless peasants to flock to the Amazon, and it has yet to give up on the dream of a transoceanic highway.

That’s because it dawned on the environmentalists that Brazil is full of mulattoes and Indians.  Therefore, it was politically incorrect, some say racist, to bemoan the destruction of the natural environment at the hands of non-whites.

 

Today’s Incident Roster

UK Telegraph:  Golf courses can help save birdies, say RSPB

Conservation by people with double bogey handicaps.

UK Telegraph:  Comic strip to inspire new generation of activists in rally against corruption

As Onion Horton might say, nobody ever drew their way to freedom.

KFVS:  Police arrest Carbondale man for two armed robberies

It’s kinda surprising that a man named “Cash” somehow didn’t have enough already, so that he had to go out and jack people for it.

P-D:  Rep. Shimkus: Taking time to read the whole health bill

It was nice for his district to have a Congressman, for his children to have a father, and his wife to have a husband.  But it’s all gone now; he’s going to be preoccupied for the next 40 years.

Slashdot:  Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors

That’s about as relevant as Windows Vista blocking Atom Processors.  Who could run Snow Leopard or Vista on an Atom Processor anyway?

Slashdot:  Scientists Build a Smarter Rat

Just what this world needs, smarter rabid rodents.

Alex Jones:  Al Gore Set To Become First “Carbon Billionaire”

He’ll be able to afford an even bigger energy-wasting house and three more monitors for his one computer.

KSDK:  UPDATE: Dozen students treated after incident at Sumner High

UPDATE:  I wish KSDK would quit calling fights in black schools “incidents.”

Election Journal:  Terrified Voter says NJ Dems Using Gangbangers for [Get Out The Vote]

Jon Corzine can’t poll above 42% in a state that Obama won by 16 last year.  Gang bangers are the only kind of loyal Democrat constituents left that will actually do any work to electe Corzine.

Warren Buffet Catches a Train

Berkshire Hathaway to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44 gigabucks.

Prediction:  President Obama will start talking about railroads, in terms of using them more, funding them more, or something like that, in the coming weeks.  No way that he’ll let a billionaire that supports him lose money.  Whaddaya think bailouts, stimulus, porkulus, spendulus and TARPulus was all about?  No billionaire left beind.

Monday Headline Marathon

Laura Ingraham on Twitter:  The US wins the NY Marathon after a very long drought!

We really haven’t, if you look a little closer.

P-D:  Colo. ski town could push marijuana legalization

Imagine the parlay package this town could push — Smoke weed until you’re higher than the surrounding mountains, then ski down a mountain.  We could see dozens of Darwin Award winners coming out of this berg.

NYP:  Sir Charlie – Are they high? Jamaica dubs Rangel knight

Look up Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution.  This means he can’t be a Congressman anymore.  Hooray!

KFVS:  MoDOT Bans employees from texting while operating agency vehicles

Illinois DOT actually budgets time and money for its employees to text and otherwise goof off while supposedly working.

P-D:  College presidents’ pay hits new record

Executive pay scandals that won’t hear jack shit from Democrats about.  Wonder why.

CNS:  Obama Lifts Ban on US Entry for Those with HIV

The HIV/AIDS infection rate is going to soar to pandemic levels, all of a sudden.

CNS:  More than 3 Million Registered Voters are Dead, 12 Million More Ineligible, Analysis Finds

That makes 15 million dead or ineligible, while Obama beat McCain by 10 million.  Hmmm…

P-D:  South Korea considers law barring race discrimination

Not much of a point when everybody’s Korean.

Media Research Center:  CBS’s Schieffer Accuses Limbaugh of Breaking White House’s ‘Truce’ with FNC

For there to be a “truce” between Fox News and the White House means there had to be a war to begin with.  Can’t wage war in Afghanistan, but can wage a war against a cable news network, and other war that CBS can’t cover accurately.

WAT:  Ford reports $1 billion 3Q profit

It’s easy to make money when you’re the last non-Obama American car company left.

P-D:  Rams notebook: Jackson, Brown are stars for Rams

But not Jackson Browne.

WSIL:  High School Football Succeeds Against Rainy Weather

That’s in southern Illinois.  In Texas, high school football would succeed against tornadic weather.

Teachers As Parents

It’s as obnoxious on the other side of the pond as it is here.

And, I bet many of these “actual experts” about raising children don’t have any children themselves.

A Tale of Two Christopher S. Bond Bridges

Missouri already has one, a two-lane bridge over the Missouri for Route 19 at Hermann.  It will soon have another, to replace the I-29/35 Paseo in KC, also over the Missouri River.  Someone noted in the KC Star that the one in Hermann has a bike/pedestrian lane, but the one in KC will not.

<sarcasm>That’s because there is a glut of foot and bike commuter traffic between Hermann and McKittrick.  It’s so dense that it makes the 405 in southern California look like an easy drive.</sarcasm>

I’m not impressed with Kit Bond’s ability to get Missouri bridges named after himself.  If he can get a bridge in Massachusetts named for himself, then I’ll bow down.

MSO For MO

AP:

Mo. partners with Microsoft for tech education

ST. LOUIS — The state of Missouri and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up on a program that Gov. Jay Nixon says will provide thousands of the state’s residents with free access to e-learning and certification programs from the company.

Nixon was in St. Louis on Monday to announce that Missouri is among the first seven states participating in Microsoft Elevate America.

Through the program, Missouri will receive 24,750 vouchers that will entitle residents to access specialized e-learning programs for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and other programs and platforms from the company.

The Missouri Department of Economic Development’s Division of Workforce Development will administer the program, and vouchers are now available.

<sarcasm>That’s because there are way too few people already that know how to use Word and Excel</sarcasm>, that 24,750 more Missourians will learn Word and Excel at no expense to them.

Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  During her time in the Missouri House from a Kansas City area state rep district, Connie Cierpiot was one of the better Republicans in the state legislature, who I wish would have tried a run for statewide office, and used that as a stairstep to Governor.  She didn’t, and served out all the terms she could have in the House before being term limited out, and hasn’t been heard from since.  Now her husband wants that House seat.

(2)  According to a Pew Reserach poll about American adults and internet use, only 4% admit to using the web to download or upload porn, which evidently makes it the least common of Pew’s options.  Obviously, most people won’t admit to porn, so the truth is much higher.  To find out what the truth is, turn the poll upside down.  Don’t forget, the internet was invented explicitly to download binary bits of information that could be reassembled into women’s private parts.

(3)  Time-Warner will lay off about 540, or 6%, of its dead tree and ink media staff by Christmas.  If someone just created some word processing macros that would automagically cut-and-paste material from splcenter.org into T-W’s layout programs, then T-W could lay off most of the rest of their staff.

(4)  Our Yankee government is spending a half million bucks to convince mainly black “refugee” teenagers in St. Louis not to join or form gangs.  Had they not been “resettled” here in the first place, the Yankee government would have been able to keep that half million for some real expense, like 150 screwdrivers for the Coast Guard.  And we’d have fewer gang bangers.

(5)  It’s not that guys fart more, Mrs. A.  It’s that they find it funny more often.

(6)  At this rate, Bernie Madoff will be the next SEC Chairman.  If you think it’s insane that a known swindler could run the SEC, I have two words for you:  Joe Kennedy.

And some headlines.

SIL:  Conference at SIUC all about innovation

“Innovation.”  Sounds like “competitive advantage,” which means more H-1B visas and Carbondale turning into Bangalore.

P-D:  Rams make final plans for Lions behind closed doors

Because if they opened the doors to see the “plans,” everyone would be laughing their guts out.

KSDK:  Leonard Little: “Don’t feel sorry for me”

I’ll save my pity for Gutweilers.

CNS:  Millions Spent on Small Border Stations Justified

I don’t justify all that money being spent.  If we’re going to have amnesty and open borders, why have and pay for a BP at all?