(1) I don’t know how I feel about this. Some time ago, a chatroom buddy said that it was a dangerous thing that automobiles are becoming more computer and less mechanics. If the local cops can shoot an EMP gun to stop N’Deshawntavious, then AQ can disable most of the cars in a city.
(2) This is what happens when criminals have more civil rights than victims. The more of something you encourage, the more if it you will have.
(3) The New Prohibition. Or, to put it another way, the ATF isn’t just about the “F” anymore, it’s now focused on the “T.” And guess who’s egging the ATF on? Right…those lovely do-gooder liberals who bitch about potheads not having civil liberties. Of course, the libs like to whine about “abusive” Federal law enforcement when Republican is President and the law is actually being enforced, but you notice they never have much if any criticism for the ATF. I think the reason is that the ATF, especially the T and the F, aren’t their “vices.” Tobacco and firearms aren’t big among lefties.
(4) The New Prohibition, Part II: A northern California high school students who didn’t bring a gun onto school property but got punished for it anyway got his suspension overturned by the school board that has authority over his high school. However, those who supported the suspension said that he was a discipline problem, because he used the n-word a lot while in the middle of a stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird, (HINT: TKAM uses the n-word frequently), and called a teacher “a stupid Mexican” (probably because s/he was.) If that’s a “discipline problem,” I wonder how they would characterize the real bad apples in that school. Though, this being California, most of thos “bad apples” are probably Hispanic, and are therefore off limits from criticism.
(5) Nomentum: GOP feeling its oats post Brown, and have Babs Boxer in its sights next. Trouble is, GOP is sending up Carly H-1Borina, who we now know hearts Jesse Jackson.
Republican Party establishment. FAIL.
(6) Hams can be very helpful when there is a natural or man-made disaster. But not when the victims try to kill you. In that case, it’s a little more than a little QRM.
(7) President Obama is going to reassemble his 2008 Presidential campaign team for 2010, in the Democrats’ attempt to retain control of Congress. This means all you House and Senate Democrats up this year — David Axelrod has now found a bunch of new suckers to read his prefab “hopeychange” speeches in public.
(8) Various UK police forces to use unmanned aerial drones against “antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers [illegal garbage dumping -- Ed.].” In other words, against everyone but the actual criminals.
(9) A media source you’ve heard of (and by “you,” I mean the average person) denounces the “new world order” implications of a UN small arms control treaty, and that it will interfere with the American 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
Alex Jones’s Prison Planet?
Yeah, I know you’ve heard of it, but they haven’t.
The John Birch Society’s New American magazine?
While most people go into Borders at least once a year, they might not notice TNA on the mag rack.
World Net Daily?
They’ve covered this in the past, but, no.
Answer:
ESPN.
(10) Osama bin Laden channels Erroll Southers to warn President Obama of more terrorist attacks.
(11) NYT scribe Tom Friedman’s vision of the future:
In November, a documentary movie — “Ten9Eight” — was released that tracked a dozen students all the way through to the finals of the NFTE competition. Obama should arrange for this movie to be shown in every classroom in America. It is the most inspirational, heartwarming film you will ever see. You can obtain details about it at www.ten9eight.com.
This year’s three finalists, said Amy Rosen, the chief executive of NFTE, “were an immigrant’s son who took a class from H&R Block and invented a company to do tax returns for high school students, a young woman who taught herself how to sew and designed custom-made dresses, and the winner was an African-American boy who manufactured socially meaningful T-shirts.”
Sorry, that’s not indicative of a bright future. Virtually every high school student who has to fill out a tax return only needs to do the 1040-EZ form, and the EZ is so, well, easy, that a monkey can do it. (Or, H&R Blockhead will charge you 40 clams). And while “socially meaningful T-shirts” (read: Obama periphenelia) might do well among dopey liberals, there are only so many dopey liberals.
(12) Miss Misandry:
A female Democratic lawmaker in footage released Sunday said Congress could pass healthcare if female lawmakers “sent the men home.”
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) said that both Republican and Democratic women members of Congress understand how to care for relatives and thus want the healthcare system to change.
“We go to the ladies room and the Republican women and the Democratic women and we just roll our eyes,” she said. “And the Republican women said when we were fighting over the healthcare bill, if we sent the men home…” at which point she was interrupted by loud applause.
“You know why? I’m not trying to diss the men but I’m telling you it’s the truth that every single woman there has been responsible for taking care of a [relatives] and so we think we can find a common ground there,” she said.
The social welfare state in Britain and Germany, and probably most other European countries, predated women’s suffrage. While most American social welfare programs on the Federal level came after full women’s suffrage, there were some started in various progressive (and by “progressive,” I mean by early 20th Century standards) cities and localities at the time when women could not yet vote. The difference then was that funding sources for these programs were secure. Now, if we are to believe Miss Shea-Porter, I guess we have to pass a new nightmare health care bureaucracy simply because women supposedly “care” more, whilst running up the deficit. Leave it to the broads in Congress to run up the national credit card.
Ooooh, yeah. I’m gonna hear about that one.
(13) Mitchell Baker, who was once upon a time the Chief Lizard Wrangler at Mozilla/Firefox, unloaded on the Copywrong Extremists at a German tech conference. I agree with her, in that the RIAAs and MPAAs of the world and their fanaticism threatens internet freedom. But running a close second are white (and other) liberal egalitarian commissars wanting to ban “hate” speech. Since Baker was once an IP lawyer for Netscape, her criticism is especially relevant.
(14) Looks like those teleprompter jokes weren’t just jokes.
If you are a cartoonist, here’s an idea for you:
A young Michelle Robinson is at a dinner table at what looks to be an upscale restaurant, with expensive china, flatwear and champagne glasses. A young Barack Obama is on his knees in front of her where she is seated, motioning as if he has a ring for her finger, proposing marriage. To Obama’s left and right are telepropters with the text, “Michelle Robinson Will You Marry Me” on the surfaces facing toward him, with him looking at one of the prompters and not his future wife.
(15) P-D profiles this 13-year old middle school student who sends about 20,000 txtmsgs a month, yet she does well in school, plays the drums in the school’s band and runs track. Musn’t be much of a school, band or track team. And I highly doubt that her parents screen every one of her msgs. I’m sure they have real jobs.
(16) Retiring Congressman Marion Berry [D-AR], no relation to the crackhead D.C. mayor, (I should say), claims that President Obama isn’t worried about 2010 being another 1994, and that the President thinks the mitigating difference is himself.
While it’s easy to dismiss this as Obama conceit, I take it one step further — I think it’s another Obama shot across the Clinton bough. I agree with Jamie Allman, that Michelle Obama’s seemingly lame brain “proud of my country for the first time in my adult life” comment of 2008 was a sub rosa shot at the Clintons, because she was an adult, and not “proud of her country,” during the eight years Bill and Hillary Clinton were co-Presidents.
(17) Other than the outrage of giving a young man who just turned 16 a German ultra luxury sedan that runs about a half megabuck, and a ten kilobuck check that he immediately double endorsed for Haiti relief (how generous of him to have given $10,000 away after getting a $500,000 car just a moment before — I’m thinking pre-planned PR stunt), there is something conspicuous about the new driver that is the offspring of P. Diddy nee Puff Daddy that jumps right out at me. Yep, I’m guessing the mother is either white or very light skinned.
Diddy loves them black people alright, but turns right around and lays up with either a white woman or the lightest possible black woman, and gives his son a German car.
It just might be me, and most of you might not agree with me. But if I had that much money and children, I would spoil them as little as possible, both in terms of gifts and inheritance. And anything they do get from me, they would earn, in one way or another, to teach them the value of a dollar (“cha-ching” to “value of a dollar,” I know.) Things like cars they would earn the money to buy in the real world. The reason I would be so anal about it is that spoiled white trust fund babies are the type that like to dump bags of money on people like Jesse Jackson.
Ask yourself honestly: Will young Mr. Combs ever do anything in his life to deserve a $500,000 car in the sense that his father did?
(18) On the white basketball league: First off, the more I think about it, the more I believe it’s a publicity stunt on the part of some ex-wrestling (there’s your clue, Sherlock) promoter/blubberhead. Otherwise, I just don’t understand why some people who should otherwise know better, such as Matt Drudge and Bruce Jacobs are so opposed to it. The way they ramble on about it, and about how evil it is, one would think they think it would affect them personally. I suppose what we’re to think is that wherever there are ten white men in a gym between the lines playing basketball, that the aggregate of the shoe friction with the hardwood and the evaporation of the players’ sweat form an ethereal gas that is poisonous to people named Matt or Bruce.
(19) The son also sets: Beau’s a no go to replace his father, Vice-Messiah Joe Biden, in his old Senate seat. Currently, it’s held by former Joe Biden aide Ted Kaufman. Biden the Younger’s decision not to run pretty much ensures that a Republican, former Delaware Gov. Mike Castle, wins the seat. Currently, Castle is in the U.S. House, holding Delaware’s only Congressional seat. This is one case where a Governor ran for and won a House seat, even though in DE, it’s the equivalent of a statewide elected office. The reason I noticed that was the long running debate I had with someone about the prestige of a Governor vs a House member. But he probably ran for that seat because the two Senate seats were locked up at the time.
(20) People who can afford to pay for something have a better experience with the thing than people who can’t afford to pay. What’s so controversial about that?
The answer is race. The former are mostly white, and the latter are mostly black and black-ish Hispanic. The article does not mention this, but the hospitals and clinics where the latter patronize would also tend to be full of affirmative action employees, so that’s one reason why the care is worse. All this is greasing the skids for denying health care to whites for the sake of “equality.”
(21) I told some of you that I know personally that the American Conservative was basically dead when Ron Unz took over for Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulous, b/c Unz is open borders all the way, and not the deepest of thinkers otherwise. But some of you blew me off as if I didn’t know what I was talking about.
Behold: I know what I’m talking about.
As for Mr. Unz, while his statistics and interpretation of statistics might be right, he’s forgetting the racial aspect. The United States of America is a white country, and it should stay that way. And I believe that no matter who rotten and criminal the whites are, and/or how well behaved non-white arrivals of both the legal and illegal variety are.
(22) Boys and girls, this is what they call beating a dead horse — Only a government decides what is legal and illegal, in both its literal laws and enforcement patterns. So what, the Iraq invasion was “illegal?” What’s the British or American government gonna do? Indict itself? Ha ha. Even the BNP wastes time on this kind of rhetoric. If I were advising them, I would have them knock it off. You can come off as unpatriotic to even the most ardent of Iraq invasion critics. By saying the Iraq invasion was “illegal,” you’re giving moral aid and energy to Islamists (methinks there’s a few of those in England), and morally endorsing world government, which I thought the BNP opposed.
(23) Hallelujah, it’s about time: The Florissant City Council rebukes the Loweryfather. Lowery’s response is that what the City Council is doing amounts to unconstitutional thuggery. Pot kettle black.
