NYC’s Finest pop the teenage SonofaPaterson for shootin’ dice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
In spite of this, he will have far better luck in gambling than his father ever did. Every one of his poker hands were rotten. At least that’s what everyone told him.
Students at the University of Tennessee here are “rioting” upon hearing the news that their football head coach of one year is leaving for the USC job.
Looks to me more like Critical Mass on foot.
Even though I listen to Rush AMAP: Rush blamed Haiti’s horrible conditions, both pre and post-earthquake, on its “socialist” government.
Yet, Sweden has a “socialist” government, and it seems to handle natural disasters rather well.
Sorry, El Rush Bo. Haiti isn’t the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere because it is “socialist,” it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere because it is the blackest.
While we’re on the subject, the devastation has afforded a chance for American’s Special Envoy to Haiti to be on TV quite a lot in the next few days. And just who is that? Oh, right. Bill Clinton. That earthquake might have been the worst thing that ever happened to most of today’s Haitians, but it has saved Bill Clinton from total obscurity.
The PR firm founded by Ari Fleischer, President Bush 43′s first Press Secretary, is handling the Mark McGwire “rehabilitation” propaganda putsch. AMAF, the firm had Mac sit down with Bob Costas, because (WARNING: FULL INCEST ALERT AHEAD) Costas’s own PR handlers owns a fraction of Fleischer’s firm. I also tend to think that Costas got this interview b/c both he and Mac have tangential links to St. Louis.
And just what did Fleischer’s once upon a time boss say about steroids and other PEDs?
The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football and other sports is dangerous and it sends the wrong message: that there are shortcuts to accomplishment and that performance is more important than character. So tonight I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough and to get rid of steroids now.
That was from President Bush’s 2004 State of the Union.
What President Bush forgot to call for his for his former employees not to take up for known steroid cheats.
Obama’s TSA Nominee Once Said U.S. a Terror Target for Ties to Israel, France
President Obama’s nominee to lead the federal agency in charge of airport security claimed in 2008 that America is subject to terror attacks because of its alliances with countries like Israel and France.
“Due to connectivity that we have with countries such as Israel, France — countries that are seen by groups, by Al Qaeda, as infidels or anti-Islamic — by the true nature of our alliance with them means we are subject to being attacked as well,” Errol Southers said in an interview with the online publication VideoJug.
So in other words, he is agreeing with the very Christian Identity adherents he called “domestic terrorist threats” just a few short days about, in saying it’s all the Jews’ fault.
The other troubling part here is that in the worldview of Mr. Southers, it’s a matter of AQ says jump, he asks “how high?”
What do John Edwards, Wanda Sykes, Stan Greenberg, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Robert Byrd, Karl Eikenberry, Lee Hamilton, Chris Matthews, Michael Moore, Harold Ford Jr, Anthony Romero, Joe Trippi, Christine Romer, George Soros, Dennis Ross, Eliot Spitzer, Evan Bayh, Annise Parker and Ben Nelson have in common?
You might say that they’re a collection of wealthy, powerful and accomplished quality people of the left, and Wanda Sykes.
What they really are are twenty people whom the UK Telegraph think are less important than a dog.
SBPDL: #77. The Rooney Rule
I agree with Jewish sports talker Bruce Jacobs — implement the Rooneystein rule to give Jews a chance to coach NFL teams, “because owning them team just isn’t enough anymore.” LOL.
NYP: Conan O’Brien won’t do ‘Tonight Show’ after Leno
I’ve got an idea — Just don’t call it the “Tonight Show.” Call it “Late Night.” That might work.
UK Daily Mail: Under-18s facing sunbed ban ‘in months’ over skin cancer fears
I see how that works. When you turn 18, then you can’t possibly get skin cancer through toasting yourself. I’m glad I’m at least 18.
NYP: Arenas may plea in gun case: report
Since he has trouble behaving in locker rooms, I guess they’ll make him stay out of one as a condition of his probation. His teammates will have to clean him up after the game by doing the Bull Connor and hosing him down outside the arena.
P-D: Man who lost fistfight outside bar is run over, killed
But still, he lost the fight. That isn’t going to go over well with his peepz.
CNS: Do Three People Have a Right to Marry Each Other?
Just get over with it, and let’s automatically marry someone when they turn 18 to every other legal adult in the world. It would eliminate infidelity, at least.
CNS: Homosexual Gun Collector on Trial for Fatal Game of Russian Roulette in Sex Dungeon
This is WAY too much to ridicule in one headline, because I just don’t know where to begin.
Slashdot: Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video
When I think of porn movies, I think of tiptoes. Though you can probably do something freaky with your tiptoes vis-a-vis the other person’s orifices that an Obama Czar wants to teach first graders about.
CNS: `American Idol’ Starts Strong Without Paula Abdul
It certainly didn’t start out drunk.
P-D: Powerful, deadly quake in Haiti causes ‘total disaster, chaos’
How can you tell?
P-D: Jeanette Mott Oxford returns to children and families committee
I don’t know her personally, but from what I’ve heard, she might not really be that into children or families on a personal level.
P-D: MLK events this week include interfaith service tonight
All who doubt the divinity of Christ are welcome.
UK Telegraph: Cost of cheap alcohol will double to curb binge drinking
They live in Labour Party England. It’s either souzed silly or suicide.
P-D: UPDATE: Transit tax critic Loudon says Metro must run deeper into county
UPDATE: There go those neighborhoods.
AP: Bankers apologize for actions that led to crisis
You’ve been jobless for a year. Monetize those bankers’ apologies and see if you can buy food with it.
AP: Texas debates the way history will be taught
Since this only applies to public schools, we know at the very least it’ll be in Spanish.
Huffington Post: Avatar-Induced Depression: Coping With The Intangibility Of Pandora
Not that hard. Avatar is a movie of fiction. Nuff said.
WSJ: Coakley’s Saviors
I’ll net it out for you: Big Pharma Hearts Martha. Say that ten times in a row really quickly.
My ears glossed over it at first, but Andy Martin has some new media buys on St. Louis radio. I didn’t catch it at first, because the new ad sounds like his old ad, the one where he peddles the Kirk/gay gossip. (That’s because Martin’s voice is monotonous, so everything he says sounds alike). But I finally paid attention to his spoken words today. At first, I thought he was nothing more than a harmless gnat, and I actually enjoyed him being in the race, b/c it pissed off the State Repugnican Party lamestram. But this second ad of his is outright libelous.
In the new ad, he insinuates that Mark Kirk excuses pedophilia. His reasoning is that Kirk dismissed the non-scandal relating to his then-House colleague, Mark Foley. The ad doesn’t mince words — Martin accuses Foley of pedophilia, and drags Kirk into it by saying that he excuses Foley’s “pedophilia.”
IMHO, Mark Foley has grounds to sue. And don’t put it past the IL Republican Party to fund a lawsuit on Foley’s behalf, in order to swap this gnat once and for all.
Foley never committed pedophilia. He never even had sex with the 17-year old guy in question (and even if he did, that’s a legal relationship in many states, including MO and DC). I read the IM transcripts, and all Foley did was to give the young man advice on how to jack off. And this non-scandal took place few years before the media/Democrats publicized it, they were saving it for an October Surprise as run-up to the 2006 mid-terms which resulted in the Ds taking back the House and Senate. They wanted to dislodge conservative/moralist voters away from the Republicans, to get them to stay home. But if they would have used it too early, then the stink would have cleared well before election day. The hypocrisy of it is that Mark Foley, someone who didn’t keep his orientation a secret AND an elected Republican (a very rare pairing), wasn’t allowed to advise a teenage boy (again, I might add, a legal sexual adult in some states) about masturbation. But those very same Democrats want that and more to become a staple of kindergarten education. If Foley did commit pedophilia, it would have come out far closer to the time of the actual act, rather than a timed election season weapon. And the consequences for Foley would have been far more severe than resigning from Congress in advance from being voted out.
Another element of Democrat hypocrisy relating to the Foley row is that they’ve been telling us for years that we shouldn’t harbor any bigotry toward homosexuals (which we shouldn’t), nor are we allowed to imply that there is a strong correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia (which there is not). But in the Foley issue in late 2006, the Democrats/MSM didn’t explicitly say that Foley committed pedophilia, but I’ll go to my grave believing that that was the subliminal message they were peddling, or at least, they were hoping enough people would suspect that Foley was a pedophile and that his being a Republican was a besmirch on the whole party. In other words, they peddled homophobia and insinuated that there is a homo-pedo link. Methinks that Andy Martin is one of those who did translate the subliminal message into a conscience one. And the irony of all this is now, the MSM, and a lot of liberal Democrats, at least the ones familiar with Martin, will now accuse him of spreading homophobia and insinuating that there’s a strong homo-pedo correlation.
It’s just that the Democrats would say anything in order to win elections, no matter how two-faced they have to be in the process. Evidently, Andy Martin will say anything, too.
AP: Strong quake hits Haiti, collapsing hospital
The hospital collapse might have been just a coincidence. This is Haiti, after all.
P-D: Clay on McGwire’s admission: “Glad he finally told the truth”
I’m glad to hear that Lazy Clay thinks that Big Mac “finally told the truth, ” but Harry Reid might not believe Clay with his Negro dialect and all.
P-D: What should the Legislature do about Mark McGwire Highway?
Widen it to 15 lanes in each direction and post a 100 mph speed limit but allow a 40 mph police tolerance. That’s the only way to have a true Mark McGwire Highway, to have it too big and too fast.
CNS: U.S. Secretary of Education Has No Professional Classroom Teaching Experience
It’s only befitting of an administration whose HLS Secretary has no homeland security experience and whose Chief Executive barely had any Senate experience nor a Negro dialect.
The Hill: Scheduled weeks ago, ‘African Americans for Harry Reid’ will go on as planned
What took weeks was to erase all the “Negroes” and write in its place “African-Americans.”
Take Two: The Hill: Scheduled weeks ago, ‘African Americans for Harry Reid’ will go on as planned
Mindful of the Facebook page “African-Americans for Harry Reid,” the burning question in my mind is this: Will there actually be any African-Americas at the African-Americans for Harry Reid luncheon? (Other than Bill Clinton and the coffee servers).
2: Shawn Hornbeck Makes PSA Three Years After Being Found
“You too can get a rich stepfather. Just go ‘missing,’ decline the 850 easy opportunities a day you have to escape, and eventually, the cops will find you by accident, then return you to your mother’s and stepfather’s house after they’ve made a mint in your name. The only drawback is you’ve gotta let some evil perv pizza jockey bugger you almost every day.”
CNS: Obama, Democrats Put Politics Above Educating D.C.’s Disadvantaged Youth, Black Leaders Say
But not to worry — Because they are miseducated, they’ll all have Negro dialets coming out of DC’s public schools, and therefore won’t meet the Reid standard for being President.
AP: Poll: Black optimism rises; Hispanics wary on race
Except all that black optimism has evaporated today, because you can’t have a Negro dialect and become anything more than a minimum wage cleaner-upper according to Harry Reid.
Patriot Post: TSA Nominee Warns of Right-Wing Terrorists
If approved, he would work under Janet Napolitano, who worries about the same thing. But not to worry, the system works when precluding Fruit of the Booms.
Take Two: Patriot Post: TSA Nominee Warns of Right-Wing Terrorists
Yeah, but did he say this in a Negro dialect?
This economy is pretty bad, but it’s nowhere near as bad as the G/D was. I wonder who badly today’s teenagers and young adults would flip out if they were transported to 1933.
What WAS better in 1933 is that there were very few (if any at all) brain chemistry altering drugs, and certainly no industry selling these drugs, trying to make psychiatric mountains over wee little emotional mole hills.
UPDATE 1/13: Maybe we shouldn’t call it “bull fucking shit.” R.M. from Arizona writes:
Normally, I would agree with your commentary but as one of the college students who does suffer from “stress, anxiety, and mental health issues”, I have to call you out on this one. The economy is only part of the problem.
In 1933 this was still a white country and the FDR administration was reasonably pro-white and pro-working class. And even if things weren’t so great, there was still ‘hope’ that things would get better because the people in charge looked, talked, and acted like you and had your interests in mind. Immigration law was strict (to keep jobs reserved for whites) and the government stimulus jobs actually employed men to build things (CCC, WPA, etc.) rather than waste money on phantom “green jobs” and government paper-shoveling. Things had nowhere to go but up in ’33, despite the inherent gloom of the depression.
Right now, I’m employed at minimum wage and shelling out thousands of dollars to get a degree which will be practically useless to try and find jobs that won’t be there when I graduate so I can pay taxes to an insolvent government that wants to give free schooling, health care, and pensions to immigrants and non-whites (who took said jobs thanks to immigration/affirmative action.) The pundits who say that things are looking up economically aren’t looking at the demographic picture which says otherwise (or, they are looking at it, and are saying that it is ‘just great’ that America is getting more ‘diverse.’)
The confluence of the economic downturn (which is only just beginning), the current (and future) deficit(s), mass immigration, and affirmative action are doing my head in. Some days I feel that I’d rather just eat the end of a shotgun than face Brazilification. Give me 1933 over 2010 anyday.
Those are some great points. FDR (and especially his wife) may have been for civil rights personally, but he had far bigger priorities during his time in office, and wasn’t about to piss off Southern white Democrat politicians, whom he needed in line for New Deal legislation. Segregation kept a lid on black crime waves that might have developed from the G/D, and it worked especially well, b/c the G/D sent blacks as far down as it did whites, even though the white high pre-G/D was higher than the black high. I don’t even want to think about how bad it’s going to be when we get to 25% unemployment combined with this President.
That’s what some fuckhead at the Ron Paul forums says about A3P. Whoever that person is must think that a Ron Paul-like paleolibertarian figure would be enormously popular when the United States becomes Brazil/Mexico North and we import many more future welfare clients. Nobody’s home, if you catch my drift.
You’ll notice that bodybuilders are against A3P. You know how that goes, bodybuilding builds every muscle in your body except the one between your ears. BTW, bodybuilders, how’s that Arnold Schwarzenegger working out for ya?
Jihad Watch: Yemeni president open to “dialogue” with al-Qaeda members who “renounce violence”
Better have some government agents seated behind the AQers, to watch for crossed fingers.
Fox News: High Robbery Rate Gives NBA Players Reason to Carry Arms
I agree. But it doesn’t give them the right to point them each other in the locker room over a gambling debt dispute.
UK Daily Mail: We’re in this together: Gordon Brown tries to rally jittery MPs as Miliband is branded ‘immature’ in radio ambush
Obama, Biden and the Democrats used “we’re all in this together” a lot during the 2008 campaign. So, the Republican Party had the Southern Strategy, now every center-left party in the developed world has the High School Musical Strategy.
UK Daily Mail: Parents’ fury as photo of teacher posing with AK-47 on [high school] trip is posted on school’s website
Don’t give her any flack. She just might teach AK-47ology elective classes at night.
Is kicking a ball now a “skill?” I’d hate to find out what an “unskilled” migrant is like.
UK Telegraph: Injured troops to get priority NHS care for life
Same crappy care, but they’ll get it first.
UK Telegraph: Bleach attack teenager locked up for a year
But will have to spend the proceeding five years after getting out wearing dingy whites, as a condition of his probation.
UK Daily Mail: The teens who can barely talk – they only have an 800 word vocabulary
America can beat that — Teens with five-word vocabularies: Sheeyt, mother, fucker, damn and poleeeceseses.
UK Telegraph: Lewis Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger split up
That was fast.
Examiner.com: Feds seeking indictment of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
What would you expect when you ignore all those illegal Swedes running around Phoenix and only focus on the Hispanics, Joe?
Kansas City Star: Census participation is called critical for minority community
But whites don’t count.
Chicago Sun-Times: Daley: We should be more like China
Masses of lemmings and drones all voting for the same political party, and no private ownership of handguns. Yep, Chicago should be just like China.
Egypt tombs suggest pyramids not built by slaves
CAIRO (Reuters) – New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt’s chief archaeologist said on Sunday.
Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build the mammoth pyramids only to meet a miserable death at the end of their efforts.
“These tombs were built beside the king’s pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves,” Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian excavation team, said in a statement.
“If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king’s.”
Even without archaeological evidence, this wasn’t a hard deduction to make. In the ancient world, the only way you could have masses of slaves in your land is if your “country,” so to speak, was an empire. For it took successful military conquests to garner slaves, who were mainly members of the loser military, or desirable natives of the land that was being garrisoned. Ancient Egypt of the Old Kingdom’s 4th Dynasty, when the biggest of the Pyramids were built, only had several million people, and not enough resources nor manpower to have an empire. Therefore, the Pyramids had to have been built with the toil of the “citizenry,” so to speak again.
Save the Pyramids, all the imagery that people have about Ancient Egypt comes from the New Kingdom. Then, Egypt did have the manpower and resources (i.e. gold from Nubian and Kushite mines) to build an empire, and bring back slaves, or, in the case of a certain ethnicity, invite them there then enslave/brutalize them after the Pharaoh became jealous. (Who says Hitler was the first Hitler?)
Fesses up to ‘roids in order to grease the skids for a good reception as Cards hitting coach this coming season, and for Cooperstown in the long term. And I thought we weren’t here to talk about the past.
Any moron could have figured out that he let the juice loose, and by that, I don’t mean swinging OJ’s jail cell door open. What else is anyone with an IQ over 70 to conclude when he: (1) Took the 5th in the Congressional testimony in March 2003, and (2) Tried unsuccessfully to swing an immunity deal with the House Judiciary Committee in the weeks before his testimony?
Among his excuses, McGwire said that even though he did do steroids and HGH, including the 1998 season, that he had good years while on the stuff, bad years while on the stuff, good years while not on the stuff, and bad years while not of the stuff. In other words, he nailed down all the possibilites in the matrix. However, that dog doesn’t hunt for me, because (WARNING: Intense Common Sense Ahead) if he had good years while not on the stuff, then why did he even need/want to take the stuff at all? His excuse here is weasely, b/c most of his good years were done while on the stuff, and most of his bad years, he wasn’t on the snuff.
Bobby Knight, who I used to have a lot of respect for until today, makes an even bigger ass out of himself:
Knight said, “I have a different approach to performance-enhancing drugs than a lot of people do. My question is, Who decides what can be used and what can’t be used, and on what basis is that decision made? You know, Gatorade is a performance-enhancing substance. It replaces electrolytes in the human body that are used up through extreme exercise. So I’ve always had a really skeptical approach to all this performance-enhancing stuff.” Bob Knight ladies and gentleman.
Knight goes on to say that Mac should have been “a first ballot hall of famer,” that he’s one of the great people” in sports, and that Knight’s son Tim, as a Stanford student, saw Stanford-USC baseball games (Mac went to USC) where he hit HRs so long that nobody could find the ball. Knight also said that Mac “was badly advised” by his attorneys before the Congressional testimony.
Where do I start? Bobby Knight is a basketball coach, and not a baseball writer, so who gets in the HOF and when is not his purview. Of course, a great college hitter can hit very long home runs off college pitching. Nothing against Stanford pitching, but the odds are that if you’re that great, then you’re drafted into the majors right out of high school, and if you’re good but not good enough to go into the minors out of HS, then there are many better college baseball programs than Stanford. And even Perry Mason couldn’t have given Mac any better advice than what he got, because he was boxed into a corner. The only option other than taking the 5th and “not talking about the past” would have been to fess up in front of Congress, which was undesirable in his eyes at the time. In retrospect, that probably would have been better.
“Who decides what can and can’t be used, and on what basis?” The MLB has a rules and competition committee. And Gatorade is a soft drink with vitamins and minerals. It is not a drug, and not a performance-enhancing drug that has drastic side-effects (shrinks your balls, rots your hair, you go on vicious rampages, etc.). I would presume that the MLB rules and competition committee knows what it’s doing. I’m also sure that they have the phone numbers of some well-respected doctors in their rolodex.
I was listening to Rush today, and he played a clip of some Democrat strategist yacking on MSNBC (how can you tell the difference between a Democrat strategist and MSNBC?) about the comparisons between the Lott-Thurmond and Reid-Obama rows. She said that no Republicans called for Lott’s head in the late 2002-early 2003 controversy.
One of the good things about having a long memory is that you have a long memory. I covered the Lott-Thurmond row pretty comprehensively in another medium, and during my interest, I coined the phrase “Paranoia-Industrial Complex” to describe organizations like Morris Dees’s Personal Cash Cow (SPLC) and the Pro-Defamation League (ADL), as both of them and many smaller analogues were tangentially involved in the row. But I digress.
I specifically remember noticing and writing at the time that the loudest mouths for Trent Lott’s head were other Republicans — Some Senate Republicans, Neo-Con columnists and talking heads, Colin Powell, Peggy Noonan and eventually President Bush. I also remember some noted liberal (don’t quote me on it, I think it was Tom Edsall in the WaPo) noticing this, and writing that (and complimenting) the Republicans “for taking the lead” in “standing up to implicit racism” (or something like that). Other than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, most Democrats were silent. I think the timing was the issue — Trent Lott’s comment at Strom Thurmond’s 100th B-Day Party was in early December 2002, well after the mid-term elections. I guess the Dems didn’t think they could get any mileage over it, for the election was over. Therefore, they had no desire to crow.
Like I said a few days ago, I think the reason why the authors of Game Change, and the MSM, are peddling this Harry Reid “scandal” is because he’s probably DOA in November, and this is all an effort to create an excuse to explain his defeat. They want to create a diversion, to peddle the notion to the political class that being un-PC and racist is why Reid lost, in an effort to scare other politicians away from white nationalism and race realism. (Similar to “Macaca” of George Allen fame, though I have already explained why that conventional wisdom is bullshit). On top of that, if Reid does lose, it will be b/c of the Obama agenda, and the media and the White House can’t afford for the notion of Obama being an albatross to be accepted as CW.
What worries me, though, is that the Stupid Party is already towing the PC line in calling for Reid’s head. And they’re being hypocritical – I hear a lot of them on the talking head shows saying that they’re just getting payback’s a bitch for what the Democrats did to Lott in 2002. But, as you now know, thanks to my elephant-like noggin, the Democrats didn’t do anything to Lott in 2002, it was almost entirely Republicans taking him down. In fact, a few of the very same people who whined about Lott in 2002 are now saying that their whining about Reid in 2010 is revenge for what the Democrats “did” to Lott in 2002. I don’t blame someone for having a short memory, but I do blame them if they can’t remember their own words and actions.
Aye aye aye aye aye.
What’s so wrong with what Harry Reid said about Barack Obama, as portrayed in Game Change? After all, what Reid said was about the same thing that Joe Biden said late in the primary season, about his “clean” and “pure” rival who was “bright,” “articulate,” and had “mainstream appeal?” Biden didn’t use “negro,” so I suppose that’s the big difference. That Reid supposedly used it makes his words far more “offensive.” The only reason anyone is offended at all is because blacks change what we should refer to them almost on a decadely basis. Once they change their preferred collective term, then the one that was just retired, and all the older ones, becomes a pejorative.
The reason I’m not ready to carve it in stone that Reid said “negro” is because I think Game Change is somewhat on the sensational side. The book presents a caricature, bimbo/airhead image of Sarah Palin. If they regurgitate MoveOn.org propaganda about her, then the rest of the book is suspect, IMHO. Reid is vulnerable in 2010, so this might be the author’s way of throwing him under the bus, setting up an excuse after he loses.
…Jay Leno’s daily prime time show to be a flop, NBC flips the switch — Jay won’t be in the nine hole after the Winter Olympics.
After the “new” wore off, his ratings settled down to the point where he was doing the Tonight Show. Like I said a year a month and a day ago, that’s fine for after the late local news, but it’s not good for P/T. The show made money for NBC, mainly b/c of its cheap overhead. But the local affiliates complained about such a weak lead-in to the late local news.
(1) For all of you math and science teachers, you’ve been barking up the wrong tree for a long time. Turns out you should have been teaching social justice.
Otherwise, they’re all barking up the wrong tree for very different reasons.
(2) Something that I took awhile to realize is that free trade, open borders and world government all go together. If you embrace one of the three, then you will inevitably embrace the other two. The reason why it took me awhile to grasp this is because I was still for free trade even after I realized the positions of opposition of the race replacement of native born white Americans through mass non-white immigration and opposition to a formal global government. Sam Francis ultimately drove the point home for me. Phyllis Schlafly and Jerome Corsi are the icing on the cake.
(3) PJB ultimately won that argument with Natan Sharansky.
(4) JSM3 on BHO2: “President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America.” Compared to McCain leading a moderate left-wing crusade to bankrupt America.
(5) Harold Ford Jr. wants to carpetbag it to New York. He figures that if it worked for Little Rock, it’ll work for Memphis. Who says the North is occupying the South? Seems to be that the mid-South is occupying NYC.
(6) Another shooting in a gun-free zone.
After the murder-suicide, and the local media said that ABB was Swiss-owned, and that ABB makes transformers (of the electronic kind, not of the cartoon kind), I got the premonition that ownership would use this as an excuse to move the work to China. Now, my fear has been vindicated — ABB said that it will reopen, “absolutely.” Meaning that they’re outsourcing to Beijing. Remember, Matt Holliday said it wasn’t about the money. And John Edwards really did leave politics to spend more time with his families.
(7) A D.C.-based foundation opposes an OK proposal to create a sales tax holiday for firearms sales, b/c the org doesn’t like tax policy being used as an instrument of social policy. There goes just about every tax in the country. War is politics by any other means, and likewise, taxes are social policy by any other means. Saying that taxes shouldn’t be used to engineer social policy is like saying that you can’t legislate morality — almost every law has a moral basis behind it.
(8) When Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, I thought that the motivation was to preserve the Kennedys as America’s most prominent Democrat Party family. HRC as much as winning the nomination would have made the Clintons more important than the Kennedys. I still think that’s true, but now it turns out that Kennedy recoiled to Bill Clinton’s rhetoric about Obama being good for nothing more than serving coffee.
(9) Why is ne1 upset that a TSA agent fashions himself as a god? Since nobody checks their power, then they ARE gods.
(10) Obama hypocrisy re Trent Lott vis-a-vis Harry “The Negro” Reid. What jumps out at me is that then-State Sen. Obama said these things while guest hosting a show on Chicago’s WVON-AM. You know, where all the geniuses congregate, and a station whose listening range I may soon live within.
(11) A British program to mitigate extremism started after 7/7 finds that Muslim children as young as seven are being groomed for terrorism. This is what happens when you respond to major terrorist acts on the part of radical Islamists by deploying social workers instead of immigration agents. Had the UK done the right thing, then the 7-year olds would still have terrorist propensities, but they would be doing so from Saudi Arabia, and nowhere near a London subway. And they’d be too scared to act upon their bigotry when they get to be adults. Oderint dum metuant.
(12) Two items in the Brown-Coakley race today: First, there were two polls released over the weekend. A professional polling group has Brown up by one, while the Boston Globe has Coakley up by 15. The poll showing the slight Brown lead surveys too many Rs over Ds, while the Globe polls weighs it too heavily toward Ds. Assume a 3-to-1 edge for Rs, then the party weight, assuming that they show up proportionately at the polls, is halfway between these two polls. So if you average out the margins in these two, then Coakley has a 7-point lead, which I think is going to be very close to the actual result. Remember, this is Massachusetts. However, even if the Globe is right, and Coakley wins by 15, then it still bodes well for Rs, b/c Kennedy’s 1994 margin over Romney was 17, and Rs still did very well that day. The second item is that an outfit with close links to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, which has a call center in Roswell (!), has been push polling Massachusetts voters by phone, FUDing Scott Brown. (Spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Among the FUD items are speculation that Brown has support from “hate groups.” I think we’ll find in coming weeks that “hate groups” means the Republican Party.
And some headlines.
Drudge: OBAMA: BUSH, BUSH, BUSH
You gotta wonder about a guy who’s obsessed with bush.
The Hill: Carville: Airport scanners can ‘measure my penis’
Funny, he seems to be the kind of guy who would ask for a smooch on the body part that is other side of that organ.
AP: Reid apologizes for ‘no Negro dialect’ comment
Don’t be hatin’ on ole Harry. He was technically alive when “negro” was a respectable word. I know, it was a very long time ago.
CNS: Halle Berry and Boyfriend Bypass Airport Line
I’m surprised that Butch Nappy over at HLS didn’t make her do the full body scanner, just so she can get a peek.
P-D: Terrorism suspect goes before judge
I’d feel a lot better if it were a firing squad instead of a judge.
Al Sharpton in WaPo: Celebrities and athletes offer a poor example on guns and violence
What is so odd that almost all almost all of those celebrities and athletes tha are offering a poor example on guns and violence seem to have something conspicuous in common.
Politico: Can prayer unite Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama?
It would take a lot of prayer and a powerful God that has a sardonic sense of humor.
CNS: Obama Declares America ‘At War’ with Al Qaeda, Offers New Security Initiatives
We’re “at war” with AQ, but we bring their top leaders in country for a domestic criminal trial.
P-D Race: Paris exhibit celebrates Miles Davis
Did they have enough room for a display about wanting to strangle a white person as his last living act?
KSDK: Elvis Presley birthday today, would have been 75
Some think that he did turn 75 today.
Washington, D.C. is one of the few cities where average rents per square foot are increasing. By the end of 2010, it’ll be more expensive to rent in D.C. than in New York City. Mainly because of Obama/Democrat government growth pouring more money and interest into DC and the fall of the financial sector hurting NYC.
However, it’s not all Obama’s fault — The Bush administration and all its spending on the “War on Terror” served to push D.C. real estate values sky high. In 2008, the last full year of the Bush Presidency, the top three and 11 of the top 25 median household income counties are in the D.C. metro area. Obama has made it worse, though.
I would hate to have to be an old timer in D.C., someone who has been living in the same apartment or house for a long time. In such a person’s lifetime, his or her rent or property tax bill has gone up and up and up, and has done nothing but skyrocket since 2001. They’re literally being priced out of their own native city.
(1) NYT ecohes yours truly, in stating that that Scott Brown doesn’t have to win for the Republicans to win on January 19. A relatively narrow margin of victory for Coakley in this state where Ds outnumber Rs by 3-1 is a very good indicator for R prospects later this year.
(2) Brown thumps Coakley on the head for supporting illegal immigration. It all revolves around her representing illegals in a successful attempt to get the state’s businesses to adhere to wage and salary laws. Technically, I agree with what she did, mainly because the illegals are here to be cheap labor. If they start demanding fair wages, then businesses won’t lobby for open borders anymore. However, it is contradictory for someone to represent illegals in such an effort, b/c illegal immigration (and most legal immigration) means cheaper labor. More people bidding for fewer jobs means low pay.
African migrant workers rioting in Italy’s toe.
AP blames the riots on lazy racist Italians, noting the meager pay of said migrant workers. Of course, they don’t seem to grasp that the reason the wages are that skimpy is because there is a big supply of African migrant labor to begin with — If not for that, then the wages to pick fruit would go way up. Then again, Italy might have an equivalent to John McCain who says that no Italians would pick olives for 268,000 Lira an hour.
CNS: Salazar Announces Tougher Rules on Drilling
We know he wasn’t Bill Clinton’s Interior Secretary.
PJB: Israel To Build More Jewish-only Apartments In East Jerusalem
Jewish-only apartments in Israel? No schmutz, Sherlock.
CNS: One in Five Gitmo Suspects Returns to Terror, Pentagon Finds
The other four become shift managers at Prayer Rugs ‘R’ Us.
Jihad Watch: Palestinian Muslim yelling “I want to kill all the Jews” taken off Miami flight
Just in case he would have landed, authorities could have foiled the plot by turning the arrow road signs leading to West Palm Beach in the other direction.
NYDN: NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt
Looking for terrorists at a ski resort makes as much sense as finding Nicole Brown Simpson’s real murderer on a golf course.
John Lott: Terror trial in NYC to cost $216 million
A box of bullets would be far cheaper…oh wait, it might not be — this is the Yankee government of $800 toilet seat fame.
Tulsa World: Phantom Zip Code Gets Stimulus Money
Did you really expect fake Congressional districts to have real zip codes?
UK Daily Mail: Don’t talk about crime, police are told… it might scare the public!
Worse than that, it would be racist.
LAT: Assailant on bicycle yanks gold chain off neck of boy, 5
What’s a 5-year old doing with a gold neck chain?
LAT: U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
So you’re telling us that they were almost able to nab him before he boarded the flight? As Brandy might say, this is one time when almost almost didn’t count.
This is Scott Rothstein. He will soon be going to Club Fed for masterminding a 1.2 gigabuck Ponzi scheme.
Guess what else he did – Dump a lot of money on Charlie Crist. He even funded the effort to get John McCain to pick Crist as his running mate.
Marko Rubio, here’s your next TV ad.
I’ve gotten two hits on my resume that have turned into interviews.
Believe it or not, one of them is in Chicago. Well, not in the city itself, but in Downers Grove, DuPage County. I have it on January 25, and on the next day, I have another one in Springfield, Illinois. So my game plan is that I’ll drive from STL to somewhere in suburban CHI on Sunday the 24th, find a decent inexpensive motel, do the interview the next day, drive to Springfield that evening, find another motel, do the interview there the next day, then drive back to STL that evening.
After I whine and bitch about Chicago, DuPage County and Abraham Lincoln day in and day out on this medium, can you just imagine me living in suburban Chicago or in Springfield? I can’t, but both are actually pretty good jobs. The one in Chicago moreso than the one in Springfield, but I know the extra money would be negated by the higher living expenses in Chicago.
Question: Why didn’t he get any other offers? What do the likes of Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein know that DeWitt/Mozeliak don’t seem to want to?
They should have waited for other teams to make offers, which I’m sure one would have. Then they could have upped the ante a little and had him. I don’t think any other team would have made him an offer anywhere near 7 for 120.
I also wouldn’t have given him seven years. He’s 30 now, and I’m sure he’ll be less productive at the end of this contract than he is at the beginning. Assuming he doesn’t catch bigcontractitis some time next season, you know how that goes, oops darn injury, gimme my check.
Altogether, I wouldn’t have given him any more than 5 for 50. Especially since he came out today and whined about how hard and arduous the negotiations were, to come up with contract where he’ll make more money in one year than the few people in this country still working will see in their lifetimes. If I were the team, I’d get the paperwork away before he can sign it, and use that as another chip in the renegotiations. Otherwise, expect to give up both your arm, your leg and your firstborn for tix, parking and beers next season.
Also, Holliday is going to be making way more than Pujols for the next two seasons, which isn’t going to make AP very happy. I’m sure he’s gonna use this as a bargaining chip. I keep hearing that the team’s gonna offer 20 a year. They’re just wasting their time making that offer — Steinbrenner would dump 30 per on on him, and even if AP takes a hometown discount again, it wouldn’t be for anything less than 25 per, IMHO.
CNS: Obama Says ‘Dots’ Not Connected in Airline Attack
And the shapes in between the lines weren’t colored in crayon.
CNS: Pelosi Pledged to Give Public ‘Ample Amount of Time’ to Read Final Health Bill
Good, that should give us six months, twelve if you’re not a lawyer.
Slashdot: CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate
Two groups of professional liars join forces. What could possibly go wrong?
John Lott: Young Children who are spanked end up being happier and more successful
The only drawback is that it still hurts to sit as an adult.
WSJ: Watch Out for GOP Populism
Let me know when you find some.
Reuters: Nigeria says U.S. air rule threatens bilateral ties
They must be talking about that special relationship — The one where Nigerian dictators get American foreign aid, while Americans get 419 scam e-mails and Fruit of the Booms.
NYP: Tiger Woods hiding out at Dolan’s [Long Island] mansion
New York — The first place you go to avoid swarms of reporters and jeers for the public. Plan B was to stand around half naked and pump iron on the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica.
AFP: Nigerian faces six charges for US plane plot
Imagine how terrorism will be deterred when Hot Pants gets that four-year bid.
KSDK: Northside Community Center in St. Louis robbed
They thought they were safe just because Mayor Slop said so.
P-D: T.D. El-Amin on the courthouse steps: “I broke the law”
You were the last to realize this. A little slow on the draw, are we?
P-D Race Blog: Census Bureau says it used ‘Negro’ to be inclusive
It used to be the acceptable term for coloreds blacks Afro-Americans African-Americans Kwanzaa Celebrants Americans of Sub-Saharan African Descent Obama Voters.
South Dakota edition:
Nine Percent of South Dakota’s adult population has a CCW permit. Meaning I better not try to jack up a gas station in Sioux Falls anytime soon/ever.
Question: What do you think is the Mendoza Line for CCW being an effective deterrent to crime? A jurisdiction that has CCW but rarely issues permits, like New York City, won’t have an adult permit rate high enough to scare the thug class. But 9% of SDans having permits I think will deter a lot of crime. Where is the line of demarcation? 5%?
One factor that might play into this is publicity of legal defensive use of legal guns by legal permit holders. We know the MSM rarely report these incidents, b/c it would give too much good PR to CCW. Prison inmates can and to talk to each other, mainly to spread excuses/scams to get out of the next sling, i.e. tell the cop that their white victim “called me the n-word.” So word might get around both in prison and in the ghettoes and barrios that your next victim just might be armed. The more talk there is, the lower the Mendoza Line needs to be. If nobody talks, then you might need a 20% rate for CCW to be an effective deterrent. If thugs have diarrhea mouths, then you might only need 3%.
Massachusetts Edition:
There will be a special election on the 19th to fill out the rest of the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate term. It is between Democrat AG Martha Coakley vs Republican State Senator Scott Brown.
Voter frustration over ObamaCare, scandals relating to Miss Coakley prosecuting an innocent man for child sexual abuse during her time as an attention hound D.A., and the shift in independent voters away from the Democrats, mean that even in this heavily Democrat state, Brown is within striking distance in the polls, which have been trending in his direction over time.
Even if Coakley wins, it might be an indicator of things to come.
In 1994, Ted Kennedy beat back a challenge by the upstart Mitt Romney. That was a very good year for Republicans. In spite of that, Kennedy beat Romney by a 58-41 margin. That was the narrowest general election margin of victory in his Senate career save his first win in 1962. Even in 1970, his first Senate election post-Chappaquiddick, his margin of victory was wider than in 1994. Otherwise, he usually won with 2-1 margins. What I take from this is that a 17-point win for Kennedy meant a good year for Republicans nationally, while a 33-point win was bad for Republicans nationally. Where in between is the Mendoza Line? It might not matter, b/c it doesn’t appear that if Coakley wins, she’ll beat Brown by even as much as 17 points. For example, if it’s Coakley 55 Brown 45, this means that dedicated Democrats are what put her over the top. Translate that nationally, most states not being as blue as MA, and having more Is and Rs, then you can see that it’s going to be a Republican landslide overall, assuming other things that really shouldn’t be assumed.
No more entrance exam for CPD recruits. The problem is that even the easy version that is currently used is too hard for certain approved minority groups.
I wonder if they’ll even have a criminal background check? You know how that goes, they want to beat Mark Funkhouser to the punch, to be the first PD to hire convicted felons. At the very least, it will satisfy all those geniuses on WVON.
While we’re at it, do away with age limits, and bring Vincent Richardson back.
Along these lines, Steve Sailer has a good point that many public sector unions are actually on the front lines of opposing affirmative action.
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