And Yet, They Want to Bring GITMO Dwellers to Illinois

Not such a good idea — Illinois houses of incarceration are so easy to depart on a whim.

A salt-pepper-butterscotch trio broke out of the privately owned and operated Tri-County Hoosegow in Pulaski County.

The last time I blogged about that particular hoosegow, Alexander County was in arrears to the tune of 86 kilobucks for its share of the jail’s upkeep.

Ninth Circus Strikes Again

Sides with black felons and rules that Washington State’s convicted felons, including those in prison, should be allowed to vote.

I tell you what — If it weren’t for that nutty appellate circuit, there wouldn’t be much of a need for the Supreme Court.

WA’s law is like MO’s — convicted felons can vote as long as they’re both out of prison and off probation.  WA recently made it easier for felons to vote — Before, felons could vote only if they were both out of the joint and off probation, and weren’t in arrears on fines or restitution.  (There’s the problem with so many black ex-cons — They can’t stay out of trouble long enough to get off probation, at least until they’re old men.)  Yet, that wasn’t enough for six black prison inmates, and a three-judge panel of the 9th Circus.  Previously, the Federal district judge in Spokane ruled for the state.

The attorneys for the felons contend that any prohibition against felons voting has the disparate impact of weakening black political clout, b/c the justice system is biased against minorities.  What they mean is that blacks misbehave more often.  The truth of the matter is that the justice system is biased toward minorities, b/c a combination of Federal and state civil rights laws, precedence and black jury nullification works in the favor of black defendants at every stage of criminal charge disposition proceedings.  Even before the formal trial process, blacks tend to live in either heavily black or white liberal political jurisdictions, where a lot of black crime is ignored or unsolvable, and there are a lot of black cops who sympathize with black crime, or handcuffed white cops who live in fear of civil rights prosecution.  If the CJ system were genuinely fair, then many more blacks would be in prison, and be ineligible to vote.  That it is biased in favor of them actually helps to enhance their political clout.

If the ruling survives SCOTUS, I don’t think that it’ll mean that a lot of imprisoned felons will vote.  I do think that it’ll make it easier to commit voter fraud, because names on the rolls, even if the corporeal humans behind those names don’t vote, allow corrupt poll workers to stuff boxes with fake votes, and to check off that a registered person “voted,” without raising suspicion.

However, it wouldn’t much affect the American body politic at the outset.  Washington State is as blue as can be in terms of Presidential politics, and I would imagine that most of WA’s prison inmates come from solidly blue Congressional districts.  What I mean by that is that even though the prisons are in the middle of nowhere, the inmate lived in the ghetto section of Seattle at the time he was shipped off to prison, so that will be his “official residence” for voting.  (Thinking out loud here about a dilemma, hypothetical to MO.  What if a young man who lives on College and Carter on the North Side of St. Louis gets sent off to Jefferson City for a life term for murder, and gets to vote thanks to the Federal Judiciary.  And the people, presumably his mother and siblings, occupying his last residence pre-prison move to South St. Louis City.  Does this mean that his “residence” will change to a part of the city he’ll never see or live in, and vote there in the 3rd Congressional District, i.e. Russ Carnahan, compared to his previous 1st, i.e. Lazy Clay?  Or will he “reside” in Jefferson City and vote in what is now Ike Skelton’s district?)  Though WA does have a Republican AG, and he’s defending the state in these proceedings.  (A Republican statewide office holder in WA State?  I know, stranger things have happened.)  But it might swing the outcome of an election like WA had in 2004 for Governor, where Christine Gregoire needed every vote she got (and every vote she didn’t get, IMHO) to win.

Fun With Dummies

CNS:  Montana Becomes Third State to Allow Doctor-Assisted Suicide

Why is it that only cloudy, cold and gloomy states allow doctor-assisted suicide?

KSDK:  Meth lab found in cemetery, owner charged

He should be most aware of the dangers of meth, after he passes by all those dead 40-year olds six feet under his shoes.

Kansas City Star:  NAACP convention gives KC chance to stand out

“Find an Arthur Bryants with a drive-thru.  Then blow town ASAP.”

NYP:  Heroin for dummies

Anyone who would shoot concentrated opiates up their veins with disease-riddled third-hand needles is a dummy.

Take Two:  NYP:  Heroin for dummies

But don’t you dare smoke a cigarette.  Oh no, not in New York City.

KSDK:  Survey: Only 45 percent of Americans satisfied with their work

Just wait until they don’t have their work anymore, then they’ll wish they would have been more satisfied.

CNS:  Manufacturing Report Bolsters Hopes for Recovery

Before you get your hopes up, remember that “manufacturing” means burger flipping in Yankee government parlance.

CNS:  Houston Mayor Calls Swearing-In Milestone for Homosexuals

Here I am, little ole nobody me who thought that it means that Houston has a new mayor.

CNS:  GOP Chairman Says Republicans ‘Screwed Up’ After Reagan

I should say.  Two Bushes, Dole, McCain and Michael Steele.  If that isn’t screwing up, I don’t know what is.

Slashdot:  New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC

I bet you somebody’s already trying to memorize all the new digits.

P-D:  Sen. John Kerry undergoes 2nd hip replacement

Methinks it was all a cover for more Botox :P

P-D:  Slay to issue a few less proclamations

The Mayor issued a Proclamation declaring 2010 “No Proclamation Year.”

Panty Peeler Stack of Stuff

(1)  CMcC wants to get the process going on the Senate confirming a new TSA head.  I don’t understand the rush — It’s not as if the stellar head of HLS helped the situation any.  What good will another incompetent Obama appointee do?

(2)  Whole body scanners and the images they create might violate British child porn laws.  Therefore, there are proposals to exempt those under the age of 18 from having to go through one.  If this happens, then you’ll be amazed at the number of 17-year old Muslims that will want to board int’l flights at Heathrow.

(3)  More than a thousand Yemenis has received “Diversity Visas” to immigrate to the United States since the USS Cole bombing ten years ago.  Isn’t that comforting?

Mr. Smith Isn’t Going to Washington After All

Instead, he’s going to Club Fed in Kentucky.

Bobby DeLaughter has also started his stint at a Federal pen in Kentucky.  I wonder if it’s the same one.  If so, then maybe the FBP could delegate this one as the exclusive home for fallen left-wing idols.

Proud To Be Stupid

David Brooks, writing in the NYT:

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year.

The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise. The educated class supports abortion rights, so public opinion is shifting against them. The educated class supports gun control, so opposition to gun control is mounting.

The story is the same in foreign affairs. The educated class is internationalist, so isolationist sentiment is now at an all-time high, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The educated class believes in multilateral action, so the number of Americans who believe we should “go our own way” has risen sharply.

My take is slightly different.  The “educated class” (i.e the plutocrats) support the fraud of glowbull (not) warming, aborticide, gun control and internationalism because it benefits the plutocrats.  Because of their power and money, they have been able to influence education at all levels such that their private, insular interests are the essence of education and enlightenment.  If the plutocrats benefited from not believing in AGW, and from the lack of gun control, and from being pro-life, and from nationalist foreign and trade policies, then those positions would be the “educated” ones, b/c the plutocrats would fund/bribe the schools to teach in that manner.

North County, Nice Knowing Ya

Both the Wal-Mart on the Rock Road at Cypress and the Macy’s at Northwest Plaza are closing.  The Macy’s is closing for the lack of business, or rather, the lack of duly paying business, while the W-M wants to build a new StuperCenter in Bridgeton, just up the Rock Road.  Both are in St. Ann, so there goes a lot of its city government’s revenue.

Though I don’t think building in Bridgeton is such a good idea anymore.  First off, all the “problems” (read: black crime) at the W-M in St. Ann would just go to the WMSS in Bridgeton.  Second, Bridgeton is just about gone, b/c the runway ate through its prime residential areas.

Hot Pants Stack of Stuff

Nobody seems to be getting it right. Note that three of the seven stories here are from the British press.

(1) It looks like UFA had help and had it on Flight 253. And the Feds are covering it up.

(2) In an effort to explain how UFA turned from a privileged son to an AQ terrorist, the Daily Mail goes over his life history, which parallels the growing strength of Islam in northern Nigeria. I don’t think it’s a hard thing to explain — It’s all a matter of racial jealousy, and Islam plays right into those feelings.

(3) CFR lauds Saudi Arabia’s anti-extremist rehabilitation efforts. Like the art school that worked wonders for those former GITMO inmates that turned around and helped UFA.

(4) President Obama seems to be getting his act together, after having taken the better part of two weeks to say something about UFA at all. He’s going to swing a deal with UFA — tell what he knows about AQ, probably in exchange for a relatively lenient prison sentence. Obama must not have heard of Taqqiya.

(5) Yet, MI5 had UFA all over their radar screens.  However, they didn’t think anything was that wrong with him, nor did they pass their info on UFA across the pond. Of course, this MI5 won’t think that someone like UFA is up to no good — UFA is black and Muslim, so he’s a double base constituent for the Labour Party.

(6) Full body scanners would not have picked up on the curious junk covering UFA’s junk.

(7) Airline passengers destined to the U.S. from fourteen terrorist sponsoring or haven countries will all be subjected to intense screening.That wouldn’t have stopped UFA, because he didn’t fly in from one of those 14 countries, but from The Netherlands.

“Certainly, When a Judge Is Put In Prison and Pleads Guilty, It Certainly Tarnishes His Legal and Judicial Reputation.”

Not to mention, his anal reputation.

Guess the certain public figure said this, and about whom.

Give up?

Morris Dees said it, and about Bobby DeLaughter.

That’s right.  Bobby DeLaughter, the Hinds County, Miss. D.A. who got a guilty verdict against Byron de la Beckwith two decades after the fact, and after two previous not guilty verdicts, is going to Club Fed.  Obstruction of Justice, FYI.

I think Beckwith did murder Medgar Evers, b/c of the evidence, and that from what I understand, Beckwith had a reputation of being a sort of a do-badder.  (A convicted murder, a do-badder rep?  Nawwwwh.  I’d a never guessed.)  But I also think the third and ultimately successful trial was cynical in nature.   DeLaughter was worried that a black would topple him in the next election, and Hinds County has been heavily black for a long time.   (Ironically, Beckwith murdered Evers within 24 hours of President Kennedy delivering the famous “Old as the Scriptures” call for civil rights legislation on national TV.  That itself was a cynical move on the part of the White House, b/c, at least in the states where they could be a major political factor, black voters helped put JFK over the top three years earlier.  And groups like the NAACP and people like MLK were demanding action, and JFK was worried about disillusioned black voters staying home in 1964.)  At about the time of Bobby DeLaughter, I think that blacks finally outnumbered whites in either total population or voters in Hinds Co., as whites fled black crime to cities to the east like Pearl and Brandon.  (Most of Jackson is in Hinds County.)  This was his Hail Mary toward the end zone with five seconds left, and daggummit, someone with the same uniform caught the ball.  Morris Dees and the SPLC tangentially participated in the 1990s trial, though from what I understand, they didn’t participate as much as SPLC propaganda/beg letters would have you believe.  AMAF, it seems the part in Ghosts of MS, the only part where Dees’s character (Wayne Rogers, of M*A*S*H fame) has a part, that when DeLaughter (Alec Baldwin) defended the Hinds County D.A.’s office of two decades prior against Dees’s outburst, that that part was true to the reality.  So the “racist” D.A.’s office that Dees whined about did try, twice AMAF, to get a guilty verdict against Beckwith.  Since (IMHO) Beckwith murdered Evers in 1963, and almost all of the first two trials’ proceedings took place before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law, the Hinds County D.A. ran in a county where it was heavily black, but there were almost no black voters.  And, the ultimate power of law enforcement in the state rested in the hands of Ross Barnett at the time.  Therefore, they tried to prosecute Beckwith in spite of the county voting base being almost entirely nothing but POed whites, and their Governor being a seggy.  That was more courageous than what DeLaughter did, IMHO.  And Morris Dees still doesn’t have a clue.

Now, the salient question is this:  How would the SPLC be crowing today if it were Beckwith’s defense attorney being sent to Federal prison for obst/just?

UPDATE 1/5: Follow the link in this article.  It turns out that BDLB may not have done it.  And also, BDeL was not the elected D.A., he was an assistant.  The elected D.A. was named Peters, and he’s the one who threw the Hail Mary.  BDeL played along b/c he imagined a bright future for himself.

I know that in the final year of his term, Kirk Fordice (whose autograph I have, and who is the only sitting Governor I have been able to talk to personally) wanted to pardon BDLB.  That obviously didn’t happen, b/c he died in prison, and about a year after Ronnie Muskrat became Governor.  Fordice died a few years after BDLB did.  But Fordice did appoint BDeL to a state judge position, and his time as a judge is where the Federal felony came in.  Now, you would think it would be stupid for MS’s first real Republican Governor to have appointed a big time panderer like BDeL to the state judiciary, after that Governor won two elections based on the votes of white Mississippians, and proudly associated himself with the Council of Conservative Citizens.  (That’s how I met him.)  Now I’m starting to wonder if his appointment of BDeL was an attempt to grease the skids for pardoning BDLB based on the kangaroo nature of his third trial.  I think Fordice knew there would have been controversy, and maybe that was his way of softening the blow.  Perhaps he got cold feet at the last minute.  Though it wouldn’t have mattered — he wasn’t going to run for a third term in ’99, b/c of his health.  He knew he wasn’t going to live too long after leaving Jackson, so it wasn’t as if he had any thoughts of sinecures.

Global Cooling

Somewhere between twenty and fifty thousand elderly Britons, mostly white retirees, die each winter because they can’t afford to heat their houses adequately.  The two big reasons why they can’t are:  (1) Government is too busy giving money away to non-whites, and (2) Energy bills in Britain are high b/c the government has signed onto glowbull (not) warming bullshit.

Just think, old white American — This is what Barack Obama has in store for you.  That is, if his health care death panels don’t get ya first.

This Has Jane Cunningham’s Fingerprints All Over It

Among the many bills that will be considered in the 2010 session of the Missouri General Assembly is one that would allow parents to enroll their children in any public school system, if various circumstances allow.  What is unclear about this bill is if it would have a radius limit, like similar legislation introduced in the past by then-Rep. (and now Sen.) Jane Cunningham, a Chesterfield Republican.

We all know that this bill is deseg by any other means.  But I finally figured out what Cunningham’s obsession with this issue is.  Most of her districts, the Rep district before and now the Sen district, are in either the Rockwood or Parkway school districts.  They want more students, even if they’re city blacks, so that they can get more PPPD (per pupil per diem) money from the state.

Now you see why I didn’t want Jane Cunningham to win?

The Power of the Levy

Steve Levy, the conservative Democrat Executive of Suffolk County, N.Y., the most populous county in the state outside New York City, is considering a run for Governor as a Democrat.  Among his conservative positions is opposition to illegal immigration.

If I lived in New York State, he would be my candidate all the way.  Gov. Patterson is trying for a term as Governor in his own right, and his only other announced challenger in the D-Primaries is AG Andrew Cuomo.  If Patterson and Cuomo split the liberal vote, Levy could win.  On the Republican side, it seems like it’s Rick Lazio’s for the taking.  Remember, he challeged HRC for the Senate seat in 2000, but came off as a rather louzy campaigner.  Ironically, Lazio won that nomination b/c Rudy Giuliani didn’t run.  Lazio’s gonna win this nomination, again, b/c Rudy Giuliani isn’t going to run.

Levy seems to be the most conservative of all the major candidates.  I think he’d have a better chance as a Republican, though.

Sunday Wrap-Up

The last of the leftovers have been consumed, the last of the Christmas dishes have been washed, the ornaments are back in the closet, the tree is in the mulch bin, the presents are already obsolete/tacky/so last year, the Santa suit is at the dry cleaners, the Christmas music is in the back of the rack, the cards I received are in the scrapbook, the hangover from the 2010 bubbley is gone, the outdoor light displays are back in storage, and I won’t have to eat cranberry sauce for almost a whole year.  Now, I have three months of dark cold nights to look forward to.  At least I can be mean to people again, at least w/o feeling guilty.

(1)  I noticed this morning that the women that sell carpet and advertise with flying carpet scenes over Downtown St. Louis and the Arch and the gal that pimps out her three collies in order to get you to come to her lemon lot in Collinsville have joined forces in their TV ads, as evidently the lemon lot and the queens of carpet are very close to each other in Collinsville.  I can see how this one’s gonna work — Buy a car at the lemon lot, mention one of the dog’s names, and you can wheel your clunker next door and get free carpet mats.

(2)  Repeat after me, Claire — The State mandates car insurance only if you drive a motorized registered vehicle on public roads, and only to protect others from your mistakes.

(3)  I have nothing against the Juice.  Some of my very best friends are fruits.

(4)  What are an 11-year old girl and a 15-year old boy doing as b/f-g/f?

(5)  Non sequitur, Steve.  At least there was thought to be a use for Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.  Ballpark Village was only a scam by the Cardinals to get the City and County to pony up money or some other consideration to get the new ballpark built.  They never had any intention to build it.

(6)  Freedom for Americans just might have been saved by the Chinese.  Cue Alanis Morissette.

(7)  That didn’t take long — Gov. Quinn already does the remorsment thing re his GOJF card handouts.  It might well be a world record, from inception to regret for a Democrat idea.

(8)  Instead of letter grades on subject material, one NH HS will now switch to number grades based on social fluff factors.  If that’s the case, then why have a high school at all?  You don’t need to be cooped up in a building for seven hours a day to “get along with others” and to “manage yourself.”  They could learn those things on the campaign trail for Obama’s re-election campaign.

(9)  One of the new MO laws for 2010 is that DESE will have an easier time holding control over “failing” districts for longer periods of time.  Previously, districts that improved (or seemed to improve) in a few areas could avoid a state takeover.  I think the purpose of this law is to preclude scams where student performance appears to improve, when in reality it’s all fake — slower students are kept out of class, out of school on testing days, teachers give out the test answers, teach to the test, etc.  Still, I oppose this legislation because I oppose any legislation that allows for state takeovers.  The reason is that it’s all a waste of time — “failing” (read: black) districts aren’t failing because of bad management, but because of dumb students.  All a state takeover accdmplishes is a reshuffle of the deck chairs on the Titanic.

(10)  Cards dump $$$ on the effort to raise the sales tax on St. Louis County for public transit.  When they don’t have the money offseason after next to resign Pujols don’t come cryin’ to me.

(11)  It’s a shame.  Those ten used to be good schools.  Now, they’ll give a diploma to just about anyone, as long as they have the right skin color.

(12)  A judge in LA dismissed a city ordinance mandating condom use in porn movies.  That would have had the effect of almost all porn movies having condoms, b/c most porn, still and moving, comes out of the San Fernando Valley.

Porn acting is bad enough.  Can you imagine how worse it will get when you’ve gotta watch em put on condoms?  I also don’t understand the motivation for this ordinance.  Most people who watch porn movies have had the condom message pounded into their heads since kindergarten.

And a few headlines.

Schlafly:  Obama Administration Wants a Longer School Day, School Year

So that they can learn nothing for even longer.

NYP:  Wizards Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton pull pistols on each other

“Now, Gilbert.  When we told you that you were our shooting guard, we didn’t mean it in that way.”  Ironically, the team used to be called the Bullets.

John Lott:  Stimulus as tar baby

I thought the Democrats were against tobacco.

Frog in the Water, Boiled to Death By 2025

I was flipping through the radio dial earlier today.  The 1190 AM station, which did sports talk since 2002, flipped over to classic country after the Romaniks purchased it, and changed calls to KQQZ, similar to their sister property KZQZ 1430.  Incidentally, KQQZ simulcasts the 1510 AM station the Romaniks own — that one is based in Highland, but you need a good radio to hear it in St. Louis City.  I would imagine the Romaniks will do something different with 1510 soon, for the area where WQQW’s signal is best heard is also covered well by KQQZ.  Metro East focused talk, perhaps?  But I digress.

When I landed on 1190, they were playing a Lorrie Morgan song, named “Back In Your Arms Again.”  It sounds way more country than any of the warmed over pop recorded in Nashville today sounds like.  But keep in mind that that song was from 1995, already 15 years ago now.  (Art Bell used it as bumper music a few times in the fall of that year.)  And the mid-90s country itself sounded like warmed over pop compared to what came out of Nashville 15 years before then, in 1980.

It makes me wonder — What will country music sound like in 2025?

Predictions for 2010

Before I get started, I noticed on Carson Daly last night that one young woman said that when the ball dropped to 2010, that would also mean that her 18th birthday is here.  This means that people coming of voting age this were were born in 1992.  Meaning they have no real conscious developed memories of Bill Clinton, his tryst with Miss Monica, and were either 9 years old or about to turn 9 when 9/11 happened.  The present is quickly becoming the past.  Don’t remind me.

(1)  Based on the success of Rush Limbaugh’s weight loss diet in 2009, and because one of the tenets of this diet is no alcohol consumption, for alcohol is a roadblock in the digestion process that causes you to gain weight quickly, many breweries will come out with low or very low alcohol versions of popular beers, though they won’t be light beers.  All the other ingredients will still be there, but there will be far less alcohol by volume.

(2)  Tiger Woods reverses his previous decision, and returns to the tour in 2010.  And, since he’s got nothing else going for him, and very little endorsement income now, he’ll have the best season of his career — He’ll win the majority of tournaments he enters, and three of the four (if not all four) majors.

(3)  This is the Stupid Party we’re talking about here.  Their gains in House and Senate elections in November will be disappointingly few, and not enough to flip control of either chamber.  Don’t worry, Democrats — This is the Stupid Party you’re competing with.  Mere rumors of a talk radio host’s heart condition led many to fear that the only opposition to the Democrat/Obama agenda was about to kick off.

(4)  The Intel Core i9, a 6-core CPU due to be released some time this year, will break all post-rollout sales records for computer processors, in spite of its likely per unit retail cost of over one kilobuck, and in a rotten economy that has hurt high end computer product sales (read:  Apple).

(5)  Sarah Palin will announce that she won’t run for the Presidency.  Family will be the excuse, but the real reason is that not being President will be more profitable than being President.

(6)  Massive layoffs at either the ADL or SPLC, maybe both.  Why?  One word:  Madoff.

(7)  The Cardinals will finish under .500 next season.  Too little offense and the pitching will be depleted for most of the season.

(8)  There will be massive riots and/or successful terrorist activity in at least one European capital city.

(9)  I’m sensing a major scandal, probably personal, relating to or surrounding a conservative radio talk show host you’ve heard of, or at least I’ve heard of.

(10)  A state where you would least expect it to happen will legalize gay marriage.

(11)  Ibid, but for small quantities of marijuana possession, with the countenance of the Federal government.

(12)  Two or more relatively prosperous school districts in the St. Louis area will either merge, or start serious talks about merging.  I know Wellston and Normandy might merge, so that’s why I qualified this with “relatively prosperous.”  Money will be a factor.

(13)  The murder tally in St. Louis City will be higher in 2010 than it was in 2009, or even in 2008.  As I type this, we’re already at two on that odometer.

As Rush Says, Words Mean Things

You wanna know what the most frightening thing was about Rush Limbaugh’s apparent heart attack scare a few days ago?

I’ve read a lot of blogs and a lot of tweets since then, and I read a lot of “hope you get well” and “please don’t kick off on us Rush” and “If you die on us who’s gonna resist Obama” messages from Rush fans, and a lot of vitriol and hate from the other side, many of their posts are gleeful that Rush’s possible death would have cleared the way for Obama.

The scary part about that is that both sides are right:  Rush Limbaugh is the only thing standing in the way of the Obama agenda.  Think about it:  We supposedly have an opposition party in Congress, but who are their leaders?  I dare you, and by “you,” mean a typical American, to name one.  There, you see?  As for those of you who do know — Mitch McConnell?  John Boehner?  Two words:  Yawn, yawn.  Backing out Sarah Palin, who I think isn’t running, none of the 2012 Presidential candidates, at least the ones CW says will run, garner any excitement.

To put it another way, as Michael Savage, who returned to his show early from the vacation, mainly to talk about Hot Pants, said, so many people are worried about Rush Limbaugh’s health because there’s no real leadership from either party in this country.  Obama and the Democrats are saying mostly the wrong things, while the Republicans plus Joe Lieberman are virtually silent.