The Lament of the Middle Class Entrepreneur

Andrew Joseph Stack’s personal requiem/suicide note reads in parts like something I would write.  What gives it away that I was not his ghostwriter is that the only thing about race is a short implication that blacks and poor immigrants aren’t the only ones not laying their lives down for their own freedom.  It is political, but not in a partisan or ideological sense — I don’t get the sense that Stack was a right-winger or a left-winger, a Democrat or a Republican.  Though he only heaps scorn on one President by name, that being Bush 43, I think that’s just a coincidence, and a result of time and space limitations.  These are all the queued up frustrations of a significantly more intelligent than normal American middle class independent entrepreneur.

Sam Francis he was not, but it is definitely worth your time.

I think what transpired today was Stack’s precise intention, that he kill only himself and do no more than serious but reparable damage to the IRS offices in Austin, and burn his own house down.  I also think he acted alone; there was no greater conspiracy here.

Today’s Headlines Aren’t Worth a Continental

CNS:  Lawmakers Move to Prohibit Imitation Marijuana in Missouri, Kansas

Kansas wanting to ban imitation marijuana is enough reason for me to be for it.

CBS:  South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency

Don’t worry about banning it.  In ten years, it’ll be so worthless that nobody’ll want it.

WBIR-NBC-10 Knoxville:  Police: Man pulls gun during knife fight, faces no charges

I bet his father told him never to bring a knife to a gun fight, he bought a gun to a knife fight just to play it safe.

Jihad Watch:  North Carolina: Muslim 8th-grade teacher says it was a “hate crime” that students left a Bible on her desk

An alternate explanation is that one of your students wants to save you.

Urban Review St. Louis:  Most readers don’t give change to homeless on the street

I don’t either.  The reason I don’t is because I just happen to know that bottles of MD 20/20 are not accepted as bus fare.

5:  Man angry at IRS crashes plane into building

If every man that ever got angry at the IRS crashed a plane in a building, there would be no planes or buildings left.

5:  Republican Mitt Romney says Obama has failed the country

The answer?  Give a man who only failed a state a chance to fail the country.

CTV:  Man infatuated with U.S. VP breaches 2010 security

A woman who is infatuated with the President shoots up a tenure board meeting in Huntsville, Alabama.  A man who is infatuated with the Vice-President sneaks past a couple security guards.  It sux to be Vice-President.

Take Two:  CTV:  Man infatuated with U.S. VP breaches 2010 security

There are a lot of crazy people who sneak past security.  That someone is obsessed with a wet noodle with Joe Biden is a new one on all the psychologists and psychiatrists in existence.

P-D:  Panoramic photo of Cardinals’ locker room at Spring Training

Here’s the rundown:  Lockers, showers, toilets.

Ann Coulter:  Ahmadinejad: ‘Yep, I’m nuclear!’

Bush:  ‘Yep, I’m nuculur!’

NYP:  Ernie Els slams timing of Tiger Woods’ statement as ‘selfish’

And now, all of a sudden, a golfer who hasn’t been relevant for years is in the headlines.  What would you call that?  Selfish, maybe?

Thursday Wrap-Up

I know.  You know already.  They didn’t deserve their own posts.

(1)  Several zingers from Robert Stacy McCain’s latest musings:

Yet the egalitarian illusion of every 18-year-old receiving the same diploma serves the interests of the bureaucracy, which retains both the dullard and the genius for 13 years of taxpayer-funded public schooling. And the result — as can be seen in the hallways of any large “comprehensive” high school — is an insanely heterodox mixture of students, herded together willy-nilly so that they can all cheer for the same football team every Friday night.

“School spirit.” Go, Team!

Newt Gingrich once called high school “subsidized dating,” which is an apt eptithet for this misguided system organized more on the basis of political or social purposes, rather than for any goal than can truly be called educational.

Good timing on his part, b/c I dealt with major education reform a few days ago.

(2)  The New York Post dug deep to break the news to the world that a professional athlete went out for a run.

Wow, I would have never guessed.

(3)  Why can barely more than a quarter of young Britons afford to purchase their own home?  Because mass immigration is doubly hurting those prospects:  (1)  An increasing labor force depresses wage growth,  (2)  More people bidding for the same housing drives the cost of housing way up.  Squeezed from both ends.  They call it a pincher movement.

It’s your easy peezy lemon squeezy economics lesson of the day.

(4)  A 15-year old Briton is the youngest person ever charged with the crime of expressing a politically incorrect opinion, after he uploaded a video of FBI Agents, FBI informants/shit disturbers and SPLC/ADL poseurs lynching a black man and brutally disposing of his body parts.

(5)  I don’t remember voting for free porn.  But I’ll take it anyway.

(6)  Malkin notes the hypocrisy of Grover Norquist signing a declaration for constitutional government, while demanding the GOP allow every Muslim on Earth to immigrate to the United States.  I know how this story ends — The Constitution won’t survive terrorist attack after terrorist attack, so it’s hypocritical to support the constitution and then want the wholesale import of a group of people whose never-ending propensity for terrorism would conflict with the American tradition of civil liberties.

Norquist was pushing this Muslim pandering nonsense starting in 2000, and didn’t stop even after 9/11.

(7)  Homeland Security can’t even secure its own guns.  There’s your lunch barfing moment of the day.

(8)  Kevin Slaten that Tony LaRussa bought in Mark McGwire as hitting coach because LaRussa needs to rehabilitate McGwire to get him into the hall of fame, and that LaRussa’s angle is personal, because LaRussa’s fate is McGwire’s fate.  If McGwire doesn’t get to Cooperstown, LaRussa won’t, b/c they were joined at the hip for so many years with two different teams.

LaRussa just acknowledged that any McGwire failings will also be his own.

She’s Baaaaaack

The Duke Fake is now in the sling for a bunch of charges, including attempted murder, arson, assault and battery.  The alleged victim is her current boyfriend who, like Miss Crystal Gale Mangum, is 33 years old.

I feel sorry and I don’t feel sorry for Mr. Walker at the same time.  He had to have known about all her lies about the three Duke LAXers.  When you hook up with a broad that psychopathic, you run the risk of being murdered in a bathtub.  After all, psychopathic people do psychopathic things.  He’s just lucky to come out of this with his dick intact.

Unlike the woman who I now believe to be a victim of Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault, (Thanks to RK for telling me that she got a rape kit, and it showed injuries consistent with rape, something that even I didn’t hear), whose identity I concealed even while I thought that Kobe Bryant might not have raped her, I am very comfortable in concluding that Miss Magnum falsely accused the Duke LAXers of rape.  Therefore, her name and pix are fair game.