I’m In A Wyoming State Of Mind

Salt Lake City Deseret News:  Wyoming governor signs law adopting ‘cowboy ethics’

Evidently, it wasn’t important enough news to be covered in a Wyoming news source;  Utah had to pick up on it.

AP:  Is a Jewish wedding ahead for Chelsea Clinton?

Only if she promises not to break any glass.

UK Daily Mail:  Lifestyle coaches to help four-year-olds play… from the government that’s STILL selling off school sports fields

Let’s see, you hired a lifestyle coach, so it’ll be all for naught unless you order the sporting goods from Bang & Olufsen.

UK Telegraph:  Council advises families to stock ‘hurricane survival kit’

But you can’t order any from the United States, because those don’t contain any dehydrated scones in the MREs.

5:  Rams center Jason Brown urges high school students to stay the course

A member of an NFL team that went 1-15, the one coming on a trick play against the Detroit Lions, telling high school students to stay in school is like telling them to give up after their freshman year of all Fs and one C that they lucked out on by getting some extra credit.

CNS:  Hatch: Biden Will ‘Go Down in History as a Real Dolt’ If He Over-Rules Senate Parliamentarian and Lets The Dems Pass Health Care Without 60 Votes

If?

5:  Lights to go out at Arch, Busch Stadium

The last person must be leaving St. Louis.

Springfield News-Leader:  Missouri doesn’t qualify for federal education grants

I end today’s headlines with good news.

Friday’s Tidbits (Fish For Supper, Anyone?)

(1)  New York State’s Hispanic politicians are urging its black politicians to hold the lynch mob on Gov. Paterson.  Of course, this is redundant, because most New York “Hispanics” are black or mulatto with Spanish surnames, not the Chicano or Mestizo types of the Southwest.

As an aside, what has Paterson done that’s so wrong, or that’s so much worse than other NY Governors?  I think he’s a victim of a vendetta, and I’m guessing the Cuomos are behind it.  Face it, Paterson has been no worse than George Pataki, who was liberal on race and immigration, and a gun grabber, in spite of his party label.  And at least Paterson has a personality indicative of a man who is not on Zoloft.

(2)  I have predicted that at some point in the future, it will be a crime in general, and a hate crime in particular, for white people to alert law enforcement of non-white criminality.  We got a hint of this in the Flying Imams scandal out of Minneapolis.  Now we’re getting more visions of the days to come out of Kansas City.

(3)  George Strait said it:  You can lead a horse to love, but you can’t make him fall.

(4)  Green Collar, Red China:  80% of the Obama Porkulus money used to create renewable energy sources is going to China.

(5)  If I were one of your schools, I’d fire all the English teachers.

(6)  Armageddon, come quickly!

Brady Law

Not the next Governor of Illinois

Bill Brady has been certified as the winner of the GOP Primary for Governor.  Since his margin of victory over Kirk Dullard was more than 100 votes, there will be no recount.

Now the race is between Bill Brady and Pat Quinn, or rather, Brady vs Quinn.  Not involved is Cleveland Browns starting QB Brady Quinn.

Going downballot for just a moment, a caller to Rush’s show posited an interesting theory yesterday, that the outward perception of a feud between President Obama and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is all a manufactured excuse to justify Rahm running for the U.S. Senate seat from IL this year.  In other words, Alexi Giannoulias is such damaged goods that the State Democraps would make him an “offer he can’t refuse,” then slide Rahm in his place to take on Mark Jerk.  It makes sense, because Rahm said that he put on hold his dream to be the first Jewish Speaker of the U.S. House when Obama asked him to be CoS.  However, since there’s a good chance that the Democrats won’t even hold onto the House after November, Rahm might think that that’s a lost cause, and settle for a Senate seat.  One problem with that theory is this:  Is Rahm really that much more electable on a statewide basis (even in Illinois) than AlexiG?  I don’t think so, and it would be even worse for Rahm’s case this year b/c of the wind to the Republicans’ back.

Rush Room

Whoever buys Rush Limbaugh’s former Fifth Avenue pad better ungay that bedroom ASAP.  Unless, of course…

He Apologized

Awww, isn’t that sweet?

Hey buddy.  One Supreme Court justice votes differently five years ago, and you’d be set up on a date with a syringe.

KinderH8er

It is indeed a brave new world.

UK Daily Mail:

Pupils aged five on hate register: Teachers must log playground taunts for Government database

Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school ‘hate registers’ over everyday playground insults.

Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.

Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough.

Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of ‘hate’ bullying.

The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns.

The scale of the effort to stop children using homophobic or racist language was revealed after the parents of a ten-year-old primary school pupil in Somerset, Peter Drury, were told that his name would be put on a register and his behaviour monitored while he remained at school.

The boy was reported after he called a friend ‘gay boy’. His parents fear the record of homophobic bullying will count against him throughout his school career and even into adulthood.

I have an alternate explanation:  They’re kids.  Ergo, they’re mean.  Ergo, they say mean things and use mean words, but they don’t know what they mean.

Taxation and Net-Resentation

Those 18 and older that buy a ticket for Magic at Nets tomorrow will get a voucher to get their New Jersey state income taxes done for free at Roni Deutsch’s firm.

Then again, anyone who would be dumb enough buy tix to a Nets game probably doesn’t make enough money to be liable for state income taxes to begin with.

Honored

Magic 104.9′s afternoon drive hosts don’t want I-70 to be returned to the Mark Twain Highway, which it was before it was renamed for the steroid cheat.  The reason they don’t like Mark Twain is because “his accomplishments and body of work do not resonate as strongly on the north side of St. Louis as perhaps they would in his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri.”  Translated that into English, that means that he wrote books, which are as alien as unobtanium to most people who live near Interstate 70 in between Downtown and the Airport.  “If you wanna hide something from a brutha, but it in a book, and put the book in a library.” — Onion Horton

Instead, they want it to be named “after a person who has made a difference not just in the community in which the roadway is located, but St. Louis as a whole.”

I can only think of one person who fits that bill.  His name is Art Wuigk.

Put to Good Use

MO Senate gives initial clearance to a bill that would mean that registered cars only need a rear license plate.

About ten years ago, I purchased a Confederate Flag car tag whose purpose was to be mounted where a front license plate should be, for cars registered in states that only require rear plates.  I bought it thinking that I might move to a one-plate state, and I never did.  Looks like such a state might be moving to me.

A Senator from Kansas City objects to the change, her reasoning being that two plates make it easier for cops to track stolen cars.  If she does, then I’m sure the other “urban” (read: black) Senators and Reps from St. Louis and Kansas City would vote against it.  (Gee, I thought there was no such thing as racial differences in crime.)  Ironically, these same state lawmakers would vote for no police chases and no racial profiling by cops.

It’s a New Day

The one and only rifle range in Palm Beach County, Florida is so busy these days that there are often lines and waiting lists for those who want to improve their aim.

You know that public opinion on the gun issue is changing when this kind of things happens in a county that’s essentially a southern suburb of New York City.

What’s next?  A Republican wins a U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts?

Paul

They passed out pictures of RuPaul.  They would have done better with Ron Paul.

Littering Is Now a Felony

Behold, dangerous hate criminals

The University of Missouri’s “Finest” think they’re the cotton ballers.  They’ve been arrested and suspended from school.  Channel 5 won’t say where they’re from, but the P-D says that one of them is from St. Louis.  Both are in the Naval ROTC program, or should I say, they were.

“Arrested?  Suspended?  For littering?”

No, for a hate crime.  I’m not kidding.

Littering might be just an infraction, but since they evidently sprinkled cotton balls on the walkway leading up to the Black Culture Center, the authorities think they did it out of racial enmity.  So, what would be nothing more than a municipal infraction becomes a state felony.

However, I think the authorities are piling on in order to get Messrs. Fitzgerald and Tucker to either leave school or go on the anti-racism circuit in exchange for dropping the most serious charges.  Even so, dumping cotton balls on a sidewalk isn’t a hate crime, it’s a college prank.

Teddy’s Past, Kay’s Present, Hillary’s Future

Texas gets Rickrolled.

With virtually all the precincts counted, Rick Perry wins a majority with 51.1%, KBH 30.3%, and Debra Medina gets 18.6%.  No runoff.

Let’s take a ride back about a generation.

In the year in question, an incumbent office holder is seem as weak and vulnerable.  Someone within his own party, who is very well known, decides to challenge the incumbent for his own party’s nomination.  The challenger started out with a big lead in the polls, but quickly fell behind and lost by margins just as big as his initial lead.  One of the big reasons the incumbent was able to win and the challenger’s challenge flopped is because the incumbent had the power of the incumbency, and the challenger relied on his name and “reputation,” and wasn’t able to give himself a raison d’etre to his candidacy — he wasn’t able to articulate to his own party’s voters just why, beyond his name, he was a better choice for his party than the incumbent.  He didn’t say what he wanted to do with this office.  The incumbent was able to give himself a compelling reason for political existence.  Plus, the challenger’s particular ideology was becoming a thing of the past.

What I just described was Ted Kennedy’s intra-party challenge to Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Change a few pronouns for gender correctness, and I also just described KBH’s primary challenge to Rick Perry for the last twelve months until last night.  The analogy isn’t perfect; Rick Perry has been the Governor of Texas longer than anyone in the state’s history, and if he’s not caught in bed with a child, he’s gonna turn ten years into fourteen years.  Jimmy Carter was just finishing his first and only term as President.  For all its fraudulence, Perry did successfully give himself a raison d’etre, KBH tried to float on her name.  Jimmy Carter didn’t give himself much of a raison d’etre, even as Kennedy, like KBH, couldn’t rationalize his existence, but actually being the sitting President has a lot of advantages.  And, while you may think it’s a matter of to-may-toe, to-mah-toe, Kennedy’s brand of liberalism was going out of style in the country and even within the Democrat Party, and KBH’s apparent centrist establishmentarianism is becoming passe within the GOP.

Take this as a warning, Hillary Rodham Clinton — If you’re going to challenge Obama in 2012, you better come up with a real game plan, or hope he taps out.

Some think that yesterday’s vote vindicates George W. Bush.  I don’t agree, and, as a matter of fact, I think it was a referendum against him in his own state.  Both Bushes, 41 and 43, Karl Rove and Dick Armey all came out for KBH.  How’d that work out for her?  Rush Limbaugh relayed gossip from GOP insiders that they really don’t like Rick Perry, even though on immigration and globalism, they’re the same.  KBH was actually the least open borders of the three, and the least problematic otherwise, which is why she would have gotten my vote.

As for Debra Medina, the neos and lamers on Twitter are already gloating about how the vote is a repudiation of trutherism/birtherism.  Huh?  She went from nobody to almost one in five Republicans in two months, so the t/b issues didn’t seem to hurt her.  I tend to think that they had no effect; they neither enhanced or depressed her prospects — In other words, she would have gotten the 18.6% she did even if she didn’t come out as sort of a truther/birther, and that she did doesn’t mean she would have gotten more.  What was working against her was too little time, too little money, her opposition to E-Verify and Rick Perry’s co-option.  More of the first two and change the third, and we’d be talking about a Perry-Medina runoff today.

Oh, and?  Ron Paul?  80%.  BOO-YEAH!

Wednesday’s Tidbits

(1)  Dear Valley Girl:  Spell “innate.”  I dare you.

(2)  Don’t get too worked up about the IL House Ag & Cons. Committee passing CCW.  This happens every legislative session in Illinois:  The downstaters and mid-staters will get CCW to the House and Senate floors, and the gun grabbers up in Kookland will get further gun restrictions to the House and Senate floor, and both sides will drop their bill in fear of the other.

(3)  Wanna avoid being a crime victim at the gym?  Stay away from the basketball courts, because that’s where trouble usually happens.  For maximum safety, hide in the showers, because the crowd that likes to fire guns on the basketball court has little use for showers.

(4)  If a condom needs to be that small, then the person with said organ for which the condom was designed probably can’t do that which a condom makes less risky.

(5)  A stripper over on the East Side left her three-year old daughter alone in a motel room while she went to “work.” The cops found the toddler wearing only a T-shirt and panties.  How’s that for irony?

(6)  What kind of a name is Shy-kym?

Yes, Massa

5:  New Missouri Botanical Garden president looks forward to exploring wilds of Missouri

Hope he enjoys the chiggers and poison ivy.

NYP:  Rep. Massa to retire amid allegations he sexual harassed male staffer

The staffer was in a particularly uncomfortable position.  His boss’s name was “massa.”

NYP:  Keep Jeter in pinstripes, even as owner

Derek Jeter could rehearse for that job by hiring, firing and rehiring the same two housekeepers on an alternating and yearly basis.

New to the Blogroll

JewAmongYou. Who knows, I might be a GentileAmongComments :)

Ole McDonald Wanted a Gun, S-C-O-T-US

I read the oral arguments and the back-and-forth between the Supreme Court Justices and the lawyers for both Otis McDonald and the City of Chicago.

While Heller was a 5-4 decision, I think that McDonald might well be 9-0 in favor of McDonald.  The reason is that McDonald turned out to be what I thought, more about the 14th Amendment than the 2nd Amendment.

Truthfully, McDonald didn’t need to be heard at all, because Heller dealt with the 2nd, and the Incorporation Doctrine of the 14th has been a matter of judicial precedence for decades.  Since the majority opinion on Heller, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, only relied on interpreting the 2nd, and didn’t do as I feared, chicken out to a Federal jurisdiction excuse, Heller should have applied to Chicago and every other gun ban city.  Chicago drug its heels, waiting for someone to make them obey the 2nd Amendment.  All McDonald is a matter of is recognizing the Incorporation Doctrine for like the 875th time in a century.  Even after McDonald wins in June, Chicago is going to do everything it can to disobey the 2nd, such as creating so much red tape, so much paperwork and so many fees that, while handgun ownership is/will be technically legal, it will be practically infeasible for the average person.  I know this because that is precisely what D.C. is doing right now in the wake of Heller.  What Mr. Heller two years ago and Mr. McDonald now should have asked for is for Washington, D.C. and Chicago to be put under consent decrees, where every item of DC and Chicago’s firearms policies should be cleared with a Federal judge.

Be Not Troubled: Tomorrow’s Headlines Will Come Slightly Sooner Than Today’s.

Reuters:  Suspicious substance at Utah IRS office: FBI

Come to find out, it was the dead skin cells from white people that work there, which you don’t find very often at Federal government workplaces.

CNS:  Mexican Drug Cartels Active Nationwide, Obama Administration Officials Say

“We’ve succeeded.”

Antonio French:  200 volunteers clean up the 21st Ward

The other 12,000 residents of the 21st Ward made the mess.

Slashdot:  Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth’s Day

Damn.  I’ve got my days scheduled down to the microsecond, and now I’ve got 1.26 fewer each day to give.

P-D:  St. Louis’s legal community turns out for “Justice for All Ball”

The justice might be for all, but the ball wasn’t.

Tuesday’s Tidbits

(1)  Lil’ Wayne used to go to bed at 4 AM.  For the next year, he’s gonna be waking up at 4 AM.

(2)  Residents near the Royal Albert Hall in London have won a court battle to stop boxing and wrestling cards at the venue.  The residents argued that boxing and wrestling would attract the wrong crowd.

Just a few months ago, a British paper said that boxing might be one of the very few things which will help those in the wrong crowd get into the right crowd.

Aslyum Given to Those Both Seeking and Deserving of Aslyum

For the first time in a long time, white people are granted political asylum in the United States.

It’s the family of homeschoolers from Germany.  They were being persecuted using anti-homeschooling laws that were enacted by the Nazi Party.

$80 Million Saved Is 80 Medals Earned

USOC will not bid an American city for the 2020 Summer Olympics.  The 2018 Winters are already down to three finalists, one in the French Alps, a city in South Korea and Munich, so no American cities there.  So it can’t be at least until the 2022 Winters that the U.S. could host a Games.  Chicago’s last place bid cost the city and the USOC $80 million, and I think the USOC thinks that money would be better spent training American athletes to kick ass on foreign soil.

You Can Learn A Lot From a Dummy

Local Control didn’t work out so well for Kansas City in the 1930s.  The reason KC wanted local control of its PD was that Tom Pendergast, the same machine archon that eventually sent Harry Truman to the U.S. Senate, coveted the control of all those jobs and all that money.  The corruption was so rampant that the state resumed control in 1939, after only seven years of local control.

Question:  We know the two big reasons why St. Louis City officials want local control of the SLPD are:  (1) Raiding the police officers’ pension, and (2) Handcuffing the existing officers with civilian review boards.  Now it makes me wonder who the 2010 St. Louis equivalent is to Tom Pendergast, in other words, who think they’re gonna benefit personally from local control.

Texas Primaries Tomorrow

I’m none too thrilled with neither of the three, but I’d have to vote Kay Bailey Hutchinson if I were forced into a choice.  She’s the least problematic of the three, and she’s the only one for E-Verify.

There will be a runoff if the winner doesn’t get above 50%, and Debra Medina’s late charge just might make that happen.  I think her being in the race helps KBH and hurts Perry in the short term (i.e. tomorrow), and if there is a runoff, KBH will make a run at Medina voters.  (I’m presuming that Medina will finish in third.)  I think most of Medina’s votes are bled off of Perry, because her stance on certain doctrinaire right-wing stances seem more genuine than his.

I fear that, if KBH does win, the media will spin it as a defeat for the doctrinaire right wing, because she will have beaten two apparent doctrinaire right wingers.

This Republican primary tomorrow is essentially the race for Governor (and if you’re familiar with the history of Texas politics, you know how big of a turnaround that statement is); no Democrat running for Governor seems to be very credible.

Also, Ron Paul has a few primary challengers tomorrow in R-TX-14, one or two of them are associated with Tea Party activism in Houston.  However, RP just returned a hundred kilobucks of unused allocations for his Congressional office expenses back to the Yankee gubmint.  And the Tea Parties are all supposed to be about small government and stopping massive Federal spending.  Primary challengers.  Yeah right, spare me.  RP will get at least two-thirds of the vote.

Don’t Look At Me. It’s Monday.

CNS:  Obama Still Smoking, But Declared to Be in Excellent Health

Somebody’s gotta pay for children’s health care, might as well be him.

Jihad Watch:  Saudi Arabia: Jihad against infidels on bicycles

We’ve had bike-by shootings in America, so we knew that this was the next logical step.

KMOX:  MODOT: 64/40 shutdown did not hurt region’s economy

Because the region doesn’t have an economy to hurt.

Vancouver Wrap-Up

(1)  Everyone knew that the game yesterday afternoon would be the most watched TV program in Canada’s history.  It also turned out to be the most-watched hockey game in America since The Miracle On Ice.

(2)  Thanks to Mr. Crosby, President Obama owes PM Stephen Harper a case of Yuengling.  Thank goodness they didn’t bet cigarettes, or Obama would have been loath to fork ‘em over.

(3)  Those 100,000 condoms?  Not Enough!

Somebody had to be using them, and that includes a lot of the ugly athletes.  Though the very thought of the ugly ones fucking other ugly ones isn’t helping me keep down my supper.

(4)  NBC just had to cut out of the closing ceremonies at 9:30 to show that stupid Marriage Ref for a half hour, then local nooze for the next half hour, then right back to the closing ceremonies, at the point where they left off.  They should have just stayed with the closing for that last hour, then cut out to the local nooze at 10:30.  Who the fuck cares about the Marriage Ref?

Calpyso Louie’s News Sources

Louis Farrakhan is warning President Obama that Whitey’s out to get him.  Farrakhan ought to know — I’m sure he reads SPLC material every day.

The occasion for Minister F’s comments was a NOI convention in Chicago, and at the United Center, home of the Bulls and Blackhawks.  Imagine that — NOI haters get the United Center, and American Renaissance can’t hold down a lousy hotel thanks to the neo-Marxist goonies and their death threats.

I’m disappointed that the spaceships didn’t descend on the United Center from their forty mile high orbit to take all of Allah’s Chosen off to whatever paradise they’re due.  It’s gotta happen one of these years.  Or rather, I hope it happens.  Where can I send a contribution?

Circular Saw Logic

If you’re a house renovator, the good news is that East St. Louis holds plenty of work for you.

The bad news is that there’s a reason why ESL’s domiciles are run down.

David Cameron’s Nuts are In a Ringer

Tory lead over Labour in the polls is narrowing.

I have two predictions.

(1)  Tory-biased papers like the Daily Mail and the Telegraph are going to run so many hit pieces against the BNP between now and June that it’s going to make your head spin,

(2)  David Cameron will start sounding more and more like Nick Griffin, and Conservative Party candidates for Parliament will co-opt the BNP by pretending to parrot its agenda.

And just how does Gordon Brown’s Equality Commissar, Trevor Phillips, celebrate the news that he just might still have a job after June?  By promptly inserting foot into mouth.

UPDATE: Just hours after I wrote these predictions, (2) has already come to pass.

UPDATE 4/13: (1) has come true.