And As of Tomorrow…

18 04 2010

…I’ll be an Illinoisan once again, at least in terms of where I sleep more often than not.  On paper, I am still one even as I type this — I never changed my voter and car registration away from Carbondale.

The best thing about my new apartment in Edwardsville?  <Homer Simpson>Mmmmmm, three minute commute</Homer Simpson>

Expect only sporadic posting here for the first half of this upcoming week.  Along with the move, I’ve got a few other important things that’ll take up most of my time.





The Lemonade Stand Up On Manchester: We Bring Good Things to Light

18 04 2010

2:  Six Year Old Plans Lemonade Stand To Benefit Injured Rock Hill Officer

I bet he’ll pay more in business taxes this year than did GE.


UK Telegraph:  Binge-drinking: What happened to our sense of shame?

Alcohol is to shame what sodium hydroxide is to hydrochloric acid.


UK Daily Mail:  Cameron berated by ex-soldier during walkabout: ‘You gave me your card and said to ring… but you never got back’

Dude.  You weren’t ever going to get a call back.

UK Register:  Google Chrome OS to route print jobs around planet

Feh?  That’s what company intranets are for.

AP:  Ex-mentor: Sharpton is Obama’s link to the streets

He’s also Michael Steele’s link to the streets, Nut Gingrich’s link to the streets and Bill O’Reilly’s link to the streets.  Musn’t be much of a street if you gotta go through Al Sharpton to get to it.

UK Daily Mail:  David Cameron’s ’40-year-old black man’ criticises Tory leader for inaccuracies

He might be a black man, but I have another choice set of words with which to describe him.  One of the words is “house.”

CofCC:  Have you noticed the EXTREME hypocrisy of the “mainstream” media?

The media must be tired with plain ole regular hypocrisy, so now they’ve gotta up the ante to extreme hypocrisy.

Paul Huebl:  Weis Laments Chicago’s Code of Silence, Demands More Gun Control

Here’s a bright idea — Ban handguns in Chicago.  Here’s a brighter idea — Let’s not enforce said law against black gang bangers.


NYP on Twitter:  Amazing PHOTOS of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull Volcano – who names these things?

I’m guessing it was some guy randomly hitting keys on the keyboard, and the Icelandic government thought that was good as anything.





Sunday Wrap-Up

18 04 2010

(1)  White men CAN jump.

(2)  The British Labour Party is sending letters and other forms of communication to mosques in the town of Stoke, urging them to start campaigns to get their members not the vote for the BNP.

Here we are, smack dab in the middle of an election season.  Labour needs every vote it can get, and to lure some away from the Liberal Democrats and maybe the Tories.  So why are they want mosque patrons explicitly not to vote for the BNP?  Why not compel them to vote FOR Labour?  And really, will that be such a hard sell?  That’s like the Democrat Party going into an AME church on the south side of Chicago to tell the preacher to advise his patrons not to join the KKK.

(3)  Nothing to see here, move along.  Actually, there is quite a lot to see here — I’ve been fearfully predicting things like this for quite a few years now.

(4)  President Gerald Ford, in the last year of his administration, and just mere months after he reversed course and bailed out New York City’s finances, wanted to so the same for the UK.

(5)  I don’t trust Dick Morris any further than I could throw him, even after his supposed “falling out” with the Clinton White House.  I disagree with Byron York’s implication that the OKC bounce that Clinton got and Morris manipulated was ultimately responsible for Clinton’s 1996 re-election.  The reason that happened was that:  (1) The economy was better than it was four years prior, and (2) The Republicans nominated Bob Dole.  Simple as that.  Proof that voter backlash against the right didn’t happen in ’96 was that the GOP picked up two Senate seats, and retained control of the U.S. House, (though the GOP did lose a few seats, a pittance compared to their big gains in 1994), on the very same election day.








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