Thursday’s Tidbits

(1)  That sound you just heard is every 17-year old in the country taking a pencil and crossing “Duke” off their college wish list.

(2)  Rush mentioned the Great Racist Dog of 2010 on his show yesterday.  Actually, I have noticed that dogs in general, even dogs that black people own, are more hostile to black strangers than white or other non-black strangers.

(3)  I have a logical question for Tom Friedman of the NYT.  For you to say that we need to allow unlimited immigration from India and China so that America can be great again means that you must think that Americans are so ignorant that we can’t find our asses with both hands on our rear ends.  If that’s so, why aren’t India and China great?  Why would all those great Indians and Chinese want to leave their great paradises to slum it over here with all us knuckledragging parasites?  India and China should think strategically — Keep all their super-smart people there, so they don’t allow the United States to become great.

(4)  Someone finally read the entirety of the health care bill President Obama signed into law a few weeks ago:

Neoteny

Rush’s show just ended as I write this, and the last caller he took before the end of this hour was from a woman in Newport Beach, California.  She posited an interesting theory for Rush, one that I don’t think he grokked in the way that she desired.  The woman’s theory is that Americans in general just haven’t graduated from high school, because the way we idolize professional athletes and celebutards, and bash and trash entrepreneurs and CEOs, even as supposedly mature adults, closely mirrors the fact that the jocks and cheerleaders are popular in high school, while the geeks and nerds get wedgies.

Rush responded to her theory by explaining why he thought that the best athletes and actors got paid a lot of money, but I think he missed the point — I don’t think she was making a moral judgment about Brett Favre making far more money than the founder of a tech startup, but I think she was merely making an observation of modern-day American neoteny.  I think what she was trying to say is that Brett Favre being way richer than the tech startup isn’t the disease, but merely the symptom of the disease of neoteny.

However, I think I can further the conversation just a little bit.  While Rush was right in inferring that the reason NFL starting QBs get paid a lot of money is because there are only 32 such jobs at any one time, I don’t think that jocks and nerds are each other’s enemy.  Far from picking on the nerds, the jocks should thank the nerds every chance they get.  If it wasn’t for the nerds of recent human history constantly inventing, innovating and perfecting, then people like Brett Favre wouldn’t have millions of dollars even for a decidedly non-nerdy occupation.  Let’s face it, while Favre and someone like Alex Rodriguez are probably smarter than the average person, they’re not especially remarkable people outside of modern-day professional athletics.  As late as 150 years ago, Favre would have owned a general store in some town in southern Mississippi, and Rodriguez would have made an exceptionally good tobacco picker in the Dominican Republic.

Because people like Edison, Einstein, Ford, Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi and so many others had the foresight to come up with new inventions and innovations, this meant that eventually, the average person could become far more productive, and contribute to a far higher national and world economic product, all the while working far fewer hours in a day, week, month and year.  Therefore, they had all this free time and money burning holes in their pockets, and some of that eventually went to developing professional athletics.  Therefore, the general store owners and tobacco farm stoop laborers of a sesquicentury ago, whose talents and throwing a spherical pigskin or hitting a round ball with a stick would have been useless at the time, are now very much in demand.

UPDATE 9 PM: Rush’s transcript

Wednesday’s Stuff

(1)  Damn.  There goes my plans to call it “My Big Fat Greek Bailout.”

(2)  It says here that British robbers are given lower fines that speeders.  That’s outrageous enough, but the most obvious thing to be outraged about, which the Mail doesn’t seem to be, is that robbers are given fines, not jail time.

(3)  What the judicial system evidently did not want to do to a Baltimore career criminal, an elderly armed citizen did, legally I might add.  It says here that the career criminal was out on parole for trying to mow down a Baltimore P.D. detective ten years ago, and was on the state parole and probation board’s “highest level of supervision.”  Yeah, look at what that was good for.  Between his release and his timely departure of this world, he was arrested for two other misdemeanors, yet the judges who arraigned him for those arrests didn’t revoke his parole and send him back to prison.

(4)  MSNBC suspends David Shuster for being in a test run for a new CNN show?  I mean, what damage is this going to cause?  Will MSNBC’s viewer switch to CNN as a result?

(5)  Yeah, that’s South Africa’s biggest problem, too many inflammatory songs.  And I’m sure that if people stop singing them, then all the country’s racial problems will go away.

(6)  Reading this, I get the feeling that Bill Clinton, when hearing the news that employer-paid trips to lesbian bondage boobie bars is a fringe benefit of working for the RNC, thought that he joined the wrong party so many years ago.

(7)  I was the best player on my B/C baseball team the summer I was 10 years old, too.  I told you before in this space how that turned out in the long run.

They’re ten years old.  We don’t have any business ranking them as the best in their sport at their age.

(8)  Obama WH to drop all mentions of the Religion of Peace in relation to terrorism in official dox and pronouncements.  Why?  Does it hit the President too close to home?

Oooh, I didn’t just say that, did I?  Have I gone too far, or have I not gone far enough?

(9)  For those of you who aren’t going to comply with the ObamaCare individual mandate, we now know how the Yankee government will collect the fine from most of you.

(10)  Somehow, the fact that there is a lot of teacher-on-teacher bullying, similar to what their students are doing to each other, doesn’t surprise me.  Outside of a few public schools, and especially in elementary schools, the average teacher is about my age or younger, meaning the gossipey crowd that was just young enough to have witnessed and embraced the internet, first on big heavy box computers then on smartphones.  Truthfully, twentysomethings and early thirtysomethings aren’t really more mature than a typical high school student of today.

(11)  My mother always said that California would fall off the map because of all its earthquakes.  Turns out she’s eventually going to be right for the wrong reason –  It won’t fall into the ocean for the shaking of the ground, but it’ll be drowned underneath red ink.  This article states that “(t)here are concrete ways out of this politician-created mess,” but I advise you not to take that the wrong way.

The Non-Surprising Surprise

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has declared this April to be Confederate History Month.  His two previous successors, both Democrats in the persons of Tim “King of the Klingons” Kaine and now-Sen. Mark Warner, never did this, so it hasn’t been since 2001, Republican Jim “Happy” Gilmore’s last full year as Governor, that the year’s given April was CHM.  (IIRC, both Gilmore and George Allen before him, both Republicans, did this every April of their administrations).  So, in what was the Confederacy’s most important state, it’s Abraham Lincoln’s party’s modern day Governors who want to remember the Confederacy.

Back-to-School Shopping List

I know it’s a little early to put together a list of things to shop for in August, but if you’ve got a white son that will be entering the sixth grade this fall, you should make sure you buy him some rope and spray paint before his first day of school.  He’s going to need those things with them on the first day, so he’s able to tie a multi-racial entering kindergartner to a tree and spray the n-word on him or her.  We now know that racial enmity and hate toward mulatto children starting KG has lurked deep within the evil hearts of every white 11-year old in the country for the last generation if not more.  They need to have the rope and spray paint on them as they start sixth grade, so they’re able to spot that little mulatto KGer about to start KG; they can’t very well tie him or her to a tree and spray-paint the n-word on his or her shirt if they don’t have the rope and spray paint on them to begin with.

As a matter of fact, I suggest buying it now.  There are a lot of white 11-year old boys going into the sixth grade this fall who will surely be hunting all those mulatto 5-year old boys and girls starting KG this fall in the school yard on the first day of school.  Can you imagine what all that demand is going to do to the price of rope and spray paint in early August?  Buy it now while it’s out of season.

No Thanks, But No Thanks

Ho hum.  Another piece of DRM-crippled junk from the iCabal that we’re supposed to eat up like candy.  If you wanted a classic demonstration of “sheople,” then you should have taken a look at the line outside an iCabal store on the day of the rollout — Everyone in line was lining up to pay 500 clams for something that will cost 20% less and be 50% more capable in six months.

iPad.  What’s an iPad?  If you would have asked me a year ago, I would’ve answered that it’s something my g/f has to shove up her hoo-hoo once a month to keep from bleeding out.  Or maybe I would have said that it was something she had to take out before I wanted to screw around — I sure as hell wasn’t going to take it out myself.  I know I have an extremity whose purpose is go up there, but it’s not my fingers, in spite of what one of Obama’s screwball czars wants to teach first graders about.

Prop A Passes

…By more than a 5-to-3 margin in St. Louis County.  Its passage means that City residents will also pay a higher sales tax rate, as its transit tax, passed several years ago, was contingent on County voters passing a tax.

If the local TV news is any indication, then none of this new money will be used to build new MetroLink lines.  All it will accomplish is to restore previous service cuts.  It’s just as well anyway — MetroLink, especially the debacle that was the Shrewsbury line that opened way late and way over budget, thanks to affirmative action, is the reason Metro/Bi-State is in the financial hole that it’s in, such that it had to ask us for a bailout.

Frankly, it’s amazing that the no side got even 37% of the vote.  I don’t remember seeing or hearing one anti-A media buy on local TV or radio.  The anti-A forces must have been outspent a thousand to one.  The antis were on some of the local talk shows, but even KFTK’s personalities were divided — Dana Loesch was against, while Jamie Allman was for.

UPDATE 4/9: P-D does the township breakdown of the vote.  A’s best twps were Normandy and Norwood, both in near North County, both heavily black, with over 84% Yes.  A’s worst twp was Oakville, in South County, with 60% No.

All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front…

WSJ:  War on Interns – Making it illegal to work for free.

Well, not entirely free — If you’re the wrong kind of intern working for the wrong kind of boss, you’ll be the one putting out.

P-D:  Area fertilizer firm settles with EPA

I’m glad this shit is over with.

UK Telegraph:  Scientists find new species of lizard with double penis

That makes threesomes a hell of a lot easier.

Tuesday’s Stuff

(1)  Bad choice of words on the part of the AP to describe the Cards’ win in the season opener at Cincy:

On only his second swing of the season, Albert Pujols(notes)  knocked one over the wall. A few innings later, he did it again.

The National League’s MVP each of the last two seasons is off to another invaluable start, this time with Mark McGwire providing the pointers.

“Pointers” from Mark McGwire.  LOL.

(2)  And you wonder why I call him Karl Roverrated.

In spite of that, I’m not buying the contention of this article that Roverrated’s incompetence on the Iraq issue led to the election of Barack Obama.  It was the economy, stupid.

BTW, I always thought that Saddam Hussein had WMDs (i.e. real ones), transferred them somewhere diplomatically sensitive before the invasion (he had plenty of time to do so, considering that we debated invasion for 14 FRICKIN’ MONTHS before the fact), but the truth of the matter was too much of a tar baby — the WH, I thought, wanted to take the rap for lying and/or CIA gross negligence than actually tell the truth on where Saddam Hussein sent his WMDs.  As it turns out, he dumped them on Syria, which, AFAICT, isn’t the world’s most shocking fact.  So it wasn’t a WH strategery, it was Roverated’s short-sightedness.

(3)  Deval Patrick’s success in 2006 in both winning his party’s primary and the general election, both times against the odds, foreshadowed his good buddy Barack Obama doing the same two years later.  Now, Patrick seems ready be bounced out this November, which also might portend for his good buddy in 2012.

(4)  Leonard Little leaving St. Louis?  Better late than never, I suppose.  But not late enough for the Gutweilers.

(5)  My, how times have changed — libs hated the IRS between 1969 and 1974, but love it now.

(6)  In spite of requiem masses given to the pursuit a few years ago, ham radio is growing.  Among the theories given for its surprising resurgence is that since ham radio is most often talked about in emergencies, and people seem to be preparing for bad times (hint: all the guns, ammo and gold being sold), that people are getting ham licenses because they think they can be future heroes; that people want a more thrilling and challenging way to communicate (i.e. anyone can send an e-mail to someone else in Slovakia, but it’s quite a thrill when 20 meters gets wide open to central Europe); that Morse Code is no longer a requirement to get a license to work most HF bands (though I don’t think dropping Morse Code was such a good idea — Unless you got all your fancy kilobuck Icom rigs contained in a Faraday cage, it’ll be nothing more than a heavy kilobuck doorstop when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lops an EMP bomb over Kansas.  Morse code transmitters/CW equipment can be easy to build in a pinch, and transmitting in CW requires less power to get your message out.)

Game On

Britain votes one month from today.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown dissolved Parliament and called for the May 6 election date yesterday.  This means that the campaign which may or may not result in the UK getting a new head of state begins today.  Also beginning today is the campaign which may or may not result in the US getting a new head of state.

CW still has the Tories flipping enough seats to make David Cameron the next Prime Minister, but in recent weeks, another credible scenario have arisen such that the Tories gain seats, but not enough to make a majority, whereas the Liberal Democrats can win enough seats to be the kingmaker.  The reason the Tories may not be the clear winner is because of Cameron’s Stupid Party-style lassitude, racial and otherwise.

A neutral observer thinks that the BNP could get 12% of the total vote, based on frustration with the three major parties and their failure to address the concerns of native born working and middle class whites.  How that would translate into actual seats, I have no clue.  However, I can ill imagine a scenario where a party gets 12% of the vote and not outright win at least one of the 650 constituencies in the House of Commons.

Zeroes

Get him and 99 of his buddies together, and you can buy a loaf of bread.

Don’t laugh, ugly American.  This is the only foreign currency that the Yankeebuck is gaining on.

Ironically, I first saw this on one of the Twitter neocons whose feeds I follow.  He tried to make it an issue about government spending.  Perhaps he’s too dense to realize that in this case, it’s not government spending, it’s racial incompetence.  But to talk racial sense into a good neocon is like trying to talk racial sense into a brick wall.

Good News on the Personal Front

I’m back in the working world beginning May 3.  Edwardsville, Illinois, if you’re wondering, and I’m going to move to E’Ville or somewhere close by — It would be about a 40-minute one-way drive from where I am right now on the Missouri side of the river.  Plain words, I’ll be an Illinois voter once again.

I’m Seeing White

When the zebra throws up the ball tonight at about 8:20 PM to decide who takes home all the marbles in college hoops this season, there will very likely be five white men on the floor.

Jason King, for Yahoo Sports:

He’s been cursed by fans from North Carolina and taunted in road arenas throughout the ACC. Still, the chant that Duke guard Jon Scheyer remembers the most occurred during an AAU game back in high school.

Time and time again as Scheyer dribbled up the court, the opposing coach stood on the sideline and barked orders to his players.

“Get the white boy!” the coach said. “Get the white boy!”

Scheyer was the only non-African-American on his team.

“Obviously,” Scheyer said, “he was talking about me. I had a number and a name [on my jersey]. But instead it was ‘Get the white boy!’”

And that’s the last of it.  No outrage, no candlelight vigils, no condemnations from Institutes for Diversity in Sports, no demands for sensitivity training for the AAU players and coaches in question.

Every Dog Has His Day

WAGA-NBC-11 Atlanta:  Who’s Behind the Anti-Obama Billboards?

“We wanna know, so we know where to send the lynch mobs.”

NYP:  ‘Jersey Shore’ for Asians

Good like finding six Asians to debauch themselves so embarrassingly in front of a camera.

WCBS-2 NYC:  Woods At Masters: Life ‘Feels Fun Again’

Isn’t having fun what got you into this mess to begin with?

5:  It’s Dyngus Day so let’s polka

Dyngus day, huh?  That explains why we’re seeing so much Tiger Woods in the media.

Schlafly:  Supreme Court Needs at Least One Veteran

I’d be happy with least one veteran, but I’ll take one non-Ivy League law school grad.

Jihad Watch:  U.S.-backed Afghan President Karzai threatens to join Taliban

If he does, we’ll have no good reason not to bomb the whole country back into the stone age.

Monday’s Stuff

(1)  Cryslayby:  Someone, quick!  Hurry up and put a pacifier in the crybaby’s mouth.  All that screamin’ is getting on my nerves.

The P-D thinks that, out of pure frustration, Slop might actually endorse and campaign for Peter Kindercare in 2012.  If that’s not the best argument for giving Jay Nixon a second term, I don’t know what is.

(2)  The wilding craze has now hit New York City.  Unfortunately, other than the relative ages of the participants, we get nothing from the media.  Actually, we do get something from the fact that they give us nothing else.  (UPDATE 4/6:  They give us some pics today.  You’re going to be shocked at what you see.) (UPDATE 4/7:  Like the latest Philly flash wilding, this one in NYC was organized on Twitter.  All these big city PDs with good intel units?  Pay attention to what I’m about to say to you — Get smartphones that are Twitter-capable.)

(3)  This is what they call “a day late and a krugerand short.” Actually, I think there is too much of a link made between “Kill the Boer” and the murder of Eugene Terre’blanche — It’s not that the blacks that allegedly murdered him were inspired by the song, it’s that the song and the anti-white murders are parallel events, both children of the parent of anti-white hatred and jealousy.

(4)  President Obama can’t even avoid the boo birds in a jurisdiction that gave him 93% of the vote.  And even if the crowd were mostly ‘burbanites, both VA and MD voted Obama, too.

(5)  A few years ago, Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, had to put the collar around a nutty Priest in his jurisdiction, that being Michael Pfleger, for some very inane statements unbecoming of a member of the Priesthood.  Whatever bad blood there was between them has now cooled off — Cardinal George is going to be honoring Fr. Pfleger at an MLK tribute this week at a Catholic high school in Chicago.

Easter Sunday Wrap-Up

(1)  Hey, Tim Barker.  Let me introduce to you three words that are evidently not in your personal lexicon.  The first is hoax, the second is joke, and the third is prank.  Once you’re done learning the meaning of those three words, you can them add them to your existing one-word vocabulary (“hate”) to make a whole entire four word vocabulary for yourself.  Imagine that, you’d have a bigger vocabulary than Mark Potok.

(2)  A J-Fed presser about gun violence was interrupted by nearby gunshots.  It may not have been God’s work, but at least somebody has a sense of humor.

(3)  I hope that, after 17 minutes and 2500 words to respond to a woman’s complaint of being overtaxed at a Charlotte, N.C. town hall meeting, President Obama was perfectly clear.

(4)  Oh goody.  Maybe in another time and place I would have been opposed to Obama’s proposal mentioned here, but I highly doubt that even if these given corporations had to pay more in income taxes, that it would mean fewer jobs created.  The reason is is that they’re all doing everything they can not to hire native born white Americans, either through outsourcing of the work or insourcing of the non-white cheap labor with legal work visas.

(5)  I must borrow Onion Horton’s words for a minute, to say that nobody ever sang, clapped, jumped, bobbed, hooted or hollered their way to a safe neighborhood.  If rollin around in the chairs and in the pews in church and revival meetings was the way to make a safe neighborhood, then all the black parts of town would be the crime-free envies of the world.

That’s How He Rolls

…couldn’t stand working for the real jerk even as long as he worked for the fictional jerk.  And, since the Kutner character committed suicide, they just can’t well resurrect him — That only went for one person.  (Happy Easter, BTW).  So, it’s back to the doobie rollin’ flicks.

A Peach Looks Good With Lots of Fuzz

Jihad Watch:  Pakistan: Shaving contest ransacked by Islamic group

They’ll have to move it to Myanmar starting next year.

Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger:  Charlie Sheen leaving ‘Two and a Half Men’ reports People

Lee Aronsohn and Chuck Lorre are at a loss on how to write for a show that revolves around a drunken whoremonger without the drunken whoremonger.

UK Daily Mail:  ‘Use pubs to modernise the church,’ urges the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu

If that isn’t adopted, they can at least bump up communion by another 30 proof.

Friday’s Stuff

(1)  Tiger Liar, Pants on Fire.  (Errr, bad choice of words).

It’s amazing.  Only Eldrick could make Gloria Allred do something I agree with.

Yes, I am mindful of the fact that he started KG only a year before I did.  That’s what makes his story so phony — It may have been a long time ago that yours truly and Eldrick started kindergarten, but it wasn’t THAT long ago!  Geezo, don’t turn us into old men too soon!

(2)  The NYT goes into various reasons why Taliban fighters are such poor shots.  I didn’t happen upon this, but I also think that if they use handguns at all, they somehow think that firing them horizontally is somehow more effective than firing them with the handle pointed to the ground.

(3)  Death threats?  Drop in the bucket.  Kirk Fordice once told me that, during his time as Governor of Mississippi, (and he was just finishing up his second and last term as Governor when we had this conversation), he got an average of ten death threats a day.  I’m sure even the most boring wet noodle of a state Governor gets a lot of death threats.

(4)  David Cameron is surprised that he’s getting a lot of blowback in his effort to run some black man up the flagpole in a safe Tory district.  No shit, Sherlock — Almost all of the Tories’ votes come from white people, and you’re surprised they see your racial pandering for exactly what it is.  As an aside, his personal blog brags about his being associated with Goldman Sachs, and with the merger of two Brit pharmaceutical giants that GS handled.  Maybe that’s the reason Tory activists are so upset, that he’s too corporate, and this might turn off a lot of voters in these economic times.

(5)  Asylum seekers, sure.  Asylum seekers.  Looks like one teenage girl needs asylum from the aslyum seekers.

Sean Kingston Knew What He Was Talking About

Aside from the fact that it was nothing more than a song that ripped off Ben E. King, not to mention the lamest song ever to top the pop charts, (and that’s saying a lot), the part of Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” that I found most incredulous was that he implied that he “went away for doing” his first crime at the age of nine.  I mean, they won’t even send 9-year olds off to state prison in Arkansas, even though they’re almost at the age of consent.

I shouldn’t have spoken too soon.

WTOP-FM D.C.:

Parents, Fenty criticize attorney’s office over shooting

WASHINGTON – Emotions are running high in a Southeast neighborhood after the District’s worst shooting in at least 16 years — a shooting that may be retaliation for a missing bracelet.

Two men — Orlando Carter, 20, and Nathaniel Simms, 26 — are being held without bond in the drive-by shooting left four people dead and five wounded in front of an apartment building Tuesday night.

A 14-year-old boy, with nine convictions since 2005, is being held in a juvenile facility. D.C. Superior Court Family Court Judge Elizabeth Wingo described the boy as a danger to himself and others and a flight risk.

He’s 14 now, and already has ran up a nine-entry rap sheet since 2005.  That was five years ago, and fourteen minus five is nine.  I doubt he “went away” for his first crime as a nine-year old, though.

Mark Potok Got a New Dog

He named it Shep.

Miss Badu Knows the Deal

CNN:  Singer Erykah Badu strips at JFK assassination site in new video

I would have loved for some guy named Tyrone to have strolled by and made off with all her clothes.

Vineland (N.J.) Daily Journal:  Violence, fear, intimidation across N.J.

I suppose another teenage boy commandeered a Wal-Mart PA system for another juvenile prank.  Oops, no.  This is about real violence, fear and intimidation, the type that there won’t be 13 police detectives to investigate.

CNS:  Obama Says ‘Core Group’ in Tea Party Opposes Him

The outskirts and suburbs also oppose him.

Conservative Times:  Frum vs. Erickson

Firing Squad vs. Gallows

The Hill:  Obama’s drilling proposal sparks battle among Senate Dems

Bill Clinton’s drilling proposal…Aw, forget about it.  It’s getting old.

UK Daily Mail:  Brown: Tory scare tactics on immigration appeal to ‘worst instincts of nationalism and xenophobia’

I’m glad I found out so I can shop for some better nationalists and xenophobes before election day.

WND:  ‘Right-wing white brothers’ may ‘attempt to kill’ Obama

I never really though of myself as the “brotha” type.  Then again, I wouldn’t look good in corn rows, chrome spinners just aren’t becoming of ten-year old Fords, and I just have this moral aversion to busting a cap in the President’s ass.  Though I can still have a white wife; those are still acceptable.

KSDK:  IRS offering teens job opportunities

All your tax money are belong to us.

CNS:  Philadelphia Charter School Moonlights As a Nightclub

It’s alright, just as long as the teachers don’t double as pole dancers.

UK Daily Mail:  The mathematical formula for how celebrity gossip spreads on the internet

I’ve got a math formula of my own:  (Lie = Halfway Around the World) > (Truth = Gets Out of Bed and Puts Its Boots On)

P-D:  19-year-old shot at MetroLink parking lot in Wellston

Just the news Metro wanted to hear six days before St. Louis County voters go the polls and vote on a sales tax for transit.

Thursday Wrap-Up

Most of these news items were from yesterday or the day before.  You certainly can’t trust today’s news!

(1)  In passing of an article where President Obama defends the recently-enacted, HCR, the President states that:

he would not select a church while living in the White House. “What we have decided for now is not to join a single church, and the reason is because Michelle and I have realized we are very disruptive to services,” he said.

Or rather, he knows how the last church he selected worked out for him.

I certainly hope and he and the First Lady find the right mosque to serve their spiritual needs.

Oooh, I didn’t just say that, did I?  Have I gone too far, or have I not gone far enough?

(2)  Jamie Escalante, whose life and work was the subject of the movie Stand and Deliver, passed away two days ago at the age of 79.

A lot of people are heaping praise on him.  But before we get too carried away, let us not forget that he was able to cherry-pick students into his advanced math classes.  He didn’t labor under the delusion that every Hispanic peasant child had the ability to learn calculus.  In that, he was what education should be, and that is devoting the most resources to the best and most capable students.

(3)  A Bethlehem, Penn. hospital will soon start screening potential new hires for nicotine, and reject the smokers.  One of the supposed reasons they don’t want to hire smokers is because they have to keep health care costs under control.

Hello?  You’re a HOSPITAL.  All the doctors work for you.  You own all the medical technology that is used in treating people who are suffering from side effects of smoking cigarettes.  Really, what is the extra marginal expense for you to treat your smoker employees for things like lung cancer?

(4)  All the years of trying to explain to people why Wal-Mart has been deleterious for the working middle classes?  Falls on deaf ears.  JibJab makes a video called Big Box Mart?  People get it.

Steve Sailer just might have the same thing for explaining the subprime mortgage folly.

(5)  A group of five dozen or so Muslim Federal prisoners are suing the Yankee government over their not having enough visitation rights to their family and friends.  Remember, they’re probably in prison for some sort of terrorist conspiracies or actual terrorist actions, (save those like the Liberty City Seven who were victims of entrapment), so there’s probably a good reason for minimizing their time communicating with the outside world — You never know what secret hand signal they’re going to make in order to instruct a sleeper cell in Chicago that it’s time to commit more acts of terrorism.  Hell, if this lawsuit is successful, we might as well convert their prison cells to TV studios for Al-Jazeera.

Hide Nor Hair

While I wasn’t looking, Assrick Assholrickson, the Commissar of Political Cleansing over at Crud State, got himself a gig at CNN.

The good news is that he’ll never be seen or heard from again.

No Local Control. Sanity Carries the Day.

At least it carried yesterday.  State Senate rejects the bill that would have returned the control of the St. Louis City Police Department to the city it serves.  It will remain in the relative safety of state control, and away from the cracker jack box black “reverends” and welfare-dependent ACORN-type “community organizers” who would have effectively controlled it if local control would have been restored, and they would have enacted a civilian review board, and anything else to preclude white cops from arresting black criminal suspects, as sure as death and taxes.