Gyp Comes From…

31 05 2010

UK Telegraph:  Rising British tennis star Laura Robson describes some players as ‘sluts’

<Venus>Anyone in particular you had in mind, Miss Robson?</Venus>

UK Daily Mail:  Being at the birth ‘can make dad feel a failure’

Especially if the kid isn’t his.

Craigslist St. Louis:  LOST AT GYPSY CARAVAN $$$$ (UMSL Campus)

I’m shocked.  Just…shocked.





Today’s 48th State Stack of Stuff

31 05 2010

(1)  LAT/USC did a poll of CA voters.  And even though they (deliberately?) misrepresented Arizona’s SB 1070, implying that a cop can accost someone just on suspicion of being here illegally (in reality, there has to be another credible and lawful reason for the cop to stop the person, and then and only then, if the cop thinks that the person is here illegally while explicitly not using racial or ethnic appearance as grounds for suspicion of that, then SB 1070 can kick in), California voters support it anyway.  The margin of strong support over strong oppose was 7%, and the margin of all support over all oppose was 8%.

(2)  DOJ wants SCOTUS to knock back AZ immigration laws that Janet Napolitano signed as Governor.





Monday’s Other Stuff

31 05 2010

(1)  Didn’t I say something a few days about about Facebook becoming censorship-mad?   If we the tolerant ones got as much as 1% as outraged as the screwball Islamic fanatics did over this F/B page, F/B wouldn’t have censored it.

(2)  How much you wanna bet that the “non-traditional” media caught MI Sen. Bruce Patterson with his hand in somebody’s cookie jar?

(3)  No comment from Tom Friedman.

(4)  How much you wanna bet the perps didn’t even take the GCSEs?

(5)  I’ve heard the Pit Bull called the American Pit Bull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier.  Evidently, the Brits call it the American Bulldog.

(6)  Fast forward to 1:25 in this video.  Crack.

(7)  Illiberalism is Truly a Dangerous Mental Disorder – The Nazis of 1944 had her slated for execution.  Now, she is trying to give aid and comfort to the Nazis of 2010.





Here’s a Penny For Your Thoughts, a Quarter for the Call

31 05 2010

Charles Schumer wants to crack down on American companies outsourcing call centers to Asia.

Or does he?

His great solution is to charge a quarter per call fee for customer service or technical support calls that are initiated in the U.S. but are routed out.

That’s like clearing out your flooded basement with a teaspoon.

The reason these call centers are outsourced is because the labor is far cheaper.  I don’t know what the fee would have to be in order to bring the effective labor cost of outsourcing call centers up to parity with keeping them in the U.S., but it would have to be way more than a quarter per call.  More fundamental than that, I wouldn’t hassle around with fees if I were Schumer, just mandate that corporate call centers for American companies sit inside the United States, and on top of that, disallow the use of immigrant visas for those positions, so that the call centers actually employ high wage high benefit and potentially unionized native born white Americans.

Outsourcing like this has been going on for quite a few years, yet only now is someone getting around to doing something about it.  So what gives?  Answer:  I think it’s a Democrat attempt to keep white working class voters in swing states that were crucial to Obama’s victory two years ago from swinging their votes too much.  Just like Schlafly thinks they’ll use the Mexican trucks issue, while nobody will pick up on their hypocrisy of doing nothing about the treaty which forces us to take in Mexican trucks (NAFTA) nor their hypocrisy of wanting us to accept unlimited immigration of Mexican people.  Schumer himself is up for re-election this year.








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