Biden E-Mail to Jewish Democrat Donors: The Nazis are Coming! The Nazis are Coming! (And They’ve Got Rs Next to Their Names)

You didn’t think the use of WWII prose on the part of the Vice-President was just his usual reckless ole gaffe-prone self, did you?

In the SPLC-style e-mail beg letter, Biden insinuates that the GOP will utilize political strategy to gain Congressional seats this fall.  Which would be a first, or at least the first time since Lee Atwater that the Republicans actually used strategy.  As far as that goes, IBIWISI.

Meanwhile, there is hardly a radical Muslim terrorist or apologist thereof that wants to blow up buses full of Jewish children and shove their parents into the Mediterranean Sea that Biden’s boss doesn’t heart.

Elin Gets 3/4 Gigabuck, Kids. Tiger Gets Tape Over Elin’s Mouth.

I think she came out on top.  I mean, how will he benefit from her silence?  As if we don’t already know that he’s a cheating bastard who thinks marriage vows are optional suggestions written in disappearing ink?

All Headlines Keep Getting Better

CNS:  U.S. Has Paid $1.44 Million for Project That is Studying the ‘Social Milieu’ of Male Prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi

Why pay over megabuck to study male prostitutes, when Bravo is included in most basic cable and sat packages?

NYP:  Bloomberg: LeBron could have normal life in NYC

He’d be the only one, but I suppose there’s a first time for everything.

New Scientist:  Bumpology: Fed up of the booze and cigs police

Wait till you get a load of the Green Police, the Health Care Police, the Physical Fitness Police and the Black Panther-infested Obama National Civilian Domestic Security Force Brownshirts.

AP:  Kagan embraces notion of living Constitution

But fetuses?  Naaah, just non-viable tissue masses.

Yahoo News:  On day two, Kagan uses humor to disarm the Senate

But she’ll use her gavel to disarm the rest of us.

John Lott:  Public High School in Massachusetts won’t let students say pledge of allegiance

It’s only because the students are bringing in the wrong flag.  Bring in Mexico, USSR or Al Qaeda, and they’d have more luck.

Dude, You’re Getting Some Tidbits.

*  Like smaller banks and credit unions?  Get it while you can, because FinReg’s gonna squash ‘em.

*  New York State about to prohibit short term apartment rentals, especially those arranged on sites like Craigslist.  I think the white elephant in the room on this question is race — I get the feeling the politicians think that too many white people are leasing or subleasing to too many white people in this fashion.

*  Believe me, the Daily Kos isn’t an innocent victim in all this.  They wanted these biased results — I didn’t need to read this news to know that this poll was full of loaded questions geared to a loaded audience to garner a loaded result — All I needed to know is that the Daily Kook chartered the poll.  Circumstantial evidence that Markos isn’t so innocent is that the polling firm is counter-suing.  Notice that the polling firm also did work for Lee Enterprises, which owns the P-D, so maybe some of these polls you see in the P-D should be called into question (like duh).

*  I think American Thinker is a bit behind the times:  I think the Democrats have moved on to “Bargaining.”  State pols and wannabes on the Democrat side in Massachusetts are already trying to make nice with TPM activists.

*  The sadistic side of me would like to think that Dell started to go downhill when they started using the Dell Dude, but I’ll give the NYT the benefit of the doubt when it comes to a more reasonable explanation:  Massive outsourcing to and insourcing from Asia is why Dell has become synonynous with junk in recent years.  Lenin once said that he and his band of commies would hang the last capitalist with the rope that he sells them.  I guess it’s sort of the same thing with Dell.

*  I believe it.  After all, most guys’ interest in a given sport during its season comes at about the end of the season, and even immediately after the end.  Look at how many guys are paying attention to the NBA now.  You think they care about a Golden State-Memphis regular season game in December?

*  If only Colin Ferguson’s school had corporal punishment…

*  Three words:  Monday Morning Quarterback.

*  Nationalism and devolution are about to carry the day, again.  Time notes the irony in what will soon be the partition of Belgium — The very country where the EU is based, the institution that seeks to fuse Europe together, can’t stay together itself.

Oh My Tony! (Today’s 48th State Stack of Stuff)

*  I don’t think he’s much of a manager, and the Cardinals have had their success since he became mangler in 1996 in spite of him, not because of him.  But I’m thrilled with Tony LaRussa’s political acumen.

Not many people know this, but he is actually a lawyer.  He graduated from Florida State Law School, and passed the bar in Florida.  But since he never kept up with CLE, as he has been a little distracted over the last 30 or so years, he isn’t eligible to practice law.

*  The Purple People Beaters, Los Angeles Chapter, is planning to make a roadtrip to Phoenix and collectively moon Gov. Brewer.  You’d think a union would want to do something about illegal immigration, in terms of restricting it or stopping it, as their ancestors early in the last century tried to do and were finally successful in doing in 1924.  The SEIU, over and above all other unions, should be the loudest mouths for immigration restriction, because they are mainly service workers that are the most easily displaced by cheap Hispanic labor.

*  Queer Eye for the 48th State:  It seems that the consensus among the “Human Rights” (read: alternate orientation) body politic nationwide is that they should boycott, or girlcott, or transgendercott, or boygirlcott.  Which is not news to the GLBTQ business community in the Valley.

There is a “Greater Phoenix Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.”  They said “chamber.”  (Insert Beavis and Butthead laughing here.)

*  Al Sharpton isn’t much to write home about, but it seems like his listeners at least have a little tiny bit of sense.  When he started bloviating against SB 1070, they rebuked him.  Now, Sharpton admits that 90% of his callers are happy with the McDonald decision.

If I didn’t know any better…well, I do know better.  Virtually all of them voted Obama.

*  Boo hoo ACLU.  My heart really pumps purple piss.  Did you know that in 2006, the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory against American citizens traveling in the areas in the United States near the Mexican border?  You’re all into “travel advisories,” maybe you should look into that one.

Take a Look At These Pictures

The poor whites of South Africa might be bad off now, but this is paradise compared to what’s about to happen to them after the World Cup is over.

Michael Savage Is Right: Illiberalism Is Truly a Dangerous Mental Disorder

So saith the liberal friends of The Masseuse:

Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her “to just suck it up; otherwise, the world’s going to be destroyed from global warming.”

I’m guessing that she and her friends all consider themselves feminists, and all of them are perfectly happy with the milieu of anti-man legislation like VAWA, and want the Federal government and states to take it even further.

However, I still can’t wrap my mind around Al Gore doing these things.  He’s too much of a dork.  Aside from credible physical evidence, it will take a team of wild horses to get me to believe it.

Place, Time, Group, Age, Gender

But not race.

I can tell you why South County is being targeted:  (1) People there are still relatively trusting, because South County is still almost entirely white and working-to-middle class, and (2) It’s butt up against the increasingly ghettoized sections of South City.

Investigation

Don’t need a long, drawn out expensive mendacious one.  Just stand on the corner of Grand and Enright, and see what streams in and out of there at every shift change.

BTW, why is Russ Carnahan the one demanding an investigation?  The STL VA Hospital isn’t in his district, it’s in Lazy Clay’s district.  Oops, I just answered my own question…

Why Firefox 4′s Default UI Will Suck (And Why I’m Glad I Can Change It Back)

First, I’ll let a Mozilla UI/UE apparatchik make his case:

Now, let me show you the most recent nightly build (4.0-Beta 2-Preview 64-bit under Win7 64-bit) in its default UI config with five of my favorite sites open in tabs.  These screenshots are cropped, but click each image to view its full and complete size:

The same thing when I tell the menu bar to show permanently and uncheck tabs-on-top (you’ll have to press Alt to make the menu bar show, then View -> Toolbars, make sure there’s a check next to “Menu Bar” which there is not by default, then go down and uncheck “Tabs on Top,” which is checked by default):

Now I ask thee, which looks better?

This may be just my old-fashioned self, but I need the menu bar exposed full time to be productive in a browser.  That is why I don’t use Chrome regularly, aside from its lack of useful extensions, and some other annoyances.

Also, tabs on top might benefit Chrome, but it just doesn’t strike me right in Firefox.  The back/forward/reload-stop/home buttons appear glassy and translucent only in the old style of tabs below address bar.  Incidentally, the star button between the home button and the address bar in the default config is the bookmarks button, which is necessary with the default UI config in order to access your bookmarks, now that the menu bar is hidden by default.  You can’t get rid of it unless you get rid of the address bar, too, so in that config, they’re an inseparable Mutt and Jeff.  If you use the old style, you don’t need that extra button.  I guess that’s just another example of the fuddy-duddy in me — In spite of the UI ease arguments, I really don’t find any more or less intuitive with tabs on top than the old way of tabs below the URL bar.  The other big problem is that it wreaks too much of me-tooism with Chrome, and in fact is almost the spitting image of Safari 4/5 default UI under Win Vista/7 — You know how that goes, as Phyllis Schlafly once said, an echo, not a choice.  Except in Firefox, you have a choice:  You can change it back to the old way, which I obviously do — Can’t do that in Chrome.  Google Chrome, tee hee.

You can see that I take away the default Google Search box that occupies about the right one-third of my extra-long URL (address) bar.  I use keyword searches that you can define yourself — E.g. type “g population of montana in 1980″ in the address bar if you want to search Google to find the population of Montana in 1980 — Or “b bbq restaurants in sikeston mo” to search Bing for barbecue restaurants in Sikeston, Missouri — or “wp elena kagan” to search for Elena Kagan’s entry on Wikipedia.  It makes for less mouse movement.  I like an extra long address bar because I can manipulate the URL easier on the occasions that I need to do that, and when I need to do that, they usually involve long URLs.

But 5280 Feet Is Still Fine

Daily Mail:  Pakistan to monitor Google and Yahoo for ‘blasphemous’ anti-Islamic content

If the site is in Dearborn, Michigan, then Pakistan can call the cops in Dearborn and have them arrest the uploader.

Telegraph:  International Space Station sex ban

No 200-mile high club.

CNS:  Rival Hamas, UN Summer Camps Compete over Children

It all depends on whether little Mohammed wants to pin the tail on the Jew or throw grenades into buses full of Jewish children.

Slashdot:   Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8

Sorry.  I don’t want AAPL’s hand in my wallet, and I don’t want MSFT’s hand in my wallet, either.

5:  Burglar goes for a swim, fixes himself something to eat in victim’s home

That was awfly nice of that homeowner, having food and a pool to serve the burglars.

Yahoo Sports:  Nets waive backup point guard Keyon Dooling

This officially makes no Mizzou Tigers playing in the NBA ATM.  I dare you to put that in the Mizzou recruitment literature, Mike Anderson.

Daily Mail:  McDonald’s heir attacked and robbed of £250,000 in his home

Thankfully for the victim, criminal types love fast food.  He’ll recoup some of that just on pure circumstance.

Today’s 48th (And 16th) State Stack of Stuff

*  SCOTUS to take up an AZ law that punishes employers for knowingly hiring.  Business, civil rights and racial lobbies are challenging the law.  Funny, these are the kind of laws the open borders libs tell us are permissible.  Yet, they don’t seem to be outraged that someone is challenging such a “permissible” law.

What will be curious is how the Obama Administration reacts.  After all, this law was passed and signed in 2007, the final signature came from Janet Napolitano.

*  “One Piece at a Time” by Johnny Cash — Why I still think that talks about lawsuits against SB 1070 are all wind and piss — Read the last two paragraphs.  I don’t even think the “executive order” amnesty will even happen — Obama and the Democrats are going to try to salami slice their way to full amnesty and open borders.

*  I called them girlcotts (“boycotts without balls”) for a reason.

*  Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen has signed a bill requiring hoosegow wardens to check the immigration status of those who are booked into their facilities, and tell ICE about those who are undocumented.

That sound you hear is of every good progressive turning off their favorite country music radio station.  Uhhh…

“That’s Racist” Stack of Stuff

*  Supporters of building a mega-mosque on Staten Island now have the perfect weapon to wield against its opponents.  I’ll give you a hint:  It starts with “R.”

Though since Staten Island is in New York City, a city where a bunch of mosque-goers thought it would be dandy to take down two really tall buildings nine years ago, the “R” weapon isn’t working as well as it would work elsewhere.

*  NAACP comes out for California’s weed initiative, saying that the War on Drugs has had a disparate impact minorities, especially black men.

The NAACP claims:

The group cited statistics from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice showing that in 2009, 62% of the state’s marijuana arrests were of nonwhite suspects and that 42% were under 20.

The pattern was consistent in the state’s 25 largest counties, with arrests of African Americans at double, triple and quadruple the rate of whites even though studies show that blacks use marijuana at lower rates than whites, NAACP officials said.

First off, blacks aren’t the only non-whites in California.  Second, a “marijuana arrest” can be for more than just simple possession of a small amount — One can be arrested for dealing, or transporting large quantities (“with intent to distribute.”)  Third, while I think the studies of weed usage are right, the reason blacks are arrested more often than whites is that white users are better at hiding their usage — black users tend to do something ostentatious in public, which only draws attention to their use.  Fourth, the 42% of those arrested (for either usage, dealing or transporting) under the age of 20 won’t be helped by this proposal, because it only applies to possession of small quantities, and only if you’re at least 21.

I would vote for this proposal, but not because of race or the NAACP.

*  A Texas District Court judge has ruled that a 2009 state law disallowing school districts from having grade floors (i.e. they couldn’t grade an assignment under 50% even if the student got less than half the material correct) is constitutional.  Even districts, mostly in the Houston area, challenged the law, mainly because they wanted to give their black and Hispanic dummies higher scores than they got, in order to keep them from dropping out, so that they can continue getting that per capita per diem money from the state and Feds.  No link b/c it mentions the name of the judge, and for the sake of accuracy, the article doesn’t say anything about the money part.  But it’s almost always about the money.

Another Excuse Sent to Excuse Heaven

Excuse:  The black-white and black-everyone else achievement gap is due to anti-educational bias (“acting white”) among blacks.

Hispanics also have an anti-educational bias in their culture, one that’s even more crippling than the same among blacks, yet they always tend to score better than blacks.

You Gotta Eat Rally’s

What happens when you open a choke-n-puke burger joint that appeals to ghetto blacks, a chain whose name pops up in rap lyrics every once in awhile, and open it in the ghetto?

Right.

Jefferson Avenue, on which the Rally’s sits, is pretty much the line of demarcation in that part of the city.  West of is almost entirely black, and has been for 20 years.  East of is mostly white, increasingly yuppie, and a big favorite of yuppie rehabbers.

UPDATE 6/30: One of the three combatants was an intended victim inside his car, and he had a CCW permit.  “Too bad for the robbers,” so saith an SLPD Lieutenant, as we learn the name of one of the two unlucky perps.

Doesn’t He Look Suspiciously Like Fuhrer Robert Lowery?

And by “he,” I mean the infamous (should be former) McCaskill staffer, one Bob “ObamaCare Opponents Are Brownshirts” Burns.  And by “Robert Lowery,” I mean Senior, the all-dictating despot of Florissant.

But It Was One Vote

Moderate, suburban/rural and Blue Dog Dems are cheering the McDonald ruling, thinking that it takes Amendment #2 off the table as a serious issue for November.

One of the Dems cheering is Debbie Halvorson, who holds IL-11 in the U.S. House, in whose district I would be residing if I would have gotten that job in suburban Chicago.  I guess we won’t be seeing her with Daley at any BBQs anytime soon.

Their glee is a little bit premature and perhaps unnecessary.  The NRA endorses plenty of Democrats — They’re picking Strickland over Kasich for Gov-OH, I’ve heard (but not confirmed) that they’ll pick Ellsworth over Coates for Sen-IN.  They endorsed Howard Dean for VT-Gov every time he ran.  There have been a number of times in the past when they’ve made no endorsement, or endorsed both, because both the R and the D have been equally pro-2nd.  But the big problem is that McD was a 5-4 decision.  One SCOTUS member matters, and one SCOTUS nominee is being quizzed and debated upon this week.  Now it’s out of the hands of people like Halvorson and Ellsworth, because they’re House members, but you can’t say you’re for the 2nd then turn around and vote for or endorse a kook like Kagan who easily conflates the NRA with the K-people, or endorse/vote for Obama who nominated Kagan.

Today’s 48th State and Immigration Stack of Stuff

*  Manchester Union Leader:  “Alas, a few months shy of the 9th anniversary of 9/11, it remains easier to pass undetected into the United States than to get into a rock concert without a ticket.”

The paper asks, is there a Taliban in Massachusetts?  The answer is yes, it’s called liberalism.

*  You voted Tory because you thought you were getting immigration control, didn’t you, schmuck?

*  Also from the other side of the pond, the British Institute for Race Relations has noticed that racial violence is now more prevalent in smaller towns and cities.  The report noted that blacks, people who “look” Muslim and “migrant communities” (read: Gypsies) are most at risk to being victims.  The report forgot to mention which kind of people commit the racial violence, so it must not be whites, otherwise it would say.

*  Philadelphia to become a sanctuary city once again.  You don’t think the Mayor, Police Chief and All the Powers That Be are trying to swing the outcome of a certain statewide election or two in PA this fall, do you?

I’ve said it on this medium before, and I’ll say it again.  If these were white city politicians in a town in MS not allowing city cops to cooperate with the FBI on matters of civil and voting rights, they’d be arrested and charged with Federal obstruction of justice.  That’s exactly what would be happening to Mayor Nutbar and Chief Wiggum if the last ten Presidential administrations in a row weren’t for amnesty and open borders.

*  The late John Wooden once told us not to let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.  Janet Napolitano says that since we can’t do everything, we shouldn’t do anything.

*  Sometimes, I wish Glenn Beck would take those chalkboards and stick them where the sun doesn’t shine.

So, J.D. Hayworth once did an informercial.  John McCain wants the racial dispossession of native born white Americans in at least one state if not all 50.  WTF’s your problem, Beck?  Has the open borders lobby bought you off?

For we already know that National Review was BAPF a very long time ago.

*  On the issue of a potential Obama amnesty via executive order:  Legally speaking, the most he can do is pardon illegal aliens that are here for the crime of illegal entry/presence.  That can’t grant them citizenship by itself, because Congress makes the rules of naturalization, and those and only those must be followed to get either legal immigrant status or citizenship.  Yes, Obama can pardon American citizens who were convicted of Federal crimes, meaning their sheet is free of Federal crimes, and this would mean that, notwithstanding anything else, they would be able to vote, own guns, or whatever isn’t precluded by a felony rap sheet, (there are exceedingly few Federal misdemeanors), but the key word there is American citizens.

Then again, we see how much the law means to this gang.

Other SCOUTS Getaway Day Business

Lost in the hubbub over McD v Chi is some other important SCOTUS rulings on their last day of work for the term:

*  UC Hastings, which is only a graduate law school based in San Francisco of the UC system, (there are other law schools in the UC system) is allowed to deny the campus recognition of student groups that don’t allow all students to join.  The case stemmed from a Christian group that didn’t allow homosexuals in.  If this is applied everywhere, then it’s going to have the most ramifications on racial students groups like black this and Hispanic that.  So the left wing might not like this decision.

*  I don’t know all the details about this case, but it seems that the Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-Adobe front pushing copywrong extremism, lost the case, but SCOTUS didn’t make precedent with this.  The BSA losing is almost always good news, but in almost true Rhenquist/Roberts Court style, they punted the precedent football off to a later time.

*  A 5-4 ruling struck down the pay PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) members are appointed.  PCAOB was part of Sarbannes-Oxley to prevent any more Enron/Arthur Andersen scandals from happening.  From the looks of it, the successful suit was initiated because smaller publicly traded corporations were worried that the current system would have meant that they would be the ones raked over the coals.  Honestly, this decision won’t really help prevent another Enron, nor will Sarbannes-Oxley — As long as a firm gets to hire its own auditor, you always run the risk of that kind of moral suasion poisoning the audit.  What needs to be done is for publicly traded corps of a certain larger size put the money they’d spend on auditors into a central pool, which would be doled out the participating auditing firms, and I’d allow more than just DTT/PWC/E&Y/KPMG into the pool.  IOW, a corporation wouldn’t know who is auditing them until the auditors show up.

Monday’s Munckins

*  From a weekend PR from the NYC Dept. of Health:

See the contradiction there?  Last I checked, NYC had five boroughs, and four of them weren’t named “Bronx.”

Looks like everybody can’t get HIV.  If you’re gay straight other man woman other young old black white Hispanic Asian mixed you can get HIV, but if you’re in Brooklyn, then you’re safe.

*  Kit Bond has come out against the Obama Kill Switch.

Even if Obama had one, do you think he’d actually use it if there were an actual emergency?  Look at the way he’s handling the Gulf oil spill.

My take on it is that in real emergencies, government has the power to do these drastic things, even if it’s not written on paper, and even if it’s not tolerated in normal times.  So not only is this kind of legislation not necessary, it only encourages agents of our Yankee government to run out and start “emergencies.”

*  I knew Australia got a new Prime Minister.  Not only do I not work for the CIA, I, with my relatively mundane unglamorous decidedly un-spooky occupation, help to pay CIA agents.

*  Translation:  Too many minorities aren’t passing the GCSE, so let’s give out school diplomas for posterboard and glitter projects like they do in the U.S.

*  Notice how smoothly the World Cup has gone so far?  No massive power outages or brownouts.  I’ll give you a hint:  NOT due to blacks.  Oh, but once the WC is over, it’ll be honkey go home, chop the honkey’s head off, black power not electric power.

*  This “front desk lady” must be a real piece of work, if she lets naked guys with broken guns who defecate all over the landscape have their way with her all the time.

*  HA!  SLPD was in the process of chasing a “young man” on foot in the Lafayette Park neighborhood, and the chasee jettisoned his pants in the process.  He was probably sagging his britches, and that hindered his speed.  And he probably has no idea how to wear his pants at his waist line, nor does he probably own a belt, much less have it on him.  So the only option was to drop trou.  (UPDATE 6/30:  Even after he jettisoned his pants, his hair would have kept his speed in check.)

*  Why was a 16-year old lying in the middle of a road in Union?  My best guess is that not all of those copies of The Program with that scene were really destroyed.

Sadly Ironic Way to Die

Update on the burning body of East St. Louis.  Turns out the victim was only dumped in ESL.

2:

Burned Body Identified; Two Arrested

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL (KTVI – FOX2now.com) – The probable cause and mug shots were delivered to officials by the Major Case Squad and they tell a bit of the story. The victim is identified as 22 year old Zachary Irvin formally of St. Elmo, Illinois within weeks he had moved to St. Louis, it is unclear why or even how he knew the suspects in this case. His body was found on fire and dismembered in a trucking company lot in East St. Louis on Tuesday after detectives says he was shot in the neck inside a warehouse on Front Street.

Irvin’s body was identified through dental records after detectives had that information in hand it did not take long to retrace Irvin’s steps which lead them to the suspects that are now in custody.

41-year-old Dennis Iagulli is charged with first degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death. Police allege he was the one that pulled the trigger then disremembered Irvin’s body and then set it on fire. 33 year old James Pierson is charged with supplying the .22 caliber rifle that police allege was the murder weapon in this case. Iagulli is being held on a $3 million dollar bond and Pierson is being held on $150,000 bond.

Someone from St. Elmo, Illinois is set on fire.

The victim and the two suspects are white.  I kinda thought that it wasn’t black, because almost all black-on-black murders in ESL happen in the residential areas, while this part of ESL is technically in the city limits, but it’s one of those places where you can’t get there unless you’re going there.  And black-on-black murderers rarely brutalize their victims’ remains like this.

Frick and Frack

Why do these dishonest media types like to refer to these left-wing nut jobs that love to protest outside of summits like the G20 in Toronto as “anti-globalization” protesters?  Take it from someone who is truly anti-globalization — These people are anything but.  The people outside these summits and those inside are almost exactly the same when it comes to ideology.  The only difference is that they argue over how fast the train to hell should be moving.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd Passes

ROBERT C. BYRD, W.V. (FNN) — West Virginians mourned today the passing of their long-time U.S. Senator and former Klan organizer Robert C. Byrd.

Funeral services were held this morning at the Robert C. Byrd Federal Court House in Byrdville, a commuter suburb of Robert C. Byrd.  After the services, the procession followed Robert C. Byrd Avenue to the Robert C. Byrd Parkway, to the Robert C. Byrd Expressway, south on the Robert C. Byrd Freeway, passing the Robert C. Byrd water treatment plant, the Robert C. Byrd State Park and McByrd’s Cafeteria, finally disembarking from the freeway at the Robert C. Byrd Exit.  After crossing over the Robert C. Byrd Bridge over the Byrd River, the procession ended its journey at Byrd Home, the main veterans’ cemetery on the outskirts of Byrd Acres, another suburb of Robert C. Byrd.

WBRD, the CBS affiliate serving the Robert C. Byrd metropolitan area, will have film at 5, 6 and 11 PM this evening.

Leave It to Nine Lawyers to Make Things Far More Complicated Than They Need Be

5-4 in favor of McDonald.

I was expecting this to be a 9-0 decision for McD, because this was a simple 14th Amendment case fundamentally.  However, the 5-4 breakdown was the same as in Heller, substituting Sotomayor now for Souter two years ago.

This is a weird ruling in my opinion:  They came to the right decision, but both sides fucked up royally.  And the fact that it wasn’t 9-0 is an object lesson for us, which we should learn in a hurry considering the Kagan hearings start today.

First off, the rulings — the majority, one concurring and two dissents, are 214 pages long.  I won’t have time to read them until the weekend, so my initial opinion is based on what I can glean from talk radio.  AFAIC, Heller was only 40-some odd pages long, including majority, one concurring and one dissent, and the Heller case was far more constitutionally profound than McDonald was (or should have been).

I think it was a big mistake for the majority opinion to rely on all this reconstruction/slavery/black bullshit from 140 years ago.  All that’s going to serve to do is to confuse people, and dilute the issue for pro-2nd amendment people.  Frankly, the only reason there is as much support for the 2nd amendment as there is, and the only reason there is as much opposition to the 2nd amendment as there is, and the reason why both sides have an intense opinion that has developed over the decades, is mainly because of one underlying reason:  Black crime.  (And increasingly, Hispanic crime.)  If the United States were 100% pure white, the 2nd amendment would be almost nothing more than curious words on paper.  I worry that the five justices relying so much on pandering to blacks in supporting what should have been a one-page unanimous opinion about the 14th amendment (not the 2nd), and dragging the 2nd into it when it was really not germane to the case, is only going to turn some conservative racialist whites against the 2nd.

On the other hand, the four who ruled for Chicago fucked up by ruling for Chicago at all.  As I said above, this case was really about the 14th, not the 2nd.  That they drug the 2nd into the matter, deliberated their rulings as if it were a 2nd amendment case, and therefore lined up the same way they did in Heller, (save Sotomayor in place of Souter), only proves what I’ve been thinking all along — Leftist judges are politicians in black robes.  Nothing more, nothing less.  If they want to behave like leftist politicians, then they should be treated like leftist politicians.  The Kagan hearings start today, and, since I know now what I should have known all along, I’m not willing to give Elena Kagan the benefit of the doubt anymore — Time for the Republicans to filibuster.  If they don’t, they (especially Senate Republicans and GOP Senate candidates) don’t deserve our votes.

EDLPG

Salinas Californian:  Police: Salinas couple try to sell baby at Walmart for $25

Everyday low prices, guaranteed.

Daily Mail:  Cameron: I won’t waste 10 years in power like Blair did

David Cameron will only take one year to fuck the country up, whereas Tony Blair needed a decade.

AP:  French youths protest over higher retirement age

Why?  They gonna raise it to 25?

MSNBC:  Stalin statue torn down in dictator’s hometown

I didn’t know there was a Stalin statue in Hardin County, Kentucky.

5:  Youth Learning Center changes its name, adds classrooms

So it’s just not called “learning” anymore, which means that they’re telling the truth for once.

WaPo:  Blogger loses job; Post loses standing among conservatives

You can’t lose something which didn’t exist to begin with.  The only other option is that there is at least two conservative morons out there.

C-Trib:  Durbin asks Obama to appoint carp czar

Obama would give us both a carp czar and a crap czar, then top it all off with a czar czar.

Yahoo Sports:  Calipari not clued in to James’ future plans

Justin Bieber doesn’t know LeBron James’s future, either.

Sunday Wrap-Up

The new face of terrorism in America.  I’d be curious to know why the name “Alyssa Thomas” is on the No Fly List at all.  It obviously has nothing to do with her.  And I can’t imagine someone named “Alyssa Thomas” of any age doing something to warrant being on the No Fly List.

*  Not that I don’t agree with it, but Laura Ingraham defended Michael Savage for one main reason:  They’re TRN stablemates.

*  Barney Frank lauds the new FinReg bill because, in his own words, “There will be no more AIGs being kept alive.”

If he’s against keeping AIGs alive, then why did he vote to keep AIG itself alive almost two years ago?

*  British Defense Secretary Liam Fox wants to prohibit protests at military parades and homecomings, mainly in response to radical Islamic loudmouths who like to do that sort of thing.  (In the case of the UK, it’s not Fred Phelps and his drones doing it — AMAF, Phelps isn’t allowed into the country, and was blacklisted on the same list on the same day as Michael Savage.)

I have a better idea — Send the radical Muslims home, and don’t let any in.

*  Meanwhile, this is an entirely plausible explanation.  I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility that Obama is prodding the FBI to engage in APism against young and relatively innocent Muslims in America (notice that I said “relatively”), so they can swoop down with warrants to make the Jackass in the Oval Office look “tough on terrorism.”

*  Not only does Mayor Daley not want Illinois to have CCW, he doesn’t even want you to hold meetings about CCW in his city’s parks.  Oh yeah, make no mistake about it, this is coming straight from Daley, or at the very least, the city alderwoman whose district includes that park.

Would he like to be on the wrong end of another court case?  After all, the Federal judiciary is really adamant about free speech issues — Those are the rare cases that have unanimous rulings on the Appellate and Supreme levels.  I’d just love for the city to be leveled an eight-figure judgment against it when its budget is stretched thinner than the late Manute Bol.

*  No wonder we lost yesterday.  Look at what we had on our side.

*  The Ohio Democrat Party wanted the database of Ohio CCW permit holders, not to out them or embarrass them, but to have their addresses to send them pro-2nd campaign literature.  Wisely, that request was denied, but I find out that the NRA is endorsing Ted Strickland for another term as Governor over his Republican opponent, former Congressman John Kasich.  The more I look at Strickland, the more I like him — He protested against “relocating” Iraqi “refugees” into Ohio, and isn’t hostile to CCW, and signed every other pro-gun bill that came to his desk.  Kasich, on the other hand, is a typical neo-con free trade invade the world chicken hawk, meaning that the Ohio GOP is sending up some real turkeys this season — The other turkey is Rob Portman for Senate.

The Weekend’s 48th State Stack and Immigration of Stuff

*  Of course, a liberal kook is a liberal kook.  But what surprises me about the lunatic rantings and ravings of one Elena Herrada is that she seems to think that local cops are acceptable in her world, and therefore aren’t anything like those Klxuer Border Patrol agents.  Of course, she said these words in Detroit, so she should probably go talk to some of the black radicals in that city and see if they don’t equate white cops with the Klan.

*  Sue Myrick is getting closer and closer to the truth.  To find out who is funding some of the anti-AZ and anti-1070 noise machine, find out who is funding Hezbollah.

*  Family Ties:  Eighteen other state legislatures want SB 1070-style laws in their states to be enacted in 2011.  In Idaho, the second cousin of the Arizona State Senator who pushed SB 1070 through, also a state legislator, is similarly spearheading the effort.

*  From the other side of the pond:  As many as 15,000 Chinese immigrants in Paris are protesting being constant victims of black and Arab criminality, and also law enforcement double-standards therein.

You’ll have to use a translation tool.

*  From the other other side of the pond, Australia’s new PM, Julia Gillard, is described as left-wing, but she has made the most restrictionist pronouncement on immigration of any Australian PM since the repudiation of WAP.  And in that crowd, I include the phony baloney John Howard — His immigration control rhetoric only came for a few weeks every three years.

The Rest of America’s Soccer Team Is Coming Home…

…Landon Donovan is going straight to the front of a Wheaties Box.

FIFA ranks the U.S. 14th in the world, and making the 16-team playoffs in the WC but losing in the first round is the functional equivalent of finishing somewhere between 9th and 16th in the tournament.  So it all sorta fits.

Now, I won’t have to watch a full soccer game for another four years, and if I hear a vuvuzela before I die, then I will have lived too long.

The ESPN/ABC soccer commentators tried to gloss over this loss today by saying that the American team is young, and will be primed for a strong showing in Brazil in 2014.  Of course, they say that every four years when the Americans are knocked out early if they make the playoff round at all.  In the case of our best player, he’ll be 32 when the next WC comes along.  (This year’s Ghana team is young, too, significantly younger than the Americans on average, but that didn’t seem to hurt them.)  So I can predict exactly what will happen in Brazil — We do well in group play, make the playoffs, get bounced out in the first round by a team whose players are younger than ours, and the commentators will gloss over it by saying the American team is young, so we’ll be primed for a much better showing in 2018.

Another Week

I’m now two weeks into my Droid Incredible ownership.

I didn’t get too many “Shaniqua” calls since the beginning of the week.  The few that I did get were from different people and different numbers (still all 618 area code, further evidence that “Shaniqua” is here in the Metro East somewhere) than the ones that wanted her “services” the first week.  The few that called this week, all of them sounded like younger black men, and, like last week, all of them thought I was her pimp until I told them wrong number, demanded more “conventional” services of her (think: BJ, HJ) than the sickos that called last week.  So I’m thinking that Shaniqua’s frequent clients are really big into freaky sex, while her occasional clients have a more conventional itinerary.

I’ve decided against snitching to the ISP, mainly because it would probably be fruitless in terms of successful disposition through the criminal justice system, either for her or the johns.  She might be off the grid anyway, to wit all her johns have been calling my number thinking they’re getting her.  Maybe she didn’t pay her cell phone bill and cut her service off (reverse searching my phone number on the web yields nothing, so that proves that it was either a cell phone, all unlisted, or an unlisted land line), or she cut off her service in advance of sneaking out of town, or being sent to a long stint in state prison or a shorter one in the county jail, (the latter being very plausible, as she is a ho, and most hoes are into drugs), either in St. Clair County’s hoosegow in Belleville, or MadCo’s one here in Edwardsville.  Virtually all of the black population in the 618 area code is in one of those two counties.  Though she is hardly the fount of a clean moral life, I’d hate to think that she’s lying face down in some drainage ditch somewhere.

As for the rest of the Droid Incredible’s functionality, so far so good.  As you know, I had a T-Mobile G1 before, so I was used to the Android platform.  But the G1 topped out at Android 1.5, and I have 2.1 in my hands now, waiting on 2.2 to come down the pike.  I can Tweet and txt well on a smartphone, but I need a real keyboard in front of me to compose any sort of long-form prose like a blog post.

Baby Got Bong

American Majority on Twitter:  Democrats launch app for iPhone and iPad. Republicans….do nothing.

When the “something” is for iCabal devices, doing nothing looks very good.

5:  Summer’s first weekend to start warm

Naw, really?

5:  Lebron James gets into headphones business

Sennheiser:  Twice the quality, half the price, and a cool German name.

LAT:  Times coverage: Pacoima middle school students study nearby homicides

If they were homeschooled eighth graders, they would have cracked the cases with conviction-grade proof by now.

Chicago Reader:  State Reps Demand More Action From Daley on Violence: ‘What We’ve Been Doing Isn’t Working’

Maybe the “State Reps” can do something on their own.  I’ll give them a hint.

UK Telegraph:  Yawning is a sign of sexual attraction, scientists claim

The best news Apolo Ohno has had in awhile.

CNS:  Jewish Clergy Group: Elena Kagan Isn’t ‘Kosher’ to Serve on Supreme Court

So it’s alright now to call her an old hog?

5:  Picture of baby with bong sparks outrage

But kindergartner with condom would have been okay.