Your Bill

You, St. Louis City homeowner, are about to start paying $11 a month for trash service, and you have been paying an extra half cent sales tax for more cops and updated PD equipment and accouterments since February 2008.  On top of that, the quarter-cent sales tax for transit started at the beginning of this month; It was passed in 1997 but finally got to be implemented when the County voters approved its own half-cent tax earlier this year.

Funds from the aforementioned half-cent sales tax that are supposed to be going to the cops and other crime prevention programs (read: pork barrels) will instead go to Parks and Rec, so that city residents 18 and under no longer have to pony up the Alexander Hamilton per moon fee to use the city’s rec centers and swimming pools.

<Church Lady> Isn’t that special? </CL>

UPDATE 7/14: Pray tell, what about the rec center sales tax that Slay told us we just had to pass?  Can’t some of that money be used to eliminate this fee, instead of police money?

F.C. Thug

Like watching a University of Miami (American) football game from ca. 1987.

Strangely enough, the Dutch had two blacks and one mulatto on their team, and Spain had none.

Holland.  Tee hee.

The Future of Sprinting Is So White, We’ve Gotta Wear Shades

Because I’m a regular reader of AR and Caste Football, I’ve been somewhat following Christophe Lemaitre’s career for a little while.  I haven’t talked about him, because the professionals there have said everything that really needed to be said.  A reader of mine from my new home town finally piqued my interest enough.

On Friday, he became the first man of non-west African descent, and by definition the first white man, to break 10 seconds in the 100, at the French track and field championships.

This is purely an amateur observation on my part, and is probably subject to correction.  But I have noticed that in the universe of elite 100m sprinters on the international level, blacks (i.e. west Africans, either from Africa or their diaspora in Europe or North America) turn in their best career times in the 20-25 age range.  The few whites that are credible in that universe peak in the 25-30 age range.

Lemaitre turned 20 last month, so he will be 22 for London, 26 for Rio and 30 for wherever the 2020 Summer Games will be held.  While he has a credible shot to do well enough in the 100 in London to make the finals in that discipline, he’ll be 22, not yet in his peak (if my amateurish racial generalities hold), competing against a lot of blacks in their prime.  So I doubt he can medal in London.  However, in Rio and in 2020, he’ll be in his prime competing against younger blacks in their prime — Don’t be surprised if he becomes the first white man in a very long time to earn a 100m medal at one of those two Games.

BTW, Usain Bolt?  Roiding.  Mark me.

Colt’s In So Much Trouble

America’s Most Wanted Teenager, a.k.a. The Barefoot Bandit, one Colton Harris-Moore, who has been on the lam for many months after escaping from a Washington State junior hoosegow, and was thought to be hiding out in the state, as he had been for so long, somehow made it across the country and into The Bahamas.  Now he’s fled from there on a stolen boat.

Daily Mail:

Pam Kohler, Harris-Moore’s mother, said she wasn’t surprised her son might be able to make the 1,000-mile trip after teaching himself how to fly.

She has publicly defended her son, and claims the allegations against him are exaggerated.

Mrs Kohler added that she would have preferred him to have made it to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S.

‘The furthest he gets from the U.S., the better,’ she said. ‘I’m glad he’s able to enjoy beautiful islands, but they extradite. It doesn’t help matters at all.’

She also said that she also worried about his safety.

‘Colt is not to be flying a single engine-plane,’ she insisted, saying she was worried about engine failure. ‘When I heard that, that just upset me.

‘The rules are, he carries a parachute with him and he takes two-engine planes. Tell him he needs to call me.

You naughty boy.  You’re in so much trouble for not stealing a multi-engine aircraft with parachutes and flying it to a country without reciprocity with the United States.  You’re gonna get a good talking to and a time-out when you get home.  You know the rules, after all.  Don’t you know you just ruined your mother’s chances for Mother of the Century?

LeBron: Yesterday’s News. Now It’s On To All Lohan All The Time.

NYP:  No, Lindsay, it’s time you ‘F’ yourself

Don’t worry about that.  She won’t have to do it herself — There’s a jail full of lonely girls waiting for her.

MTV:  Why Is Lindsay Lohan On So Many Medications?

Because she has so many mental illnesses.

Haaretz:  Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein

No, they’re suspicious of you because you have the foreign policy of someone whose middle name is Hussein.

Arutz Sheva:  Ahmadinejad’s Mission: Save America from Obama

A broken clock IS right twice a day.

CofCC:  New Black Panther Party Leader: “We are ready to rumble” with TEA Parties and Glen Beck.

They’ll never take the blackboard alive.

Red State:  Killing white babies is okay… in context.

That has to be the dumbest context in the history of putting things in context.  BTW, Obama, there went another ten House seats.

Oakland Tribune:  Hip-hop holds African-Americans back, author says

Funny, it’s not holding me back, even though I sometimes yell out, “bring on the third grade reading level!” while listening to it.

CNS:  ‘God is Sad and God is Mad’ Over Oil Spill, Says Liberal Religious Leader

While you’ve got God on the line, ask him who killed Kennedy.

Friday’s Stuff

*  You must admit, He did have rather svelte abs.

*  Moot on January 1, because Iowa goes to shall-issue, but a Federal judge has ordered an Iowa sheriff to grant a CCW permit to a resident that he had denied one to based on political beliefs alone.  The sheriff didn’t like that the man participated in pro-life protests and spotlighted government waste.  The judge ordered the sheriff to study the first amendment to the very Federal Constitution he swore to uphold.

*  Make what you want of this.  My only beef is that the numbers are too low — There are lies, damned lies and unemployment statistics.  The trends might be right, but the percentage scales are 5-10 points too low.

*  “Dark complexion.”  That’s what they’re calling it now.

*  Gene McNary, please.  Get a clue.  It’s over.  The last time you won an election that resulted in you assuming a public office was November 1986.  A lot of my readers weren’t even born then.

*  Sheriff Joe:  Idea.   (Hint:  The shorts.)

*  Jeff Inglis:  Crybaby keep on cryin.  The most satisfying part of this whole set of events?  Inglis is a self-described Jack Kemp protege.  Meaning that he should have already known a thing or three about liberal Republicans getting their asses handed to them.  In Kemp’s case, Al Gore outmaneuvered him big-time in the 1996 VP debate, which told you more about Kemp than anything.

*  Ceteris paribus, for non-violent offenses, as a percentage of their whole given sentence, men who do time in L.A. County are in for twice as long as women.  Now, where this logic might fall apart is that some “non-violent” crimes are more equal than others, and “non-violent” men might tend to the more serious side.  Also, some of the “non-violent” men probably committed a felony in reality, and it was bargained down to a serious but “non-violent” misdemeanor, with the understanding that they’ll do most of their bid in county.

That’s funny, because we can’t talk about race and crime, but we can talk about gender and crime without any reprecussions from the PC Taliban.

*  Single-passenger hybrid Priuses no longer have carpool lane privileges in California.  Which should be fine by all the enviros, because the fuel savings in hybrid vehicles come in city driving stop-and-go conditions; their highway mileage is only slightly better than regular cars.  Better that hybrids get stuck in traffic for the sake of fuel economy.

Law of Averages

Rush:

RUSH: Jeff in Summit, New Jersey, it’s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir.  Hello.

CALLER:  Great to be here, Rush.  Mega fellow married man, taxpayer, cracker dittos to you.

RUSH:  I’d prefer to be cookie, but if they call me cracker I guess that’s what it is.

CALLER:  Well, maybe a graham cracker, I don’t know. A little sweeter.  When you were mentioning before some of Obama’s appointments, people like Carol Browner and Van Jones and the fact that there are a number of people out there who say, “Gee, you know, he didn’t picked those people because of ideology. They must have slipped by him.”

RUSH:  Yeah.

CALLER:  Let’s assume for a moment if that’s true.

RUSH:  Okay.

CALLER:  Then one of two things exists.

RUSH: Yep.

CALLER: Either he is the most incompetent chief executive we have –

RUSH:  Yep.

CALLER:  — because these people have slid right by him –

RUSH:  Right.

CALLER:  — and if he recognizes that their viewpoints are opposed to his, then he’s the most ineffective chief executive for not removing them.  I’ll let him explain which one he is.

RUSH:  That’s a good point.  It’s a good point.  Well, what do you think?  Obviously you are well-tuned on this.

CALLER:  What I think is that he has chosen these people specifically for an intended purpose.

RUSH:  Damn right!

CALLER:  They’re like useful idiots.

RUSH:  Damn right.  They’re not there accidentally.  Nobody is undermining Obama and sabotaging him.  Everybody he’s… Look at all the czars!  The czars are precisely czars because they don’t have to be confirmed.  Nobody knows who they are, what they think, until they start implementing policy, and nobody knows what they’re being paid.  It’s unprecedented. It’s literally unprecedented.  Jeff, I’m glad that you called.

It’s just a big damned coincidence that only wacko left-wing extremists are “slipping by him.”  You’d think that a right-winger would slip by him every once in awhile, per the Law of Averages.

Let me posit to you an alternate explanation:  Barack Obama IS an extremist wacko.

Ask Him About SB 1070

P-D:

Law prof says cries of racism on tanning tax not founded in law

A law professor weighs in on the “white people tax” that is also known as the tanning bed tax.

Some commenters, along with Rush Limbaugh and others, have said that the tax, which was included in the health care reform measure, was essentially a tax on white people because it is mostly white people that use tanning beds. Some have called it racism.

The Washington Post quotes Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, who specializes in racial conflict and law:

“There is no constitutional problem at all, because a plaintiff would have to show that the government intended to disadvantage a particular group, not simply that the group is disadvantaged in effect.”

There goes the case against SB 1070, though strangely enough, the DOJ lawsuit doesn’t mention race or disparate impact, even though an attachment does.  There goes affirmative action lawsuits against fire department for hiring and promotion, because that’s a house of cards built entirely on disparate impact.

The Richest Native St. Louisan You Know Nothing About

Did you know a big time NBA free agent changed teams yesterday?

No, not him.  I’m referring to David Lee, a native St. Louisan and a 2001 Chaminade grad.  He played college ball at Florida, missing their championship run by one season.  Formerly of the New York Knicks, he was traded with the Golden State Warriors after signing a 6 for 80 deal.  The Golden State Warriors:  A team that has the humility to take a geographic moniker suggestive of the whole state of California, even though it is based neither in the state’s capital (which has an NBA team), nor the state’s largest city (which has a team and a half).

What is surprising to me is that the local media say almost nothing about David Lee on a frequent basis.  (Hell, I don’t think they mentioned his new deal and new team at all last night.)  Meanwhile, they’re still shoving Larry Hughes in our faces;  His journeyman career is probably over.

Could it be?  Could it possibly be?  Nah, I don’t think so!

Loyalty

Some observations about last night’s LeBronathon:

*  Several years ago, LeBron gave the responsibility for his personal brand, everything except contract and endorsement negotiation and personal accounting, to a former high school teammate.  I think he’s regretting that now.

*  Still, even if you want to assume that this man, whose name escapes me, is the worst PR guy/marketer/crisis mangler in the history of the world, some of the fuck-ups from last night and this past week have been so fundamental that LeBron himself should have known better.  I mean, telling the world on ESPN that you called the winner but made no call to the five other teams, so you assume that only the winner knows?  You just told the five other teams that they weren’t the winner, which they were instantly able to infer because they didn’t get a call.  And he should know by himself that it’s the courteous thing to do to call all his suitors with either yes or no.

*  ESPN is a billion-dollar subsidiary of a multi-billion dollar corporation (Disney).  They just don’t give anyone a free hour.  ESPN was in on this.

*  That said, why was there no dry run?

*  I appreciate Dan Gilbert’s loyalty to Cleveland, but the Cavs aren’t winning a championship, ever.  And why can’t he apply that same level of loyalty to his own race in his own city, state and country?  Quicken Loans is big into H-1B.

*  Question for Gilbert:  If LeBron is such a “quitter” in the playoffs (which he might have been), then why did you want him back so badly, making him an offer that was significantly more than the five other teams pursuing him?  (See below).  UPDATE:  Another question for Gilbert:  If you’re so mad at LeBron, then why did you approve the sign-and-trade with the Heat?  (Repeating for those needing, LeBron was a free agent, and could have signed directly with the Heat.  But technically speaking, the Cavs signed LeBron then traded him to the Heat for future draft picks.  That was a favor from Cleveland to Miami because it cleared some of Miami’s future salary cap space so they can get decent pieces around James/Wade/Bosh.  Too, Chris Bosh was technically a sign-and-trade with the Toronto Raptors, even though Bosh was also an unrestricted free agent.)

*  Mark me:  Gilbert will have the Cavs dole out two numbers next season out of pure spite:  23 and 6.  And they’ll give them to bench-warming scrubs.

*  I don’t blame Cavs fans for burning their LeBron jerseys.  After all, nobody will wear them ever again, and they’re worthless on the open market, so the only thing they’re good for is increasing your carbon footprint.

*  CW states that, in contrast to about five to seven years ago, Kobe is now a better brand than LeBron.  Pardon me, but while LeBron is narcissistic, arrogant, insouciant and boring, he is not a rapist.

*  One thing I will grant LeBron, and also Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade:  For them, it’s not about the money.  It is financially impossible for all three to have max deals, (by definition, a max deal is one-third of the team’s alloted salary cap, so three max players would take up 100% of the cap, which is $58 million this coming season), so each will have to take a little less than max so that the Heat can have more than three players.  UPDATE:  Each man will make $2 million a year less than a max deal.

* UPDATE 7/10:  And no, I wasn’t buying the bullshit that he decided on Miami the morning before the hour-long stooperfest on ESPN.  (Evidently, nobody in Cleveland bought it, either.)  Proof is that within hours of the “official” announcement, 13,000 licensed Miami Heat #6 James jerseys went on sale.  I don’t know anything about the garment business, but I’m just guessing that it takes a week to make 13,000 official licensed jerseys, and then another week to ship them from China to the United States.

*  Unrelated, but yesterday seemed to be a big day for decisions:  LeBron, Johannes Mesherle, Gay Marriage on the Federal level, Drilling moratorium reversal upheld on the Federal Appellate level, and there could have been a Cali Supreme Court ruling on Gay Marriage last night, but that was delayed.  We must be passing through some odd section of the space-time continuum.  I can tell, because people in Oakland and Cleveland are rioting for two drastically different reasons LOL.

Now That LeBron Is Gone, Here’s Your New Mr. Ohio

WTAM-AM:

“He didn’t have any clothing on except for his socks and one shoe”

Teen fleeing Marion Police loses his shorts.

(Marion) – An unruly teen that led Marion Police on a chase for nearly two hours Wednesday was arrested in his birthday suit.

Officers were called to a home in the 600 block of Universal Avenue by the 16-year old boy’s father after the two got into an argument.

“He said his son was kind of going off and was out of control and had been making statements and threats to him and to also harm himself,” said Lt. Mike Radcliff.

When officers handcuffed the teen he took off. Radcliff says they chased the boy until he jumped a picket fence. That fence snagged the boy’s shorts and underwear.

“He didn’t have any clothing on except for his socks and one shoe,” Radcliff said.

One of the department’s detectives driving an unmarked car and wearing plain clothes drove up to the boy and offered him a ride. Radcliff says the boy almost got into the vehicle before realizing the detective’s true identity.

The boy was very combative when officers arrested him. He claimed to have swallowed some pills. As a precaution he was taken to Marion General Hospital and later taken to Grant Medical Center.

The boy has been charged with escape and felony obstruction of justice. He’s also wanted for a probation violation.

While officers were at the boy’s house they arrested his mother who also had an outstanding warrant.

I would hope that just not any adult man or woman would offer a butt-naked 16-year old guy a ride just for the hell of it.

So he started out wearing just shorts, underwear, both socks and both shoes, and the picket fence deprived him of shorts and underwear.  I presume one of his shoes came off somewhere else in the flight.  I can also presume that he wasn’t sagging his shorts, and therefore, sagging didn’t hinder his speed.

Otherwise, he might have been able to run all the way to Miami.

Inequality, Part 2

Bill Gates + Warren Buffet + Carlos Slim < The amount of debt the Federal government ran up on June 30, 2010.

The top three debt days have all occurred with Barack Obama as President, and the top six took place within the last two years, meaning days four through six took place in the waning months of the Bush 43 Administration, though Bush was essentially a de facto Democrat after the Democrats won control of the House and Senate in 2006.

Inequality

Is greater than…

This one will take longer than Zeno’s Paradox to solve.

Two words:  Income tax.  (Or Florida’s lack thereof.)

He says he’s still going to live in Akron during the off-season.  The only way that’s happening is if he puts in a moat with crocodiles and piranhas around that mansion he’s building, and a 10,000 volt fence around that.

In other news, that huge sigh of relief you hear is that of Steven A. Smith’s credibility remaining intact.

Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter

You watch, the “bankrupt” State of California will find prison space for him!  The blacks in LA and Oakland will riot if he gets no prison time, just as they would be this afternoon and evening if he were found not guilty on any of the charges, so the state will see that he goes onto one of the state pen’s sodomy menus.  FTR, that conviction calls for a 2-4 bid.

UPDATE: Actually, it will be a 6-14 bid, because he used a firearm in his “crime,” (he was a cop, duh), and the Deukmejian-era crime-with-gun laws will kick in and add mandatory time on top of that.  The Feds still might come in with a civil rights investigation, which may or may not be easier for them to prove now that there’s this IM conviction.  So that might mean more time in a Federal prison.  Unfortunately, it might be a moot point, because he’s dead on day one in a California state prison.

That sound you hear from the west?  That’s every white cop in the Bay Area handing in his or her resignation or retirement forms.

UPDATE 7/9: Holder confirms he’s looking at the situation.  You can bet that if Mehserle makes it out of state prison in one piece, then he’ll be made to do another 10 in Federal prison.

There have been minor riots in Oakland, because the conviction was IM and not Murder 2nd.  What the stupid asses don’t realize is that of Mehserle gets the full 14 from the state and gets another 10 from the Feds, and assume that California has a truth-in-sentencing law similar to the Feds (10 months of 12, or 83 and 1/3%), then he’ll do 20 years.  That’s more than some people actually convicted of Murder 2nd do.  Of course, this is all moot in my mind, because unless he’s kept in solitary full time, he’s dead his first day in genpop.

Also, Oakland’s far-left white anarchists and black extremists were egging on riots for weeks before yesterday’s verdict.

UPDATE 7/13: What did I tell you?  (Then again, what could anyone with at least a 90 IQ have told you?)  Oakland P.D. will no longer respond to certain “minor” crimes in person.  Money, layoffs, manpower shortages due to riots and union negotiations are being blamed.  The white elephant in the room?  Race.  White cops are now too scared to get mixed up with black criminals of the “petty” variety.  And why is that?  See above.

Among the crimes affected are:

• burglary
• theft
• embezzlement
• grand theft
• grand theft:dog
• identity theft
• false information to peace officer
• required to register as sex or arson offender
• dump waste or offensive matter
• discard appliance with lock
• loud music
• possess forged notes
• pass fictitious check
• obtain money by false voucher
• fraudulent use of access cards
• stolen license plate
• embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
• extortion
• attempted extortion
• false personification of other
• injure telephone/ power line
• interfere with power line
• unauthorized cable tv connection
• vandalism
• administer/expose poison to another’s

***

UPDATE 7/20: There is a sniper trying to take out Oakland cops.  I believe the story, but I also believe they left a few things out, like the race of the sniper and the race of the cops he’s trying to assassinate.

Nelly: Trailblazer

Michael Savage:      Why is Obama protecting this hateful revolutionary?

Because hateful revolutionaries of a feather must stick together.

Pro Football Talk:  D’Brickashaw deal raises several interesting questions

Among which is what kind of parent would name their son D’Brickashaw?

Yahoo Sports:  Source: Bulls to sign Boozer

Just what Chicago needed, another alcoholic.  Aren’t all those Wrigley bleacher bums enough for you?

5:  Disney owes ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ creators $269.2 million

Thereby answering the question for at least a few people.

Daily Mail:  Nanny, 30, died from sexual arousal while watching pornography

At least she went with a smile on her face.

2:  Rapper “Huey” Shoots Latest Video In St. Louis

Then he’ll do what all good St. Louis rappers who shoot videos in St. Louis’s ghetto sections do — Move out to West County then perform in Branson.

CNS:  San Francisco May Ban Pet Sales, Except for Fish

Can’t be a very good pet owner if you’re high all the time.  I’m waiting for the first time a SF pothead mistakes his weed stash for fish food.

P-D Race Blog:  New stamps honor Negro Leagues Baseball

Still waiting on our German-American stamp series.

Slashdot:  Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ

Next best thing to saying No Blacks and Hispanics Need Apply.  Then again, China, with its curious lack of a Sichuan Poverty Law Center, wouldn’t care anyway.

Kansas City Star:   Oops. NAACP mistakes KC for St. Louis

For that, the NAACP will never be welcome in either city ever again.

5:  Drunked ride on lawnmower ends with night in jail

And a strange looking yard.

Thursday’s Stuff

*  What is it about its own positions this White House doesn’t like so much?  In the past month, both Jon Kyl and Michael Steele have been pwn3d for having stated them.

*  Record heat in D.C., yet people there are fumed about the 10% honkey tax on indoor tanning salons that was part of ObamaCare.

Two words:  Go outside.  Five words:  MD, VA, DC voted Obama.

*  I don’t know what you make of this, but I know what I make of it:  Countries with which Barack Obama have vestigial links are #1 and #3.

*  I’m starting to think that NBA teams aren’t running the kind of red ink they’re claiming, i.e. $400 million in aggregate, averaging $13 million per team, in the last FY.  I do think the NBA is losing money, both aggregate and team average, but how can they be giving some of these okay players max contracts if they don’t have the money to give?  Only governments can spend money they don’t have.  I think all this talk about massive red ink is owner propaganda in advance of labor talks looming next year.

*  Ron Paul wants to audit the Federal Reserve System, the audit essentially being an intended precursor to eliminating it.  I agree, but the Fed might fall apart before Ron Paul’s bill gathers enough steam to pass — FinReg forcing FRS and private financial firms that do biz with the Yankee government to go big guns on affirmative action.

*  I can only hope this second degree of separation friend of Mayor Slay’s is a reader of mine.

Now I Know Why The City Nuthouse Was Closed Long Ago (Today’s 48th State Stack of Stuff)

That’s because it was redundant with City Hall itself.

*  This almost flew under the radar screen thanks to The Fourth:  Board of Aldermen diss 1070.  (Wait’ll they find out about a certain wedding.)   This same BoA endorsed reparations for slavery about a decade ago.  Probably 3% of the people in this country support reparations and oppose SB 1070 simultaneously; Saddam Hussein had a higher approval rating.  Man, I tell ya, this City Board of Aldermen sure know how to pick em.

*  P-D tells us about Mexican drug gang violence negatively affecting ranchers and farmers in parts of Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border.  When will we get the story about how it negatively affects American ranchers and farmers near the U.S.-Mexico border?

*  Massachusetts’s leftist kooks want to protest Jan Brewer in Boston — Perhaps they ought to look a little closer to home if they want something at which to be angry.  The state of Rhode Island already has critical elements of laws like SB 1070 on the books, and it’s being enforced.  The part that RI has and is enforcing is precisely the part that Obama/Holder are suing Arizona over.  So why not sue Rhode Island first?  After all, RI’s law is already in effect and being enforced, while SB 1070 won’t start until July 29, barring any court injunctions.  Answer:  RI is already a solidly blue state in terms of Presidential and Congressional politics.  Obama/Holder are trying to color Arizona blue.

*  Haven’t I said before that Muslim terrorist petro-bucks might be in part the money behind the anti-1070 noise machine?   This might be a little bit of circumstantial evidence that I’m right.  There were always questions to how Tony West got paid to defend Marin County’s Little Johnny Jihad.  It says here that his being on John Walker Lindh’s defense team would hurt his chances to join the Obama Justice Department — Hurt?  More like helped.

*  I get the feeling that it is somewhat old news, but Mexican school children in violence-plagued border regions of Mexico are having to do duck-and-cover drills.  Now, when American school children all around the country did this in the 1950s, they were worried about a nuclear strike, and foolishly though their desks had special radiation-resistant coatings or something like that, otherwise the best thing to do if the bomb was real was to bend over so far that you can reach around with your face and kiss it goodbye.  In modern-day Mexico, however, the children staying close to the ground might actually help them survive.

All the while, BushObama say bring in more Mexicans.

Sorry, Someone’s Gotta Say It. So That Means Me.

Nothing ever became him in this world like the leaving of it.

5:

Paul Smith, 38, is a registered sex offender. In 1995, he was convicted for sodomizing a 10-year-old boy.

Court records also show Paul Smith served prison time for tampering with a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property among other things. He has a previous address at an apartment complex on Weil Avenue in south St. Louis. Residents there said police raided that address earlier Wednesday.

Here’s where it’s going to get hairy.  I heard and saw this news in three different places, but I have not yet found it online to where I can corroborate it in a blockquote on this medium.  The news is that his neighbors in and around that apartment complex on the South Side found out he was a RSO, and ran him out.  He fled to Lincoln County, the same place where he committed suicide yesterday, but he didn’t report his change of address to the authorities, like he should have.

Now, knock on wood, and giving thanks to the deity of your sensibilities, it looks like the worst thing that happened to the girl during the time when he had her in his possession is that he chopped off her hair.  However, it easily could have been much worse.  She could have been raped and murdered.

Question:  Is it such a good idea to make the sex offender registry a matter of public record?  Why does anyone beyond law enforcement need access to the list?  After all, you can’t so easily do an NCIC on any ole regular person on the internet.  Because all his South Side neighbors knew he was a RSO, they could harass him so and run him out of town, and run him out of police scrutiny, and run him to a place where he could so easily go into a different town and snatch some girl on the street.  I think it’s better if only the cops and certain civilians under certain conditions and nobody else has access to SORs, because of how badly this recent kidnapping could have turned out.

I tend to think that the political class in this state and every other state that does SORs is horribly mistaken if they think that registration is a feasible end-around/augment to actual punishment/incarceration.  I’m sure the state would like to keep cretins like this Paul Smith incarcerated for far longer than they otherwise are, but the hoosegows in Missouri are too overcrowded for two main reasons:  (1)  All those rural hanging judges that love to send young white men to state prison for first-time weed possession of a small amount (and that is NOT bargained down from intent-to-distribute or actual dealing), and (2)  All the black crime in St. Louis and Kansas City.  The Bartle Bill, which didn’t make it out of Session this year, would have helped (1), and alternative forms of punishment, such as corporeal or slavery (which the 13th Amendment explicitly allows as a punishment for crime) to alleviate (2).

UPDATE 9 PM: Are we supposed to be impressed that another RSO from Pike County, who himself has a son that’s a RSO, (apple doesn’t fall far from the tree), both, like Smith, diddled children, gave the cops crucial information that led them to Smith and his eventual suicide?  Are we supposed to be impressed that this Fowler creep thinks that the world’s now better off that Smith committed suicide?  As if you’re some prize?  I suppose you’re going to want a Gubernatorial pardon now.  AFAIC, they should give you and your loser son the same shotgun Smith used to send himself to his just reward.  Then and only then might the world be a little better off.

BSK

Yet, only white people are serial killers.  Yeah, right.

The LAPD used a DNA technique called familial searching to arrive at one Mr. Lonnie Franklin Jr.  Evidently, a lot of his relatives become embroiled in the criminal justice system often (surprise, surprise), and their DNA samples were on file so that DNA collected from the victims of then-unknown suspect could be used to arrive at close relatives to the doer.  It wasn’t hard from there to go straight to the doer.

Now, just cross your fingers and pray that he doesn’t get O.J.’s jury.

LAT list of Grimmy’s victims.

UPDATE 7/11: Arrested at least 15 other times in four decades.  He was never sent to state prison due to a combination of judicial incompetence, police insouciance and the overall lack of prison space in California (thank you illegal immigration).  He narrowly avoided a forced DNA sample collection based on the narrowest of technicalities and the slimmest of time margins; if not for that, this case would have been cracked way sooner.

Poetic Injustice

You can pretty much discern victim from perp.

Read the last paragraph’s last two items.

Hoax, Muslim Style

Mosque in suburban Atlanta arsonized by one of its own members.  CAIR preemptively blamed Islamophobia, until the truth came out.

But I don’t think the truth has come out all the way.  The FBI/GBI should scour through the finances of this Mr. Tamsir Mendy, to see if there have been some unusual enrichment on his side of the books combined with some unusual depletion on the CAIR’s books or the “victimized” Mosque’s books, happening some time before the arson.

Follow the money.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

This is from a game today between the Orlando Magic’s D-League team and the New Jersey Nets’ D-League team.  Patrick Ewing Sr. is the head coach of the Magic’s D-League team, and as you can see, his son, Patrick Jr., is on the team.

That Junior isn’t in the NBA is of no surprise to me.  But why is he even taking up a spot on the D-League team?  I mean, come on — Do you really expect someone who averaged a scintillating four points a game at Georgetown under the man whose father coached his own father at G-Town was a serious NBA prospect?  I’m thinking that some white man, who is not really an athlete, could be sitting in that chair.

While I’m at it, I’ll give you my final prediction on LeBron:  Chicago.  Someone called Tony Bruno last night and said that someone requested a tax form address change for one of LeBron’s Ohio residential properties to a Chicago address.

Chicago Cop Slain

It happened this afternoon, near a CPD installation, in what is described as a crime-ridden and gang-infested part of town.

Unfortunately, it appears that he was yet another one of those “I want to make a difference” types.  Those are the kinds of cops that are assassinated in the line of duty far more often.  He was an 11-year vet, so I would have thought that experience would have eased him away from his youthful arrogance by now.

Note:  Not implying that it was his own fault that he was assassinated.

Currently, there is a moratorium on capital executions in the state.  If the suspect turns out to be at least 18 as of today and did indeed do it, or it looks like he did it, will Gov. Quinn undo the moratorium at least for this case?  Or will it be up to the next Governor, Bill Brady, to do it?

UPDATE 7/9: As it turns out, none of this might have mattered.  It is alleged that the suspect, one Bryant Brewer, 24, did sneak up behind Officer Thor Soderberg, stole his sidearm from its holster, and shot him in three places.  Brewer also allegedly shot a contractor working on a nearby house, and then shot at the CPD training facility Officer Soderberg was in the process of leaving.  So this was an ambush, pure and simple.

Bad Day For Local Yokels

*  A Slay hack and the city’s attorney got hitched in Sedona, Arizona.  Meaning that two city employees spent money in the state that passed SB 1070, a law that the groom’s boss is against.  Solid human waste, I present to you breeze-production device.

*  A little more than a decade ago, I had a nasty run-in with someone who claimed he was the nephew of then-City Aldermanic President and now Mayor Francis Slay.  It was at The Galleria, and he overheard my buddy and I joking about corrupt elections in St. Louis City.  He got so offended by what I had to say that he almost came to physical blows.  Though Francis Slay didn’t formally announce that he was running for Mayor at this time, that his nephew was so defensive about the integrity of city elections was a clue that he was going to run.  Ironically, any voter fraud would have hurt Slay and helped Bosley in 2001.

P-D, today:

St. Louis mayor’s nephew charged with stalking

Benjamin Slay, 27, has been charged with one count of aggravated stalking after police say he violated an order of protection.

St. Louis County Police say Slay of the 5000 block of Clayridge Drive violated the order when served with his copy, which was made full on May 20 and violated it several more times culminating with Slay coming to the victim’s residence on June 29 and at about 3:30 a.m. July 2, according to court documents.

Police would not say whether Slay was involved in a romantic relationship with the victim, Regina Duncan, and referred all questions to the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorneys Office.

This may not be the nephew in question, because this run-in happened in early 2000, so Benjamin Slay would have been 17, and this nephew looked somewhat older than 17.  However, aggravated stalking does sound like something my Slay would have done, so you really can’t tell.

For the record, 5000 Clayridge is in South County, near 55 and Butler Hill.  You mean to tell me that this wonderful city living-loving Mayor of ours, who bragged in two different political campaigns about people moving back into the city, can’t convince his own nephew to live in the city?

*  The brother of St. Louis County Executive Charley Dooley?  Freebasing coke.

Albion’s Dinner

CNS:  Protests of Arizona Governor Planned in Boston

Get out and protest Arizona’s Governor in Boston while the weather in Boston is decidedly Phoenix-like.

Daily Mail:  Lap dancer who studied forensic science ‘helped boyfriend kill son of a university lecturer’

This is only going to hurt the cause of all those other lap dancers that want to go into forensic sciences.

Daily Mail:  Teenager allergic to nuts lands in hospital after kissing boyfriend who had eaten tainted cereal

We already know she’s allergic to nuts, so first base was about as far as you could go with her.  Now you can’t even go that far.

Some blog with a really long title:  Obama Hails New Solar Energy Jobs at Taxpayer Price Tag of $1,333,333 Each

Expensive for just a plain ole regular job, cheap for an NBA player.

Daily Mail:  Manson family member Leslie Van Houten has parole denied for 19th time

You can’t blame her for trying to take another stab at it.

Daily Mail:  ‘Cannibal’ Britons arrived here for first time 950,000 years ago – and lived in Norfolk

And yet, there was no welfare state to attract them.

Wednesday’s Stuff

*  Uh, hello?  There has already been one of these.  And it was correctly ignored.

*  The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince:  Al Gore’s invention is cramping his style, so he is only distributing his next release on physical CD media, through the dead tree and ink media.  I suppose his publicist will carve stones to make the press releases to tell us how well this thing is selling.

*  I’m not a Catholic Priest, yet I can comprehend why there is a lot of vandalism at Catholic cemeteries:  Endless media agitprop about “abusive” priests.  Hint:  Even counting that, Catholic priests are still way better behaved than the average person, statistically speaking.

*  You’re telling me God’s Gift to basketball couldn’t get a D-I scholarship right out of high school?

Say what you want about God Shammgod, but he did appropriately go to Providence.

*  Yeah, really.  Where do you think we are, America or something?

*  The good news:  Legal pot keeps $$ out of drug gangs.  The bad news:  Because the economics of legal pot are far less risky than illegal pot, it’s far less expensive.  Therefore, the revenue projections for governments needing new revenue sources were way too high, because they were assuming street prices multiplied by the local percentage.

Anarcho-Tyranny

KDVR-Fox-31 Denver:

Thieves could go free while victim faces jail time

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. – Admitted thieves are going free, while an elderly Wheat Ridge man is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars, all, he says, for trying to defend his property and his life.

82-year-old Robert Wallace said in February that he looked out his window and saw two men hooking his flatbed trailer up to their pickup. He yelled at them to stop, but they sped away, stealing his trailer. He told police he fired two shots at the pickup.

Minutes later, police say 32-year-old Damacio Torres dropped 28-year-old Alvaro Cardona off at a hospital emergency room with a gunshot wound to the face.

Torres did not stay to talk with police, but they caught up with him later. According to court documents, he admitted he and Cardona stole the trailer.

Wallace did not want to talk on camera, but when we asked him if the two men threatened him he said, “They almost ran me over.”

The Jefferson County DA’s office said that neither Torres nor Cardona have been charged with anything at this point, even though Torres confessed to the crime. However, the homeowner, Wallace is facing twelve felony counts, including four counts of attempted first degree murder. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Sources say Torres and Cardona are believed to be in the country illegally and both have an arrest record. Cardona’s record includes public fighting and numerous traffic offenses like driving without a license or insurance. Torres’s record includes agricultural trespassing as well as a 2005 arrest for aggravated motor vehicle theft for which he was given a plea bargain to a lesser crime. Sources say Torres is also under investigation for being part of a major auto theft ring.

Wallace is out on bond and due back in court in September to enter his plea.

Neighbors say the thieves should be the ones facing charges and Wallace should be given an award for protecting the neighborhood.

I agree with the neighbors.  But did those neighbors give you Governor Bill Ritter, Senator Ken Salazar, Senator Mark Udall, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a black Speaker of the State House and a black Majority Leader of the State Senate?  All of them are amnesty and open borders all the way.  Talk is cheap, actions behind the voting curtains have consequences.

Who Said Anything About Civilization?

I keep forgetting that Alton is in the county in which I now live.

Alton Telegraph:

Mob shoots fireworks at police, firefighters

ALTON – First responders from the Alton Fire Department and five officers from the Alton Police Department were attacked by a crowd of several hundred people in the Oakwood Housing Complex who shot large bottle rockets at them. The incidents occurred late Sunday and early Monday in the 700 and 800 blocks of Oakwood.

“I’m so angry,” said Alton Police Chief David Hayes. “This type of conduct is not supposed to happen in civil society. This was obviously intended to be entertainment for the crowd.”

Hayes added that the crowd’s actions were “despicable and turn my stomach.”

(snip)

The city has taken a more proactive approach this year in curtailing the private use of fireworks. The Telegraph printed a letter from Mayor Tom Hoechst stating that fireworks were illegal in Illinois. Individuals found to have them or be discharging them would receive a non-traffic citation and would have to appear before a judge and ordered to pay a fine. If they failed to do so, a warrant would be issued for their arrest.

You think Alton’s diversity is Alton’s strength now, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Police Chief and Mr. Fire Chief?  And so much for those precious laws you like so much — When it comes to a certain racial constituency in certain cities in this state, those might as well be as good as TP for the Great Cornholio’s bunghole.

Really, Democrats. Is This the Best You Can Do?

WaPo:

Democrats digging harder than ever for dirt on Republicans

The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money.

In recent weeks, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has circulated information to local reporters about Republican candidates in close races. Among the claims:

– That Jim Renacci of Ohio once owed nearly $1.4 million in unpaid state taxes.

– That David Harmer of California received $160,000 in bonus and severance pay from a firm that got a federal bailout.

– That Jon Runyan of New Jersey got a legal break in property taxes for his 25-acre homestead by qualifying for a farmland assessment thanks to his four donkeys

Need I remind you, the donkey is the symbol of the Democrat Party, the political party that is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, Soros, Warren Buffet, etc.

And find me a private firm not getting federal bailout money of one sort or another.  Using this standard, then virtually nobody is qualified to run for office.

Got Milk?

Mr. LeBron Raymone James does, because he’s milking the free agency process for as long as he can.

Supposedly, ESPN is giving him 9-10 ET tomorrow night (8-9 Locally), so that he can have an hour to announce what would take 10 seconds and something he probably decided weeks ago, i.e., which team he’s signing with.  Also supposedly, the LeBron camp is going to sell the ad space and donate the money to BGCA, though IBIWISI.

Frankly, I’m getting so sick and tired of his narcissism, that I hope he sustains a career-ending (but not life threatening) injury in the offseason, and the team he signs with falls flat on their asses and wins 10 games a season from here to eternity.