Cutting Off To Spite (Today’s Headlines)

Daily Mail:  Asthma inhalers ‘increase the risk of prostate cancer’

Plain words, don’t take your inhaler, die of an asthma attack so that your dead prostate can be cancer free in forty years.

AP:  German mosque used by Sept. 11 attackers shut down

Oh well, at least they can move to Lower Manhattan.

Daily Mail:  Apple files patent for futuristic ‘smart’ bike

Soon to be followed by the open source GBike.

Southeast Missourian:  Mo. gov. plans float trip on Current River

If the headline happened to have left out “Missouri,” it wouldn’t have mattered — We would have implied “Missouri” from the words “float trip.”  All the St. Louisans on the trip can talk to each other about where they went to high school.

Monday Wrap-Up

*  I want to start with this missive on Majority Rights today.  I agree with some of it, I think a lot of it is sarcastically humorous, (which is why I’m recommending it), but overall, for someone to bash every other right-winger in America, of both the racial and non-racial variety, by name, then turn around and call for a white partition, all the while doing so anonymously, comes off as infantile.

It should be noted that a lot of Americans who are just as white (presumably) as s/he is, just as right-wing as s/he is (including in some ways I’m not, see below), and given to reasonable criticism of fellow right-wingers as s/he might have the ability to engage in if s/he could just lose the snark for just a moment, think an explicitly white racial partition of the United States is a bad idea for white Americans.  Their reasoning varies from person to person, but some think that white Americans ceding control of coast-to-coast territory would give China and India beachheads on the North American continent to where they can squeeze white Americans out of existence, while others think that whites would fuck up/liberal up their partition just like they fucked up/liberaled up America as a whole.

One should also be mindful of the fact that Majority Rights is anti-Semitic, so the author’s concern here isn’t a white partition, it’s a gentile partition.  That and s/he is paranoid about so-called “Jewish influence” within the parts of the racial and non-racial right s/he bashes by name, so his or her anti-Semitism is clouding his or her ability to interpret events, and therefore clouding his or her analysis of the situation, making things seem more hopeless to him or her than they actually are.

*  Speechless.

*  Just change the name from “racial profiling” to “predictive analysis,” and the good libs are all for it.  I wish I would have thought of it.

*  Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA):  Another Leopard that is so easily trying to change its immigration spots.  Well, je me souviens, and I’m “souvening” Isakson’s support for “comprehensive immigration reform” in 2007, both he and his Georgia stablemate in the person of Saxby Chambliss.

*  Jefferson County:  Full of meth labs and Democrats.  (Yeah, I know, pick your poison).  But, only two murders in the whole county for 2Q2010.  Contrast to St. Louis City, where there can be two murders on the same street in one moment.

*  But, to its credit, Jefferson County did vote Prop C at about the average for the statewide vote outside of STL and KC proper. Apparently, Juan Williams thinks it doesn’t count because some old white people got to vote.  I guess the solution is obvious — Don’t let old white people vote.

Speaking of Fox News Sunday, I saw Ted Olson defending his anti-Prop 8 stance to Chris Wallace.  Hey, Olson, can you come up with a few more words other than just “fundamental right,” “discrimination” and “interracial?”

*  Summer of Sharia:  Yay for this bunch, right?

Wrong.  As Andy McCarthy has pointed out, extremist Muslims will drop terrorism if it gets too counter-productive.  But remember, terrorism is just one tactic of many possible tactics — Sharia is the end game.  So what may be going on at this summer camp is teaching campers how to infiltrate the political system in Britain through peaceful means, blurting out “tolerant” niceties to bamboozle all the stupid white liberals. (Not hard to do.)  Then, once in power, bring down the Sharia hammer.

*  Raptors vs Nets in London.  Why does the NBA hate London so much?

*  Tis life in the big city:  Almost all of the teenagers in Boston who are required to go through anti-violence seminars for one reason or another are the furthest thing from violent or even criminal.  Ironically, I bet you that a lot of the adults doleing out the anti-violence message are ex-cons who are professional tell-people-how-not-to-commit-crimers.  I think something’s wrong with this picture…can’t quite put my finger on it…

*  The ever-decreasing age of puberty in girls?  The usual suspects, better nutrition, obesity, environmental toxins are being blamed.  BUT…Official America does seem to be broaching The Great Taboo:

Dr. Catherine Gordon, a pediatric endocrinologist and specialist in adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston, said that so far, most evidence showed that neither breast development nor menstrual age had changed for white girls of normal weight.

The new study included 1,239 girls ages 6 to 8 who were recruited from schools and examined at one of three sites: the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital or Kaiser Permanente Northern California/University of California, San Francisco. The group was roughly 30 percent each white, black and Hispanic, and about 5 percent Asian.

At 7 years, 10.4 percent of white, 23.4 percent of black and 14.9 percent of Hispanic girls had enough breast development to be considered at the onset of puberty.

At age 8, the figures were 18.3 percent in whites, 42.9 percent in blacks and 30.9 percent in Hispanics. The percentages for blacks and whites were even higher than those found by a 1997 study that was one of the first to suggest that puberty was occurring earlier in girls.

Therefore, the obvious implication is that the decreasing average age of puberty onset in girls is almost entirely indicative of so many “American” girls being black and Hispanic.

Someone call Morris Dees, and tell him to add Children’s Boston to his official rock-em sock-em mega-list of hate groups.

Sunday Headline Wrap-Up

WTXF-Fox-29 Philly:  Obama To Play Presidential Pickup With NBA Stars

I know he doesn’t care about actual governance or his actual responsibilities, so you can only take what you can get:  For shits and grins, I hope he dunks on LeBron James.

Yahoo Sports:  Woods seems lost with no way out

Still worth eight figures  –  I wish I could be so hopelessly lost.

AP:  Russian man dies in searing heat at sauna contest

Judging from the recent weather in Europe, all that proves is that he went outside.

AP:  Milwaukee teachers fight for Viagra drug coverage

I’ve got to hand it to them — they are a group of straight shooters.

WSJ:  Donna Shalala Detained at Ben-Gurion

Must be a lot of Florida State fans in Tel Aviv.

B&C:  TCA: Investigation Discovery Developing Mark Burnett ‘Prison Idol’-style Talent Competition

Win ‘Prison Idol’ — First Prize:  A rape free month AND a carton of cigs.  Second Prize:  A rape-free week and a pack of cigs.  Third Prize:  A cig.

AP:  Disgraced HP CEO to get about $28m in cash, stock

Another disgraced HP CEO might become a U.S. Senator in a few months.  Seems like fucking up HP is great work if you can get it.

P-D:  BRIDGETON > New police chief hired from within ranks

Honestly, is there any Bridgeton left?

LiveScience:  Personality Set for Life By 1st Grade, Study Suggests

“Yeah, you WERE a rather rude and snide bastard.” — Txtmsg from my first-grade teacher to me.

Infants Don’t Start Revolutions

Steamboat (Springs, Colo.) Today:

One of the recurring arguments I hear from those who accuse conservatives of being insensitive to the travails of the underclass, whether black or Latino, is that many of those communities are filled with people so unable to take responsibility for their own lives that “we had better learn we have to take care of them or they are going to start a revolution to take us all down.” I am astounded that this thinking doesn’t register as incredibly condescending and even racist … in the sense that it ascribes no intelligence, talent or ambition to those with whom they purport to empathize.

The other thing that doesn’t occur to them is how self-contradictory is their argument.  People who are “so unable to take responsibility for their own lives” can’t be expected to “start a revolution to take us all down.”  UNLESS they have the help of outside agitators.

Other than the fact that the man was stark-raving mad, that was the obvious flaw in Charles Manson’s millenarian thinking — On the one hand, he expected black Americans just one day all of a sudden out of the blue to “rise up” to commit extremely atrocious multiple and constant mass murders against whites, but then once they had successfully wiped honkey off the face of the Earth, they would come crying and boo-hooing to Manson and his “family” who had “outsmarted” the genius revolutionaries by hiding out in Death Valley, and ask him and his “family” to run the world because they couldn’t.  First off, if the blacks were smart enough to overthrow white society and commit genocide against whites, what the fuck would they need Manson and his rag-tag band of vagabonds for?  Second, if the black revolutionaries had it in them to go to every corner of the world where there was white people and kill them all, does one honestly think they wouldn’t “clean up” Death Valley, too?  Manson’s thinking became even more contradictory, because the reason he ordered his minions to commit the Hinman, Tate and Lo Bianco murders is because Manson got tired of waiting on the blacks to get things started, and he “wanted to show them how it’s done.”  Show them how it’s done?  And he expected THEM to take over the world?

Back to the subject, Steve Sailer makes a good point about Chicano Hispanics and reconquista — One reason they might not actually move on the American Southwest in an irredentist sense is because Hispanics can’t seem to organize anything.  He reminds us that in spite of the big majorities that Hispanics have in Southern California, and the easy availability of government money (until recently) for these things, there is no Hispanic-oriented hospital complex in SoCal, like there was King-Drew Medical Center, black-organized and black-run, albeit with white money.

No Words Will Always Hurt Me

Malkin has some commentary.

In order to give you my take on it, I have to go through something similar that happened a little more than two years ago.

The Council of Conservative Citizens 2008 National Conference was in Northwest Alabama in June of that year.  One of the guest speakers was then-State Sen. Charles Bishop, who was serving his last term in the Senate, as he was either retiring or was TLed out, don’t remember which.  If my memory isn’t failing me, the election to replace him was in 2008.  Anyway, most of his speech was the usual mehe that one would expect of an elected Republican in the Deep South, speaking to someone that he figured was a sympathetic audience.  But then Sen. Bishop, while toward the end of his remarks, complemented John McCain on being a “good man we should all get behind” in the upcoming Presidential campaign.  Almost everyone in the packed ballroom, me included, booed at the top of our lungs.  This took Sen. Bishop aback, and enraged the Conference Emcee, who was one of Bishop’s constituents.  He took to the microphone after Sen. Bishop left the stage and apologized to him on behalf of all of us.

While all was understood, especially considering that the person of John Sidney McCain III has made a career of telling us all to fuck off and die, I certainly came to understand the infantile nature of it all.  If I had to to do over again, and if everyone else in that room did, we would have met those remarks with stone cold silence.  Sen. Bishop would have gotten the point just as well, and we wouldn’t have come off as being disrespectful.

As an aside, I’m waiting for the first media lib, in reaction to this news, dragging up the fact that Fort A.P. Hill was named for Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate General from Virginia.

Updates

New info on Prop C and other election news from this week.

Now THAT’s A First

KMOX is running promos to get you to listen to Karl Roverrated filling in for Rush on Monday.

Have you ever heard of a local affiliate of a nationally syndicated radio talk show running promos to get you to listen to a GUEST HOST?  I could understand if it were, e.g. KMOX’s own Charlie Brennan filling in for Rush, but it’s not.

BTW, what do they think Roverrated’s going to say that’s making Monday appointment radio?  Do they think he’s gonna out Bush as a homosexual sado-masochist?  Will he admit that he had Bush secretly drop a nuclear bomb on Mecca?  Will he prove that a Bush uncle had a hand in assassinating JFK?  Say that extraterrestrial aliens outed that big brave receptionist at Langley, Valerie Plame?

You know what he’s gonna do — He’s gonna blabber on about statistics and tell you how great Hispanics are and how evil SB 1070 is.  The statistics rant should cure the insomnia of everyone but me and Steve Sailer.

In case you’re new to this medium, let me tell you my opinion of Karl Roverrated, other than that which you can already glean from the suffixed surname I give him — George W. Bush won two national elections in spite of him, not because of him.  Roverrated claims to be a Lee Atwater protege, but if someone would have gone to Atwater’s desk with some insane bullshit like the Hispanic Strategy, Atwater would have whacked him upside the head with a baseball bat.

Before you open borders Republican history revisionists like The Pink Flamingo spam me about how I’m all wet, remember that Atwater had Bush pick on Michael Dukakis for campaigning in Spanish.  Working right across the hall from Atwater’s office in the Bush campaign HQ (“keeping an eye on Lee for dad”) was someone who would eventually give Presidential campaign speeches in Spanish (and media buys, too — Dukakis never went that far, AFAIK).

I do think that Lee Atwater in his prime might have made an interesting guest host on talk radio.

Friday Wrap-Up

Expect little if any posts this weekend.  I’ve got a lot of chores to handle.

*  The suspect accused of murdering CPD Officer Thor Sorderberg last month is now officially charged with 250 felonies.

The good news is that if you’re under 40 and you get picked to go onto that jury, you can go straight from the guilty verdicts into Social Security.

But the point remains:  250 different felony criminal statutes, and not a one could prevent the suspect from (allegedly) murdering Officer Sorderberg.

*  Confirmation of my earlier contention — Both Charlie Rangel’s and Maxine Waters’s Congressional districts are now majority Hispanic or close; Puerto Rican and other Afro-Caribbean or mulatto-Caribbean in the case of Rangel’s Harlem district, and Chicano in the case of Waters’s South Central Los Angeles district.  This is key to understanding why Obama and Pelosi are throwing them both under the bus — As recent opinion polling has demonstrated, Obama can’t do anything to lose almost monolithic approval from blacks, while he has lost a good chunk of Hispanics.

*  A man claiming to be part of the Aryan Nations wants to be on the school board whose district’s student body is 76% black and 16% Hispanic.  One would think that good Aryans would want to supervise school districts whose student bodies are more than 8% like themselves.

And some headlines.

Daily Mail:  London’s Big Apple: Gadget fans prepare for iPad store with the world’s largest stockpile

If anything, this will help London accelerate up through the rankings of the world’s flakiest city.

WSJ:  China’s Uighur Oppression Continues – Beijing hands down a 15-year sentence for speaking to foreign journalists.

This means we’re due for Mark Steyn to fill in for Rush, if there’s Uighur news.

P-D:  The numbers show promise for St. Louis Public Schools

Lies, damned lies…

Daily Mail:  Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched

You’ll never catch me in one of those pieces of shit.

CNS:  Obama Administration Welcomes Controversial New Kenyan Constitution

Obama will do better in adhering to it than he does to ours.

Suspicion Confirmed

I won’t deal much with yesterday’s ruling re California Prop 8 from the Federal trial level judge, as everyone else is saying everything that needs to be said about it.  What frustrates me is that it took Missouri Prop C off the top of the headlines; I wish it would have had another day or so to stew in the public consciousness.  Oh well.  A lot of people are making a big deal about the judge’s orientation, but I really don’t think that matters that much in this case — You gotta figure that most straight judges in San Francisco’s Federal trial level circuit would have ruled the same way.  And, like Michael Savage, I don’t think the judge who made this ruling wrote all 138 pages of the ruling; I think this was mostly pre-written by an ACLU lawyer who is a Law Prof at U.C.-Irvine, whose name escapes me.   Also, the CW states that the 9th Circus comes out against Prop 8, and then it goes to SCOTUS, and that it’ll all depend on Justice Anthony Kennedy.  Are you telling me that one man is going to have so much power over a social issue?  What is wrong with this picture?  The Founding Fathers certainly didn’t have this in mind.  They didn’t want the elected President to have that much power, much less an unelected judge.

But what strikes my nerve is that on this day when President Obama’s SG is confirmed to SCOTUS, and will probably hear Prop 8 in the near future, the previous SG, Ted Olson, is arguing in court against Prop 8.  All the conservative talkers are surprised at his “treason,” but to be honest, I figured Ted Olson for a rat and a fink a long time ago.  We’re talking before the Bush 43 Presidency, even before the campaign got underway.  Certain events in the early months and years of the Bush 43 White House fueled my suspicion.  Long story.  (No, I don’t think he’s light in the loafers.)  His wife died on American 77 that slammed into the Pentagon on 9/11, yet the good widower runs out and does a lot of liberal shit.  I bet he’s for diversity, and opposed to racism and Islamophobia, too.  What’s his take on the Ground Zero Mosque?

Stop in the Name of the Law, Or I’ll Yell Stop Again.

2:  After 7-Hour Standoff, FBI Finds No One In Home

Yay, FBI.

2:  Prince Albert II Of Monaco Visits Hannibal

Gotta remember that town for something other than Mark Twain.

Jihad Watch:  Iran’s Thug-In-Chief: “Stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me”

I disagree with the “stupid” part.

WNYW-Fox-5 NYC:  Man Killed At Anti-Violence Event

The only real way to prevent violence is to hold pro-violence events.

Ben Maller:  David Beckham bringing English pub, sports bars to America

You know, when you think of the United States of America, a dirth of sports bars instantly comes to mind.

Daily Mail:  So much for soft justice! Despite 688 crimes, this burglar got another chance, and re-offended

Duh, when you give someone 687 second chances, they’re not likely to behave the next time.

CNS:  [Sharron] Angle: Democrats Want to ‘Make Government Our God’

And their judicial appointments certainly want us to have no other Gods before it.

Thursday’s Stuff

*  So smart and brazen in carrying out the crime, but so dumb in the days after the crime.  When you knock back an armored van and make off with seven figures, perhaps you ought to be a little more discrete in your behavior after the fact?

*  The streets giveth and the streets taketh away.  Notice that one of the two people who lauded his behavior as a child was once one heartbeat away from being Governor, that being Cruz Bustamante.  He very well could have been Governor right now if the results of the 2003 Recall were different, i.e. Bustamante, then the Lieutenant Governor, finished in 2nd to Arnold Schwarzenegger, by a 10% margin, to replace then-Gov. Grayout Davis, ousted in the same election.  Five percent of Arnie’s voters switch to Bustamante, and he’s probably Governor today, having to deal with this PR embarassment.

*  Dear Greta:  It’s okay to think that they all look alike.  Just don’t say it.

*  Bzzz bzzz about an Obama EO to force Fannie and Freddie to reduce the principle balance on certain underwater mortgages.  The CW is that it’s an Obama attempt to rescue Democrats for the Fall.

First off, I think the political benefit will be a draw, because there will be as much outrage as there is delight — Especially depending on who benefits from the principle forgiveness.  If it’s mostly non-white, then it’ll hurt more than help.  I get the feeling that it will be mostly non-white, simply because of the economics of so many subprime mortgages that are now underwater.  But if the GOP thinks Obama/Dems will benefit, then they should immediately sponsor a bill allowing Fannie and Freddie to forgive principle portions, and/or temporarily reduce mortgage payments to interest-only until housing values can recover, if they ever do.  They can cut Obama off at the pass, so to speak.

*  Re Big Sis keeping naked body images from airport scanners — Isn’t this some sort of sex offense where someone could be forced to register as a SO for the rest of their lives?

Today’s 48th State Stack of Stuff

*  I’d drag my heels for as long as possible if I were in his shoes.

Turnabout is only fair play, right?

*  I’ve detailed Sarah Palin’s phony baloney 180 on the immigration issue in this medium before.  Now, Mike Huckabee is another one trying to pretend to be your friend.  I can’t link to the source, because it mentions judges’ names, but he comes out against the decision to stay certain parts of SB 1070.  Remember, this is the same Mike Huckabee that was as pro-amnesty and pro-open borders as any Republican Governor while he was Governor of Arkansas.  Part of the reason is that Tyson has essentially bought and paid for state politics, and that fundagelical Christians in Arkansas are rather screwy on the immigration issue, even more so than in other states.  Huckabee would have never signed something like SB 1070, but yet we’re supposed to believe his defense of it?

Phooey.

Well, Yeah. YOU Think So.

A big internecene feeding frenzy is brewing on the left over the Ground Zero mosque.  A lot of lefties are fuming over the ADL’s opposition.  IOW, the ADL got something right, so a broken clock is right twice a day.

The Jewish Week:

[Abraham Foxman] said the position does not align ADL with anti-Islamic critics of the mosque, noting that the organization took out a full-page ad in the Times after 9/11 warning against answering hate with hate. “Just because bigots agree with positions you hold, does that make you a bigot?” Foxman asked.

You and every other kook institution in the Paranoia-Industrial Complex (Yes, Morris, I’m looking at you) have sufficiently answered that question over the years with a resounding “Yes.”

Surprise Surprise — More Liberal Hypocrisy

Elena Kagan was confirmed today as the 112th member of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Yesterday, the NYT told us that her private high school alma mater wasn’t quite so diverse as she might soon demand of public schools and fire departments:

When Justin Hudson, 18, stood up in his purple robes to address his classmates in the auditorium of Hunter College, those numbers were on his mind. He opened his remarks by praising the school and explaining how appreciative he was to have made it to that moment.

Then he shocked his audience. “More than anything else, I feel guilty,” Mr. Hudson, who is black and Hispanic, told his 183 fellow graduates. “I don’t deserve any of this. And neither do you.”

They had been labeled “gifted,” he told them, based on a test they passed “due to luck and circumstance.” Beneficiaries of advantages, they were disproportionately from middle-class Asian and white neighborhoods known for good schools and the prevalence of tutoring.

“If you truly believe that the demographics of Hunter represent the distribution of intelligence in this city,” he said, “then you must believe that the Upper West Side, Bayside and Flushing are intrinsically more intelligent than the South Bronx, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Washington Heights. And I refuse to accept that.”

The entire faculty gave him a standing ovation, as did about half the students. The principal, Eileen Coppola, who had quietly submitted her formal resignation in mid-June but had not yet informed the faculty, praised him, saying, “That was a very good and a very brave speech to make,” Mr. Hudson recalled. But Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College’s president and herself a Hunter High alumna, looked uncomfortable on the stage and did not join in the ovation, faculty members and students said.

In a sense, Mr. Hudson’s message came from the faculty. To relieve some of the pressure on its students, the school does not name a valedictorian; instead, it invites seniors to submit proposed graduation speeches and a faculty committee selects one to be read. This year, it chose Mr. Hudson’s, to his surprise.

IOW, he wasn’t the valedictorian based on GPA — The panderers that comprise the “College’s” faculty chose someone based on affirmative action and racial pandering to deliver a valedictorian-style speech.

I can tell you this much — If I had the chance to speak at my own high school graduation (which I didn’t), and I absolutely Pwn3d and Punk’d my own school in that fashion on such an important day in my life and the school’s yearly ritual, the Principal would have burned my diploma.

2010 Missouri Primaries in Review

I covered Prop C separately, earlier today.  Now it’s time for the rest.  I’ve got a bit of analysis from Kansas and Michigan, which also held primaries yesterday. (UPDATE:  And Tennessee, which went on Thursday.)

As an aside, this is the last primary/general cycle in Missouri using the boundaries drawn from the 2000 Census.  Therefore, this might be the last cycle where the state is divvied up into nine slices for Congressional races, as the credible gossip is still saying that MO loses a House seat with reapportionment.  MO has had nine for the last three decades; 1980 was the last census that saw a reduction, then from 10 to 9.

SENATE-R: I knew that this would be easy evening for Blunt, and that I could call the night for him, when some of the very first statewide returns after the polls closed at 7 PM came from Texas County.  Those boxes showed Blunt leading Purgason 52-39.  Texas County is in Purgason’s State Senate district.  As it turns out, the only county Purgason won was his own, Howell.

Overall, the numbers were Blunt 71%, Purgason 13%, the rest 16%.  Turns out that there were seven other candidates, other than Blunt and Purgason.

AUDITOR-R: Easy win for Tom Danforth.  The only counties Icet won were in Southeast MO, which is strange because he’s from West St. Louis County and held down SEN-26, which is far West STL Co, and Franklin and Warren Counties.  What’s up with that?

As for the winner?  That’s what happens when you can do media buys for THREE MONTHS plus, and have the sugar daddy to be able to afford it.  I might have to recommend a vote for Montee in November, just to keep this thing out of public office.

US HOUSE-3-R: Easy win for Ed Martin.  But I did notice that Russ Carnahan, running against token opposition in his own party’s primary, got more votes by himself than all three Republicans in that primary combined, and did so on a day when Republicans had the wind to their backs.  This is why I don’t think Martin has a chance in November.

US HOUSE-4: I didn’t handicap 4 because it’s a West/Central MO district, Ike Skelton’s currently.  But what floored me is that there were some 88,000 votes cast for all Republicans, while only 32,000 for Skelton and his token D opponent combined.  I think 4 has the best chance of all MO Congressional districts to flip in November.  If Skelton weren’t running, it would probably be guaranteed to flip.  Ironic, b/c Skelton is hardly a liberal, and is very reasonable much of the time.  If he is toppled, it will be at the hand of one Vicky Hartzler.  Her bio is State House from KC exurbs and being a Blunt Administration munchkin.

US HOUSE-7-R: To replace Roy Blunt.  Former Springfield talk radio host Billy Long won an eight-way contest, his two closest competitors are currently in the State Senate.

There was gossip that Sarah Steelman was going to move into the district (Rolla isn’t in MO-7) and run for this job.  But that didn’t happen.

CITY PROP S: The school vote.  Won by more than a 3-to-1 margin.  Bad timing on their part, but Peter Downs’s SLPS Watch Blog came out with some news yesterday that the elected but impotent SLPS School Board opposed Prop S.  It also said that the pro-S forces were selling lead abatement as a reason to pass S, when the state administrative board claimed a few years ago that lead abatement was complete.  Other than that, the reason they opposed S was because the only things S promised to fix were infrastructure issues, not academic issues.  (Seriously, no amount of money in the world can fix that.  You can’t fix low IQ.)

CITY CIRCUIT CLERK: Shocker of the night — Mariano Favazza is out.  Jane Schweitzer did indeed win.  It’s a shame, because I think Favazza was the last honest person at City Hall.  (Though I think he works at the Civil Courts Bldg, not City Hall).  I think Slay is behind this.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY EXEC-R: Bill Corrigan won easily.  He actually got more votes by himself than Charlie Dooley plus his token D-opponent.  But I don’t write anything into that for the Fall.

UPDATE:  P-D notices that the scrub nobody who challenged Charlie Dooley over on the D-side got a lot of support from South County townships.  One theory is that the scrub nobody is from South County, but the more uncomfortable conclusion is that Dooley is unpopular in SoCo.  Of course, that’s not a surprise — Dooley has never polled well in SoCo.  It’s not the white people in Mehlville and Oakville who sent Charlie Dooley to Clayton, it is a combination of the increasing black population in North County, and a lot of liberal and other non-conservative whites in Central County ekeing into West County that’s Dooley’s base.

Now, with that having been said, you may ask, why do I think it’s hopeless for Ed Martin to topple Russ Carnahan, if SoCo is so hot against Dooley?  Answer:  Look at the Congressional district boundaries.  Most of South County that is south of 270 and west of 55 isn’t in MO-3, it’s in MO-2.  That was the redistricting done in 2001 to make both Todd Akin’s and (at the time) Dick Gephardt’s lives easier.  The only real “conservative” parts of MO-3 are South County that is east of 55, south of what you would call Lemay, and north of the Meramec River.  Basically Mehlville/Oakville.

And I must say it again, come next election cycle, it’ll all be changed again, very likely with Missouri having only eight districts.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY PROP 2: Won by almost a 3-to-1 margin.  The St. Louis County Assessor will now be an elected position.  In November, the whole state votes on a proposition to turn every county assessor into an elected position.

STATE SENATE

The even-numbered districts are up this year.

2-R:  Scott Rupp, the incumbent, narrowly beat back a challenge from Cynthia Davis.

4-D:  Joe Keaveny wins the D-nomination to serve a term in the Senate in his own right, beating back the SLPOA-endorsed Jim Long.  SEN-4 is heavily black, but has not elected a black since Lazy Clay left to replace his father in Congress.

24-D:  Sam Page was a few percentage points away from being Lieutenant Governor two years ago.  Now, he was TLed out of his House seat, and fell way short in his attempt to topple Barbara Frazer in SEN-24-D.

22-R:  Greg Zotta will challenge Ryan McKenna’s right to another Senate term in this North Jefferson County district.  I want McKenna out because he ousted a really good man in the person of Bill Alter four years ago.

26-R:  To replace the TLed Allen Icet.  Brian Nieves wins a four-way battle.

STATE HOUSE

Nothing big to report.  Bill Clinton Young, a perennial/novelty candidate in Kansas City since 2006, did his usual losing, trying this time for REP-50-D.  Penny Hubbard, wife (?) of the disgraced Rodney Hubbard, won REP-58-D in St. Louis City back for the family. In  REP-109-R, a far western St. Louis exurb district, the winner was named Dieckhaus.  In REP-117-CST, west of Jeff City/Columbia, one Jacob Luetkemeyer was unopposed.  Any relation to Congressman Blaine L. (R-9)?  I doubt it, as he would be running as a Republican if he were.  UPDATE 8/7:  One of the two victims in that wreck out on 44 near Gray Summit on Thursday was the son of the winner of REP-111-R, near that area.

KANSAS

Congressmen Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt battled each other for the Republican nomination to replace Sen. Samnesty Brownback, who is making the lateral move to Governor.  Moran eked out the win, mainly because of his almost wipeout margins over Tiahrt in the counties that Moran currently represents in KS-1, the largest Congressional district in Kansas, which encompasses about the western two-thirds of the state.  Sarah Palin endorsed Tiahrt, while Jim DeMint was for Moran.  I think I might have liked Tiahrt better marginally.  NumbersUSA gives Tiahrt a lifetime A-, (and he has their Blue Ribbon designation for simultaneously sponsoring all five major immigration restriction bills), and Moran a lifetime B, and sponsors four of those five bills, but that might not be that useful, b/c they give Samnesty Brownback a lifetime C, and he’s as big of an amnesty supporter as they come in the GOP.  More, Tiahrt is the author of the Tiahrt Amendment, which protects the privacy of gun owners by limiting the flow of background check and gun trace data collected by the BATFE.

Kris Kobach, who helped write Arizona SB 1070, won a three-way race for Secretary of State-GOP with more than half the vote, whilst having almost no money in the bank.  He is currently on leave as a law prof from UMKC, meaning that the next Kansas SoS drew his last paycheck from a Missouri public institution.  Irony of all ironies…

MICHIGAN

WTF happened to Mike Cox?  It wasn’t so long ago that Cox, the only Michigan politician with enough balls to oppose affirmative action, was a shoo-in for the nomination and for Governor.

Rick Snyder, who won GOV-R last night, over western Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra in 2nd and Cox in 3rd, is a former CEO of the computer company that shipped its finished product in cow boxes.  IOW, he’s a Whitman/Fiorina type.  And where there is management of a CS/IT company, there is outsourcing and H-1B.  Read it and it and weep.  You stupid Michigan Republican voters just pissed on your own legs and didn’t even give yourselves the self-respect of calling it rain.  The Democrat nominee, BTW, is the current Mayor of Lansing, so he’s probably going to have a really short move to his new job.

Kwame Kilpatrick’s mother was bounced out of her own U.S. House seat in her own party’s primary.

TENNESSEE

The Volunteer State held is primaries on Thursday, so I’ll throw my analysis in right here instead of creating a new post.

For Governor-R, Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam handily defeated Congressman Zach Wamp (TN-3, Chattanooga, Oak Ridge) and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey.  Haslam is an heir to the Pilot Gas Station/Truck Stop fortune, and therefore was able to buy this election.  But he had to hide his liberalism along the way — Haslam was a member of Mayors Against (“Illegal”) Guns, and had to quit it to join the NRA when he wanted to go for greener fields.  Should he win in November, (and the CW is that the Republican Primary was essentially the election — I’m hearing that phrase repeated a lot this year), he will become the second straight big city mayor to become Governor — the TLed Phil Bredesen was Mayor of Nashville previously.  I would have voted Wamp, (and not just as a tribute to all those sysadmins who run the Windows-Apache-MySQL-Perl stack), because he was the most conservative and legitimate of the three.  Now, here’s hoping that those sysadmins who runs Windows-IIS-MySQL-Perl can find their guy.

What jumps out at me is that all three legitimate contenders for GOV-R were from East Tennessee.  Haslam from Knoxville, Wamp from Chattanooga and Ramsey from Blountville.  Then again, Tennessee’s politics seem to be disproportionately dominated by its eastern third historically speaking — Two big names that anyone versed in American political history can name, that represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate AND had prominent ambitions beyond, one being Estes Kefauver, (legitimately won the 1952 Democrat nomination for President through primary votes, but the party bosses took it away from him and handed it Chicago-based Adlai Stevenson, to punish Kefauver for his anti-corruption record; four years later, Kefauver was Stevenson’s running mate, only because Stevenson let the convention choose his running mate — the convention went through a couple of ballots to decide on Kefauver, with John F. Kennedy leading the voting at one point), and the other being Howard Baker (became Senate Majority Leader after the 1980 landslide on Reagan’s coattails), were from East Tennessee.  And lest we forget, one Dr. Samuel Todd Francis (RIP) was from Chattanooga.

On the other side of the state, Steve Cohen must have something going on.  Either that, or he’s adequately liberal for most voters in Memphis-dominated TN-9, most of whom are black, such that they feel no need to turn away the incumbent for even a black with credible chops.

That Was 19 Years Ago, People

Dems worried that the Stupid Party will Willie Hortonize Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters.

Did they not hear?  Lee Atwater croaked in 1991.  And there’s nobody in the Official GOP like him, someone who has the racial balls to handle such hot potatoes.  Oh yeah, Karl Roverrated claims to be a protege, but you couldn’t prove it by me.

And look at the goofball that runs the RNC.  There’s talk that Norm Coleman might challenge Steele, but that is AT BEST trading the fire for the frying pan.

Wednesday’s Stuff

*  More Obama phoniness.  Remember, he promised to keep those jobs here.  It’s just as well, if they were here, he’d get H-1B visa holders in ASAP to do those jobs.  Native born white Americans need not apply.

*  Of the 94 U.S. Attorney Prosecution Districts, the five busiest are the five districts on the U.S.-Mexico border.

*  Looks nice, doesn’t it? Of course, the fast food joint’s extra value meal looks nice on TV, but when you actually get the slop on a plastic tray…

*  The six black teenagers and young adults who drowned in a Louisiana river earlier this week reminds me so much of a similar tragedy in St. Louis from four years ago, on the Meramec River.

And, like then, it seems to me that this still would have happened even if they were good swimmers.

Water is powerful.

*  Liar liar, no pants on fire.  They ARE keeping the images.

*  One word:  DUH.  When you threaten to shove a whole country and a whole ethnicity into the ocean, did you think you weren’t going to get any blowback?

*  What, you get three or more young shirtless men together in one place, and immediately one of them has to do something stupid?

Really now.

*  I bet that this is the closest we’re going to get to seeing LOLhan being the victim of a deviant sexual act.

Happy Birthday, Barack

The voters of Missouri just sent you a really big present wrapped up in a shiny red bow.  I can just imagine all the buckled knees inside the White House, and all the panic and paranoia in the West Wing that’s going to set in, once the D.C. media and political culture blows by the denial stage.

Because there is so much to analyze with yesterday’s successful Proposition C, I’m going to deal with it first and separately from the rest of yesterday’s results.  You can break down the raw data here and here.

When I previewed yesterday’s MO primaries a few weeks ago, I predicted that C would pass, but I didn’t handicap the percentage.  Honestly, I was thinking that it would win somewhere in the upper 50s/lower 60s range, and would have set 60 as the plus/minus for “entertainment purposes only.”  I thought that it would lose big in St. Louis City and Kansas City, lose handily in Boone County (Columbia, University of Missouri), lose slightly in St. Louis County, Jefferson County and some poorer lead belt/Ozarks counties like Reynolds, but win big everywhere else.   I also thought that confusing ballot language (thank you, Mrs. Antolinez) and inverted voting (You voted for C to vote against ObamaCare, and vice-versa) would confuse enough people to keep C’s winning percentage from rising to the level of a landslide.

As it turned out, the final percentage was 71% Yes 29% No.  It won every county save St. Louis City and Kansas City.  (Note:  The Missouri Secretary of State’s office tabulates Kansas City proper separately from the rest of Jackson County, even though most of KC that matters is in Jackson County, and parts spread out among three other counties.  C won big in Jackson County outside of KC.)  Its weakest winning counties were Boone, St. Louis County and Ste. Genevieve, where it “only” won in the low 60s.  Most counties reported in the 70s and 80s, with Mercer County being tops at 89% Yes.

There were more Yes votes for Prop C than there were votes for any Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, much less any Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate.

It took the media a long time to declare for Prop C.  I wanted to hold off in my own declaration, because I wanted to wait for the first results from either St. Louis City or Kansas City.  By the time the first urban results came in, C was winning 75-25.  The first urban results were almost half of STL’s boxes, and it showed C losing, but only by a 58-42 margin.  That proved to me that urban opposition to C was lethargic, meaning that C was going to win.  As it turned out, STL was 59-41 opposition, while KC was 57-43 opposition.  Both cities are usually 70%+ Democrat.  And both cities’ turnouts were so low, (12.78% for KC, 13.56% for STL), that they were the two lowest turnout jurisdictions in the state.  So you combine tepid percentage opposition with low turnout, and it meant that a 73-27 support for C everywhere else in the state was only drug down to 71-29.

All those poor Ozarks counties that I though would vote against C voted for it, with numbers very close to the statewide rural average, and better than the statewide average.

Now I have to deal with the media/lib morning after bromides.

Bromide #1: This only dealt with one part of ObamaCare.  It didn’t repeal the whole thing.

Answer: The individual mandate is key to the entire package of “reforms.”  The reason it’s so important to the Obama White House is NOT because of the economics of health care reform, or this particular HCR package, as some WH hacks are claiming.  The real reason is politics.  When the WH started on HCR, they didn’t want a repeat of 1993-4, and they didn’t want the health insurance industry funding Harry & Louise TV ads, so they crafted the bill with the full input and cooperation of the health insurance industry, with their chief lobbyist, Miss Almost-a-Palindrome, in practically every room for every negotiation.  There was no way in hell that she was going to countenance a bill without the Federal government forcing people to buy policies from her clients.  If the individual mandate is weakened through a series of state interpositions, such as Prop C, or by the Federal courts, then Ignagni gathers her marbles and goes home.

Bromide #2: The Republican leadership in the State Senate put this issue on the August ballot instead of the November ballot, because Democrats threatened a filibuster.

Answer: You hear this more in the national media, because the Missouri media know better.  The Democrats in the Senate can’t filibuster anything, nor can they even sustain a Gubernatorial veto.  The Republicans have a better than 2-to-1 advantage in the Senate.  I never heard any such gossip in the days and weeks that the General Assembly was getting Prop C on the ballot.  As you can see, it wouldn’t have mattered which ballot it was on, because it was going to win either way.

Bromide #3: Of course C was going to win.  It was a day with far more contested Republican races than Democrat races.

Answer: That contradicts #2.  Of course, I don’t take #2 at face value anyway.  But, as I said above, there were more Yes votes for Prop C than there were total votes for any Republican U.S. Senate candidate, much less any Democrat U.S. Senate candidate.  (A better than 5-to-3 margin for Rs over Ds in that category, FYI).

Still, I will concede that Republicans were jazzed and Democrats were lethargic.  There was hardly anything competitive on the Democrat side, and Democrats all across the country are bumming.  BUT…71%.  I’m just doing some educated guessing in my own mind, and I can’t imagine a credible scenario, assuming the most jazzed Democrats ever and the most lethargic Republicans ever for an election in Missouri, that would result in C getting less than in the mid-50s percent Yes.  Three weeks ago, Rasmussen found that among Missouri’s registered voters (not likely voters), 58% supported C, 38% opposed.  So you start with 58%, take off a few points for depressed Republicans and black voter fraud, and that would take it down to, say, 54%.  But that’s still a majority.

And, as it turns out, Chuck Purgason wasn’t the threat to Roy Blunt that it seemed like (or rather, I hoped) he could be.  Other than a few state legislative races, there wasn’t that much competitive on the Republican side, either.  Other than Auditor, and who the hell gets excited over a damned ACCOUNTANT?

Bromide #4: Prop C was a show of strength for conservatives and tea party activists.

Answer: So the tea partiers aren’t an extremist fringe anymore, huh?  71% is a pretty radical and fringe minority, you must admit.

Actually, it wasn’t just conservatives and tea party activists that supported C.  Counties like Jefferson and Reynolds are fairly reliable Democrat in many statewide races and in Presidential politics, because they’re poorer Ozarks counties.  Yet, they voted for C big time.  And are we to believe that St. Louis City and Kansas City are more than 40% conservative and tea party?  Are we to believe that Boone County, with the University, is 60% conservative and tea party?

Bromide #5: HHS will sue.

Answer: Let ‘em.  One word:  Arizona.

UPDATE 8/8: ACC has the St. Louis City Ward-by-Ward breakdown for Prop C.  City Ward map for reference.

C won in wards 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 23, all southwest city.  With 60% approval, the 12th was its best ward, but that’s not surprising as the 12th is the only city ward to elect a Republican alderman.  Generally, the better a ward was for Prop C, the higher its turnout was.  But even in the low turnout/no vote black north side, you see yes percentages in the high 20s and lower 30s, and that’s saying something, when Republicans get no votes from these areas, for all intents and purposes.  Unlike the Stupid Party illiterati, who would interpret halfway respectable black numbers for Prop C as an indication that blacks are on the verge of going conservative, I write nothing into it.  It may be that they misunderstood the inverted ballot language.

FWH, WTF?

NYT:  Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

<Jayson Blair> And journalists. </Liar Liar Pants on Fire>

AFP:  Taiwanese woman catches 4 million mosquitoes

She’d be the only Asian to whom I would give a legal immigrant visa.  As long as she comes to St. Louis.

5:  Stan Kroenke buying Rams possibly in two chunks

WTF for?  Is there a half of the team that doesn’t stink?

Breitbart TV:  Congressman at Town Hall: ‘The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country’

<Lincoln> Mission Accomplished. </Old Reprobate>

5:  16-year-old heart throb Justin Bieber to publish memoirs

Really, will people actually buy a pamphlet?

Tuesday’s Stuff, 48th State and Otherwise

*  Sarah Palin’s “cojones” comments re Jan Brewer really struck me the wrong way.  Not that Brewer doesn’t have them, or shouldn’t have them, or that the word shouldn’t have been used, but it’s that Palin is a total phony on the immigration issue — She once said that deporting illegal aliens was “inhumane,” and actively supported the opening of a Mexican Consulate office with Matricula Mickey Mouse Card issuing powers in Anchorage.  It’s only because the wind is blowing so hard to her face that she has to turn around.

*  Map of state deficits per capita.  In the hubub over SB 1070, the media pointed out in passing that Arizona supposedly has a big budget crisis that they supposedly need illegal aliens there to help solve.  (More like they’re welfare usage is partially its cause.)  But AZ has a lower debt-to-person ratio than most of its neighbors, and even Missouri’s ratio is higher.

Now, I don’t know if illegal aliens are counted in the “capita” to calculate “per capita,” so the situation in Arizona might be a little worse than it seems just based on that.

*  What bugs me so much about identity theft is that it was so easily preventable in the first place.  Getting a person’s Social Security Number is the gateway to stealing their identity, but it would not be if SSNs were only used for their intended purpose, that is, to be a simple account number between you (and by “you,” I mean person with a job) and the Social Security Administration, to pay taxes into the system, and eventually get benefits.  There are actually several (ignored) Federal laws which disallow certain institutions from asking for SSNs.

Now, identity thieves are able to discern the SSN of children, i.e. they’re in existence but not being used, as it is not expected for children to have jobs and bank accounts, and use those for whatever nefarious purposes they have in mind.  Another thing that’s preventable, if and only if we would only give a SSN to people before getting their first job.  The Feds now want all children to have SSNs practically at birth, because the IRS won’t let you deduct your dependent child unless s/he has a SSN.

*  Various state prosecution agencies, and even some U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, are seeking and actually getting people to volunteer to be prosecutors.  A lot of out-of-work lawyers (there are always a lot of those) are volunteering, because they think the payback will come later with a better job that they’ll land b/c of this particular rhinestone on the CV.

Now, when people volunteer to assist the U.S. Border Patrol (for all intents and purposes), and when a state essentially lends a helping hand to a Federal government that admits (or claims) that its immigration enforcement agents are overworked, that free help isn’t wanted.

*  WTH?  They’re talking a Jersey Shore/Bones crossover.  I can think of a Fox show that is actually set in New Jersey — a House/Shore x-over would be killer, because of the House character’s uber-saracsm.  He’d eat The Situation alive.

Racially Motivated

*  The “Beer Distributor” shootings in Connecticut this morning?  Hate crime.  Black perp, white victims.  The perp, one Omar Thornton, was about to be fired because he was stealing beer.  The union was trying to help him save his job, yet one of his victims as the President of the Teamsters Chapter, the very man who was defending him at his hearing.  The company’s executives, from things I’ve been hearing and piecing together, gave him chance after chance after chance.  So you add it all together, and you’ve got another Cookie Thornton, (I’m guessing no relation), another black that bites the hand that feeds it so many times.  The nicer you are to them, the meaner they are to you.

The perp “claimed” finding a noose and racial slurs drawn on a company wall.  Or that’s what he told his g/f’s mother — I’m guessing he had plans to shoot up the place and anticipated either having to kill himself or the cops killing him, (he eventually did kill himself), and wanted to leave behind a rationale that the libs and the media would eat up like candy before he did the deed.

*  Of course the cops aren’t filing charges.  You get one guess why.

If you don’t want to watch the video, then I’ll tell you that at least two of the three perps are obviously black.  If the cops re-open the case, I’ll bet the perps will claim that a drunk naked white man yelled out a racial slur.  Who knows, someone crazy enough to troll around a mixed race bar while drunk and naked at 2 in the morning on a late Saturday/early Sunday and try to get into that bar might actually be crazy enough to yell racial slurs at an SUV full of young black men.  But he was naked — it’s not as if he could have acted out his “racism,” or translated it into serious physical violence.  (Too, he looks like a good stiff breeze would knock him over.)  If it were me and two of my friends in an SUV near a bar at 2 in the morning, and a young black man, skinny, drunk, naked, seemingly unaccompanied, and in his 20s, comes trolling around us and yelling “cracker” and “honkey,” I would have laughed at him.

*  Here’s another one that might well be a hate crime, pure and simple, but the authorities and media are using the robbery bromide.  This happened in York, PA.

Meanwhile, IIRC, a few years ago, the media did nothing about harp on about some racial “scandal” relating to someone who is or was the mayor of York, PA.  I think the charges were serious, but he was acquitted on all counts.

*  I immediately knew this was black.  The touch that gave it away were CBS radio reports this morning, saying that this happened “in the early morning hours” of a “birthday party.”  What other kind of people hold a birthday party in the middle of the night?

The two victims were community activists.  These suspects need to get caught and punished ASAP, because the two people they killed were on the Presidential track.

*  Also from Indianapolis, patrons of a black church staged a fight in order to see how the cops, whom they thought, correctly as it turned out would be white, would react.  In other words, they were trying to play the ghetto lottery.

This is similar to the whole Gates/Crowley/Cambridge/Acting Stupidly/Beer Summit thing from last year.  I think Prof. Gates deliberately staged the “breaking in” incident at his own house, because he wanted to get caught, and he wanted a white cop to treat him “stupidly,” or claim that the white cop did so even in the obvious absence of police misconduct, because he wanted his name in the headlines.  But in that case, I don’t think Gates was thinking about the ghetto lottery.

*  Detroit 187:  And I thought Dave Bing was a cut above — He’s thinking about putting someone “convicted” of Murder 2 on the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners.  I read the article, which contains the details of the actual 1992 murder.  I think it was Murder 1, and that the prosecution could have proven Murder 1, in which case Mr. Johnson would still be in prison, and therefore, it would be much harder for him to serve on the BOPC.  (Though not impossible; this is Detroit after all.)  Methinks the prosecution just wanted to wipe their hands of a case that had the potential to be actual work, so they bargained it down to Murder 2.  Mr. Johnson says that he shouldn’t be judged for life for something he did when he was 17.  Except that when he was 17, he himself judged another man for life.  That and by the time you’re 17, you ought to know that murder is wrong, and that you should have enough self-control to keep yourself from committing murder.  If you don’t by 17, you won’t ever.

Here’s the pull quote from this article:

“A lot of citizens in this city have been convicted of crimes,” Johnson said. “If people want to deal only with people who have never been arrested, they should move to Utah. I think I could bridge the gap of mistrust between the community and the Police Department.”

Utah should be so lucky. BTW, genius, there’s a big difference between being arrested on a suspicion of committing any crime and being convicted of Murder 2 after committing Murder 1 in all honesty.

Mr. Johnson lists as a qualification to be on the BOPC that he is a motivational speaker.  Translated from community-activistese into English, that means he is one of many thousands of black ex-cons who goes around and tells young black kids how to stay out of prison.  If it were me, I’d want to hear from someone who has never been to prison because he’s never committed a felony about how to stay out of a life of crime and stay out of prison.  But that’s jus’me.

J-O-B-S: The Most Important “Three-Letter” Word That Obama Ignores

Yes, Biden said that j-o-b-s is a “three letter” word.

*  It’s a little long, but it’s worth your time.  Remember, Obama promised to put an end to this shit, even though he really didn’t promise this, David Axelrod just wrote a slick enough campaign ad to make enough people think he was making this promise.  Point being, free trade and open borders are the bane of the American working middle class standard of living.

*  Here’s another good long article.  I don’t fully agree with the premise that the American elites’ embrace of free trade is “new” (i.e. starting in circa 2000).  I think it actually started after WWII, with the inception of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), to correspond with the elites’ rejection of nationalism in fear of the Nazi-style excesses of nationalism, and the corresponding adherence to structural globalism and global institutions.

But the writer does a good thing in exposing Obama’s phoniness.

*  And here is what is in part a practical result of all of the above.

*  To meet surging global demands for iPhones (there are a lot of morons out there), Foxconn is building a new factory in central China that has the capability to manufacture up to 200,000 devices a day.  (Part of this news is that there are rumors that this new facility will be tooled to make a Verizon-capable iPhone.  Meaning that our daily quota of Verizon or non-UNT&T iPhone rumors has now been met.)  The stat that floored me is that there will be almost that many employees at that particular facility, with discussion that they could easily add another 100,000 more people to create a total of 300,000 employees.

I did the math, and that computes to about 14 suicides per month.

You just know that our country would go bananas in a good way if a new factory in the middle of the country put out the Help Wanted sign for 300,000 people.  Or even 30,000 people.  Or even 3,000 people.  Then again, it would have to pay a little more than slave wages, and not work its employees 14-16 hours a day.

Just wondering — All those people driving around in cars with “Free Tibet” bumper stickers while gabbing on their iPhones — I wonder how they like hearing this news.

Trying Out Tumblr

See for yourself.  Hopefully it’ll be a little more active than Formspring.

Monday’s Tidbits

*  Yeah, Obama’s staying away, so that he can’t be blamed for the coming bloodbath.

*  But Georgia’s Democrats want nothing to do with Obama anyway.  With the way they’re “scattering,” you’d think that Obama has a case of the Ebola.

*  Cali Supremes, by a 6-1 Margin:  Prop 209 (affirmative action ban) OK.  Moonbeam and SF wanted to knock it back.  Yeah, I know, he’s running for Governor, again.  But that still wouldn’t be enough to get me to vote for Meg Whitman.

*  FNC to get The Hag’s old spot in the front row of the WH Press Conference Room.  Liberals wanted NPR to move up to the front, and object b/c Fox is “right-wing propaganda.”  Oh, well…

*  Georg Haider, the assassinated leader of one of the main conservative-nationalist-populist parties in Austria, did indeed leave behind a substantial estate — The dough was hiding in Liechtenstein.

Hopefully, a lot of that jelly will be spread among Haider’s political soulmates in Europe.

Today’s 48th State Stack of Stuff

*  Mexican drug gang puts out a megabuck bounty on Arpaio’s head.  (This probably all but proves that they’re also helping to finance the anti-1070 and anti-AZ noise machine and street theater.)  The timing is what makes me give it credibility, but the actual noise is why I may doubt it.  The old saying goes that flashers don’t rape.  Meaning that it’s the kind of people that don’t make death threats are the ones that are most dangerous.

This alone ought to put the last nail in the Democrats coffin.  If the threat is real and is acted upon successfully, the Democrat Party is dead for a generation, and a lot of blue blood ruling class Republicans are, too.

*  Speaking of which, Paul Huebl is forcing us to confront an uncomfortable truth vis-a-vis drugs and Mexican drug cartels.  Plain words, we may have to decriminalize.

*  Lady Gag.  Another one whose name Jan Brewer should keep on a list of celebutards whose copyrighted works she’ll put into the public domain by executive order on January 20, 2013.  Though Kanye West and Rage For The Machine are against and boycotting, perhaps Brewer shouldn’t revoke their copyrights, as they’re doing the state a big favor by staying away.

Good Day for Ken Cuccinelli

He essentially implemented the “most controversial” part of Arizona SB 1070 for the Commonwealth of Virginia by fiat.

Also, a Federal judge dismissed the HHS attempt to prevent his lawsuit against the HHS to knock back the ObamaCare individual mandate.  Sebelius tried to argue that since ObamaCare hasn’t kicked in yet, that actual “damages” have also not yet existed, ergo no standing to sue.  (Admitting implicitly that ObamaCare is damaging, are we, Kathleen?)  The judge found for Cuccinelli because since it has passed, people are having to prepare for its eventual starting date, so there are in reality actual damages.

I’ve heard the judge’s name in a lot of media sources, and it sounded familiar to me for some reason.  Then Rush let the dog out of the bag — This was the judge on the Michael Vick dog fighting case, at least the Federal charges.

That Vashon Verve

She’ll need a little more than that, for she’s facing an adversary a little more potent than Sumner or Roosevelt.

“Moderates”

UAE bans the CrackBerry, for some Islamic mumbo jumbo.

Remember, Bush, Rush, Dole and a whole bunch of lamestream Republicans and conservatives, and a lot of ruling class Democrats, wanted to outsource our port management to these fine “moderates” a few years ago.

How Can You Tell?

Front of Drudge this morning.

Sunday Wrap-Up

*  Massive police and firefighter layoffs in East St. Louis have the residents there worried about violent crime.

Oh, no.  There might be extra crime in ESL?  How can you tell?

*  I’m glad a New York municipal judge threw out a saggy pants citation.  Because the individual in question likes to wear his pants that low, it inhibits his ability to run quickly.  That way, it’ll be easier for the cops to catch him when he inevitably commits a real crime.  Then I can only hope the case goes in front of the same judge.  Talk about poetic justice.

And a few headlines.

Malkin:  Whew! CBS Promises to Add More Gay Characters to its Shows

That way, they can narrow their target audience to old gays instead of just old people in general.

AP:  Snooki of ‘Jersey Shore’ arrested in NJ beach town

“You have the right to remain silent, though anything you’re capable of saying could only be used against you on TMZ.”

Daily Mail:  My duty is to save the world: Prince Charles believes he was born for a purpose

Wrong.  Your duty isn’t to save the world, it’s to……uh……uh……er……

Yahoo Sports:  Video: Shaquille O’Neal serenades Justin Bieber

I thought it was Shaquille O’Neal eats Justin Bieber.

Ben Maller:  Terrell Owens late for Bengals practice because of iPhone app?

I think I know what he was doing on his iPhone, meaning the Bengals should check their playbook to see if it wasn’t cracked into and replaced with 9-to-81 for every offensive play.