No Crackdown on Dirty Headlines Here

Scientific American:  An ode to the many evolved virtues of human semen

Or rather, a show of hands, or a shout out.

Esquire:  Exclusive: Ben Wetmore Explains CNN Boat Sex Prank

You just knew someone named “Wet More” could.

5:  Schools crack down on the dirtiest of dance moves

IOW, forget about the foreplay.  Just take our condoms and get on with it.

5:  Satanist leader condemns vandalism of St. Louis Islamic prayer center

Satanists vs Muslims.  I have no dog in the fight, but it’s going to be fun to watch nonetheless.

CNS:  Rupert Murdoch Calls for Amnesty for ‘Law-Abiding’ Illegal Immigrants

Thankfully, nobody will get any amnesty under this proposal.

CNS:  Liberals to March for Jobs, Justice in ‘One Nation Working Together’ Rally in DC

You can either have liberals or you can have jobs and justice, but not both.

CNS:  Chief of Staff Announcement Coming Friday with Pomp and Circumstance

Don’t get too excited.  It’s just Valerie Jarrett.

CNS:  Lack of Facebook Account a Sign of Troubled Youth?

“Be normal.  Waste all your time on the internet and expose everything about yourself to the rest of the world, including future employers.”

CNS:  U.S. Government Funding Study That Asks Boys as Young as 16 to Create ‘Web-Based Sex Diaries’ About Homosexual Experiences

Seems like two Rutgers voyeurs wanted to do something similar just a few days ago.

Thursday’s Tidbits

*  Playing football for a high school of a district in which you don’t reside?  It would be a really good idea not to commit any felonies.

*  “Tree service subcontractor” for Ameren.  I suspect Hispanic.  Hispanic migrant farm laborers are really bad about doing both #1 and #2 right in the farm fields, and this increases the risk that the various crops growing underneath will catch certain infections that can’t be washed away underneath the faucet, as they’re in-grown to the fruit or vegetable.

*  Treachery, thine names are Haley Barbour and Jim Hood.

*  More and more credible whispers of voter fraud are popping up out of the woodwork in relation to the UK elections back in May.  Not only were Tories the victims, “Asian” (i.e. not Orientals) voter fraud in the Barking constituency probably cost Nick Griffin a really good chance at winning that seat for the BNP, and also it wiped out all of the BNP local elected officials in Barking.

*  It’s official.  EVERYBODY loves Golden Retreivers.

Or, to put it another way, Goldie, a Mac user, finally upgraded from Tiger to Leopard.

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*  Tony Blankley brings up one of the late Sam Francis’s favorite writers, Christopher Lasch, and his 1995 book published posthumously, in relation to the TPM.

*  That’s it.  I’ve had it with the NRA.  The last straw is the PVF taking Kanjorski over Barletta in PA-11.

*  But they are taking Democrat Blue-Dogger Brad Ellsworth over old stuffy GOP establshmentarian Dan Coats for IN-SEN.  I would, too.

*  Barney Frank:  “Waaah waaah, talk radio.”

C’mon, Banking Queen.  Talk radio has been hatin’ on your ass for as long as it (talk radio, not your ass) has been in existence.  Yet, only now, in 2010, is it (your ass, not talk radio) in danger?  Talk radio never prevented you from rolling up landslide victory margins of no worse than 5-to-2 (if not being totally unopposed) in the recent past.  Ironically, a man whose name properly pronounced sounds like “bailout,” is giving you the most serious challenge in all your years in Congress.

Expect this to be the first of many bullshit rationalizations on the part of Dummocrats to explain their massive losses in 33 days.  It’ll be everyone or everything but themselves.

This Bud’s For Us (Today’s Headlines)

5:  Free Budweiser today at bars and restaurants

I’d never thought I’d live to see the day that they’d have to give away Budweiser in St. Louis to get St. Louisans to buy it.

Gateway Pundit:  Sick. NAACP Now Compares America to Nazi Germany Before Kristallnacht (Video)

That must mean they think Obama is Hitler.

P-D:  Obama calls Fox News’ point of view “destructive”

I bet the Federal government is realizing more taxes from FNC and its operations than from all the “constructive” cable news channels combined.

McPaper:  Obama: ‘I’m a Christian by choice’

Duh, you live in a first world secular democratic republic.  So of course your faith is by choice.  Now, in Muslim Screwballistan which you love so much, you don’t have much of a choice.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel:  Miami federal prosecutor arrested after swimming in his boxers

He will have to get around to filing briefs as part of the due process.

Portland Oregonian:  Blazers Insider: Greg Oden’s mind appears to be mending quicker than his knee

Say “Greg Oden.”  Does “mind” or “knee” really come to mind anymore if you’re thinking of an organ?

WMAQ-NBC-5 Chicago:  Vote in the Buff

Dead people vote in Chicago, so naked people might as well.

P-D:  Rural school districts work to attract teachers

I can make their recruitment campaign a lot easier.  Two words:  White students.

CSM:  One less skill for soldiers to master at boot camp: bayonet training

At the rate the Army is dropping all the real skills, all you’ll have to do is to say “our diversity is our strength,” and act like you really mean it, and bammo — Instant 2nd Lieutenant.

AP:  Obama: GOP hasn’t been honest with Americans

So saith the expert…

P-D:  Former University City council member convicted of lying

Count me shocked.  A politician lied?

CNS:  Gates: Day Will Come When Women Join Special Ops

The day might also come when the military does its job instead of dwelling on social concerns.

CNS:  First Lady Asks Nurses to Spread the Word about Affordable Care Act

Unfortunately, the first people to get the word will be those who are facing big rate hikes in their private insurance plans to cover all the ObamaCare mandates.

CNS:  Obama Refers to Illegal Aliens as ‘Us’ As He Renews Call for Amnesty

Is he implying that he’s an illegal alien?  Because we already have it on good NAACP authority that he’s Hitler.

The Blaze:  New NBPP Vid: King Samir Says Whites Use Black Babies as ‘Alligator Bait,‘ Laments ’Fox Jews’

I can almost hear “I’m Barack Obama, and I approved this message” at the end.

CNS:  Ten Cities Follow New York’s Lead in Launching Volunteers to Help Solve Local Problems

You volunteer to go down to the border to solve that local problem, and no, oh no, Mike Dumbberg isn’t having any part of that.

Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s Stuff

*  Nice timing, Drudge.  On the front of Drudge right now are links to four stories about an 18-year old Rutgers student who committed suicide because two of his “friends” secretly recorded him making out with another man in his own room, and live-streaming it over the web.  (Some friends.)  Also on the front of Drudge are three stories about airport screeners gawking at X-Ray Body Scan images of people’s junk.

Isn’t anything merely anybody’s own personal business anymore?

*  Keep dreaming, Bill.  (Wet or otherwise).  Annika Sorenstam is way out of your league, both in terms of golfing and that other thing.

*  What gives?  Obama runs the FBI, and the FBI is chasing around someone who used to be the most frequent visitor at the White House.

*  Daniel Larson takes Rush Limbaugh to task on his notion of a “distinctive American culture.”  I mostly agree with Larson, but I think the rebuttal doesn’t even have to be this complicated.

Part of the reason why we have so many Spanish-speaking Hispanics here such that there can be a MNF ad in Spanish is directly linked to our military empire.  I’ll give you a hint — Remember the part in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall about how the Roman elite used non-Romans in the legions to fight and occupy non-Roman lands, in exchange for Roman citizenship.  Note that the American Federal government is using a lot of Hispanics in the military to “fight” in Iraq, in exchange for American citizenship.

A commenter to this thread makes the contention that the United States was never that homogenous, and s/he uses various Chicago neighborhoods where all the store front signs are in Polish as evidence.  Maybe so, but it’s not the same thing as the growing presence of the Spanish language.  First off, Poles are white.  Second, have you ever heard “Press 2 for Polish?”

*  Again with the Minority Report on Minorities.

*  A Jefferson County entrepeneuer who is the part owner of a 14-18 alk-free night club in North County wants to open a similar club in South County, near the world-famous corner of Lemay Ferry and Lindbergh.  The County Councilman who represents the area is saying “Hell No,” and cites certain problems with the North County club which he fears will replicate themselves in South County:

12-12 opened in July of last year. Police shut it down two nights later following what one officer described as a near-riot situation outside the club.

Unruly youths got into fistfights, fired gunshots into the air and mobbed businesses to the point that owners of a nearby Quik Trip locked its doors and shut off fuel pumps until police restored order.

The club reopened in February after Johnson and his partners vowed to conform to strict, new rules that the County Council enacted in response to the troubles there.

St. Louis County Police Capt. Troy Doyle, commander of the North Precinct, said the situation at 12-12 has improved, but that trouble still persists there.

He cited police reports dating from March through last month of youths firing guns outside the club; fights on the parking lot; vehicle theft and tampering; and curfew violations.

Beyond those incidents, Doyle alluded to what he called an “unsavory atmosphere” at the club.

He said the music is “vulgar” and that officers have seen known gang members inside the venue. He also said that club owners have allowed older individuals to attend, some in their 20s, in violation of a county ordinance for teen clubs that prohibits anyone older than 18 from entering.

County officials have collected fliers advertising events at 12-12 that featured photos of scantily-clad women in raunchy poses. One event, in August, was advertised on a flier as “Welcome 2 My Sex Room” and offered discounts to girls who showed up wearing pajamas.

Maybe so, but I have two words if you’re worried that the South County club will turn out as badly as the one in North County:  Non sequitur.

Or, how about these two words:  Racial demographics.

*  I agree that the AOLTW merger was a mistake, but I get the feeling that it’s being used as a crutch by people associated with T-W’s “traditional” media outlets, as a convenient excuse on which to blame their decline.  IOW, CNN’s falling ratings have nothing to do with their sorry programming or leftist bias, it’s that CNN’s parent was bought out by a dot-com flash-in-the-pan ten years ago.

C’mon.  Get real.

Incest Is Best

NYT:

Lax State Gun Laws Tied to Crimes in Other States

WASHINGTON — Nearly 600 mayors nationwide, led by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg  of New York and other city leaders, are mounting a new campaign to identify states with lax gun laws and push for tighter restrictions to prevent the trafficking of guns used in crimes.

A study due to be released this week by a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns  uses previously unavailable federal gun data to identify what it says are the states that most often export guns used in crimes across state lines. It concludes that the 10 worst offenders per capita, led by Mississippi, West Virginia and Kentucky, supplied nearly half the 43,000 guns traced to crime scenes in other states last year.

The study also seeks to draw a link between gun trafficking and gun control laws by analyzing gun restrictions in all 50 states in areas like background checks for gun purchases, policies on concealed weapons permits and state inspections of gun dealers. It finds that, across the board, those states with less restrictive gun laws exported guns used in crimes at significantly higher rates than states with more stringent laws. An advance copy of the study was provided to The New York Times.

(snip)

Authors of the study, however, said they had conducted a careful analysis of reams of gun “trace” data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives  — showing the path of guns confiscated at crime scenes — in reaching their conclusions. They said the study provided the deepest look to date at how states export guns used in crimes and how that relates to gun restrictions in those states.

(snip)

The study found that Mississippi, the state with the highest rate of crime-gun exports, supplied 50 out-of-state guns per 100,000 residents — more than three times the national average.

It also found that Mississippi, like all of the other states with the highest export rates, had relatively lax laws for bringing gun prosecutions, conducting background checks on buyers and preventing illegal purchases and transfers of guns. Officials at the Mississippi attorney general’s office declined to comment on the findings.

So many weasel words and phrases here…I just don’t know where to begin.

“A study due to be released this week by Mayors Against Guns”…uses…”Previously unavailable Federal gun data”…”from the BATFE”…”advance copy provided to the NYT.”

How lucky of everyone involved.  An anti-gun group of political hacks with strong links to Obama releases a study that just happens to blame lax gun law states for “gun crime” in their own cities.  (“Don’t blame me, don’t blame thee, blame that man behind the tree.”)  They just “happened to have” access to this “previously unavailable Federal gun data” which nobody else ever saw but they somehow did, to arrive at their conclusion, data provided by the ATF, a Federal agency ultimately supervised by the very same Barack Obama.  And how lucky of the NYT somehow to find an advance copy just lying around in some trash dumpster somewhere.

Seriously, Deliverance didn’t have as much incest as this whole operation.

As for the methodology rebuttal, I’ll wait on John Lott for that.  But already, the Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, a MAG member, is using the “results” of this “study” (he’s another one who was so lucky just to “happen” on a copy of this study — lucky him) to push the state of Ohio to do away with anti-preemption laws.  The Mayor’s spokesmouth defends his boss by saying that:

The mayor’s not asking to pass laws for Licking County or Hocking County or Delaware County,” Williamson said. “He wants to pass laws within our borders for the city of Columbus.”

That leads to an interesting question.  If these knit-pick ordinances that the Mayor wants are so great, why isn’t anyone in Licking County or Hocking County or Delaware County clamoring for the state to do away with anti-preemption so they can pass them for themselves?  Why is it that only one heavily populated city in Franklin County, Ohio wants them?  What is it about this particular heavily populated city in Franklin County that guns behave so badly that isn’t present in Licking, Hocking, Screwing, Fucking, Blowing, Pegging, Farting, Teabagging or Delaware Counties?

Back to the NYT — As far as this bit about blame Mississippi, all I can say is if it weren’t for the 16th President, Adolph Lenin, that all these Mayors and the NYT love so much, Mississippi and New York wouldn’t even be in the same country, and there would be a heavily fortified and impenetrable Mason-Dixon line to protect New York from Mississippi’s guns.

UPDATE 10/2: Now we know more about this “unreleased data” from the ATF.  The ATF doesn’t release them because they think they are unreliable.  The Bureau doesn’t want politically loaded people and groups drawing loaded and biased conclusions from them.

The Real NutMeg Whitman Stood Up

That’s two in the number of faces you have.

Hiring illegals.  She let go one that was her domestic servant before she started in on her campaign for Governor, and the jilted illegal has hired Gloria Allred to go on the warpath.

This certainly hasn’t changed my opinion of NutMeg.  I knew she was an open borders hack all along, and that she was faking when when she tried to match the “tough on immigration” rhetoric of her conservative primary opposition this past summer.  Only days after she won the primary, she let her true open border feelings be known.

All this news does is prove that the real Meg Whitman is the open borders one.

I wouldn’t have vote for her anyway.  Now, I don’t have a vote, and I don’t have a good enough read on California politics to say whether this will help or hurt her.  But I do know that California’s not long from declaring bankruptcy, and when the shit balloon pops, I’d rather have the stench on a real liberal Democrat than a phony RINO moderate.  But wouldn’t it be so cosmic justice if the $119 million she’s already spent so far to become Governor plus whatever she’ll spend in October gets flushed down the drain because of this?  So much for fiscal restraint…

He’s In

His party, plus the two more lamestream conservative Dutch parties, will form a coalition government.  Together, they control 76 of 150 seats in Parliament, just one more than half.

What Did I Tell You?

What I told you about three weeks ago is if unemployment, especially youth unemployment, stays high through 2011, President Obama will call for and Congress, no matter which party controls one or both chambers, will countenance, the return of the military draft.

What got me to predict that is this little blog post from someone I follow on Twitter.

Prediction come true:  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is dropping definite hints in that direction.

“Polar Bear Hunting”

Gangs of black boys and men are deliberately hunting whites in the Champaign-Urbana area.  It’s in my own state, yet this is the first I’m reading about it.

It has been going on in August.  It started entirely within the UofI Campus, but has now spread to the entire area.

The sickest part about this is that one of the victims was a former local TV meteorologist who thinks that:

“I’m not a racist. My black friends are just as frustrated and (ticked) off as my white friends,” he said. “The frustration transcends race, but the activities all seem to be race-related.”

And he’s nervous that an attacker or an innocent bystander is going to be killed by a victim who might be armed.

“There’s more consequence than just the personal ones to me. I’m a victim, but I’m not victimized. It’s a sad statement when you can’t walk down the sidewalk at 9:30 at night. Did we lose ownership of the streets?” he asked.

“If these kids had a family background where a dad was bringing home a paycheck and instilling parental control, this wouldn’t be a problem,” said Sola, who said he doesn’t want unemployment and underemployment to be an excuse for such behavior. “If you’re a good person, you’re a good person. If you’re a piece of trash, you’re a piece of trash.”

“Victim who might be armed.”  Not legally armed, anyway, until Bill Brady wins Governor and signs a carry bill next year.  That’ll put an end to some of this shit.

Yes, you “lost ownership of the streets” a long time ago.  Illinois?  Land of Lenin?  All men are created equal?  (But some men are more equal than others).  If you want your own streets, then you’re a RACCCCCIST.  Which is practically a crime in Illinois.

BTW, I didn’t have a father bringing home a paycheck in my household when I was growing up.  But that didn’t stop my other parental unit from “instilling parental control.”  And the fact that I didn’t have an omnipresent (or even present) father didn’t lead to me ganging up with other white boys and men to go around randomly on “black bear hunts.”

Man, all these motherfucking excuses and these gelding whites who just go along with them.  They make me just want to throw up.

Let’s Move

This news was only a matter of time.  It was only a matter of observational technology getting better and looking in the right place.

The “news,” in case you don’t feel like following that link, is that astronomers have discovered a rocky terrestrial planet whose size and gravity is comparable to Earth, and which is orbiting in its star’s Goldilocks zone.  Ergo, there’s a chance that it might harbor some sort of life.

The star, named Gliese 581, is actually familiar to planet hunters, for six planets have already been found there, including one just beyond the star’s Goldilocks zone, and one just inside of it.  However, this newly discovered rock is right smack dab in the middle of the Zone.  Unfortunately, Gliese 581 is such a dim star that its “habitable zone” is so close to the star, that any planet in it would be tidally locked to the star, i.e. rotating just as fast as it’s orbiting, meaning one side is always facing the star and the other side facing the abyss.  If there is life, then it either has to be near the terminator in Gliese 581g (“g,” being the seventh letter of the alphabet, is given to the seventh planet discovered around the star), i.e. the point where the star is at the horizon on the surface, or if g has a very thick atmosphere, (we are told that it does have one, but no details about its chemical composition or surface pressure yet), then the thickness of the atmosphere would lend itself to brisk winds and relatively equal heat distribution, distributing the eternal heat from the star-facing side to the dark side, and also cold vice-versa, averaging out the surface temps on g somewhat.

With seven planets and one of them in the HZ, it seems like Gliese 581′s really got it going on.  Makes me wonder what we’re doing hanging around this dump.  Maybe we should get up and go, and see what’s going on over on 581g.  Except we can’t — Obama has directed NASA to spend all its money on pandering to Muslims and “proving” Glow-BULL (not) Warming, so there’s no money left over to get us from Earth to Gliese.  Much less back to our nearest rock, much less in low orbit around our own rock, as we’ll have to rent space from the Russians until the Shuttle replacement can be funded.

The next big news will be that one of these planets in the Goldilocks Zone has some sort of life on it, based on the observation and analysis of its chemical spectra.  Probably the first such planet will only have simple life, maybe nothing more complicated than grass.  But when that news comes, it just might be the kick in the ass that humanity, especially white humanity, needs to get out of our self-imposed state of mental depression, throw off drug-induced delusions like “our diversity is our strength,” and get to work inventing things and funding research science instead of Mexican welfare mothers and instead of Mooch-elle Obama trying to convince fat kids to be thin, so we have a chance of actually going to this planet and checking things out for ourselves.

Ten Simple Rules

A writer for Yahoo Finance tries to make a ten-point case to why the United States will soon no longer be the leader in this hemisphere, much less the world:

Brazil is first among the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) — four economies that are supposed to overtake the six largest Western economies by 2032.

Mexico is first among the MAVINS (Mexico, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa) — six economies we expect to blow away expectations and become leading powers in their regions relatively soon.

(snip)

Peru and Chile are sitting on a fortune of metals and minerals.

All these countries are cranking up, while America faces plenty of fiscal and demographic problems at home.

“Demographic problems?”  We becoming more and more like the other countries in our hemisphere demographically, and that’s part of the reason for our decline.  But the same demographics dragging us down have been dragging Mexico et al. down for a long time.

Before I leave the preview and start critiquing some of the bullet points, I want to say that I don’t judge a society based on how many shiny skyscrapers it has, its production level of a certain raw material, or so on.  My assessment is based on picking out a citizen or resident at random and looking at his or her standard of living.  The worst African countries have shiny skyscrapers and can produce raw materials, (viva white people), but the standard of living for the typical citizen is horrible.

1.  Our most powerful regional ally–Brazil–refuses to follow our orders on Iran

Hillary Clinton went to Brazil to beg support for sanctions against Iran and came away empty handed.

(snip)

So?  Why does Brazil matter that much?

Behold:

This is how a typical Brazilian can expect to live.

Besides, what leverage does shit pot Brazil have over the crazy lunatic in Iran?  Is the Brazilian soccer team so revered in Tehran that Mahmoud the Nutty would give up his nuclear ambitions just to see eleven mocha-colored men kick a ball?

And expecting a woman that couldn’t make her own husband obey his marriage vows to make a whole country do something is sheer idiocy.

2.  The World’s Richest Man is now a Mexican, not an American.

Yet, most of Mexico would move away from “rising” Mexico to “declining” America if they were given the chance.

Of course the world’s richest man is Mexican.  Wouldn’t you be rich you controlled a government-granted monopoly on a growing industry?  That’s right, Mexico essentially gave the entire Mexican cell phone business to Slim.

Slim might be the world’s richest man, but he’s probably richer than the rest of Mexico combined, and could buy out 90% of his country’s population in aggregate dozens of times over.

3.  Three years after a US financial crisis, Latin America is again growing rapidly. The U.S.? Not so much…

I have $100.  I get $10 more each of the next three years.  That means, using my current wealth as a baseline, I’m growing at 10% a year for the next three years.

You have $1 billion.  You get $1 million more each of the next three years.  That means, using your current wealth as a baseline, you’re growing 0.1% a year for the next three years.

Who would you rather be?  You or me?

BTW, “Latin America” is “growing rapidly” because of cheap labor.

4.  Chile produces 300% more copper than America–the former world leader in copper production

I’m guessing this is something we could fix if we neutralized the envirokooks.

5.  Brazil now produces over four times as much iron ore as the U.S.. We used to lead that industry, too.

See the picture above.

6.  Canada and Venezuela will pass the U.S. in oil production in the next decade

See #4.

7.  Now Brazil exports over twice as much beef as we do

The trade-off is that they have to destroy rain forests to have enough land for cattle grazing.  I’m against enviro-kookery, but that’s going too far.

And just wait until the first medical/health scare relating to Brazilian beef.

8.  Brazil is now a critical partner for Russia, India, and China

I was told that India’s stench is so horrible that you can smell India when you get within 20 miles of the coast on the open water. They’re only growing because the cheap labor that speaks English is ripe for outsourced American and British installations.

China only looks great because China shows foreign visitors what it wants them to see.  In other words, Potemkin Villages.

9.  Brazil, Canada, and Mexico all invest a greater share of GDP in clean energy

A Pew survey found that Brazil invests 0.37% of its economy in clean energy. Canada invests 0.25% and Mexico invests 0.14%.  America is eleventh in the world at 0.13%.

Again, 0.13% of the American economy is WAY more in raw terms than those larger percentages of those much smaller economies.  BTW, “clean energy” is mostly a hustle.  If Brazil, Canada and Mexico want to slit their own throats, let them.

10.  Hugo Chavez is still in power

Stolen elections.

Is it supposed to be skin off our backs that a thug and despot steals elections?  As far as I’m concerned, the average (white) American is better off that Hugo Chavez is stealing elections, because it keeps him and his economic redistributionism in power, and those economic policies are making enough poor Venezuelans happy in Venezuela and it keeps them from coming here.  I only wish Mexico would vote for someone like Chavez.  (But that would mean Carlos Slim isn’t the world’s richest man.)

Yes, you read me right.  While I wouldn’t want the same kind of welfare state in the United States, I happen to think that it might be ideal for countries with the typical racial demographics of a typical Latin American country.  It’s the only way that the typical citizen of those countries will ever have something, and have it in their own countries, and not in ours.  Average Hispanics in Hispanic countries need to see a direct correlation between all that oil and minerals coming from underneath their feet and food in their mouths, roofs over their heads and medicine in their veins. A strong welfare state under the aegis of a populist-left strongman might be the only way that ever happens.

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*  Joe Biden is right.  This ISN’T your grandfather’s Republican Party.  (At least I hope it’s not).  Your grandfather’s Republican Party had 150 members in the House and 35 in the Senate, and was run in both chambers by geldings like Bob Michel who were happy to be really fat minnows in a really small pond who were no threat to move much water, just as long as the D.C. Democrat Congressional ruling class invited him to the right Georgetown cocktail parties and reserved for him the best tee times at the right D.C.-area country clubs.  Newt Gingrich, for all his many, MANY, MANY faults, at least instilled a little bit of an election-winning mentality in his party’s Congressional corps.

*  Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, a Democrat open borders hack, declined to seek a second term, because he thought he was sure to lose.  The Democrats nominated Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, who is essentially a drop-in replacement for Ritter when it comes to ideology, style and, assuming you take off about 50 pounds, appearance.  The Republicans nominated businessman Dan Maes over former Congressman Scott McInnis.  Maes seemed like a winner at first, but scandals relating to his time in business hurt him badly.  That’s when Tom Tancredo entered the race as a candidate for the Constitution Party.  (Tancredo was going to run as a Republican a year ago, but backed out when McInnis seemed too strong).  The CW at first was that Tancredo-Maes will split votes ensuring a Hickenlooper win, meaning that Ritter was probably kicking himself for having stood down.

But Tancredo is narrowing the gap.  Latest polling out of Colorado is Hickenlooper 44%, Tancredo 34%, Maes 15%, Others/Dunno 6%.  If you add TT and DM, you get 49 to H’s 44.  Which means all TT has to do is to convince Maes voters that a vote for Maes is essentially a vote for Hickenlooper, and at the same time, behave like a major party nominee who has a chance of winning instead of a typical hopeless third-party nominee, which TT is doing.  IOW, it’s the opposite strategy that Republican nominees who are RINOs and moderates use against conservatives running semi-serious independent or third-party campaigns.  The same poll has Ken Buck, GOP nominee for CO-SEN, and currently the D.A. for Weld County, leading Accidental Sen. Michael Bennet 47-43.

The moral of the story?  Rush, Mark Levin and others on conservative talk radio have said that, if things play out the way they could play out with the Tea Party Movement, that there will be a third party in this country, and the Republican Party will be the third party.  This polling for CO-GOV proves it.

*  NRA?  Oh no you didn’t.  Please tell me you didn’t.

You did.

Endorse Debbie Hitlerlson in IL-11.

*  Run, Charlie Barron, run!

Hint:  A black vote for Barron is a black vote not for Andrew Cuomo, which is in turn a half a vote for Carl Paladino in essence.

*  Now within the margin of error in CT-SEN. Even if Linda McMahon can’t beat the slickest politician in Connecticut at the ballot box, I do think she can take Blumenthal in an arm-wrestling match.

Some might think it’s Blumey’s ‘Nam lies dragging him down, but from things I’m reading, that’s all forgotten, and McMahon has been pounding the kitchen table issues hot and heavy.

*  I’m throwing this story into the election news stack, becuase that is what this vote was, an election season gimmick.  The reason it is a gimmick is that, as I have said in this medium a thousand times before, even if every tax break to every company that outsources jobs is repealed, they’ll continue to outsource jobs.  They’re not outsourcing jobs because of line items on the corporate tax return, they’re outsourcing because the labor is cheaper in Outsourcistan.  Unless the solution involves tarrifs, then it’s not really a solution.  Even at that, outsourcing is only half the problem — What they can’t outsource over there, they bring “over there” over here with legal immigrant visas.  Anything to keep the native born white American from filling the position.

Positional Ethics

San Diego Union-Tribune analyzes the 385 arrests of NFL players that has happened since the start of 2000.

You can read it for yourself, but the most interesting stat is:

Most troubled positions: wide receiver (67 arrests), cornerback (54).

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Positions with fewest arrests: punters (2), kickers (6), quarterbacks (11) and offensive linemen (45).

Note: Kicker Sebastian Janikowski accounted for three of those arrests; punter Todd Sauerbrun accounted for two.

It’s not listed here, but running backs accounted for the third highest number of arrests by position.

So, let’s put on our thinking caps here.  Assume that an arrest means a high chance of guilt (which we don’t in the arena of due process) — Why are wide receivers, the defensive secondary and running backs more rowdy than those who play other positions?  Why are punters and kickers (not named Janikowski or Sauerbrun) so much better behaved?  And why do QBs, who are surely pampered and prodded, and are paid the most, relatively well behaved?

I’ll give you a hint:  WR, CB, S and RB are positions where out and outright foot speed is necessary and rewarded.  (Except in the case of RBs who are big, bruising, pounding backs like Steven Jackson of the Rams, who will never break any sprinting records.)  Where there is fleetness of foot, there is…

Uhhh…

Uhhh…

I dunno.  Coal dust?

Seriously, not even Kevin Slaten, who took this story up today, could bring himself to say “race” or “black” relating to the rowdier positions, or “race” or “white” when it comes to the more docile positions.  A caller floated the excuse that the WRs, CBs, S and RBs are highly paid, and therefore, get spoiled in their money.  But the QBs are paid more, yet they don’t misbehave as often.

So, What’s New in Your World?

Gateway Pundit:  Bill Clinton Slams Tea Party – Compares Fiscal Conservatives to Alice in Wonderland & Mad Hatter

Having mental images of ole Alice sucking BJ Bill off somewhere in a back closet — Gotta get ‘em out of my head.

Malkin:  Nothing Says ‘Thanks for Visiting the US’ Like Pickled Okra

I love pickles, and I like okra.  How can I pass myself off as a visiting foreign dignitary?

Yahoo Sports:  Albert Haynesworth: I am not a slave

Making a lot of money for virtually no work?  Yep, that pretty much fits the definition of “not slave.”

AP:  Ga. pastor: I’ll fight like David battled Goliath

More like you’ll bugger like Goliath would have fucked David.

Washington Examiner:  D.C. turns to GPS to monitor young criminals

Don’t need all that technology to find young criminals in D.C.  Blue marks the spot.

5:  Obama calls for longer school year

For as long as I’ve heard politicians call for longer school days and years, one would think someone would have figured out how to slow the Earth’s rotational and orbital motion to have more hours in the day and days in the year.

NYP:  ‘Shore’ star Snooki treated for alcohol poisoning: report

Find someone who didn’t see this coming, and you’ll have found the most naive sonofabitch on Earth.

San Francisco Chronicle:  Mont. woman fends off bear attack with zucchini

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of zucchini, either.

AP:  Beijing firm investigated for running ‘black jail’

Talk to us.  We’ve got plenty of black jails.

People:  Son of a Gun: More Celebrities Than Ever Are Carrying Firearms

Carrying them where?  To fundraisers for the Brady Center and a Re-Elect Schumer rally?

AP:  Ben & Jerry’s to drop ‘All Natural’ from labels

Good, because “all natural” when thinking about both Ben and Jerry wasn’t my scoop of ice cream.

AP:  Tennessee takes extra day off practice to rest

But Coach Dooley will still monitor their shower discipline all the same.

AP:  Max Weinberg splits as Conan O’Brien’s bandleader

Just as well.  You don’t watch a dry, boring, lame, un-funny late night host for the band.

Yahoo Sports:  Seven-foot tuba player joins the LSU basketball team

Which idiot in his life when he was younger had to bright idea to put a tuba instead of a basketball into the hands of a really tall boy?

Monday’s (A)musings

*  The UN is appointing an official ombudsman to meet the ETs should any ever land on Earth.  It is expected that she will smooth things over with the space boogers so they don’t get the notion to incinerate us all.

Pardon me?  This is the same UN that couldn’t prevent one kind of black people from committing near-genocide against another kind of black people in 1994.

*  IG confirms there was cheating, relating to a story that broke two months ago.

Like two months ago, I think the cheating was done under the spirit of affirmative action.  None of the MSM articles today about the matter give any hint about race, so there might not be any racial angle.  If there is a racial angle there, the only way we’ll ever find out is if some race lobby like the NAACP or MALDEF comes to the defense of the FBI agents and supervisors accused of cheating.  It’s just like something that happened about ten years ago — A Northern Virginia county passed what seemed to be an insane stupid law destined for prominent feature at dumblaws.com that stated that no more than a certain number of people could sleep inside a room of a private domicile that wasn’t specifically designated as a bedroom.  I thought to myself, “Huh?  Do some politicians have too much time on their hands that they can waste passing stupid shit?”  Then LULAC came out in opposition, then I knew what was going on — It was an immigration thing, trying to head off that world-famous “Latin-American” propensity to cram jam many people into small spaces.

*  Here’s another thing with an obvious racial angle that the media are covering up — The shootings from late last week near Seton Hall University that involved SH students, but not at the campus itself.  But if you know how to read between the lines… UPDATE 9/28:  No more cover-up.

*  PA State Police tired of state HLS agency leading them on so many wild goose chases with all their phony baloney “intelligence bulletins.”

All I can say about that is that if you’re in the PA State Police, and you want to rip someone else a new one, you better look about 800 miles to the southwest of Harrisburg.  Where do you think some of this bullshit has its genesis?  More fundamental than that, state government budgets are tight in these recessionary times, and many states might take a notion to lopping off state HLS bureaucracies, as the state legislators might find them redundant with the Federal HLS.  The state HLS agencies probably know this, and are overblowing “terrorrism alerts” and “intelligence bulletins” to justify their own existence.

*  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with both Louis Farrakhan and New Black Panther Party members while he was in New York for the UN meeting.

In other words, the first meeting of the Re-Elect Obama in 2012 committee has occurred.

*  The New York City Public Schools, the City University of New York and IBM are parterning on a special high school in NYC whose cirriculum is the merger of a regular high school and a two-year junior college, such that its graduates come out with an associate’s degree, and, according to IBM suits, be “first in line for a job” with the Armonk, N.Y.-based firm.

Pardon me, but what kind of job at IBM can you get with a plain ole two-year JC degree from any give JC in the country?

Methinks this is some sort of affirmative action, IBM agreeing to take on some affirmative action dead weight for having received some sort of state or city funding for one thing or another.

*  Count me out, and by “out,” mean as someone not buying this story.  I think post-unification Germany wanted the Euro all along, becuase the EU is nothing more than Greater Germany, and the Euro is nothing more than the Greater Deutschemark.

*  Reading between the lines, one of the reasons one of ObamaCare’s most highly touted features (and by “touted,” I mean by the President and Congressional Democrats) is the mandate that private plans cover dependent “children” until age 26 is because colleges and universities wanted to dump their student health services programs, and clear their budgets of that particular expense.  In other words, offload student health care on the private health care industry of the areas where the colleges and universities are based.  If the particular university has a med school and a university-associated hospital, all the better — Then the university’s hospital will be recompensed for the student using its services by the student’s parents’ private plans, whereas before, being able to use the University Hospital was a quasi-free perk of attending the school.

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*  They’re trying to make it out like it was such a big deal for him to switch from HRC to Obama in late 2007.

Duh, do you think it was that hard a sell?

The point of this story was that before he became a professional Obama flunkie, he was a doorman at a Manhattan hotel.  Now, in spite of the election of the Hopester, and his being a college graduate, he’s right back where he was before he signed up with Obama, working the exact same job.  The reason is that he needs the health coverage as his wife came down with breast cancer.

He should be so lucky that there is relatively pedestrian work in New York City that has health benefits.  And as far as being in the same spot as he was three years ago, I’m sure a lot of people would like to be in the same spot they were three years ago.  If you’re stuck where you are, and the wind is blowing everybody else backwards, then you’re kinda sorta moving ahead.

*  This Syracuse prof, writing in a blog for the mainline daily in Syracuse, makes a good point:  Carl Paladino has a lot of negative qualities, but the problem for the Cuomo campaign who are banking on them to head off any surge he might go on in October is that, as accountants might say, Paladino’s negatives are a “sunk cost.”  In other words, the Cuomo people can’t drag down Paladino’s numbers based on his acrimonious attitude because Paladino’s acrimonious attitude is already well-known.  Meaning that whatever damage his rotten style was going to cost Paladino, it already has, and is water under the bridge.  He can go nowhere but up.  Meanwhile, as Rush said last week, Andrew Cuomo has probably already peaked, because he’s not the kind of man who grows on people over time.  Just the opposite.

*  NRA endorses two Democrats for Governor:  Beebe in AR, and Culver in IA.  Don’t know much about Beebe, but I’m not surprised about Culver.  Culver signed the carry bill which took IA from a may-issue state to a shall-issue state.  And, personally, the Republican in that race is nothing to write home about, that being former four-termer Terry Branstad, so I’d be at least neutral if I lived in Iowa, and probably vote Culver if he had no big show-stopping skeletons in his closet.

*  Obama courting the youth vote in Madison, Wisconsin.  Meanwhile, the county for which Madison is the county seat, Dane, cast slightly more votes for Republican candidates for Governor than Democrat candidates for Governor in the state’s primaries two weeks ago.  Which would be like Noel Ignatiev writing a laudatory foreword to Jared Taylor’s next book.

*  Connerly org has an public use of AA ban on the Arizona ballot in November.

*  House Speaker Ron Richard, term-limited out of the House, won the Republican primary for the Senate seat which overlays his Joplin residence in August.  I was wondering who was in line to be the next House speaker — Come to find out, it’s Perryville Republican Steve Tilley.  If Farmington’s Kevin Engler is still in charge of the Senate in January, then this means both chambers of the state legislature will be run by people from the same general part of the state — hilly counties south of St. Louis.

*  Chris Coons promises to bring “Yale Divinity School” values to the Senate.  Among those “values” are…

…Witchcraft.

Sunday Wrap-Up

*  Of course convicted felons are working as home health care aides in California.  We want racial diversity, don’t we?

*  Shacking Up:  The number of co-habitating adults of similar age and different gender is rising.  The main driving factor is that the He-Cession is forcing men to shack up with their g/fs.

Census found that:

The census report, which was based on the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, found that the new cohabitors were more likely to be younger (age 15 to 29) and have incomes less than $49,999.

I don’t know about you, but when I was 15, the last thing I was thinking about was finding some girl with whom to shack up, as I couldn’t make it on my own with my $49,998 salary.

*  Back to the Future.

I’ve said on this medium that audio/video quality, along with good material, is what will save the movie and music industry, not RIAA/MPAA lawsuits.  But I thought it was going to take extremely high capacity HVDs.  As it turns out, on the audio side, the future is in the past.  With a decent direct-drive turntable, a good light-tracking cartridge, clean vinyl, and decent amps and speakers, vinyl has got something that gets lost when you chop up a song into a 44.1 kHz sampling rate then compress it to 192 kbps.

*  Looks like Michael Savage is finally getting what he wants — The FBI is looking for decidedly less than above-board funding sources for American domestic “anti-war” activists.  Once they’re done there, they can then move on to the anti-SB 1070 crowd, to find which foreign influences are funding them.  You’ll find Hispanic drug gangs, Arab and Muslim oil money, and/or Soros.

*  Economic sense, from CANADA?  Yep, it’s aboot time, eh?

*  Ironically, RFK’s last words included “On to Chicago.”

*  Digital Fault Line:  Duke researchers found that middle school students whose domiciles previously weren’t webbified, but were under some program to “bridge the digital divide,” gradually did worse in school over time.  Furthermore, blacks fell off more quickly than whites.  Of course, the obvious reason is that you’re going to do less well in school if you spend your whole evening on Facebook.

*  They say in college football that if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying to win.  IOW, there is a necessary trade-off between cheating and winning games.

The P-D found that Margaret Bush Wilson, the recently passed St. Louis civil rights activist, had an FBI file.

I’m reading so many stories of late about the FBI admitting they followed around and kept files on 1950s and 60s black civil rights activists, and of course, I already knew that they continue to follow around activists on the left and right.  (The FBI also kept files on right-wing opponents to the civil rights movement that were equally as non-violent as their adversaries in the CRM.)

It only leads me to this conclusion:  If the FBI doesn’t have a file on you, then you don’t really matter.

*  Ed Miliband is the new Labour Party and official opposition leader in the UK.  Diane Abbott was eliminated in the first round, and the final ballot came down between he and his brother David.  While David go the support of more MPs than Ed, Ed won because the system for picking a party leader gives a greater voice to union leaders and leftist activists.

*  Hey, they always said they have to make test questions more practical.

And some headlines.

Slashdot:  Deodorant Sought to Save New Zealand’s Native Birds

Tell me which brand they use, so I know which brand is the official brand of New Zealand’s indigenous bird species.

FNC:  U.S. Border Official Charged With Bribery in Calif.

When you put fox in charge of hen house, you can expect not to have eggs for breakfast or chicken for supper ever again.

C|Net:  Emergency Bra: Unsnap, separate cups, inhale…

The best part?  In an emergency, she won’t be wearing the bra.

Yahoo:  Lindsay Lohan Leaves Jail After 15 Hours

Still trying to reverse engineer the math where you start with 30 days and end up with 15 hours.

Ben Maller:  LeBron James picks 10 sq ft Coconut Grove mansion

Roger Miller could get an 96 sq ft room for a night for two hours of janitorial work.  LeBron James needs to play basketball for a season just to get 10 sq ft.  Is real estate getting expensive, or what?

Daily Mail:  United Nations to appoint space ambassador to act as first contact for aliens visiting Earth

To all extraterrestrial life:  Please accept my advanced apology.

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*  President Obama Pw3ns “Pledge to America,” calls it Bush redux.

Problem is, even if he is right, and more importantly than that, even if most voters believe him, it won’t work in its intended purposes of diminishing Republican gains.  A lot of moderates and independents will be voting Republican, NOT because they want Bush back, but because they want a divided government.  IOW, they want to try to replicate what “seemed” to work in the late 1990s — A Democrat as President, and a Republican-run Congress, both canceling each other’s bad sides out, to wind up with some fairly decent if not perfect economic and other policies, which fueled a growing economy.

*  I saw Meet the Press this morning.  In the first segment, the Democrat hack on opposite the Republican hack said that the Democrats would use job outsourcing as a way to fend off Republican gains.  (Of course, Democrats run everything now, they could fix the outsourcing problem in one day.)  Then in the next segment, David Gregory took up education, and one of the guests was Michelle Rhee, who almost single-handedly cost Adrian Fenty his job, as Rhee fired a lot of black women teachers in the DCPS and replaced them with cheap labor H-1B visa holding Filipinos.  Outsourcing bad, but insourcing good?

*  John F’n Kerry:  Democrats are in trouble because voters are too stupid to pay attention.

If they actually paid attention to the extent he thinks they should, they might notice nagging little details like yacht tax hypocrisy.  Kerry should hope they DON’T pay attention.

*  Houston, we have a problem.  Blacks in large numbers + Democrat hack groups = Voter fraud.

The reason this kind of voter fraud, problematic as it is, won’t necessarily hamper Republican gains is that all these fake registrations are in dark blue Congressional districts in the Houston area that have no chance of flipping.  Texas doesn’t have a U.S. Senate election, and Rick Perry has an insurmountable lead over Houston Mayor Bill White for Governor.  Where this voter fraud comes into play the most is city elections.

It’s Friday. I’ve Got Headlines.

CNS:  Colbert Tells Congress Farm Work ‘Really Hard’

He knows, because somebody told him.  Must be his WGA-unionized writers who also write his jokes for him.

CSM:  Homeland Security’s Janet Napolitano: US not overreacting to terrorism

“We’re just looking for it in VFW halls and inside SUVs with Ron Paul bumper stickers.”

Daily Mail:  Our children don’t fail due to racism, says black academic

Thanks, but we knew that already.

UK Telegraph:  Nudists and swingers at war in France’s ‘Naked City’

I can’t decide whether I’m anxiously awaiting the movie about this war, or no.

Gateway Pundit:  Radical American Islamist: “We Will Build Our Victory Mosque – On Top Of Your Grave”

Yeah, I saw that ad.  It ended with “We’re the Democratic National Committee, and we approved this message.”

C-Trib:  Rahm Emanuel feeling out other potential Chicago mayor candidates

Warning to the others:  When Rahm feels you out with one hand, he’s got a knife in the other.

CNS:  Failures of U.S. Education System Scrutinized in Four Upcoming Documentaries

If the Amy Fisher story could be made in made-for-TV movies on three different networks, then I suppose the decline and fall of American education can fit into at least four documentaries.

CNS:  How Privileged Democrats Pay for Their Houses

Send you the bill.

CNS:  Michelle Obama to Help Nickelodeon’s Play Campaign

Sure, I really trust a network which once had a show about a cat and dog biologically fused together to tell kids how to lose weight.

CNS:  Front-Page Editorial in Mexican Newspaper Asks Drug Cartels, ‘What Do You Want From Us?’

Funny, that’s about the same “I’ll drop my pants but please don’t rape me” attitude the New York Times has about radical Islam.

P-D:  GOP concerned over marital ties between Carnahan campaign, public employees union

Mrs. Antolinez and marital ties?  At least someone other than me is thinking about them.

Omaha World-Herald:  Buffett to taxpayers: Get over your anger

Me to Buffett:  For a few billion of your money, I will.

Friday Wrap-Up

*  I’d hate to think that I had anything to do with this, but it seems like the FBI is now in the business of investigating everyone who threatens to burn a Koran, like this guy over here in the Metro East.  As it turns out, along with doing that, falsely claiming he had explosives, and threatening the life of President Obama, he also said that he wanted to inflict pain on Korean leader Kim Jong Il.  I mean, isn’t being the ruler of about the worst country on Earth pain enough?

*  If I’m reading this story right, then the nurse up at Beaumont High deals with shooting victims regularly, and gunshot victims staggering through the halls are so common that most students don’t give them a second look.

*  Today’s feminists:  Stores selling pants for young women with “bootylicious” or “porn star” across the rear end okay, but KFC hawking its edible wares in that space isn’t.

*  Tom Friedman hearts China.  We knew that already, but what strikes me as strange is that Friedman hearts China for all their shiny new construction, but he can’t seem to bring himself to say that all that shiny new construction is happening because China doesn’t care about the environment, endangered species, or labor rights.

But as it turns out, there is a whole Potemkin quality to the whole affair.  China is only showing the Tom Friedmans of the world what they want them to see.

*  Why won’t boys and young men read, even if they know how?  The answer is that public schools have pretty much declared war and sports literature off-limits, in favor of girly mush.

*  After having heard about this on Rush and reading the original source, now I know why Roger Goodell was so anal about punishing Ben Rothlisberger for that indiscretion in that club.  Methinks he’s gonna lower the hammer pretty soon and ban all NFL players from clubs.

*  I vote for PR.  Like this writer says, Facebook “shares” aren’t publicly traded, so they have no value.  Even if FB goes public, the private shares would mean nothing in that regard, at least not on their own.

Another thing — If this is all a PR stunt to grease the skids for the FB themed smartphone, then take heart — The internet is a fickle mistress.  Things come and things go.  AOL once so big that it had the market capitalization to buy an old line media company (T-W), but now it’s nothing in essence.  MySpace was as big 5-7 years ago as FB is now.  So project out five or so years, when Facebook is passe, and all these people running around with Facebook phones are going to look like morons, like people today who have AOL-themed laptops which have special keyboard buttons to access certain sections of AOL.  Then again, these FB phones will probably be mfgr’d in some Chinese slave labor sweatshop by some no-name fly-by-night firm, so they wouldn’t last two years.

*  Joe Buck was a Houston Oilers fan growing up.  Now, he was born in 1969, and grew up in St. Louis.  The Football Cardinals left St. Louis in early 1988, when Buck was 18.  So the son of a broadcaster so very closely associated with St. Louis couldn’t be bothered to be a fan of the NFL team that was in St. Louis at the time.  No wonder they left.

*  I know, I’m sick.  But I’ll say it anyway — We might yet just get to see a real video of Lindsey LOLhan being a victim of a deviate sexual act while in a jail shower.  After all, if today’s events are any indication, she’s another one doing life on the installment plan.

40…(Days and Nights)

*  You’re up by 10, ball’s on your own 20, eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.  Your RB is 4-5 ypc guy.  First and ten.

If you’re the OC, what sort of plays are you gonna call?  That’s right, either hand off to the RB, or short yardage high-percentage pass plays.  And DON’T fumble the ball or take it out of bounds; keep that clock running.

This is the situation that Congressional Republicans and those who want to be are in.  Predictably, their playbook shows that these are the sorts of plays they’ll run.  Safe, predictable, mostly agreeable, but not too exciting.  Just run the clock down for the win.  Pass/Fail, por favor.

There are some who think that even this predictable playbook is risky, because now it gives Democrats precise agenda items to pick apart and bash, and they’ll be able to do media buys to targeted demos who will be told they’d be specifically hurt under a Republican-run Congress.  Maybe so, but what more than cancels that out for Team GOP is that it means they have given themselves a raison d’etre, a specific set of things they’re for — They can’t be criticized anymore for merely being against Obama/Pelosi/Reid.  They’ve given voters a reason to vote FOR them instead of merely reacting to Obama/Dems, and should they win, they’ll have a mandate to follow through.

Page 39 is where you read the most about immigration.  I hope that de-funding the DOJ lawsuits against AZ is planned, that they’re not stating it because this is not the kind of document where specifics are expected.

*  Sean Bialet is only 10% behind Barney Frank, and has Frank under 50%, in MA-4.  48-38 to be precise.

I can understand if you don’t realize how big this news is, and you’ll probably think Barney Frank has an insurmountable lead.  Which he just might.

BUT…2008:  Frank 68%, his Republican challenger 25%.  2006:  Unopposed.  2004:  Frank 78%, his Republican challenger 22%.

Let’s say Frank wins by 10% this year.  He won by 43% two years ago.  So he would drop from a 43% margin of victory in 2008 to only a 10% margin this year.  Extrapolate that swing nationwide, (which might be a non sequitur, because not all Democrat members of Congress are so closely linked to the financial crisis as Frank, and not all Republicans are trying has hard as Bialet), and Republican gains would be monumental.  In the neighborhood of 100 House seats flipped and all 12 Senate seats that the statgeeks think are at least remotely flippable from D to R.

*  Share and share alike:  In 2000, George W. Bush barely won the Presidential election.  But on that same night, Democrats were able to flip five Senate seats, drawing down the previous 55-45 Republican majority to an even 50-50.  With Dick Cheney coming in as VP, and by definition, being the President of the Senate, the Republicans still ran the Senate, because Cheney could cast the deciding vote in leadership races.  But “out of fairness,” Tom Daschle et al. said, there ought to be a “power sharing” agreement where there are at least co-equal R/D chairmen of Senate committees, while Trent Lott would still be M/L.  Which they got.

That P/S agreement was in place for a few months, until Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords did his thing, handing full control to the Democrats.  Republicans flipped enough seats in 2002 to get it back, more in 2004 to get back to their high-water mark of 55, then lost a bunch in 2006 and a bigger bunch in 2008 to be down to 40.  Scott Brown made 41.

Now, what if the GOP can flip exactly nine seats in 40 days?  You’ve got 50-50, but with Biden as VP and President of the Senate, you’ve got the mirror opposite situation of January 20, 2001.  (From January 3-19, 2001, after the new Senators were was sworn in to make 50-50, but before Bush/Cheney were inaugurated, Al Gore was still VP, meaning Daschle was Majority Leader for those days.)  Will the GOP be smart enough to remember that power sharing agreement?  If they are, and the exact same P/S is dug up, it would mean that Chuck Schumer is Majority Leader (assume Reid loses re-election), but all the committee chairs, those precious committee chairs that we just HAD to tolerate Mike Castle in DE b/c the GOP needed back, would be co-chaired by Republicans.  So in order to get a modicum of power, at least in their precious Senate committees, the GOP only needs nine flips, not ten.

There is a part of me that HOPES they flip exactly nine seats, just to see if the Stupid Party remembers recent history, and if the Democrats are just as gracious as the Senate Goppers were ten years ago.

*  More bad news for Obama:  His kook left base is less than enthusiastic.  A leftie staying home and not voting Democrat is in essence a half a vote for a Republican.

*  NRA endorses Manchin (D) over Raese (R) in the special election to take Byrd’s place in the Senate from WV.  This does not surprise me — Like I have said on this medium many times before, the NRA is not a political organization, it’s a trade organization that engages in politics.

FTR, whoever wins this seat gets seated right away, because it’s to take Byrd’s place.  And it’s neck-and-neck in the polls — A Raese win would be huge because it means that there would be at least one halfway decent Republican being seated right away to filibuster any lame duck session crap.  Then again, there might not be a lame duck session if rumors about Congress adjourning a week from today turn out to be true.

*  Speaking of someone who will be seated right away, that is either Chris Coons or Christine O’Donnell, more dirt on Coons:  He hearts anti-white bigot Cornel West.

*  Shock poll from NYS:  The “nobody” challenging Kirsten Gillibrand is essentially tied with her.  “Nobody” in this case is former Congressman Joe DioGuardi.  The same poll shows Cuomo up by 9 and Schumer up by 21.

*  Great shot.  But in NEW MEXICO?  I didn’t know the mosque issue was big there.

Odds

PJB:

While Obama did name the first black attorney general, the only place that black Democrats get preferential treatment is … the House Ethics Committee. At one point this year, all eight suspects under investigation were members of the Black Caucus — a statistical impossibility.

And how.

There are 39 black members of the House, not counting two non-voting delegates.  That means the House is almost 9% black.

To figure percentage odds, the math is ((39/435)^N)*(100%).  To find one-in-chance, it’s 1/((39/435)^N).  Where N is the number of House members chosen at random.

If you picked a member of the House at random to do an investigation on him or her, there is a 9% probability that s/he would be black, or a 1/11.15 chance.

If you picked two House members at random to investigate, there is a 0.8% probability that both would be black, or a 1/124.4 chance.

If you picked three House members at random to investigate, there is a 0.07% probability that all three would be be black, or a 1/1387 chance.

From there, the odds get so low in terms of percentage that it’s better to express them in fractional terms only.

If you picked four House members at random to investigate, there is a 1/15,477 chance that all four are black.

Five:  172,632.  Six:  1,925,519.  Seven:  21.5 million.

And if you picked eight House members at random to investigate, there is a 1-in-239.5 million chance that all eight are black.  You’ve got better odds to win the top Powerball prize two weeks in a row.

At what point does it stop becoming a coincidence and start becoming a cluster?  Probably at two.

Granted, black pols aren’t the cleanest utensils in the dishwasher, but are we to think that the average black Congressman is 239.5 million times more corrupt than the average white Congressman?

I predict a low black turnout this November.

UPDATE 7/2/2011:  After linking to this post from a comment I made at AR today to prove a point, I realized an error in my combinatorics.  I highly doubt the House Ethics Committee would investigate a House member more than once at the same time.  Therefore, while it is true that there is a 1/11.15 chance that if you picked a member of the last Congress to investigate that he or she would be black, you can’t use 1/((39/435)^N) to calculate the odds of more than one, because once the first one is being investigated, that takes him or her out of the realm of possibility of being selected again.  Therefore, the math for “two at random” is (39/435)*(38/434), a 1/127.4 chance.  What it means is that the real odds are actually longer than my mistaken math above — For eight House members to be chosen at random and all eight are black, the true odds are 1-in-484.4 million, more than twice as unlikely as I figured at first.

ABC, Isn’t Easy As 1-2-3…

Palm Beach Post:  Letter grades vanishing from some Palm Beach County report cards

Now there’s the way to narrow the racial achievement gap.  Just give everyone check marks.

WSJ:  The Carter-Obama Comparisons Grow – Walter Mondale himself sees a parallel.

And to whom, pray tell, are we supposed to compare Walter Mondale?  A 1978 Mercury coupe?

CNS:  NFL Developing Workplace Conduct Program for Teams

Their “work place” is the field.  Just in case you’re wondering.

CNS:  Congressman Calls For Schools To ‘Promote The Agenda’ Of Climate Change, Population Limitation

I’m sure the message of “population limitation” will go over really well with all fifteen of the Lopez children that are currently in public school in Los Angeles.

CNS:  Dog Poop Powering Park Lamp in Boston-Area Park

On the one hand, well lighted at night.  On the other hand, smelly.

CNS:  U.N. Promotes Health Campaign for Women, Children

Men can just fuck off and die.

Wednesday’s Wobegons and Getthehellons

*  Can’t find a URL to corroborate, but in one of the versions of the Aunt Zeituni story of late, the one where she demands to be made a citizen, she says that in Africa, the aunt-nephew/niece relationship is sacred.

Is that so?  Well, if you think the aunt-nephew relationship is so sacred, then I can recommend to you a place where you can revel in those sacred traditions:  Africa.  The catch is, you would have to take your nephew with you to make all the sacredness work.  Which would suit me just fine, except you’d have to take Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Karl Roverrated and a bunch of neo-cons in order to make it a good deal for us.

BTW, she’s technically not here illegally anymore, b/c she was granted asylum*.  Laura Ingraham said today that it is virtually impossible for someone here illegally to gain asylum status.  Now that’s not smoking gun proof that Obama made it happen, nor is it Beyond a Reasonable Doubt proof, nor even Preponderance of the Evidence proof.  But it is preponderance of common sense proof, IMHO.

*  Also need corroboration, but heard it on top-hour radio news this morning while on the road — Some new study shows that a third of all teens (12-17) have engaged in violence.

Man, I tell you — If that were really true, then our jails and prisons would be overflowing with adolescents from cheek to jowl, or from asshole to asshole, or as the Brits would say, arse to tit.  Jail guards would need a plunger just to pack another one into the joint, and you’d need to crimp the roof closed with a super-huge vise grip just to keep the bodies from blowing the roof open.

Let me give you a hint — The study was done by some sort of center, albeit one not concerned with poverty, law nor a cardinal direction.  I bet it’s one of these QUANGO-type orgs with dozens of executive directors and researchers making big money, whose jobs, salaries and sinecures all dry up if Federal grants to “prevent teen violence” stop, which they would if “teen violence” weren’t as bad as this “center” says it was.  Catch my drift?

IOW, turn every teenage fist-fight into “youth violence.”

*  A movie about the struggles for American Muslims?

I get the feeling that the titles “Life’s Getting Hard Out There for a Suicide Bomber” and “Hot Jihad Mess” were suggested, but soundly rejected.

*  Preacher sex abuse scandals:  Not just for white Catholic priests anymore.

This one was a Bush 43 favorite, BTW.

*  No right to privacy in public places?

Okay, this means that all those men who were arrested and convicted for “sex crimes” for taking a whiz in “public” and have to register as “sex offenders” for the rest of their lives now have clean records?  After all, no privacy in public places.  We’re all expected to see one another’s innards all the time.

* An AR poster raised a good question — How did she get to the U.S. to begin with in order to be here illegally?  I mean, a Mexican you can understand — just walk across a line or swim across a drainage canal.  But how does someone “sneak” into the U.S. from Kenya?  The answer is that she over-stayed her visa.  Virtually all people here illegally whose countries of origin are not Mexico or in Central America were first legal aliens with legal visas, but then they didn’t leave when their visa expired.

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*  Sorry, Rush.  There’s no “bringing around” black women Federal bureaucrats.  Unless you water down conservatism to the point that it’s no longer conservative on issues of Federal spending and largesse, conservatism will never appeal to blacks, especially ones that work for the Federal government.  And no appealing to Hispanics, either — Bill Richardson, the outgoing (Hispanic) Governor of New Mexico, said it succinctly when asked about what Hispanic voters really want — “Fully funded welfare programs.”

*  There is a prop on the Missouri ballot that would deal with standards for dog breeders.

Why do we even need this proposition?  I’m always reading about raids at Missouri puppy mills, ergo there are already state laws to deal with this sort of thing.

Methinks the animal welfare groups are up to some sort of money hustle, some way, some how.

*  Paladino within six, with Cuomo under 50.  I’ve never seen what was an insurmountable lead narrow so quickly, nor such a “sure thing” candidate fall to under 50% so quickly.  “Crazy Carl” will be in the lead by Monday, at the rate this is going.  And for any Cuomo in New York State to be under 50 at any instance in polling is a really bad sign.  If memory serves, Mario Cuomo only polled under 50 in his statewide races only a few times in the 1994 Governor race, and George Pataki, then a relatively obscure State Senator, did topple Cuomo in that Republican wave year.

*  Bloomberg endorses Cuomo.  Now there’s someone with a lot of political capital to spend — Bloomy shot himself in the ass with the G0M, and don’t forget, he practically purchased the abolition of mayoral term limits in the NYC city charter in order to run for a third term, then turns right around and barely wins a third term versus a nobody.

It gets worse than that — Cuomo never voted for Bloomberg for Mayor, in spite of his wee little fibs to the contrary.  He admitted voting for Bloomberg’s 2005 opponent, and probably did vote Democrat every time.

Cause There’s No Nicer Witch…

I’ve been watching this Christine O’Donnell “witchcraft” non-issue for a few days.

Here are my thoughts:

*  So far, her enemies in both parties are talking about witchcraft, masturbation and lawsuits.  She’s talking about unemployment, foreclosures and deficits.  Guess which set of message is more likely to grab voters’ attention.  Like the Democrats used to say, economics are kitchen table issues.  (That’s the way they were able to fend off what would have been losses in the ’98 midterms — Talking about economics while the Republicans were hoping that the Monica tryst would auto-magically give them more seats.)  Masturbation isn’t a kitchen table issue, unless you like to whack off on the kitchen table.

BTW, O’Donnell’s opinions on masturbation is almost if not equal to the official position of the Catholic Church.

*  Even if she doesn’t win, one great thing about her campaign is that it’s smoking out a lot of bastards who I knew were two-bit phonies to begin with.  Karl Roverrated’s reputation is shot, at least in the eyes of people who had respect for him in the first place (I was not one of them).  Bill O’Reilly is next.  (I never thought highly of that tabloid gossip mouthpiece, either.)  There are some anti-Semitic rightists who are also discrediting themselves, and I won’t mention A3P nor AltRight’s Richard Spencer by name.  Yeah, you read me right — Spencer is against her, but in his diatribe, he didn’t say anything we didn’t already “know”:  Witchcraft, a lawsuit, a few late loan payments, and masturbation.  Why the Nazis hate her so much, I don’t know.  She doesn’t seem to have much of an opinion about Israel, so that can’t be it.  Maybe it’s misogyny.  Either way, anything short of pulverizing all the Jews on Earth, and A3P/AltRight and certain others will think that you’re just no good, or that you’re some sort of mendacious sellout.

*  Even if she was a Wiccan, I thought we had freedom of religion in this country.  I know we do, because there are a lot of left-wingers saying that we do in order to justify a Hamas-linked mosque near Ground Zero.

*  I kinda know someone who is a Wiccan.  Not in the sense that we’re best friends, but we’re chatroom buddies from several years back.  After he turned 18, he said he was going to vote Democrat in order to keep those “intolerant religious right Republicans” from winning elections.  (Since he lives in the Kansas suburbs of Kansas City, his Democrat vote doesn’t often amount to changing much.)  I wonder how he feels today, knowing that his own party is punking and pw3ning his own faith.  Of course, they’re not doing it because the hate Wiccans, they’re doing it for the same reason they hypocritically peddled hysteria over Mark Foley four years ago, in order to dislodge Christian conservative voters from a Republican candidate for public office.

*  One of the reasons why all those playa hatas are hatin’ on her?  She’s now approaching $2.5 million in web contributions.  Mike Castle couldn’t have done that…

*  Even if you consider the polls least favorable to her, she’s closer to Chris Coons than Scott Brown was to Martha Coakley at a comparable point in their race.  And MA is even more stridently liberal than DE, and Scott Brown, at the time, seemed to be just as conservative as Christine O’Donnell.  Now, as it turned out, Brown is barely to the right of the Bobsey Twins of Maine, but that’s irrelevant to my analysis and the true time line of comparison.

Linguistic Linguini

Two more words of which I’m getting tired, especially in the political context:

Extremist, and homegrown.

First off, they keep saying “extremist” websites, but they won’t identify the “extremists” in question until deep down in the article.  (Al Qaeda, in case you’re wondering).  So what they’re doing, the media are, is trying to confuse you by using “extremism” as a general term — IOW, the guy down the street who posts on Stormfront is just as dangerous as good ole Mohammed who runs an AQ-style recruiting website.

Second, “homegrown” falls under the same category.  What they mean by “homegrown” in this context is recent Muslim immigrants to the United States.  That’s not “homegrown.”  But they are trying to make you think that it’s just as much white people’s fault as anything, even though you have to read deep down into the article to find the words “Somali,” “Yemeni,” et al.

All Three of Us Are Number One (Today’s Headlines)

Bloomberg:  U.S. Loses No. 1 to Brazil-China-India Market in Investor Poll

When did Brazil, India and China merge?

2:  New Computers For Normandy High Freshman

If you run a porn site, you should have noticed an uptick in your hit stats by now.

RCP:  Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea”

Archaeologists have unearthed the trash to prove it.

5:  Obama’s aunt says US obligated to make her citizen

As far as that goes, she better get in line behind about 80 million Mexicans who feel the same way.

NRA:  NRA-PVF Endorses Dennis Daugaard for Governor of South Dakota

He did such a fine job as Prime Minister of Norway, after all.

Carl Paladino on Facebook:  Paladino to Appoint Blue-Ribbon Tax Cut Team

And if they don’t recommend any tax cuts, he’ll strangle them with all that blue ribbon.

CNS:  Largest Union in California Endorses Pot Legalization

It also won the approval of Local 420.

CNS:  Obama Administration Releases Spanish-Language Video Showing How College Is ‘An Attainable Dream’ for Hispanics

I guess speaking and writing in English isn’t a prerequisite.

CNS:  Lady Gaga Fights `Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in Maine

Fine, because I won’t want to ask her anything, and it’s doubtful she has anything to tell me.

Slashdot:  Google Publishes Censorship Map

I’m guessing no huge red dot over Mountain View, California, like there should be.

Tuesday’s Tidbits

*  I can add one:  If you’re a lawyer, and a cop pulls you over, don’t tell the cop that you’re a lawyer.  The cop will only have bad visions of a criminal suspect he arrested whom he was all but certain actually did it beating the rap, and/or bad visions of civil rights lawsuits against him.

*  When I saw an infomercial for the Bowflex for the first time, my first impression of the machine was that there was something dangerous and risky about it.  There was no way I was ever going to buy one, or even work out on one — I had horrible visions of being in the middle of some sort of bicep repetition set, and one or more of the bands would break, resulting in my arm being torn off.

Turns out I wasn’t too far off.

*  Do I have to fill in the blanks for you?

I suppose I must.

Here goes:

Section 8 blacks.