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*  In the states that have held plebiscite party primaries this far this political season, the number of Republican ballots cast has exceeded the number of Democrat ballots cast, the first time that has happened since 1930.  The margin is about four million, but Democrat-friendly New York won’t hold its primary until this coming Tuesday.  That might narrow that margin a bit, but won’t eliminate it.  But it might not even narrow the margin, as while all the Democrats in everything statewide in NYS are expected to win in November, their respective primaries are foregone conclusions, while the Republicans’ primaries are contentious in several instances, including that Paladino-Lazio slugfest to see who gets to lose to Andrew Cuomo.

*  Doesn’t Ohio have enough problems of its own, so that we don’t need to be turning it into Illinois so soon?  One Illinois is all this country can handle.

*  Mrs. Antolinez on a tractor looks about as out of place as Michael Dukakis in a tank or John Kerry in a rural mom-and-pop sporting goods store asking about a hunting license.

Community Relations

Left-wingers keep saying we can’t enforce immigration laws because it would scare relatively law-abiding “undocumented persons” away from cooperating with the cops in their effort to nab the real bad apple illegal aliens, as the good ones are just as illegal as the bad ones re immigration status.

C.D. Michel, a civil rights lawyer from SoCal specializing in gun laws, writes in a Portland, Oregon publication about the folly of city laws criminalizing the failure of gun owners to report that their guns were stolen, that California’s similar law has been counter-productive:

Perhaps worse, California gun owners who truly are burglary victims now refuse to speak with police if their stolen gun is recovered at a crime scene. If the gun owner failed to report the loss at all, or on time, he or she faces possible criminal prosecution if he or she cooperates with police investigating the recovered gun. So he or she remains silent, gets a lawyer and seeks immunity first.

Legal representation is also appropriate when a gun is first discovered missing. The owner can be prosecuted if the theft is not reported within 48 hours of when she “should have known” the gun was missing. Proponents believe “responsible” gun owners “should know” a gun is gone instantaneously. That’s just not reality. And the fear of prosecution has encouraged those who miss the 48-hour window not to report the loss at all.

Effectively, the proposed ordinance places legitimate gun owners in jeopardy of prosecution for being a victim of crime. In light of these liabilities, gun rights groups and the criminal defense bar now advise gun owners – who would ordinarily be happy to assist police with their investigation – that they need a lawyer if they are contacted by police.

Sam Adams, the Mayor of Portland, is demanding such a law.  Ironically, he probably also hearts illegal aliens from Latin America, and would make the standard argument I detailed above.

In more 2nd Amendment news, a California middle school principal named Gunn doesn’t like one of his students wearing a T-shirt pronouncing his high showing in a trapshooting event.  The irony of that is that the event took place at the Illinois state-funded shooting center at Sparta, Illinois, not far from St. Louis, a center which Illinois’s many anti-gun statewide elected office-holders, from then-Gov. Blagojevich, to then-Lt. Gov. and now Gov. Pat Quinn, to U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, actually congratulated themselves on funding and opening.  (Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator at the time and in the State Senate during the debate over state funding, but I am not aware that he chimed in with an opinion.  Then again, he probably wasn’t even aware that there was a Sparta, Illinois, as he admitted, during his very first campaign rally for the U.S. Senate race on the East St. Louis riverfront after he won the Democrat nomination in March 2004 that it was the very first time he ever laid eyes on the St. Louis Gateway Arch.)

The New Bernhard Goetz

WCBS-2 NYC:

Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47

George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.” He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.

“I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, ‘Can you please leave?’ Grier said.

(snip)

“He starts threatening my family, my life. ‘Oh you’re dead. I’m gonna kill your family and your babies. You’re dead.’ So when he says that, 20 others guys come rushing around the corner. And so I fired four warning shots into the grass,” Grier said.

Grier was later arrested. John Lewis is Grier’s attorney.

“What he’s initially charged with – A D felony reckless endangerment — requires a depraved indifference to human life, creating a risk that someone’s going to die. Shooting into a lawn doesn’t create a risk of anybody dying,” Lewis said.

Grier said he knew Nassau County Police employ the hi-tech “ShotSpotter” technology in his area and that the shooting would bring police in minutes. Cops told Guzman he was very cooperative.

Grier also said he was afraid the gang outside his house was the dreaded MS-13. And Nassau County Police Lt. Andrew Mulraine, head of the gang unit, said MS-13 has 2,000 members in the county.

“They’re probably the most organized. They almost have a military hierarchy within the gang, so they are the most organized gang we encounter on a daily basis,” Mulraine said.

(snip)

Police determined Grier had the gun legally. He has no criminal record. And so he was not charged for the weapon.

The UK Daily Mail also covers the story, with a much clearer picture of Mr. Grier.  But it’s not a very flattering picture, (hint:  mugshot), and it makes him look like a thug.  Though a lot of thugs look like this, he made it to the age of 30 with a wife, two kids by said wife, and no rap sheet.  So not a thug.  Also the Mail implies that Grier’s AK-47 can shoot 600 rounds a minute.  A fully automatic AK can do that, but not the civilian semi-auto version.  If he had the auto version, he would have been charged for the weapon.

As for his legal troubles, the reason why the D.A. might find it hard to get guilty verdict from 12 of 12 jurors is that he fired the rounds into the lawn, not at any of the gang-bangers.  While New York State law probably has a duty to retreat, he probably couldn’t have retreated any further than he did, because if 20 gang-bangers invade your house, further retreat is impossible. Where can you, your wife and your two kids truly hide in your own house when there are 20 gang thugs running around what looks to be a small house? They will find all four of you and murder you all. It’s like a slow grasshopper trying to fend off an invasion of millions of army ants.  And, from what I understand, NYS changed a lot of its self-defense/firearm laws after the Bernhard Goetz controversy.  It’s not as generous as most states, but it’s better than what they had pre-Goetz.

The bad news is that under Federal law, he can’t possess any firearm while he’s under indictment for a felony. Even a successful disposition of this case will take awhile; meanwhile, MS-13 is still hunting his head and his wife’s head and his kids’ heads tonight. Even if he survives MS-13 hunting him down, and sees himself cleared of this felony charge, he won’t ever see that AK-47 again — Cops love to drag their heels when it comes to returning seized guns, and no lawyer is going to take the necessary time and spend the money on the Writ of Replevin to make the cops give it back, especially on a relatively inexpensive item (“relatively,” in the greater scheme of things), like this rifle. It’ll be much cheaper for him to buy a new AK.

Uniondale, New York is about 55% black and 23% Hispanic and 18% native born white.  (Some of those demographics overlap, because many East Coast Hispanics are black/Afro-Caribbean/mulatto-Caribbean, while some of those listed as “black” are Caribbean immigrants, not African-Americans like Mr. Grier).  But MS-13 members are almost entirely Chicano/Mestizo Central Americans/Southern Mexicans.  What is happening on Long Island is that the rich plutocrat bastards who live in The Hamptons and other waterfront towns, (some are permanent residents, some are Gothamers that use their LI waterfront place as their weekend/vacation house), import all this cheap labor for construction and domestic help from Mexico and points southward.  Of course, they’d never allow their cheap labor nor their families the luxury of living anywhere close to where they live, so the Hispanics live in working class suburbs like Uniondale, (see Mr. Grier’s modest house above), where Hispanic gangs like MS-13 metastasize and terrorize native born Americans, mostly whites, but more and more blacks.

Terry Jones Hoisted On His Own Petard

“Burn Allah Burn” canceled.

The main reason why it was canceled was because something happened that I predicted would happen — After Obama sacked Gen. McChrystal and forced Gen. David Petraeus into making the lateral move from Iraq to Afg, Afghanistan is now Obama’s baby 100% in terms of the political fallout from failure.  Petraeus wanted the Koran burning stopped, and Obama will deny Petraeus nothing.  So Petraeus called Obama, Obama called Holder, Holder called the FBI, and the FBI paid Pastor Jones a visit at his Gainesville, Florida church.  And by “paid a visit,” I mean make some implicit threats, (The MSM confirmed that FBI agents told Jones they’d write down license plate numbers of cars parked in the church’s parking lot at the Koran burning event), with perhaps some carrots at the end of the sticks.  (I predict that Jones will sue the Feds for civil rights violations, for a very large monetary amount, and the FBI/Solicitor General will “surprisingly” concede liability or mount only a token defense, and/or the two sides will settle out of court, also for a large amount of money.)  One of those carrots is NOT moving the G0M — The Imam behind that has denied vehemently that there was any deal in that regard.

Now, am I happy the FBI did this the way it did it?  No.  Am I relieved that some level of government did something to shut this down?  Yes, in spite of my libertarian propensities and my better judgment.  While I know perfectly well that OBL/AQ/Taliban can recruit based on any flimsy pretense, burning Korans was just a bridge too far.  A country boy might say that half a bag of rattlesnakes is still a bag of rattlesnakes, but in this case, I don’t agree — The reason I wanted Jones’s event shut down is because, in this instance, a whole bag of rattlesnakes can poison you twice as fast as half a bag of rattlesnakes.  What I mean by this is that while AQ/Taliban will kill our soldiers in Afg in ghastly ways no matter what, they’ll do it even more quickly and even more brutally if the Koran burning happens.  The FBI just saved the lives of some number of American troops in Afg.

The Dove World Outreach Center’s website is now down, but when it was up, I took a look around, and this church supports every long-term foreign occupation and reconstruction of Muslim lands that any good neo-con can dream up.  It’s just a truth of life, in every human civilization in the annals of recorded history — Warfare erodes civil liberties, at least while the war is going on, and often long after the war is over.  This is why whatever military effort we engage in overseas should be, or should have been, as short as possible, and involve as little on-the-ground occupation as possible, and only be used for the purposes of punishment and retribution, not for ideological reconstruction of the Natan Sharansky ideal.  Our men and women being in Afghanistan two days short of forever to convert a country whose people obviously unsuited for life in a democratic republic into a democratc republic is something Pastor Terry Jones advocates.  It should be no surprise that civil liberties in his own country, including his own personal civil liberties, are negatively impacted by the war and occupation he wants.  As far as I’m concerned, he and his church hoisted themselves on their own petard.

I feel sort of weird having this opinion, because it not only goes against my libertarian instincts, but this opinion is also contradictory to my opinion over two similar issues:  (1) Salman Rushdie, and (2) The Mohammed Cartoons.  To be consistent (which, as you know, I don’t give a shit about “consistency” outside of mathematical, logical, scientific, legal/contractual, etc.), I’d have to say that Rushdie and the Cartoonists deserve what happened to him or will happen to them, respectively.  In fact, as you know from being a regular reader, PJB and myself were on opposite sides of the second issue.  So why am I not sensitive to Muslim “sensibilities” when it comes to those two things, but all of a sudden sensitive re burning Korans?  Here’s the answer:  Note the back-and-forth between a poster named “Derrick Rasmussen” and myself (“Question Diversity.”)  Mr. Rasmussen pointed out that there is a difference between mocking and blatant disrespect.  In that conversation, note the question I raised there that I also raised here a few days ago:  How did news of this rinky-dink 50-member church burning Korans become news on the other side of the world before it became news in this country?  It had to be news there before it was news here, because Muslims already protested and rioted in a lot of Muslim cities and countries.  I would not be surprised to find out that this “Dove” church wasn’t for real, that it was ultimately an AQ front; AQ wanted them to burn Korans to solidify Muslim opposition to the U.S. and Muslim support for the G0M.

There is a local angle to this controversy.

KMOX radio:

Religious leaders in St. Louis plan to gather Thursday morning to call on St. Louisans to condemn the planned burning of the Quran by a Florida minister.

The Reverend Terry Jones plans to burn the Muslim holy book on September 11th.

State Representative Jamilah Nasheed will be among those opposing the action.

“I thinks he’s (Jones) is just seeking attention and I think it’s the wrong way to seek attention. This will ignite a lot of tension among Christians and Muslims” said Nasheed.

Representative Nasheed is the only Muslim in the Missouri legislature.

She calls Islam a beautiful religion that has nothing to do with terrorism.  The call for support will take place at the Muhammad Mosque on West Florissant Avenue.

For the record, Miss Nasheed is a black woman, i.e. native born African-American.  From what I understand, she converted to Islam as a young adult, so she took the black American NOI-style track to Islam; she wasn’t born into an Islamic household.  Though she still has a lot to learn if she thinks that Islam “has nothing to do with terrorism.”

UPDATE 11 PM: PJB chimes in. He asks:

Yet if, as President Obama and his commanding general both say, the torching of hundreds of Qurans could so enrage the Islamic world as to incite terror-bombings against U.S. troops and imperial our war effort, why does not the commander in chief send U.S. marshals to arrest this provocateur and abort his provocation?

(snip)

And if Petraeus says letting Jones set this bonfire could imperil U.S. troops, Obama should act to stop it. And if he is so paralyzed by uncertainty as to whether he can do anything — and, as a result, soldiers die — what would that tell us about their commander in chief?

Would stopping Jones and confiscating the Qurans violate Jones’ First Amendment rights? Perhaps. And perhaps not. But if Eric Holder cannot find a charge against Davis, or an inherent power of a war president to prevent actions imminently damaging to the war effort, Obama should find some Justice Department attorneys who can.

Let the ACLU make the case that interfering with Davis’ bonfire violates his First Amendment rights. Let a U.S. court decide whether Obama has the power to take a decision previous wartime presidents would have taken without hesitation.

And if Obama does not have the power to stop actions like this, imperiling our troops, then we should get out of this war.

I think this was written earlier today, before Paster Jones canceled. My response to this column is that I think Obama did act to stop it, but to keep a lid on the controversy, he’ll never admit he sent the FBI in to harass and threaten Jones. And, if like I think, there is some sort of carrot-stick deal between Jones and the FBI/Feds/Obama, Jones will never admit that there was harassment.

UPDATE 11:30 PM: Whoa boy.  Terry Jones, Cape Central H.S. ’69.  Along with…Rush Limbaugh.  Wait’ll the libs get wind of this…

UPDATE 9/13: Speaking of Salman Rushdie, speaking of someone that should know better, he has come out for the G0M, and against Pastor Jones for the wrong reason.

FWH, End-of-Summer Edition

2:  Navy Week In The St. Louis Metro Area

Look around you.  Do you see an ocean?

WPVI-NBC-10 Philly:  Swastikas, Racial Slurs on [NJ] Boardwalk Pavilion

Filming for the third season.

Daily Mail:  How cockroach brains contain antibiotics that could treat MRSA and E-coli

What irony — Cures for the superbugs can be found in a bug.  BTW, have you ever heard of a sick cockroach?

Tuesday’s Other Stuff

*  Some guy posted to the Lost/Found on Craigslist that he was jogging around a park in St. Louis County, and he got hot, and doffed his sweaty shirt before his last lap around the park.  When he got back around to the bench where he left it, it was gone.  And now he wants it back.

First off, who would steal a sweaty shirt?  (Except an expensive Under Armour shirt, but those absorb sweat like sweat was going out of style, so you’d keep a UA shirt on.)  Second, if it’s that warm outside, why even bother wearing a shirt to begin with?

*  Let me break it down for you in simple terms.  The end of tenure would mean the end of anything-but-liberal professors.  That’s why the NYT wants to get rid of tenure so badly.

*  I’m not the biggest Jim Murphy fan in the St. Louis area, to be sure.  But he treated an air-headed juvenile prank as such.  That’s all that needs to be said about this.

*  Dude, they don’t want you flying your big American flags on your truck because Northglenn High School is more more less part of Mexico now.  It’s 53% white and 38% Hispanic, which is a little less white and a little more Hispanic than the statewide average for HS student demographics.  It’ll be less white and more Hispanic with every passing year.

*  Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is on the edge of financial ruin, so saith the auditors.  The only reason it has been able to survive until now is because they’re not paying their payroll taxes.

So that begs the obvious question:  Why no IRS action?  I’ve said on this medium before that there’s no such thing as an affirmative action program for tax evasion — It seemed to me, at least before now, that they’ll throw a black in Federal prison just as fast and for as long as they would a white for the same kind of violation of tax laws or regulations.  But I guess Sharpton is too big a fish for Obama’s IRS to reel in.

*  Jay Nixon was elected Missouri’s Governor in 2008 by a landslide margin.  As it turns out, not for his great oratory.

*  Detroit’s pretty much an Arab/Muslim city anyway.  So it should be no surprise that Dubai wants to buy a share of the Pistons.

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*  Obama’s approval rating in Illinois is only 51%.  It’s probably 30% if you only count Illinois south of Joliet.

*  Speaking of, Daley is falling on his sword.  You may cheer, but this is Chicago we’re talking about here, not Alabama:  Whoever replaces him will be just as bad if not worse.

*  Speaking of, again, the headline is misleading:  It’s not that “Illinoisans are fed up with politics and politicians,” it’s that people south of Joliet are fed up with Chicagograd dominance of the state’s politics.  Note the part of the article where Republicans denounce Mark Jerk as a “RINO.”  This is why Brady’s gonna win Governor quite easily, while it could go either way between Jerk and AlexiG for Senate.  Part of that prediction might be me extending my ego over the entire state, as I’m voting Brady/Plummer but not voting at all in the Senate race.

*  How Obama will reduce the youth unemployment rate to save his own skin for 2012:

D-R-A-F-T.

Obamaite Tom Friedman is already calling for another WWII.  And like I said yesterday, Iran is funding attacks against American troops in Afg, Afg is now Obama’s baby, so Obama would have no choice but to go after Mahmoud the Nutty.

*  A bit of good news:  In spite of his battin’ a thousand with SCOTUS nominees, Obama’s success rate in getting Federal District and Appellate nominees confirmed is lower than Richard Nixon.  Considerng the turkeys Nixon gave us, and the ones Obama wants to give us, this isn’t just good news, it’s great news.

As it turns out, Republicans in the Senate might be engaging in the right strategery — Let him have his SCOTUS picks, because Sotomayor and Kagan replaced rough equivalents in the persons of David Souter and John Paul Stevens, so it was a wash in terms of ideological balance on the High Court.  Instead, use their limited energies and influence to knock off kooks Obama would nominate to the lower courts, as hardly anyone pays attention then.

*  More sense from Steve Sailer:  When it comes to politics, young people don’t rebel.  When it looks like they’re rebelling, a la Vietnam in 1969 and Obama in 2008, they’re really conforming to their teachers and professors.

Black Thugs Ambush Boston Pizza Deliveryman

CNN:

Boston police say ‘vicious thugs’ killed pizza delivery man

Boston police have arrested three suspects who they say stabbed a Domino’s pizza delivery man and drove off in his car.

(snip)

CNN affiliate WCVB reported that the three suspects broke into a vacant home Thursday night and then made a call for pizza to be delivered, according to police.

When Nova arrived, he was stabbed multiple times at the kitchen door, police said.

The group drove off in Nova’s car, then left it in a church parking lot, WCVB reported, citing a police report. They took about $100 Nova was carrying — and the pizza — with them.

“Richel Nova was a hard-working man, making an honest living to provide for his family when he was preyed upon by three vicious thugs,” Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told reporters. “For a small amount of money, these suspects committed unspeakable acts of violence while showing Mr. Nova no mercy.”

Friends told WCVB that Nova, a Dominican immigrant who moved to Massachusetts more than 20 years ago, worked three jobs to provide a better life for his son and twin 20-year-old daughters.

(snip)

Michel Andre St. Jean, 20, Alexander Emmanuel Gallett, 18 and Yamiley Mathurin, 17 are accused of homicide, armed robbery and armed breaking and entering of a dwelling.

It took a little searching to find a Boston news source who actually showed Messrs. St. Jean, Gallett and Mathurin.  Two of the three are pictured above; the third man tried to hide himself in something that looked like an off-white beekeeper suit, but you could definitely see his face to see that he is in fact a gentleman of color.  The black man with glasses is a bailiff, while the three white men are the attorneys for each of the three suspects.

Methinks most of the Boston media are covering up that the suspects are black, in order to work up the same narrative that the national media tried to play with black-on-Hispanic violence on Staten Island, i.e. implying white people did it, because of talk radio and Arizona’s SB 1070.

These kinds of set-up ambushes against pizza delivery men, involving prank pizza orders to abandoned houses, are fairly common occurrences in St. Louis.  They happen about once a year on average, and usually, the victim is white, though I did see one instance where the victim was black.  In all cases, the perps are black.

Dumber Students + Harder Tests = More Failure + Bigger Racial Achievement Gap

P-D:

U.S. plans major changes in how students are tested

Standardized exams – the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in U.S. public education in recent years – are being overhauled.

Over the next four years, two groups of states, 44 in all, will get $330 million to work with hundreds of university professors and testing experts to design a series of new assessments that officials say will look very different from those in use today.

The new tests, which Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, are to be ready for the 2014-15 school year.

They will be computer-based, Duncan said, and will measure higher-order skills ignored by the multiple-choice exams used in nearly every state, including students’ ability to read complex texts, synthesize information and do research projects.

Steve Sailer:

And the reference to “performance-based tasks” in which people are supposed to “write analytically” is naive. I suspect that Duncan and the NYT man are confused by all the talk during the Ricci case about the wonders of “assessment centers” in which candidates for promotion are supposed to sort through an in-basket and talk out loud about how they would handle problems. In other words, those are hugely expensive oral tests. The city of New Haven brought in 30 senior fire department officials from out of state to be the judges on the oral part of the test.

And the main point of spending all this money on an oral test is that an oral test can’t be blindgraded. In New Haven, 19 of the 30 oral test judges were minorities, which isn’t something that happens by randomly recruiting senior fire department officials from across the country.

But nobody can afford to rig the testing of 35,000,000 students annually.

At first, I thought that this was all a roundabout way of affirmative action in standardized school testing.  But Sailer is probably right — It would be way too big of a job.

Back to Sailer:

The higher the intellectual skills that are tested, the larger the gaps between the races will turn out to be. Consider the AP Physics C exam, the harder of the two AP physics tests: In 2008, 5,705 white males earned 5s (the top score) versus six black females.

In contrast, tests of rote memorization, such as having third graders chant the multiplication tables, will have smaller disparate impact than tests of whether students “can analyze and solve complex problems, communicate clearly, synthesize information, apply knowledge, and generalize learning to other settings.” That’s a pretty decent description of what IQ tests measure.

Duncan says that the new tests could replace existing high school exit exams that students must pass to graduate.

(snip)

The fact that you can currently graduate from high school without being smart enough for college is not a bug, it’s a feature. Look, this isn’t Lake Wobegon. Half the people in America are below average in intelligence. They aren’t really college material. But they shouldn’t all have to go through life branded as a high school dropout instead of high school graduate because they weren’t lucky enough in the genetic lottery to be college material.

The Gates Foundation and the U. of California ganged up on the LA public schools to get the school board to pass a rule that nobody will be allowed to graduate who hasn’t passed three years of math, including Algebra II. That’s great for UC, not so great for an 85 IQ kid who just wants a high school diploma so employers won’t treat him like (uh oh) a high school dropout. But, nobody gets that.

(snip)

It’s absurd to think that it’s all that crucial that all American schoolchildren must be able to “analyze and solve complex problems, communicate clearly, synthesize information, apply knowledge, and generalize learning to other settings.” You can be a success in life without being able to do any of that terribly well.

I wouldn’t worry too much if I were Steve Sailer.  If these new tests are as hard as advertised, then minorities will flunk them way more often than whites.  Then the civil rights industry will bitch, and the Education Department of 2015, which will be under a second-term Obama, or a first-term HRC, or a first term of whatever the Stupid Party plonks out as a nominee in 2012, not likely to be a race realist, will cave in to the pressure.

Fun With Labor Day Headlines

Ben Maller:  Vikings pass on T.J. Houshmandzadeh?

I think it was the opposite — He knew what happens to Vikes players with difficult last names — They get their junk exposed on national TV.

AP:  Chicago gangs to top cop: You’re not playing fair

Start hitting your intended targets instead of innocent by-standing six-year old girls, and then we’ll talk fairness.

P-D:  Buckshot strikes man sitting on porch

Good thing it didn’t kill him, else I would have cast doubts on his status as a man if buckshot could do him in.

Johnson City (Tenn.) Press:  Sheriff fires deputies caught naked in forest

C’mon, Sheriff.  Forests practically beg you to get drunk, naked and then fuck around.

Labor Day Weekend Wrap-Up

*  Blacks engage in racial attacks against Asians at Philadelphia high schools.  WaPo denies the racial motivation.

Asians, welcome to the club.  If you were white and this happened to you, the MSM would also deny the obvious racial hate.  But if you were Hispanic, they would admit that they’re hate crimes, but then they’d do everything they can to cover up the fact that the perps are black, and go so far as to infer that the perps are white.

*  Machete wasn’t the anti-white racist screed that some made it out to be.  It was much worse.

*  I do trust a Mizzou geography prof to show us where on the world map we can find the enemy.  But I wouldn’t necessarily trust him to help us win the war against them.

BTW, who majors in geography in college?

*  Sorry, I’m not buying Rihanna as a Naval Officer.  I would buy Chris Brown in Leavenworth, though.

*  Spelling FAIL?  More like wardrobe FAIL.

*  Paul Thurrott hawks the Zune platform as an alternative to the iCabal, especially considering that iTunes 10, the software you must have on your computer if you own an iAnything, is even more bloated and buggy than its predecessors.

Pardon me?  I’m supposed to run to MSFT to spite AAPL?  That’s like trading the frying pan for the fire.  While iTunes is a bloated and buggy piece of junk software, it’s not as if MSFT doesn’t abuse its monopoly position in OSes (Windoze) and office productivity suites (Office) to produce bloated and buggy pieces of junk software.  Just because Zune the software isn’t a POS, yet, it would be if Zune were the monopoly iTunes was.

Since you read this medium on a regular basis, you’ve known for a while that I own a CC Witness.  I mainly bought it because it’s the only portable digital music device that can play and record AM radio, so I can record Rush Limbaugh and listen later.  (I don’t subscribe to 24/7 and get Rush podcasts that way because it operates through iLoonyTunes.  And even though the Cards returning to KMOX next season means more occasional Rush pre-emptions, I still have a trick up my sleeve — I can pick up Mt. Vernon, Ill’s 940 WMIX, a Rush affiliate, from my Edwardsville abode, with my CC Witness.)  Now, it’s okay as a music player, but it’s only slightly smaller than the iPod Classic form factor, and while it’s not a ton of bricks, it is a bit heavier than I would like to carry with me on workouts.  My Droid Incredible has music playback functionality, too, and while it’s also functionally decent, it’s still a relatively big and heavy smartphone.  Plus I like to leave the phone both off and in the locker while at the gym.  I can barely walk and chew gum simultaneously; I cannot pound a treadmill and carry on a conversation simultaneously.  That and it’s so rude to be yapping to someone while everyone else can hear you while we’re all trying to work out; on top of that, the noise from all the people having cell conversations on top of the exercise machine noise would lead to an unbearable total noise level.

So I was recently in the market for a very light player roughly equal to the iPod Nano in form factor and weight.  I found my ideal device in the under 2 oz under $100 16 GB black Sony Walkman E Series.  It includes syncing software, but it’s not necessary — I can and do use nothing more than my Windows or Linux file explorer to drag and drop music files back-and-forth.  Its best feature is its Sony sound quality, including its very credible bass.  Mate them with a great set of ear buds (the ones that come with the Walkman are rather poor), and bingo.  Workout buddy.

‘Round the Backstretch They Come

If you enjoy non-political TV ads, enjoy today.  For you won’t see one for about two months.

Worst Ever and Second Worst Ever:  Democrats running from President Obama; Republicans from Former President Bush.

I’m so looking forward to the battle between FDR and Reagan these next two months.

When Good News Is Bad: Rand Paul has a 15-point lead in a poll commissioned by Louisville’s major paper and leading TV news station.  That he has a big lead and will win this election by a big margin does not surprise me — With people souring on both Obama and Bush, any person that seems to be as far as possible from both, like Rand Paul, is going to do the best this election season.  However, the worrisome part of this poll is that RP is pulling 37% of the black vote.  First, I doubt that, though even if he gets none of the black vote on election day, it won’t matter, as blacks are a non-entity in Kentucky statewide politics.  Outside of Louisville, and perhaps Fort Campbell, (which is mostly in Tennessee, though parts extend into Kentucky), there are virtually no blacks in the state.  However, what I fear is that the Stupid Party Establishment, which wanted no part of RP before now, will all of a sudden think that he’s got some sort of magic wand to do what they’ve wanted to do for ages.  I don’t want any Republican thinking they have a chance of getting any share of the black vote.  Believe me, the Stupid Party is already left-wing enough — If they get it in their wee little thimble brains that they have a chance at the black vote, they’ll go almost as Marxist as the Democrats.

Ideal scenario is that Paul wins with at least a healthy margin, whilst getting no black votes.

Incidentally, both Rand Paul and Jack Conway are Duke grad school alums, med and law, respectively.  I predict a record low turnout from Fayette County.

How Obama Will Save Himself For 2012: I think the Democrats have privately conceded the House, so they’re going to do everything they can to save at least a statistical majority in the Senate.  So President Obama’s concern is now entirely on his own skin.  I think I know how he’s gonna do it:  War with Iran.  Afghanistan is now Obama’s war, and if Ahmadinejad is helping fight the Americans there by proxy, then Obama has no choice but to hit Tehran.

Just In Time for Labor Day

A stack of immigration news.

*  Cecila Velasquez, “The Red Latina,” must have snuck back across the border.  For she’s organizing Mexican-themed Labor Day celebrations in St. Louis now.

I’ve been following her story for more than four years.

*  Missouri:  Mexico’s Newest Colony?  Not quite yet, but in the state as a whole and in St. Louis City, the Hispanic population is growing.  The statewide focus is southwest and west Central Missouri, and its chicken plucking plants and sweatshops.  In St. Louis, the epicenters seem to be the former Cherokee Street shopping district and Maplewood, both places were well on their ways to becoming black ghettos.  So at least in those cases, Hispanic immigration has technically helped the area, albeit not by much.

One more thing:  Roy Joachimstaler, who should have been St. Louis’s Police Chief, is now O’Fallon’s.  You can read in this article why St. Louis made the wrong choice and O’Fallon made the right one.

*  Ruling Class vs Country Class, German Style.

Note that Thilo Sarrazin is a member of Germany’s Center-Left Party, and grassroots party members are begging the party’s establishment not to kick him out.

The ONLY worrisome thing about his new book is that he claims that Jews “share a certain gene.”  I’m sure they share lots of genes.  All Germans share certain genes.  All Chinese share certain genes.  All West Africans share certain genes.  All Irish share certain genes.  All Australian Aboriginals share certain genes.  All Kanaka Moali (Native Hawaiians) share certain genes.  That he applied an obvious fact to Jews and Jews alone might have tipped his hand on his views of a certain taboo (and in Germany, illegal) subject.

*  Los Angeles Dodgers.  Puke gag.  Shouldn’t be “Los Doyers” anymore.  It should be “Doyers Lose.”

Tis life in the Big Mexican City.

Way Out of Checkmate

For the first time in quite a few months, we got Mark Steyn as a Rush fill-in this past week, both on Wednesday and Thursday.

When he hosted on Wednesday, Steyn took a call from someone who was either a radical liberal or an anti-Semitic rightist.  The caller’s contention is that the fanatical AQ/Taliban types over in Crapistan are using our opposition to the G0M as a recruiting tool.

The caller was literally correct, I fear.  If the G0M opponents are successful in their opposition, that will happen.  The loony toonz halfway around the world will say, “see, we told you so.  Freedom of religion?  No such thing.  Vile hypocritical Crusaders.  Join the Taliban!”  The point I wish Steyn would have made is that they’ll be able to recruit if the G0M is successful — the same toonz will say, “see, we won a victory over the great infidel Crusader satan in the very city where we struck nine years ago.  Join the Taliban!”  IOW, just *proposing* the G0M was a checkmate move on the part of the kooks — no matter what happens, they’ll be able to recruit.

BUT…

I have a way out.

I might or might not have made this point in this space in the last few weeks — There is a logical rationale for the Federal government to step in and stop the G0M.  No, it’s not just a “local zoning issue.”  The Hamas-linked kooks want the G0M where it is because it’s very close to Ground Zero.  Ground Zero is called that because almost nine years ago, their Brothers in Arms engaged in terrorist attacks to bring the former World Trade Center towers 1 and 2 down.  (My mild 9/11 skepticism aside.)  And as a reaction, men and women from every state in the union are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.  If we’re to tell Mrs. Smith from Georgia and Mrs. Jones from Idaho that their sons should fight and die in Mazar-i-Sharif and Anbar Province because of what happened on 9/11, then Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones, through their Federal government, should have a say on whether forces with strong links to those that committed the act of terrorism should build an installation very near the hole their deeds created.

Here’s the way out:  Construe the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) of September 18, 2001 as a Congressional Act of War.  Note that AQ did 9/11, Hamas has very close links to AQ, and the G0M Imams have close links to Hamas, ergo those Imams are Congressionally-declared enemies.  There’s the in for the Feds to stop G0M construction.  While that would stop G0M construction, that wouldn’t stop the loony toonz being able to recruit in Crapistan based on infidel “hypocrisy.”  So the way out of this checkmate is that the Feds use this power NOT to stop the G0M permanently, but to hold it hostage, and not let it proceed until Saudi Arabia allows a church and a synagogue in Mecca, and furthermore, devotes the full resources of its government and law enforcement to preventing, precluding and punishing acts of terrorism, hate crimes, terrorist plots and hate crime conspiracies by Muslims against Christian and Jewish parishioners at that church and synagogue.  That way, you put the ball of religious liberty and consistency back into their court.

And you put their King into checkmate.

UPDATE 9/6: Something called the Dove World Outreach Center is going to hold a mass Koran burning ceremony this Saturday, on the ninth anniversary of 9/11.  David Petraeus wishes they wouldn’t, as he thinks (probably rightly so) that it will result in several more American body bags.  There are already protests in Afghanistan over this upcoming event.  Funny that they heard about it over on the other side of the world before I heard about it halfway across the country.  Which leads me to my theory — maybe it’s not “funny.”  Maybe if you follow the trail from this Dove World Outreach Center, you’ll find radical Islam on the other end, meaning that they’re deliberately burning Korans to help Muslims organize, and to portray Americans as “evil bigots” in the wake of the G0M controversy.  But even if this “Center” is for real, I sincerely wish they wouldn’t, and, in spite of my better sensibilities otherwise, I wish some government, Federal, state or local, would find some pretext to shut it down.

This seems to be contradictory to my opinions about the Mohammed Cartoons controversy from four to five years ago, but really it’s not — Cartoons are just cartoons.  The Koran is a holy book to hundreds of millions of people in this world, many of them are secular moderates who want nothing to do with any of this Jihad bullshit, or this terrorism bullshit, or this taqqiya bullshit, or this caliphate bullshit, or this Sharia bullshit, or this burqua bullshit.  Burning Korans is a bridge too far.

Hands

Compare and contrast.

This is an ad from a conservative political party in Sweden that the country’s media refuses to air:

Jesse Helms’s famous “Hands” ad from his 1990 Senate re-election campaign:

It’s Not Easy Being Green (or Red, or Black, or White, or Purple)

Yahoo Sports:  Clarett confident of success; won’t discuss past

Gee, we’re all in the dark about his “past,” we’ve got no idea where he was for the past four or so years.

Daily Mail:  Is America anti-Islamic? ‘Hostile atmosphere’ goes beyond Ground Zero mosque, claim 50 Muslim groups

About time.  WTF took us so long?

5:  Louis Farrakhan supports mosque near ground zero

This is the shot in the arm that the G0M proponents need to put themselves over the top — A mainstream, credible spokesman who isn’t prone to venal rhetoric and who can never be credibly accused of provoking violence.

5:  Wisconsin prison inmates getting new perks

Eight choices of cheese instead of just four, Packers games in HD instead of just SD, and five Democrat ballots on election day instead of just two.

5:  Police say Kermit Butts is tied to Samuel Boob murder

“Pea green with jealousy,” so saith Detectives Fozzie Edwards and Gonzo Martin.

Slashdot:  Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime

He has time now that he helped win the war on real crime.

Jihad Watch:  USA defeats Iran in basketball, cheerleaders cover up in “nod to Islam”

Or, they were embarrassed that we were playing Iran, just as much as it would have been to play the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Friday’s Stuff

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what they call great baseball playoff weather in St. Louis.  Well, at least we got the weather.

*  Too many people, including too many right wingers, are interpreting this story from the gender lens.  McPaper gets to the truth, albeit not until Paragraph #5.

*  I know what they’re up to.  Country music will work better, especially the old time variety.  They can always stream WSM or KQQZ.

*  While in Rome……there are at least some real Romans left to do as they do.  Buh bye gyps.

*  “Snitches get stitches.”  That was the touch that gave the racial angle away.

*  An ESPN columnist wants Maurice Clarett to forget football and become an anti-violence community activist.  Because there’s a real big need for ex-cons to preach to kids about how not to commit crime.  St. Louis only has like 25,000 of them.

*  Along the same lines, the Yankee government is about to burn $1.6 billion because Omar is their Homeboy.

*  I’m actually cool with the concept of recycling my own bike pedaling energy back into the power grid.  However, as someone who regularly uses gyms, I want something more forceful and relaxing out of the showers than just the rough equivalent of a slow drizzle.

Unemployment Line

This means that the Feds now have three different immigration lawsuits going against Arizona at the same time.  This one, SB 1070 and the junior college suit bought earlier this week.

On the other hand, it probably guarantees that both Gabrielle Giffords and Harry Mitchell will be standing on the unemployment line come January 3.  Terry Goddard’s place in the queue has been reserved for quite a long time, since the day Jan Brewer signed SB 1070.

Advice for Geert Wilders

Get your own security posse.  Because the “official” Dutch security forces are probably heavily Muslim, and most of the whites are liberal or neo-liberal geldings.

I’ve Got Me a World Full of “Duh”

UK Telegraph:  Tony Blair brands Scottish devolution a ‘dangerous game’

Well, Duh.  If you were an Illinois Democrat, would you want Chicago to secede from the union?

FNC:  John Cusack Calls for ‘Satanic Death’ of Fox News, GOP Leaders

Hey, whaddaya know.  You can tweet from the inside of mental institutions now.

AP:  Hilton banned from Wynn resorts after Vegas arrest

I get the hunch she’s still welcome at the Hilton.

CNS:  John Walker Lindh Seeks Indiana Prison Prayer Ruling

Why bother?  We all know you thank Allah that American troops didn’t mow your ass down in Afg when they really should have, saving the American legal system the imbroglio.

5:  Tires swiped off Detroit’s mayor SUV

This is good news for Dave Bing — Once they catch the thief, then Bing will have his new nominee for the Board of Police Commissioners.

Wednesday’s Stuff

*  Even though the Cardinals own 50% of KTRS, that ownership fraction was part of the deal three years ago that moved Cards games from KMOX to KTRS, the games are going back to KMOX starting next season.  That’s kinda like Paris Hilton partying at the Wynn instead of the Hilton.

Remember, KTRS’s studios were supposed to move to the Ballpark Village That Never Will Be.  According to the P-D, the team is putting its half share of KTRS on the market.  The good news is that KTRS hosts that don’t live in the city will never have to worry about paying city earnings taxes.

The bad part about it is that it means more Rush Limbaugh pre-emptions from April to October.

*  Even though she’s working, a middle-aged white Seattle woman and her teenage son were homeless for many months.  The Seattle media source which profiles their plight goes through an entire article without mentioning immigration, and the fact that rents in Hispanic- and Asian-heavy immigrant cities, especially western and desert cities where urban sprawl is almost impossible, (Seattle being one of them — surrounded by water on one side and mountains on another), are sky high because numerous working individuals cram-jam into a domicile, and the various multiple-income households bid rents for an essentially fixed number of rental units sky high.  Making rents virtually unaffordable for single mothers.  Ironically, this source cites the Bill Gates Foundation as an institution that is working on solutions.  Yeah, it should, after it worked on causing the problem all these years, with Bill Gates and his insatiable thirst for H-1B visa holders from cheap labor South and East Asia.  They’re the types that love to collectively cram-jam into apartments.

*  Speaking of which, the beat goes on in St. Charles — If someone doesn’t stand athwart the vestibule of history and yell “Stop!,” then Lindenwood University is going to eat St. Charles alive.

*  I’ve heard it said that Usain Bolt would make a good NFL wide receiver, but he is apparently looking into British Premier League soccer for his second athletic career.

Even though I think he’ll flop in soccer, as the average soccer player runs an average of seven miles per game, with average pauses of only 20-some odd seconds, and sprinters really can’t make the transition to long-distance running, I think the reason he’s going to the Premier League instead of the NFL is because the NFL drug tests.

*  Who are you going to believe?  Me or your own lying eyes?

*  There are a lot of people crying in their beer after Lisa Murkowski conceded defeat yesterday in AK-SEN-R to Joe Miller, but I think the biggest bawler can be found some 3,100 miles away from Anchorage as the crow files.  Just as the Republicans have a chance to take back the Senate, the man who would be Majority Leader, that being Mitch McConnell, is watching all the people that would be his henchmen and women drop like files.  First, Rand Paul hands McConnell lackey Trey Grayson his ass in his own state.  Then Bob Bennett in Utah loses in the first round of the state GOP convention, and now Murkowski is defeated at the hands of basically nobody.

If the GOP does take over the Senate, we just might thankfully be spared a Mitch McConnell leadership.  So all your votes for Republican Senate candidates might not be all for naught.

*  A writer for McPaper suggests that President Obama should try to buy off Michael Bloomberg to make the G0M controversy go away, (hint:  before it costs Democrats another 20 House seats in November.)  He seems to be admitting that Bloomberg’s motivation for coming out for the G0M is entirely pecuniary.  Which I told you a few days ago.

*  Did you know that a white man could succeed Charlie Rangel in NY-15?

I know, I speaketh in jest.

*  J. Phillipe Rushton would have a field day with this story.  Hint:  Racial differences in multiple births.

*  Gang bangers shot two Chicago cops serving gang/gun warrants.

They shouldn’t have done that, because J-Fed made it perfectly clear a few days go that he’s going to go after them with everything he’s got.

IBIWISI.

Today’s 48th State Stack of Stuff

*  “Shit’s about to collapse in MX and points south.”  Gotta love that “Insta” in the “Instapundit.”  Now you know why AZ wanted SB 1070, to keep that “shit” from collapsing northward.

*  Didn’t I tell you more than a month ago not to hate on the Federal judge who temporarily put parts of SB 1070 on hold?  Didn’t I tell you not to call out the lynch mobs for her head?  Didn’t I say that most of the analysis of her enjoinders were way overblown?  Didn’t I say that our people were about ready to commit suicide way too prematurely?  Didn’t I say that the Raza and Aztlan kooks’ celebrations were also premature?

Well, well.  Looks like I was right — This very same Federal judge just turned away the lawsuit bought by the Hispanic Tuscon P.D. officer, Martin Escobar, against SB 1070.  So it turns out she’s not the intellectually dishonest hack that some of our people made her out to be.

*  More proof:  Most Mexican drug cartel guns come from places other than the United States.  New news:  To the extent that a few of those guns come from America, they came from the American Federal government, giving guns to “legitimate” Mexican authorities in order to “fight” the cartels.  This report cites Bill Clinton’s “Blue Lantern” program, but it’s not just Clinton — George W. Bush and Barack Obama have the Merida Initative.  Eventually, guns transferred from north to south under that program will also wind up in the hands of the cartels, and eventually seized by the two honest cops in Mexico.

“Earth in the Balance” — More Blood On Its Pages and Its Author’s Hands Than “The Turner Diaries”

First it was the Unabomber who was fond of Al Gore’s EITB.  Now it’s some Asian-Canadian who somehow thinks that The Discovery Channel wasn’t pro-environmentalist enough for his tastes, so he went and shot up their Silver Springs, People’s Republic of Maryland Home Office.

Needless to say, you WON’T be reading much about this in the official publications of either the ADL or the SPLC.

Instapundit:

A manifesto posted on a Web site registered to a person named James Lee, who gave a post office box in Canada as his address, lists several demands to the Discovery Channel, saying the station “MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet.” It lists 11 demands about airing shows that would promote curbing the plant’s population growth, finding solutions for global warming and dismantling “the dangerous US world economy.”

He went through all that trouble, when he could have just changed the channel to MSNBC and voted Obama in 2012.

Also:

“All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions,” it reads. “In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”

“Parasitic human infants.”  Around 95% of human births these days are non-white, so I guess this non-white shooter-upper is telling 95% of all new parents that their new colored children are parasites?  Hell, I can’t even be that bigoted.

Why You Runnin?

Just watch.  By this time tomorrow, this is going to be the police’s fault.  I’m just waiting for the cat calls from the community activists aplenty that it was only detergent.

But they don’t pursue over minor thefts.  Ipso facto, it wasn’t just about detergent.  Somebody’s lying to us, and I don’t think it’s the cops.  Methinks that one of the two adults had outstanding arrest warrants, and/or there was a gun in the car.  The man, as the P-D states, is a convicted felon recently let out of prison, meaning a felon-in-possession charge and another few years with his Uncle Sam.