Halloween Sunday Wrap-Up

I had to let a lot of stuff accumulate over the week, because my focus has been on election news.

*  Modest proposal:  Even though today is “officially” Halloween, I saw a lot of trick-or-treating last night and Friday night.

Several years ago, Congress expanded daylight savings time because the price of gas was so high.  (What one had to do with the other, I don’t know.  How turning your clocks ahead in early March instead of early April, and in early November instead of late October, would reduce the price of gas at the pump, is a mystery I have yet to solve.)  One of the reasons why they added an extra week of daylight time on the autumn end is that it would guarantee that October 31 would be on Daylight Time, so all those brats collecting candy would be a little safer because of the later sunset.  However, as this year showed, if October 31 is on an evening before a school day, then the parents will take the kids out begging in funny costumes on the Friday or Saturday evening before.

Therefore, we should start observing Halloween colloquially on the last Friday in October.  Then turn the clocks back 2 AM the following Sunday.  This means that “falling back” would happen every year no sooner than October 27 but no later than November 2.  Reasonable, IMHO.  Now, it’s no earlier than November 1 and no later than November 7, and this year is the latest possible.  Before 2007, the range was October 25 and October 31.  My proposal guarantees DST on “Halloween” AND reasonable clock fallback dates.

If you’re wondering why I’m locking ass about turning back the clocks, the way it is this year, we won’t fall back until November 7.  That means “hour later” sunrises of around 7:30 in St. Louis (later the further west you get in this or any time zone) this coming week.  (Example:  Terre Haute, Indiana, far west in the Eastern Time Zone, will have sunrises around 8:20 this workweek.  Then again, Terre Haute is in the wrong time zone, but that’s another discussion for another day.)  If you want to worry about kids and darkness and safety, late sunrises are just as bad, because kids have to walk to school and to bus stops in the morning.

*  Good, we’re making progress.

But what if the SLPD wanted to make these places “safe zones,” not just one night a year, and not just for brats collecting their future reason for daily insulin shots?

Guess who would be first in line bitching about racial profiling.  I’ll give you a hint — He is black, even though his name sounds like a white ethnicity.

*  Just what of yesterday’s Restoring Insanity rally were Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert trying to cover up?

I have three theories:

(1) Pot smoking, (2) Group orgies, and (3) People smoking pot while engaged in group orgies.

*  Look familiar?  If I didn’t know better, I would swear some of these pictures were taken in North or East St. Louis.

*  The State of Arizona sent one Jeffrey Landrigan to his Eternal Justice this past week.  They had to import the lethal injection drug from Britain, as domestic supplies are very limited.  It is expected that anti-death penalty lawyers will use foreign importation as grounds in their attempts to stay executions and/or commute them to life sentences, supposedly because imported drugs aren’t properly inspected.  (I didn’t know the United Kingdom was a backwater third-world country.)  In reality, since Landrigan was being executed for a murder he committed in AZ after having broken out of a prison in his native Oklahoma 21 years ago, this is precisely the argument for importing the jolly juice from wherever you can get it.  He can’t break out of prison to commit another murder now!

*  Bush confirms:  He sent the Air Force shoot-down orders against any hijacked airliners after it became obvious on 9/11 that it was terrorism.  Bush thought that the AF did take care of the flight that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  I tend to think that both the Air Force and the “Let’s Roll” passengers are jointly responsible for bringing it down — I happen to think that the passengers got control of the flight from the hijackers, wanted to ground the flight somewhere where some of them would have a chance to survive, but the AF hit the airliner (unbeknown to the airliner’s new “pilots”), and the AF hit is what is reponsible for it coming down in Shanksville.

Nevertheless, Bush and the AF did the right thing.  They had no way of knowing that the good guys un-hijacked the plane.

*  I didn’t know the Illinois state judiciary had any jurisdiction over high school football.

This is relating to the genius who knew he was living and playing out of district, (his attraction to ESL was that a lot of his relatives are on the ESL coaching staff), yet genius goes and jacks someone up, leading a law enforcement agency on the East Side to get his home address on the public record.

And no, I don’t feel sorry for “all the other innocent guys” on the ESL team.  (“Innocence” isn’t a word that much comes to mind thinking about East St. Louis.)  Football is a team sport, and you either win or lose collectively based on the rules.

*  Her real baby wanted to be fed real world food, but she was too busy being a pretend farmer on Facebook to care.  On the one hand, she won’t have to worry about taking care of her baby anymore.  On the other hand, she’ll never be able to use Facebook anymore.

“Pretend farmer.”  I wonder if you can be a pretend cattle rancher on Facebook, too.  As I stated in my voting reform proposal a few years ago, there were (at the time) figured to be some 10,000 people doubly registered to vote in CA and CO, most of those being Beverly Hills yuppie libs who escaped the consequences of their own liberalism by chopping up old cattle ranches on the Front Range of Colorado ten acres at a time (“rancheros”), so they can pretend to be cattle ranchers on weekends, and fuck up the Colorado body politic in the process.

*  CPD wants to raise the minimum age for recruits from 21 to 25.  From what I’ve seen, they should actually lower it to 14 if they want anyone to be a cop in that city, probably the most thankless job on Earth.

Actually, I think this move and the Vincent Richardson case are related.  The only reason he was able to pull off the stunt for as long as he did is because he easily passed for a young-ish looking 21.

As the case may be, it turns out the move might make the CPD Cadet Program (i.e. $9 a hour pre-police work for those ages 17-21) moot.  Believe me, being paid only $9 an hour in an expensive city like Chicago to work a job is so little that you might as well be paying them.  And now, they’ll have to wait four years between being a cadet and being an actual cop?  The CPD has pretty much told a lot of potential new recruits to fuck off.

*  Lost in the obits is that Earl Wilson was a first cousin to Bill Clay Sr.  Do you think that helped his life’s ambitions a bit?

*  I would have left the dumbass stuck in that window.  Instead, he’s got a four-year prison bid, which in England, means he’ll do about two months.  In contrast, it would have taken him more than four years to get himself un-stuck.

*  Fareed Zakaria, former editor of the Int’l edition of Newsweak (sic), and incoming Editor-in-Chief at Time, whines that:

We have no national sales tax in this country!  We’re the only country in the advanced world that doesn’t have one!

I call that a feature, not a bug.

Zakaria thinks we need one in order to fund:

…the things that will make American competitive, and that involves many things. It means educating people to the level that- we can educate and put people through universities in science and technology and engineering and math.

Funny, because the Silicon Valley is full of white men in their 40s and 50s with advanced degrees in engineering and math.  Yet, they can’t find work, at least work commensurate with their education.  And the reason for that?  I won’t say, but the reason is apropos, considering that Fareed Zakaria is a native of India.

*  The last time this kind of thing happened in Northern Virginia, they were SO sure that the doer was white.  And then the cops caught up with John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.

*  As Gwen Stefani might say, they don’t want to be no hollaback girls.

We don’t get any indication about any commonality of the men who are victimizing such women, so that’s our dog-not-barking clue that they’re probably black or Hispanic.

V-Dare thinks it’s mainly Hispanic men.  Though in NYC, “Hispanic” tends to mean black Caribbean or mulatto-Caribbean Spanish speakers, e.g. PR, DR, etc.

And a few headlines.

NYT:  4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case

The plaintiffs are indeed going to go for the jugular — A lien on her allowance.

AP:  Chicago Jewish groups on alert for odd packages

It would behoove Jewish groups everywhere not to accept UPS packages from Yemen any time in the next month, or any time ever.

Daily Mail:  Police guide to arresting a witch: It’s normal for people to be naked, bound and blindfolded and whatever you do, don’t touch their book of spells

Except if they’re running for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, then you’ve gotta make it almost criminal.

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*  There were two ex-Presidents at yesterday’s Game 3 of the World Series, the first ever WS game in Dallas.  George W. Bush, and Andrew Jackson:

Even though Bush is only 64, he really looks bad.  In fact, almost as old as his father.  Meanwhile, Jackson at 243 years old looks great — Not a day over 80.

*  Who says there aren’t some Republicans who want Harry Reid to win?  I personally think the NYT is more right than it knows  –  I put nothing past a lot of the checkered-pants types.  Don’t forget, even the NRA endorsed Reid at first, before membership pressure forced them to backtrack.

*  John Hickenlooper has a vestigal link to St. Louis.

*  Nancy Pelosi is in a Catch 22 for her political ambitions going forward — Too liberal to have any serious national power anymore, yet not liberal enough for her own city.

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*  There was regular season game in the major leagues a few months ago that I won’t forget even if I live to be a thousand years old.  If I remember right, it was involving two NL West teams.  In the latter innings, some bench-clearing brawl broke out, and I think it started because of a wild pitch hitting a batter.  Both dugouts cleared out, and the locus of the actual combatants was just off the mound in the direction of first base.  Not only did both dugouts clear out, but the only pitcher throwing in the bullpen thought it was necessary to make his way towards the fight.  This reliever, don’t remember his name, was (and presumably still is) overweight and out of shape.  So while he was running from the bullpen toward the fight, you could see his blubber jigging and him getting out of breath and running slower and slower the closer he got to the fight.  Now, I thought to myself, what did he think he was doing?  What did he think his fat ass would be able to accomplish in the fight?  First off, he was running so slowly, and like I said, got even slower the closer he got, he might have never actually gotten there, a la Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox.  Even if he did make it, it would have taken him so long that the fight would have been over by then.  And even if the fight was still going on, he would have been so tired and out of breath that he would have been useless in it.  And God forbid that his team would need him to pitch — I figure they needed him because he was throwing in the pen.  Of course, this fat fuck was probably only ever used for middle inning garbage time, so it wouldn’t have mattered to the outcome of the game anyway.

I remember this not because I was watching this game, but ESPN ran with it over and over for much of that night and the next morning.

The reason I’m bringing it up in my election news stack of stuff is that this blubberfuck comes to mind when I read today that John McCain is going to Nevada to campaign for Sharron Angle.  Rush thinks that this is a clue that Angle has this election in the bag, that McCain is only going there so that he can claim credit, (which the media will of course give him), for her victory.  (Couldn’t have said it better myself, Rush.)  As for me, I remember the last time John McCain was on a statewide ballot in Nevada, that being just about two years ago.  And he lost by a dozen points.

*  UK Telegraph profiles Anh “Joseph” Cao and his Democrat opponent.  LA-2, mostly New Orleans, will be the only House district to flip from R to D on Tuesday.  Then again, what the Telegraph fails to mention is that Cao or any Republican, liberal or otherwise, holding this seat, is a 100% pure accident.  Mainly because the election process in 2008 was timed perfectly with the fall of William “Cold Cash” Jefferson.

*  Keep taking, Quanell X.  Every time you open your mouth to say two words, that’s four fewer whites that give up on the Democrat Party forever.

Blow Blows It

Charles Blow, a NYT op-edder, pw3ns private religious schools for their “racism” (read: white).

Bill Anderson, a Lew Rockwellian, responds with a little bit of inconvenient historical and present truth.

I think Blow is wrong for different reason — Per Patterson’s First Axiom, nothing cures the thirst for integration like a good dose of itself.  Force all these (supposedly) white high school students out of their private schools and into the blackboard jungle black and Hispanic public schools, as “bad” as he thinks they are now in using “racial slurs,” they’ll be Theodore Bilbo in their politics within a year.

Ironically, if Blow is limiting his critique to New York City “private religious” schools, then he doesn’t know how ironic is his criticism — When you think of a private religious school if you’re here in St. Louis, you think of the many single-gender Catholic high schools or the many co-ed Lutheran high schools around here, and maybe a fundagelical “Low Protestant” type school scattered about.  But that’s not the case in New York City — Most of its private religious high schools are either Jewish or Muslim.  Since Blow wants us only to think of white racism, so it seems, then he must be focused only on the Jewish schools.  And there, it’s perfectly obvious that Theodore Bilbo isn’t the Vice-Principal for Academics, more like Laurence Tribe.  If its (Jewish) students are using racial slurs, it’s only in the spirit of natural teenage rebellion against their immediate authorities, in their case, very racially leftist teachers and administrators.

One more thing — All of these results come from a survey of high school students.  As Dr. House says every week, everybody lies.

Today is National Cat Day

It’s too bad that cats don’t know it.  To them, every day might as well be national cat day.

Anyway, on to the headlines.

 

Malkin:  Behar: So what? I call all my close friends “bitches”

Wager that Joy Behar doesn’t have many close friends.

 

Gateway Pundit:  Two-Thirds of Voters See Charlie Crist as Turncoat Opportunist

Scary that the other one-third are voters.

 

FNC:  Felons Vote, Soldiers Don’t?

It’s the Chicago Way.

 

5:  Three-way races make some mid-term races more interesting

Things are always more interesting with three-ways.

 

Yahoo News:  Denver ballot measure on aliens is out of this world

Insert a joke about Mayor Hickenlooper and Hispanics here.

 

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*  Think my theory that Mitch McConnell had something to do with the MoveOn.org/Greenpeace woman that tried to lunge out after Rand Paul before she herself was stomped on, several days ago, is crazy?

MSNBC confirms that McConnell is going to use Tom Coburn as his emissary to neuter TPM-friendly Freshmen Republicans in the Senate.

*  Talk radio today has been all abuzz about this Meek/Crist/Clinton/Obama circus in Florida.  What nobody seems to be saying is that the idea that Meek voters, mostly domestic blacks and immigrant blacks, blindly falling into the Crist camp, is stupid.  If Meek would have dropped out at the behest of some white man who is still technically an elected Republican Governor at this moment, most of Meek’s black voters, i.e. most of Meek’s voters period, would have stayed home.  Now, someone Rush quoted today, Gloria Borger, seems to understand this point, because she said that the last person who wanted Meek to drop out was Alex Sink, becuase black apathy (which Borger rightly implied would have been a result of Meek dropping out at Crist’s/Clinton’s behest), means the black votes aren’t there for Sink vs Rick Scott for Governor, and everything else downballot.

*  New Black Panther Party members, exempt.

*  In spite of the fact that “legitimately elected” Latin American politicians and drug gangs are at odds with each other, (to whatever extent that the latter hasn’t compromised the former), they agree on one thing — Gringo, please don’t legalize drugs.  We need the revenue stream.  If California gringoes can grow their own weed, then that’s money that doesn’t make it into Mexico.

*  Nappy subordinate:  DHS/Military efforts to protect the internet will respect civil rights.

Of course, this is an administration who thinks that white people don’t have any civil rights.  So that really inspires a lot of confidence in me.

*  St. Louis Connection:  Dr. Rob Steele, the Michigan cardiologist who might very well knock off John “Control the People” Dingbat Jr in MI-15, giving that Congressional District its first representative not named Dingell since 1932, taught cardiology at Wash. U. Med School for awhile in the 1980s.

*  Lost the source, but NJ-6 might be an early acid test of how big the night could be for Republicans.  If one 4’11″ Anna Little can knock off the Democrat incumbent in that Jersey Shore district, then that will be an early indicator that there will easily be 100 House flips.  If both she wins and 6’11″ Chris Dudley wins OR-GOV, we could have a Dudley-Little Presidential ticket one of these days — The ticket would have both regional and vertical balance.

*  Robert B. Reich:  Two bit phony.  Pretended to be an economic populist all these years.

*  John F’n Purple Heart for a Papercut Kerry, in the process of calling Republicans “know nothings,” (remember “is this where I can get me a huntin’ license?”), defends the 15 gigabucks the Feds spent on the Big Dig.

Remember, when the Federal government committed itself to the Big Dig, coming after Democrats in Congress overrode a 1987 Reagan veto of a spending program which contained it, the line item allocation for the Big Dig was under $1 billion.  And it wound up costing $15 billion, perhaps has high as $20 billion according to some estimates.

Defend that, Ketchup Man.

*  KY-6 is Lexington and surrounding counties.  Democrat Ben Chandler is the incumbent, and he’s getting a stiff challenge from Andy Barr, who is a part time instructor in Constitutional Law at the University of Kentucky Law School.  (Sound familiar, Obama?)  I’ll let ABC take it from there:

It’s not just the Aqua Buddha and David Vitter’s prostitute, Democratic candidates across the country are closing out the campaign with personal attacks on Republican candidates, sometimes digging up decades-old legal problems.

In one typical example, Democratic ads have transformed Kentucky Republican House candidate Andy Barr into “a convicted criminal” — complete with images yellow police tape and fuzzy video of crime scenes. Not mentioned is his crime: As a college student 19 years ago, he was caught using a fake ID during spring break.

As you watch this year’s ads — and I’ve been watching all too many lately — you’ll notice a striking difference between Democratic and Republican attack ads: Democrats are attacking over personal issues, Republicans are attacking over policy.

Barr says he’s 36 now, so he was 17 at the time of the fake ID incident.  (Which would have gotten him a citation at most — no arrest and no crime scene tape.)  At the age of 17, he very well might not have been in college, but in the military.  And while he could not have been in active combat until age 18, he would have been in combat-like training and exercises, and just as easily could have died in training as he would have in actual combat.  By contrast, Chandler is from a political party that wants 13-year old girls to be able to abort both on your dime and without parental consent or even knowledge.

*  Patrick Kennedy is retiring from RI-1, meaning that no matter who replaces him, as of January 3, there will be no descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy in public office.  But there is a chance that a Republican might replace him.

One other thing affecting the Camelot mystique is that there are getting to be too many of them now.  True, Joe Kennedy made a lot of loot, but that pie is now divided up among a lot of grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren.  Sandals to sandals in three generations, as the Brits say.

*  Before you long for the Clintons, remember that this is her State Department hatin’ on the TPM to other countries’ foreign relations officials.  Of course, State Departments, or foreign secretaries, or foreign services, or whatever you want to call them, all tend to the political left, so it’s not as if leftists from France and Norway really need to be convinced of what they already thought to begin with.

*  I’m sure John Chickenpooper wanted this news to hit four days before the election.  I wonder if there’s time for Tancredo to turn it into a media buy.

*  Washington Missourian, a really conservative paper, (I know this from experience, don’t ask me how), is, like yours truly, endorsing Montee over the Danforth drone for Auditor.  Their reasoning is that she has done a good enough job in her first term to deserve another.  My reasoning is that I don’t want another Danforth drone clawing his way into political power.

*  Re the matter a Rush caller raised today about the Speaker of the House not needing to be an elected member of the House, Art 1 Sec 2 states:

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

This implies that the Speaker is an officer.  And “Officer” implies from within the ranks.  Would the chair(wo)man of a corporate board of directors, an officer of that board, ever not already be on the board him or her self?  Would an Army officer, rank Second Lieutenant or higher, ever not have been enlisted in the Army to begin with?  There’s enough in that line from the Constitution that implies to me that the Speaker of the House must also be an elected House member.

*  Once again, Charles Rangel has introduced a “universal service” bill.  This time, part of the language includes the infamous “civilian security force,” which Barack Obama said should be “as big and as well funded as the regular military” during the Presidential campaign.

WND takes the occasion of this story to re-hash the famous fatigue-wearing black middle schoolers goose-stepping and proudly proclaiming that, “because of Obama, I can become a rocket scientist/brain surgeon/superlawyer/software engineer/etc.”  Of course, they could have become those things just as well before Obama, but who am I to spoil their fun?

Anyway, I wish someone would follow up and see how they’re doing now, two or more years after this video was made.  They have to be well into their high school careers by now, and because of Obama’s election, they are going to be rocket scientists, brain surgeons, superlawyers, and so on.  Therefore, I fully expect that they’re pulling down Straight As, and that many of them have already passed AP courses and tests, and therefore earned college credits, in subjects like physics, biology, chemistry, history, literature, mathematics, composition, economics and other things.  Those are all things those future rocket scientists, brain surgeons and superlawyers should be great at by about the age of 16 if they have any shot actually to aspire to those lofty professions.

Yeah, I know, I’m being glib.  But honestly, a few of them look and sound like they have a decent shot of becoming something at least halfway decent in life.

Immigration Stack of Stuff

*  Are you paying attention, Cardinal Mahony?  Your current boss, channeling your previous boss, states that:

…States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of each and every human person. Immigrants, moreover, have the duty to integrate into the host Country, respecting its laws and its national identity.

Benedict XVI and John Paul II — Two great Popes in a row.  I tell you, the College of Cardinals sure can pick ‘em, and I’m not being glib.  Seems to me that we should let Catholic Cardinals be the only voters in American elections.  We’d be a lot better off, even in spite of Mahony being among them.

*  Three months after the parts of SB 1070 that weren’t temporarily enjoined went into law, the measure seems to have a mixed impact.  Which I predicted.

Obviously, the big hangup, which isn’t mentioned here, is ICE, and their silent policy of amnesty by means of non-enforcement, a policy they’ve (and by “they,” I mean both the current ICE agency and its predecessor, the INS) had for most of the last 45 years, BTW.

 

My Bad

I made a boo boo.

I’ve been saying since I finished my general election previews (local, national) that I am out and outright predicting the Republicans turn over eight in the Senate.

But I went back and did some counting.  I must have thought that one of the Republicans that I am predicting will win is a seat that is Democrat-held, so I over-stated my prediction by one.  Therefore, I’m going to correct myself here and predict exactly seven Senate flips.  Those will be AR, CO, NV, ND, PA, WV and WI.  That would bring the GOP to 48.  Still, even though it’s one fewer than I thought, seven Senate flips is still more impressive than 70 House flips, because of all the 2004 victorious Republican incumbents or retiring Republicans that the GOP had to defend this time around.

I predicted IN as my upset special, that Ellsworth beats Coats in spite of the polls.  If the vote follows the polls, then that makes eight.  Then that leaves DE, NY-Gillibrand, CT, IL, CA and WA.  If one of those six buck my predictions and turn over to the GOP, then that’s nine flips and we’re at my dream scenario of 50/50.  If yet another can turn over, then the GOP has total control.

Still, since 60 votes are needed to do anything in the Senate, 48 is just as good as 51, except if all you care about are your precious committee chairmanships and the resulting ability to engage in bribes and graft and corruption and bacon bringing-homing.  Unfortunately, too many establishment Republicans care only about that.

GOP flips 7.  That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.

League in Distress

Daily Mail:  Bye bye beer belly: Spanx launches men’s underwear to ‘firm and flatten’ love handles

Manhood, RIP.  Prehistory-October 28, 2010.

Daily Mail:  Scientists hope to record our dreams after successful experiments using brain implants

No need to record my dreams when you can just turn on Skinemax.

Daily Mail:  My awful wedded wife! Dating agency for ugly people celebrates first engagement

“Dating agency for ugly people.”  They could have just typed “Tyra Banks Show.”

Ben Maller:  Blazers Greg Oden says he’ll become a free agent

He might not be in a Blazers uniform next year.  Then again, not being in clothes seems to be his specialty.

Yahoo Sports:  The NBA has banned upside down headbands

The NBA logo being upside down too symbolically disturbing, is it?

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*  Libs already comparing Sharron Angle’s most recent immigration ad to the Jesse Helms “Hands” ad from 1990.

It’s actually a good comparison — Six days from now, it can be legitimately said that both ads will have propelled their candidates to victory in spite of the odds.

*  One of the things on the City ballot on Tuesday is a school board vote.  I didn’t make an issue of it in my local preview, because it doesn’t matter — The state still has control over the SLPS, so the elected school board is currently impotent.

Anyway, one of the candidates is one Bill Monroe.  Before you get the notion to vote for him or to feel sorry for him for this, let me warn you that he has links to Onion Horton.  He is one of Horton’s regular callers, at least on the rare instances when Horton has a radio show anymore.  So I know what he’s all about — IMHO, between you, me and the gatepost, Monroe is essentially a mole for black crime and black drug gangs inside whatever police department he works for.  Almost all of his calls to St. Louis talk radio are moaning and whining about “police racism” and “police brutality” and “racial profiling.”  Don’t know if he belongs to the ESP, but he would fit right in to that cabal.

*  Dick Gephardt:  Two-bit phony.  Then again, you knew that already.

I disagree with the P-D’s notion that Gephardt was “intensely opposed” to NAFTA, GATT, WTO et al.  The vote for NAFTA in 1993 and GATT/WTO in 1994 happened when Gephardt was House Majority Leader.  While he voted no in both instances, he didn’t wield his influence to sway House Democrat votes against it.  It’s one thing to tell the cows not to leave the barn, it’s another thing actually to lock the barn door, and yet another thing to whine about how the cows got away when you didn’t lock the barn door.

*  Obama hearts India.  But India “ought not” heart him back.  After all, if he “ends those tax breaks to companies that outsource jobs,” won’t India suffer?

Another two-bit phony.

*  Barack Obama:  Responsible for open source resistance to himself in two countries.

*  Roverrated hates on Palin, says “no gravitas,” implies she doesn’t have the brain pans to be President.

He should know a thing or three about Presidents with no gravitas and very little brain pans.  He worked for one.

*  Well, DUH, Jon Stewart.  I would think that someone who got himself elected President of the United States does take politics seriously.

*  Tax or no tax, the days of Clayton’s Ritz-Carlton being in business are numbered.  St. Louis just isn’t that important of a metropolitan area anymore.

*  This video of Jim McGovern (D-MA) blaming Bush for everything, and the audience booing him for it, (in MASSACHUSETTS, nonetheless), and some of the comments made at this particular blog, got me to thinking.

First off, there was never a Clinton-era budget that ran a surplus.  The only reason three of them are said to have done so was because of legerdemain with Social Security money.  However, one can say that the final Federal FY budget that Clinton signed as President did have the lowest deficit (ca. $74B) in my conscious lifetime.  And the only reason that the final Clinton budgets were as fiscally responsible as they were (inasmuch as they were) was because the Republicans ran Congress, ran the House appropriations process (most importantly), and didn’t countenance big spending programs that Clinton desired.  Too, Clinton was the President, and while he tragically bombed Serbia and Iraq, he would have never countenanced an expensive ground occupation of those places — Believe me, the neo-con chickenhawks in the GOP wanted Clinton to go on the ground and ouster Saddam and Milosevic.

But it leads me to a greater point — There is a lot of debate between Republican brass in the Senate and conservative talk radio hosts that Obama will “moderate” in face of Republican gains in five days, similar to how Clinton “moderated” at the same point in his Presidency.  My reaction is that it’s a red herring debate — Neither side is right because Clinton never really moderated.  He only PRETENDED to moderate on one issue (welfare reform), mainly becuase Dick Morris told him that he needed to pretend to triangulate in order to get his Little Abner ass re-elected.  As it was, the famous 1996 Welfare Reform bill turned out to be fake — Between it going into law and 9/11, SSI was the fastest growing line item in the Federal budget.  It’s obvious why — After “welfare reform” put a time limit on AFDC/TANF, many welfare clients made the lateral move to SSI, based on the pretense that their children were “retarded.”  Even though there’s supposed to be no such thing as IQ, and certainly no racial differences in IQ as a measure of central tendency.  I bet Clinton knew this all along — That’s why he signed the welfare reform bill because SSI was there to save the day.

Point is, Clinton never moderated — He was as left-wing as he ever was post-1994 as he was pre-1994.  In spite of that, we got more moderate policies out of government because Clinton and the GOP Congress canceled each other’s bad sides out to wind up with some fairly decent (but not perfect) policies by accident.  While I never believed unemployment was as low as the official stats stated, then or now, it certainly was lower in the late 1990s than it is now.  And definitely, Federal budget deficits were lower then than any time since.  The whole upshot is that Obama won’t moderate, either for real or for outward consumption, but it won’t matter — We will get more moderate policies out of government starting on Jaunary 3 simply because Obama and the GOP House will cancel each other’s bad sides out to a point.

Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff

*  Behold, extremism and nitwittery all rolled into one:

I’m sure all those Hispanics and Asians will be surprised to learn that they’re really black.

Love South Africa so much, lady?  Why don’t you go there?

*  Mexican drug wars have supposedly claimed the lives of 1,200 “children” in almost the last four years.

Read down a little further, and you’ll see that “children” means under 18.  Meaning some of these “innocent children” are nothing more than junior partners in the drug gangs.  It’s likely that more people have died at the hands of these “children” than such “children” have actually died.

Anyway, Mexico is calling on the UN and other “children’s rights” international orgs to intervene in Juarez.  So, on one side, we have hard core drug gangs.  On the other end, we have metrosexual wimps fresh out of grad school whose last job was at at coffee house in Amsterdam.  I know on whose side I’m going to lay my money.

*  “Naturalized American citizen.”  How much you wanna bet he was “naturalized” AFTER 9/11?

No, George W. Bush.  I don’t miss you yet, or ever.

White Elephants Here, Naked Emperors There…

…But only the guns are violent.

Sacramento Bee:

National Law Enforcement Groups Launch Historic Partnership to Fight Gun Violence

(snip)

According to U.S. Secret Service Resident Agent in Charge Hector Hernandez, president of the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association, law enforcement leaders “know firsthand how devastating crimes involving guns are to our communities and society as a whole.  We’re honored to have the opportunity to have a role in fighting the cycle of gun violence.”

“In 2008, 34 officers were killed in the line of duty with firearms.  So far this year, we’ve lost 43 officers to firearms,” said Chief Katherine Perez, president of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives. “The trend is worsening, and we need to take immediate action.”

(snip)

“Reducing gun violence is absolutely essential.  Far too many of our citizens live in fear and far too many of our officers have lost their lives,” said Chief Rob Davis, president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. “This unprecedented partnership is about bringing a fresh, pragmatic perspective to the debate about how to enhance community and officer safety.”

“It’s troubling that, even with the homicide rate declining, we are seeing a higher percentage of crime committed using firearms. We need to use the amplified voice of this partnership to bring attention back to the basic problem of too many guns in the wrong hands,” remarked Assistant City Manager Patrick Melvin, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

“The multiple incidents of serious gun violence on college campuses just since classes resumed this fall has been tremendously distressing and absolutely senseless,” commented Chief Phillip Johnson, president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.

Emphasis mine.  That should be obvious — Do you think a MSM source would highlight these things?  Hell, the white elephants and naked emperors are right there in front of their faces, but it takes little ole me to point out that the pachyderm is bland and the monarch is au naturel.  Race is too taboo.  Race is even an undertone in the whole “campus” aspect — With affirmative action in admissions and the desire to send every moron to college, colleges are becoming more and more black and Hispanic by the year.  Ergo, the number of violent crimes on college campi are increasing by the year.

Notice there are no “White law enforcement associations” or “Organizations of white police chiefs” in this “historic partnership.”  If a partnership is historic, yet there is no representative from the racial demographic that comprises two-thirds of the American population, does it really make a sound?  Then again, guns don’t seem to misbehave as much around white people.

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*  I’m glad to know that I can count Rush Limbaugh is one of my readers.  He finally latched onto my Harry-Rory analogy today, to explain why Sharron Angle’s lead is bigger than the polls suggest.

*  Also, Rush said that 80% of voter fraud is solved if only two things happen:  (1) Photo ID requirements, and (2) No absentee or early voting.

Fine, but that would still leave 20% of the problem.  Elections are just too damned important to leave 20% of the problem unsolved.  Besides, there is no opportunity cost to solving virtually 100% of the problem compared to solving 80% of the problem.  The forces that directly benefit from voter fraud will push back just as hard if you propose to solve the first 80% as they would if you also include the last 20%.  And those forces aren’t all black or Hispanic or Democrat — Plutocrat/establishment/ruling class Republicans have stolen elections from populist Republicans.  I can’t remember the source or the exact state, but George H.W. Bush out and outright crooked Pat Buchanan out of a primary win in the 1992 Presidential primary season.

With that said, here is what you have to do to solve voter fraud once and for all.

*  Like I said in my national and local election previews, I am predicting that the Republicans will flip around 70 House seats and exactly 8 Senate seats.  While this would mean a 16% turnover in House members and an 8% turnover in Senators, resulting in Republican control of the House but not the Senate, I happen to think that an 8 seat Senate flip would be more impressive in 2010 compared to a 70-seat House flip, considering the circumstances.

The reason is that the Senate seats up this year were also up six years ago, in 2004.  That year, Bush was at the top of the ticket.  Republicans gained a net of 4 Senate seats, to get back to their high water mark in the Senate of 55, before the disasters of 2006 and 2008.  But in 2004, Republicans turned over FL (Martinez, replacing the retiring Bob Graham), GA (Isakson, replacing the retiring Zell Miller), SC (DeMint, replacing the retiring Fritz Hollings), NC (Burr, replacing the “retiring” more like disgraced John Edwards), LA (Vitter, replacing the retiring John Breaux), and SD (Thune, beating the incumbent Tom Daschle).  However, Democrats flipped two from the GOP — IL (Barack Obama, replacing the retiring Peter Fitzgerald), and CO (Ken Salazar, replacing the retiring Ben Nighthorse Campbell).  After those elections, as Zell Miller pointed out, there were only four Democrat U.S. Senators from the states comprising the former Confederacy:  Nelson (FL), Landrieu (LA), and the two from Arkansas.  Now, since then, both VA seats and one NC seat was flipped the other direction.

The point is, it would have been a really big uphill climb for the Republicans to take back the Senate, because there seemed to be very few vulnerable Democrats.  However, to show you what kind of year this is, some of the same Democrats that had no problems in 2004, in spite of Bush at the top of the ballot, are in trouble this year.  Still, for total Republican control of the Senate, 2012 will present many better opportunities, and that’s the first re-election cycle for the Democrat Senators elected in the 2006 blue wave.  It all depends on the Republicans’ Presidential nominee in 2012.

As proof of what I said, a NYT pollster claims that if all 100 Senate seats were up for election this year, the Republicans would easily win 60, and maybe as many as 67.  It’s just that, like I said, a lot of their generic poll numbers in the Senate are going to safe Republicans in red states anyway, merely defending the red wave of 2004, that there isn’t much room for enough flips to affect control of the Upper Chamber.

*  Otis McDonald hearts Brady.  As in Bill, not Sarah :)

This source is obviously biased toward ConCarry.  Like I have said on this medium a number of times this year after AZ went to ConCarry (largely lost in the SB 1070 brouhaha), including a few days ago re Bill Haslam in TN and his endless flip flopping, in states that are black and Hispanic heavy, I wouldn’t advocate ConCarry.  ESPECIALLY not in Illinois, with all the blacks in Chicago and East St. Louis, and all the Hispanics in certain parts of Chicago and the Metro East.  (Even some smaller IL towns now — hence, the illegal alien that raped the jogger in Red Bud a few weeks ago.)  I want a permit-based CCW system, which would still give the cops the ability to pop people for carrying concealed without a permit (which would be mainly blacks and Hispanics) — Even if they don’t go to prison for that, those charges can be held on a string to get them to plead to other charges or to turn over on their gang-banger friends who are facing more serious charges or to turn stool pidgeon.

And it wouldn’t matter anyway.  It’s going to take all the right-wing energy IL can muster (and there’s not a very big supply, believe me), and a lot of log rolling just to get a permit-based CCW bill to Brady’s desk.  My fear is that the final bill would be so watered down as to be useless, and would do nothing to address the state’s black-friendly civil rights laws, which I can guarantee will come into play the first time a white person with a CCW permit and a legally carried gun has to use it to deter black crime.  You can bet the thug’s family will come crawling out of the woodwork and troll for every leftist Kuntzler-type shyster they can to file “civil rights” lawsuits.  There is no way in hell that IL would ever get a ConCarry bill passed, even if I thought it was a good thing, which I don’t.

One other big issue in IL gun politics is the FOID card.  Brady is against it, and for good reason — FOID is unconstitutional prior restraint.  Not only that, it gives cretins like Rod Blagojevich the opportunity to do phony-baloney “moderation” and “triangulation” — RodB, as a member of the Illinois State House from Chicago’s North Side, once introduced a bill (which had no chance of going anywhere) that would have raised the annual FOID fee from $5 to $500.  Then his bill comes up when he first ran for Governor in 2002, abandoning IL-5 in the U.S. House to do that (Rahm Emanuel won that seat to replace RodB, BTW), and he immediately backtracked and said “no FOID increase ever.”  (He actually said that in his Southern Illinois/St. Louis media buys.)  And that’s what got him enough downstate votes to win, in both 2002 and 2006.  Now, had FOID never existed, he would have never had the chance to do that phony triangulation against himself.  Whether or not a bill to repeal FOID, as part of a carry bill or separately, can get to Brady’s desk, remains to be seen.

*  Speaking of gun politics, I’m getting conflicted news out of New York City.  On the one hand, I read that Bloomberg wants to reduce gun permit fees, in a feeble attempt to appease the NRA and comply with Heller and McDonald.  (The only real way to do that is not to have permits and permit fees.)  On the other hand, I’m reading that the city wants to add a whole long list of new grounds under which people can be denied permits, including being in debt and running a stop sign.

The whole upshot is that while I was pleased with the Heller and McDonald decisions, the Federal judiciary didn’t go far enough.  They needed to put cities like NYC, Chicago and DC under consent decrees, so that every gun ordinance in those cities would need approval of the Federal courts, and that way, they couldn’t pat you on the back with one hand (pretending to comply with those rulings), and stab you with the other (dick around with city ordinances as to make firearm ownership virtually impossible in a legal sense.)

*  Christine O’Donnell might actually have a chance in Delaware.  This comes from a Hillary Clinton fan blog.

One other thing this person says that I want to make light of — Just because “Democrats” have an advantage in early voting doesn’t mean that they’re actually voting for Democrats.  The only reason we know that “Democrats” lead in early voting (which they always do, but a far smaller advantage this year), is because in states where there is party registration, they can tell which people registered with which parties are voting, early or otherwise.  But Democrats outnumber Republicans in states where party registration is required by huge margins, yet Republicans often win elections in those states.  So this must mean that registered Democrats sometimes vote Republican in general elections.  And that’s they way I think it is this year in the early voting.

As an aside, I think HRC would LOVE for O’Donnell to win this election.  This is the “Biden seat,” as you know, and the Democrats losing Obama’s Vice-Messiah’s former Senate seat would do a lot to discredit Obama and by deduction strengthen HRC for a 2012 primary rematch.  Similarly, I think HRC secretly wants Mark Kirk to win in my state, too.  “The Obama seat.”  Operation Reverse Chaos, if you will.

*  Republicans, Democrats and Tea Party activists are gearing up to monitor for voter fraud and voter intimidation, in the wake of many accusations in that stead this week.

This will hurt Democrat voter fraud, even though Democrat eyeballs will be watching.  Linus Torvalds’s Law states that given enough eyeballs, all software bugs are shallow.  Similarly, given enough watching eyes, all voter fraud is shallow.  This kind of fraud needs secrecy and dark rooms to flourish.

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

Miami Heat. Tee Hee.

Season opener for Superteam tonight at Boston.  All of nine points in the first quarter, and The Big Three shot an aggregate of 7 for 27 in the first half.  11 turnovers for Wade and LeBron combined at the time of this writing.

He sure took his talents to South Beach.  Evidently, he forgot to pack them when he left Akron.

That’s the good news.  The bad news is that I have not yet heard any news about LeBron sustaining a career-ending injury.

What’s It To You?

There has evidently been a lot of “nanny nanny boo boos” and “phooey on you gringoes” coming from Hispanics on internet forums and social media sites after the Velasquez victory over Lesnar on Saturday night.

First off, Cain Velasquez is essentially a white man, with maybe a bit of Indian in him.  He was born in the United States, and is several generations removed from Mexico.  It makes as much sense for me to tattoo “Brown Pride” cross my pecs as it does for him.

But here’s my greater point — Assuming they’re in the United States, most of these Hispanics gloating over Velasquez’s win are swarthy, overweight Chicano/Mestizo types from south of Mexico City, most of them recent “immigrants.”  Some of them might actually still be in Mexico, for all we know.  So why are they extracting some sort of racial pride over a white man with a Spanish surname born in Gringoland beating a white man with an English surname born in Gringoland?  Lesnar is from South Dakota, and wrestled collegiately at Minnesota, so I’m guessing there’s a lot of Scandinavian in him.  Should all of Sweden be gloating on the internet this week?  It would make better sense for Swedes in Sweden to do so rather than for Chicano/Mestizos in tropical Mexico to gloat over “their” guy.

Fun With The Superfluous

Reuters:  Cuba self-employed to pay taxes up to 50 percent

Hey, it’s cheaper to be self-employed in a Communist country than a “free” one like ours.

Business Weak (sic):  Obama ‘Daily Show’ Appearance Designed to Boost Voter Support

Obama going on Comedy Central will be the biggest joke on that channel for a very long time.

AFP:  Madonna to open ‘Hard Candy’ health club chain

I’ll consider joining if she gives me a guided tour and a live personal demonstration of the women’s locker room.

Schlafly:  Bloomberg Wants To Be a Kingmaker

Take out “maker” and you have the truth.

NYP:  Charlie Sheen trashes room at Plaza Hotel in coke-fueled rampage: sources

Once chimpanzees learn out to cut and paste between web browsers and word processors, Lee Aronsohn and Chuck Lorre will be out of jobs.

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*  WWSFD?

Rush brought up something today that made me think of the Angelo Codevilla essay in American Spectator from this past summer, which he has now expanded into book-length material.

I’ll get to what Rush said in a moment, but Codevilla’s original essay sounded almost Francisian (as in Sam).  Now, Sam is not alive to react to it and critique it, so we can never say 100% for sure what Sam’s reaction would have been.  But if I really knew Sam like I thought I knew him, both as a person and his way of thinking, he would have mostly liked the Codevilla piece.  But his main criticism would have been that Codevilla is worrying to much about the ruling class per se, that we should be more worried about the managerial class.  To Sam, the ruling class was the bricks and the managerial class was the mortar.  You can stack all the bricks you want, but the whole house would soon fall down if you didn’t use mortar.  Likewise, the managerial class is the main reason why the ruling class can rule.  Neutralize the managerial class, and you’ve beaten the ruling class.

With that, it looks like the Congressional Republican establishment wants to co-opt the wave of new Tea Party-friendly Freshmen by forcing their own staffers on them, instead of their hiring their own staffers, which would ordinarily be their campaign staff translated to D.C.  In other words, the ruling class Republicans don’t mind if we bring our own bricks, but they’re going to do everything they can to make us use their mortar.  In many ways, the coterie of permanent perpetual staffers in D.C., from both parties, is more powerful than the actual elected politicians, because the staffers write bills, iron out the legal language, and, unlike the politicians, are not subject to the results of elections or, if they should ever happen, term limits.

In the same spirit, Rush also made the Blue Dogs:Pelosi::Tea Party:McConnell/Boehner analogy today, implying that just as Pelosi won the battle with the Blue Dogs, that the Tea Partiers might very well be played and used in the same way.  That is guaranteed to happen if the new Freshmen allow McConnell and Boehner to staff their offices.

*  I’m not buying it either, Ann.

I think you’re right that it’s almost entirely the fault of the MoveOn kook, and the Rand Paul supporter was almost entirely acting for safety’s sake.  But I don’t think this ambush came from the left wing, in spite of this woman being a MoveOn kook.  The nutroots and the Pauls, both Ron and Rand, aren’t really at each other’s necks.  In fact, the nutroots sorta cheers the Pauls on, mainly because the drug legalization issue.  The Pauls, moreso Ron that Rand, appreciates the nutroots’s anti-war stances, to a point.

Question:  Who has the most to lose when Rand Paul wins?  Who already lost a lot when Rand Paul won the Republican Primary?  Who is the one person in this country who REALLY REALLY hopes that Rand Paul somehow loses this election?

See where my mind is running?  Investigate this woman, and you’ll find a paper or money trail that leads straight to Mitch McConnell.

*  “Walking around money.”  Like I said earlier, voter fraud can only happen within the confines of certain “safe” areas for Democrat voter fraud, i.e. heavily black and Hispanic big cities, and some Indian reservations.  To the extent that it happens this season, it might preclude a few Senate flips (PA included, depending how close the real votes are between Toomey and Sestak), but they can’t preclude any House flips, because the fraud happens in solidly blue Congressional districts represented by blacks or Hispanics, districts that will never flip.  The faked up Senate votes do count in the statewide tally, but they don’t need to fake up any votes for the kook black Congressman, because s/he will win anyway.

*  This is coming from the Minnesota DFL.  I interpret this anti-Catholic ad as nothing more than traditional Lutheran animosity towards Catholics.

*  A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circus has struck down a part of Arizona’s Proposition 200, passed by voters in 2004, that required proof of citizenship to register to vote.  This isn’t stemming from SB 1070, BTW.  But is an object lesson about SB 1070 — Notice that this one part of a voter proposition passed SIX YEARS AGO is just now in the Federal Appellate Courts on the Constitutional proceedings.  I said back in July when people were ready to jump off bridges after the first Federal trial-level ruling on the INJUNCTIVE procedure (not the CONSTITUTIONAL procedure) relating to SB 1070 that this was only the very first salvo of a very long battle.  Applying the same time line of Prop 200 to SB 1070, and it won’t be until 2016 that the 9th Circus rules on SB 1070, and 2-3 years after that for SCOTUS to decide.  So it could be as late as the end of this decade until SCOTUS makes its “final” ruling.  Don’t forget that there is yet another Arizona immigration proposition, PAN (Protect Arizona Now), passed in 2006, whose line items have been challenged in the Federal courts.  So you’ll be hearing news about Prop 200, PAN and SB 1070 fairly frequently for quite awhile.  Point is, some of it will be good news, some of it will be bad news, and some of it will be mixed news.  Stay off the bridge.

As for today’s ruling, I don’t find the week before an election timing to be a coincidence.  Hence, it’s in my election stack of stuff.  I think the timing was very deliberate — It won’t affect any statewide races, because Brewer has a big lead (Yay!) and McCain likewise (Yuck.)  But there is a credible theory that the entire 8-member AZ Congressional delegation might be Republican after next Tuesday.  Currently, it’s 4-4.  This ruling might preclude one or two of those races from flipping, especially that Grijalva-McClung nail-biter in AZ-7.

*  There is actually a requirement in Missouri state law that women Democrat Senate candidates channel Harry Truman.  Mrs. Antolinez doing this now makes the fifth successive, the others being McCaskill (2006), Nancy Farmer (2004), Jeanne Carnahan (2002) and after the plane crash and by implication, Jeanne Carnahan again (2000).

*  He doesn’t get the Old Spice Whistle quite right, but as an Old Spice user, I’ll take it anyway:

*  Someone seriously needs to find Joy Behar a home.  She’s raging mad over this dagger that Sharron Angle is twisting in Harry Reid’s back:

That Word Again

5:  Bill Clinton speaks to two-thirds empty high school gym

“The principal told all the school’s girls to stay away?  What for?”

Salt Lake Deseret News:  America hasn’t improved much over past 3 decades, Jimmy Carter says

But if you consider the last 3.4 decades, then it has improved quite a bit.

ABC:  Some Spooked Cities Ban Teenage Trick-or-Treating

Yeah, it’s time you teenagers grow up and became adults, just in time to stay on your parents’ health insurance for another fifteen years.

Malkin:  The ‘Tea Party/Hitler Comparison’ Celebutard of the Day

There must be so many TPM-Hitler comparisons that you have a big field to choose from each day.

Daily Mail:  Gypsies due to be evicted from a controversial illegal camp have been offered land just a mile away by a quango.

It’s those damned quangos again.  They’ll get you every time.

CNS:  Celine Dion Gives Birth to Twin Boys at 42

So the singer that has nine hit songs that all sound alike now has two kids that look alike.

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*  As you know, I released my General Election Preview for IL/MO/STL eleven days ago.  Usually, I don’t post them until within a week of the election, but I had to reasons for doing it so early:  One, b/c there was so much national stuff, I wanted to split the national from the local.

Two, I had an ulterior motive.  I wanted to get the local preview out relatively early, as sort of an experiment.  As you can read, I clearly stated in my local preview that I would go dancing in the streets when the media declare Bill Brady the next Governor. (Which I will.)  I wanted to see if that got a rise out of the left wing.  I had the fantasy that it would end up on a Quinn media buy — “[Images of burning crosses] Right-wing extremists are going to go dancing in the streets if Bill Brady wins this election.  Source:  Countenance Blog.  [Images fade out].  I’m Pat Quinn, and I approved this message.”  Imagine the traffic I would have gotten.

(FYI, my Deodo-RANT from back in April is STILL my top post day in and day out.)

I was probably deluding myself.  It hasn’t happened by now, so it isn’t going to happen.  But if ever was going to happen, here is the man who would have probably gotten the ball rolling:

BTW, FYI, my only real interest in Brady is CCW.  I’m really not expecting him to do much of anything else that will directly benefit me personally, or me collectively.  In the greater scheme of things, he is a B-Minus grade politician.  But in a classroom full of F students, which is the State of Illinois and its body politic, the kid getting a B-Minus is a genius.

*  Some right-wingers give the Tea Party Movement a lot of flack for peddling a small government message only now, instead of starting during the Bush years.

Yeahbut…water takes time to boil.  It’s just that it took Obama turning the flame up high enough quickly enough to get it to boil.  I am under no delusion that the flame wasn’t on for many years and decades prior.  Though with that author, the only thing I can add is that it wasn’t just kook liberals wrongly writing racial motives into the TPM…like I said above, it’s taking some cat calls from racial right-wingers.  They think they see “racism” in the TPM because they wish there were “racism” in the TPM.  (Actually, I have that same wish.)  But there is not.  (Again, unfortunately.)

*  More proof of my contention that Bill Haslam has no core principles — Once an integral member of Mayors Against (“Illegal”) Guns as Mayor of Knoxville, he quit that about a year and a half ago and joined the NRA when he wanted Republican Primary votes.  Now he’s gone so far over to the other side that he’s to the right of ME on the gun issue — Haslam has promised to sign an AZ-style ConCarry bill should one get to his desk as Governor.

First off, I don’t think ConCarry is a disaster, but I don’t advocate it, and I wouldn’t sign such a bill if I were a state Governor.  I just happen to think that we’re a bit better off with a permit system for CCW, and for the cops to have the ability to pop people for carrying concealed without a permit.  (ESPECIALLY in a black-heavy state like Tennessee or a Hispanic-heavy state like Arizona.)  If you want to do something, you lower the permit cost, lengthen the number of years between renewals, and/or loosen the training standards a bit.

But my greater point is this — People who have a genuine change of heart on a political issue don’t drift for one side of the spectrum all the way over to the cliff’s edge of the other side of the spectrum so quickly.  On 2nd Amendment issues, do you honestly know anyone who honestly flipped from a Sarah Brady-style anti-gun nut to advocating permit-less conceal-carry in 18 months?  Haslam is a pure political prostitute, pure and simple.

*  “I like the Democrats. I want to vote for Democrats, but I don’t have citizenship.”  Says it all.

*  Michael Bloomberg.  WTF?

Monday’s Musings

*  CNN Hired Love Client #9.  So why WOULDN’T they hire Pee Wee Herman?

Talking to empty chairs is practically par for the course these days on CNN.

*  Puh-LEEZE.  Someone is actually complaining that Australians don’t watch enough Oprah.

Three words:  Feature not bug.

*  Also from Oz, a teenage “activist” is calling on more jobs for Abos.

Before they can hold down jobs, they would do well to learn that it’s dangerous to sleep in dry riverbeds, because they aren’t always dry.

*  WSJ rightly defends Geert Wilders.  But can the WSJ make the obvious link between that and all that immigration that the WSJ loves so much, at least in the American context?  The only reason the Dutch “authorities” tried to string Wilders up is because the Muslim population is really big in The Netherlands, and of course they have CAIR-type racial lobbies that the left wingers love so much, and their left wing politicians all cater to, and their so-called “conservatives” are too chickenshit to stand up to.

*  They don’t all look alike.  So they keep telling me…

Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff

*  David Cameron’s immigration minister admits:  One-third of “skilled immigrant” visas have gone to immigrants to take jobs that are anything but skilled.

*  And it’s going to stay that way.

The silver lining to this cloud is that Cameron has totally given up on his pretense of co-opting the BNP.  If the Cameron/Clegg coalition enacts election reform, therefore giving potential BNP voters a dog in the fight, and assuming that the BNP picks a worthy successor to Nick Griffin, this all means the BNP is set for huge gains in 2015.

Assimilation

I disagree with Juan Williams.

It’s not the Muslims wearing traditional Muslim garb as passengers on commercial airliners that you have to worry about.  The ones you have to worry about are the ones wearing polo shirts and cotton Dockers.  Mohammed Atta and Co., as an example.  The ones that are conniving to commit terrorist attacks will try to blend in, and fundamentalist Islam lets them do that when otherwise doing so would violate fundamentalist Islam, because Islam has this thing called “Taqqiya,” i.e. lying and violating the tenets Islam as long as it’s for the cause of advancing Islam.  The ones wearing burquas and hijabs and head scarves aren’t much of a problem per se, and if they do engage in other sorts of suspicious behavior, then they’re Flying Imams types who want people to complain about them so that the CAIR can swoop in and scream “racism” and “Islamophobia” and file lawsuits.

Assimilation — Sometimes, it’s a bad thing.

Fun With Sunday Headlines

Daily Mail:  Up in smoke: Mexican soldiers burn 105-ton mountain of cannabis seized during drugs raid

Half of California breaks out in a dirge.  “I was gonna mourn tons of weed being burned, but then I got high…”

 

Breitbart:  Reid: ‘But For Me, We’d Be in World-Wide Depression’

We indeed have you, and only America is depressed.  Much obliged, Harry.

NYP:  Upstate perv – posing as his own son — busted for forcing teen to perform sex act online

Aside from psychological help, they getter get that teenage victim to an eye doctor pronto, if she so easily mistakes a 59-year old man for a 23-year old man.

Ben Maller:  Condoleeza Rice addresses NFL team

Just what that team needed — A good sedative to catch up on some sleep to heal wounds and injuries.

MSNBC:  Bride-to-be set to say ‘I do’ — to herself

I bet she can’t wait to consummate the relationship.

John Lott:  What would happen if Republicans explicitly appealed to Men or whites?

They would have no problems winning elections by big fat fraud-proof margins, among other things.

MSNBC:  Woman drove for months with dead body in passenger seat

Don’t bother following the link.  Southern California, carpool lane.  Nuff said.

Sunday Wrap-Up

*  Back when the Don Imus “nappy headed ho” controversy was hot early last year, someone said that they thought that Stevie Wonder had a song whose lyrics included “nappy headed boy” as a self-reference.

Voila:

*  Sony ending its production of cassette Walkmans.  The 1980s are indeed over.

They will continue to use the “Walkman” trademark for their competing products to the iPod/iTouch.  As you know, I own one of those competing products.

*  Hello, Dufus.  They want to be anonymous for a reason.  So let them stay anonymous, and be happy with the contribution.

*  The Fairer Gender:  In spite of the justice system’s more lenient treatment of women criminal suspects and convicts compared to men, ceteris paribus, it’s still not enough for certain groups.

Here is the only specific example that this article cites:

Among them is Shawanna Nelson, 37, of Little Rock, Ark., who was shackled to a hospital bed while giving birth to her son in 2003 when she was serving time for credit card fraud.

Released in 2004, Nelson sued the state prison system, saying that the shackling — while she was experiencing severe contractions — caused lasting hip and back injuries.

In July, a federal jury found that Nelson’s civil rights has been violated and awarded her $1. Nelson, who works for a nonprofit that helps grandparent caregivers, says her son, Jordan, is thriving and she is proud of pursuing the lawsuit despite the nominal award.

“The case was never about money,” she said. “It helped bring attention to the situation.”

When most people think of “white collar crime,” they usually think of middle aged white men in the business world.  In reality, a lot of the people in Federal prison for a white collar felony are black women who committed credit card fraud, as CCF seems to be a black female thang; I understand.  What’s strange about Miss Nelson’s saga (she is indeed a lady of color) is that she was in state prison supposedly for CCF.  I don’t doubt she was in the state hoosegow, but I doubt that CCF was the precise felony conviction.  That’s because virtually all CCF happens across state lines, therefore it all goes through the Federal criminal courts, and those guilty of it do time in Federal prisons.

Point is, with all the influence the banks have over the Federal government (hence, TARP), there’s no way the U.S. Attorneys are going to countenance “community based” punishment for credit card fraud.

*  On the same subject, teen (“Hispanic”) girls are the fastest growing segment in Colorado’s criminal justice system.

 

*  Believe me, with a gigabuck spent, somebody would consider the virtual border fence a success.  It’s a “failure” for its supposed purpose (even though I saw through the bullshit from the get-go), but to Boeing, that “failure” is a feature, not a bug.

 

*  I said a few days ago that American liberals would finally buck up and do what it takes to crush Al Qaeda because they made threats against Federal employees and France, two of the libs’ favorite things.  If that didn’t get a rise out of them, the fact that AQ’s health insurance plan doesn’t cover expectant spouses should be the final straw.

 

*  This news goes in the same category that the entire Newsweak (sic) operation recently sold for less than the newsstand price of one edition of Newsweak:  Convicted felons can’t own guns, but they can own firearms manufacturers.

Actually, they can’t own a gun company any more than they can own an actual gun.  It’s just that he’s chummy with some IRS agent, who wielded enough influence to keep the ATF from investigating.  (ATF and IRS both used to be under the Treasury Department until post 9/11 reorganization, when the ATF was lateraled under the DOJ, not HLS as it is so popularly believed they were.)  That’s what this source thinks.

I have a different theory — Someone way up on high, e.g. Obama, Holder, etc., is plugging an investigation, in order to manufacture a “gun control” issue to use for 2012.  It’ll go like, “gun control laws are so weak that a convicted felon could own three gun companies.”  When they aren’t so weak.  Any law not enforced isn’t just weak, it’s essentially a dead letter.

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*  Sarah Palin making noises about the effective end of the Republican Party.  It’s not unprecedented — The Republican Party started as the Whig Party was falling apart, so a potential Tea (Political) Party could supplant the crumbling Republican Party.

*  Jim DeMint, too.  He’s actually making implied threats (I take it as a promise) to leave the party officially if they fuck up again.  And I can guarantee that such a fuck-up happens if a certain someone doesn’t challenge Bitch McConnell for Senate GOP leadership.

*  Rush’s call for HRC supporters to run a “Reverse Operation Chaos” by either voting for Republicans or not voting at all in nine days, in order to ensure Obama’s weakness and therefore HRC’s prowess after November 2, got me to thinking.  What’s with all this sudden Hillary love from the mainstream media?  They keep talking about her record high popularity compared to Obama’s moribund approval ratings, but the only reason that’s the case is because he’s the President and she isn’t.  If Obama never got the notion to run for President, HRC would have easily won the nomination, picked Obama as her running mate, and would have won the Presidency easily.  A President Hillary Clinton would have done 99% of the things policy-wise that Obama actually did, (she would have been more shrewd on publicly dealing with Arizona after it passed SB 1070), meaning the economy would still be in the crapper.  Her approval ratings would be in the dumps, and Obama’s approval ratings would be sky high, and the Beltway gossip would be Hillary stepping aside in 2012 so that Vice-President Obama could save the Democrat Party.

Note:   Before you e-mail me to tell me that I’m contradicting myself, in light of my writing in this space in very early 2007 that a nominee HRC would pick a moderate Southern Governor like TN’s Phil Bredesen or OK’s Brad Henry as a running mate, and explicitly not choose Obama, I said that because Obama was actively running for President and mounting a serious campaign, thereby effectively making himself bad running mate material.  (I was assuming like everyone else that Obama could never actually win the nomination).

*  Winston-Salem State University is a historically black institution of “higher learning.”  Do we really think that convincing its staff and students to vote Democrat was really a hard sell?

*  “Oh, but we’re only worried if she actually votes.” IF?  Two words:  Governor Gregoire.  Ask Dino Rossi about that.

*  Why does Ag Sec Tom Vilsack want to delete potatoes from the WIC program?

Answer:  Idaho is a red state.

*  President Obama is “shocked” by a recent spat of hate crimes against openly homosexual young people.

I am, too.  Except I don’t buy that they’re anti-gay hate crimes.  I think they’re anti-WHITE hate crimes, and the media and law enforcement are latching onto anti-gay invective uttered by the (mostly non-white) perps, and the fact that the (white) victims “just happen to be” homosexual, as a fan dance to distract attention from the race hate.

*  I’m sure there are dozens of hostile governments, potentates, terrorist groups, intelligence agencies, etc. that would love to be able to crack into American computers and extract a bunch of secret military documents.  So far, they have had very little luck.  Yet, some dork in England banging a keyboard has no problem getting tens of thousands if not now hundreds of thousands of classified Pentagon documents in one fell swoop.  (Yes, I’m talking about Wikileaks.)  And the documents he “unearths” all seem to avoid the five-letter O-word:  O-B-A-M-A.  Taken as a whole, the “Wikileaked” documents sound like Democrat Party and nutroots talking points on Iraq from 2003-2008.  And the most recent leak of almost 400,000 documents came just two weeks before an election.

See where I’m going here?  Let me put it to you this way:  The Wikileaks dork really didn’t have a hard time getting those cows out of the Pentagon barn, because Obama left the barn door unlocked.

*  New CO-GOV numbers:  Chickenpooper 44, Tancredo 43, Maes 9.  I think Maes has fallen well below critical mass, such that the poll might say 9% now, but most of that 9% will vote Tancredo once the rubber hits the road and they’re behind a real voting curtain casting a serious vote.  And Chickenpooper himself is about to take a big fall, (even though 44% is rather weak already), when people outside of Denver realizes that he doesn’t much like them.

What is helping Tom Tancredo in a year like this, when both major parties are unpopular, is that he’s running as a non-Republican non-Democrat, even after a 10-year Congressional career as an “elected Republican.”  However, that’s not a negative for him this year because everyone knows the Bush White House treated him like an enemy when they both had power.  On Bush’s shit list, an opponent of liberalism, and a non-R/D candidate, is a really good combination of things to be in 2010.

*  That “Republican Congressional candidate” preacher taking so many lumps for floating “violent revolution” as a last resort?

Black.

And challenging black Democrat incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson in TX-30, a CPVI D+27 heavily black and growing Hispanic district in South Dallas.  So I can add “never had a prayer” (pun intended) to “black.”

*  Harry Reid hearts Barack Obama, and Barack Obama kept saying over and over again last year not to go to Vegas and hold corporate retreats.

FAIL.

*  Nancy Pelosi will win her own Congressional seat, even though her days as Speaker are over, (even if the Democrats can miracuously keep their House majority).  But her Republican opponent outraised her $240k to $43k from 10/1 to 10/13, and has $214k to Pelosi’s $176k on hand ATM.  This ought not be happening in a San Francisco district.

Queer Eye for the Straight General (Today’s Headlines)

Ben Maller:  NFL player gets offer from “Puppetry of the Penis”

Must be the response to the Vagina Monologues.

Ben Maller:  LeBron wants you to know how tough pro athletes have it

Cry me a river, bastard.  Hope you sustain a career-ending injury in the season opener.

CNS:  Texas Democrat Promises to Move Into Trailer If Elected Governor

Texas Democrats — Dreaming of living in a tin can.

CNS:  Pentagon Prepares to Adopt a Gay-Tolerant Culture

They’ve got every General ranked two stars and above cramming for gay tolerance by watching Bravo non-stop.

Thursday’s Stuff

*  Michael Savage uses Firefox to browse the interwebs.  I know this because he said something in passing about it crashing and having to restart during the first hour of his show yesterday.

*  Well, duh.  “Exterminator” is going to “exterminate” crime, by chasing it away to other areas.

*  Ang, you’re no Ines Sainz.

*  Lil’ Wayne is #1 on the charts while still on Rikers Island, involuntarily taking it up #2.

GOOG and AAPL do ENE Accounting

Hypocrite liberals Larry, Sergey shield a good chunk of Google’s corporate income from American taxation by shuffling money around from country to country.  All the while funding leftist politicians who want the rich to pay more in income taxes.

There is a claim that if iPhones were manufactured in the United States, that the retail unit cost would be $5,000, compared to the typical $500.  Not buying it — When the iPhone 4 was about to come out, WalMart sold the iPhone 3GS for under $100.  So even with the most expensive unionized labor in America, why would a purely American made iPhone need to cost $5,000, if the biggest retailer can profit from selling the previous model for under $100?  I could imagine that it would be a little more expensive than $500, but certainly not ten times as much.  Methinks this study was somebody’s propaganda, either Apple’s or Foxconn’s or both.

A few months ago, I had the news in this space about Foxconn opening up a new facility in central China that could host up to 400,000 employees.  Imagine if a new factory opened in the middle of America to make iPhones that employed 4,000 people and paid wages and benefits similar to automobile assembly lines — We would all go apeshit in a good way.  It could happen, if the Federal government stopped dicking around with shit they have no authority over (i.e. forcing people to buy health insurance), and started doing things the Constitution plainly permits (and demands) they do, i.e. regulating foreign trade.  Force Foxconn to build in OH or PA or MI and hire unionized Americans, even a small fraction of the total workforce needed to manufacture devices ultimately sold in the American retail market, as a price for accessing the American market to begin with.  Four thousand fewer people in the rust belt would be without health insurance.

Fun With Kinda Sucks

Chicago Sun-Times:  Police to expand high-school outreach program

Going to reach out with a pair of handcuffs, I hope?

Daily Mail:  Police hunt for two young boys seen wandering streets alone in their pyjamas… but why has no-one reported them missing?

Guessing it’s Murphysboro, Ill.’s British sister city.

Pat Dollard:  Obama: Americans Are Too Stupid To Understand The Wisdom Of His Policies

Funny how us rubes have gone from so smart to so stupid in only two years.

Politico:  Public opinion of Nancy Pelosi hits a new low

I thought you couldn’t get any lower than zero.

Pajamas Media:  Republicans Kind of Suck … Which Is Why They Will Win Huge in November

The alternative is the party that blows big baby chunks.  “Kinda sucks” looks good by comparison.

The Blaze:  Sharpton Lectures Black College Students on How to Be Leaders by Mocking ‘Cerebral Queen’ Palin, ‘Fried Chicken Eating’ Clinton and ‘Buckwheating’ Grandmom

Apparently, stereotyping isn’t a deal breaker for leadership.

P-D:  Illinois State Police plan stepped-up enforcement in November

That means you have only 11 days left to commit a crime in Illinois, else you’ll have to wait another 30 to be home free again.

Daily Mail:  Humans able to back up their brain and its memories within two decades, claims top scientist

Just waiting for that Carbonite ad on conservative talk radio.

Detroit News:  Worthy proposes jail for parents who skip kids’ school conferences

Think about it as your sole sustenance is three lousy bologna sandwiches a day in between being raped repeatedly — Was it worth it to skip the PTC meeting to hear about what dummies your kids are?

Wednesday’s Stuff

*  It’s official.  The previous two non-temporary Archbishops of the St. Louis Diocese have gone on to become Cardinals.  And I don’t mean of the ball and bat variety.

Unfortunately, both Justin Rigali and Raymond Burke were elevated once they left St. Louis.  Used to be St. Louis was so important overall and to the Catholic Church in particular that the Archbishop was often elevated to Cardinal while in St. Louis.  Glennon, Ritter and Carberry immediately come to mind.

*  More info on the Air Force recruiter being stabbed — Turns out a neighbor of his office is a cosmetology school.  Doesn’t seem like the best place to put a recruiting office for the Air Force, when a major Air Force base is right there in St. Clair County.  Just eliminate the middleman — have ‘em sign up for the Air Force right on the Air Force Base.

*  I don’t get it.  The D.C. metropolitan area is more prosperous than ever, yet the D.C. City Public Schools have to serve three meals a day, including supper, to some 10,000 students.

*  Media Morons for America quoting a neo-con stink tank (Claremont) in their opposition to CT AG Candidate Martha Dean (R) and her promise to join the anti-ObamaCare lawsuit.

Now, Claremont is supposedly against ObamaCare, aren’t they?  So why would they bash and trash a potential state AG that wants to knock it off in the Federal courts?

Combine this with what Rush has said on his show today and yesterday, that there have been quiet and under the radar semi-secret meetings between Republican brass in the Senate (McConnell, Alexander, Corker) and people who are said to be big money donors, the former telling the latter that if the Republicans re-take the Senate and they’re in leadership, that they won’t make any moves to repeal or defund ObamaCare.

Combine these two things together, and I think we’re in the middle of Republican big wigs being co-opted and neutralized on ObamaCare.  I bet there has been some sort of Obama/Democrat promised quid pro quo, or some sort of secret deal where the Republicans will get to undo a few elements of ObamaCare, (There are already noises that Obama would meet the GOP halfway on the infamous 1099 requirement, and perhaps Obama might not want to repeal the individual mandate through legislation, so as not to piss off Karen Ignagni, but he could promise to tell his SG not to try very hard when defending it in the upcoming court cases filed by 20 State Attorneys General thus far), with Obama himself “being outraged” for public consumption but “reluctantly” signing said bill at the end of the day, with top Republicans promised big payoffs or sinecures involing whatever parts of ObamaCare are left over after the fan dance is through.

That should be a message to you, Jim DeMint:  No matter what happens in the elections, try and take down Bitch McConnell after the elections and before January 3.