* I figured as much, unfortunately.
BTW, according to the NYT Census Explorer, the link to which I posted yesterday, that St. Charles census tract, bordered by Clark St on the north, 94 on the west, 70 on the south and the river on the east is the blackest census tract in St. Charles County, at 12%. Even more than that mini-ghetto in Wentzville (hint: GM), and surprisingly way more than the census tract which contains those infamous public housing apartments on the north end of St. Charles City, the one responsible for a majority of the City P.D.’s calls.
* Forget the neighbors and the NIMBYs for a minute. There is one institution which is going to fight this Wal*Martinez going up in Shrewsbury tooth and nail. That’s the Target on Hampton and Chippewa.
Also another thing that Shrewsbury should watch out for is that this Wal*Mart would be going up right on Chippewa, right along a major public bus route that leads straight to the blackest parts of South St. Louis City. Now, the aformentioned Target also lies along the same route, but blacks aren’t that fond of Target, which has quitetly marketed itself as the preferred big box retailer for the SWPL crowd. But while they’re not fond of Target, they do love “they self some Wal*Mart,” and I think you people in Shrewsbury should use that as extra motivation. Somehow, though, I think a lot of people in Shrewsbury have already figured this out. Noise is just a nice politically correct red herring.
* Man, I tell you. Us right-wingers can’t win for losing.
Then again, I’ve seen what passes for “smart” these days, especially on the left, so being primitive isn’t so bad.
Prediction: Within a year, someone (likely a primitive right-winger) will crack into the UCL computers where the data for this study are based, and, just as in the case of the University of East Anglia and Glow-BULL (not) Warming, we’ll find that the methodology is so flawed that calling it “flawed” would be like calling the Pope a mere Catholic priest.
* You’ll see this same story below in the headline fun, but I want to break it down here as well. What is contradictory in saying that various Muslim scholars issued more than 343,000 fatwas in 2010 is that that analysis is based on the infidel Christian’s calendar. I don’t know when the year rolls over on the Muslim calendar, but I predict that there will soon be a fatwa against classifying the issuance year of fatwas using anything but the Muslim calendar.
Thank Allah the vuvuzela is still kosher…er, halah…er, okay.
* This article doesn’t state it, but the local eyeball news said this morning relating to this story that Maplewood has something of a “Little Mongolia,” a community of Mongolian-Americans.
Mongolia itself is a country so obscure that President Bush’s visit in 2005 to Ulan Bator was the first time any American President visited the country. Yet, we now have “Little Mongolias” here in St. Louis.
* Let me translate this from mediaese to English for you: What they’re all worried about is that the Amish won’t vote Democrat.
* Third to the last paragraph. And they wonder why people dislike the Judicial Branch of government so much.
And some headlines.
FNC: Somali Insurgents: Obama Must Convert to Islam or Attacks on U.S. Will Come
On the other hand, it means the “Obama’s a Muslim” gossip can stop.
Daily Mail: Scientists unveil chip which could make desktop computers 20 times faster
The report which benchmarks it to Crysis is released in 3, 2, 1…
Daily Mail: Dial-a-fatwa that bans naps, raffles and tattoos: Muslim scholars issue 350,000 decrees in 2010
Who wants to convert to Islam? It’s got more rules than even a Philadelphistan lawyer can keep up with.
St. Louis Beacon: Riverview Gardens schools continue to reinvent themselves
Pray tell, how can a school district “reinvent” itself? By converting all its buildings into flop houses?
