* Yours truly is evidently not alone in seeing through the Delilah scam. Someone on a Nissan owner forum blockquoted me, and this set up a chorus of “Amens.”
* P-D complains that around 40% of public high school graduates in the class before last needed to take remedial courses as college freshmen.
Pray tell, why were they even admitted to college? More, why were they even allowed to graduate from high school?
If you can’t figure that out by now, as long as you’ve been reading this space, then I’ve got a remedial bridge over the Bay of Remediation that I want to sell you.
Ironically, the only photos that the P-D shows us are those from the Missouri public high school whose graduates are least likely to need remedial courses at the next level.
* Can I call bullshit or what?
When the Bush administration peddled “unmanned aerial drones” over the U.S.-Mexico “Border” as a tool to fight illegal immigration, I sarcastically said in this space at the time that we would be shocked by what they would reveal, that Mexicans and OTMs were sneaking across the border. I then said seriously that I thought the whole thing was a military-industrial complex hustle, and it turned out to be just that.
I had Christiane Amanpour on this morning, (I know, I’m the one. I’ve seen her ratings — I comprise about half of them), even though it was Jake Tapper (?) filling in. He had George Clooney on, who is spending close to a megabuck to requisition satellite bandwidth to monitor the possible vote on secession in southern Sudan this year, and any reprisals of violence form the north both during the vote and after a possible vote for secession.
I have an audacious prediction — There will be violence. Also, the sun will rise in the East tomorrow. And I don’t need to see hi-res satellite photos to make these predictions.
To his credit, Tapper pressed Clooney on the futility of his efforts, by asking him in essence, “So what?” I mean, the sat photos will show us what we already know is going to happen, yet nobody is going to do anything about it. Tapper’s language there was loaded with the assumption that the world should do something about it, but my opinion is just the opposite — Intervening in that conflict is hopping right into the tar baby. Cue the Bismarck quote about the Balkans.
And the sad postscript to this matter is that the real driving force behind “humanitarian concern” over Sudan isn’t coming from Hollyweird libs like Clooney, or the left side of the American body politic at all. The driving force is the American Christian conservative movement (“religious right”), because many southern Sudanese are nominally Christian, (though only for the sake of the rice bowl, IMHO), while their northern oppressors are Muslim. Really, though, most southerners are animists, adherents to traditional black African forms of faith traditions. Either way, none of our business.
* This story about newly-elected Governors not living in their states’ Governors Mansions, (in case the given state has one, which not all do), has a slideshow of various Governors Mansions of note.
I thought Kansas’s Cedar Crest was a permanent Halloween decoration (zip code 66606 to drive the point home), but New York’s takes that designation to a whole new level. And New Jersey’s is called “Drumthwacket” — With a name like that, I’m surprised every pervert of any age and every horn dog teenage boy or young adult man isn’t wanting to take a job inside that place.
It may be native and soon to be once-again home state bias, but I’m fond of Missouri’s Governor’s Mansion, a relatively modest four-story Franco-Germanic salt brick flat on the bluffs of the Missouri River.
* I’m not at all surprised that the PervPad was born in my old stomping grounds. What is surprising that it was in a semi-respectable town like Marion, and not the benighted armpit of the region, Murphysboro.
* This can only mean one thing — Schools are getting better at teaching statistics and probability, and this is keeping people away from the riverboat casinos, thereby reducing revenues to schools. Irony on circular parade.
* Jim Hoft is clearly paying attention. By charitably calling these arrested teenagers “men” and “women,” he indicates that he knows that there is no such thing as a black “boy,” and is wisely avoiding a firestorm of criticism.
* Sorry, I’m not buying it. You think Robert Mugabe would have been any less repressive toward the opposition but for the news of the leaked cable relating to Morgan Tsvangirai? A despotic thug is a despotic thug — Mugabe would have found any excuse, and indeed found dozens of reasons before the “WikiLeak” to bitch-slap Tsvangirai around. On top of that, I personally don’t invest any hope in Tsvangirai — I don’t think he’ll be any better than Mugabe when it comes to anti-white racial cleansing.
So here is another WikiLeaks story that turns out to be a total snooze.
* SMH rightly cites Australia’s “close…ties to Asia” as the reason why Australia had the highest rate of residential real estate appreciation in 2010 in the first world. But it’s not “trade” that’s causing it, it’s that rich Asians are bidding limited quantities of real estate, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, sky high. And with the country’s mostly dry and desert climate, there really isn’t much more space to build out.
* How much you wanna bet this “former Shell exec” still owns stock in Shell?
I think we’re being played like a fiddle with his five clam a gallon “prediction.” Sure, it’s going to rise, but this country is dead when it hits five. And, since people generally don’t shit where they eat, and the American oil buying public is still the lion’s share of the profitability of the oil business, that’s the reason why it never can or will go that high, failing a major supply problem. What I think is going on is that he’s floating five as a bait-and-switch so that when it does hit three-fifty and four in the next two years and stays there, people won’t be so “shocked” because they were “expecting” or “prepared for” five. And no shock means no anger at either Big Oil or Big Obama.
* Speaking of this country dying…
* Someone found Ezra Klein’s CV. At least there’s no plagiarism.
* I’m hearing too many people blame the club owner for the fights and shootings outside his nightclub on Kwanzaa Eve night that has now resulted in two kills. And I cringe when this club (which is now closed due to unprofitability) and his previous ventures in that stead are called “problem properties.” I mean, is it supposed to be a building’s fault or an establishment’s fault that young black men and women can’t behave themselves, and just can’t self-disperse from a nightclub from which they were turned away? Read to the bottom, and you’ll find that the whole thing started with a false Facebook rumor — Remember that when you hear mentally insane politician whine about the “digital divide” and giving “minorities” more internet access.
* You have to let the flouroscopy scanners see all your junk, or let a TSA affirmative action flunkie feel your junk, but if you take off almost all of your clothes, then that’s a big damned problem. You’re in even more hot water if you write part of the document the TSA flunkies swear an oath to defend across your chest in crayon.
Then again, the only criminal charge here is “disorderly conduct,” and I would have thought by now that the judiciary would have knocked off every DC law in the country for substantive due process.
* Oh and by the way, there were also anti-white hate crimes. Us honkeys did get an honorary sentence in the NYP.
They tell us about victims, but nothing about perpetrators. With anti-Jewish and anti-gay hate crimes up in 2009 over 2008, I suspect Muslims are the perps.
* I don’t think this is what Merle Haggard was thinking about when he sang about “Okies from Muskogee.”
* Better late, in fact way late, than never, I suppose. Then again, I don’t have to drop the phrase “War on Terror” from my lexicon, because I never adopted it. That’s because terrorism is a tactic of warfare, and it’s logically absurd to wage a war against a tactic of war. The whole bullshit weasel phrase “War on Terror” was a construct of chicken shit pansy ass neo-cons and lamestream conservatives in the Bush White House who didn’t want us to think that we actually had an enemy we could be “racist” and “prejudiced” against and “bigoted” toward, i.e. attempt to defeat.
* Vacationers at a British resort started a riot.
Why? Because the attendants wanted them to take a breathalyzer to ensure they weren’t drinking alcohol, which is evidently the only luxury prohibited at this resort.
* Little Mosque on the Prairie. CBC (Canada) really does have such a show. Katie Couric, look it up.
Seriously, this little brain-fart on the part of this the future co-host of the CBS national morning show is all based on the delusional fantasyland bullshit that the Cosby Show somehow made white people think that blacks aren’t all gang bangers and thugs. Maybe Cosby did lead to some slight delusions in that direction for a microsecond, but they were quickly undone by the first ten minutes of the local eyeball newscasts, and then by watching new joints on BET. To the wee small extent Cosby disillusioned us bigoted honkeys of our “prejudices,” dozens of real world thugs and rappers quickly reillusioned us.
And some headlines.
UK Telegraph: Ivory Coast president refuses phone call from Barack Obama
Lemme guess. Obama tried to call collect.
CNS: Drug Lord Described As ‘Killer of Killers’ Dies in Clashes in Colombia
If he didn’t die the death of deaths, then irony is dead.
Daily Mail: Why going to a gym may scupper your chances of getting a mortgage
Catch-22: Use a gym and pay lower health insurance premiums but can’t get a mortgage, or don’t use a gym to get a mortgage but keel over before you can pay it off for poor physical fitness.
BBC: Can lessons from Burundi combat London street violence?
The lesson involves the words “bunny,” “jungle” and “out.”
Bay Area Reporter: Momentum builds for Harvey Milk stamp
In related news, the Post Office wants to raise first class postage to 69 cents.
Reuters: Website aims to be Facebook for gays in military
But there’s already Bravo’s website.
