INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (FNN) – The National Collegiate Athletics Association has opened an investigation of every one of its 1,281 schools, leagues and associations which comprise its membership.
Mark A. Emmert, current President of the NCAA, announced the mass investigation at a press conference today at the NCAA’s Indianapolis headquarters.
“From information we have received, cheating and rules violations are so rampant and seemingly so widespread that we had no choice but to investigate everyone,” Emmert said. “We need to find out who isn’t cheating. We’ve got to catch them pale-handed.”
Emmert announced the formation of a blue ribbon panel, headed by former NCAA President Myles Brand, one that both men hoped would cast such a wide dragnet that it would fail to catch all the clean programs. “If you’re following the rules, make no mistake about it — You can hide, but you can’t run. We will find you, and expose your rectitude for the whole world to see. We’ll know whose hands aren’t in the cookie jar.”
Any school that is caught following all the rules faces a possible punishment of having a horrible athletic program for the next ten years.
Just like the Hutaree, only (A) Much darker, (B) Actually killed a cop, and (C) In the name of pro-black left-wing extremism. If Mr. Shepard ever ran around naked in a field with a cutout picture of George W. Bush covering his dick, requesting that a mascot duck not molest him with his dildo mallet, then the comparison would come full circle.
It was reported in other sources that Mr. Shepard said that he wanted to kill cops “because the ballot box isn’t working.” And by “working,” he meant to neuter cops in the face of black crime.
WTF does he mean by the “ballot box not working?” Lyndon Johnson won 61% of the popular vote, the highest of any candidate in a genuinely contested Presidential election in American history, and then rode that mandate into signing every anti-police civil rights bill that neutered the cops that came to his desk. Barack Obama won 365 electoral votes and then said that the Cambridge, Mass. P.D. Sergeant “acted stupidly” because he dared to arrest a belligerent black man who was in the middle of a publicity stunt. (Yeah, I’m still riding that horse.) And, as it sadly turns out, the Republicans in Jefferson City are going to give the SLPD back to the city so that the whackjobs who constitute city government can put in a civilian review board which will even further handcuff white cops in the face of black crime. Seems like the ballot box IS working, and all you have to do is vote Republocrat.
UPDATE 3/3: The guilty verdict was handed down today. Mr. Shepard took the stand and admitted that he killed the cop (who turned out to be white) because he wanted to kill a white cop. No link to the story because it mentions the name of the presiding judge. I do find it ironic that Bob McCulloch personally prosecuted this case. Not surprising, because McCulloch’s father was a cop that was murdered in the line of duty. But ironic, because McCulloch was a Truth Squader.
UPDATE 3/4: Sentencing hearing began today. Money quote from the P-D article about it, relating to Shepard’s taking the stand in the sentencing portion of the hearing, no link because it mentions the judge:
On the witness stand, Shepard said he became agitated at home in Berkeley the morning of Oct. 31, 2008, because he saw then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on TV, saying in an answer to a question that he would not seek an endorsement from the controversial National of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Shepard said it made him mad enough to tear up his voter registration card and flush it down the toilet. McCulloch asked how, as a convicted felon, he could have been registered to vote. Shepard insisted that he was.
Shepard said he had lunch at a Red Lobster restaurant, where a waitress wore a name tag that said “Truth,” and he heard her talk to others about being revolutionary. He said it reminded him of how activist Malcolm X used to talk about people who used the term loosely.
On an errand later to buy drugs, Shepard said, he drove through “enemy territory” in University City on a “reconnaissance mission” to look for police, as he had done dozens of times before.
He said he noticed a white male officer — not King — walking a beat on Delmar Boulevard. “I remember saying to myself that would be a good way to start a revolution there, by knocking a patch off the back of his head.” But he said he kept going because he could not find a parking place.
He said he passed up shooting a female officer in a patrol car because she was black. He described seeing King, parked on Leland Avenue, as “like a vision or something.”
MO allows convicted felons to vote if they’re out of prison and their probation is complete. Aside from most of the local media vastly downplaying the black-on-white race hate of this matter, if his probation wasn’t finished and he was allowed to register to vote, that ought to be the other element of scandal coming out of this.
UPDATE 3/6: The jury returned a guilty verdict very quickly. That’s how I knew he wouldn’t get the death penalty. When the trial began, the P-D reported there were two blacks on the jury, and the way these things sometimes work out when the murder defendant is black is that the black jurors intimidate the white jurors that they’ll refuse to convict if the white jurors seriously consider the death penalty. Now, what happened here is that we know for sure that one juror objected to the death penalty, hanging up the jurors in the penalty phase, therefore defaulting to a life sentence. We don’t or probably will never know if this one juror was one of the two blacks.
Also, the P-D defends its printing Shepard’s actual vulgarities (“punk ass fag”) toward McCulloch, instead of stating that the now-convicted murder used vulgarities against the Circuit Attorney who prosecuted him. Really, someone who is about to go away to prison for the rest of his life ought not be boasting about his own future career.
Half of Britain ‘would vote for far-Right parties if they gave up violence’
Almost half the country would back a far-Right party if they gave up violence, an astonishing new poll revealed today.
A total of 48 per cent said that they would support a group that vowed to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists.
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There has been a recent wave of support for extremists such as the English Defence League and the British National Party.
The poll was commissioned by a consortium, the major part of which was the notorious far-left British organization and publication called Searchlight.
First off, this is a straw dog. “If” they gave up violence? They don’t believe in violence or advocate violence, neither the EDL or the BNP. And it should be noted that the EDL is an activist organization, not a political party. The EDL and BNP have mixed relations with each other, varying between hot and cold, mostly cold. The main reason the EDL won’t embrace the BNP completely is because the EDL is pro-Israel and still thinks that the current BNP is the BNP of the Tyndall era. When in reality, today’s BNP is neutral on Israel, neutral on Jews in general, and currently has a Jewish member elected to a municipal public office (city council-like) in England. The point is, now we know why the far left combined with the Tory-shill media are peddling the false narrative, evidence by the title of the Mail article and the Telegraph article, that the BNP and EDL do support violence, or “are associated” with violence.
Huge numbers of Britons would support an anti-immigration English nationalist party if it was not associated with violence and fascist imagery, according to the largest survey into identity and extremism conducted in the UK.
“Not associated with violence and fascist imagery.” That’s different from advocating violence or engaging in violence. The only reason the BNP and EDL are “associated with violence” is because every time they go out in public and do something, the black-clad face-concealed far-left goons, with Searchlight’s countenance, tries to beat them up. And far from “fascist imagery,” like I said above, the EDL is pro-Israel, and the BNP under Nick Griffin is neutral. And both forever laud Britain’s part in winning the war against Hitler. If the EDL and BNP are “associated” with “fascist imagery,” it is thanks to the selfsame leftist goons.
However, if Searchlight doesn’t have an ulterior motive for pumping up the percentage of Britons that would vote for a “clean” nationalist party (fundraising, etc.), and assuming that 48% would vote for such a party, this is big news. Remember, in 2005, Tony Blair remained PM and his Labour Party retained an absolute majority in Parliament even though Labour only got 35.2% of the popular vote. Last year, David Cameron became PM, even in a divided government situation with the Learning Disableds, while the Tories flipped a net of 97 seats, their biggest one-night gain ever, even though the Tories only got 36.1% of the popular vote. On the other end, the 1997 landslide which brought Tony Blair to power and his Labour Party flipping 145 seats was on the backs of 43.2% of the vote. A BNP getting 48% is like an ultra-landslide under a FPTP system.
Don’t forget, Nick Griffin is stepping down in 2013. The process to choose his successor as BNP leader will probably be a few months before his retirement. All I can say is that that process will be crucial, and they better not fuck it up. NickG has brought the party to the vestibule of credibility, and the right successor could take it even further. For if Searchlight is right, the iron is very hot and prime for striking. Even if they’re inflating the stats for fundraising purposes, e.g. it’s only half that, a BNP getting 24% of the vote would still give a it a whole bunch of Parliament seats AND king-making ability under the right circumstances.
Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon on a mission to help growing Hispanic population integrate into hometown of Hazleton, Pa.
PORT CHARLOTTE — Manager Joe Maddon has a new cause.
Having worked extensively to help the homeless in the Tampa Bay area through his Thanksmas charity program, Maddon has now set his sights on his hometown of Hazleton, Pa.
In short, he wants to help integrate the growing Hispanic population (in excess of 10,000) into a seemingly reluctant old-school community to help keep the whole city from dying.
After meeting with Hispanic families during his holiday visit home, Maddon said he realized the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics there now are following the same path the European immigrants, including his own family, did generations ago but are not being welcomed.
So it takes Dominicans and Puerto Ricans to keep a crusty old white city from dying. If that’s the case, why aren’t both the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico great? Why won’t Puerto Rico declare its independence from the imperialist rule of those crusty old white Americans and turn into an international superpower on par with the Dominican Republic? (At the very least, quit relying on that crusty old schooler white American welfare.) Why do Dominicans and Puerto Ricans have to go anywhere at all if they’re so great? They can be great right where they are and not share their greatness with us crusty old gringoes.
More questions: If the “old schooler” whites back in Hazleton thought all those PRs and DRs were revitalizing the city, why did the Mayor who wanted them out of the city, one Lou Barletta, win both the Republican and Democrat Party primaries for Mayor when he ran for his third term? (He’s a Republican, and he won the Democrat primary with write-in votes from white Democrats, beating an ex-Mayor in the process. Barletta did not declare himself a write-in candidate for the Democrat nomination because he was already a ballot candidate for the Republican nomination. It was the city’s white Democrats who took it on themselves to write his name in.) If the people in Hazleton’s Congressional district thought all these Hispanics could bring back all these “old schooler” white towns in PA-11, why did they almost turn out their deep-rooted Democrat incumbent (Paul Kanjorski) in 2008 for the aforementioned Mr. Barletta, in spite of Obama carrying the district with a 15-point margin? And why did they finally do it two years later?
In other words, they should teach them how not to fight, and how to loaf around and be sitting ducks for the sort of people whom we used to call “enemies,” but we now have to refer to as “insurgents” out of PC because they’re non-white. Why have an Army then?
Really big stack — You might want to have your supper with you while you’re reading this. You might be able to MAKE supper in the time it’ll take you to get through all this stuff. Or if you wanted me to bring you back some Kansas City brisket from Gates or AB’s, sorry about that, I ate it all.
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Why are so many of us right-wingers hatin’ on these good progressives for playing this kind of music inside the Wisconsin State Capitol while the House voted on the budget and the public employee union reforms? This is the PERFECT music by which to slash spending. The beat just screams fiscal sanity.
Clinton? Civility? Smearing Ken Starr? Having a “war room” that drags his opponents’ names through the mud? There’s a good laugh. BTW, Bush 41 ought to have nothing to do with Clinton, b/c Clinton’s fall 1992 campaign lied and said that the “Bush (41) economy was the worst economy in the last 50 years,” as if the 1981-2 recession never happened. Then again, I don’t think Bush 41 really wanted to win a second term.
And besides, what is the attraction to Tucson and the University of Arizona for a “civility institute” to begin with? Oh, you’re talking about that. And by “that,” I mean an untreated schizophrenic and drug addict who wanted to murder the member of Congress who represented his residential geography, just because he wanted to attain eternal notoriety and infamy. (That’s why his name will never appear on this medium.) What’s that got to do with so-called “civility” in political rhetoric, which most Democrats have now forgotten about (see: WI)?
I can just read the e-mails from the New Castrati: “Oh, but blogmeister. What about that Sarah Palin map with the crosshairs over Giffords’s district?” Well, hers wasn’t the only district with crosshairs. IIRC, there were like 20 or so (maybe more) districts where the map had crosshairs. And so far, I haven’t heard about any attempts to assassinate the other members of Congress who were in Palin’s “crosshairs.” I know most of those “targeted” districts were indeed party flips back in November — Giffords was only one of very few of those 20 that survived. Still, if this map were so “incindeary,” you’d think that the 19 others would have been shot at before November.
On the same matter, even though the Great Poverty Palace of Montgomery at first said that the Giffords shooting wasn’t politically motivated, (back in the days when they were actually semi-objectively examining the evidence), they’re now going back on that and insinuating that it was political, and of course right-wing political. Will some Federal prosecutor PLEASE string the SPLC up on Federal wire and mail fraud charges?
* The local media like to ask: Why can’t our downtown be great? After all, it’s great in all these other cities. When you go to those other cities, especially the ones our media name, their media are asking: Why can’t our downtown be great? After all, it’s great in St. Louis. What’s going on is that it’s not really that great anywhere, and various local media outlets are playing a coordinated game.
First off, I think the fear is more theoretical than anything. I think they’re thinking that some classrooms could have 60 if all eligible high school age students actually attended school. Which, this being Detroit, won’t happen. Dropout rate and all.
But here’s the better response — Why are we so paranoid about big class sizes on the high school level? Granted, you wouldn’t want 60 in a room in elementary school, and even in high school, there is genuinely an upper limit of feasibility. However, let me ask you this — Did not the Western Roman Empire fall in 476 AD, does not the first integral of x^2 equal (x^3)/3, did not Jack London and Ernest Hemingway write about ther exploits in Alaska and Cuba, and does not a combination of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide react to form water and salt, just because a teacher has to teach it to 60 students instead of 30? Does a given student’s ability to learn these things all of a sudden get worse with 59 warm bodies around him or her rather than 29?
Let me put it to you another way — Have you ever had surgery? Have you ever been a party in a civil or criminal legal case? You’ll be amazed to know that the surgeon operating on you and the judge supervising the trial process once sat in lecture halls surrounded by several hundred other med or law students, wherein they had to absorb knowledge crucial to their being able to function as a good surgeon or judge today.
Lemme guess. You wanted the job and the benefits, and the ability to marching down Main Street wearing your Class As surrounded by American flags and confetti while everyone lauds you as a hero, but you didn’t actually want any of the dirty work.
* I can hear Ann Coulter’s reaction to this story: “Our black gays are tougher than your white straights.”
I wonder what Arabic for “pha pha phaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” is. (Inside joke)
Seriously, I don’t think they needed to go far to find photos of American products with Arabic labels. You CAN get to Detroit from St. Louis in a day’s drive!
Mr./Miss Aye is said to be the first D-I athlete to display his/her transgenderism publicly and play under those conditions. I predict that the first time a male current professional or serious college athlete “comes out” as homosexual, the world will meet the news with a collective yawn.
* Right on. They love ‘em so much, they should have to deal with them personally. I can think of a few other kinds of people other than just illegal aliens for whom this should apply.
When’s the last time you heard a professional athlete say THAT? Then again, if he turns out to be a great pitcher, look for the MLBPA to lean on him to ditch that kind of attitude.
In this case, less is more. For if you read down in the article, you’ll find this little nicety:
Johnson said common threads among the dying counties are older whites who are no longer having children, and an exodus of young adults who find little promise in the region and seek jobs elsewhere. The places also have fewer Hispanic immigrants, who on average are younger and tend to have more children than other groups.
“The downturn in the U.S. economy is only exacerbating the problem,” said Johnson, whose research paper is being published next month in the journal Rural Sociology. “In some cases, the only thing that can pull an area out is an influx of young Hispanic immigrants or new economic development.”
Like I said, addition by subtraction. Don’t let TPTB fool you into thinking that population decrease is necessarily bad or that population increase is necessarily desirable.
* It’s not that I don’t agree with most of the logic in this piece by Roger Lott (Prof. John Lott’s son), but it’s incomplete.
There is a very good reason why New Hampshire and Vermont combined had only one “handgun murder” in all of 2009. The reason is that those states are as close to homogeneously white as American states can get these days.
But, after reading this, you’ll realize that it won’t say that way for much longer. And by “it,” I mean both the homogeneous nature of at least one of those two states, and their paucity of “handgun murders.”
* First off, you have to maintain some level of suspicion when it comes to “sting” cases. To wit: The “Liberty City Seven,” who supposedly wanted to blow up the Sears Tower, even though they didn’t know which city the Sears Tower was in. (They were from South Florida, BTW.)
But if he did do it, then the irony is duly noted.
The idea is based on a U.S. scheme, which has had a profound effect on discipline and learning by providing disruptive pupils with role models. Education experts hope the macho image of ex-soldiers will inspire respect, especially among boys who have grown up without a father figure.
Problem is, it’s illegal in the UK for military men to be macho. It’s a sexist hate crime.
And it would be just as well, because Pima County is pretty much Mexico already for all intents and purposes.
* NOW you’re concerned about ethics? Remember JournoList? Remember DocumentGate? (Bush/Nat’l Guard fake papers) Remember Deep Throat, who turned out to be a man (Mark Felt) who was illegally divuging the confidential details of an FBI investigation?
* Does that new 270/Dorsett interchange confuse you? Get used to it, because it’s coming to 70/Mid Rivers and 70/K-M, both in St. Charles County.
* Duh, racial differences in crime. There’s your investigation, Chief. Just thank your lucky stars that Springfield, Missouri isn’t very black to have very many of these troubles.
* No kidding. I wish I could find Michael Savage’s internet dating rhetoric translator somewhere on the web.
* Is this THE Alex Jones, the one I’m thinking about? It says here that the “Alex Jones” that was the host was laudatory about Thomas Jefferson, so that has to be him.
And FTR, I think Alex Jones is half right and half wrong in the greater scheme of things. Thinking that Charlie Sheen sounds like Thomas Jefferson goes in the “wrong” box.
BTW, while I think Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn are pretty good at puns and one-liners, you have to admit that they have a pretty easy job. All they have do is fit a few good puns and one-liners into Charlie Sheen’s real life, and whamo presto, you have Charlie Harper. On top of that, they have a lot of new material to work with all of a sudden.
As the case may be, CBS is shutting down 2.5 Men for the rest of this season. There goes one of my prime time TV appointments until fall.
Why couldn’t we have rounded up these Mexican gang bangers before now? Why do we have to wait until they pick off one of ours before we round up theirs? Here’s a snazzy idea for you: If we round up theirs first, that reduces the chances of them picking off one or two of ours.
* Another day, another Hitler Association Outrage. Maybe one of these days, cities and states will take the obvious hint and ban Hitler Associations, or at least severely limit their power. And they have the power to do it, too — Civil rights laws. Hell, maybe that could be the hook for the Feds to come in — Fair Housing Act and all — Hell, they’ll use it for everything else.
As it turns out, all those Census Bureau estimates from around 2005 which showed St. Louis City gaining population, numbers which Mayor Francis Slay touted big time in his 2005 media buys for his first re-election bid and to a lesser extent again in 2009 — As we say here in the blogging industry, Bull Fucking Shit.
I always thought that these “estimates” were more politics than truth. I can easily see how Slay can have some say in the political realm of things. (UPDATE 2/27: P-D now admits that.) I have heard that part of the reason these “estimates” could (pretend to) arrive at a growing city population at all is that rehabbed residential units were being pre-determined to house the number of people expected to live comfortably inside that unit, even if nobody actually lived there.
When it comes to counting actual human beings, St. Louis City, which stood at about 348,000 according to 2000′s official count, fell to 319,000 in 2010. The “estimation” methodology had the city at 355,000 at this time.
This means that all these yuppies and all this gentrification and all this rehabbing we heard so much about really didn’t amount to much of anything in terms of population. While I’m sure that there was some gains in certain relatively desirable city neighborhoods (ones that were still majority white before the stampede of yuppies, BTW, not to mention downtown’s lofts, which did not exist before), they were more than offset by a lot of deaths from 2000 to 2010. In 1990, the median age of a white City resident was 55, for blacks it was 21. Any idiot could see that that it would only be a matter of time that the white population in the city would start collapsing just based on “aging out.” I think it’s already starting.
For the first time as the result of an official count, St. Charles County now exceeds St. Louis City in population. Previously, I predicted that this would happen around 2005, and the only reason I thought it didn’t happen then was because of all the noise about the bullshit “estimates” that showed the city’s population growing. That said, I now believe that the crossover really did happen around 2005. St. Louis County’s stay at seven figures is now over, meaning that for only one official Census (2000) did it post over one million people.
We do not yet have an official racial breakdown. The official 2000 breakdown was 53% Black and 44% White. Now, the NYT Census Explorer shows 48% Black and 45% White, but that relies on the “official” bullshit “estimate” of 355,000. Now that we know it’s really 319,000, I would imagine that the black percentage will be a few percent higher than in 2000 and the white a few lower.
I can just read the e-mails from the New Castrati already coming in: “But blogmeister, don’t you admit that the Official Census actually undercounts blacks?”
Yes, that’s true. But it’s a moot point in the larger point I’m trying to make. It’s true that the city’s population was probably higher than 319k on April 1, 2010 because of undercounted blacks. But it’s also true that the city’s population was higher than 348k on April 1, 2000 for the same reason, and higher than 396k on April 1, 1990 for the same reason, and higher than 453k on April 1, 1980 for the same reason. My point is is that the city’s population did decline from 2000 to 2010, in spite of all the noise coming out of Room 200.
Speaking of whom, I’m surprised he’s not bitching about the Census methodology. That he is not probably means that he knows it’s the truth, and that he knows the mid-decade “estimates” were bullshit all along. The official line out of Room 200 after the release of the real stats are (A) We’re disappointed, and (B) We need to start thinking “regionally,” code words for City-County merger. An idea that St. Louis County would be very receptive to right about now, in order to get its own population back into seven figures.
UPDATE 2/27: More P-D articles, one NYT article and one PDF file on Mayor Slay’s website have revealed these facts:
* The City lost 21,000 blacks and 14,000 whites over the course of the decade. This means that 35,000 blacks and whites combined have either died or moved out of the city. Since the population decline was 29,000, that means that only 6,000 people have either been born into the city or moved into the city from 2000 to 2010. Pretty anemic, especially considering all the noise we heard about rehabbing and gentrification and yuppies from Room 200. However, because it lost more blacks than the total number of lost whites plus gained people, this means that the city’s official racial demographics will be slightly less black and slightly more white than in 2000. The X-Factor is Hispanic immigration — If the white percentage isn’t up or the black isn’t down that far, then the Hispanic increase could explain it. Mainly Cherokee Street centered.
* St. Louis County gained 39,000 blacks and lost 84,000 whites. Color it blue forever.
* The PDF was surprising. Some of the neighborhoods which were supposed to be such hot centers of rehabbing (read: Benton Park) actually lost population, or had only anemic gains (read: Soulard). Part of the reason for that is that “rehabbers” are usually childless white yuppies, and while they’ll spend money, they won’t have children. Good for the short term finances of St. Louis City, but bad for long-term viability. The big winners among city neighborhoods are Downtown, Downtown West and Peabody-Darst Webbe. Obviously, Downtown proper had very few residents before the loft craze of this past decade, so its 359% increase in population is not surprising from a mathematical perspective. Downtown West got some of the spillover from Downtown proper, but it already had a few market rate middle-rise apartment buildings to begin with. And PDW has an easy explanation, too — The demolition of the Darst-Webbe housing projects (perhaps the official name of the neighborhood should be changed?) and the replacement of mixed market rate mixed public housing King Louis Square, which, so far, seems to be going okay. (Similarly, the replacement for the Cabrini Greens in Chicago is a mixed-income development, and so far so good.) However, the Pruitt-Igoes started out as a mix between market rate and welfare tenants, and look at how that ended up. I don’t think the King Louis Square and the “new” Cabrini Greens have a bright future long term.
* The city I just got back from gained population, up 4.1% to 459k. But Kansas City, like St. Louis, is disappointment because its reality fell short of “expectations,” in KC’s case, 480k. This means that the Census Bureau is deliberately overestimating the population of big cities all over the country in response to political pressure. Still, KC’s lead over STL expanded over the last decade, and is now wide enough to float an aircraft carrier through.
* From my old neck of the woods, (if you want to consider 2009 a long time ago), Cape Girardeau County grew more than expected, Cape proper grew a little less than expected, and Jackson, Cape County’s seat of government, grew less than expected. This means Cape County’s biggest gains were either in unincorporated portions near Cape and Jackson. Carbondale, Illinois grew big, and my former home county of Williamson IL (Marion-Carterville) also showed impressive gains. Farmington, MO grew 17%, why I don’t know. Scott County, MO and its seat, Sikeston, both lost population.
* As a whole, Missouri’s racial demographics aren’t too different in 2010 over 2000. Slightly less white, slightly more black, with noticeable gains in Asians and Hispanics.
* O’Fallon is now the largest incorporated city in St. Charles County, the 2nd largest in the St. Louis metropolitan area counting both sides of the river, and the 7th largest in Missouri. It and Wentzville, and western St. Charles County in general, were the big winners on the Missouri side of the river in the St. Louis metro area. Wentzville’s population almost tripled, and it did that in spite of the bursting of the housing bubble meaning some housing developments there got abandoned in the middle of construction.
UPDATE 3/25:Probably without knowing what they were doing, the P-D explained today how the Census Bureau could “legitimately” estimate the city’s population to be so high and growing between the actual counts, yet the actual count showed a shrinking population and a raw number far lower than the ballyhooed estimates:
At first, city officials thought they had identified a glaring discrepancy between the number of homes in city records and the number the census counted. They believed the census had listed about 5,000 fewer housing units in St. Louis than did city assessor data, among other sources. That could have meant 12,000 missing St. Louisans.
They also pointed to at least a dozen surprising errors in the most detailed data the census has yet released — the block-by-block population counts — fueling their beliefs that the census had screwed up.
For instance, the census had attributed seven homes and 25 residents to a bus stop on Gravois Avenue. It seemed to have skipped a 78-unit, 130-person apartment complex on Union Boulevard in the Central West End, a 16-unit complex south of Forest Park and an entire square block of homes northeast of
Ninth Street and Allen Avenue in the Soulard neighborhood.
But those errors now look more like technological glitches, products of census workers mixing new computer systems with electronic maps. And the mistakes may make little difference in the population total.
For example, the 5,000 extra housing units may not be housing units at all. Upon closer inspection, many are businesses, hotels or other commercial sites. The city, for instance, had listed 676 units at the corner of Beck and Holt avenues, south of Tower Grove Park. But the building was actually an old Swing-A-Way Can Opener plant, recently closed, sold and converted into 110,000 square feet of self-storage.
Even the assessor’s own estimates, subtracting commercial units out of the overall housing unit count, came up with 166,243 homes — nearly 10,000 fewer than the census.
“We really are coming to the conclusion that there’s no way they miscounted by 30,000,” said Jeff Rainford, chief of staff to Mayor Francis Slay.
St. Louis, like cities across the country, fights census estimates nearly every year.
A lot is at stake — nearly 200 federal programs use census figures to determine how to distribute more than $400 billion for such services as highway construction, Head Start and school lunches.
And St. Louis typically wins those fights — though it only gains a few thousand people with each challenge. At the end of 2009, the Census Bureau officially revised the city’s population to 356,730, about 8,500 more than the 2000 census.
In other words, between the actual headcounts, the Census Bureau grants cities every benefit of the doubt in order to inflate their population.
A member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) could find the time to whack around a young conservative woman outside the HQ of one of the major organizational components of the Tea Party Movement. (Albeit one for which I have little respect, that being FreedomWorks. Two words: Dick Armey.)
Yet, the CWA as a whole couldn’t be bothered to help save the jobs of Western Union employees in St. Louis, both at its call center in Bridgeton and the accounting/financial operations in St. Charles, and also its Spanish-speaking call center in Dallas, when WU not only outsourced every last one of those jobs to Costa Rica, but actually forced most American WU employees to train the Costa Ricans who would replace them. As it turns out, the average Costa Rican working these WU jobs makes around $8 a day, or at least that was the average when the jobs were actually outsourced in 2008.
And these public union goons want to run around with signs about “saving the middle class.”
Where Were You when people making $30k-$50k a year needed you to use the union dues ($39 a month last I heard) they paid all these years to save their middle class jobs in the face of $8/day replacement labor?
Men Get 9 Years in Prison for Pennsylvania Hate-Crime Death
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (AP) – Two Pennsylvania men who were convicted of a federal hate crime for beating and kicking a Mexican immigrant who died of his injuries were each sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday.
Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky were among a group of white high school football players in the small town of Shenandoah who attacked 25-year-old Luis Ramirez in 2008. Prosecutors alleged they beat and kicked Ramirez because they didn’t like Hispanics and wanted them out of their town.
Donchak and Piekarsky were convicted in October. The jury also convicted Donchak of two other counts related to a plot to cover up the beating.
Under federal sentencing guidelines, the pair could have been sentenced to 12 to 15 years, but Judge [*****] departed from the guidelines because of their personal character and conduct before Ramirez’s beating, as well as the numerous letters and testimonials he received.
He noted that Ramirez’s death and the actions of the pair were not to be disregarded.
“The jury found that Mr. Ramirez died as a result of his ethnicity or race,” [*****] said. “This is serious business in America.”
Piekarsky, in a statement to the court, expressed remorse for what happened and offered his condolences to Ramirez’s family but said “it was not racial. I am not a racist.”
What this version of the story doesn’t tell you is that Messrs. Donchak and Piekarsky already had a state level trial, and the jury found them not guilty of pretty much everything, mainly because this whole set of affairs was a fight, not a deliberate one-way beating. What happened then is that the U.S. Attorney’s Office responded to the predictable bitching by Hispanic rabble-rousing hate groups like La Raza, MECHA, MALDEF and LULAC, by coming up with a novel legal application — They would charge the two with violating the Federal Fair Housing statute, by claiming that the two of them as much as laying a hand on Mr. Ramirez interfered with with his “right” as a Hispanic man to live where he wanted to live, all the while ignoring that he partially bought it on himself, as the state jury found. Unfortunately, the Federal jury fell sucker for the bullshit. I think the judge low-balling the sentencing guidelines was an implicit message to the Federal prosecutors that he thinks their use of the statute was at least questionable.
If the Federal Appellate Courts or the Supreme Court don’t overturn this conviction, then I’m giving up. The Fair Housing statutes obviously don’t apply here, because Donchak and Piekarsky didn’t have the power to make mortgage or apartment rental decisions. However, if their convictions aren’t overturned, then imagine the possibilities — Imagine all the blacks and Hispanics that could wind up doing time in Federal prison because their violent crimes against white people interfered with their right to live where they wanted to live.
New York State plus New York City’s top marginal income tax rate is 12.846%.
Colorado’s flat income tax rate is 4.63%, plus the City of Denver charges a (“by any other name”) income tax of $5.75 a month if your income is high enough.
Chief: Teen murdered St. Petersburg Police Officer David Crawford
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He was brought in voluntarily, on his own, with his parents permission,” Harmon said.
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A $100,000 reward was offered, but it’s not clear if the money was the motivation for the tips that led to Lindsey’s arrest. “I hope that it gave some incentive,” Harmon said. “But you also hope on the other side that people would do the right thing and turn him in.”
Yeah, I bet.
This got me thinking. The theory I’m about to posit might not apply to this case, though.
Could it be that for a segment of the ghetto black population, that the big rewards offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of someone who mows down a cop is a form of life insurance? Could it be that the fact that they’re offered at all accidentally creates an incentive to assassinate cops?
Here’s how it would work: Ghetto mother’s ghetto son is in his teenage years, and it’s becoming perfectly apparent that he’s going to do life in prison on the installment plan. In other words, he’ll commit one relatively serious crime after another, none of which will be serious enough to keep him in prison for life, but he will never be out of prison that long before he commits another. In such a case, it’s probably better that he stay in prison, not only for his own sake, but also for everyone else’s. So in a very subtle sense, she prods him to go out and assassinate a white cop. Before he turns 18, mind you, so he could ever get the death penalty. Then the law enforcement agency for which the cop worked offers a six-figure reward for information. Mother takes son down to the nearest precinct station. Within a year, she’s six figures richer — Her severance package for having such a lousy son (though a lot of that is probably her fault). He’s going where he would have ended up anyway, and he’ll be royalty in prison for having murdered a white cop, so he benefits by not being on the sodomy menu, which he would have been if he were just a plain ole regular thug doing a bid. And “best of all,” one of those evil racist white po-leeceseseseseses got “kilt.” Sounds like ghetto nirvana.
The flaw in my theory is that I’m probably giving such individuals far more credit for planning and foresight than they deserve. I’m too clever by half, or thinking way over their heads, so to speak.
Meet the new boss, (not quite the) same as the old boss.
In terms of pure politics, there will be no change. Ideologically, Rahm = Daley = Pretty much everyone in that city.
If you think I’m being dismissive about it, then you can go ahead and read Second City Cop and Paul Huebl, who are absolutely livid.
However, Rahm winning not only marks the end of the Daley era (42 of the last 55 years), it also marks a change in the way machine politics operate in Chicago. Gone are the days of smoky backrooms, greasy spoon goons, strong arm tactics, black racial rectitude, high turnout from the cemeteries, and all the niceties of a blue collar political machine. The new normal is what the Chicago Tribune calls “pinstripe patronage,” the era of fund-raising whiz kids like Rahm sweet-talking corporations and other interested businesses, not only in Chicago, but across the country. (Interestingly, a lot of Rahm’s money came from New York and Hollywood. Wonder what could explain that.) It’s crony capitalism brought to Chicago City Hall.
I think when the exit polls come out, we’ll see that Rahm got at least 65% of the white vote, 57% of the black vote and 30% of the Hispanic vote.
The ward data are interesting. Gery Chico won the city’s whitest ward (41st). But the 41st is in the far northwestern corner of the city, and from what I understand, is far more like suburban Cook than City of Chicago. It’s a big neighborhood for cops and firefighters, and of course their unions endorsed Chico. But the next five of the six whitest wards voted Rahm with 2/3 to 3/4 majorities. Those wards are all northside either on the lakefront or bordering lakefront wards.
Of the four heaviest Hispanic wards, Chico won two and Rahm won two, although three of those four were with pluralities. Miguel Del Valle finished very well in all four. This means that Hispanic support for Chico wasn’t all there, and Del Valle drew away some of it.
Every majority black ward voted Rahm with a majority, and all the wards that are at least 80% black voted Rahm in the 58-60% range.
Overall, Rahm was able to win this election with a majority because of two constituencies: White collar whites who are not first responders, and working- to middle-class blacks.
Kinda sad for Carol Mostly Fraud. She once was able to win a statewide election. But last night, she couldn’t even get 10% of the vote in her own city, and not even a quarter of the vote in the blackest wards. She conceded rather early. Like DUH — Not many people win elections with 9% of the vote.
Someone needs to do these lectures on the inside of their own glass houses.
BTW, are you going to thank the Yankee government and the white liberal pandering charities for everything they’ve given you here in the United States? That’s the least you can do, because those same institutions wouldn’t do half as much for destitute native born white Americans.
* “A radical new Chrome browser.” Translation: Even fewer functional UI bits, and an even bigger pipeline to send your personal browsing information back to Larry and Sergey.
* I guess Derek Dooley is done teaching shower discipline, such that he’s now complaining about all the attention D-I football recruits get. Maybe they do, but it’s par for the course. It’s not like the 120 D-I football schools can draft anyone, so they have to compete for talent. If you were a high school senior, and you had 120 businesses competing for your services starting the next August, for a job that had the (slim) potential of being parlayed into a very high paying job three or four years later, wouldn’t you have a head full of steam?
Problem is, the WSJ ordinarily hates on European nationalist parties, like the one Wilders heads in The Netherlands, and shills for the useless lamestream conservative parties in Europe that don’t do shit about the diminution of free speech rights when they actually have power. Diversity is too important, don’t ya know?
WaPo-Kaiser notes these survey results in spite of the fact that the Great Recession has been (supposedly) worse for blacks than whites. I take from this that blacks are that stupid (they might be, but nobody can be THAT stupid that they can be so ignorant of their own economic circumstances), or the version I buy, that the recession hasn’t really been that bad for blacks, because so many blacks are protected by their coat of external paint.
* I have a unique (and by “unique,” I mean not regurgitating RIAA propaganda) interpretation of these graphs. My interpretation is that music sales are declining because today’s music sux, not because of “downloading.”
Is he trying to stock up for several years? If so, then he’s outta luck, because the stuff has an expiration date. Is there a black market out there for deodorant? I’ve never heard any such chatter.
Or, most disturbingly, did my mysteriously and continuously deodoRANT somehow inspire him?
Political historians conceded that JFK went to Texas in November 1963 in order to shore up support in the state in advance of the 1964 election. Most of the polling data out of Texas showed Kennedy losing to the major speculated Republican contenders for the next year’s cycle, even Barry Goldwater. And as JFK needed every state he won in 1960 to win the White House, losing Texas in ’64 would have pretty much ensured his defeat, because he would have needed to turn over several other smaller states Nixon won in 1960 just to get back to square one. Then there was the rest of the Deep South, which voted JFK in 1960 but were permanently out of his reach in the Fall of ’63 because of his call for civil rights legislation.
While Texas wasn’t and isn’t necessarily part of the Deep South, it was and is Southern enough so that an overarching political trend in Mississippi and Alabama also presents in Texas. So if MS and AL were gone, then why could Kennedy think he could save TX?
The night before he was assassinated, he spoke to LULAC.
JFK and his strategists were trying to drum up the Hispanic vote in Texas. Even then, Texas had a good portion of Hispanic voters, and they thought they might have been able to save Texas for him even if whites abandoned him.
As you know, the 1965 immigration law which pretty much opened America’s borders to non-whites and closed it to whites was part of JFK’s “New Frontier” legislative package, which LBJ rebranded the “Great Society.” The only reason any of it even made it to law is because JFK was assassinated, thereby creating the political impetus that we pass it “in his memory,” and it led to the installation of an expert political logroller like LBJ as President.
Now, will you conservative JFK idolators who worship him for reducing marginal income tax rates finally knock it off?
Claire McCaskill: Vets can be “secret shoppers” at VA Hospitals, and fill out confidential “customer satisfaction” surveys. The proposal comes in the aftermath of the scandal at John Cochran relating to (I’m about to say it, hold on your hats) black affirmative action employees and supervisors not wanting to do their jobs or punish anyone for not doing their jobs.
Claire: Lotsaluck. Most of these “surveys,” negative or not, will wind up going into File 13, because they’ll be routed into hands of even more black affirmative action supervisors higher up in the VA Hospital bureaucracy.
Can Rahm get above 50%? I don’t know, but I do know for sure that candidates for Chicago Mayor with whom I disagree will get a combined 100% of the vote.
UPDATE 1 PM: Someone on Twitter reports that the counts of early and absentee ballots show that Rahm Emanuel has 103% of the vote.
* Assuming this isn’t ‘shopped, then I think it’s pretty instructive for some of us right-wingers out there who are fooled by these uprisings in the Middle East. Yes, I’m thinking about Ron Paul.
* This article in the British media reminds me of several similar ones I read this weekend, the jist of which are that Obama is hopeful and the Congressional Republicans are fearful that the budget battle in 2011 could be “late 1995 all over again.” The conventional wisdom is that people blamed Republicans for the partial government shutdown in late 1995, and took it out on them by re-electing President Clinton in 1996.
As you know, I mostly reject conventional wisdom of history mainly because you have to stuff a lot of inconvenient facts down the memory hole in order to arrive at it. Bill Clinton winning re-election had only two real underpinnings: (1) The economy was better in 1996 than in 1992. (2) The Republican was Bob Dole, the next best thing to out and outright waving the white flag. If voters were so angry at Republicans for a (partial) government shutdown, then they sure had a strange way of showing it at the ballot box in November 1996: The majority Republicans in the House only lost nine seats, and the majority Republicans in the Senate GAINED two seats, at the hands of the very same electorate which gave Clinton a second term.
* I’m not sure that certain people obsessed with certain ethnicity whose media I read regularly are going to like this news, but this survey confirms what I’ve always conjectured through common sense, that the real pro-Israel energy in the American body politic comes from fundamentalist/evangelical medium-to-low Protestant Christians, not from the so-called “Jews” that “run” the so-called “media.” However, I always though the typical American Jewish position on Israel was neutrality/insouciance, maybe with a slight tinge of out and outright anti-Zionism. As it turns out, the average Jewish American is also pro-Israel and perhaps pro-Zionist, but not as much or not as enthusiastically as fundagelical Christians.
* It’s the Wake Up and Go to Sleep Syndrome. Either the cracker jack box black preachers of Chicago want the white poleeceseseses to scramb because their presence amounts to “racial profiling,” or they want them to ride in because crime is too high. Today, the arrow points to the latter.
According to Second City Cop (HT, BTW), the reason the low crime areas have little crime is because the cops are concentrated there to keep the high crime boogie woogies from preying on more fertile grounds.
Then again, these CPS students just might be adopting the Michelle Obama diet strategy — Mouth off about healthy foods, but chow down on ice cream and fatty ribs every time you see her.
Before you emigrate, be warned. From an AR comment about a year ago coinciding with the Winter Olympics:
Who wants to live in Vancouver anyway? Traffic is nightmarish, taxes are high, housing is outrageous, they have a drug problem on Vancouver’s East End that would put some our cities to shame, its the epitome of nanny statism, its possibly one of the dreariest cities in the winter or when it rains and oh yeah, it’s in Canada. Canada is peaceful, prosperous, safe and BORING!
Surprisingly, the best American city, and the 29th overall, is Pittsburgh. Now, liberal excuseologists like to explain Detroit with “deindustrialization.” It’s true Detroit’s manufacturing base has been devastated, and it’s true that it has badly hurt the city and the metropolitan area. But Pittsburgh has suffered deindustrialization as well, because the American steel industry is a shell of its former self. And while that has hurt Pittsburgh, it’s not out and outright dysfunctional like Detroit. There might be old and abandoned buildings in Pittsburgh that need to be razed, but at least nobody of legitimate consequence is talking about contracting the Pittsburgh city limits and reverting land to agricultural use. And for what it’s worth, Pittsburgh has got enough going for it in the way of progressive dorkiness to satisfy the Economist Intelligence Unit. That and Pittsburgh is still majority white.
Not surprisingly, the world’s worst city is Harare, Zimbabwe. But you can’t say that Harare is suffering from a lack of liberalism, because liberals got exactly what they wanted in Harare and Zimbabwe in 1980.
Someone tried to snitch to CPS/DFS that this was “child abuse.” I know there’s a fine line between tough love and child abuse, but this mother was nowhere near that line. Yeah, I could make the obvious racial angle, but the accounts I link to plus others indicate that Mr. Mond III is well capable of a earning a lot better than a 1.22 GPA.
* If you’ve been listening to sports talk radio in St. Louis for the last few weeks, then you’ll notice that you’re hearing an advertisement for a medical research study. The tagline goes something like this — “Do you have a son aged 11 to 17 who is defiant, unusually oppositional in nature or argumentative?” If so, then it gives you contact information for some medical study on how to alleviate those “symptoms.”
In other words, your teenage son is behaving like a young man should, and acting like virtually all adolescent male social mammals. They’re trying to test the limits of household leadership, because he’s practicing for the day when he has a brood of his own to lead. (Or just in case you fall flat on your ass, he can take over your household.) What this study wants you to do in all likelihood is to run clinical drug trials on him so that the medical-pharmaceutical complex knows which drug regimen to give such teenage boys in order to suck the young manhood out of them.
* I rarely watch Donnybrook on Channel 9 anymore. Ever since Rich Koster died, Martin Duggan let it devolve into the Ray Hartmann Show in essence. And the Charlie Brennan regime hasn’t been any better in that regard, either. But I was flipping around while patronizing news church this morning, and saw most of this past Thursday’s edition — KETC always re-runs it on Sunday mornings. Between when it first ran on Thursday and this morning, I got five e-mails from people complaining about how much time they spent on the Pujols situation, and they were justified, from what I saw, But once they finally moved on to other things, one of the panelists related a snarky second hand remark about, “if the St. Louis City Police Officers Association fought city crime as hard as it fought the local control bill up in Jeff City, St. Louis would have no crime.”
First off, not funny.
Second, they’re fighting the local control bill tooth and nail BECAUSE they do and want to continue fighting crime in the city. Not that the SLPOA would admit this, beyond its official “pension” reason for opposing local control, (by itself, it’s a good enough reason, BTW), but local control would mean that the first thing the City Board of Aldermen will do once it gets control is put in a civilian review board, surely stacked with black radical activists, and that would essentially end the ability of white cops to arrest black criminal suspects. One thing you have to realize about all but two or three of the 28 members of the Board of Aldermen — They’re either black radicals or white leftists, and while they have their disagreements with each other, they both agree that it’s racist to hold black men and women accountable for crimes they commit.
* This shows you how short-sighted most Democrats are. If they get their way in Wisconsin, then it might hasten the popping of the municipal bond bubble, and that would permanently hurt the ability of cities and states to borrow money when the need really arises.
* Angelo Mozilo is getting off scot-free. Not a surprise to me, because the Feds could not try and string him up without the same string being used around their necks, and around the neck of affirmative action in mortgage lending in general.
I’m wondering how this will affect the dynamic of the Republican race. I tend to think that well-funded candidates have easier time winning primaries, while niche candidates with some popular appeal have an easier time winning cauci. Partially with my help, Pat Buchanan beat Bob Dole in an “upset” victory in Missouri in 1996, after it was a pretty much a foregone conclusion that Dole would win the nomination (though he had not yet locked up enough delegates by the time of the MO Caucuses.) Of course, PJB has vestigial links to St. Louis (his first journalism job was for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat — The aforementioned Martin Duggan, then editor-in-chief, hired him by hand), but what made it a lot easier is that it was a caucus and not a primary, and the Dole machine fell asleep.
If several states do this, then I think Ron Paul has a chance to win at least one caucus, if he runs for President at all.
* I can think of two crimes here: One, forging documents in the name of a licensed professional, and two, criminal fraud for using those fake documents for some quantifiable purpose.
If they need to figure out ways to cut back expenses in earnest, I can help them. Two words: Tim (Un)Wise.
* Don’t British prisons have metal detectors for visitors and strip searches for inmates? If they did, then these jeans wouldn’t be a problem.
* It’s simple, really. Portland, Oregon is becoming just like Boulder, Colorado — The word is out there that they’re good places to be for white liberals, therefore, white liberals are moving there. It’s not that every place is starting to look like every place else, that much. It’s just that every place is becoming more and more like itself.
* Like I’ve said, nobody knows blacks better than blacks themselves. You know David Aldridge is black, but so are both Mike Wilbon and USC’s Todd Boyd.
* “The Eagle” Has Crashed — Turns out the Ninth Legion of Rome was beaten badly, and Rome called them back then stuffed the defeat down the memory hole. As it turns out, their defeat led to a series of events which led to not only the construction of the Wall of Hadrian, which is approximately the modern day boundary between England and Scotland, it also meant Rome would conquer not as much as a square inch more of the Isle of Britain. IOW, it’s another Battle of Teutoberg Wald, which stopped Rome’s advance in northwest Europe, modern-day western Germany, on the west bank of the Rhine.
When I first signed up for Twitter, I basically only used it as a way to publicize this medium. But over time, I’ve been doing more and more real tweets (as opposed to tweet links to my new blog posts). Now I’m using Twitter so much that there are some stories I tweet about before I blog about, and a scant few that I don’t blog about at all. Although most of those are stories that most of you really wouldn’t miss, as they’re the kind of stuff that earns me the ire of my very own “stick to the issues” peanut gallery.
Last night, I went nuts over the Battle for Madison. Here are several of my favorite tweets in that stretch, and a few non-related ones:
* I knew a girl who went out for band because she wanted to be a sex cymbal.
* WI Gov. Walker canceled the Milwaukee-Madison hispeed rail line. Good thing, b/c it would allow for the quick transport of lefty goons
* Twitter would totally flip its lid if Justin Bieber ever proposed to one of Ron Paul’s granddaughters.
* On Friday the 13th, Im gonna go to the top floor of a very tall building and do something I fear greatly-Admit there’s something I dont know
* All of Wisconsin’s Democrats are leaving the state, and they’re making it out to be some kind of tragedy.
* Monday, we honor great Presidents like James K. Polk, James Buchanan and Rutherford B. Hayes by not getting mail.
* @snarkandboobs @chuck_dizzle The Republiboogies can still get to them through the TVs inside the Best Western, poltergeist like.
* Are you a Wisconsin Democrat hiding out in a motel room in Rockford IL? Fear not, Tom Bodat will leave the light on for you.
* WI Democrats caught trying to sneak into Mexico.
* WI Democrats go to the Iranian embassy in Havana and beg for refugee status.
* Who in the HELL flees to ILLINOIS to find better government? Two previous Governors are convicted felons
* WI Democrats star in “The Rockford Files”
* “Take the Money and Run.” Steve Miller Band. 1976. Dedicated to WI Democrats, esp. since it has lyrics about taxes.
* Hey WI Democrats. You know what they do to Packer fans in IL? People wearing Geo. Halas costumes w/Hitler mustaches chase em around
* Liberal Democrats don’t want to be in Madison, WI. Who knew that day would ever come?
* @pathtotyranny Maybe WI can enact a 288% tax rate to fund its public employee benefits package of free lattes, espresso, pilates classes
* Now I’m waiting for all the “Boycott AZers” in Wisconsin to boycott Wisconsin
* Everyone in AZ is in mourning tonight, thinking, “Remember when the kook left used to hate our state the most?”
* Wouldn’t it be funny if Geo. Soros sent a supportive message to the hiding-out WI Democrats and it turned out to be a Rickroll?
* WI Dems aren’t going to take it lying down (unless there are free condoms available)
* Bob is discombobulated. Film at 11.
* Time to crash. Luckily, I was born with my favorite set of pajamas. #SleepMode
Just in case you were wondering, Twitter has a more risque side. Someone started a hashtag tonight called “condom slogans.” Here are my best submissions:
* $6.50 a box or $650 a month? Pick your pleasure. #condomslogans
* Don’t be a clod. Cover your rod. #condomslogans
* Hi. My name is Dick. #condomslogans
* Yeah, sure. X-Large. We believe you. #condomslogans
* Because child support is the only kind of debt that could land you in jail. #condomslogans
* Yes, they can and do cry all night. #condomslogans
* Did’y'know that the drug regimen for HIV consists of 30 pills that must be taken faithfully 2-3x/day? #condomslogans
* Think condoms are expensive? So are diapers. #condomslogans
* Because you don’t wanna wind up with a summons to the Maury Povich Show. #condomslogans
* You wanna be a father someday, just not today. #condomslogans
A few of those got the distinct honor of being retweeted.
* One-half of The Justice Brothers, the one who has his World HQ very close to Wisconsin, is showing his ass in Madison.
I’ll take him seriously when he renounces the Rainbow PUSH Coaltion’s tax exempt status and starts paying taxes on the institution’s income, so that governments can have more money to pay its public employees way better salaries and benefits packages than comparable employees in the private sector. Until then, he’s just another two-faced bigmouth.
* AOBTD: This time, it’s Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). Don’t think the chances to flip are very high, to be honest. Obama won NM in ’08 easily and brought Cousin Udall into the Senate on his coattails. Should be a repeat performance with another Democrat next year.
* In Memoriam: Bill Monroe. No, not the former SLPD Officer, but the former host of Meet the Press from 1975 to 1984. Back in the days when you actually met the press on Meet the Press. Between his leaving MTP and Tim Russert taking over in ’91, (Russert changed the MTP format into what it is today), there were four different “moderators” (as they were called back then), in that seven-year stretch.
* He’s ghetto-worthy. And me-worthy, too, as I’m a particular fan of both delicacies.
* Media: Be careful if your young son is involved in MMA, because it’s physicality might be dangerous to their growing bodies.
Translation: MMA is too white. If this keeps up, white boys and men might catch on to our decades of promulgating the myth of black athletic superiority.
Obama holds Silicon Valley summit with tech tycoons
WOODSIDE, Calif. — President Obama traveled Thursday night to northern California for an evening meeting with a group of Silicon Valley chief executives, among them Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Steve Jobs, the ailing head of Apple.
The closed-door session with 12 technology leaders was held at the home of John Doerr, a partner at the major Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Others in the room include Oracle founder and chief executive Larry Ellison, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.
Translation: Shaking them down for campaign money, and imploring Zuck and the Google Brats to jimmer around with their search results so that pro-Obama propaganda is more prominently featured, and to delete or demote material critical of him. In exchange, Obama will push as hard as he can for more H-1B visas.
Later, describing how he eluded media attention with his wife at McLean, Patrick says he has noticed that, as a black man, if he wears jeans, a casual shirt, and a cap, “people will often look right past you.”
Deval Patrick was the Assistant AG for Civil Rights in the Clinton administration. As you know, I actually predicted that Obama would have made him his Vice-President, and when that didn’t happen, his AG. That didn’t happen either.
So, as someone who has to be an expert in civil rights, and probably versed well enough in the history of the civil rights movement, I would ask of him: Wasn’t that the point of the civil rights movement? That an adult man in public wearing casual clothing indicative of an adult man attracts no curious or creepy attention just based on race alone? Now, if you would have paid extra attention to him and his jeans, casual shirt and ball cap, he would be moaning about the “racism” of your doing so. And with his whiny voice (yeah, I know, glass houses), that is something you don’t want to endure.
The occasion for this is his soon to be released autobiography. I hope they do release it soon, because the ten people that want to buy it just can’t wait any longer.
* You might have a moral aversion to drug dealing. But if you really need the money to finance some sort of nefarious activity, then the thing to do is call in the experts.
Unfortunately, if there is another reformat in KEZK’s near future, I fear Delilah will still remain.
I also think that before baseball season starts, Infinity/CBS should make an arrangement where Rush Limbaugh is aired on one of their FM properties when KMOX has to preempt him for a ballgame.
Why can’t it get one? This article does not mention it, but I think the big hangup is that the lamestream parties are fretting about how to deal with the hot potato in the room, that being Vlaams Belang. The other one, which the article does admit, is the French-Dutch schism.
It does say that Belgium’s national debt now stands at 100% of its GDP. Sound familiar?
Wisconsin Democrats. Please. Don’t do things like draw crosshairs over elected officials, equate politicians with whom you disagree to Hitler, and threaten to assassinate Governors.
Need some motivation?
Do it for Gabby.
In related news, Democrats in the Wisconsin House and Senate have fled Madison and encamped temporarily in Rockford, Illinois. Ordinarily, I would have no problem with this, because Illinois is already so hopelessly blue that a few extra Democrats won’t make it any worse, while Wisconsin has all of a sudden become a swing state, such that a few Democrats leaving could make a big difference. The problem with my snark here is that their leaving means that even the majority Republicans don’t have a quorum (one short, from what I hear), so collectively, those Democrats who skipped town are stealing taxpayer money, IMHO, for taking their salary for not doing their jobs. There’s one way to save the state a little money…dock their pay in a prorated sense for the time they’re gone.
In more related news, a similar hate mob in D.C. swarmed in front of Speaker Boehner’s home away from home in the District (about that — What’s strange is that he does make his second home in the District. Most Republicans’ Washington-area residences are in Virginia), complaining that:
Nearly two dozen activists from DC Vote swarmed House Speaker John Boehner’s Capitol Hill residence at 7:30 Thursday morning, chanting “Don’t tread of D.C.” and “No taxation without representation” to protest congressional “meddling” in the District’s local affairs, in particular a House continuing budget resolution that would cut $80 million in federal payments and prohibit the city from using local funds to pay for needle exchange programs and abortions.
“Speaker Boehner is coming to our home telling us how to spend our money,” Ilir Zherka, the group’s executive director, told his followers. “We decided to come to his house to tell him to leave D.C. alone.”
Except it’s not “your house.” To wit, the Constitution, Art 1 Sec 8:
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
To the extent D.C. has any control over itself, it comes entirely at the pleasure of Congress.
