* You can tell this isn’t England. If it were, the FBI would have arrested Mr. Kellner for committing such a “racist hate crime.” Or worse, singing “Kung Fu Fighting.”
* Someone has been doing some investigating, and has discovered that the real world annualized inflation rate of the last three month is 7.4%.
* “Marie G. Davis Military and Global Leadership Academy.” (Name)(Weasel Words)(Academy). If I didn’t know any better, I thought this institution that was too cool to be named “school” was in St. Louis, because our fair city must be the capital for these things. Anyway, their weightlifting/chess/social studies teacher (do they even call them “teachers” anymore?) was popped for doing one of the school’s young lady students, a 16-year old. Which means that if you want to schedule a lifting or chess competition against the Marie G. Davis Military and Global Leadership Academy, now is a good time to do it.
* Yeah, alcohol, tobacco and lottery tickets aren’t necessities to you. However, you’re just not diverse enough to understand. You white racist bigot. (Oops, I forgot, a black Governor won re-election making this a campaign issue.)
Just to clarify something, these are new restrictions placed on cash welfare benefits distributed through EBT cards, not SNAP/”Food Stamps,” which are also distributed the same way, the phrase “EBT” has erroneously become synonymous with Food Stamps. However, I’ve read plenty of anecdotes, from my secret squirrel sources and otherwise, where people were able to use Food Stamps on EBT cards to buy booze and tobacco and a lot of other things that Food Stamps aren’t allowed to be used to buy.
* A noun, a verb and 9/11 (as Joe Biden calls him) was in town yesterday for a motivational speaking engagement, and took the occasion to look at North County tornado damage.
As an aside, he’s thinking of jumping into the Presidential race because the current field is so weak. Like Mr. 15% in the only state he really tried to win (Florida), winning no counties in the process, is going to make the field any stronger?
* Another joke. He loves ethanol subsidies that much? A whole lot of people don’t like food inflation, either. That should end his campaign.
Hold on, am I going crazy or something? Wasn’t her office’s opinion that FOID data was public information the thing that generated the ISRA’s lawsuit to begin with? In other words, the AG is hiring a former Governor to argue for herself and the ISRA against herself in court.
Huh? This is turning out to be a confusing clusterfuck.
All Madigan needs to do is to issue a new opinion, and this all goes away.
* This is a win-win for defense attorneys. You can read from this that defense attorneys us failure to do fingerprint checks on all seized guns and ammo to contribute to “reasonable doubt.” But when they’re all sent to the crime lab for that analysis, and it clogs up the system, and sends the work load of lab workers into orbit, and slows down all their other tests on everything else, then the defense attorneys can get a judge to dismiss the case for the “lack of a speedy trial.” In rape kits, etc. get clogged up from all these guns and bullets going to the state crime lab, then the defense attorneys for the accused rapists can also move for dimissial because of the lack of a speedy trial.
* President Obama knows about Revis Island? He sure does. In fact, he probably knows more about it than all the things he should know something about.
* Say it ain’t so. Superman is renouncing his American citizenship. Captain America has become a left-wing wacko. Now all that’s left for traditional Americana is Garfield.
* The University of Nebraska is mulling variable tuition rates depending on major. In spite of the excuses they’re giving, there’s only one reason they’re doing it — Because they can. Because they think that majors for which they’ll charge higher tuition, e.g. engineering, business, etc., means that its graduates will get better and higher paying jobs after graduation, and therefore will be willing to accept higher student loan payments. By contrast, English and liberal arts majors won’t get those kinds of good jobs, so the University wants to keep their majors relatively cheap and therefore their student loan payments low.
All fine and dandy. But in many cases, especially for native born white Americans, those high paying engineering jobs aren’t there after graduation. And while the H-1B Asians get those kinds of jobs, they certainly don’t get them at very high salary scales.
Also, the University has to tread really carefully about pricing the black history and women’s studies majors. If you price them either too high or too low, then they’ll get accusations of racism and sexism as sure as Christ made fish.
* Just as quickly as China is becoming us, we’re becoming China.
How well is biking to work going to work out when it’s 10 degrees outside and most of the streets are coated with a thick glaze of ice? Or when it’s going to be raining and storming all day?
Too, St. Louis’s Downtown is not the only place where there are places of employment. A high percentage of St. Louis’s office space is near 270/Manchester, 270/Olive, 270/Page and 70/ECE. Add all the hospital complexes, none of which are Downtown, and you can see why maybe they put this fancy bike rack and group shower complex in the wrong place.
* Dr. Adams’s perspective is here, and the Peter Downs/Susan Turk rebuttal can be found here and here. It’s like listening to tweedledee argue with tweedledum, or good cop argue with bad cop, or the keystone cops fight with the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Nobody involved tells the truth, i.e. a school system whose pupils are 90%+ black will almost always be an academic failure, and will almost always have a lot of its schools plagued by violence, poor test scores and lethargic attendance rates.
