Fun With Doomed Dom

Tongue Tied:  Lawsuit Filed Against Texas School District to Stop Prayer During Graduation

All the graduates have to go on is a wing and a prayer, and now they want to leave them with only a wing.

Malkin:  DNC Chair: Republicans Want to Make it a Crime to Be An ‘Undocumented Immigrant’

If these Republicans aren’t stopped, then pretty soon it’ll be illegal to be an illegal alien.

Daily Mail:  Dominique Strauss-Kahn hires ‘crack team’ of former CIA spies, private investigators and media advisers for long legal fight

The same CIA spies that couldn’t or wouldn’t see 9/11 coming?  You’re doomed, Dom.

Daily Mail:  ‘Is it ‘cos I’m black?’ What F1 driver Lewis Hamilton asks race officials after penalties

I wonder what “Racism Schmacism” sounds like in a heavy ethnic accent.

Tuesday’s Tidbits

*  Drudge is really getting good at dog whistling.  Time was he removed the link on the Drudge Report to Free Republic, because for about five minutes, some white people got on FR and said some “racist” things.  (Don’t worry.  Jim The Asshole Robinson promptly deleted their accounts).  But look at the front of Drudge right now:  Every headline above the marquee has to do with some sort of black crime, wilding, gang fight or something or another, from this past weekend, and below the marquee on the left is a story about the DOJ cracking down on “civil rights abuses by big city police departments.”  Cause and effect, anyone?

*  My oh my, those “tolerant” Palestinians strike again.  One might say, “yeah, but the Palestinians are paying for it.”  Even if RMS was paying his own way, the Palestinians wouldn’t let him speak in their territory if he also spoke at Israeli colleges and universities.

*  Oh no, Africans might leave the Australian island of Tasmania?  You know what that means…Hobart might lose its precious diversity.  But fear not, they wouldn’t be depriving Australia itself of that all-important diversity, because they would be leaving for other parts of Australia.

*  The disease is spreading.  You see “aspiring rapper dies” over a triviality in the headline, and you think the obvious.

Think again.

You’ll know white America will have officially jumped the shark when future stories like these depict either the victim or the perpetrator as a “good boy” and an “honor student” who “just happened to fall in with the wrong crowd.”

Why does this not surprise me in a way?

*  No prison time even after 15 convictions?  By British standards, that’s pretty tough punishment.

*  The Odd Couple wants to outsource British immigration enforcement to the EU.  So instead of the British government not enforcing its own immigration laws, it will rely on Brussels not to enforce its own immigration laws for them.

*  “Stop Snitching” has made it across the ocean.  For now, it seems to be entirely a function of disgruntled former informants and stool pidgeons (“supergrass,” in Brit parlance).  But give them time — They’ll eventually get with the program, and almost every ghetto thug black in London will take it to heart.

*  Mugabe wants to allow privately owned and operated radio stations in Zimbabwe.

Good luck trying to find anyone who knows how to operate and maintain all that equipment.  That’s assuming the power stays on consistently enough for transmitters to have power.

Also, I’d hate to have to see an advertising rate card — They’ll have to be pretty long in order to fit all those zeroes.

*  LAT writer tells the “outcasts” in high school to chill out, for that which made you an outcast in HS is liable to make you successful in the real world.  But then she fucks up a good piece with this little brain fart:

So what happens to high school’s popular students? Research shows that they are more likely than outsiders to conform, which can also mean they’re less likely to innovate. They are more likely to be both targets and instigators of aggression — whether physical or relational, which includes rumors, gossip and backstabbing. They are more likely to drink and engage in other risky behaviors. Students who are popular and involved in aggression are less likely to do well in school. Psychologists point out that high-status cliques teach the exclusionary behavior that may be the foundation for eventual racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and other forms of bigotry.

Yeah, because running around saying “Hitler was right gas all the Jews” was the sure route to popularity in high school.

*  Five, six, seven, eight…”It’s not like there’s anything wrong with it.”

*  The Onion digs into its archives.  Was this before or after drugs won the war on drugs?

*  I said in this space last week that the LAT is noticing that the Republican Presidential candidates are “moderate” (read: liberal) on immigration, and now NumbersUSA has grades to confirm.  Turns out that Herman Cain’s “good” rhetoric is just that — In spite of him not being an elected politician, NUSA has found out enough to grade him at a D+.  That’s actually the third best in the field, behind Minnesotans Tim Pawlenty at C+ and Michele Bachmann at B-.

*  WaPo:  Whoa is us, boo hoo, big cities are having to reduce “summer youth” programs, and crime might go up.

Before you get too worried, read this.  Start at Comment #12.

*  Speaking of budget cuts, one school district in Minnesota has sure demonstrated its priorities.  Food, water, air, white privilege conferences…all those life necessities.

*  U-City to start in on registering domestic partnerships today.  St. Louis City has had this program for awhile.

Just want we’ve always dreamed of — To be domestic partnered.

U-City’s and St. Louis’s DP registries are similar in that they have the bigoted requirements that only two people can become domestic partnered, and they must both be at least 18 years of age.  Don’t they realize?  Love is love — You can’t limit it to two individuals, or to people who have been fortunate enough to be drawing oxygen for 568,036,800 seconds.  Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that only one man and one woman can truly love each other.  We surely don’t want to descend to that level of hatred and discrimination, do we?

*  I said in this space a few weeks ago that First Lady Michelle Obama might be misinterpreting the youth obesity problem through a little bit of a projectionist lens.  It seems to be that young white men and women and young black men are mostly too skinny for their own good.

Then comes this story from Channel 5, about one such individual who is anything but.  Honestly, I wouldn’t want to look like that, and I don’t think anyone should unless they’re thinking of professional bodybuilding.  But I would rather young men of fifteen look like him than that emaciated stick figure that calls himself Justin Bieber.  Obviously they all can’t, but they should look more like the former than the latter.  Err on the side of muscle — It can really come in handy.

*  Lost in all the hubbub about Missouri’s “redistricting” and its “partisan” procedure is that Illinois is having to do the same thing — Draw the state into one fewer part of equal population than the last decade.  And, because the Illinois legislature is Democrat-dominated, and the Governor is a Democrat, the map that will come out of that process will be Democrat-friendly, though Shimkus might be saved.

Cochran VA Hospital Scandal Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

A little more than three months after Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) announced the “secret shopper” program, the first results are in.  And the big problem at Cochran doesn’t seem to be the quality of the doctors and nurses, it’s more so the insouciant hospital bureaucrats and administration.

That does not surprise me at all.  With this Federal government’s affirmative action hiring practices, you know that almost any Federal installation based in a big city will have an administrative bureaucracy predominated by black women.

However, the hurdle I can’t leap is this — All these investigations of Cochran stem from the unsanitized dental instrument scandal of last year.  Isn’t it the ultimate responsibility of someone with an advanced degree in medicine or an undergraduate degree in nursing to see to it that dental instruments are sterilized?  That can’t be blamed on Cochran’s black women bureaucrats blabbing on cell phones.

Keep Searching

Bryan Stow update.

Mickey Kaus, writing in Daily Caller:

Mickey’s Assignment Desk: Do Skyboxes Cause Crime? Here in L.A. we’ve been traumatized by the vicious beating given a San Francisco Giants fan who attended a game at Dodger Stadium.  Many are shocked that this could happen at a ballgame, but I remember being told several times, when I was sitting in fairly expensive seats at the stadium, that I shouldn’t go to the bleachers because that’s where thugs hung out. Which raises a question: Has the class segregation of sports stadiums helped promote hooliganism? The argument would be a fairly straightforward miniaturized version of the argument that concentrating the poor in inner cities helped breed an underclass. Specifically, if all the classes were mixed together–no skyboxes, no separate, more expensive decks–middle class values would prevail, or else the cops would be called and management would hear about it in no uncertain terms. The more they are unmixed–with the cheap seats geographically cut off from the mainstream–the more we a) allow general mainstream norms to be flouted in the cut off areas and b) ensure that the affluent are insulated and won’t care about (a). … Problems with theory: Even bleacher seats aren’t that cheap.

Now, I don’t know if Kaus is being sarcastic or straight up, because I don’t know his political leanings at all.  However, it is very likely that there are a lot of important people in high places that believe this crap.

Let me help straighten out their belief system.

Veto Pen

I was at a relative’s house for Memorial Day today.  After we got through with all the barbecuing and cleaning up, I discovered someone was watching some series called “The First 48″ on Netflix.  Come to find out, it’s an original series on A&E, about real homicide cases and the pressure cooker that big city homicide detectives are under in order to get as much done in the first 48 hours after the reported homicide, because the statistics supposedly show that the chances of clearance go way down after two days.

One of the episodes was from Miami, and a murder on the lawn of some housing projects that are known colloquially as “Pork and Beans.”  Miami Homicide was able to catch up to two suspects, one of whom was 17 years old.  A big part of the reason why they were able to get enough evidence to convince a judge to issue a warrant for his arrest is that during the tense 48 hours, the young man’s older brother was brought in because Miami P.D. caught him carrying a handgun without a CCW permit.  It didn’t say directly, but the clear implication was that the older brother was at least 21 (IIRC, he was exactly 21) and didn’t have a felony record or another sort of criminal history that disqualified one from owning firearms.

On July 29 of last year, I said this in this space:

Lost in the hubbub over [Arizona SB] 1070 is that Constitutional Carry goes into affect in Arizona today, meaning that CCW is considered a fundamental right (i.e. does not need a permit) for those 21 and older who aren’t legally prohibited from owning concealable firearms (“handguns”).  What I’m about to say isn’t going to go over too well in certain circles.  I don’t think it’ll be a disaster, but I would have been more comfortable with the state reducing the permit cost and/or lengthening the time validity of a permit and/or reducing the number of hours of training.  I think there are just times when a card permit in hand while carrying a gun is technically and physically safer for everyone.  And I think it’s got to do with race, especially black and Hispanic.

Surprisingly, I didn’t get any grief from the 2nd Amendment purists from that opinion.  In fact, one of my secret squirrel sources, this one in Arizona of all places, said that he agreed with me and wished that Gov. Brewer would have vetoed Constitutional Carry for that reason.  (Had the state legislature passed it this year instead of last, she actually might have, judging from her veto of guns on campus several weeks ago).  He relayed to me this story from the NBC affiliate in Tucson, (posting its entirety here in case it goes stale soon):

UA football player suspended for team violations

TUCSON – Wide receiver and senior-to-be Delashaun Dean has been suspended by Head Coach Mike Stoops.

Tucson Police Sgt. Fabian Pacheco confirmed that his suspension stems from a concealed firearms violation that occurred Saturday morning at the IHOP, 4187 North Oracle Rd.

According to police, a customer say Dean flashing a gun inside the restaurant and called police. Police responded immediately, but found no gun in Dean’s possession.

Police say they then found two guns underneath Dean’s vehicle, parked outside the restaurant. Dean claimed ownership of one, but said the other was not his, according to Pacheco.

Dean was cited with a concealed weapons violation, a class one misdemeanor, and released at the scene.

Tom Duddleston with the Arizona Athletics media relations told News 4 “Dean has been indefinitely suspended from the team due to a violation of team rules.”

Then secret squirrel said this:

Now, this is the kind of guy who probably shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun, let alone carry one. If you can’t spend the $120 for the CCW class and background check, show up for class, pay attention, and put 10 rounds on paper from 15 feet away, you shouldn’t carry one. The system is so easy that if you have a pulse and a clean record, you can get a CCW permit in Arizona.

Of course, the CCW system doesn’t prevent people from carrying illegally, but it does give law-enforcement the ability to throw the book at black and hispanic thugs who think that walking around with a Glock tucked in their shorts is a good idea (like Plaxico Burress, though he also got an involuntary body piercing as an added bonus).

Had the above UA football player waited until July 29 (the effective date of the concealed carry law) to pull this stunt, he wouldn’t have been arrested — or if he was he couldn’t have been charged with CCW sans permit. I don’t think the CCW permit system we have *prevented* anyone from carrying a gun (when I didn’t have a permit, I just carried openly) but it sure helped the police by giving them a reason to arrest PTBs and such when no other reason would suffice. Come July 29 that tool for law enforcement will be gone.

As an aside, I now think that the Plaxico Burress “shooting” inside that night club wasn’t as much an accident as we’re led to believe.  A Glock just doesn’t “go off” for no reason.

Why am I bringing this up now?  If Florida would have had Constitutional Carry, then the Miami P.D. would have never been able to bring in the suspect’s brother, and therefore would have never gotten a crucial lead that led to the apprehension of two murder suspects.

If you happen to be a state Governor, and Constitutional Carry gets to your desk, I recommend you veto it.  Especially if your state has a lot of blacks and Hispanics.  Should you get a lot of heat from the 2nd Amendment purists, then go directly to white voters with the race argument.  Or if you’re too chicken to do that, then two words:  Dog Whistling.

Sunday Wrap-Up

*  Oh goody.  The Moulder brothers are about to get a cellmate.

*  For whom the bell tolls:  Less than half of the WWII veterans alive in 2003 are still alive today.

Other than the historical curiousity, I’m mentioning this because there are certain people (ahem ahem) who think that the politics of WWII, especially those revolving around a certain German dictator of the era, and what he did and what some claim he didn’t do, can be a big political driver.  The obvious answer is that with each passing day, there are fewer and fewer people in America and in the world who even have a conscious memory of WWII.  Most people can’t place WWII in the right century to save their lives.

*  My theory?  Women peak at 30, men peak at 18, or so you’ve heard.  Put the two together…

*  My theory?  Not race, because anyone who works for her surely would be non-racist or anti-racist.  I get the impression that she’s a B to work for.

*  There is hope after all — Eighth graders at a New Jersey Catholic middle school hold a mock trial, one wherein the first and only President of the Confederate States of America is charged with treason.  And they find him not guilty.

I don’t think this was a hard verdict at which to arrive.  Don’t forget, the official party line on the part of the Federal government based in Washington D.C. during that outbreak of tensions was that the states that claimed they left the union didn’t really leave the union, because they didn’t have the authority to leave the union.  Then and now, in the parlance of Official America, one can only commit treason if there is a declared war.  And the United States has only done that five times (1812, Mex-Am, Spanish-Am, WWI, WWII).  The American effort to “suppress the rebellion” (quote-unquote) was not a declared war, and the CSA’s attempt to defend itself and its nascent independence from external aggression was also not a declared war, under the powers that the CSA’s Constitution gave its Congress.

*  Whew.  I feel much safer.  That’s because I now know, thanks to digesting White House propaganda, that only homosexuals can be victims of crimes.

*  I could add a few more factors — The growing legalization and use of CCW, and as Steve Sailer has pointed out, younger potential wannabe criminals are avoiding a life of crime because they don’t want to give up social media or 24/7 connectivity, which they know will easily be used to connect them to their crimes.  It might be tempting to say that crime “seems” to be lower because big city PDs are cooking the books.  While those stories do pop up in the media from time to time, I think that this news of crime being down comes from the FBI crime victimization survey, which is designed to filter through that kind of perfidy.

*  What are you, some kind of nut?

*  Someone thinks that it’s a mathematical near-certainty that the Obama White House will be rocked by a major scandal by the end of this year.

To me?  That’s redundant.  It’s redundant to think that the Obama White House could be “rocked” by a scandal, when the Obama White House IS a scandal.  The scandal being that a non-white could become the Chief Executive of the government of the most powerful white country in world history.

*  Politico thinks that, with so many current or former Republican state Governors either running or thinking of running for President, that we should be on the lookout for them all using their Gubernatorial pardons against each other.  Politico throws Romney into the list of those who might be so rocked by scandal.

Except four years ago, when Romney ran, we found out that he issued not a single pardon or commutation during his one term as Massachusetts Governor.  I said then that that was a clue that he knew he wanted to run for President, because he saw what happened to his predecessor in the person of Michael Dukakis.  (Not long ago, I also thought Romney’s decision to downscale his real estate holdings could be taken as a clue that he would run in 2012, because he saw what grief McCain got for owning multiple houses.)  I also said then that not issuing any pardons or commutations was an act of cowardice.

*  He was white.  But don’t kid yourself — This ruling will become a huge precedent in British legal jurisprudence in the realm of criminal justice (or lack thereof), especially when the convict is non-white.

*  Is it me, or is Chicago City trying, relatively within the bounds of civil rights law, to trick/lure/cajole/prod ghetto blacks into moving out of the city and perhaps into certain friendly confines in suburban Cook?

*  I’m happy she won.  But I’m not so happy that her lawsuit means that she’s implicitly ratifying the “power” of accusations of “racism, xenophobia and narrow-mindedness.”

What she should have said?  Racism Schmacism.  (You knew that already).  But also “Xenophobia Schmacism” and “Narrow-Mindedness Schmacism.”

*  LAT has gotten around to noticing something that has been crawling in the back of my mind — Almost all of the announced or credibly speculated 2012 Republican Presidential candidates are “moderate” (read: liberal) on immigration.  The only exception seems to be Herman Cain, but I trust him no further than I could throw a Godfather Pizza pie, because you know exactly what he would do if he actually became President and a massive boatload of Haitians, fleeing a “humanitarian crisis” in Haiti, were coming our way.

*  The mainline paper in Pittsburgh has picked up on the power and leverage of the Scots-Irish voter.  Then again, you knew that already.

Since the Scots-Irish were actually one of the few constituencies to be somewhat more Republican in 2008 than 2004, I get the feeling that Scots-Irish will implicitly or explicitly be the “Soccer Mom” or “NASCAR Dad” constituency in 2012, i.e. the niche constituency that political strategists all go ga-ga over and presume they’ll be the swing constituency that will ultimately decide the Presidential election.  They’ll con the politicians into believeing it, and therefore it will become true purely as a matter of a self-fulfilling prophecy.  If we get a MSM article in October 2012 where a reporter accosts a rural East Tennesseean on his or her way to buy groceries, implying that he or she will decide who wins this election, then we’ll know they’ve bought the notion hook line and sinker.

*  ADL/AJC support Shari’ah Law, because of “religious tolerance.”

Huh?  That’s precisely the reason to oppose it.

You ADL/AJC kooks do realize that once Shari’ah takes hold, those “tolerant” practitioners of Shari’ah will lop your necks off with a rusty knife first.  Don’t you?

*  Yes, I think it’s condescending.  Then again, I long ago matured past the need for a cartoon to convince me to behave like a rational civilized first-world individual.

Remember the fotonovelas?

*  I keep trying to convince myself that stereotypes are wrong, and they don’t all look alike.  Every time I have myself convinced that they don’t all look alike…

It’s Getting Broke in Here

It’s the way of all hip-hop flesh — Broke, massively in debt, blowing money on every vice you can think of, and fighting with former associates.  Along with over the hill and no longer en vogue.  All before the ripe old age of 40.

Funny, that seems to describe a lot of ‘ballers in the NFL and NBA.  Wonder if there’s some sort of commonality.

We find this out from the British media.  You haven’t heard word one about this from the St. Louis media, which used to kiss the ground he walked on.  At one point several years ago, you could easily and truthfully rename any St. Louis local MSM news outlets the NNN – Nelly News Network.

If all these rumors are true, then I suppose his only way out is to move to Branson.

187 Gets 13

It had great ratings…in Detroit.  But not much of anywhere else.

You can figure out the rest.

Yeah, 187 suffered the usual afflictions of most modern prime time traditional network police/crime dramas — Half the perps were white, and some of the black perps or suspected perps were non-traditional, black woman boss, the rising star being a young black man.  But the Fitch character (Michael Imperioli) was great, and I hope he gets a chance elsewhere.  What ultimately saved 187 for me was its plot and dialogue speed — It went fast, perfect for ours the ADD generation.

After next TV season, once House is done and the Ashton Kutcher-led 2.5 Men flames out, unless something this coming or the next season grabs my interest, I will have no prime time traditional network TV viewing appointments in the 2012-13 season.

Speaking of Detroit 187…

Tipped Hand or Not?

CNN:

High court backs Arizona immigration law that punishes businesses

Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court has backed an Arizona law that punishes businesses hiring illegal immigrants, a law that opponents, including the Obama administration, say steps on traditional federal oversight over immigration matters.

The 5-3 ruling Thursday is a victory for supporters of immigration reform on the state level.

It was the first high court challenge to a variety of recent state laws cracking down on illegal immigrants, an issue that has become a political lightning rod.

The outcome could serve as a judicial warmup for a separate high-profile challenge to a more controversial Arizona immigration reform law working its way through lower courts. That statute would, among other things, give local police a greater role in arresting suspected illegal immigrants.

The hiring case turned on whether state law tramples on federal authority.

“Arizona has taken the route least likely to cause tension with federal law,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. “It relies solely on the federal government’s own determination of who is an unauthorized alien, and it requires Arizona employers to use the federal government’s own system for checking employee status.”

(snip)

Roberts, backed by his four conservative colleagues, said, “Arizona went the extra mile in ensuring that its law tracks (the federal law’s) provisions in all material aspects.”

Here’s the decision — Knock yourself out.

Conventional wisdom states that if SCOTUS doesn’t see preemption in allowing a state to punish a business for hiring illegal aliens, as long as the state relies on the Federal definition of “illegal alien,” then it will have no problem with SB 1070.  Maybe that’s the case, but reading between the lines of the Roberts opinion, I get the feeling that the big difference between this law and SB 1070 is that parts of SB 1070 actually punish the illegal aliens themselves for transgressions of Federal immigration law, again, relying on the Federal definition of “illegal alien.”  This law, by contrast, punishes business, presumably comprised of American citizen executives and officers, for engaging in a crime that is already a violation of Federal law relating to immigration that applies to American citizens.  I’m not yet ready to jump to the conclusion that this very same SCOTUS, assuming it has the same membership when SB 1070′s constitutional proceedings get to their desks (that will take several years), will rule the same way for the same reasons.

Fun With the Obvious and the Oblivious

Moonbattery:  Progressive Parents Raise Genderless Baby

Eventually, the kid will get old enough to look down and see what sort of plumbing is there.

AP:  Kept in chains: Mental illness rampant in Somalia

That’s sorta like saying that dampness is rampant in an ocean.

Yahoo Sports:  Kyle Busch flagged for driving 128 mph … in a 45-mph zone

Newsflash:  NASCAR driver drove fast.

P-D:  First-degree murderer registry sent to Quinn

In certain parts of Chicago, this registry will be used more often than a wedding registry.

Daily Mail:  Mama Grizzly strikes again: Sarah Palin ‘furious’ at Bristol’s new Disney Show star [black] boyfriend

Wouldn’t it be ironic if Kyle Massey were found to be some distant relative to Allen West?  Watch Sarah Palin’s brain blue screen in earnest.

McClatchy:  Racism to blame for Obama’s problems, key Democrat says

It’s Jim Clyburn.  He thinks racism is to blame for every problem.

Friday’s Frolicks

By the time this day is over, we will have gone through two whole calendar days in St. Louis with nary a severe weather warning.  Shocked, totally, shocked.

*  This story is more Captain Obvious than Captain Oblivious, but I want to use it to make a point.

Remember, most history departments in most colleges and universities are liberal-run and liberal-biased.  Keep that in mind the next time you hear lamestream conservatives, like those with the inititals GB, or SP, ramble on and on about these mysterious “black founding fathers” that nobody but themselves have ever heard of — If such “black founding fathers” existed, all the liberal history profs in academia would have found them and would have been trumpeting them for decades.

*  Knife control?  FAIL.

Proving one point — Laws really don’t matter as much as race when it comes to where crime is and isn’t.

*  British gun control?  FAIL.

Proving one point — Britain’s diversity is not its strength.

*  Translation:  Affirmative action.

*  Screw that.  Might as well start calling it “Obamabook.”

*  Money quote:

After licking his wounds, Boyce got to thinking. “How the fuck did we lose?” he recalls wondering. “I mean, how did that possibly happen? You know what went wrong?” He began reflecting on what could be done differently next time. He says he started talking with Thorne about the campaign’s e-mail list of three million Kerry supporters, a valuable asset. “It was almost certainly the largest political list in the world,” he says. “Definitely the largest Democratic list in the world.” He remembers coming across a statistic—whether true or not is unclear—that in the last 24 hours of the election some 36 million people had visited the Drudge Report. The numbers swirled in his head—125 million voters, 36 million people on Drudge, and the election was lost because of around 100,000 voters in Ohio—and he had his eureka moment: “John Kerry lost that election because he did not have a Drudge,” he says. “That’s why we lost.”

Boys and girls, repeat after me.  Five, six, seven, eight…

“Correlation without causation.”

But if all these libs want to run around chasing their tails believing that Kerry lost Ohio and therefore the Presidential election in 2004 for the want of a liberal Drudge Report, let them.

By the way, if the Drudge Report is so powerful, why did Obama win in 2008?  If Rush Limbaugh is so powerful, why have half of the winners of Presidential elections that have occurred since his radio show went national been Democrats?  Of the 12 biannual U.S. House elections that have taken place since Rush’s national show started, Democrats won 5 times and Republicans won 7 times.

*  Ironically, Obama’s Justice Department seems to have no problem with Shari’ah Law taking hold in the United States, the way it’s ratting its sabres at state level anti-Shari’ah initiatives.

*  Two words:  Dihydrodgen Monoxide.

*  “Homicide house?“  I’m really getting sick of such language, like that and “problem property.”  It’s not the edifice itself, it’s the people living inside.

While Silver Spring isn’t the blackest Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., nor is it in majority black Prince Georges County, Silver Spring does have a significant black population.  And I bet it’s trending upward.

*  Harry Reid hearts the Patriot Act?  Doesn’t Harry Reid lead the Senate Democrats?  Aren’t the Democrats the party that’s trying to consolidate the votes from leftists outraged with the Patriot Act?

*  The price of the global economy, and its tentacles of free trade, open borders and domestic anti-white policies:  His blood.

*  “There were fights all over the school” on the last day of school at Normandy High.  All punctuated by one student getting popped for bringing a loaded revolver on campus.  Authorities think that neighborhood fights are continuing on school grounds.

Remember, Normandy used to be the most desirable high school in North County.  But that was once upon a whiter time.

Actually, in those days, there were probably also students who bought guns to school…for rifle team practice, maybe JROTC duties.

*  The old Burger King in Soulard sits on what was an early 19th century cemetery.

I always thought that BK’s burgers did taste a bit different.

*  Salami slicing:  St. Louis has the best salami in the country, according to Forbes.

*  LOL

“I’m Tired of You White People”

Leave it to the non-American media to tell us the truth.  No link because it mentions the name of the presiding judge.

Sydney Morning Herald:

Lottery winner in court on Aussie’s murder

The millionaire US lottery winner accused of shooting dead Australian property developer Greg McNicol warned “watch your mouth” before firing the fatal bullet, a Detroit court has heard.

The evidence was part of chilling testimony presented at a hearing for 62-year-old Freddie Young on Thursday.

Young was part of a syndicate in Michigan that shared $US46.5 million in a Mega Millions jackpot lottery in February, but the court was told he was upset at the way Mr McNicol, formerly from the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, had treated his daughter, Ayana Young.

Ayana, 20, was living in an apartment complex in Detroit that Mr McNicol bought earlier in the year, however, she was two months behind on rent and was threatened with eviction.

Tenants testified Mr McNicol, on May 7, the day of his death, became involved in a heated argument at the complex with a group of women, including Young’s granddaughter.

The granddaughter phoned Young, the court heard.

The Detroit News newspaper reported after the phone call the granddaughter allegedly told the other members of the group her grandfather was going to come and “kill the dude”.

Witness, 14-year-old Mayakala Bell-Brown, testified Ayana first arrived at the apartment complex, punched Mr McNicol in the face and said: “I’m tired of you white people”.

Young then pulled up in a black vehicle, had a gun in his hand and confronted the Australian, the court heard.

“The man said, ‘Watch your mouth.’ Greg said he wanted them out of my house,” another tenant, Leola Brown, said, according to the Detroit News.

“Then he shot him.”

She got “tired of white people” at the ripe old age of 20, on grounds that “white people” have the audacity to demand that you pay your rent on time.  I don’t know if she’s facing any charges, but she better, because as mad as she is at white people now, it’s only going to get worse.

100

Native St. Louisan.

A Fine Line Between Lovelock and Hate

Fedora 15 is out.

So far, I’m not digging GNOME 3.  I think it has potential, and if I use it enough, perhaps I might find that I can actually be more productive in certain aspects of my computing life.  However, I dislike even more the 2.x-like shell that GNOME (or maybe it’s the Fedora devs themselves?) provide as a fallback for those whom the 3.x shell is too alien to bear — The main reason is that the 2.x-like shell is too buggy, and not a perfect replication of the GNOME 2.x GUI.

But for awhile, I’m going to use KDE.  Funny, the KDE 4.x line has been getting a bad rap for immaturity.  But now that it’s up to 4.6, it’s very usable and stable.

As for Java, the only thing that has changed from my Fedora 14 instruction set is the version number of Java — We’re up to 1.6.0.26 right now.  So the commands are:

For 32-bit environments, the file name will be jre-6u26-linux-i586.bin

su -
(your password)
cd /home/yourusername/Download/
mv jre-6u26-linux-i586.bin /opt
cd /opt/
chmod a+x jre-6u26-linux-i586.bin
./jre-6u26-linux-i586.bin
yum remove java-*-openjdk-plugin
ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_26/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so

For 64-bit environments, the file name will be jre-6u26-linux-x64.bin:

su -
(your password)
cd /home/yourusername/Download
mv jre-6u26-linux-x64.bin /opt
cd /opt/
chmod a+x jre-6u26-linux-x64.bin
./jre-6u26-linux-x64.bin
yum remove java-*-openjdk-plugin
ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_26/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so

As far as Flash, by now, (I hope), Adobe’s repository has 64-bit Flash for Linux there for the easy installation, because Flash 10.3 officially exists for 64-bit Linux.  Along with 32-bit Flash, which it has had for awhile.  I won’t be able to test things until later, but if you can try a simple yum install flash-player on a fresh 64-bit installation of F15, and see if it installs 64-bit Flash, let me know.  (UPDATE 6/17:  Not yet.  You’ll still have to get the 64-bit preview release, which is still the same November 30, 2010 release version that was current when F14 Laughlin came out, and use archive manager to extract libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/).

UPDATE 5/29:  I said back in my Fedora 14 post that I was skipping Opera because it had a lot of usability problems.  Whatever those were, they have been fixed, for the current version (11.11) works great, in fact, a little better than its Windows cousins.  And both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Opera 11.11. work great.  Go get it.

UPDATE 6/17:  I have updated the above instructions for version 1.6.0.26 of Java.  When I first created this post, the current version was 25.

Also, I have to stipulate that if you already have Java and want to update, you can use this process to install the new version.  But before you start, you have to delete the existing symbolic link before you can make a new one.  Do this in a terminal in 32 bit:

su -
(your password)
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm libnpjp2.so

In 64-bit:

su -
(your password)
cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
rm libnpjp2.so

Then install the new version per the instructions above.

After that, in your /opt/ directory, you will have the newest Java installation plus any old versions.  You’ll notice that a single installation is more than 100 MB, so you will want to delete all but the newest installation.  For instance, if you installed 1.6.0.26 today, you would find /opt/jre1.6.0_26/ directory present.  But if you had 1.6.0.25 already, you would also see /opt/jre1.6.0_25/ also, and each of those are over 100 MB.  Once you’ve erased the symbolic link to the old version and made one to the new version, then it’s safe to delete any old versions.  Here’s how:

su -
(your password)
cd /opt/
rm -rf jre1.6.0_xx

Obviously you insert real numbers in place of xx. If you have more than one old version, you can delete them all simultaneously by using:

rm -rf jre1.6.0_xx jre1.6.0_xx

Again, use the number version in place of xx.  This will work if you have three or more old versions — Just list them all in that command, make sure there’s a space between each listing on that line.

One more thing:  Avoid the official NVidia Linux drivers.  They’ll prevent you from being able to boot into F15 fully.  I found out the hard way — Fixing it all involved booting into a rescue environment from an install CD that was concurrent with the version of Fedora I have (which meant downloading it, as I didn’t actually download F15 when it was released, because I updated from F14 to F15 in the command line), then letting it mount a system image, then removing all sorts of xconfs and then also the NVidia Linux drivers using yum, then rebooting without the CD.

Today’s Duh Files

A no-ratings host on a no-ratings cable channel calls a woman media figure a “slut,” and his network suspends him.  The woman in question used to have a show on that very same network, and now is the preferred fill-in for the top rated nightly political talk show on cable news.  This is the same woman who adopted two children, one from Guatemala.  She also once implicitly bashed the Council of Conservative Citizens.  So I’m really in no mood to defend her.

If you ask me, the whole thing, from this no-ratings host calling her a “slut,” to his bosses at the no-ratings network “suspending” him, and his crocodile tears at his “mea culpa” press conference, all adds up to one big pre-engineered publicity stunt.  An attention-seeking child (or even an adult) will continuously engage in crazier and loonier behavior in order to get attention.  So it also is with ratings-deficient talk show hosts and channels.

What frustrates me is all the conservative media outlets who are devoting a lot of time and energy to this story.  I wish they were able to see publicity-seeking behavior when it presents itself, and dutifully ignore its practitioners in earnest.

Speaking of publicity-seeking behavior (of a far more serious sort), are you surprised that an insane man who thinks insane thoughts and did an insane thing in order to give himself eternal infamy acted insanely inside of a Federal court room and was therefore adjudicated mentally insane?  Yes, I’m talking about Mr. Nutbar of Tucson.  However, what makes me a bit suspicious about all that is that schizophrenia, while a degenerative mental disease, doesn’t work that fast — It doesn’t turn you from halfway functional in January to hopelessly insane in May.  I happen to think that he deliberately acted crazy at that hearing a few days ago in Phoenix in order to avoid any risk of being housed in a real prison instead of the Federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri.  (Yes, the Feds held Looney Toon here in Missouri between January and now, and will continue to hold him there).  The MSM reports say that psychiatrists have been attempting to treat his condition, but not only are the drugs (supposedly) not working, he’s getting worse.  Either he’s got the most rapidly degenerative schizophrenia in the annals of psychiatric medicine, or he’s faking it to stay out of real jails and prisons.  I would hope that the kinds of people with advanced degrees in medicine that the Federal government hire to treat Federal inmates might have considered this possibility, that he was faking it at the hearing in Phoenix.  After all, if I can come up with that theory, so could they.  Unfortunately, I’ve seen Federal correctional system psychs in action, in the Tom Sell saga, (IMHO, I sincerely believe that I actually witnessed one of them commit perjury), and I’m not impressed.  So maybe I just did overestimate their abilities.

Be Careful

Charge up all your battery-powered electronic doodads today.  Because I get the feeling that much of St. Louis will be without power for awhile after this afternoon or evening.  Hopefully, that will be the worst that becomes us.

Tuesday’s Tidbits

This African invasion happened at a Dunkin Donuts in Greenwich Village.  A Manhattan neighborhood full of the most obnoxious white liberals one can imagine.  Couldn’t have happened to a nicer crowd.

I’ll let this speak for itself.

*  Indiana AG:  Indiana Supremes, WTF?

*  A while back, I had a secret squirrel inform me that, back in the days when New Mexico had CCW but Albuquerque and Santa Fe was exempt, that my worries about getting arrested for carrying concealed while driving through Albuquerque on the way to Phoenix (you really can’t avoid Alb on the STL to PHX drive), with a Missouri permit were unfounded, because NM has something called “extended domain.”  Basically what that means is that if something is legal to do in your house, it’s legal to do in your car, i.e., your car “extends the domain” of your private residence.  NM and LA are the only two states that have extended domain, so secret squirrel’s theory is that it’s a holdover from Civil Law, such that former Spanish and former French territory in the U.S. has it.  As it was, the NM Supreme Court later found Alb and SF’s exemptions to be unconstitutional, so both jurisdictions now recognize NM CCW permits and reciprocal permits from other states.

I wonder if this decision on the part of the NM Supremes has anything to do with extended domain.

*  Kobach makes the case for photo voter ID, and also for photo ID for absentee voters, and proof of citizenship before registering.  That solves most of the problem with voter fraud, but I would also like him to require that law enforcement transports precinct boxes from the polling place to the county’s BOEC central offices, and takes them away immediately after the last eligible person in line has voted, so that corrupt black poll workers in north St. Louis don’t have the chance to stuff those boxes full of fake votes based on those who didn’t show up to vote that day but are still on the rolls.  Ever wonder why the north side precincts always take a long time to show up Downtown?  That’s why.

Really, while the subject of voter fraud is on our minds, I’d like to go a lot further, and do a lot of modernization of the system.

*  “Teutonic Shift.”  LOL — Don’t go using “Teutonic” in relation to Israeli affairs — They just might have a thing or three against that word.

*  Monet Parham, if you find McDonalds so objectionable, why did you take your kids to eat there?

*  Ohio is losing two House seats, and it is widely expected that Dennis Kucinich’s OH-10 will be one of the two districts aced out.  In contrast, Washington State is gaining one, and Kucinich looks like he’ll move to Seattle and run for it, the new district expected to be in the Seattle area.

I don’t know about all this.  I mean, Kucinich might be too conservative to win in Seattle.

If it doesn’t work out, he can always run for President.

*  “I’m the boss. No Questions. No Arguments. We’ll just do things my way.”

We’ll see about that.

You know what would be ironic?  If that’s the same kind of T-Shirt the warden of the Federal prison where he’ll do his time wears when he speaks at the new inmate orientation.

Football and Peace

ESPN:

Ray Lewis discusses lockout issues

One of the consequences of a lost NFL season will be an increase in crime, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said in a wide-raging one-on-one interview with ESPN.

“Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game,” Lewis told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio.

That’s because, Lewis said, the NFL lockout affects “way more than us” — the owners and the players.

“There’s too many people that live through us, people live through us,” he said. “Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I’m not talking about the people you see all the time.”

When asked why he thought crime would increase if the NFL doesn’t play games this year, Lewis said: “There’s nothing else to do Sal.”

I wonder how civilization ever survived without NFL football on TV to watch.  Seems to me all those “many people who live through” the NFL and its games and players really need to get lives, and pronto.

Look at this another way — Is Mr. Lewis making an observation, or a threat?  Martin Luther King was big on this sort of thing — Going from city to city yelling “nonviolence” and “hoping for nonviolence” so loudly that there would inevitably be violence and rioting in the aftermath of his presence.  Which, of course, was the intended effect.  Far rightist Matt Hale is doing decades in Federal prison because he said that he hoped that nothing bad would happen to a Federal judge, and the U.S. Attorneys were able to convince 12 out of 12 people beyond a reasonable doubt that that was coded language for an actual death threat.

Methinks Mr. Lewis is begging for violence in order to have a bargaining chip in the player-owner CBA negotiations.  Of which the players have very few.

Lifeboat Ethics

NYP:

Supreme Court upholds order to reduce populations at California prisons

WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld an order that called for the reduction of the number of inmates at California state prisons.

In a 5-4 ruling, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing the majority opinion, the court ruled that California must remove or relocate at least 37,000 prisoners because of concerns of overcrowded conditions.

“If a prison deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate medical care, the courts have a responsibility to remedy the resulting Eighth Amendment violation,” he wrote.

“This case arises from serious constitutional violations in California’s prison system. The violations have persisted for years. They remain uncorrected.”

I’m not the Governor of California.  But if I were, I would demand a direct hand in deciding who does and doesn’t get released from California’s overcrowded prisons, in order to comply with SCOTUS.

If it were up to me, the very first sort of people whom I would ensure remain in prison are non-whites who victimized whites.  And if blacks and Hispanics who victimized other blacks or Hispanics had to be let loose, well, so be it.  Black and Hispanic voters elected all the Democrat politicians who appointed and confirmed SCOTUS’s left wing.  Therefore, they should be the ones that suffer the consequences of these sorts of rulings.

Before I let this go, you might hear a lot of propaganda that most California prison inmates are only in on “drug” charges.  The reason that is is because a lot of cases are pled down to the drug charges only, mainly because a drug crime has no human victim who is too scared of gang retribution to testify or doesn’t want to testify to scratch a “stop snitching” itch.

Who Would Pay Almost $5 for a Condom?

I’ll tell you who — The same dopes who pay $5 for a cup of coffee, and for the same reason.

This article states the reason — Flashing one of these “Naked” brand condoms out of your pocket is going to be a status symbol, just like flashing that cup of Starbucks coffee, the Rolex watch or the BMW.  You’re showing off that you’ve got money, and you can afford Grant Lincoln and Washington for twelve condoms.  So of course the women will flock your way.  One woman admits it, as you can read.

This article is of course from the NYP.  This is the same city that not only gives out free condoms, but they also had a big to-do on what the logo on the condom wrapper should be — They settled on a circle and line that looks like a power-up logo.  NYC has also made a smartphone app where someone could find the nearest distribution point of the free condoms.

So there’s New York City for you — Too much excess, too little moderation.  Everybody either pays nothing or way too much for condoms.

The 2014 Illinois Governor’s Race Has Begun

Treasurer Dan Rutherford, a Republican, is telling bond and financial houses not to lend another cent to Illinois, a borrowing spree Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat, wants.

It’s very apparent Rutherford will be the Republican nominee.  But I think some time between now and the 2014 election season, Quinn will be strung up on Federal corruption and other charges (he is an Illinois Governor, after all), so the Democrat will be current Lieutenant Governor Sheila Simon.

Sarah Palin’s Whitopia (Many Exclusions Apply)

Arizona Republic:

Sarah Palin buys a luxury house in north Scottsdale?

Has Sarah Palin bought a house in north Scottsdale?

For months, rumors have circulated in Arizona political circles that the former Alaska governor and possible 2012 presidential contender either was shopping for homes in Scottsdale or had already bought one.

A just-closed deal on a secluded luxury home in far north Scottsdale might fit the bill, and talk has begun that this may be the one. It’s an 8,000-square-foot, dark-brown stucco home with a guard gate that can keep unwanted visitors away. It has six bedrooms, five bathrooms, a six-car garage, a swimming pool and spa, and a full basement with a home theater, billiards room and wine cellar.

(snip)

Requests seeking comment from Palin or her aides made Friday and Saturday through her political action committee, SarahPAC, were not successful.

Confirmation of a Palin house purchase in Scottsdale likely would rekindle chatter about whether Palin might run a political campaign out of Arizona, the home state of U.S. Sen. John McCain, who plucked her from relative political obscurity in 2008 to be his vice-presidential running mate.

Palin has been rumored to be considering headquartering her 2012 White House campaign, if there is one, in Scottsdale. She also has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.

As someone who has a great uncle living in the Phoenix area (then again, everyone has a retired relative living in the Phoenix area), I can attest that Sarah Palin’s apparent decision to purchase a new abode in North Scottsdale by which she could base a Presidential or Senatorial campaign is telling…of elitist hypocrisy.

Just days before John McCain chose her as his running mate, the Anchorage Daily News ran an article stating that the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs was about to open a Consulate Office in Anchorage, which would have the power to issue Matricula Consular cards, largely a quasi-legalization means for Mexican illegal aliens.  The ADN noted in passing that the Consulate in Anchorage was being opened to serve the fast-growing minority that Mexicans were (and presumably still are), and also that the state’s Governor, Sarah Palin, implicitly welcomed the news.

In October 2008, Palin gave an interview to Univision’s Jorge Ramos, in which she stated that:

There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant — there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants — not only economically is that just an impossibility but that’s not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration.

Obviously, the huge flaw in her thinking is that it’s impossible to enforce any law against all the people who violate that particular law in the face of it never being enforced to begin with.  Most people follow the law because they see the consequence of a violator being “strung up.”  If income tax laws were never enforced, then it would be impossible, perhaps not “humane,” to incarcerate all the people who violate income tax laws, because most people would not pay income taxes.  It’s true that they can’t send us all to Federal prison, but they do send someone every once in awhile (and make damn sure we know about it), and that scares the rest of us into complying dutifully every April 15.  That Palin thinks it’s not “humane” to deport “12 million” (probably far many more) illegal aliens, combined with her relatively warm welcome of an institution in her own state that greases the skids for illegal aliens of one nationality, probably means that she doesn’t want immigration law enforced.

If she wants to move to the Phoenix area, why doesn’t she want to live around the very people of whom she is so welcoming?  If she thinks it’s not “humane” to deport Mexican illegals, then the really “humane” thing to do is to be their neighbors.  That’s what she wants for all other white people.  But no, she is not buying in any one of The Valley’s many heavily Hispanic census tracts.  She is buying in North Scottsdale, whose tracts are anywhere between 87 and 94 percent white, and, thanks to its high real estate values and the paucity of rental units, will probably stay that white for the foreseeable future.

Also notice that the residence itself has “a guard gate that can keep unwanted visitors away.”

Does she think Arizona’s border with Mexico should have such a gate?  Don’t bectcha’ on it.

Fun With Sunday Headlines

ABC:  Secret Service Employee Accidentally Tweets About ‘Blathering’ While ‘Monitoring’ Fox News

Not even Obama’s Secret Service can be bothered to watch MSNBC.

CNN:  Bin Laden raid was humiliating to Pakistanis, Gates and Mullen say

I would ask them to cry us a river, but our rivers are a bit swollen at the moment.

UK Telegraph:  Viagra ‘could make you deaf’

Okay guys, when you’re 50, would you rather have your ears work or your dick work?

Singularity Hub:  Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists

America has a much better idea:  Fill all our top government slots with community activists.

P-D:  St. Louis police looking for gunman in wheelchair

Handicapped?  No, handicapable.

Jihad Watch:  Afghanistan: Jihad against road construction workers

I can see the PSAs on Afghani TV:  “Don’t jihad through construction zones.”

UK Telegraph:  Amazonian tribe has no calendar and no concept of time

But wouldn’t we be so much stronger if they could enrich us with their diversity?

P-D:  Mistakes doomed ATM Solutions robbers in city’s biggest heist

Translation:  If they had brains, they would truly be dangerous.

UK Telegraph:  Children ‘getting weaker because they don’t climb trees’

The British nanny state won’t let them climb trees.

AFP:  Guyana ‘arrests Farrakhan aide’ in drugs, terrorism probe

Guyana has been through that shit once, and I’m sure they don’t want to go through it again.

5:  Murder suspect says he wanted to start terror cell

He wanted a cell?  He’s certainly going to get one.

Sunday Wrap-Up

This genius is the leader of the Republicans in the Illinois State Senate.

In a way, I am disappointed that the rapture didn’t happen yesterday.  It would have been just my luck that God would have whisked her away and left me here.

Marine Le Pen talks DSK.  As an aside, until he got popped, I’ve never heard of him, and I follow French politics somewhat attentively.  The media keep saying that he was a shoo-in to win the Socialist Party nomination and pretty much be the next President.  But if that was so, why wasn’t he on my radar screen?  From what I know, the top two finishers in the first round were going to be Sarkozy and Le Pen, who would face off in the run-off.

*  NSW Police Force commissioners are happy that the NSW Parliament is considering mandatory life sentences for cop killers.

Happy?  I wouldn’t be.  What happened to the death penalty?

Oops, I forgot.  This is Australia we’re talking about.  We’ve got to be compassionate toward murderers, but not towards murder victims.

*  Other than that big ole rock that fell from the sky 65 million years ago, the big secret to the success of mammals as the dominant class of animals on Earth was the evolution of the sense of smell.

*  Again, I call bullshit.  Then again, I’ve never heard of Sig Sauer, but from what I can gather, it’s a German/Swiss outfit.  And I highly doubt they would manufacture junk that would spontaneously fire upon being dropped.  So what’s the real story here?

*  Torturer getting tortured?  I call it karma, not grounds for “human rights” asylum.

*  Cue Styx — Too much time on his hands:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man has petitioned that Lake Calhoun be renamed, arguing it’s inappropriate that a South Carolina politician who was an ardent supporter of slavery should have his name attached to one of Minnesota’s most popular recreational lakes.

Retired computer programmer John Winters is suggesting that John C. Calhoun’s name be taken off the lake and replaced by the late Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, a former Minneapolis mayor.

Winters, 65, isn’t the first person to take offense at the name of Lake Calhoun, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether anybody else had ever gone to the trouble of filing formal paperwork to launch a process that could take at least two years.

That’s because everybody else in Minnesota apparently have actual lives.

*  The Old West — Not as “wild” as popular culture suggests.  I knew that already, but we have additional proof.

*  Large scale gun trafficking operations are rare.  Most “illicit” guns are a result of small scale thefts, straw purchases or legal purchases.

*  George Will still doesn’t get it.  (If he did, his colums wouldn’t be appearing in the WaPo).

It’s race, not public employee unions.

*  To each according to his Cs — Republican college and university profs tend to give out more higher and lower grades than Democrat profs.  Or, to look at it another way, Democrat profs tend to be more “egalitarian” and “groupthink” in their grading.  Also, on the race angle, the aggregate GPA of black students’ grades from Republican profs is 0.2 points lower than from Democrats.

The first few comments on this story suggest that there might be a practical, non-political explanation for this — That Republican profs might tend to the hard sciences, which have a wider grade distribution than Democrat-favored humanities and social sciences anyway.  What might pour cold water on that theory is B-schools, whose profs are fairly predominately Republican, but whose course work leans on collaborative projects, and will therefore show more egalitarian grading tendencies.

*  President Obama just pardoned eight people.  After reading what they did, all I can conclude is that the Federal government has too many damned laws.

*  Five days ago in this medium, I concluded that he was either white or Asian.  Now we have proof of the former.

Reading between the lines of this follow-up article, I think I know exactly what’s going on — The Philly P.D. have made it clear that they’re going to accost those who carry openly, because those that do are largely doing so as a form of political protest, and therefore, they’re almost all white.  What they’re really saying is that they need to accost some white people in order to balance out their racial stats, to keep the NAACP/DOJ wolves at bay.

*  FAIR suit debunks four Obama immigration claims.  I can help him out with the first two — Whenever a politican talks about “deportation,” realize that “deportation” only exists in theory.

*  For the first time in a very long time, IBM > MSFT in market capitalization.  At one point in the late 1990s, MSFT = IBM *3.

What can explain the turnaround?  Well, these things are never monocausal, but here is one possible significant explanation.

Somehow I Saw This Coming

As I write these words, the Romaniks’ WQQX (1490 AM, formerly WESL, city of License East St. Louis) is still calling itself the “Timeless Memories” station, and is still using a tuxedo-clad tomato as its station mascot.  But I notice they’ve reformatted — They’re now doing 70s/80s black R&B, not way too different from the music format it was for most of the time I’ve been alive and paying attention.

It’s the weakest AM signal in the St. Louis market, and its stick is in the heart of ESL.  Draw a seven-mile circle around ESL, (which is as far as a kilowatt on 1490 AM can go at night, though it’s good for about a 25 mile radius during the day), and do an educated guess of the racial demographics in that circle.  Now you’ll understand why Frank Sinatra, Patti Page and Level 42 didn’t cut the mustard.  And why Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Earth Wind & Fire will.

It Won’t Get Any Better With That Attitude

Yahoo Sports:

‘It Gets Better’: Giants announce plans for anti-homophobia ad

It appears that the San Francisco Giants aren’t afraid to use their voices to support the homosexual community in their own city and around the world.

That’s because the defending World Series champions announced plans on Monday to film one of the popular “It Gets Better” ads. According to the movement’s website, the public service announcements are designed to “provide hope for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and other bullied teens by letting them know that ‘It Gets Better.’”

(snip)

Perhaps most importantly, the Giants have recently shown themselves to be selfless when it comes to using their success to help others in need. Whether it has been Brian Wilson(notes) and Cody Ross(notes) helping out YouTube star Keenan Cahill or Tim Lincecum(notes) donating his own money to injured Giants fan Bryan Stow, they’ve only been too glad to help.

Now I get it.  The Giants are going to stuff the truth of the matter, that the near-murder of Bryan Stow was a racial hate crime on the part of Hispanic perpetrators, down the memory hole with this sing song and dance about “homophobic bullying.”  Of course, homophobic bullying isn’t that big of a problem — It’s just that some people thrive from suffering a persecution complex, and some other people need to peddle paranoia in order to raise money or to unify a certain voting bloc around a certain Presidential candidate.

I do realize that the Giants are not insinuating that Bryan Stow was either homosexual or a victim of homophobic bullying.  However, if you do want to see an example of a hate crime that was really racial, is being sold as homophobic, then look no further than that incident at a Baltimore McDonalds.

UPDATE 2 PM:  LAPD has nabbed one of the two suspects in the assault on Stow — They found him in an East Hollywood apartment building.  Surprised he didn’t flee back to Mexico.

Debt Service

Last night at the Bulls game.

I know what he was really up to — He was thinking about sneaking into the Bulls locker room, getting Derrick Rose’s credit card, and using that to pay off the city’s debt.

Kinda like Ross Perot’s Plan B in 1992 for paying off the national debt — “Put it on my Visa.”

Thursday’s Toestubs

INTERNATIONAL

*  You don’t need me to fill in the blanks, do you?

*  Cue violins, cry me a river.  Big tough man, can’t take a bit of verbal abuse from a (probably) drunk fan.

NATIONAL

*  Arnie + HER?  Maria Shriver is way better looking.  He had to have been pretty horny.

*  Don’t interpret this in any way to mean that the victim deserved what happened to him.  But I’ve seen pictures of him, and I can easily see how these suspects mistook him for a member of a rival gang.  He wasn’t in a gang, but he dressed too “gangy.”  Too, the victim, a young man of 13, was on his way back from visting his girlfriend.  Isn’t 13 a little young to be having a steady girlfriend, much less being allowed unchaperoned visits with said girlfriend?

*  Whenever a law seems to be stupid on its face, there is usually a very practical but taboo motivation.  I get the feeling that race somehow plays into this.  We’ll know if any of the predictable racial lobbies start bitching.  Even if they do, it’s a stupid law — I thought all these liberals were against snooping into your bedroom.  And if a married couple heading for D-town suddenly decides to jump back into bed, it sounds to me like it’s a marriage on the mend, one that is no longer threatened with the specter of divorce.

*  Prediction:  I think these “school yard” heroin trades weren’t kids buying heroin for themselves from other kids.  I think the school yard trades were conduits for adult transactions.  In other words, the adult dealer and the adult addict thought that doing the trade directly would garner too much suspicion, but if the dealer’s kid and the addict’s kid, who go to the same elementary school, were relied upon to make the exchange, it wouldn’t appear suspicious.

*  Duh, Obama.  This is what happens when you send your own SG to SCOTUS.  Conflict of interest?  Lawdy lawdy Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nuttin’ ’bout no conflict of interest.  But she shoo’ do’ gotz to recuse her ‘seff.

*  Duh.  Pump their heads full of sex ed, then they act so surprised and shocked when they start taking naked pictures of each other.

*  Walgreens — Another Monopoly Mart that needs to be taken down a peg or three.  St. Louis City actually has an ordinance that states that there must be a Walgreens at every perpendicular intersection of major boulevards.  Okay, there isn’t, but it sure seems like there is.

*  Yeah, keep on waiting for Superman.  And when he comes, he just might have some roid-filled syringes.

*  “I (Almost) Shot the Sheriff…“

How fucking dumb can you be?

*  You see how much a trillion is.  Realize that we owe more than 14 of these suckers.

The deceptive thing is that all the physical American “legal tender” cash and coin in existence (M-Zero money supply) doesn’t even add up to $1 trillion.  In July 2009, M0 was about $908 billion.  It might be over a terabuck now, thanks to two rounds of quantitative easing.  Obviously, like the blood in the human body, you don’t have literally that much — Your heart pumps the same blood back and forth across your body all the time, and other mechanisms weed and feed it.  The American economy is nothing more than $908 billion of “blood” being circulated over and over again, and most of it not even in the form of physical handoffs of the actual currency.

LOCAL

*  The urbanist types I follow on Twitter were all in an uproar about this, and by “this,” I mean Metro’s proposed truncation of the south terminums of the Grand bus line.  According to this document the way it read yesterday, the Desco Group, who developed Loughborough Commons (Schnucks-Lowe’s anchored), at Loughborhough and 55, wanted Metro not to run the Grand bus line through the shopping center’s parking lot anymore.  As of today, all that has been reversed, so the Grand line will continue that far south and continue to end there.

Now, let’s put our thinking caps on.  Can you think of any reason why the owners of this shopping center, and perhaps the lease holders, wouldn’t want a public bus line to run straight onto the premises?  Yeah, the official party line is some mumbo jumbo about lease terms on a transit center, but just between you and me, I don’t believe that.

So what is the real reason?  I’ll have to get back to you on that.

*  Sex at a nightclub?  I bet the next thing they’ll uncover is water in the ocean.

*  Consider yourselves fortunate in this regard — It’s somewhat better in St. Louis for teenagers seeking summer work than the national average, because of our area’s relative paucity of Hispanics.  However, all the other factors, like having to compete with older workers for jobs that teenagers would have taken in the past, still come into play.  But don’t you worry about a thing, because Mayor Slay can’t want for St. Louis to get more Hispanics, in order to get all that diversity that makes us so strong.

You’ll read here that lifeguarding at swimming pools is one of the more popular summer jobs.  Except you have to swim well in order to get those kinds of jobs.  Disparate impact like, guess who that leaves out?  I’m surprised the NAACP isn’t already bitching.  I guess they haven’t gotten around to it yet because they’re lobbying for open borders and amnesty.

*  Yeah, churches and reverends.  ACLU, the noise from the lack of your dogs barkening is deafening.

Prediction:  Within a year, we’ll find out exactly how they cheated.  If they didn’t “cheat” per se, then we know they lowered their standards, though for the life of me, I don’t know how that is even possible.

*  Brought to you by graduates of a different sort a little bit to the east of there.  C’mon people, grow up.  You’re graduating from high school — I’ll give you a hint — A lot of people do that this time of year.  You’re nothing special, for the most part.  And certainly that doesn’t give you the right to vandalize the school.

Channel Geraldine Jones Again

NumbersUSA, you’re a pretty useful organization.  You’re pretty much the “Go To” for grading politicians’ immigration records.

But once again, you’re starting something that you don’t know how to start, much less finish.

Don’t you realize that what Carlos Santana said and did at the Atlanta Braves (now annual) “Civil Rights” game is perfectly consistent with the vision of “civil rights” promulgated by the many black civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King included, whose careers were based in that city?  In the American experience, “civil rights” means almost nothing more than hating white people and dismantling white culture and institutions.  Why don’t you think that tan people should be able to get in on the same “fun” that black people can?

Don’t you realize that you’re being too clever by half when you try to use the left’s language against the left itself?  All you’re doing is endorsing the left’s game and ground rules.

And don’t you realize that responding to Carlos Santana is doing nothing more than giving that old washed up guitarist credibility?  Hell, he’d be an even bigger nobody today if it weren’t for that dozen-year old song he did with the overrated Rob Thomas of the overrated Matchbox 20.

In similar news:

*  Mexico is enforcing its own immigration laws — It found two trucks carrying a total of 513 illegal aliens (“illegal” by Mexican standards) on the Mexican side of the Guatemalan border, trucks that were headed for the United States.  Almost all of the occupants were from Latin American, China, India, Japan (!) and Nepal.  Now, how will Mexico react?  Usually, they ship such people northward to sneak across our border.

It should be noted that the “much derided” Arizona SB 1070 has a provision about seizing the vehicles used to transport 10 or more illegal aliens at a time.  As of this day, that part of SB 1070 is valid and enforceable — The DOJ/SG wanted both the Federal trial level judge in Phoenix and the 9th Circus Court of Appeals in San Francisco to enjoin that part of the law, but in both cases, the courts found for Arizona.

*  HLS might technically be right here.  To find out why, read this book.

*  B-A-Double-L-S:  Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the son of my preferred Presidential candidate in 2008, who won his father’s House seat after he abandoned it to run for President, has come out against the Navy naming a cargo ship for Cesar Chavez.  If Hunter The Younger is right, and Obama is leaning on the Navy to do this because Obama is All-Hispanic-All-The-Time for 2012, then the amazing part is that it’s lost on everybody exactly the point they’re making, and they don’t even know it.  Remember, Chavez, Ralph Abernathy and Walter Mondale jointly held a protest at the U.S.-Mexico border in California AGAINST illegal immigration in 1969.

Fun Sans Oprah

P-D:  Emanuel brings his independent mindset to Chicago

“Independent.”  My foot.  Show me the Republicans he has endorsed.

P-D:  Chicago prepares for life without Oprah Winfrey

I’ve lived without Oprah Winfrey for 34 years, and I turned out semi-okay.

Malkin:  Why do we still run the Diversity Visa Lottery, anyway?!

Because our diversity is our most important strength…(still waiting for someone to explain why or how).

KRON-NBC-4 San Francisco:  [Internet Porn Company] Kink’s Armory to Open Community Center

I’d be really hesitant to use its locker rooms and showers.

FNC:  University Insiders: Illegal Immigrants Get Affirmative Action

Welcome to the anti-affirmative action movement, legal aliens.

Steve Patterson:  Readers OK With Cardinals 1966 Move Away From Sportsman’s Park

What the hell, it’s too late now to do anything about it anyway.