Sure, I can’t think of any sleaze out there beyond what’s on the internet (don’t mentioned mandatory lessons on homosexual sex to elementary school kids).
I wouldn’t have thought there was a big market out there for hiring potheads. But I guess it’s harder in San Francisco and environs to hire someone who isn’t a pothead.
It’s too bad the Occutards don’t know how right they are about the Fed.
Remember, Herman Cain was once on the board of directors of this institution in this city.
NATIONAL
* Sometimes, elitism isn’t a bad thing. There are times when it’s a very good thing — If I need brain surgery, I want a neurosurgeon whose IQ is in the top 1% of all people.
* Worries me? Yeah. But for the time being, I’ll settle for the “Occam’s Razor” explanation that Soros just wants to make some money, and the American domestic firearms market is one of the few hot industries left in this country. Maybe he thinks he’s being all clever and Machiavellian and poetic justice like, using the money realized from (presumably) conservative Americans to fund all the left-wing rabble rousing shit he loves so much. (Occutards included)
Yes, this prison thing will be a disaster, because many of the supposed “nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual” offenders being knocked back to county jails or on probation are really violent, serious and/or sexual offenders. Their rap sheet only *seems* to have “nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual” line items, but in reality, they committed any number of violent crimes with victims. The DA and the defendant’s lawyers usually plead away all the serious charges in exchange for guilty pleas and long-range sentences on the “nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual” charges. The prosecution gets to avoid two pitfalls: One, the risk of a liberal/race jury saying “not guilty” or hanging up, and two, the risky politics of the testimony of the human victims of these defendants’ violent crimes.
States that have elected two Republican senators tend to have much lower levels of economic inequality than states which have elected two Democratic senators. Democrat-dominated states tend to have higher percentages of very rich people, higher percentages of very poor people, and a lower percentage of middle-income people.
Like I said, we *almost* have a winner.
Here’s the rest of the story: The reason blue states hardly have a middle class is that blue states tend to be non-white immigrant-heavy.
Because intricate animal husbandry on the part of humans didn’t begin until the agricultural revolution, (not coincidentally, I might add), this means thatt Upper Paleolithic Era humans were very unlikely to have domesticated dogs by seizing relatively docile wolf pups from their mother’s den then raising them themselves. This probably gives further crediblity to Dr. Raymond Coppinger’s theory of the “trash dump” model of accidental domestication.
My theory is that the entire media industry would love to kill DVR-for-radio, mainly because if you, for example, can “DVR” a given talk radio show, this means you don’t have to buy the given host’s “24/7″ or “365″ service in order to get their official podcasts. In other words, it’s a revenue threat. However, maybe the industry is worried about taking on DVR-for-radio in a full frontal head-on mode, for PR concerns. Perhaps they’re floating a trial balloon by having an insignificant entity like Univision Radio be their front.
* Now that the crying is almost done, the truth telling can begin again. I agree with most of this, don’t agree with some. But my main grind against Steve Jobs and the iCabal was its insular “walled garden” nature. You can’t install Mac OS on commodity hardware (without some intenable and unstable hacks, anyway), and that is by design – Mac hardware’s CPUs need to have special on board “handshakes” in order to be able to boot up Mac OS. Bill Gates and MSFT might have been bad in a lot of ways, but there is no way in hell he would have been able to get away with locking down Windows to specific hardware. Also, what is this business of having to “activate” the iPhone and iPad using iTunes? Buy an Android phone or tablet, and you don’t need to activate schmactivate anything, just turn on and enjoy.
I’m so glad AAPL didn’t win the desktop OS war way back when.
Finger Scan Devices Coming to Washington County School Buses
Chipley- The Washington County School District is adding finger scan devices to all of its school buses to keep a better track of student attendance.
Chipley- Roll call is a thing of the past in Washington County Schools. Students now check in with finger scanning devices.
School Superintendent Sandra Cook said the old method just wasn’t cutting it.
“We got to talking about attendance in our district and how it was inconsistent,” said Cook.
The systems have been up and running for two months inside the schools, but since the majority of students ride the bus every day, district officials decided to move the devices there.
This story would have been just another “Feh?” to me, except when I tried to search for Chipley High School’s racial demographics, in an attempt to perhaps find a taboo racial explanation for the installation of this finger scanning system.
I don’t know why, but my first stop on Google was the website for the basketball team. Last season’s 14-man roster consisted of eleven blacks, two whites and one apparently biracial white-Asian. So I figured that this must be a majority black school, if not a heavily black school.
Then I dug deeper down into Google. Great Schools reports that Chipley HS students are 78% white and 17% black, and 5% everything else.
This means in percentage terms, the team’s demographics and the school’s demographics are almost mirror opposites.
A few months ago, a Steve Sailer reader noted that the few native born American whites in the NBA came from either areas that were almost all white or high schools that had very few if any blacks, and in turn postulated that they only got on the basketball career track because their high schools had so few if any blacks that the basketball squads had no choice but to be majority if not all white. If the school has enough blacks, then the coaches’ propensity is to stock the roster with blacks, based on the “Caste System” false notion of black athletic superiority.
* Just because I sympathize with the Occutards over the free trade issue and the student loan issue, I know these people are in no wise friends. Just in case it wasn’t clear to you, read the Boston Occutards’ list of personae non gratae. They talk about how they’re the 99%? Well, 99% of the people fit into at least one of the categories of people they don’t want.
* Look at the first picture. Do you still want to think that the Occutards are in any way comparable to the Tea Partiers?
It’s really intriguing how the policy differences are informed by cultural differences. The twentysomethings haven’t paid much, if anything, in taxes and have received more than they’ve given. The Tea Partiers tend to be older and have spent a lot of time paying into the system. They resent paying for handouts. The Occupy Wall Streeters resent not getting them. And their definition of greed is not merely wanting to keep your own money, but resisting when others try to take it from you.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* Queue all the immigration cliches that the left-right Republocrats can muster, then read this. Fairmont City has been Hispanic for a long time, now it’s starting to spill over into Collinsville.
* I don’t believe either side in this “debate.” I think all of these “breakouts” are a result of the given black inmate somehow knowing or having a prior relationship with the black jail guards. Family, gang, neighbor, school, buyer-seller of illicit substances, or something like that.
* Maybe the new Illinois Congressional District that will comprise most of the East Side combined with what is expected to be a red wave election next year is the reason why Jerry Costello retired. Ever since he announced his retirement, the area Democrats have, Hound of the Baskervilles style, been suspiciously quiet and loath to announce campaigns.
* This doesn’t bother me at all. What bothers me are the dunces behind the rifles that the St. Louis County Police Department likes to hire. You know, can’t think to open a closet door while ransacking a house to look for a dead body. Honestly, though, most of the municipal departments in St. Louis County aren’t much better. Remember Michael Devlin? While a white compact Mazda pickup truck was the most sought-after vehicle in the metro area, the Kirkwood cops passed that apartment complex a number of times while Devlin’s white compact Mazda pickup truck was parked right there in plain sight. It took someone else living in that apartment complex to point to thick skull bonehead Kirkwood cops in the truck’s direction, and then they had the sense to knock down the door and find Demon Spawn, Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck.
I swear, St. Louis County, Missouri has to be the epicenter of dumb law enforcement, an affliction which doesn’t seem to affect St. Louis City nor the surrounding counties.
In passing, the article states that: Food stamps pay only for food for human consumption. Alcohol, tobacco, pet food and non-food items like household supplies are not covered.
Yeah, wanna bet?
Arizona is the only state left that requires fingerprints of food stamp applicants. At the beginning of this year, TX, CA and AZ did, along with New York City. Three southwestern states and an immigrant-heavy big city…methinks the fingerprinting was also done to deter illegal aliens from applying.
* “…it’s sad because they have such a great life ahead of them and there’s so much more they can be doing…“
Don’t get me wrong… I don’t expect the nation to suddenly go all Rawlesian–with everyone from 18 to 80 toting .45s, voting for Ron Paul, getting right with God, putting in big gardens and laying in two year food supplies.
“Don’t expect?” Sounds like a good plan to me. Heck, some might call it “hope and change,” unfortunately, this nut in the White House right now has ruined that.
* Springfield? (As in Illinois). Yes, there’s a ghetto there, in about the central-eastern part of the developed city.
Anchorage, Alaska is high on this list as well. I wonder if that has something to do with all the Matricula Consular people that Sarah Palin loves so much. (Speaking of her, I knew she wouldn’t run when she resigned as AK-GOV in July 2009. John Lott figured it when he realized that Fox News Channel didn’t suspend her like they suspended Gingrich and Santorum, ergo she must have assured them months ago she had no intention to run.)
* Whodatunk. Amnesty International is upset that white people can’t substantially and permanently improve the lives of a group of people who could not figure out on their own before white people informed them that human sexuality and female pregnancy were related, and a group of people that, to this day, are too dumb to figure out that sleeping in dry river beds is a bad idea, because sometimes those rivers have actual water, and they can become flowing rivers very quickly.
BTW, I wouldn’t consider the Maori in New Zealand a rip-roaring success.
Second, the FN of both Marine Le Pen and her father have been “converting” the Communists and certain other far-left extremists for years. In 2002, when J-M finished in first place after the opening round and got into the runoff with Jacques Chirac, the few political divisions of France that were actually majority Communist became majority FN. That indicates to me that the “Communists” were never really doctrinaire communists at all, they were merely very strident economic populists.
* Duh, stupid. When you import third world people, you get third world enclaves. The only thing more stupid is thinking that they’re even “integratable” (to invent a new word) in the first place, and even if they were, whether integrating them is desirable, which it’s not.
The better option is France for the French, but nobody is asking me.
* This is Russia. Sure looks like something-stan to me. BTW, seems kinda unfair that mom has to run around almost fully covered while her son can be almost naked.
Don’t worry, though, they have an ace in the hole — Elect a new people via the immigration system. See also: British Labour Party, U.S. Democrat Party, New Democratic Party in Canada, any party with “Socialist” in its title, etc. With supporting roles from the Liberal/National Coalition, the British Tory Party, the U.S. Republican Party, the Conservative Party of Canada, and all the other faux-”conservative” parties.
Other than holding down jobs, showering daily, having clarity of purpose, genuine independence of mind, a generation difference in median age, a corporeal investment in the future of the country, real political accomplishments, and not wanting big leviathan government, then yeah, the Occutards and the TPM have a lot in common.
* What does this mean? It means the local bigmouths who don’t pass up an opportunity to remind us all how much they hate meth are going to push for bills prohibiting us all to piss.
* There’s one major problem with this study — If these Hoosegow GEDers are getting jobs once they get out of prison, it’s very likely not because of the GED earned while they’re in prison. Ceteris paribus, those with hiring responsibilities put very little faith into a GED as compared to a real high school diploma, not because a GED is easy to earn, which it isn’t, but because a very high percentage of GEDs are earned in prison. In other words, they only earned the GED because they pretty much had to, because any temptation not to was absent while they were in prison. They couldn’t or wouldn’t graduate from high school, easy as HS is these days, while they were free teenagers and young adults in the real world, so why would they be any more industrious and punctual and ambitious once again in the real world?
As an aside, the difference between a tax credit and a tax deduction is that a tax credit for a certain amount is deducted directly from your calculated liability, while a tax deduction reduces your taxable income that is used to calculate your tax liability. A tax credit is far more “powerful” in terms of reducing one’s tax liability.
* I’ll let this speak for itself. What perplexes me is that in a country where putting a doll in a window is a racial hate crime, (see above), racial exclusivity in adoptions still exists. And don’t get me wrong, it should still exist.
Object lesson of the day: When a Jew signs your paycheck, you don’t make flippant jokes and remarks about Hitler. Never. And by “never,” I mean zero percent of the time.
In the mid-1990s, a new ESPN anchor (can’t remember his name) thought he was being so smart and clever by imitating Chris Berman and his propensity to give athletes creative names retrofitted around their real names. He was covering a play involving then-New York Jets QB Frank Reich, and he called him “Frank ‘Third’ Reich.” I immediately thought to myself that he would be called on the carpet, especially since his boss was named Eisner. Sure as shootin’, about a week later, I read on ESPN’s website (then known as ESPNet Sportszone) that he was dismissed for “inappropriate remarks,” though the article did not specify.
Sorry, Hank, but you’ll never live this down. You can kiss MNF goodbye forever. And by “forever,” they’ll probably burn any evidence that you ever sang the MNF theme song. There are some things about which you don’t joke around certain people.
UPDATE 10/8:
Let the Razzle Dazzle diversions begin. Remember, Hank Williams Jr cut his “If the South Had Won” song in 1988, and he didn’t start doing the MNF theme until 1991. Yet, for all these people’s whining and bitching about Hank Williams Jr and his crime of being a white Southerner, none of that bothered them for the 20 years he did the MNF theme until this past week. Either they’re slow on the draw, or there’s something else at work. I vote for “something else at work.” That something else is that Disney now owns ESPN and ABC (Disney purchased Capital Cities in the mid-1990s), and Disney’s current CEO, Bob Iger, is Jewish. (As was the aforementioned Michael Eisner, Iger’s predecessor.) Like I said above, when you work for a Jew and s/he signs your paycheck, you don’t make flippant remarks about Hitler. NEVER. All this talk about “the South” and HWJr’s “racial insensitivity” is just a diversion.
On Sept. 23, Morgan Freeman went on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight to proclaim that Tea Party opposition to President Obama “is a racist thing.” The timing wasn’t ideal, considering Dolphin Tale had opened that day and the film was tracking particularly well among conservatives, many of whom the star had suddenly maligned.
While only 627,000 people saw Freeman on CNN that night, millions soon viewed the clip as Drudge Report, Twitter, Facebook and other digital outlets turned it into a viral sensation — not difficult given how partisan and personal politics have become in this run-up to the 2012 presidential election. “He belongs on my ‘no pay, no watch’ list after his latest, nearly hallucinatory raving,” wrote one commenter on a conservative media site.
With Dolphin Tale opening with a strong $19.2 million that first weekend and finishing No. 1 with $13.9 million in its second, the financial impact of Freeman’s comments is hard to quantify. But they did have an effect. In a far-ranging poll Penn Schoen Berland conducted for The Hollywood Reporter of 1,000 registered voters to gauge moviegoing tendencies of Democrats vs. Republicans, it’s clear political allegiances have shifted entertainment viewing habits. Jon Penn, the firm’s president of media and entertainment research, says that before Freeman’s words, interest in Dolphin Tale was considerably higher among conservatives and religious moviegoers than among liberals. After the remarks, 34 percent of the conservatives who were aware of them, and 37 percent of Tea Partiers, said they were less likely to see the film — but 42 percent of liberals said they were more likely. (Five days after Freeman’s remarks, 24 percent of all moviegoers were aware of them.)
In fact, overall, 35 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of Tea Partiers consider a celebrity’s political position before paying to see their films, compared with 20 percent of Democrats.
Smart and stupid don’t need an alliance. A hammer and a nail don’t need to join forces. People who shower once a day don’t need to hook up with people that wash off in the public fountain once a month.
* They love it now, but wait until someone wakes up one day and discovers that almost all the crime that these “citizen patrols” are patrolling are against is black crime. Then they won’t be “laudable,” “organic” efforts, they’ll be…five, six, seven eight…RACIST.
* Jerry Costello retiring. While I lived in Carterville for almost all of 2009, he was my Congressman. I don’t know why he’s giving up — I doubt he really has to worry that much about losing, except if his new district is going to be less blue or more red, and with Democrats running the show in Illinois, I doubt that scenario. He’s not that old, so age isn’t an issue. Maybe the Democrats are so worried about 2012 being a red tidal wave that even a new Democrat-friendly district serving Costello’s residential geography could turn over. As it is, the current IL-12 consists of East St. Louis, Belleville, Alton, Carbondale and Cairo, the blackest towns south of Springfield.
Easy solution: Strap him up to ole sparky right now. He wins by not having to defoul his mouth with infidel grub, and double wins by getting to his 72 virgins sooner.
Proponents of a more refined First Amendment argue that this freedom should be treated not as a right but as a privilege — a special entitlement granted by the state on a conditional basis that can be revoked if it is ever abused or maltreated.
Just like in the now-defunct Soviet Constitution.
Proving my instinct that the leftist fanatical paranoia about “bullying” is nothing more than an end run around Amendment Number One.
Now, the idea of Wall Street protests, this bunch — the idea for doing the Occupy Wall Street protest — was started by Canadians. It’s the brainchild of a Canadian anti-consumerist magazine called Adbusters which registered the domain name OccupyWallStreet.org back in June. Now, among other things this bunch, Adbusters, the “anti-consumerist” magazine, has a long histoire of anti-Semitism. So in their corrupt and perverted minds Jewish money traders, Jewish bankers on Wall Street, why, it’s a natural target. So you have a group in Canada, largely steeped in anti-Semitism, providing the idea for this.
I thought “anti-Semitism” was “illegal hate speech” in Canada. Well, it is, but only if you’re right wing.
* John Lott discovers the Freepitburo. BTW, Prof. Lott, that “moderator” is usually Jim “The Asshole” Robinson himself. Pretty soon, FR will be as left-wing as the Daily Kos.
* Facebook starting a PAC. I have mixed feelings — I think most FBPAC money will go to Democrats, but on the other hand, it might be a very good counter force in the body politic to the copywrong extremists.
Hello, Verizon? You sell a shitload of Android smartphones, including one to me last year.
HISTORY
* Surprising? Not to me. It is common knowledge that the early Christian church retrofitted their liturgy and customs around existing paganist spiritual sensibilities, mainly as a marketing tool.
In the sidebar of this article, you’ll read parts of the famous back-and-forth between Milton Friedman and Gen. William Westmoreland. I don’t know this for sure, but I’m almost certain that Westmoreland’s hostility toward an all-volunteer military, (what he terms “mercenary”), has to do with his reading of Machiavelli. But Westmoreland was confusing terms and definitions. When Machiavelli came out against mercenaries, he didn’t mean “mercenaries” to mean a volunteer military, nor would he have bemoaned political mercenaries (which really didn’t exist in his day), as an example, the whites from America and Europe who volunteered for the Rhodesian and South African militaries based on a racial cause. Machiavelli meant “mercenaries” in terms of paid foreigners whose only interest in the service was the paycheck — He thought they were only loyal to the money, and could never have the blood and soil interest that native born citizens could have.
Demias Jimerson, Arkansas Football Prodigy, Banned From Scoring More Touchdowns
Demias Jimerson is so good he’s no longer allowed to score.
The 11-year-old Arkansas football prodigy has been slapped with a little-known rule inspired by former Arkansas Razorbacks star Madre Hill, who ran all over teams while playing at the same Wilson Intermediate School years ago. According to Yahoo’s Rivals Blog, the “Madre Hill Rule” limits Jimerson from scoring if he has already scored three touchdowns and his team is ahead by at least 14 points.
All weekend, the sports and political media that have been running with this story (no pun intended) have been making you think that they just now made this rule up out of thin air only because of young Mr. Jimerson’s “prodigious talent.” In reality, the “Madre Hill Rule” has existed for about twenty years. Those same media sources have made this out to be an example of the wussification of America. The problem with that theory is that football is probably the only venue left where boys and men can still be boys and men — Other than the occasional feminist ideologue or the occasional Title IX enforcement bureaucrat, there is no whining about football. Mainly because it’s so black dominated, but that’s another discussion for another day.
So there has to be something else at work.
First off, I think it’s a good rule, especially for younger children, because team sports at that age are supposed to be teaching tools as much as anything. The objective is to inculcate the values of teamwork, sportsmanship and collective responsibility — That isn’t served very well by giving your best player the ball all the time when you already have an insurmountable lead. Too, it’s 5th and 6th grade amateurs we’re talking about here, I highly doubt Mr. Jimerson needs to pad his stats because he’s a free agent at the end of the season. Next year, the MHR won’t apply to him anymore, as 7th graders and older are exempt. But it will still exist informally — Whether in middle school football or the NFL, if you have a 28-point lead going into the fourth quarter, the coach is going to bench all his starters for the rest of the game. Why risk injuries to your starters, and why rub it in? Especially in the NFL, there is the distinct possibility that you’ll be playing this team you just trounced at some point again during the season or the postseason. They would remember and attempt to avenge your “rubbing it in.”
Then there’s the big white elephant in the room — Race. It’s just an instinctual guess on my part, but I get the feeling that the reason the “Madre Hill Rule” exists (Madre Hill was also black) was that this league or district was trying to douse water all over the flames of the narcissism of young black men, and the inevitable fights and hard feelings that would have resulted in, for example, an 11-year old running back scoring seven rushing touchdowns in a game his team was already winning by 70 points. It is for the same reason that the NFL really doesn’t like excessive end zone celebration — They’re worried that one of the blacks is going to get too full of himself, celebrate “the wrong way,” hurt someone’s feelings on the defense, (“he dissed me,”) and the whole thing gets resolved with the business end of a pistol.
The “untimely departure” of Amwar al-Awlaki is begging my input.
The story bored me at first, but Ron Paul and Michael Savage have both chimed in, declaring it to be a travesty of civil liberties, and PJB hints that it might have been.
On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is “we were totally justified in taking him out” and 10 is “oh my God they’re about to round us up and put us all into concentration camps,” I’m at about a 3.
What is bothering me more than anything is that those worrying about this al-Awlaki “hit” are worried for illogical reasons. Their case usually involves the words “slippery slope,” “consistent(cy)” [i.e. with our "values" or civil liberties] and “American citizen.” I guess what they’re trying to say is that if Obama can murder al-Awlaki, an “American citizen,” for “crimes,” then he can murder you or me for running a stop sign.
First off, I don’t believe in slippery slopes, because slipperly slopes are a logical fallacy. There are actions and consequences.
Second, Amwar al-Awlaki didn’t run a stop sign, he was a major conspirator on behalf of foreign groups with whom we are in conditions of engaged hostility (even if the AUMF paperwork doesn’t literally say “war”) behind several terrorist attacks.
Third, I don’t believe in consistency. Thoreau once said that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. I know exactly what he meant by that, because I used to be one of those “little minds,” until one day I woke up and decided to shake the dork off myself and become a real human being with the power to think things through. To use more modern lingo, consistency is for nerds and dorks. And before you flame me in the comment section, when I say “consistency,” I don’t mean that in scientific, mathematical or computational terms. Consistency in a computer algorithm is a good thing, and certainly not “foolish.” If you coach basketball, the “consistency” of one of your players averaging 10 a game by scoring 10 every game instead of 40 one game and zero the other three games is a good, non-foolish kind of consistency. What I mean by “foolish consistency” here is ideological rectitude. I no longer feel the need to toe the line of an orthodoxy, and I no longer fear that deviating from it means that I’m on a “slippery slope” to Hitler or Stalin or gas chambers. Plain words, I don’t care about the “inconsistency” of us not giving this “American citizen” “due process of the law” for the “crimes” he committed.
Fourth, I’m getting tired of people calling him an “American citizen,” as if he’s some sort of white Joe Blow who lives in the suburbs of Cincinnati. The only thing “American citizen” about him was that his mother just happened to go into labor while she was in the state of New Mexico. In reality, he retained his Yemeni lineage citizenship rights all the while along with his American passport. Remember, our government will give “American citizenship” to almost anyone these days (except for non-native born whites), ergo “citizenship” doesn’t have the same gravity of concept that it once did. Obviously, they can vote just the same.
And finally, fifth, I cringe at the debate on whether this was “legal” or not. The problem is, government gets to define what is and is not “legal” and, more importantly, they own the mechanism to enforce those precepts. The law is only as good as the government’s will and ability to enforce it (see: Administrative immigration amnesty). Even if the assassination of al-Awlaki violated some words on paper somewhere, the government isn’t going to arrest and prosecute itself. Yeah, Ron Paul wants to impeach Obama, but that will go nowhere. Insofar as the al-Awlaki issue goes, that’s the only chance to “enforce” the “law” here, and like I said, that won’t happen. Ergo, “illegal” is moot.
Sailer critiques Ron Unz’s suggestion that a relatively high minimum wage could be a neat, clean and “non-racist” way to restrict and resist Hispanic immigration.
The debate is fascinating the read from an academic standpoint, but ultimately moot here in literalville.
The problem for both Sailer and Unz is that here in the real world, no matter if the object is oil, food or labor, the laws of supply and demand eventually find a way. If you think that raising the MW to, say, $10 an hour, is by itself going to deter Hispanic immigration, then you’re only fooling yourself. Someone will pass the right amount of money to someone else’s hand to make the minimum wage laws a dead letter. (They already are in heavily Hispanic parts of the country.) Or, some other sleazy mechanism will pop out of the woodwork as an end run around MW laws.
Then there’s the other problem – If you were somehow able to enforce a high MW all the time, that would leave a big glut of Hispanic unemployment. That would get solved with them marching down to your welfare office.
Sorry, the race issue is going to have to be addressed head on. The only way to keep labor costs high is verily to restrict the supply of labor, and that can only really be done with real, literal, physical border security and also a severe restriction on legal immigration, both will only happen at the hands of a populist/nationalist-run American Federal government.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
I actually agree with most of that. It’s too bad the Occutards are so quick to hurl out the “neo-fascist” label against any credible political figure who wants to restore protectionism (read: Pat Buchanan). Except the minimum wage is a red herring.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Bonk.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
It’s called “welfare.” Like we’ve never tried it.
Demand four: Free college education.
We’re almost there already. Though after the coming Higher Education Bubble pops, we’ll wonder why we ever got close to there to begin with.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Party like it’s 1699.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
“Pass this jobs bill now!” It’s too bad that a good hard day’s work at an infrastructure project would kill most of these limp dick Occutards. That and they’d withdraw this demand when they find out that white men would get most of these jobs, just as most of the infrastructure projects were stripped out of the first stimulus bill.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.
They want green energy, yet they want to shut down nuclear fission, which is at the moment the most credible and environmentally friendly way to create energy?
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
No, not just one amendment, three of them — The 211th, 212th and 213th.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Like that doesn’t have any impact on wages. Sorry, Occutards, you can’t have rising wages and open borders at the same time.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Democrats won’t stand for that. They’d lose a lot more elections if this actually happened.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Collapse the banking system even further. Restore feudalism NOW~! Class mobility is overrated anyway.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
So we can call get loans from the loan fairy.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
Resist we much.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
That, and it will create paradise on Earth, and we’ll all live in a land of milk and honey and gold-paved roads. BTW, native born white American, if you think you’ll actually get to do any of these “jobs,” you’re fooling yourself. Their precious equality amendment in Demand Eight will make sure you don’t.
* California prisons are getting so overcrowded, that a lot of convicted felons are having to do their time in county jails. Because this is crowding county jails, this means that misdemeanor convicts are being let loose, and more and more arrestees are getting lower and lower bond amounts.
Some of the same politicians and cops in Southern California who want amnesty and open borders, and agree with sanctuary city policies, are now worried about a crime wave.
Duh, Sherlock.
* One more thing people are stealing more and more in this bad economy: Netflix movies from people’s mailboxes. Luckily, my snail mail box at my apartment complex has a lock and key, but I happened to confront the letter carrier who was delivering to my box on Friday, and he not only gave me a Netflix DVD that was in my mail that day, but warned me of those increasing thefts. Maybe this might explain the Netflix price increase — If their own insurance costs for stolen (“lost in the mail”) DVDs go up because Netflix is having to file more and more claims, they’ll pass those extra costs along to end users.
Man, I tell you what. Ever since he won that meaningless straw poll, the well-tanned pizza jockey has suddenly gotten full of himself. I’ms till holding to my prediction that he averages no better than 5% in primary states and gets no better than 10% in any one state. Remember, there have been no real primaries or caucuses yet. Everything so far has been either a meaningless straw poll or volatile opinion polls.
The pizza jockey clairified his Ron Paul comments this morning on the various news church shows — Cain’s problem with RP is that he’s too much of a “Dr. No.” That is the only point I’ll give the pizza jockey — Ron Paul needs to let Rand Paul write him up some dorky polyanna-sounding banal one-liners — Voters seem to love that kind of shit.
Both Cain and Perry are grasping at straws here. This economy is tanking fast, and these two are arguing over the n-word. Perry’s response could have been a lot better, but Cain thinks he’s a lot more clever than he actually was by bringing up this non-issue.
On the subject of the Rickroller, he’s now banging the drums to “invade Mexico” to “fight the drug cartels.” What he doesn’t tell you is that if we do that, then every Mexican illegal alien in the United States instantly becomes a “war refugee” and therefore has legal status, and many more will get to pour in legally as “war refugees.” Of course, I think that’s exactly the point — More cheap Hispanic labor. Of course, real border security would be a lot cleaner, a lot cheaper, and a lot more effective, but the Rickroller opposes that.
And if this little brain fart doesn’t sink his poll numbers down to single digits, nothing can.
Half of Chiapas pissing and shitting on cantaloupes and a bunch of yuppie liberal pretend cattle ranchers get to decide the next President? Beam me up now.
* Sorry, I don’t agree. If he stole most anything else to support his drug habit, I might be willing to agree. But IMHO, stealing guns is a whole other animal. We all know these guns won’t exactly wind up in the hands of people who want them just for recreational target practice.
Once you delve into the article, and you find out who the Aldermanic co-sponsor is (Antonio French), and where this “dog training” is happening (O’Fallon Park), then it all becomes clear — They’re trying to preclude a new generation of Michael Vicks.
* Why bust their chops? After all, Colorado and Wyoming are both rectangular states. It’s a good thing for Team Obama that the outlines of the other 55 states are more distinctive.
Put it all together? I doubt it has anything to do with animals. I think it has far more to do with Colorado’s relatively recent “new arrivals,” the comprehensive reform DREAMer types here to do the jobs that Americans just won’t do, the ones with family values that don’t stop at the Rio Grande, pissing and shitting all over the cantaloupe fields.
* It’s a worthy effort, for sure. I am positive that most or all of the murder victims under the age of 21 in what are described as “high crime” police districts in the city of Chicago have something in common. You can also count on the final report ignoring the most obvious commonality.
* Libs hate highway billboards, and they hate mountain top removal for coal mining, but they have no problem with windmills and cell towers on every hill top they can find.
* Two Hispanic men in their late 20s or early 30s are suspected in a string of rapes of women in Brooklyn. The NYPD is advising women in Brooklyn not to wear skirts and dresses until the suspects are bagged, as their MO involves chasing and raping women wearing skirts and dresses.
I’m surprised the feminists aren’t fit to be tied. They’ve been telling us for years that an adult woman ought to be able to wear what she wants, no matter how revealing or un-revealing, and we men ought to have the self-control not to rape them or lust after them. And they’re right.
Why no outrage here? Answer: Race trumps gender on the left wing totem pole.
The difference this time is that this trial balloon about eliminating the ATF I think is mainly a meaty bone that Team Obama is trying to throw Darrel Issa to keep him from trying to link Fast and Furious to President Obama himself. Yes, I want the ATF eliminated, but by the same token, I don’t want to take my eye off the ball. In this case, the “ball” is deliberate treachery on the part of the person of Barack H. Obama II, with F&F being his attempt to sandbag both 2nd Amendment politics and immigration politics.
* I don’t agree, and I’m disappointed that Michele Bachmann is signing on to this charade. The better idea would be to eliminate the labyrinth of tax laws which allow this profit offshoring to begin with. Here’s how insane some of it is.
If you think GOOG, AAPL et al. would use this “tax holiday” to hire people, especially native born white Americans, you’re only fooling yourself. Most of the money will go to dividends or stock buybacks, and to the extent they do hire anyone “in America,” they’ll be Asians on legal immigrant H-xB visas.
What if someone claimed one of your ideas as their own, and made money from it? Wouldn’t much like it, would you?
* It’s like an old familiar score to me. I was only one of two people (the other person was also a man) on my Freshman dorm floor who knew how to do laundry. That’s how I made my beer and pizza money for the first semester that year, by giving out laundry lessons.
* Head Start, c. 11,000 B.C. Art and animal taxonomy seemed to be the two most popular subjects. The more things change…
* Wat Tyler’s Revolt. Once you delve into the article, you’ll find out they were upset that the ruling class of the day was trying to do an end run around the supply and demand economics for labor through brute force. Economics which suddenly got more favorable for labor thanks to the Black Plague of just a generation before.
This strikes me as odd. Even with the Carnahan name becoming passe in Missouri politics, I still think she could have bucked what will probably be a red trend in 2012 and won a third term as SoS. Conventional wisdom for about the last two years had her as the 2016 Democrat nominee for Governor. I wonder what’s going on — Maybe things are going to be that bad for Democrats, and they know it. Maybe she fears losing to a Republican next year head-to-head.
Speaking of the Carnahans, we have our own little Solyndra-like scandal brewing in Missouri. Yep, a Carnahan is right in the thick of it. Maybe Tom Carnahan’s troubles explains Mrs. Antolinez’s sudden distaste for electoral politics — Maybe some of that dirty money found its way into her coffers.
Even rich school districts do poorly on international math tests
Only 6 percent of all school districts in the United States significantly outperform students in the developed world on math tests, according to “When the Best Is Mediocre,” a new report from the journal Education Next.
Even students who attend ritzy school districts that are considered high-performing wouldn’t pass muster in a global mathalon, the report found. Students in Beverly Hills–where the average household income is more than $100,000–score at about the 50th percentile internationally. “If Beverly Hills were relocated to Canada, it would be at the 46th percentile in math achievement, a below-average district,” the authors write. “If the city were in Singapore, the average student in Beverly Hills would only be at the 34th percentile in math performance.”
Except the image of “Beverly Hills” as both rich and identifiably white American is about 30 years out of date. You may think, “oh, Beverly Hills High School, Brandon and Brenda Walsh.” Bonk. It has been heavily Middle Eastern, mainly Arab and Iranian, for quite some time. Even during the first 90210′s original run from 1990 to 1999, especially during its first three seasons set at a fictional “West Beverly High,” the show got a lot of criticism for presenting both the school and BH as heavily white American, which, even by the early 1990s, it was not. I have not seen it, but the new 90210, on The CW, tries to present BH’s demographics closer to reality.
