A Federal trial level judge based out of the Northern California district has found for the school in the infamous Cinco de Mayo American Flag case.
Reaganites crying in their beer over this ruling. I find that ironic, bordering (no pun intended) on hypocritical.
Anybody care to guess why?
While Hoffa Junior was busy bending over for Obama, he should have been paying attention to the crossed fingers behind the President’s back.
Mexican Trucks Are On Our Roads
After years of negative votes in Congress and the opposition of the American people, on October 21 Barack Obama allowed the first Mexican truck to cross the border at Laredo, Texas and head north to deliver door-to-door service of its load of industrial equipment. This implemented an agreement quietly signed by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in Mexico City on July 6 with Mexico’s secretary of Communications and Transportation.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) calls this deal a major anti-jobs program, saying: “We’re literally taking good jobs here in America and passing them over the line to Mexico.” Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Independent Drivers Association, a non-union trade association, said 100,000 trucking jobs will be lost.
Among other outrages.
Most of those “100K trucking jobs that will be lost” will also be unionized Teamsters jobs, Jimmy.
P-D:
GOP’s Steve Tilley drops race for Missouri lieutenant governor
JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley, who rose quickly through the legislative ranks and built a $1.5 million war chest to run for lieutenant governor next year, suddenly dropped his statewide bid today.
Tilley, a Republican from Perryville, released a statement saying he wanted to spend more time with his two daughters, Kourtney, 17, and Korrin, 15. Tilley and his wife, Kellie, are going through a divorce.
He still has a year remaining in his House term and will continue to be speaker during that time.
His departure from the race would make it easier for Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder to seek re-electiion instead of challenging Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon next year. Kinder has been mulling a race for governor but has not declared his candidacy.
Peter KinderCare hasn’t exactly had the best of years in 2011. So hopefully, with the white-hating bigot Tilley a no-go and KinderCare on the rocks, this will take care of the two biggest, ahem, “black” lovers, in the Missouri GOP. On top of that, it will open the field for some real right wingers, or even better, some honest to goodness populists-nationalists.
One word: Moron. Oops, I mean Mormon.
If this doesn’t convince you to end the tax exempt status of all religious institutions forever, then nothing will.
For a long time, J-school teachers and professors pointed to the New York Times as the gold standard for news copy as literature.
No Such Place as ‘Post-Racial’ America
By Touré
(snip)
Interestingly, “race card” is never used to signify a white person using race—as they do when they use the term race card thus trying to repudiate or silence discussion of race. I wonder why that is. The ludicrous term “reverse racism” has been around for a long time but has gained new force in this era in which people use the term “post-racial.” It seems to function like some sort of rallying cry. “We no longer need be cowed by your accusations of racism! We have the antidote! We have a concept called reverse racism! Whenever you cry racism we’ll retort reverse racism! Then we don’t have to take you seriously! Muahahaha!”
You can predict that this is nothing more than an anti-white screed. But that’s not the point.
For one, the NYT I know, or at least the one I knew, wouldn’t publish anything, news article or op-ed, with a one-named diva as the byline. This “Touré” must really be full of him/her/it self — The Francophone accenture over the “e” is the giveaway.
Then there’s the matter of “Muahahaha.”
When did the NYT get into the business of printing onomatopoeiac slang? You’re America’s newspaper of record, not some bush league high school rag whose copies are ran off a second hand Apple LaserWriter.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* The big news in this article is way down at the bottom. The Archgrounds are a National Park. You might say that the Occutards won’t move there because Federal Park Rangers won’t allow it. But who is the boss of the Federal Park Rangers? One Barack H. Obama II, Occutard-in-Chief.
* The history of one of my favorite places in the area, and a best kept secret that I hope stays secret, Lone Elk Park.
NATIONAL
* Switzerland about to bust wide open. Next stop, Cayman Islands. And yes, I would be thinking of a certain poverty center.
* Dead voters help choose the Mayor of Chicago from time to time. So why can’t dead mayors be part of a favorite hobby horse of big city mayors? Fair is fair.
* “But she was scared.” I wonder why. She’s more scarer than scaree.
* The student supposedly said the N-word several weeks earlier, so that was this bus driver’s excuse for whacking him several weeks after the “fact.” Notice I used “fact” in quotes, because saying “s/he used the N-word” is a common tactic/excuse of black thugs who get popped for a violent crime against a white victim.
If the student did use the N-word, as the article implies, he probably did it because he’s sort of a wigger.
* Eldrick: My ex-caddy isn’t a racist. As if “racism” is something akin to murder or child molestation (oh yeah, I’ll get to that later on today).
INTERNATIONAL
* Mexican jails are pretty nice places, as long as you’re plugged in to the right drug gangs.
* WSJ nails it with this paragraph:
The response in France to last week’s attacks has been powerful and all-but unanimous: Six months before presidential elections, politicos from every quarter of the French establishment are rushing to defend Charlie, including some who, at one time or another, have threatened the magazine with defamation suits. “All the world, all Frenchmen, must feel solidarity with this newspaper that, with its very existence and way of being, expresses the liberty of the press,” said Interior Minister Claude Guéant. On Sunday hundreds of pro-Charlie demonstrators gathered outside Paris City Hall to declare their “right to blaspheme.”
The obvious solution? Vote Marine Le Pen, who defends Charlie both now and when election time is far away.
* Valid causation. Norway is a great place to live precisely because of its trade policies, among other things.
* The answer is yes, because we’re so PC and on edge about race that it won’t be long until Japan is the only place left on Earth where you can find “Sambos.”
HISTORY
* At least for awhile, the fall of Gadhafi has re-opened archeological exploration of an ancient, lost but relatively advanced (for its time) civilization that existed in the Saharan Desert in the first half of the first millennium, the Garamantes.
Catch while catch can, science, because this all gets cuts off when the Muslim Brotherhood slash Al Qaeda takes control of Libya.
* Ice Age humanity’s cave paintings were reflective of the reality of the animal kingdom around them, not a result of fantasy.
TECH
* Adobe conceding. HTML5 is going to win.
And the tech media are spinning this as a win for AAPL. Anything but — HTML5 is a product of open source and open specifications.
Adobe is spinning this by noting that it will still continue to develop the Flash platform for desktop/laptop OSes. Problem is, their ceding the mobile OS space to HTML5 will give it enough momentum to win in the desktop/laptop OS space. On top of that, the paradigm is gradually shifting away from desktop toward mobile anyway.
* The major OEMs of Android smartphones have interpreted GOOG’s purchase of Motorola’s cell phone business the wrong way. They’re worried that GOOG will go into the hardware business themselevs, undercutting the Samsungs and LGs and HTCs of the world. The reality is that the purchase was meant to get Motorola’s hardware patents under GOOG’s roof so that it can defend Android, and the Android-friendly OEMs, against the iCabal’s patent troll lawsuits.
There never really is much to talk about in November of odd numbered year elections.
* Locally, St. George, Missouri, everybody’s favorite South County speed trap, has voted to disincorporate. This was a foregone conclusion, because the St. George Police Department was eliminated several years ago. Since there was no way to collect revenue from unlucky drivers on Reavis Barracks who went 31 mph, the city had no revenue source.
* Ohio. The public employee unions carried that ballot measure because they trotted out white cops and firefighters as their public faces. This is why Wisconsin succeeded and Ohio didn’t, because Wisconsin’s reforms specifically exempted first responders. I imagine parts of the reforms repudiated yesterday will return, in a salami slicing style.
If I were Gov. Kasich, I would hoist the public employee unions on their own petard. Since they won based on trotting out white cops and firefighters, he should announce severe layoffs in the Ohio public bureaucracy that will not affect white cops and firefighters. Economic reality just might result in that, anyway. I get the feeling that the public employee unions, especially the do-nothing black bureaucrats, will eventually rue yesterday’s vote.
Good news from the Buckeye State: ObamaCare failed by about a 2-1 margin. The conventional wisdom is that SCOTUS was paying attention to last night’s vote. I don’t buy into that wisdom.
* Steve Beshear, Democrat, won a second term as Kentucky Governor, in a 20-point romp.
* Though I should have been paying closer attention to Mississippi this election season, it really wasn’t on my radar. Haley Barbour is TLed out, and his replacement, predictably, will be another Republican. That being current Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant, who beat his Democrat rival, the black Mayor of Hattiesburg, pretty handily. I don’t know much about Bryant, though I do know he will be an improvement over the current occupant. I do know he wants an SB 1070 style law for the state. He was also one of the late Gov. Kirk Fordice’s state auditors, though in MS, that is an appointed position, not an elected one.
What is a bit interesting is Bryant’s 61-39 margin of victory. Republicans usually get almost all of the white vote anyway, but Republicans usually only win in MS in the 55-58% range. I take this to mean that black turnout was lethargic.
The pundits are calling the defeat of the Personhood Amendment a shock. I’m not, in fact, I predicted it. Why? One word: Race. White women who live under the constant threat of black men rapists and want legalized aborticide in the instances of rape were probably fearful that this amendment would preclude that.
Also from MS, Measure 31, a crackdown on eminent domain abuse, and also Measure 27, a voter Photo ID requirement, both won easily. Let’s hope this is the start of a national trend.
* Russell Pearce. This was the most disappointing result of the night. Though I think it were a lot of local politics at play, what concerns me the most is that the political class will interpret it the wrong way, and they’ll be too scared to touch immigration. Yes, I do think this recall effort was all a production of the open borders lobby. You know that the Paranoia-Industrial Complex is going to gloat.
* Someone vandalized the car of the Republican candidate for Philadelphia Mayor. Whoever did it must be the dumbest of dumbasses. I’ll date a hard body supermodel before a Republican becomes Philly Mayor. Evidence: Michael Nutter won by a 3-1 margin yesterday.
Fedora 16, Firefox 8 and Thunderbird 8 all released today. I guess today is some sort of crossroads in the software space-time continuum. Or it could be just a coincidence.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* Of course, school districts have a direct financial incentive to “prevent dropouts” and to get as many students as possible in school as often as possible. It’s called the per capita per diem state compensation. That these wannabe dropouts are made to go to school and cause problems for those students that want to learn? NBD.
* Former Missouri inmate now a Federal inmate for an ID theft scam he ran while behind Missouri’s bars.
Pardon me? How can someone run such a sophisticated scam from a Missouri prison?
Embarassing. I would be embarrassed if I were the warden of this prison at the time he was in.
* Doubts? Yes. St. Louis drivers are rather rude, but that’s just St. Louis, and not the whole state.
The big red flag here is MADD, that wonderful organization that claims to be opposed to drunk driving but loves open borders with Mexico so much. I bet they’re only grinding on Missouri because it doesn’t have either an open container law or social host liability.
NATIONAL
* The age wealth gap is really a racial wealth gap. Don’t doubt me.
* Lamar Smith on the payroll of the copywrong extremists? Say it ain’t so?
It is so.
Another thing — I side with Lou Barletta on Smith’s immigration bill, that it’s a poison pill. Hint: The National Chamber Pot of Commerce supports it.
* A Reagan statue vandalized in Orange County, California? Not so long ago, that sort of thing would have been unthinkable, almost science fiction.
Then again, not so long ago, Reagan’s own pen helped to hearken Orange County’s demographic collapse.
* Reading this makes me think of the many uses that post-Romans had for the Colosseum in the centuries after the “official” fall of the Western Roman Empire.
* The Rickroller’s Presidential campaign just suffered a severe body blow. He got props from Bill Clinton on immigration.
* Haven’t you noticed? Almost every non-white-on-white violent crime is “senseless,” “sad,” “random,” “isolated incident.” One of these days, they might actually be racial hate crimes. Of course, just between you, me and the gate post, I think most of them are already racial hate crimes.
Also, I can’t stomach the cruel irony of this happening in a town named Albion.
* Rahm wants to double the city fine from $600 to $1,200 for Chicago city property owners that let their weeds grow taller than ten inches.
Is Rahm taller than ten inches?
* God love her, she has a lot of courage, but this woman is screwing her own pooch by playing the “I’m not a racist” card.
What she should do is adopt the James Edwards strategy. She should say that she’s not a racist because nobody is a racist, and nobody is a racist, because racism/racist doesn’t mean anything. Except racist sometimes means “white person,” and that she definitely is.
* Yeah, boo hoo. But what I find interesting is that North Carolina’s eugenics board was operational as late as the year of my birth. And that was long after the fall of the “eugenics loving” Nazis.
Reserve judgment on this story. For the truth is probably far more practical and far less devious than it’s made out to be here. For instance, everyone is running around thinking that the Tuskegee Experiment deliberately infected black men with syphilis. In reality, it was a set of clinical trials on black men who already had syphilis, supervised by a black doctor. At the time of Tuskegee, there was no really proven syphills treatment.
INTERNATIONAL
* Michael Savage was so worried about being “banned” from Britain. Turns out the UKBA doesn’t check anyway.
* I guess this is worth reading. But I really get frustrated when lamestream writers, even non-hostile ones like this George Friedman, link the growing success and popularity of European pop-nat parties (the “far right”) to the depressed economy, as if pop-nat is the exclusive province of economically frustrated people. In reality, the pop-nat wing of European politics has been growing for a long time, even during a good economy, and it grew because man cannot live on bread alone.
Certain minorities can be just as obnoxious and criminal during a good economy as they can during a bad one.l
Though I’m happy that Beijing doesn’t seem to want to bail out Europe, which is good news for Europe in the long run.
I really grind over this notion that white Europeans are “lazy.” Just one island full of white Europeans almost brought China to its knees a little more than a century ago.
And what of all those “hard working” Chinese? Seems like they’re a leading demographic when it comes to espionage, industrial esiponage, financial scams of one sort or another, or some sort of white collar crime, at least in the United States. The infamous “Patel” operations when it comes to gas stations and hotels/motels? The Chinese are big into that, too, albeit with other types of businesses.
Also, I find it ironic that Al Jazeera is giving voice to this screed. One word: Uyghurs.
SCIENCE AND TECH
* As it gets older, its weight changes. Yeah, I know, this hits home. But it’s not clear here whether the “official” kilogram is getting heavier or lighter with age.
* More alarmism debunked — The “global killer” really won’t be a global killer.
Look at the map of eastern North America. Notice how relatively unimportant is French, especially since a whole country is officially bilingual because of that little segment.
* Computer scientists in Britain want to reconstruct the Babbage Engine, to ascertain just how influential Charles Babbage was in the genesis of modern computing.
One thing we know for sure was that it was not a digital device, so at least from an engineering standpoint, it is not like your desktop or laptop or tablet or smartphone. But one similarity is that Babbage invented his engine for military purposes, which is the same motivation for ENIAC and various contemporary equivalents in Britain and Germany during WWII.
Twenty-five years ago yesterday, the IRCA amnesty went into law.
Someone named Rick Oltman at the San Francisco Immigration Examiner has a long piece about its deleterious effects, and some of the back story of the politics behind it.
One detail not there that I wish would have been there was that this was all a lame attempt on the part of Reagan and lamestream conservatives to cultivate a Republican-friendly minority group because their “outreach” to blacks wasn’t working. Look at how well it worked out in the quarter century since Reagan’s signature ink dried on the paperwork. Exhibit A: California is permanently and hopelessly blue.
I have been co-blaming Bush and Obama for F&F. Update on that.
The Obama people want to claim that they are no worse than the Bush administration. The “Wide Receiver” program gave direct notice to the Mexican authorities so that they could try to track the guns when they went to the Mexican side of the border. “Fast and Furious” made no such attempt to notify the Mexican authorities in anyway. “Fast and Furious” made no serious attempt to actually trace the guns and what is worse they knew that the guns weren’t being traced. The Bush officials might have learned that Mexican police weren’t up to tracing the guns, but at least they had a plan to try to have the guns followed. “Fast and Furious” gave out the guns, but agents and middle level people complained that the guns weren’t being traced.
While that’s a crucial operational difference, I think the whole concept was just as nutty. Why bother with all that when you already know Mexico is full of ne’er-do-wells? The reason is that Bush wanted open borders as much as Obama. Real border security wasn’t an option before January 20, 2009, and it wasn’t an option after then. My “Fast and Furious” would be 10,000 volts and 101st Airborne as fast and as furiously as possible.
4: Cards Snubbed By Obama? No Traditional White House Call Following Game 7 Win
Blessing.
NYP: Occupy protestors set up gals-only tent to guard against pervs
Hey hey ho ho segregation’s got to go.
Hot Air: Obama denies meetings with extraterrestrials
If he did, wouldn’t it seem redundant in a way for an alien to be meeting with aliens?
WBZ-CBS Boston: 3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’
What’s with these redundancies today?
PhysOrg: Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole
RACISM~!
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* SLPD dragnet catches another one of the Knockout Martin Luther Kingers.
Maybe one of these days, the SLPD will add two and two together and wind up with the sum of hate crime.
* “Yo-Yoing?“ Sound like bait and switch, which is already a crime. Or at least some sort of fraud.
Realize, though, that these are the automotive equivalent of subprime mortgages.
* A funny thing happened on the way to Democrat dominance of St. Louis County politics — It got mired down in the same racial politics (white liberals vs black obsessives) for which St. Louis City has been famous for ages.
Yeah, the P-D doesn’t say race. But that’s why I get paid the big bucks, to stick my ear to the ground and pick up on these sorts of things.
* “Spectacular views.” Depending on where this lake front property is on the Lake of the Ozarks, they might not actually be referring to the trees, bluffs, autumnal foliage, or water.
Hint: Young, hard body, perfect dimensions, drunk, naked and over 18. You think “Party Cove” means kids’ parties?
* Mel Hancock, one of the very best members of Congress from the state of Missouri in my lifetime, has passed at the age of 82.
His only real big political mistake was letting the Southwest Missouri farm bureaus con him into voting for NAFTA, but he tried to undo that mistake in short order by being a cosponsor of the “Repeal NAFTA” bill.
NATIONAL
* Two things about this worth mentioning, because the story mostly speaks for itself. One is “South Suburban,” as in southern Cook County that is not in the City of Chicago. It is becoming the “New Southside,” as Chicago’s civic elite slowly convince and cajole southside blacks to move to South Suburban Cook to make life safe for white yuppies and gentrifiers. Second, he is a “parolee.” Let me guess, one of Quinn’s parolees.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Bill Brady.
* The ACSE is always giving American infrastructure a low grade. Duh, that’s because they’re directly invested in government spending on infrastructure.
* FOP endorsing Eric “My People” Holder after Brian Terry, Fast & Furious, and the fact that Eric Holder’s “people” are the number one threat to the lives and safety of urban cops?
FOP just shot its credibility to hell.
* Keith Ellison hearts black voter fraud. What do you think this is all about?
* Occutards = Tea Parties NOT, Exhibit #728,391.
* So, the rat bum students at Harvard don’t want to learn anything, and walk out of a certain professor’s class? Let ‘em. That’s their loss, or, more properly, their parents’ loss.
Mark me, this “walkout” was all dreamed up by a rival professor.
* The takeaways from this polling data are that 18-30s support Obama less in terms of percentage and less enthusiastically than they did in 2008. Politics are games of margins, so this will hurt Obama immensely going into 2012.
Even if “millennials” supported Obama as strongly and as enthusiastically as they did in 2008, it still doesn’t much matter, because 18-30s aren’t where the action is in Presidential electoral politics. It’s middle aged working middle class whites in rust belt swing states.
INTERNATIONAL
Even if we didn’t owe China one red cent, I wouldn’t want to go to war with Beijing over Taiwan anyway. Are we to spill the increasingly precious and rare blood of white men over the question of should or shouldn’t a continential mainland country with 1.3 billion Chinese people rule over an island 140 miles off their coast populated with 23 million Chinese people? In case you didn’t notice, even as Taiwan and Mainland China still trade verbal barbs, Taiwanese electronics maufacturers such as Sangean do their assembly on the Mainland. Taiwan and China are getting economically linked more and more. I predict that, notwithstanding any financial contretemps between Beijing and Washington, Taiwan will eventually rejoin the People’s Republic of China willingly. Find the alternate universe with us not owing China anything, and do some time traveling, and I predict you would still see voluntary reunification. Blood is thicker than ideology.
Hong Kong was forced into a shotgun marriage with Beijing in 1997, when the British lease on the peninsula expired. Now, 14 years later, Hong Kong seems to be willing to accept and embrace reality, that they are Chinese, and blood is thicker than ideology.
Taiwan will by 2030. Don’t doubt me.
* The Religion of Peace that just wants to live in perfect harmony with the world strikes again.
People rightly bemoan the political volatility of using Middle Eastern oil. But Nigerian oil isn’t any better.
* Racism. Can’t be anything but, correct? After all, people who deal with dead bodies never make any mistakes.
MISC
* Dinosaurs flirted pretty much the same way human beings flirt, by shaking their rear ends. Or, in Ebonics terms, what their mama gave ‘em.
* If you didn’t know how big adult sharks can get, realize that this is a fetus.
P-D: Jefferson County Jail is overflowing with inmates
Jefferson County’s Sheriff is named Glenn Boyer, of Truth Squader fame. The jail has to be overflowing with Obama critics.
WGCL-CBS-46 Atlanta: Rev. Jackson Compares Occupy Atlanta With Civil Rights Struggle
I dare Rev. Jackson to come up with a word that rhymes with “occupy.”
Roll Call: Would Cain Be Leading the Race if He Were White?
Mediocre business career, never has won an elected office before, questionable history vis-a-vis women, Federal Reserve. He wouldn’t even be running if he were white.
5: Whoops! ‘Billie Jean’ blasts for 8 hours over school PA system
Sorry, guys. It’s not 1983 anymore.
Washington Times: Feds concerned about hackers opening prison doors
But not concerned about liberal judges, governors and Presidents opening prison doors.
UK Telegraph: Justin Bieber fans launch online death threats at mother of his ‘love child’
Time for the FBI to crack down on Beliebers just like they are Juggalos.
Welcome to Springfield, Missouri.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* Cottleville and Weldon Spring, both in St. Charles County, have adopted “primary” seat belt ordinances, which means that cops there can pull you over just on seat belt violations alone. Before now, they were “secondary” ordinances, i.e. the cops couldn’t pull you over for seat belts alone, but could give you a ticket for seat belts if they pulled you over for something else and found that you weren’t wearing your seat belts.
The reason why primary seat belt laws aren’t everywhere is because of the stuck pig squealing of black politicians who are worried about “racial profiling.”
* I can read the writing on the wall. Both I-70 and I-44 in rural Missouri are going to have to be reconstructed and widened in the coming years, and I think both will eventually become toll roads. Apropos, because I just used I-44 to get to where I am now, in Springfield, Missouri, and I’ll be using it to go home on Sunday. Obviously, I-70 is my preferred STL to KC and back route. When this happens, I would expect I-70 to be tolled between west of Warrenton and the Jackson-Lafayette county line near KC, with a “free” non-toll interlude in Columbia, and I-44 will be tolled from west of where US 50 splits away to go to Union in Franklin County to the Oklahoma line, with a “free” non-tolled interlude in Springfield.
According to the AADT data, I-70 and I-44 in rural Missouri have around double the traffic that other Missouri rural interstates have.
* Five, six, seven, eight…
DUH.
* Not even a week before he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a World Series game, former Cardinal pitcher Bob Forsch died at his Florida home at the age of 61.
I knew that he was the only Cardinal hurler to have more than one No-No, but I did not know that his two no-hitters, both at the old Busch Stadium, the 1966-2005 edifice, were the only no hitters pitched in that building. That surprises me, especially since Busch II was a pitcher’s park, especially before 1996 renovations. As offensively challenged as were many Cards teams from 1966 to 1995, and with the National League being the pitchers league in that stretch, I would have expected at least one opposing pitcher to have had a no-hitter at Busch II. He also had the most wins and the most innings pitched at Busch II. I also remember him as a pretty well hitting pitcher, and the stats don’t belie my memory — He did bat over .300 in his second season, had two other seasons in the .290s, and when the team as a whole was good, his batting average was in the .250 to .300 range. He was a career .213 hitter.
CAMPAIGN 2012
* That prediction is just about right, that soon-to-be President Romney will pretty much become the national version of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
* Romney pw3ns the Rickroller on immigration. It’s just too bad that I happen to know that Romney’s immigration record is only one iota less bad than the Rickroller’s. What this story is useful in figuring is that Romney is acting like he wants to win, and win in a state where he was heretofore thought a non-factor (Iowa). Even if he has to be a total phony.
* And the Rickroller doesn’t help himself in defense.
NATIONAL
* No, not a “strong armed robbery,” but a flash rob.
* 3.1415926-in-the-sky. The article admits that most inmates won’t be able to pay. So why bother?
For one, it’s nice candy sweet sounding political rhetoric. Second, as you will find out at the bottom, they really want to be able to slap liens against the real estate of the few Riverside County jail inmates that own real estate.
* NYT has lobbied for almost as long as it has been in existence to kill the South and turn it into something unrecognizable. Now that they’ve all but succeeded, they complain about the fruits of their near victory.
* What’s wrong with this picture? Or rather, these pictures? Something about this strikes me as not quite right.
My opinion? The white students were actually protesting, the black students just wanted a morning away from classes.
* This is in Roger Fredinburg country. I understand that Southern Oregon (“The Ho-Hum Valley,” as Roger used it call it on his show) is getting really Hispanic really quickly.
* I guess this is our fault? If they don’t like our hypertension causing fatty slop foods, then they ought not come. Simple as that.
* So many stereotypes, so little time.
INTERNATIONAL
* That story about the Dutch psychologist who faked a lot of his research data and findings didn’t interest me, until Rush covered it today, and the race angle came up:
This year, Stapel co-authored a paper published in Science magazine that said white people are more prone to discriminate against black people when they encounter them in a messy environment, such as one containing litter, abandoned bicycles and broken sidewalks. “These findings considerably advance our knowledge of the impact of the physical environment on stereotyping and discrimination and have clear policy implications,” the paper’s abstract says. Science has now flagged the article with a note to readers that “serious concerns have been raised about the validity of the findings.”
Start thinking of left wing racial ideology and science as polar opposites — The more you get of one, the less you must have of the other.
* The top of Drudge as of this afternoon linked to this story, with the headline link being “Return to Nationalism.”
It could have also just as well been “Common Sense Makes a Comeback.” Same thing.
* It must be that bad, if the MSM is using the word “feral” without some PC politburo censorbearbug having a cow
* I’m tired of hearing blacks brag about how “tough we beez.” In the past year and a half or so, I have done stories on this blog about how they’re either offended by or scared of cotton balls, tiny frogs and now, tweets that don’t threaten physical violence.
TECH
* I spoke too soon about the “Anonymous” cracker cabal.
MISC
* “Photographer Daniel Fox.” I know this for sure — He’s not in today’s United States Army.
* Worth viewing the slideshow. But not all of these are literally photos, some of them are artist’s conceptions.
P-D:
For the first time in the history of Missouri courts, according to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, evidence from a new technology that helps pinpoint the time and location of gunfire may be used in a trial.
A ruling issued Wednesday by St. Louis Circuit Court [*****] will allow the information from ShotSpotter Technology as evidence in the state’s case against Edward Roach, 28, accused of discharging a firearm from a vehicle in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.
The technology senses and analyzes sounds such as gunshots and firecrackers, analyzes them, and then sends a message to police so they can decide whether to send help. It also has the potential to tie into video surveillance, which could capture a crime on tape, said Joyce.
Assistant circuit attorney John Mantovani asked the court to allow the ShotSpotter information during an evidentiary hearing, and the ruling acknowledges a requirement that the techniques used must be “generally accepted” by the scientific community, Joyce said.
I take this as good news. If ShotSpotter evidence can be used in court, this means that charges of discharging a firearm from a vehicle can be filed more often. What this means is that the CA’s office can use “firing a gun from a car” charges as fallback crimes. What I mean by that is that “firing a gun from a car” is a criminal charge which in se does not have a human victim. The CA’s Office will use “firing a gun from a car” as plea bargain bait to bargain more serious violent crimes away in exchange for the black suspect pleading guility to “firing a gun from a car,” in exchange for the maximum prison bid that state law allows for such a charge. It circumvents the nullification-happy black juries and lenient black judges in this city, and guarantees that the black suspect does time in prison and has a felony sheet.
Occupy STL
The participants in the nation’s Occupy movements, including those in St. Louis, are saying some important things about the direction of the country. I support their right to say them.
During the weeks it has been camped here, Occupy St. Louis has had the opportunity to make its points heard and seen during some very high profile events, including a presidential visit and the World Series.
I emphatically disagree with those who say that allowing the encampment to remain during those national events showed St. Louis in a bad light. Instead, I think it showed us to be a reasonable and compassionate place to live and work. Moving the Occupy residents simply to deny them a chance to tell their story to a large audience would have been wrong-headed and wrong-hearted.
From the first week they arrived in Kiener Plaza, I have reminded the people who have gathered there to obey the law or accept the consequences – citations, arrest – of not doing so. That is the basic formula for civil disobedience in this country.
In the intervening weeks, some arrests have been made; but, for the most part, the City’s ordinances regarding encampments in parks have not been enforced.
(This is the kind of tolerance with which the City tries to handle minor matters about which no one complains and which do not threaten life or public safety. Food trucks operating outside the vending zones and the Gus’s Pretzel guy vending on Jamieson are other examples of that philosophy.)
But, we went a little further than just ignoring the Occupy encampment. The City offered a permit and, even wrote one, but Occupy’s occupiers declined it.
Over the past several days, there has been a rising tide of complaints. I know, and the Occupy participants know, that they cannot stay there forever. Bad weather and other programming for Kiener Plaza are racing each other to mark the end of their tenure.
The City’s Parks Department has prepared a list of ordinances and regulations which it believes Occupy is in current violation. We will present that list to Occupy.
I expect that we will reach an accommodation that allows Occupy to use Kiener Plaza, to exercise its First Amendment rights, but to follow City ordinances and regulations.
“Follow City ordinances and regulations.” Good luck with that, Mr. Mayor. They’re going to keep on doing whatever they want to do, because you’re too scared to make them behave. That’s why they’re there, because they know you’ll never force them out. Your equivocation above is proof of that.
Thankfully, St. Louis’s Occutards are benign compared to the real rabble in cities like Oakland.
Front National (using Google Translate):
Contrary to what was reported by some media reckless, Marine Le Pen has actually met Mr. Ron Paul after a long talk with financial experts on his team.
In particular, they raised the necessary overhaul of the international monetary system and the establishment of a gold standard to stop the speculative world.
She also met with Joe Walsh, member of Congress on the economic and environmental issues.
Joe Walsh as in IL-8? My esteem of him just went way up.
Daily Mail: Why listening to Tom Jones could enhance your enjoyment of wine
Better the other way around. You need to get drunk to enjoy Tom Jones.
Daily Mail: Shop staff refuse to sell whisky to great-grandmother, 92, because she couldn’t prove she was over 18
I get their point: She might be a 92-year old normal person or a 25-year old meth addict.
5: Alderman: Pot could help cash-strapped Chicago
Because pot has worked wonders for Chicago thus far.
AP: Peaceful Occupy protests degenerate into chaos
That’s what happens when you have degenerates among you.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
At some point, the kind of women that would have sex with these kind of men have to realize that they probably have a few unwanted gifts for them.
* Oh joy. The area that is a little bit east of my neck of the woods is quickly becoming The New Subcontinent.
If you recall, current U.S. Attorney for Eastern Missouri Richard Callahan spoke to the leaders of a Ballwin mosque about how Obama hearts Shari’ah Law so much. I wonder if one of those mosques is one listed in this article.
* Don’t doubt me. In fact, I predicted it awhile back. And by “it,” I mean consolidating larger urban black school districts into better prosperous white school districts, so that, for example, all of St. Louis and St. Charles County is under “one” school district, ergo desegregation and busing could continue because it’s all “intra” district. “Inter” District deseg is ending, but “intra” district is cointinuing. Part of the legerdemain would be to conceal black educational failure, too.
NATIONAL
* Uh, Bobby? But for the NCAA, most of these black “afawetes” wouldn’t be qualified to look at a college, much less be admitted to one.
* I’m directing you directly to the photos for a reason.
* The United States shed some eight thousand manufacturing jobs in October. I’d like to know where there were 8,000 manufacturing jobs to begin with such that we could lose them.
* Finally, some (thankfully most) House Republicans are starting to ask questions about Obama’s administrative immigration amnesty. AKA amnesty by means of non-enforcement.
* Good. Let ‘em. You should know by now how this benefits us.
* Even though the words “a dirty low-down N-word” were never really used by anyone, the article only proves that this is true about this given suspect. Also, nobody ever really said that “ever since Obama got into office black people think they can do anything.” Except we all know it’s true.
* Can’t even trust ‘em with knives.
* They told us Detroit was coming back. They told us Detroit was experiencing a renaissance.
The oblivious ex-jock that calls himself Mayor said that “City government has to live within its means.” Yet, he won’t apply that logic to the Federal government. Pray tell, Mr. Bing, how can you expect a city with almost no real tax base and a population full of welfare dependents to have a city government with means much less live within them?
* Occutards: They are the 1%.
* Amusing: Not sure about Tammy Bruce, but I know that all these hosts in the top seven, you have to pay in order to listen to their internet streams of their show, save the one who sounds like Groucho Marx’s grandmother after a hysterectomy, whose stream both live and archived is free. Yet, he’s still only #7.
INTERNATIONAL
* Africans whine and make excuses for their own failure. Sounds so familiar. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
* “Conflict-free” diamonds. Bull fucking shit.
Yeah, maybe “conflict-free,” but not genocide-free.
* Canadian Muslims: We want Canuckistan, complete with Shari’ah Law.
* Without American funding, UNESCO states that “it will be impossible for us to maintain our current level of activity.”
Cool.
MISC
* I would have my own reasons not to go in blackface and pretend to be Jay-Z at a Halloween party.
I respect myself too much.
* The third picture is the best, because it looks like the starlings are massing up in a pattern that looks like a huge bird itself.
HISTORY
I won’t mention David Duke and Paul Craig Roberts by name, but there are too many “far” right wingers sympathizing with the Occutards. And I think it all has to do with the J-issue — I think they’ve heard that the Occutards are “anti-Semitic,” when it reality, official Occutard literature rejects anti-Semitism. The reality is that most Occutards despise Duke and PCR (if they have even heard of them) more than they do their supposed targets of ire, and a majority of Occutards are opposed to “anti-Semitism,” and a fair percentage are Jewish themselves, even though they might tolerate some Anti-S in their hovels, as long as it comes from other fellow traveler leftists with whom they agree on most things, such as Muslims, white gentile leftist peaceknicks who hate Israel for its “apartheid,” and so on.
The founder of the doveish Israel advocacy group J Street and the disgraced former governor of New York are among the signatories to a statement defending Occupy Wall Street from accusations that it is antisemitic.
Last month the conservative Emergency Committee for Israel highlighted what it claimed were incidents of antisemitism and anti-Israel activity at the protest. It revealed footage of a protester complaining of a “conspiracy in this country where Jews control the media, finances” and images of demonstrators wielding signs reading “Hitler’s Bankers” and “Gaza supports the occupation of Wall Street”.
But the protest, now in its sixth week, has also attracted Jewish supporters, with a Kol Nidre service arranged at the site on Yom Kippur and a succah constructed at the camp a week later.
A group of 15 liberal Jewish activists have now released a statement criticising those who attempted to “smear that movement with false charges of antisemitism”.
“We are publicly engaged American Jews who support both Israel and the ideas behind Occupy Wall Street,” they said, pointing out that “a handful of hateful people…with offensive signs” should not be used to discredit the whole protest.
“It’s an old, discredited tactic: find a couple of unrepresentative people in a large movement and then conflate the oddity with the cause.
“It is disingenuous to raise the canard about Jews and Wall Street in order to denounce it.”
Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York in 2008 after a sex scandal involving a $1,000-an-hour call girl, was one of those who backed the statement. Other supporters included J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami and the rabbis in charge of the liberal organisations Progressive Faith Foundation and Rabbis for Human Rights – North America.
Left-wing Jewish thinkers and politicos will excuse the “anti-Semitism” of non-Jewish left-wingers, because they have left wing ideology in common.
Ann Coulter’s latest starts out well:
By spending the last three decades leveling accusations of “racism” every 10 seconds, liberals have made it virtually impossible for Americans to recognize real racism — for example, the racism constantly spewed at black conservatives.
In the last year alone, a short list of the things liberals have labeled “racist” include:
– Being a Republican;
– Joining the tea party;
– The word “the” (Donald Trump’s statement that he has a “great relationship with the blacks”);
– References to Barack Obama’s playing basketball (Trump again);
– Using Obama’s middle name;
– Scott Brown’s pickup truck;
– Opposing Obamacare;
– Opposing Obama’s stimulus bill;
– Opposing Obama’s jobs bill.
It reads like a guest foreword to Racism Schmacism by James Edwards.
Like I said, it started so well. But the rest of it is Herman Cain apologetics with a bit of lamestream conservative racial idiocy sprinkled in for bad measure.
I’ll cut to the chase. There was some “there” there with these Cain “harassment” allegations, because the N.R.A. settled for more money than it would have cost to defend against “baseless” allegations if they were really baseless, and the civil court judge in which the proceedings started didn’t dismiss the case for a lack of evidence. We might never know what really happened, but it’s definitely something Cain would have been better off today for not doing. And something totally inappropriate for someone who was the President of the N.R.A., and inappropriate for someone who now wants us to make him CEO of the American Federal government.
Cain apologists complain about the “Catch 22″ he’s in. He’s supposedly in between the “rock” of telling the truth about what really happened, and the “hard place” of violating the confidentiality agreement with the plaintiffs. He didn’t get into this Catch 22 by accident; it was his choice to behave inappropriately. Also, it was his choice to run for President. He didn’t have to do either one. Whatever he did, either he or his advisers must be worried about, such that they want to handle the FUD-dy nature of the row rather than the reality of the allegations. I think the row by itself will eventually end his campaign, even if the reality never leaks out.
Why did anyone ever take Herman Cain’s Presidential candidacy seriously at all? How is a mediocre business executive who hasn’t been elected to any public office able to mount a serious Presidential campaign? Answer: B-L-A-C-K.
Of course, I don’t even know why I’m bothering with commentary on these things anymore. Like I said earlier today, Romney is now a synonym for inevitable.
Operation could turn brown eyes blue
A simple 20-second laser treatment procedure could turn brown eyes blue, a US doctor claims.
Dr Gregg Homer of Stroma Medical, a clinical equipment company based in California, claimed his new “Lumineyes” treatment could be a permanent alternative to coloured contact lenses.
The treatment uses a laser to remove melanin, the brown pigment, from the upper layer of the iris, leaving the blue colour free to replace it within two to three weeks of the procedure.
But the process is irreversible because the melanin will not grow back and can not be replaced.
Brown eyes, the most common type across the world, appear so because of the layer of pigment at the front of their eye.
People with blue eyes also have melanin, but it is concentrated at the back of the iris rather than the front, meaning the eye absorbs longer wavelengths of light while reflecting shorter ones.
Dr Homer, a former entertainment lawyer, said the cosmetic operation would cost about £3,000 and could be available in countries outside America within 18 months, but the Daily Mail reported that clinical trials have yet to be completed.
He told KTLA Morning News: “A blue eye is not opaque, you can see deeply into it, while a brown eye is very opaque. I think there is something very meaningful about this idea of having open windows to the soul.”
How should I react to this?
Well, you know. Music.
Inevitable. We should really stop kidding ourselves.
How did he win the Republican nomination? Really easy, he held his index finger on his nose and walked in a straight line for ten yards while none of his rivals could do the same. Translating that metaphor into English, he had the most name recognition, he had the most money which he turned into even more name recognition, and he pissed the fewest number of people off as possible and did it the least often.
And it’s obvious how he beat Obama — Outside the coasts and a few lucky cities and segments, the economy remained in at best a severe recessive and at worst a near depressive state through the summer and fall of 2012.
I have read multiple versions of this story in other national and international sources. But our favorite local MSM outlet picked up on it, so I suppose fate is begging me to chime in with my opinion. I should warn you, a few of you might not like it.
Knock yourself out, but you should probably get a barf bag before you start reading.
My turn.
I have made the contention over the years that many people who call themselves or are called “white supremacists” are applying a semantically incorrect label to themselves, or others are incorrectly applying it to them.
If Mr. Tattoo here was so indignant about non-whites, how could he ever run into the arms of a black extremist kook like Daryle Lamont Jenkins after his supposed “Come to Marx” moment? Jenkins is about as big of a whackjob on his side of the aisle as Widner thinks he used to be over on “our” side.
Answer: Because Widner, as well as most of the other “Come to Marx” types to whom this article refers, were ever really “white supremacists.” What they were is not pro-white, but anti-Jewish. Ergo, what is really anti-Semitism is mislabeled “white supremacy.” Some segments of the anti-Semitic right and some elements of black kookville get along disturbingly well, their common enemy being the Jews. What I think happened with Widner wasn’t that he had much of a change of heart, it’s just that he got so far to the right that he looped over to the far left in the blink of an eye, a la the “circle” theory of the political spectrum where the two dangling extreme ends are connected together.
A couple of other theories: One, which I thought of then dispatched about five seconds after I thought of it was that the Widner types were never really right wing at all, instead, they were assets or provocateurs for the public and private alphabet gangs. The problem with that theory is that I doubt an FBI stool pidgeon or someone fishing for info for the SPLC would go so far as to get all those tattoos. Another, more plausible theory, is that they were (or maybe are) that right wing, but there’s no money in those neck of the woods, while there is a nice chunk of change to be made in being a “reformed extremist,” or at least pretending to be “reformed.” The problem with that theory is that, as you can read at the bottom of this article, the Paranoia-Industrial Complex didn’t make all their money by being dumb. They can pretty much figure out who is really “reformed” and who is faking it for the money. Also, there is the age question – For Widner, his “white supremacy” might have merely been an outgrowth of youthful rebellion, not a serious political calling. The article didn’t say how old he is, but it did say he accumulated the tats over 16 years. If he got his first one at 18, presumably the legal minimum age in his state, this means he got has last one at 34. So at some point after the age of 34, Widner has his “Come to Marx” moment. Likewise, most black gang bangers just get too old, that is, if they make it to that age. They “age out” and “de-testosterone” out of that scene — How many 40-year old Bloods and Crips have you heard about?
Today’s big brave Army:
I know it’s fiction and about a different branch of the Armed Services, but compare that to 1957:
NYP: Justin Bieber hit with paternity lawsuit: report
That sound you hear is that of every biologist on Earth scratching his or her head.
Townhall: Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer Blames Second Amendment For ATF/DOJ Gun Walking Mistakes
He’s right. Obama, Holder and Co. woudn’t have had to sandbag the 2nd Amendment with Fast & Furious if it didn’t exist to begin with. Those damned founding fathers.
Hot Air: Homeland Security: We need to spend more time on Twitter
Because the homeland is truly secure, Homeland Security now can waste the hours away on Twitter. Sure.
ACLU: Secretary Napolitano: DHS Will Not Help Implement Alabama Law
That’s the best help Alabama could get.
AFP: Rogue US army unit leader saw Afghans as ‘savages’
Now where would he get a silly idea like that? (Hint: Actually being among them for a decade)
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* Kansas City’s Occutards taking up for the denizens of Kansas City’s ghettos. In this article, we find out that:
Earlier Sunday, the group took part in a rally just north of city hall. It featured a number of speakers, including professors from University of Missouri Kansas City.
What have I been telling you all along? Where ever there is left wing street rabble comprised of a lot of young people, there are almost always college professors behind the scenes pulling the strings.
NATIONAL
* Like I predicted, B of A is walking back the debit card fee.
New prediction: Quietly, some time next year, they will start levying a very small per use fee on debit card transactions, I would guess in the neighborhood of between a nickel and a dime, perhaps with a $5 monthly fee ceiling for heavy users.
That’s probably better than charging customers $5 a month for using their debit cards either once or a hundred times in a month.
* No indication in the article, but how much do you want to bet that the extant and enforceable provisions of Arizona SB 1070 helped lead to this takedown?
* “I don’t know who he is right now.” Well, you voted for an “independent” and a former “moderate” Republican in the person of Lincoln Chafee to be your Governor. Take it from me, “moderate” Republicans as a bunch are pretty clueless.
* “Socially conscious” investment. Translation…
The aforementioned Eddie Long is the same Eddie Long who is embroiled in accusations that he sexually solicited young men who were members of his megachurch. Leviticus 18:22 must not have been part of his studies back in seminary.
* Occutard Hovels — No STD Left Behind.
Don’t they realize that New York City gives condoms away for free?
* That just about sums it up in a T-Shirt.
The article states that: Community leaders and child advocates have warned the T-shirts are highly offensive and shocking, especially since the police force is tasked with protecting schools.
Schools? Have you seen a high school built in the last 20 years or so? Especially since the school shooting mania of 1997-99? The architects borrow a lot of design features from prison architecture and layout.
* Slate: Stereotypes are sometimes accurate. You have to sift through a lot of bullshit to get to that part, though.
* “He didn’t know why he did it.” Trying to grease the skids for an insanity defense, are we? I should tell you that getting off for insanity is far more difficult than it used to be.
INTERNATIONAL
* The Drive-By: The new way of life in Sydney.
* This kind of thing wouldn’t surprise me if it happened in black Africa. But I actually expected a little bit better of Saudi Arabia.
* All sounds so familiar. So Africa.
Let me help Miss May out a little bit:
Africa is where Africans are.
HISTORY
Even as close as Jefferson and Shenandoah is to Downtown, it does not surprise me to know that that part of the city was still undeveloped even as late as the WBTS years.
* “Clasp a hot and beautiful maiden…” as a cure for a stomach ache. That would certainly take my mind off my aching belly.
* My money would be on the Marines. This article uses the word “intimidation” as an example of a strength of the real Roman military, but that card would be in Marine hands simply because they would have modern rifles. Even though they couldn’t replenish the ammunition, the Romans wouldn’t know that. To them, the Marines would be wielding magical killing tools that seem to have the otherworldly ability to kill men from long distances; the projectiles would travel too fast to see, especially for people who aren’t expecting it. Knock off a bunch of Praetors in sight of the Emperor himself, and Augustus would have shriveled in surrender quicker than a raisin in the desert sun.
* Ted Sorensen helped write JFK’s inauguration speech? Sorensen essentially admitted that he wrote Profiles in Courage for JFK.
Believe it nor not, this is from a new book about JFK by none other than Chris Matthews. Matthews was Tip O’Neill’s Chief of Staff for a long time, and for someone who worked for a Boston politician to PW3N a Kennedy like that is sorta like Rush Limbaugh coming out against Ronald Reagan.
Among other juicy tidbits, we find out that JFK borrowed the “Ask Not” quote form his high school headmaster. What bugs me about that quote, especially JFK using it, is that any post-FDR Democrat President using it is a big joke. All the social programs of the LBJ/Great Society era were ones that JFK wanted, save JFK didn’t have the raw political skill of his successor and running mate.
TECH
* The Dick Tracy watch is just about here.
JUST BECAUSE
* I think you need something a little stronger than a minister for that.
The Uptowner (New York City):
Prison Activists Work to End Racial Bias in Justice System
On a quiet Friday evening, a band of grizzled but passionate prison activists wound its way through the corridors of Riverside Church, into a bright business-like meeting room. On the agenda this night: the launching of a campaign to end what they call the “New Jim Crow.”
The phrase refers to academic Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” which argues that the American criminal justice system is both unjust and racist. Several city-based activists dealing with the rights of prisoners have heard of the book: more than a few highly recommend it, too.
Among those present at this private meeting were two Harlem residents who have endured the prison system for decades and survived to tell the tale.
“Endured the prison system for decades.” I definitely feel sorry for them, just two innocent Harlem scholars getting thrown into prison willy nilly only because some sadistic cop and some sadistic ADA and some sadistic jury and some sadistic judge all decided in some secret chamber somewhere to get their rocks off by railroading all those Harlem preppies and future astrophysicists into Sing-Sing or onto Rikers Island.
It stuns me that a book claiming that crime isn’t the criminal’s fault is so popular among hoosegowbirds; about as shocking as the Kardashian marriage lasting so long. I bet that book is the only one that most of these “prison activists” have ever read. Third grade reading level, n’est pas?
The rest of this article mostly bitches about “racial profiling” in the city. Well, maybe there’s a reason for that.
But if they’re so upset, I have a suggestion for them — Don’t commit any violent crime. I, as a connoisseur of not committing violent crime, can attest that it vastly decreases your risk of having to endure state prison.
CofCC American Renaissance
