Hygiene Hypothesis

No, not that.

Get ready for your mouth to drop to the floor:

Attorney: Sandusky may have been teaching kids to shower

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -

A Carlisle attorney who has joined Jerry Sandusky’s defense team says the former Penn State assistant football coach may have showered with young boys because the children lacked basic hygiene skills.

Sandusky is accused of molesting ten boys he met through The Second Mile charity he founded for troubled youth.

“Some of these kids don’t have basic hygiene skills,” attorney Karl Rominger said. “Teaching a person to shower at the age of 12 or 14 sounds strange to some people, but people who work with troubled youth will tell you there are a lot of juvenile delinquents and people who are dependent who have to be taught basic life skills like how to put soap on their body.”

Rominger, who spoke with abc27 News Tuesday, added that his college cross country coach often showered with the team.

First off, I don’t buy it.  Why didn’t Sandusky himself trot it out when this story first broke?  I think it’s all a matter of throwing something against a wall to see if it sticks.

However, I get the sneaking feeling in my bones that some people are going to buy it.  Here again, we have the phrases “troubled youth” and “juvenile delinquents” to go with other words and phrases from the GJ report, all of them are code words for black.  If the defense lawyers are going to ride this hygiene hypothesis hobby horse, what they’re really saying is that the young black men from the ghetto are so bereft of basic social and life skills that they don’t even know how to shower, and it was left to the Penn State football team defensive coordinator to show them how, personally and hands on.

I’m hardly an apologist for our African-American population, as you can tell.  But I think by that age, they have mastered the fine art of the shower.  Besides, Rominger is saying “age of 12 or 14,” when some of the alleged victims ages were in the single digits.  Still, even around eight or nine, they know.  Taking showers isn’t rocket science.

Although I will say, remember the “shower discipline” line from Derek Dooley?

One more thing, about Rominger’s college C/C coach showering with his team:  While it’s not the worst thing in the world, nor illegal, nor blatantly immoral, it’s considered bad form for adult coaches of adult athletes to use the same locker rooms and showers as the athletes at the same time.  Big time pro coaching staffs, and college coaching staffs in the more lucrative sports at the big schools, have separate locker rooms and showers from the players.  If we’re talking about a cross country team at a smaller college, or any high school level athletic discipline, neither a small college or any high school can’t be expected to have those kind of lavish facilities, the coaches will wait out the players then shower by themselves.  It’s the whole chain of command slash Weberian thing — Do military officers, non-coms and enlisted men share the same social space, barracks, locker rooms and showers?  No, they don’t, and for a good reason.

When the Truth is Handier

There’ s a bit of a developing meme out there on ye olde internets today, that the reason President Obama reversed face and signed the “send Americans to Gitmo” bill is because he needs to bolster his national security credibility ahead of the Presidential campaign.

Huh?  If that’s what he’s worried about, all he has to do is say over and over again that “I got Osama.”  There, he has something of a leg on which to stand, because, as Steve Sailer noted after the untimely OBL departure, there is something in Obama’s sociological background which made him distrust Pockeystahn.  Remember, he was promising to incur into Pockeystahn as early as the Fall 2008 debates with McCain.  A concept which I ridiculed, by and by.

The “gutsy call” which history will remember Obama in glowing light isn’t that he ordered the hit on OBL;  Any President would have in the same set of circumstances.  The “gutsy call” was incurring into the territory of a Muslim state with nuclear ordinance.

See Paragraph Seven

That’s why I’ll vote for fill in the blank white Republican over Obama, and not regret it for as much as 0.001 second.

We need to return the venal anti-white bigots Thomas Perez, his boss, and his boss’s boss, to private life ASAP.

Note the contradiction:

The civil rights report said federal authorities will continue to investigate complaints of deputies using excessive force against Latinos, whether the sheriff’s office failed to provide adequately police services in Hispanic communities and a large number of sex-crimes cases that were assigned to the agency but weren’t followed up on or investigated at all.

So, they’re paying too much and too little attention to Hispanics at the same time.

MASSIVE EPIC BRA/HRA FAIL.

China vs Islam

This should be fun to watch from the sidelines.

“Nominal Utility”

Code words for items that are popular with low class blacks and Hispanics.

What’s the matter, L.A. City Council?  Trying to turn Venice Beach into SWPL territory?  Hell, most beach front in Los Angeles County is that way already.

Holder: Damn All. Full Voter Fraud Ahead.

“My people” wants all citizens automatically registered to vote, based on trolling existing databases of people who are not yet voting age, people who are but have not registered to vote, and so on.

The more people that are registered to vote unbeknownst to them, the more opportunities there are for voter fraud. Simple as that.

If Holder wants to modernize voting and registration, then he should give my paradigm a spin — It should be a little difficult to register to vote, but easy actually to vote.

This paragraph hits home a little bit:

In a call to modernize voter registration, Holder noted that many elections officials still are manually processing new applications, many of them handwritten — a situation that produces errors and confusion at the polls, he said.

I can attest.  I registered on the first day I could, the day I turned seventeen years six months old, even though I couldn’t vote until I was actually 18.  There was an election in my jurisdiction a few days after I turned 18, but when I went to vote, I found out I wasn’t registered to vote in my own precinct.  Come to find out, the BOEC mixed up my street address number and my street name — They had me registered at the right house number, but on the wrong street.  A few more phone calls straightened that out.  If that were the era of the yellow provisional ballots, (those were still several years away), I would have gotten a yellow ballot for voting, then my identity, age and residence would have been manually confirmed before counting my ballot.

She Asked Them to Pray

This according to one of the cronies of both the one suspected and one admittedly guilty party.

All in vain.

Not a Cure-All

AFP:

Drug war failed across Latin America in 2011

(snip)

In June, the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which includes several Latin American ex-presidents and international figures such as Arbour and former UN chief Kofi Annan, published a report urging a thorough rethink of anti-drug policy.

Calling the global war on drugs a costly failure, the report called for an end to “the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others.”

There are an estimated 250 million drug users in the world, according to UN estimates. “We simply cannot treat them all as criminals,” the report added.

It recommended that governments try new ways of legalizing and regulating drugs, especially marijuana, as a way to deny profits to drug cartels.

It’s definitely time for a new paradigm on drug policy, mainly because the current one ruins a sensible and balanced relationship between citizen and state.  I’m not as enthusiastically for full-on legalization as I was in the past, for various and convoluted reasons.  But don’t think that whatever we do will mean the end of the cartels.  First, since they’re already established, they’ll simply switch to other enterprises, some legal, some illegal.  And second, Latin American drug cartels are really nothing more than a modern extension of Indoamerican/Amerind tribalism, and the feuds between the drug cartels can be viewed in much the same light as the numerous fights between American Indian tribes before us whites showed up.

Ron Jeremy Buys the Jacksonville Jaguars

He was going to buy the 60% share of the Rams from the Frontiere estate, until Stan Kroenke, the 40% minority owner, outbid him for that.

There are rumors that Kroenke and Ron Jeremy slash Khalid Sheikh Mohammed slash Shahid Khan will trade teams, so that Khan will indeed own the Rams in the long run and Kroenke will own a team he will then move to Los Angeles, as the native Missourian Kroenke might feel too much home state loyalty to move the team he currently owns.

Scare Me Spare Me

A&E spent time at the St. Clair County can for one of its upcoming episodes of Beyond Scared Straight.

I call bullshit on the whole concept, much less this series.

The whole premise is that wayward adolescents get “hard knocks” lessons from hoosegowbirds who tell them about how they fucked up their own lives, and beg you not to go down their own mistaken path.  Whoever heard of contrite jail inmates?  Remember, they didn’t do nuttin’, the po-leeceseses are all racist, their lawyers fucked ‘em over, they got the wrong guy, the cops planted the shit on ‘em.

Forget For a Moment You’re In Missouri

P-D profiles the St. Louis area’s “Fusion Center.”

Remember, the statewide equivalent based in Jefferson City is where this “Ron Paul bumper sticker” business came from.  And the statewide fusion center in Arizona is (so we are told) where the smear “linking” the Nutbar of Tucson to AR originated (to this day, nobody with the Arizona Fusion Center/ACTIC will tell anyone at the AR Home Office what led them to make this “link” which they later walked back).  However, I still think that that was matter of passing the hot potato; it could still be the case that The Big Lie was hatched out of D.C., not Arizona.

The only good thing about these fusion centers is that in most cases, they’re able to dispel unfounded rumors and separate the wheat of reality from the chaff of paranoia and invective.  And they’re indicative of the “check your institutional ego at the door” that should have been taking place among various law enforcement and intelligence agencies pre-9/11.

Stop (Being Energy Efficient) In the Name of the Law

Gee, you would think the environmentalists would love these kind of people.

I wonder what the angle is.  I’m guessing it has to do with money, some way, some how.  When it doubt, “follow the money” is usually a safe bet.

Anyone got any other ideas?

A Decade of Job Security

Lou Barletta’s new Congressional district is 10% less Obama than his current one.  Mind you, in 2008, Paul Kanjorski only beat him by only 3% in a district Obama won by 15%.  Obviously, we know what happened two years later.  Still, if it’s a district that Obama wins by 5% instead of 15%, Barletta would have easily beaten Kanjorski in 2008.  And remember, 2008′s Presidential numbers have a blue wave to its back, something that won’t happen in 2012, even if Obama does eke out re-election.

Getting Warmer

Wilmington (Del.) News Journal:

State police: Gun buyback’s aim goes beyond disarming criminals

WILMINGTON — Two of Delaware’s top police officers aren’t expecting criminals to hand over their weapons Saturday at a taxpayer-financed gun buyback event at two local churches.

“We’re not naive in thinking crime weapons are going be turned in,” said Wilmington Police Chief Michael Szczerba. “There will be very few crime guns turned in, if any at all.”

The point of paying people $100 to $200 for anonymously turning in guns is to get weapons out of circulation that could be used in the commission of a crime, stolen from a home or fired in the heat of a domestic dispute, Szczerba said.

(snip)

Wilmington Mayor James Baker used Monday’s press conference to decry gun violence in the African-American community that has plagued his 11-year tenure.

“Where’s the moral imperative that the African-American community had in the ’60s and the ’70s? It’s gone,” Baker said as his voice rose in frustration. “Now it’s just sit back home. Somebody else takes care of it. It’s not going to happen.”

Translation:  We know that the bloods, crips, MS-13 and Mara 18 ‘bangers aren’t coming to gun buyback day.  And we also know that this line about “keeping guns from being stolen out of a home” is also a crock of crap, because most of the guns we actually get are old inoperable junk.  The real reason is that it’s good PR in the minds of the low IQ morons we call constituents.

BTW, I’m still waiting to hear a gun buyback program advertised on a classical or country radio station.  It’s always “hip hop” or “R&B” stations, for some odd reason (racial profiling?).

He’s Just Here to do the Cocaine Distribution Americans Won’t Do

It says here he’ll be deported when he gets out of Federal prison.  Anyone care to bet that that will actually happen?