The MSM complain about “global warming,” and want everyone else to stop using fossil fuels, but they can certainly fly FIVE helicopters over Los Angeles to follow Britslut Spearchucker on her drive to her non-attendance at a custody hearing.
Even though the property has been in his family since the Great Depression, he’s selling. The good news is that he got the $1.6 million he asked for. And he could still make a living as a professional Jackie Gleason look-alike.
Elizabeth Edwards complained that Monty Johnson’s property was “slummy.” As elitist as they are, she would call your middle-class middle-sized suburban house “slummy.”
BBC:
South Africa’s controversial Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is facing new calls for her resignation.
They follow newspaper allegations that she underwent a liver transplant while suffering from alcoholism.
The government says the reports are “false and speculative”, and President Mbeki’s office says he still has confidence in his health minister.
Dr Tshabalala-Msimang has - in the past - come under fire over her unorthodox approach to the HIV-Aids crisis.
Her emphasis on the use of garlic and beetroot for HIV sufferers brought her many critics.
C’mon Miss Tshabalala-Msimang, what’s good for the AIDS goose is also good for the liver sclerosis gander.
Note: This post, and few previous others relating to unique African AIDS “cures,” have been placed into a new category entitled Who Are We to Argue with Black Science?
The brain behind that gem kicked off earlier today. I kinda thought the ground felt warmer than usual.
Miss Helmsley may or may not have been politically left-wing, but she was the quintessential liberal nonetheless. That’s the left’s attitude about racial diversity. Only for the little people.
The CofCC National Blog had a story a few days ago about a study in Occidental Quarterly, the conclusion of which is that, as a generality, whites will speak as if they believe in racial equality, but behave like they do not. The widest disparity between talking the talk and walking the walk is among white self-professed liberals.
This white liberal hypocrisy also extends to the area of professional athletics.
If you follow the NBA at least minimally, then you know that Kevin Garnett was traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves, the franchise that drafted him in 1995 and with his he has played the entirety of his professional career until now, to the Boston Celtics. Mr. Garnett was drafted in 1995, and was the first man in decades to be drafted straight out of high school into the professional ranks. His bypassing college started a wave of high school players entering the NBA draft and skipping college, that lasted from 1995 to 2003. After the 2003 draft, the NBA changed the rules and mandated that those drafted into the NBA or signed by teams had to be at least one year in time separated from the graduation of their high school class, i.e. essentially mandating one year of college.
During those years, there was a lot of complaining and consternation by media pundits and sports journalists, and by some NBA league executives (which is why the rules were changed a few years ago). Their worry was the those players skipping college wouldn’t have a post-secondary education to fall back onto if their pro career went bust (which happens often).
In response, a lot of blacks were complaining that whites who said that were being racist, as the NBA drafted European whites who were often 18 or 19 years old, and nobody was worried that they wouldn’t have a college education to “fall back onto.” Also, in many other sports, a lot of young people turn pro early in life, and don’t attend college, and don’t play college athletics, and certainly didn’t think they needed college sports as a stepping stone to a pro career, or a college education to “fall back onto.” (Remember, Tiger Woods, who will probably be a billionaire by the time the best years of his golf career is over, left Stanford after his sophomore year to turn pro.) Therefore, many blacks were asking, why was this “concern” by the white media seemed only to be aimed at black basketball players.
You will notice, especially if you have read this blog for some time, that every early January and mid-March, like clockwork, the mainstream news and sports media will carry a story about how big-time college coaches and programs in football (in January, during college football championships) and men’s basketball (in mid-March, during tourney time) aren’t doing a good enough job “graduating” their players. I have already stated why that reasoning is half-baked.
But if the blacks who think that the white liberals in the news and sports media are being “racist” in their criticism, they’re off-base. What I think is going on is that the latter are patronizing black athletes. Nevertheless, to say that colleges aren’t doing well enough in “graduating” their football and men’s basketball players, as if the mostly black student-athletes in those sports and no other sports have to be followed around and babied as if they were still adolescents, is not indicative of someone who truly believes that the races are equal. Likewise, to fret about how that 18-year old black man who was just drafted into the NBA mere weeks after his high school graduation won’t have “anything to fall back onto” because he skipped the underwater basket-weaving that serves as the curriculum of college courses patronized by most black college football and basketball players, while not saying the same about a white 16-year old teenage girl from Austria that starts winning major pro tennis tournaments like they were going out of style, is not also something that a genuine egalitarian would say.
It’s not just athletics, either. There are scores of actors, singers, and performing artists who didn’t attend college much if at all. The winner of American Idol this past season, 17-year old Jordin Sparks, has already started her professional singing career. So far, I have not heard any pompous talking heads in the mainstream news media or entertainment media complain that Miss Sparks won’t have a college sheepskin “to fall back onto” should her singing career go bust (which I think it will). Kelly Clarkson won the first Idol as a 20-year old, and likewise, there was nothing said in this stead in August 2002, either.
Sometimes, even those athletes who have college degrees do not have jobs that suggest that they do. After the Rams won the Super Bowl in January 2000, after the 1999 season, everyone in St. Louis heard the Kurt Warner rags-to-riches story a thousand times. He played college ball at the University of Northern Iowa, and used all four years of his eligibility, and graduated from UNI. Even after college, he wasn’t good enough to be drafted by or signed by an NFL team, so for a year, he was a shelf-stocker at a Hy-Vee Supermarket in Cedar Falls, Iowa. A year after college, he was signed by the Arena League team in Des Moines, and he parlayed that to NFL Europe, then the Rams, then Trent Green got injured in the ‘99 preseason, propelling Warner into the top of the QB depth chart, the rest is history. The point here is that for the year between college and NFL Europe, even with a UNI sheepskin, i.e. a college education “to fall back onto,” the best job he could “fall onto” was something that could be done by an exceptionally bright chimpanzee. So that NBA bust that ends up stocking store shelves for a living would be doing just that with or without a college diploma.
In other words, this is another example of this OQ research cited above, that white liberals talk equality but often advocate as if they were racial supremacists, or at least racial patronizers.
In my mind, and notwithstanding some other concerns, if you’re good enough at 18 to play professional basketball, i.e. some team is willing to draft you, then you’re no less likely to be a bust if you play college basketball for four years.
The reason my mind is running in this direction today is this story: The world’s most lucrative and most-followed professional sports franchise, the Manchester (England) United soccer team, has signed a NINE-year old boy, and according to the article, they sign several dozen boys of his age every year. Of course, they’re not playing for the team itself, and are farmed into developmental leagues and academies, and very likely do attend either public schools in Manchester or receive private tutoring, funded by the team. Still, nine is a bridge too far, in my opinion. And I’m not reading any media pundits complaining about how the soccer training is distracting from the education of 9-year old boys.
The San Francisco neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury, one of the most liberal in America, now sees its aging hippie-lib population all of a sudden becoming conservative when it comes to young homeless drug junkie bums in their neighborhood.
What was that saying in the 1960s that those old hippies said as young hippies? Anyone under 30 who isn’t liberal has no heart, and anyone over 30 who isn’t conservative has no brain. (As this writer is right on 30, I suppose I have neither a heart nor a brain.) It took them awhile, but they found their brains.
Larry Angel is my new hero. But he’s probably not going to make a friend of Jon Corzine anytime ever, that incredible speeding and seatbeltless governor.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A self-described gadfly withdrew his complaint Tuesday against Gov. Jon S. Corzine for failing to wear a seat belt when he was critically injured in a highway crash. State police have not yet decided whether to ticket the governor.
The complaint filed by Larry Angel was withdrawn just as a judge was to decide whether to approve the complaint. Corzine was released from a hospital Monday and apologized for not wearing his seat belt when his official SUV crashed on April 12.
“I was troubled initially that neither the governor nor anybody in his office seemed to take responsibility,” Angel said Tuesday. “He obviously, if you listened to his statements, seemed to me to credibly take responsibility. I don’t think those were crocodile tears or emotion on the part of the governor.”
John Edwards plops down $400 for a do. That’s why he talks about “Two Americas,” because his haircut is more like twenty Americas.
Raleigh News and Observer does a follow-up on Monty Johnson, the neighbor that Elizabeth Edwards fears.
He’s a dead ringer for Jackie Gleason playing Sheriff Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy.
All times are not happy at Two Americas Acres, that famous carbon-neutral homeless shelter.
If you climb to the top of the tallest tree on John and Elizabeth Edwards’s Orange County, N.C. estate on a clear day, and look to the horizon, maybe, just maybe, you can see a neighbor’s house.
Yet, Mrs. Edwards is petrified that her nearest neighbor owns guns, has flourished one against what he thought was a bad faith tresspasser, and is supporting an anti-gun Republican for President in 2008.
However, Mrs. Edwards won’t have to worry about him for long. The Edwards’ very presence in that part of Orange County, N.C. has driven property assessments and thus property taxes up for their area, including that wayward gun-owning anti-gun Republican. So Monty Johnson, who has lived his whole life on that property, as his parents purchased it in the early 1930s, is being driven out.
Sure, John Edwards cares about the “other America.” He just doesn’t want it living anywhere near him and his wife.
And here’s how it links to phony baloney Mr. Carbon Credit.
Let’s just call it an inconvenient big oil truth.
AP:
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - A day after her campaign announced a record breaking fundraising haul, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she would support public funding of campaigns if elected president next year.
At an event where she picked up the endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Clinton said she would continue the fundraising pace that helped bring in $26 million for her presidential bid in the first three months of 2007. But, she said, she hoped a different system could one day be enacted.
Now there’s a ringing endorsement for campaign finance reform, in Gov. Corzine, the man who poured his own fortune into buying a Senate seat, then using the name-rec from that to coast into the Governor’s Chair.
“I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president,” she said.
But not as a Presidential candidate.
Clinton’s campaign was the first to completely opt out of the public funding system that has existed for more than 30 years. Her advisers believe she can raise more money on her own than she would have been eligible to receive under the existing system.
As Leona Helmsley might say, “public campaign funding is only for the little people.”
Do you believe this house is? With all the evergreens that aren’t there anymore, I would have a hard time believing so.
Business and Media Institute of America:
Edwards also avoided how he holds himself to one standard but wants to hold businesses to another. As anchor Miles O’Brien put it: “One of the keys to your plan is the so-called cap plan which would institute, as it suggests, caps on the amount of carbon dioxide industry can put into the environment.”
But when it comes to Edwards’ own life, he doesn’t cap his carbon efforts, preferring instead carbon offsets. “We have committed to operate this house in a carbon-neutral way, which means in addition to using energy saving devices in the house itself, to the extent that doesn’t cover it, we’re going to purchase carbon credits on the market,” said Edwards.
Yes, John. I’m sure Al Gore’s little snake oiley scam could use business from people other than himself.
No wonder John Edwards is always blabbing on about Two Americas. There’s our America that he thinks should count carbons, and then there’s his America that engages in more carbon gluttony than small countries.
AP:
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says Jesus would be appalled at how the United States has ignored the plight of the suffering, and that he believes children should have private time to pray at school.
Edwards, in an interview with the Web site Beliefnet.com, said Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country’s willingness to go to war “when it’s not necessary.”
“I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs,” Edwards told the site. “I think he would be appalled, actually.”
Does this mean that this place will soon become a homeless shelter?
At least well enough to create editorial cartoons that are publication quality.
Consider this:
Here’s what I’m thinking:
Limo that is parked in front of the Kodak theater. Al Gore is getting out of the limo, going into the Oscars. A hurricane is being emitted out of the emissions tailpipe of the limo.
Just call it “Inconvenient Hypocrisy.”
If you’re a conservative cartoonist, or even a non-conservative one with a shred of intellectual honesty, you have my permission to rip this idea off and claim it as your own. But I would love to see it.
Marin County, California rich libs are nimbying Habitat for Humanity, complaining that HFH houses in the area will sink their property values.
When white working middle class peons do this to save their property values and the livability of their communities, (Black Jack, Missouri), U.S. JustUs Department’s Civil Wrongs Division opens an investigation, and armed FBI jackboots intimidate the community activists. The issue there, like the unspoken issue is in Marin County, is race.
Of course, the good libs of Marin County are more than happy to vote in liberal Democrats that enact these sorts of Civil Wrongs Laws that are wielded against white working class community activists that want to keep their neighborhoods save, livable and therefore white.
If the FBI goes storming into Marin County, then one should check the temperature in hell.
He’s laughing all you working class schmucks who are so arrogant and audacious that you think that you should earn a good living doing things that new arrivals in mass could do for slave wages. That’s our Karl Rove-r-rated.
Mark Kirkorian in National Review Online:
According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.”
Last time I looked, most 17-year olds had relatively menial jobs. The key word is “had,” now that many of them are being squeezed out by the cheap labor express. He may not want his son picking tomatoes or making beds, but many more native-born Americans who have professions that are more worthy and substantial than that are also losing out to mass illegal (and legal) immigration, and the H-1-B visa glut.
The irony is that the immigration policies that Bush/Rove want will actually make it more likely that young people today can look forward to menial and low-paying careers, even in spite of education and intelligence levels or willingness to work that would have otherwise jettisoned them into the working middle class or higher easily.
Pray tell, Mr. Rove, who was making the beds in Vegas before it became a Mexican city?
No wonder former North Carolina Senator and Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee John Edwards keeps blubbering on about “Two Americas.” His new estate a little bit east of Durham, N.C. takes up two Americas.
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