Not a Ho, Ya Know

Pardon me if my mind dwells on that macho mysoginistic stereotype of Latin-American men:

Rep. Loretta Sanchez has quit the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, accusing the chairman, Rep. Joe Baca, of telling people she’s  a “whore.”

Baca denied the charge.

In an interview with The Politico Wednesday, Sanchez, a California Democrat as is Baca, also cited concerns about whether Baca was properly elected Hispanic Caucus chairman in November and about his general attitude toward female lawmakers. The caucus represents 21 Hispanic Democrats in Congress.

There is a little bit of irony in Miss Sanchez claiming that Mr. Baca’s electoral victory as the chair of the CHC wasn’t above board, see below.

If “Loretta Sanchez” strikes a bell with you, then you’ll probably remember it vis-a-vis “B-1” Bob Dornan.  Dornan, who was a Republican Congressman from an Orange County, Calif. district from 1985 to 1997, who actually beat the late John Schmitz in the 1984 Republican Primary for that seat, and Schmitz was trying to make a political comeback, said toward the end of his time in Congress (did Dornan) that, “I want to say America stays a nation of immigrants. And if we lose our Northern European stock — your coloring and mine, blue eyes and fair hair — tough!”

The people of his district, which had been and continues to become more and more populated by the Hispanic immigrants Dornan loved so much, took him at his word and threw him out at the next election (November 1996) and put Miss Sanchez in his place, as she had recently taken to calling herself by her Spanish maiden name to capitalize on the Hispanic voting bloc.  Dornan, convinced that his narrow loss was due to voter fraud by illegal aliens (as was I, though it couldn’t have happened to a nicer race traitor), tried to get his seat back two years later and lost to Miss Sanchez in a landslide.

Tough.

Some People Do

Washington Times via AR:

The Town Council in Culpeper, Va., has proposed a study to determine the cost of illegal aliens using public services—an indication that the nine-member body is willing to take a tougher approach on immigration, said council member F. Steve Jenkins.

(snip)

“You shouldn’t need a gorilla to eat you to know one’s standing behind you,” he said.

“He,” in this case being Culpeper city council member F. Steve Jenkins, will become a household name when the MSM says he made a racist comparison between illegal aliens (“undocumented workers”) and gorillas.  Honestly, his choice of words to construct the metaphor could have been better.

Otherwise, he’s incorrect.  From what I have seen of and experienced with people, they’re going to need to see the gorilla right up in their faces before they realize what kind of danger they’re in.  You could tell them that a gorilla is coming well before the gorilla gets there, but they won’t be excited enough to do anything about it until it’s over the walls and in their face.

Opposition to Stoning Women to Death = Racist Immigrant Bashing

Reuters:

Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council.

The declaration, published on the town’s Web site, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants.

You mean there’s actually debate on whether stoning women to death is a bad thing?

Andre Drouin, the councilor who devised the declaration, told the National Post newspaper that the town was not racist.

“We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live,” he said.

(snip)

Earlier this month the Journal de Montreal newspaper published a poll of Quebecers showing that 59 percent admitted to harboring some kind of racist feelings.

For some in Canada, imposing basic standards of decency on new arrivals is out of the question, but they wouldn’t hesitate for one moment to gang assault a white speaker on the issue of race.

Florida Governor Crist Was Inspired

By the St. Louis CofCC website to encourage voting reform, so it seems.

And the ACLU immediately jumps up and down and starts worrying about people who can’t speak or read English.

Now I know how Crist, a Republican, was able to win last November, which turned out to be a blue day. His snow white hair brought out the female over-60 arousal gappers.

Who Says He’s A Dunce?

Reuters headline:

Bush says Obama has long way to go to be president

The rest of the article follows suit, but much to the dismay of Sen. Biden, President Bush does not use the words “clean” or “articulate.”

Nor does much of anybody, including Bush, point out that Obama’s voting record is about as liberal as one can get in the Senate.

Need a Photoshop or Gimp Expert

See these two pics:

And:

FSAG, you might want to work this in, too:

Have at it.  Send the finished product to stlcofcc at slacc dot com, and I’ll post it here.  Don’t worry, I won’t take credit for it, and I’ll give you (whoever you are) the full named credit if you so desire.

Clean and Pure

According to Joe Biden.

And Biden’s credibility on African-American issues is top-notch.

The irony is that the “unclean” blacks (in Bidenspeak) don’t consider Obama to be “one of them” or “truly African-American.” Their contention is the “half” black that Obama is is of East African extraction, while “African-Americandom” should be understood as a West African people with a common heritage, history and struggle, i.e. the quintessential definition of a nation.

UPDATE:   If you’re proficient with Photoshop, Gimp or any similar programs, I could use your help.

No Suppression of the Money Flow

NPR via LoS:

Bratton now plans to target the city’s 10 worst gangs. He testified to city council members, who are now considering a new anti-gang blueprint that goes beyond law enforcement alone. After meeting with police, clergy, and gang interventionists, civil rights attorney Connie Rice wrote up a massive roadmap for overhauling L.A.’s strategy.

“The bottom line is, we’ve locked up over 450,000 young people under the age of 18 in the last 10 years,” Rice said to the City Council’s ad hoc committee on gangs. “We’ve spent billions and billions of dollars on everything that you can think of in suppression. We have targeted everything from the tattoos to the shootings. And after $80 billion, we’ve got six times as many gangs and twice as many gang members. Suppression alone is not enough.”

Rice proposes that schools stay open until 9 p.m., and parks until midnight, for after-school tutoring and nighttime sports. And she suggests that a new “Gang Czar” could coordinate gang intervention and prevention programs.

It sounds like Connie Rice (any relation to Condi Rice?) is succumbing to the same kind of hustle with all her talk about “tutoring,” “nighttime sports” and “gang czars” that she bemoans that $80 billion was spent on in the last decade.  I wouldn’t exactly describe that money as being spent on real “suppression,” else the gang problem wouldn’t have gotten much worse.  What that money was spent on was failed therapetuic “band aid” solutions.  I describe it as a Gang Suppression-Industrial Complex.

If Miss Rice wants a solution that works, considering the racial realities of the gangs that exist in Los Angeles, try deportation, border fences and walls, and something similar to the southern segregationist system.

Forced In-Cop-Etence

Hey, city cops. How would you like to patrol north St. Louis (or even parts of south St. Louis) with these restrictions:

1. You must feel a direct threat to you or your partner.
2. You must clearly see a threat.
3. The threat must be identified.
4. The Patrol Sergeant must concur that there is an identified threat.
5. The Patrol Sergeant must feel that the situation is one of life or death.
6. There must be minimal or no collateral risk to innocent civilians, or any women and children.
7. Only then can the Patrol Sergeant allow the use of deadly force.

You couldn’t keep Chocolate City St. Louis under wraps with these impossible rules on your backs. Yet, this is how the Pentagon thinks that the Marines can subdue Baghdad.

Tricky Nick

Reuters:

French conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy praised Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday, saying France had much to learn from the actions of his Labour government.

“European Socialists should be proud of what one of us has done,” the rightist interior minister told reporters at Downing Street, before hastily saying that he meant “one of them”.

Sarkozy might win by co-opting LePen, but I don’t think he could be trusted to get it done in the long run.

Unhappy Coppers

Reuters:

South Korean gangsters get more satisfaction from their line of work than the police, according to a survey published on Tuesday in local dailies.

According to the survey conducted among 109 jailed mobsters by the Korean Institute of Criminal Justice, 79.3 percent of gangsters said they were somewhat or very satisfied with their life in organized crime.

I know one reason why American cops would be depressed.  If you’re a cop that’s not in a comfy cushy beat in a white district, then every stop or inquisition of a non-white is a potential career-ender.

Loss Is Profit

No, and I’m not being Orwellian.

AFP:

Counterfeiting and piracy costs the global economy at least 100 billion dollars (77 billion euros) each year, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation warned.

(snip)

China and Russia are the worst-rated countries in addressing counterfeiting and piracy, according to a survey by the International Chamber of Commerce released on Monday.

It may “cost” some people and institutions $100 billion a year, but some other people and institutions tolerate piracy in sorts because they gain from piracy in the long run.

Welcome to Somalia

CQPolitics has this “MSTP for Dummies” guide to 2008 Republican conventioneers.  In it, we find this gem:

Newer additions to Minnesota’s electorate present challenges — but opportunity — for Republican strategists. Traditionally comprising mainly of Lutherans of Scandinavian descent, the Twin Cities are now home to a growing number of Hmong, Latino and East African immigrants.

In fact, the state now boasts the largest Somali population outside Africa.

And:

Democrats have attracted many of the newcomers on social justice issues, and the DFL’s Mee Moua became the first Hmong state senator in 2002. But the religions and conservative cultures of these newcomers invite possible inroads for Republicans.

Still holding onto those delusions, are ya, Stupid Party?

Also:

There is also an independent streak in the state that showed itself most prominently in the 1998 gubernatorial victory of Ventura, a local suburban officeholder and media magnet, over Republican Coleman and Democrat Hubert H. “Skip” Humphrey III.

The trouble is, as Minnesoooooooooooota becomes more non-white, the efficacy of non-partisan independent candidates will decrease.  Independents tend to win in places with very few or no minorities, because in a place with a lot of minorities, they clump behind the Democrats, and the whites react by (sorta) clumping behind Republicans, crowding out independents and third parties.

The Alcoholic-Industrial Complex

AP:

Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school’s new testing policy for students.

The test, which will be given randomly to students at Pequannock Township High School, can detect whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.

(snip)

Under the program, students who test positive will not be kicked off teams or barred from extracurricular activities, Reynolds said. Instead, they will receive counseling — and their parents will be notified.

(snip)

The test costs will be paid with federal grants, Reynolds said.

(snip)

Critics have said the testing does not work and invades students’ privacy.

“Federal grants” is enough of a clue for me to figure what the purpose is.

They Said Something, But Forgot Something

CSM headline:

Why volunteerism has reached historic high in US

The article mentions required volunteerism as a graduation requirement for many schools as a reason.  But another reason why I think it’s so is that community service is being mandated as punishment for criminal offenses more and more over the last few decades.

Samnesty Brownback

He’s running alright, but he’s running from his own record.

Skip him.

I’m Confoosled

The State of SC:

‘Life-changing event’: Panther chases forester

(snip)

Terrance Fletcher, a technician with the U.S. Forest Service, dove into the frigid water and crawled up the bank in South Carolina to escape.

“The animal started running … so I decided to run and get away and jump in the river to get across to the other side,” Fletcher said this week. “It was a life-changing event for me.”

The incident occurred the second week in January along the mountain river separating Georgia and South Carolina.

Black panthers are not native to the southeastern United States, meaning Fletcher might have seen a river otter or a bobcat, state wildlife officials in Georgia and South Carolina said.

What does this article mean by “Black Panthers?”

Or:

Honestly, if not for a few words, this article would be genuinely ambiguous.

His Name Got Him The Job

LOL, One of the princpals in Mayor Slay’s campaign to educate people about Earned Income Tax Credit benefits they may be eligible for but not receiving is named Gary Dollar.

Even more amusing is that Mr. Dollar is our regional chief for the IRS.

However, if they have someone on staff named Penny, s/he might soon be out of a job.

No Criminals Allowed

European jails exist to confine those who deny the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, utter racial slurs, and download copyrighted material from file-sharing sites.  They do not exist to house real criminals.

Hello, Exchange Rates?

Microsoft is charging the exact same number of UK Pounds for various versions of its newly released Vista operating system in the UK as it is dollars in the USA, in spite of the fact that the Pound trades for around $1.90 these days.

Not Our Problem

CNSNews headline:

Mexican Economy Seen As Heart of Immigration Problem

It should really read:

American Elitist Treachery Seen As Heart of Immigration Invasion

The trouble with the line of logic presented in this article is that personal remittances from Mexican-American citizens, legal alien Mexican nationals and illegal aliens from Mexico, back into Mexico, are at an all-time high, but the influx of “arrivals” goes virtually unabated.

Tighter Than A Drum

Alleged credit card crook Rep. John Bowman (D-Normandy) and Sen. Claire McCaskill’s relationship?  The title says all.

Same goes for Bowman vis-a-vis other black elected officials and personalities.

Bowman could be our local version to Abramoff.  Remember, everyone whoever took a dime from Abramoff, including his shoe shine boy, got the media proctological.

Mannies informs us that Bowman was the head of the joint House/Senate state legislative black caucus.  I guess it’s true that hot air rises really quickly.

New to the Blogroll

Yahoo! News.  It’s not a blog, but it’s the best mainstream aggregation of interesting news that I know of, even better than a similar service offered by that search engine whose name alludes to an extremely large number.

Several dead and stale links have been removed, also.

They’re Not All Broken Down Lemons

The Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesooooooooota, will host the 2008 Republican National Convention.  Will we get a hero or a zero out of this building? 

The Politico:

Contemplating the current field of Republican presidential candidates, Rush Limbaugh sounded like a man with malaise.

“To be honest with you, there’s nobody out there that revs me up,” he confessed to his audience of several million conservative sympathizers on his radio show last week, “so why should I pretend there is?”

Granted, there are a lot of turkeys in the 2008 field, both Republicans and Democrats.  But the three cars on the lot that won’t break down after a week are Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, and Duncan Hunter, all of whom are currently in the U.S. House.

However, I personally think that Paul is unelectable because he doesn’t look the part, and people perceive him to be too much an ideologue.  Tancredo is a one-note samba, and while his one note is an extremely important note, single-issue folks don’t make good Presidential material.

Duncan Hunter has the combination of chops and credibility that makes him the most viable and attractive candidate, in my mind.

Two Americas

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.

Click here for a big high resolution image

Strangulation of Engagement

Arizona Daily Star:

The head of the Arizona National Guard on Tuesday told lawmakers that four soldiers who backed away from their post earlier this month, rather than confront gun-toting border crossers, did the right thing.

“Our guardsmen follow the procedures they were told to do,” Maj. Gen. David Rataczak told members of the House Committee on Homeland Security and Property Rights. “They followed the SOP (standard operating procedures) to the letter of the law.”

And there’s the proof:  The “National Guard on the Border” is just political window dressing.  It’s probably just as well that they did retreat instead of exchange fire, because they, and not the illegal border jumpers, would be the ones sent to Federal prison.

A top-hour radio report on this news this evening had Rataczak saying that the Guardsmen did the right thing by retreating and yielding to the Border Patrol the duty to apprehend the border jumpers.

There’s a good laugh.

Most people think that the Guard is there to help the Border Patrol in actual apprehensions.

Yeah, I’ve Got Questions

On the cuffs of the Microsoft Windows Vista rollout, Radio Shack is ready for the cha-ching.  However, they’re engaging in some deceptive advertising on the way.  Here are some scanned in bits from their latest circular.

At first glance, you think that you’ll get Vista Home Premium for a penny under a hundred.  But read the box image and the ad text a little closer.  What you would get for $100 is Home Basic.  Home Premium, which comes in this green packaging, will cost $160.  And both are upgrade editions, not full editions.

At least that one has enough within to unlock its deceit.  But this one is slick and discreet:

$600 will get you this Toshiba laptop, with an entry level 1.7 GHz processor, 512 MiB of RAM and an 80 GB HD.  Apropos that the version of Vista it’s preloaded with is Home Basic, because the loftier versions will require a lot more than 512 MiB of RAM and processing speed more spry than 1.7 GHz.  And with a low $600 price, the pricier Vista versions are out of touch for a laptop this inexpensive.

Fine.  BUT…

Notice the simulated screen on the laptop in this ad.  It’s Vista, but it’s simulating the Flip 3D eye candy.  That feature is not available on Home Basic.

I wonder if Radio Shack will have answers to these concerns.

The Wow Starts How?

Microsoft has officially rolled out Vista today in a gala event from New York City.  It will go on sale tomorrow, though the cheapest legit price I have found so far is one whole benjamin before tax for the upgrade version of the most stripped-down version, which even Windows enthusiasts are panning.

However, not everybody is rah-rah over the new version of Windows, see this and this.

With that having been established, here are some interesting pics from the NYC gala.

Tourbus artistry is getting better and better by the year.   Here’s another example of that, not from NYC:

Here’s someone to crash the party with less than positive news:

C’mon Steve.  Do the “Developers” Boogie:

Another 17 Bite the Dust

State Rep. John Bowman (D-Normandy, above), one of this state’s many high quality black elected officials, and former Bank of America affirmative action Vice-President Robert Conner, along with 15 others, are now facing a Federal rap for bank and credit fraud.

The alleged deal was that Conner would summarily grant his cronies, Rep. Bowman included, $25,000 lines of credit through BOA credit cards in exchange for $5,000 cash or other considerations from each of those lines of credit back to himself.

I wonder if Bank of America is going to take a second look at their diversity programs that they flaunt in every one of their branch locations. I doubt they will, which means this kind of scam couldn’t have happened to a nicer bank.

Now I wonder if Lizz, Onion and the gang will stop their constant charade of claiming that white collar crime is only a Caucasian thing.

Don’t Buy the Streamers Just Yet

AP:

The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban president Fidel Castro dies.

Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be printed on T-shirts, what musicians would perform, the cost and how long the celebration would last.

Such a gathering has long been part of the city’s plan for Castro’s death, but firming up the specifics has been more urgent since Castro became ill last summer and turned over power to his brother, Raul.

If I were a Miami-area Cuban-American, I wouldn’t be so quick to party once Fidel kicks the bucket. Everyone’s assuming that with Fidel gone, the Cuban people will rise up and implement a democratic republican form of government.

I wouldn’t be so sure. The reason I have my doubts is that the part of the Cuban population that would do that has already escaped to south Florida. All that’s left in Cuba are Fidel, his close relatives and henchmen, and a few million Negroes and mulattoes. When Fidel dies, Raul will become supreme dictator, and nothing will change.