* Obama pretty much orders the DREAM Act by exeuctive order. What they’re saying here is that “federal immigration officials do not have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, or even if they are pregnant or nursing.”
The sad reality is that “federal immigration officials” don’t really deport much of anyone, and haven’t for a long time. Even when they want to, there are so many bureaucratic and legal hurdles in the way that actual physical deportations are rare.
* Predictably, the church-state separation nuts are fit to be tied. But my big hangup here is that she misunderstands the spiritual nature of fasting. I misplaced the first version of this story I read, so I had to find another one. But the first version states that Harrisburg, Penn. Mayor Linda Thompson said something along the lines of humans didn’t cause the city’s fiscal problems, and therefore humans won’t be able to solve the problems.
Huh?
Humans most certainly did cause it, and humans and only humans will be able to solve it. You don’t ask God for help over matters when you can help yourself.
* They said the segway would be so revolutionary that cities would have to be redesigned. In reality, the only thing the segway revolutionized was shopping mall security.
* To say that both President Obama and Justin Bieber will cause gridlock in New York City for their simultaneous presence in The Big Apple is like saying that a hammer and a nail have a rivalry. In reality, all the gridlock will be Bieber-related — Nobody cares that much about Obama anymore. I get the feeling that Obama knew Bieber would be in NYC and deliberately scheduled a trip there in order to claim half the gridlock for himself, to portray the fiction that it’s still 2008 and people are still swooning over him. I wouldn’t put that past him.
* In response to the latest shooting in East St. Louis, Mayor Alvin Parks states that: “There is so much more we need to be doing in terms of getting guns out of the hoodies and from under the t-shirts and out of vehicles…What’s troubling me is that these guns keep getting in the wrong hands.”
You can do all that and East St. Louis will still be almost 100% black. Crime in East St. Louis won’t get appreciably better until East St. Louis becomes less black. And it’s just a strange coincidence that all these guns just keep jumping into the wrong hands, they never seem to be able to jump into the right hands in ESL.
You will see in this article that the NYP uses a generic image of a young white man resting his head on a locker. That’s hardly what a Chicago high school dropout between 16 and 20 looks like. However, I think this is a hint that this MTV series, if it makes it into the lineup, will be as politically correct as possible, show way too many whites and way too few blacks and Hispanics, relative to the reality of high school dropouts in Chicago.
* They say if you can’t say something nice about a person, don’t say anything at all. I’ve been hatin’ on Herman Cain a lot lately in this medium. Actually, I have to walk that back — It’s not that I’ve been bashing him, it’s that pissy ass wimpy white racial pandering (racial pejorative censored)-loving lamestream conservatives and neo-cons piss me off royal, and I guess I’m lashing out at them vicariously by criticizing both Cain and Allen West, their latest favorite objects of affection. Obviously, both Cain and West deserve legitimate criticism at times, and I’m pissing on the lamers’ cheerios just by doing that. For the record, Cain was once Chairman of the Kansas City division of the Federal Reserve, supported TARP, and opposes auditing much less eliminating the Federal Reserve. West, on the other hand, thinks that white Democrats have no free speech rights to use a five-letter word that starts with “N,” that used to be the respectable term of polite society to describe the group of people we’re now supposed to call “African Americans.” Yes, I’m talking Harry Reid and the “Negro dialect” (non-)story from last year. Other than that, West has had a good record as a Congressman, and despite his previous career, doesn’t really seem to be the “invade the world” type that I feared he would be — He has been pleasingly vociferous about us staying out of Libya and not touching it with a ten foot pole.
Someone on Twitter posted a pic of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Cain on their wedding day. So to be diplomatic, I’m going to say something nice about him: On his wedding day, he looked a little like LeBron James.
Yeah, I know, that was mean. And I promise, I will eventually get around to saying something nice about him.
* I had that kind of T-Shirt once. It looked a little different, but said the same thing.
* Doesn’t this just warm your heart? Unfortunately, for a lot of the kids that were able to see daddy in prison on Father’s Day, they’re only getting an idea of their own future career track. Maybe if they hurry they can share a cell with dear ole dad, and therefore every day can be Father’s Day.
* You know I’m not a Peter Kindercare fan, and you know I’m not a Rick Perry fan. Put the two together, and the whole is even lamer than the sum of its parts. Kinder said at this shin-dig: “We need a governor who appreciates (the) city of St. Louis’ role as the economic engine of Missouri — not a governor who shuns it.” More than that, we need a governor who avoids saying stupid insane idiotic things.
Didn’t he learn anything from church? People don’t commit crimes, guns do. In fact, Sarah Palin and the CEOs of firearms manufacturers were the ones who really committed these crimes, not some poor innocent misunderstood Hispanics, who are all victims of a government conspiracy.
* Google websites went over one billion unique visitors in May. This is the prime reason why in spite of their own Chrome browser, they won’t give up their financial relationship with Mozilla — Firefox has around one-quarter of the world’s browser market, and every fresh new copy of Firefox has a Google search box and Google search engine URL bar keywords enabled by default. Would you make it harder for one in four customers to open the doors to your brick and mortar business?
The BYU star who could keep it in his pants expects to be a high draft pick tonight. The first white man to be drafted last year was Butler’s Gordon Hayward, with the ninth pick, by the Utah Jazz. Incidentally, the Jazz have the third pick tonight, and BYU is right there in Provo, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the Jazz bow to civic pressure. The chattering classes don’t think he’ll be drafted that high, but do think he’ll be at least a lottery pick. The native born white American (i.e. as opposed to white European) who has been taken the highest in the recent history of the NBA draft, if memory serves, was Kevin Love, at #5 in 2008 by Memphis, who then traded him to Minnesota, his current team.
* “He’s a great athlete.” As if anyone who could get drafted or signed to play in a professional sports league isn’t a great athlete? The NBA is bad for a lot of things, but signing people who are 50 pounds overweight and have no agility isn’t one of them. Really, translated into English, “great athlete” means black and a low percentage of body fat.
* “He’s really not a great athlete.” “He’ll never be an interior presence.” “He has range, even NBA range, but little else.” “He won’t be able to handle not being the first scoring option on whatever team drafts him.” You’ll hear a lot of that tonight about Jimmer Fredette. Translation for most of that gibberish: He’s white.
UPDATE 6/24: Taken 10th by the Milwaukee Bucks, but by the time they made this pick, they already stated their intentions to trade the draft rights of whoever they drafted with this pick to the Sacramento Kings. So he’s wearing a Kings hat as of this morning.
The robber who police say poked the Marine with the knife is described as a black man in his 20s, 5-foot-11 to 6-foot-1, 180 to 190 pounds, with short hair and a red T-shirt and blue jean shorts. The second robber is described as a black man in his 20s who is 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9, 140 to 160 pounds who had a goatee and short hair and wore a black T-shirt and blue jeans.
KMOX:
But a Marine spokesman shed more light on the mugging, suggesting that the Marines turned the other cheek to avoid violence.
“Marines have been given rules of engagement not to engage in any violence except to protect their lives,” said Marine Spokeswoman, Capt Kate Vanden Bossche.
When asked if the Marines have essentially been told to hand over their wallets in St. Louis, rather than fight to protect their property, Vanden Bossche said: “If some one is in such dire need that they need to rob someone, I don’t think that’s a fight Marines need to get into.”
And you wonder why we can’t wipe out a bunch of Crapistanis in a week using boots on the ground.
Question: What were three Marines doing out at 2:30 in the morning in the downtown of a heavily black city? I have a feeling that the reason isn’t totally above board — Methinks they were looking to buy drugs.
You know, this was a really long day for me. Come to think of it, it was a really long day for everyone in the northern hemisphere.
Yeah, I know, lame. On to that for which you paid admission.
* Maybe this person and this person could join up to become the ultimate archon of political correctness, thereby guaranteeing that s/he could never be denied a job.
Hell, I didn’t even want him to remain as Texas Governor. In 2006, I would have voted for Kinky Friedman, and in 2010, in TX-GOV-R, I would have voted KBH — In spite of her many flaws, she had the least problematic immigration record of the three candidates (the third being Debra Medina).
* Notice who ordered this lynching. I’ll give you a hint: It had nothing to do with people wearing white hoods and sheets, nor people fighting under Confederate Battle Flags.
Neal Boortz, who in the past resorted to hurling around accusations of “white racism” as if he were secretly on the SPLC payroll, is now saying stuff like this. Stuff so much like this that Special Ed Schultz doesn’t have to do much in the way of word doctoring to make Boortz sound like a genocidal maniac.
How about we make the cartoon cat the President and put Obama on the cereal box. Is that an option?
* I’m starting to think Hunter Wallace reads this space regularly. See #3 and #4 — I’ve been making these points for quite some time.
Notice that Obama only lost working class whites by 18 points in 2008 but lost them by 30 points in 2010. So that 12% of working class whites makes a big difference, far more than “Hispanics.” The reason they were fooled in 2008 is because of Axelrod’s slick double-talking TV ads on outsourcing.
I also secretly hope that she actually believes Libya is a better place to live — She should turn around and try and convince a bunch of her cohorts of the same.
* I’m going “glass half empty” here. I’m glad they came to this decision, but by the same token, I don’t think any agency acting with the implicit power of government should have the ability to use subjective criteria like “racism.” (I pretty much think the same thing about private groups as well.) Like beauty, it is in the eye of the beholder.
* The good news? Walter Williams bangs it out of the park. The bad news? There need to be fifty white people the average college educated person could identify by name saying the same things, for every one black who is. But there are not.
My favorite Australian brew, in fact my favorite international brew, is Toohey’s New. Obviously, you won’t find it on tap in any American bar, and even in bottle form, you’ll find it there as often as you’ll find a tooth on a hen. You’ll have to go to one of those “Fred and the Chicken” stores that talk about “the more she drinks the better you’ll look” on TV, and even those kinds of stores only stock it intermittently.
* I’m waiting for a Jim “Not a Dime Back” Calhoun-type scandal to erupt in this state over Frank Haith’s compensation package. Calhoun at least has three national championships and one other final four to his name — Haith was well under .500 at the University of Miami, and Haith’s base salary is around one-half of Calhoun’s.
“Is our children learning?” as George W. Bush so famously asked. Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America’s young perform at their worst.
On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the “Nation’s Report Card,” most fourth-graders could not identify a picture of Abraham Lincoln or a reason why he was important.
Most eighth-graders could not identify an advantage American forces had in the Revolutionary War. Twelfth-graders did not know why America entered World War II or that China was North Korea’s ally in the Korean War.
Only 20 percent of fourth-graders attained even a “proficient” score in the test. By eighth grade, only 17 percent were judged proficient. By 12th grade, 12 percent. Only a tiny fraction was graded “advanced,” indicating a superior knowledge of American history.
Sometimes, I’m glad most people are so ignorant about history.
Menino To Niketown: Take Down Controversial T-Shirt Display
BOSTON (CBS) – Mayor Tom Menino doesn’t like Niketown’s new window display at its Newbury Street store and he wants it taken down.
Menino said he was walking in the Back Bay with his wife recently and noticed T-shirts in the window with the expressions “Dope,” “Get High,” and “F**k Gravity” on them.
He believes the shirts promote drug use.
Menino thinks so little of his own city’s citizens and thinks they’re such dumb asses with weak souls that he doesn’t think they can walk by a clothing store with T-Shirts on display that read “Dope” and “Get High” without wanting to run out and do drugs.
Hell, maybe he’s right. But then again, I’m not in the business of quadrenneially begging for votes in Boston. This could be a massive PR clusterfuck on his part.
Migrants taking nine in ten new jobs since the election, Coalition poverty czar reveals
Almost nine out of ten jobs created since the election went to immigrants, the Coalition’s poverty czar has revealed.
Former Labour minister Frank Field, brought in to advise the Government last year, criticised David Cameron’s plans to reform welfare as nowhere near radical enough – because they do not punish the workshy or reward those who have contributed to National Insurance.
He also said he believed the public wanted tougher sanctions forcing the long-term unemployed back to work.
Mr Field dismissed proposals to simplify the benefits system as nothing more than ‘Gordon Brown’s approach, on speed’.
‘Good, reliable’ people who have worked hard and paid NI should be helped more than those who have not, he said.
Figures uncovered by Mr Field show that in the first year of the Coalition, 87 per cent of the 400,000 newly created jobs have gone to immigrants, because Britons are too lazy to chase work.
Embarrassingly for Mr Cameron, the proportion of new jobs going to immigrants is actually higher now than it was in Labour’s last year in office.
For those of you who don’t think the local control (i.e. of the SLPD) issue is really a big deal, get a load of this:
Hopefully, you have a high speed internet connection. This video file is rather large. Plus, you’ll want to skip ahead around the 62:00 minute mark.
The place: St Sabina
The date: 05 Jun 2011
The featured speaker: Supernintendo McCarthy
This is the “The NRA doesn’t like me” speech. It’s nauseating. He riffs on guns, throws in a nonsequitur about Sarah Palin hunting moose (attempting to equate legal hunting with a rifle to the bloodbath thugs perpetrate on the streets of Chicago), and claims a government conspiracy against brown and black people. In short, exactly the sort of bullshit you’d expect in Pfleger’s church, but not from a superintendent who’s supposed to be concerned for the public safety of all citizens.
That’s right, the new Chicago Police Chief, Gerry McCarthy, is an unhinged leftist kook. This was when he said the “NRA doesn’t like me,” which I referenced only lightly last week. The St. Sabina Insane Asylum website posted the whole speech video when SCC wrote this post, but they pulled it not long after that.
Remember, Rahm Emanuel appointed McCarthy. That’s because Chicago has local control over its PD. Since McCarthy is a kook, that probably proves that Rahm is a kook.
Still think local control is NBD? Now, St. Louis hasn’t had anything close to a stellar police chief for a long time, but by the same token, not even the black Chiefs the SLPD has had since Bob Scheets (the last truly good Chief), Clarence Harmon, Ron Henderson or Dan Isom, would stoop to this level of kookery. As insipid an asshole as was Joe Mokwa, (the only white Chief since Scheets), and corrupt as he was (as it turns out), he wouldn’t do anything like that, either. And the reason is obvious: Four of five Police Commissioners are appointed by the Governor. True, we’ve had Governors like Holden and Carnahan, but even they wouldn’t stoop this low, at least not publicly. Believe me, I’d chance Holden and Carnahan over anything the St. Louis City body politic could produce as Mayor, present company included.
McCarthy claims there is a “government conspiracy” against blacks and Hispanics. Pray tell, Gerry, who is the Chief Executive of that Federal government, and has been since January 20, 2009?
Here’s another object lesson stemming from all this — When you build your house on a shifty or shitty foundation, the whole house is going to fall apart. Likewise, when you start with a false premise, all your conclusions are going to sound insane. Like Michael Savage says, the mind that alters alters all. Yes, it’s a kooky thing to think and say all these things that McCarthy said to the patients at Pfleger’s asylum (which is an almost all black Catholic Parish on the South Side). But what else are they to think? When you assume that the races are fundamentally equal, you have no other real choice but to believe that any differences in outcome between the races is due to nefarious “conspiracies” or at least some sort of perfidy on the part of (white) architects of public policy. You have no choice but to claim that the executives of firearms manufacturers that live in gated communities are directly profiting from mysterious Federal laws (i.e. the 2nd Amendment, interstate commerce), that allow guns to sneak across the city limits into Chicago. (They sneak into a lot of other cities as well, yet the consequences don’t seem to be at all dire. Like I have asked rhetorically in this space recently — What is it about certain cities that make guns behave so badly?). You have to believe this sort of bullshit — The alternative is not to believe in racial equality. Obviously, an all black congregation in Chicago is going to believe in racial equality, and surely won’t want to hear a Police Chief say that they’re a fundamentally inferior lot. Though racial differences don’t necessarily imply superiority or inferiority, most blacks will so interpret such discussion, and most white liberals think that racial differences are code words for white supremacy.
UPDATE 6/22: Thank you “John Q” for directing me to a YT video of the relevant parts:
Something I forgot to say yesterday — McCarthy directly worked for Bernard Kerik at the NYPD at the time Kerik was corrupt, his corruption came out after Bush appointed him to succeed Tom Ridge at HLS but before the Senate could start confirmation hearings. McCarthy had to have known what his own boss was doing, if not out and outright aiding and abetting the corruption.
McCarthy touts the vast reduction of murders in NYC during his time. Partially that’s b/c of statistical legerdemain, partially because the NYPD is being told to deliberately cover up homicides and other crimes, and to the extent that it’s better, it’s because NYC engaged in a form of near racial profiling that you couldn’t get away with in Chicago. Yes, Chicago is way more racially PC than NYC.
“Everybody is afraid of race.” He says he’s not. Sounds to me like he is. To the extent that he’s not “afraid of race,” it’s that he thinks that Official America isn’t left wing enough on race.
Sarah Palin is a private citizen, asshole. She has no law enforcement power in Newark, New Jersey, and never has. She used to have implicit law enforcement power in Alaska, but she gave that up when she resigned. That “crime” at which you think she should have showed up — Was it that wonderful gang of MS-13 illegal aliens that assassinated several black college students at an outdoor basketball court? Remember, Gerry, Chicago is a sanctuary city.
What’s strange about all this is that the Chicago MSM last week only saw fit to write about McCarthy’s “clever” one-liner about how “the NRA doesn’t like me” from his address at St. Sabina. They covered up all the rest of the radical kooky stuff. Like I said above, quoting SCC, St. Sabina’s own website had the whole video up, but only for a few hours. Thankfully, there’s no such thing as un-ringing a bell on the internet. Watch that YouTube clip, but I suggest you download it (use one of the many video downloader extensions available for Firefox), before the Googitburo scrubs it under political pressure from the left.
“You didn’t make the team because you weren’t good enough.” See, easy and non-criminal as that. Possible side effects include self-esteem damage and bursting your son’s sense-of-entitlement bubble.
Levin and McCain should be more concerned about the American quislings who thought it was a good idea to allow Chinese electronics into our military’s supply chain.
* Jim Goad’s latest. In passing, we find out that Georgia has more illegal aliens than Arizona.
I doubted that at first, but it’s apparently true. The two main reasons it’s true is because Georgia’s overall population is larger than Arizona’s, and many illegals who cross into the United States through Arizona only cross there because it’s far easier to cross there than into California, New Mexico or Texas. But most of them actually don’t want to stay in Arizona (don’t get me wrong, many do stay), especially now that SB 1070 is partially in effect and being enforced — Even before SB 1070, they actually had intentions on going elsewhere.
Unfortunately, while this person realizes the futility of opposing “ethnocentrism,” s/he can’t make the obvious logical jump to concluding that we’re “ethnocentric” for a reason.
* He didn’t do what he allegedly did there, but I find it ironic that the authorities were able to catch up with him at the Wal-Martinez in Kirkwood.
McCain Says Arizona Fires Could Be Work of Illegal Aliens
“We are concerned about, particularly areas down on the border, where there is substantial evidence that some of these fires were caused by people who have crossed our border illegally,” said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) this weekend. “They have set fires because they want to signal others; they have set fires to keep; and they have set fires in order to divert law enforcement, agents and agencies from them,” he said. “So the answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border.”
McCain later had to walk that back, because Forest Service says there is no evidence that illegal aliens started that fire.
I think John Sidney McCain III is playing semantic games here, deliberately so.
The genesis of this theory is Glenn Spencer. But Spencer never made the accusation that Mexican nationals inside the United States illegally set the fire — His theory, which some good evidence seems to support, is that members of Mexican drug cartels in Mexico very near the border set the fire, with the knowledge and intent that it would spread across the border into the United States, which it did.
For as long as I have been paying attention, there has been a theory about those supermarket tabloids that most people know are mostly bullshit — They’re all assembled and published out of the same South Florida office park by the same company, and the theory is that particular company has links to the CIA or other alphabet gang agencies, and that the reason these junk tabloids exist is to intermingle “controversial” truths with obvious gossip bullshit in order to smear the controversial truths. I think McCain is playing similar games here — I think he’s trying to smear the likely true story by intermingling it with speculation he knows is false.
That’s what Michele Bachmann is right now, using that as a metaphor for the field of announced or about-to-announce 2012 Republican Presidential contenders. Left to my own devices, if the field does not change, I wouldn’t cast a vote in the Missouri Primaries. But if you stuck a gun to my head and forced me to vote, I would vote Bachmann ONLY because she has the “best” immigration grade, though her B-Minus NumbersUSA grade is basically “the curve.” Remember, she delusionally said that God wanted her to run for President (my Bible says at about the end not to put words in God’s mouth or take them out of His mouth), she believes in all these mysterious “black founding fathers” that liberal history professors in academia have not yet been able to find and would be touting heavily if they did, and then there’s her troubling philo-Semitism.
Bachmann: Obama ‘Has Failed the African American Community’ and Hispanic Community
(CNSNews.com) – Pointing to double-digit unemployment rates among African Americans and Hispanics, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) said on Friday that President Barack Obama “has failed” both these communities.
“This president has failed the Hispanic community. He has failed the African-American community,” said Bachmann. “He has failed us all when it comes to jobs.”
That’s right. Everybody KNOWS that Obama has “failed” blacks and Hispanics. The only people left who don’t realize that are blacks and Hispanics. President Obama will get almost 100% of the black vote when he runs for re-election next year, and while he won’t do quite as good among Hispanics in 2012 compared to 2008 because of the mirror effect, Obama will still get the clear majority of Hispanic votes.
Does that sound like failure to you?
Maybe what Bachmann means is that blacks and Hispanics are too dumb to know any better. If that’s her angle, then welcome to the “racist” club, Michele! Just don’t cry on your pearl necklace when the SPLC accuses you of spreading hate.
Honestly, everyone in this field not named Romney is deluding themselves, as much as it sorrows me to say it.
America, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Jamaicamahn. I wonder what they all have in common, especially something that could contribute to massive income inequality.
* Quietly into that good night: What will be the new City ward boundaries. Every member of the Board of Aldermen is a co-sponsor, ergo it will most likely pass unanimously. No wastebasket pissing theatrics this time around.
Mildly interesting is the dynamics of 12, 13 and 16. Fred Heitert being bounced out of 12 in April was the end of any Republican presence in the BoA, and the way the new map divides 12 and 13, it appears that the existing BoA wants to make sure no Republicans ever come back. Maybe there’s an outside chance a Republican grabs 16, (and I think it has happened in the recent past), but I’m not betting the farm on it.
* Here’s why I’m not betting the farm. Though for the sake of fairness, this little “incident” happened in what will be part of the 23rd Ward, not the 16th.
* Yeah, so? What does National Review think should be done about it? They’re of the mentality that the “free market” (read: corporations) can do no wrong, or at least do no wrong enough to justify government intervention.
I don’t have this problem because I don’t share in those delusions. A corporation is an artificial person that some level of government must countenance. Therefore, without a government, there can’t be any corporations. An employees bill of rights, as a condition of both incorporation and public trading of the corporation’s shares, there’s your answer. The beautiful thing about this is that it could easily happen — Most larger publicly traded corporations are incorporated in Delaware, because the state has a special court system with well-trained judges (“Chancery Courts”) to mediate intricate disputes between large publicly traded corporations, in ways that have earned the trust and respect of corporate managers. Delaware’s body politic is left of center, and though liberals do present a lot of problems, the mainstream left would be far more likely to endorse an EBOR (Employees Bill of Rights) than the mainstream right. If Delaware makes an EBOR a condition of incorporation and a condition of using its Chancery Courts, then you’ve solved a vast majority of the problem.
* This shit has got to stop. Law enforcement is getting really bad as of late about knocking down houses looking for people who haven’t lived there in some time.
BTW, Nick, racial integration really hasn’t worked out that well in the military, either. The only reason it “seems” better than it is is because military personnel don’t have a First Amendment.
If he is so upset about high corporate CEO pay, the much simpler and much more logical solution is to limit the pay of CEOs of publicly traded corporations to some multiplier of the average of the entry level. (Again, Delaware.) No need to turn the whole society into a dictatorship.
“It’s the new normal. It was a fait accompli. Please don’t blame Obama.”
* Ang is falling on her sword, will support a “full” Greek bailout. It means two things: One, a weakened Euro on the international currency market, and two, the end of her political career.
So why is she doing it? Answer: Because Germany is religiously wedded to the EU and the Euro, which are essentially Greater Germany and the Greater Deutsch Mark, in all essence. And their only way to combat Anglo-American economic dominance.
Huntsville to face federal probe into fair housing practices
Huntsville has stumbled into the crosshairs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Mayor Tommy Battle said HUD’s Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Program Center in Atlanta recently notified the city that it will conduct an exhaustive civil rights compliance review of local affordable housing programs.
(snip)
The mayor said Carlos Osegueda, director of HUD’s regional Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, told him Huntsville is being reviewed because of negative public comments about fair housing in The [Huntsville] Times, (Huntsville’s MSM newspaper), and local blogs.
Translation: Because some white people don’t want public housing blacks anywhere around them, and are voicing their concerns as comments to stories in Huntsville’s paper and on blogs of interest to the Huntsville area, the Yankee government is going to make a big shit stink about it.
It could be worse — At least they’re investigating only Huntsville city agencies, not the actual grass roots public themselves. Back in the days before one could be anonymous on the internet, one had to show one’s face at a public meeting in order to voice opposition to public housing projects and similar things. The FBI would often visit those who go and speak up against them, insinuating that they were violating Federal law by being opposed to “fair housing.”
PHOENIX – Arizona’s controversial immigration bill is again drawing attention to next month’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be played here in Phoenix.
But this time, it has nothing to do with boycotting the game. It’s actually quite the opposite.
There’s a new push for fans to form an all-Latino starting line-up for both teams in order to raise awareness about SB1070.
“We want people to stuff the ballot box,” said Dr. Rebecca Alpert, a baseball writer and professor at Temple University, “Have the fans vote in an all Latino starting line up.”
Hispanics trying to steal elections. What else is new?
By the time Arizona passed SB 1070, moving the 2011 ASG out of Phoenix was not an option. I suppose this business about all Latino starting lineups for both leagues is supposed to be a consolation prize for the open borders rabble rousers.
Obviously, SB 1070 is not relevant here from a legal standpoint, because every non-American Latino in the Major Leagues has some sort of legal visa status. While their Dominican or Colombian birth certificates might be a bit suspect, Mr. Pujols, no GM is going to want the PR headache of having been found out to have signed players in the country illegally. They get the paperwork done and cover their bases (pun intended) to make sure that they’re here legally on legal work visas. It’s one thing to have illegals working on an impromptu construction site, (and that’s wrong enough), but it’s another thing from a public perception standpoint to have one as your starting shortstop. Too, the trend in American immigration policy over the last few decades has been to make it easier and easier for Latin Americans destined to become pro athletes in American pro sports leagues to get work visas, the 2007 COMPETE Act being an example. I should say that that increasing permissiveness has gone hand in hand with the major leagues becoming less and less white, but that’s another topic for another day.
The (perhaps sad) reality is that Dr. Alpert’s desire for people to “stuff the ballot box” in order to see all eighteen starters be Hispanic might not really matter. For the major leagues are so predominately Hispanic that an all-Hispanic starting lineup in both leagues just might happen anyway based on the natural order of things, sort of like finding hay in a haystack. Even if only non-political native born white Americans got to cast votes.
And if that doesn’t help, all you need to do to ensure an all-Hispanic National League starting lineup is to use the New York Mets.
Muslims integrate into society better than some Christians, claims Trevor Phillips
Equalities chief Trevor Phillips has risked offending Christians with an explosive claim that Muslims are better at integrating into British society.
He said evangelical Christians were more militant than Muslims in complaining about discrimination – and claimed their complaints were down to nothing more than a cynical desire for greater political influence.
Mr Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, blamed the increasing influence on mainstream churches of African and Caribbean immigrants with ‘intolerant’ views.
There’s your answer. By “some Christians,” Phillips means black Christians.
The rest of this piece is such bizarro-world upside down thinking that I won’t even waste finger energy responding.
“This [photo ID] mandate would disproportionately impact senior citizens and persons with disabilities, among others, who are qualified to vote and have been lawfully voting since becoming eligible to do so, but are less likely to have a driver’s license or government-issued photo ID,” Nixon said in a letter explaining his veto. “Disenfranchising certain classes of persons is not acceptable.”
Except the bill doesn’t say that such people wouldn’t be allowed to vote. What it means is that those without a valid photo ID would be given one of those yellow provisional ballots, which would be counted if it were determined that the person casting it is eligible to vote.
You already know why Nixon vetoed, because you’ve been reading this medium for long enough.
Chances at a legislative override are very slim, mainly because it didn’t get close to two-thirds in the House. The very same St. Louis and Kansas City black reps that could be counted on in the redistricting override, because the map Nixon vetoed protects Clay and Cleaver, obviously wouldn’t be there on voter photo ID, because it would preclude most of the black voter fraud, which is actually most of the voter fraud in Missouri.
John Dodson, a special agent from Phoenix who eventually blew the whistle on the “flawed” operation, told congressmen his superiors would be “giddy” with delight when “their” guns were found at a crime scene in Mexico, because they believed it “validated” their tactic. With regard to potential loss of life, an ATF boss told him: “if you are going to make an omelette, you need to scramble some eggs.” (Emphasis mine)
I’ll have to look up GNSWP public employee union policy to see if he’s right, and then look up New Jersey’s mental illness policy to find out why there are people running around loose in the state comparing Chris Christie to Hiter.
Back story: Jane Harman abandoned CA-36 to be a scholar, and L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn (brother of James Hahn, Mayor from 2001-5) and businessman Craig Huey finished in first and second in the “beauty contest” part of the special election, though since Hahn didn’t get above 50%, the runoff is between her and Huey. CA-36 has a CPVI of D+12, so even if this ad really blows wind in Huey’s back and/or to Hahn’s face, it probably won’t be enough to keep Hahn from winning.
* In Weiner’s resignation speech, he said that the voters of his district were “patriotic.”
Really?
What are such “patriots” doing sending Anthony Weiner to Congress ever two years since 1998, and Charles Schumer before that between 1980 and 1996? You would be hard pressed to find two more hard lefties than that. Now, the current NY-9 has a CPVI of D+5, which is only a very light blue. However, the bare minimum Democrat win for Congress since 1996 (the last year Wikipedia has stats) in NY-9 is last year, when Weiner won with 60% of the vote, when he’s used to getting in the 70s. So even last year’s red wave couldn’t get Weiner’s margin of victory under 20 points. Since the Cook Partisan Voting Index is a running average of all elections, not just Congressional, it must mean that the voters of NY-9 prefer Weiner/Democrat for Congress and are slightly to mildly Republican for everything else, such as President, Governor, Senate, other statewide, etc.
New York State is losing two House seats, and rumor is that NY-9 might be a convenient one to ace out, in the wake of the Weiner scandal. However, Albany is Democrat run lock stock and barrel, (I don’t think last year’s red wave flipped either state legislative chamber), so two Republican districts would be aced out.
* Good, we’re making progress. Once they start profiling Arab/Muslims, then we’ll know that sanity has made a complete comeback.
* Usually, these kinds of stories are that boyfriend kills girlfriend’s young child from another man. But this one is the total opposite — Girlfriend kills boyfriend’s toddler daughter from another woman. Furthermore, the g/f raped her before killing her. (You’ll have to use your imagination to figure out how that is even possible.) What a nucking fut! Makes you wonder what was wrong with this man for hooking up with a psycho headcase like that.
This happened in Bells, Tennessee, a West TN town I just happened to have passed through a few years ago.
* Ann Coulter calls naked emperor on most modern-day conservative-libertarians, Ron Paul included. Her point seems to be that he and they are only “libertarian” to the extent that it’s popular, i.e. trying to appeal to young people that like to do dope. It’s like Sam Francis always taught me, you can’t look at an ideology part from the people who stand to benefit from it, or think they will.
For the record, Missouri is the fifth freest state, while Illinois is the 41st. Funny, I don’t hear any whining in Illinois that it needs to improve — Usually when a study like this is published, it’s based on some left-wing metric, and the Lenin wing will be out in full force bitching about Missouri’s low standing. (Feature, not bug, IMHO).
Don’t construe what I’m about to say as a suggestion, or a commandment, or a “call to arms.” Because doing so would very likely be a Federal felony. But by the same token, I really wouldn’t lose any sleep if some hacker hacked into the IRS computers and extracted the tax return filed by these self-styled “patriotic millionaires.” I bet most of them take every exemption and write-off they can. If they thought paying taxes was the essence of “patriotism,” the least you would expect of them is to take only the standard deductions.
No shit sherlock. That’s the advantage you have when you’re allowed to force people at gunpoint to dump money on your city — The job market in that government’s national capital city does tend to be “stable.” The catch is is that it’s not so “stable” everywhere else.
The mag also says that D.C. housing is “affordable” (I’m guessing Parenting Mag’s staff is very well paid), and that the crime rate is low. Yeah, if that’s so, then it’s probably because there is some very quiet and sub rosa effort to convince D.C.’s black population that Prince Georges County, Maryland is a much better place for them to live. If not “convince,” then make moving from D.C. to suburban Maryland a matter of a path of least resistance. In that, it’s not too different than Chicago and St. Louis — Those cities’ blacks are slowly and quietly being encouraged (quote-unquote) to migrate to suburban Cook and North St. Louis County, respectively.
* There’s something about this lawsuit that seems so Titanic vs Hindenburg. I think this lawsuit only really matters in the greater scheme of things if you think that corporate branded hardware running a proprietary form of UNIX isn’t already passe. But it is — Big Iron has been transitioning to generic hardware running Linux for some time.
First off, there has been a constant rumor running around that the real first wave of attempts to convert black American prison inmates to Islam were Libyan-financed. With that country being so much in the news lately, I hope King takes the time to find out whether that rumor is true or not.
While there are examples of such black converts actually cavorting with AQ types in Crapistan once they get out of prison, I don’t think that’s the intent of the AQ and MB types who may be behind these efforts. What I think their goal is with pushing Islam among prison blacks is not because they’re interested in foot soldiers for terrorist plots within the United States, (there are plenty of “real” Islamists in the United States who are good for that), but I happen to think that they hope the black converts will do their level best to destabilize the United States from within once they get out, the objective being that the United States will spend so much time and so many resources squelching the internal insurrection that it won’t be able to dick around in Crapistan.
If that was their intent, I don’t think it’s working very well. For most black hoosegowbirds, Islam is not much more than a prison gang, which they forget about once they get out. Those that do keep up with Islam after release, and go so far as to assume an Arabic name, are most likely doing it to obfuscate their criminal past, from those who they think won’t dig too deep. To the extent that domestic blacks can be boisterous and an internal menace, they can do that quite well TYVM even if they weren’t Muslim, and even if no Muslim prison recruiter ever talked to them. (“Doing life on the installment plan.”) Remember, they had to do something to get them sent to prison, and they committed these crimes while not being a Muslim, most likely professing some form of charismatic Christianity.
I have told you all along numerous times in this medium that most black Republicans or black “conservatives” aren’t really either, that their decision to become an apparent Republican or an apparent conservative had a far more personal motive than anything.
Let’s say for example that you are a young black adult, a recent college graduate, perhaps a recent law school graduate, and you’re thinking about a political career. You live in or very near a major urban core. You quickly find out that if you hitch your wagon to the Democrat Party, you are going to have to pay a lot of dues and wait a long time before you could truly be somebody, and there are very good odds that you’ll never really be somebody. The reason is obvious — Where you live, almost all the blacks are Democrats and almost all the Democrats are black. Black skin privilege may have helped you in your academic career, but it’s of no use to you now or in your chosen future. Being a black Democrat in an urban area is like being a stem of hay in a haystack. In other words, nothing special.
Then there is the Republican queue. It’s really short, and because of race pandering lamestream conservatives and neo-cons who live nowhere near the urban core of your city, if you line up in it, you’re bound to become somebody in really short order. The only tradeoff is that you’ll have to fake and feign a little bit of conservative ideology every once in awhile, but you can ace that by memorizing about a half dozen banal bumper sticker catch phrases. If you can parrot those phrases with all the fervor of an AME church pastor, all the better.
However, most people can’t be so fraudulent for so long. Eventually, your true colors are going to shine through. The party which you spurned so long ago because the line was too long will eventually do something like nominate a black man for President. Just like Ponzi schemse eventually fall apart because they’re based on a lie, so too will most black Republicans come out as what they were all along, because their whole careers and reputations were based on a lie or a rationalization.
If cartoon caricatures are enough to make him leave the Republican Party officially, then it is my contention that his attachment to the Republican Party was never all that strong to begin with, or, to put it more accurately, the attachment was based on a self-serving lie or rationalization on the part of Mr. Barnes. Also, since this is in California, and Democrats look like they’ll run everything in the state from here to eternity, he has a personal motivation to ditch the GOP, just as personal was his motivation to embrace it at some point in the past.
Prediction: Ken Barnes isn’t the last. At least one of the black politicians or quasi-politicians you might be able to recognize by name, that the pandering Tea Party Movement leadership are trying to peddle like snowflakes, will similarly show their true colors soon.
A black is a black is a black is a black is a black is a black. Trust very few of them (read: none of them) any further than you can spit.
If true, this should probably end any ambitions Shaq has toward a law enforcement career after basketball (which is now). He has always been rumored to want to be the elected sheriff of the Louisiana Parish in which he grew up (it’s one of the Baton Rouges), and even during his playing days, he would spend his summers as a reserve law enforcement officer for a jurisdiction in the city where he was playing. For instance, when he was with the Lakers, he summered as a reserve officer for the Port of Los Angeles Police Department. When he was with the Suns, he was a reserve deputy for Joe Arpaio, though Sheriff Joe had to give Shaq the heave-ho for lyrics he used in a rap song (“conduct unbecoming.”)
If these allegations are even half true, this means that Shaq is knowingly cavorting with known hoodlums and gangsters. In legalese, those who are LEOs or are prospective LEOs are not allowed to cavort knowingly with known habitual felons. This would be enough to deny him employment within almost any police department or sheriff’s office, or investigative agency of any state government or the Federal government. However, county sheriffs are elected positions, and all this might get lost in his celebrity. Unless there is some Louisiana state law that could intervene.
Duh, stupid. PR has no electoral votes. (In spite of Newt Gingrich’s worst efforts otherwise). And any states where there are enough PR voters to make a difference, you’ll win anyway.
* Add London to Sydney and Los Angeles to the list of formerly white cities in which Asian (especially Chinese) money is making life unaffordable for native born whites.
* Trump is recruiting Mike Tyson for his next season of Celebrity Apprentice. Now, what I’m about to say is a moot point, because Trump deciding to do a new season of CA means he has mentally checked out of Presidential politics, because of the FCC and FEC broadcast media rules vis-a-vis political candidates. But the irony in that, and perhaps the conflict of interest, is that Tyson’s former brother-in-law used to run the national fundraising arm of the political party whose Presidential nomination Trump was rumored to want to seek. Do you need me to fill in the big ole blank? The answer is Michael Steele. I think this is further evidence that Trump isn’t running.
* The only things worse than annoying sports euphemisms are annoying corporate euphemisms and annoying political euphemisms.
Answer: Quadaffi Duck is deliberately shipping young men, mostly sub-Saharan Africans whom he invited to immigrate into Libya over the years, into Italy in order to destabilize Europe, because Europe is providing a lot of help to the anti-Quadaffi Duck “rebels.”
* Medical consultant for FNC tells us why “genetic testing” to determine how good a chance a young son of yours has at a chance of a professional sports career is largely snake oil.
The only upside to such tests, if they were reliable, is that in the process of finding the few young men who “have a shot,” we would also find out who doesn’t have a shot, which is actually most boys. That way, parents (especially fathers) will stop putting insane levels of pressures on their sons to be the next Peyton Manning, and they’ll finally be able to have fun playing sports again, (and develop some good habits and social skills in the process), and dad won’t feel any need to deny junior that ice cream cone because of fears of physical fitness.
A few days ago, I said somewhat jokingly in this medium, after Gov. Robert Bentley gave Alabama a set of state level immigration laws even tougher than Arizona’s, which in turn were tougher than Missouri’s, that we’re now down to third place in that regard, and that we better get cracking. Before AL and AZ, Missouri’s were the toughest.
Our good neighbor Kris Kobach, (whose last paying job before becoming Kansas Secretary of State actually came from a Missouri public institution, a UMKC Law School Prof), is suggesting that we’re going to move up to at least a tie for second if not a tie for first during our next legislative session. I think the reason it didn’t happen this year is because next year is election year for Governor Nixon, and the Republicans in the General Assembly want to force his hand. Unfortunately, if they think they’re being so clever by hoping that Nixon vetoes so that it swings the election to a “diversity lover” like Peter Kindercare, they might be right, but not when it comes to my vote.
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