Don’t look for much blogging from me this weekend.
I am officially legal as of tomorrow. Legal, to be President of the United States, that is. I’ve got the age, now all I need is money and credibility. Those are much harder to come by. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be 34 again.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* I mentioned this edifice a few days ago, in that I ate there after I took the SATs at SLU. There were plans to tear it down, but Starbucks and Shitpotle to the rescue.
* Fulton, Missouri is known for its college commencement speakers. Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westiminster College begat many other famous world leaders speaking there. As if they were feeling the heat, William Woods University, also in Fulton, has nabbed Val Kilmer to address the Class of 2012.
* And you wonder why we want photo ID to vote.
NATIONAL
* NICS background check data. Make of it what you will, I don’t have much commentary, but to say that there hasn’t been a month with under 966,000 checks since Obama was elected.
* Isn’t it nice to have friends in high places?
All snark aside, the Massachusetts court system probably isn’t being any more lenient with him than they would any other illegal alien in a similar situation.
* It’s obvious what this is, a feeble attempt to get Maryland’s blacks to vote for him instead of Ben Cardin in the Democrat Primary because the Senate has no blacks. But does Mr. Muse not realize the fire with which he’s playing by singling out the Jews?
* The Chicago Way: $7b to create 30k jobs. That comes to $233k per job. I doubt each of these jobs will pay anywhere close to $233k/yr, though.
INTERNATIONAL
* Merah: A stool pidgeon for French intel?
* IRONY ALERT: The sixth richest country in the world is leading a group of countries complaining about rich countries.
* An Australian study pours cold water all over the notion that younger students need homework.
I’m dubious about the study’s methodology, because I don’t think they controlled for the most important factor in determining academic achievement: Race.
* ALP wiped out in Queensland, but I don’t write anything into it. Why? Queensland is Australia’s most conservative state. Its existing ALP ruling majority was an aberration.
* The first paragraph is money. What have I been saying here since the very early days of this blog? Words are cheaper than dirt, actions have consequences.
MISC STUFF
* “None fell so pure of crime.”
* What if it wants to stick its head in the sand? Then you’re going nowhere.
* Yeah, I’ll buy. I’ll buy it, a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona Iced Tea, just to confuse the clerk.
* Unless you’re a ho, then it would be the job.
* Where?
* Remember, the opposite of derive is integrate. You know I’m not a big fan of integration. I’m trying to come up with the idea double entendre play on words for a great punchline.
Countenance Blog 
The Chicago Way: $7b to create 30k jobs. That comes to $233k per job. I doubt each of these jobs will pay anywhere close to $233k/yr, though.
The only thing I can think of is that he will start the jobs without enough money to finish and then make an appeal to the US for the funds to complete. Based on past major infrastructure projects in Chicago the cost should probably be raised to $21 billion. Rahm thinks he can get bankrupt airlines to pony up for an additional runway at O’Hare … I think some airline should just buy the Gary Indiana airport and pull out of O’Hare.
Regarding IL-2, it was gerrymandered to include Will County (Peotone) because Jackson is already in the pocket of developers if Peotone gets an airport. I was told people of Will County told him to get out of their district when he was politicking for it so …. he got himself to the representative for that district.
Oh God, don’t tell me they still haven’t given up on that pipe dream slash pork barrel of a new airport in Peotone? Chicago has been yammering about that for as long as I can remember. Do radio DJs in Chicago still do the gag of giving the temperature at “Peotone International?”
I thought what would have killed Peotone for good was American Airlines buying out TWA and getting access to the Lambert hub. For awhile, the national media called Lambert “Chicago’s fourth airport,” which made hardly a St. Louisan happy. But then AA went and jettisoned Lambert as a hub.