What He Did On His Summer Vacation October 31, 2007
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Jury selection begins today for his new trial.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 31, 2007
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Today: 30,695
Yesterday: 30,660
I Get It Now. Our Mayor Can’t Read Line Graphs. October 31, 2007
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From Mayor Slay’s latest post. Those posts are often removed, so the graph has been placed here for the sake of posterity.
And now his text:
There are plenty of urgent reasons to devise after-school programs that enlighten and engage our City’s young people. Researchers at the St. Louis Police Department recently sent me an excellent graphic representation of one very good reason.
The chart above shows the times that City youth and City police tend to meet up.
Look at the drops when kids are in school. Look at the spikes when schools let out.
No, it doesn’t drop when kids are in school. It starts rising at 6:30 AM, and climbs steeply until mid-morning, then gradually until mid-afternoon. So it doesn’t look like actually being in school necessarily stops juvenile crime, so Mayor Slay’s demand for more after-school programs won’t help, either.
Fun With Headlines October 31, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Education, Health Care, Immigration, Racial Dispossession, Racial Pandering, Racial Profiling.comments closed
P-D: Durbin wants greater federal role in battling so-called superbug infections
Judging from Durbin’s support of soft amnesty for illegal aliens, he wants a greater Federal role in importing superbug infections.
WND: University [of Delaware] to students: ‘All whites are racist’
If it’s that “hopeless,” then why even bother with the treatment? The original headline does not say “of Delaware,” but you can insert just about any university in the world, and the headline would still be true.
Columbia Missourian: More money does not affect student achievement, economists say
But more money does affect the NEA’s size, budget and power.
How About How Kids Handling Kids? October 31, 2007
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Illinois children accused of crimes often don’t receive adequate legal help and regularly plead guilty before a defense can be made, according to a new statewide study to be released today.
The net result is that more kids than necessary are incarcerated, and those youngsters are also then more likely to run afoul of the law later in life, say the authors of the Illinois Juvenile Defense Assessment Project.
(snip)
The authors also believe that early and excessive pleas “compromise the judicial process.” According to the research, between 70 percent and 100 percent are resolved by plea deals.
(snip)
“Kids don’t even understand that getting a probation officer means a conviction,” Crawford said. “The fact that they don’t know what’s happening is appalling to me.”
Contradictory — they’re trying to say that excessive incarceration and excessive use of probation as a result of plea deals are both problems at the same time. And it should be noted that a very high percentage of adult criminal charges are pled out.
The authors involved in the project recommend a host of changes that would benefit children in the system.
Some simple fixes such as not using shackles in the courtroom and new language for court instructions that kids can understand.
Lawyers talking to each other in simple English? Good luck with that.
Lost in all of this is a very simple solution — juveniles should stop committing crimes. That way, they won’t have to worry about jail, probation, shackles, court-appointed lawyers, and plea deals.
Affirmative Action CEO Almost Lynched Merrill October 30, 2007
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Gone, but not forgotten — his golden parachute, even after his boneheaded executive decisions plunged ML’s stock prices, is still worth almost $160 million.
Perhaps ML’s Board of Directors thought it would make them the darling of the Civil Rights Industry when they made Stanley O’Neal CEO in 2002, but the dream turned into a nightmare when, as if he were that Greek tyrant that leveled the tops of corn stalks, he fired a bevy of senior executives to sweep away his potential rivals and replacements, then put all of ML’s eggs in the subprime mortgage basket. And when that market went to the low place in a handbasket, he concealed the depravity of the financial situation to the Board.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 30, 2007
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Today: 30,660
October 26: 30,697
From Crazy Minds Come Crazy Ideas October 30, 2007
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Remember, his (crazy) mind spawned a system which once ruled half the globe with genocide, mass murder, and an utter failure of a uber-collectivist economic policy.
Karl Marx, who complained of excruciating boils, actually suffered from a chronic skin disease with known psychological effects that may well have influenced his writings, a British expert said on Tuesday.
Sam Shuster, professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia, believes the revolutionary thinker had hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) in which the apocrine sweat glands — found mainly in the armpits and groin — become blocked and inflamed.
“In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem,” said Shuster, who published his findings in the British Journal of Dermatology.
“This explains his self-loathing and alienation, a response reflected by the alienation Marx developed in his writing.”
Cancel That Vacation to Baltimore October 30, 2007
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All four of Baltimore’s top officials, it’s mayor, it’s city council president, its comptroller, and it’s city’s state’s attorney (prosecutor), are all black women. And their new weapon against the city’s incessant crime problem? Compassion.
There’s Plenty of Blame to Pass Around, But None to Where It Should Go October 30, 2007
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ST. LOUIS, MO (2007-10-29) Representatives for Missouri’s Division of Youth Services say case-workers aren’t paid enough and that fact is undermining attempts to rehabilitate troubled youth.
Nine juveniles are now back in custody after forcibly escaping from the Hogan Street Youth Detention Center in St. Louis.
Richard von Glahn is an organizing coordinator for the Missouri State Workers Union.
He says low pay and understaffing make it harder to create a working relationship with troubled teens.
“It is a less stable environment through their rehab, their less likely to act out so that when they come out of this facility their not fully rehabbed and they end up committing future crimes and then that puts them in the prison system.”
So, low pay, high turnover, and understaffing among juvenile detention center guards is to blame for these nine juvenile felons conspiring to escape, and gang-assaulting one of the guards in the process. I suppose the nine juvenile felons themselves don’t deserve any of the blame.
As the Hogan Street Youth Detention Center is a state agency, and state agencies in urban areas are little more than affirmative action hiring agencies, and Missouri’s youth corrections system is drawing praise from the liberal media for being more of a social services agency for teenage felons than a juvenile prison system, thereby resulting in a mollycoddling attitude on the part of administrators at such facilities, it’s not hard to figure how something like the Hogan Street Nine was able to happen. They didn’t need a Michael Scofield.
There’s Lies, Damn Lies, and the Open Borders Lobby’s Deliberate Omission of Statistics October 30, 2007
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So much for the bromide that we need more H-1-B visas because there aren’t enough Americans with science and engineering skills. Turns out that American universities are graduating far many more graduates in those fields than there are jobs in those fields, and all that is notwithstanding the existing H-1-B visa immigrants.
So that guy who will be delivering the pizza you order tonight is probably has a degree in computer science, a massive student loan debt load which he will never be able to repay, and a life full of shattered dreams. Tip him well.
There’s Not Much of a Middle Class Range Left October 29, 2007
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A new tax plan, proposed by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), and considered an HRC trial balloon, would place a surtax of 4% on the “rich” (i.e. incomes over $150,000 a year).
This is coming from the same politician that recently voted to expand a childrens’ health insurance program in a way that would have defined “poor” as an $83,000 annual income.
Therefore, in Rangellogic, you’re poor at $82,999, but filthy rich at $150,001. This doesn’t leave much room to be defined as middle class.
Fun With Headlines October 29, 2007
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AP: [New Orleans] Mayor: State May Take Over DA Office
If diversity is such a strengh, then why does the “weaker” state government feel the need to take over the “stronger” Orleans Parish D.A. office?
P-D: Ga. teen released on sex charge wants to attend college
I highly doubt Joshua Widner will be a sociologist or a businessman — no affirmative action pity for him.
Reuters: Serial jailbreaker [from Belgium] escapes for fourth time
His name is Nordin Benallal, but he might change it to Michel Scofiellde
LiveScience: A Culture that Capitalism Can’t Crush
An admission that capitalism crushes cultures.
AP: Edwards labels Clinton an insider
He did so from inside his mansion.
Reuters: [American Bar Association] urges death penalty moratorium
Dateline October 29, 2009: The President of the American Bar Association was killed today by an escaped prison inmate, who was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder, and sentenced to the maximum possible punishment of prison for life without parole.
The Mississippi Delta is the New “Southside” of Chicago October 29, 2007
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Or maybe Chicago is a northern extension of the Mississippi Delta.
Chicago-based youth street gangs have been a problem in the Mississippi Delta since the 1980s, thanks to family connections between the regions dating back to the Great Migration of the 1940s and 1950s. Recently federal authorities have cracked down on gangs in an attempt to shut down a pipeline that sends guns to the North and drugs back South, says Randall Samborn, an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago.
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“We are trying to send a message that we don’t want guns from Mississippi in Chicago,” says Samborn.
(snip)
A big reason the gangs seem to flourish in this area is that the Delta is fertile ground. Andrew Papachristos, a sociologist at University of Massachusetts Amherst who has studied gangs for 15 years, says street gangs evolve over time and become institutionalized in communities, particularly in areas where young men have few other opportunities.
Yet, there are a lot of opportunities in Chicago, but this has not precluded these black gangs from starting there, and thanks to “family connections” to the Mississippi Delta, spreading to the kinfolk there.
One shouldn’t be surprised that drugs and guns get the blame, but not the human beings. And the Federal, and not the state, government is portrayed as the savior. The trouble is that, before the Federal government thought it had the solution to everything, the state and local authorities did a very good job of crime suppression.
In 1900, Mississippi was (and still is) the blackest state in the union in terms of percentage of the whole (and recall that the “Great Migration” didn’t happen until mid-century, so it was higher than it is today, perhaps near half), and yet, it had the lowest murder rate of any state in the country. Now it has the highest murder rate. Looks like the Feds aren’t doing that well.
As an aside, black gangs in East St. Louis, Ill., reflect those in Chicago, while those in St. Louis reflect Los Angeles black gangs. The reason that the river makes such a difference is that blacks in East St. Louis who are sent to state prison are obviously sent to Illinois prisons, where they mixed with Chicago’s blacks sent to state prison, and the Chicago gang culture spread to East St. Louis. A black in East St. Louis is more likely to have contact with a black from Chicago than a black from across the river, for that reason. In contrast, St. Louis’s blacks adopted L.A.’s gang culture because of certain movies and music.
Reductio ad Dropoutium October 29, 2007
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AP:
WASHINGTON - It’s a nickname no principal could be proud of: “Dropout Factory,” a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That description fits more than one in 10 high schools across America.
“If you’re born in a neighborhood or town where the only high school is one where graduation is not the norm, how is this living in the land of equal opportunity?” asks Bob Balfanz, the Johns Hopkins researcher who coined the term “dropout factory.”
There are about 1,700 regular or vocational high schools nationwide that fit that description, according to an analysis of Education Department data conducted by Johns Hopkins for The Associated Press. That’s 12 percent of all such schools, about the same level as a decade ago.
While some of the missing students transferred, most dropped out, says Balfanz. The data look at senior classes for three years in a row to make sure local events like plant closures aren’t to blame for the low retention rates.
The highest concentration of dropout factories is in large cities or high-poverty rural areas in the South and Southwest. Most have high proportions of minority students. These schools are tougher to turn around because their students face challenges well beyond the academic ones — the need to work as well as go to school, for example, or a need for social services.
Utah, which has low poverty rates and fewer minorities than most states, is the only state without a dropout factory. Florida and South Carolina have the highest percentages.
If reducing the dropout rate and ensuring that everyone has a high school diploma is the only thing that matters, then the solution is easy — in schools designated as “dropout factories,” give every young man and woman a high school diploma as a privilege of reaching his or her 17th or 18th birthday.
“What? This would dilute the value of a high school diploma?” Where have you been? I guess you’ve been sleeping under a rock while standards and curricula have been diluted for several decades.
UPDATE 10/30: Here are the “dropout factories” in the St. Louis Metro Area. Of these high schools, only Bayless and Northwest (Jefferson Co.) are majority white.
Bayless (St. Louis County, Bayless S.D.)
McCluer (St. Louis County, Ferguson-Florissant S.D.)
Normandy (St. Louis County, Normandy S.D.)
Northwest (Jefferson Co., Northwest S.D.)
Beaumont (SLPS)
Central VPA (SLPS)
Cleveland NJROTC (SLPS)
Gateway (SLPS)
Roosevelt (SLPS)
Soldan (SLPS)
Normandy was once the most desirable school district in north St. Louis County. Gateway in St. Louis City is considered the second most desirable high school in the city system.
You Can’t Quit. I’m Firing You. October 28, 2007
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Parlez-Vous Français?
Promoting his province before a New York business audience recently, Jean Charest, the Quebec Premier, sprinkled his remarks with amusing quips.
Here’s one that would have brought the house down: His government believes it can convince the United Nations to quit New York for Montreal.
Last year, Raymond Bachand, the province’s economic development minister, allocated $100,000 for feasibility studies, while the federal, provincial and Montreal governments chipped in another $50,000 through promotion agency Montreal International.
If it were up to me, the UN wouldn’t be moving to Montreal or some other city outside of the USA as a matter of choice, but of necessity.
It’s Time For Us Caucasians to Learn About the Birds and the Bees October 28, 2007
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No, not like that.
Why do birds flock, bees swarm, beasts herd and fish school? Because there’s power and protection in numbers. There’s a racial lesson in this.
“The greater the tendency to form groups, the higher the stability of numbers of both species over time,” said lead author John Fryxell, an integrative biologist at the University of Guelph in Canada.
The irony of that is if Caucasian human beings try it in the country where this university is, Caucasian plutocrats will bring criminal “hate” charges.
The relative tendency for whites not to form groups, think like a group, or behave like a group, compared to the world’s other racial groups, and likewise, the relative tendency for white socio-political theoreticians to advocate atomistic individualism, compared to other races, will directly contribute to the instability, decline and dissolution of white civilizations.
No You Won’t October 28, 2007
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Gov. Schwarzenegger vows to ‘hunt down’ arsonists
Really? I don’t think you or any other open borders shill will like what you find.
Then Why the H-1-B Mania? October 27, 2007
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Political leaders, tech executives, and academics often claim that the U.S. is falling behind in math and science education. They cite poor test results, declining international rankings, and decreasing enrollment in the hard sciences. They urge us to improve our education system and to graduate more engineers and scientists to keep pace with countries such as India and China.
Yet a new report by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, tells a different story. The report disproves many confident pronouncements about the alleged weaknesses and failures of the U.S. education system. This data will certainly be examined by both sides in the debate over highly skilled workers and immigration. The argument by Microsoft, Google, Intel, and others is that there are not enough tech workers in the U.S.
At least, not enough that want to work for relative peanuts.
If the “U.S. is falling behind in math and science education,” it’s because an increasing percentage of “American” students are non-white. And even white students tend to suffer in such an environment, because curricula are diluted to appeal to non-whites.
However, the flaw in this reasoning is that a country’s scientific prowess isn’t determined by how well its average pupil does in math and science class, it’s determined by a very small cadre of highly intelligent and innovative people, a scientific elite. Also, I have come to the circumstantial conclusion that the smarter the average person is in a given country, the more likely it is that the scientific elite in that given country will thrive, and churn out innovations. For instance, America’s scientific elite wouldn’t be nearly as successful if they were transposed to Zimbabwe, but they would be more successful if they were transposed to Switzerland.
Mokwa: Urban Policing Is Dangerous October 27, 2007
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There’s a lot of talk that if the SLPD would have competitive pay scales with suburban departments, this would stem the outward flow of experienced cops on the SLPD. The trouble with that is that more money doesn’t solve the race problem. All it would mean is that city cops are better paid targets of street gangs, and if/when the cops lose their jobs because every stop or accosting of blacks is a potential career-ender, they would be losing a lot more money than they would otherwise.
Even if, e.g. St. Peters paid less than the city, there would still be a City-to-St. Peters exodus.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 26, 2007
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Today: 30,697
Yesterday: 30,686
Meet Wisconsin’s Next Governor October 26, 2007
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State A.G. J.B. “John” Van Hollen has the audacity to state that illegal aliens should not get state professional licenses. And for a state like Wisconsin, that would twice elect a Governor like Jim Doyle, that’s a pretty bold move.
So, When Is Joshua Widner Getting Out of Prison? October 26, 2007
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The reason I ask is that a black man convicted of a very similar crime due to very similar circumstances is getting out, courtesy of the Georgia State Supreme Court.
UPDATE 10/27: A reader, “Joe,” wrote in and pointed to the Georgia State Supreme Court opinions on their decision to free Genarlow Wilson. The majority opinion cited the Joshua Widner case, and the Justices in the majority opinion decided that the Widner case was irrelevant to the Wilson case, because after Wilson’s “indiscretion,” the Georgia legislature changed the law to allow for a three-year difference between the partners without it being defined as statutory rape. Widner was 18 years 6 months old, and his partner was five days short of her 14th birthday, at the time of their “indiscretion,” yielding a difference of four years six months. Even as the Court’s rationale to free Wilson was contorted, and wreaks of judicial activism, they themselves recognized that they couldn’t legally apply it to Widner’s case. Frankly, if the Court were so concerned about the law, they shouldn’t have freed Wilson, because the same changes in the law made by the legislature were not applied retroactively. (Though I do find it suspicious that the legislature did change the law in such a way that it would just so happen not to make any future acts like Wilson’s a crime, but they didn’t change it in such a way to decriminalize acts like Widner’s.)
If both Wilson and his girlfriend, and both Widner and his girlfriend, lived in Missouri, (and Widner would have waited five days), neither man would have committed statutory rape at the time of their indiscretions. However, if Widner and his girlfriend would have stayed together indefinitely, they could relate up until his 21st birthday, but after that, there would be about a six-month time period after he would turn 21 where he could not touch his then-16.5 year old girlfriend — he would have to wait until she turned 17. Statutory rape in Missouri is defined as anyone who touches anyone else under 14, or anyone 21 or older who touches anyone under 17.
Matt Blunt’s Catch-22 October 26, 2007
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He’s the latest person to discover that, when it comes to hiring and illegal aliens, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Or, to put it more accurately, there’s immigration law on one side, and racial equality civil rights laws on the other.
Joe Biden Joins the James Watson Caucus October 25, 2007
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Now if he would only vote like he talks.
In an interview with The Washington Post’s editorial board, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) asserted that he is more prepared to be president than any other candidate, disputed the notion that governors are better suited for the White House than senators and warned that Pakistan is a potentially bigger threat than Iran.
Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city’s high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate that the disadvantages were based on economic status, not race.
After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others — in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. “There’s less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington?
Related: Joe Biden and Slavery, Joe Biden and AIDS in the black community, Joe Biden Has an Obamagasm
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 25, 2007
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Today: 30,682
Yesterday: 30,686
24 Hours Late and 100 Cents Short October 25, 2007
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Christian Science Monitor on Jena myths — where was this two months ago? All these media establishment types knew it just as well two months ago as they did now, yet they’re waiting until now to tell the truth, after they have whooped up black rage, hate and paranoia, which will surely get some white person killed, if it hasn’t already.
There Stands Claire McCaskill, Tall like a Stone Wall October 25, 2007
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The second attempt to push through the DREAM Act, i.e. another backdoor attempt at soft amnesty for illegal aliens, failed yesterday in the Senate. Or, to put it more accurately, a cloture vote failed. It needed 60 votes, and only got 52.
You already know who voted no, and by deduction, against the DREAM Act, but Kit Bond also voted no. This is probably a clue that he will try for another term in 2010.
Also, you will notice that John McCain and Ted Kennedy, whose very names were attached to the first two attempts at “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” did not vote.
2008: Year of the Dobbs October 25, 2007
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Politico thinks that s/he who sounds most like Lou Dobbs wins.
But there is one slight error in this article:
The fact that the Beltway establishment’s full-court push for immigration amnesty was defeated twice this year by an alternative-media-led populist rebellion indicates the political power of these issues. It isn’t just about immigration.
It wasn’t defeated “twice,” it was defeated four times. Twice, the McKennedy “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” was beat back early this past summer, and twice, the Harry Reid-peddled DREAM Act was beat back, the latest defeat being yesterday.
Duh and Duh October 25, 2007
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JEFFERSON CITY — The state’s crackdown on illegal immigrants has led to 52 arrests in the first six weeks, with most caught in routine traffic stops.
More than half of those detained were passengers. One had a flat tire. Others were pulled over for speeding or failure to use a turn signal properly.
That’s how most people with warrants are arrested.
While many have hailed Gov. Matt Blunt’s get-tough policy, critics say the Missouri Highway Patrol’s even more aggressive strategy of checking residency during traffic stops could result in racial profiling.
“If you’re being told from on high that we’re going to stop illegal immigration, law enforcement is going to look twice at someone who looks Hispanic,” said Jorge Riopedre, secretary of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis. “It’s only human nature.”
Tony Rothert, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, said the Highway Patrol doesn’t seem to have a “coherent policy” for deciding whom to arrest.
Okay, the State Bears should arrest a lot more silver-haired white 80-year old WWII vets on suspicion of them being illegal aliens, just to even out the race stats.
