St. Louis CofCC Blog

Earlier this year, you passed a sales tax increase to fix this, and to build new ones like this, under the pretense that their existence prevents crime.  And because of it, the sales tax rate in the city is now 8.75%.  Does it look like any repairs have been done?

Now, SlayMokwa want more sales taxes, to hire more cops.  If this keeps up, all you’ll have to do to figure how much sales tax you’ll have to pay on your purchase is to move the decimal point one place to the left.

It’s as if SlayMokwa think that seasoned police officers with tangible experience in urban areas grow on trees.  If anything, and Chief Mokwa should know this firsthand, is that cops on the SLPD can’t get out of there soon enough, and suburban departments are more than happy to hire them.  This means that the SLPD is becoming increasingly more young and inexperienced, and after the murder of Officer Norvelle Brown, Chief Mokwa noted that 25% of the SLPD has under five years, and 10% has under one year, on the force.  Any new cops hired by a potential sales tax increase will just make the SLPD even younger and more raw.

Today:  30,707
Yesterday:  30,711

(Prediction:  Tomorrow’s rate will be 30,721)

Time Magazine:

Omar Paisley, 17, an inmate at a juvenile detention center in Miami that was filled 135% beyond capacity, died when nurses ignored his pleas for help after his appendix burst. The nurses were later charged with manslaughter and third-degree murder, to which they have pleaded not guilty, and their trials are pending.

The thesis of this article is that Florida’s system of adult and juvenile incarceration, in addition to its notorious and now-disbanded juvenile offender boot camps, is acutely corrupt, abusive and incompetent.

Of course you know Time is leading an anti-white lynch mob with this story, but before you all light your torches, you might want to consider this:  Since Florida’s state prisons are government-run institutions, and governments are even more affirmative action happy than big corporations, could it be that Mr. Paisley’s demise was caused partially by affirmative action nurses and other detention center staff members?

Gyms, locker rooms and prisons have always been havens of uncleanliness and places where people have cavorted in close quarters and in a risky manner.  Hospitals have always been a problematic haven for infections.  So why is MRSA becoming a problem now?

My two theories are:  (1) The MRSA bacterium, already an evolved form of staph, is evolving further, (as virii and bacteria tend to do quickly), to resist even the non-antibiotic treatments, and (2) Mass immigration is also importing already more-virulent strains.

What’s interesting here is that the young man from Bedford, Virginia cited in this article as a fatal victim of MRSA was a football player, and therefore did frequent MRSA-happy locker rooms, but he did not play football this year.  Since MRSA moves fast, he had to have contracted it in some other way, and very recently.

How he describes the Bush Presidency.  (He could just as well say that about both 41 and 43.)  Reasons include NAU, SPP, free trade, open borders, big spending, no-win irrational wars, UAE Portgate, and LOST.

I think “neo-liberal” is a more accurate and poignant description of the adherents of the school of thought known as neo-conservatism.  However, most MSM outlets and commentators prefer the latter, because it liberalizes the right side of the ledger, making it easier to push the perceived center (and therefore, the whole of the American body politic) leftward.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Aaron Barton was stopped by police a few minutes before midnight one night earlier this year, almost a half-hour past Pine Lawn’s 11:30 p.m. curfew.

If it happened at the same time tonight, Barton would be 90 minutes past a stricter curfew that he didn’t know existed before a reporter told him Tuesday. He also didn’t know that a second offense could theoretically cost his parents a fine up to $1,000 or 90 days in jail.

“I think it’s dumb,” Barton said after school at Normandy High as he cradled a textbook, “The Elements of Literature.” “I don’t think it’s right. But some people are probably out for the wrong reasons, and that’s probably why. But if you are 16, then you should be responsible for your own actions.”

Mr. Barton is right about one thing — If, for instance, he goes out after curfew again (his second violation), and commits a violent crime, he would probably be certified as an adult for the sake of criminal responsibility, but his parents might also get the fine and/or jail time.  This creates a legal paradox.

In a region of differing curfews — or none at all — Pine Lawn officials adopted a revision four months ago that may be the most restrictive of them all: 8:30 p.m. for age 12 and under; 10 p.m. for 13 to 16.

The aim, city officials said, is to cut down on graffiti, loitering, burglaries and kids riding their bikes into busy intersections after dark. No high profile crime motivated the new rules; the city just believed it was the right move.

This means that Pine Lawn thinks that if you’re 17 and out on the streets at 10:01 pm, you have a good reason for being there.

We didn’t need a Nobel Prize winner and a DNA pioneer to inform us of this.  We already had the intuition and experience of white Southerners.  The good part about this, though, is that it gives major scientific imprimatur to the concept.  Dr. Watson’s other contribution to civilization is that his discovery made the Maury Povich show possible.