St. Louis CofCC Blog

Reuters:

A trawl through the genes of white people in Utah and Yoruba people in Nigeria shows a significant number of differences that can explain why some groups respond differently to drugs than others.

The findings also suggest that genes underlie some susceptibility to diseases in a general population, the researchers report in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

What the study does not show, the researchers stress, is that any of these differences are necessarily racial. But they are a first step toward a day when medical care may be tailored not only for individuals, but for entire groups.

Then what else could distinguish whites in Utah an Yoruba in Nigeria such that they respond differently to drugs?  Climate?

Two riots at two different high schools in two different states a day apart both by students with roots on the island of Hispaniola.  Yesterday, the eastern half went nuts in Reading, Pennsylvania.  Today, the western half got its turn in Miami.

Obama’s NAFTA opposition?  Because he was way too cozy with too many CFR-types, I had a hunch it was all for show.  Alas, from his campaigning in Ohio, he has just turned his head northward toward Ottawa and winked.

Just so you forgot, many of the neo-con types who were part of the Bush administration and brought about the invasion of Iraq are now with Obama.

KSDK:

Realtors take steps to keep from becoming the victims of an attack, after two alleged attacks on leasing agents.

Kim Carney has been a realtor for Coldwell Banker Premier for six years. After Carney learned of the alleged attacks, she decided to have her husband call when she’s dealing with a client for the first time.

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Former St. Louis County Detective Nancy Hightshoe teaches personal safety. After the alleged sexual assault of a realtor last year in Weldon Spring, Hightshoe held a security seminar for 175 realtors from Coldwell Banker Gundaker.

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Hightshoe encourages realtors to carry a personal safety alarm. When the pin is pulled, a 120 decibel siren goes off immediately. Hightshoe said the noise is enough to startle an attacker and possibly help a victim get away.

There’s something else they could carry to protect themselves.  I wonder what that could be, Nancy.  I’m sure it’s something you did carry when you were a St. Louis County Cop, then a Detective, and something that you can still carry even as a former cop.

More specifically, the relative nonchalance that conference attendees have toward the prospects of a black President in the person of Barack Hussein* Obama.  This comes a day after The New Republic wrote essentially the same article about other elements of the racial right, including your CofCC.

Here are the pull quotes from Newhouse:

As Sam Dickson, a Georgia attorney and American Renaissance fixture, put it in the conference’s closing remarks (in which he offered a “modest proposal” to create a separate “white homeland” in the United States): “We are facing the election of Barack Obama, or, even worse, McCain.”

and:

Howard Fezell, a Frederick, Md., attorney, believes Bush invaded Iraq at the bidding of Israel and its neoconservative American supporters. “Having missed out on the 14th century, McCain is eager to participate in another Hundred Years War,” he said.

I wish I could be so insouciant.  Unfortunately, it’s the reaction that certain people have to the ascension of Barack Hussein* Obama that will force me to vote McCain in November.

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* — Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name is a copyrighted trademark of the Republican National Committee and John Sidney McCain III.   Any use without written consent is hereby prohibited.

WCBS-2 New York:

Report: 1 In Every 99 Americans Now Behind Bars

Don’t ask the U.S. prison system if this is indeed “the land of the free.”

For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population.

The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.

Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 — one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world.

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Susan Urahn, managing director of the Pew Center on the States, said budget woes are prompting officials in many states to consider new, cost-saving corrections policies that might have been shunned in the recent past for fear of appearing soft in crime.

“We’re seeing more and more states being creative because of tight budgets,” she said in an interview. “They want to be tough on crime, they want to be a law-and-order state — but they also want to save money, and they want to be effective.”

I can think of some old, cost-saving corrections policies.  But actually proposing them would be taboo, and actually doing them would violate Federal civil rights acts.  And they would also have the added detriment of actually working, and deterring crime among certain populations, and precluding the necessity of a state prison in every town.

I’ll give you a hint — Mississippi in 1900 had the lowest murder rate of any state in the union.  Mississippi in 2000 had the highest murder rate of any state in the union.

AP:

8 wounded in Los Angeles street shooting

LOS ANGELES - Police are searching for a gunman who wounded eight people at a busy South Los Angeles bus stop as they try to figure out why he opened fire into a crowd of children and adults.

Armed with a semiautomatic handgun, the man apparently was aiming at somebody but missed his target and shot others at the bus stop just after schools let out Wednesday, Lt. Ruben De La Torre said.

The shooting occurred around 3:15 p.m. at a busy intersection filled with shoppers, motorists and students. Two of the victims ran away and were found outside a nearby middle school, police Officer Sara Faden said.

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Amir Khani, who said he has operated a discount store next to the Jack in the Box since 1989, wasn’t surprised by Wednesday’s bloodshed.

“These things, on this corner, happen all the time — street fighting, gangbanging,” Khani told the Los Angeles Times.

They “just happen,” do they?  An earthquake happens, a meteor dropping from the sky and landing on that corner happens.  Human beings are responsible for the gangbanging.

USA Today:

Programs for urban blacks lauded

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The report, released today by the Eisenhower Foundation, a policy group formed by a former Kerner Commission member and former staff members, makes recommendations:

•Increase funding for national programs such as Head Start, which promotes early childhood education; Safe Haven and Quantum Opportunities, which offer after-school tutoring and mentoring; and the Gemeinschaft Home, a residential program in Harrisonburg that helps inmates make the transition from prison.

Head Start seems to be successful, but it’s only because black children receive it in a time in their lives when their average intellectual development is higher than that of whites, because black babies and children tend to mature more quickly than whites.  But once they do, they level off and fall behind whites as a measure of central tendency through the late single-digit years and the teenage years.

•Raise the federal minimum wage from the current $5.85 an hour.

So, blacks are only worth the minimum wage?  Even I don’t agree with that.

•Create a federal Employment Training and Job Creation Act.

Ever hear of CETA?  That Federal boondoggle of affirmative action make-work was dispatched in the Reagan era.

The report does not put a price tag on its proposals.

Of course.  Nothing is too dear for our diverse population.

“We know what works,” says Alan Curtis, the foundation’s president, who wrote the report. “It’s a matter of having the political will to do it.”

I agree.  I know what works, and that it’s simply a matter of having the political will to do it.  But what does that have to do with anything he is proposing?

The report finds that from 1980 through 2000, three times as many black men went to prison as went to college. In 2000, half of the 800,000 black men in prison did not have the literacy skills needed in the job market.

The solution is easy — just transfer those black men from prison to Harvard.

On the one hand, Buckley and National Review overlapped the Council of Conservative Citizens and American Renaissance about 80% of the time, and on most fundamentals. (Both magazines founded by erudite Yale alums, incidentally.) In fact, NR pre-1970 might as well been a carbon copy of AR.

But on the other hand, he heartily denounced many organizations and people who were on the front lines of such fundamentals, including the Citizens Councils, George Wallace, and the John Birch Society. And starting in the early 1990s, NR purged its right-wingers and became neo-con.

It is said that Buckley is the grandfather of “mainstream” conservatism. As Buckley himself has a mixed legacy, my opinion is the same about “mainstream” conservatism. As I have said in other spaces, “mainstream” conservatism might have been fine in theory, and might oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, and might have denounced Martin Luther King as late as 1979 in NR, but “mainstream” conservatism in practical application (i.e. the Presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan) gave us a Federal holiday in MLK’s name and amnesty for illegal aliens.

And that’s disregarding “mainstream” conservatism as a shill for predatory capitalism and its practitioners, both in theory and reality. In fact, the cynic in me would simply say that Buckley’s legacy merely consisted of taking both major factions of the pre-1960 right wing, the Taft-Bricker-McCarthy-JBS isolationists, and the Bilbo-Wallace-Russell-CCA race realists, diluting them, and delivering them pied-piper like into the hands of the corporate ruling class. And I’m saying that his legacy contradicted McCarthyism even as Buckley himself defended McCarthy.

Because I’m the type of person who thinks that actions have consequences while words are cheap, my ultimate opinion on Mr. Buckley’s legacy will probably be cynical, and be not much different than my assessment of the 16th President.

Now that the conservative in theory has joined the conservative in practical application in their eternal rewards, it’s time to move beyond Buckley/Reagan and move on to something better, a philosophy which will verily serve to resist and reverse the racial, social and economic dispossession of the white working middle class.

And predictably, your CofCC gets part of a paragraph:

And some even see hints that Obama may be leading a national black uprising. “Are blacks becoming more hostile towards whites?” asked a recent entry at the … Council of Conservative Citizens website.  The author, citing the early February rampage by a black gunman near St. Louis, Missouri, advised that “the success of the Obama campaign might be emboldening blacks to be more aggressive towards white[s] on a national scale.”

Actually, that needs a little clarification.  By himself, Barack Hussein Obama (sorry, John McCain, for using his middle name) is a plastic banana and an empty suit.  I would no sooner expect him to succeed in leading a black uprising than I would for him to hang the moon.  The point made at Dot Org in that blog post is that many black Americans, particularly in the lower classes, might be “feeling their oats” and becoming more arrogant and flippant (”we’z takin’ over, cracker”), simply because a black man is so close to becoming President.  I would expect those sort of people to have that kind of attitude even if the black candidate was the Tommiest of Toms, e.g. Clarence Thomas.

They’re called Human Rights Commissions.  Equality and liberty are diametrically opposing concepts.

Washington Times:

Artist hit for refusal on beliefs

An evangelical Christian photographer was brought before the New Mexico Human Rights Commission after she declined for religious reasons to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony.

When Elaine Huguenin of Albuquerque, N.M., declined in September 2006 an e-mail request from a lesbian couple to photograph their ceremony, one of the lesbians responded by lodging a human rights complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Division, the state agency charged with enforcing state anti-discrimination laws and sending cases to the commission to be adjudicated.

Vanessa Willock sought an injunction to prohibit Mrs. Huguenin and her business, Elane Photography, from declining any future request to photograph a same-sex ceremony. The agency agreed to hear Miss Willock’s complaint, the latest case brought before tribunals in the U.S. and Canada that free-speech advocates say threaten expression across North America.

In the absence of Miss Huguenin, I can think of one photographer in New Mexico who might gladly take that job.  Set your GPS to Ruidoso.

Fox News:

School Suspends Teens for Wearing Crucifixes

ALBANY, Ore. —  A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for “gang-related behavior” because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their mothers.

Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their necks.

Salazar said Principal Chris Equinoa saw his necklace and told him to put it away. “I was like, why?” Salazar said. “He says it’s related to gangs.”

Salazar said he argued and was sent to the office. Instead, he went home. Later, he received a note saying he had been suspended for five days for “defiance and gang-related behavior.”

Like most people, I chalked this up to the pervasive anti-Christianity in public schools, and I also came up with an alternate explanation that the school’s administration sadistically used any excuse when they couldn’t make these two students do what they wanted.

But Jamie Allman this morning informs us that more than forty gangs, mostly Hispanic, are using crosses adorned with colored beads as gang symbols.  As it turns out, Messrs. Salazar and Castro’s crucifixes did have light blue beads, indicating a gang.

If we had a news media that would explain these things to us, then most of us would have arrived at the right conclusion to begin with.

Western Union might close its Bridgeton call center. If not, they’ll definitely make heavy cutbacks there.

If WU’s business is suffering because there are better USA-to-Mexico remittance options, this news doesn’t necessarily prove that, because WU’s Spanish-speaking call center, which facilitates those remittances, is in Dallas. Bridgeton closing probably proves that there is hardly any need anymore for Western Union transactions among those who speak English.

UPDATE 2/27: Another theory is that WU is going to outsource its English-speaking call center work. After all, those dastardly human resources in Bridgeton have the audacity to think that they can belong to a union, and negotiate for good wages for good work. Don’t they know that they need to learn how to compete with virtual slave labor in the global economy?

As it is, the Bridgeton facility only has about half the people working there that they did five years ago.

But in this open casting call, non-whites need not apply.  And for once, the civil rights industry won’t be complaining about it.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Film’s casting call wants that ‘inbred’ look

A movie about to be filmed in Pittsburgh is casting Gothic characters — including an albino-like girl and deformed people — to depict West Virginia mountain people.

“‘Regular-looking” children need not apply.

That’s the gist of an open casting call for paid extras for “Shelter,” a horror film starring Julianne Moore that will begin shooting in Pittsburgh in March.

The casting call scheduled for Sunday invites “men and women of all races, 18 or older,” to try out as extras, according to the announcement from Downtown-based Donna Belajac Casting. But the extras wanted for the West Virginia scenes evoke images of “Deliverance” and “The Hills Have Eyes.”

If the movie was going to be about Pittsburgh’s black neighborhoods, and the gang/thug/hip-hop look was encouraged, we would never hear the end of it.  And this newspaper in Pittsburgh wouldn’t encourage people to audition.

From PJB’s latest:

Writes Muller: “A familiar and influential narrative of 20th-century European history argues that nationalism twice led to war, in 1914 and then again in 1939. Thereafter, the story goes, Europeans concluded that nationalism was a danger and gradually abandoned it. In the post-war decades, Western Europeans enmeshed themselves in a web of transnational institutions, culminating in the European Union.”

Actually, WWI can’t be blamed on nationalism.  In fact, it makes better sense to blame EU-style transnationalism.  The reason is that in the decades leading up to WWI, secret treaties among European countries were the de rigeur of foreign policy.  The theory is that since all Europe knew that every country had a secret treaty with someone, it would deter any country from attacking another.  For example, if Germany invaded England, Berlin would have no clue which countries England had secret treaties with, and attacking England was the moral equivalent of attacking half of Europe, in all likelihood.  The foible in that mentality, as we saw in 1914, was that a minor affair, such as an assassination of nobody in particular in nowhere in particular, set up a domino effect, thanks to the secret treaties, that ended in Europe being at war with itself.

Contra Costa Times:

On Feb. 9, Oakland police, led by state Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, offered to buy handguns and assault weapons for $250 each, “no questions asked, no ID required.” The “One Less Gun” buyback program attracted so many eager sellers that the money quickly ran out. But instead of closing up shop, the police handed out IOUs good for a future buyback. The Oakland police are now stuck with a bill for $170,000.

$250 and no ID?  Talk about an incentive to steal guns.  They probably wouldn’t get close to that on Oakland’s black market.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

Voucher study finds parity

The first full-force examination since 1995 of Milwaukee’s groundbreaking school voucher program has found that students attending private schools through the program aren’t doing much better or worse than students in Milwaukee Public Schools.

The study, released Monday in Madison, is the first from a five-year project aimed at providing a comprehensive evaluation of the voucher program, which this year is allowing more than 18,000 Milwaukee children from low-income families to attend private schools, 80% of them religious schools.

The authors caution repeatedly that stronger conclusions will come only when trends over several years can be examined, and not much should be read into this year’s results.

And the headline of this post is “that stronger conclusion” that will eventually be made.

RealClearPolitics:

Crime as a Campaign Issue
By David Broder

WASHINGTON — From Pakistan to Serbia, and recurrently in Iraq, the headlines point to the dangers of the world — most notably the threat of terrorism. And yet when the polling firm Cooper & Secrest Associates asked 1,139 Americans in December which threat they took most seriously, 69 percent chose violent crime and only 19 percent named terrorist attack.

The survey was part of a striking report released Saturday (Feb. 23) by Third Way, a liberal think tank, and several governors, warning that the crime issue, which has slipped off the political agenda since its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, is about to return.

“Four new and dangerous sociological trends are converging to disturb the peace and are threatening a crisis of crime, if not addressed,” says the report.

The reason for the 7-2 disparity is obvious — the average American is far more likely to be mugged by De’Andre, or killed in a car wreck caused by drunk-driving Jose, than terrorized by Osama.  For the average American in flyover country, terrorism is a problem for NYC, DC, and the other side of the world.

The irony of a liberal think-tank wanting to resuscitate crime as a political issue is that it, and its racial connotations, combined with the now-disposed Republican “Southern Strategy,” has helped elect politicians who are anything but liberal.  Whether that 1980 and 1994 lighting-in-a-bottle can ever strike again is doubtful, because the Republican elite have given up even pretending to care about what white voters care about.

Cybercast News Service:

Violence Against Border Agents Viewed As Sign of Success

Violence against Border Patrol agents — including attempts to run them over and behead them with wire — increased by almost a third in 2007, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Friday.

He interpreted the increased violence as an indicator that the border is becoming more secure, a point he also made three years ago in the face of escalating violence.

I suppose if the murder rate in a given city is going up, that means that crime control measures are working.  If poverty is going up, then welfare is a success.  If there are more car wrecks, then the cops are diligently enforcing speed limits.  If your lights don’t come on, then the electric company has done its job.  If nobody in the crowd laughs, then the comedian’s joke was really hilarious.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

School closings “take the heart” out of urban neighborhoods

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Steven Bingler, the president of Concordia, Inc., a New Orleans architectural and educational planning firm, has studied the impact of school closings on urban neighborhoods. He says St. Louis residents have good cause for concern on several fronts, not the least being the impact that closings often have on student performance.

“If kids can’t walk to school, then their parents can’t get to school either,” Bingler pointed out. “And when parents can’t participate in their child’s education, in many cases that child will fail.”

Martin Blank, the executive director of the Coalition for Community Schools in Washington, contends that St. Louis, like many urban (and sometimes rural) areas, often pull the plug without exploring the alternatives.

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“For our most vulnerable kids, smaller places are better. People know who they are and they can stay better connected to their community,” he said.

This is the same mentality that bought St. Louis interdistrict deseg, which took kids to suburban schools that are even further away for them and their parents.

Los Angeles Times:

A gang’s staying power

Entrenched for years in Northeast L.A., the Avenues continues to defy the forces of law and gentrification.

The young men who rule Drew Street have survived countless convictions, injunctions, evictions and deportations.

Over the years, they have called themselves the Cypress Assassins, the Pee Wee Gangsters, the Brown Crowd Youngsters. They are as much clan as gang, deeply interconnected by family, with decades in their Glassell Park neighborhood.

Police have tried to crush them for years, but for all the law enforcement rained upon the shabby two blocks of wrought-iron fences and stucco apartments, homeboys still command the street, as evidenced by the wild shootout Thursday in Northeast Los Angeles. The gun battle, which followed a drive-by attack near an elementary school, prompted police to shut down dozens of blocks, stranded thousands of residents and left two people dead.

The Drew Street crew is just one clique of the notorious Avenues gang that has tenaciously retained control over a wide swath of Northeast L.A., defying both the forces of gentrification and heavy crackdowns by police and federal agents.

The gang, deriving its name from the avenues that cross Figueroa Street, took root in the 1950s and has wreaked havoc ever since. The insignia tattooed on many members’ bodies speaks to their virulent history: a skull with a bullet hole, wearing a fedora.

The city attorney hit the Avenues with a gang injunction in 2002, making it illegal for known members to congregate or ride in cars together throughout much of Highland Park, Glassell Park, Cypress Park and Eagle Rock.

Wow. A piece of paper. I hate to break it to you, city attorney, but they got guns and family solidarity. They could easily take your piece of paper in a fight.  And they wouldn’t have a much harder time against the cops that are supposed to enforce the words on that paper.

There’s the money quote from an article where New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg praises President Bush, John McCain and Mike Huckabee.

Somehow, I think this pretty much extinguishes the Obama-Bloomberg rumors.

That’s the explanation that one Benjamin Baines, Jr., 21, gave to authorities when he tried to sneak a box cutter inside a hollowed-out book onto an airplane at Tampa, and after they found numerous books about Mohammed, the Koran, and the Koran itself, plus cop-killing and dope-glorifying rap lyrics in his bag.  If “playing the part” means anything like “keeping it real,” then Mr. Baines, like many of his “brothers” before him, will be “playing the part” in Federal prison.

The government of what remains of Serbia is rounding up those who rioted at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade several nights back. There are going to be prosecutions, and eventually those rioters will be slapped on the hand.

Of course, the dirty little secret is that the Serbian government probably encouraged this riot. And rightly so — reverse the situation and the series events starting with the Clinton bombings of Serbia in 1999, and extending to the Kosovo secession last week, and equate it to Mexicans and the American Southwest, and my guess is that Americans would do a lot worse to the Serbian Embassy in Washington, DC.

What surprises me greatly is why the German government is recognizing Kosovo. They’re still mad, and rightly so, about the American military forcing Turkish immigrants on Germany after WWII. The American military (thank you Clinton/Bush) is essentially dismembering Serbia thanks to the American-sponsored Albanian immigration into Kosovo.

Washington Times:

Texas cities oppose border fence

EAGLE PASS, Texas — Chad Foster, mayor of this Texas border city whose motto is “Where Yee-Hah meets Ole,” isn’t itching for a fight with the federal government over the construction of a 15-foot border fence along the Rio Grande. But if one comes, he’s ready.

As is Efrain V. Valdez, mayor of Del Rio, Texas, located 56 miles upriver from here, who also has vowed to challenge a $1.2 billion plan by the Department of Homeland Security to build security fences along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a 65-mile stretch on the western edges of Del Rio and Eagle Pass.

Those “Texas” cities, near the border, are already part of Mexico, for all intents and purposes.  Everything is in Spanish, all the politicians are Hispanic.  The only thing “American” about them are the zip codes and the welfare checks.  Otherwise, all this fence at the fiction formerly known as the USA-Mexico Border would do is to divide one part of Mexico from another.  “Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.” — Former Mexican President Vincente Fox.

Consider this when we hear the canard from some McCainiacs that we have to suck it up and vote for him (as opposed to HRC or BHO), in spite of his open borders treachery, because he’s supposedly so good on “national security.”

Iraqi pair nabbed in Mexico, headed to U.S. with fake IDs

WASHINGTON – Two more Iraqis with false Bulgarian passports were detained by Mexican officials in Monterrey – bringing the total to four this month.

Wisam Gorgies, a 34-year-old man, and Rana Nazar Peyoz, a 26-year-old woman, reportedly flew from Madrid and landed in Monterrey, according to reports in two Mexican newspapers today.

Following questioning, the pair admitted they intended to reach the United States. They were taken to Saltillo in the state of Coahuila, for final determination of their status.

Mexican officials said the are investigating “a network that could be made up of Mexicans operating in Greece who are selling false Bulgarian passports for $10,000 to European and Middle Eastern citizens.”

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Last year, dozens of Iraqis were discovered attempting to enter Monterrey with phony ID – 17 of them in a single event.

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Back in 2004, WND reported that al-Qaida planned to use Mexico as an entry pointinto the U.S. In addition, the 911 commission reported the terrorist network actually owned a travel agency in Mexico.

It was well before 2004 that this was taking place.  Geraldo Rivera, of all people, told us in late 2001, not long after 9/11, that this kind of thing was going on.  Perhaps the fact that the Mexican government is cracking down on this sort of thing is good news, or maybe it’s because they’re trying to trick the American government into granting soft amnesty for illegal aliens.

This is unbelievable on its own face, but not unbelievable if you remember that a McDonald County Sheriff’s Deputy said a few weeks ago that Hispanic arrivals were upgrading the county’s gene pool.

Southeast Missourian:

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A lot of lazy Missourians, including many in Southeast Missouri, could benefit from adopting the work ethic of Mexican immigrants, House Speaker Rod Jetton said Thursday.

Jetton, speaking to publishers, editors and reporters at the Missouri Governor’s Mansion, made an example of Wayne County residents in his 156th Missouri House District. In 2004, an employer who considered moving to Wayne County, which had one of the highest unemployment rates in the state at the time, was able to attract only three applicants, Jetton said. The jobs weren’t great — the pay was about $8 an hour — but the chance to get off government assistance should have been attractive, he said.

“We have a shortage of people who want to go out and bust their tails and do the jobs,” Jetton said.

Jetton made his remarks when asked about his statement made to Republicans in Springfield, Mo., that he would like to “trade some of our people for some of the Mexicans who work so hard.”

He didn’t back away from that remark. “If we can find a way to trade them, I would trade them in a heartbeat,” Jetton said.

Maybe there was a reason that only three Wayne Countians applied for $8 an hour (not much higher than minimum age) jobs from this “employer” that wanted to locate in the county. The reason is that they’re for $8 an hour, and that this “employer” only offered $8 an hour because they knew this would happen, and would then would cry “oops darn schucks,” and claim in earnest that they need illegal alien labor. If not for the illegal aliens and the downward wage pressure as a consequence, that “employer” would have offered more than $8 an hour, and would have received many more than three applicants from Wayne County.

As for the “work ethic of Mexicans,” the truth of the matter is that those who have just recently “arrived” do work very hard, but stop working hard once they figure out how to work the system of “government assistance” Jetton claims the whites of Wayne County are addicted to. At that time, those that exploit illegal alien labor have to “import” more people.

But let’s assume Jetton is totally correct, and that we’re the lazy bums, and the hard-working Mexicans do constitute, as that McDonald County Deupty Sheriff said, “an upgrade to the gene pool.” Mass immigration and the racial replacement and dispossession it portends would be just as wrong, because they’re not us, and this is ours. Mr. Jetton evidently does not possess that innate sense of self-preservation.

UPDATE 6:40 PM: Missouri Bushwhacker has the scoop. Jetton himself was a public assistance client in his younger days. And now that he’s “working,” he stole earned six grand a week from the Romney campaign for the oh-so-astute political advice that catapulted Romney to a third place finish in Missouri.

UPDATE 2/25:  Glory be.  The MSM in this state are holding Jetton’s feet to the fire over these comments.  Notice that the press conference took place at the Governor’s Mansion, which probably tells us where Gov. Blunt’s heart (or lack thereof) was on the issue.  It also tells us why he’ll be looking for a new job next January.

It is said in this article that the reporters laughed at Jetton’s statement when he reiterated it.  I hope those were laughs of ridicule.

If ICE found out that the van driver who rammed into the side of a school bus was an illegal alien, this means they had to investigate the matter on their own — they certainly wouldn’t have gotten any help from the city of Minneapolis.

And they didn’t drive out an ordinary British subject — they drove out a Police Chief, who, presumably can keep his guns in his house, though since this is goofy England, that might not be true.  If “gangs of youths” can drive out a Police Chief, then there’s nothing they can’t do.  With no small assistance from Official England’s famous pandering and thug mollycoddling, of course.

And you thought it was just a Mini Clip game.  The difference is that the Mini Clip game is free, while the real dancing in Liberia is going to cost you.