First off, don’t misunderstand why I took a week off. This was something I wanted to do last month, in fact I was going to use the occasion of being at the State Fair to do that. Unfortunately, the events of Ferguson and vicinity paved right over that.
I’m not terminally sick, I’m not running for public office, (it’s too late in the 2014 cycle for anything like that anyway), I’m not Jeff Sessions’s illegitimate son (actually, I’m Michael Barone’s illegitimate son), I’m not getting married. Even though one part of my motivation for taking this week off is that my female friend with benefits has now become something more. No, the main reasons I took a week off were to mustard on sleep and mustard on some backlogged work in my day job and also so I can figure out how to downsize my digital life, which had been eating up too much of my free and not so free time.
The only news I paid attention to was the news and sources I had to for my day job, even if the news itself wasn’t relevant to me doing my day job, so I’m just operating off memory of the interesting stories I gleaned from that. So no URLs.
* Standardized test scores from the Normandy district in the 2013-2014 school year were way down. That’s most likely because last school year was the first where outbound transfers to Francis Howell could happen after all the legal wrangling was settled. Meaning that any parents and students in the Normandy district with at least a little bit of “get up and go” got up and went. Meaning that what was left of the Normandy student body last year was basically a bunch of Piltdown Men. One such student was the late Michael Brown.
* Rickroller Perry has hired former McCain hack Steve Shit and someone close to Haley Barbour into his legal defense team. While that’s not his Presidential campaign team, that tells you the kind of people the Rickroller would hire into his campaign staff and his White House staff if he actually wins. Which should be more proof that he’s an open borders fake. Besides, why is the Rickroller hiring a legal defense team anyway? These phony charges won’t survive the first honest judge, or barring that, the Attorney General will take over the investigation and then drop all charges the day after he wins the election to succeed the Rickroller as Governor in November.
* I’m not surprised that Larry Sabato isn’t seeing a red Senate wave in November in the polling data. Not only do I not see it, I’m not enthusiastic about it. All it would mean is swapping out Harry Reid for Mitch McConnell. Snore. That and when I do my general election preview next month, if I have the time to do one, I’m going to recommend voting for the Democrats in the Senate elections in NC, TN, MS, SC, KY and AK just to prevent the RINOs in those states from winning. The RINOs are either open borders, or they’re obnoxious for some other reason. That reminds me, while I was focused on Ferguson, Alaska held its Republican Senate primary and someone named Dan Sullivan wound up winning it, and he’s funded by all the cool cheap labor lobby kids.
What I’m saying is that if someone like me can’t bring himself to vote for the Republican nominee or incumbent in six states, where is the GOPee going to get its net six pickups? If the voters in NC, TN, MS, SC, KY and AK do what I want, it means that in two cases, NC and AK, Democrat incumbents would hold their seats, and in the other four, TN, MS, SC and KY, Democrats would be flipping seats away from Republicans. This means that Republicans would have to turn 10 other Senate seats away from Democrats in order to get to net six. And don’t forget, part of the horse race of blue to red party flips involves NC and AK, which I’ve already recommended to keep blue.
However, the problem for my strategy is that I don’t think that there’s enough conservative angst to be able to topple the incumbents in at least TN, MS and SC, because the yay red team foot soldiers will way outnumber people like me in those states. The only red team incumbent who this strategy could wind up providing the crucial margin to topple is Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. While Pat Roberts in Kansas hasn’t pissed me off enough to recommend a vote for the Democrat, I do hear that that race is closer than he’d like it especially in a red state like Kansas.
* A bit of good news: During my sojourn, Arizona held its primaries, and the winner of R-GOV is State Treasurer Doug Ducey, the most conservative and the most overt immigration patriot of the six major candidate field. Since the winner of the Democrat primary is also a man, it means that Arizona will have its first man governor since 1997, though that’s more neutral news than good or bad news. It was getting to the point where you had Jane Hull, Janet Napolitano then Janice Brewer, so I thought there was a provision in the state constitution that required that the governor be a woman whose first name starts with “J-A-N.”
Actually the person in Arizona statewide office I currently hold in highest esteem is Attorney General Tom Horne. I wonder why he didn’t run for Governor. Maybe he’s going to stick around as AG to position himself to run for Senate in the future, waiting for Juan McAmnesty to retire, and he might in two years.
* There’s a real simple reason why Hillary Clinton won’t say anything about Ferguson. It’s because if she says what she really thinks, it will piss off crucial working-middle class non-Southern whites crucial to her November 2016 Electoral College calculus. She has probably made the political calculation that of the three options, her coming out for the undertow, her coming out against the undertow, and her being silent, silence is the least damaging of the three. With that option, she barely loses any black votes, but she doesn’t drive away the crucial white voters I just mentioned. Personally, even if she came out against the undertow, she would still have really nothing to fear about blacks staying home, because they’ll turn out to vote for their welfare checks.
Black voters are for granted, working-middle class non-Southern whites are volatile in political terms and crucial in EC terms.
Get the picture?
* I’m SMDH over the Feds all of sudden worried about the southern border and the increased risk of terrorism that comes from it being essentially open. So why don’t they do something about it? We know why they won’t, electing a new people and cheap labor. What especially irks me is that nobody in any official capacity would think it’s a problem if the seventh century throwbacks from the Middle East and south Asia and their diaspora weren’t exploiting it as a path to entry. Which means if it was just the world’s non-terrorist peasants pouring into the country across the southern border, everything would be just fine.
* About the lawsuit to crack open Michael Brown’s juvenile sheet if any: Fine, if you want, but I don’t think it’s that relevant. I guess it hasn’t sunk in yet, that I have to say it for the 87,000,000th time: The sine qua non is Brown running then lunging directly at Wilson at 12:03.
* In response to black athletes committing sexual assaults and the school’s administration trying to cover it up, Mizzou’s administration has adopted new sexual harassment policies that most seriously affect white fraternity members and prospective members.
Columbia, Missouri, your anarcho-tyranny is ready.
* Speaking of Mizzou, this ESPN-driven hype about Michael Sam’s shower habits are from sexuality-ambiguous or not so ambiguous men who work at ESPN who have editorial and programming authority who either have a homoerotic desire to or actually openly wish they could shower with Michael Sam. The only people in this world who actually want to drop the soap.
I wonder if there’s an easter egg in Madden NFL 2015 of a Michael Sam shower scene.
Michael Sam I am, I only shower with green eggs and ham, and never with any Rams.
And because he didn’t make the team, he’ll have to find happiness all by himself in some other team’s showers.
* Obama’s threatened climate change (don’t call it a) treaty via the pen and phone? I hope this is what it takes to make you realize that the Constitution is dead, in case you haven’t already figured it out, and in earnest, we should end political rhetoric about trying to revive or restore it, and instead condition ourselves into a pure power-personal-group mentality, a Who-Whom frame of mind in our politics.
* I hope you realize that the American operations of the new Canadian-based Tim Horton’s/Burger King merger will still be subject to the high American corporate income tax rates.
That said, if the kook left is going to start boycotting Burger King, maybe this gives BK and opportunity to cast itself as the Chick-Fil-A of burger joint fast feeders. IOW, 365 Black without the 365 or the Black.
* Why do feminists oppose the women’s fingernail polish that tests drinks for being spiked with date rape drugs? Even though you’d think that they would like it. The answer is that feminists are only opposed to “rape culture” in as much as they think that it’s a synonym for consensual heterosexual sex. Since feminist is a synonym for lesbian, their entire hustle here is recruiting women into the lesbian lifestyle, and therefore, they are philosophically opposed to heterosexual relationships and sexuality.
* One in three Mexicans would move to the USA if they could in an instant, and that means 40 million. That’s not counting countries south of Mexico. And if Obama does some kind of EO amnesty, they will come, because they’ll just wait around for the next amnesty, in case that this EO amnesty doesn’t cover them. “Billions and billions served” won’t just mean McDonalds anymore.
* Don Sour Lemon wishes he was on the other end of that Skype sex with that guy, from what I’ve come to understand about Don Sour Lemon.
BTW if that audio is real and from the right place, then it would fit into what I think was the last minute of Michael Brown’s life. The first four shots were the accidental shots from Brown and Wilson struggling over the gun, and the final six were from Wilson firing into Brown running and lunging after him. Except I thought that Wilson fired seven at the oncoming Brown hitting with six and missing with one.
* Governor Useless is putting Dan Isom in charge of the state DPS, a gubernatorial cabinet level agency. This is supposed to be a dog whistle to black people and black politicians that there are now more blacks in relevant senior positions of law enforcement in the state. Except for one thing: DPS only directly controls the statewide and state-controlled law enforcement agencies, like the Highway Patrol, the Water Patrol, and others. Almost all “ordinary” black crime comes under the direct and primary jurisdiction of the local police department or the county sheriff’s office or in the case of St. Louis County, its P.D. When Nixon brought in the Highway Patrol and Captain Rastus to control Ferguson, that was one of the extremely rare times that the Highway Patrol ever dealt with ordinary black/urban street crime.
So will black people and black politicians really feel better that the man who runs the cabinet agency that oversees the law enforcement agency that arrested a bunch of white people for boating while intoxicated at the Party Cove over this past long weekend is black? Will they be impressed that Dan Isom, barring Jay Nixon, has ultimate control over the men and women that write you speeding tickets on rural interstate highways?
* African Rockfish football player from USC saves his drowning nephew from death by swimming pool, in spite of the sprained ankles he got while jumping from a second story window onto the concrete below. Gee, what was ever suspicious about that story?
* Karl Roverrated and his GPS Crossroads gang “leaked” some whining/report to Politico about how the Republican Party isn’t left wing enough and that the Tea Party Movement is the cause of all the world’s problems? That happens about once a month on average. Or if not that, it’s some RINO or establishmentarian Republican politician, former politician, lobbyist, consultant, hack, strategist or group crying uncle to Politico, The Hill, NYT or WaPo.
In the absence of someone like me getting a hold on the pen and phone and deciding on which gruesome manner of death to proscribe for Karl Roverrated, I hope some corrupt Democrat prosecutor, maybe someone out of the Travis County, Texas clown circus, trumps up some charges on him.
* David Cameron is better than Obama. Yeah, so what? Everyone by definition is better than the lowest common denominator. The big grind I have with Cameron’s “tough rhetoric” against ISIS is that it was nothing more than universalist tripe dressed up in somewhat hawkish raiment. The only problem that Cameron has with ISIS is that they’re not sufficiently hip to the global-universal-multicultural-multiracial-democracy-tolerance-socialism project that he laughingly called “British values.”
BTW even though we’re now supposed to call that gang of seventh century retrogrades “Islamic State,” or “IS,” I’m going to continue to refer to it as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), as a way of rubbing the noses of these establishmentarian liberals and neo-conservatives into the mess they’ve been making on the carpet over the last handful of years. Iraq run by Saddam Hussein or presumably one of his sons (Saddam would be 77 years old today if we didn’t kill him, so you have to presume that he would have turned over power to one of his sons by now), and Syria run by Basher Assad, no Bush-Obama-Clinton-Blair-Cameron-McCain-Graham left-neocon interference from the West, and ISIS does not exist today. It’s as simple as that.
* We already knew that QT wasn’t going to rebuild its charbroiled location on the Fergaza Strip because its fuel tanks were drained dry. It has leaked out that another reason they won’t rebuild is that particular station was barely breaking even. You know it’s a bad area when a QT can’t even operate in the black, because it’s operating around blacks. Anywhere else, a QT might as well be a money tree. In case you didn’t know, QT is privately held family owned corporation based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, all the stations are company owned and operated, which means no Pradesh/Patel, and the store layouts are so standardized that if you get used to one, you could walk into any other one blindfolded and find what you want. And they keep their gas prices at or close to market minimum. Then there are those meticulously-cleaned restrooms; I think that that’s probably their main obsession, and there are plenty worse things about which to be obsessed. Everywhere you find QTs, people swear by them. Me included, mainly because QT was the only national chain fool enough to give me a line of credit, that and you can jazz up your sodas with all sorts of flavor add-ons; there’s no beating a vanilla-flavored Coke Zero.
