Go:
“John Stossel: Who Will Run America?”

“Most change in America doesn’t come from politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn’t come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.”

Hitting the nail square on the head, Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt reveals that Obama’s victory breaks no racial wall, but rather illuminates them.

Read the original: “Getting teary? Just get real” Three statistics alone will show that what really divides the US is not racism but culture: 50 per cent of black children drop out; almost 70 per cent don’t have dad at home; and blacks commit half America’s murders.

Four black marines torture, rape, and kill a black-white couple, then burned. The police: Not a hate crime.

—PIC Victims of torture-murder. NY Daily News

A fire was set, apparently in an effort to destroy evidence. The Camp Pendleton-based Marine sergeant and his wife were tortured before they were shot execution-style, according to a published report. Emphasis added.

Yet,

Investigators said they believe the motive was financial in nature.

Wow. Four whites who torture, rape, kill, and burn a white-black couple is front page news, no question. Jesse and Sharpton would swoop in and make their careers on denouncing this travesty toward blacks. Not this time, though.

Fuck this shit.

“Dilemmas,” the new iPhone 3G ad which features Urbanspoon’s Urbanspoon. application that is the decider on where to chow, aired and posted in Apple’s ad section. Apple’s ad page. In this ad Apple disclaims the brevity of time with the message “Sequence shortened,” in the bottom area. It’s the first time I’ve noticed. And, really showing my nerdity here, this is the first ad that doesn’t display 9:42am as the time on the iPhone screen. Instead in this one, it’s 7:42pm.

Pic taken by “Quinallison ‘Q’ J.” Incidentally, the restaurant called in the ad, Sushi Bistro, is a real restaurant and that was its real telephone number. It’s in my old neighborhood.

‘Gay rights’ a mischaracterization

Homosexual citizens compare the illegality of homosexual marriage with segregation [1] as a way to persuade for its adoption by the majority:

—From the article, “Hopefuls Differ as They Reject Gay Marriage”.

“Some gay allies of Mr. Obama thought, during a televised Democratic forum in Los Angeles in August 2007, that he might come out in favor of same-sex marriage, after he was asked if his position supporting civil unions but not same-sex marriage was tantamount to ‘separate but equal.’”

“Equality” is the argument for allowing the union of two men or two women, but equality is not at issue here. Equality already exists to all individuals. Let’s say there is a man who declared himself gay wants to marry a man. Both the gay man and I, a heterosexual male, have exactly the same right and limitation as each other. Both he and I can marry a woman, and similarly, both he and I cannot marry a man. That is equality in its purest sense of the word.

People who want the right to gay marriage are not fighting to extend the institution to another class of people, because the rules and rights for each person are the same. Rather, they are fighting to change the parameters of a concept that has existed for three millennia — to redefine what marriage is for everyone. And now, in the blink of an eye a minority of the populace demand the majority to reclassify their understanding of what marriage means. So, who knows whether it should be changed or not? [1 1 Short answer: No.] But, one shouldn’t be shocked that people are shocked, and this isn’t the “civil rights” issue of our generation.

Proposition K gives San Franciscans a chance to allow adults to take control of their own bodies by “decriminalizing” prostitution.

Go:
“Should Prostitution Be Decriminalized? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog”

Opponents say the measure would encourage human trafficking, raise crime, and generally turn San Francisco into a magnet for pimps, prostitutes, and sex fiends.

Have these opponents never visited Franny? ’Cause, they should visit how the city already is, most notably the Folsom Street Fair to get a taste.

In a satellite interview, Florida TV reporter Barbara West went for the jugular on the neck of Biden

When the reporter asked tough questions — like whether Barack’s policies are Marxist — Biden responds like a condescending prick. With questions and comments from Biden like “I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” and “Are you joking?”, Biden was a real douche on television, and the Obama campaigners are clear pussies for cutting the station off.

The station receives notice of the blacklist from the Pussocrats:

Go: “Orlando Sentinel - Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden by Hal Boedeker”

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

Althouse blog response: “Althouse: “How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?””

Ha ha. Wow. You don’t usually get questions like that. Biden can’t believe it. But, you know, Biden handles it perfectly well. I don’t see him losing his cool. He’s fine. Good questions. Good answers. Ah, but what is lame is cutting off all future interviews with the station. Pussies!

Disagreed. Biden clearly got hot under the collar.

Watch:

Asst. manager fired for subordinate writing ‘dumb nigger’ to describe customer on sales receipt

Go: “Store worker fired over racial slur on return receipt offers her account”

An assistant manager who no longer worked for the company had put the wording into the computer, she said. After the customer discovered it and brought it to the attention of the company, she was fired, she said. …

The Kansas City woman, a single mother, said she lost the benefits of two years of work with the company and her recent promotion and assignment to the Oak Park Mall store.

“The more complex the problem, the more planning you need. But it’s not planning at the top. It’s planning from the bottom up.”

20/20’s John Stossel wonders why so many people could put such faith in one man to change their lives, like John McCain or Barack Obama — as if one person could do all that. Central planning solves little, and self-planning solves much. Spontaneous order happens so often that it’s taken for granted.

— Russell Roberts, author of “The Price of Everything.”

Article: “John Stossel : Unappreciated Spontaneous Order - Townhall.com”Communism was adopted by more countries than Esperanto, but it also failed because planners never could anticipate the myriad wants of different people. Russians spent hours a day in lines. Millions starved.

The only times we have shortages in America are after governments intrude, like when President Nixon appointed an energy czar to regulate gas prices, and this year, when some states’ anti-“gouging” laws prevented gas stations from raising prices after storms.

Despite the repeated failure of central planning, the political class acts as if politicians can direct our lives. When there are problems, politicians will solve them. They’re going to give us prosperity and cheap health care, fix education, lower gas prices, stop global warming and make us energy “independent.”

And that’s just the beginning. A speaker at the Republic convention said, “If you want to fight childhood obesity, then John is your man.”

Who do people think these guys are?

Indian woman defends against attacker by slashing his head off with a sickle.

Article: “Decapitation: Woman chops off head of alleged attacker - Nachrichten English-News - WELT ONLINE”

The woman also told police that the man had been harassing and stalking her for three months and she had no regrets about killing him, he said, adding that she would probably be charged with culpable homicide.

Racism to aid an Obama win

People might find it racist for one to vote one’s race, but that’s exactly what’s being done — to the success of Obama. That’s right, even more skewed than black-white TV watching, nine out of ten black voters pick black [1] 1 I’m writing with the dark-skin-means-“black” bias in mind. Blacks who pick Obama, and whites who pick Obama, are each picking the same amount of their own race. After all, he’s ½ black, and ½ white. than pick white. Some interesting statistics:

Article: “When Is It O.K. to Vote Your Race? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog”

• In Pennsylvania, Obama won 92 percent of the black vote and 40 percent of the white vote.

• In Indiana, Obama won 92 percent of the black vote and 39 percent of the white vote.

• In Illinois, Obama won 94 percent of the black vote and 62 percent of the white vote.

In the first election where the choice exists, black voters are more racially biased than whites.

Labels: Race

Article: “John Stossel : Life is getting worse and other myths - Townhall.com”

Newsweek reported that U.S. interrogators had flushed a Koran down a Guantanamo Bay toilet. After Hurricane Katrina, reporters said that sharks from Lake Pontchartrain were swimming through New Orleans, and roving bands of armed gang members were attacking the helpless. Myth after myth.

Two hundred eighty-three thousand, one hundred twenty-five points (that’s 283,125), motherfuckers, [1] 1 Playing on easy, but never mind that. playing Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone, on the song “Four Years” by Senses Fail. Holy shit, I entered some sort of magical blue-purple netherworld in which I rocked it the fuck out. 100% accuracy, bitches!

Pic: The purple place where only the courageous of rockers go to rock.

More forced rules on the free market isn’t the cure to the government-and-culture related financial situation, says Ron Paul’s libertarian financial adviser.

Article: “Peter Schiff - Don’t Blame Capitalism - washingtonpost.com”

Our leaders irrationally promoted home-buying, discouraged savings, and recklessly encouraged borrowing and lending, which together undermined our markets.

‘Nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of bankruptcy.’

Article: “John Stossel : The Reregulation Mantra - Townhall.com”

In other words, the planner or regulator can’t possibly know what the multitude in a market “knows.” So what regulators really do is straitjacket market participants, preventing innovators from creating prosperity for us all.

Article: “Daring Fireball”

Mike Contaxis, three days ago at Mac Soda:

Mac Soda has heard that iLife ‘09 [sic] and iWork ‘09 [sic] are going to be announced this Tuesday at the MacBook event. Similar to last year, when Steve introduced the iMac, and then branched off into the iLife and iWork updates, Steve is expected to do the same thing this year, announcing the iLife/iWork update with the introduction of the new laptops.

I called this one out as bullshit before the event even took place. In addition to being factually wrong, the apostrophes preceding the “09”s are backwards [sic].

Wow. It takes a high level of douchery to quip on another asshole’s use of single quotation marks instead of apostrophes, and an even higher level of douchebagedness (ahem, me) to quip on that original douche’s use of the word “backwards” with an “s.” Fuck it, another one: how about that douche’s nonstandard way of punctuating with commas and periods outside of quotation marks. I shall now go shoot myself.

Labels: Blogosphere

Europeans grow tired of the stagnant political class and vote in a bit of “fresh air,” ushering in the parliament majority of far-right, nationalist parties. Crime-ridden Muslims fuel the growing distrust of outside customs, and liberal elites are now perceived as a hinderance to the sovereignty of some countries there, The Netherlands for example.

The liberal elites stifle discussion by calling opponents intolerant:

Article: “Europe’s far-right revival isn’t Nazism - Los Angeles Times”

Tolerance, European unity, distrust of nationalism and vigilance against racism are all laudable goals. But promoting these aims without discussion, much less criticism, has resulted in a backlash. When the Dutch, the French and the Irish voted against the European Constitution, they were expressing their distrust of the political elites.

Shark named Tidbit gives birth to pup with no father

“Weird Science: Second case of a ‘virgin birth’ in a shark”

“This first case was no fluke,” Demian Chapman…. “It is quite possible that this is something female sharks of many species can do on occasion.”

German newspaper Welt reports the facts on the claims of both Senator McCain and Obama made in the town hall debate. In this excerpt, Obama claims superiority in his policies opposing mortgage law deregulation, and that it was Bush’s — and ipso facto McCain’s — actions that led to the so-called crisis. Welt irons the wrinkled truth:

“Obama vs McCain: A quick fact-check of the second presidential debate — WELT ONLINE”

THE FACTS: McCain has indeed favored less regulation over the years but supported tighter rules and accountability on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years before the start of a financial crisis … Obama was not a leader in that unsuccessful effort.

The law was championed among both Rep. & Dem. senators, including Obama’s current economic adviser, Robert Rubin. Bill Clinton signed that deregulation into law, the article also notes. Other fact-checks include McCain’s drilling proposition, and Pakistan relations hypocrisy.

Black conservatives and Republicans find a meeting place on the web.

“Young, Black and Republican in New York, Blogging Against the Tide — NYTimes.com”

The virtual networks are a refuge for conservative blacks who might be reluctant to publicly espouse their views. Other than these Web sites, Mr. Bowen said, “there’s no support for them, there’s no place they could go and not be ridiculed.”