Thursday, April 30, 2015

Whoops, My Bad...Sorry Baltimore

You would think that after burning down one city (Ferguson, MO) at the loss, though tragic, of a highly imperfect cause celebre, people would be more circumspect before burning down another one before all the facts come in.  (Lest anybody get into a lather, I am going on the facts as laid out in the prosecutor's report, that Michael Brown was not an innocent and and wholly blameless in his own demise.)

Of course not.  Doesn't fit the narrative.  Burn now.  Demonize now.  Sermonize now. 

Find out that the kid whacked his head on the door later...?

What do we have to tolerate next?  Shall we burn down Cleveland if a black man dies even remotely near a police officer regardless of the circumstances of his death.  Are we to rack up millions in damages just to feed the outrage beast?  Well, for at least the next two years, perhaps.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

No Words. OK, Actually Two Words...

It's high time to stop candy-coating life in America.  Fortunately I've been refraining from coating the candy for a long while.  I've talked about this a lot - from a purely political perspective there are places in America where the hopes and dreams, at least in terms of political power - the wherewithal to affect outcomes - of minorities has come to pass.

Yes.  Minorities…oh shit, let's just get raw…blacks wield a lot of political power, overwhelming power even, in a handful of places in America and have for some time.  New Orleans.  Newark.  Detroit.  Oakland.  Cleveland.  Baltimore.  (I could go on…Camden, East St. Louis..)

Let's just admit it, blacks run these cities lock, stock, and barrel; and, they are uniformly terribly run and uniformly shitty places to live.  Despite geography - Oakland is about as different from a geographic and economic perspective as can be from, say, Cleveland - and historical patrimony, all these cities seem to display the exact same level and concentration of poverty and social pathology.

And it took years.  Detroit's story is well-known - it used to be the 4th largest city in American and one of the richest.  That was in 1960.  It took 50 years to destroy Detroit via multiple and sundry ways, but electing a "hip-hop mayor" is an indicative tidbit of the long arc of pathetic supply and demand of political leadership that was decisive in the downfall of a great American city.  (Please note, that today - in 2015 America - we are producing more cars annually than we've ever produced, so don't give me no BS sob story about the auto industry.)

What is my point?  This.

This Congress?  Really?  Baltimore is a burning, festering shithole, where thugs are given "space" to destroy property because of this Congress?

There is only one reaction.  F**k you.

F**k you, you mealy-mouth charlatan.  You rank political opportunist.  You amateur hack.  You dime store, faculty lounge, pseudo-intellectual twit.

I hope we banish you to some God-forsaken island where you can read all the Frantz Fanon and Saul Alinsky to your heart's content, and America will be free to tell the story to our children how we got suckered.  Not just suckered, but screwed.  Screwed by a cheesy, lying, narcissistic phony, who couldn't have (and didn't) make it in the real world for a nano-second.

This man has brought America so low.  Until such time when we can say 'Good riddance'…God Help Us.

UPDATE:  John Nolte has it exactly right.  Baltimore is it's own problem and a Democrat problem.  America doesn't own Baltimore and America is not responsible.  It is a failed example of Democrat-led, union-coddling, corrupt, racialist machine politics.  They own it. 

UPPDATE:  Wow, Nolte doubles down...Baltimore riots are "nothing more than infomercials for U-Haul and the NRA."

Zoinks. Is Black Baltimore a 100% Out-of-Wedlock City?

Roger Simon has a great point. 

If 72% of all black births in the USA are out of wedlock...let's pause for some remedial math here, that's the average across the entire country...I'm guessing that the out-of-wedlock birth rate in the poor, black neighborhoods of Baltimore has to be over 90%. 

For a societal pathology with dread consequences, it's effectively 100%...that single digit percent doesn't matter in the least. 

Frankly, it's a wonder Baltimore didn't self-immolate sooner.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

What Matters? Black Lives or Our Nanny State Laws?

This is the best example of the irrationality at the heart of modern leftism - they purport to care (and care extremely, it seems at times to the exclusion of all else) about minorities.

Eric Garner - dead because he was selling black market cigarettes, which were "black market" to avoid the onerous taxes imposed on them by nanny-state politicians that want you to smoke less.

Freddie Gray - dead because nanny-state politicians want to prohibit the carrying of knives in belief that they are eliminating heinous crimes.

Don't enact laws that you aren't prepared to enforce with the, sometimes deadly, full weight of law enforcement.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Barf-Inducing Hillary Hypocrisy of the Day, Day 3

Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Epstein can apparently write this article with a straight face...
Hillary Clinton Comes Out Swinging at CEOs and Hedge Fund Managers
She needn't have even gone outside of the building to do any research.  Bloomberg did a whole spread on Clinton mega-funder and mega-buddy Mark  Lasry (he hired Chelsea at his hedge to give a nice start in the working world).

And he's just the hedgie that comes immediately to mind...there are dozens of others that the Clintons have funding the Clinton Machine.

Thursday, April 09, 2015

Greece. You Heard It Here First

Well, the WSJ is now making the case that we should just let Greece go...fail, Grexit, whatever.

As always folks, you heard it here first, as in four years ago.  Good to see the conventional wisdom moving in my direction.

Sorry We're Fresh Out of Outrage

This Walter Scott thing in South Carolina is truly an outrage...but guess what?  The outrage tanks seem to be empty after exhausting it all on the phony at worst, morally ambiguous at best Michael Brown situation. 

Sharpton & Co., not to mention our incandescently brilliant POTUS, seem to have not even internalized Aesop fable-level wisdom...boy who cried wolf and all that...

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Mock. Feminist. Ridiculousness.

In the same vein that we responded in the clearly appropriate fashion to "Ban Bossy"...

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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Headline: Voters of Broke City Set to Re-Elect Incumbent

Here is one of those unironic headlines that encapsulates American government and politics.
"Emanuel Leads Garcia in Polls as Chicago Veers Toward Insolvency"
Of course.  Translation:  'We're broke, so let's re-elect the incumbent!'  Hey, worked for the federal government, look how much awesomer life is under Obama 2.0!

Monday, April 06, 2015

Euroweenies Miss GWB?

I was "early and often" in telling the Euroweenies to stop their bitching about Obama. They helped foist this dickhead on the world and they stupidly never considered how good they had it with the pre-Obama Era USA.

The bitching continues and I continue to be unsympathetic to their cries and their problems.

Thursday, April 02, 2015

Ho Hum...Another Muslim Slaughter

With all that important news out there - from Harvey Weinstein, The Final Four, and Obama's capitulation to Iran (OK, that's important news, bad news, but important news) - it is easy to let slip past that Islamic terrorists just slaughtered another 150 people.  Apparently, they were methodically separating out Christians for extermination.

Ho hum, Kenya is, like, so far away...and what's another 150 dead...back to sleep America, go watch some basketball..