1 Breaking! Dog gets boner... stay tuned for updates

2 That Lice site is just wrong...

3
Interesting observation:

After watching that Horowitz vid yesterday it occurred to me that muslims are big supporters of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.

Don't ask them if they support terrorism...and they won't tell you!

Just like Kagan, the ardent critic of DADT. Don't ask her if she's a homosexual, and she won't tell you.

4 I must admit, that photo of her at the plate certainly convinced me. Does anyone know if she switch-hits?

5

Breaking evil Jooo news:

   

Seinfeld joins country celebs in aiding Nashville Published: 5/13/10, 8:25 AM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jerry Seinfeld isn't kidding - he's going to donate all the proceeds from one of his Nashville shows to help flood victims in the city and throughout Tennessee.

The proceeds from Friday's show at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, just a few blocks from the scene of widespread flood damage, will be split between the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

6 Uh oh. http://tinyurl.com/393st8x Of course, they don't know why they are there in the first place.

7

IMO, this website is missing something it once had.

8 She could play on the same team as Anderson Cooper. And what about the UFC? Imagine her and Big Sis vs. Kimbo Slice. What a tag team.

9
Illegal residents: Don't Ask Them For Them For Proof of Citizenship, And They Won't Tell You.

So all this apprehension about DADT is horseshit. The Left loves this type of policy...when it advances their agenda.

10 Good morning all!

Our great "allies" the Russians are so helpful, nyet?

Russia warns U.S. against unilateral Iran sanctions

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States and other Western nations on Thursday against imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Interfax news agency reported.

Sanctions won't work now, it's way too late for that.

11 Speaking of that Horowitz vid....make sure you watch his entire speech, I thought it was extraordinary and moving.

12 NEW YORK CITY —President Obama plans to visit New York City to thank law enforcement officials who responded to the Times Square bomb plot case, a report on NBC New York said.

Obama is expected to stop in Buffalo this morning at a factory to talk about the economy, according to the report. He will then travel to NYPD headquarters to speak to officers involved in the Time Square bomb plot investigation that led to the arrest of Faisal Shahzad.

He is also scheduled to be in the city later this evening for a Democratic fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel, the report said.

Commuters should expect traffic delays in New York City related to Obama's visit.

WHOOP - WHOOP - Preening Pretentious Asshole Alert NYC!!!

13
Don't Ask Voters For Identification...

14

WASHINGTON – The Gulf of Mexico oil spill hasn't stained President Barack Obama nor dimmed the public's desire for offshore energy drilling, according to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll.

The poll found that 42 percent approve of Obama's actions, 33 percent disapprove and 21 percent say they have neutral feelings about his response.

Barry has done a great job on the oil spill. Look at those overwhelming numbers in support of him. AP of course spends most of the article bashing Bush over Katrina. I wonder why the haven't conducted a poll over Barry's handling of the flooding in Tennessee?

15

Pres Lightworker, Himself, is comin' to town today.  Should be good for screwing up traffic 'round here in the afternoon.

I heard the CBS guy who covers the White House on the radio this morning, and it was kind of amusing. When the subject came up, he was CLEARLY purturbed when he said, "Oh, there won't be any questions [by the media]..."

He also found the "ice cold" relationship between our governor and His Highness to be pretty interesting.  IIRC, the White House didn't even give a courtesy notice to the effect of "Hey, Gov, just wanted to let you know I'll be in your state next week," much less invite him down to say "hello".  And they're in the same party.

I did hear, however, that our two local Democratic congresscritters will attend this closed door meeting, which is at some local small business, and which will last only an hour or two (costing the taxpayers millions, no doubt). I guess they feel pretty comfortable, in their very blue districts.

16
Is Obama gonna thank the hot dog vendor for preventing the bomb from exloding?

The fucking hot dog vendor is the hero in this story, not the fucking police.

17

Russia to Obama: Hey Barry, we'll let you know if and when there will be sanctions on Iran. 

Russia asserts UN global veto over unilateral American sanctions on Iran: http://yhoo.it/dAwUHy

18 The fucking hot dog vendor is the hero  one of many heroes in this story, not the fucking police.

19 oops, too slow. already posted above.

20 The headline should be: the Hot Dog vendor meets the Weenie

21 John Kerry is still fuckin' the global warming chicken.

22

So the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy has succumbed to the Nanny State by suggesting the annual Herndon Climb be reconsidered.

Here's alternative suggestion:  Slather 200 lbs of lard on SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan, and the first midshipmen to plant his cap at the "top" will forever after be known as the first in class most likely to attain the rank of Admiral of the Fleet.

23 21 John Kerry is still fuckin' the global warming chicken.

Posted by: Mjim at May 13, 2010 09:37 AM (V8B//)

John Kerry is impotent. I really dodged a bullet on this one!

24

I did hear, however, that our two local Democratic congresscritters will attend this closed door meeting...

I wonder if they'll ask him about the DHS anti-terrorism cuts they're making for NYC.

Splendid timing.

25 Funny headline over at Powerline.

Dicks Bent on Appropriation Gavel

 http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026285.php

26 Coming soon to a planet near you. http://tinyurl.com/2amr4pm

27 Eagle Outfitters in New York has to hire transgendered crossdressers as sales people. Why? Because eat shit, that's why. http://goo.gl/gk7e

28 I wonder if they'll ask him about the DHS anti-terrorism cuts they're making for NYC.

http://tinyurl.com/2ct9k9v

Fan - fucking - tastic.

29 That Lice site is just wrong...

Posted by: Hobo at May 13, 2010 09:11 AM (V8B//)

I was hoping to see a C#ntessa Brewer reference on the testimonials but they all seem to be from micks, limeys and Scots.

30 Yeah, ABC news was reporting that NY is pissed that their security money is being cut but IT'S ALL OK because Obama is going to come to thank the police. Seriously.

31 I wonder if Easy Bake will get booed by the NY cops. Will he cry, lash out?

32

IMO, this website is missing something it once had.

Posted by: BB

 

The lice are in the upper righthand corner. ( If ya got hobos, you gots lice)

33 I wonder if Easy Bake will get booed by the NY cops.

Will he cry, lash out?

Posted by: eman at May 13, 2010 09:50 AM (ONBbr)

He will epantsapate them

34 I wonder if Easy Bake will get booed by the NY cops. Will he cry, lash out? Posted by: eman at May 13, 2010 09:50 AM (ONBbr) He will epantsapate them Posted by: TheQuietMan So, you're saying he's gay?

35 I've seen references to "anti-incumbent" moods popping up from yesterday's Yahoo News to today's NRO Online (Goldberg). Even when it's coming from the right, I think that evaluation is missing the point. Are voters in Paul Ryan's district "anti-incumbent" right now ? Are New Jersey Republicans and independents "anti-Christie" right now ? Like the "Party of No," the idea of "anti-incumbent" sentiment ignores that voters are standing for something as much as they are against something when they express an opinion. Yin/yang, good/evil, and all that ?

36 33 I wonder if Easy Bake will get booed by the NY cops.

Will he cry, lash out?

Posted by: eman at May 13, 2010 09:50 AM (ONBbr)

He will epantsapate them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 13, 2010 09:52 AM (1Jaio)

Pants on the Ground!

37 NRA Convention in town! 

Going to AM Conservative Union Brunch, with TED NUGENT!!

Eat your hearts out morons!

38 He will epantsapate them

Posted by: TheQuietMan

So, you're saying he's gay?

Posted by: eman at May 13, 2010 09:54 AM (ONBbr)

On You Tube there is an ABC version of that part of the speech were they clearly dubbed over epantsapation with emancipation. MiniTrue is in fine form.

39
Can we take Scott Brown's DNA, produce a twin and run him against John Kerry?
Please?

40 14: There's a flood in Tennessee ? Wouldn't have known about it from the State Media Services.

41 Avatar is just Pocahontas with blue people. I guess they thought fifteen years later we wouldn't notice. And we didn't

42 He also found the "ice cold" relationship between our governor and His Highness to be pretty interesting.

Barry disapproves of blacks in positions of power.

43 Good news: The Fed says no chance of double dip

44 43 Good news: The Fed says no chance of double dip

Posted by: damian at May 13, 2010 10:04 AM (4WbTI)

Which means, of course, that we will double-dip

45 This shit is getting out of control.

46 Avatar is just Pocahontas with blue people. I guess they thought fifteen years later we wouldn't notice. And we didn't

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed

 

I watched this earlier this week. The 18 yr old stepdaughter had purchased it. When she saw this in the theater, she gushed, and didn't care for the take I received online. As we watched it, she admitted that it kept switching from Dances with Wolves to Fern Gully to Pocahantas and back again. Other movie cliches were seen in abundnace. But it is darned pretty. Then again, so was Independence Day, though the George Pal version of War of the Worlds kicked its ass.

47

Posted by: HomerRadish at May 13, 2010 10:09 AM (mR7mk)

Aunt Ester Obama has an ass the size of Montana they ought to monitor that first

48

45  I heard about this. Unreal. They have done lost their minds!

 

49

Broad Approval For New Arizona Immigration Law

Democrats Divided, But Support key Provisions
http://tinyurl.com/2wfkc4r
“…majorities of Democrats approve of two of the law’s principal provisions: requiring people to produce documents verifying legal status (65%) and allowing police to detain anyone unable to verify their legal status (55%).”

50

45  I heard about this. Unreal. They have done lost their minds!

I think many states already do this. I know school districts already test body mass.

51

I think many states already do this.

Yeah but do they give out grant $ for those that achieve their desired outcome??

52 Not in headlines yet, but here's a comment anyway:

The Chief Executive has announced he is having federal agencies scrap Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities tests in hiring decision. Instead, resumes will be given more credence. Here is why this is potentially a bad idea, for it allows one to wonder this:

If resumes are given more credence, and thus hiring managers are able to essentially have great flexibility, then the potential exists for abuse, as well as institutionalized bias over time. My concern is that conservatives will seen themselves increasingly frozen out, for two reasons. One, a lot of discrimination can occur in hiring by resumes that cannot be done by objective KSA tests, and unfortunately the government, especially the administrative portions (but not the military) is weighted towards personnel with liberal leanings. It is my belief that discrimination against veterans already occurs, so I think this would get even worse if more subjective control was given to hiring managers, who would be able to easily say that veteran's service as on a resume did not fit the requirements of the position, and not take into account the discipline, flexibility, leadership, and other intangibles learned via that service.

The second concern is that an insularity will result in makeup of those selected, as basically you will need a "bachelor/master's of fill in the blank" to have any chance of being selected. This will put the true power of training and setting standards for government workers in academia, and in that case, beyond the group think problem, conservatives and veterans are obviously going to have a problem here, and will probably self-select out, instead of going through that routine.

This then poses the problems of government functionaries increasingly isolated and clannish, out of touch with the populace it would serve all the while demanding increasing benefits and/or full payments of agreed-upon benefits--even in an atmosphere of either economic stagnation or economic disaster--while being very active politically via their union representation. This is not a long term solution for national unity.

Getting rid of the KSA requirements may have valid reasons, but I believe it is fraught with peril for both selected groups and for the ability of the civil service to maintain the respect of the public, and thus I think the Congress should at some point stop this practice if it begins, either by law or the power of the purse.

53

Like the "Party of No," the idea of "anti-incumbent" sentiment ignores that voters are standing for something as much as they are against something when they express an opinion.

Yes! Isn't that annoying?

Reminds me of something I saw recently that was going on and on about how this one school was soooo successful because of autonomy. The principal had autonomy from the district and the teachers had autonomy from the principal and that's what led to the greatness.

I kept thinking that the real problem was the policies the district used and that it was using better methods/policies that was helping, not autonomy in and of itself.

Politics would be fine if it weren't for those anti-incumbent and autonomous meddling kids...

54 Which means, of course, that we will double-dip

In order to have a double dip you first have to ave a dip and an increase. We have the dip but anyone who believes those numbers of an increase from this adm is crazy.

55 Getting rid of the KSA requirements may have valid reasons, but I believe it is fraught with peril for both selected groups and for the ability of the civil service to maintain the respect of the public

Everything Democrats do is self serving, everything.  If how they benefit is not immediately obvious, a little digging will usually reveal it.

56 Instead, resumes will be given more credence.

hahahahaha.  90% of all resumes are bullshit. Anyone who has ever done an interview for hiring people knows this.

57 54 Which means, of course, that we will double-dip

In order to have a double dip you first have to ave a dip and an increase. We have the dip but anyone who believes those numbers of an increase from this adm is crazy.

Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2010 10:26 AM (6taRI)

Yea, I like the Elliot Wave take on this. Which is, series of steps until 2016. Then a flat recovery. Worse case scenario is DOW 700, and yes I typed 700.

58

Jupiter Obama has lost its stripe his shine and scientists are baffled as to why.

59 Yea, I like the Elliot Wave take on this. Which is, series of steps until 2016.

My take on this is that we will have an FDR economy because that is who the jug-eared asshole worships.  Spend and spend tax and tax is what he wants. 

We do in fact have a depression going on.  If we had a Republican in office that is exactly what the assholes in the propaganda MFM would be calling it.

My prediction is that we will continue a 20% unemployment for at least ten years.

60
Holy crap, MISS UNIVERSE LINGERIE SHOOT.   I like this kind of pandering to the straight audience, myself.

h/t jawa

61 I think many states already do this. I know school districts already test body mass.

Do they collect data from pediatricians?

Does the federal government really have any business tracking the weight of individuals, especially children?  Do you really believe this information isn't going to be stored and used against them later? 

62 #61 Does the federal government really have any business tracking the weight of individuals, especially children?  Do you really believe this information isn't going to be stored and used against them later?

Hell no, especially if it's going to be used to dole out grant money.

63 Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2010 10:29 AM (6taRI)

Not quite all resumes, and definitely not at higher levels.

But at certain levels, yes--and precisely my point. The breaker--the thing that gets you hired--will be that trendy degree from Mediocre U, the same one the hiring official has, and one that on the face of it one could not quibble with.

The problem being, many of those programs being what they are, that degree may actually just be an extended foray into various talking points of the left, and soon we will have a government bureaucracy resembling even more the education establishment.

64 Holy crap, MISS UNIVERSE LINGERIE SHOOT.   I like this kind of pandering to the straight audience, myself.

Good God, Miss Illinois looks like Sarah Jessica Horseface's long lost twin sister.  Yuck.

But if Trump wants to slut up his bitches, fine with me.

65 Also not in headlines, but pertinent: Erickson over at RedState is once again rallying around the Republican flag, warning against the evils of third parties.

Well, guess what. There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in political histories. What has not been before is not always because it is impossible. But at any rate, those who wish to enable the GOP must take full responsibility for its every action. As for myself, it is better by far than its opponents, but it cannot and will not have my active support or friendship. Others may choose as they will. I simply do not consider it an honorable organization.

66

Ed Morrissey on Governor Palin's speech in Chicago last night:

Palin spoke for about 50 minutes to a highly enthusiastic crowd of more than 4500 conservatives, offering a range of subjects but delivering a single message: get involved. 

Palin encouraged her audience to learn that reform is possible from the grassroots efforts of her own political career, starting off as a concerned mom on the school board...  She talked about the need to find and support conservative candidates...

I think it is Palin's most powerful role, encouraging people to step up and get involved, showing a wonderful example to girls and young women.  It's the Greg Mortenson approach to conversative missionary work - target the young females to change a culture.

I've been thinking a lot about the next generation, the kinds of things they're learning in school from their repeated indoctrination of leftist thoughts.  I think conservatives need to do more outreach to illuminate and educate.  Beck has been good at this, but there is a lot of work to do that will take years of consistent effort.  To that end, yesterday I sent out an email about the financial crisis we're in to some nieces, nephews, and kids of friends I'm close to.  I figure I gotta do my part.

 

67

At least with Independance Day your rooting for the humans.

The BMI catagorizes all football players and half of pro basketball players as overweight.  I'm waiting for the day that they get their Obamacare revoked, with a letter in the mail "people who don't exercise are a burden on the system".

68 Yeah, BMI is bullshit as a measure of individual health.  Tell me who's healthier--the "overweight" person who walks a couple miles a day and has normal blood pressure, blood sugar, etc, or the hypertensive "normal" weight person who sits on their ass all day?

(Everyone I know with diabetes and other chronic conditions is "normal"....but the non-diabetic fat people are getting singled out for punishment for "driving up costs."  I expect internment camps...that's what happens when you get "leaders" bashing a group for getting in the way of their perfect society, you know.)

69 41 Avatar is just Pocahontas with blue people. I guess they thought fifteen years later we wouldn't notice. And we didn't

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at May 13, 2010 10:01 AM (zqzYV)

 

I always thought it was more Dances with Wolllvvveesss in Spaaaace

(apologies to the muppets)

70 59 Yea, I like the Elliot Wave take on this. Which is, series of steps until 2016.

My take on this is that we will have an FDR economy because that is who the jug-eared asshole worships.  Spend and spend tax and tax is what he wants. 

We do in fact have a depression going on.  If we had a Republican in office that is exactly what the assholes in the propaganda MFM would be calling it.

My prediction is that we will continue a 20% unemployment for at least ten years.

Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2010 10:34 AM (6taRI)

Yep, it's a replay of 1937. The recovery then was 1943. I'm guessing 2023 for the recovery.

71 Yep, it's a replay of 1937. The recovery then was 1943. I'm guessing 2023 for the recovery.

And that required a World War to employ 15mil people to go fight, plus a few times over that to get jobs making guns, bullets and ships.

72

Beck thinks Bam and Co®  just have to "flip their final switch" for everything to hit the fan.  Make sure you have food.  Buckle up.

73

Advocates for openness in government oppose bill SB2937 now signed into law by the Hawaiian Governor because they fear the law could be used to ignore legitimate requests for information.

___

AS IF it's beyond Hawaiian employee tech savvy to simply negate what equates to "spam" -- repetitive requests from the same address -- that a generalized law need be passed to order state employees to ignore legal requests.

One thing leads to another down that path.

Next? Make requests for information an offense given punitive fees, fines and time in prison. Just asking.

74 71 Yep, it's a replay of 1937. The recovery then was 1943. I'm guessing 2023 for the recovery.

And that required a World War to employ 15mil people to go fight, plus a few times over that to get jobs making guns, bullets and ships.

Posted by: CUS at May 13, 2010 11:18 AM (wOGfT)

Here's a supposition:

1. Stock market falls to below DOW 700 by 2016

2. Multiple bank failures due to a credit crunches, ending with system collapse

3. China moves on Taiwan in 2012 using sub fleet to counter US Carrier force

4. China invades Vietnam in 2014 based on past aggressions

5. India / China conflict escalates in 2018, drawing everyone to World War in 2019

6. China defeat in 2022

75 Stock market falls to below DOW 700 by 2016

That must be adjusting for inflation.

76 The breaker--the thing that gets you hired--will be that trendy degree from Mediocre U, the same one the hiring official has, and one that on the face of it one could not quibble with.

The company I used to work for hired a black girl with a "6 year Engineering degree". They paid her a huge hiring bonus.  Her first job was supposed to be working with me for calculating setpoints.  This was a simple function that involved a square root of sum of the square of the various error functions in the measurement devices.  She could not seem to get the theory and do it even after they brought in a senior Engineer from corporate to train her.

After a few months they took her off of that project and sent her to SRO school. (a path out of Engineering and in to Operations). After her first few weeks she maintained about a 40 average on weekly tests.  They assigned a former SRO to assist her. Still after a few weeks  she could not pass any of the weekly tests and they were still in the theory stage which supposedly she had already had in college.

Someone finally got wise and did some research like calling the college she had listed for her masters on her resume. At first her attitude was "how dare you check up on me".  Of course she played the racism card. When she was ordered to produce transcripts she disappeared never to be heard from again. 

Her entire resume was fiction.  The company now has wised up.  They check before hiring. 

 

77
4. China invades Vietnam in 2014 based on past aggressions

They're more likely to move north, as they need the space and E. Russia is pretty much depopulated.  Besides, the Vietnamese have kicked their ass every time they started anything.  Funny how nobody talks about that.

78 3. China moves on Taiwan in 2012 using sub fleet to counter US Carrier force

I thought we offloaded that task to the Japanese.

79 Sorry but one of the main factors causing adult onset diabetes is obesity.


Not every fat person gets diabetes.

Not every person who gets diabetes is fat.

My paternal grandfather was a twig his whole life, became diabetic around age 70.  My other grandfather was big all his life, never had a problem with it.

"OMG! FAT PEOPLE ARE BAD!  PUNISH THEM BECAUSE OF THE DIABETUS!" is a prejudice born out of fear and ignorance and personal taste.

80 AZ's new What-We-Think-Of-California Cactus.

81

Advocates for openness in government oppose bill SB2937 now signed into law by the Hawaiian Governor because they fear the law could be used to ignore legitimate requests for information.

If it were a Republican (Jack Ryan) the media would be screaming "Freedom of information!!" but for covering up for Barry they once again turn a blind eye

82 Everyone I know with diabetes and other chronic conditions is "normal"....but the non-diabetic fat people are getting singled out for punishment for "driving up costs."

I wouldn't worry.  Bill Clinton will never support a no-fat-chicks policy.

83 The only reason for elimination of KSA tests is the miserable performance of some ethnic groups. That is the ugly hard truth.

84

Ed Morrissey on Governor Palin's speech in Chicago last night:

Palin also verbally bitch slapped the idiot Highland Park Il administrator who is refusing to let the school's girl's basketball team go to Arizona. The team made the playoffs for the first time in over 20 years, had bake sales to raise money for the trip but Susan Hebson won't let them go because going to Arizona, "would not be aligned with our beliefs and values." And the team would harrassed by police. Of course the police in Arizona have nothing else better to do but harrass a high school basketball team.

Highland Park is a typical wealthy, mostly white, lefty suburb. The parents, who all opposed the evil Arizona law, demand their daughters be allowed to go. Because like all liberals they are for liberal causes as long as they don't actually affect them

 

85 Palin also verbally bitch slapped the idiot Highland Park Il administrator who is refusing to let the school's girl's basketball team go to Arizona. The team made the playoffs for the first time in over 20 years, had bake sales to raise money for the trip but Susan Hebson won't let them go because going to Arizona, "would not be aligned with our beliefs and values."

Yet that school DID allow a student trip to China.  Figure that one out.

86

Do they collect data from pediatricians?

In schools, they use the school nurse. The Obama plan sounds more aggressive. I was just giving a heads up to what is already in place.

87 Yet that school DID allow a student trip to China.  Figure that one out.

Posted by: CUS at May 13, 2010 11:51 AM (wOGfT)

It's a communist government. I'm sure Ms. Hebson is a big fan of Chairman Mao.

88 It's a communist government. I'm sure Ms. Hebson is a big fan of Chairman Mao.

Enforcing immigration laws bad.

Human rights violations and infanticide good.

Got it.  Just wanted to know where the line is being drawn.

89

Palin also verbally bitch slapped the idiot Highland Park Il administrator who is refusing to let the school's girl's basketball team go to Arizona.

Exactly.  Here's some gems on that from HillBuzz, via C4P.  Again, I love her leadership and encouragement:

Palin illustrates in her speeches how revelatory simplicity can be, and how much power an ordinary woman or man yields when they just canÂ’t take it anymore, when they stand up to be heard, and they challenge the Left at every turnÂ…

“Go rogue, girls, go rogue,” Palin urged the students, telling them to find any way they could to go west to Arizona, on their own pioneer steam, to claim the berth in the championship their hard work earned them. “Speak up. Shout bullies down. Do not let them cower you.”

 

Sarah PalinÂ’s one mom, with more firepower than the lot of them. Her motto, as reiterated time and again in all of her speeches, is that thereÂ’s no retreat, everÂ…just reloading. Her dad taught her that years ago, and sheÂ’s been teaching it to everyone who got on her bad side ever since.

 

90 Here's an equally valid supposition:

1. Jessica Alba comes over tonight, wearing only a trench coat.

2. Naomi Watts comes over tomorrow night, wearing a little black dress.

3. Patti Ann Browne comes over Saturday afternoon, wearing a short skirt and heels.

4. Amy Adams invites me over Sunday night.

5. Angie Harmon, wearing that tight red outfit from Agent Cody Banks, flies with me to Paris Monday night.

6. Emmanuelle Chriqui joins us in Paris Tuesday night.

91 The GOP is allegedly going to base targeting of budget cuts to online voting at YouCut. Unfortunately, the choices for which programs to cut are very few, and don't go anywhere near most sacred cows.

92

Yesterday Highland Park HS said this about the Arizona trip:

A school official tells the Tribune that going to Arizona now -- after that state passed a harsh anti-immigration law -- "would not be aligned with our beliefs and values."

Today after quite a stink as been raised they say this:

This decision is not a political statement regarding the State of ArizonaÂ’s recently enacted legislation regarding immigration. 

They're so full of shit they should work for Barry's administration

93

It's a communist government. I'm sure Ms. Hebson is a big fan of Chairman Mao.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 13, 2010 11:53 AM (1Jaio)

Chairman Mao

94 Oppressed Spanish Unions planning to strike. Oh Goody, more US bailout $'s.

95

Sarah 84, a better reason presents itself.

Any government would prefer the hires to be competent, but ultimately loyalty to the government's ideal is tantamount. Our government has chosen a universalist ideology, and that means it needs hires with a common cause against the national majority.

It's like why Lenin's cadres in 1918 were more Latvian and (secular) Jewish than Russian (or conservative Jewish); and why the 'Abbasids ended up ruling through slave-soldiers and Turks. The Communists and Muslims deliberately avoided a Russian or Arab government (respectively).

96

I lived for decades under a KSA regime (and a previous acronym, for 'situation/task/action/result'). When introduced, it was hailed as corruption-proofing for the previous, more-or-less informal resume and interview, which had been pretty damn ethnic and overwhelmingly political. When hiring was still approved at the local level, you could read over the seniority list of bargaining-unit employee names and tell the community affiliation of the highest-ranking local executive -- and that was with a civil service test and veteran points.  

It only took a year or so for the diversity brigades to put the fix in on KSA. There was no rule against choosing certain parties for developmental assignments, ticket-punch short-term bids, special training, coaching on the questionnaire and interview process. In fact, it was encouraged, and trained members of selection committees, yrs trly, were advised to give extra-full weight to such citations. It was hard to get the best candidates into the package for the selecting official. Sometimes it was just as hard to guess, from the key words, who the anointed candidate was meant to be. I hated it.

Any system can be gamed, especially if it's gamed from above, or in accordance with a widely-accepted "ethical standard," like "making up for past injustice." This obvious lurch to a clearly even-more-gameable system just doesn't make sense: it's like the administration is trying to pick a fight.

That's the explanation I'm going with: another deal of the race card. Oppose it at your peril.