September 23, 2007

Draft Sarkozy! Or At Least His Publicist ...

Theorem: Where illegal immigration is concerned, the mainstream media everywhere is into sob stories.

My theorem is at least consistent with how this Associated Press article ("France Races to Oust Illegal Immigrants," San Francisco Chronicle, 9/22/2007) begins:

Kidnapping (or Worse) Fought Off by Arizona Woman

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Illegal immigration poses more dangers for women than for men, in particular when foreigners from misogynous cultures (that would be most of them) see independent American women as easy marks. Such an attitude may have been behind the midnight attack on a young Gilbert, Arizona, woman as she walked home alone from work.

Quote Of The Day: John Ashcroft

'I tell you, what's happened in the I.N.S. is enough to drive a man to drink.''[A NATION CHALLENGED: THE DRAGNET; Pakistani Plotted to Bomb Florida Power Plants, Officials Say, By Judith Miller, New York Times, March 26, 2002]

Joe Guzzardi Wins First Prize At The California State Fair

Joe won the first prize at this year's California State Fair for his chocolate banana bread recipe. This proves once again Joe's long-held theory that chocolate in combination with just about anything will be a winner. [Lodi Gold By Lauren Nelson Lodi News-Sentinel ,September 21, 2007 ]

Zimbabwe: Sam Francis was right (2)

“What Did We Expect?” asked Sam Francis five years ago, contemplating the ghastly fate of Rhodesia in its black-ruled form of Zimbabwe. Since then things have got much worse. Now comes news of remarkable admissions by Judith Todd, the prominent white liberal who in her youth was a kind of pin up girl for enemies of Ian Smith’s attempt to win independence for the country with white rule.

Failure To Report On Race...Again

You know what would be a really useful thing to know in this story of interracial violence at a Lancaster, California school? The races of the students involved. Since this story is about nothing but race, it seems to be the first thing you'd ask. According to Greatschools.net, the school is 47% Hispanic or Latino, 29% African American, not Hispanic and 19% White, not Hispanic.

The Jena Six Through the Looking Glass