Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Where are the race pimps today?

....answer: back under their rocks, their crimes of moral terpitude having been exposed to the full light of day, thanks mostly to Fox News, which patiently, day by day, took apart each of their inflammatory statements and showed the world what they really meant and why they meant it.

But, don't consign the race-baiters' efforts to the dustbin of history just yet...

The race pimps will be back, when George Zimmerman is exonerated by the full investigation in progress now. If that happens, and I give it a 65% chance of happening, there will be calls to take "justice" to the streets. Some criminals  will obey those calls, so remember your enemy identification and remember to use the right weapon at the right time.

Red Card for Major League Soccer

MLS, supposedly just a sporting outfit dedicated to trying to raise American Soccer to the level of say, the English Premier league (which is unliely to happen in MY lifetime), seriously tripped on it's PR this week with it's "Show Racism a Red Card" PR-blitz. This effort, timed to take shameless advantage of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, has no place in any display of sports organization.

First of all, the Martin/Zimmerman investigation is incomplete, but as information leaks out, it appears that Martin may well have been a race-baiter, and not Zimmerman. Just like the Rodney King affair, the intitial action was not indicative of the heart of the principal. Rodney King was a thief and a thug. He didn't deserve getting beaten down, but the Nation didn't deserve the race-rioting that was perpetrated in his name, either.

No, the Portland Timbers, a newer franchise in the struggling MLS, and one which has been broadly supported on the taxpayer dime (to the demise of a 100-year-old AAA baseball franchise, from which the Portland Beavers were booted and to which, with an expensive stadium remodeling cost footed by John Q. Taxpayer, the Timbers moved), can't afford to make these mistakes.

I was still on the fence as to whether I supported the franchise. I had not gotten over the cruel decision to boot out the baseball team, but I was warming to the wide acceptance of the Timbers in the local area, and also, the fact that I am one of the few of my generation of Americans who understands the game well enough to support it. I played soccer for about 9 or 10 straight years as a youth, both here and in England as a student, back in the 1950s before many US kids ever even heard of the game. I supported my youngest daughter when she played the game, and coached her into a winning goalkeeper (I was a keeper most of my soccer career).

I'm dedicating myself to opposing the franchise known as the Portland Timbers now, though. Their stupid attempt to interfere in racial politics in this country is not only absurd, it goes against the heart of international soccer, which is the single most multi-racial and inter-racial enterprise on the planet.

Read the last few paragraphs of the report of last night's game, which was a loss for the local lads. The team lost the game, and the team lost me, and others as well, with their PR gaffe.

I'm waiting for an apology.

Question for Mister President

Were you really just taken in by the pathos of it all, or did your peeps actually do any research before having you declare, "If I had a son, he'd be just like Trayvon"?

Info here. If that blog can come up with such info, why couldn't all your advisers? I maintain that they should have, and could have, since the investigation into the kid's death was almost a month along by then.

That leaves us with the un-avoidable conclusion that your "Son just like mine" comment was actually meant to deceive. If it was, you owe us all an apology, Mister President. Even if you WERE caught off-guard by the cover-up of this lad's thuggish background, you owe us a follow-up, and that follow-up had better work to turn off all the "blood-in-the-streets" rhetoric we keep hearing from the race-pimps and their Black Marxist enablers.

If there is race-rioting over this issue, Mister President, you are more at fault for starting it than any who throw the first firebombs or use the first guns.

You have a role here, Mister President. Turn off this race war before it starts. If your people think you can hide a failed economy and a failed foreign policy behind the acrid smokescreen of a race war, you are mistaken. Election Day WILL happen, and you will lose anyway, because you will have been fired by We The People. Your Chicago-stype machine will not be able to stuff enough ballot boxes to prevent your being thrown into the dustbin of history.

The only difference is, that without a race war, you will have been fired for simple incompetence, and we've had a few incompetent Presidents before, several still living, in fact. If there is a race war, you will also have been fired for fomenting it, and you will NEVER live that down. You will be reviled for the most shameful chapter of our history that any President ever wrote, and there have been plenty written before you, such as FDR's WW2 Japanese ancestry internment orders or the many railroadings of the American Indian tribes.

You owe us, Mister President. You were elected to effect positive change in this society, and no matter how you lie, you can't fit either race war OR racial appeasement politics into the category of positive change.

If you want to make positive change, support this Nation, it's economy and it's heritage. It's your duty to suppress the hegemony of racial politics, not support it. We can live in harmony in these United States ONLY if we live as One People, not as a collection of races each with it's own racial heritage celebrated as if it was a positive thing. Racial heritage is nothing, NATIONAL heritage is everything. Support your Nation, sir, or step aside for someone who will.

That is all.

Is lynching OK now?

Some in the race-pimp business (very lucrative business, that) think so.

Item: The MFWIC of the New Black Panther Party put a "reward" on the head of Zimmerman.  USAG Eric Holder gave him a pass. Bad move, this attracted the local cops, who arrested HIM as a felon in possession of a firearm.

Item: Spike Lee today tweeted what he thought was the address Zimmerman was staying at (he was wrong, Zimmerman wasn't there and hadn't been), but Spike Lee apparently thought it was OK that his peeps, numbering 250,000, should respond to the address and fetch Zimmerman (to the nearest oak tree, one surmises). Why hasn't Spike Lee been arrested for criminal conspiracy, across state lines? Seems that Eric Holder gave Spike Lee a pass, too.

Item: A bunch of kids, mostly black as noted by the surveillance cameras, skipped school at their high school to "protest Zimmerman not being arrested", but after skipping out, decided to do a flash-mob invasion of a local store and loot it. Note that that surveillance video showed a lot of hoodies being worn by the looters. Remember my advice? 

Rivrdog's prediction: There is a bad attitude afoot here. It is being exacerbated by the race pimps and the United States Attorney General, and there will be riots over this issue, I'm sure.

People will die in those riots.

Will you die? Not if you're prepared to defend yourself. Prepare your mind now for defense. If you follow the advice in this blog, you already have the appropriate arms.

At some point, when the rioting starts or, hopefully just before that point, I will warn you in these pages. At that point, you adopt your highest level of personal-threat reaction preparedness.

Stand by.

The FL "stand your ground" case

After hesitating some (and they should have hesitated more), all the anti-gunners have jumped on Race Pimp Sharpton's "Hoodie Hoopdie" and are in full cry.

Problem is, all the facts aren't in, so they are all jumping the gun, so to speak. Jumping the shark, too.

I have gleaned one important trend from this case, since it's not dependent on understanding the entire chain of facts.

When your opponent's hoodie goes up, you pull your pistol.

This entire hoodie thing bears some looking into.

The hoodie, or hooded sweatshirt, is a piece of casual athletic attire. The hood is meant to ward off the chill of a cold breeze on your flushed head after exertion, since more body heat gets radiated by the head and neck than any other body part.

That's the science of the hoodie. Everything else is custom and emotion.

The hoodie was adopted years ago by the hip-hop generation as their symbol of rebellion from the preceding generations. From there, it was adopted by the gangsta-rap pukes as their symbol (when they weren't wearing formal pimp attire).

So, the idiot race pimp Sharpton does us all an unintentional favor, by highlighting the hoodie thing with his "million hoodie march".

Get this straight, people: the hoodie is meant to intimidate.

OK, if it is meant to intimidate, be properly intimidated.

What do you mean, 'Dog, "properly intimidated"?

What I mean, is that in every defensive shooting situation, or even in cases where you just pull your pistol and don't have to use it, there has to be a justifying factor. The hoodie is that factor. Your opponent wears a hooded sweatshirt with the hood up for only two possible reasons: he has just exerted himself and wants to keep from chilling down too fast, or he is trying to intimidate those around him. If he's been exerting himself, you'll likely see sweat, or heavy breathing, or some other sign that he has. If you don't see those signs, and especially if it's warm out, he's wearing the hood up to try to intimidate. Your state of mind now turns to stronger defenses, if you are thinking tactically.

Now, consider aggravating factors: your opponent, who has been walking away from you, turns towards you, advances on you AND pulls up his hood. Pilgrim, if you DON'T take that as immediate aggression on his part, you are about to be a victim yourself. No race involved. In my part of town, there are few blacks, but all the pukes of all races wear hoodies or hooded parkas in their gang colors.

So, thanks very much, Sharpton. You're not smart enough to avoid these pitfalls, so now you've brought the whole hoodie thing out into the open. If there ever WAS a "cool" factor in wearing hoodies, and I don't believe there ever was, it was a rebel factor, there isn't now. You, "Reverend" Sharpton, have just helped to remove the "cool" factor of that garment.

The hoodie is about intimidation, that is all. Take that to the bank AND the Grand Jury.

Besides, the hoodie makes your opponent more closely resemble that silhouette target you practice and qualify with at the range. Three shots, two to center of mass and one to the head.

Bang-bang, beak. practice it.

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IMMEDIATE UPDATE: After posting this blog, I note that Geraldo Rivera is thinking along the same lines.

Genocide by Malaria?

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring", the book which claimed that the widespread use of DDT was going to eliminate all the songbirds from the Earth (and eagles and all other birds). The world believed her, and followed her suggestion, which was to ban the manufacture and use of the chemical almost everywhere.

The problem was, that with the then-widespread use of DDT and long-range aircraft to spray it with, we had just about eliminated the most deadly pest in the world fifty years ago, the malaria-carrying mosquito. Once the ban went into place, the mosquito rebounded rapidly, and since then, untold millions of tropical-world residents have died of malaria, borne almost exclusively by the mosquito, with most of the victims being babies and children.

Now, if any one person, under any other circumstances at all, could be directly linked to the killing of millions of innocent babies and children, the entire civilized world (and most of the less-civilized world as well) would howl for their head.

To my knowledge, no one ever linked Rachel Carson to this form of intentional genocide.

Why not?

Answer below the fold...

Race doesn't matter...

...if you're a Democrat.

This ayem, at 10:16 PST, I'm fixing breakfast and watching Fox News' morning show. Megan Kelly has some story to do involving one Rep. Cardoza, a CA Democrat (from Atwater, where I have been stationed back when there was a SAC base there), who criticized Obama.

So, the Fox producers whiz through their Rolodexes, and come up with a (D)onk talking head to interview on the subject of (D)onk vs. (D)onk.

That person is one Tara Dowdell, an analyst (that's pronounced ANN-al-ist, not ANAL-ist) who regularly communicates on things (d)onk-ish.

Ms. Dowdell seemed to be taken aback by Cardoza's even-tempered critique of Obama. So taken aback, in fact, that she was moved to use the old Southern (and now racist, as I've been told) expression, "the pot calling the kettle black".

Now, if Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, or Yours Truly had used that expression descriptively, we would be rapidly accused of being racist.

Let's just wait and listen. Will we hear a cry of outrage from the race-pimps of the Left? Is it snowing in Addis Ababa?

Race Discussion in progress...

...and, of course it's ugly, because when a trivial matter like race comes into a political discussion, no matter who brings it, it's ugly.

Read this article if you have a strong stomach. It is so slanted against Herman Cain that it will turn your stomach if you are a fair and not-racially-biased person, but read it anyway, then come back and we'll talk about the points the author made, and he DID touch on all the points of this particular race discussion.

OK, let's look at what the articles author, a noted writer on racial affairs, said.

• He accuses Cain of "making race matter" in the election. Of course it matters, because of the absolutely incontrovertible fact that with Cain as an opponent, Obama can't play the race card like he did in the last election. Cain has eliminated the race card, and with it, probably 4-8% of the total vote Obama would have gotten. Of course Obama's minions, Holland included, are gunning for Cain.
• He tries to attack Cain for bringing up the Clarence Thomas smearing. Of course that attempt to smear Justice Thomas matters, because it was a proven attempt to dump a black conservative with the use of unproven sexual innuendos. There is a 100% correlation between the two attempted smearings.
• Holland cites Obama's declaration that it is a "post-racial America" we live in now, and he accuses Cain of sullying that noble change. Problem is, that just because Obama declared it, it isn't a fact. There is NO such thing as post-racial politics, as long as the citizens of color still consider themselves minorities in need of special rights and protections, and get those special rights and protections from a paternalistic Federal Government. Of course it can't be post-racial, not now, not until every vestige of racial politics is removed from our governance, and all races are equal under law, as General Dwight David Eisenhower declared them to be 63 years ago, in the military, at least.

Holland is a prolific writer. Google his name and you will come up with pages of his writings referenced, and not one single derogatory thing published about him. That only shows how badly Google can be manipulated. Holland matters because liberal blacks who have "made it" read him, but, even though he admits that Cain is still leading, and could win the nomination, he still felt it necessary to take the above pot-shots at him personally and politically.

If there were ever to be a post-racial America, and one can always hope there might be, people of color would have to give up their Federal security blankets, and they would have to give up listening to leaders like Holland who say they should have those security blankets.

Although I have not heard him say it, I'm fairly sure that Herman Cain would assume that all citizens are equal racially right now, and by making that assumption, by acting on that assumption, Herman Cain would do more for "minority" races in the population than Obama has done, or ever would do.

Dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial

...I watched some TeeVee video of the memorial dedication. It's an impressive memorial, very suitable to one of the deepest thinkers and do-ers in our recent history.

Naturally, there was speechifying.

For some reason, Dan Rather got invited (I can't see the connection).

To sum  up his short speech: "White guilt is a good thing. Let's have more white guilt."

Oh, Danny-boy, the pipes are a-calling. Calling you home. You will NOT have a memorial, because instead of ending your career as a martyr like Dr. MLK, Jr did, you ended it as a confirmed liar.

Oh, and Danny-boy, you didn't think this one through. You praised White Guilt as an appropriate emotion, totally overlooking the solid fact that it has gotten this Nation into the worst fix it has been in, ever. White Guilt elected Barack Hussein Obama, and if he is re-elected, and thereby offered the chance to complete his agenda of ruining the culture and structure of the US of A, it will be because of White Guilt.

So, the counter to White Guilt, and the most likely conservative to actually effect the Un-Do, is Herman Cain. Think about it, people, no more race cards with Herman Cain. No more White Guilt.

Wednesday Washouts

I'm going to be too busy to blog tomorrow, full schedule, so the Thursday Thuds will be replaced by Wednesday Washouts.

1. There were two Special elections yesterday, and the (D)emocrats lost both of them. "Weenie Waving" Weiner's seat went to a Republican, and out in the Wild West of Nevada, a County election went to the GOP in an unexpected landslide. Details here.

The money quote:

"And so as they eye Obama’s reelection a year away, many Democratic leaders are taking an unexpectedly passive line. They’re pinning their hopes on the chance that the Republican Party nominates a figure who will, essentially, defeat him or herself."

Which could happen, if the Stupid Party is up to it's usual form.

2. (first, a FacePalm). When you go to a blog called Snarky Bytes and try to offer reasoned discourse as a FNG, you should expect ass-biting and snark. I got both over at Linoge's place, where the religion of Open Carry is not to be sullied with reasoned discourse, apparently. Figure it out yourself, but isn't it strange that the O/C folks all seem to fall back on "People aren't getting their O/C guns grabbed, and aren't getting shot with the guns that aren't getting grabbed." That's a worthwhile argument normally, but in this case, it suffers from a statistical fallacy right out of "How to lie with Statistics": there isn't enough Open Carry going on, except for cops (who the O/C crowd says, somehow, don't count). If the stat you're asking for can only be derived from a statistically-insignificant sample, the stat is insignificant and can't be used to support logical argument. But, over @ Linoge's you get snark, not science. I should have known better.

3. A would-be Spidey came to grief right here in Stumptown, trying to impress his date with his vertical-climbing prowess, but he fell off a tall incinerator chimney at a local school, and went Splat! on the roof, where he was extracted by the Fire Department and sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries. I would imagine his date was not impressed. I will let you know if this turns into a true Darwin moment.

4. Battle of PeeCee. Cherokee Nation vs. Congressional Black Caucus. Basically, the Cherokee Nation just had a constitutional convention and changed their constitution regarding provisions for tribal membership, stripping tibal member status from some 2,800 descendants of black slaves owned by Cherokee tribesmen before and during the Civil War. In 1866, the victorious Union forced a treaty on the defeated Cherokee which said that those slaves had to be accorded tribal rights. The Cherokee acceded, because they were defeated militarily, and because actual Nation status meant nothing back then. Now the Cherokee have petroleum leases, they have casino money, and being a full member is worth $66,000+ per year direct income. This one will wind up in the Supreme Court, which, I'm betting, will affirm the right of the Cherokee to change their constitution and abrogate that part of the Treaty of 1866. Of course, that may prompt the USA to try to reclaim their tribal lands and all that oil & gas....This story will continue to intrigue, and I'll keep you up on it.

5. Ho-hum, another day another contaminated food source, this time, Colorado cantaloupes. let's see, this year, we've had bad hamburger and ground turkey, bad berries, and now bad melons. I guess it's time to start my Mexican Routine, and dunk everything in Iodine-water.

6. The next TSA indignity: telling aircrews to monitor air passengers' bathroom activity. This is a no-fly for me: I have 40% less colon than most, and tend towards colitis; in one of the gut operations I had 5-6 years ago, my bladder was accidentally compressed during surgery, and so it holds less. Peeing in an airplane cabin, not in the loo, is frowned upon, and if you wear incontinence protection, you get the hassle of your life going through Security.  I guess the few tens of millions of truly incontinent people can't fly anymore, and those approaching that status, like yours truly, probably ought to excuse themselves from airplanes as well. Hey-hey, ho-ho, hope that you don't have to go. Hey-hey, ho-ho, the TSA has got to go...