Posted 3:37:00 PM by BCR Boy (link)

DAMN UNIONS
CBS Marketwatch reports on the 10 Most Overpaid Jobs in the U.S.. Not surprisingly, 4 of the top 10 are notorious union positions:

9) Pilots for major airlines
While American and United pilots recently took pay cuts, senior captains earn as much as $250,000 a year at Delta, and their counterparts at other major airlines still earn about $150,000 to $215,000 - several times pilot pay at regional carriers - for a job that technology has made almost fully automated.

By comparison, senior pilots make up to 40 percent less at low-fare carriers like Jet Blue and Southwest, though some enjoy favorable perks like stock options. That helps explain why their employers are profitable while several of the majors are still teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

The pilot's unions are the most powerful in the industry. They demand premium pay as if still in the glory days of long-gone Pan Am and TWA, rather than the cutthroat, deregulated market of under-$200 coast-to-coast roundtrips. Because we entrust our lives to them, consumers accept the excessive sums paid them, when it's airplane mechanics who really hold our fate in their hands.

8) West Coast longshoremen
In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money.

Next year, West Coast dockworkers will earn an average of $112,000 for handling cargo, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, their employer. Office clerks who log shipping records into computers will earn $136,000. And unionized foremen who oversee the rank-and-file will pull down an average $177,000.

Unlike their East Coast union brethren who compete with non-union ports in the South and Gulf of Mexico, the West Coast stevedores have an ironfisted lock on Pacific ports. Given their rare monopoly, they can disrupt U.S. commerce -- as they did during the FDR years -- and command exorbitant wages, even though their work is more automated and less hazardous than in the days of "On the Waterfront."

7) Airport skycaps
Many of the uniformed baggage handlers who check in luggage at curbside pull in more than $100,000 a year -- most of it in cash.

On top of their $30,000 to $40,000 salaries, peak earners take in $300 or more a day in tips. Sound implausible? That amounts to a $2 tip from 18 travelers an hour on average. Many tip more than that.

While most skycaps are cordial, a good many treat customers with blank indifference, knowing harried travelers don't want to brave counter check-ins, especially in the post 9/11 age. Their work is more mindless than that of a McDonald's counter clerk, who at least has to bag the order correctly.

2) Washed-up pro athletes in long-term contracts
Pro athletes at the top of their game deserve what they earn for being the best in their business. It's those who sign whopping, long-term contracts after a few strong years, and then find their talents vanish, who reap unconscionable sums of money.

NBA player Shawn Kemp, for instance, earned $10 million in a year he averaged a pathetic 6.1 points and 3.8 rebounds a game. Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Hampton earned $9.5 million -- in the second year of an eight-year, $121 million contract -- while compiling a 7-15 won-loss record for the Colorado Rockies with a pitiful earned-run average of 6.15.

Thank the players' unions for refusing to negotiate contracts based on performance -- and driving up the cost of tickets to levels unaffordable for a family of four, especially for football and basketball. They point to owners as the culprits, yet golf star Tiger Woods and tennis champ Serena Williams earn their keep based on their performance in each tournament.

Ever wonder why airlines keep going bankrupt and demanding federal bailouts? This (along with terrorism) is why.

Posted 10:57:00 AM by BCR Boy (link)

IDIOTS
Webster County, Kentucky public schools have eliminated Monday classes to save about 2 percent of its annual spending -- or $200,000, according to CNN.com. The Webster school system decided to change its schedule rather than cut extracurricular activities. This reeks of the backward educational values plaguing our schools -- primary, secondary, and higher education. Cutting a fifth of the schoolweek to save football is like taking an 800 SAT student at Berkeley in the name of diversity.

Idiots.

Posted 7:55:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

WHO DOESN'T LIKE "SHOWGIRLS?"

From time to time I have to step out of this angry writing persona and actually write something of substance. It's a rare occasion, but since I was asked to give an opinion, I'm taking the opportunity to do so.

I was never a big fan of "Saved By The Bell," but I do remember it vaguely. Elizabeth Berkley in "Showgirls" was a new cinematic low, but an entire cult formed around how ridiculous the script and acting really were. I found it quite amusing.

I met Mario Lopez at a Hollywood Hills Party in 1999. He was shirtless, taking girls down into the nether levels of the hillside home, and returning to grab another. His behavior was kind of creepy, but in Hollywood this is a standard of conduct to be expected.

On the topic of cultural differentiation, I will respond accordingly:

Which leads to the following observation--kids don't give a fuck about race and ethnicity, college students do.

When I was young, I never thought of others by race, class, or gender--well, scratch that last one since I was lusting after something. But when I'd see Slater on Saved by the Bell, I didn't think of what his ethnicity was even if his skin was darker than his fellow classmates. When he spoke in Spanish to the workers (from my first viewing of the episode nearly a decade ago), I didn't even blink.

You didn't blink because of all of the factors of cultural differentiation and the formation of identity patterns (i.e., language or other culture, race, religion and caste), language is the weakest cultural cleavage. Why do you think all of the Raza manifestoes are written in English? On the other hand, quebecois separatism is an example of linguistic solidarity that stand out as being particularly strong. Furthermore, cultural pluralism can extend beyond sovereignty or territory to the political theorist, with ethnicity and religion being the strongest forms of identity. It is important to note that these cultural cleavages are the sole source of social conflict. So you have to decide: am I going to be a part of the problem, or the solution?

For many years I believed in the latter--until I realized that this was akin to beating my head against a wall. If my culture, my heritage and my family are being forced out of this state by a hostile foreign aggression, in defending myself and my American identity, I am now a player in identity politics; and hence, part of the problem merely by asserting that my voice is not forced out of the issue scope of political discourse. My identity (whatever that may be at the moment) was forced upon me by the academy. It's as simple as that. The redifinition of identity and the ensuing self-awareness occurs at the academy. At the UC, we have an education taught in standard language (English), and the cultural entrepreneurs propagating an ideology that are the vehicles of consolidation of people into these collectivities: communalism, in a nutshell. There has to be an educated elite (intelligentsia who are cultural entrepreneurs) for the whole thing to work.

Collective awareness and self-consciousness are dynamic and exist multiple, overlapping layers. Identities change and so do social roles. For example, your are a tenant, employee, Mexican, a spanish speaker, etc. When social roles shape these identities, they can polarize a society, and entire collectivities are regarded as "the enemy." You can find this anywhere in the world, not just on my site. The predictive value of such observations is particularly valid, which is why you always hear white separatists predicting a race war. There may not be a war, but no one can deny that social conflict exists in our "multicultural" existence. In this regard, I view all of these collectivities based on race and ethnicity to be wholly destructive to a society and the source of social conflict on our campuses. People should be embracing one another, but instead they cling to one another like a child to his mother. A white man (small "w") cannot mentor a Mexican in because of the unique "needs" of the Mexican student. This is the propagation of local truths inculcated through ethnomethodology, a la Foucault and Marcuse, among others. This is the sad state of affairs rooted in racism and a political philosophy which needs to be tackled if we are to have social harmony.

When I was young, I had Chinese friends, Jewish friends, Indian friends, Muslim friends, Pakistani--from all over the world. And we never gave it any thought. It wasn't until college that I began seeing the world through racial and classist glasses. And while some people (myself included) might attribute that to the development of my social conscious, I also must say that college played some role in it, although I still cannot point out exactly what it is.

I was like you, Gustavo. But now I refuse to go to soccer matches where the Mexican flag is waiving, and tensions with my girlfriend and friends have been brought into my life as a result of what the academy shaped me into: an angry white, Republican male. It has driven away from some friends, but not towards hanging out only with "my" race. But still, the university is a harmful place for an adult who was brought up to believe (a) you are no better than anyone else; and (b) don't treat people differently because of their appearance, it's not right. For a kid of 19 or 20 years old, they don't know any better and accept what the university says. An adult resists the indoctrination because those normative values have become deeply embedded in later years.

First it was at Santa Ana College that became imbibed with a self-awareness of being driven out. Speaking spanish in an English class is just plain unacceptable to me, but they do it anyway. Then going to Berkeley was a further balkanizing experience, enough for me to realize just how evil the whole system is. One can only hope it will collapse under its own weight like most communist regimes.

Is the university system really such a bastion of PC madness that destroys rather than opens opportunities?

Absolutely. But if you can see through the PC madness and embrace those who are not educated, you can see that humanity exists outside of the academy; and you can find hope and faith in humanity, as well as a common good to be found in all men that have not had their identity shaped by such a hateful, divisive institution. If your Mechista organization offered scholarships to Vietnamese (or anyone else outside of the collectivity), then I would have no problem with your affiliation. But they got you to believe certain things, and there is hope that someday you may see things in a different light and dismiss your association with what I consider to be a hate group. The reason so many different people can get along (relatively well) in this state, I believe, is because of a common, universal more that respects the liberty of the individual, period. Your Chicano brethren obviously don't see it that way.

But I'm still an unrepentant leftist. But I'm also not an idealogue--I'm a human, foibles and all.

Likewise, I too have many "foibles," and am far from a perfect human being. I have said some pretty stupid things (here and abroad), but have always tried to stand on the right side of history. This self-realization of imperfection is what enables us to become better people towards each other, and towards a common goal of social harmony. But recognizing the socially divisive nature of the academy is a first step in realizing how ethnic relations will come about in the years to come. Read what the German intelligentsia were saying about Jews in the academy for the 60 years prior to the rise of Hitler, and you may understand what we are going to be facing in this country if the multiculturalist agenda (derivative of Marxism) is allowed to spread like a cancer.

An abandonment of cultural entrepreneurship would be a good start to arrive at some reconciliation of the conflicting values you experience, my friend. Take a look around, no one is oppressing you.

Posted 3:16:00 PM by petit bourgeois (link)

NOTICIAS POR LOS YANQUI GABACHOS

Courtesy of El Universal via Google translation:

When talking about to the situation in the South border of the country, Fox denied that the government is using the Mexican army "to stop Central American migrantes" and emphasized that the military dedicate themselves to fight against the traffic of arms, drugs and people.

What a liar. But aren't all politicians liars?

And then there is the State of Zacatecas, which now has an estimated 70% of its budget coming from the United States remittances:

Zacatecas, Zac. The remittances that send the zacatecanos migrantes to their families already represent 70 percents of the total budget of the state, who this year will exceed 8 billion weights, affirmed governor Ricardo Monreal ?vila.

There is something wrong with that, but it may be a good place to retire since California will be overrun with zacatecanos.

Over in Durango (where there is a strong French and Irish presence that goes back many generations), U.S. "Hispanic" groups (and others) are claiming that they are not treated as human beings in the good 'ol U.S. of A.

In the table on Migration, presided over by the governor of Zacatecas, Ricardo Monreal ?vila, like the 20 representing oradores of different clubs and associations from migrantes in different states from the American Union, Pelayo raised that they must be taken into account, and in interview minutes later sent that until now the position of the federal government has been weak, and that after the exit of Juan Hernandez, to the front of the office of Attention to Migrantes, the Moral paper of its Innocent successor has been almost null.

Of course, he is referring to Candido Morales not doing his job, and is now demanding the states of Mexico step in and demand "social justice" or what not. Can you imagine anyone in their right mind going to the Mexican government and demanding their civil rights in the United States, given Mexico's long history of civil right abuses? The audacity is overwhelming. In the aftermath of the Mexico City earthquake, human bones were picked from the rubble of the police headquarters. These are the people the reconquistas in this country are so allied with. I would love to see thier citizenship revoked, since they are so preoccupied telling Mexican governors what to do:

It even sent a call to the governments of the states, to break with the federal government: "If the Federation does not take care of to us, they must break with the federal government, are needed specific agreements because the treatment that occurs us is aberrant".

Notice how the word "us" is used. These "Hispanic" organizations never have, and never will consider themselves American citizens.

Between the representatives of these groupings was the president of the League of Latin United American Citizen (LULAC, by its abbreviations in English), Héctor Flowers that after doing one semblanza of the profits that have had these associations of Hispano-American migrantes, noticed that in the last months the number of groups has been increased antiimmigrants in the United States.

That's right Hector, there is an increasing senitment and political mobilization as our great state of California slips into the third-world, and we have every right to say gets in and who gets to stay. It's called national sovereignty, so why don't you live in Mexico if the US is so oppressive? What's that matter, can't wean yourself off of the teat of the Ford Foundation?

Lastly, the reconquista from Orange County, Carlos Olamendi (don't ever ever ever eat at Olamendis!) was there defeding his RINO buddy, Ahnold:

Schwarzenegger, neither racist, nor genocida: Carlos Olamendi

The spokesman and member of the transition equipment of the elect governor of California, Carlos Olamendi, rejected that this one is racist, and less than was accused to try to apply "a genocide policy to him, those are versions that have handled means in Mexico, not even we know from where they have removed them".

Olamendi wrote down that the elect government cannot be made responsible to try to apply actions against the migrantes, nor of the subject of which the migrantes do not tell on licenses to lead, "when this is responsibility of the ex- governor Davis".

It asserted, the member of the transition equipment that Schwarzenegger indicated please that in opposition to which has said on him, "in the campaign it presented/displayed a new project, fresh and in the immigrants".

The tranlation is a little rough here, but basically Olamendi is making Arnold look good by saying he doesn't advocate genocide, lays blame on Davis for driver's licences, and that Arnold presented a position during the election that was favorable to "immigrants," of course making no distinction between legal or illegal.

You gotta hand it to Arnold though. By having a reconquista on his side he not only covers all of his bases politically through PR work, his agenda is difficult to see beyond the defense of his public image in Mexico.

Posted 8:25:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

MORE CONFIRMATION OF RACISM AT CAL

According to the LA Times:

UC Berkeley, the original focus of the admissions debate, admitted low-scoring blacks and Latinos at twice the rate of Asians and whites with similar scores.

Why? Because they feel the need to make racial discriminations to punish the melanin-challenged. We can't have too many light-skinned students, because they create a hostile and offensive learning environment.

We all knew it was an illegal end-run around the ban on affirmative action. I went to class with these kids, I know what they are not capable of, like understanding an opposing point-of-view.

"Furthermore, it appears that, consistent with Regents' policy, campuses are drawing from the full range of the eligibility pool."

At Berkeley, they should be drawing from the best and the brightest; but not anymore.

Throughout UC, he said, black students with low SAT scores are admitted at low rates because they, in disproportionate numbers, do not meet the university's basic qualifications. He said he did not know the reasons for that pattern.

Ignorance is always good to have at a University, because the alternative is to say the unspeakable truth.

At UC Berkeley, Asians are the largest group, at 38%, followed by whites, at 30%; Latinos, at 10%; and African Americans, 4%.

whites (small "w") are a minority at Cal. Whatever happened to "proportional representation?" Apparently, that argument only works if you fit a certain racial profile that goes beyond being "represented." Its called skin color, and it's a racist policy to deny whites (small "w") admission on the basis of skin color, but they do it every semester.

Ward Connerly was right: this problem isn't going away anytime soon, either.

With that said, I would like to see all foreign (legal or not) and out-of-state students driven out of the system. Why should the University accept a California resident when it can get three times the tuition for a non-California resident? The Univeristy currently is denying CALIFORNIA TAXPAYING RESIDENTS AND CITIZENS admissions to the UC in favor of those who can afford to foot the bill. Why doesn't anyone from the left challenge this form of elitism?

Posted 5:33:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

IDIOT PROFESSOR ALERT, PART TWO

This idiot is brought to you courtesy of the SacBee and UC Davis:

"I refuse to allow Asian Americans to be passive victims," he said. "There has been a slow-motion, 100-year holocaust of the Asian people. The text of the film talks about genocide and dislocation against Asians by the U.S. military -- it talks about U.S. Marines killing 200,00 civilians in the Philippines in 1898, on through Hiroshima, the Korean War and Vietnam."

He should know better, as a Japanese-American (or Amerikkkan, as they say in Ethnic Studies). Hey Professor, remember Nanking? Or is your interpretation of "genocide" only limited to the white (small "w") race?

Racism and pornography passes for scholarship. Fucking great. It's no secret that Japanese are one of the most racist, sexist, and xenophobic societies on the planet. He has no right to call himself an American if he is going to look the other way when it comes to yellow-on-yellow atrocities. This guy needs to be taken out and beaten with a stick, repeatedly. This guy is worse than Ling Chi Wang--another racist impersonating an academic who needs to be taken out to the woodshed. And the UC just keeps hiring them, giving them a platform to spew their hatred of whitey.

My grandfather fought the Japs in Tinian, Saipan and Guadalcanal. His C.O. was beheaded with a sword, hands bound behind his back. My grandfather was also a lifelong Democrat and one of the best Americans ever to walk the planet. The Jap Empire had to be stopped, and a certain Fat Boy did the job. No American should ever feel any guilt about dropping the bomb: it was necessary, no matter what the historical revisionists tell you.

I will never study at any UC school for as long as I live. It was really THAT BAD of an experience, worse than incarceration. There are far better educational resources to be found in middle America, comrades. I implore my readers to send their kids elsewhere.

Posted 3:07:00 PM by BCR Boy (link)

HEADS UP FROM SLASHDOT
Slashdot reports that a new internet security product will block the sites of the NRA and other pro-Second Amendment sites:

A recent American Rifleman contained small column that said that Symantec's new Internet Security 2004 would block pro gun rights sites (i.e. NRA sites), while not blocking similar anti-gun rights web sites. Being the eternal skeptic, this claim was tested by downloading the trial version and running some tests against it. To my surprise I found the every NRA site was blocked and was in the category 'weapons.' This even included the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. Some sites that were not blocked where such notable anti-gun rights site such as The Brady Campaign, and Good Bye Guns. The only anti-gun rights site that was blocked that I could find was Hand Gun Control's web site.

This is very, very bad.

Posted 5:42:00 PM by BCR Boy (link)

THANK YOU BABY KILLERS?
No, not a tribute to the Palestinians. A tribute to the pro-abortion assholes. Why? They want to question the constitutionality of the soon-to-be ban on partial birth abortion.

Hopefully, this case will make it to the Supreme Court... and they will use this opportunity to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Posted 12:07:00 PM by petit bourgeois (link)

CASTRO TO SCHWARZENEGGER: I HOPE YOU HAVE BRAINS

What kind of $4,000 cigar-chomping Austrian goes to Cuba (I wonder if he had a difficult-to-obtain Cuban visa. I doubt it) to indulge in Cuba's finest? Ahnold, comrades:

"No one has invited him," Castro said of Schwarzenegger. But Castro noted that the governor-elect had traveled to the island at least once in the past.

Maybe Arnold could sign an exclusive endorsement of Cohiba for Castro, since they both run in the same circles anyway.

Posted 7:43:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

IDIOT PARTISAN PROFESSOR ALERT!

Want to know what kind of crap they teach at Berkeley? Look no further than this link.

UPDATE: The Freepers have put in 2 cents here.

Posted 6:54:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

POWELL: BUSH TO CIRCUMVENT LEGISLATURE ON AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

One of Mexico's more reasonable newpapers is El Universal. I like to read what's going journalistically down south, but I can spend way too much time reading the damn things. If I read an article without translating it, I only understand about 70% of what is written, which is enough for me. When I am in Mexico, my spanish speaking gets better with beer (or tequila), it seems, so I do plenty of both to help my linguistic skills whenever possible. Nothing says "sexy" like saying "huachinango a la vercruzana" or pronoucing the town of "Tsintsuntsan" like a ricocheting bullet in perfect spanish. Always makes the family smile when you do that. But when I am on this side of the border, I'm just resisting the cultural hegemony of my environs by refusing to speak it, even though I can.

Reading and writing, however, I still have problems with certain verbs. I studied Italian in college, so give me a break. I learned my Spanish on the streets of Santa Ana. But some regions' accents in Mexico are more comprehensible than others. I went to Madrid and could barely speak Castillian. The lisp takes a while to get used to. Mexico has no formal language academy, so its language is a bastardized language, with words spoken that are not found on the Iberian peninsula; so pardon my further bastardization of the language in my translations, hereinafter. Somebody needs to read the damn things, because what they say provides an exposition of the half-truths that are propagated on this side of the border.

Anyway, today's El Universal is a bit ironic. First we have Colin Powell "indicating" that a migration accord coming from the White House would circumvent the legislature:

Washington.- El gobierno estadounidense analiza la posibilidad de adoptar medidas migratorias que no impliquen la intervenci?n legislativa, indic? el secretario de Estado Colin Powell...

Powell explic? que como consecuencia de esa realidad, "examinamos algunas cosas que podemos hacer sobre migraci?n que no requieran acci?n legislativa inmediata, y espero que seremos capaces de demostrar progreso tanto a México como a EU".

Isn't that special? Bush is trying to find a way to grant illegals amnesty without going through the GOP dominated legislature. But wait, the article says it is not likely to happen because next November is election time, and, according to Mexican authorities, during ecomonic crises "antiimmigrant" points of view abound:

Puntualiz? sin embargo que el a?o pr?ximo es un a?o electoral y por tanto va a ser dif?cil...

Autoridades mexicanas subrayaron recientemente la reanudaci?n de discusiones sobre temas migratorios, aunque fuentes estadounidenses han insistido en los actuales problemas pol?ticos para lograr mayores progresos en el asunto, tanto por la realidad electoral como por una crisis econ?mica que azuza puntos de vista antiinmigrantes.

Considering this is an issue about America protecting itself from a hostile foreign invasion, the irony comes to me when I read this article, about some local farmers asking the Mexican government if they can arm themselves against an invasion:

Zacatecas, Zac.- Peque?os propietarios de la sierra del municipio de Valpara?so solicitaron el apoyo del gobierno zacatecano para tramitar permisos en la Secretar?a de la Defensa Nacional, a fin de portar armas de fuego para defender sus tierras ante la invasi?n perpetrada por tepehuanos de Durango.

Tepehuanos (indigenous peoples) from Durango are invading Zacatecas and harvesting oregano, and the Zacatecanos are asking for firearms to drive them out. I think it's hilarious when these constitutionally-mandated collective farming arrangements (ejidos) encroach upon private property. Better pray you are not an American with a lease, since you can't buy land (discrimination!). There is also no such thing as title insurance in Mexico. There always seems to be a constant struggle between communism and capitalism in Mexico.

The solution is clear: arm yourselves against invaders, Americanos and Zacatecanos, since your government is not going to protect you.

Posted 7:02:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

NO MENTION OF LITIGATION

This article doesn't mention any pending litigation as a possible delay in receiving emergency funds for thinning trees. Does anyone really think they are going to cut down a tree (living or not) in this state without someone making a Federal case out of it?

Posted 6:09:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

THOSE DAMN LEFTIES ARE A VIGILANT BUNCH!

Ok, so I was away for a while. Besides, there is no way I could follow the previous McClintock Act. Hardcore Republicans are here to stay, comrades.

For those of you wondering, let's just say I have been studying the border region, without actually being enrolled in any steenking school, gringos! I am seriously thinking about dual citizenship as a way to influence public opinion in the hostile nation's third largest city: Tijuana.

But Tijuana only exists because of its proximity to the economic benefits that lie beyond la frontera. It is a pure parasitic municipality.

Wouldn't it be great to vote in Tijuana?

Wait a second, there are no right wing candidates in Mexico. And the encouragement of Socialism is such a bad idea.

Anyway, before I left for my independent academic enterprise of political inquiry down south, I wrote a response to this post, posted at CalJunket, hosted by a Ms. Rebecca C. Brown, unofficial Campus Jester and native of Long Beach. She is truly funny.

When someone says "I hate Republicans," I merely wanted to point out the semantic variance of "hate." "Hate" only applies to whitey in the academy, which is lost upon most Berkeley students.

Here it is, and the quotes belong to Ms. Brown:

"Dammit, I hate Republicans!"

Not the liberal beacon of tolerance I would expect from a pinko.

Posted By: petty bourgeois 10/23/2003 8:09:37 AM

This, of course, elicited a pretty decent discourse revolving around what are essentially normative values in political reality that we all experience. No one living here is immune from the State of California. I will respond accordingly here.

The first is Heuristic Squelch writer, Tommaso:

And all you supply-side Jesus idol worshipers out there should just put down the Wall Street Journal editorial page and actually read the bible. Then, when you’re done, choose which one you want to believe in. You can believe in regressive income taxes if you want, but please don’t pretend that it’s compatible with the teachings of Jesus.

First of all, I would not believe in the political orthodoxy presented on the Wall Street Journal Opinion Page, no matter what my religious or political denomination. All I know is that "Fuck the Rich" is not a normative value consistent with liberty of the individual.

And petty bourgeois, when did conservative pundits start valuing tolerance? Oh yeah, the very instant believing such a thing started being in your favor. Just like the new rules against president hating you guys are trying to impose

We started inflicting tolerance around the time of Abraham Lincoln, and although he was an American Nationalist, he was often in conflict with the Radical Republicans and their agenda. For a more recent, yet historical reference, I urge my readers to peruse the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, if you want to realize the political reality of the old GOP. Moreover, before you chastise Republicans, at least know they were instrumental in passing this legislation, pinkos.

In fact, it seems most conservative pundits seem to think political commentary is like a game of Calvinball where the rules of discourse change to fit their moods. If I want that, I’ll go read the Angry Clam.

Please, I urge all of you to read The Angry Clam no matter what you think.

Next is the hostess, Rebecca C:

And why should I be tolerant of hypocricy, PB? First of all, you obviously have no tongue-in-cheek receptors for dryly exaggerated and blanket statements such as "I hate Republicans."

Your post exhibited a vehement hatred of those who do not subscribe to your political ideology. How many girl-friends do you have in BCR? Certainly not more than me, and I am a male chauvinist-pig, even by 1970's standards (and I was very alive then, missy).

Moreover, hatred is a specifically designated crime under leftist statutes to which you support. Michael Gray, anyone? You and I both know that whites (small "w") are more susceptible to prosecution because of thier skin color, yet you make no defense of this racism. Michael Gray gets off in the name of "cosmic justice."

Our permanent Berkeley-ideologue-Kato Kaelin, Mr. Bruno, also chimes in with exactly two cents:

And Petty has quite the tendency to see leftist hypocrisy and malice where in fact none exists. (Remember that MLK argument held at Jeff''s site a few months back?)

Yes I remember it. So what's the argument against it?

Jeez, these kids go to (or have went) to Berkeley, mind you. Except for some guy who calls himself "test case," as in test case for some psychological evaluation:

The Repubs want to shoot the Mexicans on sight and whip the blacks into shape, whereas liberals want to create an impenetrable bureaucracy so expansive and so destructive that it makes the cost of living here so outrageous that no one under 50K a year can possibly hope to support a child.

All Republicans want to whip the "coloreds." What a fucking idiot. Yeah, the cost of living here is so outrageous--unless you derive benefits from being here illegally, crackpot. That makes easier to raise a child when you have food stamps, free day care ("education!"), and welfare monies from which you can procreate. Emeritus is just another leftist hack without a life, predicting the doom of the white race. Yawn.

The thread trudges on into semi-coherence:

Well, BAD, what I mean is that, unlike a criminal, a young fetus does not have feelings or experiences or memories or all those other facets of psychological life.

Well Rebecca, I remember being in the womb, quite vividly. Stop being a dehumanizing ultra-feminazi intent on eradicating the human race. I used to be Pro-Choice, until I realized that temporarily spaying my girlfriend was not consistent with my normative values.

One needs is to get knocked up to realize the value of human life, and then impose that value upon the male population, like how the current state apparatus works.

More:

Young babies are pretty dumb, too. Assuming we could kill one painlessly, it doesn''t have much more in the way of memories or psychological baggage than a fetus. Some people do kill/ditch their babies, but most have more trouble because now they can see it, so they feel bad.

More dehumanization. I'm sure the author was pretty dumb as a baby as well.

People should feel bad about "ditching" their own walk of life. Disclaimers about the real intent of the statement do not overshadow what is being said: "Kill babies, and don't feel any guilt." As a normative statement, you should only feel guilt for convicted murderers sentenced to death (by an "unjust" and "oppressive" system, proven to be the most free in the world).

I would not write about this kind of political discourse unless I found this kind of moral shell game disturbing.

Posted 2:49:00 PM by BCR Boy (link)

BACK TO MEXICO WITH YOU!

CNN reports that 250 illegal immigrants, mostly from Mexico, have been arrested in a Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on Wal-Mart and its night cleaning crews.

Hopefully deportation will follow.

Before anyone complains that this is another abuse by a "large, greedy corporation," let's review this section of the article:
Wal-Mart uses at least 100 outside contractors for cleaning services at about 700 stores across the country, she said. "We do require each of these contractors to use only legal workers. We do not know if the current investigation involves one or multiple outside contractors," Weber added. None of the people arrested were Wal-Mart employees hired by the company to work in its stores, she said.

Posted 8:07:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

NEWSFLASH: YOU GET 400 JUST FOR SPELLING YOUR NAME CORRECTLY

I am glad to see some Regents doing their job. The findings only confirm what we already know, Berkeley students:

But a not-yet-released 50-page addendum to the report found that some admitted students also had low grades, said Tracy Davis, a former UC student regent and UCLA graduate student in education, who co-wrote the report with Moores. And the new information indicates a sizable portion of students with low SAT scores are underrepresented minorities.

If true, the analysis -- which Moores has described as preliminary -- may bolster critics of "comprehensive review," who consider it an end-run around the ban on race-based affirmative action California voters approved in 1996.

Why am I not surprised that these people think they are above the law? Because they are, period.

Details from the additional 50 pages have not been released, but Davis said it will show that of the 2002 admitted freshman class with SAT scores of 1000 or less, more than 50 percent were black or Latino -- a much higher proportion than the class overall. A perfect SAT score is 1600.

The initial report found that UC Berkeley admitted nearly 400 students with an SAT score of 600 to 1000. The average score for students admitted that year was 1337.

If you don't have any dummies, who is going to fill all those Ethnic Studies classes? Of course, the University doesn't use race as a factor, that's why most of the students in question are "underrepresented" by their race at Cal: this is backdoor affirmative action and its illegal (see Hi-Voltage Works vs. City of San Jose).

Additionally, the original report stated that UC Berkeley denied admission to roughly 3,200 students with SAT scores above 1400. More than 600 of those students had scores above 1500, or nearly perfect scores.

Oh, that sounds really fair, Mr. Black.

Someone needs to bring a lawsuit before the next incoming class to enjoin these bastards from dumbing down what used to be an elite institution.

Ditto for whoever runs the admissions process at UCLA:

UCLA accepted 407 applicants for this fall's class with SATs below 1000. The year before, the Westwood campus offered admission to 525 students with SATs below 1000, including seven with scores ranging from 701 to 800. The average score nationally is slightly above 1,000.

Gee, I wonder what race/ethinicity those students are? This creates hostility towards minorities on campus, because students begin to question whether people "of color" are really qualified to be there. Everybody knows its going on, this alternative, segregated universe that can be found in Sociology and Ethnic Studies departments.

Same goes for the Education department, whose grad students' intelligence quotients are about two standard deviations below the mean (which is where your BAMNers hang around for a decade or so). Even Political Science harbors third-rate PhD candidates in their 8th year of writing their dissertations. I know, I had an idiot with the intials of DK as a GSI who was so blind in his partisanship he could not teach teach the alphabet without it being laced with Marxist rhetoric.

I hope the state becomes insolvent and all of the money for this fluff dries up and these departments disappear or become swallowed up by other departments. I want the axe to fall upon the necks of these freeloading malingerers. This bourgeois can only pray for such an event; but we all know it's going to continue for the next 20 or 30 years as long as these racist assholes stick to thier racial quotas.

Posted 2:34:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

I TOLD YOU SO

Arnold hasn't even been sworn into office, and he is already making backroom deals with the Mexican government:

Derbez conveyed the determination of the administration of President Vicente Fox to find a mechanism assuring the legal and orderly migration of Mexicans, with legal protections.

The meeting was carried out in a ``climate of respect and cordiality,'' with both sides expressing their disposition to work together constructively, the news release said.

Work together towards what? Undermining the sovereignty of the State of California, that's what. I don't recall Pete Wilson ever being cordial with the Mexican government. What's more, Arnold hasn't taken an oath of office--not like swearing to uphold things like Constitutions ever meant anything to a modern-day politico.

And what does Derbez mean by "legal protections" when he comes from a country that has very little substantive due process? (Also, see the southern border of Mexico for reference to Mexican immigration policy towards Guatemala, it ain't pretty).

Recognizing an officer of a foreign government's state department with a specified agenda of "orderly migration" (invasion) is de facto legitimization of that's government's authority over its citizens, who just happen to be occupying your country. I call it treason unless Arnold is trying to figure a way to deport, and that's not very likely.

Arnold is dealing with some of the most morally and ethically corrupt people on the planet, like his hero, GW Bush, and no one makes much of it. We should be making it harder for these people already living here to give them an incentive to go home and produce. Instead, the sell-out continues, brought to you by a "Republican." The millions of poor and unskilled who could provide revolt towards the established white minority rule of Mexico's Thousand Families are instead diverted by the government towards taking over the US. Isn't that a lovely way to be displaced and colonized?

I want to personally thank all of you Berkeley College Republicans who stood behind Arnold. You have got to be feeling good before the inauguration with Willie Brown on your side.

Posted 4:21:00 PM by BCR Boy (link)

THE TRUTH HURTS

Berdhal is pissed that the truth about UC Berkeley admissions leaked out.

Chair John Moores conducted a preliminary study revealing that nearly 400 students with low SAT scores were accepted to UC Berkeley while hundreds more with near-perfect scores were turned away. The results of the study were published this month by the Los Angeles Times.

“You have attacked the small percentage of high achieving freshmen who have overcome substantial economic, social and educational disadvantages to come to Berkeley,” Berdahl wrote. “They deserve more than derision from the Chair of the Board of Regents.”

That's true. They deserve derision from the Regents, AND an all-expenses paid, one way trip (with scholarship, to show I'm a nice guy) to CSU Chico.

Posted 2:37:00 PM by BCR Boy (link)

SCORE ONE FOR JUSTICE

A bit premature, but the partial-birth abortion ban is about to be signed by the Senate.

But leftist assholes still aren't satisfied: "We will take this fight from the Capitol to the courtroom to safeguard the lives and health of women," said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation.'

The more things change, the more things stay the same, I guess.

Posted 7:29:00 PM by petit bourgeois (link)

AND YOU THOUGHT BERKELEY WAS BAD...

Imagine your University kicking a 91 year old man off of his property. Where could this happen to an American? Mexico, of course:

The case is one of a number of land disputes involving Americans who live or own property in Mexico. Earlier this year an American couple was forced off land they owned in the southern state of Chiapas by local residents wielding machetes. Three years ago scores of U.S. citizens lost millions of dollars in investments when they were evicted from oceanfront homes they bought in Ensenada in the western state of Baja California. U.S. officials at the time blamed the losses on a lack of consistency and transparency in Mexican property laws. At least half a dozen more major disputes are pending over property owned by Americans along the Caribbean coast.

"We are being held hostage," Mary Ellen Sanger, one of the three jailed Americans, said in an interview in a state prison here. Sanger, 45, a native of Schenectady, N.Y., said she had been assigned latrine-cleaning duty in the prison and slept on a concrete floor with 44 other women in a communal cell.

This is how Americans are treated in Mexico--by one of its Universities, no less.

I say what's good for the goose, etc. Let's pass a law denying Mexican nationals the right to own property in the U.S. and give them a taste of their own medicine.

ADDENDUM: I forgot that we should stop paying foreign nationals in-state tuition before we start confiscating their property. These kinds of "baby steps" won't be found in the incoming administration. Republicans win nothing from the current upheaval of the governorship. The benefits of having a "Republican" in office are de minimis. Just ask New York City. I'm sure Bloomberg has a fat ride that belches out plenty of carcinogens; but he chooses the politically-voiceless smoker to prey upon, like a "good" Republican.

It should also be noted that I cannot smoke on the sidewalk in Berkeley, so this is what the new generation of Republicans stand for: something resembling Berkeley.

Posted 5:17:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

GUILTY!

As charged. I guess these idiots still know how to turn a hearing over a disruptive agitprop into an agitprop itself.

This bourgeois is pleased to finally see justice being served...or am I speaking too soon?

UPDATE: Y'all know Dean Kenney (the chick who feinged disability after her back surgery and bought a house off of the workman's comp scam therefor). This bourgeois has the witness, in all of her drunken splendor.

She can overturn the conviction against the militants. Where is the justice in that?

Posted 9:16:00 AM by petit bourgeois (link)

GOOD RIDDANCE, SENATOR

The old lefty party hack, State Senator John Vasconcellos (D--San Jose) has indicated he will retire from politics in the wake of a Schwarzenegger victory at the polls. He also called Schwarzenegger a "boob:"

Democrat State Senator John Vasconcellos (D-San Jose) demonstrated the statesman-like qualities that Sacramento Democrats are known for by calling Schwarzenegger "a boob." Worse, he mocked the decision of California voters and said they had "made a mistake." His Democrat colleague Kuehl claimed that she must "save the state from ignorance." The message of political elitists like Vasconcellos and Kuehl is clear: the Democrat elitists know what's best and California voters simply cannot be trusted.

But for sheer sleaziness, Democrat assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) takes the cake. Rather than pledging to work with the governor-elect, Leno said he would introduce a bill named "Arnold's Law" to increase the punishment for sexual battery in the workplace. Never mind that there is not one iota of proof that Arnold committed sexual battery. While these appear to be the shenanigans of children, these are unfortunately the actions of our representatives in state government...

Democrat State Senator Vasconcellos said recently, "If people want this actor to govern ... they don't need or deserve me." He's absolutely right. Californians deserve much better.

Confirmation that the old socialist was leaving came from other sources as well:

Aides to Sen. John Vasconcellos confirmed the liberal San Jose Democrat called Republican Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger "a boob," said voters "made a mistake," and announced that when the Legislature reconvenes in January, "I'm not sure I'll go back."

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, Senator!