Vibrancy has truly ascended to the highest reaches of public service in England ... the judiciary.  Constance Briscoe was our first female black Court Recorder (ie someone who works as a part-time judge in the crown and county courts), so a certain interest from the press was to be expected.  One might also expect that a wise head would reflect upon that, consider her responsibilities to the Crown and choose caution in all things.

But nope.  Not for Constance the grey, parchment-dry pursuits of the legal soul.  She desperately wants the world to know she is a tenacious spirit overcoming adversity.  And a successful mother.  And the main woman.

So she wrote “Ugly”.

Now, perceptive readers will guess straight away that this ain’t no legal opus.  Rather, it is a harrowing tale of abused childhood, attempted suicide, courage and what-not, arriving at a triumphant crescendo of something or other.  Lots of sistas bought it - “bought it” being the operative phrase according to some of the Amazon reviews.

One would think that a judge, for pity’s sake, would know about little things like libel trials.  Expensive.  Risky.  To be avoided at all costs.  But England’s first female black Court Recorder apparently did not consider any such possibility, and now she and her publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, are being sued by her alleged childhood tormentor - her mother - in an attempt to clear the family name.

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The “Giving Back Employees” web page of the Californian farm that brought us the current e coli outbreak has these heartwarming passages:

Giving Back Through and To Employees

  It’s impossible to separate a company’s passion from the people who make it an everyday reality. Our employees are proud of Earthbound Farm’s mission:  to bring the benefits of organic food to as many people as possible and serve as a catalyst for positive change…growing healthier food and leaving a healthier planet behind for future generations.
  To further this mission, Earthbound Farm has pledged to support its employees’ passions for other causes as well…

At Earthbound Farm, we realize how important our employees are: they are committed to helping us fulfill our mission to bring the benefits of organic food to as many people as possible and serve as a catalyst for positive change. Some of our employees have even been with us since the earliest days of our company…  they’re almost like family.

Because of this, we have created two renewable scholarships that are awarded each year to two children of our employees who are headed to college or other post-secondary education. We see it as a smart investment in our future—the children’s, the company’s, and the community’s.
 
We are very proud of our 2005 recipients, Gabriel Sumano and Myrna Elena Lopez Garcia.
 
  Gabriel (son of Manuel Sumano Hernandez in Shipping) will attend University of California at Berkeley and plans to be a doctor. He is a recent graduate of Aptos   High School. His father, Manuel, has been an Earthbound Farm employee since the early 1990s.

Myrna (daughter of Columbia Antelo Garcia in Packaged Salads)  will attend Cabrillo   College and plans to be a nurse. She is proud to be the first of her family to graduate for high school and intends to be the first to graduate from college as well. She is a recent graduate of Watsonville High School.

I, too, want to extend my appreciation to these wonderful employees of Earthbound Farm for helping to dismantle the foundation of civilization: agribusiness. We’ve had enough of this crap.

Or very nearly (but for Nordicism).  This afternoon JJR put up a post at Dissecting Leftism that fisked the recent, psychologically creaking “evidence” of Socialist German MP Prof. Dr. Gert Weisskirchen to the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism at Westminster.

The Group’s 100-page report had Herr Professor Doktor wiseacring in good Frankfurt order:-

“Nationalistic or right-wing populist movements are trying to gain a foothold to varying degrees in all European States. Apart from bringing chauvinistic longings up to date, the common elements in their rationale are the emphasis on authoritarian thinking, the stirring up of resentment towards established parties and the mobilization of right-wing extremist attitudes in the form of xenophobia or even open racism and antisemitism.”

... So (writes JJR) “nationalistic or right-wing populist movements” are the prime source of antisemitism.  There is absolutely no mention of Islam or Leftist “antizionism”, which are by far the main forms of antisemitism today. Could the fact that the professor is also a socialist member of the German parliament have something to do with that? ...

More in that style and less of the “Stomp Israel” stuff and I might have enjoyed a more somnulent intellectual life over the last few months.

The death of Oriana Fallaci

The author of La rabbia e l’orgoglio (The Rage and the Pride, 2002), the courageous, indomitable, individualistic Oriana Fallaci, has died in her home town of Florence.  She was 77, and had fought a battle with cancer for several years.  It was, of course, the Italian authorities she really desired to fight over their dhimmi reaction to La rabbia.  A pity she was denied the opportunity.  There is an excellent and affectionate article on the lady from a Times blog here.

German Neo-Nazis poised for “stunning” poll breakthrough

Not exactly a liberal meltdown, though.  A Guardian hack explains:-

Germany’s racist neo-Nazi party is poised to make a stunning breakthrough during elections this weekend, entering a regional parliament for the second time in three years, polls suggest.

According to a poll for ZDF television the far-right National Party of Germany (NPD) is likely to win 7% of the vote in elections on Sunday in the north-east state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Another Infratest poll puts the party on 6%.

The projected result is above Germany’s 5% hurdle - and means the far-right MPs will sit in the parliament for the first time.

Well, we’ll see.

Pope Benedict XVI quotes from 600 years ago.  Muzzies everywhere go bananas.  But it wasn’t Ben’s real opinion.  Honest.

Judge for yourself.  Here’s the full speech.

200 South Asian illegals land at Tenerife

the migrants ... are the first Asians among more than 24,000 migrants to arrive on the Canary Islands from Africa this year.

The boat was boarded by Spanish police on Thursday when it anchored 3km (two miles) south of Tenerife island.

... Spain’s El Pais newspaper says Pakistanis had flown to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and were paying $500 (£266) each to Senegalese traffickers in the hope of continuing their journey by sea to Greece.

... Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said the government was going to negotiate a fast repatriation of the new arrivals.

And almost too perfect to be true ...

A number of Nigerian politicians  have been conned out of thousands of dollars by people selling papers purporting to certify them as “corruption-free”.

 

A certain ex-founding MR blogger sent me this tawdry tale from the Times :-

An illegal immigrant has been accused of infecting at least six women with the HIV virus at the campsite where he worked.

Everson Banda, 29, was sent home to Zimbabwe by immigration officials last month after he admitted that his asylum claim was groundless.

He had worked illegally as a security guard and later as a caravan salesman at Orchards Holiday Village near Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

Colleagues at the campsite said that he had slept with “literally scores” of visitors and at least 13 co-workers during his three years there. Five holiday-makers and one co-worker have subsequently tested positive for HIV and they blame Mr Banda.

He told none of the women that he had HIV even though his health was failing. Carriers of the virus who knowingly infect sexual partners can be prosected for assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.

Mr Banda was deported on August 19 after immigration officials arrested him the previous month. He had claimed that he faced imprisonment or torture in Zimbabwe.

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The UK Guardian reports that:

Archaeologists in Ukraine have unearthed the remains of an ancient pyramidal structure that pre-dates those in Egypt by at least 300 years. The stone foundations of the structure, which probably resembled Aztec and Mayan ziggurats in South America, were discovered near the eastern city of Lugansk.

And 2000 years before that, the largest freestanding structures in the world were in the nearby Danube basin where children were born to families living together with their cattle in the middle of winter, possibly a results of the proto Indoeuropean diaspora which itself may well have been linked to a fresh-water sea faring culture dispersed by a Black Sea flood around the same time and place.

In short, the myths of Christianity, Islam and Judaism may be little more than our history ripped from us, exported, repackaged and reidentified, and imported to us as an alien cult.  If you look at what Hollywood does with our history… and women… you see very much the same pattern.

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Since the State rankings of Scholastic Aptitude Tests are so threatening to the mythology promoted by media and academia that the inbred hicks of places like Iowa need the enlightened guidance (if not the sperm donations) of places like New York City, Boston, etc.  (you know, places with a lot of Jews who are smarter than everyone else) to become something other than illiterate sheep sodomizers with latent white supremacist tendencies, there is the standard catechism that everyone is taught:  “That’s just because states like Iowa have lower participation rates in the SATs by lower performing students.”  Moreover, to prove their point a Harvard Study was conducted in the 1990s which adjusted the State SAT scores for participation rates: Powell, B., and L. C. Steelman (1996), “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildering: The Use and Misuse of State SAT and ACT Scores,” Harvard Educational Review, 27-59.  In this glorious Harvard Study, which you have never heard about, Iowa’s #1 SAT rank, when adjusted for its lower participation from lower performing students, plunged to an abysmal #2.  No more studies like this were conducted for some reason.

Now, you won’t find this paper on line.  It is referenced, but its all discussion promoting the “dumb hicks need our guidance” catechism of the Holocaustian theocracy.  If you search long and hard enough, you find that some guy has extracted the data from that paper and actually put it on line.

That would be me.

No one else could be bothered to put it on line since they were too busy “debunking” the use of State rankings of SAT scores and the data would simply confuse the readers.

Well I’m here to Bewitch, Bother and Bewilder you, my hapless readers, by providing not just the data they won’t put online, but actually provide the rank ordering of what other things are most strongly associated with a State’s SAT rank adjusted for participation rates. 

PS: To do this, I put up the money to reactivate the CGI processing of The Laboratory of the States website—something I was additionally motivated to do since State Master, a similar website, as of this writing couldn’t be bothered to provide the correlations with autism rates.  I really had hoped that State Master would pick up the work on this problem, since they have such a spiffy user interface and such a wide range of data.  But it seems that when important questions come up, State Master frequently doesn’t have the critical data or won’t provide the correlations.  (Also, they apparently consider “per capita” variables to be optional much of the time and then don’t let you do arithmetic on absolute variables to adjust for population sizes—a fallacy unworthy even of sophomoric journalists that nevertheless journalists commit all the time.)

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Daedalus - he of The Phora, Friedrich’s Civic Platform, the soon to be Phora blog and possibly more besides - made some interesting historical comments about Conservatism in America on JJR’s “Stomp Israel” post.  In consideration of those comments I thought it might be interesting to (somewhat briefly) explore the metapolitics expressed by modern America and to contrast these with the essence of the most necessary alternative.

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