John Kass, Rahm Emanuel, and the Chicago Way

By Nicholas Stix
November 11, 2008, 10:36 a.m.
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“It took only 36 hours for President-elect Barack Obama to take the off ramp from the Change We Can Believe In Highway and slam his foot on the gas in the express lanes of the Chicago Way,” is how Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass opens his November 7 column. The “Chicago Way” is Kass’ shorthand for the Windy City’s corrupt machine-and-mob-riddled politics, which has been run, with a 13-year intermission, following the death of the current mayor’s father, for 53 years by the Daleys.

Kass, a child of Chicago’s working class, is the closest thing there is to a spiritual heir to Mike Royko (1932-1997). The working-class, Polish-Lithuanian Chicagoan, who never attended college, but who did his post-doctoral research at the Billy Goat saloon, was the greatest newspaperman in Chicago, and maybe in American history.

Kass is a royal pain in the neck to “Mayordaley,” the son, as Royko was to “Da Mayor,” the father. Granted, Kass is a Republican, whereas Royko was an Orthodox Democrat, but times have changed. The anti-white racism of today’s Democratic Party can no more be reconciled with the party of Royko’s youth, when it was working-class whites’ political home, than today’s politically correct, Evian-drinking, middle/upper-middle class, anti-military, anti-white racist (even if the majority of the staffers are white), smoke-free, tolerant newsroom can be reconciled with the smoke-filled, hard-drinking, working-class, veteran-filled newsroom of Royko’s glory days.

“[W]ith his first official act, Obama selected a Chicago Daley machine guy for his chief of staff,

U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Tomczak).

So much for transcending politics as we know it, eh?…

Among Chicago politicians, the Emanuel announcement was treated with enthusiasm. But it was enthusiasm of the political salivary gland at the prospect of federal pork and leverage.

“It’s a gain,” said Mayor Richard Daley, speculating on all the contracts he would be able to give with new federal money. “It’s a real gain, gain, gain,” he said, repeating the word as if in prayer….

From Washington, however, you could hear that giant sucking sound as the Washington media praised Emanuel, as if the appointment was testament to change. There was so much sucking up, they may have created an El Niño effect that will plague our planet for years.

Some of the sucking up is understandable because their currency is access and, as chief of staff, Emanuel will be gatekeeper to the president. But the least they could have done was rate themselves NC-17. And they could have acknowledged what they were doing, which was praising him to their readers and viewers in hopes of maintaining or guaranteeing that access.

Washington media types talk about him as a Clinton guy, but Emanuel is really a Chicago City Hall guy. At City Hall, the unwritten rule is we don’t want nobody nobody sent. The guy who sent Emanuel to then-candidate Bill Clinton in 1991 is named Daley. Bill Daley, the mayor’s brother.

Loyal readers know why I put the (D-Tomczak) at the end of Emanuel’s name. It refers to the corrupt Daley administration Water Department boss, Donald Tomczak, now in federal prison in Duluth, Minn. He sits there because he was convicted of bribery. Emanuel didn’t have anything to do with that. But he was a political beneficiary of Tomczak and the Chicago Way.

Two years ago, at the federal trial of Mayor Daley’s patronage chiefs—who were eventually convicted for building an illegal political army of city patronage workers to maintain the mayor’s control on Chicago—Tomczak was a key witness.

And he testified that he was ordered to put his political regiments on the streets in 2002 to elect Emanuel and defeat a liberal Democratic grass-roots candidate.[“Emanuel pick shows change is state of mind,” by John Kass, Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2008.

What I don’t get is why some people see a conflict between Obama’s socialism and his corruption. The political economy of socialism has always involved the corrupt enrichment of cronies, and the stealing from the productive and giving to the unproductive, while the economy shrivels up. And racial socialism is the most extreme socialism of all. Obama is just being a good racial socialist!

Fairfax County, Virginia Police Seek Serial Slasher

By Nicholas Stix

 

 

The videos posted in this blog entry are all about the Hispanic “serial butt slasher” who has been attacking young women (18-early 20s) in Fairfax County, Virginia shopping malls. The mope has been described as Hispanic, 5’6,” heavyset, and in his late 20s.

Courtesy of the Fairfax County Police, which both posted and disavowed the above video at Youtube, make of that, what you will.

Report Posted by the Fairfax County Police, Together with the FCP’s Bizarre Disclaimer

Serial cutter suspect from the Marshall's incident, Greenbriar Shopping Center, June 20, 2011.

Police are investigating reports of a man who follows young women in retail stores, cuts them and slips away. Most recently, officers responded to the Forever XXI Store in Fair Oaks Mall Monday, July 25 around 5:30 p.m. for a report of a woman who suffered a one and a half inch wound in her buttocks.

The 18-year-old victim was shopping when she noticed clothes that had fallen off of a rack behind her and saw a man bending down to pick them up. She abruptly felt a sharp pain and considered that one of the hangars had struck her. A short time later, she discovered her denim shorts had been slashed; her buttocks had been cut and were bleeding. Store employees quickly contacted security who summonsed police.

Detectives indicate that this attack may be linked to four others that have taken place in Fairfax County retail stores since February. The most recent case occurred in a Marshall's at Greenbriar Shopping Center on June 20 around 2:45 p.m.

In each case, the suspect distracts his victim before cutting them. The victims have all been teen-aged women or in their early 20s.

The suspect is described as hispanic, late 20s, around 5 feet 6 inches tall and heavy-set. He wore white shorts and a short-sleeved shirt in the July 25 assault.

Two black interviewees figure prominently in the reports of John Schriffen of News 4, NBC’s Washington, D.C. affiliate, that follow below. One is a middle-aged female shopper who remarks, “He just looks like a common shopper.”

In Guadalajara, maybe, lady!

 

 

Thanks to TheUlidian02.

The other interviewee is Ted Williams, a black former police detective who performs as an “expert” and “profiler” on TV, not to be confused with the eponymous homeless ex-con with the golden pipes, or the partially cryogenically preserved Splendid Splinter.

If John Schriffen wanted to help the public, he would have reported on what racial or ethnic type of young woman the slasher targets. As the police well know, these sorts of criminals rarely work randomly, though “random” seems to be lawmen’s favorite word these days. The mopes usually have a type. Perhaps it was attractive, shapely, young white females, like most of the girls Schriffen interviewed. God forbid, we should protect the public!

I’m just a dumb white guy, so what do I know, but what does one say about someone (Williams) who would play expert, while claiming that a quiet little Spanish slasher operates from the same motive (“attention”) as a genocidal, racist (Nation of Islam) serial murderer who, with his young protégé, sought to kill scores of whites and extort millions of dollars from the authorities?

I need to put in a break, before returning to earth from Bizarro World.

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My guess is that the mope is using a short-edged box cutter, because you can practically palm one, whip it out, push out the blade (I’m going from memory here, from having used them for my magazines almost 20 years ago), slash a woman, pull the blade switch back, and have it back in your pocket in one quick, smooth, move. This wouldn’t work with long-blade box cutters, because there’d be too much business to getting the blade extended and retracted at the beginning and end of the move, and too much danger of the slasher cutting himself (e.g., in his pocket) or being discovered. The slasher could also use a pocket knife, but again, no matter how smooth he is, that would take additional movements and time, causing more danger of injury and detection to him. This guy does the whole thing in two seconds or less. The bump is a pickpocket’s trick, to distract the vic from feeling what he’s doing to another part of her body.

My recommendation to local law enforcement is thus this:

1. Search databases for known or suspected Hispanic (likely) illegal aliens from the area fitting that description; 2. Search databases for known or suspected pickpockets (or purse snatchers) from the area fitting that description; and 3. Search databases for known or suspected “mashers” from the area fitting that description; and 4. Search databases for known or suspected butt slashers from outside the area fitting that description, who may have fled detection elsewhere.

“Masher” is a term I learned as a kid watching a comedy sketch on either the Jackie Gleason or Red Skelton variety show. It was already an old term, for something that was then considered obnoxious, but now can land you in jail for a good stretch, at least if you’re white.

My impression is that a “masher” is a man who crudely, obnoxiously harasses women he wants to sleep with, whether they be strangers on the street, acquaintances, or women he works with. While this type was once found among all racial and ethnic groups, today it’s found primarily in The Diversity Zone.

Scott Eyman gives a classic example of a masher in his grand biography of Louis B. Mayer, Lion of Hollywood. The example featured Spencer Tracy, who was co-starring in A Guy Named Joe with Van Johnson and Irene Dunne. During one scene, it seems Tracy whispered in Dunne’s ear what he’d like to do to and with her. In another, he came up behind her, rubbing his erect member against her.

Now, Irene Dunne, who was arguably the greatest actress to never win an Oscar, was by then a middle-aged, Tinseltown veteran who’d dealt with her share of Hollywood heels, and yet, she was every inch the lady. However, she was also worried because unlike Tracy, she was not under contract at MGM. Nevertheless, she went straight to L.B. Mayer and told him that she’d quit the picture, if he didn’t put the brakes on Tracy. Mayer put a stop to the nonsense right away, remarking to a third party, “If I’m firing anybody, I’m firing Tracy, not her.”

Eyman notes that this episode came when the married Tracy was deeply in love with his long-time mistress, Katharine Hepburn.

Not even on his worst day, however, would Spencer Tracy have even considered going around and slashing women’s behinds. And yet, in the scheme of vibrant Hispanic, and especially Mexican “culture,” with its celebration of crime in general, and violence against females of all ages in particular, that’s nothing.

Slashing strange females’ behinds? It’s a mild diversion … in The Diversity Zone.

 

 

Via realstrikegently.

Thanks to my reader-researcher “W,” with a tip o’ the box cutter to Patch’s May Ann Barton.

Show Compassion for Somali Refugees!

  Starving Somali child, courtesy of the New York Times.  

By Nicholas Stix Thousands of racist, Moslem Somalis are presently busily destroying some of what were only a few years ago some of America’s most beautiful towns and cities: E.g., the Twin Cities, Lewiston, Maine.

But there are so many American municipalities that have still withstood the onslaught of “diversity,” and the Times’ moral and intellectual Superpersons simply cannot abide that. And so, they wish to inundate 1,000 or more additional communities with members of a nation that is in competition for the dubious distinction of being the world’s most primitive, barbaric, and evil.

Of course, the competition for that title is fierce, and pits Somalia up against the Democratic Republic of the Congo … and the Congo … and the Central African Republic … and the Ivory Coast … and Sierra Leone … and Mauritania … and Rwanda … and Burundi … and Angola … and Guinea … and Benin … and Kenya … and Niger… and Mauritius … and Cameroon … and Burkina Faso … and Mali … and Chad … and Cape Verde … and Tanzania … and Togo… and Botswana … and Swaziland … and Lesotho … and Djibouti… and Malawi … and Nigeria … and Eritrea … and Ethiopia … and Botswana … and Gambia … and Zambia … and Senegal … and Liberia … and Mozambique … and Zimbabwe … and South Africa.

Feel free to add your own favorites.

Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape from Famine By Jeffrey Gettleman and Mohammed Ibrahim August 1, 2011 New York Times

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.

The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by forcing out many Western aid organizations, depriving drought victims of desperately needed food. The situation is growing bleaker by the day, with tens of thousands of Somalis already dead and more than 500,000 children on the brink of starvation.

Every morning, emaciated parents with emaciated children stagger into Banadir Hospital, a shell of a building with floors that stink of diesel fuel because that is all the nurses have to fight off the flies. [N.S.: Considering the alternatives—feces, urine, and decaying corpses—it is ridiculous to try and emotionally exercise readers over the smell of diesel oil.] Babies are dying because of the lack of equipment and medicine. Some get hooked up to adult-size intravenous drips — pediatric versions are hard to find — and their compromised bodies cannot handle the volume of fluid.

Most parents do not have money for medicine, so entire families sit on old-fashioned cholera beds, with basketball-size holes cut out of the middle, taking turns going to the bathroom as diarrhea streams out of them.

“This is worse than 1992,” said Dr. Lul Mohamed, Banadir’s head of pediatrics, referring to Somalia’s last famine. “Back then, at least we had some help.”

Aid groups are trying to scale up their operations, and the United Nations has begun airlifting emergency food. But many seasoned aid officials are speaking in grim tones because one of Africa’s worst humanitarian disasters in decades has struck one of the most inaccessible countries on earth.

[But I thought the Sudan was “Africa’s worst humanitarian disaster[s] in decades.” And AIDS in Southern Africa. And the Congolese civil war. And Rwanda and Burundi. And …. And …. You get the idea. All of sub-Saharan Africa is such a constant disaster, since time immemorial, or at least since it threw out the white colonialists, that anyone who is paying attention, and not merely on the make, gets tired of the African aid hustle, and outraged, considering that it is being used, in order to destroy our own country. Note, in particular, that the African aid hustlers care about every one of “Africa’s worst humanitarian disasters,” except when whites are the victims, as they are in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Then the spigot of tears and compassion suddenly runs dry.]

Somalia, especially the southern third where the famine is, has been considered a no-go zone for years, a lawless caldron [sic] that has claimed the lives of dozens of aid workers, peacekeepers and American soldiers, going back to the “Black Hawk Down” battle in 1993, spelling a legacy that has scared off many international organizations.

[Detroit/Flint/Lansing/Baltimore/Memphis/Camden/Elizabeth/Paterson/Lakewood, NJ/Jersey City/Newark/Gary/Stockton/Oakland/Chicago/Cleveland/Buffalo/Houston/New Orleans/Philadelphia/St. Louis/Richmond, CA/Atlanta, aka “the city too busy to hate”/New Haven (it’s those damned Yalies running amok!)/Little Rock/Rockford, IL (all due to skinflint Thomas Fleming’s reign of terror!)/Springfield, MA /Hartford/Washington, D.C./Springfield, IL (unlucky name!)/Lowell/St. Petersburg/Indianapolis/Nashville/Kansas City, MO/Miami/East St. Louis, IL/Los Angeles/Dallas/Forth Worth ... has been considered a no-go zone for years, a lawless cauldron…]

“If this were Haiti, we would have dozens of people on the ground by now,” said Eric James, an official with the American Refugee Committee, a private aid organization.

But Somalia is considered more dangerous and anarchic than Haiti, Iraq or even Afghanistan, and the American Refugee Committee, like other aid groups, is struggling to get trained personnel here.

“It is safe to say that many people are going to die as a result of little or no access,” Mr. James said.

This leaves millions of famished Somalis with two choices, aside from fleeing the country to neighboring Kenya or Ethiopia, where there is more assistance. They can beg for help from a weak and divided transitional government in Mogadishu, the capital. Just the other day there was a shootout between government forces at the gates of the presidential palace. “Things happen,” was the response of Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Somalia’s new prime minister.

Or they can remain in territory controlled by the Shabab, who have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda [Your guys! So, you should be celebrating them!] and have tried to rid their areas of anything Western — Western music, Western dress, even Western aid groups during a time of famine.

Much of the Horn of Africa, which includes Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, has been struck this summer by one of the worst droughts in 60 years. But two Shabab-controlled parts of southern Somalia are the only areas where the United Nations has declared a famine, using scientific criteria of death and malnutrition rates.

People from those areas who were interviewed in Mogadishu say Shabab fighters are blocking rivers to steal water from impoverished villagers and divert it to commercial farmers who pay them taxes. The Shabab are intercepting displaced people who are trying to reach Mogadishu and forcing them to stay in a Shabab-run camp about 25 miles outside the city. The camp now holds several thousand people and receives only a trickle of food.

“I was taken off a bus and put here,” said a woman at the camp who asked not to be identified.

Several drought victims who have succeeded in making it to Mogadishu said that the Shabab were threatening to kill anyone who left their areas, either for refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, or for government zones in Somalia, and that the only way out was to sneak away at night and avoid the main roads.

A few years ago, the Shabab began banning immunizations, deeming them a Western plot to kill Somali children. Now countless unvaccinated children are dying from measles and cholera as tens of thousands of malnourished, immunity-suppressed people flee the drought areas and pack into filthy, crowded camps.

The other day, Kufow Ali Abdi, a destitute herder who lost all his cattle, trudged out of Banadir Hospital, gently carrying a small package in his arms wrapped in blue cloth. It looked almost like a swaddled newborn but it was the opposite. It was the body of his 3-year-old daughter, Kadija, who had just succumbed to measles.

“I just hope they can save the others,” he said, referring to his two remaining children, down to skin and bone.

The magnitude of suffering could shift the political landscape, which has been dominated by chaos since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew the central government and then tore apart the country. [Although this isn’t on his tab—yet—this is also where “Obama’s” foreign policy of destabilization will lead, everywhere he imposes it.] The Transitional Federal Government — the 15th attempt at a government — is trying to assert itself and beat back the Shabab, and the famine and attendant relief effort could mean an enormous opportunity.

“It could be a face-lift for them, an opportunity to deliver services and show they are committed,” said Sheik Abdulkadir, a militia leader. “But if a lot of people die here, people will say it’s the government’s fault.”

The famine could affect the Shabab as well, deepening the fissures in their organization. Shabab leaders are now beginning to cut their own deals in the face of mass starvation. Unicef recently delivered a planeload of food and medicine to Baidoa, a Shabab stronghold. In Xarardheere, another Shabab-controlled town and a notorious pirate den, a Shabab commander said in an interview on Saturday that he would welcome Western aid organizations despite the anti-Western policies imposed by his leadership, which has been hit by the deaths of several prominent figures recently.

Sheik Yoonis, a Shabab spokesman, said in an e-mail that the declaration of a famine was “an exaggeration.” He said that Shabab fighters were not imprisoning people in the camp, but that the people were attracted to it by “this sense of serenity and security.” He also denied that the Shabab were diverting river water or scaring away aid agencies.

Still, many aid organizations are reluctant to venture into Shabab areas because of the obvious dangers — the Shabab have killed dozens of aid workers — and because of American government restrictions. In 2008, the State Department declared the Shabab a terrorist group, making it a crime to provide material assistance to them. Aid officials say the restrictions have had a chilling effect because it is nearly impossible to guarantee that the Shabab will not skim off some of the aid delivered in their areas. [What logical relation do the two last sentences have to one another? The Times reporters are insinuating that if only State hadn’t declared the Shabab a terrorist group, it wouldn’t have begun “skim[ing] off” aid, a baseless position that puts the cart before the horse. Surely, the Shabab were stealing aid before being declared a terrorist organization.]

Even United Nations contractors have been accused of siphoning food aid [surprise, surprise!], resulting in extensive investigations and cuts in life-saving assistance.

Western aid agencies are now trying to work through [crooked] Islamic and local organizations as much as possible, but the Somali [pirates] partners do not usually have as much technical expertise [and steal at least 50 percent of the assistance, which they variously take for themselves and sell on the black market]. And heavy fighting has erupted in Mogadishu again, making it dangerous even for Somali aid [thieves] workers.

“Somalia is one of the most [corrupt] complicated places in the world to deliver aid, more complicated than Afghanistan,” said Stefano Porretti, who heads the World Food Progam’s [sic] efforts in Somalia and recently worked in Afghanistan.