In Joshua Chellew Slaying, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thinks Whites Are Gullible

From Police: Mableton fatal assault not racially motivated:

According to the warrant, Chellew flashed blue colors and claimed allegiance to the “Crips” street gang. Three of the suspects were dressed in red, the colors affiliated with the “Crips” longtime rival, the “Bloods.” The exchange was captured on the station’s surveillance cameras.

But not everyone is convinced. A Google search on Chellew’s name produces about 31,200 results, most of which focus on race and an alleged cover-up by local media outlets.

(emphasis mine. Ya think?)

Seriously? This guy?

A 36-year-old ginger described this way in another story:

From the time he was a little boy with that trademark red hair, Joshua was a helper. His aunt says he was a sweet man who worked in landscaping and liked to write music, that he never hurt anyone.

Yeah, that's the Crips prime demographic. It's about as likely that the black thugs who killed him were Klansmen.

I hope that the surrveillance tape is released, because the only way a guy like this would claim "allegiance" to the Crips to four guys like this was if he wanted to commit slow, painful suicide by nigger.

Definition of Chutzpah

Organizing for Action using "We Built This" as the subject of their email extolling their findraising success.

Damn.

That's like Anthony Wiener tweeting pictures of his junk as part of his Mayoral election campaign.

California Female Inmates "Coerced" Into Sterilizations

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval

"As soon as he found out that I had five kids, he suggested that I look into getting it done. The closer I got to my due date, the more he talked about it," said Christina Cordero, 34, who spent two years in prison for auto theft. "He made me feel like a bad mother if I didn't do it."

It doesn't seem that anyone was actually forced. Apparently the power of persuasion is just more than these women's weak little female brains can handle. Is that the line we're taking? Just making sure, because that's not me talking, that's just what I infer from the article. Because I get pressured to do things all the time and I don't have anyone lobbying to protect me. Telemarketers, salesmen, business associates, charities; I constantly find myself having to say "no" against pressure and persuasion. I don't know how I've survived this long.

All other issues aside, is it possible to make a convincing objective argument that society would be better off if these women were still reproducing?

NYT Doesn't Understand Humans

In a New York Times article, Diagnosis: Insufficient Outrage, we're treated to the following revealing statement:

"Medical care is intended to help people, not enrich providers."

I'm sure this would come as a huge surprise to every single person who has invested great time and effort to becoming a trained medical professional. Certainly, many -- maybe even most -- of these people are greatly concerned with helping people. But it is also certain that almost everyone who invests the decade-plus required to be a licensed medical doctor expects to be well-compensated for the investment.

To be a doctor is a vocation that is tied in peoples' minds not only with prestige and respect, but with good, even great, financial compensation. The popular image of the doctor is someone who is well-off: a doctor can afford a great house in a great neighborhood, drive a great car, belong to the country club. Doctors are part of the elite. To the extent that this is ceasing to be true represents a failure of the system. You don't attract the best and brightest by expecting people to invest such a tremendous amount of time and energy in a career solely out of the goodness of their hearts.

And lower down the scale, every nurse, every technician, every medical equipment salesman, every insurance salesman, every actuary, every hospital or healthcare corporation administrator, expects to be enriched by their career to a greater or lesser extent. Nearly everyone hopes to have a job or a career that will lead to some of the better things in life.

Being enriched is exactly what medical care professionals expect.

The attempt to demonize the desire for profit in health care is one of the things that distorts the provision and costs of healthcare.

The system already, even before Obamacare, suffered from massive government intrusion into the cost structure and perverse incentives that favored massive, comprehensive one-size-fits all employer-provided insurance plans over plans that reflected the average person's need for catastrophic coverage while forcing the individual to act as a participating consumer for most day-to-day insurance costs, which would have helped keep costs down, due to competition and the fact that the price pain was imposed directly on the patient, not hidden behind walls of byzantine insurance company price structuring.

Obamacare just makes it worse, weakening even further the link between the consumer and the actual cost of the services he is consuming.

All Obama's Promises Have Expiration Dates

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." -- Barack Obama, August 11, 2009

Unless you have an individual insurance plan with Aetna or UnitedHealthcare in California:

UnitedHealth to exit individual insurance market in California -- July 2, 2013

Aetna has already done the same thing in California. You can expect the dominos to start falling with them and other companies in other states.

Pretty soon, unless you have company-provided insurance, the government exchanges will be the only place left to turn.

Thanks, Obama.

If Conservatives Are Right, It Must Be For The Wrong Reasons

In a Salon article, Thanks for nothing, college! wherein Salon starts to realize that the current methods of promoting and funding college education are in big trouble, the author says:

In a sense, the conservative voices that have worried about moral hazards were prescient, though probably not as they expected. After the new bankruptcy laws were enacted (and subsequently strengthened), loan originators lost any incentive to deny money to borrowers, and a culture was created where unscrupulous colleges and universities were able to raise tuition costs aggressively, safe in their knowledge that the banks would provide any loans to any students pursuing any degree programs for any reason, without regard to cost, future job prospects or even (in many cases) the realistic expectation that the loan might be repaid. A moral hazard, indeed. And while this is by no means the only cause of the ballooning costs of college, it reveals a broken incentive structure that benefits powerful, moneyed groups at the expense of 76 million Millennials who lack effective advocates in Washington.

What? Those are exactly the reasons conservatives were bringing up as problems for the current student loan scheme. Over and over again. Perhaps if the author tried actually reading some conservatives instead of assuming that when conservatives argue against things they do it because "conservatives hate college students" or "conservatives don't want poor people to be educated" or whatever the straw man of the day is.

What We Learned This Week

Paula Dean:

is a worse person than Alec Baldwin: