Ray “Schoolbus” Nagin Likes Vagina

The Mayor of New Orleans, Ray “Schoolbus” Nagin, whose incompetence was on full display when his city was under water, has made a number of really stupid statements since then.

One of them was his vision of making New Orleans into a “Chocolate City.” Nooo, this was not a racist comment! The Pope isn’t Catholic either.

Another jewel of a statement was his fear that New Orleans not become “overrun by Mexican workers.”

A regular Winston Churchill, this guy.

Most recently, the worst Mayor in America has announced his friendliness toward the vagina.

Yes, that vagina.

(Is Nagin is partial toward chocolate vaginas? Does he dislike Mexican vaginas?)

Try to imagine if a Republican mayor had said the things that Ray Nagin has said. He would have lost his job immediately. No doubt about it. The media would have made sure of it.

As for the people of New Orleans, I felt much pity for them after Hurricane Katrina. Not any more. They proceeded to reelect Mayor “Schoolbus” to another term in office.

Perhaps they deserve each other.

Environmentalists Get It Wrong — Again

The Times: Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain by Alexi Mostrous

Lord Taverne, the chairman of Sense about Science, said: “The Government is irresponsible to jump on a bandwagon that has no base in scientific evidence. This is one of many examples where you get bad science leading to bad decisions which are counter-productive. Attacking plastic bags makes people feel good but it doesn’t achieve anything.”

Campaigners say that plastic bags pollute coastlines and waterways, killing or injuring birds and livestock on land and, in the oceans, destroying vast numbers of seabirds, seals, turtles and whales. However, The Times has established that there is no scientific evidence to show that the bags pose any direct threat to marine mammals.

They “don’t figure” in the majority of cases where animals die from marine debris, said David Laist, the author of a seminal 1997 study on the subject. Most deaths were caused when creatures became caught up in waste produce. “Plastic bags don’t figure in entanglement,” he said. “The main culprits are fishing gear, ropes, lines and strapping bands. Most mammals are too big to get caught up in a plastic bag.”

He added: “The impact of bags on whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals ranges from nil for most species to very minor for perhaps a few species.For birds, plastic bags are not a problem either.”

The central claim of campaigners is that the bags kill more than 100,000 marine mammals and one million seabirds every year. However, this figure is based on a misinterpretation of a 1987 Canadian study in Newfoundland, which found that, between 1981 and 1984, more than 100,000 marine mammals, including birds, were killed by discarded nets. The Canadian study did not mention plastic bags.

Fifteen years later in 2002, when the Australian Government commissioned a report into the effects of plastic bags, its authors misquoted the Newfoundland study, mistakenly attributing the deaths to “plastic bags”.

The figure was latched on to by conservationists as proof that the bags were killers. For four years the “typo” remained uncorrected. It was only in 2006 that the authors altered the report, replacing “plastic bags” with “plastic debris”. But they admitted: “The actual numbers of animals killed annually by plastic bag litter is nearly impossible to determine.”

In a postscript to the correction they admitted that the original Canadian study had referred to fishing tackle, not plastic debris, as the threat to the marine environment.

Regardless, the erroneous claim has become the keystone of a widening campaign to demonise plastic bags.

Eventually, we’ll learn to ignore the eco-warriors who, ironically, care nothing about science and all about politics.

But They Support the Troops!

Tracing the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters By Michelle Malkin

Should Have Been Illegal in the First Place

The official policy of discrimination (i.e., affirmative action) should have been illegal in the first place.

CNN: Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states

Mainstream Media: Accentuate the Negative

Eliminate the positive.
AP Highlights Fewer Jobs, Ignores Steep Drop in Unemployed By Tom Blumer

Classy Democrat Quote of the Day

Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisor Samantha Power:

“We f***ed up in Ohio. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it… She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything. It looks like desperation. You just look at her and think, ‘Ergh’… The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.”

“Off the record,” she says.

“The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.” As opposed to the attractive deceit, which is apparently the deceit that Obama engages in. (If you’ve heard Obama speak, you’ll know what I mean.)

Now I am not a fan of Mrs. Clinton and I definitely disagree with her politically, but this Samantha Power person must do Harvard and the Pulitzer Prize very, very, very proud!

Now the tactless idiot can look for another job.