Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Teen's racist rant goes viral

These two white girls from Gainesville (FL ?) tell the truth about black people. The girl who does most of the talking is obviously very bright, but I assume she'll have a hard time getting into college for political reasons. It'll be interesting to see what happens to her.



Update: according to Click Orlando, the girls have left the school. I wonder why their parents sent them to a ghetto school in the first place. How could anyone think white middle class children could get a real education in a school that's 60% black?

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Illegal alien to get the kidney transplant Americans don't want





Give this man a kidney or this adorable anchor baby will be orphaned.






Comments on this article at sfgate.com were overwhelmingly against the transplant. Many people pointed out that Mexican hospitals do transplants, and Navarro would be qualified for government help. Most people wanted him deported. Although the article states Navarro's wife offered to donate a kidney, the tests haven't been done yet, so if she's not compatible (it's unlikely she is), he will get a kidney from an American donor. I've known for a few years that illegal aliens get organ transplants in American hospitals. Until then, I'd always had an organ donor sticker on my driver's licence. I no longer have that sticker, because of this issue.

SFGate.com:
UCSF Medical Center officials on Thursday said they would perform a kidney transplant operation on an Oakland man who had accused the medical center of denying him a kidney transplant because of his immigration status.

But the hospital said Jesus Navarro must prove he can pay for his medications and follow-up care after surgery.

Navarro, a 35-year-old father and illegal immigrant suffering from kidney disease, has received national attention. His case prompted 140,000 people to sign an online petition urging UCSF to approve his surgery and sparked widespread debate over whether patients' immigration status should influence whether they get the operation.

On Thursday, both UCSF officials and Navarro said much of the controversy has been a misunderstanding. They said Navarro's financial and health insurance uncertainties - not his immigration status - are the reason for the potential delays.

"UCSF does not and will not discriminate on the basis of immigration status," the hospital said Thursday in its first public statement about Navarro's case.

However, hospital administrators acknowledged his immigration status complicates the issue because it may make Navarro ineligible for government programs to help pay for ongoing medical care and lifesaving drugs needed to prevent organ rejection.

After a transplant, the cost of medications can range from $10,000 to $60,000 a year.

"Whether people are documented or not, this issue of assuring coverage for very, very expensive care is critical, and our current health care financing system is so fragmented it puts people in a real bind," said Dr. Joshua Adler, UCSF's chief medical officer. "That bind is even more limiting for people who are undocumented."

Navarro, originally from Mexico, has been waiting for a kidney for six years and undergoes nightly dialysis. His wife, Karen, hopes to be able to donate a kidney.

Last May, he met with UCSF officials as part of a review routinely conducted of potential transplant patients when they have about a year left on the waiting list. After the meeting, in which he revealed he was not here legally, UCSF changed Navarro's status on the kidney transplant waiting list to "inactive."

Navarro has insurance, but recently lost his job of 14 years. He is paying $1,100 a month to continue for his former employer's coverage. Assuming he can keep up with the payments, that option lasts only 18 months.

While UCSF officials would not go into detail, they did assure Navarro and his supporters this week that he had not lost his position on the waiting list and that they would work with him to develop a plan that would allow him to move forward with surgery.

That's good enough for Navarro, his family and his primary supporter, Donald Kagan, a local man who underwent a kidney transplant at UCSF 18 months ago.

"Before we assumed he was denied a kidney because of his immigration status," Kagan said. "UCSF has now recognized they need to improve their processes of communication. It's now very clear they do not discriminate based on immigration status."

Kagan said they are looking into all possibilities for how to pay for his ongoing care, including Medi-Cal and other options. "We are 100 percent sure we will be able to cover it, one way or another," he said.

UCSF has about 5,000 patients on the waiting list, and the hospital is able to transplant fewer than 350 a year.

The real problem, according to transplant organizations, is that there are too many people waiting for too few organs.


How to help

-- To learn more about Jesus Navarro, go to www.transplant4jesus.com.

-- For more information on organ donation, visit Donate Life California at www.donatelifecalifornia.org.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Punk eats lead taco

Finally, something good happened in Oakland. Taco truck vendor Omar Casillas was confronted by two men, one of whom pointed a gun at him. Casillas shot the gunman, 19-year-old Shean Ward-Morris, wounding him. Both assailants got away but were later arrested at a hospital.

The comments are overwhelmingly positive. Several commenters pointed out that it's likely Casillas didn't have a concealed carry permit, because they're hard to get if you're not a politician. But most people who comment on this type of story are beyond caring about permits.

SFGate: Taco truck shootout caught on video

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Schadenfreude story of the week

Adopted son murders Bay Area do-gooders

SFGate: Friends and relatives said Susan Poff and Robert Kamin of Oakland were the perfect pair to adopt a foster child.

They had dedicated their careers to helping others escape poverty, she as a physician assistant in a city-run clinic in the Tenderloin and he as a clinical psychologist for inmates in the San Francisco County Jail system.

But now, less than a decade after they adopted, their 15-year-old son stands accused of strangling both Poff, 50, and Kamin, 55, then hiding their bodies in the back of the family's PT Cruiser.

The boy's name (and race) aren't in the article, because he's a minor, but it's likely that he's a minority.

The couple who adopted this thing deserved what happened to them. Both of the victims were actively enabling crime against others, before their karma caught up with them. Working in a Tenderloin clinic means patching up psychotic druggies so they can go out and prey on tourists. A prison shrink? how many parole hearings has he testified at, assuring the parole board that his precious little snowflake is rehabilitated? No matter how many of his pets have gone out and hurt actual humans, he probably never made the connection.

If I were an investigative journalist instead of a lazy blogger, I'd get their patients' rap sheets. Then everyone would have a better idea of why this doesn't matter too much. Let's hope Junior doesn't find some other fools to rehabilitate him and help him get out early for good behavior, but this being the Bay Area, of course that's exactly what will happen.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Dark horse wins Golden Globe award

Just in time for MLK's b-day, black actress Octavia Spencer has won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actress for "The Help." I haven't seen this movie and don't want to. It's about a white southern debutante who comes back from college and interviews the town's black maids for a book. The white people are mostly bad, and the black people are mostly good, according to reviews I read.

The other nominees in this category were:
Berenice Bejo, Jessica Chastain, Janet McTeer, and Shailene Woodley. Chastain and McTeer were probably the front-runners. Spencer's credits aren't in the same league. This is clearly a case of affirmative action. I find it beyond belief that white people would reward an anti-white film like this, and pass over much more accomplished actresses, who happen to be white.

This clip was apparently recorded in a movie theatre. Everyone laughed, and so did I when I saw it on YouTube, despite how I feel about what's really being done here. There's nothing wrong with laughing at something funny, but it should have been left at that, and not given a prestigious award.


Friday, December 23, 2011

And yet, she does have a big butt


Left to right: Princess Letizia of Spain, French first lady Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama

Sensenbrenner sorry for 'big butt' remark
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said he apologized to Michelle Obama Thursday after he was overheard saying the first lady has a "large posterior."

Sensenbrenner was overheard Wednesday at a lounge in Reagan National Airport outside Washington talking on his cellphone about the first lady's healthy food initiative, saying Obama "lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself," Politico reported.

Sensenbrenner was recounting a conversation he had Dec. 10 at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in Hartford, Wis., the newspaper said.

Ann Marsh-Meigs, a 72-year-old member of the church, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sensenbrenner implied Obama's initiatives to combat childhood obesity are not serious.

"He got on the topic of first ladies and their special interests, and he said most first ladies have serious projects," Marsh-Meigs. "He implied that Michelle Obama being interested in childhood obesity was not serious, he sort of made fun of it and then he made fun of her. He said something like, 'Look at her big butt.'"

"I regret my inappropriate comment and I have sent a personal note to the first lady apologizing," Sensenbrenner said in a statement Thursday.

Rep. Sensenbrenner isn't in such great shape himself, but he's right about Michelle Obama. Why would anyone take nutrition advice from a woman who looks like her? She must be doing something wrong. Maybe her advice to restrict fat is wrong. Someone who gives advice without getting good results, is a hypocrite and busybody. There's nothing wrong with having a fat ass, but don't tell other people about nutrition, if you do have a fat ass.

This apology by Rep. Sensenbrenner is just the latest example of uppity crackas who have to apologize to black people for nothing. His remarks were made in private and off the record, and were reported by whites who think black people will like them better if they report on white people who don't know their place.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to think very carefully before apologizing to any black person for anything. If it's a personal matter, and I'm at fault, I'll apologize, but if it's one of those "I'll apologize because you expect it" deals, I'll do it only to avoid violence. If it's only about social awkwardness, so be it. I'll just look at them like, what's your problem.

BTW, another New Year's resolution is to get into better shape. I'm in my late 50s and sedentary, but I swear on my cat, if I were in the above pic, I'd be the third best, and Mrs. Obama would still be the worst. Is there something she's not telling us, or just those African genes?