Forshadowing an American race war?

That's what one movie review says about the latest in the hoary Planet of the Apes franchise The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I haven't seen it yet so I can't say that I agree with that view. At least in this case anyhow.  I but I will say that the whiff of such doings is in the air.

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Coyotes have come back to Michigan. Even downtown Ann Arbor has reported sightings. You just can't keep a good predator down, eh? Or not for long anyhow.

Michigan's next governor: Rick Snyder (R) doesn't want to debate Virg Bernero (D), period. Snyder is up in the polls with six weeks to go and probably figures "who needs it?" Bernero rightly and quite predictably goes ape shit nuts about it too. Sheesh.


FBI probe is sought by pissed and offended Muslims in East Lansing who found a trashed and burned Koran on the doorstep of their mosque. Say it might be a "hate crime".

Mexican gunmen are now regularly shooting at Border Patrol agents from the Mexican side of the border. Another warning of the coming race war? Stay tuned.

Sign of the times...

Des Moines police big-shots trying to cover up signs of America's looming race war.

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Another view of the "changing face of America" - ann arbor.com

School maintenance guy fired after 30 years for being white. As white people slip from majority to minority status over the next decade or so, look for stuff like this to get more and more commonplace and obscenely obvious.

A new sex text scandal emerging from the top levels of the Detroit PD - Detroit News

This is both funny and sad. Maybe Detroit needs to follow the lead of that city in California that also had a scandal-tainted police force and just disband the DPD completely and contract with the sheriff's office for police services. Seriously.

Flint area serial killer suspect is arrested - Detroit Free Press

Hmm...I hope so. Let's see the evidence though first.

On behalf of a grateful empire - KTVB-TV

Medal of Honor winner's widow can't afford the cost of attending the award ceremony in Virginia,

What American conservatives can learn from the anarchists - The American Conservative

What indeed?

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Flint fearful of 'killer among us' - Detroit News

This rumor has been going around for a while, but now it has made it to an "official news" source. To wit: An unknown white male is stalking black men in the Flint area and stabbing them. 13 in all and five of them fatally. Even comes with police artist's sketch. Unfortunately the suspect looks like about ninety percent of white males between the ages of 30 - 40. Who is trying to ignite a race war?

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"...[for the] first time in our lifetimes, outside the South, white racial consciousness has visibly begun to rise." - VDare (Pat Buchanan)

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Some speculation about Lenin's sex life. - Wall Street Journal
The father of the Soviet state gets the full tabloid treatment. This book's author lists Lenin's flings, possible affairs, rumors of affairs, reported brothel visits, possible mistresses and other titillating speculations. And based upon the flimsiest of evidence too, claims the reviewer.
An informational mass extinction is likely. Or at least possible. - American Scientist
"The Dead Sea scrolls, made out of still-readable parchment and papyrus, are believed to have been created more than 2,000 years ago. Yet my barely 10-year-old digital floppy disks were essentially lost."
America is edging closer and closer to a full-on race war. - VDare
Check out this very popular YouTube video.
Two SF Politicos help with the budget problems; Four $48 parking tickets in two weeks. - SF Weekly
The SF parking enforcement isn't being overzealous just to get extra revenue from fines though. (Heh. Yeah, right!) Given who and what they are, I suppose they have to say that though.
How do porn actors relax off-screen? D&D tournaments it seems. - Playing D&D With Porn Stars
Joseph Stack: America's first suicide bomber - Paul Craig Roberts
"Indications are that Joseph Stack was sane. Like Palestinians faced with Israeli jet fighters, helicopter gunships, tanks, missiles and poison gas, Stack realized that he was powerless. A suicide attack was the only weapon left to him." And so he used it.
The irreversible ecological destruction involved in so-called clean coal mining. - New Scientist
Why Obama doesn't pick a D.C. church - iSteve
"Look, wouldn't the simplest explanation be that Obama was just yanking our chains about the Jesus stuff? That, as he admitted he was told in 1985, he'd need to join a church in Chicago if he expected to have a political career on the South Side."

Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time. - Ars Technica