San Francisco is like an addict failing in efforts to reform from a bad habit, because it/he doesn’t really want to change. The city is so loaded up with uber-liberal politicans, judges and social services providers that it is having trouble disengaging from the protection of illegal alien criminals claiming to be juveniles, even when the mayor has called for semi-normal law enforcement. Today’s San Francisco Chronicle brings yet another negative indicator: Court rules S.F. teen illegal needs services, by Jaxon Van Derbeken.

A San Francisco court set aside a drug-trafficking case Monday against a 14-year-old Honduran immigrant - a ruling that juvenile justice officials fear will undermine Mayor Gavin Newsom’s new policy requiring that such offenders be held for possible deportation.

Juvenile Court Commissioner Abby Abinanti concluded that the youth, identified only as Francisco G. because of his age, should be treated within the social welfare system, not as a criminal offender. If federal authorities don’t intervene, the ruling would almost certainly allow him to remain in this country.

Abinanti issued her ruling after a social services official and a city attorney’s representative on an advisory panel reviewed the youth’s history and concluded that he should be considered a victim and thus be entitled to receive social welfare services.

This case is more bad publicity for Mayor Gavin Newsom, who launched his gubernatorial campaign within a few days of the murder of San Francisco dad Tony Bologna and his two sons by a previously arrested illegal alien. Newsom originally voiced support for protecting foreign criminals even after the murders, but flip-flopped in a heartbeat when he saw local polling on the issue. Now he looks unable to enforce his own new policy, reversed though it may be.

Many in the city are outraged at the level of criminal anarchy that has been allowed to fester, judging from the comments for this article and others. One problem is the complete lack of responsible adults in positions of authority in San Francisco — there is no non-moonbat bench of possible candidates for office. For example, Newsom was the moderate in the last mayoral election — the opposition was Green Party commie Matt Gonzalez, who received 47 percent of the vote in 2003. Years of left-wing politics have gutted public safety in San Francisco, and it is questionable whether the city can be fixed given the available personnel.

Below, a report on Fox News about Mayor Newson’s promotion of the sanctuary city policy, including a brief clip with Danielle Bologna who believes that San Francisco’s permissiveness caused the murders of her husband and sons (and is suing the city for wrongful death).

Ed Rubenstein is going to be on Lou Dobbs Radio talking about how badly the Federal Government has dealt with statistics relating to immigration. The show’s website says

Dom Giordano will be sitting in for Lou on Tuesday, when guests include ED RUBENSTEIN, the president of ESR Research Economic Consultants. How poorly has the federal government maintained data on illegal immigrants? Answer: very poorly. Rubenstein will discuss his research revealing Uncle Sam’s shoddy work.

Listen here live, (3-6 PM Eastern) or if you’re reading this after Tuesday, August 26, 2008, you’ll be able to download the podcast here.

Before everybody gets completely bored with track again for the next 3 years and 11.5 months, I’m putting out in public my Excel spreadsheet listing the 200 fastest times ever for the ten main lengths with the race of each runner denoted. This database provided the basis for the graphs in last night’s VDARE column on running and the Olympics.

I put in some hours looking up photos of runners on Google Images, so the racial identifications are pretty accurate, but I invite anybody interested to put corrections in the comments here. Generally speaking, there are fewer ambiguous cases than you’d expect: African-American 100 meter men, for example, tend to be very black. Perhaps the most ambiguous cases came right where my theory predicts — with the 1980s Brazilian 800m man Joaquin Cruz (I’m guessing he’s half white and half black) and with the 1970s Cuban champion at 400m and 800m Alberto Juantorena (I put him down as all white, but I could be wrong).

Most of the top runners representing Persian Gulf states are hired Kenyans or Moroccans (although Saudi Arabia has one native born runner make the list).

I did the same analysis back in 1997, although just for the 100 at each length. You can download it from this page. Not too much has changed over 11 years. Mostly the patterns have intensified as the Kenyans and other Africans have become even more dominant.

One thing that caught my eye in 1997 was that the domination of the 400m by men of West African descent seemed unnaturally excessive. In 1997, there was too steep a falloff in West African black domination from 400m, where West African blacks were then overwhelming, to 800m, where blacks were merely competitive. The subsequent emergence of a white Texan, Jeremy Wariner, who won gold in 2004 and silver in 2008 (and ran a very fast anchor leg on the Olympic record setting mile relay team), as one of the greatest 400m men ever suggests that my skepticism in 1997 was correct: American whites were being kept out of some degree of 400m success due to stereotypes that weren’t quite as valid as they had appeared.

I think what was going on with the 400m was this: the 400m has traditionally been an event dominated by Americans. The U.S. has won the gold medal in 19 of the 26 Olympics, and over half the total medals. (The U.S. swept the men’s 400m in Beijing.) I’m not sure why this is. The mile relay (4×400 meters) was traditionally the final event at American high school and college track meets, so perhaps Americans put more emphasis on it. Or perhaps the typical admixture of black and white genes found in African-Americans is about right for the 400m.

In any case, the event remained integrated at the U.S. Olympic team level up through 1964 when a 30-year-old white math teacher from LA named Michael Larrabee won the 400m in Tokyo. In 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics, however, the U.S. swept the 400m with three blacks running amazing times (two of them under 44 seconds). Lee Evans set a world record that lasted until the mid-1980s, and the 4×400 relay mark wasn’t even equaled until 1988.

In reality, the many famous Mexico City records (such as Bob Beamon’s 29′-2″ long jump and Jimmy Hines’s 9.95 100m) weren’t as great as they seemed in the 1970s: less air resistance at 7300 feet altitude met faster times at events shorter than, say, 1500 meters. But 1968 set a cultural template in the U.S.: the 400m was a black event.

After all, people reasoned, it’s a sprint, so it’s black. Actually, it’s a “long sprint,” four times the distance of the 100m, just as the 800m is a short middle distance event, but people like to put things in boxes, so Americans saw the 400 as a black sprint while they saw the 800 as Dave Wottle’s mostly white event. The reality is a quantitative continuum, but people don’t like to think numerically, they like to think in terms of Platonic essences. Similarly, when Jeremy Wariner won the gold in the 400m in 2004, lots of pundits announced that that “shattered the stereotype” that whites can’t sprint.

Meanwhile, other countries that didn’t put as much emphasis on the 400m continued to have a moderate amount of success with white 400m men, whether they were an all-white country like Australia (whose Darren Clark finished 4th in the 400 in 1984 and 1988) or even if they had black 100m sprinters, such as Cuba with Juantorena and Britain with Roger Black and Iwan Thomas in more recent years.

So, it wasn’t surprising when Wariner emerged (and, to a lesser extent Andrew Rock, who finished sixth in the 2004 Olympics and second to Wariner at the 2005 world championships). I suspect that the U.S., with its abundance of African-American 400m talent, overlooked a few really good 400m white runners in the decades between Larrabee and Wariner. Rock, for example, who won a relay gold medal in 2004, had had to walk on at a Div. III school because no college in America would give him a track scholarship, in contrast to all the West Indian 400m runners who got scholarships at American colleges. Probably, some good white 400m runners were channeled into being mediocre 800m runners, and others quit track and went and did something else.

Of course, a superstar like Wariner got a scholarship, so don’t exaggerate the impact of prejudice — the impact is mostly on the marginal who probably wouldn’t have amounted to all that much in any case. Wariner is much like the fellow whose look and affect he emulates, white rapper Eminem. To be accepted in a black dominated field, a white guy has to be better than the blacks.

Conversely, there is probably a black guy out there struggling to make the mile relay team who could be a terrific 1500m man if anybody could wrap his head around that. On the other hand, though, society usually makes a huge effort to drag blacks into anything perceived as too white, while it’s hard for anything prestigious in our society, such as the 400m Olympic team to be considered “too black.”

Because older Georgian politicians are mostly corrupt ex-Communist mediocrities, Georgia, since the “Rose Revolution,” has had one of the youngest sets of political leaders in the world.

It’s important to realize that they aren’t some random grab bag of provincial hotheads. Instead, they are the cream of Georgia’s new generation of globalized elite, almost all educated abroad and plugged into the most influential global networks of finance, law, media, trade, and NGOs. Thus, they’ve enjoyed tremendous press coverage from similar folks in the prestige media.

These are the kind of people who will be running the world for the next generation, making Georgia a harbinger of what’s in store for all of us.

And what did these exemplars of the globalized Best and Brightest do when they got power?

They started a tank war with Russia.

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By the way, judging from how fast Russia struck back, I would guess that Russia has plenty of spies within Georgia. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those Georgian B&Bs was privately supplementing his official pay as Putin’s personal agent provocateur within the Georgian government:

Hey, guys, let’s go invade that Russian-occupied territory with our tanks! C’mon, what’s the worst that could happen?

Perhaps that sounds excessively paranoid and convoluted, but, after all as they say in those parts (or at least should say):

“Forget it, Jake, it’s Caucasustown.”

For a profile of perhaps the most brilliant of all the dangerous operators who have emerged from that part of the world, see here.

If you read Bill Wineke’s recent column calling for America’s Dairyland to protect its lakes, you probably concluded that he is genuinely concerned about the environment, [We have to clean up our lakes, Wisconsin State Journal, July 27, 2008].

You would be wrong.

If you don’t believe me, check out his column in the wake of the Census Bureau’s grim projection that our population will grow by another 135 million people during the next 42 years–mainly because of immigration, [Don't Fear Minority Growth: We Need Everyone, August 23, 2008] See any environmental concerns expressed in this column? Why, Wineke didn’t bat an eye over the prospect of cramming the equivalent of the combined populations of Mexico and Canada into a United States already struggling to accommodate nearly 305 million people. In fact, he didn’t even acknowledge the 135 million figure.

Instead, like most of his MSM brethren who reported the Census story, Wineke (e-mail) stepped onto the podium, struck up the Kumbaya Band, and asked us to “embrace” the millions more who eagerly will accommodate us by learning English. We “need” these millions more, he said. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Be proud,” he said.

But proud of what? Proud that 439 million people in 2050, regardless of their race or ethnicity, would further reduce the quality of life for all and accelerate environmental degradation? Proud of the increased demand for food and natural resources like water and, oh, yes, oil? Just what part of this planet does Wineke live on where there is no evidence of a link between unrestrained population growth and urban sprawl,  traffic congestion,  overcrowded classrooms, soaring healthcare costs and crime rates? And isn’t this country already being kicked around by the rest of the world for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases?

Memo to Wineke: Won’t another 135 million people only generate more of that nasty stuff, or do you and your fellow MSM colleagues believe that in less than a half century, all Americans will be driving nothing but electric cars, living in homes built entirely of solar panels and taking showers sans agua?

Oh, before I forget: Congratulations on being the most recent recipient of the “Gaylord Nelson Was Right Award“ given to those who the founder of Earth Day said are phony for saying they are for the environment but against restricting immigration.