DEVO-LUTION: A Life In Music Is Funny (Mine Is Anyway)

There was once this band out of Akron, Ohio, who found they wanted to change their sound.

And - while in Los Angeles - they heard that new sound in a kid visiting from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The band went on to write their biggest hit.

But their record company couldn't hear "Whip It" immediately - they rallied around a song called "Girl U Want" and pushed it HARD - but it still flopped. And they blamed the band.

The band didn't know why. DEVO co-founding member, Gerald Casale, recently said:

"I love that song. I guess If Axl Rose covered it, it would have been a No. 1 hit."

Why am I telling you this? Because I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and just happened to work for a radio station.

While there, I also heard someone from Minneapolis, Minnesota who inspired me to explore music further. 

And, once I did, wouldn't you know comparisons started being made to Axl Rose? 

I just want to tell DEVO to blame their record company: despite the fans loving it, using "Girl U Want" as the middle eighth to one of my songs didn't do shit for my career, either. 

Cops: Remembering Their Slave Catching Past Is Easy

‘I Hate N***ers’: Two Ohio Cops Suspended over Racist Texts

Ha! Republican Governor Slips Up And Tells The Truth

New rules - we fix America's problems at the source

Chris Christie was just saying we should elect a governor for president, and now, here comes one who's not joining Ann Althouse & Co. in their "Obama's In Trouble" deception: 

  “Repeal and replace” has been a Republican mantra for nearly as long as Obamacare has been in existence. Yet one of the GOP’s rumored 2016 front-runners isn’t playing along. 

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is expected to cruise to reelection this year and then seek the Republican nomination in 2016, recently told the Associated Press that repealing the Affordable Care is “not gonna happen.” “The opposition to it was really either political or ideological,” he said. “I don’t think that holds water against real flesh and blood, and real improvements in people’s lives.”

A different America needs a different kind of white Americans

"Real improvements in people’s lives.” Awww:

There is absolutely no reason why most white people should be able to hear anything like THAT:

So Ann Althouse & Co. don't tell them,....

Racism In The Class Room: Only The Black Kids See It

The racial attacks never stop, but then, neither do the denials:

  "Ohio teacher denies making racist anti-Obama remark to student who aspired to be president"

Since Ohio's a bullshit state, somehow I don't believe him:

  Voigt said he doesn’t know why the student would accuse him of making a racist statement, although he admits he was reprimanded in 2008 for an “inappropriate racial comment” he made to a student who was sleeping in class.

Please get this man away from children as soon as possible,…

 

Niggas At Home Doing "Research" (Asking For Trouble)

Is it possible to love and hate a place at the same time?

“In 1999, I started researching sundown towns. These are overwhelmingly white communities that for decades stayed that way on purpose. The term derives from the signs that some towns posted at their corporate limits with warnings such as, 'Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down On You in Hawthorne,' to quote the anti-greeting at the edge of Hawthorne, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. Although the term is not widely known east of Ohio, municipalities that were white on purpose are found, in abundance,….”

It's going to be a long time before blacks ever know freedom,..

There's A Name For What's Happened To Black People

For generations, the phrase "sold down the river" has been used to signify a profound betrayal.

"River" was a literal reference to the Mississippi or Ohio rivers. For much of the first half of the 19th century, Louisville, Ky., was one of the largest slave-trading marketplaces in the country. Slaves would be taken to Louisville to be "sold down the river" and transported to the cotton plantations in states further south.

In his 2010 history of the Mississippi River, Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild journalist Lee Sandlin said "the threat of being 'sold down the river' was seen as tantamount to a death sentence."

"A Negro man of Mr. Elies, having been sold to go down the river, attempted first to cut off both of his legs, failing to do that, cut his throat, did not entirely take his life, went a short distance and drowned himself."

Spooky? (No: Spondike)

Ohio Teacher Goes On Racist Facebook Halloween Rant

Tim Tebow's Faith-Based Boot, A Bible To The Face, $25 Whores, Religiously Killer Parents, And The Barbarians

Patriots Release Tim Tebow

Police: 

Alleged Ohio Robber Hit Clerk With Bible

Women sell positive pregnancy tests 

on Craigslist for $25 each

Parents charged with manslaughter 

in daughter's death

‘Barbarians Are Barbaric’

Next: Charlie Manson's Recording With Jay-Z!!!

This is fucking outrageous:

Four more convicts in the infamous Kirtland cult slayings will be paroled this year.



On April 17, 1989, cult leader Jeffrey D. Lundgren and some of his followers killed Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their daughters Trina, 15; Becky, 13; and Karen, 7.



The Ohio Department of Corrections Parole Board released Richard E. Brand on March 29 from his 15-years-to-life sentence in the case. The latest four going free after 1994 convictions are:



* Gregory S. Winship, 50, who is serving 15 years to life in the Allen Correctional Institution, will be parole on Dec. 28 this year.



* Susan Luff, 52, wife of Lundgren’s right-hand man Ronald Luff, also will be paroled on Dec. 28 from  the Ohio Reformatory for women where she is serving a sentence of seven to 25 years.



* Deborah Olivarez, 58, will be paroled from the Franklin Pre-Release Center at a date not yet set by the state.



* Sharon J. Bluntschly, 52, will be paroled Dec. 28 from the Trumbull Correctional Institution where she is serving a sentence of seven to 25 years.



Bret Vinocur, president of Columbus-based Block Parole Inc. who’s opposed about 40 proposed paroles in Ohio, isn’t happy.



“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “These people destroyed or helped destroy an entire family. When three children are killed in cold blood and you’re involved, you should never walk out of prison."

Just more proof this country has completely lost it,...

We Need An FBI-Led Joint Cultism Task Force

"Last night and into today the FBI conducted a raid against homes belonging to the Hutaree. They are a religious cult. They are not part of our militia community."

-- Mike Lackomar, of Michiganmilitia.com, on raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana - yes, I know, I can't believe my eyes either, but even Indiana - as part of an investigation into a Christian militia group, according to The Detroit News.

Ohio's Top Cop - And Journalists - See Nothing

"Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann (above) used his campaign account to bankroll home repairs and family vacations, according to a newspaper review of state investigative reports.

The reports are part of a complaint filed last week with the Ohio Elections Commission by state Inspector General Tom Charles. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner also filed an elections commission complaint against Dann last week alleging misuse of campaign funds.

The Ohio Elections Commission will address both complaints Jan. 22. And state Auditor Mary Taylor plans Monday to release her own investigation into Dann's spending.

Dann resigned in May amid a sexual harassment scandal in his office that included his admission that he had an affair with an employee."

-- The Associated Press, reminding us that corruption from the Democratic Party - because it services individuals and not country - is corruption in it's most shocking form, in The New York Post.

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit adds:

"They don’t mention his party affiliation anywhere, but it turns out he’s a Democrat. A.P. should try using Google next time . . . ."

Yea, that would be a novel approach, wouldn't it?

Let Me Get That For You!

"[John Kohlstrand, a taxation department spokesman] said that the AG's office wanted access to [Joe The Plumber's] records so they could turn over to the national media lien information that was a public record in Lucas County. He said the national media did not have reporters in Toledo, so the attorney general's office was helping them out with public records."

-- Dennis J. Willard, reporting information about collaborations between government and the media - against a private citizen - that should make every American wonder if this country hasn't gone completely insane, for The Beacon Journal.

I'll Be Watching You

David, That Fucking Jew, writes in:

"Hi Crack,

Well, I was bored and decided to do some digging into election fraud. This search was spurred by the publishing of a color coded map showing how each county in Ohio voted in the 2004 election.  Since this was considered the key state to win for President Bush, it got me curious. 

I then used a comparison of Cuyahoga County--where Cleveland is located and had overwhelmingly voted for Kerry (with some precincts showing an unheard of 97%). I counted up and compared the number of votes listed and compared it to a census count of percentage of people actually old enough to vote and found that the voter turn out would have to be 81% +/- 3% and said "huh? That's kinda high..." 

Did I mention the "I was bored" part?

Oh yeah, BASIC census data here and here.

Below is a paper written by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D, who researched this very county and presented it to the Ohio Supreme Court to prove the case of election fraud when the Deomocrats tried to steal the state from President Bush and the Republican Party in 2004.  Remember, my own numbers show 81% of the entire voting age population (over 18).  This mans work showed actual voter turnout at...get this...7% in some wards!

The press has been splitting hairs by saying things like 'registration fraud is not the same as voter fraud'. Well, I have this to say: Here's how it works bozos!  If I am a Democratic Party boss and I have my people working at polling places, I will use all those fraud registrations to vote for my guy after the polls have closed their doors...THEN I will turn in the numbers.  This has been the case since Boss Tweed ran New York City!

Registration fraud = voter fraud!  This = stolen election!

Lenin said it best 'It's not the vote that counts, it's the man who counts the vote that counts'"

Here's Richard Hayes Phillips's 2004 paper:

PURGING THE VOTER ROLLS IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY

Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
April 8, 2006, Revised


A cogent question has been raised by a Contributing Editor to Rolling
Stone magazine: Could a failure to purge the voter rolls be an explanation for the very low voter turnout percentage in Cleveland?

Purging the voter rolls from time to time is a necessary and desirable thing. People die, or move away, and if their names remain on the list of registered voters, two undesirable consequences ensue: (1) a window of opportunity is left open for those who would engage in election fraud by voting under someone else’s name; and (2) the voter turnout percentage (number of ballots cast divided by number of registered voters) will be reduced due to an artificially inflated denominator.

The simplest way to decide who should be purged from the voter rolls is to delete the names of all who have not voted for a certain number of years, and who have no written record of asking to maintain their status as registered voters. In Ohio, most counties purge the rolls every two years, removing the names of registered voters who have been inactive for four years. Some counties purge the rolls more often, while other counties place these names on a list of “inactive voters” and wait another four years before removing the names altogether.

In Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, the voter rolls were purged on July 6, 2001 and January 5, 2002. I have added up the numbers purged in each of 1,436 precincts. Troy Seman prepared a spreadsheet showing that 168,169 voters, or 19.44% of the electorate, were purged from the rolls in Cuyahoga County. By comparison, Bush’s official margin of victory over Kerry, statewide, was 118,599 votes.

In Cleveland alone, 63,721 voters, or 24.93% of the electorate, were purged. In 5 of 21 wards, more than 30% of the voters were purged.
Subsequent voter registration drives were so successful as to overcome the effect of the purges; there were far more registered voters in every ward in Cleveland in 2004 than there had been in 2000. But the fact remains that 63,721 people were purged from the rolls in 2001 and
2002, and many of these did not reregister in 2004, because they did not know they had to.

VOTERS PURGED FROM THE ROLLS IN CLEVELAND

Number Not Before Percent Registered
Ward Purged Purged Purges Purged Voters 2004

CLEVELAND 01 2850 12090 14940 19.08% 17072
CLEVELAND 02 2559 10095 12654 20.22% 15352
CLEVELAND 03 3496 9988 13484 25.93% 16258
CLEVELAND 04 3383 9387 12770 26.49% 15218
CLEVELAND 05 3694 8602 12296 30.04% 15762
CLEVELAND 06 4569 9323 13892 32.89% 16117
CLEVELAND 07 4133 9537 13670 30.23% 16705
CLEVELAND 08 3491 9152 12643 27.61% 15602
CLEVELAND 09 3456 8655 12111 28.54% 15192
CLEVELAND 10 2595 9572 12167 21.33% 15641
CLEVELAND 11 1884 10220 12104 15.57% 15528
CLEVELAND 12 1876 7773 9649 19.44% 12537
CLEVELAND 13 3566 10493 14059 25.36% 19541
CLEVELAND 14 4352 8251 12603 34.53% 14174
CLEVELAND 15 2934 9141 12075 24.30% 13831
CLEVELAND 16 2912 10123 13035 22.34% 14221
CLEVELAND 17 3524 7147 10671 33.02% 13143
CLEVELAND 18 3533 8645 12178 29.01% 14651
CLEVELAND 19 3158 9024 12182 25.92% 14013
CLEVELAND 20 3021 10286 13307 22.70% 14547
CLEVELAND 21 1893 13352 15245 12.42% 17505

TOTAL 63721 191832 255553 24.93% 323202

The significance of these purges cannot be overstated. Kerry won Cleveland with 83.36% of the vote. His margin of victory was 113,145 votes. For every six persons unable to vote for having been purged from the rolls, four votes were shaved from Kerry’s margin of victory.

The percent of voters purged should be inversely related to the percent turnout in preceding elections. The best indicator is the presidential election, because it always draws the highest turnout. Because the number of registered voters in the 2000 general election was not the same as when the purges took place, no direct calculation can be made of what percentage of inactive voters were actually purged. A more meaningful comparison has been devised by Troy Seman. He has divided the percentage of voters purged in 2001 and 2002 by the percentage of registered voters not voting in 2000, resulting in a “purge ratio.”

COMPARISON OF PERCENTAGES, CLEVELAND

Percent Percent Percent Purge
Ward Purged Turnout Gore Ratio

CLEVELAND 09 28.54% 61.45% 94.03% 74.04%
CLEVELAND 06 32.89% 54.03% 88.18% 71.55%
CLEVELAND 05 30.04% 57.76% 96.24% 71.12%
CLEVELAND 04 26.49% 61.86% 92.66% 69.45%
CLEVELAND 07 30.23% 54.87% 94.06% 66.98%
CLEVELAND 08 27.61% 58.29% 95.63% 66.19%
CLEVELAND 17 33.02% 48.97% 71.35% 64.71%
CLEVELAND 03 25.93% 59.24% 97.00% 63.61%
CLEVELAND 19 25.92% 59.19% 68.02% 63.52%
CLEVELAND 14 34.53% 44.17% 72.85% 61.85%
CLEVELAND 18 29.01% 52.96% 69.66% 61.68%
CLEVELAND 15 24.30% 57.91% 64.27% 57.73%
CLEVELAND 20 22.70% 60.08% 64.26% 56.86%
CLEVELAND 10 21.33% 61.97% 95.15% 56.09%
CLEVELAND 16 22.34% 59.83% 58.54% 55.61%
CLEVELAND 01 19.08% 62.40% 97.16% 50.75%
CLEVELAND 02 20.22% 59.60% 94.61% 50.05%
CLEVELAND 13 25.36% 46.86% 73.23% 47.72%
CLEVELAND 11 15.57% 60.56% 75.51% 39.47%
CLEVELAND 12 19.44% 50.67% 70.74% 39.41%
CLEVELAND 21 12.42% 64.22% 55.95% 34.71%

It may be readily seen that the purge ratio in Cleveland is completely unrelated to the percent turnout in 2000. To the contrary, there is a much stronger relationship between the purge ratio and the percent of the vote won by Al Gore in the 2000 election. This suggests strongly that the most heavily Democratic wards in Cleveland were targeted for selective purging, which would be a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Simply stated, 7 of the 10 wards in which Gore received his highest percentage of the vote were among the 8 wards with the highest purge ratio. 10 of the 11 wards in which Bush received his highest percentage of the vote were among the 14 wards with the lowest purge ratio. Most telling of all is Ward 21, where Gore received only 55.95% of the vote (64.26% in Ward 20 being his second-worst showing). The purge ratio in Ward 21 was only 34.71%.

By contrast, there were 13 entire towns, and 2 wards in Strongsville, where the percentage of voters purged was less than that of any ward in
Cleveland. Bush defeated Gore in most of these places. The purge ratio was less than that of any ward in Cleveland (other than Ward 21) in all of them.

COMPARISON OF PERCENTAGES, OUTSIDE OF CLEVELAND

Percent Percent Percent Purge
Ward Purged Turnout Gore Ratio

BAY VILLAGE 11.82% 68.66% 37.16% 37.71%
INDEPENDENCE 11.79% 67.62% 42.58% 36.41%
LYNDHURST 11.77% 67.51% 51.92% 36.22%
BEACHWOOD 11.62% 62.04% 82.52% 30.61%
BRECKSVILLE 11.19% 68.46% 34.86% 35.48%
WALTON HILLS 10.86% 72.35% 49.37% 39.28%
PEPPER PIKE 10.57% 67.85% 56.14% 32.88%
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS VIL 9.88% 66.52% 51.46% 29.51%
CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS 5.22% 60.76% 55.52% 13.30%
GATES MILLS 7.66% 75.80% 28.67% 31.66%
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS 9.16% 67.98% 43.90% 28.60%
ORANGE 7.01% 70.78% 68.12% 23.99%
STRONGSVILLE 03 6.36% 69.97% 41.48% 21.18%
STRONGSVILLE 04 6.04% 69.88% 41.22% 20.05%
VALLEY VIEW 7.98% 65.89% 47.97% 23.40%

It was not easy to put these numbers together. The numbers of purged voters were listed precinct by precinct, but the names of the precincts were abbreviated, and thus appeared in a different alphabetical order than in the records for the 2000 election. The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections never prepared for public consumption a table showing registered voters, ballots cast, and percent turnout, at the precinct level, for the 2000 election. The number of ballots cast is reported along with the presidential vote totals in the precinct canvass records. The number of registered voters, precinct by precinct, was provided by the Board of Elections after a diligent three-day search by three information specialists. The precinct boundaries have changed since the 2000 election, making comparisons with 2004 data at the precinct level impossible. The percentage of the vote received by Gore was calculated by hand, which proved the simplest method because there were seven candidates on the ballot in 2000, and sum total of votes counted for president were needed for the denominators. After entering these data into a table, we were able to calculate the percent turnout for each ward and town. The task of assembling the data was tedious and time-consuming. But one would expect that Robert T. Bennett,
Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, who has been State
Chairman of the Republican Party since 1988, would have had access to data on the percentage of the vote received by Gore in each precinct.

Because the data on purged voters are available at the precinct level, in a format readily converted to a spreadsheet, we were able to calculate, precinct by precinct, the percentage of voters purged.

There are 1,436 precincts in Cuyahoga County. In 151 (10.5%) of the precincts, more than 30% of the registered voters were purged from the rolls. Of these 151 precincts, 114 (75.5%) were in Cleveland. Another
8 were in East Cleveland, where Gore received 96.53% of the vote. In
Cleveland precinct 6-C, 341 of 605 registered voters, or 56.36%, were purged from the rolls. And yet, in November 2004, this same precinct had an official turnout of only 7.85%, the lowest of any precinct in Cuyahoga County. In the 2000 election, voter turnout was 59.82% for
Precinct 6-C, and 54.03% for the entire ward, which makes it almost impossible for this purge to be legitimate.

By contrast, in 133 (9.26%) of the 1,436 precincts in Cuyahoga County, less than 10% of the voters were purged from the rolls. Of these 133 precincts, only 14 were in Cleveland, and 8 of these were in Ward 21, where Gore received only 55.95% of the vote, his worst showing of any ward in Cleveland. In Strongsville Precinct 4-C, where only 19 of 779 registered voters, or 2.44%, were purged from the rolls, the voter turnout was 74.56% in 2000, which works out to a purge ratio of 9.6%.

The upshot of all this would be its effect upon the 2004 election. In most places, the percent turnout increased dramatically compared to the 2000 election. One would expect the percent turnout in Cleveland to have increased, given the deflated denominator caused by the purging of
63,721 voters from the rolls, and given the statewide and countywide trends, which showed increases of 8.11% and 10.17%, respectively, in voter turnout, compared to the 2000 election. And yet, somehow, even with the massive purges of the voter rolls, voter turnout in Cleveland reportedly decreased from 57.43% in 2000 to 53.27% in 2004.

COMPARISON OF PERCENT TURNOUT, 2000 AND 2004

2000 2004

City of Cleveland 57.43% 53.27%
Cuyahoga County 58.07% 68.24%
State of Ohio 63.65% 71.76%

Presented below are the turnout percentages for each ward in Cleveland, taken from the Official Precinct Canvass Results for Cuyahoga County in 2004, as posted on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website at

HYPERLINK "http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/results/history/2004/110204_GE_Canvass.txt"http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/results/history/2004/110204_GE_Canvass.txt

They are compared with the turnout percentages for 2000 as derived in this paper and listed in the second table.

COMPARISON OF TURNOUT, BY WARDS

2000 2004

CLEVELAND WARD 1     62.40% 62.22%
CLEVELAND WARD 2     59.60% 57.48%
CLEVELAND WARD 3     59.24% 56.53%
CLEVELAND WARD 4     61.86% 55.15%
CLEVELAND WARD 5     57.76% 45.46%
CLEVELAND WARD 6     54.03% 48.74%
CLEVELAND WARD 7     54.87% 47.49%
CLEVELAND WARD 8     58.29% 53.01%
CLEVELAND WARD 9     61.45% 55.31%
CLEVELAND WARD 10    61.97% 54.44%
CLEVELAND WARD 11    60.56% 55.47%
CLEVELAND WARD 12    50.67% 47.67%
CLEVELAND WARD 13    46.86% 41.69%
CLEVELAND WARD 14    44.17% 41.15%
CLEVELAND WARD 15    57.91% 56.73%
CLEVELAND WARD 16    59.83% 62.67%
CLEVELAND WARD 17    48.97% 44.90%
CLEVELAND WARD 18    52.96% 52.52%
CLEVELAND WARD 19    59.19% 56.50%
CLEVELAND WARD 20    60.08% 61.17%
CLEVELAND WARD 21    64.22% 62.34%

CLEVELAND CITY 57.43% 53.27%


We have been suspicious of the reported turnout in Cleveland ever since the unofficial results showed precincts with turnout of 7.10%, 13.05%, 19.60%, 21.01%, 21.80%, 24.72%, 28.83%, 28.97%, and 29.25%. These numbers were reported in my paper “Stealing Votes in Cleveland,” presented under oath to the Ohio Supreme Court. These numbers are not credible. Not in the 2004 presidential election, which voters of both parties regarded as the most important election of their lifetimes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, real conservatives are going to need each other now, so you're going to need:

Anything And Everything

"CLEVELAND - Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.

The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.

Republicans have argued that the window could lead to widespread voter fraud,..."

-- Jeane Macintosh, documenting how much Obama supporters care about the appearance of impropriety, for the New York Post.

And, if you want to keep an eye on impropriety, keep an eye on:

The Doctor Is Out (There)

"[Mehmet Öz] was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Turkish Muslim parents. His father is Prof. Dr. Mustafa Öz. He is married to author and Reiki master Lisa Öz and they have four children."

-- Wikipedia, from the entry for Oprah Winfrey's "Doctor Oz".