SLPOA Holds Closed-Door Session, Ponders No-Confidence Vote Against Chief Mokwa August 30, 2007
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So reports KSDK at 5. The two stated reasons are health insurance and Mokwa’s handling of the Norvelle Brown shooting death.
I hope this is an item of discussion.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today August 30, 2007
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Today: 255,150
Yesterday: 255,160
Bloomberg News Service: The Concept of Americans Having Plentiful Work and Lifetime Jobs in Manufacturing and Industry is a Quaint, Old-Fashioned, Retronomic Anachronism August 30, 2007
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Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — At a union hall in Detroit packed with 800 members of the AFL-CIO and their families, Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton promises to break the mold on trade.
“If we don’t have a strong manufacturing base in our economy, it won’t be long until we don’t have a strong economy,” Clinton tells the union members at the June meeting. So, she says, she will vote against the U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement just negotiated by President George W. Bush. The crowd cheers.
Clinton’s statement contrasts with the position of the most recent Democratic president: her husband, Bill. Fourteen years ago, he defied labor union opposition and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law. Hillary Clinton, 59, promoted her husband’s trade agenda for years — until she began her own campaign for the highest U.S. office. She’s been reading polls that say more than 40 percent of Americans see free trade as the main reason the U.S. is losing highly paid manufacturing and white-collar jobs.
Clinton is now parroting the economic positions of candidates from the 1980s. And she’s not the only one. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney sounds like Ronald Reagan when he decries the deficit spending of President Bush. “I’m somebody who believes in reducing government spending,” Romney, 60, told Bloomberg Television on Aug. 28. “I propose that not only should we reduce spending but we should have a cap.”
Retronomics
Presidential elections are supposed to be about the future. Yet when it comes to economic policy, the 2008 contest is shaping up as a campaign in which the Republicans hark back to the economic nostrums of 25 years ago, while the Democrats wax nostalgic for the time when U.S. industry faced little foreign competition and every high school graduate could count on a lifelong job in a steel mill or an auto plant.
Call it retronomics. “They’re looking to the past for their policies,” says David Gergen, a professor of public service at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government who served as an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Reagan and Clinton. “The Democrats’ center of gravity has moved further to protectionism since Clinton left office, and the Republicans clearly are not going to hold George Bush up as a model president.”
Yes, what a bunch of dinosaurs. Aren’t they with the new American economic zeitgeist? The wave of the future is that “Americans” (who are increasingly less “American”) have multiple slave wage jobs in their lifetimes, with no benefits and no unionization, and live thirty to a shack. If you’re a protected minority, then affirmative action will get you a little better job and a little higher standard of living, if you’re white, you’ll be lucky to have that.
Honestly, Hillary Clinton is no more a protectionist than Bill Clinton — it’s campaign season, and she needs to find suckers to vote for her. Also, I don’t understand this continuing Dutcholyatry among Republicans — Reagan’s rhetoric championed fiscal responsibility, but his budgets certainly didn’t. And in spite of occasional protectionist stop-gap measures from the Reagan White House prodded by advisors like Pat Buchanan, free trade was almost always the order of his days.
President Bush Loves Missouri’s Losers August 30, 2007
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There is a lot of buzz developing that President Bush is considering former Missouri U.S. Senator Jim Talent to be the next U.S. Attorney General. If that happens, that will make two defeated Republican U.S. Senators from Missouri that Bush has slid into the USAG’s office, the other being John Ashcroft.
The woman who defeated Talent for the Senate Seat, Claire McCaskill, says she would vote to confirm Talent if he is nominated. The irony of that is that I think McCaskill herself is an ideal (albeit Machiavellian) choice for President Bush.
It Was Only a Matter of Time Before the Vultures Started Squaking August 30, 2007
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You don’t have to read it; it’s the same old stash of bromides that the open borders lobby has used probably a trillion times this decade. If you do read it, you would read that the HCoC opposes illegal immigration. But they oppose any serious enforcement of immigration law. You will see that they play the jurisdictional exclusivity card, but all of the stories I have read about illegal aliens actually leaving a place because of enforcement of immigration laws comes from states like Oklahoma and Arizona, and cities like Hazleton, Penn., that have passed such laws and are actually enforcing them. You will also read that the HCoC thinks the only answer is “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” Now you know how they can get away with saying that they’re opposed to illegal immigration — their desire for soft amnesty means that all the immigration would instantly become legal.
Put another way, this would be like someone saying that they’re opposed to murder, but don’t want cops to arrest people who are suspected of committing murder, and that the only way to solve the problem they’re opposed to is to enact “Comprehensive Homicide Reform,” so that the act of murder is decriminalized, and that murderers, otherwise law-abiding citizens with impeccable family values that don’t stop at the triggers they pulled, who are merely doing the jobs that Americans won’t do, are brought out of the shadows, so they can help cops and other authorities make arrests and solve really dangerous and menacing criminal acts, like sawing off a shotgun a millimeter too much (which carries the death penalty for your wife, baby daughter and dog), and hate speech.
Method to his “Screaming About Bias” Madness August 30, 2007
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It isn’t right, a lawyer said Wednesday, that police took no immediate action against a white couple whose child died in a hot car last week but arrested his black client in a similar case that caused little harm.
“On the surface, it’s just not fair,” said the lawyer, John Shelhorse. He says it appears that police and prosecutors based their actions not on the relative severity of the incidents, but on the race and socio-economic status of those involved.
Police say they plan to present evidence as soon as Friday for potential charges against a doctor and medical researcher who forgot their 7-month-old daughter Aug. 23 in a parked car at the Washington University Medical School.
Officials would not address Shelhorse’s claim that race and social status led to the quick arrest of a day care director accused of leaving a 3-year-old in a van Aug. 7 outside the Science Center.
“For one thing, we had everything we needed to make an arrest right away” in the case at the Science Center, said police Capt. James Gieseke. “The second case involves a death and needs a thorough investigation.”
The day care worker, Delea Payne, 24, of Florissant, was handcuffed on the spot, jailed for nine hours and charged with misdemeanor child endangerment after the child was found in a van owned by her day care. He was examined at a hospital and sent home.
What Mr. Shelhorse does not realize, or does not want to say he realizes, is that these were two different events with two different sets of circumstances. The main difference is that the day care worker knew that there were children in the van, while the Wash U. Med School couple actually thought the baby wasn’t in the car. Part of the reason is that, for newborns and infants, the Powers that Be want you to point the car seat backwards. If they thought the baby wasn’t there, nothing in their rearview mirror would have suggested that the baby was there.
Even at that, as you can see, there still might be criminal charges filed against the white couple.
What’s really going on here is that Mr. Shelhorse is the lawyer for the black woman, and he is trying to play the bias card in order to buy sympathy from any black jurors she might have in her upcoming criminal trial.
CofCC in the News August 30, 2007
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(1) The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise, who had the story yesterday about Ozen H.S. that set the rightosphere on fire, has covered bloggers’ responses to the story. And guess which blog is cited first?
(2) Someone used a New Mexico state government computer to edit the Wikipedia entry for the CofCC in a defamatory manner.
