“And Otherwise…” September 30, 2007
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KSTP-ABC-5 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
De’Andre June told police he woke up Wednesday morning to find the charred outline of a cross burned in the lawn of his home. June now is accused of burning the cross in the lawn himself.
The 47-year-old Anoka man was charged Friday with falsely reporting a crime. He also is charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process stemming from an altercation when police arrested him Thursday afternoon on a felony warrant from Hennepin County in connection with a financial fraud case.
According to the criminal complaint, inmates at the Anoka County jail told authorities that June was planning such a ruse.
“Inmates from the Anoka County Jail saw the news story on TV and recognized Mr. June,” said Capt. Phil Johanson of the Anoka Police Department. “(They) said that when he was in jail with them last week, he had made comments that he was going to do something like this to get sympathy from the community and the church for financial gains and otherwise.”
“And otherwise?” Money is an obvious motive, but those two words leave me curious. What else is there? Could it be that he wanted Minnesota’s famously liberal white people and Minnesota’s famously liberal authorities to forget about his other legal troubles? Or maybe he wanted to make white people look bad — if that can be proven, then I think hate crime riders are in order.
Good News from the Internet Censorship Front September 30, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Censorship, Constitutional Integrity, Legal Profession, Politics.comments closed
The Iconoclast Blog:
It’s no surprise that politicians are rarely conversant with the limits on their legislating found in the U.S. Constitution. But it is worth noting when federal judges have actually read the First Amendment and strike down a law accordingly.
That brings us to Ohio’s constitutionally impaired legislature, which enacted two laws that were touted as ways to protect children on the Internet but in reality would become a new censorship regime.
An Ohio federal judge on Monday struck down the state’s combined “harmful to minors” law on the grounds that it ran afoul of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
2709.31(A) of the law generally says “no person” shall “disseminate” or offer to disseminate to a “juvenile” any material that is “harmful to juveniles.” Ohio’s House Bill 490 amended it by defining electronic dissemination as having “reason to believe that the person receiving the information is a juvenile.”
You can see where this is going. Let’s say that one-sixth of the Internet’s users are minors. That means that for almost any Web site, assuming the audience is representative, the operator has reason to believe that something like one-sixth of them are under 18 years old. (There’s another section that tries to limit that requirement’s sweep, but in practice it wouldn’t amount to much.)
Fortunately, U.S. District Judge [*****] realized this. Rice said the definition of “harmful to juveniles” does not by itself violate the First Amendment and that it does not violate the Commerce Clause.
But he ruled that, in practice, applying that definition to the Internet is overly broad. In particular, he said, sexually explicit conversations in adults-only chat rooms (where a minor sneaks in) could be prosecuted. It would “act as a ban to that segment of speech between adults which is protected by the First Amendment.”
This is consistent with other judges’ rulings on “harmful to minors” or “harmful to juveniles” Internet statutes. The 2nd Circuit overturned Vermont’s; the 10th Circuit overturned New Mexico’s. In this case, Judge [*****] granted a permanent injunction. He had, by the way, already granted an injunction in the case based on the earlier version of the law, but the proceedings essentially restarted after the law was changed around four years ago.
The plaintiffs include the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, and the Association of American Publishers, and it was brought by their trade association called the Media Coalition.
If the appeals court upholds this ruling, the Media Coalition may be able to get attorneys’ fees–which amounted to a requested $488,601 in a similar Internet censorship suit in Virginia. And that’s not even counting proceedings before an appeals court, which has already happened (briefly) in the Ohio case but didn’t in Virginia.
The problem is that when Ohio politicians enact unconstitutional laws, and subsequently lose in court, taxpayers end up footing the bill. It would be a far more just system if politicians were held personally responsible for paying their fair share of a half-million dollar fine for their constitutional ignorance. I’m sure Ohio politicos would have no objection–right?
The writer and the Federal judge are correct. “Harmful to minors” could be defined as anything, and being cognizant of who gets to do the defining these days (I won’t mention the ADL by name), anything conservative gets plonked.
The writer asks why the Ohio state legislature could be so goofy to enact laws that are “constitutionally ignorant.” The downside to legislative term limits and de-lawyerification is that state legislatures these days are full of young, inexperienced non-lawyers who run right into figurative landmines like these. (The same could be said for the city council in Delcambre, Louisiana.) Any lawyer that’s a politician will have better sense than to vote for a bill that s/he knows that even the dumbest judge will strike down for being vague, broad, and therefore a violation of substantive due process. If the Ohio state legislature had enough lawyers, this bill would never have had a chance.
Based on the Curious Assumption That There Aren’t Enough People in America September 30, 2007
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HRC promises a $5,000 “baby bond” for every American newborn, and it would (presumably) accumulate value, and be ready when he or she reaches 18 years of age, for the purpose of college financing or a down payment on a house.
She thinks this is a good idea because:
Clinton said such an account program would help Americans get back to the tradition of savings that she remembers as a child, and has become harder to accomplish in the face of rising college and housing costs.
The irony of that is that government (or quasi-government) action (or inaction, in certain cases) is the reason why college tuition is ballooning, and why housing prices are far higher than they used to be. Decreases in student loan interest rates, and increases in college grants, give college administrators virtual permission to raise tuition. In a sense, when Democrat politicians do those things, it is essentially a payoff to their friends in higher education.
And housing is higher simply because of pure algebra — when the Fed lowers interest rates, mortgage rates go down, which means that a given fixed monthly payment can finance a bigger principal. Therefore, people get pre-approved for larger and larger principle amounts, and bid against each other for the same housing. When you add on top of that that our government’s anti-white racial policies (including immigration) mean that truly livable neighborhoods with a high quality of life and peace of mind are becoming harder and harder to find, this only means that their housing values have ballooned even more.
What HRC is doing here is parrotting “birth bonus” programs in Europe. There, they actually have the problem of their white populations declining in terms of raw numbers. Here, the white population is slightly increasing, though almost all of the population increase for the country at large comes from non-white immmigration and domestic procreation among native non-whites. Because anything that HRC proposes wouldn’t be denied to legal and illegal aliens, and certainly wouldn’t be denied to non-white citizens, her proposal would have the opposite effect as that which is hoped for by these measures in Europe.
Half and Full September 28, 2007
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Too clever by half
John Edwards, from an MTV/MySpace debate via National Review:
We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.
Wow, I never thought I would live to see the day that that a liberal Democrat with serious national ambitions would think even less of black people than I do. And yes, while this statement was meant to be patronizing, and to draw sympathy toward whatever proposals Edwards has towards that demographic of American society, this is the kind of statement that could only be made by a “bigot,” in the proper understanding of the term.
The reason it’s so is that to say that in an indefinite time in the near future that every young black man will either be in prison or dead (i.e. due to violent crime) is to assume that violence and criminality is virtually universal among American blacks of that age. While it is high, and this blog and this writer have never been reticent about such things, it is far from universal. The statistic may read that half of black men of a certain age range have been either in prison, on probation or on parole for a felony conviction, but that means that the other half are not felons.
UPDATE 5:05 PM: Malkin has the video. Edwards probably won’t face much criticism because his long, rambling answer in which this controversial comment was the first part was filled mostly with liberal platitudes, premises and deja le meme chose “solutions.”
He whines about “two school systems,” yet the Federal government has done nothing but try and force one system into the other since 1954. He also complains about the “disparity in sentencing” between crack cocaine (supposedly a “black thing”) and powder cocaine (a “white thing.”) The reason for this “disparity” is that crack is far more intense and dangerous than powder, and the only reason why anyone thinks it’s “discriminatory” is that blacks supposedly gravitate toward the more severe variety.
Once again, Edwards’s “bigotry” shines through his hairspray — with his crack/powder rant, he’s essentially telling black people that they’re nothing but a bunch of crackheads, and therefore the only way to make the criminal justice system more “fair” (and, whatever that has to do with the original question of solving inner city crime is beyond me), is to be more lenient with crack dealers and users.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today September 28, 2007
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Today: 30,705.7
Yesterday: 30,725.7
Burmese Dark September 28, 2007
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AP:
WASHINGTON - The White House criticized Myanmar on Friday for cutting off Internet access and called on “all civilized nations” to pressure the military-run government to end its violent crackdown on protesters.
“They don’t want the world to see what is going on there,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.
I’m waiting on the White House to denounce similar internet censorship of “hate speech” in Europe.
Mugabe Hands Out Good Advice (For Once) September 28, 2007
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s verbal attack on the leaders of the United States and Britain is a sign of desperation at a time the southern African country’s economic situation remains dire, analysts here said.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday, Mugabe demanded that President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown keep out of Zimbabwe’s affairs.
“They have no role to play in our national affairs. They are outsiders and should therefore keep out,” he said, adding that Zimbabwe would never again be a “colony.”
I agree. Just get the whites out, and let the country and its people revert to the natural state. Judging from the history of the last several centuries, and the disastrous effects that interfering with black Africa (including chattel slavery and colonialism) has had on American, British and French cities, and their country’s body politic, whites should have never “interfered” to begin with. How does the bumper sticker read? “If I would have known this, I would have picked my own cotton.”
Mugabe also called for an end to economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union.
Now that’s contradictory. If Mugabe truly wants non-interference, he shouldn’t mind the sanctions, because they are the ne plus ultra of non-interference by the US and the EU.
Why Worry About Terrorism When You Can Have Diversity? September 28, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Immigration, Paranoia-Industrial Complex, Racial Dispossession, Terrorism.comments closed
The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) both are rebutting a Government Accountability Office report released last week that said the U.S. government is not adequately vetting immigrants, including those from terrorism-sponsoring countries, who win Diversity Visas (DVs).
Both agencies also disclaimed ultimate responsibility for that vetting process.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that because of identity fraud and lack of adequate and trustworthy databases, the Diversity Visa program is a national security risk.
In other words, State and DHS are pointing fingers at each other. What surprises me is that the GAO would be so audacious as to equate “diversity” with “security risk.” (Something which will land the GAO on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of extremist hate groups, for sure.) If diversity is so important that the American immigration system gives preference to diverse individuals, then terrorism is just one of those eggs that has to be broken in order to make the omelet.
Creditworthy September 28, 2007
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Wouldn’t you love to be able to raise your own credit limit from time to time? Then again, you’re not the U.S. Senate.
Another MSM Attempt to Conceal Their Own Mess September 28, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Civil Rights Movement, Hate Crimes, Jena, Mainstream Media.comments closed
La Salle Parish, Louisiana D.A. Reed Walters gets some New York Times column-inches to tell his side of the story. It’s a worthy read, but there’s nothing you will read here that you haven’t before.
Still, my reaction is the same as that I had last week to a similar AP article. It’s now and only now, after the civil rights industry rabble, and after black anger, rage, hate and paranoia have been stirred up by this selfsame MSM’s deceitful coverage, that they’re telling the truth. Too little, too late.
If any white people are killed by retribution-minded blacks, then this will be blood on the media’s hands, in spite of their telling the truth after the fact. I already think the recent spate of gang assaults by blacks against white individuals could be so explained.
What Matters to Fran September 28, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Black Extremism, City Hall, Organized Labor, Police & Law Enforcement, Racial Pandering, St. Louis Local.comments closed
The fact that only 17 percent of the Police Department’s 1,859 employees said they do not have confidence in Chief Joe Mokwa is hardly an indicator of any widespread discontent with his tenure. In fact, two employee organizations — the St. Louis Police Leadership Organization and the Ethical Society of Police — publicly and strongly supported the Chief.
Point given, but let’s do some math. We know that of those SLPOA members that voted, 56% voted no confidence. So 0.56 times 0.17 times 1,859 equals 177.
Fran here is saying that the lack of confidence displayed by 177 members of the SLPOA doesn’t matter, but the confidence in him by the Ethical Society of Police does matter. In case you don’t know, the ESP is a fringe rinky-dink organization of police-hating black cops in the city — the SLPOA has more black members then the ESP has all members, and I doubt the ESP has 177 members.
If you’re one of those 177 that so voted, how does that make you feel, to know that your mayor thinks the opinion of a smaller organization of fifth column quislings with links to Lizz Brown matters more than yours?
Start Your Stopwatches September 28, 2007
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Quick Survey.
He will be arrested again within a single-digit number of:
(a) Days
(b) Weeks
(c) Months
(d) Kathleen Blanco
I’ll answer B.
UPDATE 10/11: It took 13 days. So “B” was the correct answer.
Ten Can Play At That Game September 27, 2007
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Wishful thinking there, Fran. Don’t count your “city county” chickens before they hatch.
Top 15 Cities in the U.S. by Rank and Population
(1) New York, 8.1 million
(2) Los Angeles, 3.8 million
(3) Chicago, 2.8 million
(4) Houston, 2 million
(5) Philadelphia, 1.5 million
(6) Phoenix, 1.5 million
(7) St. Louis County City, 1.4 million
(8) San Antonio, 1.3 million
(9) San Diego, 1.3 million
(10) Dallas, 1.2 million
(11) San Jose, 900K
(12) Detroit, 900K
(13) Indianapolis, 800K
(14) Jacksonville, 800K
(15) San Francisco, 700K
OK, Fran. If we’re going to play those games, then numbers 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 can similarly boost their numbers by counting the entire population of the counties they’re in (and part of, unlike St. Louis City, which is legally its own separate county), those being Los Angeles CA, Cook IL, Harris TX, Maricopa AZ, Bexar TX, San Diego CA, Dallas TX, Santa Clara CA, Wayne MI and Marion IN, respectively. (Each of NYC’s five boroughs is conterminous with a county, Philadelphia is conterminous with Philadelphia County PA, and Jacksonville/Duval County FL and San Francisco/San Francisco County CA are unified city-county systems).
If every city (including those not on this list) could cheat like that, then the fiction known as “St. Louis City County” would fall far below seventh place.
To Each His Own September 27, 2007
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Census Study Eyes Blacks in Prison
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released Thursday.
The ratio is only slightly better for Hispanics, at 2.7 inmates for every Latino in college housing. Among non-Hispanic whites, more than twice as many live in college housing as in prison or jail.
(snip)
Nevertheless, civil rights advocates said it is startling that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to live in prison cells than in college dorms.
”It’s one of the great social and economic tragedies of our time,” said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the Urban League. ”It points to the signature failure in our education system and how we’ve been raising our children.”
The Census Bureau released 2006 data Thursday on the social, racial and economic characteristics of people living in adult correctional facilities, college housing and nursing homes.
As if living in a prison cell is a voluntary lifestyle choice akin to living in college residence halls — usually, the former is an involuntary choice for what is in all honesty a voluntary act among those whose punishment is the graybar “lifestyle.” If it’s as innocuous as the NYT and the U.S. Census Bureau make it out to be, then all that needs to happen is for a lot of black men to move out of prison cells and move into the dorms as quickly as they can. That way, they’ll all be geniuses, and every racial disparity that the NYT worries about will disappear, just like that.
What Border? September 27, 2007
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CNN:
A terrorist wanting to smuggle radioactive material from Canada into the United States probably would find it easy to do, a new report from congressional investigators said.
Government investigators were able to cross from Canada into the United States carrying a duffle bag with contents that looked like radioactive material and never encountered a law enforcement official, according to a report released Thursday by investigators from the Government Accountability Office.
Why not? A juvenile illegal alien can steal a marked U.S. Border Patrol car while handcuffed, and drive it back into Mexico while still ‘cuffed, without any scrutiny.
Related: Waging War from Canada – Why Canada Is the Perfect Base for Organizing, Supporting, and Conducting International Insurgency on Amazon
This Is For Sure September 27, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Education, Health Care, Missouri, Racial Pandering.comments closed
Usually, nothing is given in medical school. But I can guarantee you this: When the upcoming class of the University of Missouri School of Medicine graduates, there will be no new black doctors enshrined by the event — because this class will have no blacks in it.
Dean William Crist tells the Columbia Daily Tribune that in 2006 only 30 black students from Missouri applied to medical school anywhere in the country. Thirteen of those students were accepted.
Only three first-year students at the Columbia campus identified themselves as minorities this year. Other classes at the school are between 5 and 7 percent black.
Current students as well as Crist suggested that the lack of black first-year students is a statistical anomaly: the 2006 incoming class, for instance, was 26 percent nonwhite.
Other than the fact that only 13 black men and women from the state were accepted to medical school anywhere, this bit about the 2006 incoming class being “26 percent nonwhite” being an “anomaly” is a deceitful thing to say — blacks are not the only non-white group in America or in the world. I would imagine most of the “nonwhites” are East and South Asians.
No Confidence September 27, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Organized Labor, Police & Law Enforcement, St. Louis Local.comments closed
SLPOA Vote: 56% no, 44% yes.
If I were Mokwa, I think I would rather have my department more unanimously against me than split relatively evenly. Morale is bad enough — the last thing that recipe needs is a cup of squabbling over the boss.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today September 27, 2007
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Today: 30,725.7
Yesterday: 30,711.0
Today’s Jena Stack of Stuff September 27, 2007
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(1) A personal observation — I said this in this medium four days ago about the MSM finally starting to tell the truth about Jena:
I can almost guarantee you that some white person will be murdered by a black as “retribution” for this “injustice.” If you would have run these kinds of articles weeks ago instead of now, this would have never happened. Any white people that are so killed will constitute blood on your hands.
If you visit the CofCC National Blog with any regularity, then you’ll know that there has been a very recent almost daily influx of news about black gang-on-white individual assaults that are very likely hate crimes. We may never know, but I’m wondering if this recent uptick in black “youthful exuberance” is because those assailants have the Jena “pebble in their shoe” — or, to put it another way, days and weeks of MSM and civil rights industry lies and agitprop about Jena have invoked anti-white hatred “on the streets” and, these assaults are motivated by vengeance.
(2) On the advice of Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, herself prodded by Martin Luther King III and Al Sharpton, La Salle Parish D.A. Reed Walters will not appeal a state court decision stating that charging Mychael Bell as an adult for his alleged crimes was an unconstitutional use of the state’s juveniles-as-adults laws, and instead will take the matter of Mr. Bell and his transgressions to juvenile court. As juvenile proceedings censor the name of the young defendants, future MSM stories about Mr. Bell’s trial will thus have to censor his name, but everyone will know that it is he to whom the stories are referring.
I Thought Diversity and Self-Esteem Were the Fundamental Missions of the Great American Public Schools September 27, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Culture Wars, Education, Racial Pandering.comments closed
Good manners and basic social skills such as taking turns are just as important to kids’ success in school as a focus on reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, a new book suggests.
Students should learn charm-school skills alongside the academic subjects that teachers must pass on to meet the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, said co-author Stephen Elliott of Vanderbilt University.
The top 10 skills that students need to succeed based on the authors’ surveys of more than 8,000 teachers include:
* Listen to others
* Follow the steps
* Follow the rules
* Ignore distractions
* Ask for help
* Take turns when you talk
* Get along with others
* Stay calm with others
* Be responsible for your behavior
* Do nice things for others.
“Follow the steps” and “rules?” Except when it comes to diverse individuals — their “rules” and “steps” use a different and more lenient paradigm. “Ask for help?” What if your public school-indoctrinated self-esteem is so high that you think you know it all already? “Take turns when you talk?” What if you feel so good about what you’re about to say that it just can’t wait? “Be responsible for your behavior.” Except if racism, discrimination, segregation, slavery, poverty, and the rumor of ropes hanging around a tree are to blame, then you don’t need to.
Seeing Things September 27, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Illinois & Metro East, Terrorism.comments closed
AP:
CHICAGO - The FBI is investigating possible sabotage after a dozen railroad spikes were reported missing from a section of commuter train tracks on Chicago’s South Side.
The spikes hold down metal plates that bind the rails to wooden ties underneath.
“If a sufficient number of spikes are removed in a contained location, there’s the potential for the rail to shift, which would lead to disastrous results and train derailment,” said Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Steve Kulm.
Metra workers discovered the missing spikes on Monday and notified police and federal authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, which investigates threats to planes and trains.
The FBI said it was conducting a criminal investigation into “sabotage.” FBI spokesman Ross Rice said agents also were checking for possible connections to a domestic violence case involving a Metra engineer.
“Chicago’s south side” — there’s your clue, Sherlock. This happens, and the Federal alphabet gang sees Muslim goober terrorists up to no good. I see the usual suspects that will steal anything remotely of value, a la the copper stars along the sides of old building in St. Louis, and copper wiring inside freeway lighting standards in Miami.
The Pavement Itself Is At Fault September 27, 2007
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The streets of St. Louis yielded yet another corpse on Wednesday night.
Police got a report about 10:50 p.m. of gunfire in the 4300 block of North Euclid Avenue, in the city’s Penrose neighborhood.
When officers arrived, they found the body of a teenager, killed by a gunshot to his head.
Police are withholding his identity until relatives can be notified.
So this means that, in St. Louis, from time to time, the streets’ pavement itself, and all by itself, somehow ejects or jettisons the dead bodies of gunshot-wounded teenagers. That is some sinister asphalt.
You Did It Again September 27, 2007
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You rose to the occasion, and killed (what we all knew would be) another backdoor attempt at soft amnesty for illegal aliens, namely the DREAM Act, which would have, on its face, granted amnesty to certain young illegal aliens, and on top of that had several amendments tacked on that would have meant even more amnesty.
The immigration issue is now such a third rail that even Sen. Judas Lott (R-MS) is helping to block these kinds of measures.
More Kaine Empty Rhetoric September 27, 2007
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A local delegate has asked Democratic Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to re-think his appointment of the head of the Virginia-based Muslim American Society to the Virginia Commission on Immigration.
Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, wrote to Kaine earlier today, saying he was concerned about the appointment of Dr. Esam S. Omeish, a Northern Virginia physician and the group’s president, to the panel. The commission was created earlier this year to study the impact of illegal immigration on the commonwealth.
The Muslim American Society has significant ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group founded in Egypt, Gilbert said.
“It is unfortunate that the Governor would choose the leader of an organization such as this to represent many the freedom-loving Muslim citizens of Virginia on this important commission,” Gilbert said.
The symbolism of the whole matter bothers me, but the reason I’m not panicking about it has to do with the same reasons why I criticized Kaine and his “detention center” proposal in this space yesterday — since immigration is entirely under Federal jurisdiction, any state “commissions” on immigration are useless. Even if Dr. Omesh were so inclined, he couldn’t do any damage on the immigration issue in that capacity anyway.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today September 26, 2007
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Today: 30,711.0
Yesterday: 30.502.5
Change: +0.68%
Implosion September 26, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Business & Corporate, Racial Pandering, St. Louis Local.comments closed
Inclusion
Following the positive examples set by the St. Louis Cardinals in the construction of their downtown ballpark and the developers of Lumiere Place, the private company retained to build Centene’s headquarters building downtown has agreed to abide by Executive Order #28 on the inclusion of Minority and Women-Owned Businesses — and the City’s DESA workforce policy, which has minority goals for the construction workforce.
Clayco’s Bob Clark already has a good local reputation for being an inclusive employer. This decision will only enhance it.
If constructing this theoretical building at the theoretical Ballpark Village will be all about such “inclusion,” then one day soon, we’ll be reading a news story about this building with the title of this post somewhere in the body.
Sneaky Lads September 26, 2007
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico.
Police in the Mexican border city of Mexicali said on Tuesday the three boys had been driving a pick-up truck on a remote Californian highway when a Border Patrol agent stopped them.
Suspicious they were carrying marijuana, he handcuffed them and put them in his patrol car while he searched their truck.
“As the agent was doing his search, he left the vehicle running and the keys in the ignition, so one of the lads, still wearing handcuffs, grabbed the steering wheel and they headed back to Mexico,” a police spokesman said.
“Lads” — not the term I would use for illegal alien car thieves. And yes, I think that it was boneheaded mistake for this Border Patrol agent to leave the car running with the keys in the ignition — after all, handcuffed suspects can still do a lot of damage. Ask the family of Robert Stanze about that.
Hopelessly Postjudiced September 26, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Education, Racial Pandering, Racial Profiling.comments closed
CHICAGO, 25 (UPI) — U.S. researchers found just 7 percent of respondents do not have the usual human tendency to favor one’s own group and not form racial prejudices.
Their study, published in the journal Psychological Science, found the 7 percent of people that showed no racial bias differed from biased individuals in a fundamental way — they also were less likely to form negative emotional associations in general.
Robert Livingston of Northwestern University and Brian Drwecki of the University of Wisconsin asked white college students to do tasks that repeatedly paired unfamiliar Chinese characters with positive or negative images such as puppies or snakes. The results showed non-biased individuals were less likely than biased individuals to acquire negative emotions toward the character paired with negative pictures.
“Just as it is difficult to change visceral reactions to aversive foods — for example lima beans — through sheer force of will, it may also be difficult to change visceral attitudes toward racial groups by acknowledging that prejudice is wrong and wanting to change,” Livingston says.
Why were only white college students asked to take part in this study? And since we now know that 93% of them are hopelessly prejudiced (I think it’s more like postjudiced, as the younger the white person, the more likely it is that s/he has had direct experience with, and contempt for, diversity), then why should society spend untold billions trying to solve it, stop it, alleviate it, or mitigate it?
