You Thought They Would Be Happy October 2, 2007
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Acting St. Louis City Fire Chief Steve Kotraba made the first round of promotions today that were being stonewalled by former Chief Sherman George, those being five promotions to the rank of Batallion Chief.
Notice that two of the five new Batallion Chiefs are black. With all the whining about “we need a leadership that looks like the rank-and-file that’s 45% black,” two out of five is the closest ratio for those new Batallion Chiefs that is possible to match the same ratio of black firemen on the SLFD. One of the three whites promoted is the first woman to attain the rank of B/C.
And I bet you when Chief Kotraba makes the promotions to Captain later this week, those won’t be all-white, either.
The source of consternation over these promotions, and the reason why certain segments of this city’s body politic think they are “controversial,” is that the affirmative action junkies in this town think that everything should go to blacks, and that, for example, the three whites promoted to B/C today mean that three blacks aren’t being promoted. Their argument is fundamentally based on racial power and spoils.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 2, 2007
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Today: 30,625.3
Yesterday: 30,630.0
There’s an Easier Answer October 2, 2007
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Now, through an ambitious program that will seek out dropouts in their homes, the alarm is about to sound for 2,000 St. Louis young people when they should be in school.
Members of the “In It 2 Win Coalition” have vowed to do everything in their power to persuade dropouts to return to school. The program was announced Monday.
“If they have a phone, we’re going to keep calling and calling,” promised Jamilah Nasheed, a dropout who earned her high school equivalency certificate and now serves St. Louis’ 60th legislative district in the Missouri House of Representatives.
“And if we know where they live, we’re going to keep knocking on their doors. They’re going to get tired of seeing us until they know somebody cares.”
Nasheed began putting the coalition together shortly after taking office in January.
The resulting group assembled Monday outside the former Turner Middle School at 2615 Billups Avenue. It included church, community and city leaders along with representatives of the St. Louis Public Schools.
Nasheed wants to enlist area college students, business leaders and political groups in the door-to-door and telephone canvassing that she hopes will reach almost 2,000 young people ages 14 to 21.
“If we’re going to solve the crime problem in this city, then this is where we’re going to have to start,” said Nasheed.
If having a high school diploma is what makes a person behave, then there’s a much easier answer, that won’t require this kind of proto-telemarketing or door-to-door canvassing. Just grant every man and woman a high school diploma as a privilege of their reaching their 17th or 18th birthday. That way, there will be no dropouts, everyone will have graduated, and therefore, there will be no crime.
Also, about this business of the 14-to-21 age range — Since the state’s mandatory attendance laws stop at 16, this means that 14- and 15-year olds should still legally be in school and are not allowed to drop out. For those young men and women, a truancy officer would do better than phone or house calls.
Make No Mistake About It October 2, 2007
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Taking this Agence France Presse article at face value would lead one to think that the European Union wants to crack down on Johnny Jihad’s use of the internet for terrorist purposes. But keep in mind that this is the same EU whose member states, for the most part, can’t pander to Islam or its adherents enough. What gives?
Here’s a clue:
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a report this month that radical Muslims and other extremists had mastered the use of the Internet as a tool for propaganda, organizing and education.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is part of the Paranoia-Industrial Complex, a cadre of groups, organizations, foundations and individual shysters, whose most notable members are the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Pro-Defamation League (ADL), who make money peddling irrational fear about right-wingers.
Therefore, these EU proposals have nobody but conservatives in their crosshairs.
