Black Teenager Almost Dragged to Death in Oakland November 13, 2007
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Thirteen-year old Charles Stevison, of Oakland, Calif., almost lost his life in an attempted dragging death in Oakland. But don’t expect the case to become a racial flashpoint, like a fight among four ex-con prison thugs who all knew and despised each other from their communal lockup, that resulted in one of them being dragged to death in Jasper, Texas in 1998, at least not one that the PC media will harp on for years. The reason? The suspect is one Cesar Garcia, 18, also of Oakland.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today November 13, 2007
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Today: 30,485
Yesterday: 30,703
At This Rate, a Cop Is Going to Have So Much Gear and So Many Tools That He or She Won’t Be Able to Move November 13, 2007
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A young man was fatally shot last night in a hail of more than a dozen bullets fired by five police officers who responded to his mother’s 911 call for help in a domestic dispute in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
The police said they believed that the man, Khiel Coppin, 18, had a gun. But when the gunfire stopped, it turned out that he had been holding a black hairbrush.
Police were investigating a number of scenarios this morning, including whether the man held the brush under his shirt to prompt officers to shoot at him, a phenomenon known in law-enforcement circles as suicide by cop. But witness accounts varied, with some people at the scene saying they heard the man tell officers he had a gun, and others saying the man was shot as he dropped the brush and attempted to raise his hands in the air in an effort to cooperate.
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A restless crowd quickly gathered and grew to as many as 150, as some neighbors shouted protests against police brutality. “You need training — this is absurd!” one woman shouted out a window to the police. Another man pressed against a yellow crime-scene tape and said: “I’m not trying to start a riot. I’m just saying it’s not right.”
“Training?” For What? How to detect dark hairbrushes at night from a distance?
Perhaps they expect NYPD officers to carry some sort of laser scanner that will dichotomize real weapons from non-weapons. Since they’ll soon have to carry rulers to measure how far down a man’s or boy’s pants is sagging relative to his underwear, to enforce anti-sagging laws, and they already have to carry around guns, flashlights, tasers, mace, and most importantly, that 3,000-page Diversity Manual, written and published by the NYCLU, the cops won’t be able to walk around.
Stop Looking At a Word That Begins With “R” and Look At a Word That Begins With “I” November 13, 2007
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Income Gap Growing Between Black & White Families
WASHINGTON (AP) — Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years.
Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades — mainly because more women are in the work force. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday.
One reason for the growing disparity: Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only by gains among black women.
Incomes among white men, meanwhile, were relatively stagnant, while those of white women increased more than fivefold.
Since this is a survey of working people, the thug class of blacks aren’t a factor here.
First off, I have a hard time believing that incomes for both white and black women have increased at the clip which they’re claiming. And even if it is, the price of goods and services in the same time period have shot up, especially in the price of automobiles, car insurance, and gas, meaning that the overall standard of living is decreasing, especially for income-stagnant white men, and income-diminishing black men.
However, if black civil rights groups want to pin the blame on something, it shouldn’t be a word that beings with “R,” it should be a word that begins with “I.” Mass immigration from Latin America have created direct labor competition for the kinds of jobs that blacks used to dominate, driving the wages for said jobs down.
Believe Me. Neither These Upcoming Elections, Nor the Disposition of the Immigration Issue, Will Be Decided by Over-the-Hill Leftie Yuppies That Frequent the St. Louis Bread Company. November 13, 2007
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Dallas Morning News profiles the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves, and based on the interview of very few people, some of whom frequent the BreadCo, the DMN has concluded that immigration won’t be a very important issue in the 2008 Presidential Elections.
Perhaps the DMN doesn’t want it to be an important issue, so they have to find a snooty lily-white leftist suburb of a metropolitan area that hasn’t yet been afflicted by the mass invasion from Latin America, and go to a yuppie-favorite sandwich and coffee shop, in order to come to the conclusion that the immigration issue really doesn’t matter. The DMN really should do interviews in the DFW Metroplex if they want some real perspectives on immigration.
The Converse Is Also True (And Hypocritically So) November 13, 2007
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Government e-mails going private
Public officials can end up in trouble if they’re caught using government equipment to conduct personal or political business. Some, in fact, have landed in jail for the practice.But in an age of e-mails and hand-held computer devices, the reverse practice is taking hold: conducting government business on personal or political accounts and computers.
Gov. Matt Blunt admits using private and political e-mail accounts for official communications. So do some members of the Missouri Legislature.
“It’s growing exponentially,” said Charles Davis, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, a nonprofit group based in Columbia, Mo.
Although the federal government frowns on the practice, it is legal in Missouri and many other states. Open-records experts, however, say public officials could be playing loose with the rules.
They fear that government e-mails sent on private accounts may be beyond the reach of the public, despite laws that spell out what records are open and how long they should be retained.
The issue is open government — making sure citizens know what their elected officials are doing. But technology is testing well-worn rules about what counts as a public record and how documents should be saved.
While government officials in Missouri and other states are seeking the anonymity of e-mail accounts not officially linked to state-owned computers and state-funded internet access, governments everywhere, thanks to Patriot Acts, Echelon, Data Mining, Carnivore, etc. want more and more access to private e-mails. So, while government e-mails are going private, they want private e-mails to go government.
However:
“There are (officials) who do use their AOL or Hotmail accounts for public business,” Mutchler said. “But the public is left to rely on the good graces of the public official to be honest” about what’s in the private e-mail account.
Knowing the leaky security history of Microsoft’s Hotmail, any public business sent over Hotmail won’t be private for very long. This cloud has a silver lining.
