More Zeroes December 29, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Zimbabwe's Exchange Rate.comments closed
Zimbabweans formed queues at banks on Saturday to beat a December 31 deadline to hand in a currency series phased out by the central bank.
The Reserve Bank chief Gideon Gono declared that the 200,000 Zimbabwean dollar (about eight dollars) would become worthless as he introduced three new banknotes in a bid to tackle a shortage of the local currency in the country.
This is why I don’t buy the “official” exchange rates. If Z$200,000 is truly worth US$8, then why is such a note “worthless?” Using my hypothesis that the real conditions are 10-15 times worse than the official figures, then the Z$200,000 corresponds to the 53-80 U.S. cents range.
It might be worse than that, because the Z$750,000 note won’t even buy a burger.
Another Jena Fact December 29, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Jena.comments closed
Official: 2006 Jena school fire was arson, not related to race
JENA (AP) — The 2006 fire that badly damaged the high school in this east-central Louisiana town was set by people intending to destroy grade records and had nothing to do with the racial tension that led to a civil rights demonstration here three months ago, a law enforcement official said Friday.
LaSalle Parish Sheriff-elect Scott Franklin said six males, including three juveniles, were arrested Thursday and faced aggravated arson counts. Another two men considered suspects remained at large, he said.
“These young men were simply trying to get rid of their bad grades and to shut the school down. They failed on both accounts,” Franklin told a news conference.
Franklin said all the suspects are from Jena, and four were Jena High School students at the time of the fire. Some are black and some are white, he said.
The Nov. 30, 2006, fire destroyed several classrooms, offices and science labs. It happened a few months after the appearance of nooses in a campus tree - a move that resulted in the suspension of three white students - and a few days before a group of black students attacked and beat a white classmate.
Also remember that the noose incident and the beating three months later were unrelated. So it turns out that everything that happened in Jena was “a series of unfortunate events” that the civil rights industry and the Paranoia-Industrial Complex made into a conspiracy.
Check the WeatherBug Reading for Hades December 29, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Courts and Judiciary, Education, England, Britain and the UK, Gender Differences, Hispanic Crime, Immigration.comments closed
It might show a temperature below 32, for two reasons: First, the Ninth Circus Federal Courts of Appeals in San Francisco made a rational ruling, and second, the British Government has re-discovered gender differences and wants to adopt policy based on such.
The Open Border Is Open In Two Ways December 29, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in 2nd Amendment & CCW, Hispanic Crime, Immigration, Mexico & Latin America.comments closed
ATF says more guns sent illegally south of the border
Spread across a conference table at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix are enough weapons to equip several car loads of drug runners.
Agents said Thursday they found the 42 weapons in a storage locker about 10 days ago. The guns were worth $250,000 in all: Belgian-made “FN” handguns, semiautomatic AK rifles and other pistols. They also found four olive boxes loaded with 50-caliber bullets — ammunition that’s big enough to take out an airplane.
“These are, quite frankly, weapons of war,” ATF special agent Tom Mangan said as he picked up an assault rifle and examined it.
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ATF officials said gun runners typically gather large caches of weapons anonymously through “straw” purchases. They might give someone $100 to go into a gun show or a Wal-Mart and buy a few rifles at a time. They might buy guns over the Internet.
You’re still obsessed with straw purchases, aren’t you? You can’t put your minds around the fact that a lot of them, and probably most of them, are stolen in residential burglaries.
Some of those guns end up in the hands of California gangs or with coyotes herding illegal immigrants into the U.S. But Mangan said a majority of the guns are smuggled into Mexico for use by drug dealers.
Mangan said this year the ATF Phoenix office learned that about 300 assault-type weapons were brought south on one occasion, and another 200 assault-type weapons were smuggled on a separate occasion.
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The Mexican government has called on the United States to stop the flow of guns into the country, he said, but America’s firearms laws make it hard to stop gun running.
No, what makes it hard is America’s virtual open border, which the Mexican government seems to want. The border that is open for south-to-north migration is just as open for north-to-south gun trafficking. So they have no moral authority to complain.
However, that won’t stop them from complaining — the arrogant regime in Mexico City knows that it will get almost everything it wants from its northern neighbor, thanks to a series of successive pro-Mexican stooges in the White House. As Vincente Fox recently said that, “Where There Is a Mexican, There Is Mexico,” the arrogant regime in Mexico City simply thinks that the new portions of Mexico north of the fiction formerly known as the USA-Mexico border should adopt Mexican gun laws.
With This Karate Teacher, A Chastity Belt Was More Desirable Than A Black Belt December 29, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime.comments closed
This karate teacher, current NYPD officer, and former NYPS teacher, conned a 15-year old girl who was one of his students that being naked in front of him and having sex with him was part of an obedience ritual. What’s worse is that the scam lasted for about two years, which means that the young lady never caught on to his perfidy. The next young woman whom he tried to scam in this way wasn’t convinced, and ratted him out.
Meet Michigan’s Next Governor December 29, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Immigration.comments closed
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox was the only Republican running for statewide office in November 2006 (and the only one period) that supported the anti-affirmative action Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), which won itself. Dick DeVos, who wanted Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s job, and Mike Bouchard, who wanted Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s, opposed it. Guess who was the only Republican to win a statewide election that day.
Now, Cox is coming through again, with the official opinion that illegal aliens are ineligible for state drivers’ licenses, an opinion that reverses policy that was set by a previous Democratic state A.G.
Just imagine, in 2010, we could see Mike Cox become Governor of Michigan, J.B. Van Hollen do the same in Wisconsin, and Lou Barletta the same in Pennsylvania. As hopeless as it seems with those states having Governors like Doyle, Granholm and Rendell (respectively), the worm looks to be turning.
