First Data? Left Data. January 31, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in 2nd Amendment & CCW, Business & Corporate, Immigration.comments closed
Credit card company: No more buying guns
A major credit card company has issued a letter to a gun dealer canceling his payment processing services because of corporate concerns firearms were being sold to consumers in other states, in “a non face-to-face environment.” Now the move has raised the ire of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
“Your anti-gun corporate policy is based on ignorance of the law applicable to the sale of firearms,” the NSSF wrote in response to the action taken by First Data Corp., which operates Citi Merchant Services.
The rest of the article details why the transaction is legal.
First Data Corporation is a major lobbying force for amnesty for illegal aliens, open borders, and the Latinization of America that those things portend. The reason is that Western Union, FDC’s “flagship subsidiary,” has been until recently the most common transfer method used for USA-to-Latin America remittances, though the rise of telephone banking, online banking and debit cards is making Western Union superfluous for that purpose.
So the motto of FDC is: Illegal aliens? Yes. American gunowners? No.
Groundhog Day January 31, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, St. Louis Local.comments closed
3 die in crash of stolen car while fleeing city police
St. Louis — Three people fleeing from police in a stolen car were killed Wednesday when the car clipped another vehicle and careened into a Metro bus in the Dogtown neighborhood.
The crash happened just before 4 p.m. at Clayton and Tamm avenues.
The four people riding on the bus were uninjured, but the driver was taken to a nearby hospital, according to a Metro spokesperson.
The driver of the car that was struck by the stolen car was also taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa said a police officer had spotted the Pontiac — which had been stolen downtown last Saturday — on Clayton Avenue. The officer turned his lights on, attempting to pull the car over, but the driver sped away. The officer did not pursue the car, Mokwa said.
“Obviously it was trying to elude the officer,” Mokwa said.
The white Pontiac was headed west on Clayton when it collided with the second car, which was heading south on Tamm and crossing the intersection. The Pontiac then careened off that car and struck the Metro bus, which was heading east on Clayton.
Two of the people in the Pontiac were declared dead at the scene, while the third was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead there. Police were still working to identify two of the victims Wednesday night. The third was an 18-year-old male, but police did not release his name.
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Mike Teepe, owner of Acme Guitars, said he saw the stolen car speed through the intersection and estimated it was traveling 70 mph.
“It’s a typical city intersection,” Teepe said. “Occasionally you see people doing something stupid, but nothing like this.”
“Nothing like this?” Well then, let me take you back to May 17, 2007, from the P-D:
Two are killed in crash of stolen car
Elizabeth Lewis had just parked her car outside Woodward Elementary School last Thursday night when a man attacked her from behind.
“He had a bandana over his face and began shaking me and yelling for the car keys,” she recalled.
Lewis, 29, a special education teacher, had about $3,000 worth of speech therapy equipment, a laptop and an iPod in her car.
The last time she saw the 2002 Toyota Camry, it was speeding away from her.
On Wednesday, police called Lewis to tell her the stolen car had resurfaced. It had crashed into the back of a Metro Call-A-Ride bus.
Two passengers in the Camry, Patricia Davis, 18, of St. Louis, and Derrell Roberts, 19, of St. Louis County, were killed, police said. The driver, Andre Eason Jr., 18, of St. Louis County, was in critical condition at Barnes-Jewish Hospital on Wednesday night, police said.
Davis rode in the front seat, police said. Eason is Roberts’ brother, police said.
The wreck happened shortly after noon Wednesday, while the bus waited at a red light on Broadway at Calvary Avenue, according to St. Louis police.
The driver of the bus and one passenger went to the hospital; they complained of neck and back pain. Two other passengers on the bus were not hurt.
None of the four people on the bus said they saw the car coming.
After the car slammed into the bus, knocking it into the intersection, it hit a pickup also stopped at the traffic light. The truck was not seriously damaged, and the driver was not hurt.
The driver of the pickup, George Hollins, 64, said, “I saw (the car) coming, right before it hit the bus. It was going 60 or 70, maybe faster.”
Hollins said the car made no attempt to stop before slamming into the bus. It appeared the driver lost control, he said.
In both instances, we have stolen cars, speeding at 70 mph, with three people inside the car, slamming into a public transportation vehicle that was stopped, killing two of the three inside the car instantly, with the third passenger dying later on in the hospital (Mr. Eason passed in the hospital several days after the accident), but nobody inside the public transportation vehicle was seriously hurt. The only difference is that in May, the speeding stolen car hit the bus first, then clipped a pickup truck, while yesterday, the speeding stolen car hit another car, then careened into the bus. Another difference — a Call-a-Ride van, essentially a souped-up and heavier Ford Econoline passenger full-size van, was hit in May, and the collision forced the van across an intersection. Yesterday, a regular bus was hit, and it barely moved.
UPDATE 9:10 PM: The P-D identifies the three men in the stolen car as Joshua Kennedy, 17, and Ryan Kennedy, 18, both of the 6800 block of Gardner in Dogtown, and Charles Pettus, 22, of the 5900 block of Wise, also in Dogtown — the Imo’s where at least one of them worked is in Dogtown, and that neighborhood was the place of their crime. The younger Mr. Kennedy was the driver. The TV news showed a photo of Mr. Pettus, and making a few assumptions about the Kennedy brothers, all three men were as white as the snow falling in St. Louis at the time of this writing.
UPDATE 2/2: Someone claiming to be the sister of the now-deceased thug Mr. Pettus e-mailed the site and demanded that this post be removed, or she was going to get a lawyer and sue. For what? Telling the truth and using colorful language in the process? She seemed to be particularly offended by the phrase “white as the snow falling in St. Louis…” The reason for that, dear, is that I naturally assumed that the three men, stolen car, city of St. Louis, were gentlemen of color. In this case, they were not, so I thought it was necessary to state this, because I classified this post under the category “Black Crime,” and had I not, I would surely get an e-mail bashing me/us for claiming that these three men were black, when they were obviously white. (In such a case, we could have really been sued and for a very good reason.)
So, the answer to your request, supposed sister of Mr. Pettus, is, in the immortal words of David Spade — No.
Giving Upstate New York a Fighting Chance January 31, 2008
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That 51st Star might be New York City, if Peter Vallone, a Democrat City Council member, has his way. Ironically, in the 1980s and early 1990s, NYC did everything it can to prevent the borough of Staten Island from separating from NYC and becoming its own city.
If Mr. Vallone’s wishes come to pass, it just might give voters in what will remain of the Empire State a fighting chance to elect conservative politicians in statewide offices. Yes, someone I know in the northern Adirondacks is salivating.
Now, if only Chicagograd and Crook County would catch this bug, the same could be said for what would remain of Illinois.
New York’s “Finest” January 31, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Black Crime, Police & Law Enforcement.comments closed
He is Wayne Taylor, 35, a NYPD Detective for the unit that patrols the city’s public housing projects. She is Zelika Brown, 29, his girlfriend. They’re both accused of pimping out a 13-year old runaway from Bed/Sty.
Why KIPP Is “Successful” January 30, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Education, Racial Differences, St. Louis Local.comments closed
WU will sponsor KIPP Academies in St. Louis. Of course, this article and many others tout KIPP’s successes in raising the academic achievement of minority students, especially black students.
However, there might be a reason for that. This is a post made to the forums at American Renaissance on January 1, 2008, by a poster named “Jill,” in reaction to an article about reducing the achievement gap in Denver.
Exactly! That’s what I think every time I read about some “miracle” after-school/summer school program that has managed to bring a select handful of poor blacks up to white standards through intensive remediation. Journalists and teachers rave about how they’ve finally found the key to educational equality, but never mention that the same effort applied to whites would have turned out college-level students and not just mediocre “average” students.
I read an article a year ago about an experimental charter school (a KIPP academy, I think) that had increased the test scores of poor black 6th & 7th graders close to white average levels. I wish I had saved the link, but I remember the article quite well because it made me want to throw my laptop across the room. The journalist proudly recounted their class schedule:
7am - full breakfast served to ALL students free of charge (thank you tax-payers!). Bacon, eggs, toast, orange juice, etc. No expense spared since the educators believed a heavy breakfast made the kids smarter.
7:30 - 2:30 - regular school day with intensive focus on basic skills in reading, writing, math and science. Class sizes were small and the school had strict discipline requirements with mandated class participation, uniforms, etc. Trouble makers were kicked back to the public school system. School provided free lunch, of course.
2:30 - 5:00 - mandated after school programs on campus. Worst students spent this time in one-on-one tutoring with teachers, better students did sports or art.
5:00 - school-provided dinner in the cafeteria. Yup, you read that right! The educators didn’t trust the parents to feed the kids, and wanted to keep them on campus all day.
Rest of the evening up to 8:30pm or so - SUPERVISED homework. All the kids had to sit at tables and do their homework under the watchful eyes of their teachers. The educators openly admitted that these kids would never do their homework if they weren’t forced to, and the parents wouldn’t make them do it either.
The kids in this school ate all meals at the school free of charge during the week and only went home to sleep at night. Last, but not least, was SATURDAY school!! A half-day of intensive one-on-one tutoring with teachers and community volunteers, and free breakfast and lunch of course!
The journalist admitted that this program was very expensive, but never mentioned that this program involved 3 to 4 times as much teaching time as a regular school. Plus, it was basically an orphanage without bedrooms.
Rather than tweaking standard public schooling, it merely proved that the only dependable way to “close the achievement gap” was spending 4 times as much time and effort, and to take parental duties away from their families and raise the kids under intensive care! Any yet, this was clearly supposed to inspire whites to dump more money into this educational boondoggle.
Absurd.
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Homicide Is Merely an Etheral Force That Affects Black Teens and Adults Most Acutely — But Those Evil Guns Deserve All the Blame January 30, 2008
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So says the Violence Policy Center. Before that, the group admits that Missouri’s rate of black homicide victims is the highest in the country, and twice the national average.
There is no indication here about who commits the homicides, save a sentence about the victims did tend to know the perpetrators.
Kevin Rudd: Australia’s Talibdin El-Amin January 30, 2008
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AP:
Australia to apologize to Aborigines
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will issue its first formal apology to its indigenous people next month, the government announced Wednesday, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority whose mixed-blood children were once taken away on the premise that their race was doomed.
The Feb. 13 apology to the so-called “stolen generations” of Aborigines will be the first item of business for the new Parliament, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose Labor Party won November elections, had promised to push for an apology, an issue that has divided Australians for a decade,
“The apology will be made on behalf of the Australian government and does not attribute guilt to the current generation of Australian people,” Macklin said in a statement.
Rudd has refused demands from some Aboriginal leaders to pay compensation for the suffering of broken families. Activist Michael Mansell, who is legal director of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center, has urged the government to set up an $882 million compensation fund.
(snip)
“Once we establish this respect, the government can work with indigenous communities to improve services aimed at closing the 17-year life expectancy gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians,” she said.
“Improve services?” I thought there weren’t going to be any formal reparations.
Pray tell, what do white Aussies have to apologize for? Coming there and giving the Abos some pretense of a first-world existence? Abos didn’t figure out the link between sex and pregnancy by themselves.
No, It Wasn’t a Scam January 30, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Banking & Monetary Policy, Racial Differences, Racial Pandering.comments closed
FBI in subprime crackdown
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating 14 companies for possible accounting fraud and insider trading offences related to subprime mortgages.
The development, another sign of fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis, comes as light regulation of the industry – in particular mortgage brokers – has been blamed for mis-selling and abuse of mortgage products.
The Securities and Exchange Commission already has about three dozen different investigations into a range of subprime-related issues.
Bill Carter, an FBI spokesman, said the agency had been working “very closely” with the SEC, with some of the latest investigations moving “in parallel”. He declined to name the companies involved.
Still promulgating the fiction that the subprime crunch is entirely a result of evil mortgage companies tricking gullible people (mostly non-whites) into accepting snake oil, are we?
I Think This Is Defined As “Failure” January 28, 2008
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Speaking at the annual PUSH Excel Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship breakfast Monday, comedian Bill Cosby focused on an issue that crosses racial lines: parenting.
“People don’t know how to parent, and they don’t care,” he said. “Babies are having babies.”
It’s not uncommon to find households with 15-year-old parents, grandparents in their early 30s and great-grandparents who are only 45, Cosby said at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Chicago.
Rev. Jesse Jackson put those comments into perspective, saying King finished high school at 15, graduated from Morehouse College at 19 and finished the seminary at 22.
By the time he was assassinated at 39, he had changed the world.
So, the system that MLK opposed had him as a high school graduate at 15, and a Th.D. at 22. Because he got his way in the civil rights movement (and HRC is totally right about how it came about), his people are parents instead of high school graduates at 15, grandparents instead of college graduates in their early 30s, and great-grandparents instead of doctorates and world-changers at 45.
So Much For “Jury Of Their Peers” January 26, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Extremism, Black Racism & Bigotry, Police & Law Enforcement.comments closed
Reuters:
NY police face judge, not jury, in groom shooting
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three New York City police officers charged in the 2006 shooting death of an unarmed black man hours before his wedding waived their right to a jury trial on Friday, saying any local jury would be biased against them.
Lawyers for the white, Hispanic and black detectives who fired 50 bullets at the groom and his friends have argued that intense media coverage of the death of Sean Bell, 23, had made it impossible to find a neutral jury in New York.
(snip)
The policemen appeared determined to avoid facing a jury in the New York City borough of Queens, where Bell was killed and his two friends were wounded around 4 a.m. on November 25, 2006.
“The potential jury pool was poisoned right from the start,” said Michael Paladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association. “It has nothing to do with the good people of Queens. They were hit with an avalanche of negative publicity.”
(snip)
The venue dispute mirrors a similar case nearly a decade ago, when four police officers charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African man, Amadou Diallo, were tried — and later acquitted — in Albany, the mostly white state capital.
That shooting took place in the Bronx, which, like Queens, has a large minority population.
I agree that “the potential jury pool was poisoned right from the start,” but I don’t think “an avalanche of negative publicity” is to blame. It’s all race, and racial jealousy, and the hatred to cops and authority in general that festers in black America. These cops made the right call.
Egypt: More Sane Than America In One Way January 26, 2008
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AP:
Egypt tries to control chaotic border
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles restricted Gaza motorists to a small border area of Egypt on Saturday, in the second attempt in two days to restore control over the chaotic frontier breached by Hamas militants.
At least 38 members of the Egyptian security forces have been hospitalized, some in critical condition, because of cross-border confrontations, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said. The minister complained of “provocations” at the border, a thinly veiled reprimand of Hamas, and said that while Egypt is ready to ease the suffering of Gazans, this should not endanger Egyptian lives.
(snip)
On the Gaza-Egypt border, traffic of cars and pedestrians remained heavy Saturday, four days after Hamas militants blew down the border wall, sending hundreds of thousands of Gazans rushing into Egypt.
In an attempt to restore some control, Egyptian armored vehicles blocked the main street of the Egyptian border town of Rafah, causing a traffic jam of honking cars filled with Gazans shopping for fuel, food and consumer products.
Earlier Saturday, dozens of riot police formed human chains to block the two passages cut through the breached border, before once again giving up and allowing the cars to cross into the Egyptian side of the divided town. Authorities were making renewed efforts, however, to keep them out of the rest of the country.
And they’re acting more sane than America in two ways: First, that there was a border wall in the first place, and second, when Hamas blows a hole in it, the Egyptian government takes relatively proactive and drastic action to seal it. Somehow, if two Egyptian border guards shoot a fleeing Hamas dope dealer in the rump, there will be no equivalent to Johnny Suttonfong sending them to prison.
It Depends On What the Meaning of “Kirkwood” Is January 25, 2008
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Students Rally for Cop Killer on Facebook
KIRKWOOD, MO – A group of over 40 current and former Kirkwood, Missouri, high school students have created a Facebook page called “Free Kevin” in an effort to rally support to free convicted cop killer Kevin Johnson.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, on July 5, 2005, Johnson brutally, and without provocation, gunned down Sergeant William McEntee of the Kirkwood Police Department as he spoke with a 13-year-old boy while on a call. Johnson, who had nothing to do with the call, approached Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car from the passenger side and opened fire, striking him several times. After Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car traveled a short distance and hit a tree, Johnson again approached the patrol car and shot him several more times.
Johnson’s first trial ended in a mistrial. In November 2007 Johnson was finally convicted of murder and was sentenced to death.
The “Free Kevin” Facebook campaign is reminiscent of the absurd, but seemingly undying, “Free Mumia” efforts underway across the country to portray convicted cop killer Wesley Cook (aka Mumia Abu-Jamal) – whom we’ll refer to as Pennsylvania DOC inmate #AM8335 – as some sort of victim of a corrupt justice system. For those who don’t recall, #AM8335 has been on death row since murdering Philadelphia Policeman Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. In one of the most sickening displays of anti-cop liberalism ever displayed, #AM8335 was even honored by the Evergeen State University as the keynote speaker for their graduating Class of 1999.
I have made the comparison between KJ and Mumia many times, and it looks like others have as well.
As for these “Kirkwood” High School students, while the virtually all-black area known as Meacham Park (where KJ was from) has been legally been part of the city of Kirkwood only since the early 1990s, it has always been part of the Kirkwood School District. Therefore, even before interdistrict deseg, Kirkwood H.S. has always had a significant black percentage in its student body.
My guess was that most of the members of this “Free Kevin” Facebook group were black, and most of those were from Meacham Park. Proving the former was just as easy as logging onto Facebook (St. Louis CofCC is my FB screen name), searching for “Free Kevin Johnson,” find the group, then looking at its current members. Of the 41 members at the time of this writing, 38 are black. The latter assertion is not true, because many of the group’s members attend other high schools, and a few are outside of St. Louis.
Far From the Border January 25, 2008
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AP:
Feds Target Immigrants Far From Border
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Detective Nick McLendon, on stakeout duty along a dark stretch of eastbound Interstate 20, noticed a red Chevy Suburban with heavily tinted windows and no light over its rear Texas license plate. The missing light gave him all the excuse he needed to pull the SUV over.
Packed into the Suburban, he discovered, were 14 illegal immigrants, two suspected smugglers, and a spiral notebook on the front seat, listing the passengers and their destinations in Spanish — “Arterio Ramires to Nuy Yersey; David Luna to Nueba York; Marcelina and Jasmin to Carolina del Norte; Jose Aguilar to Alabama; Josefina Ortega to Chicago; Gustavo Ribera to Florida.”
The arrests — some 800 miles from the Mexican border — represented a new and dramatic shift in U.S. immigration enforcement strategy.
Federal agents, with help from local law officers like McLendon, a Pearl detective, have begun intercepting illegal immigrants and smugglers along stretches of highway deep in the U.S. interior, where those who have slipped into the country usually have little chance of getting caught.
The way this article is titled, it seems as if the AP thinks that if illegal aliens leave states that are on the border, they’re no longer here illegally. That’s like saying that if you rob a bank, and you’re apprehended in a place that is 100 miles away from any bank, that you’re no longer a bank robber.
Extra Credit January 24, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Campaign 2008, Immigration.comments closed
I would ace Jeff Sessions’ immigration quiz to Presidential candidates if I were one myself, but I want some space for essay comments to earn myself some extra credit to push my score above 100%:
Re Question 11: You don’t need to bother with carrot-and-stick techniques to make cities stop being sanctuary cities. All that is necessary is to have Federal marshals roll into sanctuary cities and arrest the politicians that voted for and signed such bills, ordinances, executive orders, etc. into law, for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The humane side of me would give them a one-month grace period to reverse their sanctuary policies, after then, roll the badges in. Also, as Frances Semler’s resignation letter informs us, a sanctuary city need not officially declare itself one in order to be one. Such measures taken against a city’s authority figures that “stands down” on enforcing immigration law is also in order.
If a city in your home state of Alabama would pass an ordinance that states that city officials and city cops are prohibited from assisting the FBI when they investigate Federal Civil Rights violations in the city in cases where the alleged crime or tort was committed by a white person, and the victim is black, thereby making the city a “sanctuary city” for such crimes, there would be no Congressional hubbub over denying such cities Federal money for this or that. What I said the FBI should do re immigration sanctuary cities is what they would really do in this matter.
Re Question 7: Something else that needs “clarifying” is the contradiction between Federal Civil Rights laws and Federal immigration laws. Many employers are stuck in a Catch-22 — if they check the immigration status of certain applicants or employees, they’ll run afoul of the former for racial profiling and discrimination. If they don’t, then they’re hauled in for knowingly hiring.
My Plan for a “Crime Crackdown” Would Cost About $200 Million Less January 24, 2008
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AP:
$200M Planned for Crime Crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration offered Thursday to pump $200 million into U.S. cities next year to combat violent crime, winning tepid support from mayors who want to see more cops on the street.
The money, announced by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, mostly targets crime-fighting programs across regions — meaning it likely won’t cover the cost of hiring new police officers.
“I know that many of your communities continue to face challenges,” Mukasey told the U.S. Conference of Mayors in a Thursday morning speech. He won light applause in announcing the new money, which will be part of the Justice Department’s budget request for the 2009 fiscal year.
Sounds to me like it’s world history’s biggest earmark.
Mukasey also rapped U.S. Sentencing Commission plans to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. The attorney general described many of the inmates as violent gang members who could threaten public safety if released sooner than initially expected.
“A sudden influx of criminals from federal prison into your communities could lead to a surge in new victims as a tragic but predictable result,” Mukasey told the mayors.
(snip)
The conference’s president, Mayor Doug Palmer of Trenton, N.J., called the new dollars “a start” but said “certainly more is necessary.”
(snip)
Palmer said he shared Mukasey’s concerns about shortening the sentences of inmates, noting that many may not have completed drug treatment or other community re-entry programs.
“I don’t think our cities can handle that right now,” Palmer said.
Yet, Mayor Palmer, like most big city mayors, is a liberal Democrat, who endorses liberals and Democrats for President, the Senate and the House, which in turn promulgates a racially egalitarian agenda on the judiciary and bureaucracy (e.g. the U.S. Sentencing Commission). These are your own chickens coming home to roost, Mayor.
New to the Blogroll January 24, 2008
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Indiana CofCC Blog. I’m “in” with the “in” crowd. Are you?
What They Need to Know January 23, 2008
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Employers want new way to judge graduates beyond tests, grades
Colleges have been scrambling over the past year to respond to recommendations from a national commission that they be clearer to the public about what students have learned by the time they graduate.
Sometime in the next several weeks, for example, a national online initiative will be launched that allows families to compare colleges on measures such as whether they improve a student’s critical-thinking skills.
(snip)
It builds on a survey last year in which business leaders said 63% of graduates are not prepared for the global economy.
(snip)
“We need to invent new forms of accountability that look at such issues as global knowledge and self-direction and intercultural competence, not just at critical thinking and communication skills,” she says.
Translated into English, the problem with American college graduates is that they really don’t have enough “critical thinking” skills — they’re not critical enough of the anachronistic mentality that people should have a high standard of living based on their wages and salaries. And they’re certainly not “prepared for the global economy” — they’re not prepared for pay so low that they have to live twenty to a house.
But At Least There’s No White Apartheid Anymore January 23, 2008
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Children starve as Zimbabwe’s grain goes to make luxury dog food
THE state-run grain company in Zimbabwe has turned to making luxury dog food, while up to four million of the country’s people starve.
Doggy’s Delight is a new product from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), the only firm to which farmers are allowed to sell their wheat and maize.It is supposed to supply millers with grain for flour to make bread. But, in addition to making dog food, the company has announced that it will focus on poultry feeds this year.
Recent figures show Zimbabwe has a 360,000-tonne shortfall of maize – used to make the staple mealie-meal – and a 255,000-tonne wheat shortfall.
That means more than a third of Zimbabweans are likely to need food aid in the run-up to presidential and parliamentary elections in March, according to aid agencies.
With probably less than ten weeks to go before the polls, there are fears Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party will once again offer food for votes – the government has started secretly importing food from Malawi.
The article goes on to say that the luxury dog food is exported, presumably to earn Dictator Mugabe money in a currency that, unlike his own, is actually worth something.
Water, Water Over There, But Not a Drop to Drink January 23, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Civil Rights Movement, Racial Pandering.comments closed
Fountains at King Center shut off
The fountains near the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s tomb have been turned off, days after Atlanta city officials told the King Center that it was violating the state outdoor-watering ban.
The fountains were running last week at the King Center, more than three months after the state declared that outdoor ornamental fountains were not permitted to run. It was part of a sweeping set of restrictions brought on by the state’s historic drought.
Last week, a spokesman for the King Center said the fountains would continue to run despite the ban because the fountain recycles water.
On Friday, Atlanta water officials hand-delivered a letter informing members of the King Center that running the fountain violated the outdoor watering ban.
The letter stated that the King Center could be fined if the fountain was not turned off, said Janet Ward, spokeswoman for Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management.
The fountains continued to run as late as Friday evening. It is unclear when the fountains were turned off.
That the fountains at The Most Holy Place ran for three months after the ban is appalling, but it does not surprise me. What does surprise me is that the city authorities rattled their sabres at all and that the King Center acquiesced, though I think that if they would have kept the fountains on, nobody would have truly taken action, lest the King Center hauls out the “r” word, which it thinks it owns.
Another Liberal Study, the Same Results — Blacks on the Bottom January 22, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Africa, Globalism and UN, Racial Differences.comments closed
“Sub-Saharan Africa” is indeed “the region of greatest concern.” UNICEF, in their study of child mortality, does not bother to say in which countries it is the least concern, but you can pretty much guess.
One Place January 22, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Education, St. Louis Local.comments closed
The St. Louis Public Schools is about to toss the concept of kindergarten through eighth grade education on the scrap heap, two years after introducing it as a cornerstone of the district’s reform effort.
The district opened eight K-8 schools in 2006-07 , joining a national trend that questioned the effectiveness of middle schools.
And why did the SLPS experiment with the concept to begin with, other than money troubles?
The K-8 schools were born out of a belief that nine years of education in the same building provided inner-city students with stability.
Somehow, I don’t think the fact that students in suburban school districts in St. Louis feel anxiety because of the “instability” of having different elementary and middle school settings. In fact, many parents of those “inner-city” students would rather prefer such “instability” of suburban districts.
Depressing January 21, 2008
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So, the third Monday in January is the “most depressing day of the year.” Wonder why.
Actually, there is no need for despair.
In This Case, the Truth Is No Defense January 20, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Blogroll.comments closed
Before David Davis was sentenced Friday to 20 to 32 years for shooting through his front door and killing his 11-year-old nephew, one of his attorneys tried to make sense of the senseless — and ended up simply incensing people.
Omaha attorney J. William Gallup said Davis fired three times through his front door and inadvertently killed his nephew because he was living in fear at his girlfriend’s house near 42nd Street and Nebraska Avenue.
“He lives in the equivalent of Baghdad,” Gallup said. “In that neighborhood, you shoot first and ask questions later.”
If this neighborhood is truly “the equivalent of Baghdad,” (and the rest of the article disputes that), then Mr. Davis had no small part in making it that way.
In Order to Solve a Problem, One First Must Be Allowed to Identify the Problem January 20, 2008
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AP:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Four men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shootings of a baby, a toddler and their mothers while the women held their children in their arms, police said Saturday.
Ronald Davis and Dante Hobson, both 30, face four counts of murder, felony murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the Jan. 14 slayings, police said at a news conference.
A third suspect, Zarumin Coleman, 21, faces charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and assisting a criminal. He was arrested Thursday after a SWAT team swept an Indianapolis apartment building.
Jasper Frazier, 36, was charged with attempt to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. He turned himself in to police in Ohio on Thursday, authorities said.
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Hundreds of mourners packed an Indianapolis church Saturday for the funeral of Hunt and her son. Juan Geralds, a relative of the Hunt family, said it was time to end the cycle of parents burying their children.
“Stop this foolishness,” he said.
In order to stop the foolishness, you’re going to have to solve the problem. In order to do that, you’re going to have to identify the problem. In order to do that, you’re going to have to beat back the PC machine that doesn’t want the problem to be identified. As this happened in Indianapolis, their major daily newspaper knows a lot about refusing to identify the problem.
I Didn’t Know Inserting a Syringue Into a Hole Took “Temperament” January 20, 2008
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Inmates seek IDs of executioners
Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to provide the names of members of its execution team after a Post-Dispatch investigation revealed that one was a convicted stalker.
In papers filed last week in federal court in Kansas City, the lawyers said the executioner’s criminal record, detailed in a front-page story Jan. 13, raises questions about his “temperament and suitability” to help with executions.
The newspaper reported that [*****], a licensed practical nurse then on probation, worked on Missouri executions and was permitted to join a federal team that executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in Indiana in 2001.
[*****], originally charged with felonies for allegedly stalking and damaging the property of a man who had a relationship with his estranged wife, pleaded no contest to misdemeanors and received a suspended imposition of sentence. That cleared his record once he served two years on probation.
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Those circumstances raise questions about the state’s screening procedures and desire to have qualified executioners, claimed lawyers for convicted killers Reginald Clemons, Richard Clay, Jeffrey Ferguson, Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor.
Of course those on death row want to know the name of the doctor that will send them to their just rewards. That way, they can pass that name on to their friends, cohorts, cronies, and fellow gang members, and they can find the doctor and then assassinate him or her.
DTCYA January 20, 2008
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Most Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds
Most diversity training efforts at American companies are ineffective and even counterproductive in increasing the number of women and minorities in managerial positions, according to an analysis that turns decades of conventional wisdom, government policy and court rulings on their head.
That’s what affirmative action is for.
So what is diversity training for?
The analysis did not find that all diversity training is useless. Rather, it showed that mandatory programs — often undertaken mainly with an eye to avoiding liability in discrimination lawsuits — were the problem. When diversity training is voluntary and undertaken to advance a company’s business goals, it was associated with increased diversity in management.
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Several experts offered two reasons for this: The first is that businesses are responding rationally to the legal environment, since several Supreme Court rulings have held that companies with mandatory diversity training are in a stronger position if they face a discrimination lawsuit. Second, many companies — with the implicit cooperation of diversity trainers — find it easier to offer exercises that serve public relations goals, rather than to embrace real change.
Virtually all of the civil rights lawsuits brought against private businesses and corporations by non-whites in recent years are frivolous. If Corporate America can spend so much money on the diversity-industrial complex, then they could have just as well defended themselves in court to win the lawsuits. The reason they’re so willing to fold to the pressure of the diversity-industrial complex was best said by the Late Great Dr. Samuel T. Francis, when he essentially said that global capitalism and multiculturalism were the yin and yang to each other.
No Europistan For Me, Thank You January 20, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Europe, Racial Dispossession, Terrorism.comments closed
The Australian:
Right-wingers gather against ‘Islamisation’
SEVERAL European [conservative] parties announced a new organisation aimed at fighting the “Islamisation” of Europe.
The group dubbed “Cities against Islamisation” was presented to the media in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp by Filip Dewinter, head of the [conservative] Belgian party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) along with Austrian FPOE leader Heinz-Christian Strace and Robert Spieler of the regionalist Alsace First group.
Parties from Britain (the British National Party), Denmark, Germany and Italy were also represented at the launch of the group which has a road-sign-style crossed-out mosque as its logo.
Thirty members of the new organisation then set off on a walk around areas of Antwerp with a high immigrant population.
Belgium’s second city Antwerp has a cosmopolitan population that includes a substantial minority originating from Muslim countries.
It has also been the main bastion of Vlaams Belang for the last 20 years, as the [conservatve] party pursues its goal of an independent Flemish state.
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Zimbabwe Rolls Out $10 Million Bills January 19, 2008
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Forget the glitzy restaurants of New York and London: only in Zimbabwe would a hamburger actually cost millions of dollars.
The central bank of the southern African country has a issued a 10million Zimbabwe dollar note. The move increases the denomination of the nation’s highest bank note more than tenfold.
Even so, a hamburger in an ordinary cafe in Zimbabwe costs 15 million Zimbabwe dollars.
The hope is that such a move will help end chronic cash shortages and disperse long, chaotic lines at banks and automated teller machines.
Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono said in a statement the 10 million Zimbabwe dollars notes will be issued along with 1 million and 5 million Zimbabwe dollars bills.
Previously, the highest existing note, introduced last month, was for 750,000 Zimbabwe dollars.
The new 10 million note is the equivalent of about £2 at the dominant black market exchange rate. A hamburger at an ordinary cafe costs about 15 million Zimbabwe dollars (£3).
That hamburger has trebled in price this month amid shortages of bread, meat and most basic goods.
This is how many Zimbabwe dollars were needed to buy a loaf of bread
Zimbabwe faces the world’s highest official inflation of an estimated 25,000 per cent. Independent financial institutions say real inflation is closer to 150,000 per cent.
Acknowledging the inflation crisis, Gono said individuals would be allowed to withdraw an increased limit of 500 million Zimbabwe dollars (£100) in a single daily withdrawal, up from 50 million (£10).
This means you can be a billionaire in Zimbabwe in two days. However, the new Z$10m note is only worth about US$4, meaning a 2.5m-to-1 exchange rate. Also meaning that you can also be a Zimbabwe billionaire if you have US$400.
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s Bait-and-Switch January 19, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Missouri, Police & Law Enforcement, Racial Pandering.comments closed
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Join the KCPD, that’s what.
Mayor Suggests Lowering Standards for Police Officers
Should people with a felony be allowed to be cops?
KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Kansas City Missouri mayor is looking for creative ideas on ways to recruit more minority cops. So, Mayor Mark Funkhouser said lowering the standards to be a cop may be the solution.
Mayor Funkhouser said why not let people with a criminal record be a police officer?
Barely 11 percent of Kansas City’s police officers are African American. The police chief and the mayor say that’s not enough. At a town hall meeting Wednesday, Mayor Funkhouser suggested lowering standards to recruit more minority police.
“At some point we’ve got to, I believe, allow people who have a felony on their record to go ahead and be a police officer when they pass various hurdles,” said Funkhouser.
And by this, I presume he means those with adult felonies, and not those with juvenile felonies but no adult ones. The latter idea was already floated here in St. Louis.
The Mayor said this is just an idea… a way to provoke debate to come up with creative ideas to hire more minority cops. But is it realistic?
Usually, these kinds of outlandish ideas are fronts for less ridiculous ideas that wouldn’t have a chance of happening on their own merits. Politician will propose a stupid idea, everyone gets outraged, and then out of a spirit of compromise, a less stupid variation of the idea is passed. If the less stupid variation was proposed to begin with, it would be rejected. The running joke in the late 1990s was that if President Clinton proposed to implode the Capitol Building, the Republicans in Congress would introduce an alternative to phase it in over five years.
I just wonder what the “less stupid variation” is here that Mayor Funkhouser really wants. I’m guessing a two-tiered testing system with lower standards for black applicants.
The reason the felons-as-cops idea is not realistic is because felons are not allowed to possess firearms. There’s one clue, sherlock.
Ken Christopher is a criminal justice professor with Park University. He said, “The more you can attract candidates you can reliably trust the better off you are.”
Christopher said there are other ways to recruit minorities without compromising standards.
“To say you’re willing to take on people who’ve committed felony violations is pretty much outside the mainstream about what police hiring practices are about,” said Christopher.
“Pretty much?” How about “totally?” Per my bait-and-switch theory stated above, I think those “other ways” referenced vaguely by Prof. Christopher are what will really be adopted, and what Mayor Funkhouser really wants.
To change those requirements, means changing state law which now says you can’t have a criminal history.
I can ill imagine the General Assembly in Missouri giving this the time of day.
Another requirement is passing a written exam, something a number of candidates struggle with. That’s why the police department holds tutoring sessions to help more candidates become police officers.
There you go, “written exam,” and “struggles” thereof.
I should add this: If Mayor Funkhouser is serious about this proposal, then it doesn’t surprise me. After all, diversity uber alles. You knew this day would come.
